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They Are All Pale but They Know the Joke
. Copyright. 1911. National News AsVn.
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We Have Only Ourselves to
Blame for Our Failures
Y
Hy ADA PATTERSON.
"I .am working for the same employers
with whom I Btarted out fourteen years
ago. I have worked like a horse, but
liave never got good pay. At this foment
1 have 12 cents In my poclcet. I can't
put by a dollar to help buy a place In
tin old ladles' home."
This Is the plaint of a woman who signs
her letter "A Plodder," who has found
the plodding hard because she has Rotten
nothing out of It.
The situation Is not so discouraging as
you may seem to think, Mies Plodder.
The testimonial you unconsciously gave
when you said you had been employed
by the same firm for fourteen years Is a
strong one. It is a tribute to your worth
ind to your tenacity of purpose, If not
to the firm's generosity. It is posslblo
that the firm has been no more fortunate
than yourself. It, too, may have been
grubbing and keeping alive, but not mak
ing notable progress. This may be the
history of a firm or an Individual. Don't
let any bitterness grow up in your heart
toward the firm. Perhaps, like most per
sons, It has done as well as it could, But
have you? .
Vou aro growing angry. Tour face
flushes and you exclaim: "The Idea. If
she Isn't blaming me," I am, If you de
serve it. Others can cause tomporary set
backs, but only ourselves are to blame
Tor ultimate failure. Put let us take
counsel together.
Have you ever watched a race, run by
horse or man? If you have you have seen
that they did not spend their strength In
tho first half of the race. They didn't
hurry. They took It rather easy, struck
their gait and kept their eyes ahead and
their senses alert. Both these lost are
Important. When they had reached the
post half way between the starting and
finishing points you saw that what you
thought was the beginning of the raco
was really only a warming up for it. The
man began or the horse began to let hlm
nelf out. His speed Increased. Maybe It
doubled. Steadily toward the end It In
creased. You raw that ho had saved his
htrength for tho" last effort. Finally, with
a splendid dash, he passed the finishing
Inevitable. Kven In tho career of living
Arnold Bennett says we are amateurs
until we the 65 years old.
Breatho deeply half a dozen times, take
a long view at the farthest sky line of
the glimpses of hill of river beyond tho
smoko of the city, attune your car to
same fine Inner voice that speaks of
hopo and courage and better thins
farther on and begin again! Ploddr.
Tuke stock of yourself. Find out where
you stand. Those fourteen years have
been valuable years experience filled
years.
Every twelve-month has brought you
wisdom In its hands. Whatever your
work, you have learned how. It has be
come as easy to you as the. alphabet,
You feel the racing Joy of knowing how
You know what the philosopher meant
when he said, "Happy Is the man who")
work has become play." You have
learned how to get on with your as
sociates In business. How hard a lesson
that was at first; as hard as tearing the
fundamentals of the business you now
know well. You are a person with a
trade, a soldier armed. You have whit
no robber In all the world can take from
you experience. You know.
How easy it would have been for' you
at the beginning had you been thus
armed, so equipped. Don't mike this ad
mission with a sign. Let the knowledge
brighten your eyes, straighten your
shouldlers and strengthen your back
You know. You know your business.
you know people, you know life. Begin
again. Get your second wind.
Bless you, Plodder, what millionaire
was ever heard from before he was SO
years old unless he was a father-made.
not a self-made, millionaire? Tho United
States has a president, a good one, whose
name had never reached beyond tho city
of his birth until he wub CO years old.
What is true of men can be true of
women. The realm of achievement Is
sexless. The brain Is not at Its best un
til you are 40 years old or past. A bishop
In a play cried: "Oh. that we wero born
old and could die young!" You are ful
filling in business the bishop's -wish. He
longed to start the race with experience
I That Is what you can do. may do, must
SPEAKINCr OF TMC SNOWS THAT FALL H
the WINTEISL SUMNER HEAVV AHD SUMMER
i. I i HT THAT S A 5QOD ONE TO SPflHQ-.
