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PLAITED skirts will be a decided feature in late winter
and. spring models. The yoke effect will be used to give
a snug fit about the hips.
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Power of Mind Over Matter
Remarkable Case of Womnn 'AlTlictd'for Twenty
Years "Who Refused to Let Trouble OVvroome Her
Spirit and Faith Xow Encouraging and llelping
Hundreds.
"A Hinffn h Wi'c & By Nell Brinklcy
V w .VAAW ww W ' rw-M 1911 TntemT, News Service.
By ELLA W HEELER WILCOX.
(Copyright. 1914, Stsr Company.)
You were, perhaps, made unhappy to
day by a touch of neurtttB, by a sensitive
tooth, by a lame knee of by the In
ability to' purchase a fashionable cos
tume, or seat at
tha opera. If you
were writing to
( an Intimate an.1
sympathetic friend
you would prob
ably, express your
self In terms of
discouragement or
d I s a t Is faction.
Well, now whst
would you do if
for twenty years
'you. bad spent the
i si-ester portion of
! the time flat en
your bark in bed,
paralysed!
Then, If you had
lipen enabled for two or. three years jit
a time to sit up. sometimes even to stand,
and lo take a.few steps mit always suf
fering with what Is called a hopeless
spinal malady, often with the wolf howl
Ins at the door!
- I know such a woman. During; the last
year' ahe has been able to sit up, and it
seemed ..good. In the eyes of Providence
to afflict ''thV.wajre earner, this woman's
huehtfhd. With rrtalUrnant malady which
was" aitd', to, be', fatal, but this woman
wonder "has never believed It was fatal.
Bhe.' has bellevedi so positively that he
wouW-get better-that he Is actually im
proving. Now he writes: "I am still watching
the strk- man make extraordinary efforts
for health,. I am doing Just the same
for him- asit Bo- for myself. Clod Is the
healer.' Don't., you . be surprised if I
some day turn-aphyslcal handspring and
come to the front every bit whole, t
am not giving myself over to this Isola
tion; I am effervescing: I want to get
out and oe busy, and I am thinking of
going Into the printing line. I have got
Ideaa of my own concerning stuff the
public wants. I will lot you know as
my plana evolve. Just now the strain is
hard, but I am not aCrald. I am capable
of being and doing, i here goes. I am
anxious to give aunny talks to people; I
have a lot of Ideas which I think would
dn the world good."
The narao of this woman Is Mattle
Gammon, and aba calls her house "The
Punny Shack.)' and she lives In River-
sldn, It I. It Is well for you who are
feeling blue end complaining of the 111
usage which life baa given you to know
about such a character as that and to
feel a bit ashamed .of yourself.
It Is well to come In mental touch with
people who have learned the great art
of . patience; people who have cultivated
hope in the darkest hours, and faith In
pivlne Love through overwhelming
troubles and disasters.
Mrs.' Oammon was told threo years
ego, while she was only able to alt a
few hours In a chair, that ahe had a
ompllcaUon of heart troubles that made
it absolutely Imperative for her to 'keep
very quiet and not exert herself.'
But she had"-been "quiet" for so long, '
and she had been so vary1 eager to see
Kcw Y0rk City one more that she re
solved she must go to New York. Bhe is
a living, proof of what a mighty deter
mlnatlon and an unquenchable desire can
do.
Paralysed, alarmingly ill. unable to
walk, poor, and without Influential
friends, she yet drew to her, by her con
centrated thought on tha subject near
her heart, a friend who asked her to
come to New . York and spend some
months with her.
She wont; and the visit improved her
condition to some extant, and her asso
ciation proved of peculiar value to tha
friend she visited. Then came her hus
band's Illness; and she went hum to
demonstrate again the wonderful law of
mind over matter. And now oho Is writ
ing hopeful and stimulating letters about
the future, while thousands of people
possessed of wealth and health and youth
and friends are wilting despondent
epistles to their acquaintances!
Such a woman Is worth knowing, aad
her letters are "human documents.'',
They're Still Buying
and Selling Men
Are You Your Own
Boss?
So much has been said recently about
the revival of the plaited form of skirt
thst Its inclusion in the deriil-seaaon
niodes does not cause much eMbnlsh'i
. ment
It is here in Its original guise and in
various' adaptations of the same. .. .But
where It once was cut in straight
breadths and kilted from waist to ankle, rl
It Is now shaped In gores and the bell
outline la accentuated.
By way of maintaining the slim hip
effect, the yoke feature Is Incorporated
in the kilted models.
Women who are anxious to plan an
early wardrobe, may be fairly certain of
the plaited skirt with smooth fitting top
section. .,.
