XSgQMen/AlnTeßfeST^ THE FATAL MARRIAGE By DOROTHY DIX A boy who says he is eighteen years old and getting IJhB twelve dollars a HQfl week salary, writes me that he is des perately in love with a girl of seven ■Uft teen, and that they tUV want to marry. And he wants to know HH what I think of it. What do I think of it? Son, when there are so many easy and convenient ways of committing IHE3 suicide, such as tak ing rough on rats, and getting in front of a trolley car, why do you choose such a horrible and lingering, and torturing way of exterminating your self as an early marriage? Just take It from me that if you get married at eighteen you will never regret it but once, and that will be every day that you live. A boy that marries before he has some to man's estate, before he knows what kind of a man he is go ing to be, and what kind of needs md desires he is going to have as a man, commits a crime against him self and against the girl he marries for which there is no forgiveness iiere or hereafter. He foredooms them both to failure and misery, and any body who has got little enough sense to even contemplate doing such a thing should bo locked up by the State in a nice padded cell until he recovers his sanity. Son, matrimony is a man's sized trouble with which no child has the itrength to wrestle. Wait until you jet grown up before you tackle it. And listen to these words of wis iom from a judge who has had much jxperlence in arbitrating the difflcul :ies between married couples. He lays: What a Judge Says "I find that it is youthful mar •iages more than anything else that ill my court. Very young couples leldom have enough money to live, lpon, and quarrels begin when the I'oung husband finds that it is diffi cult to support his little family. 31ows and black eyes follow. "Financial matters, however, are lot the only cause of disagreement Their Married Life By MABEL HERBERT URNER "Warren, aren't we insured? I thought ,-ou had fire insurance on the furnl :ure ?" "Have." "Then why shouldn't they pay for ;hat mattress and blanket?" "Yes, if you want to admit you were iucli a blooming idiot as to take an ■lectric light to bed." Helen flushed. "But need they mow"— "Now, we'll not try any of your tricks in the insurance company. They'll get set the facts, understand?" The blanket and sheets were ruined he mattress and pillow damaged, re lected Helen. "How much could we get?" she ven :ured. "Whatever the damage amounts to— somewhere around fifteen or twenty lollars." Fiften or twenty dollars! Helen con lidered. After all why should she mind idmitting that to ease her toothache, ihe had used the electric drop light as I substitute for a hot-water bottle? The Idea was at least ingenious. However, it had been a disastrous ixperiment for she had awakened to lnd the bedclothes charred and smol lering under the electric bulb that she lad thought so harmless. "Well, If we make a claim we've got o make it now. What's the stuff vorth?" Having finished his breakfast, barren drew out a notebook. "Two sheets—how much?" "I think I paid two dollars apiece; hey were hemstitched." The Claim All right; sheets, four dollars, 31anket, how much?" "Oh, that was one of the pair Aunt Smma gave us. I don't know what she laid, but I know they were expensive." ! ■ ■n How to Eradicate All Superfluous Hair Advise by a Skin Specialist r As soon as women of to-day learn hat permanent removal of ugly, repul ive hair growths can only be gained y reaching the hair root and not by sing common, worthless depilatories uch as burning pastes, powders, evil melling liquids, etc., the better it will e for their happiness and safety. Nor an the electric needle be depended up n to give absolutely perfect results rithout danger of horible scars or acial paralysis. The best means I have ver found that never fails to remove II signs of disfiguring growths of hair n the face, neck, arms or hands, is a imple, inexpensive preparation called Ira. Osgood's Wonder. It is absolutely armless, cannot injure the skin or omplexion and in a surprisingly large umber of cases has succeeded in kill rig the hair down to the very roots ource of all growth. When the roots re killed no more hair can grow. You an get Mrs. Osgood's Wonder from Kennedy's Medicine tore or any up-to ate druggist or department store, oi, lie guarantee of your money back if it rt.ils. Signed guarantee with everv ackage. There is no longer need for ny woman to suffer the embarrass lent of this humiliating blemish. Let le caution you, however, not to apply tils treatment except where total de duction of hair is desired.