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Married Life the Third Year
Selecting Wall Paper Helen Haa Her Choice, but Warren
Thinks It's His.
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By MABEL HERBERT tRNER.
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"Tea, I think that' very good." Helen,
with her head poised slightly on one side,
was garingr critically at the wall paper
the salesman held 4ip before them. "It's
so fresh and clean
looking. Don't you
think so, dear?"
That's all right,"
agreed Warren. "It's
a good bedroom pa
per. Want b ot h
in that?"
"Oh, yes, we wrfnt
"Now, '.would you
like to see some bor
ders?" asked the
salesman. " "
.IX' k. 3 t I A
Warren briefly. "We
are trying to get
away from the over-
decorated rooms.
Now we'll look at
something, for the
library." ' ' - :
The dining room and bedroom paper
for the new apartment had been easy to
select. But; the library must harmonlzo
with the front room irito which it opened,
and since that had been lately done over
had decided to leave it as it was. So,
armed with a sample of that paper, - they
were trying to get something that would
"go with, it." ; . "' '
The salesman brought out one sample
buolt after another, but the front room
paper was a grayish green, fend there
are no shades more difficult to combine
than greens.
"Oh, no, that wouldn't do that has a
yellowlst cast You see how faded it
makes this look?" And Helen held up
iVn. trr-a vmaii MmntA.
"That's going to be a devllsh hard
shade to match," complained' Warren.
"Don't believe we can get It, Why not
brown? Browns and greens always har
monise." , . ' ',."
"Biit, dear, we want those two roomi
the same tone," objected Helen.
"Well, we won't get it. Everything
we've seen so far kills that shade." .
When the salesman went back for still
another lot of samples,- Helen left her
chair snd walked around the room. The
walls were lined with shelves filled with
roils of paper. . Her glance fell on a torn
sample tnat exienaea irom me ena 01 one
of the rolls. She held her own sampk
beside It and then eagerly drew out the
roll. -
"Oh, Warren look! I've found Just the
thing! It's exactly the shade!"
Warren held It up critically. "Yes,
that's pretty good."
"Why, dear," excitedly, "it's & perfect
match!'!
But when the salesman came up he In
formed them that that particular paper
was no longer In stock.
"Couldn't you get it?" persisted Helen,
egerly, "Couldn't you order it for us?"
"No, ma'am, they're not making It this
season. We tried to get that for another
customer. Now TA like td show you a
nsnoi- fn tiara." nd h nut the book on
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an easel and began throwing back the
pages. . ... ,
But there was nothing, anywhere near
the : right shade. . Having seen a paper
that harmlnized perfectly, Helen .could
wit be reconciled to anything else.
"What's the us to keep "harping on
that?" - exclaimed Warren Impatiently,
"You can't get It. - He's told you' h
couldn't get 'It Now that's not so bad,"
as the salesman showed still another
sample. - -
"Oh, no, dear, that wouldn't do. Can't
you see it haa a bluish tinge?"
"Well, we can't fool . around here all
yiayf We've got to decid on something
pd decide on It quick."
But Warren, we anight find it some
where else." - , .) ...- '"..
"WVeBn't get it anywhere else. 1 These
people do all the : decoratlhg for those
apartments; that's why the agent sent us
here." - - ' -
"But, dear, if we pay for it ourselves?
I'd rather do that than spoil the. room." i
."Well, I wouldn't! You've got this
whole stock to select from. Anybody who
wasn't so darned particular could find
what they wanted right here."
And in spite of Helen's protest Warren
finally selected a plain brownish green.
that he declared would go "well enough."
The next morning Helen went up to the
new apartment, taking a sariple of the
paper Warren had selected. When she
pinned it on the library wall and stood
back to see how it "went" with the front
room, her' worst fears were realized. The
two shades of green clashed loudly. Then
she pinned up a sample of the paper she
had wanted and which the clerk had said
was not In stock. It harmonized perfectly.
The rest of the morning Helen spent in
going determinedly from on wall paper
store to another. At last she found the
paper exactly the same as her sample.
They had only twelve rolls and could get
no more-but twelve rolls were enough.
Then she went back to Gregory &
Snell's, where) she had been yesterday.
