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disposition and
Marriage
r DOROTHY Dl.
Mra, Charlc Elllnwood. a oclal worker
f Boston, thinks that a irreat many un
dppy marrURn might ba prevented If
ie appllcanta for a marriage license
id to go before a commission and in
er certain heart-scsrchlnn Qiieatlons
Ulsfactorlly. Among the qiorlrs that
would propo'md to both the. rros
ftlva bride and brldrnroom Is this one:
What aort of a disposition have you?
It la beyond reaaon to expect anybody
i have either the personal knowledge of
Is or her own character or the candor
answer tlila question honestly. You
lutdn't expect a man to stand up In
jld blood and admit that he was selfish,
ad stingy, and mean, and tyrannical, or
iw a woman to confess that she had a
rpent' tongue and was naggy, and
isy. and narrow-minded, because In
' r first placo none of us ever tell any-Ing-
to our discredit that we can help,
d In the second place we never have
In rrt srauslnted with our-
lives and find out what we really are.
)l stranger we dodge meeting face to
ioe from the cradle to the grave la our
in! selves.
It Isn't much comfort to a woman to
ow that her husband really loves her
I he has got a riendlsh temper that
lusea Mm to blaae out at her and say
fuel things In the heat of anger.
It ! no consolation to the roan, who
s to live with a woman who nags
ry aoul out of blm. to be aware that
would dio for htm If It were neces-
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I y , in umjm hvuuj -
a- us. but we have to liver with the
bid of dispositions that we married.
v If I were a man looking for a wife.
... Sfore ever I led a blushing maiden to
ta altar she would have had to prove
ma that she hsd a good disposition.
Shouldn't bother about whether she was
i.r hnmotv. or tat or thin, or
.ether she read Ibsen or Marie Corelll,
tt I should concentrate my attention
a ascertaining whether she was amiablt
t Irritable: whether she was placid or
.
trvous; whether she was a gooa nrsi
worrier or one who took things
came. x
!-d pick o,t my wife, not py ner
or her brilliancy, but by her ms-
OHillon. For beauty fades and wit is a
Jle-bladed sword that cuts ana
the family circle, but a woman
cheerful, loving, sweet tempered
Id good naturcd makes of her home a
Iven of peace and rest. In which a man
fay dron safe anchor for all his days.
And If I were a girl, I woulrtn t iook
the width of a man's shoulders, nor
a color of his eyes, nor ask whether
i Income was 12,000 or $20,000. a year
It hail from Missouri, and before I mar-
.
kd him I would find out wnat son 01
Jdlsposltlon he had. and whether I wouia
live to go in terror or it tne oaiancw
my life If I married him or whether i
liM anussle down Into Its warmth and
Inderness and be happy ever after.
It's not the big things that count in
iittrimony. It's the little things, and an
nee of agrcenblllty Is worth a ton OI
listract virtues. That s wny men ana
omen should Inquire Into each other's
.spcuitiona before they make their fatal
ap Into wedlock:"" ,-' ' ' ' ; ,
trvous;
As wc
I they
Vnd I'
idks or
i ojllon. F
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l (rashes In
XT ro is ch'
Blimp of Pugnacity
phrenologists believe that certain bumra
the head indicate certain posslMUUfg
regards temper. Intellectual activities
trma of genius, and so on. They tell a
lory of a woman who taught scnooi in
be of the old-fashioned "rough" neigh
krhoods that were sometimes to be
lnnd In very respectaDle comrounuiee.
