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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-08-12

sloppy caved in you will look twice as
attractive, Miss Beauty Seeker-trust
me for that!
Vim to keep you up above the dead
level of mediocrity: vigor to carry you
on to ambition and achievement vital
ity that will make you ready TO meet
every occasion; buoyancy-of which
have sung at length-and now a toll
Grant spirit of which | can not sing
at enough length. You know the wom-
I an who is always pecking and perking
and digging at life, who criticizes all
the things that fall outside her own in
terests and inclinations. Her express
sion and attitude can ruin even a col
lection of perfect features and color
ing"
The woman who never would do
the things New York does, yet who
likes to see New York doing them
If it enjoys them" l unused
Exactly. I'll use that when l in
terview you" laughed merry Miss
Maude Live and let live is a good
motto for living and having the i'm
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-08-12

better than diet-list and a course of
facial massage.
Take buoyancy-it will keep you
from getting the wrinkles and lines
and spiritless eyes that are foes to
beauty; it will put spring into your
step. And now | have reached a sid
ing, for l just have to stop and talk
about walking and carriage Miss
Beauty Seeker, harken, You must
walk along on the balls of your feet
with buoyant spring instead of lag
gard SLOUGH if you want to be truly at
tractive. Walk as of you could conquer
worlds-and you will conquer hearts.
SWIMMING GOOD.
Swimming helps a lot in the pur-
suit of proper land movement, for it
brings a graceful fluidity of motion
no, | don't mean a fish-walk, but just
a flowing, graceful movement in. walk
I. ing that is sure to please everyone
who sees, and that is sure to make you
, look fashionably tall and svelte
"oh, if you just hold yourself firmly
erect on the balls of your feet and car
ry head and chest high instead of
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-08-12

Commercial and industrial civiliza-
ton has a cannibalistic strain in its
nature which can be worked out if we
will that it shall go out, but which is
capable of running nations and races
today as effectually as it did in the
time of Tyre and Carthage.
It is we'll to think little on the ma
ture of cannibalism. The brute animal
knows it in only one of its forms, and
does not understand it then; but we
know, though we may try to shut our
eyes to the fact that there is a moral
cannibalism also, which is more des-
tructive than the other, and yet it is
practiced by the only animal on this
earth that is capable of comprehend
ing the nature and consequences of its
acts and of defying. if it will, the ter.
rible law of the struggle for existence.
For what were our brains and our
moral sentiments given to us if we
cannot with their aid and guidance
keep the most brutal of mere animal
instincts from reappearing in another
and more dreadful form upon the high
er level to which intelligence has rails
ed us?
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-08-12

of Miss Knowlton's own Irish meadow
lands.
mo, a girl can't choose her own ma
tive health, but if she could, good
starting place would be California.
My! the air out there is made of COM
ponent parts of vim, vigor and vital
ity-and with little heredity to back
up the H20 combination start like
that gives a girl tendency to sane
healthy viewpoint, and that kindly at
titude toward life that irradiates even
homely face.
NOT POSING.
of course, | am not posing as :.
beauty expert said modest Miss
Maude, but surely we agree that an
actually homely face may have a
charm of spirit and intelligence, mag
netic giving out of self to the world
(that plays give and take all the time,
you know that mere beauty shell
which thrills you for fifteen minutes
could not exert after the first quarter
was past. Vim, vigor, vitality, a toll
Grant spirit toward the world and its
Inhabitants, and buoyancy to carry you
over the jolting rough places, will
surely bring out all your good points
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-08-12

We shudder when we look at the
photogra phs of the mother animal ca
gerly deyouring her children, holding
two of them in her merciless nippers
and crushing another in her jaws while
a double score of others. innocent in
their trusthfuiness, crowd before her,
ignorant of the fate that maternal
greediness holds in store for them.
We thank heaven that men and wom-
en- no longer indulge in such satanic
feastsi
But are we justified in. our self
graduation? The poor scorpion has no
moral sentiments to teach her the
horror of her deed. She has no highly
organized brain to enable her TO rea-
son on the nature of that murderors
act. She simply obeys brute instinct
But we have both moral sentiment and
reason and yet we devour our kind!
We do not eat children, but we live
upon their Iife-bIood whenever we send
them to wear out their tender bodies
and wither their hearts and their
brains in roaring factories and sitting
tenements where the modern Moloch,
the Money GotS deVours his sacrifices.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-08-12
Milady's
Mirror



