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Guide Your
Children
Over Perilous
Paths of Youth
Copyright, 1914, by Slur Company.
By ELLA WHKKLER HTH X.
Again let It be urged that parents talk
with their small children on the subjects
which lead to, or away from, morality
and physical health. It la rank folly to
declare your child so
angelic and Innocent
that It is Immune
from danger.
Human nature Is
Its own menace, w hen
not guided by wine
affection over the
perilous paths of
youth.
Take your little
Ron, sir and madam,
when he Is able to
understand simple
language, and tell
hi in about the flow
ers: how they grow,
bud, - blossom and
bear fruit Take your
little girl of the same age, and let her
listen to what you have to aay on this
topic; but talk to them separately, In
order that they may feci how sacred the
subject Is, and that you are the only con
fidantes they are to have In this matter.
Impress upon them the Idea that the
plant needs to be carefully tended, and
gently used, or It will never carry out Its
mission; that the bud and blossom will
be blighted by careless handling, and the
fruit spoiled. Then make them under
stand that their bodies are plants, which
the great Creator Intends for the same
Process.
Say to them, "All this knowledge about
the flowers you will study and obtain
Kradually as you grow older and your
mind develops? and In the same way you
will learn the wonderful, malcstlc truths
of the human family.
"All that you can know now Is the
sacredness of your body and the need to
keep It clean,, In good health, and pure.
"If any one ever approaches you to
talk on thla subject In any rough man
ner, or to fcuggest your listening to any
Information which your parents might
not hear, or . it any one attempts any
familiarity toward you which you do not
understand, run away from such a per
son as you would from a dangerous
animal.
"Never say or do or listen to anything
you could not have all the world hear.
Never take gifts or bonbons, or flowora,
or toys, from any one you do not know;
never walk.lnto secluded places or vacant
houses with any one save your parents or
other relatives. It Is an evidence of a
luck of good bringing up . to do such
things; and never permit any fine to talk
to you on these subjects save your psr
ents. As your mind unfolds we will ex
plain all life's mysteries to you."
Children who have been reared In this
wise and Judicious manner will not be
victims to the monsters In human form
who so frequent pursue the Innocent and
Immature; and young boys who are so
tenderly Instructed by considerate and
sensible parents will not develop abnor
mal tendencies or become a menace to
society.
Almost any child is In danger of being
harmed mentally or physically through
Ignorance, which 1 m'staken for Inno
cence by most parents. It is appalling
to know of the number of casee where
young, unformed minds have been
emlrched by evil communications, and
where even serious physical disaster I
have befallen children through the lack I
of parental forethought and prevention, j
It Is appalling to know how many young
boys have distorted minds through the
same cause; lack of parental instruction; j
and the list people to know of the wrong
thoughts and actions of these boys are
the parents themselves. And even with
the strongest proof the parents often re
fuse to believe the unpleasant facts when
they are confronted with them.
One schoolmaster In New Jersey was
almost driven from the community re.
eently because he went In a kindly spirit
to talk confidently with parents regard
ing the behavior of their boyi.
Do not add yourself, my dear air or
madam, to the long list of such parents.
Become the friend and confidant end in
structor of your little human plants, and
prepare the fallow ground for their grow
ing and rich maturity.
Household Economy'
now to flare e Best Congh
Remedy end Save S3 by
. Making II at Home
Cough medicines, ns a rule contain i
lares quantity of plain syrup. A pint o.
granulated sugar with pint of warn
water, stirred for 2 sninutes. give you
as good tyrup as money can buy.
Then get from your druggist 2 ouncet
Finer (50 cent worth I, pour into a pin'
bottle and till the bottle with sugai
erup. '1 li is gives oii, at a cost of onh
64 cents, a full pint of really better eouuli
syrup than you could buy ready made for
2.50 a clear saving of nearly 92. Full
directions with i'intx. It keeps perfectly
and tastes good.
It takes hold of tlie usual cough or
client cold st once and conquer it in 24
hours.. Hplendid for whooping cough,
bronchitis and winter coughs.
It's truly astonishing how quickly it
loosens th dry, hoarse or tight cough
and heals and soothes the inflamed mem
brane in th cane of a painful' cough.
