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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-25
Listening M) Oo Foe

hair stick down at all today. It seems bound to stand right on end. Get out fresh collar for inc, will you, dear?
 Where are they, Hal?"
 "I don't know. You packed lem. There they are-no, there! Oh, my goodness, girl, don't give me that one p
 What's the matter with that one?" demanded the helpful wife.
 Nothing, only that shape makes a fellow look like a chap right out of Dickens, that's all. Let's try that second one, there"
 The helpful wife handed it over.
 "Oh, there's ho use talking, these women act like a set of fanatics. Do you think that polka dot tie looks bet ter with this shirt than the red ard white striped one?"
 The helpful and dutiful wife gravely considered the question and at last de- cided on the polka dot tie.
 'Yep," he said, reaching for the red and white striped tie, tits nothing but case of peacock's plumage with these women. That's all they come for, to doll up and fuss all the time. They spend more time in their dressing rooms dressing than they do on the beach. Take man, now, all he cares about is some old suit to fish in and he's fixed up for his vacation. You didn't happen to bring that belt with the monogrammed buckle for me, did you, dear"
 "No, Hal, L didn't think you'd care about it here," said the dutiful wife.
 "No matter, I think this one will do-maybe I could get a monogrammed buckle down in the village. A fellow always needs a good buckle" He ex- amined his cheeks in the mirror by stretching lengthily across the hotel dressing case. "Yep, women are silly about dress !"
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Moreover, mothers overlaudation does her children a great wrong because it makes them ridiculous and the laugh ing stock of all who know them. How often we see people sheer at a homely girl just because her mother is always telling what willow figure, and what lovely hair and soulful eyes Mamie has, and what gorgeous compliments people pay her! How the world snick- CTS behind her back at the girl who always sings off key and who plays the piano as if she were chopping meat, but whose mother is always boasting what a world-famous musician Marie would be if she would only go on the concert stage. How people deride the girls who never attracts men and who never goes anywhere, but whose mother proclaims from the housetops how pop ular she is.
 And what a hard sIedding for the boy to get a start in life who has a mother who has handicapped him by proclaiming him a genius and who reads his doggerel poems to any one who is not swift enough of foot and
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Hearts OfT,Oo
CHAPTER 214

T was with some trepidation that Marian Horton went to Roscoe's
 on Monday night. She had deter mined to tell her employer of her in- tentiOn to give up her position at the end of this week. She hoped he would not be disagreeable about it. Yet sure ly she had right to resign. The mem. ory of the plasant hours spent last eye ming with the CrosbyH and Frederic Parker gave her courage.
 Her resignation was to be easier than she anticipated. By the middle of the evening the man, Marcus, whom she had met last week, asked her to waltz with him. Politely but firmly she de- clined. As she did so she saw her employer watching her.
 She pretended not to be aware of his scrutiny, but retired to her dress ing room.
 At the end of her second number Roscoe himself requested her to give him the next fox trot. With premo- milton that something disagreeable was to happen she consented.
 It was during the fox trot that Ros- COG reminded her of his wish that she dance with Marcus.
 "He and Harris are, as I have told you, men of influence It is to my in- terest to please them"
 Marian did not reply immediately. When she did it was with a quiet de- cision that astonished her partner.
 ''I am dancing with you, Mir. Roscoe, because that is part of my duty while I am in your employ. But we made ro agreement that dance with other men,"
 "No,", he admitted, "yet you have danced with one of your own acquaint- ances."
 "As have told you before, I made a mistake in doing that" Marian re- joined firmly. ''It is a mistake that shall not repeat with any one"
 "You mean," the tone was almost
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 intellect in a countenance that look ed like a cross between a cream cheese and a lobster, that they walked the floor with us when we had the collie of nights, and nursed us through our second summers, and bore us when we were dirty, grabbing little youngsters, and en- dured our airs and patronage when we were hobbledehoys and as autocratic as the soviet and wiser than Solomon.
 This blind love that enables every woman to see her children, not as they are, but as she wishes them to be, is the consolation prize that God gives mothers. It is a miracle so stupendous and 50 wonderful that we stand abashed before it and pretend a faith in it that we do not feel.
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Of course, the roof is important

When making improvements, lay a new roof of Barrett Shingles right over the old wooden shingles. Low in first cost, easy to lay, Barrett Shingles never need painting or staining, never rot or rust. Their soft colors afford great artistic possibilities, and they are highly 6re-resistant. Ask your hardware, building supply or lumber merchant to show you the four styles of Barrett Shingles.
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Making Them Comfortable

