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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-25

There's nothing that a child can
be taught to do properly-without
practice.
If he ever is to walk properly or
run properly, he must have prac-
tice; if he ever is to talk properly or
write properly or play ball or think
or do anything properly he simply
must necessarily have practice. 1t
is impossible TO accomplish anything
with any degree of perfection with
out experience.
And the proper management of a
bank account is no exception to the
rule.
Some parents feel that an allow
ance probably would be a good thing
for their children but simply have
never put the plan into operation.
while others are wondering whether
it really is a good idea or not.
For example, one father writes to
me:
My boy is fourteen years old and
is beginning to tease me for great
deal more spending money than he
used to. Do you think it would be
we'll to give him a regular allow
ance? II so, how should the mat
ter be presented?"
Yes, give your boy an allowance
of not less than fifty cents a week.
Approach him on the subject
somewhat in this fashion: Clarence,
let's go into the drawing room and
talk over the matter of your future
Mttle-why. 1 was just thinking
that you're getting old enough now
to manage and take care of a little
more money. I'd like soon TO give
you a little financial interest in my
business and so I'm going to test
you out with a little money and see
if you can make good. l think you
can. l am going TO make regular
little contract with you. My part
of the agreement will be to take fifty
cents QUITO my salary each week
and handit over to you. Your part
of the agreement will be to keep
the premises in apple-pie order, and
do all regular chores and errands
promptly"
Lean forward and continue: Now
here's the proposition that will in
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-25
Advice to. the Lovelorn
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX
Is He Sinccref

Dear Miss Fairfax:
am almost nineteen and have
been going about with a sailor Tor
the past few months. During a
week that 1 was away, he wrote me
frequently, his letters being very
sentimental. He comes to the house
and has met my family. He told me
he loved me and made all manner or
promises. really love him and do
not want to lose him, but l doubt
his sincerity. About four weeks ago
he broke an appointment with me,
but said he was sorry and said 1t
was due to his navy duties. l Tor
gave him, but it happened again. l
also disappointed him the last time
he came to see me, but told him the
reason, which was good one. But
1 have not heard from him since.
Now, Miss Fairfax, do you think 1t
advisable to give, him up, or wait
and hope? L. NJ. n.
If the young sailor falls into the
way of being negligent and indif-
ferent. should say that you will
have no choice but to give him up.
But if he has a good explanation
for his Iapses, perhaps you are do
ing him an injustice. If you have
a really frank talk with him, won't
that help to determine the question
of his sincerity? You have, of
course, been friends too short a
time to understand each other well.
Unhappy Family Situation.
Dear Miss Fairfax: Il
1 am nineteen, but appear to be
a man of over twenty-one. In bus
iness I made several friends, one
young lady in particular, who is two
years my senior. We live but few
doors FROM. each other and our
friendship became such thai we are
together more. than we are parted.
My mother abused me for this
friendship and when the girl found
out what had happened, she just
had to weep.
Though l have made many friends
I am not allowed 10 go anywhere.
Almost all my evenings are spent
either in business or at home.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-25
MAKING THE MOST OF :.
OUR CHILDREN
A Series of Plain Talks to
Parents
By Ray c. Beery, ABB, MA.
President of the Parents Association

, terest you most-I refer to the in
crease in your share of the income.
l am going to make out with you a
regular little budget or rather the
blanks for you to fill in and if you
can manage to save fifty per cent.
of your weekly income-or twenty
. five cents a week-that would prove
TO me that you are going to. make
good business man, and are pretty
good financier. If you can Keep up
that record of saving fifty per cent.
for four weeks, l will take twenty
five cents more off OF my salary each
week and put il onto yours. How
does that strike YOU? All right?
Well now, 1 have to go to the Of
fee, but I'll make date with you
for, let's say, tonight right after
supper"
In. subsequent talks, make it a
point to put the emphasis upon the
amount he saves, referTing only in
cidentally to the amount he spends,
unless most of the expenditures are
for useful and needed articles In
which case you could enumerate
them, speaking. OF one after another
as being a wise investment"
As to the amount of the allow
ance, this may depend partially up
on your capacity for giving but
mostly upon what the boy really
needs for spending money. Some
boys demand more than others and
this fact cannot reasonably be ignor-
ed. ..
While it sounds all right in the
ory to say that the child should be
able to spend his money in any way
he desires. do not forget that in all
things, children need direction at
first. So make friendly suggestions.
Let your child see you make pur-
chases. Let him see that you have
to turn down many things yourself
and that you make a special effort
to get the greatest values for your
money.
Your child under this system will
get experimental mere experience
of handing money out-but helpful
practice in the art of spending and
saving money. All children should
have this advantage.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-25
LITTLE TALKS BY
BEATRICE FAIRFAX