She found the clerk whi had waited on
them and made her request that they
buy the paper from the other house, al
lowing her to pay any difference in price.
It was such an unusual request that the
clerk was puzzled.
"You'll have to see Mr. Gregory about
that. I wouldn't have the authority to
make such an arrangement."
He 'directed her to the private office.
Mr. Gregory was dictating some let
ters, to a. stenographer, and Helen
waited was awkward self-consciousness.
She had . not minded asking the clerk,
but somehow she f!t painfully des-
concerted before this tall, gray-haired,
rather distinguished looking man. who
now wheeled around in his chair with
a brisk "Something I can do for you?"
Helen's color deepened, and as she
nervously explained what she wanted
it suddenly seemed rather foolish and
unbusiness-like. ,, s
"So you feel the paper your husband
selected will spoil this room? And you
wish to buy this from another firm
and substitute It preferably without his
knowledge. Is that it?" ,
Helen, flushing crimson, rose from her
chair. She had not said anything about
not wishing Warren to know yet that
was what she really wanted. But she
resented fiercely this man's keen intul
Hon,
"I'm afraid. I've made a very foolish
request I'm sorry I troubled you,' Please
let the order stand as my husband gave
it." '
Outside she walked blindly up the street
going over and over again the scene In
the office. It was not his words she so
resented, but the lurking amused note' in
his voice and manner as he so quickly
sized up the situation.
AIL week the Incident rankled in Helen's
mind. It was Sunday afternoon that
Warren suggested they go , over to the
anartment
' "Guess they must be about throilgh
there now painting and all. t's go
over and see how It looks."
But Helen had little heart for the in
spection. She knew that for her much joy
of the new apartment would be marred
by the library paper.
When they reached , the apartment
Warren led the way . first into the bed
rooms. They were charming. The selec
tion of the bedroom paper had been ex
cellent, "Now lbt's see the library. You put up
such, a kick about that paper. I'll wager
when you see it on the Wall, It'll be all
right" . -They
went through the front room Into
the library, ) Warrert threw up the shades
so the light fell full upon the walls of
both rooms.
"There! What'd I . tell you," he de
manded triumphantly. "Could you get a
better match than that?" ' . ,
Helen gave' an astonished gasp. It was
the paper she bad wanted! The paper
she had asked r. Gregory to T)uy of
the other shop! " - .
3. How had it happened? Had he merely
decided that It was policy to please a cus
tomer? Uelen"felt it was" more than that.
At the time she had been subtly conscious
of his Interest. Was this to Bhow bjs re
gret for the amused note In his voice that
had caused her to whisk bufof -his" offifte
in a flash of resentment? There seemed
almost a personal note In it all.
Since the paper Warren had selected
had been plso 'a plain green, and as his
eye for shades was not particularly good
he did not detect the difference.
"You see now?" he went on. . "Perfect
matnh. isn't ft? Couldn'Vbe better! "And
ou were kicking like a steer! Wanted to
go somewhere else and pay for it yourself
or some -such nonsense. . I knew what
I was about ' Knew that paper d be all
right when they got it on the wall."
Helen controlled a hysterical desire to
laugh. Should she let him know? For
a moment the impulse to tell him was
very strong, but she wisely repressed ll.
"Stand back here where 'you can gefj
both rooms together. Could you beat
that? See I was righnow, don't you?"
persisted TWlarren, who. could never re
sist rubbing it in, when he had proven
anyone wrong. . .
"Yes, dear," Helen answered " gravely.
"Now that it's on the, wall I see' it's
really a wonderful match. I suppose one
can't always judge- by a sample."
"Well I judged by that sample all right
Hereafter when there's any wail paper
selecting to do you leave it to me'."
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THff OLD PROFESSOR RECEIVED
THE LONG EAPECTED PflCKA&f
FROM THE RUNS OF BPiBlLOH
iTWftS AN OLD BRICK' AND ON
THE OUTSIDE HAD SOME
WRITING HE PUT IT UNDER THE
LIGHT, STUDIES THE FIGlCS
1NTEflTLY AND FINALLY AFTER
Eb HOURS OF DECIPHERING
PEFp AS FOLLOWS.
