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k Don't Believe in
By DOROTHY DIX
If I could say one word more earn
est than any other to working girls,
would be this:
WX'T BELIEVE IN FAIBY
r'ALES, GIBLS.
i'he story of Cinderella and the
*'alry Prince is Action. It never hap
pens in real life. It never happened
PS any girl. It assuredly is never going
»o happen to you; so get the silly idea
out of your head and get down to the
i«al business of life.
Do you know why the working girl
so easily falls a victim to the wiles
of any well-dressed man? It is be
cause she still believes in fairy tales.
She really lives in a romance that
she manes up for herself. In it some
god-like male creature, who is a hap
py combination of a matinee hero and
a philanthropic millionaire catches a
glimpse of her at her counter, or in
her cashier's wicket, or over her sew
ing machine, and he falls madly in
love with her, and marries her, and
takes her off to live in a golden palace
In Fifth avenue, and she becomes a
society queen, and has her pictures in
the newspapers every day.
That's the stuff the working girl's
dream is made of, and she 's so anx
ious to find this Fairy Prince that she
fits his cap on every man she meets
who looks like what she considers a
"swell." He doesn't even have to be a
deep, dark, subtle villain to deceive
her. She deceives herself into be
lieving that a street flirtation means!
an overwhelming passion that she has j
inspired in the man's breast; and that
n few Joy rides and a dinner or two at
a restaurant, and a summer excursion
mean marriage in the end.
Many a girl has wakened up from
her dream of the Fairy Prince to wish
that she had never been born, and to
find that her hero had just been
amusing an idle hour with her, and
when he had tired of her, had thrown
her aside like a broken top, careless
whether he had wrecked her life.
Quit dreaming girls. Wake up and
face the truth, and that is that men
rarely marry out of their class. They
may find the working girl pretty, and
piquant, and her very unconventional
ly diverting, but when a man of fam
ily, and wealth, and tradition mar
ries he almost always picks out for a
xvife a woman who knows how to give
dinners, and run an establishment, and
who can add her fortune and her so
cial prestige to his.
Of course there are exceptions to
this rule, but the average working girl
has Just as much chance to be elected
President as she has to marry a mil
lionaire.
Look with suspicion upon every
CITIZENS COMMENT FURTHER
ON THE CITY IMPROVEMENTS
Senator E. E. Beidlenian made the
following statement:
"Harrisburg is the best city In the
State and she has been made so by
fthe municipal improvements of the
past ten years. It is a pleasure to
meet the many people from other
places to have them tell us how pro
gressive we are and their desire to fol
low our example. Instead of the op
position we had at the outstart, we
now find our people eager and willing
to make the city a bigger and better
place in every way."
Dr. William E. Wright, prominent
physician, expresses the hope that city
government will in time come to be on
a par with the quality of the improve
ments. He says:
"I suppose no person has a better
opportunity to observe the good and
the bad things about a city th-n a
physician who travels its streets from
end to end during the entire year.
Looking at Harnsburg to-day and re
membering what she presented several
years ago makes one feel that some
where within her walls there is a
source of much energy, producing
great things which can be equally en
joyed by all of her citizens. I am
certainly in favor of a greater and
more beautiful Harrishurg, but above
all I should like to see these mag
nificent Improvements topped by a
government which the city can boast
of with as much pride as she does of
her recent improvements."
Robert A. Endors. banker and for
mer president of the West End Im
provement Association:
"I am tremendously enthusiastic
over what has been accomplished in
the way of public Improvements in
our city within the last fifteen years.
"It is only proper that we should
give a public demonstration in honor
of all the good citizens who have
given their time, means and encour
agement to the splendid improvements
achieved.
"I believe there is a great future
for our "city beautiful' and the cele
bration in honor of that which we
have accomplished will put into us the
high spirit of determination to con
tinue the good work."
Arthur T). Baoon, president, of the
Rotary Club:
"I am pleased to contribute my
praise of Harrisburg and rejoice in the
celebration planned by the Chamber
of Commerce to memorialize the con
clusion of the 1901 program of mu
nicipal Improvements.
"Have you ever watched an insect
in the first stages of its metamor
phosis after leaving the egg? The
larva, then the crysalis, the evolution
from the worm to the beautiful but
terfly! That has been my recollection
of Harrisburg then and now.
