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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-02
They Play With Fire.

Also. every woman knows that
the very men who are most ardent
in their love- making to a married
woman and who use every vile and
art to tempt her on. are the very
first to abandon her when her hus-
band casts her aside and they fear
that they may be called on to marry
her or support her. More than that,
every woman knows that any man
who works early and late to support
his family, and who gives them
everything and keeps nothing for
himself, is giving the most mag
nificent proof of love it is possible
to conceive. One days toll for a
woman is worth all the sentiment
tai talk that was ever reeled off of
a glib tongue.
Such being the case, consider the
folly of the woman who risks so
much for the pleasure Of a few
restaurant dinners. a few violets,
few trips to the theater. few COM
pliments, little love making that
she must know in her heart to be
spurious, for no man who really
loved a woman would seek to drag
her down by making her an I'M
faithful wife and mother.
In her desire for amusement the
woman is acting the part of fool
In not realizing his wife's necessity
for some entertainment. for some
gaiety, for something to break the
monotony of cooking and sewing
and baby tending, the husband is
acting the part of another fool
1t is his hand that has left the
door open for the robber to come in
and loot his hearthstone.
You can't dump a woman down
on a hard job that has no holidays
or high days to it and expect her
to be satisfied She'll play truant
from it, sooner or later, and when
she does it's her husbands fault
There are certain fundamental
needs of every man and woman.
They must have some pleasure,
they must have some admiration,
there must be few kisses and bon
bons. and when husbands and wives
deny these to each other, some 9TH
er man or woman steps in and sup
plies the necessity. 1t needs only a
little common sense to make the
wheels of matrimony go round
smoothly.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-02
December
BY PERCY SHAW.

w HEN the harvests crickets singing
w And the air blows up crisp with a subtle SMELL
When dropping bird farewels ringing
And the haze takes you a conjurer-weI
It's surely strange that you pause remember
That IS December.
When the dusk drops the vines
That yielded their berries o fingers long cold,
When the light the the pines
Revealing both you o old
All, then it's strange you sigh remember
That this is December
When hearth logs CLEAN and remble
In ghosly contortions against the black
When you her eyes too o dissemble.
AS you walked hand in through gorihed lanes
Is it strange you with a remember
December?
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-02
Common Sense in Married Life
By DOROTHY DIX

her In the midst Of the gayest
scenes she thinks that she should
be back home with her babies and
she wonders what her husband will
do when he finds that she is GALL
wanting around with another man,
but the tempter tells her that her
husband doesn't love her. or else he
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-02
Must Have Attention.

They are to blame for the catas-
trophe and could have prevented it
had they shown ordinary human
intelligence
Here's a case in point The 9TH
er day young woman came to me
with her tale of woe. She isn't
80 yet. but she married when she
was a mere child. and has three
beautiful babies that she loves.
Her husband is good, honest.
hard working fellow who tolls
from early morn till night TO sup
port his little family in comfort,
When he gets home he is deadA
dog tired. and after he has had his
dinner he goes TO sleep.
The woman is a good wife and
good mother, SO far as making a
comfortable home for the family is
concerned She works hard, too, in
the home. but when night comes
and she has her babies into bed she
wants a change. She wants some
amusement. some of the pleasures
and gayeties that she missed az a
girl through her early marriage,
Her husband won't take her
about. He is sound asleep, and the
inevitable other man has put in his
appearance. He takes the wife to
theaters and restaurants, and she's
fallen in love with him--or thinks
she haS-and she looks with dis
dainful eyes down upon her poor.
hard working, dray- horse Of a hus-
band.
But the Woman's conscience hurts
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-02

She knows that when a married
woman begins to have affinities
she is playing with fire; she knows
that the woman who receives Sc
cret attentions from men and goes
to places with them unknown to her
husbands is taking the first step on
the road to perdition. She knows
that sooner or later her husband
will find her out and that the con-
sequences will be disgrace for her,
that she will be turned out of house
and home and her children taken
away from her, and that she is put
mothers shame
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-02

