BEE: CWAIIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1913.
Death-
Wo Give It IJtUo Thought,
Devoting Time to Worldly
I'loasurcs.
By ELTiA WHEhIeR WILCOX
Copyright, 1313,
by The Star Publishing Company.
, It Is a curious thing, this mind of man.
Not one of us but knows and realizes
from tho hour he begins to understand
the fact of existence that dissolution of
the body waits
each mortal on
earth finally.
Not one but In
his heart knows
each morning,
when he rises from
his couch and each
night when he re
tires to sleep, that
he may never seo
another day.
Death Is possible
to a child, to tho
youth, to tho man
or matron, at any
hour or moment.
Acute Indigestion,
caused by drinking
a glass of lco cold
milk when the system was nervously
tired, caused tho death of a beautiful
young actress, apparently In good health,
In a few moments after she entered tho
restaurant.
Automobile and equestrian accidents
are recorded continually all over the
world', heart failure Is an almost every
day occurrence, and no man or woman
takes a train or a boat for any length of
journey without the subconscious mind
records the possibility of sudden death.
Yet, when a great world-shaking
catastrophe, like the Galveston flood,
the Mount Pelce or Mount Vesuvius erup
tions, the San Francisco earthquake and
conflagration or the recent tornado and
flood occurs, humanity seems to awaken
for tho first time to the fact that death
moy come at any moment
In tho face of tho knowledge they
have always possessed, men and women
of brain and good noriBe, and seeming
faith, liavo gone on year after year In tho
pursuit of purely selfish and worldly
pleasures and ambitions; they have
sought the accumulation of money and
property: they have pushed and scrambled
nnd fought for place and power; they
liave allowed envy and Jealousy to dis
turb the beautiful hours of life given
us for self development and the cultiva
tion of the best within us; they have
been made miserable by the loss of some
material thins, a Jewel or a garment;
tears have been shed because of banquets
and feasts to which they were not bid
den; nnd the higher principles of ltf-j
have been sacrificed to purchase tem
porary power and paltry honors or to
obtain the luxuries of civilization.
All the sermons preached from fashion
able churchos to which these, people have
been liberal supporters, have .failed to
bring them to a realization of the utter
emptiness of such standards of life, but
when nature thundered forth her sermon
on the Instability of earthly blessings,
the weakness of mortal pqwer and the
fragility of material possessions, then,
nnd then only, they awoke to see and
feci and know the facts which have been
told them a thousand times before, only
to bo considered superficially and re
garded as tiresome platitudes.
They made polite excuses and pleaded
Immediate engagements when any friend
attempted to turn the conversation to the
more serious side of life, Its responsibili
ties and its obligations to self develop
ment: and they dozed comfortably In up
holstered pews while the pastor talked
of these things; giving liberally to the
church funds to keep him pacified, whlla
they went forth to striving and envying
and worldliness, as before. '
Hut when, from the vast cathedral of
space, nature speaks' and says, "Listen!
let mo tell you what earthly honors and
wealth and power of achievements mean
In the great scale of existence," then men
and women pause In their buylngs and
sellings. In their strivings and envylngs,
In their bickerings and contentions over
tho comparatively worthless things ol
existence, and cry aloud: "How uncertain
Is life; how certain death!"
And, sweeping through their conscious
ness, the great truths of all time aro, for
a season at least. Impressed upon them;
those truths which alone make this life
worth the pangs of birth, the wor
ries of childhood, the vicissitudes of
youth and the sorrows of maturity.
Those great truths which are the foun
dation of all lasting happiness, and lay
at the base of the structure of the only
thing which endures through the ages
character. Ea?th life Is, In the' eye of the Cre
ator, no more than one step on a ladder,
reaching from earth to Invisible heights;
It is given man that he may climb to
higher realms. ,
Not on great buildings, built of Btone
or steel, not "on the construction of won
drous aqueducts and discoveries of elec
trical wonders, does man climb, unlesd
with all these steps In material progress
Ms soul, too, keeps climbing by the de
velopment of self control and unselfish
ress and brotherly love and human!
tarlanlsm and spiritual conclousness.
