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DEDICATED TO THE SERVICE OF THE PEOPLE, THAT NO GOOD CAUSE SHALL
LACK A CHAMPION, AND THAT EVIL SHALL NOT THRIVE UNOPPOSED.
H. D. Slater, Editor-in-Chief and controlling owner, has directed The Herald for 15 Years;
G. A. Martin 13 Hews Editor.
EL PASO HERALD
Editorial and Magazine Page
Tuesday, October Fourteenth, 1913.
THIRTY-THIRD YEAR OF PUBLICATION
Superior exclusive features and complete news report by Associated Press Leased Wire and
2C0 Special Correspondents covering Arizona. New Mexico, west Texas. Mexico. Wash
ington, D. G. and New York.
Published by Herald News Co.. Inc.: H. D. Slater (owner of two-thirds Interest) President:
J. C Wilmafth (owner of one-fifth Interest) Manager; the remaining one-eighth
Interest is owned among 12 stockholders who are as follows: H. L. . CapelL H. B.
Stevens, J. A. Smith. J. J. Mundy. Waters Davis. H. A. True. McGlennon estate.
W. P. Payne. It. C. Canby. G. A. Martin. A. L. Sharpe. and John P. Ramsey.
Letters of An
- RS. PARNELL, widow of Charles
will publish her husband's letters, about 800 in all. She came to the
decision after going over the letters with her lawyers in a locked room.
The immediate members of the family even are not told what the letters say.
The announcement was hardly out of her mouth before she had 90 protests
from Irishmen against the publication, threatening calamity if she did all of
which promises that the letters will be straight talk.
Parnell, whose mother was the daughter of an American admiral, CTammed
his short life of 45 years with very brilliant, very determined fighting. He was
not only a leader with power over crowds, he was a man of dignity and of great
learning. He was unusually skilled in parliamentary law, using it as a powerful
weapon and making the Irish cause both feared and respected. He began his
parliamentary career as an obstructionist, using his skill to delay other measures
until Irish needs were recognized.
He started the boycot and "no rent" back fires and was arrested under a land
and crimes act specially passed to catch him. But he brought Gladstone to terms.
Parnell's downfall was caused by a domestic scandal; just before his death
in 1891 he married the divorced wife of a British army officer and member of
parliament, with whom he had become compromised, and relations with whom over
a term of years had already ruined his career. Since his death, Irishmen have
realized more clearly than they ever did during the turmoil of conflict, just how
much they owe to this splendid fighting man who opened the way for Ireland's
emancipation.
But many of his correspondents, still living, do not care to have their private
relations with Parnell revealed.
Aureli
ATJRELIA is a little slip of a woman, olive skinned, black haired, oval faced,
light of step, affectionate, and always stopping her work to watch the
Email boy run his locomotive. A grandmother she says she is, with a
.grandson 3 years old. She whistles as she-wipes the dishes, she whistles gay little
Mexican dance airs and steps out and swings her foot about and waves the dish
cloth and the dish to the interminable tune.
She says she can understand all English, "but not spik it all so well as she
onderstan," but she cannot tell the words "ice hox" from the words "front door"
and willingly and gaily starts off towards the front of the house with the bottle
of whipping cream and laughs when she is pulled back to the ice box, and starts
with a cloth and the scouring soap to remove the messenger boy initials from the
ice box instead of the front door.
She takes the napkin rings from the dining table as she goes out to the
kitchen and throws them up in the air, juggling to keep them all going, and sits
down in the middle of the kitchen floor to laugh till her sides ache when the
small boy spills salt over her freshly scrubbed floor.
When she starts to cut bread she forgets as she whistles and dances, she
forgets to stop until the slices of bread tumble off on the floor about her. She
pats her mistress gently on the shoulder and says, 'You cannot spik the Spanish
so well, I will onderstan the English" and proceeds very lovingly to clean out
the kitchen range with the master's hat brush when she has been asked to peel
the two Irish and three sweet potatoes for luncheon.
But she is sweet and gay and loving and good tempered, and her little dancs
tune is beguiling, and she makes things shine with her dancing whirling rubbing
Her kitchen is cleaner than any negro or American help ever left it.
Putting One's
RIDGE and golf have become more
enthusiastic players. When the Boston boy, Ouimet, won the golf games
in the American open championship, the English papers commented on
his play as more than an exhibition of skill. Several papers speak of him as a
brave player; one says, evidently answering taunts, that Ouimet has proved that
the young 'nn may have nerves of even better tempered steel than the old 'nn
and that golf is a game possible to youth as well as to years.
