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i4 Judge and jis- IVise WWs
By ADA PATTERSON.
"Take your wife out to iin rnttrUin
ment now and then."
A Brooklyn Judge rustled thf black
Ilk of his robe and looked tevrljr itowt
at the man who
stood he for him
awaiting Judgmaai.
A eeuele .,,
attaining ai tHMi
tuudi aa dS4 St a 1
leash, Vhay waalM
t get away fWrtt
acfc ftthac, TU
were tired ti(
ohp. Thoy had
saltan on each
o t h r nerve.
They were mak
ing a mutual de
mand for freedom.
The judge, looking
down upon them.
believed that this condition was a tem
porary one. He thought he had before
him another cane of a rotiple who are
homebound.. '
Being a wise Judpe, he knew that home,
like all other gooi thing, might be over
rated. And he gave the advise: "Take
your wire to an entertainment, now and
then."
I -called one day at the home of a man
who never "took his wife out to enter
tainments," nor to anything else. She
had that morning committed auirlde. and
as he stood there he was wondering;
whether he might have made a mistake.
The neighbors said of her, the men look
ing, grave, the women wiping their eyes
on .their aprons: "She was a good
eoman. ' Pho was hard working. And
she never stepped outside of the house."
I went back to the newspaper I served
md wrote a story of the woman to whom
f - i
' ' . .. a ".J
, the passing of the hands of the clock by
I day meant always some new duty. Never
rest. Never any relaxation. Yes, she
had the compensation. She had a good
husband. At least he never got drunk
but seldom, and he . had, never beaten
her. They had a .goodly brood of chil
dren. But he did r.ot know that a
woman's delicate nervous organism. If
stretched too far, like a rubber band.
Mil break. He did not know that work
unrelieved by play Is drudgery. Nor did
ie know that monotony is a foe to In
Head it Here See
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EIGHTH EPISODK.
Her Husband's Enemies.
C11XPTZR I. (Continued.)
"Well, It was a rotten week." And tha
man turned his eyes toward June, who
looked steadfaatly out of the window.
Thero being no help from that quarter,
ha proceeded In helping himself. "You got
nough to run you for ten days. Tou
snow you have. Come on, Alice, ba ao
clable." "Oh, I can come on all right, and I
can ba sociable all light, but suppose you
don't get out of her in ten dayal Then
what do I do? Starve, I gueaa! Bay,
how do you come to be In- a private
room?" She looked at June and sniffed.
"And with a private nurse!"
"The good sport that picked us up put
ms hare." .
' The woman surveyed the bar little
room. There were no curtains at the
windows, no upholstering, no softening
graces ol any kind on the white enam
eled fittings, yet it had aa Immense
superiority, the cause of which she could
not fathom. It was absolutely clean, and
she paid an unconscious tribute to that
phenomenon.
"Why. it's better than I got It home!"
she complained. The man turned his
head over and back again, but ha aald
nothing.
"Say," the woman went on. "the fellow
that spent the money for tbla room and
the private nurse would have done bet
ter to let you go In the public ward and
give you the money for your wife!"
June, a tha window, moved Impa
tiently. "Nurse," said the man, "can you get
ma my panta?"
June opened the doer of the tiny white
enameled wardrobe In the col ner and
brought out the man's trousers handing
them down with the tips of her thumb
and forefinger. The woman took them
and deftly ran her hands into the
pockets.
"Seven fifty-five," she reported end
clicked tha money, into her pirse. She
hung the trousers In the wardrobe and
shut tha door. That'll help a little.
I-ld you get your pay for this drive?"
"Not yet. Alice." And his head rolled
restlessly.
"Well, you tell me who It was and I'll
go after It!" fcihe turned from the ward
robe and was regarding a tray which
stood on ita folding stand by the wall.
She lifted the napkin. '"Mr God!" she
exploded. "A hothouse peach!' And you
didn't eat It all at that! You know what
I had for my breakfast? Coffee and
sinkers and hash! And here you are liv
ing on the fat of tha land!"
"Looky here. Alice!" The man had
raised ui. in bed. and there waa a twitch
of pain at he comers of Ma lips us he
stretched out an oil blackened fore
finger. June whirled from the window mlth a
snap of her big eyes. She still rarrl
tha thermometer which Dr. Heme it had
given her. Now ahe thrust Jt In the
man's mouthy put a hand at the back
of hia neck and gently forced hi in down.
