THE U;K: OMAHA. SATURDAY. APRIL S, 1911.
The ee'g Ttrrve jagazirje
MTT$& CT JFOM TIE WEEK lEjhe BEES junior Birthday Book
Her Husband's Voice n" rih'c" Ti"'"M
............. ' Applied to Both Sexes.
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The Amateur Wife was slow to mora!
Indignation. Ilw thoughts turned a a
rul upon her own Immediate concerns.
hlch furnished many problems, but none
Involving public or private morals. How
ever, a very dear friend of hers, who
ould well afford It, had lost a few hun
dred dollar by the failure of a hanking
concern, and during the spectacular In
vestigation which ensued there no one
more grieved, shocked and Indignant over j
the revelations of high financial method j
than the Amateur Wife. !
An a general thing only a keen sense of I
wifely duty Induced her to read the news
i tilumni of the papers. The articles on
"How to Retain Your Husband's Ixn e ' I
T "How to Keep a Sylph-like Form" or
any other dealrable commodity Interested I
her much more.
And sometimes when the Post Oraduate
Husband was In a philosophical mood he
admitted to hlmsplf never to her that her
taste displayed a truer sense of permanent
values thsn his own.
Testerrtay'a fire goes up In smoke; yes
terday'a ball game Is stale beer, but hus
band and sylph-like forma sre universal
and eternal problems, Interesting alike to
the FIJI princess, the Fifth avenue clothes
hers and the suffragette.
It was distinctly disquieting to the Post
Graduate Husband tu discover that His
Wife read and digested every word of the
dally columns of the bank investigation,
for that meant he had to read them also.
-Hve they Indicted any more directors'"
she Inquired eagerly as he entered their
Monntalnvllle home.
"No,"' answered Her Husband a he hung'
"I- his . hat, "but one of them hag
snitched.' "
"What does 'snitch' mean?" Inquired the
Amateur W ife after a puzzled silence.
By this time they were seated at dinner.
The Post Graduate Husband solaced his
tt,w wiNi some tomato soup before he an
swered. "Snitched squealed-blabbed-told all he
knows about the others under promise of
Immunity for himself
' Oh!" gasped His Wife. "M s like turn
ing state's evidence! How perfectly dis
gusting! If I were that man's wife I
would die of shame!"
"Oh, 1 don't know!" returned the Post
iiaduate Husband more liberally. "Xo
man can tell what he'll do ill he's tempted!
And you don't know what the Inside fact
In this-case may be. Perhaps he had to
rhenee between being the goat or making
the other fellow one."
Her Husband paused for breath and
added: "Perhaps the other people were
trvlng to cut his throst! You don't know
Anything about a man's temptation and
a't the Ins and outs of sn affair of this
kind. He a little charitable!"
"I am charitable," she retorted, indig
nantly, "but I know how hi poor wife
must feel just the same. No woman could
If-' IL '
)k vokan coyu lcve A ceoaC urn
love a crook! ' she added, profoundly.
"Oh, nonsense!" replied Her Husband,
lightly. "Crooks are' and alwa.vs have
been preferred stock with the fair sex.
And why shouldn't they be? When It
come to finance, woman's moral sense
give out. Either they think all business
Is crooked or that all crookedness Is Just
business."
"How dare you say such things!" flashed
His Wife, resentfully. "Women are the
soul of honor! Why, a woman's con
science will worry her for days and day
about some little bit of a thing to which
a man would never give a second thought!
Besides, you ought to feel more sympathy
for my poor friend! She had $400 balance
when the bank failed. I'm going In to see
her tomorrow," she added, . casually. "I
think I'll take your train so I'll have some
body to talk to on the way."
"You'll need to buy a new fifty-trip
ticket, won't you?" Inquired Her Husband
An expression of - rapturous triumph
Illuminated the countenance of the Ama
teur Wife.
"So, I won't!" she gurgled. "I had two
rides left yesterday morning, and I ex
pected that my ticket would be taken up
on the way back, but"
She paused Impressively
"Rut the conductor didn't ask for lt,"ao
I have one perfectly good ride left."
