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The Gold "Witch
Being the Adventures of a Golden-Haired Heiress
No. 5 All's Fair in Love and War k
By Stella Flores
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Tom and the cockatoo are mortal eno
1 mips, but the. Gold Witch adores tho bird.
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I and watches it carefully. At last Tom get
;s ins opportunity ana Dimes a smau ooy
to steal the bird, while tho Gold "Witch
L sleeps on in blissful ignorance. Tlien Tom
hurries out and buys up the best flowers
and candies in tho neighborhood.
When sho awakons tho bird is gone.
Though heart-broken at her loss Tom
proves a comfort much to tho amusemoiv
t of tho wise parlor maid. Tho Gold Witch
discovers that Tom is an oxcollont judgo
of candy and flowers, and his stock goes
up accordingly. In a surprisingly short
timo sho is comparatively happy again.
the Heavens
Explained
'Two Vant Streams of Stnrs
Flowing OppoMto Directions
Jmllrnta that tho Unlvcrso
Mny Hnvo Been Formed by
tho Mooting of Two Great
rrlmonllftl Clouds."
ny GARRETT r. SERVISS.
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Dorothy Dix Tells of
One Cause of Divorce
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By DOROTHY DIX.
You can't have your cake and eat It
too In matrimony any more than you
can anywhere else. Which la to Bay that
when a man marries a woman because
she possesses some
quality that (ires
hla fancy he can't
ejepect her to make
a star exhibition or
jut the diametric
ally oDDoslte final-
mmes. Or if he does.
Wpect It he sets rila
JZfeo 1 n t e d . and
Otero's trouble.
JKFor example:
Jjhe other day I
jjrs talking to a
Jjver young fellow
wme w years oia.
.and I asked htm
.ijfhy he didn't set
rried. "Because."
llfancy is a business JjJ
'nnian who IIiaKCS
, as much money as I do. and I don't want
to marry that kind of a woman, uecause
I sho would be Independent of me.
Why, do you know that a gui wno
has got a good profession. nu wno n
made a good Jlvlns for herself before
marriage, won't stand for a thing from
her husband? If he won't make her what
she considers a fair allowance, and give
her the money absolutely to spend as she
thinks fit, blng! she puts on her hat,
and goes out and gets back her old lob.
Eic he gets to running around at night,
and staying out with the boys she reads
the riot act to him, awl he's either got
to go straight, or she goes. She won't
even take any back talk from him.
"fine doesn't have to do the patient
(wife act, and hand out forgiveness be-
cause, her husband Is her meal ticket.
What's why women in the past didn't get
i divorces when their husbands were un-
Afallhful to them, and neglected them.
Jfand brat them, and cursed them around
Stlie house.
"They had no money of their own, and
no way of making a living, and they had
to shut their eyes and swallow any sort
Wot a pill of a husband, because of the
bread and butter he furnished, but the
toman who has got a good trade she
tan turn her hand to .and who can make
in good, or a better living for herself
than her husband la furnishing her, Is
mighty particular about how she Is
routed.
Now. I'm no brute, and I've no desire.
sr Intention of ill-treating my wife, but
It the same time I've got a natural
cullne deslro to feel that my wife 1
rxlci-t oi me anl that she loons ip
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source from which all blessings flow,
you know.
"Of course, I know It's my vanity, but
I'd like my wife to be a timid, clinging
vine proposition that's hanging on to
my sturdy oak strength, and not another
guak that's just as strong as I am. and
lams a oigKcr an&uuw. Also, hiiuuiu iiho
to feel that when I got angry, and came
home cross, and be-damned around the
place that my wife would go off and
weep a little, and then humbly ask me
to forgive her for the things I had done,
Instead of packing her grip and going
out to hunt for a boss who would treat
her as If She was a lady, and be careful
of her feelings.
"That's why I don't get married. The
girls are too darned Independent They
can take cars of themselves, and they
won't stand for any foolishness from a
husband. lie's got to walk the chalk
line, or It's Reno for theirs."
"Well," I commented, "I don't see why
that should keep you out of .the holy
estate. There are plenty of meek, spine
less little girls hanging on the parent
bough, Just waiting for some' man to
come along and marry them, and who
would put up with any kind of conduct
In a husband, to get somebody to pay
their bills. Why don't you marry one of
them?"
