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The Monticellonian. [volume] (Monticello, Ark.) 1870-1920, 1915-01-28

Kisses that are not intoxicating may
be the kind that drive men to drink
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-04

who follow gainful occupations. On the
1 contrary, she is said 70 pe supported
| by her husband
She has no pay envelope. She has no
! money OF her own She has only what
/ her husband chooses tC give her, or
what she can cajole out OF him, or
sometimes what she can get from him
by stealth BY going through his pock-
cts: or raising money on the grocery
bill
Double Dealing.
Now experience has taught women
Ihat the easiest way to ger along with
men is by jOllying them along and
playing upon their weaknesses. and
this has made the sex adopts in all the
arts OF double dealing Women have
found that flattery is the open sesame
70 mems pocketbooks. and this has
taught them insincerity. They have
daily occult evidence OF the fact that
men actually enjoy being bSmboozled
by women, and this has made them ex-
pert liars. for there is small encour-
agement in being Truthful Jane in
hand-me- down raiment when Menda-
cious Sappllra is dressed like Solomon
II isn't a fact that rejects any credit
on either sex, but II is a fact, neverthe-
less. that no woman can be perfectly
truthful and frank with her husband
and keep out OF the divorce court said
prospective motherinlaW TO a bride
on her wedding eve: Ny dear, 1 have
just got one piece Of advice to give
you never argue Win IOQn. never Try
70 set him right when he is wrong.
Just agree with him outwardly.
You can hold your own opinion as
much as you like I have known three
men of this famiiy-ny fatherinlaw.
my husband and my son. They have all
been brutal to every woman who dif-
fered with them. but they are kindness
itself as long as you jolly them along.
So II John says 70 you that a tree is
growing upside down just reply. Why,
so II is 1 never saw one grow that
way before So shall you have peace
and automobiles"
At Any Rate 1t Works.
Not 4 very exalted matrimonial (
platform on which to live, is it,
But the trouble with the advice is that !
II works
When women are no longer subject |
to men; when they have political and !
financial freedom. these faults viii au- I
tomatically correct themselves and /
women Will be as frank. as fearless and i
As honorable as men. They will add 4
the lesser to the greater virtues and 4
be such women as the world has never /
known before.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-04

something admirable about themselves.
Then DO not spoil ii by an immediate
criticism. II you find someone in the
office or house annoying you, make a
pleasant remark and if you can get out
into the fresh air, take a few inhaia-
ton and think you are drawing in Sc
renity and love and peace
Then go back and make yourself
agreeable Watch yourself that YOU
do not wear an air of superiority
over your associates. II you feel that
YOU know more than thew do. keep it
to yourself. and let them find it out.
II they do not detect il. be sure you
are not so superior as you think. The
superiority which has to announce it.
self is very inferior. If you are thrown
with one Of those unfortunate souls
so far behind in inc march OF evolution
that il INDUCES in malicious lies. in
mischief making or with absolute hab-
its. be more sorry than angry.
Talk 10 the offender as You would
TO child throwing knives about for
amusement and endeavor 10 make him
or her realize the danger, while you
keep as well out OF reach as permissi-
bic until your subject has awakened to
a better understanding.
do the same with any really vi
clous qualities you encounter in your
close associates. The little faults and
blemishes ignore as much as you can,
and remember others are obliged TO
condone many of your shortcomings
cultivate charity. sweetness of disosi-
ton appreciation of others, amiability,
patience and good nature.
and IN the interesting effort to ac-
Quire these qualities YOU will forget
10 notice the many faults in others
which which have heretofore rendered
you so dissatisfied with the many. o..
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-04
Are Women Less Honorable
Than Men? Asks Dorothy Dix

