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By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
“I
AM 20,” writes a young man,
‘have no bad habits, and for
eight months have been in love
with a girl of my own age. I have
always given her as good a
time as my salary would permit. One
day I went to her place of employ
ment, opened the door quietly to sur
prise her, and found her in the arms
of a man who is known to have
brought dishonor to at least two
young girls.
“I have learned since that she has
frequently gone to places of amuse
ment with him. When I told her of
his true character she admitted it,
but said he was a good spender, and.
as she was not engaged to me, I had
no right to object. I love her with
all my heart and would not see any
trouble befall her. Should I stand
aside and let her pay the price?”
No! That woflild be wrong were
you only friends, and an unpardon
able crime since you love her.
She pleads that she is not engaged
to you, and you have no right to
object. Seek an engagement, and
give yourself the right!
The girl is going headlong to ruin,
and a diverted interest may save her.
She is not wicked; she is foolish.
She is concerned only for the good
times the present may bring. Make
her, by the power of your love, see
that there are better times in the
future. Give her the interest that
every girl longs for—the hopes, the
dreams, the all-enveloping satisfac
tion with one’s self and life that cen
ter around an engagement ring.
A Suggestion.
Induce her to change her place of
employment; you surely have women
friends whose amusements are un
questionable and whose influence is
for good. See that they make her
acquaintance, and that she is thrown
in with them. Teach her the difference
between the real and the shadowy.
Never find fault with what she has
done, or moralize on the degradation
from which you hope to save her.
Treat her as if you trusted her. Ap
peal to her higher nature always, let
ting her see that you know' she is too
good to do the things other foolish
girls do, and for whom life is never
so long that they get through the
paying.
Always keep in her mind the little
home you are building for her, and
when you take her through the air-
castle of your dreams explain its
needs and your means as if you were
talking to an intelligent being. This
will give her a sympathetic under
standing of the limitations of your
income, and the knowledge that you
are saving for her will check any en
vious sighs for other men who are
greater spenders, and cause her to,
insist on a greater economy than even
you had advocated.
Try it! Every good woman is using
her influence to redeem some man. If
this w’ere not so, humanity would ret
rograde instead of progress. With
all these centuries of obligation
heaped upon him, every man person
ally owes to every weak and willful
woman all the influence and strength
he can muster to save her.
The Best Way. 4
The strongest influence for a wom
an’s good is that which appeals
through the heart. All sighing for
vanities of dress, position and person
is stifled when she loves. Vanity is
a stage of silliness that her heart
sooner than her head helps her to out
grow.
If this girl loves you, It will not be
impossible to rescue her. But, if she
loves you or not, if she assents to an
engagement or not, does not lessen
your responsibility concerning her. If
she will not heed you, and you know
you are right concerning this man’s
dishonorable intentions, you owe it to
all womankind to inform the girl’s
parents of what she is doing.
Help them build the protecting rail
at the top of the cliff. That will
show' a greater Christianity than be
ing content with contributing
money or means to an ambulance to
be stationed at its base.
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How to Dance the “Tango-Classique”
Some Rules and Suggestions for the Up-lo-Date Whirlers
By LILLIAN LAUFERTY.
T HERE nro ms many rules fur dancing as there
are successful dancers now before our public
—and that number is legion. Hut the one
rule from which we can never get nwAy if we want
to really dance is: “Know your subject.”
You can no more dance in a finished and attrac
tive manner without all the ingredients that go to
make a dance than you can bake a cherry pie with
out flour and butter and sugar and water and cher
ries. Learn this rule by heart before you get up at
some giddy “The Dansant,” and with one eye on a
supposedly admiring gallery, whirl in the mazes of
a breakneck awkwardness.
Up at the /.iegfeld “Follies of 1913,” at the New
Amsterdam Theater, in New York, Rose Dolly and
Martin Brov.n are doing a fascinating combination
of true “Tango” and modified Turkey Trot, that they
“You must keep exactly with the rythm of the
music.”
call “classique excentrique,” and for the benefit of all
who have seen them and the other lovers of Terp
sichore who have not, they formulated for me a few
simple rules for dancing.
Little Rose Dolly is like a scarlet tangoer streak
ing across a Southern sky—or a dash of her own
Hungarian Paprika in a prosaic salad; and Martin
Brown is a typical, up-to-date American youth—with
the tall, slender, thoroughbred look we are all be
ginning to strive for. And here is “How they do it.”
