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4 MAGAZINE, ADVICE TO THE LOVELORN Balm for Aching Hearts WHERE SHOPPING COMES EASY By Beatrice Fairfax By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. try the same thing. I'l BAR MISS FAIRFAX: LA i have been keeping; company with a young man for two or rliree vears. lie writes to mo oc- '.ionally, and sometimes lie does not write for three weeks. Should 1 watt the same length of time bstare answering his letters or .tiould I answer in a few days? 1 Jove this young man and do ndt wish to let him know it by answering too soon. BROWN RTFS. Never answer ills letters sooner than he replies to yours, and I think p would be a good plan if you ooea- ■*onnll> wait longer. HIS WIFE. P EAR MISS FAIRFAX* in a conversation with a mar ked lady the following question Hiose 1 If his mother and his wife uAre drowning and it was impossi ble to save both, which should he >ave? In other words, to whom does l,e owe most? PROSPECTIVE B RIDEGROOM. He owes his life to his mother, but when he married he vowed to cling to the woman who became his wif« •above ail others.** HE SHOULD PROPOSE. D ear miss Fairfax: Should a gentleman have an engagement ring when he proposes to a voung lady, or is it proper to give her a ring after she has accept ed him? Would it be considered proper for a voung man. making $80 per month, to'propose marriage to a young lady, nuking her to wait until he is malt mg $100, as he considers that the proper amount to marry on, living in 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. ANXIOUS. He should propose first, of course. To be ready with the engagement ring takes too much for granted. Tt is proper for him to propose, of course, stating frankly his income and future prospects. The rest should he left to her decision. ACCEPT NO MAN. T )RA R MISS FAIRFAX: I am fifteen and deeply in luve with two young; men, one live years*my senior and the other seven years my senior. Both think there is nothing like me. There was a young man from an other place who rame to see me some time ago. He proposed to me. but l didn't accept, as mother likes the .’ther ones a little bet ter. I don’t know whether to accept or not. as I do not love him very much and would like you to give me some advice. REL1.E. A girl ol fifteen is too young to he courted. 1 am surprised that your mother permits it. You must re fuse all three, and permit yourself to be a care-free girl at least five years longer. NOTHING WHATEVER. r> AR Miss FAIRFAX: 1 am deeply in love with a girl one year my junior. She is 2? She loves me. 1 know, but she insists on flirting with a voting man in the same town. Do yon think me right in objecting? Would you nilit going with her? What do you think she means? CORE M. She is not engaged to you. and has given you no sort of promise. That leaves you without the right to ob ject. i am sure she means nothing what ever by her flirtation gratify a girl’s idea o stitutes a good time. SHE IS NOT SINCERE O F ■A i 1 MIS S FAIRFAX: W bat 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. 1 except to > what con- A Bachelor’s Diary By MAX. 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," «ne said with a laugh, “that I couldn’t, so here lam, all alone, and 1 will be here two hours. Did you say you would come right down to the sta tion?” Would I come 0 I had called to J Tompkins to bring my hat and coat j before I had hung up the receiver, and i was out the door in a rush, feeling like a boy who finds himself alone in ’he house and the preserve closet un- Ran to Catch a Car. I rushed down the front steps. r.--iied the gate in a bound, and ran j o the corner to catch a ear. It seemed unusually long in com- ; r:. but at last I caught the glow of | ne headlight away down the line. I was so absorbed in my thoughts 1 did not notice that a big Umousim- had stopped close beside me, or that a man had alighted, until he grasped mo by the arm. U vas Jack Spencer, lust getting home.” lie explained, and we were turning in the drive j when my wife caught sight of you.” Max” she called from the car, "come here and explain where you fcolng.” I had only one thought as I walked j ‘o the <!ooi of the machine, and that wss a regret that I had never learned \ ! -ov to lie glibly. I never tell a lie. lam not posing as a good