8
TIIK HKK: (TmAIFA. MONDAY, XOVEMHEIt 0, 1014
F
e j:-!S Rome Jvfe
-1 li lI 1 17 ' I
The Mind of Man Who Can't
Keep Away from an Actress
. 3;.V;j.-.v ?.;,
By DOROTHY DIX
Thackeray (tmoui dictum that ny
woman can rnsrry any man she wants,
provided she htm l an actual hump rn
her back, ought to have a modern amend
ment to read,
pecisuy la thla the
ease if she i an
actress."
Of course, serious
minded men fall In
Jove with actresses
and marry thr-m all
quite properly and
happily. Hut why
do married men lose
thoir hesd In tho
presence of ac
tresses, whll the
rest of womankind
da not upset their
uaual balance."
About tha daughter,
of tha footlights
hangs a myaterlou
and fatal fascina
tion ' that ft w scsm
able to res: it, and they go down before
her Ilka tip wheat before ffi sickle.
Callow Johnnie stand In Una by the
taff door for the privilege of seeing a
ctar pass to her automobile, and send
bouquets of orchids, with jewels hidden
In them to dressing room door. Happy
ne. and envied among the. fellows, who
ran hire a box at the theater and point
to tha third spear carrier In the second
row of tha chorus and boast that he has
a bowing acquaintance with her.
Thla phenomena of. the obsessloh of
men about tha actress la beyond account
ing for. It Is merely to be recognised
aa t fact. II Is all the stranger because
(Ureases are not. In reality, tha flowers
of their sex. Far from It. With her wig
off, her make-up washed off, and tha
habiliments of every day living sub
atttuted for the Huffy rurflee of tha
at age, the average actress Is no whit
belter looking than the ordinary domestic,
woman. Plie la even less Interesting and
companionable, for the stage life Is the
narrowest and most egotlstloal existence
on earth, and It la the exception rather
thin the rule, to find an actress who
cither knows or cares for anything but
the tittle-tattle of behind the scenes, or
who can tear her thoughts long enough
away, from her own genius and how she
"stood "em up" at Oshkosh to even con
aider anybody or anything else.
., Nevertheless, the actress Mi only to
smile and crook her little finger end the
sons of Adam get up and follow her
where she lists. This would not be so
curious If only the Jaunrase doree and
the gay old rounder, about town . were,
allured by the painted faces of the stage,
but . sober men, hard-headed, practical
business men are not Immune to that
glamor either. They also fall before It.
A man may be a dsason In the church
land a pillar of society. He may be as
domestic os the house rat, and apparently
t nrniro wim me Kind or a wife and
children that I'rovlUence has vouchsafed
I him. when here comes along some perky
i llttl actress, who gives him a glance
jout of the corner of her eye, and a (iifille
, over her shoulder and, volla. the man Is
i done for.
His head Is turned hind part before,
and he soes all life cmssways. His wife
I becomes a clog upon him, all her virtues
land sacrifices, and hard work for him
are forgotten. , His children, formerly
hi boast, are tlresoms little brats. His
home that he had once thought comfort-
: aoie ann attractive. Is unbearable. lie
J tojlns to think longingly of divorce and
j to sperulo'e about how little alimony he
cu'd buy his wife off with. And all for
' tha saks of a woman that his reason,
. when he stops to think, must tell him Is
! outside of his sphere of things, and with
j whim he has nothing In common. It Is
. the never to be explained attraction of
the flame for tha moth, and In a world
j where Justice Isn't done as often as It
' should be. It is a comfort to know that
the moth generally gets his.
j Why Is It? What Is the secret of this
subtle fascination: No one can answer.
Probably as good an explanation aa can
j be offered is that eome of the glamor
or the romance that she deplete on the
stage lingers about the aotreas like the
faint perfume of a garment laid away In
lavender. Perhaps, also, men can never
quite get out. of their eyes, when look
ing at an actress, tho dasxle of the foot
lights over which they first saw her, and
which glvea - her always' to them a
radlanos that ordinary women do not
possess.
Then, too, the actross Is bound to be
a woman of temperament, fine Is a crea
ture of moods, sharp contrasts, and this
keeps a man's Interest continually
piqued. Compared to the domestic woman,
she Is like highly eptcrd food to bread
and butter. Above all, she haa that
charm of charms that we call magne
tism. ,
Add to thh the fact that It tickles the
vanity of a certain olasa of man to he
seen with women whose names are on
avery Hp, and you have a tolerable work
l'ig diagram of why actresses fssclnate
men. 1
It Is. howsver, the condition and not
the theory that Interests us, and. Inas
much aa It la true that every actress
seams to possess the whole kit of tools
with which sbe ran burglarise the hearts
of mon, the balance of women have rea
son to be thankful that tha women on
the stage commit so few depredations on
the home.
