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employment as a stage driver by the
coming of the railroad found more lu-
crative work in the railroad office; and
the seamstress who wept over the in
vention of the sewing machine has
never needed for food; she has only
needed to enlarge her rooms in order
to employ assistance for her increased
business.
The man who believed he was ruined
because oil lamps were to be displaced
by gas fixtures became wealthy through
an invention which was purchased by
the gas company; and electric light has
given the world and individuals more
wealth than it ever destroyed by max
ing oil or gas less valuable
1t Is great age; and a greater era
lies near US. Do not let yourself for
one moment believe you are to be
harmed OF held back, or deprived of
anything you desire. by the invention
of some new machine which does away
with the work you are now doing.
You will be HELPED and AID
VANCED by 1t IL you keep yourself
In the right frame of mind, and If you
watch your chances. listen, watch and
be ready.
Opportunity is coming to your door.
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Young Man : Afraid of His Wife
He Undergoes Rigorous Treatment for His scalploek.

wife rings in and proves more than ever
an illustrated, vellumbound volume of
the double cross.
The Bachelors Tip.
Here's the story. A crony of my
bachelor days happened to put me wise
to the fact that massaging the scalp
was the only thing that would call
halt on my departing locks, and he
added, soto voce, seeing as how he was
on the same planet with Minnehaha,
that he could tip me off to swell joint
where the masSeuSe was a tall blonde
with languishing eyes that made you
feel like you were being electrocuted
every time she gave you a treatment.
well, Billy, took to holding out a
few bones from the weekly envelope
and doing a sneak 10 the blondes head
quarters three times a week, and the
way that pet canary would throw her
lamps around at you and run her fairy
fingers over your brainstorm center
made you feel as If your hair was
growing rapidly-thicker or thinner 1t
didn't matter which-believc me.
1T didn't matter, either, that she
talked as If she had been nit in the
grammar by a Dreadnought, that her
favorite novel was Parted at the AL
tar and that a steam calliope wouldn't
Oucs lNO, Three III d contest WITH
her voice when she whispered sweet
nothings to you over a bottle of Fax
crime, the tonic that will grow hair
on the back of a tortoise, and will do
the same for you
His Treatment at Home.
Say, things were running along
famously till one day l overlooked a
bet and blew into the wigwam with a
long blonde hair on my shoulder. ] will
leave the rest to your imagination-if
you think your imagination is vivid
enough.
Followed a cloudburst on the part OF
the madam, and explanations of the
why and wherefore of that misguided
blonde harriet on the part of yours
truly, and after several strenuous
hours. L succeeded in crowding the in
formation on her that 1 was simply
pining to have her do the job for my
head, but hesitated to add to the labors
of my sweet and patient wife who al
ready had her hands full in the care OF
five-room fiat with only a cook and
one housemaid to help. So, now" ne
ended plaintively, I'm getting my
treatments at home
mo wonder you're such a sorehead
then" Clipped in Billy, land it's nc
wonder that all you married guys are
| the quick finishers in the hair-losins
game-you get bowled out so often
| what?"
But Young Man-Afraid-of-H is-W Wife
] lad escaped in the crowd.
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THE IDLE WOMAN


balance of the family rest, the more
work it piles on her.
And she is the only worker on earth
who works just for her board and
clothes, and gets the worst of the board
and clothes at that, for in the average
family everybody is considered before
mother.
The census report humor about the
woman who does the real fundamental.
indispensable work of the world, having
no occupation" might be taken as a
merry quip, thrown in to tighten a
heavy statistical report, except that it
throws a searchlight on the popular es-
timation of woman'S service in the do
mestic relationship.
1t is held to be of no account, a mere
time not worth speaking of. Men,
whose wives cook for them, and wash
for them, and sew for them, and nurse
them when they are sick, and give to
them daily services so great that it
would break them to pay for them, still
speak with complacence of supporting
their wives"
The woman on the stage draws a big
salary for ranting around for a couple
of hours IN mock heroics. The girl who
typewrites in an office, six hours a day,
gets her pay envelope on Saturday
night The woman who writes gets her
N-AOSh AO1 lAAC SlOIgs OT verses, IndI
probably haven't taken half a day to
dash off
These women are called working
! women, and paid for their labor, but
the domestic woman, whose work began
before dawE AID TASTED until bedtime,
has no occupation"
And the queer part of it all is that
women themselves are such sheep that
! they accept and coincide in this Sublic
opinion of the value of their labor
/ There isn't day in the week that some
busy house mother doesn't say to me
that she wishes that she could dc
something"
Good heavensi" 1 cry, "how could
you do any more than you are doing
Why, you are kept on the jump from,
morning until night"
Il mean something worth while" she
says.
