GIRLS OF ALL NATIONS IN PEACE FETE IN JERUSALEM BLANCHE SWEET suppose I am big and strong and ought not to take advatii ige o f sufk a lit RO W N MOUSE came out o f his tle frail creatine as she Is,” he “ I " ’oi. t break down her hole in the wall, which landed him thought. right on a shelf in the pantry. The home.” “ Don’t worry. Madam Spider,” said hole was hidden by pans, and Brown Mouse never thought o f such a thing Mr. Mouse. “ S:uy right where you are. I can easily make another home as that the pans might be moved. One day he was bold enough to run by night time, and I do not think out In the daytime and stayed, and, Puss w ill get lae up here, so make getting a bad fright from seeing Puss yourself easy; your home shall not come into the pantry, he ran out o f be destroyed.” Madam Spider said she could never the door Into the kitchen and out into thank him enough and off he ran to the yard. Here he managed to escape by run make a new door to his home In the ning under the steps, where Puss wall. Some time a fter this nil happened could not follow him. A ll day he stayed there and all Mr. Mouse grew bold again and ran night, too, and it was not until the out o f the pantry one day and Puss next day that he could get back to his saw him. Around the kitchen she chased him, own home. But what was his surprise, when he and by aud by she had him cornered. "Peace" surrounded by the allied' and friendly nations in the great peace fete in Jerusalem recently held under went to the hole in the wall to find H e could not get back to the pantry, the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. Girls of all nations residing there participated in the tableaux. and Puss was very sure o f getting him, so she sat quite -«till and watched poor trembling Mr. Mouse, 0AVÇ C40S&1//* who was sure his end was near. 'T H fP 000* To * But he had a friend close by, **O T **re *4 *o i though he did not know It, fo r right / w a r* . over Puss’ head was the new home o f Millions, literally, know Blanche Madam Spider, and when she looked down and saw what was going on she Sweet, understand her cute little ways Yet knew it was time to pay her debt o f and believe In her friendship. none o f the millions ever has heard gratitude to Mr. Mouse. her speak a word. She is in a class Madam Spider let herself down by with the highest saluried stars o f the a slender thread right over Puss. “ movie” screen. Then she swung herself right Into one -------- O-------- o f Puss’ eyes. Puss bent her head and brushed the pan had been removed and that her eyes with one paw. It took only Madam Spider had woven a web right a wink o f time, but It was enough. over the opening and was sitting Mr. Mouse was saved, fo r when Puss opened her eyes again he was gone. there, waiting for a stray fly. Madam Spider, too, was safe up In “ You have closed up the door to my By E D N A KENT FORBES house,” protested Brown Mouse. “ I her home agnln, feeilng very content am afraid I shall have to tear away ed, fo r had she not snved the life o f your web, fo r I really must get in. Mr. Mouse, who once had spared her B E A U T Y CULTURE. You know, It isn’t safe fo r me to be home? That night, when Mr. Mouse was out here!” OST women think that beauty cul “ Oh, dear, what shall I do 1” wailed thinking over all that had happened, ture consists in an amazing va Madam Spider. “ It took me so long he suddenly remembered the Spider riety o f bottles and jars and boxes, to find this place, and I worked so that saved him. with snives and liquids to be applied hard to weave this beautiful pattern, “ Why, I do believe It must have externally. A few others scorn all cos and now you are going to destroy It. been Madam Spider, whose home I metics and pin their entire faith to Nice, the beautiful resort «on France’s Mediterranean coast, lias resumed Its status us a gny social center and “ O f course I cannot .protect myself spared a long time ago,” he said, plain soap and water. Whereas, the Is thronged with pleusure seekers. against such a big, strong animal as “ W ell, w e ll! You can never tell when real beauty culture steers a middle you, Mr. Mouse, so I must submit. you w ill need a friend, and even the course between these two extremes, Oh. dear; oh, dear; how miserable I weakest ones sometimes are able to and starting by making the body clean HE DISAGREES W ITH LODGE am.” do the biggest deeds o f kindness.” and pure within, uses a few external (Copyright) Mr. Mouse grew thoughtful. “I applications to help out the good work. For example— cold cream alone will not make a good complexion. But neither, these days, w ill soap and wa ter. An excellent digestion and a healthy body, come first, but even so, dirt w ill seep into the pores and soap alone will not clean it out. A ir that PUSS, M O U SE , A S P ID E R . B PLEASURE SEEKERS ONCE MORE THRONG NICE Beauty Chats M DECORATIONS ON THE MAINE MEMORIAL "OffAqbv, . (Copyright.) The Tragedy. H e was a mut and he married a mut— A muttress, perhaps, we should say. Each drifted on in an aeon-old rut For many a wearisome day. people tink war ees no stop- S OME pa yet. Other night I go see flghta for prize and heesa enda up weeth beega scrap over somatlng, I dunno. One place gotta whole lot rope on and I askn man wat deesa for. H e say ring for maka fight een. But hees too moocha square and no moocha go round for ring. Preety soon two feller come out weeth no moocha clothes on only a leetle b it I gotta Idee they tink hees Saturday night and try for taka bath View o f the anchor memorial o f the battleship Maine In Washington, on een water bucket. the twenty-second anniversary of the blowing up o f that ship in llnvunu har One man wliosa all dress tip Ilka bor. The