TUB BKE:.OM.TT.. WElLNESOAVs SKlvUMMllKUVWi".. - -
' '
r
.! I
Religious Fossil
Unfit to Exist
in Modern Day
Bound to Do Harm Nar
row, Bigoted Pastors and
Teachers Hurt Not Only
Creed, but Whole Cause of
Christianity. : : : : :
; By ELLA WHKELEU WILCOX.
Copyright, 191 by Star Company.
- "Wcn't you drive a few straight truths
"'" on me question OI Mail ITIVIIegeS
for All Prisoners!' The writer Is jut
determined little woman over hero in
' California. holding
down a Job writing:
T advertising ropy and
'letters' for bus.ness--
getting, but with a
keenly awakened
Knie of the need
-along prison reform
,ltnes, and every mln
(ute possible t o
a natch from the
127 aforesaid 'Job' Is de-
"voted to working
wtth my fellow
workers and fcllow
.''oiMa over the
" c o u n t r y, through
, earnest letters, urg
ing on and all to
I do their part with
. - -
fx
s
a3J
whatever talent they may have, to lift
1 ' the medieval yoke of tyranny from our
J shoulders, and let a little sunshine of
" common sense Into the pr.son cond-t.ons
: over the country.
'! "Thin glorious, civilized, wonderful j
country America forever! - 'Ti all
- right to say. fellow penwoman. but oiw j
! must say this with his back to the prison
;, conditions of America, If you know, !
you do not need to be told. If not, 1
I' want to urge you to think on these things i
1 and Investigate. Helen Locke Burns." j
The receipt of the above Ictier caused :
'.' the writer of this article to "think and
Investigate." Five hundred thousand
" persons. It Is estimated, pass through
American prisons every year. Had they
been efficiently educated. efflc.ently
', trained to do something constructively,
; this stream of Inefficient humans would
be perceptibly reduced. Whl e they
I are passing through the penal and re
' formatoty Institutions every avenue of
' igreater enlightenment should bo at their
!. service, every stepping stone to greatness
'! should be given them. v
The privilege of writing and receiving
" letters Is greatly restricted In the great
majority of American state prisons. A
few of the states allow free and unre
1. stricted mall privileges. No prison riots
occur In the states that grant the in
'; mates the privilege of "writing 'as many
) letters as they desire to their friends and
'.relatives. The reason is simple, for their
minds are occupied with wholesome and
i elevating thoughts. Nothing will make a
'! person more morose and sullen than to
'bo denied the God-given liberty of com
munication with his loved ones and his
!own dearest friends.
;; When a man is sent to prison, there Is
no reason why his relatives, friends and
!. family should be punished by not being
allowed to hear from him. That Is
where the wrong individual Is penalized.
' "Why shouldn't a prisoner be allowed to
' write to Ms folks, telling whether he is
; Alive or dead, well or sick, miserable or
fairly content? Who suffers? You know
''It is the folks at home.
; It Is a great privilege to write letters,
and It is still a greater privilege to re
i celve them. Anyone who has ever felt
; the abject misery of looking for a letter
that never comes will understand me.
. There la no reason under the blue sky
' why a convict should not be allowed to
send out as many letters ot a social na-
"V, Ti ,
lor. . The object of Duttlnsr a man In
prison la two-fold; first, to protect so
ciety, and second, to make the convict
- a better man. And certainly, breaking i
i off- all connections with the outside
; world TdoeVnoT make for human evTu"
Hon
I! Eery prisoner In America should be
.lowed the full, free privilege of the
United State, mall, exactly under the
.Barne condition, that men ouUlde enjoy.
; There is nothing in any law in the land !
;that says that Imprisoned men shall be
, "7"CJ ' " v .: ""jj10!
; Ubert Hubbard says: "The forbidding
;the prisoners to send out mall la a
foolish, vain, unnecessary rule that has '
t..l J V. . It ..! t .-. 1 a
come down to us from the Park Ages.
; "When a prisoner Is sentenced it should
, be for a term- of sunshine, fresh air,
; simple and abundant food, and honest
work. . All this with the intent that when 1
', a man Is given back to society he will ,
I be an asset and not a liability."