1.-THE assertion is often made thai
women are more moral and less
honorable than men-meaning
thereby that women are Ions on the
greater virtues and short on the lesser
ones.
Chastity. for instance. is a virtue
On which women appear 10 have al
most a monopoly. Women are also far
more punctilious about paying their
debts than men are, and that they are
more honest in the handling of money
is evidenced by the continually increas-
ing number OF girls behind the Wickets
OF the cashiers desks
On the other hand. women are born
smugglers. and count it unto them
selves for righteousness when they
can cheat the government out of the
price OF a postage stamp The majority
OF them see nothing reprehensible in
bribery to aid a good cause
The most angel-faced maiden can
tell perfect WhoDper of 4 lib with
out batting an eye Few women have
any sense OF the sacredness Of their
pledged word. and mothers IN Israel
whose virtue is as incorruptible as the
Ten Commandments. have no hesitation
Is using the arts and wileS OF a Delilah
to get what they want from men.
Men profess TO find this curious,
lop-sided feminine code OF ethics mex
plicable, but il really isn't hard to IN
derstand at all It's the direct result OF
women having been a subject people
for centuries and centuries until they
have developed the vices and the vir-
tues. and the point Of view of the slave.
The Reason For IL.
Until this present generation Of self
supporting business women, every
woman has been dependent on some /
man. She has had TO wheedle what she I
wanted out OF father. or brother, or /
husband. or lover, and the amount that /
she got depended upon her fineness and /
chicanery and skill in working him.
The only people in the world. men /
IS well as women. who can be fearless /
and frank and honest and above board /
are those who are financially indie I
pendent and in power. The courtier 4
must faWn and flatter. the suppliant i
affects humility, the man whose bread .
and butter depends upon his job must 4
seem to agree with his employer.
That has been the case with Wom-
IN. The domestic woman has never
leen given anything as her right. She
las never had any Independence. She
nay do the work Of half dozen
servants. but she is not rated in the !
census report as among the women !
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-04

M beating the squeals ont Of q
little Eudora. Mr. Podsnipper
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-04

the manners and methods and WAYS Of
others2 And are you not always sure
that you are right and others are
Even If you do not tell them so. II
you are thinking it. your thoughts are
out with in five years.
AZ work laying the underground wires
OF discord
How many people have you fallen
out with in five years.
how many have disiliusioned you2
II tugs at your heartstrings when
you think think how many - and Won
say to yourself that il is terrible 10
have friends and acquaintance prove
SO unworthy and unsatisfactory
But remember, these same peoDle
may all be thinking that it is you
who have proved unsatisfactory and
unworthy
OF course, you resent such an idea.
so would they resent your thoughts
OF them. possibly. even probably. That
there have been unworthy, unkind and
untrustWorthy individuals among all
VINO have displeased or panied you is
more than likely. And again il is
more than likely that il you are always
being disappointed IN humanity the
trouble lies sometimes in yourself
You are OVer-criticaL over sensitive
oVer-eXacting in your habit of thought
Make mental right-about face. Re
fuse to think five consecutive minutes
on the misdoings Or faults OF your as
sOciates
watch For Things TO Like.
Watch for things TO IKE and praise
TEL the people yo1 are thrown with
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-04
4 Serial Of Real Human Interest
The Story Of a Doctor Wife
Connie Leans From Lenore.

Then weakness oVernastere1 me and
I flung myself on my couch to seek the
solace OF tears. suddenly Lenore
arms went round me ana steady voice
asked me very gently. but with a JOY
it could not conceal
You don't love your husband. Miss
Connie2 It was all a Inistake-you
never loved him. did you2"
sat up and looked at Lenore- vas
too proud now to take refuge IN pride
! love him too much, Lenore, to Try
TO hold him. j want to give him TO the
woman who can understand him You
see. love him more than 1 love myself
noW-Out he doesn't want me. It's you
for whom he cares. and so I'm giving
him his freedom that he nay have
you"
Ignores face went quite white and
she sat looking at me steadily Then
she laughed but laughed unsteadily.
love him. Miss Connie. / was always
afraid Of the Doctor You remember
that, but I love you You've always
been better to me tran anyone else
better than the mother who deserted
me when i was a baby
Mrs. Blake is going to take her hus-
band out to California for the winter
I'm going alOng-they've asked me.
want to travel and see the world And
I wouldn't give up nursing Tor any
man I've met yet Think OF Lenore
boarding house going out to California
that"
Perhaps It didn't ring true-but 7
tried TO believe. ! wanted 10 believe
And I remember the letter I had sent
Peter, and the determination had
made TO be brave
I'll send Doctor DraytOn after yous
Lenore," said steadily
Suddenly LenOre began to sob.
Len0re Speaks Back
Don't. Miss Connie. Let me alone
let me live my life my way. IL can't
say much to you But I'd 90 further
than across the continent ID 60 over
the edge OF the world and out OF IL
rather than take anything from you
that belonged TO you I would Miss
Connie IL didn't think you cared Tor
the doctor I thought It was Mr.
Farley. didn't understand very well.
1 guess, and he doesn't either. Why
don't YOU explatnE
Peter interpreted ny staying in
Chicago: whether he thought was
trying 10 take Jim away from Betty
And what would he think tomorrow
noon when my letter came 70 him.
I knew I must get back 10
New York and talk il all over. ! mist
see Peter. But I couldn't run away
before my sisters wedding ana he
wouldn't come 70 II
Ahead OF me stretched 3 weak OF
sgony The date for Betty's wedding
vas September q. Until then I must
endure the final agony 1 had brought
IN myself Ny letter to Peter was the
asst Tnuddle I had caused IN my own
ife I must endure until after the
Wedding But after it-What2
The last instnllment Of this appeal
nE stO-y VIII appear on this page ON
Thursday.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-04
Instead of NetOs of Son,
Woman Gels Sample of Red
Tape Stiffness During VA

