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ADVICE TO THE LOVELORN
Balm for Aching Hearts
WHERE SHOPPING COMES EASY By Beatrice Fairfax
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX
TRY THE SAME THING.
P) EAR MISS FAIRFAX:
I have been keeping company
with a young man for two or
three ve&rs. He writes to mo oc-
*1 on ally, and sometimes he does
not write for three weeks. Should
I wait the same length of time
before answering his letters or
should 1 answer in a few days?
1 love this young man and do
not wish to let him know It by
answering too soon.
BROWN RYES
jwever answer his letters sooner
than he replies to yours, and I think
It would be a good plan if you occa
sionally wait longer
H16 WIFE
D EAR MISS FAIRFAX
In a conversation with a mar
ried lady the following question
arose: If his mother and his wife
were drowning and it wan impossi
ble to save both, which should ho
save? In other words, to whom does
he owe most?
PROSPECTIVE BRIDEGROOM
He owes his life to his mother, but
when he married he vowed to cling
to the woman who became Ms wife
•'above all others."
HE SHOULD PROPOSE
F)EAR MIKS FAIRFAX:
Should a gentleman have an
engagement ring when he proposes
to a young lady, or Is It proper to
give her a ring after she has accept
ed him?
Would it be considered proper for
a young man. making 180 per month,
to propose marriage to a ybung lady,
asking her to wait until he Is mak
ing $100, as he considers that the
proper amount to marry on, living
m a city?
The young lady in question comes
from a moderately wealthy family,
but hasn't an extravagant disposi
tion- The young man feels that It
would be unwise to put off propos
ing. as she has no definite knowl
edge of his intentions, although she
may suspect them. ANXJOFS.
He should propose first, of course.
To be ready with the engagement ring
takes too much for granted.
It Is proper for him to propose, of
course, stating frankly his Income and
future prospects. The rest should be
left to her decision
ACCEPT NO MAN.
r)EAR MISS FAIRFAX
I am fifteen and deeply in love
with two young men, one five,
year* my senior and the other
woven years my senior. Both
think there is nothing like rne.
There was a young man from iwi-
other place who came to see me
gome time ago. He proposed to
me, but I didn't accept, as mother
likes the other ones a little bet
ter I don't know whether to
accept or not. as 1 do not love
him very mucli and would l.ke
you to give me some advice.
BELLE.
A girl of fifteen is too young to be j
courted 1 am surprised that your!
mother permits it. You must re- !
fuse all three, and permit yourself to I
be a care-free girl at least five years j
longer.
NOTHING WHATEVER.
HEAR MI SB FAIRFAX
I am deeply in love with a girl
one year my Junior. She is 22.
She loves me. I know, hut she
Insists on flirting with a young
man in the same town. Do you
think me right in objecting"
Would you quit going with her?
What do you think she means?
COLE M.
She is not engaged to you, and has
given you no sort of promise. That
leaves you without the right to ob
ject.
T am sure she means nothing what
ever by her flirtations except to
gratify a girls idea of what con
stitutes a good time
SHE IS NOT SINCERE
Hear miss Fairfax:
IVhat is your opinion of a girl
who shows her love letters to all
her friends? Would you continue
correspondence with her? A R
The girl is not in love or she
wouldn't do It. Discontinue writ
ing. and tell her the reason It will
do her good to know that such conduct
Is disloyal
* A Bachelor’s Dia
ry
By MAX
By WILLIAM F. KIRK.
SHE that President Wilson went
to the opening game at Wash*ng-
ton, between the Yankees and
ihe Washington team.” said the Head
Barber “I suppose he thinks that he
ought to imitate Taft that much, after
showing him tip so last election. The
papers had a whole lot about him.
Mow he pulled his brown Fedora down
; over his eyes and watched the game
like a hawk from beginning to end. I
; suppose he was picking out the ball
1 p!a\ ers that makes over $5,000 a year,
j so he could put the bee on them for
j that Income tax of his.”
just grand to be “
“The poor boy has always thought
that he had a fine personality over
isnee one of them palmists told him
that he was cut out to be a travel
ing man for a big concern.”
• How was Wilfred’s conduct?” asked
the Head Barber. “You know you
were telling me that he was hitting
It up pretty hard after getting his
last bunch of poems back from ftte
magazine editor.”
