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PAGE EIGHT THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, NOV. 22, 1913 Married Life the Second Year BY MABEL HERBERT URNER. Monday, Oct. 23. ear Mother: You write that my last letters have brPii merely notes about Winifred and the apartment, and that it has been months since I have written anything about Warren or myself. And you fear things are drifting back to where they were before I came home to you last spring. That is true. I have not told you be cause it could do no good. But it seems to rne that every day we are growing farther and farther apart. For a few months after he brought me back he tried to be gentle and considerate. But gradually he returned to his old hab its of coldness and irritation. It has been days since he has given mo a voluntary caress, and he only tolerates mine. Sometimes I wonder if he loves me at all. But there is no one eJse of that I am sure! Always I hug that thought and try to comfort myself with it. If she does not love me, at least it is not because he loves any one else. He is Absolutely true to me and I believe he 'always will be. When I think of how many hus band are affectionate to their wives, and yet unfaithful to them I wonder whtcTfa is the better way. I wonder If those wives would not gladly change with me. if they would not prefer the sloyabty of their husbands to any pro testations of love. I suppose it is Wacren's nature to be cold, just as it is mine to be affection ate. And I am trying to become recon ciled to that. But his irritability Is ! very hard to bear. It seems to me that I spend most of my ttm trying to ap- pease him to keep him from being 'annoyed at some trivial thing or from beang angry with me. It is a pitiful commentary on Mar ifed Ltfe that a wife must be con stantly straining to keep her husband to good humor and yet that is what itJ baa come to. Mother, sometimes T wonder if we have reached this stage in two yearsj what it will be in Are or ten.? Do you, suppose the time will come when we will not be together. Oh, I'm afraid of what the future may hold. If there was only something to look forward to, something which might happen, which would bring up nearer together! Before Winifred came I thought that would and it did for a while. For a few months we were very, very happy. But it did not last, and now if there should be another child it wocld be the same way. It might hring up to gether for a while, but I know h would soon drift back again. And then when I was so desperately ill at home this spring, and father had that long talk with Warren, I thought, that would help but you see it didn't last. That is the desperate part of it all. Even though something may hap pen which might bring him nearer for a time it would nto last. He would soon drift back to his coldness and ir ritability. I suppose some women have to make their children fill their lives. When they give up hoping for the af fection they want in their husbands, they try to satisfy themselves with their children's love. Perhaps in time I can do this, but I cannot now. I love t Winifred, but she does not fill my life. I want the love of my husband, and it seems to me nothing in the world will compensate for the WARREN RETURNS. There was a sudden sound in the hall. Helen looked up startled. Surely it could not be Warren. It was' not yet four! She ran to the door. Warren stood with his back to her, putting his gloves in the pocket of his overcoat, which he had just hung on the hall rack. "Why, Warren, has anything hap pened?" "Happened? Can't a man come home when he wants to without anything happening?" "Why, yes. of course, dear, but you never come home so early." "Well. I've got a ripping headache today, and I stood it down there at the office ,;Wiit. as long as I could." "Oh. dear, I'm so sorry! Can't I do some thing for it?" "Now, I don't want to be fussed over I just want to lie down and sleep if I can." "Don't you want me to fix the bed or would you rather lie down on the couch?" "Ill lie on the couch in the front room. Pull the shades down in there, and stuff something in that blamed tel ephone so it won't ring about the time ;I get to sleep." Helen darkened the front room, took the uncomfortable velvet sofa cushions off the couch, and put in their place a cool linen pillow from the bed room. Warren, who had gotten into his smoking jacket and slippers, now laid down and she covered him with a steamer rug. "Oh. I don't want that thing," throwing it off. "It's too hot and wooly." "Then I'll get something lighter." Love and Death By Nell Brinkley r,i 1 a- GIRLS! GIRLS! TRY IT. BEAUTIFY YOUR HAIR Make it Thick .Glossy,, Wavy, Luxuriant and Remove all Dandruff. Your hair becomes light, wavy, fluf fy, abundant and appears as soft, lus trous and beautiful as a young girl's after a "Danderine hair cleanse." Just try this moisten a cloth with a little Danderine and carefully draw it through your hair, taking' one small strand at a time. This will cleanse the hair of dust, dirt and excessive oil and in just a few moments you have doubled the beauty of your hair. besides beautifying the hair at once, Danderine dissolves every particle of dandruff: cleanses, purifies and invig orates the scalp, forever stopping itch ing and falling hair. But what will please you most will be after a few weeks' use when you will actually see new hair Ine and downy at first yes but really new haif growing all over the scalp. If you care for pretty, soft hair and lots of it surely get a 25 cent bottle of Knowlton's Danderine from any drug gist or toilet counter, and just try it. Adv. 1 t ' ' '-I--' v ;.t '1 .'