The Post Graduate Husband stared at
her long and silently.
"It's considered fair to cheat a railroad 1"
declared His Wife, with rising color.
"Yes," agreed Her Husband, "it's fair
for a woman to cheat a railroad and to
smuggle and to He about her age but 'no
woman could love a crook,' " he quoted
Ironically.
(Copyright. 1911, by the N. Y. Herald Co )
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Undoing of Mr. Uplift "Doe to Klck!"
Hf 1JIKAYKTTK PAHKH. -vvu
According to the Public Service commis
sion It pays the public to complain," Mr.
t pllfl inform the prlds of. the Harlem flat
a he strolls In to instruct his parent In
the regular evening session.
"Sure, It always pays to kick, provided
there Isn't a brick under the hat," retorts
sage young Mr. I'plift, excavating a torch
from his cigarette case.
"There seems to be plenty of folks ready
to complain In New York about the things
they don't like," comments Father.
"The knocker' club is certainly growing
some every day," Son admits. "And, be
lieve me, they'll never run out of things to
. kick aooui.
, "Personally," relate Father, "I've never
been able to ge much satisfaction In mak
- mg complaint."
"Maybe you didn't make your bluff
good." suggests Hon. "When a chap in
this town staru In to pull the rough stuff
he's gut to be there with both feet or he's
apt to lose the Jackpot."
"This report of which I speak," explains
Father, "states that the service on our
city railways are better than It used to
be, awing to the good effect of the public's
complaints. They say the standard of man
ners among (lie employes has been ele
vated. "
"I hadn't noticed it," dryly comments
ton. Maybe It's been elevated Just out of
leach of the subway and not up high
enougU to touch the "I." roads," adds the
pride of the Harlem flat by way of sug
gestion. 1 hi- commission thinks it the ratio of
decrease keeps up in the complaints," fur
ther explains Father," the rapid transit
service In New York will be almost per
fect eventually."
"That 'eventually' stuff is certainly a
classy word when It comes to doping out
tne railroad game in this little old town,"
says lion. "We've got a lot of those near
perfect Institutions here now, but I sup
pose we'll have to shov up and make
room for Just one more "
"t suppose those positions are rather vex
atious one," say Father, apologetically,
'and the employes have many things to
pot up with."
"As long as they don't tell their troubles
to me. I refuse to take their numbers and
write to the company," protests fun. "Just
tiecauns they have to work for a living Is
no excuse for the guards to go around with
ieretiial peeve on. I'm a hired man niv
ct'lf, but I hk.i to throw out my chest once
li a while as if my one big trouble was t
i' rid of mj roll of long green."
'loubtlesa there are some things the
train guards could Improve If they had the
public service at heart." believes Father.
"When they speak harsh and cruel words
to me,':': suggests Son, "if they'd take the
trouble to get their voices manicured Ike
fore they- begin to throw out the rough
stuff It wouldn't hurt my feelings half so
much. I hate to have to stuff cotton Into
n-y ears every lime 1 take a ride down
IV LI . -.-.feSHSJaWiBBHa
ll-'if the prophet had hid , I i-''K'lji.l if?
oldest thou Mil IIJT.'. . ,!V-- '. !,:!,.:.. I I II
a
Second KiiiK.
tree do some great thing
not have done it'.'"
Niiaman. though h leper. n n vallum
v . aninr and a great man with lil master,
the king of Svrla. As such men general!)'
me. he was proud.
The prophet Kllsha. to whom he came
for h cure for hi" leprosv. discovered his
character, and. as directed by Coil, told
him to go and dip in Jordan seven limes
and he should he clean. Hut .Nuania n re
r.ted this method of cure. He thought
that If bathing In water should cue him
of his leprosy why might lie not bathe In
i'.te waters of the river of his own native
land. "Are not the waters of Ahana and
Hhaipar rivers of Damascus belter than
al! the waters of Israel?"
