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Show " - . . Ly Serving in aWorid atWar ; ' ' "We are doing our utmost to serve the public as satisfactorily today as .; ca we did before the war upset the commercial world. ? In the face of greatly increased costs of material we ar eudeavoring to maintain our plant at the highest point of efficiency. Despite the high cost of labor, we are maintaining full crews that ther " ' may be no part of the work slighted or neglected. ; - " .Vhile the demands of the signal service of our armies have deprive! us - . I of many technically trained men, those who remain have spread out to fill TT ;,' the gaps by extra effort. In some places congestion has occurred because we have been unable to , secure equipment for relief, but in such cases the traffic is being handled to the full extent of human ability. ' v - - With the world rocking under the weight of war; with economic condi- - I - tions unsettled and abnormal, we are striving always to coordinate our ef- -' '"' forts to the great problems involved in the winning of the war. , I ' VTe feel that uninterrupted, efficient telephone service is playing a con-spicuous part in the forces that will bring ultimate victory. The Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co. ' McCALL'S MAGAZINE I j (For May) '"' .' fflVv J The Superb Qual-- V'Nv nrf ity of McCall JlJ;i : f Ua Fashions Is the ('TIm I Ti yeaP .of areful fet1?" 4 m Ll' fx study in the inter- - K 5 1 )js 0"Y pretation of the Ifa i t InJi Jyy I If' styc tendencies of i U ilil the - times and IK US ' i adapting them to ' f lii',lH I - A V- the needs and It ifj 4'J jl I uses of the Amer- - I, A I I L J- ican Woman. . iTi A Jf McCallPatterns J ia for May JI tin if U NOW ON SALE . lrr THE McCALL COMPANY New York San Francisco Atlanta Chicago . Boston Toronto Tit leverart that atisfles erery jg& f reqairement sf the moil faitidiott ', hit aod yet polities a taor tad JOf flivor tkat appeals tt'tkt fcarditit LJ EVANS ICE CO., Agents, J Phone No. 9 J G. L Becker, Mfgr. Jf OCOEN, CTAR 14 4 ' Contrlhuted by Frank Godwin. AT OUR HOUSE I Eyes O'Blue and Touslehead Learn About the Red Cross ' By JUDpMtJRTIMER LEWIS . We have talked It over at our house. Talked it over as we have never talked It over before. We did not want Eyes O'Ulue to know about It, nor did we want to lay any part of the world's heavy burden upon the henrt f Toiil-head- . We have taught them that the world is a good and a beautiful piece, tut last night, gathered beneath the light in the humble little parlor at our bouse, we talked It over between us. " Eyes O'Blue and Touslehend were told " that, while the world Is good, It Is not all good; that there are men who have started out to enslave the world and who In the furtherance of that auihl- -' tlon have done awful things. Gradually as the tale was told they drew nearer until we sat with our , arms about them. We told them of hands backed from baby wrists, of death rained from the sky upou help-less little ones, of murder rising from , ,j the sea's green deeps to feed upon " helpless mothers and tables. And then we told them how these apletidld soldier boys we see every day are going to the far front to flKht and. If need be, die to keep this hor--, ror from our iHiid. We told them of burns and wounds and suffering. And then we told them of the Ited Cross. 1 We had a Dumber of Ited Crosses In our windows, but they had not known. We told them of the bandages and supplies needed to allay suffering. We told them of the noble women who are giving their lives to the binding up of hurts of the boys In khaki. We told them of the great need of money with which to carry on the work of mercy. Then Eyes O'Blue Id a voice which choked with pity for the distressed spoke of her savings, and Touslehead clapped ber hands at the thought. This morning I went to the bank and withdrew their ssvlngs. $03.29. and they are to be put to work to a bet-ter work than they have been doing. At our house for the duration of the war we expect to "keep the days," we expect to wear cobbled shoes and patched clothing, and If we ever hesi-tate In our sacrifice 1 shall see the faces of Eyes O'Blue and Touslehead us, with tears on their cheeks, they smiled at the thought of the help they might be to the Red Cross. ' Are you helping us to carry the Red Cross 1 AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS ' SHOULD BE CAREFUL The following advice is presented by this paper to automobile readers: .Even experienced drivers are making the mistake these days of wrongfully Inserting tire tubes in casing, partic-ularly in one regard, the B. K. Oood- - right method is based on the best us- - . t' age of the leading racing drivers with J the logical assumption that they are j the beet qualified to decide. I Anent tube insertion, one of the w first things to do is to give the bridge nut at ' the base of the valve stem above the oblong metal plate on the tube a tightening twist with a pair of . pliers. The use of pliers is advised in preference to a wrench, as a wrench : is too powerful for the purpose and liable to cut the valve through th rubber. it is surprising how frequently a slow leak is due to the loose fit of the tube around the valve. When the tube is entirely in the casing, Jar the tire a few times to seat it Only after the tire is mounted and fully in-flatedIn fact, it is advisable to have It slightly over-Inflate- d is the time to fasten securely the rim nut which works around the valve stem above the rim. , With this nut firmly tight-ened down against the rim. the surplus pressure may be allowed to escape, . and the tire brought to normal contour t for the load carried. The caliper guage is the best means for measur-ing the load. The excess of air pressure acts as a press that ' firmly seats the metal bridge onto the tube into the valve caviy on the ins'.de of the tire. The force exerted on the approximately four inches of metal surface at eighty pounds pressure is thus 320 pounds, and this prevents pinching. In Damp Weather. Piano keys are wont to sU.k In damp weather, especially when the instru-ment la an old one. In almost every fsse. the sticking will not be between the keys, but along the front. This cap be remedied wijh little trouble. Take i thin knife and work a little corn tarch berwv-e-n the keys and the front bonr! and tbey will slip easily. . 