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Servlc.
1 1 am told by a famous Impresario,
who gained torn valuable expeManc
by marrying a great actress, that whim
la a. purely feminine attribute.
This, though, is
surely a mistake
for there have
lived male men
who had such an
exaggerated sense
of their own worth
that they . lost
sight entirely of
the rights and
feelings of every
body else.
All through life
they kept the stage
waiting without
punctilio. These
men thought dogs
were made to kick,
servants to rail at.
the pubno. to be
first crawled to
mYiA then dajnned.
and alf rivals to be pooh-poohed, cursed
or feared, as the mood might . prompt.
Further than this, they considered all
landlords robbers, every railroad mana
ger a rogue, and business' men they
buched as greedy, grasping Shylocks.
They always used the word "commer
cial" as an epithet. , ,. ,.
Devotees of the-hlstrionlo art can. not
lay. just claim to . having, mora thn
their share of whim. All the professions
are flavored with it.
In ., spaaliing to Mr. James McNeil
Whistler of a certain versatile musician,
a lady one said. "I believe he also
acts!"
"Madam, he does nothing else," re
plied Mr. Whistler.
It Is not absurd to think that because
a man has the faculty of doing a thing
well that on this. account he must assume
airs and declare himself exempt along
the line of manners and morals?
.The expression '.'artistic temperament"
Is often an apologetic term, like "literary
sensitiveness," which means that the man
has stuck to one task so long and thought
In one line so much that he has evolved
Into Just a plain Ardendelawar Daffy
Dill.
The artist is the voluptuary of labor.
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The Great Mystery Case
By THOMAS TAPPER.
In the course of this article there Is
something about a potato down cellar.
Let us assume that you are a great de
tective. You, are called upon to solve A
mysterious case. What would you do
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Get mil the facts In the case.
And then?
Determine from these facts tha condi
tions And circumstances they point to or
suggest
Stated in other worda, you have before
you:
I The mystery.
1 The facts In the case. As they ap
pear at the present moment.
You .must discover what led up to these
facts. : They are of the past.
Vow, a boy born to citlsanehlp In the
Viited States (or anywhere else) must be
Just this kind of detective. He has a
great .mystery case on his hands. And
ha must solve it.
It 1 called Tha Meaning of the Present
or How to Make Good In the World.
This Is really a great case.
If you are the great detective you ought
to be. to solve it, your Sherlock Holmes
method will be something like this:
During the early year of life you will
be getting acquainted with the place of
the mystery, getting your bearings so to
speak. Having become old enough to
thick -for yourself, you will begin to ex
amine your surrouadlngs carefully.
You will say to yourself: "I must find
out what the world about me. Is doing.
In order that I can begin to work on the
great mystery case of Making Oood."
This Is making a study of the Present.
You will begin to notice that people talk
and write about thtngs that are not hap
pening now. , They constantly refer to
times, people and ' conditions that no
longer exist. When you begin to Investi
gate what they are saying, you will find
that the people of the world today arc
thinking their thoughts and governing
their eonduct vry largely from tha ex
perience of other men who. like you.
American Boy. siere born Into this world
and studied It.
Then you will see the necessity for
making a study of the Past.
A day will never come In your attempts
to solve this mystery case when you can
say. as an ordinary detective often can:
"Now I have all the fact, present and
past, and the problem Is solved."
You will hava to put in every day of
your Ufa oa your mm, constantly study
ing th present to know what tha world
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and his fantastic tricks seem to be only
nature's way of equalling matters and
showing the world thst he Is very com
mon clay after all. To be modest and
gentle and useful Is just as much to
society as to be learned and talented, and
yet a cad.
Still, cases of great talent and becom
Ing modesty are sometimes found.
Mosart, for Instance, had humor. He
had a sense of proportion and realised
that there Is a time to laugh.
And a good time to laugh Is when you
see a mighty bundle of pretense and af
fection coming down the street. Dignity
is the mask behind which we hide our
Ignorance, and our forced dignity Is what
makes the Imps of comedy, who set aloft
In the sky, hold their sides in merriment
when they behold us demanding obeisance
because we have fallen heir to tuppence
worth of talent.
Mosart knew a big thing from a little
one. When years of age Jie once
played At a private musicals where the
empress of Austria was present. The lad
even then was a consummate performer.
Ha had just played a piece that con
tained , such a tender, . mournful, minor
strain that several of the ladles were in
tears. .The '.boy, seeing this, relentingly
dashed off into a "barnyard symphony,"
where hens cackle, donkeys brayed, pigs
squealed and cows mooed, all ending with
A terrible cat" fight "oil A JwtMWJsiiied'Yoof.
This done, the boy ran across the room,
cljmbed into the lap of the empress and,
throwing bis Arms' around the . neck of
tBe 'good lady, kissed her a resounding
smack first on one - cheek, then on the
other. It was all very much like that
performance of Uszt, who one day when
he was playing the piano, : suddenly
shouted. "Pitch everything out of the
windows!" and then proceeded to do it
musically of course.
The habit of merriment continued with
Mozart, as It did with Llstt. all his lite.
