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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1919-11-19
The real reason that blades
erou dull

Under : microscope, razor edge is
seen TO consist OF hundreds OF tiny teeth.
When these teeth are IN alignment, the
blade is sharp But the very first shave
with new blade bends these teeth out
CT alignment and the blade begins to lose
its edge
With most safety razors. there is 10
way to smooth the delicate teeth back
into alignment The original smooth, fine
edge OF the blade g-0ws -ougae- with
every shave
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-12-15
BURT'sMARliDRARY !. z
OUR PRICE soc
None Are Fiction-But All Are Written From j !
Actual Experiences -
LIST OF TITLES Al


Inside the German Empire By Herbert Bayard Swope
The Note Book OF an Atache by Eric Fisher Wood
With the French in France and Saloniki
Recommendations BY Richard Harding Davist
Ambulance No. TO- BY Leslie Bushwe
My Year of the Great War BY Leslie Boswell
My Second Year of the War BY Fredk Palmer
Antwerp>to Gaipol BY Arthur Ruh
The Soul of the War. BY Philip Gibbs
Lord Northclife's War Book is0
Trenchng at Galiop by John Cashaw
Short Ratons BY Madeleine zabrske Doty
The Living Present BY Gertrude Athertoh
Goiden Lads by Arthur Gleason
The Secret of the Hohenzollerns a.n
............... By DR.. Armgaard Karl Graves~
Volunteer Poiu .................. BY Henry Sheahan
Our Part in the Great War. BY Arthur Gleason
The Battles of the Somme. BY Phillip Gibbs 3
Over There (War Scenes on the Western 'FRONT.' 80
-. BY Arnold Bennett y
From Mons to Ypres with General French &
BY Frederick ColemauS
With the First War Ambulance in Belgium
BY Arthur Gleason
What Found Out in the House Of German Prince
............... BY an English American Governess
My Fourteen Months at the Front N
BY Robinson
Over the Front in Aeropane BY Ralph Pulitzer
Adventures of Despatch Rider. Capt w. H. LWatson
war s LARK frame by WadSWorth Camp
The Secrets of the German War Office NSS
......................By DR.. Armgaard Karl Graves
500 Books-Cood Stories For Boys And Cirls At asc
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-12-15
LINGERIE NECLlCEES And PETTlCoAIs

In seemingly boundless collection one will find here
The most charming silk and muslin mgeries silk petit
coats, kinonos and neglgees seemingly never Be?
fore have the styles been Of more durable quality or
attractive design This true whether the garment be
modestly priced, OF Of the more expensive type
Petticoats are priced at $5.95, $6.75. 1.
Kimonas and Eounging Robes, prices at SAB and
up to $500. .5. Y
Blanket Robes in tailored models are priced $s.0l
$3.50.
Canisoes of flesh color silk 98c, 81 so, $2.4S Il,
Teddy Bears Of either flesh silk or satin are1pficed
$A.50, $3.50, $500. $3.50. I 3 s,9
Night Dresses Of silk tub satin in the flesh shade
are pricedup to SITS. szl 5S: d
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-12-15
BEAUTIFUL SILK KNIT MUFFLERS

Many man will be proud Of these muflers. A
wonderful collection that ncudessevey variety that
could be desired. Pleasing color combinations, ac-
Gordon wave, closely knit silk, An extremely prac-
teal gift ,s
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-12-15
f)lOYES ARE 5000

Ihisyear Gloves will be more appreciated than ever
because 50 many people are making the old ones do
double duty. Here you will find such fine assort-
ments Of work and dress gloves
We have line Of Ladies Mems and Children bed
room slippers that will please all. s ss5 ,.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-12-15
AN OPPORTUNE OFFERING OF
COSTUME GEORGET7E BL0U&S

( 1885 TO 1923 .7.7.@*@
ALI are made Of the finest quality Georsette- every
blouse is distinct style Hand7embroidered models.
lace-trimn,ed styles, fringe trimmed, beaded and
braided effects. Fancy sleeves, novelty neck lines,
ANY one would make a handsome gift.
Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1919-12-15
GIFT .HANDKERcAIEFS'
LEATHER GOODS

