Life's Problems Are Discussed ! ■* BY SIRS. WILSON W'OODROW She was a stunning creature. Her husband had recently made a lot of money, and she was evidently invest ing a large amount of it in good clothes. The successful novelist to whom I was talking looked at her reflec tively. "There's an old vaudeville song that jingles in my memory," he said, "Things Are Coming Pretty Soft for You, Louise.' There goes the typical heroine of the feminine-bought novel. She's the kind we have to write about, or go broke. Of course, she's a femme incomprise. As I look at her 1 realize more than ever that this is a woman's world." "It's usually put the other way," I demurred. "Most women call it a man's world." "Absurd," he scoffed. "It's for women the great department stores are run, and also the thousands of lesser shops which deal in a single specialty. About the only emporium left where man reigns supreme is the saloon, and even that usually has its 'family entrance' and 'back room' for the accommodation of feminine thirst. "The clothing and haberdasnery shops can hardly be called man's exclusive province, since there, as every salesman knows, the taste of wives, mothers, sisters and sweet hearts is l'ar more to be consulted than that of the himself. "And as for the tobacconists now adays—well, not only the public res taurants, but the ash trays and the atmosphere of so many boudoirs tell their own story. For the exclusive custom of men alone. New York City would be well supplied with a row of modest shops extending over a few blocks. "Nor is it only in commerce that woman is considered." he went on. "For her the great hotels and res taurants strive to outdo each other in gorgeousness and luxury. Man. if left to himself, would still be living in a brushwood shack and cooking his meat on a forked stick over a fire. The proof of it is that, sway from woman, he Invariably re -1 erts to whiskers and the blanket." "You admit, then," I put in, "that Daily Dot Puzzle .5 14 IV • 15 • ii '&• ' z^" 10 " l? ,-19 8 ' 7 II .2° 3. 4 - 2 : 22 5 4 (* * " *AL. • 46 At 2 ® .27 •45 * #2 * • 32 *3o 44 .33 * 39 43 • * 42 • 35 4' • • • 'Wk "Hot cross buns! Hot cross buns!" Can you find the baker? Draw from one to two and so on to the end. ---L ADIE S-- - you will be more than pleased to own a copy of the Winifred Worth Crochet Book It contains 65 stunning designs. Yes, indeed, all new designs. I)an dy for a new beginner. Has full and j-omplete instructions HOW TO CROCHET. THIS PRACTICAL CROCHET BOOK MAILED TO ANY ADDRESS FOR 15 CENTS Send this coupon and 15 cents in stamps or silver to the Harria burg Telegraph, and the book will be mailed to you from the New York office of the publishers Al low a week for its arrival. Name Address City or Town THURSDAY EVENING, Bringing Up Copyright, 1917, International News Service By I WANT TCO TO ON —\ Do Yoo know -MR U _ MVFOLkZTTI H ~~~Y\ f WHERE IS i" 1 11 , XOOR VERX &EST fcEHAVtO* ) TO | f, bf, . PX( OVER ON THp X ° U I**3. SMITH! I 4UESS - • sNitu I ONE OF tup <-> SEA-StCWc ?! > U™ f ————-- ' - —"" ' .' *. ~ \~ m ', __ woman is the great civilizing force ' of the world?" "It depends on how you define civilization." he returned. "Her taste in art and literature certainly isn't civilized. The magazines and almost all the books are published for her. The theaters are built for her. and the plays, stories and mo tion pictures are all written to appeal to women. "The whole craft of inventors la bors on devices that will add to her comfort and convenience. The house keeping of to-day, with its vacuum cleaners, its plumbing and heating j systems, its laundry and dish-wash- ' ing and bread-making machines, its I hundred and one handy electrical | appliances, is all the product of care- ' ful thought for woman." "You speak as if man had no part j in the enjoyment of these various I comforts and luxuries," I said. "He'd never do it for himself," he < shook his head. He'd got his sec ond wind by this time, and he didn't I mean to be stopped. "Everywhere I that a man is doing anything, wheth- j or behind a plow, or at a desk, or be- i fore an easel, or swinging a sledge. \ it is always with the image of some ! woman in the back of his mind. "Even in the trenches he is, as the song goes, 'fighting for my coun- I try and you, dear.' Yes; take