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Talks With the
j Morning and Evening as Dame Fashion Wills j
—
Daysey Mayme and
Unknown Na SJ t he
Her Folks d.'ar.
By LILIAN LAUFERTY.
P RETTY, red-haired Irish Nora had
been the presiding deity of our
kitchen tor three years, and I had
always prided myself on the kindly,
friendly spirit—entirely free from con
descension—I had shown toward her.
But I have recently learned a little
maxim, to wit: When you feel pleased
with yourself for the charming demo
cratic spirit you are showing toward
some one. you arc probably treating
that individual in a sufficiently Lady
riaru Vere DeYere, Haughty Beauty
manner to make the word “sister" slink
in shame right «>ut of the English lan
guage.
Nora, as an individual, introduced
herself to me in this wise: “Do you
think your mother would be willing to
get another vegetable man and let Mr.
Hobbs go?"
“Why do you ask that. Nora?"
Too Much the Gentleman.
“Just as u favor to me. Miss. You
see it's this way: Mr. Hobbs keeps
a-comin’ to see ine: £ have asked him
not agin and agin, and last evening
he asked me to marry him. an’ I said
no, so 1 think it would be best to get
a new vegetable man."
1 was inclined to treat the matter
facetiously; it was only an affair of the
cook’s. “Do you think he will revenge
himself by giving us inferior vegeta
bles in future. Nora?"
“Oh, no. Miss be is far too much the
gentleman for that: ,You see that is
where the trouble lies; he is too much
the gentleman."
"You see he owns his own vege
table farm and has a high school edu
cation and his folks stand well in the
community. Now, how would it do for
him to marry a servant girl? He does
not belong to my world. Miss; 1 don’t
belong to his class, and as I don’t
hold with such marriages, and there
ain't much happiness in them, ah’ he
will probably go tryin* to make love to
me. I just, thought maybe your mother
would fix things so 1 won’t be tempted
to do what would never come out well
for any of us both."
I considered Nora as a girl like my
self. Suppose you consider her, too,
little sisters, in your home nests. Think
her over as a girl—a real girl—not
merely as a cook, and a representative
of the servant class.
Chance To Rise.
Suppose a man of a class that had
more of education, more of refinement
and more of social position than your
own, suppose such a man asked you
to marry him. Suppose he offered you
a haven of refuge money, protection
and freedom from work. Would you
"hold with sut h a-marriage?" I think
so. And though you . might consider
r)rc* question of .romantic love, J doubt
vejry much if you would ever stop to
wfcigh the vast question of suitability.
Most of us modest little feminine per
sons think that, given a position, we
can fill it—and so, given a chance to
rise in the world, we CRAB!
Nora’s idea is different and very sim
ple once you grasp all its modest sub
tlety. She is actually proud of being
a servant; proud that she can earn an
honest living by her own efforts; proud
that out of her $6 a week she can save
enough to send the little mother in
Ireland 55 each month; proud that she
could bring her younger sister over and
fit Annie out so “she wouldn't look such
a greenhorn that no one would be want
ing her except to tind the extreme back
door."
In her own world Nora has many
friends. She wprks hard and plays with
gusto, and is quite sure that Cod called
her to a certain place in the world, so
why not fill that place to the best *of
| her ability, instead of trying to leap
iwo .ir three rings of a social ladder
* to a place she might be entirely un-
i able to fill when she got there? That is
Nora’s philosophy.
Ambition and Avarice.
Now. don't think that I have no am-
I bition at ail, Miss. I just would like
11" K" on slow and sure In this world
j and when 1 am going to go anywhere
make r.ure iirst that 1 ran stay put
after 1 arrive.”
"Now me brogue. I've almost losht
thot, ye’ll be afther noticin’, please.
Miss, dear."
I laughed. Ii was fresh, but refresh
ing. and Nora had been proving herself
a girl who knew’ her place.
"I vb tried other things besides being
a servant. 1 could just live along
on the dollar and a quarter a day I
could make as a seamstress Working
up in that to where I could support
myself and do a little for my folks was
tco slow, for what 1 seemed to work up
most of all was an appetite. And 1
c< uld not live on what 1 could buy. Ho
I took a place and tried to learn mani
curing the while. I wasn’t tho kind for
a shop-—not bright enougn in the way a
manicure girl has to be. T seemed lost
somehow, and here 1 am found; so here
1 stay in the class 1 belong. And maybe
I'll get married, but I’ll marry a man
who will be having just as much ad
vantage havin' Nora Doyle for a wife
as she is goin’ to get out of being his
missis.