Jlle had to fight In one way or anothe
l very restless and disagreeable eleroer 1
kf In her school, and the result was a de
velopment of the pugnacious in ner nn
was asserted that the Dumps, or
whichever, you wish to call them
her ears, grew so large In that
jne year of warfare that they Infringed
Jnon her ears and made them stick out.
hen some one discovered that. If very
nary. It was a good plan to put a wet
(rag on these bumps behind the ears, and
traightway the anger would be soothed
md the temper be under control. The
eacher tried It. and seemed satisfied
rlth the result. However, that may have
ieen only the result of mental suggea
lon, and not really due to the wet rag.
lOns' cannot go about with a wet rag
ill the time, if one happens to live in
he midst of dissension, and It would be
huch easier to learn something of the
ules of mental suggestion, especially if
'he suggestion comes from within one's
jrhlnd
Play as Education
Br c. r. tiiwixu, ix.d.
Tresldent Western Reserve University.
The games which we have taught the
Filipino." said the director of edm-a
tiou in the Island, "have done for them
more than all the other elvtllilng In
fluences wlili h Amercla has brought.
Hcfore we came to the Islands the boys
practically had no games and no playa.
They had some simple past'mea only.
The girls had even less than their
brothers. The games we have taught a.
dosrn or more in all have brought these
boys Into their stronger and happier
srlves."
Such testimony has value for other
parts of the world than the rhillpplne
Islands. PVr plays and athletic nmes
stand for grcnt things In the development
of character and of American life.
Tim game and play stand for . team
work. The ball gnme means five men.
or nlno men, or eleven men. working as
one man. Kach throws aside himself as
a selfhood, putting that whole selfhood
Into the whole maa.
The game and the play also mean
wholesome, Inspiring rivalry. Rivalry
gives lest, Interest, sparkle to I'fe. It
means vigor, enlargement of power.
cneriry.
Furthermore, games represent Imagi
nation. The player In advance sees what '
he wishes to gain. He also understands
the method for reaching the goal.- He
has a once vision and pre-vislon. In
spiration gives imagination, and Imagi
nntlon creates Inspiration.
li.imes also are an aid In getting on
with people. They aid In the promotion
of proper relationship with both asso
ciates and antagonists. flames mean
freedom from cantankerousness. They
promote adjustment of personality to
personality.
Educated men who fall at all usually
fall either because of a lack of moral
backborn or because they cannot get on
with other people, riaylng of games Is
a training In getting on with everyone.
Every man who succeeds Is obliged to
adjust his life to the morally lame, to
the ethically halt and to the Intellectually
blind.
Without himself becoming feeble or
near-sighted he has to relate himself
properly to hard conditions. Adjusting
himself to associates and to antagonists
he Is disciplined to the promotion of good
fellowship.
Games also-are a discipline In bearing
life's defeats bravely and life's victories
humbly. Such a training is of special
value to the American youth. American
youths are Inclined to allow themselves
to be flung by defeat Into the blue
depths of despair.
They are also usually free to permit
themselves to be lifted by victory on the
crests of advancing waves of exultation.
Either mood Is foolish. The result of the
playing of games should be a training
for sailing life's seas on an even keel.
A further value of games and of all
plays is seen In the bearing of responsi
bility under the great law of liberty.
Every game la more or less of a free
game. Each player is obliged to make
certain decisions, but this freedom Is
regulated by the laws of the game. .
. He Is at once a king. and a servant.
Responsibility,' liberty and law are repre
sented in every game which Is 'played.
The game trains one for the reponslblllty
and -tha i liberty; of - life, ajid also for
obedience to law. The game Is a mlcro
oosm of life. 4
It' should be added that all games and
plays property undertaken and carried
forward are a minister to health. Health
Is a by-product of play, but It is a by
product which Is a larger 'value than
any direct result.
Of course, gamfea in Amerloa and the
Phlllpppinea may be so played as to aug
ment evils. The evils of the under-valua-
tlon of the spiritual and the intellectual.
of the overvaluation of the physical, of
the elimination of life's serious purposes,
of unwholesome antagonism and rivalry
are evident enough. But, properly planed
and properly plnyed, all games represent
the saner conditions and the safer and
stronger forces of American life.
Grace Darling's Talks to Girls
No. 3 The Way to Find Friends in the World
By on iric darling.