' And here is what J. J. Sanders, parole
; clerk of the Arizona state prison, says:
n v,. . . Z.L . .
"Out here in Arizona a new system of
handling the state offenders has been
; inaugurated by the present admlnistra-!
tlon. Oreat strides have been taken in
', prison reform, and the greatest of these,
, from the standpoint of tho welfare of the i
prisoner which only means, in the end,
. the welfare of society has been the re
moving of all restrictions from the prls-
It Ruins Hair To
Wash It With Soap
, Soap should be used very parln"'y,
J it at all, if you want to keep your hs.r
! -ooktng bt. Most soaps and pre-
' vTi Tk, mi" con,aln too mucf l-'ls
; htjr hritVL ? 'J"1 "l'aIp make" lht 1
ThJ I . ' U '
, The best thing for steady use Is
! Just ordinary n.uls'fled rocoanut oil I
j l which in ,ure and reasleas). and 1st
, better than soap or aaythlng else you I
' Ue" I
1 One or two teaspoon fu1 wi'l i-ai
i..T .T V . . V1"11""- """Ply
,vn wrier and ru' It
rln. It ..! hi'".,,r 0f rlrh.
rreamr lather, which rinses out easily
removing rrery paitlre of dimt. Mn'.
urtnif f and excessive oil. The hair
dries nutrklv and evexly, and It leaves
the acaln scft. ant the hslr fine an.1
Ailky. britrht, lustrous, fluffy and easy
to mans so.
Tou can get mulsified eocoaaut oil at
any pharmacy, it's very cheap, .nd a f-w
ounce will supply ovary member of the
family for months. Advertisement.
I -1 '
: V V,,;- I I 1S.Y
J " ... ' f '
p- ' V ( , v ; V-v
I 'II! 1 ! ' - V iflf
rt tti it viijj
oner's mail, except, of course, ordinary
Inspection.
"The men are encouraged to write their
families and relatives, they are encour
aged to read books that will benefit them
and if the outside world could under
stand 'what all this means to the prisoner,
It would be the rame in every penal in-
stttution in the United States.
j "Nowhere will you find a better con-
i tented lot of prisoners nowhere will you
find better discipline nowhere will you
And less friction among the inmates no-
; where wilt you find a more studious lot
of men ,n Pn wrvitude-and the vinre-,
. . .. ....... . '
ble.
"Over the entrance to the building con-
! talning our library and amusement hall,
!'"''!?.. ri"! .k?n!"
IZrrort ll'll!. wl'
i -,? 7T Vhi M I
"fn C.anvoni d -n
?.!B-J
cons JtJt, one of tne of i
education In this country? Can you build
a man up without educating him?'
Do You Know That
H
There are 175 different pieces In an
i average watch.
. . .
Highland plaids were originally worn
hv ,h- fm,,m
The word "villain" at first simple meant
a villager.
Some comets have tails 300,000 miles in
length.
I Divorces are scarcely known In modern
I Greece.
: The Canary Islands are the tops of a
groat submarine mountain range.
Sir Joshua Reynolds' picture, "The Five
Cherubs." is said to be really five pic
tures of one llttla alrL rtalnted from flva
different points of view.
The earliest book which mentions gold
the Bible. In the second chapter of
Gnl. eleventh verse, occur the words.
"th who,e 1A Havllah. where there
u gold."
The reason that a "baker's dozen"
means thirteen 1 that many bakers In
dy tn by w'r afraid of be'ng
Hw-a t hh.. .i4.. . k .t,
gave an extra loaf with every dozen.
In order to make British gunners the
beat in the world, the admiralty has even
gone so far as to use one of Its battle
ships as a target This was the Empress
of India, which originally coat K U0, 000,
and was sent to the bottom In 19l
In a brigade of artillery a telephone set
is supplied to enable the officer com
manding the brigade to communicate
with his three battery commanders.
For the Feminine Autumn Wardrobe
Republished by Special Arrangement with Harper's Basar
ffi) iJ
s,, fmf . i urn - I.,.