"I don't hold with avariciousness
either, Miss, and though I’m going to
carry myself as far as I can I'm not
for pullin’ for some one else or shovin’
on my own part."
Do You Enjoy Life?
"But you are young like me. Nora.
Don’t you want to enjoy life? Don’t
you ever want a good time?"
"Indeed 1 do, Miss, and 1 have it.
Please don't think I'm fresh to say it,
but sometimes I think 1 have more fun
than you and your friends. I can go to
a dance in a white shirt waist and en
joy it fine; if I haven’t got a fellow to
take me, I can go about by mesilf and
have a godd time without any one say
ing a word against me. And oh, Miss,
dear, if you only knew what fun it is
to have no- worries about my own way,
working all I can, and havin’ all the
fun I have time for, and there’s no one
I envy or who envies me so now what
more should I be after wantin’?"
Pretty red-haired Irish Nora—I think
you have just missed the great secret
after all.
"A hair, perhaps, divides the false and
the true."
"And upon what. prithee, does your
life depend?"
Catherine, the chambermaid, who was
ashamed of her work, and who dared
not let her friends know the nature of
ihad toil lest they cast her aside In
scorn -Catherine had no clew’ to The Se.-
cret: of that I am sure. And Nora,
for all her wholesome self-respect,
misses The Secret Man’s" in her calm
acceptance of the probable verdict of
the "Vegetable Man’s" world. There is
a middle ground, little sisters, between
“avarieiousness" and ambition—there
is a fair chance for us all to w’in the
respect of a world that may be socially
above us. but is never above us if we
can pronounce the "Open Sesame" of in
telligent, earnest striving forward and
upward.
True Sense of Value.
Somewhere among my sisters of toil
there is a girl who does her work well.
Who Is proud of the doing, and who has
the fearless democracy that will enable
her to rise to the place where the in
terviewer who comes after me will talk
to her und not report that chat as an
"Interview With an Unknown.”
^ t UHN," said Mrs. Snitzer, "Mrs.
Gifford has a new hat."
‘J
“What of it?" asked John,
innocent! 5.
"John Snitzer! Mrs. Gifford is the
last! All the other neighbors got spring
hats long ago. As long as Mrs. Gif
ford kept me company it was endura
ble. But now she has deserted me
ami joined the majority. 1 can't stand
Enjoy-
Maxwell
House
Blend
Coffee
Ash
Your
Grocer
For It.
The Favorite
in
Homes Where
Quality
Reigns.
Cheek-Neal Coffee Co.,
Nashville, Houstoa, Jacksonville.
it! I must have a new hat!" *
"I am surprised at Mrs. Gifford!"
growled Snitzer. "Site always seemed
such a sensible Woman. She could re
tain her status independent of her hats.
She is a woman of intellect apri horse
sense. It is all right for climbers to
dress up In the latest styles. They
have to. But Mrs! Gifford could wear
her husband’s hat."
“That is what I thought." said Mrs.
Snitzer. “But she has weakened and
now she wears a new hat."
“Very well. I give up. Do likewise.
However, I hope you will not buy a
hat that will look like an explosion in a
hothouse."
“No." said Mrs. Snitzer. "I will not."
"Nor like a scrambled rainbow.’’
"No."
"Ah, I am much relieved! It's to be
really c, hat, then?"
"Yes."
" \ hat to wear?"
"Yes. kind of wear, you know."
“Yes. I know. It will either conceal
one eye and one ear or one eye and
both cars or both eyes and one ear or
both eyes and both ears, or it will be
suspended on top of the head and not
touch anything."
"No. it will be a hat.- and it will
look like a hat, and it will have just
one little leather sticking up like a
question mark, or rather it is a good
deal like a sickle or a shepherd's crook.
"The sickle idea is good. It signifies
that the old man gets trimmed. The
crook is good-, too. The bigger the crook
on the hat the bigger the crook the old
man has to he to bo able to pay for it.
Yours will have to be more like a but
ton book, my dear. 1 am outclassed in
that line.
"Oh. you have selected it already?"
"Not exactly. I qan not decide be
tween a yellow crook and a black one."
