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Must Begin Real Young to Grow
Old Gracefully
By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
t Copyright, 191S, Star Company.)
To crow old gracefully one must
begin when very young; it U Ilk danc
ing, wlmmlng or speaking foreign
tonracs a thing not to be perfectly ac
quired suddenly or
If begun too late.
"Grandma 1 o
hypercritical, a o
fault-finding, ao
censorious; aha haa
no aympathy with
young people!"
eries the blooming
granddaughter who,
ten year later,
will tear to tatter
the character or
costume of some
companion with
her aarcaatlo fom
ments. She doe
not- realise that
very time he In
I v-4
Li
iJWiV.J
dulges thla habit
aha ' takes one more step toward that
bldeona gnat of disagreeable old age.
Th extremely well behaved young girl,
who haa never hern tempted and who.
cannot understand how another could
commit a folly, la certain to become the
moat censorious of old women. If she
does' not develop into cruel, msllclons
tongued scandalmonger It will be a won-br,-
Nothing Is so easy as the descent
from uncharttablenees to malice.
As a young girl aha prides herself . upon
her love of morality and good behavior;
all her friends speak of her as "such a
strict girl" In her Ideas. No one would
think of appealing to her for aympathy
or advice tn an hour of temptation, but
she la respected for her high Meals, If
. feared for her severity. As an old woman
he ts simply held In abhorrence, and her
name become a' ne-ich.orhood synonym
for cruel Judgment.
Criticism of our frail fellow beings Is
a vice which takes possession of us like
a stimulant or a drug, once wa encourage
it. tt may begin In our high moral
standard and our hatred of sin, but onre
It becomes a habit we Indulge it for tho
pleasure it gives us. It Is a bad habit In
the young: In the old It Is Intolerable.
TSothtng renders old age Interesting or
lovable save sympathy for the young and
charity for tho erring.
It Is strange that wa all do not grow
charitable aa wa grow old. Aa we learn,
more and mora of our own frailties, and
more and more of the temptations and
Illusions of life, we ought -to become more
and wore tender and pitying. One can
bo sympathetic without encouraging vice
and wrongdoing or cloaking sin.
The girl with no object or aim !n Ufa
save to "have a good time" and outshine
her companions must look forward to a
miserable old age; for after a certain
time we become unsatisfied with or
croesque In a pursuit for gayety, and If
Read it Here Sea
Hy special arrangements or thla paper
pVioeo-firsma corresponding to the in
sUilnimU tif "Ilunsivssr June" msy now
hn n at the leading moving picture
theaters. Hy arranKcmrnt with the Mu
tual turn Corporation It Is not only pc
Ul to red "Runaway Jum" each
week, but alao afterward to sea muvUif
plctures Illustrating our story.
Copyright, 1S16, by Serial rublleatton
Corporation.
YNOPglS
June, tha bride of Ned Warner,
Inw
her
their
1iiin mKn because she tumms to realise
that she must be druenueni, on nin
.nov. 8h dealrea to be lnrtepenl
J mm la DurtmeJ by tlllbert Blye, a
... mnrtpri man. Ptie -Pa from
hi. clutches with difficulty. Ned searches
dialractedlv for June, and, learning 01
Iiiye's designs, vows vengeanc on him.
, Aii-r many adventures Juno Is rescued
lrom river pirates by Durban, an artist.
TWELFTH EPISOPE.
The Kpirlt of the Marsh.
CHAPTER I.
A ileum yawl, with black smoke pour
ing from Its stovepipe, suddenly stopped
Its ' churning half way across New York
bay as the principal passenger, a long
nowil woman with )tlh arclivd brows,
recosnlawd through a wabbly Jointed tele
avop tha leaders In a procession of five
speedy motorboats which swept rapidly
toward her.. - i
"Turn around, quick!" the woman or
dered a the first molorboat bora down,
and sl dashed a cinder from her beady
ry. ' Here comes tne runaway urines
"I'm turning tha boat now, ma'am,"
reported a short, thick individual whoso
round face was one consecutive smudge.
"Don't you hear our engines stopping?"
Ther ah goes!" screeched Honotla
Blye as tha long, narrow-steel fray boat
flaehed put, bearing, txetdea Its driver,
a beantifui young girl in a yac hting cos
tume, protected as much aa possible from
the flying piwy tn th arm of a tall man
with a snlf felt hat and aoloaely knotted
vravat. . .
3 In-One ker a seal sensitive
ccuiat. I'revsnt knils-edg
fctl:.gs feora ruatinf. Km, too,
frvf u: ri:al and scientific inatru-B-rnta.
