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By DOROTHY DI.X
One of the blta of freak Irstslatlon that
was pnpoal last season ss law to
prohibit flirting, and to m&kc it fslony
tar either nn or woman to bestow at
tenttona that were without Intention
upon a member of
the opposite mx. Of
course the bill died
a-bornlng. aa it de
served to, for tha
gns-coo ayes Is not
amenable to the
statutes. Like the
wind. It rolls when
and where it will,
and no legislative
naotmenta ran
limit Its power, or
abridge Its Joyoua
freedom.
As Ions as men
are man and women
aro women, flirta
tion will he the
greatest same In
the world, ami any
attempt to stop
gambling in hearts will always meet with
popular execration. So far as matter
of tha affections are concerned the "ltd '
will always be off, and people will be
ready to take chances. It Is better to
have been made love to In sport than
never to have been made love to at all.
Is sentiment which obtains among both
men and women.
To eliminate flirtation would bo to
turn life from poetry Into prose, and to
do away with moat of the visible supply
of romance. It every man were required
to file a schedule ot his intentions with
his attentions, if every woman had to
give bands that her smllea and her
glances meant all they seem to Imply,
existence would be robbed ot half Ita
amusements,
Moreover, there would be no more
mixed parties. Society would be divided
into hen clubs and stag gatherings, for
there Is, In reality, but one toplo of dis
cussion that men and women have In
common, that they understand equally
well, and in which tholr mutual Interest
never flags, and that Is the eternal sub
ject of love,
Bar this suhject from conversation, and
women would prefer to talk to women,
and men to men. No man decoys a
violet-eyed little debutante into a Palm
ettaded corner to dluuuHs the financial
outlook, or the foreign loan, or ... e
presidential possibilities with her. No
woman could gossip about fashions with
a man from 8 p. m. to 1 a. m. without
yawning. It is the oleotrlc possibility of
love, it Is the playing with a firebrand
that may at any moment leap into a
blaze of passion that gives zest and spice
to the social intercourse between men
and women.
Of course there are stern moralists
who believe, hat flirtation la one of the
w
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The Battle of Life
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
With ourselveu rests the issue of living
up to our aims
"Did you tackle the trouble that came
your way,
With a resolute heart and cheerful?
Or hlda your face from the light o( day.
With a craven soul and fearful?
ounce,
Or a tio iblo Is what van ntuke it,
And it isn't the fact that you hurt
that counts,
But "lily, how did you take It?'
Most paeple fancy that this world would
be a splendid plaoe if, in the words of the
Rubalyat, thty might "shatter It to bits
end then remould It nearer to the heart's
desire." But that cannot be done, and
recognising the impossibility of moulding
life to suit themselves they face this
choice: Either to remould their own
natures into the ability to conform with
life, to let chance shape thein for good
or evil, or weakly and peevishly to with
draw from conflict and become nucleus
"quitters." i
There is nothing in the world to stop
any human being from guiding the bark
of hia'Ufe, To tall to do this means lazl
neasa, incompetence and dosplcable weak
ness. If you make no effort to guide your
life you are nothing in all the world but
a coward.
A step below the rank of coward Is the '
weakling who quits. Blood brother to
coward la he, since he does not make
nny struggle In the conf let of life, but
he Is worse than coward because he with
draws from life, acknowledging defeat,
'defaulting; without ever euterlpg the race.
Hermits and suicides who struggle
weakly to escape the life they are un-
rfltlns' to faca came from the ranks of
'uultters."
Lift Is a burden to some, a problem, to
others and. probably to almost no one
is it pure Joy. Hut the fight to make life
worm while Is In lUtlf a splendid thing.
Any trouble that is bravely faced lie
pomes a trlng observed througii the
wrong end of a pair of field glasses.
Cowsjdlce, through, or hopelessness will
be as a magnifying glass to difficulties.
Tha man or woman who looks at life
sanely and calmly has in that very point
of view found beginnings of uhtdient
good soldiership Once you determine to
inarch with life, to be neither one of
those who stand still, nor yet of those
who fall fainting by the waysido, you
have In that very dutcrinaiuuliuit made
the beginning that promises your life
shall be successful.
livery obstacle yon overcome mukes
t'-e next obstacle in your path a little
i..lef to overcome. Every fiwlit you
ms.se wun external mischance or your
twn weaknecs gives you artdej power to
n.ake the next flht Kverv time you
conquer yourself and foroe yourself to
face the difficulty bravely and compe
tently you. become better able o to face
difficulty.
