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Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-02-24
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Mrs. Catherine LeCIair Peters

The many friends OF Mrs. Cdtner-
inc LeClair Peters, wife of Jerome
Peters of this town were shocked
and grieved to learn Of her untimely
death which occurred early Sunday
morning at the Plummer Memorial
Hospital, Mrs. Peters was shopping
on Saturday evening when stricken
with a heart attack, which proved
fatal, being removed to the office OF
DIR. Edward Whalen and later to the
hospital where the end came. the
deceased was born in Hope River.
Prince Edward Island, 46 years ago
When a young woman she was unit
ed in marriage to Jerome Peters for
the past fifteen years she has made
her home in this town where she mas
made a wide circle Of friends who
will regret her passing. She was ac-
| tive in the st. Anne's Catholic
church, of which she was a member
also the Lady Maccabees Women's
| Christian Temperance Union and the
Ladies Auxiliary Of the Edward
Pouliott Post of the American Le-
gion. Beside her husband Jerome
Peters Of this town she is survived
by six children, Irving, Lucy, Leo
| Louise and Catherine of this town
and Frederick of New York. Two
| sisters Mrs Arthur Chenette and
Mrs. Arthur Bossiau of New York
| City, Arthur and Theodore of Lynn,
Mass. Funeral services will be corr
Quoted Wednesday morning from st.
AIMS Catholic church. Rev. FIR. #.
G.. Nancy officiating. The family
have the heartfelt sympathy Of their
many friends in this community.
! The Dexter Women's Literary Club
will meet on Wednesday afternoon
at the home of Mrs. Fred w. Barker
| on lions Hill. the following program
viii be carried out and a full attend
ance is desired. Leader. Mrs. Grace
Packard. Roll Can, Quotations from
Maine Writers, Readings, Mrs. Susie
Haines.
The Federation of Womens CLUBS
of the State OF Maine have n depart
ment known as Public Welfare. One
branch of this department is espec-
tally interested in the industrial
and Social Conditions of the State"
| Mrs. Ruth EllingWood of Rockland
is chairman of this committed. After
, investigating the nee,-.; of the State
Prison the committee find that one
of the greatest needs at this institu
ton is the lack of books and maga-
zines, the prison library having been
destroyed at the time Of the recent
fire. The Womens Club of Dexter is
hoping TO do their share in this work
and are asking not only their own
members but the public as well to
select one or more worth while books
or magazines and send them to the
library, we should be careful of their
| reading SO please select books and
| magazines with much care and
thought. The Club viii appreciate a
prompt and ready response. The
gifts may be left at the store of w.
f.. Brewster and J.. f.. Whitney or
passed TO any of the Club officers.
The Dexter shoe Store. owned by
Mrs. B. J. Dolliver of Bangor and
managed by William Farnham OF
this town is moving their stock from
their store on Grove Street to the
store in the Wyman Block, formerly
occupied by the Judkins Insurance
Agency and James +. Atwood. Real
Estate. This location is an admira-
bic on for the shoe business being
in the immediate business section.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-02-24

Winslow High school basketball
team defeated NJ. c. l. in game at
the Colby gym in Watervillc, Friday
afternoon. The score was % to 26.
Mrs. A. f. Kidder and daughter
Dorothy of Portland. who are visiting
relatives in town, have gone to Fair
field where they will remain for
few days at the home of Charles
Johnson.-Sanford Reynolds, who has
been severely i'll, is reported as some-
what mprLyed.-Mrs. Il. l.. johnson
and daughter, Thelma, have returned
from a week end visit with relatives
in Lewiston.--Mr. and Mrs. William
Grant of Waterville were Sunday
guests at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs.
ID. 3. Mason.-Eva Gliddon of
Stoughton. Massachusetts,, returned
Sunday after passing the weekend
at the home of her parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. William Glidden Of the Smiley
road.-Carol Howard is at her home
on the river road for a time.-Mr.
and Mrs. Horace York and family are
visiting relatives in Palermo for two
weeks.-Miss Olive Smith of Unity
passed the week end at her home IN
Winslow-Mrs. 7. Fl. Hersom at
tended Cascade Grange meeting at
Oakland, Saturday.-Ervin Foster OF
Waterville was visiting relatives in
town, Sunday.-Mr. and Mrs. w. l..
Mansfield and children, Phyllis and
Lee, were Sunday guests in South
China.-Mrs Eliza Cole Of Bay
street has suffered slight relapse of
a recent illness and is again confined
to her bed.
MAPLE RIDGE ROAD-Mr. and
Mr.. +. w. Towle were in Augusta
Saturday, where they called on
frienis.-Miss Grace Garland was
the guest Sunday Of E. w. Towle
and family-Mr and Mrs. John Par
fridge Of Augusta were guests Sum
day of Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Bailey
f. w. Towle, Mr.. and Mrs. Lyston
Frost and son Lawrence were callers
Sunday at ]. Fred Crosman's in
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-02-24

