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'The Passing of the Fool ™’
“The War Has Speeded Up the FEvolution of
Women,’’ Declares the Famous Writer.
By Beatrice Fairfax.
ASHIONS change in women just
F as they change in clothes, plays,
food and house furnishings,
Before the war it was the fashion to
be frivolous, extravagant, exclusive.
And a Nttle farther back plain imbe
efity had a great vogue.
Who does not recall the famous
“monkey dinner” that occurred in
Newport? A woman with many mil-
Bons and a frantic tmpulse to dem
omnstrate her ‘“originality,” borrowed
A monkey, trained to the usages of
kndfe and fork, and placed him among
her guests at dinner.
The dinner was coneidered a great
woctal success; every one who attend
of kept his real feelings to himself.
This was also the perfod of foun
talp wading. A “soclety” girl in Bal
timore jumped into a fountaln, fully
otad, and splashed about. And pres
enfly, all over the country, we had an
frruption of tank and fountain wad
ers demonstrating their “originalify.”
Then ecame the reign of the Teddy
bear, and girls carried these tiresome
toys about with them, in an effort to
be striking and original,
Green and Violet Wigs.
Oolored wigs came just before the
great war, and with this eulminating
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Cottage Cheese.
Alow thick sour milk to stand un
disturbed in a shallow pan on the back
of the stove, or with very low heat,
where it will become lukewarm, It wil/
then slowly separate. When the ecurd
is distinet from the whey, drain out
the whey through cheesecloth, The
only warning necessary is not to al-
Jlow 1t to beecome hot. This toughens
the curd. ‘
Cottage cheese in Itself is an appetis
ing and nutritious dish. It may be serv
od with sweet or sour cream and a little
sugar, or chives, chopped onien, cara
way seed, or ehopped nuts may be mix
ed with it, or it may be served accord
ng to the following recipes:
Pour over ocottage cheese any fruit
preserves, such as strawberries, figs o
cherries. Serve with bread or crack
ers, If preferred, cottage cheese balls
may be served separately and eaten
with the preserves, A very attractive
dish may be made by dropping a bit of
Jolly Into a nmest of the cottage cheese.
Marbles may be made by rollimg
moist cheese into balls about one imeh
In dlameter and then tossing them
about with & fork In a saumcer of chop
ped nuts, so that the nuts cover the
cheese. Serve on lettuce with mayon
naise or French dressing.
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Baked Oatmeal With Cheese,
Cooked oatmeal, 4 cups; grated
cheese, 1 cup; salt and pepper; soft
bread orumbs, % cup; fat, 1 teaspoon.
Put into a greased baking dish a lay
er of leftover oatmeal, then a sprink
ling of grated cheese, pepper and salt |
mnother layer of oatmeal, then cheese
and seasonings, and continue unti
fligh fe full. Melt the fat and. mix with
this the bread crumbs. Sprinkle ove:
the top of the dish. Bake in a moderate
oven until the crumbs are golden brown
Sleep for the Child
By William A. McKeever,
Ome of the nation's best known au
thorities on trainng children.
IGHT to eleven p. m.-—the best
E three hours for children to be
asleep and the worst three hours
for them to be awake.
Tt has been often and correctly
Stated that the early hours of the
night are best for contributing health
and recuperative strength to the child,
paovdded he spends them in sleep.
: 4 ::e other side of this fact is that
e | aking hours are the most ruin
) ’o the child’s health and morals.
B ichallenging statement apples to
*oung up to the age of adoles
e as I shall try to explain.
':- e parents are misled into be
-1 ng that children are smartest
1
2 ng the late evening hours—and
RNt to the witticisms, “bright say
i : §" and clever performances which
thp little ones get off. But our reply
l hat the smart behavior of the lit
dmdren at this time is drawn
$m | the borderland of hysterial and
4 pgion of over-stimulated nerves.
‘“ ‘excited conduct of children
Meforming before adults at a late
ebbani hour is relatively in the same
~‘-; that of the man whose nerves
; %wrought from drinking alco
b iHo, too, is apt to be vivacious
i very clever. But he must pay for |
' I with the stupor and blurred
16 T{q to follow., |
‘ 8 o'clock at evening the reserve
! ous energy of the ordinary 8-
¥ -old has been all consumed for
e day and he must either go to sleep
i begin to burn up energy which
uld be used to hold his physical
§ and health in poise
T social give and take excitement
'Pfted to, and practiced by, the adult
Mwp at evening is not a natural or
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bit of folty the “original” gex seems to
have waked up to better things.
