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■5. “Am I Not a Boy? Yes I Am—Not!” : * One Proof Is That I Wear an Apron Copyright. 191S. International News Hcrriee By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. \ GENERATION or more ago lit tle girls made what they called charmstringa, stringing on cord c- pretty or quaint button to mark the occasion of a new garment, or an event to which some romantic interest attached. Our life is a making of a charm string, and yesterdays ar e the but tons that are strung. Happy is the girl, and wise beyond her years, who puts on her charmstring nothing that will cause the blush of shame when she fingers the string in the years to come. With trembling fingers and a ten der light in her eyes she will touch a yesterday with pride in an achieve ment; another with a wistful sigh because of a hope that went wrong, other yesterdays will arouse memo ries of mirth, and every glance shows the miracle Time is working in mak ing the color lighter of those yester days that in her youth were dark with despair. Many Emotions. She is proud, dejected, philosophi se!, hnpeful. nnd in turn am she fingers her charmstring, but hap py is she if in all her collecting she has put on the string no yesterday that calls a blush of shame! The older women have their charm- strings almost completed; the charm- strings of the younger girls are in the making. The older women will look back with many regrets which the younger girls may be spared if they remember that every to-day be comes a yesterday unchanged and unchangeable after it has been strung with the days that went before it. The yesterdays that represent time wasted will cause many heartaches when one is old and there is so little time left.. The yesterdays when the conven tions and proprieties were flaunted are discolored in a way that never fades, and the stains grow deeper with the years. The yesterday when In the arro gance of her youth a girl disobeyed and distressed her mother will be the first to catch and torment her eye when her mother is gone and the day of atonement is past. The yesterdays, hundreds on hun dreds of them, that tell a story of selfish pursuits, a wasting of time and opportunity, a frittering of money and physical and mental resource; how many they are; how appalling the number, and how tragic the story they tell! Oh, little girl, you whose charmstring Is still in the making, arc you thinking what anguish of spirit, what bitter regrets, what tears, these yesterdays will some day cause you ? The Unkind Word. The unkind word, the opportunity to save, which became because o? its neglect the means to destroy; the wisdom that was rejected and the folly that was accumulated; the tri umph that was bought at the price of another’s defeat, are you remember ing, Little Girl, that these beads will appear dark and baneful and rob you of all joy in your string? The prudent man puts h!s money at interest, counting on the day when the interest will keep him from want in his old age. The wise man does greater than this—he puts his yesterdays out at interest knowing that “All the good days behind him are sponsors, who speak for him when he is silent, pay for him when he has no money, in troduce him when he has no letters, and work for him when he is asleep.” There is no friend who will do more for you to-morrow, my dear Little Girl, than a good yesterday. Be like the wise man who makes of his past his sponsor, guide and protector. Put on that string no yesterday of which some day you may be ashamed! The honorable pattern for the comfy affair. It is good for athletic stunts—plenty of foot room. My clever little mother, whose own little gowns are pretty and sensible, too, and a picture of the apron I work in. A Suggestion for the Woman Who Craves What She Can’t Have on a Limited Income. By DOROTHY DIX. By Nsll Brinkley I KNOW plenty of lucky girls who do their little part of the world's work at home, a6 I do, away from the glare and the courtesy-killing violence of the big town. Almost all of them work in rigs that are either very pretty or very ugly and painfully uncomfy, or very comfy and ugly. Not one has one both pretty and comfy. Not one has a little outfit that is feminine yet boyish, pret ty, and gives absolute leeway to young limbs and arms and waists that must bend over some sort of task. So I, who bend my back, too—who like to look pretty, too— who need, oh, much to be comfy while I scratch for a living and who envy little gids their half socks and sandals, their bare knees and necks and heads, their rompers and lack of petti-skirts, I laid away my sentimental Billys and Bettys, who love one another —oh, so desperately—for one min ute and “drawred” pics of work ing clothes. Oh, all kinds I made, I did. Those that were too pret ty were too fussy, too—I shook my Scandinavian locks and crumpled them up. Those that were too comfy happened to be either utterly Impractical or alto gether too ugly for any girl to go any farther with. So I ripped them up. Then I fell back on what every Daysey May me and Her Folks Ev FRANCEvS L. GARSIDE. T HIS is the season of the year when the country feels more than all else the need of one in authority who shall say what constitutes the proper length of a kin visit, the num ber of miles the kin traveled, the num ber of children brought along, etc., to be taken into consideration. Lysander John Appleton, Kin Com missioner General of the United States, feeling the nation's immediate need of his decisions on the kin question, called TSi3 Perfect Bab? Of the Future A Simple Method That Ha* a Wonder ful Influence Upon the Future Infant Too much can not be said