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l lightly. She could prove a good friend and q bad enemy.
 Ann came into the room. She looked tired and sober, he thought.
 That was Millicent," Peter said. She's been out of town on a week. end party. She's coming over now" "Oh," Ann said. Peter saw her face brighten. Then she had been hurt. Poor kid.
 Ann was thinking that it was silly to be feeling glad it was Milli- cent and not Valeria who had been calling Peter.
 Saw in the paper the Peter Kendalls have returned" Mac broke the news to Sarah, who would be Mrs Mac" before many moons.
 Imagine telling mel" You've talked to herr" "Yes, she's coming over to-mor- row. She is shopping with Milli- cent Heath this morning. After luncheon she's going to have some photographs taken. One of the newspapers wants them. Ann didn't know if Peter would like the idea but he did"
 Good sport" Mac said. "I like that. Telling the gossips to go to hell"
 Cant you hear the 'ohs' and 'ahs'! 50 this is the girl Peter Kendall married to spite Valeria Bennett"
 Mac laughed. Sarah's mimicry was perfect Well, 1 hope the picture will do our girl justice. At least they won't be able to find any fault with her looks
 Ann felt that she was living in strange and colorful dream. She felt dizzy, confused. Exquisite dresses, gorgeous evening wraps, hats at prices that took her breath away, beautiful accessories. Rich furs, floating draperies, velvet that fell about a slim models figure in seductive lines.
 Millicents voice was saying, "The neckline of that green Vion- net is really new. Ann, you'd be perfectly enhancing in that. We won't pass that frock. up. You'll be almost as sweet in it as in the white crepe" Sales people were saying natter ing things. Millicent's manner was brisk and business-like. Ann, don't think you should decide on that wrap without looking some place else. It's stunning, but you might see something you like even better"
 The next moment she said ad- miringly, You look positively sweet. I wish Peter could see you in that"
 When they were alone for a moment, Ann said in low tone, T am sure won't need as many things"
 My dear, you're only started. You'll need worlds more. For teas, luncheonss. dinners. dances"
 Ann felt faint. Millicent spent $100 more casually than she had ever spent $5 in her life.
 Charge this to Mrs Peter Ken dall." Over and over Ann heard that. She had noticed the imme- diate reaction in the saleswoman's manner. Catering to her as though she were princess.
 Two hours were spent in fittings It had ben an ordeal for Ann. She caught a glimpse of herself in long mirror. The heavy winter coat-two winters old = that she had worn to Florida looked out of place and very forlorn after the
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 dered your disgrace. You are stick ing to that little child. as best you can. l know it is heart rendering to leave her in an institution, but that won't be for long. She will soon be older, As you are going to
 put every effort improving your mind. naturally in time, that in it. self will bring you both into an up lifting environment. So you see, self sacrifice now, means happiness in the future. You want that little child proud of you, you want her IO AdtC tAC OG6I oOAAlS OaJs anu SAA~ surest way to form her careerris to cultivate your own. inborn intellect. Yours has been a struggle since childhood dBut close that door and keep 1t closed) for remember child you are not to biame. The blame rests, I'm sorry to say, on your parents, that followed their own selfish inclinations-at the ex- pense of a poor defenceless little girl. Forgive them of course-be- cause after all you have been gift ed in many ways-and protected by a kind loving Heavenly Father. These are hard times my dear, and you are living with an Exceptional Woman-I Wish There Were More Like Her. It is her kind that are keeping this cold mater iahstic world together. God Bless Her" Yes with you m usicsis na- tural, but in spite of this you must bend your every effort along prac- tical lines. Couldn't you so to a public night school after your work was finished? I'm sure The Lady would help: you-there take up a business course. When times are betterl and they are coming that way) you could begin music les sons in some form. My dear finish ed musicians, are combining bus. mess educations with their music today. You are so young and there is ample time to cover your am bitions with success. Go into some thing with vim and force. so that your little girl. when older, will be proud of you. Then, tco, your chances to meet a successful, respected man, who will honor. and your brave struggle will be much better. A few. years on your head means a clearer. more mature understanding. Picture a peaceful home for you and the little girl-with a kind husband; to protect you-that will surely come with concentration and work. You will not only deserve 1t, but realize it am sure. Have patience, dear. and ask Your Lady" to give you good counsel Then listen to her. Keep in touch with me. will not forget you.
 THE END.
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richness and 'smartness of the clothes she had been trying on.
 Tomorrow there would be an ex- quisite sable wrap. purchased, tn- congruously, at the same time she had bought spring model trimmed in silver fox.
