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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-12-27
SENIOR GOODS SOLVE
HIGH COST OF LIVING
(By Associated Press.)

STATE COLLEGE. Pa, Dec. 81
Senior goods at the Pennsylvania
State College have demonstrated their
ability to combat the high cost of
living by running their table on less
than fifty cents day per person.
A group of seven girls in home econ
omics, in their first of eight weeks
residence in the housekeeping prac-
tice house maintained for their bene-
fit on the campus. established arecord
of 43.6 cents a day. They set the
limit at fifty cents, which is less than
half of what the men students pay
for board in the town.
The girls manage a ten room house
during their residence as a part of
their training. Posted schedules give
each her duty for the day Records
Of this kind may give partial answer
to the question of why there are fire.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-12-27
TREE PLANTING IS
PREACHED IN CANADA
(By Associated Press,

EDMONTON, ALA. Dec. 27.-On
thousand mile tour through southern
Alberta in an automobile equipped
with planting and tree exhibit, Archi-
bald Mitchell has preached the gospel
of tree planting on the pralries 10
10,463 people this fall. He conducted
his educational campaign under the
auspices of the Canadian Forestry As
ISOLATION.
He is the first tree missionary ever
to make an automobile stumping trip
through the Canadian West. but his
success has been SO great that the
Forestry Association has decided 10
make such a tour an annual event.
The purpose is to give prairie farmers
and townspeople instruction in the
planting and culture of trees to EN-
bower their homes in shade, beautffy
The landscape and furnish wind-siei-
tiers for livestock. -
Five million tree seedlings are dis
tributed each year from the Dominion
governments nursery at Indian Head,
Sask. IT costs the government one or
two cents each to grow the seedlings
and farmers get them for the asking.
They are planted under direction OF
government experts who supervise
their culture for two years. Ninety
per cent of trees planted in the last
ten years have lived, according to the
Forestry Association.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-12-27
Heart Problems

| Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am young
| looking and a good dancer. I have a
good many girl friends, but for some
reason | can't fall in love enough to
ask any of them to be nay wife.
| There is a girl who lives IL the Same
town and l think lot of her. but
never get a chance to meet her and
ask her for a date. Do you think it
would be all right to write to her for
a date? ! never met her. but | know
| her from being at dances where she
| is.
AN UNEASY FARMER BOY.
! If you try you can get aoquaint ed
| with some young man who dances
with the girl, and then ask for an
possible TO meet girl she seems to
know and through the girl get an in
PRODUCTION. Do not write until you
have met her.
| Dear Mrs. Thompson: My husband
and I have been separated six years
that is. my second husband We only
lived together two months and he dc
serted me, leaving my children and
|
| Since then | have washed for living
/ This summer a neighbor Of ours lost
his wife. In the winter he asked me
! to cook for him and the children
which | did. 1t was easier than wash
ing. Then he wanted me to be his
housekeeper He is a good man. but
everyone things he is wrong. Still
they say job of hat kind would be
easier than washing in tine winter
| have two children at home. l. and
nine years old His children are the
! same age. | am As and have raised
a large family of nine children Now
| am where washing every day is
! hurting me. ] am threatened with the
loss of both hands if l do not stop
washinsing, the doctor says.
Would you advise me to keep house
for him? My first husband died.
ANXIOUS READER.
l think it would be all right for you
! to keep house for the man. Very
often when a mans wife dies he hires
some one to keep house for him
Without a doubt the work would b.
easier for you and would provide a
home for your children. AS long as
you yourself know your mode of liv
| ing to be honorable, do not consult
other people, and feel confident tina,
! they will know you are honorable and
will respect you
Dear Mrs. Thompson-I want to ask
you if it was right for me to give q
BOY friend a present after he haC
given me one for Christmas. The
mother of a girl friend thought
should not have done so. Please tel
| me if it was right?
, A GIRL IN SUSPENSE.
In matters of this kind, it probabl!
is best to be guided by your mother
If she gave her approval. the matter
should rest there. Some persons be
lieve that young boys and girls ough
lot to Exchange gifts; others take the
| view of your mother.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-12-27
Bland Has 81 Children
Scion to Quit Suit Job;
Grocery Bill $50 Week

