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How to Train a Wife
Thr com a tlmn In th Hf of every
commutrr anil bin wife whrn commuting
wmi Pat and unprofitable bilnw.
Tbjm pea. tTop faila or perhaps Ihe
ne lea rn, int-ji-tij
i nt the Commut
Is iWr-ut worm at th
inter' wife that there
heart of life !taelf.
Or iiRVbe the 'Mour.talnvllie t.pire
company" nelrt to deliver lt Bati!n1ay
nlfchl rai Ka and a long and boerleen P.inday
neuce.
Tor the brncfit of non-d welleia In Monti
talnvllie It inuit be explalnad that In that
Intereellnii uhtirb it is riot (OnnlJered the
thing to have a brewery wafon bait tiefoie
your dour, lneteud. a neat vehicle bearing
in larae red letters the legend "Mountaln
vllle Kxprees Co.'' drawa uji before your
home, and what It leave there 1 entirely
matirr wiwwn your cuiit-ii-iii.c
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Whatever It Is that causes thin dnnunrous
unreal. tf i'dnfirmed Commuter and hla
Hopeful lldusewlfe had been Its victims
lor funic time.
in vain the mountain sent down Us cool-
iilt brecne In vain the aunllnht dappled
he daJn intc Wiaplo trees in vain the fcarlct
alvia, I'Ke. the'- triumphant army or red
a!s, marched Us serried ranks across tho
own. Xii tn looKofl -no one cared.
The Uninlor, the disf.-n hantnHnt of the
tog days waS'iiKin me tominmrr n ii'iu----
hold. tXen VV"o.f-Woof. the Inoni parable
rullle, hrld a once optimistic tail at huit-
laat, and for haura at a time retired under
ha stationary tuba in the laundry to repent
la sins.
Iet'a bo away for a few days. " the
'onimuter' desperately exclaimed, "bet's
vet on boat somewhere! 1 feel as if a
oris; aall would do ine good! Just throw
otne things In a bag anil we ll start: My
rlend Scribbler was telllutt.uie tho other
lay about . a .sliorl trip he and his wife
'ften take. You. have twelve hours on the
xat each way and plenty of time to have
dinner on ahoro and a dtp In the ocean
aefor you start back to the city."
"Fine!" , axolalined the, now sparkling
aiiausawife. v
4nd o they started, with bright hopes
hearts beating; high, on the most
M-ous Journey It Is In the power of a
V"'ty-doilar bill purchase.
v nai pen biim tiraciiut: uic nuiivia u&
ong breeseless night In a six by four
abtn de. Juxe? ,
"Kennul ,do. luxe, it oujjht to be called!"
Vxclulmed, tbp Commuter ungrlly, when he
urvnjed .the sleeping quarters for which
is had paid ,15.
Yorf (Um't suppose I'd let . my collie
Vy hoje Uke this'" the Hopeful
mo wife said Indiguantly.
it the dinner was even worse. Kvery
g was canned. There was canned soup.
tied chicken, canned corn and all sour!
en the canned Caruso in that ten-year-
id phonograph was sour. I guess the
ecord was cracked.
"The worst of It is we've paid good
Widaws Still Hard
Blanche Bates, writing1 In the Chicago
rrlbune on this subject, goes on -record
n breeiy fashion. Bhe says:
The way of a man with a maid, Solomon
ieclared, was past all understanding.
le would . better have said, the way
f a widow with a man,. As a matter of
fact, the game a man plays with a young
irl Is the most obvious and transparent
vhing in the world whereas that of a
iTNjow with a man has all the skill and
unnlng and mystery of an East Indian
uggler's trick.
