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Hie Bees Homme Magaziiie Pae
The Leader-to-Be
b) ELLA WHUKLKK WILCOX.
Copyright, Vla, ftar Company.
What shall the leader be in that great day
When we who sleep and dream that we are slaves
Shall wake and know that liberty Is ours?
Mark well that word not yours, not mine, but ours.
For through the mingling of the separate streams
Of Individual protest and desire.
In one united sea of purpose, Ilea
Ihe course of freedom.
When progression takes
Her undisputed right of way, and sinks
The old traditions and conventions where
They may not rise, went shall the leader be?
No mighty warrior skilled In crafts of war,
Sowing earth's fertile furrows with dead men
And staining crimson God's cerulean sea
To prove his prowness to a shuddering world.
Nor yet a monarch with a silly crown
Perched on an empty head an Inbred heir
To senseless titles and anaemic blood:
So ruler, purchased by the perjured votes
Of striving demagogues whose god Is gold;
Not one of these shall lead to liberty.
The weakness of the world cries out for strength.
The sorrow of the world cries out for hope.
Its suffering cries for kidness.
He who leads
Must then be strong and hopeful as the dawn
That risese unafraid and full of Joy
Above the blackness of the darkest night.
He must be kind to every living thing;
Kind as the Krishna, Buddha and the Christ.
And full of love for all created life.
Or, not In war shall his great prowess lie,
Nor shall he find his pleasure in the chase.
Too great for slaughter, friend of man and beast
Touching the borders of the unseen realms
And bringing down to earth their mystic fires
To light our troubled pathways, wise and kind
And human to the core, so shall he be,
The coming leader of the coming time.
Frocks for the Coming School Days
Republished by Special Arrangement with Harper Dazar
Common Sense vs.
Romance
i
By DOHOTIIY DL.
"Bob wants me to marry htm," said
the pretty young girl, "and I don't know
whether to say yea or no. ' Bob's every
thing that a man should be, honest anc
..onorable, and en-
1 rgctlc, and intel
ligent, and tender,
and kind, and con
Iderate, and crazy
about me. He la
one of the men
that are aure to get
on In the world,
and If I marry
him I'm likely to
be one of those
lucky Amer lean
wives who are pet
ted and coddled,
and kept In pink
cotton.
"Bat I do n't
know whether he's
a habit with me, or
a neceas 1 1 y. I
don't know wheth
er I love him or like him and I don't
know how to find out Just where I stand
or how to take the temperature of my
.ft'ectlon and It's making him grouchy
and wearing me to skin and bones."
What Is your definition of love?" In
1' I red the older woman, with a smile.
Oh, replied the pretty young girl," I
r "" If s a bunch of thrills wrapped up
i pink chiffon. It's romance. It's some
-op, dark, tempestuous emotion that
. ars your very soul In tatters.
"Now, as I said. I'm fond of Bob, but
hen I hear his footsteps I don t have a
Mngle palpitation of the heart. Neither
Jo I feel myself grow hot and cold, and
tiemble at his approach. I like to talk to
him, but I like to talk to other peop c.
too, and have a perfectly good time when
.' go to parties to which lie Is not Invl.ed.
"It's because I haven't got any of thj
ymptoms of love that people exhibit on
.he stage and In novels that makes me
u'rald to marry Bob. What If I shou die
taken with an acute attack of the tender
v mission for some other man after I mar
r ed him?"
"Fiddlesticks," exclaimed the older
v oman, "I thought you had more s ns.
The stage and novels are no better gu d s
In love than they are In bus:ne.s. Thev
deal with pure Imagination, where the
impossible happens. Somebody always
comes along at the psycho ol?al rro
ment and presents the poor, but nvle
hero with a million dollars or dl.ico. .r
he's the duke's long lost son, but that
kind of thing doesn't happen In roal liv.
"And It's the same way about love.
No sane, well balanced son ever has
all the fits, and sarts, and agues, and
jubilations and despairs that the heroes
and heroines of books and plays exhibit
when they are In love. If you felt that
way you would be a pour neurotics creat
ure, a ft subject for an alienist, and not
a candidate for matrimony. bo if youi
aio wu.ii.lntt to experience ail the wild ro
nuuitlc turnls Unit Lady Gwendolyn does
wiieu sue iudi U tut reriKat, it a tne sp.n
ster's ruii-vat tor yours.
"You win never have them. You are
to healtny and whulesuuie to have tnern,
ana Us a pity that you, and huuureus
of other g.n. iUe you, throw away the
solid eubisiuuce ot a good, honest afieo
tion lor the shadow of au impose, ole
urcam.