Such pitiful efforts to be original
have had their day, the war has given
women real work and the power that
goes with it A woman no longer
has to jump into a fountain or put on
a violet wig to demonstrate that she
‘has personality.
Furthermore, the woman who can
not now diagnose such symptoms as
monkey-dining, tank -wading and
Teddy bear walking, must live a long
way Indeed from a public lbrary.
She’'d recognize the signs immedi
ately for what they were worth and
get busy with something else—some
thing that would be less of a “give
away."
Belence has a terribly eruel name
for such manifestations of “original
ity It sees in them nothing more
than the raw impulse of a erude mind
to express itself. Lacking such abil
ity it explodes into a vwariety of
things. !
Sometimes it is content with doing
something conspicuous, like wearing
a violet wig, again it may take the
form of disparaging some one whose
superiority is evident and, therefore,
an affront.
These “inferiority compensations,”
as Freud calls them, are just kind
old Mother Nature's way of letting
down her less promising children
easily. Rich idle women have al
ways spent untold sums on their “in
feriority compensations.” To them it
‘was a species of self-justification.
They craved eminence, but mental
poverty reduced them to being freak
ish.
War an Educational Force.
It was reserved for the great war
to hold the mirror up to such lives.
One glance was apparently sufficient
~4to judge by the patience, industry,
eagerness with which fashionable
women have kept at work. They
have made wonderful discoveries—
among them that work, real work, is
good. That work well done brings
immense satisfaction, something
deeper and more comforting than
being freakish.
They will never go back to folly
for folly's sake. The monkey din
ner, as a social function, is as dead
a 8 Nero's fiddling. Human service
is beginning to humanize the idle
rich,
The war has been a tremendously
educational force. In a couple of
gears it bae shoved the clock ahead
& centiry or more in the way of
PEONIGNS .
For fifty years the suffragists have
been working for social justice to
women, brushing away one foolish
prejudice after another. At times it
seemed as hopeless as brushing up
the sand on the seashore.
Grumdgingly women were given edu
cation, grudgingly they were allowed
to work, grudgingly the law began to
recognize them as people. Then
along came the great war and over
night shoved them into the place
they had been maneuvering to se
cure for over half a century.
~ No Longer Sulkily Endured.
Women are no longer sulkily en
wholesome experience for the child.
Besides tending to induce hysteria or
a sort of Intoxication, as stated above,
ft makes him over self-conscious. At
this time there is for him too much
discussion of the personaiity, all of
which is continually bent back uponl
the self—what you say and what I do,
how I lopk and how you look. '
The social excitement of the late
ovening period is certain to affect ch.}
ohid's sleep adversely, with tense
nervous twitchings and other 1"“8‘"
ferences with nature’s healing md‘
bedy-bullding processes. l
" The child so mistreated is much in
clined to awaken on the morrow with
some of the poisons of the preceding
day still in his system and with a bad
appetite for anything like a whole
some bhreakfast. |
But the ill-effects of late hours are
«till more marked with reference to
mentality. In the first place, it is
futile to try to hold the attention of
‘a child upon apyhing in the nature of
‘a lesson after the sunset hours. He
may listen without injury te a quiet
ing story, but real lesson getting
would just now he a serious wrong to
him. Indeed, you may instruct a child
with profit only during the morning
hours.
The dulled, poisoned physique re
sulting from the over excitement of
the brain, during the social dissipa
tion of the evening before, this must
be paid for during practically all
the entire day to follow.
A light supper of mush and milk,
a quieting fairy tale and there, he is
asleep—that is about the ideal way
for the world to dim out of the con
sciousness of your 6-yvear-old at twi
light.
And the treatment of the older child
:xg:uto adolescence should approximate
dured in industry. They are wel
comed, besought, told that it is their
patriotic duty to fill the gaps left
vacant by the fighters,. We hear no
more of that well-born stencil:
“Women’s place is home.”
