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New Britain herald., 1923-10-01
MERCHANDISE

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being i'll, you laugh, too, but you
laugh with eyes trimming over
with tears.
Because you love her.
Now, there is certainly q mar
ried love as definite and as deep
as mother love and daughter
love.
There are marriages made be-
tween persons who never could
feel it, of course, just as there
are unnatural mothers and I'M
natural daughters.
But for the most Of us this
wonderful love is possible, and
thinking over the whole big
problem, as the developing his
tories Of ones friends obliges
one to do in these days OF
marital failures on all sides, I
have been wondering IL a very
natural blunder isn't to blame
for much Of the unhappiness
that is threatening the actual
institution Of marriage today.
l wonder If most young wives,
in the first ecstatic flush of
love given and returned, that
radiant time that is one of
cunning Natures little plans for
the preservation of the race,
don't forget that the wisest, and
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the greatest, man is only q sort
of little boy after all.
He doesn't care what his wife
does, feels, wears, says, thinks
as long as she loves him.
As long as she is. sweet to
him, ready to laugh, ready to
listen. ready-if need be-to de-
fend him, even to himself, then
how can he get along without
her?
1t is my honest conviction that
men are infinitely less concerned
in meals, table cloths, salad
dressings, marcel waves. mono
grammed sheets, dust. and din
ner calls than we think they are.
A SUCCESSFUL WIFE.
A woman who really and truly
loves her husband has the ad-
vantage over. the best house
keeper. the greatest beauty, the
most brilliant conversationalist
that ever lived.
remember that when / was
a girl my mother knew a GER
tain woman who was pre-
.eminently successful as a wife.
She lived near US, an enor-
mously fat woman, lazy, hos
pitable, sunny, and with an ex-
tremely sweet voice.
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Her house was not particularly
well kept, but it was comfortable.
Her meals were not formally
served, but they were planned for
her husband, and not her women
friends.
She laughed-she praised-she
liked everything he did.
She called him small silly
names, she had special smiles for
him alone.
She had been widow when he
met her, poor, not pretty. But
he had had to win her away from
six or seven other men who were
also madly in love with her.
He was a rich, young, hand
some man, but he never wavered
in his devotion, nor did her chill
dren. Her love was the sun
shine Of their existence, and mere
walls and floors were secondary.
Never in their long married life
did he feel that he was anything
but first with her, although she
scolded him sometimes, and for
got to wind clocks and to send
his dress shirts to the laundry.
WHOSE LOVE FAILS FIRST?
Yes, and what about him?"
says a chorus of voices indignant.
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~. Suppose he starts the un-
loving? Suppose he cools and IL
Indifferent first? Then what?
Are we to make love to q man
who is bored by it,"
Well, there is much in life that
I have not seen, Of course.
But my own friends began to
marry twenty years ago,and since
then have given marriage the.
attention natural to a woman
who is intensely interested in the
problems of women. And I can
say truly that I never knew a
case when the mans love failed
first. :
More than that. At a luncheon
of some seven or eight elderly
women, four Of them social work
ers, q few days ago, the subject
came up, and after some serious
discussion there was an unani-
NOUS admission that not one of
them knew Of such case. either.
For there appears to be a funda-
mental difference In mans love
for a woman and woman's for
a man.
The woman loves eagerly, an
alytically, exactingly.
The man simply establishes her
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THE HOME BEAUTIFUL
Utilization of Corners
Important Factor
I'm Furnishing am
Attractive Home.
By BERTHA e. L. sTOCKBR1DGE.

By BERTHA K. l.. STOCKBRIDGE.
FORMERS are the retreats Of the
~ room. The sewing corner is a
joy and blessing to the mother
who needs be in evidence, but who
has untold numbers Of socks and
stockings to mend. A low chair
beside a window with a work stand
or small, low table at her elbow
means mending in comfort. The
Martha Washington sewing stands
are SO commodious, although they
are not large. and take up very
little room. There is room on the
top for the work basket, and in
the drawers and pockets" all
sorts of materials may be kept.
Then there is the tea corner"
In this corner We find the tea ia
BILE, the type to be decided by the
housekeeper. Near this a chair,
which is not too low, should be
placed. This corner, if at the side
Of the fireplace, will be quite ideal.
for around the fireplace those who
have dropped in for tea and a visit
will gather, and by this happy ar
rangement there is no need to
move furniture about.
The desk corner is a most impor-
tant one. The desk must be placed
SO that the light falls on the writ
ing surface from the left to be
most efficiently placed. A COM
Portable desk chair, high enough
to make writing a pleasure with
out effort, should be selected. A
lamp is a necessity. 1t should be
small if it is to rest on the desk,
and may be of the candle type, but
should be shaded.
Fathers corner" must have ex-
cellent lighting. 1t may be that he
will use it very little during the
day, SO that the lighting at night
must he carefully considered. The
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do MARRIED WOMEN MAKE THE BEST WIVES?"

