fllK DKE: UMA11A. THURSDAY. AUUUST 1.?. 1914.
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By CONSTANCE CLAIIKE.
My little workroom is so still
It wears a garb of rest;
Gone Is the busy little thrill
That marked It at its best
When, many missions to fulfill,
It teemed with thoughts expressed.
The yellow fingers of the sun
That used to pry their way
Over my papers, one by one.
Like golden dreams' astray,
Are barred out for my work is done
The blinds are closed today.
The quiet of my little room
Maddens my restless brain.
Chafing to pierce the somber gloom.
To greet the world again;
Grudging the ceaseless measured boom
That marks time spent with pain.
& Three Little French Maids &
Managing Mothers
Why Should They Be Criticised for Trying; to Marry Their
Daughters to Matrimonial Prizes? This is no
More Than Protection,
By DOltOTH V MX.
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In our si.-r.ple and sentimental American
society It is tlie custom to anathematise
the munagrlns mother. We hold her tip to
;orn und ridicule, and are honestly
shocked at Hie ,
spectacle of a wo
man who tries to
hape her daugh
tera' futures In
Uad of trusting
them to luck.
Why we should
assume this hypo
critical attitude to
ward a very Im
portant subject no
ane knows, fcvery
body admits that
the beat thing that
ran happen to a
woman la for her
to marry the right
sort of a man, and
to live In the peace
ful security of a
comfortable home. This being the case,
why should a woman be criticised In
stead of commended for trying to secure
this- happy lot in life to her daughter?
Every mature woman knows how mar
riages are made. She Is perfectly aware
that the beautiful theory that matches
are manufactured in heaven, and that a
strange fate aends affinities across, the
world to seek each other, is all tomyrot.
Matrimony is a matter of opportunity and
propinquity.
The most beautiful and attractive girl
in the world can be so shelved by her
mother's tactlessness and stupidity that
he will be 'more cut off from the chance
to get married than If she had a hump
back and cross eyes. On the other hand,
a really homely and unattractive girl can
be discreetly boomed Into beltedom, while
it may be laid down aa a general proposi
tion that any two ordinary young people
of opposite sexes will fall in love with
each other If they are thrown enough to
gether. Or they will have what our Christian
Science friends call a claim that they are
In love with each other, which will last
until after the wedding day. Worse luck.
These facts are truisms with which
every mother In the world is perfectly
familiar, yet observe the Idotic way In i
which mothers act. A woman will let'
a ydung man of 4ieipated habits, or .
one who la so shiftless hat he could
not support a cat, or a handsome rela
tive, fairly live In her house, thrown Into
intimate daily association with her daugh
ter, and then, when the two come to her
some fine day aand blushlngly ask for
her blessing, she haa fits of horror and
surprise all over the pUjj.
"What, let Mabel marry the: drunken
Tom Smith! What, let Susie be dragged
down to poverty by that trifling, lazy
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xrii oiiiiiucra. vv ni, 101 ncr ua-illilg
Mamie marry Billy who Is almost like
her brother!"
It will break her heart .o even think
of such a thing, ami she'll never con- i
sent. Never in the world. But she does,
for what ' mother when a hot-headed
girl thinka she is lit love, end so the
poor woman has to suffer ell of the
sgony that tears a mot tier's hesrt when
he watches '.ha long lrswn out sgony
of her child's unfort itiule marriage. And
the mother deserve everything she gets
for she has been faUe to hes- trust. She
should havo protected her daughter from
railing in love with toe wrong man. the
should have manage! better.
yo woman should ev.r let any man get
on a visiting footing n .cr touts that
she would not be t lllii.g to tee her
daughter marry if it tame to that. On
the contrary, lust as itu:h ss she should
protect her daughter asainot the wrong
man, she should give her a chance at
the right man.
It la the bounden duty of every mother
with daughters to inako l.er hjme one of
the places where men Vkt to go. fine
should tole eligible young mcu into her
purluia by means of a charming hospi
tality, she should take t'w trcuble to
make herself agreeable and attractive
and the sort of a posslblo mother-in-law
that a man can think ,f without getting
cold feet, fahe should not, of course, ob
viously run after marriageable youths,
but she should extend them such a glad
hand when they drop In that they will
ie sure to come again.
In a word, without throwing her daugh
tars at young men's heads, she should
put them la the attitude of receiving the
blessing of a proposal from men who
would make desirable husbands. And she
should give the girls a chaace. Chaper
oning a girl Is highly desirable, even
nercbsary, but it should be done so warily
aa never to be perceptible.
There ere households in which a girl's
matrimonial prospects are frost-bitten by
the entire family aiwaye sitting around,
helping to entertain her beaux. This is
a Uul plsy. Tou may take it for grauted
that no young man puts on his best
j clothes and comes around to listen to
Mamma's babble about how marketing
has gone up, or papa's dissertation on
what he would do If he were Tart. Nor
does it conduce to love-making tor a
young man to overhear the hum of fam
ily gossip In the next room, and have a
suspicion that little brother Is under the
sofa and little sister is peeking through
the curtains.