Even the most reactionary of men
whose chief claim to distinction is
that they have not changed their
minds in fifty years, have quit say
ing that.
One does not hear It any longer
in Congress, not even in the Sen
ate. And having been brought up on
it, T am conscious of a strange sense
of loss. It is almost as if the parrot
had died.
The war has speeded up evolution
for women, tremendously. In the
flashing of a sword great power has
come to them and they are taking it
in a clear-eyed, responsible way that
is highly gratifying.
Political eqfity is practically
won; no one dollbts it-—not even the
Senator who announced a day or two
ago “that he knew what the women
wanted better than they did.”
Such utterances, like the monkey
dinner, the violet wig and tank wad
ing, belong to the buffoonery of yes
terday. Today science recognizes
them under the head of: “Inferiority
compensations.”
AAAA AA A A A A A A AP AP
NUT MOLASSES BARS.
Barley, 3 2-3 cups; boiling water, 1%
cup; cloves, % teaspoon; cinnamon, %
teaspoon; salt, 1 teaspoon; fat, 1% cup;
ginger, 4 teaspoon; molasses, 1 cup;
soda, 1 teaspoon; cocoanut, 14 ecup;
English walnuts, % cup.
Heat molasses; add boiling water and
pour over fat. Sift together the flour,
soda, spices and salt. ?dd liquid grad
ually to dry ingredients. Chill. Roll
Y¥-Inch thick. Cut into strips about 3%
by 1 inch. S]i)rlnkle with cocoanut and
chopped English walnuts, Bake about
12 minutes in a moderate oven (380-400
Fahrenheit.)
Yield, 92 bars.
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* BROWNIES,
Fat, 34 ecup; molasses, 1-3 oup; eorn
syrup. 1-3 cup; egg, well beaten, 1; bar
ley flour, 1% cup; nut meats, cut in
pietes, 1 ‘cup.
- Cream fat; add molasses and corn
syrup. Add beaten PgAf. barley flour and
nut meats. Beat well. Bake in small
fancy shaped pans. Bake 25 minutes.
Put a nut on top of each cake,
- YlelMd, 18.
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CRANBERRY SAUCE (Sugariess).
Cranberries, 1 cup; corn syrup, light,
25 cwp; Wwater, % cup; fielatino. 1 tea
spoon. Soften the gelatine by soaking
in % cup cold water for ten minutes.
Add remainder of water to syrup and
pour over washed cranberries. Cook
until the cranberries are soft. Add I§el
atine, stirring until well dissolved. Pour
into molds and chill.
Yield, six servings,
‘ Little Bobbie’s 5
AA A A A AP AAA I AR
By William F. Kirk.
GUESS I will step out & win
l that War Song Prize wich is
being offered, sed Pa last nite.
Doant do anything rash, sed Ma.
You mite overwork yureself, wich wud
be un-son-stitushunal to one of yure
con-gtitushun, Ma sed.
Thare is not much dainger of my
working too hard, sed Pa. I will
simply reed you this song wich T have
already rote, or maybe I will only read
you part of it. |
Part of it will probly be enuff, sed
tl;da. Wen you are reddy, you may
re. |
So Pa red this song to us: ‘
O War is hard & War is ruff |
& Sherman sedd that War is Tuff
But Sherman nevgr thot it wrong ‘
To rite a patrigtick song.
If riteing songs about the fray |
Is rong, there ain’t much right today. |
Chogp: ‘
Dash pnward thru them shot & shell
Eeven if you ain't feeling well. |
,Dus“on & swat the German foe |
& do not slip & stub yure toe! |
So paste a Prushun in the eyve |
& keap Old Glory in the sky! ‘
%e noabel song, sed Ma. 'l‘hel
sent t is luvly. You have the,
bart a poet, sed Ma, & the nerve
or a- Tiger.
I am glad you realize my ner\'e.‘
sed Pa. |
Yes,“indeed, red Ma. 1 taiks a lot!
of norve’:,g spring a song like that
one wich you have jest red to Bob
bie & me, sed Ma. |
Wen this song has the musick put
to it, sed Pa, I think I will have Mis
ter Caruso maik a“ record of it. It
will be a record wich will go thun
dering down all them ages, sed Pa.