"Whew," he replied, making a wry
fare, "they bore me stiff, and they dis
gust mn by being parasites, and the way
they try to work men for what they
want. Instead of hustling out and earning
It for themselves. After all, a man
doesn't like to think that what he stands
for to hla wife Is merely a rash register."
"What you want Is the Impossible," I
said. "An Independent woman who Is
meek."
"Man has always wanted the Impos
sible of woman," he returned "a woman
who was enow and Ice to all the world,
but fire to him. And now he added to It
another quality. Ho wants her to he
armour plate before marriage, and a
feather bed afterward.
"But mark my word," he went on, "the
Independence of women, ajid especially
the financial Independence of women Is
the reason there are so many divorces
nowadays, and there are going to be
more and more divorcee until men reallzo
that they have got to treat their wives
better, and be fairer to them. In order to
keep friend wife or her Job, and satisfied
with It.
"I've been frank and told what few
men even acknowledge to themselves, and
that Is that a man's real Ideal of a per
fect wife is an Intelligent slave. He
wants her to reel that she Is absolutely
dependent on him. That's why the Ordi
nary man won't give his wire an allow
ane He ln t sting' He wnnti her to
have the money, but It tickles his vanity
to have her come and humbly Importune
him for every cent.
"Is the woman who has been In the
habit of having a fat pay envelope
handed out to her overy week, and no
questions asked, for doing about half the
work she has done In the homo, going
to stand for panhandling her husband for
every cent? I trow not, and husband
has got to come across with tho allow
ance in tho future, or else wife will go
back to her typewriter or counter,
"Also a man has felt that he has a
right to be about ten times as disagree
able to his wife as he would dare to be
to anybody else, and wife has stood It
because sho had no where else to go, ex
cept back home where sho wasn't
wanted. But that halcyon day Is also
gone, for wife Is demanding that sho
shall lie treated In her own home, by hsr
own husband, with as much respect and
courtesy as she has been accustomed to
receiving In the business office where
she worked.
"That's why I don't marry. The Jn-i
dependent, clear-eyed, bright and snappy
business girl has spoilt me for any other
sort of girl, and I'm not good enough for
her. I've got so much of old Adaln
Kuvc-uncnrr in me inai sne a aivorco me, joi
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The Girl, the World and the Devil
No. 2 How to Get Work
By ADA PATTERSON,
Tou have not only made up your mind
to go to work, but you are about to set
forth to look for It.
This Is the morning you begin. Good
fortune attend you,
little girl. I hope
that aa you make
your way from
place to place,
puckering your
brows over the
strange addreeses
In that brand now
notebook of yours,
that you will think
on these things.
First, that you
will only call at ac
credited business
places, or, If tho
addrcssea are those
of houses or flats,
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that you will enter none that has not
been vouched for by somo one you know.
Alice C. Smith, the angel of the night
court for women, said to me; "There Is
no one In the city, be It ever so humble,
but can have contact with some good
woman whoso pleasure and duty It Is
to point out to girls safe placen to work,
or dangerous localities or persons from
horn to avoid employment.
"If the girl seeking work does not know
or her parents do not know such a
woman, they can apply to the pastor of
a church, and he will send ono of them.
Also there are the charities organisation
and tho Association for Improving the
Condition of the Poor."
Women of these organisations can and
do, by their knowledge of the city, pre
vent tragla fatea of lambs who wander
Into dens of wolves,
Pon't hrug your shoulders nnd ourl
your Hps, my proud little friend who Is
taking tho rirst step toward the straight
and narrow, but shining, roud of self
support, because the words charity and
poor have been mentioned,
It Is tho duty of tho women of these
organizations to help those who are un
able to help themselves, but It Is their
pleasure, or should be, to help girls like
you by revising that list of yours It It
happens to contain any addresses which
experience has tuught them should have
a danger signal flaring before it. In
their work among the poor they have
gleaned many facts not directly bearing
on their Immediate work, as you will
soon learn eVery earnest worker doos.
They should be glad to pars this Infor
mation on to you. Consult them.
Second Rven though as you go from
place to place you grow tired try to not
look tired. If affronts or Indifference
Queen of the Adriatic
lly KEV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
It was 108 years ago, December 1U 1S03.
that the queen of the Adrlatlo was
robbed of the crown that she had so
proudly worn for more than twelve cen
turies. By the
terms of the treaty
of Presburg, as
dictated by that
creator and de
stroyrr of kings
and kingdoms, Na
poleon tht Oreat,
tho ancient re
public was blotted
out. The glory of
the city of the
Doges was no more.