"Take a black one, by all means. It
sounds rather operatic. Yes. 1 am sure
it should be a crook of the deepest
dye. Kindly take this coat of mine,
rhv dear, and hold it near the Eg.A. I
want to see to part my hair, so I will
use the coat for a mirror."
By FRANCES L. GARSIDE.
1 YSANDKU JOHN APPLETON al
ways l(K>ks on the bright side. Jt
is a. good habit for a man of fam
ily to cultivate, or else—but why di
gress?
Lysandor John lias the bright side
habit in such perfect development that
If he had preacher kin be could find
pleasure in bragging that when the
preacher kin preaches they have to put
• hairs in the aisles.
An Optimist.
His wife is an enthusiastic member
of the 1 laughters of the Revolution
When she added D. A. R. receptions and
D. A. R meetings and D A. R. excur
sions to club, society, home missionary
and church work, he ate his cold pota
toes without complaint, remembering
that he had read somewhere cold meals
are better for the stomach than hot. He
cultivated tl « j bright side habit so as
siduously that he became a veritable
Little Kay of Sunshine on a rainy day.
He even ventured to inquire with some
interest ore evening while eating his
cold men' what was the good of the or
der. He wanted to impress his wife
with hie lack of resentment, but, alas,
the question suggested skepticism, igno
rance and doubt, and aroused her to
spirited defense.
A THEATER WRAP.
This wrap is made up of white embroidered
net. It is trimmed with a high collarette of
black plaited net. The wrap is draped in a very
pretty movement of pannier, and is finished by a
high flounce of embroidered net, held up by . ion
a long cord of passementerie.
A MORNING OR TEA DRESS.
For late morning lounging or an
afternoon tea gown, o'* .clip of lemon
aecordepn plaited sJk muslin, and a
small coa*. o-f tussor .striped embcrald
ltd by piping of the same
green
color.
bore
A DINNER GOWN.
Persian blue charmeuse is this gown’s material.
The 'nodice is made of a band of ivory satin. The
decollete is fastened in front by a huge rose of red
velvet. Tiie skirt is made in twb part?, a flat slip
with a draped train, the second crossing in front
and making a draped knot on the side at the knee.
Do You Know
Thai —
Advice to the Lovelorn
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
The "Woman’s Court,’’ inaugurated
in Chicago, has proved a great suc
cess. Convinced that there were many
cases in which a woman would prove
a better arbitrator with her own sex
than a mere man, Judge Pinckney ap
pointed Miss Mary Bartelme to take
over all essentially feminine cases.
She has proved most, successful in
dealing with wayward girls, or those
"who never had a chance.” No men
are admitted to "Judge" Rartelme’s
court when cases of this class are
being dealt with, the probation offi
cers. court bailiffs, clerk and official
stenographers and reporters being all
•women.
Tan Teong. a Chir man, residing in
Malay Straits, was recently fined $100,
with the alternative of three weeks im
prisonment. for selling bis adopted baby i
: for $50 to buy a coffin in which t<»
bury bis wife.
In the stomach of a crocodile which j
was shot by Mr. Wells on the Merguan
estate. Madras, were found a python 13
feet long, two tobacco pipes, a number
of pieces of whisky bottles and a pair j
of trousers.
DON’T SPEAK TO HIM AGAIN.
J^FAR MISS FAIRFAX
1 am 16 yea
Bummer I met a r
senior whom I
love dearly, and
Last
an six years my
live learned to
know that my
love is reciprocated. My father
was opposed to him, and insulted
him. which he took like a man.
and 1 was forbidden to speak to
him. I had not spoken to him for
about three weeks, an’d otic day I
met him. Breaking my father’s
command. 1 spoke to him. and
found we love earl) other dearly.
I speak to a number of other men.
but 1 find that I couldn’t lovb any
as I love him. TRUSTFUL.
You are only 16 and your fath *i
knows better than you know who F
the best company for you. Dor*
speak to ‘he man again - make no at
tempt*.* to see him. and don’t deceive
your father or disobey him again.
IT CERTAINLY IS.
JJKAR .MISS FAIRFAX:
tin
In riding in
an office building i
proper tiling for a j
remove his hat win
riding on th»* same »
• elevator of
* it not the
gentleman to
•n a lady is
levator, even
The average number
in Spanish bull lights
needs 5,000. while from
bulls are sacrificed.
