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his home town nearby, simply TO pass
every day his fathers law Office and
wonder if he was there. dreamed or
him every night and talked Of him all
day. She began finally to imagine that
she had met him, that he had returned
her love. that they were to be married.
Her health was attacked, and her record
in her examinations was such that she
received a warning note from the medi-
cal college where she. had heretofore
been one Of the most brilliant students.
At last, one morning, as she secured
THE Footlights Monthly" for news Of
Theodore. she found-a notice OF his
marriage. He had made the ingenue
of his company his wife: They had
been In love for several years. said the
notice, t'and the announcement was far
from unexpected
Here was a man who had never seen
her, never spoken to her, probably
never been aware OF her existence and
yet the news OF his erninently happy
and suitable marriage was a shock so
great that she never entirely recovered
from it, She did not go insane or have
brain fever or do any of the other
things considered proper under the cir
cumstances; she did have what the doc
tor called a slight attack of nervous
prostration ('working too hard at col
lege. perhaps'), and then everything
went on as before. except that she was
a year behind in her work
But those who know the cynical.
rather blase Norah of today and know
also of the empty photograph frame on
her dressing table, sigh when they read
of that already famous young couple,
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore McDevitt
It isn't the actors fault, you dear,
foolish girls. when you fall in love with
him; he would probably be horribly
bored and annoyed If he knew it, and
his profession is a hard enough one
without that extra trodble. If you
would only remember that he is just as
much a stranger, to you as is the con-
ductor on the street car, or the author
of the latest book, or the man who made
your cousins new suit-with none of
whom. I will wager, you would dream
of falling in love-you will be perfectly
safe. And of course, 1t is your business
If you choose to make fool of your
self
Only. remember Norahl
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For Musicians

NACRIFICE all the trivialities OF
social life to thy art.-The Odys-
~ sey.
In order to please everybody at once
1t Is necessary to compromise. and in
questions of art he who compromises
is sure to disappear in a short time
Richard Wagner.
Let not a day pass. II possible. with
out having heard some fine music, read
a noble poem or seen beautiful pic
ture.-Goethe.
Sing aloud old songs-the precious mu-
sic of the heart-W ordsworth-
Music washes away from the soul the
dust OF everyday life.--Auerbach-
Music should strike fire from the heart
of man and bring tears from the eyes
of women.--Beethoven
The barriers are not erected that can
say to aspiring talents and industry,
Thus far and no further. r.'-Beethoyen
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XTYHY is it always the actor who
NV must be hampered in his profes
sion? Why can't the silly girls
who go sixteen times TO the same play,
and annoy the hero with notes and pho
tographs and telephone calls, fall in love.
instead with the grocer or the druggist
or the life insurance agent? They are
every bit as worthy.
Do you think that is too strong
term. failing in love? Do you think
X is only callow youths who worship at
the stage door, and subscribe for theat-
rical magazines that they may follow
their divinity in fancy throughout the
country. and waste their substance in
flowers and other evidences of riotous
living? Then listen 20 this true story:
There was once a young man-one
whom Bernard Shaw would describe as
q beautiful you'll" rather nice young
fellow. with a touch of genius and a
charming manner. who left the law
school, where his father had put him. to
60 on the stage. After a few seasons
spent in corning out with twenty other
beauteous youths and warbling, And
we agre-e-e-e with you. You always
Ni-l-l-tt Dc u uSs AS lOilS DIS FUSES DiCOIn
in June or lilac blooms In May" he
found his chance. 1t was in clever
play. an English success, and since
Theodore Cas we shall call the young
nam had to act nothing but his in
genious and attractive self. he made a
great hit His bronze curls and his
big violet eyes became everywhere the
rage.
Enter the lady. She was really,
beautiful girl, whereas Theodore was
oEly charming through youth and good
spirits She had black hair and gray
blue eyes and the delicate wild-rose COM
plexion, of the Irish of gentle birth She
went to see Theodore in Thou Shalt
Not Steal and very promptly she fell
in love with him. That is true: without
ever having spoken word to him, with
out at that. time knowing anything
whatever about him outside of his curls
and his eyes and his barytone voice,
Norah lost her heart completely to the
fascinating Theodore; lost it as COM
pletely as if she were a matinee
habitue caught by passing fancy.
The queer part was that this was
not In the least her type: she was
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they deserve no reverence. and hardly
respect, L am simply crazy to get
into colors, and TO go around again."
said young widow to me recently
In one year she had lost her father,
her sister and her husband. If, after
all this. she still felt like getting
into colors and going around again."
why. in the name of good sense. was
she wearing mourning at all?
At any rate, whatever your posi-
ton on the subject, one thing you
should make your most anxious care.
You should never too lightly con-
denim the man or woman who. after
a death in the family. makes no
change in garments or in mode Of
living. How do you know, because
a woman wears green and blue and
brown, and because she goes to con-
certs and the theater and to club
meetings, that her heart is not heavy
and sore? Often it is this woman
who carries with her the heaviest
burden, and carries it the longest.
Judge not, that ye be not Judged"
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Start a Library