Baby gardens have SO far bios
somed only here and there.
But l believe that in ten years
from now cities and towns will be
abloom with them.
They are going to do away with
nursemaids. and also with the over
working of older sisters. They are
going TO simplify life enormously for
distracted mothers. Yet their real
object is quite different from any OF
these.
Baby gardens are planned to pro-
vide the best possible conditions un-
der which little children OF from one
| to three years old can be happy and
comfortable, and develop naturally
| in health, strength and intelligence.
Some mothers won't like this
! idea-until they really understand
! il. They will say that they prefer
to take care of their own babies,
| thank you. and that they have no
| intention of allowing them to be out
| of sight and reach for an entire day
at time. What in the world did
they have babies for. If they are go
/ ing to deprive themselves of the op-
portunity to love them as much as
they like? --.'..
Perhaps the best way to convince
mother who talks like this is to
show her a baby garden in actual
operation. ...
| A couple of largo sunny rooms is
the indispensable setting-supple-
mented, of course, by bathroom.
kitchen, sleeping-porch and outdoor
playground. Three persons at least
will be in charge-a specially edu-
Gated woman who loves and under
fy-as 4
! a scientific cook. who knows how
to prepare food for young children.
In this environment there may be
as many as a dozen, babies some
body will have brought them from
their homes in the morning and
somebody will come to fetch them
at night During this time they will
be fed properly, they will take long
maps on the sleeping porch and
they will be encouraged to play as
much as they like, outdoors or In,
according to the weather, and either
alone or with each ether. Children
who wish to be alone are given a
| floor space set apart by screens.
Best of all. they don't come into
| collision with grown-up life and
grown-up plans, and grown-up fur
niture-things for which they are
PSt maps pulliSIltu at nome.
Comfort for the Young.
Nothing of this sort can happen,
you see. because there are absolute
ly no grownup furnishings in a baby
garden no upholstery, no tric-a-brac,
none of the fragile things that adults
are always so frantically engaged
in protecting. Neither are there any
| of the highly dangerous objects that
ba bieS often encounter in a kitchen
"a range. a steaming kettle, n fat
iron. fs
1t isn't so. uncomf Portable TO be two
and half feet tall If one isn't con-
tinually giving mysterious offence to
the surrounding group of giants and
If there are chairs and tables of
| ones. own size. Indeed. it's good fun
to be small. One has such a light.
free feeling. And before ones legs
get too long one can see ever so
much better what is going on in the
grass and on the ground than the
giants can.
That's the real beauty of a baby
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-25
"When a Girl MarrieS"
,r,E
New Romantic Serial Dealing With the Absorbing
Problems of Girl Wife

night, to cement the friendship of the
Harrisons and the Masons"
1 thought I could detect an ugly
not in her voice and tried TO conquer
il without showing my unwillingness
to have that friendship cemented.
And leave Virginia alone?" ask
ed, throwing open the door OF my
home.
Phoebe almost sulkily. she doesn't
when Mr.. Blake invites her out"
\ shade OF expression flickered
across Evvy's face and was gone
again before I could make an effort
Why don't you girls stay hereg'
That would be fun" suggested.
oh, no home. dinner in our TO-
where she can see bit of life" re-
piled Evvy lightly.
Phoebe,s too young to go about
unescorted, began none too tact
And you're a youngster yourself.
Envy. Stay here or let us chap
erone you somewhere"
I'm sick of being babied." flung
preachy and as good goody for other
folks as Virginia is, Anne. I'm going
out with EvVy-unless you call up
Wee and tell on me-"
While We were speaking. Envy
humming a tune indiferenuy and
idly crossed to the big carved chest.
TIL play. you game of checkers
whether we go or stay" she suggested
with casual and aimless air
When she manipulated whatever
strange device il was that opened the
secret compartment where she'd
thrust the checkerboard after her
game with him in the long-ago time
when he was ill and she had played
nurse while went out for a breath
OF air with Sheldon Blake.
OF 8 sudden Envy leaned down
with an air OF sweeping. When she
Strengthened up again, there was a
malicious twisting at her mouth
corner In one hand she held the
checkerhoard- From the forehnger
the ring on which hung Tom Mason's
duplicate keys.
Ito BE ContinuedD
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-25
MAY "sTARvE" BIG NINE FIRE

