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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-07-09
The Seven Ages of Women in Love;
Chapter Three:--At Tvventy-four She
Discovers Man i'm His Truest Garb

OF until she comes to the
THIRD of the SEvEN-AGES-O Of
WoMAN-IN-LOVE does woman
discover MAN.
She Is then about TWENTY
-FOUR. Her dream OF the fas-
cinating Prince has vanished. She
has dropped her pose as the
Queen of Love. She sees MAN
AS-HE-IS.
Or thinks she does!
College girl, home girl or bust
ness girl-trained in different
schools, but equally observant-
she accepts mans faults. Prob
ably she exaggerates them. But
she likes him just that way.
HUMAN, she calls him!
So her lover need not be the
Isuperman. But he must be some
thing infinitely nicer, he must be
the COMPANION.
Friendship before Love-"
quotes Twenty-four. Man doesn't
always see it that way.
Twenty-four knows there Is a
worldful of work to be done. and
she seeks the opportunity to do
her share.
She knows there are disap-
pointments to face. but she has
courage to meet them.
If she cannot inspire her hus-
band, she would at least appre-
ciate him.
She would make his home the
place of his rest. where she can
renew his strength for the world
ly battle
And wonderful indeed is life
when woman may be all this to
one man. Poetry tells us all
about it.
Twenty-four will not hide her
husbands pipe. Nor snub his
choicest friend. Nor compete
with his stenographer. She rea-
sons that the latter lady is try
ing to arrange her own matri-
monial venture, and will not i'm
peril it by mere Stiffness at the
office.
Yet Twenty-four knows that
hearts must break, and she offers
her own as a sacrifice. Therefore.
blinded by her own willingness
to accept mans faults, She some
times accepts too many of them.
Evidently, Twenty-four takes
life very seriously indeed.
But man, YOUNG man, her
natural mate, takes LIFE as a
game. He experiments with life.
And Twenty-four is only part of
his experiment.
Now man may be very simple
or Very complex. No woman has
ever found out which. 1t is pos
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night, let her sweep over the
country 40 miles an hour. with
dark villages shooting past and
the cool breeze whistling through
her hair, let her listen to the mu-
steal whirr of the motor-and In
10 minutes she won't care what
becomes of her.
1t gets into your blod, that's
all.
A lot of the pitfalls might be
fenced off or filled up by laws.
But until that's done, the girls
must avoid them themselves.
Let them keep out of cafes, I'M
less accompanied by somebody
they can really trust.
Let them keep off the streets
alone after dark, off the rear seats
of motorcycles, out of strange
mems automobiles and dance
halls.
Stay at home nights, wear sem
sible clothes and introduce your
friends of the opposite sex to the
folks at home.
Dancing, coquetry, automobile
riding and all those things are all
right in their own places and in
the protection of homes and home
folks, but don't carry 1t too far.
I've been there, and believe me
1T DOESN'T PAY.
Ito Be Continued.)
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disappear without his even know
ing what she has done for him,
or that she exists at all.
/ guess you would feel sad, too,
boys and girls!
Days go on. The mermaid
grows sadder. At last she can
keep her secret no longer and
tells her troubles to one of her
sisters. She, in turn, tells 1t to
friends, who decide to help her
try and find the palace in which
the prince lives.
So they rises up, hand In hand
out Of the water, one day, in
front of wonderful building OF
yellow stones. There is broad
flight of marble stetps in front
of 1t. They gaze through the win
dows and see the spacious rooms
inside. In one of them there is
a fountain playing. It is the
home of the handsome princei
Then they drop back into the
|sea.
But, do you thln2 that is the
last time the little mermaid sees
this palace? Indeed, no! Every
night, now, she swims up to the
surface of the sea and lies on O
high rock, and watches the lights
in that wonderful house where
her prince lives.
Every day she watches the
asks the little mermaid.
"Only by winning the love of
a human being. II you could
could make man love you bet
ter than father or mother If you
could get him to maze you his
wife, then you would know hui
man happiness. When you died
you would have an immortal
soull
"But you would have to give
up your beautiful TAIL ana get
FEET"
The little mermaid wonders
and wonders at the things she
hears from her wise grandmother.
And at night she goes again to
watch at the princes palace.
II would do anything. would
give up my beautiful tail If I
could win the prince and an Inn
mortal SOUL" thinks the mermaid
as she looks through the palace
window at her prince.
II know what will do. I will
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SOCIETY