Even on mans own field-that of
war-he has been surpassed bv
woman in moral force Read the
story of Florence Nightingale in
the Crimea. Read that Of Clara
Barton in the Army of the Poto
mac and in the Franco German
war. Read, in scattered records.
what women did in our great strug-
gle between the states. Recall the
story of Flora Macdonald and her
sacrifices for an unworthy pretend
err to the throne of England And.
finally, read the history Of Joan o.
Arc. There you will see what true
heroism means.
When woman visits the scenes Of
war she goes with her whole soul
in revolt. She is not blinded by
glory" she is led only by sense
of duty, of pity. Of mercy of COM
nassiou. That she can go at all is
proof of moral strength exceeding
mans. for he goes led by sia-
mour that never dazzles her eyes,
Look nearer home. Many OF you
read about the women who marched
through New York's streets in the
demonstration for equality OF
rights. Did you reflect what that
meant for many of them? Did you
consider that the jeers of thought
less bystanders were for those
women, sacrificing their native
modesty for the sake Of a great
cause. worse than bullets and
bursting shrapnel? For they
wounded more than flesh and bones
they wounded the soul! Did the
courage and the heroism Of their
act make no appeal to you? If it
did not, you do not comprehend
woman, and you do not understand
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-02

NNE of the reasons that mar
riage is so often a failure is
because people bring less in
telligence to bear on solving its
problems than they do to any other
question on earth. A man gives a
hundred times as much reason and
judgment to doing the simplest
daily tasks by which he makes his
living as he does to trying to make
his married life a success. He uses
million times more tact and di-
plomaCy in getting along peaceably
with his boss than he does to
smoothing down his Wifes fur the
right way.
woman uses up a thousandfold
more gray matter in trying to find
out what colors she can wear than
she does in trying to understand
her husband, and she is billion
times more concerned about how to
retain her figure than she is about
how TO keep her husbands aifec-
tons.
Practically all of the tragedies of
married life that break hearts and
wreck homes and cover names with
the slime of scandal people bring
on themselves because they did not
use the brains of a rabbit in con-
Quoting their matrimonial affairs.
and if most people who applied TO
the divorce courts to sunder their
matrimonial bonds received the
sentence they deserved, they would
he committed to an asylum for the
eble-rn}pded
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-02

would be taking her to places of
amusement.
And the woman stands at the
turn of the road, drawn one way by
a sense of duty and the other by
her love of pleasure, and asks
actually asks-which way she shall
take. She isn't using the common
sense Of a gnat in deciding her fate
and that Of her husband and chill
6rpto
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-02
Would Avert Tragedies.

She is acting like a hopeless
idiot and yet she has got plenty of
intelligence and sound enough
judgment about other matters. If
you would show her a real. genuine
diamond and a rhinestone, she
wouldn't hesitate for an instant
about which one was Of the most
value and which one to take, yet
she hesitates between honor and
shame, between keeping her chill
dren and losing them, between a
man who is pure gold and another
who is nothing but tlashy pinch
beck
No woman can live to be 80 years
old without knowing something
about life.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-02
Heroisn of Women
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.

