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CHILDREN DON'T OWE PARENTS A LIVING • Children more than pay their parents in babyhood for any expense incurred in raising them, according to Kathleen Norris. It is not fair for a mother to stand in her daughter s way when a desirable marriage is in the offing. Young people are entitled to a life of their otvn unfettered by the prejudices and notions of their in-lixws. How a young school teacher faced just such a problem and solved it tpith the help of Miss Norris is related this-week. Evelyn did ivhat I advised her to do, end that was marry at onci, and let Mama id just herself to what is a perfectly natural and normal step on the part of any daughter. By KATHLEEN NORRIS T~p VELYN MILLER wants to marry her soldier. She '. / ^ wants to go down to New Mexico and find some sort of a small home, and start her own fife as a happy wife. But there's Mama, standing like a grumbling, sick, dangerous old lioness right in Evelyn's path. "Both my brothers married young," writes Evelyn, who is . How 29. "I was 19 when Papa died, and had just got my first ' teaching position. Now I am principal of an elementary school, arid have always liked my work. My hours are such that I can take Mama her breakfast in bed, and get home early enough to ' -let our dinner. It has' meant steady work, but she has always helped me with my papers and bookkeeping, and we have had ten wonderful years together. I dearly love my mother, I appreciate all she has done for me, and I know I am the • very apple of her eyes. She does not care for my brothers' wives and rarely sees her three grandchildren. Sometimes I go over and see them On Sunday evening; there is no illfeeling between them and Mama, "'end the boys do come in and see her now and then, but we are not Intimate with their wives. Mother Loves Few but Deeply. "Mama says she loves few persons, but loves those few too much, 'pnd I believe it is true. It means that she depends for her happiness almost entirely upon me. Old friends do drop in to see her, but she and her own sister are not particularly attached, and while Aunt Emily •would gladly come here to live if I Were gone, the mere prospect of it breaks Mama's heart. "Well, this is where Alan comes in, my splendid wonderful lover. He is already a captain, though a year younger than I. Before the war he . was a college instructor, just the work with which I could perhaps help him, and the atmosphere I would loVe. Ours has been a whirlwind courtship, I met him exactly seven weeks ago, but it does seem fate, to us both. Alan is truly the man o 1 iny dreams, and I had a very definite dream of the man I wanted, and he says that all his life long he has been waiting for me. "Mama can't and won't believe that I know him well enough to care for him, and to be willing to share my life vfith him. She has been actually ill since the affair becan, and has spoken to Alan only twice. The first tiiTve she was very cold and stiff; the second time, yesterday, she wept, clung to his hands, and begged him not to take me away from her. She said I am all she has. "Alan says she'll get over it, and come to livfc with us when the war is over. But I am afraid it may kill her. There is nothing really wrong with her, physically, but she is very frail, has headaches, and is easily tired. Alan is willing to have her join us >n New Mexico, but she is afraid of wartime conditions so near a big camp. It seems a deadlock. Mam* has a small income, but she could not pay for a nurse or a maid under present conditions. It would actually shatter her to have me marry, but do you think she would recover, do you think it would be safe to risk it? I am determined to do what you advise, but do please remember that utter happiness or utter misery for me is at stake, and give me some hope of being Alan's wife, even a year from now, even after the war, if you possibly can. He will wait." Married and No Refrets. This letter came to me two weeks ago, from Philadelphia. I answered it within the hour, by air-mail. Today 1 have a telegram on my ds|$k: LONDON. -- Living somewhere among America's 130 million there may be a doctor, an actor or even a truck driver who, unknown to himself is the eighth Baronet Power. The British are attempting to clear up a 15-year-old title mystery and a search is on for the descendant of a man about whom little is known except he probably went to the United States some time between 1860 and 1870. But if the descendant can be found he can claim a baronetcy which is 107 years old. The baronet's name will be Power. He will be a descendant of John Power of Kilfane, County Kilkenny, Ireland, and a son, or perhaps a grandson, of Gervase Parker Power, who is believed to have died in the United States, probably about ten years ago, in his nineties. Accordftig to Cyril Hankinson, editor of "Debrett's" directory