A- model -that Is not 'too radisal In Its
style, prenpunpemftnt -is Illustrated In th,e
sketch. It will be noted , that the .skirt
Introduces flat panels down the sides,
alternating with the plaited sections of
the front and the back. This permits
.ease and grace for pedal movements and
besides it is well within the fsshlon reg
ulations of (he moment. The hem Is 'cut
unevenly to give a crenelated-suggestion-which
Is featured In several of .the now
models.
Satin hats are replacing those of velvet.
Tl.s shapes have not been greatly ' al
tered and the trimmings remain simple..
The one in the picture la of black satin, -ornamented
with a impom'ot black ma-'
line. . . '
Little Mary's Essay
(New Year's Resolutions and Broken Vows)
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By DOROTHY DIX.
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New Tears Is the time when folks turn
over a new page, and goodness knows
they ought to.
Also at New Tears everybody makes
cood resolutions to
give up doing all the
things they like to
to do. and they go
.about for three or
four days so pure,
snd self-fcighteous,
and virtuous that
nobody likes to as
soclats with them.
The they gc back
to doing the same
old way and are
nice ad comforta
ble again.
E v a r y New
Years my papa
makes a New
Year's resolution
that hs will cut out
smoking for that
)'sar.,and ho is as . ,., - -
troa a as a sore-headed bear, and whep
he comes horns he slams the 'door, and
kicks the cat. and grouches about the
dinner, aad Jumps on us for everything
w do until my mumma ayi "Here's
that box - of cigara sour brother Jim
gave you. I hid them away because I
knew you'd want them, and for good
ness sake, smoke up and let us have
peace In the family."
And my lTncle Jim always swears off
drinking;' snd wken he comes to see. us
and my papa says, will .you haws any
thing, ha says: "No, can It I've passed
up tha drink for good and all, Bill, and
not a drop shall ever paes .mt lips
seala" And then he sits around " snd
ays that the country is going to 'he
logs, and. business is rotten, and people
rotten, and everything la rotten, and
just . about as cheerful to have
; around as a funeral, and my papa says:
, 'Cheer tip. Jim. and take a little for
lour atomach'a sake,' and Uncle. JJjjj.
says he believes he will Just this one,
but that he's taking a drink because
he Isn't feeling well, not because he cahM
keep a New Year's resolution.
And my manftna makes a r?ew Tear's
resolution that she won't gossip any
more, and she sits up so silent that every
body, says, "Are you mad about any
thing? And what makes you so dull and
stuptd?" And then somebody comes
around and tells her a real nice Interest
ing scandal about some -of her frlenda,
and before she knows it she's going It
hammer and tongs, and we all like to sit
around snd listen to her.
I am going to make some New Tear's
resolutions, ond I hope to goodness that
the people I make them for will keep
them.
First. -I -am -going to resolve that I
think that my mainma should let me
alt up as late as I like, and not to asy
t nie. 'Kan away, -little girl, and go to
bed.'" .whenever they begin Jo tell things
4hat I really.want to hesr." i
-second, t am going to' resolve that my
Vapa should taJre-me to the -movies every
j(tay..Oh,- how nice a. fahec..wuld be f
he woul.d only keep thst resolution.
Third. 'I am goingstb resolve that the
cook shall keep tha cookie-'Jar-on -the
lower sht-lf of the pantry where I can
get to it easily.
Fourth, I am going to resolve that the
cat won't lick all the Jam off of her
whiskers, so that it will be there when
my mama asks me who baa been In th4
Jam, and I ssy I spect it must be the eat.
Fifth,. I am. going, to resolve that ail
of my aunts and uncles will quit saying,
'"Sly, how she has grown," every time
they' see me, and won't all tell me how
much f look like somebody In the family
that they hate. , .
ftlxth,!1 going-to; resolve that all
my good,.-kiud tsachitrs will fall down
the steps and break their necks, 'so I
won't have to go to school any more, but
can stay home and play with my dolls
and my uew sled.
Oh, how much better and brighter this
world would be If we all kept our New
JXear's reaolutluns. . .......
By ADA PATTERSON,
have' lost my" taste for base ball,"
Itua woman,-spoke i with clearness and
decision.
"Rrr-ra-m." grunted Ahe man with the
u n I n tolliglb'lllty of v
the male, when he Is '
burled in the sport
ing page.
"I have. she repealed.
. "Wsxm'tr newT '.
. "I don't like the
vocabulary of the
base ball field.'
- "Maybe a little un
derdone." ...
"Overdone, I should
say. But I don't
mind its elegance. I
can understand that
In stress . men may
urge each other to
slide and may call
each ethej names that don't look pretty.
Buti when you read In a headline spread
clear across a "page, "Colonel Brown has
Bought rtha Grey flocks Team" you are
sfiocsd.trrtew -your delicacy has been
blunted. by itoo .much reading of sports.
When-1 read ""Harry Brandt Has Been
Bought -by-Jim -Griggs" I felt faint It
made me thMW of -"Uncle Tom's Cabin."