How to Do It.
“If you are a beginner,” said Miss Dolly, “take
a clever dancer—or a clever national dance—as your
pattern. Study the steps, make up your mind which
ones you can imitate, and then practice them one
at a time with music to help you and spur you ou.
Work and work till you can get up and do a step and
have it look just like play.”
“That Is quite right," said Mr. Brown. “Expres
sion when you are doing it. Don’t look strairjed or
anxious. Practice a gtep in private, and work at it
go hard that when you do it publicly it will look
like play.
"You must keep exactly with the rhythm of the
knees
music—keep time, in other-words. Follow the music,
do steps that you have mustered, and do not do freak
steps that don’t fit in with your own personality at
all. And above all, keep your toes pointed out all
the time. No matter how pretty a step is, it does
not look attractive if you do it in pigeon-toed fash
ion.” He illustrated—and the same step done with
pointing toA and with turned ankle and inpointed
toe became a very different movement.
“Toes are very important in dancing,” cried Miss
Dolly, “although the modern dancer does not have to
stand on them like a ballet dancer, she must keep
them out and down, and sway gracefully on the ball
of the foot and get the habit of keeping the instep
and heel raised.
A Good Way to Learn.
“A good way to learn the modern dances is to
stand up and just practice relaxing shoulders, el
bows, knees and ankles in a sort of gradual shuffle.
Do this first standing firmly on your feet, then rise to
the balls of the feet and try it agaiii, then take a
step or two with the body relaxed and swaying. Do
this first without music and in front of a mirror,
then add music, and do it again in front of the mir
ror. And finally do aw’ay with the mirror, and just
yield as unconsciously as possible to' the rythm of
the dance. You will be surprised how easily it will
come after you have learned to relax.
“Then you must add steps to your ingredients
of knowing how to keep time, how to relax and how
to express the feeling that music gives you," added
Mr. Brown. “Master a quick, little, short step and a
long glide, combine them in various ways, add a
little ability to kick gracefully—not high necessarily
—but with gracefully pointed toe and an appearance
of ease—and watch clever dancers for suggestions as
to steps. In this way, even without the aid of a
teacher, you can learn to be a home-made turkey
trotter.”
The Practice of Self-Control
By MRS. FRANK LEARNED.
Author of “The Etiquette of New
York To-day.”
I N any sphere of life self-control is
an important element toward suc
cess and happiness. Control of
mind is a factor toward overcoming
the tendency to be oversensitive, sus
picious, or tormented by imaginary
slights. Moping and brooding over
fancied grievances will never achieve
peace. Sensitive people, who take
offense easily, are very difficult to get
on with. We are never sure “where
to find them." as the saying is. They
are constantly making exactions of
their friends, calling them to account
for certain delinquencies.
Social life often requires the mak
ing of concessions, the common sense
not to construe the thoughtlessness
of a friend into an intentional slight,
or absentmindedness into indifference.
Naturally, we feel that Something is
due between intimate friends, but
even in the case of intimates a mar
gin of kindly concession must be
made. The fear that one is not re
ceiving sufficient attention from oth
ers is an unpleasant form of egotism.
Delay in Calling.
The many demands of social 11 f»»
oblige people not to hold one another
too seriously to account for delay in
calling, for instance. Among acquaint
ances delay in calling, or returning
calls, need not be taken as an Indica
tion of a wish to be exclusive or an
intention to be neglectful. Allow
ances have to be made for the fail
ings of others on this score. When
an acquaintance calls after a lengthy
delay it is an important courtesy to
welcome her cordially, not to allude
to any misunderstanding, to hasten to
accept, in the kindest spirit, any ex
planation which may be offered, not
to dwell on the subject but pass on
to other matters and to do this with
out permittin the shadow of a sug
gestion that she has been dilatory.
It is vrise for the person making a
delayed call not to be too profuse In
excuses.
Many reasons for delayed calls may
be considered by the sensible person
who is willing to make concessions
toward friends. Absence from home,
illness, engagements, various home
duties, interests in charitable or oth
er work very absorbing to one’s time
may be among the causes for delay.
The wish to have some leisure to
pursue personal tastes may be an
other reason.
Control of Temper.