—Advertise lent t To Quickly Darken Gray, Faded Hair f You Use This French Recipe, No One Can Discover It Has Been Appllod. But In a Few Days Yon Will Have Soft, Dark, Glossy Hair If you want your hair to have that outhful, vigorous appearance that 111 compel tho admiration of every ody, step Into your pharmacist's the rst chance you get and secure 7 unces (a large bottle) of L*May's ream of Sage and Quinine for not lore than 50 cents. With a few applications your gray r faded hair will be gone, instead you 111 have a lovely, even shade of dark, tstrous hair and your best friends on't kpow you are using anything, ufthermore. your scalp will become omaciUately clean and free from Andrtift and Itchiness in less than a eek. This safe and sure French recipe is ot a dye and contains no lead or ijurious substance. Frank .1. Althouse. Bowman, Mell Co.. J. Nelson Clark. William Peiss, f.keis Bros., C. M. Forney, Chas. T. oore. George A. Gorgas. John W. ay. Kennedy Bros., Geo. 13. Potts id T. A. Thorley can supply LeMay's team of Sage and Quinine. —Advcr- Mmant. FRIDAY EVENING, &ARRISBURO TELEGRAPH APRIL 24,1014. . between couples who marry at tender I ages. There are dissensions among rich young couples as well as pbor ! ones. If It is not about money, it is about something else. They are not old enough nor wise enough to have patience with each other's ■ faults." I wish that these words of warning might be printed in letters a foot high upon every signboard in the i country, so that they might always 1 be before the eyes of girls and boys who have reached the calf love state of existence where they are apt to 1 mistake a passing fancy for an eter -1 nal passion, and wreck their lives in I consequence. Marriage is risky enough, Heaven knows, at the best, when people are ! old enough and mature enough to j know what they are doing, but for the young and callow it means inevit- I able disaster. A couple who marry ! before they are twenty take a long shot at happiness, and it is nothing I but pure luck if they win out. There are many reasons why the I oarly marriage is preordained to fail ure. The first and most practical is that matrimony, like any other venture, has to be adequately financed to be a success. No boy is able to earn enough to support a family in decent comfort,,and when hunger and cold begin to pinch, and the bill col lector to hammer on the door, love packs up its grip and beats it away from that abode. The Second Reason The second reason why early mar riages are failures is that the boy husband and the girl wife have not had their fling. They still crave the pleasures and amusements that be long to their years, and when instead of dancing and frolicking they have to walk colicky babies, and toil to exhaustion to take care of a family, they are dead sure to turn upon each other with hatred and recrimination. The third objection to early mar riages is that youth is unreasonable in its demands, it is utterly selfish, and tyrannical, and overbearing, and both husband and wife demand too much of each other. Hence quarrels, and jealousy, and divorce. Age teaches us patience and forbearance, and to deal diplomatically with situa- ; "Then we've had them ever since we're married?" "But they weren't worn at all," hastily. "Well, we can't claim as new goods . that we've had three years. Say five for the blanket. Now the •pillow?" ig , noring Helen's demur that the blanket was worth much more. "Why, we had those pillows made to order with the mattress." "Got the bill?" "I'm afraid not," apologetically; "it's I been so long." "Good heavens; can't 1 ever drum it into you to keep your bills? Keep them where you can get at 'em, too! Well, about how much does a good pillow cost?" "About—oh, with that art ticking at . least five dollars." "And w-e've had over three years use out ot it—say four dollars for the pil low and pillow case. Now the mat- I tress? It'll have to have a new top— what's that cost?" i "Dear, I haven't the least-idea!" I .. ten. Ought to get it done for that. Now let's see—that adds up to , twenty-three. I'll put in a claim for , twenty—that's about fair. Don't touch the stuff—they'll probably send a man , up to look at it to-dav." "What must I tell him, dear?" Nothing. "He'll ask you what he . 