Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 307, Decatur, Adams County, 23 December 1915 — Page 2

From My Narrow Little Window By THE HOOSIER OBSERVER PEOPLE WE ALL HAVE MET.

Everybody’s Mother. 1 am going to begin my little aeries of "People We All Have Met” with the one who is Everybody’s Mother, because she is the very nicest type I know. You all know her. She is the type of woman into which every little girl would grow if she were allowed to grow naturally. But often she Isn’t. Sometimes society gets a-hold of her, or a craving for a career gets a hold of her and binds her little self just like the heathen "Chinee’s” little foot; sometimes she is forced into unnatural occupations by circumstances where she can't grow; sometimes she is too bashful and is afraid her kindnesses would be misunderstood; sometimes —but then, what is the difference? We have lots of them, anyhow—and they are "Everybody’s Mother.” * * * * When the woman at my table at the restaurant the other noon got up to go, I raised my near-sighted eyes from the magazine I was reading, because I instinctively felt that before she left, she piled the dishes into a neat little heap while she was waiting on her companion to get ready. “There is a mother and a good housekeeper.” I thought to myself, and raised my eyes to her face. She smiled and nodded in recognition, as she said: “Why. we get to eat together quite often, don’t we?” and then I. too. recognized her. and we told each other our names again, as we always have to when we meet. She is the mother of a girl I know slightly. Before she left she talked to me as though she had known me always, then said bood-bye. and I felt the glow of her good cheer and comfort all afternoon. as much as though she had warmed me and fed me and told me not to forget to put on my overshoes and to take good ca-e of myself, both body and soul, though she didn't really do so in that many words.' I— .■ i —- -J

OUR STORE IS OVERFLOWING WITH USEFUL PRESENTS.

CHRISTMAS WILL SOON BE HERE So Do Your Shopping Early. We will Cash Your Christmas Saving Checks.

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You could tell in an instant that she was one of those many "Everybody's Mothers.” It is not everybody with whom we would mae up public places that way, but we all know by instinct, the mother type and it Is nearly always cafe.' • » ’ • Everybody’s mother is not always—but the composite type is—plump and roly-poly and smiling She may even be inclined to be fat, but nobody cares except herself, because there are so many good things about her t oadmire. It doesn't matter, even, whether she wears silk or satin or calico or gingham, or blue-linsey—-whatever that may be. Nobody looks at her clothes —because her good qualities outshine them—except, per haps, some spick-and-span dog-holding woman who has nothing else to do and whose fine clothes are a necessity to make up for what natural at tractions site may lack. * • * • Everybody’s Mother is, first, last and always a home-loving woman. Her home and children —whether her own or somebody’s else. Come first, Then, if there is any time left over, she may go to lodges and clubs and the polls and the moving pictures and tfle horse races and the ball games and the theater and the pie socials and the gossip-mongers’ court and the thousand and one other places—but there usually isn't; not until the children arc grown, at least. This doesn’t mean that she is not interested in things outside and in advancement. She usually is abreast with the times. She does so by help ing the children with their studies, by reading in spare moments while keeping the children "company” at home; and by using her intellect while she is doing the things of the household with her hands. Everybody’s Mother may often be rich, even then she keeps a personal super-

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' vision over the things of her house-1 ! hold, and of her children. Still, It ! > is easier for a camel to go through ! ] the needle's eye, than it is for a rich | woman to be “Everybody's Mother.” Everybody's Mother is often the I first one to hear the feeble cry of the I new born infant of the neighborhood I I and the one to last close the eyes of the dying. She "stays with one,” figuratively speaking, through sickness ' and misfortune and even to death. I She would go further, if she could, but ' she can't. She can tell the fog-horn lof croup, at the first blast; she can scent measles a mile away; and she is ' always there on arrival with honey and alum and hot-water and mustard plasters apd onion poultices. You never catch her napping—unless perhaps you slip around sometimes at midnight when she is alone with her basket of mending that never seems to go "quite down.” She knows by instinct just when to awaken in time to pull up the covers that Tommy in his crib has kicked down. * * * • Everybody’s Mother is pure and good and kind and true. She believes everybody’s children are as good and pure and kind and true as she knows her own to be. She never listens to. nor would repeat, evil of another, particularly, a woman. If she absolutely knew evil of the woman, she would 50 out and throw a mantle of charity over her. • • • • Everybody’s Mother is one of those of whom someone in defining a mother said: "She is the one who doesn’t want any pie when there is not enough to go around.” She is selfsacrificing to a fault, or would be, if those who love her, let her be. She is one of whom a daughter must ever be on guard, lest the mother do without the pretty 'things, even the necessary things life, that the daughter may have better or more abundantly. She is inclined to want to ever humor the husband; to let him sleep longer in the morning while she gets up and makes the fires and gets break fast, all because she thinks that he will be obliged to go out into the cold, cruel world, soon enough anyhow, and the more she can spare him. the more she does, which is, in many cases, as it should be, and then in others, as" it should not be. She always has a platter of cookies sitting around for visiting neighbor children, and even slips out around yte corner of the house with the platter to wait for them as they go by She hovers over the table when the threshers or woodsawyers are tlnre and bashful, grow-

