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I-1 I - —'--— ■ \ ' _.___ ___ — - ————————————————^-- ^—■——- - - - . 1 sjmjw !/!• wy% ■■■■« j Most Likely You’re Not as Badly Off as You Think —Right Eating and Living Work Wonders in Correcting Digestive Troubles. By ROYAL S. COPELAND, M. D. United States Senator from New York. Former Commissioner of Health, Heto York City. INDIGESTION is the bugbear of' thousands of persons. They would do almost anything to be restored to good health. There are many varieties of in aigestion o r dyspep sia. What is called “acidity” i s perhaps the commonest of all. It comes at any age and may last only a few days or it may persist for months. Sometimes i t ends in ulcer of the stom ach or some thing worse. That is suffi cient reason DP. COPf.LAND for avoiding this condition. There are three symptom* al ways present in ulcer of the stom ach. They nre pain, vomiting and hemorrhage; pain is the chief sign #f this trouhle. Heartburn and con stipation. blood mingled with the vomited food, severe pains in the middle of the back and stomach, may indicate ulcer. Rest is the first remedy for this condition. The patient must have special feeding, but the physician in attendance will see to this. He must direct the treatment. One of the common causes of indi gestion is taking food without chew ing it properly. Whole pieces of meat and other food are too commonly swallowed without chewing. You are bound to have disturbances in stom ach and bowclk after such a per formance. Digestion begins in the mouth. For this reason thorough mastication of the food and free mixture with the saliva are necessary to good diges tion. If you properly chew your food, and then have pain in the stomach and belching of gas, that might mean the Indigestion is caused by an in sufficient Quantity or a poor Quality of gastric Juice. There may be deficient muscular power In the stomach. This will pre sent an important factor in digestion. This leads to a very common form of indigestion. Sometimes the food Is only partly digested. Fermenta tion and decomposition of food in the gtomach resuit. There are means of preventing these digestive troubles. But every system of cure calls for a drastic change in the diet, as well as in the eatinr and living habits. ► It Is Important to have properly balanced meals. Eat sparingly—not too much sugar and starches. Eat easily digested foods and chew them thoroughly. To this end good teeth are essential. Drink lota of water, and bear In mind that this Is a most Important part of the treatment. It is only when a proper amount of water is maintained In the system that per fect elimination of the wastes of the body is possible. Don't keep the hands busily occu pied when the stomach and intestines are hard at work. Be relaxed, light hearted and cheerful. If you are de pressed and despondent, other ills follow. If ths nervous balance is dis turbed. or If the emotions are aroused over every little thing, digestion is almost entirely stopped. Change your attitude of mind. Change your environment. See a bevy of cheerful friends. And change your diet. Sea your doctor. The chances are that ycu ara not so badly off as you thought you were, but find out for sure A good rest and a pleasant vacation can do wonders for you. Try them! Answers to Health Queries | A. A. P. Q.—What do you advise for cirrhosis of the llrer? A.—Anyone suffering with cir rhosis of the llvsr should be under the care of a specialist as it it a very serious condition and each cause re quires specific treatment. • • • M. G. Q.—What do you advise for diseased tonsils? A.—Diseased tonsils should be re moved. • • • G. B. B. Q.—What do you advise for gaining weight? A.—Eat plenty of good, nourish ing food, including milk, eggs, fresh fruits and vegetables. Drink water between meals. Take cod-liver oil as a general tonic. • • • J. E. 8. Q.—What is the cause of twitching of the eyelids? ■ -i - - A. —This may he due to nervous ness or eyestrain. Would advise you to see a specialist for a thorough examination. • • • B. C. Q—What should a boy of fifteen, five feet one inch tall, weigh ? 2—What causes people to breathe through the mouth? A.—He should weigh about 114 pounds. 