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How to Gauge Success
I The Very Rev. William Ralph Inge, dean of 3t.
Paul s Cathedral, In London, presented the other day
a new definition of success; and. since he insists that
| the amount of money one makes has nothing to do
I with success or lack of It, hit definition is worth
I studying a bit.
I "To be successful,” says Dean Inge, writing In the
I current North American Review, "is to have made r
I right use of our life; to ask what we have got by It is
I Irrelevant.”
I This, to be sure, is exactly what the sages of all
I times have been saying for many centuries; but !n r.n
1 age where one's bank balance and the price of one's
1 automobile are the gauges whereby one's achievements
I are measured, it comes like something new.
I To have made a right use of life—to have done, in
I other words, the one thing which one Is fitted to tfo,
I and to have done It to the very best of one’s ability—
I here, when you stop to think about it. Is a gauge that
I might upset some of our snap udgments.
I The politician, fitted by ability and temperament
£ to lead his less fortunate fellow-men on to n better
I and freer existence, who takes the easier way. rubor
I dinates his Ideals to his desire for re-election rnd
I finally winds up in the United States senate, r. pros
I perous. contented reactionary who serves a political
machine instead of the people as a whole—Is he r.
success or a bitter failure?
The writer whose talents fit him for the Important
task of giving mankind a genuine glimpse of the
rplendor and tragedy of the world. * but who roes
after the money Instead, writes a string of “best Tell
ers” and becomes famous and wealthy doing i hallow
! fluff for the popular magaxlne—has he succeeded yr
has he failed?
The Industrialist, who has a chance to give better
working and living conditions and greater freedom
to a whole mill-town full of underpaid workers but
who makes the piling up of dividends his sole con
cern. so that he dies a multimillionaire and leaves t.
bitter industrial problem for his successors to deal
with—has he "made n right use of his life?"
And—to reverse the picture—the lawyer, who could
have made millions In the service of wealthy clients,
but who chooses Instead to devote his life to lerving
the poor, the downtrodden and the unfortunate who
cannot pay for the legal services they need; the law
yer who does this throughout his life, and so dies poor
and without fame—do you call him a failure or *
success?
We are fond of saying that “money isn’t every
thing.” but few of us really believe it. In our hearts.
We measure our own success, and the success of oth
ers, by financial returns. Dean Inge's remark rives
us a new yardstick. It is worth keeping In mind.
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A Child's Confidence
As a parent you often wonder why your children
do not make a greater confidant of you
Often you are chagrined when some, of their ,
friends let slip a word that indicates your child has
been telling some of its secrets to this outsider.
Perhaps you forget that when you w’ere a child It
was those of your own age to whom you talked most
confidentially.
Isn't It quite natural?
You have secrets that would be Interesting to your
children and which if told to them might encourage
reciprocal confidences. You know that when you
want to discuss or tell something that is not gener
ally known you seek someone about ycur own age.
Tour children are not necessarily drifting sway
from you when they no longer tell you their secrets.
Of course, you have reason for alarm when they
fall to ask your advice and do not come to you with
important matters.
If you are chummy with the children they will
come to you.
But you can’t be the stem, forbidding, command
ing parent and also classed as a chum.
Th« Onac® Ov®ir
By H. I PHILLIPS
THE LOG OF THE RETURNING VACATIONIST
Labor Day, 5 p. m — Loading of flivver preparatory
to take-off for home is now under way. Proceedings
complicated by problem of how to get six people, a
dog, four suitcases, an outboard motor, a canoe, three
golf bags, a phonograph, two boxes of dishes and sev
eral baskets containing cooking utensils, electric flat
irons, etc., etc.. Into a car designed for four people
and an overnight bag. A delay seems probable.
5:30—Violent verbal storm raging over question
whether it is better to put mother, children and ilog
into car first and stow luggage around them or put
luggage in first and stow mother, children and ilog
around them. All hope of a hop-off by 6 p. m. now
abandoned.
5:45—Problem solved by decision to throw passen
gers and baggage into car simultaneously.
5:55—Mutiny aboard. Mother flatly refuses to
make entire trip holding Junior s outboard motor In
her lap.
