The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-02-20

more feet on the fender.
 When the one man and the one woman sit by the fire and talk of their family problems there is apt to be happiness in the home.
 The man has been about his business in office or shop or field during the day The evening gives opportunity for con- ference and fellowship.
 When the man and wife sit with four feet on the fender and talk things over there are apt to be safety, success, happl- l ness.
 | Whereas If the man habitualy goes down town" or to his lodge to loaf with his fellows or if the wife cares more for an evening card game than for her hus- bands company it is question or time when there will be misunderstanding, friction, peril. of her husband. What she longs for is that her husband shall treat her as companion and confi- dant
 In the play "Is Matrimony Failureg' one incident stands alone as revealing the heart of real wife. The habit of going away alone to the city to have 6 good time has grown upon the husband. The wife says:
 Hereafter you must take me with you, and you don't know what a good fellow l can be-
 That was a pathetic, true heart cry.
 Many a husband does not know what a good fellow his wife can be. No boon ally can be as companionable, as cheery, as entertaining, as helpful, as your wife if you will only give her the chance.
 Matrimony is partnership.
 Connubial happiness requires that it be understood that each is a full partner. Each partner must have faith in the other. There must be consultation and cooperation. There must be no secrets from the other.
 Treat your wife or your husband as pal.
 You two are like a team of horses work ing in double harness. Each must keep up your end of the doubletrees. If one shirks or deceives or balks the burden of the other is by so much the heavier.
 Cultivate each other.
 Your partner Is really the best friend you have in the world.
 Sit by the fire sometimes with your feet on the fender and talk over things as in the days of your courtship.
 The Lure or EaSy MOncy
 John R. Walsh, two years ago worth 100000 and one of the leading f1nan- ciers of Chicago, is now convict 6S64 in a city of convicts. ~ Accustomed to luxury in his Calumet avenue mansion, this old man of 71 is wearing coarse garb, eating coarse food and will stay in Leavenworth prison for five years should he live that long.
 Why?
 The immediate cause was the misappli- cation of the funds of the defunct Chi cago National bank.
 The real cause was money mania.
 In the humble cottage of his boyhood home, as boy, Walsh dreamed over the peat fires of old Ireland and yearned to be rich. In time he realized his dreams, only to have them shattered in one night.
 Like Morse and Stensland and other bankers in federal prisons. he over reached himself and lost all.
 Of course. Walsh would be able to ex- plain to you that his failure was no fault of his that he depended on promises made by eastern financiers and that had his plans succeeded he would have been hailed as one of the great promoters of his age, etc.
 But
 There he is, with face scanned by suf- fering, a grandfather, a bankrupt and convict.
 A strange thing?
 Not at all. Smooth business men, ani- mated by greed. are running in like risk every day. The only difference Is that they have not been detected and ex- posed.
 When the day of exposure comes it is only a short step from wealth. honor. place. to humiliation, ruin, prison stripes.
 He who runs may read the lessons that come out of such inglorlous careers.
 Young man
 Temptation will come to you Firmly fix it in your mind that under the severest strain you will be absolutely honest
 It is your only safety
 And beware of speculation.
 The lure of easy money is running tens of thousands. Somebody has said the wheat pit of the Chicago board of trade is only few feet across deep as hadesl The New York stock exchange is just as deep. Stick to straight business.
 Had John R. Walsh been scrupulously honest and avoided high finance he would have piled up less money, but he would not be convict 6864
 Excelsior
 Do you know how many failures Thom- as A. Edison has made trying to find a perfect storage battery?
 Literally scores.
 But he keeps on He profits by his failures, rejects what is faulty, and some day he will succeed.
 Note the scrap pile in the back yard of big modern factory. Hundreds of thou sands of dollars are represented in that tangle of junk-machine failures.
 Read Jack Londons Martin Eden.'
 In that book, more or less picture of I,ondons beginnings, is told the story of the long. weary, heartbreaking climb