Some people-and they must be deep
dyed fatalists or else they must have
a great fondness for sweets and good
ies-declare that they were born TO be
fat and that no amount of dieting will
make them thin. This has not much
to do with youth. excepting that IL Is
quite true that some persons are born
to look their age and some are born TO
look always younger than they are.
So it seems as IL making an effort to
look young would be fruitless of re-
suits in many cases, and so IL Is.
The woman who goes through life
trying to look young, taking a cheer
full. smiling outlook on everything
about her, healthy, enthusiastic In
terest In the world in general. can do
much to retain youth. In fact. she
never grows old in the sense of the
word which signifies out OF date and
faded. The woman. too, who takes
care Of her health, who looks to her
diet when it Is convenient to do so and
who takes due precautions regarding
her skin and hair runs a good chance
of keeping a healthful and youthful
appearance throughout life
But the woman who tries everlast-
ingly and increasingly to keep young
generally ends up by Iookins old and
tagged before her day. And certainly
her frame of mind Is far from normal.
far from youthful. She avoids firing
herself. she rests prescribed number
Of hours or minutes each day, she
spends hours fussing over her hair
and her nails and her eyebrows and
her skin. she eats only such things as
she knows she ought to eat. no matter
how much she wants to eat other
things. and what is the rebuilt;
Perhaps she does look young. per-
haps her cheek has a more deIicafe
bloom than the weathered. comfortable
looking check of her sister who has
gone through life getting the most out
of il. and perhaps she will stay young
so long as she can spend hours n day
trying to do so. But her youth is real-
ly only skin deep. IL she Is forced
TO live I'm different circumstances for
a time. where she cannot devote most
of her time to preserving her complex
lon. she fades quickly, and MI the hours
spent in enslaring youth are Como for
nothing.
Prince Krapotkin. the great Russian
anarchist. said In an article about his
experiences in prison that he thought
he, city bred man. used TO the damp
stone houses of st. Petersburg. stood
the confinement of the cold. dark. damp
Russian prisons better than did strong.
country bred men perhaps much
stronger and more robust than he The
change from the fresh country air and
well aired houses to the i'll ventilated
and dingy prison cells was so great
that 1t broke down their health
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-08-12

of the cave men. The old myth-makers
never had any hesitation in assembling
to the gods human qualities and weak
nesses, and that tendency has not dis
appeared yet, as witness the almost
universal habit of thinking of the SUI
preme Power of the universe as kind
of omnipotent man!
But while we civilized beings have
rid ourselves of the terrible habit of
devouring our own kind-at least in
gastronomic way-many of the low
er animals still practise that kind of
struggle for existence, and no doubt
will always continue to do so.
An instance of cannibalism of the
Zest whole flock of her own most
remarkable kind is shown in the ac-
companying photographs, where we
see in one case a scorpion, which he
has overcome in battle, and in the
other female scorpion devouring
with awful progeny
A GREAT TEACHER.
Nature is great teacher, but she
as frequently teaches us what to avoid
as what to initiate. And there is a
deeper side to her lessons which we
do not always perceive.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-08-12
There is a Limit TO the Au-
.thority of Parents

lnasmuch as she says that she is
twenty-seven years old and has arrived
at years of discretion, IL she is ever
going to get there, l should say that
she has a perfect right to follow her
own judgment and inclination, and as
long as she does only those things
that are true and honorable and of
good report to live her own life in her
own way.
There is a limit to the authority of
parents, and while the sacred obliga-
ton to honor your father and your
mother never ceases, there is no rea-
son why the prospects of the young
should be blighted by blind yielding
to the tyranny of the old just because
they happen to stand in a certain re-
lationship.
When their children are very young
parents assume the attitude of ora.
cles to them. They are wiser than the
babe, more capable of deciding its lit
tie problems than it is, and the trouble
is that this engenders in most fathers
and mothers a conceit that makes
them believe to the end of time that
they still are wiser than their chill.
dren and perfectly capable still of set.
Ting every question that comes up in
their offsprings' lives.
Nothing in the world is farther from
the truth than this. Nature plays
strange FRANKS in families, and many
a dull, commonplace man and woman
beget children that are brilliant, mer.
curial, restless. full of strange talent
and no more like their progenitors
| than champagne is like dishwater.
/ How are such parents able to decide
anything for such children? How are
such parents to know what Is best for
such children? What folly for such
children to be bound down by the mar.
rowness and prejudice of such par.
ents, their ambitions thwarted, their
careers ruined because a stupid father
and mother will not consent to a gift.
ed son or daughter doing something
| which they never wanted to do!
! Yet we all know men whose lives
have been ruined because when they
desired to be doctors or lawyers their
| fathers forced them behind grocery
counters. We have known girls that
God himself made actors. or singers
or artists, whose genius was lost TO
the world because their provincial par.
ents thought that woman's
| sphere" was in the kitchen
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-08-12