for a wonderful rom- *dy. familiar tc many women as Moth?r’» Friend. It Is more eloquent In Its action than all the health rules ever laid down for the guidance of expectsnl Bothers. It Is an external appMrstfc* that apTaadi Its Influence upon all the cords, m'U'cles. ilgameuta and tendons that nature calls Into play; Uiey ex- & and gracefully without pain, witlxrot strain, ana iur leave the mind > are-free and In Joyous antic ipation of the greatest of all womanly arutltion. Mother's Friend must therefore be conatdtred a* tfireotiy a most lmporant Influence upon tho onar- actor and disposition of the future genersuon. it la a conceded fact that, with nausea, pain, net- Vowmed* • and dread banished, there is stored up E tch an abundance of healthy energy as to . br lng to being the Llgheat ideals of those who fondly IL.K^tae the rules that Insure the coming of the perfect baby. Mother r, 1-Mend ran be bad at any druggist at $1 00 a bottle, and It Is unquestionably one of those fem.idlee that always has a place among the cher ish- d few !n the medicine oeblnei. Mother's Friend la prepared by the Bradfleld Reg ulator Co., 1S9 Iiamar Bldg., Atlanta. Os.. after a formula of a noted family doctor Write them for a very Instructive book to ex pectant mothers. See that your druggist will eupply rou with Mother a if fiend. himself to order and sat in session ex traordinary. “It Is a pity,” he mused while chew ing a point to his pencil, “that human beings are not like chickens. As soon as a chicken can scratch for himself he forgets that he has a lot of kin.” Then he handed down the following decisions: “The member of the family deputized to write the letters telling the kin their visits will not be acceptable is hereby designated as the War Correspondent. “It is his traditional duty to write welcome letters to all of mother’s kin who say they are coming, and to re fuse to let father’s kin alight by ignor ing their letters. “A man may lightly dodge responsi bility on the ground that he is not his brother’s keeper, but I would have every man know that he must deal more se riously with his wife’s relations. “When mother’s kin are guests, two kinds of dessert at every meal is the rule. No dessert when they are kin to father. “When a woman's kin come very fast she owes no apology to her husband. She must accept It as her right and say nothing. “If possible to enforce this decision, none of father’s kin should be allowed in the house except as they appear in the back part of the family album. “It is not a mark of poor breeding to dislike one’s kin, and when ornery kin come to town the rustle in getting out of the way is pardonable If It drowns every other noise “When a man lends money to his kin, he must take it for granted that his wife win Know all about It before he has made the loan. ”ln bragging about visiting kin, don’t brag bard. it is quite probable that when the visiting kin has stayed as long as ten days, you will find yourself saying, ‘If he amounted to much at home, he wouldn’t be staying here so long.' •'if father has to sleep on the couch when There is company, enough time should be asked between visitations to let him untie the knots in his legs. “The only way In which a man can make his wife agree with him that her sister has stayed too long is to make love to the sister However, sometimes this results In complications “As a general rule, it is better to brag on one’s kin than to board them.” i Here his pencil broke. girl finds Infinite strange relief in till she’s a grandmother—my mother. I called her into consul tation—and together with my wild ideas and insistence on beauty and her genius for understanding the subtle ways of a needle and thread and her smiling common sense, w r e evolved a thing of use and beauty and a joy forever. Seems to me most any man who had his rathers would like to see his sweetheart or his busy house- bird of a mate in i work garb like this rather than in some of the bibbed frights, the tie-around kind that cut you in two, or that ancient, dishonored makeshift some women make do duty all day long—the kimono. And don’t you know' men folks are everlast ing preachers about their women folks being comfy. This little work apron certainly is that. Here are facts: I am usually short on those. That’s mother's proof that I am a girl. Turn your Cheshire cat smiles away, Bettys and Billys. and let me tell how this honorable apron Is made. I’ve made a faithful pattern from it spread out upon the floor. The real labor onep, where I get good and dirty—ink on my nose, grime on my elbow's, grubby hands and all that—are made of blue and pink fine-checked zephyr ging ham. Those that are just a little more company—to loaf about the house In these hot days—are made of cotton, crepe or anything pretty and washable that you like. Twenty-seven inches wide, if you please, the goods must be; then there need be no piecing on the sides. And twice 27 inches is plenty of foot-room. There Is a hole for your head, very short sleeves, and just the two seams down the sides. The back Is as innocent of fastening as the front. Nary a buttonhole or a hook and eye. That ought to please any cynic and make ’em You can do your morning beauty exercises in it. You can pick up your eraser without bending your knees—which they say is most awfully good for you. sit up and crow. Just on a line below the hip bone there are two belt-straps back and front, and through these goes a belt a cou ple of inches wide, fastened with two buttons. On the humbler ones a bias fold and stitching about the neck and arms and a deep hem is all the decoration there is. On the niftiest ones there is narrow' lace In the