5 p. m.—S. O. 8. Hop-off now seems likely any
moment. •
6:15—Flight delayed due to Junior's difficulty
tying canoe to top of car wit hold clothesline. Junior
proposes tying mother and the baby on top of rar r.nd
stowing canoe inside where it will be rafe.
6:20—Hop-off now being attempted.
6:25—Hop-off held up. Mother suddenly an
nounces she forgot to pack father's blue business suit.
6:30—Blue cult, vacuum-cleaner and box-lunch
now aboard okay. Everything ready. We have taken
off for home at last.
6:45—Homeward flight of the vacation flivver
•Graf-Painintheneck" interrupted. Father recalls he
left his keys on cottage table. Return necessary.
7:15—Flight under way again with everybody very
rour. Looks like a rough trip.
7:80—Disaster now threatening ship. Sudden shift
of cargo buries back-seat passengers. Mother, two
«*irls and dog caught under fishing-box. suitcases,
phonograph, loose kitchen equipment and golf bags.
Baby’s eye cut Much hysteria. Doubt !f we can con
tinue.
8 p. m —Cargo righted. Passengers nearly righted.
Proceeding under half speed in very heavy traffic.
Father is feeling the strain.
8:30—Flight halted by complete traffic tie-up as
far as eye can see. Making about 50 yards per hour
through heavy gas clouds. Driver behind insists upon
keeping thumb on musical hom. Father wants to
know which bag his revolver is in. Trouble is feared.
8:45—Have gained a block and a half. Junior’s
canoe slide* off top of car and drops across radiator
of limousine behind. Great excitement. Owner rf
limousine wants Junior to pay for paint scraped off I
auto. Junior wants man to pay for paint scraped off
canoe. Father takes hand in argument. Man calls
father a bum. Father calls man a fathead. Junior,
in lifting canoe back onto roof of flivver, loses control
and it slides off and through windows of a rlght
reeing bus. knocking an car off middle-aged lady
asleep in her seat. The situation is alarming.
9 p. m.—Junior yanks canoe out of bus r.nd tears
off the lady's other car. Driver of car behind it ill
blowing musical hom. Traffic tie-up now 100 per
cent perfect. Bus driver demands father's name r.nd
address. . Father too far (tone to recall cither. .*3us
driver shakes fist at father. Dog bites bus driver.
9:15—Motorcycle cop comes alongside and orders
father to pull over to side of road. Father iliscovars
he is out of gas and can’t pull over.
9:20—Motorcycle cop arrests father for ignoring a
police order.
9:21—Father bites policeman.
9:22—Trip temporarily abandoned.
• • • •
GOING UP
“In ordering bloomer* give your bust mesaure
ments. Our bloomer sises are based on bust measure
ments."—Mail order house catalogue.
My goodness, are they wearing ’em that high this
year?
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Ima Dodo, back from two months nt a rummer
boarding house, is refusing any really tender food
during September. “I couldn't stand an abrupt
change from the tough cuts,” she explains.
THE OLD HOME TOWN_Stanley
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or THE SEASON
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jy' Beatrice.burton, •s^sJSIHWiswaw
\ . COPVRtftMT 19t», CENTPAt. PPESC ASSV INC-, CLEVELAND, OHIO._
READ THIS FIRST: ,
Charlotte Ch tterton, nicknamed
Chatty, is a born gossip. Her moth
er. a widowed dressmaker, '.as one
wealthy customer. Mrs. Van Nuys,
and through her Chatty gets a posi
tion as switchboard operator in the
Van Nuys bond house. There she
meets and fails in love with David
Jordan, handsome young bond
salesman.
Chatty’s busy tongue creates ha
voc in the office. Agnes Hereford,
Mr. Van Nuys’ secretary, leaves on
account of Shatty’s gossip. David
Jordan knows tha' Chatty Is re
sponsible. and drops her. Chatty
begins to go with a new salesman.
Bryant Dunning, who says he is
i married but has left his wife. Chat
ty's friends are Billie Langenau. a
file clerk, and Winnie Talcott, Mr.