This, perhaps, accounts for the faot that
ulomon is av ' curiously reticent about
idows and their charms. Indeed, he
uite ignores them. Hearch the scriptures
Ith a magnifying glass and you will find
hat this connoisseur of womankind, he
he husband of 1W wives, makes but a
Ingle mention of the genus widow, and
hat Is to speak of her in his large mascu-
Ine pity as "sitting desolate In a garden
f tcucuAiber. Personally. I have altrays
fcqfd an exquisite touch of Irony between
fz lines and I opine that the widow
fin Kolomon'a dav was atllte as danaeroua
lbs Is today, 'and. that, being unable
o understand her, the wisest man in the
world preferred to remain discreetly
llent. .' . ,
However that may be, the faot remains
that single women and y4ing girls haven't
chance In the world with the average
man if there la a widow anywhere on the
(?jprison. ' ' . -.
vThe question has been asked 10,009 times,
1 tl nine people out of ten will tell you
Is unanswerable. Well. It Isn't, where
Jf9 youog girl Is romantic and the spinster
"tCenlimenlal, the w idow is simply' practical.
Bhe meets the eligible man as a think
ing, reasoning animal She knows, for in-
Tahee. that there is nothing a man likea
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"I Believe"-An
I believe in my Job. It may not be a
very Important Job, but it la mine. Fur
thermore, it is God's Job for me. He has
ti purpose in my life with reference to his
plan for the world's progress. No other
fellow can take ray place. It isn't a big
place, to be' sure, but for years I have
been molded in a peculiar way to fill a
peculiar niche In the world's work. I
could take no other man's place. He has
the aame claim as a specialist that I make
for myself, lu the end the man whose
name was never heard beyond the house
in, which be, lived, or the. shop in which
he worked, may have a larger place than
the chap whose name has been a house
hold word in two continents. Yea, I be
lieve lu.niy job: ' May I be kept true to
the task which lies before me true to
myself and to Uod who Intrusted me with
it. ''
I beiiwve in my fellow man. He may not
alwaya agree with me. I'd feel sorry for
bim If he did, because I myself do not
relieve some of the things that were abso-
tely sure In my own mind a dosen "years
ago. May he never lose faith in himself.
because, if he doea, he may lose faith in
me, and that would hurt blm more than
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more than it would hurt me.
1 believe In my country. I believe fn It
because It Is made up of my fellowpen
and myself. I can't go bark on either of
u and be true to my cred. If it Isn't
tbe beet country in the world it Is partly
f"uM I am nut the kind of a man that
Vhould be. .
believe in my home. It Isn't rich
home. It wouldn't satisfy some folks, but
il cuntaius Jewels mhlch cannot be pur
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"KNTIHI'I.V A I'KKSOXAIj MATTKR
RKTWKKX VOI R CONSCIENCE AND
THE EXPRESSMAN."
money for it and I've got our return tickets
I in my pocket," the Confirmed Commuter
j groaned. "Hut. cheer up! We'll get a
j eplemlid dinner when we land and I'll have
j a chance to take your picture In your
I culA nom- hnthtti Kiilt."
The countenance of the Hopeful Housewife
cleared miraculously, but the glittering
prospect held out by her husband was not
to be realized. Kor the .boat was late, so
lute that there was Just time to discharge
Its passengers and permit those who were
making1 the return trip to buy souvenir
post cards at the dingy landing, which
offered an unrestricted view of the lw-al
cemetery.
On the return trip the boat rolled and
tossed and the Hopeful Housemlfe, with
every movement of the craft, felt that she
was going to die and wanted to.
"I know that I am never going to bet bark
to my beautiful house." she said dolefully.
But late In the afternoon of the next
day. they did get back tired, starved.
Jolted and sore in body and mind.
A cool breeze came down from the moun
tain to greet them, and every mapleleaf
nodded a gracious welcome aa they dragged
thenjselvea across the clean shaven lawn.
Thi red-coated salvias saluted stiffly as
they passed. Woof-Woof gs Hoped down
the front steps to meet them tail and
eats and ruffled coat flaunting all the
riags of Joy.
"Was there ever such a" beautiful place
aa ' this?" asked the Hopeful Housewife
rapturously.