"The time was when we had very
few words of praise for our home city,
hut thanks to the voters at the 1901
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Fairy Tales, Girls
man above your own grade in ltfo
who offers you attentions, girls. Nine
ty-nine times out of a hundred he is
a wolf in sheep's clothing, and he
has exactly the same intentions to
ward you as a hungry wolf would have
toward a defenseless little lamb.
Another great harm that girls' art
less faith in fairy tales does is that in
looking out for the Fairy Prince, who
never comes, they only too often over
look the honest young suitor who is
on the ground, and who would make
| a million times better husband than
I any romantic hero. Naturally, if you
were expecting to suddenly be snatch
ed away from your daily grind to a
state of luxury you would turn up your
nose at the prospect of a little flat
built for two.
That's why many a girl turns
down the good, honest-hearted young
mechanic or clerk, who can offer her
only the love of his heart and the work
of his hands and the chajice. to build
up in life with him. Her silly head is
filled with fool dreams about being a
millionaire's bride, and by the time
she wakes up from her dream her
chance of real happiness has gone.
Still another harm that believing
in fairy tales does girls is that it
i paralyzes their effort. Every employer
! will tell you that when a woman gets
down to business, and gives her mind
ito it, she can cut circles around al
| most all of her male competitors. No
j body can find out as much about a
; subject as a woman can when she
really sets herself to Investigate it.
Nobody can remember so many de
tails. Nobody is shrewder than a
j woman, or loves to bargain better. No
man can be as fanatically Intent on
[ one subject as a woman can be.
All of the special sex peculiarities of
women lend themselves to success in
business; yet, in spite of these qualifi
cations. women are generally paid less
than men in business simply because
their work is worth less.
And the reason of this is that few
women think it worth while to ever
learn their business thoroughly be
cause they don't expect to follow it
except for a little while. They are de
pending on somebody else to come
along and support them, and bestow
upon them the money they want, in
stead of earning it themselves.
It's the fatal belief in Fairy Tales
again, and if the time ever comes
when girls realize that there's going
to be no magic wand business in
theirs, and that the only way that
their serge suits will be changed into
spangled robes, and their street car
into a limousine, is by their own good
work, then we shall not have to pass
laws securing a minimum wage for
girls. They'll earn a living salary,
with frills on It, for themselves.
election who had the vision of what
we . have already realized, we have
changed our notion of things and we
1 annot praise Harrisburg too highly
upon its successful* graftless, civic im
provements. Why, we're proud of
Harrisburg now.
"Harrisburg no longer is a mud
hole, a malarial, unsanitary place, a
place in which our children have to
play In the streets, with dirty water to
drink as a beverage, a foul-smelling
Paxton creek, a flooded condition with
every heavy downpour of rain, etc.,
but we have paved streets, unsanitary
conditions have been made sanitary,
we now drink pure filtered water, and
Paxton creek is a paved sluiceway
from our Wildwood dam, which saves
the valley from Inundation. My! but
things have changed when one thinks
about it. Don't forget the parks and
playgrounds.
"I haven't the impression that we
are through; why, bless vou, we've
just begun to make this city the best
Place on earth to live In. We want
rubllc comfort stations, better fire
fighting facilities with a paid fire de
partment, a new first class hotel and
a house to house line Market street
subway, and other improvements too
numerous to mention in the space
allotted.
"Yours for an unending stride to
achieve all the good things possible
for Harrisburg."
B. F. Umberger, member of the
City Planning Commission and for
mer president of Select Council: "The
progress of Harrisburg in the matter
of municipal improvements has been
wonderful. As an interested student
I have studied closely the results. The
greatest result has been not in the
improvements themselves but in the
spirit which inevitably follows mu
nicipal improvements: Civitism— the
love of city. The people of Harris
love thelr city, are proud
of it. This was not so before the im
provement campaign.
"I would like to see the people learn
the next step, viz: that growth in it
self is not to be encouraged except
as it may bring happiness and con
tentment to the people. This is
brought about not by increase of
wealth following increase of popula
tion, but by the growth of culture,
refinement and taste in municipal
matters. The end of municipal gov
ernment is the happiness and con
tentment of the people, and this is
brought ahout not by increase of
wealth and population, but by the
growth of civitism among the peo
ple. Strive for the real end: happi
ness, not wealth."
