Show T czx DOC DCZ3 SEES MANY FAULTS Love’s Border j IN AMERICAN It's the WOMEN f (Copyright igii hr goodneaa of this root beer as well as It tonlo properties that make it so great a favorite 0 pick ft nikul (ill obi Ifptarfnw ttr ItaX ttpplltd t will tll pn puk ftMrtttipttIUt riuttfltthltmMM Writ hr Premium Puaulr E HIRES CO THE CHARLES 288 N Broad St Philadelphia Pa DICKERSON By JEAN Auociated Literary Praia) Converse was out with a scouting She surprised bfm by replying In Tarty when he came upon the little his own language thatched hut half hidden In the chap“I have a right here!" she breathed arral In the light of a full moon sift- in his ear "A better right than you ing down through the foliage he was have!" Inclined to believe that the hut was “I hope so" be said fervently "but a creation of bis fancy and the white you know the American troops are gowned form that vanished at his ap- camped below here on the plain?” matewas same of the she cried bitterly “do I not illusive "Ah!" proach rial Have I not been know? avoiding “What’s that!" muttered Murphy at their prowling bands for three days" Conhis side “You are Mexican?” asked “Thought I saw a hut— or Is it this confounded moonlight that's verse “And if I am" deceiving me 7” He peered toward the hut with his “If you are Mexican you are In a eyes ' What Conwas It that prompted dangerous situation here on the borverse to deny the presence of the hut! ders where there is continual fightHe spoke Heretofore be had been most zealous ing You are not alone?" In a brisk And untiring In his search for Mexway with border on an undertone of kindness ican sharpshooters the held his tongue from ad“No I am not alone" she answered Something mitting that he too had seen the but calmly "My grandfather is within— and more he Is sick perhaps dying When they "You're seeing double tonight Mushelled the city our home was deWe hoped to "Move along to the stroyed and we fled rphy" he laughed We out that cross the river into the states east and let us thrash thicket" have relatives In El Paso but we have "Then you better 'duck If you see had to avoid the rebels as well as the me shootin’!" retorted the Irishman American troops We lost our way “With these deceivin' eyes of and have hidden in this ruined hut grimly mine I'll be takln' myself for one of since yesterday morning My grandthem little woolly blirros and commit father has had little to eat— I came suicide!" out now to seek something There “I’ll take the risk” assured Co- that Is all!" She threw out her taaftd "Do what you nverse leading the way In the opposite with a defiant gesture direction will!” "The first thing to do Is to get somenoiselessly Together they moved through the mesqulte growth pjshlng thing to eat" said Converse decisiveaside the shrubs with hands wary of ly “After that If you will trust to the long thorns that scraped skin and my guidance I will escort you Into the that you clothing nnd retarded their progress American camp and see ' reach El Paso at once" at every step “You are very kind sir” said the When the two men returned to the I am afraid “I am brokenly American was the girl still moon camp — rudp — but been have we bright Between them they escorted a severe alarmed and harassed and earlier this Mexican a surly prisoner who bad leaped at them from behind evening our retreat was almost disa tree only to fall a victim to their covered” “I was the one who startled you superior numbers and swiftly moving came back again” arms After this bloodless skirmish then — that Is why Ihefr thorough search of the hill was said Converse In awkward explanation ended and so they returned to camp “How did you know — how did you Instead of seeking the rest his weary body demanded Blake Converse guess thnt we were not sharpshoot"Why did waited until the confusion Incident ers?” she asked surprised upon their arrival had died away and you not Investigate?” “I don’t know!” he replied slowly when the sentry’s steps had diminished “It Is well for us that you waited to a distant shuffle the young scout quietly rolled under a loose flap until you were alono” she said In low him tones that stirred of canvas beside ‘his bed and disap- thrilling “Another might not have strangely been so kind as you have shown yourself to be" “It Is nothing” declared Converse I see your grandfa‘‘May bruskly ther?” "Certainly— he Is within very sick She led the way to the tiny hut whose roof was half torn away Through tills great aperture the moonlight flowed brightly lighting up a grass an old bed on the ground whereon man lay covered carefully with several blankets Converse bent over the old man and addressed him In halting Spanish To his surprise the refugee answered him In fluent English and in a