The mind of every Individual Is crea
ting mentally the mansions ho will occupy
In the next stage of existence after this.
To that next stage you may at any
moment be called. What sort of a house
have you begun on the other side?
FRECKLES
"Don't Bids Them With a Vsll; Senior
Them With the Nsw Prescription.
An eminent skin specialist recently dis
covered a new prescription, othlne
double strength which is usually so suc
cessful In removing freckles and giving
i clear, beautiful complexion that it Is
old by the Beaton Drug Co. under an
absolute guarantee to refund the money
It falls.
Don't hide your freckles under a veil;
get an ounce of othlne and remove them.
Even the first few applications should
show a wonderful Improvement, some of
the lighter freckles vanishing entirely.
Be sure to ask the druggist for the
double strength othlne; it Is this that Is
sold on the money-back guarantee. Advertisement.
The Proposal A
She loved the sea and the
of the winds in the pine trees is to the hillsman and the sight of the break- after the theater, while the cabaret performers were singing and danc
ers rushing onward to the shore were as the uplifting of peaks and the ing. She would have said "NO" had she not loved Billy so very dearly,
down-dropping of pleasant valleys to the hillborn. There was one favorite and had she not wanted him with her whole heart. Tho one consolation to
cliff of hers that the waves broke upon in creamy spume and there had she her now is that the wedding is to be late in June and they can spend their
always wanted the man of her choice to propose. honeymoon down near the sea.
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Shut Up Your Pocketbook,
and Put a Yale Lock on It The
Money from
By DOROTHY DIX.
A working girl Is engaged to be mar
ried to a young man who held a position
as a salesman. The young man lost his
Job several months ago, and since then
has not been able
to get another po
sition In a store or
office that would
enablo him to wear
good clothes and
keep his hands nice
and white and his
nails manicured.
Ho has been offered
a place as a street
utreet car conduc
tor, but he consid
ers that beneath
his dignity. So Is
any kind of man
ual labor, which
he declines
haughtily to do.
In the meantime he la living on money
that Is borrowed from his sweetheart.
The girl Is troubled by the situation.
She feels that she should not be asked
to support a husky young man, and yet
what can she do? She cannot see him
starve, she writes to me In a miserable
little letter that has a sob In every line,
and the man tells her that he will kill
himself If she turns against him in his
hour of hard luck, when all the world Is
down on him, and she wants to know
what she shall do.
My advice Is emphatic: Shut up your
pocketbook, little sister, and put a Yale
lock on It, The' man who Is too proud
to do any sort of honest labor, but not
too proud to sponge on a woman, Is noth
ing on earth but a dead beat and a
loafer, and the sooner you are rid of
him, the better for you.
He would make the kind of a husband
whose precious feelings would be too tine
and sensitive to permit him to engage In
any occupation more laborious than sit
ting around a club, or saloon, and dis
coursing on art. or politics, while his
wife took in boarders to support the fam
ily. The one infallible test of a man's love
for a woman is not whether he will die
for her, but whether he will work for her.
Nobody Is called on to die for anybody
else In these days, and It Is easy for a
man to profess that he would do a thing
that he never has to make good on. But
a man's willingness to get up at 8
o'clock in the morning and tackle a hard
job because his dolrig It saves a woman
from toll and weariness Is a proof of de
votlon strong enough to draw money at
the bank.
Therefore, little slater, when a man tells
you one minute how much he loves you,
and the next minute asks you for a
dollar, just try to have enough sense to
size up to the situation as It Is. Put
your own feelings to one side. Crush
your vanity under foot. Look the matter
squarely in the face and tell him the
truth.
