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le a a i ; i FOOLISH SECRECY. MERICAN SOLINERS are London and Varw, {rants those foreign cities But not @ soldier boy te permitted to parade the streets of and bear the cheers of his own people, The American camps in foreign countries are visited by thou sands of strangers, who lavish attentions on the newoomere and hail his home tow them s saviors. Bet not « mother in America must keow where her boy ts, nor be allowed « moment for # last farewell, When our “expeditionary forces get close to the frout, where ble to the enemy, news about them information is more easily avai fe printed and circulated there Bat the loyal citizens of the darkest ignorance of military movements on our own soil, 8,000 miles from the battlefield, Americ welcoming or sending off, we want or wherever our boys live, and not merely hear the echoes from} abroad. Somebody should shove out of the War Department those foolish ostriches of bureaucrats who hide things at home in order to exhibit) them to foreigners and the enemy. New York is vitally interested parade of her soldier boy ship them off surrounded by sham save military censors can see? tt THE TRAITOR ON THE CORNER. ‘OW the police have been stirred to suppress these treasonable gatherings on street corners. flag only to denounce it will be dealt with adequately. All of which is largely due to the good public spirit of Mr. Cleveland Moffett. Unlike too many easy going Americans, he did not vent his indignation against sedition underneath his breath. He spoke right up in meeting and was almost mobbed. A policeman rescued the author and told him to move on before he got hurt. But Mr. Moffett did not move far before his wrath sent him back to the scene. It took nine policemen to save him the second So he was arrested as a nuisance. i fice of this kind to focus public opinion upon even flagrant evil The sidewalk forum is all right, but the street corner traitor is al) wrong. Mr. Moffett did a finely American thing. ————— 7 ————— HONOR THE UNIFORM. NCLE SAM’S uniforms, to be worn with honor in the fight for humanity abroad, must be made with regard for humanity 0 It would be a sad thing indeed that our boys should go forth to war in the namo of liberty, but dressed in uniforms made under slavish conditions The charge has been lodged that irresponsible contractors are lining their pockets by the use of underpaid labor for this important I Even Germany could do no worse than to talk of freedom time. of the toilers at home. work. when grinding down the people. justice to tht workers, We have seen thousands of young men fail to qualify for army service because of poor physique. reared undér just such conditions as the sweatshop fosters. It is impossible to bring forth virile manhood from cellars and garrets where sunshine and health are strangers, enemy to the nation, New York City has 300,000 needleworkers. age of them may reasonably expe Government contracts, for gain. I bol of a free America, HAT | the origin of khaki?! W To whom are we indebted for i? s not giving its boys and its money to provide spect lar shows for London and Puris alone. for cheering we want te do it here at home first. is to take place. Their part in helping the nation to prepare is an honorable part, and it must not be made less so by the greed y soldier’s suit of khaki is a precious thing—the sym- Khaki’ Uniforms First Used in 1848 | Berld. Tree Wahine Compemy ar Berend Clase Me , e) ) oO. 204 marched through the etreets of ally acclaimed by the people of United States must be kept In If there is any opportunity If there is any to do it in New York or Newark in knowing when that promised Or is there a acheme to secrecy through which everybody Those who hide behind the It often requires self-sa ews eae A ae One RHEIMAS U-BOAT GerRman SS st a Speed the investigation and give Many of them were born and itewash PRUs! c WELL CATHEDRAL PEPORTATIONS FRIGH TE ULMNESS PROPAGANDA aM OmLE S Fifty Fai Who C By Albert Pay ral wortbleseness. te turned th ‘arming Mohammedan hosts It, was a victory that saved F of his knights, crushed his Is with his huge battle-axe, From The Failuro had “come back” with And he had eaved Europe. The series 1s ended, Not “fifty,” but far more than ft! after