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Means | Thomas B. Gregory Co, (Lhe New York Brening Wor soldjer boys lay desperately wounded and beside his cot sat a faithful Red Cros Copyright, 1918, Wy The light in the soldier boy's eyes was dim, and the nurse knew that ‘OT many weeks ago one of our in @ very little while it would fade out in the mystery men call death, What “Mother’ in a French bospital, Asked by the nurse if he wanted her to write to his sweetheart or By the Rev. N nurse. mother, the cyes opened, lighted up for the moment with a preternatural 5 brightness, and the dying boy answered, ‘ot to my sweetheart; mother | i. is my sweetheart. Write to HDR, please. “ " This sends straight home to every one who has a heart in his bosom | the conviction that a boy's best friend is his mother: | y ol There is no fortune that can possibly fall te one that equals a ' mother’s love } That love makes the humblest cabin better aud more beautiful than, the lordiiest mansion, and the little wage of a paltry few dollars a week | erander than the princely income of the millionaire stockholder, To ve sure, the millionaire may also have the mother love, but if so, | it 18 quite independent of his millions, for should those millions take | wings-as millions sometimes do—and fly away be would still be more | than rich with his mother’s affection, Boys and girls, stick to mother! She is your greatest asset, your strongest, surest anchor in life's storms, your best and noblest inspira- tion and safeguard when assailed by temptation or beset by misfortune, When everybody else goes back on you SHE will stand by you, When all the world forsakes you, when even the closest and most | trusted friends give you the cold shoulder and the distant look, SHE will throw ber arms about you and keep on loving you, and believing in you and helping you. Speaking of temptation= when the dark angels appeal to you to do/ the things that are wrong, ‘and which, if you do them, will smirch your | good name, think of MOTHER, of the cradle songs she used to sing to| you, of the little prayer she used to teach you as you knelt at her knees; having done this, think of what a crime it would be for you to bring her rey he os down in sorrow to the aistiol | ~ Selecting ‘Children’s Toys | HRISTMAS belongs principally |which the child can build castles and enjoys buying toys mo and m. und pies, all give a great anything else, w of f enjoyment bet ier as realize t these nould ut. A small boy, of cour: elected with care an hea wanta GR RAPE what they really me the eh i gat < tak ek All children are delighted with non th 1 ed: eas chanical toys when first £¢ Musical tnat fof | them work, wut they benefit to children, very quickly, while some n | ata tenth the cost of the novelties delights the Jittle Y pianos drums and harps { correctly ti it is worn out. The reason for] pitched help to train their ears and this is that in the mechanical toy arouse t Interest in music and} everything has already been done for |jteach them rhythm and time. And. the child and there is nothing left for| then, of course quieter heurs, | hig imagination, his dawning inven-| books and pictures ara sources of tiveness, or to provide materiat for/ happiness, But such books should be occupation. Such toys make the boy |sclected, not alone for the beauty of lagy, for they do for him what he|their bindings and gay colored pie- would rather try to do for himself, |tures, as is too often done, but for tho excellence of the reading matter ‘hey are a completed prod unless he takes them to pie they contain. ‘This sho be whales thus destroys them in his inv some and interesting and something tions he has no use for them that Will not only add to the child's the first novelty hus worn store of information, but will also To be really enjoyed by the child appeal Ohne rated s All toys should be strong so {hat th can stand his rough and awkward handling without falling apart A little girl likes all sorts of domes- tic toys and they also help to train her to be usefu washing outfit or doll’s clothes, a Uny kitchen «little ironing set t of dish furniture, &e., will, besides \ the child, h useful lesson: vamall maid who has learne CHAPTER XV. ELL," euld Caver on't think we need ask more questions of Russia Has Many Queer Stamps. HE receipt of a letter from we are con- ne Russian boy matied in Petros need, 1 be Mr. Jones Feb. 2 and received in New tile darh of oshent York on Oct. 16 is noted by Kent Bs. | fe ” Stiles in the stamp department of the nis ronatiae and of December Boys’ Life: jit is for the family to decid “cover.” 