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The
Conservators
By ADA PATTERSON.
She is tall and haa a complexion like
a cup of weak chocolate, a wide, pleas
ant amlle and keenly observant eyea. She
la that helpful Institution for busy women
visiting maid. .
i a 'n a large city, the
jT v "Yea. ma'am," she
J
' -f - I
aw i
said. scrutinising a
girdle and giving a
totting tu at a
hook to aea whether
it were strong
enough to stand the
day's strain. "I saw
her throw away a
good Jacket. She
threw It Into the
middle of the street,
she says, 'I ain't
Rotna" to wear that
thing no more. It
nln't the atyle." I
made up my mind
that I was going to
get that coat. I'd have tee en glad to wear
It. But by the time I had locked the
front and back door I always hss to do
that In that thleven' neighborhood It was
gone."
Tlllle Is one of the world's conserva
tors. Mollle, her neighbor In one of the
crowded tenements near North river. Is
one of Its wasters. Tlllle knows that
whatever Is clean and may be made
whole she Is an artist In these vanishing
fins arts, darning and patching can be
used somewhere, somehow. Hence her
mourning of the cast-off Jacket. ,
"It mlRht nut have been good enough
for Mollle to wear to church, or when
she goes out walking , with her young
man, but it was good enough to throw
over your head when you go to the
butcher, and to wear through the halls
on cold mornings when you go to the
door for the milk. It would save her
better one and make your new one last
longer. I do hate to see things thrown
awav."
Tillie s lamentation meant more than
the accumulative Instinct of some of her
race. It denoted her as ono of the val
uable class of persons who are the care
takers of the world.
It Is not in all of us to build. ' She
had not the power to organise, to con
struct, to errect monuments of Industry.
It Is not In all of ua to heal. Our
tongues may be too like the atlletto
points, our hands too heavy, perhaps
our hearts too hard or the area of sen
timent in our character map too arid.
But we can all be conservators. We can
take care of what Is. We can preserve.
Show me what a woman does with her
clothes at night and I will tell" you
whether she Is a conservator or a waster.
Does she spread her gown carefully over
a chair back, turning the lining outward
to ventilate the garment, and letting the
folda hang straight so that they will not
wrinkle? If she does that she haa
earned the title of oonservator. Or doe
she fling It In a neglected heap upon ths
floor or leave It wherever it drops T The
fate of the waster U awaiting her arbund
the corner .
Does the housekeeper let the gas stove
burn while she peels her potatoes? Does
she throw Into the garbage can a hall
saucer of berries left from breakfast?
Does she make more starch than she
needs for washing? Does she throw out
hones with numerous bits of meat stick
ing to them? Docs she leave soap to
dissolve because she Is too careless or
thoughtless to rescue It from the dissolv
ing water or dlshpan.or washtub? Then
is she a waster.
Kor the conservator would not turn on
the gaa of the stove until the potatoes
mere peeled and ready to be set on to
boll. The conservator would make the
remaining berries the basis for a pud
ding or at least the flavor of a pudding.
She would calculate to a teaspoonful the
amount of starch she needed and would
make too little rather than too much.
That meat close to the bone she would
scrape off and use it In nourishing hash
or stew. The scrape of soap she would
save for the next need.
The waster will toss away a piece of
ribbon or wreath of flowers that are
slightly faded. The 'conservator will
shako the dust from them and wrapping
them daintily in tissue paper, put them
into a box of trimmings that are her
reserve fund of millinery and next sea
son, or the one after, you may see tt.em
ndornlng a hat. teneath a mist of veiling
that obscures their defects.
But there are conservators on a less
material plane. There are those who.
knowing that friendship is a sensat.ve
plant, nourish It with care. Theie a
those who knowing that the love of a
man for a woman, and a woman for a
v n la a fragile thing, guard It as they
would a bit of valuable, half tran prer.t
I lna. or a bubble of cut glass.
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By NELTj DKINKLKY.
Copyright. ISIS, Int'l. News Pervloe.
"Three wise ones of Gotham, .
Went to.se in a bowl;
And if the bowl had been stronger,
My song would have been longer!"
Mother Goose.