Quarrels are nothing, reconcilia-
tions are one Of the legitimate
joys Of life, after all. But you
two must feel that you belong to
each other-that he is yours, just
as your mother, and your sister,
and your baby are yours.
Fol better, for worse, in sick
ness and in health. you cleave
desperately to that twenty-pound
lump Of babyhood, no matter how
noisy and restless and exact
ing and wet and hungry and
wakeful he may be. You never
want to swap your baby with
anyone's else.
Because you love him. And
when the doctor says gravely that
he doesn't like the look Of his lit
tie throat, and would like to try
the serum, what an icy agony
gets hold Of your heart, and how
brassy the sunlight is. and how
hollow the whole big spring
world.
Because you love him.
ONLY A LITTLE MOTHER.
AS for Mother-well, she may
be only a little mother, with thin
ming gray hair, and eyes looking
through round spectacles, and
she may greet you in a little
room with a sewing machine and
a canary and geraniums and a
monograph and your graduation
picture and the easel picture of
your dead grandfather all mussed
up in it together. And she may
have an apron over her alpaca
skirt, and thimble on her worn
hand q
But do you ever look at a mil
honaire dowager, with her, dia-
monds and her limousine and her
heavy silk gowns and elaborate
undulated white hair, and say,
II wish she was my mother"
Indeed. you do not. The lirnou-
sine. and its occupant pass you
unheeded, and you go through
the picket gate, and up the steps
with their peeling paint, and into
the kitchen, ana you put your
arms about her, and she has to
stop washing the globes while you
say anxiously:
Mother. darling. Daddy said
that you weren't feeling awfully
welI?" q
A WONDERFUL LOVE.
And when her dear face crfnkles
into laughter at the mere idea of
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get many letters from discOnsOIae 1DiUes Gsnu me O
WOnlnn may regain her husbands affection There u.s.
only one Way to regain it, and that is to lose it,
You quarrel NTH him. differ NTH him. scOd him.
blame him; you through DEATH poverty, Illness
trouble OF all sorts Nth him. lose your beauty he
lose his Ob and still lite LUiU be and full and
thrilling to you bOthas long he knOlUs you
But you tWO must feel that belong to each Othetnt
baby yours.
There is certainly married LOUe definite as deep
mother IOUe and daughter Lore. There are marriages
betUeen whO could feel it, of course just
there unnatural mothers unnatural datgers But
for the most OF us this wonderful LOUe possible
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According to- the famous phil
osopher, Hobbies. every man has
an unborn right to do exactly as
he pleases in every matter, from
Staying his favorite enemy to ac-
curing three dozen wives.
But, of course, others could do
to him what he could do to them;
the rule was as broad as it was
long. Life under such conditions
would be, as the philosopher him
self expressed it. poor, solitary,
nasty, british and short" so men
had, by agreement among them
selves, given up a considerable
part of their natural liberties '1n
order that they might more safe
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5.r e
Ia fact among facts-"my wife. )"
Only her hands can tear down
the pedestal upon which he places
her.
She thinks Of him restlessly.
adoringly, sometimes resentfully.
sometimes as q mother, sometimes
as q child herself.
JUST A LITTLE COLD.
He thinks Of something static
and final, something warm, kind,
sweet, good, infinitely wise and
wonderful my wife"
II he chances TO biunder and
hurts that exquisite fineness of
hers, il he forgets, stammers,
cinpnsiiy apologies and awl1-
wartlly makes amends. she is
nnotherly. This, is her bad little
boy again.
But il she, in the very begin
nings Of their life together, is sell
fish, is just q little cold, just a
little critical; II she leases him
by flirting with some other man,
just for fun; IL she holds back
her love and meets his own eager
need OF companionship with a
mood of indifference, then some
thing dies in him, not to come to
life again.
Later, perhaps, he is casual.
Her prettiest gown, her prettiest
mood can't hold him. He looks
at her kindly, sympathetically,
and utterly without emotion.
He doesn't remember it-she
doesn't remember it-but that APP
parently insignificant hour months
ago when he brought her violets
ana she simply shrugged her
shoulders; that hour when she
told him bitterly that he made q
fool Of her and certainly she
wasn't going to take his part be-
E Il )
fore the, Robinsons; that hour
when he coaxed her to come for
a winter walk, and she yawned,
and said that the Browns might
come in, ana she hated walks.
anyway
THE LOST HOUR.
That was the hour when q
single smile, when an outstretch-
ed comradely hand, when one
word of sweet tempered sym
pathy and interest would have
riveted him to her with iron
bands. And she lost it.
We fortunate American women.
with our open-air morality and
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This last event is also remark.
able for two other facts, he de.
cisively defeated a no less strik-
ing figure than Winston Churchill
and he did it in Scotland, the
native home Of "whusky" un.
adorned.
The fact of the matter seems
to be that 1.-The Demon Rum" has
been with us for so many genera.
tions that familiarity has bred
contempt.
We who flatter ourselves on
our efficiency have been the first
to put our disapproval into con-
crete form; but other nations are
not far behind. Some, indeed,
are being driven to 1t by the
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<<@ o married women make
the best wives?" was
IL the old question that

