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Fables of the Wise
Dame
By DUROTHY DIX
OACE upon a time there was a
Working Women's Convention
pulled off in which the Ladies
who neid .lobs that had a Pay En
velope Attachment met togetner to hurl
Bouquets at themselves, and pass
resolutions denouncing the t'seless
Parasitic Female who did nothing but
live r‘ Homo and let « Husband Sup
port iter.
Oratory was on Tar. and after each
Female Wonder had told how she be
came a Lady Dramatist, or an Author
< or an Actress, or a Lad.' Purchas
ing" Agent, or a Lad.v ’Longshoreman,
or something else at which ahe worked
four Hours a Day, and made money
enough to Wear French Confections
and. Diamonds, the BtCint" of the
Bunch gave her the Glad hand and
Chautauqua Salute.
At last, however, h Repot ter who
was Present, observed h small and
Dowdily Dressed little Woman who
was sitting Far Rack, chewing the
Rag in Silence, and lie went to her
and thus addressed het
"Xiy Sister," he said, "tell m> why
you are Papering the Wall instead of
getting your Share of the Snot Light,
and why you miss this Glorious Op
portunity to hand yourself a few
Heartfelt Words of Praise?"
The Busy Pereeite.
Alaa!" cried the Humble Ope "I am
not a Working Woman I have done
nothing that would Entitle rhe to ask
my Fellow Creatures to listen to me,
for I am one of those Justly Despised
Parasite Women who docs nothing but
be a Wife and Mother.
"It is true that I have to Rise with
the Worm who gets up even before
the Early Bird, because I must Pre
pare Breakfast for my Family, so that
1t maj bo ready when they Awake,
and from that time on I have to Strain
on the Collar all Day until after my
Husband and Children have gone to
Rod at night, doing things to make
them comfortable. But I know that
this is a Snap, because I have been
Told so. and that I ought to be Grate
ful that 1 do not have to Earn my
own laving, as so many Unfortunate
Females do.
"It is also true that it is continu
ally up to me to Doctor my Family
and Nurse them when they are ill,
but as nobody ever Thinks of Paying
me the Salary of a Trained Nurse, I
get my Recompense tn Growls and
Kicks, and Reflect on what a Privilege
It is for a Woman to have a Husband
at Home with a Sore Head, and to be
able to Promenade the Floor half the
Night with a Colicky Baby
Some Referee!
It is. of course, a great Comfort to
Know that not much is expected of the
Domestic Woman in the Way of
Brains, yet it comes my Way to know
a Few things I am expected to be
able to Referee s Fight between my
Children ami Settle Disputes whose
points are so Mixed they would tie the
Supreme Court up in a Knot.
"Personally, I do not care for Ama
teur Detective Work, yet I am expected
to be a Sherlock Holmes, who can al
ways locate the Cork screw, or the
Hatchet, or week before last’s Sunday
Paper, and who can follow up anj kind
of a Clew as to where my Husband loft,
his Latch Key.
"Neither do 1 pose as a Financier,
yet I must know how to Spread the
Dough where it will show, and Pare it
Thin where it is out of the Range of
Public Vision. 1 must know how to
Manufacture my Glad Rags at Home,
and wear them w ith a Brought-it-from
Abroad Air. I must know how to Trim
over my Last Year’s Hat so it will
Deceive my Dearest Friend. I must be
able to Cook a Dinner like a IT’ench
Chef, to dish out Theology like a Sky
Pilot, and to run a Quick Meal Res
’aurajit for those of my Family who
’.ike to Eat at Odd Hours.
Why Not Work?
In the Morning, after I have got
ten Breakfast, and hunted up my Hus
band's Coat and Hat and Gloves for
him. and hustled him off to Catch the
A: 15 Train, and after 1 have washed
the Children and Dressed them for
School, and Heard a few Lossons, and
Sewed on a Button or Two. and Bathed
trie Baby, and interviewed the Trades
people, and answered the Telephone,
and Cleaned up the House. I have noth
'ng At All to do but to get the Rahv to
Sleep, and Run the Sewing Machine
until it Is Time to Got Luncheon for
th f - l .iildren who will b< . omine Home
hungry from School.
After Luncheon Is over and I have
eared awaj the Dishes. I am a t Per
fect Liberty again to resume m\ Raby
Ter,dine and Sewing until 1 have to
stop to get Dinner. So you wi'i par
• ■eivo that 1 lead a Lift' of Inglorious
Ease, and that th" Dolce Far Nientes
Existence of a Wife and Mother does
”ot Entitle me to n Scat unor the same
Platform with • ■ese Working Women
who earn timi-c own TJ\ *'<?> Woe i?>
■nr. 1 am a Parasite tv bo z Support'd
h\ hpv Husband.*'
Clinainq Vine Job.
