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The Drudge Husband
Bj WINIFRED BLACK.
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"My husband Is a good man. He has
nvr eaid an unHlnd word .to roe 9ince
I've been bla wife. He Is hard working:.
devoted, honest but he" is a drudge-
Just a plain everyday drudge, and he
never will . be , ;
anything else.
"My" school grlri
: companions who
; married when I did
! have gone on and
on with their hus
bands. One of them
I has an automobile,
)one has a beautiful
home . of her own
land one has just
gone to Europe on
I a pleasure ti'ip,
and here I am tied
down to the drudge
In the aame house
we took, when we ,
were', married." ' -
"My girls go to a: public school and
learn public school ways. I don't mind
for myself, I am not mercenary,' but I
do hate to see my poor daughters grow
up tn a miserable rut.
"I Simply can't stand . It 1'have a
chance Aow to go Ihto business-for my
self. " Ifc-'wtll take" mWawayJ from home
and ! am -going to nt my girls in "sfchool
snd go, 'wouldn't yout" '
Ntce confidential' letter. Isn't it? And
the worst of It is that it is 'miserably,
undeniably true. wery-single word of it
and then some more. , , !
I know a dosen 'just such case?. They
differ in particulars one man has a
pretty home, one draws ; a saliry, one
gets wages, one man has girls to supp'ortl
one hai boys, and one has only his wife;
who despises him for being what she loves
to call a "drudge." It is sad, Isn't it?
And yet somehow, I always' wonder
how much better" the woman who prides
herself on her "ambition"; is than the
drudge who irritates! her so.
It is very ' easy to be ambitious for
aomeonfr else. I wonder how much head
way that same woman would make with
the wtork the "drudge" does so faithfully
, and well. y '.'
What does your husband have to make
, him "ambitious," dear woman? How do
you help him, pray tell? By nagging him
and' making fun of him? That's a good
way, isn't It? Why don't ou try an
other One for a change?
I've. 'seen a very commonplace man
made over into a -comparative suceess.
Just by1 the faith his wife had in him. ,
Have you tried believing in the drudge
to see' what that would do? Ton can't
nag a man at home and expect him to
bear himself like a man away from home.
It takes courage and spirit and will
power to fight a way tip In the world, and
If you take ail these things out of a man
before ha leaves the house, what weapons
has he to make the figljt? ,
"Ambitious?"' How do , you know
whether he's ambitious -or not? ,
What do you call .ambition, anyway?
The wish to get rich t
Fine, noble work that is, isn't It?
Selling the body . and the . soul., and .the
heart and the mind to lave a fine monu
ment and a rich widow? It's all well
enough to-live to get rleh, but. why. make
yourself believe that you' have "high
ideas" luft' beeaiisa you ' want an auto
mobfleana.'want the drudge ' to "get it
tome way, anyiway. only get it?. .
Don't' be tod sure that you are somuch
cleverer 'amj so much.'finer hr'eyeiry way
than thft" drudge, He may have fits own.
ideas oo Oie-subject even though he; does
not think "It. necessary to nag you about
lhm '. '-. ..- V .-..'i'.r..
What shall you , do? Why, what.in the
name of common sense is there for yoii
to do but to stick to your bargain and
make the best of It? It's good morals,
good . sense, and good religion, nothing
else will do at all. ' (
Tonr childrenl What do you expect to
make of. your children If you run away
from their ,. father ; because ' he" doesn't
"get on?J'' ' ' ,
I'd rather give my hJldren''their ' start
in Ufa In . a happy ' home., a home where
there's-km and trust, and faith, and
conrags, ) and patience, and nobility of
hoarC than to send them to the finest
school on earth and pay for that school
ing la. the bitter coin of estrangement
from aH that really county.
Tou can rt "schooling", in the books-:
lots of it and books com cheap in this
day.' Tou can't, learn patience, and Jove,
snd truth, and forbearance in any, book
in the world but the good old book of
life, and home is the very best place to
stfldy that-V" - V '.
