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owners and their reasons for selling.
 So he watched the auto mobile ads in The Age Herald, saying nothing to. his mother. The car was to be a big surprise for her. The warm spring days made him more impatient than ever in his scanning of each edition of The Age-Herald for this particular right kind of car.
 Then one day he found MT. South Sides ad. The car was just what he want ed, the price, the make, and if it had only been driven 5000 miles, it ought to be in good condition. Yes, at last the right car!
 He Knew his mother would be sitting in the front win dow watching for him to come home that Saturday noon, ten days later. And she was. She had to look twice to see if it was her son who was getting out of that smart looking closed car that drove up to the house. Until he came in and convinced her, she couldn't believe it. And she was still in a daze when he took her for their first ride.
 So trades are made today, so barter goes on-through the Want Ads.
 Perhaps it costs a dollar and a half or two dollars or five, but that transaction may change the whole world for you. In their new cot tage by the lake, Mrs. South Side bathed her tired nerves in the peace and quiet, where the singing of birds replaced sounds of hammer and fall ing lumber, while the swish of waves on the shore was a welcome relief from the passing noise of tooting, glaring automobiles.
 But to the dear old mother of Mir. West Side the ever changing pageant of the streets, the never-ending panorama of whirring auto mobiles, smartly dressed people, handsome homes, towering buildings, the in- candescent wonders of the night-the whole kaIeide- scopic view of the big city that their daily rides unfold ed-was a balm, a health giving tonic to her shut-in life.
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Ny Husba1sd---Ihe BOOtIegger
By EmolEae Reeehr

\ buf we wim mBVe in the ffrzt of the mamnh."
 | @HmIRTea no IngRr- yet as I went hack hdme nm the bus | waS fIr from hRREF- lit W3z a Gezr hguza,t yet
 The ehIl1rgm wgEe deIiighfEdr especially y Lmrlle, alEh1Ugh att fTrsT she 0kieetEF to the A8GaHIam- Than she saiI=
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 -I meVEr G&5aeE tB anything yuur fzl- alhRr GHm maEard. daEr," rgpIEssE- The faRxf af the manah we maEesz- I waS sZmr rrlBaA att the lavish WHY Mprt EEsnE nh1GRFs raEher taEG me to spend it. We RGGFghE aIl tlnt WAS mecesszry. but as he EmEaHlEbIY gUEe me the cash to EmF the biaIs egUId sEe no reazan to EWGHE hlm with G&lecfiausz- I asked hum why he dnfmSt pay by cheek as he aRWsES uzHd tD2
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 We hB3 hRa mo H1Euar i'm the ksdse klnne he HEtIHMEd fEum FEaMea and found tine eamd5rlzm af the bQzEMeas ueeess5- tRiBd EtEart eea@amE- BWG seareRIF had we mgRaa in whEn two ar tRrae esses arrived I ahIaGHEs1 atremuausIE. Pria- GlERlly GD LmGhHEhs aergGmn I had no faHr aanH MEEt WWUBE drimk mueh af if
 Now tlEHH Il eHm mffaEd 1t | want if in the hETEsE- We've GIwIYz had ft- TE1Ia we tReEme ED hRrd ups-I dsnTt see why ywu 0hDset- Do be Bruad-naimdsstl- S4sIER- I GBmTt see why yuu oBiee1 te everything nNWBdEES@
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to the task of making his mothers last days as happy and peaceful as her first days, when she was raising a big family with no help, were stormy and difficult. They had just paid for their home and the money was be- ginning to accumulate in the bank again.
 He had been thinking that the best use for that surplus was an automobile. His mother led such a shut-in life; except when she went to the little church around the corner, she rarely left the street they lived on. He knew that her mind, which was vigorous if her body was not, yearned for the sights and sounds and scenes beyond the roofs of houses and stores that hemmed her in.
 But it must be the right kind of car. A sedan would be ideal. And it must be a five-passenger one, so they could always take someone along for company. But a new sedan was prohibitive in price. He had heard that secondhand cars were safe investments if they hadn't been driven too many miles and you could find out some thing of the history of their
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he was aaIng suwEFhlmG t0 make MMngy 0f which he kagw I wUua2 dsszprEugs -@nneE thzt came msw s0 free4y it tBGa my breazA sway
 IueIle how gzthersd her ozd friend. around her, brought them home, invited them to dine Nart had insisted that we keep two servants But LmciEe still spent almost as mmch time away from hGme, dancing, Hitting to parties Gf all kinds, euu7ag in Ezte, aFnem with the O3nr of Ilquar upaa her
 I tried exerythimg I osmEd think of to hold her, keep her with ne but in WaTm- AM the 0ther girls went, why shnuHdmrt shas OfuEmo and 0fEE4 | Hun1ered if those other R0thGnz were as helpless as T.: if they could not re- strain theIr dMughtErs, or if they Eere indifferent, careless. too emgzged with their bridge parties and eambs to reAEEze what thEF girls were doing Yet I thought grTm1y I might as we'll De 4D- Ing all these things for all the restrain ing influence my remzimEng at k0Ene. trying to mzke things pleasant fur my ehIEdrEn. had up0n LlEiKs-
 Mona wzs hack in the pr1Vzte sch0oa and happy Donald w1s a great com fort, just a happy c1mtEnts1 boy MCn2 siIH cBpied LueiEe, still wished she were old enough to go to night dances, buk her school took most of her time and thought, and she wzs amelahae tO rea- son
 Mary Dayton had seemImg8y fDEEgEfEm her resEnHmemE because 0f LmEzhe's at traction for keafh Starr, an arrracEi0n that me longer seemed to greatly inter est LuriEe- I was paeased but a hTt nuystifzeH ovgr it umETl overheard LM- ei1e tel enc of the gld ehums who Was visiting her.
 @lEr. Starr is all right. but it's lots nzare fun gDIng with the bOyS- He was always afraid I'd have z drink tDo M2eA and katsd to have him get frezA-St's differEzt with men mear your own aEE"
 So Starr had tried bo-Eet fresh" with my Httle girl I was glad. oh, 90 EIad she was wise enough to rEpuAse kinz, too glad to think mReh of what she sand about the drinking I heard the giras talk Of betting parties" had read abgwE thsm- But whem I questioned LmeiRe she always IauEhed- at me, SaiH was -8aa f0Ey and EzEe me no mf1rmzaG1Gm-
 an this time lived with an under current of fear I felt as if s01g4hI@g anzz0us were hanging over ne. ready to descend and crush me at amy time. yet nothing happened to give cause for this epzditiga-
 gTo Be ConEImNedl
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CHAPTER Il

