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Why My lie Left Me j
By DOROTHY DIX
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By DOROTHY DIX
"I lost my wife," said tlio ninth
man, "through thinking that just be
ing married to me was picnic enough
for any woman.
"Of course 1 did not consciously put
the matter that way to myself when
I was first married. 1 am not egotis
tic enough for that, but to all in
tents and purposes that was the at
titude that 1 took with my wife. I just
assumed that any woman who had
achieved the transcendent good for
tune to lie married to me had drawn
such a lucky number in life that she
couldn't possibly desire anything else,
and that having confered that su
premo honor and bliss on her of mak
ing her my wife, 1 had done my full
duty by her, and need never make an
other effort to please.
"Maybe that domestic plan of cam
paign used to work. Perhaps there
was a time when women wore so
ufraid of being old maids and so filled \
with gratitude to the men who saved
them from that fate that they were J
willing to put up with any sort of'
treatment from a husband, and en- ]
dure any sort of neglect, but, take it i
from me, that that time has passed, j
"Any girl of fair intelligence can i
make us good a living for herself
;is her husband is likely to make for
her. Moreover old maids are not
looked upon with contempt. They
are regarded with envy by their sis
ters as women who have had enough j
sense to sidestep trouble, and so
women aren't partcularly strong for
this beatific marriage stuff just now.
Still Under an Illusion
"Well, 1 wasn't wise to that fact, as
1 am now. I was still under the illu
sion that all you had to do was to put
a wedding ring on a girl's finger and
she could spend the balance of her
life having a perfectly good time
twiddling it around, like a kitten
playing with a string. So I picked out
a nice, bright, intelligent young wom
an for a wife, and set her up in a
comfortable little flat, and thought
that ended the matter so far as I was
concerned, and it was up to her to
make a happy home.
"In looking back upon the wreck of
our lives I can't remember that T
ever did a single, solitary thing to
make my wife happy or to entertain
her, or to make life bright and agree
able for her. Of course, I supported
her, or 1 thought I did, though per
haps the woman who gives her entire
time and services to making a com
fortable home has some different ideas
on the subject and considers that she i
earns her own board and clothes. I i
should, if I worked that hard for any!
employer, and expect some pocket!
money besides, which my wife never |
got, though I'm not a tightwad, what- i
ever my other faults. At any rate, T |
paid the family bills, and that was ■
all.
"I expected my wife .to always
have a good hot dinner prepared
for me. Sometimes I went home to
eat it. Sometimes I did not. It all
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I Miss Fairfax
l Answers Queries
*■ *
A YEAH TO J'ROVE YOI'KSELP
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
1 ant IS and have lived in the coun
try all my life. Now that ram of age
J have come to New York and want
to make a living. lam anxious to go
in moving pictures. My parents
threaten to disown me. I have been
offered a position at a small salary,
but enough to support myself, but my ;
parents will interfere and cause me!
to lose my position. I could marry
a young man 1 have known for two i
years, but do not care enough for him I
to. marry him. Still, if I do so, he I
will let me go on with my career.
O. L,. R. j
Don't marry this man merely to use j
him as a means for a chant* at the j
work you want to do. R would be 1
most unfair to him. and would prob- I
ably not work out advantageously fori
yourself. Try to persuade your par- |
ents to give you one year in which to j
prove yourself and your ability. Prom
ise them faithfully that if at the end
of that time you have had no success)
you will come home. And then, with 1
this incentive added to your natural j
liking for theatrical work, set serious
ly and earnestly about proving your,
ability. I have the utmost respect fori
I fllll When Johnny !
I ill I |l| Goes to School
| v 111 1 Trouble takes a fresh grip on the
- 'lllllllllllll household and worry brings more
I lit P I wrinkles to mother's brow. The
II problem of getting the youngsters off j
|ij! j ill to school is simple and easy if the
: ,| |jjj mother knows
i 11 Shredded Wheat
l| I the whole wheat cereal that is ready
|j|| cooked and ready-to-serve. One or
more Biscuits, heated in the oven to
restore crispness and served with hot
\ | milk, make a delicious, nourishing
•] ' meal to play on, to study on, to grow
f I on, and builds robust, sturdy boys
j girls.
