MONDAY EVENING, HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH FEBRUARY 2, 1914 woMen/AinTeß^s-c^ Men! Women! Bury die Past When You Wed! If It Is Full of Mistakes That Can Be Lived Down, It Does no Gooc to Reveal It. Present and Future Alone Count By DOROTHY DIX The story that Hardy told in his great novel, "Tess of the d'Urber villes" repeated it self in real life in this city the other day. A young couple got married and agreed to tell each other everything that had ever hap pened to them. The man told his story, and the wo man forgave him his sins. The girl told of a single step that she had taken aside from the straight and nar row road, and the man upbraided her •with every revilement he could think Of, and ordered her out of the little home they had furnished with such hope and happiness. The young wife —she was only a child of eighteen— went. But she did not go through the door. She threw herself out of the window and was dashed to death on the stones of the street below. tills aad case is a pathetic illus tration of the double standard of morals that the world has set up for men and women. The man may do with impunity what the woman is damned for doing. The man excuses in himself the weaknesses that he never forgives in her, and he expeots her to lightly condone in him the of fenses for which he puts her out of doors. The most absurd and arrogant pro- 1 vision of this double standard of con duct Is the theory that obtains that a woman who has had a past should reveal it all to the man who asks her 12 J n .^ rv J' ,lim before marriage, and that if she doesn't do so she lias been of a most treasonable act. . No Woman Kxpecta a Man to Reveal All His Bachelor Life But no woman expects the man she Jnarrles to make a clean breast of his past life to her, before they are mar- | ried, nor does any man feel called! upon to recite tho litany of his sins 's P_ rospect >ve bride, or deem him- j self dishonorable in not doing so. , this, I think, he is exact ly right. The past of a man or wo- I man concerns the individual he or I Their Married Life W ell the next time I pay five dol ors per for any charity fake!" grum bled Warren. as the curtain went down on 'Part I.'" But dear, at least Pavlowa's danc ing is wonderful." "Hoven't seen her dance yet. All this toe-posing may be a pood balancing stunt, but it s not dancing! Not in it with the old style ballet." "Vet the newer schools," ventured Helen, "are supposed to be much more artistic.*- "Hub, this languishing around the stage in dying-calf attitudes may be art, but you can't put it over me that its dancing." "S-s-sh, dear, not so loud! Everv body s wild about Pavlowa. They'll think we don't know." "Who cures a boot what thev think?" grimly. The wife: of one of Warren's most in fluential clients was a patroness of this carnival. So he had felt compelled not only to buy tickets at *5 a seat, but, what made him more disgruntled, to attend himself. "It's really an immense audience," mused Helen glancing over the packed orchestra and up at the tiers of boxes crowded with expensively growned women, society women most of them. As Pavlowa was just now the rage, snd the charity a "fashionable" one, the great opera house was packed to the standing-room limit. The curtain now rose on a village scene of peasants and soldiers. The girls in short red skirts, black velvet bodices and peasant caps danced a mazurka with the gold-braided sol diers. "Huh, the 'Sunshine Burlesque Girls —25 Sassy Sunbeams' could do better." "Please, dear!" implored Helen, as a woman turned and gazed haughtily at Warren through her jeweled lorgnette. Then the stage was darkened, a strong spot light turned on, and Pav lowa floated out. It was another posing, balancing, pirouetting number, in which she sway, f. 5, ', n " ,e arms of the swarthy Keroil, whose barbaric costume was designed to accentuate her own scant diaphanous draperies. "Wouldn't want that fellow's job." for Keroff, himself a famous dancer, was forced to stay in the background as a buffer for "milady." Just before the tinal curtain, Pav lowa dropped her posing and aban doned herself to an alluring waltz with ra ™ s uppleness nrul seductive grace. That s more like it," commented Warren. Now Phe's dancing up " "Entrancing: Ravishing! Bewitching.": • 0 gushing comments of tho women about them as they rustled Into their wraps. "What about the rest of this jam £. oree '.,„ T, 1 ? 