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Will War End Double
Moral Standard;
Dy Hall Caino, tho famous novelist.
Tho altorod social conditions called
for by the war, no loss than tho sor
rows ontallod by it, havo had tho
effect of oponing up tho deep places
of 11 fo and baring some of tho hidden
sanctuaries of tho soul.
Particularly is this so among tho
womon of tho nation. The old order
has gone wh'oh made woman depen
dent upon man, in ono form or other
liis subject and servant, to be
"given" in marrlago by her father
or "taken" by hor husband.
Tho suddon and violont necessities
of war havo called woman up to her
rightful place as tho co-partner of
man, and novor, as long as tho world I
lasts, can she stop down from it. I
That, alroady, Is ono result of tho
war, and oven in the midst of so
much sorrow and suffering, our
youngor women socm to bo finding a
certa.n joy and thrill in it.
Will it bo ono of tho good results
of this bad war that, as soon as tho
days of poaco come, woman will rebel
against the unequal obligations of
marrlago, whether Imposed by church
or stato?
Will she declare that though tho
wlfo may bo an offender in tho oyes
of tho law if sho broaks .her vows
to her husband, in tho eyes-of God
tho husband is as much to blamo who
breaks his vows to his wife; that
where tho duty .is the same tho sin
is the same, and that it shall bo no
moro permitted to men to have many
wives than to womon to havo many
husbands?
Mi THE FORLORN MOTHERS OP THE
DEAD
Frequently thoro come to mo let
tors from mothers who have lost
their sons in tho war so utterly
lost them that thoro, is no one to
say whore they havo been 'buried.
Oh, tho wild questioning that comes
of that forlorn condition!
If God Is a bonoflcient Father, who
lovos His children, why does Ho per
mit war, with all its barbarities, to
go on, when by strotchlng out His
hand Ho could stop it?
Somotimes a woman, overcoming
tho rotlconco of hor sex, will stop me
In the streot with such questions, and
beforo sho 'has time to speak I know
by tho swollen oyes and quivering
lips what has happened to her.
It seems only a little while ago
that she was nursing hor boy on her
kneo, and only yesterday since he
came to hor, in all the beauty of his
strength, to bid good-by beforo going
to France.
Tho ghost of that last bright hour
of glory and brldo Is hovering about
hor still, although the loaves of her
memory aro now rustling in the
dark; for tho incredible, inconcelv-
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able, unbelievable thing has hap
pened, and tho days aro long and tho
nights aro long in which sho is ask
ing horself, "Can it bo true? No, no,
it can't bo true! It is impossible,
isn't it?"
And so, passing through tho be
wildering streets, with their flowing
streams of faces, she catches at the
first face she thinks sho knows, just
as tho Hhlpbroken sailor catches at
any broken spar, not knowing how
little help I can give hor, and how
hard I find It myself to keep from
sinking in the same tempestuous sea
and under the same unanswering
sky.
Perhaps it is not altogether the
fault of tho churches that they are
ofton unable In these days of war to
light up tho dark places of a moth
er's sorrow with a heavenly torch.
And ono wonders whether Chris
tianity itself, as they understand and
teach it, has much to say to tho suf
fering ones that will enable them to
live as well as to die.
For twenty years bofore tho war
began I used to travel every winter
and spring across tho long stretch of
country that is now the battlefield of
Europe, and, with a poignant sense
of tho change that has since come
over it, I recall tho soft beauty of
tho scenes I looked upon from the
trains, usually going out in the
gathering gloom of tho evening and
returning in the freshness of the
morning.
VOICELESS MASSES SUFFER
Thore, with the green fields and
orchards between, were tho quaint
old towns and villages, each with its
little church, surrounded by its
crowded churchyard and crowned
with its glittering cross.
It was not difllcult in imagination
to pass through the open doors of
the little sanctuaries to the slumber
ous silence within, where the big
crucifix, with its bleeding figure,
would be hanging from the chancel
arch, and the stations of the cross
would bo tolling their story of agony
from. the walls.
And remembering tho loner mar
tyrdom of man, how the nameless
multitudes of tho voiceless masses
had been made to suffer and die at
tne bidding of the crowned criminals
who wore thinking qf nothing but
their own power and dominion, it
was easy to understand why the tired
and broken generations had -come
creoping to theso places, to cast
themselves at His feet who was only
tneir saviour, but the very type and
symbol of suffering humanity itself,
saying: "Come unto Mo all ye' that
labor and are heavy laden, and I will
give you rest."
