14 An International !«!.: Klmlra. V V Philadelphia, l*a.; Hl<-liiihhhl, \ a.: ItutTalo. \. Agents Wanted in Unoccupied Territory. Write, Wire or 'Phone Mercenary Marriages Few, Despite Cynics By DOROTHY 1)1 X A young man. who avers he is of a sentimental nature, complains bitterly about what he calls the commercializa tion of matrimony. He says scornfully that in these days girls do not marry lor love, as their grandmothers did. but that they regard marriage as a business proposi tion. and that unless a man can offer them a comfortable thing they will j have none of him. lie further alleges that when a man asks the modern girl \ to marry him she actually has the nerve to ask hint what he makes, and ; what his prospects are. This the young man considers shocking and he. opines that the rea son that so man; men don't marry is! because they cannot find any of the sweet, old-fashioned maidens who agree with the poet that love isj enough and who never asks for Brad street's blessing on their marriage. 1 think this matrimonial cynic, like •a good many other cynics, doesn't un derstand the situation at which he s-cofts. tn the first place, there were never, so few mercenary marriages made as are mside The woman i f the past had' to marry for a home and a meal ticket Also she had to marry to escape dependence, and to have any individual place in the world. If Grandma Wanted to Live She Had to Marry If Grandma Wanted to I ive She Had to Marry. In nur grandmother's day the only gainful occupations open to v omen were domestic service, factory work. sewing and teaching. All were .miserably ill-paid, and so if grandma wanted a decent living she had to ■ marry it. ' Also an old maid was a figure of fun. despised, put upon the fringe on some family that didn't want any ,ippliqued edge of poor fe nnle relations. So if grandma desired a home of her own. and position in society, and »lo he admired and respected, she had to marry an establishment, no matter wiiat s;ort of feeling she had about the gentleman who produced the where withal. The net result of this was that women shamelessly married, whether they loved or not, because marriage was the only open door to a career find livelihood. Without doubt a thousand women in the past made a sordid, mercenary marriage, literally sold themselves in marriage. where one woman does now. Tor the first time in the history of the world women are free to foiow the dictates of their own hearts in matrimony, because with all the ave nues of gainful occupation that have opened up before the feminine sex. the modern girl can support herself as well as the average husband is likely to do. The girl with a job can afford to marry for love, and the man that sho says "yes" to can rest in perfect satis faction that he is loved for himself alone, and loved greatly, because the I'JpHE other day a man said to us, "Great ji| Scott, everybody in Harrisburg must read your Want Ad Page. About a week ago, I had some furniture in the house for which I had no further use and put a Want Ad in the £& TELEGRAPH to see if I couldn't sell some |gj of it. Well, sir, I could have sold a carload Ssj of furniture from that one little Want Ad." And this man is well known in Harrisburg SS —his name is withheld on request. Hundreds of others are taking advantage js£ of these little money-savers. Is your attic or jg> basement overloaded with a lot of useless as jg? furniture, an old stove, or perhaps a carpet jS or two? Turn 'em into cash, the Want Ad gr |way. Just call 4100 and let us help you word gS fig your ad. It'll cost' but a penny a word. KK What this other man has done, you can do, §5 jig with a TELEGRAPH Want Ad. § Try Telegraph Want Ads Try Telegraph Want Ads Igirl of to-day thinks a good long white before she surrenders her individual | poeketbook and freedom. The work ing girl doesn't marry to get some body to pay for her hats and gowns. On the other hand, she expects to re nounce most of these frivols by mar rying tor observation has taught her that the woman who earns her owu | clothes generally has many more of I them than the one whose clothes are ; given her by her husband. Girl* Ought to Know What Their Beaux Make As for the cynic's caustic arraign ment of girls who ask their prospec tive husbands what they are making, : why should they not? It is surely a I question of some importance to a woman to know what sort of a part j nership she is going into, and what the resources of the firm are going to be. and what the prospects for the fu i ture are. No sensible man would he fool enough to put his all into an enterprise without making a few inquiries about it. It wouldn't suffice him to know : thai the gentleman interested in the ! project with him had soulful eyes, and white teeth, and broad shoulders, and ja taking way. He would want to know how much the man made, what energy he had. and whether he was one of the men with initiative who would oe sure to get along, or a slack individual who would always just fall short of success. Surely, if anywhere on earth good, hard, practical horse sense is needed, it is in the selection of a