WASHINGTON, N. c. Dec. 27.-For
many years Representative Small of
North Carolina has by agreement
been presenting to R. c. Bland, Caro-
lima farmer and one of his consti-
tuents, a new suit of clothes for each
additional child in his family. Hav-
ing presented thirteen suits, and be-
ing recently notified to send the four
teenth. Rep. Small has informed Bland
that the contract will be off will
Mr.. Small's retirement from congress
on March g.
Small and Bland made their com
pact number of years ago when
Small was making a campaign speech
at Rebersonville, near here. Bland
then had twenty children; he now has
thirty-four.
Twenty-six of the thirty-four Bland
children are living, and the present
Mrs. Bland, Bands second wife. is
the mother Of nineteen, nine of whom
were born during the last ten years.
including one set Of twins. Eighteen
children still live at home, but Mrs.
Bland declares she gets lonesome
sometimes because so many have
gone away"
Mr.. and Mrs. Bland recently had a
group photograph taken of the family
still remaining on the Bland farm
While the photographer was working
a buzzard cast its shadow on the
ground. Bland was asked if he was
superstitious.
NO" he said. I'm not afraid of
buzzards. but at first ] thought the
blame thing was a stork."
In calling the children together for
the photograph, Bland simply cupped
his hands and in a stentorian voice
cried "Children". Results were i'm
mediate. Children amp" arcd from,
every direction. Some of the "ch;l
dren" were grown men and women
others were barely able to toddle
forth. and one still was being carried
III Bland nd SAYS it is no Are trouble to
bring up fifty children Nhan it is to
raise ten.
after you pass ten" he says, The
older ones are a big help"
The children were not unusually
noisy. Bland said. although "h v
made considerable racket whom f.; :
teen were taken down together with
whooping cough" The Bland grocery
bill is equivalent to about $50 a week
although Bland produces a large par,
Of his food. On one occasion he says
he snent most of one night comput
ing the cost of keeping his famil,
comfortable. hut that the figures
reached such alarming proportions he
gave up the job.
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A SWEETHEART AT THIRTY
The Story Of a Woman's Transformation
~ MARION RuBiNcAM

ing her life, was particularly strong
in me at this time. If Violet stayed
home at the farm, inevitably she would
marry one of the boys around us-or
If she still stayed in love with Bud,
she would go on, cherishing an ideal,
as had when was her age, and prob
ably sink down to the dull, dead level
had sunk to. She had not as great
a determination in her as had.
was so occupied with these
thoughts that l did not pay much at
tcntion to Laura's supper party. | had
seen her house 1t looked like the col
| ored illustrations in the mail order
furniture catalogues. The pieces shone
with cheap. high gloss varnish which
knew would nick and dull with time
The rooms had too many objects in
them, too many ornaments, too many
colors. The whole house had a restless
! feeling. wondered how anyone could
| be at peace in it.
But Laura was happy, and so was
| Charlie, and both were a little self
conscious over being so newly married,
and over being the hosts to older
| people-people who had always re-
garded them as children.
| But Laura served us a delicious din
ner, and later she and Esther did the
dishes, and I think Esther told her
, then of the woman in EaStlake, for I
heard Laura say with a little shrug:
ooh, l guess they're all alike. If |
ever thought Charlie was perfect I
know better now. There was girl
But I felt I should not hear any
more since they had not asked me to
help them. l deliberately moved away
| from, mart IF the rnoJn
| When we got home again, Violet
came to my room. She was not I'M
dressed yet, though I had had time to
| follow all my evening routine of exer-
else and treatments and to get into
| bed.
Aunt Enid" she began, hesitating.
DO you think we could find an excuse
to go back to the city soon? Helen
, would let us have our apartment back
| again. She could live with us until
September, so we wouldn't be putting
her out
Why" asked, noting how agitated
her voice was.
! Well" she said. Il have a letter
from Bud. I'll tell you what he says
she went over and lit my lamp. You
! see, he's been writing to me and put
| ting the envelope in another addressed
to Clara, because Mother would scold
so if she knew he was writing me. And
| didn't see Clara till this afternoon
and then she gave me his letter And
there were always people around, so
l couldn't read it till l got home. I'm
awfully worried.
What does he say" I asked.
He says" she answered, opening
the pages, che is afraid he's going 70
get into trouble, something that isn't
his fault and he wants me to come
back. He says he needs me near him.
to give him strength. Don't you see
l have to go back?"
Monday-We Prepare to Leave
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your physician remove the moles from
your skin; you must not touch them
yourself If you wish to use cucum-
Der juice as a bleach you can rub
undiluted juice into the skin at night
and let it dry.
This is the best looking marcel wave.
Loraine-There is only one way to
remove superfluous hair permanently
from the face and that is to have
electric needle treatment.
If Mrs. Anna FRANKIE, Tyler Hotel
jefferson Street, will send me the
name of the city where she resides,
will send her the formulate she re
quested. l am sorry that the name
of the city has been lost, and her
envelope says only CITY
All Inquiries addressed to Miss
Fo rbes in care OF the Beauty Chats
department will be answered in these
columns in their turn. This requires
considerable time, however, owing to
the great number received. So. II q
personal or quicker reply is desired. a
stamped and self addressed envelope
must be enclosed with the question
The Editor.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-12-27
Girls Eat More Beans,
Boys Eat More Sugar,
at Industrial School
fBy Associated Press)

