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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-09-06

Well, may be. and may be not; but
anyhow, it is his idea, and why
shouldn't you ease him in the matter?
What if he likes blue and you keep
on wearing pink-What if he likes
chicken and you insist in ordering
veal. What if he likes poetry and you
want him to read the millinery ads
do you think these things will tend to
make him that much fonder of you?
Why not give up to him in this mat
ter-it is, after all, unimportant to
you and important to him-what's the
use of making fuss about it?
| know a woman and man who
divorced each other because the man
played the guitar and the wife wouldn t
play his Accomplishments on the pi-
ano. 1t didn't end with that, but it's
how the whole trouble began. What a
goose that woman was not to play any
old accompaniment her husband
thought he wanted What hurt could
it have done her or any one else?
What's the difference, anyhow? If
you love the man you want to please
him, don't you? Well, wise woman
told me once thta the way to please a
man was to give up to him in all the
little things that don't count and hang
on to your own way in all the big
things that do count-he'll be willing
to give up to you in them. Men don't
mind big sacrifices. A man will give
you a hundred dollars and quarrel
over ten cents too much on the gro
Gerry bill That's the way men are
made
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-09-06
Letters From Richmond Girls Abroad

We left Paris several weeks ago
and have seen much of London since,
but there are certain characteristic
features of Paris scarcely to be sur
passed by any modern city, and if
ones love of a city Is governed by it's
exterior beauty len masse," surely no
one can but succumb to it's charms
In the center of Paris, running along
the Seine and spreading for a quar-
ter of a mile back from the river, is
the spacious place de la Concord
with its center marked in turn by the
Egyptian obelisque erected upon the
scene of their country's most tragic
history-the place of the guillotine
Beautiful as the place de la Concord"
Is in the day time, with it's fountain
and trees in the setting of immaculate
wilderness that the paving presents,
its beauty is greatly intensified by
brilliant illumination at night; but as
everything of its kind. one must see
it to feel its charm.
Although the place" is the center
of Partisan civic beauty, it is not the
concentration, but other avenues radi-
ate from it to palaces and gardens,
and inded they seem to form an end
less chain of beauty spots; and the
symmetry and proportion that charac-
terize the city as a whole, constitute
its most impressive feature. Its ave
nues are all SO very broad with side
walks nearly as broad as the spacious
carriage drives, shaded by two parallel
rows of trees on either side.
Possibly the best known of the
parks of Paris is the Luxembourg
Gardens, large enough to have every
attraction of park, and we saw there
games of tennis, women with their
knitting and children of all ages. The
most conspicuous among the beauties
of the floral gardens are the rose
trees, which are trained in this man
ner for few feet and then allowed
to spread to a broad cluster top
The effects, produced in all the Eu-
ropean gardens we have seen. make
us easily appreciate their attraction
for flower lovers from America and
elsewhere, and We often remember
with pride that Richmond has a citi-
zen who can vie with. and even sur
pass the French in rose culture.
We were again proud of our home
when we visited the Luxembourg
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-09-06
SHOULD A GIRL KISS HER COUSIN?

them as they are and not as you think
they should be. and then, honesty
now, hasn't Sweetheart a pretty cous
in somewhere?
If he has just get her to come and
see you, and every time Sweetheart
kisses pretty cousin see how you feel
about it. That may help you to under
stand Sweetheart's attitude a little
better
Remember. you are used to cousin
you see in him just good old Dick, who
taught you to skate and to swim
when he felt like it and you promised
to make him enough fudge to pay for
lessons: and he sees him as gay de-
ceiver. Maybe he is one, too, even If
he is your cousin.
And besides, little girl, kissing is
out of fashion except among real
sweethearts; didn't you know that?
Ten years ago every time you had tea
with a friend she kissed you when you
came and kissed you when you went.
The woman who tries to kiss friend
now except in really solemn times is
looked upon as just the least little bit
in bad form Didn't you know that?
Hand holding has gone out, too, and
waist spanning. Girls don't paw each
other the way they used to. And cous-
ins-well cousins, aren't nearly so
much relation to each other as they
were when they were all liable to be
brought up under the same roof. Keep
cousin at a distance, little girl, to
please yourself as we'll as your Sweet
heart. 1t can't do any harm and it may
do whole lot of good.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-09-06
THE HEAD WAITRESS
BY HANK.

