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stopped and listened. Surely, Doctor Greedy had q very light foot this morn- ing not a wheeze out of him as he climbed the stairs Then an explain ing voice, very deep but boyish: Miss Grey, hope I will do as substitute {; Doctor Greely's asthma prevented his coming; I'm Doctor Warner"
 His eyes opened very wide when he saw who the nurse was. No wonder, thought Pierrette, for what sight she must be in Aunt Marcia's horrible dress, mile too big
 ''I heard that you were going to join the Evanses, Miss Melville" remark ed the young doctor politely, "how-"
 My doing" said brisk voice Aunt Marcia stood in the doorway. "I telegraphed for her, and of course, my Pierrette came at once to help take care of these little people,"
 It seemed to Pierrette that if Doctor Warner had greeted her with careless politenesS there certainly was diff ferent tone in his voice when he left, something of admiration and keen re- spect.
 The next day Doctor Warner asked Aunt Marcia if she did not think the nurse little pale, and that spin through the park just what she need ed. After that Pierrette had drive every day with Doctor Warner, and though Timothy and Pet were sitting up the doctor often found it necessary to run in again in the evening.
 "Good-by," said Pierrette few weeks later when the quarantine was lifted. You darling Aunt Marcia, I must thank you for all my happiness. Perhaps you've guessed, have you? We're engaged. When I mentioned Elsbeth to Edgar, he said Beautiful, stunning girls do not always do the big, fine things in life that count and he said that a girl who would give up round of gayety to nurse scar latina was the right wife for him."
The Press., 1920-04-01
Always a Way
 Out By LILLIAN HALL CROWLEY
co, 1919, by Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate

Allie, dear, you look worried"
 q am worried, mother"
 Why, what have you to be worried about? You're young and pretty and engaged to John Shuler, the finest young man in the world.'
 It's this, mother: John has always moved in the best circles both at his home and at the university, and we have lived so simply here-pinching nickels-that I won't know how to manage the beautiful home he is build ing for us."
 "Youll learn, dear, and I will tell you everything I know. I had a nice home once."
 "Yes, I know, mother, but telling isn't seeing I lack the practical knowledge of everyday usage. We've so busy"
 "1hat'S true enough, Allie."
 Mrs. Mangan and her daughter were sewing in their tiny living room during this conversation. Two weeks before Alice had finished her first year in col lege. While there she had met John Shuler and it was a love affair at first. Alice was working her way through college by being an assistant teacher
 Her mother, left widow with two little girls when very young, had made a brave fight to educate her children. Alice had been wonderful help with the hOuseWOrk and sewing, and later with tutoring.
 Things were looking much better for them now, as Mrs. Mangan had been
The Press., 1920-04-01
FEW LEAVE WILLS
Seemingly, Expectation of Death
 Is Not General.
Man Who Has Only Small Estate to Leave Is the Most Apt to Think That a Legal Document
 Is Not Necessary.

There are two reasons why people put off the making of a will. In the first place, as Cicero long ago pointed out, mo one is so old as to think that he may not live a year." If it be winter, the average man, of any age, is sure that he will carry on to see the robins return and to breathe fresh life with the spring; and in sumner he knows full well that he is not destined to pass out until he has harvested this years garden crop. It was so in Ccero's time; it is today. Death is never imminent; we take a day off to attend the funeral of the man whose desk was next to ours in the office, and returning from the cem- etery we say to ourselves: q ought to put my affairs in shape so that my wife will be all right in case anything should happen to me-" But we do not do it. "Tm right in the midst of things now" we say. "In another ten years I'll have something worth writ ing down in will. Then I'll want to think the matter over carefully and ar range a fair division between my wife and the children and the relatives; but it's hardly worth while troubling about now" The man in the Scrip lures is typical of most of us. "Things are going we'll with me-" he said in effect. II will pull down my barns and build greater" And that night his soul was required of him.
 And the second reason why will making is not popular is because there is a general impression that will is a luxury for the rich. It is expected that Mir. Million, when he dies, will leave his estate carefully guarded by long legal document; but the man who has nothing but house and lot and $500 in the bank assumes that 1t isn't enough to bother the court about. So he dies, and his wife, who might, under a proper will have entered into the enjoyment of his estate at once, with very little legal formalty, finds herself compelled to give bonds and go through an immense amount of red tape; and is fortunate if she is not in- volved in family feud before the ne gOtiations are completed. Even if she comes through safely, she has paid more than she can afford, in fees and charges-all of which would have been largely obviated by a proper will.
 The rich mans estate will stand 1t. There will be enough left for his heirs even after the courts and lawyers are through. will for him is more or less of a luxury; but it is necessity to the man of small means; and the smaller the estate the more essental.- Golfers Weekly.
The Press., 1920-04-01