man, but I 1 have found that a lie carries so many complications in its trail it is easier I tell the truth and be done with it. j No doubt I told many when 1 was ' my memo'v l I stain- one. ils ciion g off foi that unting afraid. IS suit * Gt ^\ere _ Epicure) le^-si " YALTON JT - JUST OFT PEACHTREE CHICHESTER S PILLS ■<x\ TIIE DIAMOND BEAM). * Ank your l>rnggU( for XA lDiamond IIrand/A\ , f ih» In Red and fcold nietallic\V/ 6 « a le<l with Blue Ribbon. \/ other. I*iit of your ^ k i-ciri;».TPirs DIAMOND GRAM* FILLS, for f5 years I nown as Best, Safest, Always Reliable SOLD BY DRUGGISTS EVERYVLHFP r younger, but of late yea isn’t good enough. *T—well, the truth me red. “The truth is," she laugh, "you were goin widow. Well, get in. ( her husband, “we will the widow.” There was a hurried the chauffeur and we station. T do not recall iny sensations on' taut lidc. 1 was disappointed, re lieved. glad, sorry, chagrined, trium phant -one sensation succeeding the other in such rapid confusion that 1 never knew which predominated. Mrs. Spencer was talking, but we were nearing the station before I realized what she was saying. Then I heard only here and there a sen tence,for my mind was leaping forward to the meeting with the widow. Would she he disappointed when she saw that i was attended by my friends? I had told her once I thought her charming 1 should never enter her presence unless guarded by policemen instructed to drag me away if I let her charms overcome me. Would she think - the se twp^-friends my officially appointed bluecoats? Would she gi.ve me little smile w hich said, you’re afraid?” Of only one thing 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 match for Mrs. Silen cer, and that is saying a good deal. “You haven't heard a word 1 have said, Max.” said Airs. Spencer, half amused and half provoked. I insisted that I had. “Well,” she replied, ‘she is coming next week.” “Who is coming next week?” I asked, not tha£ I was at all inter- iested. “There,” she said, “J knew you | hadn’t heard what i said. Well, just | for that. I won’t tell you again. L’fi ! tell you just this much, and that is j 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. Spon- | cer resumed, “she did not want to see j you. She can’t forget. She is one woman, Max, who isn't interested in i your money.” It was too late to take the widow i 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. .Tack had on 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 ge: any notion that my friends were ! frumps. My thoughts ran so intently on the meeting of these two women that I paid i'tfle heed to what Mrs. Spencer I was saving, and had not learned, when we reached the station and were pushing our way through the crowds. I who that most unusual woman was : who was not interested in my money. I There flashed through my mind the j gto ry of the farmer who saw' his first camel, and who said, "There hain t no i such thing, , . \Ve had reached the door of the la dies' waiting room, my hand in Mrs. i Spencer's arm. and I was smiling at i tiie appropriateness of the story, wh *n ! WP turned a corner, and stood face to ! face with the very handsomest woman (I liad ever seen—the widow. I't- 1 "1 r.,; 1 ft-.. ■■ I X if ■ ttetit k t y W III# $ L-ifr : ‘ / A■ ■ ■ $ >> IffPrfP m m r m J p:i f m [ h-u ' .< * I; € m W Is, v3f n •Gy.Nv"- •-IV % V X, ! e '' > 4,* 1 ■ 7 G . ' 4" .... .r J ■ 1 ' ' 1 * • v , v if. f ' ■ # I -, - ' ^ ****** ‘h y y.. THE MANICURE LADY She Goes to the Circus By WILLIAM F KIRK. 4 4 Sh2K tiia( President Wilson went to the opening game at Washing- 4 ton, between the Yankees arid Hie Washington team, ’ said the Head Barber “I suppose lie thinks that he ought to imitate Taft that much, after showing him up so last election. The papers had a whole lot about him. how he pulled hie brown Fedora down over hi# eyes and watched the game like a hawk from beginning to end. I • oppose he wan picking out the ball players that makes over $5,000 a year, so he could put the bee on them for ihat income tax. of his " “It must be jusl grand to be a “Tiie poor boy has always thought that he hail a fine personality over fsnee 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?” asied the Head Rnrber. “You know you were telling me 1 hat he was hitting i( tip pretty hard after getting hi-s last