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Evening World Thrift Campaign SYSTEM CREATES WEALTH: BUILDS BANK ACCOUNTS Men and Women Who Save Tell How |Sit'c"rrest'trom They Acquired Habit— Evening World Responsible for Starting One Family on the Road. ‘The man who can come along and popularize Thrift—thoroughly popu* Tarize %, 80 that people will talk about it and go to meetings about it and epell ft with capital letters—will deserve something worth while at the hands of Uncle Sam. A Billy Sunday on a Thrift platform might be the means of inducing thousands of hardened spenders to’hit the trail leading to the sav- {ages bank or some other place where his money would be safe. It may be recalled that the original Billy is no amateur when {t comes to mobilizing the tron men,and such acampaign would give him an endless supply of ammunition. Veteran spenders and anti-savers can be reclaimed, fas many Of the letters published in this column show, but usually it takes some violent upheaval or @ phenomenon of nature to bring about the change. These means, however, d¢ not reach enough victims. What is needed is for some one to go from place to place, stand long rows of sub- jects in front of an audience and preach to them night after night. method would enable any one knowing his own weaknoss to go and get "The only obstacle which appears at this time f# that the eermons would itkely bave a depressing effect on the collections. Thé harder asd more the preaching, the more AN SO WEAK COULD NOT SLEEP Made Well by Lydia E. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound. ' North Oxford, Mass—I had lost three children and I was all run down | could not sleep at sight would leave me and everything 1 ate upset my very nervous and if I would start to | sweep I would have could finish. Iwas looking over the day and read of a woman who I did and took Lydia E. Pi ham’s Vegetable Com; 00, feeling fine and have given bi keep « bottle of C 54, North Oxford, Sleeplessness, indigestion, weakness, and nervousness are symptoms which indicate « lowered vitality of the female organism, and the tonic, strengtheni of the good’ old fashioned | * roots and herbs, contained in Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, are just what is needed by every woman who is in Mrs. Marco's condition. For free advice in ptom write to Lydia jedicine Co. (confiden- Lynn, Mass.—Advt, Grand Rapips FURNITURE CREDIT TERMS $3.00 Down on $50. 500 8% TS ind, so I took it R MARCO, Box APA NTS RNISHED PLETE FROM se TO 500 & Saturday Evenings COMPLETE Open Monday 106 ST. LSTATION AT CORNER COLUMBUS AVE BET.103 & 104 Good Housewives Make This Cough Syrup. To quickly cure the most stubborn coush and break up a cold in etx to eight hours there onn be sothing better than the fol- lowing simple remedy, for i has been trled@ in thousands of cases with wonder- popularity 1# increas jeoause of ite cheapness and positive ou: is, ‘Then mal 1 pint of bollin he bottle with syrup. use are enclosed In th Br = re ie oontalne po babil-i to all, returns, it tf» one which can be passed reward, in @ very substantial sense. country. AMAZED BY WAY RAN UP. Tetters of this type are decidedly EXPENSES Pleasure to publish them: “NEW YORK CITy. “To the Thrift Daitor of The Drening World: years ago, when a middle aged, well in conversation, down “car fare 60.” thinking. saleeman did. The n down what every cent was spent for. When I turned in for the night this ‘9 how my expenditures looked: ice water (tip), 10c.; drink it and and to work, Morn before breakfast, l5c.; breaktf cigars for custeme! .; Grinks with customers, 76c.; juncheon and tip, $1.10; cigars and drinks with custome: 160; shaking d' supper and tip, $1.60; drinks in evening, $1; loe water tip, 10c.; total, $11.40, “"T kept making up this memoran~- dum for a few days and at the end of that time resolved to see if I couldn't economize, I found that it was very easy to do so. I adopted the plan of cutting down a little each y and at the end of a couple of weeks I found my incidental expense was less than $5 per day instead of $11 or $12, I found I was making my calla on the trade faster and getting over the territory in less time. 1 also found that I had over $1,000 more commissions coming to me at the end of the year than I earned the year before. “‘My argument is that if ~ don't pend your money you are bound to save it. Stop spending that nickel! jhould be every salesman’ seemed to me to be good common sense logic, The man who had been talking to me, I learned af- terwards, was the President of a large paint works in Memphis, Tenn, He had bought Kk of the paint vings while he There ought to be some way of getting this letter plastered all over the United States, It is so full of help anc