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Married Life the . Third 'Year
" Warreii Sends to Helen His Mother'. Very .
, ..-.-. critical Letter. -
By MABEL HERBERT LKVER.
"Dr Helen: Bo that' your last move. (da. oa busii
Is It taking a roomer? Mother baa Just
written me. oh called on you last
' week end found -you bid rented toe spore
loom. Tour excuse was you were la need
' of money. -
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.'Thing have come
t to a nice pue when
you complain to my
'. people that I don't
. provide tor you.
that you're forced
to root -room to
pay expanaea.
- Mother koowa bet
. ter but ' everyone
alee won't Juppeea
-you did It to arouee
ympith y that
' would be Jurt Ilka
ou.
S . "And you aaked.
tnotbar -not to wrHa '
( me about it-ibt -
was like jfou, too. ,t
. Tou knew -well
anouch. ' I wouldn't -
fe tend for auch tomfollery. Kow get rid
' af that woman and get rtd of bar quick
)r there'll be trouble.
knew from your laat lettera with
till that twaddle about independenca and
'tnaklnc your own money that you'd be
-tip to eoaia tool an LA. Jtad now.' you.l-a
j rented . room fprahanilaerbla, aum of
ill a week-and ejlvan awj-boV'' tha im-
preaaloa you ra driven to U. nif 6u tried
michty hard to keep It from me. Tou
Vkaew darned well I'd aee throuah yoar
Jlttla echeme. Now you take mr aaMpa
'and don't try any more af tneas tfimt
, Tou ra bean pUylnc.on the lrwant to be
'.Independent' chord about lone enough.
Clot eoroe thine new to harp on. .' ..
. "Aa a aecand thought I'll eqd ou
rpother e letter. It'll he a good leaaon
V for you to aea how all thla appear to
other.
."Nothing aeltled here yet. Don't know
when I'm coming home and can't aay,
,, that I'm anzloua to Jurt now. Our lettera
' of the laat few weeka would, not Indicate
,a pleaaant homecernlng. There a nothing
- tliat atckeni ' a man' mora' .than ' a ' Wo-"
iman'i attitude of conatant bjreterla So
lor heaven'a aake get It out of you aVa
! tern. "WAJIREN."
j Enclosed with thla wa the letter from
'Warren'e mother:
'"Dear Warren: , .
"I received yotif' tar -poat card the
, tarty part of the week. That must be a
, ery beautiful country out tliere.. And
rou sa 'the 'aeettier'a' been "dellghrfuL
It's been year -cold here. TMs morning
. the thermometer la down te t. ',
i- "I waa out to aea Helen yesterday. The
' first time I've had a chance as get up
'. silica you left. Warren, I think It's my
duty tateH- yea that aha Is heaping a
" roomer. 6he"hai rented her spare revmrj
for H week . to. a Mrs. alorrlaon-a
r huyer of mllHaary somewhere.
-Helen' eHd not want' me te "Voow, but
the womast eaana while -I waa then:
I caught only a glimpse of her In the
hall, hut aba seemed a most ordinary
.' looking person with bleached hair.
"Naturally I was shocked that Helen
' ad dona anch a thing. Her excuse waa
' that aha .wanted-to help pay the ei
; pensea, ' Ria dldirt say-yew did not send
her soffldant money but ana strongly
-implied tfet. Of course. I know you pro-
Vids bea with alt thaat J mcesaary. But
.'si I have told you before, Helen la very
headstrong. She aanta to follow her own
'inclinations and she always recants any
, crltlctaa or even .suggestions from any
. of our people. . . . . ? '
1 don't Ilka to tell you thla, but shs
ae almost Insolent, to : ma yesterday.
When I asked why she had not consulted
us before' renting the room, uer exact
-words ware, -'I didn't thing It-concerned
you. The. only Interest yoo and Mr. Cur
tis bare' ever take Is to V11 here oe--caslonaliy
and find something to critl
eise.' . . -. - : . ;.
. "After thla. Warren, you can hardly n
pect me to call again. At least not- while
you're away. , It seems to-jne-that mora
, respect Is due your mother than Helen
' baa ahown me. Nona of my chr.dren
i have aver spoken to me In this way and
I aaa aea no eicose for her.
