The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-08-12


quiet, thrifty young man who is very
chary of spending his hard-earned
money for clothes, content to look
plain and neat, certainly realizes that
he has an extravagant sweetheart If
the girl shows up new hat or gown
almost every time he takes her out.
Knowing her circumstances, that her
folk are poor and have their own trou-
bles In skimping to make both ends
| meet, he should not need outside adj
vice to warn him that the pretty girl
who puts every cent she can scrape up
into finery for her personal adornment,
while the family has scarcely enough
| unbroken china to set the table, lives
only for show.
When she weds she will employ the
| same tactics. She will have gilt chairs
for the parlor, risking the limb and
| life of the unwary who thoughtlessly
sit down upon them, simply because
| gold furniture makes such an excellent
| show. She'll have chicken for din
ner nights until every member of the
| family is ashamed to look hen in the
| face, because, while doing her mar
keting she is sure to meet all her neigh
| bors; it makes show before them to
| order fowl while they are economical
ly purchasing chuck steak.
There are no heights to which the
| ambition of the extravagant wife may
not soar in her determination to make
a show, unless curbed gently, but de-
cisively. If regard for lovers opin-
ion cannot be inculcated in girl be-
fore marriage, he is foolish to hope
for 1t afterward. Show will always
come first peace, comfort and happi-
ness are after considerations. If they
can be wedged in, well and good; If
not, she gets along without them.
Show becomes so much Of habit with
social climbers that 1t sweeps aside
| judgment, love, kindness and sym
pathy for even those who need her aid
in saving. -~''''7'oa;se
The children of such a mother can
not be blamed for getting the impress
sion that all things are shams-wom-
ans beauty, love and fidelity; that
honor and truth are only naues, bub-
bles breath may blow away.
A man may well flee in terror from
the vain girl, who is not what she pre-
tends to the world to be. Young girls
do not need costly raiment, changing
with every whirl of fashions wheel, to
enhance their charms. The palmer
| the maiden the more attractive she is
to the majority OF young, manageable
men. They show their wisdom in Sc
| lecting such a one for wife.
He who goes through loves garden
blindfolded should not complain of the
wound of a brier if he has plucked a
rose that would better have been left
on the bush. A straw shows which
way the wind blows. Girls who are
all show blazon the placard to the
world which reads: Beware, take
| care!" A man who welded a girl who
had the "make-show" habit to the ex-
tent that it was fairly a craze with
her had an experience which illus
trates the folly to which it may lead.
His wages were modest, but by deny
ing himself everything that he could
absolutely do without he managed to
save up enough to buy the housekeep-
| ing outfit for small fiat to which he
had planned to take his bride. To his
dismay, he discovered in going over
the items, that tablecloth for the
pretty dining table had been over
looked. Il will furnish that" promised
the mother, remembering a handsome
hand-embroidered cloth she had
worked with her own hands for her
own wedding and which was her choic-
est treasure.
Accordingly the handsome linen ia
BILE spread was duly beribboned, boxed
and dispatched to the bride-to-be. Less
| than a week later the girl, who was
all show, met her future mother-in-
law on the street. The elder woman
5eheld her gowned in sumptuous Gre
alton of fine linen and hand wrought
embroidery and lace. Eyes, it is the
| tablecloth," laughed the girl, antici-
pating the others question. 1T was
really q shame to use it as a table
cloth. / have made a stunning dress
out of it, haven't II"