Hiss Erma johnson OF ST.
Albans who is student at Farm
inston Normal school returned TO
Pennington Monday after being Il
guest of her uncle and aunt, Mr.
and Mrs Lon Bean.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-02-24

The Bloomfield Temple Pythian
Sisters will hold its regular meet
ing Friday evening when matters or
Importance will come up for action.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-30

THERE is one piece Of advice
L that is universally given to
people in trouble, but especially to
people who have trouble in love or
marriage, and that is: forget it. The
sad and startling fact is that when
we receive this advice we so COM
monty try to follow it.
! say it is startling because hui
man beings are VIGOROUSLY unwill-
ing to take advice. l say it is sad
because this particular advice is
bad. 1t is sometimes possible, but
never wise, to forget your troubles.
The first thing to do with any
difficulty in life Is to admit 1t to
yourself. If that docs not show you
the way to solve the difficulty, the
next thing to do is to admit it to
somebody else. A l am not sure
but that the third thing to do is to
admit it to anybody and everybody
who will listen to you!
I do not want to be misunder-
stood. By telling your troubles / do
not mean going around kicking.
People who are always kicking are
people to flee from, and almost
everybody does flee from them. But
kicking is not telling your troubles.
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doomed from the beginning. There
is such a thing as n mans marry
ing a woman who can never make
him happy, or woman's marrying
a man who can never make her
happy. There are cases in which
there is no hope Of happiness.
But the other kind of unhappy
mariage-the kind that might be
happy if husband and wife had
the courage to TALKS commoner.
l have in my own experience known
two or three marriages in which
husband and wife seemed to me
obviously and incurably mis-mated.
On the other hand l have known
ten or a dozen marriages in which
husband and wife thought they
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-30
Velma Is Setting Her Cap for Rudolph?
"Hot Headed" Love Of
SIav Mobiles Is
Explained.

Rudolph Valentino must be trying
to keep Wilma Banky under his hat I!
Or maybe Wilma is setting her cap
for Rudy.
geographically speaking, OF
course. Valentino posed for some
stills" the other day when he was
all dressed up as the Grand Duke
in his new picture, "The Lone Eagle
Wilma tried on his new Russian bon
net.
Now she says she knows why Rus
sian noblemen are so hotheaded.
And with headgear like that to
warm him up, what will Rudy's love-
making be? "Sweet aromatic spirits
of ammonia!" as the flappers would
say.
He left his headgear out on the lot
the other day. When he went to get
it he found a crowd Of tourists gath
cred around. They thought it was
Rin-Tin.Tin.
Since then Rudy is trying to train
the hat to come when he whistles.
Wilma herself thinks it is quite all
right for n Grand Duke to DO high
hat" but she wouldn't want to adopt
the style herself.
"The men," she declares, "are wei.
come to wearing fur above. Being a
woman, / prefer the furbelow."
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Troubles Usually Caused By One
Person And They Can Usually
Be Easily Settled

