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iiiiiiiuiitiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiimi?iiriiiisiiu In the Beauty | Parlor 1 By JOHN PALMER = ^r. 1111111111111 i 1111111111111111111 ? 1111111 f 111111 VT Copyright, 1922, Wostorn Nowepnpor Union. "What, Mia. Rintoul? Her that used to como hi hero to huvo her face uius soged pretty nearly overy day? Flue looking woman she wus, wasn't shel Yea, there's a story about that, and I don't mind telling lt you, now that she's left those parts. "You 'remuiuber Freddy Luurle, who married Squlro Embroo's daughter? j Good-hour ted follow he was, but wild, 'and couldn't resist women. He hadn't ?been married more than a your before Mrs. Ulntoul and he-well, I don't want to speak bard of any ono, but it was easy to seo how things lay be tween these two. Fascinated with each other from tho sturt, they woro, and poor Mrs. Laurie crying ber eyes out hi tho Lillirie place, f "Night after night he'd bo seen driv ing about with Mrs. Ulntoul. Freddy [wasn't moro than thirty, aud she must have been forty If abe wus a day, though sho didn't look it. Infatuated tiley were, but she wus moro Infatu ated with him than ho was with her, I guess. "You know when a woman gotB to [bo around forty, all the fires of youth .oro apt to burn up In ber again. Espe cially if she's been unhappily married, ins Mr?. Ulntoul had been. She was crazy about him from the first, and lt Jwaa that that attracted him. J "Thut was when she began coining In hero to have her face massaged. Sho didn't look forty,'but there's no way-no, absolutely no way-in which ,a woman of forty can look like a girl ?of twenty-five. They all think they 'can, though I Mrs. Ulntoul looked llvo (years younger than she was, but sho iliad little lines about the corners of her eyes and mouth, abo hadn't tho firmness of Hush that a young woman has. And the massaging helped some, ?but it didn't bring back youth. | j "Matty was with me then-you re member her? That tall, ?lark girl who was so good at manicuring. She got friendly with Mrs. Ulntoul, mid Mrs, Ulntoul used to confide in her-most everything, save that she never men tioned Freddy Laurie's name. Then Matty told her about the doctor that made a specialty of taking out wrin kles by operating. "Of course that's really tho only permanent cure. You can massage and massage, but tho lines will always come buck nguiu unless you take a flap of the * loose skin away and tighten tho whole fuco up. That's What Matty advised-and Mrs. Rintoul fell for lt. "Not good business of Matty's? I told her no. 1 reckoned it cost mo ten dollars a week, what .with tito ma?; sago and the huh* dressing. Malt) was a fool In a way-but anyhow the hann was done. "Mrs. Ulntoul went to Dr. Deering. Called himself a doctor, though I guess he never saw the Inside of any med ical school. Why, they're not allowed to do operations unless for sickness, I've heard. However, ho knew his Job all right. There's plenty of foolish women in this town ho's operated on nt two hundred and fifty apiece-and changed their faces so that you'd hardly know they were tho samo people. i 1 "Mrs. Rintoul went to bini, and after that she stayed home for two weeks, watting for thc sears to heal. They . make the cuts under the bair, you (know. Matty went up to the house [to seo ber while abo was convalescing, and the report she brought buck was perfectly startling. She said Mrs. Uln toul hadn't a Uno In her face-Just as smooth ns a baby's. Lord, what some w omen will do when they're Infatu ated with a man I "Tho day came when abe was out. Of course Freddy Laurie didn't know what she'd been doing. Ho thought abo was 111 with grippe, and every day ! ho was around there with flowers and poor Mrs. Laurie crying up nt the Laurie place. "It was Mrs. Rintoul's 'maid told Matty what happened when they met. Young Laurie stared at her ns If she'd turned black. 