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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-04
What Father Did.
WHY He Left.

A dispute once arose between a
landlord and his tenant. The latter
had given notice to quit, but would
not put a bill in his window to say
that his house was ITO Be Let"
To make matters worse, they went
to law about it. The judge, having
heard the case, made an order for
the defendant to put a bill up with
in fourteen days.
The landlord was so overjoyed at
his victory that on the fourteenth
day he took friend with him around
to the house to chaff his tenant The
bill was up in the window plain
enough, but under it was another bill,
which ran as follows:
Cause of leaving-bad drains"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-04
DON'T CALL AGAIN.

Dear Miss Fairfax:
am 10 and very popular. Late
ly | received word from a young
man who used TO call on me pref
ty steady that he would like to
have me call him on the tele-
phone. I was informed he was
not in, and, as he is "a travelling
salesman, ! believed this, but
called few days later only 10 he
told the same story; this time
leaving my name saying he
should call me up. Now, as the
young man who received my mes
sage is also a good friend of mine,
and spoke quite confidential TO me
on the phone. also telling me that
the other young man { s just jolly
ing me along, / am in doubt as
to what course TO pursue
BABE.
You should not have called in the
first place, and your second effort does
not speak much for your dignity.
The young man, my dear. who is
worth having will always take the
initiative. He will a'ways make every
effort 20 communicate with the girl
he loves, and ask only that she be
pleased at his overtures.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-04
Do You Know

The Prussian Guards, whom King
George and the German Emperor re-
viewed recently. were originated by
Frederick /, whose ambition il was
to form a royal bodyguard of giants.
Every country was ransacked by his
agents to supply recruits, and no
head that lowered above the crowd,
even in the bazaaTs of Aleppo or
Cairo, could escape the crimps of the
Prussian King The most eXtrava-
CANT sums were offered to men of
exceptional inches, an Irishmen, more
than seven feet high, who was picked
up by the Prussian Ambassador in
London, receiving a bounty of $4,000.
Should the United States purchase
from Mexico 100000 square miles Of
Mexico for $4,000 600 it will not be
the first addition by purchase to the
great American Commonwealth. A
century ago Napoleon ! relinquished
Frances claim to Louisiana and Ar
kansas for S15,O00.00O, and in 1867
Russia exchanged Alaska for a cash
payment by the United States of 81
100000. More recently a strip of Cen
tral America, embracing five miles on
either side of the Panama Canal, was
purchased for Sl0,000,000 from the
Republic Of Panama.
Nothing is more amusing than to
watch on a winters day the marvel
Gus intelligence with which the
pigeons Of st. Marks, in Venice. can
discriminate between residents and
visitors in the grand square Of that
city, the Plaza Of St Mark. The mo-
ment a foreigner shows his face in
the plaza the pigeons set upon him in
crowds, hoping to be fed. They do
not trouble the natives, who may be
summing themselves by the hundred
IN the square.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-04
The Divorce Question
By JERE R. COOKE.

by diplomatic treatment, terminate,
as a mob of violence IS quelled by
the cold water of the f1remen, rather
than by the bullets of the police.
Called a Brute.
The social animal man is some
times called a brute, and frequently
is a brute.
He thinks he knows it all and
wants TO be the head and boss Of the
house.
No woman who is a pal to her hus-
band need ever fear any other wom-
an Her husband will not Join an
other lodge so that he can get one
more night out a week
II the other woman" gets him she
is a better pal to him. She jollies
rather than scolds, she laughs and
does not cry, she is a good sport, she
gets his money, and she has a good
time
If he is as old as Methuselah she
calls him a boy He likes it and
spends his cash
Few men are natural pikers with
their chums They take a certain
pride in playing the limit.
The woman with the harnessed lap
dog gives out a suspicion that she is
10 longer a pal 10 lEL NUS dlld-
She has the dog in leash, but there
are no strings on the man. "To have
and 10 hold" each others hearts.
1t ia not so much that they live
together as that they love each other.
The two lives who hope, fear, plan,
play, enjoy, suffer, deny, possess,
work and win together need no di-
vorce court to adjust their difficult
ties.
They are united in life and in death
they are not divided.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-04
Woman S Proper Place
By DOROTHY DIX.

