OF INTEREST T The Folly of Marrying By DOKOTIIY DIX (Reprinted by Request.) Mr. Dear Marian: You write me that you are thinking of marrying Dick. You call him "Poor Dick," and you admit that he is a dissipated ne'er do-well, who has been nothing but a sorrow and disgrace to his family and who lets his poor old mother take in boarders to support him. You say that no one has ever under stood "Poor Dick," and that you feel perfectly sure that he only needs your influence to lift him up to the higher life, where he will never thirst for a highball again, or yearn to play poker, or be tempted by the flutter of an other petticoat. Oh, Marian, Marian, where is the fool-killer when a girl marries a man to reform him? Surely, there is no other place on earth where there Is such need for the slayer of sweet little geese as when a gentle maiden tackles the job of making a man out of a bunch of appetites, and laziness, and selfishness! It can't be done, my dear. Modern surgery has accomplished much, but it lias never yet succeeded in putting a backbone into a creature as spineless as a fishing worm. In homely phrase, you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. When you marry you must take a man as he is—not marry him for something you think you can make of him. There are no miracle workers in these days, my child. Still less Is any wife a miracle worker. There is no conjure in the marriage ceremony that changes a sot into a leader of the Young Men's Temperance Union, or makes a lazy man industrious, or that gives a weakling the strength to stand alone. A Strong Wife Nursing a Weakling Husband Through Life Is a Repulsive Sight So, before you march to the altar look carefully at the man with whom you are contemplating talking that fatal journey, for he will bo precisely the same individual before and after taking, with the same tastes, the same character, the same desires. He will not be metamorphosed into a fairy prince, but just be the same old Tom, Dick or Harry. Before, however, you commit hari kari. —and I would earnestly recom mend to any girl thinking of marry ing a drunkard to take a dose of prus sic acid or rough-on-rats instead—let me beg of you not to marry any man that you think of and speak of as "Poor Dick" or "Poor John." That phrase in itself is a confession of your recognition that he is a weakling, one who must be protected, instead of be ing the protector, one who is not able to take his part among men, one who must always bo explained, apologized for, excused for his shortcomings. Believe me, my dear, that there is no happiness for either party in such a marriage. You cannot subvert the order of nature and society with im punity. When the woman has to bo the stalwart oak and the man becomes the clinging vine the spectacle is one at which the very gods laugh. No matter how much a woman loves a man to begin with, nor how sorry she is for him, when she sees him a pigmy among men and realizes that he can not fight their battles nor run their their race, she, too, comes to share in the world's contempt of him. When the Creator made man of / Escape *imgjTOOTH /Fflroubles MMIinHnHMMHHBIBHB —by keeping your teeth REALLY CLEAN. "But," you say, "I brush my teeth regularly, yet they decay." Yes, you brush them, but do you REALLY CLEAN them? Tonight, after brushing your teeth, examine them closely. You will likely find an accumulation of tartar on the enamel and bits of food deposit hiding in the crevices. Decay, as well ac the dangerous gum disease called Pyorrhea, usually de velops only in tho mouth where germ-laden tartar is present. SENRECO, the formula of a dental specialist, keeps the teeth REALLY CLEAN. It embodies specially prepared soluble granules unusually effective in cleaning away food deposits. Moreover, it is particularly destructive to the germ of Pyorrhea. Go to your dealer today and get a tube of Senreco—keep CZ% your teeth REALLY CLEAN and protect yourself against JWk. Pyorrhea and decay. Send 4c to Senreco, 304 Walnut St., r Cincinnati, Ohio, for liberalized trial package. jm "PREPAREDNESS" \ fl .tM at See your denlUt twice yearly • 1 MM Uk Senreco twice daily yff /M Y Th tooth paste that REALLY CLEANS V~l \ — Motor Car Livery STYLISH LIMOUSINES FOR THEATERS, RECEPTIONS AND SOCIAL EVENTS TL—l II - /1 1 Six new, roomy five •or " ■> y passenger Limousines I It have been added to our I fl Livery Service. These _____ I " 'I cars are comfortable ' and protect you in ® n ) ° s t severe winter in care Davis & Hargest 304 Muench Street Bell 959-M Typical Weather for Sggjggs GOOD COAL Dependable coal, such as we talk about and sell, is the kind that does ef- TOT 7 Ag' fective work in any sort of weather. I It's right in quality, rightly screened I 1 % anc * delivered the day and time promised. J. B. MONTGOMERY Phone 600 Third and Chestnut Sts. SATURDAY EVENING, greater stature and stronger