Almost every one of us is a soldier in
the army of life; some aro just privates
and some are offkors, but over all there
U a 'Supreme Commander."
About the first fact In life that it Is
important for yuu to face is that you will
always be under orders. There is never
going to be a time when you will be
justified In regulating life to suit your
own ploasuro and convenience, nor will
tht.-o ever be a time when It is possible
to do this.
8a (tret Of - 8,11 you must teach your.
seven deadly sins, that a man should
never make a tender speech to a woman
unless ho In ready to pop the t icstlon.
and that a woman shuilil never look
sentimentally at a man, even when she
has on a white (liens and la sitting In
the moonlight, unless she is rea.ly to
hnt-foot It to the altar with him, but
this Is too strenuous a view to tuke ot
the subject.
A man may admire a charming woman,
and enjoy telling her so without want
ing to marry her, and a woman may
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having any matrimonial den' ns upon j
him. It's a poor (routine that looks a
gift compliment in tliu mouth, and de-
iiihiiiIh that everybody shall make pood!
on their pretty speeches. It Is enough)
for ua when thing are made pleasant
fcr us, without inquiring too closely Into
how it was done.
Just what class the Ihw m ln.it flirt
ing was !es Hied to proluet b l ot clear
Not women, sunly, for to suclry ia a
woman's beat friend. It is the wrapon
with which she prolects her own heart,
and by which she secures a husband,
and keeps him after she gets him. As
long as a woman practices the fine art I
of flirtation, she keeps a man's Interest
piqued and alert, and he never grows
tired of lier, and It Is because so
many wives grow tired of the same of
hearts and throw down their hands that
so many husbands drift off to .other
women who are experts at playing it.
So far as men are concr rned, to pro
tect thorn from being flirted with would
be to deprive them of a most educational
opportunity. In the "Dolly Plalogues,"
that eminent philanthropist, Ijidy Doro
thea Mickleham. referring to tha work
of her heart sal hef hand, pointed out
that a young ivmn who, when he fell In
love with her, waa a simple country lad
who wore his trousers ton short and his
hair too long, and played the flddlo,
emerged from the flirtation a thorough
man of the world, a credit to his tailor,
and a source ot pride to his friends.
1-a.dy Dolly was, of course, an artist,
but all of us have seen lesser miracles
happen, and there Is, In rallty, no better
cure for the bumptious, cocksure youth,
with a swell head and an inflated nensa
Of his own Importance, than the enlight
ening experience of being well jilted.
Naturally, there Is some danger of a
heart being occasionally hurt In a
flirtation, but the risk Is so little that
It is scarcely worth considering, It takes
a very stupid person not to recognise
sincerity when he or she sees it, or to
be fooled by pretense, and as long a
an Imitation fire starts no conflagration,
we are Justified in ranking, flirtation
among the comedies of life and not its
tragedies. ,
self to recognize the fact that lifo means
discipline. It means orders to take and
carry out. It ineana a certain routine of
living to go through. It means conqer
Ing your desires to individual and reoog
nislng the fact that you are one In an
army of individuals.
In the end a good soldior conquers him
self and (indf) that In this victory he has
won also a victory over the world about
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I womler how 'twould bo if cows
And bona and duckg wero household pots,
And banished far wero prowls and meows,
As witness in theso silhouettes T
Romantic History of California and West for Visiters to the Fair
By OARRKTT P. KKHVISH.
At this moment, when tlia subject l
before tho minds ot so many millions of
Americans who havo never been across
the Hocky mountains, I want to add tny
piite of dithyramb
to the praiso of
California, tho Ta
ciflo coast and the
way thlthei.
To cross t h I
great continent la
a fsr richer ex
perience than ' i
cross an o c a. n.