CHAPTER 1G
 N the morning Mort FilDtsd me as
 row of small houses net far fram
 Washington Square, but in whRa was stin good neighb0rhD0d and nod far from homes occupied by old fHanilies in spite of encroaching apartment hDnses and business.
 @It's pretty far downtown, but EHhE rent is reasonable and we wlIl haEE plenty of room he Eaid
 Had I not been worried, anxious, should have been delighted Tbe hBuss was quaintly old-fRshi0ned, yet the plumbing, etc, had been renewed and was up-t0-date. There was a nSre Fzu1 in the rear and the sleeping rooms wgre good size, the living room large, and the entire house simply but artigti1RIlg papered.
 ''It is lovely, Mort, but we wil have to buy good many things if yen uake it." We had sold aH we did not RbEO- lutely need when we moved iHAD the tiny apartment in which we lived
 That's all right. If gOn like it I'm trot right over and sign the lRRBe. There are a few things want dune.
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Romances of thew antAd8
 By MRS LEROY ' BOLCHNER

What a simple process was barter for our primitive ancestors!
 They saw something a fel- low tribesman had that they wanted "a certain kind of bow and arrow or earthen- ware drum or bone utensil and they had something he wanted, and so the trade was made.
 In these days, our next door neighbOr might possess the thing we most desired, and be anxious to get rid of it, and we'd never know it. ezcept for the Want Ads
 They have surrounded our cumplex civilization and we have to rely on them as our medium of barter that will go on as long as the sO-called human race exists 1t may have another name, but 1t IS primitive barter of OUT say age ancestors.
 And this story proves that barter is made possible now only by the Want Ads.
 MT. and Mrs South Side owned an automobile, a com fOrtable, five passenger se- dan of good make. In the spring and summer, they rode out every night and every Saturday and Sunday afternoon To tell the truth, neither particularly enjoyed these rides Mrs South Side was neurOtic and her eOndi- ton reacted on her husband, and the hazards of riding that normal people think nothing of, intensified her condition She often came home in a high state of ner- vOus tension.
 To e0mplicate things, an apartment building was be- ing erected on the lot adlOin- ing theirs and the noise and confusion and shouts of the WOrkImen and the swarms of children 1t drew as a mag net, rasped her nerves and exhausted her physically.
 So one Saturday when Mir. South Side came home as usual at 80 and sug- geSted a ride, she exclaimed : ~0h, I don't want to go out in that car until I am better. How I wish we could go away this summer to some place where 1t would be quiet and we wouldn't have to see people"
 That set Mir. South Side to thinking. It had occurred to him before that they both needed the quiet and seclu-
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The WeU-DreSsed Man
 By BEAUNASH Correct COEhes To hEeeE The OAgaum Of Eyey Ocuaaun
HE KNACK UF KNTCKERs