it j from whutever viewpoint you please, ! things are coming pretty soft for I Louise. But what is the effect of | all this on her?" "Rave on," I murmured. "I like ; to hear you." "Well, compare 'Louise' with her j great-grandmother," he pounded ! away. "She spun and carded anil wove and knit for an entire family. She washed and swept and mended and dusted and brewed and baked. Then if she found time hanging heavily on her hands, she helped in the fields or aided in repelling an Indian attack. "Great-Grandmother did not suf fer from nervous prostration, neith er did she sit aroijnd reciting the in terminable details of her latest sur gical operation. No; Great-Grand mother, if she survived sun-stroke, I or the tomahawk, generally sue-! cumbed to one of the old-fashioned diseases—there were only three or ! four recognized ailments at that time | —at the age of eighty or ninety." | Again he shook his head mourn- j fully. "Beside this vigorous, old j ludy, 'Louise' seems pretty flabby i fiber." He paused for breath, and I took advantage of my opportunity. "Your j indictment is nol framed against Great-Grandmother's descendants," J I said; "but against the descendants 1 of Great-Grandmother's shiftless, lazy sisters. "Anyway, I am getting rather tired of Great-Grandmother. I think it is about time that her carefully re touched ghost is decently laid. She is always being dragged on the sta-ro to play the role of silent witness to ihe sins and imperfections of the I women to-day. I'm not belittling her : in the least when I say this. She was I a great and sturdy figure. She be- ' longed to the splendid minority of \ her era. But the women of to-day also have their minority. And it's the minority that sways the future. "Great-Grandmother's life was free from the complexities that confront the modern woman. She had a defi nite place in the economic program. Her duties were obvious ones, and by tradition and training she was fitted to cope with them. "But owing to many inventions it was quite a different world in which Great-Grandmother opened her eyes —a changing world and a world of change, not only in the customs of ages, but in the ideas. Her first thought was, 'I can play at last. I don't have to card wool .and spin and cook and sew and look after the ways of my household every minute. I I have plenty of time to read novels | and think about clothes and go to j clubs and department stores and matinees." "And presently she awoke to find I that she was immeasurably bored, i Then, being Great-Grandmother's great-granddaughter and not a slug, with the same vital impulse to live as thoroughly an<f ably in her era as Great-Grandmother had in hers, she looked about her and yearned to take her share in the cleaning-up of this big. untidy house of the world. "Her maternal heart ached at the thought of unnecessary conditions responsible for poverty, sickness and suffering. Great-Grandmother's ex isting prototypes insist upon taking their part in the world's houseclean ing. and they know that the only wav this can effectually be d<*he is by the ballot. "We are going to create a future which will not be a man's wprld nor I a woman's world, but a man and woman's world. "It will be a beautiful world, full of congenial work, delightful play, love and laughter and the shouts of I happy, healthy, little children. To I help create It, we must have the | ballot." ■ WTLSON AT CAMOUFLAGE TEST Washington, Nov. I.—Camouflage : skill of the Army Engineer Corps was viewed yesterday by President Wilson and Secretary Baker at a training camp near Washington. A camouflage company put on an ex hibition. showing how artillery, road ways, streams and even troop move ments are concealed. Many secrets of the game developed by thp Amer-| Iran forces were demonstrated for the guests, who Included several high | officers of the Army. j All's Well That Ends Well ? BY JANE McLEAN She lived in our street, and every one spoke of her as the perfect wife. When she was first married she used to have plenty of time to run around everywhere, and yet she was always home in time to cook dinner for Bill. Her four little rooms were scrupu lous —she was a perfect fiend for cleaning. Everything was perfect, and she herself, in neat, pretty little suits, looked exactly like