life partner, and it argues much for domestic j happiness in the future that girls have I begun to try to find out before mar- I riage whether a man can support a family or not, instead of waiting till after marriage to find out that he can't. In poetry and novels romance is all j that a young couple needs to start to housekeeping, but in real life it takes a bunk account, and unless that is forthcoming the romance melts away like mist in a morning sun. Nobody :is sentimental when he is hungry, I and cold, and shabby. And when the ! bill collector begins pounding on the j door Cupid beats it out of the window, jit takes a lull stomach, as well as a | full heart, to inspire lovemaking. I nek of finances Ruins Most Marriage Romances i These are truisms as old as civiliza tion, and it doesn't kill romance, it promotes romance to bear them in mind. Of all disastrous marriages none more quickly ends in misery and disillusionment than those which are not supported by an adequate finan cial plank, and if girls have acquired enough sense to inquire into the state of a man's poeketbook. as well as his II affections, before they marry, it's go ing to do more than any other one i thing to stop divorce, i If this is what the commercialization of matrimony means, then the com ' mercialization of matrimony meets a >! long-felt want. Let's have more of it: Wins on Remarkable Run in Jeffery Four One of the most remarkable auto mobile runs of the season in Southern California was made a couple of weeks ago by W. W. Pope of Santa Paula in his Jeffery 'four." The run was a result of a wager, Mr. Pope declaring he cculd make the round trip from Santa Paula to San Diego and return in one day and by daylight. The distance to be covered was 120 miles, and the start from Santa Paula was made at ten minutes after four on the morning of July 21. The conditions of the run were that Mr. Pope should follow any road he chose, but that he must be back in J Santa Paula by 7:30 that evening. According to the log of the trip, kept by official observers and at tested to by them, the car. with its j four passengers, made the first leg of the run into Los Angeles in two I hours. After a six-minute delay for I refreshments the dash for San Diego | was resumed and the party arrived i there at 11. four hours and forty-four - minutes after leaving Los Angeles. I The trip home, which started at i 12:20 required four hours and fifty j minutes to Los Angeles and two hours I and nine minutes to Santa Paula. | Nine minutes delay in Los Angeles brought them into Santa Paula at i 7:25. The running time of the trip was 12 hours. 56 minutes and the elapsed (time 15 hours. 18 minutes. Despite the terrific pounding the car was j given. only one stop was made on ae j count of trouble when one of the rear j casings blew out. The average speed | maintained for the trip was 32.47 ' miles an ■ hour. Germans Cross Drina in Northwestern Serbia By Associated Press Berlin. Oct. 23. By Wireless to Sayville. German troops have cross ed the Drina river in Northwestern Serbia near Visegrad, driving south ward the Serbians on the heights, ac cording to the ofrii ial statement issued ! to-day by German army headquarters. |lt is also announced that Bulgarian ! troops have captured the Serbian towns | of Negotin and Roglyevo. Mob Fails in Attempt to Lynch Negro Slayer Bluefleid, w. Va., Oct. 23. An at icmpl to lynch George Roten. a negro | acused of the murder of Edgar L. | Holmes. Jr.. a white man. failed here to-iiay when the police hurried Roten I through a back door of the jail and I started with him for Princeton. The I mob. angered at Roten's escape, noti fied the people of Princeton, and a crowd soon gathered at the jail there. Again the police got their man out of the jail, and started over the hills to Charleston. Colonial Park Land Sale Opens Today Sixteen acres of land have been I plotted along the Linglestown road ' just beyond Progress, and will be so'd 1 for bungalow sites. It has been : named Colonial Park and is located | among a lot of bungalows that are j being constructed from year to year along this popular roadway. E. E. Evans, at 711 Kunkel building, is di ; recting the sale. Murder in Denver Is Ascribed to Big War Denver. Col.. Oct. 23.—Race hatred stirred up by the European war led to the arrest here to-day of George Flara rrady. an Austrian, on the charge of killing George Gray, an Englishman. | Goth men were employed in a railroad I machine shop. WIDOW KK MARRIES WIDOW Twice a widower. John Howarth, Steelton. this morning married Tere* Cyajder. a widow of three months. Howarth's first wife died in 1899 and the second in 1913. His bride's first husband died just three months ago. She, too. lives in Steelton. JOINT NATIONAL ASSOCIATION The Harrisburg Chamber of Com merce las joined the Chamber of Commerce Association o! the United States of America. This organiza tion represents 700 leading cities and ; includes purely local commercial bod ! ies. COP FINDS CHAIN \ND LOCKET i A sold chain and locket, picked up 'by William Komig, patrolman, awtaits j identification at the police station. The locket contains picture of a mother, father and baby. Somebody Is Always Taking the Joy - - BY BRIGGS WMTNK _ ( PROR* / | SW TH£ ] I AH KRR L IIIIZZIII R*A/*\ /~\ r\ (HS&J J _===lL=====: %? zz&S:=zzzz:z=== FI HARRISBTTRG TELEGRAPH A 1916 STUDEBAKER FOUR ASCENDING MOUNTAIN PASS IN DRUID HILL PARK AT BALTIMORE '' '' '" : __ L ' • ',«•>!'" .'i:-. .'i; ' ; . ■ A. , Druid Hill Is not only difficult for a motor car to climb from its grade, but from its winding nature as well. Owing to the curves, it is just such a road as a motorist would not be disposed to run for in order to gain sufficient momentum that the top might be reached. Tiring of Too-Kind Husbands By DOROTHY 1)1X "What do you think of that woman Of t West who has just gotten J* v."