COLUMBUS. O., Dec. 27.-Girls of
the state industrial school at Della
ware ate almost two and one-half
times as many beans as the boys at
the Lancaster Industrial school, while
the boys ate almost twice as much
sugar as the girls during 1919, accord
ing to report made by Examiner f.
M. Hoopengarner of the state bureau
of accounting on activities of the state
board of administration. The report
covers the period April 80, 1917, to
April 10, 1920
Each inmate of the girls school ate
1903 pounds of beans during the year
to only 1904 pounds consumed by each
boy during the same period. The
boys ate 43 pounds of sugar each to
27.71 pounds each by the girls. The
boys also ate more rice than the girls,
the per capita being SOS pounds for
the boys and $50 pounds for the girls
The girls, however. had it on the boys
when it came to eating butter by an
almost three to one ration. their per
capita consumption being 3012
pounds to lily pounds respectively.
The girls also ate more potatoes than
%
to 2.99 bushels by the boys. Boys ate
on an average of 100 barrels of flour
each TO 1.48 barrels each by the girls,
| according TO the report.
The Mt. Vernon sanitarium, the re-
port said lead all state institutions in
the per capita consumption of sugar,
| with GOAL pounds. The reformatary
at Mansfield was low with only 1851
pounds for each inmate, the report
shows. and according to it, all the in
situations show a marked decrease in
! the amount of sugar used during the
year as compared with 1915, except
the institution for the blind where an
increase of 1.6 pounds per capita was
noted.
The per capita cost per meal at the
various institutions ranged from
s346S6, or 26 cents per meal at the
Mt. Vernon sanitarium, to $66.83, OF
&c cents per meal at the penitentiary
having an annual food cost under 500
he said. were the Cleveland hospital
with $S7.6S; institution for the feeble
minded. Columbus, with SS4.06; insti
tuition for the deaf, Columbus, SS7.2S
boys industrial school, Lancaster
$9687; penitentiary. $66.S3; reforma
tory, Mansfield, $96.79.
The report shows that inmates oil
the penitentiary lead in the consump
ton of beans with 1850 pounds fol
each prisoner. while the wards at the
Soldiers and Hailors Home, Sandusky
were low with an average of 1926
pounds.
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Chapter so
BUDS LETTER