WUWrtTUS VOfV DER. VMY, THE
itoliEAT PUTCH flfofTONt, WAS
IN HIS DRESSttiG- KOOM,
AWAITING THE CALL aOY HE
WAS lfiDU3TRtOUSLY 5it'MIHG
COLO CGgAM ON HlSVOKE. TO
GIVE IT OILY QUALITY WHtN
HE HEARD STEP -STEPS IN
THE LITTLE HALLWAY. IT
Was the ou-lboy, who put
HI53 MOUTH TO THE KEYHOLE
mo CHIRPED IF THE
GHIf SANK, WOULD, the:
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HERE COMES A PLYINQ
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GNTLEMEW 8 SEATED.
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TAMBO-'SH SAY, MISTAH IN
TE 'LOCUTAH, OD YUH EVAH
KNOW THAT Ah WAS A
BIQ GAME HUMTAH?"
INTERLOCUTOR.-' WHY, N0,7AMB0
WHAT 00 YOU EVEC SHOOT?"
TAMBO-"AH ONCE 5H0T A LION
OAT WAS 17 FEET LONQ.
WHAT rfr THIHK'OB OAT?"
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SWWq-. THE ORCHESTV
FIDDLED, AND CALLED THC
DIFFERENT" STEPS OF THE
L AMEERS "5W YEZ PARD& '
HE SHOUTED, AHD 5AWD
HIS FIDDLE. EVEGYTHINq WAS
MERRY AS A riAHRIAqE BULL,,
WHSH SUDDENLY THE
ORCHESTRA STOOD UP, AMD FCUM
Hfb LIP5 CAME. THE rnTErUL.
WORD& "IF YOU CAM
MAKE A BELLHOP. CAN
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The Sorrows of a Second Wife
lly WINIWVHD ULAOIC.
two daughters, and ho . You are like a great many other women
The man hi
loves them mow that he does the
woman, who Is his second wife. The
woman Ima written to mo and told me
all about It.
"Ho leaves mo for
weeks at a time and
stays with the girls
at their flat," su,vs
the wife, "and he
spends all of his
money on them, and
will not take care of
in when t am III:
find when I go to
' thn daughters and
toll them that thoy
YOU MAKE A DARNDANCE - SZTlZ
laugh at me.
"H gives tnem 120
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City Boy Has Little Chance
Compared With Rural Cousin
point He had won.
Business and professional success, what ido. Start the real race. Count fourteen
we have named a career until every one years as the first half, ns the tearing
ha grown tired of it and asks for a now
name for it, Is a man or a woman doing
his or her best In the -work of the world.
Tho first part is merely a learning how.
It seems long, It Is tlreeome. It Is dis
heartening, but It is necessary. Prepara
tion for anything that Is worth while i
time, an the warming-up time. Begin
again. Get your second wind. No man
Is whipped until he takes the count. No
woman has failed until sho tells her soul
she will no longer try. Work and earn
an old lady's home that shall not be the
old ladles' home.
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Playing With Love
lly MAKGAHUT HUUUAHD AYKK.
"I've been quoted as saying that Njw
York Is not u fit place to bring up child
ren In, but as a matter of fact, what I
said was. 'New York Is no place to brill
up children ns compared to the country "
explulned fipremo Court Justice Jlor
schauser, whose statement that New York
was no place for children to live In lias
gono all over the country and caused tho
New York wife and mother much con
cern. Justice Morsohauser is an exceedingly
friendly, sensible person, and if It wasn't
for tho thought of the Irate New York
mother, 1 am sure that the justice, who
was once tho president of tho Children' -Aid
society in New York, would let tho
statement go as It first was printed,
Just opposite his rooms In tho court
house at White Plains the children were
piling back to school In a new and very
up-to-date school house as tho Justice
talked to me of the boys and girls, who'u
he considers less fortunate becauso they
have to live in New York.
"It stands to reason." said Justice
Morschaurr. "that the city can't give
the child what it gets In the country In
the way of health and physical benefit
If you only go halt an hour out of the
city, oven, the difference In the Htnio-
kind of
By I1EATRICH FAIIIFAX.
