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Fitting Yourself to Succeed
Only by Doing Each Task with All Your
Might Can You Hope to Be Worth While
Ily ELLA WHKKLKH WILCOX.
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The head of a Mg mil.lncry establish
ment begs me to urge lrle to take some
Interest In their work an.l their employer's
success, laying that this will be the brat
kindness which could hs shown thm to
sunken their sense
nf personal re
iionetbtllty In the
work given them to
do.
Not long since a
brilliant woman
arose at - club
meeting and ad
dressed an audience
of more than 809
women. The ad
dress waa eulo
gistic erf women
generally, and con
tained a -pai Ocular
pica for ail women
to cxpresi .their
own Imllvjdiiaiity."
"Tlila ha been my effort for many
years," aid the speaker, "and It ('Id not
matter lb roe. whether 1 was expressing
myself -er not expressing myself aa a.
vood daughter or a good sister or a good
wite, so ujijf .H I f.lt I was expressing
myself, and giving the Individual rote to
my life-as a woman.'
There1' Is ' ti great denl of this kind of
talk., .bcng heard today In America and
In England, as well. The woman who
made the address is said to bi an ex
cellent, wire and motluf, but It la doubt
ful it' lier words would prove anything
of an Incentive for other women lo exeel
in thbre fields. ,
The speaker and others like her, do not
seem to realise that It is Impossible to
devln n m-rvrth while Individual charac
ter -Which counts In the scheme -of creation.-,
unless one begins by performing
every'duty and every obligation to tho
very highest of one's ability from hour
to hor. from day to day, and from year
to yean A score o( years Ago one of the
"advanced thinkers'" along this modem
lino of development expressed herself,
both ;' In'' speech and - in conduct to the
same and. She declared it to be har God
given right to live her own life aa she
felt called to live It, Irrespective of the
customs, traditions and Ideals of other
people. . . . . .......
As a consciuwice tills woman, who
possessed physical charms and a bright,
sparkling mind, marr'ed several men, al
lowing them to divorce her when sha
wearied of thorn, and left various chll
dren In various orphan asylums to be
cared for during her periods of roaming
about the earth, nearchlng for new
sources of "development." She wrote and
delivered andreeses when she waa not
marrying or unmarrytng herself. Just
what she has achieved In the way of de
velopment of her character or for the
advancement of the race In general Is
difficult to state.
Theories such ss she held many
women hold today, though they may not
so fully Illustrate them. But they are
mistaken theories, theories which mean
degeneration Instead of development -and
misfortune Instead 6f benefit.
The young women engaged In any bus!
nesA which brings them a livelihood and
who . taka no interest In the affairs of
their employers are alt tinctured to some
extent with there Ideas of "developing
along the lines of least resistance. They
are pursuing their vocations only .to
pass the time until some largeV oppo
tunlty present Itself.
It never occurs to them that the larger
opportunity will call for larger capa-
bllities im tholr pnit. They have no re
spect for or belief In the old Idea of
patient Industry and slow development.
but those ideas ore the right and the true
ones. Chnracter development Is like the
development of bulbs In the soil. There
may be a forcing process used which will
hurry the flowering season to some ex
tent, and even though this hurrying pro
cess may bring the flowering Mason
sooner the (lowers prove ephemeral un
lets the bulbs have rooted firmly in the
(.Oil.
Let this be your resolve: To do with
all your mlKlit each smalt duty given you
to do, and thus fit yourself for larger
duties and positions, which will come If
you are ready for them.
Attractive Early French Frocks
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YSOPSIS
June. - the. bride ; of Ned Warner, im
pulsively leaves her husband on tiicir
honeymoon because she begins to realise
that she nHJst be dependent on him lor
money. She desires to be independent.
June la pursued by Oilbcrt Hlye, k
wealthy marrlod man. - Bhe escapra from
hie clutcheswlth dlfttcultv. Ned searches
distractedly for June, and, learning of
Hlye's designs, vows vengeance on him.
