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Talks With the
Unknown
Nora, the
Cook
By LILIAN LAUFERTY.
P RETTY, red-haired Irish Nora had
been the presiding: oeity of our
kitchen for three years, and I had
always prided mysolf on the kindly,
friendly spirit—entirely free front con
deacension—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
aomc one, you are probably treating
that individual in u sufficiently Lady
Ulara Vers DeVefe, Haughty Beauty
manner to make the word “sister" slink
in shame right out 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. Nora7
Too Much the Gentleman.
"Just us a favor to me. Miss. You
see it’s this way: Mr. Hobbs keeps
a-comin’ to see me; l have asked him
not agin and agin, and last evening
he asked me to marry him. an - 1 said
no, so l think it would be best to get
a new vegetable man."
I 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 he is far too much the
gentleman for that! You see that is
where the trouble lies; he is too much
the gentleman."
"Y oil see lie 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; I 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 ua both."
I considered Nora as a girl like my
self. Suppose you consider her. too,
little sisters, iq your home nests. Think
her over as a girl—a real girl—not
merely as a took, 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 wprk. Would you
"hold with such a marriage?" I think
so. And though yim might consider
the question of romantic love, J doubt
very much If you would ever stop to
weigh the vast question of suitability.
Most of us nAxlest little feminine per
sons think that, given a position, we
can till it—and so, given a chance to
rise in the world, we GRAB!
Nora’s idea is different and very sim
ple once you grasp all its modest sub
tlety. She i.s 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 $5 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 works hard and plays with
gusto, and is quite sure that God called
tier to a certain place in the world, so
why not fill that, place to' the best of
| Her ability, instead of trying to leap
two " r three rings of a social ladder
I to a place she might be entirely un
able to fill when she got there? That is
Nora’s philosophy.
Ambition and Avarice.
Now. don t think that I have no am
bition at all. Miss. I just would like
to go on slow and sure in this world
ami when 1 ant going to go anywhere
make sure first that 1 can stay put
after 1 arrive.’’
"Now me brogue. I’ve almost losht
tliot, ye’ll be afther noticin', please.
Miss, dear."
1 laughed. It was fresh, but refresh
ing, and Nora had been proving herself
a girl who knew her place.
"i'\e tried other things besides being
a servant. I could just live along
on the dollar and a quarter a day 1
could make as a seamstress. Working
up in that to where I could support
myself and do a little for my folks was
h <> slow , for what I seemed to work up
most of all was an appetite. And I
c.-uld not live on what 1 could buy. Bo
I t > .k a place and tried to learn mani
curing the while. I wasn't the kind for
a shop —n >l bright enougn in the way a
n.a:.jcun girl has to be. I seemed lost
somehow, and here I am found; so here
1 stay in the class I belong. And maybe
I’ll get married, but I’ll marry a man
who will he having just as much ad
vantage havin’ Nora Doyle for a wdfe
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 I do, Miss, and 1 have it.
Please don't think I’m fresh to say it,
but sometimes I think I 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 good 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 l can, and havin’ all the
fun 1 have time for. and there's no one
I envy or who envies me so now what
more should 1 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
hat toil lest they cast her aside in
SCjtfij-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
llie "Vegetable Alan’s" world. There is
a middle ground, little sisters, between
"avariciousness" and ambition—there
is a fair chance for us all to win 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 and not report that chat as an
"Interview With an Unknown."
A Spring Song
Morning and Evening as Dame Fashion Wills
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 u very
pretty movement of pannier, and is finished by a
high flounce of embroidered net, held up by a Ion
a long cord of passementerie.
A MORNING OR TEA DRESS.
For late morning lounging or an
afternoon tea gown, a clip of lenmn
acccrdeon plaited silk muslin, and a
pniall coal of tus^or striped emberald
green, bordered by piping of the same
color.
A DINNER GOWN.
Persian blue charmeuso is this gown's material
The bodice i.s made of a band of ivofy satin. The
decollete Ip fastened in front by a huge rose of red
velvet. The ekirt is made in two parts, a flat slip
with a draped train, the second crossing in front
and making a draped knot on tlie side at the knee.
t OHN," saiil Mrs Snitzer, “Mrs.
■ Gifford has a new hat."
J
"What of it?" asked John,
nrmcently.
“John Snitzer! Mrs. Gifford is the
In .si 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
and joined the majority. I can’t stand
Enjoy—
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it! I must have a new hat"'
"I am surprised at Mrs. Gifford!"
grow led Snitzer. “She always seemed
such a sensible woman. She could re
tain her status independent of her hats.
She is a woman of intellect apd 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 Airs.
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! Jt's to be
really a hat, then?”
“Yes."
"A hat to wear?"
"Yes, to kind of wear, you know."
"Yes, f know. It will either conceal
one eye and one car or one eye and
both ears 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 inan gets trimmed. The
crook is good. too. The bigger the crook
on the hat the bigger the crook the old
man has to be to be able to pay for it.
Yours will have to be more like a but
ton hook, my dear. 1 am outclassed in
that line.
4 It I
“Not exactly. 1 can not decide be
tween a yellow crook and a black one.”
