Show T- T TI I nn 1 To be a girl Is to be In the happl est set state po possible to humanity bu but girls do not know It They are always alway looking forward to something wantIng wanting want want- Ing lag something a a diamond or a beau I flattery or new gowns gown They rather envy women a little ahead of them who have more self possession andare ant and and andare are sometimes jealous of some married married mar mar- ried Tied woman who flirts and makes 1 c ct a dash dash t Im only a young girl ww wt we heard one say a young girl Oh be glad of It delight In la It its Thank heaven every morning that you are still a young girl We cannot cannot cannot can can- not stop time The years will wUl slip through your fingers like the beads froma broken necklace after aUer a while but now they linger while you are still a girl girl girl-a a girl In the home of ot parents yet In the prime of life with young brothers and sisters for com com- There will never be any any- anythIng anything thing better than this In all aU the world There are no skeletons in your closet no ghosts in your rev rev- eries Your future Is all full of hope You can flU fill In the distance as you like You can fancy a lover coming to you who is perfect In all things and every young man is interesting because he be may be the other half of your soul And every new girl may be the lifelong friend and confidante all girls hope for As for beauty the idea of ot a girl of seventeen seventeen seventeen seven seven- teen herself plain as some somo do dol I In a few years she will wUl look In Inthe Inthe n the glass and see eee those fine horizontal at ah al lines lines' s' s on her forehead on which Time scores down our troubles and at the corner of her eyebrows three little pencil marks and a little fall fallIn fallin fallIn In her cheek and a mouth that does not smile as readily as it once did not an old face yet but not a girl and then she will realize what it was to have a girls girl's face Oh how few the years are arel How they whirl away Girlhood is gone so soon But while you have It envy no woman woman woman wo wo- man her diamonds and laces her carriage carriage carriage car car- or her palace her fortune or her her While one is In ones one's except except except ex ex- teens nothing else is necessary to o realize the fact and thank heaven for it O O O OTo To can or not to can berries and such such that's that's the housewife's ques ques- tion Tho The agricultural department says If it you raise the fruit yourself and have havo a surplus or If you have i a chance to buy It at bargain prices i It I will pay otherwise It Is cheaper t h to buy the commercial canned goods But hut perhaps the staid chaps of th lh the I agricultural department dont don't know I that some of us prefer mothers mother's Jan jam even If it It costs a few cents more pei per can O O O HOW TO KILL JULL YOUR youn TOWN Buy from peddlers as mch inch and aa as often as possible v 9 o 9 O Denounce your merchants because they make a profit on their goods O O O OGlory Glory in the downfall of a man who has done much to build up your town O O O Make your town out a bad ball place and stab It every chance you getO get O O O Refuse to unite in any scheme forthe for forthe forthe the betterment of the material Inter Interest est sst of the people O O O OTell Tell your merchants that you can buy goods goode a great deal cheaper in some other town and them with sith extortion If a stranger tranger comes to o your town tell him everything is overdone and predict a general crash In n the near future O O O Patronize outside to he the exclusion of your own and aid then denounce your for not being as large ind and as cheap as the city papers O O O If you are s a merchant merchant dont don't advertise ad- ad vertise in the h home me paper but compel compel cornel com corn pel el the editor to go elsewhere for advertisements and howl like a suro SON lead head because he does so Buy a rubber stamp and use it It may save make letterheads let- let and you rou on a few dimes your and wrappers look as though hough yeu yu were doing business in ame a ame aone me one horse town O O 00 O If It you are a farmer curse the place where you trade as the meanest on earth arth Talk this over to your neighbors neighbors neigh neigh- bors ors and tell them the men are robbers robern rob- rob jers ern and thieves It will make your property much less lesa valuable but you lont dont care O O O OWe We hold bold it to be a self-evident self fact hat that no school Is doing its duty when It t trains not its pupils in the art of I I r noice culture In the th way of public speaking spooking and Mil reading These Those very requirements are arc to b be met at the close of the tho school chool and anlIn In In- In on entering higher courses o of training than our public school am nn amIt It Is