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VOL. VIIL NO. 279.
, ’ ATLANTA, GA., SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1910.
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Common Sense
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
Copyright by the New York Evening
Journal Publishing Company.
Every now and then a world-weary
and folly-weary man marries an inno
cent. unwordly and “good woman.
He wants the sweet homo life he has
not found In the paths of Pleasure, nor
in the byways of License. He wants
the unmercenary devotion of a loving
woman, and he wants to 'walk forth In
the broad light of day, unashamed, with
his wife by his side.
It is the inevitable goal of every
worth-while man.
The world approves of such mar-
rinses, and the woman feels that she
is filling the highest mission of her sex
in reclaiming a lost sheep.
But how few such women know the
wise middle course to walk with such a
man.
It is all very well to listen and be
licve when he tells you he is happlet
than he has ever been in his life be
fore, and that his home is dearer to
him than any club on earth.
But It is far from very well if you
fall upon his neck and weep the first
time ho intimates that he would like to
drop in at the xlub and talk with the
old chums for an hour.
The Poorest Method.
This is the poorest method you could
Adopt to convince him of the greater
Joys of home.
There Is a certain fascination in club
life to most men. There Is danger In
this fascination to some men. When a
man sickens of It and wants a home. It
is because he has had nothing but his
club, and because there Is a worthy el
ement In his nature which calls for
something better.
The fact that he should want to visit
the old scene now and then Is not an
indication that he is sick of home or
that he is wandering from the fold
Again.
If the pasture Is sweet, and the shep
herdess kind and wise, the sheep will
not wander far.
If you have married a man who has
been over-fond of tho fair sex and if
he is kind and true and loving, do not
stand forever upon the alert lest he be
come disloyal to you.
Constant surveillance never yet kept
a man true. It has mado many a man
unfaithful.
Altho your husband may have told
you over and over that you are ten-fold
mere pleasing to him than any woman
he ever knew before ho met you, that
dees not signify that he might not liko
to sit by some other at a dinner party,
or dance with some other at a cotillion.
It does not signify that ho would not
enjoy talking with others, whom he re.
gards legs highly than you.
In the association with the women
he does not lovo a man often most ap
preciates the woman he does love.
Should he take a seat by some other
woman and converse with her In your
presence, do not act sulky, distrait or
Injured.
That only makes you ridiculous and
unlovable.
Maks Him a Willing Csptivs.
Altho your Innocence and un world-
Hness won your husband from the paths
ft f folly, those'qualifies will not keep
him at your side, unless you mingle
common sense and tact with them.
It Is easy for many women to be
brilliant and It is easy for others to be
good. But It seems tho most difficult
thing in the world for a woman to be
sensible.
Onlus and virtue are everywhere,
but we must search for common sense.
Absolute loyalty, absoluto morality,
absolute honor and cleanliness of life,
‘ very woman has the right to ask of
bi r husband. The best of his devo
tion and the larger portion of his leis
ure should be given her volurttarily,
But to make him a willing captive,
should be woman's art, not to make
him a life prisoner, and the home a
reformatory, und tho wife a auspicious
warden, always Imagining that the
isoner Is planning escape.
The good wife must possess other
qualities besides goodness to render
her marriage with a mere man suc
cessful.
Common Sense and Tact.
Common sense and tact must be two
strands 1 of the rope to make It strong
ugh to act as an anchor for the
domestic ship. The too good wife re
Mes wholly upon one strand and the
hip breaks anchor.
Jf 5'our husband has given up dissi
pation, do not Insist that he must let
s « igar go also,
if he has abandoned the gaming
table, do not say that he must give up
the social game of cards a* well, to
uiake you happy.
If he has stopped all flirtatious re
lations with tho opposite sex, do not
•k him to relinquish all friendly asso-
latlona with other women.
If he has come up out of a lower
lane to your altitude, do not ask him
to stand forever upon a pedestal. Let
him walk upon the earth among mor-
'I s and be satisfied.
In order to think him a good man,
o not ask him to bo an ang«d.
Wholesome, normal, sensible human
*Ings are what we all need to be while
n earth, not disembodied spirits.
