Our New Serial
We want you to read THE AUCTION
BLOCK because it is, among other things, a
good love story. It is also a right-minded
story in that it contrasts good and evil, the
clean and the unclean, in a clear-cut fashion.
Lorelei, the heroine, is a girl of unusual phys
ical charm—the flower of a decadent family,
who has been brought to New York and put
upon the stage with the sole object of ena
bling her to capture for a husband a million-,
aire or a millionaire’s son. Her designing
mother, her weak father, her black-sheep
brother, all join in
forcing upon her the
adventuress^ ^ °' We recommend
The family look this story for
upon her as their one its UTlUSUCll
hope and finally sue- interest
ceed m marrying her .
to Bob Wharton, the lts healthy
irrepressible ne’er-do- Optimism,
well son of a man of i, j
enormous wealth. nunior ana
Once married, the Virility of Style.
woman wakes in Lor
elei’s heart, and she
undertakes to make a man of her husband.
After repeated battles with his light-hearted
perversity, she succeeds. How she wins her
freedom from her own grasping relations and
redeems her husband makes unusually inter
esting reading.
Get the issue with the
first installmentl
The well-known author of “The
Spoilers,” “The Heart of the Sun
set,” “The Ne’er-Do-Well,” and
many other popular stories wrote
i
Mark Twain “Dandy”
But Also a Student
In His Pilot Days
CHd pilots of that day remembered
Samuel Ciemens as a slender, fine
looking man, ■well-dressed, even dandi
fied, generally wearing blue serge,
with fancy shirts, white duck trousers
and patent leather shoes. A pilot could
do that, for his surroundings were
speckless, says Albert Bigelow Paine
in St. Nicholas.
The pilots regarded him as a great
reader—a student of history, travels
and the sciences. In the association
rooms they often saw him poring over
serious books. He began the study
of French one day in New Orleans
when he discovered a school of lan
guages where French, German and
Italian were taught, one in each of
three rooms. The price was $25 for
one language, or three for $50. The
student was provided with a set of
conversation cards of each, and was
supposed to walk from one apartment
to another, changing his nationality
at each threshold.
The young pilot, with his usual en
thusiasm. invested in all three lan
guages, hut after a few round trips de
cided that French would do. He did
not return to the school, but kept the
cards and added textbooks. He studied
faithfully when off watch and in port,
and his old river notebook, still pre
served, contains a number of advanced
exercises neatly written out.
PoultryNotus
''at 1
Do not be continually disturbing the
sitting hen or turkey, or duck or goose,
but leave them pretty much to them
selves and they will make a better job
of hatching.
Turkey roosts should be located to
ward the roof, allowing only ample
space for the birds to stand erect.
Don't be afraid of overfeeding the
ducks. They should be fed four or
five times a day.
Good water is a necessity at all
times in the poultry yard, and don’t
forget the loose, dry earth for the dust
bath.
uucKiings and goslings should never
be allowed to swim, even in warm
weather, because it will set back their
growth.
Be sure that the hovers in the brood
ers are cleaned every day and disin
fected once or twfce a week.
After the chicks are a few days old a
run out on clean green grass in the
open air every fair day is necessary
for their health and growth.
Chicks with hens or in brooders
should have ample indoor run so that
they can secure plenty of exercise dur
ing bad weather.
Ten turkey eggs may be set under
a good five-pourvi hen.
All portable chicken houses should
be elevated to keep out the rats.
Making a Room Look Cool.
Everybody has noticed that some
houses look cooler in summer than
others. Upon examination it will
generally be found in the house which
always looks cool and livable that for
one thing there is no heavy stuffed
furniture that has to be covered up
each summer. No room looks coxy
and comfortable with all the furniture
shrouded in those tan-and-white-sriped
CAMPING TRIP BEATS HUSBAND
HUNTING ON PIAZZA OF HOTEL
By LAURA JEAN LIBBEY.
(Copyr
Somethin? there i3 more needful than
expense.
And something previous even to taste
’Tis sense.
Good sense, which only is the gift of
heavdn.