Alter mauy adventures -Jnne is- rejeued
troro river plratea by Durban, an artist.
TWELFTH EPISODE.
The Spirit of the Marsh.
CHArTER II. (Continued.)
"One boat was driven by a. man with
a mustache in evening clothes n'nd a silk
hat, and the other driven by a round
headed man, carried a dark handsome
rellow with a black Vandyke, who stood
up shooting two revolvers. I fired In the
air.. The glguntic murderer dropped this
beautiful creature and she ran shriek
ing to my boat." -,
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llred and qoid and half famished and
frightened to death. 'And you're all
wet!"? She raised Jtme by the hand.
: ;;"Eh.gplit.of.Ut -Marsh," mused the
artist, studying June critically.
In a richly furnished office' which con.
tslntd nor hint of -business except for Ha
telephone' arid the long rows of push but
tons 'sat Gilbert Blye and Ortn Cunning,
ham' and T. J. Edwards in earnest con.
ferenpe, Cunningham still In his evening
clothes. Edwards still with Ms pajamas
buttoned inside his coat and the carpet
slippers on his feet. Button after button
the black. Vandyked man pushed, and
one after another silent, stealthily mov-ing.-noncommuhlcative-
men came in and
with grave faces received their instruc
tions and departed.
Henri and Marie stood In front of a
mottle faced Cesk sergeant with a sau-eage-llke
red mustache. f
"Volla:" agreeably returned Henri, "I
am ugh!- And he lifted "his foot sharply.
Mario had kicked him on the shins.
"He Is Jules lefon,V snapped Marie.
"Xon! Non! Koni-Kon!" i indignantly
objected. Henri, and there ensued a vig
orous argument.
"And I am Rose ' Hesper," eatmly fin
lahed Marie.
'What's the charge?" asked the desk
sergeant.
"Swiping a boat." This hoarse Informa
tion came from the overcoat and cap.
"I don't know about the Frenchman,"
whispered the phenomenally long police-
man in tne sergeant's red ear, "but the
giri seems to be all right Bhe knows
Officer Dowd. on the east aide, and
Morgan and OiToole and that bunch."
"Oh!" The Information seemed to have
some weight The officer raised heavily
frim his wide chair and wadded through
uic aoor Just back of him. He was gone
long, auenc minutes, but when he came
ms Draw waa knotted lnt wh.i
seemed permanent cerruaatlnns -an I
you're a friend of Dowd and Moran and
O'Toole and that bunch!" he thundered
at the luckless Marie. "Well, telephoned
m all. and not a one of m knows any
Itose. Hesper! Lock 'em up!"
"But monsieur. It la all a mistake!"
cried the pseudo Julea Lefon. "Made
molseluo Is no"
Crack! That kick on the lshlnn waa dis
tinctly audible throughout the little room,
but It had its effect. Henri at last had
the hint, and he shut his lips tightly to
-iiit-r ueiiram nis tiny mustache aa he
and Marie, to the Intense gratification of
the overcoat and cap, were led away and
locked In their respective cells.
In the .dainty rose anj white drawing
room which Ned and June Warner had
fitted up to be their nest, Ned sat la
consultation with Juno's father and
mother and Bobble Blethering ami June's
boson friend. Iris, and three detectives!
On the floor by Mrs. Moore's feet lay
June's handsome collie. Bouncer, but at
the first .mention ef Ms mistress's name
he was up and barking loudly.
J "Tour wife's dog?" said the chuf of
J -'Ned s detective force, and Ned nodded.
e U tame him."
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this navy blue cross-bar chiffon
cloth, mounted oyer stund-colored
eatln. A variation In the plaited
tunlo is the pointed outline. and
ootored net Is combined with tho
chiffon cloth on the bodice.
Through the toque is twisted red
velvet ribbon, dotting here and
there red cherries.
Black taffeta and chiffon are
combined in this fetching after
noon frock. Three circular ruf
fles of the chiffon mount in tiers
on the taffeta skirt, the chiffon
appearing again in the extended
yoke of the bodice. . A prim little
finish 18 the organdie collar. The
same quaint little air marks th
simple but suitable hat wreathed
in a black ruche and studded with
pink roses.
