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mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm IV JT "Tl- V -f - 1 ing! And her children! Eight of them! "So you are going to write what you have learned for other women young women to whom the pitfalls of matrimony yawn-wide Z. the brides of June?" - As I asked this Madame Schu-mann-Heink clasped her nervous hands the slender-fingered hands of the artist and woman of tempera ment over her heart. She herself is all heart the won derful heart of the woman who has loved and suffered who has asked for bread and has been given a stone, and yet remains a woman who is still in love with living who has tasted and found all of life good. It did not take me as long to come to the foregoing conclusion as it has to write it, and immediately I found myself listening to a speaking voice, vibrant with sympathy. Do you suppose I can help them really help them these dear girls who are going to take up the respon sibilities of wedlock this spring?" Madame Schumann-Heink is one of those very rare women who can and has made goodness interesting. She is intensely religious, a splendid mother and a wonderful singer. She has lived the feminine life to Vie fullest; she has known joy and grief overwhelming. She has the naivete of the great artist, and when I asked her the question in my open ing paragraphs she immediately graspeti its wide significance. "Will the young women of today go back to first principles?" she ask ed. "Will they listen to the old-fashioned homilies that were taught me 6y my mother and which I have prov ed true "Will they understand that, while carriage with children may prove a tragedy, without children marriage is always a tragedy to women. "Will they know that I am telling the truth when I say that the pres ent unrest in marriage is as much the fault of the women as of the man? , "Will they be angry if I say thaH the average young girl has no right to marry unless she is prepared to make a successful wife?" I answered: "Madame, if you can write of these things as you have told them to me you will do much to pro mote those happy marriages which are the nation's hope." (Watch for Madame Schumann Heink's First Article Tomorrow.) - o o TO YHE BANDBOX WITH YOUR WINTER HAT A prophet of styles who has taken a long look ahead foresees the doom of the felt summer hat, and he like wise predicts the early passing of the summer furs. "The felt hat and the felt-hats faced with velvet are the hats of the hour," declares this prognosticator, "but wait until midsummer suns shine and the Panama and the lace hat and the droopy picture hat of milan will come into their own, for if women like to be fashionable they also like to be comfortable, and the felt and velvet hats will be far from comfortable in the dog days. Although white fox scarfs and stoles of marabou are still popular it's predicted that they will soon make way for the filmy ruffs of maline or tulle but neck "fixings" of some kind will be worn throughout the sea son, so the fashion seers say. o o PSYCHOLOGICAL BALM Our idea of an optimist is fhe un lucky poker player who consoles him self at 4 a. m. with the thought that money doesn't bring happiness, any how. Washington Post General council of women's clubs, at Portland, squelched a proposition that each member deny herself one ' pair of silk stockings to establish a fund for aesthetic work. That's con sistent There isn't anything more aesthetic than a silk stocking, we'vo been told. m , ..y.yKiSs;'---