19 The envelope—or to meet this extraordinary sit lectors call {t—is one of the most cu-|{ am sure they will symputht rious of the many philatelic Mr d make no troub! products which hay arrived in qu he had no wron United States. It is unique be ow you ure tallin: instead of bearing only “Quite so. One more question; stamps representing the amoun seem to you L have not beer postage actually required to pre ng this? its transmission, it contains fourt It seems to: me Russian adhesives of five e| you ha ed one word or two-- esets ranging back to 190! e | in @- bottle, haa it been stamps including Unree of (ue wal ‘ fanet ¥ Javerous Cavendish, who, The outward appe ce pre The sttinps on the cover comprise first, the 1 and 7 ko) vallice gns of a sense of humor af Russia's regular 1909-19. Pain| exploded at this ait, but Simms re- Zeries Was supersede by the | mained unmoved, — : . Stomanolt stacy : Mquite 40." said he, “Well, that's the now extinct R usty all that 1 to be said~ now is the 2k. and 4k »minations as & pr Ee oY this series, bearing respectively th ood deal, Mr, Jones’ pictures of Alexander If, and Peter Nn iL Waa enough to Russian revolution, these’ Romanoff HONOR TF OAD RAE RAG Oth Wa eee: stamps bad been barred Di bbe EN xthaee int Ong pel on or hut this cover ix co 5 proof to}! . at's one of my malt the contrary, In ies on A re ees other thing ‘ou seo I had to carry rates in Russia were Qn ; r a y on up to a certain point, and, if you'll the 1909-19 8 were reissued with ny 1 b , excuse me ne own horn, I igher values surcharged upon them. | think Tye not done ? own hore ane Th. * b 1d put claws 0 that money—It ' hadn't | a Melt msl there 1, % 8, Band 10k, and 1 and Ponean't Rae one are Values of the 1409-1912 set we eer rie oe issued without perforations, and this) (ng Wine Chat cucwices over contains the 2,3 and Ok. of this te taken into consideration, 1 don't Waretime | set ) large-siae k much, t a commission on the charity staips in four denomination were issued and sold for the benefit of widows and orphans of Russian sol- opinion you diers. Three of these stamps appear, a professio on thie cover, money sal “Decidedly,” said Simms, are quite rig man my ¢ “Im my But as ncern just # moment ago was about your health.” aelaap gins lela = con Jones " Paade the anette \ WHERE {3 THE Tie The FAMILY | GAVE ME LAsT | > 4, (34> —=—y 4 | WHY PRESERVE NY TE D Kay ey na by the payers t also gets & note {rom Jones. Bi tain the table by playing with her doll'# F Th Hi Bond ecdansatan ates ar ah act That His Family Believe in this way. And then dolls are ¢ Hi ourse the chiet love of every umn to Be Insane child. Phere ave two things a pe likey Gene 1h, nex i My Me A (Copyright, Joba Lane Company.) is that it hes eal Wain." aud the SYNOPSIS OF PECKING CHAT LER pnd quality it must * i Wy (Loud eamadiy & suututiv nd put or tae te Nas An imag pit at ves hie Bl pene i Hing w ice from. ther Mum tae evening. sh ey ra ‘ ht owu | The buck to the Btutes 1 will excuse my 41 am give you ™ nothing, if will 8 of @ exh your tongue.” Jone Nu “Now is you Jones crossed his legs, right over mms, standing before him xagge ta imame, ON nore. A pill or te al You don't notic aiff ech? Th had enous aid hh “ L ne at ¢ House ewe p this business, It's a weight off ty mind how everything {y over-—-whew! 1 can tell you hungry for the Sta He rose and took which he J placed on odded to » Duke of Mel the , Simms was standing of the door “Exeuse me," sald Simms, “but 1 would not advise yor « vour condition; much better here till your nerves have recovered Jones stared at him. “My nerves “Don't, my endix q turned and then turned again to th Simms was barring the way stil “Don't t non hink lw a baby right—what on earth do you mean apon my soul, you're like a lot of children,” Pp ws GOING HOME PACE Thursday, December 12, 1919 GIVE IT TONE . | ve ITS SNE \ LHADITIN CAMPHOR TO Us “THE FAMILY T HAD NY SUSPICIONS | You LiTTLe RASCAL | TO Gwve IT Tyee AGAIN} THIS xX MAS ‘hat r by th PRESERVE BR fei The a Wore 7 a a by The Press Publisbing Co, (The New York Evening World.) THURSDAY, BETWEEN 4 AND 5 P. M. : i | DO not believe that big folks are as good to any other band of kiddies”) What with Mr. Morris Gest giving us his big theatre, the Manhattan | producer is international, consenting to direct our play personally, and_ | capitals, on the scene of Kiddie Klub activities, we will surely enjoy @ pete minute and fitting sultable music to every word and every deed through+ saucy; it will make the dancers dance better and give a more wicked r. | Queen and her attendants, and, in the end, when every tear has been, Kiddie Klub K i “8-5 | TRYOUT. FOR DANCERS PLEASE USE STAGE ENTRANCE ON 35TH ST., NEAR 8TH AVE, as