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Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-05

Dear Girls,
I rel into the postoffice to mail
a letter The day before yesterday and
upon coming out I saw a little girl
curled up on one of those stone slabs
which confront n upon coming u
of h postoflce upon which a large
post reposes. Upon ~ascertaining hat
the object was a lass and not q kit
ten 1 took the liberty Of looking over
her shoulder in an endeavor to see
what was the cause of the curled
posture and to my delight and sur
prise she was writing a letter to me
for the salutation began in carefully
rounded letters Dear Helen" I was
half tempted to stop and talk with
her but in view of the fact that 1 did
not want to disclose my identity I
did not allow myself that pleasure.
Upon reaching the bottom step I sud-
denly came upon a baby carriage
within which was a baby very much
alive and upon catching sight of me
gave a little pleased chuckle, where
upon the lass looked up from her
letter and said, Don't make any
noise now" Obeying her injunction
it settled back and just smiled at me.
Notice 1 use the pronoun 'it'' In view
of the fact that 1 do not know If it
is a he or a she. So ended my ad-
venture with my unknown CORE
~spondent. 1 do not even know under
what name she Is writing or what
name she really has.
HELEN.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-05
HELIOi HELLOi


My! 1 thought I was late so I ran
70 fast I am all out of breath n SO
hot! Look at the beads of perspira-
ton running down my face and neck
and even the insides of my hands
are wet; My skin is On its job as well
as on me-! Ha! Ha!
I treat my skin we'll, I do. especially
now that / understand the reason for
the rules of the Game of Health.
SAY found out why We have to
have a full bath more than once a
week. Want Cho-Cho to tell your
Well the skin has lots and lots OF
teeny, tiny openings or pores and al
ways the skin is the tiniest bit damp
when we're well-cause water Is
coming through these little holes all
the time. This is part of the waste
just like steam from an engine. And
do you know how we get that water
inside-by drinking 1t. Ha! Ha! I'm
II want some water right now.
When our skin is dirty-the htfl'
pores are all clogged up and the pool
body has to do double work to get TIC
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-05


and / am better now than / have been
for years. am never without Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound in the
house and have recommended it to sew
eral of my friends. You are perfectly
welcome to publish my letter for the
good it may do other women. Mrs.
ETTIE WARREN, Emmitsburg, Md.
Backache and nervousness r symp-
toms Or natures warnings, which In
dictate a functional disturbance or an
unhealthy condition which often devel-
ops into a more serious ailment.
Women in this condition should not
continue to drag along withouthelp, but
profit by Mrs. Warren's experience, and
try this famous root and herb remedy,
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound-and for special advice write to
LydiaE E. Pinkham Med. Co., Lynn, Mass,
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-05
Toddy's Story
For Children
BIZ THE STORY lady.

"Papa," tell me a story" Peter
snuggied on the grass at his fathers
feet,
"A moe, true, ordinary story. that
really happened to you 8 long time
agos"
old, my grandfather who lived in the
country twenty miles from where we
did came to see us and took me home
with him on the train. I didn't get a
BIT homesick oven IL / was just a bah
/ stayed two weeks and then we got
a letter saying that my mother wss
SICK and for me to stay a while long
ar At last the time came for me 10
TO home and we wrote for my father
to meet US. But at the last my grand
father decided to drive his little team
OF mules to the light wagon and take
some lambs to the town where my
father lived as b price was bet
tor.
we went to be early I remember
my grandmother gave me my bath
nat night and put on the little suit
i was TO wear the e day. The
next thing 1 knew / was lying on a
Quilt IN the front end Of the wagon
The mules were trotting right alonS.
ana I could hear the heavy breathing
OF the sheep in the back OF the wag~
on 1t was still dark and the stars
were shining.
IT got up and sat between grandpa
and grandma, and ate cinnamon rolls
out OF a sack. After a long while the
sky began to get dark and we couid
see that a hard rain storm was coming
from north.
IT was very much scared and HID
nv head in the Quilt but before II
rained hard we came to a little coun-
try schoolhouse and vent In
"I found a piece of chalk the nrst
I had ever had. When it stopped we
went on and just as the sun came up
we drove into the yard at home MY
mother was out doors feeding tho
chickens and when we drove up she
dropped the corr and ran to the wag-
on.
" Give me my boy she said and
Rugged ME over and over.
II wondered then how 1 had stay
ed away SO long. #.
That's a good story" said Peter. 1t
sounded jes' like 1t was rue.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-05

