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H—u 2 Sohame- ]'ha! _Realty Appeals, aga” observed (Jaih')mler of the | chdn cigar store us le submitted a Rendful of tempting Havanas for the | approval of the Old Omlvm:r, suys B'Irlftr “Yiés, I bélleve the tendeticy of ‘the uin ¥ toward a longer spam of hu- mardiite” replied the 0Old Custohier prisy ‘Jeems surprlaln' " continued Cash, any puuple there are in this 1 was readin’ 'bout one gny yéung blide out in- Kentifoky who suys he's- tergét: whethier he's' 120 on the | 30th 190 ‘on ‘the 20th, but anyhol, he’ says, I'feel jest u young as I ever dlid, if not more o, and my only phyllcu defect, 'he says, is dandryff. no!neg'mie in Missourl oiibtful; experiment, ‘an’ he says he ai’t lon [y nlxht‘l sl:ep since the elec- tion ot Andy Jackson, exceptin’ when hé was’ teethin’ fer the third time. An’ up im New Epgland there's an- othlr onq J{ these here boy wonders roundin’ intg the:full glory of his | E;pecu to begin shavin’ an’“git into long pants before long Says hol smoked all his Jife an’ | coupons, md nom the way now he's” phnnln' to turn vulolypode. An’ there's lot more I see, referred papers, X 1&91 done it. But the big b iof 'em all, une guy ,that mg the ildnt lnh.yl(um tadly 10l muthor of darling I m".rowln" old. tAccordin’ te.my ling of dope the P the ‘sumoke- 1k unablé to pénetrate the | clouds. ‘For séveral years there had the. pext generatiou . re,:urt to of stilts fer to hold onto mam- Skirta., A’ why do we see ¥o y members of the sterner sex sud- hrclk n\lq, in l;l;h’lflwul .'unery | Inu(_, natural. hair_dye?. Yes, body wants to be Methusaleh the ud, an' they's only one way to do “Pave them birds In congress pass mcndnunl: pEohobitin’, aJl }urth- orld, Into hallevii’ T am., A’ I'm l;om\ 1, that I'p goln’ to !, a8 much llke a as 1 ko sit. n\ly with yoynger.than every other woinan. It's aystem’ all humanlty's bein" cryln’ ike o thief in the h Arusing, bt ‘What Absut Musicians? " An lw{»hem!ed s¢ene was enacted during. the - production of the revue "‘)gfi'lh e’ at the Tivoll Misic hall at Hull, Efgland: - -A-spectacular fen- rabéitn e Freatiglnss. tank, sald'to hold 20,000 gallons: of -water,..in -which “bathing belles” disport themselves. As LWe tank was being prepared for the peftérinuncs (thie | rear.side burst and whtar “flosded<the stage, . The. revue -HI‘N: peampered off, but many lof the mqllclns were- drenched.. The -water Jsx:way to the basement beneath n» athge,—and stood, at such -u level | thatithe srcliestis, on an elevated plat- | form“had: o play with their feet in seyéral inches of water when they re: turned to their phuces: The consterna- tion- of th udience .gave way to anfugement:wlien the orchestra . was ovépwheimed,© The buthing scene, of course; hxd to he abundoned, 1§ S efl FI' Wolvgs by Jaekrabbfl yndup, Hant.—-. .H Wl;lu, a. rancher in - the .Cameron €reek district, while. walking ticad; thatstwo welves. were Lol n & stone as. avelahie:ag A W ave himself up for lost. v near, ready 1ek vabbit jumped denly nlmndunfll wan, meat to .lve chase ;to the jack. White is now unyhm a gun. try - today that ‘knowed Wnsmng-‘ +| niture of the Pligrim Century” Fiftéen yeuars ago this young wman was selling newspapers. Then he be- came a messenger boy, an oftice boy, stock boy and a salesman. Recently he, Lawreuce Quigley, was inaugurat- ed_as mayor of Chelsea, Mass, is but twenty-eight years of age. Five years ago he was elected to the Mas. sachusetts general court (legislature), belng the “licuse baby”, He resigned during the war to enter the navy. Citizen of Big City Secrstly Proud of What Visitors Universally Denom- inate a Nuisance. The “London particular,” the blind- ing, choking, solid, yellow fog, the Londoner’s pride and the visitor's de- spalr, has come back into its