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War "Food" Leaving Home
These Pictures Tell the First Chapter in th Story of Europe.
Variable
Are the
Ways of the
Social
Climber
"Lady Fingers'1
Dy NELL DRINKLEY
Copyright. 114, International New- Service.
(With Apologies to Puck)
Copyright, 1M4, by Star Company.
To get rid of w ar people must know what it means. The
news from Europe, the statistics of the dead and wounded tell
part of the story, a little of the hist chapter. These pictures
how the first chapter.
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A French
Soldier,
His
Wife
and
Child.
Hundreds of then
Minds of French
famllJes bare had
this parting. The
man Mops raring
for his family to
go out and kill.
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Good-bye
to the
Baby.
Here is a Ciernum
soldier about . to
Mart, kissing his
child gooriby
probably never to
see it again.
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Soldier
and His
Child.
This man U or
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water from Eng
land to help the t
"allies" whom he
never saw to kill
an enemy whom
he does not bate.
Hungarian
and His
Wife.
This HuuKiu-iaii
re.tervi.st, who has
already served his
years In the urmy,
says his last words
to his wife, won
dering now soon
she will 1x5 a
widow.
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Thee are reproductions of actual photographs of the sol
diers of four nations.
Each represents hundreds of thousands of men hundreds
of thousands of parting, hundreds of thousands of broken
hearts.
The men are taken off to be nhot for a quarrel that they
do not understand and that does not interest them.
The women and the children are left at home to suffer
anxiety, poerty, until the fatal news shall come probably
long after the man thy l:ve is dead, buried and forgotten by
all but themselves.
If the nations could realize what war is, the world would
not again He this dishonorable chapter in the history of "na
tional honor.''
OpyrlKht. 114. by Fur Company.
By DOROTHY I1.X.
"Othsr tim, other msnnr." quoted
an elderly woman the other day, as she
SOMlped over her tea with a few cronies,
"in a sy T have always bn a
looker-on at life,
and It Is a sourc
of never-ending di
version to me . to
obeervs how cus
toms chansw with
the timet, and' how
differently each
genera 1 1 o n doss
things.
"Of course human
ity Is the same.
We have always the
ssme tyses of po
plo, with the esme
alms and aspira
tions, but they to
about letting what
they want In dif
ferent ways.
"Taks, for In
stance, the social climbers, the men and
women who are trying to break Into so
ciety, and who are dying to know the
peoople who don't want to know them.
"Now, when I was a young woman,
the open door to smart society was
through the church, and religion was In
ae manr stratas as a layer cake, with
th most wshionabte brand of it, the
icing, on top. There waa Just as much
socisl distinction between different
denominations as there is between a
Fifth avenue restaurant and a Sixth
avenue quick-lunch place.
"Therefore, when the social climber
acquired money her first step up the
Isitder consisted In forsaking her old
faith and espousing a fsshlonsble creed
She'd Join the smartest church In her
vicinity, and become an enthusiastic
missionary worker, or heed of a guild,
or the lesder of the women's prayer
meetings.
."And the first thing you knew the
coupes and broughams of tier fashion
able sisters In the church would be
stopping at her door, and she would
have neatly turned the trick of getting
Into thes tocst four hundred.
' By and by the religious path to so
ciety plsyed out. snd I often wonder if
the falling off In rhurch attendance, of
which ministers complain so much. Isn't
largely due to the church being no longer
the open sesame to society. At any
rate, that method of forcing a way
'under the right awnings.' as TUchard
Grant White used to say. became an re
productive vein to work, and the social
climber passed It up for phllsnthropy.
"About twenty years agn, If you will
remember, all the new rich and socially
ambitious suddenly awoke to the woea
of humanity, and they fell over them
selves to respond to the call of the needy,
when the call was voiced by the rich
and fashionable women of their home
towns.
"They espoused csuses. and went on
hospital boards, and worked themselves
to drath at basse r. and opened up their
purses and gave ostentatiously every
time the local leader of their "400'' passed
around the subscription list.
"And Jt worked tike a charm. Mrs.
Croesus was bound to tske notice of
Mrs. Fsrvenu, who had Just come across
with a big check for her favorite charity,
snd In this msnner did many a woman
whose name now stsnds at the head of
the society column buy her wsy Into the
charmed circle to which she aspired.
Believe me, the heathen has done more
for many a social climber that she has
ever done for the heathen.
Finally, however, too many shrewd
women began working the philanthropic
dodge to get Into society, and it became
overdone.
"Then hesven, in its mercy, sent the
woman's club manla,t which swept the
country like a prairie fire.
"The socially ambitious woman ssw
the opportunity thst It offered her, and
aha went for it She Immediately be
came hlghbrowed and Intellectual, and
she organised Browning clubs with trim
mings an the side of terrapin and chsm
pease, or asndwtrhes and tea. according
to her means, and she employed mystic
Interpreters who used strange and occult
language, to come and expound the
meaning of what the poet thought he
thmight to the assembled audience of
ladles, in thslr best gowns.
