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Getting Unpacked and Hanging the Curtains in Their
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"There, is that even?" asked Helen.
"I can't see, ma'am," said Delia.
"You're standing right In the way."
Helen climbed down and viewed the
curtain she had just hung with frowning
disapproval. "No,
It's still a little too
long."
"It's about as
good as we can
get it," protested
Delia.
"No, I will get
that even," and for
the third- time
Helen took that
particular curtain
down. .
On account of the
window seats In
this apartment all
the curtains had to
be shortened. Helen
had spent the en
tire morning, but
had only hung
those la the front
room and library, and she had hoped to
get them all up before lunch.
"Now that ought to be right,',' when
she once more mounted the ladder and
slipped ' the curtain rod into its socket
"Yes, that's even at last," viewing it
from the floor. , "Now, Delia, bring the
ladder Into Mr. Curtls's. room; I'll pul
those up next."
As they went Into Warren's room, Hel
en's foot caught in the wire and almost
pulled over the large mirror that-was
propped up against the foot of the bed
"Oh, Delia, we must hang this mirror
before it gets broken. We'd better do it
right now."
"Ain't that too heavy for us to hang?"
grumbled Delia. "I'll set it back of the
bed. It won't get broken there."
"No no. I want It hung. I want to
get Mr. Curtls's room all in order be
fore ha comes home. This won't be hard
to hang."
But the celling was higher than in
the , old apartment,, and. the wire thai
was on the mirror was too short.
"Bring in that box of nails and things
There's some picture wire in that.
"This won't be strong enough," objected
Delis, sullenly as she brought in the box
"It ain't as heavy as. what's on there.''
"Ican double it. There," as Helen
twisted the wire and fastened it securely
"That'll hold It. Now; how'H I cut this?
See llf you can find those old kitchen
sclasors."
But just then the doorbell rang and
Delia' had t answer It.
"A man to see you, ma'am."
Helen took off her working gloves,
smoothed back- her hair and went to th
doorV But' it was only a man ' from Clear
Creek dairy soliciting their milk trade.
"We serve most of the families In this
house, ma'am. We'd like you to give us
a trial. You'll find our milk the very
best,"
It .;was the third dairyman who had
beeji there that morning, all claiming thai;
they served "most of the families in the
house."
"Delia, find out what these men want
before you call me tc the door again," n
structed Helen Impatiently.
Helen Was up on the stepladder and
Delia was Just handing up the mirror
when the bell rang again.
"Oh. what a nuisance!" exclaimed
Helen, angrily.
"It's a spring water man, ma'am,"
handing her a card. "He says he'd like
to speak to you."
"Tell him I'm too busy to see any one
Besides, we don't want any spring water."
"Now, do hold this," as Delia came
back. "We'll never get this mirror up,
Oh, my. I believe ft's still going to be
too high! I didn't make that piece long
enough." i
But Delia showed plainly that she ob
jected to again taking down the heavy
mirror that Helen reluctantly let it go.
"Well, I suppose that'll have to do
now; I'll get Mr. Curtis to lengthen It
tonight At least It's up out of the way.
Now let's get the curtains."
As there were no window seats In the
bedroom, the curtains were Just the right
length, so It took only a few moments to
put tip the rods and hang them.
"Ttiere, they hang beautifully!" ex
claimed Helen. "And don't they look
well? Nothing Improves a room so much
as curtains. Now let's see about the one
for: the dining room." ' '
But the woodwork In the dining room
was Flemish oak and so hard that It was
almost impossible to screw up the fix
tures. - ., ., .
"I , can't get that screw In, ma'am,"
complained Delia, who hated to put up
curtains and had been grumbling all day.
"You've got to have something to make
them holes.1'
"Yes, I know," admitted Helen. "I In
tended to get a little gimlet, but forgot
it. You get down 1 11 try."
Helen worked until her fingers ached,
but the screw made hardly more than an
impression in the hard. wood. Yet when
Helen understood a thing she rarely gave
it up. And now she finally struck on the
plan of driving a nail and then drawing it
out, which left a hole and made It easy
to start the screw. But it was a tedious
process, and it was after 4 o'clock before
the curtains were up on the three dining
room windows.
"Now, Delia, let's see If we can't get
these shades on the lights in the front
room. Those white globes are so glar
ing." "But we won't have time, ma'am. I
ought to be seeln" about dinner."
"Yes we will, if we hurry. I want to
unpack that box, anyway, and get it out
of the hall."
The proper shading of electric lights
Helen always considered most important.
She had bought a number of rose-colored
globes or the other apartment, and now
she was eager, to put, them up here.
The fixtures were, different and they
were hard to adjust, but Helen, who
really loved to tinker with things, finally
got them on.
