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wanted. Lily stopped him in the
hall. She said family: -Andrew-are
you leaving me?"
He surveyed her with cold aversion.
Il am returning in few hours. Don't
have me watched. Lily. For your own
good-don't carry this thing any
furtheri"
"No? 1 am perfectly calm, An
drew. You will never leave me for
her. / mean this"
he smiled: II believe you do"
"Then you are warned"
Reaching his office, he suddenly
remembered that his papers were in
the safe deposit vaults. He could not
get them until the morning.
He sat at his desk, his head buried
in his arms. Time wheeled on cold.
leaden feet. He felt his life stretched
out and these cold, leadcn feet beat
ing it into the sod.
He came out of this lethargy to
open a small concealed drawer. Here
were two letters from Margaret. The
only ones he had kept. One she had
written after their first farewell that
summer in the mountains. .. =.
sacramental letter, like their kiss
of parting.
Andrew. your coming has put n
beauty in the sunset music in the
dawn. / hold to these as gifts that
make me glad to live through empty
centuries. No matter what the flu
ture brings, we have this past. An
drew / see your gentle eyes. They
are dear things to bold eternally in
mine"
He read this and began to sob, un-
able to check the storm of grief. He
took the two letters and burnt them
and put their ashes in his pocket.
Monday he came TO Margaret. 1t
was noon, but Nora Lee was home.
She was standing at the gate. She
ran up and slipped her hand in his /!
"Andrew-Oh, let me see-you're
all right, aren't you? Well, we were
just wondering"
WHAT OF MOTHER"
Il am going away, Nora Lee. !
have come to say goodbye"
1--WE are not going with you, An
drew"
NO
what will my mother do?"
where is she, Nora Lee?"
She pointed to the living room.
Tears rushed to her eyes, but she
put her trembling hands on his
sleeve: "Andrew-come out after
wards-you must come out and kiss
me before you 60"
Don't care about il, Nora Lee
it may not be forever
Margaret ran forward, but seeing
his desperate look and hollow checks,
she clasped her hands against her
breast, closing her eyes.
He took her hands and drew them
to his heart. Yet neither dared to
meet each others eyes.
He said quietly: Il am leaving,
Margaret"
Where are you going%
Il will write to you"
And We must part in this way,
Andrew"
at seems the only thing to do.
I waited too long, Margaret. j
never dreamed that she could know.
Oh, my loYe-my dear love-"
NO. AuuTeN-uO NOT DEtuk yOuI
hcart-speak to mel want your
voice. Where are you going?"
81 will write, Margaret. Oh
things will be better perhaps"
You are not telling me the
truth"
"we have had the years of fullness,
Margaret. Once you snid 1t was a
stolen thing. j have never thought
so. Margaret, you have been wife
to me and you only in thought and
in heart. There has been no day in
eight years, Margaret, that any other
has had one moments feeling and no
wife, my dear loved Margaret-none
was ever more sacredly beheld."
She glanced up to his face. She
put her fragile hands against his
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hatwilmy h
is she Nora
pinedto living returned h
Andrew aherwads Ym come and kiss me
"Dontca bouth Moral ehmayt forever"
her
Ihahnd sand 4 them o heart -.
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Nora Lee Pleads for Her Mother

al am going away Nora Lee" said Andrew.
eve are not going with you Andrew"
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There Is Nobody Quite so Insane as
the Self-styled Good Person, the
High Moralist, the Reformer."

