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to teach you I could not reply but
turned and made my way to the ele-
vator and the tears came once again.
What was I going to do?
Slowly from there 1 made my way
to a department store, washed my
hands, powdered my nose, which was
by now most red and shiny, and then
on my way again With determination
entered q hospital, asked for the
doctor in charge, was CURLY told he
would be unable to see me until 8
o'clock the next morning, so-out /
went.
THE next morning found me back
heart, ready for an interview. I went
to the Office, was told DR.. Blank had
not come yet and politely asked to
be called. Nine o'clock came, 10
o'clock came-no call Meekly, made
my way to the desk and was told, DR..
Blank is operating. He will not be
through until IL. You'd better wait.
A bit discouraged, I went back to the
waiting room. Eleven o'clock came, no
call. Twelve o'clock, no call. Again
I made my way to the desk to ask If
DR.. Blank we're through operating. The
young woman looked at me for mo-
ment put her hand to her head and
said, 'Onl I forgot to tell him you were
still waiting. He's gone now,
IF. D. r"
Copyright. 1917
Four-f1fths of the farms In Japan
cover ~ acres
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New Hats Are Light and Soft


OF into thin air The new hats are a.
light and soft a. those that they sue
ceeded. and their form and style is
achieved b. clever shaping and cut 81
the material rather than by wiring and
other stiffening You may, in fact, have
noticed that the hat you bought only a
few days or weeks ago Is softer and
more flexible than the first felt or vel
vet hat that you bought last August
In every wardrobe there Is real ased
for one Of the most flexible Of the new
hats. a hat that you can fold away IN
your travelling bag or tuck into drawer
in your Once desk without fear that II
is being harmed in the least. There
are velvet hats that will bear this treat
ment A modern version Of tho beret
il made OF knitted zephyr with gull
stuck jauntily in at one side. You can
wear this hat at whatever angle you
ind most becoming and so long as you
don't bend the quill you can tuck IT
away anywhere you like
An speaking Of quilts. have YOU no
tlced how diversely they are placed on
the new hats2 smart little brown
felt shows the brim turned abruptly up
at the left aide. with beige quill thrust
through the upturned brim pointing
skyward.
tCopyriEht, 1917
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boiling water. When tender remove the
skins and rub through q colander. Mix
together one teaspoonful OF salt, one
eighth teaSpoonful pepper, one tea
spoonful sugar. Add the seasonings
and one tablespoonful OF butter to the
parsnips.
Melt two tablespoonfus Of butter In
saucepan, stirring In two tablespoon
fuls of flour and one cupful Of milk
Be sure that the mixture is thick and
smooth Add to the parsnips. together
with the yolkS Of two well beaten eggs.
Beat the whites OF the eggs until stif
and fold into the mixture Put in q
buttered baking dish and bake for as
minutes In moderate oven. Serve I'M
mediately or the souffie will fall.
Squash TournOise.
Mash three pintS Of steamed SQUASH
and add one teaSpoonful salt, one tea
spoonful sugar. one-fourth teaspoonful
ginger, three tablespoonfuls butter and
three tableSpoonfuls thick cream Beat
serving dish. Reheat II squash has
cooled, and serve.
Carrots a la Bourguigonne.
Cut IL medium sized carrots into two
inch lengths. Cook until tender in
sailed water, to which teaspoonful of
sugar has been added. In the mean
time cook two chopped onions in melted
butter until lightly Drowned Mix with
the carrots and dust with flour. Salt
and pepper to taste. When the flour is
thoroughly Drowned add a cupful Of
soup stock. Cook gently for about 10
minutes and serve very hot.
Trinidad produced ss.O0o,oo gallons
of petroleum In September
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found In the White Mountains. has
striking brown bands on the white sur
face OF the wings Another form has
short wings, banded legs and swollen
feet The body Is usually dull colored
they live in shallow siougfS which
are full Of rushes and swamp grass.
They steal into the stems Of dead grass
and leaves through which water moves
slowly. They eat bits Of plant, mud and
dead vegetable matter.
The larvae live upon the minute
forms Of life which form on decaylng
plants. They breathe through two tiny
tubes on the tip of their body. The
full-Rrown crane fly baby is one inch
long and a dirty. grayish color. They
have a very tough body wall and they
have been called bankruptcies"
These pests have caused much DAM
age at various times where alfalfa and
grain is grown. The larvae would
come out of the ground at night to
feed and much damage would be done
in a short time Poisoned mash bait
is one CT the best methods OF destroy
ing the pest.
The largest tipulid known Il the giant
crane fly. It is two and sometimes
two and a half inches long. Her eggs
are laid In the oozy banks Of little
streams. The fallen leaves are decay
ing and the water trlckleS througn the
mass In this Shiny bed, with the tip
of its body held at the surface, the
little creature breathes through tiny
spiracles located at the posterior OF his
body.
The footleSs. worm-like creature grows
10 be one TO two inches long and stays
in his home for several months. For
IL days before the giant fly appears, the
pupa lies naotionless in its bed. Then
the flies emerge and so to the bank Of
the stream. They stay in the foliage
until dusk.
The crane flies have very large "V''
on the back and this Is their distinctive
mark. Those whose young attack grain
fields lay their eggs at the roots Of the
grasses and plants.
Because Of the legs, they are very
psor flyers. The flight Is uneven and
slow. They trail their leggs out behind
and the front ones project in the front
With such a handicap no ny can make
a record as a flyer.
(Copyrieht, 1917
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PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE

Only a few doctors, I fear, are as yet
ready to admit that such exposure in
wolves no danger aside from that OF
freezing or frostbite. That in itself Is
dangerous, in q doctor, for If the doctor
is little afraid of cold air his patients
are not likely to enjoy all the benefits
of open air life and open air treatment.
The other night the thoughtful quiet
of our stroll was rudely broken when
Tony the Inquisitive came upon some
thing in q neighbours garden. From
the commotion deduced the perpetual
pup had caught another police" dog
at least But when he dragged it out
under the light it proved to be wise
old rat that didn't seem to be 30 wise now.
My first impression that it was Q ''po-
lice" dog was an illusion. Had I called
witnesses and insisted that 1t was a
police" dog, that would be delusion.
Sane folk often have illusions only
the insane have decisions or hallucina-
lions. Many times an insane person
has his decisions SO thoroughly sys-
tematized that he can worst q sane
person in an argument about the sub
lect. So keen are some insane persons
that they can convince judge and jury
and win freedom from detention-to go
out and commit some atrocity.
So carry on, assured that am
right about the harmlessness Of ex-
posure to cold and wet.
(Copyright, 1917
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essary to tell you this. If you do, read
this letter from a stenographer:
Dear Miss Woodward: went to a
large hotel, determined to take maid
work If nothing else. entered the
elevator, inquired for the housekeeper
and was directed to her Office. There
was no one there so I waited. Finally,
the person I sought came, woman
about SIS, rather stout, bobbed auburn
hair, and very much rouged and pow
dered. I shudder yet when think of
the way she looked ct me when asked
for work. She glanced from head to
foot and in a naughty tone she said,
Had any experience?' NO. said.
Well said she, I couldn't be bothered
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ME, BOASTED PETER.
having wonderful time blowing his
own horn Most people like to have
their vanity ticklGd. Peter does Soft
eyed Molly discovered this the first time
they met and never lost an opportunity
to lead him to think that she thought
him the most wonderful person in all
the Great World She would sigh soft
" and say: How big and strong and
brave you are. ! don't suppose you are
afraid OF anything. l admire people
who are big and strong and not afraid
1t must be nice to be that way"
Now this would tickle Peters vanity
and he would swell up and try to look
big and strong and brave and worthy OF
admiration he thought he saw In those
soft eyes. Without realizing that he
was doing it, he would begin to boast.
He told Molly ABOUT all his adventures
since as a little fellow he started out
70 make his way in the Great World,
and could you have heard him you
might have thought that each Of his
narrow escapes was due wholly to his
own smartnesS, and that no such thing
aS good fortune had had part in any
Of them. He told Molly his life history,
all but that part that included little
Mrs. Peter. Not once did he ever men
ton Mrs. Peter. He didn't even hint to
Molly that there was a Mrs Peter.
Freddy Fox is smart, but he isn't
smart enough TO catch me-" boasted
Peter. He has tried times enough
goodness knows, and Mrs Reddy with
him, but here / am II is long time
since they last tried to catch me.
guess they know they are not smart
enough"
How wonderful" sighed Molly. and
her soft eyes seemed to fairly glow with
admiration.
"Old Man Coy ote thought he was
smart enough TO catch me. but fooled
him every time he tried, and now he
doesn't even try" Dragged Peter
His very name makes poor little me
ahiver," murmured Molly.
Then there is Shadow the Weasel,
continued Peter.
"where?" interrupted Molly In .
faint voice of fright, and the soft eyes
looked this way and that way fearfully
Il didn't mean that ne is here,
Peter fastened to explain, Il was Just
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FOOD PROBLEMS
Eggs and Chees.
BIZ SALLY MONROE.

