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Little Talks by
Beatrice Fairfax
DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
Is there anything tin the world that
looks to you like unforgivable sin?
Or do you insist on posing as one of
those people who see "good in every
thing?" I married a woman with a
bad record. I forgave her. 1 tried to
help her and I talked to her as a
mother might. But was she content
ed to stay in our little home and
try to learn goodness from me? Not
she! Pleasure and worldliness meant
so much to her that she had to go
chasing back to the bright lights.
I had been tolerant and forgiving,
but now I see that a man is a fool
to trust a woman who has once gone
wrong or to think he can show her
what is right and good. Now I chal
lenge you to find one word to say
for this woman who failed in grati
tude toward the man who tried to
uplift her.
A COLLEGE MAN.
I accept the challenge!
There are plenty of reasons, oh Col
lege Man. why your marriage, was a
foregone-conclusion failure. And not
many of them are connected with th<\
sad "past" of your wife! Most of
them grow right out of your own
sad failure to "make allowance"—
out of your uncharitable criticism of.
weakness—out of your trying to
force "goodness" upon a girl who
was staggering up out of the swamps
of evil and who needed the comfort
of a gentle helping hand rather than
the lash of a stern and preaching
tongue.
I don't believe in "uplift." A m>ii
who has gone up and down the world
for twenty years, a man who has
talked to k-ings and serfs, to generals
and to* privates, to high dignitaries
and to great criminals an'd who, be
cause of his knowledge of human na
ture and of the underlying causes, is
known as our greatest war corre
spondent, spoke a very pregnant sen
tence to me recently.
Said he: "I don't believe in the
smug 'holier than thou' attitude that
most people take when they are try
ing to help others. No one ever
faces another man's temptations.
Every one tries to belittle the things
that lure others to ruin. This busi
ness of stooping down to help others
is all wrong. What counts is getting
under the skin of their problems—be
ing on the level will them, not up
lifting them."
Don't you see how true it is, Mr,
College Man? You 'forgave" your
wife, did you? Was there nothing in
your record that she might have
needed to "forgive?" You preached
at her —you let her see that you 'tol
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titude toward her might do in the
way of creating an "attitude" toward
you?
Did you ever Imagine what might
be going on in her brain? Suppose
she had been saying to herself:
"Henry thinks I am wicked, evil.
But he married me, anyway. He
doesn't see any good in me—but he
wanted me in his life. He tells me
to resist temptation—but he could
not resist me; and I must have seem
ed to him like the worst sort of
temptation!"
That is a natural reaction, and it
does one of two things or both; It
makes the poor sinner wonder if sin
is not attractive to most people, and
it shows her that the man who is
setting himself up as a model feels
the lure of evil—and then why shall
she strive so hard to conquer what
is irresistible?
I grant that the woman who was
I given her "chance" did fail in grati
| tude, but it is terribly difficult for
human nature to perform to order,
j and when a man spends his days
I telling a woman how grateful she
j ought to be to him for his kindly
i condescension in marrying her the
! very appreciation that might well up
from her heart like a sweet spring,
were it not forced, flows along as
artificially and sluggishly as a canal,
just because it is made to order like
the canal.
' Here is a quotation from a great
Englishman who expresses this view
very beautifully:
"Perhaps we should have got on
faster still if we had reserved our in
dignation for the right things—self-
complacency, injustice,
cruelty."
The poor little wife who yielded
weakly to her ugly temptations may
never have been guilty of one of
these things—which are the supreme
sins of life.
Kven though you forgave her for
her past guilt, she had still to en
dure in her own weakened soul many
of the consequences of evildoing.
And not by sitting in judgment on
her, nor by lecturing her, nor by
condescending to her, were you really
able to help her. Love, sympathy,
understanding and a belief in the
good in her would have helped her
to develop that good.
You have failed her as pathetical
ly as she failed the good that was
in her poor, twisted, weak nature.
Recognize that—come to see that
not in preaching condescension, but
in warm, sympathetic understanding,
lies real toleration.
For the Greatest Teacher has said:
"Neither do I condemn thee. Go
thou and sin no more."