2—May be due to adenoids or nasal catarrh. CopjTtWst. ISM. Nmpipw Fwuup S«r»trp. lac. Home-Making Helps By ELEANOR ROSS Here Come the Wedding Presents! WHETHER the gift will be*1 welcomed with Joy or the secret wish that some other i choice had been made, all depends on how much one can find out in ad vance about the housekeeping plan* of the new couple. It used to be hard enough to de cide on an acceptable gift If no clue was furnished by the bride-to-be. True, silver and linen are relatively safe Good taste, but sometimes ex pensive However, always there was the tear of duplication. And not without cause. Many a young bride had cause for quiet grumbling when sh* surveyed the triplicate pie knives and fancy carving sets and asserted seta of candlesticks—most of which she would gladly have traded lu for a homely, more useful article. _ And her hard lot was matched by the bride who yearned for lovely, useless things—and whose matter-of fact friends showered her with sturdy, purposeful furnishings. Surely there’s a middle ground— and there ought to be a law of etl • quette to ease the Job for donors, and simultaneously make the bride more cheerful when she surveys the mementoes of the occasion. This Is an age of forthright speech, and i The Stars Say— For Tuesday, .May 27. By GENEVIEVE KEMBLE. WHILE the sidereal operations for this day presage much activity and a generally pro gressive state of affairs, yet there nm: be some hazards through trick ery or misrepresentations, accompan ied by minor setbacks or delays. The mind should be particularly keen and alert to be abie to offset these ad verse conditions. Business relating to letters and publishing should be particularly successful and lively. Those whose birthday it is may look for a very lively year, with much progress, especially in all re lating to publishing, promotion or commerce. But there is a menace of Saud or duplicity, and dealings with rge or secret societies should be guarded with much precaution. The mental power will be under high atimulus to meet these menacing sit uations. A child bom on this day should be keen, alert, Quick-witted and quite able to cope with the menacing con ditions that may arise to offset rr jch et jt» high attainments. It should do well In all literary or commercial ( activities. ^rather than buy In doubt, St were better to consult the recipient, di rectly or Indirectly. Housekeeping articles are useful— providing she intends to keep house. Not everybody does—In these days of so many women continuing with their jobs after marriage. If she is to live in the lightest of light house keeping apartments, then there are all sorts of dainty accessories to make things easy for her. Electrical equipment—but this must be checked up with possible duplications first, if the articles are not exchangeable afterward. China, linen, silver, all the standard wedding gifts, are not what they used to be—there is a great difference in the kind of linen required by a light-housekeeping couple who eat out a great deal and entertain out, from the kind of napery which will be apprecia'ed by heavy home entertainers. As for decorations—there one must walk softly. For the couple who plan a modernistic home may have decided opinions on exactly what shapes, colors, objects fit. That beautiful Chinese Jar, or the fine Oriental rug which Great-aunt Martha selected so conscientiously, may receive anything but a warm welcome. If these moderns regard it as Incongruous with the decorative scheme. It’s out. Only the young couple, themselves, can tell pre cisely what will blend with their decorative ideas, and choosing a gift without this confidence is almost hazardous. It may waste time and money for the donor—and place on polite recipients the unhappy duty of looking enthusiastic over some thing that makes them groan in waraiy. Still, it must be said that the rift question i» far from hopeless. The revival of the beautiful antique re productions—in furniture, pewter, colorful linens and draperies, pro vide a larger range of choice than ever before. Smoking accessories that will help, unobtrusively, to pre serve the home furnishings around them, and yet are good looking in themselves, are now in the useful but-beautiful class. For bookish couples, anything from membership in a book club up to some of the new bookcases, cleverly designed to be reading table, bookraek, magazine holder, writing desk. As for bridge addicts, there is no limit to the num ber of charming and helpful objects which will be acceptable—tables, lamps, accessories. Incidentally, If gifts are Initialed, it's best to find out from the bride which she prefers, her married or single initials. According to old fashioned etiquette, the bride's maiden name was used—but this is no longer an inflexible rule. She now follows her own whim about initials. Posture—and the Draped Frocks The Change from Carefree Short-Dress Days Means You Must Acquire Grace. By Josephine Huddleston I WONDER if you get as much enjoyment out of reading the new beauty articles as I do writing them? I was just thinking that only last year at this time we all were interested in learning how to sit down and rise gracefully when wearing short skirts and to day we must talk about how to rise and sit gracefully without getting! all tangled up In our long hem lines:; With the new clothes we've simply got to get over slouching and loung ing and sitting on our feet I know i it's comfortable, but only because we i have permitted our bodies to become | accustomed to those positions. A j little training in the new way In which they should be