An accomplished homemaker. aiming
at adequate diets. comprehends thu
health and economic attributes OF those
two pure foods, eggs and cheese, both
concentrated and high in food value.
Cheese is q curd. ranking high with
milk among the almost perfect foods
and contains in a pound more bodys
building strength than any other solid
food. Eggs rank next to milk in their
precious vitamin content and In pros
TEN they are decidedly high. 4
Aside from containing such minerals
as calcium, phosphorus, sulphur and
iron, cheese Is q valuable addition 10
the diet. used alone or with other fooda
in main dishes or accompanying fruit
for dessert In that meal lacking meat
or other protein.
Cheese Is easily assimilated by child
or adult, but when given In eoncen-
trated form and In quantity must be
well chewed. The softer cream cheeses
are excellent for young children and
delicate adults.
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The Chef Suggests
BIT JOSEPH BoGGIA.

4 UTUMN and harvest time-I know
4 OF no season which so temptS the
cook TO experiment with new recipes
and menus. unless 1t be Spring. Even
so, the allurements of that more ten
der season do not inspire the sturdy
creations which are suggested by the
harvest Then it is that the cabbages
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Kidney Stew.

Let one and one-half cupfuls of wa
ter come TO a boil. then add one pound
Of kidneys sliced very fine, one small
onion chopped fine, three cupfu!s of
peeled and diced white potatoes, one
tablespoonful Of salt, and two medium
sized stalks Of celery diced. Cook for
20 minutes When done. add one-third
cupfUll OF chopped raw spinach Serve
with cranberry salad on head lettuce.
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"BONERS"
Humorous lid Bits From
School Papers.

In Greece they have highly sculp-
tured people.
A priYne minister Is O leader Of a
group sent out 70 preach the gospel.
A swain Is country boy who takes
care Of the swine.
The ships bottom is scraped as soon
as II comes into dry dock 10 remove
shoals and other articles from the
sides
The liver is an internal organ Of the
body.
Katrina Van Tassell was a country
something like a ghost
emmmS EsShA 6aaAuA
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First let us take the parsnip a truly
delicious vegetable If you know how to
prepare It according to our old French
recipe, which calls for a small amount
OF sugar to enhance the original gar
den flavor OF the parsnip. That little
additional seasoning you viii find IN
valuable, by the way, in developing the
full flavor of practically all fresh and
canned vegetables. Usually it is best
to use about the same proportion of
sugar and salt.
Cook four medium sized parsnips in
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to her. You can
even 60 out Of
your way a little
and take the trou-
BILE to be decent to
b err. Remember,
she's pretty blue.
Remember she's
feeling Inundated.
Remember h o W
you felt when you
were looking for
work.
p er APPS you
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Peter Blows His Horn.
The bragRArt by himself deceived
IA unaware he's not believed.

A-Old Mother Nature.
To blow your own horn is, as you
know, to brag about yourself, what you
have done and what you can do. It
may be music 10 your own ears and
possibly TO the ears Of some one who
loves you very much, but 1t isn't music
70 other ears. Worse still. no one be-
lieves what you say. The bigger you
make yourself out 10 be the smaller you
become IN the eyes Of those who hear
you. Even II what you say Is true,
others hearing you hrag about II doubt
its truth Blowing your own horn may
make q loud noise, but that is all.
Peter Rabbit, stealing away to the
Old Pasture night after night to visit
Molly Rabbit Of the soft eyes, with
whom he fancied he was in love, was
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and carrots, parS-
nips and squash,
the purple egg
plants and gold
roasting ears. the
tomatoes ripe TO
bursting, reac h
their highest point
of perfection in
local markets.
I would give you
a few fire recipes
for these whole
som e vegetables
which belong TO
Indian Summer
r4ox~c
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Old Sheets.