While the casting out of fretful
grievances is of importance in daily
life, control of temper is a rule of life
to be practiced by every well-bred
person. It is well not to get too ex-
Helping Jimmy
Today’s Short Story—Complete
“I
cited and to remember to close a door
gently. “I never knew anyone who
went about banging doors and play
ing whirlwind to possess any influ
ence whatever," said a wise woman.
The practice of self-control and
composure will have an immense ef
fect on one’s own manners and will
be sure to make a pleasing impres
sion everywhere. To sit quietly, to
keep the hands still, to walk calmly,
these little things lend a charm to
the person who has acquired them.
It is salutary to take stock of our
selves and recognize our own short
comings and try to remedy them. It
is good to get out of ourselves, to
stop being self-centered, to give up
talking of ourselves and our griev
ances and to live in the sunshine of
cheerfulness and the breeze of largei
interests.
SAW Jimmy this morning." I
mentionel casually.
“Yes?” answered Mrs. Vera-
lour.
Yes. I think we shall have to
take to calling him James. The
hand of time seems to have given
him a sudden, fearful blow. He look-
d as if he had seen trouble through
a microscope. Has anybody left him
money, do you know?”
‘Money? Good gracious, no!”
‘Poor old chap. Then he must
have lost his little all."
"What do you mean?” demanded
Mrs. Veralour, tapping her foot im
patiently. “Why must it be one or
the other?”
Well,” I said, ‘‘anybody could see
it was money trouble of some sort.
He had the appearance of being a
pauper trying to look like a mil
lionaire. or else a millionaire dis
guised as a pauper. His clothes have
aged frightfully during the last few
days. In fact, you could hardly call
them clothes; they were merely em
blems of civilization.”
Mrs. Veralour seemed about to
speak, and then, changing her mind,
put her hand in front of her mouth
and converted her remark into a
yawn.
‘Or else it is love,” I murmured,
gazing dreamily into the fire.
Mrs. Veralour said nothing. Taking
a cigarette from the box, she tapped
it uncertainly on the back of her
hand.
“Of course,” she said at last, with
somewhat superfluous frankness, "I
I make mistakes sometimes. You
know' Florence Appleton, don’t you?
Jimmy was frightfully gone on her.
He used to come round here every
afternoon and tell me how much he
loved her.”
What a ridiculous thing to do. It
would have been considerably more
sensible for him to have gone round
and told the girl how much he loved
you.”
Very Extraordinary.
"What?” ejaculated Mrs. Veralour.
with a laugh that w r as nearly a shriek.
‘‘Mr. Blake, what an extraordinary
thing to say.”
"Well,” I said, "isn’t the next best
thing to telling a girl you love her
to tell her you don’t? Especially a
girl so sought after as Florence Ap
pleton. Bhe’d immediately begin to
wonder what was the matter with
him."
"M’yes,” said Mrs. Veralour, "i sup
pose she is inclined to think that ev
ery man is in love with her; but then
she’s got such hordes of admirers it’s
really not the girl’s fault.”
“No,” I agreed, "it’s not her fault,
it’s her forune."
"Misfortune?” murmured Mrs. Ver
alour, who never by any chance lis
tens to what 1 say, “well. I don’t
know about that. Still, as I was say
ing, Jimmy used to come round and
tell me all about it. and I promised
to help him.”
"Mrs. Veralour," 1 said, indignantly,
‘‘you’re always match-making. It’s
abominable. You'don’t deserve to be
a widow."
"I promised to help him,” repeated
Mrs. Veralour, firmly, deaf to my re
mark. "He wanted rather a lot of
helping,” she added, reflectively; “he
was so awfully shy. Fancy a man
being shy.”
"Why not? Somebody’s got to be.
What did you do? I suppose you
praised him up to the skies to her.’
Mrs. Veralour looked at me with an
air of mild amusement.
"My dear Mr. Blake. Is your grand
mother still alive?”
"Eh? Yes. Why?”
"Oh, I was only wondering where
you got all your old-fashioned ideas
from. Of course, I didn’t praise him
I ran him down. I used to go round
and tell her most frightful 9tories of
him. I warned her against him. Once
you warn a girl against a man, you’ve
wasted your time. It’s like putting a
‘dangerous’ notice up on a sheet of
Ice; everybody goes to see why it was
put there.”
The Only Way.
"Oh,” I said, weakly. "I have had
many a ducking myself.”
"The best reputation a man can
have,” she pursued, "is not to have
one. The worst of it is Jimmy
wouldn’t live down to his reputa
tion."