"Uve," said Napeoleon, "Is the occupa- deliberately play wJth matches, and when
tion of the Idle man, the amusement of a a blaze results, tunt to their friends anil
busy one, and the shipwreck of a sov- ask "What Is to be the end?-'
erelgn." Thero are many endings to an affair j sphere Is enough to make a vital dlf
And he might have added that it was of this kind, and the right end depends ference in thti health of the child.
ine piayinmg oi me inougnuess. uu iiib rauuutuiiy oi inone concerneu. ii ur courp. wnn me rigni
A younC man, who was thoughtless so this girl is foolish and hysterical, as her
long that he has had to begin to think declaration to him implies, his punish
most seriously, writes me that last Jan- ' ment is all the greater,
uary he became much Interested in a i He will merit all he receive. It Is with
young lady, and secured her acquaint- tle Blrl 1 m most concerned. It is to
ance. her that I make the pica to be sensible,
As time progressed they became very ' and oct a rational belnf,
Intimate, aad she became much, attached , IIe doesn't love her. Can she prove that
to him. He says he has no serious In-1 she nRS lost much? By forcing his at
tentions, as he is barely able to'-support I "ho lowers herself In her own
Ms widowed mother, but entertained suoh I estimation, and feeds the flame of vanity.
.rnni? frl.ndlv fetlne- for the rirl that i 8fe can't live without him. He may be
i frightened by such a statement, but he
is of the nature tnat is also flattered.
She can live without him! She must! i
She will
he couldn't keep away.
Ills visits became so frequent that other
uung men, thinking he had a prior right,
(.topped going to see her, and It became
rnderstood among their friends that they
were engaged.
He had played with love all this time,
i ud when the girl's affections became se-
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bringing up. with the light sort of pat
ents, the city child thrives as well as his
country cousin; but taking the avernpu
child of the cit, It hasn't got much of a
chance.
"The awful congestion of most dis
tricts of the city pollute the very air thit
the children breathe, and of course tlr
great trouble Is the lack of space.
"The child has got to play, and tlierr r, I
no place for it to play but the strett '
Now the country child has a tremendous ,
tarlrty ' of Interests, and he has the
whole country to roam around in.
make his visits less frequent. He told
ner why; that he didn't love hr, and
"ouldn't marry her. To this rather cold-1
blooded decision after so many months
f pleasant Intercourse, she replied that
it would break her heart if he ceased
comiug, and he calls "four nights a week
out of sympathy and duty."
After calling four times a week, "out
if sympathy and duty" for several
months, he decided to end It, and didn't
j.o aga'n.
i-hen wrote to him that if he didn't
i .me back, she would do herself bodily
! arm-
Becauja of this foolUh declaration on
part, he has resumed his visits.
What." be asks, "is to be the end'
No one aiks himself that question in
the beginning- Thoso who have had the
"If the country boy is any kind of boy.
If Instead of looking at the 1 he learns to do a great number of thtngu.
long evenings without him (an appalling land in consequence he is more practical
prospect to one In love), she will regard twlth his hands than the city boy.
them as so many greater opportunities "Of course there are certain kinds of
for study and good reading, she will find j knowledge that the city boy acquires, of
such profit and pleasure in them that her ; which the country boy remains ignorant.
But the close association with nature Is
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a week to live on,
and I have to hide
when the grocery boy comes for his
money. What shall I do. Do you think
that he is craiy or something? I am
worn out with gTlef over it all!."
Craiy? Not a bit of It; Just selfish
that's nil; plain overyday selfish.
The man la more comfortable at the
flnt where his daughters live than he Is
with you.
Ho llkas It best there,., and ' that's all
that ho cares. Why should you bother
him at nil?
I should think that you would be glad
to get rid of him and to go. your own
way. Why don't you get Judgment
against him fur support, and inovo away
where you won't ho bothered with either
him or his daughters? Make him pay
you, that Is what the damnstlo relations
court Is for Just to settle cases llko
yours. On to It and let tho judge settle It.
Ill, worn out, worried 'to death over
what? Get rid of tho man who docs not
even try to make you happy. There's a
way out for you, a plnln,. sensible, prac
tical way; take It and have an cud to
the matter.
What! You love him? You can't live
without hlm7 Oh, well, If yon aro that
ort 'of a woman, there's no use trying
to help .you even with advice.
If you can love a man so Incking In
all that It makes a man even likable, as
you describe tills one to be, thern'n noth
ing for you to do, but to bo miserable.
