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Day of Sordid Books and
Plays Has Passed Away
K.v ELLA WHKKI.KR WILCOX.
Copyright. 111.'.. by Star Company.
The day of nrss'mlstlc literature and
plsvs hag pn.ed.
For Kinw pr U has brcn the tendency
of thov who i-laim to be exponents of
"art for art's anke" to leave their
nudienre in gloom when the curtain fell
or the booK ended. The really cheerful
novel or play wag considered bad form.
The author who 8ucKeted wedding
bell at the rlof of lils story waa sup
posed to shut the door of Bit In hla own
fare. The audience that left the theater
smiling give a death blow to the asplra
liona of the pl.iywriftht who hoped to be
ranked ns an artlat.
Thia Idea was morbid. It la gratifying
to know that the tide lias changed. In
recent competition for the beat stories
ofiered by a prominent mngaalnr an
extremely w il written story, by a buc-
t xaful und well-known author was de
i lined on the grot nd of-Its gloomy climax.
The piny of a famous author whs
hrnged by the lnniiaircrs and a happy
ciirtinK substituted Ix-fore the play was
I. Mowed to he produced. A few iiiorblj
critics have objected, insist'lig that the
present enilinn of the plny Is Inarliitle,
but l.fe. the great play riisht. Is in
artistic from their point of iew.
I.lfe docs not end its stories of human
lives in gloom anil despair. We have bi t
to look fihout us to prove thiH statement.
- few ycaia aso the life of some friend
wi's alinilnwcd with the pnll of despair.
Coriow, sickness or poverty had be
fallen h ni, but today he Is smillnp, his
health is restored, his sorrow hs become
a memory nrd hope bus taken the place
of despair in his heart.
It wes .ouiy In the second act or the
third in the long drama of life that the
curtain ft II ,;Uer gloom. Perhaps you
lnivc iciu-ivd tM. act In your own lifo
today; but It Is not the end of the play,
It 's not the last chapter in the book.
Kate will iin the bell, the curtain will
V." LP. or the l'bf wl 1 he turned by the
fir'uer of. time, and u new setting ' or
w mcidcn;s will chuntt Lh story Into
one of hope and happiness.
Look back over the record of your
childhood. It would be safe to assert that
nit one in any score rests under an im
p. netrable shadow of gloom. That one
who has met disaster and absolute failure
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Nebraska Man Wants to Cancel .
Deed Given to Mail-Order Bride
NORTH Pl, ATT'-'. Neb.. Jan. 12. (Spe
ilal,) A a result of a marriago through
n marriage agency J. T. Nystrom. 65, a
farmer living leir Brady. Neb.. Tuesday
filed a suit In the district court to have
a deed for his farm ct aside, which he
Advice to the Lovelorn
By Beatrice Fairfax
Try io B' Her-
Dear Mi" Fairfax: I met a lady four
years my Junior last summer, and am on
friend I v terms with her family. Lat
month I got Into bad company, but she
forgave me. and I promised never to
v eld to such temptation again. I wrote
j.er three letters, as she asked me for an
rxnlanation. and she does not answer. A
1 love this young lady dearly I ask you
v hat to do. as I do not think It proper
to call on her without her permission.
J. W.
Vonr conduct Probably hurt this girl
very much possibly even to the extent
i f !e; troylng her regard for you. She
.y leel that she wants to put you to a
t io see If vour reformation Is strong
. o.ieh to stand. Be patient and perhaps
wMI offer to see you soon. If she
i t- not why not ask her to let you come
in her home and tlak the matter over?
!o yon think she realiiea fully Just how
much her regard means to you?
' Srr II Im I.eas Often.
Hear Miss Fairfax: My Bister is going
about with a young man of 3d. Phe Is
only a little O'-et; 17. My parents would
like to know hla salary. They claim by
coing out with him constantly she i.
losing chances. Now. the question is. 1
hardly think it Is right to ask a young
man or give him any hint on what he
thinks. Now. what we really would like
discontinue being friendly with this
discontinue . heinj friendly wtih this
young man. J. M.
Roth your sister and the boy with
. whom she la going about are very young.
I think your parents are simply actuated
by the customs of the old world when
they feel that a statement of his "inten
tions" Is necessary. Such a demand H
iiiiitc likely to spoil a happy boy and
Klrl friendship. It would be wiser for
your sister simply to see the boy lesa
often. '
Be Charitable. ,
Hear Miss Fairfax: I am engaged to
a girl of 21 who had a friend whom ahe
w very well before our engagement,
a fit of despondency she wrote to
him unknown to me and asked him to
meet her. I heard of this meeting
through a friend, and read the letter
written by my fiancee. Should an en
gaged Birl have anything to do with
men other than her fiance? P. W. H.
