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MONDAY, DECEMRER 27, 1920, Cru th YOU THE SIGNING HABIT? WO IEN READERS, TAKE NOTICE! By CYNTHIA GREY 1 woman came into my of fic “A sewing machine company Men brought another in its 7 not pay on it they took that awe my mac hine, “Did you sign a contract?” I “D gi had received the new machine. and I didn’t want him tak insisted.” Another woman came to me zine company threatens to sue to a@ number of books they tried to sell me. he would leave them for me to | if I liked them. back. I didn’t want them in ought to look them over. Can “Did you sign a contract?” IT “Well, he gave me @ paper show I had the books.” t third woman wrote me, within the last two weeks, she had had disagreca rperience over a sw A man ca around, she said, and| told her his company would make her | @ mice suit, absolutely free, Y she would tell her friends about the com- pany and advertise it in the neigh-| Dorhood. He asked her to sign some | sort of @ paper, saying she would take the swit. Some time later, she claims in her letter, she was sent a dun for $35 for the suit wrete | the manager, and he wrote back, say ing there must be some mistake, as| of course she would have to pay for the ewit, She said, “i offered to send the auit back, but they would not| take it, What am I to do. Women readers of this column, are you * TERS"? if 9s, sense, drop the hadit and wake up| to the dangers. Don’t sign anything unless you are | sure of what it says, what it means, | and what it requires of you Don't let anyone who requires your | signature to o plece of paper come | into your how. | Don't let agents bulldoze or per-| suade you to give up your sewing) machine, or any other article of fur-| niture, on the plea of exchanbing it for @ new one, unless you KNOW ¢ the other day and said: has taken away my machine lace. Then because I ay also. I earned my living by would What shall I do?” asked, gned a paper, but the man said it was just to show I I told him I didn’t want it é the old one away. But he recently and said: A maga me because I cannot pay for The agent told me look over, and then I could pay I can't pay and I am ready to send the books the first place, but he said | the company sue me?” said. which he said I could sign to| vou want a new one and can AF FORD to pay for it. If an agent calls at your door and wishes to sell you books or mage vines, which you know you cannot afford, say so at once, Save his nd yours * women's own fault, very ed into or often, trading signing for books or other accessories when they are inve old furniture for new, of the home. They want very much They are curious to see them and enjoy the idea of possessing them, even tho they know, im their hearts they cannot pay for them. So, readers, take warning! Don’t let your desire to own new furniture of household utensils to have these things come your good judgment. Don't be an ostrich, hiding your head in the sand. Either you can or you cannot af- |for to make the purchase, Bither you do or do not want the agent to send or bring you the new goods It is no use to sign pieces of paper on the plea you did not know they were contracts and then expect someone cise to get you out of the mirup. THE BOOK OF MARTHA VAN COMES IN WITH ABSORBED IN “You two—I'm perfectly disgusted with you" Thus I turned indig nantly upon Daddy and Martha. “Eroticim! Lovestuff! Have I got to get off the earth ta escape) it? Must sane human beings be) slaves to romance? propinquity? And do they believe that they can't help themselves?” | “People say they can't help Mt | they make that the excuse for; their own weakness; they want to} believe they're victims of their own | emotions!’ said Martha “What becomes of their will, I'd Ike to know?’ I raged. “Why are} we expected to use will about all! the facts of life except love? We) avold the poison bottle on the medi cine shelf, but some kinds of love are only poison, and we know it— and hunt for the phials?* “Some love is more like a trap than a poison,” Martha suggested. “and such ap obvious trap! If we have ordinary sense, we go around a pitfall, but once let as giimpse any variety of love, which is na ture’s trap, and we fairly rush into it? “People who think they can’t be fooled about anything else fool themselves about their love affairs,” 1 raged, “and it makes me—" | In bounced Ann Lorimer, inter-! rupting and ending our serious| talk. Trailing after her came Paul Van Eyck. They were living iltu»| trations of my words. They were not extraordinary persons, but fust| average samples of the Mirting kind) of humans, who play at the game of love all of the time, first with one partner and then another, and who pretend that love is the great est thing in the world—and then | degrade it to the commonest! | That Ann and Van could be so easily and cheaply satisfied *ought not t® have distressed me, but it did on poor Jim's Ann would have to reform for her husband's sake and when my husband had recovered, It would be my duty to make Ann change her ways, for unless she did she would soon be engulfed in the SUFFERED TWENTY-EIGHT YEARS Miss Nora Erney, 1351 Poplar St, } Terre Haute, Ind., writes: past 28 years I had r' my back. I tried everything, but got no help. I saw Foley Kidney Pills | advertised in paper. I sent for some and they helped me right away 1 recommend the to other suffer ers.” Winter a ates symptoms of kidney trout cold weather account makes aching joints, sore muscles and irregular bladder action more unbearable. Foley Kidney Pills help the kidneys eliminate pain-causing poisons, Good for bladder weak ness.