tUt GASTONU GA1ZTTS.
.'DATES MUST "DOLL UP" WARS SET UP PRINCIPLES
. vJH Hve to Look Their Prettiest if
They Expect to Find Favor With
Woman Voter. J, .
. It it not necessary to go aval from
home to find either the latest or best.'
regardless of what la wanted. Consider
eyebrow arching, for Instance. A local
beauty salon announces to tho public
that It does eyebrow arcninc and ex
plains that this operation "gives. the
eyes a deep, soulful expression with
' everlasting charm." :; Eyebrow arching ,
advice for , woman electors is more or
, leea superfluous. It is to the men. and
more' especially to the men who aspire
Asa public office, that this beauty bint Is
Erected. . - - .
Throughout the country women are
' arettln th ballot on eoual terms with
. men. Women cannot vote In Indiana,
. . . . - - aL.. I f
dot uiej are going to nave uiai pni-
lege before long, So many women
' ae been enfranchised, that they now
bold the balance of power In this na
tion. So the woman vote will be more
and more a real political problem to
the candidate. ' .
Some electors car tittle for the per
. eonal appearance of candidates, . but
most of them prefer a man of char
acter, one who at least is presentable.
Candidates in the future will have to
, bear this In mind. It will be well. In
order to match rival candidates, for
each to have a good tailor and an ad
visory committee on the proper shade
of cravats. Immaculate Unen will have
to be In every candidate's platform.
The high arched eyebrow will be even
the average woman. Doubtless those
who have political aspirations will be
gin early, because eyebrow training
takes time. Indianapolis News.
CAJD ICE CREAM. "BURNED"
Think of IV French Kiddles Had to Be
- Coaxed to Partake ef Strange , '
Delicacy! , .
Striking proof of the well-known
fket that 'extreme heat and extreme
cold have the same physical properties
was recently furnished by "Jugger"
Crane, the scientist-philosopher of
Company B, th engineers, when he
fed some American Ice cream to a
rronp of French children, . says the J
Cslker, -f . ,
The Inhabitants of the French farm
louses near the camp had never seen
any Ice cream until ' "Jugger" . took
liera over a mess kit full of the great
American delicacy. .
The children gathered around ex
pectantly. The first one took a spoon
ful and at once began to weep and de
clare that the strange food was hot.
The others who had watched rather
terror stricken the fate of tb first be
came convinced that It was some sort
cf white fire and would have nothing
t do with the cream.
The mother hjjd to eat virtually all
Ce cream In order to Induce tbem to
t clieve It was cold rather than bot
Momentous Questions Troubling Man
kind Have Been Settled by the
, , World's Greatest Conflicts.
. Wars are milestones.. Victories set
' m tablets, upon which are Inscribed,
the principles that have been vtadV
Cated. : w ' ' wV'-i :
' ' The battle of Marston Moor de-
- otroyed feudalism, overthrew the doc
trine of tb divine right of kings, gava
. England an elective parliament, Be.
- Dr. Newell Dwlght mills said In a ser-
' won reported In the Brooklyn Eagle.
The French revolution destroyed
French autocracy, and give th people
. the right of self-determination. .
j The war of 1T78 was the last civil
war of Great Britain a war of a good
section of the English people against
th bad section of Great Britain which
had enthroned a crazy German king
George HL i V'?
j The war pf 1861 established on sure
. foundations the republic, th last best
; hope of man, and vindicated industrial
democracy without regard to color.
The war of 1914 has settled certain
things for all time. Wsr shall be no
1 more! Hereafter disputes between
I races shall be settled by an interna-
- tional supreme court. Militarism shall
be no more never again shall the peo
ple's resources be wasted In piling np
munitions, nor the man In the furrow
' carry a soldier upon his back. , Inter
national ; treaties hereafter 'shall be
sacred 1 , Alas for the next nation that
counts Its written pledge a scrap of
paper and defies International law !
The small races and peoples are free!
No big bully nation Ilk Germany can
ever again trample upon Belgium, as
Kug Ahab trampled on Naboth and
seised bis purple vineyard. Terrorism
and frlghtfulness henceforth are out
lawed. That clay god called ' "the
state,? that Germany made unto her
self and has long been worshiping, Is
an Idol that has fallen.
