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Who's Who in the Home
vb'tWMn Mi love and r
ru'h for. woman, or
K his explains, perhapi
yhrtlKta In an- Una of.
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It Is a, well known fact that at one
time or another every man has to chooxe
bl hli love and his art to forswear
woman for truth.
aps. the scarcity or
endeavor, .
In the rasa of the Conflrmvd Commuter
the crlais .f ante ' with' tHe purchase of a
camera.- It paid $25 for It. and. of course.
It was a rood camera. Also, the man who
showed, him" how to use It was in expert,
so at tna pn& of a thirty-minute talk there
was nothing he did not know about pho
tography.' ''.
Rut. pf course, there. Wre many things
he did not know al.out women.
"I've1 "bought a -camera," he announced
triumphantly c-he Saturday evening, "and
tomorrow I'm going to lake a lot of pic
tures of you, ami ' the house, and the
garden, and. the dog. ' Those professional
fellows never have t done, you Justice.
How can they? They don't see or appre
ciate your soul." '.' ' ' " ''
Gratification . beamed . from the chubby
countenance ' of the Hopeful Housewife.
ertheless ' she protested cautiously
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ut you, can't take pictures.
"I can'tr . What's-the reason I can't?"
tie demanded 'with fine Indignation. "You
put on one of Jhoee nice. soft Jittle summer
dresses and come out In the garden after
breakfast tomorrow and I'll make a real
picture of you something hat will explain
things to all those people who wonder why
I married ydu." he' added maliciously. ;
And when ; the Jtopef til Housewife fol
lowed. -the- Confirmed Commuter and the
camera lntv the garden next day- she felt
that sun anil sensitised flint were about to
Collaborate on a vision., of slender youth
and daxsllng ' charm.
First, of course, there waa the choosing
of a background.' Should It be the droop?
Ing clump of wistaria, the newly budded
prny chestnut, the Oreclan urn on the
front lawn or the vlne-hujig portal of the
immtr' house T . .
' VAt last every detail wa settled, and still
thV Confirmed Commuter circled round and
round the camera. Ha squinted dubiously
Into the depths of Its single, cold glass eye,
and finally.' exclaimed:
"This hlng seems to magnify sol Don't
you think you could take a more natural
pose and try- not to look so self-conscious?
Are you ready?' he asked finally, with his
hjsr.ti on' the bulb and squeezed It Just as
hi 3 wife answered naturally enough:
"Yes, dear, I'm ready." ,. ,
"There's one film spoiled,'" the volunteer
photographer exclaimed.. "Why did you go
and talk. Into the camera? You're not an
after-dinner speaker!"
The Hopeful Housewife smiled meekly.
o get angry ''would have spoiled her face
and. her. pleura.- .' .....V.
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CIRH.ED ROUND AND
WITH THE CAMERA."
ROUND
"Let's try again, dear," she said sweetly
and they did try agaln-And yet again
and again till twelve . pictures had been
taken.
"I'm sure I've got some beauties of you,"
said the Confirmed Commuter. "I'll have
them developed tomorrow.
All next day the Hopeful Housewife
dreamed of her pictures. She would want
a dozen each of the good ones', she de
cided, and then she settled down to pre
pare a list of persons to whom she would
send them.
"Borne of them are great!"' her husband
volunteered on his arrival home that night.
But his tone seemed to lack enthusiasm.
His wife took the pictures from him.
. At the first one she laughed, at the sec
ond she' made a wry face, at the third her
expression grew somber, at the fourth It
blsnched. .;
Anyone (Who has looked upon the first
pictures of an amateur photographer has
no need to Inquire why. Some were two
headed, others had been crowded two on
a plate, one over the other. All were out
of focus, all distorted as to face, and
monstrously mountainous as to figure.
"Do I look like that to your Inquired
his wife through hysterical .laughter.
"Sure, they're not bad!" declared the
artist stoutly. - 1 -
His wife, laid her head on the table-and
sobbed over the pictured.
"If those things look like me I'm' a freak
an awful, terrible freak!"
It was then that trie Confirmed Com
muter made Solomon look like a twos pot:
"No 'camera and no artist could do' you
Justice!".
(Copyright. 1911. by the N. T. Herald Co.)