wv , HERE'S MIR. Flakes"
Y asked The Steady Gus
" " toner of the Head
Waitress in the Cafe
d'Enfant as he noticed the absence of
the general manager.
He's on his vacation" she replied
Pretty soft for some guys. You just
come back from yours, didn't you?"
Yes, Louise" said The Steady Gus
toner. For one beautiful week.
travelled on the water in a motorboat
with my friend Jimmy"
Did it always mote?" asked the
Head Waitress.
Most always" replied the Steady
Customer You see we had a good en-
CINE on board. You needn't ask who he
was. Modesty would prevent my re-
plying"
Sure, you always did hate your
SELF said the Head Waitress. Il was
in motor boat once myself. The en-
CINE behaved as if it had chronic pre-
sumption and hesitated every now and
then like you do when you're figuring
on whether you can afford creamed
chicken on toast or Drowned hash.
But say, all joking aside. you want to
stop writing about Mr.. Flakes in the
paper One of the bosses was speaking
to him about it the other day, and said
it looked as if he was getting too fam
iliar with the customers"
That's too bad said the Steady
Customer, eff they had more mana
gers like Mr.. Flakes they'd have to
turn away the crowds. There's nothing
that cheers anyone up like walking in
to place like this and seeing some
body wearing a genial expression
Why | often take an extra piece OF pie
just to be able to exchange a few more
cheerful words with him. Who's the
new manager"
That's Mr.. Governor" said the
Head Waitress. He's a very nice man,
too. That's one thing like about Mrs
d'Enfant, she always picks out real
gents for managers That's what I
call having perspicattity."
That's too much for me-" groaned
the Steady Customer, Il suppose you
mean perspicacity, but give me my
check quick, feel faint"
Louise is getting too high brow for
me- said the Steady Customer to Ma
RE, the cashier. She tried to say per-
spicacity just now and even the beans
turned cold"
''Perspicacity in Indiana, where |
come from, is a very ordinary word
replied Marie loftily. Very ordinary.
I'm surprised at you. This way out"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-09-06

Museum, the second art gallery of
of foreign artists, lie Retour," by
Henry Mosler. In the same room is
hung THE Artists Mother" by Whist
Ter
The paintings in the Luxembourg
are by modern painters, not so we'll
known as those of Raphael, Murillo
and Guido Rene in the Louvre, but
they art ofttimes as pleasing for the
interior of the Louvre (the picture
galleries at least) lacks what / have
called Paris strongest point-spacious
setting The walls of the Louvre are
crowded with pictures and there is
block after block of the galleries, and
when one hasn't infinite time at his
command. he longs for a picked col
lection from even this priceless one.
Another feature of the picture gal
leries of all the famous museums, is
the ever present art student, who Is
to be seen perched on a high stool,
pallet in hand, copying a favorite
master. He seems to the tourist an
almost intrinsic part of the gallery
and not the least interesting one
either. for he quite possibly helps the
observer TO appreciate the original
more in detail. or, vica versa, the anna
teur observer can ofttimes scarcely
differentiate between the copy and
the original. Between the two wings
of the Louvre begins the Gardens of
the Tuilleries," with a stotue of La
Fayette in its midst, given by the
Daughters of the American RevoIu-
ton and the American school children
From this statue you can look up the
beautiful avenue of Champs Elysees,
under the smaller arch of Triumph on
to Napoleon's grand arch of Triumph
at the end OF the avenue
One afternoon we enjoyed a beauti-
full ride up the Seine to ST. Cloud.
from whose hills We could see all Of
Paris below US The Seine is beauti-
full. both by day and by night and
the ride of two hours may be had for
the phenomenal charge OF eight sous
We were ready to agree with the
enthusiastic admirers of Paris that It
is the most beautiful city and also
happy TO believe that Washington has
the second place in the worlds record
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-09-06

