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THE 'GE O GUAM’S MAGAZINE' PAGE Getting On In Life By THOMAS TAPPER. i. ■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.. 11l 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!" At Fountains & Elsewhere Attic fnr “HORLICK’S The Original and Genuine MALTED MILK The Food*drlnk for All Ages. At restaurants, hotels, and fountains. Delicious, invigorating and sustaining. Keep it on your sideboard at home. Don't travel without it. A quick land! prepared us a taiante. Take no imitation. Jnst say “BORUfK ? Mos in Any Milk Trust Lillian Lorraine’s Beauty Secrets For Girls & How to Look Charming Early in the Morning I > z <. ‘h KI Isa • t » E 'Of’ '' ‘'WMM* U Z l !® j ■- ‘-MM a / I W/fl'- FWIw j pWB .W w l Air ' * •wl 1 kwbi UP® J yjv *.< r .* ■ • • MfoWgSS s niIIII I /v/? X fl WF H y I1 » X raOr gS I ZA. V. ’QI' Kl i i Wt'ayV ||||., H I® llr Jfl Ba f Wk ; f to* pU’ ‘ t .■ Ml •Wnuhtfr J Lfl 0 miss all yon need to gain a smiling morning visage is a minutes of deep breathing with the windows open. 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 i 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. "Why. the sailors say your light ■ doesn't burn after 12 o'clock " Patsy scratched his head thought- I fully "Sure. now. an bedad, I nut me light? i out at 12. 1 thought by that toime all the ships'd be in. so I'd better save rh« ; tie'" They 've got a new lighthouse keepei 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 be distinctly dressed and charming. I: think the simplest way one can do one :' hair is usually the most becom- j ing. especially in the morning, but ! women who have to resort to curling irons, or whose duties don’t allow them time enough for this should certainly affect the little silk,caps or the ribbon j , bands and caps w uich ate like the ban- ; Nadine Face Powder (In Green Boxes Only. ) Makes the Complexion Beautiful Soft and Velvety \ '* p ,,re > A A Harmless ■ 1 Money Back if hot , | Ent , rfly p ttas((i . I : 7 velvety \ W s/*** / a PP pa lan c e re- Xi JR / mains until pom \ .«> y der is cashed off \j’ A e° 1 ! n l cl \z Z Purified bv a new' process. Prevents sunburn nnd return of discolorations. ; The increasing popularity is wonderful /-/etA. Pink, Brunette Bv toilet counters or mail Price 50 cents. , NATTONAL TOtLF.T COMPANY. Pan,, dana handkerchiefs, only of one-colored silk. They cover the hair completely except for a few strands in front, and they are t cry becoming to almost every one. Another thing for the girl at the breakfast table, the time to/manicure yotu' hands Ms just before you go to bed. for we .-ill know there is never time for that before breakfast, and it is at the table especially that one's hands ’ silo". Next week I ant going to tell you how to take care of them, but be sure you clo it at night, so that in the morning they will match the brightness of your morning save. j==lf== n— =ir=l, =lP=lF===l| =lF=il " Are You Keeping the Flies Out of Your Home? n One hardly realizes the great p ■ jji ijL.ili imnimil— danger which the filthy disease- breeding housefly carries every where, simply because the pes pi tiferous little insects are so com- O Mg mon. Yet these same little pests bP I J lIISSS' . lO cause the deaths of 40.000 to 50,- Hh >,v [_ *1 m 000 persons in the United States year. 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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! CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought In selecting a Piano, your first consideration will be that of tone. Ours are noted for their tone excellence. CABLE PIANO CO., 84 North Broad-st.