Stahls of Santa Clans' Steeds
Among' the picturesque sights of arctic
America 1. avlare'herjL' jKf jaomaatlcated
reindeer. The .animals feed on the moss
whloh. grows In .abundance on the Actio
prairies. -.'The introductloa and breeding
of these hardy, . useful, and fleet-footed
.... r...n. r miiIaiu, K nht.Uari
JS$rom across. , the ' neighboring shores of
most successful ven-
goverament, according to liar-
f g -y-om wtvm, , mo n
ftp Hibeila has proved a
I lure by the coverame
r per's Weekly,
I There, are at presen
1 In luka, which ai
present about 30,000 reindeer
are distributed among
the twenty-five government reindeer sta
tions, .missions and natives. . The Eskimos
own nearly 10,900, or about half tba whole
herd In tba country. ' The government has
adopted tba business policy of distributing
the animals only after. ft number of years
apprenticeship . have been served, during
which period ; the native - la taught the
thorough care . and,, management, of the
deer.' The feerder is given a certain num
ber of doer free each year during the five
ears of , anprentlueahjp required by the
Wear
government ' : At the completion of his ser
vice he comes Into possession of about
fifty deer, which, with tba Increase of the
herd, are Sufficient to support himself, his
wife and his children. . .
Already, about one-fourth of the entire
Eskimo population have been provided with
reindeer. A few Industrious and enter
prising herders, by skillful management,
from the loan of deer belonging to the
government have accumulated herds of
several ' hundreds. One Lapp owner' and
herder, who' was loaned a number of deer
.by the government for five years, has now
raised a herd of more than 400, estimated
to be worth over $10,000.
Prom one of the government stations
soma fifty miles farther north,' tha herd
ers nnd a good market for venison at
Noma during tha winter. Many of the
animals aro trained for - sledge work, and
have been used In carrying the mall. A
reindeer team express has made a long and
perilous mail Journey from Point Barrow
to Kotsebua, 660 miles, aver a frosen and
trackless country.
, Gotham Paradise for Pa nhandiers
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Is New York City tha panhandlers' para
dise, and, Why? asks Theodora Bean In the
ffew Tork Telegram. . Eha says:
There are no new spring styles In bag
King, -and tha demand tor labor Is not call
ing tha vsgranta to town.. Yet there are
. GO Wtfyars" among us, the most skillful
of which are making' about a day, a tax
of 140,000 a day on the Innocent cltlsens.
"Where " do they' ome ' from, all these
wfeople with, the ppen palms?" .'was asked
Z ,, James Forbes, aeeretary of tha National
Association' for th 'Prevention of Mendi
cancy. 1 i; J
"Do you -know?" he returned, "I almost
give It tin. Tha farmers are crying for
help and nobody listens. Vhe men who live
by the reach route only flock here about
Easter time. .' .They flrui easy picking on
the parade, and thev wait for something
mora profitable. '. If the response Isn't ready
they set cut as tramps thYouKh New Eng
land and tha middle vest and farther to
ward.lhe " Paolfic,
"Why are there, more beggars uptown
than there were a few years sgo?"
"Because .they know .where the shoppers
are and their wits aro keen for appeal.
They know .se-me people are superstitions',
some are- expecting extraordinary good
luck If they don't five up,' the luck goes
by In a .discard. In Broadway there la
much more- superstition than you fancy.
An actor Is absorbed In an engagement:
he goes for Ms appointment, and ha has
neither the nerve nor the heart to resist
anyone asking something of him.
"Where one has no principles regarding
beggars there can ba no prejudice," he
went on. "Principles do not necessarily
go with good nature, and character form
ing Is not always Induced by a 'white
light environment. Broadway has not
constantly the forethought to Philosophize.
You may bother It and make It peevish It
gives because it Is free or wants to be."
just now it la the prosperous season. It
seems. Later tha call for tramping Is
heard. Tha beggars are not all Americans:
they are composed of thousands of aliens
who arrived here and faUed to get what
they were looking for or else came de
liberately to pursue tha easiest way to a
nving. The men who accept Pennies in
tha street often live almost luxuriously at
home. The crisped and Iced form of char
ity never reaches them. . They are decld
soiy unorganized and unaystemlsed In
every way except In that of their beloved
caiung begging. There are beggara ln
front of the big shops, beggara at tha curb,
oeggara at your automobile, each with
his plausible excuse for needing assistance.
Ail or whk'b makes the State Farm
colony look exceedingly good to tha Inno
cent shopper and bystander. It aeems like
the be a way out of a trying and growing
calamity.
There are three classes pf people, finan
cially speaking those who earn money
those who burn money, and a third class
which Ilea between and touches tha two
preceding.
