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Little Bobbie's
Pa
"The Masqueraders!" 0
How You Can Walk. Around
the Truth and Kilt a Romance
By Nell Brinkley
Copyright, 1SH, Intern I News Service.
America's
Opportunity
in Science
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By WILLIAM F. KIRK.
I have Jest rote a long letter to rrest
dont Wilson, sed Pa.
You have? sed Ma
Yes, sed J'a. & as soon at I git a
answer I may have to maik hurried
prepurashuna for a long journey. Bee
foar I so, however, If I do go, ned Pa. I
will malk arrangements Rll you 4 Uttel
Hobble will have nothing to worry about
if I shud fall with my fare to th trech
erus foe.
Deer, Deer, sed Ma, & what is all thia
big splurge about?
I am going to Mexico, I think, as soon
as I git a anser from Wilson, sed Ta. I
am going down here & have a end to all
this revoluehun that is matklng so much
trubble & tiludshcd, & I have thought out
a careful plan of ackshun wlch 1 have
submitted to Mister Wilson.
Isent that grand, sed Mu. What a com
fort you must be to our beloved president.
It Is too bad that George Washington
didn't have a man like you hanging
around him In the dark days of the revo
lushun In this country, Ma sed.
"I have often felt sorry that I cuddent
have lived then, ted Fa, but of course if
I had lived then you wud newer have
had the chanst to meet me & have my
proteckshun. & littel Bobble wuddent
have been hero to cheer us up, sed pa. But
In any event. Fa sed, this Mexican trip
Is one of the utmost lm-portance not
only to the United States but to Kngland
a well. These are my plans:
First of all, Pa sed, I am going to des
troy the power of this Villa. He is
what I call the rock of the revolushun.
the storm center of the whole trubbel. I
am going to git him & 1 am going to
git him good, aed Pa. After I have put
him out of the way I am going to talk
his men A go after Zapata & destroy
him. Then I will malk a slstematlck war
sgenst every brigand In the whole coun
try, & as soon aa L, have them clee.ned
out I will go to the proper guvemment
of Mexico & turn oaver all my troops to
them & be back hoam as soon as pos
sibel. It may not be beefoar sum time
In the early fall, sed Fa, but as I sed
beefoar I will leave everything here prop
erly fixed so you & Bobble will git along
fine.
' Well, deerest, sed Ma, if I thought you
was ewer recly going to get a reply from
Wilson telling you to go down thare I
wud flare up now & tell you that you
havent got a chanst in the wurld to malk
the trip & leeve us here, but as things
are I' am not going to bother my tied
bout It.
You are going to be surprised, sed Pa.
I guess not, Ma said - If you want to
know what I think, I think that eokane
the dentist put in your tooth ft gum la
doing a little planning & talking for you,
deerest. That is my oplnyun, Ma Bed.
Thay eay uch drugs give men ft wtm
nrien very exalted idecs of thare grate
ness. I wonder if that Is why I have been
feeling so bralv & strong all the after
noon, ed Pa. Why, I feel aa If I cud
rleen up that Mexican outfit slngel
handed, without eeven a gun or a jack.
That Is just what I think the reason
for yure bravery la, Bed Ma. A I wish
while you axe still feeling bralv that you
wud look oaver these bills with me. If
you wait till the drug die out I am
afrade- you will faint wen you see the
butcher bill, sed Ma. Cum on, noabel
hero, A cast yure eye oaver these Blips.
Wen Pa had looked at all the bills he
dident look bralv at all, he lookd like a
man wlch ia driving a hearse.
A Case, of Necessity.
A man called on an acquaintance and
found the little daughter of tho house
playing with a gingerbread cat.
"That Is a very nice cat you have
there." smiled the caller. "Am you go
ing to eat it?"
"No," answered the youngster, affec
tionately stroking the cat with her little
hand.. "It is too pretty to eat."
Three or four days later the man hap
pened to call at the nouse again.
"I don't see your cat. Gladys," re
marked the visitor, hs the child came
into the room empty-handed. "What has
become of It?"
"It's gone," announced Gladys, with a
regretful sigh. "It got so dirty that I
just had to eat It"
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Love hates masquerade! Unless It's all In play. The black-mask, when It
means not telling the truth, Is as a red flag to a stampeding beast, to the glowing
eye of Love. So don't tell Summer-fibs. For your meddling with your fate may
bring you the long-way 'round on Dan's road and the mate you might have had
you'll never meet again.
He thought she wag the country-grown little farmer girl that the looked
gingham-bonnet rusty shoes and pink print gown and drowsing mind. That
she belonged in the mossy brown little bouse on the farm next door and never had
her little flat sole on any but a dusty country road since she had "been born!"
