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San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-02

MhOlC hCi6hpOAhSDN' 49,
full of innocent by-standers.
CAN'T BLAME EITHER.
What is the use of blaming eth
er for the crash? Nitrogen cannot
help being nitrogen. And glycerine
cannot help being glycerine.
If both had met other partners,
both would have been noted for their
domestic virtues.
Who is to prevent their marry
ing? Who is to tell in advance just
what elements and compounds we
most resemble and warn us against
affiliations that are bound to be
fatal?
Analytical chemistry is really a
very young science; and synthetic
chemistry still younger.
Psychoanalysts are studying the
soul and accomplishing marvellous
results that horrify the good old
fashioned souls as much as chemis-
try used to horrify the conservative
thinkers.
But nobody has made any per-
ceptible progress in a synthetic
chemistry of matrimony. And there
is something about love that resents
advice as much as a flame resents
the wind.
1t has always been the case that
the best way to drive two people
towards each other is to try to keep
them apart. As James Whitcomb
Riley put it:
"He was warned agin the wimmern;
She was warned agin the min;
And eff tibet don't make a marriage,
/ don't know whit kim"
There is a reverse chemistry which
has its similitudes in matrimony.
Take two poisons and put them to-
gether and you may have a harm
less result. Thus if you have swal-
lowed too much strychnine you
should take some choral. Either
one of them in small quantities is
beneficial in certain conditions, and
either one of them in large quanti-
ties is fatal. Yet choral is an an
tidote of strychnine.
DISGUST CAUSES WAR.
So the world is full of people
who can't help being yenomous. They
are loving, as eager to embrace and
cling and kiss as carbolic acid.
But while they may stimulate and
comfort on a slight acquaintance,
they are absolute death in marriage
unless they happen to marry their
counter-poisons.
We are all of US poisonous to
certain people. Our looks, our race,
our education, our prejudices, our
shapes, our talents, our creeds, our
doubts, our best qualities as well
as our worst are offensive to per-
fectly normal people of a different
norm. The bloodiest wars and the
ghastliest feuds have often had no
more reason than a violent disgust.
People cannot always find out all
they ought to know about each
other before marriage. After mar
riage, is too late.
Chemical poisons are divided into
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-02
The Old Will Never Be Wise Until
They Learn to Let the &
Young Folk Alone

dom to its violation. Others live
together in a state of unholy matri-
mony, tempering their public devo-
ton with private infidelities ranging
from frivolity and filtration to habi-
tual sin. Others quietly separate,
others noisily separate. A few COM
nit crimes of violence.
Consequently life is not likely to
grow uninteresting, for matrimony
is bound to play a vast part IN 1t
and matrimony is the greatest gam
BILE in the world. The noblest in
dividuals may Tor may not) make
the most ignoble couple. The wild
est individuals may Tor may not)
make the tamest teams.
LEAVE PEOPLE ALONE
There is one hopeful phase in the
freedom of modern youth: There is
little or no bar to their getting
well enough acquainted before their
marriage. Some Of them get so well
acquainted that they never marry.
Some Of them so well acquainted
that they have to marry in hurry.
Some of them, after much mad rest
less fitting hither and yon, find
the mates they seek and enter a
partnership with. every right to ex-
pect success.
But that, again, does not prove
that success will follow. Many Of
the most appalling explosives may
be thrown about, pounded, kicked
around, and even set on fire to burn
quietly. But set off tiny fulmi-
nate alongside and they tear the
world to shreds.
1t il safest to keep your distance
and not NEEDLE with the matrimon-
ial experiments of other people. The
old will never be wise until they
learn to let the young alone.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-02