TN AMAZINGLY cheap form-for a
few pennies, indeed-almost all the
- best books are to be had and think
every one owes it as a sacred duty to
his mind to start a little library of his
own How much do we not do for our
bodies? How much thought and money
do they not cost US? And snail we not
think little for the clothing and adorn-
ing Of the imperishable mind? This
private library may begin, perhaps, with
a single volume. and grow at the rate
Of one or two a year; but these. well
chosen and we'll mastered, will become
such fountain Of strength and wis
dom that each shall be eager to add to
his store. A dozen books accumulated
In this way may be better than a whole
library
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of a moment TO tie the nuptial knot. but
if il needs be undone the process requires
time and money; it costs also pride,
humiliation nervous strain. sometimes
even life. The marriage certificate pro-
vides no insurance of comfort or happi-
ness. Your choice may. result in daily
crucihxion Of spirit. AT least it is worth
thinking about a long time Do not
discount or ascribe TO selfish or sinister
motives the counsel OF those whom
years and long service in the world have
taught knowledge OF good and evil.
To the mother 1 would say: You have
experienced the. cares and duties OF
wifehood, you have suffered the pain
and carried the burden OF motherhood.
II your marriage has been happy and
without regret, do not fail 70 implant
in your daughters mind such ideas OF
men and the requirements of married
life as will cause her To choose a
husband only after calm delibera tiOn.
If your own marriage was an error,
from the fullness OF a know edge
wrought IN suffering or despair make
sure that your daughter is trained with
open eyes to avoid the pitfalls that en-
tangled you SARAH CURTIS MOTT.
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Life's Triumphs

TyACH life has one grand day; the
~ clouds may lie
@ Along the hills and storm winds
fiereely blow
The great red sunshine like thing Of
woe
And deaths sad skeleton stalk grimly
by;
Yet none of these. no matter how they
try.
Can shroud the perfect triumph we shall
know,
Or dim the glory that some star will
show,
Set far away in depths of purple sky.
Sweet love may bring to US this day su-
preme,
Or it may thrill our souls through art or
song.
Or meet US where red battle-surges
foam;
Hopes STRANDED wrecks the barren
coasts may CLEAN,
And weeks and. months dash by,
Somber throng,
But some time, somewhere, 1t will surely
come. Thomas S. Collier
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Shakespeare Speaks