I'.aavaraat and temUhawer.
A i'UiiMiry of a hat)' olt.r
ki wim nr kiitba fcwc, Sie."
ad auuaa.
The ln-Or. Oil Co,
. 42 t Broadway, New Yet
this m
i f f
th
wa hava formed no bther tastes or
learned no othei occupation there Is a
wretched outlook for us. '
The netted daughter and society belle
usually builds an Indestructible and solid
mason work of ugly old age for herself
In her youth, and all her friends, relatives
and admirers lend a helping hand.
She Is a bello and a favorite which ahe
la young; but she makes a poor wife, and
a worse mnnther, and a most detestable
old woman. -Ahe has never known what
tt was to give up anything for the eake
of others, and she la forever thruatlnx
her "nerves" and her "sensitive feelings"
and her whims In the way of others' en
joyment. All her relatives dislike her, and stran
gers abhor her. Yet, she Is the same
soit of old woman that she waa child
and maiden; only the blossoms and leaves
rtf youth, having fallen away, the bare,
brown branch of selfishness ts more fully
revealed.
There arc more disagreeable old men
than women In the world, because women,
as a rule, are obliged to practice mora
self-sacrifice and unselfishness and pa
tience In early life than men
Men -who. have ruled their households,
wives, children, servants and employes
by a rod of fear father than lova during
youth and middle sge make very un
pleasant old ' mon. Mentally and phy
sically Incapatltated from Inspiring fear,
they are unable to Inspire anything but
hatred or tha pity which springs from
corn.
Unable to rule, which has been tha
source of their happiness In earlier days,
they pass their old age In carping criti
cisms an1 faultfinding of those who sue
ceed them.
. The children who hava formerly obeyed
them only through fear now Iris ore their
wishes and fall to show them the respect
due to gray hair a respect Impossible to
feel where there are no qualities to In
spire It, hut which good breeding and
humanity ought to Impose In seeming.
It Is all very Veil to talk about the lova
and respect we owa our ancestors,, but
those are emotions which caiyiot be
prompted by duty. If old people render
themselves absolutely unlovable,- it Is
not In the power of .their children or
grandchildren to lova them; but It Is
posalble for those descendants to treat
them with kindness consideration and
patience.
An old man who has lived a grasping,
mercenary, selfish Ufa cannot expect, to
be respected on account of his gray hairs;
but out of self-respect his children and
relatives ought to show forbear nee and
kindness.
Tha sons and daughters of such' a man
win bemoan the Trut that their father Is
so captious and unlovable, while at the
same time thev indulge In, habits and
cultivate qualities in themselves which
will lead them directly to tha same goal
In time. They forge that on does not
grow old In a day it takes a lifetime to
produce old age.
It at tha Movies.
"Why, aha Un't with my husband!"
4'rled llonoriaUlye.
"No'm," confessed Bill Wolf, putting a
fresh smudge In his round face as th
cinder laden smoke rolled down; "not
now." His perplexity cleared. II spied
the second boat "There he .comes!"
"Gilbert!" screamed the woman as th
second boat shot by, dilvtn by a heavy
man with a round head and thlrk-Itdded
eyes, and carrying aa Us passenger a
dark, handsome man w(th a black Van
dyke, whose whole attention was fixed
on the beautiful girt In the forward boat.
"Ollly!" Tha dark, handsome man paid
no attention. "You viper!" she shrieked;
then she whirled to BUI Wolf. "Why
don't you turn this around and chas
themr '
ITV'e'ra turning, ma'am." reported Bill
Wolf, looking anxiously at tha engineer.
"Don't you hear tha engine reversing?"
The third boat shot past, driven by af
whiu-mustached man In evening clothe.
"That' the creature who corrupted mr
husband I" ahrlcked Honoris. "He was
with Otlbert th night h took his trunk
away! Yo beast!" she cresmed. and
then she caught sight of the occupants
In the fourth boat, a little chauffeur with
biasing eyea and tha tiniest of mustache
and a stiff woman, who bent eagerly for
ward. The maid of the runaway bride"' ax-
plained the Justly famous detectlva, BUI
Wolf. , "Do you nolle that we're turn
ing now, ma'am?"
"Ned Warner, th deserted groom!" an-I
nounced Ilonorla Ply as tha fifth boat
darted past. Ned held binoculars to hla
eye, and they were focused alternately
on beautiful June Warner in tna arm of
the artist and upon tha closely pursuing
Gilbert Ulye. With him were a plump
and placid amall man, .who drove with
unwelcome creases In his brow, and a
generously plump young woman, who
wa half hysterical.