Hut I don't bslleve lt-l can't.
hypnotised by an Ideal. Yont are used to
thinking that you can't llvo without this
man, and It's a habit with you to bn
miserable. Oct out of tho habit, move to
another neighborhood, get a new dress,
throw away tho one that makes you think
of tho man and how moan ho Is to you
Trim up a now hat; don't oven remember
you over had one that ho said he liked
once. Buy a pot of geraniums and set
It In your window. Qo to work and
cam some money for yourself, and tak
the money that your strange husband will
have to pay you and help some woman
with a lot of children to support and no
husband to help her.
There's a lonely llttlo girl In the same
flat with you. What Interest do you
ever take in her?
Who Is that frail woman down tho
block? Maybe alio would bo glad of a,
friend. Why don't you try it and sen?
Oct out yourself, get out of your misery.
got out of your rut; let tho selfish hus
band go, be glad that he is gone; set a
new road for your feet and follow It
with a light heart and a head held high.
His daughters will triumph over you?
Oli, no, they won't. Thoy can't, unless
you let them.
Forget them, forget them entirely;
that's tho only way tp punish them nnd
such as they. I.lfo Is too short to re
member dlsagreenblo pnopln and unpleas
ant things.
You saw n snake ono day last summer.
Do you hit down and think about It now?
Not If you aro a sensible woman.
Thn world Is a big, broad, wide world,
and how high, how awfully high Is tho
sky ubovo Itt
Btep out of your narrow room and glatico
about du; you'll Tlud such Interesting
things to see on every side, Tho poor,
little, self-centered man Isn't a thing to
you, nut a thing.
Put anger and resentment out of your
heart as your would put a rat out of
your room. They gnaw, gnaw, gnaw, and
you can't afford them for company.
Wrlto a letter to those girls? Not un
less 1 value them moro highly than t
do myself. Keep your postago stamp
money uud buy a stick of cniuly for the
boy In the next flat; Have your envelopes
and write to a friend who know you when
you were younger and happier.
See, there's a row of doors open right
before you. Shut tho old one, shut It
tight, and watch the other doors.
The Manicure Lady
Hy WILLIAM 1 KIHK.
i was such a deplorable waste of time.
She must forget him. She must not
feed his vanity by picturing a desola
tion of her life without him. She must
learn for her own good that there are
better men in the world; men more
worthy of such outpouring of affection.
She must learn that If she spends the
ttm In waiting for such a man in im
proving her head, Instead of a hysterica!
waste of emotion. It will mean hr greater
happiness.
As for him: One of the great mysteries
of life is that 'a man so little worth love
as he should awaken so muoh of It.
an education In itself, and one which
city life cannot make up for. The boy
who hasn't had a uljance to hunt rabbits
and squirrels, to go fishing, who hasn't
acquired some knowledge of cows and
horses by being around them, who hasn't
cet traps In winter and helped with the
hay In summer, has been robbed of some
thing that no tlty pleasures can ever re
place. "With all that philanthropists do for
children In the city, I know there's many
a boy ana gin wuo nas never gone iar
BUPItEMK COUJIT JUHTIRU MOIU5CH AUSMK
Courts are beginning to reullze that phyclcul danger from thv truffle, theie Is
children must play In the only space that the more subtle moral danger from the
"Wilfred got bunked guoil unci plenty
last week," said the Munloure Lady. "I
ain't sure It 1 told you about It before,
but It served thn poor boob right, any
how. Ho seen a ud In the paper that told
how anybody could learn all the Shake
speare's poetry in four weeks. Wilfred
was always a kind of a nut on Shake-
i speare, r he sent the dollar that tho
ad asked for. and this wui the answer
ho got for Ills cae note:
" 'The way to leuvii all "it SliuWe-
! speare's portly Hi four weeks Is to dl-,
j vide It Into four parts und learn one part
each week.' "
"Thut's an old stunt." said the Head
Haiber. "1 guess It has been pullled on
suckers a million timer.' Whete 'Ud
your brother get the dollar?"
"That's the worst of It, deorge." mid
. the Muntcure Lady. "He gut It from me
-hU own little sister, it was a dollar
that a traveling gent from Omaha, or
somewhere eMe In California, or wherever
It U, gave me for a tip one day when
hit was In and had his nails did. I was
saving It up to go and get my hair fixed
up. I guess now I will have to let thti
shampoo go until another western gent
noniAM 111. Wilfred says that he Is going
' to pay It bark, but you know when that
, will be."
