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THE QEOP.QIAN’S MAGAZIKE PAGE * 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- > r fwwWis’ DIXIE PORTABLE > ALL IKON GARAGE ’Combines simplicity of construction, unusual durability and strength. Ab solute Safety. Reasonable Cost. Made of Galvanized Rust Resist ing American Ingot Iron to last 100 years. We also make all-steel garages at a lower price when price is the prin cipal consideration. Let us tell you more about each. The Dixie Culvert & Metal Co. MANUFACTURERS Atlanta. - - - - Georgia “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. o?<> The Poetry and Philosophy of Motion t>?o By Garrett P. Serviss g~/\ * i ' IP-- w r -\C-s , : igUcE ’ j g | ThOU iy p MJ** 1 * l 'K * b fit r I 1 Mg/ > I S/Jfl ' aM I' w/vW .Nk - I WAV'JS I I 11, O x j ’ aw > vi A-x s ' I ■k lak mr. xJMk >4 x > f If "■ .. B ilcA-atai ■ - ' * ' » - Ife-T C '-— A- > - ir' - ■ ■ 4 E3 I —' s 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 Do You Know— Dockyard hands to a total of 50,000 are employ ed by the British Admiralty. England imported more than 1,770,000 rabbit skins from Australia last year. The British imports of carbons for electric arc lights amount to nearly 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 great as near the ground. The women of Idria. in the Austrian province of Krain, were so dissatisfied with the fire brigade that they have formed one of their own, consisting of sixty “firewomen,” with Frau Marie Straos as their commander. A strange story comes from Frontig nan, Herault. France. Recently 700 gallons of confiscated wine were throw n into a canal there by the customs offi cers. But the wine had the effect of intoxicating the fish, which swjm on the top of the yvater and can be picked out by hand. The housewives refuse to buy fish when they can get them for themselves, and the fishermen In the district have united to protest against the action of the customs officers. gm i — '' — 1| ■' (ON TOP) THE DANCER WARDING OFF AN EVIL SPIRIT. (MID 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-, aster, believed, may prove to be' no dream of enthusiasts, but a solid and immensely important fact. In a story called “A Columbus of Space,” 1 have shown some of the ways in which such WOMAN ESCAPES DREADFUL JPERATION How She Was Saved From Surgeon’s Knife by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegeta ble Compound. Mogadore, Ohio. ‘ ‘The first two years I was married I suffered so much from -j female troubles and j bearing down pains ? thatlcouldnotstand i on my feet long enough to do my ? work. The doctor < said I would have to undergo an opera tion, but my husband : wanted me to try * Lydia E. Pinkham’s \ Vegetablecompound “• first. I took three v ' bottles and it made me well and strong and I avoided a dreadful operation. I now have two fine healthy children, and I cannot say too much about what Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound has done for me.” Mrs. Lee Manges, R. F. D. 10, Mogadore, Ohio. Why will women take chances with an operation or drag out a sickly, half hearted existence, missing three-fourths of the joy of living, when they can find health in Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound ? For thirty years it has been the stand ard remedy for female ills, and has re stored the health of thousands of women who have been troubled with such ail ments as displacements, inflammation, ulceration, tumors, irregularities, etc. , If you want special advice write Io Lidia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (confi dential) Lynn, Mass. Your letter will be opened, read and answered hy a woman and held iu strict couildeuce. i 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. ——————— WHAT NEXT! Jehones (starting for business) —I I have to stop on my way to the office and get a ribbon. Mrs. Jehones (sharply) For whom, ' pray Jehones (reassuringly)—For my ■ tyj>ewriter. Mis. jehones (warmly) - I'd just like Ito .see you buying ribbons for any j typewfiler! 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 clothing. I am not referring to cor sets alone, but to tight waists, bodices that are too narrow across the shoulders, sleeves that bind one at the armholes, and more especially to very heavy hats. You do hot think that a heavy hat could possibly interfere with the ac tion < f your lungs, but I assure you that it does, because of the pressure it exert; or. the spinal cord at the back of the neck, which pressure communi cates itself to the rest of the spine, and from there to the nerves of the body. Now. the nerves line a great deal to do with breathing, as you notice when you get a nervous shock at any time. You immediately begin to pant or you lose your breath entirely for an instant. 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GRIFFIN’S 24'/, WHITEHALL ST.—OVER F ".OWN AND ALLEN’S. 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.