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VOL. X. NO. 105.
ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1911.
PRICE:
ONE WAT OF MAKING LIFE EASIER IS
BY SHOWING REAL CONSIDERATION
There Are Thousandaof Persons Who Mean To Be Good, But
Make Life Hard For Others by.Thoughtlessness in Small Things
There are thousand*- of people who
mean to be good Christians, yet who,
while talking unselfishness, are con
tinually making life hard for others by
thoughtlessness In small things which
Is one phase of selfishness.
People who borrow books and forget
to return them until they are sent for
by their owners; people who borrow
umbrellas and rain coats and overshoes,
and forget to rotum them In the same
manner are In the class mentioned.
Then there are others. .
Those who drop In to see a busy man
or woman and sit for an hour talking of
nothing which benefits them, or the
other party; and those'who stand In
tho room for half an hour after they
have begun'to.go.
People who write to strangers or
mere acquaintances and ask favors and
fall to Inclose . a self-addressed and
; stamped envelope; people who write to
men and women In public life anti tell
their family histories and personal ex
periences In, twenty pages of difficult
to decipher penmanship; people who
use pale Ink In. writing to their friends;
people who date their letters "City,"
and expect their friends to remember
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
Copyright, 1911, Amerlcan-Joumal-Ex-
amlner.
the street »d number; people who'
write and ask for autographs and think
they do their full duty In sending a
postage stamp; not remembering that
It lakes time to address envelopes and
look at addresses. ■
People who havo had fair opportuni
ties to obtain the rudiments of educa
tion by reading books In public libraries
and by listening to the conversation of
others; yet who pain the sensitive ear
and mind of their associates by the use
of double negatives and ungrammatical
abbreviation ■ or by cheap slang and
coarse expressions.
People who say: "Don't you know,”
or "you know what I mean" at the end
of every sentence until tho listener
wants to cry, aloud at the senseless
repetition.
People who shout when'they talk and
attract unnecessary attention In public;
people who speak so low, that one Is
obliged to ask.eVery. alternate sentence
repeated.
in the close association of home life
among those who are not able to afford
tho luxury of separate apartments for
each Individual, there aro Innumerable
ways of being thoughtless of one an
other's comfort and pleasure.
The tossing of papers and books and
garments on divans, beds, floors and
chairs, and where some one must go
about to replace them In their proper
receptacles—some one beside the
tosser.
Where there Is but' one or no ser
vant, unnecessary labor Is made by the
thoughtless In this manner.
Many poor rneq and many poor wom
en are refined In feeling, who have not
the surroundings which Insure comfort,
unless other members of the family are
considerate. When a man of delicate
feeling Is closely associated with a
woman who Is careless In her habits, or
when a neat woman must live with a
man who .Is neglectful of the little
refinements which order and cleanli
ness demand, life Is marred and made
uncomfortable, even tho these men and
women may bo loyal and loving and un
selfish In a thousand other ways, *
Life can be made a beautiful thing
In the humblest home. If there Is real
consideration of the feelings and tastes
of others shown by each memben
A DEFORMITY OF FASHION
The Woman Who Wears a Bug-Woven Veil Is a Sight
to Make Strong Men Quail and Children Scream
QUAINTLY CHARMING.
The design of this costume—both gqwn and hat—calls up visions of
ancient stage coaches, huge band boxes and maidens of by-gono times.
The line of the shoulder—a popular one this year—together with the
full puff sleeve and Its bands of fur all lend an old-fashioned quaint,
ness to the costume. The' gown was made of blue velvet with bands
of seel In different widths ns trimming. Across the shoulder Is a
length of old lace Insertion, the samo lace being used for the deep
cuff. The front of the frock Is nearly Identical with the back, the ex
ception being tho blb-Uke piece of silk embroidered In blue which holds
the gtrdll.
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SELECTING A WIFE
typical of tho many matrimonial trage
dies that result from a mnn marrying
the kind of a girl, he doesn't want In
stead of the sort of a one he dope, and
then quarreling with her ever after be
cause she Isn’t something that she nev
er pretended to be.
