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could not find Fairy anywhere to help
him, hunt for his lost whistle, when
from under the grass came Quail.
'Oh, do help me find my whistle, ;"
said the Gnome. II will grant you n
wish. no matter what il is for. II ! am
not able to grant il will go to the Fairies
and ask them, and they can do anything
YOU know.
OF course, the Quail is very quick and
can glide under the leaves and grass
quite Is we'll as the Gnomes, and IN .
short time he found the little silver whistle
and brought il TO the Gnome leader.
Before even thanking the Quail the
Gnome put the whistle TO his lips and
blew the clear call, Good night Good
nightr' end from everywhere came the
Gnomes, tumbling over each other in
their haste to get TO their homes IN the
woods.
But the Gnome had not forgotten to
thank the Quail and when all the others
were safe in their beds he asked the
Quail if he could give him some bright
oolors for his feathers or n sweet song
to sing.
My feathers protect me-" said the.
Quail with bright plumaEe ! could
be easily seen by the hunter or other
enemies, and as for sweet song, there
are now many other sweet songsters In
the woods.
"But if you really care to grant mo
a wish, will ask for the whistle found
for you. That would give me call no
other bird could initiate"
The Gnome did not know what to do.
He wanted to show his gratitude for the
help the Quail had given, but what would
he do without the silver whistle TO call
the Gnomes homer
you might lose il again" said the
Quail "and If ] did not happen along
to help YOU. your people would never
get home. Why not give me the whistle
and get another call which will not be
lost so easily?
The Gnome had not thought Of this,
and he did not wish again 20 be in such
trouble. Besides that, he had never been
able to frolic as much as he wished be-
cause he had to be on watch.
Take it, he said, handing the little
whistle TO the Quail. After this each
Gnome must look out for himself.
promised 10 grant your wish and | Will
keep my promise"
The Quail thanked him and away
he ran whisthng, but instead of goodnight
as the Gnome had called, the Quail
called clear and sweet through the woods,
Bob White, Bob White" as he does
to this day.
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my work, and we eat at the same quick
lunch'place.
You might change the place
''Oh come, :" Bud protested. Its the
cheapest and best in that part of the city.
Believe me, / knowl I've gotten indiges-
tion trying them all. Well, our lunch
time is the same so saw him most every
day.
''Then he kept wondering why |
wouldn't 90 out. | made a lot of excuses.
/ guess / did everything but tell him L
didn't want to see him. But Petes n
thick skinned fellow-he never knows
when he's not wanted" :,
vi was looking at him, her blue eyes all
intensity. Bud poured himself another
demi tasse and went on.
II couldn't say l promised you not TO
see him, could II" He reached over and
took Violet's hand. But, strange to say,
she drew her hand away.
Il couldn't be ridiculed for being tied to
a girls apron string" he went on, a faint
suggestion OF sneer coming around his
mouth. $50 finally said | was trying to
save money and couldn't afford TO 60 with
him. He said he liked paying the bills
and he does, you know; he likes TO give big
parties" Bud went on, defending his
friend.
Eyes, Pete is generous, agreed.
"But, Of course, / couldn't let him do
all the treating. Well then, he gave me
frst-class tip on a mining stock.
'.But Bud, you lost on oil last winter
and YOU"
81 know, and had ahard tipe paying
back Well, didn't have any money to
plunge on this, but Pete loaned il to me.
Yes, / took it, he said, defensively, as
Violet's eyebrows went up.
"And | won, too. bought hundred at
two, and il went up to five, and Pete told
me to get out then-I WAS going TO get out
earlier-but you see, made about $500:
i paid Pete back, and went in again, and
did the same thing-it's fiighty little
curb stock; it jumps about few points a
day. / cleaned up about 500 altogether.
''And then what?" Vi asked, her eyes
fairly burning.
Tomorrow-Vi Faces a Problem.
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ed not to come off or crack, nor can any
made up eve look unsophisticatcd. Neither
is any man set dreaming OF the sweetness
of n young maiden's first kiss when he
can plainly see that the said kiss will be
favored with lip salve.
Furthermore, my dears, the girl who
makes up, puts herself in the same class,
so far as looks go, with The woman of
forty, since all drugstore beauty comes
in similar packages. This is supreme folly,
because the young girl lacks the poise,
the social ease, the knowledge of men that
the older woman has. The young girl $
one best bet was just her freshness, and
she chucked that away when she went IN
for the baby vamp stuff.
And YOU make another terrible mis-
take. girls, when you pose as being world
ly wise and wicked. Why, your greatest
charm is your innocence. Those of us
who have seen so much sorrow, so much
sordidness, so much that is hideous and
rotten in life, those of us who have known
so many blighting disappointments, love
YOU because you have known only the
white things and the bright things, and
because your faith in all that is good and
true is still unsullied.
A Young girl who has gone wrongis the
saddest sight on Garth. A young girl who
is wise and disillusioned, and pessimistIc,
hurts every one who secs her. She is like
soiled dove, or a lily that has been
trampled in the dust.
know il is the fashion now for young
girls to curse They don't say ooh Pitlle'
now when they stub their little toes.
They come out with good round oaths
that would make 'longshoreman green
with envy. Don't do it, girls. IL may
sound smart to you and the callow crowd
you are with, but it sounds blasphemous
to other people.
You see we have spent ages in weaving
halo about girlhood. We have attributed
to it everything that is pure, and sweet
and innocent and lovely, and we cannot
bear to have our ideal smeared over with
paint, or shattered with n big ID.
The young girl who looks as if she had
been reared on the street instead of IN a
refined home, and who curses and swears
like truck drivor-she isn't the kind of a
girl we hope our little daughters will
develop into, or our sons marry.
Just listen to mosa moment, dear little
flappers, YOU who Are so ignorant you
don't know what you are doing; If you
want to be admired, il you want men IN
especial TO admire you, and If you want TO
catch a good husband, go home and wash
Your faces. Throw your make up boxes
out of the window, and be just the simple,
sweet, fresh, natural young girls you
really are, for you are not as bad as you
are painted.
Don't make us have TO depend for our
ingenues on ladies of forty, who are wear
ing white muslin and blue ribbon, and
aping the artlessness that you despise
and the world finds so alluring.
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pleasure resorts, and everywhere | have
seen the same shocking and grotesque
sight--young girls, still in their teens
who were gotten up like Jezebels.
Little young girls with noses like
.mashmallows protruding from faces so
heavily calsomined with powder they
were as stiff as Mosques. Young girls cheeks
as frankly painted as any Scarlet Wo-
mans. Little young girls with lips that
, were purple smears of grease paint. Little
young girls with eye lashes built out with
gobs of lamp lack, the way Anna Held
used to do hers when she sang, Il Can't
Make My Eyes Behave"
Now / am no prlde who objects to
paint and powder on principle. On the
contrary. think it kindly and meritor-
ious act for every woman to make her
self as easy on the eyes of the beholder as
she can. l see no especial virtue radiatlng
from a shiny nose. l even honor and re-
spect the woman who touches up her
hair when 1t begins to fade and substi-
tutes artificial roses for the ones OF which
time has robbed her.
That is a case of art for arts sake, and
the result often justifies the means, but
when silly fiapper paints herself up like
circus wagon, she sins against both ma
ture and art.
Believe me, little sisters, no girl ever
commits a greater blunder than she does
when she fails to realize that youth and
naturalness are the greatest charm any
woman ever has and she has them for
such little time that she is a three ply
idiot if she fails TO make the most of them.
Perhaps if you knew that the thing that
every mature woman envIes you is skin
that doesn't have to be plastered over
with cosmetics, and eyes that do not need
to have shadows penciled under them to
make them bright, you would not be so
eager to hide your freshness under the
arsihces of age.
Youth Just of itself is enhancing. The
satiny, smooth skin, the color that GIBBS
and flows with every emotion, the eyes
that look with shy, wondering artless-
ness upon life, endow young girf with a
subtle fascination no older woman pos
scsses.
All of this you throw into the discard
when you put on your hand made COM
plexion. No blush can penetrate a layer
OF adamantine liquid white" warran-
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LETTERSOF TESSIE AND JOE