No dout, no dout, sed Ma. I think it
is vary noabel of you to give Mister
Caruso a chanst to sing yure grate
song, sed Ma. A lot of men wud in
sist on singing it themselves, sed Ma.
But not me, not me, sed Pa. Wile 1
reelize that my veice is rich & strong,
sed Pa, T am willing to give every
body a chanst, sed Pa. Live & let
live, that is my speed, sed Pa. |
You are a grate old burd, sed Ma.
When 1 wedded, sed Ma, I wedded a
wizzard.
I am glad you reelize that, sed Pa.
A lot of wifes doant reelize how well
off thay are. So you like them words?
sed Pa,
Them words, sed Ma, will be here
long after we are all passed away, sed
Ma. I doant know jest ware thay
will be, but thay will be here.
Here is a twenty dollar Wilyum,
sed Pa, to show that 1 know a good
wife wen I see one, sed Pa.
- Do you want to hear these noabel
words agenn, sed Pa.
Sum other time, sed Ma, them
‘words will keep, I guess. Nothing
culd spoil them words, sed Ma.
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George Middleton and Lola LaFollette Are Both
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N R eAT 4
GEORCE MIDDLETON, playwright,
whose “Polly With a Past™ has had a
phenomenal run, furnishes a delight
ful example, with his wife, Lola La Fol
lette, of the success of two life partners,
When a Maid Chooses
By Ella Randall Pearce.
ABEL SETON stared at her
M aunt, her only living near rela
tive, with deepening incredulity
on her flushed face.
“Aunt Viny—you can’'t mean it! Do
you really want me to—to go?"’
“Of course I mean it!” The elder
woman spoke sharply and her face set
grimly as she whisked her apron across
a perfectly dustless chair top. But she
would not meet Mabel's questioning
eyes. ‘“l've done all I can for you. Apd
it you're foolish enough to tugn yeur
bpek on a good man like Jog Wea
ver——" =
’Qoe Weaver—ah!' Mabel slaé“h& her
hands fogether and her eyes glittered.
“I thought he was at the bottom®of ail
this. So Aunt Viny, you're putting me
out because I told Joe Weaver I wouldn't
marry him."” The girl's head was spir
itedly upflung. “When I marry, it will
be a man of my own choosing, not vours
or anybody’'s. You're not fair, Aunt
Viny."
She heard the girl's footsteps cross
to the door and mount the wooden
stairway. She heard significant smmds‘
in the room above, and to shut out those
sounds she started to hum an old Meth
odist tune as she began pmparanns for
the early evening meal. The footsteps
tapped along the hall affer awhile.
‘l'm going,” announced Mabel from
the doorway. ‘‘Good-by, Aunt Viny.”
‘“l've packed my trunk and I'll send
for it when I am settled,” said Ma-/
‘bel. “Now I'm going to the city. Ta
the Young Women's Christian Assocs -
tion. Miss Fowler is secretary tlgere,
you know." 3
| I iy Jea
naraer on eB, nol it Toane
ing in an effort to maintain thfi immo
‘blfi(y. Then she burst forth, breken!y:
CAfter all I've done for ygu, Mabel.
You're going and ¥ou don't, care. Weli
—go, You ungrateful girl! ° But if anv
harm cou‘\)et‘,to you. flort\“t “blame me."”
S e e & o
e noise o ic ca-
Plble, a small red rf“&?:x‘-hciatm‘;afear--
ng along the highwAy and stopped ab
ruptly beside the girl, while its horn
emitted wild shrivks, The startied pe
destrian drew back Arowningly.
both as husband and wife and as indiyid
uals with a career.
Mrs. Middleton, known still as Lola La
i Follette, has won an enviable position as a
writer and lecturer on suffrage topics.
“You—Joe Weaver! You've thrown
dust all over my—my traveling suit.” |
The young man in the car surveyed
her in intense seriousness. “Got &
grip, too,” he affirmed. “I belisve you
are going somewhere, Mabel.’ ‘
She looked directly into his troubled
brown eyes. |
“I'm leaving this place forever,” shey
made golemn declaration. “If you'we
seen %me, you know all about 4t.
Or’ rhapsi you can guess. Anyway,
Sepphy g :
x held out her hand; but Vfeawer
sat caulmly looking at her a mpoment..
