The Hermiston herald., February 17, 1917, Image 6

THE
HERMISTON
HERALD,
Take a glass of Salts if your
Rack hurts or Bladder
troubles you.
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It Works! Try It
1 Tells how to loosen a sore,
1
tender corn so it lifts
out without pain.
No humbug! Any corn, whether
hard, soft or between the toes, will
loosen right up and lift out, without
a particle of pain or soreness.
This drug is called freezone and is
a compound of ether discovered by a
Cincinnati man.
Ask at any drug store for a small
bottle of freezone, which will cost but
a trifle, but is sufficient to rid one’s
feet of every corn or callous.
Put a few drops directly upon any
tender, aching corn or callous." In­
stantly the soreness disappears and
shortly the corn or callous will loosen
and can be lifted off with the fingers.
This drug freezone doesn’t eat out
the corns or callouses but shrivels
them without even irritating the sur­
rounding skin.
Just think! No pain at all; no sore­
ness or smarting when applying it or
afterwards. If your druggist don’t
have freezone have him order it for
you.
Your Health
IS
Paramount
and deserves utmost care
One of the greatest
drawbacks to health is a
weak stomach, but in
many cases this can be
corrected by careful diet
and the assistance of
H
OSTETTER’S
Stomach Bitters
It is a Splendid First Aid
All cock
PLASTERS
T>u War I J'i ßnatnt
Krinriiy.
Backache,
Rheumatism,
Lumbago,
—Any Local
Pain.
Insiit on
Having
AUCOCK^S.
USE THiS
TO FILL
•M PRil
a
k
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DAIRY ASSOCIATION OU
OREGON.
There are thousands of
NO MCE SUICIDE children
who are bright
but frail—not sick but
— they
IN UNITED STATES underdeveloped
play with their food—they
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QUIT MEAT WHEN
KIDNEYS BOTHER
No man or woman who eats meat
regularly can make a mistake by
flushing the kidneys’occasionally, says
a well-known authority. Meat forms
uric acid which excites the kidneys,
they become overworked from the
strain, get sluggish and fail to filter
the waste and poisons from the blood,
then we get sick. Nearly all rheuma­
tism, dizziness, sleeplessness and ur­
inary disorders come from sluggish
kidneys.
The moment you feel a dull ache in
the kidneys or your back hurts or if
the urine is cloudy, offensive, full of
sediment, irregular of passage or at-
tended by a sensation of scalding,
stop eating meat and get about four
ounces of Jad Salts from any phar­
macy; take a tablespoonful in a glass
of water before breakfast and in a
few days your kidneys will act fine.
This famous salts Is made from the
acid of grapes and lemon juice, com­
bined with lithia, and has been used
for generations to flush and stimulate
the kidneys, also to neutralize the
acids in urine so it no longer causes
irritation, thus ending bladder weak-
nesB.
Jad Salts is inexpensive and can­
not injure; makes a delightful effer­
vescent lithla-water drink which
everyone should take now and then
to keep the kidneys clean and active
and the blood pure, thereby avoiding
serious kidney complications.
HERMISTON,
HUESTON
IS GREATEST IN MINNESOTA
1916)
THE TWINS TRY TO EM­
BARRASS FAIRY WITH
SOME PRACTICAL JOK­
ING WHEN HER BEAU
COMES TO VISIT HER.
Mr. Starr is a widower Methodist minister with five charming daughters.
Prudence, the eldest is nineteen. She keeps house. Fairy, aged seventeen, is
a college freshman. Carol and Lark, twins, are in high school, and Constance
is in the grades. Mr. Stark is assigned to the congregation at Mount Mark,
la., and the advent and establishment of his interesting family in the parson­
age there stirs the curiosity of the whole town. The story concerns the
affairs of the parsonage girls. Prudence has her hands full with the mis­
chievous twins and Connie. Fairy has just announced that her beau is
coming to spend the evening. The twins decide to have some fun, and have
made their plans accordingly.
CHAPTER V—Continued.
