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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1919)
10 THE BEE: OMAHA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1319. The Women's. Independent Political Party of Victoria,. B, C, hu decided to put up three women candidates for election to the city council and board of education. Nampcel, a Thtla commune In the war devastated section of France, has chosen Mme. d'Evry at lady mayoress, the first woman in France to be thus honored. 1621 Farnam St 5 "3 '0 3 Winter Stocks r 3 Must Go- 4 All winter stocks must be brought down to the lowest level before new 5 spring; koous arrive. So all prices have been drastically j reduced and the following Remarkable Bargains are Now on Salel Winter Coats A great variety of the best fabrics, weaves, designs and colors. Every garment a 1918 model. Kitto8 $39.50 Now, 1 7-5 j4 -MM Great Values M PO u N'Jflh to QDL.DV HOW Cit-S: ?f $69.50 Now $3475 to That Sold Great Values That Sold P 6K v a ii V ALL WINTER SUITS 1 ONE- V2 HALF PRICE Blouses Satins $3.95, $5.75, $8.95 Georgette Crepe Crepe de Chine 9 I Our Prices Are Lower Than Ever BE ED rus Bargains Afford Many Chances of Saving Saturday 20c Sulphur and Cream Tartar Tablets .10 30c Hill's Cascara Quinine, 19 ,$1.00 1 Pt. Dioxogen 5Sc jl.M . Woodbury's Clear Skin Lotion 30c 30c Putman Dry Cleaner, .flfy Kosine (for Epilepsy) . .2.00 50c Udor (for Perspiration) 29 $1.00 Pinaud's Lilas Vegetal ..O0 COc Sempre Giovine 34c 15c Liquid Court Plasters. . lOt 35c .2-oz. Bottle Fluid Cascara Aromatic . . . . 23? 25c Scotch Tone Soap flc 17c Velvetone 12o 8c Life Buoy Soap ? 15c Palmolive Soan. ..... .122 25c Dewltt's Cold Tablets. .19c 25c Liquid Veneer 19c 50c Lantz Kidney Pills 29c 25c Hobson Roach and Rat Paste 17C 25c Barkeeper's Friend, brass and nickel polish 12? 20c 3-oz. Singer Machine Oil 100 $1.50 1-pt. Fitch Lilac Toilet Water 98f- 50c Box Knox Tartar 29c ?1.00 -pt. Bottle Pure Norwe gian Cod Liver Oil 59c 25c Beecham's Pills. .... .17 c Eagle Brand Condensed Mik 24c 25c Nature's Remedy Tablets 16c $1.25 Pint Imported Olive Oil 69c $1.00 Nuxated Iron.- 89c Beaton's Stictite 25? 50c Kodol. Dyspepsia 39t? 35c Castoria, for. . a . . . . .240 25c Peroxide Hydrogen 7c 50c Orazin Tooth Paste. . . .34c 50c 3-P. Cansules 29c 50c Hay's Hair Health .... 23c PERFUMES $2.50 Houbigant's Ideal Extract, per ounce $1,69 $2.75 Mary Garden Extract, per ounce $1.79 PHOTO DEPT. Films Developed Free When Prints are Ordered. CANDY DEPT. 80c Jelly Beans, per pound, 60c We are exclusive agents in Omaha for Huyler'a and Origin al Allegretti Chocolates. CIGARS 15c Preferencia Club, each, 10c Box of 50 $4.25 15c Mozart Magic, each. . . . 10c Box of 50 $4.20 10c Black Ripe, each 5 Box of 50 $2.30 EDISON MAZDA LAMPS 10 to 50-Watt Mazda Lamps, 35c 60-Watt Mazda Lamps.... 40c We carry a stock of all Lamps up to 500-Watt. Mail Orders Receive Our Prompt Attention. eaton Drug-Co. 15th and Farnam. firs Yea felt!" Tfa Greet Crisis? If So, Do Not Allow the Tima to Past With Nature Unaided. SOCIETY Heroes All The New Side Opening Eddie was a freckled kid. When at school he sat and wrig gled, Homlier still when he made mouths , At the little girls who giggled. At his studies he did not , In one single instance shine, But he's grown up now, and say He is helping watch the Rhine. Little Johnny was a freak, Large of ear and large qf tooth, And his manners, I declare, Were decidedly uncouth; He was chided all day long, With an endless "Johnny stop!" But he didn't and the Huns Scooted when he cleared the top. Little Jimmy was an imp 'Twas each school ma'am's dread to Ret him: . 'Twas his aim to rule the room, And his teachers not to let him; In this way he passed the grades, Leaving teachers wan and weary. Now they smile when they read how . He worried the Huns at Chateau Thierry. B. N. T. Military Reception. One of the largest social functions ever held at Camp tuns ton was the dancing party and reception -given by the enlisted men of th provost guard and the First company, First battalion, 164th depot brigade, on Monday evening. The affair was given in honor of the officers and men of the organization soon 'to be demobilized. Music was furnished by the members of the 69th Infantry orchestra, and a number of cabaret acts were features of the evening. The decorations were very elabor ate, streamers of the tri-color being used, and shaded lights. Over 800 guests came from the surrounding towns and Kansas City, special cars bringing them