bunch of poems hack from the magazine editor.” “He wasn't exactly right,” admitted tiie Manicure Lady. “When Mr. Fel lows came up and sat in our box to visit for a little while, me and sister May me was kind of hoping he would President, and go oui to the ball game stu>, because he* seemed like a nice j in an auto and sit In « box where kind of a gent. I know he would have ; everbody can get h slant at you,’ stayed, only Wilfred began spouting | said the Manicure l.ad\ “Goodness some poetry that he was making up as knows. George, if you and me was to : he went along go to a hall game they wouldn’t notice ' The poor boy can’t write nothing I what l was wearing and they wouldn't j good if it lakes him all night, so you know whether you hud on :i brown ‘an imagine the kind of junk he would IVdoi a or a hold over Speaking About Ball Games. “Hut speaking about ball games and J | other forms of amusement,” continued I the Manicure Lady, “me and sister j Minnie anil Wilfred all went last , night to see the circus that used to be \ gave by Mister Baini.tii and Miste»* 1 Bailex They aint with the show at)> morn because if .» long after their time, but it was simply grand. (teorge “A friend of Wilfred# gave us some swell seats and there we sat, thinking about tiie days when we were little Uids when there was onl.x one ring! inside the big lent and two clowns instead of twe.nty. make up as he went along. This is shout how the stuff sounded that : he was handing out to Mr. Fellows: ? ‘The circuses of ancient Rome j Were not so grand as this; I'm glad 1 came all the way from hqfcne ’i*o enjoy this night of bliss. My breast with gratitude does swell I .lust like a blacksmith’s bellows f I thank you more than I can tell J For this here show, Mr. Fellowa,’—” “I suppose Fellows left tlie box after lhat." said the Head Barber. Must Take the Pledge. j , ■ He had a right to, and lie ha<i a light to ask us to leave, too, because I guess he must have seen by that Time that dearest, brother was feeling his oats “They bad some wonderful features, and you can bet. George, that I ain’t j though, even if II wasn’t the same as never going to a circus or anything els*» J n the old days. If you haven’t beer, with Wilfred until he takes the pledge jto see it. George, it woTild pay you to Why, lie even jumped into the ring in I g<. lust to see all them freaks they the middle of the show and tried to J have. ' threw one of them Iceland wrestlers. •‘Honest to goodness. 1 never knew lie got thrown out on his ear. first by there was s<» many freaks in tiie the wrestler and then by the usher, and I world, outside of ihe ones that blows met me and Maynie outride after the ! in here sometimes to have the!) nails I show. did. Wilfred was saying that Vie didn't care, after looking at them, whether he had a job or not. He said that it was enough to make a man thankful to know that he had his health and a tine personality. “It's to bad you didn’t have your fa ther along. ’ suggested the Head Bar ber. “Not by any means,” said the Mani- I cure Lady. “That would only have I added to the horrors of the occasion.” THE CRY OF YOUTH By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. : a A ••HOW .MUCH EASIER IT IS TO CHOOSE A HUSBAND.” 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 a pecuniary value, and its equivalent is bread and butler. Gown after gown has been taken from, the racks and draped on the 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 plicity of choice, and knows not Hie luxury of indecision, remains standing. “How much easier.” says the cus tomer. “it is to choose a husband!" For she knew, as every woman knows, that, that is where shopping comes easy. That is a 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 ami time! Wearing rose colored glasses that hide all imperfections of wool and color, a girl enters this shop while very young, and proceeds to make a selection. Site lias so little judgment that her mother wouldn’t trust her witli the purchase of a muslin dress that is to last one season, yet she permits iter to enter alone and unguided a shop where she will make a purchase that must last a lifetime. When she returns home with a new gown her mother examines it for im perfections, noting quickly if it is worth the price, and if not, the girl must take it