As a companion, I think I would choose
Mozart generous, unaffected, kind rather
than any other musician who ever danced.
played, sang or composed, this Just be
cause he could laugh even at himself.
Ha always remembered the - Eleventh
Commandment. And for fear some reader
of this paper may not be familiar with
the Eleventh Commandment. I'll just ssy
It Is: Do not take yourself too damn
serious. And the recipe for reforming the
world Is this: Reform yourself.
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work Is, and, also, constantly studying
the past to know how we cama by tha
thoughts wa think; thoughts which wa
have received and which we apply to the
present, and from them govern ourselves
about the future.
II.
Bo It Is A great case.
Now, this group of facts which lead up
to the present, and which also make tha
present, are recorded in books. , Aa you
become educated you may form tha habit
of reading booka. If you do, you may
be thankful, for you will possess a habit
that can be made valuable.
This habit becooiva valuable when you
use It as one of the aids In your bust
nssa of solving tha meaning of the pres
ent. Used otherwise, it may be A pleas
ant habit, but not a thoroughly useful
one.
Therefore, do not underestimate your
power to read. It la the key t&at will
unlock tha past for you. and It la the
past alone that unlocks the present and
lata you In, as tha expression says, "oa
the ground floor."
liooks that do this for you are many
In number, but they are grouped under
few -heads, like history, biography, educa
tion, science and the like. It is never
necessary to read them all and, besides,
It la impossible. A few books, wisely
selected, will let you In to tha meaning
of tha past. In one of these articles wa
will present such a list as a suggestion
for these who are determined to solve
this mystery case.
But before the American boy touches a
single book, it ahould be clear to him
that tha act of making good in the case
Is worth his hlghsst effort.
It should also be clear to him that:
L The world about him is a great
world and It demands bis study.
t. The world of today is the dsughter
of yesterday, and ha must study both
with great care.
If you do not care to take this point of
view of thla trouble (and there Is a lot of
It), you can go down cellar and shut out
the light, and tell the past and the pres.
ent thst you do not care to bother with
them.
In your study of the world of todsy.
you will be surprised to find how many
people do live down cellar, where, like a
potato In the spring, they thro out a
sickly sprout or two, and then are car
ried out and burled.
If you are going Into this mystery case
do not Uve down cellar; be a gteat detective
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harbor of Alters. Thsy completed It in
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figures.
Hatshepsu, Egyptian -queen, in 154 B.
C. acsuroed male attire and the style and
title of king.
Tha seventy of tha winter of 1TI drove
tha wolves into Vienna, where men were
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mometer on the previous day registered
degrees.
Near the Abbey BeAupres, Franca. In
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By WINIFKED BLACK. ,
Mr. Roger Plnnan was arrested for
vagrancy In Chicago tha other day. He
told the Judge that he had been a tramp
for thirty yjra.
"No," aald Mr.
Finnan when the
Judge questioned
him, "No' I don't
like to tramp. I'd
Ilk to settle down
aomewharei but I
can't find A place
on earth to suit
ma. It's too dry
soma places and
too wet others.
Borne towns are
too lively for a
fellow like me and
some are too dull.
Soma places cost
too much and
some ara too
cheap. I do wish
I could, find a
place I ilka."
Poor, discouraged . Mr. Finnan of
Chicago. WHat a mess he la in. to be
sure. He carries his world around with
him, 1 and wherever he goes there It li
on his back hla miserable, disgruntled,
restless, unhappy world: and he thlnka
he has found It along tha railroad ties.
"Dear me." said a woman I know the
other day, "I've promised my little girl
to visit her school this week, and It
does bora me so frightfully. - I'm a 'per
feet martyr to my ohlldraa, Anyway."
"Oh,", said another woman I know,
? can hardly wait for Friday to come.
I'm going up to school to hear Betsy
speak a piece.
"And tha liuie Johnson boy is going
to sing or something, and they are so
axclted about it they ran hardly live.
I'm always so giad of an excuse to go
Getting
By FRANCES L. GARS IDE.
If report be true, tha plain middle-class
citizen la coming Into his rights. The
aristocrats ara to have their monogram
embroidered on their shirt fronts.
At first tight the connection between
an aristcrats' shirt front and tha plain
middle-clasa cltlten'a rights may not be
apparent, but It it there.
For generations and generations the
plain mlddle-clasa oltlseo has paid bit
way to horse and Automobile show; be
has bought tickets to exhibitions of long
haJred cat and short-tailed dogs, In
which the wealthy have been interested.
He has been a, first-nighter at grand
opera and has paid the price without
flinching, and what did ha get for hla
money?
"Did you tee tha Attors?" he It asked
when ha gets home. "Were the Vender -blltt
there? WbAt did the woman we at?"
To which he replies In disappointed
tones that ha saw a lot of languid
women and bored men. dressed to be
stared at, but they wore no 1a belt And
he couldn't tell who was who. . In his
limited knowledge, he was unable to tell
an aristocrat from a commoner, since
the. commoners ara also guilty of wearing
Acret of dlAmond, and some of them are
preeumptuou enough to be better look
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By CUESTKH HKJU.B.