1 wantsi t° know. A small claim like > that they 11 allow without much ques- I I tion. Although Warren carried both fire and burglar insurance, this was the . first accident they had had, and Helen looked forward with mingled dread and 1 excitement to the coming of the insur- I ance adjuster. | He did not come until late in the af ternoon. A young man. with shrewd i ■ eyes and an abrupt business-like man ■ nor. Helen led him into the bedroom, , I where she had arranged the burnt bed ,. *v w 'th the charred spots carefullv I displayed to tho best advantage. "How did this first start?" ns he jotted down some notes, j Helen blushed. I She Tells llliti. I 'I—I had the toothache," with a de ! precative laugh, "and I'd heard some 1 one say an electric bulb could be used , as a hot-water bottle." The adjuster stared at her. ! We", that's a new one on me." ; Then as he lifted the pink silk shade , from the drop light by the bed. "Was , this the bulb?" ' P, ele ,? nodded, her color deepening. | I should call that a prettv danger- I our experiment," drily. "We really shouldn t have to pay this; kind of a loss, but since it's a small claim I'll allow it. "I'm sure Mr. Curtis wouldn't wish 1 Y ox { .° A"pw it If it's not regular." re torted Helen stiffly, resenting his pat i ronizing tone. "Oh. that'll be all right: tell vour husband to send around his policy, and we 11 endorse the claim. Only hereafter." with a twinkle, "I'd recom mend the hot water bottle as safer." \\ hen Helen showed him to the door, she tried to imply by her frigid "good ~ t r P, oon , that she disapproved of his slightly facetious attitude. . . star l£ (3 tO . P ut away the burnt bedding. The sheets would do for the ironing board, she reflected, rhey might even be cut down for the maids bed! And the blanket? She ran out to Nora s room and found that the burnt side of both the sheets and ( blanket could be cut off and still leave , them wide enough for her bed. I And the mattress—after all 'would .It need a new top? She was almost I su / e she could get that same tick Im' | at Warner s, and by matching the stripes a patch would hardly be no i i!_ ce . j the pillow—she could patch that in the same way. The joy of getting something for nothin- is strong in every woman, ! and Hplen was no exception. And . now the thought that she was get- I ting twenty dollars to buy new bed ding, while she was able to make such i use of the old, was highly gratifying. I . ...£* erl ¥ . s , he c° lln ted over the possi- I bilities of the twenty dollars, j She could get the two sheets for four : dollars—for less If she waited for a sale. And the blanket—just last week she had seen one of those pale blue l'rench blankets, so much more attractive than this old-fashioned, pink-bordered one, for eight dollars. , That would be twelve, and the half yard of ticking to patch the mattress and pillow would be fifty cents. She would have over seven dollars left! Helen was jubilant. It was a most 1 satisfactory deal. The thought that , it was not quite a fair one to the in surance company did not trouble her. for had not Warren made out the .claim? And he always leaned back wor»*v. She was still planning what she would buy with the seven dollars when Mrs. Stevens came. Helen had phoned her of the accident that morn t Ing. and now with keen feminine in ! terest she had stopped by to talk it j over. "Not l-*.n«ii|th Again Helen displayed the burnt I bedding, and told of the cl H ltn of twenty dollars which tho ad luster had just allowed. ' "Twenty dollars! Is THAT all von ! asked for?" J "Why, I can fix up the things for tions that youth treats with brutal and fatal directness. The fourth reason why early mar riages are almost sure to bring mis ery instead of happiness to those who contract them is that no boy's or girl's character is formed. At eighteen and twenty-eight our tastes are no more the same than if we were different persons and the man or woman we fancied ourselves in love with in our salad days fill us with weariness and repulsion when we have reached ma turity. There are foolish sentimentalists who advocate early marriage on the ground that a young couple will grow up together. This is a fallacious hope, for not one time in a thousand does it happen that a boy and girl develop along the same lines. Kither the hus band outgrows the wife, or the wife outgrows the husband, and there is left that hideous death-in-life of mat rimony where the superior one must ever drag about with him or her the corpse of love. liook About You It is true that not all youthful mar riages end in divorce, but practically all end in estrangement. If you will look about among your acquaintances you will find that in almost every 'case where the husband is openly or secretly unfaithful to his wife, or where the wife cares more for the admiration of other men than she should or where the couple are frankly weary of each other, that they married young. No, son, don't marry when you are eighteen. Wait until you are twenty eight and then take time to think it over. Wait until you are able to supp6rt a wife. Walt until you know just what kind of a wife you want, and then pick out some woman who already comes up to the specifica tions, instead of marrying a chit of a girl of seventeen, who may be what you want, and may not be. Anyway, you have to take enough chances on the woman you marry, without tak ing any chances on the sort of a man you may become. There is no use in being !