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A Waste of
Time
When Milady Strolls CHILDREN
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
A YOUNG girl writes:
"I am seventeen, and love a
man four years my senior. Bu*
he meets other girls. When he meets
men with these other girls he
I ways talks to me but he keeps on
meeting them. How can 1 break him
t.f this?"
Kthel tells her troubles: “What do
ou think of a young man who pro
fesses to love a girl and still admits
te goes with others? He claims 1 am
he only girl he cares for, but still he
meets others."
'I am seventeen," writes B. W., and
n love with a boy of nineteen. We
ave been meeting each other steady
11 last week, when he didn’t come,
nd 1 found out he was meeting an
1 1her girl and was deceiving me. For
■ II that. I cannot seem to lose my love
or him. How can I wdn back his
,ve and get him from the other
girl?”
Can’t Believe Him.
Heartbroken writes: “I am eighteen
and In love with a boy two years older
lie tells me he loves me, but 1 see him
with other girl When I ask him If he
-ares for the other girls he always says
"So," but 1 can’t believe him. How can
1 win him back?”
There are no two in the world, per
haps, who can agree on what It Is
it causes the greatest waste of time.
And by that I mean something a little
more than time as measured by the
. lock and calendar. I mean the value
,,f it, as compared with the results
« nieved. One wastes time while wait
ing for a car. but the car finally comes.
One wastes time In reading worthless
'iterature, but often such mental nausea
results that one is cured of the desire.
The skeptical say that much time is
wasted in making love, but those of
broader minds and younger hearts have
learned that every such experience
leaves one a little more sympathetic and
charitable.
The man who hoards his money
regards every minute wasted that
doesn’t bring him more, and the tramp
who spends his days blinking lazy eyes
it the sun is sure that every one who
works is a time waster.
But 1 contend that there is a way
mare prodigal than all of these. And
i i in t ts the time wasted iti trying to
win back a lover whose affections have
begun to cool.
it Is as If one lost something abso
lutely worthless in the beginning, and
lend of straightening up and walk
ing on, glad to be relieved of the
burden, went down on one's knees in
the dust and dirt to seek for that which
was lost
A Good Thing.
'li tre is a well and a cry and time
spent in weeping that should be
de iudl to rejoicing. A love that can
t is a mistaken love; It Is the
best thing that can happen to a girl
id lose it before It is fettered on her.
If it had been worth while It wouldn’t
have been lost so easily. It would
h ive taken much more than the pretty
face of another girl to have won it
aw ay. The fuel that It could be lost
puts a price mark on It, and that price
mark Is very, very low.
Yet day after day girls, on their
Knees in the dust of humiliation and
despair, cry to me after vainly search
ing for the worthless bauble they have
lost “How can I win it back? Help me.
for my heart is broken!”
And how 1 would like to help you,
you poor little girls with your aching
hearts! But my method would not be
o kind you seek. 1 would raise you to
your feet and have you laugh at your
loss, and walk on. glad to be relieved
of the care of anything so worthless, and
•:lad that you lost it before its pos
session had become more serious.
Snap Shots
By LILLIAN .AUFERTY.
Oh, a “Mint Melange" is a pleasant
thing:
May this word melange now' a message
bring
That's as quick and as sharp as the
peppermint.
With Its flavor and tang and its color
ful glint.
thing remote? I wish to
and lo! Virtue is at hand
A tailorrnade
costume of ina
rine blue serge
This is one of
the most;
popular models
for Spring,
1913,
ing up to the
bust, and hang
ing well below
the waist
in the back,
The t hree-quar-
ter sleeves are
finished by a
cuff of black
satin with small
rovers of em
broidered linen.
The small
turned-up eo
lar is also of
embroidered
linen. The
skirt, straight
plain, is
only t rimmed in
front with tiny
buttons.
Parents Should Counsel Them
About Their Habits
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
B EFORE you send your little Kiris
an l boys to the public school.!
take them in your arms and,
talk with them pleasantly, but yet.
seriously, reKsirdinfr their conversa- I
1 lion and habits while away from you.;
If you are not mentally fitted for
the task of giving them Borne knowl
edge of the great facts which under- :
lie all created life and giving these j
faces in the right way, it might be I
well for you to consult some of the;
women’s clubs In your own town and ;
• i-k for the best teacher of eugen-
1, ■ and find what booklets have been
written to guide parents In these very j
matters.
