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* Fables of the Wise Dame <
Kv DOROTHY DIX.
s Z~X NCE upon a time there whs a
t J Woman who was the happy
Mother of an Infant Prodigy.
The little one was indeed a Wonder.
He could Breathe just as naturally as
could be, and while still in dresses he
recited Pieces in away that brought the
Tears of Agony to the Eyes of the Lis
tener.
j His Pond Mamina never let an op
portunity get.past her of Pushing him
to the front and showing him off. If
the Conversation turned on Music and
some one began touting Caruso she
rang in Ittle Willie and had him Warble
the Cute Ditty he learned in the Kin
dergarten.
If any one mentioned Finance it re
minded her of the Stunts Willie could
'do with figures, and she lugged him in
, to Add two and two together for the
Diversion of the Audience. If a Chaun
cey Depew of the dinner table was get
ting off a good story, she would break
in to tell the Smart Things Willie said,
and if any one dared to mention a
Great Artist she would yank out the
Picture of a purple Cow in a Sky Blue
Pasture that Willie had just executed.
Made ’Em Tired.
Instead of being a Conversational
• Thriller, as she supposed, this made
every one very Tired and they regarded
her as the Champion Bore of Society,
and whenever they saw her coming it
■was Back to the Pines for all who could
beat it.
Unfortunately, however, this World
is so small that it is Impossible to get
as far away from the Mothers of Smart
Children as One Would Like, and as
they could not lose Willie and his Mam
ma, her Fellow Creatures graced up to
bear it with what Fortitude they could.
Now, it chanced that one day there
was a large Dinner at which Willie's
Mamma got the Floor, and began to
Monologue about her Angel Child.
•'Alas,” groaned the Audience, “we
are in for it now, for she will not let up
until it thunders, and we shall hjcve to
applaud while Willie goes through his
Tricks, Ah, me, what a Misjudged Man
Herod has been, and how W’e wish that
he was here to grapple with this Prob
lem and slay this Accursed Child before
he slays us."
However, nothing happened to stop
the Fond Mother and the Infant Phe
nomenon from getting in their Deadly
Work, but when the Wonder Child had
finished his Performance, an Old Man
arose up and thus addressed the Moth
er:
! t>?« A Prisoner of Love
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
RA. E. writes the following tetter,
, which will strike a responsive
chord in the hearts of many
girls who are engaged and who are
beginning to get a taste of the tyranny
of a man's love:
T am a young lady, and recently be
came engaged. My intended lives In
another state, making it possible for
him to see me only twice a year. Os
course I realize that an engaged girl
should not go out with other young
men. but 1 miss my pleasant evenings
at the theater, as I «as always supplied
with an escort.
"1 did not think I would miss the
pleasure, but 1 find that I feel so lonely
st times. We will not be married till a
year from this spring.
“Must 1 literally bury myself .lust be
cause I am engaged? 1 could have the
occasional company of an old-time es
cort if it were proper. What shall I
do?”
if an engaged girl or a .wife is a
prisoner depends entirely upon the
lover or husband.
tn engagement was nover intended
to be a period of probation spent in a
nunnery of old ladies' teas or chil
dren's parties. But some lovers de
mand it. and some girls make the sur
render in submission
His View of Perfect Love.
This submission, without question or
complaint, is a man's interpretation of
perfect love.
He does not know that he shows a
lack of what he exacts in demanding it.
He doesn't see that he lacks the per.
feet love that has faith when ho de-
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“I believe,” he said, "that your Son is
Very Backward for his Age, for he
merely repeats Nursery Rhymes with
out any Action, whereas little Emerson
Brown, who is no older than he is. ren
ders Selections from Browning with
Delsarte Interpretation, and a Musical
Accompaniment.”
Blow to Mother.
This was a Blow that staggered
Mother, but* in order to make good she
dragged little Willie to the front again
and made him do a Juggling act with
figures, but instead of giving him the
Glad Hand, the Old Man looked at him
pityingly.
“Ha," he said, “it is plain that Willie
has no Financial Ability, or else he
would not he doing Kindergarten
Stunts at his Age. Do you not know
that all great Financial Geniuses have
displayed their Talents in the Cradle,
and that before he was two years old
Mr. Rockefeller had already gotten an
Option on all the Milk Bottles in sight,
and Before he could walk J. Pierpont
Morgan had organized a Perambulator
Trust?"