Probably the "fit of despondency"
which caused your fiancee to meet the
otiier man was brought on by some quar
rel with you or some fancied slight. I
think you can afford to be charitable in
your Judgment: by all means tslk it
over with the girl, so that ahe will not
imperil her dignity by doinng such a
thins again.
Aaolkrr Csssrf.
Dear Misa Fairfax: I am and have
been going about with a young man.
About three months ago we had words
on account of his not coming to see me
for about a month, so I gave him up. A
few daya ago be came to ask me to bj
frlenda again. I would like to grant hla
euuest, but my people are against It.
I.JZZ1 IS H.
Your people probably feel that a young
man who dropped you once without ex
planation. Is likely to do ao again, and
they do not want yon to suffer unnecea
arily. I cannot conscientiously advise
any girl to disobey her parents. Per
haps you can persuade them to give him
another chajica, aince anyone deserves
(htt much.
-I he Beat Mil,
Dear Miss Fairfax: Is a married man
ei milted to be a best man at a wed-
tingT J n this case It Is a brother.
M. C.
There Is no reason why a married man
should not be either beat man or usher
ai a wadding. Kven is he were not re
lated. Ibis would still apply.
nu would not select as typical of human
l.fe and expeilence.
Why, then, should the author or the
I Playwright select such characters for
his chief consideration? Why should It
he considered high art to picture only
the unhappy conditions of human ex
perience and the aad scenes of human
destiny?
Why should it be conaidered bad art
to describe happiness, success and moral
ity? There are many cloudy days In the
year, but there are'far more days of
sunshine than of shadow. No painter
thinks he degrades hla art by painting
aunsnlne and bloom. No painter feela It
insumbcnl upon hlni to picture only
w titer and night. Why then should the
(author feel that he must select the dark
passages In hi man life and end his story
In cold and shadow In order to bo
art'stle?
We read books and we attend plays
! for recreation of the mind. However
I blase we may be In the literary or dra
! malic line, our minds are nevertheless
to some extent affected by what we read
and what we see.
Something agieeable, something help
ful, something hopeful, .something op
timistic should bo g.ven u to take away
I from the book or the theater. We turn
' to literatuie and the drama as we go to
a health resort, for lecreation and rest.
I II we leave this resort with the germs of
i miliaria or typhoid fever In our ayatem
we feel he have been Imposed upon. We
cad the attention of the health commis
sioners to Investigate the conditions sur
rouad ng the resort.
It Is a subject for congratulation that
the mental health commissioners have
been looking into the couditlona, and the
results, of morbid art. However great
the nonius of the writer may be today,
however laige the capitalisation of a
periodical, tin i s w ill be no success for
either in the next ten or twenty years
unless the utterances emanutlng from pen
or pages breathe hope, courage, cheer.
"In the congested and high wrought con-
, iHllon of the civilized world today human
beings arc looking to the artist, the
pi encher. the actor for helpfulness and
strength to bear the burdens of life.
Helpfulness, hope and co; rage may be
old fashioned and inartistic elements for
the genius in any one of these, lines to
employ, but if he wishes for success in
his choperi field, he m.ist employ them.
The day of the artistic pessimist Is
gone.- ,
rave hla wife, ICfle May Mitchell, alias
Effie May Oren. alias ' Bffle , May Ny
stropi. The woman with her alleged con
sort are in a Oranl Island Jail on a statu
tory. charge.
Nystrom alleges 'that "he became ac
quainted with the woman when he Jtt
pwered an adverttaement appearing' In .
publication from a marriage bureau. She
was then living a.t Blackwell, Okl.
After Corresponding for some time the
two were married. Nystrom alleges, after
he had deeded his farm and home, valued
at $15,000. over io the woman. ,
Shortly after their wedding Nystrom
alleges that a, man came to live at their
home who Was introduced to him as Ted
Oren, his wife' bi other. Correspondence
between hla wife and eastern real estate
agents revealed to him the true state of
affairs, and the suit followed, according
to Nystrom'a claim.
Officers allege that the woman and Ted
Oren, who Js also known as C. J- Hough,
had been living together as man and wife
at Grand Island for several years prior
to her marriage to Nystrom.
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Anita Stewart's Talks to Girls-No. 1 0
At What Age Should a
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sensation of the moving picture world.
Copyright, 1!1.", Interna'l News Service.
At what age should a girl marry?