“Take a black one. by all means. It
sounds rather operatic. Yes. I am sure
it should be a crook of the deepest
dye. Kindly take this coat of mine,
mv dear, and hold it near the light I
want to see to part my hair, so I will
use the coat for a mirror."
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 Bart el me to take
over all essentially feminine eases, i
She has proved most successful in
dealing with wayward girls, or those
“who never had a chance." No men
are admitted to “Judge’’ Bartelme’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 Chinaman, residing in
Malay Straits, was recently fined $IC0,
with the alternative of three weeks im
prisonment. for selling his adopted baby
1 for $50 to buy a coffin in which to ,
bury his wife.
In the stomach of a crocodile which I
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 i
of trousers.
The average number of horses killed
in Spanish bull fights every year ex
ceeds 5,000, while from 1,000 to 1.200
bulls are sacrificed.
More newspapers arc printed in the
United States than in England, France
and Germany combined.
The first electric railway in the world
was built in Ireland, from Bushmills to
Gjunts Causeway.
Shipping casualties of all nationali
ties last year totaled 108 vessels, with a
tonnage of 114,231.
In London only persons over the age
of sixteen may pawn goods.
Gnat Britain own? 65 submarine na
val vessels, France 58, # the United Stales
and Japan 12.
DON’T SPEAK TO HIM AGAIN.
| );:ak miss Fairfax
I am ll» yoars of ago. Last
summer 1 met a man six years my
senior whom I have learned to
love dearly, and know that my
love Is reciprocated. My father
was opposed to him. and insulted
him, which he took like a man,
and I was forbidden to speak to
him. I had not spoken to him for
about three weeks, and one day I
met him. Breaking my father’s
command, 1 spoke to him, and
found we love each othei* dearly.
I speak to a number of other men,
but I line! that 1 cpuldn’t love any
as I love him. TRUSTFUL.
You are only 16 and your father
knows better than you know who L
the best company for you. Don i
speak to the man again - make no at
tempt* to see him. and don’t deceive
your father or disobey him again.
IT CERTAINLY IS.
D ear .miss Fairfax:
In riding in the elevator of
an office building is it not the
proper thing for a gentleman to
remove his hat when a lady is
riding on the same elevator, even
though he is not acquainted with
her V ET IQ U ETT E.
Thank you for asking the qu< stion
It furnishes opportunity for making ;■
statement I hope many men will read
A gentleman always removes hi
hat when riding in an elevator with
a lady whether he is acquainted oj
not.
YOU ARE VERY FOOLISH.
nKAR MISS FAIRFAX.
am 18 and about three
months ago met a young man who
called on me frequently, a.ml 1
tnough* he cared for me. One
evening he made an appointment
but never came. On the follow
ing day be sent word he had gone
on a distant business trip for an
Indefinite stay. 1 found his so-
called “trip” was a falsehood. He
did not offer an apology, but said
he would toll me some lime later.
He si; v, rue hone that evening
Daysey Mayme and
Her Folks
A Loyal
D. A. R.
By FRANCES L. GARSIDE.
1 YSANDER JOHN APPLETON al
ways looks t»n the bright side. It
is a good habit for a man of fam
ily to cultivate, or else but why di
gress?
Lysandor John has the bright side
habit in such perfect development that
1 if he ha<l preacher kin he could find
l pleasure in bragging that when the
preacher kin preaches they have to put
chairs in tho aisles.
An Optimist.
His wife is an enthusiastic member
of the l aughters of the Revolution.
When she added D. A. R. receptions and
1* A H meetings and D A. R. excur
sions to club, society, i: one 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 the bright side habit so as
siduously that he became a veritable
.Little Ray of Sunshine on a rainy day.
He even ventured to inquire with some
interest one evening while eating his
cold meat whgt was the good of 1Jh6 or
der He wanted to impress his wife
with his lack of resentment, but, alas,
the question suggested skepticism, igno
rance and doubt, and aroused her to
spirited defense.
and made another appointment,
hut when the time came ho sent
a note saying he could wot conn*
and offered a i'airlv good excuse.
He made another appointment for
a wtek later, but nt never rnme.
In spit.- of all. I love him still.
HKARTBRf )KEN.
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.
n EAR MIBB FAIRFAX:
Recently 1 returned to my
home town, and while there must
of my time was spent with the
girl dearest to me. Borne of the
town boys, who were 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 l am not allowed to visit at
her house any more. T. P. C.
This is unfortunate, but so long as
the girl remains true you have no
cause for worry. Conduct yourself in
such a \ ay the mother will be con- \voj*(| f(H* it
vinced she has been unjust to you
No pleading, no argument, no inter
vention of friends will help you as
much as jour own good conduct.
A MATTER OF NO MOMENT.
I ALAR MIBB FAIRFAX
* ' I am 16 and was going with
a boy the same age The other
day he sent me a letter, and mv
father would not. giv. it to m*.-. 1
wrote and told the hoy not to
write me any more letters and I
would state why the next time I
saw him.
1 have not heard of him since.
Do you think 1 hurt his feelings?