they are to us, do you? I really do not see how they could be; £ Opera House, in which to try out our Cousin talent and to rehearse and — now the entrance of Mr. Carl Kdouarde, the conductor of the Strand BR formance such as was never given in this, the largest city in the to the plotting of the villain; the grandeur of the coronation will be more 1 | | dried and we are happy, Mr. Edouarde and his big orchestra will ba Conducted by Eleanor Schorer MANHATTAN OPERA HOUSE, N. 7. CITY, My dear Kiddie Cousin really do not, \to present our play, with Mr. Stewart Walker, whose fame as a theatrieal ymphony Orchestra, who has conducted grand opera in many European Mr. Edouarde is studying the manuscript of the play at this very | out. His music will make the fairies more fairy-like and the sorceress elegant for the stately strains which will attend the entrance of the glad with us. Diab Cousins |most wonderful time yesterday, EaaM | Whew f wan: b bidile,) tos, went to see my Kifldle Kousin, Loulse* 1 wore the badge of gold and b 9 Molline She Is Just lovely, {Of the “Little Defends a kiddie |COUsln Eleanor, and T like her very | band much. We met lier yesterday in New TWhich The World recrutted from | NG: 190K & walk with SMARTY ! | every ’ , jut i ‘ . dxe to defend wrote THE FAMILY HAs | | |! ner ' ' “A sbiehed, Le WEN OU THAT] | | ait iris ant animais found tn need was “The ANE TIE FoR J] [i nt aity-six pot, and loved th 0." Louise | vo liked the “MAS FoR THE ||} ai. heneer al, Sue received i 7 * li*rom my saddle boree to my mantis] (eter from hei hat sho would Last TEN Years |] |", mapripeotordien getty : With its stick-tike body and bulging [COU wr . Bu | ani ud man ind Tithe And ite spidery {t dined on files! boas much that T isked Sue toma I Now, I've two little friends whi troduce me to he nrough letter ai | would Hike to be She did, and over aincy foulne and 1 a | Wee Kiddie Klub members, and #0 have corresponded to | you see f am so'glad I joined the Kiddie live went twelve coupons, their names] Klub! Verh ou will say why? } and age My answer js, | have gain And will often aend them the xiddie| 20m friends through jt | ,fflenda to correspond wi 1. ¢. pAvips, {did not Jive near. ‘That wish wee granted. I wanted something new | . no, 1918, | Tread. w I have the Korner to read j DENI SIN ELEANO: v ver night. I have passed he | inany an hour Would have heen reary If T had noc had tie Korner to got two Kousin correspong« have twe ne, w t have an American |'# Louine, and an English one, should like to have, ible, French and another An a = rican Kougsin, He leat to pass Simms, ‘ore the servant e windo ading book « tweed coat was) I graduated from a busines: “You must not leave this room yet,” Jones, giving ag fle looked ike @ stiperior wort of set Ke cted. w game und smok-| That is why f can tygeweite school, said Simins, “Pray qntet yourself, dress, that fantastic addre: vant regen — an typewrite, I am “You mean to say you'll stop me?” was yet real, and the names and de- Jones looked at this young man, yp. cur people to be fet. |e nowrapher cod on oa “You! scriptions of people he knew and who had not yet noticed the awaken jow prison roked hapr orking as a slenographer-typlat, aid Chen in @ flash he knew. ‘These who would know hin fnig of the sleeper, and Jones, us he « L ihe hotived this fact |! also operate the switchboard, men had not been sent for to attend — The servant knocked at the door, looked at him, put facts togettier i tC agwr i vill close now, with lots of love the Dowager Countess of Rochester, He entered with the medicine, Siinms It was quite loicn! that, velieving 1 t t nna AMily war Bei to all ¢ whe love the they were alton! and they con- F giase and when him mad, they had put him ‘ina mad- individual « 1 prinor lub." Yours sincer sidered him to be Rochester—Roches dout ad hou nd he had no fear at all of y anny upon him, tha DLSIIS LITZ, aged fifteen, ter gone mad a dose of your medicine the result simply because he Knew «nian mugh play croquet | Java Street, Brooklyn, N.Y, “sit down and quiet yourself,” sald lke a man" said the kindly phys that he was sane, ‘The situation was pnd ke an inte! ine in the eye, jJocula Aanciien th aununtng, 1 wast abn one to get fron | «Just be | THE STATUE OF LIBERTY. snot--leave—thie-—house.” tne, it will remake your ne rom—but there was plenty of time, cay on n }as al ‘There is somethin, “Trwas Simms who sat down, flung Jones tossed ¢he stuff off impa- and there wax no room for making ni Harbor, ing in New York away by Jones, tiently é ; Mistakes, ; ‘ ‘ ; ; softly to the door} And it means so much tome ‘Then Cavendish pinioned him si sala he, “ther did not matter