her little flat. We did not think of calling her common place, but her pretty little face even then was wont to settle into peevish, selfish lines All the older women spoke of her with praise. "She's an excellent manager; Bill's a lucky' fellow." "Yes, he ought to be glad he did so well—a girl who never did house work until she was married, too." And all the young wives had Wini fred held up to them as a perfect ex ample. "Bill's wife" used to be a regular password in the neighbor hood. Then the baby came, and we all looked for a slump in the manage ment. but Winifred was still the mod el. We used to marvel at it. Her baby was always the pink of perfec tion, his clothes always fresh and sweet, and Winifred herself in starched house frocks was like a whit* rose. But the peevish' lines were more evident, and she some times spoke crossly to the baby. Then Nancy Came Then Nancy came into the neigh borhood. Nancy was anything but a model housewife. She would chatter across the back fence while her cake burned in the oven. But every one loved her, including her husband. We began to wonder if Bill loved Winifred as much as he had when he first married her. Once some one went to dinner there and the story leaked out of a spot of gravy on the clean tablecloth. Bill had been serv ing, and In laughing heartily at a joke he had carelessly dropped the spot of grease from his serving fork. Winifred had spoken to him rudely, nnd had embarrassed good-natured Bill, as well as the guest. Winifred had taken a great dis like to Nancy. In fact, she rather looked down on Nancy and spoke of her once as slovenly. That was the beginning of the waning of her popu larity, the beginning of the end of Winifred as the perfect example. Just about this time Bill began to look seedy and to lose his spruce look of well-groomed young man l hood. We all wondered and no one pretended to understand. Nancy's Jim was a happy-go-lucky I chap and he never minded the fact Fashions of To-Day - By May Manton This is a dress that you can make from crepe de chine if you ii i. want something very dressy or f rom challis if you want some- Jt*\ V\ ill thing simpler or from a cotton voile or from a silk voile or from V*" insS almost any material that is soft JT enough to be shirred success aTV A fully. The shirring forms the ?' rc " e t ' le S^eeve finish and fj 1' A is exceedingly attractive. The frock is one of the simplest in wor to ma l te yet one of V the newest and smartest. You 6d [ym \ \ may use the pockets or omit JylumM \\\V them as you like, and for very mP I \ fnr% \ dressy materials the plain skirt /T I f i KgJ \ may be preferred. For the 1311 tl ' \ finish, you can use banding or V ' -J)■ I I ] you can use a little embroidery |i- j J worked with a heavy thread or a little design of soutache braid. I , For the girl of eight or ten, blue r f \ and white checked taffeta with I /Nr\ bands of narrow blue velvet / J \\ ribbon would be pretty. fsrf rmb or t * ie ®-year s ' ze * J I \fir needed, yards of material / I 36 inches wide, 2% yards 44. The pattern No. 9548 is cut wa in sizes from 4to 10 years. It will be mailed to any address by the Fashion Department of 9548 Child's Empire Dress, 4to 10 this paper, on receipt of ten years. Price 10 cents. cents. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH that Nancy was not methodical. They made their tiny home the ren dezvous of'the place. The big", care less rooni where Jim read in the evenings, with Nancy curled up next t'j him, was the best loved place in town. Even in the beginning we had nev er liked to go to see Winifred. That is, we had never even thought of dropping in for a cozy chat, for fear of spoiling the regularity of her rooms. We used to make little for mal calls, and sit stiffly on the edges of our chairs. But at Nancy's we all lounged and ate good things that we had all helped to make, and watched the soft pink color come and go on Nancy's smooth cheeks when Jim looked at her in that lit tle way he had. ' It was just the queer way it hap pened, but every one—even the old er women—transferred allegiance from Winifred to Nancy. Excuses were made for her carelessness in housekeeping. People used to make remarks like this: "What a wonderful friend Nancy makes! Did you notice how much in love they are? Nancy