And. though no science, fairly worth the
seven.
If nine girls out of ten could have
their way about it, no one should ac
cuse them of go
ing husband hunt
ing under the pre
tense of leaving
home for a sum
mer outing. They
would go in for a
season of camp
life with all its
free, life-giving
joys, letting the
girls who dawdle
around hotel piaz
zas catch the
weak fish who are
as eagerly intent
upon heiress
catching.
It’s only within
very few years
that girls have
gone in for camp life during tneir va
cations. There are a dozen good rea
sons to champion it. In the first place,
there's no fine, expensive new ward
robe to buy. The winter's half-worn-out
blue serge skirt, with a few dark shirt
waists, and the winter's thick-soled
walking boots, a sweater and wool
tam o’shanter cap, with a few needful
accessories, constitute the wardrobe
outfit. A crowd of happy, exuberant
covers that many people think they
must put on in June.
Nor can a room look cool and home
like with long bare windows. Instead
of heavy lace curtains that must be
washed painstakingly each spring,
stretched on a frame and put away till
fall, there may be used plain hemmed
or hemstitched curtains made of
cheesecloth. They are as easy to wash
and iron as a tea towel and they cost
so little they can be easily replaced
when they wear out.
Window Washing Science
In This Big Steel Mill
There are 3.000,000 window panes in
the Bethlehem Steel company's mills,
and formerly these windows were
w'ashed at irregular intervals by men
who worked on day wages and did
whatever amount of labor they chose.
Today the company has charts of all
those windows and, by experiment, has
determined the time and the number
of men needed to wash the glass in
each building. The work is standard
ized. The price set for washing the
windows in one of the immense ma
chine shops is $443. The work is now
done on schedule, the windows are
kept clean (for steel mills), and the
increased light inside has a perceptible
effect on production. The cost is about
one-fifth what it formerly was. per
trait of window space.
Extremes Meeting.
Tuat was a re
markable idea of
contrasts the ani
mal painter had
in his latest zoo
picture."
"What was it?"
“He painted a
laughing hyena
standing under a
weeping willow."
Smokeless Conflagration.
Omar—Hello, Heiny! Are you still
working at old Skinner’s store?
Heiny—Not me. Old Skinner had
a big fire last week.
Omar—Much of a loss?
Heiny—I should say so. He fired
me.
His Finish.
Trotter—When I left here five
years ago old Graspit was worth
nearly half a million. How much has
he now?
Homer—Not a dollar.
Trotter—WTiat! Did he fail?
Homer—Not exactly. He died.
Strange Behavior.
Doctor—I regret to inform you, Mrs.
Tightwad, that I fear your husband is
suffering from softening of the brain.
Mrs. Tightwad — Goodness gra
cious! What makes you think that?
Doctor—Well, he insisted on paying
me in advance.
Sparing His Pride.
"Pa, why do
you always send
me out of the
room when you
and mother are
about to have an
argument?”
”1 hate to tell
you, son.”
“But I’d like to
know, pa.”
“Well, 1 guess
it’s because no
man likes to ac
cept defeat in the
presence of his
son.”
The Real Thing.
Little Lemuel—Say, paw, what Is
faith?
Paw—Faith, son, is something that
will induce a bald-headed man to buy
a bottle of hair restorer from a drug
gist who hasn’t a hair on his head.
Kie Start.
"I hear. Miss Gladys, that your
brother is ambitious to break rec
ords.”
"Well, he’s begun practicing with
the most expensive ones we bought
for our Victrola.”
HUSH FOLK IN SHADOWLAND
Coming of the Wonderful Winged
Brownies of the Woods Is
Worth Seeing.
The beavers had settled on the lit
tle brook that runs easterly from
Mount Marcy, and built a series of
dams that held a succession of ponds
like a wet stairway down the valley,
making a break in the forest that gave
the sky a chance to see its own sweet
face in the pools below, Ernest Thomp
son Seton writes in Scribner’s.