“He wasn't exactly right," admitted
the Manicure Lady. “When Mr. Fel
lows came up and sat in our box to
visit for a little while, me and sister
Mayme was kind, of hoping he would
! President, and go out to the ball game stay, because he seemed like a nice
j in an auto and sit in a box where , kind of a gen? J know' he would have
: everbody can get a slant at you," stayed, only Wilfred began spouting
j «aid the Manicure Lady. “Goodness some poetry that he was making up as
knows. George, if you and me was to he went along
go to a ball game they wouldn’t notice "The poor boy can't write nothing
] what I was wearing and they wouldn't good if it takes him all night, so you
I know whether you had on a brown can imagine the kind of junk he would
make up as he went along. This is
about how the stuff sounded that he
was handing out to Mr. Fellows:
" ‘The circuses of ancient Rome
Were not so grand as this;
I'm glad I came all the way from horns
To enjoy this night of bliss.
My breast with gratitude does swell
Just like a blacksmith's bellows
I thank you more than I can tell
For this here show, Mr. Fellows.* *•
“I suppose Fellows left the box after
| that, " said the Head Barber.
Must Take the Pledge.
“He had a right to. and he had a
right to ask us to leave, too, because
T guess he must have seen by that time
that dearest brother was feeling his oats
and you can bet. George, that I ain't
never going to a circus or anything else
with Wilfred until he takes the pledge
to see ft. George, it would pay you to I Why, he even jumped into the ring Irj
go just to see ail them freaks they the middle of the show and tried to
have. throw one of them Iceland v restlers.
“Honest to goodness, T never knew He got thrown out on his ear, first by
there was so many freaks in the the wrestler and then by the usher, and
world, outside of the ones that blows j met me and Mayme outside after the
in here sometimes to have their nails j show ”
did. Wilfred was saying that he “It's to bad you didn’t have your fa-
didn't care, after looking at them, ther along.” suggested the Head Bar-
whether he had a job or not. He said ! ber
that It was enough to make a man J "Not by any means,” said the Mani-
thankful to know' that he had his cure Lady. “That would only have
health and a fine personality. | added to the horrors of the occasion.”
I Fedora or a hold over.
Speaking About Ball Games.
' But speaking about ball games and
| other forms of amusement,” continued
i the Manicure Lady, “me and sister
i Mayme and Wilfred all went last
1 night to see the circus that used to be
gave by Mister Barnum and Mister
j Bailey. They aint with the show any
| more, because it is long after their
: time. but it w'as simply grand,
| George.
"A friend of Wilfred's gave us some
swell seats and there we sat, thinking
about the days when we were little
kids when there was only one ring
inside the big tent and two clowns
instead of twenty.
“They had some wonderful features,
though, even if it wasn’t the same as
in the old days. If you haven't been
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M ARCH 23.—“You telegraphed
you were taking a different
route,” I managed to stammer
Into the phone after I had recovered
from my surprise In hearing the wid
ow’s voice.
"But I found at the last moment,"
Mif said with a laugh, “that I couldn’t,
so here I am, all alone, and I will be
here two hours. Did you say you
would come right down to the sta
tion ?’’
Would T come? I had called to
Tompkins to bring my hat and coat
before I had hung up the receiver, and
wss out the door in a rush, feeling
like a boy w r ho finds himself alone in
the house and the preserve closet un
locked.
Ran to Catch a Car.
T lushed down the front steps,
reached the gate in a bound, and rnn
♦o the corner to catch a car.
It seemed unusually long In com
ing, but at last 1 caught the glow' of
i he headlight away down the line.
I was so absorbed in my thoughts I
diti not notice that a big limousine
had stopped close beside me, or that a
man had slighted, until he grasped mo
by the arm.
It v a* Jack Spencer.
“Just getting home." he explained,
“and we were turning in the drive
when my wife caught sight of you.”
“Max ” she called from the car,
“come here and explain where you
only one thought as I walked
to th<- door of the machine, and that
was a regret that I had never learned
how to lie glibly. 1 never tell a lie.
I am not posing as a good man, but I
have found that a lie carries so many
complications in its trail it Is easier
to tell the truth and be done with it.
No doubt 1 told many when I was
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younger, but of late years m> memory
isn’t good enough.
“I—well, the truth is—” I stam
mered.
“The truth is," she said with a
laugh, “you were going to meet the
widow'. Well, get in. <’ome, Jack," to
her husband, “we will also go to mee*
the widow.”
There was'a hurried direction given
the chauffeur and we were off for the
station.
I do not recall my sensations on
that ride. I was disappointed, re
lieved. glad, sorry, chagrined, trium
phant one sensation succeeding the
other in such rapid confusion that I
never knew which predominated.
Mrs. Spencer was talking, but we
were nearing the station before I
realised what she was saying. Then
I heard only here and there a sen-
tence.for my mind w as leaping forw ard
to the meeting with the widow. Would
she be disappointed when she saw
that I was attended by my friends? I
had told her once I thought her
charming I should never enter her
presence unless guarded by policemen
instructed to drag me away if 1 let
her charms overcome me. Would she
I think these two friends m.v officially
, appointed bluecoats?
