I I a a a a a a a THE READING NEWS- TIMES, READING, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 1, 1916 Woman's Ideas, Fads, Fancies, Fashions and Affairs on This Page (MANAGING MARRIAGE) A Personal Diary of a Wife BY MARY LOUISE WRIGHT (Continued) don't like to tell you this, Ann," Fric repeated, "but you won't see the truth until it's forced upon you." I felt he was going to tell me something unpleasant about my husband, and with all my heart I wisha ed he would not. My mind did not revolt so much against hearing an ugly truth obout Jim as it did against Eric feeling it necessary to tell me to gain his own ends. "You can't always know what is the truth, Eric. And don't you think it is better sometimes not to know it "Perhaps, but not in our case. If you knew PSs your husband were disloyal, to you Wouldn't would it it lead make you no to--to differfollow the path I have pointed out to you?" "I may be a strange creature, Eric." I answered; "but it often seems to me a husband can wrong his wife much more deeply than by being what the world calls disloyal, unfaithful.
I suppose every woman wants to hold supreme place in the heart of the man she marries. Yet I have seen unfaithful men who made their wives hoppy, and I have seen husbands who broke no marringe vow. vet tormented their mates with a hundred other vices and injustices. If it were put right up to me, I am not sure how I should feel." I shall put it up to you, and you can. see.
Ann, while you were in Atlantic City I husband twice--once at a restaurant, once at a theatre--with a woman." A wave of weariness and disgust swept over me. Oh, the age-old "tattle!" The eternal, tiresome man, wife and the other one." Yet nausea of the the soul which nearly overwhelmed me did not come, I swear, from jealousy, but from the cheapness of Rrie's disclosure. Moreover, it did not in the least convince me. "Why don't you speak, Ann? am distressed at having to tell you this, but I want you so! I think have wanted you every moment of the seven years since that summer you were in England." It rose to my lips to say, "Then did you not tell me?" But a surprising indifference enfolded me. Eric's voice was beautiful as ever, his manner as thrillingly devoted.
Whatever mad thoughts I may have had respecting him appeared to have vanished. Only a sort of tiredness remained. "You spoke of liberty once, Eric." I finally answered. "And I agreed with you that the lack of liberty marriage usually 1s what makes so many marriages, fail. I cannot see why a man nd woman, though married, should not have the companionship of other persons of opposite sex.
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business friends, or people he knew in the West- whom he has a perfect right to meet." "This was not a business woman," pursued Eric. "I know her name; she is a Mrs. FrisbieThe name arrested my attention instantly. She is the woman Jim bought the purse for last Christmas a year ago--the wife of the man who gave him his first job. "You--you don't--mind?" breathed Eric, watching my face narrowly.
I shook my head slowly and smilingly. "Why should I mind; who am walking here with you?" (To Be Continued.) TIMELY FASHION HINTS OF THE NEW- TIMES The embroidery and alternating rows of lace insertion give to this Princess slip the Empire line. Ruffles of lace or embroidery finish the skirt. The shoulder straps are of ribbon. To make it requires, for average size, 5 yards 36-inch material, with 8 yards narrow flouncing, 3 yards insertion and 2 yards ribbon.
Pictorial Review Princess Slip No. 6388. Sizes, 32. to. 46 inches bust.
Price. 15 cents. Embroidery No. 12,047. Transfer pattern, 10.
cents. For sale by Dives, Pomeroy Stewart. CHARITY BRIDGE Miss Marie Schwartz Was the Hostess Tuesday Afternoon ed on Tuesday afternoon the The Charity Bridge, was entertainhome of Miss Marie Schwartz in the Saylor Apartments: The details for the charity ball, to' be given under the auspices of the club, were discussed. Bridge was also played durthe afternoon. There were five tables of cards.
A pretty luncheon was served at the small tables later in the afternoon. Miss Edith Rhoads was on Tuesafternoon hostess to the members of the Bridge Club, which met the home of Miss Rhoads, of 411 Douglass street. There were only two tables of bridge as three of the members were out of town. The guests included: Miss Anne Schaeffer, Miss Marie Sassaman, Miss Helen Spang. Miss Alice Barnes, Miss Flora Speidel, Miss Florence Shenk, Miss Dorothy Fink and Miss Marian Seidel.