Vans new secretary. After some
lively parties Chatty makes up her
mind to quit going with Bryant. I
The next i’ay David Jordan
brings a girl to the office, and
Chatty, in a age < jealousy, makes
l another date wi'h Bryant. But she
! does not love Bryant, and deter
mines not to have any more dates
with him. After rn argument with
her mother about Bryant, Chatty
goes across the hall to see Billie
Despite all her good intentions.
Chatty still goes around with Bry
ant and his crowd. She asks Bry
ant to teach her to drive his car. ]
NOW GO ON WITH THE 3TORY
• • •
CHAPTER XXXIV
For a while Chatty had difficul
ties with her first automobile les
son. A ‘ shot in the arm’’ and a
bottle on the scat are not good be
ginnings for lea-nin^ to drive.
Neither is the exciting knowledge
that one’s boss has just taken his
new secretary to a roadhouse quiet
tng information to a beginner.
Nor does one learn easily to shift
gears and steer, play with a spark
and throttle, rnd manage clutch
and brake, when a kiss descends on
the nape of one’.- neck as soon as
one leans over: when an arm is
about one. hugging vigorously, with
every move—
Chatty hamly gave Bryar.t time
to give her instructions, for talk
ing.
’’The old reprobate.” she exulted
"Thought he'd get away with it.
And Winnie, of all girls! Thought
she was too wise! 8he might have
known they'd ha- been seen! Oh.
Bryant, what a whispering gallery
the office is going to be!”
"Don't see why you’ve got to spill
it,” answered Bry it, good natured
ly. "No one is making you tell
you saw them—”
"See my best friend gilvng me
the double cross and not tell?’ de
manded Chatty. "See the proper big
boss, who was never going to mis
behave again with a girl, out in a
road house with his secretary and
keep it secret. Well, not so you
could notice ' exclaimed Chat
ty. “It’s my duty to tell!”
"Well, never mind ; our duty!”
put In Bryant. "Tend t- your steer
ing. little lady! You don't want
other people to talk about us piling
up in the ditch! Now\ clutch out,
and then shift—”
Chatty paid attention—for five
minutes. She was naturally quick,
and the car an easy one to drive.
Neither cared for clashing gears
and sudden jerks. « Chatty let the
clutch in too quickly.
Steering came easily to her: in
half an hour Bryant complimented
her extravagantly. “Why. you drive
as If you had done it for years!”
he told her. squeezing her arm.
"You are sure one quick little pupil!
No one would ever know it was your
firrt lesson!”
Chatty expanded like a flower In
water at his praise. Even if she
didn’t love him. it was nice to be
with him. 8he didn't, mind his
love making, even when It inter
!fre<Lw,th. her driving. She liked
The drinks had raised her to
that condition where everything
”1 didn’t mean anything.”
seems unreal, and rosy and beauti
ful. The car was wonderful! The
night was divine. The story she
was to tell on the morrow was a
wow! Bryant, himjelf, was a dear!
'Kiss me again!" demanded
Chatty.
Bryant kissed her—a long, long
kiss. He breathed heavily as he
re^ased her; Chatty thought him
pale, in the dim light of the noon.
"Now, let's go back to the apart
ment and have real highball," he
said. Chatt. fancied his voice
shook a little.
Her first i .ipi !:e was to say no
But drink had made her reckless.
Home seemed so far aw: y. >sldes.
she wasn't in love with him. There
was no danger! r*v wife—that for
his wife! If he didn't worry about
her. why should she?"
"Jut one, then. Oh, let me drive
home!”
Bryant nodded. He didn’t want to.
It was dangerous—a girl with her
first lesson, only to drive in the
city. But it was late—later than
Chatty thought. He'd take a
chance.
"But go easy, for the love of
mike!" he cautioned.
“I'd go easier if you’d let me
breathe!” she laughed, referring to
his arm about her.
"Oh, you cant breather—don't be
a tin-horn sport!” answered Bry
ant.
"I’m not a ; .a-horn sport!” de
fended Chatty, not really knowing
what a tin-horn sport was. “I'm a
good sport! Believe it?”
