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What Man Should Yo Marry?
By DOROTHY DUL
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A woman who is getting her fourth
divorce, and who should have cut her
wisdom teeth on husbands and know
whereof she speaks, advtaea all (lrla to
marry old men.
She says that a
young man dpes
not know how lo
treat a wife, and
It la only the
elderly husband
who Is tender, kind
and cona'.derate to
a woman, and who
may be safely
trusted out of her
sight.
H'm I wonder?
Of course there
Is an old proverb
that haa been
banded down from
mother to daugh
ter for ages that
says, "It Is bet
ter to be an old
man's darling than a young man's slsve."
But Ilka other prorerbs this one Is only
true In spots and under certain condi
tions, and, as a general thing, the girl
who marries an old man. thinking that
ha will make of her a pampered pet,
finds that she has been grievously gold
bricked in the transaction. She has got
the old husband, and the slavery to
boot.
But at what age Is it safest to take a
matrimonial risk on a men? Twenty?
Thirty? Forty? Fifty? Sixty?
Pass up twenty to b-tiln with. Heaven
help the girl who Is fool enough to
marry a boy of twenty! At twenty a
man haa all the matrimonial faults In
the calendar and none of l he virtues.
He Is callow, egotistical, self-centred,
selfish, undeveloped, unstable, and mar.
riagt with him spalls certain misery.
There's a divorce coupnn that goes with
nearly every marriage license that Is
Issued to a boy of twenty.
No very young man ever thinks of
anything but Ills own pleasure. Life
has not disciplined him and taught him
selfrontrol, and so when things go
wrong In the homo end he feels upon
his shoulders the burdens of family
llfe, he Is dead sure to take out on his
wife the prlca of his own folly. The
gaiety and a muse menu that rightly be
long to his time of life call to him. and
when be lias to stay at home and walk
the colic and push the perambulator In
stead of honking away in automobiles ir
two-stepping at dances, or roaming the
green golf links, he Is the family gloom,
all light.
Beside which, no boy of 39 years or
thereabouts knows what he wanta In a
wife, and the one best bet is that he'll
tire of whomever ha did marry, no mat
ter what a concatenation she may be of
feminine graces and virtues. Therefore,
girls, as you value your happiness,
never, never, never marry a mere boy.
Kidnaping is a life sentence at hard
labor in matrimony as it is In crime.
Thirty Is a good risk. By the II roe a
man is 3 years old his character I, at
least, well enough formed for a woman
to be able to look him over and see
what she's getting. When she marries
blm she Isn't marrying a human riddle,
the answer to which no one can gaesa,
as she does when she marries a boy.
Also a man at that age has bees batted
up against the world long enough to
knock some of the conceit out of him,
and a little consideration for other peo
ple Into blm.
Agalnat thirty It may be said that a
msn still retains many of the grand
Turk Ideas of his youth concerning
woman, and that he will expect any
woman that he marries to be properly
grateful to him for the honor that he
confers upon her. Also, that moat men
at that age axe Just in the hardest part
of their fight to get a foothold In busi
ness so that the women who marry them
must be willing to do their part to make
many sacrifices, endure many priva
tions and to be content with the per
functory attention cf a man whose
.... heart . centered on getting along.
But In favor of the man or thirty It
may also be said that be haa the fir
and passion of youth, for him are still
the glory and the circling wings of love
before romance pales and sentiment dies
down into ashes. Ha can give to his
wife that most precious of all boons,
comradeship, and it matters not to the
woman wo gets this whether her rugs
are Oriental of New Jersey, whether
she eats off Sevrea or Iron atone china.
80, if you marry at man of thirty, girls,
you'll stand very good chance of never
having to buy a ticket for Reno.
Forty, though, is an even better age
for a husband than thirty because all of
the advantagea that a man possessed at
thirty he still has at forty with two ad
ditional qualifications that make bia mat
rimonial stock a gilt edge security in
which a prudent woman may safely In
vest her happiness. At forty a man Is
stiil csjtfcl'
and when he does love It is with an ardor
that makes the calf lov of youthful Ro
meos taste Ilk milk and water beside
champagne.
He Is a man at the full maturity of his
powers, knowing what he needs In a wife.
body and soul, and the woman who mar
rle him need never give herself a mo
ment s uneasiness a to hi loyally. He's
seen the whole generation of charmers
and Passed them by for his ideal, and the
flattery of the thing la enough to keep
a woman daaed with happiness.
