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4 A Waste of Time When Milady Strolls By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. A YOUNG girl 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 meeting them How can I break him of this?" Jithel tells her troubles: “What do you think of a young man who pro fesses to love a girl and still admits he goes with others? He claims 1 am the only girl he cares for. but still he meets others." "I am seventeen," writes B. W , and in love with a boy of nineteen. We have been meeting each other steady till last week, when he didn’t come, and I found out he was meeting an other girl and was deceiving me. For all that. 1 cannot seem to lose my love lor him. How can I win back his love 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. He tells nte ne loves me. but 1 see him with other girls. When I ask him If he cares for the other girls he always says "No.” hut I can't believe him. How can I win him back?" There are no two in the world, per haps, who can agree on what It Is that causes the greatest waste of time. And by that 1 mean something a little more than time as measured by the clock and calendar. I mean the value of it, as compared with the results achieved 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 dehire. The skeptical say that much time is wasted in making love, hut 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 at the sun Is sure that every one who works is a time waster But I contend that there Is a way more prodigal than all of these. And that Is the time wasted In trying to win back a lover whose afTectlons have begun to cool It Is as If one lost something abso lutely worthless In the beginning, and Instead 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. There Is a well and a cry and time Is spent In weeping that should be <,evoted to rejoicing. A love that can st is a mistaken love; It Is the beat thing that can happen to a girl to lose it before It is fettered on her. If it had been worth while It wouldn't have been lost so easily. It would have taken much more than the pretty face 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 the worthless bauble they have lost "How can I win It back? Help me, for my heart Is broken'." And how I would like to help you. you poor little girls with your aching hearts! But my method would not be ■the kind you seek. I would raise you to lyour feet and have you laugh at your Joss, and walk on, glad to be relieved „f the care of anything so worthless, and glad that you lost It before Its pos session had become more serious. CHILDREN Parents Should Counsel I hem About Their Habits [>& at roke Itse e ip A tailorrmtde 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 euff of black satin with small revers of em broidered linen. The small turned-up col lar is also of embroidered linen. The skirt, straight and plain, is only trimmed in front with tiny buttons. Snap Shots By LILLIAN LAUFERTY. Oh, a "Mint Melange" Is a plensant thing; May this word melange now a message bring That s as quick and as sharp as the peppermint. IWith its flavor and tang and its color ful glint. • • • Is virtue a thing remote? 1 wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue 1s at hand. •—Confucius. • • • LOVE—THE ILLUSION. I»ve Is Just a cobweb, wet with morn ing dew; Tore 1s Just a fairy spell. Invisible to view. A tread, a touch too heavy, and the cobweb Is not there; J& s!gh too long, and lo! the spell has vanished in the air. Love is Just a morning-glory, doomed at noon to die; Tx>ve Is only half a story told In pass ing by. Love is gold so delicate the faintest flame would melt it; Love's nothing but Lord help the man who's never known or felt It! —IJfe • • • MAIDEN MUSINGS. If 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. T>ear girl, if you are certain that you could never love a man who did not bare strong feelings, be careful to love one who has strong command over them too. It docs not psy to look for trouble but be prepared for difficulties with your savings bank account If yon will buy clothes that are tagged "Rue de la Fabc * and wear ’em out on Peachtree. Good-Nature and Success WHY ONE IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THE OTHER. By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. B KFORE you send your little girls , an-l boys to the public school, j take them in your arms anti talk with them pleasantly, but yet rloiisly. regarding their conversa- j tion and habits while away from you. If you an- not mentally fitted for the task of giving them some knowl- j «-«!gc of the great facts which under lie ail created life and giving these lai — In the right way, it might be well for you to consult some of the women's clubs in your own town and ask for the best teacher of eugen-i a and find what booklets have been written to guide parents in these very matters. Eugenics Important. This science of eugenics is becom ing an important factor in the train ing <>f children, and it wUl not be dif- fieult for you to learn something of its workings. It shows how the world j i- progressing, for ten years ago, when this subject was discussed in this col - J umn, it brought down a flock of dis approving letters, and horrified par ent;. declared the proposition was one, which aimed at the destruction of in- | nocent childhood. Now there are eugenic organiza-1 tions formed all over the world, with i the object of beginning to train chil- i 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 I 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 them a scientific treason for his plan. It will be impossible for that boy to become a drunkard, for deep In his conscience is the knowledge of the deStvuctive 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 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 provide the common-sense teaching which parents so woefully lack in the training of the young. But let it oe done wisely, carefully and delicately. Many books, written with a view of guiding tht* young away from un healthful thoughts, only serve to guide | toward them, and many instructors, who seek to allay precocious curiosi ty, produce it by lack of right method. 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, anA that all His methods are beautifu\ sacred and holy. And then they should bo taught to he silent on these subjects, and to re fuse to talk or associate with children vho make light or obscene references to the topic. Begin to-day some plan to instruct your children in these matters. 