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French Models at the Fair
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The Elephant in History
Our Ancestors Had Strange Ideiu About This Now Well Known Animal
Silent
Heroes
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By OA1UIETT P. SKIU1S9.
To the cittxan of today an elei-linnl ex
cite little trior comment than a horse,
yet lha nopuisr pachyderm waa a center
of fantnrtlo lewnd among our anrn-stor.
They built on a few facta na ant forth
In fUrebo, lltny and riutarch, a monsrter
of raN Imagination.
Curler accepted th exlxtonce In Cochin,
China of elephants sixteen foot high, and
tales of such an animal wont current In
India te the end at th eighteenth cen-
Itnry.
The tusks of the male wore, said to be
larger than those of the fcnmlo, and
turned downward, hers turning upward;
one waa kept aharp to avenge InJurlc,
while the other rwmalned blunt to root
up plants and tree for food.
Rev. Edward Topaell, who collected
praotloally aU that had been written on
the subject In his "History of Four- '
Footed Ileastea," argued that Inasmuch
as the horns of tho oik arrow out of hla
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Elephants presented to King Alexander, from a French manuscript of the Fourteenth century.
Does the clinging skirt portend a swing of the
pendulum away from the very full skirt? Cer
tainly Premet has selected a narrow model for
this tetavde negre satin, with tuaic of cobwebby
lace and , corsage of embroidered beige-colored .
icouBsellne. A I curtain of brown lace falls from
the straw hat.
It is regal, this evening gown of cloth designed
by Preset. Over the fourreau of gold cloth, and a
surprisingly clinging one, is dropped a tunic cf
gold tulle embroidered in blue and outlined in er
mine. ' The corsage of gold tulle is embroidered in
Tari-colored stones and the sleeves are of blu-j
tulle.
To Tell of Love or Not
Khali a Man Who Love and Is Ijoved
-but M ho Cannot Marry, Make
Ills Ive Known?
ayebrowa and thoae of the rhinoceros out
of hla nose, there waa no reason why tho
horns of the elephant should not grow
eat of hla month.
Ha says, further, "homea fall oitt and
eome aguln In old beauts, but teeth do not
an; and, therefore, they are homes." The
reputed habit of the female elephant to
bury her shed "horns", la interpreted
thus: Because she kpew that she was
hunted for thoae horns, ahe dug- a grave
and burled them, aittinK upon the earth
to proas It down: this, lest their virtues
betnff discovered, elephants should enjoy
less peace and security. Indians and
Africans desiring thoae horns (to use as
posts for house building among other
purposea) were said to find them In this
wlee-they set pots and bottles of water
In suspected place and aat down to wait;
when by "an unspeakable and secret at
traction they -the tusks) draw all the
water out of the bottle near them, which
the watohman takes for a sure ajgn and
dlggeth about hla bottle till he finds the
tooth."
Pltny thought the elephant's skin so
hard that a aharp sword would not pierce
It, the hide ,-alway hath crevices which
by their savour do Invite the Utile flics
to a oontlnual f easts; but when by
stretching forth they have received the
By DOROTHY DU.
Shall a man who loves a woman, and
ho haa reason to believe that the
woman returns hla affectloftbut whom
he cannot marry. Hell' her of his love
or not?
Is speech or so- ,
lenca best and kind- '
est under such
conditions?
nils (s the ques
tion that a man
' asks me m a Utter
written ao simply,
o sincerely and
with such feeling
that I reproduce
It here Just as It
reached me. He
writes:
'With a dear,
sweet mother at
home, and a poor ".
crippled brother,
too, I, as the only
one to provide for
them, decided long
ago never to ' marry. While the little
home had always. been kept in a fairly
comfortable way, aUll I felt aura that to
bring another Into it would only add
hardships to all concerned. Bfore I
, could drag a woman down fend make her
companion to the heavy burdens of my
position. I would remain alone ami apart.
If need be. I never thought that some
might be the victim between two
house that night to see her, and looking
down on he pale, still face, suddenly
realized that the. feeling of friendship
had fadded. and a new feeling had been
born. Had I only had the strength then
to go away, perhaps I alone would have
been the one to suffer. But instead of
being a man, and going away , like a
man. I remained, thinking ah would
never know.
''After that I mada my flans to her
far between. I honestly meant that by
no act of mine should she ever know
the new feeling In which I held , her.
But Ood made her a woman and gave
her a woman'a ability to see.
"Not very long ago, after quite a
lengthy absence, I went to see her again.
Noticing that ahe waa not looking well
I commented upon the fact. h enj-l
swercd my question with a question,
wanting to know why I had been stay
ing away so roach lately. I triad to turn
the conversation away from the personal
back to the common. Hhe looked at m.