Gifts Of leather are always acceptable at Christmas.
time This stores prepared ina better waythaneyer.
before to supply the gifts that are sure to please
Leather Strap Pursss-.In black or coofs; pategt
leather, morocco and pin seal; from aS to; so.
Leather Handbags the most approved shapes;i5i
patent leather seal, morocco annd sambskn; sizes 4
styles and shape to suit all tastes; priced $l.50
Ivory Toilet Sets $1.9S to $6.sS o.
Dolls Soc to $500 r,uos
Pianos $500 6as,sss Ids y ;As.3a i
Fancy Christmas Boxes and lOc
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-14
LITTLE TALKS BY
BEA TRICE FAIRFAX

Gee! fellow knows now where
to find the other fellows"
n little boy of somewhere between
three and six years old had been in
Produced to Neighborhood Play
house. He had fingered and played
there and gone again. And this was
MS rapturouS comment, as quoted by
Mrs. Elizabeth Byrne Fern, who orig
mated the Neighborhood Playhouse
idea and who now tells us how it has
worked out.
We are told that play is the great
educator. 1t is supposed to be the
duty of child too young to go to
school and too old to sit in its moth
er;s lap to develop itself by playing
adults have heard this SO much that
we are disposed to worry about a
child who becomes tired of playing,
or who doesn't like to play alone, or
who doesn't play happily under super
small creature to rather strict ac-
count for its unplayfulness.
But where is he to play on anything
like the scale. that is. that childhood
In the extremely narrow restrictions
of city backyard?9s In a temporar-
lily unusued corner of somebody's bed
room?
Mrs. FERNS Invention
1t is Just this interesting question
tidI 42A .. CElll IdS tnOuRht
out. and, as she believes. found the
answer to. And this answer takes the
form of an entirely new institution.
the Neighborhood Playhouse.
To begin with, Mrs. FERN found
that children like to play with
other children of their own neighbor-
hood. They don't particularly like to
be taken to distant spots to play with
children whom their elders consider
desirable Do parents know this
I'd
complaint in child's voice and seen
the look of dissatisfaction in his
eyes?" asks Mrs. FERN. How often
I have heard that tone, and when /
have sympathetically turned to look
child in charge of an adult, distract
ed from his real needs. pushing along
some expensive toy. which only serveS
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-14

TO irritate the child and further ac-
centuate his distinctness from other
children"
kindergarten conditions she re-
CARDS as no better. Here "the child
is sweetly taken in charge and ap-
pointed to seat and place whichc
at oncec limits his power of express
sion. The chcild is then pursued by
a program" From this time on the
charming young women who direct
the kindergarten set themselves to
suppress every natural impulse they
can discover.
On the other hand. the street won't
serve as a playground. Neither will
haven't, proper play facilities and be-
| cause the atmosphere is too personal.
So. If you were five years old and
your older brothers and sisters had
gone to school. and the backyard
rainy day besides-wouldn't you think
| 1t very wonderful thing to go to a
playhouse in the next block and stay
| until dinner time?
An Infant Clubhouse
The idea Is almost that of an infant
| clubhouse. Every child in the neigh
thing in the clubhouse belongs to the
children. Every child associates on
perfectly free and equal terms with
every other child.
very old-rashloned people who be-
lieve that child should be nagged
and supervised practically all the
time that 1t is awake doubtless will
disapprove Of this idea. "Some theor-
list cooked that up" they will object
with a good deal of scorn. "It would
never work out in practice. and even
If 1t did. 1t would give children far
too much liberty.
But the interesting thing is that It
does work out. And though It gives
chcildren liberty, 1t gives them re-
sponsibility at the same time. If play
materials are destroyed, the Children
| themselves have no way of replacing
them. So they learn to be careful.
Likewise il q child doesn't .'splav
fair" he pays the natural penalty
That is. the other chcildren WON'T
play with him. And it's very much
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-14
When a. Girl MQrrieS"
BY
New Romantic Serial Dealing With the Absorbing
Problems of Girl Wife