The old bread line" is gone from it's accustomed plocc ia the cities. In the sums throughput the country hu6Ilei queues of men no longer wait to be fed Their passing is a symbol of the passing of the hobo.
 Everywhere, for lack of guests, the cheap lodging houses are being aban- doned Only a few old, decrepit men remain in the Salvation Army Indus trial Homes. In Kansas City the once crowded dormitories of the Helping Hand" building are closed. In Lincoln, Neh., in 1915 there were 1,756 non resident single men who applied for aid, while in 1918 there were only 136,
 The hobo, the wandering worker who went to the lodging house and the bread line between his seasonal jobs.
The Press., 1920-04-01
FIfty.Nlne Degrees Below Zero

Firty-nInc degrees below zero was registered in some parts of the Adiron' dncks last winter around the first of the year. according to weather bureau statistics. Better Cor worse) than that was done by Jack Frost in Sweden, where inc temperature registered I00 below zero. And in some parts Of Alaska thermometers are absolutely useless, the best of them freezing up and refusing to tell how cold Ii Is. In the dead of winter. in the interior Of Alaska. pure alcohol freezes into solid blocks of ice. as does kerosene. --Ex' chanop.
The Press., 1920-04-01
Mir Huohes and the Landlords

MT. Hughes, the Australian prime minister. has one chara cteristic of the "Diggers." He can go very straight to the point which he wishes to reach Recently the landlord of a wounded soldier raised his rent. This particu. lar landlord was rich man. Mir Hughes promptly informed landlords in general through the house of repre-. sentatives that repetition of this rent raising would mean the widespread publication of the names and particu. lars of the case, and he would follow up the publication by infiicting any punishment he found possible.
The Press., 1920-04-01
Earrinu EIsn.

The International Association of Game. Fish and Conservationist Com missonors, at their recent convention in Louisville, pledged themselves to use every influence possible toward stimulation Of nationwide move mcnt looking to the construction of fish ponds upon farms in which desir- able species of game and food fishes especially the basses and the sun fishes. can he propagated for recrea- ton and for food, at a comparatively small expense when contrasted with the vast benefits which will result thprpfrOm.
The Press., 1920-04-01
catarrh Cannot Be Cured

by LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the seat of the disease. Catarrh is a local disease, greatly influ- enced by constitutional conditions. HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE will cure catarrh. It is taken internally and acts through the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System. HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE is composed of some. of the best tonics known. combined with some of the best of the ingredients in HALLS CATARRH MEDICINE is what produces such won-
 tiu Druggists ss'i5 75c. II. Testimoniais "'' free.
 F. J. Cheney & Co., Props, Tcleco. O.
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has been lifted from his old plane by the var. A study of the coaditiOns of III grant lahov is nov D, ing conducted by the mlorchurch World Movement that if may lay the facts before the Protestant Churches of America whose closer cooperation is it's larger purpose. This study shows that the hobo has found a closer succession of jNhs a higher return for his labor. He has become almost a steady" worker He no longer needs his old refugees
 Beyord the reach of these agencies, he offers the Protestant Churches an opportunity to provide new means Of influencing his life and maintaining his standards of living, and the Inter church World Movement survey is de r3rI2i1ing how this may best be 3chiCved.
The Washington times., 1920-02-26

you these most amazing proofs OF
Life Immortal"
SO now let up drop this subject; II
Is all I have 10 say Al present. or
course, no Arguments or discussions
or any Kind can affect me any more
than you would be affected by some
ono who had never been In the civil
war who undertook to tell you
there had been no war; and that
no one had ever been on ~ long
march. ! NO LONGER RELY ON
BELIEF: KNOW.
Ny "sonnets OF Sorrow" are COM
Ing out In January; with two son
Then another book Of verses, Our
Verses" will appear In the fall.
They are the verses Robert suE-
gested, and win each have the little
story OF how they csmo 10 be writ
ten. A testimonial to his influences
on my life. my literary life, ! mean
Then my autobiography will per-
hsps run frst In Good Housekesp-
ing: before IL goes into book form.
I close up here November 80. I
go TO New York for two weeks; then
TO Washington for a month, and
then. as soon ms can find the right
ship to France. l have my COM
mission from the Red Star Society,
beside many other plans for work
over there. Beside which I have a
higher commission. You may per-
haps remember Bret Harte's poem;
The man would not 60 out with
hunters because the horses and dogs
wero too wild; nor with the sailors
The Washington times., 1920-02-26
By CYNTHIA HTOCKLEY.