All these churches are now gone,
hardly ono stone of them standing
abovo another., in that wilderness of
desolation which some coorl nonnin
would ask us believe is the sign of
God's anger and rage.
And now I ask myself (I trust not
irreverently) whether, when tho time
of peace comes, they will over be re
built in quite tho same uses as be
foro, or whether out of tho ashes of
this awful confict, which has shaken
the foundations of the world, another
and still higher religion will rise
a reliction that will be the same and
vet different, a Christianity that will
havo less need to think of th nnti,
, semano than of the Mount of the
i Transfiguration and of the agonies of
the cross than of tho glories of the
rosurrection.
j That depends, I think, on the
I spHt in which we prosecute the war
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mo you ain't got no money whenever
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dainties, but I take notice you don't
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Physician Explains Who Should Tak
Nuxated Iron,,
Practical Advice On How-to Help Build Up
Great Strength, Energy and Endurance.
perfect kcaltli, Kroat phyicnl -
iii i &, kcch mentality nVl
Sullivan tdlH how to lucrewjc : tjj iSJ
in our blood and thcrohv i. Hi "H
physical and mental power, brlehlVr ul
toll auil 1..4U. i...wr. ' "Ulerl-l
.- J wm you can't makft
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""""Hi vigorouij
Iron men, and
healthy. rosv.ohP(.vJ
ed women by feed-!
mg mem on me-
tame iron. Thexilj
forms of metallic
Iron must gd
through a dlgestlvo
process to trans-
rorm them into or-
game iron Nuxated
Iron before the?
aro ready to U
taken up and ai-j
bimllated by thd
human svstom. ttnJ
winiotuiiuiiiB mi uiai nas ueen saw and
written on this subject by well-known
physicians, thousands of pcoplo still m
sist on closing tnemseives with metallla
iron, simply, I suppose, because It cost
a row cents less. I strongly advb
readers in all cases to get a nhysiclnn'i
prescription for organic Iron Nuxated
Iron or if you don't want to go id
this trouble then purchase Nuxated Iron
in its original packages and see that)
this particular name (Nuxated Iron)!
appears on the package. If you haw
taken preparations such as Nux and
Iron and other similar Iron products
and failed to get results, rememben
that such products are an entirely dlf-3
ferent thing from Nuxated Iron. i
Manufacturers' Note Nuxated Iron
which is used by Dr. Sullivan and
others with such surprising result
and which is prescribed and recom
mended above by nhysiclans. Is not a
secret remedy, but ono which Is well
known to rlriicrtrists everywhere. Un
like tho older inorganic iron products
it is easily assimilated and does noi
injure thQtcoth, make them black not
linnrtf flm ctnmnnVi. Tho manufacturer
guarantee successful and entirely satis
factory results to every purcnasur u.
1imr will rinfiinrl vniir niOnCV. It 1!
dispensed by all good druggists. Adv
VBHA.'.ri Jvv. VJ MM.
n&JMHlHHHiH
Commenting, on tho
use of Nuxated Iron as
a tonic, strength and
blood builder by over
three million pooplo
annually, Dr. James
Francis Sullivan, for
merly physician of
Bellevuo Hospital (Out
door Dopt.), Now York,
and The West
chester County
Hospital, said:
"Lack of iron In
tho blood not
only makes a
man a physical
and mental
weakling, ner
vous, irritable,
easily fatigued,
but it utterly
robs him of that
virile forco, that
stamina and
strength of will
which are so nec
essary to success
and power in ev
ery walk of life.
It may also transform a beautiful,
sweet-tempered woman into one who is
cross, nervous and irritable. I havo
strongly emphasized the great necessity
of physicians making blood examina
tions of their weak, anaemic, run-down
patients. Thousands of persons go on
year after year suffering from physical
weakness and a highly nervous condi
tion duo to lack of sufficient iron in
their red blood corpuscles without ever
realizing the real and true cause of
uieir irouuie. wunout iron in your
blood your food morely passes through
your bpdy something like-cuTTK through
an old mill with rollers so wiap apart
iiiul iuu iiiiii uuii l grinu.
Ivor want of iron you may JjpAan old
man at thirtv. dull of fnfiinf i
memory, nervous, irritable and all "run
down," while at BO or CO with plenty
of iron in your blood you may still be
young in feeling, full of life, your
whole, being brimming over with, vim
and energy."
The accompanying article of Dr. Sul
ilvnn .should be carefully read by every
man and woman who vrnnta to poh.hcsw
PUZZLING
"Pa," said the young hopeless, "I
can't understand you growed parents
a tall. You and mother always tell
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