london, Eng, Dec THE heartless-
ness of the red tape system is shown
in the letter written by q mother to
one Of the London papers. who instead
OF a letter from her soldier son now in
the trenches. received the following
typewriter notice from the military
censor: Letter destroyed. This pat
tern OF envelope is obsolete, and its use
is forbidden"
Lately it was decided that the green
envelopes served out TO the soldiers in
France should not be used, possibly
because they had fallen into the hands
OF spies. But the act OF the censor fell
hard on the mother. who writes:
My son was sent out to France in
the first week of. February, and has
had no leave. He came out Of the hos
pital on October :, where he had been
month during which time not one
of his letters was forwarded. each one
coming back to us), and was sent
straight up to the front line again.
We have heard nothing about him
since October II, so our anxiety can
be understood A cOmrade wrote to
tell US ne was missing and that the
sergeant was writing details.
'Our Indignation can be imagined
when we received. not news OF our dear
lad, but the heartless slip OF paper al
ready described He was a lance
corporal, and the best OF sons"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-04
Zion Mule Corps, Purely
Jewish Unit, Is Praised
For Distinguished Ser0ice

London, Eng. Dec. 4-The Zion Mule
Corps, composed OF Jewish refugees
from Jerusalem, gets official notice
in the latest awards from the Darda-
nelles. The honor OF special men ton"
goes to private Nissel Rosenbe1 E. a
member Of the corps. while Sir Ian
Hamilton pays the following tribute
to the organization in a letter
1T may interest you 10 know that I
have here, fighting under my orders.
a purely Jewish unit As far as
know this is the first time in the
Christian era that such q thing has
happened The men who compose it
were cruelty driven out OF Jerusalem
by the Turks. and arrived in Egypt
with their families absolutely destitute
and starving
"A complete transport corps was
there raised from them for voluntary
service against the Turks, whom they
naturally detest- These troops were
officially described as the Zion Mule
Corps and both officers and rank and
file have shown great courage in tax
ing water and supplies up to the fight
ing lines under heavy fire"
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-04

one thing he never got from an,
ancestor, suggest.
I what's thatz' she deploy.
Spanking" deYrave
SPANK" she screech. NY Cortland
! II a hand is laid on his sensitive sou
| Jared forever
7 remember that tenderly." thusly
Not one family trait shall be de-
/ Stroyed in precious lamb, You remeu-
Der those ,"
I do
And do not for one imaginary in
slant forget what I told you-preserve
my little Cortland from playmates who
are not his equals in manners & refine
Faithfully I say SO while enjoying
Mr.. Editor. we have all been children
sooner or later. This account for nearly
an crimes So I could e<cuse Hon.
cortland, perhapsly, when he play in
nocence game around kitchen. while
painting canary bird with lard. and at
tacning 1lypaper TO exterior Tom cat
Also his brightness in pouring water
down chimbley for see how nicely
stove could explode were Slightly IN
noticed by me
Poor child. He got such scarce
piayrnates." Suggest Hon. Mrs. Van
S-dsey while sewing up my wounds. ''St
aristocratic, are now less often here
because last time my Cortland fought
duels with a brick
Little Gwenevere Stutterhoover. 1st
family OF Padooka, also come more sell
domly because sweet Cortland dishcov-
cred she got ancestors who sold shoes.
Hard, hard, for child like mine TO find
equals or superiors."
Maybe 1 shall find some breeds"
are promus from me while looking out
OF window and dishcovering Hon. Cort-
land setting fire 10 chicken COOP in
back yard.
That D. m. think with considerable
rapidity about that Hon. Child and how
he could not die from alonesomeness
and yet keep his aristocracy out of my
way. Soonly I took pities on him and
tell him nice names for company, but
he response by cry-baby reply, and
explain how my lace resemble night |
horse dreams
When it was late that day Hon. Mrs |
90 walk for Christianity among church !
work Doing so she leave Hon. Cort- 4
land to care Of my responsible fingers. /
Time pass. Pretty soonly / could OBJ 4
serve him wearing handsome clothes /
while dragging garden hose squirter
across back yard.
what to do?' requesh, because
fearful about injuring him.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-04
Analyze Your Disposition
Says Ella Wheeler Wilcox