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1 fbrfot, ta ssjr that she. practical ly
i: asked ma not to write yoo about the
. room. But I told her that you should
' know and unless she wrote berse'f I
Would consider it my duty to da eo.
"Aa you know none of oar family have
. ever kept looawia. And to me It aeema
. a Tery,jillgnlfled. tumg.for Htluo
' take auc. a persoa Into her horaa while
you re a Tray, war te insinuate tltat she is
I forced e do aw because rots do' net prop;
crly prorlde for her.
t j "In sorry ts bava to write yaw alt
.this. Warren, but I felt that you should
Tau tstlitr has r'"e ta -Tteatow te
Carria was over Jast
night, said she waa going to write you.
Wall, I must' close. Write soou.
, - 5. ... .. "Affectionstely, ,
' "MOTHER."
Helen' had received these letters la the
morning -mala. - Twenty minutes after
ward ehe had on her things and was hur
rying down the street The first uncon
trollable .Impulse had beca to get out to
get away from the rooms. '
She paused uncertainly at a corner.
vVbera was she gomg? 8ha mutt have
someone fcv.Uik to. . Bha bad1 reached the
etaaav where, aba 4euld no longer go ob
alone. Bha must pour out to someone
some of the fierce bitterness that avas
raging within ber. Suddenly ahe crossed
the street to take an uptown ear. She
would go ta Mrs. Stiweaf.
Never before bad Helen' made a coif
Odaat.-of .any an about Warren. -8be
had never in any way talked about him
to other womea-ae do many wives, Al
waya . aba bad felt that whatever . his
trealntent of be, ha waa after all her
huabandand nearer and dearer than any'
one m'tha world? But now ber eeething
Indlgnatlon and the longing to unburden
It to some one swept ber am
When the kctied til. -apartment JUa.
Ctevena, who rarely went out In1 the
tnsrblngt waa dressed for the street But
she' greeted ber ; affectionately.
h. njy d,ear why didn't you phone
me? I'm going to the tailor's tad to
luncheon with Mrs. Bennett But U I'd
only known I'd much rather stared and
UusoBaa w6h you. '. frhat'a the mat
ter?" aa aba suddenly taw Helen's face
In a atrong light "Haa anything hap
pened r' ' . ,' -
.Helen tbk bar bead. For the mo
meat aha aould not speak and she bad
ta fight against 4ba hysterical deal re to
cry.
"Why, what Is the matter?" Mrs, Star,
esa drw bar down -on a couch.
1 "Oh, nothing." ejufvafinglt. " I lust felt
nervous gnd depressed thla morning and
J-l thought I'd soma evar bora a while.
Thaft all."" - ' ;
Mrs. Stevens was watching ber closely.
"That's not all) Something'a the matter.
Tell me!"
But Helen realised suddenly that the
could not tall . her. Now that she waa
bar the Impulse that had driven ber here
bad. left. her. . ':
"No, no. aa Mrs. Btevent insisted, "it s
nothing-I'm just ar little unstrung. , I II
go to the subwayrwlth you and then aJk
home. The walk will do mo good."
"Are yaw aura? Hadn't I better phone
Mrs, Bennett that I oaa't come and stay
bent with your
."Ohnt no!" excitedly.' "if we stay
here I'll talk," with a break in her eotaa
"Anl I know now I don't want to talk!"
Reluctantly Mr. Ctevena let her have
her .way. She knew that something was
wrong and that Helen had Intended to
tell her.' But with rare tact she refrained
from further questions, for which Helen
was dumblv grateful. 1
"If there's anything I can do, dear," as
they parted at the subway, "you know"
"On, yea f' know," murmured Helen.
"But there Is nothing at least not new."
' JUidSthen aha turned to walk slowly
borne. -After1 air,- bow hopeless it waa to
try to escape from, herself. In the end she
must always come back. Always she must
fight things oat alone. If her mother
were here it might be different But aha
knew now how aha could make a con
fident of no one else.
And new shs must go back and answer
Warren's -tetter. Already her mind was
framing the aaswer. Of one thing she
was sure desperately, wretchedly sure
that, -Whatever' the cc-uequences. she
would not send Mrs. Morrison away.