And she thought he belonged in the potato patch just over the stake-and-rider
fence where he worked most every day Just over the fence where she scattered
corn and apple-peels to the chickens and called them very loud and sweet so be
might hear. "Perhaps he's the hired man or the son of the bent old man who is
called Joe Logsdon No. 3."
"She is the daughter of the worn, but happy-eyed old person who sometimes
feeds the chickens in her place!" And then he leaned on his hoe and reflected
that if "she's by chance the 'hired girl,' she's a mighty pretty one, and it's a pity!"
And so they masqueraded through two weeks or so of golden Summer days with
the quail calling to their city-ears "slt-right-down!" sit-right-down!" with the
beads and the butterflies tig-sag-
across the fence that lay between
white cotton clouds drifting over their si'ily
ging like flakes of gold and blue and white
hem.
How could the neighboring old folks with whom each of these city children
were spending a vacation know that they saw one another at the bottom-filled
fence a mile away from the farm-yard, and put them right? And Love would not
help, for he was furious.
And so they fibbed he a New Yorker and she one, too and parted with
misty eyes over the gray rail fence.
One day weeks later- as he waited on the platform of the subway at the
Forty-second Street Station through tho blurring window of a halted local be saw
her face in the yellow light Inside under a smart little bonnet with a white glove
to her cheek! Their eyes clung he felt a cold thrill down his bark with delight
and amaze hers widened and lightened as she knew him for what he was trim
and rigged out in his regulation uniform, that of a successful young city-son.
And then ho came to and dashed like a madman for the door of the local. But
It clashed shut in hiB face in the fateful way subway doors have and the train
sailed into the black mouth of the way-tvthe-next-stntlon. And he never saw her
again! So that's the end of the story but It wouldn't have been If they had both
told the truth. NELL BRINKLEY. .
Making of a Husband
By DOROTHY DIX.
(Copyright, 1914, by Star Company.)
I am not one of those who believe
greatly in woman's Influence. To my
mind the most overworked fiction on
earth Is the fairy story about man being
guided and ruled In
every act In life by
the power of some
woman. In whose
hands he Is aa clay
In the hands of the
potter. '
It is a lovely
theory that pleases
the vanity of wo
men, and therefore
they have accepted
it with enthusiasm.
Millions of credulous
girls who believed It
have married drunk,
ards and rakes and
gambler in the fond
expectation that
they would be able
to work miracles
and turn their husbands Into models of
all the virtues, but only too late they
found out they bad put their faith In a
fuke cure, and that as a reformatory
agent a wife's Influence wasn't worth
a hill of beans.
n reality the most that a woman can
do for a man Is to be a kind of an ac
celerator. Bhe can either hustle him
down the wrong road. If he Is on the
down grade, or else she can boost him
up the ladder if he Is already climbing
it. but she cannot scotch him, either way.
She cannot supply the Industry and
grit 'and backbone that he lacks if he Is
a loafer, and she wastes herself In try
ing to make good for his deficiencies. By
the same token, If a man has In him the
qualities that make for success, he will
go on to success la spile of his wife.
The woman, hqwevcr, who Is married
to a man of even ordinary ability can
raise that ability to Its highest power
She can be an Inspiration to success and
help htr husband on to It If she wishes to.
Fhe can help him to do big things by
keeping alive his faith in htmnelf. There
are women who are always like a flutter
ing flag of glory, before a man, thrilling
him with ambition and with that belief
In his power to achieve that is the very
foundation of effort. There oomes a
time to every man when the battle seems
going against him and when further
effort appears useless and hopeless and
ho is tempted to give up.
At that moment his fate rests In his
wife's hands. It she tells him that luck
Is against him and that he lacks the
ability that other men have to get along,
his doom Is Mealed. But if her faith In
him never falters, if she makes him feel
that h will triumph over every obstacle,
she breathe Into him the hope and
courage that move mountains.
A wife can help a man by taking an
lnterent In his business. Women's foolish
'jealousy of their husbands' occupations
is at the bottom of nine-tenths of the
bankruptcies. A wife who affects to de
spise the business that supports her, who
looks bored whsn her hUHDaml talks shop.
Is a millstone about a man's neck.
It ia the man who takes his business
home with him, and whose wife enthusi
astically thrashes out every detail of it
with him who succeeds.
For, no matter how little a woman
knows practically about a business, she
has flashes of intuition thst ar genius.
Also. In discussing any subject with a
sympathetic listener. It clarifies the
matter In your own mind and opens up
vistas that you had never thought of be
fore. A wife can help a husband by making
friends for him, or she csn hinder him
by making enemies. She can keep him
selfishly tied to her aprcn string, or she
csn send him out among the men who
can help him along. Too mub domes
ticity Is Just as bad for a man as too
little.
Above all, a woman can help her hus
band by keeping him phyilcally fit. The
woman who dura not keep her home
comfortable and a haven of peace, in
which Jaded nerves can be soothed and
rested and repaired. Is putting a spoke
In her own wheel of fortune. It Is strange
how little women realize that home Is
the power-house in wlilch the dynamic
energy of a man must be manufactured.
