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state board OF charities she was about
to adopt a child.
She went to the city and through
the state board of charities made an
appointment to visit their nursery.
But on her way she passed a found
ling hospital and saw some children
in a tiny garden with pals and
shovels.
Its one of the strangest cases
we've ever had" the superintendent
told her He was found in the porch
one day at noon. But he does not
seem to be a child VINO was neglected.
At night he cries for his mother over
and over again."
Her credentials were scrutinized
and approved and sne was able to
take the child home with her.
I'VE call him Jimmie" they told
her.
It was bleak day in February.
Jimmie was playing on the floor with
red paper and paste, making valen-
tines for his adopted mother and all
his new friends.
II have one ready for mamma, too"
he said with wistfui expression, and
Dora drew back sharply. and then
smiled at him.
She picked up the newspaper.
There were the usual columns of ex-
citing news. and a long account of
mothers search for ner child. HE
answers to the name of Cyril" she
read. Sounds little like lost dog"
she thought, but was startled by what
!. she read. There was a perfect de-
Scription Of Jimmie and trembling she
|, >ked down at the cnfld making val
entiAes.
Cyril" she said very softly. and
lifting up his great brown eyes. he
smiled radiantly.
"Dat my name. Dat what mamma
call mel" She lifted him up and held
him close, as the tears fell for as the
small boy squirmed TO be released she
knew she had no right to him.
The next day Dora took the sleigh
and went into the village, sending a
| telegram to the city. That afternoon
she and Cyril left on the train.
1t was morning when she took Cyril
to his dingy but real home far down
| town near the river.
And then she heard the story. II
had two children myself" said Dora,
land 1 know how you feel. They're
both dead, and Jimmie-I mean Cyril
seemed to fit right in, but at bed
time he always cried for you. He new
err forgot you"
His mother held MIN close and
| stroked his hair.
Don't leave Sirwill," he begged.
The country. the garden, the home,
| the cradle songs Dora mad sung when
she rocked him to sleep at night when
he cried for his "mamma"-all these
must be forgotten. or possibly remem-
bered only as part OF happy dream.
| Here was the mystery of birth, the
close relationship between mother and
child solved in an instant.
Again Dora returned to the farm
from the city, this time alone. One
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year she had left him with asneighbor,
Mrs. Minden.
Eliza Minden's children had died.
She seemed rather relieved because of
it. mo burdens in my old age" she
told Anna when some worthless son or
daughter had ruthlessly drained y,
would help her with the neighbors to
have Mrs. Larkin friendly, and this
was why she had assumed charge of
Cyril.
Mrs. Minden had seen mother love
depicted upon the screen at the movie
theater on the corner. It was grand,
then; it made one use ones handker-
chief and that was sucn treat. That
was the place for mother love-on
the screen, but in real life. never;
body was poor and kept havin' 'em!
So one day, little later, she start
ed for the founding hospital. carry
ing Cyril partly covered by shawl.
She told him they were going home.
SO he made no fuss Dut Immediately
seemed quieter and more contented.
She hurried away wnen she left him
in the porch of the hospital.
Meanwhile Mrs. Larkin kept filling
ice cream cones until she could keep
1t up no longer She went to the woman
in charge.
Sorry. ma'am," she said. as she
wiped her face with her apron, II
guess I got to go home. have a
baby comm soon, you know"
The woman in charge noticed the
strained expression on Mrs. Larkin's
moist face. "Of course" she said
sympathetically, "can I get you any
thing? No? Well. let me get the
children to help you."
"Beryl," whispered the sick woman
in the close. dingy tenement home, "go
to Mrs. Minden and tell her to give
you Cyril. She needn't keep him any
longer"
Mamma" said Berry,, when she was
back home again, Mrs. Minden says
for you not to fret. She has a rich
lady. She does some washing for her
sometimes. and she says she was just
awful stuck on Cyril when she took
him there yesterday when she took
back the laundry. She said shed
take him for week to her country
place and bring him back lookin' all
rosy and fine"
The first day of the following week
Mrs. Larkin was back in school. TAX
ing the baby with her. On her way
home she stopped to see Mrs. Minden.
ELIZA" she said, as she dropped In
to chair. will you tell that rich lady.
l want Cyril back? miss him some
thin terrible"
Eliza knew she must tell it now.
Now, Anna Larkin," she said nerv-
ously, you've got to bear this brave
ly-"
Mrs. Larkin gave low cry "Tell
me-" she cried. All the dread and
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old and as he
was a boy Mrs.
Larkln had ben
unable to ind
any ge m -lfk e
name for him.
Reluctantly she
decided up o n
Cyril.
Whes Cyril
had ben q baby
Mrs. Arkin had
taken him to
school with her.
He yMer slept
or played while
she w',Fked. But
during the past
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Time ADDS TO
L|NCOLN'S FAME
Passing Years Bring In
creased Acknowledgment
OF His Wise States
manship.