to the camp. Wedding Plans. The Blackstone hotel will be the scene of a pretty mid-winter wed ding February 17, when Miss Hen riette Bergman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sol Bergman, will become the bride of Mr. Charles Jerome Simon of Chicago. The nuptials will be very quiet, with only the immediate relatives present, and the young cou ple will be unattended. This wed ding will take another of Omaha's charming girls away, for Miss Berg man's future home will be in Chi cago. Fraternity Dinner. Omaha Alumni association of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity will hold the annual dinner at the Uni versity club, Omaha, Neb., Saturday, February 8. In addition to the presence of the Omaha members there will be several in attendance from Lincoln and surrounding towns,, as well as the entire ctive chapter from the University of Ne braska. The program will take the form of a welcome to the large num ber of members who have been in the war and have now returned. The committee in charge of the affair include Messrs. Harley G. Moorhead, Jesse M. Harding, Dwight L. Cramer and H. M. Bush nell, jr. At The Prettiest Mile Club. Mr. Reed Zimmerman will be host at a dancing party at the club Friday evening when IS couples will attend the affair. Mrs. G. W. Bedford entertained a party of eight at luncheonat the club, Fri day. Many parties will be given at the club Saturday evening. Mr and Mrs. G. A. Mickles will have in their party: - Messrs. and aeidamei E. W. Halm P. H. Clarke R. L. Reynolds G. C. Adwera . J. C. Stubbs I. M. Meyera H. Q. Bell Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Hanford will have 8 in their party. International Party. An "international party" was giv en at the Y. W. L. A. Thursday evening, when the members of all the gymnasium classes joined to gether for a grand good time Booths representing different coun tries were ranged around the hall, some of them having humorous toucnes. Among tne countries rep resented were Africa, Holland, France, Italy and Japan, Hawaii and Scotland. Articles character istic of the different countries were sold for the benefit of this depart ment. Many of the girls in charge were in costume, which added a pic turesque touch to the assemblage. Miss Gertrude Smith sang several songs, and violin and piano music, games and folk dancing were in dulged in. This was purely a girls party and about 200 were present. Licht refreshments were served. Mrs. S. S. Caldwell, chairman of the physi cal education department; Mrs. Conrad Young and Mrs. Charles H. Brown assisted. This is part of the recreational work of the Y. W. C. A. which joins the Y. M. C. A. next week in a campaign for funds to support the regular work of the two organizations. -,.,0 T f By GERTRUDE BERESFORD. - "Infinite variety" is found in the wraps of the hour. Certainly de signers never seemed ' more inspired in their creations from the , viewpoint of both beauty and utility, A ' strikingly original model is found in this - cape coat of cashmere velour in a shade or reindeer. The new side opening that fastens with link loops and 1 buttons displays a pic- ' ' turesque line of striped foulard a buff ground striped in Chinese blue. 1 This wrap will' develop I well in navy, tricotine I or serge, with a lining of blue foulard figured in white. Mme. Lebaudy, Who Was Freed by Long Island Jury After Shootine: Heart Beats auspices of the Tuesday Musical club, Thursday evening at the Bran deis. Those entertaining will be A. V. Kinsler, A. L. Reed, Miss Doro thy Morton, J. E. Davidson, R. Beecher Howell and S. S. Caldwell. Dinner Parties. Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Patterson will entertain at dinner preceding the supper dance at the Blackstone, February 4. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wyman will also entertain at dinner before the dance. Miss Helen Howes of David City has been the guest of Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Wilcox for the past week. Judge and Mrs. J. W. Woodrough and Miss Marjorie Beckett leave iriday evening for New York. Mr. and Mrs. J stopping at the El celsior Springs. L. Paxton are lms hotel at Ex- Chicken Jelly. There is nothing more acceptable to convalescents than this easily prepared dish. An old fowl will do admirably for this purpose. Clean, wash and cut up into sections. Cover with cold water, add a sliced onion, a sprig of parsley, a teaspoonful of salt, a dash of red pepper and a few stalks of .soup celery. Cook slowly