A corkscrew model exploited In
mole-colored faille, tier upon tier
of slightly shirred circular
flounces wind around the skirt. '
The semi-fitting bodice is finished
with a lace cravat, a touch of blue
peeping out In the wings of the
collar and cuffs. Black and coral
flowers' encircled the crown of the
1 sand-colored poke bonnet, .which
has coral medallion on the ribbon
streamer.
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Here, is a fetching plaid silk
frock. The full skirt of this green
and blue plaid striped In gold la
partially veiled by a very full tunle
of green net, the net being com
bined with the silk in the blouse.
Loops of grosgraln ribbon are'
drawn through a buckle as trim-'
ming for a sand-colored hemp tur
ban faced in black. ,
What's the Good of Wishing?
All the Good in the World, Provided One Works Hard to Make Wishes Real
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
How cheerful was the blazing fire as
June reclined In the tnglenook, a cup of
hot coffee In a taboret hy her side and a
comfortable drowsiness steallna over
her! Bhe did not know how pretty she waa
in the filmy negligee, but Bennett and
Vivian Durban did as they sat at the
little studio table, which was their fav
orite breakfast place, and turned pleased
eyes upon their beautiful guest.
A butler brought In the mail te the
Uurbana as they finished their breakfast
Durban walked out toward Ike garde,
lie seemed anxious to conceal something.
His wife followed. Dur'jan opened a long
envelope with an expectant snvle and
took from It a folded document.
'I'd tit Coutmucii Tomorrow.)
'If wishes were horses, beggars might
ride." says the old song; but I think
wishes are far better than that.
Wishes are the fairy steeds on which
we mount through desire to achievement.
And In the other old saying, "The wish
is father to the thought." there Is far
more of life's real truth,.
If you wish to be fine and sweet and
kind it is because you have in your soul
the germs of fineness and sweetness and
kindness. If you wish to be strong and
powerful and brave, it la because these
things are cradled In your personality.
The germ of your wish lies In you asleep,
and by wishing it long enough and
earnestly enough you are calling to It to
wake and preparing to develop tbe seed
on which you are dropping the sunlight
and rain of your own fertile desire.
No lion tamer Is likely to wish earnestly
that he were a poet. No ditch digger is
likely to wish strongly that he were an
astronomer. But If he should so wUh In
his heart, he will surely not be quiescent
In bis ditch digging or satisfied with his
Hon taming. If he truly wish, he will
hove on to the next stage the stage of
trying to realise his wish.
What you wish Is the measure of your
possibility for growth. What you truly
desire, and long to be, the force of your
own personality, must drive you to at
tain. '"Oh, t wish I wish I had a pair of
pretty new shoes and didn't nave to go
barefoot," sighs the little child of pov
erty, suppose the child lives with that
wish. Boon he must wonder: "What can
t do to make my wish real? How ran I
get those shoes T" if there is the germ of
common sense la the child's nature H
will soon come to feel that the way lo
get jour wish Is not to expect the fairies
te bring It to you. but to set about at
taining it. And Die wish has. already
borne fruit In the thought of helping
yourself to rise and attain your desire.
The thought of Independent personality
that must not ask, but earn, follows
naturally.
Te earn no to beg, or borrow or steal.
To earn what he wishes that idea comes
to the little child of poverty who wishes
for shoes, and in wishing for these sym
bols Is wishing too for decency and
cleanliness and a certain orderly relation
with the conventional respectability of
society. ' And so is born ambition.
This sounds, perhaps like a fable. But
It la the story of how a little Immigrant
boy who came to America in the steerage
began to work himself up In the world.
Thirty years ago be was a lad of 10
running bare-footed about the peat bogs
of Ireland. Today he Is a power In his
city and state.