'I didn't .seem to recog nize you somehow,' thc maid heard him say. That was all-Just Unit. ! And Mrs. Ulntoul turned UR whlto ns a ghost, and soon after Mr. Laurie cunio away. "They met once or twice "nf tor that, hut their lovemaking was ut an end. When I saw Mrs. Ulntoul I saw what ! had happened. You soe, before tho I operation she'd been a sweet-looking [woman. After lt-well, everything was different-ber with her smooth, i baby ince und lier mature figure. Sho was a woman of thirty-five Just tho Hame-nothing could alter that; but her face-didn't flt. "So I don't ad viso my customers to have anything to do with Dr. Deering." A Profitable Ruo?. A physician was walking up Broad way when he saw a dentist friend look ing nt somo shirts In a show window. Just then a panhandler stepped up to tho dentist und begun to unravel a hard-luck story. To the physician's as tonishment tho dentist lifted his hand to Ids ear. and auld, rolslng his voice considerably : "How's that? You'll have to aponte | louder. I'm hard of hearing." The panhandler hurried away, grumbling, to himself. The physician walked up j and laid his hand on the dentist's shoulder. "Jim," he sn id, "you seem to havo ear trouble." , "No, perfectly normal," was tho ro Wy. ?"But that chap was a profes sional,' and 'ploying deaf Is the best way I know to get rid of thut kind." BOYS DEMAND BETTER BOOKS Youngsters Not Content Thea? Days With Anything Dreamed by * Old-Sohool Writer?. A Chicago librarian has made the discovery that boys aro qulttlug the so-callod. "boy fiction" for reading of a different kind.. Thoy still read ile- ; Hon, to be sure, but lt ls not their chief reading nor ls tho Action they j reud that provided by the old-school j writers of boys' books, who had the notion that the youthful masculine mind required- and demanded a spe cially prepared # and specially fla vored food. 1 The boys of today, according to this finding, are calling for tho bl ogrnphles of Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Edison. They are rending CJirlsty Mathewson's "Hook of Sports," tho "Hoys' Hook of Mounted Police," the 1 "Hoys' Hook of Home Science and i Construction" and books on camping ; and woodcraft. . J When they go' In for fiction they j read Mark Twain, Scott, Dumas, Stevenson? Jules Verne find Kipling. ! They do not read, Henty and Oliver ! Optic. ' The only thing at all curious about ! this Is that lt should ever have been : believed thnt boys had standardized minds capable of taking anything but spoon food. Roys Want first of all : the genuine, and It would bo strange If they didn't learn where to find lt. A boy who has heard of Roosevelt's lifo In the Wost ls hot likely to be content thereafter with the pretend ed adventures of the old make-believe Heroes, whose authors turned out their thrills .In New York boarding houses. A boy who has rend "Treas ure Island" and "Kidnaped" will have small use for Nick Carter.-Kansas City Star. IMMENSE POWER OF MUSIC There Is Almost No Limit to Its In* ' fluence on the Human Soul. Music I The dictionary defines ' it as "The science of harmonious sounds ; 1 melody or harmony/' The tide of bat tle has been turned by thu "science of harmonious sounds," ami to hear some old familiar melody has often resulted In soothing the troubled heart. Music can call the patriot to the : defense of his country; eon enthuse anew the worshiper nt the shrine; cnn call the lover to his beloved; cnn fan Into Hame the dying emilers of the lire In the enthusiast's breast There Is no limit to tho power of music over the human soul. Tho world needs music-music of the siid; music ot tho heart; music of (he voice; music of the spirit, 'liiere are people who can't sing, yet J thoj can be moved to tears or laughter | by the words of some simple; melody. Some people sing their way through j fifo, and such people have a wonder ful Influence on the lives of others. Music can have an almost magical effect In producing the desired re sults. In fact, the Imagination fulls to picture a world without music. Mind Conquers Matter. Have you heard the latest Cone story? A man with bandy legs called to seo the great practitioner of heal ing by suggestion. After an examination,- tho doctor said : "Yes, they can bo cured. Mas sage them every night and before you go to sleep say, 'My legs are getting less and less bandy' a hundred and fifty times." Full of hope, the man went