WYE are hearing a great deal
w about heroes nowadays
Whenever war breaks out,
hero worship is in the air Many
people seem to think that there are
no real heroes except those of the
battlefield.
What is true heroism? 1t is self
sacrifice. And in this woman is
greater than man. Men have writ
ten the history of the world, and
they have magnified the heroes at
che expense of the heroines. Wom-
an never tried to write history. She
leaves her deeds to speak for them
selves. Even a hero does not write
about himself, if he is a real one.
More Heroines Than Heroes.
Pages have been printed within
the last four weeks about the hero
ism displayed in the Balkan war.
There has been plenty Of it, but the
writing has all been about the he
roes. Who has heard word about
the heroines?
If the true history Of this war
we're known. it would be found that
it has brought forth more heroines
than heroes. 1t is not merely the
man who goes to the front with
gun in his hand who is heroic. 1t is
relatively easy to be a hero amid
the sound of drums, under the in
spiration of iuttering flags, with
the madding battle smoke max
ing the spirit drunk.
1t is not so easy to stay at home,
struggling alone for living with
mind and heart torn by fear, anx-
iety and haunting doubt. The
woman who sees her husband and
sons march away to the war, leav-
ing her at home to care for the
children and to bear the suspense,
has need of greater fortitude than
those who charge the batteries
possess. Their heroism becomes
that of delirium-wild, ungovern-
able, blind; her heroism Is open
eyed. with no mad enthusiasm to
conceal the anger and the horror.
What does history tell US, even
as men have written it? Did Abra-
ham do anything heroic? But con-
slider hts wife, Sarai. Is there a
more heroic action on record than
hers when she gave her hand
maiden, Ragar, to him for a wife?
1t was pure f-sacrifice, far
harder and far nobler than to rush,
in the fury of battle, upon an enc
mys guns. Life is not the only
precious thing in the world, nor the
most precious,
Woman SURPRISES Man.
Was Napoleon more heroic when
he led the charge at Dresden to
save his empire than Josephine was
when she bowed, with bitter tears,
yet accompanying, to the decree
that separated her from the man
she loved, and for whom she had
first opened the gates of oppor-
tunity? Measured by any Just
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-02
what true heroism is.
She Leads in Real Glory.

II is woman who points and leads
the way to real glory in this world.
When her reign comes, and only
then, will the nations learn to make
war no more. But heroism will not
cease; it's inmost nature will then
first become manifest to all. Then
we shall clearly perceive what the
moral excellence of woman has
done for the world and our ambi-
ton will set a higher aim for IT.
self. But while war continues to
rage, and mans ideal Of glory to
prevail, the deeper heroism of wom-
an will always strengthen him. lie
feels it, though he may not com
prehend it.
The editor of this newspaper has
clearly pointed out the fatal defect
of the Turk who has been driven
like a whipped dog before the Bull
CARS, the Serbs and the Greeks, be
cause he has trodden under his
feet the moral influence Of woman
while his foes have been sustained
by it. There could be no palmer
demonstration of the fact that the
source of true heroism is in the
hearts of women.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-12-12
Expensive Trifles.

Speaking of handkeTChiefS, it is
said that the most beautiful thing
of this kind in all the European
courts belongs to Queen Margherita
of Italy, and it is at the same time
the most costly, being valued at
$4,000. In making this marvel
three artists worked constantly for
more than twenty years. 1t is so
fine that were the eyes closed and
the handkerchief passed across the
hand a person of the most acute
sensibilities would find it impossible
to feel anything. The queen keeps
it religiously in tiny jewel case of
gold in the form and just the size
of an ordinary bean pod, The Queen
of England owns dress which al
most equals this. 1t was a we'd
ding GIFT from India, and is so fine
and light that the whole dress can
be placed in a small fan box, On
this nine persons worked during ten
years. Elk
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-12-12

also assigned the insurance policy
above referred to him to secure the
same. After several years had
elapsed Mr.. Mari consulted Senator
McAllister who advised him that if
Reynolds was not heard from in
seven years the law raised the pre-
sumption that he was dead. Ac-
cordingly. last January, the seven
years having elapsed, Senator Nc
AlliSter presented the claim to the
insurance company under the poll
cy. Mr.. Mari was then appointed
administrator of Reynolds estate,
the policy being payable to his es-
tate. After considerable CORE
spondence with the company the
claim was finally approved for the
full amount of $4,000. 1t is said
to be quite unusual for an insur-
ance company to pay claim of
this character without litigation.
and both Mr.. Mari and Senator
McAllister are very much pleased
to secure such a prompt settlement
and highly commend the fairness
and business methods of this insur-
ance company and its agents hand
ling this claim. After paying ex-
penses of administration and the
amount due Mr.. Mari Mrs. Reynolds
will secure her statutory allowan ce
of $500 and the amount of one
years provision probably 5000.
The remainder will be subject to
claims.-Paris Mercury.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-12-12
FRAIL, SICKLY CHILD
Restored to Health by Vinol--
Letter to Mothers.