"The time Is up," she crisply told Iht
woman. Her voice was low and soft, am)
the visitor puzxlej after.!-.! s to Ih.
t vould ba so effective without shouting
sanity as It is to health, which Is proven
by the fact that there are mora farmers'
wives thsn any other class of women In
institutions for the Insane. That women
who work In factoriea do not lead the list
la explainable upon but one ground.
Tired as they are, they drag their aching
bodies out to an occasional entertainment.
They open the sluice gatea of their
thoughts and let them flow Into another
channel than their work.
The fanner s wife has the advantage of
fresh air. and she should have that
of fresh food, though. I'm told, fanners'
greatest fault Is his habit of sending the
fresh things to market and providing his
family with those which are stale and
salt. But the life of the farmer's wife Is
an Isolated one. While her lungs have
the hrnflf of fresh air, her mind has not
the stimulus of contact with other minds.
There's nothing for polishing our wits
like sandpapering them with another a.
The woman who hns a large family,
much work to do and little leisure for
rest and recreation, need not be depressed
by this. Nor need the farmer's wife fancy
the" gate of an.. Insane asylum swinging
open to receive her. But thoy would do
well to recall the words of the Brooklyn
Judge, and remind their lords of those
words.
Tt is good to lovo home. It U bad to b
homebound. The world has widened and
life has been enriched slrce It was a
woman'a pride that she mver stepped
beyond her own doorstep. She must meet
other women. Although she thinks her
husband a fireside oracle, and he Is sure
of It, she mus hear what other men
think. That Is necessary to keep up
with the procession of thought. That
way lies good health and sanity, clear
vision and sane rule.
True, the domestic pendulum swings
'twlxt two extremes. The man who never
wants to go anywhere and the woman
who was always wanta to go somewhere.
The grouch and the butterfly
But mid
way between these two are reasonable
men and women who need contact with
their fellows. They must talk. They
must read. They must visit the libraries. J
They must ree pictures, if only moving
pictures. They must hear music and
some of them must dance.
.Occasional entertainment is necessary
for happiness and mental balance. Re
member the worda of the wise Judge of
Brooklyn: "Take your wife out to an en
tertainment, now and then."
it at the Movies.
June went to the door and opened It,
aware that the eyes of Joe were fixed on
her in undying gratitude.
The woman looked doubtfully at . her
husband, but the figure at the door was
so inflexible that ahe succumbed to dis
cipline. . , . .. . .. ,
Well, eo long, Joe,'4 she said. "See If
you can't yet your money for that drlvo
by the time I come again." She waved a
wifely hand at him and stalked out. She
turned to June In the hall. "If the fellow
that's putting up for this room will give
Joe the money Instead we'll be a lot bet
ter off."
June was so shocked at the cold cal
lousness of this , speech that she could
only dumbly nod her head, and aha
walked down to the nurses' little desk
at the end of the hall, leaving the woman
to find her way out alone. Joe, .the
chauffeur, lay, cheerfully grinning, with
the thermometer in his mouth.
(To Be Continued Tomorrow.)
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and is 91 per cent iron.
By GARRETT P. SKKV1SS.
"What would result If a large meteor
struck the earth?.. What causes its fall?
I often read In the newspapers of meteors
falling on our planet, but I have been
very much putsled to understand the
causes and results. 8. B. P.. Brooklyn."
One of the greatest . of all mysteries
with which science has to doal is that of
the solid bodies called meteorites which
fall upon the earth from the sky.
A magnificent collection of the largest
meteorites known to exist Is to be seen
In the foyer, -or' lobby, of the American
Museum - of Natural History, tho most
attractive place in New York lor lovers
of the wonders of nature and aclence.
A photograph of one of thfse huge
vtsttora from outer, space Is herewith
shown. ' It Is called the Willamette
meteorite, and was found in 1902 in a
forest about nineteen miles south of
Portland, Ore. It Is ten feet long and
weighs 31,000 pounds. Two prospectors,
searching the rocky ledges for gold, came
upon It and thought that they had dis
covered a mine of pure Iron. 1
Expert investigation showed that tho
mass was a gigantlo meteorite, the larg
est ever found In the United States. Ond
of the finders had the meteorite removed
to his ranch, but the owner of the land
on which it had fallen brought suit for
Its recovery and the supreme court of
Oregon, after a determined legal contest,
returned this gift from the sky to Ita
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as "The Williainottc," found in
origlnu possessor, who, however, hail
not been aware of his good luck until
the gold hunters stumbled upon the treas
ure. Mrs. U'lllliim K. 1oi1ki secured tho
great meteorite for the muveum.