This Is the sentinieui of many now In
reply to direction of the preachers of the
gospel. "If faith can save, why may I
not believe In myself or In my works and
he saved?" The answer Is, because It Is
not (Sod's prescription. A sick man may
say. liv may I not do this or that and
he cured?" So you may If you can, but
if the physician does not prescribe it you
nii,t run the risk of the cure.
The text Is the question of a wise servant
( Lit to a proud and foolish master as re
gards one thing- a question In which the
servant shows consideration of his mas
ter's weakness, folly and Interests. As
though he had said. "The prophet tells
thee to do a certain simple thing to be
cured; why not do it? If he had bid thee
do n great thing In agreement with thy
personal dignity and greatness with thy
piaster, thou wouldest have done It. Is It
not a cure thou seekest? The method Is
nothing to that."
This question of the servant seemed to
awake the master from his reverie of con-
WIl.l.IAM W. B. DYFTT.
Pastor St. John s A. M. E. Chun h.
scions sell'-iiop.uMiK e. to see and to feel
it propriety and wisdom; so that he
calmed uown and yielded to do rs he was
bll by Kilsha. and as a result was healed
of his malady.
Ood's wiiy In saving souls now. like
that prescribed for the cure of Naarnun's
body, is so simple and plain that It Is
usually repulsive to the pride and self
conceit of human nature, and men as a
rulo are ready to do anything to be saved
rather than to do what God tells them to
(in. Pome great things rather than one
simple thing they will do to be saved.
They expect Ood to deal with them a
some great ones rather than poor sinners,
as Naaman expected Ellsha to 'act In con
formity to his dignity as a synon captain
liif thin an unclean leper, (lood works j
f nnv kind and to any extent-pravers.
"tints, gifts of charity, religious cere- !
uonles. Self-denials rather than repent- i
Hue tnvverd (Sod and faith In our Lord
lid Saviour, .lesus Christ. These things
1 ' " fiattevl;.g to human pride. Saved bv I
l"im men have something to boast and;
.:! ;. In. "Our works have saved us. Wei
ie reir on n saviours. This Is the great
ralvatlnn we luive wrought out for our
e!rs Tills great thing that we have done
iv n:ir own will and effmt. We will
;'l.';cc this to our own credit of glory, with
ther facts of valor and ambition In the
or Id."
Put this cannot be as a reality. It will
mlv he sham. No sinner can save himself
only on his own fancy or Imagination.
' Hv the works of the law no flesh living
can he Justified or saved" (Sod will not
flatter human vanity, nor approve of it
nattering Itself. (Jod's way of saving men
is the only way In which th-v ean be
saved. If this Is rejected, they must
abide by the consequences.
Away. then, with the Idea of 'doing some
Uteal thing" and. like Naaman, at Uie
st'BRestion of your minister or teacher,
lake u sacred thought and do as the
word of the Lord directs you. "Bellve In
the lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be
saved." Let all "great things" go "the
rivers of Damascus" and be saved. Be
willing to do anything that Is prescribed
hv (Sod. like a man with love of life In
d ing circumstances will submit to take
any medicine or tq any operation In order
to live. Have no expectations, no prefer
ences as to how God will save you. Do
not think to prescribe to Him how to ave
you. Coma with a heart and will to do
at ythlng that He tells you to do. Let Him
save as He likes, when He likes, and you
shall be saved Indeed.
History of Transportation
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1 HATE 70 HAAE To vSTVFF CDTTtH
MOCL IN HY EARS
"If most of the bunch around this town
had their salaries regulated by their po
liteness," concluded Son. "there would be
' a lot of weeks when the pay envelope
would he empty."
(Copyright, 1911, by the N. Y. Herald Co)
(Continued from Yesterday.)
Advent of "tamboats.
A to the first canals, there are no re
liable records and fewer evidences.