home. That night he carried out the massage treatment, but he could not remember Just bow ninny times" he had to repeat the magic words. Ile knew lt was something and fifty, so, to make sure, ho recited the phrase three hundred and fifty times. Next morning bc found that he was knock-kneed I Death Rate Already Too H lah. The death rate for tho first (punier of 1D22 among Metropolitan Life pol icyholders was higher aiming whlto policyholders by 5.3 per cent lund among colored policyholders by 0.0 per cent than for the same quarter of 1021. This was due very largely to the effects of epidemic ' Influenza. There ait?, nevertheless, many favor able terns in the figures for tho quar ter. The outstanding one ls the con tinued low mortality from tuber culosis. The unfavorable develop* merits, in addition to the much higher rates for influenza and pneumonia, aro the Increases for organic heart disease, cerebral hemorrhage and chronic nephritis. A higher rate was also registered for automobile acci dents. Art and Beauty. A collier and his wife visited a pic ture gallery. They came to some pho tographs of classic art, and seeing one more striking than the rest, they asked what lt .was. "That," said n visitor standing by, "Is a photograph of the famous Venus de Milo, tho per fect woman." The collier gazed at tho photograph for some timo, nnd then, glancing nt his wife, he snld: "Hy gum, Lizzie, they made a mess o' thee I" Eleven thousand new books woro published in Great Breath last year. The Australian government is con sidering requiring every vessel in tho roasting trado or carrying twelve or moro passengers to bo sub-divided Into water-tight compartments and Qttod with fireproof bulkheads and i douhlo bottom. / RANKS TH:;;:;UN PETROLEUM Russia's Output In 1921 Amounted to 20,500,000 Barrels, Engineering und Mining Journal Says. Prior to tlie outbreak of the war the production of petroleum in Russia'' amounted to about 20, per cent of the world's production, and, In spite of political iinji industrial upheaval, tho production of soviet Russin still occu pies third rank in the countries of thc world, says the Engineering ard Mining Journal-Press. During Ile year 1020 the production nniounted to 25,400.000 ha n els, and in 1021 to 28, 000,000 barrels. In the district of Baku the production In 1921 amounted to 155.000.000 poods (thirty-six pounds), as compared with 215,000, 000 poods in 1010. In the district of Grosny the .monthly production dur-' lng the second half of 1921 amounted to 0,100,000 pondi, and in January, 1022, to 7,100,000 poods. On account of lack of suitable machinery new borings cannot be made. The equip ment in the refineries ns well as the pipe lines ls in bud condition. Ac cording to Hie regulations of the soviet government, adopted nt the beginning vf the present year, concerning the grant of mineral (di concessions, 30 per cent of the oil produced ls re served to the state and 45 per cent must bo reserved for the homo de mand. Only 25 per cent can be ex ported, and all export orders must pass through Hie odi?la) mineral oil ellice. Payments for (export orders are to be effected through the State bank or the oil ellice, ami all pay ments- aro to be based on foreign values. MACAULAY HAD FINE CLOTHES Learned English Historian and States man Had Hobby for Variety of Apparel. Lord Macaulay, the English his torian and statesman and Inexhaust ible conversationalist, had a mind overstocked with learning. And ho had a wardrobe overstocked with clothes, according to Margaret Mac aulay's "Diary." ."Later In life," she writes, "he Indulged himself In an apparently Inexhaustible succession of handsome embroidered waistcoats, which he would regard with much complacency. He was unhnndy to a degree, quite unexampled In the ex perience of all who knew him. When In the open air he wore per fectly new dark kid gloves, into the fingers of which he never succeeded in inserting his fingers more than half way. After he had sailed for India there were found In his cham bers between 50 and CO strops, hacked ' into strips and splinters, with razors ! without beginning or end. About the I fame period he hurt his