—7—
As soon as they finished supper Lark
said, “Don’t you think we’d better go
right to bed, Prue? We don’t want
to taint the atmosphere of the par­
sonage. Of course Fairy will want to
wash the dishes herself to make sure
they are clean and shining.”
“Oh, no,” disclaimed Fairy, good-
naturedly. “I can give an extra rub
to the ones we want to use—that Is
enough. I do appreciate the thought,
though, thunks very much.”
So the twins plunged In, carefully
keeping Connie beside them. Connie
had a dismal propensity for discov­
eries—the twins had often suffered
from it.
Then they all three went to bed. To
be sure it was ridiculously early, but
they were all determined.
“You keep your eyes open, Fairy,”
Prudence whispered melodramatically.
“Those girls do not look right.” And
she added anxiously. “Oh, I’ll be so
disappointed if things go badly.”
Fairy was a little late getting up­
stairs to dress, but she took time to
drop into her sisters’ room. They were
ull in bed, breathing heavily. She
walked from one to another, and
stood above them majestically.
"Asleep !” she cried. “Ah, fortune
is kind. They are asleep. How I
love these darling little twinnles—in
their sleep!”
An audible sniff from beneath the
covers, nnd Fairy, smiling mischievous­
ly, went into the front room to prepare
for her caller.
The bell rang as she was dressing.
Prudence went to the door, preternat­
urally ceremonious, and ushered Mr.
Balder into the front room. She did
not observe that the young man sniffed
in a peculiar manner as he entered
the room.
“I’ll call Fairy,” she said demurely.
“Tell her sho needn’t primp for
me,” he answered, laughing. “I know
just how she looks already.”
But Prudence was too heavily bur­
dened to laugh. She smiled hospi­
tably, and closed the door upon him.
Fairy was tripping down the stairs,
very tall, very handsome, very gay.
She pinched her sister’s arm as she
passed, and the front room door
swung behind. But she did not greet
her friend. She stood erect by the
door, her head tilted on one side,
sniffing, sniffing.
"What In the world?" she wondered.
Eugene Babler was strangely quiet.
Ho looked about the room In a pe­
culiar, questioning way.
“Shall I raise n window?” he sug­
gested finally. "It’s rather—er—hot
in here."
“Yes, do,” sho urged. “Raise all of
them. It's—do you—do you notice a—
a funny smell In here? Or am I imag­
ining it? It—it almost makes me
sick !”
“Yes, there is n smell,” he said, in
evident relief. “I thought maybe
you'd been cleaning the carpet with
something. It's ghastly. Can't we go
somewhere else?"
"Come on.” Sho opened the door
into the sitting room. "We're coming
out here if you do not mind, Prue.”
Atul Fairy explained the difficulty.
"Why, that’s very strange," said
Prudence, knitting her brows. “1
was in there right after supper, and I
didn’t notice anything. What does it
smell like?"
“it’s a new smell to me,” laughed
Fairy, “but something about It Is
strangely suggestive of our angel
twins."
Prudence went to Investigate, and
Fairy shoved a big chair near the
table, waving her hand toward it light­
ly with n smile at Babble. Then she
sank Into a low rocker, nnd leaned
one arm on the table. She wrinkled
her forehead thoughtfully.
"That smell," she began. "1 am
very suspicious about it. It was not at
all natural—"
"Excuse me. Fairy," he said, ill nt
ease for the first time in her knowl-
edge of him. "Did you know your
sleeve was coming out?"
Fairy gasped and raised her arm.
"Both arms, apparently," he con-
tinned, smiling, but his face was
flushed.
“Excuse me just n minute, will you?"
Fairy wns unruffled. She sought her
sister. "Look here. Prue—what do
you make of this? Pm coming to
pieces! I’m hanging by a single thread,
as it were."
Her sleeves were undoubtedly ready
to drop off at a second's notice! Pru-
denos was shocked. She grew posi­
tively white in the face.
