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Imaginary Ills.

Adelaide was a plump and gray
ish blonde with an expression Of
resigned sweetness now second
nature to her. Billy, rushing into
the living room where she lay, cast
himself across her recumbent form
without let or hindrance.
'.Softly," begged Aunt Adelaide
in her die-away voice. "Auntie has
such a headache. How well you
look, Billy boy" she added, al
most accusingly.
Clara and Howard tiptoed up
from force Of habit-to remove
their insensitive son, and inquired
dutifully for Adelaide's we'll being.
Adelaide sat up, reached for the
smelling salts which stood on a
small, entirely beautiful tip-top
table beside her, inhaled deeply,
and then launched into an account
OF three heart attacks in Is many
weeks, = stiff knee and Z sense Of
breathlessness.
II Just can't get my breath ut
times" said the sufferer proudly,
"but I'm Is well q can be ex-
pected,. thank you"
She than looked 1T Mary Lou,
rosy from the crisp Autumn air,
and inquired fretfully:
us that paint on your face,
Mary Lou!"
"Why, no, Aunt Adelaide, /"
Mary Lou remarked, giving the
elder woman her usual courtesy
title: g! never use it. don't
WELL" said Aunt Adelaide, IT
don't like 80 much color in .
young girl. Tell me-" she asked
Howard avidly, "is there any his
tory of tuberculosis in Mary Louis
family? I don't like that bright
color" she repeated.
"For goodness sake, Adelaide.
no! Why should there be?" asked
Howard, irritated. "Mary Lou
comes of perfectly healthy stock. "
At this moment, as Adelaide
was about to burst into descrip-
ten Of school friend, Every like
Mary Lou in eoloring," who had
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IN HI
NEW /
YORK
BY PAUL HARRISON

New York. May 26.-May-time me-
anderings: Evening amusement in
reaching a higher plane-about thirty
stories higher, anyWay-noW that the
roof gardens are opening for summer
trade. There are sky-larkers these
nights atop the st. Moritz, the Pierre,
the st. Regis, the Park Centrals Co.
coanut Grove, the Waldorf-Astoria,
the Biltmore, the McAlpin, and on the
marine roof of the Bossert in Brook
lyn, overlooking the bay. And jut-
ting out over the Palisades on the
Jersey side of the Hudson Is the Club
Riviera, with a landlubbers' ship
promenade and a skyline view of the
city.
It's genrally thought that Jimmy
Durante counts that night lost when
he doesn't break up the top Of at
least one grand piano and toss the
stool into the orchestra pit. But he
confesses he wreaks all this havoc in
the hope that he won't be asked to
play so many benefit performances.
Dull times are Turing the mo cover
charge" night clubs back to the shady
practices that recently resulted in the
arrests of several proprietors. After
being seated you'll likely find card
announcing that, although there is no
cover charge, there is minimum toll
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to South America via Europe. Some
times 1t takes on peculiar hues In
transmission.
European news services are obtain
ing more South American clients,
since they offer to supply news Of the
world at a price which American COM
panies cannot meet.
The reason is that European news
agencies are all government-sponsor-
ed institutions and part of their
costs come from government budgets.
They can acquire new clients on q
basis which such organizations as the
Associated Press, largest American
news agency, cannot meet.
Because the European agencies are
subsidized, and no foreign government
is friendly to the success OF the Unit
ed States in the southern hemisphere,
our merchants are getting a bad
break.
Subsidized organs must attend to
their masters business and this fire.
quently means holding the United
States up to ridicule or spreading in
accurate information or downright
falsehoods about this nation and its
people. At home or abroad fair anc
honest press is an essential to sound
business.
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( QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
uouASco ru>d pafianfs like IL