Rabbi Julius Frank. of 1154 Franklin street, is in Lancaster. He will return on Tuesday evening. Miss Amy Brumbach, of Esterly, is spending several weeks in Allentown. Miss Rada Kline, of Reading, is visiting in Ohio.
Milton Breneiser, of Reading, spent several days in Atlantic City. Mr. and Mrs. Sig. S.
Schweriner, of 102 North Eleventh street, returned home after spending ten days in Atlantic City. Mr. and Mrs. I. Whiteson.
of Mineral Spring road, are in Atlantic City. Unusual weather extremes were recorded along the west coast of Newfoundland. A gun of marked intensity sent the mercury to 96 degrees, but at night, with a cold gale blowing. usual winter temperatures prevailed once more. Handcolored Thompson Prints ENTIRE NEW SELECTION AURORA ART STORE 921 PENN STREET of Femininity CORSAGE BOUQUETS OF LETTUCE HEADS AT LEAP YEAR HOP Feminine Favors Bestowed Upon Blushing Men at Country Club Dance ONION BOUTONNIERES Quaint Quilled Cabbages Vie With Radishes as Solvents of Male Affections The Leap Year dance given at the Berkshire Country Club on Tuesday night was a gorgeous achievement, due to the fact that the fair sex acted as escorts and chose their partners for dances and dinner.
Shower bouquets of radishes and onions and corsage nosegays of quilled cabbages and lettuce- were worn by the benedicts and bachelors who thoroughly enjoyed accepting frequent bits of gallantry from gailydressed maids and matrons. Dinner was served at 7 o'clock at small tables in the grill-room. Each table, seating four or six guests, attractively arranged with caries spring flowers, which were also conspicuously pretty in the living-room and dining-room where merry couples were assembled for dancing at 9 o'clock. An orchestra played until midnight, when a buffet supper was served informally, after which dancing was resumed. List of Guests The guests included: Mr.
and Mrs. Leon Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. J. Bennett Nolan, Mr.
and Mrs. George Sinnickson, Mr. and Mrs. J. Blackwood Cameron, Mr.
and Mrs. Randolph Stauffer, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Sembower, and Mrs. William O'Gorman, Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph Pendleton, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Bright, Mr. and Mrs.
William Eckert, Mr. and Mrs. John McCauley, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Mr.
and Mrs. Howard Potts, Miss Helen Bowman, Miss Sidney Hendel, Miss Ellen Pomeroy, Miss Elizabeth Pomeroy, Miss Marguerite Bard, Miss Catharine Zieber, Mrs. Carrie Archer, Allan Potts, Robert Bushong, William Eckert, Samuel Seyfert, Ransford Mann, George Yocum, Howard Yocum, William Raser, Lewis Heizmann, Mr. and Mrs. T.
E. Hessenbruch, Mr. and Mrs. C. R.
Bulley, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Dives, Mr. and Mrs. E.
Carroll Schaeffer. Charming Gowns Mrs. J. Blackwood Cameron looked charming in a frock of green tulle under which shimmered a white satin underskirt, puffed quaintly at the hips. Her bodice was topped with a narrow puffing of the tulle and was rose-adorned at the shoulder.
Mrs. William O'Gorman, a very recent bride, wore an effective frock of old -blue taffeta, the skirt of which was flounced and edged with panne velvet of the same shade. Orchid-colored chiffon falling over a white satin bodice and full skirt combined the dance-frock worn by Miss Elizabeth Pomeroy. Mrs. Arthur Dives' black charmeuse gown was exquisite shoulder straps and girdle of clothof-gold.
Mrs. J. Bennett Nolan wore an exceptionally voguish frock of pink embroidered net, whose shortwaisted bodice was touched with silver lace. Blue georgette crepe among folds of blue satin was admirably arranged in the gown worn by Mrs. T.
E. Hessenbruch, the skirt of which had draped panniers. Miss Bard looked fetching in a gown of marine blue tulle, the bodice of which was strikingly trimmed with rhinestones, and the skirt gracefully draped to display a more vivid hue. Filmy was the light blue net frock worn by Mrs. Pendleton, the skirt of which was short over a flared white taffeta model.