The girl who finds tailored things more be
coming: will want to add to her autumn ward
robe the good looking shirt of white linen
shown above. It Is just an smart when con
verted Into a low-necked model, by detaching
the satin stock. $3.95.
To the left is a one-piece frock of navy blue
serge, which wi?l be found Invaluable In the
young girl's wardrobe. This one has a full
skirt with deep braid-bound pockets. The col
lar and cuffs are of white pique. 119.60.
Great Mosquito Invasion
By GARRETT P. 8EUVIS8.
In a tour Including most of the eastern
states and eastern Canada, during the
last month, I have met, nearly every
where, the relnvlgorated and reinforced
hosts of the mos
quito. New York,
New ' Jersey and
iong Island may
take whatever
comfort is to be
fotmd in the fact
that they have an
abundanoe of com
pany in their mis
ery. The aerial lanc-
1
crs seem to have
o o m e charging
down on the heels
of the extraordl-
...
which
began to fall about the last of July. As
soon as the soli was thoroughly water
soaked, the swamps filled, the stream
I" - ' -. the forest
oeas impregnaica with moLuture, the ideal
Wnditlon. for the rapid breeding of
"l't ''. " hum.
Cities and village.
h been boastln, of their sclen-
ZTTl.,. mo'1,u,t.oe
denly found themselves infested with
stinging' swarms, whose numbers and
ferocity recalled the old days when mos
quito nets canopied every bed in well
ordered hnniM mrtA w.-vmv1 a1...
1 ' piles were the principal means of whole
sale defense against the enemy.
In truth, the unexpected recrudescence
of the mosquito plague almost seems a
mockery of the recent efforts of science
to eliminate this particular species of In
sect. It certainly calls out many sar
castic remarks at the expense of the ento
mologists, and It cannot be denied- that
they were more indebted than anybody
supposed them to be to general atmos
pheric and climatic conditions for the
easy conquests which their methods of
extermination had achieved.
But It would be unjust and foolish to
condemn those methods on the strength
of what has occurred this summer. The
methods are all right, but the scale on
which they were applied was proportioned
to a different state of things from that
which now exists. It takes a blzger dam
to obstruct a river than a creek.
Tho breeding grounds of the mosquitoes
have been suddenly extended. In Some
places to ten times their former area.
Wherever a swamp or marsh has talfen
the place of a dry spot of ground mos
quitoes spring Into being as If by mag'o.
They are the foster-children of still
water, although the ultimate manner of
their origin Is still a secret of nature.
They are one of the moH' widely distrib
uted of all flying creatures, not because
they can fly, for they do not go very
long distances on the wing, but because
their kind has been so many sres on the
een so many sges on the
developed such Dower of
developed sucn poser or
(given moisture enough) -
earth, and has
adaptation that
they can live In every gone. I
They not only swarm In the tropical
fn. k., .. . . . 1 ,
. ... m
northern and southern latitudes. They
do not ascend to great altitudes, but this
n;ay, in part, be due to the absence of
standing water. They love warm, "mug.
gy' weather, but can endure the relative
coolness of autumn evenings.
Their fondness for human blood must
be an acquired tests, since they came
upon the earth long in advance of man,
i
and are as abundant today In remote,
uninhabited regions as in human neigh
borhoods, and even more abundant.
When Lw!s and Clark made their cele
brated expedition across the Rocky moun
tains and thereby saved the groat north
west for the United States, they found
tho mosquitoes so numerous In some of
the river bottoms that the attacks of
these Insects almost drove them to de
spair. Kvery explorer of wild countries
has had similar experiences, and often
in places where it would seem that the
Insects could hardly have had any ex
tensive practice in the art of blood-sucking,
since the hides of wild animals are
too thick and hairy to be readily pene
trated by their flexible lances.
It is a singular fact that only the female
mosquito "bites," and It has been said
that "as it is but a very small proportion
of them that can ever taste human blood
or that of any warm-blooded animal,
blood would not appear to be essential
to their welfare." I'erhapa it is like the
taste for olives or sweetmeats or tobacco
all the more irresistible because it la
the result of cultivation, and Involves,
for its gratification a certain risk, or
the overcoming of a preliminary dislike.