~ Q SHE'S getting peculiar" is
she-the mother you've al
ways been SO proud of?Acts
~ queer, and gets mad at moth
ing" and cries over trifles, and thinks
nobody loves her, and makes a nui-
sance of herself generally-doesn't
she?
You'd hate to wake up some bright
morning and find Mother dead in bed
dead, because she wanted to die;
dead, because she saw that you and
the rest thought her funny" and
hard to bear with, dead, because you
didn't understand" Well, then. young
woman, it is time you did understand.
If nobody else will tell you about it,
will.
Your mother has stood about all
she can stand in this world and live.
She's fought and endured and suffer
ed and smiled and cried and hoped and
feared and agonized, till her nerves
are about tired out; and they'll stay
tired for year or so. and Mother will
be peculiar" till those nerves are
good and rested-and you'll have a
time with Mother all these years,
She'll be irritable and cross-grained
and jealous and suspicious and de-
spondend, and she'll want you to tell
her that you love her three times
day and show her that you do every
minute of the twenty-four hours. She'll
act like girl of sweet sixteen one
minute and like withered crone at
another. She'll take queer dislikes to
your friends and she'll take odd fan
cies to your enemies, and you'll Won
der and wonder. and YOU will lose
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-09-06
Ey BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
- HE'S engaged and she has a
good-looking cousin.

good-looking cousin.
When she meets the good
looking cousin he kisses her,
and when he leaves her he kissed her
again. The fiance says the cousin has
got to stop kissing his sweetheart or
there will be trouble, and now the
sweetheart writes me letter to know
what to do aGout~it.
81 like my cousin, and | don't want
to hurt his feelings" says the girl who
gets kissed; but | love my sweetheart
and don't want to make him really an
CRY. Still | don't think he ought to be
so bossy, do you-and isn't it all right
for cousins to kiss? We have always
done it in our family.
Well. now, little girl. just because
you have always done thing in your
family is no reason at all why it is
the right thing to do, is it?
And then your sweetheart doesn't
belong to your family-and never will
you will belong to his family, and
perhaps they don't kiss-in that circle
not cousins anyhow-and so you'll
have to think it over and do what
sweetheart wants you to do about the
kissing.
Why not?
What is there so enhancing about
kissing that cousin that you even hes
itate minute about turning your
cheek the other way when you see him
coming?
Silly~your sweetheart's idea about
It?
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-09-06
BY MABEL HERBERT uRNER.