CMITHERs: "At least once in
- my life 1 was glad to be down
and out"
Tremain: sand when was that?"
Smithers: "After my first trip
in an airplane."
She: an a way, getting married
is like using the telephone"
He: How so?"
She: Zone doesn't always get
the person one wants"
well, here is the money you've
been tormenting me for" said a
rich uncle, to his spendthrift
nephew. use it wisely, and re-
member that a fool and his money
are soon parted"
81 don't know about that" said
the young scapergrace; I've been
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-02
Women Make Money the Standard and
It Will Be a Long Time
Before This Changes

unusually happy lives, but I hate
still TO think of the happiness We
ed then, the happiness of doing our
own kind of work. No girls need be
so foolish today; the world has
changed so much for the better.
But there is good deal Of fool
ishness left, and we can get rid OF
some Of it by realizing that all work
is fine and admirable, II 1t is the
work you want to do. Swabbing
tables, in a surgery, washing dishes.
making collins, weighing cheese and
flour in n delicacy store-all Is good.
The only pitiable and contemplate
thing is the idler; the woman so
stupid that she thinks there is any
SAVIOR to life when servants live 1t
for you.
And Just as cooking and sewing
and teaching have crept out OF the
little seven-room house into the
seventy-room factory, so will the de-
. spised professions Of motherhood
and home-maker find their economic
level when some Of you thinking,
praying, intelligent young mothers
come along, to show US the way!
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to be most surprised or annoyed at
her.
And for the other, the girl who
is brave enough to marry, and bear
children, and fight the lonely, dis
couraging fight so many women
must, on a small salary, with all
the conditions of our modern life
against her, there is a word of COM
fort to be said.
CHANGE is COMING.
Every new step toward better
ing the world has been accomplished
by the courage and foresight Of
pioneers. Women would be idle,
unpaid parasites still but for the
leaders Of a hundred years ago,
who fought our difficult fight for US
generations before we were born.
Some day the domestic woman,
the woman who knows the value Of
home and children, the priceless
joy Of Iaboring for living, exquisite
flesh-and-blood, will put home and
children on the commercial map,
too. II HAS TO come, the world
appreciation OF what mothers are
worth and what babies are worth.
And It WILL come, when those
same mothers cooperate, plan,
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-02
Here and There

coaxius you more than a week for
this"
Said he: This glorious silver moon
Will always make me feel her
debtor"
Said she: @oh, well, that may be,
but
] think a honeymoon is better"
Young Man: miss Jones at
homer"
Maid: I'm afraid she's in-er--
in negligee now, sir"
"Well. you can give me the ad-
dress. ] may be going 10 France
myself next week"
Mr., Thickedd: when read
about some Of these wonderful in
ventions in electricity it makes me
think a little"
Miss Stuarti Eyes, isn't it re,
markable what electricity eau doT
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-02

extremely sensitive to sgitation-as
auick-tempered and ferocious a
beast as you could imagine. So long
as it is left quiet it has as good a
disposition as anyone. But jar it
and /! :
Isn't that a perfect parallel for
numberless marriages? Jack is as
industrious and as commonplace and
harmless as nitrogen. Jill is as
sweet and sticky as glycerine. They
meet. They marry. Bang!
They blast each other and the
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-02
Evolution Will Carry Women Back to
Their Homes But Upon an
Entirely New Basis
By KATHLEEN NORRIS

ONE Of the most brilliant women
~ l know. herself a most success
full office worker, asked me the
other dsy-is working necessarily
rirtuous.
She says that working women, Of
flee clerks or professional women,
are beginning to despise the woman
who does not work, that they feel
superior to the women who merely
keep house, raise children, interest
themselves normally in the life Of
school and church and state.
what is there 80 admirable, 50
virtuous," she asks. in rushing
downtown every morning, snatehing
a cafeteria lunch, spending all your
money on carfare, office clothes,
food and board so that you may
hold your job? Is there anything
essentially fine in that:7
And the answer is, of course, no.
The mere multiplying of letters and
files, contracts and leases and poll
cies, has nothing to do with WON
EN-. We don't like those things,
and IN a world Of our making they
would not exist-we spend our
Young years struggling with them
only for one reason: because We are
PAID for it.
Workers in this world, paid
workers, naturally have a sort Of
pride in the fact that they are
worth salaries, sometimes very high
salaries, that they have found places
for themselves in the big commercial
machine.
WOMEN GOING HOME.
Women were for 50 many hun
6red of years financial ciphers that
tkey are still astonished to find that
they can hold their own with men,
even in the mems field.
But that doesn't make man s
work woman's work, nor settle the
economic question. The present
condition Is merely a phase. II
wouid probably surprise the average
working woman 70 realize that there
III b. a. few women working
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-02
Everybody Is Stupefied When Wild
Youths Settle Down and Make
Success In Life
BY RUPERT HUGHES