the chest. AS calmly I opened Tom
Mason's note, and read his little
message:
Forgive! The flowers say it for
me. and try to believe that 1 am
better man for knowing you.
When you need a friend, won't you
come to me? T. NJ"
had to believe he meant it. No
woman brings doubt with her from
a shrine.
BY the time Jim came home ]
was dressed in a new frock of the
lilac shade he loves so well - and
his dress clothes were laid out and
his bath waiting. 1 wasn't trem-
bling and palpitating with love -
athirst for his kiss. But l was
warmed and comforted by the joy
of service. 1 wonder if that's the
true meaning of marriage after all
Nothing was said of recent events
Jim didn't have to go to his collar
box, since 1 had put the studs and
links and collar buttons in his linen
SO for the time being he didn't real
lie that I had returned his ten dol
lar bill.
Almost timidly Jim came over to
me. l laid my hands in his and he
kissed them first one, then the
other. But he didn't take my lips.
I think I was half disappointed,
half relieved.
"Wonder-girl," he cried. You're
the most beautiful thing in the
world. But not little lilac princess
tonight. Anne - a queen instead.
By Jove, you've something of the
stately, womanly look of our beau
tiful Betty. Only you're much more
wonderful. A queen!" he ended,
| slowly staring at me with puzzled
eyes as he dropped my hands and
limped into the bedroom.
wonder IL Betty's look of stately
reserve came to her through pain
1 wonder IL her dead husband caus-
ed that pain.
I After a minute Jim came out
again fiourishing his pleated shirt
in his hands. He was grinning boy.
ishly. He seemed like himselt
again.
"Wonder-girl," he repeated, 'T
you didn't pick up this nice, soft
ruffiy shirt-instead of booming m,
to q stiff-bosomed horror. Ant
when 1 think of the bachelor day,
of selecting shirts and ramming il
studs, 1 could dance. Ready in +,
jiff. Anne.
"Oh, by the way, Norreys is goin,
to be there. Funny ,thing-he ant
JEANNE met out West last year
when he was resting up from. hi
wound. They must have had a tiff
or something, or they drifted apart
It's all right now, though. Jeanni,
'phoned and invited him to dinneI
and-he's coming"
A strange feeling of joy came
over me. I experienced an unac
countable sensation of peace ant
happiness at the thought of seems
Anthony Norreys again.
(To Be Continued.)
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-14
YOUR SICK CHILD
IS CONSTIPATED!
LOOK AT TONGUE
Hurry, Mother! Remove poi
sons from little stomach,
liver, bowels
Give California Syrup of, Figs"
if cross, bilious orST y ''4g
feverish

No matter what ails your child, a.
gentle, thorough laxative should al
ways be the first treatment given. &
If your little one is out-of-sorts.
half-sick. isn't resting, eating and
acting naturally-look, Mother! see
II tongue is coated. This is a sure
sign that it's little stomach, liver and
bowels are clogged with waste. When
cross, irritable, feverish, stomach.
sour, breath bad or has stomach,
ache. diarrhoea, sore throat. full OF
cold, give a teaspoonful of Calls
fornia Syrup of Figs" and in a few
hours all the constipated poison, un-
digested food and sour bile gently
moves out of it's little bowels with
out gripping, and you have a well,
playful child again.
Mothers can rest easy after giving
this harmless fruit laxative" be-
cause it never fails to cleanse the
little ones liver and bowels and
sweeten the stomach and they dearly
love its pleasant taste. Full direc-
tions for babies, children of all ages
and for grown-ups printed on each
bottle. 81
: Beware of counterfeit fig syrups.
Ask your druggist for a bottle of
California Syrup of Figs" then see
that it is made by the "California
Fig Syrup Company"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-14
. MAKING THE MOST OF:
= OUR CHILDREN I
"A Series of Plain Talks to
By Ray c. Bssry, A.B., MA
President of the Parents Associxt;oa.

We all know of adults who insist
upon being the center of attraction
wherever they go. 8.
And this tendency, like most 9TH
frs, starts in childhood.
The one who likes best to monopo-
lie attention and succeeds in do
ng so is not always the one who is
greatest in a crowd.
What most of us like to see in a
thild or adult is modesty. Let us
leach our children, then to show to
the world an unpretentious unas-
kuming attitude.
A mother writes:
MY little girl of eight years seems
10 be Unfortunately fond of showing
bff in the presence of visitors. She
Ihrusts herself into their notice be-
fore one is aware of her plans. She
wants to exhibit her treasures to
every one. I have cautioned her
hbout this time and again but 1t
seems to have no effect"
Your little daughter needs more
kttention from the members of your
Family when there are no visitors.
She delights in social recognition
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-14
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES

Americas Case Against Ger
many" which E. P. Dutton & Co.
published last year, a logical and
forceful presentation Of the reasons
for Americas taking up arms
against Germany, proving their
sanction by both law and morals,
has been adopted as a textbook and
for supplementary reading in a
number of schools and colleges. The
author, Lindsay Rogers, is profess
sor of political science in the Uni
versity of Virginia.
Katherine Pyle's. handsome book
retelling age-old stories. Mothers
Nursery Tales" which E. P. Dutton
& Co. are bringing out as a Christ
mas book for the little ones, con-
tains a number of such favorites of
the nursery as 1.-The Sleeping
Beauty" Jack and the Bean
Stalk" The Goose Girl" Sweet
Porridge," THE Wolf and the Five
Little Goats" and others equally be-
loved by generations of children.
Miss Pyle has retold them with very
great charm and originality of mar
rative and expression, while preserv-
ing all the characteristics of idea,
invention and fancy that have made
the stories such deathless favorites
of the nursery. The authors illus
trations. both full page plates and
black and white drawings, are
among the best work of the kind
that this famous illustrator has ever
done.
All the lads who are beginning to
have their interest aroused by the
wonders of chemical science, most
romantic and most mysterious of all
the sciences. will want to read and
possess Charles Ramsay Clarke's
The Boys Book of Chemistry"
which has just been published by L.
p. Dutton & Co. The author tells
them, first, how the modern science
was born out of the old ideas about
alchemy and what those ideas were,
Then there are chapters which ex-
plain the fundamentals of chemical
science and others which tell about
the chemistry of photography, of
the soil, and of warfare and about
what can be done in and around
the boys own home with a knowl-
edge of chemistry. There is
chapter detailing and describing ex-
perfments that can be made with
water and another on the. appara-
tus and chemicals needed for the
simple experiments described in the
book The volume is profusely
illustrated with drawings by the
author.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-14
Here At Home
Harrisburg Citizens Gladly Testify
and Confidently Recommend
Doan's Kidney Pills

1t is testimony like the following
that has placed Doan's Kidney Pills
6o far above competitors. When
people right here at home raise
heir voice in praise there is no
foom left for doubt. Read the pub
ic statement of a Harrisburg citi-
ben:
Daniel Cless, SIG PETER St. says:
II have used Doan's Kidney Pills for
he past several years and have al
hays found them satisfactory. When
Rver cold would settle on my kid
keys. my back would get weak and
|hme and ache terribly. 1t hurt me
10 get out of chair or to stoop
sver. The kidney secretions passed
90 frequently and were highly COL
bred. When 1 have felt this way 1
have used a couple boxes of Doan's
Kidney Pills, and they have always
Ielieved me in a short time"
Price COO, at all dealers. Don't
Imply ask for a kidney remedy
let Doan's Kidney Pills-the same
hat Mr.. Cless had. Foster-Milburn
+o., Mfgrs., Buffalo, n. Y.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-14
CHAPTER XCIv


copyrighted 1918, by King Features
Syndicate Inc.)
When I reached home from the
visit to our Canteen Lieutenant, the
doorman greeted me with an enor-
nous hatbox-like affair. On it's COW
er was the name of.one of the smart
est florists Still afiame with the
good will enkindled by doing Carfotta
Sturges good turn, I bore the box
up to my little home.
Suppose it were from jim. This
time I'd revel in his extravaganza
1t would burn down the barrier OF
GOODNESS 1 had set up between us.
It's against my principles to cut
string, but it was beyond my power
to stop to unite these knots. So ]
fairly hurled open the box.
There in a deep bowl of blue
luster was a mass of exquisite lilies
Of the valley, and in the midst OF
their white cAolness were three Grim
son roses. Under them a fiat parcel
Before l opened that, 1 ran to fill
the blue bowl with water. Then ]
set 1t on the black and gold cover
flung across one end of the refectory
table.
A tip-toe with excitement, I ran
to open the parcel. A white en-
velope fell out. 1 hardly knew
which to examine first. But after
a second | decided on the package
What could Jim be sending me?
unfastened the heavy white
paper-and there lay the blue robe
Tom Mason had dared to send ii
back.
Now all my life when I got angry
hao turned cold. Always 1 had
stinened to sort of icy stiffness
sarcastic and most aggrayatinp rvs
been told-to all Violently angr,
persons who take my repression 70,
calmness.
But now I became white hot.
was dizzy with rage-and sick will
nate - burning. flaming hate.
seized that vase of blue luster from
the table and hurled it to the ston,
fireplace. 1t dashed to pieces ant
In there-a trickling oozing stream
OF water and broken pottery, la,
pallor-stricken white lilies anC
angry red roses.
For moment I stared at them
neaVing, raging, ready to go ant
Mreak more vengeance on them
The next instant I became GOLD will
oitter shame. Those little flowers
1t was as If I'd struck. baby hands
Penitently, I crossed to the fire
place and picked the bruised flower
one at time from. the ruin arount
them. l found box, filed it will
damp tissue paper and packed tn,
flowers safely in IL. Then
fetched broom and dustpan anc
cleaned the hearth my temper hac
defiled.
Presently was hated and coate,
again and on my way to a tangl,
OF dark and twisted streets in tn,
poor district. There was a churcl
there-a little Mission Church.
was at peace when 1 returned
home. Very calmly took the blu,
robe folded IL and laid n haclr In
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-14