<<@ o married women make
the best wives?" was
~ the old question that
we laughed at a few years ago.
We placed 1t with such phrases
as ''the higher the fewer" and
a pound Of dried ice," and other
frankly idiotic terms. -
But, like a lot of other jokes,
the years have brought it to the
dignity Of a real problem and we
women of today may honestly
face it to our advantage.
Do married women make the
best wives?
We all know the qualities that
are possessed by the ideal wife
the help, the sympathy, the in
terest, the low voice, the woman
~ appearance, the love Of, and
care for, home and children.
Above all, she loves her hus-
band-that ideal wife.
She tells him SO; she spreads
about him that atmosphere Of
happy, tender. intimate affection
that made their honeymoon so
radiant.
Her eyes go to find him the
minute she enters a crowded
room, and she meets him at the
door every night to welcome him
into that little paradise OF
warmth. and order and sweet
ness. and happiness that is all
enclosed in his thoughts when he
says the one word "home."
How many men get all that,
after the first year or two of
marriage. from their wives?
Some of them get it. from other
women.
Some of them have love, SYM
pathy, understanding. for just a
year-at the most, for two years
and then never again in all
their lives.
REGAINS LOST LOVE.
I get a great many letters from
disconsolate wives, asking me how
a woman may regain her hus-
bands affection. There is, after
all, only one way to regain it,
and that is. never to lose it.
You can quarrel with him, diff
fer with him, scold him, blame
him; you can go through death,
poverty, illness, trouble of all
sorts with him; you can lose your
beauty, he can lose his. job, and
still life will be sweet and full of
thrilling to you both-as long as
he knows you love him.
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Where Symmetry and
Grace Are Blended
Reed Furniture
Shows True Worth.

home furnishings, without the
effect of extravaganza, when
grace and symmetry are made
to blend without appearance Of
lavishness or the idea being over
done.
Lines are the secret Of the
setting here illustrated. From
the window to the lamp, and
along the reed sofa, lines pre-.
dominate. Without them there
would be no individuality to the
setting. From the sofa the eye
travels to the window to note the
appealing lines. Or the first
glance may be directed to the
window, and then shifted to the
sofa meanwhile taking in the two
stately lamps. Either way the
setting fulfills it's purpose and
gives a pleasing satisfaction to
look upon.
This picture Immediately starts
the Imagination to working. Could
such a window be reproduced in
your own home? It may be the
very idea which you have been
seeking, now placed before you
in detail. And tho beauty of 1t
all is that the cost of the sofa.
the lamps, the linoleum floor
covering and the striped silk jade
curtains are within the means of
the home owner where such a
setting would be appropriate.
There Is q harmonixing COM
pleteness to this setting that
one fingers to look upon and en-
JOY, being loath to turn the eyes
away lest II be forgotten.
Picture this as a part of your
own sun room or living room.
The mere thought is satisfying.
And yet 1t Is possible for you to
enjoy 1t through ownership.
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~ enjoy those which remained
unto them"
And so it is with prohibition;
the question is simply whether
the ratherN vacuous and easily
substituted pleasure of the many
Is of more Importance than the
unquestioned evil that may come
to the few from over-indulgence.
WAY TO VICTORY.
AS 1.-The Trade In England it.
self declares, the drunkard and
his family are the chief argu-
ments in favor Of prohibition. If
all the indirect ill effects of
drinking fell solely upon the head
of the drinker himself, the eco
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IT ON RUM DEMON WORLD-WID SAYS WOODS HUTCfnNsO