Anxious mothers often wonder why
their children are SO pale, thin and
nervous and have so little appetite.
For the benefit of such mothers in
this vicinity we publish the following
letter.
j. Edmund Miller, New Haven,
Conn, says: my little daughter, ever
since her birth, had been frail and
sickly, and was constant source Of
worriment Several months ago we
commenced to give her Vinol. i'm
mediately noted an improvement in
her health and appearance. l gave
her three bottles of Vinol, and from
the good it has done her l can truly
say it will do all you claim"
This child's recovery was due to
the combined action of the medicinal
clements extracted from Gods livers,
combined with the blood-making
and strengthening properties Of
tonic iron, which are contained in
Vinol.
Vinol will build up and strengthen
delicate children, old people and the
weak, rundown and debilitated. We
return the money in every case where
1t fails.
L. M. Wood, Druggist, Monroe
City, Missouri
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-12-12
Hygiene.

The little folks should be sup
piled with their own handkerchiefs
They need not b. ca>''p.a square Of
liLht calico Jr ilNa.uT asl pieces
OF Old garments, heLmed, will
answer every purpose, and as they
are often lost by Ihc little ones, the
loss will be less felt by the home
pocket-book. Many diseases are
contracted or passed on through the
prOmiscuous usage among several
children. Of even the same family,
of the one handkerchief, towel, or
wash.rag, Let each have, and be
responsible for, his or her own. Let
the child have plenty of pockets.
The girls should have pockets in
their dresses or aprons, or even a
patch-pOcket on their waist. A
great deal is written and said about
individual drinking cups, but there
is just as much danger in, the poCk-
ct handkerchief perhaps more.
School children have a habit of
nibbling, or chewing, or otherwise
"mouthing" their pens and pencils
when using them in school Fac h
child shonld have her own, and it
should not be mixed with others.
1t is now claimed that colds and
catarrhs are contagious, and we
know they are anything but nice.
Let the children feel the response
bility for their little acts. Let the m
think ont their own ways, and work
after their own patterns. The hand
must learn its cunning through ex-
ercise ofits own muscles and nerve
power; mind must be developed
through use, and strength must be
gained by doing, This is mental
hygiene; it is exercise and food for
the mind, just as muscular exercise
is development for the body. A
busy, well-trained mind will have
for less inclination for evil practices
than the idle, inefficient, who leans
on the will of another. The child
understands far more than it is Civ
en- credit for, and parents should be
particular as to their words or acts
in the presence of little pitchers
Even a very small child catches
on" to the doings and sayings OF
those about it. -Commoner.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-12-12
Reynolds Case Settled.

Mr.. C. T. Lynch of S.. Louis,
special agent for the Phoenix Mu-
tual Life Insurance Co., was in Paris
last Monday and paid the $4,000
life policy held by John Randolph
Reynolds. The circumstances of
this case are rather unusual. Rey-
nolds took ont this policy in 1902
which was written by E. G. MCGEE
who was at that time the local
agent Of said company at this place
Reynolds paid the annual premiu m
for three times, the last payment
being in 1904. On January 8, 1905.
he left Paris, telling a number of
his friends that he was going to
jefferson City to argue a case in the
supreme court. He never returned,
and has never been heard from by
anyone since that time One year
prior to his leaving he borrowed the
sum of 5000 from P. &. Mari, for
which he gave him his note and
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-12-12
Congress will Fix Them.