red lanterns inform u Of DANGER
Gus curves ahead. and We take 6
pill or a long walk or call on some
body who knows something.
BRAINS WARNING.
But who Is schooled 10 warn him.
self that his thoughts arr not
healthy, his mind Ia secretins SICK
ideasl 1t Is especially important
that women In their homes and In
their new liberties should b taught
to recognize perilous emotions and
to conquer them scientifically.
There will be q tremendous
change for the better when people
begin to watch their minds a care
fully as they do their stomachs and
their complexions.
We arc beginning to know for
sure the earliest symptoms Of men
tai disorder. Recognized promptly
and taken in hand they may pass
by like an Indigestion or a head
ache. Neglected or concealed or
aggravated by encouragement they
may end in permanent decisions
and these may lead to the frightful
murders that constantly turn homes
into slaughter pens, as in the older
days the ignorance of disease turned
homes into pest houses and char
nels.
II your brain Is queer; IL you
feel prosecuted and conspired
against; il you cannot throw off
grief, shame or remorse: IL you
feel that you can never succeed,
that you are doomed to a life of
Interpretation and failure; or if you
have the opposite decisions of gran
deur and believe yourself abnormal
ly superior to the common herd, see
n doctor and put your brain into
his care! You may save your soul
from the pit; you may save your
home from a worse cataclysm than
fire or earthquake; you may save
yourself from destroying the peace
and perhaps the existence Of those
you hold most dear.
Women should give thought TO
these things, Mothers should learn
to recognize in their children the
difference between cantankerousness
or rebellion and grave arrangements
of tho soul. They should watch
their own decisions.
Copyright, 1925, by The Bell Syn
dictate, Inc.)
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Regarding Those Hard-faced New Workers
By ADA PATTERSON

ers. Three Of them were what they
termed each other "aborigines of
Manhattan. Five had lived in New
York more than half their lives. All
turned the alert, impersonal Ameri-
can smile upon their critic.
perhaps" genially granted one
who had been born on Manhattan
Island. But don't forget that you
see more strangers than New York
ers on our streets. You may have
mistaken an across-the-seas express
sion for ours. Those who walk New
1ork's streets are often aliens. They
ar, visitors or are in process of be-
ing assimilated."
True" said another Of the smil-
ing three. I've seen some acts in
New York that are not of the kind
that produce hard faces. The young
men at the stamp window in the
postoffice. for instance.
a cracked little voice was raised
in protest against n parcel post
price for distant zone. She said
i haven't that much money with
me. I've lust sent a registered let
ter. I'll have to bring the parcel
back another time
"She was faded little woman.
bare-headed. wearing a much worn
bingham dress. Her face burned
with embarrassment. 1t was the bus
lest hour. between 3 and 6, at the
postoffice. Two long lines formed
a double queue diagonally across
the big room. The red-haired young
man at the window sent one keen
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as the self-styled good people who
stand aloof and criticize the huge
metropolis, and all the millions of
poor souls within it; the high NOR
alists who boot at the weaklings
and the wronglings that their mis-
fortunes are their own fault; who
denounce the sick as sinners and
offer them eloquence Ms a remedy.
The time may yet come when
the delusion OF excessive virtue and
Pharisaic superiority will be ac-
cepted as a symptom Of insanity
along with the other decisions Of
grandeur. the mania of persecution,
the inferiority complex and the sub
tie maladjustments and faulty meta.
bolisms that explain so many sex.
ual and domestic tragedies.
EVERYONE IS INSANE.
In the city that surrounds the
tragic island there are countless
others who are making ready un.
beknownst to come here. They will
delay the visit until some disaster
calls attention to their plight, and
they are carried off screaming or
Frustrated to Bellevue Hospital for
examination and assignment to this
treatment.
The best Of it is the eager hospi-
tally Of Wards Island toward those
who are in trouble, and only on the
threshold of insanity. There is none
of US who is incapable Of insanity,
none Of us who is sane in every
phase. There is no better proof
of insanity. indeed, than perfect
self-satisfaction.
But the important thing is that
VIC shall learn to recognize what
really constitutes mental disorder
and disease. We should examine
ourselves. watch our reactions and,
make haste to seek advice and put
ourselves in charge of experts at
the first alarm of mental illness.
The world is full Of advertise
ments warning US of the danger
signals of pyorrhea, of halitosis, of
astigmatism. Black spots before the
eyes mean liver-trouble; swellings
here and there mean sprained an
kles or other things. Low or high
blood-pressure. noises in the ears,
fuzzy tongues. pimples, swooning
fits, eruptions, bad dreams, sleep
lessness-a thousand sign posts and
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GAINS RESPECT.