Then he sprang lithely from the car
and lifted her upon the seat Jyefore she
could protest. “T'll take you/to the sta-'
tion, Mabel. But there’s ro train unti,
:&96:5@ Time table ehanged first of
¢ _meg}h, you know. lat's ride araund
a bit. I'll get you thege in time.”
Mabel sat comfortutly back against
the cushions with @ feeling of disap
pointment. So Joe/ ‘Weaver was going
to let her go as wasily as that!
‘“Well, Mabel, I guess Aunt Viny has
N AAA AR G AAN A
Household Hints |
i ousehold Hints |
BRI AR A s T
~ Starghy vegetables should be put
on 'fi cook in a sufficiently large
amgunt of boiling water to cow
‘tieem. Boil gently and keep kette;s
Aovered.
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The time required for cooking veg
etables depends on the kind, Size and
age of the vegetable. You must use
your judgment in deciding when they
are done, but a time table may help
you,
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Locks and hinges and the castors
on chairs and sofas sheuld be oiled
once a year to prevent rusting and
}:o make them w.orl: ea.sily.
When scrubbing linoleum or the
<itchen boards add a little paraftin
to the water. It takes out dirt and
grease, and gives linolewm a beauti
ful gloss without the trouble of pol
ishing. ! §
laettled everything for us. I always
;thqughflt I might have had a chance with
you As she hadn't interfered. But with
‘me for a bone of contention between
Vou—l couldn’t expect to make any
JHeadway when I ‘came a-courting.’
'Could I?” Young Weaver laughed bit
ferly. ™Aunt Viny meant well.”
““‘She’s been nagging me ever since 1
knew what it meant,” complained Ma
bel.
‘““And now you're going where you'll
never hear Joe Weaver's name again.
But I'm not going to forget you, dear
mirl. Dgn't think that. I shall always
,t\hink of what might have been.”
j‘\He lookd at her so fircely that {abel
shrank into her corner; and the little
Jed car leaped recklessly ahead. Five
minutes before train time, Weaver lift
ed his companion and her suitcase to
the narrow station platform.
“I wish you luck, Mabel,” he said,
a 8 he helped her with gallantry up the
steps to the last car. “And don't think
|I blame you a bit"”
| The train started. Mabel, clinging to
her suitcase, felt suddenly desolate and
Ipanic-stricken. She was not leaving
her home and Aunt Viny now. She
was léaving Joe Weaver—and forever!
Through tears she saw his face, yearn
in{. tender with that sad smile'of re
nunciation that made her heart throb
with pain. Joe was good. Joe was
dealr. Joe understoo@ the heart of a
girl. If— .
“Goodby!" ca.hed the girl loudly and
defianty. But there was an expressipn
in her eyes that made Weaver run along
bieside the moving train to keep. her in
sight.
The car moved faster as the g}ndln&
wheels gathered momentum. abel's
hand caught at the rail. She threw
her suitcase to the platform and fol
lowed its flight in a quick spring that
landed her reeling and gasping into Joe
Weaver's outstretched arms.
““Oh, Joe—Joe boy!" she g¢ried breath
lessly. “I don’t want to go. You
wouldn't ask me to stay—but I'm here.
Aunt Viny shan't part us. She shan’t!”
Bewildered but happy, with Mabel
clinging to his arm, Joe Weaver {}cked
up the suitcase, and, as the little red
car sped back over the dusty roadway,
there came a series of ecstatic honk
honks, mingled with the rising laugh
ter of blissfully happy young people.
Nights With Uncle Remus.
TALES OF THE HOME FOLKS IN PEACE AND WAR. ;
HOW WHALEBONE CAUSED A
WEDDING.
ATT KILPATRICK, of Put-
M nam, used to laugh and say}
that his famous foxhound
Whalebone was responsible for a very
brilliant wedding in Jasper. When |
Harvey Dennis and Tom Collings
worth were among his listeners
¢which was pretty much all the
time, for the three were inseparable),!
they had a way of shaking their
heads dubiously over this statement.
Mr. Dennis thought that his dog
Rowan (pronounced Ro-ann) ought
to have some of the credit, while Mr.