"It gave the women a delightful nense
of culture, and as most of thrm were too
honest, and too simple, and too much
afraid of msklng mistakes to force
themselves forward, It gsve the women
with nsrve and ambition a clear field.
She Instantly ascended a pedeatsf, and
became a ruler, and a power among her
setand ber sex makes society In
America.
"Oh, the .woman's clubs hss been a
most effective club In the right hsnds,
and many a woman hss broken her Way
Into aorlety with It. Hut as a social
weapon the woman's club hss now passed
Into Inocuous dreeutude. so to speak.
Nowadays it Is throtish the country club.
That, and not a sudden love of rtirsl
life, explains the hsrk-to-nslure move
ment among the new rich.
"As soon as a man makes money now.
adays the first thing he does Is to buy
a country piece. There's always a coun
try elub ii.ar. and aa there a always a
general letting down, more of less, of
the social bars In summer. It's no trick
at all for decent people, with decent
manners, and unexceptional motor cars,
and money thst they don't mind spend.
Ins, to get elected to the country club.
"Then the highball, and tennia, and
golf do the rest, and before you can aay
scst the social climbers sre In society,
snd turning up their noses at those
now It.
'It's a funny progressive gsme the
social ctln.ber has plsyed, Isn't It -the
church, philanthropy, the woman's club,
tho golf links T wonder what will be
next?'' alghed the old woman. ".My
principle objection to dying ts thst I
won't Ve Bere to sea"
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With another apology to B. Wenncrberjr, with whose "Lady Finders" my editor and I were so smitten that we have
given our girls some fingers, too! This is a girl's dream, sure to hold her pink hands before her eves and find n beau on
every finger tip. NELL I3MNKLEY, . ' , .
The Woman Who Waits
By riKATKICK FAIHFAX.
Dear Mlsa Fairfax:-! became engaaed
six yearn npo and hsve been wearing my
ring sll thst time Of late my fi1n1
does not rpenk on tin- subject st sll, and
IS anyone epeak to him about It his an
swer th: "I'll net inarriod when 1 am
ready." I love him and he tells mo lie
loves me vry much, but he goes out
with other girls. Wtmt am I to do?
HtKMKSTKR.
Thw answer is- simple. In anything
rather than sit meekly by wnile a self
Ish man aLsnrhs your youth and affec
tion and gtvea you In return a diamond
engagement ling and a heartache.
The man who Involves a woman In a
long f ngagement lias only one Juetlflable
excuse (nubility to support her proerly.
And even thst hsrdly Justifies his posl-
tion. When a man saka a woman to
marry him ha should he ready to assume
the burdens and responsibilities of matri
mony within a reasonable time,
And six years Is sn outrseeotis length
of time for n wonisu to sit and wait Tr
a man to get "ready'' to marry her. No
woman should weakly penult hersolf to
be placed In such a position. The en
gagement ring on her finger la a rtifni
that warns other men away from her,
It marks her love as the possesion of
one ins ii and It ulioiild menu that the
uonaes.luti Is a clieriithed one.
VTho girl who is being so high Imnd'dlv
treated should tyrannise a bit In turn,
brie should stop wearing the ring and
offer to return It to the giver, telling
him that he will not marry her when he
Is ready, for she hss been ready Dices
many years, and Is still ready to rsrry
out her agreement at once, but tomorrow
or the next day alio will have pasaod the
time of resdiness for selling the dste of
her long-postponed wedding,
"Now or never'" should be her slogs n.
If it Is "now" all the weary waiting
must be forgotten lint If the nian still
shows a desire to "eat hie cake and
hate it, tou"-to he betrothed to her and
yet to enjoy tho sweuls of freedom aelf
renrwot dementis that It be "never!"
The woman who wslts for a man who
is not ready to aettle down throws into
the scale youth and charm and opior.
tunlty and her first beautiful tllualons.
And unless on the other side are loyally
and real love to overbalance selfishness
e
snd fh klenesa she receives no fair return
for licr wnlttng.
There are except lonul chips in which
waiting Is the only thing to do. 1 know
of a esse where a young mining engineer
was sent on a mission su dangeroua that
he positively refueed to allow his fiancee
to become his wife and go along to suffer
two years nf hardship. I know of another
in which the man gave his fiancee the
choice of coming to live In the home he
must maintain for his mother and In
valid sister or waiting until he could af
ford to have a home of his own without
depriving thoae dependent on him of their
needs. In both cssrs tho girls chose to
wait and were rewarded with loyalty and
haplncns.
Hut the man who rhooaea in Idle ael
flshness to prolong his bachelor daya dnea
a woman a grave Injustice when he asks
her to undergo the atrsln of a long en
gagement. If a man feels in his hesrt
"This is the woman to whom I will
rlesve-forsaking all others" be will not
wsutonly pout pone tho time of making
his awcrthcart his wife.
It is accepted bimlnees to reeerve a
house or an apartment by tnklng the "re
fusal" of it and then looking around for
something better.