II counted the persons who had
stopped. There were one hundred
and thirteen. I looked into their
faces. Not one Of those faces looked
hard. Not one was merely curl
Gus. Pity and awe and wonder
about the fate of the soul that had
Just left that silent body were in
the eyes Of everyone who looked.
l remember especially the eyes of
a youth about twenty. They we're
as sad as though be we're the mans
brother. The bod had that vision
OF humanity in which all men are
brothers"
One Of the five who had lived in
New York most Of their lives-the
richest man at the table-spoke
Someone has told me that no one
has known the depths of life until
he has been hungry in New York.
| have had that experience.
Believe me, all of you. when /
say that New York is the easiest
city to be hungry in in the United
States. For two years because I
was i'll and unfortunate. and my
wife was i'll. too, had to live or
touches Only two persons who
had the money ever refused it.
Even if the average New Workers.
face is hard, his heart is not. IL
his manner is formal, his pocket
book is informal.H
Lets make it unanimous" said
a Canadian. And the European
bowed.
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glance at the shabby, embarrassed
little woman.
''He said-'Don't bother to do
that Just pay IT the next time you
come in He wrote receipt for
the insured parcel and tossed it into
the OVERLOOKING basket. The third
woman in line, well dressed. well
preserved, a typical New Yorker,
said to the clerk: That was nice of
you. | had the change ready TO lend
it to her il you had not OF course
that means that you will pay the
% cents yourself. The clerk nodded,
smiled and looked down the waiting
line"
A DEAD MAN.
Another Of the three aborisines
spoke. Did any of you notice the
single three-line paragraph in the
paper about the unknown man who
dropped dead in the park yester-
day? / happened 10 pass the park
a half hour later.
.'The body lay awaiting the ar
rival of the coroner. 1t lay us il
had fallen. One knee was dawn
up. The two soles of the freshly
blackened shoes were turned toward
the street. Someone had spread a
yellow oilsilk overcoat across the
body. Two policemen stood near.
guarding it. It was half-past nine.
Everyone was hurrying at that
hour, but no one passed the pa
thetic object covered with the vel
low oilsilk. without stopping.
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DISEASE CURES ANOTHER.
Mrs. Norris Says

We've been calling thmAmecan mothes-puzzled and bewd
and helpless unfortunate explain why they have conspcu
oIy failed in their explanation all the time tina
they just lazy
When taking little required to
Bys Jacks interest cooperation, they won't do it,
They're too lazy.
And much LATER when Betty and Jack want really dangerous
things their mothers works fatally
their pleading their impotence She hates them
The girls and boys of today have better time in the
home than hundred halls roadhoues they
They older intelligence help them find possibilities
the seeds that going blossom into mighty oaks reliance
sfrespect, resOurceuness
The girl who marriage from where
conversation competition hospitality
children a mother-A MOTHER LAZY.
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more than the "petting' values of
their own souls and minds and
bodies.
But they need help. They need
an older intelligence to help them
find these possibilities, to SOW the
seeds that are going to blossom into
mighty oaks of self-reliance, self
respect, resourcefulness.
MAKING BACKGROUND"
The girl who goes to marriage
from a real home, a place where
conversation, mental competition,
hospitality are cultivated, is a social
asset. All her life long she eau
control the interest of listeners, she
can handle groups, she has that
priceless thing We vaguely call
background"
But what social ideals has the
girl whose one idea of amusement
is rushing through dark roads in
speed car, drinking, smoking, dane
ing, and playing the sex game
recklessly, with any man and every
man, to the EXTREMIST danger line,
and sometimes beyond it?
After a few vacuous, empty years
of marriage, is it any wonder il she
drifts back into the world, single
again, failure, her one hope that
of finding another man to stimu-
late her jaded senses. and give her
a chance to fail again:
First, you mother Of little girls
sbirl- CODE
Face it, face all the dangers and
the badness of the situation, and
decide what you WILL let them
do, in the important years to come.
and what you WON'T. And then
begin now, yes NOW, while they
are only eight and ten, to talk to
them about it, TO prepare their
minds for il. And let them help
you to plan what they MAY do;
the music, the theatricals, the pic
mics and suppers and songs AMI
games that they NAY have, right
in their own home.
/ was at a small diplomats
party in Washington a few years
ago, with some OF the most distin.
guiShed Of our foreign representa-
tiveS. We played charades until ,
o'clock in the morning.
Two years before, at London
party that included some of tho
most distinguished writers of both
big nations, the game was dumb
Crambo," aud the laughter and en-
thusiasm lasted until after 3.
And il these persons could be
amused by such simplicitieS. 30
might your children and mine be.
once saved the abnormal aud pre-
cocious sex appetites that are tho
real secret OF their mao parties
now.
But--to begin. they need a hos
tess. a moving spirit. a single. in
spring personality that will start
them all going. They need
mother.
A MOTHER WHO ISN'T
LAZY.
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wild animals were no more cruelty
abused and neglected.
Nowadays a poor demented wo-
man. is housed in perfect cleanli-
ness. fed, with immaculate food,
studied and treated by scientists
eager to cure her for the blessed
sake Of science, as well as for her
own dear sake.
During my visit DR.. Heyman
told me the interesting fact that
for the most violent male patients
women nurses are far better than
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self-sacrifice Of scientific benevol-
ence, the causes Of malaria and
its cure were learned some years
ago. The cause of paresis was
found but not its cure, until some
body stumbled on the influence Of
the malaria germ. 1t was learned
that by inoculating paretics with
malaria, the paresis could be
cured. After that, the malaria was
easily conquered. It Is something
like sending a socialist after an
anarchist.
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CONTEMPT FOR PARENTS.