Determined to make one last Effort to
sustain the Reputation of her Offspring,
the Mother began relating Willie's In
fantile Bon Mots, but before she had
gotten through the first Installment
the old Man chipped in with a lot of
Baby Wit that made Willie's best Ef
forts look like thirty cents, whereupon
his Mother took the Phenomenon by the
Hand and Hiked out for Home.
And a Bachelor.
“Ton have saved our lives." cried the
Victims as they embraced the Old Man.
“but how did you do it?" *
“Unhappily for me," replied he, "I am
an Old Bachelor, and as 1 have no Chil
dren of my own. I was A Good Thing
for all the Mothers who felt that they
could Bore me with Stories about their
Children, and that 1 could not Retaliate
with any Rival Anecdotes.
"For many Years I endured this, but
at last it got upon my Nerves, and so I
studied up on Infant Prodigies and tilled
up on Newspaper Stories about Smart
Children, and now when any Mother
comes at me w ith w hat her Baby said I
lay her out with Statistics and Witty
Sayings of other Infants that make hers
look like the Report of a Feeble-Mind
ed Institute. I know that it is a Cruel
Thing to do, but there is no other way
to Choke off a Mother."
Moral: This Fable explains the Curi
ous Look on the Faces of our Friends
when we show off our Children.
mands that the girl to whom he is en
gaged deny herself to all men but him
He is selfish: it is selfishness born in
jealousy, and the women are-largely to
blame that lovers are encouraged in
giving it full rein.
A woman loves a man, and when in
his love for her he becomes jealous of
all her old-time friends, she regards
that jealously as a proof of his love.
She sees in this desire to monopolize
her a compliment. Blinded by love, she
doesn’t know that it is really a threat.
The man to whom “R. A. E." is en
engaged sees her only twice a year. If,
in the interim, he denies himself to all
women he is a most unusual man. In
deed. it may be said that he is the only
one of his kind on earth.
If. like the great majority, he goes
to parties in that city in another state,
and reciprocates by occasionally taking
a girl to rhe theater, he is not beyond
his rights.
He is beyond his rights only when he
singles out one girl and pays her such
devoted attention that her affections
become involved. He is not untrue to
his fiancee when he is friendly with
other women, and I pity her for her at
tachment for a churl if he is not.
He,- Right to Attentions.
Neither is she untrue to him if 'she
occasionally accepts attentions from
old-time friends. If he demands it, he
is not the sort of a man to whom she
can safely entrust her happiness.
He is the sort of material of which
selfish, disagreeable husbands are made.
One can easily see that in time to come
he will go to the theater alone, or with
other men. and demand that his wife
i emain at home.
It would prevent tragic complications
if the man let it be known that iij an
other town there is a dear girl waiting
for him. and some day he is going back
to marry her.
It would also show a delight in her
which he wants his friends to know and
share, it would be evidence of a pride
that he fias won her. He is glad: he is
not ashamed.
It would, likewise, b« well if the girl
told her old-time escot ts her secret. If
the engagement ring does not disclose
it. then she should.
Any- attentions they show her after
learning she is promised to another are
bound to be on a strictly friendly basis
They have no hopes that are falsely en
couraged. They honor her for her con
fidence. and respect her all the more for
giving it.
Suppose "R. A. E.” accepts the next
invitation? I hope she will, and that
she will afterward write and tell that
distant lover all about it. If he is the
right kind of a lover, he will be glad
her friends are giving her the good
times that distance and separation put
bey ond his power.
He will rejoice in all that pleases her.
Than this there is no greater proof of
the unselfishness of lover or husband or
friend.
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INCENSE TO NIRVANA. -aW ” "' ’' /Ve
T T J HEN man began to develop the
VL faculty of speech he 'ost
some of the powers of expres
sion by- gestures, and bodily and facial
signs and contortions, which he had in
herited from his tree-climbing and eave
dwelling ancestors.