The Conquest of Mont Blanc by Cableway
Ascending the Monarch of Alps, with Ease and With'ont Fear of Accident
Little Bobbie's Pa
VZ"Z?&rtZ&B mJMrr&mLM ?yi;mnrv:;-rm?V
1 j a'rmmTmuymwm:w Kjmim-mumiMmmm WTfK. m JZJ Ji TX v.muuum uw v.ia.. mmmm i ''a
f ? ' '7,'""V :i;;x !.,; ; .V;, .. . A. ? k y 'jrt, v '4 aH '4
Is Planet Mars
Trying to Con
verse with Us?
' '- !
j.
Uy.WILLUM V. KIIIK.
Pa brought Mister PtiBan hoom wllh
Mm last id's. A they had a nice visit.
Ma dlriont have a pice vlr't. beekaua
r-a talked all tha tlmo that hlk trend
wasent talking, so Ma St me Jeet kind
of llasena. Every time Ma llesens at nlte
Eldle here, sed Pa "o Ma. was my best'
.chum a ay -hool. wi won a lot oc iisnia
sen we wns kids, nltent we. RddltT
Tag we did. sed Ta a frend. and we lost
quite a lot. .too. Do you remember tho
time that llttet red bedded tallar licked
you mad you aqueel?
Ta got kind of red In the faca. I
newer squeeled In my Ufa, he sed.
You squealed that day all rite, sed
Mister Pugan. Rut I am sure this fight
Nalk won't be Interesting to yure wife.
This! is nice wether we are having, leant
U, b Sed to Ma.
My wife always likes t have men aa.
tertala my friends, sed i a. beeroas Ma
got a chanst to say ajylhlng.After alt
what U there In this life thatU nicer
than an amiable wife a deer llttol
child T As Bhakeapeer used to say, Moam
la where the hart It
I auppose ao, sed Mister Dugan I fcev
ent had a hoam since I aa a oy ran
away to art. Wen I cairn back my deer
old fatbr and mother were ded a
Oermea fambly was living In tha house.
It neerly broak by Hart, beekaua I waa
very fond of my parents.
Ma was lost guing to eay eumthlng
about that, but Pa sea,' Tea.. Kddle, 1
remember how good you were to yure
mother. Tou used to deliver all of the
waihlng that aha done for the naU re. Do
you reemember the lime that you held
out cenU of her warning mutiny you
A me wnt buught fish'ng Uoale with
ItT That waa a hot sketch, waae'it UT
My mother newer Mttcv It,- eetuer. sed
Pa's frend. I used to pinch a lot of the
munny she earned washing, er , old
mother. I can see her howl
1 can see my mother, too. sed Pa. I
newer knew a woma.i f wkn I was so
fond of. except my wife. of. courrs. 1
know that It used to matk ma feel kind
of sad when I thought of how I newer
anoeatru her letters. 81e alwsys made
um excuse for me, ton, like that I was
' busy, etc. . Our deer larente, Eddie. It
seems good to think tl.st wile thay was
living we waa always so fond of them.
I thought a good deal of my dad. too,
ed Eddie DugkD. I reemember how 1
used to luv to set watch him malk
rings with his pipe. He used to set In
tha front room smouk, bekaus ths
steam from the bolllnir water always
bothered him won mother was washing.
He used to think imvtr of her than the
nabora Imagined. ed Mister Dugan,
beekauK one time wen she sed that ho
was laxy It neerly bronJt his hert it.
! was afrade that he waa going to lose
; her love.
Then Pa Mister Dugan went Into tha
library. Pa sed that na wanted to show
hla frend sum of his. books, but Ma
me knew what they waa going In thare
for, beekaua we cud hear the (lessee
wen thay drank to there, deer parents.
Hobble, sed Ma. men think women Is
Queer A hard to undorstand. but I must
say that men are the limit.
p.
.H --.d it
- AiMMnlmsri 'i M n I t.-Hi'- iftt.-ttTnrl.ll
l-:;-: -- -4v, --r-;!: ..rr- : .
- The taming of the Alps proceeds apace, and now a cableway has been built on the flank of Mont Blanc Itself, so that the tourist can
reach the Col du .Midi, 11,680 feet above sea level, leaving mere trifle of some 4,000 feet to be ascended on foot before the summit Is attained.