TRISCUIT is the Shredded Wheat Wafer,
111 eaten as a toast with butter or soft cheese,
l|| or as a substitute for white flour bread
or crackers.
; Made only by
li The Shredded Wheat Co.
II Niagara Falls, N. Y.
THURSDAY EVENING,
(depended on whether anything more
agreeable to do turned up or not. If
I it WHS pleasant for me to stay down
• town, 1 stayed, without a thought of
i the hours of work she had spent in
cooking just what I liked to eat. or of
. the lonely and discouraged evenings I
i was leaving her to spend alone.
Ijooked as He Felt
"When I was at home if t felt like
j talking 1 talked. Otherwise I sat
. i silent and grouchy, or read the paper.
I never took the trouble to try to he
entertaining to my wife as I would to
any strange woman at a dinner party.
"Of course, we went to the theater
—when I felt like it-—and we went to
entertainments given by our friends,
but half the time when I went to
places with my wife where 1 really
enjoyed myself very much, I went so
unwillingly and with such an ill grace
that I must have spoiled all of her
pleasure by my conduct.
"Like so many other married men,
jl regarded my'wife's family as my
■ hereditary foes, though they are, in
reality, charming anil delightful peo
ple. But when any of them came to
,visit us, and especially when her,
mother came, I went about with the
I air of a persecuted martyr, and was so
(cross and glum that it simply tor
tured my wife, trying to keep things
pleasant on the outside and make her
mother feel welcome, and from per
ceiving how despicable I was.
" 'How quiet John is,' I remember
j hearing my mother-in-law say once
when I was indulging in one of these
silent grouches.
" 'Oh, yes, mother, he is very quiet.'
my wife answered with a little break
in her voice.
" 'Do you know, that surprises he?'
replied my mother-in-law, innocently,
'for when he was courting you one of
the things that I liked about him was
that he was so jolly. A cheerful hus
band does so much to make a bright
home.'
"Men change so after they are
married," my wife answered-—and it
stabs me to the heart to remember
the sadness of her reply.
"I never did a single thing to try
to make my wife happy. I never de
vised any little pleasure for her. I
never suggested her going on any
little trip, or taking any little pleas
ure. Everything she got out of me
she got after a wrangle over it that
rubbed all. of the gilt, off the gin
gerbread. Worse still, I talked to
her as I would not have talked to
any other woman on earth.
"She stood it for a few years, then
I she got tired and quit. She divorced
jme and married another man. 1 saw
j her the other day, and her face had
! lost the old strained expression it
I wore when we were married. She
| looked very peaceful and happy.
"Not all married women who are
miserable have the courage to get
divorces, but when I see a man treat
ing his wife as I treated mine, T
wonder if he doesn't know that he
has lost her, even though she may be
sitting by his side."
! this field of work and am confident
j that a girl who is determined to be-
I have herself can do so wherever she
,is placed. Persuade your parents to
have faith in you and to give you a
year in which to prove yourself. I
am sure they will see the wisdom of
this course.
YOU SHOULD HAVE «OXE BACK
FOR HER
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
The other day, returning from an
evening performance with a girl
friend, r met some friends, one of
| whom requested 11s to stop at her
| home. The time being near midnight,
i and having promised her mother to be
1 back by 12, I refused. My companion,
I though, was determined to go, and
1 would not listen otherwise, so I left
her with her friends and went direct
ly to her mother, to whom I ex
| plained. I contend that as I took the
| girl to the theater it was her duty to
i go home with me. On the other hand,
she says I owe her an apology for
j insulting her before her friends by
fbaving her behind. Am I in the
wrong? H. L. A.
The girl's mother must have appre
! ciated your loyalty to your promise
j to have her daughter home by mid
-1 night. ll' it was impossible to tele
j phone and ask whether the girl might
Igo to the house of her friends, you
. did the honorable thing by going to
I explain the delay to her mother.