'l°an thoughts, clean habits, clean
bodies and happy hearts and fares help
10 make beautiful lives and homes.
But the too good wife sometimes see*
vi I where U does not exist, and by sus-
b ion and Insinuation ruins her own
nances of happiness.
In order to be a good wife, do not be
t o good."
'n1 remember 'Thoughts are things
n<! as you continually think of your
husband, so you are helping him to be.
SOME CHARMING FASHION HINTS FOR THE SUMMER
YOUNG GIRL’S FROCK.
This Is a charming design for a frock of blue and white wash ma
terial. Tho simple straight lines would be becoming to a slender, girlish
figure. The frock Is cut in semi-princess lines, very scant with a
scarcely perceptible curve at the waist and the elliptical shoulder line.
Tho yoko and undersleeves are of white linen, embroidered In dark blue
tone of the dress stripes—of this also Is the belt The kimono sleeves,
the blouse front and either side of the center gore on the skirt are cut
out In wedge shape and laced with blue silk cord.
Highly popular is the single rose
for hat trimming this season. Of
course, when used In this solitary
fashion It must he of the finest
quality and most artistically
placed. This hat of leghorn has a
wide pliable brim and high crown.
Flat motifs of cream lace are ap
plied on crown and brim, having
centers of palo liberty. On the
right, weighing the brim far down
over the face. Is the single rose
mentioned above—In this case a
’ delicate ahaded pink, giving the
most beautiful touch to the color
scheme of the whole.
, COAT SUIT OF TU8SOR.
Here Is shown a coat suit of tussor, In one of the blond shades.
The coat blouses slightly both front and back and closing diagonally. Is
held at the wAist by a crushed girdle of liberty, fastened with ornamental
buttons. Narrow soutache decorates the shoulders and short kimono
sleeves. On the front are two ornaments, composed of .soutache and the
fancy buttons. The skirt Is plain and scant and decorated with a sash
of liberty, held at the side by a hdtton. The hat worn with this was
rough straw in a shade matching the gown, trimmed by loops of the
braid and soft pink roses.
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Engagement Rings
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
The other day a girl had her fiance
arrested on a charge of larceny.
It seems that tho young man had
bought his engagement ring on tho In
stallment plan.
When the payments came due ho had
not the money to meet them. In dis-
palr he borrowed the ring from his
fiance and returned It to the Jeweler.
Th« young woman, who Is evidently
more grasping than romantic, promptly
had him arrested.
She protests that she loves him. It Is
a case of “I love my sweetheart, but
oh, you engagement ring."
Naturally every girl who becomes en-
guged likes to have an engagement
ring; it is a token, a pledge of the
Hum’s love, and therefore very dear to
her.
But the ring is really not of vital
importance, and if she sincerely loves
the man she won’t fret If sho does not
have a ring.
It’s tho Sentiments Not ths Ring.
A great many girls seem to think
that an engagement is not genuine un
less a diamond solitaire adorns the
third finger of their left hand.
That's all nonsense, for It Is the sen
timent, not the value of the ring, that
ounts.
If you really love the man, you will
lovo the ring, whether It bo of dia
monds or a plain little silver band, sim
ply because he gave It to you.
I have seen a girl gaze with dreamy
adoration at a circle of diamonds, and
I hdve seen one gaze In exactly the
same way at a single little Inexpensive
turquoise. Both girls were deeply In
love, and tho value of the rings meant
little or nothing to them; It was the
sentiment that counted;
When you become engaged t
young man who Is earning his living
and trying hard to save up enough to
marry you, the girl he loves, don t
tnuke him feel that ho must spend more
than ho can afford on an engagement
ring.
Don’t Mind What Others Say.
And don't care what outsiders say.
If they express scorn or wonder at the
.Impurity of tho ring or thu absence
of one, Just .ay proudlys
"So, I have no ring, because I am
helping him save money. «o we ean be
married .oon; I asked him not to r"*
me one.”
If your love for a man le dependent
upon the value of his gifts to you and
the money he spends In entertaining
you It Is a pretty feeble type of love.