own, London’s fog 18 not the soft, moist, | gray mist that haugs over an American city In wet weather. It may be abso- lutely dry or as wet as rain Itself. It may envelop all of Lendon, a blanket that recedes unwillingly, step by step, |as a pedestrian advances. It-may envelop one or a dozen sec- tlons, when it may be seen in the dis- tanee; and Is stepped Into as definitely as one steps Into a doorway. ‘Wahatever the real “London particte lar's” character, it is a real fog; ard when 1t comes trains stop or slow to a nervous cruwl and stréet trafiic 1s -l' but haited, N “Plig” Loudon'"fog ' comes with ihe aitumn’ and earl) wintet, when ‘fires| are liglited in 2,000,000 fireplaces ‘and | not-been much fog; last yeur there | was alinost nove. This year it 18 back, and ‘the Londoner, cursing it when it wmakes him an hour late for work, se- orétly” hugs It to his breast—lie | qouldn't help it If he wanted to—and glowts over it ms part of his herituge. | No one knows where it passed its va- /| cution. MANY ADULTS TOY WRECKERS Fathers, Mothers, and Uncles, All Too Fond of Trifing With the Chil. dren’s Playthings. Fathers and uncles have always made it a practice to play with' little Willie's mechunicul toys at Christmas time untll they were broken, frequently permitting. Willle_to look on ‘merely, while a group of adults manipulated the toys all Christuas day, But what happened to little Willle was a2 nothing to, the wrongs prac- ticed by mothers who have purchused walking dolls for their little girls, A little girl whose fawily had been making entlrely, unsuccessful efforts % conceal the ante-Yuletide presence ip the howe of a walklng doll came out with the whole history of the case one._ evenlng. “Afe jou going to show “her lhq walking doll?” she usked wistfully, mmmtlnz & dinner guest as the ‘“hes” in question, Father und mother looked at each’ other aghast. Theoretically the little glil was not. supposed to know there . wag o walking doll, In the house until Santa - Claus, Introduced them. Tact- fully they ignored the question. “Bedtime, dear,” suggested mother | sweetly, But the little xl;l had_reached the end of her endnrance. Desperately she turned to the guest: *“liey play wich it every night after 1 g0 to bed,” she walled. Defends Puritan Architecture. Wallace Nuttings' book on' “Fur- Is un argumient to disprove the fallacy that the Purltans were insensible to beauty and art. Of the rugged substantial prelies of their building, Mr. Nulting says, “There Is soHdity-in them, durability, freedom from caprice, uud an expres- ston of that sober rationulity every: where charncteristlc of the Puritan genlus, “Kor mlupmllun to climate, v\l'ar use, of _nccessible’ niaterials, inner com venience obtained - at. low cost. and freedom from discordant lines, Puritan damestic . nrehitecture, deserves -high pridses . . N2 . 7 This is no less true of thelr furni- ture uccessories.* It is wrong to as- ’nume that thelr austerity and sim- | plicity were forced upon them by mere | hardship. Rather were they the out- ward expression of au Inner nobllity and spivitual exaltation. | SMALL APP. '_ President of the League Foresees Na- He | LONDON FOG BACK ON JOB' B RADIO TESTS PLEASE MAXIM Ocean by Amateurs Is Revolutionary, ATUS 1S USED tions Drawn: Closer by Wirsless Bonds—Amateurs Develop Super-skill. New York.