"F YOU CAME ACROSS
DILL PICKLES IM A RESTAURANT
WHERE WOULD YOU
OUCH doc!?
you HIT THE NERVE
GENTLEMEN TAkfc A LOAD
OFr O0R' FCCT
' TA R ARA- 73A -SAM-MI5TAH
BURNS CAN YOU
TELL ME WHY DE OLYMPIC '.
GAMES OF ?04 AT?r LIKE
A CHOP FRIED IN DE 'PAH
rtp.BUPNS-NOSAM 1 CAN NOT
HOW ARE THEY CONNECTED.'
SAM- WHY Dy BOTH HAPPENED
IN GREECE
MEATPJEjBECKY ROSENBLATT,'
.TAKE YOUR FEET
OFF THAT
TYPEWRITER)
r SUPPOSE THERE S NOTHM&
NEW ON THE BILL OF FARE ro-JDW
SAID TI&HTVf AD TIM to HE SAT
DOWN TO A TABLE lh THE
HASHERV AS USUAL HE
PICKED UP THE LINE OF MARCH
To Read looking do at
THE 30TT0M OF THE EATS
WHERE TME Y HAD THE DESSEfiV
LIST HE. T?EAD,
"r AUNT TILDY PUTS UP
&OME PEACHES AND PEAKS
THIS SEASON WHAT WlLl
THC ASH-CAN?
ITS THE HEAT(HIC)
MYDEAJ?
What is the Perfect Marriage Proposal? Read
Reply from One Who Said "Yes"
Through a Window.
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Rights of Birds-Women Should
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A POPPING THE QUESTION BUGUE8TIOJJ BY TAD.
By MARGARET HUBBARD AVER.
"The modern "proposal 1 flippant, for
that is the fashionable attitude of mind
toward all .questions of the heart"
'When Is a proposal not, a proposal
when it figures in a breach of promise
case. '-
, "Study the type of woman you are pro
posing to, and suit your words to her
character, to her frame" of mind, and to
her taste." . . '
"The man who proposes best, is the one
who won't take 'no' for an answer, un
les he'd rather have that than 'yes.' "
These are the gleanings from the wis
dom of -.Mr. and Mrs. Herman Bchultz,
who have been happily married for sucb
a long 'time that Mr. Schults cannot re
member when he proposed to his wife,
though she could redtll when and how
and just what he said, as she told me
In the presence of her husband In the
sitting room of their comfortable' apart
ment which overlooked Central park.
'We weren't . always wli-to-do,i'. my
dear," said , the motherly little woman,
who ldpks "homely" despite . all her
handsome . clothes. .'-.
"It Is over thirty-five years ago .that
I was baking bread in the 'kitchen of
my father's farm, "Manny," that' what
I ; call my husband, "looked In at ths
window. ? He wasn't what he Is ' now,
either. He was just a great big, hulking
fellow In a most unromantlo kind of
business. Well Manny looked In at the
r.lndow and I stood there with my hands
in the flour, and he said: 'Say, Bessie, If
I provide the flour, will you make bread
for me?" Yes, Manny, that's all the pro
posing you ever did."
"What dW you say, Mrs. Schults?" I
asked.
"Me? I didn't say anything. I went
to the water pail and got some water
to wash my hands, and I looked at him
severely, and then I told him I'd think
it over, and that's what every right
minded girl ought to say when a man
proposes, for you- want to, have time
to think, no . matter whether you set
your heart on him or not.' It does ths
fellows good to wait," finished this In
dependent little lady.
"We did our love making afterward,
when she'd really accepted me, though
I know she kept me dangling round a
long time before she'd marry me. and
she's right too," said the husband.
"We have a married daughter whose
husband proposed to her In the flippant,
slangy style of today. I believe what he
said was: 'Say, kid, you're Just it with
' ' ' L.
The Limit
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A tall, austere man, who was evidently
a stranger In those parts, entered a
church In a small town In Maine. He
took seat in the rear of the church
and listened, apparently Interested, for
a short while. After that he began to
show nervousness. Leaning over to an
old gentleman on hit right; evidently an
old member of the congregation, he whispered:
"How long has he been preaching?"
"Thirty-five years, I think," responded
the old man, "but I don't know exactly."
"I'll stay then," decided ths stranger.