>f horses killed
every year ex-
1.000 to 1.300
though
her?
1
It futnish
statement
A g*-m
e is not acquainted with
KTIQF FTTH.
du for asking the question
s opportunity for making
I hQpc* many men will roa*.
■man alv
removes
in
More newspapers are printed in the
United States than in England, France
ar.«i Germany combined.
acquainted
The first electric ri
was built in Ireland,
Giants Causeway.
Jlway in the world
from Bushmills t•»
Shipping casualties of all natlonali
lies last year totaled 108 vessels, with a
torn age of 114,331.
In London only per:
f sixteen may pawn
ons over the
goods.
age
Gnat Britain owns 65 submarine na
val vessels. France 58, the United Slates
and Japan 12.
D
YOU ARE VERY FOOLISH.
EAR MISS FAIRFAX:
I am 18 and about three
months ago met a young man who
called on me frequently, and 1
though*, he cared for me. One
evening he made an appointment
but never came. On the follow
ing day he sent word he had gone
on a distant business trip for an
indefinite stay. I found his so-
called "trip” \va.s a falsehood. He
did not .offer an apology, but said
he would tell me some time later.
He saw me home Foot evening
Some Missing.
and made another appointment,
but when the time came lie sent
a note saying he could not com ■
and offered a fairly good excuse.
LJe made another appointment for
a week later,’but he m v» .* came.
In spite of all. I love him .-till.
HEARTBROKEN.
If you permit this man to make an
other appointment with you, you will
deserve the neglectful treatment you
are receiving.
TIME WILL AID YOU.
] A FA R MISS FA IR FA X
Recently I returned to my
home town, and while there most
of my time was spent with the
girl dearest to me. Some of the
town boy.-, who ware envious of
me. did their best to put me in a
false light. They succeeded in
doing so as far as her mother is
concerned. The consequence is
that 1 am not allowed to visit at
her house any more?"' T. P. (\
This is unfortunate*, but so long as
the girl remains true you have no
cause for worry. Gonduet yourself'In
such a way the mother will be con
vinced she lias been unjust to >ou
No plea ling, no argument, no inter
vention of friends will help you as
much as your own good conduct.
A MATTER OF NO MOMENT.
I \ I*! A : t MISS FAIRFAX
I am 16 and ua- going with
a boy tlie same ag(. The other
day lit sent me a lotto:, and my
lather would not giv< u io im 1
wrote and told the boy not to
write in< any more letter* and I
would state why the next time I
saw him.
I have not heard of him since.
Do you think I hurt his feelings?
E. F. (I.
Your father was right. J am sure
and the \oung man should not blame
you for an obedience which is really
both rare and commendable. You s;;
you would explain when you saw him
If he avoids you. it is evident In
doesn’t t are for . oe explanation.
Try to put him out of your mind.
Bulk
ins was very
pious
. very
fond of
the lu«
lies am
I vert
bald '
on the
hue
k of
his lit
•ml. T
he other on
ening
he
was
call Inn
r on a
gill, i
and v,
as giving
her
cennid
era hie .
church
talk.
4 Ah,
, Miss
Mary,
" he
said 1
4 VVc
are
wu ten.
i*d over
very
car eft;
illy, h
Jveti
the
hairs '
of our
heads
an* m
,i inhered.”
"Yt ,
«, Mr. 1
Hell.hn
shi
a repli'
(Ml, 4
‘but
.f the 1
luck number
a of yours
up-
"What Is the go.xl of it?” she ex
claimed. "Isn't It just Jike a man to
ask such a foolish question? The good
we do is boundless.”
In her wrath she took a quick breath
that snapped her corset string. “It in
boundless.” she repeated, snapping an
other. "I'll recall one noble deed out
of ten hundred equally noble.
"l^ast summer we got trace of a man
who fought in the Revolutionary war,
and who was buried in a little country
grave-yard in Western Nebraska. Hi«
poor grave was all sunk in and neg
lected “
What They Did.
Here she stopped to wipe away a sym
pathetic tear. “Do you know what we
did? We gave a fair that lasted three
days and raised $38.64 for a wreath of
tuberoses to be sent by express and laid
on that poor, sunken, neglected grave!
