jMany Children Unfitted
for College Education
"Parents Should Take Into Account Temperament and
Ambition of Boys and Girls Before Spending Time and
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Club Life in Flamingo Land
Queer Birds, Whose Tongues the Roman Epicures Greatly Prized
The Disagreeable
Third Party
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By DOROTHY MX.
. In. certain family of limited means
there ire .a hoy and a girl who have
just .graduated from high school. There.
Is Money enough to give one or the other
of hese young peo
ple college edu
, cation, and the
lnrents arc . anx
iously asking which
one shall it he.
Shall John go to
Harvard and Mary
tsy at home and
wash dishes? Or
shan Mary go to .
Vaesar and John
go to work?
Of courtc. It is
only within the last
few yearn that
such, a problem
could have vexed
any family council.
If there was money
enough only to
send one clilld to
college, there would have been no argu
ing on the subject. The boy would have
gotten It. lint the world has come to see
now. that a woman has quite1 as much
need of an education as a man has, and
that a daughter ts even quite as likely
to have a career as a son ts. Therefore,
the question of a-x must be eliminated
In deriding the matter.
It aeetns to ma that the answer to this
conundrum of w hether the boy or the girl
sha.ll be given the college education Is
very simple. it ts to give the one who
has the most definite ambition the edu
cation that will help him or her to best
realise that ambition.
Also the child's temperament must be
taken Into consideration. There are
Plenty of Children who have a head full
of good, hard, horse sense, but who lack
what we call book sense. They are hope
lessly u'nllterary, and you can no more
-flake scholars out of them than you can
make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
One of the mobt pathetic things on
earth Is the sight we continually obHcrve
of parents tit meager circumstances slav
ing themselves to death, and sacrificing
every comfort. In-order to send boys and
girls through college who are constitu
tionally Incapable of acquiring any edu
cation above the three R's.
AU that -these boys . and girls ever
bring home with them from college are a
college yell.' a soririty pin, swelled heads,
and the habit of loafing. A tragic price
has been ' paid for eh Junk; and it's a
pity tlsat parental affection prevents a
man and woman from silting down and
coldly slilnguvLhe metal, ability of their
children "be fern they make their heroic
offcrlnev.to tbe fetlcb 6f"atollege educa
tion. ifiiM. .-i. , i! '- 4
There's i John,' brtgh( ' a; a new dollar,
quick as" they-, make then?, capable and
alert, the tlrst tp catch on' te every new
thing, but Who heiver 'read a book' if be
can help It. and whose only Interest even
in the dslly papers Is In the eomlc vl'
tures. Whnt Is the use in sending him
off to college'.' He's the kind of a boy
that will get his education In the great
school of life. Ho'l get his knowledge of
mathematics from account books and
ledgers. He'll get his philosophy from
experience. In the end he'll know more
than any college professor, but he'll get
It through the sweat and toil of living,
not from printed pages.
It Is my. firm belief that unless a boy
is going to be a professional man It is a
handicap, and not a help to him. to send
him to college. The four or five yeae
that come just after a boy has left high
school are the formative ones of Ms life,
and they should be put In on learning
the rudiment of . whatever business or
trade he ts going to follow. For proof
of this, observe that 90 per cent of the
successful merchants and business men
you know went to work from the high
school and had no college education.
As for girls, why should her parents
sacrifice themselves to send Fluffy llttf
fles to college? One look at her peaches
and cream complexion, and the way she
rolls her eyea at men, shows that nature
destined her to write Ma before her
name Instesd of M. A. after It.
Of course a college education won't
her, nor hinder her from making Just as
good a wife and mother as she would
be without tt. but nobody can deny that
it will lessen her chances of matrimony.
For men have not yet gotten to be al
truistic enough to desire wives that know
more than they do. Besides which a
college -course keeps a girl Immured
within college walls during the very time
when the dew Is on the rosebud, and she
Is most attractive to the opposite sex.