Matrimony has fallen' off alarmingly of
late years since the substitution of the
portiere for tho solid oak door, a circum
stance that' la doubtless attributable to
the fact that there are now so few places
in which a man can pop the question
with any sense of security that he Isn't
being eavesdropped.
This is a plain tip to mothers that they
shtuld furnish Cupid the proper stage
setting If they want their daughters to
marry.
According to the divorce statistics, the
managing mother cuts a very conspicu
ous figure in the mstrimonlal difficulties
In most households. If mothers would
only manage a little more before their
daughters marry Instead of waiting to
do it afterward, all of this trouble might
be averted.
And one last word let no woman be
scared off from doing her duty to her
daughter by fear of being called a man
aging mother. It Is every woman's busi
ness to help her girls get good husbands,
and to throw opportunities in their way
and quarantine them against the danger
of falling In love with the dissipated, the
Immoral, the trifling and the no-account
youths that Infest society.
Slight Formalities.
.'Thar' no use of you hanging around
here unless you're willing to work," said
the energetic woman.
"Lady. ' repllei Plodding Pete, "I'm
willing to work. But I belong to the
Association of Industrious Inspectors. If
you'll tell me jvhat chores you want done
and how mucn you'll pay, I'll go to town
and ask our secretary to O. K. the con
tract. Only vou'll have to advance me
IT.64 to pay the expenses of the trip.
Washington Star.
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Bleeding Kansas
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By RKV. THOMAS It. GREGORY.
The admission of Kansas to the ststrr-
fcjtA.t rtf ftiaUi flftv-thrMt v.ra if(t.
January 19. 11, was the main act of the
orama which. Beginning wun ma ' -Missouri
compromise"
of 1&20, and ux-
tending through
the excitlrg cam
pnlsn for the Kansas-Nebraska
ait
of KM, m to have
Its final denoue
ment In thf boom
ing Of guns at
Sumter and the
gathering of the
hosts for hsttle.
Clay's well meant
measure, the Mb.
souti compromise.
admitted Missouri ss a slave state, but
prohibited slavery in all other territories
west of the Mississippi and north of
parallel lU.TO: a measure Dint tvciult! lit !
most certainly have worked like a charm
but for the Invention of the Yaiikoo
iiiwiiiiififr. imi v nitney, A llttlo mom
than twenty years before the great Ken
lueklsn got his famous compromise
through congress. Whitney Invented th
cotton gin. a machine thiit is almost equnl
to Wntt's steam englno In It Influence
upon history.
But for Whitney's invention the ques
tion of slavery would never have hecomo
a menace to the country. At first slavery
existed In the northern as well ss the
southern states, but owing to Its un
profitableness It soon practically died out
north of Mason and Plxon line, and but
for the COttOn gin WOUld Unrmeitinnuhlu
have had the ssme fete In the south. The
schoolmaster's Invention, however, gave
a new and powerful Impulse to cotton
raising, and It was already as good ss
settled that sooner or Inter, tti devil
Would have "business on his hands "
Thirty ytsrs sfter the enactment of
the Missouri compromise bill (a very brief
Period In I ha Ills of a nation), the trouble
ban to brew, and a eihort armistice was
provided for In Clay's other compromise.
L n .1' n n 4U . : i . . . .
an tn ominous mil or ISofl.
r.i.'oi uma not aown, and In
1Ku4 Stephen A. Doualas nolle,! ihrn.i,
the Kansas-Nebrsaka aot. which was a
Mrtual repudiation of the Missouri com
promise, since It established the rlhl of
the Inhsbltanta of each territory to de
cide whether the stste should come Into
Ihs Union free or slave.
Immediately after the passage of the
Kansas-Nebraska bill the political caul
dron began to bubble and boll; Kansas
became the storm center of th conflict
of border ruffianism and free sotllsm:
propaganda clashed wjth propaganda In
actual battle, pro-elavery being In the
ascendant one day and anti-slavery the
i rxt; until finally the'antis won out and
"Bleeding Kansas" took her plsce In the
l nlon ss a free state. The admission of
ksiisss was the close ot the long con
troversy, preliminary to the mighty ap
peal to arms upon the battlefield.
Little
Bobbie's Pa
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llj WILLIAM V. KIRK.
Flounces, say the fashion mak
ers, and straightway the Pari
sienne appears in a frock flounced
from the neck almost to the
ankles. And because) she Is proud
of her flounces she hag accented
them by a eqalloped outline In
color. This color, note was
gleaned from the striped girdle
and it is repeated in the em
broidered batiste frill at the neck.