Rev. A. ID. Shaw, PHI. D., and
family left yesterday for their
summer vacation of one month.
During the absence of DR.. Shaw
the pulpit will be supplied morn
ings and evenings by special
preachers from Tacoma and else
where. Rev. Shaw is pastor OF
the East Congregational church.
Central w. @. #. U. will hold
its regular meeting Thursday at
2 O'CLOCK in the Union hall, $40
South 9th street. There will be
literary talks and a paper on "a
Christian Nations Duty to the
Heather World"
Miss Zilfa Phillips, one of the
foremost society writer's and
newspaper women in Tacoma,
will entertain informally Thurs
day evening at her home, 34O1
North 9th street, to all her
friends, to say goodbye before
her departure from Tacoma. Miss
Phillips reward for her efforts
in Tacoma is a position as editor
of the woman's department of a
big California newspaper.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Watson are
entertaining at their home. sos
South Yakima avenue, Mr.. Wat
sons mother, of Albany, Ore.
One of the charming social
events of the week was an in
formal dancing party given Tues
day evening by Judge and Mrs.
w. II. Smell in honor of Miss
Irene Bailey, a visiting girl from
the east, and their daughter, Miss
Margaret, who has returned from
Dana Hall for the vacation.
Members Of the "Gipsy" party
who have enjoyed several sum-
mer outings together in years
past, were entertained yesterday
afternoon at luncheon by Mrs.
w. G. Martin and Mrs. F. J.
Slocum. The affair was given at
Mrs. Martins &nme and was
given as an opportunity for men,
bers to meet Mrs. Slocum's
mother, Mrs. w. II. Harris of
Kansas City.
The executive board of the
Woman's club will meet Thursday
morning with Mrs. w. II. UdalI
at her Manzanita summer home.
The Pythian Sisters club will
be entertained Thursday after
noon from 2 to o'clock at the
home of Mrs. A. s. Rhodes.
Hostesses for the afternoon will
be Mrs. Rhodes and Mrs. A. D..
Lacy.
The Westminster church La
dies Aid society will picnic Sat-
urday at the summer home of
Mrs. George Brown at Fox island.
The party will leave from the
municipal dock at 1890 O'clock
on the steamer Tyrus. 4
w. Il. CoIville, worId-famous
Philosophical lecturer and teacher
of divine science, will be in Taco
ma this week, the guest of Rev
Henry Victor Morgan. On Friday
night he will deliver his lecture
on "Parsifal," in the Park Univer-
salist church. The lecture Is free
and a generous invitation has
been issued to the public.
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favor: A just cause, a complete
organization that reached every
voter, representative ticket
headed by Patterson and suffi-
Client money to run the CAM
paign."
For weeks the citizens COM
mittee workers talked individuals
ly with the voters. There were
more than 5000 of these work
ers." Hundreds of public meet
ings We're held.
Three weeks before the cleo
ton every billboard was plaster
ed with advertising. A week
later Wilson went into the news
papers with single and double
page advertisements, telling the
people what a rotten government
they had been having and inyit-
ing them to make a change.
The result was that the entire
commission-manager ticket was
elected
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"Ragging Has the Same Effect on
Some People as a War Dance
on an Apache Indian" Verdict
of Girl Who Knows.
By Evelyn Nesbitt.

There are big dance halls where
you can dance for five cents a
couple for each dance.
There's no fault to be found
with the dancing in those places.
Usually it's orderly and respect
able and Raging is strictly barred.
The managers do all in their pow
er to keep the places on a high
level.
But it's the promiscuous meet
ings and associations that men,
ace. Strange girls dance with
strange men continually. I've
often danced with men whose
names l didn't know. And lots
of school girls have, too.
The man may be all right. But
again he may be all wrong.
There's no way of telling.
l know a girl called Alice. She
used to enjoy that beach dancing.
Thousands of respectable people
do. Alice danced in certain pa
vilion on many evenings with per-
feet safety. But one night a
strange young man bought her
udHCeS IOr QeT.
After several numbers she was
excited and exhilarated, SO he sug-
gested stroll to the end of the
pier. 1t was lonely and deserted
out there, no sound but the slap
ping of the waves against the
wharf.
The man told Alice he loved
her Ghn fnnvAI a-d fIsufa1 xx-sfl,
him, and they stayed there until
the lights in the pavilion went out
and Alice discovered il was very
late. The last car had gone. The
man vanished--andA Alice was left
alone.
All night she stayed at the
beach. Her parents didn't want
to take her back. Her father
wanted to shoot her first and then
shoot the man, and her mother
was hysterical. They took her
and moved to another city-ran
away from the disgrace.
In some Of those dance halls,
girls stand around like slaves be-
Ing inspected before a sale, wait
ing for some man to wander by,
LOOK them over and invite them to
dance. The men consider them
Tor sale, at five cents dance. Yet
mothers give their daughters free
rein to visit such places.
III a mother should burst sud-
denly into parlor, and find a
man standing with both arms
tight around her daughter, and
her head on his shoulder, and her
arms around him---she'd expect
the man to announce that the girl
bad just accepted him.
One night went out with a
crowd. and there were some intro
z sctons. I met Mr.. Smith. In
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Ma1uxid