DEEPEST REGRET IN
~ DEMOCRATIC RANKS
General Surprise and Dissatisfac
tion Over Confirmation of Post
master Lesher at Huntingdon
Special to The Telegraph
Huntingdon, Pa., March 4. —Con-
firmation of Joseph G, Lesher as Hunt
ingdon's next postmaster has caused
general surprise and deep regret. Dis
satisfaction obtains especially in local
Democratic ranks.
The term of the present incumbent,
Howard E. Blitz, Republican, expired
February 6 and shortly before that F.
L. Dershem. congressman of this (the
"shoestring") district, endorsed Mr.
Lesher for office. Ol* the several can
didates he was accorded the weakest
support locally. The sentiment of the
patrons of this ofllee was against him,
and it was well known that he relied
almost solely on the endorsement of
Congressman Dersheni and the sup
port of his cousin. John V. Lesher,
congressman from the Sunbury dis
trict.
While Lesher's candidacy was being
boomed by "Cousin John" and Der
shem, Representative A. Mitchell Pal
mer, who dispenses federal patronage
in Pennsylvania, daelined to take a
hand In the contest, on the ground
that intervention on his part would
be a violation of the rule governing
appointments in a district represented
by a Democratic congressman. Demo
crats here think Mr. Palmer's "non
intervention rule" too elastic to be
practical. As a Democratic party
leader put it, "it enables Mr. Palmer
to stand aloof when it suits his pur
poses and permits John V. Lesher to
intervene, with all his might, when
he wants to secure a post office plum
for a relative. And this is called
'nonintervention'."
Democrats here feel that if this is
the practical working of what Mr. Pal
mer terms "reorganized Democracy,"
under his leadership, they have had
enough of it.
WITH REAL EMPIRE
BODICE
k New Skirt, Modeled Closely After
Those of Long Ago.
By MAY MANTON
'550 One-Piece Tucked Skirt,
24 to 32 waist.
Every woman who has bidden away
among her treasures a gown of the
Empire period, will recognize this skirt as
being closely like it. It is straight and
just full enough to be in good style, and
it can be joined to a little close-fitting
bodice, or it can be arranged over a deep
pirdle, but the bodice is a feature that is
interestingly reminiscent. Such a skjrt
is pretty for every material that is thin
enough to tuck successfully. Net is
shown here and net is a deserved favorite.
There arc a great many silks and crfipes
that are charming treated in this way,
and all the beautiful cotton fabrics seem
especially designed for such ur-e. Among
the new ones crdpes are especially worthy
of mention, and the crSpcs show embroid
ered figures as wcil as plain colors. Such
a skirt can be made available for the
dancing gown of elaborate sort and for the
simple afternoon costume with equal suc
cess. In the picture net is trimmed with
roses to give an exceedingly dainty effect.
For the medium size wilt be needed s''>
yds. of material 27 or 36 in. wide, 3%
yds. 44. and yd. 36 for either bodice
or girdle.
The pattern Xo. 855,0 is cut in sizes
from 24 to 32 inches waist measure. It
will be mailed to any address by the Fash
ion Department 01* tins paper, on receipt
oi tuc sent*.
Bowman's soil May Munton Patterns.
Class Will Give Playlet
For New Building Fund
"How the Girls Kept a Secret," a
playlet, will be the feature- of JL musi
cal entertainment to be given by the
members of Mrs. \V. H. Brieker's Sun
day school class in Curtin Heights
Methodist Church. The following
members of the class will participate:
Misses Beatrix Barger, Margaret Shill
ing, lone Stouffer, Dorothy Gibbons,
Gertrude Lusk, Ruth White, Nora
Gross, Emily Chrisman, Emma Frank,
Mrs. Charles Frank.
The proceeds of the entertainment
will be used for the benefit bf (lie new
building fund. Features of the pro
gram are: Two organ numbers, bv
Miss J. Blanche Gingrich, organist of
the Maclay Street Church of God. und
member of the class; a piano duet, by
Misses Ruth White and Nora Gross;
solo, by Miss Dorothy Gibbons; chorus,
"The Bridal of the Birds," bv the class,
and a reading by Miss Kathryn Bricker.
