\£?o(Y)en r A AI nreße-s THE FATAL MARRIAGE By DOROTHY DIX ■ A boy who says ho is eighteen years old and getting twelve dollars a week salary, writes me that he is des perately in love with a girl of seven teen, and that they want to marry. And he wants to know what X think of it. What do I think •of it? Son, when there are so many easy and convenient ways of committing suicide, such as tak ng rough on rats, and getting in front f a trolley car, why do you choose uch a horrible and lingering, and orturing way of exterminating your elf as an early marriage? Just take : from me that if you get married at lghteen you will never regret it but nee, and that will be every day that ou live, A boy that marries before he has ome to man's estate, before he nowi what kind of a man he is go ig to be, and what kind of needs nd desires he is going to have as a tan, commits a crime against hlm elf and against the girl he marries ir which there is no forgiveness ere or hereafter. He foredooms them oth to failure and misery, and any ody who has got little enough sense j even contemplate doing such a ling should be locked up by the tate in a nice padded cell until he scovers his sanity. Son, matrimony is a man's sized •ouble with which no child has the :rength to wrestle. Wait until you et grown up before you tackle it. And listen to these words of wis om from a judge who has had much sperlence in arbitrating the difflcul ee between married couples. He iya: What a Judge Says "I find that it is youthful mar ages more than anything else that II my court. Very young couples sldom have enough money to live pon, and quarrels begin when the oung husband finds that it is diffl ilt to support his little family, lows and black eyes follow. "Financial matters, however, are ot the only cause of disagreement Their Married Life Ey MABEL HERBERT URNER "Warren, aren't we insured? I thought j ou had fire insurance on the furnl ire?" "Have." "Then why shouldn't they pay for lat mattress and blanket?" "Yes. if you want to admit you were ich a blooming idiot as to take an ectric light to bed." Helen - flushed. "But need they now"— "Now, we'll not try any of your tricks . 1 the insurance company. They'll get at the facts, understand?" The blanket and sheets were ruined | le mattress and pillow damaged, re- j acted Helen. "How much could we get?" she ven ired. "Whatever the damage amounts to — imewhere around fifteen or twenty )Ilars." Fiften or twenty dollars! Helen con dered. After all why should she mind Imitting that to ease her toothache, le had used the electric drop light a3 substitute for a hot-water bottle? he idea was at least ingenious. However, it had been a disastrous :periment for she had awakened to id the bedclothes charred and smol iring under the electric bulb that she id thought so harmless. "Well, if we make a claim we've got make it now. What's the stuff orth?" Having finished his breakfast, j arren drew out a notebook. "Two sheets—how much?" "I think I paid two dollars apiece; , ey were hemstitched." Tho Claim All right; sheets, four dollars, . anket. how much?" "Oh. that was one of the pair Aunt i nraa gave us. I don't know what she , ild. but I know they were expensive." { ii ii l How to Eradicate All Superfluous Hair Advise by a Skin Specialist As soon as women of to-day learn f at permanent removal of ugly, repul ,-e hair growths can only be gained reaching the hair root and not by I lng common, worthless depilatories I ch as burning pastes, powders, evil l lelling liquids, etc., the better It will for their happiness and safety. Nor n the electric needle be depended up to give absolutely perfect results thout danger of horlble scars or ;ial paralysis. The best means I have er found that never fails to remove signs of disfiguring growths of hair the face, neck, arms or hands, is a ople, inexpensive preparation called •g. Osgood's Wonder. It is absolutely rmless. cannot injure the skin or mplexion and in a surprisingly large mber of cases has succeeded in klll s the hair flown to the very roots jrce of all growth. When the roots' > killed no more hair can grow. You n get Mrs. Osgood's Wonder from nnedy's Medicine tore or any up-to- i te druggist or department store, on s guarantee of your money back if it is. Signed guarantee with every ckage. There is no longer need for y woman to suffer the embarrass nt of this humiliating blemish. Let : caution you, however, not to apply s treatment except where total de- ; uctlon of hair is desired.