Tell him that his protestations of af.
faction aro all lies, because love doesn't
Hi
murmur of its waters were to
a Woman is a Sponge or Worse
seek to hold up and rob Its beloved. Tell
htm that you know that he Is taking you
for an easy mark, and that ho Is playing
upon your affections for him to get
money out of you, and that he Is cajol
ing and flattering you, by telling you
that he loves you, simply to work you.
Tell him that If he really loves you
he would starve before ho would take
a penny from you,, and that Instead of
hanging around and begging "from a
woman, and especially the woman that
he says he worships, he would sweep the
streets, or break rock, or drive a garb
age wagon, or do any other work under
the sun that left a man his self-respect
and Independence.
Every penny In her thin pocketbook
Is stained with her very llfo blood. It
represents such anguish of aching back
and weary fejt and over-strained muscles
as a strong man never knows. Every
cent that sho saves out of her scant pay
envelope Is at the price of her starved
stomach and under-clad body.
The man who would take from her this
money, so hardly earned, so bitterly
needed, Is as soulless, as conscienceless,
as heartless, as Judas, who sold his
Lord for thirty pieces of silver.
Don't put any faith in the vows of de
votion that you have to pay for on the
nail. Be suspicious of the tender
speeches that a man cashes in as soon
as he makes them, When the man who
truly loves you comes along he won't
ask you to give tt to him. He will shower
gifts upon you. He will want to take
care of you. He won't, ask you to pro.
teot him.
As for the man who won't work be
cause he can't get the kind of a job he
prefers, recognize him for the no-ac-
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Woman's
By DR. O. II. PARK I IURST.
The female suffrage movement is, step
by step, disclosing Jts Inner spirit and
motive. Suffragists are not only makins
the Impulse by which they are actuated
more clear to the
public, but are also
becoming more
conscious of that
Impulse them
selves. We had sup
posed, and they
had supposed, that
it meant simply
"votes for women."
Let them be cred
ited with an Initial
purpose that wos
thoroughly honest
and in keeping
with the best In
stincts of high
class civilization.
But aa time goes
on and they have
become more and more heated and em
boldened by their Impetuous activity and
"z'lt" Zamed Tt By Nell Brinkley
her as the sound She almost
Little Sister,
Man Who Takes
count, spineless loafer that he Is. That
Is the excuso that every lazy man offers.
The only occupation that would really
Interest him would be clipping coupons,
and as there Is no crying need for substi
tutes for that pastime he prefers to sit
down and fold his hands In Idleness while
some woman hustles out and makes him
tho money to feed and clothe him.
Any man that doesn't disgrace the shape
he bears doesn't wait for a bank presi
dency or some other gilt-edged Job to
come his way hunting somebody to
take It.
He rolls up his sleeve and sails Into the
work that Is closest to him, and no mat
ter how humble the labor may be, he
honors It by the way ha dues it. He
knows that all work Is respectable, and
that the only shameful thing Is for a man
to bo a parasite, and especially to be
one of the parasitic men who live on
working women.
There aro thousands of working girls
who aro being bled of their overy cent
by loafing sweethearts, thousands of
wives and mothers who aro tolling night
and day to support ablebodtod loafers
who are thetr husbands and sons.
There Is no more terrible problem than
the question of what Is the right thing
for these women to do, because the men
who are too lazy to work appeal to the
pity and the tenderness of the women
they depend on.
These women lack the courage to cast
their no-account sweet hearts and hus
bands and sons and brothers away from
them, and to close their doors In their
faoes and tell them to elthtr work or
starve. It Is tho only chance to make
a man out of a sponge.
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Suffrage
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by their own Inflammatory utterances,
their ambitions have acquired a mora and
more radical character, till it Is no longer
a mere matter of suffrage, but a crusade
of contempt for the male sex and conse
quently a revolt against that closo and
tense relation in which, according to
Christian usage, a man and a woman are
bound together In the bonds of marriage.