y y Ellen hurried down the
street towards the subway
station. her eyes shining and
a bright color in her cheeks.
Dinner with Warren at a fashionable
restaurant and the theatre afterwards
was what the evening held for her.
1t was not often that they dined out
now, and she looked forward to this
with all the more pleasure because of
its infrequency. She had put Winifred
TO sleep and left her safe in Delia's
care. And now she hurried down to
meet Warren, free to enjoy the even
ing that lay before them.
He had said he would meet her at
the Thirty-third street subway station
at o'clock. That would give them
time to dine at their leisure and still
be at the theatre by s.
1t was just twenty minutes to by
the clock In . drug store window. She
had more than enough time. But she
always was very prompt in her ap-
pointments. with Warren. She would
always rather wait for him than have
him wait for her. He was very apt to
grow irritable IL he were kept waiting,
and she wanted this evening to be un-
marred By any impotence or irrita-
ing. 1t had been so long since they had
had one.
LOGGED OUT IN HER BEST.
She had dressed with unusual care
and had a pleasant consciousness that
she was looking very we'll. Her brown
velvet suit was most becoming. And
there was always an air of delicacy
of appealing feminity about Helen,
which was one of her chief charms.
And now, when she entered the
crowded subway car. and a man rose
instantly to give her seat. She thank
ed him with a gracious smile.
Helen was the type of woman who
rarely had to stand.
1t was just FIVE minutes to six when
she left the car at the thirty-third
street station. She waited happily,
walked up and down the platform, ad-
justed her hat as she passed the mir
ror in the penny-in-the-slot machine,
and read the advertisement along the
wall.
She smiled at the mustache some
mischievous boy had penciled on the
pretty girl advertising a tooth paste.
She re-read the claims of health and
long life promised to every wearer of
a certain advertised article.
1t was o'clock now, by the clock
over the ticket window. She began
watching for Warren as the trains
drew in on the otherside. While OF
course he would come from down town
he had often told her, whenever she
met him. at any subway or elevated
station to stay on the other side and
he would cross over to her.
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patience with her, and THAT is the
tragic part.
She would never lose patience with
you-she who was never too tired or
too busy or too nervous" to get up to
take care of you at any hour of the
day or night. What a time you make
over poor Mothers eccentricities,
Peculiar, She isn't half as "pecu-
liar" as you were when she had to
trot you around a cold room in her
bare feet for hours al a time to keep
you from rousing the Fire Department
with your whoops. odd" Il she can
be any odder than Father was when
he got the joining fad and joined every
organization from Maine to California,
and had the whole house Uttered with
insignia and form books.
"Strange!" If she can be any stran-
ger than Brother was when he was
made captain of the Little Tigers and
played baseball in his sleep. she's an
odd one indeed.
And yet Brother is the very first to
find fault with Mother and tell her
she's getting queer
Let's see. How old is Mother
Somewhere along in the forties, maybe
just in the prime of life. her hus-
band thinks. He hasn't been in the
prime so long as she has. Men stay
boys longer than women stay girls.
and there's time at forty or so when
the whole world seems fading away
to the woman who's lived actively
She's tired so easily-she's worried
over such trifles-her head hangs so
low over her fancied slight, every lit
tie disappointment.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-09-06
WHEN MOTHER GETS "PECULLAR

The girls are growing away from
her. The boys are away at school. No
body seems TO need Mother any more.
Oh. for a little finger to bandage! Oh,
for little woes to comfort!
Father doesn't tell her his business
he had the little business there in the
shabby little street, and she used to
go to the office and walk home with
him every night and talk things over
He belongs to a club now, does Faith
er, and he has no time to walk home
He rides in a machine, and things hur-
~ so. and there's never anyone to be
comfy with any more
And all those pretty young women
dressed like hion-plates-where do
they all come from, Mother wonders
duly. Was she ever as pretty as
that, and as gaily dressed? Somebody
gets up in the car and gives her a
seat some day. and she realizes that
they did it because she was no long
er young, and she cries about it an
hour when she gets home.
Mother has to keep going-keep go
ing with her heart lumb lead-keep
going with her brain a dull whirl-
keep going with her nerves crying out
for rest, for comfort, for help. And
all she gets is to have even those
who love her call her 'queer"-snd
"odd'-and to hear them planning to
take their little jaunts without her
and she was once the life of the whole
party
Poor Mother,
Be patient-be kind-be intelligent
with Mother and her peculiarities, and
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-09-06
Life of Royalty Far From
HaIpY; Ask Those
Who Know.

