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\DAT BOY wit | ire ? — res YP Het WILLIE JARR LEARNS WHAT THE “RECALL” IS. ©0 out, Maw? Kin 17” whined Master Jarr. “Wot when you ask me that replied hie mother. kin I go out, then?” asked the boy. » “Can't you ony ‘can,’ Willie, instead iti & nothin’, “Did you tell on me, tattle-tate?’ And he turned fereely on his dear little ester. ‘No, I @iAn't!” whimpered the Uttle giel, “T didn't eay @ word about what you 414.” ‘Mrs, Jare affected not to hear this. Whatever it was the boy had done she ‘would learn in good time tf it were any- ‘thing very bad, and if ft were only a emall offense the less © mother sees of minor Juvenile irregularities the better. Apywey, Mrs. Jerr was correcting faults of expression at this time and @he 414 not wish to complicate matt by an investigation into irregularitie of ection. “Kin we, { mean ‘can’ we, go out, ‘Maw?’ repeated the boy. “Yeu, geeing you have so thoughtfully @onsidered your little etster t time, (you can go out.” “Hooray!” crted the boy. “Where's my roller skates?” ‘And there eneved a search for these adjuncts of joyous boyhood that led the @eekers under sofas and beds, in vari- ous closets and corners. ‘The roller skates were finally found In the ice box, near a ple that had been burslariously entered without the ald of | knife, Here was the thing that ifttie sister nad & structure contains at first sight, and t! two married perso scorns the othe. yp" Te TIRENS mistrust has dvelo) “My flancee insists ail my savings be deposited In her my own, but she gives all nts, {8 this fair? Pot writ writes: “As it proper for @ ty w ask a young man to take her jo an expensive ball, When she only Knows hin slightly?" It iy exceedinsly forward on her part, MX, 2." we “After a young man fe introduced to @ young lady ts it his place to ask permission to call on her Or must sie first Invite him?" He should ask permission, or the girl's mother may Invite him, the Engagement Present. “M, B.” writes: “What gift should I make to a young man I know who has feat become engaged? Or should I give bam nothing?” WONDAH WHERE Advice to Lovers | PAPI PPOLPPOCPL LLLP OLLPLRERORDS OD, Ot Love Means Respect, Too. 0 atl ought to marry a man whom ehe cannot respect, N even if she thinks she loves him. As a matter of fect, real love must have a good solid foundation of esteem, although, of course, the super- wie had “seen when he done it,” but after « @rum-head courtmartial, the charges were dismissed with @ reprimand. Little Miss Jarr, meanwhile, bad put on ber coat and cap and mittens, had found HER skates in her closet, where she had put them eafely after last using them, and was gone. Perhaps she had Qisappeared wishing to regarding the For, while she hed not deen an at- complice in the forcible entry of the pie, ‘bad been a receiver of a portion of the plunder and an eocessory after the tact, “Well, Willie,” eaid Mre. Jarr, “since the ple (and you couldn't well “Willie!” called his mother. And Witte reluctantly returned. “Where's your overcoat?” The Roy found bie overcoat and ran out ps Again the resall sounded, and again the boy returned. © “Your mittens?’ eaid his mother. ‘And your muffler?’ The lad grumblingly donned these ad- Juncts and again made @ rush from the citadel. “Wille! Come back thie instant!” Mrs, Jarr was leaning out of the win- ‘dow this time and arrested the boy’ \attention ere he turned the corn Willte returned with reluctant feet. ‘We mention said retuctant feet becaus? his mother remarked sternty: “And you were going without your Your Uttle sister put on “But, Maw, how kin, I mean how can, I wear rubbers with roller ekates?’ asked the boy. And for once his mother could not say how, and tl doy escaped, al- though, after he was gone, his mother remembered she had forgotten to tell him to be sure to keep his coat but- toned, other elements, I don't believe in love he love that grows out of a firm and fine friendship is in the very nature of its evolution dependent upon the respect which each lover has for the other. There is scarcely # more tragic situation than that of ns, one@t The p despixer and on the despt whom more or less secretly jure is equally strong on the And when this element of ¢ marriage no mad infatuation ped bet can mitigate the folly of § union, Tt i# not customary to give engage- ent presents, although newly engaged @irla may recet uch presents, “M. R." writes: “Should a young man invited to @ gérl's birthday party bring | her @ gtft, and it #0, what?’ | He should certainly have a present for her, and flow 0 always eultable. “X, Z." writes: “A young man has lately Deen attentive to me, But he did | not remember me at Chrietmas, Is this @ sign that he does not care about me?” Perhaps he thought he did not know you well enough to make you « gift. “W, P." writes: “I am very much tn fove with a girl whom I have known about @ year, I am nineteon years ola and eagning a fair salary. Do you think we might marry now?” | I think It would be better to wait ti you are of age, we eres Agoressive the “TPm-Ae-Goot-Ae- YouAre” Mon hasn't Got the Data to Prove tt! Cheer Up, By Clarence OT Only 41d the ut so did Catalinet Mis NTSO BAD! BUT \F SOU WILL, NOTICR THE MATING HABITS OF THE CaT- FISH IN (TS NATURAL AgopE AQUA , You WILL SEE AN BXPRESSION OF SYM THA BYves Sone GET THAT AND THEN ~ ; FANG ! aul L. Collen. Copyright, 1918. by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Dvening World), Come Back,|the Odds are about 6 to 1 that you'll Add the Other Two Bucke to it Before you'll Draw Jwo to Blow! The Joke is Rarely on the Man who is On the Job! The Man who Refuses to Run Away from Ridi- cule is the One who Gathers the Goodies! You cam Lay adout 20 to 1 that agas a Fe pes ine, T h om ‘TAKE MY AND GWE ursday, January 16, 19138 SHooT THe Rue? |ISMATTER WHAT THA SAM [| POP! Hike as HAPPENED NOW! pTeswiit, 1918, Bee Yank preaing Waty Advice To THIS FU22y STUFF AND WHAT “You NEED 16 MORE, DETAIL: NOW THAT FLEAS L&6 — THA UPPER JONT I¢ PooRky .DRAWN, BUT ONG CAN SEE ‘YOU Cuthbert! ‘You can Explain and &tfl] Keep your Nerve, but when you Begin to Make Excuses you're Engulted! toa P ‘We can Forgive Any Old Thing in a Down-and-Outer except his Blaming It on “Wine, Woman and Song!" It takes Bome of ue a Long Time (to Ascertain for Ours@ves that no Case of Hard Luck possibly can be The Analogy between Crying Over) Cured by 6 Druant Gpiit Milk and Indulging in Post-Mor-/ tems over Defunct Poker Hands consists; in the Fact. that in Both Instances the Evidence ts Destroyed! Nobody ever Really Begins to Do Any- thing until he Gets his Mind Off that Do-Somebody Thing! since th Win you've got 93 Bones In the Bank such teeth, such @ be Oar Vu aa Aeros We wouldn't Quite #0 much Mind Being Broke if the Members of the stopping one summer, Macing Fraternity would Believe us when we Tell Them that we Are! | Our Idea of the Absolute Zero in the Non-Nutritious is a Reputation for Having “Been a Good Fellow When you Had It!" It May be True that the World Ac- cepts us at our Own Valuation—but the World wants to pay Long-Time Note! ‘There's Hardly any Hard-Lucker that we don't Feel Sorry For except the One who Feels Sorry for Himself! It's Agreeable to Think of how many Whopping Feeds we've Dredged Into Last Time we Didn't Know where the Next Meal was Coming From! There isn't Much Hope for the Rainy Day Security of the Man who Thinks he's Saving Coin when he has Won a Raffied Turkey that Cost him $16.85! happer with a Mighty Dis office to her parenta,’* elrl with such ey nats her tremble?” too bad that @ gif who is #0 pretty—one who migit be living in Iuxury—is compelled #0 out looking for work because she refused to listen | 8%4 a» the next perm, “You heard ber say a) The Day’s Good Stories His Proposal. NDREW CARNEGIE tells of a unique pro- posal of mariage which was an actual’ © Beotch town where he wae Beotch beadie was very much in love and | tremely bashful, He could not make up | bis mind to ask the women fo ‘hand in the ordinary meaner, ‘attempts, but hie courage always failed bim at| ** $008 se she had composed herself the auspicious moment, One dey he asked her to go for a walk a led the way to the church-yard. There, findi: ‘the lot where his ancestors Iay, he pointed to the headstones and said: | “All my folks ere buried bere, Joan, Wadn't | you like to be laid away bere wi’ ‘em some day!" Everybody's Magazine, 2 a A Regular Old Sherlock. 66098 airts"* oatd the general manager as che young woanan who bed just appiled for «| Position as stenographer walked out of heart and je made several shed his secretary, wee married, didn't , Yes, but I didn't bear her mention her par- Evideutly you have not developed much abttity tn che way of making deductions, Why would b hair, such @ cor Witt SOON’ Hous Copyright, 1013, by The Press Publishi Electricity as Food. OW and again we are told that N some wise man has succeeded in making artificial exes, synthetic milk, devising a system of living by which sleep is eliminated, and finally a means of providing f the natural waste of the bodily tissues by furnishing Some Day some Genius 18 Going to In-}HOUFishment through the application of vent a Scientific, Search-Proof Bweat- Band for the Hat of the Man wh Spouse Insists upon Knowin, ny Juet How Much Money he Makes! high frequency currents of electricity. The success of these schemes is usually ®|that of the man who put green spec- tactes on his cow and fed her wood nts are all right in thelr plece—and that ts an important one—but they cannot and never will take the place of food. The best that ‘We oan expect from @ proper application of high frequency currents by an expert ‘in their peculiar properties @mall ab- sorption of heat by the body and a ‘stimulating effect which is in no sense as ere bare to go out looking for work if she hadn't married against her parente’ wishes ?”’