muscle than he did woman, he meant us to look up to our husbands and not down upon them. That's the way we were built, my dear, and the plans and spe cifications upon which a woman's heart was originally constructed have never been altered. The only happy homes are those in which you find the wife trailing along after the hus band or walking hand in hand with him. You will never find either peace or contentment where the wife leads the way, and the husband holds on to her petticoat like a toddling child to mother. But, you will say, you do not expect "Poor Dick" to be always "Poor Dick." Look about you, child. You have seen many women marry shiftless, drunken loafers. How many of them have you neen succeed in making these into prosperous and honored business or professional men? A Woman Can Help or Hinder Her Husband, but Che Can't Make Him Not one. The men who run 'the bands and big stores and manufactor ies;. tho men who are leading lawyers and doctors, and editors and preach ers: the men who are elected to high office were not weaklings made by their wives. They were strong men who carved out their own fortunes. They do not owe their rise to any wo man's influence. They got there by their own hustle and push. There's just one job, my dear, that every man has got to do for himself, and that is to make his own charac ter. A woman may scallop it around the edges and embroider a blue forget me-not in one corner, or she may wear it into a frazzlo in a spot or two, but that's just about all she can do. It's as far as her influence goes. She can make her husband happy or miserable. She can help him to success more quickly or delay his getting there, but she can't keep him down if he's a good man, and she can't make him rise if he's a poor one. If a man won't refrain from drink ing too much because of his own self respect he won't do it for any wife. If he will not work and support him self because he would rather die than eat the bread of dependence he will never toil to support a family. If he has no sense of responsibility just of himself, no woman can implant it in him any more than she could graft on to him a voice like Caruso's. Wliv Marry u Grade H Man When There Are So Many Better Ones at Hand? Of course, you will Bay that there have been men who were idle, worth less and dissipated in their youth who braced up after marriage and became decent men. Possibly. But these men were not of the "Poor Dick" type. They reformed for themselves, and not for their wives. And, anyway, why marry an inferior creature that, at best, you can only hope to make over into a second-rate sort of a man when there are so many perfectly good men to be had for the catching'.' Finally, beloved, if you neglect all of the balance of my counsel, take this one piece of advice: Before you mar ry a shiftless drunkard, who lias never even made a living for himself, go down into the most squalid part of the town, rent one miserable room, and try taking in washing for a week, to see how you like the life of a drunk ard's wife—for that's just about the sort of a lot in life you're going to draw if you marry one. COAT FOR CHILD ON SMART LINES Many Pretty Coating Materials Shown This Season For Small Folks By MAY MANTON 9189 {With Basting Line and Aided Seam Allowance) Child's Coat, 4 to 10 years. There are a great many pretty coating materials shown in checks this feason and they are especially charming for the younger contingent. This one is broad doth in shades of old blue and black and is trimmed with black velvet, but you can find checks in browns and in tans and in dark reds and in various colors, while also the derign is a good one for the plain cloths or, indeed, for any sea sonable cloaking materi.ll. Velvet would make a vary handsome coat, the vel veteens of the season are exceptionally attractive and would be very pretty, the burella cloth, which is velour with a diagonal weave, makes beautiful coats and broadcloth always is charming so that there is a very great variety from which to choose. For the 8 year size will be needed, 2*+ yards of material 36 inches wide, l\% yards 44, 2 yards 54 with yard of velvet 20 inches wide for the trimming. The May Xlanton pattern No. 9189 i;: cut in sizes from 4to 10 years. It will l>e mailed to any address by the Fashion Department of this paper, on receipt at ten cents. A PLDA IX THE NIGHT At night when the shadows creep over the wall And the stars through the windows are peeping, And fancy BO noisily stalks through the hall * And O, such terrible squeaking! From the little white bed peers a lit tle shorn head, And parents alone understand The wee little plea, Such a wee little plea: "Father—dear father take hold of my hand!" A God-given privilege to gather them close And quiet their child trepidations; The faith and the trust of the little ones—those The greatest of life's compensa tions; When