Instead of (Vtoitf
lost in a monot
onous and vacant
; Immensity you ret
foM I n 'li;y!-,
I imoni tha swnvj'V
Ing homes of men ,
or amid the most varied scenes of living 1
pature. ' s' ,
You see a thousands places and things
that you hat'O read about since your I
school dsys, and. as aq American, havo I
been proud of. You ., the great lakes
and the wonderful cities that have grown
tip along their shores:,. fThe entire world i
does not contain another such phe
nomenon as that chain of . lakes, with
their connecting river- and the asso
ciated array of HVaJ capitals of Industry,
commerce aud beauty wnjcb, spring for
ward In population, every decade, by
leaps of hundreds of thousands.
None of 03, without taking thought,
can begin to comtHrohend, what this con
tinent means with Its one language, one
government, one law,-and one Ideal from
ocean. to ocean! That is another phe
nomenon that the world cannot match,
and that must be scon, and felt, as it
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There should be music in every home on Christmas morning
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This suggestion would settle
many a petty question.
By PERCY
were, by actual touch, before It makes)
Its due Impression upon the understand
ing. If you travel across Europe, when you
have gone but a few hundred miles, ami
sometimes hardly more than a hundred,
you hear a changed tongue, and sea a
different pi-ople, with other manners,
principal and masters. Another day's
or half-day's Journey, and another va
riety of man is before you. These peo
ples spring from various historic roots,
and have differentiated themselves
through many generations and many
centuries. As you go from one to an
other the moral atmosphere changes.
All this, of course. Is Interesting and
educating to the traveler, but he learns
only half his lesson and falls to catch
the. true Inspiration ot the modern age
If he doea not look upon the opposite of
this Kuropenn picture of disunion and
of mitral and Intellectual diversity a
presented by the continent-broad unity
of America.
In going from New York to Fan Fran
cisco you pass through the home ot
C Advice to Lovelorn
BY ATKXOa VAXmTAZ" , 1
ll direful In Your f'ouduvt.
Dear Miss Fairfax: We are three gtrla,
II years-old, and we would like to know
the pron-r length we should wear our
dic. Wti were asked by three boys
to no out walking next Hunday afternoon.
Hliould we tell them yes or no? Two o
fs are nearly 1 and there is a boy that
U always asking us to go, out walking
with hun. We do not rare about Kolnn
with him and have refused him many
tlmex. He still asks us. What should
we tell hlmT H. W. AND C.
In the matter ot dress take the advloe
of your mother or taKe your cue from
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407 West Broadway, - Councii Bluffs, Ia.
Talking Machine Department
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Mere man would look aghast no doubt
And voice, a thousand vain rogrrts;
Rut though these ladies ne'er come out,
They look well in theso silhouettes.
lflo.onn,(xn people. Inhabiting a land
where there la abundant room and prod
uctivity to malnta'n at hast Mii(VXi,tal
and the one overmastering linpreanlni
that you get la that of complete, funda
mental concord. It Is veritably a
patrlotio duty for every American who
can to see for himself, and show to his
children, this magnificent apoctarlu of
the union of hearta and union of minds
which his Immense country presents.
On your way to California and f'e
Taclflc you will be following the foot
steps and reliving tha romance of the
pioneers, the explorers, the marvel
hunters, tha De hotoa, the Cornnadoa, the
mission-founders, the gold-hunters, the
"Argonauts' of glittering memory, the
psthflnders, the Indian fighters, the
I'lkcs, tho Kit Parsons, the Fremonta.
the Lewises and Clarke, tha miners, the
modern Aladdlna, the men who pinked
nuggets out of the golden sands of magto
streams and struck packed lodes In the
mountains of fortune; the home-seekers,
the emigrants, the wayfarers of the
Panta Ke and Oregon trails, the gamblers,
your sensible girl acquaintances of your
own age. Avoid exaggerated styles. If
you do not care to go walking with the
boy this should provide Its own answer.
As a general proposition girls, especially
of your age, should bo very prudent as to
time and place of taking walks with boys.
II Mors Specific,
Desr Miss Fairfax: Our tenth grade
at school has organised a club and would
like to have u iiauiu for It. Could you
siiKgest some nanus that we could nail
our club.
Yoit do not state object of club, and It
would be difficult, therefore, to suggest
an appropriate name.