common sense and truth that it preaches the best kind of a sermon. The lesson of saving learned, new habits formed, efficiency increased, income sub- stantially advanced. “Stop spend- ing that nickel would be a cork- good slogan, but it need not be monopolized by the salesman, EVENING WORLD STARTED THIS COUPLE TO SAVE. Tt te tifying to hear of the good savulte The Evening World's Thrift campaign, a# shown by the following jetter: ‘ “NEW YORK. ‘Do the Theift Edtter of The Bvening World: “We owe our start, or at least our possession of a bank book, tg the campaign now being conducted by the American Bankers’ Association through the oo-operation of The Event: World. Seven years mar- but believe * | deposit is to be made Feb, 16. more t! | for which I paid about $100 interest, | This fiercely would the audience hold on fte nickels and dimes. But after Thrift is a virtue, and not many virtues ever became widely popular. ‘The posseasion of this particular kind of virtue, Bowever, brings immediate to others, and it is peculiarly its own The pursuit of Thrift ought to be the most popular diversion in this . j American Bankers’ and] terday in the Church of the Holy Child ‘The Bveaing Werke. Jeous, Richmond Hill, to Joseph An- AND MRB. T. MoG.” § | tony Miter, son of Mra Mary A Miller Tt ia inevitable that there will jot Weodheven. The Rev. Thomas A. Seek” Geekening after a lene Nummey officiated, The bride bas been Geen. best part of thie @x- | sromtnent ae 0 chotr einger and charity oe is that Mr. and Mra |) stem on ne jon, determined to, eet dy the experiences of other road- Shand or ee Ser Bare cearved saving they find out what all sav- sre, know,, that there need be ne fie money ‘put away) thet in- wtead, there is a great sense LOAN BHARK VICTIM GAVES 610 EVERY PAY DAY. If Mixed with Sulphur It Darkens So Evenly that It Cannot Be Di: 4 fen | very bitter ox- “NEW YORK. “Ton ago when the ‘ban gharks’ were in their pri: I was Paying off a of at rate $1,200 @ year, yabie $50 2 a 5 semi b> ye When the loan was finally Paid off it was necessary for me to obtain another one, Ali told I ob- tained five loans aggregating 9600, I might mention here that I have a wife and four children and all the ex- penses incidental thereto. Being wor- risome, I lost considerable sleep over the money I borrowed and the ex- orbitant rate of interest I had to pay for it, but decided to profit by the experience. So the payday after the! last payment was made I took $10, and $10 every succeeding payday up| to the present day and placed It in a savings bank, just as if it were compulsory and as if under the ‘loan shark’ system of payments my posi- tion depended on it. Twenty dollars @ month, or $240 a year for sevén years, equailing $1,680, not counting compound interest at three and one. balf per cent., is the comfortabl little pile to my credit for continuing ® habit that was at first a detriment, but later became a benefit. So, to the thousands tn Greater New York and elsewhere who are paying instalments of any kind let them, after their ac- counts are settled, continue right on paying that one, two or five dollars @ week intc a bank. If they could make those payments when It was compulsory they can certainly do the same when not compelled to do #0, and more so in the latter case when they expertence the pleasure and the That beautiful, evem shade of dark, sy hair can only be had by brewing of Sage Tea and Sulphur. Your hair is your charm. It makes or the dry, wispy and | application or two of ulphur enhances ite appear ance @ hundredfold. Don’t bother to pre the tonic; you can get from any store a 50- cent bottle of “Wyeth'’s Sage and Sul- phur toe g ge Hg to use. lane can always upon to back the natural color, thicknese ry lustre of your hair and remove dandruff, stop Leon itching and falling hair. Everybody uses “Wyeth's” Sage and nate because it darkens so natural, ind evenly that nobody can tell it bas helpful and entertaining, and it is a “Hore's a story that will interest thousands of ‘good fellows’ selling goods: “I wae aitting in the lobby of the Palmer House, Paducah, Ky., a few groomed man next to me engaged me Our talk turnes to the reckless spending of money. ‘When I came to this hotel about ten years ago,’ said this man, ‘I used to 1! Pop champagne corks at Old Dad, the bartender, and was one of the best bar customers the house had. One day while riding in @ street car, a sales- man got on and sat in front of me. He took out a memo. book and wrote That got me to I decided I would make a 1 | Memorandum of all I spent, as this t morning I started in and through the day wrote for drinks with salesmen at happiness and the feeling of security, peace and contentment that comes from saving and having something stowed away