"Of course not)" answejed the Commuter
gruffly. "What do you suppose I took you
away for if It wasn't to teach you to ap
preciate your home?"
The Hopeful Housewife smiled.
"Well," she said, "I'm so ple-ascd to be
back that I believe I'll let you te't away j
with that."
(Copyright, 1910, by Is. Y. Herald Co.)
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so well as comfort, and she proceeds to
make him comfortable.
But the widow also knows that to make
a man comfortable, thoroughly comfort
able, is no small matter; that it Is, on
the contrary, a fine art a something Hot
to be learned in a day, or a week, or
even a month. For making a man com
fortable does not consist, as the maiden
foolishly and Xondly imagines, in such
merely external details as shaking up the
sofa pillows for his head or making klra
cooling drinks. On' the contray. It Involves
such subtleties as avoiding all topics of con
versation which might bore or annoy 'him
and In leading up surreptitiously to those
which Interest and delight him, or, better
yet, upon which he can and docs himself
hold forth with brilliancy.
Indeed. If an honest confession could be
wrung from every widow, It would be
found that it is man's Inordinate vanity
as a conversationalist, or rather a mono!
oglst, that the exploits more than any
thing else. If spinsters would only learn
what every widow knows that, be a man
never so silent, never so reticent, there
is always some subject upon - which he
loves to talk, and fancies he talks well,
there would be no spinsters In the world.
The widow knows that while the average
woman can talk well on almost anything",
even though she knows little or nothing
about it, the average man doe not talk
well at all, on anything save one subject.
Moral: Find your man's conversational
hobby and then listen. It may not be In
teresting, of course. It may be anything
at all from the latest discoveries In
philology, which you might not know the
meaning of. to the batting average of his
base ball favorite, which you understand
still less about, but never mind that
listen.
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chased in the markets of the world. When
I enter Its secret chambers, and shut out
the world with its care, I am a lord. Its
motto is service. Its reward la love. There
is no other spot in all the world which
fills Its place, and Heaven can be only
a larger home, with a father who is all
wise and patient and tender.
I believe in today. It is all that I
possess. The past Is of value only as It
cau make the life of today fuller and
freer. There Is no assurance of tomorrow.
I must make good today! Rev. Charles
Stelsle in Ladies Home Journal.
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Loretta's Looking Glass-Held Up to a Distinction and a Difference
A man may think he is getting a lot
when he marries;, but he knows he is giv
ing ' up one thing that is dearer to his
masculine, soul and body than the breath
of life to his nostrils. Indeed, It Is the
breath of life to him his freedom.
I can see you girls jump on the seats
and shout, "Well! How about the girl?
.She gives up her freedom, too." But please
sit down and listen. I am not to be de
terred by shouts and waving parasols. 8he
does not give up her freedom. She never
had any. You cannot give what you have
not possessed. There Is not a nice girl
breathing but that has to render an ac
count of herself to her father or mother
or society. Phe cannot stay out night
without explaining. And even that doea
not help much.
But a man oan and doea. He trots off
to the railroad station and takes a train
anywhere he likes If the train goes there.
And that not necessary to expluinneas is
the chief charm of his unwedded bliss.
And the fear of losing It has driven more
men away from matrimony than an In
sufficient bank account could ever do.
A man told me that the word why was
the curse of the matrimonlfied. Why didn't
you come home? Why must you go down
town? Why were you late? Why do you
like him? Why are you so qulot? Why
won't you go to the Blank's dinner? Why
do you like to smoke? He declares that
these are the questions that are at the
bottom of more divorces than any of the
reasons mentioned In the papers.
What be means, girls, is that the ques
tioning privilege which the wife assumes
makes him feel accountable to somebody
where formerly he was not called upon to
report, or even to analyse for himself the
whyness of what he did or said or liked.
Marriage means freedom to a
Any one of you girls know in your In
most hearts that that is one of its chief
attractions. It means your kind of free
dom. It's a chance to make or break for
yourself socially. It's an opportunity to
be something more than an accessory in
a household that four mother runs. That
house may seem to be conducted as a
background for you, but you know better.