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The Chermlng Toting American Moving
Picture Star. j
Copyright. WK Inter'! News Service. (
A great many girls' complain that they
have no friends, and feel they are most
unjustly treated because they ars not
popular In their social sets.
If these girls would ask themselves the
question: "Why should people like qie?"
Instead of "Why don't people like me?"
they would get some Information that
would be of untold helpfulness to them.
Why should people like us unless we
are friendly, agreeable, cheery, compan
ionable? There Is no reason that they
should, and. as a matter of fact, they
don't.
I hove never known a girl who was
lonely, and friendless, and left out of
everything who hadn't herself entirely
to blame. Sometimes It's because she Is
a natural bern cat, one of those spiteful,
spttty creatures who to save their lives
can't help clawing you on your tender
spots.
The kind of girl, you know, who will
take sll of the pleasure out of your new
ring by ssying. "What a pretty little
ring. It's wonderful how well those cheap
little chip diamonds mske up, isn't It?"
Or who will congratulate an engaged girl
by telling her that she's glad Tom has
found somebody who was willing to
marry him at last, as he has been re
fused by every other girl In the set
.Why should a girt who goes through
life using her tongue like a stiletto, stab
bing everybody with whom she cornea In
contact, expect to be liked and for people
to want to have her about?
Sometimes the unpopular girl is Just
plain selfish. She seises the best of every
thing for herself. She monopolises all
of the men that she can, and when she
meets a new man, she would die before
she would Introduce him to another girl.
Now society Is run on the give-and-take
plan, and just because the selfish girl
believes that she can always take and
never give, she overreaches herself, and
In the end Miss Piggy is shelved.
Sometimes the reason that a girl has
no friends Is because she Is a spoil sport.
She never wants to do what other people
want to do. It the others want to dance,
she wants to skate. If the others want
to play tennis, she wants to go paddling.
Or she Is' one of the finicky kind of.
girls that has to have everything exactly
right before she can enjoy It. She can't
eat unless she can have certain kind af
food cooked in a particular manner. She
can't sit backwards on a car, or walk
In the sun. or sit in a draught, and she
has to be fussed with so much that she
simply Isn't worth the trouble. .
She's a wet blanket on any Jolly little
party, and after an experience or two tn
trying to please her, and listening to her
complaints, everybody decides that the
best place for her is her own home. So
they leave her there.
The real reason, however, that most
friendless girls don't have friends Is be
cause they haven't the friendly spirit
themselves. They want other people to
make all the advances. They expect other
people to go out of their way to hunt
A Fictionlcss
Fable for the Fair
Girl Who Tried on a New
Love Before She Had
Tried Out. the Old
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A Strikingly Pretty Poso of Grace Darling.
them, up, and show them attention, and
to pry them out of their shells of re
serve. What conceit! What arrogance! What
peculiar worth and charm has any one
got that makes it worth busy people's
time and trouble to seek a girl out, and
make' friends with hex In spite of her
self? . There are to many agreeable and
friendly people who are ready to meet
us half way and make themselves pleas
ant for us to bother with the cranky and
grouchy and people with "ways? that
we would have to put up with if we have
anything to do with them. So we leave
these to their own melancholy com
panionship.
If you are not ' popular And have no
friends, be sure It's your own fault; girl.
Look Into your hearts, and see what's
the matter with yourself that people
don't like you; for, after all, the world's
Just a looking glass that gives us back
our own reflections. If we turn a sour
face on It, it scowls back to us, but If ws
smile at it. It laughs back at us.
Be friendly, and you'll have friends,
Reach out the glad hand to other people,
and they'll give you the clasp that makes
you one of the great brotherhood and
sisterhood of humanity.
Br n i.itr.. I
There was once s girl who, without
bring very, pretty or veiy clever or
very worthy, ha i the beautiful gift of
sltrartlng whomsoever attracted her. As
a result women (with ehout he didn't
i are to bothrri were ery Indifferent to,
her. but men -ah! tlinl n a different
story and is my slorj.