Had Warren asked It ta any other amy'
unreasonable as Wsa bw requeet eae
would have yielded. But after that letter
and the ana from bis mother I Eve a
though U brought down upon ber not only
bis wrath, but that of all kls people, still
she .would write him that until he1 r
turned Mrs. Morrison would keep the
room!.,
,'' -'A Barkeler's Be fleet lma.
He Is a rich beaa that has no Jilting.
,' Art ran do many things, but only na
ture can fill a stocking.
A deanagos-ue. Is a fellow who can get
mora vet- teen yea ceo. .
everybody Is -mean etiooch ta demise
poverty deeper than his ewe. , .
In spite of tbe most devlorable weak
nesfes aotno.aaeonever sink to pontics.
Running the furnace raa teach a man
about- as many 'swear words as anybody
can learn.
What make a woman proud of ber
husband Is .to think how ora day -he
mrcM" nuke some money, New Xesfe
Press.
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Br GABAKTT P. SUIY1SS.
Life Is a tragedy, the earth a atage,
men and women the actors, the "gods"
the audience. Bom passinuM believe that
this great play of life la more eomlc than
tragic In the opin
ion of the specta
tors. However, this
may be, there, la
another, vastly
greater, tragedy of
life, at which man
himself Is an on
looker, although,
unfortunately, his
own ultimata fate
I bound up with
the denouement of
the play.
It 1 the Ufa
drama of the eolar
syitem. Its chief
actor Is th sua.
and men ars aeglanlag toVub their eye
and wipe the pecks from their glasses,
a they perceive, mora and mare plainly,
indication that the ."star" at the play
I aging. Tbe fact ia becoming only to
dear that for him. this la as sport, but
real, deadly tragedy. He It not acting a
part but fighting tor, Ilia. lie cannot
win; ha can only prolong Ik atruggle,
aad when ha falla exhausted, th ataa.
the theater, act or a, sports tore, pit and
galleries, will go with him In ana uni
versal ruin. -.!''',
' I'nttl recantlr wa worn or.lv troabuj
JaVule la mind by. the sua apoia. It we
dvMrnt that they must out off asm radi
ation, but .the amount appeared , ta ha
trifling and their .maxima are tar apart:
tea or eleven years. But sew we ar con
fronted by a much mora disquieting
phenomenon. . Tha tun appears la "fluc
tuate at Irregular, intervale af several
days, and sometimes of several months"
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Her Is the crux of th whole matter.
What does th recognition of the fact
laat th sun is a tarlabi alar mean?
What may ft mean to tha earth and It In
habitants? Tkeae questions can bast be
answered by considering other variable
sura.
Let us take an extrem example. There '
is the constellation of Tha Whale." a
famous variable known as "Mlrs," the
Wonderful, In a period of about ten
months, on the average. It change tram
the third sometimes the aaeaad magni
tude to about the ninth, and then back
again. Toat mean In the extreme,
a probable difference of beta-ecu
two and three hundred
timea In the amount of light aad
heat which It radiates around It at maxi
mum and at minimum. When It ta faint
est It cannot be seen with the naked eye;
when It I brightest it la a console do us
object As It fades It turns reddish la
cator, and when It brighten It biases
with brilliant spectroscopic lines. It a
probably a tun at least aa great a ur
sun, and It baa recently bean found that
Its spectrum rrsemblea. la some striking
pecultarttlea, the spectra af sun soots.
Dkl It over have any worlds to tight aad
nourish? If so, think of tha condition of
those worlds, now.
A sun Is Uks a hvtng organism. It wears
out. As It ages It becomes mors and more
variable. It maintalne Itself and Ht plan
sts wh)le Its radiant power butt, but it
cannot do to forever. It contracts, flick
era, struggles, fades and goes ut. Its
II f time to millions of year, but It baa
an end. "Let u account aa a mere noth
ing," cried Boetuet "everything that ends
for, though Wa should multiply year
beyond th reach af number, yet all
would be nothing when tha fatal term 1
reached."