And in the on brief second that I held
Advice to Lovelorn
jrnj
BWarrnea, by shrinking together again
they Inclose the flies, and so kilt them;
su that these rmvtcea are unto them In
stead of mane, tall and hair."
The Illustration shown here gives an
odd conception of this trunk. .The artist
may have read Pliny, who says:
"Tho elephant through his ' nostrils
Do You Know That
The Walts la a national German dance
and waa Introduced Into Kngland by a
Gerhian baron 100 years ago.
It I estimated that the number of pos
tal packets delivered In the United King
dom during the year reached the colossal
total of s,l,X,000. ,
An Interesting point In connection with
the Garter" that was recently conferred
upon King Albert of the lUilglana Is the
fact that it was held for hla undo, tho
late Klnif Leopold, for forty years, and
previously by his grandfather for half a
century. In the whole history of Tie order
there Is no Instance Cf two occupants
holding the dignity successively for so
long a period.
makes a sound Ilk the braying of a
hoarse trumpet."
A picture In a thirteenth century manu
acrlpt shows an elephant carrying thirty
fighting men In a wooden tower on hla
back.
About the year 1-'W the Frenoh king
presented to Henry III th first elephant
ever seen In England or, Mathew Pali
believed, on that side of th Alps. The
people, he says, ."flocked' to sea th
strange sight'" .
Tho arrival f that elephant must have
caused a sensation. Here at last, for all
to see, waa that strange creature so
nearly human that (according to Bar
tholomoeus) when sick Is gathered good
herbs, and are eating "Jieeved up the
(head and looked toward heaven and
prayed for help In a certain religion";
which saluted the aun at tils rising; which
vlsttad a certain river to purify himself
by besprlnKlIng his body with water ere
ho saluted th new moon. I
Pliny said the elephant poanesaed in a
degree, rat even among men.' notions
of honesty, prudence and equity; that his
Intellectual powers equalled 1 hla moral
prlnclplca.
Matanius, three times consul, and
therefore a person of - probity, declared
he knew an elephant who wrote.
Hard eyes molHtened aa they srnnneil
the three brief lines thnt announced the
death of a little boy In New York. He
lived on the east side. Ho had be a run
over by tho motor
truck. Dying, he
said to the axir
genn, who was
about to try to
atmlghten the
crushed little loss:
'I will try not
to cry. hut If I do
don't let mamma
hear me."
lie died under
the operation, died
without a sound,
ene of the world's
small army of si
lent horoen.
I sn Id with Intent
"small" army. The
world haa plenty of heroes and heroine
But. they make a fuss tbout It. They
noise their heroism about until It oases
t be heroic. ' "
t know a woman w ho. turned her back
upon marriage to he the support of an
Invalid mother. 'That was very fine and
heroic, but It would have been far finer
and more heroic had she kept quiet about
It But no day passed without a com
plaint about her fate, a reminder to any
one who would listen, of what she had
foregone and how hard wan her lot.
I know a man who work a as hard and
continuously a a galley slave. That
would he fine and his patience would de
serve Its crown of recognition on our
part, but that man whines ceaselessly
about his large family and corresponding
xpenaoa. It In good to turn from these
to a man who tightens his lips as did th
little hero of the hospital to keep hack
his rrlea I see him often In the routine
of our business lives. Always, no matter
how pressing his duties, nor how an
orbed In hla task, he had found time
to look up and amlle. . One day last sum
mer ha looked up, but he didn't smile. '
And again and again as I passed hie desk
I notloed that the smile waa sons. Gray
began to appear In hla hair. Finally th
gray quite displaced th brown.
And th months and th work went
which is life. Passing him or, th way to
th elevator I said to one who kaew hlmi
"He Is going horn early. Isn't he wellT"
"He no longer haa a heme," said
the on who knew him. Didn't you
know that hla wife . died suddenly
last summerT He want' horn and
found her dead. Heart disease. The
chief of his department was In Europe at
th tlm and th force waa small, Aad
he had to keep right on with his work.
He never spoke of his loss unless he was
forced te. Tou noticed he doeant look
well. Sometimes I think he Is dying In
the harness. But he never complain.','
woman with a contralto 'voice, and rich,
deep laughter. I know tyiat.
Rhe was more sn average helpmeet and
help eat. Bhe waa htf wife and sister
and mother and comrade ami friend. I
knew that the axe had been laid at the
root of-his happiness that day she died,
and that It would never grow again. But
th man at th next desk had said: "He
never complained." Splendid,' doubly
brave army, that never complains. 1 Thin
ranks of silent , heroes! Tou whe bear
th pain et life with tightened Hp, whe
endure Its agony without a ory. You who
sorrow are silent because patient silent;
because unselfish heroes who, though
wounded, march en! '1 salute.
day
fires.
