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Miss Khyva Sanger After Slxteea
Years of Always Having Her
Own Way, rosin aa "Juliet."
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I PARS the rod and spoil the child"
a Solomonic Injunction long-
held In reverence. There Is also
an old rhyme that used to be taught little
Strls to drlTe home the lesson of obedi
ence. It runs:
Mary wag a little angel,
Always did what she was told,
Never disobeyed dear mamma,
Never made dear papa scold;
Little Mary, when she grew up,
Always had the best to eat,
Just because she was obedient.
And never cried or stamped
her feet.
But little Jane waent like little Mary.
Oh, dear, no. Hear about little Jane.
Little Jane was very wilful.
Always" wanted her own way,
Caused her parents heavy
sorrow
Just because she'd NOT obeyi
Shrieked and wept and tore her
hair,
Shook her fiats and stamped
the ceiling)
When she grew ill her parents
' saw '
Her pass away with no sad
feeling.
Unmindful of these warnings Mr. Oscar
Sanger, the famous musician, and his
equally distinguished wife, decided when
they had a little daughter come to them
always to let her have her own way.
At the time of the decision little Miss
Khyva tbst Is her name having nothing
but the simplest wishes, couldn't be
harmed by It.
"She must be natural," they said. "To
try to turn her from her own tastes and
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How a Curious
Experiment in
Child Raising That
Defies the "Spare
the Rod and Spoil
the Child" Pro
verb Actually Has
Worked Out
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Was a . il pi;
Ansel, I gift "
Alwsys iSjtf If fij'U
Did Whit JJjX ft J !i
She Wss --s
Told." UAsKj-
Little Khyra Sanger
When She First Be
gan to Understand
What Always Having
Her Own Way Means.
Inclinations would be to
warp her disposition and
'stunt her will -
"But euppose she wants
things that are bad for
nerf" the objection was
urged.
"If she's Intelligent she
won't want it a second
time. If she has character
she won't want these things
that are bad for her. The
three things that make
character are Intellect, sen
sibility and wllL Without
will the Individual is a rud
derless ship. If she's not
allowed to have her own
way her will wont grow
strong.".
Such was their theory,
and under It little Khyra
grew and flourished for five
years. Then came the first
, unforeseen fruition of it.
Small Khyva, having a
great love for animals, de
cided at the age of five to be
tartan.
"If meat comes from the big-eyed cows
and the woolly sheep and the poor little
wabbly calves and the white pigs with
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At Nine Years Khyra Decided to Wear noys Clothes, and
Wore Them for Two Years! This Is One of Her Outfits.
a vege-
plnk lining of their hair and Nurse
s It does I wont eat any meat, was
the
says
her flat.
"But listen to me, little daughter."
The musician drew tier upon his knee.
"Eating meat will
make little glrlr
strong, and we went
our little girl to b'
strong, so that she
will grow up to be
a fine woman."
lie was amased at
the strength in the
large blue eyes
turned upon him.
"Papa, if you try
to make me eat meat
I will throw myself
out of the upstairs
window," said Miss
Khyva.
8o she was per
mitted to become a
vegetarian, which
has remained. She
has grown Into a
very tall and beau
tiful girl. In no wise
stunted in growth
by the lack of car
nivorous food.
At eight she be
came deeply attach
ed to a white ban
tam rooster, whloh
she called Dick. The
thought possessed
her that Dick was
drooping a little In
the early Bummer
and required sea air.
When her parents
itarted on a cruise of
the New England
Coast Khyva accom
panied them.
And Dick accom
panied Khyva, great
ly to the annoyance
of everyone of the
party save Khyva, for Dick lived in the
bathroom. 1
She was nine when she determined
that she would wear boys' clothes.
"But what will become of mother's
m.1rtr' ourne4 Mrs. Sanger.
"Til be your litUe girl just the same.
..7 J wU1 mor oomfortable and I
will be healthier and grow faster," In
sisted the little glrU who had her own
way. 8o, for two years, as long as she
willed It so, she was la attire a boy,
Walking, driving, riding, dancing, every
where eave at home she wore the cos
tume she would have worn had she been
her own brother.