GOOD business positions and who bring
tneir money home TO make an Did
hother comfortable and educate
younger brothers and sisters out Of
lhelr places during working hours?
Is the woman who is married to a
man whose health fails out of her
place because she puts her shoulder
10 the wheel and helps the domestic
wagon out of the ditch instead of lej-
ing 1t sink down into the mire?
II you ask my opinion, I think that
every woman who needs money for
herself. or for her family. is exactly
where she ought to be when she s
earning 1t by her honest work If the
men Of her family can't support her.
there is no reason why she should not
support herself, and help them, too, if
they need ii. For my part I have
never been able to see why it isn't
Just as feminine a thing. and as much
IN her line of duty, for a woman to be
prop to man as 1t is to be a mill
stone about his neck
Is woman out Of her place when she
belongs to clubs? Isn't II woman's
place to add to the sweetness and
light Of life, and haven't the women S
clubs done more toward fostering the
higher education, identifying towns
supporting art galleries and picture
shows, and giving the country a gen
eral esthetic uplift, than all other
causes combined?
Is the woman Of wealth, and intelli-
gence, and leisure out of her place
when she devotes her energies to pub
lie reforms and charities? Where else
would we look for our great philan-
thropies? Who would raise the money
for our hospitals, for our fresh-air
funds, for our tuberculosis camps, for
our societies for the prevention Of
cruelty to animals? There is not
community in this country that hasn't
some old maid or childless widow who
is its good Samaritan, and nobody ac-
cuses her of being out of her proper
sphere, except the evildoers on whose
corns she treads.
Out of Place?
There are those who contend that
woman is out of her proper place
oh, millions of miles out of it-when
she takes an interest in politics and
wants to vote. Why? Has she not as
much at stake in the country as any
man? Does she not pay as many
taxes? Is she not affected by the laws
just as men are? If food prices ad-
vance, does not the burden of making
the family income go further fall
upon her! II the streets are dirty
and the water supply impure, does she
not have to nurse her sick, because of
1t, and If they die, is not her heart
broken over their loss even more than
any mans? How can she be out Of
her place when considering the ques-
lions that are most vital to her?
The truth is, there is no place in all
the wide world that is not woman's
place. First at the cradle and last at
the tomb, she pillows mans head in
infancy on her breast, and kisses shut
his eyes when he dies, and there is no
hope, no joy, no struggle, no labor, no
victory, no defeat in his life in which
her place Is not always by his side.
1t is idle to talk about sending
woman back to her place. The earth
is hers, and the fullness thereof, just
as much as it is a mans.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-04
DON'T BE DISCOURAGED.
Dear Miss Fairfax:

Dear Miss Fairfax:
l am IS and am employed by one
of the largest railroads in the
East
l have been keeping steady
company with a young lady two
years my senior and visit this girl
about two or three times a week.
| asked her to become my wife
and she told me l would have TO
get her fathers consent. / had a
conference with her father, and
the only opposition he has to our
marriage is that l am too short.
am 3 feet 3 inches and receive a
good salary. Would you advise
me to discontinue my attentions
to this girl or continue to keep
company with her, in the hope
that her father will see the folly
of his ways and consent to our
marriage? GEORGE W.
If her fathers objections are based
solely on your height, l am sure that
in time he will withdraw them.
You need time for more important
reason: If your stature were all that
IS desired, your age is not. Trust me
IN this, my boy-no boy at is is OLD
enough to select a wife. For youl
own sake, be glad to wait,
1T WILL BE A GOOD LOSS.
Dear Miss Fairfax:
young man two years my senior
am deeply in love with a
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-04
On independence Day
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.