 Since snickers ceased to go with knickers and they became as stahAara an article of menS dress 4E 4Ew@serB many important improvements hHxs been effected in their design and &etRl The first kniekerE were baIl0sn-hke aRgs that flapped against Unels Legs Eke a EHia becalmed. The man whg wDre them frs quented side-paths and aIlsgs Aest he meet his worst friends or Aas 2SRreEt enemy face to face. 1t is quIfe different today, when kuickgrs are cut, EtfBa and draped with skin and shapehness E0 o1n- ceal the legs that are curved like pRir of parenthesis marks and to rEHeaa ahsse which are credItablg straigiht-
 Corrertly designed lCaidlzeus zrA. af course, very full, having tae gEeahHng which has come to be termed -EauE four," because it extends four lndhas below the knee. However, this effert is not becoming to al figures, Far6acnRargy the short and thickset, 30 that EaRs aw'D and plus three measurements are aRsD used. The tall slender man should WARr extremely low, wide knickrs, as they serve to cOunferbalznne his e7unEaaea lines. The stout mnn or the below mAr- may height should go in for scamter-cut knickers with not too walHmingRs n drape, so that his breadth or abhreVE- ated stature win not be aeceutnaaAA
 Various ways of finishing and fastan- ] ing hnickers at the lnee are picturHd in the Accompanying sketch. The tsp drawing shows the buttanAd effeut, which, it is claimed, is superior to the buckle, because it is not SD prune to tear or phu the cloth. The cemter style l illustrates the bncklpd knirkers whith may be tightened or 1oasenBa at wIn just like a belt. The bettgm sketch ne
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A Small Collar Gives Chic
 Effect

C,TYLE is splendid attribute for
 which to aim, but it should only
 be employed as a means to an end. Style is one. of the most uni versally poignant and fascinating means of making felt ones personali- ty, for style is something which every one, whether man or woman, subcon- sciously appreciates and admires. Mere clothes, considered in the casual sense, could never accomplish what stylish clothes can. Style attracts, and after the attraction all the other attributes one brides ones self in pos sessing have an opportunity to be ap- preciated, but you will agree with me they are worthless until attention has been brought to the individual.
 A smart and practical type of frock is suggested for the woman who likes the youth giving attributes of the small turn-dOwn collar. Needless to remark, ones neck must needs be reasonably pretty to wear such a collar. There are many suggestions I could make as to the suitable materials for this frock. and also for the combination of mate rials, each giving quite entirely diff ferent effect, but most of you are no doubt interested in the most sum- mery interpretation. And for this either linen or silk crepe would be pretty. Coral or yellow for the main portion, with the collar, cuffs, trim ming bands and lower front section in skirt of white. The buttons of white pearl and tie of black satin would complete a very effective ensemble.
 If a printed crepe de chine were selected for this model. one could in- troduce the contrasting color in pipings down the front opening, around the cuffs and trimming bands and top of black flounce. Tke collar could be en- tireIy of the plain silk, also the but tons, while hankic of the same color could be tucked in one of the pockets.
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By MRS. LEROY J. BOUCHNER

South Side, elderly, nervous people, an automobile was, in a manner speaking, poi son, it WAS meat to MT. West Side and his aged mother. MT. West Side was one of those bachelors who are welded to a mother. He had long ago consecrated himself
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Shows Benefits Of Batllirlg
 In Suf
Rm LILLIAN WHITNEY

