' FROM FORTY-FIVE
TO SIXTY
A Word of Help to Women
of Middle Age From
Mrs. Raney.
• Morse, Okla.—“When I was 45 years
cld Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com
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1 through the critical
period of the Change
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pound and I still take
—-it occasionally roy
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name if you wish. ’’—Mrs. Alice Raney,
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critical periods of a woman’s existence.
This good old-fashioned root and herb
remedy may be relied upon to overcome
the distressing symptoms which accom
pany it and women everywhere should
remember that there is no other remedy
known to carry women so successfully
through this trying period as Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.
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j'w* ^The Cheerful Optometrist.
Patient—My headache is not finy bet
ter, doctor^ . . . *
i Doctor—Did you report to the eye
Clinic, as I told you?
Patient—Yes, doctor, I went to the
eye clinic and the optimist said I was
all right, although he did not examine
my eyes.—Journal of the American
Medical Association.
Sample Submitted.
Visitor—Are you good at your
work? I am very particular about
the way my hair is cut.
Village Barber—Well, I’m reckoned
fairly decent; but, if you like, I’ll do
one side of your head ilrst so that you
can see for yourself.—Der Brummer
.(Berlin).
An Unaccommodating Parent.
Mrs. Billups—Why is Willie crying
so?
Billups—He lost part of his engine
find now lie’s yelling because I won’t
' let him have my false teeth for a
cowcatcher.—Boston Transcript.
Order Filled.
“Did you see where some woman
complained because she had to pay
SI for a glass of lemonade?”
“Well, she asked to have a lemon
handed her, didn’t she?”
Her Idea.
Edith—1 like an engagement with
some snap about it.
Mfirul—Onp thnt hrprsks pnsilv. ph?
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How Government Goes on
Elsewhere.
Geoffrey Drage, In London Times.
Sir—The debate on national expenditure of March 24 was the fourth
which has taken place within the last few weeks. The only result is that
the government proposes to reappoint the select committee of which it
was said, apparently without contradiction: "They produced no less than
15 reports. They sat for two years, and not one single one of their recom
mendations has been carried out * * • It is a perfect waste of time
to appoint these committees.” (Hansard, March 24, p. 536.)
The actual position as stated in the House of Commons is as follows:
On March 16 the chancellor of the exchequer (who naturally resented the
defeat of the government on February 26 on the subject of police pensions
by the House, after all its professions of economy), said: “The origin of
the heavy expenditure is not the government nor the bureaucracy
* * * it is the continuous demand from this House. • * * If you do
not support us * * * the blame must be on your shoulders.” (Hansard,
p. 2076.) Private members on the other hand (1) took the line that "the
House of Commons has no control whatever over public expenditure”
(Hansard, p. 2109), and (2) roundly told the chancellor that if members
will not support him “it is the business of the chancellor of the exchequer
to resign” (Hansard, p. 2108). The result, as far as the public is con
cerned, was well expressed in the words of another member (3), "a feeling
of despair, anger, and mystification.” (Hansard, p. 2117.)
In these circumstances, in view of the appeal of the chancellor to his
critics, “I would be content if they would put their finger on a practicable
means of saving £500,000” (sic, Hansard, p. 2078), one may perhaps claim
Support ior the following practical suggestions:
1. The source of extravagance as to which (a) the government and
treasury control is least efficient, and (b) the House of Commons is most
prone to reckless interference, are to be found in the various acts of par
liament which for want of a better term can best be classed under the
heading of Public Assistance. On March 24 the chancellor of the ex
chequer appeared to recognize this for the first time. He said:
“Yau cannot, when you have things like National Health Insurance,
Old Age Pensions, and a National Unemployment scheme and a National
Housing scheme, exercise or offer the same blunt and uncompromising
refusal to proposals for new expenditure as you could in the days when
it was accepted by al! parties that such matters were altogether outside
the proper sphere of government activities.” (Hansard, p. 626.)
