liihi ni-.r: imiaiia, wmjawhai, maim h io, jjmo. Health Hints -:- Fashions - Woman's PFor A: -:- Household Tomes . - . , , .. , , . .... j. . TTT Prepare for Coming of Peace Br ELL. WHKfLFIl WILCOX. Copyright,' 1916, Star Company. During Christmas season th following telegram was received from th daughter of a famous general: "Is not spiritual and mental prepared ness more Important to the country than any plan of military preparedness, ami Is it not the duty of the American press to consider this question?" H. K. M. That Is what is the matter with the world at the present time Its lack of spiritual preparedness. Over In Kurppe for forty years there has been but one thought in the minds of some of the countries, and that has been preparation for war. America Is now preparing for possible war. From a letter written by a seafar ing man, familiar with all the ports of the world. Is taken the following: "1 was In Australia when the war broke out. At that timo I said all the world was suffering from a terrible disease, which I called armamrntitls, and that ir was the only remedy. That the diFcase - wa virulent and a medicine K.ld have to. le in ken in large doses. T are having rather more of tha medicine than I bargained for, but if we are not cured, I hope we will, at least, bet the better for It. "But when kaloMism Js dead wa still have another heartless giant to face I mean commercialism. Kalserism says that the highest Ideal for a nation should Lo powr, dominion, ten uor.ai aKKrun- disement. The aims of commercialism are markets; their capture and reten tlon and wealth In the aggregate, never mind about Its distribution. - VA sorry spectacle, but worrying about it does not alter It. We can only try to 'tune our souls to symphonies above end cound the note of love.' We have a ,'unker class In this country. They oppose every means of social advancement: they held up their hands In horror and said the country would be ruined when the old age pension bill was passed, prvidlng about 11.28 a week for the deserving over 70 years of age. They said wo could not possibly find the money. Now wo are spending more on war In a week than the pensions cost In a year. ' Where will It endr But still I suppose whatever Is, Is best." Meantime from a little theosoprlcal leaflet there comes this comforting state ment: Ages ago there came to the world a group of souls whose main mission In Ood'a great plan was to work wherever workers were most needed. Through in carnation after Incarnation they have been pioneers In many great movement by wnlch humanity has benefited. Choos ing not always the greatest glory of bril liant achievement where the world's ap plause might be won, they have Instead UtTU wIlIIiuh v - In the lesser work which la often tha grerter la- the'"Maate'J eye.' " " May. the Server link mora closely together "the aervera" wherever In America some, of these souls be born. . so that all may again work together In tha pioneer move ment of preparing for the coming of the great Teacher. May the server be worthy to be Ills servant In an hour and a moment that wa know not of the Great Teacher cometh. It la well for us to think of spiritual prepared ness. It would be well for us all In the dark and troubled times to realise that we ara surrounded by "clouds of wit nesses." It would be well for us to read and ponder on the words of that great man. Sir Oliver Lodge, wherein ha states: "I tell you with all the strength and conviction I can utter mai wo uo v-. after death: that people over thera still take an Interest In what la going on here, that they still help us. and know far more about things than we do, and are able from time to time to communicate with us." ' And here Is what another great soul. Anna Besant, Bays of tha need of spiritual preparedness: this Is her form ula to repeat often: - . . "I am a link In the golden chain of love that stretches around the world, and must keep my link bright and strong. 'So I will try to be kind and gentle to every living thing I meet, and to protect and help all who are weaaer man raj elf. "And I will try to think pure and beautiful thoughts, to speak pure and beautiful words, and to do pur and teautlful actions. "May every link In the Golden Chain become bright and strong." .The "New Civilisation." dream of all the world's idealists, based on peac and co-operation, with brotherhood the in forming spirit. Is seen by Mrs. Besant to be already appearing on the horlson. Uke a mighty priestess of old. she cries to a bleeding and suffering world, "Kn ure, for your salvation draweth nigh; It is even at the doora! Nothing to regret and nothing to fear." she tells us;, for we ar only witnessing the passing of the old order that the new may arts out of Its ashes. work In their own way. helping to pre pare the awakened for the coming Teacher. Thla Teacher will as surely come as the war camo. It Is well to awake when He comes. It Is well to be ready to do the work He may ask us to do. Are you ready? Advice to Lovelorn By Beatrice Fairfax CIV Ills I p. Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a girl 1 years of age. About five months ago I made the acquaintance of a gentleman two years my senior. We have kept steady company and he has been very attentive and a stroi.g feeling of attachment has developed. He has often expressed his love for me. Irately his love seems to le vanl-Mna and I feel w are drifting part. There aeeme to be no reason for this strange Indifference and I am broken-hearted about the Hole affair. ANXIOUS RENE When a man tire of her. the wise women accept the Inevitable. The love of 19 or n 1 not the serious thing the love of older year may b. Tour friend U probably flekl and prefers a change of sweethearts every few months. B plxd you found him out In time, and don't uHe up your energies trying to win bin hack. If h Is not th sort to re main loyal, don't worry about him. On Hie i.'ilu-r hand, don't look for" trouble and nag at him for his seeming neglect. Spring Woos Winter : I WY' - : r n 1 f-: 1 Love and the Pay Envelope Br BEATRICE FAIRFAX. Each day there come to m num erous letters, which read something liku this: . "I lov him so much that I can not do without him. . He Is earning 115 a week and has good prospect.. Do you think we dare risk marriage T" ' It 1 hard not to be a little cynical about th young woman who tell you In on line that ahe can not live without hef beloved, and who In th next wonder If she can risk marrying him on his present salary. An absolutely big and fearless lovo would probably plunge a girl Into mar riage on a very tiny amount of money, and it would teach her wonderful ways and mean for making that money do 1th a royal unselfishness and lack of mercenary feeling. But It is just as well for the world that lov Isn't an overwhelming fore and that most of us do stop sanely and sensibly to consider the matter from a point of view that Is not mercenary, but only Just practical. No woman has the right to marry a poor man unless he is convinced of several things. First of all, sh must love him enough so that cheerfully and uncomplainingly she will "do without" for hU sake. Sh must know that ah will be willing to wear year before last's made-over dress when other women ar buying week after next pictorial fashions. Kha must be sure that when John comes home tired from his day's work sh can meet him with good cheer and not with a whimpering weariness of a woman who day' occupation ha netted her a backache and swollen feet because her husband's day' occupation ha netted him only 12. She must know that she 1 going to be cheerful if her hands ar red and swollen from dishwashing and her eyea a little tired from mending torn clothe. . When a woman ha passed her own mental examination a to her fitness to be th wlfe of a poor man, she must turn to a consideration of the poor man. Is he to be respected? . Is he a worker, a man of self-control, good habits and ability, a man who will always do his best to provide for his family and who will not console hlifiaelf for his Inability to get ahead by sliding backward? When a woman makes up her mind that the poor man she loves Is a worker and a hustler, and that she herself is a chaerful manager, she Is safe to go ahead and marry him. Ixve and th pay en velope have to b balaneed in your own personal scales. On the love sMe there are emotion and durability of feeling and desire and congeniality, and on th pay envelope side ther ar faith and cheer, common sense and loyalty to throw Into the scale. t And whether you marry a poor man or not, my dear' girl, depends not at all on the general advice I give you, nor even on such a practical consideration at whether h la earning !Z, It or Jt a week, but entirely on what you and he can do with that sum. Curt up accounts lov and the p.iv invtiopo. How do they balance'.' 'Slipped In between the days of driving flakeg and bitter wind and still, glassy cold, comes sometimes a gentle day with a warm ..breath In it from somewhere; an under rumor of sunshine and flower-scents; a remote breathing as if sleeping summer, curled Ilk a dormouse In Its nest over the edge of the world, had turned and sighed and half awaked! The plainsman dreams of the Chinook and sniffs the air. There is the ghost of a perfume of turned earth, purple and rlcft. Under foot It Is lush and warm. The squirrel who cornea for his breakfast mysteriously capers and romps and scuttles about like a baby kitten after a bit of flying feather. He somersaults and flicks his little body, shaking it off , his feet with mirth and scampers and barks with the urge of a heady something that is tickling the heart under his little gray vest He puts his tiny hands on his heart and listens. , It la summer calling, we reckon. The birds Idle and atretcli wings on the sunny porch roof all the huddling pose vanished, quite. The starling English that he is takes his bath in lc water and whistles like a gamin thereafter because it Is warm la the sun and his wet wings will not glaxe with ice. Something is up. Just spring wooing winter! Somewhere he is murmuring his lovelines, bidding her melt .her frozen heart and come with him. To day she is listening a bit with thaw at her heart. But tomorrow who can tell! She will be cold tomorrow trapped In Ice and snow; glacial, gleaming coldly and not hearing at all fascinated with the glitter and flare of the anoy crystals in her scepter. And summer, stirring for Just