father is near them to banish their fear They return to their Babyhood Land! Lisping their plea, Such a wee little plea: "Father—dear father take hold of my hand!" Then back to my pillow to watch and to rest, To thinking and dreaming and wak ing. How men of to-day are but children at best And children but men in the mak ing Some far distant night we shall grope for the light On the way to a Wondrous Land, And trustingly, we Shall utter their plea: "Father—dear father take hold of my hand!" —JOHN D. WELI.S, in Buffalo Eve ning News. Deafness Cannot Be Cured br local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There la only one way to cur# deafness, and that Is by constitution al remedies. Deafness is < a used by an Inflamed condition of the mucou* lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube Is inflamed you have • rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when It is ei.tirelv closed Deafness in the result, and Dries* the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hear ing will be destroyed forever; nine enses out of ten ore caused bv Catarrh, which is nothing but an Inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for stiy case of Deafness (caused by ctsrrh) thst cannot ba cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Bend for clrci- Jars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Take Hall'a Family Pills for constipation CLASSIFIED 4 BUSINESS "pirectokv 'llliiNua kuu HAM AAO MUUUU TO UfciT TIiUM Artificial l,bnl and Truun Braces (or all deformities, aodomlnaj supporters. Capital City Art. Limb ck. 412 Market hu Bell i'hone. French Cleaning and Djrlng Goodman's, tailoring and repairing, all guaranteed. Call and deliver. Bell phone S29#, IZUttty is. Sixth at Fire Insurance and Heal ttatata J. E. Qlpple—Fire Insurance—Heal tale —Kent Collection. IX6I Market at. Ben phone. photographer Daughten Studios—Portrait and Con. mercia. photography, iiio N. Third at Bell ttnSV. Tailors George F. Ehope, Hill Tailor. 1241 Mar> kei. Fall goods are now ready. Signs and Ehminel Letters Poulton, 307 Market street. Bell phona Prompt and efficient service. aARRISBURQ TELEGFJIPH STATE TO HUNT JOBS FOR TROOPS Captain Jack and Mr. Lightner Get Together For Harris burg Cavalrymen Pennsylvania Troopers returning from the Mexicaif border without definite arrangements for employment will find the Bureau of Employment of the Department of Labor and In dustry alive to their needs, and equipped to place them In suitable positions almost upon their arrival. Commissioner John Price Jackson made that announcement to-day fol lowing a conference with Jacob Lightner, Director of the Bureau of Employment, lie said that through the five offices of the bureau located at Harrlsburg, Philadelphia, Pitts burgh, Altoona and Johnstown, virtu ally every unemployed trooper of the 2700 who are returning with the next detachment can probably be placed in employment. This fact is being communKcated to General Clement, Captain George C. Jack, of the Gov ernor's Troop, of Harrisburg, and other Pennsylvania military officers. Director Lightner said to-day: Ac cording to my understanding the next detachment of troops to come home will be the Fourth Pennsylvania In fantry, recruited mainly from cen tral Pennsylvania; the Sixteenth Pennsylvania Infantry from North western Pennsylvania; the First Cav alry from Philadelphia, and other points throughout the State; tho Signal Corp, Field Hospital No. 1 and Ambulance Company, No. 1, all of the Pittsburgh District. "I have just notified Commissioner Jackson that special arrangements are being made in all our bureau branch offices to handle the requests of as many of these 2700 men who desiro work, and who send their re quests to the central office of the bureau at Harrisburg. This office iS the clearing house for the entire State. "The Bureau of Employment is no tifying manufacturers and employers in general that a great many of these returning troopers will soon be avail able for the various trades and other classes of work throughout the State. With this number of seasoned men ready to re-enter the ranks of Penn sylvania's industrial army, employers will do well to file their requests early with the bureau at Harrisburg." Director Lightner also made public to-day the following correspondence between him and Captain George C. Jack, of the Governor's Troop, which as part of the First Pennsylvania Cavalry will return to Harrisburg shortly after the.llrst of the year: December 20, 1916. Captain George C. Jack, 1419 Swatara Street, Harrisburg, Pa. Dear Sir:— I notice in the daily papers that your troops are about ready to leave for home and 1 thought perhaps there may be some of them who will have no employment to go to upon their arrival. I am, therefore, writing this letter to you in order to obtain from you, if possible, the number who may need