Gar little bowls, with no food aboard, sometime!
gasping bhallow-rimmed, with a bride's gauzy white Tell
for a sell, they sail out each year in a thick little fleet.
with always three a-shlpping to the world's end and the
land of only-love-matters! Three wise ones; the little
soft bride, and the man who adores her, and the sunny,
willing small "band" who's bo's'n tight and the mid
ship mite and the crew of the Honey-Cowl! His wrists
are silken and weak, but he can swing a true paddle.
His eyes are very blue like the hearts of hare-bells with
the mountain-dew fresh on them -but he can aee far
and keen. His voice is silvery and thn but it sings
above the fearful wash of the riding waves, and Just
i i
when the hearts of the other two are cold and sunk
deep like stones In the sea, they warm and lighten at the
heartening peal of it calling "all's well!"
Just don't sail out In your twirling bowl without the
sailor-one of your companee! You'll need blm some
thing surprising. And make It a strong bowl with high
sides. .
"If the bowl had been stronger,
My song would have been longer!"
NELL BMNKLET.
Making a Star Role for Yourself
The Greatest
Science of All
GARRETT P. RERVIR8.
"I don't care anything about astron
omy. 1 Judge It Is about as important
as rheas. I heard these words from an
apparently Intelligent man. evidently un
usually well-to-do
In a material way,
who had "made
his fortune.' and
had learned from
his experience in
life no higher lev
son than that a
strict application
to business Is the
surest road to pros
prosperity. I said
to him:
When you link
astronomy with
cheaa, you at least
acknowledge Its In
tellectual charac
ter, although you show complete Ignor- '
anoe of Its history. Its methods and Its
alma,"
"Well, what doe It amount tot" he
demanded, tastily. "Can anybody Im
prove his condition In this world by
mooning about other ones? Whet do t
ears whether Mara Is in haMted or not?
What good doea It do me If there are
giants up there, as I have heard? I
can't aell them anything. They are com
mercially of no account. Show ma a
way to open up trade with them and I'll
go as far as anybody In astronomy. It
would have some meaning then.
"taut all this stuff la pure speculative
bash I I don't arsn care whether the
earth goes round the sun or the sun
round the earth."
"Then," aald I. "If your mind Is In
capable of kindling Into great thoughts
at the stupendous epectscJe of the starry
universe; If you are unmoved by the
sight of the counties multitude of vast,
biasing suns Mattered around ua In space,
at dlst&noee so Immense that they appear
like mere points of light In the bottom
less, hlaok profundity; It there Is noth
ing for you In ths reflection that the
earth la of Infinitely lass relative lm
portanoe amidst this Illimitable creation
than a specie of mist hovering In the
spray of Niagara; If you ran catch no
Inspiration from the thought that man.
Infinitesimal as he I phlyslcally, never
theless powsease the mental power . to
grasp these wonder then take a lowei
view, and conlder a side of astronomy
whloh even you must acknowledge to be
In the highest degree practical and
useful.
"Even In . the moat ancient tlmea the
traders, crossing the vast oriental deserts
with their treasures, were Indebted to
man wis In star-lore for th laying out
of the route that they followed. The
first navigator of the little Mediterra
nean aea had to learn the geography of
the star before they could venture out
of sight of land.
"But." said the man. "thee are old
things, parsed long ago. It may be that
once astronomy waa useful In studying
about than things, but that Is all done
now. We have got our measure and our
with the stars seem to me like studying
the ABC book after you are out of
school."
"No." I said, "you are still wrong. If
the observatories of the world were
Closed tonight, never to be reopened. In a
little while the entire life of the planet
earth would be completely upset Clocks
and chronometer would go wrong. There
would be collision and disasters without
number on land and sea, until the great
line of navigation and of railroad com
munication were all thrown Into disorder
or had to be abandoned. I could not tell
you In all our talk th full story of
the calamity that would overtake man
kind If the practical cultivation of as
tronomy should suddenly cease. The
astronomer haa many other things to
think of beside the question of the exis
tence or non-existence of Inhabitant on
Mara."
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
"W do not oppose the part we play'
In life but whether we play that part
well or 111, we do choose. The part
waa chosen for ua by the author of the
play." Epletetua.
Discontent casts a gray shadow on all
the brightness of life. It occupies the
soul w1thv regret and causes the mind
to feel maltreated and abused. It fills
the heart with sorrow. It occupies so
great a place In the mental and spir
itual life of the one who feels It. that
there Is no room for more active phy
sical forces to drive It out.
