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The Game Laws
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IV Thrown Hnok Into the Water)
By NELL BRINKLEY
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Suff,
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Copyright, 1914, by Star Company.
By DOROTHV 1LX.
They who pay in war are the women.
Statisticians have figured out that the
'crrible conflict that In now devastating
Kuropc costs so many milliona of dollar.
a dav. but no tiiithpmnii( .,lf, , .. , . . I
- ...., van immunity
the number of
women ncirti
that It will break,
the women's tear.
that will flow !)
ranee of it. tlic
Women's lives that
it will leavo deso
lute. That Is a mim In
Morrow -that only
the all knowing
!od can compute.
Men's part in wal
ls to fight, wom
an's to wait. The
man noes forth to
battle shoulder to
shoulder with his
lomrades, stepping
fv'W?
i ."v..r$i
proudly to the blare of martial music-,
with the cheers of an admiring; world in
liis ears, and victory beckoning to him
over the hilltops.
The woman sits alone in a solitary
home, a thousand fears gnawing at her
soul, her very Ignorance of what Is hap
pening to the mm who Is nil of life to
her making his danger seem greater to
her. She flghtH, not some one greet bat
tle against a visible foe, but a daily and
l.ourly battle that never ends against 11
thostly foe, that rises aRain to confront
her a. soon as she slays it.
N'o man on n battlefield ever stiffen
one tltho of the agony that th- woman
suffers who loves 'him and who sits at j
home, waiting, waiting, waiting for the j
news that may quench the light of dayj
;orovr for her.
Those who oppo.e granting the ballot
to women have used as one of their chief
arguments against the enfranchisement of
women that It would discourage militar
ism. They are right.
Suppose the mothers of England, and
Germany, ajid France, and RuaHla, and
Austria had been called upon to vote upon
the question of war. Do you believe that
a majority of those mothers would have
oted to have sent their splendid young
sons out to be mowed down by machine
Runs as grain la mowed down by a
steam reaper?
Suppose the wives of all of those coun
tries had beet) called upon to vote upon
the question of war. Do yon believe that
the majority of the wives would have sent
their husbands forth to be cut, and
slashed, and maimed, and perhaps killed
in battle?
Do you suppose that the tender sister
would have voted to devote her brother
to death? Or that the maiden wuuld have
torn her lover's arms from around her,
and cast the ballot that would make his
slain body but one of the pile of bodies
en which some ambitious conqueror
(limbed to heights of military glory?
No. A thousand times no. Women
know what war means. .Women know
that the echo of every shot fired In bat
tle ends in a woman's ob. Women know
that it Is women who pay the real war
debt, and when they have a voice In gov
ernment their vote will be for peace.
Yesterday In England, and France, and
tJermany, and Russia, and Austria there
were millions of happy prosperous little
homes, with children playing about their
doorsteps, with a contented wife and hus
band living their simple, useful, normal
lives.
Today thrso milliona of homes are
homes of desolation and sorrow. The
husband has been snatched away to fight
in a war whose purpose he does not un
derstand. The MUle business that he fol
lowed and that made a living for a wife
and children will go to rack and ruin.
There Is want where there waa plenty.
They will be widowed who should have
been wedded. The children who should
have known a father's protection and
guidance will be left fatherless. That (s
w hat war mean to women. That Is why
the cry of Its desolation drowns out tho
paeans of its glory in a woman's ears.
After the Civil war In our own country
there was a generation of women In the
south who never left off the mourning
they put on when battle robbed them of
son, or husband, or father, or brother,
or perhaps of all these, for there were
many families In the south In which not a
single male member survived the conflict j
Through the years that followed these
ix-i-eaved women went about clothed in
black, sombre and ghostly figures, a
living monument to the horrors of war.
That Is what war means to women, a
fcrief that Is never ended, a mourning that
ie only silenced in their own graves. Not
many women would choose this martyr
dom, of themselves, ard so when women
have the voto they will not give their sons
to be murdered nor sacrifice the men
v, ho are tho very core of their hearts to
gratify the greedy ambition of some
n thtesH war lord who would wade
through slaughter to power or wmfiit
with blood a tottering throne.