Worth WHILE 1 answer aghast.
why, don't you know that no other
| ing man comfortable home, and
raising up a family of children to be
| good men and women?"
But she goes away unconvinced. and
the reason of it is because woman's
work in the home is so belittIed. tt isn't
/ even rated as an occupation, instead of
being placed, as it should be, among the
learned professions.
| There are a great many people who
sit up nights, specializing about why
women seem to prefer, of late, to work
outside of the home instead of in it. TIC
these earnest seekers after knowledge
we commend the census report.
Perhaps the fact that the government
holds that the hand that cooks its din
ners, and rocks it's cradles, and spanks
its children, and patches its brooches
has no occupation" will suggest the
answer to the conundrum
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BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
Copyright, 1910. by the New York
Evening Journal Publishing Coz
THE bride who marries the man she
J. loves-the man who has sought
her with ardor-rarely thinks that a
time may come when she will not be
able to attract him with no effort; when
he will not hurry through his tasks and
duties in order to be at her side as soon
as possible; when, instead of being the
one object of HIS tender and solicitous
care, she may be incapable of keeping
him contented in her society for sim
gle evening in the week.
But such situations evolve all too fire.
quentiy out of the most romantic and
ardent love marriages.
When the wife does face such a tragic
problem, she rarely blames herself for
1t, but rather magnifies her own vir-
tues and good qualities and sits won
dering why her husband has proven so
unappreciative, and why he has ceased
to love her as of old.
However confident a woman may be
of her hold upon the affections of the
man she marries. she will be wise to
augment her attractions instead of per-
hitting them to waae with the years.
How 10 Hold Husband.
If she is good housekeeper, econom-
ical and prudent, if she has that first
of all household virtues, order; IL she is
fair to look upon; If she is accomplished
and entertaining, instead of permitting
any of these qualities to diminish or any
one of them TO absorb the others, let
her add new ones and FURNISH up the
old
No man is satisfied as time passes and
months of marriage settle into years
with the merely beautiful wife He Is
not satisfied with the merely accom-
plished wife, nor with the merely good
housekeeper.
Man is composite animal. and he
wants a composite woman for a COM
panion.
He has been known to desert the
beautiful, virtuous, good, ,ut dull
housekeeping wife for the plain woman
who knew how to amuse and entertain.
First and foremost man must be
amused.
That was a wise girl who, fond of
dancing, and receptions, and theatres,
married man considerably her senior
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W0man's Ways
With Woman
BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.

BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
Copyright. 1910, by the New YorA
Evening Journal Publishing Co.
IF YOU are clubwOman, and you
| find discord and narrowness OF mind
- prevailing in your club, put watch
upon yourself to see that you are not
guilty of the same faults you deplore
in others.
Women are growing with amazing
rapidity out Of the old errors and fOllieS
which characterized them in early
Petty jealousies, and fussy ideas, and
narrow judgments are TO be found
among men as Wei. as among women
today; but that men are, taken as a
class. broader and less given TO raising
tempests in tea-cups, is incontroVert-
ibIe The reason is that man has lived
a larger life for a longer period of time
than woman has been allowed 10 en-
Mans VAIL About woman.
Man built a well around woman, and
told her that only men and fallen an
gels ever went beyond its confines
For long period OF time woman be-
lieved him, but after while she began
to climb up and peep over the top Of
the wall; and when she saw how large
and wonderful the world beyond II was
she decided to take her chances or
larger existence there
1t was natural that she should carry
with her the small and Ofttimes petty
ideas which her narrow life had engen-
dered Little by little she is growing
out of these ideas, ana seeing things In
a broader light, and obtaining a great
er perspective
It is a well known fact that people
brought up in large cities ana accus-
toned to the narrowing limits of walls
have shorter vision than men reared on
vast plains. But after the city bred
man has lived for length of timn
on the plains, he, too. begins to Sc
farther.
ming to grow and enlarge
No Help from the Wen Folk.