Eugenics Important.
'Phis science of eugenics is becom
ing an important factor in the train
ing of children, and it will not be dif
ficult for you to learn something of j
its workings. It shows how the world)
is progressing, for ten years ago. when
rliis subject was discussed in this col- I
urnn, it brought down a flock of dis-
j approving letters, and horrified par-
< iits declared the proposition was one,
| which aimed at the destruction* of in- !
j nocent childhood.
Now there are eugenic organiza
tions formed all over the world, with
the object of beginning to train chil
dren in right ideals of sex relations,
and In so laying the foundation of
mental and moral and physical health
for the rising generations. The scien
tific facts of the dangers of alcoholic
stimulants are being taught. In schools,
and it is having its marked effects
on the minds of the young.
Ignorance Is Worse.
One ?mall boy urged his parents
to avoid the use of stimulants, giving
th**m a scientific reason for his plan.
It will be impossible for that boy to
become a drunkard, for deep in his
conscience is the knowledge of the
destructive powers which lie in strong
drink. The dangers which lie in ig
norance of sex facts are much graver
than ignorance of the evils of drink.
Childhood is imperilled, youth, matur
ity and future generations menaced
| by this ignorance.
The public schools and all private
schools and all country schools are
endangering evil along with good.
■Children are taught everything save
the most vital truths of life during
school hours, and there is no guid
ance or protection given them out o?
j school hours.
Innocent and perverted are thrown
side by side, and sacred facts are
made known to pure young minds in
the gui-v* of obscenity and depravity.
Mothers and fathers are blind and
stupid on these subjects, and through
conceit and vanity imagine their chil
dren beyond and above any danger of
j contamination. Yet the contamina
tion takes place all the same.
It is the business of instructors to
provide the common-sense teaching
which parents so woefully lack in the
training of the young. But let it ne
wisely, carefully and delicately
Never, perhaps, has the camera illustrated the
force of wind and waves on a vessel of iron and
steel as strikingly as in this picture.
This shows the German freighter Orion, which
was blown on the Hiker sands. Sunderland, Eng
land. during a terrific gale.
All efforts to float the vessel failed, and It was
abandoned. Within two weeks after it had strand
ed it split literally in two, as the picture shows.
Daysey Mayme
And Her Folks
THE STEAMSHIP ORION ON THE SANDS.
Freak Companies
C
OMPAN1ES may be formed for al
most any purpose, so long as that
purpose is not an unlawful one.
That Is the reason why any one who
has an idea for making money, no mat
ter how freakish or impossible it may
be, is able to invite the public to sub
scribe funds for the carrying out of
that Idea. As Mr. Herbert W. Jordan,
who has written and lectured much on
the subject of company promotion and
flotation, has pointed out, since the
days of the South Sea Bubble, com
panies have been promoted by the
score with objects quite as impractica
ble as that of the famous philosopher
who formulated a plan to extract sun
beams from cucumbers, to be preserved
in hermetically sealed bottles and let
Many books, written with a view of I loose to warm the air in cold and wet
-Hiding the young away from un r winter weather.
healthful thoughts, only serve to guide j The farl that scientists have ex-
■ toward them, and many instructors, . ,. Q , „., ia iss tn v.e
• seek to alkr. precocious curloal- 1 thc °P ,n _ ton . .!
t v. produce it by lack of right method. I
Should Ee Taught. 1
Children should bo taught that we
a re ONE WITH NATURE, ONE
WITH MOTHER EARTH. And that
as plants spring forth, so does man,
am! that (hal. tile Source and t in-
(’auso, lies back of everything, and
that all His methods are beautiful
i sacred and holy.
And then they should he taught to
be silent on these subjects, and to re
fuse to talk or associate with children
who make light or obscene references
to the topic.
Begin to-day some plan to instruct
your c hildren in these matters.
Advice to the
Lovelorn
Good-Nature and Success
WHY ONE IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THE OTHER.
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
YOU ARE RIGHT.
J A F. \ \ l MISS FAIRFAX:
*- 1 am 1!0 years of a ,r and
Is virtue
be virtuous
—Confucius.
• • *
LOVE—THE ILLUSION.
Love is just a cobweb, wet with morn
ing dew ;
Love - just a fairy spell, invisible to
view.