When she was eleven she went to Buf
falo Bill's Wild West Show and asked to
be allowed to ride In the stage coach
during the Indian attack.
"Wasn't Mamma's own little daughter
afraid of the bad Injuns T" Mrs. Sanger
anxiously asked after she had done so.
"Don't talk baby talk, Mamma dear,"
the youthful prodigy replied. "It will ar
rest my mental growth. No. I wasn't
at all afraid. I was only worried about
whether I should alt upright and show I
was not afraid or faint I wonder what
ladles did out West when the stage
coaoh was attacked by Indians r
The love of adventure was strong In
her. At eleven she made a tour of the
chateau towns In France alone save with
a girl a few years older.
They travelled unmolested for five
days except on the evening of the last
day of their journey when they were pur
sued for an hour by gipsies. Because
the weather was hot they elected to
travel at night. -
Khyva Sanger asked her mother after
ward. This was almost too much.
"Ah, well, her will Is growing strong
er," they consoled each other.
At twelve she purloined fruit and flow
ers from a New Jersey farmer and only
escaped arrest because '.he farmer's
neighbor . recognised the little
marauder as "Professor Sanger's
girl." whom "they are bringing up
In the new-tangled way of letting
her have everything she wants.
They think to cross her Is to spoil
her. None of the old rod busi
ness In her training."
"But she got right out of her
pony cart and stole a bunch of
red hollyhocks and a basket of.
apples right under my nose."
"But It ain't stealln' If its done
right under your nose," remon
strated the neighbor. "It's juet,
takln what you want. She thinks'
what grows from the ground is
free to all like air and sunshine."
The farmer twisted a straw be
tween his teeth. "I dont see no
difference between stealln' and
taking what ain't yours," ha
sulked.
"You ain't been brought up the
way the Professor la bringtn' his
girl."
"I'm glad I wan't I mlgHt be
in jail,- aald the farmer.
There were many to predict
that the little girl who always
" ner own way would reach the equiva
lent of Jail. But Khyva went serenely
on her way, smiling, affectionate, teach
able, but displaying marvellous deter
mination. At eighteen she Is healthy, happy,
beautiful, brimming with artlstio aspira
tions. Though she was allowed free rein,
she never ran amuck. Though she was
allowed all the candy she wanted, she
wanted little. She has never been 111
"My father and mother always talked
things over with me as though I was of
their age," she said. "I am glad,, for If
they had scolded or whipped me it would
have turned my nature sour. That Is
what It does for all children."
Now she wants to be an aotress, and
it Is quite likely that she will be allowed
to adopt the stage. Certainly she will
be if the rule on which she has beea
brought up remains unbroken.
"Little
Jane Wss
Very
Wilful,
Alwsys
Wanted
Her Own
Way."
How Anybody Can Win Fame and Fortune by Inventing Things the World Needs
(lT5 ETTER cl08e "P the Patent Office there's nothing more
j i invent." This was the suggestion made by a Wash
Ington offle!l after the United States Government had
been issuing patents only a few years. Ridiculous as it sounds
to-day, his advice was regarded by many people at the time as
exceedingly sensible.
What the feelings of this man would be if he could come back
to earth and resume his old place in the Patent Office Is difficult
to Imagine. Since he confidently predicted that there was "noth
ing more to Invent" and advised the closing of the Patent Office
as a useless expense, the United States has issued patents on
more than a million Inventions. Merely to read a brief descrip
tion of each of these inventions would take weeks. To make
even a superficial study of all those which are proving of prac
tical value to menklnd would require two or three lifetimes of
strenuous effort
Yet despite Chls Intensive cultivation of the field of Invention,
its surface has been scratched but little more perceptibly than
it had been seventy-odd years ago when the short-sighted Wash
ington official made his ridiculous suggestion. Each new inven
tion seems to create a need for others. There are countless
things which the world would like to have Invented and for
which tt stands ready to pay liberally In fame and fortune.
We are apt to forget what splendid rewards await the suc
cessful Inventor for a number of reasons. One Is that our humor
ists are so fond of portraying the Inventor as a visionary dreamer
who la never able to turn his ideas into cash. Another la that
so msny inventors who are resplng fortunes from their patents
are unknown to the general public.