CURF bathing. when judici@us1y un-
 der4akem, Is highly hemef7cia1; 1t
 stImmEztes the fmmcEsnms Gf the en- tire boIfy and is am ideal form of en- juymemt within eH<tzim Emits But 1t can be Oxer1ume by even the strumgeSt. and this Is ssmetImes the ease with those whose EzGz4inm allows them Gmly a few weeks, or even days. m which to inREIge in their favOrIte sport
 Expert bathers are very difficult to manage and are wsuzEly those who get intu trouble, as they VIII heed n0 warm- m~- Women no matter hgw xarum< GIT how expert at sw1mMing, Sh0u& never <o beyuma z cexEHim aspth, sh0WHd never swim around psErx CT a0 antics inn the water, or remain m the waiter very hung Those who boast of these things are f0Dahar1E-
 To remMlm im the surf E@aSer than ten minutes the firxt &ay-0r if a novice at the sport, even though a good swImmer-Es tn invite GempurzEy congestion of the internal organs. with possihEe retzrdatlna of their functions, that may be the beginning of consider able truuh1e in the future Thls ap- plies particularly f0 wumgm who have not the srzmmia tw reaer fMme1lafeay, and who beeumes victims GE fmnct1Hnal organic Besians of enc ssEt CT another i'm ennseqmEnce- In sGwe the skin happens tB be the m0s3 sensitive part and whi1e a eerfzin aRUzmt of Salt water M 4 nunic, too much imiatztHS and eruptlgnz 0frel resuHt-
 For physical dETgz0Pment nothing suryasses swimming. Ir ,reamees over desh, fills cut AoIE0wz and egualE1es the mmscuEature generally 1t inAUees 6eeP abdominal breathing. tAws gxercIsIlg all the trunk organs, aceelerztzMg the ezr- emlatInm and rapidly elfmimatimg waste It models the figure as mSthEng else cam, and makes for perfect <ymmsEEy- It exertz also q WumdGExuHly bene4heelt aefinm upon the central mgrvUGs system by awakMTmg an inner cnmsCaOuxmesz to self reliance, thus estzblEshEng posse
 Women swimmers ShglAd wear gzr- mEnts that leave thezr msEglgmts as frees and untTzmmeze1 as thGse of men Narrsw skirts mmst be. discarded here as they are dzngerDwz The arms should be covered with lalg, loose sleeves and all exposed parts ShguAd be prUteeted from the burning sAn by imWmcS5Gzs of cream and cDat of powder. Mem use cnc0a butrex, which fs vgY gBo&-bWt 1t has a tEn&Emey to eDzrsgn and dark 9 the SkIm
 Sandals thai lace weA ur the leg are mot only mare attractive than the average bzthIng slippers. but x4rlgth- en the ankles in swIwmEnZ Rest ard if pass7bze, sleep sh9uEA mvzEiahly fna- IoE surf bathing as ii B a VT strenuous exereEse, and, tD secwre its fHaI benefit, it must be pwE1ed Oa principles of hsalth-
 It goes without Saymg tAAt peTsulz with organic EezlGas of any lind weak hearts pzrEigulzr9y-sh9IA nm der n0 eSrcaMsEamGes go ElkD the surf
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sion of a summer home and
 that it would be more prac- tical for them to own such a place than a car. If he could get what the car was worth, he would buy such a place. The best way, of course, was, a Want Ad that would bring him in direct touch with the
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prospective buyer. So after a little more thought and a conference with Mrs. South Side, he decided to put one in The Age-Herald.
 He studied the long list of automobile ads. Most of them were two lines or a line and a half long, and they all sounded alike. Might as well shut your eyes, put in your hand and grab.
 We'll, he would describe his car to the readers, not merely list it among others. For Mir. South Side was a salesman and he knew that he could only arouse desire for that automobile by tell ing all about it.
 After much writing and rewriting, he handed this to The Age-Herald ad taker:
 FiUe passenger sedan,
 1891 model, just OUer-
 hauled, t1OO bumpers,
 S1OO qC0rtb Of eGtrdS,
 ftUe neaOIy VGTniShed
 cOrd' tires, upholstery
 like Re10, splendid mo-
 tor, run 0gIy 5000
 Hsiles, good reason for
 selling, 10iU demon
 StrGte GHy eUeniRg.
 Price S950. CGLL-
 Now if to Mir. and Mrs.
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Fr1Hunss km6Eksrs FruE66EaE with a knit tad EEklbeH eBBsSic cuff of jerseT cloth @r SGzeikined. Whaeh, expanding and com aRRe4IanE, does aw1Y wTnh ha1h butraas and hucknRE and also WIitE tine mead of WFeiEEIIng golf gEr1HnS
 CzHTeeaIy cut E5ekRTs are snuEIy shRpea ulD tine wzlza- SD that their weight HHzas SqUEEeIY UFan the hipz. They haxe zh1e P9eEEas and hiip FackEts and, beBBw the seEFs tfeF swing inward hO gTEG thEm symmetrical Eues- To be Bure. theE haxe hrg@d belt kapa and sometimes. GmRm PlEMnx at the Wrzistllne JJHs1 MkR uEWUzEHG@
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Mothers And TAek ChHarsa