"11 nothing short of a crime that girls
get tnelr iueaa of love truni s.i.y novels
and plays, and that they expect not orny
the luipoasjoie troui man, out irum ttii-iu-seives.
They look at everything else
practically, but when It comes to the
si eat decision of their lives they are
guided by the vision of a poet or dreamer,
whoso juugment they wouldn't trust on
the buying of a calico frock.
"Belli.. e me, my child, romantic love
Is a n.ce thing to read about, but a poor
thing to tie to. If you will observe
jrou will ceo that the people who ex
p.olt it most got the most divorces.
"And the reason for this Is as plain as
the nose on the face. It Is Impossible for
romance to endure in the prosaic atmos
phere of everyday life. You can't cherish
any Illusions about the Individual w.tn
whom you live In the close quarters of
domestic life, and whom you see sick
and tired and hungry and cross, and by
fore he shaves and she Ukes down her
curl papers and puts on her complexion.
"Under the fierce light of domesticity
romance Just curls up and dies, and It's
because Its so short lived at the beat
that It Isn't worth figuring on. After the
honeymoon is over the thrl.liest person
doesn't thrill, nor the most lleallatlc see
gods or goddesses in the one he or she
has man led, so it's folly to lay undue
emphasU on symptoms of heart trouble
for which matrimony la such a quick
cure.
"But there Is an affection that does
ast It may not have any frills to It.
but It's built on the solid rock against
which the years and dally association
beat in vain. It'a the sane, sensible af
fection that Is founded on respect and
congeniality of taste and trust and real
friendship and comradeship between a
man and a woman.
"That's the ony kind of . love that's
eafe to marry on, and If you feel that
way about a man you needn't search
your system to find out whether you
thrill or not. You've got the only genuine
blown-ln-the-glsss brand of love, that's
guaranteed to be divorce-proof."
"I guess I'll say yes to Bob. said the
pretty young girl.
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Mans
Own
Thoughts
Control
His
Destiny
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School days are almost here atain. And the clothes for the
girls who are conquering the three Rs and other fundamentals of an
education, are again foremost In the thoughts of the wise mother.
Naturally she desires that her girls shall be suitably and well dressed,
and with the simplicity that marks good taste.
Her big girl, who has only a year or two of schooling ahead of
her, is wearing a long, straight coat of light cloth when she starts
out for school. There Is a high muffler type of collar in black vel
vet, deep cuffs of the velvet and a saucy tarn o shanter of the same
fabric.
Her sister, who has Just achieved the dignity of her 'teens, Is In
blue. The skirt is plaited and the coat with Its cape-like tendencies
is of a matching material. Her hat, a soft beaver, has only a
puffing of the silk in the same tone to serve as trimming.
The 10-ycar-old is so anxious to wear her new clothes that the
bard of fur on the coat of kersey is no detriment. Like the coat, the
little cap Is banded In fur.
The younger children are wearing sensible little frocks of linen.
Little Miss Eight-Year-Old Is very winsome In her dres of dark
brown linen, with Quakerlike collar and cuffs of stiff linen. Her
still younger sister has the most unusual and yet practical of pina
fores fashioned from claret-colored linen. The sombreness Is re
lieved by the ruffle of white linen at the neck and outlining the
sleeves. Even the baby has run out to say good bye, and her nursery
dress is the quaintest of all a scant, very short frock of flowered
muslin.
Bombs, Battles and Effect on Rain
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How to Lite Your Tan,
Frecklts or Wrink.es
A day's motoring, an afrermon nn the
ttnnis k round r rolf links, a tunbath 01
the leach or expos ne in a sea t li, otten
biings un a deep tan or v.vl.l . ri i n in nr.
i,i erpiexii g i 1. n l.'.ir-u cop
f reiki. A very ne es ary t'.lng th n Is
intrccl.s'd wax. hl h removes nn, t d
ns r freck'fs 'uiip eailv. It itealy
pe Is off the affected akin lust a llt.!
t a time, so there's no hurt or inlurv.
'i ,Ke ' 'n '-omea " f tri n -rt inv's i i
flaky part! les no trace of the treatment
Is si.own. Get fn unre if .mrc . z d Wat
at your dri.iKl't a and use tlib nih ly as
you would cold ram, ih si !t i.lf
mornlnrs. In a week or so you ni l hav-i
an entirely nw skin, b-amtf illv '
transparent and of a most delict whlte
re a
Wilnkles, so apt to form at ti ls season
mav be e II and q ln'y rem vel by
b thing the face In a solution of pow
dered, a orlte 1 os.. dl ol ed In wl ch
hafl pint T Is Is not cly a va u ble
a. tr'ng'n' u has a benellclal tonic ef
' also. Advert.aement.