That's a question that we girls discuss
a lot In the long hours in the studio
when we are waiting our cue to go on in
the picture. And It's a question that
grls discuss a lot everywhere, for every
woman has either been married, or is
going to be married, or hopes. to be mar
ried. Some of the girls think it is Just ter
ribly romantic to be married when you
are very young, while others think that
a woman should put off marrying a long,
long time. The longer you put it off, the
better off you will be, some say, cynically.
I think 25 Is the Heal age for a girl
to marry. She is then young enough to
have all her Ideals and enthusiasm still
untarnished, and yet old enough to have
come to herself. It is then that a woman
ran use both her hesd and her heart In
picking out .a husband, "and when she
stands the .best chance of making a wise
choice.
I do not believe In early marriages. No
girl of 17 or 18 la fit, either mentally, or
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picture of the fascinating Anita
physically, or spiritually, to take upon
her little weak shoulders all the respons
ibility of marriage. Hho Is nothing but a
child, and she goes to pieces over situa
tions that a grown-up woman could
handle without the slightest difficulty,
I am told that statistics show that three
fourths of the dlvorcea are aaked for by
people who married when they were very
young.
It Isn't surprising. What do a 'boy and
girl know of the kind of wife and hus
band they will want when they grow up?
Their tastes are changing every day, and
the husband that a girl would pick out
at 17 wouldn't any more fire her fancy
at 23 than would the food, or the clothes
that she pined for in her kiddie days..
It seems to me that there are enough
blood curdling risks In matrimony, any
way, not to take any chances on what
you are going to be, and want yourself,
when you come to man's and woman's
estate.
Another reason why gl.-ls ought not to
marry before they are 25 Is that If they
marry when they are very young they
out themselves out of their girlhood,
which is the one playtime of a woman's
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life. And if she misses that, ahe goes
through the world unsatisfied, hunting It.
If you will notice, you will see that the
middle-aged women who are mad about
pleasure, who can never get enough danc
ing and running around to restaurants,
and who are making eyea at every man
they meet, are almost Invariably women
who married when they were young.
On the other hand, If a woman waits
to marry until she Is well in the thirties,
she loses the pliability of youth, and finds
It harder to adapt herself to her hus
band's ways. Also aha haa gotten the
habit of Independence, and is accustomed
to live her own life In her own way, and
this makes for personal selfishness.
which doesn't add to the peace and har
mony of the family circle.
All of these reasons make It seem to
me that 26 is the Meal age for a girl
to marry. Then she la old enough to
know her own mind, but not too old to
change It. She la still romantic, but not
foolish, and she Is reafly to enter upon
the business of life with a clear head and
a strong hand. I Intend to marry when I
am 25, provided, of course, Mr. Right
cornea along then.
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njrtTOOPH III TCIIISON, M. I.
One touch of snecxlne makes the w hole
world kin. Kven In this tWo or world
shaking Armaredilnns Hlll tottcriuK
thrones and qi.heitnw tintton.il credits,
ihe burning ojuorttnn of the day every
where, upon the street, u the cars, a
public assemblies Is: llae yon not It?"
In fact, so nearly aiuiulta neon.ly doe1
the question Vise to our lls win never we
meet a friend, that the arwi lint is almost
antlphonal. or responsive, like th" i' iris:
mas salutations in Kiev, a one s init io
giving half, and the other th- .cent
half, or the cheerful "(h.tt strafi" vocal
epidemic which Is now i.-iul it in Central
Km ore.
There 1 even a sort of on.oU.lon
about Its ubiquity, because niiaery uVulv
does love company, and among tl.e minor
pleasures of life and most popular indoor
sporta not the least l the cheerful svtn-
pathetlc swapping of v mptotns.
One. however, of the const cuors con
solation which we rive oi'Mirn nlvm'
It la a pure Illusion, anil tint Is Hat th'i"
Is anthlng modern ar iecherili ami ii-to-late
about It.
On the central). It Is of a invit re-
apectable, not to say e.ciMMe. aitlOi;y:
many of our good thin:: nee new. but
most of our Ills are old. very old
World epidemics of the grip iiuilei
various names have been clearly re oir
nlsed ever since the fourteenth century,
and would probably have been so earlier
had medical and official icnortera been
anfflclenlly Intelligent.
Its very name, Influenr.a. goes iack to
the middle ages and embalms the popu
lar Italian belief that It was due to the
malignant "Influence" of a star, or a
comet, or some other of the heavenly
bodlea on aocnunt of the ranhlltv and unl-
veraallty of Its spread ,
At leaat four clear-cut and wnrhl-en-
clrcllng epidemics of It have been r. -corded
In the nineteenth century, as well
aa many minor and local ones, the 'at
of which was In I.W-Hn, with several
echoes and secondary reverberations In
the decade following. The earliest of t!.o
four la satd to have put the armies of
both Nb poles n and Wellington In th
Peninsular campaign p actlcully out i.f
business for several weeks ami to have
attacked and prostrated nearly a thirl
of the population of the Spanish Penin
sula within four or live days.