..!' mvf K msmm ously diluted with whisky. And the result was the election of General Har rison and Captain Tyler In :.ik;ng the census, of the north half of the i-c-.:r.try 1 found much difficulty in olunr.'.ng I'roper answers to the statistical ques tions, growing out of Vh:s lies. In this ridiculous campaign church or aanization was a second r considera tion anil the can: a Kss. which to e of Christ this day (Ml T!ic sp;t .i recovei r of power, had asst zied position tha !h- people at the ai n a k reed t:pon t Mo--.-- ami timers wo-: coi'ip:r:tl- o! p;u I!:. The year IS 42 was suffered has not part of rival ed such a iren a Catherine of e time ar..i f'aiv a; a nice ting of ;I i ha e bo, n a caThcrir.g. an oer,tti:l pe- no.l ustcrv an .a ,1 1 th. or" lancuace 1 wo.: fading volors the i broui;! tit to in lew paint hU-tns From use in never which it the days of tny box hood 1 had hear the wamiiit; xoice of an unseen teacher, a hand 'h.-it 1 could not see was continually I beckonmt me to xvalk in the paths of piety and in them wou'd 1 f.rtd safet Heine naturalix of a litl temper and often drawn into the companx of the wi.ked and the atn amusements of the world, xer tli unseen hand xxas, true to its past beckoning me to leave such simple associates and become a disciple of the Prince of Peace Although 1 often traveled in torbid den paths and did dispite to the spirit of Grace. et in the calm seasons of reflection, in the still watches of the nicht 1 felt constrained to sax. "this force must be changed, it will never never professed to seek after, bpt : know him in the forgiveness of thr ! sins, xv ho. in short, done no good, but ! xTho have not been found guilty of j base and damning crimes, but I soon tfound that Cais rest was not the ret theaposT'.es spoke of He saidi "Wo ;iiaie an a.'.xiH'a'e with the Father. ; Jesus Christ the righteous." and h : s-aid "H e ho pa , Trotr. death t i "" Which would not hax e been r.eces , sary h.u! a set-ni Triors! life only been ueesary to obtain that r t ' From the xears To V lixed I under i chm th crganiation. My seat in the meeting house xxas xacant i an.i wh,n I was mthitx admonished of nix di:t. us the bead of a rising ram . il. 1 nenev.-.'.ly ma,;, nix defense by pontine at the .'.irtx spots in the char acter o some ineinb, r of ihe church. Son i t ii:;g like the l'!.,insee. reiou-ir.ff it 1 was I i t !; p.cr:cy No Churci Connection. 1 serious reTiec- do, to die so." These tions were often like letters written in the sand Sunshine and company , drove them from my heart j Read Infidel Writers. i Some twenty years aeo I read Mat- ! thews Tindal, Thomas Faine. Voltaire ', and X'olney ami since I hao read th er infidel writers, become skeptical, advocated the doctrine of universal salvation, sometimes ready to ac knowledge the truth as taught bx those very liberal believers and eared very little for universahsm and xxas reckless in regard to any faith or mode of worship. Rut xxith all my readings and xvit'i each desire to be relieved from the doctrine of endless and future punish ment 1 could never rest satisfied. There was always a warniiu: xoice. adnionih:ng me to return, repcru and live. The evidence that there is a res' for the people of God and a st:"'- of blank d spair for the ungodly, v. ; to my mind an undeniable truth, '"nder these coin -ctions the doctrines o'" Cni versalists and kindred sects were dis missed. In the next place I took up the doc trine of morality, filling Heaven with such who never committed abominable acts of xvickedness. making saints of those xvho never worshipped God. xxhr a t rocs cotupanv of asso- :'. was ft:!! of political nexx s and aiu o. lotos ai d. cotivdert.i myself, in the cn.'ox tr.eut of happiness, superior to the ;niet mopish throng that go to nit t ing gen tlx 'n m arrix.il at Noiandsfork where I now reside. I formed a determina tion to carry out my doctrine of mor al'ty I also came in contact with the Kpiscopal Methodists There was preaching, near at hand, ex erx two weeks, and occasionally 1 took a seat in their midst. loft en felt ihe force oi their arguments but turned their appeals off by a .-met apology, that at so!;!' moie coiivi nient season 1 xxould give them a more thorough examina tion Ob ected to Slavery. 