TIE widest flapper I have
. known was a girl whose name
was nothing like what shall call
her-Lulu Norman.
She came Of an excellent and low
ing family. Her devoted parents gave
her every care and every advantage
She was well-read, well-dressed,
weil-fed, wcIl-sheItered; but, &C
cording to any of the known stand
ards Of conduct for young women
she was not wellbehaved.
She was uueontrollably independ-
ent, reckless of life and limbs,
fierce athlete, q skeptic of every
thing wise and solemn, a joy-rider
who received a summons from near
Iy every motor policeman that could
overtake her. She was a ferocious
dancer who was regularly ordered
off the floor at every dance she at
tended. Even in clubs where she was
well known she always passed the
limits hat had to be set on cheek
ing, ciinging and dreaming around
the floor with eyes clenched as
tight as her partner clenched her.
Lulu drank. Lulu shot craps. Lulu
kept no hours at all. Lulu ran with
every Tom, Dick and Harry that
ran fast enough to keep up with her.
She was a pony-e1presswoman living
in relays. When one youth found
erred she grabbed another.
She was witty and had less fear
of what she said than any man /
know. She was forever saying
things that turned white the hair of
anybody who listened. And then she
would say something else so shock
ing that the poor hair had no place
20 go but back to the natural color.
In fact, she might have served
any moralist for a terrible eI-
ample" of the modern girl. just as
the blear-eyed sot used to serve for
a terrible example to the temper
snce lecturer-in the days when
pople got up and actually advocat-
ed Temperance,
NOT CRIMINALLY BAD.
So far as ! know Lulu never did
anything criminally bad. She was
never accused Of theft, murder, Ii
bel, and she never got into what is
Technically known as trouble" 1t is
strange, isn't it? How we use the
same name to mean almost every
thing and also TO mean Just one
thing, The child was probably de-
cent young thing in action, how
ever terrifying in appearance.
OF course, it is almost as bad to
give the appearance Of evil as to
commit the reality Of it. Unless one
is on a high and vital mission, one
has no right TO put scandalous
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-02
Mrs. Norris Says

What is there admirable virtuOus in just working! Is there
anything o essentially fine in that?
Of
naturally have sort OF pride
st astonshd
with in the mems field
make mems work womans work. settle the
condition is merely phase There
working the 1000 there
in year
their homes but entirely
different terms
money it will be time before
can any erms AN money
LIFE? Certainly Womens work is not with
dead things, and they all know it,
beginning deSpise the der. And would
still leaders hundred
fought fight generations
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-02

downtown in the year 1000, as there
were in the year 1900.
Evolution will carry women back
10 their homes, but on entirely diff
ferent terms.
The woman Of 1900 was econOmi-
cslly helpless, she cooked, spun, bore
children, was silent. Sometimes she
managed to get hold Of the price OF
a calf, or coaxed her son 10 let her
have a few dollars Of the butter
and-egg money. She told her daugh-
tiers that men hated strong-minded
women, that boys had to SOW their
wild oats. that old maids were Of no
account anyway, and bad hus-
band better than none.
The woman Of 1900 was begin
ming 70 teach. to typewrite, to make
a good living as nurse, and was
protected by citizenship, by working
hour laws. by new light on the prob
lens of dress and hygiene.
And today women do everything;
there are women engineers, women
in politics, women dentists, women
in positions Of trust and power
everywhere.
MONEY is STANDARD.
They Do look down a little at
the old-fashioned woman, whose
commercial value has yet TO be
proved, and it is quite natural that
Betty, whose income as an architect
is $4,000 a year, should feel SUI
perior to her sister. Mary, who mar
ried a nice boy who earns $6J a
week, and who feels a little appre-
hcnsive as 10 the coming of the
third baby.
We make money the standard,
and il will be a long time before we
can see life on any other terms than
money terms. Yet, if Mary is happy,
living her full and anxious and be-
loved and necessary life, she is still
muci the richer woman than Betty.
For that is the real answer 70
the question Of whether work in Of
fees Is more sdgirable than work in
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-02