of this waste in other ways SO as not
to put the machinery out of gear
Once upon q time-a long time ago
"a little boy was painted with gold
paint to make him look pretty 80 peo-
pie would look at the parade he was
IN. Course all the little pores or win
dows of the skin were filed up and
closed by the paint-and 1t was like
closing up the exhaust pipe. The ma
chinery stopped-and the poor little
boy died. Cho-Cho thinks his pretty
pink skin was nicer that the gold
paint anyway.
= Since then we know we must keep
the skin windows open and clean and
the way to do that is a full bath al
least once every week. Lots of water
and soap-and good hard scrubbins
and then a quick vi with a rough
towel. Umi CholCho loves his bath
And clean hands and a every da,
before we eat-cause nobody wants
to eat dirty food.
Goodbye. :
CHO-CHO.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-05

Dear Helen:
Our column is increasing so rapid
ly that a stranger would hardly rec
ognize it. 1t is a real f~ull-fedged
| column now and I know there won't
be any more ideas of having to give
it up.
You ask me what I like to dc.
Well, perhaps 1 don't know exactly
myself. I love to cook, and am go
ing to enclose a little recipe. But
what I really want to be when I have
completed my schooling and educa-
tion2 Well. to tell you the truth.
Helen, I've always wanted to be what
you would call a business woman.
Not merely a s-tenographer. or a
secretary, etc., but a true business
woman. I am fitting myself to be a
stenographer and am going to take
a secretariaI course
My greatest ambition is to be a
business woman, as I said before. OF
course 1 know women aren't sup
| posed to be considered in the flnan-
eial world but we are living in such
al & now that women are consid-
cred just as worthy as men. You see
the m have taken new positions
and made themselves successful.
Well. dear Helen, I've been ravine
uselessly.
I enjoyed Beth's letter very much
I nave read Little Women" several
times and I remember the first time
I aver read tho book. I was quite Q
little girl. I felt SO bad when Jc
sacrificed her hair and then of course
1 was glad afterwards.
1 feel just the same as Jules
about the Y. w. c. A I thing mos
of the girls owe to have a swimming
pool so that they can have a goot
time, especially during the winter.
love to go In swimming and that Il
mainly how l spent my vacation.
Jerry's letter was very interesting
If she will write again I think sh'
will inspire everyone to action.
Here is my recipe:
Chocolate Car1mels
Put into a saucepan Il pound o
grated chocolate. 4 ounces butter,
pound sugar, 1 cup molasses. 1 cul
milk and 1 teaspoonful vanilla Sti
whole oyer the hre until thorough
mixed. Then boil until 1t snaps o
hardens when dropped into col
water. Turn into creased pans an
cut into sQuzres with a sharp knife
As to how I spent Labor Day:
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-05
Suffer fer Gins Of Others.

'There Is no sort of wrong deed OF
which a man can bear the p~unishment
alone; you can't isolate yourself, and
say that the evil which is in you shall
not spread" says George Eliot In
Adam Beds. It is only too true that
we cannot bear punishment alone.
And usually our mistakes entail worse
suffering on those who love us than
they do on ourselves. Just as on the
other hand our successes and rewards
bring more joy to our dear ones than
to ourselves. mo man liveth to him
self alone.s
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-05
Hall OF the Mariners.

1t Is said that 1t is customary for
every English Christian sailor to hail
any companion English vessel with the
words, 1904, sir" Immediately the re-
bly, is received, "6 farther on" The
meaning of the signal is that in the
sailors hymnbook, 494 Is Fanny Cos
by's hymn, BLESSED Assurance, Jesus
Il Nine" and G farther on, or No. 500,
is "God Be With You Till We Meet
Again."-The Christian Herald.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-05
Rubber Easy TO Cultivate.

After four or Ave years Of semi-cul-
tiyation q rubber plantation requires
practically no care, except to see from
lime to time that other trees which
t1ay have gotten a start, r cut out.
The yield of rubber gum begins about
the seventh year under favorable con-
ditions, and continues thereafter In
definitely.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-05

So you want to be a business wom-
an. You a write very well and
very convincingly. AS you say, today
is the day of the woman but there Is
one thing that the young girl start
ing out in the business world should
remember and that Is that when you
enter a world in which you must
compete with men o must remem-
Der that merit is the rank of promo
ton and that you must warrant 1t
the same as the man working next to
YOU. Never bring social doings or
Ideas into the business Office or for
that matter an excess of feminity.
Don't misunderstood me; be femi-
nine, for goodness sake don't try to
be masculine, leave that to the men;
they make Gin some cases) a bad
enough ease of 1T.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-05
Ladies' form Of Exercise.