In your case you have drawn tho
picture of an ultrn-modemist girl.
By DOROTHY DIX
A perplexed youth, torn between
conflicting afnbtlons. writes me:
"I am In sorry straits. I am engaged
a young lady who Is a red-hot suf
fragette. jf.love her deeply, but she
docs everything of which I disapprove. ..... „
"She Is mannish In dress and walk, g-]rl who Is. Independent, Intelligent,
self-willed and ' determined. There's
nothing wrong about her. She has as
much right to her political opinions at
you have to yours. If she prefers to
wear sensible, comfortable clothes. In
stead of lacing herself Into tight fronts,
shb certainly hah common eense and
hygiene on her side of the question.
And” surely the woman who muet bear
children should even have the privilege
of deciding that Important problem of
married life.
It seems to me that she has played
fair In letting you see exactly the sort
of a wife she would make, and It’s up
to you to beat a masterly retreat on the
safe fide of the altar, simply and solely
because this girl, with her advanced
Ideas, Isn't the tort of a wife you want.
What you are looking for Is a sweot,
fluffy headed little creature, who dotes
on dolling herself up, and who will sit
at your feet and ask you what you
think she thinks about everything from
politics to pie.
In my opinion, the reason there Is so
much domestic misery all about us Is
chiefly because so many men do the
thing you aro tempted to do—marry
women who are one thfng and 'then ex
pect them to be something else. We
should think a man a candidate for a
lunatic asylum If he bought a grand
piano and then complained because It
was not a cook stove when he got It
home.
But that Is no more 'unreasonable
than for a man t6 marry a girl because
she Is a beautiful butterfly of fashion,
and then blame her because the Is not
a thrifty, hard-working domestic wife.
Kor Is It more ridiculous than for a
man to pick out a professional woman,
who has achieved success in some call
ing on which she has but years of study
and effort, and then feel himself til
used because she does not want to give
while I ilka a woman to glide and wear
frilly clothes.
She carries a night key, and comes
home when she likes, while I think a
*«nmn should be a clinging vine.
Wie thinks a married couple foolish
to have children for ten years, while I
just dote on babies.
"Ought I to marry her?"
Ortalnly not, son, unless your Idea
of matrimony Is a drawn battle Instead
of a grand, sweet song. Two persons
whose opinions and tastes are as an
tagonistic as yours and this girl’s could
no more get along peaceably together
than fire and water.
And the pity of It Is that Old Mother
[Nature, who concerns herself with the
good of the race and not tho happiness
of the Individual, almost Invariably
gives to men and women endowed with
these opposite characteristics a fatal
f.wlnatlon for each other, so that they
marry each other and live scrappily
over afterward.
Don't be misled, son, Into believing
that marriage Is some sort of magic
■oothlng syrup that softens down all
the angles In people's dispositions, and
makes those who have always dis
agreed on every subject able to agree
as soon as the knot Is tied.
Take It from me as a sure tip that
•he matrimonial yoke Isn’t a patent ad
justable collar. It's the most stiff and
unyielding stock that was ever Invent
'd, and the most liable to gall. Also,
People are not changed by having tho
marriage service read over them. As
'hey were before wedlock In character
and deposition, ao they are In wedlock.
Only a little more so.
Therefore, If you wish to be happy
tho married, pick out the kind of a wife
you want, Instead of marrying the one
*ho is exactly the sort of a woman you
d °n't approve of, and then trying to
m »ke her over Into your Ideal. Believe
m«. that Is a painful process, the end
" htreof Is generally Reno.