—The success of amateur. wireless operators in this country and Canada In sending signals and mes- sages to Scotland in the week's tests recently will be revolutionary- in its effect on .wireless communicatlon, ac- cording to Percy Hiram Maxim, presl- dent of the American Radlo -Relay league, througli which the tests were made. Amateurs had believed: that some of them would crash through to the other side, -but that many of them would ‘do so night after night:was. al- most more than they had hoped for. Use' Littie Power. { The technical significance of the per— formance lies in the abliity shown to make low-powered instruments do the work which in’ large. commercial sta- tions requires puwerful apparatus, Less than one kilowatt was used by the amateurs in trausmitting thregq sig- nals over thousands of miles of land and sea—for some of thoge_far in the interlor of the country got across—- whereas the large stations use from 100 to 200 kilowatts. In some weath: er that would nof check the more pow- fail, but some of their work. under conditigns that were far from 1deul. were able to_reach ‘Scotland,, where Paul E, Godley, the officidl recelver for the league, was stationed, was due part- ly to the relation, not always realfzed, whicli . Britaip _occupies to Amerfes, The geueral, direction from points n this country Is northeast. Signals f from New England pass” over the mqrmme proyinces of Canada, and’ those from Denver pasg over l{udson bay. . Mr. Godley expressed the beliet that he- cause of better. refraction and, reflec: tion inland” stations had .as.good 8 chance of getting over as_ North At. lantle stations, . This proved to be the case ~: Proyed lt‘cauld “Our lixc raddo Muxim, could span -the ou.-nn, und proved that it gould be'd menns the coming’ of ¢itizen comimints cation between Eugland and Awmerica, the comling ‘of the 'day when fhe peo: ple of one country' can tal 'to’:one suother and discuss momentous ‘at- lte or guvernmenml nxendu. What' this means for the (hvelnpment of un- derstandings and lm\uloulonn relation- ship can be’ better lmugined ‘than de- scribed. - 1t turns “one’s ‘tHoughts. to, the recent discussions by Mr. Wells' in his story of the ideal relationships between the peoples of the, world. “It is only a matter of time when this wireless wlegmph ronuuunlcaflnn will be followed by lcluphonlc cumv’ munication, and when’ citizens of one couniry may talk with the citizeiis of gitother country without any check upon their freedom of specch. “The great thing about this test is that it was doné by amateurs; their nioney and contidence put it’ through, They have developed mmerlklll in operating and supersensitiveness in ap paratus, I think it will be a great sur. prise to’ all the wireless men of the world, from Murconl to the experts or the great private cmnpanleq. The an teur's uppiratus’ has’ be devel. oped on the basis of love for his work; It is not the perfunctory, al- though skliltul, pmturmm\ce of the hired employee.” ‘The Radio league 18" dhlded into several divisions covering’ the qnlh-. country, and there a 20,000 amateur statlons opernting In it. Kach ai- vision has a manager, an asgistant manager’ and’ district superintendents, who develop* long “distance lines of comnuniieation aud allot hours. for local and long distance transmissiom, Touring 'Devastated Areas. Large numliers of tourfsts-have been kefenly . disappoinfed during the last year by tlie ruins of:the war, Several have gone' so.far as to.say that they: were ‘persuaded to visit the French battletields! by- frundpient statements. Not: onl¥ido they thul the battfetields W' mere few miles In widih In spots, but they find grass and dowers growing all bver them, so that-in many places; the; seem qiité chicery, Instead of havii the offensively that vne is led:to expect from reading war books, © Some-tourists have beeén so. sadly disillusioned that they say they; will never believe anything else they lhear about the war; while others speak of the war with open contempt: Congervative students of the tourist! problemn agree that a new war ouglit tu be staged for the special benefit of these people. Unfortunately they are of a type that is never seen ou battle- neth K. Roberts in ihe Saturday Eve- nlog Post, Devlares Spaniing of Atiantio | erful stations they would, of course, | was done | fairs without the Intermedllly of pllfx» | lesolate appearance: fields until wars are over, writes Kea- | That stations a§ far, west .as oo ! B tract schools, will be impossible. < ‘. ;| doff- Astoria hotely two wars, 5 Marjorié Rambeau Stars at Ball Given | | American Leg!nu British Legion Secures Promise From flovornm t to Give Employment Formlr Soldiers. The British ‘u‘|bn. formed from three veteran organizatlons with con- stitution and by-laws modeled after the “American ' Legh ‘has ‘secured & | proniise from the English government that' in-public Works for the benefit of the unemployed 75 per 'cent of the Jobs ‘shall -be given ex-service men. ‘With King ‘George’s approval, the Leglon works “through Brjtain’s con- sulates und ‘all employers showing a préference for ex-service men are per: mitted a special seal and their names are inscribed on the King'sRoll, The Brit h Leglon. sponsored by | Field Marshal Halg, came into belng in July, 1619, It has 1,300 postl and a memhemllp “running “into’ mllllons.‘ is nonsectuhnn, nonpolitical and “one | of ity ideals {8 the sanctifying “of our, comradeship by *devotlon to mutunl‘ h It is pre- to’ 8 end unemployed ex-service | me to British. Columbla and Austra- lia, where they will be welcomed.{ “The' ultlmlto goal of the Legion,” | i says Lorc[ Haig, “must be t)le uplift- Ing of the whole empire, the eruung of a happler and more God-fearing community.” ! 'TO AiD THE’ EX-SERVICE MEN | zona and New Mexico; in Kansas there Job Is to Speed Up ureau Work in District. Lubricating.ti#: machinery ‘now in motion to the L'l' ¢ of veterans in New York, New Jersey, ! and *Connectlcut, | is the task as- signed to Henry G..Opdycke. His Job will be to ¥ speed up the work of the Unjted States ett bureau in the sec- ond district, where been’ ap- manager. ™ _“Service for the ex- urvlce man” is an- war has been active in the Broadway post of the American Legion. In his| plan to rehabilltate the soldier he alms | to bring the school, work directly un- | der government supervision so that exploitation of veterans, through con- | The new appointee is a veteran of ! LIKED" IN°ROLE OF “VICTORY” by the Legion at Waldort Anorll Hotel. pla, and,, other - good . she: was chosen to play the part of Vlntorx None of the many . social stage stars who appeared there in’ the. historical: pageant had a. more ngreeablé part to play than Miss | Riimbenir;: and persons attending:- the; ball noticed thiat her “eyes of youth” | were purtlcnlnrly bright and victori- | ous' on that! occasiofi. ™ New Yq}rk ? N _Carrying. On With the American’ Legion” The town of s:. Charles, Mlnn‘, has received @ fully - equlp rest room | rrom the annl Au{mnry ot the | elq ., the city, of Ohristopher, 11, by “th local post of the Awmerican Legion, s.e . | Soon Quq\rlq plmm to abnndo pwl mo‘snlonul army,, subsm\ltlng a paid militia a six_ months’ trafo: | ing ,period for a limited number ol! recruits, o 0 hemmal Oklahoma is p!mmlni the erectlon | u(’ a balf million dollar triumphal I‘ . i Oklahoma City, 1o honor of | (lm 1000 ex-service men of that cl(y] who dled fn the World wnr. i sw) Secreury of \\'nr Weeks has ap- Drowd & new.style cap for army. of-; 1 called - the “l‘oruhu,g‘ cap,”, vliur s longe The top is an inch broader uud slightly | When first” you choose. some easy Ahm i higher, il i J\: 3 mudnued by “the d. & ;er-m‘ bureau af the State hosgl-| é top crimjnal, Insane, Dannemora, Yai gd;, 48, ptaemce men i hqld jnc éggg_gg& for crimex ranging | rrom simple, unnlL (o wanslaughter.