few words substantiated the words of his granddaughter and added a brief explanation Ills name was Juan Barros a retired merchant of Juarez He was a widower with this one granddaughter who had been educated In the United had States lived happily toThey had gether until the revolution brought hostilities to their doors The loss of their home followed and now he was on his way to El Pnso where he had a brother once there he would make a home for himself and Alineda If the kindly Americano would help them— the old man's voice had failed here did them Blake Converse help across the border and delivered them Into the hands of an escort which His Hand Closed on the Warm Round- would see that they reached El Paso before the close of anoiher day When ness of Her Arm Almeda's grateful glance enbeautiful peared In the dense shadow cast by countered Converse's ardent eyes the adjacent hill there flashed the spark that Indicated Now he was Impatient of the detain- that two more unwary ones had vening fingers put forth by the mesqulte tured within the borderland of love thicket More than once he heard It was not surprising that the the ripping of flannel as he pulled his young soldier should obtain leave of arms free absence and hurry to El Paso to make At last he stood forth in a little a ceremonious inquiry concerning the open space that seemed familiar health of Almeda’s grandfather and and such was Hlake's sdllcitude for the Strong contrasts of moonlight old so and were the warm shadows black Mexican produced grotesque effects What he had supposed to be greetings that he received from both the mysterious hut for which he was the refugees that he was encouraged searching proved to be a huge rock to repeat these calls until old Juan patched with moonlight and when he Flarros smiled into bis beard and was upon them proceeded to touch the white surface ready with his blessing it moved and shrank away from him long before Blake found courage to ter He rubbed bis looked eyes and The rock was there Immovable Against its surface and blendWith the ing moonlight cowered the form of a woman dressed In white When he spoke her face turned to ward him and the light fell full upon It revealing her to be young Und beautiful In that swift glance he saw that her hair was black as the deepest shadows and that her eyes were dusky pools set In the marble pale ness of her face “Who is there?” he aBked sharply A quick drawn breath and a frightened sob Instantly ansuppressed Then the white grown swered him moved away from the rock as If to escape bhn Converse followed awlft--' ly and overtook her at the door of the hut His hand closed on the warm roundness of ber arm “I am sorry but you must tell me who you are and what you are doing here" he said in a firm tone ask lb closely Her Size physician was the only passenger surface car until there entered a mechanic whose hands were extended stiffly about fifteen Inches apart In the position of holding yarn for grandmother to wind After the conductor head taken a nickel from the man’s rigid fingers the doctor's professional Interest was aroused In this case of unique paralysis and presently he ventured to say “Have you been like that long my good man?” "Nope” was the stolid answer “Do you have treatment for It?” "Nope" but the This seemed discouraging on doctor was bent Investigation "Does It cause you pain?" he Inquired “What are The stranger grinned you driving at?” he wanted to know "Pm going to buy my wife a pair of ' red slippers and this bers's ber size A In the Scathing Arraignment by a Candid Swedish Writer— Calls Them Selfish Poor Mothers Characterized by Lack of Naggers of Husbands Spoilers of Home and Follow Lives of Social Butterflies The higher criticisms usually come from the of the drama gallery gods Gtrfleld Tea keep the liver normal retiring Drink before are some of the first Impressions made by America In general and American women In particular on Elra Hellberg an observant and ELOW young Swedish newspaper woman now In this country for the purpose of “She Drives Her Husband to Work articles back descriptive sending Moro and More and More” about us to the paper which employs her a leading Liberal organ of Stock- rope la fiery Impulsive alluring In holm the capital of her native land her youth but she ages quickly and becomes clumsy and heavy of figure The article Is reprinted from the BosThe Frenchwoman like the Viennese ton Herald: a thea- Is more slender than the EnglishwomAmerica Is like a painting ter curtain which Is at first taken for an and has easy blrdllke movements and a mobile face the real scene looked at criticised womThe French and Scandinavian and judged Then all of a sudden you types of discover that there Is a peephole in en