With the lingerie and net skiru
the gay little Parlslenne is in
dulglng in colored silk bodices or
jackets. ' This demoiselle has
completed a white net skirt with
a brilliant yellow taffeta basquo
Jacket, buttoned down the front
with the precision of the 1880
models and finished with a sash.
It seema almost incongruous to
add a Jacket of the apparent se
verity of this model to a frivolous
skirt, but little does the Parlslenne
bother her pretty bead with, such
details. The Jacket is an ab
breviation of the top cloaks in
spired by the conchman coats of
the long ago. and Is of velvet,
piped with satin,- or in the more
extreme models, with fur.
A Speedjr Tartlr.
'Look here, waiter:" shouted the angry,
hungry guest at the restaurant.
"Veasuh, yeesuh!' answered the waiter,
who appeared, to be all out of breath, as
rum unie son or violent exertion.
"I ordered that turtle ttoup an hour t go
and you haven't brought It yet."
"Yeaault. nosuhl Ah'm plum sorry, suh,
but It lest rnnMn't h h.lnn.l YL'I,.., II.
.done cotched dst turtle an' was a-takln'
mm o os cook ne aone slipped vuuii man
hands an' ran out de back doah an' i p de
alley. Yeiauh, Ah had to cnasa him fosh
blocks befo' Ah could catch him. Pow'ful
hot wethah fo' runnln', suh. Yessuh, he'll
be ready In er minute."
We have sot a new cook up te our
house, the has been there two days
F'a asked Ma last nlte wen her week
wild be up I clean t think he was think
ing about giving her a raise eether.'
The iialm of our new cook Is Vivian.
I dldent hear her lK nnlm. It Is a Irish
nalni t think. I like the things she cooks
but I'a snys she talks too much. She '
a soshullst.
It lias been a terribul hut day down .n
tho rlly, seil 1'u to Ma last nlte. I feel
sorry for the poor peeput on the "East
side, he sed. A I wlrti I cud do sumthtng
to hel: them,
You ought to feel sorry for them, sed
Vlv-lan. She was bringing sum things
to the tabe) wen she sed It. You ought
to do moiir than feel sorry, she sed. Thst
Is not whnt the poor want, pity, always
pity. They want better hoama better
thins to out i wetr, she sed. Oh. the
Inhumanity or the wurld, the sor-dld,
keenilna. wurld, sed Vl-vian. It Is a
thing to mill; the angels weep. She sed.
I'ow do you like yure cstfV.'
In s hurry, urinully, sed I'a. ft I might
slimiest. tte1 Ta. that wile we are dining
Vine place la to wait on us A not to slip
us any startling Informaahun about the
sorldld wurld. Be on yure way, now,
sed Ta.
I go. beekaua I reellse that at present
my lot Is a humbel one. sed Vivian. I go
A wait on you, tho I feci that aumwere
In my veins Is the blood of royalty, as I
find it vary hard to cower like a hound
be-neeth a master's lash, as Mister
t purlieus sed. I go.
She will go farther than the kitchen
beef 0r many days, aed Pa. Wars In
tha wurld did you dig up the militant?
She calm highly te-comended, aed Ma,
A she aems to be a good cook, but I can't
seem to get her to understand her post
shun. She gets rite Into all the talk, k
Jest then Vivian calm In with the eggs.
Perhaps you pepul have not studied
conrtlfthune as deeply aa I have, she sed,
wen she gulv Pa the eggs. It Is all vary
well for the rich to get Into there cars
A sweep act oss the country, noticing the
butles of Nater A stopping at cool places
to rest, hut think of the pitiful poor that
have no ears, sed Vlv-lan. Think of
tha paAhunt ploildern like roe. she sed.
that have to ride In a trolley rar If they
ride at all. 7"re Is no buty In Nater
lor one who has to live forever in the
sluips. aed Vlv-lan. It Is not rlts, it Is
r.ot rite, she sed, A I, for one. am going
to raise my voice In pro-test, she aed.
These eggs la' all burned, It you will
allow me to raise my own voice In pre
tes4, sed Pa. I wish you wud talk them
out ge sum boiled eggs Insted. At
leesl you can't burn boiled eggs. -
That Is It, aed Vlv-lan. Sneer, sneer,
complain, domineer the endless story of
tha rich .grinding dow n the poor. I wish
I were a poet, she sed. Then the whole
wurld wud know of the shame A ronjt
that Is going on. '
1 wish you cud be a poet too, aed Pa.
Then you wuddent he around here feur
flurhing as a cook, be sed. Now I want
to say one thing, Vlv-lan. While I am
at the table deeslrus of service I want
not another word out yure bed.
I doant think Vlv-lan has any moar
chanst of keeping her Job than Wilson
bas of beelng re-elected president. -
Prrfaaclory Trlbate,
nomination was a splendid statement of
mo case, sum ine gratetui can'iiOiitc.
"Yea," replied the old campaigner. "It
Was a fm. statement. But we'r rolng to
rave a dickens of a time proving It."
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