Dear Joe:
had sweet thoughts of you all during
supper tonight. ] cooked up q mess OF
spare ribs and sour kraut, aud you know
that's your favorite fruit, as you used to
say. If / could only of seen your hungry
face on the other side Of the table the oc-
casion would of been complete. When will
| see YOU eat sour kraut again, Joe? just
give me that sight and you can take away
all the movies in the world including
Wallace Reid in close up and the
beautiful mountains of Switzerland as
seen from airoplane.
Your Aunt Sophie dropped in late this
afternoon and gave me quite unwelcome
shock by saying she'd stay for supper.
Can YOU imagine that, Joe, her so swell
and me with spare ribs and sour krautl
Not that I'm snobby or nothing, but she's
the baby's richest relation and even If she
is a chronical tightwad, who knows but
what she might suddenly loosen up some
day and surprise everybody including
herself?
"Wen, Aunt Sophie" / says, "1'm
sure you're welcome if you're willing to
take pot luck, as the saying is. I've only
got spare ribs and sour kraut," | says.
"How delightful" she says. ''It will be so
refreshing to taste plain food for change"
Well Joe, II what sne put away was a tasue,
I'd hate to see her get on the outside OF
nibble at my expense. They might Of
been spare ribs, Joe, but there wasn't
any to spare. When she left she unfroze
herself from q nickel and dropped it in
the babys bank, and / don't want to seem
unpateful to any aunt of yours, Joe, but
it went in with kind of sick sound like
a lead one that somebody had worked of
on her and she was taking this oppor-
tunity to be charitable with.
think your right about the Japs and
/ don't see why people should talk about
having war with them. ! saw piece in
the theatre once called the Mikado. 1t
seemed to of been made up by Jap and it
was all about Japs, and though some of
their actions might look out Of place in
this country, / certainly left the theatre
with no hard feelings against them.
A hug and kiss from
Your loving wife,
Tessie.
Tomorrow-Joe's answer contains touch |
ing memories of Tessie's first attempt at |
cooking.
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LITTLE BENNY'S NOTEBOOK
By Lee Pape.