In that respect woman suffrage Is re
vealing Itself to be a mutiny against our
Christian civilization in that it weakens
the marriage tie and debars the conjugal
relation, and thus cuts tho ground from
under the sanctity of the family and
the home.
The advanced guard of female revolu
tionists, no longer satisfied with puerile
outbreaks against property and decency,
and with threats of personal violence and
massacre, have committed upon the In
terests of society a species of violence
still more far-reaching In its peril, by
Its Insistence that the effect of marriage
shall be simply to make of the man a
husband, and of the woman a wife, with
out the inclusion of any suoh Idea as
that they are "Joined together."
shouted "NO" when hiilv nronosed to her in ine riHtiuirn.nt
Mysteries;
Ily GAIUIBTT I. SKKVISS.
An English writer has just been re
calling the remarkable history Of tho
Rev. Thomas Threkheld, a Presbyterian
minister of Itochdato, who, It Is averred,
carried the entire
Bible In his head,
so that If the num
ber of a chapter In
any of the books
was given to him
he oould Immedi
ately recite the en
tire chapter from
memory. Ho was
a living on cy
clopedia of dates
and facts of all
kinds and could
speak ten Ian-
guages.
Similar Instances
o f extraordinary
memory frequently arise, and they pos
sess a certain importance for the light
they throw upon a faculty of Immense
value, which most of us entirely neglect
to train and develop.
Tho popular boltef that a powerful
memory Is not an accompaniment of
great Intellectual ability does not nn
pear to be well founded. Nupoleon could
go among his guard and call by name
any member of It who happened to at
tract his attention. Macaulay's memory
was the basis of his enormous produc
tivity aa a writer. Many other men of
first-rate ability have had extraordinary
powers of memory.
Still, It Is true that tho many In
stances of remarkable memory relate to
persons who were either eccentric or de
fective in mentality.
The famous dwarf, Tom Thumb, had as
perfect a memory of musical sounds,
although he possessed no scientific
knowledge of music, that upon hearing
a new piece he coujd alt down and play
It at once.
The "Learned Blacksmith," Ellhu Bur
ritt, who continued to practice his trade
This covert assault upon marriage, an
marriage Is understod by the respectable
element of society, Is made by a society
of English suffragists bearing the name
of the "Spiritual Militancy league."
This, then, knows the drift of the suf
fragist mind so far as it has yet defi
nitely expressed Itself, and It Is high
time that these women In our country
whose whole womanly nature revolt a
against the unclean Invasion should ex
press themselves with equal defltenesv
and emphasis, and let It bo understood
that the American feminine nature is still
feminine, that marriage Is the Joining to
ot the man with the woman and of the
woman with the man In holy, permanent
contract, with no strands left out of the
knot into which In sacred reciprocity
they are tied.
Without that the basis of the home
la gone, and when the home goes society,
church and state will go tumbling after.
It is time for such women as are strong
believers In what Is good, firm, safe and
fundamentally essential to eome out of
their covert, shake off their reticence,
stand In tho firing line, and strive with
an organized purpose to maintain the
honor and dignity of their sex, and to
repress and overcome the growing ten
dency to abandon what has been hitherto
the Christian stronghold of doroestio and
social Ufa.
of Memory
noarly all his life, learned fifty lan
guages. He learned Latin and Greek,
and read tho Acnold and the Iliad, whllo
he was still an upprentlce at tho forge.
Antonio Magllabccchl, a poor Floren
tine, novcr forgot anything that he read.
On ono occasion he hastily read over a
, manuscript that a writer had lent htm as
i a test, arid Immediately took away. Long
afterward, when tho writer came to him
In distress, saying that his manuscript
had been burned, Magllabccchl repeated
every word of tt. Tho Duke Cosmo III
made him his librarian, and learned men
of all kinds used to come to him for
facts and dates rather than take tho
time nnd trouble necessary to consult tho
books. lie was never at a loss, whether
tho subject was history, theology or lit
erature. He was allowed to travel In
order to carry away In his head tho
treasures of other libraries. Once tho
grand duke asked him where he could
find a certain book.