It may be no Joke to say that the
abundance of mosquitoes Is dependent
upon the sunspot cycle. The proof is all
the while accumulating that somehow or
other the general character of the sea
sons varies with the Increase and de
crease In the number of spots on the
sun. Wetness, dryness and electric state
all vary more or less in accord with the
so ar condition, and these things are the
controlling elements in the life of our
globe. So, In a roundabout way, we might
throw the blame for the mosquito inva
sion upon tho sunspotst
Advice to Lovelorn
U.fts from Mea.
IVar Ml us Fairfax: I am 10, with a
great many men friends. One of the boys
ssked me If I would go yachting with
him. I refused, stat ng that I did not
have a top coat suitable for the occa
sion, lie said If that was the only reason
he would buy me a coat. Now, Miss Fair
fax, would it tfe proper for me to accept
same? Y. Z.
A modest girl never accept gifts of
wearing apparel from men who are not
bound to her ty ties of kinship or mar
riage. Surely you have a heavy sweater
or old winter coat you ran slip on over
your suit. You need not have a yachting
costume for one boat ridel
Marrrlav a Widow.
Pear Miss K"lrfs: I have known a
young wklow (16 years old, same ax as
mine), for one year, and as una has many
good quilUle is a gi-od worker Intelli-
i Tnt. ffprl'nnj.ll) mil pini i T l.v.
HMIe bv II' tU. fallen In love with her!
H" bs one rhlW
" " " nna
My oMert very decidedly to wtiat
,hlv (yH ..urn ft ln,,n,lrou, matrh."
mm thev wl-h me to marry a ysong girl
Mv eneriero wi'h v-nr h
mo that most of them today are
I frivi.loin preiintur.iis and tioat s
"s-im.n'. love verv llirhtlv. th fore f am
not Inclined to follow my folk"" 'h
ALBERT A.
You are really old enough to choose
a wl.'e for yourself, and while you are
not fair In your Judment of the girl of
today, neither are your people fair In
feeling that It would be wrong for you
to marry a widow. There Is no reason
why a young woman should mourn hlr
Jr.
:
Til
f : ji Jim
mx$
b ' W - rru
Vi x :
,,,-.,,. V'iV ', T""s ,
; j-"A
... .i :' k- : V-,n - v'' ' '
Ih'X !' ' W '"'!i
n -if km
Summer
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
Most young people go off for a summer
vacation with the Idea that Its success
depends entirely on whether their two
or four weeks Include a love affair. A
summer vacation ought to mill rest and
quiet and preparation for the strenuous
winter to follow, Instead of which moat
young people long to plunge Into the
violent unrest of a summer flirtation.
"Never the time and the place, and
the loved one all together," wrote Brown
ingbut that Is not allowed to apply to
summer vacations. Girls put up with
men at whom they wouldn't actually
look in the city. Men imagine them
selves wildly enamorded of girls for no
better reason than that having "an af
fair" In summer seems mo obviously the
thing to da.
A few years ago I was at a summer
resort at which there were a very arts
tooratlQ, ambitious, snobbish woman and
her daughter. The clrl was pretty and
seemed to have a desperate feeling; that
the summer wss wasted because there
were no young men In the hotel.
Suddenly a youth arrived. lie
By Beatrice
Fairfax
Ills away for a dead husband and never
know happlneae again. Try to persuade
your people to be more broad-minded In
the matter and not expect you to sacri
fice love to a really antiquated prejudice.
Let It Ue J.
Iear Miss Fairfax: I am a girl of U
and have two gentleman friends. 1 Is
vrrv wealthy and willing to n rry me.
Hi Is willing Uj support my mi thnr and
tbr- yiuniiir slitters. J Is the man I
love and he has also proposed to me, but
I t is too poor to support my mother and
three younger sisters.
WORKINO OIRU
A me triage to D would prove unhappy
for you, though he supported all your
relatives. Follow your heart. The prob
lem of your mother and threo sisters
will find some other solution. I am sure
they would not ask you to sacrifice your
self for their sake.
S.. f it Krla4lr We.
