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spairingly on the letter that never
comes? Jack promised to write. and
never did. and Dolly sends him away
forever with words that he hears.
while she bids him stay with eyes that
he is too proud and hurt to see. II
Jack and Dolly are sensible creatures,
another letter that does arrive makes
everything straight again; but some
times they are obstinate and foolish.
that did not come.
And sometimes, when Jack has mar
ried Dolly, there is a quarrel again
was late from the office-and Dolly
goes away. Jack, from the cherries
room where every sofa pillow and cur
Writes M ana sna spsafhs hsusy pG and
heart-broken letters: but the answer
never comes, and the postman is to
blame for another tragedy
1t Is just as well that some letters
never do come. There is the letter you
wrote In the heat and anger of mid
night to your best friend. after you
And when the next morning you found
the whole story was false. how glad
You were. after wretched day, to
find that In the excitement of your
anger you had put your own address
under her name on the envelope, and
the letter returned to you'll
And that miracles sometimes happen,
one woman knows. Worn out by a
miserable life she had finally con-
sented to throw convention away; but
her letter to the man who wanted to
make things happier for her was
hardly In the box before she realized
that even loveless marriage is better
than the loss of ones fair fame. att
is too late" she sobbed to herself as
she went back to the house she must
never enter again after next she left
It, And at her door she looked in
petrifled relief at the envelope in her
hand, she had mailed her thin leather
cardcase, 1t was another letter that
never came.
Still, almost anything Is better than
the letter that comes too frequently.
There is story of two old gentlemen
who were so punctilieus that they never
left q note unanswered. One Of them
had occasion to write on some business
matter; the other answered him; No.
thanked him for answering, and No.
then expressed thanks for the courtesy
twenty years, doing nothing but thank
ing the other for writing last and
when finally one of the old gentlemen
died. the other said with a sigh OF
relief. We'll, I'm sorry he's gone but
I'm mighty glad there Is no postal de-
partment where he went tor
Some Of our friends, who write con-
tinually on the most trifiing matters;
who poster US with unfnteresting
and shower upon us. epistles that
take UP our valuable time, remind us
forcibly of these two gentlemen. One
wishes sometimes that their we'll
meant documents were letters that
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very we'll go. NV dear; it seems qul'e
easy for you to enjoy yourseh wiz
out me. But then I never expee
be considered of any Importance 1u'
he does.
He is always being slighted; ana no
explains to you carefully that ne
doesn't mind in the least; 1t IS just
as Others decide. But of course ne
can't help its hurting him, though ne
says nothing.
In fact, it Is his habit to say nothing
Still waters run Deep he murmurs,
In excuse Of his taciturnity. And often
he Is very successful In impressing
strangers with his philosophical quie-
tude when he simply has nothing to
say. when ignorant, be silent" Is a
good proverb 1t gives you the rsputa-
ton of being wise.
The deep" man Is always secretive.
He loves an atmosphere of mystery;
II lends 90 much more Importance to
his words and deeds. No matter how
simple the move he Is contemplating,
be It even the using OF a telephone or
the buying of hat. he surrounds IL
with all the ceremony OF the deepest
and when the person he wants is not
at home, answers, in response TO your
request for his name, 'Oh. never mind.
I'll call again." You Insist Tell him
It's & friend he answers In chilly
dignity. and rings OF.
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maintain the masculine conception of
her natural bent. Women who have
children consider them first as a mat
ter of course. The home is made sue
cessful by the individual woman But
where is the man who accepts without
protest certain line of action, con-
signed to him for the whole of his life,
as a matter OF course? Unless he is
exceptionally unfortunate he chooses
his vocation; but except a woman be
endowed by fate with an income of the
coin of the realm. she must achieve
independence before she can exercise
any freedom of choice.
Why. then. should not the race toward
achievement be decided by the ability
Of the individual to reach the goal? We
honor THE Madonna OF the Tubs" as
well as THE Madonna of the Chair"
and great is Diana of the Ephesiansr"
Woman ought to do whatever she
wants to do. The very fact Of her de-
sire to make the attempt proves her
fitness for the task. SO ought man-the
difference being that he does, because
his way is not barred; she does not, be-
cause she Is not an indiyidual--she Is
Mrs. Somebody Else.