The aerial Journey takes twenty minutes, each car accomodates twenty .passengers, and the cost of a ticket is seven dollars. The ascent In tha
ordinary way costs, on the average, about sixty dollars. . " i,; vv
Race
Suicide
and Euehic
.When Love is Dbtie
Xlhtn Women Suffer
No remedy gives greater relief than
AnU-kamnia (A-K) TabloU In ail condw
tiocs generally known aa "Wonten'i
Acbos and One trial will satisfy
any woiiian thai sbe baa at last louoj
li.s retuedy she has so long beca Unk-
Are you dUtresnixl gher eatinsT Po
you Lave nautxia when ri ng in J.s can
or on the train or boat? Titka A-K Tb
wis and g3i intuint relief.
Cenmln A'K TalUf ieu JU M
tomogram, Al mil DrmggUt
t
lly DR. Hill HLK Y W. WYNNK.
Large families are fast becoming a
railtyi the birth rate of the world la de
clining, and oo the one hand we hear
tha cry of race sutrMe, and upon the
other the cry of the follower of Malthus,
that we are awakening to the danger of
overpopulatlng the habitable earth.
,Th race sulcld alai mists overshoot
the mark In the enthualaam of their
, cause, and the theory of old Malthus haa
been laid at rest with the old gentleman
himself. y
If we Inquire Into the causes that are
responsible for the lowering of the birth
rate we find them complex and confus
ing. Intimately Interwoven with the so
cial and economical problems of the day;
briefly they may be elated to be lata
marriage: easy and early divorce; the
mad pursuit of pleasure and growing dis
taste of home life; Increasing proportion
of unmarried persons la the population,
due to the higher atandard of living de
manded by all classes; the unwilling
ness of young persons to assume the
burdens and responsibilities of married
Ufa without an assured Income;, the ad.
vent of womi a Into business and the pro
fessions, attended by a consequent
neglect of domestlo training; the Increase
of the social evil and the diseases It gives
rise to; the deliberate avoidance of child
bearing-ln short, the selfishness of man
kind. When we reuse for a snomeat te
thoughtfully consider these causes, we
are struck by the rieee relation they bear
bear te each 'ether, and the realleatloa
that they have the If oMgia In tha social
conditions of tha -day, la forced home
upon ua.
Ths deillne In the birth rata Is offset
to some extent by g magnificent lower
ing ef the death rata, particularly among
infests under I year of age. the result
ef the universal campaign of educatloa
that Is balng waged by publie and private
health workers. As the scope of thla
Lmip U bygleaa and good health, or
1
rather good living. Is extended so as to criminals of our great rttlrs: granted-!
take In adults, who after all are but but la It not because foreigners and their
overgrown children, as It la today In the children constitute the greatest bulk of
Ufa Extension Service, Corporation Wei- our population? And la It not also true
fare and other similar 'movements, slrk- that they are for the same reason pro
nesa and death win sll further diminish. duclng the greatest number of soicoeesful
At last we are awakening to the truth
of that-old adage that "An ounce of pre
vention t worth a pound of cure."
Righteous lllng. moral and physical, Is
the gospel of the Tay. and It Is toward
this end that science Is bending Its best
efforts, thst "the child of tomorrow may
die an hundred years young."
The followers of old Malthus. while
advocating the limiting of offspring, de
plore the fact that this limitation Is
practised ouly among the' so-called edu
cated or better rlase, and they express
the fear that the unedi'cated will pre
dominate within the next half century.
It Is true that it Is only ths better clasa
better aa judged by the standard of
worhtly Voasesslon, hoc of morality
that limit thulr offspring. That this, how
ever, will cause a return to Ignorance la
a nightmare that has place only In the
minds of those egoists who. In the vain
glory of their own exalted t?) position,
forret whence they have come.
Tor can we honestly believe that they
who are so selfish of their own physical
comfrts as to deliberately and entirely
shirk the burdens and blessings of parent
hood are fitted to be and raise, child
ren; ta It not better for the world at
large that their sp-les should disap
pear by a process of stlf -extermination?
And, furthermore, who are the financial
and Intellectual - giants of today T Are
they net the offspring of the lowly of
)tsterdayT
WOI not the giants of the next genera
tion likewise rise from the lower classes,
and Is thla not all the more ta be ex
pected in view of. the advantages of
education now within tfci reach of all?
Is not ths pinch of roveny the greatest
stimulus to success? They who scoff
are indeed blinded by their own egotlsn.
It has been claimed the foreigners
contribute the largest quotum ta the
men and women? And that despite their
unfavorable environment In the crowded
tenements of our congested districts.