Would she give me that taunting
I little smile which said, "You're afraid,
! you’re afraid?”
Of only one thing I was sure, an I
that was that her manner of greeting
my friends would conceal so much it
would be perfect. The widow I
thought, not without some pride in
her. would be a nia.ch for Mrs. Spen
cer, and that is saying a good deal.
“You haven’t heard a word I have
said, Max.” said Mrs. Spencer, half
amused and half provoked.
1 insisted that I had.
“Well,” she replied, “she is coming
next week.”
“Who is coming next week?” I
asked, not that 1 was at all inter-
I ested.
“There,” she said. “I knew vou
! hadn’t heard what 1 said. Well, just
for that. I won’t tell you again. I'U
tell you just this much, and that is
she thinks you are still in the South
or she would not come.”
The widow, I was thinking, would
probably be dressed in brown. She
looked particularly handsome in that
color, and wore it a great deal—per
haps a brown traveling suit, with a
brown hat with a feather just the
color of her eyes.
“She particularly said.” Mrs. Spen
cer resumed, “she did not want to see
you. She can’t forget. She is one
woman. Max. who isn't interested m
> our money."
It w'as too late to take the widow
out to dinner, perhaps we could go to
some private little dining room in a
nearby hotel and have a little lunch
and something to drink. I was glad. I
was thinking, that Mrs. Jack had
an evening gown. Mrs. Jack always
looked handsome, but I had a special
desire that she impress the widow this
evening. I didn’t want the widow, who
was always perfectly attired, to g.
any notion that my friends were
frumps
My thoughts ran so intently on the
meeting of these two women that I
paid little heed to what Mrs. Spencer
was saying, and had not learned, wher.
we reached the station and w'ere
pushing our way through the crowds,
who that most unusual woman was
who was not Interested in my money.
There flashed through my mind tho
story of the farmer who saw his first
camel, and who said, “There hain’t no
such thing.”
We had reached the door of the la
dies’ waiting room, my hand in Mrs.
Spencer's arm. and I was smiling at
the appropriateness of the story, when
w e turned a corner, and stood face to
face w ith the very handsomest woman
I had ever seen—the widow!
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H. CON E. in... ‘A Good iVug Stor#”-*-I Two Stores)—-Atlanta.
T HE customer is weary. 'That the
salesgirl is also weary is some
thing beyond her comprehension
The customer is also impatient, but the
salesgirl is not. Patience for her has ;i
pecuniary value, and Its equivalent is
bread and butter
Gown after gown has been taken from
the racks and draped on tin dummy
models, and tied on those of flesh and
blood. Bolt upon bolt of goods has been
taken from the shelves and spread out
in a way to give life and color to every
thread
At last, wearied by the multiplicity
of choice and her own indecision, the
customer sinks into a chair. The sales
girl. who has never been tired by multi
pliclty of choice, and knows not th«
luxury of indecision, remains standing
“How much easier," says the cus
tomer. “it is to choose a husband!”
For she knew, us every woman knows
that that is where shopping cornea
easy.
That is h stock line
There is no bewildering variety of
color, style or texture: no changing
of fashions with confusing rapidity; no
vexing doubt if the purchase will prove
becoming, and, alas for feminine folly,
no question if the purchase will stand
the Test of wear and time!
Wearing rose-colored glasses that bide
all imperfections of wool and color, a
girl enters this shop while very young,
and proceeds to make a selection. She
has so little judgment that her mother
wouldn't trust her with the purchase
of a muslin dress that is to last one
season, yet she permits her to enter
alone and unguided a shop where she
will make a purchase that must last
a lifet'me.
When she returns home with a new
gown her mother examines it for im
perfections, noting quickly if it is worth
tho price, and if not, the girl must lake
it back.
But if the girl shops for a husband,
that is of so little importance she shops
unattended. And when she makes a
poor selection her family meekly abides
by her bargain.
Her mother is often a poor guide in
the matrimonial market, and her father
shirk*, the task, regarding his business
affairs as of more importance.
“That is your province," he says to
his wife, and she hides weakly behind
that sentiment called “mother love."
and which is manifested in letting
daughter have a dynamite bomb to play
with if that is daughter’s choice.
“She loves him.” she will say when
daughter brings home her matrimonial
purchase, "and we must let daughter
have what she wants.”
And daughter has it. and time has
a way of its own in working on those
who buy matrimonially that is unlike
the way it marks off the days and
months and years on those who make
less vital purchases.
