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«AGE TWO
WIFE AS MANAGER
Something for Which Too Few
Hubbies Give Her Credit.
But Really, When You Look at the
Matter Closely, the Proper Con
ducting of a Home Requires
Some Thought.
Many a business man goes home In
the evening, removes liis coat, sinks
Into an easy chair and breathes a deep
fllgh of relief. When asked why his
brow Is furrowed he responds that he
lias had a terrible day. I'erhaps he
had letters to dictate. lie had to con
fer with his associates and he had to
talk to some customers. He spent an
hour or more at lunch and he quit
about five o'clock. He had a busy day
and when home is readied he feels
that he is entitled to some rest and
quiet.
Such a man rarely thinks of his wife
as a manager, remarks the Indianapolis
News. He does not recall that she
may have been up before him. He for
gets that she planned the breakfast—
and, In many instances, cooked It as
•well. After breakfast is finished there
are dishes to be washed and the kitch
en must be put to rights. I'erhaps that
Is a general cleaning day for the whole
house and there always is dust to
chase as well as dirt to sweep out or
tftke up in the new-fangled cleaner.
The beds have to be made and a score
of other household duties need atten
tion. If there are children they de
mand this, that and the other. If there
Is a little baby in the house It must be
bathed and put to sleep for its morn
ing nap. Then there is a noon meal
to get, as well as various other little
things constantly coming up. The aft
ernoon will be spent in many ways. A
great many women spend it in work.
They order groceries and they order
meat. They buy the household sup
plies, and the good housekeeper keeps
an accurate account of her expendi
tures. Toward evening she has to plan
the dinner and when the children come
home she must look after them. Later,
she has the job of putting them to bed.
Meanwhile she has had time, very like
ly, to read a magazine, to knit a little
for some soldier or to play the piano.
She may have found time to go shop
ping or to make a few calls. She makes
no particular complaint about the
routine she has gone through because
she does It every day.
Thousands of women show more ex
ecutive ability in running their own
homes than their husbands show in
running their business. Yet there are
many husbands who do not give their
wives credit for having any bustness
sense. Some of them who say that
women belong in the home never real
ize what a home Is. One of these ex
ecutive experts would be at a loss In a
great many cases If he undertook the
job of running his own house for a
period of 24 hours.
Saved Shipmate's Life.
Few reports fcf heroism made to the
navy department are more remarkable
than that concerning .Tames Marico,
ship cook, first class, who will prob
ably receive a gold life-saving medal,
in addition to the letter of commenda
tion sent him by the secretary of the
navy. In the midst of a terrific gale
Chief Quartermaster Eddker H. Rob
ertson, U. S. N., was washed overboard
from the U. S. S. Smith, while at
tempting to clear a jam in the steering
gear. Exhausted by the cold and rough
sea, Robertson could no longer help
himself, when Marclo, tying a line to
his waist, jumped Into the water.
Catching tfte quartermaster, he clung
to the hylf drowned man until the two
were hauled aboard. Not only was the
act of Marclo's one of great heroism,
but the test of his courage was shown
In the chance he took with such a
rough sea. The gale at the time was
one of the worst in years and the ship
was rolling at fifty-five degrees. Tills
young hero enlisted in the navy in
April, 3914, at Philadelphia.
Funston Has a Coward Test.
Nowadays they pick out the cow
ards before Instead of after the battle,
says a member of the medical staff at
Funston. A trained staff at the med
ical camp spends its time in diagnos
ing the drafted man for symptoms of
cowardice. When the symptoms are
present the man is disqualified for
service in the battle line. In some
instances he is retained in the army
and serves his country at menial tasks.
The officer ot the medical staff who
gives this information, says he has
became an expert in this particular
line of research, and has learned to
spot the physical coward with ac
curacy, but that of the 45.000 men who
have been trained at Funston only
thirty have borne the bacilli of the
hesitant font.
For Him Who Dares.