- All such qwu will e exdmined and if their disability is found to be a re- sult 6f thelr war.service they ‘will benefit by the reljef provided by the goverament for bureau anaounces, i - JOBS GO TO EX.SERVICE MEN| | | In the same manuer as.da; ! ware, Kansas, Maryland, Nebraski, v‘ work in certain mcupnnom elght, consecutive hours, Delawa) | Maryland ; limit _hours 1to’ eight .and . ments only...; 2 ( | syomen, | sota, North anotl. Kapsas, Arkansas; ’Is a. mandatory :minimim wage::law. | But with the ‘care you give your hair | But mo:;‘of all, whén' fifst you call ,} OF WOMEK VARY ing Labor ot 8,000,000 Wage Earners. ._‘..._ ND LT N FIVE STITES th_lila(lonl on Night Employment— | 8outh Dakota Has 7Q-Hour Week | “—Minimum Wage Lawa in Force In Some States. New York.—wllh more, than, 8,000 000 women “galntnlly occupied” In the | Tnited States. the legal. status of women as employees becomes a matter of Increasing fmportance to industry, accord&ng to a statement lsuued by, the { National, Industrial Conference' buard “According to the most recent offi- clal summaries, daily working hours for. women in the United States are limited,” the statement says, “as fol lows: “To eight hours in the District of | Columbla,. Colorado, California, Wash. ington, Montana, Nevada, Utah, Arl- is a law. providing punitive overtime tor work over eight or nine hours, ac: cording to, the industry; to el and | one-halt hours'ln'\orlh ‘Dakota; to nine . hours In. Massachuset New York, M(lue. Ohlo, Michigan, Mlune- sota, Missouri, . Arkansas, A Nebras) Oklaloma, Texas, Idaho and Oregon, to.ten hours ip Pennsylvania, Connecti- cut, Rhode Isiand, New Jersey, Mary- land,.Yirginia, l\mtuck). Georgia, Mis- stssippl, Louisiana, Iilingls, Wisconsin, South Dakota Illd Wyoming; to. ten and one-half hours in Tennessee ‘and Vermont; to eleven hours, in North Carolina; to. tw Caroling, whil exist, In Towa, lmi: “Thege lutfer five states’ have np limitation in the weekly working hours "The' itatlon i& prescribed in Cnllfnrmu, Oregon, Ut h and, South, Dakota is A()hqyn a we , Notth Carolipd, Virgifiia -nn d 80 hours ; 0. Vemwut, Wash: ontana, Nevads,’, Colorada, he a(hman a§ to wee K1y 'efore, much greater, than riation as to “dally hours, “Night wul‘k for. nln hll m'y only. in Massuclmsens, Pennsyl\nnll and Ind)uuu in ‘mercan- tlle employment. only in_South Caro- lna;. for railrond and, street rallwuy ticket sellers only in Oblo; in the Dis: triet of (,olumbla the number of hours that may-be worked at pight is limited \\ork. Control of Nigl "Stnte wntrol of in 14 states; Delu- New Hampshire and Wisconsin llmlt the nl;ht hours. of nfl Kansas, Masi braska, New York, Oleg,on. Pennsy vauia, South.Carolina, Utah and Wis- consin prohIMt wopien - from night ‘Wiscon- sin;and Nebraska lUmit night work fo nd fucther spegify (lefmna hours as ul;lnt hours. Kansas, New Hampshire and Wisconsin limit night hours toeight. and weekly . night work to 48 hours. The number of occuputions;covered is, | as.a-rule,’small. . Jndian: Pennsyl- vania . cover mfinuhcwrlng establish- “Mundatory. mlnlm'um vage laws tor vithirates' fixed :by; & commis- #iofi are in farce;in Wisconsin, Minne- Colorado, *© Washington; ; Pregon . and California; in Utah and -Arizona’ there with the wage fixed by law; in Massa. chusettsithere is a minimum wage: fixed by a.commission, but inot mandatory; n-all: of the-other states.there. is no law” vk ADVANCING YEARS. When fxst sou find within yoyr mind Yor quiet foys a preference;. . .