—Advertise- i - I 0 Quickly Darken Gray, Faded Hair I You Use This French Recipe, Xo J One Can Discover It Has Iteen Appllod, But ill a I r e\v Duvs You Will Have Soft, Dark, Glossy Hair [f you want your hair to have that j jthful, vigorous appearance that ;l compel the admiration of every dy. step Into your pharmacist's the ' it chance you get and secure 7 . nces (a large bottle) of LeMay's earn of Sage and Quinine for not re than 50 cents. i tVlth a few applications your gray I faded hair will be sone, instead you 1 have a lovely, even shade of daj-k, trous hair and your best friends | n't know you are using anything. | rthermore, your scalp will become | m»culately clean and free from i idrull and Itchiness in less than a 1 ek. This safe and sure French recipe is I ; a dye and contains no lead or jrlous substance. Trank J. Althousc, Bowman. Mell I 30.. J. Nelson Clark, William Deiss, ! <els Bros.. C. M. Forney, ('has. T. ore. George A. Qorgas, John W. ! y, Kennedy Bros., Geo. R. Potts 1 T. A. Thorley can supply j am of bage ami Quinine. —Adver- j inent. j FRIDAY EVENING, • BjLSSOSBVWi TELEGRAPH APRIL 24,1914. ■ between couples who marry at tender I ages. There are dissensions among rich young couples as well as poor ! 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 | country, so that they might always 'be before the eyes of girls and boys who have reached the calf love state !of existence where they are apt to | mistake a passing fancy for an eter ! nal passion, and wreck their lives in consequence. Marriage is risky enough, Heaven knows, at the best, when people are old enough and mature enough to know what they are doing, but for the young and callow it means inevit able disaster. A couple who marry before they are twenty take a long shot at happiness, and It Is nothing but pure luck If they win out. There are many reasons why the early 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 toll 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 Car 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 live 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." I "Good -heavens; can't I ever drum ft into you to keep your bills? Keep them I where you can set at 'era, too! Well, about how much does a good pillow cost?" "About—oh. with that art ticking at least tive dollars." "And we've had over three years use put of it—say four dollars for the pil low and pillow case. Now the mat tress? It'll have to have a new top— what's that cost?" "Dear, I haven't the least idea!" .. 'Say 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 > wants to know. A small claim like I that they'll allow without much ques i tion." Although Warren carried both fire ; and burglar insurance, this was the f first accident they had had, and Helen looked forward with mingled dread and 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 • eyes and an abrupt business-like man i ner. Helen led him into the bedroom, i where she had arranged the burnt bed ding with the charred spots carefully | displayed to the best advantage. "How did this first start?" as he jotted down some notes. ! Helen blushed. I * She Tells Him. I —l had the toothache," with a de precative laugh, "and I'd heard some one say an electric bulb could be used I as a hot-water bottle." I The adjuster stared at her. | "Well, that's a new one on me." Then as he lifted the pink silk shade from the drop light by the bed, "Was i this the bulb?" ' nodded, her color deepening, I should call that a pretty danger 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 "l ! n s ß re Mr - Curtis wouldn't wish you to allow it if it's not regular," re torted Helen stiffly, resenting his pat i ronizing tone. i h ' ~t h^t u be . all right; tell your 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 afternoon that she disapproved of his slightly facetious attitude, i "i, 1 !. stal 'tf, d tO , Put away the i burnt bedding. The sheets would do for the ironing board, she reflected. They 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 i blanket could be cut off and still leave them wide enough for htfr bed. i And the mattress—after all would jit need a new top? She was almost ; sure she could get that same tickin<- ! at Warners, and by matching the stripes a patch would hardly be no- I *L ced -, A " ( 1 the DlHOW—she could patch | that in the same way. |. The joy of getting something for I nothin- is strong in every woman, I and Helen was no exception. And , now the thought that she was get ting twenty dollars to buy new bed j ding, while she was able to make such , advantageous use of the old, was . highly gratifying. , s , lle runted over the possl- I bilities of the twenty dollars. [ She could get the two sheets for four } dollars—for less if she waited for a I sale. And the blanket—lust last ' week she had seen one of those pale ; blue French blankets, so much more . attractive than this old-fashioned, pink-bordered one, for eight dollars. I 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 ' satisfactory deal. The thought that , it was not quite a fair one to the in surance company did not trouble her I for had not Warren made out the I claim? And he always leaned back ward in his honesty. If HE thought it was all right, surely she need not ] wor-v. j 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 lng. and now with keen feminine In terest she had stopped bv to talk it over. \ot r. no null j Again Helen displayed the burnt I bedding, and told of the claim of twenty dollars which the adiuster had | just allowed. [ "Twenty dollars! In THAT all vnu asked for?" | "Why. I e«n fix up the things for | tions that youth treats with brutal land fatal directness. • i The fourth reason why early mar | riages are almost sure to bring mis jery instead of happiness to those who I contract them is that no boy's or girl's I 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 jfancied ourselves in love with in our salad days fill us with weariness and repulsion when we have reached ma turity. There are foolish sentimentalists i who advocate early marriage on the | ground that a young couple will grow | U P 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. Either the hus | band outgrows the wife, or the wife I outgrows the husband, and there is | left that hideous death-in-life of mat ! rimony where the superior one must lever drag about with him or her the corpse of love. Look About You I It is true that not all youthful mar j 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 support a wife. Wait 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 f* 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 I don't think they would have allowed any more. "Oh. all the companies expect to pay big for small accidents. That's I their best advertisement. You re-I i member that centerpiece we burned?" I Helen shook her head. Helen IN I)e|>re»9ied . "Oh. no, it was the Thurstons. Well, I Henry overturned a candle and burnt i a hole In that Milan centrepiece—and | clear through the table-cloth. I put I 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. 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, I don't believe a woman knows what I business honestly means. I'd trust | the crookedest man I know a darn i .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 i 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 I hardware, paints and painting sup plies, and are ready to serve the pub- I lie with the wants with a brand new ' stock at prices that will interest them, I If you are 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 newly weds. 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- 1 tinental motor, electric starting and lighting system; 116-inch wheel base,: 34x4 tires, and the whole affair in the ; pink of condition. If you are looking l for a real bargain, see this one to-day. Abbott Motor Car Co., 106 South Sec- I ond street. QUO VADIS Bid You Welcome! You who are essentially of Film dom should see Filmdom's mightiest creation. Go see Quo Vadis," and you will agree that the world's last master- j piece Is, made. You may see It on Monday next, afternoon and evening, i at the Victoria Theater. Just one day April 27th. MPS. HOUSEKEEPER When you start cleaning house you I 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, if not Gohl-Bruaw & Co., 310 Strawberry street, Harrisburg, Pa, EMBROIDERED CREPE WITHVEST OF BET Separate Blouses 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 vcstee 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 crtpes with collar and cuffs of plain material and vestee of net, but the model could be used quite as sue* cessfully for an entire net blouse or for chifT«n 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, 2 % yds. 36, 2 yds. 44 in. wide, with J-S yd. 27 in. wide for collar, re vers and cuffs, % yd. for the vestee. The pattern of the blouse 8202 is cut in sizes from 34 to 42 inches bust meaa ire. It will be mailed to any address by the Fashion Department of this paper, on re- I ceipt of tea cents. .Bowman's sell May Manton Patterns. I 1 • * ' Miss Fairfax Answers Queries *- CIRCUMSTANCES MAY EXPLAIN DKAR 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 I admits having had two young men, .whom she had never met before, kiss ihjj. (There were no kissing games.) | Please advise what action