Newspaper Page Text
. ‘_\‘:»;-: .
l ‘;’% o
‘The Revelations of a Wife
i A New Story of Married Life
o By Adele Garrison.
WMAT HAPPENED BEFORE THE
T EVENING GAME.
¢ HERE! Now what do vou think
¢ I of your kitchen crock?’ |
Dicky stepped back admir
ingly from the dining table, where he
had just finished arranging the flowers
he had bought in the coarse brown jar
against which I had protested to no
avall
To my housewifely mind, the idea of
a plece of kitchen pottery as a recep
tacle for flowers was ridiculous and I
felt much irritation at Dicky not only
for putting aside my opinion with a
careless quip, as If it were of no im
portance, but for persisting In carry
ing the unsightly thing into the dining
room and putting the flowers into it.
But as I looked at the yellow daffo
dils, the white narcissi and the delicate ‘
ferns rising out of the dark brown
earthen far. 1 realized the artistic sense 4
that had led Dicky unerringly to se- 4
lect |t Placed carelessly within it
some of the hlossoms standing proud
ty upright, others leaning lovingly over :
the side of the dish, they looked exact- |
bv ae if they were rising from the earth ;
where they were grown, ‘
I love flowers so mueh that the very :
sight of them mellows me, no matter
how upset 1 am. As 1 gazed at the '
exquisite blossoms 1 felt my irritation
at Dicky leave me. After all, he had|
beén right about the jar, and I could
not believe he had meant to wound me.
1 slipped my hand ilnto his arm.
*They are lovely, Dicky,” I said soft
ly. “I take it all back about the jar.
It is the only thing for these blossoms
fsn't 1t
“Of course,” Dicky replied laconic
ally. “Queer how some of the cheap
est, coarsest pieces of pottery have col
orings which are a delight to the eye. '
“Dinner all served,” announced Katie
from the, kitchen door. Then her eyes
fell wpon the table, where Dicky had
Jumbled the flowers, and her face grew
dark with anger.
I hastened to avert the storm I knew
Was brewing.
“Never mind the dishes, Katie” 1
said soothingly. *“‘Mr, Graham put them
to one side when he arranged the
flowers. We will put them all back
again ourselves. Bring on the dinner”
Katie departed grumbling under her
breath, Yt 1 affacted rot to hear her.
I re.avranged the Adiches and ‘ver. and
when she brought in the oysters she
Was prrene again,
It is a pleasure to put a good dinner
Lefore Dicky, he erjoys every morsel of
it 80 much. In spte of the depressing
incidents of the morning my spirits re
flected Dicky's ard we had & merry
little meal while Katie beamed at our
appreciation of her efforts.
““Here, Katie." As Dicky finished a
large slice of Katie's cream pie, he
held out a half-dollar to her. “Thais
in recognition of a mighty good dinner.”
“Tank you,” rejoined Katie. “I no
care if you put the dishes on the floor
next time '
Dicky frowned slightly as she left the
'zoo fresh, by far, that girl” he
commented. “Can’t you tone her down
& little?”
: felt my old irritation at Dicky's in
tency risnig within me. When he
had found that Katie, whom I had en
£nged as cook, was the girl who had
formerly done the housework in the
bachelor apartment which he had shared
with three other artists, he had been
delighted -
“Now I'll have the chance to finish
that painting of Poland for which she
Was posing when she disappeared,” he
had said to me, and added: “For heav
er's sake, Madge, keep her, Put up
with anything from her unatil after |
finish that painting.”
1 remembered the words as if he had
Just spoken them. The memorg@ of them
tinged my speech as I replied:
“You surely do not suppose | like her
Ex ise 1 2
Lat Lif |
By Brice Belden, M. D.
EOPLE no longer young often
fancy that their hearts are more
or less played out and that they
ought not to take much exercise
If nothing has happened during an in- |
dividual's lifetime to affect normal
heart structure such a faney is un- |
founded Some form of exercise is ac- |
tually needed, as & rule
Good heart action, insured by moder-
Ate exercise in the open alr, as in walk
ing, means improved circulation, partie
ularly In the abdomen, where it tends
to become sluggish in thoke no longer
young. The circulation in the muscies
I 8 also aided, and this, with the im
provement of appetitie, digestion and
assiintlation. increases vigor
Falrly brisk walking, in all kinds of
weather, alwayve keeping within the lim- |
Its of actual fatigue, preserves nwl
slasticity of the chest walls and lungs,
Insures an abundant supply of oxygen
wherewith waste products are burned
up, maintains the body heat at a proper
point, keeps the circulatory ur’lunu‘
bealthy, increases exchanges iu-!w.wn‘
the blood and the tissues, stiggulates the |
pones of the extremities in the marrow
of which much of our blood s manufac
tured, Increases rnmm‘, power of the
m‘y againat disease, and stimulates the
n centers
A reasonable amount of open-air ex
orcise throughout one's life ought to
tuoogo:no physically it for anything un
& after 0. This includes even
military service We, of course. are
"n'?l’mm. proper attention to general|
ne
oderate exercise diminishes blood
mun. which is due n;ogurt Lo the
ng up of the waste products which
ng.pnuum abnormally.