Ruben Brown, 1021 Farnam St.. Faclflc . . , 191
Paul Cullen, 3027 Emmet St Howard Kennedy . .100
Julia ChrlBtensen. 161 North Twenty-first St Kellom 1800
Conrad L. Carman, 121$ Dorcas St v. Lincoln .104
Glenn Danlalson, 2233 North Nineteenth St. ..... Lake 1901
Vera Dunn, 2701 Hamilton St Long . .1902
Irma O. Edwards. 2615 Emmet St Lothrop 190R
Ludwig Endrea, 2410 Ames Ave Saratoga 1900
Katy Frankl, 1220 South Seventeenth St Oomenius 1895
Edith Gottneid, 2729 South Twenty-third St High . . .... .1896
Otto N. Glacier, 1410 Garfield St. Edw. Roaewater ,.1904
Jennie Hendlamn, 2212 Grace St , Kellom .. 1905
Archie F. Hurford, 2216 Military Ave. Clifton Hill 1898
Arthur M. Herring, No. 1, The Uintah..' Farnam ...1898
Jultu Haykln, 1002 South Eighteenth St .'. . . Leavenworth . . . .1904
Harriet B. Johnson, 611 South Twenty-fourth St... Mason ...1904
Charles Jensen, 617 North Thirty-second St ,
Howard Kelly, 1625 Ohio St.
Elizabeth Kane, 1730 South Eighth St. ,
Hattle Iversen, 4720 Ames Ave
Dell Lite, 8902 North Twenty-second St.
Agnes McCabe, 2114 South Eleventh St
Robert W. Moore. 4612 Burdette St. . Clifton Hill
Loren Mlth, 3T919 North Twenty-fourth St Lothrop ...
Standing Up Under Grief
In was on a Saturday night. November, 9,
Wt a date not difficult to fix accurately
in tha yeara that followed.' A Boston busi
ness man sat. In his. suburban, home' and
talked over his affairs with his wife.- The
children had gone to bed, and the evening
paper had been read. Ha Invited his wife
to look over with htm a statement of his
business affairs. I .
"The time .has come,"' said he, "when.we
can take life a little more easily. Thus far
It has been a struggle, but. now my business
Is well established. The beet houses In
Germany market their product through our
store. I have the best customers In our
Una. Our winter stock is now m. and It Is
the beet I have aver had. Tha business Is
so well established that It will take leas of
my time than hitherto.. I shall not have to
go about as I have dona every year of late.
nor shall I have to travel to get trade. We
have much to ba thankful for. We can take
Ufa a. little more easily, Wa can give a
little mora liberally, and wa will show our
gratitude In our lives.".
Together they knelt and thanked Qod for
the belsslngs that has come to them, and
they rested well that night.
But all that night tha fire be) Is were
clanging In Boston, and the next morning
the man learned that tha business district
was In ruins.
He carried Insurance for $190,000. Of this
he waa able -to collect 960,000, which waa
Just about the. amount he owed on 'his
stock. The $100,000, which represented the
results of his original Investment' and of
twenty-one years of business.' Ufa, was lost.
He paid his debts, made' a new. Inventory ,
and Instead of being- worth, $100,00 net, as
he had supposed, ba had Just t12K.' '
How often ha remembered that last con-
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Ancient Maxims
What a woman wills Ood wills.'
A blind horse goes straight . forward.
A clear conscience Is a good pillow. '
Better a lean peace than a fat victory.
To laugh at your own misfortune is a
great art.
He who listens at doors bears mora than
he desires.
Marriages are not as they ara made, but
as they turn out. '
Between the hand and tha mouth the
soup Is often split. . . - ' , '.
One good word quenches mora heat than
a bucket of water.
A glad heart seldom sighs, but a sorrow
ful mouth often laughs.
versation. In which ha supposed himself to
be a man of modest wealth 1 Even as he
talked, tha fires had been creeping up to
his store.. And as ha timed tha breaking
out of tha fire In his own building, It ap
peared to have been the. very hour in whloh
he and his wife were kneeling to thank God
for their prosperity.
He was a years old then, and not In
rugged health. Ha hardly expected to live
beyond to years; and W years was the
limit of all his thought of life. But ha set
to work with a brave heart. -
From 42 to 60 years of aga ha suffered
four reverses, the first of whloh waa. the
fire. Three times after that he seemed to
have gained a little, only to begin again
with a small fraction of what ha supposed
himself to possess.
A few months ago ha celebrated his 10th
birthday.
iNow. - na said, "as I look back . I can
thank God for every one of these setbacks,
I have. lived twenty years longer than I
expected to live. I have brought Into old
aga more vigorous health than I possessed
In middle life. My children had a dis
cipline which long ago I knew they needed
I have never suffered want, nor lost faith
In God. And now I can thank Him for tha
very sorrows I endured." Youth's Com
panlon. .'
