8 WOMEN'S INTERESTS WHY I NEVER MARRIED No. 9—The Woman who saw too' many Matrimonial Scarecrows Tells Her Story. Why do so many women who are attractlvo, intelligent, full of human affection and tenderness—the sort of women who were designed by nature to make ideal wives and mothers — sever marry? It It beacuso they were bent on celibacy? Or is It because men were too stupid to know a good thing when they saw it, and so passed them over. Or is it the fault of social conditions that never gave them their matri monial chance It is one of life's great puzzles, and In an attempt to solve it, Dorothy Dix has asked a number of charming old maids why they never married. By DOROTHY DIX "The reason I am an old maid," eaid the ninth woman, "is because of the awful examples of matrimony that I saw all about me. I beheld so many scarecrows fluttering their rags of warning in the domestic fold that I was afraid to enter. "To begin with, in my own home there was nothing to lead one to think of marriage as a desirable, not to say, )a holy estate. Rather It was a per petual scrapping match. My father and mother were both good people, high minded, honorable, even kindly and generous, but they were both nervous, irritable, quick tempered and utterly lacking in self control. "They possessed all the virtues, and none of the amenities of lffe, and it never occurred to either one of them •to use any tact or forbearance in dealing with a mere husband or wife. "Conscious that they were doing their duty to each other, they did mot feel it necessary to be polite, or spare each other's feelings, and the result was that my father used to apeaic to my mother as he would never have dreamed of speaking to any other lady In the world, and that my mother would say vitriolic things to him that must have seared to the "bone. "Yet I think my parents were truly attached to each other. They simply belonged to that large class of people who feel that they have a right to take out on their own the nerves and temper they dare not Inflict on the outside world, and, that the freedom of the home circle Is freedom to lay aside their good manners with their good clothes, and go negligee in conduct as well as dress. A THING TO AVOID. "However that may be, my first impression of matrimony was as a thing to be avoided, and I remem ber as a small child I used to think that if I ever did marry I wouldn't get a husband who was as dis agreeable about the bills as my father was. Then I would wonder why a man would work himself to death to support a woman in lux ury who manifested as little ap preciation of what he did as my mother did of what my father gave her. 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"There was Susie, the daintiest, most delicate, the most flowerltke creature X ever knew in my life. She was one of those girls who are all Idealism and dreams, almost too eth ereal for this sordid old world. Susie married a nice young fellow, but he proved to be one of the kind of men who are simply Incapable of money making. "After she had been married about four years I went to see her, and she was the most dragged out, washed out wraith of a woman you ever saw. with three or four sickly little crying children hanging to her untidy skirts, and her shabby hom* looking as if a Kansas cyclone had passed through It. "And there was Mamie, the gay hearted, the laughing, a perpetual spring of bubbling fun. Mamie married "well." That is, she mar ried a prosperous business man, and has had all the comforts of life, but the hard band of a master that had wrung a fortune out of the women and children that worked in his fac tory was laid with equal heaviness on his wife, and it didn't take long to crush every bit of the sunshine out of Mamie's heart, and wipe the smile off her lips. NEVER A PENNY. "Mamie has charge accounts at all the big stores, but she never has a penny of her own, and laat year when her poor old mother was sick and in need of the absolute neces sities, Mamie borrowed a few dollars of rae. She didn't dare to ask her husband for it for fear of the brutal insults about her "pauper family." as he calls it, that he would hurl at her. "And there's Janie. Janie went into business when she finished school. She had a genius for it, and went up in office by leaps and bounds until she became assis tant to the manager and was earn ing a big salary. She gave up her position to get married to a man who believes that a woman's place is in the. home, and that a wife Is nothing but a servant without wages. "Janie works ten times as hard as she ever did before, and twice as many hours a day cooking, scrubbing, sewing, mending and she hasn't even a cook's wages. "Janie traded off independence and luxury for the life of a domestic slave, and if she doesn't think she made a fool bargain, I misread the look in her eyes. "Of course, I know that not all marriages are failures. I know that the successful marriage is the near est approach to heaven on earth that wo ever get in this world, but I hav® asked myself, 'Who am I that I should be one of the darlings of the gods to be so blessed as to win the capital prize in the great matrimonial lottery.' "And no answer forthcoming. I have simply been afraid to risk my all on one throw of the dice. That's why I am an old maid—Just sheer cowardice to undertake the gTeat ad venture." 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Consequently the reductions of \ to i made during this sale mean more than what might be supposed. In addition to the tremendous purchase made for this sale months ago, we have included all of the odd pieces in our regular stocks of which we do not happen to have more than one or two of a kind. An Oak Bullet a! a Very j Two August Sale Specials \ 4 Piece Fumed Solid ' I Reasonable Price ! ' n«i, 1 •« ' I j Ouk Library Suite j ! I ( | I Arm Chair--Armed Rocker \ j 'p~» | | Side Chair-Library Table j | fj ft l Cpi n | OnA Ipaiic I Furnishes an entire Library or Living ill j A - | Ovl UI dull 11 Ulld Room during this August Sale we are offer- \ LJ • j f ing t^lis ece Fumed Oak Mission Set. I W i f Each piece is made of selected oak and is New in - j ' * luxuriously padded and upholstered in * || sive in construction and of the true Colonial ! N's Boston leather. f type, this Buffet would cost you from $6 to $S j fl 1W \ r, , , _ f more if bought elsewhere. 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The Polltlken says the Rigsdag will j hold a secret session on Friday, when | the government will answer questions . on the subject. The offer for the islands is $25,000,- | 000 and the cession of all American | rights in Greenland to Denmark. A | condition of the offer is that all exist- j lng Dnlsh business interest in the Dan- , lsh West Indies will be conserved. Butcher Boy Takes Out Own Appendix Greeley, Ohio. —Roy B. \V right, I#, j an employe of a butcher here, removed j his own appendix as neatly and effl- • clently, physicians say, as a surgeon might have done it. The youth is the j son of Dr. W. O. Wright and has spent his life as a carver of beeves. He was cutting meat in the butcher shop when, in stepping from one ] block to another, he slipped and fell directly upon a carving knife. As sociates In the shop hurriedly called in several physicians, one of whom was the young man's father. 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Captain Hill charged va- j grancy against them and they were sentenced to three months in the House of Correction. GERMAN PLANE DOWNED By Associated Press Paris, Aug. 3. The American air! squadron scored another success on | Monday, when Sergeant N. Lufberry downed his first German flyer near Etain. Lufberry dived immediately, : behind the hostile machine, firing from his mitrailleuse. The German pilot fell forward over the controls and thep lane dropped headlong. Three other Germans attacked Lufberry, but he got home safely. , PUDDLERS' WAGES INCREASED Special to the Telegraph I Reading, Pa., Aug. 3. The Read ling Company yesterday announced an i advance in the puddling rate from $6 Ito $7 a ton. the highest figure ever ! paid in the Schuylkill Valley. This is the fourth advance in less than a year. More than 2,000 men are affected. AUGUST 3, 1916. 'KING OSCAR 5c CIGARS and get that cigar enjoyment that comes only from uniform high qual ity. 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