palace she grows fonder of hui
man beings.
AT last she asks her wise grand
mother whether men who are not
drowned live forever.
when they de-" the grand
mother answers, "men go to an
other world. They have I'M
mortal souls. But we OF the sea
are not immortal. We live 500
years. And when we die we die
for all time. There Is no other
world for US. We turn into foam
and are a part of the sea-"
''Is there any way one of us
could win an immortal soul?"
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SPECIAL FEATURES OF INTEREST TO WOMEN READERS
LONDON WOMEN USE ,
QUEER HAIR FRAMES

Here are some of the queer
hair frames that women are
wearing in England just now to
help shape their heads to the
contour of the fashionable hats.
Some of these caps have been
worn, more or less, by the Eng
Ash women ever since Queen
Alexandria introduced that POM
padous and bath bun" hair
dressing which all the court
ladies and would-be fashionable
English women followed SO
many years. Queen Alexandria
still wears her wig dressed in
this way.
The frame that looks like a
perfectly goa masque Is worn
by the woman who wants
Madonna part" with loosely
waving hair over the ears. The
one that looks as though 1t
might have an electric flashlight
in the front of 1t is one that Is
used when the French twist
pompadour curls are worn. The
Others are used at the back of
the head with strands of hair
brought through them, giving a
place to pin on switches and
curls.
Thank goodness, these frames
are not worn at all in this coun-
try, as American women are in
favor of simple hair-dressing and
usually have enough hair to
dress it in the close-fitting styles
that are now worn.
But the usual middle-class
British matron will HE herself to
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1913-07-09
o @ @ . @ o o o o 8 8 o o . O
D MARRIAGE LICENSES. q
&, a, a a a n n a n n n "a n a a n

w. II. Beckman and Gladys Ber-
nett of Chehalis; William Braaton
and Pauline Robertson, both of Ia
coma; Kay Sasakj of Three Noun
tains, Utah. and Sekino Teukamoto
of Japan; J. Simmons and Grace
Clark, both of Seattle; William L.
Kong and Kathryn Kerrigan, both
of Puyallup; Frank Hopkins Jarvis
of Bellingham, and Florence N.
Wright of Tacoma: F. S. Carter and
Kate L. Catlin, both of Kelso; G.
III. Schmude of Tonasket and Cora
of Hoquiam and Alma ] Raffelson
of Aberdeen; Henry L. wallen-
meyer and Lena Sommers, both of
Tacoma; Mark Ellsworth of Tacoma
and Helen Dashoski of Roy: w, F..
Thomson and Jessie Gildart, both of
Tacoma
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Cynthia Grey's Answers

The Working Girls Beaux.
Dear Miss Grey: Having
read your good advice, wo
want to ask it, too. We are
two young girls who have
worked here in an ice-cream
parlor. While there we met
two young men from another
town, and have seen them
twice since and have seen O
good deal of them. We would
like to know IL it is all right
to meet them when they
come to our home town, as
they have asked us to.
Thanking you, ID. AND p.
Al can't see how you have
seen a great deal of these young
men IL you have met them but
three times. However, l have no
way of telling you whether or not
the men are the right sort; but
if they are willing to meet you
at your homes and be introduced
to your parents; If they never
have and do not in the future
take any liberty with you; il you
are experienced enough to drop
them at once should they not act
manly, I see no reason why the
companionship shoule not con-
tinue,
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the hairdresser's the first thing
after she receives an invitation
to dinner and she will not think
of attending the theater without
having her hair dressed in such
an elaborate manner that the
stage is INSTRUCTED for the man
who sits behind her
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AS TOLD BY AUNT GERTIE.
CHAPTER III.