The United States government Is to
give official recognition to acts of
bravery on the field of battle by indi
vidual officers and enlisted men. There
has been for many years what Is
known as the Congressional Medal o£
Honor, which is bestowed on soldiery
who perform deeds of daring in tjjur
face of the enemy. It is the heartf
desire of every American soldier ti
win this decoration, for it is this coun
i try's equivalent of the Victoria cross
•'of 'Great Britain and of the Croix de
Guerre of France.
She Knew Peggy.
Patience—Peggy and Jack are to be
^married before he goes to the war.
Patrice—Oh, he prefers fo do his
ng over there, dpes he?
ONLY HUMAN BEINGS CRUEL1
Proud Man the 8ole Living Creature*
Capable of Deliberately Inflicting
Suffering on Others.
A cruel person Is one who exults in
the pain, mental or bodily, suffered by
another. Cruelty has its basis in anger
(and thus Is related to the combative
Instinct), though there is a cold-blood
ed form of cruelty which may be en
joyed without any obtrusive feeling of
anger, Henry Campbell writes in the
Lancet, London.
Cruelty, implying as it does self
consciousness—the ability to realize
the feelings of others—is essentially a
human attribute. Children who im
pale frogs and eviscerate flies cannot
be said to be cruel, for they know not
what they do. Nor are the lower ani
mals cruel, seeing that they are wholly
unconscious of the sufferings of oth
ers. Thus the charge of cruelty against
the carnivora is unjust. These animals
generally destroy their victims out
right and in the rare cases (e. g., cat
and mouse) where they prolong the
suffering they have no knowledge of
the pain they are causing. When,
therefore, we stigmatize the conduct of
the cruel man jis "brutal" we wrong
the brutes.
The animal which attacks another,
and in so doing causes pain, merely
responds to a blind, unthinking in
stinct but man, proud man, who looks
Defore and after, Is able to realize and
take pleasure in the pain he deliber
ately, and by subtle means maybe, sets
out to cause. It is clearly absurd to
speak of his conduct as "brutal."
Rather should we call it devilish, the
devil usually being credited with a
goodly share of intelligence. We must
cease to libel the brutes by designat
ing the basest acts of man as brutal.
As a matter of fact, they cannot be
charged with nonmoral conduct, see
ing that they are devoid of self-con
sclousness.
CURETO'R LITTLE AILMENTS
Real Trouble Can Usually Be Depend
ed On to Make One Forget
the Smaller Ones.
Man and animals alike, it's wonder
ful what a shock will do to heal our
errors and our weaknesses. The only
thing that ever stopped Uncle Bill in
an argument was a dishpan, or some
heavy, blunt Instrument clouted over
his brow, and in his younger days he
was some argufler, as his scars attest.
Here is the case of the blind man in
San Rafael, Cal., who fell 40 feet off
the roof of his house, and found his
eyesight restored Aunt Ellen, who
was bedridden for years, was the first
person to reach safety when the house
caught fire, and her bad hip has been
practically all right ever since you
remember that crippled negro who
beat even the dogs home when the bear
charged out of the brush.
A lot of us have troubles that are
only In our minds when we are fed a
little real trouble we forget the smaller
on«& There is, perhaps, an opening
for a sanitarium that will take a crip
ple or an invalid and throw him off a
cliff, or crack him over the head with
a brick or a crowbar—anything to wake
him up, make him forget his small
worries, and heal his diseased mind.
"Because—"
Jelly has been busy with riddles.
"Now!" she cried, and held up for pub
lic inspection the legend, "Why did
the orange ice cream?" printed in large
letters. "Because it saw the sausage
roll under the table," said Elfrida.
"My own is much better," announced
.Telly, evidently bursting to declare It.
She was cordially urged to do so. "Be
cause It saw the lemon sponge on the
dumb waiter," she proclaimed tri
umphantly. "Quite nice and cool,"
said Janet approvingly. "The vista of
possibilities you open up!" murmured
Peter. "For instance, It might have
seen the banana trifle with the maids
of honor. Or the p*oseberry fool with
the nuts from Brazil. All very pain
ful to an orange of really nice feeling.