Old sheets can be utilized by cutting
out the good parts and stitching them
together 10 form an envelope for cot
blankets. Sew a piece OF tape 10 thu
corners and tie these firmly to the cot
rail. This will prevent a child from
throwing of bed clothes during sleep.
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Every one knows that hats are more
formal n0W than they we're q year or
more ago That Is. they have more
form, and there Il more variety IA the
forms offered Hats 81 the siouchy
sort that We called 'vaRabond" are a.
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y A L u X e 5
C. III IL ID X E n
by LILLIAN COX ATHEY.
Illustrations By Mary Foley.
BY LILLIAN COX ATH
Illustrations By Mary Foley.
Glib.
CRANE FLY.
Tipulidae Family.

TN ENGLAND they call these flies
"daddy long legs" They have
often been mistaken for great
Il mosquitoes These hies 40 not
bite They have most oehcate
lrgx mat win drop of II you try TO
handle the insect The adults are to
~ Eren In the late Summer, about the
meadows. pastures and woods. They
love 10 swarm about shutdown. One
thousand species are known and 800
Of them are found in the United States.
The insects have beautiful trans
parent wings Sometimes they are
beautifully marked. One crane NY,
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Umbrellas.

Umbrellas should never be left open
TO dry The moisture tends to cause
the ribs to warp and bend Instead
turn the handle Of the closed UNI
brella downward to allow the water
to run cut from the lower edge of
the ribs
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Be Nice to Her.

You girls who now have jobs can't
do too much to help the girls who are
out Of work. You wonder what 10 do.
Well, when a girl comes into your
nfice looking for work YOU can be nice
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The Woman Who Makes Good

WOODWARD.
enables
authority problems modern
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Everyday Psychology
BY DIR. JESSE W. sPRowLs.
Anhedonia.

Anhedonia is a rather old psyche
logical term. 1t deserves a wider pop
ularity than it enjoys, for it helps to
classify a lot of temperament traits
that are often ascribed to loss of ap-
petite.
The simplest way to define anhedonia
is to call it loss of zeSt, pep and inter-
est. The anhedoniac is chronically
bored" and, as usual, doesn't know
why. According to the dictionary, an
hedonia is "a morbid condition in which
the sufferer losses all interest in mat
ters which intimately concern himself"
This definition is, however, somewhat
exaggerated.
Like all temperament traits anhedonia
is partly inherited, partly acquired. 1t
is the predisposition that is inherited.
For example. the anhedoniacs are by
nature light sleepers. They approach
each day with an attitude of having
already lived through some of the days
irritations. You may notice it even in
children, more often girls. Anhedonia
is a pretty good name for some of the
temper tantrums at the breakfast table.
Among the older girls anhedonia will
in some cases explain why now and then
piece of household furniture is
shifted to another corner of the room
for no other very good reason.
Whatever else anhedonia is, it's
good name for those sudden changes
Of mind as to something you enthusi-
astically started out to do. Did you
ever feel you had had enough of the
circus the very moment you completed
plans for going?
Copyright, 1917
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LITTLE BENNY
BY LEE PAPE.

Me and pop was taking a wawk be-
fore supper. and pop sed, BY gollies.
Whats a matter. pop? I sed, and he
sed. You must always remember one
thing as you go your way through life
its never too late to do the rite thing.
You may make mistakes. in fact you're
bound to make mistakes if you're hu
man. he Sed.
Well CESS i'm human, I sed, and pop
sed wouldent have you otherwise, my
boy. So hold your he'd up and always
remember the old proverb, its never too
late to mend. We are all errtng NOR
tails in a greater or less degree, blindly
cropping for the rite path in this great
jungle called life. sometimes stumbling
and regaining our ballents in time
sometimes falling on our nose and hav-
ing to be helped to our straying feet by
other bewildered WayfarerS but through
it all if you do your duty as you see it
and when you see 1t, no more can justly
be expected of you. Better late than
never, its an old saying, but how true
All. here's mailboX now, he sed.
And he took a letter out of his inside
pocket and smoothed some of the rinkles
out, saying Your mother gave it to me
to mail 2 days ago. but. poor human
that I am. it never occurred to me till
this moment, but am I dismayed. am
discouraged? No I am facing the werld
with fern frunt and making the only
amends that lie in my power by reso-
lutely mailing it now, he sed.
WITCH he did
Proving he had been tawking personel
all the time.
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.D0rothyDix.
Considered
Silly
In Modern
Day
Wondn'S
Fear
OF Being
an Old Maid