You know It's a stage, set by a stage man
ager who permits you to act on It, but
not to direct your own performance. And
marriage puts you in the stage manager's
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place.
So here's the distinction and the differ
ence. The whylng method seems to your
husband an endless chain. . It's a sign of
his lost freedom, his kind.' Marriage has
given you freedom, your kind. Suppose
you say not "Why are you later" as If
you wanted to find out the reason of his
tardiness and so convince him that he
"cunt do a thing without being made
to give an account of himself." But
"I'm so glad you are here." as If the one
cause for your concern about hla nonap
pearance was the misery you felt at being
robbed of his company.
Y'our interest becomes a distinction; he
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Grandma's Old-Fashioned Ideas on Feet
"Your new friend has lovely feet, my dear
child," remarked grandmother as soon as
the girl who had been calling upon her
youngest granddaughter was well beyond
the sound of her voice, "but I should have
observed that fact aa quickly if she had
not been at such pains to keep them In
view. And because she sat with her feet
extended far in advance of her body I
could see why in the course of a decade
she will be wearing shoes several sixes
linger and wider than those she has on at
this moment. In the first place, her heels
are exaggeratedly high and they are two
Inches ahead of their normal position.
"That sort of heel gives the Instep a high
arched effect, but It also helps to break
down whatever arch exists and sometimes
temporarily cripples the possessor. Then
the tips of the ahoee were almost as sharp
as needles. That shape makes for a slender
effect, and, at the same time, by cramping
the toes causes them to double under,
breaks the nails, enlarges the Joints and
produces the soft corn most painful of all
excrescences.
"And because a shoe which pinches the
toes Is as difficult to crowd the foot Into
as though It were too short, it Is likely to
create bunions, and when a bunion arrives
it comes to remain permanently and it will
have room to spread itself lu, no. matter
I Should Say Not
feels dignified because he means so much
to you. . And there's "a heap o' differ
ence" betweeen Jealousy of losing his so
ciety and Jealousy of the one or the place
or the thing that kept him away. If you
are not just pretending to love for the sake
of the privileges of marriage, if you really
care for the man, you will study to make
every cankering why undergo a trans
formation. And keep on studying till if
becomes an expression of love rather than
a nasty, hateful, jealously welded link In
the chain of your approprlativeness with
which you load your husband till he longs
in secret for the good old days before he
made you his jailor.
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how much Its victim may object to wearing
wide shoes. Can't you imagine how that
young girls feet will look when the In
steps are flattened, the balls widened with
bunions and the toe joints showing like
miniature hillocks? And I think that her
ankles will get thlok, because in her re
luctance to adopt shoe a size larger than
those she has customarily worn she will
force her ankles instead of her feet to sup
port her weight. Moreover, she's quite
likely to grow fat.
I have seen any number of slender
women gradually beoome stout after they
began to have what they term 'trouble
with their feet.' They speak of this condi
tion as do the women who are having
trouble with their husbands.' and like those
women they have brought most of' this
trouble upon themselves by persistently
clinging to a senseless Idea.
"Times have changed amazingly since
my own girlhood and I've tried to change
my Ideas In accordance with them," con
cluded grandmother, "but I'm not willing
to cripple my feet by crowding them Into
shoes which make them look so extraor
dinary slender and pretty that vanity would
Impel me to keep them thrust almost liter
ally In every one's face Instead of drawn
decorously beneath my skirts after the
manner of gentlewomen of an older day."
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CURART IIANIOHKN.
327 South Thirty-seventh Street.
Name and Addi-tv.
Amelia A. Abendroth, 2723 Ohio St.
Jarl Adolfnon, 3208 Seward St. ...