But I like your dumb waiter."—"All
the Joneses," by Beatrice Kelston.
Make Pets of Hornbills.
The yellow hornbill, one of the most
interesting of the species, is a com
paratively fearless bird and is easily
killed. The male is fond of perching
on the tiptop of tropical trees and
making a noise like a young puppy.
The natives in Africa find young
hornbills easily tamed. They dig the
birds out of the tree nests when quits
young and raise them on milk and
berries in their huts. When grown
the hornbill remains attached to its
foster parents and will eat out of the
same dishes. Left fi ee, the hornbill
comes and goes much as does a pet
crow and remains about the hut un
til the first mating season, when it
goes away with' one of its kind, rare
ly to return.
Oriental Statecraft
The part which gesture plays in Ori
ental drama is set forth in a recent
Hindu' volume, which says that there
Is a fitting gesture to represent every
emotion. The gesture, in fact, is de
scribed as deaf-and-dumb alphabet of
t&fsoul. There are nine movements
:J
e head, corresponding to nine emo
mentioned by one authority, 24
another 28 movements of th« sin
gle hands, and 24 or 26 of the double
hands, etc. also "hands" denoting an
imals, trees, oceane, and other things.
For example, a certain position of the
hands denotes a certain emperor,
caste, or planet. The translator says
rather naivts.y that only a cultivated
audience can appreciate Indian "ac
tor's art."
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LITTLE PIGS.
"It's so foolish," said Pinky Pig, and
for once his mother was not around to
agree with him. In fact she had sent
Pinky off for a visit with his cousins
and she was in her own peri, by herself
except for the new little brothers and
sisters who had just been born.
"What's bothering you?" asked
Brother Bacon, who was taking a walk.
His tail was curled in a funny little
knot and his snout was very muddy,
as were his feet.
"Yes, what is bothering you?" asked
Grandfather Porky Pig.
"We'd like to know," said their cou
sin, Miss Ham. "You are always find
ing out something queer," she added.
"This Is not something I've found
out—that is—not exactly."
"You don't make yourself clear,"
grunted Grandfather Porky.
"We don't understand you at all,"
squealed Brother Babon.
"You don't give me a chance. You
never do. Just because you know I am
a bright pig you never give me a
chance to finish anything I start to say.
And you don't give me time to explain.
It's most annoying."
"Now look here, Pinky," said Miss
Ham, "you can't expect us to act as
your mother does. She spoils you and
tells you that you are clever. You're
really not one scrap brighter than any
"Cruel, Cruel Piflsy Said Brother
Bacon.
other pig in the pen. You are simply
a pig and at best pigs aren't the finest
scholars in the world."
"Why should they be?" squealed
Pinky.
"They shouldn't," said Miss Ham.
"But you are forever pretending you
are bright and clever—that's the part
that is foolish."
"You stole my word," squealed
Pinky.
"What word?" asked Miss Ham, and
looked about her as If she had stolen
some food and not a word and was try
ing to see what she had done with It!
"In the very first place of all I said,
'It's so foolish.' That was when I
joined you today."
"To be sure you did, Pinky," said
Grandfather Porky. "Miss Ham Is
talking too much. Tell us what is fool
ish. I love foolish things."
"I don't love this," said Pinky.
"Hurry and tell us what it is,"
squealed Brother Bacon.
Pinky ghve a grunt, squealed twice
and then began: "My mother," he said,
"does not want me in the pen. She
says I am not to go home for four
weeks. I am to visit my different pig
cousins, but I am not to go home."
"Why not?" they all squealed in sur
prise.
"Because I have some new brothers
and sisters and my mother thinks so
much of them now that she can't pay
any attention to me. It's absurd, too,
because I wouldn't hurt them.
"She happens to think a great deal
of them herself though she might have
eaten them up. Mother pigs will often
do that."
"True," said Miss Ham, "I car^easily
understand it. I might even be tempted
myself. It shows how much we appre
ciate our own families when we are
willing to eat them up. You don't
show good taste, Pinky."