hand and was Induced to send for a barber. ' After the operation he asked what he was to pay. M,Oh, slr,' said the man, 'whatever you usually give the person who shnves you.' Tn that caso,' said Mac aulay, 'I should glvo you a great gash on each cheek.' " Shades of the Laundry. A San Francisco lady was training a new and Inexperienced Chin?se house-boy, and among other things lound lt necessnry to teach him how to receive a caller. "Now, Wing," she said, "when I come home this after noon I shall ring the hell, and you must pay attention to what I tell you to do when you open the door." When the boy did this on her return, she handed him her visiting card and had I him show her into the drawing-room, j Before long a caller appeared. Wing i took the proffered blt of pasteboard j and gravely compared It with his mis tress' card, which he produced from his sleeve. At the end of his scrutiny h? remarked : "TIckee no same ; no can | como hi."-Everybody's Magazine. A '.oQlcal Youngster. Father caught Willie smoking and lectured him severely. 'Smoking ls injurious even to men," he went on. "If they smoke too much they get 'to bacco hearts.' " Willie reflected a moment and then asked: "And If they eat too ninny sweets do they get sweethearts?" Boston Transcript. Carbonation of milk and Ice can not be relied upon as a means of in suring sanitary quality ol' dairy por till?is, according to recent experi ments. Magnolia Balm LIQUID Face and Toilet POWDER Urines Instant, nat ural beauty to face, neck, ?rms, hands. Simply wonderful I Removes eruptions, freckles, sunburn, tan. Entrancing,last ing fragrance. Try H. 4 colors: Brunette Whit? Pi"k Roso-Red '" ??**??m a; Mad. PK 'on'CoV>.? Vj,H i, WHITE, pl...a*. (???.?), *" I ,, , ill..*. . fv ? '? ' I <* ??Jj5*t?_f?i.'?-^ 1 LYON MFO CO. DEST for 17 7 e o r s - a marvelous rM" be? ut I* Proprietorst >RD ?&. ',y,' n 8 LYON MFG. So'? I* ^ baln>. ?O. n" deal- " crs, or di 4 2 So. Fifth St. rcct from BROOKLYN, 7? cents N. Y. postpaid. lllllflllllltTTITTniiniTllli ^.f Clemson Farm Notes.) Pertinent Karim Pointers. -, Last call for fall gardens! UouKi?hor the farm machinery to hoop lt repaired. With tho dairy farmer, cleanliness is next certainly, to godliness. It's ?i wise farmor who js master of his cash crops. If you have a bettor crop of corn or a beti er farm animal, or a better farm product of any kind, prepare now to serve your community by showing thom'at tho State Fair. . A [problem in marketing: if a po tato in town Is worth two in tho I country, who gets tho difference? Weeding is as important In grow ing good livestock as In growing good crops. A (dollar saved is a dollar made. Well, -fi green winter cover crop may savo $1 00 per aoVe in plant food. If two cows will produce 12,000 pounds of milk per year, why food and caro for three to do it? Advlc" fi'pra *a successful swine grower: ' Itnpo for spring and fall is ti forage crop that no hog farn?cr can alford to overlook." Cattle wore tho first money, say the historians. Carolina farmers will como lo understand that cattle still mean money. Make tho farm boy a birthday present 01 a good set of tools. The Investment will pay a double divi dend,--lu oct returns in doing repair work, and increased interest of the boy In farm lifo. Plunt n Kuli Garden. A small amount.of time and labor exponded in tho preparation and plantWg nf. a fall garden will bring valuable returns. Asid?; from the j pleasure of having frosh vegetable, for tho table during iho "dry" win ter1 . .> " a, tho financial saving is worthy . of! consideration. Following ?is' a list of vegetables suggested by . the hortlculural division that may j 1)0 included in the fall gardon: I d ots-Sow beet seed tho first part of September. Tho plans will stand the wlntor and produce, beets for tho om ly spring use. ( ahbago - Good plants of the W 'Held varieties, if set now. will i form hOads before cold weather, and j with slight protection both cabbage a ul Pollards will carry through our ,s, st winters. Kulg-Seed sown during Septem ber ill produco an abundance of , during winter and tho early sp . Siberian curled ls a good fall s irloty. Ci "nee-Sow Big Boston