a space, will have lapsed again into snug slumber. - Spring woos winter but the still la cold. NELL BRINKLEY. Beneficient Germ Br ADA PATTERSON. The human body is like a community. It ha good and bad citizens. It con tains good and bad gurma. If there are enough good germs to conquer the bad ones the person possessing that body Is healthy, Just a If a community has a large majority of citizen It Is prosper ous and of great repute. Well conducted women's club ar bene ficient germs In any community. They widen women's Interest. They teach thera humanity. They train them In the duties of cltlsenshlp. You doubt it T Let m recite some of tha recent activities of women's clubs. Not one club, which would give you a chano to reply: "But that la only on woman' club;" to make th trita observation: "It is th excep tion that prove th rul." I choose at random instances of what club (women's elubs). have recently don la cities re mot from each other, extending a chain of good work reaching from on coast In America to th other. At Dallas, Tex., the club women have combined to establish headquarters where employment will bo given to the mothers of small children, mothers who hve been deserted by their husbands and mother whose husband are dead. Th erubs are projecting a plan to extend this work into an Industrial home of forty two room. t The club women of Kansas City ar urging a reformatory for delinquent women. They ar going shrewdly about it, for thsy ar circularizing the candi dates for municipal offices and are re serving their replies. Those replies will b published. The women club of Northt Carolina started th first stata-wlde movement for a celebration of th Bhakespear tercentenary. Folk danoea, play a pa geant under the auaptcea of th clubs will be educational featurea In moat cities cf that state and an tmpetua th study of th greatest of dramatists and humanists will thus b given. Club women have been th most active factors In abolishing th smoke nuisance In all cities. arcnMIng to tha report of 'lie fornii r xmoko itn-i-cdor of Chicago, su i. com- ; in W omen's Clubs Osborne Honnett. Women, alive afways to th menac to health, and agreeing with prominent physicians that smoke kills more person than does any one single disease, hav been persistent in their demand for It abatement, and they hav succeeded. "The women of America ar th leader of th move ment to abolish th smoke nuisance," Mr. Honnett report. ' ..aide from their Intelligent recognition of th peril that Inheres In smoke, women, who are nat ural economists, have discovered that the damage to household articles by smoke is about tJ0 a year for each family. With managerial wisdom they hav determined to stop tha leak. Th ancient canard that woman I woman worst enemy ha long been dead. It waa re burled lost month when Florence King, a Chicago lawyer, of fered to give twenty-five delinquent girls a borne for a month, and placing them in vocation schools w tiers they could learn honestly to support themselves. This was an initial atep in the move- 1 nt by Chicago club women to pro vide a large country home and achool for "unfortunate girls. The world of women has swung far In the orbit of progress sine th poet wept over "One more unfortunate." and pointed out the hopelessness o, her state. Her atal is still sad, but no longer hopeless. "Get th children off ths streets' is the slogan of the IUiode Island Federa tion of Woman's Clubs, which Indorsed a plan that eaeh woman should actively interest herself In ths nearest street child and help th gamin to education nd entertainment In leas perilous spots than the city's highway. Th federation also Indorsed th federal Keatlnga-Owen child labor bill, for uniform legislation against th employment of minor In ex hausting, life-draining employment. Th club women of Quitman, Ua, hav prevailed upon the city council to beau tify tha city' twenty-one park and hav set th example by contributing shrub and ros bushes to b planted In th school grounds. Yet we hear that women hav set pub lic cpirit, nor the faculty of citlscimiilp. By Ncii BHnkiey Copyright. l!l. Intern ! News Service. Carnivorous Lovers By TUB OLD OIRU Lav and lnfluano don't go together. Although both ar catching, people seam to prefar not to get th gvrms mixed. That, at least, la how I explain th com plete solicitude In whloh I was allowed to languish last w. It explain also why I was driven for company to read th modern novel no body In their senses would want to read th modern novel unless driven to It by microbe. v But even In thla occupation I found no balm In Ollead. I dis covered and discoveries even of old things ar always Interesting I dis covered th carnivorous lover. By this gentleman I mean not only th lover who finds his loved on good thing to eat. but who proceeds to do It. "HI lip war glued to bars, drinking In her very Hf." How's that for a start T On can really understand th feeling of tha damsel who, a few pagea back, looked forward to something Ilk this happening in th following manner: "Th great moment when he was to hold her In his arm grow nearer and nearer. Eh waited for It with an almost Intolerable anguish of Joy, a flora flam of anticipation." X hop that flam burnt her up when