Do You Know That
Among the Moors. If a wife doe not
become the mother of a boy, she may
be divorced with the consent of the
tribe, ai.d can marry again.
i "Honeymoon" was an -ancient beverage
i which It was customary to drink for
j thirty dsys after the wedding feast.
Bananas are fit to eat aa soon as they
have lost all their green color, and remain
fit. no matter how black they may be.
so long as tre skin is unbroken.
"Ia Marse'llalsc" obta'ned its name
name from the fact that It was first
sung In Paris by a band of revolution
aries hal.ing from Marseilles.
A Chinese father has the supreme right
of life and death over his children, and
Is not amenlable to any law in this respect.
Ily UAItlUiiTT l. 8KHV1SS.
"As a student of the Wendell Phi lips I
High school 1 wou d like to ask you a !
few questions on physiography. I have
studied about the clouua and cau es of
rain, but I would like to know If, when a
bomb Is exploded In
the clouds. It whl
cause a snower. 1
read of a man
who sent some
bomLs up In the
clouds and touched'
them off electric
ally, and after that
there was a shower
My mother said
many people be
lieved we had so
much rain because
of the bombs being
exploded In Europe,
but my father said
It has nothing to
to with these showers we are having. I
hope you can enlighten me on this sub
ject. John Keroher, Chicago."
I always avoid opposing a lady's
opinion, or even her leaning toward an
opinion. If possible. But In this rase I
am compelled to take your father's side.
The European explosions not only have
no effect In producing rain and showers
on this side of the Atlantic, but there la
no established ground for asserting that
they have a general effect of that kind In
Europe.
It Is a very old notlt that great bat
tles bring rain after them, and It Is on
celvab e that this might happen, not so
much on account of the shock of the ex
plosions, as on account ot the vast quan
tity of smoke and gases launched Into the
air. If you recall your studies you wl'l
remember that clouds consUt of extremely
minute globules of water formed by con
densation from the Invisible aiueous or
watery vapor present In the atmosphere.
This vapor comes mainly front the sur
face of the oceans, where It la forrmd
from the water by the heat of the sun,
through a natural process called evapora
tion. If you put a little water in a shallow
dlh and sr It out In the sunshine. It w ill.
In a short time, disappear through
evaporallou. and It you could follow the
Invisible vapor thus formed In Its fl ght
skyward you might see It wee cl u !
formed by Its condensation Into m cro
scoplc pa; tides of water. Often, on Hc
cuunt of the great cold preval.lng al hljft
altitudes, the particles composing a Uo-id
are frozen Into motes of Ice.
Exrerlmcnts have a!. own that aqueous
vapor usually does not condense Into thn
nrtlces that make clouds unle.s there
present In the a r a quantity of fine
Jiiat, each areck of whlh rerves as a
uclcus , around which tlia vapor c '
enses; or, unless siual dartses of ele
rblty are somehow Introduced Into the
vapor-laden air. The eli ctrh ty. llk th
ust, and perhups In connection with t e
f.ust sppears to form renters of Con
denaatlon, .
As long as the cloud particles rem In
! very minute they continue to flout n
' the hlKh atmosphere. The beautiful curl
, clouds, culled cirri, sometimes I ave a i
jallltudo of ten mllea, and they are p ob
ably alwoya In a fron n slate. Hut. wli u,
under conditions which we do not thr
ougrly understand, the pnrtlcles b gin ti
ml'e and thus form larger ard larger
globules, or drops of water the lncieai
Ing wdght of the Individual drops eaus' s
them to fall to the eurth, and wn have a
thowcr Only a certain percentage of the
clouds that appear In the sky condeme
Into rain. The real of them are dls lusted
Advice to Lovelorn
By Beatrice'
Fairfai
It Woald Be Oatrageons.
Eear Mlas Fairfax: I am JO and my
parents ale very poor. My uncie, a
brother of my mother' , has prcpom d to
me. I do nui love th.a man. lie Is really
nice to me snd my p)t, but when I
am with him 1 cannot bear him, and my
Mople all love him. Tliere tire many
chances for me. but he Is always In ttvj
wny. A. N.