Me and Puds Simkins and Mary Wat
kins was setting on Mary Watkinses frunt
steps tawking and argewing, and Mary
Watkins sed she thawt blue was the prit-
tiest color and Puds sed he thawt pink
was, and Mary Watkins sed, 0 Puds
Simkins you're the gratest conterdlcter
ever met.
Sounding like compliment, and / sed,
G, if YOU think he knows how TO conter-
dict, you awt to heer me wen / get started,
there amt enything l cant conterdict
about.
Making Puds Simkins jelliss, and he
sed, Wy amt there, the doose there amt,
if say and makes you cant confer
dict that, can you?
Certeny / can, baskits of apples and 2
baskits of apples certeny. makes more than
4 apples, don't they, holey smokes, i
they don't they must be pritty darn small
baskits, Jsed.
Hee hee, sed Mary Watkins laffing.
Proving it was good contradiction, and
Puds sed, o is that so, well dident says
2 baskits of apples and baskits Of apples,
/ Jest sed and 2.
2 and 2 wat? / sed, and Puds sed, Jest
2 and 2, 2 and nuthings, and l sed, Well
2 nuthings and nuthings make nuthing
they don't MAKE A. all the nuthings in the
werld wouldent make 4, don't you know
that?
Certeny, know that, who the heck do
you think you are? sed Puds, and / sed,
Who the heck do you think you are?
I'm more than you, all rite, l could lick
of you, sed Puds, and ] sed Aw go on,
you cant even take contradiction with
out getting mad, and Puds sed, 0 is that
so? and ] sed, Yes that's so, and he sed, o
is that SO? and sed, 1t certeny is, and he
sed. Do you wunt fite, if you wunt
fite jest say so.
Boys, I'm going rite in, you're getting
dredflly ruff, sed Mary Watkins. And
she quick got up and went in the house
leeving me and Puds setting out there
looking mad at each other, and We kepp
on setting there blaming it on each other
and waiting to see if she would come out
agen. Wich she dident so we went home.
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SANDMAN STORY.
By Mrs. F. A. Walker.
Copyright, 1919, by tho Mcclure News-
paper Syndicate. New YORK. CITY.
THE GNOMEs' GIFT.

Once upon time long. long Ego. the
Quail did not have the whistle which
sounds like Bob White" but was with
out song or call Of any sort.
One night the Gnomes, who frolio
under the dry leaves and bushes IN
the woods, had held dance, and when
it was time for them to return to their
homes, just before the break OF day, the
leader Of the Gnomes could not find his
whistle.
He always wore it around his neck on
silver chain n spider had spun for him
and somehow in the wild dance that
night il had broken and the whistle
had fallen off, !.
OF course, the Gnomes were scattered
all over the woods and, in fact, all about
the fields and meadows and because
they had always waited for the leader
to blow his whistle, calling Good night" |"
not one of them thought Of going home.
Leader Gnome had looked every
where and was almost in tears, for he
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At