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Handicapped Patients Like It
The diathermy treatment OF my
tonsilS was q success. It was blood
less. painless and a great relief to my
rheumatism. The treatment was CIV
en- by DR.. - and I would gladly
recommend this method Of tonsil re-
moval to any one. q. Fo
Answer-In any case where the old
Spanish custom Is too grave q risk
for the patient. diathermy extirpation
Of the tonsils is happy alternative
sometimes it seems that the septic
focus is sterilized by the first few
treatments, and thereafter the sys-
temic condition improves steadily.
The Coal Disappears
I am ~ years old, married, have a
craving to chew coal, and chew some
every day. Is this dangerous? (Mrs'
M. L.
Answer-No, 1t is harmless, but
why not chew instead some raw car
rots or whatever vegetable you pre-
fer, or some whole raw wheat as 1t
comes from the threshing machine?
These are more healthful and should
satisfy the craving.
Child Sucks Blanket
Two year old daughter has the ha-
bit of sucking her blanket or the
sleeve of her sleepers. have tried
everything to break her Of 1t but with
out avail (Mrs. E. W
Answer-Make q tea of some quas-
STA chips, and soak the upper edge OF
blanket or the sleeves Of sleepers in It
and let dry. The taste Is so bitter that
the child will cease sucking.
Copyright 1888, John F. Ollie Co..
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Mayo. Yes, any speed cop can tes-
tify to the same thing.
=
The town Of Blaine, Wash. Is Is
suing dollars made Of wood. It ought
to be an easy matter to float . loan
there.
Y \ Y
Western Kansas towns are turning
out their street lights on moonlight
nights as an economy measure. Don't
they know that moonshine Is stu
against the law?
\ + =
Quite often the purchaser Of q
second hand auto finds it's hard to
drive bargain.
Y \ X
Railroads are planning new
high-speed train that can run 100
miles an hour. Now let's see mo-
torist beat one Of those trains to. q
grade crossing.
y \ X
Liquid banks never got that way
by dealing In watered stock.
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Mary Lou Thurston. 4 beautiful
and vivacious girl of the home"
type. orphaned BY the death Of her
parents, lives with her aunt and
uncle, Clara and Howard Sander
son. Mary looks after Billy. their
youngster. while they 60 to BUSH
ness. Larry Mitchell. energetic,
young newspaper reporter, is Mary
Louis pal. Mary Lou is happy
but restless and eager for adveu-
ture. Sanderson gets 4 wonderful
chance to 60 to the Orient on an
engineering project. Mary Lou
urges the Sandersons to 60 a.
though she will be stranded. Larry
wants to marry Mary as 4 happy
solution to the situation. but she
convinces him they are merely
good pals. The Sandersons and
Mary Lou visit Mrs. Sanderson's
mother who is to care for Billy
during his parents absence.
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Legitimate Investors

Concurrent with the rise of stock
prices to the highest level in year
and half there was announced by
the New York Federal Reserve men,
Der banks decrease in loans to brok-
ers Of SIS, 900, 900 during the last week.
This fact gives more assurance than
the price increase. It shows that
stocks are passing into the hands of
legitimate investors rather than to
margin players" who are pitting their
luck and brains against the ups and
downs of the market.
The people who are making those
investments are proving their faith in
America. They are bulls" on this
country and are backing their judg-
ment with their money.
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"He's very little," Mary Lou
excused him, land he doesn't real
ize. I expect that after you do
go, he'll. 60 through some bad
times and be awfully homesick for
you, Clara" She refrained from
adding what she further believed,
knowing Billy, which was that he
would soon forget, soon adapt
himself. Children were like that
she thought, and even some adults.
Not all grownups, however, pos
sessed such a happy faculty, she
pondered heavily.
The rest Of the remaining time
flew, or so it seemed to Mary Lou.
The house was cleaned, things
were stored, some were sold to
friends and neighbors. Mary Lou
and Billy raced along Shore Road
one Saturday afternoon while the
Sandersons went shopping for
clothing suitable to the tropics,
Billy serene and unconscious,
Mary Lou with an increasingly
sore heart. And presently the day
had come for Clara and Howard
to bid their little boy goodbye
and take him out to Oakdale. Mary
Lou stayed home that day, wan
dering about the empty house, q
house which seemed the ghost Of
itself. most Of the shabby, lived
with furniture gone, the walls
showing marks Of vanished pic-
lures and the very floors, bare.
echoing desolately to her tread.
She was very unhappy and very
uncertain Of herself.
She would spend the night Of
the Sandersons' departure next
door, with . friendly neighbor.
for tomorrow morning the last
pieces Of furniture, beds, dressers
and = chair or two would be rome.
Larry came over that evening.
before the Sandersons' return.
gazed soberly upon the emptiness.
the strapped and locked trunks.
the bullying and battered BAGS.
gaxed earnestly upon Mary Louis
pallor and Listened" a he said.
to her extraordinary silence-a Re-
markable feat-and then dragged
her out to dinner, dusty % she
was, her trunk having already
been expressed to Oakdale.
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Of 50 per person. Your next discov-
cry Is that prices are about 300 per
cent too high. 49,.
Ben Hecht, back from Hollywood,
declares that II he writes any more
scenarios he'll work only In the east.
Which is why Director Edgar Eelwyn
and Ernst Lubitsch are in town.
The man with the longest working
hours Is one Gus johnson, who sells
oranges "a hours a day down in 1rv-
ing Place, catching cat-naps at his
stand. -.
With Hannah Williams, ex-wife Of
young Roger Wolfe Kahn, Jack Demp-
sey haunts the ringsides Of night
clubs.
CHEAPENING THE DRAMA
For the first time, the theater is
challenging the thrift-appeal Of the
movies. And Broadway Is rubbing its
eyes at an announcement that when
Ladies Meet" comedy that played
here % weeks before it went on tour,
will return for q summer engage
ment at prices from Is cents to q
dollar. John Golden, the producer,
says it's the first time in 40 years an
original cast ever appeared at that
figure. Other producers may adopt
the plan, which also may be fore
runner Of revival of stock compar1-
les. ..
COLONIZED TASTES
The Colony Restaurant Is the place
to learn what celebrities like to eat.
It is, perhaps, the most exclusive, ex-
pensive and exceptional dining spot
in town, a rendezvous of cosmopolite
and epicure where the proprietors,
Gene and Ernest, dote on fussy GUS
toners.
Here are some others, though: Will
liam Rhinelander Stewart always must
have creamed turtle soup. George
Jean Nathan goes for potatoes ma
caire in q big way. Alexander Wooll-
colt takes huge helpings of all the
hors d'oeuvres on the wagonette, and
then orders roast beef. Joseph
Wildener starts his dinners with egg
mayonnaise and celery root. Lord
Cavendish would rather have eggs
creamed with mushrooms than q
partridge. William K. Vanderbilt's
idea Of food for kings is Scotch
grouse. Ffnancier Bernard Baruch
like his steak cut as thin as the chef
can slice 1t. Lillian Gish insists on
having all her vegetables pure.
And Socialite Herman Oelrichs in
vented a chicken hash which now
bears his name on the menu.
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Civil Service FlOuted
Devils Lake Journal)