Exquisitely draped was the white georgette-crepe frock worn by Miss Ellen Pomeroy. Cloth-of-silver at the girdle, and silvery lace under bodice lent a certain charm to the simplicity of the frock. HOW TO MAKE GOOD THINGS TO EAT In serving tartare sauce with fried fish place the sauce in curied leaves from the heart of lettuce and notice how the appearance of the dish is improved. When eggs are high- priced, an excellent substitute for pumpkin pies is to add da soda crackers. rolled fine, allowing two for each pie.
They may be used instead of eggs, even when eggs are plenty and cheap. Cottage Pudding. Cake a dav old may be used for this dish or a very plain cake may be baked; if stale cake is to be used, allow it to steam. for a short time (or, according to its thickness regulate the time). Prepare a clear vanilla.
sauce and serve warra. WORKING ON NEW SCALE. SPECIAL LEASED NEW YORK, Feb. -Soft coal operators from Illinois. Indiana, and Western Pennsylvania here trying to arrange a new wage scale with their union employes were today endeavoring to have the miners reduce the basic mine run rates they presented to the employers last Saturday.
HOW TO KEEP WELL BY DR. W. A EVANS, The Skating Craze Everything in favor of this fad, and nothing can be said against it. I hope everybody will catch it and nobody will get over it. It is difficult to keep fit in winter.
Everybody expects to come out of the winter fat and soft. A man in middle life expects his wheat to run at least five pointer over scale, knows that the excess is raind the knows, further, that his deep red muscles will be light in color and soft in texture next spring habits that is, if he follows his this winter. Every woman expects that next spring will see her several shades paler than now. Every mother knows that she can expect some of her children to have adenoids, enlarged tonsils and neck glands next spring. Every health officer knows that the winter death rate is the highest of the year.
The rate, having started on its upward climb the latter part of November, continuously ascends until the maximum is reached about April 1. Every physician knows that winter is the season of colds and pneumonia. For these well recognized conditions there are several reasons. One result is due to one and another to another cause. But one cause runs through every a situationexcessive number of hours spent quietly in warm, ill ventilated rooms.
Skating offers a remedy. It is a sugar coated pill. There better exercise. It calls into play muscles and nerves of every part of the body. It stimulates the heart and quickens the flow of blood.
It causes every sluggish portion of the body to be washed clean by fresh blood lymph. The excess of body heat is easily lost to the surmeans of getting fit rounding cold air. and keeping fit throughout the winter skating is a most worthy craze. Those who become its devotees will develop good, hard muscles. They will not suffer from winter constipation nor from winter headaches.
It is good for the complexion. It is fine remedy for pimples on the face. As a preventive of spring roughening of the skin i it has no superior. As a means of preventing colds and pneumonia it is excellent. The open air contacts of skaters do not cause people to catch cold from people capable of spreading it.
One catches pneumonia. from pneumonia carriers in warm rooms, but not on the cold open of a frozen pond. Children who skate will not develop noids, tonsils, neck glands, or earaches. Furthermore, if the warming fires are re built in the open and close warming rooms near skating ponds are avoided the skating craze will lessen the winter dangers from diphtheria, scarlet fever and measles. Tonsilitis Mrs.
N. K. writes: "Will tonsilitis develop diphtheria? What are the symptoms?" REPLY Many cases thought to be tonsilitis are diphtheria. In diphtheria there is tonsilitis. A membrane can usually be seen on the tonsils, is a mild fever, and the pulse is rapid The glands in the neck enlarge as the disease progresses.
The one diagnostic procedure that must never be neglected is culture from the throat. Boards of health are anxious to make this test without charge. Danger in Rugs and Carpets G. H. F.
writes: "Have you ever written on the importance (or insignificance, as the case may be) of hygienically clean carpets and rugs? With two babies in the house, who roll on the floor a good deal, the subject is on my mind. "If curtains. draperies and bed clothes and the like need to be washed frequently, about rugs and carpets? They would seem to be exposed to almost every kind of contamination, from that tracked in out of the street by both humans and cats and dogs, to that from the coughing. sneezing, of influenza, cold, and incipient pneumonia tims. Dining room floor coverings hold decaying food particles, and so on.