failure had threatened to engulf What the heroes of this series Failure has no lasting power over the Beauty Dies, Perhaps, but Never Surrenders, and Time, the Gallant Old Gentleman, Stands Aside for Her—Why It Is the First Feminine Duty to Stay Lovely. By Nixola Greeley-Smith Copyright, 1017, by the Press Publishing Co, N Gertrude Atherton’s new book, “The Living @ chapter on Present,” there ‘ts the middle aged woman which con- tains a casual reft- woman, beauty, brilliancy, amiability, vanity is the most to be vanity alone can preserve crease the others, Vanity, by the way, has come up in the world, puritanism which overspreads Amer- joa edges—that is, the Atlantic and Pa- and tn- that ow the pall 1a beginning to lft about the every woman who valued, for off ra (The New York Evening Word), crime. Even to-day in conservat! cireles her aesthetic sense and ber faculty are supposed to suffer instant paralysis when she looks at | her own face in tho glass. erence to “that| Yet to possess beauty one must second plooming| desire tt. The woman who has sald which comes to| to herself, “1 am beautiful,” ts nearer by so much to beauty. And {f she has had the wis-| keeps on saying It Into the fifties and dom to keep her] sixties, and at the same time does Every aweatslfop is an vanity allye." her best to make it true, she will re- ¢ It has been al main so. é long time since| For the beauty dies, but she never | A largo percent-) sixgamerurrmm anything so sane| surrenders. And in the faco of her some form of employment on] was said to women, superb deflance Time, like a gallant Of all the gifts of fortune to] oid gentleman, makes way for her. Wise women pay no attention to time. ‘There is no such thing really. “Time Is just an abstraction Uke the infinite or the unt last week to a magnate of finance, like to hear you say there is no such thing as the to a business man with @ note to meet,” he re- piled, good humoredly. ‘Dime doesn't cifle coasts, To-day children are told| seem @ bit Hke an abstraction to kaykee by the natives, the English! that no longer to be vain is only| him." have given it to us as kharkee, and ly hi eprehei % iis 16 the sourens eetaencee. slightly less reprehensible than to be} But why should beauty take its Having been approved, the use of | wicked. laws from business? Beauty 1s the cloth spread from the guides to Tt was first adopted in British Indla, It was tho pleasing custom of our] poetry aade flesh and poetry is the in 1848, by Sir Harry Burnett Lums- | others In ‘the Indian army, and it] ertgia gorbears to discourage the say-| highest form of human expression. den, who had been asked to equtp a| {Ve Or ha takonan oom ntiee cae ing of pleasant personal thin A|'lo be a great beauty is one way of corps of guides to collect intelligence | 43, War, 1889. 2, khaki wag|little girl was never to be told that] being & Breat poet and to conduct an English force on| adopted in the British ‘service for an| she was pretty. Frivolous prooceu-| ,eVii 1%, (te Preservative | of the northwestern frontier of India,| Active x rites BItoe, ang 80 worn] pation with hair or complexion or Sune ds With thine: owe Ghat The cloth used was a light cotton | 4’ mNOttOn. Wan not ee it | other attributes of flesh made to be|imakes great men and wom drill, as suited the clinate of Hint for the African highianders, | mortified was sternly discouraged, a] |The woman who has lost her mative § aM anctea tera oO Ja woman from the inclemencies of| Jost the motor power of her life, une Bced trom or dust, Bays Popu well, fitted | Weather, Garments were to cover| less she is a strong, Impe , truly lar folonce x mthly. ‘Thus the term for the climate of Cubs and the Phil. | sinful bodies Th possession of He at and ADE i renee Wao balds the dictionary.tells us it is pronounced | ing the Spanish-American War sin, And for ® woman #o cursed tol above beauty, but it requ » of 1 of HE Ainus, “Celtle" ra T Japan, live in the Is Yeddo, although the become reduced that, it is mated, there are not more than 16,000 ‘or 17,000 of them left in the country The most notic peculiarity about Ainu women js that they have tattooed upon their upper and lower Mpe what resemble: women are not ¢ id their ma nm injured unless they the esti- 80 ple @ mustach, nsidered