I
many a giri strives to mane a name
tor herself rather than attempt to
make a loaf of bread.
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces lnQamma,
Hon, allays pain, cures wind colic, SSo a bottle.
Let’s Be Thankful for That.
At any rate a woman’s shoes haven't
fet reached the point where they but*
ton up the back.
Balt.
First Suffragette—If we want to
get the young girls Interested In out1
meetings we must have something to
attract them.
Second Suffragette—Which would It
better be—refreshments or men?—*
Life.
Her Affections Dampened.
A little girl was playing at the
table with her cup of water. Her
father took the cup from her and In
10 doing accidentally spilled some of
the water on her.
“There," she cried, as she left the
table Indignantly, "you wet me clear
to my feelings.”—Everybody’s Maga
line.
Worth While.
“See here!” cried the boy’s father,
“If you don’t behave I’ll whip yon.”
“I wlsht you would,” replied the
bad boy.
“You do, eh?”
"Yes, ’cause when It’s all over ma
will gimme some candy.”
Too Eager.
Fred Poyner, a Chicago dentist, was
recently at a banquet given by the
Dental association.
He said: “On one side Is the right
of things and on the other Is wrong;
sometimes the difference between the
two Is slight. As the following story
shows: A gypsy upon releasq from
jail met a friend. ‘What were you in
for?’ asked the friend.
" ‘I found a horse,’ the gypsy re
plied.
“'Fou^d a horse? Nonsense! They
would never put you In jail for finding
a horse.’
“ ‘Well, but you see I found him
before the owner lost him.’ ”
The Middle-Aged Woman.
Of the many ways in which the mid
dle-aged woman may vary the effect
ef her afternoon gowns none is sim
pler than the use of a collar and cuffs
of white voile edged with scalloping
and embroidery in a floral design. An
other change may be the frock set of
white chiffon with border of black
malines, and still another is the one of
black net hemstitched with silver
thread. Some of these collars are so
long in front that they terminate only
at the waist line, where they cross in
surplice effect and are tucked away
under the girdle. An excellent model
of this sort is of light blue lawn em
broidered with black dots, and a sec
ond is of white agaric trimmed with
tiny folds of broadcloth, alternating
with eponge.
A WINNING START
A Perfectly Digested Breakfast Make*
Nerve Force for the Day.
Everything goes wrong if the break
fast lies in your stomach like a mud
pie. What you eat does harm if you
can’t digest it—it turns to poison.
A bright lady teacher found this to
be true, even of an ordinary light
breakfast of eggs and toast. She
says:
“Two years ago I contracted a very
annoying form of Indigestion. My stom
ach was in such condition that a sim
ple breakfast of fruit, toast and egg
gave me great distress.
“I was slow to believe that trouble
could come from such a simple diet,
but finally had to give it up, and found
a great change upon a cup of hot
Postum and Grape-Nuts with cream,
for my morning meal. For more than
a year I have held to this course and
have not suffered except when Injudi
ciously varying my diet.
“I have been a teacher for several
years and find that my easily digest
ed breakfast means a saving of nerv
ous force for the entire day. My gala
of ten pounds in weight also causes
me to want to testify to the value of
Grape-Nuts.
"Grape-Nuts holds first rank at our
table.”
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
“There’s a reason.” Read the llttl*
book, “The Road to Wellville,” in pkgs.
Ever rend the above letter* A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true, and full of htunaa
Interest.
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From the Philadelphia Ledger.
It Is evident that the promoters of the
Panama exposition at San Francisco do
not share the skepticism of the modern
"higher critics” concerning the title of
the liberty bell to the sanctity with which
history and tradition have surrounded It.
And they know that the great mass of
the people of the country do not. They
realize that to them the ancient relic, with
Its singularly prophetic Inscription, Is
next to the actual Instrument of the
Declaration of Independence, the most In
spiring physical link which connects the
present generation with the fathers of the
nation, with the men of '76. And, what Is
more Important to their present purposes,
they are quite aware that the presence
of the bell at the coming exposition would
be. perhaps, the greatest single attraction
they could Install. The occasion of the
visit of the Pennsylvania commission to
select the site for the Pennsylvania ex
hibits was utilized on Saturday by the ex
?iositlon authorities to make their appeal
or the loan of the liberty bell. Governor
Tener properly replied that the city of
Philadelphia, not the state, is the cus
todian of the bell, and that application
would have to be made to the mayor and
councils.