t succumb to the sedentary life
; that wonderful carburetor. the
i D heart, in pood working order
walking in the open air, dancing
] either outdoors or where the
' on s what it should be
: the lure of the dressing gown
re, the easy chalr. the warm
, too good dinner, the narcosgis
¥y Smoking and the wine when |t |
AV T TN~ PN P T o o T TLo e A A T T - DAY T
AHHR G R OIRGIEAN- S P 4 ANGAZ DB EPAGR S,
A VAL AL I LU U lO\ Ui =AY oY) S AV UNLAa LAN LA ILA AT YL
manner any better than you do, But
you told me to put up with anything
from her so that she would stay until
afer you had finished that painting for
which she was posing. There {8 no
surer way of making her angry than to
try to ‘tone her down,’ as you express.
it. Bhe is positively irrepressible, and
to do the girl justice, I belleve It (s not
freshness, Lut Ignorance and high
spirits, "
I suppose no man Mkes to be put
In the wrong, and Dicky is a perfectly
normal man 8o I was not surprised
when he took refuge in a shaft of irony.
“Really, this lecture is extraordina
rily Interesting. If there is any more
coming you ought to charge a fee.”
I thanked my stars for Katy's en
trance at that moment with the coffee.
I could not have trusted my voice to
answer Dicky, and Katie's presence of
course solved the difficulty,
As she served the coffee and nuts |
decided to avert all other possibilitics
f disagreement before the evning.
“l 1 am afrald you will have to excuse
me now,” 1 sald quietly after hastilv
irinking my coffee. I muat get those
sandwiches out of the way s eariv as
possible. Can I do anything for vou”
You might as well have a comfortabic
time with your papers before Katie has
to olear up the living rom."”
Happlily, Dicky did not guess my real
reason for wishing to be rid of him. He
yawned contentedly.
“Nothing to do for me, only to cut up
that cheesse Katle bought last night
into small pleces. Then when you get
your table fixed up, I'll come out and
put all the things for the rarebit on my
end of the table. I understand they
don’t rarebit in our most recherche cir
cles any more; the poor things have
degenerated into being served on the
stage as typifying our middle class en
tertainments, but I've never gotten over
my Hking for them, while Lil and Les
ter are perfect flends. Harry rather
looks askance at them, isn't quite sure
he isn't being commonplace by indulg
ing, but he likes them just the same.”
He walked into the living room, and
1 turnedq to Katle.
“I'll help you clear the table, Katia,
and then you may bring me the sand
wich bread and all the things | asked
You (o xet last night. I'll make the
sandwiches right here. Bring me the
CAn-opener and a sharp knife. Then
yYou may do the dishes.'
The table was soon spread with the
things. I had opened two or three of
the cans and put the contents into
dishes when 1 heard the door bell ring.
Dicky went to the door, and | heard
Lillan Gale's high voice and her hus
band’'s deeper tones.
1 looked at the clock. It was only
half-past three in the afternoon Surely
they had not come to stay through the
evening at this time.
Continued In Tomorrow's Sunday
American,
Scientific.
Doctor—As for your trouble with your
husband, madam, 1 may tell you 1{ in
& scientific fact that mesat causes bad
temper. Mrs. Bloggs—~Oh, yes, I'vé no
r :.r:::«d"h.' It always does when It is
. Good Ni
THE CROSS LITTLE GIRL WHO
LOST HER SHADOW.
AMMA." sald Dotty ong sun-
M shiny day, “what's that old
black thing that's always fol
lowing me when I'm playing out in the
yard?"
“Why, my dear,” laughed mamma,
"it's a little shadow-girl, trying to play
with you.™
But Dotty didn't like the little shad
owy thing that always lay on the side
walk or the grass at her feet as she
romped through the yard,
“1 wish she'd go away and play with
some one else!" exclaimed Dotty cross
ly. "Bhe either stands right in fronmt
of me so | can't walk, or tags along
every place I go.”