NHALL compare thee to summers
day?
~ Thou art more lovely and more
temperate. -Sonnets.
BY divine instinct. mems minds mis-
trust
Ensuing dangers: as, by proof. we see
The waters swell before a boist'rous
storm,
But leave it all to God.
king Richard III.
Our indiscretion sometimes serves US
well,
When our deep plots do pail, and that
should teach us
There's divinity that shapes our
ends,
Rough-hew them how we will.
Hamlet
He is the half part of a blessed man.
Left to be finished by such as she;
And she a fair divided excellence,
Whose fullness Of perfection lies in
him. king John.
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a brilliant girl. a medical student,
a wide reader, clever and witty. Yet
her infatuation was SO ridiculous
as to become tragic She sent Theo-
dore a photograph she had bought of
him, postcard snapshot, with the
request that he would sign 1t. He
or his secretary-did. so. She wrote
and thanked him. Naturally, she never
heard from him again.
But silence did not cool her ardor.
She enlisted her friends In the cause.
When he was playing in her home town.
one OF them must call up hSs hotel
daily just 70 find If he was there; an
other must scour the theatrical maga-
zines for portraits and criticisms; a
third must keep her always posted as TO
his whereabouts when he was on the
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but a stranger to her. He was good
looking. paid her devoted attention
and in a week had married her She
was only II. pretty. intelligent. reared
in a nice home by indulgent parents.
who educated her rather extensively
in music The man she married had a
very measer education and no appre-
citation OF mental attainments-a very
ordinary fellow. working at a small
salary. a man who would never be a
success. without ambition. He could
not afford TO go 10 housekeeping. so
he took her TO his people. who did
not live in the manner 10 which the
young wife was accustomed. Her hus-
band. feeling her superiority. felt an
noyed and scoffed q t what he called
her fine notions. In every way hs
could think OF he tried 10 draw her
down to his level. Her people cast
her or she was denied the comforts.
the friends, the amusementS which
had made her girlhOOd so pleasant
She could not turn to music for con-
ISOLATION. for she had no instrument
Her life was dull. hopeless. without
resource. She was a foreign element
IN this home: her husband. his peo-
pie, his associates were not congeniaL
Six months terminated this unbear-
able life. Disgust for her husband
prevented the continuance OF rela-
tion from which no good could come
She preferred to support herself rath-
er than spend her life under such de-
teriorating conditions. This was the
result that followed a moment OF I'M
pulse. runaway match. How easily
might II have been otherwise. had
she consulted and abided by the coun-
sci OF those whose only thought was
her happiness.
One cannot expect common sense.
foresight or wisdom to bear fruit n
youth or maturity unless II has been
planted in infancy and carefully tended
through childhood. The burden OF blame
IN such cases rests on the parents
who have not taken PRECAUTIONS against
such mistakes. A positive realization
OF the unavoidable responsibilities. sac
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stand ankle-deep in the golden Hood
of moist. freshly fallen leaves and
gaze into the yellow canopy above.
brown-yeined. SO mellow light is
diffused from the sheltering boughs.
almost touching the ground. that each
tree seems a separate world. To one
standing beneath the sunshine or the
naples unstinted wealth In the coin OF
natures realm is given. The largess
of the departing summer is poured
upon his head-even as Jupiter visit
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Distichs and Saws
IN HYME the rudder is of verses,
X With which like ships they steer
fAN their courses.

II
X With which like ships they steer
sAN their courses
In the hurry Of fray.
'Tis hard to keep out of harms way.
Honor Is like widow, won
With brisk attempt and putting on,
With entering manfully and urging;
Not slow approaches, Ike virgin.
Great commanders always own
What's prosperous by the soldier done.
Great conquerors greater glory gain
BY foes in triumph led than slain.
Ay me! what perils do environ
The man that NEEDLES with cold ironl
Valor's a mousetrap. wit gin,
That women oft are taken IN.
In all trade OF war no feat
Is nobler than brave retreat,
For those that run away and fly
Take place at least of the enemy.
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Culture

"HUS there Is climbing scale of
culture, from the first agreeable
- sensation which a sparkling gem
or a scarlet stain affords the eye, up
through fair outlines and details of the
landscape, features of the human face
and form, signs and tokens OF thought
and character in manners, up TO the
ineffable mysteries of the intellect.
Wherever we begin, thither our steps
tend; an ascent from the joy of horse
in his trappings, up to the perception
of Newton, that the globe on which we
ride is onlysa larger apple falling from
a larger tree; up TO the perception OF
Plato. that globe and universe are rude
and early expressions of an ali-dissolv-
ing unity-the first stair on the scale
20 the temple of the mind.-Emerson.
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Go, Lovely Rose /!

no, LOVELY rose.
Tell her that wastes her time ant
NJ me.
That now she knows,
When resemble ner to thee,
Tell her that's young.
And shuns to have her graces spied,
That had st thou sprung
In deserts where no men abide,
Thou must have uncommended died.
Small is the. worth
OF beauty from the light retired.
Bid her come forth,
Suffer herself to be desired.
And not blush so to be admired.
Then die! that she
The common fate OF all things rare
May read in thee,
That are so/wondrous sweet and fair.
Edmund Waller.
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0ElMLWENEApN MOURNING?