unjust to make such a demand and neglect the training for It until tho the eleventh hour The demand Is s nl all allright right but the neglecting of earl early training for It Is absolutely ly wrong It Should begin In the lowest grad gradi by leading the child to express In it Hi Its own language a description of what whal It sees Bees and continued In every department department department de de- and most drilled driller the tho highest grade O 00 O O OThe The best time to enter school chool Is orthe or on the tho first day of tho the school year th the best time to leave Is on the la last t da day of the last term of the school chool year ye r. r First year pupils that l Is pupils who ar are entering school for the first time timi after alter reaching six years of age should not enter after alter the first month mono of any term Is past The Interruption Interruption tion lion and hindrance to the tho rest of ot the pupils of this grade Is more than any and considerate parent out to demand If It your child does not become of ol school age six years old till after the first month of tho the term Is past or If it you do not get ready to send him the first month keep him out till the beginning of the next term terra O O O Some people are continually complaining complaining com that they are unable to find work The scarcity of work Is not the he difficulty The ob Is to be Found but persons who do not like to o work are always leaving that which they can do to find an easier place dace Such people will continue to search earch unless they learn to Stick to YOUr Tour bush O O O NON NON WAR W An To ro the Several State Councils of ot Defense Defenso De De- tense It lt Is I 1 feel sure unnecessary to remind emend you and through you all of ot othe he the people of your your respective States hat that thIs Nations Nation's business your business your bu bu- mess and my y business business Is Is WAR WAIl and ind all other omer considerations must be to the para paramount purpose pur- pur pose Jose ose of winning the war Anything hat that Interferes directly or indirectly with this purpose Impairs the efficiency ency ncy of the war machne and to the extent of such impairment tends to prolong the war American contemplate can an with any patience tying giving to our military authorities less ass ess than ALL of or their requirements to o enable them in the shortest possible pos pos- Ible sible time to and and bring to the concen concen- bear ear against the enemy rated force of splendidly equipped armies This can only be accomplished accomplish accomplish- ed ed d through the strictest economies In war var materials labor fuel and trans- trans Among other economies which the government has been com- com compelled to Inaugurate is the deferring of f all construction of ol a war non-war character save such as in the public Interest c cannot be deferred deterred in order hat that labor and material needed in war var work may be released and fuel and ind transportation conserved Obviously It does not follow because be- be ause cause there happens to be an ample supply of ot building materials or local labor abor in a particular community that building projects not contributing dIrectly di- di or Indirectly to the winning of he the war should not be curtailed for forI the he labor required for such construction conn con con- is urgently needed elsewhere elsewhere else else- where there in war work and in many cases noes the demand is Imperative that he the fuel required In producing such building wilding materials and the transportation atlon tation service to deliver them should be se e conserved I We are depending on you and your local ocal representatives the press gees through chambers of or comerce Boards of trade business associations tubs clubs the school authorities ap school teachers the clergy the tied ted Cross the Y M. M C. C A A. the Y W. W C C. C A. A A the Y Y M. M II A. A of t Columbus and similar organizations organizations ions to bring home to the people the message of the Imperative necessity of f t the strictest as measured id ed d not only In term terms of dollars butIn but In n terms and materials labor transportation transportation trans trans- and fuel that you may re- re I elve eive their and opera co ion in this conservation problem We Were Weare ire are also confidently depending upon of architects ar- ar the operation co-operation yOU rou ou to secure contractors builders real estate state operators building exchanges municipalities and andall all others Interested Interest- Interest id ed d In building projects to meet this and deer de do- derer Issue In a patriotic manner er sr until after the war building op- op operations operations op op- rations of every overy character not con con- cong contributing directly or Indirectly to winning Tinning the war L. L II Chairman |