Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1911 — Page 2

Style Mad Women Economic Burdens That Will Spread Ruin

By Professor SCOTT NEARING

University of Pennsylvania

IF the women of today continue to be the economic burdens to men that they are now they will ruin, this country. The wife no longer contributes to the family income by CREATING VALUES. With the increased standard of elaborate dressing she is often its CHIEF BURDEN. Modern industry has converted men into earners and women into spenders. The woman of today is in the third stage. First she was the slave, a creature that might be beaten by her lord and master. Second came a state of co-operate labor with the cook stove and the loom. r R r NOW WE HAVE THE PARASITE WOMAN. THE WHOLE IDEA OF THE WOMEN OF THE MIDDLE AND UPPER CLASSES IS TO SPONGE UPON THE MEN. R R R Nobody is to blame. The women of today are not to blame for what they are any more than are the men. But the time has come when TWO ROADS open before the woman of the future. Either she must continue to be a parasite and go down to ruin, dragging nations with her, or she must become a producer with an ECONOMIO necessity for her existence.

He Plunged

His Doubts Were Confirmed, but He Was Satisfied.

By FRANCES G. HOPPER.

Frank Runnion was forty years old and a man of the world. He had not married because he regarded it a woman's purpose to hang on to some man and get out of him all she could. Many of them he considered adven turesses. capable of deceiving Satan. Run u ion was an importer, and every year he went to Eurojie to lay in a stock of goods. He was one afternoon buying in a lace factory in the environs of Paris when an American lady and her daughter, who were being shown through the premises, passed him The mother was a thin woman. The daughter may be described as willowy, about twenty years old, retiring and diffident. Her mother

HE APPROACHED HER AND WAS GRACIOUSLY RECEIVED.

evinced considerable interest in what was shown her, taking up laces and examining them with a critical eye. Taking up a fine piece of valen- . cienaes. she said something to the proprietor. who was showing her through his establishment, which called forth a protest from him. “Ton are mistaken, Mme. Wetherell,” he said. “That is the finest quality of its kind. 1 can prove it to you by this gentleman. This is M. Runnion. who imports as much lace every year as any merchant in New York.” Runnion confirmed the proprietor’s opinion as to the quality of the lace, and being attracted by the graceful figure and languishing eyes of Miss JWetherell proceeded with them in their inspection of the premises. It was ap-

parently to them simply a matter of sightseeing, for neither of the ladies bought any lace and the younger one wore the bored expression of one who has for months been occupied with visiting European curiosities. Runnion walked beside her. chatting with her in a desultory way. There was nothing remarkable in what she said, but her voice Was melodious. It is strange that Americans who might at home know each other casually for years without getting any nearer together will when abroad become friends on the slightest provocation. Withjn an hour in the French lace factory Runnion and the Wetherells became more intimate than if they had known one another a year in America. When they were making their esit the mother dropped behind to hold a conversation with the proprietor, while Runnion and the daughter sauntered slowly in Then when the two were Joined by the madame they proceeded together to the railway station and to Paris. Runnion asked if he might call upon them, but they said they were about to sail for America and had so much to do by way of preparation that it would be difficult for him to find them unoccupied. However, it came out that they had all engaged passage on.the same steamer and on the voyage they would have plenty of time to enjoy one another’s society. . On the steamer Runnion looked for his newly made friends, but for the first two days neither of them appeared. On the third day he saw Miss Wetherell sitting on deck in a steamer cnair. wrapped in rugs. He approached her and was graciously received. Inquiring for her mother he was told that she had been detained in Paris. There were papers to be signed in America by Miss Wetherell to complete the sale of some property she had owned, and it was essential that she should go at . once. Mrs. Wetherell would sail in an other fortnight.

Say what you will about marriage, it is a leap in the dark. Runnion had come to realize this and knew that he must choose between such a leap and a lonely old age. He could take chances on occasion and determined to make, the plunge with Miss Wetherell —that is. if she would have him. If he had asked himself why he was satisfied with this especial young lady the only proper answer would have been that she had a willowy figure, a melodious voice and languishing eyes. This is hardly a sufficient reason for a man who since early youth has doubted the whole sex on which to choose a wife, but when he once decided to plunge he shuts his eyes and plunges. Runnion. it has been said, had been captivated by Miss WethereU’s willowy figure. When she threw off her rugs and arose from her steamer chair to go down to luncheon her figure did not seem quite so willowy as when be had first seen her. On several other occasions during the voyage when she was without wraps he „ noticed the same thing. Every day the young lady lost something of those lines of figure that had touched Runnion’s fancy. But her voice remained melodious and her eyes soft. If one of her charms was departing the other two remained. A fish caught on a hook is ip a different position from a fish not caught on a book. Runnion had got fairly started on his matrimonial-venture, and a little thing like his ladylove gaining

flesh was not sufficient to turn him back. Besides, suppose he did turn back? There was the same lonely- old age to stare Bim in the face. If Miss Wetbgrell was daily getting fat he was daily learning of some new charm in her. What these charms really were he didn’t stop to Inquire. Appealing to the senses and to the reason are two widely different matters. One may ap peal to the latter without affecting the former, but if tlie former afe touched the latter goes up in the air. Runnion bad been using his reason exclusively with regard to women for twenty years. Now he was giving his senses a chance. The evening before making port Rnnnion sat on deck with Miss Wetherell. It was October, but the air was not yet cold. He did not intend to plunge, but he plunged. Probably most—or at any rate—many proposals are unintentional. The lady, however, held herself more under control. She said she must take time to consider. She was very young and marriage was the most Important step in a woman’s life. She gave him her address in New York and told him that she would be pleased to see him there. He secured her consent to his calling the next evening after the arrival of the steamer. By morning the weather had changed and it was quite cool. Miss Wetherell when prepared to go ashore wore furs. The last vestige of her willowy figure had departed. But her voice was the same and her eyes were the same. The figure had done its work with Runnion and was no longer necessary, especially so long as the voice was melodious and the eyes languishing. He stood with her in a corner, pressed her hand, and said something to her in a low voice which made her droop her lids and cover her eyes with her long lashes. Then they parted, to meet the same evening. Runnion hurried on ahead, desiring to get through some work at his counting room before business closed.

