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Show - ' J THK RINRIIAM NEWS Logan School, Murphysboro, III, Razed by Tornado lider,n7,mTnrkiiieH,'u! r"'.1 r?""1 nh"a ",e """""" "rxu k m" '""". - h ''" bool. liZ died ! dl'",0"'""'J """'J"'. were so ba.lly Injured that a number have ffi? Daddy's LS'eixiixg fairy Tale yAARY GRAHAM BONNER THE LACE DOLL Beatrice had never before been to big city. It was a great event when her father and mother told her they were goinj to take her for a visit with them to a very, very big plaee. lScatrloe parked her bug a little si raw bag which Santa Clans had given to her the Christ mm before. It was such a nice Ktraw bag, very light ' and easy to carry and yet It held Quite a Beatrice Packed 0,,(1 dpHl' ,0--I Her Bag. particularly so If you pnalied every-thing In hard enough. The Imj! was of green and tan straw, and this was the first time It hud been tuken away on a trip. Ileatrlce began pucklng a week be-fore, but she kept putting more and more thine In each day, until the bag was very queer looking with Its sides bulging out In all directions. And then she didn't hare all the things In she renlly needed at all. So the day before they started she took everything out and packed all over at;uin. Of course her rag dull had to go along and so did the toy monkey, but she decided to leave the rest of her dolls at home. There was no room for them, and they were a little too young to be taken on such s trip after all. They could go later, she told them, when they were older. They were very good about It, too. They didn't act disappointed or sulky in the least. Then she put In her little rubber bag with a toothbrush and sponge and all the little things she needed every night and every morning, tier brush and comb oh, there were a number of these odds and ends which Beatrice knew must be taken along. There was her best dress and hat but her mother had said she would take those. So Beatrice put handkerchief and stockings and little things In her bag. At last they reached the big city. It was the strangest place In the world. There were Just crowds and crowds of streets and cars and motors and people all the time. At night there was a constant noise a (iieer humming sound quite unlike the sounds of the crickets and the owls find the leaves of the trees swishing and laughing ns they thought of things to say to each other. The next day they went shopping The shops, too, were crowded. And Beatrice began to feel homesick for the country and her own friends and the places she knew. But now her mother said they were going to visit a toy shop. It was a dream shop. Beatrice had, Actually, to pinch herself to make sure that she wasn't asleep. There was everything in this shop. There were all the toys one could ever think of and so many more be-sides. But of all the wonderful toys a little doll, a tiny china doll with a dress made of china lace filled her heart with longing. Oh. if she could own that doll, she would be perfectly, happy al-ways. She stood looking at It, not noticing that she had forgotten to follow her mother who had ne to look at some bigger dolls. And then, some-thing more won-derful than any dream happened to her. A kindly man looked down at her. and said: "Little girl, do you like that doll?" "Oh, I think It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in all my life. Sh Stood Uook- - I adore It." in8 st ll- - "Maybe you'd like to own It," the kindly man snld "Oh, I'm sure It's so beautiful li ' must cost dollars and dollars." "No. It's not so very expensive It li ntther unusiisl but It needn't lie ex pensive at all. I'll give It to you." "But how can you give It to me. j Are you so very, very rich?" !' "I ov n this shop," the kindly man j said, 'and I Ihink I know children. I know il.e little china lace doll will al- - wnys he happy with you. so It ll yours .'" HOW TWO W0HHEN AV0IOE0 OPERATIONS The Following Letters of Mrs. Thurston and Mrs. Beard Carry an Encouraging Message to Other Sick Women I,,. . vv Vegetable Componnd that I told my ' v - v' nuaband I would try it before 1 gave " - V t'j''trw ? ' ' up. I soon began to feel that it waa KjTS . . dotog me good. The awful misery began to leave me, also the backache. if-- I have good appetite and am rain. " Y VV toff In weight Taking the medicino JSfm waa the beat tiling I ever did. lfeel b! I. .W 4 like it has aaved my life and 1 do not TW'SL. J hesitate to Bay ao to my friend. At v " Lkr least it saved me from a dreaded V ' v- - operation and I am still taking it. I I 'w , am willing to answer letters from ' X women asking about the medicine." , s,,; w -- Mrs. Ethel Thurston, 821 North f Pine Street, Lima, Ohio. 