A MERICA. both by birth and
"a tradition, is a. land Of ex-
= pertinent. Our very crea-
ton as a separate government
was one of the greatest political
experiments ever tried-and one
OF the most successful.
Instinct, inclination and OPP
portunity all point the same way:
To an unwillingness to regard
any institution as being quite
perfect. and desire always to
try the new and different.
This craving for innovations
has been one of the chief factors
In the tremendous advance of our
national prestige and power, but
there are those who say that we
are OVERRIDING it; that we have
sometimes mistaken alteration
for Improvement We have been
80 anxious, they say, to lead the
procession that we have some
times gotten considerably ahead
of the band, and have crossed
the finish line before any other
nation has even formed up in
marching order.
We have thus occasionally
placed ourselves in sort of
waiting at the church" posi-
ton which is not fhelpful to our
national dignity.
With the greatest emphasis is
this argument advanced as re-
CARDS our most recent and strik-
ing innovation-prohib We
have, according to its avowed en-
emies, allowed ourselves to be
blinkered, bridled and bitted by
a few crepe-hanging fanatics. who
have shorn us Of our liberties
even as DeliIah clipped off Sam
sons raven locks.
ADOPT MISS NANCY.
The process has been Just az
bewilderingly sudden and. will rro-
duce exactly the same results on
Uncle Sam as 1t did to the Strong
Man of Samaria. The rising gen.
Grafton, not having to meet and
overcome temptation as did its
sterner forebears, will grow up to
be as soft and harmless as the ice
cream sodas they have imbibed,
and the husky, beer-drinkiug
foreigner will be able to over
throw them by the strength of
his breath, alone.
The average citizen, they say,
Is denied the right of personeI
Judgment in the matter of self
restraint: the whole thing il ut
terly unheard-of, impractical and
an outrageous interference with
personal liberty. To judge from
their utterances, we had best dis
regard Uncle Sam as our national
figure and adopt Miss Nancy. 3.
We stand alone, they declare,
in most inglorious solitude,
amidst a worldwide ocean of al
coholic drinks, whose intoxicating
waves der1sively sweep over our
Low shores and puny bikes Ut will.
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We are to the "Anti-Prohi" like
Mount Ararat was to the fish of
the Flood, the one dry and disa-
greeable spot in an otherwise
delightfully."- fluid world.
Assuming that we are the only
large mass Of land which has as
yet completely emerged from the
waves. it is perhaps interesting
to take soundings at other points
in the sea Of "joy juice" to find
out the lay of the land beneath
the surface.
For, strange as it may seem to
the moisture-loving anti-Volsteader.
our nation does not soar up
above the surface all alone like
skyscraper in country village;
there are other places on the
globe where the "eau de vie" is
extremely shallow; sandbanks are
forming over large areas and WIN
soon begin to emerge from the
flood.
SEAS SHALLOWER.
The world, both physically and
Automatically, has at present a
smaller dry land area than it has
a fluid one; but many of the seas
are shallower than they were in
times gone by.
This is not the only land where
a more or less persistent effort
Is being made to keep us from
drowning our sorrows and our
wits in puddle Of alcohol. The
prohibition movement is begin.
ming to be felt in MANY conn.
tries; the only difference being
that we, to our credit, in this
case, got there first. Italy, the
cradle Of viniculture, has been
making most determined efforts
to decrease the consumption of
alcohol within her boundaries.
Even in England, THE Trade"
as the liquor interests are called,
Is staging a most determined
campaign against prohibition,
and is distributing handbills urg-
ing the reader to defend hi.
rights" The last paragraph Of
the handful is extremely inter
esting, displaying, as it does, the
new attitude Of the liquor trade
toward alcoholic consumption.
1t implores the exercise of the
utmost moderation in drinking
for it is claimed the drunkard
and his family are the only real
arguments OF the prohibitionists
The moderate drinker, they say,
must mix discretion" with his
liberty" if he expects to retain
either in the future.
In the recent English elections,
Lady Aston, who is avowedly in
favor of local option and other
drink-controlling measures, has
been triumphantIy reelected to
Parliament, despite the most
earnest efforts Of 1.-THE Trade"
and one Root and Branch pro
hibitionist has also gained a seat
in the House Of conmons.
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Neatness and Taste Gain Effect Without Extravaganza
"a. H. BIG F. S.

but | feel that their particular cor
ners are usually arranged for in
their own rooms, in the playroom,
the nursery or in the "done-over"
attic room. There is always room
for the children in the living room,
and if they are of school age. the
living room table is such a desir-
able place to do the home work.
The corner of the sofa is always
a "ducky" place to curl up with
the most thrilling book" for the
young girl who "adores" reading.
Window settings can be made
instantly to appeal to one who
cherishes neatness and taste In
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chair should be of ample proper
tons, comfortable and rather
"loungey," and there should be a
table for his favorite books, his
magazines and smoking materials.
Be sure the lamp is high enough
to throw the light on his book, and
be quite sure to leave the fringe
off the shade, for he will not like
it. A shade Of parchment is by
far the best for fathers lamp.
These corners may not all be To-
Gated in the same room, but these
are essential "corners'' for some
place in every house.
The childfen are not forgotten,