When she is an independent working
woman as he is an independent work
ing man, let her be Mrs. Somebody
Else IL she wants to belts way we
women have; but this above all else
should be matter of choice and not of
necessity, because things are so con-
stituted that the state OF matrimony Is
the only really comfortable state in the
union In which a woman without an
income can get along.
Adam, why don't you let us do as we
please about choosing our vocation? We
shall do II anyhow, but we'd like you to
Took pleasant about Il. Besides. you
wouldn't prove SUCCESS as an enemy
you know why.
MRS. SOMEBODY ELSE
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am as good as they are, they can dis
pense with joining me In the holy bonds
Il. would never, never, never marry
the best man on earth IL he was in the
habit OF telling lies about unimportant
Things The lie that will save a life or
heal wound / most heartily approve
Of; but the man I could not trust; who
might be millionaire or a pauper for
all he would tell me OF his business;
who doled out money whenever I abso-
lutely needed 1t. because he would be
afraid of my knowing too much about
his AFFAIRS il ! had an allowance; who
would falsify In respect to the most
trtftng things-an evening out or
friend TO diRner-would drive me mad.
] should never even be sure whether
or not he was faithful TO me- No. I
must be able to have absolute faith IN
man. to marry him"
The stingy man, the handsome man
who knows his own pulchritude, the
man whose business keeps him away
from home 200 much, the man never
willing TO SO out for an evenings
amusement, the man careless about the
care of his person, all come IN for their
share of condemnation.
Now. our male readers. write 10 Us IN
answer TO this broadside and tell US Of
the woman you wouldn't marry.
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TIVE had told the editor that she
n wanted to make for herself an in
- dependent niche in the world. The
editor suggested that she write some
thing which might interest her sisters
Of the reading circle"-at the same
time. manwise. he remarked that he
didn't see why women wanted to be in
dependent
Eve returned that she did not wish to
be obliged TO ask a mans permission as
60 her ''goings in and comings out
from this time forth forevermore." To
which this particular Adam replied that
she would be obliged to ask herself. any
how. So Eve went home and thought
about it. She liked the answer because
she hadn't heard IL before-not in that
particular way. And so much depends
on the way things are "put'-"put' is
more forcible Il less elegant than pre-
sented."
Nevertheless, Adam had unconsciously
summed up the case 1t makes all the
difference in the world whether one
must ask ones self or ask somebody
else To ask nobody would, of course.
be license: but freedom is to ask ones
setf
But why should the part q woman
plays in thc world be considered as a
question or class7 Why not regard her
as an individual? II she prefers the
life domestic, she ought 10 shine in that
particular sphere. Ifsshe feels herself
better suited TO the ways Of business or
to a career artistic. she should follow
her own natural bent. Now. Adam is
quite willing 70 admit that Eve should
follow her natural bent; but her natural
bent is 20 DO as he thinks. 1t is equally
noble 20 rock the cradle or to sing
high c.
Adam does not often suggest, Stop
rocking the cradle and sing high c.; but
he is ever ready to insist that she stop
singing high c ana rock the cradle, add
ing, by way of consolation, You
haven't any voice and you never could
sing, ANYHOW"
There always have been and there al
ways will be enough women anxious to
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his faint heart Tor the letter lndt never
comes.
1t Is life and death, too, to the old
mother, whose son Is too busy or too
thoughtless to remember that he is
all in all to the tired old woman who
sits. In her knitted black shawl and
her cleaning spectacles. watching for
the postman morning after morning.
He comes into sight; all the way down
How exasperatingly long the smiths
are in answering the bell! Doesn't he
know the Joneses are out of town!
Then at last 1T Is her turn-but ne
shakes his head and goes on. Or per-
haps he does hand her letter; and 1T Is
from Sister Jessie, or from Cousin
Samuel, back on the farm. Then some
day the quiet old eyes ye ,be fellow him
knows that here Is another tale or the
letter that never came.