The London Daily Chronicle says that golf is a splendid game for testing
character; besides aptitude and training, a player must have pluck, patience,
coolness, and determination. The Daily Telegraph says, "He seems to have every
shot in his locker, and he is without exception the straightest driver and most
accurate putter ever seen. He rejoices in a brave stout heart and nerves of steel."
Then all the papers hid England cheer up, for the country is not lost because
one golf championship went to the United States; the diplomatic relations between
the two countries are not likely to be strained; the world will roll around to
another year when Ouimet will go to England and perhaps an English player will
excel him in straight driving and accurate putting; and if, as seems likely, this
Boston youngster shall beat everything that England or any other country can do
at golf, nevertheless England will be glad to see the splendid play.
When Theft
A CURIOSITY of the law and one that makes it seem a very interesting, if
sometimes unfair ?ame, was the decision of a Denver judge with regard
to the passing of a bad check. A man had given the hotel keeper a bad
check in payment of a $12.50 hotel bilL The hotel proprietor caught him and
had him haled before the criminal court on a charge of felony. But it was argued
the hotel keeper had lost nothing of value. He still had his right to collect the
bill if possible, and the unkind guest had come and gone without baggage. If he
had had baggage, his slipping off on a bad check carrying his baggage with him
would have deprived the hotel of a chance to get back at him by detaining his
baggage, and that would have been felonious; or had he made out a check for mora
than the bill and got some change out of the hotel, it would have been felony;
but as he got nothing extra out of the hotel man the hotel man was exactly as
he was when the man was leaving, with the same right to collect the bill, bug
the guest could not be held for felony. It is all very interesting and clever, but
somehow one thinks that the English criticism of our law, that technicalities
often outweigh justice, may not be far from the mark.
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Mental Housecleaning
TO DECIDE what you want and stick to it, and not send the mind back over
the waverings endured in choosing, is health and peace. And it is a
cluttered and smothered existence to be unable to rid one's self of the
accumulations of broken furniture, unread books, uninteresting acquaintances, and
worn out prejudices.
The old fashioned housecleaning twice a year, with the shifting and sifting,
was beneficial, and to go over one's way of living and sort out the things worth
while and forget the rest, makes for vigor in joy and work.
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One-Sentence
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
(Chicago News.)
If. is natural for some women to
act unnatural.
Many a good sermon has been
preached in silence.
A kiss In the dark may be a divine
spark, or it may be a mistake.
A warm friend is one who is "willing
to divide his cold cash with us.
Give the old fashioned woman the
lye and she -will make a batch of soap.
If a man has no brains there's noth
ing in his head to cause him to know it.
There are times when a man feels
that he either has no friends or too
many.
JOURNAL ENTRIES.
(Topeka JournaL)
Most people put on sufficient speed,
with a sudden change of weather to
catch a cold.
Another Impossibility is to figure out
just what a woman will do under any
kind of circumstances.
Not a few people are actually proud
of the fact that they have vigorous
tempers.
Irish Leader
Stewart Parnell, has announced that she
1a
Life Into Golf
than games, they are life itself, to
Is Not Theft
Philosophy
QUAKER. MEDITATIONS.
(The Philadelphia Record.)
Many a woman poses as an angel
who wears her wings on her hat in
stead of on her shoulders.
Trouble is a sprinter. If you don't
believe, watch how he overtakes those
who travel at the fastest clip.
j Lite is made up of surprises. Have
VVU UlCf UUilUCQ UlcLl llltS lUlIlS UltlL
don t seem possible happen so often.
Action is all right in Its way, but
the young men -who do the most run
ning around don't always make the
most progress.
GLOBE SIGHTS
(Atchinson Globe.)
Advertising seldom pays a dirty
store.
The supply of potash salts is suffi
cient to last 600.000 years; thus we
deftly remove another cause for alarm.
Even if the spelling book were sim
plified, the percentage of divergent
opinion in orthography would remain
about the same Some will be bum
spellers be It ever so painful.
MostModern Dress Sensible
Kl Paso Minister Says Extreme
Styles Denote Loir Morals la
Living; Little Interviews.