1t will not be surprising if, when
tariff reduction begins in Congress
some Of the manufacturers who
have only been reaping so per
cent profit upon their investment at
once conclude that they will have
to lower wages. But it will be sur
prising if they make much progress
toward doing it without arousing
congress to the necessity of passing
a stringent arbitration law.-Liber-
ty Advance.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-12-12
Taft Knows it Quite Well

President Taft can have at least
the consolation of knowing he con-
Quoted a diGnifed campaign and
while defeated for the traditional
second term, he knows of a certain
fellow who lost out for a third term
and who made quite a spectacle of
himself calling men liars Weston
Chronicle
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-12-12
A Wrong and Mistaken Policy.

In their partisan zeal too many
Republican papers are attempting
to bring on hard times, judging from
their editorial policy and apparent
ly they would prefer to see the
country plunged into a crisis than
to see the Democratic party have
a successful administration. How
ever, this charge is not true of the
Republican press alone, as it is too
general custom among speaker S
as well as editors of all classes TO
prefer party success above the coun-
try's good. II Albany Ledger
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-12-12

had refused to contract with the
Missouri Board of Agriculture for a
farm adviser at $1,000 a year, the
Mexico (Mo) Commercial Club
passed a resolution &n1raa,eei1t
the expense o.. the farm advised
for three years. AtchiSou County
Mail.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-12-12
Have Enough 81 Ha dley.

Four years ago Governor Had
ley carried the city Of st. Louis on
his dry" IN the country districts
and wet" in the city campaign by
majority of 1896 votes over
Cowherd. During his administra-
ton he played the game Of peanut
politics so blinIly that the people
Throughout the state became thor
oughly disguised with him. At the
election on the 5th instant Major,
Democrat, carried the city of st.
Louis over Mckinley by a majority
of 1876. Hadley will be gwen a
place on the jokers page in the
Gubernatorial History of Missouri.
Worth County Times,
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-12-12
mo Honest Man Need Fear

The cotton goods and the iron
and steel industries have been
booming since the election of Will
son and are stronger than the week
before. Gov. Wilson says, There
is absolutely nothing for the hon
est and enlightened business Of the
country to fear."-DeKalb County
Democrat.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-12-12
What the Missouri
Editors Are Saying
Where Is He At?

Lost, strayed, or stolen. THE Mys-
terious Stranger. -- BOonville Adver-
tiSer.
Seemed to Be Unanimous.
Wilson and Major appear to have
been elected by reclamation. Cole
County Democrat.
Will See the Last of Herby.
A little more than a month and
Missouri will see the last of HadIey
as a political factor. Memphis
Democrat.
Those Poor Perkins Children.
Among the many results of the
late election ere pathetic spectacle
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-12-12
Can Have All They Can Get.

The Taftites are finding some
pleasure in the fact, that Wilson
didn't get a majority of the popular
vote. Well, he got 6,433.0O0 votes
which are 100000 more than Taft
received. Even the Bull MOosers
are growing because Wilson didn't
receive a majority, still Wilson re-
ceived a majority Of about 100000
ovet Roosevelt. The Taftites and
Bull MoOserS can't, get any satisfa c.
ton out of these figures. Boonville
Advertisers.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-12-12

The Torchlight has been asked if
it is a violation of the law to play
cards on Sunday for passtime. 1t
is. The Missouri statute makes it
a criminal offense, punishable by a
fine of not more than $40. Our in
quirer intimated rather strongly
that the law was being violated
frequently in Shelbina and at GER
tain places in the surrounding
country. SheIbina Torchlieht.
Bring your sale bills to the Dem
Crat.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-12-12

Elliott W. Major received 1000
more votes in Missouri than Wilson
That is a fine tribute to him as
man and as an official. Previous
to the primary the Torchlieht as
serted that Major would make the
Democratic party the strongest can
didate it could name for Governor
These figures together with the fact
that he polled several thousand
more votes than the aggregate vote
of Mckinley and Nortoni, show that
Major would have carried the state
had the Republican party been
united. He has again demonstrate
ed that he is stronger with the peo-
pie than any other Democrat in the
state. Shelbina Torchlight.