There is the girl, too, who gave her
heart all on a summer day, without
word or warning, to the man from far
away who came like burst OF sun
light into her dull life. He promised
to write; and she pictured that letter
in a thousand forms, all the way from
lightful my vacation was!" to Dearest
Edith. Did you guess, when / went
away, that loved your But the let
ter never came. IN one form or the
years of weary excuses, OF persuading
herself that she must have misunder-
stood the little attentions, the half
attsctienats phrases she is forced tnst to to
had been merely summers amuse-
ment, forgotten in the whirl of daily
life. Sometimes she never forgets, and
hsa asy hsr or Il. Il ssr sta s doss
How many lovers quarreis hang de-
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THE "DEEP MAN"

He gains a great reputation by nod
ding frequently. You quote from Con-
fucius He mods. You mention a fact
in electrical engineering. He mods. You
express an opinion on japanese art
He mods. And you go away from his
company firmly convinced that Mr..
Blank has the widest OF general knowl-
edge, whereas. for all he knows. con-
fucius may be a Roman general. elec-
trical engineering a Utoplan dream
and Japanese art a figure OF speech.
He has simply said nothing. and has
implied deepness by not revealing the
bottom OF the stream
He thinks always in large letters
and numbers. 1t is a question OF uni
versal peace with him. not of hushing
up a South American revolution; hs IN
nightly interested in aviation, but
never In an airship: he holds large
ideas anent international Iangua ges.
but never knows a word OF Esperanto.
II is especially in regard to his
women-folk that the deep man is
annoying. He usually considers himself
vastly superior to all OF them, and can
live forty years without discovering
that his patient mother or his devoted
wife has twice the brains that he has.
To this species belonged the man who
HFOtc pretty verses lot living, ana
discovered after his wife's death that
she was the unpublished author OF
poems (which he had never had time
TO read so great as to make his own
vers de societe dwindle Into shamed
nothingness
But above al, the deep man da-
lights In being an object OF suspicion.
He loves to hear IL said Of him. There's
something below that mans ordinar,
mGnne-." He almost courts the scandal
OF a double Hfe-sinning however by
imputation only. His is the MephistO-
phelian attitude: he surveys the follies
OF society with bland air OF acquies-
cerce, meanwhile fondly hoping that tho
world perceives the mocking sneer be-
meath. and wiH say. How uncom-
Portable Mr. Blank makes one. one
never knows what he thinks OF things.
He Is so deept'
His only danger Is that soms day
he will be found out; that callous
and cynical crea ture without proper
reverence or respect will pierce TO the
bottom his petty self-esteem and show
to the gaping crowd the puffed balloon
that was their Sphinx.
For the deep" man - always shaIcvi
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gov In charge of maid. Well
having time. In the first place she con
siders above other In the place
That is always inimical to success in summer.
She invitation to the marshmallow toast in
the Consequently, she companion sat in soi
grandeur the piazza, and hope heard the merr
nent of the the lawn.
Her complaint about the golf links vas heard and fer
away from the hotel mobs but gave her the ser
treating this subject for of she showed the expensive
bathing
She has her motorcar trap and every
morning she civilization back
again. No misses admireS clothes
l think that a friend ilk.
expecting something If
to be endured in the place.
Another girl is the in charge a dragon
break the bind her to the pon
strings of No. she darent play tennis 1t is
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The lips that touch liquor shall
never touch mine / have dread OF
marrying a drunkard; and though I'm
not a teetotaler myself, I'm going to
run no risks with my husband. and the
day he marries me he signs the pledge.
Unfair? Perhaps; but safe
II simply will not marry man who
never unbends. My husband may be
dignified in his business life. but he's
got to be able to shout himself hOarse
at a baseball game and to act like a
boy whenever occasion requires. A sense
Of humor is the chiefest OF blessings;
and 7 couldn't dream OF looking for
ward TO thu trials and nerve rackings
Of married life in company with any
one who couldn't laugh away his trou-
bles and sing when he d ra ther cry.
My husband must make up his mind
that l am the one woman In the world
for him. and that have no intention
of abdicating 1 know l should never
have any foolish jealousy; and my
husband will be welcome to all the
women friends he wants so long as
thev are INV friends. too. But the
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firtatious man is
my pet aversion,
and he is worse
married than sin
gle. I'd rather mar
ry an awkward.
rough man Of ster-
ling depth, who
had never looked
at another woman,
than the most brill
liant male coquette.