"Our rugs or carpets, like those of most people, seldom cleaned more than once a year, rarely more than twice a year, and then usually all they get is a. beating in the back yard. Is that enough? "Is the naphtha gasoline washing, or 3 thorough scouring, with soap and water and necessary? "Will even weekly use of the vacuum sweeper, an annual or semiannual beating. naphtha wash, or scouring keep rugs and carpets hygienically clean? "Shouldn't they be thoroughly To Discard Aged or Weather-Soiled Skin To free your skin of blotches, roughness, muddiness, over-redness, freckles or any cutaneolis difficulty, the best thing to do is to free yourself of the skin itself. This is easily accomplished by the use of ordinary mercolized wax.
Use at night as you use cold cream, washing it oft next morning. Immediately the offending surface skin begins 10 come off in fine powder-like particles. Gradually the entire cuticle is absorbed in this way, causing no pain or inconvenience. Nor does the face exhibit any evidence of this treatment. The second laver of skin now in view presents a sparkling beauty and youthful robustness able in no other way we have ever heard of.
The mercolized wax can of course be found in any drug store and you won't need more than an ounce of it. To free yourself of wrinkles or crowsfeet, there's nothing better than the saxolite lotion. You need only dissolve an ounce of powdered saxolite in a half pint of witch hazel and bathe your face in the solution. The effect is quite remaikable, the lines being less in evidence even after the first application. -Adv.
PARAMOUNT RIGHT OF FATHER UPSET Supreme Court Justice Orders Child to be Given to Its Mother SPECIAL A LEASED NEW YORK, Feb. -The "paramount right" of a father to the custody of his child, held valid by New York courts since times immemorial, is upset in a decision handed down yesterday by Supreme Court Justice Shearn, in which he orders the Rev. Burton Howard Lee, rector of St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Ossining, to give to his wife, Catherine, their four-and-a-half-year-old son, Templeton. The last time such a case came before the courts on the "paramount right" issue was in 1842.
The father was then upheld. The justice now holds that women's legal rights withIn the last 60 years have undergone a marked change and that the "paramount right" of the father no longer exists. "It is claimed that father has a paramount right to the custody of a. child. This was once the law, but we have emerged from the dark ages during which the married women had the status of slaves and chattels.
"The only basis for the father's alleged superior right today is his obligation to support his children. This basis disappears when one considers what a mother gives her children in suffering, self-sacrifice and devotion. On any admeasurement of rights determined by service rendered, the right of the mother to the custody of her children is at least equal to that of the father. The real test should be the welfare of the child." "The world has moved since 1842," says the Justice. "It is not to be believed that today any enlightened court would subscribe to the statement that the very legal existence is suspended during her marriage.
By statute and judicial decision it is now true that a wife is permitted to contract with the freedom of a femme sole and by the express consent of the Legislature she can at least contract with her husband the same as if unmarried." DAILY NOTES ON FASHION'S FANCIES Heavy cords and shirrings are much used for defining the waistline. Pink and flesh-color brocades are very much used for the new corsets. Hip puffings in contrasting materials are appearing on the new skirts. The very high, straight wrinkled collar appears on some of the spring suits. 'Some of the new hats have crowns which are simply a mass of shaded roses.
Little self-pleatings finish jackets just as they do the skirts to go with them, Plaid taffetas in pale colors are combined with chiffon for afternoon frocks. THURSDAY BRIDGE Mrs. McDermott Will Be the Hostess This Week On Thursday afternoon the hostess to the members of the Thursday Bridge club, will be: Mrs. Daniel McDermott. Mrs.
McDermott will entertain at the Berkshire Country club. There will be sixteen guests. Miss Goetz Hostess On Tuesday afternoon Miss Anna Goetz, of 935 Centre avenue, entercained, the members Berkshire Co Country her bridge Club. There were four tables of bridge. At 5.30 the steward served a very daintily appointed luncheon.
The guests besides the regular members included: Miss Elizabeth Pomeroy, Miss Catherine Delany, Miss Helen Bowman and Mrs. James Rick, Jr. The members, were: Mrs. Frederick Curtis, Mrs. Albert Rick, Mrs.
Harold Davie, Miss Antoinette Curtis, Miss Ellen Pomeroy, Miss Marguerite Bard. Miss Theodora Heizmann, Miss Sara Schlechter, Miss Dorothy Miller, Miss Dorothy Hoff, Miss Catherine Zieber and Mrs. T. E. Hessenbruch.