I was making a house-to-house can
vass recently and as ! turned in at
one house I noticed a small boy and
his dog. but the dog no sooner noticed
me than he came bounding towards
me, barking loudly. sDon't BE- afraid"
called the Lad. sTaddie won't bite; he
e just sxarcizing his bark."-Chicagc
Tribune.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-05

NY PlJSASi1tiy but
lgot little relief. ]
saw an advertise
ment of Lydia E.
lPinkham's Vegeta-
ble Compound In my
n g W spaper, 8
thought ! would try
lit, and it did me more
igood than all the doc
tors medicine. ]
lam a farmers wife
do my house
&~orE oil fhn time
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-05
Among "Us Girls"

stayed at home but q crowd OF my
friends and myself gathered together
and we had a splendid time anyway.
And now WI will be getting back to
school.
Well, Helen dear. I reckon I've
written quite a bit. You don't know
how ~anxiously I wait for h paper
| each day.
/ shall do all in my power to help
| the Y. w. c.. A. plan along. Curly
Locks do send one of your stories
| again. I delight in reading them.
"Conchita" please write again and
all of the rest.
Love to all,
| BERT"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-05
h Girls Work

DX
A president of our club / wish
TO voice your opinions with my own"
Edith Rogers voice vibrated. For
a long time Staybury has needed
amusements for the girls. Besides
theatres and libraries we need other
measures. We need a Y. w. G. A..
and IL that Is impossible. we need at
least a community house.
The girls vigorously ciappeo ana
as the applause subsidized h contin-
ned a lon Grafton on the need of a
Y w. @. A. After the president de-
ltyered her speech a hum of CONVEX
satton followed. Edfth's younger sis
ter greeted her with a smile.
"Oh. 1t was wonderful Edith. DC
Won think we will really have a Z.
w. G. A. q" she exclaimed eagerly.
"We WILL" her sister replied
promptly. elf we girls work. We
must get the city Interested and thai
is a big proposition"
BE assured I will help you, Ber'
| nice answered with vigor.
During the busy months that fol
lowed there was little time for elut
meetings. The energetic president
| and her sister worked very hard u
| establish a foothold for their plan u
fave a Y. w. C. A. And then at las
thew got 1t. After months of hare
work they got two rooms OF a larg'
building for their newly rounoe'
Girls Club.
But when girls work they accom-
| plish much and two years later
large two-story brick building wa
| pointed out to strangers as the cit'
Y. w. C. A.
Well. here Is Flowers story q
last. It's great. It is a story OF tn
minute and deals with the most VIA
! idea that this column has fostered
Iset ,,s have more stories on thi
style. How did the Girls Club sta
to- work in order to get people inter
ested In a large Girls Club building
F1ower7
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-05
WOMAN Suffered
II YEARS
Finally Made Well by Taking
Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound.

Emmitsburg. MIDI suffered for
twelve or fifteen years, and was treated
Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-05
Sept. /. 1919.

HELEN
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-22
LEFT GIRLS OVER THERE
No Brides With seth, but Plenty of
Trench" French.

New York, May 22.-While the S9th
division is returning from overseas
heart whole and fancy free as re-
CARDS the French girls, at least no
overseas brides being officially re-
corded, it is bringing a plentiful sup
ply of the French language.
Doughboy French would never be
mistaken for pure Partisan, but over
there it got him by nicely, combined
even as it is with his slang of the
front line. 1t will probably be some
time before the mid-westerners get it
all out of their system, if indeed some
of it doesn't become a permanent
part of his speech.
"Regardez," said one seth man
here. "Beaucoup soveniers. Got
Jerry in a dugout, bumped him off
toot sweet and VOLTA, there you are.
Tres bon, eh?"
1t is a rare jargon sometimes, this
mixture of Trench and French, and
in addition it will probably be some
little while before the young veterans
quit mentally figuring dollars out into
francs and centlmes. Overseas they
were always paid in French money
and they still think of a dollar as
five francs
The soldiers quarters in a debarka-
tion camp are always "billets," never
buildings have little resemblance to
the barns, shell wrecked houses and
crude shelters which bore the name
at the front. His bunk he still speaks
of as his ''dugout' and when he gets
home his slumber long past reveille
in his old time bed will be bunk IA
tigue."
"Beaucoup" is plenty" to the vet
eran. tres bon" is pretty good" and
'regardez" means take a look" to
him. ''Allez" means get busy and
'toot sweet" which is the soldiers
spelling of it, indicates Gin a hurry"
There are a hundred such express
sions heard when the ships land and
the home folks will get the benefit
of them all within short time.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-22