Of course It Is part of every man's
*anlty to believe that his wife Is going
>o bo as plastic as clay In bis hands,
an< l that he can mold her character to
•tit his own fancy. Never was there a
fallacy on earth than this. By
'ht time a girl Is aid enough to marry
■he has hardened Into the sort of a
'yoman she Is going to be, and you could
uhangt the color of her eyes, or tho
Occasionally a man reaches tho end
of his days who had devoted his life
from childhood to such frivolous pur
poses and trifling vanities that the only
creditable thing that may be said .of
him when tho end comes Is that at
least he was never tattooed. It Is the
only folly that escaped him, and this
one folly less’ gives him little'post-
mortyn luster for the reason that ths
tattoo man Is rarely met.
Had he stood behind a counter In a
men's clothing store and handed out a
bright assortment of tattoo designs
with ties and gloves; had he lain In
wait In public baths ready to tattoo u
man's breast with a picture of his
sweetheart while he waits, not so many
men could claim even this ono dlstlnc-
tlon.
For this reason, perhaps, men should
have more charity for the woman^vho
puts on a veil that gives her face a
fashionable tattoo design. The beguil
ing clerk who sells veils Is met a doien
times a week, i\nd the woman, being
tempted so ofteifj falls. The beguiling
clerk points out (hat the spider design
Is the latest fashion, or that madame
would look well with a crocodile across
By FRANCES L. CARSIDE
her nose, and madame buys, puts on
the veil, and walks the streets, a sight
to make strong men quail and children
scream.
' Oculists have protested that veils
with big polka dots and blotches, with
Insects obstructing tho vision, aro a
menace to the eyesight, and the people
who are compelled to sit opposite this
fashionable form of refined tattoo In
street cars protest that such deformi
ties have Injurious effect on their eyes
and nerves and tense of harmony, but
tho woman who has a veil with a pat
tern of caterpillars puts It on, taking
pride In her appearance, and has no
thought of what jter grief and suffering
would bo If the Lordhad marked her
face that way.
She puts on her veil In such a fash
ion that her eyes are hidden by the
head and tall of a snake with Its body
bridging her nose; or It "may be that
she didn't like the snake design, and
when she'opent her mouth to laugh the
horrified observers notice a big spider
across her teeth. Sometimes there Is a
string of bees flying out of one car
across her face and Into the other car,
giving her head the appearance of a
beo hlvo, and often sho looks as If the
tattoo man hod dona butterflies In black
Ink nil over her countenance.
It will come to -pass some day that
some near-sighted man will give a
woman a heavy,slap on the cheek, and
his defense will bo that he yiw a ven
omous spider there, and when the wise
statisticians have reached thlB deformi
ty of fushlon, which has so far escaped
them, they will discover that a* certain
percentage of delirium tremens Is
caused by men whose nervous systems
are wrecked by seeing bugs and flstr-
worms and alligators crawling across
their wives' faces.
If theso were imy attractiveness In
tho style of a bug-woven voll, thero
would bo some excuse for a woman
wearing It; for It Is a pleasing trait In
every woman to want to look her best,
but It Is a Style that Is hideous, de
forming and Injurious.
The woman who wears such a veil
can not snlfT with scorn at tho man
who Is tattooed. He,'at least, doesn't
wear this token-of a weak Intellect on
hts face.
EFFECTIVE TAILOR-MADE.
The cloth suit pictured above shows the favored coat of the present
season. This Is shaped similar to a man’s cutaway coat, fastening
with one or two buttons bolow roll revers. In the model shown a heavy
cloth of mahogany brown was used with trimmings of braid of dif
ferent widths. The wide square rovers aro of self-tone satin. The side
and cuffs of tho coat aro trimmed with narrow soutacho and satin but
tons holding little pointed tabs of broader soutache. Tho left side of
the skirt, where tho oddly shaped sides fold over, Is similarly trimmed.
SENSELESS CHATTER
FABLES OF THE WISE DAME
By DOROTHY DIX
How to Keep a Husband.
Once upon a Time there was a Se
riout Young Creature who believed that
her Sex had a Sacred Mission to Poll**
the World, and that a Mon got Married
to get some one to Refonn him.
She was one of those Admirable Girls
with Three Story Foreheads, who aro
the Goods as Domestic Angels, and who
wear High Neck Gowns to Parties, and
are down on all Scrapping Matches ex-,
cept Church Quarrel*.