SSX you had better come up the
sands with me this morning
q and plant trees" she said.
Ills OF the body and soul-to plant
trees that would grow up and bene-
Mt Africa long after the planters
were dead and forgotten. No one
ever left Ho-la-le-la without hav-
ing had a dose of this medicine.
and many an incipient forest lay
along the valleys and down the
sides OF tho Qua-Quas. SO behold
April. an hour or two later. farin9
forth with a pick and q basketful
of saplings, followed by~Clive lead
ing the Kerry COW. who was sick
and needed exercise.
Luneh In the Open.
They lunched In tho open, rest
ing from their 1abors and savorinE
the sweetness of food earned by
physical labor. Care was stuffed
out OF sight: dreams and ghosts
faded in the clear, sun.beaten air,
and again April realized what lifc
could mean in this wonderful land.
given the right companionship and
q clean heart.
Later they wendell their way
back, full of happy WEAKNESS
engendered by honest toll. But
nearing home, Give lifted her nose,
and, shifting the bre ase like a wild
ass OF the desert sensing I'M
familiar things, scowied bitterly.
"Petrolv' she calculated. "One of
those sinking motor cars! Why
can't people use horses. like gentle
men? What's the matter with
nice mule, evenf"
As they slouched warily around
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Use for Old Gloves
Wins TOday's Prize.

just coats tho spoon. Remove At
once and cool Add one-fourth tea
spoon extract Of vanilla A few
gratings of nutmeg 10 sometimes
added for variety. This sauce may
be made In a double boiler IL de-
sired.
Dried apples that have been
soaked may be used in place Of the
fresh fruit. After little brown
sugar, a little lemon juice may be
added for variety.
Almost any family has cereal left
from breakfast. These may ba
made into a series OF attractive
buildings In the twipkling of an
eye. Suppose there il some cooked
farina on hand. Pack II tightly In
the measuring cup. To each cup,
full OF cereal add two or three level
tablcspoonfuls OF sugar. Press
equal portions Of the cereal into
cups previously dipped into cold
water. Remove from mold on to a
serving saucer. Top with a bit of
RED jelly or cherry. Serve cold
with milk or tho custard sauce.
IL time permits, a beaten egg and
SUFFICIENT milk to make the cooked
and sweetened cereal thin as q pam
cake mixture may be added. Va
nilla and raisins or eurranta NAV be
added. Tho mixture may be baked
In a slow oven for half an hour
Sponge cake, such a. LADY fingers.
becomes stale very quickly. Ar
range the lady fingers or the cut
sponge cake in saucers. Pour over
them the custard sauce and serve
cold. For variation. q little choco-
late may be added 70 tho sauce.
Chocolate pudding IL always q
favorits, especially with the little
folks. IT In easily and s.ickiy
made.
For four portions, put into a
saucepan, four level tablespoons of
dark cocoa and a similar quantity
OF sugar. Mix we'll and then add
one level tablespoon of nour and
three level tablespoons of corn
starch. Stir in. ono pint of milk ?
little At time. Place over the
flame and cook, stirring vigorously
until the mixture bolts. Bon two
minutes and then turn into one or
moro rnoids previously dipped into
cold water. Turn on TO serving
plates ana serve wits milk or GUS
tsrd eauoe or whipped cream. BE-
fore cooking the chocolate pudding,
~ may be advisable 20 taste IL 10
see n 70 n sweet enough. A mini
mum syenttty ~ sugar II given IN
all tAssS rsetpsa
The Washington times., 1920-02-26
Letters of Ella Wheeler Wilcox on Life Beyond
Knovledg Immortality Based Mges from Decd Hubbard