Thanks to the importunities of the Denison House committee on pub
lic assistance, of which 1 have <he honor to be chairman, a return has been
pabUrhed 1919J which shows that expenditure from .rates and
taxes on public assistance has risenT Apart worn' war pensions, from
£25,800,000 in 1891 to £104,000,000 in 1918. War pensions and widows’
allowances for 1920 will amount to no less than £123,000,000 (Hansard,
p. 2124), ana will, it is said, affect one person in 16 of the populattyp^ ^
Thanks to cur further requests, the government on February 16 agreed
to make the return annual; hut this is not enough. Ever since January,
191>, when I began this agitation, I have been asking that this return
should (1) not only show the total rise in expenditure, hut (2) give ad
ministrative expenditure separately, so that comparisons should be insti
tuted and an administrative standard be set up. (3) I have also repeatedly
asked that capital and current expenditure should be shown separately,
so as to indicate the proportion of salaries to upkeep in successive years
and in different areas.
Unfortunately it is not the only department which requires super
vision, there is also, as we have seen, the House of Commons, which the
speaker has described in his memorandum as having become "one of the
chief spending departments of the state.” (Report, p. 122.) According
to The Times cf March 26, the chancellor of the exchequer stated in answer
to a question that while it is his duty to protect the taxpayer, “the minister
of health is the guardian of the ratepayer.” The House of Commons is,
of course expected to control both, ith all respect one is led to ask,
Quis custodiet ipsos eustedes? Are we not, as to public assistance at any
rate, approaching the position we occupied in 1830? Are we not threat
ened in that sphere, at any rate, with bankruptcy? A royal commission
was then appointed which was eventually clothed with executive power
In order to meet the unpopularity of retrenchment which the House was
then, as now, unwilling to confront. Is not a similar step necessary now?
4. Finally, one may venture to put in a plea for immediate action on
the above lines. The Lord Privy Seal, in a speech at Worthing not long
ago, is reported to have asked the public for patience. (1) Surely seven
years of unremitting work is sufficient to warrant a request that a com
plete return of expenditure on public assistance should now be granted.
There is no question of policy involved. We are merely asking for a proper
account to be rendered cf money spent, in order to eliminate waste. One
would think such a request would appeal not only to every minister and
every advocate of economy, but also to every honest man. (2) Surely 14
years is long enough for the authorities to ponder over and digest a re
quest for the reorganization of official statistics or, in other words, a de
partment ol civil intelligence under the prime minister, a reform which
is only opposed by the department interested in maintaining existing
Inefficiency. (3) The proposal oi am executive commission on public as
sistance may sound novel and. therefore, excite opposition, but there
Is the precedent of 1830 for a I'eicrm which proved in its day a complete
success. At any rate, cne may say that there are no other proposals than
the above in the field which are calcinated to mitigate the existing "feel
ing of despair, anger, and mystification.”
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4 From the Weekly Underwriter. 4
4 He stepped on the throttle to 4
4 see if he could beat the train to 4
4 the crossing. 4
4 He couldn’t. 4
4 He struck a match to see if 4
4 his gasoline tank was empty. 4
4 It wasn’t. ' 4
4 He patted a strange bulldog on 4
4 the head to see if the critter was 4
4 affectionate. 4
4 He wasn’t. 4
4 He looked down the barrel of a 4
4 gun to see if it was loaded. 4
4 It wac. 4
4 He touched an electric wire to 4
4 see if it was alive. 4
4. It was. 4
4 He said be would not bond his 4
4 clerk because he thought he was 4
4 honest. 4
4 He wasn’t. 4
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The Little Houses.
I love the little houses
©n a newly opened street.
Where rosy wives with a child or two,
Their homing husbands greet.
Where toys are on the new front steps
And a baby cart chokes the hall.
Where velocipedes are the only cars
And like birds the children call.
The little house Is a house of hope
And of love and faith also.
There’s a busy hum in it all day long.
And the hours like moments go.
The stately house has all achieved,
It is dull and weary too.
But the little house is aglow with
dreams
That may. perchance, come true.
—Mary Alicia Owen, in the Twilight
hour.
Trade In the Near East.
From the New York Times.
The United States has a fine array
Of merchant steamers In Levantine wa
ters, hut the complaint Is that they do
not get enough business, because our
rivals have more influence with the
local authorities than the shipping
board has. and there Is an active propa
ganda against American representatives
and American goods. But was not that
to be expected ? For many years be
fore the war the American flag on a
merchant ship was seldom seen In the
near east, and there was only a nucleus
of trade organization to aid the Ameri
can merchant. An American shipping
expert has this to say about our argosy
in the near east and the trade prospect:
I am afraid it Is like a railroad which
Is trying to run without terminals and
stations. We have ships, but we haven’t
American shipping agents to handle
them. We haven’t facilities at the va
rious ports and are at the mercy of for
eign agents backed by their govern
ments, which ane far more interested
In assuring their commercial future
than In protecting the rights of the
minorities about whom they talk so
glibly.
