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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-11-02
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m type Of hunian being ~ moro
sof'an exaBpe TO whatever friends
FHhe happens to have and they are
few than the woman who interrupts.
No matter what you start 70 tell her,
re II ever 50 important she breaks
into Il il order To- reiate some trivial
and DOUBTLESS irrelevant experience OF
her own. BY the time she Is done:
and you begin once more 10 deliver
your message or YOUR warning, { Of
whatever You have come to ray, she lie
ready With another interruption. BY
the time she has finished this second,
trndeness, you have either forgotten
what you meant to say in the first,
place, or you are too yexed to cay It,
But bless yoht the woman who IN.
terrupts doesn't know whether you
have said Il or mot. She .isSso scatter-
Drained that she never notices unfin.
ished sentences II, may be that you
have come 10 tell her that the house
Is on IRE. The moment you open
yonr mouth she has an uncomfortable
impulse to tell You oil about cousin,
susie's new gown, how much she paid
for 1t, how she got cheated on It and
how dreadfully she looks IN It. Your
only remedy Isl to shrieks 'Fire!r but.
very likely that win simply get her
started telling what bargain she
bought at sthe SJones' FIRE sale. Per-
ihaps. after all. you better, run to the
nearest alarm hox and pull ;ins an
alarm: Machinery won't interrupt.
Seriously, itsis the height or depth
of discourtesy TO interrupt 1t gives
the impression that the linterrupter
thinks her own sayings are wlttieri
or more important than those Of her
visitor. Perhaps they are, but this
fact should not be pointed out SO
.disagreeably. We all know the wo.i
man with the vacant linterrupter's
expression. She It Is to whom we tell
the story Of the burglary In the nat
next door. When we have finished
she replies, II really don't know
whether IT'S the browntail moths or
the cut worms that have got into
our potatoes. Fred says - And
so on. II
Interrupting Is largely matter Of
habit. Sometimes It 81, symptom 81
nervousness In either. case, It can
3aiid should be corrected. To inter.
rnpt fanot Tiers conversation is as rude
as snatchings a. bouquet Of flowers
from her hands. Learn to, listen.
That accomplishment will gain yoa
main 'ffIends NJ IrH laei5i ft3 rtIf't'l': iiFl
SG.ii, N 9d'$l jiil'!i tnl9 5lff,ls "a II.
7T1TT n 7TI7TT - yp1EA 81
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-11-02

( Mrs. Isis Snider. OF Charleston: Mrs,
Tucker Ward, OF Huttonsville; Mr.. ].
G.. Arbogast. OF Asheville, N. c., and
MI. Nilited Watnslcy, Of Clarksburg,
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-30
The Kind of Fool He Was.

Sure" replied the stock-tender HE
was just that kind of fat old fool. Ed
told me he looked for trouble right there
and got behind the stove. but Stubby
didn't make a move. He certainly SEEM
ed surprised, but the next minute he said,
al meek as Moses. that he'd take the con-
tract and hoped to give good satisfaction
"'Very good says Boston. Now you
20 out and get whatever Is necessary
for the trip. You can say that I'll pay
for II here. I'm not going TO take any
chances of your taking my money and
spending 1t for whlskey. You'll get your
pay when we get to Garnet and not
before
"'That's perfectly agreeable to me-
says Stubby. kind of husky. but still
meek. SO he hikes out and hires a
couple OF horses and pack mule, and
buys grub and cooking outfit, and they
start out across the desert. At noon
they camped and got dinner at Parker's
Coulee, and the Bostoner kicked like a
bay steer at every last thing He didn't
like the alkali in the water that stubby
boiled the coffee in. he didn't like the
napjacks, and he said that the way the
bacon was cooked turned his stomach,
and he cussed Stubby out for not gettin'
him horse that rode easier.
"I'm mighty sorry, said Stubby. III
try to do better
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-30
While they in the from Boston could boss
Stubby around with the big bank roll he had.