"The Water of
Eternal Youth"
The beauties of the Austrian court used , , .. . ... '
lotion which was so effectual in keeping la'ln foundations of future science,
the (acs smooth and free from wrinkles. They are doing work whose final effect
even In the aged, they- named it tae will be to lift all mankind to a higher
water of eternal youth. Laval
Home one recently has divulged the be
cret of this wonderful, though extending- ao mean paradox to say that the
ly simple, wrinkle lution. which In her determination of a comet's orbit Is a
" -uiiiiBrijr uuuunu a pre-
eiver of youth: One. ounce pure saxolite
i Powdered I, dissolved in a half pint wluh
i.azel that's all there Is to it. Any woman I
ftw.t .u- .i 'Z
sa i llirni: ll aic'iir ta L iirr ui I I' I
rmon with entire safety. To Lathe the "'1 '' m int worm to .jo. there the equation of time diminishes to noth
' in the sumo brings Immediate. ,e-jare probably not moie than a doen I ii.g lout time. veerJv or on Ai.nl J". I...,
dis. even In ae of the deepej wrlnls comet whose orl.its art known with even ! H i.uii... i , ,i , ,
'.d lurrowa. This Is uiso el fee-live for L nri).inlll,,. -rr ll, v "T. , ? ,,'m1" ' 1 D'-ember -'4. The
'"Ins cheeks and double rhin.-Adver- "! . arruia.. people who think mean t.in . L.ck ,) ,, ,,(,.. ,
'""" i,h"y h"v formed a notable i,.-,elle-J .,-. ,,.l will ,.,.ev at noon lhee Iuul
T ; ! v i ijc 1 1 I'runi, uii'i umi IWU (! '
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. All
The Mystery of Comets
By GARRETT I SERWSS.
I have JuBt received a bulletin fmm
tho Uck observatory containing the lat
est orbits calculated for two of the new
comets of, 19M.
Perhaps the
reader will say;
"That doesn't In
terest me. I'll pass
on."
Rut wait a mo
ment, please.
It is true that
these comets in
themselves have
no interest for
you, unless you are
an astronomer, be
cause they are
mere minnows in
the oceans of space,
and practically In
visible to the nuked
eye. They will never scare anybody by
brandishing flaming swords across the
stars. They are not that kind of comets.
Hut they are like the little models of
flying ships with whose aid students of
aciodynamlce (that characteristic science
of the twentieth century) disentangle the
laws and principles of aviation. The pub
lic never aces the models, but some
morning It rubs Its eyes at the spectacle
of a new and wondeful ulr cor sailing
serenely overhead with 1U load of pas
sengers, guided and controlled with all
the ease of an ocean liner, because its
pilot has learned the secret from the
models.
So the study that .the astronomers arc
giving to the little comets, tracing all the
vagaries of their movements in order to
discover precisely the paths In which they
are traveling, will one day enable them
to predict the flight of aome grand, ter
rifying monster of space with such ac.
curacy that. If it be aimed but a hair's
breadth aside, they ran reassure us
against the fear of a world-tnding col
lision. The general public has not the slightest
notion of the amount of intellectual labor,
of time, or patience, of caie, of skill, of
special knowledge, of trained Imagination,
of concentration of purpose and of mind,
thut Ii4 involve,! in ihn .liutrvuil.,n .i
,,i,,,iii f ,1,. t.rtl ,..,. t. ....
I " "I "no
I insignificant whiff of a comet that never
! crtnifa nnree Ihan I4ii (MM: OfA mil a.. r..n.
the earth, and Is never seen by one in
! 1C.0uo,i of the earth's Inhabitants,
j The president of the I'nlted States does
I nut havea harder day's work than that
I of one of tliesi devoted astronomers, and
I hlj la fir L,a Ut.Mu,., -I .
greater achievement th
, cm"n"l "
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n the winning of
greater influence on
that it has a
Iho mtiira i. 1 . i v. ... n i m
,r it m one or ine
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r
Which means, young lady Persons, that Love plays the game that way that THAT Is one of his laws, and breaking
he fined some day with an aching heart of your own that can't be healed "nohew" If you are older and wiser, draw out
half-sleep, half-dream of an tinawakened boyhood the "young-flh" only to wound his soft boy-heart in a way that it never
when he Is oldr! '
young fish under eighteen should be
tual feat by winning a game of chex.
from a master of that kind of mental
gymnastics, hud belter try to solve one
of these mathemutkul problems In as
tronomy. Vet In our day many women attack
these problems and solve them, too. Two
or three of the greatest astronomers of
the' world, Just now, are women. In the
buletin to which I have referred, I ob- j
serve that a woman has done half the
work on one of the elusive orbits, and all
of It on the other.