"And It's all because I wished and
wished for those shoes, so I'd look decent
like other ladr," says he. "And then I
began to wish for clothes that wouldn't
shame my shoes. And then I got to have
an education for I'd got to wishing to
be like other lads and to wishing for a
chance and a place In the world. And I
saw I'd not get any of them by wishing
so I got to wishing to be able to see a
way to make my wisbes come true. And
I found work was the way. My Idea of
how to get on In the world is to keep
wishing and wishing and then you'll Just
have to see you must work, too. For
work's the only Fairy Godmother that
makes wishes real."
Wishes are horses for beggars to ried on.
up and out of poverty and degradation
and suffering any man can go If he
wishes with enough force for the worth
while things of life. Of course. If wishing
means lazily dreaming of luxury and
pleasure and all the gilt and glitter of life,
It Is likely to lead you where you want,
too.
The important part of wishing Isn't the
making it come true. Kor that happens al
most of itself once your lb gathers
enough momentum and force. The thing
about wishing that needs guarding and
dare Is wishing for the right things. You
have to cultivate discrimination and com
mon sense and htgh-nilndcdneM In order
to do any successful wishing.
Every one remembers about the maglo
ring In the fairy tale. It could grant
three wishes, and so badly were the first
two spent that the last one had to be
used for wishing everything back as It
had been at first.
If you are a little girl behind a counter
and are struggling along on V a week,
why don't you try wishing yourself out
of your rut Why don't you wish you
could make yourself so useful to your
firm that you will be a f7,0O4 a year buyer
some dsy.
And then after you have wished that
hard enough and long enough to have It
an ambition grown out of a wish sup
pose you set about making It come true!
Look about you for chances to serve your.
firm efficiently. Think up a wsy to er
range your counter better.
Try to please customers so they will
ask for "that sweet-faced girl with the
big blue eyes" when they come In to
buy their ribbons. Bpend part of your
noon hour looking about to see how other
shops arrange their ribbon. counters. If
you can draw, design new borders for the
fan'-y ribbons. Take as much Interest In
your work as you used to In thinking
how abused you were to have to work.
Of course, now you know that you are
not u bused at all for what you want In
the world Is a chance to be a well-paid
buyer, and there Is nothing to stop you
but your own Inability or laxlness or fail
ure to make the most of the chances that
He all- about you.
What good does wishing do? If it Is
good wishing It does all the good in the
world. It leads to effort, to ambition, to
honesty With yourself tu to your fair
chance In the world provided you are
willing to take rt It leads o accunipllnh
ment and to happiness.
Advice to Lovelorn
By BSATBXO XA1MTAX tSSS
' Uet Might the Habit.
I fear Miss Fairfax: I am a young man M
years old and have been keeping com
l any with a young lady one month my
unlor for the last three years. During
this time we. have never thought of our
company but as friendship. One day I
met the young lady deeply dltrejied,
and after helping her out of her-dtfft-culty
sha kissed nie,
. It seem now that our' friendship hss
changed to a stronver feeling railed love.
Do you think It wculd be too much to
ask tbe young lady to kiss me good night
upon departing to my home?
ANXIOUS.
If you are sure it Is each other you
love, and not the kisses, ask her tybt
ybur wife. With an engagement ring on
her finger you will have the tight to get
a good night kiss
' (ha are Araaalataaees. .
Dear Miss Fairfax: Will you kindly
tell me If It Is Improper for several young
girls employed in a commercial house to
arrange a meeting hetaeen themselves
and a yitnng man who' ex caslonally rails
up our oftlre and who hsa become very
friendly over the wire. 'I ls, of course,
being rather a meeting for curiosity sake.
ONUOUDATKU.
If this young man Is deeply Interested
In you he can easily artange to-be In
troduced Det him make the adanoes.
Even for the sske of a lark. It dues not
pay lo make yourself too easily attainable.
Ry KUIKKT HIRBARD
May women go to '-sr? Wom-n ean-
snd have and do. .
Clara Barton did. Hhe spent more
rears on the battlefield thrn did
Von Moltke. (Irani.