DOWN, DOWN, DOWN to the
palace Of King Mer goes our poor
little mermaid!
But she Is so quiet and sad
looking her sisters hardly know
her.
what Is the matter with our
sister," each asks the other.
or course, the answer Is very
simple. She has saved the life
of a handsome prince, fallen in
love with him, and then had to
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It's true; but why? Because
some women actually drive
them to IL. How many wives
consider that a man prefers
a loving-dispOsitioned wife to
an economical, nagging one?
Too many women think it
does not matter after mar
riage IL she dresses untidy,
and slops around i'm kimono
with uncOmbed hair. What il
the house is clean as a pin,
III she is so disagreeable one
can scarcely stay in the same
room? IL a man cannot find
pleasure at home, he will go
where he can. There may be
men who leave their home for
the Upright lights" but usu-
ally IL Is when there is some-
thing lacking in the home,
and q great many such cases
end in divorce. Both sexes
should study the disposition
of each other will before get
ting married.
YOUNG WIFE.
A.-Your letter is delightful,
refreshing for its youthfulness ant
inexperience. There are so man,
causes for ruptured homes tha'
one can but touch the subject II
limited space. 1t is true that tn,
home should be pleasant-but 4
takes two to make 1t so; 1t is tru,
that the wife should be tidy
but II she has large house, ant
she should have suffi
cient assistance to keep 1t so with
out being SO tired she is cross
How can a woman sweep heav,
dust, scrub, put up fruit
make the children's clothes, keel
them tidy, and have time to keel
herself SO, and without beint
cross?
! agree with you that something
Is wrong at home when a mar
leaves his wife and little ones
but the earthly home of each Of
us is in our individual minds, an6
here is something radically wrong
In a mans mind when he prefers
living to right. Let the
man who has a cross wife get a
the cause. By all means let eacl
give and take; but also let eacl
stand lovingly and firmly for his
Or her individual rights.
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Shall We Abolish Marriage
Laws?

tVAetsa W " AhoOAAci 4sAaAAla<[o
Laws?
Dear Miss Grey: 1 agree
with the "Mother of Two
Babes" who answers the cry
of Free Motherhood" from
the woman who says she is
not legally married, but longs
for child.
You say to destroy the laws
of marriage is to do away
with the work of civilization.
1 say that the Institution of
marriage is that of savagery,
not of civilization. Further
more, a great deal Of the
work of civilization should
be done away with. 1 do not
ask that the laws of mar
riage be done away with,
but believe that the BROTH
erhood of man win some day
be realized, and these foolish
man-made laws will then be
forgotten. N. +.
A.-True. marriage did have
It's starting point In savagery
,ut as man became more civilized
avs were made for the better
nent of the race. Some were and
ire q deterrent, but until we have
better ones 1t is folly to abolish
he ones we have. know per
onally couple who lived under
he common law marriage (noi
recognized in this state) for twen-
y years and raised a family OF
Inc children. They were mar.
led short time ago that their
hildren might have legal rights,
Even at the best you see how it Is
!, too, look for universal brother.
hood, and as step to IL marriage
will be placed on q higher foot,
ng than ever before, win be en-
cred into for unselfish reasons
Ind every child find a father and
mother in every man and woman
( meets.
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On Bridge.
On Bridge.
Dear Miss Grey: What do
you think about bridge? Is
it worth while to learn it?
Is the hospital at Arlington

Is TIE nOSpItal at Arlington
a registered hospital?
A HOUSEWIFE.
A.-Bridge and hospitals. Pref
ty good combination, for, IL
guess not wrong, you will be
ready for one when you have lost
your good money during the proc
ess of learning this fashionable
gambling game. Webster gives
bridge" as "a span." He passed
away before the modern game
was instituted, or l am sure he
would have added, "a ruptuI e."
for this gambling game (more ex-
pensive than poker) often proves
so. While many play for the
"fun of it," most people, am
sorry to say, especially women,
become gamblers at it. You must
decide for yourself whether or not
1t is worth while to learn a game
wherein you will, as an amateur,
lose large sums of money, and in
which, If the game is at your
home, and you win, you will take
money from your guests-often
friends.
Inquire at the health depart
ment about the hospital.
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AZ Mem and Tight Skirts.
Dear hiisg Gne7: i am an
saFerinR the petfT who In r.
=. ply 20 letter frons me said.
.*zen are ieaxlzss th3ir wives
hnd little ones for <I2t Tight
siSiffed. paia1ed Noueu
The Washington times., 1913-04-28
CLUB OFFICERS TO
VISIT VIRGINIA BODY
Leaders of Federation Of Wo-
mems Clubs Will Be Guests
at Clifton Forge Meeting.