to take, and what is your opiniop of her. STEADY READER There is no excuse for her silliness in 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. I.ET 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 i 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 of 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 tho study of Dickens in schools. The name of Charles Dickens has! 1 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 I the highly cultured. This impression ' arises from the fact that one scarcely meets a person prominent in public I life —an educator, a lawyer, a judge, I a minister —who is not familiar with the writings of Charles Dickens. No library is complete without Dickens. Even an accumulation of books not dignified by the term "Library" must have Dickens. An impression exists among some that the works of a great author are difficult to read; an uninteresting task. [Nothing could be further from the 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. j Klein Co I 11 Announce Fo Spring Garments at Worthy Reductions I j At this New Store for Women to-morrow is offered an exception- |j| | j al opportunity to secure at revised prices the new models in Spring gar- |j ments. In all of these garments there is the customary individuality of I Klein Co. models; all of them expressing the latest word of Fashion |J II 1 in both style and color. • SUITS ' a | BU^B m °dish Eton, the Cutaway, | j and Bolero Coats, with soft roll collars or l| j j the wired standing collars are among the jl| i tf F° r Saturday the suits which formerly /O-Z'l II I | fglfllff sold from $32.50 to $38.50 will be sold for S / $23.75 vry i|S| J Also on Saturday we will sell other IU \ \ j'i' 9j $16.75 AND $18.75 U, W/ Formerly sold from $24.50 to $31.75. * || j I ALOISES I A particularly fetching model of Handkerchief Linen with lawn Glad- I 111 stone collar. $5.00 value. In three shades; apricot, white and I* f\ i-! Nile green. For Saturday Hi Another model of Handkerchief Linen, with self-trimmed collar. $3 98 ill' value. In pink, white and apricot. Ark III! For Saturday $2.98 Moire Coats in Eton, Bolero MKflk and three-quarter length ef- RKv f, v ( fects which sold from $15.00 to cSJSr' 17 ' 50 $12.50 ,*#lll^* Serge, Whipcord and Serge Ml ! $ > °^ >^n COatS from |s| v«s The new Golfine Coats in all // I ll F~" i \ \ models. A large assortment //I Ili \ / \ J of colors. For Saturday only, // I I i w U $13.75 T Were $17.50 and $19.75. DRESSE S 1 Comfortable Morning House Dresses in charming styles. Made of fig- ijlj ured Crepes, Voiles, Ginghams, Percales and Lawns. High, square and Ili low necks. Sleeves in short and long lengths. For Saturday only the price I I will be I j I 98c 111 MILLINERY The latest word in Spring Millinery is expressed in the . !'|! shapes and colors of the hats which to-morrow we offer at note-worthy reductions. Untrimmed Shapes, correct Spring models. QQ (( N- Special at r 5/OC [( l) |l|| Untrimmed Hemp Shapes, in all colors, j 49 All $6.00 to SB.OO Trimmed Hats, QQ %~fII j special at Ijll The New Store For Women |jj 9 North Mark HERSHEY WITHOUT ELECTRIC POWER Fire Destroys Engine Room at Big Plant and Causes Trouble Special to The Telegraph Hershey, Pn., April 24. —Ltet even ing at 5.80 the entire community waa aroused by the blowing of the fire alarm on the Hershey chocolate fac tory whistle. The engine room of the main power plant was completely de stroyed and us a consequence the en tire town Is without electric power. Not a single trolley car is 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 (Ire and the amount of the total loss cannot be given at this writing. A call for help was 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 smoke and had to be carried out of the building. He received medical 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 this capacity. The large chocolate plant will be compelled to run on* half capacity for a few day« and IV will take a few weeks until tha entire damage will bo repaired. Sev eral hundred employes went back to work this morning. MOOSE ENLARGE HERD More than two hundred candidate were taken Into the Harrisbur* 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 MOON homa in a body where a buffet luncheon was served. The Steelton Glee Out* furnished the music. CHAUFFEURS WILL UANCIE The first annual ball of the National Chauffeurs' Association, Harrlsburg, lodge, No. 23, will be held to-nlghtJ at Swab's hall, Thirteenth and Marked streets. Four gold prises will bai awarded the best tango dancers walteers. 15
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