WOMEN'S AFFAIRS Nearly 15,000 divorces were granted in France during the past year. Some 280 women applied for patents in Great Britain during the past year. Mme. Yvette Guilbert was first advised to come to London be King Edward. On the marriage of a woman in England she adopts the same nationality as her husband.
Queen Wilhelmina, of Holland. never touches wine or spirits habit she learned from her mother. TRAPPED BY EXPLOSION SPECIAL LEASED KEMPTON, W. Feb. Seventy-one men were trapped by an explosion in a mine of the Davis Coal and co*ke Company near here today soon after they went to work.
Two succeeded in making their way to the surface, and rescuers within an hour had brought out 37, four of whom were dead two so badly hurt that it was feared they could not survive. Volunteers were working under the direction of trained rescue crews in an attempt to reach the others. The Strange Case -BYof Mary Page FREDERICK LEWIS cleaned oftener than once or twice a year?" REPLY Your letter shows good sense, as as knowledge of sanitary seience. Unclean carpets and rugs are a source of considerable danger to babies, children not babies, maids and janitors. Beating rugs is very dangerous.
Playing on a dirty carpet or rug is less so. Vacuum cleaning is the proper method of cleaning. Once or twice year is not enough. Naphtha cleaning sterilizes, washing with soap and water is sanitary, but does not equal vacuum cleaning. Wrist Drop W.
9. M. writes: "Please inform me the cause of nervousness in my right arm. I am a sign painter; have been at business thirty years. I had rheumatism for two years and I took sal hepatica, according to directions.
It took the rheumatism pain away, but me nervous. Only my right arm affected. left. When I hold my arm up or in front of is all right. I think it is my lower nerves afflicted.
Please tell me what 1 I can do for it. REPLY I guess you have wrist drop, one of the most frequent forms of lead poisoning. It is probable that the rheumatism you had for two years was lead poisoning. Go to see the state factory inspectors. They will not only tell you what to do for lead poisoning but they will tell you how to paint without getting lead poisoning.
HANDY KNOWS FOR HOUSEWIFE HOUSEHOLD HINTS. If a. mother can invent little games to play while the children are being washed and dressed those processes may go on more easily. If a severe bruise is treated immediately by applying cloths wrung out of very hot water there will be no soreness, and it will not turn dark. All left-overs of fish can be kept in the refrigerator without affecting the other foods by putting them in a glass fruit jar and sealing tightly.
When knives become rusty put the blades in sweet oil for half an hour, then plunge them up and in garden soil several times. Polish with fine emery cloth to make the blades brilliant. WEDDINGS Ritner-Dailey George E. Ritner, son of Mrs. Mary K.
Ritner, 311 South Sixth street, and Nellie F. Dailey, 416 Walnut street, were married with a high nuptial mass in St. Peter's Catholio Church by Rev. John F. Kiernan.
After the ceremony the couple left on their honeymoon and on their return will live at 311 South Sixth street. The bridegroom is a salesman for a wholesale grocery com- pany, Fels-Sonon pany, Fels-Sonon Miss Florence Sonon, of Mohrsville, and Elmer Fels, of Shoemakersville, were married at the parsonage of Rev. J. K. Stoudt.
DeTurk-Wagenhorst Lawrence A. DeTurk, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene P. DeTurk, of Kutztown, and Miss Mabel V.
Wagenhorst, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Wagenhorst, of 421 Franklin street, were privately married at 5 p. m. Monday by Rev.
George B. Smith, of Kutztown. The ceremony was performed at the bride's home. Directly after the ceremony they left on a trip to Philadelphia and will live in Kutztown, where New York. Upon their return there DeTurk is associated with his father in the hardware business.
Sieger-Frey Rev. Dr. S. Brownmiller married at his parsonage at 7 p. m.
Monday, Claude R. Sieger, son of of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin D. Sieger, of of 927 MadiSon avenue, and Edna F.
Frey, daughter Mr. and Mrs. George M. Frey, of 1056 North Fifth street. They were unattended.
Mr. Sieger is employed at the P. R. shops. Kalodicez-Perdock.