1 hud. moreoxer. objections to their mode of v.oi ship, their exciting dis courses and mere than those, their toleration of xxar and slavery in th church. Although they haxe nearly c!t ..nod their skirts from slavery by the operation of the great cessation of y,-t the rights o self defense and a compliance xvith the laws of th lain!, r. ijuTing members of the church 'o march in armies and slay and kill, is not prohibited. I do not believe that ll.'itu n can be propitious to the manslaxer and that th" cause of pure and undetiled religion is much retard ed by the tebraMon of such unmiti gated XX ickodtie:-s Am imitation tthe famous Traxer tine marble, from xxbich the palaces of the Unman emperors xvere built, is be in c used to make the statuary and the coxering of the exhibit palaces at the Panama-Pacific International Kxposi ticn. The composition is a gypsum, rain proof and of unfading color: in tint it is a faint ivory yellow and is a smooth and hard as marble. Maybe it was the cold, wild wind that whistled outside and the dreary skipping of dry brown leaves that made the Cynic talk like this. But so he did and this is what ho said pushing back his hair that is growing as gray as the Winter-time soon xvill be: "I passed a couple of blissful and Wind lovers down the street under the cedars. She was in furs and as rosy a maid as any man might dream of. He was an upright chap in a bright Mack inaw, with dean, dark face, still wash ed with its Summer tan, topped by a soft green hat. And they never looked at the ground for bumps; and they never looked to right or left; and they never looked at the sky they just walked along like sleepwalkers feeling their way, looking into one another's faces. Their eyes and their lips were happy they seemed to have a lot of things to smile and blush over. I stop ped short and watched them. They never saw me. And" and I discovered an unconscious envious note in the Cynic's grumbling voice "and they seemed to be having an awfully good time. And it all made me think. Did you ever think how Love plays on the edge of a precipice? Flowers and grass bluer and greener than any n another place grow right up to the edge. Dress ed in their best she in her dancing chiffon, he In his evening clothes they blow bubbles into thin air my riads of rainbow bubbles called DREAMS. The sun falls on them and their bubbles, gleaming on her hair, lighting his eyes, striking fairy colors that never xvere real on sea or land from the bubbles that she blows for him from a golden boxvl so they amuse themselves like a pair of chil dren on the loveliest spot in the love liest fashion but on the EDGE. For Death looms smiling and patient, re luctant to smash their bubbles and stop their play but waiting. Have you e-er thought of that that Love plays on the edge of things and Death stands over them every hour?" j T smiled at the Cynic. "Of course I i have," quoth I. "Of course I have but j who cares? Death looms smiling for i YOU, too lonley man who forswears Love for fear of losing it. I would rath er when I slipped off the edge have had the grass and the flowers and the sunshine the bubbles of tender color called dreams the space of perfect youth and idle, blind play than not, my friend. Of course, I've thought of that but neither 1 nor the rosy girl in the furs, the chap in the Mackinaw, worry about that." "You're wrong." grumbled the Cynic. But he didn't tell how. NELL BRIXKLEY. She brought out a silken comforter and tucked it about him. "Oh, my dear, your face is so hot I'f afraid you're feverish. Don't you want me to put a cool cloth on your forehead?" "No, I don't," drawing away impati ently. " Itold you I just xvanted to sleep. And you see that none of those infernal bells wake me." "All right, dear I'll muffle the bells and we'll be very quiet." She went out, closing the door after her softly. "Mr. Curtis has come home xvith a very bad headache," going into the kitchen where Delia was ironing. "He's in he front room trying to sleep. Now be very careful if you go through the hall and don't make anv noise." ANOTHER LETTER. Taking some soft tissue paper. Hel en muffled both the telephones and the door bell. Then she xvent back to the kitchen to tell Delia not to put on the roast: that she would order a chicken and some asparagus, two things Warren was especially fond of. "And never mind about the dessert. Delia, I'll make that myself." When Helen went back into the sit ting room her unfinished letter lay on the desk before ?her. She took it up. reread it, then slowly tore it across. Then she tore it again and still again, until it lay in small strips before her. Then taking a fresh sheet or" paper she wrote: Monday. Oct. 23. Dear Mother I w as clad to get your letter this morning. You say I have xvritten the briefest notes of late, but that is because xve have been moving and I hax-e been so x-ery busy. If I write mostly about Winifred it is be cause I know- you are so much inter ested in her. But I xviil try to do bet ter after this and xvrito you loneer letters. I am glad to hear that Edith Stod dard is to marry George Clapp. You say his father has taken him into the store now. Well, that ought to have a steadying effect. I do hope he xvill make Edith a good husband. You write that Uncle Tolliver had bought the old Melvin place, but you do n ot say whether they are to move there or not. I'm afraid Aunt Lydia would never be satisfied out there. I have just