S. S. Eherts, former member of
council and ex-president of the Board
of Trade: "Harrisburg has grown,
during the last fourteen years, from
what might be termed a country town
to one of the most beautiful cities of
the world, which has been brought
about by Its citizens who are now
equally enjoying the results.
"It is a question If there has ever
been another city anywhere In the
eastern part of our country that has
developed from a civic and sanitary
standpoint in such a short time. Thfs
was not only accomplished by the
constant and untiring efforts of a
few men and women, but the con
certed effort and co-operation of its
citizens as a whole. It required not
only the efforts and united will of the
people, but a great sacrifice from a
standpoint of finance as well. Our
numerous improvements are not only
beautiful but thoroughly substantial
and secured at a reasonable cost. We
should all look forward with great
pride, as well as give our personal
assistance, In celebrating our city of
beautiful homes, comforts and health
ful and picturesque surroundings,
which virtually Interests every man,
woman and child.
"As a word of caution, we must not
I become thoroughly contented and
! satisfied with what has been done,
; but keep right on our high pedestal
of Ideals, making improvements and
; beautifying from every standpoint, as
| well as properly maintaining what lm-
I provements have already been made,
Ito not only hold the high place we
i have attained as a _clty and a people,
i but forge to the front and be second
to none."
A NEW SKIRT
WITH SHAPED YOKE
k Smart Model that Gives Graceful
and Becoming Lines.
By MAY~MANTON
f ß6n Yoke Skirt, 24 to 32 waist.
F.yery variation of the yoke skirt ti
fashionable. This one is distinctly new
and interesting _ and not alone is the
yoke shaped in an unusual manner
there also is a plain back which gives the
effect of height. The plaits are stitched
for a portion of their length, pressed flat
below, consequently they flare when the
wearer walks. The model is an excellent
one for the coat suit and for the gown
and appropritely can be utilized for the
materials of the Spring and for those of
the summer, for wool, for silk, linen and
for the heavier cottons. The finish can
be made at the high or at the natural
waist line. In the illustration, Japanese
cotton crfipe is shown in one of the new
•hades of gray and the skirt is designed
for wear with shirt waists.
For the medium size will be needed 5
yds. of material 27 or 36 in. wide, 3%
yds. 44 in. wide; it is 3 yds. wide at the
lower edge before the plaits are laid.
The pattern 8611 is cut in sizes from
34 to 32 in. wiast measure. It will be
mailed to any address by the Fashion
Department of this paper, on receipt of
ten cents.
Bowman's sell May Manton Patterns.
Says London Is Fortress
and Declares Residents
Should Be Told to Leave
By Associated Press
Berlin, Sept. 15, via London 11.25
a. m.—Count Von Beventlow, the na
val writer, replies In the Tages Zei
tung to-day to British criticisms, of
German airship raids over London.
He states that London is a fortress
and that Sir Percy Scott, the newly
appointed derender of the city from
aerial attacks, should order the civil
population of London to depart.
The count asserts it is not Ger
many's responsibility that the fortress
of London, attacked many times, has
not been evacuated, and states that
the failure of the British government
to order the people to abandon It
shows "disdainful disregard of the
principles of humanity, civilization
and international law."
OUR PADDED NEWSPAPERS
It is well known that journalism en-'
courages superficiality, but perhaps
few appreciate to how great an extent.
Journalism creates superficial readers.
Unfortunately, the Immense growth of
modern knowledge in all branches
makes an Intelligent superficiality a
necessary requirement of education.
The man who reads line for line and
word for word is in these days
stranded on a desert island. Everybody
must make a dart for useful Infor
mation ®id snatch it where he can.
But sound mental discipline requires
that this versatility should be tem
pered by a certain amount of slow,
steady, thoughtful, drudging applica
tion. Now the newspapers and cur
rent magazines do not encourage this
—they do not even admit of It. Who
would plod through a page of a great
dally? Who could? Instead, we are
trained to run diagonally from top to
bottom between two mouthfuls, or In
the midst of an inquiry as to the
neighbor's baby. Nothing takes our
attention but what is thrown at It;
nothing really stimulates our thought
but a leaded headline or a staring pic
ture.
