The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-04
A FIN DE Steele DUEL:

You fight for the right to study |
With men their Latin and Greek.
You fight for II seat in the street car
You fight for the ayes ana the noes;
You fight for our reformation; |
You even fight for our clothes. |
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We laugh at your pert presumption
You dear. divine, little shrow!
Yet every man among us.
Would like the tanning of you.
we know the one way to conquer,
Since this dread duel began;
So long rs woman Is woman,
SO long as man Is man:
You may scold. and sncer. ana scofr at us
You may play your Ka,herine's part;
But Petrucio is victor
II ho but aim at your heart.
Ruth Hart. in Truth.
"Who are the happy? l look about
me-" writes Amber" in the Chicago
Herald. "and try 10 answer the ques-
tion. First l take the married folks.
Are they happy? Not one out of TWEEN
ty. Why? Because they exact too
much. Whisky itself has not wrought
the marital woe that eNactiou has.
Matrimony is chain. You may pad
1t with velvet orwrCathe II with flowers.
yet II remains chain. There Is un-
wisdom in pulling It too tightly. AS
long rs the slave does not feel his fet-
terS he car be comparatively hanpy.
buc let the steel corrode his flesh and he
becomes aware of thraldom. When a
woman goes through her husbands
pockets on the SLY she pulls at his chain.
when she sheds tears because he walks
down town with 4 pretty neighbor she
pulls at his chain. When she sits up to
sCOld because he comes home late she |
pulls at his chain. Such things may
not be agreeable for her to bear, but
there are better ways Of holding man
than hauling him along at the end Of q
chain. II I were married woman and
had Il husband who neglected me. do |
YOU know what | would do? l would |
begin all over again and lay siege 70 his |
heart. l would make myself so charm |
ing that before he knew 1t he would fall !
in love with me for the second time. |
There is no use denying 1t, men are |
queer. They grow tired Of what they |
possess and are always reaching out |
after the fruit that hangs high. There |
is something in q mans nature that |
leads him to be always on the lookout |
for fresh conruests From the time he
begins 70 drive his dog IN harness, |
through the stage Of liking to break |
colts, all along the era Of love-malling |
and away down 70 old age, man wishes !
to be master Of the situation and lord |
of a. new possession. He loves his wife, !
no doubt. but after a few years she be- |
comes an old story. and ne begins to |
yearn for something newer and fresher. |
He doesn't mean TO be exactly unfaith-
fui, but he is ike % man who leaves mis- !
Bible untouched to read the daily pa
pers. The news is what he covets: the |
plan Of redemption will do to save his |
soul and to base his hopes Of heaven |
upon, but the columns of the 2-penny |
paper hold the current news, and that !
is what he demands for daily needs. /
If, then, when IT husband is taken |
by the pretty IS Of another woman
you begin to go her one better on the |
question OF beauty, you can keep him,
provided he is worth the keeping-some- |
times doubt it."
A MODEL CHILD:
Her temper's always sunny, her hair is !
ever neat;
She doesn't care for candy-she says It Is |
too sweet
She loves to study lessons-her sums are |
always right;
And she gladly goes to bed at eight every |
single night!
Her aprons never tumbled, her hands are |
always clean
with buttons missing from her shoe she |
never has been seen.
She remembers to say Thank YOU" and |
f'Vpa rna'aro yott r,1e.a
And she never cries, nor frets, nor whines; |
she's ne'er been known to tease.
Each night upon the closet shelf she puts !
away her toys;
She never slams the parlor door, nor
makes the slightest noise;
But she loves to run on errands and to |
play with her little brother,
And she's never in life been known to
disobey her mother.
"Who IS this charming little maid?
I long to grasp her handr
She's the daughter Of Mr.. Nobody,
And she lives In NowheTeIand
Helen Hopkins in May St. Nicholas.
'Tf You know something to the dis
credit of somebody" says amber" in |
another place, Keep It to yourself. If
certain circumstances lead you to sup
pose woman Is not what she should be |
why should you constitute yourself the /
town-crier to cry her shame? God win |
take care of her. Suppose you look |
after yourself-know where your own |
boys spend their evenings before you |
Judge your neighbor's. There never |
yet was heart record that did not |
include entries In invisible ink. We /
cannot explain what we do not under
stand; so let us keep our eyes off our |
neighbor's books and try to make our |
own accounts balance. If we see n fact |
that looks black and would make a. |
sensation If published, hands Off only |
God knows the truth, for He looks back |
of results at causes and judges by the |
heart rather than the deed. OF one |
thing I am determined, and wish that |
! could rally an army under the banner |
carry. I viii not lug the deviPs |
powder-horn around any longer, fur |
nishing scandal for him to load his gun |
with. / will not tell disagreeable truths I
unnecessarily, even If they are truths. |
] will make myself 80 busy with my
own affairs that / shall have no time to |
spend watching others. And, lastly, |
whenever there is somebody down |,
whom l can help to. stand again. or
somebody discouraged whom can help
to cheer. humbly pray that may be
there. not with ill-truths and tauntipg
4. told you sos but with love in my
heart and everlasting silence on my
lips"