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Dorothy Dix Letter Box

lllolly of Mothers Who Force Their Children Into \' Uncongenial Occupations - Is the Other Woman” Always Open to Blame?- Nosey Neighbors Dear Miss Dix-Will you not write something about moth"

their children's lives by their foolish ambitio iomethlng they can never be.

ns ln trying to I am a natural-born mechanic and I could have been a. great success if I had been trained along that line or even permitted to go to work doing some- But my mother was deter- mined ! should be a writer, so I was sent to college and spent years and thousands of dollars trying to write stories and books that no publisher would buy. Then I drifted from one thing to another until now I am middle-aged without having got anywhere. mother sent my younger sisters to school for sixteen She determined one of the girls should be a musician, and a fortune was spent on her musical education, and she can play about two pieces on her The other sister was equally a mis- We are three pegs in the wrong s something we could never be.

thing with my hands.

career mother chose for her. ables. all because mother tried to make u

‘There is really nothing more tragic than the story this man tells of three lives wrecked bv a mother's foolish ambition, and the Pill’ 0f it l3 that this is not an is atcd case. There are thousands upon thousands of other

uien and women who have suffered the same fate.

. ch th ’ ' A’ mp5s niore liberal doses it will _ ‘

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Can't l Can't R E S T

' —c|1ild need: Castorls

‘ WHEN a child in fretful and

irritable, seems distressed and un- comfortable, can't play, can't sleep, it is a pretty sure sign that some- thing is wrong. Right here is where Castoria ﬁts into a child's scheme- the very purpose for which it was formulated years ago! A few drops and the condition which caused the trouble is righted; comfort quickly brings restful sleep.

Nothing can take the place of Castoria for children; it's perfectly harmless. yet always effective. For the protection of your wee one- for your own peace of mind-keep this old reliable preparationalways on hand. But don't keep it Just for emergencies; let it_be an every-day aid. Its gentle action will ease and infant who cannot

effectively help to late sluggish bowels in an olderrzﬁld.

All druggists have Castoris: lt’| genuine if you see Chas. H. Fletcher's signature and this name-plate:

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r0.- nine-tenths of the failures in the world are s1 result of men llfld women having got into the wrong do something that they are not ﬁtted to do and that mom "to do and that they do badly because they Ihzrc are vciy few people who have not some tal

mply and solely thcf occupations, trying to‘ nature never intended ‘ have no aptitude for it.

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ent by which they could you put them to doing something gle the job and do such poor work that a

at lerst earn their livelihood, but when for which they have no gift they bun nobody 1s willing to pay for it.

Q. Is it necessary, when calling on friend, to pay respects to the friend's mother and father?

A. Yes, it is courteous to do so.

Q. Should the dipped lniri the ﬁnger bowl?

A. No, only the hand at a time.

Q. What is written in the lower left corner‘ of a card when you call on a friend just before leaving town for a long visit?

A. The letters P. P. C.. a French phrase meaning, "to take leave."

The men and women who are ig against the grain cm nor interest them, but they got into something they enjoyed doing

Nir are iliore mnny really lazy people. ‘ m" Zl‘."ll‘ occupations are those who are workii snmerhing that does not appeal to th would cc energetic enough if they ind that kept them on their tiptoe

A ihan oi a scientific lurn of mind or one who "mar tzzkc the proper heart interest iii selling green ipend years of unremitting labor in tracki

is a born student can groceries. hut he can ng down a germ or studying any business man is a failure in any

brofession because his real interest is in money-making and not patient

itudy and scientiﬁc investigation.

Thus we have plenty of poor preachers who would be good blacksmiths ind many a blacksmith who would have been an ornament to the pulpit.

‘A Morning Smile

Short-sighted Old Lady (admiring farmer's cow)

coat it has!

Farmer-Ales, mum, that's a Jersey. Old Lady-Nonsense!

satin when I see it.

Probably most people drift into the occupation they follow through sheer

rk, on which their happiness and success h serious consideration as they would to the ﬂavor they like. or merchandising or stenography or what- rls they go with are doing that, and they any vocation for their calling or not.

buying a ginger cake and getting lob that offers or go into banking not because the other boys and gi never consider whether they have

They take the first

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A little girl who had been left to watch the soup, was to sing out, “Oh, mother, come quick, the soup is getting bigger than the

Hence the innumerable failures. B Stenographers who can Carpenters and plumbers wh yet all of these people could have done som got into their own pew.

ookkeepers who can't add up a column Salespeople who have no gift o have no craftsmanship, and ething worth while if they had I

“You have such strange names for your towns," marked to one

And very often these misfits

are of mother's making. tious for her children.