On the other hand, if a boy Is a scholar
by nature and Instinct, If from his child
hood be has . evinced a strong bent In
the direction of any of the professions,
hia parents should move heaven and
earth to give him the verv nest possible
education that they can. There are men
who are scientists In their very cradle;
men who play at doctoring and surgery
when they are nothing but kiddies; men
who are painters, authors, actors from
their youth up. These have a well de
fined ambition and their parents should
help them realise It tf they can.
And precisely the same may be said of
gtrls.
The studious and ambitious girl whose
thoughts arc centered on a career In
stead of beaux, and who Is more inter
ested In Browning than' she is In the lat
est cut of-skirt, baa a right to a college
education If her . parents , can possibly
manage it.
If. there is 'a choice between sending
a. bookworm girl and a base bail boy to
college, give the girl the preference, be
cause she will make the most out of her
opportunities. That's the whole question
In a nutshclU not .what the college can
give, us, but what wo can take from It,
and as a matter of fact, we all do get
Just what education we can assimilate.
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Women's Ingenuity in Devising Ways to
Be That Kind of a Third Part is Infinite
!) KM. A WHKKI-KR WII,lt)X.
j i'oiix i ight. Msr t'ompstiv.
Tl.e woman ho Is the faithful and tr e,t
rriend Is woithy of respect an.1 prslse.
I but the wontan who tan be the third
'party Is wot thy of stlil greater n Imlra
jllon, since the sttccest'id third iiaitv must
I be i1si the good
, friend.
t The most sublime
devotion of frlend
I hhip brings Its own
i lewant, but the
'lairlflce and for
. Iicaiance 01 the
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Flamingoes as they appear in their haunt exhibit in th Museum of Natural History,
s in the Bahamas. This group taken from an
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June,' the bride " of Ned Warner, Im
pulsively leaves her husband on their
honeymoon because she begins to realise
that she must be dependent on htm tor
money. Bhe desires to be independent.
June is pursued by Gilbert Ulye, a
wealthy married man. f he escapfS from
bis clutches with difficulty. Ned searches
distractedly for June, and, learning of
Wlye's designs, vows vengeance on him.
After many adventures June Is rescued
irom river pirates by Durban, an artist.
TWELFTH EPISODE.
The Spirit of the Marsh.
CHAPTER I. tContlnued.)
A third boat, a trim lithe little cutter.
From It scrambled the white muatached
Orin Cunningham. Through his powerful
hlno'culars Ned Warner say Cunningham,
too.' give way to a fit of fury, and Ned
tinally gritted his teeth and clinched his
firsts as he say these scoundrelly pur
suers of bis lovely bride race up the
dock. They hailed a pausing taxi and
whirled up the street.
A fourth boat. A .It tie French chauf
feur with a tiny mustache and a' stiff
woman with high cheek bones, whe bent
,md unbent painfully as she was pulled
to the dock.
"Hey!" The overcoat and cap ut last
had moved, rapidly, violently. They
pounced between Henri and Marie. "You
are pinched!"
"finched, montitur? ImpoJiible!" pro
test U Henri In astonishment. "For what
is (t that we are pinched? Behold the
boat! We have returned It " Marie started
to run away.
"llouray!" On his tide llemi jetked an1.
laughing cailv, sprinted a tor Marl?. Up
on the street. In the'shcter of a ware
It tuse, stood a touring car. As he raa
Henri reached In his pocket for a key.
Remind them came pounding the over
eat and the cap, blowing a shrill watch
man's wtilnatle through the s.lt in the
collar. .The fugitives fro.n Justices easily
outdistanced tLe hay rubler .boots,
gained the csr. With a bow whl-h had In
it all the grace and gallantry which could
have been diap.ayrd had he used much
more time Henri assisted Marie to her
eat. He sprang in beside her. He inserted
his key. He pressed the starting button,
silence! Pah! The motor was cold'
"You're under arrest!" And an iron-like
mid le finger thumped Henri on the
shoulder.
"Arrefct. il. Officer?" cried llcmt "im
possible!" And he gave another vigorous
i will of Ms crank. "Look, the host we
have" ..