But here is a strange thing: Tou
would think this wild hurry of writers
and readers would at least foster one
of the chief literary merits—brevity.
Quite the contrary. Our newspapers
are one of the wonders of the world
for size—and padding. Why it is that
when most of us want to read only
the headlines, and should apparently
be satisfied with headlines and nothing
else, every newspaper is stuffed with
column after column of amplification
which seems to add little to the few
essential words printed at the top?
The reason is obvious. It Is precisely
because we have acquired such a
happy facility in the art of skipping
that we are perpetually invited to skip
—like little lambs. I want to satiate
myself with baseball, you with the
cotton market, Jones with politics.
Mrs. Jones with murder. We can each
of us make perfect brevity of the oth
ers' interests. But brevity for the pa
per as a whole would be quite out of
the question.—Gamaliel Bradford, in
The North American Review.
A CALL TO MEN
What we need Just now more than
we need big guns and big ships and
shells that weigh more than a ton is
good, strong, earnest men, men who
will carry on the farm work just as
faithfully as they would manage a
great factory or follow the flag into a
strange country.
The men whose name we bear drove
back the great forests with their axes;
they traveled roads marked only by
blazed trees: they rode on a sled
drawn by oxen to mill and to church:
they fought wildcats, bears and pan
thers: they ate coarse bread made of
cornmeal, and they put this country
where it is—at the very top of all the
nations of the earth.
Your battlefield and mine lies right
where that of our fathers did; but we
have a different work to do.
Our task is to make the farms bet
ter, to help the world to live better,
to keep the country they made at
such great price clean and honest and
true, and to put our hand under the
arm of every poor fellow that is hav
ing a hard time. And this is a chal
lenge to the very best there is in us!
—E. I* Vincent in Farm Lite.
HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH
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Price Style
We have built this • xx , . . .
We maintain an of
reputable business on £j ce ' an( j com p an y q Uar _
our ability to sell first A * WT 9 ters in New York and
class merchandise at AlllllMlll- WIHI iP Y ™ 3re in constant touch
wt llilvl with the world's creators
lowest possible prices. of fashion
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Sept. 16, 17 and 18
On Above Three Days V/e Hold the
SEASON'S OPENING
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CLOTH7\G d KOR a mfv "Spv 'YvSVK™ ln h " fhoßt P ralsp of ,h <" excellent selections of
# , , ~ WOMEN AND CHILDHKN, that we have nronarcd for this occasion Thorp
fore, we have decided to leave that to our CUSTOMERS and the GENERAL PUBLIC.
hu 11"(-omn oV'n'.Li',? 0V 'n'.Li',? "V? ? 1 P c . nlnß ' , a i Ml sincerely hope that everybody In and about Harris
sitTon In nohLrfv I, lnto, lL' r < hi s occasion for a sort of a party: not a selllne propo.
with £ buy. We want everybody to come; we want to acquaint you
wav of d<^n*hulnp f. »! .. n. . n 'T mndi T : we "; ant yo " to »*«>•»<* acquainted with our liberal
S^d°B Lp O A^, Stylo 'snt is fa cti on. Cnr< " nal I>r,m " ,ks "»*>" " l,l<h ,his b «"<ness
There will be no music, no flowers and no expensive souvenirs—just merchandise We have done
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Sept. 16, 17 and 18
Quality Livingston S Satisfaction
9S. Market Square , * s
We carry strictly aim t0 sell mer .
standard quality mer- chandise that will satisfy
chandise only, and in • every buyer, and what's
addition to that Living- * more, we guarantee ab
ston's stands back of * solute satisfaction or
every transaction. back U Ur mone y
MING NOW BEING
TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS
More Than 2,500 Students in
Pennsylvania Coal Regions At
tend Night Institutes
The fifth annual reports of the
Mining Institutes in the Anthracite
Region, which are conducting Mining
Schools at night, under the direct
control of the local Public School
Boards, have just been completed by
the Presidents and Secretaries of
these Mining Institutes, and have been
compiled and arranged In a compre
hensive and combined report by
Charles K. Gloman, Chief Clerk of
the Susquehanna Coal Company,
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and this report has
been made public by the companies
which have taken aji especial interest
in this work.