N INE was when such question
would have been simply prepos-
ferrous That was the age when
widows went into deepest black. crepe
and all. for the rest OF their natural
lives. or until they married again; when
mothers wore black even for little
babies that had not lived an hour;
VIXEN third cousins and almost-fances
and intimate friends were all subjects
for mourning.
But no doubt about t. public opinion
has changed. Thirty years ago you
would have shocked a conventional
world by suggesting all-white for deep
mourning. now Ct is almost as common
as all-black. Thirty years ago, even
those who looked forward TO some day
terminating their mourning never eK-
pected 10 do SO under three or four
vears at the very least Now there is
such confusion IN the matter that from
question Of etiquette It has become a
question OF taste.
And that is all fl ever really can oe.
You certainly are in no way ahecung
the dead by wearing black for them'
q n were possible thus to show your
zov-ovy 20 their eyes. there is NOT one
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Wha monopollzes
ton the piano stool social lion the front row IN the
gallery selfish and Will never be generally hked
Tactflv into the circle and
then gracefully withdraw.
memory be cultivated If you wish Tor popu-
lary Incidents 1t is merely
matter power and practice If you determine 70
and to show that certain woman
vain will hnd that the strain
memory nothing the strained situation you
forgotten
ability; IL know that your voice s
well trained apologize before singing NO woman
doing Insincerity never
careful that concet does not suppiant
a true appreciation of value
Have genuine good time without foolish Enjoy
yourself, nothing Is charming than woman who
thoroughly enjoys thing She fairly radates her pleasure
need be beautiful to popular. Do not worry
inability with Helen of Troy in the
There that is the result of good,
pure thoughts There is light in the that
benefcence and it quite overpowers the
the iris the length of the lashes.
Any be popular! BARBARA LEE
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long engagement
whirl superhciay liked fitting from
rarely giving
tiles then popularity is missing
What the popularity? Some people
summed the whole thing in the
III into o al
will there certain indescrbabe which charm,
that's all Popularity implies sociabity
pie If you people like you
hater the misogynist popular. After
all, people interesting consid-
GRAFTON, will like sincerely
them. Never be afraid lend helping hand
Study being of friends
little contribute
total deeds and kind to
body Be gracious interiors
equals Poiteness your circle of
friends worth much This ability to be mpartaly
there class distinctions
arrived
being and consideration fellow beings
decidedly the frst-cabin passenger
Did you popular who others to
the heart by her caustc doubeedged tongue? Hardly!
Every word uttered the of another just for the
laugh of the deeply
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WIEN [IxIE'NE1QSTEALS

w HEN .T.s@ Time. who steals our years
Snail steal our pleasures. too,
The memory of the past will stay,
And half our joys renew.
Then. Chloe. when thy beauty's flower
Shall feel the wintry air,
Remembrance viii recall the hour
When thou alone vert fair!
Then talk no more Of future gloom;
our joys shall always last:
For hope shall brighten days to come
And memory gid the past!
Come. Chloe. I'll the genial bowl
drink TO Love and thee:
Ihou never canst decay IN soul.
Iho1lt stu be young for me.
And as thy lips the teardrops chase
Which on my cheek they find.
30 nope shall steal away the trace
hich sorrow leaves behind!
aen hl the howl-away the gloom!
Our Joys shall always last:
i or hone shall brighten DAYS to come.
ana memory gid the past,
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Origin of Old Sayings