"But about two years ago I became
acquainted with a delightful, pretty
little girl. Having been denied the pleas
ure of a woman's companionship (other
than my mother's), I thought and felt
that I needed this gisl'd friendship. As
we became further acquainted, and
after I had explained my position, and
made it plain that I could never marry
I asked her tor tnai innue.i.
ftn discuss the word v 'friendship'
anyone
Ve
In relation to man and woman, and both
fully understood that e were to i
merely friends, and nothing more. In
conspicuously I tried to do th Impossible,
without realizing tl dangers ahead.
"On numerous occasions I was invited
to the girl's home. I looke forward to
these meetings with great pleasure. I
liked" the long walks aud talks we often
bad together. I found pleasure in our
discussions. 1 enjoyed advising her about
ih
know
tales
pleasure
fcer.
ihe met with
little tilings she always wanted to
I itked to Dels smoolli out mr
of woe. in fact there was evn
md charm m Just bem near
sa accident one day.
and was slightly injrei. I went to the
By SUTSIOS VaUBVAJC
A Mutarr'a Wnruar,
, Iiesr Kilns Halifax: A young man be
comes engaged after two yeara' court
ship, during which tlm the yourur lady
has never visited the young man's mother
or home.
Now the young man feels it I high
time that sh ahould and haa extended
an Invitation to hla bride-to-be to come
to his borne and meet hla mother. Bit
refuses, saying that it is the mother's
pUco to raU oa her first. Now which
one is correct? R. G. E.
It is customary for th fiance's mother
to call on th bride-to-be and offer the
giii whom her son Is going to marry a
mother's welcome Into th family.
Writ to lllaa.
Iiear Mine Fairfax: I am 19 and In love
with a young man six, years older than
I whom I met a year aao. He said he
loved me and proved a very good friend
until a month ago he went away. I did
not hear anything from him until today,
when he aeut a letter asking me to fur-
?;ct him, as he had met another young
ady. He also added insult to Iniury by
offering me money for any inconvenience
ha might have caused ma. Please let
me know what to do?
Chicago. SORROWFUL
You are well rid of this man. Write
and tell hlra that you conaider yourself
a fortunate girl in that you hav found
out Just how contemptible he is. TU
him that you would never lower your
self to accept anything from htm, and
that no one would need any recompense
to mske up for losing the friendship of
a man who could so Insult a girt for
whom ha had one care I.
her eyes I saw I understood, I knew
th whispered words sh didn't need to
speak. I had to struggl hard wit tnyk.
self to push her gently away (I don't
know even now how I ever succeeded).
I went over to the window to look out
Into th night As I stood there She ca roe-
over to me. and putting her arras around
my neck, klseed me and then Cad into
an inner room.
'Without waiting for her' te return I
sneaked away from Uie house Ilk a
thief, feeling like a coward and a cad,
knowing what I had dene. I met bar a
few nights afterward and 114 to her,
telling her that I didn't love her, aad
that ahe should forget me. I'm not a
Washington, . but it Is the thought that I
lied to her that hurts. Ene, soft little
womanly woman, would never hav
told me of. her love had ahe wot read
mine first. (
. "As a mechanic in the building trades,
my position 1a not good. I don't think
It would be fair to her for ua to be-
oome engaged and for me to monopol!
her time, making her wait for a chance
to marry that may never come, and as
for deserting the ones st home, whom I
love so well, and who are dependent
upon me, I would rather did than do
that. ,
"What do you think I chould do In
tho matter? Should I 'tell this girl the
truth about my love, depending upon her
clear mind to reason and forglvw ma (or
making her lov m when I cannot
marry her? God knows I want to at
the part of a roan."
I say "yes," a thousand times
tell her. In a case Ilk this, the man
owea It to the girl to at least give her
the consolation of knowing thst her
love 1 returned, and that sh did not
give her affection unsought It will also
be balm to her soul to know that eh
did not lov unworthily, and that the
man to whom ahe gave her heart was
capable of a piece cf sublime self
sacrifice in giving her up. Instead of be
ing that most- contemptible et, all created
beings, a male flirt.
Certainly no man is ever put to a
crueler position .than the on who la
forced to choose between lov and wit
and horn and children ef hla own, and
his duty to his family. Mor men than
we realts are martyre en that cross,
since economic conditions are such that
few are able to ara with their hand
enough to support two families. That Is
why we shall hav to adopt th wis
system of the FVench bourgeois n
which the wife -is the business partner
as well ss the life pertner of her bus
band. '
That Is the only, way In which such
tragedies aa the one that this man's
letter, reveal can be avoided.
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