10 to 40 Per Gent Off
DY actual count, will have 6,737 articles Of
- kitchen or household utility in the assem-
blage; all Of them fresh and new all Of
standard grade and serviceability
1t may be no scratched-up Sale no desperate
muster Of left-overs and oddments seconds" such
as are too often the excuse nowadays for a Sale
but true, thorough-going and honest-going
Wanamaker Sale
Many people, knowing of the prevailing diff
culties of transportation and manufacture and
the scarcity of metal and other materials, have
Wondered-in fact, asked us the plump and plain
question-Whether there would be Sale Of
Wanamaker Housewares this year.
Our announcement of
This Great Sale
Starting September First
is our answer to these questions. We have brought
together for you the best and most trustworthy
qualities, the most useful kinds of
TABLE CUTLERY
REFRIGERATORS
COFFEE MACHINES
BATHRO0M FURNISHINGS
NICKELWARE
TINWARE
PANTRY WARE
GALVANIZED IRONWARE
ALUMINUMWARE
ENAMELWARE
OLD-FASHIONED IRON COOKING
UTENSILS
WOODENWARE
BROOMS AND BRUSHES
MOPS AND CLEANING CLOTHS
and everything else of Importance that good
housewife needs to clean house worthily 70 cook
food properly and to fit up bathroom for dainti-
ness and service.
Everything is as new as it's good and as good
as it's new.
They are the kind of utensils for which YOU
ordinarily have to pay 10 per cent to 40 per cent
more
So you may see that this is the kind of Wana-
maker Sale you have always known; Sale refus-
ing to recognize difficulties in the way Of getting
the goods; Sale declining any compromise with
1nferiority for the sake of saving dear penny
here or there.
1t is the Sale which makes September
A Month of Savings
for the Prudent
and month of interest to all home-makers
1t might almost be said that, this September
it is the Sale that will make the Fall housekeeping
and housefxing possible because without IL there
might not be enough new brooms, brushes and
mops to go round the honest
1t is the Sale which will enable the brides of
next October or of any other month, (for aught
care) to fit out their lovely, shinng-new ktch-
ems with splendid new housewares at money saw
ings that will literally cut figure in the general
expenses of home-furnishing.
1t is the Sale in which the thrifty and exper-
fenced housekeeper will simply revel
See you Wednesday morning we expectl
| Market and osnsr.D
er Philadelphia
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Tomorrow-Joe' answer contains touch
ing memories of Tessie'S first attempt at
cooking.
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"Now, children" said the teacher, II
have two apples in my right hand and
one in my left. How many apples have
II"
"About quarters worth" bawled out
Johnny.--Detrolt Free Press.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-08-30
Fine
China and
Glassware
10 to so Per Cent Off

~ you ,eailze .,is'-
IL That for three years or more there has
not been piece of clay touched to make
into dish of porcelain chnaware, without
there being signed order in the factory for that
dish,l or the set to which it belonged?
And yet, with production running so close as
this, and without the remotest chance hope of
any surplusage in the worlds supply of dishes,
there will be great Wanamaker Sale Of China
and Glassware, starting September first, as in
former years.
And had it occurred to you that the extra
ordinary scarcity of gold in the European money
market today would hamper the French potter in
his work.
= Even So 1t is under tremendous difficulties
that the beautiful gold-encrusted chinaware which
has given fame to the'name of Limoges is being
put out-and consequently the output is curtailed
Another cause contributing to scarcity of
high-grade French ware is that to apply gold Tin
any quantity) to clay, the ware must be perfect
the next thing to it-and the range of ware of
this selection was never smaller.
Nevertheless the Wanamaker great Septem-
ber Sale of China, in which the offerings of the
best French chinaware have always been a lead
ing figure, will start with splendid selection of
imported as we'll as domestic dishes, with the prod
uct of the finest French and English potteries in
the lead
1t will be possible to secure
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Nelp French China
Dinner-Sets-S5O UplUdrd