This is the second season of direct
control by the Public School Boards
and of direct co-operation by the
State Department of Public Instruc
tion, with the continued moral and
financial support of the operating coal
companies, and the wisdom of this
method of control has been amply
proved.
With advisory committees repre
senting both the employers and em
ployes to co-operate with the public
school authorities the three elements
are united which assure the present
and future success of the schools.
The needs of the employe and the
needs of the employer are thus com
bined with the knowledge and exper
ience of the educational experts. The
best proof of the success of this com
bination is that eleven of the students
passed the State examinations for
mine foremen and forty-four students
passed the State examinations for as
sistant mine foremen this year, and
the total number of students has in
creased enormously.
More than 2.500 Students
There were over 2,500 students en
rolled in the schools of the Nanticoke
Mining Institute, the Shamokin and
Mt. f'armel Mining Institute and the
Williams Valley Mining Institute in
the season which ended this spring,
and the aggregate membership of
these Institutes was 2296. The fol
lowing table shows the remarkable
growth of the first two Institutes and
their schools since they were founded
in 1910:
Nanticoke Shamokin and
Institute. Mt. Carmel Inst.
Members.
Students.
Members.
Students.
l'9lo-ll 500 100 108 25
1911-12 501 128 254 56
191 2-13 679 637 * 571 763
1913-14 821 841 761 1016
1914-15 928 1269 1073 1062
In addition to this the Williams
Valley Institute which has Just com
pleted its second year had 295 mem
bers and 242 students.
It is not only the men who are In
structed in the rudiments and the
technical subjects which pertain to
mining. During five months of the
last season Mrs. Anna Snyder Lape
was employed by the Nanticoke Min
ing Institute as Field Secretary for the
sewing classes for married women and
employed girls. The last month of
her time was devoted to a canvass of
the houses in the community and she
secured no less than 559 applications
from women to attend the night
classes in sewing, cooking and Eng
lish this fall.
These schoolß conducted by the
Mining Institutes under the direction
and authority of the local School
Boards aided by the State Department
of Public Instruction have the hearty
co-operation and support of the coal
companies whose employes attend
• them. In the Nanticoke District the
Susquehanna Coal Co., the Delaware.
Lackawanna & Western R. R. Co., the
Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Co. and
the Alden Coal Co. are their suppor
ters. In the Shamokin and Mt. Car
mel District the companies interested
are the Susquehanna Coal Co. and the
Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron
Co. The majority of the students at
the Williams Valley Institute schools
are employes of the Susquehanna Coal
Co.
Similar night schools have been
conducted in the boroughs of Ply
mouth and Shickshinny. under local
school board auspices only.
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wanted
s—From a daylight factory >.
I, 1 VERY day when the good sun shines, he streams his J
JLj brightness through the windows of the Sterling Kitchens /
■ g —all day long! /
2 "Cleanliness first! "he says, as he looks in every corner. f
I And his cheery presence shows sparkling machinery producing £
Sterling Gum, neat employes in caps and aprons and wearing *
snow-white gloves. /
Can you wonder then that Sterling Gum looks so clean
■ and sweet? /
Can you doubt that the 7th point is well-worth the search ?
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SEPTEMBER 15, 1915
Harrington Defeats Lee
For Democratic Place on
Gubernatorial Ticket
By dssocintcd Press
Baltimore. Sept. *s. : —State Comp
troller Emerson C. Harrington decis
ively defeated United States Senator
Blair Lee for the Democcatic nomine
tion for governor at tjie state primary
yesterday. Harringtoh carried 16 of
the 23 counties and two of the four
districts of Baltimore City, giving him
a majority of at least 15 votes in the
state convention which is to be held
to ratify the choice of the people.
Ovington E. Weller, chairman of
the State Roads Commission, was the
Republican choice for the guberna
torial nomination.
The other nominees are: State At
torney General Albert C. Ritchie, Bal
timore, Democrat; A. A. s>oub, Alle
gheny county, Republican. Stato
Comptroller, H. A. McMuJlen, Alle
gheny county. Democrat; Robert F.
Duer, Somerset county, Republican.
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