In some respects the loss is to be de
plored. It is not shatjpd equally, how
ever. by all races of mankind. The
southern peoples, In general, have more
ability to make their thoughts and
wishes known through sign-language
than have we in the northern and cool
er parts of the earth. To that extent
Italians. Spaniards, Greeks and Egyp
tians, and the tropical races in gen
eral. are closer to our arboreal pro
genitors than we are. This is no chal
lenge to their intelligence—it is simply
a proclamation of the fact that, while
acquiring a command of spoken lan
guage. which exceeds ours in volubility,
they have, at the same time, retained
more of the original power of bodily
expression than we have done.
From his ow n account of himself De
mosthenes. the greatest orator in all
history, was a kind of MAN-MONKEY,
who could redouble the effect of his
spoken words by- wonderful play of
features, and telling getsiculation. At
least, such is the conclusion to be
drawn from the Interpretation usually
put upon bis axiom that in speaking
■action. ACTION. ACTION” was ths
one indispensable thing. The dullest
hearer could understand Demosthenes,
if this view is correct, because he em
ployed a double language, emphasiz
ing every word with a gesture or a
facial expression.
Neglected Powers.
The fact is that civilized man, large
ly in consequence of the enormous de
velopment of writing and printing, has
neglected his powers of mimicry, leav
ing them to be studied by his enter
tainers, such as actors and dancers. It
is among the posibilities of the future
that the human race may develop now
unsuspected powers of expression
WITHOUT SPEECH.
The itself possesses a marvellous
ability to express thought, which we
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Dockyard hands to a total of 50,000
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England imported more than 1,770,000
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The British imports of carbons for
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50,000,000 a year.
Maize, which is largely grown In the
Argentine, yields one ton of corn per
acre grorvn.
At the height of one mile the average
velocity of the wind is four times as
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The women of Idria. in the Austrian
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DLE PICTURE) FEAR. (BOTTOM PICTURE) DEFIANCE.
have hardly begun to understand yet.
Everybody knows that he can read
much in the eyes of his fellows, and
quite as much, perhaps, in their un
conscious bodily movements. Lip-read
ing. of which we he:::' ;■(> many marvels
nowadays, is only one form of this un
developed power of conveying and un
derstanding thought, which may have
an astonishing future before it.
For all that we know, "telepathy."
that power of the mind to project It
self through space, in which the late
William T. Stead, one of the many dis
tinguished victims of the Titanic dis-,
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apparently superhuman powers of ex
pression might be utilized by beings of
a very high order of intelligence.
A Wonderful Dancer.
An article which I have just been
reading in the May number of The Cos
mopolitan Magazine, on a wonderful
new English dancer, with a strange
name. "Roshanara." leads me to this
brief discussion of a subject of vast
humftn interest. It appears that this
girl, who learned her art in Bombay
and Calcutta before astonishing Lon
don with its perfections, possesses an
amazing power to express, by mere
motions and poses, thoughts, fears, ca
prices, hopes, prayers, wishes--and all
that with a beauty and harmony of
movement which captivates the behold
ers. Site has taught her whole body to
SPEAK, without opening her lips. She
is a silent actress, who moves the spec
tators more than many' actresses who
have learned the whole art of elocu
tion can do. But It is not ordinary pan
tomime that she practices—it is THE
POETRY AND THE SPEECH OF MO
TION.
All this is possible. 'No doubt the
gift Is a personal one. It Is a kind of
genius. Remote ancestral strains
have, in her, come to the surface, re
lined by the ages of advance in intelli
gence which the race has undergone.
Although of English birth, it will be
observed that the girl developed her
powers under the tropical sun of India.
There, probably, she would be less of a
w onder than she seems in lands where
the tongue has been trained to tell all
that is told, while the innate power-; of
expression that the face, the eyes, the
hands, and the entire bodily frame pos
sess have become atrophied by disuse.
It is a fair subject for philosophical
discussion w hether, upon the whole, "it
would be desirable for mankind to ac
quire, or develop, powers like those of
this dancing girl. But it is certain that
their possession would render life more
picturesque.
Under no conceivable circumstances,
however, could language, either spoken
or printed, be abandoned. That is a
supreme acquisition which man never
can, or should, lose. But, who has not
thoughts and feelings w hich he can not
put into words, but CAN express in
other ways? A language would need
a million words to express all our ideas
and emotions—and then it would be too
poor. So it is, at least, worth consid-
I ering whether the time may not come
I when we shall converse without words,
land thus learn more about each other
■ than we ever dreamed of knowing.