! "Theie's a lot of ways to trim suck
ers In this world," paid the philosoplil-
( leunliiir Stiver Uaslly.
The easiest and quickest way to clean
tarnished pieces of silver is to boll them
ears that should a laud for wlkdom rj -l n water to wlikh has ueen utdul a
'uat a fnniish. u jJola JMUflff man. They 1 small lumu or waaain soda
I ther out of town than Fourteenth street,
' and whose only playground has been the
i citv streets.
Jt'B this on iwrtlcular fact that the
country child has all of out of doors.
v, i I'r ti e cltv ch'ld I. an one narrow dan
Is free to them, and they are more, lenient
In punishing children who get into mis
chief. In consequence, or commit a mis
demeanor of some kind.
"It's the boys playing out in the street
who have no legitimate outlet for their
activities, who finally get together In
gangs and terrorize the neighborhood.
These gangs generally form in some sort
of a center, cave, hut or tent, which one
or more members of them built. The
minute a single boy or group of boys
contamination of older boys and girls of
a criminal or degenerate train of mind.
"Thero Is only one proper pUioe the
city child should play, and that la ths
roof. Now It wouldn't cost muoh to
get all the roofs fixed into play
grounds. Not Just bare play grounds,
either. It's pokibe to have' roof gar
dens, and some of the experiments show
that the average roof lias all kinds of
posslbllitirw as a recreation renter, Cer
tainly It seems to me that no new tena
ment house should be built without recog-
try to segregate themselves that way, the
boys' fathers ought to make It their busi-lnlzlng the necrsslty of turning over thn
neis to find out what their children are j roof to the teruuts' children and giving
doing. That Is where the whole mischief i them a Jegititnute. safe place to play
of the "gang" starts. ' All children need some sort of super-
Many a little life would be saved If lslon whether they re In the country or
gerous street to via in that constitutes the c)t child had some other playground in the my. but certainly, as compurea to
oiott at tho dlffurance between ths two, than the streets. Besides th conatantilU ftow Vorlc child, tho children brought
upiln the country have a big advantags."
It Is Justice Morrchauer's custom,
when dealing with divorce cases or sep
aration sulU, to make the interest to the
children, if there are any, of paramount
Importance. The Justice made his much
quoted remark regarding Now York
against the country, as a proper ftUco
for children. In directing that the child
ren of Mrs. Katherlne 8. Johns, who Is
suing her husband, Henry Ward Johns,
for separation should remitln with th
father pending the trial of the suit, which
ulll take place In about two weeks, airs.
Johns had left the children with her
husband, who Uvea In the country, when
kho decidod to mparat from him last
.summer. (
cal Head narber. "When the races wafc
good around hero I used to see a lot of
the cource work and the fine work, nnd
sometimes, when I seen how easy that
kind of money was, I felt llko quitting
the barber shop und going Into the get-rtch-qulck
end of things."
"Why didn't you, George?" asked the
Manicure lately.
"ICIddo, I'll tell you why," explained
the Head llarber. "I never could figure,
out where that kind of money did any
body any good."
"1'vu heard hundreds of these fellows
tulklng In hern about the suckers they
trimmed at the truck, and I've seen them
flashing real money, too, but two days
later I have seen the same fellows come
In with one of them appealing looks, and
a heup of 'em have stood me oft for their
shaves, Lots of times If you could have
stood tha whole bunch of them on their
heads there wouldn't he a quarter fall out
on the floor.
"Tilings have been happening pretty
fust in the last six months, and I guess
a lot of them fellows that thought they
were wise fish U commencing to know
that there is a lot of wise anglers."
"Hut I was reading a book the other
night,'' said the Manicure Lady, "about
a man that was n. highwayman, a gent
named Mister Dick Turpln, that lived in
England or somewhere In Asia. That was
a good many years ago, the book said,
and It said that when he -robbed a stage
coach he was always awful polite to the
ladles, and that when he had taken the
money from the gents he rode away just
as graceful and always tipped his hat
to the ladles Just as if he was one of
them dukes ar earls."
''There wasn't so rnany evening papers
In thorn days," said tha Head Barber,
"and the only reason he rode away so
graceful on Ills horse was because the
cops didn't have motor cycles then. Eve
ning papers and motor cycles have mads
a lot of Dick Turpln's realize that it Is
going to be a long.' hard winter."
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