Ruth L. Anderson, 417 North Twenty-fifth
Grace Run do, 1508 Poppleton Ave High ....ISM
Mary Bataglla, 1320 South Twelfth St.... St. Thtloniena. . . 1901
Thomas Baumrardner. 2218 North Twentieth St. ...Lake 1891
Esther Bogga, 3015 South Sixteenth St Castell.tr .......1898
Dollle V. Caswell, 2609 North Fourteeuth St I.ako ............. 1901
Russell Charlesworth, 111 North Twenty
Elton T. Combs, 4606 Dodge St
Frank Danze, 3021 South Twenty-third St Vinton 1900
Anton J. Egermler, 1012 Homer St Kdw. Rosewater. ..1902
John C. Eldredge, 1709 Park Are........ Tark 1897
Harold Erlckson, 2709 Howard St Fa mam 1803
Maurene E. Fraser. 2599 Webster Ave.... Miller Psrk 19o5
Marie Cozansky, 1735 South Twenty-seventh St lm. Conception. . . .1902
John Gross, 110 North Thirteenth St... Cass 189
Harry Gntrmey, 574 South Twenty-eighth St Farnaru 1904
Virginia Halkine, 1338 South Thirty-first St Park 1897
Ayesel S. Hertel, 3644 North Twenty-eighth Ave Druid Hill 1904
Cleary Hanlghen, 327 South Thirty-seventh St Columbian 189
Margaret Henryes, 1118 South Eighth St Pacific 1901
Sarah B. Hickox, 2419 Valley St. ............ . Vinton 1899
Frances Kahler, 3414 Cass St Saunders 1902
Emelia Jensen, 2616 Blondo St Long 1896
Henry Jensen, 804 North Twenty-third St....- Kellom 1904
Charles J. Johnson, 3844 Hamilton St Walnut. Hill .1901
Vera Elizabeth Manning, 3724 Gordon. St Windsor. 1901
Carl Martin, 2522 Lake St - Lake 1901
Anton Miunch, 2618 South Eleventh St St. Joseph 1S97
Charles Payne, 3601 Parker St. .' Franklin ..'.....'.1896
Alice Peters, 3510 Leavenworth St..... High 1896
Edwin C. Peck. 837 South Fifty-first St.- Beals 1896
Jessie Rosenstock, 3506 Harney St High 1894
Harold Robbins, 4804 North Thirty-sixth St Central Park 1897
Hazel Ridenoir, 1411 North Thirtieth St Long 1902
Mary Reynolds, 2137 South Thirty-fourth St High 1898
ClarenceSchuman, 2602 South Eleventh St Bancroft .1904
Wendell "d. Sutton, 2104 South Thirty-fourth St Windsor 1901
'Barbara Sweska, 2327 South Nineteenth St.... Castellar ..1902
! Bruce Sprecher, 4336 Parker St Walnut Hill .1816
Rosey Szaliwska, 2318 South Twenty
Bennie Tlmm, 4104 North Twenty-fourth
Oscar C. Wenninghoff, 2515 South Twenty-sixth St. . .German Lutheran.. 1899
Ruth Whited, 2715 North Twenty-elxth St. ....... .Lothrop 190J
Howard Wilson, 1820 Miami St
Arthur Wonldridse. 3227 California
Mary Woodcock, 605 Cedar St.
"Good Old Days
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The following amusingly reminiscent let-i
tor from a former farmer boy to his city
uncle written from San Antonio, Tex. Is
taken from Harper's Weekly:
Dear Untie George: Y'our letter was re
ceived. During my early boyhood In Mew
England I associated with farmers and
farmers' sons. I got up at 4 o'clock in the
morning. I milked five cows before break
fast, and then, having a few minutes to
spare before our frugal meal, I turned the
grindstone, a boy's work, to sharpen
scythes and mowing machine knk-es, while
the man bore down with all his weight to
finish before breakfast. After breakfast I
spread the hay which five men mowed.
while the elder member of the family rode
on a mowing machine. It being a boy's
work to spread hay and a man's to ride
the machine. I ran home for a Jug of
sweetened water and vinegar with a little
ginger on top at half-past ten, while the
men rested In the shade by the spring.