Dear Mine Fairfax: I am a young girl
IT years of age. snd having hea d re
marks pataed about mv girl friend, I
discontinued my frlendnh p with a young
man whom I car! for ry inucii. I
have met Mm recently and he has shown
rlgns of wsntlng to renew our acquain
tance. Kindly advliw me what to do In
order to fcpuak to film. WAli'I.Mi.
If you show your friendliness, he will
take the next fctep if he wants to be re
conciled with you. Hut I hope you are
not renewing a frlcncVMp with one wlu
has slandered one of your gl:l friii1.
That would l the wort kind pf disloyalty
wo
Tartan s!l
Xormlng the un
derwatst and
sleeves, adds a
dashing bit of
color to this
frock of blue
serg. . The side
fastening la fin
ished with a
trimming of
braid and but
tons. There Is
a becoming lit
tle white collar,
and a fold of
white In the V
shaped neck.
$23.60.
Flirtations
good looking, had pleasant manners and
seemed to have plenty of money to spend.
The girl fairly flung herself at him, and
sympathising friends In the hotel aided
and abetted the affai.
The mother had sense enough to per
mit of no engagement, but the girl made
her Infatuation so evident that the whole
hotel looked for announcements In the
fall
Early In September I was In a party of
which the girt was one. We rolled up to
the theater In her mother', limousine
and were ushered to a box by a blue
uniformed youth who turned out to be
her summer admirer.
Of course, he was obviously out of the
girl's world, although his two weeks' va
cation hod brought him In touch with It.
Tho young woman was far too design
ing and calculating to permit herself any
further Interest In him. But surely she
must have suffered a little, and her
proud mother have resented the critical
comments of her friends. As for the
youth, he must have suffered at least
from thwarted ambition.
This Is fairly typical of summer flirta
tion. In the ideal world, social barriers
would not count, and true worth would
make the man. but few people are happy
when transplanted from their natural en
vironment, and still fewer are brave
enough to go calmly from one social rank
to another. There lies the first danger
or summer flotation, which Is based on
"Insufficient evidence."
But a grave difficulty rests In the
undignified, unwarranted love-making
which a summer sea and summer moon
seem to call up from youthful hearts. A
girl permits herself freedom of action
shs would never take In a city. A man
la far more daring than he would ever
be when meeting her In her home town.
Hpoonlnr seems fairly to be taken for
granted.
F.very one excuses Ms own foolish In
discretion on the ground that It Is the
order of the day. or takes It for granted
without any effort to excuse It Otrls
put themselves fslrly Into the mouth of
gossip. Men signify Intentions they do
not Intend to carry out. Unhapplneas and
unfavorable comment follow. Most sum
mer flirtations end with a crash or
dwindle away Into nothingness and re
gret. The people you meet at summer resorts
might easily turn Into pleasant winter
friends if only yeu made haste a llttla
more slowly. Rushing Into a summer
flirtation and that I-am-looklng-for-so
ms-one-w ho-will -know -how-to . love-me
feeling Is very unlikely to lead to any.
thing worth having.
Permanent liking and respect are not
based on wldly unrestrained emotion;
they are based on Interests and opinions
congenially shared and the slow d'scovery
of things to admire and respond to In an
other nature. Summer friendships mU'ht
be splendid lifetime things If si-mmcr
flirtatious er not In existence.
r I
How to
Misunderstand
Women -
By ANN LISIjK.
There was once a man who called him
self a student of life. And the most in
teresting topic he could find was the in
veMlKRt.on and class flcation of women.
This man knew women of all sorts-oid, '
young; good, bad; hesutlful, ugly; Clevel
and stupid. He was so busy knowing ll.
sex that he Imd very llttlo time to know
either loe or MinlMf. Hut he ment .
make hH invest gallons count In tcrm:i ' r
a series f great novels In which the ml
undeiMiwd. lemlnlno six should for um
be clearly explained, championed . nn
lug tied.