Following the close of business session.
! of the mid-biennial council of the Gen
eral Federation of Women's Clubs here
the four general officers left -odaJ FOL
Clifton Forge, Va, where they WI! De
guests of the Virginia Federation during
the meeting of the Virginia State council
which opens tonight and continues
through tomorrow and Wednesday.
Mrs. Percy v. Pennybacker, OF Austin,
Tex, president: Mrs. Eugene Reiliey. OF
Charlotte, N. c., corresponding secre-
tary: Mrs. William c. Williams, OF
Michigan, treasurer, and Mrs. Grace
Julian Clarke. of Indiana. are the Only
remaining officers of the General Fed
Grafton now here, and they viii ;eave
today.
i Gil had been unusually successful. It u
known, however that the move OF tht
| federation to become a member of IN,
National Council Of Women has causeo
ill-feeling among some OF the hign DIN
| cials, and at least two resignations na''
been announced as a result.
Mrs. l.. L. Blankenburg, of Phi!adei
phia, formerly first vice president. re
| signed. 1t Is declared, on account o
| alleged "steam-roller" pAethods on th'
| part of the administration, espectaiiy ]!
forcing affiliation Of the Fedtrates
Clubs with the National Council OF
| terms declared to be .'belittling" 10 III
| Federated Clubs. Mrs. E. A. Chdntlcr
of Tacoma, WASH. formerly chairman
OF the Industrial and social condition
| department, also resigned for the sam;
| reason as Mrs. Blankenburg, 1t Is de
| clared.
The Washington times., 1913-04-28
FATHER |NFORMED0F
DAUGHTERS DEATH
Aged Timer, Recovering From
His Burns, Told of Girls
Fatal Injuries.

John Murphy. the aged timer, who
has been in serious condition in
Emergency Hospital since April 4. suf-
fering from burns incurred in an ex-
plosion of gas in his home, 9l5 S street
northwest, has just been told that his
daughter, Miss Gertrude Murphy, aged
twenty-eight was fatally burned at the
same time. The aged man is now on
the road to recovery. and the news was
broken to him last evening by Father
Connolly. OF the Church of the Immacu-
late Conception.
Mrs. Mary Murphy, who was found
unconscious in the bathroom just before
the explosion occurred, having practical
ly recovered from the effects of the
poisoning, and also from burns about
the body, started yesterday for a long
visit in Lafayette, Ind. ignorant of the
fact that her daughter had been fatally
burned. Her condition is such that the
doctors did not think il advisable to tell
until she has more fully regained her
strength.
On the night of the explosion. Mrs
Murphy was found unconsciOus on the
floor Of the gas-filled bathroom. Enter.
ing the bathroom, Miss Murphy lighted
a match. An explosion followed, and
Miss Murphy and her father were
hurled several feet. The fire depart.
ment was called TO extinguish the
flames.
The Washington times., 1913-04-28
SCORE ARE INJURED
WHEN TRAINS CRASH
Passenger ColIides With Work
Cars on New Haven Line,
and Coaches Go Over Bank.

QUINCY, Mass, April 2S.-A score of
passengers on a fast moving local train
out of Boston and several laborers on
a work train were injured today when
the two trains crashed head-on in a
heavy fog between here and Braintree,
on the New York. New Haven, and
Hartford railroad. The roar when the
engines came together could be heard a
mile distant.
II was at first thought that several
had been fatally injured, but after all OF
the injured had been hurried in ambu-
lances TO hospitals il was found tina;
only few passengers were more than
badly bruised and shaken up.
Two of the passenger coaches were
derailed and. crashed down a fifteen foot
embankment, the occupants miraculous
ly escaping death. Engineer Dutton,
of the passenger train, after seeing
that the collision was unavoidable, was
knocked unconscious when he jumped
from the cab, landing on his head.
Both engines and several of the cars
We're badly smashed. A switch that was
set wrong and the thick fog were re-
sponsible for the accident