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 Rik^r 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, a.s the picture shows. THE ORION ON THE SANDS. Freak Companies to the Ad vice Lovelorn Real Financier. Junior—Here's an order from Mrs. Peterkin-Smytbe, father. Senior—Really? Clever woman, Mr*. Peterkin-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 MO. and send : a check for the profits by 12 o’clock -day. H 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 nsture. 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: 'T say, Jones, old chap, you might count up these figures for me;” or, "Jones. I 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’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 lets 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 Mg 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 a* possible The good-natured 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'a corns. He would do anything rather than disagree with his rivals Following. Instead of leading, he i s always a servant, never a master. Even when he gets married, he is not master in his own home. As in business alnd the rest of his life, he 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 his wife will hate his good nature, his 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 good-natured hus band. Anything does for him. He has to be at her beck and call, help her when she needs it, put up with her temper and give way to all her silly fads. And because he does so cheerfully she only gets angrier with him! That’s a woman’s nature. The good-natured man rarely mar ries a really nice girl. Before he is married he is the slave of every girl, and in their inmost hearts each of them despises him. The result is that the girl who marries him is she who can get nobody else. Just as she imposes upon him, so j do all her relatives. They will visit J him, borrow off him. sponge upon him ; to a heartless extent, but woe betide him if he ever wants any help. It’s always: ‘‘Sorry, old man, but I’m par ticularly hard up this month,’’ or some similar excuse. Although life is worth living, taken all round it is a hard world, and one has to be fairly hard-natured to make any respectable show in it nowadays. Good nature can be carried too far. What Did She Mean? "Lovers are prone to self-deprecia tion.” said he. tenderly, as they sat looking at the stars “I do not under- sand what you see in me that you love me so much.” "That’s what everybody says,” gur gled the ingenous maiden. Then the silence became so deep that you could hear the stars twinkling. By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. YOU ARE RIGHT. T AEAR JV1ISS FAIRFAX: * ' I am 20 years of and re cently met a young man two years my 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 nroner until we aTe enga^d. MAMIE. Don’t grant his request until you have your engagement ring on you. finger. NOT A MATTER OF WILL. D EAR MISS FAIRFAX: I am 16 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 I wait and see If he writes, or shall I forget him? MADGE. If you love him you will find that forgetting Is not entirely a matter of will. 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. C OMPANIES may be formed for aJ- f most any purpose, so long as that J purpose 1s 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 loose to warm the air In cold and wet winter weather. / The fact that scientists have zn pressed the opinion that gold is to be 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 a|%> 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 Use Less Butter— More Cottolene therein, when Jie 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 55,000, but Getting Gold from Foam of the Sea, Etc. the owner of the windows has no legal redress against his customers for more t-han $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 A 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. GARSIDE. 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 hfer 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." Then, with her head held high, a* becomes a representative of the future ' ' arbiters of our destiny, she went for^h bravely and proudly. Had she been a man she would have whistled, for the recollection of that megaphoned table had made her quiet splnsterhood a Joy in comparison. She was dreamily happy, when suddenly a sound behind her made her heart Jump with fear. IL was the sound of a STEP. J\ * MAN’S step, and it was BEHIND her and COMING FAST. She remembered that she must be every inch a woman, and she tried to 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 faoe 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 dank, 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 I 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 fail d 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. \ t "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. How To Be Beautiful An Easy Solution. T HE mother of Master Gustave Adolphus Bims was giving a Christmas party, and, on the sole condition that he behaved himself, he was allowed to participate in the fes tivities. 9 The guests were seated round a friendly cup of tea, preparatory to the games, and were waited cm by a ma.1d with a swollen face. The youthful saint scrutinized the rounded contour of her cheek 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- foot nothing, he thrust both hands 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 ho resumed his seat on the black satin hassock which so completed the 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 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- toiene 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 he mentioned in the same breath, for Cottolene is a vegetable p r oduct, healthful, al ways safe— makes diges tible, rich, but never greasy food. THE N. K. FAIRBANK 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 e eery country of Europe I ha te stri ten tc cull the essence of beauty and the mysteries of each system de toted to its culture and the wore my search took me upon untrodden ground, the more con vinced I 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 a new department, “Good Looks,” which tha Countess of Warwick has consented to conduct for Good Housekeeping Magazine. Every woman interested in improving her good looks will want to read what this noted beauty has to say month by month. Your newsdealer has a copy for you. Good Housekeeping Magazine,• 381 Fourth Avenue New York City At All Newsstands 15c the Copy