LOT NO. 2 Coats worth $15.00 Sales $9.75

PAY ONLY $7.50 For Suits Worth JUp to $16.50 They are strictly man-tailored in many models. All the newest Fabrics. ,

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GIFTS FOR LADIES Jewelry is the Ideal Gift for womankind. It expresses good taste, good’intent, value. In the suggestions, given below, you will find something suited to every lady on your list. Each lino is represented in our store by a large variety of Patterns and a wide range of prices. You will get the best value tor the price you indicate. We fill orders 'pon honor. Gifts a Woman Likes to Give—and Receive *

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WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN THE BABIES. WE HAVE LOADS OF PRETTY THINGS FOR THEM TOO

ing Johnnies or Tommies never have to ask for things to eat. Her eye follows theirs to every dish and her hands beat their eyes there usually, as she helps their plates time and again. The fence around the yard of Everybody's Mother is ornamented with the Wandering Willie’s sign of the horn of plenty; and her wood pile is conspicuous for its transformation into neat and nicely sawed piles. Everybody's Mother is not sharp at driving a bargain, because she is so used to giving up to others. I can’t imagine Everybody's Mother ci ming out of a bargain sale with a piece of goods for which she has had to fight. But she somehow seems to come out the winner in the end, every time. « • * * Everybody's Mother may not always have a spick and span house. She knows that there is nothing that drives the children away, quicker than the nagging that is naturally necessary to accomplish the spick-and-spanness and neighbor’s children usually congregate in hers. Everybody's Mother has the softest, “soothingest”

LOT NO. 3 Coats worth $12.50 Sales $7.50

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voice and she knows how to tell the most delightful stories to little folks; and how to sing the nicest songs, al- ■ though her voice may not be trained like a Melba's. She knows how to make the nicest prayers and how to preach the best sermons, although ■ one may never know that they are sermons. She knows how to make the kiddies laugh, even though she herself may feel like crying. She —but why keep on longer. Space prohibits. i If all the good words in all the world in all the languages were chosen they would not be sufficient to tell about . Everybody's Mother. o DR. BURNHAM’S SAN-YAK Acts as a Living Antiseptic In the Stomach and Intestines. San-Yak prevents Belt poisoning, that serious illness from which so many persons of sedentary habits and advanced age suffer. San-Yak ( prevents clogging of the

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GIFTS FOR MEN Men appreciate mightily the gifts of Jewelry that.are selected with fem inine taste and care. Men do not indulge themselves in jewelry as mud as they would like, because they dislike to make selections. Therefore well chosen gifts are the more appreciated. We pay particular attention t< helping you make the proper selections. Christmas Gifts Men Appreciate

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colon and caecum; hence its great value in destroying germs from undigested animal food which are a factor in the true cause of poisonous decompositions of the bowels, causing appendicitis, rheumatism, typhoid, dysentery and arterid sclerosis or hardened arteries. Heart trouble is developed through self polsonrtig from the kidneys and bowels. To maintain health all such poisoning must be checked, and you can do so with the use of SanYak. Take San-Yak; it is the greatest medicine yet known for man, woman or child. |I.OO per bottle. Sold by Smith, Yager & Falk drug store, Decatur, Ind. o » FARMS FOR SALE. 80 acres, 3 miles of town, good level soil, well tiled, 9 room modern house, new barn, 36x66, acetylene lights in house and barn, corn crib, garage, oats made this year 84 bu„ wheat 41, corn 65 bu. to the acre. Price if taken soon, $11,500.00 80 acres, miles of town, good level soil, well drained, 8 room house,

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barn 36x70, acetylene light in house and barn. Price, $10,500. 80 acres, 1% miles of town. German church and school, good soil, 8 acres timber, well fenced, two houses, one 6 room with cellar, and one two room, good hip root barn, 40x60, corn crib and shed, 24x30; $3,000 down, balance long time. Price, $10,000.00. 20 acres, extra good soil, 7 room house, good barn, plenty of fruit, close to school and church, 4 miles of market; $2,000 down; balance long time. Price, $4,000. 40 acres, good leved soil, well ditched and fenced, 6 room house, small barn, good drove well, will take city property as part pay. Price $6,500. The above farms are Bargains and must be sold sqon.. I have a large list of farms for sale. Office over People’s Loan & Trust Co. bank. D. F. LEONARD. plent7of~money7 To loan on farms, 10 years’ time, without renewal, no commission, partial payments any time. 29 "tf ERWIN OFFICE — t l ' i ii ’

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