In spite, however, of being Topheavy
with Virtues the Mai<f was a Good
Looker all right, all right, and as her
lamented Father had left her a Pile of
Gilt Edge Securities the site of a Trunk,
a Courageous Youth Wooed and Won
her ns his Bride. . .. _ . . .
This greatly alarmed his Friends, who
feared for his Safety In the Penal Serv
itude for Life Domesticity that the
Lady was apt tf serve out, and so they
went to him and thus addressed him:
“Without doubt," they said, "your
fiancee Is a Lulu and a Honey, and you
aro fortunate to havo won so .Noble a
Wife, but do you feel that you are Fit
ted for the Higher Life, and Tuned Up
to the High C Pitch In which she wab
bles? We apprehend that your Recent
Reformation was merely a Campaign
Promise that doesn't go after election,
and that your Good Resolves are no
Thicker than the Gliding on the Gold
Brick that you are handing the Lady.
Therefore we fear that In time an Ex
istence devoted solely, to the Pursuit of
the Pure, the Beautiful and the Good
will get on your'Nerves.”
Sure of Himself.
"It le true," replied the Youth, slow
ly Elevating the Ltd of his Left Orb,
that I do not Sport any Fringe a* a
.... , j . . . shining Example to Youth, nor am I a
up her llfework and become a darner of Top.Noteher In the Wisdom Push, nev.
stockings.
Yet we see these Ill-assorted ✓.itches
mad* dally, when the men might j/st as
well have picked out the kind of a wife
they waft ted In the first place.
The attraction that ijraws people of
opposite tastes and temperament to
gether doesn’t last. The only tie that
endures Is of similarity. The people
we like best are those who are most
like ourselves, and who agree with us
Instead of contradicting us.
This being true, when you marry.
•flape of her face easier, than you could j son. pick out a woman who rides the
her tastes and beliefs and standards off same hobbles you do. Thus shall you
conduct. ! amble along peacefully, side by side,
ln T 1 he question of whether she I* going [ thru life. •
0 o* Independent or clinging, sensible I
r * ,00 L broad-minded or narrow and j Orthodox. ,
Of'Judlced, thrifty or a spendthrift, is From The Congregatlonallst.
already retried, son. and no mere man , VY””'
can alter »h*» . [for 8t. Paul. It la good enough for me.
lake „r J 18 verd ' ct - S,1C * ,here to . This was the.emnhatlc protest of a New
leave, but sho Is there. England deacon against the reading of rile
u ,rfn 0UW lau * fh at >' our °“' n Sortie- revised instead of the King James ver-
dilemma, were not your case solslon.
erthelcas I think that I stand to Win
Out In this deal.
"I opine that the Less a Wife knows
the -Easier Mark she it, and that Work
ing a Household Angel I* like Playing
with Marked Cards. I shall not Op
pose my wife in her Sacred Mission of
Making Over the Universe. On the
contrary I shall encourage her to con
tinue to Devote Herself to the Altru
istic Occupation of Reforming Public
Abuses.
"For It does not get past me that
when she Is Memorialising Congress to
Abolish Saloons, or Suppress Polygamy
among the Sulus she will not have
Leisure In which to observe that I oc
casionally Vary the 'Monotony of the
Fireside by opening Bottle* of Wealthy
Water for Chorus Girl*." •
Now, as soon as the Nuptial Knot
was tied the Wife proceeded to try out
her Theories on how to Bring a Hus
band Up By Hand.
"I hold,” she said, “that It Is a Wife's
Duty to Lift her Husband up to her own
Exalted Level, and to help him to
Overcome his Weaknesses, so I shall
put the Double Cross on all of his
Former Amusements. I apprehend that
It Is Sinful to Burn Up Good Money In
Cigars when there are so many Great
Causes needing Funds. Moreover, It (a
the PossessloiFof Money In Ills Pock
ets that gets a Masculine Creature Intd
Trouble, and there Is no other such Pro
tection against Temptation as not to
have the Price."