because the seas wese 80 rough;
but hunters ana sailors came safely
home; while he was swallowed oy
the earthQuRke. We go when the
alarm clock strikes our hour: and
going means such glory 10 me do
not worry how I 90. Yet staying
means glory, toe, and 30 every way
look at II all r. quite aEreeable-
/ shall sooa try and send you
some Y. N. c, A thinSs. that IL
seme things Of nine they are 81.
plotting for the education end moral
welfare Of the soldiers
We have had Q most glorious
storm hersI and was 30 unfortu-
nate as 10 be In New York that day.
The sea rose even with the lawn.
And they all say II was superb
sight And no great damage done.
Twenty-four yearse ago we had
such q storm. but In August. and
boats were dashed into splinters.
and we he'd no breskwater or walls
then and our lawns were damaged
and trees uprooted.
Now this II n long letter. and !
must do other things; I am made
very happy indeed BY having you
tell me my letter helped you to rise
out OF depression. I am sure Lotto
is glad, too: and that she Is trying
to tell you so. Dear Lotie; l re-
member her with such affection and
tenderness. I can see her face as
II II were yesterday. What Joy II
viii be TO meet and talk with her
again. Faithfully.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
The Washington times., 1920-02-26
81 PAID FOR EACH
DOLLAR SAVED


Here Il q chance for every on,
to earn . dollar by telling how
she has saved Q dollar. IL may De
q dollar or more. II may have
I been saved In a day or week
However. all that matters 10 how
IL was saved.
81 saved and 81 earned BY the
telling OF the saving makes W.
How about ity BE brief and write
only on one side OF PAPER.
I will award . prize OF u eSsh
day for one OF the suSUestions
which I print.
ELIZABETH LATTIAER.
r. S.-If you want q prize. you
must be willing to have your name
and address used. because that 10
only fair to other contestants, whe
have q right TO know that esch
days prize winner 10 an actual per-
SON. However, am delighted 70
have. all sorts of ideas sent IN.
which. II not given . prize. VIII
be printed with initials only ana
help the other readers.
II your frst letter doesn't get
Q prize. try again. Even II II does.
that 10 no bar to your getting an
ether IL your idss IL worth y.
Cheeks are mailed &C winners
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IAAPoLooIzE.
l never believed IL was true
= tho story of the true lovers
and the cruel parent and the plot
and counterplot, the broken heart.
the years of patient suffering and
then--the meeting.
But here IL -. In black and white.
In q lettsr that came TO me this very
day. Read ana be convinced.
DEAR wINIFRED BLACK:
I am going to ask you q Ques-
tion . little different from the rest
and one that's . serious puxzlc. 9
matter that has worried me 90 long
! have decided to write to you for
advice.
am . young married woman and
have been quite happy until met
an old friend I was engaged to
when j was q very young girl. lie
went away to California. We cor
responded for two years. Then be
sent money TO pay my way to Cali
fornia, and we were 10 have been
married on my arrival out there.
He wrote in the letter that he
sent the money that In q few days
/ would hear from him again. tell
ing me what day for me 10 leave
home. But never heard from him
since. and that was nearly nine
years ago.
was sick over q year, and my
friends thought / would never be
the Same again; and after four
years ] stiii felt the same toward
him. but thought for sure he was
dead. ~ knew he would not treat
mo so II he were alive. Just then q
nice boy started to 60 about with
me. liked him very much but did
not love him. And ! told him 80
before we were married. But he
said I would learn to love him as
time wore on and ! had forgotten
the past, and that with cares Of =
home Of my own I would soon 30
happy again and forget. He was
Kindness itself to me slways and
make me happy.
Meets Her
Old Lover Again.
But now the very worst has hap
pened. I have met my old lover
that thought dead: that II. I'm
quite sure II Is he. by all I can ind
out. He has the same name and IL
single and has been in California.
And I heard him speak to a man in
a store, and his voice Is the same
a. my old friend. and he always
seems as II he wanted to speak to
me. but 1 always feel backward in
doing so. for fear 1t is not my
friend, - nine years makes quite a
change in looks and appearance
sometimes. How will ind our for
sure II II IL my friend-before give
him the money he sent mo to pay
my way to California, which is in
the bank and is quite q sum by this
The Washington times., 1920-02-26