"There, now!" as she climbed down
and touched the button by the door,
flooding the room with a soft rose light.
"Aren't they lovely. See how much bet
ter they make everything look? Oh,
there's nothing that helps a room so much
as the right kind of light! Now let's get
this box out of here; and you can go on
with the dinner."
But Helen worked on, hurriedly getting
things Into place, trying to make every
thing as attractive as she could before
Warren came.
The men had not brought all the things
in until late the night before and in the
morning everything had been in hopeless
disorder. Now almost everything was
unpacked and even the curtains were up.
Surely Warren would be surprised that
she should have done so much In one
day.
She told herself joyfully that he would
expect to find her tired and disheveled,
with the apartment only half In order
and packing boxes still strewn about.
How surprised and pleased he would be
to find everything to rights.
The hall door opened and closed. It
was Warren. A few lost hurried touches
to her dress and hair and she ran out
happily to meet him.
he had pictured him standing at the
door of the front room looking around
with pleased surprise. He might even
say "Fine, Kitten!" which from him was
the highest praise.
But he was not at the door of the
front room. He was not in tiie front
room at all. She hurried through into the
library. He was standing with his hands
In his pockets looking frownlngly at his
desk.
"See here, Helen, this won't do' Why
on earth did you put the desk that way?
Can't get any kind of a light on it there.
Here s the place for It," pointing to
where the bookcase stood.
"I didn't think of the light, dear, it
looked so well there. But it isn't heavy
we can easily move It."
"Yes, but you can't budge that book
case now with all those books in it."
"Delia and I can take them out and
move It tomorrow." murmured Helen,
trying to crush down her sick disap
pointment. "Huh, lot of trouble for nothing. You
never use any Judgment always making
extra work for yourself and everybody
else. Anyone would know that's no
place for a desk. What's this? stooping
over and examining a scratch. "Did
they do that getting it in?"
"Yes, but I can fix It with a little
polish. There's several places I'll have
to touch up. But, dear," laying an ap
pealing hand on his arm. ' "don't you
think it looks well? Don't our things
fit in these rooms even better than you
thought?"
"I'm-, yes looks al! right These are
good slsed rooms anything would look
well. What about dinner? You say it's
ready?"
"Yes, but oh, Warren." tremulously,
"I can't (nelp but be disappointed. I
worked so hard to get everything
straight and I I thought you would ap-
precl" she changed the word quickly,
"-otice it" '
Notice it? Well, haven't I noticed
it? " What more do you want? Come on
now, let's get through dinner. I've got
some letters to write."
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PASS AROUND THE HATdOYS.'
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THE MANAGEMENT PRESENTS
3-lR A, THC Mflit Of MYSTERY
NI?iTe yoiE QUESTIONS ON
the slips handed yoo and
ZIRfl VMILL ANSWER THEM"
THUS Gi UOTH THE PROfCfc&OR
THE QUESTIONS WERE
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NEXT QUESTION WflS-'lSTWE
ATLANTIC REAL ORIS IT ONLY
A NOTION f"
To Marry or Not To Marry
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Selected hjr EDWIN MAUKHAM
Earl Barnes, educator and writer, in
his thoughtful new book, "Woman In
Modern Society," touches lUumlnatingly
upon many of the difficult and anxious
problems of the time. Speaking of the
career of matrimony for women, Mr.
Barnes says: ' '
"It will be pointed out that many men
and women who marry, fall to realise the
ideal. Every, form of living Is dangerous,
and not every one can hope to be a suc
cessful husband and father or wife and
mother.
"Even devotion to religion furnishes
many Inmates for Insane, asylums; ath
letlc contests leave a line of crlvples be
hind them; and railroad disasters fill
thousands of graves annually.
"The institution of marriage has had
no such Intelligence applied to Its Im
provement during the past years as has
been given to perfecting railroads; and
"Common Sense in Everything Will Bring You
Beauty," Says Miss Gladys Hansen
By MARGARET HUBBARD AYER.
"She's the handsomest woman on the
stage today," said a man in the theatri
cal business, when I told him that I was
about to see "The Governor's Lady," in
which Miss Gladys Hanson is playing.
I looked at the man wearily, for I'd
heard that so often, but I think better of
his judgment now, and. Indeed, I shouldn't
wonder if he were right.
Miss Hanson hasn't been in New York
enough for our theatergoers to become
very familiar with her until this season.
Indeed, she hasn't been on the stage very
long, and I found her looking much
younger even as Glndys Hanson at her
hotel than as Katherine Strickland on
the stage of the Republlo theater.
It is pleasant to say that she is really
and truly beautiful. A tall and most dis
tinguished looking girl, with a small, aris
tocratic head, beautifully set upon a pair
of handsome shoulders, her face is a per
fect oval with the pointed chin of the
early Italian artists, her eyes a gray
blue, are set in their sockets with na
ture's own smutty fingers, a beauty whioh
one cannot imitate, despite all the best
eyelash pencils.