 You'll need the heavy coat. for winter will be with us some weeks longer" Millicent said. But on mild days you'll want to step out in something spring-like. Oh, here are mother and Carroll"
 Mrs Kendall and Carol had entered the shop as Ann and Milli- cent were leaving. Millicent in- troduced Ann.
 The cold glance of her mother in-law rested on her. How are your" Mrs Kendall barely nodded.
 Carol said, Glad to know you, Ann" But there was no warmth in her tone.
 Ann felt Mrs Kendall's eyes on her. Millicent said lightly, as the silence continued, Ann has bought all of the prettiest things at Jerome's, so there is no use in go- ing there to shop, Mother"
 How nice for her" Mrs Ken dalTS voice sent the thrust home.
 Ann followed Milicent to the car in silence. After a moment, Millicent burst out, You must think the Kendall's are a dreadful lot. And they are when they want to be. All except Peter. But Mothers bark is much worse than her bite"
 A week later Millicent drove away from Ann's apartment with q grim look on her face. She had found Ann standing near the win dow when she had run in. unan- nounced. Ann had turned. sur prised.. So surprised that she had no time to cover the wistfulness on her face.
 Millicent had decided, She's not happy" Well, something must be done about that. And since men were such idiots. never seeing be- low the surface of woman's s smile. 1t was up to Millicent to carry Ann's case to court - and argue it.
 (TO Be COntinued)
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1.-Certainly. Drs Hartshorne and
 May, Yale psychologists, in their epochmaking "Studies in Deceit" found that children who attended movies once a week had less ten- dency to lie, cheat and steal than those who attended twice a week. Those who attended three times made a still worse showing and those who went four times or more the worst of all. The scientists were not able to decide whether the type of pictures caused this lying, cheating and stealing, or whether it was some other factor that caused the worst children to go oftener to movies: but this and other studies indicate that motion pictures are a much more important part of Q child's education, than most par ants tealize.
 e.--fl Is a relic of barbarian when were erected chiefly fo fcaflfy to the power and glory of hs 3eoeasad. Endowin& q bed in
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MAKES CAREER OF DOLLING UP DOLLS MRS ALEXANDER WAS BORN IN FATHERS TOY HOSPITAL
MRS.
By MARY MARGARET MCBRIDE

By MARY MARGARET MCBRIDE NEA Service Stan Correspondent - New York.-Maybe being born in a doll hospital had something to do with Beatrice Alexander's be- coming dollmaker. At least that is how this slim, brown-eyed de- Aunt Bee to thousands of children she has never seen, partly explains her profession.
 In addition to designing dolls, she manufacturers and markets them. herself. Her father and mother made dolls before her mended them, too. It was with the mending that the family busi- ness started. M
 The father, a Russian, learned the toy repair business in Ger many, came to New York when he was a young man and set up in his flat on the lower East Side the first doll hospital the city ever had seen. At once the unique institution began to do a rushing business. Rich patrons from up- town came in their carriages. as well as poorer neighbors from roundabout.
 Morning Calls
 "Time and again our doorbell would ring as late as two in the morning." Mrs Alexander recalls. When we would open, there, apologetic and shaken, would be some parent with china doll that had fallen out of little girls bed and smashed to fragments, with tragic effect on the little girl, who had worked up temperature from grief. To quiet her, the doll had to be taken quickly to the doll hospi- tai.
 My father could fix anything, and he never turned anybody away, no matter what the hour. There Is even legend that a call came for the doll surgeon on the night that I was born, but of course do not know about that. My three sisters and I all first saw the light of day in room surrounded by the legs, arms and | torsos of dolls and other broken l toys awaiting repair"
 The father could take doll head that had been crushed al- most to sand and patiently fit the tiny bits together. He would never fix doll in the presence of the child owner, but always took it to place where the painful realistic details could be done | privately.
 Worked With Father
 The little Beatrice played about among the dolls and had many of her own, but she never broke them. When she was B, 1 she began to keep books for the doll hospital and for the retail i'm porting business it later became.
 With the war, European i'm portations ceased and prospects looked dark for the whole fam fly until the energetic mother of 1t had thought. Why not. she suggested, make their own dolls ? | And at once she began cutting out Red Cross nurse, from un- bleached muslin, and stuffing it with excelsior. She stitched it on her sewing machine and that was the beginning of an- other kind of business that meant hours of work and little sleep for anybody for three years.