less fun to play at home by oneself.
SO the spirit of fairness is bred.
Furthermore. in the playhouse there
Is no audience for whines or COM
plants. No child can tell on" an
other child, for there is nobody who
would listen-as thoughtless parents
sometimes do. If there are any injus-
tices. they right themselves. Children
are really fairer judges of each other
than Grownups can be.
Freedom Versur NagginE
But best of all is the fact. not that
such playhouse is good for the chill
dren of a neighborhood, but that the
children themselves like it, 1t meets
their need OF companionship, it meets
their need of play. it meets their need
of freedom. This being the case, they
are happy. And a thoroughly happy
child is recognizable at sight. Indeed,
1t seems almost a different order of
being from the child who is repressed
and nagged at home or bullied in the
governess.
To be healthy. happy, occupied,
free to play during those few precious
tmpressionable years-what better
thing can we do for our children than
to secure them this2 What better gift
! can we offer them than entrance into
an infant paradise of. this order?
1t fs. of course. the children's good
that should be put first in urging such
project as the neighborhood play
house. But open-minded mothers who
might come to talk the thing over and
decide to do their utmost to establish
in their own neighbborhood a center
of this sort would also find in the end
that it worked out to their own ad-
vantage also.
A busy mother. who loved her
young children very much, but who
found in herself no capacity to
"amuse" them or overcome their fret
fulness, would doubtless be deeply
grateful If a playhouse took this Job
off her hands. Moreover, this arrange
ment would give her at least three
or four extra hours q day for work
or rest or recreation, whatever she
most needed. Perhaps she would feel
certain jealous sadness for a day or
two on realizing that the first separa-
tion was so easily accomplished, that
her babies were so much happier
away from home, and that an imper-
sonal house around the corner could
do more for them than mother love
could do. But a wise mother soon
dries these sentimental tears and sets
herself to becoming the kind of wom-
an that her children will eagerly and
trutfully turn to when the playhouse
age Is past.
We have been told that this is "the
century OF the child" More recently
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-14

which in itself is OF course entirely
proper. If she finds adequate COM
panionship in the members of the
family, she will not be so eager to
win applause from others.
But more important than this is
the enlistment of her interest in CO.
operating with the family. Let her
plan with you or her father or with
all together some of the excursions.
calls, etc, in which the family as a
unit can take part. When rear
ranging the furniture, let her help
draw up the new scheme. This will
decentralize her interest and lead
to absorption in the welfare of 9TH
ers. Use the many opportunities of
talking about what will be best for
Charles, what you and she can do
for Mary, ETC., so as to train her
attention on the comforts of the
other children and of her parents
Then, be judicious in commend
ing her. Occasionally take her close
to you when, you two are alone and
tell how much you appreciate her,
what a splendid thing she did, how
much people enjoy seeing her as she
does this or that kind act. Select
really noteworthy achievements for
commentator. Then, too, you can
the presence of the family. A rare
Ihention of them when visitors are
present may do no harm.
Be sure to see the right example
before your daughter yourself. Speak
softly and with reserve. Do not al
low yourself to become excited in
the least when talking with visi-
tors. Take everything calmly.
Make it a point to direct the con-
versatson for the most part entirely
from yourself. Do not say. 81 did
this and I did that and I said this
and daughter said that" Talk
about things of interest outside of
your home. Ask your visitors lead
ing questions about things, in which
you know they will be interested,
which naturally will start the con-
versation off into proper channels.
Show great interest in whatever
your visitors say. Make it appear
that you really would rather hear
them talk than to do the talking
yourself.
If your daughter. makes a bid for
attention, recognize her by letting
her occupy the center of the stage
for just a minute, then make some
tactful but friendly remark which
will again put the conversation into
proper course.
Make it a point to tell her at op-
perfume times how cultured people
conduct themselves and compliment
her occasionally on how we'll she
observes the points you mentioned.
These little confidential talks, to-
gether with your good example and
tactful handling of her when in COM
pany. gradually will influence her
to act more like you.