Its origin now la fairly clear and Is no
more heavenly than are the sensations
which It produces. It does not come down
from above In any sense, hut up from
below, from dirt; plain, stewy, sweaty.
iteamlng human dirt, the kind thi.t
comes from overcrowding and Infrequent
ablutions and perpetual seething In th,'
steam of other people's breath.
IJke many other things good and bad
It comes from the east. The earlier great
epidemics always started In Hussla an 1
In the remotest and moat easterly pro
vinces at that, so that In he seventeen
and eighteen hundreds It was known as
the "Russian Influenra."
This, however, was an Injustice to the
great white empire, for a little lnv
ligation quickly showed that it came lnt
Russia with tha tea caravans from west
ern China. Western China had rmmhi it
from central, and finally it waa traced
back to that great seething human stew
and hive, tha Yangste-Klang valley.
Hera or in the sweltering rare slums
ta the south start all our great world
pestilences which we are able to trace
to their beginning, the blsck death,
smallpox and cholera, and it la also be
lieved to be tha native home of typhoid,
tuberculosis and pneumonia. This Is the
real yellow peril, and the conviction la
steadily growing among sanitarians that
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to clean np China would be to enormously
protect the whole civilised world.
Kememoer v on are not doing yourself
the slightest h.i-m in the world by "hotd
Ina In" a snceio. The only effect of a
Kifr sneeze Is more sneexes In the sneer.er
and more sneezers among the anoesed. at.
A mii esc Has some small degree of
utility when It M hused mechnnically by
dust or smoke it lirltatlng fumes In Ihe
way of dlslodin the Intruders and set
thig np a prot-vtive flow of mucus.
Hut a sneete I'urlng the grip, or, for
the matter or that, In any ordinary so
called "cotnin n cold." haa no such value.
I"'i ause the Irritant that causes It, the
wily gilp germ su l hi toxins, am already
underneath .he membrane and all
through (lie blo.i.l
In fact a sn unless It be clearly dne
to a whiff of i.i' t or smoke, or pungent
rdor. Is not a sin that you are catching
cold, but that you have already caught
It, usually twenty-four to forty-eight
bonis before, and that It Is beginning to
break out on you,
Tlie IndiKiiant tejoinder will rise at
once to a score or lips, '1 know better'
lav n't I sat in a draft and sneered and
come down xith a cold at once many a
lime?' hut this is simply a familiar fal
l.o y of Ingle technically known aa post
hoc, propter ho, --w hatover follows a
thing Is rn used by It. '
I or cveiy time that they have sat In
a lira ft and sneesed and caught cold
Ihey have at last five and probably ten
'Inns sat In a draft, been sura that they
were going to "catch their death of
eld." and nothing whatever has come
of It. The one bad coincidence they re
membered for good and sufficient rea
sonsthe nine harmless ones they for
got. If anyone la loaded with Infoctlon to
the bursting point and Just ready, to ex
plode, the Irritation and momentary de
pression of a draft or a chill may pre
i Ipltate the explosion a few hours or
half a day earlier than it would other
wise have occurred.
Thia la the only relation which, drafts,
chills and wet feet hear to the grip. Jf
the "drafted" person be not loaded to
the hurstlnr; point with Infection the
draft will ili him no harm whatever, but
on the cunt in rv much good.
bit Ihe avoidance of sneesing and
sneer.er mil he carried out In a more
effective and successful way yet by In
telligent co-operation, and that is bv
mutually agreeing to count an attack of
tl.e gilp as an Immediate, and automatio
"King Kx" from all public duties anil
function which can possibly be trans- ,
ferred to some one else.
Children with a cold should invariably
bo kept at home from school: employe
with a cold should promptly be granted
lenva of absence with pay from factory,
from office, ahop or store, for two,
three, five days, save where this la phy
sleally or executively Impossible.-
This may sound Impracticable, almost
absurd, but It Is actually adopted and
In operation as a fixed policy not only
In intelligently conducted school., .hut
a I s,) In many up-to-date business estab
lishments, store and .factories.
In-Shoots
The conversation of some men would
be rnoru agreeable If they were pro
vided with shock absorbers. ' "
When a woman has no troubles of he
own, a kind neighbor can often come In
and suggest a suhject for worry.
When the base ball editors begin t
lolk of next year's prospects one can al
most hear the bluebirds sing. ' '
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