A tread, a touch too heavy, and the
cobweb is not there;
A sigh too long, and lo! the spell has
vanished in the air
Love is just a morning-glory, doomed
at noon to die;
Love is only half a story told In i»ass-
Ing l
Love is gold so delicate the faintest
flame would melt it
Love’s nothing hut Lord help the man
who’s never known or felt It!
—Life.
• • •
MAIDEN MUSINGS.
If the man you met day before yes
terday tells you to look at things from
a broad-minded viewpoint, make sure
»nat he Is not going to express a few
views that are a little too broad.
Dear girl, if you are certain that you
could never love a man
have strong feelings, be careful to love
one w ho has strong command over them,
too.
It does not pay to look for trouble,
but be prepared for difficulties with
your savings bank account if you will
buy clothes that are tagged “Rue de la
Palx” and wear ’em out on Peachtree.
H
Real Financier.
Junior Here’s an order from Mrs.
Wt erkiu-Smvthe. father.
Senior Really? Clever woman Mrs.
Peterkin-Smythe. We must do what-
* ver we can to oblige her.
Junior She wishes us to purchase a
leusand shares of J. T. and \V. on her
• ount ai 7."> and sell at HO. and send
cr a check for the profits by 12 o'clock
OVV many really successful men
do you know who are good-
natured?
Your successful man may be will
ing to give you a lift, he may be one
of the best employers going, but
rarely you will And him brimming
over with good nature.
The fact is that good nature and
success cannot go hand in hand. A
good-natured man is a failure in busi
ness for many reasons. His fellow-
workers soon find out his good na
ture and Impose upon him.
It is always a case of; “I say.
Jones, old chap.-you might count up
these figures for me;” or, "Jones. 1
should be awfully obliged if you’d
help me with these accounts this
afternoon—there’s a good fellow! 1
want to get off early.’
Too Busy for Others
The result Is that Jones does his
own work, and as much of every
body else’.*? that he can. Hut he never
gets the credit for the latter. Nor
will he be appreciated any more by
those around him. If there is any
joke going on, then you may be sure
Jones is the butt of it. “Oh. Jones
won’t mind! He’s such a good-natured | “jf
chap, you know!”
Being of such a good nature. Jones
w ho did not • everybody push him aside, and
‘ takes the jobs he could do equally as
well—if it were not for his good
nature. If there is any big business
transaction to be pulled off. Jones is
not there. The man chosen is the
hard-headed, pushful type, who will
drive as hard a bargain as possible.
The good-natured man never drives
q bargain. He would much rather
give way for the sake of peace.
The simple fact is that a good-
natured man has no will or temper
of his own; no initiative. He always
follows where others lead, afraid to
strike out on his own account, for
fear, not only of failure, but of tread
ing on other people’s corns, lie would
do anything rather than disagree
with his rivals. Following, instead
of leading, he Is always a servant,
never a master.
Even when he gets r
not master In hU own
business and the r< st of
imposed upon at home,
get all she wants, becau:
band’s good nature.
In her heart of hearts
hate his good nature, hi:
per and his week vvil
would rather have a in
her, whether he had a v
or not. She g<
Ills wife will
>e of her Hus -
his wife will
? lack of tem-
1. A woman
in who ruled
iolent temper
f her way t«
please that kind of a husband
the more indifferent he is the
she tries to please him.
In the Marriage Mart.
Not so with the good-natured
band. Anything does for him.
has to be at her book and call,
her when she needs it. put up
her temper and give way to all
silly fads. And because he dots
cheerfully she only go's angrier \
him! That's? a women’-; nature.
The good-natured man rarely n
ries a really nice girl. Before In
married he is the s! ivc of every t
and in their inmns; hearts each
them despises him. The result is
the girl who marries him is she
can get nobody else.
Just as she
and
mo
He
help
with
or
irl.
that
who
do all her relative
will *
him. borrow off hi;
m. sponge upon
to a heartless ext
ev.t. but woe be
him if he ever w.
ante any help.
always: “Sorry, ol
<1 man, but I’m i
tieularly hard up
• ibis month."
some similar excu
Although life is
worth living, t;
all round it is a 1
iard world, and
has to be fairly ha
ird-natured to n
any respectable s!
tow ir. ii nowad
Good nature can 1
>e carried too f;
tide
It’s
only met a young man two
pars :ny senior. He asked to call
on me, which I permitted. But
each time he asks me for a kiss,
which I don’t think is ^ro^er until
wo a re e n ga ”• d. M A MIE.