Making Them Comfortable IEETNHE women at these summer ho- ss tels certainly make me tired, :
 muttered the vacationing hus. band as he used the. shaving stick freely.
 "Why" asked his dutiful wife.
 ''Oh, the way they constantly dress and doll up and fix themselves up tC look pretty. It's just case of pea cocks plumage all the time. The first thing in the morning do you ever set many of them out fishing with just that old sweater and pull down cap? I gues: noti If they fish at all they have 6 smart, bright-colored sweater that any one from the hotel can spot half mile out, and white hat that shows thu least spot of dirt"
 "But who wants to look like a frump?" said his dutiful wife, reach ing past his head for the hand lotion
 ''Fish don't care about looks," the vacationing husband muttered. "And then the minute they get in they rush down to the manicure to have their hands fixed up before they dress for luncheon.
 'aThe instant they finish luncheon they rush for some fancy wrap that none of the people here have seen and % for a launch ride, heaven alone knows where, to see some other bunch of peacocks in their plumage that has cost some poor bird of a. husband a years savings"
 "But their husbands always look just as nice when they come down, to weekend" defended his dutiful wife
 Sure! Who wants to look like a tramp alongside of a dolled up wife Take me, now! Would have bought that rajah silk suit if you hadn't been coming up here where you see the same bunch that you saw last year? Ger tainly not. Whats the use of paying sixty-five simoleons for suit that can only be worn on the hottest days?
 Haven't you worn it in town any?'' asked his dutiful wife.
 ''Sure! No use letting it lie idle Where's that shoe rag? I've dropped some shaving soap on my good shine, The shines up here ain't worth a whoOp Where's some talcum powder"
 "What do you want it forg asked the dutiful wife, reaching past him to put the hand lotion back again.
 "I got such a close shave that I need it for my face. And besides, one doesn't sunburn so with the face covered with powder.
 'arhere's that Miss Amnesty for in stance. If she doesn't climb into some get-up for dinner, you'll have to tell me She'd look a whole lot better if she'd put that yellow sweater on that bony frame of hers instead of expos ing her chest to the clements. And the dope she uses on her face! It's n wonder the insane hospital doesn't send psychopathic examiners up to these resorts for the women. They'd gather in some. Funny, can't make my
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W ES, you have every reason to be G doubtful. The specialists to whom
 you took the boy have made the same mistake that is all too common. even among university professors, of giving name to q thing aud then fond ly believing that they have triumphant ly solved the difficulty.
 It looks quite as though your boy had in him the tendencies which have been at the base of noted criminal trials. According to most authorities, the peculiar behavior your son ex- hibits is form of perverted sex activity.
 There are several possible ways of changing his behavior. First of all. have the boy examined by a good phychiatrist; that is to say, an M. D. who has specialized in nervous dis eases, insanity and emotional insta- bility.
 Next, get him into some form of competition with boys of his own age and physical development. You may have to appeal to his pride or hurt his vanity, by saying "Let me see if you can't do as well in football as Charlie" or q believe you're afraid you'll get hurt if you play football are you?" Refuse him something he likes very much if he doesn't get out and make the. teamAtI1e point being. that some way or other you must get him into contact with boys whom he can't bully.
 Further, he will learn from them that his form of behavior is looked down upon, and he will feel their dis approval more keenly than he will yours or the maids. Also, he will be getting a form of excitement from the game itself, and the heavy ex- ercise will induce fatigue, which in itself will tend tp diminish his pre- cocious sex manifestations.
 Further, every time that you catch him mistreating any one, take the same whip and use it on him in such way that he won't remember it with any great degree of pleasure in the future. You occasionally have to fight fire with fire, and this is one of the times when it is advisable to do so.
 of course, your boy may also take delight in being punished as well as Tn infhcting pain, but unless that be true, the whipping suggested above had better be given.
 You see, children may be perfectly normal mentally, but be very severely .deranged emotionally-a recent Chi .cago case being an extreme instance of this type. With a child whose emotional reactions are subnormal. the kind of punishment must be yaired accordingly. That is why your boy needs a careful analysis by a psychiatrist and by psychologist-to determine just what form of social con trol may be used most effectively.
 You must remember that we are
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lovely thing, and a direct act of Providence, t h a t enables ev cry mother honestly to believe that her own offspring are infant phenomenon. Otherwise, cry few of us would ever have been raised.
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A CROSS.STTTCHED FROCK

Semi-made dresses for little girls are of fine white voile and are stamped for cross-stitching upon the raglan sleeves and upon the skirt. They are particularly pretty when cross-stitched in blue.
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machines-very complex machines, and that we can control diferetnt ma chimes by different manipulation. But first of all we must find out wherein the particular machine is different. Any variation from the average or normal is called abnormal-and it must be determined specifically just in what ways and how much your boy is abnormal. Then the treatment can be figured out from the diagnosis,
 Use any means that succeeds to get him back again into the rough and tumble world of nine, ten and eleven years old-and make any further slip he makes the occasion for the kind of punishment that he dreads most-and most of his perversion will die nat ural death.
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T OFTEN wonder if mothers realize
 what an injustice they do their
 children by continually exploiting them as the worlds greatest prodigies. It is, of course, a natural and
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snMErHING FOR THE RARY