The tolerance that helps is this tol
erance that can love a sinner while
hating the sin, and that gives the
"sinner" beliefe in the path to right
eousness instead of reminders of the
road to evil.
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THE FOUR OF HEARTS
A SERIAL. OF YOUTH AND ROMANCE
By VIRGINIA VAN DE WATER
CHAPTER XI/IV
Copyright, 1918, Star Company.
The waiter, standing at a discreet
distance, yawned and gaied resent
fully at the corner table at which
sat the elderly gentleman and young
girl. Such people as these, he mused,
were a dead loss. They came qosten
sibly to eat and drink, but remained
talking for an hour, never consider
ing the poor man who must wait
upon their convenience. When peo
ple ate a good many dollars' worth,
they tipped in proportion. That was
a different matter.
The girl certainly was pretty, but
she was much paler than when she
had entered the restaurant. What
her father be telling her that
interested, yet seemed to startle her
so?
"Stephen Livingstone," Darius
Blake was saying at that moment,
"had no thought of defrauding your
mother. He did not call it that, even
to himself. Doubtless he justifi.ea
himself in what he did. The fact re
mains that if your mother had held
fast to her share of the land in
herited from her parents—as she
wanted to do at first—instead of
selling it to her brother, as he urged
her to do, she would have died as
rich as that brother, Stephen Living,
stone, became.
"Your father told me the whole
story soon after your mother's death.
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Livingstone had been shrewd enough
to look ahead and see how valuable
that property would some time be
come. Your mother was only a girl
then.
"She was devoted to her brother,
and yielded to his entreaties that
she sell him the land for the price
that he named—a fair enough price
for such property as that seemed
to be then. Livingstone has made
a fortune from it, as he hoped to
do when ho bought his sister's share
from her. He was sure she would
marry the man she loved—your
father—and expected that her hus
band would be able to supply her
abundantly with all the necessities
and most of the luxuries of life."
"Then"—Cynthia had to moisten
her lips before she could speak—
"he took advantage of his sister's
faith in him, and of her ignorance,
to make money for himself that he
might have made for her?"
"Well, yes," Darius Blake admit
ted reluctantly, "but, dear girl, he
did not put it that way, even to
himself. You see, he owned half of
the property already, for sis father
had divided it evenly between his
son and daughter. If the son saw
the possibilities in it, and the
daughter did not, Livingstone rea
soned, might not the son profit by
these possibilities? He told your
father once tha,t if the Investment
had proved a failure he would have
lost by it—and his sister would not.
He stood to lose or gain, and, as he
put it, he "happened to gain."
A Disagreeable Subject
"And he never offered to make up
for it to my mother."
Blake smiled cynically. "Well, he
never called it exactly that. He used
to send your mother very hand
some gifts at Christmas and on her
birthday. She never blamed him for
his action, and she begged her hus
band not to. That is why your father
never told you the facts."
"And that is why he never sug
gested that if anything happened to
him I should live at Uncle
Stephen's," the girl said musingly.
"I wish I had known the truth."
"No, dear, you do not," her com
panion corrected. "It is better that
you should not have known it. Only
your evident reluctance to allow your
uncle to do the fair thing by you
moved me to tell you now. Now you
comprehend why you need not hesi
tate about letting him pay you back
in an infinitesimal degree some of
what he might have paid your
mother."
"I see," the girl said, "but," shak
ing her head impatiently, "I hate
it!"
"Even so—it will soon be a thing
of the past," Darius Blake reminded
her. "At what hour are you to meet
Mr. Stewart?"
His change of tone was so marked
that Cynthia was aware that he
wished no further discussion of the
subject just dismissed.
"At a quarter of six." she said.
"It is that now," Mr. Blake in
formed her. "He will be waiting for
you. I would like to meet him, if
I may—unless you- have not told
him of our appointment here this
afternoon."
"I have told him," she rejoined.
"I said nothing at the house about
it— but Gerald is—well—he's differ
ent."
A Strange Expression
The lawyer laughed affectionately.
"Of course he is my dear. That is
because you love him. I could wish
nothing better for you than that
you should have the ideally happy
marriage that your father and
mother had as long as she lived.