•» such a hurry about running your head in the matrimonial noose. For when you are married you are married a long, long time. And sometimes it seems longer. less," explained Helen. "I was just counting it out." "Well for small claims like that everybody asks the full value. That mattress alone is worth thirty dollars. And you could say you couldn't match the ticking, that you'd have to have your whole set —box springs and all recovered." Helen looked puzzled. "But X don't think they would have allowed any more." I ' Oh, all the companies expect to pay big for small accidents. That's their best advertisement. You re member that centerpiece we burned?" Helen shook her head. Helen IN Depressed Oh, no, it was the Thurstons. Well, Henry overturned a candle and burnt a hole in that Milan centrepiece—and clear through the table-cloth. I put in a claim of twenty-five dollars, and they paid it without a word. The centerpiece cost eighteen and the cloth seven, so you see I got full value. And the table-cloth is just as good as ever, the patch will never show—a centerpiece always covers it." The elation that Helen had felt over the twenty dollars was now somewhat dampened. Should they have asked for more? At dinner, she repeated to Warren the story of Mrs. Stevens's claim of the tablecloth that was practically as good as ever, and for which she had collected full value. Warren lay down his fork with a snort. "Well, you're a FINE lot! Jove, X don't believe a woman knows what business honestly means. I'd trust the crookedest man I know a darn sight quicker than I would you or any of the bunch you run with. Over value a measly claim for the sake of a few dollars—eh?" "But, dear, if everybody does it," faltered Helen, "doesn't that make a difference?" "How? A thing is worth what it's worth, isn't it? If you swear 'to a false valuation, you're committing perjury, that's all. But I don't sup pose that would phase you. By George, if they ever get you on the witness stand with a sharp lawyer you'll be shown up, all right!" Business Locals LET IT BE KNOWN That the firm of William W. Zeiders & Son, 1436 Derry street, have recent ly added to their stove, range and fur nace business a complete stock of hardware, paints and painting sup plies, and are ready to serve the pub lic with the wants with a brand new stock at prices that will interest them. If you aro building or repairing re member this. DON'T YOU MISS The pleasures you might enjoy by be ing the owner of a Ansco Camera? If you are on a Vacation, afloat or ashore, or at home, everywhere you go you find something you would like to re member. Would not a photograph fill the bill. Let us show you how simple and easy they are to' operate. No charge. We have many different styles, sizes and all supplies. David W. Cotterel, 105 North Second street. THE WEDDING DAY We have many handsome articles of furniture, reproductions of the Colonial period, chairs and rockers, in the ebony finish with rosebud decor ations, the styles of a hundred years ago. Mirrors, gold and mahogany framed, and numerous other pieces which are useful and pleasing to newlyweds. We take a personal pleasure in showing you our stock. Respectfully J. P. Harris & Son, 221 North Second street. WHO'S LOOKING For a good automobile bargain? Here is one worth seeing. A forty horse power, five-passenger touring car for $1,435, with modern equipment. Con tinental motor, electric starting and lighting system; HG-inch wheel base, 3 4x4 tires, and the whole affair in the pink of condition. If you are looking for a real bargain, see this one to-day Abbott Motor Car Co., 106 South Sec ond street. QUO VADIS Bid You Welcome! You who are essentially of Film dom should see FUmdom's mightiest creation. Go see Quo Vadis," and you will agree that the world's last master piece is made. You may see it on Monday next, afternoon and evening at the Victoria Theater. Just one day' April 27th. MRS. HOUSEKEEPER When you start cleaning house you will save lots of hard work If you will use Bruaw