att ul prospects are have this decora- ee ee - The | feet admit the blight was to double the fort at all to be below it, nnivers musiache {s begun when the HE first street to he tluminated| was Nghted with gus, and in the fole irl is a child. The tattooing is done by gas was Goffn Lane, in owing year a Manchester mill fole gradually, a little each year, until it 0 here the ne od | 108 system. The of illume extends partly across the cheek, the Lond ms where the new method | inating gas continued high until keroc material used being the soot from | Was first used 110 years ego to-night, » and electricity forced a burned birch bark. The face js cut| Aug. 16, 1807. Pall Mall was lighted | reduction, In 1800 the pr and the black rubbed in, Afterward 1809, 1 between 1,000 cuble feet ra from 4) py gas in 1809, and between 1813 and x it is washed in a solution of ash bark , t jin Pittsburgh to $7. Phil Nquor to fix the color, ars | 1820 the system Was Installed through=| haa the lowest rat } last call I remarked | Vanity Is the Great Preservative ot Women| In a country house came upon a fellow beautiful woman, as shi her hair, Her recently I uest, a very was combing husband had saile for France in command of one of the base units and she had not ceased to weep since she received his farewell letter from a trar ; As she arranged her long chestaut hair I noticed that her face was turned away from the small mirror vf her dressing table, “Don't you want to come over my room where there Is a pier glass I Buggested, hoping to cheer her up. “No,” she answered dly, ber volce ‘and her eyes brimming to- gothor. “I shan't bother to look at all, What's the use? “The use of keeping yourself alive,” I answered, “of continuing to look like a woman worth dying for, Do you know I Intend to have a mirror set in the top of my coffin and to have a powder puff within easy reach #0 I shall make a decent appearance when the Angel Gabriel sounds the for Judgment Day? The Chinese,” 1 added, “bury all sorts of beautifying things with their loved ones—rich rolls of brocade, jars of | gold and jade and ivory ornaments. Among the well to do these things | Bac The spirit of the whole househ receives that there is any other interesting woman in |cent--and when I get five cents [} the world besides herself, can buy something with it. You can't| prt get anything for a cent except all-| A husband {s something ke @ Russian. Give him /4y suckers, and I want ico cream| a say in the government of the household and he wants “"¢ te a HBP BAG rina ‘but the| py 3 movies {s ten cents now—they ain't to revolutionize the whole regime every day or two. no jitney movies any more | ‘“Jitney!" erled Mrs. Jarr, “What A man may not be as versatile as a woman, but I know one who can |. worg fasten his shoes, eat his breakfast and devour two newspapers all at the) wit jeans five cents, maw!" re- ~ eoatas me aR |plied the boy. “And I want five| same time, One person who has a deep fellc send in those highly colored war reports {s the summer widower who has | to write those highly colored bi-wee! at the seashore, Alas! ‘every little husband has chiefly of grunts, monosyllables, swear words and “ums.” Whenever a man is going to do sensible he begins by adjuring a gir The Ainu Women are eald to be| out London. Chis lighting was intro-jexcept Pittsburgh, $2.15. In’ D usually finely formed, straight and duced in New York City in 1823, and| York and Boston tho rate was £7.50, well develope !, with small hands and “eg 1819. and the $3.50 rate prevatled in Chi- in Paris in 1819 A elr eyes autiful soft sage cago, Louis, Detroit, Milwaukee active | brown, their hair bi 4 most lux- The first experiments with Mumi-|and most of the Middle Western uriant and their econ x! olive, nating gas were made about 1792 by| citle In Maine, upper New York with often a deep, rich color in their Murdoch, in Cornwall, England. In anada the rates ranged even ks, 18038 the Lyceum Theatre, London, in some places as high as §7. Men are something like poker pots—awfully blg when you lose them and awfully little when you win them! i] hoped the de helor Girl Reflections : By Helen Rowland opyright, 1017, by the Press Publishing Co, ONDER how Moll Pitcher, who used her petticoats to make wad- W ding for the