Loretta's Looking Glass-She Holds it Up to House Cleaning
One of tha funniest things funny with
tha rich humor of contrast--! aver heard
was the recital of a German poem by a
southern girt whose thick, soft, dusky
dialect was absolutely r-leaa. Tha sonor
ous German consonant was lost ln tha
felllfaroua mualo of her speech. And It
waa aa affect at once surprising and
laughable. Maybe talking of Christmas
presents at housecleanlng time may seem
as funny to you. With tha buds bursting
and tha flowers blowing and other con
vincingly springlike phenomena happen
ing, tha ermined festival of gift-giving
may seem a long way off.
But this Is not a Joke. It is tragic,
deadly earnest. Tha memorial of a killed
All is Not Gold
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COW STEJ2NAT1 Oti !1L
friendship lies beside ma as I write.
too, have been housecleanlng. .
You - ara digging out of their long se
clusion all tha lace-trimmed uaelessnessea
that your friends gave you last Christmas.
And tha question In your mind la: To keep
or not to keep? -
Not! Decide In favor of tha negative.
Throw them ln the wastebaskett ' Indeed,
attend personally to their consumption In
the last furnace-fire of the season. . Do
not let that senseless econOmy-streak the
yellowest ln you! prompt 'you to refold
tha tissue paper about them and put them
In storage again, to be excavated and
given to friends who believe you like them.
The symbol of the dead" friendship Is a
bisected with a gathering threadoblong
of cotton. It Is covered with Dresden rib
bon. The bl-sectlon Is covered, too, with a
bow of blue. And "the dainty trifle" is
one of those things Intended to make up
for nature's niggardliness.
It was a Christmas present last" year.
It had been the year before. How do you
know? Because I aant It first; and she
sent it back to ma seoondl
Bhe forgot who had given It t- hir.
Maybe she argued that I could not ba the
one because I would have suspected her of
sufficient sense to have supplied nature's
shortcoming before. So-she unwrapped It
from Its hiding place, perked up tba bow,
and I received It aa "a Christmas remem
brance." I certainly did a good deal of
"remembering" when tt arrived. '
Unless you keep a list aa careful as the
Inventory of wedding gifts you pjy do
something Just as bad. That Is why
implore you at this happy fcouaecleanlng
time of the year to lay aside for confla
gr alios, all accumulated Ctulstutas) gift.
I should have liked to believe my gift was
a Jest. But I knew tha sender. She Is
tha typical female economist, who spends
25 cents carfare and lunches downtown to
'look around" for. a bargain la cent lace.
Her economical spirit Just drove her to
the Indignity. She needed It, but "a thirty-
eight" aoee not.
I am taking off the ribbon and break the
gathering thread that separates the pal in
twain. It will make a luxurious bolster
far a certain doll's bed. And the blue
ribbon will ba promoted to a hair decora
tion. But that cannot patch up my hurt
heart. That cannot Justify my friend's
making a bargain of tha Christmas spirit.
I'd rather have had a postal with a few
loving words oji it than my old chest pro
tector I . -
The BEES Junior Birthd&y Book
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Mat 24 taw o. thacker,
may xvxi. i3t0 street.
Name and Address. School. " Tear.
Frederick ,W. Anderson, 967 South Fifty-second St. . Bealg 1901
Minnie Anderson, 3011 Martha St Windsor ....... ..189
Harry A. Burkett, 8481 Larlmore Ave '. Monmouth Park ..1903
Dora Braun, 1052 South Twenty-second St.
Mason
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Webster :i89.
Lake 1904
Train ..1904
Central Park ....1900
Lothrop ..1904
Bancroft 1902
. .1900
. .1905
Lucille Mlth, 3919 North Twenty-fourth St Columbia
Roy Melvin, 10 South Thirty-eighth Ave. .' Lothrop
Thomas Macanell. 2319 South Thirteenth St Bancroft
Paul H. Palmqulst, 4122 Hamilton St
Earl E. Patterson, 1812 Chicago St
Roy Ryden, 2869 Ohio St.
Myrtle Rosengren, 404 William St...
Virginia Roberts, 2600 Ames Ave...
Gertrude Stout, 1103 South Thirty-first St
Annie Snyder, 1501 North Eleventh St
1895
........1905
.1893
Walnut IHU .....1898
Central 1898
Howard Kennedy. .1903
Train .'. 1896
...Saratoga 1899
Park 1898
...... Holy Family .....1899
Abe Smith, 1504 North Twenty-fourth St. ........ . Keiiom iua
Charles Trebileock, 4626 Decatur St Walnut Hill .....1900
Paul a Thacker, 4340 Lake St.......... .Clifton Hill 1902
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. . Are Women the Real He ads of Families? j
It la a long cry, from New York City to
Tacotna, Wash., but club women here nave
Ideas as, to what constitutes tha head of a
family which will carry to tha western
coast, where an authority. In the guise of a
commissioner, has defined the head or a
family as tha one who pays tha bills,
whether the defined head wears real
trousers, merely harems, or tha softest,
laolest gowns, says Theodora Bean In the
New York Telegram.