Klnce the mighty have sat In Judgment
of the lowly let us !n turn pasa Judg
ment on the offspring of the great men
of the paused generation. How many,
or rather how few, if them fit or have
fitted the shoes of their fathers; who,
rising from the lowly, amassed great
fortunea or made thomanlvea famous to
the scientific or political world?
The Creator works in a mysterious
manner Hla miracles to perform. The
Uolutljn of the problem that confront
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX
"WhenViOve shows signs of leading
Don't try by tears and grieving
To win him back!
That way he'll only stay another day;
Get out hla trunk without delay
And smiling help him pack!" '
Many of ray girl correspondents ' write
me ead little letters pleading with me to
help themwin back lovers who show
algna of weariness.
"My fiance doeen't seem sure whether
he loves me or not," writes R. M. 6.
"His father wants him to marry a richer
girl. He acts bored and restless every
once In a while and leave me but he baa
always come back so far. Maybe he won't
some day, and then how will I bear It?
What shall I do? I feel as If I couldn't
bear this uncertainty any longer. Help
me, please, for I am almost craxy."
My, poor, dear girl, If you have to bear
separation from the man you love, be aa-
us lss In the gospfl of education and sured strength will come to you.
brotherly love. . Tou have now the harder task In n-
Advice to Lovelorn
r SAxrCB rArmrAX J
Want Does lie Meaa by BailaeT He
Levea Tost .
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am ti and am
keeping company one year with a man
seven years my sanlor. I love hun very
dearly and he tells me he lovos ine. 1
would like to know his Intentions, but
how am I to find out? Durutg that time
he has given me alk hla attention, but
never scorns serious. H don't intend to
keep on much lunger, but It will break
my heart to part. I have had offers from
other nice men, but I don't care for tbeio.
1 wl'l be anxiously waitiug your advice,
Respectfully. M. M.
When a man tells a girl that he loves
her he Is generally asking for her lov
In return, and that means that be wants
her to be hla wife. Are you sure thst
your friend la not far more serious than
yeu think? You might pique hla Interest
by telling hint more of your other affairs
aad ashing hla advice, but do not bring
names Into the conversation that would
not be fair to the other men.
Tell Hls What Haa Happened.
Dear Miss Fairfax; Four or five months
ago a young man, with whom 1 have
been going for the last twelve years, left
the city- on a business trip, and before
he left he told me to look after hla girl
friend that Is, take her out, etc. eu she
wouldn't be lonesome. I have done this,
not wisely but too well, and the con
sequences are that a mutual affection
has sprung up between ua.
My friend la now giving up his Position
on the "oad. and I am at a loss as to
what course to pursue. If I go with the
girt I will lose a friendship ef twelve
years' standing. If I , act otherwise It
will be unfair to all concerned.
READER.
The only course for you to pursue Is
that ef entire honesty. Talk tha matter
over with your friend te'.l htm of the
love you have come to feel for the girl
he trusted to your care and that you feel
that ahe should be given the opportunity
of choosing the mas for whom she really
carea. If your friend la a manly fellow,
I think thla course will save the friend
ship of long years' standing.
Uy GARRETT P. HERVtSS.
If Planet Mars Is Inhabited, according
to the belief of astronomers, and Its
dwellers are far superior to us, because
of their great advantage over our mod
em scientific Im
provement, how Is
It that its Inhab
itants are- unable
t e communicate
with us? D. B,
Possibly they are
not unable to com
municate with us!
Why not assume
that the fault la
ours that we are
too stupid, or too
uneducated, to un
derstand Interplan
etary language?
Borne bright, though eccentric, inir.ds
among us have detected what they sus
pect to be signals transmitted through
tha ether from Mars or Venus, and ether
specially addressed to. the earth or else
flung out Into space on the chance of
their being picked up somewhere, but
such persons are generally regarded as
impractical dreamers.
Yet nothing can be surer than that a
race of intelligent beings, capable of
doing what Prof. Lowell and others aver
that the Inhabitants of Mars have done,
would not only wish to communicate
with other planets, but might possess the
means of realising that wish. v
Light signals have been suggested as a
jnethod of Interplanetary communication,
but as far as our present knowledge
serves as a guide It would seem that elee
trio waves, like those employed in wire
less telesrranhv. After
ise of success.
An electric signal would come from
Mara to the earth vrhen they are. nearest
to one another (about 36,000,000 miles) In
something over three minutes. The same
algnal would take less than the sixtieth
of a second to oross the Atlantic. We
can drive the elect rlo waves a oross tho
eoean, but to drive them 13,000 times far
ther would demand millions of times
more energy, and that, at present. Is
beyond our reach.