until the meat falls from the bones then strain through a very fine sieve and let it stand in a bowl or crock in a cool place. When the fat hard ens on top remove it carefully, and this may be used for frying pota- toes. The jelly should be clear and firm when ready for use next day and will keep well in cold weather, For variety heat a cupful and serve to the invalid as chicken broth. llesinol t c'd wonders for me. IV hy not try it yourself? There are certain times during youth when the skin is inclined to break out, become pimply, red and rough. Such blemishes are usually noticed during the change from boyhood to runliood, from girlhood to woman .J. Great care should be taken lest (his condition become chronic. The continued use of Resinol Oint ment and Resinol Soap during such limes seldom fail to reduce the in flamed spots, thus rendering the afflic tion less conspicuous. At all druggists. Birthday Luncheon. Mrs. O. A. Mitchell entertained the Tri-Citv Birthday club at lunch- ' eon at her home in Bellevue Wednes day. Covers were laid for the fol lowing guests: Women who Rive nature a helping hand during the period of expectancy find that when the time arrives for baby'a coming it is approached and passed with infinitely less pain and danger. Thousands of women for over half a j century have learned that in the time hon i ored preparation. Mother's Kriend, they nave a grateful, relaxing, penetrating rem- edy. the use of which makes it possible for them to go through childbirth without the usual nausea, nervousness, bearing-down and stretching pains, and that through its use the hours at the crisis are fewer and of much less pain and danger. Mother's Friend penetrates the muscles, rendering them pliant and easily governed by the demands of nature. They relax gently and bring happy days and calm, restful nights. As the result the crisis is passed with greater ease and in less time, the breasts are kept in good condition and the skin is mad and kept soft and free from blemishes. Write to the Bradfield Regulator Com pany, Dept. P., Lamar Building, Atlanta, Georgia, for their Motherhood Book, and obtain a bottle of Mother's Friend from your drufrtrit today and -thoroughly forti tr yourself for the coming event. Adv. Mesdamei W. A. Wilcox Tyson J. H. Plckard K. H. Lulkhart J. 8. Wood Miss Helen Howes. Mesdaraea Mitchell B. B. Comb Robert Beasley Robert Person E. A. Mason Recital Tea. Mrs. Henry Cox entertained pu pils from her primary and inter mediate classes, and their friends, at a recital tea on Friday afternoon. Some of Mr. Cox's younger stu dents assisted. Those taking part in the program were: num jsemner Giblet Gravy. Boil the heart, liver and gizzard until tender and chop finely. When the chicken is sufficiently roasted set it on another pan, turn off the heat and leave the oven door open Put the roasting pan on top of the stove with the drippings it contains and add to it the water in which the giblets were boiled and one-half a cupful of water in which was blended a tablespoon of flour. Cook this, stirring constantly until thick and brown, season, add the chopped giblets and serve in a gravy boat. Creamed Chicken With Mushrooms. Peel half a pound of fresh mush rooms and fry them in butter in a saucepan, tossing them to prevent overcooking. Drain them into bowl, keeping back the remaining butter in which they were fried; to this add two cupfuls of milk, heat to the boiling point, then put in one- half cupful of water in which two tablespoonfujs of flour have been blended" to a smooth paste. Season with salt and pepper and boil until sufficiently thick. Add to the sauce the mushrooms and the cold boiled chicken which has been previously diced. Heat well and serve in pastry shells or ramekins. Chicken Maryland. Take two small chcickens, cut off their wings and legs and season them with salt and oeoDer. Dip the portions in beateen egg and roll in finely sifted bread crumbs. .Tlace them on a well creased pan. pour over them some melted butter and roast in the oven for 18 minutes. Have ready half a pint of cream sauce, pour it on a hot dish, arrange the chicken on top and garnish with six slices of broiled bacon and six small corn fritters. All states now admit women to the practice of law. Lady Rhondda. 