—Oni. cago Record. Herald, asiceiiaeias A Gentle Reprimand. 5 & young women attired in @ neat blue sult fentered « etreot car a man, his head buried im @ newspaper, arose and offered his seat, fl ‘With @ curt nod the young woman acceyted, and @ became bag. In man wiih ‘moment, Then, interested in tho contents of her shop epite of his epparent abstraction, ti peaking hurriedly, he sald: “1 beg your pardon, what te it—what did you sayt"* ‘The young woman lifted her eyes, that she was addressed, answered cool nothing, air,"* “Beg pardon, beg pardon," was the absent. minded answer, “I thought you sald “Thauk you.’ "—Milwankee Free Press, ee ee A Tradition Shattered. Th lady hed no experience, but he ha! |, wert “1 aatd @ lot of sense’ and determination. 69, when she entered thy marker she was ched the She stall of @ butcher and felt of the ‘Then she sald: thie @ good chickent'* €9, ma'am," ald the marketman, conf tently as was bie “Then the old saying te wrong,” eaid the tau “What old saying?’ demanded the marketman. fowl, “The old saying that ‘the good die young!" mydezion, tiful face and ouch « figure Prereland Plain Dealer, ehold Electrics By Stephen L. Coies. ng Oo, (The New York Krening World), permgnent, The human body cannet be nourished by chemical products, ner can any form of electricity be eubst..sted for food, Water Sterilizer. ? has been known for some time that if drinking water could be successfully the ultra-tolet ray given off by the mercury vapor lamp, But until very lately mo attempt has been made to reduce the slae and cost of the required epparatus so that it could be used for domestic purposes. A Paris electrical engineer apnounces that after a iong series of experiments he has devised a form of apparatus which has successfully withstood prac- Ucal tests in physicians’ offices, tn rail- ‘road etation waiting roome end in |schools, The device consists of a white enamelled meial tank through which the | Water from the house service flows and | 1s subjected to the rays from a meroury vapor lamp placed on top of the tank. The water does not come in contact with the lamp, but @ circulating system ‘9 provided by means of which the water is forced to flow by and close to the lamp repeatedly, Thus « suffictent jexposure to the rays to kill all bacteria is secured, No taste ts given to the water and It retains all tts original pal- atwbility, ‘The purified water is drawa |off through a tap placed in the lower | part of the tank, | Reflecting Lamp. CALIPORNIA man h invented A an meandescent lamp which ts somewhat novel. It ts shaped like a flat apple and has a small reflector tn- wide the lamp bulb. In addition there is a ring-shaped reflector on the outelde of the bulb at the base. Both re tors are made as a part of the lamp so that when screwed into the socket each lamp ts equipped with Its own reflecting ap- paratus which tntensifies the amount of light normally given, Household Device Sales, 8 showing the extent to which the A use of household electrical appli- ances Is growing a central n the Far West announces that to Ite customers during one year over 25,000 devices. This number included 15.488 trons, 8,440 toasters, 4,034 percola- #, #3 alr heaters, 610 cooking appll- a * and 816 miscellaneous devices, Durtng 112 this company sold to {ts ous- tomers electrical apparatus for home use to ‘otal gross value of approxi- mately $120,008, r] , the other in ascendancy, As the tribe continued their stow way | through the forest after the passing of Sabor, the tiger, Tarsan'’s head wae filled with te great echeme for slaying ‘tis enemy, and for many days there- after he thought of little elee. this day, however, Presently and more tmmediate interests to attract h Of @ eudden it became midnight; the noises of the jungle ceased; the trees atood motiontess, as though in paralysed expectancy of some great and imminent Gieaster, All nature waited, |" Faintly, from a dista aad moaning. Nearer and nearer It