NOTHING LEFT TO CHANCE
end that when not taken too fast, was
3od to eat. Eventually, the children
M.t the last of the dish. - ' j
Cut they partook of it gingerly, evl-
Cystly greatly mystified that anything
s,Uch first seemed hot,' then cold,
ctrald be good to est
. A woman was discovered In this
dtj yesterday who. has 'lived all
through the great war and did not
know that It was going on. She Is an
afed woman of German birth. Her
are kept ."' her son from ' telling " her
about the horrors of the Invasion of
Belgium and of the sinking of the Lu
aitania. He -didn't wish her to worry :
and fret. But the day of the peace
demonstration made it Impossible to
Keep silent The old lady heard the '
whistles ; blowing v and the - crowds j
cheering and she demanded to know .
what it was all about When they told '
Jier she raised her hands in a gesture
of Imprecation and said: "Oh, if only '
I could get these . two hands on the '
hlwr V Th IntcrHHnr nnrt nf hr
story Is that her husband was a Ger
man soldier. The gray uniform was '
so detested by him that he made his !
wife, before bis death, promise that
she would come to America so that
none of their sons ever would be com
pelled to wear the livery of the kai-
r. New York Son.
Victim of popular Song.
. Lawrence Kellle tells of an amusing
experience he bad over the song,
"Douglas Gordon.' : -I " He. . was Intro
duced one evening to a gentleman
whose nam he did not catch.: 1 have
stO desire, to meet you, Mr. Kellle,"
said the stranger. : Kellle naturally
looked a little , astonished, but said
nothing. "In fact," the other went on,
1 bate the very sound of your name.
For months past my mother has been
worried by the receipt of telegrams
and letters of condolence on my behalf,
and the thing is beginning to get mo
notonous." Tb sorry. said Kellle, "but
That's that got to do with men "Well,
TH tell you," said the other: i-My
name's Douglas Gordon, and everybody
Imagines that your . confounded song
refers to ma." And with that be turned
on his bed and went.
Advance ef American Divisions at San
, Mihlel Had Been Planned With
Elaborate, Car.
In modem warfare a man's head is
his chief asset writes Duke Bolivar in
Boys' Life. Ton all know that th
St Mihlel salient encompassing 152
square miles of territory and 73 vil
lages, waa taken by the Americans.
Did you know Jt , was don by head
work? Elaborate plans were mad In
advance and given out wholesale to
the troops. One hundred thousand
maps, covering minute details of th
country, Including natural defenses.
and how It was manned by the enemy.
were distributed, pins 30,000 photo
graphs, scattered among officers of the
artillery an Infantry. Five thousand
miles of telephone wire and 6,000 In
struments were i employed, snd this
elaborate system kept np with the ad
vance of the amy. By this service
flanking troops could telephone their
position back to the artillery. Tb tel
ephone business of a city of 100.000
could have been handled by this equip
ment In whose operation 10,000 men
: were engaged. Thousands of carrier
pigeons aided the signal corps. Ex
tensive hospital facilities, 4300 tracks.
miles of railroad,; were provided for
this big military operation, and 10,000
feet of movie film were exposed, so an
the soldiers had to do was to fight
, , - " Prepare! for th Future.
It was at the door nf a store which
had advertised exceptional bargains
for that day, in the Jam. that Mrs.
Blank saw Mrs. Brown and rushed to
shake hands with her and ssys
"Ob, Mrs. Brown, are you here?" ;.
"Tea, I am here, but I did not expect
to meet you."
"Why, you see,. I am going to Join
the new league and I am getting ready
for It", .
he it the Woman's league where we
pledge ourselves not to buy a bat or a
garment costing nor than SIOT" ' ,
vTes, that Is the one and I am going
to Join it too. I am getting ready for
if r,''; '';K'V ;
And they entered the store together
and each bought a dress marked down
from $80 to $48, and $20 bats and coats
that cost over $60 each. They went out
feeling that they could stand by their
pledge.
' Send for a Bomb, Sir. '
Tn excited voice of, the mother of
3 B. Elliott pf the firm of Breed,
t & Harrison, announced that an
se owned bj Mr. Elliott was
'f-V'1' '-:
j tt still burning 7" inquired Mr.
tt, with some anxiety la his voice
' i informed id the affirmative, he
.: X with much rellet "Well, there
i toting that I can do," and told his
tier U notify him If tb fire was in
2cger" of going out Indianapolis
ewa f y - - ' ,
:.-..'.: rraka One."