Patronage is necessarily q boon and
a bugbear of new administration,
especially an administration bringing
another party into power. The "spoils"
of political success build up an organ
ization but not without great deal
OF worry and bother.
Distribution Of patronage usually
hurts more persons and politicians
than it benefits, since for every gov
eminent job there usually are dozens
of aspirants.
This matter Of patronage has placed
the Roosevelt administration in an
embarrassing position. Due to their
proximity to the capital the District
Of Columbia. Virginia and Maryland
have more than their share Of fed
eral jobs. Apparently former Presi-
dent Coolidge took good care Of his
Vermont folks because the state is in
the same group. as Is Iowa after years
Of former Senator Brookhart'S tender
ministrations. As result the other
states are demanding an equal reap
portionment Of the jobs, and the fouI
states and district having more than
their share are fighting just as ten
aciously to retain this excess patron.
age.
If the so-called "apportionmen'
clause" remains in the Independent
office bill the District of Columbia
which Is now credited with 10,778 civi
service jobs, would be entitled to onl!
1872, and Maryland, Virginia, Yer
mont and Iowa would lose hundred
Of jobs. These positions would go t
other states unless government re
trenchment abolished them.
| Under the civil service law fedora
jobs have always been apportione
among the states according to popu
lation. The fact that former admin
istrations violated the law for tn
benefit Of few states at the expens
of all the rest gives the Rooseve
administration q magnificent oppo,
tunity to right a wrong.
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important new inventions in the fu-
ture as there have been in the past.
DIR. William F. Ogburn, University
Of Chicago.
X X X
Hitler Is a child of the Versailles
treaty.-Senator William E. Borah.
4! = y
Sometimes baby cries in dark
room, but the chances are he has a
stomachache. No baby comes into
the world with any latent fear of the
dark.-Dr. Dewey Anderson, Western
Reserve University.
x X y
I don't believe the difficulty has
been so much that congress hasn't
contained men Of excellent ability as
that congress hasn't known how to
use the ability of the good men 1t has
had.-Mrs. Helen Taft Manning,
daughter of William Howard Taft.
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Cause to Be Thankful