“That's because she loves yvou better
than any one else,” lnughed mamma,
trying to get her little girl into & good
humor
“Well, if she does really and truly
love me, why does she mock every
time 1 do anything?' erfed Dotty. 1
wish she'd go away and never, never
come back. I don't like her,” and Dot
ty stamped her foot and the little
shadow girl stamped back at her
! Dotty began to cry and rubbed her
chubby fists into her eyes, and, dear
me, the little shadow girl rubbed her
eves, as well as shadow girle can rub
their shadow eyea, but she didn't ory
~at least, i she did Dotty couldn't
hear her,
“Go around to the ftront deor'’ ex
clalmed Dotty, and rhe ran around the
house, the Mttie shadow girl first back
of her, then at her side. But Dotty ran
o fast she slammed the front door be
fore the little shadow girl got her foot
on the step, and of course, she disap
peared. much to Dotty's delight
Mamma laughed and called Dotty In
to the house, but as she started for the
steps the lHttle shadow girl started out
right in front of her. Dotty tried to
step on the shadow girl's toes, but
the shadow girl was careful enough to
run just a wee bit too far in front of
Dotty, and the faster Dotty ran the
faster the little shadow girl went. This
made Dotty very angry and she stamp
od her foot again and aguin, while
the shadow girl mocked her
“I'm not going to play with you™
oried Dotty crossly, “so get out of my
way! I'm going into the house ‘and
mamma doesn’'t want you in there ™
Bhe tried to run around the MNitle shad 1
ow girl, but the little shadow girl
wouldn’t let her, l
“Well, If you won't let me by, I'll just
go around to the front door!” exciaim
}od Dotty, and she ran around the house,
the littie shadow girl first back of her
then at her side. But Dotty ran so fast
she slammed the front door before the
Httle shadow girl got her foot on the |
step, and of course, she mui*l"-wm,!
much to Dotty's delight I
That afternoon and for three long
Seats of the Haughty, a Complete Fiction Story, Will Be Found in Next Sunday’s American.
““In the Spring a Young Man’s Fancy’
s M R ey
i OCJ 3 “"’\"f.— - ~t - -
ST LT
S SRS G B B s
- ;V / ;m ‘,r‘% hir .'ff~ :’,’,"‘ e 2 0% ’)? i ® deoe
\‘/ L < J. gu{;’ ;j(v. (2 :._{‘-, KY',/;',-’!»';':.{‘ r";‘i" ’»';6 (‘)0 ; e gv'-,
Sy 7 > LNPED : (’_ R : - Y
w};—:l; T 25 - R 33 ,«@—v———’o it i
%3 =ol RO @RI T 8 OV RO R TN Y : 2
e 2.5 N Wb osy O eMR sy e s&7 N o e e
e P 0D © STO At nge e gt e D Wi e kS e S R
s mi. e R\ OoAS° Dh eol e ) g par %
o )odTV VK & b .‘4\{;()@ P : A o - L 9sL ot
e W\E"OO Teosas s IS Te TR
. 4 gfiflf“’y Sf ol fa R t ';‘l; Ro{
. -»L PR ‘:3 | ’ .'»: R 7eog e :o—‘ ,“u'“,‘ i “;1) ‘ % { :*. .
O o .f B 2 r’v'f\ ; 3\} 3363’-3’3 D@ é 7} & fi“‘%’}%é T —"@# i s\ ¥ s
. Wo TR E\ -PR o \ . %TA |MR . -}’
S MR s oSI RI, B 9 N O e e 5/’;43- . & B
T . ':_.‘t"v-_ GIERY .PR S OV 7 b[ X - (23]
o ! )4“';:\ L 4,“!;‘ ) 'ij I) }{\fi " X t;t“\) e S : "A!" Ve iy ‘P 7 o‘;‘c '} )"‘k@
¥ £Py L 3/ a doa N R;% e A >& 1 4 & A/ q 74 2N , o
Lo ,r)> 9‘ /\ _’l‘{“,::;’_ j% :"f?",‘ ‘:\.\’ "’?3' S’ \l.’i’ P g ’7;l/ (& / 7 A : i ‘.“\ _q;’j
-ylg <1 U S A R Hn O a ) d 4 A N / l \
(‘l"’ "? ". #N " v (:wa o ,‘;"": ,’j"'i A = ’.‘97;}‘ ’ . ‘(} _& - ‘\ oGi 3 e . ; !fi“*(»'l" "i“(’v,",»}' i .’J 4I ‘
sl ARG N[T<. 0 T N A Pl SRR A
‘g PNITPR SN e (AN o[/ Y i ’ ol MY 7 » )
B R ‘\"‘ A\ AR Egion o 0 /) FaPg QW ; . - ‘ . S k@
O[y '-'f‘fij'?f"fiy—i}%%’ A DG 5 % s 8 |.t g | p.¥
A 2 .-éj ‘\»t “"“‘; ‘(fi‘a}:" " -3/ "\‘a\,é b\'}f\i"c < A’/ \ 7S ‘Z? 0 | o NER 3 P—. . ‘ { 3
1 e STy ,"'fi., SN AL ) 00l oL ol 2 2 A eT = £ PR :
SRRt >i{ LW\ (R . il fgeek IPI D ¥ .