The Rose Moon was queen of the
blue and was glowing on the pine
robed mountain. The baby beaver
were learning to slap with their tails,
and already the chirring in high places
told of young birds grown and lusty.
The peace of the forest waB abroad,
for it was calm and cool in the wan
ing light.
And now the winged Brownies of
the woods, the hush people of shadow
land, came trooping down the open
aisle above the beaver ponds, skim
ming and circling on lightning wing,
catching the butterflies of the night or
pursuing each other with shouts that
to them seemed ioud and boisterous,
though to us they would be merely
squeaks and twitters, too thin and fine
for any but the sharpest ears.
Somehow in order vif jize they came;
the smallest first, cne larger as the
shadows deepened. Then almost at
the twilight’s end appeared the last
and royalest of them all. Clad in its
frosted sablefurs, it swooped into view
on ample wings, biggest, strongest,
rarest of the folk of shadowland, the
kind of its hind, the chief of the
winged brownies, and yet for which
we blind ones have no better name
than Great North Hoary bat.
Darting up and down the waterway,
chasing the fat moths and big game of
the night, nocturna, samia, lachnos
terna, or stripping their bodies of legs
and wings to devour the soft parts in
air, the great bat flew, first of the royal
house to come. Sometimes skimming
low over jthe water*, sometimes slioot
ng skyward above the trees, some
times spinning up and down, faster
than any of its lesser kin.
One today is worth two tomorrows.
ight. 1916.)
young girls, under the cate of a genial
woman of middle age, can enjoy a sea
son of camp life just as heartily and
thoroughly as young men can.
The exhilaration of outdoor life puts
a wonderful amount of vim in girls
even languidly disposed. There's a
newness in responding to the tin horn
which means up and out at five o'clock
in the morning. The camp is always
pitched near a brook and the way the
girls make a dash for it for their morn
ing dip makes an experienced sprinter
open his eyes with amazement. Oh,
the joy of dashing and splashing the
face in that cool, sparkling brook wa
ter.
The girl who could only take choco
late, toast and an egg the first morn
ing after her arrival could eat a whole
chicken and all the good things that
go with it after she has led the exhil
arating life a week. In camps where
money is not considered, a cook is
taken along, but where young girls
must count their pennies each girl
takes her turn at getting the meals,
showing how expert she is in the
culinary art, and she is pleased to do
if.
There are marching trips to some
good farmhouse every day or so.
which means all the milk they can
drink—gratis usually—and as many
fine vegetables for a dollar or so as
they can carry back with them. They
are such fine, healthy, happy girls
when they break camp and come
home! No wonder they get, without
trying, the good, sensible husbands the
hotel girls angled fortin vain.
| STAR OF MOVIE SERIAL
Ruth Roland.
Star in “The Red Circle.” a Paths
serial which has been one of the big
gest attractions of the movie world.
Here and There.
It Is estimated that one seed of cot
ton. given the application of all pos
sible care and skill, would produce
40,080,000 seeds in six years.
To enable a physician to carry medi
cines without using a customary case
a cane has been invented in which
there is a tubular metal slide to hold
vials.
Air sirens for short distance signal
ing have been invented by a French
man and. mounted on the masts ol
ships, have been heard as far awaj
as two miles.
Glass that will not splinter when
broken is being made in France bj
pressing together under heat two
sheets of glass with a sheet of cel
luloid between them.
Refurbishing the Couch.
Don’t be discouraged if your couch
cover seems hopelessly soiled. It isn't
ruined by any means. One girl, who
expected to become a bride shortly
after she received her degree at col
lege, was saving her couch because the
cedar lining was so handy for linens
and frocks. But the bespotted exte
rior of faded green denim caused her
much annoyance. A friend suggested
recovering the whole thing in tones to
match the girl’s boudoir. Now it is a
charming affair in delft blue-and-white
striped chintz, with a full, ruffled va
lance at the front, and oval pillows,
made from left-over pieces of ths
same.
A Smart Raincoat.