A screen for the nursery is a very use full thing and it can also be 6 very decorative one, if one chooses a cream colored enamelled screen with . gay little scene of boys and girls dancing painted on the top panels. The lower part of the panels is filled in with gathered pink crepe de chine.
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Sometimes it takes a man and woman half lifetime to live down the spurious regulations that moth- CT pinned upon them, and that made them figures of fun in their youth.
 Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaketh. It is perhaps demanding more fself-control than the average mother possesses to ask her to refrain from monologu- ing about her children and to clamp the soft pedal down good and hard when she does mention their many charms and virtues, but it would add enormously to the popularity of the children and make the world view them with kindlier eye. For mother is not a good pres lgent. She overadvertises her goods.
 q DOROTHY DIX.
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ORIGINALITY IN BATHROBEs

Bathrobes that are practical and diff ferent are made of turkish towelling in bright orange, or in wide stripes of blue and white, or orange and violet and white. They tie around the figure somewhat after the manner of a Greek toga.
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The. mother who is always tout ing her children as marvels does them an irreparable injury by rais- ing expectations too high. She proclaims Jennie as a vision of beauty and fascination, and John as a second Valentino. Naturally, we look for superIative pulchri- tude, and when we see two just ordinarily good looking young peo- pie we are so disappointed that we do not give them credit for the attractiveness that they really possess.
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threatening, "that you refuse to dance with my patrons when I tell you to?"
 If you do not mind" Marian said, q will explain after my last perform anee. I cannot talk any more just now"
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Reflections cf Dorothy Din

Don't OverGdvertise Your Children Unless You Want To Hanicap Them, For It WiU Take Them Ye0rs To Live DoeUn The Too High EstimGte You HGUe Given To The World Comcerning Them
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In cleaning a frying pan do not scrape 1t with knife, for afterward the pan will be more liable to "catch." Boil out the pan with hot soda water and, if necessary, SCOUT with fine sand,
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1t is because our mothers saw beauty in q wrinkled little hairless m on- strosity, and be- kZIJ -1~Io-.f,,I
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Fold newspapers and put them on the shelves in your ice box. Then if anything is spilled they can be taken out and thrown away and fresh ones put in their place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-25

Get the Bdrrett Book! / Prepared by a staff of leading architects, Better Homes from Old Houses" makes hOme-remodehng simple and economical. Every common type of old house is featured. Every step is carefully explained in plans, sketches and text. It shows you all the short cuts to a modern comfortable home. Your hardware, lumber or building supply mer- chant has this book or -
 You can get copy prompiy by writing The aETett Company, enclosing ten eents in stamps.
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Curing A Boy $ Instinct Of
 Cruelty

My boy, 9, large for his age, de- lights in bossing' people. I have lost two maids through his dominating tactics. He will not go in for ath- letics, but insists on playing g gante he calls house., with girls and smaller boys; he is the head of the house and the others are supposed to be children. For imaginary Of- lenses the children are whipped by my son with his dog whip. Return ing home unexpectedly yesterday, I found my boy administering sound spanking t0sa neighbours little girl whom he held across his lap, using, 2 school strap on her. He Obeys me instantly, but nobody else can con- trOl him.
 "One day he playfuIIy instructed his French instructress to allow him to tie her hands to the bed pest with 8 heavy cord. He then gave the girl a sound tllrashing, he piled across her back and legs and shoulders, until her cries brought me tS the rescue. On seeing me he attempted to escape, but I kept him there and made him release the girl, and he was meek as lamb. I gave the whip to the lnstructress and told her to give the boy 3 good thrashing. He did not re. pet In my presence, and the teacher took him by the collar, laid him across the bed, and whipped him. She refused to teach him after that. l have had the boy to several spe- cialtsts and all say he is absolutely sound mentally. explained his do. msS minutely and they say it is merely an Overabundance of vitality and animal instinct, which expIana. tiOn does not satisfy me.
 DOUBTFUL"
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Simple, Inexpensive Alterations
 made it our Show Place