Py ,',,/,/,‘ OByIySS%| .\X“j P 028 L &_, el @\\t_.\‘*“w\ufi@{”“, “\ o
WA R STt D M ‘ =BT (P S s SN, [o < g % r'f:"’fik{’afifi-:s“fifi iy | B
PP Al R ]TS o o Y N R SN \
f4‘ #' &f} S/ 1“{?. “& . \{'9 !: LR¥ > 'Qj. Yo // 3 : f)(\/ ‘ ; a -2 H@ y (‘I.L/},'/ (7Y 1w o m 'A.J‘e"/f’\':)"'w"’i‘. vy "/‘s’2" ; .
Yk 7 TIET sdl Ay oAY TR D - BgBE NV b A p s 8 I/ b AAN
.fILD RN J':,;'/)} ~/,v;‘ ;‘, -.A.»fi“"fl%\ x’ (g; o:v 7( T (,v\ ‘%// 4V' // é-’)fr‘{:’fx}\“‘ = 2 e
B|A O T o ‘.’,l\'--"% SR € oA e v JRO 2 petlh /> I\ AN\ it o
IR S\ & 7 ARV §N Yo 3k) PR .. N2y 42= =B 8 -
VLo BNI e 'a\\ii;‘?’"%@ Y 75 e TN I AW\ T.. A
;| ONOr WuiilEA R\ WA 240 A : Y NS TRg NS S et
SR A% ,fgg’;’, ARG =NANTE 830 05, A ol AR =
" O[ A P=SR A A 7T R G s S S]] e = ‘ =
I gt ike s(8 e T v B 0/) N B BT ES
LFY | VY2 NG ",‘g‘l\l,‘}:‘%‘\!‘{" SEOL. F 4 \ e %"7 A% X 9// L 5 G ! pE=
v, ty LAy &9 \ »/;>‘ Y ¥y -l},:\-‘\; &17 TRy 44 ;o8 X P A d "‘w‘ R ,‘A‘&"‘;.‘ & ‘l/77 /,./,/// At Mo, ; ,:’l o .;“',,fi gy v';\\‘f"(:
v D D(: Ay e - ‘,‘" eY2.7 &(3 _‘Q, y" $ 5 bB3 T # SY I LA TANSY /f’% L o=
s\/ 4@ . a,)ji/ NoyA A 4 v A‘ha,“"s { ey ¢ \ Mot “J”J- "l A A% l/ (-,4‘"" O\ —Y, £
\LI T AAR XA v 7 L :,'}l'?'.y - f TRV RL v f. e </ \\\" \ S eol 2
B\ ABN L AUIAPSODF .AR ki 1 % L/, NAN =3
(\Q 17 RW)YRAw7 Nk W v TRt ¥PUK i\ =’
" //f’l o ""’ YR RL X\ gAR )\ IR, SA\ / Vi, &
. v / <o) “:-. g kg% 3, x : 5 P Il bi N R% % e 3 »\: \W 7 € 3
‘?‘ZJ C2"D g» - ,é,v,» ,}/ »iN7 }* T A LORNRIE A:’" f‘ ]:) /o R Zit A ;'_\ S T = P
NIV yBT Ne M 5 L A%,Bik"L ieY 2] 4
\ (/) ¥/ /.Y £ St N" Vo 2 oeTb RV 7 23, fi%‘ Nt T)R T= — = A
W/ g/ V- Tl AN S } ’)l’i"\ % ' AP A= N yf“f"f RN TN ,
\\\‘ 1 S ; F)( e _‘,‘.’. 7 //'l & 7P g \.h /i\:{ \sY‘\% A|e W \
\’\ g L‘:/ ;\‘ 21 O( % '&-%, o& :j »’/ »<. N 2 p '\i\ \ :;‘ /,;-1-\ RX\3 &e A r '(, :\\»\j’ 4 w ; 6
TR MR .AY NVB g ' g . i, BN IR W ROV IS X T Wi M %
/‘} .} . J,.._n;-_,‘_ b Sake ) ' oe » € ocd” L 3 S & ‘_": &v" b y ,;"’}))’”“‘1”1 }/ ; ‘,jt;:‘-—jfi\\f:fi
'_\‘ -> i, l.‘-‘ %%)/Ni rL A ¥ ,K"’““ .1.4" . - aea eot > J v,vr"“"i. .3>{ 1M /i ‘,;;,VV v »é/ ~I{L” 3 £ s
AU } 3 eN J/ ~;}’ ! ._.«{f A ' 5 ; @/j ;.,"v \ : ufr’“« "*\u-:\f-i:"ff’:;»z;...\(rf‘ 5 s