Speak of inventors and the average person will call to mind
only such exceptional men as Bell, Edison and Marconi. There
are, however, thousands of other men living to-day who have
gained great wealth from their conception of ideas which lighten
the world's labors and add to Its happiness. Many of the things
we use every day and would hardly know bow to get along
without are things which have brought fortunes to the men who
thought of them.
Take the lead pencil you are using. It cost only a penny, but
it Is conveniently equipped with a bit of eraslve rubber in one
end. It was a Philadelphia man who thought it would be a good
idea to supply pencils with rubbers and devised a means of doing
it. Before bis patent expired It yielded him more than 1100,000.
A Washington man Invented a little lock to hold fence wires
together. It was only a small thing, but It had two big advan
tages it was cheap, and with It a boy could build a good wire
fence as quickly as a man. With a very small investment his
patented Idea netted him la a single year f 20,000.
Many persons remember the old style soda water bottle with
the stopper which had to be pushed into the bottle to open It.
A Baltimore man conceived the idea of replacing this cumber
some arrangement with the convenient and much less expensive
little tin cap such as now so widely used. Although he used up
more than ten years of the life of the patent In getting capital
Interested in his invention, he made a fortune In the remaining
seven years. '
It seems as If anyone might have thought of making cans
with strips of soft tin which would hold the cover in place and
which could be easily torn off when the can's contents were
wanted. It wss, however, a long time before such an Idea
occurred to anybody, and the lucky Individual on whom It Anally
dawned has made two or three fortunes.
A successful Invention does not necessarily have to be a
useful article. Some of the greatest money-mskers of recent
yesrs have been games and pussies. "Pigs In Clover," the
''Fifteen Pustle" and the "Ferris Wheel" are three of many
things of this description that made fortunes for their Inventors
before their popularity died out.
Interesting puzsles are often the result of accidents. The
famous "Whltecbapel" putzle was due to a painter's idle handling
of two .paint-bucket hooks while waiting for a sudden shower
to pass over.
All at once he found that he bad fastened the hooks together
in such a way that it seemed impossible to separate them. It
took considerable thought to get them apart, and then ha
realised that he had stumbled upon an interesting pusxle. lie
made $16,000 from his chance discovery.
In proportion to the amount of time and effort Involved there
is, they say, more money to be made from some Ingenious little
article that will be in great demand at five and ten cents each
than in soma epoch-making Invention like the telephone or the
phonograph. Such things as the latter, of course, give tha oppor
tunity for Innumerable new Inventions which extend the useful
ness of the original Idea.
If you have inventive ability you do not have to look tar for
a favorable opportunity for exercising It Here are lust a few
inventions which the world really needs and for which It will
be willing to psy soma man or woman well:
An Inexpensive attachment that will permit of cooking over
an ordinary gas jet
A cheao machine for washing dishes.
An automatic furnace regulator, which will turn on the draft
at a certain hour without attention.
Any Improvement in cooking utensils which will make them
cheaper or better.
A cheap water filter one that may be permanently attached
to the faucet or kept In a handy place for use.
A foot rest for radiators which will support the feet In a com
fortable position without burning the shoes.
A machine which will polish the finger nails without the
necessity of endless buffing by hand.
A good and efficient fire escape which could be carried In a
suit case.
Means for automatically closing windows so that one need
not get up on cold mornings for this purpose.
A shelf which may be quickly attached to a ladder to support
a bucket, brush, etc.
A really satisfactory device for turning music on a piano or
music stand so that the operator will not have to stop playing.
Some means for cleaning cuspidors without touching them
with the hands.
Novelties In devices for exercising the muscles.
A curling Iron which will automatically heat itself.
A match box which will deliver one match at a time and
do It every time.
Borne adjustable device for fastening packages to take the
place of rubber bands.
A devloa for pressing men's clothes which can be carried
about by the user and la which the clothes will be pressed ta
presentable manner.
Copyrlgiit, in 10, by tha Star Company. Great Britain Rights Raiarvsd.