UNEW WORKERS have the
~ hardest faces on the Ameri-
can continent.
A man who had wandered from
the metropolis, halfway around the
earth, grown homesick and come
back, made the speech at n dinner
his friends gave him to welcome HIM
10 one Of his homes. He has three,
at least. One of them is in Eng
land.
1.-The westerners have all that the
fasteners have, plus sincerity" he
affirmed.
II was characteristic that the
group of men and women at the
table did not dispute the statement.
Americans have earned their repu-
tation Of being the best-natured peo-
pie in the world by their habit of
listening calmly to personal criti-
cism. They catch fire quickly il the
criticism is of national policies or
national honor. But at the charge
that their women are heartless and
their men mere money making ma
chimes, they smile, because they know
it is not true. At the charge that
they talk through their noses and
that their voices are keyed four tones
too high, they smile, too, for they
know that is true.
NEW YORK'S ALIENS.
They who listened to the Euro
pean's assertion that the New
Yorker has the hardest face in
America were nearly all New York
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mother settled a tatfeta rope over
her slippered feet, and reached for
her book. auction Bridge"
JUST PLAIN LAZY.
The children's bedtime is half
past seven. But do they ever get
settled until half-past eight? They
do not. Their mother gives them
and herself an hour Of latitude, ar
gument, disobedience, every eve
ming. Because she is lazy.
They may go to the beach if they
will promise not to tease for candy
and chemical drinks and hot dogs
between meals. But do they refrain
from teasing and whining and nag
ging, and do they really have to
forcgo drinks and candy and sau-
sages? oh, no. Having briskly
and firmly laid down the law, their
mother is far too lazy to enforce it.
And so, much later, when they
want really dangerous things, when
somehow having survived all the
unwise indulgcnces and mistakes of
their childhood-they are grown
to the late teens, again their moth
cr's laziness works fatally against
their own good and their own safety.
JOB Is BOTHER.
Easy enough to SAY that they
ehan't run about at night with un-
known men, that they mustn't
waste money and time, and smoke
and gamble and drink, but so much
trouble to see that they observe
these rules!
Mother is afraid Of their anger,
their contempt, their pleading, their
impotence. She hates to cross them.
That it is her DUTY, her JOB,
as the person most responsible, TO
hold firm. docs sometimes occur to
her in a troubled sort of way, but
she pushes the thought lazily aside.
Such a bother.
/ know a woman whose son of
%, and daughter Of 81 are quite
ruined. The family is what is
known as respectable. the father is
a fine citizen, the home expensive
and well maintained, the social
group the best of a small town.
RUINED CHILDREN.
But the boy, after five years of
racing about in his own car run
ming with bad companions, extra
vagance, drink. every sort Of youth
full vice, was recently saved from
n states-prison term by what is
known as n drum-head marriage.
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DR.. Heyman says that it will not
be known for Is years whether the
new cure is permanent, but there is
every evidence that it is. Its bene-
fits are immediate and apparently
lasting. In this special ward 1
saw a dozen wretched sufferers
from paresis just entering upon the
treatment that opens to them the
closed gates of hope. From the
great windows they look out upon
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1T Won't Be Long Now Until a Sen
sible Woman Will Take Her
Brain to Be Examined"
By RUPERT HUGHES