The gown shrinks in the wash and
fades, and breaks into holes and is dis
carded.
In the matrimonial shop it is not
the purchase that show*? the marks of
wear and time: it is the one who buys.
The husband may look just as dap
per as the day he was taken from the
counter, but the poor little customer
who carried him off is faded and worn,
and begins 16 look like a last year's
gown that was a bad bargain to begin
with, and that proved worse with very
day’s wear.
She looks spiritually and mentally out
at elbows and diown at heels, and the
brightness of youthful coloring that once
made her a joy has become premature
ly faded. She purchased on the im
pulse. She must wear to the day of her
death! She must carry to the end of
time a burden on her heart that was
never at the beginning any more than a
moth-eaten sentiment.
“How’ much easier,” says the im
patient customer, surrounded by silks
and wools and muslins, “it is to choose
a husband."
And this choosing of a husband is
something which mothers and fathers
and all guardians of the young must
make more of a responsibility—and less
of a whim or caprice.
Man is the only animal that laugas
drinks when he is not thirsty, ant
makes love at nil seasons of th ' year
—Voltaire.
Who misses or who wins ; • M i/«\
Go, losr or conquer as you can;
But if you fail or if you rise.
Be each, pray God, a geni Ionian.
MAIDEN MUSINCiS.
We gii is have memories *n<»ugi <>
we could all write memoirs! Why.
w’c remember every compliment any
one ever paid us—and as *or the dis
agreeable things that are said to us
we certainly never forget them!
A chap who is so conservative that
he can’t change his opinion in public
may not be so modest that ho will
refuse to embrace opportunity in pri
vate.
Love certain!) make Time pass
but Time can make Love pass, too!
STRAY NEWS NOTES.
A Cleveland contemporary printed
recently a striking little melodrama
in five ai ts. W e reproduce it hero for
our readers
Act 1.
Fill ’em up again. McGinnis!"
Act 2.
“FillemupagainM eGii.nis!
Act 3.
“FillupGinnis!’*
Act 4.
“Fillinis! ”
Act 5.
"Finis.”
! l X)Y E’S SU PREMACY
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
Copyright, 1913. by American-Journal-Examiner.
f yon great Sun in his supreme
condition
Absorbs all small worlds and
uakes them Ills awn,
loes my love absorb each vain
irnbii on,
eh outside purpose which my life
has known.
Stars cannot shine so near that orb’s
splendor,
They are content to feed his flames
of tire:
And so my heart is satisfied to
render
Its strength, its all to meet thy
strong desire.
As in a forest when dead leaves are
falling
From all save some perennial green
So one by one 1 find all pleasures
palling
That an* not linked with or en
joyed by thee.
And all the homage that the world
may proffer
1 love myself because thou urt nj.v
iover.
My name seems dear since uttered
by thy voice;
Yet Argus-eyed 1 watch and would
discover
Each blemish in the object of thy
choice,
1 coldly sit in judgment on each er
ror,
To my soul's gaze 1 hold each fault
of me.
Until my pride is lost in abject ter
ror,
Lest I become inadequate to thee.
Like some swift rushing and sea
seeking live**.
Which gathers force the farther on
it goes,
So does the current of my love
fo revel
Find added strength and beauty as
it flows.
The more 1 give, the more remains
perfumed oils or incense forgiven,
Tlie more received, the more re
i»f it as one tiling more to j mains to win,
j Ah! only in eternities of living,
itice tu love, at thy dear; Will life be long enough to lov
, thee io-
' She was too conscientious for me.
cue day 1 proposed marriage to ber. and
what do you think she did? She took all
that J said down in shorthand and
brought it. nicely typewritten for me to
sign.”
Blinkers—Hallo. Winkers! I hear you
married a woman with an independent
fortune
Winkers (sadly)- X-no: I married a
fortune with an independent woman.
Lady (to exhausted furniture re
movers)—Here's a dime for vou and
your friend each to get a glass of beer
with.
Exhausted Furniture Remover—A
glass of beer” Love us, lady, a glass
of beer ain't no more to us than a snow
flake on a red-hot stove!
A farmer saw a recipe advertised for
keeping wells and cisterns from freezing
in Winter Having sent a dozen stamps
he received the following:
“Take in your well or cistern at night
and stand it in front of the fire.”
First Young Attorney -Allow me to
congratulate you. I saw you this morn
ing hurrying along to the County Court
with a brief in your hand. So your first
client has come?"
Second Ditto (with a look of satisfac
tion)—Yes. my tailor has taken out a
summons against me!”
Bobby: “My sisTer will l»e down in a
few minutes. Mr. Softly. She’s upstairs
rehearsing.”
