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Getting On In
Life
By THOMAS TAPPER.
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■w -r rE have all seen the gentie man-
VV nered boy in a crowd, the boy
* ’ that always minds his busi
ness and nefer quarrels One day the
crowd begins to plague him. He gets
fighting mad. and makes a reputation
on the spot by licking everybody in
Fight.
one of Walter Scott’s teachers stood
him up in a corner and put the dunce
cap on his head.
A teacher of Beethoven, the groat
composer, declared ho would never
learn, and advised others to have noth
ing to do with him.
But Scott, like the boy. waked, up
and licked a reputation out of the
world So did Beethoven. So have
thousands of others
The most cheerful fact in biography
is this sudden change one day in the
mental life of the so-called stupid
young man or woman All at once the
sleepy look disappears, and the fight
is on.
n.
There once lived in the south of Eng
land a clergyman. Carter by name. His
wife died from grief at having lost her
little fortune in a gold brick proposition
of those days called the South Sea
stocks.
The clergyman w«s left with a family
of boys and girls, one of whom, Eliza
beth. was ten years old when her moth,
er died. The father undertook to edu
cate them alike, giving the girls the
same training as the bovs.
They all got along very well with
their lessons except Elizabeth. Try as
h* would, Dr. Carter could make no
headway with her. She was one of the
"born-stupid” kind, and all effort to
give her an education seemed useless.
After a while, as Elizabeth grew older
and began to notice things herself in
cluded. she began to get anxious. Tt
■was no great privilege to go through
life as "the stupid Carter girl.” That
made Elizabeth mad. and she took her
case in her own hands.
Sb® made up her mind that what she
must do she must do by herself, so she
began tn study again, keeping at it late
a? night and beginning again early tn
the morning. But Elizabeth had great
trouble in keeping awake quite a stu
pid symptom. She fought this habit o
falling asleep by taking large quant!
ties of snuff and chewing green tea
leaves
This kept her awake, and Incidental!'
Injured her health. But it lifted ti.c
trap door, so to speak, and the lig.'
crept in.
One of her favorite studies was
Greek The great author of her tine -
Dr. Samuel .Johnson, declared her to n
the greatest Greek scholar of her tint*
She also learned t.atin. Hebrew, Ger
man. French, Italian, Spanish. Portu
guese and Arabic Stupid Elizabeth
was getting on. you see.
She also learned much of astronomy
and history: and she wrote poetry
Some of her poems appeared in the
leading magazines, and were afterward
published tn book form
Rut her principal work was a trans
lation of the philosophy of the Greek
slave Epictetus, which was published
by subscription.
Elizabeth was still getting on: In
fact, her work began to attract so much
attention that the great men of her
time became her friends. Among them
were Johnson. Bishop Butler. Horace
Walpole, Hannah More and manv
others.
Through a long life (she died at »9t
Elizabeth kept on doing literary work
and impressing people with the power
of her mind..
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No one would recommend snuff and
green tea as a cure for the reputation
of being stupid And they are riot nec
essary, either. Further, no one would
deny thaf every one of us is stupid in
en» way or another. The cure is to be
determined to get over it, to down it. io
get fighting mad and become master of
the situation.
Scores of thousands of people have
done it and are doing.it today. They
ar' striking out a line of work lasting
late at night and beginning again eariv
in the rriorning. That makes a long
da>. but a long day is better than the
Snuff and green tea
if anything seems particularly hard,
just say to yourself,
Elizabeth Carter got on in life, and
can 1
And you can
On the Way
Pat Murphy was a great favorite in
the works. Even the master would stop
and crack a joke with him.
One day.the "boss" met Pat.
"Morning. Pat,” he said. ”1 hear that
lately you’ve taken quite a fancy for
the girls."
Pat blushed and sniggered.
"Have you met your fate yet?" went
on the master.
"Sure, an’ begorrah sir." exclaimed
Pat. ruefully. 1 met wan av her fa
ther’s fate last noight!"
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ONE of the queerest arguments I
ever heard was in favor of the.
economic Independence of wom
en. voiced by a man who had formerly
been opposed to anything of the kind
and believed women should always
slay In the home.
"There must be something to it." he
admitted, "because I notice the wom
an who earns her own living always
looks so nice and tidy in the morning,
and the girls who troop down to my
office building at « o'clock have such
nice morning faces."
The man heaved a sigh, and those of
us who knew him well at once recalled
the picture of his wife, who, with all
his money at her command, was any -
thing but a pleasing vision at the
breakfast table, though she managed to
be quite magnificent at night.
While her evening dresses w'ere al
ways chosen with due regard to theii
attractiveness, and were kept in im
maculate condition, she seemed to get
her morning gowns in a fit of ex
treme absence of mind. 1 don't know
where she got them, but they seemed
always of the color and material which
was most unbecoming to her particu
lar type of morning face.