variety foi ,upply of delightful salad dur in 1 and winter. With slight pro ti firm heads can bo produced. Alu-turd-Seed sown during Sep ie ali v will furnish greens through out o fun, winter and in the early s * i r i '. (in ins-Sets of tho white pearl vari . will furnish bulbs and tops dui tim winter and early spring. S< amy bo sown from September 201 ii o October loth. lon Pens -Plant during Ne vi '. for tho earliest spring peas. A is a good variety for the fall pl mt -g. ?ta<t?sil-Long whito Spanish, or si 1 )i the other winter varieties, so lie hud of Sop tom ber, will re in n good condition throughout tho v Htof, i : .i o Though commonly sown fo' i turago, rape seed sown In Sop to will yiold excellent winter grech . ' nih-Ono of our most delight ful . dables ls spinach. Seed sown th' t nf September or tho early pac October will produce greens thron 'mut IhoUvlnter and on until lat? ring. . Tur dps-This ls ono of our rolla? blt f iables flint will produce both roo nd tops for winter and spring us< >w seed from Sopt. 1st to Sept. 20t L i . ? y farmer's gardon should bo pro 'd with cold frames and hot bed i Tiley aro easily and cheaply con " otcrt and servo ns an import ant lor in keeping up tho supply of vi etables during tho wintor moni i . I, ist bo remembered that lt ls vary .ccR3ury to conservo soll mois ture d to have a good, firm seed lied. : mall seed will como up much boiler if packed by rolling tho whool of a garden plow over thom in stu-h a way as to press hem into Hie soil. (?'razing Crops for South Carolina. A great deal has benn said and written about forage crops for tho southeastern States, but it is of such vital importance that a review of tho facts will do no harm. As the uso of a certain forage crop so ma terially reduces Ibo cost of produc tion by reducing tho amount of con centrates, and at the samo limo is usually a soil building crop any Way', it ls difficult to seo how we can af ford to bo without it. With tho exception of one or two months in the year, the swine men say, wo can have at any timo three to slr different crops for grazing. We can have oats and rye from January until .lune, crimson clover (where suitable) from February un tl J ?lune; Bermuda and lospodc/.a from April to 'Qc lober i velvet heans from .No vember 1 to March 1 ; vetch from December 1 to April 1; peanuts from June to September, and cowpeas and soy beans from May until No vember. Soil Moisture Control. According to tho best estimates, '.he United States is annually losing 400,000,000 tons of valuable sur faco soil through erosion, or enough to fill a Panama canal each year. This loss is immense, especially in tho Piedmont section of South Caro lina, The control of soil moisture in South Carolina is, therefore, tho first big factor in soil management, says N. R. Winters, specialist in soil fer tility. This soil goos ort through field gulleys into our creeks and rivers. lt is always tho finest soil particles, tho most soluble plant food, tho very cream of tho soil, which loaves us first, because of the lack of control of the soil moisture. Our winters aro mild and our win ter rainfall is hoavy, resulting in' a serious loss In plant food'by leach ing, even where the land ls not hilly enough for surface erosion. This leaching loss probably amounts to 40 to 50 pounds Qf precious ni tro gen per acre Where our Holds are left bare all winier long, following a clean cultivated crop. In view of the fact that commercial nitrogen ^vill probably cost, us 30 cents a ?mund next spring in our fertilizer, it be hooves us to use every means avail able for saving this plant food from washing .nd leaching away during the coming winter. Tho uso of wide, clean t -nices where ibo slope of tho land is from foe to sixteen feet in 0 hundred 's absolutely necessary to prevent sur face erosion. Good soll .nanagement is all that ls needed if the slopo is loss than four foot in a hundred/ If the slope 1B more than Htxteen feet per hundrod, tho field had better be soeded down in permanent grass and clover pasturo. Under all conditions the uso of green winter cover crops, sucii as rye, oats, wheat, ryo and vetch, oats and