back. Hut if tiie girl shops for a husband, that is of so little importance she shops unattended. And when she makes a poor selection her famil\ meek Iy abides by her bargain. Her mother is often a poor guide in the matrimonial market, and her father shirks the task, regarding Ids business uffairs as of more importance. “That is your province;,” lie 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 lias it. and time has a way of its own in working on those who buy matrimonially that is unlike the wav it marks off the days and months and years on those who make less vital purchases. The gown shrinks in ihe wash and fades, and breaks into holes and is dis card ed. In the matrimonial shop it is not the purchase that shows 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 trorn the counter, but tiie poor little customer who carried him off is faded and worn, and begins to look like a last year’s gown that was a bad bargain to begin Wr’ith, and that proved worse with very day’s wear. She looks spiritually and mentally out at elbows and down 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 tiie 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 tiie young must make more of a responsibility -and less of a whim or caprice. NXIOlJS" writes. “I am a girl of eighteen years, and as yet have had no admirers among tiie boys. I am anxious to have some boy care for me and take me about. There are, a great many affairs I mis.- on this account.” Anxious” evidently did not read a letter from one of my girls tt week ago. In which she said. “I find so much anxiety in loving, 80 much depression, so much fear, that many, many times I wish I had never grown up and were away hack there playing with my dolls They, at least, never caused any heart aches." Here is a little miss of eighteen ( vvhere on the wax . ness. h is a way of forcing love, mid love that is forced stands /as little chance in the storms of life as a plant of hothouse growth. “Anxious" exaggerates her plight. She complains that she has no boy to take her about, forgetting that there are no places these days where a girl an not go with s'ome other girl, and have a more independent and hap pier time. Lectures, concerts, thea ters. moving pictures, all afe^avaii- 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 I brother who cares enough for her bo ; substitute for the lov»r who is oothe- w!:o 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, sh- 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 lips. A Common Cry. It Is tiie universal cry of woman kind. We may know love at its real worth, or attire it in a value that is fictitious; we may 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 seems hopeless, sh» 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 is a way that robs love of all its sweet- Do You Know-- Snap Shots By LILLIAN LAUFERTY. sa i-? >i v O U 54 P11— M S J < > ^ ft>. develop them free^We^re and give you pe rfe c t re si Enlargements made •ln-l“».%r^S.e P d rn Chemicals. Can,era.. £3.00 to $85.00. Fresh films to fit any mi catalogue. Quick m 5 H. CONE. Inc.. Alan is the only animal that laug/ts drinks when he is not thirsty, and makes love at all seasons of tlm year. — Voltaire. Who misses or who wins the prize. Go, lose or conquer as you ca.n; But if you fail or if you rise. Be each, pray God, a gentleman. —Selected. MAIDEN MUSINGS. We girls have memories enough "o we could all write memoirs! Why, we remember every compliment any one ever paid us—and as "or the dis agreeable things that are said to us. we certainly never forgef them! A chap who is so conservative that he can’t change his opinion in public may not be so modest that he will refuse to embrace opportunity* in pri vate. Love certainly makes Time pass but Time can make Love pass, too! STRAY NEWS NOTES. A Cleveland contemporary printed recently a striking little melodrama in five acts. We reproduce it here for odr readers Act 1. • Fill 'em up again. McGinnis!’