"Now I am really going to tell you
everything I know about the beauty ques
tion," said Miss Hanson In a charmingly
modulated voice, which has a deliciouB
trace of southern accent, as she leaned
forward in her chair and looked at me
with a serious determination to "Tbe con
scientious and to stick to the subject of
tho interview..
"I suppose the most important subject
t!:i if -foiio w$k
MISS GLADYS HANSEN. A BELASCJO BEAUTY, NOW APPEARING IN THE GOVEKNOK'S LADY."
is the question of diet. I am sure it Is
with me, especially when I go home to
Atlanta, where I have to withstand the
temptation of the most wonderful lemon
meringue pies and jumbles, and all sorts
of other things prepared especially for me
by jpur old cook. Her grief is really
pathetic, whsn she watches me refuse
one after another my old favorite dinhes,
and she moans as she stands In the door-
that-1 know are bound to make mo fat.
"When I am working 1 never take more
than two meals a day, and 1 stick to tins
rule, no matter what it costs me in obli
gation. "In the morning a cup of coffee and
toast, and then nothing more until my
early dinner between 5:30 and . After
the theater I take a glass of butteermllk
una a oiacuir, out tnat s all. I Korn n
uy. un, mn, our miss oany sne done i splendid condition on this d'et. np-' 'V.
get all these queer Yankee notions., she, minute I eat any more I know that It Is
won't eat notliin mor'.' That's what our not good for me physically, ami that It's
old cook thinks about my efforts of diet
ing, and I can tell you she makes It very
hard for me to refuse all the good things
correspondingly bad mentally. Of course,
and 1 find that tint only way I can avoid
the temptation entirely is to run away
from It and to eat by myself.
"So much for diet. Now comes exercise.
I walk a great deal, but bes.de that I go
through a number of exercises every day.
Vh, I really do; you needn't look sur
prised, and I'll show you .lust what they
ai'M "
Beautiful Miss Hanson began to mIioW
" a set of exercises she uses. They
in the Wfst Point sitting exercises.
They Include all the stretching exercises,
at once the simplest, best known and the
most efficacious. '". "
Here are some of them, which Miss
Hanson did for me, and whltfh che does
every day. , .
She stands erect with her hands clasped
behind her head, , ami lifts the waist
muscles and the chest box, stretching the
body up as far, aa possible. The same
position is held While the upper part .of
the body is twisted from right to left,
the muscles being stll stretched and the
chest held up; . '
There Is nothing so good as these
stretching exercises," exclaimed , ,Miss
Hanson, "espeoially for tall girls. Tall
women are apt to become over-conscious
of their height, and that ' makes them
stiff; of course, a mental stiffness or
self-consciousness corresponds to the
physical, and if you can keep your body
supple and elastic, and your muscles will
stretch, you have done a good ' deal
toward keeping your mind active, too.
"Women grow old because they become
set, set In their habits of thought, and
equally set In their muscle structure,
It hasn't anything to do with years,
for you often see girls hardly out of
their 'teens, whosa figures Bhow this set.
tied, inelastic attitude, which Is as
much mental as it is physical. I'm
positive that all these exercises of the
body which keep the muscles flexible,
especially the waist muscles and shoul
der muscles, have an effeot on the at
titude of mind as well as on the poise
of the body. '
"Mind and body are so closely Inter
woven, and one reacts on the other so
continually, that it seems shameful to
neglect tho physical any more than we
ould neglect the Intellectual side of life.
Both play an equally Important part In
this chase after health and beauty.
"When I was In Mrs. Flske's company
I learned something from her which has
been a help to retain her wonderful
freshness which she brings to her stage
work every night.
"No matter what happens, Mrs. Flake
takes half an hour of complete rest
Just before the performance. She never
deviates from this rule, and I have tried
to follow her, but I'm afraid I'm not
as strict as she Is, and something often
turns up which cuts out this half hour
of repose, but It is an extraordinary
way of keying one's self up for the per
formance, in which one wants to give
of one's best, and for which one must
be refreshed, both mentally and physi
cally. "There, now, that is really all I can
think of that has anything to do with
health or beauty; Just diet, exercise
and rest; the oldest and simplest things
In the world, but women have got to
come back to them If they want to be
beautlful." concluded Miss Hanson. Un
less they are beautiful already, by the
grace of nature, as Is this talented and
charming girl, whose brilliant future Is
still before her.
since founding a family is a more ditfi-.,
cult undertaking than maklnf a Journey,
one Deed not bo astonished at the num",
ber of fatalities. . ; -
"Even if the Institution of marrlag.n
wfere as intelligently and carefully brought.
up to date as railroad systems are, tt.;
would still remain dangerous to live'"
either in or out of marriage.