Once ihn a time Joy (for that was
her nainei met a very clever man with
red hair and blue eyes and no claim to
fcood looks an, I a gicat deal of money.
The sense of humor that wont with
his red hair amused lur, an1 tlie kcen-m-as
hla line eyes luillinted fclliimlated
her. Rot IiIh lnnk arrottnt, truthfully
advertised a "running well up Into five
tlgires," ni'cenluatcit Irs two physical
good points and cast a merciful shadow
over all his bad ones.
Joy found Eric altogether deslrahle
and managed to make Eric think she
whs a tokct'. er to be desired.
At Christmas lime KiI 'j good-looking
younger l-ruthrr enme to s;end his vaca
tion from collein with the big brother
ho was paying hi way thiough. And
Eric proudly Introduced the boy of whom
he was sq pround to the young woman
of whom he expected to have the right
to bo proud soon.
Brother Jiminie had black-fringed
brown eyes and the sort of hair women
want to run their fingers through. He
had also a slim, upright young figure,
good shoulders and a way of wearing
his clothes plus another way a taking
way when It came to feminine heart
Brother Jlmmle took little Joy's heart
and took It quite unawares. He looked
very young and Innocuous and Joy man
aged to convey to ErlO the Impression
that Jlmmle's greatest rhsrm lay In the
fact of his being somebody's brother.
Eric had meant to present Joy with
a two and a half-karat white stone sa
a combined Christmas gift and pledge of
gifts to follow all through her lifetime.
But that bank account In five figures
had not accrued by chance, and observ
ing Joy's ifiy In Jim, Erie decided the
ring would do Just as well for a New
Tear's present.
In the meantime Eric had a great
many business matters to settle after
his long western trip, snd James was
vlstor in town with no duty, but to
amuse himself. And amuse himself he
did with Joy.
Joy's heart was concerned, but , her
brain hadn't quite gone on strike. So
she had a holiday week with little
brother but only a holiday since James
was a beginner off on a vacation from
law school. -
Joy's New Tear's resolution wss to
settle down sensibly with Erie. Jlmmle's
New Tear's resolution was to be on the
level with 'the whole world from now on.
He began ; on big brother and told
him all about his flirtation with that
pretty little Joy girl.
. And Krlc looking at his own stubby
features and red hair and blue eyes,
and bringing the concomitant sense of
humor and shrewdness to bear on the
situation, figured out that the ITxX) he
had expended on a certain platinum-set
Jewel wasn't going to bring in the right
sort of Interest.
And within a week after the New Tear,
wise little Joy was wise to her own
sorrow. Little brother Lochlnvar had
gone back to the west without taking
any maiden fair along. And big brother
was too absorbed in business to answer
any personal rails on his phone or
to make personal calls over it.
Moral Olrla who take one last fling
In flirtation before "settling down"
lightly, generally have' to "settle up"
heavily,
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Child Labor and
Its Effect on
Health
By WOODS IU'TCMI0?f, M. I.
Ths World's Best Known MYtter on
Medical Subjects.
PART It.
Many of us can recall the time hen
for a farmer to "give a boy hla time"
before he was twenty-one years old
and let him start out for himself was
considered a generous and most mss
nnnlous concession. And there Is no the
slightest question thst under this snelent
rule children were abominably overworked
at tender ages to the serious and last
ing detriment to Ihetr health In rural
towna and villages, and even out upon
farms In the Innocent, healthy, open
country.
In fact, one nf the principal reasons for
the existence of the "big old fashioned
families" of ten and twelve of an earlier
day whose disappearance we sometimes
sent'mentallv regret wss their value ss
a source of Income to their thrifty pater
nal ancestor, who could collsct from eight
to ten years' wages from each one of
them before they gained their Industrial
freedom.