The writer Is less venturesome than many
who seem convinced that Xerxes led off
In this work of narrow waterways; neither
Is there enough record behind the twelfth
century, or Chow dynasty, to establish the
claim of the Chinese to first or even second
place. .
The Hollanders, undoubtedly, brought
canals Into practical use In the twelfth
century and late In the seventeenth cen
tury Worsley and Manchester, England,
were connected with a canal.' Thereafter
cenals became prominent factors In the
world's transportation. '
In the ' meantime steamboats had come
into general use on the lakett and rivers,
both in the north and In the, south. The
first steamboat used commercially was de
signed by John Fitch In 1787. Jt made reg
ular trip between Arch street ferry, Phil
adelphia, and Trenton. N.. J., during the
summer months of 1790, Why historians
have yielded so lltHe credit to the John
Filch "steamer" and have said so much
sbout Robert Fulton's "Clermont." which
was not In service until seventeen years
later. Is unexplalnable. Fulton's "Cler
mont." although generally accredited with
the distinction of being the first steam
boat for commercial use, did not make its
successful trial trip on. the Hudson river
until August 7. 1807. The "Clermont" was
put Into regular service between Albany
and New York a few! months lster. From
Albany passengers and freight were hauled
overland to the falls of the Mohawk river
and there put Into the "Schenectady
beats," which were pole-propelled up the
Mohawk to L'tlea. From there the Journey
to Lake Ontario was completed by canal
and river. i
During the first decade following the ad
vent of Fulton's Important achievement
stcRmer had been Introduced upon the
water of the larger western rivers. These
boats were modeled closely after the early
Fclton steamboats. The settlements then
existing along the Great Lakes and the
connecting rivers had not at this time suf
ficient traffic for boats propelled by steam
to be a commercial success ; besides, the
eraft were of a type designed and built
only for smooth waters. Upon waters sub
ject to. .wave and awell the ateamboat was
still an untried experiment. In 1S18 and
the following year two large and staunch
vessels on Lake Ontario were fitted out
with steam power, but defects In service
developed through a lack of knowledge
regarding the proper Installation of the
machinery, and not until 1818 was a com
mercially successful vessel In service on
the Great Lakes.
Mississippi river transportation by steam
boat and barge lines from New Orleans
to 8t. Louis and thence on to points along
the upper Ohio river, had made New Or
leans a formidable competitor of all east
ern markets, and this gave rise to the
agitation for a oanal to extend from tide
water terminals through Pennsylvania to
the Ohio river. So, In July, 1828, ground
was broken at Harrlsburg for a canal to
connect Pittsburg and Philadelphia.
Transportation facilities, then as now,
measured the possibilities and determined
the growth of the new middle west and
likewise promoted the development of our
inboard cities. Although then second in
sire, New York City was made first in
commercial importance by the opening of
the Erie canal. From 1825 to im there
as a spirited movement toward the im
provement of public highway and the
construction of canala and short railroads,
and by 18S0 there were 1,400 miles of canals
in use. Shortly afterward steam railroad!
Invaded the field of transportation, and as
a consequence toll bridges, turnpikes aad
river traffic by circuitous routes gradually
yielded to more modern methods,
(To Be Continued.)
Tralalnar tow Work.
A weather-beaten damsel, somewhat over
six feet In height and with a pair of shoul
ders proportionately broad, appeared at a
back door in Wyoming and asked for light
housework. She said that her name , was
Llxzle, and explained that she had been 111
with typhoid aid was convalescing.
"Where did you come from, Lixsle?" In
quired the woman of the house. "Where
have you been7"
"I've been workln' out on Howell's
ranch," replied Uzsle, "dlggln' post-holes
while I was gettin' my strength back."
Llpplncott's.
Bus is he
Day We
Celebrate
April 8, 1911.
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MAritF.RN M'MILI.AN.
2.C4 South Fifteenth Street
Name and Atlilrraa,
UeneTleve Applettredu, 1411 North Seventeenth St.