8lmplest of Cments. Condensed milk applied to the edges of pieces of broken china will keep the article ns (ntact as the majority of ce-ments on the market today, says the discoverer lie adds that he has mend-ed saucers that have withstood wash-ings In hot water, and has mended a telescope lens of fairly large size with this unique cement. FIGHTING SISTERS OF FIGHTING MEN . Twenty Thousand Nurses Now Enrolled in American Red Cross. Of the eighty odd thousand register ed tralued nurses In the United States ubout 20,000 have enrolled as Red Cross nurses, volunteering their serv-ices at the front. In cautonmenta and hospitals or In any other needed ca-pacities. This enrollment is the nurs-ing reserve of the United States Army Nurse Corps and the United States Navy Nurse Corps, and from It will 'also be drawn contingents for service under other allied flags than our own. The enrollment goes on at the rate of 1,000 volunteers a month. On a basis of an army of a million men over SO,-00- 0 nurses will be required for active duty in the present year. Up to the last of February over 7,000 nurses bad been actually detailed to duty or were ready for Immediate mobilization. So It Is seen that there are hone too many, In view of the re-quirements of the service, : since be-tween time of enrollment and actual assignment to duty the nurse must un-dergo a period of special study and (mining for war service, and the work of organizing and mobilizing this "army of mercy" Is no small thing. A Nurse la a Soldier. Surgeon Ueneru! Uorgas bas called upon the lied Cross to supply &.000 nurses for the Army Nurse Corps by June I, anil If this quota is forthcom-ing the total number detailed will have reached 12.000 So the mobiliza-tion of another IS.tKW to 25,000 by Jan. I, WJ, will be a big problem to solve. Now, a nurse la a Mdler. She Is recognized officially by the govern-me-and Include) In those eligible for soldiers' and sailors' war Insur-ance. A nurse goes into actual danger of wounds Mud death by shell fire and hoiut) eiplonloti. Her work Is arduous. ,exactlnt;. calling for the II nest quali-ties of mini) ami heart. She Is the right band of die surgeon. So, because nursing Is primarily a woman Job, the war nurse Is proper-ly the peml'ar responsibility of the woaten of America. While the trained nuiw Is urged to veleateer t risk of br life at the front, the Americas woman at home Is command! by ev-ery dictate of patriotism and husMalty to support her "fighting sister." The nure fights pain, disease a4 death, making ber oacrlflce with asaaav tng cheerfulness and enihusiassa, i JOHN MADISON'S FAMILY w When John Madison sailed for , France there were no Indications that his family would suffer In a pecuniary ' way while he served his country John's father was earning good wages. John's younger brother, Henry, a driver, was Helping out the family budget Then John's father was stricken with pneumonia. His earning power sto-pe- Henry met with an accident If John had stayed home tie enuM curried his mother and little sisters through the crisis. Bui John wus wh i'ershlng overseas. Must Ills family suffer destitution? The Madison family's dilemma was reported to the Red Cross and prompt-ly placed In the hands of Home Serv-ice. Af a resuit the best n.ed!. al at-tention whs secured for John's father and brother. Immediate funds were placed In ihe mother's hands to pro-vide for the household us before the faailly Income stopped. In tb brief space of a few hours Home Service hud driven poverty from the absent soldier's home, The whole aim and object of Home Service is to protect the welfare of the soldier's family while he Is away and to maintain aa far us possible the same standards of home life that pre-vailed while he was at home. More than this, when the standard of II. Is low It Is the duty and the opportu-nity of Home Service to raise the standurd. Think of what It means to John Madison and his legloaa of comrades In khaki and In blue to realia that la their absence their loved ones will be safeguarded as carefully and as con-stantly as they thci.iselves would have done. Think what It means to the morale of these hrnve lads to know that whatever may happen In the per-ils of warfare the fiinire of their fami-lies will not be J.lopunlizi'(I Glass of Hot Water ; , Before Breakfast a Splendid Habit T t Open sluices of the system each j morning and wash away ths .j - poisonous, stagnant matter. j Those of us who are accustomed to feel dull and heavy when we arise; splitting headache, stuffy from a cold, foul tongue, nasty breath, acid stomach, laruo back, can, instead, j both look and feel as fresh as a daisy '"- - always by washing the poisons and toxins from the body with phosphated hot water each morning. We should drink, before breakfast, a glass of real hot water with a of limestone phosphate la it to fiuah from the stomach, liver, kidneys and ten yards of bowels the previous day's Indigestible waste, sour bile and poisonous toxins; thus cleans-ing, sweetening and purifying the eutlre alimentary tract before putting more food Into the stomach. The action of limestone phosphate and hot water on an empty stomach C is wonderfully Invigorating. Jt cleans ' ' out all the sour fermentations, gases, waste and acidity and gives one a splendid appetite for breakfast and it 1b said to be but a little while until the roses begin to appear In the cheeks. A quarter pound of limestone phosphate will cost very little at the drug store, but Is sufficient to make anyone who Is bothered with blllous-teg- s, constipation, stomach trouble or rheumatism a real enthusiast on the subject of internal sanitation Try it and you are assured that you will 1 look better and feci better In every ' way shortly. |