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A Waste of
Time
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
A YOUNG sirl writes:
• I am seventeen, and love a
man four years my senior. But
he meets other girls. When he meets
men with these other girls he
always talks to me but he keeps on
n etlng them. How can I break him
..t this?”
Ktliel tells her troubles: "What do
mu think .if a young man who pro
fesses to love a girl and still admits
e goes with others? He claims I am
he only girl he caws for, but still he
neeta others ''
'I am seventeen,'' writes B. W., and
n love with a boy of nineteen. We
ave been meeting each other steady
ill last week, when he didn't come,
nd 1 found out he was meeting an
ther girl and was deceiving me For
il that, I cannot seem to lose my love
or him. How can I win back his
,.ye and get him from the other
•
Can’t Believe Him.
Heartbroken writes: *'I am eighteen
lid in love with a boy two yean older.
He tells me he loves me, but I see him
with other girl. 1 When 1 nsk him if he
arcs for the other girls he always saya
No.” but 1 can't believe him How can
I win him back?”
There are no two in the world, per-
aps, who can agree on what it is
it causes the greatest waste of time.
And by that 1 mean something a little
more than time as measured by the
. lock and calendar I mean the value
it. as compared with the results
hieved One wastes time while wait
ing for a car. but the car finally comes,
one wastes time in reading worthless
literature, 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
I- anted 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.
Hut I contend that there is a way
more prodigal than all of these. And
lat is the time wasted In trying to
win back a lover whose affections have
hsgun to cool.
M is as if one lost something abso
lutely worthless in the beginning, and
stead of straightening up and walk
ing on, glad to he relieved of the
burden, wont down on one’s knees In
the dust and dirt to seek for that which
was lost.
A Good Tiling.
There is a well and a cry and time
Is spent in weeping that should he
.'••voted to rejoicing. A love that can
is a mistaken love; it is the
beat thing that can happen to a girl
i«> Ids it before it is fettered on her.
If it had been worth while It wouldn’t
have been losi so easily. It would
have taken much more than the pretty
far* of another girl to have won it
away. The fact that it could be lost
puts a price mark on it, and that price
mark is very, very low.
Vet day after day girls, on their
knees in the dust of humiliation and
despair, cry to me after vainly search
ing for tiie worthless bauble they have
lost ‘‘How can 1 win it back? Help me.
for my heart is broken!"
And how l would like to help you.
von poor little girls with your aching
hearts! But my methf>d would not he
,• kind you seek. 1 would raise you to
vour feet and have you laugh at your
b.ss. and walk on. glad to he relieved
of the care of anything so worthless, and
glad that you lost it before its pos
session had become more serious.
When Milady Strolls CHILDREN
Parents Should Counsel Them
About Their Habits
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
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I:FORE you send your little girls
and boys to the public school,
lake them in your arfhs and
with them pleasantly, but yet
visly, regarding their conversa-
and habits while away from you.
you are not mentally fitted for
ask of giving them some kncrwl-
of the great facts which under-
II created life and giving th*:se j
in tiie right way, it might be!
for you to consult some of the
cn’s clubs in your own town and j
for the best teacher of eugen-
nd find what booklets have been
en to guide patents in these very
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 terrifl- 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.
A tailorrnadf*
costume of ma
rine blue serge
This is one of
the most
popular models
for Spring,
1913, viz. curv
ing up to the
bust, and hang
ing well below
the waist line
in the back,
The three-quar
ter sleeves are
finished by a
cuff of black
satin with small
revers of em
broidered linen.
The small
turned-up col
lar is also of
(“m broidered
linen. The
skirt, straight
and plain, is
only trimmed in
front with tiny
buttons.
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Snap Shots
By LILLIAN LAUFERTY.
Eugenics Important.
This science of eugenics is becom
ing an important factor in tiie train
ing of children, and it will not be dif
ficult for you to learn something of
its workings. It shows how the world
i« progressing, for ten years ago, when
this .subject was discussed in this col
umn, it brought down a flock of dis
approving letters, and horrified par-
i cuts declared the proposition was one
I which aimed at the destruction of in-
I noeent 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 tiie minds of tiie young.