\L«"E oo (I\ 1 g 2 ~es o/ &) 2 8.3; - ' 4 loINLS e 0" ger—— ' p
™TI (e SS S NLS eo A v & ot P L sgl Mo
4} = A W ea y et ¥:" A : ’o~ A . 3 g :
A ,}“s}l»'( AT 3’15&’72,4‘:;‘ 3 Esrs 3D oS it .V - »'fi Xs = 3
/ ‘.t}‘h“" X ;/» o Xe e g .Ay y ‘a" . . > k\. TR / : .
. K <& N "%?}4-{&/,3 g.y D é%::)' L&:if?:,?} ML e 5 (/\H“ \) ; ‘ ; ','-,, ]
sVs -.t i= Loy ¥ > %gk et . - E )
edSSR W 67 N T A 410 W
Nt )WsWA e(e f.;g ON o R s CA )
-sg™g‘<onß .7 \; gj e ,(v,",- - P» —— . %F " i 2
Y.&b £\% ¢ -1 v . :/"4" - * Etv "?\u;,f“r‘g‘:‘ ‘,"q"“ ‘ 1/:11" j,"" €T RS ‘il_\.') <X 5 ~"“LL oPo ," ; 'f
eSS Vo 3 95 Kk pPavee N 7.0 55 b C- U PRS2 e, WASs (R - !
———«——-——Ké\k;‘_‘\ . &&&{lj STI X Y7o ij e :316 (3‘3')/,, __lJi’vj g “,‘; S = Loy v[ W= 7«“‘ ’,v 4
T—— d = LOea Ie L PG Foit TAR T 3 Koy
30 e e T—— S—— ; > e . > & J)‘_‘-’/U: vj <% b “:«“:‘.1&:" Ui {
S P R . = s A
T R R IR R TI I I I IR REmEßnm—_hh,—
ht Stories |
n
t Stories |
§
AR A A A
days Dotty looked in vain for the little
shadow girl. She was very, very lone
some Even a little shadow girl who
mocks everything vou do is better than
no playmate at all, and at the end of
the third day Dotty took her troubles
to mamma .
“Won't she ever come back? she
asked “I'm sorry 1 was cross and
ugly with her™
Then mamma laughed and told her
‘lml.. girl Just wnat the little shadow
girl was
"“She's only a little shadow of your
T ——————————————————
S
AR e L
v TSN
- % -
AT
B
& § -'*l
&';& A
— M
& |
\
\
1 |
(Facnnw Gavv o’ "N o |
\
Dotty Tried to Run Away, J
’s-- If that falls on the ground in front
of you when your back's to the su
land behind you when you're facing the
sun SAld mamma “Bhe's your litt ‘
| shadow melf and can only do e thing
she sees you dolug She'll be bate
Imorrow (f the sun shines But let this
be & lesso Vi \ If you w ‘
have friends. eve vdow efends, v
must trea m kindly and never ‘be |
t We f she eve ACK ARan :
lnughed Dott 'l be good to !} Mor |
'a shadow il s better to play witt |
than no ohe Al & '
) she nex ) ning the s was shin !
ing brightls the first thing Dotty
did was 1 in out inte he vard to |
;. eet her ¢ shadow gir! friend .’
| ONE IN A CROWD.