Honest 10 Henrietta Jane" protest.
ed the ck-tender. "He has to let
his wife handle It. She wouldn't have
It no other way, stubby's reformed"
"oh. II he's married" admitted the
Half Circle boy.
Sure" said the stock-tender. "of
course, Stubbyd know what to do with
Il If he was left 10 himself. He'd give
II all to the hrst tin-horn that he met
for the privilege of pushing chips
around over a table for a few wee
small hours Great little old stubbyl
still. that was the way he made his
stake. Heard about that, didn't your
Well, Il was the time he got fred
from the Flying Dollar He got Into
game al Hermosa with months
pay. ms saddle, Bride. blankets. spurs,
without EN- II the marshal hadn't
have lost that. too. Anyway. Sam
Jacobs let him out and he was loaf
Ing around town wondering II he
wouldn't have TO wash dishes for the
Bon Ton to pay his board. when a
Boston shoe millionaire came in on the
him a GUIDE that that would Tand. take him
Basin. where they'd stuck him on some
ws we haven't got any professional
guide around here Just now. but guess
Know a gehtieman who can take YOU
though" says Ed. So he sends for Stub
by and introduces him
This Is the gentleman thought might
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-30
How Women Read.

II Is impossible for a woman not to
see herself In every heroine. and, doing
this, 1t does not take her long to Inn
aGine that she is wasted on the unro-
mantle, hard-worklng man who is toll
Ing like slave to support her She
also compares him, to his disfavor,
with the Lord Percies with whom she
associates In books. She discovers that
she Is unappreciated, misunderstood
She begins to have an insa 10
yearning to have somebody make to
her the fervent love speeches which
Sir Percy poured into the shell-llke
ear of Lady Gulnevere. and she drifts
as surely as a leaf down the current
into one of those affairs that are so
romantic and thrilling In books and
such a scandal in real life.
OF course, no one would be SO mar
row and foolish as TO condemn novel
reading In toto. Much of the best in
literature is in the guise of Action
There are novels that are an lnsplra-
tlon, and help, but there are also
novels that are a contamination, and
that one can no more read without
oeing harmed than he can touch pitch
without being defiled
The protest that have tried to
make here Is merely against the bad
novel, and too much novel reading,
which is one OF the great dangers OF
our time.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-30

Copyright, 1910, by the New York Evening Journal
Publishing Company.
yowEVER the old-time man may
~ have liked the clinging woman, the
dependent and incapable woman,
who appeals to him at every turn TOT
advice and counsel and assistance. there
is not one man in one hundred In Amer
lea to-day who is not made weary and
sick unto death by long association with
a woman OF that type.
A very young man or a very old man
may enjoy an experience with "leaner'
and "clinger" for brief period.
1t fatters his vanity and makes him
feel lie Is a Solomon OF wisdom and
Samson OF strength.
But let either the very young or the
very old man marry the twinlng-vine
woman and he will, In a short period.
wish he were anything but an oak tree.
He will lie awake in the stil watches
OF the night. after year or two. and
wonder what manner of trellis he can
invent that will enable him to be relieved
OF the growing weight OF this vine.
The tendency of the last twenty-five
years has been to make women self
reliant.
They have learned to think out prob
lens for themselves and to make their
own plans and attend to their own
duties.
Men Like Women of Spirit.
However man objected to this inde-
pendence OF the weaker sex In the be-
ginning, he has grown TO like 1t now.
He finds II comfortable.
Listen to any half-dozen men when
they discuss some woman who Is pori-
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-30

stand IT,
| like this young man very much,
and would gladly have continued, as
before, on our friendly terms. know
that | have done nothing to hurt his
feelings, and It would simply be Inn
possible for me 10 write and ask him
what II Is. as my mother distinctly
forblds us to write to gentlemen
Even II she did permit II, I am sure |
am little too proud to do so.
Can YOU suggest some other way for
me 10 win his friendship back agaln2
DO you think II Is only stubbornness
on his part?
The thing that seems most peculiar
10 me ls that he doesn't seem 10 care
and / do. ! really cannot understand
It. M.
THINK your own good sense is teach.
Ing you 10 let him 60. The only way
OF winning him again Is by making nc
effort to keep him. He has not seen YOU
very often. and II is possible that he only
felt friendship for YOU. You are taking
the matter In q disnifrd way, and il Il
much the best thing to do. iau avlil kecp
llls respect. even II his love has'coolod
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-30
The Danger Of Novel Reading
BY DOROTHY DIX