“Oh, Fairy,” she wailed. "We are
disgraced.”
“Not a bit of It,” said Fairy coolly.
"I remember now that Lark was look­
ing for the scissors before supper.
Aren’t those twins unique? This is
almost bordering on talent, isn’t it?
Don’t look so distressed, Prue. Eti­
quette itself must be subservient to
twins, it seems. Don’t forget to bring
in the sto • at a quarter past nine, and
have It us good as possible—please,
dear.”
"I will,” vowed Prudence, “I’ll—I’ll
use cream. Oh, those horrible twins!”
“Go in and entertain Babbie till I
come down, won’t you?” And Fairy
ran lightly up the stairs, humming a
snatch of song.
But Prudence did a poor job of en­
tertaining Babbie during her sister’s
absence. She felt really dizzy ! Such
a way to introduce Etiquette into the
parsonage life. She was glad to make
her escape from the room when Fairy
returned, a graceful figure in fine blue
silk!
A little after nine she called out
dismally, “Fairy !” And Fairy, fearing
fresh disaster, came running out.
“What now? What—”
“I forget what you told me to say,”
whispered
Prudence
wretchedly,
“what was it? The soup is ready, and
piping hot—but what is it you wunt
me to say?”
Fairy screamed with laughter. “You
goose!” she cried. “Say anything you
like. It doesn’t make any difference
what you say.”
“Oh, I am determined to do my part
just right,” vowed Prudence fervent­
ly, “according to etiquette and all.
What was it you said?”
Fairy stifled her laughter with diffi-
culty, and said in a low voice,
it
# #
it «
Birth Rate Exceeds Mortality by catch colds easily and do
not thrive—they only need
Nearly 78 Per Cent, Uncle
the pure, rich liquid-food in
Sam Shows.
ble. “My insides bear startling testi­
mony to the presence of pepper.”
And he roared again, while Prudence
began a critical examination of the
oysters. She found them literally
stuffed with pepper; there was no
doubt of it. The twins had done dead­
ly work!
"Revenge, ye gods, how sweet,”
chanted Fairy. "The twins are get­
ting even with a vengeance—the same
twins you said were adorable, Babbie.”
It must be said for Fairy that her
good nature could stand almost any­
thing. Even this did not seriously
disturb her. “Do you suppose you can
find us some milk, Prue? And crack­
ers ! I’m so fond of crackers and
milk, aren’t you, Babbie?”
“Oh, I adore it. But serve a micro­
scope with it, please. I want to ex­
amine it for microbes before I taste.”
But Prudence did better than that.
She made some delicious cocoa, and
opened a can of pear preserves, donat­
ed to the parsonage by the amiable
Mrs. Adams. The twins were very
fond of pear preserves, and had been
looking forward to eating these on
their approaching birthday.
They
were doomed to disappointment ! The
three had a merry little feast, after
all, and their laughter rang out so
often and so unrestrainedly that the
twins shook in their beds with rage
and disappointment.
It speaks well for the courage of
Babbie, and the attractions of Fairy,
that he came to the parsonage again
and again. In time he became the
best of friends with the twins them­
selves, but he always called them “the
adorables,” and they never asked him
why. The punishment inflicted upon
them by Prudence rankled In their
memories for many months.
“The offense was against Fairy,"
said Prudence, with a solemnity she
did not feel, “and the reparation must
be done to her. For three weeks you
must do all of her bedroom work, and
run every errand she requires. More­
over, you must keep her shoes well
cleaned and nicely polished, nnd must
do every bit of her darning!”
The twins would have preferred
whipping a thousand times. They felt
they had got a whipping’s worth of
pleasure out of their mischief! But a
punishment like this sat heavily upon
their proud young shoulders, and from
that time on they held Fairy practi­
cally immune from their pranks.
Prudence did not bother her head
about etiquette after that experience.
"I’m strong for comfort,” she declared,
"and since the two cannot live together
in one family, I say we do without eti­
quette.”
And Fairy nodded in agreement,
smiling good-naturedly.