If the reader Is disposed to take excep
tion to the statement that the calculation
of the orbits of comets baa an enormous
influence on the future of our race, let
him mentally chew a while uon the two
following facts, which nobody can deny:
First, as long as a man remains In ignor
ance of the relations of the earth on
whteh he dwells to "the bodies that sur
round It In space, ho Is merely a child,
Intellectually, and is proportionally no
farther advanced than" the baby that
takes the moon for a silver rattle and
readies out its hand to grasp It. Second,
until we can calculate the movements of
comets as certainly as we can those of
the moon and the planets, our knowledge
or the solar system, which Is our
home !
In the universe, can make no claim to
completeness, for, while we have got rid
of the ancient superstitions about tomeU,
we still do not know whence they come,
or whither many of them go.
Do they travel In ellipses, or are the
paths of some of them parabolas or hy
perbolas? I'ron the answer to that ques
tion depend Issues that affect the highest
Intelligence of man.
The Sun a
Hjr EDGAR LUCiKN LAKKIN.
"A neighbor contemplates the erec
tion of a sun d(l. Ills Idea is that ninoe
the eartn revolvea In exactly twenty-four
hours tho sun will always be in the aenith
ut exactly 11; o'clock, or noon. My ques
tion is: -Will 12 o'clock noon clock time
always be identical?' "
A The sun Is worst than a department
store t3-cnt clock as a timekeeper, and
for two accurately known reasons:
Kirt The orbit of the earth around the
sun is not a circle, but an ellipse, and
tho nun Is rot in the center of it, but to
one side, at a distance of Uh'.H9 mllea.
Therefore, the earth travels faster when
nearest to the sun and slower when most
distant. This renders sun clocks useless
lor any scientific purpose.
Second-The sun is always in the plane
of the orbit of the earth, but thla Diane
is .'jV. degrees from that of the equator
nire tvo causes combine Into one and
are not us ir ea'-h acted
ji die riMiH of both ftinK hA on, thus
thrown back into the water!
Friends are
By ADA 1'ATTK.RNON.
friends are like clothes. Don't weai
them threadbare.
Now and then we should give them a
rest.
Two weeks before
leaving for a little
breathing space
among the restful
and culm giving
hills I looked
critically at a fa
vorite hat of mine
At that moment it
waa not a favorite.
Wag that light
passing between
the strands of the
straw or had the
color faded to
white on the
edges The ospicy
tips that I had
thought ao smort
as they perched at the edge of tho brim,
drooped as do the fed I hers of a dejecta"
rooster's tall. The gay poppy wreath
that hugged the crown seemed to have
lot Its brightness. No longer a Joy, It
had become a weight upon my Hplrlls. I
was visited by an inspiration.
"The hat Is tired. (Jive It a rest,
confidentially to myself.
I said
I brukhed the hat with a soft little
brush, and coaxed the tips and the pop
plea a bit, and placed It In a tissue paper
nest in a box.
When I came back from my rest In the
hills I got out the hat. Inspected It and
Poor Clock
days.
Time must be added when sun Is slow
and subtracted when fast. The maximum
times to be added nre fourteen minutes
twelve seconds on Februury 11, and Mx
minutes twelve seconds on July 26. The
maximum times to be' subtracted are.
May 14, thrM, minutes fifty-five seconds.
and November 2, ten
seconds.
minutes eighteen
"Why is a sun dial.'"
A mean time -.ck, that is, a clock
regulated to show average time, Is based
on the ldei of the sun hlng on the
equator and moving at preciaely with the
teal average rate of the true aun In its
apparent orbit the real orbit of the
earth. Hut astronomers d0 not secure
absolute time from the transits of the
huge sun across their meridian, but with
far irore accuracy bv observing transits
of minute needle points, the images of
stars across api.ler threads in the focal
planes of their transit telescopes.
The sim never rachea the aei.lih In the
t'nited Stales. Hut through greut ccs-mi.-ai
caiiM), theke maxima as given
'abovv are themselves subjected to norijlar
chiinwei.. All ,f whim ought to make It
apparent tl.Ht sun dials are practically
lele.-s.