Don’t grant his request until you
have your engagement rine on you.
finger.
NOT A MATTER OF WILL.
I E A R M1S S FAIR FA X:
i am ltl and in love with a
young man one year my senior. A
few w« > ks ago he left the city
and promised to write to me.
St all I wait and see if he writes,
or sd hi I forget him? MADGE.
If you love him you will find that
forgetting is not entirely a matter of
\ ill. I question the depth of your af
fection Were it the kind that en
dures you would, at least, give him
opportunity to prove his affection.
..
An -Easy Solution.
mother of Master Gustave
lolphus? Bints was giving a
Christmas party, and, on the sole
condition that he behaved himself, he
was allowed to participate in the fes
tivities.
The guests were seated round a
friem \ oup of tea. preparatory to the
games, and were waited on by a maid
with a swollen face. The youthful saint
scrutinised the rounded contour of her
check with keen avidity as she moved
to and fro in the performance of her
duties. Then, rising and stretching
himself to the full extent of his four-
feot n< thing, he thrust both hands deep
into the pockets of his black velvet
Fauntleroys, and cried, as he glanced
found in sea-foam, which, if it could
be extracted, would make us rich be
yond the dreams of avarice, led some
enterprising persons a few years
to form a company with the object, ac
cording to their prospectus, of gather
ing the foam and placing it on the mar
ket. The scheme attracted a large
number of people, who applied for
shares in the hope of becoming sea-foam
millionaires.
Balance of $4,500.
Equally extraordinary was the com
pany floated by certain individuals who
told a confiding public that many for
tunes were to be made by importing
compressed dried grapes from Spain,
Italy and elsewhere, then saturating
them with good English water, mak
ing wine from them. It was stated
in the prospectus that dried grapes
could be Imported at a much cheaper
rate than wine,. and that it was pos
sible to produce an equal quantity of
wdne of equal quality to that made
abroad. Thousands of pounds were
subscribed by the public, who firmly
believed in the idea until the scheme
collapsed.
Another company was floated to raise
the vessels sunk by Nelson In the Bay
of Aboukir, w’ith the treasure contained
therein, when he gained his victory over
the French In what is known to his*
tory as the battle of the Nile. The
result was that further treasure was
lost in addition to that which went
down with Napoleon’s unfortunate ships.
Presumably as a joke, one individual
formed a company with a capital of
<5 divided into 500 shares of one cent
each.
Twenty- companies, according to Mr.
Jordan, were formed in a fortnight in
London for providing seats for those
who wished to view the Diamond Jubi
lee procession of 1897, and one clever
individual managed to pay his return
fare to America, and have a balance of
♦4,500 in hand, by selling sorhebody
else’s window ten times over at $500
a time.
The window-letting public'seem to be
ignorant of the fact that any seven
individuals* might form a company bear
ing a high-sounding name, with an in
significant capital, and that, promises
and agreements notwithstanding, not a
penny beyond the subscribed capital
can be legally recovered. A company,
for instance, with a paid-up capital of
$50, may enter into a contract to. pur
chase a set of windows for $5,000, but
Getting Gold from
Foam of the Sea, Etc.
the owner of the windows has no legal
redress against his customers for more
than $50, which represents—if not al
ready exhausted—the total value of the
concern.
Turning the Tables.
T N some cases counsel receive answers
* to questions which they had no busi
ness to put, and these, if not quite to
their liking, are what they justly de
serve. The following story of Robert
Harris, a celebrated negro minstrel, is
a case in point.
"You are in the minstrel business, I
believe?" inquired the lawyer.
“Yes, sir," was the reply.
“Is not that rather a low calling?”
“I don’t know but what it is, sir,” re
plied the minstrel; “but it is so much
better than my father’s that I am proud
of it.”
The lawyer fell into the trap.
“What was your father’s calling?” he
inquired.
“He was a lawyer,” replied Harris, in
a tone that sent the whole court into a
roar of laughter as the discomfited law
yer sat down.
By FRANCES L. CARBIDE.
D aysey mayme appleton had
dined at a home where there were
so many children in the family It
was necessary for the grown folks
to pass a megaphone around at the
dinner table in order to be heard.