poised and we will be equally at ease. But It will I take some conscious training. Then, loo, I think we should wear : our new frocks around within the j privacy of our own room and do a little sitting and standing in front of I the mirror before we can know just what needs to be changed. j Practise Before a Mirror. ~1 The long bouffant frocks are more easily managed than the long draped ones because we've been wearing the bouffant type for evening for sev eral seasons now. But the longer skirts for Informal occasions, partic ularly with sports models, are the ones that are going to cause beauty di»ster if we don't watch out. Of course, work sports clothes are very little longer than last season and I don't think they will worry us as much as those chosen for formal sports wear. First it is necessary to don the frock and note carefully how It falls and what It does as you sit down or rise. Circular skirts have a way of falling into the most awkward lines unless they are properly managed, and this means, of course, watchtng the position of the body. By experimenting a bit before wearing the new clothes Into view of the genera! public these ungrace ful postures can be avoided, and so another step forward in the art of being completely beautiful will have been taken. 1_Don’t Droop Shoulders. | The position of the feet is ex tremely important. The days of con scious primness are definitely gone from the feminine world. Therefore we have a spontaneity of manner that was unknown to past genera tions. It is this natural freedom that we must guard against with the new frocks but only to such an ex tent that we remember to place our selves correctly. Then when we carry cn in our usual manner the habits, formed when another type of dress was fashionable, will not arise to trip us up. The simplest way to avoid looking and feeling awkward is just to be come thoroughly familiar with each new garment as it is added to your wardrobe and by doing this you soon will discover what positions must be avoided and which ones can be re tained. Besides watching the feet, the shoulders and chest should be stud ied. too. because the smartest of the new frocks call for a strictly femi nine outline wherein the contour of the chest must be definitely curved. This forbids drooping shoulders and relaxed abdominal muscles. The rest of the details you’ll have to work out for yourself, but with these sug gestions for a guide you won't have any trouble. A Fashion Model’s Diary By GRACE THORNCUFFE Shantung Lounging Pajamas Win a New Customer. »»/ E really have a very exclu-* m'V' sive clientele at the ahop. * * Most of our customers have been doing their buying from us since the opening, and those new ones that ws have acquired are usually recommended to ua by friend*, and generally tell us just who sent them in. Thti morning, however, a very sweet woman came Into the shop, and though she seemed thoroughly at home there, she waa unfamiliar to all of us. Every once in a while she looked around as if she were looking for some particular person, but she didn’t make *ny inquiries. I waited on her, anshe ordered quite a few of our moat expensive and exclusive costumes. She bought a lovely pair of loung ing pajamas, too. They are fash ioned of black shantung, and would be just as appropriate for beach wear as for lounging. The yoke full trousers are banded and finished with bows Just below the knee, and the same treatment is repeated on the jacket sleeve below the elbow. The underblouse is of chartreuse shantung. All the time that she was in the shop 1 was puzzling, trying to decide who she was or who had sent her. I don’t generally forget customers’ faces, and I was sure I had never seen this woman before. Just before she was ready to leave I determined to ask her who had sugested she buy her clothes from us. I was just about to do this when she inquired for a Mrs. Cleary*— wanted to know whether she was in yet. or when she would be in. That cleared up the entire situation, and let me tell you little Gracia was ter ribly embarrassed. Mrs. Cleary is a competitor of ours, who runs very much the same sort of shop. The woman had come into the wrong shop by mistake- I was speechless. However, there was only one thing I could do. and that was tell ber she i Yoked Full Trousers, with Dainty Bows, Lend a Smart Note. had made a mistake. 