"That must be very disheartening. ’
I said, sympathetically, "when you’re
doing your worst for a man.”
"Yes, it was. Really, I think it was
her money he w'as afraid of.”
"Coward.”
"M’yes. Still, I suppose it is hu
miliating for a rich girl to tell you
she can never be a poor man’s wife.
However, 1 got him at last to promise
that he would propose if 1 contrived u
good opportunity for him.”
She paused for a reflective moment.
"You know the summer house in
the garden, don’t you?”
"I do," I said, "and you know I do.”
"Yes. you do, don’t you," she smiled.
1 had a spring lock fixed on that door.
You know, one of those that you can
only open from the outside.”
"I know. I begin to see the end ot
this story."
"M’m,” she said. "That’s the worst
of being so bright—nothing comes as
a surprise. Well, after I’d had the
lock put on I invited them both round
to lunch. Of course, I asked a lot of
other people,, so as not to arouse her
suspicions. They all came; one or
two girls and a lot of men—most of
her horde, in fact. After lunch w T e all
went out on the lawn.”
"Do get cm, Mrs. Veralour; you’re
like a writer on space rates. There
are some things one takes for grant
ed.”
"I’d told Jimmy what he’d got to
do.”
“Get the girl in the summer house,
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and then you’d come along and snap
the door on them?”
"Yes. Don’t you think being locked
in a summer house together wus a
good opportunity?”
"I think so. lie could lead up to a
proposal by saying how he wished
they could never get out again. That’s
what you meant, isn’t It?”
"Yes; only nothing quite so silly as
that. I was going to give them half
an hour to themselves, but after
about ten minutes all the men com
menced to drift away in search of her,
and I was afraid they’d take her away
from poor Jimmy. So I hurried along
to the summer house at once.”
"Go on,” I urged. "Quicken the ac
tion."
"I listened for a minute to make
sure they were really in there; as
soon as I heard her voice I gave the
door a push.”
"Congratulations. A tip-top scheme,
Jolly well carried out.”
‘‘Well, I do think so,” asserted Mrs.
Veralour, in a tone curiously defen
sive. I—I still think so."
"Why, of course. You don’t mean
to say. when you opened the door
later on, they weren’t engaged?”
"Oh, no; they were engaged all
right.”
‘‘Good,’* I paused for ji moment,
struck by a sudden thought. “But
look here, w hat was old Jimmy look
ing so absoluteb' wTetched about
when I saw him this' morning?”
Mrs. Veralour hesitated, and then
pulled herself together.
"It wasn’t he In the summer house
with her, after all,” she said.
The chief constable of a small town
received by post six “Rogues’ Gal
lery” photographs, taken in different
positions, of an old offender wanted
for burglary in a neighboring city. A
fortnight later the city chief of po
lice received this letter from the con
stable;
"I have arrested five of the men.
and am going after the sixth to
night."
• • •
Teacher—What little boy can tell
me where the home of the swallow
is?
Long silence, then a hand Is waved.
"Well, Bobbie, where is it?"
"The home of the swallow,” de
clared Bobbie, seriously, "is in the
stummick.”
* * *
Heard at a South Coast resort:
"Y'our town boasts a band, does it
not ?”
"Not exactly. We’ve got a band,
but w r e don’t boast of it. We just
endure it.”
* * *
Mr. Squills (dictating a letter of
indignation)—Sir, my typist, being a
lady, can not take down what 1 think
of you; I, being a gentleman, can not
even think it; but you. being neither,
can easily guess my thoughts.
Binks, the Hero.
"Darling,” she murmured, as she
nestled against his shoulder, "do you
know that horried people are saying
that you are marrying me for my
money?”
He leaped to his feet. "The miser
able creatures!” he roared. "I won’t
stand it! Tell me who they are. and
I’ll horewhip them! I’ll ”
“But, my dear," she objected, ‘‘you
would create scandal, and the case
would be made horribly public in the
papers, and then I really could not
marry you.”
"What, then," he muttered, hope
lessly, "can he done?”
"Darling, it is easy,’ she replied.
“I ydll make over my fortune to my
brothers and sisters, and everybody
shall know of it. Then no one shall
be able to make horrible accusations
against you.’’
But then he drew himself up
proudly. His manliness had won a
moral victory.
"Nay. Araminta!” he exclaimed.