"Office. Window" of the Daily Chron
icle of London waa once told a pleas
ing little anecdote of Dame Agnes
Weston, the friend of sailors, concern
ing Jam tarts.,' Som lady helper at a
sailors' rest had been mistaken enough
to hand the sailors tracts while they
were having a meat Miss Weston ad
vised that some better method should
bo adopted. ' The tracts were then
placed In T11 on the buffet counter,
with a card Inscribed,' "Pleas take
one." A sailor with s sense of fun
transferred tb card to a dish of Jam
tarts, and, a th rush to the buffet be
gan, th servers were .amazed to see
sailor after sailor lift a tart and walk
away, while th tracts remained In an
undiminished pile. Christian Science
Monitor. ; . .
Spain 'Fighting Malaria. .
Through reforesting marshes aa a
preventive, measure and cultivating
medicinal herb for cuxatlv purposes,
Spain Is credited with a, recent ma
terial reduction of malaria, In spit of
fulnlne scarcity and other war disad
vantages. The chief malarial area of;
tho country . la estimated at TiliM
cr, ana imm eaon i oemg maa to
reclaim as much of this as possible.
The 233,404 cases of malaria hi 1913
caused e loss in work of &5 15,583 days
with a money teas estimated at $28
000,000.
Chrysanthemum Is China's,
- There is a common belief that th
chrysanthemum originated in Japan,
but like many other good things, It
was really borrowed from tho Chinese.
It is, however, th royal flower" of
Japan, appears on the seal of the em
peror, and on the postage stamps of
the country, while it has been the prin
cipal feature of an annual fete for 000
years, v Adopted though It was,' the
Japanese have done so much with the
chrysanthemum that they , feel , they
have a right to call It their own, -
Chines Dont Llk Cheese, . v
Statisticians have figured out that
England eats the larger part of Eu
rope's output of cheese. Europe's out
put amounts to 540,000,000 kilograms.
England alone consumes 180,000,000
kilograms of this amount Next comes
Holland, which takes 56,000,000; Swit
zerland takes 43.000,000; France, 31,
000,000, and Germany 20,000,000' kilo
grams. The only people on earth who
eat no cheese are the Chinese. -
Choos Your Work Carefully. . -If
possible, choose your work be
cause yon believe yon are fitted for It
not simply because it gives you the
wherewithal to live. Be glad because
you can do it welt not because it pays
better than 'something: else, or brings
yon into association with people you
admire
T Outwit th Pickpocket
The haunting fear of being held up
and left penniless out in a Strang
world is done away with by a Uttle de
vice so small that it may be carried
oa the key-ring, where no self-respect
lng holdup man would think of look
ing. It has a capacity of one reserve
bin. The bill, whether a on or a
hundred, when closely rolled, fits into
th barrel of the holder." A man who
has lost bis keys might become ex
cited if tb bolder contained a thousand-dollar
bill, but the average dtl
sen can nse tho device safely enough.
Popular Science Monthly. ,
' Trouble Ahoad.
Mrs, Smythe Tes, Nora, X hate to
have my husband kiss me after be
comes from tho barber's. X detest the
odor of that brill lan tine on his mus
tache." Maid "Do you? . I rather
llk It ma'am."
rjnklndnesa Often Bad Habit
Unklndness is more a loose. Indiffer
ent habit than Intentional neglect dis
respect or downright, meanness.
Words and deeds are parented by
thoughts ; and It Is so easy to fall Into
slothful. Indifferent thinking that of
tentimes unthinkingly, we neglect
speak carelessly 'to, or treat uncon
cernedly those toward whom we ought
to act with most consideration and
deference. 0. EL W in Great
Thoughts.
JH AVE used Dr Caldwell's Syrup
i-f Pepsin and find it a moist effective
. and pleasant laxative one that is worth recom
mending to one's friends. . I know; that my
health has been greatly improved since
using it
(Tt
M
Prom a letter to Dr. Caldwell written by
ms Alice Lombard, 22 noylaton 6t,
; oprtsgneld, Mats.
)
Dr. Caldwell's
Syrup-.Pepsip.'