The difference between being SIN
gle and being married is merely the
difference between getting a man to
leave the home at a reasonable hour,
evenings, and getting him to leave
it at q regular hour, mornings.
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that you can rely on her unreli-
ability she becomes as stupidity I'M
interesting as the most monotonous
prude.
What then are the indications
that any given woman will or will
not make a good wife? l think
there are no indications that can be
relied upon in advance.
MARRIAGE A SUCCESS.
A good many years ago in Lon
don one of the most VIGOROUSLY law
less beauties of the Music Halls
married one Of the most disreput-
able young peers in the realm. The
friends of both were appalled, at the
bad end Of each.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-02

Just about the time a woman has
learned to pack a mans suitcase
so that he can find his shaving
things in the dark, they discover
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-02

IL Want My Man" is the frank
" modern title of a motion-pieture;
but the trouble with most girls now
adays, is that they want some other
Homan's man.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-02

homes; the salary doesn't matter;
the point is whether the working is
expressing herself, whether she feels
that what she is doing is important
and satisfying.
If it ISN'T, then she hasn't yet
found her real work, no matter
what her salary is, nor how her as
sociates envy her.
Circular letters, files. contracts,
leases, policies are NOT worth
while. You may spend the best 20
years Of your life among them, you
may rise to be absolutely the best
woman we have, knows more about
bonds than any man in the Office"
and. at 40, what will you have to
show for il?
DO WORK YOU LIKE.
Living and dressing for an i'm
portant job are expensive, and such
a position leaves you small time for
play. At 30 you will be planning
that some day you can "take it
little easier" you will have the cot
tage in the mountains, and can rest.
And is that LIFE? Certainty
not. Better a thousand times be do
ing what you WANT to do, no mat
ter what it pays, than make Of
yourself a perfectly efficient bust
ness machine like that.
Women's work is not with dead
things, papers and presses and ma
chinery, and they all know it. The
only HAPPY business women l
know, after the first exciting flush
of SUCCESS is over, the first realiza-
ton that they CAN hold their own,
are the women who are working,
perhaps on a larger scale, with just
The same Old-fashioned things their
grandmother did. For example, the
big cities are full Of happy women
who decorate hOuses-a form Vi
bome-making-and who run tea
rooms-another form of "doing your
own work." Women who are buy
ing and designing baby clothes and
toys, making clothing, putting up
lam or marketing doughHuts or
candy, drawing pictures, managing
children's hospitals, working in all
the modern forms Of developing and
teaching children, these are the
happy women who are working.
DEsPISE THE IDLER.
/ know two women who success
fully manage big magazines, maya
zines that are really correspondence
courses for millions Of women in
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-02

IoME, SWEET HOME" is
4 i getting to be the place where
you stay while the car is being re-
paired.
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-02

Genuine pre-war bonded" liquor
can still be found, here and there
but alas, where will a girl find 9
little pre-war romance and bondef .
love these daysi
San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-08-02
Said by a Cynic

that they are incompatible and de-
eide 10 divorce.
The flapper who spends her love
~ teens sowing wild primroses is
always shocked and surprised when
she wakes up at twenty-five to find
herself reaping hard work, at
clearinghouse cabbage.
A woman never becomes a real
philosopher until her last emotion
has been burned out, her last illu-
sion knocked out, and her last fir
tation played out.
II is awfully hard to believe that
a man who has just emerged from
n barber shop after complete reno
walton, CAN have anything but
clean thoughts, pure intentions, and
a spotless soul.
Genuine pre-war bonded" liquor
Il
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II is confusing. 1t is unpardon-
able. For how are we to get along
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-16
NYE'S CORNER