Man, who built the wall about her,
forgets how brief has been her OppOr-
tunity for growth. and INDUCES II
much merriment at her expense on thu
lea 81 provocatiOn-
Not long ago man OF more brain
than perception said: 1T is only by
the courtesy of man that the adjective
4vvomanly' means anything but petty
jealousy and persecution
He proceeded to explain his statement
by declaring that Il was woman na-
atine in her treatment of her OWE sex,
and that only by mans large and IN
dulgent charity has she obtained any
other reputation
ance woman receives from man in her
evolution toward ? broader life she
| has struggled along alone SO far and
can continue the struggle She mas
made amazing progress and the worst
of the road Is behind her
Let each woman who finds petty
Qualities in her sex bar TO her enjoy
ment of their society. put watch
upon herself. and eliminate similar
! flaws from her own disposition. In tast
way she viii be doing practical Work
/ toward broadening womankind Lex
her be brave and courageous in her
| treatment of other women, and prove
nv her actions that she has the eour-
age of her convictions, for that IS the
sSslity most needed by woman today
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Lack Of Gratitude
BY KENNETH HARRIS.

HAVE said that honeSty's divine
The statement ] repeat
And. least of all, that wife OF mine
would I desire to cheat
Deceit Is what from early youth, I've
always been above.
And doubly sweet I say is truth
breathed from the lips OF love
So when the lady feels a doubt, she
never would confess.
md asks me what I think about her
very latest dress,
I scan her with a careful eye that does
not blear or blink,
And when I've looked her over, why,
tell her what 1 think.
7 say that it's a holy fright and shows
wretched taste
a izhtnare with the sleeves too tight
and Fuckers at the waist.
I say the skewgeed trimming queers
the badly hanging skirt,
And when I've finished she appears TO
have her feelings hurt
When dinners badly cooked and cold
I don't think abuse
nv privilege If make bold 10 frankly
state my views
Rut she is always miffed bit II when
we sit to dine,
fell her that the grub's not Ut TO
feed the blooming swine.
And similarly, il I find my garments
need repair
And truthfuily should speak my mino
about each rip and tear.
If declare excuses rot and scorn
soothing lie,
It's really Just as like as not she'll go
right off and cry
Pint while it's not at all my way TO
flatter, CLOSE or con,
And xvffev knows that what l say she
may depend upon,
and while my language doesn't GIG"
in colors rosy-hued,
That woman never seems TO show 2
bit of gratitude.
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who was devoted to outdoor sports,
hating indoor functions-and straight
way set herself the task of learning
every game and sport dear to her hus-
band, and made herself a comrade for
him in his recreations. Being a man
with heart, and a sense of fair play,
it resulted in his escorting her to in
door festivities frequently enough to
make her happy; and so their lives have
become in reality one in all their var
ious pleasures and interests.
Whatever accomplishments a woman
acquires. as she goes along In life, she
viii find herself repaid in good interest
as youth wanes. Youth makes compan-
ionship for itself without effort, but ma
turity and age must have cards Of adj
mission"
The middle-aged woman who enjovs
games, who can take part in sports:
Who can sing or play some instrument
well; who speaks some language besides
her own-such woman will never sit
alone and neglected. as time goes on.
even il the one on whom she placed her
hopes Of permanent companionship fails
her.
VIII Always Find Comrades.
She will always find comrades and
friends, and always be popular. And if
much less miserable If she is popular.
Improve yourself, dear young wife;
use an hour every day TO make your
self more accomplished and useful in
the world.
Take up some study; learn a lam
guage; play; sing; dance, golf, tennis
and meanwhile take care os your
complexion. Do not allow yourself to
grow fat and shapeless, or sallow and
thin.
Keep yourself I'm good form and adapt
the prevailing styles Of dress and hair
couture to suit your own type. Do not
fellow fashion blindly: but do not LEI
yourself grow oid-fashioned and out OF
date.
Keep your home in perfect order; sup
ply your table with healthful and prop
erly prepared food Be agreeable and
amiabie, so that under no conditions
can your husband say he found more
comfort or more cheer elsewhere than
at home.