You must not marry your uncle. That
custom Is a relic of barbarous times. In
many states of the union such a mar
rlttge la Illegal ar.d justly so. E 'en If
you levod this man your anawer must be
"no" and since you are nn even fond
of hint, you must dismiss him at once.
The Idea of the marr.ago of two so
closely related Is very unpleasant to all
right thinking people.
She Doesn't rare for Toa,
Dear Mlas Fairfax: f am fl and keep
company lih a alii two years my senior
I like her very much, but she does not
show very much affection toward me.
Whenever I go to sve her she always
aaka for my friends and does not fee)
Mtl.fi. 1 unleaa 1 bring them. If I should
bring them she alls In one comer with
thern snd does not ears very niurh for
my company. She always wants to kn-jw
everything that does not concern her In
the least. B H.
Clnce she so plainly shows that she
exrei for you only as a means for meet
ing other men. don't go to see her. You
owe something to your own pride, you
know.
lie Is raTly Small.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a blonde, 26
years nf age. Jimt alz fet tall, and have
been keeping tumpany wlih a young man
for the list seven years. He Is also a
blond, five feet four Inches. We were to
ho married In June, but now he talis me
owing to the vuat difference In our
hciKtils he can m er marry me, as tils
friends would rbllcule him.
1IKAHT-BROKRV.
The rhytlcal height makes no differ
ence, but bis mental, moral and spiritual
smallness make him unfit to marry any
girl.
Try to forget him and the seven years'
wssted In his company.
Deeldedly Hot.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a girl of 15
years, and am big for my eg , an1 al
ways taken for about li or U years of
sve. May I Use powder or keep company
l(h any young man. as my parents ob
ject? FIFTEEN YKAiUi.
Tou are too young to keep company
Ith a young man even with your pnents
si provaL
You are alao too young to nse powderi
youth never needs such questionable
methods of adornment. '
liuu li.tls.ble vaoi kain, and ti.ua ih
suuufci litre, us a vviiwie, uiwuys has a
coimiueiuble, ti'OUgh varnig, aup.y of
aqueous v..,ir.
Now, luku the case of a gruut buttle.
We ,.uu ..vii ln-k uusl fUiUL.s.. a.iU
iloriilo ciikr.es uie taxable of en ens
lug tne uqucuus tupur vi thu aim.a..e.e
to Inai.e ucuda, anu e know ihai o er a
ballc.ltiu l..iiiiLiim gu .i.l.iicS oi d
IiimsiI in iIib louii ol amunu and uwju.
piuuLis. am loiimu, uiiu we nifi r ti.at
iliu b.iiats ol bual. iiic slt ruau o. .n
nuiiieraUu projtutl.es iind I. e tr.iin nUous
thu. k and leverbeiallun of aittly re
l.tiatod exloaioiis ot tne uiol violent
amu, iiiui uiuuuue ulucinv umui biic. a
n the air.
It st-eins possible, therefore, that In
audi conditions, r tne ulr haptens to
ba heavily cl.arged with vapor, local ram
nay be piouui ed as an atmosti. e Ic
aequei to the battle aa If tne cLu.i
tbeinaelves were forced to we-p at the
pallul spectacle presented to them by
the maddened Inhabitants of the earth
below.
uut, while this la possible. It has ncv .
been established as a scientifically ac
cepted fart of observation. History shows
that sometimes great rains have wa ed
battlefields Immediately, or at a hurt
mteival after the ruhtuig ceased, but
t'.at. In other cases, nothing of the kind
has happened. Anyhow, It spears that
uch effects could only occur If t ie air
a ere already filled with vapor and if the
, batllu am. 'ongh i rr- I rg,, aOalc,
Bom as to area ana expenditure of u.
munition.
This brings us to what you hive read
about "a man causing ralty by exploding
bombs in the ciouds." No doubt the va
of which you read was that of O' .erai
Dyrenforth, who In 1W1 rnd 18S2. Uiuler an
appropriation from congrtsi, and the aus
lcea of tne Department ot Agrlcu.iure.
tiled. In Texas, the experiment of sending
up balloons charged with giant poder
and exploding them to produce rain. He
always claimed to have succeeded, but
several men of science who watched the
experiments, declare againat his conclu
sions, averring that what rain f e I during
the experiments on mine need before the)
were begun, and had no real oonnectloa
with them.
Cupyr.ght, liU ty cUr Company.
You who believe in lie power of mind
and In the coutruclie qua.it.es of thougii
need to keep a caieiat wtcli overy your
own thoughts and your own woida if you
Wuiuu carry con-
vii t.on to others of
the truth of your
theory.