th great moment cam. It la too much, I suppose, to hop that It burnt th lot up. Including th novelist. Joking apart, lov, according to tn modern novelist. Is an awfully painful business. When you ar not having your face devoured by kisses you ar having them rained on your throat, or poured down your neck, or something equally uncomfortable. When your lover 1 more Inclined to be a vegeterlan than a man-eater, h gath er the rip fruit of your lips, or ha a good meal off th peach-bloom of your cheeks; (30 cent a large box). In lea effusive moment he Just has a nlbbl at anything that' going, but It's upon th expanslva lover that th novelist gener ally expands. WhyT I can only Imagine to show th girl, whst they miss or gain for I hav yet to meet the real-life young man who wal low In sentiment up to his neck, n4 x peots th real-Ufa girl to spoil her clothes nd her appearane wallowing In It, loo. For there I nothing so doatrlurllvo to clothes an1 complexl-n as lov-. Every body who has been jp against a kiss knows. You can't ue.tiaui;:' register a kis without lesving soma evidence -f Its existence behind. Luckily th real-life y-jnng man, .'udg Ing. both by first and second hand x perlence, betrays but llttl Inclination lo din off hi lady-love'r complexion. "I say, awful bore, sitting here- whst ?" nine out of ten of them exclaim after ten minutes of solitude, the soft, and Hophy. "Iet's go out nd do some thing." Which not only shows his good sense but his good Intentions. Tastes differ, of course. Them may be girls who would sooner bav purple kisses than a glass or two of th real Burgundy; but. speaking aithout prejudice, I prefer a cool kiss, a eorr-rt lover, and a good cabaret, to any of love's tangihold. A Sur Sign Grocer Th honeymoon is over in th hous on th hllL Assistant How do you know . Oiwer Th brid has Just 'phonod In an orlr for onions. Birmingham Ac Herald. The Salt of Life r woods MVTriiissox, m d. PART I. One servio which chloride of sodium renders In the body la rather a curious one. It waa learned thousands of year ago In th stern achool of experience that salt was one of th absolute necessaries of life, not merely for human beings, but for all domestlo and many other animals. This has been burned Into' th language of every race and continent In such terms as "the salt of life," "attic salt," "not worth his salt," "below the sslt," etc. Wages were even paid tn sslt, a our term "salary' still Indicates, and salt taxes mere one of the surest and cruelest means of raising revenue, be causo people, particularly the peasantry, must have It or go mad. Hut It was also known that thore were some peculiar exceptions to the rule of indlepeneahleners of salt. Many savage tribes, particularly In rather far north ern latitudes, care very little for It. wh le even among domestlo animals some aperies, degs and cats and poultry, foe lnstane, eltner have no appetite for It or positively dislike It. While on the other hand, cf course, horses, cattle and heep on pasture become almost crasy for salt If deprived of It. and most tropi cal tribe will take a man's life for a handful or salt. Ho.ne twenty years ago th gieat physl ologlxl Hung mad a careful study of these discrepancies and analysed speci mens of th blood and of the urine of hundreit of both animal of various pa ries and of human being deprived of er fed on largo amount of common sslt. He succeeded In finding a full and com plete explanation of these apparent dif ferences and proving the utility of sail as a separate substanc In th diet, al though hi finding .hav not yet pene trated the Intelligence of several school of so-called diet reformers. The first thing that he discovered was that the natural appetite for salt de pended entirely upon th character of th diet, and that, roughly speaking, those animal or tribe of human beings which lived solely or even chiefly upon flesh, which, of course. Include fish and game, bad llttl us for the salt-cellar, because they received a sufficient supply of thli precious substance for their bodily needs In their food, aa this consisted of the flesh and blood of other animals, birds and fishes which were already suf ficiently "salted." No carnlvoroua ani mals, either wild or tame, car for salt, nor usually salt meat. This explains at once why It was that th hunting tribes of our American In dian In the north and northwest cared very little for aalt and only used It when they happened to hav som chano sup ply of hominy or pumpkin or potatoes. Their favorlt flavoring, In fact, for stews and ragout of meat was not salt, but sugar, which th squaws would shak Into th pot eagerly If they possessed It, In th form of maple sugar or can sugar. Upon their long hunting trip th brave frequently carried a cake of maple sugar tucked Inside their hunting shirt with which they flavored their venison or trout. Just a w would with salt arid PPPr. On th other hand, th broad rut could b Is Id down that herbivorous ani mals and human race who Ilv largely upon a vegetbl diet wer absolutely de pendent upon salt and suffered severely in health If they could not get It In eon sldrabl amount. Thla was Illustrated not merely by moat of our domestlo animals, but also by th fact that