The dishes at $50 are decorated in the characteristic
and exquisite flower spray patterns
The largest group of the French dinner sets are how
ever decorated in handsome border patterns prices 65
$3.50, according to the amount of gold employed.
Prices of English porcelain dinner sets range from
$3.50 to 500.
Other imported dnnerwares s35 to s1oo set of lot
pieces.
American porcelain dinner sets will start low
$16.5O.
(This, mind you, is not half-set a near-set,
but complete outfit for the family dnner-table,
prising 106 pieces.)
From the amazingly low figure, American sets rise
by easy stages in price to $50.
Needless to say that these special September
Sale figures the regular selling prices of the goods being
much higher
In addition to these special importations pur-
chases every open stock pattern of dnnerware in the
great Wanamaker china collection will be placed in the
Sale at reductions Ten to so per cent is the range of
savings.
Intending purchasers should make early visit and
selection
While we don't expect this Sale to out of goods,
only rankness to call your attention to the fact that
in the nature of the they will out faster than they
run in seeing that more people anxious to
dishes than anxious to make them.
By coming the Sale opens you can't lose,
and may gain.
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NOUS the Time
If You Want Glassware

for have assembled bountfu supply of almost every
thing needed for the table in the form of glassware
Splendid, dazzling cut glass in almost every kind of
dish style of and in endless variety of shapes and
PATTERNS.
Large lots-notable savings, qualities guarded as
carefully to make this the housekeepers great
opportunity
Staple glassware too-ightscut, etched and blown
will be well represented Think it will still be possible to
get excellent table tumber clear thin and pure color
for 1Oc!
Do you Preserve? Here's help; we've purchased
several carloads of glass fruit jars pint quart and half
gallon Sizes Mason and glass tops which will be offered
in the Sale at exts emey low prices.
Fosrthg gIoorC Chsstnu
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Brazil produces 75 per cent Of the world .
coffee and rs per cent OF the worlds rubber
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Girls, are there no
more fresh-faced, clean
faced Young girls, with

IaCcU yOUHK kIriSi WIFI
dewy sweetness OF
early morning upon
them, and Gods own
roses blooming in their
cheeks?
1t has been my
luck to twice cross
the Continent this
summer, and. to be
in many cities and
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-23

Cushman.
c. Fox of Mechanicville spent Sun
day in town with his family at the
Shanahan home.
J. M. Barber of Greenwich street re-
recently sol da veal calf that was for
ty-five days old for 1924.
Mr. and Mrs. William Scott of AL
bany have son. Mrs. Scott was Miss
Dorothy Houghton of this place.
Wednesday at Bank Hall Theatre,
Dorothy Dalton in 1.-THE Price Mark
strong Paramount feature. Also a
Sennett comedy and a Kinogram.-Ady
Illustrated lecture with 100 stere-
optican slides at the Baptist church
Thursday evening at 1880. Admission
free. Everybody welcome. Subject:
"A Trip Around the World without
Money Speaker: Rev. j. Allen
Spidell.
All who promised help on the Jubi-
lee Fund of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union are reminded that
the amount has TO be raised by April
first.
All who promised to help on the Jubi
Easter music for the Baptist church
are urged to attend rehearsal Friday
evening at the residence of A. S. Hath.
away.
The many friends Of the late Amos
G. Draper OF Washington, d. c., who
spent SO many seasons here, it being
his childhood home, will learn with re-
greet hat his son Ernest Draper of
New York city has lost his only son,
a lad of eight years, from complica-
tons resulting from influenza.
Eugene l.. White, son of Mr. and Mrs
". K. White passed through North
Bennington Friday on his way TO at
tend a large Masonic gathering in
Rutland, and his fra ernity banquet at
Norwich University. Mr. White is
manager and first vice-president OF
the New Jersey Power and Light com
pany, with headquarters at Dover.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-23
Spring is HERE. SAY ROBINS
Birds Have Begun to Discuss the
Weather Conditions,

Weather Conditions.
The robin is considered harbingeg
of spring. Nearly every year some
of the redbreasts arrive in this local..
ty before there are actual evidences
of change of season and this year
has proved no exception to the rule.
All of two weeks ago robins were
observed in some of the shade trees
about the village They were not
numerous and it was noticed that
they were not at all cheerful. The
birds were more frequently seen than
heard which is not at all customary
with the robins when in happy
frame of mind.
Sunday the birds We're more numer.
Gus about the village than at any time
during the present year and it was
noticed that they had begun to assert
themselves vocally, that they were as
noisy as robins have always been once
real SIP. ing weather is at hand.
Perhaps the late corners were guy
ing the early arrivals and perhaps the
early arrivals were accusing the late
corners of possessing cold feet, but,
anyhow. the birds had lot to say,
particularly along toward evening
The weather sharks claim that when
the robins chatter just before sunset
that winter has taken the northbound
route without return ticket