'f 4" Mrs. Beard'a Letter :f f y Eddy, Texas.- -'! will write yon a " I I few words, tliinking it will do homo J one else good. Two doctors said I I I would have to beoperatedon because - J " f for nearly twelve months I suffered Mas. ithei Thurston from a weakness from which 1 could n. pini tiit, tm. Ohio getnorclief. I was restless and Lima, Ohio. "I want to tell you nervous and was not able to walk how your medicine has helped me. acroa the house. They aaid it was For weeks I suffered with awful pains the Change of Life. I saw Lydia E. from inflammation and I waa in such Pinkham'e Vegetable Compound that I had to bend double to vertised in the newspapers, and as I get relief. I could not be touched or could not get any help from doctors jarred, had awful pain all over my 1 thought I would give that a trial, abdomen and could not touch mv feet I began with the liquid and it helped to the floor. It waa impossible for me some, then you advised me to take ' me to straighten up and the pains the tablet form and I began to improvo never eeased. I took treatments for rapidly. I have gained in weight from some time and finally was told I would 10a to 170 pounds. I recommend it have to have an operation. I do not to all women with this trouble." believe in operations, and I had read Mrs. M. E. Beard, R. Ho, 1, Cox ao much about Lydia . Pinkham'a 143, Eddy, Texas, SAY BAYER ASPIRIN,, --$mW'A Unless you see the "Bayer Cross" on tablets you are not getting the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians 24 years for Colds Headache Neuralgia Lumbago Pain Toothache Neuritis Rheumatism yAcePt 0"ly "Bayer" package CajT which contains proven directions. C JM Uand.r "B'yer" boxes cf 12 tablets Also bottles of 24 and 100 Druggists. 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Ask your dealer for an Ala-- i '': JTZ bastine color card. Or write Miss Ruby --MVOL Brandon, Home Beautiful Specialist, the V" A,aba8tine Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. KdompieisnotAkbasthw Viewing What Had Been Their Home Visitors in Switzerland So greatly does Switzerland depend on Its visitors that the revival last season of tourist trnfllr brought h glow Of prosperity to the entire country. Right Word Cross-Wor- d Enthusiast (suddenly after prolonged, but vnnint stare at fat stranger) I've got It I An ele-phant I Murphysboro (III.) School Building on : if - t - . XdiigmwtJ, y Willie Knowt Hostess "What part of the claVken do you like. Willie?" Willie "I'll have some of the meat, please." Perfect .Fred "Enjoy ' jour visit back In the 1 sld homer" Tom "Bather I Nobody remembered uiel" ONE OF MANY VICTIMS . s cw? tri Preiidential Expen$e I The White House with its furnlsh- - r.igs, servants), automobiles ond other appurtenances are furnished to the 'resident free of charge. Approprla-i- ' tlons are made by congress for these matters of expense. The President, however, pays for all food consumed In the White House and In the event of desiring any personal services not provided for by the appropriation would pay for - them also from his private funds. Homes Destroyed by Tornado ? MrVtQ JWzK 0 frill U i Too Noisy for Elmer Klnier is a great reader, and when he gets a new lunik he generally for I gets v. ha" Is jo'iig on around him. j One dn ws-.i- i lie was rondr.12 a par tlcularly inter mini: story his sum!' brother Hnd his friend were playing they were' Indians. Mnil when they u hooped It up so ti,at eirn Klnu-- r wnf unable to orcetiliate he shouted at them: "Say. can-- ' y'i kids play some thing hesiOes a nulxy gaui'?" |