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Friday, Dec. 24, 1915.
THE CONFESSIONS OF A WIFE
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"Who was that man that Btuck
to your mother like a burr to
night, Dick?" I said, as I drove
him home after the party.
"What man?" asked Dick, who
bad been morosely silent ever
since we got in the machine.
"Why, tlie white-haired gentle
man with the smiling, ruddy
countenance who took your moth
er out to supper and sat beside
her most of the evening"
"I did not see anyone," re
marked Dick, "but you have de-
Bcrlbeil old Morton Trent. He"
lives at the same hotel as mother,
and now that you speak of It, 1
have seen him talking to her
often, when 1 have gone up there
to see tier."
"Well, some women were gos
siping about It tonight. They say
that it looks as though we were
going to have another wedding
In the family."
What!"
"That Is what they said."
"Can you beat It." was Dick's
comment. "To tell the truth,
Margie, 1 must be rather stupid
tonight, but it's beyond me. 1
simply can't think of any man,
young or old, who would want to
marry mother."
I could not help laughing, but
all at once it came to me that
Mother Waverly had been very
much nicer lately, more contented,
more human. Like a flash the
whole plan spread out in front of
me.
"It is not good for man to be
alone," and this means both man
and woman. At any time, at any
age, the rule holds good. One Is
lost without the other.
Poor Jim Edie and Pat Sullivan
are quite unhappy because they
are not interested in a woman.
Nature has made them interested
In women but she leaves it to
the individual to make the matter
concrete, aud when a man thinks
he can fight nature with gucceßS,
his egotism overshadows his good
sense. These two men are juat
finding this out and I think either
one of them would be much hap
pier married.
I presume Mother Waverly was
very lonely and consequently very
unhappy. Dad Waverly had been
hers. ( You can think what you
like, little hook, a husband, even
one that does not measure up, al
ways, to one's ideals, is at times
a very comforting tiling to have
around. I She knew that even if
In l)ad'« heart he disapproved of
sonic of lier ways, yet he would
alwayn be found by her side
against the world—that Is the
most beautiful thing about mar
riage.
1 have often wondered, little
book, just how a woman who was
in love with a married man would
feel about all this.
If Kleanor Kairlow is in love
with Dick, it must he hell, for her,
because she must know there is
nothing in it all but concealment
and imluijininess. if what those
women said were true. 1 am sorry
for her, little book, sorrier even
than for myself.
Love with marriage has not
been so blissful for me that I can
not conceive how horrible it must
me to love a man that is married
to another woman. lam getting
to the point where my side of it
must be settled soon. I was
thinkiiiK so intently about this
that I ran the car right past our
apartment. Dick, too, must have
been absorbed In his thoughts, for
he did not notice it until we had
gone a number of blocks beyond.
"Say, Margie! Is it your in
tention to go joy riding, if so, I
can name a number of streets I'd
rather travel than this," he ex
claimed.
I pulled up quickly. "Dick," I
said, without any preliminaries, "I
though Eleanor Fairlow had lost
all her money. How can she give
up her training at the hospital and
live at the hotel?"
"How should I know," snapped
Dick. "She probably hag some
rich relatives that are helping
her."
"But T thought she wag all
alone in the world?" -
Dick grunted, but did not say
anything.
Oh, little took, if r could only
make you understand how I want
ed to ask him that question—that
question that unanswered was
breaking my heart.
Tonight I have found out that
when we think we are concealing
everything from the eyes of the
world, the world is m elng proba
bly more than we do.
All my world is gossiping about
Dick, Eleanor and me —probably
my friends are pitying me. 1 made
up my mind that very soon I
would ask Dick. Anything was
better than this suspense.
RIOT AT JUAREZ;
AMERICANS LEAVE
EL PASO, Tex., Dec. 24. —
All Americana were ordered out
of Juarez last night and all Amer
icans on the American side were
refused permission to cross the
river. Telephonic messages said
the trouble existing In Juares was
orer the failure of the troops
to receive their pay. Rioting was
reported.
