Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 44, 1 January 1914 — Page 3

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' ,1 TOE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, JANr 1, 1914 In the Web of a Woman's Smile Married Life I . :. S - . ' '" " - -.r. "i By Nell fte Third Year Xv

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BY MACSL HERBERT URNER. . "Five dollars ? asked Helen In dismay. "Will It be that much? With this drop ikirt and all this ' ' lace ' on . the waist? The woman took the dress from .the box in 'which Helen had . brought . it and shook it out on the eotmter.,.!',Why, " we never clean address with : drop less than fl dollara." ' . . v: Helen . hesitated. "I'm afraid that's more than I can pay. flushing slightly. "I didn't think It would he over three." "You couldn't get it cleaned anj where for three," sniffed the woman haughtily, putting the dress back in the box. "Why, we get three dollars for a plain white slip like that," pointing to a white mull dress in the case. Meekly Helen took the box and hurried home. This was the second cleaner's she had been to and they had both wanted Ave dollars. She felt t would be nseless to try and get it cleaned at any good place for less and she was afraid to 'risk the cheaper ones. . In her own room she took out the dress and spread it on the table. What could she do with it? It was her best afternoon gown a pastel crepe meteor. Sheneeded It desperately. But it was too soiled to wear as it was and she couldn't pay five dollars 1,0 have it cleaned. Since the humiliating letter from Warren about the expenses. Helen had grimly resolved to spend not one cent on herself personally. Money for the house and Winifred she must take from him. But money for herself she would do without until she herself could earn it. She had written Warren that she had resolved to be independent of him as far as personal expenses were concerned, and this resolve she intended to keep. , WARREN'S CRUELTY. But first of all she must get her clothes in shape. Whatever new venture any woman contemplates, her first thought is always to put her clothes In order. And, so Helen was now going over her limited wardrobe. She. had had so little in the last year, and yet she thought bitterly, Warren had accused her of extravagance! .This little blue afternoon gown she had wanted to have c'ned for some time, but had put it off, hoping to have . It done some weeks when the expenses were less than usual. Abova Everything else Helen loved her gowns fresh and dainty. And now this must be cleaned. She could no longer wear It as it was. With a sudden Impulse she took it out to the kitchen." "Delia, do you think we could clean this dress here?" Delia looked at it doubtfully. "I dunno, ma'am." "Well, I'm going to- try. There's a bottle of cleaning fluid here that Mr. Curtis brought home for his ties, and we've aever used it. I'll try that on Borne of the worst places, and if it's good we can get enough more to eponge over the whole dress." "I dunno, ma'am. I don't take much stock in them celaning fluids. They most always leave a worse spot than they takes out." But Helen was not to be discouraged by Delia's lack of enthusiasm. Delia was never enthusiastic about anything that might involve any work on her part. It took several moments to find the cleaning fluid among the bottles on the top shelf in the bathroom. "Why, Delia, this shelf Is thick "with dust! Get a pan of water and wipe it off and these bottles, too they're covered!" And Delia grumblingly obeyed. This was why she looke'd with disapproval on any of Helen's ventures they usu-

I know a girl with a smile. From

her crisp metallic hair to the straps of her slippers, she is what folks call 'comely." But it isn't the crinkle in her hair, nor the white column of her neck, nor any of these fortunate things small ears and a beautifully turned wrist r. .d a head with real - in it and a warm heart that calls men to her like yellow jackets to a honey jar! "She has such blue eyes," offered one- chap. But there are miles of girls with blue-bluer

eyes! "Her hair is so gold7"'""-But the girls with "golder" hah who are prettier than she would make a glittering girdle around the world! Only one chap confesses: "I don't know what it is, but WHATEVER IT IS, and whatever you are man, woman, or little kid you answer right up to it and bring your heart on a platter!" It's her smile! " She is-oneof-tfcas women with a SMILE. All the angels in Paradise get out their song-books

and begin when she does smile. The j

sullen little kid can't hold out against it to - save his slim little stem of a neck.. The-woman who is over-fond of masculine camaraderie and sniffs at the friendship of her own soft sex, who is tinctured with the-bitterness of envy of all fair women, flops right over into the choir that sings her praises after 'bout half a dozen smiles. All .childhood, wreaths its arms 'round her waist and its heart about her Image when she stops and smiles. But MAN the grouchiest of them all

glows like a kitten in the sunshine when her eyes crinkle and the red of her mouth curls away from the snow of her teeth; the bashfulest one spreads the gay wings of his fancy under the warmth of her laugh like a grateful butterfly under the sun; it's her smile! It's as real as the color on the cheek of a peach it's as soft as a . sigh as alluring as the lastplucked string of a harp as tender as a California valley in blossom time! Sometimes when I look straight into