thinks she may have left the hot
water running into the sink, but no
matter, this must come first. He
was here, dear. they were study
ing together-and his mother is
away"
Bob thinks the house is hotel,
does he?"
mo, that's not the idea at ALL"
Mother, in her turn, would like to
get angry. But she holds in. She
pleads for fifteen wasted, nervous
minutes, and presently precedes a
sullen, frownine man downstairs.
After dinner, however, he is very
gracious to little McHenry. And
he thinks that makes everything all
right!
A MODEL WOMAN.
One woman know is an excel
lent, il rather too-vigorous cook.
She is always furiously beating
cream and whipping icings, and
she comes in to sit glazing resent
fully at her family while they eat
delicious dinners.
Aren't you going to have any,
Mother?"
II? By the time I've been in that
kitchen three hours, on day like
this, / couldn't cat a thing!"
you've got lovely color, dear"
"The next time anybody tells me
I've got a lovely color, when I've
been hanging over that hot stove
all afternoon. I'll BREAK some
thing!" says this woman.
She adores her husband and her
two capable grown girls, she won't
let them pay a cook the hundred
dollars that is the wage of cooks
in her part of the country; like
all good cooks, she enjoys her craft.
But she wants to rest herself by
making somebody unhappy.
well so out to a movie, later,
Mother"
"You girls 20. I've been shaving
in that kitchen all day and I'm
tired"
but why do you do it, Motherf"
why do / do it? Oh, because
] like it, of course! / love scrap
ing asparagus when it's ninety in
the shade!"
There is a panied silence.
Gould l fix you some tea, Moth
err"
mo, you couldn't. For good
ness sake eat your dinner while it's
fit to eat. That's the least you can
dol"
This scene is repeated night after
night. The girls dread their moth
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-30

Disagreeable. Disagreeable. Dis
agreeable. How intensely and uni
versally disagreeable some persons
are! Some are touchy, some are
sulky, some are sensitive. Nothing
big or generous or simple about
them. You have to think eternally
of their feelings-you have to worry
about them, approach them ginger
ly, present any news in just the
right, tactful light.
Did she tell you that she thought
L" they begin. They are always
cross-examining their friends max
ing life hard for the very persons
they like best.
"You were in the city three days
without coming to see mel"
Il was with Edith. you know;
she's Just lost her mother
"Oh, 1cnsenseA You could have
Il know, and I did try"
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Don't Be So Disagreeabe Others Noted Woman Writer
Everyone Can Achieve Something
That Will Aid Someone Else
five Try Hard Enough

can't get in to see me oftener than
once in ten days, you can stay a
while when you get here. How's
that woman you think is SO per-
fect?"
Il don't know who you mean,
Ma"
THAT perfect woman your partner
is married TOT"
Mrs. Wilson? just said that
she was a sweet, fine woman, Ma,
that was ALL"
She's so sweet and fine she goes
off and leaves him sweltering in
town while she has a good time at
the seashore, is that IL"
"He wants her to go, Ma
well, maybe he does. if all you
hear is truel"
. Exaggerated? Not at all. Ma
would die for her boy-but sho
can't be sweet to him. No matter
how long or how short or how fire.
quent or infrequent his calls, he al
ways leaves her angrily, and after
he goes she makes Lefty equally
wretched, to get rid of her own I'M
defined sense Of failure and irrita-
ton.
Seems to me you needn't wear
that old rag when Joe's here, Lefty.
Il was Strengthening the attic,
Ma"
Il don't know why you've got
to straighten the attic. Tisn't
as il you were married, or had chill
dren, 10 get il out of order. You're
thirty-seven now, or you will be!
was married when / wasn't but
sixteen !"
One wonders IL Lefty would go
into Mysteries if Ma, some night, be-
gan to speak gently and contentedly
what poor little Mrs. Mason
would do If her husband brought
her home bunch of violets and
suggested they work out cross
word puzzle together, what Jim
Smith would think il his wife's
voice, at the other end of the tele-
phone, was ever gay and friendly
and kind.
So simple-so inexpensive-so
universally needed. kind words and
kind glances and kind deeds. They
are here, in this room, in this house,
in this street, TO be had for the
taking. They are the real gold Of
life. living gold that multiplies mag
ically as fast as it is used.
But we apparently prefer the
spurious coin, and it lies UNDECIDED
all about us, the price of the King
dom Of Heaven. In the old words,
"the Kingdom Of Heaven suffereth
violnnco and tho violent hear IL
away"
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-30
Worry Is Not the Most Interesting
Thing In The World But Don't
Admit You're a Failure Y