You know every woman has a morn
ing face which is entirely different
from her afternoon and evening one.
t'sually she keeps the morning face
for home use. but by the time she is
completely dressed, which often does
not occur until the afternoon, her face
has so changed that you wouldn't
know it to be the heavy, drooping
countenance with puffy eyelids and a
general grumpy expression, with which
she poured out the coffee in the early
hours of the day.
The man that I am speaking of did
not elope with his stenographer, or
scandalize the community in any way
He .just settled down into an uncom
plaining. hard-working American hus
band. who believed th tt% women wen
queer fish anyhow His wife Is a tre
mendous social success, and much ad
mired when she appears at luncheons
or at afternoon and evening functions.]
Rut no one who ever saw her early in
the mornings would be much inspired
by het apeparanee
She is one of those women w ho never
seem to get dressed all at once. She
will get p-yrtly dressed, and then throw
on a wrapper of some sort, and write a
letter, or read the papers, or have her
breakfast and. as I've said, her wrap
pers ate htdeou c and they are never
quite dainty. Her house slippers are
never blacked, or kept in proper shape
and she does not do her hair until she
is 1 *adv to go out. Os course, she
might wear a dainty little rap but sh>-
has a strict sense of economy, as she
lias often told mo. and site doesn't be
lieve in unnecessary frills, or In spend
ing money merely to be attractive to
her ow n family, who. as she say s, ought
to love her anyhow
I suppose they do from a sense of
duty, but I wouldn't. Tim early morn
ing face, the face that smiles or scowls
at you across the breakfast table, does
more to make your day a pleasant one
or to upset it completely, then any
other factor in the home.
In the first place, the morning face
should be swet-t. wholepome and clean.
There should be no glint on it of the
remains of cold cream, and especially
around the eyelashes one must take
great care to wipe and wash off any
kind of beauty' cream that one has put
on a. night.
Tin girl who wants to he pretty,
pieity as a girl and < harming as a
wife, must form the habit early of
getting completely dressed and not
performing this ceremony in fits and
stmts dining the entire forenoon.
Probably one reason why the busi
ness girl is so attractive is because she
gels this habit of appearing at the
!>r. li.l'ist table neatly and completely
df< and after she is married you
will tir.il • l it she continues to affect the
shirtwaist and skirt for breakfast, or
trim tookmg morning gowns that have
sonn t ai ■; of tin trig appearance of her
id business . ostume. with all the lux
urious eo'mfoit of a morning at home.
,Al;’ny girls when they look at them
selves in the glass just on arising, no
tice with horror that their whole face
seems bloated. Os. course, this condi
tion d'sappears after a while, but you
can help banish it by a cold hath and
by sponging off th- f :i e in very cold
wa'.et. in wiii. li a few drops of spirits
of camphor have been pouted Instead
of camphor, you <an use one of the
toilet vinegars, or a strong toilet wa
ter like eau de cologne. The scented
hath sails which can lie had now so
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Rigid Economy
Naturally , it was in Ireland. A iw«
keeper had been appointed for the local
light house, but he had not been on
duty many days before complaints
against him began to filter in.
] The coast guard got out his little!
boat and rowed across to the light- I
house to tnv estigate.
' Patsy." said that officer, "we're get
ting a good many grumbles about you."
"And phwat for; sure?" came the
question.
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doesn't burn after 12 o'clock "
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tie'"
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now. I
reasonably are delicious things to wake
one up. because a spoonful or so poured
in the bath gives the water a delight fill
invigorating element as well as the per
fume.
If you habitually wake up with a
grouch, you can he quite sure there is
something wrong with your digestion.
I ant not a doctor, and won't suggest a
cute for that, but simple remedies like
a glass of hot water with lemon
squeezed in. taken in sips while you
are dressing, or hot water with a little !
phosphate of soda, will usually send
you to the breakfast table in a mote
amiable frame of mind and with a pret
tier face.
Sometimes all you need to gain a
smiling' morning visage is a few min
utes of physiial culture exercises, or I
deep breatiling with the windows open, i
if you sleep with your windows I
closed. >ou will not be presentable in
the morning. That is one of the first
rules of beauty. If you sleep w tth ymit
face under the blankets in the winter
time, or covered over with a sheet in
suniiner. so that you are continually re
hreithing the air you have already ex
haled. you "ill arise a pale and pasty
faced individual, and you need not ex-
P>c: any sympathy.
Now as to the morning hair. It :
ought to be a disgrace to < ome to the I
breakfast tabic without, having brushed
one s hair and dressed ?l properly. We
s eld children for it, and then we do It I
ourseh i s
Every woman ought to have one style I
of hair dressing, which is just as quick
to do as it is becoming to her. It j
needn't, be the way sue does Iter hair in j
thf afternoon or evening, but it must I
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think the simplest way one can do
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No. 2 —The Widow Grows Resentful at the Matchmaker's Schemes.
By VIRGINIA T. VAN DE WATER.