EOR years Fred Jackson's place I was a blot on the landscapeI One of those square, hipped-roof mon- strosities, with a dinky little railing hugging the chimney.
 Fred was always going to build a new home - so he never did anything to the old one. Result: it looked uglier and shabbier every year. Then, one day
 He sent for the Barrett Book On page 12 he found house just like his, with sketches and plans for improving it. Before the week was out he sent for our local builder and, after careful estimate of costs, told him to get busy.
 Look at the house now = modern, artistic and up-to-date "a house anyone would be proud to own. And if Fred wanted to, he could sell to- morrow at sweet profit.
 You need the Barrett Book
 Of course, each old house presents its own peculiar, problems. But there are any number of different ways to make old houses attractive. In Better Homes from Old Houses, all the common types of old-fashioned dwell- ings are shown. Alterations are sug- gested for each. You're sure to see house which resembles your own, and sketches and plans showing you how to improve it.
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When making custard pies satis- factory results may be obtained if the undercrust is partially cooked before the custard is. poured into It.. Pastry needs a stronger heat than custard to bake it.
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It takes a hard and heartless cynic to wkae a mother up from her dope dream about her children, and so when Mrs. x launches forth on the panegryic of her young, which is her staple of conversation, we listen with patience and fortitude, and she goes her way rejoicing confident that we have heartened with breathless interest to every detail of little Johnny's stomach ache, and that we are thrilled to the marrow of our bones over Susie's new dress.
 Every crow thinks its own the whit est, and, as have said, it is natural and proper and fitting for every moth CT to believe that her children would take the blue ribbon in any baby show, and for her to be absorbed in them. But, nevertheless, when mother turns press agent she does her children greater harm than their most ma ignant enemy could do.
 To begin with, she creates pre-
 judice in our minds against her
 children by boring us to death
 with them. We have heard 50 much about them that we are sick
 and tired of their very names be- fore we ever see them. We have
 the unconscious distaste for them
 that we have for an overpraised
 place or book or dish.
 We are fed up on them, and we
 want a change of diet. We want
 somebody who is new, strange,
 somebody of whom we know noth-
 ing, instead of those of whose
 superexcellent qualities we have
 been told to satiety.
 Mothers often wonder why their old
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friends are so loathe to take their children into their employ and give them good positions. The answer is that she has queered her children's chances by talking too much about them.
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nimble enough of wit to get away from
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My NeighborSGys

Before applying paint, stain or varnish to restore color to wicker or reed furniture, it should be cleaned with solution made according to the following directions: Into one gal lon of warm water shave three ounces of castillo soap, then add one ounce of any bland oil, such as corn, olive or cottonseed. When the soap has entirely dissolved the solution may be poured into jars and labeled. In ap- plying this to wicker or reed furni- ture use a stiff brush.
 A teaspoon of grated horseradish will keep milk fresh for day or two in hot weather.
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(To Be Continued)
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Mothers often wonder why their old
Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1924-08-06
ELLSWORTH FAIR
EVERYTHING WILL BE READY
FOR BIG EXHIBITION.

New Grand Stand Nearing Compile
tion-A Mammoth Midway Prom
ised--Some of the Amusement
Features.
The Hancock County Fair Associ-
alton has been hustling work at Wy
man Park, and everything will be in
readiness for the first fair under the
new management, August 26, 27 and
|2S.
The new grandstand, 40Xf60 feet,
over twice as large as the old one, is
nearing completion. The new base
ball diamond at the southern end of
the inner field is about completed.
A big midway will be one Of the
features of the fair. AS announced
in The American some weeks ago,
the association bought a new strip
of land on the western side of the
park, and this is being graded for the
midway. The midway will extend all
the way from the grand stand to the
gate.
The association has laid out a
large amount of money at WYman
Park, but when the work is complet-
ed, it will have one of the best
planned and best constructed fair
grounds and tracks in the State. 1t
will require some profitable years to
pay for all this, but the association
banks on the loyal support and en-
enlargement of the Ellsworth people.
One of the features of the fair will
| be an automobile show, where all
| the auto dealers will be represented.
One entire side of the hall in the
grandstand will be occupied by all
| the latest models and equipment.
The association will need about
| fifty men and about fifty boys to as
sist during the fair, and will be glad
to have those who wish to work to
| apply to the secretary as soon as
| possible.
| The amusements furnished by the
! Keith's Vaudeville Exchange in front
of the grandstand each afternoon will
| consist of the Jack Gregory troup,
and is secured at a considerable eX-
! pense. This is Brockton fair at
/ traction. LaGusta is a slack-wire
! comedy act, which is new, and a first
class attraction in every respect,
Jean & Jaques, man and woman
aerial novelty ring act, is full of
| thrills
Last, but not least, will be our
special policeman, Bill Reno" who
will circulate among the crowds and
endeavor to keep order and lend as
sistance to any one who will need his
protection. Keep your eye out for
Bill Reno"
The midway will be a fair in itself,
as it seems as every kind OF amuse-
ment will be represented. Over 500
feet of space have already been sold
and every day brings inquiries.