George Kalodicez of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kalodicez, of 328 South Seventh street, and Mary E. Perdock, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Michael Perdock, of 339 South Seventh street, were married with a. high nuptial mass in St. Mary's Catholic church at 9 a. m. The pastor, Rev.
A. Malusecki, officiated. A big reception was held fat the attended. bride's The home. bridegroom More than is.
em- 200 ployed at the Tube Works. BRIDGE BENEFIT Society Affair for the House of the Good Shepherd An elaborate society affair is being planned by the Charity Bridge club for the benefit of the House of the Good Shepherd. The Charity ball will be given on March 6, in the Hotel Berkshire, which has been, given to the club for the affair. The list for the Reading assembly was used fn issuing the cards of announcement. Any other persons who have not received cards are cordially weclomed.
Tickets may be purchased from J. Bennett Nolan and Mrs. Edward J. Dives. The affair will be opened with a grand march led by Mr.
and Mrs. Daniel J. Driscoll. An orchestra of twenty pieces will be used for dancing and to play for the dinner, which will be served at 12 o'clock in the dining rooms of the hotel. Dancing will continue until 3 o'clock, (Continued) "Did you still urge Mary Page to marry Mr.
Pollock?" "No. My daughter's happiness was too great price to pay to save my husband from the penalty of his crime, and I told Mary that she and I together would go to James that very day and plead with him to set her free. It was dawn then, and finally she went to sleep." "Did you make that plea to Mr. Pollock "No. We went to the office-butbut--we didn't see Mr.
Pollock." "Will you tell the court why? Not me, Mrs. Page, but the court-as if I not present." your honor," she said, turning to the Judge, "when my daughter and I reached Mr. Pollock's office the door was open and Mr. Langdon was in there. As we came up we heard Mr.
Pollock say, 'Give me fair chance--that's all I ask, and I've never had it. You leave town for two weeks, and if on your return Mary Page still prefers you, I will withdraw and give her up to Mr. Langdon demurred at first. Then he said he would gO that day and hurried out without seeing either Mary or me. I felt we ought to see Mr.
Pollock, anyway, but before we could go into the office we heard a door creak, and my husband's voice." She broke off with a smother sob, and Langdon prompted her quickly. did your husband say, Mrs. Page?" "He sald, 'With Langdon out of the way, our little scheme should work Then--then Mary pulled at my sleeve and said, 'Come away without seeing them, mother. We must warn Philip--and they musn't know we have been So we went to Langdon's office, and he arranged to come to the house late that night in the hope that we would have learned by that time what the scheme was." "Did you learn?" "Yes. Shortly after Mr.
Langdon had come, my husband and Mr. Pollock came in and Mr. Pollock told us that he had bought the mortgage on our home. He said that if Mary would marry him within a week he would give her the mortgage and the forged check as a wedding gift. If she didn't, he would foreclose and put the check in the hands of the police." "Did Miss Page agree?" "She said she would answer him the next day, and he said he would wait, though my husband was angry that there should be any delay.
Then Mr. Pollock went, and Mary joined Mr. Langdon, and they started for a walk." "Did you see them go "No. I went to the kitchen to fix the fire for the night. But I vas drawn to the window by he angry words and saw my husband berating Mr.
Langdon. I was so terrified over it all and-and-so heartbroken at the thought of losing my home, that I hurried out and begged Mary to come in--to do anything to quiet her father. So she said goodnight to Mr. Langdon and, coming in, went straight to her room." "Did you go to your room also?" Langdon's voice shook ever so little as he spoke, for her words brought back so vividly that time of horror when he had stood silently in the little garden waiting for the quiet of night to settle over the house that held the girl he loved SO well and seemed so likely to lose--the girl whom he was next to see in so terri. ble a guise! "No.
I-1-went to my husband, who was in the kitchen, and tried to make him stop drinking and go to bed. But he--he was violent. Ho accused me of--of urging Mary not to marry Pollock, and when I said that she shouldn't if it would make her unhappy he--he me. The blow knocked me Mary, who struck, was partially undressed, heard us, and came down, and he turned on her. He--struck her, and then he caught her by the shoulder and forced her to her knees." Sobs caught in her throat.