Ignorance Is Worse.
One <mall boy urged his parents
to avoid the use of stimulants, giving
them 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- j
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 protecyon given them out o?
I school hours.
Innocent and perverted are ttyown
side by side, and sacred .facts are
made known to pure young minds in
the guise 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
I contamination. Yet the contamina
tion takes place all the same.
It is the business of instructors to
I provide the common-sense teaching
which parents so woefully lack in the
•raining of the young. But let it oe
done wisely, carefully and delicately.
Many books, written with a view of
guiding the young away from uo-
healthful thoughts, only serve to guid*'
toward them, and many instructors,
who seek to allay precocious curiosi
ty, produce it by lack of right method.
THE STEAMSHIP ORION ON THE SANDS.
Freak Companies
Should Be Taught.
Children should be taught that we
are ONE WITH NATURE, ONE
WITH MOTHER EARTH. And that
as plants spring forth, so does man,
and that God, the Source and the
Cause, lies back of everything, and
that all His methods ate beautiful
! sacred and holy.
And then they should be 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
y< ur children in these matters.
Advice to the
Lovelorn
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.
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to
t>e virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.
- Confucius.
LOVE—THE ILLUSION.
Hove is just a cobweb, wet with morn
ing dew;
Love is «just a fairy spell, invisible to
view.
A tread, a touch loo heavy, and the
cobweb is not there;
A sigh too long, and lo! the spell has
vanished hi the air
Love is just a morning-glory, doomed
at noon to die;
Love is only half a story told in pass
ing by.
Love is gold so delicate the faintest
flame would melt it;
Awe’s nothing- but Lord help the man
who’s never known or felt it!
—Life
MAIDEN MUSINGS.
ll the man you met day before yes
terday tells you to look at things from
a broad-minded viewpoint, make sure
that 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 who did not
have strong feelings, be careful to love
one who 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
Paix ’ and wear ’em out on Peachtree.
Real Financier.
Junior—Mere's an order from Mrs.
P^terkin-Sraythe, father.
Senior Really? Clever woman. Mrs.
P‘ :erkin-Smythe. We must do what
ever we can to oblige her.
Junior She wishes us to purchase a
Thousand shares of J. T. and W. on her
account at 75 and sell at :»0. ami send
her a check for the profits by 12 o'clock
Good-Nature and Success
WHY ONE IS NOT COMPATIBLE, WITH ’IV OTHER.
OW 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 find 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 Ills 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 follow! 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’s that he can. But 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
chap, you know !"
Being of such a good nature. Jones
let*> everybody push him aside, and
takes the jobs be 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-nature 1 man never drives
a 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. He would
do anything rather than disagree
with his rivals. Following, instead
of leading, he i$ always a servant,
never a master.
Even when he gets nrtivied, he is
not master in His <> . a home. As in
business and the rest o, his life, lie is
imposed upon at home. His wife will
get all she wants, because of her hus
band's good nature.
In her heart of hearts bis wife will
hate bis good nature. h ; lack of tem
per and his week will. A woman
would rather have a man who ruled
her. whether he had a violent temper
or not. She goes out of her way to
please that kind of a husband, and
the more indifferent he is the more
she tries to please him.
In the Marriage Mart.
Not so with the
band. Anything d<
has to be at her V
her when Aho nce<
her temper and gi
silly fads. And b<
cheerfully she only
him! That’s a wor
The good-naturei
ries a really nice
married he is the i
and in their inm-
them despises him.
the girl who marri
can get nobody eha
Just as she imp
do all her relative
him, borrow' off hin
to a heartless extc
him if he ever wa
always: "Sorry, oki
ticularly hard up
some similar exeus
Although lib is ’
all round it is a h;
has to be fairly har
any respectable sh<
Good nature can b<
d-natured bus-
tor him. He
and call, help
t. put up with
wav to all her
tse he does so
t • angrier with
an rarely mar-
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e of every girl,
hearts each of
i* result is that
dm is she who
. taken
i. and one
*d to make
nowadays,
too far.