/" HE Honeymoon.-For thirty days
after wedding the ancient Teu-
H. tons had custom of drinking a
mead made of honey
The Bridegroom.-In primitive times
the newly welded man had to wait upon
his bride and the guests on his wedding
day. He was their groom.
Sirloin OF Beef.-King Charles I, be-
Ing greatly pleased with a roast loin Of
beef set before him, declared it good
enough to be. knighted. 1t has ever
since been called Sir Loin.
A Spinster.-Women were prohibited
from ma rrying in olden times until they
had spun a full set of bed furnishings
on spinning-wheel; hence, till married
they were spinsters.
Cabal-Thfs word was coined in
Charles IFS reign and applied to his
cabinet council. 1t was made out Of
the initials of their names. which were: /:
Clifford, Arlington, Buckingham. Ash
ley, Lauderdale.
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means Of withdrawal from pleasures
and excitements they could not bear. It
puts up a screen between them and the
world-a screen that says, Respect my
eflicton and leave me for a little time
alone" And that is the only good ar
gument for mourning.
Yet even for these there is another
side 70 the question. and It is this:
Have We any right to sadden others
with our grief? The sight OF somber
colors, Of dull crepe and clinging
sable wells is actually painful to
many. Perhaps # recalls to them
kindred and terrible experience. per-
haps they are merely supersensitive
and easily affected Then there are
the children; have you ever watched
the pathetic soIemnity creep over
child's face when he Is being made
20 live in the midst Of blackness2
SulIy- -Pruohomme, the French poet.
lost his father at an early age, and
he tells how the mourning his mother
wore and put upon him sank from
the clothing to the heart" Have you
a right to subject child to your
sorrow?
There are those. too. who even while
in mourning cannot endure shutting
themselves entirely out from life.
How often I have known women to
ask IL it was proper to go to a
wedding IN deep mourning. And al
ways. If il was / that was asked,
I have answered, You have no right
20 intrude your grief on the brides
JOY Unless you can lay aside your
mourning. stay away"
AS for those who wear mourning
simply because every one else does,
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What We Have Done

COMPARATIVELY short this LETT the beaten
IA added this The fashionable
the beautiful practical mind and the house
mother had always been recognized But something miss
Women of this do something besides cooking sewing and
They THINK and FEEL deeply about life various
phases They gather opinions of other and women and from
golden truths
brighten the days for all The need department. supply woan
demands has been felt by But this hrst crystal
lzed the idea a successful and attractive form.
Steadily ideal We have made mistakes but
have pro6ted before the wish and
the resolution who have minds and sentiments something
worth while And have faiedl
On this there always something that has frightened the hour
of womannd intend that these columns shall
opportunity This stands high ideals
literary thought and expression will standard be lowered
growing become mighty
modng deciding of great
pith and moment"
What have done is merely fOreshadowng Of future action
shall
esting And the prizes yours
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Borrowings

"HERE is nothing in which people
betray their character more than
- in what they find to laugh at
Goethe.
He who IS great when ne falls Is
great IN his prostration. and is no more
an object Of contempt than when men
tread on the ruins of sacred buildings,
which men Of piety venerate no less
than II they stood.-Seneca.
All true work is sacred. In all true
work, were 1t but true hand work,
there Is something of divineness. Labor,
wide as the earth. has its summit IN
heaven. To sit as a passive bucket
and be pumped into. can be exhilarating
10 no creature, how eloquent soever
be the flood of utterance that Is descend
ing.-Carlyle.
The growing good OF the world Is
partly dependent on unhistoric acts,
and that things are not so i'll with
you and me as they might have been
is half owing to the number who lived
faith fully a hidden life and rest in
unvisited tombs.-George Eliot.
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SUNSHINE If5 II9f55MlApEES

I'd so are come
again the days
OF fruition and
Of falling leaves.
On both sides the
road a stroLg
breeze following
in the wake OF
the storm has
shaken the first
shower of gold
from the maplC-s.
II previously we
have been insen-
S / b ! e h e
beauty OF the
trees, n o W we
vibrate to their
charm. One may
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But mark, at Thoughts Of future years
When love shall lose its soul,
Ny Chloe drops her timid tears,
They mingle with my bowl!
How like this bowl Of wine. my fair.
Our loving life shall fleet:
Though tears may sometimes mingle
there,
The draught will still be sweet.
Then I'LL the bowl-away with glooml
Our joys shall always last;
For hope will brighten days to come,
And memory gild the past!
Thomas Moore
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OF Us who would
not wear. on the
heart at least that
badge Of unforgot-
ten grief But the
dead sleep and can
not dream
You are lie It,
then. with two
sides TO the situa
ton. Those " h 0
wear mourning rea-
Eonably - 1 mean
those with whom
Il is not a mere
matter Of unthink-
ing convention-ssy
that il is 10 them a
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rtfces and obllga-
tons which attend
the marriage state
should be impress
ed upon children
with increasing
strength as they
approach the period
Of a d o lie s C ence.
7 n eir attention
should be called 10
cases K n o " n TO
them. even in their
own family. Illus
tTative OF wise and
unwise marriages.
and the causes that
have contributed %
each.
To the girl who
reads this let me
say: It is the work