No Monty; No Kay.
Whereupon, tho Wife went thru her
Husband's Clothes every night and Re
lieved him of everything but Car Fare.
She also refused to let him Carry a
Latch Key lest It might lead him Into
staying out Late nt Night, and w'
any of Hts Old Friends called In
Evening the only Refreshments she
served was Cold Shoulder. Also when
they met a Real Gtrlle-GIrlle, all Dolled
Up to Kill, she made her Husband Turn
hts Head tho Other Way and Walk
Backward,
Notwithstanding all of these Home
Rules It was observed that the Mnn
preserved a Gay and Joyous Demeanor,
and altho the Wife always Spieled to
Other Women about how she Mnnnged
her Husband, It seemed to his Old Pals
that they met him on the Great White
Way about as often as formerly.
This greatly pusxled his Friends,
most of whom had Wives and Troubles
of their own, and rimy begged him to
tell them !)ow he had managed to Put
It Over his Spouse so successfully.
'When I married,” replied the Man,
'T knew that I shquld be Handed a
Complete Code of Conduct, andnm I did
not desire to take part in a Perpetual
Family Joint Debate, I apparently ac
cepted It without a Murmur. I also de.
elded that It would be Less Painful to
Spread the Salve than to Bump Into my
Wife’s Rock-Bound Conscience. Fur
thermore, I was wise that the only
things a Woman doesn't Worry Over
are those that she Does Not Know, so It
Is Foolish and Unkind to put her Hep
to Too Much.
Tlje Wise Boy.
“My wife Is, therefore, satisfied that
I do not Piay the Market, or Sit In a
little Game, nor buy Drinks for the Boys
because I could not do It on the Chick
en Feed she permits me to carry In my
Packet, but It has not occurred to her
that I really Tote my Roll In the Sweat
Band of my Hat. She also opens ths
Door for me without a Kick when I re
turn home In the Early Morning be
cause she It Satisfied that a Man who
docs not Care to Own a Latch Key
only stays out at night when Compelled
( - hy Business. ’
"Neither am 1 Chump enough to ever
Remark on Another Woman's Pulchri
tude In her Presence; and, because she
Is Sure that I would not Notice the Ve
nus de Milo if I met her coming down
the Pike, I am enabled to Employ a
Stenographer who Is a Peacherino.
Thus, by this Discreet line of conduct,
I enjoy Peace at Home and Fun
Abroad.”
MORAL—This fable teaches two
hlngs: First, that the Henpecked Hus.
band Is a Fly Bird when h< gets away
from his Own Roost; And, secondly,
that no Woman-can keep up with a
Man, and she Is Silly Ao get Gray Head
ed attempting the Job.
The Two Sisters.
.Once upon a time there were two
Young Maids who Orew Tired of Bit
ting upon the Anxious Bench waiting
for Eligible Men to come along and No
tice them, so they determined to get
up and go out and’Rustle some on their
Own Account.
Now, both of these Maids were most
Charming and fitted to Adorn any So
ciety. Also they were there with the
Glad Raiment, and a Nifty Line of Con
versation calculated to make a Mar.
swell up with Gratified Vanity until ho
became so Chesty his Shirt Studs would
not hold. .1
Furthermore, theso Maids had had
the Inestimable Advantage of being
brought up by Mother, who was on to
the Game of Life, so they passed up
the Girl Bachelor and Latch Key Prop
osition as a False AlarnV, and did not
afflict the Public by running any Bluff
about the Glorious Privilege of Sup
porting Herself being a Cinch for a
Female.
“On t.he contrary," they said to one
another, "a Good Home and a Ready
Money Bill Payer Is worth Two Ca
reer* any day of the week, nnd we
opine that any Lady will fine It Less
Fatiguing to Work a Husband than it
Is to Work a Typewriter."
Unfortunately, however, the Elder of
the Sisters had not been Present when
the Distribution of Beauty was being
made, and hence she won a Trifle Shy
on Pulchritude, but when it came to
Real Intellect the was Sally-the-
Whole-Work*.