From the moment you become en
gaged to a man, It Is yrnir duty to help
him save his money, or to spend tt
wisely. . _ ,
The man who saves money for you 1*
paying you a far greater compliment
than the one who squanders It on you.
Ho saves because he long, for the day
when he may mnrry you. If you are
mot satisfied with any pleasure unleB.
It costs a good deal, you are more of a
handicap than a help to the man you
After all, tho chief pleasure llee In
being together, so why not he content
with Simple, Inexpensive forma of
amusement?
What You’ll Do, If You’re Wloe.
The man love, you and. of course,
his greatest pleasuro would be to lavish
gifts upon you: but if you are a wlee
girl you will put your foot down very
(Irmly on all such foolishness.
Tell him frankly that you love him
for himself—not fur hi* gifts or an ex
pensive engagement ring.
And If you do love him, dear girl, be
help to him. Help him to be steady
and true and Industrious, and. when the
happy day comes that you go to him
ns his wife, you can be. very sure that
he will he very proud of the girl who
lias been his help and inspiration.
THE ADVENTURES. OF HENRY HYDE!
Jl SERIAL STORY FOR CHILDREN BY CHILDREN —
sou—a .non lira. hiot. kudo, uoan lor
the summer. Mill Dolly On, who tosebos tho
fifth credo la tho \y. r. Slaton public ochool,
retd to her pupllt tho famous story of Per
seus end hie wonderful cap that msdt him
Invlilbls when he put H on.
Than eho tunetted that this plmn bo ear-
ried out: That Wilton Sorest, one of tho
boys, write s fiction story ebout lbs finding
of such n cap as In tho Orook Ule Portent
was told to have found. Then WUeon's ehep-
ttr wne to bo Mud olond to tho close, and
when they had all herd It, another child
would bo naked to write the oocond chapter,
and to on nntll tho ttory woo completed.
The various chapters as written by the
children make a most Interesting little ttory
and reflect much credit on the Ingenious
teacher and her bright pupils who era all lest
than 12 years of ego.
Tho Oeorglan will pnblieh one chapter etch
Saturday until “Thu Adventuret of Henry
Hyde'' have boon brought to a conclusion.
Hero la the first one;
THE ADVENTURES OF HENRY
HYDE.
CHAPTER I—THE FINDING OF AN
OLD CAP.
By Wilson Sagroat.
Henry Hyde was a littla boy eleven
years old. He lived with his parents,
two slaters and a smaller brother. One
winter they went South to the sea
shore and while there Henry, hie broth
er and eletere had an extraordinarily
WIL80N SEGREST.
good time. One day while they wero
playing about some large rocks, which
the^y found excellent for hiding, Henry
linppened to an adventure about which
I will tell.
It was his sister. Lucy's, time to be
"It,” and he went Into a sort of opening
In tho rocks to hide. There he found
nn old cap which was made of many
pieces of different kinds of cloth. HI*
slater could not And him and gave up.
Henry came out shouting. “Look what
a funny cap I found!” He sounded
light at them, hut they could not see
him. They were dumfounded. but man-
aged to say, "Where are you?” Then
Henry took off his cap and they could
see him. He found It to he nn Invisible
cap.
Henry gut to wondering how that cap
which waa ao wonderful camo to he
there. At Inst ho thought of the story
'Perseus," and Imagined that Per
seus “had gone to sleep there, and.
walking oft In his sleep, had left It
there.
His little brother wanted to put It on,
hut Henry would not let him.
They started back toward the hotel,
hut Henry never parted with his cap.
He had many funny and useful ad
ventures, of which you will read In the
fallowing chapters.
Mothers! Read To Your Little Ones
—A BED-TIME STORY
Beginning Monday, The Georgian will introduce to its
readers a series of most
delightful stories for chil
dren, written by Edith
Havens—' Little Bed-Time
Tales.”.
You mothers who recall the
beautiful days of your own child
hood will take great interest in
these clean, wholesome, imagina
tive little stories read in a few
moments to your little tots be
fore bedtime.
The Georgian has seenred ex
clusive rights to these stories in
this section, and there will be
one on the back page every day.
Watch for the first number.
Read them to the little folks.
