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Huge Cost and Great
Energy Wasted in War
Thine Own Worst Enemy $ gy Neil Brinkiey
w Copyright, 1Tir, Intern'l Nmti (lervle.
Woman and Success
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By GARHETT P. REUVISS.
Th cot of tlx month c-f Europe
Inad war haa been figured at the am
pendous turn 0f $S,000,000,000, or twenty
four times the rout of the Tanama canal.
In a, tingle morth
trd war squanders
four tlmea the cost
ef th greatest en
gineering work ever
undertaken and
achieved by man.'
There is not a gov
ernment In the world
that could tx per
aniaded to. expend
one-tenth of that
aura on any great
undertaking for the
benefit of the public
and ot humanity,
and yet theee nun
dreda of millions are
poured out without stint to maintain
struggling armies In the field, to destroy
the fairest cities and the most admirable
creation ot art on the globe, and to
vend hundreds of thousands of the most
jparfoct specimen of young manhood
that the race poeseeses to an untimely
death.
Consider the waste of mere physical
energy that this contest Invoices-energy
which, properly applied, would transform
the face of the civilised world, reclaim all
the waste place on the planet. Increase
the productivity of the whole earth and
almost rival the gigantic engineering
feat that Imaginative astronomer have
scribed to the Inhabitants ot the planet
Van.
Take the amount of work wasted In
digging trenches and throwing up breast
works. The battle front on which the op
posing armies, comprising millions of
men, are In touch with one another, ag
gregate hundreds of miles, and on both
aides they are continually "digging them
selves In," burrowing deep Into the earth
to escape the shrapnel and the bombs
showered down upon them.
Suppose that there ore at any time only
300 mllea of such tntrenchments. To dig
them It Is probable that at least a cubic
of earth must be moved for every linear
yard of lntrencbment That would make
628,000 cubic yards In all, or say, for
the aake of round numbers, 600.000 cubic
yards. But Une after line of Intrench
ment 1 constructed, as the fortunes of
war sway to and fro. Then, in many of
these works, the amount of earth moved
must be much larger than I have esti
mated. Since their retirement began in
France, the Germans have dug them
selves in at least twice and they are con
tinually strengthened their defense. Tak
ing the whole amount of digging that
has been done by the soldiers of Ger
many, Prance, England, Austria and Rus
sia during the two months that the war
has already lasted, the quantity of ma- i
terlal moved cannot be lea than 2,500,00
cubic yards and may be as much as
12,000,000.
Now the total amount of material re
moved during the long years that the
Tanama was under construction was
about 250,000.000 cubic yards, or only
twenty times the maximum amount that
I have estimated for the trenching opera
tions of the European armies In two
months! Usefully employed what might
not that vast amount of labor have
achieved?
But this Is only a drop in the waste
bucket of squandered physical energy that
the war Is filling up with frightful disre
gard of the ultimate consequences to
mankind. Suppose that there are but
10,000.000 men subjected to the fatigues,
dangers, diseases and demoralisations of
war-those 10,000,MX necessarily represent
the very best phys'eal type of Kuropean
manhood. They are the younger men,
the stronger men, the healthier men, the
more active men, because the weak are
not wanted, and not taken, until the ex
haustion of the others compels the war
lords to force them also Into the sen-lie
ranks of slaughter.
Hundreds of thousands are killed out
right or wounded, so that their future
usefulness Is crippled; hundreds of
thousands perform forced labors that re
sult In the !oss ot their health and
strongth, and of the hundreds ot
thousands who will ultimately survive,
untouched by any weapon or missile,
hardly one individual will ever recover
all of his original elasticity and capacity
for work. It is well known that soldiers'
lives are short, not so much because of
bullets, bombs and bayonets, as because
of the extremetles of fatigue to which
they are subjected, and tho germs of
disease that they cannot escape.
Voltaire once wrote a very interesting
story of the visit to the earth of a
ph'losophlcal giant from the solar sys
tem of Slrlus, who taughed to split his
sides over the foolish little men whom he
found here engaged In continually cutting
off their own noses In a symbolical sense
Wc have been In the habit of Imagining
that the world has grown much wiser
since Voltaire's day, but If he could come
back now would he be able to find to
find, even in his rich vocabulary, words
keen enough to properly flay our foolish-liens?