Mr.. and Mrs. Morris Pope and Mrs.
Viola Buzzell, all of Waterville, were
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Ray Hender-
son Friday evening.
Mrs. NJ A. Hamilton was at his cot
tage for a time Sunday, returning to
Orono in the afternoon.
Mrs. Beda Garris and son Carl of
Portland and her sister and two chill
dren of Pittsburg. Mass, were guests
of Mr.. and Mrs, Carl Anderson Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Starbard and
Mrs. Roy Knapp and Mr.. and Mrs r.
S, Devin. all of Auburn. were guests
Saturday evening of Mr.. and Mrs. j.
w. Henderson.
e Mr.. and Mrs. Prescott Hobbs of
Clinton were calling on friends in this
place Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Newcomb enter
tanned as weekend guests Mr.. and
Mrs. Earl l.. Kneeland, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ray Kneeland and son Winton, all
from Portland. Mrs. A. v. Kneeland,
who has been visiting her sister. Mrs.
Newcomb. accompanied her two sons
back to Portland and will pass several
weeks with them before going to New
York City to pass the winter with her
daughter, Mrs. w. A. Barnes.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-16
SMITHFIELD

Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Mansion, who
have been passing a week in Rock
land and Rockport, have returned
home.
The electrical storm, which passed
over here Saturday, did much dam
age to the electric lights.
Eleanor and Winston Clement and
Arnold Hartford have entered Nor
ridgewock High school while Ethel
Mosher. Minnie Perkins and Dur
ward Clement, have resumed their
studies there.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Murray at
tended Lewiston Fair, last week.
Mrs. Sidney Bigelow was in
Waterville recently, to visit her sis
ter, Mrs. Merle Tracey, who is a
patient at the Sisters Hospital.
At the regular session Of Fairview
Grange Saturday night, Ladies night
will be observed. The ladies filling
the chairs and furnishing the pro-
gram: The gentleman will make
and serve an oyster stew supper.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-09-16
WINSLOW

w. T. Reynolds, Jr, was business
caller in Lewiston Monday.
Miss Ruby Schtmann Is passing a
| few days with Mrs. w. l.. Mansfield
| until Foss Hall is opened. Miss Schu-
mann will enter Colby as a senior this
| fall.
| Miss Harriet Maria Pearce of Wa
| terville called on friends in town over
| the week end.
Mrs. Bert Stevens and daughter
| Pearl and Mrs. Bertha Walden and
| son were In town on business yester-
| day.
Miss Loretta 6llis called on friends
yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. w. Hooper, who
| have been passing a few days with Mr..
Hoopers mother in Franklin. are re-
| turning today to Mrs. Ina T. Hooper's.
where they will make a short stop be-
fore going to Chicago.
Wallace Witham and Joseph Adams
of Clinton are among the out-of-town
| scholars entering Winslow High
school.
Harry Cratic accompanied John
Reed, Charles Ray and Lee Girioux of
Waterville to Skowhegan to attend the
fair.
Edward Morrison and family were
calling on friends in town Monday.
The football fans will be glad to
hear that there are enough men in the
high school for two teams. Coach
Mansfield says that he has a lot of
good material. There are only four
veterans left from last years team
Viles, Mathewson, Hapworth and Bull
ger-but there is every promise Of a
good fighting squad.
The ladies of the Farm Bureau will
hold basketry meeting Thursday at
the Winslow Congregational church.
The meeting is in charge of Mrs. ]. o.
Peck and Mrs. Theodore Thompson. In
addition to the basketry meeting there
will be talk on Fall Millinery"
Mrs Horace Howard has charge Of the
dinner. Will all Of those who come
and who have not been solicited please
bring something which can be used
for dessert? 4
Remember the night Of prayer meet
ing has been changed and the service
will be tonight.