C
I
THINK the most of the modern
dress for women is tasteful and
artistic" said Rev. J. E. Ab
bott, in discussing the topic, women's
dress. "In fact, I think women's dress
was never so tasteful, artistic and
beautiful as now. I am speaking of the
dress worn by the women in general,
the women to whom we look up and
who have a standing in the community.
As for the extreme styles, the high
slits, the transparent waists and the
other extremes, they show worse than
bad taste. Fortunately these are worn
by only a small portion of our popula
tion. Very few persons are foolish
enough to wear these extreme styles,
for they show, not high ar in dress,
but low morals in living. It represents
an evil tendency to my mind. However.
I do not think it shows a. general de
generation of public taste among peo
ple in common, because there have al
ways been, and I suppose will always
be, a class of people who are willing to
go further than other people caro to
go and who always step over the
bounds of good taste. In general. I
think the trim, narrow skirt a sensible
thing, compared with the flapping
yards of material that used to be
worn."
'There are some objections I have to
the present day styles," said Rev. O. J.
Wade, of Calvary-Houston Square Baptist-
rhiirph. "hut T hve. nn nhiprtlnns
to the trim, neat fitting garments worn
by women of good taste. I think these
are an improvement over all previous
styles. However, when they become
as scant as some that we see on our
city streets, I do not think they do
anyone any good. I know 1 have seen
some things in clothes that I wouldn't
want a son of mine to see. I do not
like these airy creations of nothing
ness that some women wear, where too
much of the person is displayed. I do
not think that the extreme slit skirt
does any good, either to the wearer or
the beholder, and It has big possibilities
for harm. All men and women
owe it to themselves and the
world to keep themselves as pure
in heart as they can, and to
uphold right and clear thinking in
all things. Anything, whether it is in
clothing, or other ways, that appeals
to the flesh is a harmful tendency. If
all the extremes of the present styles
could be avoided, I would approve of
the present prevailing mode of dress,
but when it comes to these airv noth
ingnesses that display more than they
conceal. I do not think they do anyone
any good." 3
"Our high school girls are dressing
more sensibly than , ever before." said
A. H. Hughey, the principal of the high
school. "Watch the pupils as they
march out at noon. You will not see
one overdressed girl. We have only one
slit skirt In the entire high school, and
that is a very modest affair, onlv a
very few inches. Whether this whole
some good taste is due to the parents,
or to the girls themselves, or both. I do
not know. but-I am very much pleased
with the good taste our girls are
showing."
"3fr 3f 36-
"That the world, after all, is a small
place Is brought home to you if you
stand in front of the transfer sta
tion, said patrolman Brldgers, who is
on that beat from 7 oclock in the
morning until 3 oclock in the after
noon. "I believe you see almost ev
eryone m town at some time during the
- ,-v IJ.IIUH1UUI ruuuijueu. j. nave
met people I have not seen for years.
B. Martin, of Merkle. Texas, whom I
had not seen for 23 years, stepped off
?FC f the cars at the transfer station
the other day. it -was quite a reunion
ror me. He was Mt tn toil m -Hn-
people I have not heard from for vears
lou certainly see many familiar 'facer
spending a day at the transfer station."
"If there are to be any newspaper
nominations made for congress
to take congressman Smith's
$. TJsh to Place the name
a , Turney before the public."
A. r Coles said Monday afternoon. "We
need mayor Kelly here at home and If
ne is going to run for anything let it
De Tor governor, so we can keep him at
home. But Mr. Turney is the man for
congress from the EI Paso district, and
he would be sure of election if he ran.
He has the necessary qualifications and
4?, popular in the district outside of
El Paso as he is in El Paso among
his home people. I know of no one
WhO WOUld hpttpr raTT-.crt h -7:n...i..-
in Washington than Mr. Turney, and I
I would like to see him consent to
Felix Kahn. one of the refugees
from Mapami, v.'ho arrived at Marfa
with the crowd from the Penoles Min-
flnt t&eS'of nn I ha nfetn
-uexico, .Harry Lawrence says. "He
was the friend of everyone in camp
and especially when the food supplies
commenced to run short. He was in
me commission business, but he spent
most of his time hustling food for the
foreigners and getting it Into camp
from the outside. His character was
so -well known that the mining offi
cials would give him drafts for large
amounts and send him out to buy any
thing he could get, knowing that he
would render the best possible service
for every cent they entrusted In his
care. He was a tower of strength to
the company in the troubled times
down there and made himself almost
indispensable when the rebels took the
camp."
i r T i fT
G O O-P S
By GELETT BURGESS
NELLY TURNER
Where do you think
Nell Turner throws
Her cores and scraps,
and things like those?
