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Life
The Mysteries of Space
Knowledge
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By LILIAN LAI FLUTY.
The loaves turn srrp and brown anj old
That once were young and green.
When Winter sets her finders cold
(in Autumn's jialnted screen.
Hut Spring returns, and branches dry
Wave wee green flags up to the sky.
While tap and Hfo run clear and high.
So life grows grim and dark and gray.
When Hope and Kaitu lie dead.
Sad heart! throu Winter grope thy way,
Tho' joy and youth seem fled.
For lo! All life Is like a tree.
That sleeps and grows. Awake to see
That Winter gave new strength to Thee.
The Way to
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
"Is It potBlble for a young man who Is
not so very handsome, hut who holds a
good position and has a ppV'iiiiid future
herore him to bo loved hy a pretty young
girl. 1 have a fine position and am a
ptihle. of providing a good hxime for wlf."
and family, hut I am not good looking
and have no confidence In myself. I feel
that glils do not care for me, and I
have about abandoned hope of ever win
ning the love of a woman. Is there hope
for a man who is not attractive?" writes
'tlackensack."
What a splendid husband Is going to
waote In this remaikaljy modest young
man!
Is there hoie that he can win the love
of some charming young girl? Plenty ot
it In spite of whut he considers his
handicap of not being a Phoebus Apollo
in 1014 Fifth avenue tailored clothes.
I'lenty of It even if he were blind 01 hult
of maimed, or even a weakling who
could not support a wife when once he
had won her, Instead of being a capable
chap who Is well able to. support a wife
and home. For any humileap may he
overcome In the love raw.
There are various ways to win a
woman. Let us consider a few of the
accredited and successful methods.
There Is the world-old method of the
caveman. He looked about for the lady
who most pleased bis fancy and, knock
ing her senseless with one well-directed
blow, dragged her off to his cave. On
waking from her swoon the lady promptly
became an adoring wife. So the story
goes. I question whether adoration and
subjection can go hand in hand. .
Now, In spite of all modern novelists
and playwrights may say, methods akin
to those of the caveman do not appeal to
the woman of today. Khe te a i highly
organized nervous system the first need
of her nature "Mr sympathy 'and under
standing, and tho best way to win her
Interest Is to give her both.
Sympathy,and understanding! These are
two qualities that cannot fail to make an
impression on- the heart of any woman.
They will give her a comfortable feeling
at first of being of sufficient Importance
to a man to be worth hts studying and
attempting to please and then they will
come to be too Important to go without.
Of an the gifts that a man can give a
woman, thore are none that will awake
interest and affection as will these qual
ities. )
There, are numberless delicacies of at
tention' that 111 arrest any woman's
fancy." 'Jt-ts net the man who sends a
girl American Beauties because he likes
them who wins. her. real affection. The.
man who appeals to a. girl's heart Is the
chap who brings her a bunch of lilacs
because he remembers that she once ex
pressed a delight in tho delicate fragrance
of those old-fashioned blooms. The ruth
less individual who enforces his own wiU
and thinks that because he enjoys a
given pleasure the girl to whom he is
supposed to be giving a good time must
-be thrilled by it too, is not the man to
win her real love. The selfish man who
takes a girl to the movies when she
wants to go to a tango and takes her a
tnngoing when her one longing Is to see
a good motion picture is not the man
who really wins a lasting regard.
The way to win a woman is to study
her desires and preferences, to put your
self tn sympathy with her ideas and am
bitions and to have a tender regard for
her feelings. Be gentle and kind without
being weakly subservient to passing
whims and fancies.
There is nothing more attractive to the
feminine heart than the thought of power
held in check. Sympathy, understanding
and tenderness must never take on the
guise of weakness. They njust appear
to be the wonderful gift of a strong na
. ture to the one being in all the world It
particularly desires to honor.