In fact, next to the greedy and tinprln
elpled mill owner and the ' politicians
whom they control, our principal oppo
nent In the fight against child labor is
this precious type of parent, who, having
married a wife able to support htm snd
bear him a large family of children as
well, considers that he Is "msde for life."
and has nothing else to do but collect his
profits as soon ss his older children
begin to attain working age.
And. unfortunately, nearly all the cus
toms and traditions of the law are in his
favor, and we have to fight In our at
tempt to put an end to child slavery, not
merely big business but the legislatures,
the legal profession and the courts, the
latter of whom. Including the Vnlted
States supreme court, lose no first oppor
tunity of declaring any antl-chlld labor
act unconstitutional.
The only reason why we are fighting
child labor tn factories, mills and mines
alone Is, first, that the spectacle of
scores or hundreds of children Ill-treated
In public shocks and revolts us; sec
ondly, that we can reach It there by
law In public establishments, while we
can't as yet tn private ones, and In homes.
We can reach the worst and most out
rageous Instances, It Is true, by the
means of the various laws punishing
cruelty to children, but these also, like
child labor laws, are very recent, snd
when first proposed were bitterly fought
by all the conservative Influences snd
clasess upon exactly the same grounds,
that they were Interfering In the sacred
relations (between parent and child. -
breaking up the sanctity of the family
home and destroying ancient and un
disputed rights.
Boms of the most outrageous and tds-
tresstng Instances cf overwork and un
derfeeding of young children on record
have occurred not In mills or mines or
factories, but upon farms and In homes
by Ignorant, penurious or dissipated
parents, or by close-fisted farmers, prac
ticing .that last surviving form of bond
slavery, taking over a "bound boy or
girl from the town, farm r county poor
house like "Little Orfant Annie" of
blessed memory,
Do You Know That
Stars can be seen at midday from th
bottom of a deep well.
The spray from the Zambesi waterfall
wets the bridge, which Is more thsn
feet above.
The bodies of Jelly fish are so soft tha'
they are often destroyed by tkelr owr.
Weight.
A news agent who sells a paper con
taining libel Ise liable for action. -
Starch or flour added to water will
mske It keep hot longer. x
Below a depth of X fathoms there Is
no plant life In the sea.
(
lolf.
i Men have acquired this power to a
treater extent than women, and can say
;he most unkind things and howl at one
mother when trying a case, or In the
Stock Exchange, and not be troubled by
t In the least, utterly Ignoring the per
sonal, unless in a man-to-man talk. But
still hurts women, when rude things
jr whst they think rude, are hurled at
hem In ''meeting." St. Louis Globe
heniocrat.
By Beatrice Fairfax
A Gift for the Hostess.
Dear Miss Fsirfax: I am going to
nend a week-end at ti e home of a girl
ho lives tn the country. 1 have only
ixjken to her about half a dosrn times.
k would like to know If it would be In
food form to bring her a small gift. If
o. what would you suggest? I am wall
t"uatnted with her brother. H. T. I,.
11 would be a very gracious sttention
'or you to take some small gift to your
loxtess. A pretty candlestick, a book,
lorne small ornament for the home or
merely a box of choice candy would be
n perfectly good taste. Do not take any
;h!ng that falls Into the class of wearing
ipparel or an article of personal adorn
ment. The type of gift you want to take
L a "house present."
' Try to Be Sensible.
Dear Miss Fatrfax: I am a girl 1
ears old. Living next door to mv home
here is an elderly man about 45 or fit)
tears old.
lie pays quite a lot of attention to ma
He has ssked me several times to go
ut with him. He has a machine, which
teems to attract my sttention very much.
i have never been Introduced to him.
B. W. B.
My dear child, you most distinctly must
o out with any man to whom you
not been Introduced. And no little
rear-old girl ta Justified tn Imagining
S kerself Infatuated with a man old enough
K . to be her fataer Just forget all this
i ton sense and don't permit tlila man to
, Masslfy you ss a little goo-e whose head
a turned by flattery snd the slnt of an
automobile.
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