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The Right Road to Health
By ANNETTE KELLERMANN.
\tERY few women breathe prop-
/ erly. That is the reason why
w'omen generally complain 'of
badly developed chests, ami It Is for
that and a few other reasons that cer
tain women find it almost impossible
to reduce the size of their bust meas
ure. Deep breathing Is the funda
mental principle of good health and
looks. Unless you breathe properly, all
the other exercises will be of little or
no use to you.
Many people think that deep breath
ing consists in an occasional immense
breath, which fiills the lungs to burst
ing capacity, sends all the blood rush
ing to the head, and when it is ex
pelled, from the, lungs, leaves a person
panting and exhausted.
Deep breathing should be a habit,
not an exertion. Upon this habit de
pends the general- shapeliness of the
figure, especially the neck, shoulders
and bust. The color of the complex
ion and the round contour of the
cheeks which nine times out of ten,
can be filled out by means of sys
tematic and habitual deep breathing.
There ate a great many different
methods of deep breathing, the yogi
being possibly the most famous, sinqe
it comes to us from the East, and lias
been expounded by the picturesque
priests of the orient. But yogi breath
ing, which consists of rhythmic breath
ing, is tremendous concentration of
the mind, and only should be practiced
by people who are deeply versed in
this science of breath, and who are
under the personal supervision of the
teacher
For ordinary purposes a few simple
exercises are enough, and they can not
inake one dizzy or bring about a state
of coma, as the yogi method can if
practiced by the Inexperienced.
The reason women breathe super
ficially using only the top of their
lungs, is very often because of their
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You do hot think that a heavy hat
could possibly interfere with the ac
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of the neck, which pressure communi
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and from there to the nerves of the
body.
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to do with breathing, as you notice
when you get a nervous shock at any
time.
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you lose your breath entirely for an
instant.
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properly, we want to keep our nerve*
in 1 peaceful, quiet state, if possible,
and as the mind has a great deal to do
with the nerves, deep breathing may
be said to begin with mind cultivation
So you want to do your breathing
exercises when you are feeling con
tent and placid, until you get the
habit. After that if you get upset ner
vously, or if you worry very much,
you will find that ten minutes prac
tice in ryhthmic breathing will restore
your mental and physical balance.
On arising, while you are still clad
in your nightdress, stand up with your
back to the wall, and quite near an
open w indow, begin to fill your lungs,
breathing through the nostrils, with
your mouth closed, and breathe in all
the air you are able to hold, but with
out the sense of suffocation which
comes of straining.
Hold this breath while you count
four, and very slowly expel it through
the nose, counting seven this time,
when you inhale. Practice this at least
ten times. Now stand upright, with
your head up. shoulders thrown back,
and arms hanging by the side. Gradu
ally raise the arms until they are high
above the head. While you are per
forming this movement, inhale deeply
through the nostrils until the lungs
can hold no more. Retain the breath,
then gradually lower the arms and ex
pel the breath at the same time. You
can hold a staff, a towel or a piece of
material about a yard long, while per
forming this exorcise. Hold the towel
at either end, swing it above the head,
and forward and downward as you ex
hale.
Inhale, swing the towel up, ex
hale as you bend the body to the side,
letting the arms swing down first to
the right side, and then to the left, with
the motion of the body. Each move
ment calls for special deep breath, hold
the breath when the arms are above the
head.
To fill nut hollows In the cheeks,
one of the very best exercises is this
lung filler. Stand erect and exhale,
puffing every bit of breath in your
lungs Close the mouth, and snuff up
the air in little puffs almost as if you
were inhaling waler instead of air.
Put your mind on filling the very
bottom of your lungs and feel with
every puff that you are not only fill
ing the lungs but exercising them,
making them move.
You should feel a distinct sensation
with each sniff of air, the sensation
being down at tin: bottom of the lung,
a sort of a Jerk. When you have in
haled all the breath you can possibly
hold, exhale in a steady stream. Now
fill your mouth full of air. puff out
your cheeks and give’yourself a quick,
light rub over the cheeks and face with
the fingers of both hands.
This will bring the blood up into
the cheeks and if you repeat this ten
or twenty times a day you will find a
wonderful improvement in a short
space of time.