"Do'Vo know officer Dowd.'" asked
AUn.
"Dowd?" repeated the solemn i elke
man, shaking his head.
"Do you know Officer O'Toole? ' And
she beamed high up Into the solemn po
liceman's face.
O'Toole? O'Toole? East Hide?"
"Listen, M. Officer, eh? broke in Henri.
Marie had furtively kicked him on the
shins.
"W toolt the boat, yes., but you will
comprehend, monsieur"
"Get It? He says he took the boat!" This
was from the cap and the overcoat.
"Take 'era along!" rumbled the cap and
overcoat.
"I guess I'll have to take you," the of
ficer said regretfully. "Will you walk or
will you ride? It'g only up a couple of
blocks."
"Walk!", exclaimed . Henri in astonish
ment. "Never!" He rushed to the front
of his car and cranked it. Off they went
to the police station.
HAPTER II.
A furtive-eyed batler, with a young face
cn the withered and stooped body of an
old man admitted the runaway bride and
her escort into a magnificent studio hung
with rare tapestries, embellished with
exquisite paintings, fitted with quaint
furniture "and objects of art from all over
the world. And here June Warner wss In
troduced by Artist Durban to his wife,' a
bright-eyed woman of great charm. She
received June with almost gushing cor
diality. "The Spirit of the Marshes," laughed
Durban, and tt waa with a professional
eye that he this time surveyed the beau
tiful girl. "It was an utterly impossible
adventure, my dear." He stood before an
elaborately carved Florentine table, while
the ladies sat In the tnglenook. In the
flare of the grateful fire. Hia eyes still
glowed with the excitement of the morn
ing snd he laughed "First time' I've
had a chance to use the revolvers you
make me carry when 1 go out for the
nan!) sunshine. I was busy sketching,
trying to catch that wonderful scarlet of
the sun and the mist you know, my
dear when suddenly I heard a piercing J
scream. It could come but from one direc
tionthe hut. lmmrnse! A real adventure!
I folded my easel, drew my revolvers and
told Jimmy to push through the reeds
for life or death. Before we eould reach I
the hut there were shrieks upon shrieks
In a young girl's voice, then shots, one
after another. Wonderful!" He shook
By GARRETT P. 8ERVIS8.
If you want to look at one of nature's
oddest freaks In animal life go to the
American Museum of Natural History In
Central Park West and ask to be shown
the ; way to the "Flamingo Group."
There. In a large recess, at the corner of
two hallways, Mr. Frank M. Chapman
has reproduced In the most realistic fash
Ion a scene in the Bahama Islands which
Is so strango that you might Imagine
that It was a view encountered, some
where in his wanderings by Blndbad the
Sailor, but not a part of the wide-awake
world.
It Is a vast city of what, in spite of
their outlandish form and attitudes, you
recognize as birds, wtiose legs are like
stilts, whose necks are like rubber si
phons, whrwe beaks are like nothing in
the world, and whose bodies flame with
s mazing color, a light vermilion, varied
With harmonious tints. Away before
you, apparently for a mile, the extraor
dinary red spectacle stretches, down to
the edge of a bay, or lagoon, beyond
which runs a long, curved coast, backed
behind with nodding palms, and a mass
jof tropical vegetation. High in the air
x mlle-loug line of flamingoes in flight
form a chain of great triangles traced
against the sky, after the . geometrical
habit of those queer birds. The realism
is astonishing. You have to search care- j
fnlly before you, can trace the shadowy
lines where the modeled foreground, with
Its set figures, blends Into the painted
background, and produces an Illusion of
profound ' perspective, which ought to
teach you never to believe your eyes un
less their evidence ia corroborated.