And it was happy because It was
founded on love. Without love, mar
riage is hell. With love, it is heaven.
Your parents' daughter would
marry only for love."
A flood of crimson swept across
Cynthia's face, then receded, leav
ing it very pale. Her father's friend
gazed at her, startled.
The blush might denote the self
consciousness of a woman when
speaking of her lover. But what did
the pallor mean?
"Gerald will be wondering where
I am," she said hastily, pushing her
chair back from the table and rising
"Shall we go? I am to meet him In
the lobby."
The waiter had brought the
change from the bill handed him
by Darius Blake. His face spread
into a grin as a dollar tip was laid
on his silver tray.
"We have kept your table for an
unconscionable time," the gentle
man murmured. "Good day!"
Three minutes later he waa shak
ing hands with Gerald Stewart, look
ing him squarely In the eyes. Gerald
was a handsome fellow, and Mr.
Blake decided that he liked him.
Yet the thought thrust Itself upon
his mind as he got into the cab that
was to take him to the railroad
station—it was difficult to imagine
those two delightful young people—
Stewart and Cynthia—deeply In
love with each other, and Cynthia—
What was the matter' What was
wrong? _
To Be Continued.
The Way Out
Whin we were asked to "save the
sugar," we nodded our heads and
agreed that sugar must he saved.
Somebody must save it; it was the
job of the cook, the baker or the
mother of the house. It wasn't in our
line.
Then came this word: "Less sweet
drinks and candy containing sugar
should be used in wartime. As a na
tion wo have twice as much sugar as
we need."
This made it more or less a per
sonal matter to each of us, and it
put upon us a responsibility under
which we squirmed a bit. J-low can
we satisfy our perfectly normal crav
ing for sweets and still "save the
sugar?"
We can satisfy it with candy, but
not with all kinds of candy; just
those which contain a minimum
amount of sugar.
But it is a real sacrifice to confine
your use of confectionery to the
sugar saving varieties described be
low?
Among them are the chocolate,
covered nuts and fruits, the uncoated
candies, such as nougatines, the de
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that variety, as well as all the choco
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The second group includes "hard
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stick candy, fruit tablets, peanut
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the like. In this group may also be
placed molasses candies such as taf
fies and kisses.
Marshmallows and similar candies
comprise the third group. They may
be eaten plain, toasted, dipped in
chocolate, rolled in coconut and in
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Commerce Chamber Again
Appeals For War Gardens
The Harrisburg Chamber of Com
merce, through its supervisor of
garden plots, to-day made another
strong appeal to enlist schoolchildren
in war garden work. A communica
tion showing how very important
this matter is considered by the
head of the nation was sent to each
principal of a school —Stevens, Ver
non, Forney, Lincoln, Woodward,
Downey, Allison, Foose, Webster,
Shimmell, Harris, Paxtang, Melrose,
Boas, Willatd, Calder, Cameron,
Steele, Hamilton, Day, Penn, Camp
Curtin, Maclay,. Rcily, Verbeke and
Wickersham.
President Wilson makes it plain
in this letter sent to every principal
that volunteers for war garden in
dustry between the ages of 9 and 16
will be just as patriotic as those
building ships or firing cannon. The
Chamber of Commerce representa
tive adds in the communication:
"I hope that this spring every
school will have a regiment of vol
unteer war gardeners. Will you
kindly announce this to your school
and ask all who want war gardens
to give you their names and you in
turn hand them to the supervisor in
your district? The supervisor fo
your district will be Mr. J. F. Fergu
son. The land will be located al
Beliovuo ;incl Fifteenth and Vernon,
He will then furnish you with blanki
for the volunteers to sign."
ACTIVE CAMPAIGN PLANNED
Liverpool, Pa., April 18.—OJ
Tuesday evening the women's Libert!
Loan committee-, which includes Mrq
J. Warren Stailey, Mrs. H. A. S. Shi*
ler, Mrs. W. W. Holman, Miss Maud
Knisely, Mrs. J. D. Snyder and Mra
S. A. Derr, met Tuesday at the hom<
of Miss Puera B. Robison, Libertj
Loan director for Liverpool district
and made plans for a house-to-hous<
canvass.
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