- | or when, again, some.younger mén First treat Your views with déference; ‘When you'll confess to-moré or less Political perplexity— When first you gape adown your shape AU manifest couvexity; That strlke your wife as hideous; You're more, not. less fastidjous; When first You feel your bldod congeal ‘Fo'hear an unlicked jaddfe call “Qll-fashioned guff”/theidaring stuft That you considersd radical— Will -“undetmine soclefy;™ 34 ‘When first you say some modern way .. t A; new idea “Impiety;"’, .. . i You are not old—your heart {s bold— | You've courage, strength, abllity- Yet you have passed the peak at-last— You're headed for sentiity! ~Ted Robinson, in Cleveland Plain Dealer, | vaiids ind bore & mm food value. nd compiict- | .Connecticut, Delaware, In. e Writer Who Claims to_Know -Points Out’ Error'to Whleh Lost Per- . «sons_Are Inclined, The recent dlgbnvé(y of the skeleton of a lost ¢hild on the summit of the highest _mountain in the Bennachie group lu Aberdeenshire holds no mys- tery for an Australian bushman. The skéleton is supposed to be that of a_two-year-old_child 1ot seven years ago from a farm two miles nway. and at the time of the dlslppemnce there were apparently ‘a nuinber of theories | put._forward for the loss—that the child had been stolen by gypsies, eaten alive, by pigs or carn ed away by m em.le/ | But hnd a' m-n erppr‘lenced in un Dbecome of the, |lost” fofant he wi have sald, “Search all ‘the- highest polnta within' a few miles, and oo one of them, un-' less he has perished on. the Iwny. yo will find ‘the lost child.” . In._countries ke A\Iat e, there are suu vas P settled country, the dnnzer ‘of “getting bushed,” as it is called, 5 still & ‘real one. It is not ulvmys chfldren who wllat wns Tikely. to ha demented, as hie grows more exha and the ' Tealization of his. probabl fate becomes more clear. two before he succym! of his clotlies. The majority of lost people are foynd. naked. L. It may happen that somébody who reads this article may one day be lost. Here, then is a plece of advice from one with a right to give it._ / Directly you'réalize that. you are lost sit:down untll the first panic has departed.” Remember that your-first censideration is- to reserve your strength. You will De tempted to go up hill, to see, to get Into freer spices, Don't do this. Go down hill. All rivers flow downward; you will- find, water in_the valleys. Most settlements are in the valleys. And goidg ‘down hill eats up less: strength than climbing up mu.— London Mail. ~ * ’l’he qmlmis of meat ‘flnnr‘ a | food- thatris: being m..dl' in \e land, farmers and others ||Phl in s land town. Th!r speaker preqlntlon It cuuld he expérted easily -y, and wouid keep, so/fir as’ present’ tests’ went, for two ‘veark without the slightest’ sign of deterioration. Tt took i ited _in, more thuu one o upation “, ? three pounds of meat to produce one pound of the flour,” which “yas at” pres- ($1:25) a [ll)l"ld and-was: found & &xi 5 ingly economical in the l\onselwld this prlu. “Muim Gorl Ly, be on his way:to. En;luml on H. G, Wells; but is still lleld up by the Bolshevist authorifies. on:the frontier, is Alexei Pyeshkof, the poet and chronicler of the pariahs and vaga- bonds 0f Russi h : The - full uame,, “Maximm, G rky " may, perhaps, d to.mean, the “bitterest of th The psmdou\ D, effectively ' attitude toward s the distilled es- sence, of .the disgppointed, He was not at first a, Bolshevlk, and he,_ seems onl, )evist _ranks, under pressure, Giyen his choice befween low diet and which' is one. Happily, that does not regujzp Djm to. tuke. uny. active part, in the pernelrnthm f atracities.—Liv- ing Age. - i w CHRONIC STATE OF FEAR bout llgM WM s ditiofis t “Which AI( Live:, Tn'his boak, “The Conqfiest of Fear,” Bl!ll “Kii g say agalnst in the couse of a'few hours. Kvery one is livi m& or worklnx n feur. “The mother 5 afraid for her’ chll- dren. The father is afraid for his business. The clerk fs afrald for his job. The' ‘worker is afrald of his boss or his competitor: : “There is hardly a man who is not afraid- that sonie otlur man 'will 'do him' 2 bad’ turn, ' Theré:Is’ hardly~a woinan” who is not _dfraid’ that thing she craves may be denied her; or that what she loves may be suatched away, “There is not a home or an office or which some hang-dog”apprehension is not eating at the hearts of the men, women