decorations were given by President Wilson, the Spanish war vet- ernns and the Cuban minister. Sunday maka speech fo r explalna fista bout. But he no saw wot gonna fight bout. Dese two feller whosa leava their clothes home maka frlens weeth shnka hands. Nexta meenute somebody ringa deenor bell and beegn fight brenka loose weeth dees two feller whosa Dr. Hldeo Kiniura, noted Japanese ready fo r go to bed. When da bell scientist, disagrees with Sir Oliver ring seema Ilka both tink other one Lodge, claiming that the “ w ill within” gotta hees lunch. Somatime love and creates the "spirit” manifestations, hug and no fight. Other time all fight all o f which are due to the subcon and no hug. Somebody holler "break 1" sciousness o f the nilud. “ Death Is and both pusha some more een da merely a form of subconsciousness, face. Man weeth deenerbell ringa for j such as sleep,” says Doctor "Klmnrs, Both who adds that “ Immortality of the supper and stoppa da fight. 'Old may be willed from within.” He fighter getta scared and no seet to Pretty soon bell ringa fo r ; offers, by means of subconsciousness, gether. to win the prize of $3,000 offered by breakfast and fight breaka loose all over Lome more. Doctor Ulnn by producing a spirit. I gotta gooda time but I dunno wot fo r everybody flghta so mooch. I tink No Deficiency Irreparable. hees better fight e ef somebody stoppa Deficiencies are misfortunes, but dat guy from play weeth dinner bell. they are not Irreparable. Demosthenes Jusa getta start and ringa da bell and was a poor stammerer who wanted to putta fight on da hum. tell the world the great thoughts strug I no understnndn wot fo r nobody gling within him. Instead o f worry smasha dees feller whosa all dress up. ing nhont his weakness In speech he H e starta all da trouble and no getta began practices that would remedy the push een da face once. evil. The world now calls him the W ot yon tink? silver tongue o f Greece. At a locnl -------- O-------- debating club one night a certain Small Farms In Egypt. young tnnn was down for n speech. Seventy-five per cent o f the land un He rose to his feet and became pet ri fled at the sound of his own voice der cultivation In Egypt Is held by saying. "Mr. Chairman.” The crowd persons owning less than two acres. -------- O-------- Members o f the Canadian Royal artillery on snowshoes In front of the laughed and then began to taunt him. Soon some one dubbed him "O rator Citadel o f Quebec. Mum." That was the limit. He Just What the Sphinx Says forgot where he was and gnve the Roasted spiders are considered a fellow “ a piece o f his mind.” The re ASSORTED BRIEFS By Newton Newkirk. delicacy In New Caledonia. sult was that he became one o f the "Small wonder beat speakers the country has *Acr Wolfakln makes the best parchment — life Is miserable • fo r banjos. ! Import duties on butter yield th*e produced. to a misfit— o ft — British government an estimated an- en If the preach- Women now possess full suffrage ansi profit o f more thsn $13.000.000. Making Them Envious. rould swap "Been eating clovea, eh?" rights In 21 countries. — Jobs with the "Just camouflage, my dear. I did — A man employed by s tendon Ann man. both might Underdone beef Is said to be the o f pencil makers has worked on the that to make some o f the fellows think happy.” r d had a drink." fa vorite dish o f the king o f Spain. 1 same machine for sixty-three years. CANADIAN ARTILLERY ON SNOWSHOES He started to grow—as it happens some times When it least is expected—ana soon Their mating was one of those marital crimes That the devil considers a boon. She stayed as she was—I ’m not blaming her, no!— And her life and his were a hell. N ow tell me—would duty cry "Lin ger,” or "G o” ? Where, where Is the wisdom to tell? (The question is old as the earth has grown old, And the answer Is yet to be found: Is It right to break loose, human gander from goose, When Dan Cupid's no longer around?) • » • H O W T H E Y VO TED "H o w did you two vote in tho late election?" "W ell, Brown here knew Smith, to ho voted for Jones. I knew Jones so 1 voted for Smith." • • e A Misconception. “ Give me a dollar's worth o f belladonna, please.” " A dollar’s worth o f belladon na 1 W hat In the world do yon want with that much o f such a drug?” " I ’m sick and tired o f teach ing kindergarten, nnd somebody told me belladonna would enlarge the pupils.” -------- O-------- C R O S B Y ’S K ID S . ITNtVER RAINS 8(/T IT P0VRS Cosmetic« Are All Right if Used in Moderation. is too cold roughens the skin, and cream o f some sort must be used to soften It. Too hot sun burns the skin, and cream must be used to soothe it. A few hours’ ride through a sw ift wind in an auto, means that the skin w ill dry nnd that dirt particles will be forced in by the rush o f air. H ere again cream Is useful. Exercise or exposure usually causes the pores to become unusually active resulting In a thin film o f oil over the skin, and a resulting shininess. Mod ern standards declare that this Is not beautlfnl. so the powder box comes Into Its own. Powder is as necessary as soap, almost. Indeed, It Is a ques tion whether pure powder on the skin Is not better than Impure dirt par ticles. However, powder and all other applications should be thoroughly washed off bdfore one retires, leaving the skin free and clean fo r the third o f the day spent in rest. (C op yrigh t) -------- O-------- A P A R TIS A N . "Now,” said the honey-tongued real estate philanthropist, "here you would find an absolutely delightful villa site." "N o doubt," said the young lady who should have been across the way; "but my sympathies have always been the ether way, and If you don’t mind I’d rather build a neat little carranaa