of British peerage, the Power baronetcy was created in 1836 and was carried on until 1928, when the seventh Baronet Power, Sir George Power, an opera singer, died. Thereafter a search began for Gervase Parker Power, who was the senior heirHo the title. The missing man was known to his family as "American Geoff" and was the son of Lieut. Col. Gervase Power, who, in his turn, was the third son of the first baronet. In line of succession to the title after Gervase--if Gervase had no sons--is a 26-year-old British army captain, Anthony Ambrose Granttan Power. But Hankinson said the title probably never will be awarded unless it can be determined what became of Gervase. "Married this morning, Mama fine, love from Alan and Evelyn." So Evelyn did what I advised her to do, and that was marry at once, and let Mama adjust herself to what is a perfectly natural and normal step on the part of any daughter. If some of these daughters who sacrifice their entire lives to selfish Mamas could look back a generation and see exactly how much consideration Mama gave, in her turn, to the demands, needs and opinions of her own parents, they might receive a startling eye-opener. Mama was probably selfish as a girl and as a wife, or she couldn't be quite so blind now to all interests but „her own. Mama has alienated sons, d&ughters-in-law, grandchildren and her own sister, through her narrow, pig-headed selfishness; she has absorbed Evelyn's life, and undoubtedly she woud go on contentedly, making more and,-more narrow the circle that shuts in Evelyn, draining away Evelyn's youth and hope and eagerness for life as mercilessly as the hidecus old d chess of the middle agt;s who bathed in the blood of murdered village girls. We see too many of these selfish old women, being escorted tenderly about by starved maiden ladies of daughters; patient daughters who place shawls, laugh at old, old jokes, study biLs-of-fare concernedly, explain to the waiter how Mama likes her chop or her baked apple. One wonders what is going on in the old lady's head as she cackles her feeble stories and explains that while she had just piles and piles of beaus in the old days, Evelyn has always been Mwrna's girl. Grandmother Given Separate Home. A San Francisco matron some ten years ago transplanted her mother abruptly to a two-room apartment in a pleasant sunny house with a garden, a few blocks away from her own home. She did it suddenly, between breakfast and lunch. Her husband and c.nildren came home unexpectedly to a house in Dog Is Clever, but His Owner Is Not Grateful TOLEDO, OHIO.--Teddy, a combination spitz and collie pup, celebrated Mother's day by bringing home a pound of butter to Mrs. Roy Cox of Toledo. It was a nice gesture--and the only reason Mrs. Cox wasn't grateful is that Teddy came by the butter dishonestly. He was caught red-handed when Patrolmen Joseph Gulch and A1 Papenfus saw him pause in the street to unwrap the butter. They followed him and saw him deposit his ill-gotten gains at the rear door of the Cox home. There followed an impromptu trial in which the driver of a dairy truck testified that he had left the pound of butter at another address. The police, serving as judges, ordered Cox, the dog's master, to pay for the butter and give the dairyman a ration stamp for it. Police and dairyman left, marveling at the dog's cleverness, but deploring his criminal tendencies. What happened to Teddy after the door closed is a matter of speculation. _L Grandma was no longer supi me, criticizing, delaying, complaining, driving the Chinese cook crazy, appropriating the bathroom to herself at the very hours when the man of the house and the children were getting ready for work and school, or just home from work and school. ."I telephoned my sister and my brother," announced the wife and mother. "They'll both pay $25 a month. Ma's rent is $15--we'll manage the rest. For four years I've been wonder«ng what to do, and now I've done it. I've been afraid to open the subject, but this time I didn't argue. I asked Helen to take Ma for a long ride, and while she was gone' I took her things over to the Byron street house. Helen brought her there; everything was in ofder, gas plate, groceries, teapot, telephone. I said, 'Here's where you're going to be, Ma,' and kissed her, and we came away." This particular mother wouldn't speak to any child of hers for weeks. But she accepted their money, and after awhile she accepted the situation, and now all is serenity and peace. Sailor Loses His Wallet; Returned With War Stamps SCHENECTADY, N. Y.