"And yet the danger could, be greatly :T
reduced by proper education of youths
At present we are educating 10,000,000 glrtt '
In the state schools of America, and ai 111
many boys. They are spending eight ffl-"
twelve years, under the direction of delP
bate women teachers, sharpening theli !
intelligence. Their most important work; ''
In life is to be the making of homes, buf :
they are supposed to master this art""
through imitating the home In whlcfl
they grow up. Many of these are un
worthy of imitation, and they are all-in.,.,
process of transition. "K
"Every girl should be trained In hanV.tJ
dllng an Income and In spending money
wisely. She should have a general knowl-' , )
edge of household sanitation, of water.';
supply and sewage, of foods and their ,;
preparation. Bhe should know about
clothes, their cost, wearing qualities and
decorative values. She should have a
sense of the family and its significance
In life.
"She should have the beginnings of a
eugenle conscience established in her, and .
she should know something of the care '
of Infancy. All this should be given lnr ,
the school, if It is not definitely given in !
the home; and no girl who goes through '
the eighth grade should escape it
"Before the girl Is married, she Bhould
have wise counsel from mature women
wlio have lived and learned the art of
living.' Boys should, of course, also be -U
trained In comparable directions for this
great part of their lives. .
"Something is already being done lu
this direction .through the establishing of, '
special courses in domestio science, and -allied
branches in our schools. The fact ';
that educational leaders are awake to
the need was shown by the applause that
followed Superintendent "Harvey's plea ft
for this training in his paper on the odu
cation of girls at the superintendents' as
sociation In St. Louis in February, 1911
The leading educators of the country
greeted his plea with an enthusiasm:
called out by no other paper of the ses- r
slon. :
"In married life the woman should be"::."
as free as the man, an equal financial '
partner, and should share in all the social .
and political opportunities of the com-1
muriity. When she beara children, she .';
should have special protection, support."'
and reverence; and support should come "f
frpm the father of her children. If hS .T
falls her, then the group, in its capacity"'
as a state, should care for her honora.!--
bly. But to Justify this - protection and'
reverence, she should bring to her special -functions,
as mother of the generations,
a strong body, an Intelligent mind, tt-it
eugenic conscience and an absoluto devo:w
tion to the children born of her love." ' :
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Creation of Woman
''Our fable of the creation of woman
Is more poetical than your Christian one.,,
which forms woman out of a man's rlb,''
said a Hindu as he watched the girls bath-
ing in the sea. "Listen, and see if yoiil '
don't agree with me. . - .
"Twashtri, at tlie beginning of time.
created the universe and man, but wher,
he came to create woman he found thaf'3.'
ho had exhausted his materials artd nd
solid elements remained.
"Twashtri mused a while. Then an .idea
came to him, and in order to make the, :,
first woman he took moonlight and the ;
undulations of the serpent, the slendering t
of reeds and their soft movement in tha vv
wind, the tears of a ralncloud, the velvet"
of flower petals, tho grace of roe, thi.-
tremor of grasses, the vanity of the pea-:"
cock, the softness of the down on a dove's-
breast, the hardness of diamonds and the -.
sweetness of honey, the cruelty of the"'
tiger and tho warmth of fire, the cold off
snow, the chatter of a Jay and the cod
For the Bl Xolsf Followers. I
A Scotch story Is' that of a diminutive j
drummer In a U.phI lirass band who was I
in the habit, when out parading with his jof a dove and out of these things Twush
comrades, of walking by sound and not j trl created woman." New, York Tribune,
by sight, owing to his arum oeing so
it sometimes takes real heroism to refuse lh forward and backward bend, the arm, j be was alone.
hlch that he was unable to see over It.
The band on Saturday afternoons paraded I
usually In one direction: but tne otner
day the leader thought he would change
the route a little ana turnea aown a
by street. j
' The drummer, unaware of, this move
ment, kept on his accustomed way, drum-1
mine as hard as ever he could. By and
by, after finishing his part, and notiurers.
hearing the others, he stopped, and,. Don't use marked nioneV.
Ishment may be lmigined at finding that ,ur a" wlth tn" other candidate.
c Advice to C"ma Ik.ii Contributor.
Don't send checks nor drafts.
Don't contribute large bills.
Don't mall your contribution.
Don't bring ft.
Don't accept a receipt
Don't correspond with campaign treas-
to eat when one is invited to luncheon, shoulder and head exercises, which are
'Hnel" he cried to some bystanders,
"has ony o' ye see a bunil hereabout?"
Don't give large amounts.
Don't give ut all. OevKland Plain
Dtaler.