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THE CONFESSIONS QF A WIFE MONEY NECESSARY TO HAPPINESS Chapter CXXXIX. (Copyright, 1914, by the Newspaper '$ Enterprise Association.) -It is no wonder that we have come to regard money as the absolute necessity of happiness. Some people may tell you that it will not buy any of the. REAL things of life. They say it cannot buy love nor health that virtue, honesty and self-respect are not dependent on having dollars and cents. This has always seemed to me to be a kind of sop that the rich man throws to the poor. Money, they tell you, cannot save the life of your loved ones when the thumb of fate is pointed down. Grant ed. But there is no grief that money will not soften. Physical discomfort but sharpens the pangs of a breaking heart and adds another misery to the grief stricken mindr I have never known a jqy that could nofebeheightened by thVuse of money; a misery or physical ill that could not be ameliorated; a mistake that could not be easier reptified; a grief that could not be made less hard if one were possessed of monej. How could-Harry Symone have kept from the w'prld the tragedy lis curiosity and lust brought about if he had not had unlimited money? Without money "Eliene would have been unable to adopt those children, who probably would have walked along the rpad of neglect to crime and oblivion. With money Aunt Mary will be able to help that poor little bride of Jack's to bearher pangs of childbirth and also give, to herself an incentive for living after :she had thought she had lost it forever. But If it does all this good, its ca pacity for evil is just, as great P.er Thaps "without it Harry Symone -would never have done wrong to the girl who. died and the woman he married. There seems ta be no vice, no sin, no folly in which money does not prove the biggest tempter. "When Dick came home last night he fortunately began talking about that five thousand dollars that Uncle John gave us. "Have you said anything to Aunt Mary about it, Margie?" he asked "Yes, and she said it was ours to dispose of as we pleased." "That's fine. Ill turn over twenty-five hundred dollars to father to morrow." "Say, Dick," I began somewhat timidly, "don't you think it would be a good plan to give that money to Jack and let him put it in father's business? It. would give him a kind of independence and a right to some say in the firm. I am a great believer in youth, and so are you. Father Waverly is not an old man, but a sick man; his judgment may be warped by in health, and his business methods may be old-fashioned." "I had not intended to GIVE the money to anyone, Margie. I was go ing to lend it to Dad at six per cent interest. -I am afraid you would not make a very good business woman, after all." I confess I was somewhat disap pointed in Dick's ideas. The money was GIVEN to us and why should we not GIVE it to -his father or brother when we did not really need it? Dick seemed to think fayorably to my idea of letting Jack have the money instead of his father, but he said: "I hope Jack won't get tied up with that little chorus girl I felt very guilty when I answered: "She is a lovely girl, Dick, and Jack might go farther and fare worse." (To Be Continued Tomorrow;) o o Get a few large knobs of chalk and lay them at the back and sides of 'a fire. They tsUI burn as red as coal, give av lovely heat and save the coal,