A man's physical well-being lie In his
wife's hands. PMe can build him up with
proper food or she ran slay him with
bad cooking. Bhs can exhaust his strength
on foolish household tasks, or she can
save his strength for hie business.
Many a man who might liVve been a
merchant prince has had .Ills nerves
wrecked and his brain paralysed by a
bad breakfast. Many a poem and novel
that would have madn a man famous
have been withered, root and branch, In
the brain of a genius by the harassment
of a shrewdlsh wife.
It la an interesting game and a profit
ble one. this helping to make a man. I
recommend It as a paiUlme to the dls
contented married ladles who are wishing
that they had something wortii while
to do.
Do You Know That
Every German regiment has a chiropo
dist In Its ranks.
The harbor of Rio de Janeiro has fifty
miles of anchorage and Is said to be the
finest in the world:
An express train was beaten by twelve
minutes by an eagle whlfh raced it over
a distance of eighteen miles.
With most of the leading wrestiers of
Japan wrestling is an tocupallon which
bas been handed down from father to
son for many generations.
The amount of material carried from
the land Into the ocean, in suspension and
In solution, has been estimated at 1.7
oublo miles a year.
The roar of a lion ran be heard fur
ther off than the sound of any living
creature. Next come the cries of the
hyena, the screech ol, the panther and
the Jaikal In succession
Sir William Johnson
Copyright. 19U, iiy Blsr Company.
Hy HKV. THOMAS B. GRKOOHY.
Among "the Men Who Made America"
we miiKt not forget to reckon Wr Wil
liam Johnson, the sllc.k-tongued, strong
willed Irishman who tamed the dreaded
Iroquois, wheedled t
them Into friend
ship with the Kng
lltth colonists, and
so saved this great
continent to the rule
of the rare whose
descendants were to
become the people
of tho ITnlted States.
W i 1 Ham Johnson
whs born In the
county of Meiith,
Ireland, In the year
1716.
As young men
have been doing ever since young men
have existed, Johnson fell In love, and it
happened to him as It has hapiened to
many another wooer, that the "course
of true lov" did not run Smooth."
The blui k-haired. blue-eyed beauty
whose, charms had enmeshed him did not
return his affection In fact, rejected
him In the rudest sort of a way, and
Johnson found himself at the very bot
tom of the pit of despondency.
I.Ike Jonah of old, he declared, "It Is
better for me to die than to live," and
he actually made all the arrangements
for lifting againht himself the hand of
silf-slaugliter.
lint the disconsolate young man wn
Intended for a nobler end than that of
filling a suicide's grave. His uncle, H'.r
l'eter Warren, owned large tracts of
land In the Mohawk valley. New York
state, and thinking to cure his ntiphew
of his love-sickness, and at the same
time to make him of some use In the
world, he sent him to look after his big
estates in the new world.
The vessel bearing Jnhnson and his
fortunes sutured New York harbor .on
the twenty-first day of February, 171S,
and at the age of 'a years the young man
who was later on to become the king of
diplomats, astutest of statesmen, and one
of the greatest of the masters of men,
landed at the Battery, looked about htm
self for a brief spell, and headed himself
for thu lund of the Iroquois.
The cold-blooded realism of the Ameri
can wlldrtrnesa knocked a good share of!
the sentiment out of Johnson's soul, and
If he ever lost any more sleep over the
"girl he left behind him," there Is no
record of It.
Johnson had other end sterner things
to think of, and nutting himself loose
from the visions of "love's young dream"
he applied himsuir vigorously to the mat-ler-of-faot
tasks that confronted lUin
there In the forest.
He had scarcely planted himself In the
Mohawk region when It became clear tJ
all that his Influence was going to be
tremondous, and that it was going to be
In the right direction.
Among the red men he became at onoe
a king. By the magica! pewnr of his per
sonality he made them both love and fear
him. Their trust In him was perfect. His
(treat common sense. Iron will and un
flinching Juxtlce made him the "Great
Father" to thousands of savages over
whom, up to that time, no other man,
white or red, had been able to exert the
least control.
The strateglo Importance of the state
of New York In the great war game was
immense, and It was Johnson's diplomacy
In preserving that Importance for the
Knsllsh that finally turned the scale.
The greatest of our American hlstor
Isns have accepted the conclusion that,
had the terrible Iroquois confederacy been
against the Kngllsh It would-have prob
ably meant French victory.
And right hsre comes In the significance
of Johnson's work, for If the French hsd
succeeded in the mighty duel there would
have been no Kngllsh rule, and, therefore,
no Vnitcd States of America as we know
It today.