and children who go in and out. } miserfes wrought by sin’ and sickness bring on ourselves by the means which, 1 perhaps, we do least to counteract. “We are not sick all the time; we are not si the ttme all of us—or-practically all of thing.” e smmaen INGXRIKBLY SEEK HIGH POINT | | Vesle river and in chelhnt for in-| ent befng readily sold f five wiiflliigs | to haw Joined tht. nigh officé e preferred, tlie latter “Look at the” péople you ron’ up’ a factory or a school or a church’in’ “I ain ready to guess that ‘all the| | put tw'ether would not equal those we | ing all the tiwe; but all} us—are afraild of some one or some- | S “(Cony for Thia Departmeat. Suppled ¥y the American Legion News Service.) HELPS MEN FIND POSITIONS' Francls Lawson, Director of Employ- m-nt Bureau, Néw York Uni. alt u rece tor of the’ bnmvl of ‘employinent of New York univér: mander A 4 : Three Hundréd and Fifth M chine ‘Gun ' Bat: talion post of the “American Le:t&n. ‘When the ‘Wi ~broke . out ~Law- son. was assodate pastor of the famous JudsonMemorial church in Washing- . ton. square, l\ew Xor ;. He entered, th 4 service as a_chaplain with the Sevent: »{/Aeventh division, belng wounded on ‘th aftér,which he recuperated in a pita]. for a_year. ~Since taking over. the work of pl ing_graduates and students in Job! Layson has found positions. for, than 400 of them. They )oclude ag- eotinfants, clerks, salesmen,” forelgn trade speclalists,, Joumallsu and & v;:flety of others. 4 SHE LOOKS AFTER THE WOMEN. Mras.”Carrol - Marks’ Cal;, has undértnke sands of - -women In-her capacity as supervisor in the American Legion Auxiliary in: the Paelfic Coast states.. Bight years' ‘experience - on-the stage: 90d who j8 promjuent; in; patriotic ‘and social circles in her state, was,the first commander of , both of whom w«'ér" : celying’ vocational training” from b government yhh-teen new brl beén appolnted in" the relem fve ‘are retired regular s om\:m. one | xmd se\ D are members of thi Colonels Palmer K. Plerce, James b= Lindsey, Milton, F. Davis, Walter Babéock, and Harold P. Howard, uln- ular army, retired; former Brig. Gea. Henry J. Reilly of flxe Guard, and’Re< serve Corps Colonels Carey F. Sperice, Thornwell Mullally, George W. Hall, John J Carty, William H. Welsh, Dr. \ Willlam J. Mayo, and Frank Billing& Little to Ask. She was the sweetest, most innocent’ little girl ¥ Had' éver seen, and he watched ' her” sympathetically as sha, stood knee-deep in the snow, fumbling’ in her ‘handbag; with tears of vexlflon in her eyes. “May I help yMl"‘ he asked nnfly. not wlsmng to frlgl\ten her. Sheé smiled shyly: 2 “ygs," " she ‘answered.’ you: please roll this clglrcns for mef’—' W Anderican’ Legfon Weekly. il e g o i S eetlnz g,und for; e servi from mnny countries this yeai When the: Tnterallied ~ Veterans’ Federation holds ifs third annual conference ‘at the same time the American on' is lolding its, nammnl conrenflon"rh Legion 1s a member of the federation; and’ Cabot- Ward, vice-commander of the Paris post, is vice-president of the 1ederl1§nn.' = e — iy The - Cat: i Two ‘women were meeting for the Arst time in: several months. 3 “Why,” gushed the . first, who had not-in the past been on too cordial terms with the other,”I never thought/ you would Tecognize me—it's/been sp longslncewemet" o “My 'déar,” replied the other, L had no difficilty whatever. 1 remems: bered the lat distinctly.”—American Leglon Weekly. o Feminine Fmanu. o, “Dear,” said Mrs. Newliwed,."T need- ed a néw hat, se 1 just wrote a check for fifty dollars on the First National to save you'expense.” “Great gosh!” gasped her husband. “I haven't a nickel in that bank!”, *I know it, dear; but that will be all right. They won't mind. Their ad-, vertisement, say: ‘Our Resources \ Are One Million Dollars. "—American . Leglon Weekly.