Show WHITE LIES the old question ol of whether a falsehood la Is ever justified Is brought to mind by the death of mrs minna Prel in lodl lodi N J at the age ot of 72 A series of falsehoods had cheered her old age tor for years mrs Prel was critically ill when her son robert was killed in action in prance france on march 26 1918 doctors warned that if she were told the sad news it would kill her she was devir never told her family caused a letter to be sent to her supposedly from her son telling her that he was employed in france each week a letter written in the united statts states and sent to prance to be remained to the mother was received and read to her telling of her boys imagined doings abroad in all dt these spurious letters were received by b the waiting invalid who until the last had hopes ot of seeing hezig her son again agai similar white lies have prevented mental anguish in thousands ol of cases the world over who can say with assurance that it was wrong to tell them new help for cotton planters Is an attachment which distributes seed at various depths in the row development of a synthetic motor 01 oil from r om a base of paraffin wax has been demonstrated I 1 seeking wider usefulness for prunes california scientists have devised a method of bottling prune juice and have also made a prune breakfast cereal luminous hair dyes which glow softly r in the dark are the invention of a london hairdresser after march 4 every disappointed office seeker will think he Is that famed forgotten man |