The men are Independent and free.
The women are gradually achieving an
Independence that will give them every
right enjoyed by the men
1t is a great thing, but not enough.
I want an independence for every girl
who loves, and which she, and she alone,
must secure.
I want her TO hold her little head and
heart high, and give her love and life to
no man who will treat them lightly.
l want her. when she says II love
you" to add, but my happiness. my
usefulness, my well-being, do not de-
pend on becoming the wife Of any man"
Then he will love her, appreciate her
and want her all the more
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-04
Advice to the LoveIorn
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.

and we have been keeping COM
pany for the past nine months,
but lately at a party to which he
had taken me he met a girl and
took her home. / wrote him the
next day asking him If I had done
anything to offend him. / have
not received an answer. Should
! write to him again, as ! would
not like to lose him? G. V. NJ.
He treated you most rudely, and
you would show a finer spirit If you
resented It and refused to see him
again. Do not write, and make up
your mind to this: The best thing
that can happen to a girl is to lose
an escort VINO is not a gentleman. for
such a one behaves much worse after
marriage.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-04
Adding Fuel to Flame.

A Quarrclsome couple. having ex-
hausted many subjects. came TO dis
GUESSING tombst0nes, and the husband
asked.
MY dear what kind Of stone do
Won suppose they viii give me when
/ die2"
birthstone" was the reply.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-04

were peeking through the keyhole. After
the president had put the seal Of Sc
crecy on the proceedings by closing the
keyhole with a borrowed piece Of chew
ing gum, order was restored, and the
following resolutions were adopted:
That life is not what it used 10 be
when a boy could put a cannon crack
er under maiden aunt's chair and
gorge himself with ice cream while the
family were bringing her to;
That unless a boy has a chance to
make himself look like a bursted fire.
cracker, there is no way for him to be-
come distinguished, and mothers have
no right to monopolize all the surgical
operations;
That if this demand for everything
nOiseless isn't checked soon, mothers will
be refusing the boy babies the doctors
bring them because they are not
equipped with rubber tires
That girls are ideal creatures because
they are happy with dolls, and the only
noise in playing with a doll is a squeak
that is squeaked out the first day;
What Father Did.
That mothers place too much stress
on boys getting their hands shot off,
considering that they never look at their
sons hands without screaming out that
they need washing;
That father used cannon crackers
when he was young, and still has hands
left to spank US"
The discovery that the ladies on the
outside had used the eternal feminine
weapon of defense in boring a hole
through the seal Of secrecy broke up the
meeting, and the gentlemen poured out
and the ladies poured in, in wild con
fusion.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-04

TIME hour: Nine IN the evening The
day: The Fourth of July. The
year: That is immaterial, since the
story told that night is always
young The personnel: A young man of
"a and a girl Of 49,
The scene: A secluded corner Of a
porch step. Around this young man and
woman were other young men and wom-
en- who were showing their patriotism
with firecrackers, torpedoes, skyrockets
and other Illuminating and noisy means.
There was a momentary darkness. The
last skyrocket had proved a fzzle and
there was some delay in starting an
other. Under cover of the darkness, and
unheard by the others I'm their merri-
ment, the young man whispered in the
girls ear, Il love YOU and she replied
Love vy,,,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-04

at ieast.-JERE COOKE.J
a WOMAN recently gave the rea
II son why she desired a divorce
from her husband as so they
may cultivate a beautiful Friendship
It goes without saying that it is
easier TO be a friend than a helpmeet
but to sacrifice the one for the other
is to barter the real jewel for the
past brilliant. There can be no har-
mony among such people.
No sympathy. whether he be called
by the sacred name of helpmeet or
the uncertain cognomen Of friend.
The best friend a man can have is
hts wife. and marriage is the mold
into which the highest friendship is
poured.
The true secret of success in mar
riage Is that the wife is the best
friend or chum or pal" her husband
has Why shouldn't she be? She
shares his sorrows; why not his Joys ?
II is not an uncommon thing that
the man weds the sweetheart OF his
childhood, the playmate of his boyish
days. when, hand in hand. they
could tear them apart
Puppy love is supplanted by the
great transCendental love that ce-
ments a lifelong intimate friendship.
great man proved his appreciation
OF this and his desire for it's contin-
uance by replying, when asked the
question what one thing he would
most desire should he have TO depart
this life My wife's second husband"
Three Reasons.
He was not like the man who, be-
ing asked how many times he was
married. replied.
Three times. once for love and
twice for general housework."
Pity the poor woman who slaves
for her husband. only to die Of hard
labor and leave her savings to his
second wife.
woman who was Minated once
complained. MY friend is so much
more sympathetic than my husband.
He is so considerate. 50 kind"
Il afterWard developed that this
friend grew weary Of his attentions
In much shorter time than the hus-
band. Comparisons are always fatal
The man who holds his tired, hard
working wife I'm comparison to the
pdiuAtN oman ne meets upon the
street always loses. Poverty is one
curse Of domestic infelicity, but the
wife who can share it with her hus-
band has found the marriage goal.
There is an argument for incompati-
bility which does not extend to the
statutory ground
No woman should be compelled Ia
spend her earthly existence with a
| brute, an inebriate, or a libertine, and
no man should be forced to abide
with a woman who has dropped from
her pinnacle as a helpmeet TO a nag
or a shrew.
An unwise man once attempted tC
cure his wrangling wife by breaking
a piece of the best china at every one
Of these spells. II was expensive and
not effective.
Another friend, with more success
used to call in a doctor every time
hysteria developed. The patient i'm
proved rapidly.
A seemingly unending wrangle can,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-04
Superfluous
Hair Truths
Stop Experimenting