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(Copyright, 1915, by Serial Pulblcation
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him
that
Blye
FOURTH EPISODE.,
Poor Little Runaway Jane.
CHAPTER III (Continued.)
"Tou haven't much choice,"- said the
low vote ot Blye, and he held the door
open for June.
"Thla once." And she looked
aquarely In the eye. He smiled.
June was thoughtful all through
delicious twenty minute of riding.
hi dark face haunted her. Another
face came to her Ned! A great wave
t homesickness swept over her.
. They made their adieus rather hastily
to Blye, for their time wasa little more
thaa up.
Just before dinner was called Mr. Wiles
cam home, and June happened into the
library. It was Dolly's favorite store
room for toys, book and everything else.
Mrs. Wile he called her Woosly was
sitting on the arm of her husband's chair,
her arm around hi neck and his chin In
the palm of her hand. With the other
hand she was twisting a lock of his hair
over and over her finger, and she was
moat distinctly and obviously wheedling
him for money! His voice was low and
protesting with as much sternness as a
man can use when he Is being charmed
Into docility. Woosly Wiles was locking
the money In her little lnlalddesk when
June next saw ber. ,
They were going out after dinner.
There was some talk about ordering a
car, and It needed but one word to give
Dolly a start. The luxurious limousine
ef the black Vandyked man the whole
t her text. She rattled on anl on and J
" she laughed.
Isn't It, Dolly?
Woosly." The
kVTo Darken Hair
Apply Sage Tea
A few applications of Sage Ten and
Sulphur brings bark It vljtw.
color, gloss nntl thlckum.
Common garden saga brewed into a
heavy tea with sulphur and alcohol
added, will turn gray, streaked and fuded
hair beautifully dark and luxuriant, re
move every bit ot dandruff, stop avalp
Itching and falling hair. Just a few ap
plication will prove a revelation it your
hair la fading, gray or dry, straggly and
thin. Mixing the Sage T, and Sulphur
recipe at home, though, 1 troublesome.
An easier way Is to get the ready-to-ua
tonic, coating about M cents a large bot
tle at drug stores, known as "Wyeth's
tag and Sulphur Compound," thus
(voiding a tot of muss.
While wispy, gray, faded hair la not
sinful, we all desire to retain our youthful
appearance and attractiveness, by dark
ening your hair with Wyeth's Sage and
Sulphur, no one can tell, because it does
so naturally, ao evenly. You Just dampen
a sponge or sj'itl bruh villi il :inj draw
through your bait, taking une small
strand at a time, by morning all gray
hairs have disappeared, and. after an
other application or two, your hair be
ronui beautifully dark, gloasy, soft and
"rtut Advertisement.
on about If, and as she talked the pretty
face of Mrs. JIIes grew more and more
distressed.
"Horry, dear." she sail, Dolly and I
want a limousine! Please!
Dolly clapped her hands.
"After that, limousine again," he gayly
commented. "Not now, Woosly. Busi
ness is too bad."
"I don't like business
"It's a mean old thing,
Harry, please!"
"Get thee behind me,
man still laughed, but he began to look
very seriously at his charming wife.
"You'd get anything out of a man."
And his laugh was half vexed, altogether
admiring.
Pretty Mrs. Wiles accepted that com
pliment prettily, but June, as she slipped
out of the library unobserved, was hurt
for the woman, for herself, for her kind,
as her face betrayed. Here It was again
the endless, almost unvarying story of
the woman dependent on the man's
bounty an 3, in this case, getting all she
could out of him.
Again in the evening June heard Mrs.
Wilts and Dolly pleading for a big
limousine, and next day a car costing
reveral thousand dollars stood before the
door.
Mrs. Ned Warner had been made tre
mendoutly Vhoughtful by the affairs of
the little Wiles family. There was some
thing wrong In the custom which male
this condition possible. What was It? The
position of donor and recipient. Neither
the man nor the woman was really. to
blame. It was custom. And June knew
what Mrs. Wiles would not admit to her
self, if she suspected it, that the man was
being constantly wheedled beyond his
means.
The crash came sooner thaa June had
expected. On the next evening after the
limousine had come home there walked
Into the house a grim-Jawe.i, hard-eyed
man of 4j. on whose suit esse were
pwted foreign labels.