“I need to be shewn!' answered
Bryant. To Chatty h!» voice seem
ed to hold a curious menace.
But she shook off th? feeling. TU
show you!” she promised, thinking
only that he referred to her driv
ing.
Somehow. * ie managed to steer
the car home to Bryant’s apart
ment—the apartment where the re
mains of the careful home making
Of the deposed wife had spoken so
sternly to Chatty so short a time
ago. Bryant fed her two more
drinks in rapid succession when
they were ir. his pretty rooms.
The tights glowed softly. The
hangings were cheerful, pretty.
Chatty recalled the hand stitching
everywhere, hough she was no
longer in condition to see it.
•‘I wish Winnie was - e—Winnie
and Jim—or John r Harry or Jack
—don't care who she’d have—
Chatty hiccoughed.
T don't L ’ieve,” declared Bry
ant. “Just us two—” He took her
in his arms again, and his kiss was
more than affectionate. Even
though she didn’t love him. Chatty
found herself responding to it—
“I—I think I better go!” said
something inside of Chatty.
“Go where?" demanded Bryant.
“Home. It must be late.”
“You can go home any old time,”
answered Bryant. * Look here, kid
I'm crazy about ,au. You don’t
want to go home—yet!”
Chatty didn’t take it in for a mo
ment. The lights were still bright
The story to 'ie told tomorrow was
still a precious bit of scandal. She'd
show the old boss he couldn't get
away with that sort of stuff! She'd
ditched him with 1 wife once,
and would again. Unless Winnie—
Oh. well. Winnie would have to look
out for herself.
‘ I said—you can’t go home—vet !M
Bryant reepated the word*, and put
his hands around Chatty's waist
squeezing.
“But I must!“
“No!”
Chatty turned to him, puzzled
What did the man mean? “Ol
course I got o go home! Think
I m going to stay here?”
The remark came right out ol
Chatty’s innocent mind. But Bry
ant was not innocent.
“That’s just—what I think!’
His eyes were hot. predatory, ea
ger. There was that in them which
made Chatty come out of her aeml
M
Health and Right Living
BY BOYAL S. COPELAND, !<L D.
Former Commissioner of Health I
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What a man eats and the way he
digests it determine his happiness.
To provide himself with food was
his problem from the beginning of
time.
If there is one event in human
history that can be said to mark
the beginning of civilisation it was
the discovery of fire. On the
facade of Union Station in Wash
ington, are inscribed these words:
• Fire, greatest of discoveries, en
abling man to live In various
climes, use many foods and com
pel the forces of nature to do his
work."
Before the discovery of fire man
consumed raw flesh, he gnawed at
the roots of trees and chewed tlie
tender twigs. His teeth did for him
much of the work that is now ac
complished by cooking.
Whether the food we take comes
from the animal or the yegetable
world much of it is dense, fibrous
and indigestible. By the mixture
of the various digestive fluids with
the many kinds of food most of
the valuable portions are prepared
for absorption by the body. There
is a certain value in raw foods
but cooking releases elements that
would otherwise go through the
body unused.
The fact is, that proper cooking
adds tremendously to the food
value of the things we eat; the
opposite of this is true, too. that
improper cooking takes from the
value of food stuffs . Indeed, im
proper cooking has much to do with
the digestive ills of mankind.
In many instances it is what we
add to foods in the cooking pro
cess that brings about their de
struction. In our desire to add
•flavor* to the food all sorts of
concoctions have been advised
Fate, peppers, apices and other
condiments have been added In the
preparation of the dish. Some oi
the combinations are impossible of
digestion, The organs rebel at
what is offered.
Simplicity in the preparation of
food is of the greatest importance
to the average digestion. There
are persons who can eat anything
that does not bite them first. The
average person, however, thrives
best on plain food.
I have no objection to the wci£
derful dishes prepared by
many friends who pride themselv^
on their good cooking. But as a
general rule unless these exotic
dishes are prepared with extraor
dinary care and skill, it is better
to confine the eating to simpler
things.
ANSWERS TO HEALTH QUERIES
W. Q.—What do you advise lor
reducing the legs and ankles?