. Theaph “ nd ClaMasn had quarreled |
| bitterly, and r oA ont t A word
P i bt ! her th '
Wi . hir » e photoge :
KAy . ! R
| ¥ suct Y A " . . g
' rt with " v
' ™ t At t ) . :
regt
nable ¥
’ N ey or : « '
. w . ) )
' v‘ ! '. et . rest me by i i
I AL MY eXpense !
, Old Granny? *‘
Jei
i i
By Dr. Wm. A McKeever.
One of the Nation's Best Known So
ciological Writers.,
HILDLESS married couples are
always ‘n danger of becoming
old grannies, 1 often find them
taking life too easy. Things about
their place are too fixed and un
changeable, reminding one of fine pic
tures or wax figures. The household
is always spic and span and to them a
speck of dust or a stray raveling is
“just horrible.” They sometimes
groom themselves and their things so
much that it hurts you to observe
their misery when things are out of
order
So, I say that such people are in
danger of becoming “old grannies.’”
They have not enough to love outside
themselves, and not enough to sacri
fice for. When 1 call at their place 1
always wish a bunch of little tots
might come trooping in and scratch
their furniture "and scatter things
about their floor,
What an ugly place a home is with
no children in it. How barren and
hollow its echoes. I peep in and
out from one apartment to another,
half expecting to hear a waking in
fant break into a ¢ry or to see a hup
py 2-year-old rush forward with out.
stretched arms. Then if something of
this Kind does not happen | sometimes
feel that the place is haunted, filled
with ghosts of the boys and girls who
ought to be there,
Have you seen the proud face of a
mother watching her 18-vear-old
groon: himself long and carefully for
the party? Have you seen a happy
father teasing his 12-vear-old and
toving with her streaming locks while
she was making a big pan of fudge
aover the kitehen fire?
Have you seen these two playing
bed- time hide-and-seek with their
3-yeur-old und S.year-old?! Have you
seen A 6.weeks Infant cuddling up
close to [tx mother's bhreast and nues
ing its way off into quiet baby
dreaminnd?
“Well, what of 1t? you ask. Now,
all thig ought to take the “old gran
ny" out of your system and make
your heart ache for some children to
come and live in your home Why
not get a 4 baby and have It for your
Very own If one should not come to
you, then buy one, horrow one or bheg
one, The country is full of homeless
babjes that would exactly fit into
y¥our babyless home. Bring these two
affinitjes together.
Children not only keep the house
hoid young, they keep the world
voung Without them life would soon
become o stale fixed routine, and we
would all fall inte » set of “old gran
ny " habits of thinking and belleving. '
But thunk goodness for the vhu-}
dren to come in and scratch the fur
niture, to throw things about th
floor, to yell and shake up our stify
ening nerves, to jerk us out of the
stale rute to keep us from ail becom. |,
ing “old grannies”
‘ PRING, the dryad, has burst through the rough bark of the for-
S est-tree—~deep in the wood-lands—pulled the green and brown
moss from her pink body, flicking her finger-tips daintily,
wreathed herself in the cherry-blow pink and young-grass green
that spreads in fragile chiffon up hill and down dale, wound her hair
and wrists and ankles in tiny sweet flowers of watchet-blue, gath
€red her arms full, and stepped out! Her eyes are still veiled with
the mist of sleep—dewy, sky-blue, star-bright.
Her body is slim as a pussy.willow wand and her feet as.pale®
a 8 daisies. And the unrest she's steeped the world in the ‘minute
she’s out! Love—of course. Who doesn't know that? So that the
man who sees her rosy shadow and remembers he hasn't .vi:,‘/ girl
knows exquisite pain! Just to ong side of his breast-bone. So that
the man who is far away from his, because of the value there is in
money and the job that gets it for him, far, where he ean not
touch her hand and feel e'\er fingers curl over his like the closing
petals of a flower, where he can not touch his lips to her hair, play
and laugh with her and provoke her darling laughter back to him;
where he can not hear the delicious, foolish things he smiles*at and
would not have her forget to tell him: “You are sweet—and Ido love
you!"—far—far—and it SPRING-TIME —dies of longing from dawn
to dark a thousand times each du_v.' She gives you fishing-fever,
too—and in your delirium you see a phantasmagf black, still, icy,
mountain water, its surface ringed with silver and broken with dia
monds, gemmed circlet on gemmed circlet, where the trout rise; and
you babble of whether “they like yellow or brown,” and of “a
beauty—hurry up!” and inches and pounds and "wet and dry flies”
and game ones! ’
If you are a smaller, poorer edition of the fisherman you will rave
off a pier-end and the port-hole-eyed flounder in the muddy river
water, She glves you house-cleaning fever, where the “rugs gotta
come up!"” and the family goes to bed night after night in what looks
like an interior caught in the war-zone; run-away fever—the worst
of all, 1 reckon, and the man ducks his duty, the girl reads “Aucas
sin and Nicolette,” nund takes to the woods with her dog: the mother
goes to a movie when she ought to finish her ironing, the small boy
vields to the drowsy, siren song of the yellow and black lover-bee
at the school-room window and “hookies.” the girl who talked sensi
bly about “we must wait, dear, until you make more money and not
be foolish.” suddenly says “yes” to the man she loves, and they turn
the corner to the Little Church and don't care at all about sense;
that run-away fever i{s the worst—and one other--that May-time
spteads. The one other is, poetry--the irresistible, the terrible, the
enheanting. the overpowering, the intriguing urge to rhyme about
spring!
