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Fables of the Wise
Dame
By DOROTHY DIX.
ONCE upon a time there was a
Working Women's Convention
pulled off in which the Ladies
who held Jobs that had a Pay En
velope Attachment met together to hurl
Bouquets at themselves, and pass
resolutions denouncing the Useless
Parasitic Female who did nothing but
live at Home and let a Husband Sup
port her.
Oratory was on Tap, and after each
Female Wonder had told how she be
came a Lady Dramatist, or an Author
ess. or an Actress, or a Lady Purchas
ing Agent, or a Lady ’Longshoreman,
or something else at which site worked
four Hours a Day. and made money
enough to Wear French Confections
and Diamonds, the Balance of the
Bunch gave her the Glad hand and
Chautauqua Salute.
At last, however, a Reporter who
■was Present, observed a small and
Dowdily Dressed little Woman who
was sitting Far Back, chewing the
Rag in Silence, and he went to her
and thus addressed her:
"My Sister," he said, "tell me why
you are Papering the Wall Instead of
getting your Share of the Spot Light,
and why you miss this Glorious Op
portunity to hand yourself a few
Heartfelt Words of Praise?”
The Busy Parasite.
"Alas!" cried the Humble One. ”1 am
not a Working Woman. I have done
nothing that would Entitle me to ask
my Fellow Creatures to listen to me,
fool am one of those Justly Despised
Parasite Women who does nothing but
be a Wife and Mother.
"It is true that T 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
it may be 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
Bed 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 I do not have to Earn my
own Living, as so many Unfortunate
Females do.
"It is also true that it is continu
ally up to me to Doctor tny Family
and Nurse them when they are ill,
hut as nobody ever Thinks of Paying
me the Salary of a Trained Nurse, I
get my Recompense in Growls and
Kicks, and Reflect on what a Privilege
it is for a Woman to have a Husband
at Home with a Sore Head, apd 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 conies my Way to know
a Few things. 1 am expected to be
able to Referee a Eight between my
Children and 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 1 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 any kind
of a Clew as to where my Husband left
his Latch Key.
“Neither do I 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. I must know how to
Manufacture my Glad Rags at Home,
and wearthem with a Brought-it-froin.
Abroad Air. I must know how to Trim
over my Last Year's Hat so it will
Deceive my Dearest Friend. I must he
able to Cook a Dinner like a French
Chef, to dish out Theology like a Sky
Pilot, and Jo run a Quick Meal Res
taurant for those of my Family who
like 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
,8:15 Train, and after I have washed
the Children and Dressed them for
School, and Heard a few Lessons, and
Sewed on a Button or Two. and Bathed
the Baby, and interviewed the Trades
people. and answered the Telephone,
and Cleaned up the House. T have noth
ing At. All to do but to get the Raby to
Sleep, and Run the Sewing Machine
until it is Time to Get Luncheon for
the Children who w ill be coming Home
hungry from School.
"After Luncheon is over and I have
cleared away the Dishes, I am at Per
fect Liberty again to resume my Raby
Tendine anil Sewing until I have to
stop to get Dinner. So you will per
ceive that I a Life of Inglorious
Ease, and that the Dolce Far Nientes
Existence of a Wife and Mother does
not Entitle me to a Seat upon the same
Platform with these Working Women
*- who earn their own Livings. Woe is
me. I am a Parasite who is Supported
by her Husband."
Clinqinq Vine Job.
"Tnu are right." replied the Report
er: ‘.‘your place is not here. You are
entitled to a Proscenium Box among
the Saints and the Martyrs."
Moral: This Fable teaches that be
ing a Clinging Vine is a Strenuous
Job.
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“In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of Love.”
Do You Know—-
Sun worship prevailed in the earliest
times among all nations.
Tea drinking prevails more in Aus
tralia titan in any other country.
< ‘onsiderahly over 4U0.n00,000 people
owe allegiance to the British crown.
South Africa calls for 100,000,000
posiai 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 air. two aircraft
meeting each other must steer to the
right, and pass at least 110 yards
apart.
As much as $2,000 has been paid for
an egg of the great auk. There are
only seventy known specimens of the
egg of this extinct bird.
The grape has more sugar in it than
any other fruit, nearly fifteen parts in
100 being sugar. The peach has least,
only one and half per cent.
Very few houses in the French West
Indies possess kerosene lamps, candles
being commonly used for household
illuminating. The import duty makes
it impossible for the people, who are
poor, to use either kerosene or gaso-
A RECORD THAT’S INDELIBLE * By Beatrice Fairfax
“The Moving Finger writes, and, hav
ing writ,
Moves on; nor all your Piety nor Wi*
Shall lure it back to cancel half a
Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word
of it.”
—Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
IF every girl’s first thought when she
awoke in the morning were that
every word, every thought, every
deed, of that day were to be written
in ink that the ages would 7 ' find in
delible. what a difference it might
make!
She would curb her temper. She
would restrain every inclination to be
impatient. If her first thought is a
selfish thought, a more generous sec
ond thought would prevail.
She would check every impulse to
be narrow. She would overcome every
petty desire for self. She would be
come better, truer, higher, nobler,
quicker to feel, and much more con
stant to retain, all tenderness and pity,
all self-denial and devotion.
All, more, if she but realized
with the beginning of every day that
the "Moving Finger writes,” and that
it is upon her there rests the responsi
bility of tvhat it writes, be it good or
evil.
It is with a desire to awaken her to
that realization that this is written.
The Moving Finger is a chronicler
never swayed by prejudice, mercy or
passion. It is inexorable. It writes
what one DOES, and not what one IN
TENDS to do.
On its pages the little self-denials
that are hidden from the world shine
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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 applause.
The Moving Finger Knows.
The world may not know of it when
a girl gives up her greatest desire be
cause the giving up means a help to
others, but the Moving Finger knows,
and its writing is Indelible. The ap
plause of the world soon dies away.
The indelible writing of the Moving
Finger 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 the Great Rook is finally
balanced should be firmly fixed in.every
girl’s heart and head. This knowledge,
and this knowledge alone, will help her
to arise above the depression that
sometimes attends lack of recognition
She will care 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 Moving Finger
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 say in their blind
ness.
In spite of the fancies of youth,
There is nothing so kindly as kind
ness,
And nothing so royal as truth."
Kindness and Truth.
.lust two little words to remember
and tlie Moving Finger will write 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 for others all the
time: a little repression of self: a little i
caring for the other girl's hurts, and |
forgetting of one’s own A little more'
interest in the troubles of the girl I
whose love affair has gone awry; aI
little helpful understanding and sym- ,
pathy. All these and more make that '
writing <>f the Moving Finger a record :
as beautiful as any noble sentiment I
ever done in illuminated text.
Just a little remembering all the'
lime, hnd w hen night comes and om '
looks buck over the deeds of the dav I
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 cancel half a IJnc.
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word
of it.”
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Daysey Mayme
and Her Folks
By FRANCES L. GARSIDE.
IN the last two weeks Daysey Mayme
Appleton has purchased three hats,
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 Bost Beloved called re
cently and lay dow n to rest, she piled so
many pillow cushions under his head in
her solicitude that she finally had him
standing on his feet.
Best Beloved Bas the right of way ih
the parlor. Had Lysander John put his
head on one of the pale blue pillows on
which Best Beloved nuts 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, wherd
Daysey Mayme was entertaining her
Best Beloved by squealing at his jokes.
Best Belevad had risen io go when he
discovered a tihy rent in his pale gray
kid gloves.
Daysey Mayme was all 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 ft if the
other needed mending. Then she dis
covered that the buttons needed sewing
on tighter, and Lysander John watched
her with a strange look in his eyes.
When she had repaired the gloves and
looked at the Best Beloved's coat as it
hoping to find a button off there, Ly
sander John went lo his room and sat
down Then he took an inventory of
himself:
Three buttons off his vest, two but
tons off his coat, and a snag In hig
trousers.
“Perhaps." he said hopefully, "Daysey
Mayme hasn't seen that I need her
services.”
So he waited till after Best Beloved
had gone, and then reappeared withone
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 w eal ing her dress very low in the
neck last winter, ami. though she went
around with gooseflesh large enough to
grate a nutmeg on. she insisted that
she was not cold. oh. no, she w r as
warm, vety warm, indeed.
Her father scolded, her brother said
she had a neck like a goose and it
• wasn't pretty enough to be seen, and
I even her mother expostulated.
She Defied Their Warnings.
I All warned Daysey Mayme that she
i would suffer for it. but in vain. Her
| only attention to their warnings was
; to wear her dress a little lower in the
neck, and a little shorter in the sleeves.
One cool day recently she was start
ing for a walk with Best Beloved.
“Aren’t you afraid you will catch
cold with your throat bare like that?"
he asked, very indifferently.
But it was enough, for JBest Beloved
had spoken! The next day Daysey
Mayme appeared with her dress neck as
high as her chin, and wearing a muffler
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 Mavme had departed,
staggering under the weight of her
winter wraps, "as the influence of a
Best Beloved."
"And nothing so short-lived,” replied
his sister.