Tnu are right.' rej-ho,] • . Fir-port
- \ our j.lacp > not be’- r (MJ are
entitled to a r •„« ."mum p,, x mong
tlm Saints and t! ■ Martvrs ■
Moral: This Fable t; be .
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Job.
SILVER TEA SETS
I*' l ' 'mt mg <»l a sci'\ i L .(- , considerable import
I ire f ' |- st thoiiglit s quality, next d“xiffii. price. etc.
i i..‘ >i - years ot unbroken dealing in wares of tiawics<
-r.a!M\ has given protigr,. p, ~u r name.
jie .aeas <>• <!;.■ foremost desig). Ts are portrayed in every
tends •nstitute our selection. l-'rom rhe plain
lines ot the colonial ;■> the down-red repousse. the) are here for
your choosing.
Our prices ai-e ;i y lon as small a margin of profit as is
possible: we make it right to lo gin with, mark it on each ar
tide in plain figure'.
Don t tail to see our 'p.endid display. It is of unusual
interest at this season.
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“In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of Love.”
Do \ ou Know—
Sun worship prevailed In the earliest
times among all nations.
Tea drinking prevails more in Aus
tralia than in any other country
Considerably over 400.000,000 people
owe allegiance to the British crown.
South Africa calls for 100,000.000
postal stamps to meet its needs for one
year
In Germany the telephone lines are
owned and operated by the govern
ment.
Sixty-eight out of every hundred
publications in the world are printed
in English. .
By the rules of the ait. two aircraft
meeting each otlirr must steer to the
right, and pass at least 110 yards
a part
As much as $2,000 has been paid (or
an egg of the great auk. There arc
only setenty known specimens of the
egg of this extinct bird.
The grape has more sugar in it than
ant other fruit, nearly fifteen parts in
100 being sugar The peach has least,
only one and half per cent.
V.it few houses in the French West
Indies posse s kerosene lamps, candles
being commonly used for household
illuminating. The import duty makes
it impossible for tlie people, who are
poo', to use eitlte: kerosene or gaso
line.
A RECORD THAT’S INDELIBLE * By
“The Moving Finger writes, and, hav
ing writ.
Motos on: nor all tom Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a
lane,
Nor all your Tears nah out a Word
of it."
Rubaiyat of Omar Khat yam.
IF every girl’s first thought when she
awoke in the morning were that
every word, every thought, every
deed, of that day wore, to be written
In ink, that the ages would find in
delible. what a difference it might
make’
She would curb hei tempo.. She
would restrain every inclination to be
impatient. If Iter first thought is a
selfish thought, a mole generous sec
ond thought would prevail.
She would check evert impulse to
be narrow. She would ot crcome every
petty desire for self. She would be
come better, truer biffhet. nobler,
quicker Io feel, and much more con
stant to retain, all tenderness and pity,
all self-denial and devotion.
All. ami more, if she but realized
with the beginning of every day teat
the "Moving Finger writes.’ and that
it is upon her there rests the responsi
bility of what it writes, bo it good or
evil
it is wil l a desire tn awaken her.tv
that realization that this is written
The Moving Kinger is a chronicler
never swayed by prejudice merci or
passion. It is inexorable. It writes
what one Di’ICS. and not what one IN
TENDS to dn
tin its pages the little elf denials
that arc hidden from the world stiine
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MTIOMI lOIUT WWW. Forit. Ttnn
forth in luminous text. They rank as
high or higher, than as the great deeds
done under the Inspiration of the blare
of trumpets and the world's applauS' .
The Moving Finger Knows.
The world may not know of it when
n girl gives up her greatest desire be
cause the giving up means a help to
others, but the Moving Kinger knows,
and its writing is indelible. The ap
plause of the world soon dies away.
Tin- indelible writing of the Moving
Kinger always stands.
Therefore, because one is- denied the
opportunities to do great things one
should not slight the little acts of'de
votion and Kindness.
A knowledge that these count for
more when tlie Great Book is finally
balanced should bo firmly fixed in evert
girl’s heart and head. Tins knowledge,
and,litis knowledge alone, will help her
to arise above the depression that
sometimes attends lack of recognition.
She n in cave little that others do not
know of what she has done, knowing
that, if she Knows she has done her
best, little else counts.
She has given the .Moling Kinger
something to write of which she will
never be ashamed. And who could do
more?
Nothing is ever written that -will
cause great repentance, humiliation or
shame if every thought, every act.
every word originates in a spirit of
’kindness.
Said Alice Cary
"For whatever men ay tn their blind
ness.