In Pennsylvania there is a fire
that has been burning continuously
for sixty years. 1t started in. a coal
mine and spread TO surrounding de-
posts. How much fuel il has waste
fully consumed cannot be even ap-
proNimately estimated.
The story has been handed down
that the fire was started when the
lamp in miners cap came in con-
tact with an oil-soaked timber as
he was leaving the mine at the end
of a days work. and that the next
morning the tunnel entrance was a
roaring furnace.
II is said that more than one mil
lion dollars has been expended, in
efforts to eXtinguish the fire. all in
vain. Now another attempt is to be
made. The plan is to strip the top
OF the mountain which overlies the
burning section, remove veins of coal
that lie in the path of the fire. and
thus "starve" it. The area to be
stripped is about a mile long and
four hundred yards wide. The strip
ping will have 10 be TO an average
depth of forty feet
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-25
CHAPTER CIV.
Copyright 1919. King Features
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Syndicate, Inc.)
kIy tete-a-tete tea with Virginia
|rried me back from the friendly at
bsphere Of the early afternoon to
old unsisterly relationship. She
Rs distrait and distant. The sub
+ 1t of Pat Dalton was now as dis
=ntly taboo as il she'd forbidden the
Rntion of his name,
=Even two cups OF scalding hot and
~ delicious tea couldn't warm
relations back to anything more
! =an polite tolerance, and I had a
eadful feeling that l ought to be
ateful to Virginia for not putting
stupid meddler like me out of her
use and her life forever. .
Dust how she managed to convey
4 r impression without saying a
#rd. l don't know. But this I do
ow: I hadn't brought her a .jot
=arer Pat Dalton. 1 had forced her
=nfidence a bit and made her un-
ardedly admit her interest in the
=In who is still in name her hus-
=nd-and she'll not forgive me for
4 owing that Pat isn't dead to her.
left Virginia and walked home
Bling that Id done far more harm
hn good. 1t doesn't seem possible
Rt can every again hope TO bring
I and Virginia together. have
clue-nothing on which to work.
don't even know what part - II
- Carlotta Sturges plays in
hir strange separation. ...... And
-kwardly enough. l have entered
o sort OF unwilling friendship
IN the girl I do not despise. even
I
Fpicable thing wrecker Of
Half. an hours brisk walk
bught me home. and there, in our
artment's entrance hall l found
oebe and Evvy. fast in conyer-
the cool discomfort of the marble
nch on which they were. sitting
e by side, swinging their heels,
couple OF chums.
Utmost dedantly Phoebe held up
heart shaped face to be kissed.
"a last time. Ia seen her had been
en the maid had reported that
ng Distance had said the Fort
Inething didn't answer and she d
Shed from the room TO come back
h that trouble brewing revelation
Il Longley. the florist. had identi-
b the sender OF Nirginia's anony-
us flowers as tall blue-eyed
n with iron gray hair.
n my soul / still believed that
oebe had been calling Long Dis
ce and. the Fort where Neal was.
l couldn't be sure; and il wasn't
rticularly comfortable to feel that
lie Phoebe would lie II she found
rself at bay.
Row l had an. idea that Phoebe
j come 10 talk things over with
wondered IL the undiplomatic
Es9n I had that very day proved
self could help her. And, ques-
hing il l found myself almost glad
I Envy was there. too.
ted cordially. ~1l try to make up
your long, cold wait in the hall"
Envy laughed out her answer as we
pped into the elevator:
Well. we got acquainted. and
warmed things up. Phoebe's
ng TO have dinner with me to-
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-25
WHY HAIR FALLS OUT