'Britain's leading business woman," is a director in more than forty great corporations engaged in mining, manufacturing, transportations or other lines in in dustry. Alma B rummer Ethel Cressler Maria Gorman Winifred Hood George Mlckel, Jr. Harvey Pinto 8herman Pinto Loretta Madison Elizabeth Ryner Eleanor Ryner Cleda Strawn liecella Strawn Elizabeth Strawn Mary Jane Bwett Margaret Townsend Ardlth Towns Janet Wilcox Box Parties. Many parties will be given fhr the concert by Lucy Gates, under the , r Amber Marmalade 1 small pineapple 1 grapefruit. chopped tine. 1 orange. All sliced thin, or run through the grinder. Use three bowls of cold water to one of mixed fruit and let stand over night. The next mofhing boil hard for 15 minutes. (It is better to divide in several ket tles.) Let stand 24 hours. Meas ure . equal parts of sugar and fruit. Boil from one to one and one-half hours or until it jellies. NTB. The: above can readily be made as given, omitting the pineapple when they are not ob tainable. Editor. By A. K. I am painting a picture A wonderful picture With a mental brush And my colors are Drawn from A deep fount of Imagination From which the last Color is never Drawn because They are always Filling in Where I take out. This painting is A wonderful picture of My future and Life hereafter And the journey of My soul and self And in it is A glimpse of Heaven And also a little Bit of hell But the picture is The only thing that Makes life worth The living And yet I know That the picture will Never be complete For that is life To paint and paint Upon the same old Canvas . And find at the end Of each day The same Old canvas still But greater than all The marvelous Masterpieces Stands out by itself My own amateurish Efforts because they Speak of future Days and hope and Love and song and ' Happiness - And success. Crude and unfinished . My picture stands With each days' Efforts added My little glimpse Of Heaven and Hell And yet I am not So sure that Old Omar didn't have The right idea For he lived in the Today And let Tomorrow go hang. Omar never painted a Picture -Of his' future And so he died, After living long, Without having to face His canvas And without knowing What A poor painter he MIGHT HAVE BEEN. ; ui i Y; ! ..... j : - ? 1 " ; - ' ' t : f : s p? n;Y- ) : ;t s ' i I I t ' , - 1 ' ;. . ji BnfOM Bo JjJifeJ hy Irma H Gross ROVSZHQID ARTS VEPT CSJfTfAZ HWH -SCHOOL 1 0 Mme. Marie Augustine Lebaudy, who shot and killed her husband, Jacques Labaudy, known as the hmperor ot Sahara, in tneir nome at Westbury, L. I., photographed after she had been freed by the grand jury at Mineola, L. I. "No indictment," was the verdict of the grand jury. Mme. Lebaudy and her pretty daughter, Jacqueline, returned to their home, Phoenix Lodge, im mediately after the verdict. Mme. Lebaudy has no plans for the imme diate future, according to a- state ment made by her lawyer. The Heart of Woman By Theodosia Garrison. When down the mud-black Flanders road The ranks file by, You know not that I walk with you, But there am I. You limp a little laugh, and do not care It is my feet that leave the blood stains there. Through all the fury and the flame, The hate and wrath, Through all the ways of dread and pain, I share your path. You take it as the day's work un dismayed, It is my flesh that shrinks and is afraid. There is no burden on your strength I do not bear, There is no horror that you face But I am there. There is no wound that you may ever know But that my heart is shattered by the blow. A -f f Qvnnnn Too ?i America has never appreciated the afternoon tea habit as our English cousins have for many generations. If one ever realizes how delightful it is to relax at five o'clock and share a cup of tea with a friend, the habit will surely grow. Or as a simple method of entertain ing, nothing is more agree able than to have a group of friends gathered over the teacups. When more than a few are assembled, the afternoon tea loses some of its intimate charm, but it still is a pleasant function. Serving the Tea. The tcaball.is the nicest method of making tea if only two or three cups are to be served; but when many are to be made, some other way must be employed. A tea service, from which one may pour in the serving room, is probably the most attractive way to serve tea, but all of us are not the happy owners of such a service. If the tea is made "behind the scenes," it is probably best to brew a small quantity of very strong tea, say use 2 table spoons to the cup of water; then put a small amount of this tea essence in the cup as needed and fill the cup with freshly boiling water. An other way of serving a large num ber with their varying tastes, is to tie one teaspoon of tea loosely into a small