"Were turned, ma'am." said Bill
Wolf, clutching Ilonorla Clya by th el
bow. "Don't you see the Woolworth
building?"
Uh the dock there stood a watchgiaa
who ronxlpted of ao overcoat and cap,
and silently, motlonlaly hour by hour
he loosed out toward th bay. A awlft
moturboat. slender piinlfd, steel gray.
dashed up, and from tt tha artist uulrkly
lifted June Warner. Th overooat and
cap moved not a inuo, but from far
off Ned Warner, In the fifth boat of that
strange regatta, through his powerful
binoculars, saw that landing, saw Jun
eliug to her newl? found protector, saw,
from the bend of his head, that th
rttst'a eyea were filled wtllt apprecia
tion for the boauty of the fair little
runaway bride. Straight up th dock they
ran to the street and balled a passing
taxi and whirled away
A keen tittle rafr dashed up, spraying
th water In a glittering translucent
sheet aa It curved Into tha slip. From it
sprang tha black vandyked Otlbert lilys
In time to a the Uxlcab whirl away
with beautiful Jun. Thiuugh his power
ful binoculars Ned Warner saw ittys
aratlrultttlng with anger, saw the heavy,
round headed Ivdwards climb clumsily
upon th dock and stiitip his foot.
ii Cuuliuued Tomorrow.)
The First
Here U the sweetest season In a maid's-cyel of aBong; Summer
!s fujl-blown like ft queen-rose flushed and arrogant, but paling at the
tar-off whisper of coming; Autumn; Autumn la richly colored and
ripened of mind and heart, but touched with the frost of Winter; Win
ter Is warm at the heart under the many feet of snow, but the rime and
ice of death He heavy on its heart, and the Spring that comes Is a dream
that It only hopes for. -But Spring! spring dreams and thrills and stirs
and Is as new aa the sand-Illy, with Its tender, melting petals, that comes
with It and It waits in ecstasy for Summer!
Here is when a maid ia only peering over the garden wall. Out of
the familiar dear home walks and nooks, into the spreading foreign
lands that lie outside,, where Prince Charming roves and searches for
her face. Here is where a maid wrlteB sheets of romance and hides
them away. (This isn't ao terrible a thing, mother who discovers them.)
Hi
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Br BEATIUCK FAIRFAX.
Many of my correspondents hav been j
asking- m recently to si'ggeat a course of
reading. I am taking thla means of an
swering all of them. .
In our modem lit nothing Is mora Im
portant than - a knowledge , of . current
events. "The world Uo move," and how
ever much on knows of olaaato lore. If
one la aot acquainted with the event
of one's own day en la vaatly; Ignorant,
8o first, .to all my young friends. I sug
gest th reading of on or two good
newspapers . aaph day, In tha editorial
column will be found stimulating opinion
and Information, and i-n the news sheets
an up-to-date calendars of evanta. To thla
add either a good weekly or monthly
magasin which apectalta In reviewing
toploa of th times.
But when your reading haa beea kept
up to date you will find, if you observe
lulelltgvntly, ail aorta of reference and
suggestion which pr-uppoe a certain
amount of knowledge of .history, science
and literature. And It Is along tb three
tine of history, actanc and literature
!that I would auggeat reading.
First of all, make up your mind In
which your greatest luUtreat Ilea th
story of the werld'a prograea, th examin
ation of It actual work or th unjoy-
nicot of IU great field of Imatrinallv
lore. Read very thoroughly along th
line which Interests ysu most, but do not
iwglect th other two.
titnee th compass of a book la ail loo
small for aa exhaustive treatment of
what to read. I can her auggwat only
the merest outline or reeding.
But before I besln I rt to say one
again that I hav aj ofUa suggested
Whisper
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to eorrespondents. After you hava de
cided th line along which you want to
read, take your problem' to the nearest
library station, it Is part of tho duty,
and should be the pleasure of , the
librarian In charge tu help .you, with
definite suggestion.
And now for . brief suggestions .as to
reading along the three named lines of
which I hav spoken.
Flrst. history: It you interest In read-
Ins lies along- this line, you enter a vast
and wonderful field. In It lie the histories
of all the nations and peoples V the
earth; blogTaphlea and autobiographies of
th great, aocount of InvenUoua, ar-
tutio dtsuovariea and ail the great move
ment of life. '
Begin with th biblical history of
Palestine, Judea and Egypt. For any
knowledge of history that exclude the
Bible omits the greatest and moat form
ative period of Ufa. Next read the classic
histories gf Greece and Bom.