He must be nearly finished. "-
me. Will I do for your And, you know,
they re very happy," said the monther.
"but i think that all this modern slang
robs the young people of a good deal of
romance."
"What Is jvjur Idea of an Ideal pro
posal of marriage, Mrs. Bchultz?" I in
aulred. - . ,
"Theone that made me a happy wife
and mother and grandmother," she
smiled back. "All proposals are Ideal. If
the young people love each other. Mostly,
the girl knows when the man Is going
to propose and from what I've read or
seen in plays the boys are still as awk
ward and embarrassed about it and do it
Just as badly as Manny did. But it
you're happy afterwards those few words
are surely the most beautiful a girl ever
listened to."
"Now you can answer a question," said
Mr. Schults with a mischievous gleam In
his eye. "When is a proposal not a pro
posal? Give U up? When It figures in
a breach of promise case. You've read
of all these strange breach of promise
cases that have come, up in the papers,
and the raft of passionate love letters
that go with them. Now, if I were a
young lady," continued the old gentle
man, "I should Insist that my suitor pro
posed to me In writing, and In so definite
a manner that there would never be any
trouble about It at all.
"If every woman was proposed to by
letter no one could ever accuse her of
having forced the young man or tricked
him Into a proposal of marriage. The
proposal by letter is the ideal proposal,
take it from me, and the man who pro
poses best is the ontj who won't take
'no' for an answer unless, of coursm, he'd
rather have 'no' than "ye.' which, is
often the case."
Now, while ths agitation' for woman's
right is going on, let all women give a
thought to, the rights of birds In Gild's
beautiful world. " ,
The season for fall
hats is here.
And here is a lit'
tie extract from
some statistics given
by Henry Salt In his
booklet "Animals'
Rights," published
In London: 1
"One .; dealer n
London Is said to
have received as a
single . consignment
32,000 dead humming
birds, 80,000- aquatlo
birds and 800,000
pairs of wings. A
Parisian dealer had
a contract for 40,ooo,
birds, and an army of murderers were
turned out to supply ths order.viNo.less
than 40,000 terns have been sent from
Long Island in one season for millinery
purposes. At one auction alone In Lon
don there were sold 404,389' West Indian
and Brazilian bird skins, and 356,389 Bast
Indian, besides thousands of pheasants
and birds of paradise.
'The meaning of such statistics Is sim
ply that the women of Eurfipe and Amer
ica have given an order for the ruthless
extermination of birds.'
"It is not seriously contended in any
quarter that the wholesale destruction,
effected often in ths most revolting and
heartless manner, Is capable of excuse
or Justification; yet the efforts of those
who address . themselves to the better
feelings of the offenders appear to meet
with little or no supcess. The cause ot
this failure must undoubtedly be sought
In ths general lack of any clear convic
tion that animals have rights; and the
evil will never be thoroughly remedied
until not only this particular abuse, but
all such abuses, and the prime Source
from which such abuses originate, have
been subjected to an Impartial criticism.
In sajng this I do not, of course, mean
tq imply hat special efforts should not
be directed against special cruelties. I
have, already remarked that the ..main
responsibility for the dally murders
which fashionable millinery la Instigating
must lie at the door of those- who de
mand, rather than those who supply,
these hideous and funereal ornmenta
l'n fortunately, the process, like that of
slaughtering cattle, ' is throughout dele
gated to other hands than those of the
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ultimate purchaser, so that It Is exceed- .
Ingly difficult to bring thorns a dt$,
sense,' of blood guiltiness to the right
person." "
Let every woman, who claims to Ua
mors thsn mere skeleton upon which-. ...
fine apparel is hung, every, woman who,.--
Deneves she has a heart and a iriltid,,.,
pause and consider the enormity of the' .,
crlm against the feathered creatures ojj'
eartn wmcn fashionable millinery wages,
And let her resolvs to use her femlnlr(VDi ,
ingenuity and taste in creating hats and,,,!
bonnets for her own se which do not..,.
require the corpses of or feathers f,w'w
dead birds to make them beautiful. 1 ja
There is no mors grotesque sight to be.,;
hold than a woman's lub luncheon whereof, 1
women,- wearing every manner of bird,. -
decoration, on their heads, meet together,?
to discuss the best ways of bringing kind-j,;,.
ness into the world 'and lessening eruelty,,,,,
Besides thi .runl nw f.t thla s,,,.-..
tion (subject, rather, since It is no ques..
tlon), there Is ths appalling fact that tlte V
decrease of birds means, tha increase of a I
insects snd moths, and the consequent
aestruction ot fruits, grains, vegetables
and trees.