Moreover, the man of forty has sown
his wild osts. He Is ready to settle down
and be as domestic as the house cat. and
he la almost tearfully appreciative of the
efforts a woman makes to make him a
good home. Finally, t gild the Illy and
paint the rose, the man of forty can
nearly always give his wife a comfortable
living, which Is not a thing to be de
spised. Bo, If you want a soft snap, glrla.
marry a man of forty.
At fifty a man begins to deteriorate
as a matrimonial proposition. Ills hab
its have become too fixed. He hss set
tled Into the narrowness of old bache
lorhood, and ha cannot adjust himself
to married life. He la used to spending
his money on himself, and It hurts him
Ilk pulling a tooth to have to ulvtda
It with a wife. He Is accustomed t the
protection of club service, and he gets
grouchy because a woman with on cheap-i.
maid can't run a borne as well as the
club la run with a French chef and Eng
lish butlers.
The woman who marries a man of
fifty can count on being bossed good
and plenty, but very often fifty Is able
lo offer some very attractive chromoe
In the snap of automobile and country
places along with Itself. Still, girls' don't
marry a man of fifty unless you are sure
middle name I Patient Orlselda.
As for sixty, beware. All old people
are tyrranlcal. and the elderly husband
of a young wife can give lifelike imi
tations of all th fifty-seven different
varletiea of Jealousy, and then sonic
If you marry a man of sixty you qual
ify as a nurso for rheumatism and gout,
and being a slave to an old man's whims.
And that' a no picnic, believe me. Never
marry a man of sixty, girls, without
hiving a good lawyer draw up the settle
ments.
TheHurdy-GurdyJ
BT PERCY SHAW.
I am sitting at my window,
And as far as I csn as
There an roof tops without number.
But there' neither grass nor tree;
Not a robin flaunts his presence
Yet I know that spring la here.
For the hurdy-gurdy's music
Comes a-calllng to my car.
Suddenly the air grows balmy
And my eyea begin to gaw
On a certain primrose pathway
Of the long-forgotten days.
Hatles. Nell and I sr walking;
I ran see her cheeks aglow,
A we lived th Joy of springtime
In th fleeting long ago.
All about the birds are singing.
Hill and field are velvet green:
Fled the tumbling brook a-laughtng
Where the aunligbt lit the scne.
Side by side we went unspeaklng.
And the words I meant to say.
Somehow they were never uttered
On that strangely happy day.
When I'm sitting at my window.
Just aa now It seems to me
That the burdy-gurdy's mu;
Rolls the dusty curtain free;
One again the birds are singing,
A we roam the primrose way.
And I look at Nell and faltr
In that aew remembered May.
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April Astronomical Happenings J.
There sr two eclipses scheduled for
this month, both of which miss us by a
narrow margin. The first Is a partial
ecltpve of the moon on the first day of
the month, In whtch the moon leaves
Ihe penumbra twenty-two minutes before
rising for us.
The second Is a central ecllpr of the
sun on tits ltlh. visible aa such on a
line drawn from Qulana In uth America
aerons the Atlantic ocean thruugh a
corner nf Portugnl and Spain, the Bay
of Biscay, Franca, Prussia and Iluasls,
up to beyond the I'ral mountiilns. Fur
th most part tha ecllpso will be an
nular, the maximum duration being
thlrty-nln seconds. In Portugal and
Kruiln, however, and for a short distance
out into the ocean, the eclipse will be
total, but Ihe largest duration will be
only one and six-tenths seronda On
account of thla abort duration of totality
It will hardly be possible to Iske good
photographs of the corona, but th op
portunity to get excellent one of the
flash spectrum haa never been equalled.
The path of In total ecllps 1 a very
narrow one and owing to our not yet
knowing th moon' motions with suf
ficient accuracy, ther ha been sum
dlscii'lkin In astronomical Journals a
to Us exact location.
This ecllps will be vlslbl a a partial
The Beginning and End of Our Coal Supply
This ptrtur show an artist's concep
tion of a forest as It looked en earth
mlllons of year ago, filled with
atrange planta and trees of axtra
ordlnary form which, after being
hurled under tha earth's surface for
agea, are now being dug out In the
form of coal.
Hwaaekola tllata.
Tou can save a great deal of fuel dur
ing a cold winter by shutting up your
house and gotng to Florida.
Inculcate la your children a forxlns
fsc blrda. Build a pigeon bousa on your
barn or woodshed. Plreons com bandy,
too, for pot pica.
I; you live In a rented house do n4
throw your empty bottles up in the attic
and leav them there. They win be a
dead giveaway oa you when tha next
renter move la.