Here's today-fresh.' .; hopeful, " wide
awake today, splendid today, glorious today-full
of promise, full of possibilities;
let's make thoee promises .come true,'
every one of them.1- .
Forget all thts-hlgher-idtfarfwaddie;
stop thinking of the automobile we can't
get and go to Work hej- in the place
where we belong, in our own home, with
ourwn children and the man who lovw
then '
- Get the poor drudge the best breakfast
you can buy with the money you have
to spend;, aerve it as prettily as possible,
with a smile too;, that counts oh, how
much does 'if fcount! ' '
brain into those biscuits, send your little
girls off to school with the' "common"
children with an "uncommon" song in
their happy hearts. -
It takes so little to do that- new Joke,
a little story, a word of extra praise.
When they come home l?e waiting for
them. Tou, yourself not the woman with
the corners of her mouth drawn ' down,
the one they-ve seen at the door so often;
not the. woman, who is mad,, because she
hasn't any automobile, not the woman
who is sick with envy because she can't
go to Europe, but you, the mother they
love and understand, the mother they
idolise. . :
At night surprise the drudge with a
good dinner, a really good dinner. Give
him a smile with it and the same, look
you had when you thought he was the
one great man of the earth. Why, even
the office boy will notice a different set
to the shoulders of the "drudge" when"
hei get? . ,to, wWlt "tomorrow,- the set of
the shoulders of the man who Is lovsd
and looked up to and believed in. Maybe
he will cease to be a drudge.
. Give him a chance; give him a chance.
Forget your dreams and your ambltiond,
forget everything but the drudge and the
children. The drtidge who stood by you
in your hour of agony! the drudge who
would cut off his hand at the wr(st to
make you: and the- children happy.
Come, come, my dear, life is with you,
good, wholesome, sensible, lusty, kindly,
generous, simple life life with its thirsts
and the drink to slake them, life with
its fatigue and the good rest to relieve
It. Life with its tears and its laughter
for you can't spare either of these twin
sisters and really live. Live -every min
ute, of it, with, your heart. and your
brain and your soul, and win the right
to glory of it every minute you breathe.
And peace go .with you, you and the
good, kind drudge, who may not be such
a drudge alter an u you give mm a
chance, and the children who will rise
up and call you blessed, as they would
never learn to do In any school except
the school of a happy and an honest
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The Making of a Pretty Girl
Flat-Cheitedness, Weak
Lungs and the Hemedy.
Device to Keep
the Trolley on
Nothing" Is more provoking to passen
gers in a hurry than to find that the
car is "off its trolley." The trolley-wire
is narrow apd the grove on the trolley
wheels Just fits it;" to try to get them to
gether is like trying for the bullseye
on a- distant target. All this is to be
changod, and consequent delays will be
prevented, if the trolley companies see
lit to adopt , a device invented by Benja
min . R. . Beach of Fleldsboro, N. J., and
described in the Inventive Age (Washing
ton, June 1). According to this paper it
consists of a benevolent screw-thread
which obligingly picks up the wire that
has gone wrong and with-a few turns
puts it. back where it belongs. A series
of spiral grooves on each side automati
cally feed jthe wire into the trolleywheel
in the center. To quote the description:
. "It provides a tinder which . automati
cally returns the wheel when it misses
the . wire, : and- has an arrangement of
spirally grooved rollers, which are
longitudinally concaved to clear crossing
wires. Guard rollers are arranged on
opposite sides of the trolleywheel: each
roller is provided with an Inwardly ex
tending spiral groove. - Each roller Is
thickest' at its inner end, where the
roller contacts with the side of the wheel
and the spiral groove thereof communi
cates with the top portion of the groove,
to lead the trolleywlre thereto. The
outer flanges of the convolutions of the
spiral groove of each roller are , bent
inward, toward the' wheel so as to par
tlally overhang the adjacent convolution.