r N the mere recital Of the facts
of Lincoln's life there Is little to
account for his being the only
American except Washington
whose birthday has been made a ma
tional holiday. His origin was Eng
lish, as he descended from English
Quakers who settled in Pennsylvania.
His own branch of the family went to
Virginia, and thence to Kentucky. In
diana and Illinois. His birthplace.
though rude, was not unlike those
about him, the one roomed cabin of
the Western pioneer situated In a
wild region and with only the rudest
necessities.
There was little in his boyhood to
mark 1t out from his fellows save in
the thorough use he made of his scanty
opportunities for improvement. He
possessed only a handful of books
the Bible. "Aesop's Fables" Pilgrims
Progress" Robinson Crusoe." the lives
Of Washington and Henry Clay-but
Of these, by continual study, he made
himself complete master. Meanwhile
the difficulties Of his daily life made
him strong and vigorous. stimulating
q wholesome growth of body and mind.
The importance Of this foundation Of
health can hardly be overestimated,
In view of the strain he was to bear
IN later life. That he retained this
early vigor Is evident from anecdotes
Of his delight In feats of strength even
after he attained the presidency. BY
means of farm work that in those
days included every form Of bodily
exercise, by short experience as a
country storekeeper. by an almost ri
diculous military training, Lincoln
saw in essence something Of every
form of life and saw edch form In its
barest simplicity. From these crudest
facts he drew the homely directness
Of thinking, q readiness In analysis, a
simplicity of view and keenness Of
humor that tinctured his whole mind.
His Early Studies.
There is nothing that gives us bet
ter insight into the origin of his great
ness than the story he tells Of his
early methods Of study. Even as a
boy, he says, he was accustomed to
hear discussed public questions Of
every sort. The language and rhetoric
Of his elders was far beyond his COM
prehension, but with the true pioneer
spirit the boy Lincoln. educated to
overcome difficulties by his daily life,
not tired by a multiplicity of subjects,
was never willing to abandon a sub
ject without understanding it. He
would, after hearing a knotty debate,
20 over the whole controversy by him
self until he was satisfied that he had
extracted from it every root and gist
Of the matter. This done, Lincoln
says, he strove to put into the simplest
language what he had learned. in or
der that 1t might be within the under
standing Of any hearer.
Thus 1t was that he learned to an
alyze and solve political questions, and,
having solved them. to present the
matters in such form as to be under
stood by the simplest of his hear
ers. in the days when personal su
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ma had not rock
ed him into
dreamland. Some
times she dream
ed he was being
treated badly and
heard him cry for
her. What did
one less to look
after mean to
her? Only a ter
rible heartache.
NJ r 8. D or a
Sperry had taken
the excursion to
N 9 W Y ork.
T h r o gh t h e
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NASTY
Colds
Get instant relief with
''Pape's Cold Compound

Don't stay stuffed-up! Quit blowing
and snuffiing A dose of "Pape's Cold
Compound" taken every two hours un-
til three doses are taken usually breaks
up a cold and ends all grippe misery.
The very first dose opens your
clogged-up nostrils and the air pass
ages Of the head; stops nose running !;
relieves the headache, dullness, fever
ishness, sneezing, soreness and stiffness.
"Pape's Cold Compound" is the
quickest, surest relief known and costs
only few cents at drug stores. 1t acts
without assistance. Tastes nice. Con-
tains no Quinine. Insist on Pape's! Ad.
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Lincoln's BLESSING.

Lincoln attended woman's fair
given in 1864 for the benefit of the
soldiers. In his speech he praised the
soldiers and then added: "If all that
has been said by orators and peers
since the creation of the world in
praise of women were applied to the
women of America it would not do
them justice for their conduct dur
ing the war. God bless the women Of
America"
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pistinauished Family.