6 Dalls ant in the Grand demanded when they made their wa> down the crowded cen r,^ lsI f;. haven't you had enough?" in m l ' ? J» J, us t to see what it's » like, pleaded Helen. "Thev say she's going to dance in her street costume." Grumbllngly Warren allowed himself to be swept on with the crowd that now surged up the wide stairwav In the center of the great foyer above a floor space of about fifteen feet square the crowd four and Ave deep mostly women, pressed against the ropes . flii„ 6 - the^r^& t ready for A prize-fight, scoffed Warren . " oh .'„ H lB - 1 ' 8 where she's going to dance! Helen stood on her tiptoes. "And we can't see a thing!" Evidently Mile. Pavlowa had not had PEOPLE IN HARRISBURG ARE AMAZED No medicine has ever caused auch amazement In Harrlsburg an the simple mixture of buckthorn bark, glycerine, etc., known as Adler-l-ka. This remedy drains such surprising amounts of foul matter from the body that It Is known as the most thorough bowel cleanser sold. AJder-l-ka acts on BOTH the upper and lower bowel and JUST ONE DOSE relieves con stipation and gas on the stomach al most IMMEDIATELY. Q. A. GO r gas, Druggist. —Advertisement. HH | she is going to njarry only in so far [ as to the character It has produced in i the man ir woman, and the complica tions it has brought about, i If the past of a man or woman has I been such as to leave him or her the I victim of disease, that concerns the I individual he or she is proposing to I marry, and he or she has a right to know it in time to avoid being mur- J dered or bringing into the woria sickly and neurotic children. But the time i will soon come when a health certlfl ! cate will be attached to every marriage , license, so no personal confessions on jthis score will be necessary. I If a man or woman has been guilty I In the past of some act that leaves a i menacing scandal always pursuing him I or her, he or she should certainlv be i honest enough to tell the woman or I man he or she proposes to marry of 'it before the wedding day. No man jor woman has a right to bring un- I merited disgrace upon another. ] But where the sins of either a man lor woman have been merely the fol lies of youth, faults committed in hot blood and repented of as soon as done, and that have mercifully left no sinis ter avenging ghost behind, then they J are best buried deep in perpetual si lence. It serves no good purpose to drag the skeleton of these misdeeds tout into the light and rattle their dry bones. What is past is past and cannot be changed, and the telling of it does not undo the wrong. No wife is the happier for knowing of just when, and h««r, and where, and the extent of the oats crop her husband sowed. It does not make her trust him more to know from his own lips that ha hue been one of those who loved and rode away or kissed and told. Instead, there is always a rank ling jealousy In her heart of these other women and a fear that If she doesn't watch him well he will slip back to them. I'nless It Menaces His Wife's Future, a Man is Wise to Hide It So, unless there is something- in his past life that menaces his wife's fu ture, a man is wise to draw a discreet veil of reticence over his bachelor days. And there is not a whit more rea son why a woman should tell a man she is going to marry every detail of her past life than there is why he By MABEL HERBERT URNER tune to h' , so , lrom her ballet cos chestri! nio street clothes. The or- I but stfll Kh« e J?i , anothel ' Hungarian air, .p. J t-he dld n °t appear. Uhe,« J»nV° met J ,,nsr '"dicrous in all 1 » mL Yhl ess women crowding Thoi,. empty roped in enclosure, inelr comments were varied. ! . [ su . ppo ®° t _ it takes her some time ! °..^ r ab 'h °K her make up. ! J, t street suit will have to have a ; Rood, wide skirt. Rven Pavlowa could j not dance in a hobble." ! ® h ? entrancing in that last numbeu But he isn't so £oo such that his mere appearance had been signal for the stoppage of the wheels of industry and the gathering of eager groups about him to listen to the news which one could not doubt he bore, and when the nature of that, news became known generally, the much-relieved workmen, the working women, and even the basket girls and bundle-boys throughout the plant, be came Instantly demonstrative of great Joy. The first cheer, that which had mercifully interrupted Clara's Inqui sition of Broadway on the subject of his friend, was followed by another and another as the news spread. A gradual cessation of the grinding roar which was apparent, even in the office building, when the plant was operat ing, showed that here and there