The Girly Girl
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
There Is ono glr! who Is the beat of
all girls—the girl that both men and
women like—the womanly girl.
“Of all girls give me the girly girl," a
man once said to me. "1 think I ex
press the opinion of all men when I say
that the more feminine a girl Is the
better we like her."
Sometimes she Is a beauty and again'
Hhe can lay claim to no beauty at ail—
that is, beauty of coloring and feature.
Her charm lies much deeper than that.
To begin with, she Is sympathetic and
she understands men.
There are girls whose charms aro
chiefly negative; they never make ml*,
takes, but neither do they have Insplra
tlons.
Tho girly girl has Inspirations; she
has an Intuitive perception of when to
say and do the right thing, and her
Judgment Is unerring. She Is not a
flirt, but she Is a coquette.
In a group of girls and men you never
And her doing all the talking and man
aging. She is content to listen and
she knows that every man In the group
Is only too willing to serve her.
But she Is absolutely true to her own
•ex, Is the girly girl, and Is never
guilty of a meanness where girls and
men ore concerned.
Hhe Is popular from babyhood to old
age.
LI .
old men, all succutnl
As a little girl, she may be a hoyden,
but she is never rough and she knows
when to let boys help her and when to
be Independent.
Hho avoids the feminine pit-fall of
over-dependence. The clinging type of
girl cloys ewntually.
Tho girly girl has many men friends
who are not In love with her but they
thoroughly enjoy her friendship and
the ready sympathy she gives the re
cital of their • love affairs, woes and
Joys.
"I’m not a bit In love with her,” a
man once said to me, In speaking of a
girly girl. “We are bully friends and
I've told her nil about Polly; but,” he
added honestly, “I could be In love with
her If I hadn’t already fallen In love
with Polly/'
That's the great charm about that
kind of girl. All men are not In love
With her, but no man would count It a
hardship if obliged to marry her.
And Inside of a month he would be
In love with her; he couldn’t help It.
* Don’t for a moment think that the
girly girl is only found In the home
environment. You And her In shops. In
offices, in factories. In schools. In serv
ice; she U every place, this golden
girl, and always she Is loved and re
spected.
If you are lucky enough to win her,
take her to your home and heart, and
guard her as the most precious of your
possessions.
Just as women like a manly man, so
do men like a womanly woman; It Is
the natural law 'of opposition and se
lection.
The girly girl develops Into the worn*
anly woman.
I would like my brother or any man
whom 1 cared tor, to marry a girl ot
this kind; because I know thAt she has
the power to make a man happy and
to hold his love.
The strongest point about the girly
girl’s charm Is that It Is not In the
least dependent upon good looks,
Home of the best loved women In
history have been plain of face. But
every one of them was feminine from
head to foot.
If you are In love, you are to be con
gratulated, for love, even if It be un-
reclprocated. Is good for everybody.
But If your love is returned and the
girl Is the girly girl type then you are
to be congratulated ten times over, and
to be envied by less fortunate men.
The Modem Diana
Whsn a Girl of Today Sees a Man Sht
Would Like For a Husband She
Waetee No Time in Preliminaries,
But Hunts Hunts Him Down
at Once,
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By DOROTHY DIX.
The time-honored theory that. In
matters ot the affection, man waa the.
pursuer and woman the pursued, ha—
always, probably, been a good deal ot a
myth.
It wa» one of those convenient Ac
tions that women Invent for their own
advantage, and men accept, because It
is pleasing to their vanity. Without
doubt most women picked out their
husbands before the men were aware
of the ladles' amiable Intentions toward
them: and It Is likely that the most
shrinking violet could have told. If she
would, how she happened to get pinned
on the particular coat lapel whereon
she was worn.
Heretofore, however, women have
carried on the love chase under cover-
They have disguised their traps. They
have pretended to run* from a man
when really they were running after
him.
To his surprise, a man ha* suddenly
discovered himself stumbling over some
particular woman at every step of his
pathway, but she was always ready to
present a perfectly good allbL
8he was there, It waa true, and ha
couldn't get away from her, but. she
always said she was there by accident
Certainly by accident and In the end.
somehow, she made the man believe in
the accident theory and that he dis
covered her, and he took credit to him
self for It. and for winning her, whereas
the truth was that he never at any
time had the slightest chance of escap
ing her.