It alto stop the formation of phlegm in
the tli rout and bronchial tuWs, thus end
ing the peitisteut loos coutfU.
Tinex is a liigl lv concenrated com
pound of genuine Norway pine extract,
combined with guaiacol, an 1 las been
used for generation to heal inflamed
niembi aneg of the throat and chist.
10 avoid disappointment, ass your
druggist for "2 ounces of Pinex," and
don't accept anything else. A guarantee
of abeolute satisfaction, or monev prompt
iT, refunded, gets with this preparation.
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is x i ' '.
A joy Ride
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III 1 t.
A gray boy-faced man I know, who ta deeply In love
wlt,h his wife, looked Into the fire, flashing a teasing glance
at her pretty pinky face, with Its halo of nut-brown hair
and heaven-blue eyes like dew-filled harebells, who pat be
side him in a deep couch, and then drew his story out of
the fire-heart of the flame on the hearth. The mountain
mist a circled outside like the head-veils of dreary fairies,
and his story was told to the luxurious crackling of the
fire-spirit In the chimney and the wlnd-splrlt outside that
cried.
"I proposed to my wife In a swaying, old-fashioned
top-buggy in a flooding, driving rain on the prairies of
Kansas! It was a day that banshees wall for Irishmen who
have not been good. I was visiting on the ranch where
The Soul Is Always Pure
By MAURICE MAETERLINCK.
What would happen If our soul were
suddenly to take visible shape and were
compelled to advance Into the midst of It
assembled sisters, stripped of'all Its veils,
but laden with It most secret thoughts,
and drsgglng behind it the mysterious.
Inexplicable facts of Its lifer
Of what would it be us'iamed? Which
are tho things It would Ilka to hide?
Would It, like a bashful miMon, closk
beneath Its long hair the entitles s'ns
of the flesh?
It know not of them and those rlna
have never come near It They we're
committed a thousand miles from it
throne, and the soul ven of the prosti
tute would pass unsuspectingly through
the crowd with the transparent smile of
th child in her eyes. She nas not In
terfered, she was living her life whire
the light fell on her, and it. Is this life
only that she can recall.
Are there any sin or crime of which
she could be guilty? lias she betrayed,
deceived, lied?. Has she Inflicted suffer
ing or been the cause of teara? Where
was she while this man dcliverel over
his brother to the enemy? Perhai.a fur
away from him she was sobbing and from
that moment she will have become inoro
beautiful and more profound. . Khe will
feel no shame for what she has not d ine;
she ran remain pure In the mid it of ter
rible murder.
Often he will transform Intj Inner
radisnce alt the evil wrought before her.
These things are governed by an In
visible principle and'heajf doubtleaa, :.s
arisen the Inexplicable Indulgence of th
gods.
Arid our Indulgence, too. .-"trivo as we
may, we are bound to pardon and whn
death, "the great conciliator," has passed
by, is there one of us who does n it fall
on his knees and silently, with eveiy
token of forgiveness, bend over tio de
parting soul?
When I stand before the rigid body of
my bitterest enemy, when I look upon
the pale lip that sianJertd in, the
sightless eye that so often brought the
tear to mine, th cold hsnds that may
have done me so much' wronr Ji yu
Imagine that I can tlll think of revtnge?
Heath hacome and atomjd for all.
I have no grievance against the soul of
the man before m. Instinctively do I
recognise that It soars hlsh above th
gravest fault and the crudest wrenca
and how admirable and full of signifi
cance is still Instinct. If there linger
till a regret within ma. it Is not that I
am unable to Inflict suffering In my turn,
but It Is perhaps that my love was not
great enough, and that my forglvenesa
has come too late.
One might almost belle v that these
things were already understood by us
deep down In our soul. W do not Judg
our fallows by their acts nay, for these
Ar al-SeJf .'V.
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are not always undlscernlble, and we go
far beyond the undlscernlble.
A man shall have committed crimes
reputed to be the vilest of all, and yet it
may be that even the blackost of these
shall not have tarnished for one single
moment the breath of fragrance and
ethereal purity that surrounds his pres
ence, while at the approach of a philoso
pher or martyr our soul may be steeped
In gloom.