 T had always wanted to ere ate," Mrs Alexander explains, but I had such a feeling my
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MEDICINE MAKES STEADY
 PROGRESS

Every one has heard the quip about the doctor who instructed the insomnia patient to eschew all food after p. m. A month later the patient returned still complain ing that she couldn't sleep. The doctor noted she was rather under nourished and prescribed Q bed time lunch as supplementary nour- ishment. Only a month ago the doctor had cautioned her against eating at night. Yes, yes, perhaps, but medicine Is making rapid strides these days.
 Formerly doctors restricted the amount of protein or albuminous food in the diet of the patient with Bright's disease, on the slender theory that the kidney impairment somehow made the patient incap- able of utilizing such food. This conception of the treatment spared the kidney but ignored the welfare of the patient. With increasing knowledge of the processes of me- tabolism physicians came to take a more rational view of the manage ment of nephritis, which involved more careful consideration of the needs of the patient. They recog- nized that protein or albuminous material that Is utilized in the body for repair of wear and tear--the principle purpose of nitrogenous food material-is not broken down into end-products and therefore cannot increase the burden on the kidneys. for the function of the kid neys Is concerned only with the ex- erection of the end-products of me- tabolism or combustion. In actual practice today, giving the chronic nephriti3 patient an adequate amount of meat, fowl, fish, eggs, cheese, milk, peas, beans, nuts and other nitrogenous items which were formerly excluded or restricted, we see victims of chronic Bright's lis ease living comfortably for many years. Their unscientific dietary re- strictions, prescribed or voluntary, tended to hasten depletion of the normal body proteins and produce chronic inanation. That. of course retards all recovery.
 The discarded theory of the cause and treatment of nephritis was based on conjecture or hypo- thesis alone. Conjecture, just tnlnklnS, IS SSSeutldl III dll pTOe ress. but pure theory without sci- entific control or actual tests by methods of precision, may lead us far astray. First an explorer (Ep- stein) observed that his patients with nephritis were given liberal amounts of albuminous or proteid foods notwithstanding their heavy albuminuria, they fared much bet ter. Then came the practical ma thod of measuring the amount oi protein in the blood. and by means of this gauge physicians learned that nephritis patients lost ground if the blood protein level was al. lowed to continue below the nor. nal. and gained or went on t1 complete recovery if the blood pro. / tcin level was kept up to normal So the modern practice is 10 give nephritis patients a liberal allow anec of these very foods they have been denied And the best proof oi the wisdom of this revision is the
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.5R HOUR ..HILD LOREN
Hy Dive Robeets Bsrton
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 Pets are more popular each year as Christmas gifts. If estimates are correct more than Q hundreu thousand doggfes will be tied by ,larre red ribbons to the Yule trees sof tl,e land. To say nothing of rollers, choppers, love birds ana other feathered strangers.
 Cats, Persioan, Angora, Manx and garden varieties. will rind lodging in new baskets. Monkeys are popular. Aquarium tenants or all manner and kind from puppies to red snails will surprise Henry or Jane on Christmas morning
 we've had about everything, I think, in the way of pets except nicely trained boa constructor or cobra. which at the moment are included in some of the big. shops catalogs. They say these make great mouse catchers and become realIy quite affectionate.
 Speaks on Behalf of Pets
 Perhaps we are odd, but We never felt any great loss at being depriyed of such affection and would rather have the mice TOT pets.
 But being a friend of most other. creatures that live, I feel 't incumbent upon me to put Tn a word here for the new little dadi- tions to the family.
 The children themselves will De the new masters in many eases, so I say this sotto voce to parents. or rather ask 1t. Will you please keep an eye on the new baby and make him comfortable
 It is. of course, a splendid idea to say to a boy or girl. Nov here's the puppy you wanted, so see that you look after him right.
 And in ecstasy and gratitude they promise, and probably do very well indeed at that.
 But every now and then they do forget. They wouldn't be hu- man if they didn't. These are the times that someone has to be on hand to supply the neglect.
 Need Daily Attention
 To keep a little house dog or kitten well, the bed should be III some warm corner away from drafts and cold and damp. Boxes with a bit of blanket make good beds, or the regular. pet baskets.
 They should be kept clean. Tell the children to shake out the "bed clothes" every day and air them. Feeding pans should be washed out we'll with hot water and soap, just as we wash our own dishes for the next meal.
 A separate pan for clean water should always be at hand. When bathed an animal should be kept warm until he is entirely dry.
