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I 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 THE CRY OF YOUTH Do You Know- Snap Shots By LILLIAN LAUFERTY. Real Jokes FROM EVERYWHERE. Engraved 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 (> \ere _ [pacure) ie^i cmimmiv •» WALTON ST — JI/JT OFF PEACHTREE CHICHESTER S PILLS . the di amond brand. * J Lad Ira! Aik; “ <M-cbra-lrr , » a Pill* In RrS • l™*«. sealed w,u P ,a* h ® *® B«r of y r ^ for cin.oinM.TEn DIAMOND BRAND PILLS, foe f l* cwn * s Best ' Safest. Always Reliable SOLD BY DRIQQISTS EVERYWItfM 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! BRING YOUR FILMS TO US and we w’ill develop them free. We are film specialists and give you periect results and quick delivery. Mail negative for free sample print. Enlargements made colored. Pictures framed. Chemicals. Cameras, $3.00 to $85.00. re eh Aims io fit any camera—guaranteed not to stick '• ! ' -'alogue. Q*dck mail order service. 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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