The man who is not handsome may
make himself attractive to the feminine
rye by means of neat dressing and care
ful grooming. If he Is thoughtful and
polite in his manners, that will make up
for a vast deal of mere beauty. A girl
Is delighted to be seen in public wdth any I
man who knows how to conduct himself
o that waiters and ushers and conduc
tors join In respecting him, while other
women envy her the polite escort who
knows how to take such good rare of
her.
Study the particular girl you want to
win. Meet the needs of her nature, fiive
strength and sympathy for her weak
ness, yielding generosity for her strong
characteristics, consideration of what
she wants, rather than merely of what
vou want, and you must Impress your
self on her mind as a dependable friend
on whom she can rely. Ilellanre grows
easily to dependance and dependance
iirows in turn to habit. It is a very won
derful and satisfying thing for a girl
to feel that there Is some man on whoe
"merest she can count. It makes her very
lappy to know that some one cares
enough for her to really want to serve
lu r and make her happy.
Devotion becomes almost necessary to
a woman once she has known its protect-
ng care.
' live begets love." If you fee! for
mime girl a tender and overwhelming
I n r. your own feeling must kindle in tier
soin.- return feeling.
Have faith In yourself. Cultivate the.
liahU of thinking "1 am a man, capable
Win a Woman
of loving and being loved. I shall de
set ve love and win It. I am strong. I
shs II not fail to win what Is mine." Re
peat this as if it were a iniigic formula.
1 1 will le macii', fur as you come to be
lieve It hs it entiles to he part of your
thought vou will radiate strength horn
of self-reliance.
And when sympathy and understanding
and tenderness and devotion and con
sideration nnd attractiveness of appear
ance and manners are all thrown into
the balance they do more to woo the fem
inine heart than does the strength of
primitive masculine nature.
Not the brute strength of the caw-man,
but the strength that is held In leash
by the still stronger mind nnd personality,
win a woman today. Success in the busi
ness world often seems to a woman to
prove it, and so many a woman who ap
pears to be marrying for money Is really
marrying because, she was won by the
strength and power It took to make that
man a success.
To win lose a man must be worthy of
it. The accident of your physical ap
pearance may affect your popularity
with silly little maids who are not worth
a real man's love. Hut a girl who is
worthy of a man's true love can be won
If he expresses the natural concomitants
of that love loyal devotion, tenderness,
affection. sympathy, understanding,
strength to govern her and himself, am
bition to be worthy of the best she has
to give and a self-respecting demand that
he be given the best in return.
The way to win n woman'.' It is Just
to love her so faithfully and so deeply
and so unselfishly that her love will
wake to answer yours as the flowers
hear tho call of life and come to greet
the sun In the springtime.
Advice to Lovelorn
By BIATXICI MJirAX
Fur a Htrthda- Part).
Hear -Miss Fairfax: When a young
girl is giving a birthday party is it cor
rect to open her gifts in front of her
guests or. should she lay them aside and
o)cn them after they leave. Jn giving a
farewell party for a friend should the
hostess buy a gift? If so, what should It
be? Could you please give me a list of
some inexpensive favors for a birthday
party. A CONSTANT UKAIKK.
Open your gifts as they are handed to
you If your party is a small one, but at a
larger and more formal party this, of
course, would be Impossible.
Rather than to remember your guest ot
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Ky GAUIUCTT I. SEHVIS.V
One of the mysteries of space is the
vast quantity of dust that It contains.
This dust is sifting down upon the earth
out of the ojien sky continually.
"Star dust" it is sometimes called, he
cause at least u portion of it may really
come from the stars. A very large part
consists of the smoky of bumed-up
meteors, which have been consumed In
the atmosphere; but tlvse meteors them
selves may, In many cases, originally
havo been shot out of the stars. Others,
and perhaps the larger number, have
come from the sun, which Is only a
near-hy star.
