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THE GE OB GIAN’S MAGAZINE PAGE 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. SILVER TEA SETS The buying of a silver service is of considerable import ance. The first thought is quality, next design, price, etc. The many years of unbroken dealing in wares of flawless quality has given prestige to our name. The deas of the foremost designers are portrayed in every set which tends to constitute our selection. From the plain lines <>f the colonial to the flowered repousse, they are here for your choosing. Our prices are figured on as small a margin of profit as is possible; we make it right to begin with, mark it on each ar ticle in plain figures. Don’t fail to see our splendid display. It is of unusual interest at this season. (pUGENE V fl A YVES Qo.) ■w.WFLF.W* - WHITeH AI.E r.— <0 Love in Springtime By Nell Brinkley [X ( __ , -__ _ _ ' _ —-x twit wi < V xoO. :O/ MiSBI Mi® - .SSiiSRS *J||| IX itetwb' ■ I I' :, V '..-A. mt “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 Beautify the Complexion . IN TEN DAYS / Nadinola CREAM / \ The Unequtled Beautificr P i 'll "" ! "T used and endorsed by L—Z" —THOUSANDS Guaranteed to remove xjygFXjff'' tan, freckles, pimples, / liver-spots, etc. Extreme cases twenty days. Rids pores and tissues of impurities. Leaves the skin clear, soft, healthy. Two sizes, 50c. and SI.OO By toilet counters or mail. NATIONAL TOILET COMPANY. ParU. T«n» 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.” SNOWDRIFT FOR ALL COOKING ■iys: “Use for ace of Butter” r cent shortening, equally nd absolutely pure. Use itter. Add a little salt as nor water. me shortening, adapted to Most grocers sell it. If 3urs does not, write our nearest office and we will arrange to have you supplied. Creamery Butter 40 Cents a Pound 18% Salt and Water Snowdrift 100% Cooking Fat lade Only By :rn Cotton Oil Co. oad Street, New York ■ah London rleans Liverpool o Paris ■neimm Mnn**b crier Safeguarding Himself TH take a little whisky—out of the large black bottle,” said Colonel Stil well, confidentially. "I am taking this for a cold,” he added, still more confi dentially. "But you haven’t any cold." "I 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 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.