These flanges are thus . adapted to act
as retaining hooks to hold the wire fall
ing into any .convolution of a spiral
groove against jumping out, thus 'pre
venting the trolley as a whole from
jumping out In the revolutions of the
trolley the wire Is fed in by the spiral
groove until restored to . the groove in
the trolleywheel Literary Digest .
It is usually safe to Judge a man by
his manners.
Jumping at conclusions; Is a woman's
Idea of physical exercise. ,
Taking a vacation usually means getting
bored at exorbitant rates.
By MARGARITE HUBBARD AVER.
All you pretty girl know that beauty
is founded on. good health, and if there's
one special thing that good health de
pends on it is a good pair of lungs.
Girls who stoop over their books soon
acquire bent shoulders and the chest
gets no chance to develop properly.' More
and more school teachers are paying at
tention to this .question of . the proper
height of the child's desk, and when
there is much studying to be done at
home the parents ought to see to, it that
the desk or table at whlob the work la
done is of the correct height so the child
doesn't have to bend over.'
' The bent ' little pupil develops Into a
girl with a. weak chest, and she is the
one who is constantly writing me, about
pala cheeks, hollows under her eyes, hol
low cheeks, and . other so-called . 0m
plexlon ills which have really nothing
to do with the complexion at all, but are
caused by improper lung development
Fortunately, it Is never too late to
learn to breaths right. Whether you are
7 or TO this s your opportunity. I know
several dear old ladies who practice their
daily breathing exercises at rslisiously
as they say their prayers, and who have
Only learned to do so in the last few
years with great benefit to their health.
The simplest breathing exercise is simply
to stand erect, preferably before the
open window, with arms extended In
front and ' hands clasped; toonen the
hands, separate and sweep the arms back
ward, while inhaling a very deep breath
Now throw the arms backward as far as
possible,' holding the breath; swing the
arms forward and exhale. Keep this up
lor rive minutes. . '
A pair of light dumb-bells will help the
girl wltlj the weak chest, providing she
practices with them rgularlyv But that
is the whole trouble. , If you' staff out to
oeveiop your lungs, you-cannot make a
violent effort one day and then rest for
a week or two. Patient, systematic work
is necessary, and it should really be cor
tlnued in moderation for the rest of one's
natural life, if one wishes to keep In trim.
Never do your exercises in tight clothes,
and in using the dumbbells stand very
straight, the chest out, shoulders back.
raise the arms above the head, lower
them to the shoulders, extend the arms
out level with the shoulders and swing
the arms and dumbbells backward, tide
ways nd forward. All movements of the
arms with the dumbbells are good for the
girl with the delicate chest, and they are
too weir known to be described.
These exercises should be practiced tlf
teen minutes In a room where the air Is
good, or, better still, out of doors. ,
Don't get overfatigued at first, and do
arm and shoulder exercise rather than
take long and exhaustive walks, espe
cially in summer time. The girl with the
weak chest shouldn't let herself get over
fatigued, . and . she should be careful to
select as nourishing a diet as possible.
An egg beaten up In milk and taken dur
ing ths forenoon and again in the after
noon will put roses Into pale cheek mora
successfully than the best xtnd of rouge
Another thing I should advise the girl
with the weak chest to start In is
strengthening and hardening ber throat
8he .can massage it with a skin food if
she likes, but bathing It in eold water
after the morning bath and going with
out a collar right into cold weather win
fortify her agslnst winter colds. As the
cooler days come use cold water to spray
or sponge the throat with, and don't wear
fura .
Wear a very warm coat If necessary.
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By ADA PATTERSON.
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"Wouldn't you like to know what ha
thinks of youf one woman asked an
other. They had been talking of shlnx
Uke, and because silent. Interest-provoking
man. If he hsd talked much the
spell would prob
ably have been
broken.
"No." replied the
othcY, a note of
alarm In her voice.
"Not always."
Tet a little Eng
lish woman, who
recently married
the grandson of v
poet Longfellow,
tempted the gods
of discord by say
ing that the Ideal
husband is frank.