--John Joseph Stevens of the navy may be on the high seas now, but he won't forget Schenectady right away. Traveling through the city on hi» way to an embarkation point, he lost his pocketbook during a blackout, but through the co-operation of the Travelers' Aid, the USO and employees of a drug store, he now has his wallet back, plus $10 in war stamps. Through papers in the pocketbook, which was found in a drug store after the blackout and turned over which I the Travelers' Aid, it was discovered the penniless sailor was on his way to an embarkation point. The wallet was sent special delivery to him at once and a fewv days later back came a letter of thanks with $10 inclosed to reword the honesty of the drug store employees. The drug store employees decided to convert the $10 reward into war stamps and send them back to thy sailor. Bread Waste Wasting a slice or two of bread a week in each American home means throwing away the equivalent of two million loaves every week. Use Feathers Feathers from chicken-dressing plants were formerly wasted or used as fertilizer. Now they are being preserved in a weak acid solution and will be used for sleeping bags, pillows, and for camouflage. ^ Don't Lnbrieate Rope Do not lubricate you^rope. A welt made rope is properly lubricated by the manufacturer--and adequate for its service life. Milk Delivery Problem Is Solved in London LONDON.--This city's milk delivery problem has befen solved by a transfer of customers which has effected tremendous savings in manpower. About 693,567 regular purchasers were shifted from, one dairy company, enabling the firm to reduce its staff more than 34 per cent. The men released have gone into military service or war production. It is estimated that another 4,500,* 000 exchange of customers will have to be made in London before the scheme is complete. Extra Vitamins iypply poultry with additional vitamin A, feed each hundred birds 4 to 5 pounds of carrots, cabbage or «? tw!?#Vei: laWn cliPP"»g«, clover eachf . dja y. "or other green feed ' GnM Support S50 Mlllioa - $he maximum yield from the arable land of the United' States would support roughly 350,000,000 people. (by Helen Johnson) Mrs. Louis Hawley and Mrs. John Woodward called on Mrs. Bl T. Butler and Mrs. J. C. Pearson at the Woodstock hospital Tuesday. M'arjorie Whiting of Springfield visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Whiting, last week. Mrs. Phelps Satinders of Sycamore called on Mrs. Jennie Bacon Sunday afternoon. William Glawe of Great Lakes and Mrs. Glawe of Woodstock were Sunday callers in the R, C. Harrison home. The W. S. C.| S. will nleet with Mrs. B. Mf^Walkmgton on Friday March 17. Fred Wiedrich, Roy and Jimmy Wiedrich were callers in Wbodstock. Wednesday.. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Miller and children spent Sunday afternoon and evening in the Ben Smith home in Spring Grove. Mrs. Ed Bauer and Roland were callers in the Joseph Kattner home at Spring Grove Friday evening. Mir. and Mrs. Chancey Harrison and Carol were Sunday dinner guests of Mrs. Frank Wattles of MaHenry. Mr. and M -s. Lyle Hopper of Chicago spent Saturday in the Andrew Hawley home. Ellen Baker of McHenry was a caller in the L. E. Hawley home Wednesday evening. Mrs. Delbert Bacon of Crystal Lake called on Mrs". Jennie Bacon Friday. Kenneth and Jerry Cristy spent Friday in Chicago, where they visited the Field Museum, attended the Rodeo, and visited Bob Schultz a patient in St. Lukes hospital. Mae Wiedrich entertained the Bunco Club at the home of Mrs. Lester Carr, Thursday afternoon. Genevieve Dodge of Woodstock and Helen Young of McHenry were guests. Howard Shepard who left on Wed- HOW YOU CAN TEST YOUR OWN COWS FOR MASTITIS Here la a quick, euy way to test your cows for Mastitis. You can do It yourself right In your own barn. Test 20 cows in 2t min. with the Beebe "BTB" test. And it does not coat you a penny. Here is all you do: Ask us for the special Beebe "BTB" Test Card. We will give you FREE one test card for each cow In your herd. All you do is follow the simple directions on the card. We have Beebe "BTB" test cards in stock now. Ask for your FREE supply today. Remember, a few minutes spent In testing your cows for Mastitis may save some of your most valuable animal* from • InnCHfer. WATTLES DRUG STORE West McHlenry, Illinois nesday for service in the Navy, has been seijt to Sampson, N. Y. Mr. and Mrs. S. W. Brown have moved from the Bacon house to the Bell house which they purchased. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brennan have moved into the Bacon house. Mr?. B. T. Butler returned home on Friday from the Woodstock hospitalwhere she has been a patient for several weeks. Albert Schultz of Genoa City was a Sunday dinner guest in the Joe P. Miller home. Mr. and Mrs." Nick Justen and family have moved to McHenry and their son, Elmer and family will live on the farm. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Bauer helped Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bergsma move from Genoa City to Zenda on Tuesday. Lillian Ackerman spent Sunday in the John Hogan home. Edyth Harrison of Chicago spent the weekend at home. Mrs. iHlarry Anderson and Mrs. Leo Karls of Richmond called on their grandmother, Jennie Bacon, Friday afternoon. Major and Mrs. R. H. Smith' and son of Charlotte, N. C., spent Sunday and Monday in the S. W. Smith and Andrew Hawley homes. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brennan and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Leonard spent Sunday evening in the John Blackman home at Zion. Roland Bauer attended the Rodeo in Chicago Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Alan Ainger and children of Greenwood were Sunday evening callers in the George Shepard home. Tftie P. T. A. will hold a basket social at the Community hall on Thursday March 23. Entertainment and dancing will be enjoyed. ' Mrs. Fred Wiedrich, Jr., and Peggy Leonard returned home Sunday from a week's visit at Sycamore with Mrs. Phelps Saunders. Mrs. Bertha Peet of Richmond who has been caring for Mrs. Jennie Bacon the past three weeks has returned home. YOLO (By Mrs. Lloyd Fisher) Harold Foat of Hamsphire, 111., spent the weekend at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Vasey. -• William Wjrtz spent a few days the past week at the Elizabeth Condell hospital in Libertyville. Philip Thennes was a caller at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Detrick at Crystal Lake. MIrs. Lloyd Fisher and Mrs. Albert Hafer visited Lloyd Dowell at the Elizabeth Condell hospital in Libertyville Monday. The Volo unit of the Lake County Home Bureau will meet at the Wauconda Federated church Wednesday, March 8, at 1:30. A dessert luncheon will be served. The major lesson will be "Beautifying Our Homes With Slip Covers," by Home Advisor Mrs. Volk. Lloyd Fisher accompanied Harpy Matthews to the re-organization and regular monthly meeting of the Lake County Farm Bureau Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Vasey and family spent Thursday evening at the home of Mrs. Florence Grabbe at Crystal Lake. In honor of Donald's fifteenth birthday anniversary. MIrs. L. Hubbard, Mrs. W. Dillion, Mrs. E. McClunge, Mrs. C. Fink, Mrs. F. • Wilson, Mrs. A. Case, Mrs. E. Underwood, Mrs. W. Wirtz, Mrs. Hi. Converse, Mrs. H. Cooke, Mrs. L. Fisher, IVTrs. L. Peterson, Mrs. J. Nance, M!rs. A. Eisenbise, Mrs. M. Schubert, Mrs. J. L. Allen, Mrs. & Otten, Mrs. C. Hansen and Mrs. 9* O'Brien represented the Volo unit at^ the Annual meeting of the Laka County Home Bureau at the M. E. church at Libertyville Tuesday. ' V James and Milton Dowell visited Lloyd Dowell at the Elizabeth Co£* dell hospital in Libertyville Wednesday evening. « ; Frnit Vitamin Source - According to dietitians, two ser# togs of fruit daily are needed til maintain a person's health. Fruits are a free source of vitamins, and also supply iron and calcium aip well as other minerals for blood* bone and bodv processes. WAR BONDS vital investments far a future Ftee World. MOTOR TUNE-UP CareM mhsyour <iar will get ^ Wear and efficiency of operation. A motor tune-up every three months will keep your engine running smoothly and cost you less to drive per mile. Make your car last for the duration. ; Our truck safety lane awaits year visit. CENTRAL GARAGE Phone 200-J FRED J. SMITH, Prop. Towing Johnsburg John J. Vycital Hdwe. Phone 98 M • Green St I rzv an appliance for War Stamps ...and ended "Gloomy Saturday' for a war worker »• Mrs. Jones does double duty as • iwar plant worker?:; and a housewife. And on Saturday afternoon she does her laundry. For a long time, she couldii't buy a washing machine for love or money. Washing wor? her to a frazzle. It wa; , '.'Gloomy Satmdny" every week for heir, MianSbi O o laerease Carrying Capacity ' The nation's transit industry la saving 200 million bus miles annually and has added the equivalent of 14,500 street cars and buses by increasing the carrying capacity otexisting equipment. n 9) •K 2. On the other hand, I had an old electric washer 1 no longer used. You see, my sons are in the service, and there's just my husband John and 1 now-so I send my laundry out. Afttr the war, I tm going to get a brand new machine. So thett *>»s no sense in cluttering the house with the old oik. 3. One day, 1 saw a sign in my electric dealer's • window--"swjv idle appliances for war scamps."'^ An idea! I traded him my washer, an old iron, and an ^lectric heater for oodles of stamps. I exchanged the stamps for bonds, which will some day help me buy a post-war washer. '4. So-o-o, the dealer had a washer tor Mrs. Jores. He fixed it up, then phoned her the £uou news She almost shouted with joy. Now on Saturdays, she's happy as a lark. You, too, can help rt.a!*e k war worker happy by swapping your icfle app,'lances for War Stamps. Ft^VICTORY €» WILLIAM H. ALTHOFF HARDWARE West McHenry CAREY ELECTRIC SHOP 119 Green Street mr r.-- *:/«• BUY UNITED I STATES 1 ,WAR BONDS LET'S All tACK THE ATTACI m 9> t'fcv. '•> ' • % •#" • A '