The Rodriguez family from Porto
Rico, according to the files Of the bu-
reau of war risk insurance, sent S94
men into the American forces and
among this number, which was almost
were but seven first names as fol-
lows: Domingo, Francisco, Jose,
Juan, Romos, Tomas and Antonio. The
serial number of each man was In
the 100000 class.
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Iincoln's Task,

Mr.. Lincolns perilous task has been
to carry rather shaky craft through
the rapids. making fast the unr,ilier
logs as he could snatch opportunity.
and the country is to be congratulated
that he did not think it his duty to
run straight at all hazards, but eau
tiously to assure himself with his
setting pole where the main current
was, and keep steadily to that. He
is still in wild water. but we have
faith that his skill and sureness Of
she will bring him right at last
Lowell (1S64).
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was smiling at her golden-haired child
With beaming eyes.
II make mamma pretty valentine, :"
he persisted, and wondered why his
mother kept calling him her vaIen-
tinel Mothers were somewhat silly
but he didn't care-they were real
mothers and not make-believei
Copyright. 1920. Western Newspaper Union,
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1920-02-06
ALadv Of Distinction.

Is recognized by the delicate fasclnat-
ing influence of the perfume she uses.
A bath with Cuticura Soap and hot
water to thoroughly cleanse the pores,
followed by a busting with Cuticura
Talcum Powder usually means clear,
sweet, healthy skin.-Adv.
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60 oiao =.
pains in my side and
back and also head
aches, and got -
weak / could not Do
anything. ! took
Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Com
pound and soon felt
better. Now ! am
married and have
two little boys. Be-
fore the first one
came l was weak
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was Out tACJ POuAC GU inlO
the streets. into the cutters, down
enthrallingly dark cellar stairs and in
to the Railways for their games.
To the school a mother came each
morning, for her work was to assist
in preparing penny lunches for the
children. Hot soup wnen the winter
winds had drilled through their
thread-bare clothes, sandwiches, des-
serts. fruits, and during the spring
months, ice cream cones! And just
now, it was this mothers task to look
after the giant ice cream freezers. She
filed the cones, spoonful by spoonful.
Beryl and Pearl Larkin both attend
ed this school and felt certain pride
that their mother had charge of SO
much ice cream-more than they
could eat in a whole week!
Mrs. Larkin was passionately fond
of jewelry-this craving had showed
itself even in the names she had
chosen for her daughters. As girl
she had loved gay beads, but since she
had become the wife Of Charles Lar
kin, she denied herself even that. for
potential strings of beads were now
translated into actual loaves of bread.
Charlie Larkin was considered by the
neighbors as mot much good any
how" Mrs. Larkin worked in the
school to make ends meet.
The third child was just three years
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A Handicap Race.

The Sire-You loaf too much. If
you hustle prosperity will be sure to
follow.
The Son-But I don't want prosper
ity trailin' after me all the time. I'm
givin' it chance to catch up.
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Pointed out safetx,s path.

Abraham Lincoln said: Teach rev.
erence and obedience to the Constitu-
ton and laws of our country and we
are safe; otherwise there's danger
ahead"
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day in the barn
she noticed some
chickens fighting
and a hen stand
ing by unheeding.
"P Dor LITTLE e
t h | n 6 s." s h e
thought. they're
incubator ones
and the hen won't
look after them
they aren't her
own"
And on the
floor of a poor.
crowded. clutter
ed room a mother
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Even the lines of poor poet are
apt to be cast in pleasant places
when he goes fishing.
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A Lincoln Chronology

iSO6-Marriage Of Thomas Lincoln and
Nancy Hanks June IL, Washing
ton county, Ky.
1SOo-Abraham born Feb. 12. Hardin
(now La Rue county,, KY.
1S16-Family moved to Perry county.
Ind.
1S1S-Death of Lincoln's mother.
1S19-Second marriage Of Thomas
Lincoln to Sally Bush Johnston.
Dec. 2, at Elizabethtown, KY.
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1S6-Elected to
presidency.
1851 Inaugurated
as president on
March 4.
1S&.-Issued EN-
ancipation Proc
lamatiOn freeing
rour m illion
slaves.
1664-Re-elected to
presidency.
1865 - Assassinat-
ed by ] o h n
VIII kes Booth
April IA. Died
April Is. Re-
mains Inferred at
Springfield. Ill.
May 4.
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rHE EPIC OF DEMOCRACY

1S42-Married Nov. to Mary Todd.
''Duel" with Gen. Shields.
184S-Birth Of Robert Todd. Aug. II.
1916 Election to congress. Birth Of
Edward Baker, March 10.
1S48-Delegate to Philadelphia ma
tional convention.
1660-Birth of William Wallace Dec. 2
1858-Birth Of Thomas, April A.
1855 Assists in formation Republican
party.
1o6e-Joint debate with Stephen A.
Douglas. Defeated for United
States senate.
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NOW FREE
FROM PAIN
lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound Frees Another
Woman From Suffering.