"Hello. Baker!" exclaimed Wiles, with
cordiality.
"A little peiKoual busimss.
stated li'mself.
"liow's the Ixindon branch?" asked
Wiles by way of makinL' conversation.
"Doing very nicely," was the ct.rt reply,
und Ueker shook hanis with Doliy. By
and by the voices of lii. men rose aa
they became more interested in their
conversation, and there floated up to
June an emphatic speech of Baker s whlclv
she could not help hearing.
"You'v.) pnt It:" Baker's words were
clean cut. "In my abse.u of a year and
a half you've overdrawn your account
$.4,000. Fifty thuunand dollars was the
exact amount of your investment That
makes us quits. You'll turn oi-er your
share of the business to me Immediately."
"But that leave mw without a cent,
without an Income!" worried Wiles. He
had no blame for his partner, nor was
h as much crushed aa he had expected
to be. "I have a wife and child, you
know. Baker. I could no more refuse
them anything than I could refuse bread
to a starving child."
"That's the trouble," Baker's voice was
not harsh. It was -imply cold. "You've
spoiled them. A wife should be a help
a man, and most of them would ff
That U the big struggle that He In wait for roost women who love
and marry the battle with the thing- that unroll from the usual
nweetnes cf her heart the emerald-eyed monster we call Just JEAL
OUSY. You've got to have a valiant heart and a chin that wills, and
you've got to lay this ghost. frr good and all or you will stumble soma
day over the tiny corpse, of Love, already cold and stiff, with his gold
curls scorched and li Is tiny pulse, that beats engine-like through life,
still. For where the scales of jealousy rustle there Is the death of
Love. Nell Brlnkloy.
And Baker
to
they were given u rhince. You made a
toy of yours."
The next morning Mis. Wiles tame
up to June. 8he had been crying, but
there was a light In her eye which waa
good to see.
(TO B Cvfftnii4 Mw-
Kissing- fiamee at Birthday' Party.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am IT and I nm
solng to celebrate by making a birthday
l-aiiy. The average age of the boys and
irls 1 fxpci-t guests la 17. I ant
elroiiglv aaalnal so-called "kissing
tame " whl h 1 know as a fact the buys
.ma girls would like to i.lay at the party.
Would It be an act of dlacourteay on my
part as host If I shou'd prohibit them
from playing the game, an 1 simplv
.o the the nume and aluhl of the game?
V. B.
Flnl some Intel eating way of amusing
your gueste. hut do not allow them to
play the gsme of which you disapprove
in your home. I am glad to see that one
of my glils has such sensible vitas and
a ant her to live up to them.
i Br Hatlrat.
I its i- Mlsa Fairfax: I am a girl of 17
and go to Ituafnesa a :i stenographer.
My Barents are very strict, and when I
sak them if I tan go out they say no.
I cannot go to srl'es or isk to boy
friends. HKAItTHROKEN.
Are you sure you have done nothing
to cause your parents to distrust you?
A girl of 17 Is really young enough to
wait a few years for society. Huppoeo
you devote the nexl year to winning your
parents over to absolute faith in you.
You will find this an absorbing and In
teresting task. And at the end of that
time you can surely win such conflTsic
that they will feel safe to let you take
any pleasure that appeals to you.
Uea't B Kvll-Mladed.
Dear Miss Fairfax: My brother In-law
la about to spend a day at Atlantic City.
Ilia wife caanot go on account of a
vaunt? baby. lie has Invited me to go
with him rather than go alone. Do you
think it improper for me to go, as I have
his wife's consent and my mother's, ton.
1 am keeping company, but my friend
annot gel away fioni his business.
Kuioly advise me. fP.Ot BLK,
There Is no reason why you should not
accompany your bother in-law on his
little day's outing and try to make It
pleasanter for him then a trip alone
would be.
Meek Kxpiaaatiou,
Dear Miss Fairfax: Ate a young mun.
anl deeply in love with a young girl.
The other afternoon thla girl's ohler
sister wuitcil for me outaide a theater
where I play as a musician, and abused
hei- slater to me. Do you think she is
i trying to keep out of my ay because
snc iceis saliameii to recognize me?
