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Forget luxuries now and lend your money to Uncle Sam, who is trying to purchase national! insurance against Prussianism. a A Home for Mother In at least one American city there is a “home for Probably there are others, but a member of our editorial staff visited this cular “home for mother” and found out why there had to be such a place, and why “home for mother” Maybe all other “homes for mothers” ‘ and are necessary for the same reasons, which appear to The failure of father during his life to provide a life! income for mother. | The death of children who might later vided a home for mother, and ungrateful children. The in-laws. (ae ia In this particular home of which we speak, the “in- ~ Ymvs” had sentenced 24 kindly old ladies to spend the re ‘of their lives in a “home for the aged.” Six were there use their incomes were not large enough to permit their) outside of an institution and they had no eg on have pro-| \ matron of the “home” (we always “quote” that! sort of a home) said , “These old ladies are from 60 to 84. There is a great need for a place like this. You see when the children get married, the in-laws do not want the mother around. Lot people think old ladies live too long.” | r me The reporter went around thru the “home” and found old ladies in their rooms, too old to work, too old to read, % old to do anything save to sit with folded hands and think of the children who boarded them out. ( / ‘And when she thinks of her children, does she think of ‘the hour when she brought them into this world? Of the , heart-tearing hours by day and night that she gave her life’s strength to bring the tiny baby thru illness? Of the years she spent leading that young life past pitfalls _ and snares? youthful voice said i and study? were around her neck and that { eer and over again: “Mamma, I love you better than all " the world, and I never, never will love anybody else as well”? Or does she think of the son-in-law or daughter-in-law, who was all affection toward her until the wedding was fer? Does she think of the sorry hours when it was made n to her that she was “in the wa And of the day m she was exiled to the “home for mother’’? is Maybe she thinks of all these things. ‘cause to do so. | ‘ And off somewhere is that daughter or son, happy in} me where little children are running about, children) would brighten the declining days of grandmother as| else coul id. do they who exiled mother think? The matron think that old people are an awful nuisance.” What do YOU think about it? Don’t Bump the Bumps Men battle for those things they have sought peace- Ghily. Peaceful methods failing, they take into their hands fhe brand of war; they burn and kill rather than forego which they have set their hearts upon | i Now if men realize that in robbing another they but! | rob themseives—as the house falls which divides itself— | the road would be open for a human conduct based upor’ a really adequate method of life. rica it is who has been granted some inkling of Of the days she worked that that child might | Of ali the million times those cuddling } shouldn't be where her children and grandchildren Re are like this one, | 3 “Oh, gosh! 1 oe 'WHAT’S GOIN GERMANY! | THE NEWSPAPERS WE GET FROM} AS TOLD BY { THE TEUTONIC EMI NATI Is the PanGerman fear Bolshevism in Germany one of the chief motives behind many’s new offensive against suffering Kussia? German papers p Surely she has fore of hostile » bo INTERNATION MAN TO THE ference to “inter 4 neem q surges Pe a Fear Bolshevism A crushing of Bol might serve’ to crust n German The Ler peace realization. Dissemination of this knowledge is the su-| ' propaganda, the responsibility for the carrying on of | , unless we are to sink back into ignorance, we cannot And if we keep our minds free from estimations of the esis of personal loss, if we tie whole-heartedly to the tt that the things we seek at Armageddon are not for ourselves, but only a sharing of our own with others, no reverse shal! discourage us. § But if we rate the material loss that may proceed to us out of the issues of battle, we shall write fear into our souls © and each reverse shall dishearten us and each new difficulty Shall leave us less muscled. Fear, fear for self, is our only Teal enemy. Take heel: Don’t bump the bumps. North of the Great Wall in Mongolia has appeared the plague, known as “the black death” in 1546, when it had 25,000,000 victims thruout the world. World- wide plague would surely make some of the fighting nations get together. . . | The King and His King Cotton bids fair to be also queen, kids, hired girl) —the whole blanked family, before long. | He is not only conscientiously supplanting wool in| ¢loths, because there’s much more of him, but the way he’s sneaking into places on the dinner table is simply wonder- ful. For some time, the juice of his seed has been a good substitute for olive oil. He's the basis for as fine a lard as ‘ever made pie-crust fascinating to dyspeptics. He’s a third) part of a new-fangled butter that would turn an ordinary| cow m with envy. And they're putting up scores of} mills to grind his seeds into flour that's already established| as fine for cookies and gingersnaps and perfectly satisfac-| tory as-stuffing for sausages. When he gets into the soup ' tureen and the coffee pot, old King Cotton will have the nicest, tightest, biggest kingdom that ever was. only a few years ago, his kingdom was largely confined to gunpowder and nightshirts. What a leap to pie, butter and wieners! | Best Treatment for Catarrh _§. S. S. Removes the Cause) By Purifying the Biood Once you drug store. It has proven its value! in thousands of cases. It will dol no in your case, Get 8. 8. 