But do not become merely a house
keeper
If you look about the world you viii
see that such women are rarely appre.
ciated by the men for whom they sacri-
flee all the ambitions and vanities OF
woman
It viii surprise you. once you under
take to accomplish some certain thing
to find how rapidly you can make prog
ress by giving one hour day to the
task. And one hour a day is so otter
frittered away in mere dawdling 81
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BY ARTHUR FARLAND.

..ERoM the looks of your solid
i ivory" remarked the Il" guard
critically as Young Man-Afraid-of- His
Wife removed his hat and thoughtfully
caressed an increasing expanse of
brow, "either the madam has been dom
fancy stunts with the prunin' shears or
Old Father Time got Jealous of that
Brinkley forelock you useter sport-tell
it to me-
Cut out the kidding retorted
Young Man-Afraid-of-H is-Wife sourly-
I'm sore on the subiect-see?
IF you had been soaking yourself
with every nationality of hair tonic and
reading subway ads that simply vince
died your hard-earned from your jeans
and led IT, lamb-like, to nearest drug
store or hairgrowing establishment;
if you went around repeating TO your
self such catch phrases as Don't envy
a beautiful suit of hair-save up the
price of a toupee and have one and
gazing with murder in your heart at
every gink that had a decent thatch on
his knob. and with exulting and fiend-
ish delight at every one that didn't,
you'd be willing to wager two or three
seven-dollar bills that the next bone
head who said hair to you would be
counting suicide and inviting himself
to a moving picture show of the star
sDangled banner with several states
added to the Union"
1t Cuts Down Friendship.
"Oh, gee, kid, 1 wish you'd told me
your troubles before" said Billy; I'm
sure wise to the real dope.
You see, the party got tangled UP
with the idea that I was gettin' moth
eaten on the knob an she introduces
me to a mixture of tar an crude John
D. Of course, / amt recommendin' 1t
for its fruity favor" the IL" guard
continued hesitatingly, "en' 1 amt say
in Furthermore, that what's the real
stuff for putin on hair amt equally
strong for cuttin' down friendships. be-
cause when you go around smellin' like
a cross between a wop salad an a au-
/ tomobile accident, you can't expect your
/ Iovin' friends to crowd around you like
/ you was a Twin impersonation of Otto
/ of Roses
Dear old Kilijoy!" purred Young
/ Man-Afraid- -His-Wife, sweetly, ARE
you, too, one of those fiends with a
preparation of concentrated juice and
extract of limburger cheese guaranteed
! to grow hair, remove corns and cure
iumbago in one night? Tell it tC
| Sweeny. I've saturated myself with al
the cvil-smelling concoctions I'm COINS
to, and just when hit on the only plar
that had some little modicum of mild
| pleasure in it what happens? Friend
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every woman who has no special object
outside OF her regular home duties.
In a years time you can do wonders,
In any one chosen line Of study, by Civ
ing an hour a day 20 it.
And the next year you can take up
another line of achievement.
But do not begin it unless you are de-
termined to keep at it.
Every time we begin a study and
drop it we weaken our character more
than If we did not begin at all.
But If you do keep on, you will find
your time given to this pursuit paying
you large interest as years go by.
And one of the best things II viii give
you is the ability to keep your interest
in life and to enjoy the world. and to
make people enjoy your society after
youth wanes-
Begin some new study today.
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BY DOROTHY DIX.

INV II la
II o, all ye wives and mothers, bark
l. J. en- to thisI The government re-
CARDS you as leading lives of Sybaritic
ease and luxury, ami in the forthcom-
ing census report you will be classified
as having no occupation"
That the housewife has mo occupa-
ton" will be news to the woman who
got up in the morning. an hour before
any of the remainder of the family, in
order that she might get breakfast, and
who stopped half a dozen times, while
she was preparing it, tc find her hus-
band the pair of trousers he suddenly
decided to wear for the day; to wash
Tommy's ears. aud comb Mary's hair
and dress the baby, and has sprinted
from enc end of the house to the other,
continually answering calls for mother.
Here Is Small List.