It contains more than 01 per cent of
Iron and more than 8 per cent of nickel,
so that evidently Mature was familiar
with nlckeltfcrous Iron long before man
Invented , it aa a shield for battleships.
But no battleship ever went through so
fiery an experience fm'thls strange object
had, when, at some unknown time. It
plunged through the earth's .atmosphere
and fell thundering lno tlio Oregou for
est. There are two kinds of these bodies
Iron rnetcororltes and stony meteorites;
The former always consist of 'about 90
per cent of Iron, mixed with S or 9 per
cent of Jjli'kc), .qodQfUn. eonUiiulna in
minute tantUy two or three other ul
stanccs, such aa: cobalt, phosphorus and
carbon. .. ICven the stony mctporttes ut
most Invariably contain' scattered grains
of hlckM-iron. '. ' , '
The place and manner of the origin of
the meteorites is purely conjectural, and
many theories have been proposed. Homo
have thought that they may have been
ejecteds agea ago, from the now extinct
volcanoes of the moon, which look as If
they had been Incomparably more pow
erful than those known on- the earth. .
Othera have suggested that they may
have been thrown out of former volcanoes
of the earth, and still' others think that
their source should be sought In the sun,
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fad of their great masiveness. Because
they are so solid and heavy, It Is said,
they must have once (Virnietl part of a
very massive body.
As to thti ossihitv of their origin
from explosions In the aun, or from vol
canoes. It Is easy to account for that
as fai as the forces needed to hurl them
a way lute space are concerned. A sim
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what velocl'y a body of any kind would
Oregon. It weighs 31,000 pound?
need to start from the surface of the sun
or of any planet, in order that It might
net away and not fall hack. In the case
of the earth this velocity Is nearly seven
miles per second, and In the case of the
sun It Is about 3R0 miles per second.
Now, while no modern volcano has suf
ficient piVa-er to hurl matter out of Ita
crater al- n speed of seven miles per
second,. It l at least conceivable that an
cient volcanoes, may have been able to
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ond, or less than three times greater than
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It were.,' a, Wnhilerer among tha orbits of
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variations tn Its motions, produced by
the multiplicity of attractions to which
It' 'would' te subject. It was brought down
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I Why My Wife Left Me
lly nOHOTHY !1X.
"I lost my wife." salil the seventh 'nan,
"through drink. Itelleve me, Cleopatra
was not the only sinner who lia. dls
soled a prK-eli ss pearl in the wine rup
end quaffed It down
"Wc hear a great
iVnl about the drunk
ard'a wife, whose
lve never wavers, no
j matter how low the
1
man sinks, and who
an still see her hns-
band aa the hero of ;
ic.','
her girlish dreams
even when he wal-'l
L. w -
los in the gutter.
hut I wonder If that
Isn't a fairy tale that
men have Invented
for their own con
solation. I wonder
If any woman'a love
Vyl. ', A
ever survives the dls-
I'luaionment of see
ing the man she Is
married tu turned by drirtk Into a maud
lin, besotted beast.
'Certainly my wife's affection was not
of the kind that can drape the pink
chiffon of imagination shout a reeling,
senseless, speechless drunksrd and see In
him a figure of romance. She v. as a
delicate, refined, sensitive woman, and
when I was In my clips every fibre in
her revolted from me, I was to ler a
thing unclean and abhorrent, and while
she pitied my weakness, she hud at the
sumo time a contempt for me. and eon-
tempt Is the death of love.
"When we were married I was a young
lawyer, had already begun to make my
way In the world, and had every pros
pect of success. We set' up a charming
little home. My wife was a capable man
ager, and anxious to help me in every
way, and no young couple could have
looked forward with more assurance to a
happy life together.
"I had always been a tittle too fond
of drink. The habit had not 'got me' at
the time of my marriage, but I had got
the habit. If I may make the dlhtlnctlnn.
I didn't get drunk, but I took JiMt enough
tq get what Jack Indon calls 'Joyfully
splffllcated,' Just enough . to make me
see the world all rosy, as one sees. It
through the bottom of a wine glass.