"There n but ono copy In the world,"
raid Magllnbecchl, "and that Is In the
grand slgnlor's llbrnry at Constantinople.
It Is the seventh book, on the second
shelf, on the right hand as you enter,
This calls nttentlon to a peculiarity of
memory which many persons possess.
They can recall places as if they saw
them before (heir eyes. I have often
bceen aided In searching for a particular
passage by an Instinctive recollection
that 11 Is on the right or left hand, und
near the top, the middle or the bottom,
even though I may not have seen the
book for years.
Some psychologists divide memory Into
two classes memory of form, or visual
memory, and memory of sound or audible
memory. Many persons never forgot
what they hear, but quickly lose what
they read. In general, we remember bet
ter what we have seen. How often do we
meet a face that we recall perfeotly,
without the slightest recollection of the
name of the person that It belongs 'to?
This Is another proof of the educational
value qf pictures, whether "moving" or
"still."
On account of the almost universal ex
istence of visual memory, systems of
memory training are frequently based
upon the association of the things to be
recalled with a series of visible or tangi
ble objects. A speaker will sometimes
utilize his fingers, his rings, his watch
chain, or objects in his pockets to assist
him In recalling the division of hla sub
ject, or the statements that he Intends
to mike. Sometimes he will, as it were,
plant the divisions of his discourse In the1
various corners of a room, or upon some
striking objects that it contains, con
fident that a glance will find them when
he wants them.
Memory is a faculty that must not. ac
cording to my experience, be too much
burdened, or worried. It likes to be
trusted. Itun lightly over the facts and
statements that you wish to put into
speech, and do not strain the mind over
much In trying to memorise them by
frequent repetition. Let them rest In
the background, and give rein to the
Imagination. Then they will flock to
you as If they were glad to come, and
often they will bring associated things
that you had not thought of In advance.
Memory is a chain whose links may be
broken by too much pulling, but when It
Is allowed to run lightly upon visible
wheels It often amazed Its possessor.
Tailor to the King
llv TCLBERT HUBBARD.
Copyright, 1913, by International News
Service
The fallacies connected with the busi
ness of merchant tailoring aro exactly on
a par with the fakes of alchemy, astro
logy, theology and medicine.
Alt minister to
tho vanity of tho
Individ u a 1 who
thinks ho Is differ
ent, p o o u 1 1 n. r,
unique nnd requires
a special ministra
tion. So with the theo
logical and medi
cal fakir went tho
sartorial fakir, and
we spoko feelingly
and with pride of
"my tailor." Wo
made excuses for
not attending this
or that meeting bo
cause we had an
engagement with
"my tailor."
1 can well remem
ber how my heart was filled with pride
when I stood on a platform a kind of
Improvised throne and a tailor took oft
hli coat nnd made ready for a great and
serious operation.
With a tape mcasuro around his neck
and an adviser standing by, he went at
me. And way back In the dim recessed
of the store- at a desk sat a man with
pencil In hand.
The call wos given, "Allrlght." nnd thon
tho tape measuro was put over my manly
anatomy. It was pleasing to my sense of
approbation to bo thus ministered to. Tlio
man measuring mo and tho man looking
on consulted from time to time.
They called off tho measurements thus:
"Thirty-two nnd a half! twenty-one and
three-quarters; sixteen and a halt."
Then the tape measure was again applied
tho second tltno, and tho call was given,
"Make that sixteen and seven-eighths,"
and tho man In the dark recesses of tho
storo echoes back tho numbers. Theso
wera repeated to see that they wcro all
down correctly.
I was told to call In a week, and I did,
and tried on tho partially completed gar
ments. There wcro consultations, the tape
tape measure waa applied again, chalk
was freely used, pins came Into service,
diagrams wore made nnd further con
sultations hold. I was padded up here,
hollowed there, hunched," bunched,
smoothed out and sent away with the
request that I would call the second day
It waa llko being treated for this, that
nnd the othor by a specialist with pointed
whiskers.