ap- proached, mounting louder and louder in volume. ‘The great trees bent in unison as though pressed earthward by « mighty hand. Further and further toward thi ground they inclined, and still there wa no sound eave the deep and awesome moaning of the wind. ‘Then, suddenly, the jungle giants whipped back, Iaghing thetr mighty tops fm angry and deafening protest. A vivid and blinding light flashed from the n inferno broke loose upon tl “The tribe huddled, shivering cold rain, at the base of great trees. {The lightning, darting and flashing through the blackness, showed willy trunks, some patriach of the woods, flashing bolt, would crash in @ thousand sie amend Ge rees, carrying do OTe mailer neighbors of the jungle. great and small, hurtled through the verdure, carrying death and destruction to countless unhappy denizens of the world below, For hours the fury storm con- and bending tribe huddled In constant danger from falling trun’ and branches, and paralyzed by the lightning and the bellowing thunder, they crouched @® pitiful misery until the storm passed. The end was as sudden as the bestin- ning. The wind ceased; the sun shone forth—nature smiled once mor ‘The dripping leaves and branches and the molst petals of gorgeous flowers glistened in the splendor of the returming day. And « nature forgot, her children forgot also, Busy life went on as it had before the darkness and the fright. But to Tarsan @ dawning licht had come to explain the mystery of clothes, How snug he would have been beneath the heavy coat of Sabor, the tiger! And so was added @ further Incentive to the adventure. For several months the tribe hover near the beach where stood Tarzan’ cabin, and his studies took up t) greater portion of his time, but aiwa: when Joumpeying through the forest he kept Ma ‘gpe in readiness, and many were the @Mmaller animals that fell inte Not Like Any Story You Have Read 1TARZAN OF THE APES ; outspread to take up the shock. waving branches, whipping streamers, f the snare of the quick-thrown noose, Onee it fell about the short neck of Horta, the boar, and his mad lunge for. freedom toppled Tarzan from the over- hanging limbs where he had lain in wait and whence he had launched his @nuous coll. The mighty tusker turned at gound of his falling body, and, seeing only the easy prey of @ young ape, he Sowered his head and charged madly at the surprised youth. Tarsan, happily, was uninjured by the fall, alighting catiike upon all-fours 4 e was on hie feet in an instant, and ha: gained the safety of a low iimb a: Horta, the doar, rushed futilely beneath. For an instant moose hung above his neck like a great enake, ‘and then, as he looked upward to de- toot the origin of the sound of ent ‘adout neck. the rope, it ite but not to lose another repe through the same cause as the Gzet. He had learned ot tree Orca fir ne chin hed worked to per- us wot to fection, but when he the rope, fracing almesit behing 8 crot mighty branches, he found tha‘ ging the mighty, struggting, clawing, Dit! screaming mass of b ne oled tury up to the tree and hanging him wae a very different The weight of old i , inky clouds above. The can- Cee 4 stevof thunder belched forth ite he braced his fearsome cha! The deluge came pa’ Tan' but when his huge body struck the which Tarsan had been, ee yr there. Instead he perched Mghtly upon a =~ feet above the raging captive. Vor a moment Sabor hung himeelf across the branch, while ‘Tarsan mocked and hurled twiks and branches at hie unprotected face. Presently the beast dropped to the earth again, and Tarzan came quickly to setze the rope, but Sabor had now found that tt was only @ slender cord * that held him, and grasping !t !n his huge jaws, severed it before Tarzan could tighten the etrangling noose a eecond time Tarsan wee much burt. His well- laid plan had come to naught. He sat there screaming at the roaring creature beneath him and making mocking erimaces, Sabor paced back amd forth beneath the tree for hours Four times he crouched and eprang at the dancing sprite above him, but he might as well have clutched at the dilusive wind that murmured through the tree-tops. At last Tarzan tired of the sport, and with « parting roar of challenge and a Well-aimed ripe fruit that spread soft and sticky over the snarling face of his enemy, he swung rapidly through the trees, @ hundred feet above the ground, and ‘in a short time was among the members of his tribe, Here he recounted the detalles of his adventure with swelling chest and such conalderab! agwer that he quite im- pressed even bitterest enemies, while Kala tainty joy pa Kiangigeaninas traning