are the finest Intellectual but their intelligence Is difthe curtain that the perspective was Europe and you realize that be ferent — the northerner Is deep slow only painted to wrestling with given quite differ- laborious yond there Is something the Gallic woman Is quick problems ent There Is so much to listen to and so speedy calculating and spiritual The American woman possesses much to see She The first of all those things which none of these types of intelligence you have never seen before Is the looks out with a clear' eye and la practical — much more American woman practical than In all woman What other Beraesthetic from One comes from Europe the world would wear such ugly shoes “hausfrau lin where the domestic bears children and Is as she does although mends stockings they are the eminently respectable from that gay most convenient? Who would wear sinner Paris who keeps an open such abominable hats with uncalled-fo- r The American woman and plumages? house for the world’s intelligence where Marie Antoinette still puts her dresses with taste — that cannot be de— high small heels on the asphalt pave- nied but It Is Europe that Is copied and the coun style so it Is not ment from the Scandinavian tries where the women go silent hur- individual She knows how to dress expensively ried and dreaming between the office Is to date European original but up the university and the home from Rome Madrid or Lisbon where the whether the dress fits the spiritual as well as the physical form she knows woman be she rich or poor dances And here She just dresses nothing with naked feet on the sunlit road U and with a of wine on her shoul-e-r Is where her lack of Individualism jug It’s wonderful what large from small garden seeds Takes a Week “I thought your daughter was coming home from the beach this week” “We had to let her remain another week In order to finish saying to a young man" In the Dark "Has that boy of yours who graduated from college last year found a job suits him yet?” He’s still looking for one" “Nope “Where’s he looking?” “Well I don't Just know He seems to do most of his looking nights” that Cause of the Row “Mrs Brown had a dreadful quarrel with her husband last night?" "That so?" “Yes She bid eight on a hand that was good for ten not thinking Mr Brown would overbid her but he did It almost broke up the party” “Mind Your Own Business Is Written Round the Helmet of the Statue of Liberty” smiles out: )rom these H How Old Was Hel In a country school the boys of a devoted to their many charms One little fellow of rather uncertain age was constantly proving his devotion by little acts of kindness which did not escape the notice of the teacher Coming up to him one day she put an arm about his shoulders and ‘I believe I wifi kiss you for said: fesiBA ST goixT to me but how old are you?" “Oh that’a all right" he said “I am old enough to enjoy It” — Mack’s ” National Monthly certain grade were the teacher a young lady American culture and it will have most consequences The spiritual and artistic culture oi a country is not created by either women or men— It Is the outgrowth of the Intellectual and spiritual tlon of the two sexes and It must be And there In the home Introduced must be fostered by both father and with her dark eyes and apparent At first It Is Incredible but when "Your health” you begin to know New York It dawns one comes to America of lib- mother to the American upon you that the declaration woman To be still more candid — culture has is Is “The best to be reYou find yourself In the only: erty It is never been formed by women of a main thoroughfare you feel the served for me" “Mind your own business” Is written In the nature of man to grasp ideas pulse of a mighty town of millions You saunter between of ten around the helmet of the statue and Impressions — in that of women to buildings of Liberty and the' women are the be grasped by them many stories above ground There have always been — always first to remember these words FurOr you — but no will not try to dethem so will be — women with force enough to scribe any great American city Even thermore they remember do the contrary but they are the ex have the admiration of a well that they kill a real home life though ceptlon8 dilettante for the gigantic engineering Praise for American Man America has entrusted culture to the skill which Is the creative power over In America Is lacking what we in — Does she here I will not tire readers with that Europe call culture but It has what woman almost exclusively understand the trust? Does she not which Is close at hand for the Euro- we with all our proud possessions of with power? confuse superciliousness pean visitor to stop and look at art literature and music we