Rotary Cleanser. It has a knack of getting the dirt and filth out of things with a vengeance, and with the greatest ease. It has many ad vantages over ordinary soap and other inferior powders. Your grocer ought to sell it, ft not Gohl-Bruaw & Co., 3io Strawberry street, ITarrisburg, Pg, EMBROIDERED CREPE WITHVESI OF NET Separate Elouses Are Always in Demand For Various Occasions 8202 Fancy Blouse, 34 to 42 bust. WITH LONG OR THREE-QUARTER SLEEVES. The blouse that gives a vestee effect Is a favorite one and this model shows the vestee portions slightly full so that they are especially adapted to net and other dainty materials of summer weather, and it includes also sleeves that are sewed' to it at the drooping shoulder line. In the illustration, it is made of one of the em broidered silk crapes with collar and cuffs of plain material and vestee of net, but the model could be used quite as suc cessfully for an entire net blouse or for chiffon and for the much simpler cotton fabrics, for there is no feature of the season more remarkable than the use of the same design for the dressy blouse of fine ma terial and for the useful one of plainer fabric. Cotton voile is always pretty both for dresses and for separate blouses and this one could be made of that ma terial with collar and cuffs of bright colored silk, as orange or cerise, to be ex ceedingly smart, the vest portions being of marquisette or cotton net. For the medium size, the blouse will require 2% yds. of material 27, yds. 36, 2 yds. 44 in. wide, with yd. 27 in. wide for collar, revers and cuffs, % yd. for the vestee. The pattern of the blouse 8202 is cut In sizes from 34 to 42 inches bust measjre. It will be mailed to any address by the Fashion Department of tliis paper, on re ceipt of tea cents. Bowman's sell May Manton Patterns. r— \ Miss Fairfax Answers Queries CIRCUMSTANCES MAY EXPLAIN 1 j DEAR MISS FAIRFAX: I am acquainted with a young man whom I care for very much, but he comes to see me only once a week, and never on Sundays, and he never asks me to go to moving pictures or to the theater. How can I find out if he loves me? N. E. W. . If he has to work hard; If you live at a great distance; If his salary is small and inadequate for more than neces sities. his conduct is excusable. Look at his side of the story before you condemn him. SHE IS A SILLY GIRL DEAR MISS FAIRFAX: I have been keeping steady company with a young lady for the past ten months. She recently attended a party to which I was not invited. Did she do right In attending'.' She also admits having had two young men. whom she had never met before, kiss her. (There were no kissing games.) Please advise what action to take, and what is your opinion of her. STEADY READER. There is no excuse for her silliness lin letting two strange men kiss her. In that she did wrong. But she did no wrong in accepting the invitation to the party. She is not engaged to you, and it would be ex tremely foolish in her to refuse invita tions because you are not among the invited. LET HIM MAKE THE OVERTURES DEAR MISS FAIRFAX: After keeping company with a young man for four years we parted about five months ago. Recently I met friends who told me that he would be willing to come back to me if I will give in. ANXIOUS. It makes no difference who is in the wrong, he fails to show a manly spirit in telling friends that he will forgive you if you make amends. Let him make them. And insist that they be made to you, and not come through others. CHARLES DICKENS The influence or Charles Dickens upon modern literature is so evident and plain a fact no one thinks of dis puting it. Educators now see the value of the study of Dickens in schools. The name of Charles Dickens has been so long before the world one is apt to think of him as having lived many, many years ago, contempora neous with Shakespeare, perhaps, or Milton, whose classic writings are ap preciated only by the well educated or ! the highly cultured. This impression I arises from the fact that one scarcely I meets a person prominent In public 1 life—an educator, a lawyer, a judge,! a minister —who is not familiar with the writings of Charles Dickens. No I library is complete without Dickens. I Even an accumulation of books not dignified by the term "Library" must: have Dickens. . An impression exists among some 1 that the works of a great author are difficult to read; an uninteresting task. 1 Nothing could be further from the I truth. Great authors are the most easy to read, for their writings contain the greater truth. The simplicity of truth has given rise to this