NE 0I the SITdn2esL l6genQS
Of antiquity is the old Greek
story of Saturn, the father
of the gods (also called
Kronos, or '.Time"), devouring his
own children. Some ingenious specu-
lators have endeavored to account for
this curious tradition by supposing
that some of the ancients had invented
the telescope, and discovered, thous-
ands of years before Calico, the rings
of the planet Saturn. But their tele-
scopes being small, they only saw the
rings, as Calico himself did at first,
as appendages. on two sides of the
planet, which grew gradually larger
and then slowly disappeared, as if the
planet had first created and then
swallowed them. The telescope being
afterward forgotten, without having
been brought to perfection, the legend
arose that Saturn was a cannibal, eat
ing his own offsprings.
However this may be, the story
about Saturn could we'll have had
much less ingenious origin. Men had
plenty of instances of cannibalism be-
fore their eyes on their own planet,
and, in fact, their own race had begun
with cannibal procliVities in the days
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-08-12
Parents of Today Are Unfit
ted to Direct Children

We have all known miserable men
and women whose parents had sepa-
ted them from the woman and men
they loved and married them to some
body they didn't love because the faith
er and mother were SO certain that
they knew the kind of a husband or a
wife that Mary and John needed bet
ter than Mary and John knew them
selves.
The truth is that there have been
SO many changes in the conditions OF
life and the point of view in the last
twenty years that the parent of to-
day is absolutely untitled to decide the
problems of life for the young man
and woman of today. This is particu-
larry the case with women. because
the whose economic and social posi-
tion of woman has been revolutionized
since mother was a girl. Things that
were considered bad form then are
good form now. Sentiments that were
daring then are commonplace conven-
lions now. An amount of education
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-08-12
PAILADIUAfS MAGAZINE AND HOME PAGE
LIMIT TO PARENTS AUTHORITY

that made girl blue stocking then
renders one only moderately well in
formed now.
Mother will not consent TO her gift
ed daughter going on the stage.
where she could make fame and for
tune, because in mothers narrow
prejudice the stage and immortality are
synonymous terms, when the modern
view is that mOrtalitw is a matter OF
morals and not of environment. Moth
er doesn't think her daughter should
go into business because when she
was young the working women was
looked down upon. when now IL is just
as much a matter OF coufss for
woman who needs money to work as
il is for a man
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-08-12

press of living mark your face in lines
of sweetness.
Now for a background to the vim,
vigor and vitality lady-the simplest
clothes she dares wear, so she shall
not be a mere clothes-horse, but a
possible-attractive girl, whose
own sweet nature and expression and
well-carried figure are more important
than the mere garments in which she
is swathed. And there's my ideal OF
beauty" concluded Miss Knowlton.
And very ideal Ideal / call it
don't you?
LILLIAN LAUFERTY.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-08-12
Y Ow far does parents author
II ity gos
To what extent should a

TT US 'y g, so: does parents '''a'',
To what extent should
grown-up man or woman
sacrifice his or her liberty of action.
and possibly his or her success in life
in order TO crafty the within or preju-
dice of an old father and mother:
| have a letter from a young wom-
an who puts this question in a very
pertinent fashion. My. correspondent
writes that her parents are well-to-
do, even rich country people, and that
she prepared herself to be a milliner,
and is an expert hat trimmer capable
of earning good salary. Her father
and mother refuse, however. to let her
go and take a position in a shop
where she could make the money to
crafty her desires for good clothes
and innocent pleasures, and they also
refuse to provide her with the money
for these Injuries. They give her moth
ing but her board in return for the
work she does about the farm, and she
has to make the money for the fe-
clothes that she has by taking in i'll
paid sewing and trimming hats for the
neighboring farmers wives.
This young woman wants TO know
if she would not be justified in assert
ing her own independence and going
away from home and accepting one
of the many offers she has had TO
make her living in the way that is
most congenial to her and best paid.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-08-12
Men and Women Have the
Right to Decide For
themselves
themselves.

Mother thinks that her daughters
should marry to please her. instead
of gratifying their individual tastes in
husbands. and she forsets that II is
the daughters who are going 10 have
to live with the men. not she.
All of this makes il utterly impossi-
BILE for parents To judge for their chill
dren and il is not right that the old
should lay restrictions upon the
young. Therefore, it seems To me that
after girl or boy comes TO mans
and woman's estate, they have a right
to decide things for themselves,
Whatever mistakes are made, they
must pay for them, and they should
at least have the privilege of trying
10 do the things they want 10 do.
Age does not always bring wisdom.
IL just as often augments and con-
firms stupidity and pigheadedness.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-08-12
THE WELL-BORN
BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.