with one eye on
me and the other
distributed around
among his feminine
acquaintance "
"P T 9 s Q nv Q me
from the man with
the only a woman
attitude. The kind
that laughs indul-
gently at your opin-
ions. and asks your
advice merely TO
f1atter you, and
never takes seri-
ously anything you
say or do. II I ever
had a husband like
that I'm sure I
should arise in my
wrath and slay him;
and so all eligible
men would better
take notice that un.
less they know T
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Your Satisfaction

YTIHAT guiding which and
by which controlled For after ALL this and
satisfaction be the reward of thought and
work We solicit criticism Any for approach
nearly that the of all think
ing women will be welcomed Remember that this unusual departure
and minded attitude self
resulting unbiased of outsiders like
say do feel that worth while In either
shall endeavor to improve
Before discussions, poetry and fiction "The World
Lost Then
symposium from readers This might profitable
brothers. Men They Wouldn't Marry sounds
doesn't itg
"The Deep Man plumbed the
discussed phases attract
veness receives consideration by the the
bara Lee.
What do you think of this weeks colectionq
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IL Is among my re-
Quirements that my
husband do not
weigh so much or
SO little as to make
h l m conspicuous.
Then he must not
have a liking for
violet s o c K $ or
X nj t ted neckties;
and his fingernaiis
must be clean with
out ever being
shiny. I fear I am
petty, as we'll as
fastidious; but the
gr e a [ advantage
about my structures
is that they are un-
important enough TO
be changed If the
right man happen
not to fulfill them"
ANY one but the
district attorney or
an undertaken. I
have an aversion to
both those callings.
" h | C h probably
means that I shall
end up by marry
ing a district attor-
ney who practices
undertaking as q
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again the summer girl In her MANY
attractive enter the field OF battle and If may add
conquest. - -
admire the girl There something SO human
In her. with all her shortcomings she
twangs my hearstrings and awakens thoughts that
thank fortune, not too deep for o> '~>'
hopes ffty weeks stand epitomized in
the laughing arrivals. There beagtv Sha
might for typical oveiness of woman and She
knows To be the brown hair with
!ts suggestion OF copper in the light own It
and while she sleeps it Is in static condition on win
natural twist here Hnk there and ali She does
she has successful emporium the wide Streets
hairdressed NNN '-'N
course. grinning idiot Charley hoy over On
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one kind 1 can't abide; don't want
a man to spend ten minutes worrying
hiS socEs. or to come down in the
Kitchen and help me make the dessert;
or to express commonplace opinions in
a hesitatfng voice. i want him to love
poetry without reciting 1t; to worship
nature without rhapsodizing over the
simple violet, and to want to help me
In my work without considering 1t his
province My husband must be man
among men, tender oeca use ne is
strong"
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NoMETIMES the letter that never
comes is merely annoying. any
~ bill collector can tell you tnat.
People talk a lot about the burden OF
debt, but it is the creditor that bears
1t. He sits at home wondering how he
is going to buy shoes for the baby or
get the dining room papered; and mean
while the delinquents who owe him
money are joyously buying peaches in
April and Strawberries In November.
With the debtor 1T Is the letter that
does come that Is annoying. And some
times he sends a substitute for the
ionged-for check in the form of a re-
mark that he would really like to pay
the doctor, but he can't, S he is on
his way to Europe; or will Mr.. Coffee,
tea give him a little further grace and
come ZIP soon to see the children s
Christmas tree? And he is very sin
cerely theirs, etc.
Then there Is the letter that doesn't
come to the boy In college, who must
have TWENTY-FIVE Immediately, and
swered his appeals for a check for
nearly week. docs your son write
for money!" asked friend of the
father of a brilliant collegian. "Yes,
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of course. 10 whom
1t would never occur
TO thank me for
small attentions re-
eeived or to proffer
a few of his own; TO
whom il should be
only a necessary
side issue in his
busy life-not for
minel | don't ask
continued and re-
iterated proofs of
ardent passion; but
/ do ask that / be
somethingmore than
a fixture, a house
hold necessity, an
understood and es-
tablished article. -
1T think the effem-
mate man is the
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The man who contradicts. I won't
have my best stories denied to my
face my slightest remarks taken ex-
ception to, my dearest opinions op-
posed. / was engaged to that kind Of
man once, and when I found out his
pet vice / broke that engagement
quicker than I would drop a hot iron.