“In the spring a young man's fancy"-—turns to making verse
on spring. There is a small boy-—we-e-11, not so small, for he
knows a lot more about the world than you or I do—stars and fishes
and tides and the maon, fossils and flowers and finance ard where
yYou can buy butter the cheapest, and “they're the most honest!™ And
he has long legs and is beginning to try to make his hair e back
“sliek” off a shore-line of lily-white forehead-~like an aviator, and
he watehes the robing and the orioles, and sniffs the sweet-fragrance
of the white lilac, and kneels on the brown earth planting his own
particular garden, with his tongue tucked in his cheek—radishes,
romaine, beans that climb like “Jack's bean-stalk” did, almost to
heavel and through-—and poppies and pansies—a garden for, tummies
and hearts—and he thinks a great many things that 1 like to hear
about, and loves a greaut many things that are good for a small boy
to love. Some folks say he's goin'to be a mwyer; do lawyers plant
I\OJ‘N“ and pansies with their vegetables when they are little boys?
I do not know,
But he's seen the dryad springé-heen watching for her with his
little brother's crossed enchanted glancés with her, and feit the urge
to rival Shakespeare ' And across my lawn, treading the green flood
with Bare. white feet. out of thelr juckets as soon as the white buds
are, he came and brought me this: »
“Spring! |
Oh, in May, ’
When all things are gay. * .
i Oh. in the spring.
When «ll the birds are on the wing,
When all the birds are miking their nests—
, That is the time of the ysar that's best.”
~-NELL BRINKLEY. «
Feels the Urge By NELL BRINKLEY ‘
to Po‘"[ry -’ i o l;:ivti‘:eh;':::“mn“ Feature g
War’s Effect on Women 5
BEATRICE FAIRFAX ON ANTI.SUFFRAGE
By Beatrice Fairfax.
HE war will make ten mlllion‘
women among the Allied nations
celibates, according to the calcu
lations of statisticians. And while sta
tistics are always being attacked on the
grounds of thelr unreliability, they may
at least be regarded as straws show
ing which way the wind blows.
Perhaps ten millon may be an ex- ‘
treme figure, but there is no denying
that the hopes of millions of girls, as
far as the big experiences of life-—-love
and motherhood—are concerned, lie bu
ried in No Man's Land.
Sheer overbalance of numbers must|
cause millions of women to reverse their |
normal impulses toward home-making
and mothorhw turn their ener-|
gies in the di M of the industrial |
or professional world. The war, about
which they were not consulted, has
eompletely changed their position in the
scheme of things; in the United States
alone, approximately twelve million
women work for their living. And the
Bureau of lLabor has urged them to
keep their jobs, proving beyond the
powers of rhetoric that they have made
good.
In the next presidential election 12,.
500,000 women, representing 27 States, |
will be entitled to cast their votes for :
President, while the Influence of women
in the party conventions may well be|
the determining factor in the cnoice of |
party candld’(en.
Yet in the’ face of these figures we .
have earnest antisuffrage ladies ana
r ntlemen frantically playving cards and
fi:mklnx tea for the benefit of “The As«|
sociation ()pnoned to Woman Suffrage."”
Alack and alas! Think of the waste of |
energy, not o mention the waste of
tea! For tida! wave after tidal ware 1
of the cup thal cheers and mountain
range after mountain range of cards|
can not prevail agains: the influence of
women in the next election, or in thel
world, for that matter
And speaking of antisuffrage socletiecs
bring to mind other “lost cause’ asso.|
ciations. In England there still exists|
“The Wshite Rose League,” the object|!
of which is to restore the Stuart dy.
nasty in England, And up to the be
(mnfna of the war at least members of |
the league were In the habit of heaping |
white roses at the hase of the Charles !