'the amazing marvel of her soft, soft smile, 4 e world grows dim and fades, and before the dearness of her face a

web grows a golden rainbowed web and it rays out from the smile of her mouth in a thousand gossamer threads. And, caught by the wings and toes, s d tummy and nose, are countless little pink LOVES struggling and thrashing, caught coming for honey blinded by the great light of her smile riddy with it's beauty. - This isn t. like it. "I must scratch

for a living" aeons longer to be able to put it on plain white Bristol-board. If it were like it you'd be tangled up In . this web, also, my friend. ; How do you smile? Have you ever thought to look? Maybe you have a great one if you'd lt it come oftener. Everybody can't entangle the world with the smiles of their mouth but they draw closer all human kind mrtiles do. NELL B.tlNKLEY. - . ;. ;t ' ;

DRINK MORE WATER IF KIDNEYS BOTHER Eat less meat and take Salts for Backache or Bladder trouble Neutralizes acids. Uric acid in meat excites the kidneys, they become overworked; get sluggish, ache, and feel like lumps of lead. The urine becomes cloudy; the bladder is Irritated, and you may . be obliged to seek relief two or three times during the night. When the kidneys clog you must help them flush ofi the body's urinous waste or you'll be a real sick person shortly. At first you feel a dull misery in the kidney region, you suffer from backache, sick headache, dizziness, stomach gets sour tongue coated and you feel rheumatic twinres when the weather is bad. Eat less meat, drink lots of water; also get from any pharmacist four ounces of .lad Salts; take a tablesnonful in a glass of water before breakfast for a fe wdays and your kidnevs will then act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of granes and lemon juice, combined with lithia, and riisboen used for generations to clean clogged kidneys and stimulate them to normal activity, also to neutralize the acids in urine, so it no loneer is a source of irritation, thus ending bladder wekness. Jad Salts is inexpensive, cannot injure; makes a delightful effervescent lithia-water drink which everyone Fhould take now and then to keep the kidneys clean and active. Druggists

here say they sell lots of Jad Salts to folks who believe in overcoming kidney trouble while it is only trouble.

ally ended by making more work for her. "Cleaning Fluid," Helen read aloud from the label. "Cleans the most delicate fabrics without injury.

"Directions: Moisten a soft flmel cloth with the cleaning fluid aiif' ntly rub the article to be clean. . Do not confine rubbing to the soiled spot; by going over more of the surface no ring will be left. Will not change color or injure the most delicate fabric. Caution. Do not use before an open fire or gas. "The Cleaning Fluid Co." Helen first covered the dining room table with a sheet and then spread the dress oift upon it. Pouring some of the fluid in a saucer, she sponged the spots around the. bottom of the skirt, carefully following: the directions. THE DRESS RUINED. But, to her dismay, dark rings outlined the places that had been cleaned. And when she tried to sponge away the rings she succeeded only in making thern larger. Hurriedly she poured one half of the bottle and went over the whole breadtl of the skirt, hoping that by going over a large surface and rubbing it dry the rings would be cleared away. But wherever she sponged with the fluid 1t left the same mottled, streaked appearance. She used the other half of the bottle trying to improve it, but only made it worse. i Almost in tears, she shook the dress over a chair. Hail she ruined it? Oh, if she only- hadn't touched it! At least she could hsve worn it at night even if it was toiled. But now, with one whole breadth streaked and mottled, she could neer wear it! "I told you, ma'am, I didn't take no stock in them cleaning fluids," said Delia. "They ain't none of them do good: "But I guess 'you can take them streaks out If you dip the whole thing in gasoline It's muoi better than all them cleaning fluids, and cheaper, too." ! "Oh, can I ?" asked Helen eagerly. "Why didn't I thinkof gasoline? But

' where can we get 1 enough to dip the whole dress in?" ! "Paint store. I'll take two of them gal Ion water bottle and get 'em full." f ! Half an hour lattr Delia returned

with the big bottles of gasoline weighing down the basket on her arm;

"My, that's heavy!" she grumbled.