protection of this baby industry ap-
pears strong. Representative Long
worth, Ohio, said.
Consider Tax Revision.
Revision of 1920 taxes. to tighten
the burden on business and encourage
expansion of industry, is being advo-
Gated and will be proposed in bill
soon to be introduced. The repeal or
amendment of the Sherman antitrust
law also is to be sought on the ground
that it will help business.
Extension of coal and oil production
is sought in bills opening public lands
in the west on which are quantities of
coal, oil. phosphate, sodium and other
minerals.
Food production also claims consid-
cradle attention by the house MEM
berS
Develop Waste Lands.
Development of arid lands. the
drainage of amps and the utilization
of unused territorial property for the
purpose of adding to the food supply
of the nation is provided in numerous
bills.
The merchant marine and fisheries
committee will have before it in this
connection eleven bills which will in
crease the number of fish hatcheries.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-22
HINES is A BOOSTER
Director General OF Railroads Ap-
proves r. r. Y. Campaign.

The membership week campaign of
the Railroad Y NJ c. A. has met the
hearty approval of Walker d. Hines,
director general of railroads. In
telegram received here today he says
that the association is rendering a
practical and helpful service which is
appreciated by railroad men and
MANI gers and by the railroad admin
istration."
Tonight George H. Fair, who
recently returned from France, where
he was in the government postal serv-
ice, will speak at the dinner of the
workers of the membership campaign.
DIR. Edmund J. Kulp, pastor of the
First Methodist church. addressed the
workers Wednesday night.
Wednesdays results were: Army.
13 new and SO renewed members,
total, AZ, and score in points, 14S u :
navy, new and 81 renewed members,
total, 80, and 149 in points; total for
first three days, army, 216 members:
navy,"119 members, making a total of
335: in points. army. 69S; navy,
sos Y; total. 1902 Y points.
Liberty Bonds bougn; and sold.
Shawnee Investment Co.. 534 Kan. Av.
Adv
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-22
"HELL TO HUG THRU BARS"
Says seth DOughbOy Regarded Cruel
Fence at HObOkcn.
nv Union PaeIfle Il. 4. Pross Bureaul !

(By Union Pacific Il. Il. Press Bureau)
New York, May 22.-The cruelest
fence in the world is at Hoboken. 1t
is d high, iron barred affair which
divides the transport docks from the
world outside, and keeps the men who
have just landed from the ships from
the arms of the loved ones who crowd
against it as tho in an effort to push
thru.
There has been quite a colony of
relatives of S9th division men waiting
here for the arrival of the division.
They can see the men-thru the iron
bars as the ships land. but no plea to
the officials will let them thru. They
are firm, and necessarily so, for if the
crowd were allowed thru onto the
dock the debarkations would be de-
layed. Everyone must wait and see
their boys at camp or when they get
leave.
Necessary or not, however, the iron
bars make some pathetic meetings out
of happy ones. AS one doughboy re-
marked: TITS just plain hell to see
your girl after two long years and
then have to >Ng her with all that
iron in between"
And in feminine fashion the ones
on the other side of the fence reiter-
ate his words.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-22
"DEAR DAD, I'M BROKE"
This Is Characteristic Wire of S9th
Man to Folks.

(By Union Pacific II. II. Press Bureau)
New York, May 22.-The first day
of a mid-western man on American
soil is apt to be a busy one if he fol-
lows out the usual program. say those
who are here to'meet the seth division.
The observer in watching the de-
barkations usually views six different
stages in the veterans initial day, of
which getting off of the ship is the
first. The second is the trip to camp
where the third and fourth. getting
billeted and decootieizing follow each
other rapidly, Obtaining leave to visit
town is declared to be the fifth, and
those fortunate enough to pass this
stage with flying colors almost always
get the sixth over Immediately on their
arrival.
This consists of a visit to the tele-
graph office, where it is said the fol-
lowing telegram is the usual and
proper thing:
Dear Dad" it reads. Arrived safe
and sound. Am broke. Please wire
twenty, quick
Whether or not they follow this
form. they almost all head for the tele-
graph offices, which in consequence
are swamped with business.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-22
HAD A "LOST BATTALION"
Eighty Ninth Unit Had Same Expert
cncc as Famous 77th.