taken: and that life was a glory
and the future an ascending path
brilliant with light. and that no
sickness. poverty or lineliness could
ever take from me the great happi-
ness which now crowned existence
for me.
In time the whole world will hear
my story; and the scientific world
viii have TO sit up and take notice
and bite Its finger nails and try TO
think up an explanation: and the
atheists will laugh a loud sslnine
bray; and the orthodox bigots will
say "Sle n In league with the devil:
boil her In OIL" And those that
have ears will hear. and those that
are ready will be stirred and thrill
cd and those that are in great sor-
row will cry God Bless Her"
! no longer discuss or argue or do
more than skim over snybody's talk
on these subjects. HAVE MY
MESSAGE: HAVE MY ABSOLUTE
PROOF OF ROBERTS EXISTENCE
AND CONTINUITY OF MEMORY:
AND ] HAVE STILL MORE WON.
DERFUL THINGS THAN THAT.
No one ever lived on earth, who
had such overwhelming evidence ~
has been given to me; and can
afford to be silent and wait my
time to give the story to the world.
Meantime ] am thanking God
every day that He took Robert and
left me; Robert never could have
como through what I have: and I
never could have sent from space
what he IS sending, because he was
far more advanced psychically than
]. So the great work he always
ionged to do for human 10 being
given him to do through me now.
Nothing can ever take him away
from me again: and every shadow
from earth has vanished. I wake
singing and 90 to sleep with my
heart thrilling with love and happi-
ness.
In California during All the
months was making researches. I
was called 4 doubter and scolded by
many people because would not
take many things that came as
PROOF. said:
They interest me; they are euri-
Gus andl puxzling: but do not feel
they are from Robert"
So vhen the tremendous. glorious
and overwhelming proof did come. I
was unprepared for II, SO discour-
aged had become. And now Il
sweeps on and on. every week
with greater and more wonderful
messages. Four people have been
with ma. one an eminent scholar
and student, and profoundly scicn-
tific in mind, and all are just as
stirred and convinced IS ] am. Ono
woman said to me:
mo church or book or sermon
ever took me so close to God a. this
hour with you"
Another said:
II feel that can never haes q
q sad or rebellious thought again
after witnessing and receiving with
The Washington times., 1920-02-26

short Beach. Conn.
October -.
Dear Marcus:
Your letter with some twenty
others came just now: I had finish
ed one hour OF my two harp prac-
tice; and the other comes this even
ing. from 0 TO 10. My secretary
comes in about an hour and answers
a thousand letters and does a chap
ter or two 1 have slketched out for
her on my Autobiography pardon
spelling). Doran and Co, a big
publisher in New York induced me
to write an abbreviated story Of
my life for Immediate publication.
instead OF doing the ''ASemoirs" 1 In
tended. which would be published
after my demise and would contain
q lot Of things unfit for publication
during my life and the life OF some
others. mo abuse or retaliation
but Just . phiiosophic dissertation
on some people and their influenCe
on my life.)
But that part can leave to b
put into my book after ] Join Rob-
ePt. So am deep in my story and.
Of course, II IL the most fascinat-
ing work possible: to write OF one.
self. And then to DO literally paid
for Il. fOftcn folks are willing to
pay us for NOT talking OF our
selves. you know.)
About the Cosmopolitan. don't
you know Hearst has owned II for
five years or more? that and Good
Housekce coping and Harpcr's Bazaar
and his own Hearst's Magazine. AMI
Nasts in London. That il how
gave them all my work for four
years. Then when the tidal wave
swept over me. I could not write
anything except my "Sonnets 1T
Sorrow" and I threw the contract
to the winds and all Its large SAL
AIRY.
Wen, In the late winter began
to write q few things; and some Of
them were published in other mag
axines: latter nrst being refused
by the Hearst periodicals as too
sad.) Then they wanted me back
again. 30 now am contracted 20
give them ali my work: but as DO
NO more prose, at . smaller salary.
larger. however. probably than
any other poet Gets today. They
use my work so beautifully that I
am twice paid. Tho very best ar
lists illustrate II In every Cosmo-
politan.
never wrote with such case and
q sense of limltless power fills me.
am never tired: everybody is
amazed at me. The neighbors are
all talking about the marvellous
change. Ono nsighbor saw mo go
across the lawn and asked his wife
what had happened. He said I
looked twenty years younger. and
just like tho old days when I was
the life OF bungalow Court.
simply told his wife "a sweet woman
Of orthodox training. yet not a
biGot) that had found that which
had lived for since Robert was
The Washington times., 1920-02-26
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