—-Advertisement. Darn your an nose 20 treatmem tin FREE—Write | KONDON MFG. CO. | Minneapolis, Minn. ! ANN—AND SOON IS MARTHA quicksands of passion, and rescue, ——- Ann, petite and tngenue, seen in the name of common | Books, or whatever it may be, over-| past | a child, not a wife, and certainly there was little in her conduct that day to suggest the exintence portance to her. Paul Van Eyck, debonair, tf ever the word could be applied to a man outside the movies, was as usual attired in the correct clothes for) the hour and the oceasion. He Martha upon being introduced her. her before surprised me until remembered thet Van had spent | iittle of hin time In his home town before his finances began to shrink Ann flew to pay Daddy Lorimer his toll, and to perch upon the table by his side, while Van sank into a corner of the divan by Martha's side. From the brighten- ing of his eyes and a sudden vivid of his speech, and a little straightening of his elegant figure, I perceived that Van very much | Soucoret of Martha's blonde loveli | ness, Daddy Lorimer teased his small daughterin-law about her new wool socks. “Can't see style In those things’ he touched her ankle with his cana “My mother used to knit the same for me, down on the old farm! Style—buh?" Van became absorbed tn Martha Van is a man of culture, has never | is ueniak? done anything in his life except travel and read. He and Martha! could get a vast amount of genuine pleasure from a conversation, I felt sure, and Martha never would sus pect that Van was a breaker of the hearts of fair women mor that he had already begun to lay siege to her own! Martha, preoccupied as she was with her worry about her husband, couldn't guess, but I could and so could Mistress Ann. And she did, and proved that she was jealous by suddenly throwing herself into If your gums are sore and bleeding you have Pyorrhea. This disease should be cured to insure good health, We specialize in high- class dentistry at reason- able prices consistent with best work. Ironclad guar- antee 15 years. Extracting absolutely without pain or bad after- effects. United Painless Dentists 608 Third Ave., cor, James Elliott 3633 | ‘And victims of | o¢ her hushand as a factor of tm-| "0D to use to éléan the sink of! [have in their sinks: | | made his extremety correct bow to! done. to} That he had failed to meet nowadays that one always has plenty|of the piay would be Ike telling A | fectively, Uke a dancer in a spot light t She was still perched on the Unquestioned Quality table. Suddenly she stretched out Reliable Prices her legs horizontally—1 have always marveled that such small legs could be so exquixitely shaped—then she | jseratched her ankles frantically. | "Wool sock?’ she exclaimed. Jeweler “Gosh, bow I suffer! Van, stop 1010 Second Avenue a lack of your old time “pep” and “punch’ ’—in other Selo Manetocturere words, when you feel your vitality +LYKO MEDICINE COMPANY is on the wane, you should com- New York Kansas City, Ma THE abi Two pe | AAP No.0 mere- ~°7s | eave mo Won, cent efor fo mikss FR ANN) SIN TLO UDR S ODN AH Ne NERO AN HOF MO, Fe E STAR ee Oe ee eT ee Simple Gown ved SICAL “TREAT” [rode of the story would expect) VERSATILE TRIO ON ply ELY OFFERING AT |\PRUNE CAKE AT THE MOORE pen Ohana to be eis ote PALACE HIP BILL LEVY’S ORPHEUM cup butter and lard D ‘ k take most kindly to comedy, the} t)'™' po Fewrt en Sire Wiss ‘a tt »| Hip ye predad? ere audible vidence must al numbers st a tingling nature 2 eggn ressmaker Sunday audience at the Moore the| . . . . “Jo approval of the all-star show that| will be found at Levy's Orphemu, in 2 cups flour ressmaket atre showed its appreciation of the ise darrell raed grt f ; ributed much novel merriment to | “Sweetie Mine,” the holiday week of ablespoons sour cream musical “treat” offered by EMM) aera the ye ‘ts “a Christman festivities, An outstand:| fering of the Levy Munical Comedy | teaspoons cinnamon Ruegger, one of the leading celloints | re oniuesy a: , jing feature of the new bill is ithe | company | 1 teaspoon allapice of the country. Miss Ruegger, who ky to Joffering of the Mystic Hanson And| Lew White is expecially funny this | 1 teaspoon soda | han played severg! times before in] The famous wedding of Mr Stub | his Magical Maids, 4 vernatile trio| week, while he is afforded splendid 1 cup cooked chopped pranes satin "eG. de 1 favorite here.) 0" and Mins Hazy ia the big) wh offering is stamped with | support by Iddie Wright, young! Cream shortening and sugar; add) Ausinted by Edmund Lichenstein on| ‘itv in the opening minutes of | merit centric comedian, who made his | yoins of « well beaten; meastiel lithe violin and Valeria Rueggor at|'h@ play, Arthur Vinton as Stul Laughter and melody are cembin-| first appearance with the company | our and twice: sift elnmaaa the plano, Mian Ruegger offered aj 8 and Fancnen Everhart a htageounly In the offering of | Sunday | allspice and soda with flour; add varied program, including two clas-| Mins Hazy, the most out of and Nickerson. Dan Osborne is another new Mem | cream t mixte ada dry sical numbers and some lighter|‘elr roles, The Three Heauties are a trio of | ber of the company, gredients 1 prunes and fold im papiedaie’t ieee And then comes Lovey Mary|YeUne women who appear in the| Bens Hill, wa the queen Of & ONG | whites of exé n stiff and drys pees ies ttle favorite is fea. |@4ne Morgan), who has run away | Sulne of houvemalds who have been | Ming mph ow yma in layer pans in @ slow eae, a a eka bilt_-Winmie| fom “the orphanage with — little | digappoin in love and who dis-| Ted Ulimark leads the entire com-{ oven; put layers together with bei é on thi 1] tommy. How Mra. Wirgs adds her|P!8Y Operatic ambitions. pany in the big musical feature of| preferred filling and cover the Lightner, of the Lightner slsterm |) on en ood t also taken| Barlow, Banks and Gay, two men|the bill, in which @ burlesque of | with white ict | When these sisters wero here last] {9 Her little brood and alo ake land a girl are songsters whose | many laughs {8 pulled on the pitri.co he year they did @ comedy (turn aM) ond hig me the. Pr se repertoire includes popular ballads, | “freaks” of the average side show! yaKIMA—American Express © sisted by Newton Alexander, But} "O° highlight in the play operatic bits and old favorites, “At| with a circus. ay y.| winally Mr, Wiges (Henry Hall, | , 4 i reports record holiday business h |this year they have added a regu-| r 4 , | the Boda Fountain,” Bell and Iva Billie Bingham offers a pretty epe-| — — — tar company, inctuding bevy of) NO left his family te eo ivcen| meet to indulge in somo witty talk, | clalty chorus girls, and they put over a/)i earch of his fortune, cume{atter which they Indulge in some] ess Hill appears to advantage We dye your rags | miniature musical comedy, “Little | Que ti le we mand sail is) scrobatic stunts with the girls in a fast Jazzy velee-/} O14 carpets and weave Miss Vamp." Winnie Lightner does | {.°)) = he Wisge temfiy: tn the} “Dollars and the Woman” ts the | tion arpets . oak Cea a, wo | abbage Pat m, large cart. severai | Mure Dhotoplay witht ita ; them into handsome rugs. § her perso ed i the aio he 4 " oar yAL! VAL —Pleading gui leek Sy eee — aye are ‘added 10 the| The state of Washington has the|ty to bignmy, Ellsworth Blake Land || TRE Fuzzy Wuzzy Rug Co. | e ‘ale, Several iddies take part) highest available waterpower—9,500,-|fair sentenced to five ears at y - £ | renee Laagters) and, tan. Wree and perform like regular veterans. '000 horsepower. Monroe reformatory ‘i } Phone Capliol Siam ter and Sunday's audiences got a _ P 7 big “kick” out of thelr line of | HRN jconvernation. Langford gets over seme new and some old jokes and is ably axsisted by Mins Frederick | They sing a bit and dance a bit, but thelr comedy chatter is their} | best bet. | | A posing act of the better sort in staged by Margaret Stewart, William Downing and company. Fred Whitfield and Marie Ire land present a “city slicker’ and! |“rube chic skit. Thelr comedy best part of their ken” curtain the offering. is Mandel & Co. do a act in a different way ts are for laugbing pur ye | yton and Frank Lannie) by with a lot of fool tam antum ff Their | poses Bddie ¢ BY CORA MOORE (New York's Fashion Authorit Such an admirable Sut edadtec| & homemade gown In this, and, by the way, let us not forget that the! Kinagrams and Toplon of prime factor in the success of a) Day complete the program. home-turnedout frock i» that it shall | ee not look “home-made.” This one can| “UP IN MABEL be made of duvetyn, flannel, trico-| ROOM, tine or serge, an you pleasay The)...” original was of beige duvetyn. If a| singlefaced material in chosen, the hem can be made by sewing a separ ate strip to the underside and turn- ing it on the right aide. The blouse Just do ishnews, get | the Ss AT MET p in Mabel’s Room.” as uncon- Ventional a play as its title sugreste, te back at the Metropolitan after a year’s absence, with cast and setting both im a. can be cut full length or in two sec-| Had a young husband not attempt tions with a peplum attached under. | *4 to recapture a memento of a for. neath the belt. The embroidery,|™er love affair from a former done tn one color or in a combina. Sweetie, “Up in Mabel’s Room” tion, is so simple that it can readily | ¥OU! t have been with ua He