with all She finds the man at her feet but our history and all our genealogical The Woman the Attraction she does not stop to think that the pride do not as yet possess — a culti- street The woman in the river of human nymph or the ballet girl as well r vated man Ity is always the startling thing as the woman of thfc world might You always feel safe In the comshe Is She Is the life of the bring him there also street she it Is who gives the street pany of a man of the American culWhat American Woman Misses tivated class He has too much reIts color But In Europe she Is never She sees that he Is proud of her spect for himself and his own manOver what she ia hdre in America to quote Moliere In his own lam there wherever you meet her she hood to allow any brutality to appear ability and to remember Goethe with This Is not only the guage melts Into the' surroundings she Is toward women to books but she forgets out like the pearl In a beautiful ornament case In society but also where women that referring a cultivated woman always lm work with men In an offlee on which the Jeweler has spent much But even if he never forgets the poses on an unlearned man She does laborious work nor taste the pleasure not understand the question She Is a part of the whole Her manners of a gentleman of a mental combat the and exhilaration her way of remains: “Has the gentlewoman very figure her walk She has no idea of the with man to try him so severely?" right have manners her dressing sprung excitement and th sublimity of plea The of American woman the flirting directly from her Immediate surroundand womlacks refinement It has nothing of ure which comes when man ings t meet on the cold platform the “femme” of the Parlslenne noth- an She Is the child of the natural seen from which the world la ruled ing of the esprit of the Viennese — it ery the child of the architecture mean not This does that America Is unintelligent It is only an enticLook at the Scandinavian countries a slender waist a fine neck lacks a large number of learned and with their small frame houses or big ing figure On the contrary women Intelligent with a peach complexion often prostone palaces with their It means that the egotism of woman duced with the help of the beauty ers their high spacious rooms and doctor has locked this door to American cul and his concoctions windows through which the sunbeams In spite of the golden throne that ture Look at play on ell scrubbed floors The American woman is raw mate the American man has set up for the the German cities with their Irregular American woman In spite of the car-- rial from which might be made a streets their houses their ar an beauty vastly of and market places where the grass grows he has adoration woman of any other t0 suPrior spread out for her she remains between the cobble stones Look at the same class as the harem wom- land tne white loggias on the green hills of In She has the Intelligence — but It Is an One has a feeling that she has South Europe the old doge palaces unused and untrained a the gothic art In the chateaux of been forgotten as human being She is a brilliant apparition — but Is Rich Woman Criticized Paris the slender spires the broad spoiled by lack of avenues Look at England— crowded woman Is not The rich American She has liberty and the solid suphut and dignified All of hampered On the contrary she is port of roan— but she abuses both them make a picture in which the freer than any other woman She Is She has a comfortable and modern woman In the street is a detail beau She lives not kept down merely to home duties home — It Is neglected tiful peculiar and stimulating She chooses the lat- away from her children or motherhood But here In America the painting Is ter as she pleases and the man acSees Inevitable Change Is in Yet his house for she There be a If wonderfully Is This must not changed the Americhanged quiesces his enjoyment his lux- can woman is ever to reach the deshis pleasure spark of phantasy of dreams of of longing of old fashioned ury tiny for which her talents have She drives her She wants money beauty nothing which amalgamates her with the grace the poetry the pic- husband to work work more and The sufTragctte will cry out “You She wants to travel have forgotten me” the In feminine personality turesqueness more and more crowd of women and the poor just as much as the next man's wife It a Type Unique she wants Just as expensive a dress wives who work for their faaillles will The woman in America Is not like as other women she knows and she say: “You have been rnjust to us” the woman anywhere else She Is wants Just as fine an apartment as Is the salt of the The suffragette nearly related to the English woman land the woman la the her friends