JACK.
By all m'-ans. go to the girl you love
and talk the matter over with her. Con
vince her that nothing said about her
could cause you to lose faith in her, and
that you want the same loyalty from her.
Wear a Light D
Dear Miss Fairfax: My girl friend Is
about to be married and haa aakad me
to be her bn.lw.matd. Khe has decided
to have a church wedding, the ceremony
to be si 8 o'clock In the evening, hho
Is solus to wesr a dark suit of some
descr piiun. Would you kindly ad'iae the
proper attire for the brldvarnatd ? whether
It be a sull or drew, ami hat kind
I meaning philn or fairy. If a dr... la It
neceasary to wear a hat. i have a dieas
of pink chiffon, also one of dark h'reen
crepe iplaini, but have tto suit suitable
for the occasion. IN DOl'BT.
By ail mean wear a light dres and no
hat, since It I an evening wedding. Your
pink chiffon dress will be quite suitable.
The new Egyptian flag conalat of three
white crescents with their backs to the
staff, each with a five-pointed white star
between the horns, on a red field. This
flag was the personsl standard ot the
khedivs, and now takes the place ot the
former national flag, which was dis
tinguished from the Turkish by having
a star of five Instead of six points.
One of the evils of war is the lowering
of the national physique. In the genera
tion after the Franco-German war there
was an appreciable decrease In the stat
ure of Frenchmen through the large num
ber of young men of good physique who
were killed.
For the payment of salaries In the Brit
ish royal households the king and queen
use annually $040,000.
There la no pauperism In hervia. In the
sense In which It I understood In the
went. The poorest people have some aort
of freehold property. There are a few
poor people In Belgrade, but neither their
poverty nor their number has necessitated
an Institution Ilk the workhouse.
More than 7,6u0.0oo books are lent by
London public libraries In a year, the
Juvenile readers taking considerably oer
a million.
The streets of Milan are watered from
the electric trcnuar. On these watering
cars reservoirs have been adapted to the
platform, and these reaervotra are emp
tied, a tb car runs, by means ef per.
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Advice to Lovelorn : "'pf Do You Know That
' 'li'1 '
By MAX NORDAV.
Woman Is in the happy position of not
needing any Instruction In the science of
auoceea. She I endowed by nature with
all the knowledge that la required by
her in order to obtain success In lire: and
the leaser art that may not perhaps
have bcMi lorn In her she sv-qulres lster
on entirely without assistance.
According to the prevailing arrange
ments In the world by far the largest
number of women confine their effort
to one form of succese that of pleasing
men. In order to attain this end, all that
is required I that they bo pretty, or
have something about them.
There are misguided mind who have
hit upon the Infelicitous whim of found
ing college for the higher education of
women. In these the poor creature are
taught drawing, drumming on the piano,
murdering foreign language with an
absurd accent and confusing histories!
date that Is to say. Just those very
things that later on will make them ob
ject of horror to the men.
The sxhome of such establishment
commonly have originated In the brain
of pining old malda or vindictively die-
posed married cripple who are need to
being thrashed by their wives. It dis
plays an absolute Ignorance of the true)
life alms of women. The Oriental In
their primitive traditional sagacity re
gard matter from a far more rational
point of view. Among them the girl
learn nothing beyond singing, danoing.
playing the lute, telling storte. dyeing
her nails with hernia and the edge of
her eyelid with charcoal that la to say.
the art that make her an object of de
sire In the erea of men. which afford her
the opportunity of displaying her charms
In the moat favorable light and which
wilt fascinate her male partner In life In
permanently attaching him to her.
Our poor girl of the west are In con-'
sequence of the prevailing system of edu
cation artificially prevented from giving
way to their Instinct, though thla would
promote their Interests with much more
certainty than all the spectacled and 'tin
spectacled teacher In their Institutions.'
It I only when they have left behind
them forever the absurd hardship ot
school llf that they become able freely
to follow their natural Impulses and de
velop themselves aa they were designed
to do. Then of their own accord they
aoqulre the art of painting with rouge or
even ot doing themselves up with rice
powder, of wearing a bold style of cos
tume, of walking, standing and sitting
In such a way that what give clt'ensn In
the cut of their clothing become most
prominent; then of their own accord ,
they attain to the art of playing with.