* Act 2. “FillemupagainMcGinnis! Act 3. "FillupGinris! “ Act 4. LOVE’S SUPREMACY By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. Copyright, 191”, by American-.Iournal-Kxaminer. A i yon great Sun in bis supreme condition Absorbs all small worlds and makes them his own, So does my love absorb each vain ambition, Each outside purpose which my life has known. Stars cannot shine so near that orb’s splend or. They are content to feed his Homes of fire: And so m\ heart is satisfied to render Its strength, iks all to meet thy strong desire. As in a forest w'hen dead leaves are falling om all save sum* perennial green tree. one by one I find all pleasures palling That are not linked with or en joyed by thee. And all the homage that the worldl may proffer I take as perfumed oils or incense j sweet. F So my 1 love myself because thou lover, My name seems dear since uttered by thy voice; Yet Argus-eyed l watch and would discover Each blemish in the object of thy choice, I coldly sit in judgment on each er ror, To my soul’s gaze I hold each fault of me. Until my pride is lost in abject ter ror, Lest I become inadequate t/> thee. Like spme swift rushing and sea seeking river. Which gathers forte the farther on it goes, So dots the current of my love forever Find ac.ded str ngth and beauty a - it flows. The more 1 give, the forgiven, Tiie more received, Real Jokes FROM EVERYWHERE. “•She was too conscientious for me. one day I proposed marriage to her, and HE gossip parry is the latest so- * rial 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 tlie 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 If “Anxious” is one of*the great and growing army of girls who are self- supporting she i® free to enjov the greatest treat youthful independence knows—that of escorting her Mother. An occasional concert or lecture brings a joy to mother all the greater because it Uat» been such a rarity, and giving her pleasure is a fin#, 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 no f 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 Ami critically, realizing that while lv may bring happiness to her, phe ha learned the way to happiness with out him. Will Be Wiser. She will be less likely to Mjl. ml# takenly; site will not love for the out ward appearance, but will look for the qualities underneath Uhe surface Having learned what pleasure the*- outings give her mother, she will have unconsciously taken note of the dreariness and monotony of marrie life, and be less foolhardy in rushing Into it. By her filial love a girl attr&ci s a better man. and trains herself *«« discriminate when he comes. —I", 1 !■!.■_! 1 .mmsassaBSStm^ what do y'"u thud; she oidv She took all i paper and pencils are then dlstrib- ”‘ a ' , ' . ,! " WM hi shorthand and | nted, and the women vote for the men • - ' 1 ' n< e ' i\la written. lor m«* to I whose gossip has most interested them and the men vote for 1 he wom- Hlgn.” remains < Blinkers- Hallo. Winkers! I hear you married a woman with un independent fort ;m*-. Winkers (sadly) N-no: I married a fortune with an independent woman. Lad\ it,. 'Ahausted furniture re movers) Here's a dime for you 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 aln'i no more to us than a snow flake on a red-hot stove! A farmer saw a recipe advertised for keeping wells anfl cisterns from freezing in Winter Having sent a dozen stamps he received tiie 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. Ho your first client lias come?’’ Second Ditto (witli a look of satisfac- | lionp -Yes. my tailor has taken out summons against me!” 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 tiie world is from Nyngan to Bourke, In New South Wales. This railway runs 130 miles on a level in a perfectly straight line. MadcUnlng skin cllsaas** , an*t exist If TstfM- Jue Is used because Tetterina is scientiflcallj prepared to remoae the CAUSE as well as the EFFECT. TETTERINE CURES SKIN DISEASES Je*iie W. Scott, Mlllttdgeville, Ga , write* I luftered with an eruption two year* simI one box of Tetterine cured me and two of my frlnndi. It Is worth Its weight In gold. Tr‘tortile cures eczema, tetter, around eryhiuelss. Itching piles and other ailments | Get It to-day—Tetterine. 50c at druggists, or by mall. SHUPTRINE CO., SAVANNAH. GA. KODAKS™*- ■ m w Eastmsris First Class Finishing axid BIB larging. A complete stock flhnr platos, papers, chemicals, etc Special Mail Order Department Xcr out-of-town customers. Send for Catalogue and Price List* A.K.HAWKESCJ Kodak Deparfme* 14 Whitehall St. ATLANTA. GA umJ* ;.thac ■ , ■ape t he And think it »rp* thing more to: lie. 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