An American who has spent the last
five or six years IN Europe returned
to his own country on vacation re-
Gently. Visiting friends in typical
American city, he put in several days
driving around the town, its suburbs
and the adjacent countryside. Then
one evening, he told his hosts:
"You people have no idea how lucky
you are to be living in America. You
can't imagine how much better off
you are than the rest of the world.
Even in the depression your work.
ingman and small-salaried office
worker have so much more than SINH
lar people in Europe have that there's
just no comparison.
AFTER living in Europe for a while,
a man who comes back to America
feels as II he had got to the finest
country in the world"
That sort of talk, Of course, used
to be our most common boast. In
the last two or three years we haven't
heard it so often. Indeed, we have
let the depression undermine our con-
fidence so much that we have some
times talked as if we were the unlucki-
est of all people, instead of the lucki-
est.
But we're still sitting on top of the
heap, comparatively speaking, and it
wouldn't hurt us to remember it.
That doesn't mean that we should
close our minds to the fact that we
have upwards of 100000 men out of
work, that we should forget that
hunger and encouragement and want
are abroad in the land as seldom be-
fore, that we should become Polly
annas and shut our eyes to all un-
pleasant sights.
It simply means that in spite of
all our troubles we have great deal
to thank God for, and that we can
face the future with more hope and
courage If we realize the fact.
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GAIT WATER MORE REFRESHING
THAN PURE WATER

Men who work under conditlonS Oh
intense heat naturally sweat pro1usely
and become very thirsty. It they
drink the large quantities OF water
their thirst calls for, they are likely
to suffer from cramps, or mlloer
symptoms such as fatigue and lassl-
tude. 49,.
Dr.. H. c. Worthington says that
when golfing and sweating freely ne
finds that plain water at the 1oun-
tains does not seem to 60 anywhere
or relieve thirst, but if he adds salt
to the water it becomes refreshing
and stimulating. The thoughtful doc
tor adds that many years ago wnen
hot and tired and sweating from
bicycling he discovered that orals
of common table salt IN a glass Oh
water was far more refreshing ana
invigorating than any of the drinks
he could get along the road.
For people who are fortunate
enough to work up good sweat at
their daily work, play or hobby rlo-
ing, this is an interesting question OF
physiology. Active sweating Cnouceo
by muscular exercise) every day 1s.a
fine thing for health. Not because
any poison" or toxic waste matter
is excreted in the sweat, but because
it is an index of increased metabol-
ism, increased oxidation, better COM
bustion, and that's the way any harm
full wastes are destroyed.
Sweat Is practically nothing but
water and salt When sweating IS
profuse, considerable salt Is excreted,
and this salt is drawn from the blood
and the lymph or fluid in the tissues
Of the body. The rapid loss OF water
produces great thirst. II the 1ndlvlo-
ual now drinks freely of water his
blood and lymph become quickly d.
luted. This means diminished oSmo-
tic pressure. Characteristic symptoms
are fatigue and lassitude In mild
cases: cramps in more severe cases
general commissions and even death In
rare instances. But if the individual
takes some salt in the water or in OF
on any relish or food, the salt L
promptly absorbed and tends to re.
store osmotic pressure to normal
Thus the unpleasant effects Of pure
water are obviated.
| In a similar way, tho not 81
promptly or effectively, a little suga
in any form-fruit juice, sweet choc
olate, milk, sweetened tea, candy, ic
cream-will give real refreshmen
when one Is in sweat and YER
thirsty. Sugar, and in fact all Carlo
hydrates (breads, cakes, crackers
cereals, potatoes, sweets, honey, cand!
puddings) resemble salt in this re
spect, that is, any excess of them 1
. the diet terds to hold an excess
| water in the blood and tissues, keep
ing the body water-logged, If not az
tually dropsical or edematous, caus
ing the individual to be as loggy as
> looks. I said EXCESS. This class
!, foods, the carbohydrates, should cor
stitute the chief part of everybody
subsistence. A man doing hard gu
. door work on well balanced diet &c
:. perhaps 400 calories from protei1
: 1,400 to 1000 from fats, and 1000 fro
! carbohydrates.
II A minimum of half teaspoon
Of salt Is required daily to make
/. the inevitable loss. The average pe
= son takes about a tablespoonful
!. salt daily, in such foods as eggs, M
= and meat or added as preservati'
= seasoning or condiment. II all salt
:. items are excluded from the diet
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Pain Of Parting.