And thin the mnn met a girl wli
was est; I iat lv ,tc-od snd eerenely tnisl
talnnl'le. ), .r hW.l that she piv
sent".! t!.- i t .ir.nt.' i.oud In woman, tli
tngelte t 't which all msnknd Vainly
groiics. I inn ic nn b.M m nd tu.
some tiny, :f he oouM win her, this
woman must lie Ms wife. In the mean
time, he hsd work to do ha must li-nri
to know the sex of which this woman
was so shining nn example.
And now aoross hix path there canv
a flower of evil, a more exotic creature
than ho had ever known- a greater and
a wor:e than Carmen. And the man
made up his mind that when he had
studied her mental processes and hud
catalogued them, he would turn to the
winning of his angel. .
But the wicked Carmen person wax
vory, very beautiful, ami. the man did
not find investigating her at all implead
an lie lingered and did tho Job thor
oughly and with gusto. Of course, whst
concerned h:m was her mental processes,
but In studying them ho found It not at
all unpleasant (o Investigate too the
sweetness of her Up. His soul was
quite untouched by the affair, but his
eyes were gladdened and his mind, he
felt sure, was enriched.
In due time he returned to his angel
with the idea of courting her and making
her his wife, Kut the angel slammed
the door of hm- heart In his face after
giving him quite clearly to understand
that aho wouldn't have tho rejected
suitor, cast-off would-be lover t the
Carmen person.
"But I wasn't In love with Carmen at
all," he exclaimed. "I found her a re
markably interesting typo to Investigate,
Ws'U use her In the great book about
women we are going to write together.
That will be a wonderful book. With
you, to help me I shall do marvelous
things for yaur sex."
The angel sneered. ."My dear man, I
know something about the world. , No
man could take a purely Intellectual In
terest In such a lovely creature as Car-,
men. Don't tell me. I wouldn't be soiled
by having a man In .my life, who bad
once loved her. Your admiration lowors
me In my own eyes."
And she drew her Immaculate angel
draperies away from tho contact with
such as he.
The man cased at her In 'mounting
horror. Her unJuK accusation staggered
him. He had never supposed that his
angel could think so basely or Judge so
cruelly. He hesitated between suicide
and marrying Carmen. But he comprom
ised by using the angel as the lady vil
lained In one of his books.
Moral: Even for her who evtl thtnketh,
It U sometimes Impossible te do anything
but good.
Household Hints
To wash discolored embroidery, place in
a vessel with cold water, blued,' hut not
too deep, and with the Juice of a lemon.
Boll for half an hour, and 'afterwards
rinse In cold water and dry in fresh air.
Bread should never be covered with a
cloth when taken from the even, but laid
on the side and allowed to become per
fectly cold, then kept In a closely covered
tin blx. without wrappings.
REMARKABLE
CASE of Mrs. HAM
Declare Lydia Z. Pinkham'.
Vegetable Compound :
Saved Her Life
and Sanity. .
R1talMMV VTr. ..'T ..1 It
, vK, v. .voi uiy uuij
. to tell the public the condition of my
Deal to. beiora using;
your medicine. I had
falling-, inflamma
tion and congestion,
female weakness,
pains in both sides,
backaches and bear
ing down pains, waa
short of memory,
neither strenirth nor
energy. There wss always a fear and
dread In my mind, I bad cold, nervous,
weak spells, hot flashes over my body.
I bad a place in my right side that waa
so sore that I could hardly bear the
weight of my clothea. I tried medicine,
and doctors, but they did me little good.
a.id I never expected to get out again.
1 got LydJa . Pmkham'a Vegetable)
Compound and Blood Purifier, and I cer
tainly would have been in grave or in am
asylum if your medicines bad not saved
me. But now I can work all day, sleep
well at night, eat anything I want, have
no not nasnea or weak, nervous spells.
All pains, aches, fears and dreads are
gone, my bouse, children and husband
are no longer neglected, aa I am almost
entirely free of the bad symptoms I had
before taking your remedies, and all is
pleasure and happiness In my home."
Mre. Josib Ham, R. . D. 1. Box 22,
Shamrock, Missouri.
If you want social advice writ
JLydla K. Pinkliam .Mt dlrl-.u- fo
(coniideuUul) Lyuj,Maeb.
UxxM