square of new thin white material, and leave one end of the ribbon, with which the cloth is tied, long. Place this tiny bag of tea on the saucer, and fill the cup with freshly boiling water. Then each guest brew a cup of tea to suit her own fancy. Dainties to Serve With Afternoon Tea. A simple wafer or biscuit is always satisfactory especially as the tea hour is close to the dinner hour; but for special one may like to in clude a fancier titbit. A simple sandwich is always good, especially a sweet sandwich. A cooky or small cake is served in preference to a slice of a large cake. The usual candies and nuts are often included Marshmallow Wafers. Dent a marshmallow by Dressing. on it as hard as you can, with the handle of a knife. Put in this dent a piece of butter about the size of half a pea, and place the marsh mallows on a square cracker laid on an unbuttered tin. Put it in the oven until it puffs up and browns Co-Operation Miss Gross will be very glad to receive suggestions for the home economics column or to answer, as far as she is able, any ques tions that her readers may ask. slightly. Remove from the oven, and, as it grows cold, place in the dent a piece of a candied cfierry. Raisin Cream Fingers. J Spread raisin bread with the fill ing below, make into sandwiches, then cut into slender fingers. Cream Filling. V, e. butter or ole-1 eKg white, tin- omargarlns. beaten, 1 c. powdered sugar. 1 t. vanilla. Cream fat, add sugar and other ingredients. Cocanut Tea Cakes. Roll pie crust to one-fourth inch thickness. Shape with a cutter and bake in a hot oven. When nearly done remove from oven, cool slightly, brush over with slightly beaten egg white, sprinkle with shredded cocanut and return to oven to finish baking. Raspberry Puffs. Roll pie crust one-eighth inch thick, and cut in pieces four by three and one half inches. Put one half tablespoon raspberry jam on each square, fold over, and pinch edges together. Bake in a hot oven. Cheese Wafers. (To be served hot preferably.) Put grated cheese on a square wafer, sprinkle with paprika, and toast in a moderate oven till cheese melts. Chinese Sandwiches. Cream cheese, Thin slices of gin. crystallised ginger, gerbread, (a day shredded old). Sweet oream. Moisten the cheese with cream till of the right consistency to spread on the gingerbread. Cut into tiny squares. Nut Biscuit. (To be served hot. 1 e. flour, s T. fat, 4 t. baking powder, 4 c. milk, 2 T. sugar, H o. chopped nut. 14 t. salt. Sift dry ingredients, rub in fat, then add nuts, and lastly milk, to make a soft dough. More or less may be used.) Make into biscuits as usual and cut out with a tiny cutter. Serve with jam or niarma lade. Child Runs Great Risk in Allowing Itself Born Into Average Home And if from out the Sower's hand ' Your life is thrown A seed against the harvest there I too am sown. You will attain the Grail in the last breath, t But I shall only know the sting of death. And if at last at last you come To home to me, -Only the woman that you left i our eyes will see. And you will never know I enter, too, And share the rapture of return with you. Good Housekeeping. For seventeen years Mrs. Mary Demarest has been president of the State bank in Pretty Prairie, Kas., and in all that time, she says, the bank has never had a loss, has never foreclosed a mortgage and has never employed a lawyer. Annual Report of Y. W. The annual meeting of the Y. W. C. A. was held in the association auditorium at 8:15 Monday evening. Mrs. G. F. Gilmore, president of the association, presiding. Rev. Paul Calhoun gave the invocation. The West sisters orchestra fur nished music for the evening. Com munity singing was led by Mr. Pat rick O'Neill with Miss Grace Stern berg at the piano and the West sis ters orchestra. Mrs. Grace Ford Gholson, the speaker of the even ing, was then introduced. Mrs. Gholson sooke of the sDlendor of 1919, the splendid work done by the Y. W. C. A. during the war per iod and the great future for the work. Instead of reports being given by departmental chairmen, girls repre enting the different departments gave the reports. Miss Ruth Paddock spoke for the religious education department. Miss Mae. Leach SDoke very en thusiastically tor the gymnasium and gave the enrollment for the year as 525. The extension and industrial de-l partment was represented by one of the club girls. Miss Anine Johnson spoke of what the clubs meant to the girls in the way of friendship, ideals, service and good times, the goal for another year to be 600 