had no yearning for a breakfast ta-
BILE where I would say, I certainly do
like tea and he would answer, No,
you don't. Sarah: you know yourself
you like coffee better
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A FEW weeks ago. we asked our
n readers to tell US of the men they
4 - wouldn't marry-those who had
some trait they absolutely could not
put up with. Here are some of the an
sweFs we received:
Il wouldn't under any circumstances
marry the Indifferent man. A man who
would take my affection as a matter
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the rail doesn't sus-
pect for a moment
that she earns her
Q W n living a n d
honestly. too! Nor
does 1t penetrate his
skull that her room
Is a sky-parlor over
the back regions of
the hostelry. To him
she is stopping at
the best hotel in the
place. a n d is a
as t II n n 9 r" His
mother might OBJ
Ject IL she knew,
but / am not out
with my hammer;
and even IL IL were
my wartime, you
may be sure that I
would not enlighten
him. Impossible!
Then there Is the
little girl who sells
gloves In a depart
ment store, 7 O u
would never guess
I at that pongee
travelling coat was
m a q e at h o m g.
would you? She and
h er mother have
given t h e greater
part of their nights
to the constructing
of her S u m m q r
trousseau. That hat,
too, Is a copy of a
wonderful French
model at a ridicu-
iously low price; she
bought t h e shape
and the tulle, and
used last summers
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aFIl6jtIk SpS@1a 9a; %SH &{R1,.

fessor." and 1 am sorry to say that they
are not complimentary After all. the
dangerous French heels carry their wear
ers far into the affections of the mascu-
line members. Sensible fiat ones like our
college friends haven't ghost of
chance.
The professor is broad minded
enough to admire the pretty things at
the Saturday dance; at least, she sits on
the veranda and gazes through the win
dows at the whirling couples. Her fin
gers, with a massive. mannish seal ring,
keep time with the music. Then she re-
tires at a sensible and early hour.
Occupying the most expensive suite
In the hotel Is a young bud with her
ehaperon and her endless collection Of
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and-voila! creation, madame
good har
heavyhanded pink blue rib6ons IN sho1 ne
old freno, aio
time Old Friend has been forced three summer
boys to her. begun. ..or,.
here kind of summer sirl
day.
doesn't stay at tns
favorte poet unoer he
arm-I mean his wastes her sweetness on the
desert air OF spot She is really Wonderl.ly
is keen letting ohefs
49,. .h. .n-o
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; ALL types of
masculinity, m y
sisters, the man
who believes in
and exhibits his
thought and feel
ing Is the most
exasperating.
He is always
very sensitive
and he tells you
so on every pos
sible occasion. he
is the man who,
when his wife
w a n t 5 TO go
away in the sum
mer. says: Oh'
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princess disguise are lne t.
entertaning of sports irtations poses sun
o the low Of taking few respite from
being one's should become engaged IN
in August? Tess In earies-
than the fairy of mountain the seashore. -.
Let comparatively harmless way Sne
only making pleasant past recall in the future hfy
weeks the serious life.
49, N~ ~ BARBARA
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too hot in the sun.
and her face will
look like a beet.
Tramp through the
woods at this hour?
The porch is much
cooler. Rowing or
canoeing is out of
the question. No
dangerous s p ort $
for her; while danc-
Ing is not to be sug-
gested. Yesterday.
Violet, being a true
girl at heart, broke
out into a desultory
Irritation with the
funny young boy at
my table. But, de-
spite the one hour
st olen from her
mothers side. t h e
symptoms are not
serious. She W a $
disc ov e + e d. and
might just as well
have been publicly
spanked, for 5 h .
was brought back
by her irate parent
and sent to h 9 r
room! But, 0 gio--
rious hour!
I felt inclined to
suggest that I h ! >
type of the summer
girls mother is re-
sponsible for elope-
ments in haste and
repentance in courts.
But / didn't dare to
tackle her.
T h e s u m m e T
girls efforts to be
anything from a doll
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all the time" sighed the harassed
But sometimes the letter that never
comes Is matter of tragedy, of life
and death. 1t Is that to the convict in
his cell, hoping against hope. with sink
ing heart and mouth dry from fear, for
the governors pardon But for every
pardon that comes there are twenty
that do not. and many a man has rome
heavily TO the gaiiews still longing in
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rse, the grinning idiot Of a Charley boy over on