Discontent Is not on of ths vice that
takes possession of one forcibly and for
evil. It Is a result of deliberately fos
tered moods. What Is more. It Is akin
to on of the finest of the virtues If only
that virtus is not misdirected. Discon
tent can be turned Into ambition, almost
for the trying.
The vice thst embitters life, end leaves
Its token visible for all to see the vice
that weighs down the mouth corners and
dulls the eye of the physical being as
well as of the mind and soul and heart,
can be tranamuted Into pure gold for
the mera trying.
How much did It ever profit any one
to alt In sackcloth and ashes crying
either "Ilea culpa mea maxima culpa,"
or less sorrowfully and mora bitterly
complaining of the unfairness of life?
There Is absolutely nothing to gain by
feeling that you have "made a mess of
things" or that yu ha'. not had "a
square deal." There Is everything to
gain In trying to make the best of the
circumstances that surround you and to
hew your way to a better est of circum
stances. It Is almoat hackneyed to speak of
Abraham Lincoln studying In his pov-erty-rldden
shack In order t be ready
for any chance that might come. And
yet he stands only as a notable exam
ple of men and women who have acted
so well the parts for which thsy were
cast that a minor role unfolded Itself
and became one of the stsr parts of life
In which It was cast.
The minute discontent Is purified or Its
feeling of helplessness, the second that
It determines to cast off Its garment of
mourning and to alrd itself for endeavor
that nilnut it rise above whining In
activity to the shining realms of ambi
tion. I know a girl who makes it a source
of sorrow that shs has a discontented
nature. "I can't ever be happy." ssya
Gertrude. "I simply have one of those
discontent natures that longs for all
things it cannot have and that is bored
by what it Is given. I am Just cursed by
my own dlsrontentedness, and the worst
of It Is that I know what is the matter
with me. I have a Jealou. envious, dis
contented nature."
What a useful bit of knowledge you
hav in your power of sslf-analysls.
Oertrude! Why not go after some of th
things you wsnt? Why not look about
you and proceed to attain through effort
all th best prises In your circle of lv-
I ng? Coin your desires Into actions. Make
of your own envy a force for trying to
win some of th things yoa see other
possessing and long for, too. I'se your
discontent with what you are and have
as a scourge If need be. to being and
laving more. And In action your useless
Jealousy will die of lack of morb.d leisure
1 in which to exercise Itself and grow.
There la a story told of a girl wh?
found herself suddenly orphaned and
poor, and with nothing In her education
or talents to win a livelihood. Hlrsnded
and without ability, the fats of the
"d-ayed gentlewoman" who lives a pen
sioner on the bounty of sny relatives or
friends who will give her a place in a
chimney corner, stared her In the face.
And then it occurred to her that she
had always duated her father' priceless
porcelains and Ivorloa, since no maid
could be trusted with them, and her
steady fingers and loving patience made
the dusting of these treasures a safe and
pleasant process.
Whst she could do waa dust! A most
unrorr antic role truly. Would you con
sider adopting It, Mis Discontent?
But since dusting seemed to be th part
this girl could plsy, she adopted It and
did her best with It. flhe brought Intel
ligence. Interest and enthusiasm to bear
upon the task of cleaning house for rtc
folk who hated to entrust dellcata orna
ments and fabric to careless hands. She
j started with one customer and at th
j end of ten year held th dignified poai-
tlon of curator of a museum. For In
acting well the part caring for fin.
rare thing, shs cam to know much
about them and to feel Inspired to
study them.
Last year In the stags world the same
Prlmipl waa Illustrated. A woman who
had been playing minor roles In coun
try town Mock companies waa entrusted
with th role of an elderly cockney ser
vant In a piece filled with many more
attractive roles. But so well did th
woman act her part, and so cleverly did
she portray the elderly and unattractive
servant, that shs was "th hit of th
piece."
It I always possible to b "th hit of
th piece" if you play your part well
enough and It doea not matter en whit
what your part 1? B contented to
play It and ambitions to play It as well
a ever you can. Tou oan not "miscast"
unless you mske yourself a misfit to
your part. There la a chaace for suo
cess In doing well ths most trivial
thing. For anything well done la worthy
of applauae-and of the more tangible
and lasting thing success.
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