deer, elk and bison were eager for salt and - cam scores of mile to alt Uoks to secure It, where our pio neer hunter would most basely II In wait and shoot thsm. But her at first sight was a puasl. bcau grain, fruit, root and most other vegetable sub stances all contained considerable amounts of common salt (chlorid of so dium), enough. In fact, to furnish appar ently a sufficient supply for th needs of the human body. In-Shoots It 1 possible for marriage to b a failure without th a'd of th barber shop manicure, but you cannot mako som wive bellsv it Th man who set 'era up freely In th bar room, will generally give an eloquent sermon on economy If his wlf asks htm for a dim. . . Proper prld In th horn town is th kind a man feel when a tax receipt ha Just been handed him. When th henpecked man finally awaken to th situation h is too old to do much kicking In hi own favor. Ther 1 no limit to th affection that may b bestowed on th man who Im proves on acquaintance. Ws hav a lot of respect for th man who begin It: "Did I ever tell this story bforr Don' Merely "Stop" a Cough ta ThlagT that Csatts It aa th Cooak vrUl at Itacll A cough Is reallf ene ef our best friends. , It warn us that ther is flammation or obstruction in a dan pus place.. Therefore, when you git a bad cough don't proceed to do yourself with a lot of drugs that merely "stop" the cough temporarily by deadening- the throat nervea. Treat the cause heal tli Inflamed membrane. Her is a borne mad remedy that get right at th cause and will max an obstinate cough vanish more quickly than you ever thought pos sible, Put 24 ounces of Pine (BO cents worth) in a pint bottl and fill the bottle with plain granulated sugar svrup. This gives you a full pint of tha moat pleasant and enertive cough remedy you ever used, st a cost of only 04 cents. No bother to frepare. Full directum with Pinex. It heals th Inflamed membranes so Eentlv and promptly that you wonder uw it does It. Also looaen a dry, hoar or tight cough and stop th formation of phlegm in the throat and bronchial tubes, thus ending th persistent loose oougU. Pines Is a highly concentrated com pound of Norway pin extract, rich in guaiacol, and is famous th world over for its healing effect on th merubranea Te avoid disappointment, ask your drupgist for "2U ounce of Pinex." and on t seeept snvthin- els. A guarantee of absolute satisfaction, or money prompt ly refunded, goes with this preparation. The Pines Co., It, Wayns, lad. Household Hints Add salt to the water In which black and white cotton goods a re washed. All salads should be soaked In salt and water to destroy animal cula or small worm. Crpet ar brightened and their color preserved If wiped with clean cloth wrung out of salt water. Ink stains from carpets and table cloths (if fresh) can removed by suc cessive applications of dry salt. Baths, wash basins polished slat and stone slabs ar quickly cleaned by rub bing with dry salt before washing. Psnrlng shoes and other light-colored .hoes may be cleaned very atlsfactorlly In th following manner: Tak a pier of flannel and dip it Into spirit of win. then rub th shoes with the grain of th latin, changing the flannel every time It beroniea dirty. EARL LIGGAII BIDS DIET A FAREWELL! Clever "Charley Chaplin ' Ar tist Took Tanlac and Eats Real Food. He lias Gained Ten Pounds On would think that h is th real "Charley" to see U Earl IJggan In his baggy trousers, little derby, hobtailed coat and "gunboat" shoe, twirling hi bamboo and going through the antics of th famo.is Charley Chaplin. Mr. XJg gan enjoy his work In mimicry hugely, but ther ar som esrthly thing h en Joy mors, especially haalth, and h see that h ha th best h can secur. He live at StIT Douglas street, Omaha. "I hav been an extreme sufferer from Indigestion," Mr. Liggan told th Tanlac. man yestarday. "I cam to a point that I could not eat anything but cracker and milk. I was nervous and run down and finally had to go through an opera tion two years ago In Virginia, My kid ney and liver wer In a bad snap and I had headache constantly and a bad tnst in my mouth." Tanlao relieve all forms ef stomach trouble. Including nervous dyspepsia, which I th severest of all. Th nerves of these dyspeptic becom vary much worn, wblt they must endure other dis tresses, such as excesulT gas, bioatrng. . sour stomach, palpttntton, cold, clammy hands, poor circulation, awimmtng of th head, twitching of th muscles, burning In th back, pain In th throat and stom ach, eoated tongu and acid ulcer in th mouth. Nervous dyppata use them up quickly If they do not get relief. "Mr. B. T. Kate, a friend of mine, ad vised m to tak Tanlao, as It mired him," continued Mr. Llggan. "I got my first bottl of Tanlao in old Virginia about six months ago. I cam her In Septem ber and had a bad spell with my stom ach, and nothing helped me until I found that Sherman 4k McConnell had Tanlac. In two week I was abt to go to work. I now tak Teniae regularly and . you will never find m without It "Trora my own personal expensive I find that Tanlac Is th only remedy that will glv permanent relief.. I work every day and feel good and at whatever 1 want. No sour stomach or headache. 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