And I had to go three places 'fore

they'd sell it to me." i ' Helen took it into the bathroom, where there would be no danger of fire. Emptying one of the bottles into a large dishpan, she dipped the whole dress in. The odor was sickening. Not wanting it to get through the housv she kept the bathroom door close. j In a few moments the dress ad soaked up the whole panful, and ae had to pour in the other bottle. Must of this, too, was quickly soaked up, and the rest was almost blacky She tried to rinse it up and down but (here

was not enough gasoline left forkhat. The fumes were more and more sickening. She was growing faint ani diz

zy, as though she was being clloro- . formed. And her hands were red and . smarting. J , j Almost overpowered with the p mes she still tried to swish th tress around. It was only a dark, wet tiass now, and she could not tell wh ther or not the streaks, were out. Yet, with a desperate determination, she k tt it up. It would be so hard to get uore gasoline, and now that she had ljsgun , she must do it as well as she $uld. I So she shook and swished the Jlress

, until she could stand it no longet

Then she opened the bath rooms door and staggered out, the wet drets on

her arm. ' K HELEN IS ILL. ' "Get a - coat-hanger, quick, helia. (Hang this up somewhere.'.' . s ; "Why, you're as white as -paper, ma'am, what's the matter?" ; i "Oh, the gasoline it was awil in ; there. Here, hang this up quick! j Delia took her dripping dress and hung it on the wooden hanger. And Helen fell almost' fainting onj the

couch. r . "Open the window, Delia. Oh1, I'm so sick." ; Delia threw open the window and dragged the couch before it. Halen,

deathly white, was lying almost in a ; stupor. Shut up In the bath room, with the fumes from tv gallons of gasoline, the effect had ?en a drug

ging and much more sickening than frm gas or chloroform. Thoroughly frightened, Delia wanted to send for 'a doctor. But in spite of the stupor, the word "doctor" brousht to Helen the thought that had dominated her through it all, "tho saving of expense." . "No, no," she protested faintly. "I don't need a doctor.' I'll be all right in

a few moments." As she lay on the couch by the open window the horrible sense of nausea gradually passed waay. Slowly the fresh air revived her, blew away tho Avorst effects of the gasoline, but left her with a throbbing sick headache which lasted the rest of the day. Delia brought some cold cream for her hands, which were still red and smarting from the gasoline. At length she sat up, dizzily. "Bring me the dress, Delia. Let me ' see how it came out." "Wait, till you feel better," urged Delia. "You're dead white yet, and it ain't dry nohow." "Oh, it must be dry by this time. Bring it in I want to see it." Reluctantly Delia brought the dress, laid it on the chair by the couch and discreetly went back to the kitchen. Helen gave one glance at it, and buried her face in the pillow. It wwas ruined ruined! All over it the

dirty gasoline had settled in clouded.

mottled streaks. She turned her face to the wall and burst into tears. And this this was the result of hei;

' efforts to economize.

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Lucy Mond has founded in Cincinnati a school for the instruction of working women mothers in the art of motherhood, and at th'j same center instruction in mothercraft to girls. Each class consistf of . twelve girls who are in charge of three trained nurses, and they are taught how to wash. drss and fetd real live babies. Each girl in turn, - overlooked by a nurse, is handed a baby and encouraged to do the sotual work, the effect has been such that the working women mothers of the district trust more to the knowledge and ability of the girls attending the class than they do to their own, and the girls are certainly never happier than when helping their mother or their neighbor, and the doctors certify to the benefit lo the children, and the lessening of infant mortality. Then a dip right into the bath, "never mind if he tries."

WEST SIDE CITIZEN FIRES AT INTRUDER

Shots from a shotgun, fired by Martin Carroll, 1238 Sheridan street last night, did not stop the intruder who was found lurking in the rear of his

house, early in the evening. The police department was notified and followed the man up the railroad track to the trestle where the Pennsylvania lines cross the river. Here potatoes were found cooking over a fire. The condition of things around the fire showed that the builder had been frightened away.

Among certain tribes on the West African coast any stranger ho dies in a town is buried cn the road by which he entered it. o that his spirit may easily find the nay back to bis home, or at least watcji the road thither and listen for the iteming of friends.

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