No doubt a flamingo does not seem
to Itself, or to its fellow creatures, to be
a freak or a joke. It has a perfectly
natural feeling. If tt could sees its enor
mous, scoop-shovel beak. Us wire-drawn
legs Its' little, chucky, goose-like body,
and Its endless twist of a neck. In a
looking-glass It would find, nothing funny
about them at all. It stands on its nest
of dried mud, In shape like the stump of
a tree, with the greatest gravity and pa
tience, sometimes on one Irs. sometimes
on two, and sometimes unrolling its neck
and letting its head down four or five
feet, to give something to the baby, or
to gobble something from the ground,
with the top of Its head turned down
ward, on account of the curious bend
in the big beak, which looks ai if Its
back were broken.
. By careful observation naturalists are
usually able to discern the reasons why
nature has given such extraordinary and
fantastic forms to some of Its creatures,
but they can never drive away the Im
pression that it has been. In many cases,
a rule-of -thumb worker, trying experi
ments often In a very eccentric way,
and getting at what she wanted hastily
and clumsily.
Because the. flamingo was destined to
live partly In the water, at least to seek
Its food there, It manifestly had to have
long wading legs; but those It has ' re
ceived look as If they had been Inserted
as an afterthought Into the body of an
animal at first Intended to be a goose.
Having to scoop up Its food, little fishes,
worms,- crustacean-, mollmiks, front wa
ter and mud, It had to have a shovel
teak, but then, what an awkward look
ing thing nature made of It. ' And what
an undignified attitude It compelled the
flamingo to assume. In turning Its head
upside down In order to get Its food. But
It looked out very carefully for the me
chanical details, making the wonderful
beak like a sieve, so that the mud and
water can run out while the little ani
mals are held fast.
The flamingo Is said to be Intermediate
In organization betwr the Ui"-k and
tho stork. Thero are six species, dis
tributed in warm countries all over the
world. Flamingoes were formerly very
common in Florida. They live In large
communities, an bree In . marshes and
mud-flats, making their nests of mud. In
which the eggs are Intd, and where the
female bird hatches fhem out by sitting
on them.
The birds migrate in flocks, and always
fly In lines having a triangular shape,
or that of a string of triangles. How did
the birds get that Ruelidian bent? Of
course It has a purp.ise. Perhapa the
bends In the line enable those In the
rear to keep the leaders more easily In
view. Those curving lines of flight arc
almost the only graceful tiling about the
flamingo, exoept thut Its feathers are at
tractive. Considering its manner of feeding It
seems surprising that the tongue of the
flamingo should have been found In
Itomiin days to he the most cxq'ilslte of
table delicacies. The tongue Is armed
with extraordinary sets of spines and
looks like the last thing that any .cook
would choose for n tidbit. Yet when
Lucullus or some other ancient Roman
high-liver wished to give a feast that
would be talked about even In luxurious
Rome, he never falh-d to furnish his
guests with the best selected I'lumlngo
tongues.
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PHity are seemingly
without recompense,
j Yet their omission
is the syure of un
limited misery and
trouble.
But the qualities
make the woman
friend seem innde
uuate to meet the
exigencies of the third parly's position.
The woman who loves to talk and the
woman who loves to listen find each
( ther's st.ch ty enjoyable year after year.
Let the talknlive woman's friend npiear
upon the scene, however, and we find
the usually giiod listener rllstrall In man
ner snd bored In expression. Or let the
listener Introduce her friend, ann the
talkntlve woman becomes straightway
dull and silent.
The Ingenuity of won.an in devising
wuys In which to be . the disagreeable
third j.srty Is infinite..
The woman of the si I test naltue and
the sweetest disposition whom you-have
found unvarying In her amlahlluy will
suddenly deve'op the quills of s porcu
pine at th Introduction of a friend whom
you have long desired her to inMt. You
have described - her ns the essence of
amiability and she resells herself a mon
ument of agresslvenesa or frigidity.
Again, the friend who hmi ever been
the Incarnation of cheerfulness and good
sense and whose quick responsive nature
has been your delight, develops nn ob
truslve humility wh;t she Is called
upon to play the third party. he makes
herself conspicuous by her absence from
acctiitoincd places, and obliges you to
send for her snd in reply to your ques
tion says: "Oh, I felt 1 would be in the
way. You did not need ine. I would be
d trop," i enormia you and your friend
Inexpressibly tincomf i tntde.