A.—It is difficult to reduce any
part of the body without reducing
the weight in general. Exercise
such as walking, dancing, running
and skating should be helpful.
H. M. Q—How can the growth
of my eyelashes be increased?
2.—How can I develop my thighs,
they are thin and undeveloped?
A—Apply 1 per cent yellow oxide
ointment to the lashes every night.
2.—Walking is a wonderful exer
cise for developing the legs.
W. O. Q.—What can I do for
nasal catarrh?
A.—This condition requires spe
cial attention. For further infor
mation send a self-addressed,
stamped envelope and repeat your
question.
Intoxicated state in a hurry. Some
thing unknown, something evil,
something dre: ful, was behind
those eyes. Curious, she had never
noticed they were cold, fishy, cal
culating eyes before—and the worst
of it was. the kisses from the lips
beneath the eyes were so—so sweet
Slowly, in her drink sodden brain
the words took meaning as Chatty
grasped the Idea, fright mounted in
her; fright, and all that was good
in her. all that was of her mother.
&U that loved and admired Billie
—ah, all that adored the memory
of Dave, who scorned her?
Chatty turned without a word,
strode to the apartment door, op
ened it. and 'tepped through. Bry
ant was at her side in a moment
pulling her back. And she turned
on him fiercely.
“I knew I oujht to keep to my
determination!" she cried.
“I knew I shouldn't go with you
99
Bryant knew’ he had gone too far
He was experienced and clever. He
knew better than to explain or
apologize. He picked Chatty up In
his arms, arried her back into his
apartment, dumped her in a chair,
and stood in front of her.
"You can 30, just as soon as you
apologize!’* he cried, low'. *‘I won't
have you act as if you’d been in
sulted. Can’t you take a little kid
ding? Have I ever harmed you?
Or tried to?"
Chatty was completely upset bv
this reversal of their positions. She
had thought herself the injured, in
sulted party—now’ Bryant was In
sulted!
“I—I didn’t mean anything.” she
gasped. "Only—only I must go
home—”
"You can always go home from
here, whenever you want to!” he
comforted her. "Kiss me. pretty,
now, and I’ll take you home—”
• • m
Chatty was prompt on time to the
office the next morning. She nod
dei* to Dave as he came in receiv
I ~
Ing a cool stare in return. It hurt.
She spoke pleasantly to Bryant, who
looked as if he had 1 Jen up all
night To Billie she put out a hand.
•*I w as a beast last evening I" she
confessed. “I knot you love me.
and I oughtn : to be so—so—"
Billie smiled. She was very for
giving by nature. Arm in arm they
went to the dressing room.
Then Winnie came in. In front
of the room full of girls. Chatty
dropped her little bombshell.
•Hello. Winnie, old dear!” she
bagan. How do you feel after your
evenings fling?”
•Fling? How do you mean,
fling?” demanded Winnie.
“Oh. would you rather I asked
| the man I saw you with?" parried
I Chatty.
“Don't get it at all," responded
Winnie. Had Chatty not been so
eager, she might have seen she was
walking into a pitfall. “What you
getting at. Chat?”
The dressing room was quiet. Half
a dozen girlr pped to listen.
“I mean would you rather I ask
ed Mr. Van in whose irms jou were
cuddled at the old Lollypop la*,
night?” answered Chatty. ‘'Pretty
soft, isn’t it, being secretary to wi*
old softy like that?”
Winnie looked at her a momenr
in amazement. Then her eyes
grew black, and her pert face red
with anger. She dropped her lip
stick and powder and advanced on
Chatty.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
POSTUMIA. Italy—Maestro Pietro
Mascagni, famous composer, is con
ducting an orchestra 1.500 feet under
the ground. The government has ar
ranged four concerts in the Central
cave of the Postumia grottoes, which
holds 8.000 persons.
NEW YORK — Colonel William
Hayward is back with fourlive polar
bears from the Arctic, where his
party shot 16. But he found it poor
sport, nothing like big game hunt
ing in Africa. The bears simply dive
into the water to escape the hunt
'ers and then are helpless.
18,14 1329
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