Right out the window!
Out they fly
To fall, perhaps,
on passers-by!
I don't know "what
the neighbors say.
But she's a Goop
to act that way.
Dont Be A Gooa'l
1
I ABE MARTIN I Poiret Sets His Stage I
f- d Lr"
J.
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Nobuddy kin feel as bunkoed as a
young husband after his wife's first
tantrum. Celery should be seen an' not
heard.
The Cook Stove
By GEORGE FITCH.
Anthor of "At Good Old SlTrash."
THE cookstove is the boon companion
of the housewife.
The cookstove sticketh closer to
the housewife than a brother, and twice
as close as a husband. The husband sits
across the table from his wife and reads
the paper, but the cookstove snuggles up
close to her and glows in her face, and
burns her apron and her forearm, and
spatters hot lard in her eye.
The cookstove has a temperature of
145 in its oven and 212 in its immediate
vicinity. This is unfortunate, because
if its oven were larger the housewife
might sit therein and be more comfort
able while the meat was roasting on a
chair in the kitchen.
The cookstove consumes coal and wood
with visible reluctance.- It is harder to
start than an automobile. Man thinks
lie is abused because his wife sits in the
tonneau and rests while he toils at the
crank in front and melts his collar and
the surrounding iron work with his rage.
But man has just begun to get his in the
last ten years, whereas women have been
starting cookstoves in one form or an
other since the world began.
The cookstove is mild and dejected in
the winter, and often declines to start
at all. "When the thermometer is 30 be
low nothing but kerosene will start a
cook stove, and many a bereaved husband
The housewife might H therein and
lie more comfortable while the meat
was roasting on a chair In the
kitchen.
points with pride to the patch in the
roof, which covers the hole made by his
wife when she went aloft by the kero
sene route. But in the cood old summer
time the cst "! to
burn. It will start on anvthinsr. and
will acquire a healthy red color on two
lumps of coal and a "shingle. When the
weary husband comes home at G oclock
and throws himself into his arm chair,
he lias to shut the kitchen door to keep
from being broiled alive by the faithful
and energetic cookstove, over which his
wife is at that moment, trying to re
strain it from burning $1.75 worth of
beefsteak to a cinder.
Women may not be mentally capable
of wiping their tired hands and hurry
ing down to the polls twice a year, but
they can do wonderful things on the
cookstove. The cookstove, under woman's
guilding genius, has made millions of
men contented and fat. It has also
made the women of the world the prin
cipal supporters of religion. Somehow
after a woman has come to know a
cookstove inside and out, and summer
and winter, she has a fear of the ex
treme sultriness of future punishment,
which cannot be obtained by a mere
man. (Copyrighted by, George Matthew
Adams.)
Arizona
Ur Wnlt Mason
In Arizona, where the skies are blue
as any maiden's eyes, old timors are as
blue; for there the men of lungs and
jaws are piling up a stack of laws such
as she never knew. Oh, Arizona, 'tis
your fate to be a goody-goody state, a
Kansas in disguise, a mollycoddle com
monwealth where grown up men must
swear by stealth, be jailed for telling
lies. Where once the plainsman whacked
his mules you'll build a string of Sun
day schools for godly youth and wench;
where once the cowboy used to screech
the pale evangelist will preach, and
boost the mourners' bench. And men
who wish a healing drink will get it at
the kitchen sink, where city water flows;
no Wolfville sports will count their
dead, but folks will calmly go to bed,
and there turn up their toes. No gents
suspended from the trees, no well at
tended lynching bees will mark vour
social whirl; but every man will go his
way, and do his stunt from day to day
as quiet as a girl. The Rawhide Jakes
and Buckskin Petes no more will hit
your village streets and shoot holes
through your hats; no more the cow
boy will cut loose like thunderbolt, on
his cayufee, all branded o'er its slats. In
Decorates New York Showroom
With Latest Things From
Paris for Women.
- By h red eric J. Han Kin '
(Continued from Page 1, this section.)
women boldly. This Is just the oppo
site of my idea . My principles are only
two: The search for greater simplicity,
and the search for one detail, very per
sonal. Women must wear something
simple, but personal or individual. It
can be personal without extravagance.
Simple things prove most original."
Women Should Discard Corsets.