you really want to marry very bad.
~, don't you, Mark?" asked.
Why - well - yes, Of course" he
said.
And after all, it wouldn't make SO
much difference 10 you whether you
married me or not?" / went on.
"Why-what do you mean?"
Last summer, only a few weeks
after you had asked me to marry you,
you asked Sarah Belle-and you were
perfectly happy when she took you?"
was determined to make my point.
Maybe don't know. l wasn't
heart broken when she married that
man out West" he said defensively.
Anyway, what's the difference? That
was last summer. l want to marry
you'll always did. You'll don't know
what you do to me. l never saw a
woman like you-you're different from
; these others around here.
You wouldn't get fat and sloppy
and drag along. You like little life
and amusement, the same as me.
don't know what it is, Enid. l guess
you were right about the romance and
the being in love. l didn't believe you
last Summer, but feel awful romantic
now, honest do"
OF course it is impossible to dis
like man, any man, who is in
love with you. l found myself
feeling very gentle and tender to-
chins, his bald head and his
awkward way of talking. Every
woman is in love with love, and an
incurable romanticist.
But knew my decision as we'll as
knew it last year.
81 could not do it, Mark" I said
And I reached over to his chair and
put my hand over his 81 like you.
didn't last summer. but I do now
You've changed a bit too-you're gen
tie, you don't boast so of things. But
: couldn't marry you, not to save the
most hopeless old maid in the world
not If you were the last person in the
world who wanted me"
Every woman should marry" he
protested, falling back on his last sum
mer's argument.
Maybe" | retorted, angered little
IT don't say l want a career. I don't
say want to avoid the responsibilities
of keeping house. I'm not that sort
as you know.
But / have an ideal. l could not
marry unless l we're in love-as muci
is love as l could ever be at 20. Ilr
not in love with you. Last summer
you were not in love with me either
You may be now, l don't know.
never expect to marry anyone. or tc
find any one to love-sentimentally.
want to see Violet safely launched il
life, with as good an education as | car
give her, and if possible married tt
someone who loves her. After that
we'll, I'll wait and see what l can make
of myself then"
r This feeling that Violet needed me
that / alone could save her from ruin
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-12-27
ARGENTINE FARMERS
INTERESTED IN COTTON
(By Associated Pres

Wy <ASSONIe6tNNH VIZ
WASHINGTON, Dec. 81. - Trade
Commissioner George S. Brady at
Buenos Aires, has cabled the bureau
of foreign and domestic commerce that
northern Argentine farmers are TAX
ing a big interest in cotton growing
Mr. Brady reported that samples have
been sent to Europe and pronounced
as first class by merchants there and
that a federation has been formed
to raise a more uniform crop OF cot
ton this year. Hundreds of acres in
northern Argentine, he said, have been
cultivated in cotton.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-12-27

you are fortunate enough 20 have your
house wired for electricity you may
even want to spend $500 or $500 for
an electric iron, the heat Of which
can be regulated
The first thing to do in marching
the hair is to lift up Il portion of what
| might call the top layer of the hair
with a comb; run the iron under this
with the outer part of the tongs under
meath; then when you snap the tongs
against the hair, give them a little
twist so that the hair held between
the two prongs Will come to a little
ridge. Open the prongs Of the iron
and move them down along the hair
so that when you again snap together
the two prongs you are on the other
side of this little ridge you have
formed. This makes a little rather
sharp undulation along the hair Now
slide the tongs down about an inch
or an inch and a half and repeat, the
outer prong of your curling iron still
held on the underneath part of the
hair so you can form this necessary
little ridge.
This is really all there is in pro-
ducing "a marcel wave. but this little
is important and will require a great
deal of practice. You will not find it
hard to marcel the sides of the hair,
but it will be almost impossible to
do the back The whole secret lies
in pinching the hair into the series of
ridges which form the marcel The
first day of any marcel is not Sd
pretty. but as it loosens, the wave be.
gins to grow very attractive.
Blue Eyes-A girl of Is years, five
feet, five inches, is about correct if
she weighs 120 pounds. If your hair is
little darker than golden why not
try to tighten it by using egg sham
poos and sun baths, and perhaps hen.
ma shampoos. You can make your
eyelashes longer and perhaps very
little darker if you will rub them
with little castor oil. The dark eye
brows and lashes would be in charm
ing contrast to your light hair. Have
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-12-27

form a smart contrast. Three tIH-
mense black silk tassels accent the
lack and COLL combination.
The dinner G dance frock in the
center is a pretto model for the
young matron. 1t is back -et made
with q plain skirt and straight
ha ndeau 5odice. Jet shoulder straps
form the bodice supports and
Gorgeous sash of geld and black
troc' de makes the most Of its op-
pUrtun.tieg by forming one side Ut
tt e bodice as we'll cs a trimming.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-12-27

have been worn by grandmother IN
stead of her fashionable grand.
daughter. for it is decidedly remi-
niscent of the early sixties.
The wrap at the left is m1'.h
more sophisticated affair although
the lines are fairly simple. 1t IS
made of cloth of gold with oen-
caded flower design here and thee.
over the glistening surface. 1t is
fashioned on the wrappy lines With
huge Japanese sleeves. Deep cuts
and a luxurious collar of bla * lex
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-12-27
BY ELOISE.