4 S you go along through life. il
~ you find a great majority OF peo-
pie you encounter difficult 10 live
with in social relations. it might be
well for you to analyze your own dis
position.
You will not like such an intima-
ton, yet 1 am sure 1t will be worth
while to entertain IL Look back five
years, 70 begin with How were things
with you five years ago.
Were you having discordant exper-
fences in business or at home? Did
you feel out of sorts with several Of
your friends and wish you could be
IN a more congeniai atmosphere%
Then come down another year -
how was il four years ago? No doubt
you viii be able to bring at once to
mind the most trying and annoying
people who marred your comfort al
that period.
Disagreeable personalities have
way OF leaving q mental photograph
on sensitive mind plates. Three and
two years ago. being still at closer
range, you viii easily place the in
diViduals in focus who interferred with
your enjoyment Of life.
Look At Home.
Now II You are still finding diff
Guilty in adjusting yourself to your en-
Yironment. make up your mind that
someone else besides all this varied
company you have known IN five years
is in fault.
Look into your own disposition.
Are you not aggressive regarding
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-04

Common boys are playing bassbal
J in mex lot" he dib. I shall wet then
away because OF their vulgarity."
This viii be nice amusement FOL
| aristocracy,'' I manage, not imagining
From window pain 1 could observe
/ how pitchballer was throwing to bat
hitter while insulting empire amidst
/ boyish kitten-calls-
to top-fence, dragging garden hosiery.
/ Silences. Squirts. Loudly chorus Of yO-
wen, snarrel, rebuke and exelaim from
those common boys
why you wet our gaming with
squelch7" holla Hon. Team Capt. in
tough-tone soprano
Because you come here and insult
my highness by your lowness," snarrel
Hon Cortland turning on more
sprinkles.
YowelI,..
When nextly I look all kidly ath-
letes had scrambled over fence-and
what see2 Considerable enraged bass
ballers was holding Hon. Cortland
from shower-bath by that brutal noz-
I make warery peculiar to samurai
saving homes. then I lept outward
through window in middle OF that
sauabbly mob. I pull apart that aristo-
craI child while he escape with re-
proaches screening through water.
''All youngly bass-ballers then turn
inward TO me- I spank II. but No. ,
wound me considerable by brick-bar in
seat Of my stummick while Hon. En-
pire drowned ne by hose betop OF
head.
Next I heard were Iady-ery from
housetop. All urchinly children escape
away by fence Hon Mrs approach
up and annex my sopped coat-sleeve.
What were you permitting my
choice child do with those crude boys?'
she exaggerate.
Playing" I demolish, meekishly.
What were he playing?" she re- I
move.
THE hose ] manipulate.
What YOU mean by" she snagger- |
Did not told you distinctualiy not to /
permit my Preshus associate with any /
but his equals and superiors2"
You did those I agree it.
Then why you let him mix by such !
Because they his equals and supe-
riors.' I renig fearlussly.
In what qualities, please?- she missy
like snakes.
IN all varieties OF manners. high
spiritness. sense of humor and etc,
which your dearie son inherit from his
ancestry" / push back while retiring !
rom job quite destitoot Hoping YOU !
are the same. Yours truly.
HAsHIsIURA TOGO.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-04