It was at this point that Madame
Poiret walked across the floor, show
ing her uncorseted figure. Then tho
great modiste said that American wom
en should dispense with corsets for
home and evening wear, retaining
them, if they like, when dressing for
the street.
Then he was asked, "What will be
the next mode?"
"That I cannot tell exactly," he said.
"The mode does not come from theory:
it is a sort of feeling. If it is possible
to get an inspiration or a principle
from any political influence, then this
is probably the reason why Paris re
mains the center of the world of fash
ion, because her people are the most
sensitive and feel all the1 influences
and emotions. When all the world
looks to the orient, the mode becomes
oriental. When Napoleon was in
Egypt women in Paris wore turbans:
when he was, in Italy, Paris adopted
the Pomnelan stvles. When Nanolenn
III was in Algiers all women wore
large striped shawls. Today every-
Dody 100KS to the orient. Since the
Russo-Japanese war, many materials
come from the east, and this influence
is naturally felt. People are now in
terested in the old orient, in the old
Chinese art and Persian engravings.
This is the reason for the present
mode."
Artist for Art's Sake.
There was much more of the same
sort of devotion to art for art's sake.
Never by any chance did this French
man desire to make a dollar. He Is,
by his own testimony, a simple artist.
But his story, to the Yankee mind,
calls for no comment.
Tn the person of Paul Poiret is
represented the whole theory of the
French fashion creators. Art they un
doubtedly possess, or are in a position
to command. But in France art and
thrift have ever kept close company.
The eye of the designer may be fixed
on a woman, searching for a keynote of
Individuality; his soul may be soaring
in the clouds in search of Inspiration:
but his mind is fixed firmly and singly
upon the dollar. That Is what he is
after and that is what he gets.
If the American woman, whose com
mon sense demands the adaptation of
Parisian styles before she will wear
them, would but trace the history of
her new gown back to its beginnings
and calculate how much tribute she
pays to Paris, undoubtedly the ranks
of those who are battling for Ameri
can fashions for American women
would gain millions of recruits.
Wednesday: The Cattle Supply.
Arizona, where the steers are shapely as
a maiden's ears, old things must pass
away; perhaps ifs useless to repine; it
may be you are doing fine in this, your
latest play! Copyright, 1913, by George
Matthew Adams.
14 Years Ago Today
From The Herald This Date 1800.
J. C Mattison went to Las Cruces
this morning.
W. W. Campbell went to Dallas, Tex.,
this morning.
O. H. Baum, passenger conductor of
the Mexican Central, left today for
vnicago.
E. W.'Heaton was amonc- the Santa
Fe nasseneer to San nioc-o ri thi
morninc-
Dr. George G. Gould, of the Graphic,
a local newspaper, went to Las Vegas,
N. M., this morning.
Key Eveleigh, who has been spend
ing two months in the Jarillas, left for
Dexter, N. Y., todaj-.
E. M. Harter, auditor of the White
Oaks line, willarrlve in the city this
evening Irom Alamoirordo.
evening trom Alamogordo.
H. H. Black, commercial agent of the
Mexican Central, returned today from
a business trip to Chihuahua.
Hank Small, of the bridge and build
ing department of the G. H.. went east
to San Antonio this afternoon.
The Santa Fe Blues defeated the Hill
tides at the Santa Fe grounds this
morning, by the score of 27 to 6.
a B. Eddy, of the White Oaks line, is
at Jarilla today; J. A. Eddy is at
Toboggan, and superintendent Greig at
the Salado mines.
Mrs. J. C. Semino. wife of the G. I
H. engineer, has returned with her
children and mother, after a few
months' visit to relatives In Missouri.
Orders have been issued for the com
mencement of track laying on the
Santa Fe and Grand Canyon roed, out
of Williams, Ariz., to the grand can
yon. A change in the force at the city
jail will take place next Monday, pro
vided there is no hitch in the arrange
ments. Deputy sheriff Jenkins has
resigned, and he will be succeeded by
T. C Lyons.
The city board of appeals was in
session again today and a number of
taxpayers were present. Those pres
ent failed in almost every Instance to
have their taxes lowered.
The Nineteen Hundred club held a
social last evening at the home of
the Misses Scanlon, on West Overland
street, which about 40 young people at
tended. The place of meeting will be
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. Groves,
on North Campbell street
The city ratified a contract this
morning with the International Elec
tric Light and Power company for 25
all night 2000 candle power electric
lights to cost $3.50 each per month. The
city council met in adjourned session
to receive and consider the recommen
dation of the fire and water commit
tee relative to the bid made for light
ing the city by the International
Klectric Light and Power company.