~ o many people-people-n the world
So few great souls. love ordered well begun,
In answer to the fertile mother need!
So few who
The image of the Makers mortal dream;
So many born of mere propinquity-
OF lustful habit, of accident
Their mothers felt
No mighty, allcompelling wish to see
Their bosoms garden-place
Abloom with flower faces;
No tidal wave swept Ger them with its flood;
No thrill of flesh or heart; no leap of blood;
No glowing fire, flaming to white desire
For mating and for motherhood,
Yet they bore children.
God! how mankind misuses Thy command
To populate the earth!
How low is brought high birth.
How low the woman; when inert spawn
Left on the sands to fertilize,
She is the through which the goes on
Not SO the first intent.
Birth, the Supreme Mind conceived it, meant
The clear imperious call of mate
And the clear answer. Only thus and then
Are fine, well-ordered and potential lives
Brought into being. Not by church state
Can birth be made legitimate
Unless
Love in its fulness bless.
Creation ordans lofty laws
That man, while greater in all other things,
Is lesser in the generative
The father may be merely man, the male;
Yet more than female must the mother be.
The woman who would fashion
Souls, for the of earth angels
Must entertain high and holy passion
Not rank, wealth, influence of kings
Can give soul it's dover,
OF majesty and power,
Great love to that great hour
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-08-12

/~ EAUTY Is not just skin
$. $. :; =. :: - :. :;
brains, said Maude Knowl-
ton. with the combination of buoyancy
and conviction that makes a back
ground of emphasis for her every
word THAT is not saying that | think
beauty is health, for features and fig
ure and expression all have their part
in making beauty; and I never forget
that it goes right through the outer
shell to the bone"
In cosy little flat, out in the eigh-
ties ! visited the clever girl, who UNI
der Henry B. Harris's management
has scored several distinct hits. one
of the best remembered of which is
her marvellous portrayal of Simpson.
the real chorus lady in 1.-THE Chorus
Lady"
"A girl can't very we'll choose her
birthplace" went h the girl whose
clever gift of mental twist and verbal
kink throws added glamour of interest
over big brown eyes, wavy black hair
and a complexion that when it is not
covered with healthy summer-sun-and-
ocean burn is first cousin to the cream
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-08-12
Minister Praises This laxative.

Rev. H. Stubenvoll. of Allison, Ia,
in praising DR. Kings New Life Pills
for constipation, writes: DIR Kings
New Life Pills are such perfect pills
no home should be without them" No
better regulator for the liver and
bowels Ever1 pill guaranteed. Try
them. Price lc, at A. G. Luken &
Co, druggists
TAD. irtisemenD
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-08-12

Copyright 1918 by the Press Publish.
ing Company tNew York Iorld)
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SCORPIONS
BY GARRETT p. sERvIss.

~ NE of the strangest legends
Of antiquity is the old Greek
story of Saturn, the father
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-09-27
Princeton Freshmen Go
Through Sophomore Wall;
Also Win cannon Rush

PRINCETON, Sept. 27.-The fresh
man and sophomore classes OF
Princeton University INDUCED in their
annual melees yesterday in the GYM
nasium. The 1917. class hit the wall
of sophomores massed in front OF the
gymnasium with rush and all of the
freshmen were in after a twenty
minute struggle.
At the class meeting held by the
freshmen the following temporary
officers yere elected: President, H. P.
Ballentine, of the Lawrenceville
School; vice-president, ]. Humphreys,
of st. Paups; OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, ID.
Chaplin, of Hill School.
Peace reigned until early in the
evening, when the excitement CEN
tired around the historic old cannon.
1t is long since the din of real battle
has centred about this relic of the
Revolutionary War, but it is the hub
of one of the fiercest of Princeton's
annual clashes. The cannon rush,
as it is called, is held after dark by
the light of torches held in the hands
of upper classmen.
The second year men massed them
selves about the cannon in eoncentric
circles with ropes stretching out as
the spokes of wheel from the hub.
At the stroke of eight the human
wheel began revolving around the
cannon and the freshmen charged
from opposite sides. The object was
to pull the sophomore president from
the cannon within FIVE minutes and,
it is said, he was dragged over the
shoulders of his supporters before
time was called. The superior num-
bers of the freshmen oyerrame the
pluck and experience of the second
year men and gave the former the
second victory of the day.