The truly smart raincoat for resort
service—South or North—is in white
silk and white cashmere, so treated
that a slight splash of mud may be
sponged off with a soap-dampened
rag. If you object to spending the
money asked for one of these coats,
you may get a rain garment entirely
in white rubber But you will not
find it as comfortable as the garment
in silk and rubber, nor as easy to
carry about, for the latter will roll
into an absurdly small ease.
Fichus of Tulle.
The tulle flchu. transparent, cling
ing, and disclosing, through veiling,
the outlines of the bodice shoulder, is
rather less trylug than flchu et more
substantial and opaque stuff, ana some
pretty and practical one-tone frock* of
taffeta and grosgraln have such ttdbs
fichus In the color of the frock with
bordering narrow frills or ruches of
the same tulle. Where the color needs
relieving next the face, as is often the
case, a mere wisp of flesh-colored or
cream tulle Is laid Inside the colored
flchu.
A REMARKABLE
STATEMENT
Mrs.Sheldon Spent $1900 for
Treatment Without Bene
fit. Finally Made Well by
Lydia E. Pinkham’sVeg
etable Compound.
Englewood, 111.— “While going
through the Change of Life I suffered
wun neauaenes,ner
vousness, flashes of
heat, and I suffered
so much I did not
know .what I was
doing at times. I
spent $1900 on doc
tors and not one did
me any good. One
day a laay called at
my house and said
she had been as sick
as I was atone time,
and Lydia E. Pink
ham’s VcGretfthle
Compound made her well.soltook it and
now I am just as well as I ever was. I
cannot understand why women don't
see how much pain and suffering they
would escape by taking vour medicine.
I cannot praise it enough for it saved
my life and kept me from the Insane
Hospital.’’—Mrs. E. Sheldon, 5657 S.
Halsted St., Englewood, 111.
Physicians undoubtedly did their best,
rattled with this case steadily and couM
co no more,but often the most scientific
treatment is surpassed by the medicinal
properties of the good old fashioned
roots and herbs contained in Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.
If any complication exists it
pays to write the Lydia E. Pink
ham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass
tor special free advice.
Make the Liver
Do’its Duty
_ Nine times in ten when the liver is
I right the stomach and bowels are right.
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pel a lazy liver toi
do its duty.
Cures Con*
■tipation, In*
digestion,
Sick
Headache,4
and Distress After Eating.
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PLEASED THE WOODPECKER
Bird Takes Kindly to Tin Barricade
Erected Against Its
Peckings.
Mrs. John Pozer of Main street,
Newton, N. J., feared that a fine shade
tree on her lawn would be killed by a
woodpecker that appeared there every
day and peeked away at a hole which
he was making larger and larger.
Therefore she had her husband tack
a sheet of tin over the hole when the
bird was absent.
Refusing to be discouraged and pre
tending he does not know the differ
ence, the woodpecker now goes to
the tree every day and pecks away
like a trip hammer on the tin sheet.
The neighbors are nearly crazy with
the noise, and there is a law against
killing woodpeckers.
Economizing.
Queen Mary of England has urged
the ladies of that country in writing
formal notes to use only half sheets of
paper, as a measure of economy. The
Japanese women think the kimono is
wasteful and urge a style of dress
that will require less silk. All on
account of the war.—Lewiston (Me.)
Journal.
The Lord hasn’t much use for the
man who contributes to foreign mis
sions the money he owes his washer
woman.
Many a man is so public spirited
that he tries to mind everybody's busi
ness except his own.
A Man’s
Worth
depends upon his power to
produce what the world
recognizes as of value.
And when you skirmish
around you’ll find that this
power—which is just power
of mind and body—depends
to a remarkable degree on
the food one eats.
For highest accomplish
ment one must have the best
values in food—food which
builds well-balanced bodies
and brains.
Grape-Nuts
FOOD
has that kind of value. It
contains all the nutriment of
whole wheat and barley, in
cluding the important mineral
elements so often lacking in
the usual dietary.
Grape-Nuts comes ready
to eat, is easy to digest,
nourishing, economical; won
derfully delicious—a help in
building men of worth.
“There’s a Reason”*
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