comes TO New York. or that Mr.. Belasco
offers stage-struck girl, the minute he
sees her, contract to star. but thou
sands of broken-hearted young women
have believed these lying stories and been
the victims Of them.
The effect Of excessive novel reading
on married women Is responsible for
nine-tenths OF the divorces. There are
tens of thousands of idle wives, living
around in boarding houses and hotels,
with nothing to do except to devour novel
after novel Their days are passed In a
passon-lsden atmosphere Of high pressure
romance, and when they are forced to
come down to earth everything about
them Seems mean and tawdry. especially
their husbands
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-30
y How "Subby' Cot His Start in Lie--By KenneH Harris

YOU behave. | won't much more than
half-kill you. You hike along for that
bunch OF green yonder and I'll tell you
the rest when we get there
1T was about six mile to the creek
then, and when they stopped. Boston
dropped in his tracks.
"'Here, get zip and unsaddle these
horses and picket en- says Stubby,
giving him kick. I've never had a
millionaire fiunkey for me on the trail
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-30

accommodate you." he says to the af-
fluent waddy, jerking his thumb at
Stubby.
I'm a plain spoken man." says the
Bostoner, sort OF swelling out. II don't
want no gentleman" says he, "and I
don't want no accommodation ] want
a handy man who knows the country and
can cook halfway decent meal and I
propose to pay him well for It, He won't
be accommodating me. He'll be doing
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-30

kkTHE last I heard Of Stubby
Gruger he was down in the
Matavas Valley with a neat
little bunch OF horses that was bring
ing him In more money than he knew
what to do with" said the stock
tender, as he soused breeching into
n pail OF creamy CASTLE suds.
You know what think, so there's
no need of me saying IT," dellcately re-
marked the Half Circle boy.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-30

of prlckly pear.
darn you. and see how you like that for
a change!
"'You blasted ruffian!' says Boston.
HE started to say something else, but
Stubby slid off his cayuse and cuffed him
up to peak, first one side and then the
other, Now you'll try TO be good. or
we'll have a heap more difficulty he says.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-30

NEW English sensational novel is
IN advertised as having caused the
a death of a reader, the excitement
of the story producing heart failure
This Is probably press agents story,
the real cause Of most fatalities among
the readers Of modern novels being the
result OF their having been bored to
death Instead Of being unduly thrilled
II II not the risk of their lives, but the
rist Of their morals and the sanity OF
their view point that endangers excessive
novel readers. however, and that makes
the Wholesale establishment of free public
libraries almost as much Of a menace to
the we'll being of the country as would
Re the opening up OF free saloons or
opium Joints.
This seems a pesslmlstc view to take
Of wha. has been considered an unmlxed
blessing and benefaotion, but no one who
takes the trouble to observe what the
effect Of having an unlimited supply Of
fiction, obtainabe without money and
without price. on which TO gorge them
selves. has on women and young boys,
can fail 10 see that novel reading has
become a pernicious evil that Is fostered
by the free library.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-30
BETTER GO SLOWLY.
nEAR MISS FAIREAX;

i
am a young lady twenty-five
years old, good looking, and have
number OF gentlemen friends who
would be delighted should / let them
call on me. ! think great deal OF
one Of them, but several months ago
l met a young man to whom TOOK a
great fancy and still retain IT, lie is
Considered good looking. and as ] ad-
miro handsome man, naturally
took great liking 70 him. tie tells
me he ihinks more OF me than | do of
him, but do not think he Is sincere,
as / am under the impression ihe has
told that TO number OF other girls
and is doing likewise In my case.
have given up one OF my dearest
friends for him, OF which fact he 10
unaware, and for which action think
] may be sorry some day. Also whenN
he calls he wants to kiss me-.
whlcsl absolutely refuse to let him
do but on which he inslsts. 10 you
think my liking for him Is reciprocated
IN any way. nj. a. u.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-30
The Aviator
BY JAMES ]. MONTAGUE

planes
n The envious below by
= He skins
Across the bllows of pnions
Till weary Of the
He checks his motors reckless and sails home
The foothills rise
About his needle
"A clustered village dingy
Drift through
A solemn pine marks he way, circles slowly
The helm
Yet and | Joy of conquerlng the
a a rocking
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-30

what / want him to do because he
needs the money and I've got the money,
SO there's all there is to that. II this
fellow is the best you can get and you
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-30