misconception. True, appreciation comes from knowl edge, and the greater the knowledge the greater the appreciation. To ap preciate an author's works we must know the author and understand his philosophy. A cultivated field yields the greater product; so a cultured mind manifests the greater apprecia tion. KTETTT CD t Announce For Spring Garments at Worthy Reductions At this New Store for Women to-morrow is offered an exception al opportunity to secure at revised prices the new models in Spring gar ments. In all of these garments there is the customary individuality of Klein Co. models; all of them expressing the latest word of Fashion 1 in both style and color. j SUITS jL In suits the modish Eton, the Cutaway, and Bolero Coats, with soft roll collars or Atjr\ t * le w^ standing collars arc among the //^Vov?A \\ popular models. \N) it ifjplff For Saturday the suits which formerly iC——>/\ vSl'fiif Jf sold from $ 32 - 50 to $38.50 will be sold for |jj§f /. . $23.75 I'M / Also on Saturday we will sell other \\\ P/ $16.75 AND $18.75 U> V/ Formerly sold from $24.50 to $31.75. * I bloc/sesl A particularly fetching model of Handkerchief Linen with lawn Glad stone collar. $5.00 value. In three shades; apricot, white and d»0 C A Nile green. For Saturday Another model of Handkerchief Linen, with self-trimmed collar $3 98 value. In pink, white and apricot. 0 g\ Ct For Saturday mmnw mm « COATS Moire Coats in Eton, Bolero and three-quarter length ef- ifiILEMS fects which sold from $15.00 to $ ° $12.50 Serge, Whipcord and Serge Poplin coats which sold from The new Golfine Coats in all // j models. A large assortment // I of colors. For Saturday only, If $13.75 H* Were $17.50 and $19.75. ~ * PRESSES 1 Comfortable Morning House Dresses in charming styles. Made of fig ured Crepes, Voiles, Ginghams, Percales and Lawns. High, square and low necks. Sleeves in short and long lengths. For Saturday only the price will be 98c V J MILLINERY The latest word in Spring Millinery is expressed in tlje w shapes and colors of the hats which to-morrow we offer at note-worthy reductions. s Untrimmed Shapes, correct Spring models. aq ff V Special at 5/OC (( )) Untrimmed Hemp Shapes, in all colors, j 49 All $6.00 to SB.OO Trimmed Hats, QQ special at V The New Store For Women 9 North Market Square HERSHEY WITHOUT ELECTRIC POWER Fire Destroys Engine Room at Big Plant and Causes Trouble Special to The Telegraph Hershey, Pa., April 24. —Last even ing at 5.30 the entire community was aroused by the blowing of the lire alarm on the Hershey chocolate fac tory whistle. The engine room of the main power plant was completely de stroyed and as a consequence the en tire town In without electric power. Not a single trolley car U able to move. The dynamos and switchboards were damaged and the building, which was one of the first ones to be erected and was constructed of wood and tar paper, was entirely destroyed. The boiler room and the other buildings, which are all constructed of solid con crete, were not affected. The origin of the fire and the amount of the total loss cannot be given at this writing. A call for help waa sent to Lebanon and in a very short time the large auto hook and ladder truck arrived from that city, but its services were not needed, as the Hershey Volunteer Fire Company and the hundreds of the plant's employes had the fire un der control. Morris Hinkle, a foreman In one of the rooms of the plant, was overcome by smcha and had to be carried out of the building. He received medlaal attention and is out of danger. The plant supplied 1,600 horsepower to the factory, the trolley line and the lighting system of the town. The sec ondary plant, which is now being used, has about half thia capacity. The large chocolate plant will be compelled to run on half capacity for a few daya and It will take a few weeks until the entire damage will be repaired. Sev eral hundred employes went back to work this morning. MOOSE ENLARGE: HERD More than two hundred candidate* were taken Into the H&rrisburg Lodge, No. 107, Loyal Order of Moose, last evening. The exercises took place at the City Gray's Armory. Following the exercises the officers and candi dates marched to the Moose homd in a body where a buffet luncheon was served. The Steelton Glee Clut* furnished the music. CHAUFFEURS WILL DANCE The first annual ball of the National Chauffeurs' Association, Harrlaburg, lodge, No. 28, will be held to-nightl at Swab's hall, Thirteenth and Marked streets. Four gold prizes will ben, awarded the best tango dancers and waltiws. 15
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