It may happen that a saint or hero may
choose hip friend from among men whose
faces bear the stamp of every degraded
thought, and that, by the side of others,
those brows are radiant with lofty and
magnanimous dreams, he shall not feel a
human and brotherly atmosphere about
him.
What tidings do these things bring usT
And wherein Ilea their significance? Are
there laws deeper than those by which
deeds and thoughts are governed? What
are the things we have learned, and why
do we always act In accordance with
rules that none ever mention, but which
are only rules that cannot err?
For it may be boldly declared that, ap
pearances notwithstanding, neither hero
nor saint haa chosen wrongly. They have
but obeyed, and even though the saint be
deceived and sold by the man he haa pre
ferred, still will there abide with htm
something Imperishable, something by
which he shall know that ha was right
and that he haa nothing to regret. The
soul will ever remember that the other
soul was pure.
When we venture to move the mystert-
I ou atone that cover those mysteries, the
I heavily charged air surges up from the
gulf, and words and thoughts fail around
us lke poisoned files. Even our Inner
llfd seems trivial by the side of these un
changing dcepnessea.
When the angels stand before you, will
you glory in never having sinned, and Is
there not an Inferior Innocence?
When Jo 'is read the wretched thoughts
of the rharlsees who surrounded the par
alytic at Capernaum, are you sure that
He looked at them? lie Judged their soul
and condemned it without beholding
far away behind their thoughts a bright
ness that was perhaps everlasting.
And would tie be a Uod If His con
demnation were Irrevocable? But why
does He speak es though He lingered on
the threshold? Will the basest thoughts
or the noblest Inspiration leave a mark
on the diamond's surface?
What God that Is, indeed, on ths heights
but must smile at our gravest faults S3
we smile at the puppies on the hearth
rug? And what Uod would He be who
would not smile? If you become truly
pure, do you think you will try to conceal
the petty motives of your great actions
from the eyes of the angels before you?
And yet are there not In us many things
that will look pitiful Indeed before th
gods aaaembtad th mountains?
Love Needs No Flowers and Moonlight 2$$ By
f"' 'jfr ' 'vp tt
she was staying, with all these beauties, that still you sen
about her to trap a chap's heart. And the rain rained out
of heaven. for days.
"And I wsb in love even worse than I am now! And
the rain wouldn't stop. So I drearily drove out In the gray
waste In an old buggy the rain curtain up, the water
beating drearily on the sides of It, the mud (do you know
Kansas mud in spots on that sea of prairie that can stretch
In the sifn like" a tender green ocean Do you know Kansas
mudT), the 'mud plopping drearily at every circle of the
wheels, the gentle, old. fat, blind horse ambling dreamily
along, mist everywhere, dreary trees, dreary distances,
with the blotting, whipping rain and Inside we two, I with
the girl I loved, pretty and mad because the rain was in
her face! And I put my arm around her and proposed
Marrying a Man
Ay BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
"Vuii cannot make n silk purse out of
a sow's ear," goes the old proberb. No
more can you make a fine man out of a
scoundrel.
I believe firmly In letting every soul
rise 'from lis dead self to better things. "
I do not think that one misstep In life,
or even a half a dozen sad blunders,
should cunitlgn the offender to eternal
puniHhmciit or should shut him from a
chance to do better. The point at which
I stick la the uumide agency.
To continue our pnrabln. If the sow
were to try to Improve Itself and to be
come a better vanety of animal, t,hat
would bring results. LSut no outside
agency can do much with "'the nature of
the beast." No more ran any of us ralso
a groveller in Die gutters to a climber to
heights merely by exerting our benign In
fluence. The man or woman who marrle a
notoriously wicked Individual In the fond
belief that their Influence for good will
be able to ounteract all the natural ten
dency to evil In the nature of their be
loved Is distinctly undertaking the thank
less task of trying to make a silk purse
I out of a sow's ear. And It cannot be done.
The weak, iinregenerate person you love
might well iiiuke something out of him
self or herself If they ehoso. Kneourage-
menl and falih are splendid things to give
a sinner ho repentoth,
liut don't marry a man to reform him
And don't wed a girl In the touching be
lief that the Influence of your home will
save her from the things from which she
wou'd never try to save herself.