NELL BRINK LEV.
Like Clothes
wore It. It had regained Its beauty. It
was restored to favoritism. Because It
had had a rest.
In that Incident la a hint as to how to
treat our friends. Has this woman whose
personality seemed so ylvld so early In
our acquaintance, begun to seem common
place? lias the man we thought such a
good fellow turned out to he a bore? It
Isn't their fault. They are the same per
sons they were when we enthusiastically
we. fined them Into our circle of
acquaintance. The trouble la that we
are seeing too much of them. In justice
to them, for thele sakes and for our own,
we should 'give them a rest. We have
made the mistake . of wearing the
acquaintance threadbare.
When you think you' must see Mary
every day or be wretched you would bet-
j ter not see her for a week. Still better
: make it two weeks. It Is not well that
! any person should lean upon another, un
j less they, too, hae become the one spirit
land flesh of wedlock. That person whom
you think you must see every day Is not
u friend. Ut is a habit, and a hublt that
may eusiiy i.ecome a bad one. It Is un
fair to our friends to w'ear the friend
ship threadbare. Don't talk with' your
chum so often that you rah tell what ahe
will say on any subject before she opens
her mouth. It some element of the un-
'known rmair. in her mind to give fresh
ness to your conversation. Don't come to
know her moods so well that you can an
tlt lputo them.
Allow uncertainty to play Ita part. No
one Is u perf.ct Judge of the weather
that is to come. You become too familiar
with a person's mind If you predict his
mental weather
j fine of the wisest Women I know re.
'fused to meet one of the. most brilliant,
i We are sufficiently good friends to permit
'each other to ask "why.-' exercised this
privilege Hie said:
"I know that she has the habit of tak
ing people up violently and dropping them
violently. I don't want to be violently
dropped."
I remembered that if I w the brilliant
woman many times one summer she was
almost invariably with the same woman.
I had thought "What chums they are."
Tile next season it would be another. (
recalled a rather staggering procession of
i these shadows ar.d recalled now that I
I hsd heard of hot qusrr-ls terminating
j most of them.
I The wisest W0111..11 was right. The brll
I liant woman had exhausted her friend
ships. No content with friends, she must
have the human shadow, the ehum.
Chums are mistakes. When you find a
friend Is reaching that stage which is
chumship, better make a new friend. We
need not one filend. but many. We need
variety In friendship. The violent friend
ship is a fire of shavings. Purh violence
breeds fiikleness.
Don't wear your friendships thread
bare. Olve your friends a rent. You will
enjoy them more for frequent sbner.cea.
HreaLlnsj it f.eall.
Kupleigh-l shall never have the cour-itf-
to propose t,( a girl nevei !
Miss Tert- Well, you will be saved one
dtksi.polntment In lift-. anyway, Mr Bau-llsh.
it, you will
of the deep
will be rent
Household Suggestions
If a celling la badly blackened by a lamp
or gas Jit in Just one place, apply a layer
of starch and water with a piece of clean
fluannrl.
A good way of, stiffening the bristles
of hairbrush after washing Is to dip them
into a mixture, of equal quantities of milk
and water, and -then dry before the fire.
The starch will adhere, and when dry
It ran be brushed carefully off. and the
stain will have gone. Apply the paste to
a wider piece of the celling than that
actually blackened.
A few drops of caMor oil will be found
most beneficial to drooping ferns. Drop
the castor oil on the roots and soak the
ferns In a pall of water all night. In a
week a marked Improvement will be
noticed.
To remove a fishbone from the throat,
fwsllow a raw eggg, then follow, If pos
sible, by eating plenty of mashed pota
toes. The egg will carry thit bone into
the stomach, and the potatoes will pre
vent It from doing any Injury there.
Kggs often burst when boiling If not
quite fresh. To prevent this, before boil
ing make a puncture with a needle 'n
large end of egg. passing through shell
and the skin Inside. Through this punc
ture the egpandlnavgaa will make good Its
escape.
A door 1 banged baik. with the key
'.eft In the lock. The result la a disfigur
ing ho)e In the wall. Jo mend that, get
H cents worth of plaster of Paris, make it
Into a paste, fill the hole, smooth care
fully, and when Cry paper or tint It over.