1t won't be long now until 4 SEN
sible woman will take her brain
TO an asylum to be examined at the
first sign Of disorder or irregular
ity, Just as quickly as she now calls
in or calls on a physician, for any
irregularity OF digestion or any
acute bodily distress. p
For vet a little while, however,
people suffering from brain storms
and other arrangements of the soul
will continue to 90 into politics or
found new schools of art or new
psychic cults or try to pass idiotic
laws for the achievement of impos-
sible ideals or the repression Of
everything irrepressible, though re-
preston is recognized now as
most dangerous habit.
Insane people at present wait for
their families or their neighbors to
have them examined and committed
10 asylums. And the families and
neiehbors rarely take them in hand
until they have committed a murder
or some other crirno
A PEEP AHEAD.
Although the incest lady makes
no bones today Of going TO a hos
pital and is not ashamed to confess
that she has been there for an OPP
Grafton or other treatment that
could not be secured at home, there
should he. and will be, pretty soon,
no more hesitation about taking
ones mental disorders in hand.
We shall before long be hearing
women say: "My dear. / had the
most dreadful time with my last
ballucinntion 1t took three doctors
TO get that last kink out of my
brain. Such silly preiudices as they
pumped out of me! And when they
showed me the superstitions and
the false ideals they had extracted
from my soul-well, ! wonder how
my DOOR family ever endured me at
all. 1 see that they've put the poor
Jones family in quarantine! Yes,
they have a purple sign on the door.
They're all been taken down with a
virulent attack of communism and
their eldest son has fallen prey to
cubistic art"
These thoughts have been i'm
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poor can get such treatment as
We give our patients here
We are so accustomed to hearing
of the hcartlessness. the greedy
ruthless viciousness of New York
and other Babylons that it is shame
full to leave unknown such mani
festations of superb kindness, such
motherly soliditude for the least and
feebleet of its unfortunates.
WORLD HAS CHANGED.
The contrast with conditions in
the asylums and the hospitals of
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What Social Ideals Has the Girl Whose
One Idea of Amusement Is
Autos, Drinking, Sex"
By KATHLEEN NORRIS

THAT'S what they are-just Inv
= We've been calling them puzzled,
and bewildered. and helpless, and
unfortunate. and a lot of other
things. of late things, to explain
why American mothers have so con.
spicuously failed in their Job, and
the real explanation has all the
time been hidden behind that single
little word--lazy.
They aren't bad, they have honest
enough intentions, they love their
children dearly. they are intelligent.
and they mean to do their very best
for Betty and Jack. But they're
lazy.
When it comes TO putting their
plans into actual execution. taking
the little, LITTLE trouble required
to engage Bcttys and Jacks inter
est and cooperation. they won't do
it. They're too lazy.
WHO'S TO BLAME.
"She has always been a frcaky
eater" said a mother to me of
7-year-old girl the other day. "Her
suppers always seem to upset her,
and that makes her sleep badly. and
consequently she's nervous"
Eyes, but couldn't you person.
ally superintendent her suppers, and
see that they are very light and
simple and digestible
A sweet. lazy smile on the moth
ers face. The smile of woman who
doesn't intend to concern herself
about this or anything else.
swell, yes, i suppose / COULD
but then. children outgrow those
things anyway, don't they?"
Another mother spoke to mo
about her daughters eyeglasses. The
lovely little 10-year-old face was
quite disfigured with goggles.
A GOOD IDEA"
"She appears to have some slight
defect of vision. poor darling" she
said.
"But what IS it, exactly?'
II don't know. Her teachers COM
plain. and the occulist seemed to
think it would be a good idea to
try glasses
"Don't you suppose that if you
studied with her at night, and
made sure that Ter desk at school
has n good light on it, she might be
able to strengthen her eyes natural
Typ
"why. that's a good idea, now
that you speak of i'll" And the
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WORLD HAS CHANGED.

New York and other cities of today
and a century or so ago is astound-
ing. The insane we're then regard
ed as devil-infested fiends under a
special curse. When you realize
that the then King George of Eng
land was actually horsewhipped
daily by his own butler, you can
imagine how the insane poor were
treated. The chained and baited
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locker at the other woman's life
failure, who gave me the word with
which 1 have headed this article.
Modern mothers aren't bad"
she said. "They aren't stupid or
ignorant. They're just lazy. They