Siipposo a man haa always found his
pleasure ' in being the gayest and most
unprincipled of a dissipated company.
If a seet girl happens to attract bis
fancy and (o strike lilm ns a desirable
wife, and she marries him with the laud
able purpose of saving him from his evil
ways, what happens? For a while the
youthful lure and charm that attracted
him hold him. Then ho begins to tire of
the same sugary sweetness day after day
and he longs for the things that have
been part of his life during long your of
dissipation.
And the efforts of his wife to keep him
from evil companionship seem to him but
llre.oiiH' preachings. Quarrels and misery
and bitter regret crowd out the honey
moon Joys. And the man who could not
reform himself Is not reformed by the
little girl who took such a daring chance
In the hop of saving him.'
If the girl had demanded a year or two
of clean living as a recessary forerunner
of her gUing her love, that Incentive
might hate caused the man to make an
honest extrtion to reform himself. And
that lies In the power of any one who will
try. Belf-regeneratlon Is not a difficult
thing to accomplish, particularly when
there Is sufficient Inc.r.tlve!
When a man meets some silly and even
just after she had said, 'Anybody who'd take anybody else
out driving a day'
"And she took me. And from then on It was a Joy
ride. It shows how much she loved me, to say 'yee' In a
netting like that!"
And his pretty wife closed her fingers over his bigger,
browner hand and counter-thrust, "I only said yes because
I was afraid I would be set out to walk If I didn't!"
"Just the same," mused the man, "It proves that love
doesn't depend on stage scenery and flowers, summer
moons and sunshine, and color and laughter. A Joy-ride
Is made of the stuff In your heart! Rain-drowned wastes,
dreary beating rain, thudding mud, a splattered old buggy
with a wry top, and a fat, blind horse, and a mad girl will
do liove Just a well!" NELL I3RINKU2Y.
to Reform Him
daringly Indiscreet gli'l, and marries her i
In spite of his friends' pleadings that her
qualities are not safe to "llo to" for life,
the experiment la likely to work out
equally badly. A woman to whom bright
lights and hilarious good times and elab
orate, costumhig have come to be all of
life, moy be temporarily won by the hon
est affection of a good man. Hut If this
love haa awakened her to moru than a
passing emotion such as she would feel
about any new toy, there Is grave danger
that when she meets th realities of
home-making and housekeeping and the
sacred responsibilities of marriage, they
will bore her. And what Is more natural
than that she should turn again to the
things that once spelled all of her term
of lifer
Don't yield to a fascination exerted
over you by some one of the butterfly
sort who will not make a good husband
or wife. Don't marry soma one because
you have a martyr wpirlt of getting them
under the wholesome Influence you are
sure you can exert over them.
The man or woman who will not re
make themselves bocause they come to
see the error of their waya, cannot be.
made over by the external Influence of
anyone elaa. Help those who want to help
themselves, hut don't undertake the Job
of making anyone over unassisted. The
man or woman who says he or she can't
"go straight" without you, probably won't
go straight with you. iltnth people have
got to pull and pull straight In double
harness. Don't marry to start a reform
school.
Remember. "You can't make a silk
purse out of a sow's ear."
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Advice to Lovelorn
Test film by Indifference.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a girl of 1
nil am very much in love with a young
man, nut li auin t seem to be verv
aeriously In love with me, although he
U-lls me he loves me. How am I to win
his love? O. M. 11
No way to win the love of a man Is
known, but to deserve It, conduct your
self in all wsys like a lady. Do not ex
hibit any especial Interest in him or his
affairs, and he will very soon find out
whether he cares for you. If he doeso t,
you had better forget him.
Foolishness.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a young man
?.". years old. I am In love with a girl
ten years younger than me.. She has
told me site loves ine. and then ana in she
told she did not love. What must I Uo
to mske her think inure of me? I am
almost heartbroken It. C. It
When a man of 2' begins to talk utiout
bring heartbroken for the love of a girl
of U I begin to think he doesn't know
what he is talking about. The little
Nell BH nklcy
girl Is showing much better sense than
you are. If you want hereto think well
of you, cease to bother her about love,
and try to act like a grownup man.