just couldn't do wrong in Jim's eyes." And many more of the same kind. They Are Left Out Winifred did not encourage people dropping in, so the young people al ways gathered at Nancy's and after a time Win and Bill were left out. Btll used to sit longingly on the porch and smoke his pipe and listen to the nonsense going on over at Nancy's, and he would never say a word when Win would sniff and ask Mm if bp were crazy to get over there, and if so to go on, she didn't care. Two years passed and we older people still viewed the same situa tion. Nothing changed very much in the neighborhood, and Nancy was still the center of attraction. Nancy it was who cuddled all the babies of the neighborhood, who listened to the confidences of the older girls and who made real friendships with ev ery one. Winifred was still just &s good a housekeeper, ljut Bill had lost his gayety, and had taken to speaking morosely. Frequent altercations took place between them as to the bring ing up of Junior, and Winifred's voice had developed an unpleasant "edge." • We older women, who had seen matters from the very beginning, sized up the situation this way: A good housekeeper does not always make a successful wife. Too much dusting means too little ktssing—too much of the housewife and not enough of the friend. Nancy, the careless, the irrepres sible, had delved deeper into life than Winifred ever could, and with her little home secure on the foun dations of love and understanding, what did the rest matter? Advice to the Lovelorn GO TO HER PARENTS Dear Miss Fairfax: I am engaged to a girl nineteen years of age and have known her for four years. We have been go ing out- together until recently, when g products of the Victor Talking Machine Company, j Out to-day mm v • ■. ' ' giß | NewMctor Records pi ■j lor November / H McCormack sings "Send Me Away With a Smile" Ip " . - t4 - . 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Ten-inch, SI Conway's Band plays two new Sousa marches Two delightful Hawaiian duets b.y Louise and Ferera Lively numbers by Six Brown Brothers and Van Eps Trio Sterling Trio and Campbell and Burr in popular songs 71 others including Ijjggj [ ■ 8 Interesting Orchestral Numbers 3 Masterly Violin Solos |§§l§|||i 3 Superb Operatic Arias 8 Delightful Concert Songs 10 Tuneful Dance Selections 20 Popular Song Successes Hear these new Victor Records today at any Victor dealer's. He will gladly give y°" complete § s descriptive list and play any music you wish to hear. Ask to hear the Saenger Voice Culture Records. § There are Victors and Victrolas io great variety of styles from $lO to S4OO. Victor Talking Machine Co., Camden, N. J. . § f||§§§| | lmportant Notice. Victor Records and Victor Machines are scientifically coordinated and synchronised by our .pedal §; ; .-3;" j : - processes of manufacture, and their use, one with the other, it absolutely essential to a perfect Victor reproduction. New Victor Records demonstrated at all doalora on tho let of ssdi month Victrola! "Victrola is (be Resii-tercd Trade mark of the Victor Talking Machine Cerapaay deeignating the products of thia Company ooly. q Warnings The use of the word Victrola upon or in the promotion or eale of 5 -,j , |f j (By -ther Talking Machine or Phonograph products la misleading and illegal, Pj for some reason or other her parents have forbidden her to go out with me alone. There hasn't been any explanation on her partents' part ex cept what I hear from her, as she is the only daughter. I think the disappearance of so many young girls has taken a deep effect upon them. I ani dearly in love with the NOVEMBER 1, 1917. girl and 1 know my love is recipro cated. It would simply be useless for us to separate. I am in a good position and am well able • to sup port a wife, therefore 1 would like your advice. S. C. W. If you have a perfectly clear con science, as your letter leads me to suppose you have, the explanation may be what you suggest. In any event, the thing for you to do ia to KO to the KILL's parents and ask them if they really mean to separate you from the daughter you love and want to marry. By the way. have you ever gone to her parents and told them of your intentions and 'lopes in regard to their daughter? 7
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