He went to his apartments in the afternoon, dressed for the evening and proceeded to his club to dine. Having ordered his dinner he took up an evening paper. His eye was caught at once by enormous letters announcing the arrival of the steamer in which he had crossed the ocean and the arrest of two women for smuggling. The article went on to say that a Mrs. Wetherell and her daughter had come over on the steamer, the mother keeping her stateroom during the voyage. They had come ashore together, and the customs officers noticing a disproportion between tbeir thin faces and their rotund corporosities had ordered that they be searched. Ten thousand dollars’ worth of expensive laces had been found wound around each of them. Mrs. Wetherell, who was a very thin woman, had kept out of sight during the voyage in order that her rotundity on leaving the steamer should not attract attention. The article went on to state that the ladies were rich and eminently respectable. A bond had been given by the busband and fathetjfor tbeir appearance in court to answer a charge of smuggling, and the accused had been released.

“I told you so.” said Runnion to himself. “Fool! Why did you go back on what you have known for twenty years?” He read the article again, notfEing that the social position of the ladies was excellent. Then it occurred to him that the girl to whom he had . proposed and her mother bad but followed a natural law. They had done that which the world does not consider a sin—that is, when one is not caught Would it be the part of a true man to go back on bis proposition? The manliness in him conquered. The same evening he appeared at the address that had been given him and asked for Miss Wetherell. She came down beaming. “I knew you would come.” she said. “You have seen how mother and 1 were caught?" “Yes.” “And you are not frightened away?’., “No.” “Isn’t it awful? We may have to go to prison.” *‘l hope not.” Her figure was again willowy. Runnion left the house engaged. Returning to his room he mentally reviewed his past matrimonial views. “Here 1 am.” he said to himself, “engaged to one who has deceived me and, having broken the laws of her country, is liable to go to jail. Nevertheless tbdre is something about it all that 1 like. 1 have no desire to go back to my common sehse. Neither will I go back on this girl, and 1 don’t wish to go back on her. I shall delight in sharing the burden she has foolishly brought upon herself.” In short. Runnion had fallen m love and his reason had forsaken him.

Mere Suggestion.

“There is nothing slow about me.” “No?’ “Not much. I always make my getaway all right.” “Don’t you think you might add to your popularity by making it a stay there afterward ?”

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Sheriff’s Sale. By virtue of a certified copy of a Decree to me directed from the Clerk of the Jasper Circuit Court, in a cause wherein Eugene O. Magruder, Plaintiff, and John W. Turner, and Mrs. John W. Turner, his wife; George Anderson and Minnie Anderson, his wife, are Defendants, requiring me to make the sum of Fourteen Hundred Sixteen Dollars and Forty-five Cents, with interest on said Decree and costs,

SECOND FLOOR PLAN.

I will expose at Public Sale, to the highest bidder, on ’ . Saturday, the 25th day of November, A. D. 1911, between the hours of 10 o’clock A. M. and 4 o’clock P. M. of said day, at the door of the Court House in Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, the rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven years, of the Real Estate, to-wit: The northeast quarter of the southwest quarter and the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section twenty-two (22) township thirty-one 431) north, range five (5) west, in Jasper County, Indiana. If such rents and profits will not sell for a sufficient sum to satisfy said Decree, interest and costs, I will at the same time and place expose to Public Sale the fee simple of said Real Estate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to discharge said Decree, interest and costs. Said sale will be made without any relief from valuation or appraisement laws. WILLIAM I. HOOVER, Sheriff Jasper County. Frank Foltz, Attorney for Plaintiff. October 23, A. D. 1911. Oct. 25-Nov. 1-8.

.Sheriff’s Sale. ■ I By virtue of a certified copy of a Decree to me directed from the Clerk of the Jasper Circuit Court, in a cause wherein Thomas Mallatt is Plain! iT, and Alfred Moore and Rena Moore, his wife, are Defendants, requiring me to make the sum of One Hundred and Forty-Six Dollars and Thirty Cents, with interest on said Decree and costs. I will expose at Public Sale, to the highest bidder, on Saturday, the 25th day of November, A. D. 1911, between 'he hours of 10 o’clock A. M. and 4 o’clock P. M. of said day, at the door of the Court House in Jasper County, Indiana, the rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven years, of the Real Estate, to-wit: Los one (1) and two (2) in block six (6) in the village of Fair Oaks, Jasper County, Indiana. If such rents and profits will not sell for a sufficient sum to satisfy said Decree, interest and costs, I will at the Same time and place expose to Public Sale the fee simple of said Real Estate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to discharge said Decree, interest and costs. Said Sale will be made without any relief whatever from valuation ■or appraisement laws. ; WILLIAM I. HOOVER. ’ ■ Sheriff Jasper - County. W. H. Parkinson, Atty, for Plaintiff. Oct. 24, A. D. 1911. " Oct. 28-Nov. 4-11.

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