, Next obtain some aeueral history of
Europe - and study the movement and
migration of the great earth (amities.
Anywhere along th line of this read
ing It I easy to stop sod specialise off
Into sonta branch which one finds par
ticularly Interesting.
The study of literature aa pursued In
colleges generally begin with "Engilsh
Literature from tha Jginntntf of th
Norraaa Conquest." This begin by
showing 'th relation ef early Britain to
ICngUsh literature, deals next with the
hsathea poetry of the eld KnitUah, and
goea on to th poem of Boowolf. which
Is based on heroic deeds, don back in the
ooOa.
Th man or woman who means se
riously to get good reading In our own
language should work his way up with
By Nell Brinkley
Copyright, 1513, Intern 1 News Fervioe,
Here is when a maid can stare longest into space and think of nothing
at all at all! For far over the hills that loom ahead Is the rosy glow
of Love's cheeks as he strides fast along. And the glimmer of it blinds
her eyes and the eyes of her heart and mind, and makes Dreams go by
her side a-plucklng at her sleeve. Here is where her eyea cloud with
woman-things over the clear blankness of a baby, look. Here a maid
clambers into the highest tree to see the far m)rage and asks a thou
sand questions of the God who whispers in her ear.
And here so that the Summer may be sweet and wholesome and
all the dreams that maybe cqmes true so that the tender buds that
blow may not be withered under the fire of Illusions falsely lost is
when the maid, slipping out of middy and blowing curls Into dancing
frock and hair twisted high and proud, needs to grow' in the country
and with her hand tight held within her mother's. NELL BRINKLEY.
some knowledge of th Caedmon, Bed a,
the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the Legends
of King Arthur and the Round Table of
Chaucer and all the early Engilsh be-
iore BnaKespeare s time, including some
such simple 'bits' of knowledge as that
Edmund ' Spencer, wrote the "Faery
Queen,". that-C'hristopher, Marlowe ts the
author of "Dr. Faustus" and that people
like Michael-Pray ics. aiid Ben Johnson
lived. It la not necessary to go deeply
into any such dry thing aa the Anglo
Saxon Chronicle, but, at least, you want
to know- about thern.,
Finally, let: us consider reading along
scientific llnea. tyere again we have a
tremenVlou field. - Perhaps you want to
IV. .,,1 l.UU. IIOIU, WIHIJ. u y
read tha blovraohlea of the rreat artantt-
: diverera.- n not win .h . ma-
I f your ow dy tlnMSn KMmn. Go far
back . Into the daya. when scienoe waa
actually confused with witchcraft and
magic. Then you can better understand
our own "wixard."
Is your Interest tn th science of men
tal state psychology? Do you care most
for biology, or astronomy, or chemistry,
or physics? Here Is a vast field tn
which numberless Individuals and
sciences and schools of thought stand
out
Darwin and Huxley are generally aug
geated to all thoa who hold that "the
proper study of mankind ia man." Thla
class of reading la likely to suggest Itself
to you only after you have schooled
yourself In a preliminary one. And by
the time you get te It you will know
whether youwant to read the'i philosophy
of Schopenhauer, tha aoiencet In which
Galileo was a pioneer, or on of th
other great "otogtea."
Begin with history. Develop yourself
along aoirve preferred Una of travel, ad
venture, discovery or tha particular bio
graphy of a character which appeals to
you.
Front this grew naturally Into litera
ture (wblch la th history and develop
ment of tha written word).
Read along definite llnea Perhape a
great historian like a Macaulay would
appeal to you; perhaps Taine or Green
or Symond s story of the great renais
sance movement. , ,.
All I can do here is give general direc-
tions. Decide on your - own . trend of
thought. Go to the-public libraries for
your definite beginnings and you will
find that your own tendencies and Inter
ests will direct you in the mapping out
of an actual "course of reading." .
K
Q) 0
Maid and the Cynic
By ANN LISLE.
There was once a girl who thought
that honesty was Indeed the best po""
Phe dldn t tell the truth from any high
motives. When telling it would have
been of nb advantage to her. she kept
silent. ,Rut she made a lot of capital out
of the fact that when she did talk she
told facts.
Kveryone said "Oenevleve Is so honest .
She actually plays fair with all her
friends. She Is one of the tew girls who
knows how charmlns truth Is. She Is
sweet and sane and honest."
That ia almost everyone said this. There
was a cynic who smiled and murmured
something about a frontal attack being
unexpected to the masculine heart which
ws reasonably well prepared for an
ambuscade.
