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ONCE upon a time there was a
Woman Who was the happv
Mother of an Infant Prodigy
The little on* was lnde< • 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 , f the Lis
tener.
His Eond Mamma never lot 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 th® 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 toll the Smart Things Willie said,
end 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 stir supposed, this made
every one very Tired and they regarded
her as the Champion Bore of Society,
end whenever they saw her coming it
w as Back to the Pines for all who could
brat it.
Unfortunately, however, this World
is so small that it is Impossible t'O get
as far away from the Mothers of.tyriart
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 thoy._«ojitd.
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 have to
applaud while Willie goes through his
Tricks Ah, me, what a Misjudged Man
Herod has been, and how we 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 hie Performance, an Old Man
arose up and thus addressed the Moth-
c?<3 A Prisoner of Love o?<3
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
RV E. writes the following letter,
t which will strike a responsive
chord In the hearts of many
gills who are engaged and who are
beginning to get a taste of the tyranny
of a man's love:
"I am a young lady, and recently be
came engaged. My Intended Ilves in
another state, making It possible for
him to see me only twice a year. <>f
course. 1 realize that an engaged girl
should not go out with other young
men. but 1 miss my pleasant evenings
st the theater, as I was always supplied
with an escort.
“I did not think 1 would miss the
pleasure, but I find that I feel so lonely
at times. We will not be married till a
-y*ar from this spring
"Must I literally bury myself just be.
cause I am engaged? I 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.
An engagement was never Intended
to he a period of probation spent in a
nunnery of old ladies' teas >r chil
dren's parties Rut 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 t -t know that he shows a
lack of what he . -xavls in demanding it.
He doesn't see that lie lacks the per.
feet love that >- faith when h*- dc-
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"I believe." he said, "that your Son is
Very Backward for hie Ago, 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
Delsarle Interpretation, and a Musical
Accompaniment
Blow to Mother.
This was a Blow that stffggered
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 ins; "ad 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 be 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 .1. Pierpont
Morgan had organized a Perambulator
Trust
Determined to make .me last Effort to
sustain the Reputation of her Offspring,
the Mother began relating Willie's In
fantile Bon Mots, hut 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
Ids Mother took the Phenomenon by the
H ind and Hiked out for Home.
And a Bachelor.
"Yon 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 I 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 I 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 filled
up on Newspaper Stories about Smart
Children, and now when any Mother
conies at me with what her Baby said I .
lay her out with Statistics and Witty
Sayings of other Infants that make hers
look like the Report pt a Feeble-Mind
ed Institute. I know that it is a Cruel
Thing to do, hut 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.
, mantis that the girl to whom he is en
■ gaged deny herself Io all men but him.
He Is selfish; it is selfishness born in
Jeafbusy, and the women are largely to
blame that lovers are encouraged in
giving It full rein.
A woman loves a man, and when in
hfs love for hep 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 un
engaged secs her only twice a year. If.
in the Interim, be denies himself to all
women he is a most unusual man. In
deed. It mat 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 r. elfo'ocatcs by occasionally taking
a girl to the theater, he is not beyond
his rights.
He is beyond his rights only w hen 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 1 pity her for her at
tachment for a churl if he is not.
Her 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 bis wife
remain at home.
It would prevent tragic complications
if the man let it he known that in an-
I other town there is a dear girl waiting
for him, and some day he is going back
I to marry her.
It w -aid also show a delight tn her
) w hich lie wants bis. friends to know and
-lia>, It would lie evidence of a pride
'that he has won her. He is glad: he is
I not ashamed.
It would, likewise, well if the gir.
told hei old-time escorts her secret. If
• • t.gagcment mg does not disclose
I it. then she should.
1 Any attentions they show her after
I 1 ning is miisett to another are
I bound to be on a strictly friendly basis
They hat e no hopes that are falsely en
couraged. They honor her for her con
i lid- m - and ■< sp, , t her all the more for
I gir ing it.
I Suppos, R \ E a , cepts the imxt
imitation I Imp. she will, and that
I-'-' W ‘ afterward write and tell that
'taut 'over all about It. If he is the
' ight kin i <*r a lover, he will be glad
iI" ■■ friends ar.- giving her the good
I tun. that distance and separation put
bey ond his power.
H“ will i< jnii in oil that pleases her
It' .n this rt,. |. is m. great.’- proof of
the im.-. ifishr-' - -of lover or husband or
friend.
t>?o The Poetry and Philosophy of Motion t>?<t
J . ' By Garrett P. Serviss
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INCENSE TO NIRVANA. zg>
UT HEN man began to develop the
1 faculty of speech ho lost
some of the powers of expres
sion by gostu and bodily and facial
signs and contortions, which he had in
herited from his tree-climbing and cave
dwelling ancestors.
In some respects the loss is to be de
plored. It is not shared 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 tn the northern and cool
er parts of Hie 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 tlie same time, retained
More of the original power of bodily
expression than we have done.