Uke a veritable
fairy tale Is the
story of Venice.
refuge In the lagoons and started the
little settlement which was destined to
become the Venice of hlstorlo and
poetic renown.
With the solitary exception of the
Hollander!), no people ever established a
state under more adverse conditions.
The untlllable and salt-encrusted soil
possessed no mineral wealth; the few
thickets had no serviceable timber; even
drinking water was at a premium; still
I the Venetians succeeded In establishing
themselves upon a firm soli and In Tear
ing thereon a state whloh was for ages
the strongest In the world. From the
very necessities of the oase Venln be-
umo a sea power and by her merchant
and navy she controlled the
empires for moro than 1,0))
1 marine and
LJB i ' destln.es of
L-fI I year'
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enice that furnished trans
ports for the hosts of crusade's. It was
Away back In the year 4Z2, when Att'la. Venice that, later on, supplied the bhlpi
(he 'fifiursn of God. was ruvaxlnz I onl sailors that beat the Turks bak
I --rope, fam lies frm th- ma n!ar.4 t-JOk from Kurcrr and Prully anr.lh.Uted thfir tcr day. IMG.
sea power at I.epanto,
The Bank of Venice, established In
1117, was the financial center of the
world, and when the glorious revival of
letters come, followed almost at once by
the Invention of printing, It was Venice
that led the world In the output of
books nnd the spread of the knowledge
which made possible the freedom and
progress In which we are today re
joicing. In a time when superstition and servi
tude were almost universal Venice boldly
stood forth to chutnplon the cuuse of en
lightenment nnd liberty, and greater
than all her banks and doge, than all
her palaces and navies, was that Paul
.Sarpe of hers, the pale-faced little man
who, In tho defense of Venetla's liberties,
successfully defied the mightiest poten
tetes nnd powers of tho earth.
A glorious history was that which the
"t'orfclcan adventurer'' so unceremoni
ously brought to a close on that Decern-
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have depressed you, don't look an though
you aro depressed. No ono wants to em
ploy anyone because ha or she Is sorry
for her. Nor do you want employment
on such grounds. Look strong and alert.
Call your airtrlt to your aid. Think
hrave, strong thoughts before you go In
at tho door which may be tho gate of
opportunity. Think "this may be tho
chance of my life."
Summoning your spirit Is like turning
the wick of a lamp higher to give a
better light. The employer always reada
the signs of a hrtivc, strong spirit and
welcomes them. Ilo knows how tremen
dous an asset Is the (nubility to he beatrn.
Third While you talk to the person
who may employ you don't talk too
much, nor yet too little. Olve him or her
the clionco to question you. Don't sllcnco
and disgust him with a torrent of talk.
But answer satisfactorily the questions
rbout your fltnoM. You will be sure to
be asked your age, your experience, what
you can do and how well you can do It.
Don't answer wholly In monosyllables.
TU tho questioners wlint they wish to
know In as clear and few wordu as pos
sible, but don t tell them more than they
want to know. They don't want to know
your family history, nor the nature of
your Invalid aunt's ollment.
fourth Don't bo pert If you fancy
yourself witty your employer Isn't the
person to whom to show this trait. He
husn't time to laugh at your sallies. Prob
ably the smile you expect will fade Into
a grim expression that forebodes the
words; "I don't think you are qualified
for the position."
Employers of the right sort dislike fa
miliarity and what you may regard as
brilliance they will more than probably
class as Impertinence,
Klfth-Don't while you are talking with
a male employer think fatuously; "This
man may be my future husband."
Doubtless he Is already married and
will entertain his wife at dinner this eve
ning with a description of an "addle
pated brat," who rolled her eyes at him
this morning and whom he "fired" for
her pains. And his wife will laugh as
she hands him another cup of coffee. The
thought bred of novel reading: "I am a
girl, that Is a mun. Possible result, mat
rlmotiy,"' Is a poor preparation for busi
ness. Sex consciousness has no place In
a business office.
Sixth In your Interview with your fu
ture employer, keep your eyes on him
and your thoughts on what he Is saying.
It you don't ho will think you "flighty"
and send you about your business. He
wants in his service a trained mind ca
pable of Intense concentration on her
task. He will Judge you by the attention
you pay to what he says, Attention la
nine tenths of success in business.