In spite of the fancies of youth,
There is nothing so kindly ar kind-
• ties'.s.
And nothing so royal ar truth"
K'ndnesr. and Truth.
.lust two little words to remember
and the Moving I'inger will w rite noth
ing during a. day that will make a girl’s
head toss restlessly on her pillow that
night, and these two words are. "Kind
ness” and "Truth."
A little thought foi others all the
time; a little repression of self; a little
eating for the other girl's hurts, and
forgetting of one’s own. A little more!
interest in the troubles of the girl!
whose kite affair has gone awry; al
littb- helpful understanding and sjm-i
pathy. All these and more make that •
w tiring of the Moling I’inger a record!
as b’. autiful as any noble sentiment ;
< vei done in illuminated text
,l i -, a I tile remembering a” ilie '
iim . nd when iiiam inins. am om
•ck. Im k r tin deed* of the bat 1
honestly and frankly, there will be no
wail of regret.
Just remember all the time:
"Nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cam el half a Lino.
Nor all your Tears wash out :< Word
of it."
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Safeguarding Himself
"I'll take a little whisky—out of the
large black bottle.” said Colonel Stil
well, confidentially. “1 am (pking this
for a cold.” he added, still more confi
dentially.
"But you haven't any cold."
"1 know that. But an ounce of pre
vention is worth a pound of cure.”
Daysey Mayme
and Her Folks
By FRANCES L. GARSIDE.
IN the last two weeks Daysey Mayjrie
Appleton has purchased three bats,
four party dresses, five street
dresses, six lace collars and two new
wraps.
Special scenery ’ has been added to
the parlor in the shape of a lamp shade
of a romantic red. and so many pillow
cushions have been put on the lounge
that when her Best Beloved called re
cently and lay down to rest, she piled so
man.v pillow cushions under nls head in
her solicitude that she finally had hit
standing on his feet.
Best Beloved has the right of way •.».
the parlor. Had Lysander John put his
head on one of the pale blue pillows on
which Best Beloved puts his feet, it
would have become a wrong to grow in
dignant about at women’s clubs for the
next six months,
Lysander John is so neglected he al
ways looks like a comb with half the
teeth gone, and this forlorn condition
was impressed on his mind recently
when he strayed into the parlor, w herd
Daysey Mayme was entertaining her
Best Beloved by squealing at his jokes.
Best Beloved had risen to go when he
discovered a tiny rent in his pale gray
kid gloves.
Daysey Mayme was ail solicitude and
ran out to the sewing room, returning
with a thimble, a needle and some pale
gray thread.
Lysander John Thinks It Over.
She insisted upon mending his glove,
inquiring tenderly while doing it if the
other needed mending. .Then she dis
covered that the buttons needed sewing
on tighter, and Lysander John watched
her w’ith a strange look in his eyes.
When she had repaired the gloves and
looked at the Best Beloved's coat as if
hoping to find a button off there. Lj
sander John went to his room and sa’
down. Then he took an inventory of
himself:
Three buttons off his vest, tvo but
tons off liis coat, and a snag In his
trousers.
"Perhaps," he said hopefully, "Day-e\
Mayme hasn’t seen that I need her
services.”
So he waited tiil after Best Beloved
had gone, and then reappea red with one
sleeve torn entirely out of his coat. But
Daysey Mayme didn’t see it!
It was one of the little tragedies
known in every home when daughter
falls in love, and a few days later the
Appleton home witnessed another
Daysey Mayme had adopted the fash
ion of wearing her dress very low in the
neck last winter, and. though she went
around with gooseflesh large enough to
grate a nutmeg on, she insisted thai
she was not cold. Oh. no, she was
warm, very warm, indeed.
Her father scolded, her brother said
she had a neck like a goose and it
, wasn't pretty enough to be seen, am!
[even her mother expostulated.
She Defied Their Warnings.
| All warned Daysey Mayme that sue
(would suffer for it. but in vain, He"
| only attention to their w arnings was
; to wear her dress a little lower in. tin
I neck, and a little shorter in the sleeves.
■ One cool day recently she was start
ling for a walk with Best Beloved.
"Aren't yoh afraid you Wilf eaten
cold with your throat bare like that'.'
he asked, very indifferently.
Rut it was enough, for Best Beloved
had spoken! The next day Daysey
Mayme appeared with her dress neck as
high as her chin, and wearing a muffle
around her throat of the weight worn
in a North Dakota blizzard.
“There is nothing in this world so
great." said Lysander John to his sis
ter, after Daysey Mavtne had departe !.
staggering under the weight of hr
winter wraps, “as the influence of a
Best Beloved.”
"And nothing so short-lived," replied
his siste-.