This is the joyful moment I've been a.
holdin' In for ever since / seen YOU
"'Are you going to kill me?" says Bos-
ton, whimperlng.
That depends says Stubby. II
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-30
stubby Takes Revenge.

"Along about sundown, as they was
gettin' to Pass Creek, he began again
about the horse, 80 stubby reaches out
and grabbed him by the collar and
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-30

Basin. I'll give him the Job, but / can't
say I Ike his looks"
"He said that with StubbyTight thereT'
interrupted the Half Circle boy.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-30
Our Reverence for a Book.

In America We are still so half-baked
educs tionally that we have a supersti-
tious reverence for the printed page. To
US "a books a book, though there be
nothing In IT," Women give themselves
superior airs about being literary because
they always read The Six Best Sellers"
Pnd parents beam with pride and Joy
when they see their children engrpssed
In reading, apparently unaware that In
the book the child may be keeping com
pany with the most depraved characters
It is possible to conceive, aud is being
famlllarized with the filth of the cutters.
Not long ago the father Of a precocious
youngster Of twelve boasted to me that
his son habitually read two novels a day,
. that lnasmuch as the public library only
allowed him 10 draw out one book day
he and another young companion. who
was also a novel iend. each got
novel every morning devoured the story
at a sitting. and then exchanged books In
order that they mgh, be provided with
their afternoon dope fctlon
1t never seemed / ur to the father
what the effect OF at, Of this excessive
novel reading would have upon the boy.
or Of the mental Indigestion 1t must sure
iy rlve him to cram his little head so
fun of plots and counter-plots, seasoned
with such highly spiced episodes, and
soaked In such a sauce OF sensuallsm, 1t
were almost better for such a boy not
10 be able to read at all than 10 read
10 much OF the things he should not
read at his time of life.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-30
M Sunset M
Bx WILLIAM LARMINIE

~ UTET the treeless hills, .ta
J Clad with the short coarse grass and heather;
Around them the sky,a wide circle

treeless hills
4 J Clad with the short heather;
Around them the wide circle
And beneath them the silent sr..t.f.l s1 ',..
And sky's Of nre. as
Towers of flaming u
And the cleaning the glitter ~
In lonely patches Of calm ~ ~, Il, (
Wild, ferysplendd
Silent protest against nights dark domination.
Over thy spendor already hangeh the dome of gloom
And the vast level OF fickering darkness
Watching the
All the has spoken and brightness answered 70
brightness.
Now will the night
II there is gloom In the heaven, ~
Shall the gloom Of hell be twice intense? ~ y g'
Therefore faces risel @W% u
sunless depths have dwellings ita
by the deeper of
with trembling.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-30
Advice to the Lovelorn-By Beatrice Fairfax

r THINK you are foolish to give up
your friends for this man of whose
/ love you are not at all sure, His
jod looks are Of small importance; II
s his character that counts. II YOU
Inuot his sincerity you are very foolish
o waste any time on him. Most certait-
Y you should not allow him TO KISS you
Mess you are engaged.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-30
Some Books Demoralizing.