RCTDKMIC riiOSRH SCHOOLS
CABHMERK, Dec. 24. —The
schools closed Tuesday afternoon
on account of ao many pupils be
ing absent with the grippe. Near
ly all the teachers made immerii
ate preparations to go to their
homes to spend the holidays.
"INSPIRATION"
Comes Sunday.
SOME SHOW
. Every Boy and Girl in U. S. Tonight Will
Thank, By Proxy, Father of Santa Claus
'
HoiioiinK Hi.. "Father of Sniita CUus!" %>w Y»rk whoo 1 .hil.li.-n holding annual ( lirlst
>ua.s <-ye celeliraiiftn antund the grille of l>r. (Hpinent MiMirt>, the mttn who wrote fiuuou* immmii,
• 'Twms the NiKht 11. i..,.- Olirlst iiiun."
NKW YORK, Dec. 24.—T0 the a New York theological seminary. Youngsters in the lowlands
grave of the "Father of Santa Ile ln»ii three little children, and used to put out thitir itMklßfl
Claiiß," 100 little kiddles are go- for thpir aniusement in the and wooden shoes for the nlftn.
ing to march in torchlight pro- (<llristniaß season of 1822 he San Nioolaas lie was called
cession tonight. wrote a poem which he called "A hence the corruption, Santa Claus.
And when they lay bright holly Vlß^. VSSLfvStH m I.eautiful v " WaH., the 2K '544 ''f' 0'6 Dr<
wreatlm on the modest mound hil » ',„'?, 1 a, , , ' th e Herious student, ac
amid the Blnein K of Christmas * (:mmtry hou? e on ll hiu wllere knowledged the authorlshlp of
hymns, thevwm 1)e conveying by two.or New York's bu.leßt HtreeU tlle ...ndhood verse. •• 'TwJ the
proxy the thanks of every boy and I'™;,, nl ,i-i,i,« „ N' K'U Before ChriHtmas. 11 And
. girl in America .0 the kindly old ,J, T"f h ''" , "n ZIIZ * **U ls °"ly ln rerent VPars that "Ib
gentlman who alone made our £ ' J' p l f c°nd nM D"'cl "'»"• a n nd srave has been recognized with
Chriatmas what it Is for chi.dren °'"or""he" lanta * regl"ar Ceremo"V
-y' Claus immortalized ln his poem. Since 1012 a group o r New
The. man who created the The Christmas jingle itself was York children annually him
American Santa Clans, who picked up by the newspapers, and nuule a (lirlMiutiM eve pll
revolutionixed our olotervunce ye ar after year It was copied all (Criinage to hU tomb.
ot the great December holi- over the country, until after the Tonight, their ceremony over
day, and who |..nn.-,i ,i,,. clvil War dayß and after the the grave of the Father o j Santa
llne«, • Tnw the Mght lie- death of Dr. Moore, the Santa Claus" will be more elaborate
fore (liii-.iii.Hs, MleepN he- ciau« h e had described became a than before, and the thanks of
neatlt that mound. national Institution. every child In Amerioa will be
At his head Mauris a slm- Of course St. Nicjk himself- is offered up there in memory of
|)le granite stone with the far older than the professor's the man who gave us the kind of
name "(lenient ('. Moore" poem. He was supposedly the Christmas we will enjoy tomor
engraved upon It. bishop of the early church, and row, the Santa Claun we love, and
Dr. Moore was a learned pro- according to a Dutch logend, he the most famous Christmas poem
fessor of Oriental languages ln was the patron of the children. in the world.
QUESTIONS THEY WRITE TO I ■—-————!