Collingsworth was equally sure that
Music had as much to do with the
happy event as any of the rest. The
Collingsworth argument—and it was
a sound one—was that where a lady
dog is skipping along and performing
to the queen’s taste all the work that
is eut out for her, she ought to come
ahead of the gentlemen dogs in any
historical statement or reminiscence.
When I first heard the story, con
siderations of local pride led me to
feel that Rowan had been unjustly
robbed of the credit that belonged
to him; but time cools the ardor of
youth, and mellows and sweetens the
sources of partisanship. I can say
now that Rowan had small advan
tage over his two famous rivals,
when the scent was as high as the
saddle-skirts and the pace the kind
that kills,
Mr. Kilpatrick used to tell the
story as a joke, and frequently he
repeated it merely to tease those
who were interested in the results of
Whalebone’s exploit, or to worry his
fox-hunting rivals, who were his
dearest friends. But the story was
true. In repeating it I shall have to
include details that Mr. Kilpatrick
found it unnecessary to burden him
self with, for they were as fax&llar
to his neighborhood audience as any
of their own personal affairs.
The way of it was this: One day
in the beginning of December, 1860,
Colonel Elmore Rivers, of Jasper
County, put a negro boy on a mule
and sent him around with an invita
tion to certain of his friends, re
questing them teo do him the honor
of eating their Christmas dinner with
him. This invitation was prepared
with great care by Mrs. Rivers, who
was a schoolma’am from Connecti
cut when the colonel married her.
It was beautifully written on the in
side of a sheet of foolscap, and this
sheet was tacked to a piece of card
board, by means of a deftly made
true-lover's=knot of blue ribbon. The
cardboard was placed in a satchel
over the shoulders of the negro, so
that there was no danger of losing
it. There was only one invitation,
and it was to be carried from one of
the colonel's friends to the other until
all had been notified of his hospitable
desires
The colonel added an oral postscrip*
as he gave the negro a stiff dram.
“Ding 'em,” he exclaimed, “tell 'em to
When the Baby Is Ili
- AN ARTICLE OF VALUE TO ALL PARENTS
By Brice Belden, M. D.
HE nervous system of a young
T child is so sensitive that slight
causes frequently produce
marked symptoms; nevertheless, a
close watch is necessary before one
can be sure that a baby is not devel
oping a definite disease.
Because of the fact that slight in
dispositions may behave like serious
diseases in infants, there is some dan
ger in overlooking, at ’flrst, some
grave affection, since the attack may
be so severe as to blunt the sensitive
nervous system, so that, instead of
marked disturbances, the symptoms
are marked by a false repose.
A sick infant is pretty sure to be
uncomfortable and is therefore rest
less and likely to cry. Some clew to
the seat of the trouble may be given
by the actions of the child. Thus in
earache the hand may seek the ear.
In headache it may be raised toward
the head. When teething, the child is
apt to insert his fingers into the
mouth. ;
‘When there is colic the child is apt
to writhe and draw up his legs, while
the abdomen is felt to harden. Irrita
tion in the stomach and bowels often
cause the child to rub his nose. °
Continuous crying is generally due
either to earache, hunger or thirst.
Earache may be confirmed by observ
ing how the child acts when pressure
is made in front of and behind the
ear; it usually makes the baby wince.
A convulslye attack is sometimes
foreshadowed by tight shutting of
the hands, the thumbs being thrust
deeply into the palms; the toes are
also apt to be bent at the same time.
When a piercing cry is uttered sud
denly at intervals there is pretty sure
to be serious trouble in the head, es
pecially if there is no fretting be
tween the cries.
In pneumonia and pieurisy children
cry during the attacks of coughing.
The sleep of a sick child is apt to
be restless and fitful. Inability to
sleep with the head and shoulders low
is an indication of heart or lung trou
ble. Constant kicking off of covers,
even in cold weather, is a sign of
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bring their dogs. Mind now! tell ’em
to bring their dogs.”