When that application shall be received,
as It doubtless will In the course of a
few weeks, It should be met with a
courteous declination. Philadelphia Is the
trustee of the nation for the Bate preser
vation of the emblem of the nation's lib
erty. There Is no reason, because In the
past It has yielded to Importunity and per
mitted the bell to be taken around the
country to expositions, big and little that
the precedents thus unwisely set should
be perpetuated. The place for the bell Is
within the shrine of the nation's Inde
pendence. There It Is safe, surrounded
by the associations and traditions that
hallow It. Apart from those associa
tions, Ijj other settings. It loses much
of Its significance, is deprived of much
of Its teachings and Inspiring power.
No possible precautions can insure the
safety of the bell on long Journeying*
to and fro throughout the country. It*
destruction would be an Irreparable los*,
and the only way to avert such a possi
bility Is to take a Arm stand now and
turn a deaf ear to every appeal for the
further exploitation of the relic apart
from Its setting in Independence hall.
In taking this stand Philadelphia will not
be selfish but will be taking a stricter
view of the trusteeship than Tt has prac
ticed In the past. It owes It to the na
tion, to Itself and to the visitors to the
city that the peregrinations of the Lib
erty Hell shall end, and now is the time
to make the final decision. 8an Fran
cisco will be disappointed perhaps, but
that cannot be helped. We but cheapen
the Liberty Bell to lend It to every would
be borrower. Its place is at home, at
the birthplace of the nation, and there
It should stay.
j WHA T ONE MAN DID J
From the Philadelphia North American.
The text for this sermon is the life of
Frank H. Starr, superintendent of the
Home of Industry for Discharged Prison
ers, who died last Monday, early in the
morning.
That life was lived in two chapters.
The first chapter, of more than 40 years,
was one of \yrong living and crime. It led
to a cell in Sing Sing, where it was
brought to a close by a few kind words
from a noble woman, Frances Willard.
Frank Starr never sought to hide or
excuse a single word of that chapter.
When he said “I understand how vou feel”
to a discharged prisoner brought under
his care, he spoke literally.
He was on the road that is wide when
the light of the everlasting love of Jesus
Christ cleft the darkness of hia ways and
showed him the path to right living.
Then, ‘‘with the wreck of his life all
around him,” he began the second chap
ter of his book of living. Born anew, and
In that higher birth finding a courage be
side which deeds of daring on the field of
battle pale into mere commonplaces, he
started to live for the benefit of those who,
having paid their debt to society, are still
treated Dy society as faithless debtors.
Started to fight the ‘‘ironclad injustice
which refuses a fallen man another
chance.”
Twenty-three years ago he led in the
founding of a home where discharged
prisoners would be helped back to useful
ness and the respect of their fellows. It
was not an easy work, as one may well
Imagine. It was not an easy task for one
who had himself paid the price. It would
- ;
have been far easier to slip back Into th«
old ways or to seek honest work undei
a new name In some distant state oi
country.
Frank Starr was not looking for an easy
job. His whole heart was aflame with a
desire to help those who had suffered as
he had suffered; to lead men out of the
darkness of wrongdoing Into the light of
right living.
He made no noise as he went along.
He shouted no message from high places,
nor ever boasted of what he was doing.
Quietly, so quietly that to tens of thou
sands In his home city the news of his
death was the first news they ever had
of him, he worked with the human
wrecks cast up on the friendly shores of
the little harbor of hope, supervised by
him, and financed by a few men who felt
It a privilege to Invest some share of their
earnings In bettered lives.
In the years of his service 2,500 such
wrecks came into that harbor, and of this
number more than 90 per cent were refit
ted for the Journey and today are living
honest lives of useful service.
Nothing that can be said will add to
the fineness of his life. The costliest and
largest of monuments would seem small
beside a record of so many lives turned
buck Into channels of good citizenship
and righteous living.
But It Is well for many a man and
woman to ponder the life of Frank Starr.
It is well for those who feel that their
lives have been failures to gain from this
life encouragement and fortitude.
Such a life Is a blessing to any com
munity and a guiding light for all who
will ever come to know It.
TADPOLE GROWS TO
FR06 IN STOMACH
Extracted at Hospital After
Eleven Months — Victim
Nearly Choked.
Washington, D. C.—A live frog that
cBawled and clawed and croaked lived
for nearly a year In the stomach of
Mrs. L. V. King, of Dean Wood.
After clawing away at the lining of
the woman’s stomach until It was raw
with pain, almost strangling her as It
climbed Into her throat and fairly re
ducing her to a living skeleton it was
finally extricated by physicians of the
emergency hospital. They used a largo
pump.