8. at once and begin treatment. If yours is al long standing case, be sure to write for free expert medical advice. We will tell you how this purely vege-| table blood tonic cleanses the impur-| ities from the blood by literally! washing it clean. We will prove to you that thousands of sufferers from Catarrh, after consistent treatment with $. §. %., have been freed from the grouble and all its disagreeable a cold. But the point iv—don't feathres and restored to perfect with Catarrh—it is not neces | health and vigor. Don't delay the ‘The remedy 8. #. 8. discov-| treatment. Address Medical Direct over fifty years ago, tested tried, is obtainable at any! Ga. get your blood free from -cleansed of the catarrhal | which it is now @ prey to of its unhealthy state—then will be relieved of Catarrh— the ing in the throat, hawking and ting, raw sores in the nostrils, the disagreeable bad breath. It caused, in the first place, be your impoverished blood was infected. Possibly a slight or contact with someone who Fy em ‘ iy. it from Mr. Hoover, who saw Belgium under the) | wide p pathy with the peace effort uted a chauffeur.” STAR—MONDAY, APRIL 1, 1918. 7: ' COMEDIES OF CAMP LEWIS I IFE| SR Gor ON IN ’ RES ONS AND NEUTRAL | mana te enter into nation many commercial treaty with The Tageblatt sa Herr Johannes the reichatag telling of the dispute be tween the delegates when the Rus nted 1 speech by nlann it LETTERS FROM SOLDIERS The Star Will Gladly Publish Interesting Communications From From an American soldier of Aus trian whe ng | in the y fre ‘The French p wonderful, believe n They will do most anything for an American sol dier, or ‘soldat Amerique,’ as they my in French I am learning to speak the French language, and I want to tell you it is sure hard to catch onto. “You may still send me eat you like, and I will appreciate Be sure to strong box some packages come here, part of which was lost between here and the United States, There is no further news except that I wrote a letter to school in reply to one of their let ters, in which they asked me if 1 wasn't homesick; and believe me, I sure told them something. 1 said Yes, I was homesick but I don't to go home; even to une a as want leave Germany and wipe the kainer and hia principles away forever.’ “Dad, you can't help feeling that way over here. Hi brings every spark of manhood in you aflame, and all you want to do is to get a chance at the kaiser himself. It is the things you see and hear that cause it, and so I want to say, altho I love my home and its conveniences, and my mother and father, I don't want to come back alive unless 1 have done my duty and help wipe kalserism off the map, Dad, if y were here you cer: tainly would agree with me; but in the meanwhile don't worry, as J am in no danger at present, You might think this is the talk of # headstrong kid, but dad, it isn’t; it is the talk of a full- grown man who is no longer a kid and who ts doing more than a man's work. ‘Well, that is all for this time, I am not smoking, not drinking, #0 please don't worry, and, in con clusion, I want to say that if T don't and morally, mentally physically, Sammies | there w LOUIS KESSLER APPLAUD MINISTER WHO BLAZES AT KAIS'! x were of the hews, of teh, was greet lauxe when he the pulpit and nater congregation, st Presty 1 with banged his uted to hell wit te vigor sh © katner GIRLS! 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IK.'s.".|| to COLYUM |, When things turn anieny apring harass Editor Mt Ah, that, then, is the sin i niet re mar ro gad gesghi far more life roME! LOW THE WAR which is north and ¢ which lie oom tha ummer of 1914 “TIL” FOR SORE, TIRED FEET--Ad! Is Grand for Aching, Swollen, Tender, Calleused Feet or Corns THE PREOVLE of t tate pub ed a pr tone be li originally scheduled Fellow called up and wante THE FATHEAD ning. An auto opt atep with eo rtrap chariot wanted to get Ab! feet; no more swollen, sweaty feet \corns » more tired feet; no nder, We That car, #6 Ran © nd Waved Motorman t callous r feet or you've tried Just us The Chugeer Went Hive We blazes « mp or draw uy ain. Your shoes won't rt or get sore and swollen Think of it, no more foot misery, no rS-cent box at any d artment sto Wear sm Tis comfort ok of it {natant relief Just once try foot Th for only ts CHILD GETS SICK, CROSS, FEVERISH IF CONSTIPATED “California Syrup of Figs” can't harm tender stomach or bowels. m simply play which be liver) y their bowels maed up with wast ecish; stomach sour Look at the tongue, mother! coated child croms, feve th bad, r doesn't full of cok’ or| has sore throat or any other chil dren's allment, give a teaspoonful n p of Figs. ause it is per #, and in a few hours all this constipation poison, sour bile and fermenting waste will ° y move out of the bowels, and 1 have a well, playful child again. A thorough “inside cleans-| ing oftimes all that ie neces-| sary. It should be the first treat-/ t given in any sickness. ware of counterfeit fig syrups t for a bottle of| of Figs. which} for babies, chil-| 1 for grown-ups | ne bottle. 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This [famous salts is made from the acid juice, com [bined with lithia, and is harmless |to flush clogged kidneys and stimu late them to normal activity It also neutralizes the acids In the urine so it no longer irritates, thus jending bladder disorders. \ Jad Salts is harmless inex pensive; makes a delightful effer. vescent lithia-water drink which jeverybody should take now and {then to keep their kidneys clean, |thus avoiding serious complica. tions A well-known local druggist says he sells lots of Ja Salts to folks who believe in overcoming kidney trouble while it 14 only trouble. — | Eaitoe’s Mail) $1.00 $1.25 $1.75 $2.50 $3.00 down, $3.50 a raed FAMILY! ig BO ewe, IV—DISCIPLINE When pa what I got to And talk “ee who's whol thinks she's bows tand by just on tand ke » I blow oks at me Or maybe h And ma And fades « s I'm saw in the meanest chi all her life. 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