First Statistics Collected by Govern­
ment in New Registration Area
Discloses Rapid Growth
in Population.
Uncle Sam has discovered that the
United States need not be alarmed over
the possibility of race suicide. The
first birth statistics ever compiled and
made public by the government show
that for what is known as the birth
registration area, with an estimated
population of 31.150.000 in 1915, the
birth rate exceeded the death rate by
10.9 per 1,000, or nearly 78 per cent.
The recently established birth regis­
tration area comprises the six New
England states, New York, Pennsyl­
vania, Michigan, Minnesota and the
District of Columbia. The population
in this area represented approximately
31 per cent of the total for the United
States. The birth rate for this area
in 1915 was 24.9 per 1,000 population,
while the death rate was 14 per 1,000.
This means that if the birth and death
rates prevailing In that year were to
remain unchanged, and if no migration
were to take place to or from the area
to which the figures relate, its popula­
tion would increase annually by 10.9
per 1,000, or by nearly 1.1 per cent.
The birth rate of the registration
states ranged from 2.1 in Maine to 26.7
in Connecticut and Michigan ; and the
death rate ranged from 10.1 in Minne­
sota to 16.1 in New Hampshire. The
highest death rate was thus much low­
er than ' the lowest birth rate. The
greatest excess of births over deaths—
14.4 per 1,000 population—appears for
Minnesota, and the smallest—5.5 per
1,000—for Maine.
For every state in the registration
area and for most of the cities there
was a substantial excess of births over
deaths, but this excess was most pro­
nounced in those localities in which
the proportion of foreign population is
largest.
Deaths Lead in Three Cities.
The statistics cover 96 cities and
towns having, at the last census, 25,-
000 inhabitants or more. Of these,
there were only three—Kingston and
Troy, N. Y., and Norristown, Pa.—in
which the deaths exceeded the births
in 1915, and in each case the excess
was small, being greatest—1.1 per
1,000 population—for Troy.
The cities showing the highest five
birth rates are: Detroit, Mich., 37.9;
Chicogee, Mass., 37.6; Niagara Falls,
N. Y„ 37.5 ; New Britain, Conn., 36.4 ;
and Chelsea, Mass., 34.5. The death
rates for these cities—15.7, 14.7, 16, 11,
and 14.3, respectively—were, with the
single exception of that of New Brit­
ain, higher than the average for the
birth registration but were far below
the maximum death rate shown for
any city in the area—21.7, for Norris-
twn. Pa.
The lowest five birth rates appear
for Brookline, Mass.. 12.7 ; York, Pa.,
17.6 ; Kalamazoo, Mich., 18.2 ; King­
ston, N. Y„ 18.5, and Troy, N. Y„ 18.6.
The death rates for the first five-named
places were lower than the average for
the registration area, and those for
the first-named three were lower than
the corresponding birth rates ; but for
Kingston and Troy the death rates—
18.6 and 19.7, respectively—exceeded
the birth rates.
SCOTTS
EMULSION
to start them growing and keep
them going. Children relish
SCOTT’S and it carries rare
nutritive qualities to their blood
streams and gives them flesh-
food, bone-food and strength-food.
Nothing harmful in SCOTT’S.
Scott & Bowne. Bloomfield, N. J.
16-2
THICK, GLOSSY HAIR
FREE FROM DANDRUFF
Girls! Try It! Hair gets soft, fluffy
and beautiful—Get a 25 cent
bottle of Danderine.
If you care for heavy hair that glis­
tens with beauty and is radiant with
life; has an Incomparable softness and
is fluffy and lustrous, try Danderine.
Just one application doubles the
beauty f your hair, besides I imme­
diately dissolves every particle of
dandruff. You can not have nice
heavy, healthy hair if you have dan­
druff. This destructive scurf robs the
hair of its lustre, its strength and its
very life, and if not overcome it pro­
duces a feverishness and itching of
the scalp; the hair roots famish, loos­
en and die; then the hair falls out
fast. Surely get a 25-cent bottle of
Knowlton’s Danderine from rny drug
store and just try it.