She wants them to do something t

hat she considers friends;

others." "I suppose they do sound queer to

For it is the curse of mother

‘ihe limitations of those upon wh

love that it is blind and that it cannot see om it is lavished.

thoughtfully. "Do you live in Lon- Every child in mother's

don all the time?" “Oh, n0l" Briton. “I spend part of my time at Chipping Norton. and then 1v'e a place at Pokestogg-on-the-l-Iike."

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forcing them into trying to do t them follow their own desires

and pick out their own careers DOROTHY DIX.

Dear Dorothy Dix-We

are ﬁghting against it. They are Here are three people, all

l say all honor to the girl who mstead of her heart and wh stead of taking the easiest w

is following the dictates of her col _ ° l‘ “"41"! the ‘llalgm “d "arm" "ad "l" with the purpose of stealing another woman's husband and breaking up her

Oftener than not it Just happens. A girl is thrown into daily intimate companionship with the married man, perhaps she is employed by him, and she finds that there is some subtle bond of nature's contriving between them. He is finer, stronger, more intelligent ,more sympathetic than the boys she has known; and before she knows it she has given her heart to him.

Often the man is no more to blame than the girl is. Perhaps his mar- riage has been a disappointment.

and the rirl gives to him a companionship and understanding. a sweetness and a tenderness for which he was starved.

No human foresight can prevent these catastrophes from occuring. We cannot control our heartsiand make ourselves

will, but we can control our actions, and so I

Woman" who plays the game and who does by s. sister woman as she would be done by.

with M

rand Milk ' , h, can’; milk. eel-Quill:

Dear Miss Dix--I have a. fsm

neighbors who apparently enjoy seeing me work and morning and sit around watching me labor. because it would make them angry.

d‘ ItiosSAFBinilhandmare

Why don't you get one of the cards with "Please do not disturb" that they have at hotels and hang it on your door knob? that you would object to offending made such a nuisance. at any price.

friends he would protect himself from his enemies? I

j LEMON sauce

Mix ‘A cup sugar with l table- spoon cornstarch and a pinch of salt. Add gradually 1 cup boiling water, stirring constantly to prevent lumps. Cook for three or four minu- tes, remove from the fire, and add 2 tablespoons butter and 2 tablespoons lemon juice. and a little nutmeg. Serve hot for puddings. .

Left-over plain cake may be re- heated or steamed. and with this sauce poured over individual pieces, will make a very nice dessert.

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__________ HOME-RUN S~TOPs TOM-TOMS JACKSON, Misa, May 19. (U.P.)-—

A home-run hit by Babe Ruth echoed

in the jungles of the Belgian Congo

__ what a beaumu] D. Bledsingcr, presbyterlan minister

said here. "when I was a missionary in the Congo," Dr. Bledslnger, related, "I received a radio-upon seting it up in a native village I turned the dial and ‘Ruth hit a homer’ was the first messake. Tom-toms stopped and the natives gathered around the ‘mystery box’ looking puzzled."

I know

presently heard

KEY BETRAYS AUTO THIEF

and gay And into the bargain-it's tubbable too. And it's so inexpensive an Englishman re- KANSAS CITY, Kan, ay 19. (U.P.) m make n o; his American _c_ h gunman knows his keyi And Carried out in plain flat crepe silk in navy blue with white crepe is most Weehawken, Hoboken, when a negro walked into Simmons‘ wtrwﬂv" Poughkeepsie, and ever so many shop and wanted a. duplicate made

for an automobile key, Simmons thought he recognized the pattern. So he told the negro to return in fifteen minutes. In the meantime he called the police and when the negro came back the police arrested him and took his car. Sure enough, it was the same car which had been

stolen from Simmons six months before.

ears,” said the American,

said the unsuspiclous

__.___._.....___ MEMPHIS, May 19. (ILPJ-Mar- ion Butler arshbui-n, a world war veteran who served overseas 19 months, wounded seven times and ‘since the war has traveled in 18 ‘countries, is registered in the medical

makes

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college of the University of Ten- riesee herel He intends entering the U. s. Public Health service and has become a recognized authority on public health administration after studying European systems while a- broad.

His wife is oold, nagging, grafting 0r dull

either love or cease loving at say all honor to the "other

DORURHY DIX.

who drop in every

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By Annabelle Worthington

the miss of 1i, l3, 15 and l7 year

and Qtoppgd mnbgoms’ He“ 9n m ‘makes it-so utterly wearable.

Style No. 2885 is made with 3% yards of 39-inch m of 35-inch contrasting for the miss of 15 years. ‘

An excellent choice is s. ray lustrated with the collar and c

Wool jersey in cricket green is sportsy with white pique.

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The extreme simplicity of this dress makes it so entirely suitable for

The bolero effect gives it distinction and smart sophistication, that-

It is "dressy" without being fussy.

aterial with 96 yard

on printed crepe in soft green tones as il- uﬂs of white pique, so charmingly youthful

I Wool crepe,

wool jersey, shantung. linen and

preferred.)

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OH. LET THE CHILD PLAY

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