And Genevieve hearing this sought out
tho cynic and told him with great play of
honesty. that he. had guessed It and that
she was honest because it paidbut that
he was the first man. who had suspected .
that she-was using her honesty-aa a
weapon. " And she added that she would
like to' be friends with a man clever
enough to read design into what. passed
for simple .honesty.
So the cynic agreed to be frloida" w4th
Genevieve but no more. t"or he assured
her that, tha only type of womanhood that
could have charm for him waa the elusive
and mysterious. But in a charmless re
lation where simple friendship and no
more wss expected or given, he would be
glad to know Genevieve.
And they entered upon the friendship.
And Oenevleve babbled to him of how
nice Harold and Richard and Thomas
were to her, and even aa Thomas and
Richard and Harold,' he was pleased to
hear of his friends' popularity and asked
her out but occasionally and saw her but
once or twice a month, since there were
plenty of other men to keep her amused
ennui and boredom, which no true friend
of th feminine sex was enduring.
And Oenevleve. being fairly wtse in
her generation, began to obrerve that the
cynic (declared friend and declared -never
possible lover) was not treating her
one whit differently than were the many
friends whose regard she had always Im
agined might someday be stimulated Into
Jealousy and so to love by the artlessly
artful tales of "other men" she told.
And so Oenevleve began to wonder if
this collection of honest friends honestly
treated was getting her anywhere or If
she waa doomed, in spite of her swarmi
of masculine acquaintances and friends, to
drift unbefrlended Upon the lonely shores
of old-maldhood.
Honesty Is the best policy, but you can
play It two ways.
Bo suddenly she ceased telling the cynic
about her friends Harold and Richard and
Thomas. Nor to them did she speak of
her remarkable friendship with the cyrilc.
"And to one another said Harold and
Richard and Thomas, "Gee! Genevieve Is
such a simple, honest little thing, Pba
never talks about the old cynic any more.
Do. you think that simp, that chump. hut
cad could have made her care could .ha
be hurting her? A eynlc is a dangerous
person for a woman to know."
. And the cynic began to wonder what
sort of a game she Could be playing with
him on her honesty is the best policy
basis. And if ahe were nlavlnr a
with him. she was honest no more, btit
mysterious and charming and elusive.
And ha might aa well lovo. hr as any
ether woman. For It Is much more pain
ful to fancy causes for Jealousy when a
rival la half-guessed and Imagined than
when a woman tells you all about him
and in the very telling takes you Into
her confidence and makes you feel Ilka
her grandmother or maiden aunt
So the' cynic Invited Genevieve to he
his love.
But Genevieve was considering pro
posals of marriage ' from Harold and
Richard and Thomas who as soon as
they began 'to consider her In th light
Of a poor little thing whose heart tha
cynic might have broken, discovered that
she bad a heart and that It ought to be
patched up. And each had been assured
with csndor and honesty by Oenevleve
that It was not the. cynic who had hurt
her. And each had wondered if the hon
est little thing who had always told tha
truth told no more because it was he
Man is a responsive animal and a little
silence on the part of a woman la a dan
serous thing. r Genevieve married Richard
in th end because, as She honestly la
formed the others, he was by far the most
eligible and suitable. Which was true.
His father had a sausage factory.
Moral: Honest ty is the best policy
especially if you add the fitness of sud
den, all-expressive silences. , ,
Do You Know That
A needle passes, through eighty opera
tions In Its manufacture.
A good and cheap egg substitute la milk
and .vinegar, allowing one, tablrepopnful
of milk to one tablespoonful of vinegar,
well beaten together.
f1
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stop
at ntchi
Don t stand that itching kin-torment
one day longer. Go to any druggist
and get ajar of Restnol Ointment and
a cake of Reainol Soap. Bathe the
sick skin with Kesinol Soap and hot
water, dry, and apply a little Reainol
Ointment. ,
The torturing itching and burning
stop instantly, you no longer have to
dig and scratch, sleep becomes possi
ble, and healing begins. Soon the
ugly, tormenting erui4ions disappear
completely and lor good. Doctrwrt have
prescribed this treatment for 20 years.
Banal Oi sad KaaWI Sosa sanwia
anUaa that mu4 iaara at imaMa aha aumm
. Tsar alaar awar piaaaa and blackaaaih,
m a Mat valuable koni -
a aa. rfciiSasa, owa, haras, ptiaa. eat, FaalnalalM,
baa, wxa Das. ?-, li ms il. fin am. fee.
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