Qaeetlon of Klae.tte.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I wrote, you some
time ago, but did not see any answer, so
Judgod my letter must have gone astray.
Will you tell me whether Is It proper for
a young man to tske the young lady's
arm, or for her to take his when ceming
liit'iif at night from an entertainment,
i'ersnnully, I favor his taking her arm,
as I think It looks nicer and Is usually
more protection, but I have been told
that the proper way Is for her to take
his, and would like to know for sure.
"CONVKNTION."
Thla qdery was answered several weeks
ago. Indoors the conventional usage Is
that the gentleman should offer his right
arm to th lady, and ah should lightly
rest her hand on It. Outdoors It la op
tional; no definite form I required.
Modern practice, If both parties are well
and strong. I for them to walk aid by
side, without either taking the arm of
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advise others to do iikewan.
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Why America Should Now
Ltad in Beauty Cultart
and FashionB Part 3
The French as a natlnn have taste, tradi
tion and remarkaMe. dcxerlty In the finer
tranches of manufacturing, and this un
usual combination probably explains the
fact that they have absolutely led the
world In the
originating o f
fashions. Thryi
have nut only
made fashions
i tf their own
' women, but when
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1L ' ' It r"nie ne women
f ' ' - f I 0,her coun-
; ' -fl rlrl'' ,llPy h"Ve
provmeu special
designs for them.
Any country that
takes this su
premacy from
Franco will in a liirne measure bo forced
to duplicate conditions existing there.
As was said In an earlier part of thla
lesvm. the originator of the dressmaking
business In l'arls was on F.ngllshman and
the business heads of more of the Import
ant firm there were foreigners. While the
French am thrlty and painstaking, they
are not particularly successful In big or
ganisations, and It Is In this direction
that the foreign element has been to the
fore, In making n bin business out of the
various small Industries that made up
formerly the dressmaking force.
In France Ml the materials for drwss
mah'.ng or at hand. llk are now pro
duced In large qusnlHles in both England
and Ai -erlra, but l-ons leads the world
In producing the most beautiful brocades,
velvets, nil the higher grade of dress ma
terials. The same Is true of laces, trim
mings and embroideries; while the rest Of
13urnM and America produce them, the
most exclusive lines are in France or 1
near by.
In regard to the workshop the French
have had a great advantage over other
nstlnns. The. French working girl partly
by Instinct, partly from training and
heredity, takes naturally to needle work
and every branch of dress produolng.
The designing of gowns seems In the
very air of Paris. Its art galleries and
musntims provide the necessary docu
ments, and the fact that costumes have
always originated there furnlshea a cer
tain Inspiration. Yet that the French are
the only originators of successful de
signs la disclaimed by the recertt world
wide success of the Russian and Munich
designers.
Not tho least important asset In Parts
supremacy In matter of the toilet lies
In the support given It by the women.
French women have sufficient taste to
direct their own costumes; they ham auf
ftclent knowledge of the art of dressmak
ing to trust thrtr couturier when It I
best to do so. They have a respect for
this business and It is their respect and
encouragement that has raised It to an
art
(To te Continued.)
the other. Should they come to a place
where assistance might be necessary, as
a street crossing, or a bad plaoa In the
walk. It Is the usage for th gentleman
to take tho lady's armthat he may be of
help to her ns she progresses. However,
It Is quite proper to walk arm In arm
out of doors, and It doesn't greatly matter
which one take the other' arm.
Allow Yoor Daughter Company.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am th mother of
two daughters, one 13, the other W. They
have both been kept away from young
men and not allowed to atand and talk to
them or go for a walk with them, be
cause their father Is so strict. They often
ask me what harm there is In going for a.
walk or talking to young men. They tell
me that when a girl is forbidden to go
with boys that's the time to go with them
and hide It from their parent, which 1
worse than speaking to them In front oC
their parents. ANXIOUS MOTHER.
Why not permit your daughter to ln
vita a few friend to your home oocsy
elonally? If you allow Uiem a little nat
ural and simple association with, boys
they wilt not lay too muoh strea on the
charm of masculine society. I think you
might even permit your M-year-oldi
daughter to go for a walk IT she returns
home by 9.
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