GO many write
that they are thinking OF getting married Just 70 keep from being
married moument
of fine clothes and trips Europe the uxr that fat
OF easy every
troubled old earth Of
RUT it also the thing getting
an ioea husband are her chances beng
elected Lightning
she is reasonably safe
intelligence married friends
You understand marrying Of if
madly with him. The
it sets itself hopeless deict that
he il weakng thoutt
strength to stand alone that she
him and that him
explain herself
so the who loves risk
maids have affection making
their leap the dark and they consolation
miserable
has
gets paid neither appreciation for what she Often
enough to
her job and supempo that the labor of making home and
cooking washing dishes
at the Office store is
NOBODY rdcrcs ta cd maid
longer FIGURE She much object
the old bachelor
his lack of wife matter of inclination
Of is
the ddo her intelligent capable helpful broad
minded
bone Of upl
tiers and brothers and who universally admired respected and loved
DOROTHY
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score of years recognized as the boss
of the Republican party in Illinois, had
won q seat in the United States Senate
only to have it threatened by charges
Of bribery.
He won in the first effort to unseat
him, but year later when the charges
were revived the Senate reversed its pO-
sition and he was ousted.
In 1912 Lorimer. who had fought his
way from a bootblack on the streets of
Chicago TO the highest office he could
attain in this country Che was born in
England). passed out of public and po-
litical life. There still are some in
Washington who recall that memorable
scene III the Senate that July day.
''LOrimer sat there as calm and I'M
moved as a marble statue" says one OBJ
server. Worn with the strain of Ge
Tending himself and showing every eyi-
dence Of fatigue, yet with a firm and
dignified tread. he walked from the
chamber amid an intense silence. Tears
ran down the faces Of many in the
galleries rs they watched him 60. The
strain on the floor was equally tense. It
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NANCY PAGE
Page Club Has It's Final
Meeting of Year.
BY FLORENCE LA GANKE.

The Nancy Page Club was having its
last meeting. They had decided to go
to the club for the luncheon. In this
way no hostess would have to wear
herself out for the special luncheon
with which they always ended the year.
The club hostess suggested that rain
bow colors be used for table decoration.
They thought columbine would make an
attractive centerpiece, which it surely
did.
The guests sat at small tables seating
eight. The club had bowed to the vogue
for color. Each table was covered with
pastel-colored cloth. There was pale
pink. soft yellow, dainty blue, SHIN
mering green. At each table there was
variety in the napkins colors. One
might be yellow. another lavender, an
other green, and so on.
Since 1t was luncheon no candles
were used. But the goblets, inexpensive
ones OF pressed glass, were also in pastel
colors, so that the tables were gay even
before the guests sat down, and after
that the room looked like a garden in
full bloom
The menu was good-jellied tomato
broth with hot, paprika crackers. This
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Moccasins for Little Boy or Girl
BY MARY MARSHALL.

edges at the back of the sides are to
be sewn together to form the heel.
Cut the felt or flannel like the paper
pattern. and then cut an oval shape OF
the material of the right size for the
top of the slipper. To make the slippers
join the two straight edges of the back
of each slipper in seam. Finish the
oval pieces with blanket stitch. Gather
the front of the slippers and sew the
ovals over them as shown in the sketch.
Then finish the back of the slippers
with blanket stitch to match the ovals.
If you want to make your slippers quite
durable you can sew leather inSole to
the sole portion of the moccaSinS.
From the same pattern you can make
attractive little booteeS for a small
baby. using eide:down or soft flannel
A pair of convenient beach slippers
might be made in any desired size by
using stout canvas instead Of felt. An
insole cut from rubber may be sewn
inside the sole of each slipper.
(Copyrieht, 1872