1 had visions of the entire order being canceled. But I was wrong. She was very sweet about it—said it waa her own fault, and that she was glad she had made the error, said she liked our clothee—and promised to come again real soon. Fine Straws Feature Season’s Hats Feather Fancies and Ribbon Retain Their Popularity. STRAWS continue to indicate just which way the winds of fashion are blowing. And so it becomes very evident that fashion, for the present anyway, is veering from the felt hat in favor of millinery made of straw and fabric. Until last year the felt hat was ubiquitous even in the warmest Summer weather, but last year it began to be very clear that we had decided to go in for hats that were composed of various straws and silk materials. This gesture seemed to precede and point the way to the complete revolution of feminine styles that began last Autumn. And so, this season, we find a tre mendous variety of hats, all of them different.' Trimmings are very diversified and Paris is using many little feather fancies as well as appliqued flowers of velvet and silk. Ribbon, despite all other attractions, remains the staple trimming for both simple and elaborate hats. The small hat in to-day’s drawing is of black panamalac and the brim is turned off the face with drapes at the side. An eye veil lends a piquant note. Fine lacy straw in pale rose beige makes the other model, that is trimmed with white ribbon, with two little feather fancies m white and deeper rose. The handbag is of black antelope trimmed in silver and marcasite, and the fur is of luxurious silver fox. Love’s Reawakening Madge **Sugar-Coats99 Bad IS'eurs for I Mary by Promising an Evening Gotcn, Wrap and a Party at Which to Wear Them. 1-By Adele Garrison-—-1 THERE was something so like a” sob In Mary's voice as she put her bluer little query, uncon sciously betraying her envy of Ma rlon's youthful happiness and enthu siasm, that my first Impulse of amusement, because she Is less than two years older than Marion, was turned into deep compassion mingled with a feeling of guilt. For I knew only too well what had called forth that dolorous outburst. While she Is so near Marion's actual age. yet In experience and suffer "ins she Is at least a decade further* along Life's highway. There was within her a consuming fire, fueled by her creative ability, her overpow ering ambition, her dislike of system atic control, and her restlessness which would not let her be young and carefree as were Marlon and her school friends. Yet she was young enough to yearn for the girlish good tim*« which had formed no part of her life. 1 remem bered her plaint when we were plan ning Marlon's vacation festivities that she "never bad slung a party in her life.” I also remembered my Im pulsive promise to her that she should "sling’’ one all her own dur ing the holidays, a promise which ever since I had been turning over dubiously In my mind, because of the singular paucity of young ac quaintances which the child had. That my little feeling of guilt was morbid and unjustified. I knew. Mary’s own ambition, and her rest less temperament had been responsi ble for her isolation. 1 What to Do With Xoelf \ True, she had had more romantic excitement, more masculine admira tion than would come to an ordinary girl in a lifetime. But of adolescent young fun, of school dances and festivities, of va cation parties, such as were now Ma rlon's lot. she had experienced noth ing. and as I watched her staring at the wall, for she had let her eyes rest on mine for only a moment. I made a swift resolve. I had not the slightest Idea how I could manage, but I made up my mind that Mary should "aling a party" all her own before she was forty - eight hours older. It was rashness to promise It to her when I was so at sea, but I had some disagreeable news to give to her, and I knew no better way of sugar-costing the pill, than to tell her my resolve. I consulted my wrlstwatch, made a mental calcula tion and spoke crisply. "Mary! Get up and get dressed as quickly as you can. We’re going shopping. Tou need an evening dress and an evening wrap, and you are going to have them as part of your Christmas. But I want you to select them yourself. Tou may not be able to decide on them this after noon, but we ll have time to take a preliminary look around anyway." She was on her feet before I hsd finished, her eyes enormous with surprise, her mouth quivering Into a smile. "Oh! Auntie Madge!" the said breathlessly. “How perfectly heav enly. “But--" with a patent sober ing second thought, "you mustn’t. | It's too much for you. And—then— where do I go to wear things like that. They’d be out of style before I got a chance to wear them even once." There was a bitter twist to her ■pretty mouth now. and I crossed swiftly to her. laid my hands on her shoulders and shook her playfully •‘That's going to be my business, where you wear them." I said. "And. if you’ll promise to be a good, obe dient little girl. I'll tell you an impor tant secret." “I promise." she said demurely, folding her hands together In a little girl fashion. “You're going to wear them for the first time either tomorrow night, or the next, when you ‘sling a party.* Isn't that the atrocious term you use?