but the English girl Is solter In her the wants to reach She of the country highest rung backbone and the make-uthan the American She does on the social ladder higher than her drudging mother Is the most sublime not however possess the brilliant friends so she constantly commands of all trearury of a practical mind combined husband to “earn earn more But It is the rich woman who holds her v 1th Intelligence which Is characterwork work more!” the rIns which control the man who istic of the woman of the new world It deprives has the power And the husband does It Is she who puts her What first Impresses you is the phys- him of all the opportunities and of all stamp on the nation ical superiority of the American the time to complete his education to woman Here Is a personal cleanli- enjoy reading He eleor to travel No Harm ness which Is lacking In Europe vates her above himself and cuts the “What do you think? They found believe that bathrooms are more powIntellectual tie between them when they got to the bank this erful agents In the development of s All she This Is nothing to her that It had been cleaned out the nation’s health than almost wants Is that he give her fine dresses night before" anything else adorn her with Jewelry provide her “Did they find out who did It?” Her physical type Is and with all that life has to offer strong “Oh yes It was the Janitor" elastic She has a way of raising her Hava Their Own Secrets head and carrying her body with a married American do an couple But A Practice bom of perfect and not possess each other as we in Eu“A dentist must be a versatile kind unrestricted libei ty rope think that married people ought T! o German woman has an unre- to Here the woman knows nothing of a man" fined but honest expression “Why so?” of face of the man’s thoughts his business Her Dutch cousin la like her but Is his he car have “Because She Is satcheerful plans bis difficulties more rigid and lacks the and be looking down expression isfied without knowing in for the mouth at the same t The woman of South Eu- suppleness Is the greatest danger This sings catalogues will grow Easily Howell —He has a prosperous look Powell — Yes you could tell at a glance that he was a single man Missing the Point Rucker of Colorado Representative apropos of a tariff argument about to a Washington said corressugar “Oh well those men don’t pondent: see my point They miss It as badly as the old lady missed her son’s “'Mother' a young man said looking up from the Bulletin ‘would you believe that It takes 5000 elephants a year to make our piano keys and billiard balls?’ “ 'Make our piano keys and billiard balls!’ cried the old lady I ‘Well always understood elephants were In- telligent creatures but I never knew before that they’d been trained to make piano keys and billiard balls’ ” THE OLD PLEA He “Didn’t Know It Was Loaded” The coffee drinker seldom realizes coffee contains the drug caffeine severe poison to the heart and nerves causing many forms of disease noticeably dyspepsia “I was a lover of coffee and used It for many years and did not realize the bad effects I was suffering from its use (Tea Is Just as injurious as coffee because It too contains caffeine the same drug found In coffee) “At first I was troubled with Indigestion 1 did not attribute the trouble to the use of coffee but thought it arose from other causes With these attacks I bad sick headache nausea and vomiting Finally my stomach was In such a condition I could scarce ly retain any food “I consulted a physician was told all my troubles came from Indigestion but was not Informed what caused the lndgestlon I kept on with the coffee and kept on with the troubles too and my case continued to grow worse from year to year until It developed Into chronic diarrhea and severe attacks of vomiting I could keep nothing on my Btomach and became a mere shadow reduced from 159 to 128 pounds “A specialist Informed me I had a very severe case of catarrh of the stomach which had got so bad he could do nothing for me and I became convinced my days were numbered “Then I chanced to see an article setting forth the good qualities of Postum and explaining how coffee Injured people so I concluded to give Postum a trial I soon saw the good effects— my headaches were less frequent nausea and vomiting only came on at long Intervals and I was soon a changed man feeling much better “Then I thought I could stand coffee again but as soon as I tried It my old troubles returned and I again turned to Postum Would you believe It I did this three times before-had sense to quit coffee enough wod nnd keep on with the Pos’ well man with no v stomach or vonj that ready Name galneLf given Creej Look in book “Th Battle EWr Itiri frtrila term - J |