girls. Miss Martha Helms gave an inter esting account of the work of the Gym Athletic club. This club has a membership of 75 girls who have won honors in the gym, their pur pose is to boost the gym and the summer camp, they spent over $725 on camp improvements last year, this money was raised or given by the girls themselves. Miss Grace Hollen SDoke for the free employment department, where luya girls and women had been placed in positions during the past year. She spoke of what the de partment had meant to her in the way of friendship and kindly advice. Miss Grace Vodicka told of the value of the Y. W. C. A. camp, Camp Brewster, to the employed girls in the city. 1550 different girls used the camp last summer. Mis Beiilali Hall gave an inter esting account of the work of the Business Woman's club, with its 149 members, of their SDlendid . nro grams, Red Cross, and other lines ot social service worki Miss Louise Matthews, represent ing the High School Student clubs spoke most enthusiastically of the Y. W. C. A. and what it meant to her coming to the city from a small town. She said in conclusion that without the Y. W. C. A. she would feel like a ship without a rudder, Other statistics of associated work were given by Mrs. G. F. Gilmore, The traveler's aid department enter. ing upon its tenth year of service, showed-during the past year 4,500 aided in some way at the Union sta tion The following board members were elected for a term of three years: Mrs. G. F. Gil more, Mrs. C. O. Rich, Mrs. Edward Johnson, Mrs. C. K. Smith, Mrs, Harry Tukey, Mrs, Geo. H. Payne. Two hundred were present at the meeting. The campaign for funds for the regular work ot the x. W. c A. will take place in conjunction with the Y. M. C. A. and is called the "double triangle campaign" from the em blems of the two organizations. This will be held February 3, 4 and 5. Jellied Chicken. A delicious supper dish. Boil a young fowl until tender, having cut it into sections, and cook with it one onion, celery, parsley salt and a dash of red pepper. Strain, cool and remove the meat from the bones. Throw all the skins and bones back into the chicken stock and boil slowly for another hour. Then strain through a fine hair strainer, and set to cool. Rtmove the fat when it has hardened but before it jellies on top and pour about two inches deep into a large mould. When firm ar range a layer of slices of breast and pour on more stock, then chicken and so on until the mould is full. It is. of course, necessary too make this Wish a' day in advance so as to allow 'the jelly to harden well Turn it out on a dish at the last By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. Have you ever thought what a tremendous risk a child runs in al lowing itself to be born and there after become a member of an aver age household? Remember, that the child has no way of knowing what it. is letting itself in for. The household may be one where the child will be given plenty of room to be himself in, to find a 24-hour-a-day happiness. Or it may be one where the grim people in au thority were themselves born grown up, and who therefore believe in suppressing all infancy. The new born baby may find it self in the control of . parents who regard children as a lower and tub ject race. Or it may alight among elders who believe that children are human beings like themselves. But it's all so uncertain that one wonders that the little creatures have the courage to be born at all. Isn't it time that all parents had an understanding as to the part chil dren should play in the homer We've all heard a great deal about the old fashioned idea of "keeping children in their place." This meant speaking only when they were spok en too, eating what was set before them and being whipped if thpy wandered into any interesting little y-path of their own discovering. Being a child in those days must have been a state that one hurried to grow out of with all one's might and main. Simple friendly New England households used to say in regard to a young girl who came to do the housework that they made her "one of the family." It seems to me that this is al most more than could be said of the old-fashioned child, trained as he was to believe himself the inferior of all adults. They simply didn't make him one of the family. Juvenile Despotisms. On the other hand we have seen households where the children re duced their elders to a most unbe coming, grovelling sort of slavery, and disagreeably held the position of tyrants households