From his own 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 his axiom that tn speaking
"action, ACTION. ACTION” was ths
one indispensable thing. The dullest
hearer could understand Demosthenes,
if this view is correct, because ho 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 Ills powers of mimicry, leav
ing them to be studied by- bls enter
tainers. such as actors and dancers. It
is among the poslbilities of the future
that tlie human race may develop now
unsuspected powers .of expression
WITHOUT SPEECH.
The eye itself possesses a marvellous
ability tn express thought, which we
Do You Know—
Dockyard hands to a total of 50.000
are employed by the British Admiralty.
England Imported move than 1.770.000
rabbit skins from Australia last year.
The British imports of carbons for
electric arc lights amount to marly
50,000.000 a year.
Maize, which is largely grown in the |
Argentine, yields one ton of corn perl
inti grown
———
At the height of on-- mile the average)
velocity of the wind is four times as
gre.it 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 ot
sixty “flrewomen " with Frau Marie
Straws as their commander.
V strange story comes from ITontig
n.-in. Herault. France. Recently 700
gallons of confiscated wine were throw n
into a canal there by the customs offi-
-- But th- wine had the effect of
intoxicating the fish, which swim on
the top of the water and can be picked
out by hand. The housewives refuse
io buy- fish when they- can get them for
th- " • v,.-. -nd the fishermen in the
disfriit have united t" protest against
the p’tion fth customs officers.
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(ON TOP) THE DANCER WARDING OFF AN EVIL SPIRIT. (MID
DLE PICTURE) FEAR. (BOTTOM PICTURE) DEFIANCE.
have hardly begun to understand yet.
Everybody knows thru he van read
much tn the eyes of his .fellows.. .ainl
quite a- much, perhaps.' in their un
conscious bodily movements. Lip-read
ing. of which we. hear so many marvels
nowadays, is only one form of this, un
developed power of conveying and un
derstanding thought, wrfilch 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
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- apparently superhuman powers of ex
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1 -a very high order of intelligence.
A Wonderful Dancer.
An article wfiiich I have just been
i reading in the May number of The Cos
mopolitan Magazine, on a wonderful
new English dancer, with a strange
namrx "Roshanara." leads mo to this
. brief discussion of a subject of vast
human interest. It appears that this
> girl, who learned her art in Bombay
and Calcutta before as onishing Lon
don with its perfections, possesses an
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I amazing power to express, by mere
motions and poses, thoughts, fears, ca
. prices, hones, prayers, wishes—and all
i that w ith' a beauty and harmony of
t movement which captivates the behold
ers. She has taught her whole body to
SPEAK, without opening her lips. She
is a silent actress, w ho moves the spec
tators more than many actresses who
have learned the whole art of elocu
tion can do. BttV it is not ordinary pan
tomitpe 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
I genius. Rerpote ancestral strains
have.- in ■ her, come to the surface, re
fined by the ages of advance in.intelli
gence which the race lias undergone.
Although of English birth, it will be
observed that tin girl developed her
powers under the tropical sun of India.
3 There, probably, she would be less of a
1 wonder than she seems in lands where
I the tongue has been trained to tell all
} that is told, while the innate powers of
’ expression that the face, the eyes, the
hands, and the entire bodily frame pos-
’ sess have become atrophied by disuse.
\ It a fair subject for philosophical
r discussion whether, upon tlie whole, it
3 would be desirable for mankind to ac
• -quire, or develop, powers like those of
I this dancing girl. But it is certain that
I their possession would render life more
s picturesque.
1 I nder no conceivable '■stcumstanees, '
S howev< could language, either spoken
’ or printed, be abandoned. That is a
I supieme acquisition which man never *
1 can, or should, ]>•.-»•• But. who has not
3 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 , xpr< ss al! our ideas I
, and emotions -and then it Would be too I
- poor. So it is. qt least, worth eonsid
ai ering whether the time may not come
j when w. shaH converse without words,
J and thus learn more about each other
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By ANNETTE KELLERMANN.
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\j ERY few women breathe prop-
/ erly. , That is the reason why
women generally complain of
badly developed cjiests. and 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 he 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 are a great many different
methods of deep breathing, tlje yogi
being possibly the most famous, since
it comes to us from the East, and has
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
make one dizzy or bring about a state
of coma, as the yogi metliod can if
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properly, we want to keep our nerves
in a peaceful, quiet state, if possible
and as the mind has a great deal to do
witlt the nerves, deep breathing maj
be said to begin witli mind cultivation
So you want to do your breathing
exercises when you are feeling con
tent and placid, until you get the,
habit. A'fter that If you get upset ner
vouslv 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 window, begin to fill your lungs,
breathing through the 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 slow ly 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 exercise. 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,
lilting the arms swing down, first fi.
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 out hollows in the £heeks,
one of the very best exercises, is this
lung filler. Stand erect and exhale,
[luffing every bit of breath in yoirc
lungs. Close the mouth, and snuff up
the air in little puffs almost as if you
were inhaling water 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 the 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 tub 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.