It seems the Equal Suffrage League of
Tacoma questioned a commissioner as to
who, as tha head of the family, was en
titled to tite $300 exemption from taxes.
And this Is what he said:
"Tha support of a family Is its head,
whether a single person, an adult brother
or sister, and tha dependent or dependents
need not even live with tba person provid
ing support." '
With only a little dissenting note from a
bride or two, the members of tha Rainy
Day club, In session at the Hotel Astor,
voted woman aa tba head of the family;
thnt a woman who doesn't know how to
rule Is a fool; that a man Is the head of
his business snd a woman the head of the
home; that a man makes money In his
of flea and a woman saves It by good
housekeeping. To promote and Insure har
mony In the borne all a man has to do Is
to recognise the feminine sway and do his
best to be reconciled to It.
Some men ara unmanageable in tha be
ginning, It was admitted, but if a woman
can rock a cradle and thereby rule a world
she can rock a man's evil or hasty nature
Into submission In such a nice way he will
believe the change was brought about
through his own nobility of character, his
rpprectation of homo ideals.
"A woman may easily assume tha place
of head of a family and hold on to the
power, but she. must go about It nicely, "
aid Mrs. -Bertha Welby, the founder of tha
club, "and the woman who doeen't know
h w to rule Is a fool. All tbs sentiment
about ruling tha world and the cradle
means nothing If a woman does not rule
her home. All women cannot go about It In
the same way because men's natures must
be understood or at least studied men
must never be taken for grwited the inld
star kens then."
"There Shouldn't be any discussion as to
the head of a family; It has to be a
woman," said Mrs. A. M. Palmer. "I was
tha head of my home and Mr. 'Palmer was
the head of his business, and wa never
disagreed nor even discussed the other's
lights. Paring bills has nothing to do wl'h
the subject tha man and woman entered
Into a partnership when they were married;
he makes snd she saves; If aha Joeen't she
and mother knows her place always is at
the head."
"My husband wouldn't hesitate to give
an opinion If he were here," spoke up Mrs.
A. Everitt Stone. "He knows verywell I
am, and he Is quite satisfied so
am I. I suppose he knows he would
have to be .content, anyhow. If a womman
has a home it is most natural she should
be at tha head of It. I haven't any chil
dren, but I am head, nevertheless, and it
Is a real home, too."
"Tha one who rules is tha head." said
Mrs. Irla Brevoort Roberts. "If a man
thinks he Is, then the woman will hava to
use all her wit and charm to get that
thought out of his brain. Tha victory la
hers only after aha has won It through
many battles and much striving. When
shevnee gets the lead she must never let
herself loaf on the situation, but master
all difficulties or questions as they ooroe.
It will take training; but oh, what a
blessed reward."
"What does a man know about running
a home and caring for chlldrenT" asked
Mrs. Howard Naylor. "I have seven living
children and ought to know what I am
talking about.
"You havs had thirteen in all, haven't
you?" queried Mrs. Henry Russell. "Isn't
she wonderful, and so youthful."
"You don't look a day over 36," spoke up
another. "Thirteen, thirteen,: isn't It
ths most remarkable thing you aver
heard?" ,
Mra. Naylor laughed and said her chil
dren wars remarkable and that kept her
young-t-she didn't intend to grow away
from them In any way and that her hus
band felt the same about them as she did,
but that he always looked upon her as tha
absolute head of ths household, and, she
added, ''Hasn't ba reason enough to have
such a conviction?"
"Of course, tha one nat pays tha hills Is
the head," declared Mrs. Frederick Nich
olas. "I have my own bank account That
makes ma think. Women ought to pay bills
In checks rather than cash. If possible,
they should have an allowance sufficient to
let them ley some aside each month. They
should' deposit the money tha allowance
money, I mean as soon as they get it, and
consult their bank books before they enter
tain or go shopping, or before they play
bridge, for that matter."
"If she hasn't a cent, she Is a head Just
ths same," cams from Mrs. Russell.
"You say De Skill plays an Meal game of
golf?"
"Yea. He plays well enough to make It
Interesting for as Influential friend with-
ought to be ashamed of herself. The wife out actually beating htm."
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