employment and the kind of em ployment wanted, according to their trades. This information is to be used by this bureau in arranging openings Xo'r them, in case no other arrangements have been made. Hoping that you will approve of this and that you will give me all the information that you can, I am Very truly yours, (Signed) JACOB LIGHTNER. Director Employment Bureau, Dept. of Labor & Industry. Harrisbiirg, Pa., December 22, 1916. Air. Jacob Lightner, Director, Bureau of Employment, Department of Labor and Industry, Harrisburg, Pa. My dear Mr. Lightner:— lours of the 20th instant, concern ng the home-coming of mv troop re ceived. In reply thereto, 1 would state that t is Impossible for me to say at this time just how many of the men will need employment upon their arrival, or what their trades are. fhi i ee t ' ho ",' e y er ' that th 's part of the State work is very meritorious and I shall be only too glad to bring this matter to the attention of my bovs. \Ve shall more than likely be in the Armory, at least five days before be ing mustered out and I shall then have an opportunity to get for you the desired information. Owing to the services rendered by these boys, I hope you will be able to place them in po sitions of which they are deserving Yours very truly, (Signed) GEO. C. JACK, Captain of Governor's Troop. I^AMUSEj^MENTsfe When Dreams Come True." Tuesday, matinee and night, December 26—"Broadway After Dark." Wednesday, matinee and night*Jsecem "Florl Belia." rey MUtenthal Resents Flr i.™ y mStl? A?;oc?ffi ber 29 - The Ya,e Saturday, afternoon and evening- De. member 30 Philadelphia Grand Opeia Company Afternoon, "The Trovatore. aeVlUe; "- eVen, "' M AJ JSSTlC—Vaudeville. 1 I'ko KNT V P Honurn ' jl ° Algy." Imp to nil" J""" m or T wo A0 " VICTORIA— u la Carte."' The first act of "When Dreams Come Pi ue. which is the Christmas attrac tion at the Orpheum, "When Dream* matinee and niKht Come True" shows the forward i .i .. deck of a trans-At lantic liner. The model from which tbls scene was built was furnished by the < ramp .Shipbuilding Company, of Ches ter, I'a. Several of the gowns shown were purchased at the Appraisers' Stores at the New York Custom House. These are European models that were being smuggled into this country, and they represent the very latest creations of the famous Krench dressmakers. There are seventeen dancing numbers most of them invented and staged by Robert C. Adams, the leading player of the company. Mr. Adams also par ticipates in nearly all the dance num bers. The unequal struggle of the sexes is the theme of "Broadway After Dark" which will be the attrac "nrondwny tion at the Orpheum, After Dark" Tuesday, matinee and night. "Violet LeClalr," the heroine, comes to tho citv from the country and forms associations that \yield a strong Influence over her. The cafes and cabarets claim her, but a good man comes into her life and the story deals with her efforts to retrace her steps. The young man wants to marry the young woman, believing In her, and how the couple are eventually made happy.ls related In four acts. There Is a man on the bill at the Ma jestic tills week that resembles so closely President Wilson that At the many of the President's Majestic friends would be deceived. R. C. Faulkner is the man who gives an excellent impersonation of Mr. Wilson, and at the finish of his act Attempted Use of Out-of-Date Manual Telephone Results in SI,OOO Fire!! Prom Thursday's Star Independent "W" "T i • DELAY IN SENDING IN rki„l f ALARM LETS FIRE fiET ArldJ. • R W START IN HOME;'" v , J J . You do not have to depend •u starts in Kitchen men qm upon an operator to get proper Stovo Ignites Paper Flames . ■ ' Spread Into Adjoining Dwelling, 01 COlUiectlOllS • • wl Where Heavy Damage Is Done , S ——— y Every DIAL is a private fire ; Approximately SI,OOO damage was i , nt done by.a liro which partly, destroyed j ® alarm! •re the homes, of Alfred Mohler and Frank u ?c- Souifteer, 244-arid 246 Hummel streot, c . , r n nn/) m- early thi morning. Oimpiy Full Zvb. - The fire started in the Mtfhlef house, q ad hut the most damage was done to the ic , p, be adjoining dwelling. Mohler said that R ] IOU get the r ire Depart er he arose shortly after .>6 o'clock and p.. , r nt- went to tho outkitchen to get break- e i ment direct! fast. A piece of paper was lying- on ——— the gas stove and when hp lit the stove e i the paper ignited. the pa-, sl Takes jUSt Six Seconds! ;w per on the wall and trio flames then •tl J ho got into, the partition between the two w £ wwie'tlm# elapsed before the fire was 1 Wh Y Take Chances? eh discovered by Sourbeer, when.his house g /ill filled with smoke, and the flames got 8 Ordpr THF Al JTOMATIP ;ed great headway because of a delay in . wruer 1 1 v-WiM. I A getting firemen to the"scene. Members* tr-rlavf pf the Sourbeer family claim that twice B * f ■ attempts were made to call tho Allison B i-M firemen, but on both occasions they®. Tf'o I 3 were unable to get proper connection.! lt 3 Lightning <^UlCk! The third 'flow of tflie Sourbeer homel , es . was badly byrned, while the lower floors I Tj.' t f e . were damaged by smoke and water. a l uaiixves to Some furniture which was stored on the third floor ,of this building and which Ti. I aaa } was owned by Mr. Sourbeer's brother- ~ -c88. in-law. was lost. It was without in- ira . suranee; while the fiirnishings through.