sleeves and neck and a belt of a differ ent color. The belt fits closely, but doesn’t pinch. That draw's the apron into folds. These are facts. Now for the beauty and the joy of It. You wouldn’t believe how pretty it is on a girl. For it falls into every line of her body, grace fully and modestly, too. It has the same simple attraction that a little kids clothes always have. There’s the beauty of It—simplic ity, good lines and any lovely color, and the joys of it—it goes over your head, the sleeves are a joke, the neck is low, it’p as cool as a Lady Constance Richardson costume in this warm town, cor sets with it are “taboo,” it hasn’t even a sash around the waist; you can reach, and catch, and throw a ball to your heart's de sire. Under it, if It please you, when there is not going to be "people,” there are only stock ings, chemisette and knickers of china silk or thin muslin and sandals. When there is to be “people,” a one-piece slip has to be added on underneath and slip pers instead of sandals, If you please. Sounds like a dream, this little outfit, but feels like a dream, too. Difficult to Catch. An Englishman who was appointed to an Important post in China got mar ried soon after. Among the recipients of the usual little cardboard boxes con taining a piece of wedding cake was a Chinese merchant with whom the bride groom had an outstanding account for goods supplied. After the honeymoon one of the first persons the newly-wed ded husband met was his Celestial cred itor. “And how did you like the cake?” said the Englishman, laughingly, after the usual congratulations. “Ah, ha!” returned the Chinaman, with a cunning leer, “me no such big fool to eat him, sah Me put cakes in lire. Burn him up. He! he!” “Oh, that’s too bad,” said the Eng lishman, very much hurt. "You might have tasted it at laast, out or compli ment to my wile and myself. Why didn’t you?” "Me too elute, sah,” said the Celes tial, with the same cunning smile. "You owe me monee, sah; sendee poi son cake; I eat him: I die, you no payee up. Houp-la! He! he! I know you ' Angleesh I HAVE received a letter from a wom an who says. “Will you please write something on being a poor man's wife? I married when. I was 15. I am now 24, and I arn betfining to see that it’s a hard road that I have to travel, with no pleasures along the way, and nothing but the poorhouse at the end of the journey. “My husband is a good man. He loves me dearly as I love him, but he’s Just a good plodder, one of the men who will never earn anything but a small wage as long as he lives. He is not ambitious. I am. He does not care for the refine ments of life. He Is satisfied with cheap, ugly clothes, a glass of beer and his pipe. I want pretty things and to occasionally sro to the theater or some such place of amusement. Lots of Them. ”1 know 1 can never have the things I crave unless l earn the money for them myself, and 1 would gladly go out to work except that it would make the neighbors talk. What shall I do. eat my heart out w h wanting things, or make the money to buy them?” Go to work, sister, go to work. Go out and hunt you a job. See how much of a money-maker you really are. Find out how much toil and sweat, how much SHlf-vestrabrt and self-repression goes into Hie making of every collar Aaqek- taln by actual experience the difference between the way a man speaks to a customer and an employee, between the way he treats you when you are In front of the counter and behind It. The world is full of dissatisfied wom en who think that their husbands are not good business men. and that they should be making a great deal more money than they are. These ladles criti cise and fault-find, and whine because their Johns can’t supply them with dia monds and limousines, and they are per fectly certain that If they had a chance to do something out in the world, in stead of being tied to a cook stove, they would make Hetty Green look like 30 cents as a financier, or put Maude Ad ams in the amateur class on the stage, or make Mrs. Humphry Ward wonder why she ever tried to break Into litera ture. There's just one piece of advice to give these disgruntled ladies, who are full of surging ambition, and that is to get out and let it surge, and see how far it takes them. If I were a man and and a wife who pined for a career far from the gas range and the sterilized milk bottle. I would not only encourage her to go to it. but I would force her to go forth and get the world’s price tag pinned on her ability Instead of her own valuation of It. Such Is Fate. For there’s no sure cure for a career like trying to have one. There's noth ing that knocks the self conceit out of us so completely as the Jolt we get when w’e find out that Instead of astounding a wattlne- world with our talent we can’t even make a living by them. T know at least a dozen fat, comforta ble ladies, who live in fine houses and wear fine clothes, who are always tell ing me in melancholy accents of what great actresses, or writers, or opera singers, they could be, if only they hadn’t been .foolish enough to get mar ried, and were not bound to the wheel of the domestic chariot. It must be a harrowing existence that these women lead their husbands, mourning over what-they-might-have-been, and heaven knows why the men haven’t sense enough to make their blighted Lady Macbeths, or Tetrazzinis, or Laura Jean Libbys hustle out and try to realize their ambitions. Believe me, one week of barn-storm ing would restore almost any stage- struck wife to sanity, and make her glad to return to a groundling husband who is good for thtrr square meals a day. Also there is nothing so effective in making a near-literary lady