BY telling your troubles I mean
really telling them-telling them
honestly.
DANGER IN SILENCE.
Wives and husbands are usually
furious with a partner who, as we
say. talks" In most homes it is a
point of honor to keep the door
tightly shut on the family skeleton.
This is very human and very short
sighted. All husbands and all wives
ought to know that thu way to get
along is to do your complaining out
side the home. where it won't be
taken too seriously.
As a man, I shrink from having
my weakness exposed to other
people. But as a student Of human
conduct, / know that it is best
that they should be. The spectacle
of my shortcomings does in the
course of time cause a profound re-
action in my wife. When that hap
pens, / urge her to go and tell
somebody about it. Between our
selves. it is far less painful to have
her expose my real character to Mrs.
Jones than it is to have her expose
it to me.
And the only other possibility
which is that she should endure it
in stoical silence, trying to forget it
is too dangerous. l have driven
lickety split down a mountain road
with forty sticks of dynamite under
the seat, but l am too much of n
coward to live in the same house
with a woman who bottles up her
feelings.
Talk about your troubles. Talk
to a wise, tolerant, and kind friend
II you can. But talk to somebody.
REASON FOR A FRIENDS
ADVICE.
When n friend who has heard
your story rounds you up by saying,
Forget it," you must not make the
mistake of thinking that this advice
represents his best thought on the
subject. He doesn't mean what he
says. He means: Don't bother me
with it.
He asks you to forget it, not be-
cause he has thoughtfully decided
that it would be good for you, but
because he impatiently feels that it
would be good for him if you shut
up. You feel this. You know you've
been a bore. And If you are a lit
tie sensitive, you arc likely to con-
clude that your troubles are not in
tcresting to other people-which is
a mistake. And you are likely to
resolve never to talk about your
troubles again-which is ruinous.
1t isn't good for any human being
TO shut up like a clam when he's in
trouble. We have long known how
bad it is for the body 1.-THE physical
self to be shut up in a cell where
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Frankly Discuss Your Difficulties
With Your Friends, And They May
Help You Solve Them

and offered to help her get one in
what was now her home town. She
accepted. She now has both
home and a job.
Why don't people have sense
enough to talk-really talk-come
across?
If you are one of those people
who can't or won't talk freely about
your troubles, you will say it is
pride. But it isn't pride. It's fear.
It's fear of admitting you're fail
ure. It's fear of appearing in
bad light. It's fear of having to
change.
You think you can forget your
troubles. Well, you can't. You can't
forget them and stay human. Don't
try to forget your troubles-learn
to talk about them.
Copyright, 1925, by Metropolitan
Newspaper Service, New York;
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Mother, may wade?" asks the
six-ycar-old.
"No, you may not"
"Oh, Mother, please! The others
are going to-"
Don't speak of it again. Mar
garet, or I'll punish you'll dou-
Bile four hearts," says Mother.
"Mollie," says a grown-up in an
undertone, "let her wade! The
big children will look after her,
and it'll keep her quiet"
IAN right-run along! Now let's
go over this bidding again, I'm all
fixed up" says Mother indif-
ferently.
She is only disagreeable. Big sis
tiers and big brothers are disagree
able, school teachers are acid and
ugly, wives answer unpleasantly,
even when they mean to behave in
quite a different manner, husbands
have to get a certain amount of
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-30