But those who know the intimate
lives of queens and kings know how
far from happy they are.
Study their portraits and it will
reveal much of the melancholy, the
discomfort, the selfishness or the dis
satisfaction which prevades their
minds and marks their features.
King George of England is doubt
less one of the best men, one of the
most kindly and unselfish kings who
ever sat upon a throne.
But he does not look like a really
happy man; he looks like a man con-
scious of his great obligations, trou-
bled about many things, and under
continual nervous tension to keep his
duties to the nation performed. Queen
Mary has the same serious expression
and one who reads an account of their
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-09-06

some day you'll wake up to find the
queer old Mother gone and a sane,
healthy, vigorous, cheerful woman in
her place-the old Mother you used to
know, only thousand times wiser and
kinder and better for all she has been
through.
Poor Mother needs you now as she
never needed you in all her gay, hap
ply, vigorous life before She gave
freely to you of her strength. She
never counted the cost. Don't weigh
things too heavily in the scale against
Mother now. Dear. foolish, lonely, de-
spondent Mother. Help her through
the dark place along the road now and
some day she will hold those who are
your very life close in her grading
arms-and then you will understand.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-09-06
ey ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.

Ely ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
~ HE great need of the world is
to have all classes come into
ali intimate understanding Of
one another.
The mere we can do to refute that
cid statement that "one-half the world
does not know how the other half
lives" the better for the race.
Happy as queen is a phrase Of
ten used
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-09-06
Wealth Alone Can Neve
Give Enjoyment or
Happiness.
Happiness.

But wealth alone can never give you
enjoyment or happiness, and no pow
erty of the purse can make you poor
while you have these qualities.
A good disposition is the only thing
worth coveting and that can be &C.
quired.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-09-06

To save the time taken for blue
print, camera has been invented for
rapidly producing prints from orig
inal drawings.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-09-06

nv , HERE'S Mr.. Flakes
y I asked The Steady Gus
" " toner of the Head
NVaitress in tho Cafe
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-12-07

Demands are being made upon the
government for help in every line OF
endeayor Road work, educatlonaI
work. irrigation work, water power
sites, drainage and scores of Other
movements. All these projects can
NOT he fostered out of the public tax
es unless the taxes are made higher
But the government set the pace, the
government invited these movements
by spending millions upon those mat
ters that do not touch the lives ol
the citizens of the republic.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-12-07


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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-12-07

Evidently Colonel Sidney Suggs,
editor of the Ardmore Ardmoreite,
and state highway commissioner for
Oklahoma, is the right man in he
right place. He has mada many
friends during his recent visit to
sherman. He is an eXTeXan, and
any time he wants to come back
home, all he's got to do is to come
to Sherman and hang his coat up
Sherman Democrat.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-12-07
HOLDING OIL BUSINESS.

The roads made Houston, said a
visitor to the city recently. How can
IT, be that a wagon road or an auto
mobile road could be given the credit
of having made city like Houston
The Houstonian said that shell roads
were laid from Houston to the oil
fields. the cost was $4,000 a mile
autos went out over these roads every
morning to the oil fields and back al
night. Oil men established their of
fees in Houston, It was made the oi
trading center, 1t was made the OF
financial center. The workmen in
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-12-07

Mrs. Senator Robinson out in Colo
rado told her male Conferees they
talked too much Now what do you
think of that? Woman whose activi-
ties in the empty talking line have
been the comment of the world, it
has furnished food for the paragraph
er and poet and fool alike,and now
at the very threshold Of woman in
politics, she turns haughtily to the
men serving with her, with the bit
ing criticism you talk too much
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-12-07
cGGGai aiEfaeo
Standing Up For Our States.

Standing Up For Our States.
We're happy here in Tennessee
To be so is our biz,
For Indian Summers on the Job,
An the blizzard didn't biz.
The Commercial Appeal
We're happiest in Oklahoma,
The oil is gushing high,
'Possums ripe, the taters dug,
And Thanksgiving turkeys nigh.
-Arimoreite
Life is best in Arkansas,
In all its forms and phases;
We've got SO much, we tell the world
To 20 to Helen Blazes.
Fort Smith Times-Record
These states may be good.
But they are not the best,
For that is Grand Old Texas,
Empire of the Southwest.
Texas Mesquiter.