What Did She Mean?
“Lovers are prone to self-depreda
tion," said he, tenderly, as they sat
looking at the star- "l <lo not under
sand what you see in me ihat you love
me so much."
"That’s what everybody says." gur
gled the ii.genous maiden.
Then the silence P came so deep that
you could hear the stars twinkling.
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
YOU ARE RIGHT.
] AKAR «M1SR FAIRFAX:
* ' l am 20 years of a"- and re
cently met a young man two
years my senior. He asked to call
c:i me, which I permitted. But
each time he asks me for a kiss,
which I don’t think is '•ro r 'er until
we arc enga~ d. MAMIE.
Don’t grant his request until yo.i
have your engagement ring on you.
NOT A MATTER OF WILL.
DAKAR MISS FAIRFAX:
1 am U* and in love with a
young man one year my senior. A
few weeks ago he left the city
and promised to write to me.
Shall l wait and see if he writes,
or shall 1 forgot him? MADGE.
If you love him you will find that
forgetting is not entirely a matter of
will. 1 question the depth of your af
fection. Were it the kind that en
dures. you would, at lea^t, give him
opportunity to prove his affection.
An Easy Solution.
T ill-: mother of Master Gustave
Adolphus Bims was giving a
Christmas party, and, on the sole
conditi. n that he behaved himself, lie
was allowed to participate in the fes
tivities.
The guests were seated round a
friendly cTip of tea. preparatory to the
games, and were waited on by a maid
with a swollen face. The youthful saint
scrutinized the rounded contour of her
cheek with keen avidity as she moved
to and fro in tiie performance of her
duties Then, rising and stretching
himself to the full extent of his four-
foot nothing, he thrust both bands deep
into the pockets of his black velvet
Fauntleroys, and cried, as he glanced
around:
"Mother, I do wish you could have a
toothache, instead of Jane."
His adoring mother showed her pearly
teeth in an amused smile at her ex
pectant friends as she asked:
"Why, darling?"
"Because," answered the small in
corrigible. as he resumed his seat on the
black satin hassock which so completed
o picture, "you can pull yours out,
and Jane can't."
C OMPANIES 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 tiie 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
sepre 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
loose to warm the air in cold and wet
winter weather.
The fact that scientists have ex
pressed the opinion that gold is to lie
found In sea-foam, which, if it could
he extracted, would make* us rich be
yond the dreams of avarice, led some
enterprising persons a few years a tv
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
wine 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, with 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 somebody
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.
Daysey Mayme
And Her Folks
Turning the Tables.
I N some cases counsel receive answers
1 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 folk a
to pas9 a megaphone around at the
dinner table in order to be heard.
Naturally, under such circumatances,
Daysey Mayme could not permit her
host to see her home. It would mean
a 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." ^ f
Then, with her head held high, aS
becomes a representative of the future
arbiters of our destiny, she went forth
bravely and proudly.
Had she been a man she would have
whistled, for the recollection of that
megaphoned table had made her quiet
Rpinsterhood a Joy in comparison. She
was dreamily happy, when suddenly a *
sound behind her made her heart jumji ’
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 te
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 her 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 f
herself on her knees before the villain. 1 f
“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 fis *
he walked.
Use Less Butter-—
More Cottolene
No wonder butter is so high.
Particular women who are loath
to use lard or cooking butter in
their cakes and fine pastry, use
table butter. With butter at the
price you have to pay for it,
that's downright extravagance.
Cottolene is just as good as but
ter for pastry; for frying, it is
better. And Cottolene costs no
more than lard. Moreover, Cot
tolene is richer, and two-thirds
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
breath, for
Cottolene is f
~ " ■*
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How
To Be
Beautiful
Are American women deficient in the art of
making themselves beautiful? Anita d’Este, a
noted authority on beauty, thinks they are.
"In nearly every country of Europe I hare striven
1( cull the essence of beauty and the mysteries of each
system devoted to its culture and the more my search
look 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.
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