It Is contemptible for a lover to secure a
girl's oalty through an engagement com
pact and then to take yeara to assure
himself thnt lie has found Just what he
wants. A younger face may suit him after
his aweelheart hss sscrtflred her youth
to catering to his whims. And neither
her wasted years nor her lsvlshly ex
pended love brings any return but sorrow
to ths girl who waited fir nisrriage to
crown a long engagement.
Advice to Lovelorn
Bf B BATS-JO VAimr-AJC TT
tek Her.
pcxr Miss Fairfax: I am a veung man
of 1 love a girl who Uses shout IM
nillta from heie. I went there to see her
Nome time ago Slid 1 surrlv hsd a good
time with hi r and her folk and ehs
treated me ( K . and her mother likes
me. too. I have aiven this girl some
innmty and many thinaa ahe axkei for. 1
love iter, that la whv I have done thla.
Kline I got back I have written to her
tiirea times snd got no answer. What I
want to know la what to de to tlnd out
if ahe still likes tne and why aha don't
anawer ItCO.
Io not despair until you hsve It from
her that she does not care for you. Writs '
and tell her frankly you love her and
want to marry her, and aha will then set
) our mind at reel.
Father Is Right.
Dear Miss Fairfsx: I am a young man
of 20 with a Knltion at tho noatofriee. I
am In love with a young lady of IM who
la dearly In love with m and keep
urging me to marry her. but her father
tih.lcf le aa I have no regular aslary. Tlease
advise me what to do In your lovelorn
column. It. II. H.
Iter father la right. It would be very
unwise for you to get married until you
sre in a position to support a wife. If
you are steady In your habits and faithful
snd prompt In your work. It will not bs
long until you will be In a position where
you can provide a home for the girl you
love, end then will be time enough to
think of getting married. It ought to be
a great Incentive for you to work hard,
with such a reward awaiting you. Hut to
wed and take on the reepotiRlbllltiea of
married life with no steady einiJoyment
ta merely to Invite mlaery. It would not
le fair to the girl to take her from a good
homo until you are In position to give
lu r one.
Ha Opea asg Freak.
Itesr Mies Fairfax: I am a young man
twenty-nine yeara old and I am very
much In luve with a areas widow a few
sears my junior. I am sure she loves
me. but as she Is of a different nation
allty her arenta and also her two little
Xlrla object very morn 10 our marriaae.
I am In bunltieas for myself and I feel
that with mv Income. I could eaelly pro
vide for her. but I do not feel able to
undertake the rare of her two children,
although 1 think the world cf them.
Ilow should I go about It to win the con
sent of ber parents to our inarriageT
A DAILY HKA1KH
You have no right to ask a young
mother to give over her little children
In order to wed you. What can you offer
her in their stead? If you love her. you
ought to be willing to take her children,
too, even If they are those of another
father. As to her parents, the only poe
Bible way to win their consent ia to show
them you are the right man to be en
treated with their daughter's happlnesa.
The parents of a grasa whlow" are not
likely to look with favor on aay second
hueband. unleaa ba has clearly shown
them his worthiness. And you must sihow
yours. One way td do it will be by offer
ing to provide a home fir the children
as well aa for the mother.
Vwae rareata Are Might.
Peer Miss Fslrlsx; I am a gul
years of sue and my mother and father
think 1 am too young to go with the boye,
do you think eT When a boy take yon
home from en entertainment should yoi
thank him or liim thank you? A girl
Bhnuld always spenk fleet when meeting
boy, hadii t they? CMie of my coneine
likes a boy and she cannot tell whether
lie likee her or not. They always apeslt
when they meet. How ,,- she find out?
Your parents a.-e right; you are too
young to "go with boys." A girl should
always thank her escort for his attention.
The girl is expected to speak first, unless
ths acquaintance Is one of long; standing,
then formality may be dtapenaed with,
tour eoueln can only wait: If the boy
like her, he will let her know. It would,
be very wrong for her to make any ad
vances to find out how he feels.
A Hint for
Coining Maternity
In a little book designed for expectant
mothers mors complete Instruction la
given In the use of "Mother's Friend.''
This Is sn ex terns I embrocation applied
to the abdominal muaclee for the purpose
of reducing the strain on ligaments, cords
snd tendons.
In thus bringing; relief snd avoiding)
pain great good, Is accomplished. It
aervea to ease the mind. Indirectly has a
most beneficial effect upon the nervous
system and thousands of women have
delightedly told now they were frws of
naupea. had no morning sicaneas and
went through ths ordeal with moat re.
tnarkabie suceeaa. "Mother's Friend" has
been growing In popular favor for mora
than forty years. In almost every com
munity are grandmothers who need It
themselves, their daughters have used It
snd they certainly must know What s
bJee.Ing It ts whan they recommend It
so waruily. Strictly sa siteraal application
It haa no other effect than to eeae the
muaclea, cord a. tendons and ligaments
Involved hence la perfectly safe to use by
all women. It la ued very suooeaatulltt
te prevent raking ef breast a.
"Mother's Friend" is prepared In the)
laboratory ef Bradfleld Regulator Cee
ut Lamar Did-. Ailaaiw, tie.
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