did, be copied from the sketch without | however, the memento being nothing | further instruction more than a dainty bit of lingerie ny on which the lovers had thelr names | embroidered | ‘How. SEHOLD HINT Many of the original cast are still Even with the greatest care, bits of | with the play. The pesonne! has been partngs and one thing or another are| augmented by Jos@phine Saxe, last sure to accumulate In a sink during | sen here in “Twin Beds.” She is the he preparation of a meal. These! demure, home loving wife in “Up in must not be forced down the drain| Mabel’s Room.” The principal com but taken from the sink and dis-|edy part is played ay Sager Midgiey. posed of. A piece of cardboard makes a fine) “MRS, WIGG. so |AT WILKES anything that excapes the little per forated container most housekeepers Mrs, Wises, Lovey Mary, Mia The cardboard| Hazy, Mr. Stubbins, Miss Luey, clings closely to the enamel and/ Mr. Bob and Asia, Billy, Buropena scrapes clean without scratching it.|and Australia, the little brood of Tt Is then thrown into the gurbage| Mra, Wiees, live again in the or burned and a distasteful task is| famous Cabbage Patch, created in | Alice Rice's novel, at the Witkes| theatre this week. To tell the story So many things come tn boxes to be quite extravagant with. \* baseball fan who “Habe” Rath in, |tecnuse there are very few folks, | indeed, who ha’ hot read and re HOW TO ADJUST |indeed, who have not | A VEIL PROPERLY |""n new. wunter ot the Wilkes If one wishes to wear her veil in a} pinyers, Aun Athy, plays the role distinctive manner, it should be ad-|of Mrs, Wiggs, with all the spirit justed so that the lower edge injcf true mother and she's just drawn diagonally across the face, ac-|the kind of a mother that the contuating the tilted line of the hat. | ——————+————__________ The proper depth of the veil is be- tween chin and eyes or just below the ey: the conversation. She ent K ot Precious Stones and Jewelry (To Be Continued) Ten Years Younger Than His Years Doesn’t it make you feel zood—cause et to straight- en up and 1 “‘chesty’”— when someone guesses your age at ten years or so younger than you really are? You look into your mirror, smile with satisfac- tion and say to yourself: “Well, he didn’t make such a bad guess, at that.’’ The point is: You're no older than your vitality. If a man is strong, vigor- ous, mentally alert, fine and fit at 50 he has a better chance of living up to 80 than a man of 30 who is weak and run-down has of living up to 60. While none of us can stay the years nor stop time, we should all make an heroic effort to suc- cessfully resist the effects of time by ever keeping our menee at once to restore your energy, strength and endurance by taking L The Great General Tonic This master body-builder will help you keep young in spirit and mental and physical action, because it will assint Nature in maintaining your vitality at par. Itenriches the blood, restores worn-out tissues, soothes jangling and over-wrought nerves, in- duces sound refreshing sleep, sharpens theappe tones up the digestion—in short, will putaew your body. You will be surprised how much better you'll feel after vitality at par. mentee LYRO, When you sense a feeling” !300,8re tired of slowing down of your nervous! physical forces—when your fausted.’ 11's stomach, liver, kidneys and pany Ags 1 | other organs show signs of bowels in fine weakness—when you notice pottle trom Steet ides your druggist Rotuse all oul For Sale at All Druggists—Always in Stock at the | Owl Drug Company GREATEST LOSS E'VE EVER TAKEN re Se Our Entire Stock , Vu Priced in Four Lots’ Spring creations that arrived last week —it is included in one of these four lots. Values to $28.50—no hat in the house now priced higher than $6.75. 56: 75 Copies of the latest French models, rich velvets and beavers, beautifully trimmed with new novelties in the richest colorings of the season. All reduced to —values to $28.50 Metal Dance Hats, Fur-trimmed Hats, New Spring Hats in Gros de Londres, Cellophane, Visca braid, satin and heavy faille silks—exquisitely trimmed. Reduced to Oe ee —wvalues to $12.50 These include hand-blocked shapes trimmed with long fiber ostrich, fur and Lyons and Panne vel- vets. Some come with colored facings. Rich color tones and distinctive designs of which our design- ers are justly proud—all included at this low price —walues to $8.50 Banded Hats of beaver, hatter’s plush and silk vel- vet, with rich grosgrain ribbon bands—all to be sold before January first at. Children’s Hats —values to $7.50 Every Child’s Hat in the store has been reduced to 65c, even though they include uriusually pretty hats of rich velvets trimmed with fur. Every one priced BE nec cccbetios 13° 65° Not One Single Winter Hat Will Be Left After January First ee —No Refunds —No Exchanges —Deliveries Soon as Possible Sale Starts Tuesday, 9 A. M. 25 Extra 25 Extra Salesladies Salesladies Wanted Wanted

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