The woman who has always seemed to
view the world through rose colored spec
tad is nnd whose mitotic of charity has
been lirge enough to rover the sin of
a multitude, lll become the severest'
and most relentless of critics when ' she'
sttrmpts to be tin third person. Hhe will
chII your attention to flaws in the appesr
ance and manners o.' your friends, which,
you had never previously observe!, and
she will .unearth hid len faults of char-.
.ctor or disposition never before notlred
by you. '' " '
. Sometimes she does this openly and
with no attempt at concealing her critical
spirit. . ' 1
Again she will suaar-coat her remarks,
leaving the Impression at first that she
has complimented -your friend, until a
later analysis of hrr words undeceives
you. ' '
"What a very pretty smile your friend
has!" she will say. "I never ssy a woman
wuclt such ugly teeth whose smile was
so agreeable." Or: - What a very.flne
appearance she makes for such a slovenly
person! After all, I think such people get
along quite as well and received s much
admiration as those who tak;e more
pride In bcln heat and orderly." '
Of course, you are never able to think"
of your friend again save as slovenly
and the possessor of ugly teethtwo
points which had previously, escaped your
observation.
Then there Is the won.an you litve al
ways found ready to anticipate your
slightest wish and thought whei alone
with her. who l.ecomes seriously obtuse
in the role of third party.
Hhe never thinks to leave yoi ' alone'
with the newcomer now and then, who
may have sorrows or Joys to confide tit
you alone, and you dare not suggest this
to her leal she Imagine you mcaa to talk
about hrr or that you are shutting her
from your confidence.
And if you talk to lier'sboH your
friend she listens with a distrait, unlrrt,er
ested exnresslori. which tella ou t lolner
than 'words ftl she would preltr some
other topic of conversation. -
In this kaleidoscopic life of oustsnt
surprising changes the friendship which
demands a monopoly Is of practically
little use. It Is the friendship -which Will
litr I h iwialnnil hItbIii nl Inl.iialnn
and which proves Itself elastic enough to
cover the position of third psrtjr wlthput
becoming threadbare, which we need.
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!ly ANX LIHLK. ; .
Last night, far from tntJ throbbing 'ton'ti;
I watched the darkness streaming down,
A mantle for the tired day;
So aU my work I laid away
And watched know darkness soothe the light
Last night.
Last night up In the city bold, '
They dressed the dark in robes of gold.
In silver dark I dreamed of you;
Did your heart bold a vision, too?
Which dwelt in darkness which in light
Last sight?
Advice to Lovelorn '
SIATsUOa rAJ&TAX i I
Harm.
Dear Miss Fsirfax: I recently escorted
a young lady to a dance, and during the
early part of the evening I Invited her
to have something to drink. Khe ordered
some lemonade, while i ordered beer.
After the waiter had served us she no.
litely informed me that she did not caie
to ait with anvone who would ordir an
"Nothing to Eat
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easily digested. Happy is the man or woman who has learned through stress of
stringent economy the real goodness of
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" oara nair ana isugnea ana nis ; you think thU was entirely too personal,
wire paled. June trembled and grew faint
with the memory of it and her eyes dis
tended with a recurrence of her terror.
"As we burst through ths tall marsh
rushes I saw on the Island this beautiful
creature held by a gigantic murderer. A
woman with a beautiful silk shawl over
her rough clothing was running toward
llie nut. Another murderous thief wss
lying on the ground. Down the. channel
from the ooen water there .came two
speed boats.
(I'o lie Continued Tomorrow.)
as I sm a very moderate drinker and
failed to see where she could be of
fended If no offense was intended? 1
wish you would decide this for us.
SOBRIETY.
.Tou did nothing discourteous in order
ing a single glsss of beer However. I
hope she voiced her objections very
gently and quietly since it Is always
very bad taate to reprove a friend pub
licly. Evidently the girl has splendid
principles, hut Is a little over-aealoua
about imposing them on others. Neither
oae of you has cause for a uaricl.
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