As we grow more sensible, we refuse drug
cathartics and take Nature’s herb cure, Gar­
field Tea. __________________
10 CENT “CASCARETS”
IF BILIOUS OR COSTIVE
For Sick Headache, Sour Stomach,
Sluggish Liver and Bowels—They
work while you sleep.
Furred Tongue, Bad Taste, Indiges­
tion, Sallow Skin and Miserable Head­
aches come from a torpid liver and
clogged bowels, which cause your
stomach to become filled with undi­
gested food, which sours and ferments
like garbage in a swill barrel. That’s
the first step to untold misery—indi­
gestion, foul gases, bad breath, yellow
skin, mental fears, everything that is
horrible and nauseating. A Cascaret
tonight will give your constipated
bowels a thorough cleansing and
straighten you out by morning. They
work while you sleep—a 10-cent box
from your druggist will keep you feel­
ing good for months.
A Clever Opinion.
"Did you write to papa, George?”
“Asking for your hand?"
“Of course.”
“Yes, I wrote.”
“That’s strange. I supposed papa
would be terribly angry. You know
he doesn’t like you."
“Yes, I know. But I fixed that all
right. I—I didn’t sign the letter.”—
London Saturday Journal.
No Quarter.
Captain—Fifty cents to stay on this
deck.
Passenger—Oh, I thought this was
the quarter-deck.—Punch Bowl.
Garfield Tea, by purifying the blood, erad­
icates rheumatism, dyspepsia and many
chronic ailments.
Jollied the Judge.
"This is the seventh time you’ve
been before me,” said the magistrate
sternly.
One in Ten Infants Dies.
“That so?” replied the culprit “It
CHAPTER VI.
The rate of infant mortality—that
do beat all how some folks hold on to
Is, the number of deaths of infants un­ office,
don’t it?”—Boston Transcript
Practicing Economy.
der one year of age per 1,000 born
It was a dull day early in Decem­ alive—is of particular interest. This
ber. Prudence and Fairy were sew­ rate, for the registration area as a
ing in the bay window of the sitting whole, was 100 in 1915.
room.
Among the 10 states these rates
THE NEWEST
"We must be sure to have all the ranged from 70 in Minnesota to 120
scraps out of the way before Connie for Rhode Island; and among the 96
gets home,” said Prudence, carefully cities and towns it varied from 54
fitting together pieces of a dark, warm, for Brookline and Malden, Mass., to
This is a recent discovery of Doctor
furry material. "It has been so long 196 for Shenandoah. Pa.
Pierce, who is head of the Invalids’
since father wore this coat, I am sure
It might be expected that a high Hotel and Surgical Institute at Buffalo,
she will not recognize it.”
rate of infant mortality would accom­ N. Y. Experiments at Doctor Pierce’a
"But she will ask where we got it, pany a high birth rate, but an exam­ Hospital for several years proved that
and what shall we say?”
ination of the figures fails to disclose there is no other eliminator of uric acid
that can be compared to it. For those
"We must tell her it is goods we have this character. Among the states, both easily
recognized symptoms of inflam­
the
highest
and
the
lowest
Infant-mor
­
had in the house for a long time. That
mation—as backache, scalding urine
Is true. And I made this fudge on pur­ tality rate—120 for Rhode Island and and frequent urination, as well as sedi­
pose to distract her attention. Poor 70 for Minnesota—are found in con­ ment in the urine, or if uric acid in the
child !” she added very sympatheti­ nection with birth rates—23.1 and 24.5 blood has caused rheumatism, it is
cally. "Her heart is Just set on a brand- per 1.000 population, respectively— simply wonderful how surely "Anuric”
new coat. I know she will be bitterly which are below the average for the acts. The best of results are always
in cases of acute rheumatism
disappointed. If the members would registration area ; and, moreover, the obtained
in the joints, in gravel and gout, and
Just pay up we could get her one. No- birth rate in the state with that low­ invariably the pains and stiffness which
vember and December nre such bad est infant mortality is higher than so frequently and persistently accom­
months for parsonage people. Every­ that In the state with the highest in- ' pany the disease rapidly disappear.