SOCIAL, IIKM'KRS ENTERTAINED
Special to The Telegraph
Wain. Pa.. March 4.—-Last evening
the Reformed Minister's Social Helpers
Society was pleasantly entertained at
the home of Miss Evaline Shuman.
Ice cream were served.
HANDICAPPED
With but three minutes to catch his
train, tho traveling salesman inquired
of the street car conductor, "Can't you
go faster than this?"
"Yes," the bell-ringer replied, "but T
'have to stay with my car."—Harper's.
HARRISBURG TEL.EGRAPH
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self the question: "How shall I know which range to |
; ' yfe £|P |iy!H buy ?" the answer is, "Buy the 3-Fuel Combination Range." |
Let us demonstrate this 3-Fuel Conbination Range i
,p to you. We have the 1-Fuel Ranges also, S2O and up, T
all pipe included. 1
How About That Nice Carriage For That Nice Baby? j
This fresh, invigorating air is
;» 1 -j§| good for the little tots, makes them ~ £
1 / grow and saves doctor bills. |
<* We have 75 styles of Baby Ve- f
j|fe| !;■ M<Udn% hides starting at a rubber tire Sulky M
J> 98c all the way up the line to ■?
! ( S4O; handsome Carts at r
J ' $9.98, sl2, $lB, S2O & $25
<» s
• , Final Clearance of All Winter Garments 1
Men's Suits and Overcoats ONE-FOURTH original prices.
!<? Ladies' Suits, Coats and Skirts at a Sacrifice. s
Men's Mackinaws and Balmacaans at $2.98, $4.98, and $6.98 T
that formerly sold for sls, sl6 and S2O. |
J ust receive <3 another lot by request for those who were i
disappointed before—those famous Cedar Oil Mops for j
Iffitla 49c t
T WMmmrn A sl-50 mop, a half pint can of cedar oil [worth 25cl f
"iSiwß™ aH for 49c, while they last. I
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] Our Location Means a Great Saving to You I
HERS Of BIG
DEPARTMENT STORES
Are Marvels of Modern Age;
Women Delighl to Thread
Maye of Aisle
fine may have traveled far and wide,
in many countries, but probably in no
other place in the world, of the same
area, can one tind a greater number
o! interesting subjects than are found
in tlie modern r.-tall store. Women
have come to recognize this so fully
that one of the chief delights with a
vast number of them is to visit the
stores, whether they intend to pur
chase or not. It is next to taking a
trip around the world, for there are
few countries which are not repre
sented by the merchandise, which
speaks volumes to the thoughtful vis
llor of the long history of development
from the raw material to the finished
product anil of the countries from
which it comes. This merchandise
tells of the different grades of civ
ilization; of the honest endeavor to
produce perfect work; of the origin,
t he development of the articles and of
the makers of history who have played
so important a part in the origin of
styles and fashions.
Many Countries lU , |>r , esentctl
If the shopper were to follow the
process of manufacture of the various
articles from the beginning to their
final place in the homes of the pur
chasers it would bring one into con
tact with most of the activities of
mankind, in this great clearing house
for the handicraft of the workers of
the world there Is found the work of
the native needlewomen of the Euro
pean countries who have woven dainty
stitches into the lace and embroid
eries. and there tire represented the
cotton pickers of the South, who have
gathered the pure\white cotton into
baskets, and the workers at the loom
who have woven it into cloth, the
trapper from the cold countries of the
north, the diamond diggers of South
Africa, the silk growers of the Orient
and the rugmakers of Europe and
Asia.
When it is remembered that 10,000
people pass through the doors of some
of the large stores every hour In the
day it Is easily recognized what an
educational influence the department
stores of the country have on the peo
ple. It is said that there is no other
Institution where the esthetic element
is so strong or has so deep an in
fluence. Where art galleries attract
thousands, the department stores at
tract tens of thousands, and the works
of art in them are seen by a vast num-
her who would never think of going
to a place devoted alone to art. To
majiy-tlie commercialism of art makes
it far more attractive, and uncon
sciously they absorb more or less of
the art itself.
