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Show THE HELPING HANDERS. "I am a willing worker, but it is so much exertion to walk or ride to a job that I am compelled to stay at home. If any of the readers of the Helping Hand column have lawns to trim and will isend them to me I will be glad to trim and return them. A. H. P." "I have seven different bound volumes vol-umes of magazines containing muckraking muck-raking articles that I will exchange for an automobile, or I will send them to any reader who is In a comatose condition and needs to be revived. Can you suggest a remedy for nervous prostration? G. K. J." If the nervous prostration was caused by reading the articles, the best remedy Is to re-read them backward, back-ward, thus bringing you out where you started. "Please tell the readers who have been sending me formulas for making government whitewash for my back fence that I have changed my mind and have planted a hedge. L. D. M." "I have a suggestion for the sisterhood. sister-hood. . My husband is totally bald and used to catch cold because of the unprotected un-protected condition of his head. I took the canvas cover of a ham, cutHt off about three Inches from the large end, ran a drawstring through It, and it makes the nicest skull cap you ever saw. He thinks so much of it he will not take it to the office with him, preferring, pre-ferring, he says, to wear it here at home. MRS. H. N. P." "I have an Ayer's almanac for 1883 which I will be glad to send to anyone who wants it. "I will exchange an elbow of stovepipe stove-pipe and two flatirons for a well-preserved copy of 'Three Weeks.' "Also a library of books on mental healing for a recipe for making quinine capsules. MRS. R. S. V." |