"Do not put thy sweet self to any
trouble. Anthrobald Binks is proof
against every slanderer!”
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Ten Commandments of the
Summer Visitor
By DOROTHY DIX.
I NVITE not thyself to the ho^se of
another, oh. my daughter, for if
so be thy friend hungereth and
thlrsteth for thy society she will
arise and send to thee a writing bid
ding thee to come straightway to her
abode. Yea. she will send for thee
swiftly by means of the telegraph
and the night letter, and If so be she
holdeth her hand, take that for a sign
which never faileth that she wanteth
thee not.
2—Accept not an invitation from a
man to tarry and stay at his house
until it hath been O. K.'d by his wife,
for verily I say unto thee that no
man hath authority within his own
home, no, not so much as to give a
bone to a stray dog. It Is the wife
and the wife’s people, and the wife’s
friends who have dominion over the
spare bedroom.
3—When thou visiteth cast not the
goo-goo eyes at thy hostess’s son,
nor upon her male relatives, nor upon
her husband, for It is written that she
that snareth the fancy of the men of
the household shalt be Invited there
no more.
4—Forget not to
take In thy trunk
thy curling iron,
and thy sewing
tools, and thy pos
tage stamps, and
thy script for let
ters, and all the
things of which
thou hast daily
need, for a bor
rower Is an abom
ination and worse
than the pestilence
that destroyeth by
night.
6—Incline thy
heart unto the
imusements that hath been prepared
for thee, and make thy countenance
mirthful, though thy soul fainteth
within thee when thy hostess sayeth.
'Rejoice and be glad, for to-day we
So forth to picnic in the woods, and
to partake of squaehed lemon pie
flavored with ants.” Likewise dis
semble thy sorrow when she trotteth
thee to the church sociable, or naileth
thee to the card table until thy stom-
Invite Not Thyself.
Don’t Stay Too Long,
ach turn©th in desaplr and thy |
riseth in rebellion.
6—When thou visiteth cast veracity
to the winds, for vertly truth hath nw
place In & popular house guest. Say
of thy hostess's house, "Truly* this la
a palace, fit for a king. Tell me, E
pray the©. what marvellous architect
planned It?" Beat upon thy breast
and call Heaven to witness that tbero
was never such a view, though it b«
but as the view of
a fly that is caught
under a teacup*
Praise the hsomty
and the wit and.
the way the ©CM
spring of thy host
ess reclteth, and
when thou depart-
eth thy hostess'
shall say of thee.
"Surely, here Is a
woman of discern
ment, and I will
bid her return
again.”
7—Conform thy
ways to the ways
of the house that thou visiteth. Arise
while It Is yet night, if it be the
custom of thy hosts, so that thou
shalt breakfast wfth them, and give
no trouble to the servants, for, be
hold, a hand-maiden In the subnrba
is as precious as gold, yea, aa Dae
gold, and as difficult to keep.
8— If thou followeth a diet and eat-
eth of strange food prepared after an
ungodly manner, visit not at all. but
hie thee to an inn where thou canst
pay for the trouble thou glvest. Thus
shalt thou save thyself from being
hated by thy friends.
9— Forget not to tip the hand
maiden who walteth upon thee, for
the button - her - up - in - the - back is
worthy of her hire.
10— And if thou forgettost all of
the other commandments of the Sum
mer visitor, remember this, oh, my
daughter: Make thy visit short.
Tarry not long in thy friend’s house
lest she be weary of thee. O© while
yet she entreateth thee to stay with
her, for It is better that thy hostess
should weep because thou goest than
to shed tears because thou stay©*L
Selah!
Pralae Their Offspring,
Saving His Face
At a very convivial dinner a man with
a preternaturally solemn face arose,
wine glass in hand, to propose a toast.
"May we never, he said, in deep,
measured tones, "drink any more of this
stuff—’’
He paused, and there was a horrified
silence for several seconds—"than is
good for us!"
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6:50 a. m.
The Route is “Water-Level"
You Can Sleep
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It contains valuable and interesting information about
the Metropolis. Sent on receipt of five cents in
stamps. Apply to New York Central Lines Travel
Bureau, 1225 LaSalle Street Station, Chicago.
Full particulars regarding this service and
any assistance in planning your trip will
be gladly furnished on application to
E. E. SMITH
Traveling Passenger Agent
Atlanta Georgia
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