Vast Training School
Another function of the depart
ment store which the alert shopper
sees is that with Its thousands of em
ployes it is a vast training: school for
men, women and children, and that
there is no other commercial agency
which has a greater influence in mak
ing self-supporting citizens of the men
and women, and particularly of the
young people of the nation. The de
partment store has come to lie looked
upon as something of a profit-sharing
concern for the employer, employes
and customers, as they all share in its
benefits, and this may have something
to do with the claim of the latter that
they should have a voice in determin
ing the condition and treatment of em
ployes. The searchlight of public
opinion has been turned on some of
the department stores so strongly that
both the employers and employes have
been found wanting, and many im
provements have been made on both
sides within the last few years. Work
ers have been learning the best meth
ods for doing their work and increas
ing their efficiency. Employers have
learned that welfare and educational
work is one of the best investments
they can make, and the public gauges
its opinion of a store, its business
methods and how well it keeps abreast
of the tluies by Its treatment of Its
employes.
Lower Profits, Better Service
Few modern marvels surpass in in
terest the department store. There
may be other developments of twen
tieth century progress better fitted to
stand as a type of the age, but there is
no institution in which women as a
class are more deeply interested or
which affects them "more materially.
Jt Is a long step from the little cross
roads store of a few years ago to the
modern department store, but the lat
ter was evolved from the former. The
basic' idea of each was to furnish
goods to the customer in the best pos
sible manner, and the difference is
that the department store operates
on nn enlarged scale and with In
creased facilities. The method of
grouping many departments under one
roof and purchasing In large quanti
ties so reduced expenses that custom
ers profit by lower prices and better
service.
GOOD PRICES AT SALE
Special to The Telegraph
Annville. Pa,, March 4. —The sale of
livestock on the farm of E. C. Green
await, two miles southwest of Ann
ville, realized the best prices received
in this part of the country the past
year. Two cows sold for $211;. while
the average price was about S7B. A
pair of mules went for $390. The sale
amounted to $3,237.29.
MARCH 4, 1915.
English Child Conservation
Is Lesson to Americans
The following is quoted from Mabel J
Potter Daggett's remarkable .article j
entitled "Mothercraft in England," j
Pictorial Review for March.
What the Schools for Mothers are j
primarily aiming at is, of course, the j
conservation of the child. They |
brought to the Exchequer the mor- j
taltty statistics for the year 1914 and;
he found that these had declined
from a former average of one hun-'
dred and fifty-five deaths per thou-1
sand babies born, to the much lower!
average of ninety per thousand. The 1
way to keep babies alive and rising in i
weight, it is clear, is to get "fnmilies'
rising in the standard of living. The ]
housewifery that helps, can't come j
too early. Brides' classes to which i
bridegrooms are also invited, are be- |
ing organized in some of the schools
and the Swansea school in Wales has
summoned school girls of from
t Stiff Joints
Rheumatism
Sore Muscles
Oh! Such Pain!
No need for you to endure the
agony another hour. Touch the
painful epot with Sloan's Lini
ment and away flies the pain.
SLOANS
LINIMENT
KILLS PAIN (Guaranteed)
DR. CARL S. SLOAN, lac. Philadelphia. Pa. St. Louis, Mo.
Price, 25c.. 50c. and 11.00
twelve to fourteen to a class for "ap
prentice mothers." When Mrs. Gor
don registered at "The Welcome" in
1912, she was listed on the books in
J "Class A—Family in poverty," bv
I which is Indicated that they were
| without the necessaries for physical
( efliciency. In 1913 they wrote her
on the books of Class A into "Class
j B—Family above poverty line."
| Babies belonging to Class A, It is in-
I teresting to nole, average in weight
at twelve months seventeen pounds
fifteen and one-half ounces as eom-
I pared with the eighteen pounds thir
j teen and three-quarters ounces rec-
I orded as the average for babies from
I families of Class B. Robbie Gordon
j last Summer tipped the scales at
| twenty-two pounds, which was five
| pounds more than any previous Gor
|don one-year-old. That's how skilled
i motherhood counts.
Now what may not the baby weigh
when Father, too, gets all tlio train
ing that's coming to him ? —Pictorial
Review.
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