Lauore M. Allen. Hickory r't
Kobert L.. Beedle, 4035 brown Si
David K. Barber, ,11 U4 NortU Twenty-ninth St
Kva Chesno, 2201 North Nineteenth St
Krle Callahan. 1K02 Ontario St
Gladys U Condor. 3015 South Ninth St
Charles O. Comp, 45:)6 Bedford Ave
Marie A. Careyn, 115 North Thirtieth St . . . '.
Helen Cosgrove. 122fi North Thirty-fourth St....
Nancy Catania, 805 North Eighteenth St :
Ralph Davie. 3105 South Nineteenth St
Rex KM wood, 1912 Emmet St
Mlka Ureiee, 2214 Boulevard
Arthur Gift, Thirty-seventh and Brown Sts
George llerrek. 2524 South Twenty-fifth St
Frances I. Hyde, 2512 Bristol ft
Rachel HlRhsraltb. 3177 Grand Ave ....Monmouth Park ..1903
Bennle Holland. 933 North Twenty-fourth St Kelloin 1901
Ruth Li. Mutton. 2811 North Twenty-seventh :!t .... Howard Kennedy . .1 896
John H. Haney, Jr.. 4113 Lafayette Ave Walnut Hill 1895
Gladys O. IrvinK. 3013 Munderson St Druid Hill 1899
School.
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.Park
.Central Park .
I.oiir
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. Custellar
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HiRli
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.Central Park .'
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Had the Hlght llnnrk.
"What kind of a career have you mapped
out for your boy. Josh?"
"I'm going to make a lawyer of him,"
answered Farmer Corntossel. "He's got
an unconquerable fancy for tendln' to other
folk's business, an' hs might as well git
paid for It." Western Christian Advocate.
Carl Johnson. 2726 Parker St
Dewey Klnyoun, 4024 Lafayette Ave
Earl C. Kabre, Thirty-eighth and Martha Sts. . .
Esther l.ernlng. 709 South Sixteenth St
Carl E. Logerwell, 2510 Poppleton Ave
Grace I. I.eisge, 1034 South Twenty-eighth St...
Cecelia M. Lee, 3021 Lariniore Ave
Ethel W. Mick, 1130 South Thirtieth Ave
Maureen K. McMillan, 2324 South Fifteenth St..
Gladys K. Miller, 4923 Webster St
Mayer Mousky, 2215 Webster St
Marie W. Olds. 1136 North Seventeenth St...
Dewey Proebstlng, 412 South Forty-fourth Ave.
Henry Preisman, 2721 South Tenth St
Luclle Park, 3603 Nortli Twenty-fourth St
Leonard Pfttton, 917 South Eleventh St. .
Isidore Rosenblatt, 1818 North Twenty-second S!
Leona Roberta, 2634 Parker St
Mabel Rosberg, 4010 Ohio St nigh
noya Keynoids, 1418 Brown St
jlena Skinner, 3016 Burdette St
Katherlne Shone, 2903 Spring St
William Stillwager, 3412 Lake St
Edward Stottenberg. 1317 South Thlrty-flfth Ave.
wiihelmlna Stowe, J837 Cass. St
Erafred T. Swanson. 3308 Sherman Ave..
Llleth V. Taylor, 4915 Grant St
Frederick Thomas Cotter, 4151 Davenport St...
Pearl Taylor, 615 South Thirty-third St. .
Thomas Volz, 555 South Thirty-third St
Frederick Wachtler, 2313 Vinton St
Allon Wisler, 4679 Leavenworth 8t
Earl E. Wallen. 4026 Binney St
1-ong
.Walnut" Hill
. Windaor .......
. Leavenworth . . .
. Mason .'
. Park
. Monmouth Park,
.Park
.St. Patrick ....'
High
High
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.Columbian
. Bancroft
. Lothrop . . . . .
. Pacific . . .
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f Loretta's Looking Glass-She Holds jt Up to Herself J
To the Editor of The Bee: Pardon Hie llli-tv I tbo in ti,,, i.... .. , .
lou. to publish something interesting for the benefit or amusement of the publiS! I do Vol heH tate AfthatlnirMrt?