Naturally, under such circumstances,
Daysey Mayme could not permit her
host to see her home. It would mean
rude Interruption of the children’s
hour, a poetic period observed in this
family by the father holding three,
while the mother spanked the remain
ing seven to bed.
“I’m not afraid,” said Daysey Mayme.
"These are the days of advanced wo
manhood when any woman can put a
mere man to rout.”
Then, with her head held high,
becomes a representative of the future
arbiters of our destiny, she went forth
bravely and proudly.
Had eh9 been a man she would have
whistled, for the recollection of that
megaphoned table had made her quiet
spinsterhood a Joy in comparison. She
was dreamily happy, when suddenly a
sound behind her made her heart jump,
with fear.
It was the sound of a STEP. A
MAN’S step, and it was BEHIND her
and COMING FAST.
She remembered that she must be
every inch a woman, and she tried t#
be brave. But the gooseflesh began to
rise, the cold chills played hide and
seek up and down her spine, and her
hair began to stand on end, no easy
task with so much false hair to be
lifted.
She didn’t dare turn and face him,
but she knew from the stealthiness of
the STEP that he was pursuing her.
She also knew that he was six feet
high and of powerful physique, and
that his cruel black eyes were fixed
upon her.
She heard a clank, clank; clank,
keeping time with his step. Ah, he
carried a sword! More than one! There
were two, and in his right hand he
carried a long, sharp knife.
He was after hef life’s blood! She
must walk faster. The STEP kept
pace with her. And there was now
the clank, clank, clank of three swords
five knives and a gun keeping time
with the STEP.
She tried to run; her knees failed
her. She tried to scream; the sound
died in her throat. She felt that she
would go mad with fright. The mon
ster pursuing her had now grown to
ten feet in height, and he had his
knife raised to plunge into her back.
She made another attempt to run.
The STEP kept close behind. With a
sudden scream she turned and threw
herself on her knees before the villain.
“Spare me!” she cried, with her head*
bowed to the ground.
“S’matter with you?” said a thin lit
tle voice in contempt, and Daysey
Mayme looked up to find herself kneel
ing before a boy of seven.
In one hand he carried a number of
empty milk cans, which had clanked as
he walked. »
Use Less Butter-—
More Cottolene
t:
What Did She Kean?
“Lovers are
tion." said ho,
looking at the :
sand what you
me so much.”
“That's what
gled the ingen*
Then the silei
you could hear
at under-
you love
ire
ind
“Mother. l do wish you could have a
toothache, instead of Jane.”
His adoring mother showed her pearly
troth in an amused smile at her ex-
pectant friends as she asked;
“Why. darling?*’
“Because." answered the small in
corrigible. as ho resumed his scat on ihc
black satin hassock which so completed
ih*‘ picture, “you can pull yours out,
and Jane can’t.”
No wonder butter is so high.
Particular women who are loath
to use lard or cooking butter in
their cakes and tine pastry, use,
table butter. With butter at tliej
price you have to pay tor it,
that's downright extravagance.]
Cottolene is just as good as but - i
ter for pastry; for frying, it isj
better. And Cottolene costs no
more than lard. Moreover, Cot-;
tolene is richer, and two-thirds j
of a pound of it will go as far;
as a pound of butter or lard.
And lard and Cottolene are]
not to be mentioned in the same I
breath, for
Cottolene is
a vegetable
p r o d u c t,
healthful, al
ways safe-
makes diges
tible. rich,
but never
greasy food.
THE N. K. FA1RBANK COMPANY
Are American women deficient in the art of
making themselves beautiful? Anita d’Este, a
noted authority on beauty, thinks they are.
"In nearly erery country of Europe 1 have striven
tc cull the essence of beauty and the mysteries of each
system devoted to ils culture and the more my search
took me upon untrodden ground, the more con
vinced 1 became that the most of this wealth Lay
hidden from the women of America"
is what she says in “Modern Fountains of Youth,”
the opening article of the May number of Good
Housekeeping Magazine. She carefully analyzes
the various methods by which the beautiful
women of Europe scientifically retain their loveli
ness. This message from a woman who has spent
years in examining the “beauty culture” systems
of the world has much of information and en
couragement for the women of this country.
Read it for a really helpful article. It introduces
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Countess of Warwick has consented to conduct
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interested in improving her good looks will want
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