"Alas,” she said, as she communed
with herself, "my Mirror tells mo that
I am the Human Chromo Instead of a
Living Picture, and I am wise that I
will never win out on my Looks, but
what Is Beauty compared to Brains and
a Noble Disposition?
' It is true that In a Beauty Show I
would not cut as much Ice as my Bis
ter, who certainly Is a Peacherino In
Appearance, but who has a Mind of the
Consistency of Scrambled Eggs, and a
Temper like a aet ot Fourth of July
Fire Works.
"I do not wish to Hurl any Bouquets
at Myself, but I have made a Close
Study ot Men. and I apprehend that my
Superior Knowledge of ths subject will
leave my Slater at the Post, for while
she possesses Beauty. I have a Great
Head.
"I have Listened Carefully while Men
discoursed about what Women Should
Do, and I have ascertained that while
they Seem to Admire the Women who
look like a Dally Hint From Paris,
what they really Yearn For Is a Female
Creature who takes Serious Views of
Life, nnd who hah no Vanity and Af
fectation.
"I have listened with profit to the
many Knocks that Men hand women
for their Devotion tb Dress. I have also
observed how they Deplore the Fact
that a Creature with a Bout should
spend so much valuable Time In Try
ing to make herself Attractive to Men
By WINIFRED BLACK
Last night I went to dinner with
three women and three men. *
This morning I feel ns If I had two
heads and four tongues and not an ear
to my name.
/Jo. It wasn't tho things wo hod to
drink—It was a strictly temperanco
dinner—It was the things we had to
talk about.
Two of the men were unusually
clover talkers. One of them had Just
come back from a long trip to Cen
tral Asia, where he had lived with some
queer kind of old being who dyed his
beard scarlet end wore a yellow robe
and green slippers. And the other man
had Just written, rehearsed and pro
duced an exceedingly successful play.
Tho third man had sense enough to
sit and listen to the news about these
things.
Tho women? Not they!
What did they care about Central
Asia, or about tho way a man re-
Instoad of Sngaglng In some. Useful-
Pursuit.
Bo It Is up to me for the Natural
Waist Line, and the Puffless Coiffure,
and to give a Moving Picture Illustra
tion of nil tho Qualities Men Ad
mire Most In Women," and with that
the Elder Sister Cut out the Fashions,
adopted Rational Dress, and Devoted
herself to Performing Household
Stunts.
An Attractive Center.
Tho younger Slstir, on tho other
hand, continued to help out Nature with
the Rouge Pot. and the Peroxlded
Frankfurter, and altho there was noth.
Ing on her Mind but her Hair, she was
the Center of Attraction wherever she
went.
If she had Searched her System she
could not have found a Single Idea In
It, but she had a Habit of Getting
There all the same. k
She noticed that It Is the Maid with
tho High Heeled Slippers and the Mar
celled Locks and the Frou-Frou 8klrt
who Is Fed on Lobster and Chocolato
Creams, and sho opined that that waa
about All that ahe needed to Know In
her Business, ao abe apent her tlrtie In
Frivolous Amusements, and In keeping
her Hands In a nice Squeeiable Condi
tion.
Now, all of the old Married People
were never weary of Touting the Elder
Slater as the Capital Prize In the Mat
rimonial Lottery. __
Bee." they cried, "here la a Maid en|Vj"«nii'ih*t kind nf'
lilanl nt a Par. ... r.i.
who realizes at-last the Ideal of a Per'
feet Woman. She la Industrious, Eco
nomical, Sensible and Domestic, and as
a Wife she would be the Real Thing.”