Diana Hunting In ths Optn,
For many generations women have
practiced these tactics for the promo
tion of matrimony and the satisfaction
of man, and so It la a matter of some
wonder to note that this ancient plan
of campaign Is rapidly being discarded
by the modern young woman, and that
Diana has come nut of the sequestered
woodland and Is hunting In the open.
The young women of today have
given the old convention respecting the
relationship between the sexes a jolt
from which It will never recover, and
which makes older people simply sit up
and gasp. For these girls—and they
are nice girls, good girls, girls In good
positions In society—frankly take the
Initiative In furtherng an acquaintance
with any man they meet who happens
to strike their fancy.
A young man with whom I am ac
quainted, for Instance, Is an attractive
youth, with a handsome face, a glib
tongue and a certain way with him. He
Is not rich, nor has he any brilliant
prospects, nor Is he particularly eligible.
Nevertheless he Is simply persecuted by
the attentlone of young women.
He will meet a girl at A party, fog
Instance, and the next day he will get a
note from her. aaylffg that her mother
Invites him to dine nn a certain dato.
Not being smlttui with the girl, and
being overrun with engagements, ha
will decline. In a few days another
Invitation will come that will also be
declined Then another, and another,
and another, until Anally he Is simply
coerced Into accepting.
A* the girl likes him on further ac
quaintance, she pursues her advantage
and the youth Ands hlmsrjf forever
dangling at her heels. In her house, or
as a member of her theater parties, or
In her father's motor, and all really
against his will. »
What ths Phone Girl Hsars.
Nor Is this an Isolated case. A girl
who was a telephone operator told mo
not long ago that the conversations
that went on over the wire between
young women and men were Incredible.
She said It was a common thing for
girls to call up their men acquaint
ances and reproach them for not hav
ing called, and when the men showed
reluctance to do so, and made Almsy
excuses, the girls would simply Impor
tune the men.
mothers with grown' sons who
are living at home also bear witness
to the fact that the modern girl Is a
sentimental hustler, and they have
some very scathing remarks to make
about the way that the young wopien
nowadays run after' men. Instead of
waiting for the men to run after them.
An Interesting phase of the ebbject Is
that men are not pleased with the re
versal of the old order of procedure In
courtship. Of course, they may like it
when they get educated up to It, but so '
far It can not be said that the new plan
Is a success; for In prosecuting It the
young women have overlooked one
very Important point They have not
taken li)to consideration that by nature
man Is a sportsman and a gambler,
and that It Is the chase, the element of
danger, the uncertainty, that lures him
It has never been the woman that
was the easiest to get, but the one who
was most Inaccessible, that man has
been willing to risk his life for. It
has never been the woman who wanted
him that he wanted, but the proud Lady
Disdain for whom he sighed. It Is not
the house whose door latch It hanging
wide open that he la crasy about get
ting Into, but the castle where he has
to scale the wall and climb In thru the
window.
Breaking Old Traditions.
On the other hand, It la undeniably
battering to a man's self love for a
woman to woo him openly, and this
may be a compensation for the thrills
of adventure he would have In chasing
her, Instead of being chased himself.
This Is the time of the breaking down
of old traditions and moss-grown con
ventions. and undoubtedly one of them
Is the ban which has always been
placed on woman's love making, and
that has prevented her from frankly
eking her mate.
It Is significant, as representing the
new attitude of woman toward man,
that one of our lending realistic novel
ists. David Graham Phillips, takes this
subject for the theme of his new novel,
"White Magic.” In this story the
heroine, beautiful and enormously rich,
falls In love with the poor artist, who
does not return her affection at Ant,
The girl makes frank and open love to
him, and even asks him to marry her.
He refuses, but she persists In her wbo-
Ing until she Anally breaks down ml
the barriers he has set before his pride
and hi* heart—and she gets him.
Is this prophetic of what will hap
pen when woman arrogates to hertelf
tho right to tell her love? f {