E. F. G.
Your father was right. 1 am sure
and the \oung man should not blame
you for an obedience which is really
both rare and commendable. You said
you woujd explain when you saw him.
If he avoids you, it Is evident he
dot sn’t care for the explanation.
Try to put him out of your mind.
Some Missing'.
Bulkins was very pious, very ford of
the ladies and very bald on tlie back of
his head. The other evening he was
calling on a girl, and was giving flier
considerable church talk.
“Ah. Miss Mary." he said, "we are
watched over very carefully. Even the
hairs <*f our heads are numbered."
“Yts, Mr. Hullans.’’ she replied, “but
some of the hack numbers of yours ap
pear to be missing!'’
“What is the good of it?" she ex
claimed. “Isn’t it just like a man to
ask such a foolish question 0 The good
we do is boundless "
In her wrath she took a quick breath
that snapped her corset string. “It is
boundless," she repeated, snapping an
other. “I’ll rerull one noble deed out
of ten hundred equally noble.
“loist 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. His
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
da\a ami raised $38 5-1 for a wreath c?
tubei-nx-.s i.» l>“ ‘-eut by express -.J.d IaM
on that poor, sunken, neglected grave!
“Oh, it is a beautiful thought that
after all these weary years that poor
dead man’s grave was. remembered at
last! Think what such a tribute means
to posterity! Look at its influence on
patriotism! Think what it means 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.
"A lover sees his sweetheart in ev
erything ho lok* at, just as a man
bitten by u mad dog, sees dogs in his
meat, dogs in his drink, dogs all around
him.’
George Denison Prentice.
man and young women in his
office recently had this experi
ence.
“What." he called to a young
man. “is the address of the firm to
which you made that consignment tiffs
morning?"
The young man looked up absently
from his work and said dreamily, "Mad
eline, Madeline Grey.”
To a girl stenographer later, the em
plover put this question, “Have you
finished the first bunch of letters?" She
looked a little startled as she replied.
. i
print to study, I have to watch him ill.
a hawk to keep him from covering it
with drawings of a girl’s face, and I
haven’t 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 «>r John."
It is the omniscience of love. It Is a
sweet insanity that calls for renewed
vigilance from those who arc sane to
keep the prosaic affairs of tlie world*
moving in their right grooves.
This employer grumbled, hut he also
laughed, and a grumble with a laugh
underneath indicates a sympathj which
is but poorly concealed. He knew what
it was from experience. I hope we all
do. To have seen one’s sweetheart all
around one lias a most broadening ef
fect on the sympathies. It also makes
us charitable when suffering the annoy
ante that this love madness in others
causes.
Th** girl in the kitchen fills tlie sugar
bowl with suit; tho girl on tho cur going
to work rides ten blocks beyond her des
tination and is lute; the girl with no
greater duties than presiding at pink
lea table® sees only with the outer eyes
the guests sht: is addressing. From the
humblest walk to the highest everything
is awry, misplaced, lost or forgotten, be-
uround you.
your right.
Both Made Mistakes.
'T'HFRF hue been many innocent niis-
* takes made by parsons. Among
them is oe told of a rertain clergyman
who left a notice in his pulpit to be
read b.v the preacher who exchanged
with him. 'The minister neglected to
denote carefully a private postscript,
and the people were astonished to hear
the stranger end by saying:
“You will pleuse come to dine with
me at the parsonage after service "
Another amusing story is told of a
minister. The reverend gentleman was
inclined to be absent-minded, and while
walking one nn t a young lady
whose face seemed familiar to him.
Taking her to be one of his parishion
ers' daughters, and not wishing to pass
her without notice, he stepped forward
and cordially shaking her hands, en
tered into conversation. After coin •
paring notes about the weather, lie bail
at last to confess:
“f know your lace quite well, but
where have I seen you before ?“
"Uli, please, sir. I am your new parios
maid," was the reply.
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i ^ ^ ATLANTA PROOF
cause those who love see the object of
their love in all around them.
The value of concentration is un
known; the necessity of putting one’s
thought on the nearest duty and- Leap
ing at a safe distance all temptation to
let the mind wander, has no place in
tlie consciousness of those who are in
love.
Of Course Not!
A young girl writes to ask if she is
to be blamed because she thinks so much
of her lover she can’t keep her mind
on her work. Bless tier, no! The blame
is not hers, it goes away buck to the
one who invented loving.
On tlie shoulders of that great human*
itarian there rests the blame of all the
sweet folly that begins with the day
"I flidn t know you wanted to know , w j jeM a man and woman discover they
him. His name is Raul, and he is in love, and ends when their dream
civil engineer.”
Why Do They Day Dream?
In both instances the employer made
route comment about the world going
:nad, and he would be glad when this
falling in love had gone out of fash
ion. “Why,” he complained to me later.
boat bumps hard on the shore of that
barren-looking island called Matrimony.
The bump will coma soon enough. It
will also be hard enough. It will come
soon enough and hard enough to suit
the most unsympathetic and unroman-
tie.
And so l gay to tiffs litle girl. Go on
if l give a young man a valuable blue j dr wanting that .sou see your lover in all
It is your privilege and
Take an
1 for
one who
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