There are but few depilatories sold.
You think there are hundreds because
you have used the same identical
preparations under several different
names This is easily explained.
Wnmen sion using
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-04
A Question.

Evidently the men who complain of
women being out Of their proper
places are thinking about the bust
ness women. Is a clever strong
healthy young girl out Of her place
when she goes to work to support
herself instead of sitting down idly al
home and adding to the burden of a
poor, weary. hump shouldered old ia
Their, who has tOiled like a dray horse
to raise his family and has come al
most to the end of his strength?
Are the girls of a family who have
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-04
Daysey Mayme' S July 4
BY FRANCES L. GARSIDE.

THE call had read Ladies Not
Admitted" and while a crowd OF
little girls stood outside pouting,
crying and even kicking on the closed
door in the modern, ladylike way Of ex-
pressing opposition, a band of grave
faced little men in blouse and bib held
serious elaboration on the inside
I'VE are assembled" said President
Chauncey Devere Appleton, ito utter
protest against the parentally expurgated
plan Of a Fourth of July We are here
to make public our opinion of any par.
ent who would have children spend the
Fourth as If the corpse of Freedom lay
shrouded in the next room"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-04
A Foolish Waste.

sands of women who have no home in
which to stay, whom no man asked to
marry them, and who are fated to
never know the cling of little chill
dren's arms about their neCks? It is
all right to say. Back to the home for
yours, sister," to the woman who has
got a good husband, and babies. and
cottage or a fiat of her own, but how
are you going to keep women in the
domestic sphere who have neither a
kitchen nor a nursery, nor a man Of
their own? l give it up.
Is the woman who paints pictures.
or writes, or acts out of her proper
place? l take it that when the good
God put talent into a Womans head
that He knew what He was about,
and that He intended her to use the
gifts He gave her. Otherwise it would
be a foolish waste of valuable ma
terial.
Certainly we should all be much
poorer if there had been no Rosa
Bonheurs, no George Eliots, no Char
lOtte Brontes. no Mrs. Humphry
Wards, none of the thousand delicate
and facile female pens that delight
and entertain us every day Of our
lives.
Is Maude Adams out Of her sphere
when she makes us cry? Is Rose
Stahl out of her sphere when she
makes laugh? Are Melba and Tet-
razzini and Cavalier out of their
places when they lift us up to the
seventh heaven with their voices?
Yet all of these women occupy con-
spicuous places and are very much in
public.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-04
A Riot.

Every delegate was on his feet at
once; there were motions, countermo-
tons, protests, hOwls and Kisses, a con-
fusion that was augmented by the dis
covery that the ladies on the outside
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-04
NJlltrQcRe
Has Stood The Test OF Time

nus OSOOu tItS 3 cot VI AsHtC
De Miracle has been sold as De
Miracle for over eleven years. and its
name has never been changed. 1t is
acknowledged the world over by emf
nent authorities as the one safe, per-
fected hair remover, therefore it 10
the only depilatory you can use with
an NJ
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-04
LeQues No TeH-Tale Smell