For the latter the paints In a Child's box
would do.
emraeunnEbeir
whenever you are troubled with minor ailments of the
digestive organs, that these may soon develop - into
more serious sickness. Your future safety, as well
as your present comfort may depend on the
quickness with which you seek a corrective remedy.
By common consent of the legion who have tried them,
Beecham's Pills are the most reliable of all family medi
cines. This standard family remedy tones the stomachy
stimulates the sluggish liver, regulates inactive bowels.
Improved digestion, sounder sleep, better looks,
brighter spirits and greater vitality come after the
system has been cleared and the blood 'purified by
y
(The Largest Sal l Amy
SeM Eestrwksre. la
Madame Lelclh
m3cauiy Lesson
The Hair And Sculp Part IV.
My exierienee shows me that while, an
nllv scalp Is not sn detrimental to hair
, hen! til as one over-dry It Is a condition
'difficult to remedy. 'Once the oil aland
j have got Intti the habit of over-secreting,
j II seems very difficult to cure them. We
I can, however, do n great deal towards
I mitigating the 111 effects of excessive olll-
liens while we are trying to get at the
I mot of the trouble.
: An oily scnln should be shampooed n
orten as once a w eek. He sure the ahani-
!poo mixture Is thoroughly rinsed from
hear and sculp, and when the scalj ts
. cry nib with run de Cologne or a tonlo
j especially prepared for an oily gealp.
Dry th hair In the sun when possible.,
Let the hair hang every day, brushing
the hair by separating It Into strands,
nd airing the scalp. Massag the scalp
every night. Have no fear that thla will
Increase the over supply of oil or gelt
the oil glands to greater effort; on th
contrary massage will tend towards get
ting the scalp into a normal condition nd
correcting this fault. ' 1
Remember that cleanliness, sunlight
and ulr will do much towards remedying
this condition. Don't wear your hair In
close braids, but dress it so the air will
get to the scalp, lllond hair suff era the
most from an oily condition of the scalp,
for thla Is certain to darken It and take
away the pretty flut'fliiess that we as
oeUle with light hair. T correspondent"
who write me asking what can be done to
rrevent the hair from becoming darker I
offer ns the first bit of ndlce: "Keep th
scalp In good condition, and, above all, do
not allow the scalp to become oily." The
same Is true of gray hair; If the scalp la
oily It Is Impossible to make It look t
tra'tlve. (To Be Continued.)
3
Advice to Lovelorn
Bf MMLTKXCn sVaJUsTAJC
Tell Her of omr Lore.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am hopelessly in
love with my chum's sister. This may
not seem so very hopeless at first glance,
but to me it Is. I have been a friend of
the family for years and the girl has
come to regard me Very much as a
brother. She has always Introduced me.
In a Inking way, as her big brother, and.
In fact, has come to me with her girlish
troubles as much as to her Own brother.
She is cry popular among the fellows,
and I am constantly In fear that she will
somo rlay r. net tue right man. And yet,
beciuise .f ur peculiar relations, I dare
not speak. v 8. B. 1
Minos this girl already comes to you
with her little troubles and regards you
as a brother your relations are even now
sweet and tender. After all, no girt turns
Instinctively to a man for aid and com
fort and advice unless she Is fond of him.
If she knew of your love for her It would
probably be the most natural thing in tho
world for her to om to think of jroti as
you would of her. Don't keep silent
love that develops through friendship
and knowledge and sympathy and con
geniality is tho most beautiful affection
In the world. Don't deprive the girt for
whom you care of the high typ of lovo
that you have to ofier her.
A Sensible Father.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a young man
of twenty, and have been keeping com
pany with a young lady about five,
months and love her dearly, but my
father objects to me going around with
a steady girl, and says ha will give me
some- valuable property If I promise
him not to go around with a steady girl
for three years, although I am earning
lis a week and think I can support a
wife. A, n. U
You have a very sans and sensible
fsther, my dear boy, and can do nothing
wiser than listen to his advice. You are
really too yiung to think of marriage
The girl who appeals to you now mar
not be the wife for the man you are
going to be. You are doing very well In
the business world. Pet yourself a mark
and see If you cannot at least double
your earning capacity In three years.
And wait a few years before picking out
a life partner.
Me4ici fa. tke Werfcf)
Uses. 10 2 k.
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