where par ents had to plead for a chance to talk or think or pursue their affairs. fheres not much happiness tor anybody in such a state of things as that. But there's still another way of handling the child question and I think it is the only way that pro duces a really happy household. This means treating children as it they could reason which they can. It gives them their own tair share of tne tamny responsioiiuies. n means running the household, not like a prison, but like a club. Try it, and see how it works. Shall I explain a little? Parents who. believe in managing their families on the club principle resist the temptation of prolonging the babyhood of their children. And it is a temptation. When these boys and girls are six years old they are not treated as if they were three. Their intelligence is respected. Their queer, new little personalities which probably aren t a bit like tneir parents', are respected, too, and so is their right to express themselves. Another thing these parents 1 am speaking of try n)t to do is to seize the whole house for themselves and keep it unnaturally orderly and oth erwise impossible to p'.ay in, banish ing the children to a few untidy corners. These people see that the only infinite and live with you, is to di vide up your home with them. Does not that seem 'reasonable? They give their youngsters just as much space and sunshine as they have themselves, and let them do as they like in it so long as the club rules, that is the family rules, are follow ed. . , You will probably ask where th rules come from. That's very im portant. The parents and children make, them together. The children who are old enough, that is. Once in a while they have a family coun cil and talk things over and decide what to do about everything. Some of the best suggestions come from the children. Make Their Own Rules. When boys and girls make the household rules themselves, it's not a great hardship to keep them. And they're simple rules, anyway. Then, finally, these parents seri ously take their children into their confidence, and I assure you . that this is a magical thing to' do. Do you remember how, in your own childhood, father and mother were jealqus custodians of all ;'ie family secrets? and how you felt that pretty nearly everything that was interesting was kept from you, as a matter of course? Do you remember the blank cur tain that your elders used to let fall over their faces when you entered the room, and the whispering that went on behind these curtains, and they used to spell to each other aloud? So that if a little sister was com ing or lather had lost his position and was hard up these were mat ters that they took any amount .of time and trouble to keep from you, and that you had to ferret out for yourself and then act as if you were as ignorant as they supposed you to be? And you see now, of course, that that wasn't the most reasonable way of conducting a home. Of course, most children now-a-days aFf told when little brothers and sisters are on the way. It saves unnecessary mystery; it gives them the pleasure and excitement of an ticipation, and it leads them to be more tender and considerate of mother than they might be other wise, But why not tell them such othei things as they are able to under stand ? If, for instance, Cousin Mar garet is lonely and you think you ought to ask her to come live with you, ask the children to talk this over and cast their vote. Let the Children Vote. Then why not tell them frankly what the family financial status is? Let them know if you are hard up. If you can either have a servant all the year, or else go to the country in the summer, get the children t help you decide which is most im portant. You see, children have usually ever so much more understanding than their parents give them credit for. So, if they are forced to pre tend they are babies while they are in the house, it's not surprising if they turn their intelligence to mis chievous ends when they get out side. We have all heard parents won der what they can do to keep their fast growing boys and girls content edly at home. Well, make them feel it's their home as well as yours. If thev r at liberty to follow their own cur- suns ircciy, wunoui oemg continual ly repressed, and to invite thfir mnment and carnih with CrisD ..... p . r . i f- j ..!. .i ,-, white lettuce leaves and mayon- square way to oo, u you nave mvn- intnuj wuen mcy nue, tney wiU liaise, ea nine peopie iu ionic uui ui uh.uinj iw siau iu bi inert.