_'' c ' ? from her husband because he always gave her everything she asked for and never opposed her in anything she wanted to do?" asked the Stenogra pher. "1 think she didn't know a good graft when she had one, and it should IK- the foolish house for hers," replied the Bookkeeper. "T-e-e-s. Maybe so," said the Stenographer. "Of course, matrimony, with a husband like that, would he one long grand song, but it would lack pep and ginger, and be apt to get on a woman's nerves." Huh, T should worry for that sort of a woman," remarked the Book keeper. "Well." returned the Stenographer, "consider the matter. What would be the fun of working a husband for im ported millinery if all you had to do was to ask for it and get it? It would be like taking pennies away from a blind baby." "For my part." commented the Bookkeeper. "I should think that an clastic limb that could be pulled with out trouble, or howls of agony, would be. about the most attractive sideline. o f desirable qualities that a husband could carry. At any rate, in all the ticd-up couples I know, the thing that seems to annoy the wife most is the difficulty of extracting the coin from the family treasurer." "That's true," agreed the Stenogra per. "When a man marries he en dows his wife with all his earthly goods, but as a general thing she has to chloroform him to get car fare out of him . But it's the doing of this that gives sport and zest to domestic life. Every time a woman flimflams her lord and master out of a bunch of the lung green she experiences all of the thrills of artistic burglary successfully pulled off.'' "Did you ever notice how a married woman goes to work to get what she wants?" "She doesn't demand It as a right or ask it as a favor. She acquires it by subterfuge. Say she has set her heart on a new dress. She goes and picks it out. The next morning at hreakfast she steers the conversation around to the subject of clothes. Hubby, being wise, says nothing. At dinner hubby perceives that all his favorite dishes are set before him. Wife observes in a casual tone of voice that Mrs. So and So has a new dress. Business of prcfound thinking on hubby's part. "Wife remarks what a good, noble, generous man. and what ati ideal hus band Mrs. So and So has. Still nothing doing from hubby. After dinner in the living room, wife tearful, opines that she's afraid husband's business must be had. and if it is of course she doesn't want to even think about a new dress. Husband grunts and wife wipes a few furtive tears away. Hubby suggests, apparently of his own volition, that wife needs a new suit, and wife falls upon his neck in tri umph. "Xo do you suppose that woman would have missed all of that scene for any money? Do you think she would have enjoyed having that dress hurled at her the minute she suggested she wanted it? Not on your life. She f< els that she has been a regular Talleyrand to bamboozle a husbana into giving it to her, and every time she wears It she throws bouquets at herself to think how clever and diplo matic and deep she is." "Women are queer fish," observed thf Bookkeeper. "Well," said the Stenographer, "there's one thins: you don't want to forget: married life for the majority 01' women is a dead level of monotony, in which they depend on their hus bands to furnish the tabasco of exist ence. That's the reason that the too easy man is not a hot favorite with women. There is no sport, even if there is profit, in selling gold bricks to blind farmers." "I should have thought that that western man would have won out on one count, anyway," remarked the Bookkeeper, "the no-argument propo sition. Anybody makes a hit with me who doesn't contradict my statements or take Issue with my opinions." "Women are built on a different plan." said the Stenographer. "A woman pines and yearns to be contra dicted, because that is the only way she has of finding out what she really thinks. .A married woman never knows what she wants until her hus band tells her she can't have it. and so, if he always agrees with her, the poor creature is completely at sea. It takes opposition to crystallize her opinions, at.d the husband who refuses to give tbis firs! aid to the undecided is a mean old thing." "And there's another objection to the too agreeable husband." "What's that?" asked the Book keeper. "It takes away woman's excuse for not doing the things she doesn't want to do. 