New York, May % (By Union Pa
cific r. r. Press Bureau.-Much pub
licity was given the so-called Lost
Battalion" of the nth division. but
little ever told of the company of the
356th infantry whose adventures after
being surrounded in the Bois de Ban
theville were even more thrilling, say
returning men of the seth here.
The first battalion of the 356th had
entered the southern portion of the
Bantheville wood when it received an
order to send strong combat patrol
thru to the northern edge to cooper
ate and esta blish liaison with a simi-
lar patrol from the S55th. CO. COM
pany was assigned to the duty, under
Lit. Frank w. Welch and it was guild
ed on its dangerous mission by Sergt
McFee, who had the reputation of be-
ing the best scout with the outfit He
brought it successfully between Hun
machine gun nests to its objective.
On reaching this point the company
found it had too big a front to cover
on account of the inability of the CO.
operating patrol to establish a con-
nectiOn. 1t had, therefore to take a
defensive position and was soon en-
tirely surrounded.
There was no food and water was
scarce A head stuck up above the
holes drew hail of machine gun fire
There was no succor for the wounded
beyond the ordinary first-aid packets
few of the men had, and for three
days the company fought off the enc
my, refusing to surrender, altho some
of the men were captured from outly-
ing holes.
Sergeant McFee, and a companion
a litter bearer named Anderson. sue
ceeded in crawling thru the German
lines and establishing communication
with the rest of the battalion, altho il
was impossible to carry anything in
the nature of supplies. Two commits
stoned officers also performed the al
most impossible feat, Lieut.. Erskint
and Lieut.. Marcellus Chiles making
the round trip.
Capt. j. w. Harris, who was ir
orders to relieve the besieged com
pany if it took every man he had tC
do it Wounded and ill but having
held out gamely to the last, he finally
had to be sent to the rear, his lieuten-
ants getting together to plan the re-
lief
"A" company was commanded b,
Lieut.. Chiles, "B" by Lieut. Joe
Schwinn, d. by Lieut.. Matthew Win.
ters and Lieutenant Meyer was actins
battalion adjutant Led by Lieutenant
Chiles, the advance was ordered an6
in desperate conflict fought theil
way thru the new German positions
| wiped them out and saved their com.
he
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-22
THIS STRAW HAT DAY
Few Topekans, However. Braved Chill
Iy Weather With Them On.

Straw hat day is here, but it might
as we'll be Christmas, because only a
few, a very few, appeared on the
streets of Topeka today. The eccen-
tricities of the weather man during
the last few weeks possibly were re-
sponsible for the lack of interest
shown today for hats of the equator
ial type.
A few warm days and doubtless the
derbies and felt hats will be cast aside
It's perfectly proper to appear in
your new Panama after today. This
was really the time to make your ap-
pearance with the new headgear.
The reason why most of the men
failed to blossom out today was that
they feared pleasant May shower
would spoil their fun, as well as their
hats. Furthermore, the mercury has
not yet scared to a straw hat temper
ature.
The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-22

Mrs Florence Spencer Duryea, of
Brooklyn, is now on an extended trip
to the western coast as general organ
izer for National Federation of Busi-
ness Womens Clubs which will meet
in st. Louis in July this year. She ar
rived in Topeka today to confer with
Topeka club women.
Mrs. Duryea. who is business wo-
man of keen ability, has been selected
by the national committee of this fed
Grafton, because of her special fitness
for this work. She is chairman of
membership committee of New York
League of Advertising Women and
one of the directors of the Salesman
ship club of New York City. She was
active in obtaining results in the re-
cent suffrage campaign victory in New
York and is a firm believer in the
place for women in the business world.
There is no longer any question of
the acceptance of women in COM
| merce," says Mrs. Duryea. There
are already eleven million women en-
gagged in gainful occupations in this
country and they have responded Won
derfully to the business emergencies
created by the war"
Eleven thousand women. fortified
by a common purpose would be a tre-
| mendous factor in business Believing
| that such a federation would not only
standardize their work, but would ben
| eft equally both employer and en-
ploye, national committee composed
| of business and professional women
will call a national meeting at st. Louis
| next July. The executive secretary of
! this committee is Miss Lena Phillips,
with offices at 500 Lexington avenue,
New York.
During her three months trip, Mrs.
| Duryea expects to visit the business
women's clubs in all the principal
cities.
/ Miss Ida L. Venable. organizer for
this division. has headquarters in Den