Khermsn or Sheri
dan. Clara Barton ad
ministered to our
soldiers' through
out the civil war.
She ..went to
Kiirope to forget
America's war and
found herself amid
he horrors of the
Franco rrusslan
battlefields.
The clincher to s, ; J
the whole round
of arguments In
opposition to
woman suffrage Is
tbe platitude;
Women cannot go
to war. thererore.
Ihey must not be. allowed to vote."
And again. "The flnil test of citisen-
ship la the ability to defend one s coun-
w ...
I henrd a man say. "How .K wouia
ook to see a regiment of women making
charge." . ' .
And his audience laughed. i
Hut a regiment of women have mede
charge, and neither the womoa who
made the- charge nor the . c-nemy
laughed. ''
When women fight they do so to save
their children,' their homes, their town, .
their country. Theirs Is a fight for freedom-
....
Women go to war, as did Clara .Barton,
as organisers of relief service, aa nurses.
as assistants , to surguons, as protectors,
as mother.
Do women think of the dangers of the ,
battlefield? No more than do men. It
Is tho mother spirit which Is aroused
and active, In women In war time.
The mother la the sacrlflcer. bhe does
not think of her own ssfety. wnen net ,
child Is In danger. .
Woman who come to the relief ef the
wounded on the battlefield. In .hospital
tents, are not mere ror me nusirw
something which we call "patriotism."
They are there to relieve suffering, to
minister to the alrk, to lake eare of and
save the lives of the people who make a
nation, who are the state.
This does not mean that women love,
the atate less, but she loves humanity
more, '
The quarrel? That alnke Into' oblivion
when men are stretching out arms lor'
help and she can save them. . 4
Confederate pain, federal pain, Prus
sian pain, English Tt rain is pain to
woman. . Jew - or Clontila, bond or , free,
are all one to her, . ,
rain creates a, democracy la the hearts j
of mothers, ...... i '
And here Is the only compensation that
I can sea In war, that H', humble ' our
pride. It brings us back ' to- primitive
conditions, to natural llrlng .end, pure
hearts If we are wholesome.- '
But the women; on .the battlefield,, tbe
women In the hospital tent, er hospital
buildings, the women who are nursing
woundod and sick who have ' been . re
turned to their native country for care.
are not those 'who suffer most In time
of war.
Buffering ta not alone a matter ef phys
ical hardship. ,
The keenest suffering a woman can
endure is that which her imagination
makes her suffer.' '
Her home life is broken when hus
band, brothers, the men of her nye
bold, are taken from her.
All the happy routine which made
home Is broken.
Her leisure Is not occupied by thoughts
of hone and anticipation of pleasure, fhe
Is not looking for the homecoming. Her
anticipation 1 of fearful news that may.
will come. . - '.. i .
(the reads the lists- of wounded a ad
killed. Bhe watches to see what regi
ments are engaged in battle. The head
llnea. "Great Loss of Ufe in Battle Kow
Going On!" makes the world turn Inky
black for her, and the blood reeedes from
her heart. ' '
There Is not an experience on the
battlefield that she has not lived
Imagination.
The pale crippled soldier's life Is broken
no more than hers.
She hsa endured all tbe physical hard
ships that the majority ef wives and
mothers are called upon to endure -when
the family provider has gone to war.
And added to these hardships, she baa
to endure every tragedy that the imagine-,
tlon can conjure forth. . Do' women go
to war?
Wherever there Is war women are par
ticipants In It. For whea men are sorely
wounded they lie where they fell,- and
there Is a limit to physical suffering.
When they fall' on the battlefield' they
sleop to wake no more.
But there Is no limit to the ' picture!
which the Imagination conjures forth,
day and night forever, and as long as the
woman lives.
Her war to never over. Th battles are
never finished for her. :
For her there Is never victory, no mat
ter who wins. ",.'"
Her heart Is broken, her life Is maimed.
For the woman must live on and on
and on.
There may be s reason why women
should not vote, but the silly statement
"Women should not be allowed to vote
because they cannot fight," Isn't It?
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