Dandruff causes a fevsrish irrita-
ton of the scalp, the hair roots
shrink, loosen and then the hair
comes out fast. To stop falling
hair at once and rid the scalp of
every particle of dandruff, get a
small bottle of Danderine at any
drug store for a few cents. pour a
little In your hand and rub we'll into
the scalp. After several applications
all dandfuff disappears and the hair
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-25

sound of his questioning trustful
little voice.
But isn't he missing n great many
things that a baby garden could do
for him?
There is mother now and then
who combines in herself all the ele-
ments of the best baby garden, who
in herself is arching tree and stream
and blooming rose. If mothers of
this bountiful sort would only start
and manage baby gardens for the
help of all the other mothers of the
world!
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-25
s-HoUR SHIFTS IN ROUNDHOUS
ON EIGHT-HOUR SHIFTS

Altoona, Pa. Jan. 25.-For the
first time in it's existence the Penn
sylvania railroad has put the eight
hour system into effect in its round
houses here. Three tricks have been
established. beginning at a. m,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-25
President Wilson Will
Visit Battlefield at
Rheims on Sunday

Paris, Jan. 25,--President Wilson
plans to make the first of n series
of short trips to the devastated re-
sIons of France Sunday. He will so
by train to Rheims, where he will
be met by an army motor car, in
which he will mako touc of the
sui ounding district.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-25

Silk Is Supreme in Paris
Fluffy News
Advance Spring Novelties; a
like Finish; Arrangements in PIads;
Silks,
By NOZZLE DE LA SABLERE
Special Correspondent The
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-25

Accept California Syrup of
Figs only--look for the name Cali
fornia on the package, then you
are sure your child is having the
best and most harmless Laxative or
physic for the little stomach, liver
and bowels Children love its de-
lici0us fruity taste. Z Full directions
for child's dose on each bottle. Give
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-25
HAS FLIRTATIOUs FRIENDS

DEAR MISS FAIRFAA: A
I am Is. Now every time / go out
my girl friends fiirt with fellows, and
If / don't flirt too they get mad and
tell me l am too dead. Will you kind
" advise me? 1 don't know whether
1 ought to give up these friends.
This is very bad training for girl
of Is. as you yourself evidently nave
the good sense to know. Don't on
any account allow yourself to go In
the street with girls of this type. No
nice girl ever hirts. but 1t Is a par
ticuIarly dangerous practice Tor
child of your age.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-25

How can 1 help myself besides
! talking nicely and trying TO explain
my honest convictions. II. j. ;.
If you are self-supporting, it
might be just as well, since you are
man-grown, for you to find lodging
outside your own home, for while
at least. But il you are dependent
on your parents, you will doubtless
have to continue TO make conces-
sions to them. 1t is of course, ex-
tremely painful, since you are a
young man of high principles. for
your mother to misinterpret a
friendship of yours, but since the
young lady herself is not alienated,
that is really the important thing,
isn't it? And sometimes a friend
ship maintained under difficulties is
stronger for that very reason:
ORPHANS LOVE TROUBLES
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
Ny misfortune in life is that 1 do
not remember my mother. was
brought up in an asylum. and when
l reached my sixteenth year, was told
to try to support myself. entered
a paper-box factory. for IS a week.
Before long. a nice-looking chap
wanted me to go out with him.. Not
knowing him, , refused. He accom-
panied me to lunch several times. and
l have found that he is we'll bred
boy. He cares for me a great deal. In
fact. / learn from my working mates
that he is deeply in love and will do
his utmost to gain my love. But, as
I have no parents or friends to look
after me, 1 ask you to please advise
me.
You cannot be too careful. especial
ly when you are soiyoung and unused
tn the world in insisting on reliable
introductions in the case of every
boy who wants to know you. 1t is
not an easy matter for a 16-year-old
girl to steer her way through the
dangers of life alone, but girl as
brave and responsible as you appear
to be is doubtless equal to the situa-
ton. I hope your boy friend may
prove to be irreproachible and that
you may have many happy times
with him. F.,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-01-25

ADVERTISEMENT
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-06-23
Would Have Autos Up
In Air to Avoid All
Street Traffic In Ohio