to him just 4 hy nt bad eat-| (tls a great bronze statue, behind, the Duke of Melford ehouted point Tve forgot » to New whether he recovered his r way thin The Statue of Liberty. directions, Simms serambled to his the hotel and get t . held nthe eye others; what did peatiy and without trans eet, and Jones having won free of recognize t} “rin the ler Lo him was the recovery of iis atital he Wa ring | And Till tel! vou a fact about t, Cavendish, the rough and tumble be- American be ‘d may able to ' Been a aiean que euut a> when a volce from behind made him ret lig Sy dt very ey an. recognize me too, he saw us togethe ‘ trer Wabb « determined to ; et it near Manhattan Island rh ey fought all over the drawing- ~-I y 1 feel a Irowsy, you ‘He low ; Do you require anything, sir” And we set it good and strong, sonm, Un furdinieres, ttle haven't doped me have ae nea is attendant aun who|Abath ‘pe the Kaiser sces it tables, costly chin " : i. ams t 5 en ‘in 4 rose » an |. ta far rmany o'er the sea. he t last th ad him down on house toget e utes er, ha j And it ould bi C a pi mire hi in tied behind his & moment's conversation on the stepy oie aha bas ar nd * uld bring to bis mind the, back with the Duke's bandannahand- | "Whot do you think of iim wald has just Ait baat alate, ee hier f| ory of Liberty. erehte: t aie! o sope you , ? x Ketones had uttered no ery, the othe "Bad," sa PS ec duke iI And I know the Kaiser saw tt nd, but the bum nd bang. Son# on his TREAT OAC BEAS aE GNig wa PRGR Gin the paper again and! On far Germany over the sea, {ng and smashing bi bad. and did you notice y not “my Lord” him , ’ wiv s|A t did bring to bis mind the over the houre. A tap ¢ the he worked that in about wanting "nat « wink." sald ? wed and passed SHED) Hy8/ OOOT: ORANKG ANG | 57 ’ oor and a voice. ‘The Duke rushed some one to Letieve in him mie Pa ead ie What de & xenUlemnan entered « of Liberty. to the door and opencd it : t hen RON 1 “Nothini aid he, “nothing wrong yout n looked purzled throw ligh kept on fighting Off with you, And would you like anything now, w wna 1 men would do lle shut the door and turned ght sire a r thought a thing about the couc! ne e of himself en my pants, Twantto getup.” f ‘ My A ed, White and Blue. Jones caught a glimps mse} nly, sir, your bath fs quite ihe ¢ c nm ; a big mirror, happily unsmashed 109 veady,"" replied the other otel he presented t ard a te lads are fighting nt a giinipse of himselt a ne Jones bathed, and thous door clerk ake ‘an do. tumbled and towsled with Simms be- of the poh derby nye An victory ! side him and Cav standing by, use Was ho persion pre the nan Jor 1 stayed e ite and Blue. refixing hia glass 2 time that son owas r ' first) HERMAN CLOWITCH, aged He recognized a ter fo F ‘watching him, When w y 1 ' ele Pittabureh, Pa though he had hundreds of it dtd ) what dressed th dan ed th nd © po: s* y, though he entered we did not other door, and ushered him into the business [NOVEMBER CONTEST AWARD r Hitting-roomn, where breakfast was 1 given. when WINNER, 2 eee : laid on w small table by the window, ie An add baa in My or to Senta Clings. owed not the Teast en of an abeciutely tande cone fe etween ¢ 5 n ay L knelt by my pillow, Teeth clear meinory and understanding, He fornner and whilst fa t 6 ; y my bed, oe snared, “ManHy ia bedvoutt, a cheerfil bed: by the ‘pleaant. sunt i atiags t no | beast t na T knelt ry pillow a aes Uve Aa room with an open window we out ot thy have {4 pra m arling Daddy, he, “t ie to one Mi) i. which ca th son of birds and c h vo ‘ove there,” Come, let my hands free, the epianee of foliage, ’ beet Ld A mite Senne tS y Thank | AS he i the trenches 5 A young man dressed in a black we And on a gar- you-qu 4 evan uid r my praye said Simm m icine coat was seated in an arm: i nis f ! ' (To Be Cor ed. Thore was just one thing that £ * point out that we were n zt. n the least, only preven And what ¢ it could be? # you from ta a course detrimen That he'd homeward bound, to your heal Cavend will you . 1 when Christmas came around kindly untle that absur ndier- v rs) oe | r ‘ tting n his knee cnet v4 By FRANCES Caven obeyed, an@ Jones, his K A en years, Bronx, da freed, rubbed his w 4 ; Ones ok here,” fd Jon alk = for a moment-you think I'm HOw OBTAIN, Ra ANG tn the tena! anit sieame By Hulbert Footner only from epve 1, have no_rischt to Simms «4 writing- trble, while took choira He wrote a prescription, and the Duke, ringine the bell, ordered a servant toe take the prescription to the chemists, Then during the twenty minutes — 2 A Fascinating Detective Story BEGINS NEXT MONDAY ON THIS PAGE 402 “Klub Pin.” Mil chitdres become up t@ 5 ae ‘iy Klub Pin aad COUPON NO.