vetch, crimson clover, bur clover, one or moro of which is adnptdd to evory soctjon of South Carolina, will help control tho soil moisture Ibis wintor, and possibly cave $10.00 to $15.00 worth of plant food per acre from leaching out. Thou if theso green wintor crops aro plowed under or used as pasturo and tho resulting organic mailor incor porated into tho soil, soil molsturo Right now there is a thief prowling 'round your barn WHEREVER there is a patch of bare or poorly painted sur face, there he destroys the fibre und steals the value. Hts name is Rot, and he'll rob you every doy until he is driven off and kept off by tr?e consistant application of Paint. Dcvoo Bam Paint defeats Rot for years. R coats the wood with a lough long lasting film ,that resists the action of the air, sun and rain, h makes farm buildings lost longer; look better; and worth moro. Devoe Products are time-tested and proven, backed by 168 years' experi ence of the oldest paint manufacturing concern in the U. S. Founded 1754. J. W. REIJIJ DRUG CO., Walhalla, S. C. ii control la henolited and plant food saved. lt is cons va lively estimated that) South Carolina loses annually over ?200,000,000 on h?r coin and cotton crops alone because of either exces sive moisture or droughty conditions' and that $110,000,000 of this could be saved to tho farmers of South Carolina by good soil management, which Includes the five big factors-. soil moisture control, Incorporation of organic matter, good plowing and tillage, t-ho regular and systematic: uso of limo in the rotation with leg umes, and tho intelligent usc of fer tilizer. Why Figaro Hogs on Our Program,'/! Owing to the fact that new money crops are much in demand in South Carolina at the prosert time, it 13 well to consider tho relativo meriti? Of tho various ppss?.bilijties tt'onn. HUH lino. Farmers aro diversifying, but a ve having trouble Unding CT?ptij which can be produced at any con siderable net profit with any dogreo of certainty. There have boen two largo stumbling blocks In the' way of the average South Cnrollnn farmer under the one-crop cotton system - first, a largo fertilizer hill, regard less of crop production; second, hav ing to soil on a market not controlled In any largo mensuro by supply "ami demand., Tho hog crop is not endangered by these stumbling blocks, and asido from these facts it has se. al other points much In Its f(*vor, says S. D. Sims, extension swine specialist, who calls attention to the following facts: The crops grown for pork fetid aro in the main legume crops, which naturally build up tho soil. If these crops are pastured, over three-quar ters of tho plant food contained In the crop is returned to the land, it cnn bo readily seen, therefore, thar, by a continuous system of livestock management, the soil can ho enrich ed, and at the samo time Ibo farmer will have a sure source of profit, without spending largo sums for com mercial fertilizers. *In regard to the mat 1er of market ing, there aro few crops which oro so nearly dependent on supply and demand for their selling price as aro hogs. Slightly higher prices usually prevail in April and September, since in these months fewer bogs aro coming oh tho market. Tho ma jority of tho hogs come from the cora bolt and are put. on '.ho market in Juno and July and December and January; Rut it does not pay io go to much extra oxpense in order to finish pork for tho li lg li er marketa because tho difference is so slight, though with tho favorable climate prevailing in our Stato for a contin uous growing season, wo can Como nearer catering to high prico periods than producers in moro rigorous cli mates. Other salient features of this great M*op aro small Initial in.vestmont and rai)id Incroaso. Vory littlo oqulp nent ls needed besides shado and vater. Cheap Individual houses aro ill that aro necessary. The increase anges from f>00 to 2,000 per cent )er year, and tho offspring roach tho ?'Oeding ago before they aro a year ?ld. Dyes have boon discoverod In Eng and that color artificial silk, but lave, no effect on cotton, making it )Osslblo to produco various effcettf >n mixed textures after they aro vovon.