Go to your nearest drug store and
one is getting ready for Christmas now, 1 fant mortality.
Among the cities and towns the simply ask for a 50-cent package of
nnd forgets that parsonage people need
lowest infant-mortality rate—54 per "Anuric,” manufactured by Dr. Pierce,
Christmas money, too.”
Fairy took a pin from her mouth. “I 1,000 births—Is shown for both Brook­ . or send 10 cents to Dr. Pierce for a
trial package. If you suspect
have honestly been ashamed of Connie | line and Malden. Mass. The former | large
kidney or bladder trouble, send him a
the last few Sundays. It was so cold, place hnd the lowest birth rate—12.7 sample of your water and describo
and she wore only that little thin sum­ per 1,000 population—given for any symptoms. ' Doctor Pierce’s chemist
mer jacket. She must have been half city or town in the registration area, will examine it, then Dr. Pierce will
but the birth rate of the latter—23.5 report to you, without fee or charge.
frozen.”
N ote : —French scientists affirm that
per 1,000—was not far below the aver­
age for the area. The highest infant- ’’Anuric” is thirty-seven times more
mortality rate—196 per 1.000 births, active than lithia in eliminating uric
There are a lot of us careless
acid, and is a harmless but reliable
for Shenandoah. Pa.—is accompanied chemical compound that may be safely
about providing for the preacher
by
a
birth
rate
—
32.7
per
1.000
popula
­
given to children, but should be used
and his family. Some of us seem
tion—which is far above the average, only by grown-ups who actually wish to
to forget that his needs are just
although considerably below the maxi- restore their kidneys to perfect health,
as real and urgent as our own.
mum. Of the ten cities in which the by conscientiously using one box —or
Are you prompt with your tithes?
birth rates were highest, three show more in extreme cases — as "Anuric”
to Doctor Pierce’s achievement)
infant-mortality rates lower than the I thanks
by far the ■ most perfect kidney and
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
average, and of the ten places In which bladder corrector obtainable.
the birth rates were lowest, five show
It is better to be able to turn your
infant-mortality rates higher than the
Dr. Pierce’s Pellets are the original
band to anything than to put your foot average
little Liver Pills. One little Pellet for
in it
• laxative—three for a cathartic.
“ANURIC!"
DISCOVERY IN CHEMISTRY
"Wouldn't you like a nice, hot oyster
stew?” Prudence repeated it after
her breathlessly.
So Fairy returned once more, and
soon after Prudence tapped on the
door. Then she opened It, nnd thrust
her curly head inside. "Wouldn’t you
like a little nice, hot oyster stew?”
she chirped methodically. And Fairy
said, VOh, yes, indeed, Prudence—this
is so nice of you.”
The three gathered sociably about
the table. Babbie wns first to taste
the steaming stew. He gasped, and
gulped, and swallowed some water
with more haste than grace. Then he
toyed Idly with spoon and wafer until
Prudence tasted also. Prudence did
not gasp. She did not cry out. She
looked up at her sister with wide eyes
—a world of pathos In the glance.
Rut Fairy did not notice.
"Now, piense do not ask me to talk
until 1 have finished my soup,” she
was saying brightly.
Then she tasted it ! She dropped
her spoon with a great clatter, and
jumped up from the table. “Mercy !”
she shrieked. "It Is poisoned I”
Babble leaned back In his chair and
laughed until his eyes were wet. Pru­
dence’s eyes were wet too, but not
from laughter! What would etiquette
think of her. after this?
"What dlil you do to this soup. Pru-
dence?" demanded Fairy.
"I made It—nothing else," faltered
poor Prudence, quite crushed by this
blow. And oysters forty cents a pint ’
"It’s pepper, I think," gasped Bab­