Rash little woman
reckpned without moods!
Moods are mental weather. Borne times
the sun of the spirit shines gloriously.
and at such times it is safe to be frank.
The sunshine has Irradiated and beauti
fied the landscape of facts. But there be
times when the sky is overcast Per
haps this mood portends a downfall of
rain, a rattling of verbal - thunder and
lightning. Or It may only be a temporary
eclipse of the sun of good humor. , But
heaven spare us absolute frankness at
these times!
Maybe the little bride Confused terms.
What she wished to say may "be. "The
ideal husband Is truthful." Certainly
no normal woman wants lying answers
to , those ancient, honorable questions:
"Where have you been?" and "Why wa
you late?" Husbands do not like these
questions. They bore them. But the just
husband believes they are one of the
Inescapable evils of married life, and
ha gives answer more or less truthful,
according to circumstances. The only
man I know who had the hardihood to
dispute hla wife's right to ask the
questions, disputed also his mother's,
and he has been divorced, as he deserved.
Truthfullness may be construed as an
accurate answering of questions put;
frankness as the voluntary forcing of
facts upon us. If the bridegroom last
week scqulred by the hardy spirited
bride who has been quoted Is truthful
he will answer reluctantly when she says:
"Do you think this gown Is becoming?"
"Not quite so becoming as tho one you
wore yesterday, dear." But If he is
frank, he won't wait for the question.
He will say at breakfast-that trying
meal which temperamental' persons should
eat alone "What's the matter with that
dress? Tou are looking worss than I
IH1
ever saw you." . t
In ten year aha may say: "I lost my: p
fresh color whan I cam to America.'- "
I'm dreadfully pale. Don't you think so?"
If he is merely a truthful husband h f
till nV! "Tou ri llttU n&lr. laar.' '.
ni uiuit mu run uuwn mo wm a, ,,'-,.
freshen you up." It he is a frank"' S
spouse he will not wait for questions. :
but will announce: "Tou'rs looking hor- ,"
rlbly faded. You're not nearly as pretty
as you were when I married you." It:'""
the bride is as spirited as a wife I know,-,,.-sbe
will retort: "Do you suppose you axe ;
the handsome man I married?"
If he Is truthful and she asks him if
he thinks she has paid too much for a
rug he win answer: "Maybe they did
overcharge you." The frank man will
exclaim: "There Is no limit to your ex
travagance." The truthful man, when begged to tall
her whether she Is becoming unbearable, "
answers: "tour nerves are a trifle upset,
dear; you need rest" The frank man will ' .
rush into trouble with the remark; "It
I had known, what a bad temper youV::
have I wouldn't have married you."
The -truthful husband will answer the :' 5
Inevitable post-matrimonlal question: "Do v
you love ma as much as you used to do?" '.-t
with "True lova never changes." Tn "
frank man will not mine delicate rct-,,
ters. She will have no Illusions when v.
the conversation with him Is ended, and ;
be may have no wife. ':
It would be rather painful to know
what people - think of us at all times,- -f
their actual appraisement of us t the '.,'4
moment Because of their mood, or oars, ,,',
we might' hav a lower rating than wau itf
would have received yesterday, or than'
that we wilt get tomorrow.
The lightning flash of angor might la.r
show us ourselves In a way that we
wouia never rorgive ine spesjeer, anay.
would be hard pressed to excuse in our-. -,
selves. Moods are mighty, ' but theirs- -
reign Is blessedly short t J.?