devote herself to the cook book, instead of writing books, as to find out by actual experience that she can’t sell a line she writes, and that she would starve If she had to depend on a pen instead of a husband So, sister, if you think you can make more money than your husband, and that you have greater Intelligence than he go out and try your luck. If you fail you will come back home more contented and be a more agreeable com panion to your husband than the dis satisfied woman that went away. And perhaps you will - succeed. Very often the gray mare is the better horse. Many a woman has ten time* the iiUblriefcd senstj of her husband. In such a case th$re is no earthly reason why her talent should be thrown away and the family deprived of the benefit of them merely because ehe is a woman. A dollar Is a dollar and has the same purchasing power, no matter whether It was earned by a feminine or a masculine hand. Not to Blame. Theorize as much about it as you please. Preach contentment all you like. The fact remains that it is bitter, grind ing hard to be poor, to never have, to pine for pleasures and luxuries that are forever Just out of your reach. That is the lot of many a woman married to a man who hasn’t the fac ulty for getting along, and nobody should blame such a wife when she starts out to win for herself the good things of life that she sees that her husband will never be able to get for her. As a matter of fact, we have got to readjust our whole mental view of this subject. Modern conditions are such that many good, honest, industrious men can earn only enough money to supply the bare necessities of existence for their families. If there are any frills, the women must make them for themselves, and undoubtedly in this country, as in France, the time will soon come when it will be taken as a matter of course for the wife as well as the husband to be a money-earner. And why not? What better way can a woman help her husband than In lift ing part of the burden of the family support from his shoulders? And why should a woman grow bitter and dis satisfied longing for the pretty things that she has the ability and the energy to earn? Besides which, when the poor man's wife puts her shoulder to the wheel, too, and begins to tug along the family cart. 1t generally Isn’t a cart much longer. It’s an automobile. BRENAU College Con servatory consists, ir college equipment, of 32 buildings, dotting a campus and park of 10C acres, in the heart of Gainesviile, the health iest city in the South. In the foothill* of the Blue Ridge Mountain* It* location from a climat ic standpoint is ideal. The Brenau faculty i* famous for It* specialist*. Unsurpassed advantages are offer ed in Music, Art, Expression, Lit* erature and Domestic Science. Brenau is the Southern represents- BOX 1 ^ tlva ,mon * national colleges for women. Write today lor catalog and information. 2 Youthful Definitions. In order to give his scholars a firm grip on original composition, a school master believes in the value of what he calls “an exercise in framing defi nitions.” After illustrating what was wanted, he set the little boys to write one sentence definitions of “boy” and “girl.” Here are a few of the ideas evoked: "A boy is made of a lot of bones with flesh put round them. A girl is nearly the same, but we do not cut her hair.” ”A boy is born a baby.' “A girl 18 only ribs out of a man’s body.” ”A girl Is God’s sheep.” “A boy is an ordinary creature made ou: of dust, and wo is a girl.” Things Worth Remembering & & s & & $ # # & & & & & & A lawsuit which has taken 50 years to decide, was an action brought by Charles L. Appleby against the City of New York for damages done to his property by a mob during the Civil War. Settlement has been reached by a compromise, the plaintiff receiving the amount of his original claim, $7,000, and dropping the demand for interest. When the suit was filed, Mr. Appleby was a comparatively young man. He is now 88, and has survived most of the Judges and law yers who have been connected with the case. A curious custom will shortly be celebrated at Sawston, Cambridge shire, England. The tenant of Hunt ingdon Farm is bound to grow three acres of peas every year for the in habitants. When they are ready for picking, the town crier announces the fact, and those who choose can pick what peas they like. The custom dates back 300 years, when a poor woman was imprisoned for stealing peas. • • • A pretty ceremony took place at New castle recently, when the customs of “Barge Day" were observed, and the Mayor and Corporation sailed up the river to “claim the soil" of the Tyne. The great moment of the ceremony is KODAKS;. 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The Canadian Pacific Railway Is planning to run w f hat will be the fastest transcon tinental train on the American conti nent. With an average speed of 50 mile* an hour for 60 hours, and twelve hours allowed for stops, the new train will cover 3,000 miles between Montreal and Vancouver in 72 hours—a saving of 23 hours on the fastest train on this sys tem now running • • • A bride’s dressing room is to be pro vided at a church in Madison avenue, New York. The organ loft over the hurch entrance will De removed and in Its place a beautifully equipped room will be built. Here the bride will be able to put the finishing touches to her attire after the drive to church. The T’fT' A Tou ever BEST 1 Ei/V Tasted fTTTT'f As rich as the finest growths can make it. Maxwell House Blend Tea is strictly high grade for lovers of quality. H-fbu and 1-fix, Air-Tight Canister*. Ash your grocer for it. 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