She could not go on for a moment, and the tears rolled unheeded down her cheeks, as, stammering a little and speaking almost incoherently, she cried: "And then, your honor, Mary screamed! Screamed the way she had before, and I-I-saw her go mad before my very eyes. Mr. Langdon, who had been waiting in the garden--to be sure all was right with us -heard the scream, too, and came running in. My husband saw of the fire, where in my had him--and he snatched the poker, out left it, and swung it at Mr. Langdon.
But it was Mary he hit. I heard the sound of it--I smelt the burnt flesh, and as Mr. Langdon flung my husband to the floor I ran to her. But before I could reach her--or stop her--she ran, still screaming, out of the house and disappeared!" A passion of tears shook her as she finished, tears that were mirrored in all the eyes in room. Even Langdon's voice was unsteady then as said gently: "That is all, Mrs.
Page." Mary. was tears of sobbing, sad too, memories but rath- they er than present suffering, and she fling a grateful glance from beneath her wet lashes toward the prosecutor, when his curt: "No questions," released Mrs. Page from the stand and set her at liberty to drag herself back to her quiet corner. (To be Continued) JOB IN CANADA Wynn Rossiter, lately a resident of Muhlenberg Park, resigned his position as a chemist for the Carpenter Steel Company and has gone to Quebec, to enter the employ of the Ross Rifle Company, in that city, as chief chemist. HAVE COLOR IN YOUR CHEEKS Be Better Looking--Take Olive Tablets If your skin yellow- complexion pallid--tongue coated--appetite poor-.
you have a bad taste in your mouth-a lazy, no-good feeling--you should take Olive Tablets. Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets--a substi. tute for calomel- -were prepared by Dr. Edwards after 17 years of study with his patients.
Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets are 8 purely vegetable compound mixed with olive oil. You will know them by their olive color. If you want a clear, pink skin, bright eyes, no pimples. a feeling of buoyancy like childhood days, you must get at the cause.
Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets act on the liver and bowels like calomel -yet have no dangerous after effects. They start the bile and overcome COlstipation. That's why millions of boxes are sold annually at 10c and 25c per box. All druggists.
Take one or two nightly and note the pleasing results. The Olive Tablet Company, Columbus, Something New in Town From "The Land of the Long Leaf Pine" An "Outside" Treatment That Relieves Croup and Cold Troubles Quicker Than Internal Medicines Applied Externally, It Is Inhaled as a Vapor and Absorbed Through the Skin. Druggists Below Are Selling 250. Jars on 30-Days' Trial- Money Back if Not Delighted. Every year thousands of people, suffering from forms of lung trouble, make a pilgrimage to the pine barrens of North Carolina, the land of the long leaf pine." The reason lies in the warm dry air, spicy with the odor of the long leaf pines.
Local druggists, however, have recently received a treatment that is almost as good as a trip. South. This is Vick's Vap-O-Rub" Salve, the invention of a North Carolina druggist. When applied, over the throat and chest the body heat releases vapors of Menthol, Camphor, AGENTS IN American Medicine H. J.
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B. Boyer, J. R. Kennedy M. S.
Feather, R. W. Madeira, H. D. Guenther, Mover's Drug R.
J. Moyer, BOYERTOWN: HAMBURG: Claude C. Graeff. Hamburg Schom*o's Drug BIRDSBORO: Nicholas Hoffman. KUTZTOWN: E.
J. Sellers. FLEETWOOD: D. H. O'Donnel.
Pine Oil, Thyme, and Eucalyptus, that are inhaled with each breath through the air passages to the lungs, loosening the phlegm, and soothing the inflamed membrane. In severe cases, first apply hot wet towels to open the pores. Vick's is then absorbed through the skin, taking out that tightness and soreness. The progressive druggists, listed below, are anxious that their customers who are troubled with asthma, catarrh, bronchitis, tonsilitis, for any form of cold trouble, should try this new treatment, though their profit on Vick's is smaller than on internal medicines. They are, therefore, offering Vick's in three sizes, 25c, 50c or $1.00, on 30 days' trial, giving with each sale refund blank, good for your money back if you are not delighted.
READING ARE William H. Raser, W. H. Reeser, A. Schaich, Stein's Drug Store, I.
S. Stoudt, P. Ziegler Co. Store, C. Mayer, MOHNTON: Drug Store, Brandt's Drug Store.
Store. SHILLINGION: 0. C. Eshleman. WEST READING: W.
Howard Swartz..