"Oh, it Is a beautiful thought, thai
after all these weary years that poor
dead man’s grave was remembered ar
last! Think what such a tribute means
to posterity! Look at its influence on
patriotism! Think what if mean* to
HIM!"
Here ’ the picture of a wreath lying
on that poor man’s grave after so
many unflowered years caused such
emotion that she broke more corset
strings, and had to leave the room for
repairs.
The Omniscience of Love
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX
■■ v Iovpt sees his sweetheart in ev
erythin* he Inks at, Just as a man
bitten by a mail iloic, sees rioRs In his
meat, dogs in his ilrink, (log* all around
him." George Denison Prentice.
man and young women in bis
office recently had this experl-
A
el) i
"What.” be called to a young
tr.an. "is the address of the firm to
which you made that consignment this
morning'”’
The young man looked up absently
from his work and said dreamily, “Mad
eline. Madeline Gray.”
To
plover put this question, “Have you
finished the first bunch of letters?" She
looked a little startled as she replied,
"I didn’t know
him. His name
civil engineer."
cause those who love see tho object of
their love in all around them.
The value of concentration is un
known; tho necessity of putting one*
thought on the nearest duty and 1 keep
ing at a safe distance oil temptation To
let the mind wander, has no place in
the consciousness of those who are In
love.
Of Course Not!
I A young girl writes to ask if she if*
to be blamed because she thinks so much
of her lover she can't keep her mind
on her work. Bless her, no! The blame
is not hers. It goes away back to the
Kiri slcnosrapber later, the em- one who lnvenle<1 i„ v lng.
On the shoulders of that great human
itarian there rests the bla^ne of all the
sweet folly that begins with the day
man and woman discover they
you wanted to know j when
is Paul, and he is a arc j n j ove and ends when their dream
b oat bumps hard on the shore of that
Why Do They Day Dream? barren-looking island called Matrimony
In both Instances the employer made
Home comment about the world going
mad, and he would be glad when this
falling in love had gone out of fash
ion. "Why," he complained to mo later,
' ff l give a young man a valuable blue
print to study, 1 have to watch him like
a hawk to keep Dim from covering it
with drawings of a girl’s face, and 1
haven’4 a girl working for me who
hears the first time she is addressed.
.She is away off in some dream boat
with *George or Bill or John."
It is the omniscience of love. It is a
sweet insanity that calls for renewed
vigilance from those who are sane to
keep the prosaic affairs of the world
moving in their right grooves.
Tills' employer grumbled, but he also
laughed, and a grumble with a laugh
underneath indicates a sympathy which
is but poorly concealed. He knew whut
it was from experience. I hope we all
do. To have seen ones sweetheart all
around one has a most broadening ef
fect on the y\mpathies. It also makes
us charitable when suffering the annoy
ar.oc ihat this love madness in others
causes.
The girl in the kitchen fills the sugar
howl with suit; the girl on the car going
to v.vrk rides ten blocks beyond her des
tination and is lute; the giri with no
greater duties than presiding at pink
tea tables seer only with the outer eyes
the guests she is addressing. From the
humblest walk to the highest everything
Is awry, misplaced, lost or forgotten, Ik-
The bump will come soon enough. It.
will also be*hard enough. It will come
soon enough and hard enough to suit
the most unsympathetic and unroman-
ttc
And so I say to this iiilc girl. Go on
dreaming that you see. your lover in all
around you. It is your privilege and
your right.
T 1
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WEDNESDAY—READ IT. Most Gripping Story That Was Ever Written. Ingenious Plot
Both Made Mistakes.
HERE hac been many innocent mis
takes made by parsons. Among
them is oe told of a certain clergyman
who left n notice iti his pulpit to bo
road by the preacher who exchanged
with him. The minister neglected to
denote carefully a private postscript,
an<l the people were astonished to hear
the stranger end by saying:
"You will please come to dine with
me ut the parsonage after service ’’
Another amusing story is told of x
minister. The reverend gentleman
inclined to be absent-minded, and while
walking one dr., met a young larly
whose face seemed familiar to him.
Taking her t<* be one of his parishion
er*’ daughters, and not wishing to pass
her without notice, he stopped forward
and cordially shaking her hands, en
tered into conversation. After com
paring notes about the weather, he bad
at lust: to confess:
"I know your face quite well, but
where have I seen you before?”
“Oh, please, sir. I am your new parlor
maid," was the reply.