"Cruel, cruel pigs," said Brother Ba
con. Why I wouldn't think of doing
such a thing, «nd to think that the
mother pigs will eat up their own
young. It's a horrible thought."
"Not.at all," said Miss Ham once
more. "It simply shows we think
highly of pigs—even of our own, and
even In the form of a meal. It is the
true spirit of a pig, and a mother,who
will eat her young Is a mother after my
own pig heart."
"We are more tender-hearted," said
Pinky, "but I am thankful to say that
my mother .didn't eat up her children.
She simply asked me to stay away as
she couldn't be bothered with me these
days."
"It's all right either way," grunted
Miss Pig. "If the mother wants to eat
her young, it shows her good taste,
and if she doesn't, it still shows
her
good taste."
Smart Boys.
The schoolmaster was giving the
boys a lecture on thrift for the win
ter. Then he asked for an illustra
tion of thrift in animals, and one boy
cried out:
"A dog!"
"A dog! In what way does a dog
practice economy?"
"Please, sir, when he runs after hi"
tail he makes both ends meet"
Another bo.y said:
"A bear."
-Well, what does the bear do?"
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DEMAND FOB BLACK
Material Favored as Economy
Rather Than for Mourning.
Many Disadvantages Cited in Dead
Color, Particularly That It Does
Not Match Well With Khaki.
There seem to be two opinions
Among merchants who deal in wom
en's dresses, and women's wear in gen
eral, about the probable demand for
black. Needless to say, war times al
ways mean an additional demand for
mourning, but after the experience of
England and France it is hardly likely
that we will overdo the matter of
wearing mourning in this country as
they did at the outbreak of the war.
Already there has been very definite
and telling agitation against this, and
it Is likely that if occasion for the as
suming of mourning comes, it will be
donned, but likely by American worn
!»n.
But aside from black as the color of
mourning, the prediction has been
jmade persistently in some quarters
jthat there will be an enormous dfemand
ifor black clothes as a matter of econ
jomy. Women may demand black, and
'they may wear It. But the question
Jis still open as to whether they are
[doing wisely. Almost any woman who
'has ever wore black for mourning
iknows that It Is not an economical
'color. In almost any fabric black re
quires constant brushing and constant
trips to the tailor. No color looks
shabby so soon as black. A black suit
skirt seems to collect the dust more
quickly than suits of other colors, and,
of course, black blouses have the dis
advantage of not usually being wash
able. The elaborate black evening gown
cut with an extreme decolletage comeg
in for almost universal admiration, and
even debutantes yearn to wear It.
In England the fact Is commented on
considerably that black does not go
well with khaki, and it must have
been noticed by everyone in this coun«
try that since the escort par excel'
lence Is the man in khaki, our pretty
girls have been wearing colors of
brighter hue than ever befoffe.
So think twice before yon have much
black, in your wardrobe, and think
three or four times before you adopt
It as a matter of economy.
The Outsider.
A good corsetiere can do so much
with a fat woman that it sometimes
Beems too bad that the double chin
does not cdme within the corset's
uphere of influence.—Ohio State Jour
nal.
Why 8olitude Is Desirable.
Solitude is the chief support of the
affections it would be,impossible to
love your fellow man if you knew you
could never get away from him".—From
the Atlantic.
Rint
i HERE'S a lot of geography in
the wear of tires. Some wear
well in one region, and wear
out in another. Climate, pecu­
liar roads and road conditions are the
cause of it. Therefore, good service in
a single region is not enough proof of
tires that must undergo nationwide use.
Least of all could it measure tires up
to the TESTED standard, Goodrich
demands of tires.
With a command to find out what
Goodrich Tires do on the roads of every
section of our country, and what the
roads of every section do to Goodrich
sister of
patriotism
Tires, Goodrich sent its
famous Six Fleets of
over forty cars, light
and heavy, the length and
breath of our nation to
an aggregate mileage of
1,044,686 linear miles,
and 4,178,744 tire miles.
The Pacific Fleet con
tributed 166,960 miles on
of the
GOODRICH
TESTED TIRES
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Food Conservation.