Cleveland, O., June 22-Automo-
biles will glide swiftly past the Sec
ond-story windows of downtown
Office buildings on elevated auto
roadways, while pedestrians may
walk" to their hearts content with
only the fear of street cars, if the
city planning commission decides to
accept a scheme to remedy traffic
congestion submitted by H. ]. Fau-
del, a municipal traffic student Of
Independence, o.
Faudel would have none of the
mad, dashing autos on the city
streets. He regards them as the
cause of all traffic accidents, direct
ly or indirectly. What's more, they
make life miserable for peoples
sense of smell, being given to con-
slant coughing with the attendant
emission of foul smoke.
up in the air 80 or DO feet, who'd
care how much they coughed," says
Faudel.
impossible? Why, they got
street cars and attached long trail
ers on to them and put them up in
the air and they're doing fine in
such places as New York and Chi
cago," argues Faudel.
He is deeply moved by a fear that
one day all municipalities will be
faced with the problem of unscram-
bling traffic which, with street cars,
autos, trucks, wagons, carriages and
all, promises to reach a point where
an "up-in-the-air" route will be i'm
Derative
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-06-23
Lieut.. Toying With Grenade
Causes Stampede In Office

A lieutenant with more curiosity
than caution walked into the M. T
O. office in the headquarters build
ing, in European army camp the
other night.
In his hand he carried a hand
grenade salvaged in his travels.
He laid the instrument of de-
struction on a table and entered
into conversation with one of the
officers there. As he talked he
toyed with the cap of the grenade
slowly unscrewing it.
With expressions of terror on
their faces the inmates of the office
watched the hand of the lieutenant
as it caressed the explosive.
Then, one by one, they slipped out
of the room, and down the stairs
and waited breathlessly in the hall
below
Only the officer talking to the
visitor remained. He was too
interested in the conversation to
notice what his guest was doing.
Bang! Smash!
A sound of crashing glass.
A little moan from the group
waiting in the lower hail. Then they
dashed up the stairs.
Its too bad" groaned one ser
geant. "He sure was a fine fellow
As the first aid party was about
to enter the M. T. O. office they
met Pat" the soldier janitor of the
headquarters building.
Pat was rolling out his Irish
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-06-23
Song, Made In Germany
By Marine, Becomes to
Be Big Hit In u. S. A.

y Coblenz, Germany with the
Army of Occupation-By MaiD,-
Everywhere you go these days
you'll find whistling, humming
United States marines. And all be-
cause of the fact that new song
hit has come into being. MADE
in Germany" it is true, but the pro-
duct of one of those two-fisted
fighting men who fought at Belleau
Wood, Private Lopez, of the fifth
regiment Of United States marines.
The song was written originally for
a company show, but the strain was
so lifting that the song caught on
Immediately, and now is being sung
not only by marines but all over
France. Here is the chorus:
Some day we'll tell them just how
-. the u. S. marines
At Chateau-Thierry won their
name,
Amid the rattle of that great battle
They carved their name into the
hall of fame.
Down to the ages, on hist'ry's pages
They'll read about our victory.
And when we tell them the story
OF how they saved Old Glory
Oh, how produ they'll be.
The thought of the song is that of
the war veteran, who, in the days
to come. gathers his children on his
knee and retells the story of Belleau
Wood, where the German drive was
stopped, in honor of which the
French have renamed the wood
"Bois de Ia Brigade de Marine"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-06-23
Bluffs Girl Never Missed a
Day at School for Is Years
Beatrice Durham of Bluffs
High To Take Up
Domestic Science AS
Her Life Work.

During her whole course of IS
years in the Council Bluffs public
schools Miss Beatrice Durham. ~
year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
{. w. F. Durham, los North Tw en-
ty-flfth street, never missed a day.
never was tardy once and never
infracted a rule that prevented
perfect record to the moment when
she was graduated from the high
school class this year.
Her school work began in the
Avenue B building, where she at
tended for nine years. When she
entered the high school she took
up the domestic art course. Sic
never missed lesson, never received
a reprimand, and never failed to
meet all requirements. She will
now take domestic science as her
life work.
Miss Durham was born at Idaho
Falls and came to Council Bluffs
with her parents when baby. She
has always lived in the West End,
where she is popular.