Grim bordered by the Bleak Baharan
And Libyan wastes and the unhar bored
Vnbtcd by fortune or fertility
What Demon laid on tbee hit fiery
handK . .
When tarth was young and mongst tn
uroieflng lands
Crowned the with thorn of endless
mUery?
Swept by tha dust-wind from the south
ward plain.
Burned by the white beam of a tropic
TbaVctn forbid thy very etreeme to
run.
And kill thy people aa it kllle the grain
Who earned for thee thla heritage of
pain. , .
Thla doom ravleltant yet never done?
Nature had oureed thee could not that
suffice?'
Nay. for thy chief tormentor hat been
Man.
Oreat Carthage, In her glory, overran
And lavd thy citlee at the conqueror's
prlc
Of gem and Ivory and Orient spice,
Home held the vassal for bar apland
or'a span.
Vandal and Qraek and tha wild 'Arab
horde
la grim niprnnlnsi el lined the aa taer
own;
In a rim aunneawloo to be overthrows!
Audi yleud thee) te arwthir caeuirerara
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By Tad
there and see ill those lively little, tykes.
It makes me good humOred for week.'
Only when they 'sing I always have to
cry somehow, no matter what they sing
about a kitten or a tree or 'My Country
'Tls of Thee.' There s something , so' .
strange In their voice, so hopeful, so
coursgeous. so Innocent. I Just sit' there
and cry away and have a beautiful
time." All In the point of view, you
Now, the other woman . finds that
everything bores her but bridge and tha
theater and supper parties.
Poor, lonely half-alive thing,, she
doesn't really live In the world at
the real world.
She lives In a queer, tittle, palmed.
snuffed, cushioned box. made of ' her;
funny llttln likes and fllnUke. and odd
little prejudices, and Absurd Uttlo am
bitions, and fears, and hopes: All about
clothes, and Invitations, ' and . theater
parties, and who's who, and what'a what,
and when Is when, and she can't even,
peep through A crack and see the great,'
splendid, Joyous, natural world , swing
ing along out there In the sunshine, sing-'
lng at the top of Its j voice. ' ' '
She's bored all . the time: bored ' io;
death. 'Why shouldnt'she be? What l;
there to keep her from being bored T;
Not one bit of simple, honest sentiment:
not one little, natural childlll.e Impulse.
I declare when I get so 1 don't "want
to pull the blue grass out of Its slv.aih
and bite the end of it to see If It's a
sweet aa it. used to be: when I get so
I can't see a tree full of red anpaa
without wanting to steal a far' and eat
them right , then and there: when' I, rot
so I 'can tee a puppy chase hit own UH
and not laugh, I want someone to 'steal
up behind -me and chloroform :ne thcrt
and there.
No place to ault you, poor Mr. Finnan, '
of Chicago. I wonder It you ever suited
any place youieelf?
His. Rights
ing than the Four Hundred, ,'
it would ' nave inuoe i he pianali.g of
tiv hoiscs or the yelping and mewing of
the short tailed dogs and the long haired
cats a more vital entertainment, to much
mora of an event. If he could have said
hen he reached home, "I was as near
Mr. Astor a I Am to you, And she wore
so-and-so." or "I think' the Coleman
Praytons looked unusually well' this
evening," and he might have Added In A
tone denoting long and intimate acquaint
tanca that Mrs. Vanderbllt had on too
much powder. ,
He will wa.k from box to box when the,
aristocrat are licensed and numbered
like so many' gasoline car, or prlie ex-.,
hlblts at an animal fair, and peace and
attsfsctlon will fill hi aoul.
He will at lost e for himself the per
sonages who have been giving excess
weight to the Sunday papera, will, no
longer be the blind groping In the dark
trying to decide who Is who. He will
know, and the glory of being so near the
presence will isilinta on him.
With monogram In their shirt fronts
for the men. and label u here the front,
of a woman' v.ait should be, there will
be a means more tangible for picking out'
tha tlluatrtou aristocracy thai a languid
air of boredom or an unpaid milliner's'
bill. " ' r ."
SWulO. '
Brlrtiy n.o biave Crusader va thy Wii.
Till o'er th' walls tue Turk Mine .
Crescent shone.
Then, through the travail of A hundred
years,
Thy shame was heralded tha wide woiUi .
o'er,
When the frail cities of thy' northern
shore
Were pruy end shelter to the bucoaneors:,
When fiance and England armed them
ga.nn thy spear. . . .
And even far America made wtr. , .
Agalna-tnday the shock, the" battle's,
flame!
Again the Death that ride tha leadeji'.
gale!
Again the hunger and . tha mother's
wall!
Poor barren country, never known 'to
fame:
tad. stricken people, with no people's
name!
Thy age-old Fate returns to turn thee
pale.
"Why do they eall these dentists of-'
flees dental parlors?" asked Smith of h a
friend. .
"Why. parlos la the old-fashioned name
for drawing room." Prebytrlan Itard-'
Ard.
Mother I saw yow kissing nty daughter.'
Teat but otUy out of desperation. I
oulda't think of anything to say to
ear. rUagemd Blatter.