I, statue I\9l Whitehall
In republican France today there are|
several Roxulgzu‘lovmlu. one of which |
.u%t e naparte claims, the oth. |/
ert urhon and a third those of the|
Duke of Orleans. ‘
Professional “Weak Women." ?
' 8o we m:x expect quite a bit of tea
drinking and card ?‘h.\‘ml on the part |
of professional “weak women,” whao, de.|
eiming to do their own thinking, ob.|
Ject to other women exercising that|
right.
%m there & N 0 woman earning her|
own lawn’l wm' can afford to let some |
one else think for her these davs. Shel!
owes It so herself to know all about|,
what is known as “the woman ques-|
tion.”" It has to do with her ?u' envel- |
ope, her hours of work, her holidayvs andg!
the sanitary condition under which her|
work is done. Buch important questions |
as the minimum wage, child lnbor, the |
inereased cost of living, old age pen-|
sions and teachers' inadequate salaties, ||
W.,
: e S ———
Bomooare 0§ T S YSRN
L veria 1 ‘ o ¥ i
, i . :
s je T
i i i Y 1 i
{iss T : ‘./ 5 ”‘}' !
!f ell| Wi A N |
(e mnistion Snd. ot G AL\
are direclly concerned with votes for
women, . 3
There 1s absolutely no excuse for any
self-supporting woman being ,
formed on these subjects, it she d
not marry, and it is highly, pro :
considering the overbalance of the 3 N
due to war that she may not marry—
her whole future happiness, peac and
prosperity are bound up in ~
question. This is certainly no th oto
farm out your thinkin AT
All the antisuffra ists 1 have k
" g o
have been rich w ; :,(a PN
labor. T have. Of such -1
as self-suppor women who aré ant ’w'l
suffraglsts, but I am free to confe 8 K
‘have never met one. I have kno 1
wage earners to plead ignorance of “the %
cause,” or, in a few Instances, to claim *3
‘they were not vitally interested, but I -
have never known, personally, any
working woman actually opposed to suf
frage,
| Opposed to PM?m ne
~ And if some of them do happen to
‘be opened to suffrage it would not
mean any more than did the petition of
ten thousand negro slaves signed dur
ing “the Civil War and pleading that
freedom be withheld from them, Or the
petition of East Indian women to th¥
British Government begging that Suttee
be not abolished,
The war with the consequent sweeps
Ing ehanges it' has made in the Poumon
of women, forces every consclentious
woman to think seriously of her position
in the world today, and any woman too
indolent to think these days is a dis
tinet menace to the country, Respon
sibilities are pulnf un at her door, re
ukunnlmmhn that she can “8 longer
&hist to some one else's shoulders.
And If the war has really ml:en some
of the poor, spineless, purpose! am
bitionless female molluses and shaken
them into a semblance of energetic, offi
clent womanhood it will have done
-nmnhmav. at _least, to atone for its
world -wide ltlfffl'inT
One of the most vital questions to be
considered is that of child labor, (hed.e
tainted money we acquire through ex
rlmmlnu !huufi little ones will he treb
¥ expended later in rmterinfi the
wreck .of them to survive in Insane
asylums, homes for the feeble-minded
and tubercular, And what about the
absurd salaries we have been paying
teachers® Weo entrust the care of fu
ture citizens to these women, demand
much of them in the way of culture
and then deny them ? living wage?
What about the {necreased cost of
living, and the vanishing power of the
once almighty dollar? Jh&ubom food
lost by lack of railronds? ‘you know
that ‘hundreds of tons of vegetables
rot on the ground within ten miles of
the nation's capital bennu:nth. roads
dre 80 bad they can not be hauled
with\vrnflc?
It has heen said of us that our chief
vice a® a gex I 8 mental indolence, we
adore mental ease, and it requires
hernl:. eml\m to make a :om?\ read
AnVihing in a 4 news per but the wso
clety news and the pv‘!‘-nh eolumn, It
thie be true, please let ug mend our
ways, and take normal m“"gw in_the
questions of the day, e Turkish o,
women have discarded thelr,veils, and
are studving politios ‘according to the
Intest from (fom-mnunonw Lot us at
least keep pace with the hdyfll‘url;!-