! CHAPTER XVII.
HY heart turned cold. 1 felt all
1 Nj Browning's description Of COM
I = = ing death-'the fog in my
/ throat and the mist in my face"-but a
! rapturous exclamation from Betty
saved me from betraying myself"
"Oh, Jim, are you going TO rechristen
] the Nacomis' and call Il the Betty r ?
I phoned the skipper 10 do that the
very day I started for Chicago said
You were sure Of mes' said Betty.
And. to show how sure. Jim felt
called on 10 kiss her brazenly in the
presence OF her family.
had a day OF torture like that &c
go through. I had all their absorbed
young love TO watch Mothers race
was so peaceful; fathers so proud
Soon they must remember their grief
over the loss ct Mabel; soon their con-
servative natures were 10 be shocked
and narrowed by the knowledge that
their oldest daughter was going to be
divorced by her husband; but today
they were happy. j wondered when
would have to tell them all the truth
about Peter and why he could not be
best man al the wedding
And wondering and questioning and
suffering from the hideOus uncertainty
Of it all, had to go about smiling and
thought that the stories of people who
went smiling to the guillotine with
heads held high in pride were little
fairy tales OF history. now know
that a martyr at the stake, with hot
and hungry flames licking around tor
tured flesh, might smile TO the very
last
That afternoon Lenore wheeled Har-
Tey BIake's chair over to our house
He was still too shaken and weak to
be lifted into an automobile and his
shattered nerves would have made
ride in one a riot OF horrible agony.
Marian walked steadily by his side Her
obIiterated all its youth and loneliness
But there was a proud look IN her eyes
and an expression OF security about her
lips. Quiet dignity was the portion
Marian Farley had wrested from life
Were going to be remarked right
here in your parlor II you'll let US,
Connie" said Marian We knew you
would. so We told Doctor Allison to be
here at four"
It was a strange wedding and no
festal meats followed II. After the
ceremony the bride wheeled her in
valid home; Betty and Jim fell into
each others arms and mother turned I
to father with tears in her eyes. but
as she held out her hand to him knew
they were lovers too
VIII you come up to my room with I
me. Lenore-there is something must /
say to you I said very quietly--sO /
quietly I could hardly hear my voice /
above the thudding OF my heart
Connie Tells LenOre
Once in my room turned 70 the girl j
to whom meant 10 give my husband /
night and told him that should stay 4
in Chicago IN order that he might sue /
me for desertion. Be good TO him,
won't you, dearz'
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-04
Women to Take Places of
10000 Government Clerks
at Mems Wages in England

London. Eng. Dec Women are
to take the place OF 10000 clerks en-
ployed by the government, who viii be
released for active service. Preference
4 the recruits in filling the vacancies
There are over 100000 government
clerks employed in England and Wales
alone who are OF military age. but
part OF them are physically unfit for
the army and others have a specialized
knowledge Of their work that makes
them invaluable in their departments.
The women clerks. after q short
training course, will receive the wages
OF the men whose places they take.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-04

x~ THLE Mrs. Podsnippe= was
M beating the squeals ont OF a
little Eudora, Mr. Podsnipper
came and stood in the doorway. stroh-
ing his chin, although it was not par
ticularlv in need of stroking that
afternoon
Why are you iambasting little Fsu-
dora, my dear?' he inquired finally
Look at the state Of ny things
shipped Mrs Odsnipper-snapped
Mrs. POdsnippers and went on lam
basting-
And in truth. her things were in a
grieVOus state Her sewing basket was
upside down on the gas jet and all
the thread. needles and jirncraclSs were
streTn hither and yOn something
dreadful The floor was a litter or
linens and Innings and the whole room
looked like an earthquake.
But my love-" said Mr. Podsnipper
after another pause EudOra didn't
Go that"
Then who didg' demanded Mrs p
81 did" replied her husband .Tou
see. after I went UP in my den and
found that you had fixed everything
so nice for me, all my private papers
and all. I thought the least could do
was 10 come down here and arrange
your things in return
I guess I'll stop whipping Eudora
for the present" observed Mrs Pod
and so she started On something
else
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-04

Glasses for training IN shorthand.
typewriting, bookkeeping and clerical
methods have already been formed in
London, Manchester and other cities.
Wounded soldiers and sailors dis
charged as unfit for further services
are also preparing themselves for work
as government clerks in large num-
bers.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-04
Daily Novelette,
Poor Eudorui

Before marriage. n timid man
doesn't know what 10 say, and after
marriage he IL afraid TO say IL.
Prof. Simp.