finished a little linen dress for Winifred and have trimmed it xvith the crochet lace you sent me. I had enough for the skirt, neck and sleeves, but need just five inches more to go around the little yoke. But I'm going to crochet that myself, the pat tern looks very easy, and I think by revilling back a scallop I can get it. What thread did you use? It looks like forty, but I'm not sure. I have a new shirt waist pattern that I like very much. I have cut it off and am sending it to you. You will see it's very simple and it fits verv well. Warren has just come home with a bad headache and is lying down in the front room. I must stop now to make some wine jelly in time to have it xvell iced. Even if he does not want any dinner perhaps he will eat some of that. Love to Father and A tint Marx Winifred sends a kiss to all of you. Lovingly your daughter, Helen. Richmond of Today Contrasts Strongly With Town of 1806 4 Sketches Written by Pioneer AbsoIuteiyP&ii'e There is a remarkable interest in Home Baking and Cooking throughout the land. Q This is a most encouraging in dication that the battle against impure, improper food is going to be won. The credit for the victory will belong to the women of the country. Home cooking has the backing of science and the approval of fashion. It adds to housekeeping a pride; to our food,healthfulness. It is acknowledged by experts, and by the women who know, that the best cooking in the world to-day is with the aid of Royal Baking Powder. Remedy as Bad as the Disease. "On the seventh of February I con-' t meted a severe cold followed by a cough and final loss of voice. I tried ' many remedies, none of which did me any good. I then xvent to my family ; doctor and he swabbed Tny tnroat five j or six time" with some abominable : stuff. I think it was benencial. but ! the remedy was as bad as the dis- ! ease. At last the thought struck me' why not try Chamberlain's Cough '. Remedy. I did so, and this morning : my voice is fairly good and is gradu- i ally growing better." w rites H. C. Clay. publisher of The Reporter, ilapid City, j Manitoba. For sale by all dealers. ! -X i v t r T ". srmfP I 1 Editor's Note In the last ninety or one hundred years times have changed in many respects. Rabel rousing political gatherings are not as much in evidence as they were in past presidential elections. Mr. Hoover relates incidents connected with the presidentiaal campaign of 1840 when, he says, reason, argri ment and common sense yielded to hard cider and a state of drunken ness and demoralization. He says the Democrats looked on in am azement at the "torn foolery" of the 'VMiigs and tells of the election di" General Harrison and Captain Tyler. i that they xvould soon break themsel : ves down or break themselves up. Harrison Elected. The cry of hard cider had a power- ful influence, especially when plenti- LAXATIVE FOR OLD PEOPLE-'CASCARETS" Salts, Calomel, Pills, act on Bowels Like Pepper Acts in Nostrils. The Irish section of the Panama-Pa- : cine International Exposition has been allotted fifteen thousand square feet j and it is intended to have a represen- j tative exhibition of Irish linens, wool- j ens, 3;yes, silks, poplins, tapesries and i textiles generally. In the presidential campaign of 1S40 commenced a new era in politics. Rea son, argument and common sense yielded to log cabins and hard cider and a state of drunkenness and de moralization followed that be-gsars description. Male and female, young and old, priest and rowdy, rr.iaeied in one communion mass and the animal obtained a complete mastery over the man. These rabel rousing Catherines were kept alive from March until Novem ber and hundreds and thousands con sidered a journey of one hundred miles a trifle and the sens of "Tip pecanoe and Tykr Too," called for a turnout. When the Whig commenced this "torn foolery" the Democrats look ed on with amazement. It wa? to them a new scene in the play and they thought such an excitement to such an extreme could not be lasting and Gft a I'.'c box now. Most old people must give to the bowels some reenter help, else they suffer from constipation. The condi tion is pei teeth natural. It is just as natural as it for old people to walk slowly. For ace is nevr so actix-e as youth. The muscles ar los elastic. And the bow els are muscles So all eld people need Casrarets. One misht as xxell refuse to aid ak eyes xvith classes as to nsiect this gentle aid to wak boxv!s. The bowels must keep artive. This is important at a ! sues, but never so much as at fifty. ..: is rot a time for harsh paygjes. You"h may occasionally whip the low els ir." activity. Put a lash ci.'t t used every day. What the bowels of the old i a i-'entie and natural tonic. One Thar can be constantly used wiriiou' harm. The only such tonic is Cararets. and they cost only 1" cents tcr box at any drug store. They work while you sleep. Ad- 1 1 ! A Holland Warm Air Furnace ! "The Heart O oftheHome" 1 K-.-. f' -r i..int -r.al'.cr f ' T lias frw-r joint., sr j::cTs. is s:pr -r.'I e.i-:r It cpcrai; Thau an v elb-r r"':". 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