Every young married woman should
begin early to Impress upon her Husband
that it is bis duty to make the fires,
wind th clock and put the cat out.
If you keep a volume of poetry on the
parlor labia sea that the leaves are cut.
I Chicago Tribune.
After a man gets about so neb. he no
knger belongs to that worthy body kaowa
of being toe perfect lover, j aa th peopl.
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T.j GARRETT P. KKRVIHS.
Mors ttisn a million men ar thrown
out of emuioymeut In England, huge fac
tories are closed down, ocean steamships
ars held at their docks, railroads are
currying stout for fuel tu run their
trains. ho'jsebo;ers ar wondering where
they shall obtain heat to warm their
homes and cook tbeir food, great alec
trle power stations ar threatened with
lack of nirns t continue In operation.
we.r fleets ar immobilised, the cost of
living gets axothr boost, and the tndue
trlea of th whole world are trembling
with anilely lest they shall be totally
arrestedand all because some hundreds
of thousands of III paid ar.-l III treated
men have refused to bury themselves
longer a thousand feet beneath the sur
face of th earth, digging out the black
ened icmalns of forests M.MUM years
old, unless their wanta are better sup
plied, and their grievance properly ad
justed. The world la In tn grip of tha carboni
ferous age.
Because men have not learned to supply
themselves with beat and power except
from the stores that nature laid up mil
lion of years ago, a strike of coal min
ers threatens to arrest th progress of
civilisation.
This Is oa of the strangest and one of
the most anflattertng atorle In the his
tory of the human race.
6ppoa your ancestors had left you
a am of money hi a bank paying no
Interest, and you should keep on. year
after year, draming out tbst money to
pay your dally expense exhausting th
capital faster and faster, and
thinking of nuking any addition to It.
or of finding any other inans of sup- -
port. You would be doing prectaeiy
what the civilised world has been dutr
tut a century, la anl of all warnings.
How (A DaJ Hand mf A CnUnif
srsus At No- Grips llu MaJtm WrU.
and you could took for nothing but
overwhelming diaaster at the end.
Th picture at the Up thai acroni
panlrs thla nrtlcle shows the great, non
Interest paying bsnk that natur filled,
sullllons of years ago. In th carbon
iferous age, with a store of wealth
which Is Ihe basis of money and of alt
mechanical progress, and which we have
been hiding with the thoughtlessness of
savages. The carboniferous ag will not
return, its bank will not be reopened
for business. The mint that coined Its
money has ceased operations. There
tan be no additions to the c munts of
It vaults.
Among all th fantastic scenes through
which our planet haa passed none exceeds
In strangeness ths aga of the coal planta.
Th living world was young then. Th
great continents had Just begun to lift
themselves above th wave of the ocean.
You ran ae by the picture how flat
and swampy th land was. Th great
mountain rangea that w know today
hud not yet swollen Into domes and
laJa. The site of the Alleghtnies and
the Kocky mountain waa then covered
with seas and swamps. The air was
heavy with carbonic vapor, and Impris
oned tha heat of the sun Ilk tha walla of
a furnace. None of the monstrous ani
mals whose remains you ae In the mu
semus bad yet appeared, ' but crawling
through th teas war awkward am
phibians, crabs and scorpions, and flying
heavily In tha dense atmosphere wars
huge insects, some of them with a two
foot spread of wings.
But the wonder of that ag consisted
of the Strang plants and trees. The
artist has not exacgeraed their extra
ordinary forms, or their abundance.
Sctanc has had to Invent curious name
for them. Uepldodendra. BWIItera, and
so on. We may eay that these plants,
which with their feet burled In tha stag
nant water, bore an outward resemblance
to forests, of gigantic ferns, dub
mosses, mareataira, rushes and weeds.
It waa something Ilka the biaarr forest
that an ant sees about him when he takes
hi walks abroad In a grassy meadow,
or amid tha tangled thickets of a brook
side. Rome of the pfllsr-like trunks of
hem dreamland trees were several feet
In diameter, and occasionally the miner
cornea upon part of one of these enor
mous trunks still standing amid th seams
of coal.
All this vegetation was extraordinarily
rich In carbon, derived from th warm,
vaporous atmosphere, uiuer th action of
th sunlight. A haa often been said. It
scored up sunbeams, th haat of which
ts given forth again when ws burn th
coal. Inf which It waa turned, la
CORONA Of TUB BCJf.