It took time to get a suit of clothes.
But was I not getting a suit mado to'
measuro, nndwas not this man "my
tailor?"
Ah, yes! I didn't know it. but I was
dntlng back to a day when only royalty
has Its tailor. "Tailor to the klngl" I
was being ministered to by a specialist
tho man who had studied my caso and
understood tt. I was to shlno In aocloty.
It was long years before I knew I was
a, part of unconscious fakory. Certainly,
tho tailor was not a hyproclto. Perhaps
ho was a little of a Jesuit nnd figured It
out that tho end Justifies tho means.
But I am quite sure of this, that my
tightly-fitting suit never quite adapted
itself to my anatomy. I was so well
dressed that I was conspicuous. My
bumps, hollows and Imperfections were
obvious. Instead of having mo clothed
so well that I did not attract attention I
wna the observed of the observer. I held
the center of the stage.
We work from the complex to the
simple, and tho obvious Is the last thing
wo know.
It Is only within recent times that tho
discovery wns made that "men, In their
bodily measurements, fall Into four or
flvo classes; that clothes properly mado
for one man will fit any othor man In the
same class. Easy, smooth, well-fitting
clothes that do not exaggerate any of the
minor physical peculiarities that a man
may possess.
Tho old-time custom tailor In the coun
try town was like a man learning to ride
a bicycle he rn Into the very thing that
he sought to avoid, and the peculiarities
that he tried to conceal ho brought out.
At that time, any man who wore
"hand-me-down" clothing was socially
tabu. The ready-made clothing buslneses
was In the hands of the basht-bazooka.
Haggle and barter were supreme and the
methods of booth and bazaar reigned.
Behold, hdwever, when things get bad
enough they cure themselves!
The retail clothing business was the
first to adopt the one-ploce system. This
means truth In business. Quality and fit
were guaranteed.
And, behold, now, clothes ready to wear
represent. In n business way, the very
acme of honesty, directness, simplicity
and right Intent.
Today's Beauty Recipes
By Mme. D'Mllle.
Many good faces are spoiled and look
characterless because the eyebrows and
lashes are not welt defined. Thin and
straggly eyebrows will be improved In
color and grow longer and more evenly
if gently massaged with pyroxln. Pyroxln
haa the same good effect If massaged
Into the eyelash roots.
"Women detest superfluous hair on the
face and forearms because It gives Uiem
a masculine appearance and detracts
from true feminine charm. To remove
Sunnrf lllnus hnlt nnirn . ...
a. paste made by mixing u little powdered
uctiiuiio wnii water, leave on two min
utes, wipe off, wash the ekln and tho
hairs will be gone.
"Aches and pains cause the face to
contract and form wrinkles. Mother's
Balve, which can be bought In prepared
form In uny neighborhood, gives almost
Instant relief from pains and aches in
back, or Joints, sore musclea, rheuma
tism and neuralgia.
"The Vaucalre home treatment Is de
signed to round out angular lines of
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flat bosoms. It is made by dissolving
i uueiuia augur in a pint or noi water.
Take two teaspoonfuls before each meal.
The springtime is the Beason of
youth, when every girl desires to look
her very best. For a complexion of lilies
and roses, apply each morning a solution
mArlft Viv rilltantvlnfr nn niHnlnal no ml...
of mayatone In a half pint of witch
hazel. It corrects blotched, pimply and
sallow complexions and leaves the skin
smooth, white, soft and lovely.
"A shampoo that merely washes tho
head Is not sufficient. The parasites
mm unuae inning, uuu, laaeoi ana Drlt-
ttA hall millt 1 1 a wwMrA K..1.
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a condition to encourage the growth of
ximr. it provem umuness ana ro&ueit
the hair glossy, fluffy and fine. Advert
tlsement.
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