Zach White and his attorney, C. N.
Buckler, of the old company, were
present as well as W. S. McCuecheon.
A. Courchesne. Leigh Clark and others
of the new company. On motion of al
derman Whitmore, seconded by alder
man Badger, the contract was ratified.
CHRVSAXTIIEMUM "WILL BK
NMED "MISS JHSSIE WILSOX
Washington. D. C., Oct. 14. From
thousands of chrysanthemums being
grown in the white house conservator
ies and in the green houses at the de
partment of agriculture for the ap
proaching white house wedding, one
aristocrat of that plant family an en
tirely new creation now being devel
oped is to be named after the bride.
Miss Jessie Wilson. All the govern
ment's crack horticulturists who are
giving the stranger their attention,
are "mum" as to Its color, size and
variety.
ASSAULTS "WIFE BECAUSE
SUB SWALLOWED A DIAMOND
Tulsa, Okla., Oct 14. Joseph Faulk
ner was arrested here changed with
having struck and dangerously injured
his wife with a brick because she
swallowed a diamond valued at S600 to
prevent him obtaining possession of
wie gem.
The COUnle snnrntel In .Tune and
when they met yesterday they quar- i
reled o er a division of their property,
Fuuluner w.is charged with assault
y itr. i'tii. t to will and placd under 3 I
S--W bond
"This Is My Birthday Anniversary"
TO be a good citizen is a wonderful achievement, and it is possible for a
school boy or girl of ten years to be a much better citizen than many
grownups are. For example: Mr. A comes out of the postoffice
with a bunch of mail; he tears open the envelopes and draws out their con
tents, jerks the wrappers off the papers, then envelopes and wrappers are
thrown into the street. Mrs. B goes shopping; on her way home she looks
over her purchases or wishes they were all in one package, and shortly there
is more wrapping paper flying down the street. Now, Tom and Mary know
better than this, and they can do better. Wonder how many of the El Paso
boys and girls whose birthday anniversaries come today make a practice of
picking up and disposing of the loose paper around their own homes.
The list follows:
Calixto Portillo, 12.
Thomas Collin, 12.
Ralph Southard, 9.
Justin Hurst, 16.
Aydia Bell, 9.
Cordelia Kerr, 11.
In addition to the usual wish of Kmany happy returns of the dav," The
Herald has a ticket to the Crawford theater good for any evening or the
Saturday matinee for each boy and girl above named. Ask for "Miss Birth
day" at The Herald office.
Mother Too Often Forgotten
Once In 10 Days Not Often Enough
for Married Man to Sec Mother
Five Blocks Away.
By Virginia Terhnne Van de Water
CC
O
H, John's gone to see his
mother again!" the wife said
petulantly. "I wish she would
be a little more considerate of his
time and engagements, and not be hurt
if he does not call at least once in 10
days."
Once in 10 days! And the mother's
home was Just rive blocks away! I
could not help remembering that be
fore his marriage this son had lived
with his widowed mother and that they
had been close and tender companions.
He was her only child, and as she is
not a poor woman she gave her boy all
the advantages of a college education,
followed by a trip abroad with her.
She sent him to Columbia because she
wanted to have him in the same city
with her.
Devoted to Each Other.
"He is all I have," she said by way
of explanation.
"Yes," agreed the son, "and she is
all I have. I declare if I were to go
out of town to college mother would
have to give up her apartment here in
New York, and come to the place I
happened to go to, and take a. house
there. She and I are aimost.twins, yon
know."
The lad laughed as he said It, but
the ring of true feeling was in the
words.
The pair were not only mother and
son, they were confidantes and chums.
Then He Married.
Then he married. That was natural
and proper and just what the mother
had always expected him to do. In
fact she had hoped that some day he
would mee.t a good woman whom he
could love.
"I cannot be here always to make
a home for him," she said, "and It
would make me happy to know that
he had his own little home and a
wife to care for him." When he be
came engaged he told his mother of hi3
happiness and she rejoiced with him.
She did not let herself think that she
was losing her boy, for she would see
him often. Nothing could alienate
'mar their tender intimacjvshe averred".