Photograph Had During a Total Eclipu,
on ovr th eastern part of North
America, th northsast part of South
America, th northwest of Africa, th
whole of Kurops, and tha Intervening
ocean, and tha western half of Asia.
Omaha misses this ecllps by only about
twelve minutes, tha eclipse being Just
over ai sunns on a nn orawn tnrougn
Des Moines, la.
Th sun rises on the 1st. 1Mb and Wth,
respectively, at 1:11, i.7 and frJ7. anil
sets at ..-., 7 01 and M, the days being
thus 12 Jiiiura M minutes. IS hour II
minutes, 1 hours minute, an in
crease of un hour and a quarter during
th month. The sun Is 4 minute alow
on th 1st. on Urn on th 15th, and 1
minute and It seconds fast on the 30th,
On the 30th It enters Tturu.
Mercury Is In Inferior conjunction with
th sun on ths lf.lh. On th nth H I
very close to Venus, only one-third of a
lunar diameter north of It.
Venus Is still morning si sr. but not
well visible nn account of th twilight
Mars la slowly approaching th sun
in the evening sky. On th 1Mb it
souths at 1:14 p. m.
Jupiter Is morning alar, being on tha
meridian on th Bib at 3:34 a. m. It la
very far south.
FMturn Is disappearing In Ihe evening
twilight. It sets nn the ISth at p. m.
The moon Is full on th 1st, In last
quarter on th lh. new on Ihe nth, and
In first quarter on th Stth. Th noon
of the first Is the Pachal full moon, tha
first full moon of spring, tha Sunday,
following which, according to th nil. Is
Easter. .
Th moon Is In conjunction with '
Jupiter on tha (th. with Venus on the
ISth, with Saturn on lb Uth, and with '
Mar on th Sid. For a part l Florida,
and Oeorgla Venus will be occulated on .
the 15th. This will happen near noon. ,
W1L1IAM F. RIQOK. -
That rllsa Ballot,
At th New York primary elacUan
Uttl man cam out of th voting elation,
yelling. "Fraud, fraud V
A policeman promptly collared hUn.
"What th matter?" ha demanded. .
"They told me," cried th 11 to man,.,
"that th ballot waa fourteen feet long.
I measured It and It waa only thirteen
and a half! Fraud! Fraud!" Cleveland
Plain Dealer. . '
to which th coal deposits could b put,
but It la tu bis discredit that a haa
hitherto depended almoat exclusively upon, .
that tingle source, when bis own sctcaca
has been telling loudly and persistently
that he la faat exhausting It.
It is absolutely true that the splendors ;
of our civilisation all the railroads, all
th factories, all th gigantic structure!
of steel, all the machinery, all th con
veniences of modern llledepend. vpon
tha fast disappearing coal beds. Wipe;
them suddenly out of existence and maav
kind, unprepared, would go back with a
rush to lb dark ages.
let everything w touch, and every
OCCASIONALLY TIIK MiNLit COMES VPON" PART OF ONE OF TUlii-K
i-NUrlsiOL'S THINKS STILL KTANLlINU AillO
IIU: SKAAig OF COAU
breath wa draw, la full of power, la fl
our I nltely greater In amount than ever th "
tove and furnace. For, after the do coal mines contained, and only waitint
of the carboniferous age a groat change 1 (or genius to discover the way to atiltsw
came about in the condition of tha earth'. 1 K. The mysterious pro pent ea of radium
surface. The immense plants had helped tave Ifd to the discovery that there ex- '
to purify the ah-, the climate waa ait area. Ini matter "a single grain of which coa- :.
the remains of th vegetation waa buried ulna In It padlocked atom enough so
under deposits laid down at the bottom ;rgy to raise LOA00 ton W yard hlgh.
of lakes and seaa. and under the com- Some of the brightest minds on earth ars-
now seeking the way to get at this eaV
rgy; but the way I long and beset with ;
dtff IculrJes, and because we did not beglo
soon enough, but vainly imagined that,
the great carboniferous bank could not
be broken, we new behold the spectacle '
of lb Industries of the world treabUnc
with dread because a strike of half
starved miners threatens to cut off fl9
supply of compressed fuel which a tor
laid down when she swept away the won
blned effects of pressure and chemical
change all waa gradually changed Into
But It took probably millions of years
to effect sll thla and It will sever be
done again. When we have burned up all
th coal we shall be forced to look esse
wuere lot beat and power, aa we ought
long ago to have been doing far mora
effectively than we have done. It Is Im
mensely to the credit of man that he
bad the lutelligcnco to discover the use
?
dera of the age of th coal plants.
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