Mrs. Rivers enjoyed Christmas as
heartily as anybody, but in beginning
preparations for the festival she al
ways had her misgivings. Her father,
Dr. Joshua Penniman, had been s
Puritan among Puritans, and some
how she had got the idea from him
that there was a good deal of popaty'\
concealed in the Christmas
nials. But when once the necessity
for preparation was upon her she cast 4
her scruples aside, and her Chrm.m“
dinners were famous in that whole ve
gion. By catering to the colonel’s so
cial instincts in this and other partic
ulars, she managed, at a later period
of his life, to lead him triumphantly
into the fold of the Baptist Chuveh,
It was a great victory for Miss Y.ou,
as everybody called her, and she Mwed
long to enjoy the distinction it eom
ferred upon her.
The day after the invitation bhad
been sent around, a couple of wean
ling pigs were caught and penmed)
and, until the day before Christxnab',
they were fed and fattened on nub
bins and roasted white-oak acorns.
Three young gobblers were also
caught and put upon such diet as,
according to the colonel’s theory,
would add to their toothsomeness, and
give them a more delicate flavor.
These are merely hints of the exten
sive preparations for the Christmas
festival on the Rivers plantation.
What the colonel ailways wanted
was a merry Christmas, and there
could be no merriment where good
humor and good cheer were lacking.
He had said to his wife years before,
when she was somewhat doubtfyh
about introducing her New England
holiday, “Go ahead, honey! Cut just
as big a dash as you please with iour
Thanksgiving. Tl enjoy it as much
as you will, maybe more. The Lord
knows we've got a heap to be thank
ful for. WeM cut a big dash and be
thankful, and then when Christmas
comes we'll cut a big dash and be
happy.”
Thenceforward they had both
Thanksgiving and Christmas on that
plantation, and Miss Lou was as anx.
ious to satisfy the colonel with her
Christmas arrangements as he had
been to please her with his zeal for
Thanksgiving. Indeed, one Christma
day, a year or two after their ma
.riage, Miss Loou went so far as to p
sent her husband with a daughter,
and ever after that Christmas had a
new significance in that household:
Miss Lou satisfied her Puritan seru
ples by pretending to herself that she
was engaged in celebrating her
daughter’s birthday, and the colonel
was glad that two of the most im
portant days in the calendar wers
merged into one.
(Copyright, 1881, 1888, 1909 and 1911,
by the Century Company; 1883 by Jo,
Chandler Harris; 1911 by Esther Laßo
Harris. ALL RIGHTS RESER
Printed by permission of and by spocla‘
arangements with Houghton mme
Company.
" (To Be Continued Tomorrow.) .
rickets. Mouth breathing, with the
head thrown far back, is an indica
tion of adenoids, and in these cases
the breathing during sleep is apt to
be noisy. Boring as the back of the
head into the pillow suggests brain #r
ritation—if persistent. Half-open eyes
during sleep indicate pain, and if
with this there are movements of the
lips, the pain is in the stomach eor
intestines,
~ Puffiness or swelling about the ey
indicate dropsy, most commonly met
with after scarlet fever, and due te
disease of the kidneys. It may, how
ever, indicate a high grade anemia.
In brain diseases there is some
‘times frowning, with changes in the
‘ pupils of the eyes and sensitiveness
of light, §
~ In abdominal disease the upper v
is apt to be drawn up.
~ In pneumonia and pleurisy the nos
ltrils are sharply m and ditate
and contract as the "nttle pati
breathes. The breathing is labotat.
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Disarming the Foe.
“Yes, aunties,” said one of the galtaft
fellows invalided home from France, “ws
captured the first line trenches, and the
same day the French took a large morm
ber of metres from the Germans.”
‘That was plendid, my boy! repiieé
the old lady. Tt ought to put a stop 1o
those dreadful gas attacks we hear so
much about.”
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One of a Kind. j
“Is that your coliege diploma yora
have framed there?” “"Well, it’s sa
sort of diploma. It's a worthless
stock certificate showing that I've
been through the school of experis
ence?”
| ——
\
| A State' of Bliss,
‘Where flo you intend to 80 next
mer?’ asked Mr. Dawkina, “I'm !&
17 iy S poing Soass oy Fees
iifig' to embrace the opportunity te sit
™ my shirt sleeves and smoke ecigaes
in the best rooms in the house”
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} Hits Only Once. -
'de%é.sst?&e{hemtr;xt: "Docs & veu
shell often hit a man? Tomany
leave): “Ne, only emosf®