—all you own." Her eyes were starry for a second, then quickly shadowed. "But—" she stammered—"I don’t know anybody and — what about Noel?" It was the question I had been dreading, for I. myself, did not know what I was to do about the nerve racked boy at the farmhouse. “Will you please leave all the de tails to me?” I asked severely, and Mary grinned unexpectedly. "Nice name you’re calling the boy,” she said, and I saw that her natural longing for normal gaiety had ban ished her worry over her fiance for a little time at least. She was so girlishly lovely In her excitement that I basely put off my real errand to her. I would not shadow her en joyment. I told myself, with my news about Philip Verttzen. until the last possible minute before our dinner engagement with Noel's implacable father. (Continued Tomorrow.) c<*m**t. liM. Stw»»*r»r Fmium Stmts, lot. The Student and the Janitor One Knew Much of the “Secrets of Life“—But the Other Knew How to Be Happy. By WINIFRED BLACK HE died the other day by his own hand — the brilliant young fellow whose friends expected so much of him. He was rich, handsome, and very intelligent. ____ He felt that I he had an aim ] in life. He wanted i to discover what it all was about, this liv ing and this dying, this working, and this resting, this worry and this fret and fury of things, so he went to a great uni versity and1* studied philos ophy. WINIFRED BLACK He studied earnestly, and with deep and serious attention. He could not waste any time in athletics, he didn't play football or baseball, he didn't even go to see other men play. i_He Worried About Life. | He didn’t care for the theatre or for opera. The theatre was too frivolous and opera was too pretentious. He never played cards; He Juat liked to swim and to get Into his fast roadster and get from one place to another as quickly as he could and all the rest of the time he apent studying and thinking. The more he thought, the worse he felt about it. He went to a college settlement and studied the poor. He was bitterly sorry for the poor and did all he could to help them, but the little any one man could do didn’t amount to much. He worried about that. He saw a girl he might have loved, but he had a brother who was not true to his wife and made her very miserable, and the rich young man thought, ’’What if 1 should turn out like that? No. I had better not take the risk.” And when everyone he knew was laughing and having a good time getting ready for vacation, the rich young man went up to hi# beauti fully furnished room and killed him self The janitor found him. Now. the Janitor is a very poor man. but he has two or three rather snug little rooms in the basemen*. The Janitor works rather hard all day and in the evening he smokes like a furnace and laughs and laughs over the funny pictures in his favor ite daily newspaper. | What Price Knowledge? | He has a radio, too—not such a 1 very good radio; he got It second hand from a young man who could not keep up In his Haases and had to sell his furniture and go back home—but the Janitor loves the radio. He says It broadens the mind. And it is true that ever since the Janitor has had the radio he assumes quite the air of a man of the world. Why. he knows them all—King George of England, and Mr. Hoover of America, and Peggy Hopkins Joyce, the lady who seems to have so little difficulty In getting one rich husband after another. Of course, he had never visited any of these people in their homes and they wouldn’t know him if they saw him. but they’ve been to his house just the same, and all he did to get them to come there was to turn a little button—the Janitor thinks It s all very wonderful. There’s something new every day. the Janitor says, and he wouldn’t for anything, any time—if he could help it—not listen In. He hates to think what he might miss. The Janitor's daughter cried when she heard that the rich young man had killed himself. Pretty little thing the Janitor's daughter, big eyes and hair the color of ripe wheat— silky stuff, like the floss In a milk weed pod. I think she was a little bit in love with the rich young man. I wonder what would have hap pened if the rich young man had looked at the Janitor's pretty daugh ter—Just once, long and earnestly? Perhaps—-but you see he was too busy, studying the Secrets of Life. Well. well. It’s a great pity, isn’t it? Caprrtfht. Hit. Khihw r**iur# S«Wm. 1st. Helpful Advice to Girls By NANCY LEE T"|EAR NANCY LEE: We ere two girls almost six teen years of age. Do you think we're too young to have boys escort us home from different places? We know a few nice boys and If they ask us for "dates." do you think it would be all right to keep them? We would never go with boys alone; It would always be a foursome. Our parents don't like us to go with boys but we work all day and don’t know many girls we could go out with. So we would like to go out with nice boys a little older than ourselves. Do you think It would be all right. • PAT AMD DAISY. PAT AND DAISY: It Is not my advice but your parents' permis sion that is necessary before you can go out with young men. Ask them if they will permit