EOR every one Of us somebody Is
i making life unnecessarily hard:
Isn't this n terrible thoughtE
Life is a difficult business anyway,
and we all have private troubles,
anxieties, burdens and worries
enough.
And yet for each and every one
of us there is someone who might
be gracious, and is disagrecable-
who might be generous and is un-
kind-who might be companionabIe
and is cold.
When we think Of our troubles
we usually think of one person; we
think that if George will ONLY be
Just reasonably civil TO Mother on
Sunday-we think that IL Mary
ONLY won't anger her father by
talking as il there was something
between her and that young man
we think that il ONLY the office
superintendent won't be in one OF
his cranky moods - how different
the day will be!
Old persons are exacting and I'M
reasonable, wives nag, husbands are
rude and Indifferent. employees are
irritable-the struggle is too hard
and to incessant, and we give up
and are cold, irritable, nagging, I'M
reasonable, too
We have a Christmas and Easter
Day, Washington's Birthday and
Labor Day and Mothers Day and
Raisin Day-we ought to have a
Good Day, a day when, without
rhyme or reason or logic or any OF
the other things that complicate
true goodness, everybody would try
to be sweet.
UNwELCOMED GUEST.
Just gentle, loving, helpful,
obiiging-nothing difficult, nothing
hard or subtle-just good. 1t
would make greater difference
than the World War made-that
one day.
How often this sort of CONVERSE
ton goes on behind the decorous
front doors of our incest families.
The wife flies upstairs, shuts the
door behind her, and says breath
lessly:
Harry. dear, Bobby brought the
little McHenry boy home for sup
perl"
George, washing his face, glares.
@What was the idea" he AXIS
grimly.
well, no special idea. darling"
The wife sees, with sinking heart,
that she must waste precious time
placating him. or shame her hos
|. pitable little son. The gingerbread
Il browning in the oven, and she
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-30

airy! What day did you try?"
"Well, l think--let. me see. Did
I telephone your house Wednesday
morning?"
mo, you didn't, for I was right
there in the room with the tele-
phone all morning, practicing. /
wasn't two feet from the instru-
ment!"
"Well, maybe it was afternoon"
"Well, how could it have been,
If you went with Edith into Balti-
more that afternoon"
"Oh, that's so. do feel terribly
about it"
And you DO feel terribly about
it. Every time you meet that wo-
man for five years she reproachcs
you with it afresh. I'm still mad
at you. I'll never forgive you for
being in Washington three days
and not telephoning me, even =
And then you feel terribly again.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-30

industrial chemist tells me with
humor how he suffered through
three years. Before his marriage
he had been a free lance, taking
large fees two or three times a
year for special jobs and devoting
the rest of his time to research.
He was not by nature a money
grubber. He had a genuine interest
in science, for its own sake.
When he married, he felt that
he ought to earn a larger and more
regular income, so he did what he
had never been willing to do before.
He took a job on a salary, with
office hours. But his job did not
satisfy his scientific interest. SO
he fitted up a small laboratory in
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three months and then dcvoting his
days to unpaid research, and his
wife never broke test.tube again!
Once, hunting for the midnight
train for Chicago in the station at
Buffalo, 1 met a woman l had
known five years earlier as a par
ticularly clever newspaper feature
writer. She had married a New
York newspaper man and quit her
job in Chicago.
BACK TO HER OLD JOB.
On this occasion she was accom-
panied by a boy three or four years
old-her son. 1 asked her where
she was bound. She said she was
going to park her son with her
mother in Chicago and get her old
job back. l mentioned her husband.
She burst into tears. He was in
Washington. He didn't know. She
had left him note saying merely
that she couldn't stand it any lon
ger.
j asked her what she meant. She
meant that she could not endure be-
ing shut up in a small New York
apartment with nothing to do but
watch her small son. She couldn't
bear being shut out of the work she
had loved and at which she had
made a reputation.
l asked if she had told Bill about
it. No, she hadn't. She couldn't
bear to hurt Bills feelings-he had
been so proud of steadying down
and providing her with home. She
couldn't tell him being a wife and
mother wasn't enough. She had
never told him she wanted to go
back on a paper. She had always
told him the opposite.
Now she had walked up. Now
she realized that she had concealed
her real state of mind from herself
and from Bill. l said the obvious
thing-I said that / thought it
would hurt Bills feelings far more
to get that note than it would to
hear the whole truth from her.
A ROWLAND IT'S ENDING.
Perhaps the things 1 said-one
always wants two people who are
married to make a go out of it
affected her. She must have been
wavering when / met her. At any
rate she took the train back to New
York instead of the train to Chi
cago.
When Bill got home from Wash
ington she talked. He tells me
they had one grand, glorious row.
Doubtless there were more things at
stake than she had cared to tell me
in the train-shed at Buffalo. But
she is still living with Bill. Once
he got over being mad. be pointed
out that there were newspaper jobs
in New York as well as in Chicago