?o1CfravorTn, rebUk" WhUh 'PPear Under the tllleof Looklnglas"" y our da 1 1 y edition s " m a kV bold
.uch aWZdd.lfrer:.?f.nionymrt f7 luok'" " " v. the puNIo In general a bird's-eye view of what
writ. aVchOU 'Liwltte'n1 V V,,eB,'Vh ld
a man., he would benef.t your reader, .moray .
A READER.
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Stopping a Fight
J
There was a street scrsp yesterday. The
f'fcliteis were boys old enough to know bet
tor. The first Interwist of legs attracted four
other boys, a colored laundress, a white
woman and an oldish gentleman with a
cane.
The while woman constituted herself a
peace committee and tried to atop hos
tilities, but the oldish gentleman flourished
h.a cane us if ho were a marshal of France
- i'liil the fight was on.
The oiiiKsu-rs started in to drum each
oilier with fists to an under accompaniment
of kicks, but the marshal of Francs made
a grab and shook the two apart:
' Both you stand off and then clinch ac
cording to rules-now then, together "
' Im Hhe b nl look at dat man slckin'
dem t-hlllen on, like dat: Say, you white
nan, har you sptck'n to go when de good
I .mvU calls ou huh?"
The laundress didn't limit herself to
wird. Sim put her basket down, walked
Into the scrimmage and lasta ponderous
tron hand on each boy.
"Well, I ho' am 'stonlshed at you bofe.
1 ben a slave an' now I s free, but dla Is
tie fus time I ever see a cullul boy an'
a white boy flghtln' like cats. 1 seen eui
.o flshln' an' bcrryln' toguther down on de
fp .... K . .
.. .v .!-, an i seen my son go
town. V " "' eervin to ole marse an' nalr one
I hear Boston has started a school of ot m ain't never come back. Clar out
music to tral.t the voices of the guards on 1 of on you an' aay, you tarpot, you
the city trains." remarks Father. uouierlong an'tote my basket, an' 'mebbe'
If they worked that trick here," sur- cu'll get some. I. aeon an' greens I nt .
ouin ior tiinner-an'. as to you. you whits
mm, you g long home to
uibmmy w har you b'longs."
The war waa ov er.-Washlngton Star
mlses iron. "I suppose the guards would be
singing ragtime Instead of chewing the
igg. Starting off at Urooklya tlrldge sta
tion In the tubaav. the guard chorus'
would .probably lead off with that old i
classic, 'I Stood on the Bridge at Mid- .
night;' at, Worth street It would be It j
Am t Worth the Money, but I'll Take a
t'hance.' and so on to the end of the line
in the Bronx, where the graad finale mtg'tt
he 'Just Kiss Yourself (toodby.' which is
an : all right motto for that part of the
wiMds, believe ne."
ll pa.vs to be polite, no matter what
ae ee.upatioa is." la father's decision.
your
Willie Ml. a.
Tea. her-Willie, did your father cane you
for what you did In school yesterday?
Pupll-No. ma'am; he said the licking
would hurt him more than it would ma
Teacher-What rot! Your father la too
sympathetic.
Tupil-Xo. mum; but he s get the rheu
mattkm la both ami Ltppujcott a.
The writer of this letter offers a good
suggestion. I should not have dared fill
space with a confession and Inventory of
myself without such encouragement. Of
course, I like to talk about myself. Every
body does. Only today I wanted to sit
at a little table for two in a certain quiet
cafe with him.
I do not need to say I am a woman after
that, do I? And 1 like being a woman,
especially when 1 am free to have limch at
that quiet cafe. But there are drawbacks.
Here's an honest confession that may be
good for the soul, but It Is hard on the
pride. I am myself the mirror through
which I see other women. And It is putting
dents In my disposition to find that I am
not likely to run out of material supplied
at first hand. 1 did not know 1 hud so
many hateful little fuany feminine faults
till 1 began to write about them.