'.You'll seem 70 far off" she
you:" ''''''
mot necessarily. Oakdale': only
IN hour or 70 away. You can't
get rid Of me As easily a. that:
ne ne tod %! her s.yly. land I'm trail
!ng that job for you, Mary Lou.
Trust your Uncle Larryw
Find me = job Is companion. -
Mary Lou told him, trying T.
quietl That's me! / can read
aloud. Larry, and think I can
1etch footstools and carry travs
and pull down window shades. for
I've had quite . course Of Amt
Adelaide. you know"
Larry had never met that plum,
and aiing lady, but Mary Lon
had given him = full description
He laughed and then sobered
Joking aside." said Larry, ..if
ws could get yeu . job like that It
WUUl0 Do X1e3I.
ITS about al I can do" she
conceded in q small voice.
"Cheer up" ordered Larry
ffercely, "or III make you mary
me and then, woman, you'll hsvs
your hands fullv'
Clara and Howard retu,n.x
from Oakdale late that eyen;nc
ana C!sra's eyes were red while
her tall, lean husband was much
subdued: The next morning.
cary. Mary Lon went with them
to the boat. Larry managed to be-
there and others Of their friend:'
including several past busine.:
associates. They were saline h~
way Of England, where they ver.
to join the rest Of the party which
was going out to India on the con.
struction work.
Oe Dc Centiausd Temerrov,
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Csevriski, 1890, ~ Esah RsI1sis

died Of galloping consumption be-
fore her shocked family was
even aware she was sick, Grand
ma Jennings arrived with Ade-
ladies morning snack Of hot milk,
toast and jelly, and order was re-
stored.
While Adelaide sipped-'No
wonder she's fat" thought Mary
Lou with scorn, "eating six times
a day and never taking step Of
exercise. I wish I could have her
for a year. I'd scare her up on
her feetw-the family made their
plans.
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Making Plans.

Billy was to come out to Oak
dale day before his father and
mother sailed, as Clara found it
unnecessarily cruel to expose him
to the emotional strain Of . part
ing on q cold, wind-swept, depress-
ing pier. His diet was discussed,
his schooling, his clothes-all this
being possible as Billy was out in
the garden chasing Aunt AIDE
ladies coddled and indignant cat.
with bowls Of merriment. Mary
Lou was to follow him down, AZ
ter closing the house, and to share
his little bedroom until she made
other plans. When the talk
turned, as was natural, upon How
ards new position and the Orient,
Adelaide was in her element, hav-
ing known several missionaries to
foreign parts who had either been
murdered in mutinies, eaten BY
cannibals or who had died, linKer-
ingly, Of awful fevers, including
dengue, black water and malaria.
There was even one family wiped
out with cholera. At this juncture
Howard Sanderson wiped his
brow, gazed appealingly at his
wife and escaped into the garden
just in time to rescue the cat from
Billy's firm, loving but uncon-
sciously murderous embraces.
A little later, leaving the sis
ters together, Mary Lou went out
to the kitchen to help Mrs. Jen-
nings "dish up" dinner and to set
the table. She was quite happy
out there in the pleasant smell Of
roasting and baking and made
herself extremely useful. She and
Grandma Jennings had always
been good friends and Mary Lou
thought, wistfully, that If she
could only get some paying work
she would be content to live in
Oakdale with the old lady and
Billy. But not as content With
Adelaide. Adelaide" thought
Mary Lou, "gives me = pain in the
neck! I'd like to shake some sense
into her. She's 50 darned healthy
she'll outlive us ALL"
After dinner-which Adelaide
enjoyed heartily, not coming 70
the table, however, but served on
IN ample tray-the Sandersous
and Mary Lou stayed for another
hour or so, sitting sedateIy in the
living room, : hodgs-podge Of
good and bad furniture, Of mixed
periods, after the dishes vero
washed and dried. And presently
they left for their train, walking
to the station for the good 81 their
health after % lavish = meal.
Billy, who had ,bAen told merely
that his metAer and father had 70
60 away tor . time and that he
would soon come 70 stay With
Gram, Aunt Adelaide and the eat.
was perfectly happy in the charm.
ing selfishness Of children. too
young to realize the impending
long separation, and deliehted
with the thought Of country md
garden and freedom, to say moth
ing Of the spelling he would ret
from his relatives, Of which he
was perfectly aware. The fact
that Mary Lou would be with him
too, made everything quite oil
right.
Clara was happy for him that
he "took it that way" but, mother
ike, she naturally could not for
bear = little pang Of Jealousy that
her boy seemed 50 Indifferent to
her departure. Not" she added
hastily. that I want him 70
t1ieve."