From an Industrial, as well as a kumiiui...,
point of view, women should organize aJ
no-bird millinery movement. iT
Beautiful creations in headrear At-:
fashioned, out of ribbons, lace, fernsi
flowers and Jet. 1
Analyzed, the Idea of carrying a deadi
bird, or anything which means the Ie'-T,
structlon of life on the head is monstrous,!
inartistic and senseless.. . j I
The wearing of furs can, be def end-A , ;
by the argument that wild animals woulAjj.,.
""," mo erw u not aesiroyea; auquyj.
that human beings need their skins tvT
keep them from ths cold. ; ..
: But no such argument, can be offered,
In excuse by the women who cause birds ";'.
to be slaughtered by. the millions for
their use In head decorations.
Tell the milliner, dear lady, to, fashlot..r,
you the most exquisite hat nossibla min '
of nature's and art's inanimate articles, .
Suggest ideas to her: and endeavor to -
produce something , which shall be so,
beautiful It puts to shams the miniafa T
outcner shops which other women sr ,rtAJ;;
Talk this subject to your friends, andjl.,
to your enemies, and make it familiar to
the minds of all women. t
Refuse to belong to. a club that doe .-,
not i consider this question one of Im,
portance to the progress of women. .,,,
Make the women who attend youcV
church ashamed of wearing dead birds,,.
Refuse to believe in their religion untUff).
they cease to aid the cause of murderous .
millinery. . , . ' ' ' ,
Uncle Sam's ConscienceTund- -
There is really no department' of the
federal treasury which is especially de
voted to what Is popularly known as the
conscience fund. All the money received
from people whose conscience 1 pricked
them for former delinquencies is turned
over Into the general fund of the treas
ury and expended a any other money
might be expanded.' Nevertheless : a
record is' kept of such receipts from
which it Is possible to trace.:them : If
necessary, and to estimate their Amount.
And thus the. treasury department r. at
Washington is able to report that dur
ing the fiscal year of 1912, Just closed,
there was received from the repentant
and ths reformed a total of 18,514. Sev
eral hundred people contributed. The
Identity of none of them is known. ' The
largest sum received from any ons source
was $2,000. ''
'Although there Is a record of a small
sum having been received from this
anonymous source so early as 1811 and
of a second that followed IS years later,
It was not until 1361 that contributions of
this sort became a steady source of In
come to - the treasury. It , has , In-,
creased with the, years, so that the total
amount received up -to date, Is $431,891., J
It was just after the beginning of the
was
that the
initial sum. of te,nnn i
f - -T
United fctates bonds was received bv th
treasury. An anonymous communlcatior','
Which accompanied the bonds explained''1
that after a long stniggle conscience had "
triumphed in demanding "the restitution; "
of this monej due to "the United Statest' f
Hence the account-came to be known
familiarly though ; not pfflcially, as th-; .
conscience fjind. Jt has since remaineC"
eptuy, and all; amijuHs returned to Jh4j
treasury In consequence ol trie prickings
of tha loward monitor hay been credit
tfc It, ? .-The sums vary in size, from 1 cep'fc.w
to . $3B,6oo received about twenty yeajs
a0 $ . .-,,VJ- t. ' '. -;
The majority of bpna-fide correspond?55 '
ents either gave no explanation. or con
tented themselves with very brief , state- ?
menta of the reasons f of the -return JPSV
the money. -Judging from, these letterfV
the frauds whleh it sought to oondone JtC
this fashion are mainly evasion of fiii, f
ternal revenue taxes or customs dutJef
or else extractions coninjkted while- tfy ...
correspondents wera actirig,as agents yjfc
officers of the United States with ex
ceptional opportunities for graft Some
of . these "letters exhibttd' a consclengi5
so" sensitive as to be actually a vrettiV J
to their owners. Boston Herald.