Mr. Softly < who has come prepared):
“W-what is she rehearsing. Bobby?”
Bobby : “I don't know exactly, but
she's standing in front of the mirror and
blushing and saying. ‘Oh, Mr. Softlyj*er
—this is so sudden!’ ”
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
NXIOUS” writes: “I am a
girl of eighteen years, and as
yet have had no admirers
among the boys. I am anxious to
have some boy care for me and take
me dbour There are a great many
affairs I miss' on this account."
“Anxious” evidently did not read a
letter from one of my girls a week
ago, in which she said:
“I find so much anxiety in loving,
so much depression, so much fear,
that many, many times I wish I had
never grown up and were away back
there playing with my dolls. They,
at least, never caused any heart
aches.” j
Here is a little miss of eighteen j
who wants the heart aches to begin.'
Free to do as she pleases, with no
tyrannical lover troubling her heart
with his moods and his whims, she
chafes at her freedom. She wants a
taste of that bitter cup of love which
the giri who wrote the other letter
wishes had never been pressed to her
H p?.
A Common Cry.
It is the universal cry of woman
kind. We may know love at its real
worth, or attire it in. a value that is
fictitious; we ma\ paint it as cruel
or hideous—but we want it!
“Anxious” is only eighteen, and
when girls are only eighteen it is
natural for them to seem very, very
old. Eighteen and no lover in sight
seemc hopeless, so hopeless that in
stead of going on in her sweet, merry
way, taking no thought for to-mor
row. knowing that in due time a
lover will wait at some turn in the
road, she wants to beat the bushes!
That is the modern way, and it i a
way that robs love of all Its swet t-
T HE gossip party is the latest so
cial craze. The hostess writes
a dozen or more topics of con
versation on cards, which are handed
to guests upon their arrival. The
subjects chosen are usually up-to-
date and piquant. Chairs arranged in
pairs and sofas scattered about the
room are numbered. These are drawn
for. and each couple drawing corre
sponding numbers hunt up the seats.
A bell is rung to announce each topic
of conversation, for which five min
utes is allowed. At each change of
places the next subject of gossip is
scattered about. At the end slips of
paper and pencils are then distrib
uted. and the women vote for the men
whose gossip has most interested
them and the men vote for the wom
en.
The sunflower is a valuable plant.
Its seeds make fine food for live
stock, its oil is equal to the best lin
seed oil. and its stalks are as good as
coal for producing heat.
The longest straight piece of rail
way line in the world is from Nyngan
to Bourke, in New South Wales. This
railway runs 136 miles on a level in a
perfectly straight line.
nesc It is a way of forcing love,
and Jove that is forced stands as
little chance In the storms of life as
a plant of hothouse growth.
"Anxious” exaggerates her pligh;.
She complains that she has no boy to
take her about, forgetting that there
are no places these days where a girl
can not go with some other girl, and
have a more independent and hap
pier time. Lectures, concerts, thea
ters. moving pictures, all are avail
able for a girl, with no proviso that
she must be escorted by a man. If
one were, I hope for her happiness
and safety that she has a father or a
brother who cares enough for her to
substitute for the lover who is s*ome-
where on the way.
If “Anxious" is one of the great and
growing army of girls who are self-
supporting she is free to enjoy the
greatest treat youthful independence
knows—that of escorting her mother.
An occasional cOnce r or lecture
brings a joy to mother all the greater
because it has been such a rarity,
and giving her pleasure is a fine wav
for making time less tedious while
awaiting the coming of a lover.
And when he comes the evenings
she has spent with her mother will
have, unconsciously, given her wis
dom and discrimination. She will not
rush as blindly to his arms as if she
had spent the time of waiting in self
ish repining and moping. She will
look him over dispassionately and
critically, realizing that while he
may bring happiness to her, rhe has
learned the way to happiness with
out him.
Will Be Wiser.
She will be less likely to love mis
takenly; she will not love for the out
ward appealance, but will look for
the qualities underneath ttfie surface
Having learned what pleasure these
outings give her mother, she will
have unconsciously taken note of the
dreariness and monotony of married
life, and be less foolhardy in rushing
into it.
By her filial love a girl attracts
a better man. and trains herself to
discriminate when he comes.
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SHUPTRINE CO., SAVANNAH. GA.
.KODAKS-™.
First Claes Finishing q.nd En-
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■ larging. A complete stock Alma.
f plates, papers, chemicals, etc.
Special Mail Order Department for
out-of-town customers.
Send for Catalogue and Price List.
A. K. HkWKES CO. Kodak Department
14 Whitehall 8t. ATLANTA, QA.