"What you say Is True,” each Man
thus addressed would reply. "She la,
Indeed, a Noble Creature, and she would,
be Just the Wife some other Man should
Marry, but not for me. -
"She comes up to my Ideal., but she
does not Ftre my Fancy, and I uppre-
hend that If I were married to u Wife
who had no Faults It would get cn my
nerves until I should arise some night
and Bat her In the head, for I could not
stand to contemplate auch Perfection:
Bealdes, a Husband's chief Amusement
after Marriage Is Knocking hla Wife’s
Weaknesses, and If she had none he
would be deprived of a Pleasant Dally
Diversion."
Whereupon the Men all hied away
and popped the Question to the Young
er 8lster, who had no Matrimonial
qualifications whatever except her Per
sonal Appearance
Moral: This Fable teacle a tlial the
Wnni. n V. h" :ll • lUt-'il t" l. ■ (‘.‘eel Wives
always remain Old Maids.
hearsys a play? What tho women at
dinner wanted to talk about w'ns the
weather, and tho now hats, and the
Smlthses* mothor-ln-law, anfl tho *
Joneses* new cousin come from nobody
knows where, my dear, “with tho
queerest clothes, full skirts such as they
wore two years back,” and tho sales In
gloves, and tho maid who waited upon
tho tablo. and was/it^rue that Miss So
and So was really engaged, or was It
Just newspaper talk? Personalities,
personalities, personalities, and the stu
pidest kind of personalities at that.
Orio of tho clever men started, poor
thing, to tell a clever story. Just as
ho waa getting to tho point, "b-z-z-z"
his wife whispered In my entranced
ear: 'Have you seen those new gloves
at Ho Hnd Ho’s?” nnd I shall never
know how that 1 story ended unless I
ring up tho clever man on tho phone
and make him tell me; and If I do
that, I suppose both he and hla wife
will think I am trying to make love
to him.
They were talking about plays. *1
remember," said ono clever man—
"Whush,” chattered the clever man’s
wife, "weren’t those dresses frights in
that play?”
"Hideous,” eagerly assented the first
clever man’s wife, "and didn't the lead
ing woman look exactly Itke that sls-
ter-ln-law «>f tin* Smiths, who visited
them winter beforo last?" And then w«
had to hear all about the Smiths and
their H>t*r-ln-law and their mother-
in-law—no. It was a step-mother—
and shoVl been married three times, I
remember—nothing pretty about her
either, so they said—and all about
Smith and tho way ho walked, and the
way-ho talked and what train he came
home on at night when ho lived out
at 5*ew Rochelle.
And then both of those women com
plained bitterly that both of their hus
bands burled themselves In their papers
all thru breakfast and never said on«
word during the meal—no, nor listened
to one cither.
If I were married to a woman like
that, I’d bury myself In something, If It
was nothing more thrilling thnn the
•'irii.in.t.-. The hignH ..f the zodiac are
at least picturesque and tantalizing to
the Imdgination.
Men Just os bad?» I don’t believe it.
Now, on.' of the men at that fateful
dinner was a dull, commonplace, un
imaginative sort of well-meaning per
son, but do you suppose he would ever
have dreamed of telling us what he nnd
his partner had for luncheon, and who
paid for It, and what the waiter said
when they asked why the soup was
up
ncr’s sister’s best friend was building,
and who was going to furnish it. and
the sort of place his. own. mother's
grandmother had once, back In Ohio?
1 trow no{.
If he .ever started to do It some one
would yawn and say: "As I was Maying,
old man," and there would be an end to
the family chronicles for that occasion.
The world Is an awfully Interesting
place. Bisters of the personalities habit,
why doh’t you wake up and find out
something about It, Just for onccfi
I’m going to put nn old-fashioned
money box on my family table, and the
first little girl who begins to Inllict the
meal with purely personal chatter will
have to drop a penny In that box, and
when there Is money vnough in the box
I’ll let her have It to buy her doll a
brand new' hat upon tho sole condition
that she doesn’t tell me or any one
else on earth where "he buys the hat,
what she pays f r It. or what kind of
hair the^voman has who sells It to
I’d
of mine gr
up a bespectacled bluestocking than a
H.-Shi'-lhr-Hla-I-My-Me-Mlne bom.
Wouldu’t you?