Cour ts undoubtedly pi-tribute their
quota to the silent storm -of dust that is
honor with a gift, when she Is really
ready to bo away, a book, a box of candy,
a dainty basket of fruit, or a inoi inti
mate personal gift If you know her well
enough, is a very graceful and courteous
way of showing your liking.
There arc almost numberless inexpen
sive novelties you could use for favors-book-plates
(fifty in a box), memorandum
cards, character booklets, vases, pin traya,
sachet filled with lavender flowers, a
dainty box or basket filled with home
made candy with a smart bow of ribbon
to match your color scheme, small pho
tograph frames, stamp boxes and the
thousand and one trifles that girls like.
jiiae won
fro
Encounter with HIiomIn of radicles Which
incessantly drifting over the earth. Super-!
i heated by their approach to the Mm, and
disrupted hy electric tension, they scatter
dust and gases for mlllloas of miles ilon;.;
their tracks, and a poituui ol these sub
stances Is drawn In hy the attraction of
the earth.
Hut one of the most wonderful v.uirces
of the dust that t ncouiuers I he - u t ill in
Us ceaseless Journey thruiiKh puiy !s
the cloud of electrified particles that the.
sun drives off from Its outer envelope.
Streams of these particles are urulected
III all directions to distances of lens and
hundreds of millions of miles, and not
only the earth, but all the other planets
that circle aiound the sun are expi.sed
lo their continual tioinburdment.
Many physicians and astronomers be
lieve that the electricity in the atmosphere
Is derived from these Mist 'currents ;f
charged dust sent forth from the sun
and that the magnificent display ot elec
tric illiiuilnatloii, called ;he aurora boienlis
and tho aurora auatralis, according as
they are seen centering about the north
or the south pole, are solely duo to the
electrified streums from the sun.
As the earth voyages onward It also
picks up scattered dust distributed
throughout Bpace, and It is possible that
at times It passes through a region of
space where such dust is especially
abundant. It is then like a traveler on a
dusty highway who suddenly finds him
self Involved in the. pulverulent wake left
m yon
Vie Almost liicessnnlly Falling
by a s'i olllu: automobile; only the
'scorchers" that stir up the dust uf In
ti rstellar space uie never caught and
never even seen.
In lew ol all these sources of dust out
side the earth. It Is not to tie wondered
at that our plain t should present, to the
mind's i ye, such nu appearance as Is
represented In the picture. Its Immense
journey through tho universe Is subject
to the lm idents of all Journeys; It has to
submit to the toil and grime of the road,
and careful Inspection reveals the story
of its progress almost step hy step, as a
keen detective might read the wander
iiiks of a captured fugitive In tho vary
ing ciin ranter of tie mud and dust cling
ing to his garments
On the broad expanses of unpolluted
snow about tile polar regions explorers
havo found the dual of space, In places
where its presence alone Is a sufficient
proof of its c xtia-lei restlal origin. And
in the profoiindesl depths of the oceans,
mingled with the ooxe that covers the
floors of these awful abysses, "star
di:at" is picked up by the sounding In
struments lit down from ships that un
dulate on the surface miles aliove.
Hut you should not Jump to the con
clusion that the eartli is perceptibly
"growing" on account of the Influx of
(lusL from without. It does grow a very
httln lu that way, but it has been cal
culated that It would take a thousand
million years to accumulate a layer one
Inch thick.
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There are Victors and
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l ast nii'lil tn iIkiukIUs ncru in ti . ami ?b; ;
Into the di'rk tlnv fled iny
Like faery stird thai tmc'.lli;; inc.
Who ou!d not hold tln'in, gnllopcd free
Willi eves afluiiie and hi-iuis held high.
They tore across the tender aiij.
Stepping fo.' nolhing in their flight.
That I iiiinht haM' the r.lft of tifilit.
And now they tretnldinfc i otne to me.
laiekii.c for shelter. Can t'.ioy he
Those siiiiie wild thoughts that stormed thoir flight.
Slur maddened, only just last night'.'