The frog is now preserved In alco
hol. It is a weak, colorless, wrinkled,
shapeless specimen, and bears faint re
semblance to the normal frog. Its legs
are long and scrawny and thin as
toothpicks. It measures ail told about
seven inches.
Just as it was breaking out of the
egg the tadpole was swallowed by Mi’s.
King in well water last August. Weeks
passed before the woman realized there
was some living animal in her stomach.
She consulted doctors, but they
laughed at her.
Last spring the frog, now reaching te
its full growth, began to climb into her
throat and nearly suffocated her. It
clawed away at the membrane until
she several times fainted with pain.
Still the doctors, when she told them of
her fears, laughed.
Two months ago, Mrs. King declares,
the frog began to croak. She distinctly
heard it many times, and her relatives
bear her out. That determined her to
leave the physicians of Dean Wood
severely alone and consult “city doc
tors.”
She did so. She went to the emer
gency hospital and the frog was
pumped out of its hiding place.
The frog lived 10 minutes In a tub of
water. It croaked and sang just like
any regular frog. Then it died.
According to the physicians this is
the first time on record that any ani
mal of the proportions of a frog has
ever lived in a human stomach, at
least for the period of 11 months. It
is a most remarkable case.
Who Gets the Candy?
From the New York Times.
That eternal question as to the priv
ilege does a man buy along with a the
ater seat, is capable of variations.
In the middle of an orchestra row sat a
woman with an appetite for candy. With
10 cents she opened the candy box on the
seat in front of her and ate half a dozen
chocolates. The first box on her right
was emptied next, then as the woman's
appetite for sweets was still unappeased
she sought the contents of the box on the
left. That seat was occupied by a de
termined looking man.
Said the woman:
“Do you mind if I drop a dime and
get the candy out of that box?”
He said he did.
"Why,” said she. "You are not eating
It."
"But I may want It before I leave,'
laid he. "and I don’t Intend to sign my
right away. When I bought this seat I
also bought the privilege of eating thi
candy if I want to. Maybe I don’t want
it. but the candy Is mine so long as I sll
here, and nobody else has any right to
It.”
Six chocolate wafers having thus been
raised to a moral issue, the woman ap
pealed to the usher.
"Not that I want the chocolates." she
said, "but because I want to know whal
is what. To whom does that candy be
long, him or the house?’’
The usher said lie would give It up
So did everybody else appealed to give i
up. except the man with the candy. 11
«at tight.
Is Luck All a Myth.
From the Los Angeles Tribune.
Any wrllar engaged in pointing out 1
Youth Ur Vay to success will affirm th.
there Is no such thing as luck. This Is
equally true whether the thesis be the
graduating paper of a high school girl or
express the conviction of the mature phil
osopher.
Perhaps they are right. If they are the
combination of circumstances producing
results that the thoughtless are wont to
ascribe to "luck" presents a peculiar
study. The combination is so prolonged
and Intricate compared with the climax
that Is reached.
To Illustrate: A young man was stand
ing at a street corner. He was wearing a
new straw hat, although he was the type
who would have termed It a lid. It must
have cost at least a dollar, even though
obtained at a bargain sale.
Along came a gust of wind, plucking
the hat playfully and bearing It toward
the opposite sidewalk In a straight Une
that crossed at angles the path of an In
coming car that was so near that It had
to keep right on coming, and the car ar
rived Just In time to orush, smash, pul
verize and otherwise maltreat and deprive
of symmetry the hat In question.
Picking up a forlorn shape that had
been his hat, the young man muttered.
All that he said may not be recorded here.
But It included mention of luck, and some
disparaging reference as to the quality
and deserved fate of the same.
For a hat destroyed In some ways one
may demand recompense. It Is Impossible
to sue a vagrant zephyr.
This leaves the question Just where It
started: Is there any such thing as luck?
Unfair,
From the Chicago Record-Herald.
Good old Desire for Information gets
Mamed for a lot of the elns of Morbid
Curiosity.
Until the last generation, tattooing
was almost universal In Persia. To
day It Is rare among the upper classes,
but la still affected by the lower classes.
Women are tattooed not so much with
a view to decoration as to avert the
"evil eye,” or to hide a blemish, or to
cure a malady.
"If wars perfect the races, then the
most belligerent nations should be the
handsomest. But such Is not the case.
In fact, the contrary Is true. The Eng
lish are most certainly one of the hand
somest people on earth. They are also
the least warlike, since they alone, of
all ths European nations, have abol
ished military service.”