And, as If I httrt not enough to worry
me. you Insinuate I am -a man. You
know what I said about the girl who In
sinuates: Would 1 know so much aUout
women if I were a man? lJon't they all
say they cannot underatund women? Don't
they prove It every forty-five minutes of
the sixty? Why! a man to have seen what
I have seen In women, and to have kept
up with their goliigs-un us I have, would
need to bs a composite of the hundred-eye
dragon of Japan and a good lively Ameri
can tenllpede. He would have to have a
dlsiwaltlnn as Impervious as gutta porch
and a faith In feminity as elastic as a
hoe supporter. A man could not know
an i ao aDoui women and live, while 1
ii vairy mjr uuruen oi inrormatlon and
gut fat!
loes one of your men friends ever marry
a glil you know but that you "wonder
why he niarrled her," and tremble for his
future You see, you know the girl be
cause you are one of her kind. And that
Is how I know you. By the same token,
yeu should know me-wltheut blrds-eye
viewing
However, here I am In print and In pic
ture. Photographic fidelity ought to show
me 'with all my Imperfections on my
had " Also a new spring hat which I am
poeseased to wear though the snow flies
as I write And 1 wager you are fighting
maybe, ou are auccumblng to the same
temptation this minute. You are if the hat
is In the house.
But pictures never reveal ths inwardness
of the poser. Bo I confess that 1 am Just
what you or any other woman would I In
WrUe-ye view. The same u.aas ot uiu
Ik
crookednenses, peculiarities, strange elon
gations and shortenings, mixed and blended
with lines of grace, all the irritating, be
witching, inspiring and disappointing, con
fusing and delighting character-effects that
make up God's last creation. I do not say
ills best. It seems wiser and more In the
spirit of love that did the work to accept
the Maker s way of grouping all and call
ing it good.
Just as you have done a thousand times.
I have cried because I ciaved. Justus you
have laughed to cover your trembling lips,
so have 1. Just as you have set up stand
ards and found others resenting your pre
sumption, so have 1 Oh! there Is not a
humn Joy or aorrow that we have not
shared. And. perhaps, we have each rlaen
to the self same mountain top!
is yeu Imagine that I think myself seme
superior being, sitting In Judgment on a
self-appointed throne? I do try to thrust
my pen into the ulcer of a fault. I know
faults are diseased spots In a woman's
character. I have INem; and I suffer
with them.
Indeed, I am not a model of perfection
You knew 1 was not when you wrote. But
1 am not a freak. 1 am Just like oiher
women. Only and this Is a great, big.
ii in oiiij. too: i nave no use for the
kind of loyalty that praises a thing Just
because a woman does it even if it violates
every kindly consideration and every
dictate of generosity, if you want that
sort of Jojalty, I am not to have the pleas
ure of being your friend. I should feel
myself a veritable Benedict Arnold sort of
a traitorrsa to my sex-a patriot outside
with a IvinH heail beneath:
Of com sc. you know that 1 cannot re
flect the liioits oi men. ,ave no manly
faiiuiB!,, 1 hope. .Mine are feminine. I
must talk of what 1 know, you half re
sented my (lithiums, as you wrote this
letter, because you assumed that I thought
I waa so good that 1 had no frailties. Men
would feel quite the same. only they
would have better grounds. 1 have enough
of the pai in ular kind of shortcomings
that women have to be authority on the
subject, of course, 1 should ba an abso
lute Ignoraiuous about men, 1 simply
could not reflect them In myself.
I fill my share of space, but it seems
rather an Imposition to do It here. If It
is "something Interesting," however, I am
not sorry to have taken so much of your
time. And I honestly hope I have heen
beneficial and funny. I am not at all
sure of the first; but It is funny for me
to be trying to amuse the public that has
amused me so often. It Is fair play,
though.