- The Perfect Laxative ..'
! Sold by Druggists Everywhere 1
50 cts. (SS)$1.00:
A mild, pleasant-tasting combination of simple laxative
herbs with pepsin. Brings relief without griping or ; :
other discomfort. A trial bottle can be obtained free of ;i
charge by writing to Dr. W. B. Caldwell 458 Washing
ton Sfreet, Monticellb, Illinois. - . ' ; -
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AND WILL CONTINUE UNTIL FEBRUARY 1st.
The purpose of this sale is to clear our store of all Fall and Winter garments ;
to make room for pur Spring and Summer goods which will soon be coming in."
In order to move these goods out in a hurry we have cut the prices heavily: 33
1-3 per cent on Coats, Coat Suits and Dresses: 10 per cent on Silk and Cotton
Waists, Munsing Knit Underwear and Kid Gloves; 25 per cent on Furs and Sweaters.
Bear in mind that these are all brand new articles and the styles are tacti
cally the same as for the Spring. : : : : : : : : : .:
SILK DRESSES
33 1-3 per cent off. In Meesalines, Taf
fetas, 'Crepe de Chines, Georgettes and
Combinations. (
$75 Value for $50.00
$44.75 Value for $29.84
$42.50 Value for $28.30
$39.75 Value for $28 JO
$37.75 Value for ...$25.17
$32.75 Value for . ..-$21.82
$29.75 Value for $19.84
$27.75 Value for $18.50
$24.75 Value for $15.20
$22.50 Value for $15.00
$18.75 Value for $12.75
$16.50 Value for ..$11.00
$12.50 Value for $8.34
WOOL and JERSEY
DRESSES
33 1-3 per cent off. Materials in these
are Jersey, Trkolettes, Serges, Poplins,
Tricotinee, Etc.
.....$40.00
..$30.00
$60.00 Values for
$45.00 Values for
$37.75 Value for .$25.17
$35.00 Values for $23.35
$34.75 Values for $23.17
$25.00 Values for '. $16.67
$23.75 Values for $1 5.84
$22.50 Values for .,....$15.00
$20.00 Values for $13.34
$19.75 Values for , $13.17
SUITS
In Broadcloth, Serges, Poplins, Silver
tones, Trlcotines and 'Garberdines 33
1-3 per cent off. '
$85.00 Values for $56.67
$79.75 'Values for $53.17
$75 Value for . ,. . . . ...... $50.00
$49.75 Values for ,....$33.17
$47.75 Values for ....$31.84
$42.75 Values for ............ .$28.50
$42.50 Value for ... $28.30
$39.75 Value for"'.. ..,. $26.50
$37.75 Values for $25.17
$35.00 Values for ....$23.34
$29.75 Value for ...... .... ...$19.84
$27.75 Value for ........ ......$18.50
$18.75 Value for $11.75
$16.75 Values for $11.17
$15.75 Values for .' . 110.70
$12.95 Values for ....$8.50
COATS
33 1-3 per cent off. These come In Broad
cloths, Velours, Pom-pom, Bolivia and
Mixtures.
$75.00 Values for ...... .$50.00
$59.75 Values for ...... .$39.84
$55.00 Values for ..$36.67
$49.75 Values for ............ .$33.17
$47.75 Values for .$31.84
$42.50 Values for ...... ... . . . .$28.30
$39.75 Value for .... .... .....$26.30
$37.75 Value for ...$25.17
$35.75 Values for $23.$4
$27.75 Value for , $18.50
$24.75 Value for -......$16.20
$22.75 Values for . ..... . . , ...$15.17
$20.00 Values for .......$13.34
$19.75 Values for ...... ....... $13.17
$1 2.95 Values for . , .... $ $.50
In Waists you will find here a big line of Georgettes and Crepe de Chines in a
variety of colors, sizes and styles. Some of these are new Spring styles. 10 per
cent .off on air of them. ; - - TT , r .J . . :
v Now is the time to buy that Munsing Underwear. We have it in all sizes.
It's not too late to buy a set of Furs. We have a nice'line in Red Fox, Taupe
Fox, Nutriari, China Wolfe and Grey Fox. Be sure to see them. , , ; r -
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If You Get It At McNEELY'S You Know It's Up?To-Date. Think of the Saving too
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