 Birds must be cleaned each day to be well. Cages should not be hung to close to windows on cold days, and always away from win dow panes at night in winter. Cover cages at night. Keep both seed cup and water cup clean and filled. Don't sacrifice comfort for looks, but get cages that allow the bird tomoye freely.
 Live pets seem to complete a Christmas. They are well worth any little trouble they cost. | Copyright, 1894, NEA Serv. Incl
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fact that Bright's disease is no longer regarded with dread and de- spair.
 The best medical thought of 50 years ago in reference to nutrition and diet was pretty weird, as we regard it in the light of newer knowledge. But the medical no- tions of 30 years ago are the .popu- fancies today. It will take 30 years to relieve the layman of his pres ent ideas about diet.
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Iron DissOlves
 My druggist tells me your recipe for the home made blood tonic IS just one of your jokes, for iron IS not solube in water. He gave me instead a vial labelled Iron and Ammonium Citrate solution. It is dark brown liquid. l am afraid to take this (Mrs M. E.)
 Answer-Probably your druggist didn't know 1t, but what he gave you is iron dissolved in water. The sensible, economical way to buy iron n-and-ammonium is in the form of red scales. Buy four ounces of 1t, put it all in a pint bottle, fill the bottle with water, and it will all dissolve. Take a teaspoonful after food three times a day for two or three months. Take the dose in a little water sweetened with sugar and favored with any fruit juice you like. ..t -"s
 Poor old Legend Drags On
 Reader sends in abstract from Canadian Medical Association Journal in which this assertion of the medical author is underlined: Mercury is readily absorbed from all surfaces. including the intact skin." Reader opines this will hold me for while.
 Answer-Frankly such occasion al reverberations from the deep woods do not detain me longer than it takes to file the contribu- ton in the Haw-Haw Corner. Elephantiasis
 Can you tell me whether or not "elephantiasis" is disease pecu- liar to the tropics? CT. L.)
 Answer-It is most common in the tropics where the usual cause Is blocking of lymphatic vessels of the limb or other member by fil- aria,. a parasite transmitted by mosquito bite. Congenital elephan- tiasis. development defect, is common here.
 Copyright 1894, John r. Diile Co0
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a hospital. found a scholarship, building church, equipping a sci entific laboratory-as Madame Curie did in memory of her hus- band-requires earnest thought and responsibility, but it Is the true way to honor loved ones who are gone. This method reflects deep sentiment and the benefit to man. kind continues for generations.
 3.-The sexes hardly differ at all tn mental abilities but they differ quite widely in emotional rcac- tions and temperament. As said recently just how much of these emotional and temperamentai dif- ferences Is due to the different way they are reared and educated. the different roles to which so- ciety assigns males and females and the different sort of behavior society expects. Each Sex to mani fest, and how much is due to in- born cha<acteristics-we do not know. .
 (copyrisht John Y. Dilis cc.)
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PECAN HARVEST SMALL

Augusta, Ark (UP)-The pecan harvest In the White River basin, one of the best pecan areas in the South, will be the smallest In years this fall. Early rains when the trees were in bloom and the sum- mer drought arc blamed for the small crop. Last year St Louis buyers took thousands of pounds from the basin. More than 250,- 900 pounds were bought here at an average price of 5M cents a pound. Indications are that there will be only q few tons this year, with offers of 10 cents a pound.
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how you hold your mouth while you're smoothing 1t on-simply follow the natural contours of both lips. You can't change the shape of your mouth with lip rouge and there's not a bit of use in trying to make thin lips look full or thick ones appear to be smaller. Do the best you can with what you have and trust that your smile will be charming enough to make up for whatever defects you think you possess.
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mother could do everything bet
 ter than l, that 1t was quite while before tried for myself.
 really began designing dolls be- cause l couldn't help it.. Ideas kept tormenting me, and I'd get no rest until had done some thing about them. I didn't want thing about them. I didn't want
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to make just ordinary dolls with nnmeaning, empty smiles on their painted lips and a squeaky way of saying mama when you pinch ed them.
 souls. You've no idea how I la
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considered by the Ontario govern ment department of game and fish cries. Officials state that beaver have been disappearing so rapidly during the last few years that d. general ban on their trapping is an urgent necessity if they are to be savd from complete extinction.
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CLOSED BEAVER SEASON
 STUDIED

Toronto, Ont (UP)-Institutio of closed season on trapping of beaver. Canada's national animal" throughout the whole province for a period of three years is being
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PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE
 BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D.

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John Williams. of Coe Mynydd. Wales, has caught 2s5 foxes. with his terriers, In the last 10 years.