!ft the :oun People to have
mm irom ner. nor could anvthinEr
tnelr own home," was her declaration.
and I shall not make a nuisance of
myself by running in there too of
ten, or by suggesting to the happy
H?1 i-k7w. Jat Dick will come
"" iiuw sue snail conauct ner nouse-
i-f ..Vic1A lw ? or tnree nays, ipr
i '""" not Know now to get on wlth-
out seeing his mother constantly
ien learn Ago and Now.
That was 10 venrs atrn "nicf efill
I lives a quarter of a mile from his
mother and he "tries to run in once
every ten days" to see her, feeling that
In doing this he is performing a duty.
'-Mother expects it," he says patroniz-
fc2 JK TdW nt ?KLafs5fJ5 ?':
i'n& OId l do not llke to disappoint
ntr.
I or. after all. when a man marries
he becomes the kind of son that his
wife makes him. If she be a coarse
grained .common person, unused to re
fined associations and high ideals, she
will do all in her power to gain 'the
sole supremacy over her husband, and.
unless she thinks there may be some
substantial benefit to be reaped by his
intimacy with his mother, she will
discourage such4 Intimacy. I know
there is much written against the
motherinlaw, but I pity her, and my
sympathy is purely impersonal. It
must be a hard thing to have one's
son labelled "Hands off!" whon ti i
been one's very own, bone of one's
bone, flesh of one's flesh, for over
20 years. I do not think that the aver
age mother is jealous of her son's
wife. In fact, I think she is ready to
welcome her as a daughter or as a
dear friend. Then why do so many
sons" wives persuade or allow their
husbands to forget the duty due a no-longer-voung
but always devoted
mother?
Husband at 17 a Mistake
Man Mmt Have More thnn Sm'atter-
lnc Knowledge of "World to
Make Marriage a Snccers.
By Beatrice Fairfax
66
A
LOVER writes me:
"Will you kindly let me
know how old a younc man
and woman must be to be married in
the city of New York? Also what is
the fee charged for obtaining a mar
riage license- and how must one pro
ceed to get it? I am 17 years f age
and would like to know these things.
"Please do not reply that I am too
young to be interested in these things,
or to get married. For I know a great
deal of the world."
In what way, my son?
If by that you mean you have seen
portions of It from a car window, you
don't know the world. If by that vou
mean that you have been brought" up
by hard knocks, and have learned
much in the bitter school of exper
ience, you don't know the world.
Must Know Yourself First.
But granting that you do know the
world, a claim that the wisdom of 17
often makes, that does not give you
the right to get married.
Y'ou must know something more than
the world before you take such a step
you must know yourself:
Is your heart so faithful it will re
main true, through 50 or SO years, to
the girl you loved as a boy? Is your
judgment so mature you can pick out.
when only 17, the type of girl who will
be your ideal when you have become a
man?
Has patience become a habit with
you? Is it a joy to you to practice
self denial for those you love not
once, but often, and always and with
no ono to commend or applaud'
Is your Income elastic? Will you,
when less than 20. be contented to
stay at home in the evening, like an
old man Is contented, because" the going
out means the price of shoes for the
baby? Will you. when still a boy.
find recreation in such outino; as jra
suitable for the wife an1 tlie bihus
and feel no regret when the oilier bos
go unhampered and carefree to the I
swimming nool and the rtiiirond" I
Knowing Love l Kx.sontifl. I
TV iou Inon 0 t lo, Ton
mu know the world. Being IT, there
Gentry Hudnall, 13.
Eugene Womeldorf, 15".
Thomas Sparks, 15.
Jennie Cornwall, 16.
Garland Graefe, 15.
Clarence Ake, 10.
Teach Lad to Spare Birds
Mothers Can Help Save the Song
sters by Retraining from "Wear
ing Aigrettes on Hats.
By aula Wheeler Wilcox
D
EAR FRIEND:
"Please permit us to call
your attention to a great and
serious evil now menacing our lncect
eating birds. Millions of small blnia
In migration are destroyed yearly by
the people of the Southern states and
used as food. This destruction, now
Increasing, is having serious effect
on the numbers of song birds In the
north. Negroes are armed with guns,
and many are proficient in other means
of destruction. In the north, also, large
numbers of foreign Iaboreres coming
from Europe kill small birds for food.
It is only recently that little birds
were sold in large quantities in New
York City, and they are still sold by
thousands in the south.