Blessed ba the man who Invented si-, V,.
lence. In crisis It baa saved bloodshed"!,
and spared broken friendships. v . .'!;
Many a critical situation haa been savscfr
by enveloping it In the blessed veil of.'-"'
silence, for thoughts make no sound, and"
there is always hop that they may
change. . , , . n'l"
Mark Twain Inscribed on a photngrapU7J
I have seen: "Truth Is precious. Let uiJV
economise it." Doubtless he had sufi., ;
fered at. th hands of some volunteer of l;
unpleasantness who called himself frankf:.,tj
Tn worm nas some ugiy, jaggea rocks--
of fact. Life will be more. beautiful iff
we screen thefr")igllness by planting j'
flowers of consideration about them. V ,1 3i
can at least refrain from brutality . in")
the nam of frankness. . , (
The Manicure Lady
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1 THE GIRL WITH THE FLAT CHEST.. . '''
about furs and winter clothing.. Learn 1 comes you won't be in the class with the
to breathe now, and by the time winter I other girls whose chests are weak.
"I am glad that th convention is over,"
said the Manicure Lady. "Now all them
candidates' can settle right down on the
job and ga around the country telling the
fake reasons why they should be elected
and hiding the real reasons why they
should not. Goodness, knows, George, I
am mighty sick and tired of this here
political stuff. All the old gent talks
about at home is the chance that Mister
Taft will have against Mister Wilson
and poor brother Wilfred, who Is still
out of a Job 011 account of the tight
money situation that has been brung
about by them scrapping candidates,
can't do nothing but ' babble about
Thomas Jefferson. I don't know who this
Jefferson man Is, George, but I do know
that Wilfred hss him on the brain."
"I don't car a rap about politics,"
said the Head Barber to his fair friend.
"If folks is going to fight, I believe that
they ought to fight in-a ring. I was up
to the Garden the other night to see
Mike Gibbons trimming that English
chap. Bums, and believe me,, tiddo that
was a regular right. Billy Gibson framed
it up for me and three other fellows, and,
as all of us came from St Paul, of
course we was pulling for Gibbons, who
also csme from the land qf the brave
and th home of the Swedes. Say. klddo,
you could live a" thousand years and
never see another left like that left jab
Gibbons has got It came out like a
snake's tongue."
"Don't be talking to me about fight
ing," said th manicure lady. "What do
I care about fighters and fighting? We
get enough of the fighting at home when
Wilfred and father get to quarreling and
as far as fighters themselves Is con
cerned. I don't want any pert of them.
Let's talk about what I started to talk
about politics."; ;
"You got a swell chance to talk ti me
about politics," said th head barber.
"I hear nothing else all th long day'.'';
Th young college boys come In here and),
talk about Wilson when I am shaving the- .
down oft their lips, and. ma all the tim. ', '
afraid I am going to cut thorn. The ol s
rounders come in and tell about what a r
great country this was ' when Thorns. 2
Jefferson was running it, forgetting all "
the time that If they had been on tue'V? -job
when Tom was running the country;'"
It would have been very hard leddlng.T;t
for the father of democracy. I'd tell josl'ir
how much I think about politics." I nln'i'
even going to register this year. I don't . s
want to vote." , '
"A. friend of . mine lias got 1 broth
that feels the same way as you," said th
manicure lady, sweetly. "He nevsr votes.';
He Is up the river, where all tbwi grim"
gray walls are." .' . -.' is
The head, barber glared at tn manicuref
, , ,?
"You have got some queer friends," h
said. "I atn't aumrlud ' .3-1
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Dead at Ills Post. -
A farmer engaged a Swedish youth new
to this country, and informed him that
he would be expected to be on the job
each morning at 4 sharp. The "hand"
failed to show up on time, and th fanner '
threatened to discharge him. Then toys ? ,
"hand" Invested In an alarm dock, and . '. '
for tome time everything . went along .
nicely. Then ba got into th field fifteen ' -minutes
late one morning. The farmer ''
Immediately discharged him, la spite otfT
bis protestations that It was bi alarm -."'
clock that was to blame. .!-vf
Sadly returning to his room the dlS-i'V
charged employe determined to ascertain' -the
cause of his downfall. . He had taken.f,
the alarm clock to pieces when he dls-. ' ..
covered a dead cockroach In the work-.i
lng. ' ' ;
"Well," he soliloquised, "Ay tank It
bane no wonder the clock wouldn't run .
the engineer bane dald." Philadelphia"".
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