CYNTHIA GREY--HER ANSWERS ZJS^STL'Si
Dear Miss Grey: I read the letter written by Uessie Bob
bet and I wish to say that Rlie doesn't know very much of the
subject upon which she writes. She calls them poor unfor
tunates in one breath and defective beasts in the next. She ia
almost as broad in her views as a hall; she thinks that steriliz
ing these feeble-minded people will solve the problem when as a
matter of fact if every defective man in the country were not
only sterilized but killed, the same rotten Bystem that caused
these people (not beasts) to become as they are would soon pro
duce more defectives just as it has produced those we have with
us today. •
Miss Bessie puts me in mind of a certain prosecuting at
torney who is going to stop prostitution by having hotel keep
ers refuse to rent rooms for that purpose, when the fact remains
that all these things are a part as well as a result of worry,
starvation, exposure, ignorance and environment, which is
caused by a few greedy capitalists owning the earth, and mak
ing it impossible for the rest of the people to live like human
beings.
Miss Bessie also slings some figures, maybe she could pro
duce some data on these hundreds of girls being attacked every
year by these so-called mentally defective degenerates. I have
read two papers every day for the past eight years and must say
I haven't noticed "hundreds of such cases." She would also
like to see this thing come faster and be more far-reaching.
Look out, Miss Bessie, it might get you before you die, as I
dare say some of these defectives at one time had more brains in
five minutes than you seem to have collected in all your life. I
wonder how you feel towards the defective, feeble-minded
women. I hope you are not so hard on them as the men.
TOM SMITH.
Dear Miss Grey: Being a working man, lam naturally in
terested fn what concerns the working class.
As to the girl who is trying to live on six dollars per week,
and all that silly twaddle to keep married women from working
for a living, I would say to F. E. F., Mrs. M. 8., et al, who want
laws passed prohibiting married women from working out of tha
home, and in the same breath tell you of the freedom of our
country that: Married women of the working class marry for
l'-U'\ more so than do those of the upper classes, and plan on
a little home for themselves and family, but are proud to take
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THE TACOMA TIMES
work outside when they see the little home going to pieces from
enforced idleness of the husband, Ruch as has prevailed the last
two years especially.
The big per cent of common labor in this state receive as
wages from $1.75 to $2 per day. It is difficult for two, almost
impossible for more to live at all on this pittance. A week's
unemployment for the husband means starvation, so the wife
goes out to work, If she can get it.
Mrs. M. U. is right when she said "we must begin at the
source of the stream," but the married woman who must work
to make both ends meet is not the source; she is but one of the
effects. The source is society itself, which allows auch condi
tions to exist. A society which has millions of men and women
unemployed, who are willing to work and be seX-supporting,
sadly needs remodeling. Respectfully, A. M. C. •
Q. —I am about to ask you for your opinion on something
that troubles me greatly. My sister, who is five years older than
I lives on the same lots, but in a separate house. Our mother
died not three months ago. Yet, my sister attends dances and
shows and wears any color'she pleases, while I wear all black and
a mourning veil. I traveled 1,000 miles to see our mother before
she died, but got there too late. I feel the loss greatly, which
my sister seems to think nothing of. I hav e said nothing to her
of her actions, thinking she waß the oldest and that it was not my
place to interfere.
Please give your opinion on this. MRS. M. M.
A.—The longer I live the more I coin© to the conclusion that
grief is purely selfishness, especially when It flaunt* itself before a
busy public and demand* recogniton. We believe, or the moat of us
do, that the soul i- immortal and that when Death robs nn of those
who are dear to im, they wing tlieir way to everiaMting, etherlal hap
piness. Then, why should w« grieve for them? It is but natural that
we should miss them, but even so, fat It necessary that we advertise it
by donning gloomy robes and wearing a doleful rountenanct? The
wearing of mourning and the abstention from all pleasures or social
activities for a certain period after the death of the deceased Is noth
ing more than a custom which m»n\ modern thinkers are canting
anide. If your sister Is of this modern school why should she play tlie
hypocrite simply to appease a custom which is rapidly becoming
threadbare?