"The Audubon societies, which hava
already checked the killing of native
birds for millinery purposes, now pro
pose to stop the slaughter of song
birds for food in this country. This
is a stupendous task. It must be dona
by educating the public through the
schools, the press and the clergy, and
by securing better laws and better en
forcement of the laws. A word of en
couragement will be appreciated.
Yours sincerely,
"T. Gilbert Pearson.
"Secretary
Letter Should Reach Erery Man anfl
Woman.
This letter ought to reach the
heart and the brain of every man and
woman of common sense and com
mon sensibility in our land.
It ought to reach the hearts of
mothers of young sons who have ar
rived at an age where they want to
express their manly qualities by using
a f;un.
Air guns are only a degreo less men
acing In the hands of young- lads than
revolvers in the hands of gunmen.
Mistakes of "Loi-injr Parents."
The average boy teases for a gun,
and receives It as a birthday or
Christmas gift; and proceeds to use
It after being told to "be careful" by
the "loving parent," who goes away
and leaves him to his amusement.
I these Jnes "wantohelp makr'Sis
beautiful wort? mnr- i.S&? lh-5
I LeSSi.sa'ir.,,f you "vrant to ald In forming
-...fauci meais ana Kinder lnstrlncts in
the rising generation In ordering or
trimming your Autumn hat try and usa
good common sense, and a little in
dividual taste, and wear a hat which
is becoming and beautiful and entirely
devoid of any part of a dead bird.
u P1"mfs fr?m the ostrich do not mean
the destruction of that bird for the os
HfjL !s ?.obu.t fowl and the plumes
grow while the ostrich exists, just
as the goose grows new down each
yeat , But hes'de plumes, there a-e
exquisite grasses and flowers and
laces and jets, and velvets and rib
bons and other trimmings which can
make headgear attractive.
Should be Ashamed to Wear an
Algret.
T your p00d taste and ask your
milliner to show some original ideas
in building you a-hat
Remaraber the osprey and aigrette
mean the death and torture of the
mother birds, and the slow starvation
of their young as a rule.
Any refined woman should be
ashamed to be seen wearing an al
gret Spun glass and preserved
SISss.es and ferns produce quite as
artistic effects. Copyright. 1913 by
Mar Company.
is no doubt you know It: but do you
Know what love is?
The love that lasts; that grows
stronger, and more tender, and broader,
f "d, more charitable with the years
the love that is love, and not a passing
sentiment based on vanity or animal
attraction. You have no more com
prehension of that than yon have of the
life at the bed of the ocean!
My son, you don't know what love
is! Keep on trying to learn, and
some day you will know. Fall in
love, and fall out again. Keep a ten
ant In your heart all the time. That
is the privilege of vouth and the com
fort of old age. But don't I beg of
you. don't think of getting married
when you are only 17.
Manicure Lady, Romantic
Head Barber Tell Her Love In the
Fall Ij Cooled hy the Prospect
of a Long, Cold AVInter.
By Win. F. Kirk
'66fJT HERE ain't anything so glori-
ous as these here autmun
days." said the Manicure Lady.
eW was all out in the woods yesterd-'V.
and I never seen anything prettier t'iai
them leaves. Some was gold and somo
was crimson, and It wasn't no dull col
oring, either. It seemed like flames.
Me and sister Mayme just set there on
an old log for half an hour, looking a
the hills across the valley. Wilfred
wrote a poem about it.
"I wish your brother would take a
day off instead of writing that junk
all the time." said the Head Barber.
"And you always have to read his stuff
to me when I am feeling punk. If you
have arranged for a smoker to be
me no more about him."
"All right George." said the Mam
cure Lady. "I don't know why I should
expect you to enjoy anything like
beauty or art anyhow. It's just like
giving charlotte russe to a car horse.
But as I was saying. It seems to ma
that the autumn would be the time of
the, year for romance and love. Instead
of in the spring. I don't know why
there is always so much said and writ
ten about love in the spring unless be
cause it is slushy in the spring, out
you always hear of spring courtships
and spring marriages, and" you hardly
ever hear of anybody getting married
in the fall. That is the time of year 1
would want to wed."
"The only trouble in getting mar
ried in the fall." said the practical
Head Barber, -is the long, hard win
ter that tomes after the honey mooa.
When a couple get married in June
t;.i-hae the moe Uas of the fall to
settle down and go to house keeping,
and winter finds them gettinsr usd i
ejeh other lot of love wojld g.-t
f--ze up Winters if marriages us m
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