"But that's '..Jnst- what happened to
him." i L... ,
"Po you mean that, the splendid looking
chap sold : his ' muscles and his brain to
anyone on earth V
"He .certainly Ud
' "What' rights has Colonel Thlngamajtg
Over' hls now property?"
" "Well there are jeertsin restrictions.
If a player " ' --
"Can he tell him whether ho may call
on a girt this evening?"
"It he's In training, part of the-"
"Don't try to explain. Just answer
Tes or 'No.' That's what the lawyer
said when I was testifying in my Jewel
robbery case. It's a good rule."
' "Well, whacherwanda know?''
"Suppose Harry Brandt is In loya. .Sup
pose, as generally happens, you know,
that he is Jealous; suppose matters-are at
a critical point. There's a-now-or-never
time In a courtship. .Tou remember .that,
mv dear?" , .,--
"What's use bringing all that up? I beat
him to it. didn't I" ' ..
"Ydu . did, . But suppose somebody, with
a lot of money had bought you and" you
couldn't have called' before he did 'that
evening? Put Harry Brandt in your place,-,
my dear." .
"M-m. When a man's training- be's no
business to be In love." . . -' : .
. "As though Cupid ever chose' a coh
venient time. He's as you. would read on
the sporting page a born butter-In."
"Huh." I
"Suppose Harry Brandt had to decide
between the game and the girls? How
do you supposo he would decide?"
'He wouldn't decide. His owner would
decide thst for him. There's only one
thing when you're training and that's the
game."
"There you go. His owner. How often
must-1 tell you that nobody really owna
anybody. The game' is Inhuman. It only
confirms my state of' mind. I certainly
have lost my taste tor base ball."
'7a any game you've got to conform to
the rules.''f
"But Ihwrs is a gracious way to do
verythlng."
Uh, Huhj What would you suggest?"
The man sighed and laid down his paper.
'I would banish that word "buy" from
every transaction in human beings."
How about buying at Monday rooming
bargain rushes?" Aren't those rushes
fr.ni.Mll.M. K.HAAn kiim... k.l.v.. V
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX, -:
The question has no bearing on labor
conditions, or the manner in which one
earns his daUy bread. No one, strtotly
speaking, la his own boss under condi
tions of labor. The one who work for
others must taks orders from themt the
one who has his own business must take
orders from the publlo or his business
falls. .
The question Is asked oanoeraing yonr
friends. Do you walk home a certain
way every night because you choose that
street, or because a dominating' friend
chooses It for you? Do you spend
your evenirura in the manner that benefits
and pleases you most, or do you spend
them at the mercy or the dlotatlon of
others? Do you stay in and read when
you long to read, or do you put down
your book with a sigh and partake of
aome amusement or occupation for whloh
you have little heart, because a friend
Insists?
I Do you resolve to buy an Inexpensive
lunch at some cheap little restaurant
and spend more at a more ornately
furnished place because a friend insists
that you go there? Does any friend slip
an arm In yours and say, "Lsf s." and
with the word do all your resolutions to
do the contrary vanish in thin air? Are
you like a feather w'Tch one Mows this
way, and anothecuiows that way?
If you are, you are not your own boas.
and so long as you remain so weak willed
you will never make a resolution that
will live past the first corner..
Countless millions of girls and bors
and people older grown, never have time
to do that which is for their own good
because of the enoroachtnents of their
frlenda The might-have-beens receive
hundreds of recruits every day through
the waste of time made in the name of
friendship, aad those who count their
friends by the score pay a tax so dear
that days, weeks, months, opportunity
and life itself are counted in the cost
of It I
It Is as If ambition said to one, "I
wlll-'Walk-with-you all the way," and Is
pushedoff -the sidewalk in the next block
by . tlme-an-effort-monopollzing frlenda
One.jseLs out to accomplished certain re
sults; .'and 'before the work is fairly1 be
gun there, come friends, who, onither
caring for work nor. knowing Its) neces
sity, are looking for some one with whom
to play, ' Uke playful puppies, they can
not "play alone, andthe comparison does
not-'eod-hete, for the puppies are also
incapable,'' of .clear, unselfish considera
tion' or thought.. .
Itfrls'not'tgood to be too much alone,
and' I if is less good to never bo alone.
(tnei should have solitude, and one should
learn to.', love It and regard It as the
moat helpful and sympathetic of friends.
Yqu have a certain task sst before you;
every one has; that Is why wo are here.
You will never complete your work, and
the little you do will bo poorly dons, it
you permit one frienl to pull you this
way and another that way, till you bo
eome like a puppet In a show, with no
thought) or will or purpose of your own.
Be your own boss. Have a will of yonr
own. Make your own decisions and know
a good reason why, and abide by them.
suppose the woman who crowds yon isn't
human. Bhe's a friend."