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the clviliters. the Colonel tUarbottlca and
Jack llamllns, the heroes of "Poverty
Flat" end "Itouring Camp." the Mormons
and the black frorked priests who set the
sweet bells of the Anwelus ringing on the
shores of the farthest and mightiest
ocean. 1
Vou will see where the buffalo ranged
by millions, perhaps the strangnat chap
ter In animal history, Ybu will foel the
unvanlshlng wonder of the limitless
plains and prairies. You will cross the
mighty Mississippi, king of rivers, and
some of Its immense tributaries. Tou
will find where the "deserts" were before
science had begun to transform them and
make them bloom. You will beholtl
tho Ineffsbln splendor ot the snow
gnuntlet peaks of the Rockies and the
Hlerras.
You will stand amased at tha matchless
spectacles of the great canyona and the
enchanted mesas, things unparalleled on
this planet. The wonderlands or the
Yellowstone and tho Yosemlte,' whoae
names are magnets to old world trav
elers, lie beside your pathway. You may,
If you will, ook upon sites of ancient
lakes and seas, now only beds of sun
smitten rock, where He Imprisoned the
fossil skeletons of the most astonishing
monsters of the age of the Dinosaurs.
You will see prehistoric forests met,
morphosed Into giant Jewels.
And everywhere you will meet things
which you had never Imagined to exist,
sll belonging to your own wonderful
country. And finally California, Oregon
and Wsahtngtnn, tho three great statos
that front the raclflv, will greet you with
an atmosphere so clear, pure and beau
tiful, end scenes so fresh. Inspiring, and
Indescribable that your heart will swell
with pride because they are wholly, un
changeably and maKlnlflcantly American.
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Mahogany or oak
Poison Ivy
of Life
By KLLA WHEELER WILCOX.
Copyright, 19IS, Star Company.
Have you ever seen the poison Ivy? U
Is a beautiful vine and the leaves Sre
artistic and glossy.
Yet If you pluck one of them yoit suf
fer misery and dis
comfort for weeks,
and o m e t lines
lasting effects re
main. Temptation Is a
lolon plant on
which grow flow
ers f flaunting
lea uty. but if we
sather one . Its
rus may ecar our
lives for years to
aome.
T h ousanda o f
young men and
women who read
these words may
he gating fascina
ted on some flower
of temptation. Itefore you touch It. ate
and 'consider just what It means, IVr
haps It Is a money temptation.
Put once this temptation is yielded t
the flower will begin to burn your t
gera and poison your hlood.
Years and years and sears you msy
toll In honesty and. putlenoe and prayer,
yet the sear will make ttsoif visible when
you least think It and ah m and torture
you anew.
I'vrhapa It la tha temptation of unbri
dled pleasures. You think you are young,
sine youth la brief; but once you at
tempt to find happiness by eulllng tha
flower of license, and wearing It Into
halls of dissipation, you are Inviting sor
row, despair and premature old age
dwell with you.
One night a few years ego with a Party
of friends 1 sat for an hour In one of tha
"gayest" and moat brilliant reiuleavou
of the New York Tenderloin district, All
its habitues were men and women who
had broken free from socle. I laws and
moral obligations In search of a "good
time."
There waa not ono happy face, not on
joyous eye, not one merry voice. Tl,,r,K
Ing over my whole Hie, It was the limst
depressing and. Joyless evening ever
passed.
All thoso men and women had picke t
the flower ot temptation, and lU ioUon
was In the blood.
I talked with one handsome girl, who
seemed the gayest of all. How rame you
here?'' I asked. "What led ynu ta chops
this l.fe?" "I was so tired of work
weary, dirty, hard work, and no pleas
ures, and no pretty clothes," she said,
"Ho I came here. No, I am not sorry,
I am always gay, as you see."
"And what do you look forward to as
years go by?" X asked.
"Oh, well, every morning you open
your paper and read of a girl gulclde,"
she answered, still smiling. "Home morn
ing It will be me. I often think of It ft a
I read my paper.'
We cannot reconstruct the laws of tha
universe or change tha motion of the,
solar system. And Ws can never altee
the law which makes honesty, morality,
self-control and deoenoy the aourco of
lasting oatiaiactlon, and their opposite
the source of misery.
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