You know how you pour your heart out
when you stay all night with some girl
friend. And you want to wring your neck
for your confidences when the chill cf
day wakes you up to the real world. I
have been confiding hero pretty glibly. But
I do, want to hedge a little. Thers really
la one fault about which I have written
that I am positive I do not possess. I have
never bored my friends by showing off
the talent of my child.
A flash of Insight came as I wrote that
Jestingly. I see myself sewing Valenciennes
lace on a tlp-tllty little petticoat designed
to show off pink knees while I show off
the genius. Mercy! If I were married and
bad a cuilj, U ml ui w ear Ueusars w
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Some Silhouettes of the Sidewalk
BY BOBBIE BABBLE
The
Iaceinaker.
"Nina! Nina! Glovannlna!"
Through the glorious sunlit day
Comes the cry above the tumult.
Echoing over old Broadway.
Only In her heart she hears It
And her fancy sails the sea.
Back to "mad re mla" waiting
Far away in Napoll.
Then her tired eyes grow brighter
While the vanished smile comes back
And her olive cheeks take color
That, of late, they seemed to lack.
'Ere the look of wistful sadness
Falls again across her face,
Look! A purchaser has hailed her,
Phe has sold a piece of lace.
That's another piece of silver
To increase the growing piles
That will carry "madre mla"
O'er the ocean afterwhlles,
And the happy little vendor
(Joes along a sunlit way
With a quicker step and lighter
Through the long and weary day.
"Nina! Nina! Oiov annlna!"
With that music In her heart
She hears "madia mla" calling.
And the tears of longing start
In her eyes aa she goes vending
In the busy Broadway throng.
"Nina! Nina! Olovannlna!"
That's the burden of her song.
What did Shakespeare say In "Tweifth
Night"
Of a song you know the one
"Old and plain." and surur hy "spinsters
And the knitters In the sun?"
Ulovanna Is the knt'tfr
In the Broadway sun that's plain.
"Nina! Nina' Olovannlna!"
Must be Shakespeare's stri-'n!
(Copyright, mil. by the N. Y. Herald Co.)
Smart Sayings
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groom waited at the other end, I should
endeavor to press steadily forward."
A woman In the .use niav he all rlaht-
ts when tm-ie ate two that there is
likely to be trouble.
"After all, things are pretty evenly ap- j When a woman ditsses to please the
portioned in thia world." Imcn, she rt.iem t have much success with
"Kh-yah! A strong-minded woman gen- the one who Is paving fur It.
erally has a weak-minded husband." j A woman Hops telling her age as soon
After a man has had a perfectly killing j as sge begins telling on her.-Hmart Bet.
time he is usually dead broke. :
Love Is blind, but it has a wonderful i
knack of picking out all the rich girls.
wen orten marry lor Iigures-and so do
women. But It's a different kind of figure.
Even the fool is important three Units
In his llfe-when he Is born, when he mar
ries and when ha dies.
Nothing makes a man rise quicker In the
world than sitting on the spur of necessity.
It sometimes takes a man down when a
woman sixes him up.
Boarding House Keeper There a a big
duty on meat.
Boarder at Table Tough, Isn't it ma'am?
Husband If a man steals no matter
what It Is be will live to regret It.
Wife During our courtship you used to
steal kisses from ma
Husband Well, you heard what I Bald.
"What would you do If you wera alone
on an Isle?"
I'recocloiia Perspicacity,
A few days after returning from a visit
to the country, Utile Elsie climbed on her
mother s lair and annoyed her by twisting
her ears, pulling her hair, and pokln
chubby finder In her mouth. When the
child attempted to push In one of her eyes,
her mother remonstrated
"I)o stop, dear." she cried. "What art
ou In ing to lu .' '
"Well - on-see, ' ttammeied the child,
"grandma lan take her teeth out, Auntla
Helen Hn take off her hair, and-aud-
and I woinlcK-d if some part of yoi
wouldn't come off -only )UKili tvtr Ui(.
me. " Lipplmutta.
Her I. eve Was Valid.
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I'ettl hone one cannot live on love aloni
Funnibone Why, how la that?''
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