NVENING gowns and wraps
r., may be simple in line and de-
49, sign, but almost every model
shows lavish fur OIL bead trimming.
At the right is simple and girlish
wrap for the young miss. 1t -
fashioned of electric blue velvet
made in circular style. The trim
ming is a large soft collar of gray
squirrel and three narrow bands of
the Squirrel trim tie body of the
cape. This quaint Wtap might well
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-12-27

qnent marriages around the commence
ment period each year.
Following is a sample menu for a
day:
Breakfast-Steamed pears. hot cakes
with syrup, coffee. Lunch-Soup, to-
mato salad. bread and butter, jelly
jumbles and tea. Dinner-Lamb chops
with gravy, mashed potatoes. chard
salad. creamed carrots and pumpkin
pie.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-12-27
SISTER OF LILLIAN NORDlCA
DIES AT HOME IN BOSTON

BOSTON, Mass, Dec. 27.-Mrs.
Annie N. Baldwin, a pianist, who had
been associated with many musical
cele brities, died at her home here.
She was a sister of the late Lillian
Nordica and was her accompanist on
many concert tours in this country
and abroad.
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A GOOD MANICURE

LONDON-When | was in London
tions for manicuring which seemed to
me an improvement over the way we
normally do this at home. l wonder
whether | have sufficiently emphasized
the necessity for making at least daily
use of the orangewood stick.
In one of the little schools where
manicuring is taught, there are num-
Der of girls studying to become lady's
maids. Positions of this sort are most
desirable here as they are well paid
and the girls live in large and beauti-
fully furnished houses, and have many
privileges in the way of travel and
extra gifts that do not fall to the lot of
the ordinary maid. In one particular
school which l visited, the greatest
Importance was attached to the proper
use of the orangewood stick which, &C
Cording to the instructresS, should
have sharp end for cleansing under
the nail and a blunt tip for pushing
back the cuticle.
The nails, of course. require some
sort of daily care. particularly in the
case of the woman of fashion, who
must always look exquisite. But
even in the case of these women, the
only attention which the nails get
every day is that the cuticle Is
pushed back around each nail with
the orangewood stick, the end OF
which is dipped either III lemon juice
or same mild bleach like it, or an
astringent cuticle cream.
The under part of the nail, OF
course, is kept beautifully white and
clean, but never with the aid of any
al =, IL
lemon juice used as a bleach. With
stick and with daily brisk buffing to
keep the nails polished and to stimu-
late the circulation, they need a more
thorough manicure only once week.
There is fad here for very pink
rails These can be achieved by pur-
chasing the regular nail rouge which
comes for tintipg or by using lip
rouge or face rouge on them. 1t is a
pretty fad if not carried to extremes,
and it is perfectly harmless one
since a pink powder rubbed into the
nails is no worse than a white one.
Agatha-If your legs are too fat it
is quite possible that you yourself are
too stout. In that case, of course, you
need a general reduction
Betty Brown Eyes-Gas on the
stomach comes from various causes.
l think that if you will take two or
Use the orange wood stick daily
three Yeast cakes every day. or a
tablespoonful of Agar Agar once a
day. and eat plenty of fruit and vege-
tables the gas will disappear. Gas al
ways comes from fermentation in the
stomach or bowels. but there are
many causes for this. If this simple
treatment does not help you, see your
physician.
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HOW TO MARCEL

On Board-Bound for Home! One
of the things l learned while l was
abroad was exactly how to marcel
the hair so that it would not look
too stiff and yet so it would have the
smart wave that many people find
quite becoming.
1t is exceedingly difficult to marcel
properly and frankly I do not know
whether any of my readers can &C
complish it or not. The first thing
to do is to buy fairly large curling
iron. You may have to pay anywhere
from IS cents to $50 for one, and if
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-12-27

Foreign-born women in the United
States number more than 100000.