Johnson died In 1774, In his fifty-ninth
year, rich and full of honor, having dona
his full shsre toward the making of our
nation. Our debt to hlrn Is simply Inool
rulable, and we ran never be grateful
enough to the lassie who gave him the
mitten and thus opened the way for his
oomlng to America.
lly (JAKIIKTT 1. HKUVWS.
The science as well ns the commere-i
- a,.. 1 1
and ImluMry or America can nanny nn
to benefit enormously through the mania,
cif self-lestnictlon that has seled upon
the clvlllsntmn of
Europe.
For many years
the work of the
tier mnn labora
tories his been the
envy nf American
and other chemists.
The (tcrman In
vcstlRstors have
hitherto In nnm-
I ers, at least led
(he world. In In
dustrial and bio
logical chemistry
they obtained an
apparently hope
less lead. In tnelr
tpeclflcs ami Inoculants they took first
place. Their chemical products went
everywhere, and everywhere they were
tegarded as almost unrivaled in quality
and rellahll'ty. The consequonce of the
shutting off of the German supply Is
already seen In the Increased coat of
drus.
A vivid Idea of the position of advan
tege which the German chemists have
maintained Is given by a glance at anv
up-to-date ststlstlcal books. I turn to an
Fngllsh year book of that kind and find
that during the year 1!UJ slxty-ona Ger
man Investigators In chemistry and chem
ical physics ean.ed a mention of their
names, while the English investigators.
Including Americans, numbered thirty
three, the French fifteen and the Rus
sian two.
No doubt the character of the Teutonic
mind has something to do with the lead
which Germany has had In flhemlcal In
dustry, but there Is no good reason why
American chemists should not, now that
an extraordinary opportunity Is offered
them, susume the lead and keep It for
an Indefinite period In the future. We
have the knowledge, the skill and the rawr
materials to work with. Hitherto we
have lacked Incentive to to our best. and.
bowing to Kuropean prestige, have con
centrated our attention upon other
things.
Now, necessity and opportunity to
gether rail upon us,
Consider for a moment the subject of
radium. The greatest deposits of radio
active minerals known In the world exlBt
In our country, and yet we hava been
rending this precious material to Europe,
and mainly to Oermany, to have Its vir
tue extracted and made available for
medical use. Hnreafter, It la probable the
ITnlted States will be the gret csnter of
the radium Industry.
A hundred other Industries in which
chemistry plays the chief part, and which
have hitherto had their principal seat In
Germany, will now bo developed here. If
only the will to do is matched to the op
portunity. There Is, for Instance, an In
dustry of continually growing Importance
that has hardly found a foothold In this
country, although Its products are very
widely used here-tha manufacture of op
tical glass and of glass for laboratory
use.
Whenever our American astronomers,
who as observers lead the world, wanted
a new and greater telescope they hava
heretofore sent to Germany or to France
for the material of which to muke the
lensea and the mirrors. The optical glass
of Jena, In Germany, Is world-famous,
and that of Pt. Gobaln, in France, Is
equally renowned.
We have the greatest telescopes In
Istence and the best telescope makers,
but up to the present time we' have never
learned to manufacture the glass, without
which no telescope could exist.
All our college laboratories are crowded
with apparatus made In Oermany; all our
drug stores have their shelves loaded
with drugs prepared In German; all our
technical libraries abound with books
printed In Germany and describing the
results of German scientific Investiga
tion. Rut since Germany now has her atten
tion absorbed by other things than tha
advance of knowledge and Industry, and
rlnce the other Kuropean nations that
have hitherto held the lead over us in
these matters are straining their energies
also on the fields of bloodshed. It be
comes a duty for . American man of
science to prevent the halt and tha reces
sion which science would surely ex
perience If her torch were not kept alight
and her march accelerated on this side
of the ocean,
loytul Anticipation
of Motherhood
There Is ant to be a latent apprebanaton
of distress to mar the complete Joy of
expectation. Eut this Is quite overcome
by the advice of so many women to mso
"Mother s Friend." This la an external
application designed to so lubricate tho
muscles and to thus so relieve the pres
sure reacting on the nerves, that thm
natural strain upon the cords and liga
ments la not accompanied by those seVer
pains said to cause nausea, morning sick
ness "and many local distresses. This
splendid embrocatiou la known Co a multi
tude of mothers.
Mai.y people believe that those remedies
which have stood the test of time, that
have been put to every trial under the
varying conditions of age, weight, general
health, ete., may be safely relied upon.
And Judging by the fact that "Mother's
Friend" has been In continual use slnos
our grandmother's earlier years and II
known throughout tha Vnlted States U
nay be easily Inferred that It la some
thing that women talk about and glfrdJQ
recommend to prospective mothers.
"Mother's Friend" is prepared only la
our own laboratory and ia sold by drug
gists everywhere. Ask for a bottle to-day
and write for a special book for expectant
mothers. Address Pradfleld RcgulatUC
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