"Don't be flippant. If those headlines
were "Colonel Brown Has Invested in
Gray Sox Btock' It would bo mora dlgnl
fled. And 'Harry Brandt to Be Managed
by Jim Griggs,' would not bo misleading.
Base bail has enough horrors. For pity's
sake don't aonjure one of tfc slave
block-"
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i w a -vttx xsif rfri i nit ft sr r i y ft i i i' i in- .w-
. . Do you think say chap around New Year's
time, who gees a dear of a girl standing- uadar
the) dark-freen and anow-whlte berriea of the
raistletoe needs that hint at all. at aO UTh
thinks ha could venture a kltt without It?
NELL BRINKLEY.'
Advice to Lovelorn &- ;";5ggr
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Qaestloa af Prsetaart.
Dear Miss Fairfax: On going In and
out of a theater with a young, lady which,
ahould go first, the young; lady pf young
gentleman? Is it proper to give-a youug
lady friend a small Christmas present?
A. T. V.
Always allow tha lady to precede you
In passing through the door, qltber going
in or out; this leaves yon in. a position,
to protect her? should she need It. Tho
propriety of giving a. gift depends on how
well you know the girl, and your footing
with her. This you can determine for
yourself. ...
Artlstle TrsBperaaaeat.
Dear Misa Fairfax: I am a xrhool
teacher, 'M years old. and I know and art
mire a young man of about 21 years.
Ha
la very find ef ire. and I of him. but he
has an srtistio temperament. I fear that
if we were to marry his artistic tempera
ment would 'cause bun to ignore me at
times, and I mtsht be unhappy.
Do you think the difference in eur ages
Insuperable? Would you adviie me (not
having the ."tamperameat" myself) to
marry. one. so artistically inclined?
, AMATUS.
Do you think a boy of II years cap
able of selecting a life partner? Except
In rare cases, I .loubt the advisability of
marriage i for a man so young, and I
think a girl of 34 years Is really a woman,
and so a, bit, oil) for a boy of n years.
However, this . Is . a generalisation, and
cannot be made to suit every case. "Ar
tlstlo tcmperanieot". Is SB elastlo .term,
and may be. used to cover a nature that
occasionally seeks Inspiration In solitude.
Also It may- bo used to gloss over a seW
flsli nature! ,The difference in your
ages Is not Insuperable by any means
nor is tha difference in temperament a
real barrier. Since you are a girl of
edurattqn, I advise you to bring your
best Judgment to bear on your situation,
and after, you have used your head to
solve your problem follow the dictates
of your- heart a bit. too. Your ordered
nature and dldactio habit may be just
the force needed to balance his more
erratic habits.
How to Beeoase Aeoaalatea.
Dear Miss Fairfax: Would you kindly
sdvlse me how to become acquainted
with a few girls? I go to bunineaa and
at night when I should be-enjoying the
air I remain at home, simply because I
hsven't any friends with whom I can go
out. I am loo young to bother with boys,
and do not care to belong to any clubs.
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Why not try to make friends with tho
girls who work la your business office?
Do you not belong to a church? If you
do, you ought to have no trouble in meet
ing other girls who attend the same place
of worship.
He 'Shaala Cosae tm Year llasae.
Dear MUa Fairfax: I am O and am
keeping company with a young man two
O'twra my senior. He wants me to call
at his pise of buatnnaa. ' f rora which
go out tone! her. ill1 .asouaa is that he
does not wart l stejuy parents. Thiy
never Interfered In our affairs or aaid
anything out of the way to him. He Ik
at present drawing fl5 per week, and
claims that it la not enough to live on
when married. Is It proper for nvn to go
and see him? Do you think htm in
earnest, a sovery time I speak to him lie
tells me I am the only one for him and
not to -mind his dealings with my par
ent.? . A. a.- C.
If this man truly loves you3somo of his
tenderness of feeling must eittend to the
parents you love. Insist pleasantly, but
sincerely on his coming to your home and
being amiable to your mother and father.'
Tkn .DeaaometratlTe) Girl.
Dear Mint Fairfax: I am a man. ii
years old, and. In love with a girl SO year
of age.
When I am at her home or wo are cut
together ahe alwaya insists upon nv
homing my affection for her, whether
others sre around or not I am often
tmbarraaeed because of this for It 1
my belief that caresses should be kept'
tor private demonstrations only.
I have on a few ocvaaions tried to sd
munUh her for this, but sho alwaya gel
angry, and Bays that if I loved bar i
would not ears -if the whole world weie
looking on.
Don't you think I am right on th's
quostlon? ID. T.
Tou were quite right In yonr fooling
that love snd affection are sacred thing a
The girt wou caro for is fortunate la
having a lover who is so htgh-wttnded
and considerate. Stick to your print pita
and try to make her take a (wore dig
nified attitude toaerds yuur mutual affection.