Bayonne. N. Before was mar
ried l suffered a great deal with period.
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Valentine
larry 2
Gfssa11a1u I
Bonner

AR down. near the river.
a huge public school stood
amidst the houses and
junk shops and dump
heaps Of the very poor.
In its courtyard several
thousand children played
daily and when school
was out they poured into
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1S0O-Linc0ln TAM
lily moved to Ma
con county. Ill.
1914 b r a b a m
Lincoln located
at New Salem.
1832-Abraham a
captain in Black
Hawk war.
1861 owe ro-
nance with Anne
Rutledge.
1S36-Second cleo
ton to legisla-
ture.
1S37-Licensed to
practice law.
1S37-Third elec-
tion to legisla-
ture.
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09
Jessica Brown in ''Ie Girl From Home at the Globe
Mildred Holland Finds
''Dont" the Answer to
''.Why Change Your Wife?''

"Why Change Your Wife," Cecil B.
De Miles motion picture production
now appearing at the Criterion The
alter, at first blush would seem to pre-
sent theme, or treatment of a
theme, that would prove distasteful to
the feminine members of the audi
ence. The eternal triangle that is
there portrayed is one made up of
one long suffering man and two
women equally intolerant of the
mans little weaknesses and habits.
everything comes out all right in the
end, OF course, because the man dis
covers that changing his wife will not
brlhg happiness, and the first wife
learns that true love demands GER
tain degree of tolerance.
But the reactions of Mildred Hol-
land, the dramatic coach and former
stage star and motion picture d.
rector, proved rather surprising; the
Tribune had asked Miss Holland for
her opinion of this picture, especially
as it touched the supremacy of the
man IN the triangular situation.
"In the first place" said Miss Hol-
Land, Il want to say that it is a splen-
did production, one that leaves a good
taste in the mouth. Its obvious moral
to me was Don't change your wife.
II l may say something in mild criti-
cism of the characterization of the
Leading characters, it is that the
character of the first wife hardly
seems consistent. She is supposed to
pc a serious woman. with a taste for
good music rather than for jazz, a
woman who wants to improve her
mind, who dislikes to spend money on
theater. tickets that might be spent
for tickets to a lecture. If she has
such character she should have had
common sense enough to realize that
certain amount of compromise was
necessary in happy marriage. Nor
IS 1T consistent with her supposedly
serious character for her to demand
a divorce just because she has caught
the odorr OF perfume on the lapel OF
her husbands coat; a woman of the
intelligence that she was presumed to
have had would have realized the
seriousness Of divorce and would have
hesltated long before demanding it..
Later, when she overhears two women
saying that the reason she lost her
husband was because she dressed like
his aunt, In single moment she loses
all her seriousness and goes to the
other extreme in dress, in thought, in
action.
-, IL SIG Hdu Deen woman VINO liked
the appearance of culture rather than
culture itself it would have been differ
ent, but this was not made apparent
Again, II 1T had been made clear that
her sudden decision to change her man
ner OF living was guided by desire to
win her husband back there would have
been reason in her decision.
But those are minor points," con-
ceded Miss Holland, land the real value
Of the picture is that it makes verv
plain the folly of changing wives or
husbands by divorce. 1t may do a great
deal of good for people in the audi
ence, may influence them in a sub
conscious way to think Of divorce as
folly. 1t teaches very plainly the old
lesson OF compromise in marriage. Why
cnange your wife If you are only going
70 miss ner and want her back again;
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09