ybu to go out now and again in the "foursome" fashion that you suggest. Perhaps they would permit you to have a few friends to your home, including the ► young men, whom you think would make the best Impression on your people. They could then Judge for themselves the type of young men who would like to act as escort to their daughters. • • • r)EAR NANCY LEE: I am a constant reader of ‘ your advice to girls so am bring ing my problem to you. 1 am a girl in my late t»ens and love a young man very deariy. What I want to know is this, we are engaged but cannot be mar ried for two years at the least, and we want our engagement an nounced: when would be the proper time to announce it? WONDERING. : IITONDERING: No doubt your ln »* timate friends know about your engagement, informally, and so you could postpone the formal announce ment until about six to three months before the weddmg. But then, again, that is a matter that must rest with i you for decision. - ■■ =: I GOOD-NIGHT STORIES -By Max TreU "There ia a city Built over the sea. If you spell it correctly You'll start with a'V" Shadow Sayings, «ivr Y. look at all those Iwl canals!” exclaimed Hanid, MIJ. Flor. Knarf and Yana —the other little shadow-chlldi en with the turned-about names—nod ded In agreement. “Why. there seem* to be one at th* end of every street." And so mere was. tor tn* snauuw children were In Venice, th* city of canals. They were on a trip round the world with their masters and mistresses, the real-children. Venice was Indeed a curious city, unlike any they had ever seen before. Instead of roadways there were canals, full of water. In which boat men rowed from place to place. There were sidewalks, of course, alone which one could walk wherever one pleased. crossing pretty arched bridges over the canals, but If one wished to ride one couldn't get a street car. or an automobile. There were no street cars or automobiles— onlv boats with curved fronts. "Do you know what those boats are called?" said Hanid to the other shadows as they stood on the bank of one of th* canals, watching th* boats gliding up and down. “Rowboats.” replied Knarf prompt ly. “No." “Canoes." said MiJ. "No." "Vessels.'' said Yam, who didn’t know much about boats at all. Hanid shook her head. "None of you seem to know.” she said, “so I’ll tell you. They're called gondolas.” The others were glad to learn this. When you take a trip round th# world It is nice to come back know ing things that you have never known before, otherwise you might just as well stay home. Her# the real-children, accompanied by their father and mother, boarded a gondola, which pleased their shad "’fHey're called gondolas,'* ahe said. ows, ainco they always went with their masters and mistresses. Just as your shadow always goes with you. One man stood at the head of the boat and another stood at the stern and both swept the boat forward with long oars. "Why don't you sit down?” Tam asked one of the men. He didn't answer. Perhaps It is because Tam. spoke In English and he only under stood Italian. Or perhaps he didn't hear her. There are a great many persons who never hear what tho shadows say. no matter how loudly they speak. Up and down the canals—big ones and small ones—glided the gondola. Under bridges It went, past huge palaces, and churches with tall bell towers. and old atone bouses gray with age. By and by they glided out of a narrow canal Into a huge, aide canal. The shadow's were Just about to ask what It was when the real-children's father said: "This is the famous Grand Canal, the main canal of Venice.” "Just like Main Street on our town," declared Han id—but no one beard her either. Then they passed a bridge high up between two huge palaces. It wasn't an ordinary bridge, for it was cov ered over with a roof and was en- s closed by sides "That s the Bridge of Sighs.” said father again. “It’s called so because It connects the court of Justice with the prison, and thoa* who had to cross over It Into the prison sighed because they might never cross back Into freedom again." And the five children uttered a sigh as they thought of tbs poor men who crossed the Bridge of Sighs— and their shadows sighed, too. for they always tried to do exactly as their masters and mistresses did (Tomorrow—More About Venice.) Copmjfct. ISM. Nr»ip«D*r rattan Same*, law . Words of the Wise Music tells no truths. —Bailey. When a man strong until he feels alone. —Browning. If you have done an honor £*>*• action accompanied by hard labor, the labor is over, the honor remains. If you have done anything disgraceful with pleasure, the pleasure is over, the disgrace remains. —Anon. Force fs no remedy. —Bright. No man must be compelled. _ —Lessing. All men desire to bs immortal. —Parker. Charity creates a multitude of sins. —Wilde. Kerolation* nerer go back u?artf- —Phillips Justice renders to every on his due. —Cicero Cocjr'.lfct, 1IM. rntci B*rrU», lac.