guns, would feel toward the girl who uses hers as @ shield to keep some man away from the guns? why a husband should wake up with it and inflict it on A wife's suspicion is often the first inkling a man “AMERICANS UNDER FIR, | | are real; among the poor they are made of paper, for every copper must be saved to feed the living, and it 1s | a won't be too critical World MONDAY, AUG, 20. The gar By Roy L. Copyright, 1017, by the Press Publishing OW," said Mr. as he looked smiled upon of their gifts.” My friend listened with an absent | look. 1 was not sure even that she had heard me, but when I ceased she spoke, And now her face looked at trom within the mirror, Tom brought me a beautiful jade necklace when he came back hina after the Boxer rebellion, began meditatively, “but I've never worn it because [ thought green would | make my skin look yellow. What do you think?” Where is it?” I asked, “Let me | how {t looks on you.” She had brought four trunks and she spent @ feverish half hour going through them in a search for the necklace, Finally it was found, tried on, admired, the sort of gown that would enhance !ts loveliness dis- oussed—— "| believe I'l have my® picture taken in it and send it to Mom, He'll | be so pleased,” said the owner of the oe around and his assembled family at the dinner table, “now this is a good dinner. The cost of living is high, on account of the war, but, My Lady Hoover, your food control of quantity, quality and price is per- fect, for this is a fine meal for a poor family these days!” “I'm glad you like it,” remarked Mrs. Jarr. “But don't forget that what goes in the stomach can't go on the back. Oh, dear, I do need clothes, and so do ythe children!" Mr, Jarr was about to say he needed some new clothes, too, but he con- ac 1 e. till staring in % nye TenteuEh. vanity’s. benefi. | luded to be old John W. Optimist, 60 cent» power Beauty was herself| he smiled and sald, “Well, it’s better! to pay food bills than doctors’ bills.” “But I haven't paid either,” said| | Mrs. Jarr. “I owe Dr. erk for at-| [tending the children ince early! |epring, and I owe so much at the | butcher and the grocer that I do not | know who 1s more worried about it— |the tradesmen or myself. Will you | give me some extra money this week, | please?” tra money repe; d Mr, Jarr.| “Am I an opulent though miserly old | moneybags that I should hold out on you? As soon as I get a cent"—— “Will you give It to me pop? in- terrupted Master Jarr, “I cent. Then, if I have nt, I can ask mamma for a cent and Ger- rude for a cent and company for a (The New York Evening World), ‘76 was glorious, but that’s no reason , wanta old every morning. one oy Jcents, and when I get a ow feeling for the correspondents who | pop, and a cent from “You said all that kly “I'm so lonely” letters to bis wife | Mrs, Jarr, severely. |and behave at the table. | "don't eat soup, I drink tt," mata a language all his own—consisting | the boys “Well, keep quiet and drink then,” advised Mr, Jarr, “Now, please, papa, don't tell him| |that, Willie knows I have told him \that the proper way fo eat soup te from the pide of the spoon," Master Jarr, being thu advised, cent from | before,” said | Rat your soup | | it, something particularly brutal and in- 1 to be “sweet and sensible.” conquest plans toward the ric les the Hammer” or “Charles Martel.” the breath of life endures, is hopelessly a Failure. that the tide will turn, and that Failure can be swept into Success, | to a refined | “Leave tho ‘table!’ lure ame fork Back _ LO No, 50- CHARLES MARTEL; the “Paiture iho Made france a Great Nation rae " ace id faved . whi ° 4 The w Charies, © t ' the King @f France, A few years} be hie fa 4 seak collection of polly states inte the greatest neath i ’ France was made up of eemiindepen ter wrecked by ctvil @ar and Invasion, and nominally ruled ae sed Ineom pelents, Known as the Merovingian king These king cere ruled by thetr Chancellors, who were then the foremost men in (he realm Pepin, Duke of Austrasia, was Chancellor to one of the last of these weak Merovingtan k two sons The elder of thee wal? 4. The younger son, ( suspected of the murder, Chaghes, had an uneavory record for on and for #iideess amé His father disinherited him, leaving the dukedom and his estates to