and everywhere machines were being stopped by those who wished to leave them so that they might hear the news. The office-building group stood spell bound, listening. None knew what had occurred. They might have been alarmed had the uproar been less un mistakably enthusiastic. "What is it?" Mrs. Spotswood asked excitedly. "I don't know," was Josle's answer. Clara certainly knew nothing of the nature of what might be happening, and none was furthor than Broadway from a guess that what he had told Higgine, in a sentence wherein anger very freely mingled with the news of his determination to retain and op erate the gum plant, could have been accepted as good reason for such a really notable demonstration of the Joy of gum makers. It was the Judge, at this instant, bustling in, who made the situation clear to them. "Great Scott!" he said, aglow with genial satisfaction. "Talk about ex citement! The whole plant is in an uproar." "What is it, judge?" the owner of the plant inquired. "Why, didn't you send a message out I there by Higgins?" j "Er—yes, I did." "Well, that's* what they're cheering about. The men are yelling themselves , hoarse and the boys are dancing with , Joy." The judge was beaming like a full moon with gray tufts of hair above ! Its ears. "You'd think Bedlam had broken loose. They're yelling for you, Broadway. Come out and let them see : you." | Broadway was in a state of panic, of I j blue funk, of sheer, unspeakable af- J fright. He ducked and looked about j as if endeavoring to find that avenue ! through which escape would be easiest. I "No; not now, please," he begged 1 i pitifully. i They might have let it go at that , kad not the cheering within the works broken out afresh. "Listen to that," the judge adjured him, and urged him with a happy hand ' upon his elbow. His wife went to his assistance. "Oh, j do go out and say something. Broad- j 1 way!" "Yes," the judge insisted, "come and : make a speech." j "I can't say anything," said the mls i erable and frightened Broadway. "I i !,never made a speech in my life!" 1 Josie, smiling gently, turned from them. When again she faced them she | held in her hand the paper she had thrust so recently into that sacred, j secret place. "Read this to them," j she suggested. He took It, but he did not see whence ; It had been extracted, although Mrs. • Spotswood did. The eyes of matrons of her age are sympathetically attuned to slsns of this sort, seeing them when others miss them. She smiled at Josie, Josie caught her eye and blushed furiously. "Oh, come on." The judge now took e, firmer hold on him. "It will make them all feel good." His faithful wife went to his aid. She took the other arm of the acutely miserable youth, and between them they propelled him from the room, through the short length of a wide hallway stacked on either side with boxes full of chewing gum already packed for shipment, through a breath lessly hot engine-room, and into the main room upon the factory's ground floor. Their appearance w as the signal for an uproar of applause. The loudest cheering of the previous outburst was surpassed so notably that, by compari son, It had been whispering. In the enthusiasm of the moment men, wom en and the younger workers of the force lost all sense of reserve. Broadway ceased to be that terrible thing, a new and untried boss, who must be looked at carefully, addressed with caution and regarded with re spect made up principally of fear. He was young; he had been fair to them; he was their economic savior. They went mad, and, at first permit ting him no opportunity to make the speech which he so feared, seized him as if he had been the winning player at a football game and bore him round the great room of the factory upon their shoulders. ! There wag affection in the strong arms of the men who lifted him; there J ■were tears in niuuy women's eyes j which watched. Not only was this i youth the boss; he wag the young boss. They knew he had been plucky In his loyalty to them, rumors of the splendid offer which the trust had made had been circulated freely. He was accredited with that Intention most admired by real Americans, and these workmen, in this old New Eng -1 land mill, in this old New England vil lage, were principally native sons. He was not content to be an idler; | he Insisted upon buckling down to a man's job. And had he not decided to take up the burden of gum-manufac ture largely through hiß feeling of responsibility to them and to the town? Financially the offer of the trust