IL!?i^^ Wm I Jh
BY I It I HIM I HIM
M. J.—Thanks for your wiahM
for a Marry Christm»s. I wish
one also to every movie fan who
reads this column—and tv every
one else, too.
Bertha An actor who haMtu
ally |ilu)M iii,. leading role ts
called the Htar. IMays in which
the leadiUß role |g stroilKly murk
•'•I are cullerl otar pla>H, and im
I'ortant role« are lalioil star
roles.
O. J. So far aa I know therti
are no ■■<< < ur.ii.- riKure«* availuhle,
but it has in'fii said that over
$500,000,000 U in..-Mr,i in the
motion picture industry in Amer
ica, and ili.ii it givt>H employment
to 100,1100 pemong.
J. K. P. Frank McQumrit' was
CratK in 'The Black In," The
('iniurd girlH really are -i >.i ,
MAUV MIIIH MINTKH, the
youthful Metropolitan star, ih no
longer playing child parts. She
nan been Riven characters that
permit her to play both a child
and a young lady in tho Banie pic
ture. Miss Mlnto.r is one of tho
most proniisiug actreHseH In the
movie world. HeHidee being an
ideal screen type, the little blond
beauty poHscsseß a naturalness In
her work that ia distinctive.
Mac Marsh and Robert Harrun
are scheduled to appear together
In another Triangle drama after
they complete their proHent Fine
Artu pluy, "Hoodoo Ann," by
Uranville Warwick.
De Wolf Hopper's bouncing
baby's sou, who through bin father
111. become known in all civil
ized MettaM of the world, has
been converted Into a film actor
and will make bis initial appear
ance in the support of bis male
parent in the latent TrianKle-Hop
per production, "Sunshine D«d."
H. C. B—Q. M. Anderson is In
Xlles. Cal.; Charles Chaplin is in
1..08 AiiKt'leH, and Beverly Kayne
ih in New York.
Bernire —There is no reason
why an actresses should not
marry, except that when travel
ing with stage companies they
become separated from their
homos and families. It is not so
in the motion picture business,
however. These actresses remain
in one placo, and are able to main
tain honiHo. Alice Nielsen re
cently said: "I haven't found that
motherhood interferes with my
career." 0
Personal |
and
Social 1
Trinity Hunday school will give
lta auuual Christmas party Tues
day night in the Trinity parish
house. The pageant, which was
produced a while back by the Col
legiate. Alumnae, will repeated
under the direction of Miss Farns
worth.
Dr. and* Mrs. Charles Taylor
will entertain several friends
Saturday at dinner at their home
at Stellacoom.
Mr. and Mrs. <' D. Danaher will
entertain at a large family dinner
Saturday.
Taconiaru who are friendly to
the interests of Theo. Karl John
ston, the Seattle boy tenor, who is
making his eastern debut, will be
Interested to learn he Is a decided
success. Critics way he has the
best youthful tenor voice they
have ever heard.
Miss Virginia CaeMtr ha« gone
to Spokane to visit the family of
her fiance, Frederick Insinger,
where she will remain until New
Year's.
The iinniifll elertfon of Ivy
chapter 1463, R. N. A., took place
laat Friday, with the following
woman elected to office: Eliza
beth Wallace, oracle; Maggie
Conrad, vice-oracie; Ella Braga,
chancellor; Alpha Campbell, re
corder; Hannah Batter, receiver;
Louis Corey, marshal; Jennie
Neitsel, inner sentinel; Ada Corn
stock, outer sentinel; l.uella Dum
mermuth, manager; Jeaaie Atchi
son, muMcian.
Miae U»r« Taylor, dean of
women at the state normal school
at Monmouth, Ore, Is at home In
T«coma tor the Christmas holi
days.
Mr. and Mrs. H.snry Wilson win
entertain 22 guests at Christmas
rtHmer Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. i. W. Brofcaw
will entertain at a family dinner
tomorrow.