There Is no doubt that we are at a
disadvantage in the preliminary skirm
ishes for the world's business, particu
larly as, for want of practice. It will be
some time before ,we can get our new
merchant marine running gnwthly.
t
However, the British, ~ur most formid
able rivals, have no illusions about the
American opportunity. It is admitted
that American tonnage will carry our
goods all over the world, unless there
is gross mismanagement, and that we
shall be no more beholden to the Brit
ish, the French, the Italians, the Nor
wegians and, of course, the Germans.
Furthermore, the prediction is made
that American tramps will find their
way into all of the seven seas and try
conclusions with the British in their
own preserves.
Cemeteries of Stars.
From the London Mail.
Has it ever occurred to you that there
must be multitudes of cold, dark stars
in space for every pin point of star
light in the night sky? Evidence is
gradually accumulating to prove that
this is so.
Suppose there existed on Mars a be
ing gifted with the strange power of
seeing each match which was struck
on the earth. At any moment he would
no doubt see thousands of tiny flames
dotted all over the visible surface of
our globe. For every one of these there
would be thousands of burnt matches
In addition to thousands still unstruck.
A match may exist for indefinite period
before the chemical energy in its head
is transformed by collision or friction
into a flicker of light and heat. And
it burns only for an infinitesimal frac
tion of the time it has been cold and
dormant.
So it is with the stars. They are the
result of friction or collision between
pairs or bodies whose mechanical en
ergy of motion was transformed, aeons
ago, into the radiant energy of light and
heat. And the long ages In which a
star remains incandescent must be but
a fleeting Instant compared with the
vast period during which the two parent
bodies were dormant and cold. Press
ing this theory to its logical conclu
sion, astronomers believe that there are
untold myriads of dark stars scattered
throughout space—burnt out ashes of
dead suns. In the rush of those mass
ive objects through the void there yet
lies the possibility of collision and the
regeneration of worlds.
*?.r theory. The facts which
are being collected ax© even more con
vincing. TTiere ar© extraordinary dark
patches to be seen in many parts of the
?*»• frequently against the most brill
J3?r‘?Judded background. They
******* of non-luminous
material interposed in our line of siKht.
Imposing on Hospitality.
Prom Saturday Evening Post.
Down In Birmingham a negro team
driver came home one night and found
his wife highly agitated.
“Jeff,” she said, "you know dat Asa
Rogers' wife Sallle Is dead. Alnt you
goln' to be a pallbearer at de fun’r’IT”
"No, I ain’t," he answered with un
usual poBitlvenesa
"You alnt? Well, wasn’t you a pall
bearer at de fun’r’l of his second wife
Melissa?"
"Sho I wuz. But dat ain’t_”
"Bn wusn’t you a pallbearer at de
fun’r*l of his first wife, Mandle? Whut
you mean, you ain’t goln’ to act dls
time?"
"Liza,” he said, "suttlnly 1 wuz a pall
bearer at dem funVls, en I done de
best I could, but I'm tellln’ you now I
ain’t acceptin’ no mo* favors frum no
body whut I can’t return."
Elucidated.
"A woman’s life la divided Into two
great periods.'*
“The first she spends looking for a
husband, and the second looking after
him.’*
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4 DIFFUSION OF WEALTH. 4
4 4
4 Otto H. Kahn, in Leslie’s Weekly. 4
4 It is not true that under our 4
4 economic and social system “the 4
4 rich are getting richer and the 4
4 poor pooret.” On the contrary, 4
4 the diffusion ot wealth has been 4
4 going on .pace; the trend of 4
4 things within the past «u years 4
4 has beeK greatly toward dim in- 4
4 ishing the difference in the 4
4 standard and general way of liv- 4
4 ing between the various cate- 4
4 gories of our population. And 4
4 our wealthiest men are not those 4
4 who inherited their possessions, 4
4 but those who started at the bot- 4
4 tom of the ladder. The eternal 4
4 law of compensation works in 4
4 mysterious ways. It la unques- 4
4 tionably a fact that it is not the 4
4 children of the rich to whom life 4
4 yields the greatest measure of 4
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SCIENCE REPLACES MAGIC.