There was a
woman who talked
mm h of her be
lief In the meta
physeal philosophy
as taught by New
Thought and other
similar cults. Yet
whn the Spring
time came, with
Its audden changes
of climate, Its try
ing w.nos and Its
varying atmos
phere, the woman
ta.ked ronllnua.iy of her bad colds, her
rheumatism, her headaches and her sus
reptlb.llty to weather Influences. She ae
scr.bed her symptoms and discussed the
various remedies for her aliments.
Bha was not aware, scemlngiy, that all
of her thought stuff was bvliig used to
make a mental rubb eh heap und that she
was preparing the way for faturo colda.
future headaches, future attacks of nerves
and rheumatism by g.vtng so much t.me
and space In her thought to these th.n,.
Another woman loves to talk of her
bad luck In small n atters. She Is sure
to be out wuen the person calls whom she
dealt. to see; she Is sure to be in when
the neighborhood bore calls; she never
find the thing she Is looking for n
shinning, ami that which she does not
want a always thrust upon her.
It does not occur to her that this la a
mental attitude which wl 1 Induce a cj..
tlnuutlon of these small annoyances. Wo
are constructing our destinies every m
ment of the day and night; tor our nU' t
dreams are governed largely by our d y
thoughts. He who keeps his mind fl.l d
with the thought of universal good and
the reign of universal love over all
things will gradually lift himself, above
the plane of petty ami . oiko and wi.l
find his ntgl.ts filled with refie himr
l aleep and di vclj of dreams or w.K lo
i given symbo Ir and heipful dr a ma.
I Mabel Uhfvird Ulilne of KlctimonJ, Vi,
hits reo n ly said some very senalo i
things on this subject. In a llitle m-ka
ilne called Self Culture she said:
"What a beautiful garuen we .oil
make of the mind If we reuiiacd i..t
those are thing entitles, but let us mUr
our gardens and see
'The ilrai t.lng, wo stumble over a
heap of ui.nl.ht y rubbish; tiuuhy, wo.tli
I' ss stuff, which we have a lowed to f II
u.i tnls corner of our mind. I-fe Ij oj
I reclous. too full of till is beauti u ,
sweet, grand, to give iiiiy of our t m or
energy to trash. We look to seu b.t
thoughts that come from nothing an 1
lead to nowhere; nori-cunsuque.it ui
thoughts about our affairs or others;
how many, many hours have been spe.it
this way. Let us dump this accuinuiatl n
out as quickly as posaible. And let us not
ai.ow this accumulation to find ea
tri.ncc." Rid your own mind of this rubbish
heap. If you are III remon.bcr it Is be
cause you have broken some law, physi
cal, nientul or moral, and set yourself
tl e tsik of discovering where the fault
lea and overcome It. If you can not
overcome It win. Ily by mental mi aus uao
.dher incn'1 ,, but mount lino do nut con
I nually tliuiK. or talk about your inaU
lks. ; if a lot of Hi tie d ffrrences. annoyances
.and vor Us puisue you, ret asained It It
beci.uuit tin j is dii'id'.-r In your mini,
and Dice th nxs hi' sent to you that
y u niu Know oui faults and lid your-
If ;f them.
i T.il e a Itde tlmf alon every day In
jc.r own loom. cIimc yuur eis und say
mei-t ly: "'I am fiod's child rnd slneo
Cii'l Is ail foodiiesa, love, wealth ard
pea e iviilnntlii lie would not send
nit any but g od fortune good hoaltn,
opiib n e and jh v r to do (.od. All
tlu ie tl lni-r bilor.s; to me ami are com
ing m wuy. All other things are but
temporary condition!. I have my heart's
d sl.T. I ain encircled by the arms of
I Ivne love, and nothing can cross it but
pence, owor and plenty."
; Then after you go forth from your
,room refuae to talk about your ill health,
your ill fortune, and your amioyaneee.
If thev must be referred to. dirmiss them
In a sentence. That Is the way to build
!'. rv.xMHrna from those which
you find unsatisfactory.
m I if
TO RESTORE
VITALITY
Loss of appetite, impaired diges
tion, sleepitHHn. as, Lotiily viak
nois and a fe Imp; of deprea co
are sifis of lowered vitality,
largely due to tha heat, and ex
haustion of the body's suppy of
phosphates. Recover strength,
vigor and vitality by taking
HOnSFOMD'S
Acid PhosDhato
(Noa-AlcoWic)
Keea a Wettle k year keas
n