After breakfast, she has found her
husbands hat and gloves, and gotten
him off to business; taught the children
their lessons, and seen that they were
tidy for school; fixed the baby's bottle
for the day; washed up the breakfast
dishes; interviewed the groceryTnan and
the butcher; got the soiled clothes up
for the laundry; mended the torn ones
and taken stains out of the stained
cnes; glanced over the paper while she
rocked the baby to sleep; ran down.
town IT, snatch up a bargain at a special
sale; cut out a new dress for Mary;
sewed buttons on her husbands coat,
and creased his best trousers; got lunch
ready for the children by the time they
got home from school; saw that they
were washed up and combed up to so
back to school; arbitrated a quarrel
between Tommy and Mary; answered
| the telephone seventeen times: enter
| tanned six callers; received the delga-
| ton from the Missionary society; wrote
a paper on the Ancient Byzantine EN-
| pire, to read before the Ladies' Literary
society; gave the baby an airing on the
street; fixed bread and butter for the
children when they came home from
| school; got dinner; cleaned up the din
rights; put baby to sleep; helped the
children a little with their lessons, and
then settled down for the evening to be
an entertaining companion to her hus-
band.
To the woman who does all of these
things, every day of her life-and there
are millions of women who accomplish
/ this marvel-it will sound like a sar-
donic joke to be told that she is classed
among the idlers; that she is officially
rated as having mo occupation" For
it seems to the poor. delude1 creature
that she is pretty well occupied. and
I that she could give the traditional little
bee points On how to be busy
No One Who LabOrs So Hard.
As a mater of fact, there is no other
person on earth who labors so hard as
does the mother of a family, in even
moderate circumstances. She has not an
eiSht-hour day, but an eighteen-houl
day, and there are no days off, and nc
holiday for her. because the more tbs
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can't you keep that love unspoiled by
quarrels and chickering's?
If you have children, you must not
spoil their lives through your lack of
self-controL
Each may have irritating habits
which get on the nerves of the other.
Try and conquer the habits and try
to be patient and bear with them.
The divorce court is a sorry burying
ground for love match. In a great
many divorces the plea is "incompati-
bility of temper" In other words. quar-
rels are many and self-control is
scarce.
How to Avoid a Feud.
If you make il a rule never to let a
quarrel last over night. you will never
nave any very serious disagreements.
1t is the brooding over a thing that
makes it serious. Sacrifice your pride
and say, I'm sorry for my share of
the quarrel; let US make up" Don't be
ashamed TO speak first.
In the springtime all things begin
anew; nature turns over a new leaf.
Can't you turn over new leaf and try
to have no more quarrels?
1t may take all your patience and
self-control, but the exercising of those
qualities will make a far nobler man
or woman OF you than if you allow
yourself to be embittered by harsh
words and Quarrels.
Even if your love has lost its first
joy and freshness. can't you keep some
thing from the wreck2 Let there al
least be peace.
Heart-t0-Heart Talk.
Have a heart-to-heart talk TO YOUR
self. Say, What has become of that
love which was going TO be so ever.
lasting? Is it my fault that it ha.
grown cold? Have / been all that wa:
satisfactory, or am / 10 blame?"
Perhaps love is not dead, but onl,
faint from want of care.
See if you can't bring it back again
it Is such q precious thing, 1t must mo-
die from neglect
You cannot be happy if you are liv.
ing in the shadow of a quarrel.
Let US begin again and let us try 4
avoid the pitfalls that have been our
undoinG in the past.
/ am sure You can make thing,
right, IL you go about 1t with the de
termination to do your share
Springtime is ringtime, which means
the time for love and happiness. Dom
let your share get away from you.
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BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
IF THIS is the mating time of the
L year, don't you think it is also the
time for reunions-for those who have
quarreIled, to kiss and make up? l
mean the married sweethearts, not the
single.
Many married people drift apart who
really love each other at heart
The man becomes engrossed in bust
ness, the woman in children and house
Others quarrel and false pride keeps
them from acknowledging themselves
to be in the wrong.
False pride is one of loves worst en-
emies. Don't let 1t come between you
and your wife or your husband.
You married each other for love;
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DURING HER ABSENCE.

Lady of the House Gust returnedl-
Poor Polly; all alone so long Polly (fe-
verishlv)-Give me stack OF whites
Detroit Tribune.