How Milornu they were, and how
They bend their meek heads to me nov ,
How Utile from the path they stray
Henenth the yoke they wear tod;.
Optimism vs. Pessimism
Si'lu' M-nliii uc-f Was a IVssimit, nnd We Ciin
linlcistjiiHl llini, hut 'I'licre is ( )itiinisin. Ah. y
hkv. thomas n. (.i;i:(.ntv,
Cop iluhl Wi. by Star
Schtipenhaiirr. the (.re:it I
Pi'sslinloin. when about -'
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iImIi priest ir
yeiii's old,
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In his
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take
few moments of re
llglon. ol ait. and
of pure loe. what
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IholiuliH .'
Later along In lite,
as all the world
knows. Schopenhauer
vacated the u:Mer
Morlcs of his being
altogether and dwelt
for the must part of
Ills cry lengthy life
111 the baemenl of existence. Wheie but
little siinlmld Oil. and where his t noughts
were nnylhlug but cheerful
Hut we apiieal from Schopenhauer old
' and sour and despondent to Schopenhauer
young and sweet and hopeful; from Scho
penhaiicr Hie logic-chopper and critic t -i
Schopenhauer the unspoiled nnd trustful
child of nature.
Hefore going further let it be said that
there should l e no quarrel between Scho
penhauer and ourselves.
We understand each other perfectly,
and between us nothing but tic most
beautiful tcood will obtains.
The iliriciiltlcs that Schopenhauer en
countered we all encounter. The same
ugly facts of life and the world that
wrinkled his face have wrinkled ours
also. We have all walked, heavy footed,
along the same Via Molorosa; we have
all met the same uncanny spectres; we
have all listened, with heavy hearts, to
the same "low, sad music uf humanity."
Therefore, we sympathize with him In
his sadness. In his melancholy, lu his de
spair. We have all "been there," and we
know perfectly well what It means.
Hut. getting back to young Hchmpen
huuer's dictum, let us bunch all of Its
terms under one word, and say, "If we
take out of life Its few moments of relig
ill
missile is mo
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long scries of
trivial thoughts'.''' '
flut what Is religion? Hefore attempt
ing to say, however, what religion Is,, It
might be well to try to determine what
It Is not
And, flist. r.-lixioii is not creed or rit
ual, it Is not the splendid vestments, nor
the loud cathedral music, nor tho pomp
and circumstance of the act of worship.
Keligion Is first of all, purely subjec
tlve-n certain kind cf thought, a certain
type of sentiment. It Is the way you
look at tilings from the Innermost center
of Hie mind, the wiy one feels about Ills
life, and the great big universe of which
that life Is a part.
Now there are two ways and only two
wa-.s:n which this sentiment or though:,
or feeling which constitutes religion can
iiinnitcst itself. It must take th former
pessimism, or It must take the form 'of
optimism. Tliete Is no middle ground. In
one or the other of these two camps
every man of us must take his stand.'
Now. what Is liesslmlsm? It is a stat
of mind in which one finds himself quite
unable to accept the Idea that, somehow
or other, above nnd beyond the guesses
and counter-guesses of the theologians,
there may be a power that Is caring for
our little lives and shaping them toward
some noble cud. Matter and Its forces
are as far as the pessimist can go.
optimism, on the other band, la the
conviction that, in a way that Is unknown
to us, we are being looked after by some
sort uf benevolent power that is larger
than ourselves
The optimist fully realises the limita
tions of human thought. He knows what
a lame duck logic Is.
Ho understands perfectly well that the
syllogism Is a poor thing with which, to
work out the deep problem of our human
aspiration. He Is quite aware of the fjict
that the heart of the world's mystery will
not be plucked out. And yet, tor all that,
he pitches his tent upon life's sunny side,
and at night, when the sun has gone, he
Is somehow able to see twinkling above
him the stars of hope and trust.
And right here, In this hop and trust,
we have the pith and marrow of religion.
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