"In (he early afternoon I loaded hay
while two men pitched on, and then I was
put into the mow under the eaves, on a hot
August day, to stow away that hay, with
the thermometer at 100 degrees, tills task
being easiest fur a boy, while the hay was
pitched off the cart to me by an Irishman
receiving a dollar a day and board, and
being worked to get Our money's worth out
of him during haying time.
"At dusk I was sent for the cows, a
boy's work, while the men rested, and,
after driving them In, I was allowed to
hold back a calf by a rope, while it ran
to its mother, dragging me across the barn
floor, and, when a suck or two had in
duced that mother to give down, I was
allowed to drag that calf back to Its pen
by the same rope and over the same floor
that I had been dragged a few moments
before. As I think of the exercise pro
French Girls in Eevolt
Recently facts have come to light In
Paris and In the large towns of France
which point to a revolution brought abwui
by girls of good families who, tired of re-
This is fhe
Day We
(jslebraie
August 31, 1911.
School. Year.
.Howard Kennedy. .1904
. . Franklin . .,. ... . 1895
St. High .......... 1 895
- fifth St. .. .Central 1S95
. .... Saunders ...1904
- sixth St Im. Conception. . .1901
bt Saratoga 1!7
Lake 18T
St Webster ..18J
.Train 1905
on the Farm"
duced by returning that hungry, S-week-old
calf from a moment's feeding at his
mother's breast, It seems now It was a
man's work; then, it was a boy's, as well
as to carry : skimmed milk to" those Calves
by the pailful and teach them to drink by
sucking my fingers, while the men milked,
and rested ou three-legged stools.
After the frolicsome day waa past and
the ohoree were done, I was allowed to go
to bed, except in the fall, when, as a
pastime, 1 husked corn In the barn until 10
o'clock, and in the winter time, when I
picked over potatoes and apples in the
cellar by a candle stuck in the crevice of
the stone wall, until the same time ot
night, while the men sat' around and rested
In the room above., ricking over apples
and husking corn, however, were con
sidered by my folks simply a pastime and
pleasure for a boy after he had done the
easy things above referred to during the
day.
"This early New England life of mine has
had an influence on my character to such
an extent that I made up my mind some
years ago that, for the short . balance ef
my life, I would never touch a hoe handle.
It It were necessary to hold, anything la
my hand of that description, it would be
a billiard cue or a golf club.
"The only rest I ever enjoyed during mt
farm life waa at the family altar la tM
morning JUBt after breakfast when we all
fnelt In family prayer, and 1 fell sound
asleep during those few moments, although
I waa supposed to have bad a refreshing
slumber during the past night; or, perhaps,
when our pastor came and we were all
called Into the parlor, which was only
opened for prayer and on Thanksgiving
day, and we all knelt In the heat while
the preacher prayed. I had a long sleep
then."
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malning at home and doing nothing but
wait for husbands who never turn up', have
Invaded the labor market. It has been
found that the daughters of wealthy manu
facturers are taking situations aa govern
esses. There are cases of land-owners'
daughters filling positions as housekeepers
In comparatively humble households, while
girls of good family, weary of attending
balls and socltty functions, in the hope of
meeting eligible husbands, are doing the
work of housemaids, and doing It well.
Instances are given of educated girls whe
have taken menial positions In families en
tertaining their masters and mistresses to
musical evenings. They rejoice In their
freedom and In the fact that they are .in
dependent of their families, on whom, un
der the old conditions, they had to rely
for pocket money.
This new development of the feminist
movement Is seen In most of the profes
sions. Girls who were from the first des
tined to earn their living are meeting with
considerable competition from their sis
ters more fortunately circumstanced. Re
ports from employment agencies show that
the latter are eager to accept situations
which will take them from home, and that
In their anxiety to be Independent taey do
not baggie about terms.