The amount spent on secret service
by European governments last year
was as follows: Austria-Hungary £62,
600; France, £40,000; Germany. £68,600;
Great BrlUan, £60,000; Italy, £120,000.
Russia spent £380,000 In 1910 “under
direct order of the emperor,” and for
the present year appropriated £336,000
for miscellaneous police expenditure
"not subject to publication.”
Five years In prison and a fine of
15,000 marks was the punishment In
flicted In Munich on a man convicted
of usury. He rented houses and ex
acted up to 860 per cent a year of
his victims.
Jot
{WO
NEVER AGAIN.
Moequito—S'help me, laeh Hmf I ever
vUi toxic&ted mmn acahoeh!
Misinterpreted.
William Shaw, the secretary of the
famous Christian Endeaver society,
said In a witty after-dinner address In
Boston:
"There Is a little Back Bay girl who
Is much Interested In her auntie's
Christian Endeavor work. The little
girl was writing a letter to her broth
er at Yale one day, and in the midst
of the epistle she looked up and said:
“'Auntie, how do you spell devil?’
“‘Devil!’ cried her aunt, with a
•hocked smile. 'Why, child, don’t you
Know you mustn’t use such a word as
Jevil?’
" ‘But, auntie,’ protested the little
firl, “I want to tell brother about your
Christian and devil meetings 1’”
Her Error.
Mrs. Stranger—Can you tell me
who that stout man is over there? He
Is the Tyorst softsoaper I ever met
Dowager—Yes. He is my husband
—Judge.
ECZEMA CAME ON SCALP
Lebanon, O.—“My eczema started
on my thigh with a small pimple. It
also came on my scalp. It began to
itch and I began to scratoh. For
eighteen or twenty years I could not
tell what I passed through with that
awful Itching. I would scratch until
the blood would soak through my un
derwear, and I couldn’t talk to my
friends on the street uui x would be
digging and punching that spot, until
I was very much ashamed. The itch
ing was so Intense I could not sleep
after once in bed and warm. I certain
ly suffered torment with that eczema
for many years.
“I chased after everything I ever
heard of, but all to no avail. I saw
the advertisement for Cutlcura Soap
and Ointment and sent for a sample.
Imagine my delight when I applied the
first dose to that awful itching fire
on my leg and scalp, in less than a
minute the itching on both places
ceased. I got some more Cutlcura
Soap and Ointment. After the second
day I never had another itching spell,
and Cutlcura Soap and Ointment com
pletely cured me. I was troubled with
awful dandruff all over my scalp. The
Cutlcura Soap has cured that trouble.”
(Signed) L. R. Fink, Jan. 22, 1912.
Cutlcura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
tree, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address
^ost-card "Cutlcura, Dept L, Boston.”
Laying a Foundation.
Little Bobby (the guest)—Mrs.
Skimper, when I heard we were goln’
•o have dinner at your house I start
id right in trainin’ fer It.
Mrs. Sklmper (the hostess)—By sav
hg up your appetitg, Bobby?
Little Bobby—No’m. By eatln’ a
iquare meal first
NOT ALWAYS SO.
a
Gladys—So you’ve broken with
him.
Virginia—Yes. He was entirely
too hard to please.
Gladys—Gracious, how be must
have changed since he proposed to
you!
Meeting Emergencies.
Senator Dixon was condemning a
piece of political deception.
"The thing was as flagrant,” he said,
"as the railway case.
“Two men, one of them very short,
were passing through a station toward
the train gates when the bigger one
was heard to say:
“ Tve took a half ticket fur ye,
George. Yer so little, ye’ll pass, all
right.’
“ ‘But,’ protested George, ‘how about
my beard?’ And he twiddled his chin
beard nervously.
" ‘Oh,’ rejoined the other, ‘tell ’em
It’s a mole.’ ”
The Giveaway.
"Jane,” said her father, “how does
It happen that I find four good cigars
an the mantelpiece this morning? Did
Henry leave them for me?"
"No; he took them out of his vest
pocket to avoid breaking them last
night, and I guess he forgot all about
them afterwards.”
The laugh that followed made her
wish that she had been as careful
with her Bpeech as Henry had been
with his cigars.—Detroit Free Press.
People who are thrifty are apt to
?et a reputation for being stingy.
The Paxton Toilet Co. of Boston.
Mass., will send a large trial box of
Paxtlne Antiseptic, a delightful cleans
ng and germicidal toilet preparation,
:o any woman, free, upon request.
People who live In clean houses
shouldn’t throw mud.
SAVED FROM
All OPEBATIDH
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