It does not follow that such energy Is
necessarily beyond the reach of the sup
posed Inhabitants of Mars. In fact. If we
eocene, the rinnMirin. s r i
- -"-" .v.i t-TJ .11 II -
oerning the achievements of the Marians
at home, It Is only logical to think that
they could construct a wireless telegraph
plant capable of sending message te us.
It certainly would be ne more wonderful
than the gigantic system ef Irrigating
canals, supplied with snow water pumped
from the polar caps, which baa been con
fidently credited to their engineering
genlu by the same optimistic observer.
If there are highly Intelligent be trigs on
Mars we can hardly doubt that they
have long been speculating about our
planet, which must be a very brilliant ob
ject In their sky. If, further, as Inhabi
tant of an older world than ours, they
posses vastly greater command over the
force of nature than we have yet
achieved. It seems certain . that they
would make an attempt to communicate
with Us, or at least to find out whether
we exist or not. "
In that case what would they naturally
do? They would send out some form of
signal which their intelligence told them
must be recognised by anyco respond
ing Intelligence as being of artificial, or
Intellectual, origin. Such a signal might
be very simple, like a series of dots and
dashes, varied in a anggestlve way. it
1. now a considerable number of years
ago since MY.. Nikola Testa noticed, dur
ing some electric experiments on Pike's
Peak, certain mysterious disturbance af
fecting hi Instrument, which he sus
pected might be lust such signal from
another, planet. But, as far as 1 am
aware, nothing ever came from his ob
servation, and no systematic investiga
tion was undertaken.
Contrary te the sentiment of the .old
t Franciscan motto, one world is enough
for most of . us, .for we are yet deeply
; buried In the ancient ignorance which
regarded the suns and worlds around us
as mere light In tbe sky. If the Mar-
, tlans could transmit though apace .esse-
during uncertainty, if you bad to face , trie energy enough to curl the luminous
your tragedy you would march to it like banners of the Aurora Borealis Into
the soldier going to. battle. Uncertainty , cryptic sentences hanging across the mid
and not knowing what you have to meet! night heavens, then we might wake up
are the hardest part of your sad woman' ;and rub cur eyes and say to ourselves:
conflict with love. ( . j "Truly, w are not alone. Creation con-
Are you brave enough to hurry your tains other Intelligences and they are
moment of reckoning? Do -you dare of- trying to talk to us."
for your uncertain lover 'hla freedom? If j
you could do this bravely and lightly. 1 """"" "
wtth no walling or reproaches. It might
frighten your fiance into a wonder if
you could have tired of him. And the
fear of losing you might' chain him to you
aa no sweet certainty that you will be
there waiting can do.
Nothing la ao dead aa a dead lnfatu.;
tlon. If he Is really tired of you, he will
resent any effort on your .riart to hold
him In honor bound or to galvanise hi
dead love into life again.
Thla la your course If you are too un
certain and desperate with uncertainty
to wait for love to come "back at the
laat to you."
I firmly believe that 'Tho' lov may go.1
s-wnucnnf iur unw ne cornea noma
at last" unless he had died while trav
elling. ' " ' .
But don't be a coward and cry or whine.
Thla will drive him away quickly.
Smile and be sweetly desirable and un
expectedly unattainable
Smile and aay: "This is no' cage with
bare Neither of "us must art aa If It
were. Do you want to go 7"
Don't remind him of your dream and
plana of the love and happy thought,
of the kisses and all the dear sweetness
of your happy lov day. Just offer to
pack love luggage and wlah him Ood
speed on his Journey.
Love could never go If this were don.
Love would stay to remind you of all
you had bravely pretended to forget
And If he goea make your life splendid
In spite of h'm. For If he leaves you, you
won't lose love only a very poor Imita
tion lover.
Put yourself out of your unhappy un
certainty. B. M. 8. Don't let a man play
fast and loose with your peace of mind.
Facts you can fa-e. Tilting at ahadows
will wear you out.
How
to stop dandruff
and loss of hair
Shampoo with hot water, rub
bing thoroughly into the scalp the
tbe rich, creamy lather of
Resinol Soap
so eoftsa aad stimulate the scalp,
toresBOve the deed ekia and cells, and
te work the soothing, healing Has tool
aalssma well tat ths toot ef the hair.
Bias la gradaalry cooler water, th
final water being cold. Dry th hair
thoroogaly, without artificial heat. This
simple, agreeable method almost al way
stop daadrafl and scalp itching, and
keep the hstf Irre, thick a-d imeiroua.
ose4sSJO carried. tW sakj free.
Write ts Dapc -f, Kesisol. Baititaose. Hi.