Mr. Md Mr*. John C. Ifpary of
Sonth Warner »t., are rw«WS«
BEAUTIFUL MAE MURRMbr ■>
DESERTS STAGE FO 7* SCREEN
MM; MlllltAV, Till: NKI.I, HltlVKl.i:^ (,l|{|,"
Who In to lie Seen in I u-: ..\ -I'm 11111..11111 I'lcluiitt.
Mao Murray haß Rime nway
from New York to he nlmeut for
a louk, lour. time. The fuuuiux
beauty, and until recenlly wtar of
"SteCfeM'l Kollien of till," ban
been cnuaKt'd lo uppeiir exclu
sively for v term of three yenrH
In productions of the Je«ne 1..
Lanky I'Vature I'lay comiiuny on
"CHIMMIE FADDEN" DOES MANY
STUNTS IN HIS NEW PICTURE
Victor Moore and part of tli c Taaky company that appears
with him in "Chimmie 1 »<!.!< n Out We»t," at the Colonial;
How "Chimmie Fadden" made
the president of a railroad anj
his scheming advertising :igenl
return nearly a million dollars to
the people whom they had swin
dled is one of the interesting cli
maxes of "Chimmie Fadden Oul
West," showing at the Colonial
BIG SUIT AGAINST
FILM TRUST BEGUN
NEW YORK*Dec. 24.—Declar
ing that ten leading film manu
facturers have formed a combina
tion in restraint of competition,
and has practically forced the
Imperial Film eichange out of
business, that concern filed auit
yesterday afternoon under the
Sherman anti-trust law for $760,
--000 damages.
The defendants are General
Film company, Vitagraph, Pathu
Freres, Kalem, Edison, Essanaj,
Lubin, Be»g, Klein, and Motion
TODAY'S BILLS
AT THE MOVIES
COLONIAL
"Chiinmle ha.Wlen Out West"
with Victor Moore.
I.IIIKKTY
"Mutrimofi)." with Julia
Dean, and "Stolen Magic"
with Raymond Hitchcock and
Mnbel Vorniiiad.
MKLROURNB
"The \V.»rii««u" with
Charles Chaplin.
A HAPPY
CHRISTMAS Ml£&m
Tis time to send you greet- M SSjmß
The year is near its goal; v^^^^V^^^BL
So we wish you "Happy M
Christmas" "'^^^
With all our heart mx^J/^J
soul.
PAOB FUC
i the Paramount program. Her
contract releane from Mr. ZleK
feld whh iiuriliasi'd tor a lame
Hum thin week by Samuel (Sold
fisli, executive Meal of the Lanky
Company, ami Miss Murray al
ready i on her way to Hollywood,
Cat., to report to Cecil B. DeMllle,
director general of the I.Hsk> atu
lliOK.
theater for the remainder of tbiit
week. How he loot on« gold mill*
and won another in the shape of
the girl lie loved is the other in
teresting climax.
Thin is the first of a series of
Chlmmie Fadden pictures that
are going to be produced by th*
Jesse I. I.l>i<y company "
Picture Patents company.
The complaint alleges that nin«
companies combined as the Gen
eral Film company In 1910, and
that suit for involuntary bank
ruptcy against the Imperial ax
change was begun. The Imperial
proved itself solvent, but as a r«
sult of the proceedings, Us rev
enues dwindled from 150,000 p«r
year to $250 a week.
NEW CHAPLIN
COMEDY FILM
"Th« Women," Mid by many
to tie ths greatevt Chaplin com.
edy, opened a two-day engage*
nient at the Melbourne this morn
ing- Produced by Esauay In two
parts with en all scar comedy cast
it Is one continuous scream front
beginning to end.
The dramatic feature of the bill
Is "The 'Odes of Retribution," a
three-act Biograph that tells on*
of the strangest stories . ever
I filmed.