I their fans In the most expressive manner,;
of causing their eye to roam In an In.
j vttlnr manner, of Indulging In little airs,
I charming gesture, and sweet dainty
' little pouts, of giving to their voice the
delightful modulations ot childish Inno
cence, youthful trickery and plquent Ig
( poranee.
With such alda they are sure to gather
nlicut them, wherever they may appear,
a host of admirers, to secure dancing
partners, enthusiastic followers, a hue-'
band and all the rest In short, to obtain
everything that make life fair or agree
able. Married women will, of course, turn
up their nose at thorn and on superior
and nobler member of the male sex
they will likewise produce a repellent
rather than attractive effect. The latter
will feel that patches of paint, grease,
flour and daub of all sorts are no more
Ir. their proper places on a woman's face
than, aay on a velvet die?s.
But what matters It to woman if she
I is suojeci to tnese criticisms ; At the
j hands of her own sex she does not look
for any kindly feeling, and even It she
received It It would mean nothing to her.
And so far as her male critic are con
cerned. It would be to her In the highest
degree a matter of Indifference If some
I pedant did turn his back upon her with
' disapproval, ao long as young gentlemen
'of the Jockey club fixed their eyeglasses
upon her in token of appreciation. She
; cannot poealbly bring her nature and
Conduct up to the standard of the man
;of taste. The latter Is a phoenix. Many
j women llv and die without ever having
fallen in with euch a man.
I It I only the sleeping beauty In the
i wood of the fairy tale that la ao for
'tunat aa to possess a knight who comes
land release her. In real Ufa It would
be folly to reckon upon such a hero, and
any girl that buries herself behind a
thorny hedge has every prospect of be
ing left there. Woman, therefore, ex
hibits great shrewdness In seeking to
make herself agreeable to the mas of
men without heeding the undiscovrrablo
phoenix.
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is World's Wonder
forated tube placed fan-shaped et the
front and back of the car.
Aa a rule, employes In breweries, tan
neries and printing Ink factorlea are Im
mune from consumption. Turpentine
works and rope works are a protection
from rheumatism. Worker in copper
mine need not fear typhoid.
Three years ago the population of the
world was l.MO.Om.oon souls.
Soldiers in Franc are allowed to cul
vate gardena In any spare ground about
barracks, and to help tut their rations
by growing vegetables.
It la estimated that nearly seventy
thousand tons of cork are needed for
the bottled beer and aerated water con
sumed annually In Or eat Britain.
Krupp's work at Eaeen, In Prussia,
were begun In 1812; the first gua, In east
steel, was mad there In 1M.
Naturalists state that th eagle i able
I to look at the aun without blinking, be
cause It haa a thin seml-transparant veil
which It ran draw InManlaneouviy over
Its eye, snd whu ti itors rot obstruct the j
sight. j
biuokiiig car for laities are In use on !
some of Hi railway of Hunts
The Pyrlans .consider thst "i -klej j
grapevine loaves are a great d!'..a y i
Every tiny Infant makes Ufa's per
spectiv wider and brighter. And what
ever there la to enhance It arrival and
to ease and comfort the expectant mother
should be given attention. Among the
real helpful things Is an external ab
dominal application known a "Mother'
Friend." There la scarcely a community
but wnat has Its enthuaiaatlo admirer of
thla splendid embrocation. It la so well
thought of by women who know that most
drug store throughout th United State
carry "Mother's Friend" as one of their
etapl and rellabi remedies. It I applied
to th abdominal muscle to relieve th
strain on ligaments and tendons.
Thoee who have used It refer to the
ease and comfort experienced during the
period of expectancy; they particularly
refer to the absence of nsusea. often so
pre vs lent s a result of' th nat irsl
rxpanalon. In a little book are defctllv.d
more fully the many ressuni why
"Mother's Friend" has been a friei.l
Indeed te wumn with timely Innu. tu.
geatlitns snd b-lpa fer rfe"i"-. !l
should be la sU homes. "a!mIik' Krlnd '
aisy be haj uf alme.t for irisvli. 'ui II
you fall lu tind It twit u dliv.i asd al e
write fur bek tu liiadflviri Cejulatr Cm.