in your own seem, “Sweet are the uses of advers- ity,” as “W. C.” might woll agree. He was a glutton for punishment, as the sporting editor would say, and his observations are full of good common sense. After having been compelled to pay back $500 and $100 interest, it was no wonder that he learned to save, and it will be a long time before he ever lets himself get into financial straits again. A savings bank account of more than $1,680 leaves him high and dry, and rather poor picking for anything resembling a “loan shark." SYSTEM HELPED THIS MAN TO BANK ACCOUNT. Paper profits are one thing, and real profits another, “R. E, D’O.” tells how he cashed in on his paper profits: “BROOKLYN, “Te tho Theift Editor of The Evening Worl: “Six years ago I sat down and drew two columns on a paper. Under one 1 made a notation of what it wa costing me a year for rent, what I gave my wife for food and the tabl my own actual carfares and lunche; gas bills and clothing, and footed the column. Then I deducted the yearly total from my yearly salary and there was a good balance—on paper. 1 actually had nothing. It's a good ex- periment and I advise your readers to indulge in it, because it cured me. “The next year my salary was $22 a week and I adopted a system, After giving my wife table money and run- ning expenses, and keeping out my carfare and lunches, I deposited the! balance in a savings bank. At th end of the month I drew out the rent| money. End of the year I had some $860 to my credit. The beauty of been applied. eny, dampen a sponge or soft brush with it and'draw this through the hair, taking one si strand at time; by morning the gri hair bas disappeared, and after anot! application & becomes beauti and Ae glossy, lustrous TIRED, NERVOUS MEN AND WOMEN Working long, hard hours from day to | day in warm, close, confi unven- | tilated rooms under this present depress- ion of the weather, weakens rongest system, You begin to wonder why your face is getting #o pale and long. Your system so weak and exhausted—your vitality has been over- beret and needs fresh air and nourish- men MALTO-FERRIN possesses all the elements necessary to promptly renew and sustain your vital it it quickly replaces all the wornout jourishes the blood nerve cells : healt! dy. your home. tamily, young and old, can take it with utmost satisfaction, i Sold by all Riker-Hegeman and other leading druggists, When this supply fails, send to MALTO-FERRIN CHEMICAL CO., 44 Flatbush Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. NUXATED IRON increases strength of ri ting @ salary of $100 a month, never saved @ cent, until we began to read your articles in The Evening World, Maybe we have been asleep, us we are wide awake now. On Dec. 38, 1915, we deposited $2.50; Jan. 16, 1916, we deposited §5, making @ total of $7.50, and another ivi reeives “of anychine not de} ing ourselves anything Ran we did before we had our bank book, On every pay day, which " occurs twice & month, we Intend to . deposit a sina! sum, p pack. | Tenor ope these articles have taught| liars | others a lesson, as 1 firmly believe wo would never have made a start if it delicate, nervous, run down people 200 per in method is, one avolds “incidental: the bogey of all salaried men, Choir Singer tn Miss Gertrude Marte Eagan, daughter of Mr. and Mra, John J. Eagan of Rich-| it mond Hill, Queens, was married yes- Kiker-Hegeman, Aggott's always ourry it in stock.—Ai BRONCHITIS & CATARRH This 1s the season of the year when the ravages of theso prevalent dis- eases are at their worst, Thousands suffer and will continue to suffer, be- cause the ordinary methods of doctoring these distressing diseases are of little or no avail, If you would be rid of asthma, bronchitis or catarrh, in- form yourself about the “Liquold” Treatment, at ourjexpenso, An informa- tive and helpful book, recently published, fully, explains this remarkable treatment. It is the discovery of a noted physician. What {t 1s, what it does—the cause of these dread discases——the effective way to relleve and eradicate them 1s plainiy told in the book, We want every sufferer from | asthma, bronchitis or catarrh to read this “Liquold” book. The knowledge | it imparts is priceless. Yet it is offered to you free for the asking. No | matter how discouraged you may be over past failure to obtain reltef—no | matter how chronic or long standing your trouble—this book clearly shows how asthma, bronchitis and catarrh can be conquered and the causes com- pletely banished from the system. Hundreds of men and women to-day can | testify to the help this book has given them, as evidenced in the good health | they now enjoy. Get your copy of this FREE BOOK AT ANY OF THE FOLLOWING DRUG STORES: | All etores in Manhattan, Brockiya and New Jersey Bros: Rdeer-Hegeman.,.. ++ { Liggett’e Drug Stores { James Drug Stores { Standart Drug Co. Trinity Drug Co 8, Ho Beeler. ...