must certainly have been more tempting than the prospect of commer cial battle which, even should it win, 'would Inevitably Inyolve a long, expen sive and intensely wearing strain! Would they ride him round and round upon their shoulders? Would they cheer him till the blood rushed to their heads? Would the woman want to kiss him and the youngsters look at him as if he were a species of superior being? they would. And verily they did. In the meantime, in the office, Clara was left quite alone. She may have been aware that Interesting things were happening In the factory, things which she would very gladly have wit nessed, but beyond doubt ehe felt that something far more Interesting—to wit, the arrival of Bob Wallace—was likely to occur at any moment in the office. She preferred the smiles of Wallace to the cheers of working-peo ple, and she waited for them. Wallace was not long delayed. She greeted him with cordial liking. "You dldn t expect to flnd'me here, did you?" "Well, hardly. This is an unexpect ed pleasure." "Mr. Jones will be back in a few minutes. He went out in the works to make a speech." She gave this information with ths air of one explaining commonplaces. To her everything, in deed, was com monplace, save Wallace. She held him the most extraordinary thing on earth. But he was utterly amazed. "To make a speech!" He burst into a roar of laughter. "Well, what do you think of that!" [To Be Continued.] I 0 . c M.ada.me. Is eL ells •Beauty Lesson<+ LESSON IX—PART VI. PERSONALITY IN CLOTHES. I A correspondent writes me asking I Just what I mean by "expressing per -1 sonallty in clothes." A woman's per sonality is something that belongs to her, that differentiates her from oth ers. It does not depend on beauty, neither is it entirely a question of i character; it includes the dozen little I mannerisms, characteristics, graces that make up the composite mental Wture that we have when we think of i certain person. Some people have a pleasant personality, some the re verse, and there are vague, colorless people who seem to have no personal!* ty at all—they are mere colorless re flections of what passes about them. Women of this sort are apt to dress much as everybody else dresses; there Is so little expression of them selves In what they wear that it might as well be a uniform. Madame Sarah Bernhardt, the great French actress, is a most conspicuous ■ example of expressing personality in I clothes. The long draperies, rich ma- ! terials, the long sleeves and high neck trimmings that she has effected for j years seem as much a part of her and •s expressive of her personality as her golden voice or her wonderful ' kair. On the other hand, you cannot ! Imagine such raimenta worn by any ! other woman. The modern American type, whether it be young girl or matron. Is more apt to be smart and y'vaclous than pic turesque. Very elaborate dressing does not suit her; It is apt to over shadow if It does not entirely kill her charm. Smart clothes of the simple, rather girlish order, she wears to per fection. Do you know some woman who looks her best In gray? You cannot Imagine her In any other color, and yet it is not because gray is the only color that suits her eyes and hair; it seems to emphasize something more subtle and yet more Important than surface col oring—her personality. In my next leßson I am going to take up the question of proper breath ing and its effect on health and beauty. Later on I shall give exercises for re ducing and making the figure more supple. Your dollar is just as large as it ever was, but it is smaller in purchasing power than ever be fore. The problem is to make a dollar go as far as possible. For a dollar you can get one hundred SHREDDED WHEAT and that means a hundred wholesome, nourishing breakfasts. Shredded Wheat Biscuit is the whole wheat prepared in digestible form. It is ready-cooked and ready-to-serve —a boon to busy house keepers. Two Shredded Wheat Biscuits (heated in the oven to restore eaten with hot milk or cream, will supply all the nutriment needed for a half day's work. 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A promenade eight feet wtda will encircle the pool; aquatics plants, ornamental grasses and bamboos will be planted. A fine electric fountain will adorn the center. The fountain is similar to the one placed In ths Mansion grounds, and when in action will throw Its beautifully-colored sprays to a height of sixty feet. The work Is under the skilful direction ot Harry Haverstlck, the gardener.