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Mentological Crime
By TJOtiAR LI'
parents of children, I respectfully ask
that yew lake due notice of the -late af
'durational" affaire aa at present exist
ing. A. aright girl, aged U year, .haa
been tortured to the verge af collapse of
mind, .brain and nervous system by tha
to bar, horror of high algebra -
Her mm waa or, such a nature, aa
given ber by the Creator, that aba ceuld
net possibly comprehend algebra or any
ether branch af mathematlca. But music.
literature, poetry and tha language wort
her delight She could loam tha gram.
kaguages, and the was happy In these
asture wsa of thla order. And all human
powers .of incessant . torture cannot
change It
Earty In tha study of complex algebra
aha saw that aha must falL Deep waa
her terror of approaching examination.
I bava seen students In mora alarm and
within deeper aufferlng when coming lo
examination day than some ctiminaia a
their way ta aentsnea lo prison. She
simply could not endure the humiliation
of .total failure before the entire class;
but there waa another source of horror
disgrace which she fancied . would be
brought by herself upon father and
mother.
Now to think that this awful mento
logical crime could happen in a great
modern elate.
I put In seven years teaching tha mathe
matical sciences, and assert that I en
countered quite a number of fnlnda of
students whose sgea ranged between
II aad it years, that almply could not
form any conception of a quadratic aqua.
Hon. to aay nothing of far higher prub-
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lems. These I excused.
And I made tula discovery, and here
assert that It la true: Tha faroed etudv
of any subject abhorrent ta tha student
causes positive, and. If persisted In. per
manent, Injury to bral,n and mind.
Hera ia the horror forced upon this
loor. harassed and tortured girl, already
burdened with twice to much other
studies
Find x in J (a leee c) plus (4 a plus t k)
less a a lea b).
Thla presentation la a mental ettme.
totally without use. and a horror care
fully calculated ta work para mount la-,
Jury to a Bon-mathematical aslnd; but a
benefit to a mathematical mind.
What earthly us would this suffering
girt ever hare for these squat tons?
Education it an of tha highest sciences.
If. Indeed, It I not tha highest. And after
the laps at centuries ta almost totally
unknown.
Th leglalaiur should completely in
vestigate tha entire school system f too
ststa. In graded schools put students
wnoe minus ars somewhat simUsr-no
two ar Identical la auie ,ktui .
themselves. Only a select fre- will
ra- aave a trace of us for mathematlca
higher than arithmetic
I Personally knew a child of 11 years
who la now taking eleven atooiaa. A
century of crime la eononmo k-
this merciless torture af the little ana.
iweep algebra out of every caramon
acbool In this stata and auh.
lith separate schools for It, aad let nana
enter aava those destined by nature ta be
mathematically Inclined. Let no more
aiinda be tortured and ruined by totally
to them useless algebra.
Happy, Though Long Wed
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Mr. ' and Mrs. Domlnick Belleville of
Meriden. Conn., have celebrated the
oeventy-sevanth anniversary of their wed
ding. He is at year old. shs 7. They ar
boto feelmg very well and happy.
"I bava- alwaya thought that young
married folks would bar fewer quarrels
If they followed the rules mother and I
laid down for ourselves," said Mr. Belle
ville, slipping his arm around bis wife's
neck and affectionately patting her
s boulder.
Her are the rules:
"Remember each haa rights the other
should respect.
"Do your share of the work without
boosting. x
"Forget lbs glooming things and discuss
and think of tha cheerful things of Ufa
. "IM Urn better manacer. whether the
man or th woman, b tha cashier of
the household.
' "Do hot speak duparaiingty of your life
partnera family. .
- Jlllll B0, II
you wish, but keep It to yourself.
wnea yew era peevleh gw out of doors,
da anything to forget it: ant eaoir
yur partner. v
"la a word; let th dog rise u th best
chair If that is th ly way to pre
serve harmony."
When the World cwiaapotideut called.
Mr. Belleville wwa dotng tha famflr wash-
t ing. When It was finished, tbe ttrih .M
i genUemaa took a stx-adl walk tor ex-
erose-- bs explained.
'I bava alaya taken plenty af exer.
else." said he. That, aad took ing a the
bright aide of life, ha erven ma Irmrth
of days."
The aged, but active couple were barn
la Canada. Scaa after thatf ssarriac
they went to Hinsdale. K. H-, and there
remalnel until they cam here t hew
with their ton a abort Inns aA