Une MOthef bayB=
 I never scold my little gid when she drops a piece of china as the nervous shock she receives from the crash is usually punishment enough If the crash Occars because of her earsaEEs- ness and dreaminess I talk with her about how she must be eapsfnl Rbgut mothers china and if she wTu hold ii just so, and be sure to wipe her s0HEy hands before picking up a plRte, there will be no more accidents. I found fhas scolding her severely did not work, and it is an equally poor plan to pass oyer the accident without letting 1t mahs an impression on her.
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We women have fought for eqaal rights and by 80 doing we also fought for the rights of good sportsmanship. The woman who sues is q refic-from the days when we were not equal to men. when we did not have the privi- leges of citizenship and the freedom of the business world that we enjoy today, and she should be considered obsOlete under the law.
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AS the TheK1zAs1EGeR mounts higher eur mEtal and spirit ual hRekbane HzRIfs down, and we do in July and August those things whieh we would be Inczp
 akle of doing in Deeemer and Jan uMKy-
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Nevsrtbe1esz. donrt do it. Fir t2t5Gms have a WzF of coming home to rS0S4 with married people, and the rezlIEs are ggne1zIly messy and 3IxUEVy- Many a wife has paid for a silly se2samfs sentimental jag with her k0me and her husband and good maRe- Besides, it would lower
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Don't forget you are a pro tenn wid- ower only. It is all right to sing, ''The wife'S away, hurray. hurray." but bear in mind that she is coming back with the children Of course, it is dull as ditch water going home of an evening
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NOT without just eause and reason IN is the summer called the silly
 season. Heaven alone moNs why the dog days should have q dis astiSUs effect on cur morale but it does
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Reflections of Dorothy Dix

If You Would HGUe No Regrets At the Close of Your VdcGtiOR, Don't Do Things AaOoy From
 Home That YOW Wouldn't Thimk of Doing At HOme-HMmGR Nature Same ALI Year Round
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to house that is shut up and hot and stuffy and where everything is swathed in dustcovers and there is nobody to speak to. And it is stupider still eating around at restaurants by yourself and going for a solitary spin in your car.
 Of course, there is something in the summer that makes a man feel young again, and, of course, it is jolly good fun to pick up some pretty young girl and take her out to some roadhouse for dinner and dance, and, of course, it is easy for a man to make love to a girl who has got wonderful eyes and to kiss a pouting mouth when the moons full and the band is Hitting in the dis tance.
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you in your own eyes. No wife who remembers another mans kisses on her lips can say the things that he deserves to a side-stepping husband.
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Every time that your daughter ties her shoe she testifies to the importance of memory. Otherwise, if she had to think each time of just how to do it, she would spend several hours over just such a simple task. Any one whom has not learned to tie a bow tie can testify to the amount of brain-racking trials he makes when some evening he is forced to make the attempt.
 It must not be supposed that mem oFy is a thing of the mind-rather it { is a matter of muscular adjustment. Take piano playing, for instance: how often you find that when you can't remember" a piece, if you will just let your thoughts wander, your fingers will play it for youY
 Or in '.memorizing" a telephone nun ber, what is 1t precisely that you dol We'll, if you find it difficult to recall, just sit down quietly and say it over and over and over-and the first num- Der will cause the muscles of the throat and vocal cords to get all ready to say the second and then the third and then the fourth. Try this-say Black stone 7241. If you will take a quar- ter of a minute and just say it over elgng or ten C1meS, you VIII see what mean. The muscles get used to doing it that way and the number is recalled automatically. T.
 The trouble is that some teachers are unwise enough to insist that use Fss material be learned by heart, and the girl is bright enough to see through it. It isn't her fault, but the stupid teachers.
 She will see when she stops to con- sider a moment that by remembering that two and two are four and that the Broadway subway does not stop at Forty-eighth street and that Philadel- phia is in Pennsylvania, and so on, she issaving tremendous amount of energy and time.
 However, I can sympathize with her because at the present time there is so much useless junk taught in the schools. If our. educators would only remember that times have changed, and would give our boys and girls more of the things that they need to know. here and now, they would find that they would learn by heart with the greatest eagerness.
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But don't do it. At the best, some one is sure to see you and write wife all about it, and you will never be able to make her be- ieve that you didn't mean it and you will have to square yourself with diamonds and furs.
 And at the worst you will be de-
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The 1AasExt day in the year IN alssS fits faBkk- Ee<t, fer 1t iS then that the dis crest throw au- tiOn to the winds i; AR.A aE I
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Dont's for girls:
 Don't get engaged to men of whom you know nothing. Because a mnn wears a yachting cap is no sign that hs owns q sliff. Don't do things away from home that you wouldn't do at home. Not all the cats live in your own block.