MRS. ROBBINS, at whose home
Beatrice Minor and Robert
Marcy met. was a confirmed, if
unacknowledged, matchmaker. She
had often told Beatrice it actually
made her own heart ache to see her
living such a lonely life.
She. therefore, considered it a de
lightful coincidence that the widow and
the widower should appear at her little
1 afternoon “at home" at the same time.
Robert. Marcy was one of the few men
who attend afternoon teas. During his
wife’s lifetime he had done so only
very occasionally with her, and always
under vigorous and strongly expressed
protest—protest which sometimes had
brought teais to her eyes.
While he looked into Beatrice’s eyes
she noted especially his Hashing smile
and fine, tegular teetii. ami remem
bered that 'Toms mouth had always
been homely, and that his teeth had
been quite irregular. T'aa,t was why
she had urged him to wear a mustache,
which, of course, he declined to do. But
it was-only her sub’conscious mind that
recalled these facts, for she was chat
ting meanwhile with hei new acquain
tance and w ith her hostess.
The Matchmaker,
Then several other people came in
and the pair drifted to different parts
of the room. Nor did they meet again
until Robert sought out Beatrice to bid
her goocßbye.
"It has been a pleasure to meet you."
he said. "I have Ijeen very lonely, and
1 feel grateful to out dear hostess for
inviting me to dine here with you next
week. I hope that nothing will inter
fere with.your coming."
"1 have heard nothing of the affair,”
said Beatrice. I may. very possibly be
engaged for ever.v night next week."
She felt a chill of resentment that
Helen Robbins should make an ar
rangement with any inan to meet her
al dinner without first consulting her.
In fact, she considered it somewhat of
an impertinence. Os course, Mr. Marcy
could not know this, but she would tell
Helen what she thought of it.
It was not delicate, sh" thought, and
she wondered if the man in question
did not suspect what Helen was about,
and if he thought that she. a widow of
only two years, was party to the plan.
Even though she had decided in her in
ward soul that if she ever met a man
"ho was worth while she might marry
again, that was her own affair; but for
another w oman to think such a .thing of
het. and to go so far as to show that
she was thinking it. was most indeli
■■ate.
She was roused from her reflections
by the voice of her hostess, saying:
Recommending Him.
"Os course, you know that poor Boh
Marcy is a widower, and has gone no
where for months. That is why you
hat e not heard me speak of him—as h"
has kept himself shut away from all his
former associates. I was very glad to
see him here today and to notice how
bright and cheerful he was when he was
talking to you. Yes. he has been sad
and lonely, for he was one of the men
who love their wives devotedly. I al
ways say such make the best-husbands
to their second wives.”
Beatrice flushed hotly.
"What has all this to do with me,
Helen," she asked with asperity. "1 did
not know that Robert Marcy was a
widow er, nor do I care whether he is or
not. only I should think he might be
allowed to talk to a woman without
anybody’s thinking that he is planning
to marry again. Perhaps he may’ fine
some girl with so little sense that she
may be satisfied with him. I, for my
part, can not comprehend how any one
who has been happily tvedded once
would ever make a second attempt. But
widowers are different from widows—-
more's the pity! But Ido not consider
it in good taste for Mr. Marcy’s ac
quaintances to plan for his second mar
riage. You were his wife’s friend,
weren't you?”
Helen widened her pretty blue eyes
in unaffected astonishment at her
guest’s vehemence.
"Why. dear,” she said, "what Is the
matter? Yes. I was his wife's friend,
and because I know how good he is I
want him to be happy again. But I do
not understand why you should resent
my mentioning the matter. You actual
ly talk as if you did not like him. and I
thought you would find him a pleasant
fellow. He is certainly a gentleman—
even if he is a widower.” she added
teasingl.v.
As Beatrice walked homeward she
acknowledged to herself the humiliat
ing fact that she. had been angered be
cause Helen had almost spoken out her
own thought of a second marriage. It
was one tiling to confess It to one's
self; it was quite another to have one’s
friend voice it. And, moreover, mut
tered Beatrice, she w ould not have any
man. least of all a widower, thrown at
her head. No, she would no* go to that
dinner!
But in her heart of hearts she knew
that tomorrow she would write, a note
of acceptance of the invitation. Never
theless. until then, she would, even to
herself, keep up the little game of re
sentment and indifference.
•
Settling His Account
The bright little surgery at the rear
of the doctor's house was occupied by
two —the medical man and a patient,
who was being attended to for the last
time, seeing that he had got over his
illness.
“Yes. yes," said the doctor; “you're
all right now. You needn't come here
again."
"But, sir,” remarked the patient, “vot
abopt der bill? I ain’t got mooch
money. Vlll you dake der bill out in
trade?"
The sawbones looked his man up and
down.
"Well. I might do it,” he replied.
"What is your business?”
"I am der leader of der llddle Ger
man band. sair. Ve vill blay in front of
your house every evening for von
month.”
But the doctor didn’t think so!
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