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If two smokers sitting In opposllo
chairs blow each a cloud or tobacco
smoke toward tho other, tho clouds will
meet and mingle, forming n little model
of the starry uni
verse, iui It Is rep
resented by some
of the latest Inves
tigation of astron
omers.
Tho particles con
stituting each of
the clouds have a
common movement
In tho direction In
which they were
blown, so that
when tho o I o u d a
nre combined two
opposite mot lona
appear, one set of
particles traveling one way and another
set Just the contrary way.
In addition to this the particles havo
Individual motions Inside each cloud, to
that, aa the, clouds penetrate one another,
going In opposite directions, their re
spective particles do not nil travel In
perfectly parallel lines, or with equal
velocity. T,hcrn nre stragglers among
them, nnd some whirl around In eddies,
but, ns n. whole, each of tho original
clouds retains Its general direction of
movement. No account Is taken of tho
reslstanco of the nlr:
Now, to make thla cloud of smoke with
Its oppositely moving particles present n,
striking Image of the universe as as
tronomers aro beginning to see It, It In
only necessary, In Imagination, to scat
ter Its particles more widely and to make
every one of them shine Uko a mlnlaturo
star.
Vor the lattat studies of stellar motions
show that thoro nro In the heavens two
vast star streams, moving In nearly op
posite directions and apparently Includ
ing, In ono or tho other of their almost
innumerable hosts, all tho shining orbs,
great or' small, that the eye or the tel
escope beholds In tho Immensity of space
around tis.
Our own sun Is on of these flying par
ticles, belonging to ono of tho two great
Intermingling stellar currents of which
tho visible universe consists The tact
that we ourselves aro In swift motion
along with our sun Is ono of the chief
reasons why tho double ret of star cur
rents was not discovered long ago.
Wo will not stop to Inquire what could
have been the reason for the meeting of
two clouds of stars or what was tho con
dition of thosa clouds beforo their en
counter, for there aro other stranse facts
to be considered.
To, understand these we must recall
that astronomers havo been ablo to tell
the relative ngea of the stars by analyz.
Ing their light. Such analysis shows
what substances they aro composed of
nnd In what stato thoso substances exist
In the different stars.
It Is generally considered that stars
containing helium are the younger or
the most recently formed. As more and
more of thq chemical elements appear In
a star Its age Increases. In human life
wo havo Infancy, youth, young manhood,
full manhood and old age; so In the stars
there are four or five distinguishable
nges, the first of which, stellar Infancy,
Is represented Jiy the condition of tho
helium stars.
Now (and this seems very strange) It
has hern found that the velocity of the,
Individual stars moving In the two great
streams or currents varies with tho age
of those Individuals.
Tho older the star the swifter Its mo
tlon. Here Is a decided departure from
the human similitude that we have used
for Illustration, since among us agility
decreusrs Instead of Increases with age.
Tho helium stars move very slowly;
those of the next older class mora
swiftly, and so on; and then the mys
trry deepens, for the helium stars, and
their younger brethren, show a decided
preference for one of the two great star
streams, and the older stars exhibit an
equally strong tendency to confine them
selves' to Just the opposite stream.
Bo the two mysterious currents consist,
broadly speaking, the one of young, slow
stars and the other of old, swift stars.
Why do they keep apart? And why,
among the stars, Is youth dashed with
gravity and age inspired with nimble
nesi? Although It would seem futile to try to
answer such questions even If put In a.
sclentlflo rorm, yet Prof. J, C. Kapteyn,
ono of the original discoverers of the
streaming of the stars, has pointed out
facts which may eventually clear up
these mysteries. He shows that the slug
glshness of the helium stars Is an Indi
cation that they have been formed dl
rectly out of something which he calls
"primordial matter' and which Is prob
ably Identical with the substance of tho
huge nebulous cloud In the constellation
Orion,
This primordial matter seems to be
subject to almost no motion except that
of the great current In wfilch It lies.
As it condenses Into stars, gravitation
begins to act more and more strongly
upon It, and thus the stars, as they grow
older nnd denser, acquire an Increasing
motion Independent of the general move
ment. In confirmation of this, the fact Is
pointed out that tho Orion Nebula pos
sesses precisely tho movement character
istic of the helium stars, and so may ha
regarded as a birthplace of such stars.