the slain elder brother's infant son, Then in Pepin died ries was lett without heritage or rank or p He was avot by all decent folk, But prese the people of the duchy refused to be nr moverned by a child or by rege archy broke Made @ Duke } forth, Then, by popular acclaim, ¢ os Was chosen By Acclaim. as Duke. amma = “Tie wee power ont neibility hed an 068 effect on the ast Fa t ange made a man of him. He governed his duchy wisely and w As soon as his own realm was strong enough he conquered the other duchies of France, one after another, making tf Chancellor of the Kingdom and welding the soattercd states int npact and powerful nation, He wou'! not take the title of King, but or Nittle Merovingian puppet keep on a¥ nominal ruler, But es himself was the real mon- arch, And he worked marvels with the disorganized kingdom. The German bar 1 savages—invaded Franee. Charles whipped them back across t e and foreod many of their tribes to embrace Christianity. Thus Ger first relig from Frane@ ‘Then a deadlier foe threate ‘ tall Europe, and elv- ization and stianity as well, Mahomet, a few years ¢ ud f 4 new religion in Arabia, ; His fanatic hordes had conquered the Mohammedans rope An enormous h medans swept across mene othe Mediterrann ed the Continent Irre- Mahomet's sintibly they rush ing a bstacles. Men Sweep On, } The fate of Bur nd of Christianity hung in the H me balance. at th invaders could be ¢ ked they would speedily 1asters of all I nd would force their own creed and customs upon the conquered nat The Cross ‘eacent It was one of the € | turning I Charles w the man who saved Europe for « stianity and civillzatte nas Joffre at the Marne in 1914 turned back the German hordes re overrunning France, so Charle sat Tours in 732 met and smashed pe. Charles, charging ahead in the enemies’ helmetted skulls like egg- this exploit he was thereafter known @ vengeance, He had made France. y thousand men have “come bacts them forever. No man, so long There 1s every chance have done can be done by other. man who refuses to fail, @ new serics of historical articles by Albert Payson Terhune, will commence in The Evening Family. Co, his (Te New York Brening Ward), mouth, point first, up to the handle, and hold it there without the aid of his hands, Whereat little Miss Jarr, who, seeing no money in sight had made ‘no demands for pennies, began to laugh, and also stuck her spoon in her mouth in the same fashion, “Just look at what you have got the children doing, papal I wish you wouldn't encourage them tn their bad behavior!" cried Mrs, Jarr, “Me? replied Mr. Jarr, “Yes, yo Mrs, Jarr retorted. Now behave yourselves, children, or T'll send you from the table.” “I don't Uke sou I "t care,” said Master Jarr, me “You eat all yout" cried “Arg. Sarr ogeth of cheap, filling and healthy.” Hearing this, both chil appetite for soup, asa oak ail ‘Cun 1 have the crust asked Mr. Jar, "* Of the took it! Willle took at!” excl d the litt 5 exolait Je girl, clapping h he used to cry when we him to eat the crust,” pe- Mr, Jarr, “And now I am nd want the crust, he takes at your soup or you'll have no dessert!" said Mrs, Jarr to the chi} dren. But dinner the young 1, table w. ad gone strike, little Jarr even commit ting sabotage by spilling hers e tablecloth, 6 on th ow, Just for that, you any pennies when papa W.s of the on a soup shan’t have sets any, anc for a long time!” Mrs. Jac declared | for there was one good t © discl plingit was economic _ There's a picture at the moy' theatre around the corner full oe bolglers and moiders," said Mater Jarr, “ley KY seen it, and I want to go Boiglers and molders!" mim children pick up such manners and such languag ld move “I'm going t¢ when I gwow up, “They always has + and diamonds, lady wamptre Miss Jarr, clothes ou erled Mrs, Jarr by vampire, “And W neliher of you dessert, and It's tee to the would-be bh you, too ! shall havi creat Hut the children did not care o| Tholr apathy to the noup wan diets the fact that they had ro cream before dinner, thet from the table was a from Ginooy ary tha “Well, after all, ey are he children and it might be woren ce Mr, Jarr, And in the contusion of the children's banist: Jed the lee boing sent proceeded to put his tablespoon into nment her on his #oup also, ne revelen . -