- r\; i oO O t 1 out the Sourbeer house was Insured. | L/ial ZZO 7 to place VOUr JC £. .At the Mohler honse the outkitchen j had was practically the only part 4-maged ' Order. by - fire. However, some water and -sm6ke got into the lower floors, but { •' . the loss there "will be vor* slight. ' j Shortly after- fihis fire was e*tin- 1 1 1 \J 11 guished the firemen were called to the VUHIDCrI3.IICI V 3.11 6 V central part of the city by an afttrm ' *%***%• v w " v / fy from box 22,1, Market, street and tho • m I 1 VS U Pennsylvania railroad entrance. There I AlOnhnna I nmrtonir the fire was found to be At the Plaza. 1 CICUIIUIIC V/UlUprtliy (Hotel- .This was a chimney fire and the ith flames Were extinguished before any f Q damage was done and before the flro- AT I 2 ' men arrived on the scene. *' ri , W ASJLiSfIN Fflfi 5a yCAnc Federal Square is given enthusiastic applause. David S. Hall and company, in their entertain ing comedy sketch, entitled "Speed," together with three other Keith acts, complete the bill. The Christmas bill is headed by a musical comedy with ten people, entitled "O, Please, Mr. De tective. Surrounding this attraction are: Baron Llchter, piano artist; Mary and Jack, two juveniles, in an excellent singing' and dancing act; the Dc Bourg Sisters in a comedy magic of fering, and one other act. Admirers of Mary Miles Minter will have opportunity of seeing their fa vorite in the pro- Mary Mile* Minter duction of "A at ltcftent To-day Dream or Two Ago" at the Regent to-day only. In this production, "Lovely Mary" does some of the most appealing work of her career. A series of exceptional photoplays are scheduled during Christmas week. The announcement that Mary Pickford is to be shown on Christmas Day, also Tues day and Wednesday following, will be hailed with delight by her hosts of ad mirers in this city. She will not only be seen in a new picture, the largest and most elaborate production that lias ever been made for her, but her coming will bo all the more interesting because she is now at the heod of her own film corporation. Mary Pickford will be seen in "Less Than the Dust," written by Hector Turnbull, who has not only given her an ideal character for her to portray, but one that will give great play for all of the delightful blend of comedy and pathos, the winsomeness and the charm of girlishness that has ever marked her screen creations. Special music will be a feature of "Less Than the Dust." As most of the scenes are laid in India, the accompany ing score will be most unique and characteristic. Due to the enormous cost of this production, we are obliged to charge ten and twenty cents. This production is being shown in other cities at a high advanced admission price. "Tha Honorable Algy," the new Tri angle play that was shown at the Colo nial Theater yester- ClirlntmuN I'lay day, and which will nt tbe Colonial be seen for tile last times to-day, is a gripping love drama, that is rounded out with a good measure of the holiday spirit that Chas. Dickens loved to util ize. The picture tells of a young titled Knglishman, whu comes to this country to contract a rl<*i marriage, his thrill ing adventures and the pleasing ending which takes place on Christmas eve, when he is presented with the one tiling he prized the most. A new com edy and a travel picture will be on the same program. Monday and Tuesday, the Triangle Company will present Wil liam Desmond, with Clara Williams, in "The Criminal." The story of a girl horn outside the social pale in her native Italy, who is transported to America on a wave of Immigration and becomes, through her love of children. Involved in a kidnaping case. The latest Pathe News and a new two-reel comedy will be on the same bill. DANGER SIGNALS OF BAD BLOOD Pimples on the face, bunches in the neck, sallow and swarthy complex ion, sores, ulcers, mucous patches, copper colored spots, scaly skin af fections, constipation, inactive liver, dyspepsia and stomach troubles are all indications that the blood is pois oned. Thore is no remedy -offered to-day to the public that has so suc cessfully cured these diseases as Number 40 For The Blood. An old doctor's prescription containing the most reliable alteratives known to medical science. Put up by J. C, Men den hall, Evansville, Ind., 40 years a druggist. Sold by Geo. A. 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