+0. Behaat Beoe, a MoOormick's Pharmacy. M, K Weightman Reid, Yeomans & Ontte Nauheim Pharmacy Any sufferer from Asthma, Bron convenient to call a! any one of the above stores for the “Liquold” Book may secure a free copy, postpaid, by scnding postal to Liquold Chemical Co, Suite 217K, 118 Eagt 28th StyNow York City L= Double awe Green Trading Stamps SS Sere cer eee CRORE tt Ee I Te I WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1916. ALL Departments ; NOW Under One Roo Speaking of Values You Naturally Associate Them With Greenhut’s Be your needs what they may in SEASON- ABLE, MODERATE- inosine Lunch at Greenhut’s—(Fourth Floor) ENHUT’S—SECOND FLOOR Women’s Finest °3.50 & *4 Shoes, Sale Tomor- row, a Pair, ‘ebruary’s Best Sale of 3,000 Pairs of High-Class, Stylish and Absolutely Perfect Shoes for this season to sell at a full THE NEWEST STYLE LASTS AND PATTERNS IN POPULAR LEATHERS. We can offer these shoes underprice because a well-known New York Specialty Shoe Jobber bought more shoes than he could dispose of in a specified time. He made a very unusual price-con cession to us. AIRS OF THESE SHOES HAVE O'’SULLIVAN'S RUBBER HEELS ATTACHED. All of these shoes are Goodyear-welted—Cuban or Cuban Louis leather Here are the styles and leathers for your choice : Patent Leather Button Shoes —Kid or Cloth Tops Vici Kid Button Shoes Patent Leather Lace Shoes 52.35 here, and ft was never more strictly observed than right now. GREENHUT’S Vici Kid Lace Shoes psy Button Shoes Button Shoes All sizes and widths in each style. REENHUT'S—FIFTH FLOOR: $28 Brass Bed $ (as Illustrated) 9 Sale Tomorrow Heartily recommended as an extraordinary concession The outfit consists of : A $16 Two-Inch Continuous Post Brass Bedstead, with t-inch Bright, Polet or Special Men’s $4 and $5 $. Sweaters, at.. Norfolk coat styles with V necks; others with collars; all sizes. Men's $6 and $8 $ LAST CHANCE! Final Clearance of a Limited Number of Suits & Coats for Women & Misses Reduced regardless of former selling prices—original cost or actual value, to prices that do not even represent the cost of 18° Roll-Edge Cotton Mattress Nd Most of these are of selected Australian lambs-wool. $20 Spanish Leather Rockers, Tomorrow at $14.60 Strong, substantia! An accession to any library or living room. Hundreds ¥ in our February Furniture REENHUT’S—SECOND FLOOR: ‘We mention a few items: 20 Fur Trimmed Velveteen Suits —navy and black; satin lined; sizes 16 years, 34 $1 Women’s House Dresses, Dresses, at... . The Maids’ Dresses are in jam ; neat high col- The House Dresses are in sy ae and percale; sizes 34 to 52. Other House Dresses—Spe- "1.49 .° 2.95 For the Bab; Make your selections these timely specials: Babies’ Crochet aoe regularly 2! Babies Flannelette Petticoate— made on cambric waist; *3 to *5 Corsets A One-Day Clearaway, To- morrow....... "Lig Every so often we gather “broken” assortments from our superb stocks and dispose of them quickly at a price. Choice tomorrow from these famous makes— Warner's Rust- Proof Corsets Royal Worcester Corsets Sizes in each style and make are incompl: ted to your figure. ‘ white plaids; sizes Brown Astrakhan Cleth Coate satin lined; sizes 38 ani 40; reduced to, . 7 Cheviot Coats with Beaver Plush Collars and Border— sizes 16 and 18 years; Lily of France Corsets The Frolacet, Front Lace Corsets but you will surely find corset among the lot All of these corsets are in new styles, splendidly made of excellent ma- terial, best boning, etc, NO MAIL OR PHONE OR- DERS PILLED—None sent C. O. D, or on Approval. GREENHUT'S—FIFTH FLOOR The Finest Instrument At Its Price Is Our New “Caldwell” . Player Pianost rison, and diligent no market has con- vinced us of the truth of this state- ment. The “CALDWELL” PLAYER PIANO is really and truly in a class nd a single demonstration jo you what a wonds Come in—hear it at Greenhut's— Itis sold on THE BASIE: and with each ano you receive BENCH AND $10 WORTH OF MUSIC ROLLS OF YOUR OWN CHOICE FREB. The “Caldwell” Piano at $175 is the despair of competition. The more closely it is studied and inspected the better is {t liked. $5 “and °1 wee Absolute satisfaction guaranteed. We Invite Your Inspection of Our Display of Women’s and Misses’ broii ruffie Babies’ Cashmere Shawle— prettily embroidered in one Suits, Coats and Dresses In Advance Spring Models. They Embrace the Smartest Fashion Features Made Up in the Lovely New Fabrics, PRICES ARE PLEASINGLY Women’s Modish at 79¢ new shaped ilar cuffs and large pearl buttons. White ground with blue, black or lavender stripes. es finished with it. 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