This is the season for rheumatic fever.
Beware!
Not only is the diseasb important in
itself but it frequently leads to heart
disease and heart disease is now our
most fatal malady. A study made by
Lambert in Bellevue hospital indicates
that rheumatic fever during four years
was one and a half times as prevalent
during March, April and May as during
June, July and August, twice as prev
alent as during December, January, and
February, and six times as prevalent as
during Septembers October and Novem
ber.
This is almost enough to establish
that rheumatism is a seasonal disease to
about the -ame extent that typhoid,
pneumonia, measles and smallpox are.
By rheumatic fever is meant the old
fashioned rheumatism—the kind for
which our forefathers carried in their
pockets buckeyes and Irish potatoes.
According to Edwartfs, on^-eightTI "of
the cases are preceded by tonsilitia. Ed
wards wrote before great attention had
been concentrated on the tonsils, gums,
and teeth. Looking at the tonsils and
teeth more closely as they do at the
present time the cause is much more
frequently located in the mouth. Our
forefathers carried buckeyes in the
wrong place. They should have kept
them in the crypts of their tonsils or the
cavities in their teeth.
Rheumatism is characterized by fever,
profuse sweats, and pain and swelling
in one or more large joints. The disposi
tion of the disease to jump from one
joint to another 1b well recognized. In
fact the rheumatics themselves are sus
picious of any inflammation which
sticks to one Joint. It is much more
liable to be something besides Rheuma
tism.
An acute attack of rheumatism com
monly lasts about four weeks. The fever
having subsided the man is some
what lame for several months. He is
lucky If a careful examination of his
heart made at this time does not show
that the disease has affected his heart.
To prevent the disease a person who
Is subject to rheumatism should have
his teeth cleaned and polished at least
once during this rheumatic season. If
he has tonsil trouble he should have
them removed or at least cleaned up
and massaged. If he has chronic sup
puration in ills nasal sinuses or else
where lie will do well to give it proper
attention.
Acocrding to the older views he should
wear flannel underwear and flannel
hands, especially around the joints most
liable to develop the trouble.
Lambert's finding that there is more
rheumatism during June, July, August,
than during December, January, Febru
ary, gives the chilling theory consider
able jolt. More recent investigations
tend to lessen our fear of local chlllings
as a cause of rheumatism, but no one Is
justified It, leaving off his flannels dur
ing the rheumatism season until the
evidence is more complete.
For relief during an attack of the dis
ease, salicylates and alkalies are given.
Opiates are not. Water should be
drunk freely. After an attack has sub
sided iron tonics and visits to baths
are helpful. Meat bears no relation to
the disease. It can be eaten in mod
eration without harm.
Pocket Money.
From the New Fork Sun.
A few years ago. .jacket money al
lowances for a small boy meant a nickel
or a dime a week. The youngster whose
father or mother gave him a quarter
was exceptional; he who boasted half
a dollar was a prince of high good for
• tOne.
Nowadays the boy’s allowance has to
be larger. Soda water, candy, marbles,
tops, practically everything a boy wants
to buy out of his own pocket have
soared along with beef and bread. There
are carfares to be paid nowadays where
none was known only a few years ago.
Oldsters shake their heads and lament
the banishment of poetry from juve
nile life, but their regrets are not shared
by the victim of a stone bruise who can
ride home on the strolley instead of
hoofing it ‘cross lots.
There were no movies when a dime
loomed large at the beginning of the
week; movies are now a steady drain
on the pockets of youth. Probably the
Small Boys Protective League is be
hind the shrewd campaign today in pro
gress to impress on the adult mentality
the educational value of close and con
sistent study of the screen. If movies
are of educational value their attend
ance on movies becomes a duty, and
as a duty the cost of it must be de
frayed from the parental pocketbook.
However, the circus is still to be at
tained by carrying water to the ele
phant, though our friend Mr. Dockstad
er, on more than one occasion, has re
vealed the danger inherent in this
method of gaining admission to the big
top; they switched elephants on Lew.
Hoaxed a King.
Prom Manchester (England) Guardian.