if you are only going to discover that
you loved her truly?
"lf | could l should make marriage
much more difficult and divorce much
easier; then divorces would be fewer,
but they would be easier to obtain for
those who have really made a matri-
monial mistake. Too many people rush
about the person they are going to
marry. In the period of courtship each
surrenders to the desires Of the other;
the man is anxious to win the girl and
does, for her sake, many things that
are distasteful to him. The same is
true Of the girl. Both are on their best
behavior and they see each other only
in the best light. He brings tribute in
the shape of flowers or bonbons; She
is very kind and considerate. And
usually people are in love with each
OF the assertions of the cynics. But
after the first glamour of marriage is
gone there come the little differences
OF opinion; they forget the mutual con-
cessions Of courtship. Some day there
comes quarrel and then another:
eventually y pride steps in on one side
or the other and there is no possibility
OF healing the breach.
II have often thought" continued
Aioo Aioilallu, IL people could be IN
duced to think Of each day as their last
one, or of each week as their last one.
that they would be much more tolerant
OF the habits of others, much kinder to
those around them. Let two married
people who have quarreled face the
facts and discuss them; let them 90
back to that deep love that brought
them together. With too many people
that real love is taken so much Tor
granted that is is gradually forgotten,
gradually ignored for the pettiness Of
little disputes. Let them 60 back to
the days of courtship every so often.
the days of flowers and fine speeches.
when each was anxious to win the
other The real secret of happy mar
rage is, | suppose, the ability on the
part OF the man and woman to keen on
being sweethearts
THAT is the real moral Of 'Whv
Change Your Wife?' to me. I don't think
that the picture is unfair to either men
or women 1t shows that each member
OF the partnership called marriage
must make certain compromises, and it
demonstrates very plainly that what a
man or woman wants most in mar
riage is pal and a sweetheart"
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09

while we were playing on the road
seid that had taken out too much fror,
Richard Harding Davis's play. In other
cities they said that | had not taken
cut enough. And all of them had their
favorite bits in the old play which
for sentimental and other reasons thew
hated to see go. SO there YOU arel
While we were playing in Philadelphia.
however, Charles Belmont Davis came
down to see the modern version of his
brothers play Naturally, if his broth
er's play had been altered radically he
would have been the first one to notice
1t, but after the performance he came
back and told me that he was surprised
that l had been able to retain so much
OF the original. If he had noticed any
lapses he did not tell me about them. -
Like another musical comedy which
New-York tribune., 1920-05-09

little interest among mans,.
were given the opportunity 70 MS Eho
1t: On the day before tho p.oasee
while waiting for the dress re5 eJ5pshlng,
trying to think of new "gagss s"eafssl, "a
IN and anxiously wonderine b ~ put
hrst efforts as the author o Nv his
comedy In which he also ac,a mI,s'eai
received, Frank Craven sse.cSa4o Golo be
vague outline some of the TIM. tlisg -, u
brought the present produet;on men
light. 'c''on to
"Silvio Helm, the composern :,,
chad the rights to the plav s,a Said ne,
holding it. He told me aho,. e vas
aithough had assured myself tho, anu !
ShGuto sil;u never write another plav :,
Wn1cn WilIc l should also act, went to ~ ~
Oliilngham, told him what could ,a' @a.
ano then went to work on it. II az. az.
manager is heard to remark, 4 conf
rase ris, Eaa mat tnen III know that tn
Elr1 from Home is success" 'As
MI. craven analyzed the emo,;..
. oi an. an aa1hor OF play who also plsys
You go on the stage ard nlav :.
thing you have written. SuddenI, me me
catch an eye in the audience, AZ :ou o
which seems to disapprove. to hei.yye
your efforts. so you wrote this bs''s.'s we
you think it's funny the eve s@aD,s s@'S sna
say; Wei, | don't think it is funnv UNIV 20 20
ALL And then you have sInking my "a AZ
ing and it is difficult to go on. Ts,, llu.
is why | have often told myself tb.. .SI !
should only act in things writtsn snat ~
others and not by myself. /, is A 5oSs g
proposition TO act in a play written y',ov S''
another an0it s.. man: If it is not good yoa os
say, Well, | didn't write il. an "s.s !.
ing the best can But I supp".a 81" 40 :
shall go on writing plays and tber go ~.
ing IN them anyway 's'-
No wonder don't get fatr |.
laughed, with all these thon@S,, ne
my mind. But in two or three r.S dsv. "a 2
may have an entirely different omtia.t +is
on things" 'u'''Ok
is one of the outstanding successes =.
the present theatrical season ~ y
Girl From Home" lay around for -ne M
little time, unnoticed and stirrins ~ 10