Mr. Justwed—This soup seems very
thin. What did you use for stock?
His Bride—Why, you see, Mr.
Hoover advises us to use the water
food has been boiled in, so I used the
broth from the boiled eggs.— Judge.
The Only Way.
Only way to get the genuine mince
pie is to marry Into the family where
it is made.
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desert paths and coast highways the
Mountain Fleet 55,796 through the
Rocky Mountains The Dixie, Fleet
3,285,860 in the South and North
Midland the Prairie Fleet 198,744 on
the Great Plains The Lake Fleet
217,372 and The Atlantic Fleet
254,012 on a grand tour of many
tours ranging from Virginia, through
New England, and back to the City of
Goodrich.
Throughout this road roughing,
SILVERTOWN CORDS, and BLACK
SAFETY TREADS, proved them
selves the tires of durability and de
pendability wherever you go in our
broad land. They verified all the good
qualities of Goodrich Tires, and re
vealed many new virtues.
Get the economy, the comfort and
certainty of such proven service by
demanding the tires proved out in
4,178,744 miles over American roads—
"America's Tested Tires."
Send Your Soldier to the Show
—Smileage Will Solve the
Problem!
Here's a great, big-hearted proposition. Here's one way to make
brother, cousin, sweetheart or friend in the ranks realize that he
isn't as far away from you as he feels.
Here's the plan to prove to him that helping defend our country
dosn't mean losing every bit of fun in life.
It isn't one of those talk propositions—it exists. It's all ready.
It's past the nlanjiing stage. It's a real thing. It's "Smileage."
"Smileage" means fun, recreatin, entertainment—it means "going
to the show."
Big theatres, auditoriums or tents, have been provided in each of
the sixteen National Army Cantonments and National Guard Caipps,/
and big shows will appear in them.
Not only musical features, entertainers, humorists and entertain*
ments of that sort, but Chautauqua programs, vaudeville shows, moving:
pictures and everything.
The lyceum talent, the theatrical producers, the managers—all these
splendid people are giving their time virtually for living wages and at
a minimum of cost to the government.
Your boy in camp can see a dollar or two dollar show for five, ten,
fifteen or twenty-five cents. You want to send your soldier boy to &
show. Your Smileage Book will do it for you.
A Smileage Book of twenty coupons costs you a dollar one of one'
hundred coupons costs you five dollars.
Buy one to-day—send it to that soldier boy—let him enjoy the
shows all the more because he knows you keep on thinking of him.
About the time you figure he has used up the first book of coupons
send him another.
Think how you are going to enjoy doing this.
Smileage Books are on sale everywhere.
Buy your book to-day and send it.
Let's show those boys in khaki that the
forget them.
Why, it will be better than a letter!
Buy your first book to-day.
Your soldier boy will be looking for it.
John E. Williams, of Washburn, ie the, county chairman
Spain Needs Locomotives.
Four Spanish railways, the Northern,
the Madrid. Saragossa and Alicante,
the Andalusian and the Madrid-Cateres
have joined in a venture to make loco
motives. These four companies will
help raise $5,000,000 for the extension
of a large machine shop in Barcelona,
"La Maquinista Terrestre y Maritime,"
to enable it to build locomotives now
badly needed in Spain. The Spanish
railway situation is exceedingly bad.
The locomotives and cars of many of
the roads, and particularly those of the
Northern railway, were considerably
damaged in the recent severe strikes
and ill-usage has further added to their
deterioration.
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Goodrich
folks back home can't
Uncle Eben.
"When you sees a man wlf "a puffi'ckly'
good disposition jes now," said Uncle
Eben, "it's a sure sign dat he's got'
'most as much as a ton of coal In his
cellar."
Dally Thought.
To be able to obey Ideas, to be free!
from self-consciousness, to be simple—
these are the secrets of courage.—Phil
lips Brooks.
New Version.
Early to bed and early to rise make'
a man healthy, wealthy and an awful
bore.—Chicago Eyening Post
HAVE THE LEADER PRINT IT.
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