This lad Is an extreme type OF ths
novel-reading youngster, but there are
fsr too many young boys In his class
thin -chested, anemc little fellows who
are being given a postgraduate course In
vice by reading erolic novels that leave
no phase OF decadence unrevealed. We
have laws 10 prevent the sale OF liquor
ana cigarettes to minors. II should be
4, equally a crime TO put within the reacn
Of children books that are every whit
az demoralizing as whiskey or tobacco,
Z Little account has been taken Of the
effect OF novel reading upon women but
In all good truth It Is every bit as de-
rnoralizlng for a woman to get the opium
habit, or the drink habit as II is to get
the novel habit. 1t is the rovel, more
than anything else, that Is responsible
for the abnormal woman, the divorces,
the young girl who goes astray
2 Nor IL this as strange and illogical as
II sounds. Take a young girl who Is
pretty and poor. and whose days are
spent behind a counter or before a cook
stove She acquires the novel reading
habit easily enough because II Is the one
cheap way by which she can escape
from her own hard life into a fairy
Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model SIZES
upon a stranger, who Immediately falls
IN love with her and marries her, and
stakes her away to live in unimagnable
spiendor, or how Sir Guy de Montmor-
ency falls In love with fair Elaine as she
10 scrubbing down the Steps. and marries
her in spite OF all OF his naughty kindred.
The Heroine Of the Novel.
= Such sirL with mind fun OF I'M
: 'possibiiities. with the idea always before
her that her beauty Is going 10 pave the
way for her TO ease and luxury. is on the
lookout for adventure and Is ready at
any minute 10 throw up her honest Job
and 10 away with any good looking
sesnip who happens alons.
" Dust how many girls are lured into
'the evil life by the rosy pictures Of the
under world drawn by novelists only the
Recording Angel knows. but 1t Is a list
mat grows pitiably larger year by year.
tor In the modern novel the heroine IL
Aof the vlrtuous maiden who chooses
bossrty rather than wrongdolng, but the
sharae.et held UP for admiration is the
soars woman who DECLARES, 10 quote the
aovsIisrs strsse. "fhst sts has a rish,
toeiI,e her he In her own way" FH
'aaIi " slsN mly In novels that writer
makes l.piilioh dollars and ? achlevesl
uhdyins fame Ia sls months after She
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-06-30
THE WAY OF a MAN.

DEAR MISS FAIRFAX:
~ Last February met young
man who seemed to me. at the time,
to be very nice. Since that time |
have met him quite often at different
placeJ, and he also called ut my home
quite a number OF times
We have both been on very good
terms. but lately things seem to have
taken different turn AT times he
seems very glad 10 see me. and at
other Hines he seems very bored and
In hurry. have seen him quite a
number OF times with other young la
dies. and have also heard OF this
through my friends, do not under
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-08-09

array Of wedding silver, but not
enough every day dishes to serve
her meals. l had to wash plates
between courses.
It's no fun to have the front door
bell announce fashionable callers
when your hands are in a tub of
dish water. 1t is magician's trick
to Whisk out of bingham pinafore,
pin down white cuffs on your way
to the door and look like a duck"
when you open it with lust enough
smide on your face"
Another of my regeular ceremo.
MES was laying out the night
clothes and opening the beds every
evening. Still another was black.
ing the masters boots, which
accomplished by tipping the fur
mace, boy, who did it for me.
From $50 in the morning until 9
at night were my hours, except for
my "Wednesday afternoon out and
every other Sunday afternoon. No
wonder my predecessor had been
discharged because she got such
sQre feet she swayed when she
walked and would become faint
after running up stairs.
f"She was as strong an Irish girl
as you ever saw when we both
came here six months ago." the
cook told me, "but she got heart
trouble, the doctor called it. AS
soon as the missus found it out she
fired her, just as she will you If
YOU let her hear that cough you
caught out on the porches the other
day."
Cooks prophecy came true. l
was fired because my club paper
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-08-09
WATER WITH MEALS

. For years the medical pro- 4
q fession has encouraged the 4
q drinking of water in large 4
= quantities, but discounte-
. nanced the copious drinking of 4
. water with meals.
. The Journal of Experiment 4
. tai Medicine, published by the 4
= Rockefeller Institute for Med I
. ical Research, now declares 4
. that this theory was all Z
= wrong and that the more I
= water is taken with meals 4
. the better will be the diges- Z
= ton and the general health. =
. Experiments along that line I
= have been carefully and scien- Z
. tifically made with several Z
. subjects, and the general con- Z
& clusion reached was that the 4
= drinking of a large amount of Z
q water with meals is attended 4
. by many desirable and by no I
q undesirable features.
q The result of the expert 4
. ment also showed an increase I
= in weight of two pounds for I
. the man who took water with 4
. his meals.
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