'I would so love to give to your noble cause, but my husband won't let me," says the woman squeeze. 'My heart is with you. and 1 would join your Society for the Preservation of Superannuated Cats, but my husband has such a prejudice against cats.' says the woman welcher. 'l'm dying to have you visit me. but my husband is so nervous he can't stand company," says the woman who wants to avoid ati unwelcome guest, and so It goes. "The chief advantage of having a husband is that he is such a good scapegoat, nind no sensible woman wants to he married to a man so amiable she can't even lay things on him." "Have women no ideal of a hus band?" demanded the Bookkeeper. "Oh, yes," replied the Stenographer sweetly, "but they don't want to marrv It." "Rlght-o!" agrepd the Bookkeeper. "TJNCI/E JOE" CAXXOX TAKES OFF HAT TO PRESIDENT Special to The Telegraph St. Louis, Oct. 23. "Uncle Joe" Cannon came to St. ]„ouis last night and. although as he expressed it, "I ate too (word deleted) much white fish coming down," took time to say that he "took off his hat to President Wilson" in the President's handling of the European war situation. OCTOBER 23. 1015. » I BACH HOME Joseph Ibach is home from New York City. The local detective spent three days at the Bureau of ldentiti cation of the New York police depart ment. studying new Bertillon and fin ger print methods. He also looked over the big gallery of photographs and brought home new ideas. Joseph P. Thompson, acting chief of police, said to-day, this visit was profitable to Harrisburg as it put the local depart ment in closer touch with New York city for prompt identltication of crim inals picked up in Harrisburg. -.5.774 BALLOTS ORDERED BY DAUPHIN COUNTY FOR NOV. 2 Dauphin county to-day officially or dered its supply of ballots for the No vember election. All told 55.774 will be needed. For the city 19,042 official {•nd 4.78K specimen tickets will be •used and in the county outside the city 25,553 official and ti,393 specimen ballots will be required. WORKMAN'S ARM CRUSHED William G. Hamilton, aged 61 years, employed as a laborer at the! Lebanon Iron and Steel Company | plant at Duncannon, this morning had ! his arm crushed beneath the steam i shears. The arm was amputated at 1 the Harrisburg hospital. ITALIANS ARE ASSISTING By Associated Press Brindsi, Italy, Oct. 23, via Paris. 2.40 P- m.—The Italian squadron is taking part in the blockade and bombard ment by the entente allied warships of! the Bulgarian coaat in the Aegean sea. : according to a wireless received here! to-day. DOOR FALLS OX MAN Frank Dubbs, injured yesterday at ! the new Hickok plant, is improving at i the Harrisburg hospital. Dubbs was ! injured yesterday on the head when a heavy door fell on him. TTe suffered a ; slight concussion or the brain and was unconscious. • j TVRKEYS PLENTIFUL According to farmers attending: local markets to-day. turkeys will be plenti- ] ful this season, and lower in price. It | is yet too early to bring them to mar- i ket. This has been a good year for 1 turkeys, it is said. HUMAN ASHES SENT BY POST Special to The Telegraph West Palm Beach, Fla., Oct. 23. The ashes of A. Ninomya, a Japanese, ' who died here several days ago, are j on the way to Japan by parcel post. j DR. MALONEY SAILS By Associated Press London, Oct. 23. Dr. J. W. Ma lonev of New York, who was wounded severely several months ago while serving with the British Medical Corps at the Dardanelles, sailed for home to-day. Boy Seriously Injured by Auto at Shippensburg Special to The Telegraph Newville, Pa., Oct. 23. An 8-year, old son of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Heffel bower. of Kairfleld street, was run o\ ei in High street, by an automobile, own ed and driven by Mrs. Amanda Snyder, last evening shortly after 4 o'clock. The child attempted to cross High street and another auto standing on the street prevented the boy from see ing the approaching machine. Tlifl boy's collarbone w»is broken and sev eral rihs were crushed. It is no! known whether he has received inter nal injuries or not as he was uncon. scious at a late hour last evening. I,OS WCiKI.KS SKl,KtTi;i> By Associated Press New Haven, Conn., Oct. 23. L.os Angeles was chosen as the place of meeting of the National Council of Congregational Churches in 1917. IMPROVE AVIATION SERVICE By Associated Press Washington, D. C„ Oct. 23. A naval aviation corps independent of the navy proper with the same status as the marine corps will be recommenc ed to Congress by Secretary l>aniels as one step toward the improvement of the aviation service at sea. r»H. \V. G. (.Itv'ci: I)EAn By Associated Press London, Oct. 23.—Dr. William Gil bert Grace, the famous cricketer, ij dead. He was t>7 years old. P, SAFETY FIRST The object of "Safety First" is prevention. You can prevent your advertising from meet ing the fate of the waste basket If you will make It attractive with proper Illustration. Bring your next copy to us for Illustrative treatment One treat ment will convince you 'hat our methods are a cuccess. The Telegraph Art &Engraving Departments 216 Locust Street