"Poon after our marriage my wlfo
might wander for millions of years be
fore this happened.
When a meteorite entera the earth's
atmesphero It Is moving with a velocity
of more than twenty miles per second.
The friction of Its swift rush through thp
air produced a tremendous temperature,
and the outer parts of the mntenr are
melted off and dissipated in fiery vapor,
hut the passage through tho atmosphere
Is so quickly completed that .the Inner
portions are not affected, and meteorites
have been, picked up alter, their fall and
found to be freesing cold within. .
Their velocity. Is so rapidly reduced by
the resistance of the air that when they
strike the rarth they usually penetrate
only a few feet, at tho . most. Into tho
soil. But there Is reason to think that
once a gigantic meteorite struck near
Canyon lHahlo, Aria., and penetrated
perhaps 1.00) feet, making the singular
crater which still exists there. . Tons of
meteoric matter have been picked up,
and dug out at that place, and a speci
men Is to be seen In the museum. This
Canyon Diablo metearlte la remarkable
for possessing, scattered through much of
its masa. minute crystals of genuine
diamond. These crystals, however, are
black and dull, and nobody will ever le
able to make a fortune out of them.
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poke to nm about this, but I assured
her with fatuous eelf-conf Idcnre that 1
knew Juwt when to stop, and that I could
break off whenever I wanted to. and that
to drink a certain amount and tie a goo I
fellow, helped me along with my huslnes?.
because It hrought me 111 close contact
with certain men who controlled big In
tercuts. She looked the douM she felt
hut said nothing more.
"When our first baby come my wlfo
went down into the Valley of the Shadow,
ami when she came back she brought
with her a tiny, fiail little creature. In
whose frame the spark of life glimmered .
so feebly that only a mother's' Incessant
devotion could kerp It alight
"I whs passionately In love with my
wile and Ti.iiitl- with anxiety about her.
an I, like mnny another man, under anch
circumstances. I tiled to drown my fears
anil i.iiP ihli In drink; The night that my
wife was flghtli g with death I was pour
Inn ilruut after drink down my throat,
and wl en with her first ronscloua breath
sho asked for me I, who shoufB have
been standing by her side, was lying In a
drunken stupor In the bark room yhf a
saloon. I htii failed her at the great
crisis of our lives.
'F don't know whet they told her. I
don't know what she thought. I suppose
she suxpetted the truth, and In her
woman-wise way made allowances for
mo, but her face, when I was sober
enough to be admitted to her presence.
wore ff.r the first time the look of aor.
'row that I was never to see out of her
eyes again. It waa the look that every-
drunkard's wife wears.
'My wife had to give most of her time
and attention to the care of our sickly
little baby, and I got Into the way of
spending my evenings at the club and In
sal'inita, and. before I realised It I had
Passed from being a moderate drinker
into being a hard drinker, and tha habit
hat f bad boasted that I could control
controlled me.
"What followed Is the old story. I he
camo a drunkard. I lost my practice. I
Irst all of my friends who wera worth,
while. The money that should have gone '
to thn support of my family went over
the bar. We moved and moved and
moved, each time to cheaper and poorer
place. Our furniture and rlothea became
shabbier and shabbier. We became
typical drunkard's family.
"At first I was ashamed to come home
drunk, and would aleep off my carouse
In my office, or at some hotel. Then T ,
hist all shame, and my wife saw me
reeling, tottering, maudlin, my eyes
bleary, my mouth dribbling, my clothes
filthy, surely the moat disgusting sight
on earth to a woman of delicacy and re
finement. "She knew what it was to watch aid
wait through long nights for the com-'
Ing of a shambling step. She knew what
It was to open tho door for a man whose
fumbling hand could not even find the
lut?h. She knew what it was to help A
big, strong thing In the shape of a man
who had lost all manhood to bed, there
to slumber in i Hoped. Bleep, with open
mouth and sHentnroua breathing until his
alcohollsed benln awoke to Ufe again.
"My wife stood all t this' with the
patience of an. angel for a few, years.
She stood It .until her every effort to re
forirt me had failed, and her every hopT
waa dead, and then she left me. The
shock of her going sobered me so that
I have never taken1 a drink since, but
my reformation camn too late. I had
killed her respect and her love for me,
and I could no more bring thorn back
to life than you can breathe life Into a
corpse. ... w
"I had had home' and happiness, wife
and child, and r. lost them all through
drink." y''
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