If you use De Miracle it will be i'm
possible for any curious person to
know that you have used a hair re-
mover because De Miracle evapOrates
Immediately after accomplishing its
work, therefore leaves no odor what
ever. On the other hand, if you use
any depilatory with a distinctive odor.
an offensive, tell-tale smell viii cling
to YOUR skin for hours
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-04

(It may be asked lchB I, Of all men,
should tCrite upon questions affect
ing marriage and other relations. In
reply, ! looUld san that one icho has
gone through IrhGt ! hare, suffered
as much as / hare, and seen so much
Of the tCOrld and its hard side man
possibly hare something to SAP that
rW Dc Of use TO others. ! hope so
at iedSt.-JERE COOKED
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-04

TVERY few days l get a letter
from some man who emits a
wild and heartbroken vail be-
cause, he says, woman has gotten out
of her proper place. Many Of these
melancholy gentlemen go so far as to
express the further opinion that it is
the business of the press to try to
shoe the feminine sex back to where
it belongs.
Speaking for myself, I should glad
" use what little influence l have
with women in trying to corral them
in their own particular little stockade
if l only knew where that sacred spot
was.
What is woman's proper place, any
how? VIII some wise brother please
arise in meeting and speak right out
and tell uS2
Is woman's proper place the home {?
None Of US deny It. and the great ma
jority Of women will answer the call
in person If you ring their front door
bell
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-04
SO.CaIled Hair RemOuers

when they learn that they are harm
full. Therefore. they can not be sold
under the same name for any length
IF time. Then the Identical worth
less, harmful connections are given
new names and advertised again as
Tot llv diffarenf nrnnaratinns To
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-04
Defraud the Sane Foolish Women

who innocently buy them over and
over again under different names, and
this will continue as long as women
are so unwise as to experiment with
unknown. so-called hair remoVers.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-04
Avoid Permanent Disbursement

I~NOsA 7 EIWENIECIEE DsSIt5 1T GT9scIEE
by refusing substitutes If your dealer
will not supply you send 800 direct.
Free information how to determine
which depilatories are harmful and
worthless sent in plain, sealed enye-
lOpe.
New truths in next advt.
q Miracia Chemical Co., New Yosk
Sold ana Recommended by
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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-07-04

a WOMAN recently gave the rea-
n son why she desired a divorce
from her husband as so they
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-05-23
B0THERS0ME LEAKS.
How to Check Oil From Getting Out Of
Gear Sets and Axles.

How to Check Oil From Getting Out Of
Gear Sets and AxIss.
There are many motorists having
difficulty in keeping their cars or ga
RACES clean, owing to the fact that oil
and grease seem to leak continually
from the gear box and rear axle cas-
ings. Where oil is used the unwise
agent often suggests the use of hard
grease, which in a comparatively short
time may be worked up into the re-
cesses Of the case. where 1t does no
good whatever. says the Motor Age.
There are many gear sets, of course.
which are so designed that grease can
be used most advantageously. but
where the manufacturer recommends
the use of fluid oil it should be used.
The greater amount Of the oil leaking
trouble experienced by motorists Is due
to the use of too much oil in the trans
mission gear box and rear axle casing.
In a gear box in which a fluid oil is
used the amount Of lubricant maintain
ed therein should reach no higher than
the lower portion Of the lowermOst
gear shaft. This pertains to gear sets
in which the shafts are in either a
horizontal or vertical plane.
In gear box having both the gear
shafts in the same horizontal plane
both the shafts will be partly sub
merged in oil. and, though only the
lower shaft Of gear set having the
shafts in the same vertical plane will
be partly submerged in the lubricant.
this shaft and it's gears when in mo-
ton will throw plenty of oil. on to the
outer working mechanisms in the case.
If too much oil is used it only tends to
work out through the bearings. caus-
ing waste of oil and dirtying the
streets or garage floor wherever the
car may stand.
The same applies to the fabrication
of the rear axle. the only difference
being that the oil which escapes not
only tends to render the brakes in
effective. but often the oil is thrown
out on to the wheels. tires and car
body. giving them very dirty ap
pearance. damaging the latter two and
making cOnsidera bic work for the I'M
fortunate car washer. Should Il rednc
ton Of t.n.c amount Of oil used prove
ineffective have now felt washers nit
ted to the axle ends.