The fact that several residents of the
Spalding district of Llnconshlre have
been hoaxed by announcements purport
ing to emanate from Buckingham pal
ace and to be signed by his majesty's
private secretary, conferring honors
upon them recalls recollection to one oc
casion at least of the conferring of an
honor as the result of a successful hoax,
royalty Itself being the victim. In the
reign of George IV, a Dublin medical
doctor wrote a book. He had a copy
splendidly bound for presentation, and
then went to London to the royal levee,
where he handed a card to the lord-ln
waiting, on which his name appeaVed as
attending to present his work on a cer
tain professional subject and "to receive
the honor of knighthood.” The lord-in
waltlng thought that all was right, the
king thought so, too. The Dublin doctor
knelt down, the king took a sword, gave
him the slap of dignity, and bad him
arise Sir Thomas. After the levee, and
when the newspapers had published the
knighthood as one of the incidents of
the day, there were some Inquiries about
the recipient of the distinction. Who
iiad recommended him? Of what min
ister was he the protege? But they
were all too late—the knighthood bad
been conferred, and people could only
laugh. Canning was reported to have
said that he supposed this doctor
iluimed the honor "by prescription.”
No Nsoesslty.
Shop Assistant (uellhig (Ior trouRli)
—Would you like one with '•(log"
painted on It, madamV
Customer—No, thunks. You see, ths
dog can’t rend and my husband
doesn’t drink water.—London Answers.
Baby’s little drosses will Just simply
dazzle If Red Cross Ball Blue Is used
In the laundry. Try It and see for your
self. At all good grocers, Be.
An occasional domestic storm Is nec
essary to clarify the matrimonial at
mosphere.
JTORIA
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COULDN’T FORGET THE GREEN
Mrs. Flannlgan's Neat Expression of
Loyalty to Her Native and Her
Adopted Land.
Mrs. Flnnnlgan for years lias proud
ly exhibited from her front window
a row of geraniums, In pots wrapped
In bright, Irish green crepe paper,
says the Indianapolis News. But the
other day when her neighbor, whose
son was In France for several months,
pulled back her window curtain and
revealed her flower pots, decorated in
red, white and blue pnper, Mrs. Flan
nlgan was visibly troubled. She wor
ried and worried. It Is quite hard to
be loyal to two countries at the same
time, yet Mrs. Flennlgan desired to
be so.
Then one morning her wide Irish
smile came back to her face. And
passers-by saw In the Flannlgan front
window a row of flower pots brave In
red, white and blue coverings and
every covering was tied to the pot
with a wide band of green ribbon.
Unique Specimens.
“The only thing,” solemnly said Pro
fessor Pate, “that walks back from
the tomb'with the mourners and re
fuses to be burled 1s character."
“Just so!” replied Festus Pester.
“And the only thing that comes back
from the cemetery giggling and on the
dead run is the rickety old widower
who figures on —ee-hee 1 hee 1—mar
rying again.”—Kansas City Star.
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MORALE AIDED BY MUSIfc
Fact Brought Out by the War Bounifr
to Have Great Effect on Future
Generations. 1
“Music makes mornle,” and' m
promptly music was enlisted In th»
war. Song leaders were appointed at
all the training camps and Immedi
ately the glory of real music waal
spread before the millions of mm
as a reinforcement and aid to th«
idealism which bad brought them intof
the war.
From then on the soldiers had mu
sic Individually, In masses, In groups*;
They made It themselves. It was made
for them by our finest artists. They
had phonographs. They hod record*
by the millions. The process of musi
cal education was swift, and the pn
plls were apt. Now they have returned
to us men who know good mnslt
as a large part of their life and enr
tertalnment, have become reasonably
apt performers themselves In a great
many cases. What must this mean t<*
the country? It must mean that the
people ns a whole are readier than
ever before to listen to It as well a*
to be taught It.
To Be Washed Out.
Hogg—Wrote a ballad on my cuff
the othor day. What would you ad
vise me to do with ltf
Blogg—Send It to the laundry.—*
London Tit-Bits.
Coffee Often
Disturbs Digestion
»
and frequently causes ner- j
vousness and sleeplessness.
If coffee annoys you in any
way, try : ,
Postum Cereal ;
This favorite drink enjoys
growing popularity because of
its pleasing flavor and its su
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fulness. i
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;j ^, I
I No raise in price < 1
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