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-.4 PAGE EIGHT THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 13, 1913 PALLADIUM'S MAGAZINE THE METAL WORKERS

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By DOROTHY DIX. 18 the happy way to be married the scrappy way? -Is the real emblem of domestic felicity the prize fighter's mitt, and not the dove of peace. .Can husbands and wives really be too polite, too considerate, and too amiable? Is the perfect husband or wife not to be desired, after all? The average married couple would, answer these questions by saying that nobody knew, because no man or woman had ever achieved his or her ideal mate. He or she might have thought he or she was getting this wonder at the time of the marriage, but later on say five years afterwards well, that's a different story, and a sad one, friends. Undoubtedly we are all in the way of thinking that the reason that marriage is so often a failure is because the high contracting parties are not only shy on a large proportion of the domestic virtues, but they are also short on patience, and civility, and tact, and the most elementary regard for each other's rights and personal liberty. When we see the way in which most husbands and wives treat each other we are not surprised at the sound of breaking and rending qf matrimonial bonds that we hear all about us. We are amazed that any couple remain tied together. It appears, however, that you can overdo a good thing even in matrimony and that a husband and wife can be tco perfect, as witness the case of a prominent young couple of actors, who have just separated because they found an ideal marriage too dull to be endured. THE SAME KIND. This young man and woman were of the kind of people who take life seriously. Before they were married they had long heart-to-heart talks in which they discussed the duties and obligations of husbands and wives, and formulated a grand, sweet song. They drew up , a list of things that

they would do and would refrain from doing, and pledged themselves never to speak a harsh word, never to an BEAUTY 66 OU would never dream of setting , a diamond in paste, would you?" said every one's favorite Blanche Ring. And in the deep underlying philosophy of the magnetic comedienne's remark lies the secret of the popularity and charm that place the jewel of her beauty in. a worthy setting. -. "A theatrical star surrounded by a group of poor players so that her personality may be exploited and may occupy the center of the stage and of the attention is not giving her public - what " it wants. If she has real merit it will be enhanced by the presence of clever people about her well, Miss Beauty Editor, can't you apply that rule to beauty all through life?" Indeed you can for beauty that rests the eye and has no further power to charm may exist in the person of a slovenly, ignorant, unlovely creature who has only the picture qualities of a perfect animal, while true beauty must appeal to mind and heart as well as vision. "You would never dream of setting a diamond in paste," I quoted to the author of the remark. Now, Miss Ring, exactly what is your ideal of beauty and your idea of the setting therefor?" "My ideal of beauty is health," answered Miss Ring with prompt certainty. "And health does not exist in the hasgard, leathery-skinned woman who has dieted herself into a state of near-decline. The healthy woman is at her normal weight, whether that be pleasing plumpness or sylph-like slimness and she has not the nervous, heavy-eyed look of the ; woman who lives on a cracker and an apple a day so she can persuade a figure that might be a healthy looking thirty-eight to be a 6hadow poster that measures about thirty inches about Its greatest girth. NOT PRETTY ;. - "Of course, fat is not pretty and If a woman finds it threatening her Mfce"would do well to avoid potatoes, bread, rich gravies, and food prepared In oils and sugar, products. But after a woman reaches thirty the red blood corpuscles go on a Jong holiday and she had better not hasten their demise by furiously banting herself to a consumptive shadow or any strain through over-exercise. No, let her live out of .doors all she can swimming, tennis and gardening are the most de

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swer back when the other spoke impatiently, never to provoke a quarrel, never to be jealous, or unreasonable, or moody, or grouchy, but to be always tender, affectionate, considerate, patient, forebearing and so on. In short, each was to be a pin feathered angel, and their home was to be a Heaven on earth, but instead this ushering in a domestic millenium as they anticipated, each soon began to be bored stiff, and to long to make a few dents in the perfection of the other. Life became insupportable. It was like living on a diet of nothing but chocolate creams, or in a climate where there is never anything but sunshine, and so the victims of the too much perfection in marriage are petitioning the courts to divorce them. This case can hardly be considered in the light of an awful warning, because there are not many people who err on the side of being too good. But undoubtedly hard as the faulty husband or wife is to endure, the perfect one would be still worse, for there is nothing in Heaven or earth that is more exasperating than the individual that is always right, unless it is the person who remains cool, calm, and collected while you are a seething volcano. It is not in humanity to endure perfection, especially in its mate, and that is why the wife of a man who is an example in the community always wears a meek, dejected look, while the husband of a superior woman is a sight so abject that it brings tears to the hardest, eyes. THE SUCCESSFUL WIFE. It is also to be observed that the women who are the happiest and the best loved wives are almost .invariably poor, weak, faulty creatures, who waste their husbands' money on fine clothes and good times, whereas the wives who do their duty by their families by economizing and working, and going shabby, never get any thanks for it. It is also discouraging to masculine virtue for men to observe that the most adored husbands are those whose wives are kept busy forgiving them things. As a matter of fact, most of the theories about married life don't work

'My Ideal of Beauty is Ring; and Other lightful Summer exercises, and a simple, sane diet with this little secret to help it along will do wonders to bring on attractive slenderness without painful scrawniness. ; "Here is the secret; One day of every week live on this menu for each of the three meals: For breakfast, for luncheon and for dinner eat a baked potato seasoned with a bit of butter, some skimmed milk and 'pepper and salt to taste.' Then you will have the proper compound of substance and shadow!" "And now for the setting of this properly slender figure?" I queried. A LASTING DEBT. "Well," said the beautiful friend of very one who has ever seen her, "the world does not owe me a living, but I ! owe the world a great deal in return j for all it has done for me. So I Try to give all I can in affection, in interest and in earnest effort to the world. I think it would be a good plan for girls to think less about what they have ia right to expect from life, and to j make sure that they are giving life all lit has a right to expect from them; a happy, amiable expression and a sun

SCIENCE Animal Tragedies That Have Helped Us to Know of Extinct Inhabitants..

BY GARRETT P. SERVISS. RECENTLY half a dozen huge whales became stranded and died in the shallow waters Penzance Bay England. This excites interest because of the great size and power of these creatures, which belong to the animal species which produces the largest individuals that are now known to inhabit the earth. There have been larger animals than elephants on the land, but it Is thought the ocean has never contained monsters superior in size to the whales of today. The spectacle of a single stranded whale draws crowds of curious and wondering onlookers, but to see five or six of them that have 'perished together is a sight worth traveling far to look upon. But there Is a deeper source of interest in this scene than that awakened by the gigantic size and power

out in real experience. For instance, wives are advised that the way to keep a man nailed to his own fireside is to be always amusing and entertaining, and dressed up, and to chat gaily with husband of an evening, and to sing and play for him, and keep something going all the time. Can anybody imagine anything more horrible than such a home, a home that was an understudy of a music hall, and a wife that ieapt nimbly from vaudeville stunt to vaudeville stunt? . What you want with a home is a place where you can take oft your coat and your collar, and sit on the back of your neck, and be quiet, without having to talk, or to be talked to, or to have to listen with a polite expression of an interest you don't feel. Certainly to be married to a woman who would read aloud to you, or render a few operatic selections when you were tired .ought to entitle any man to divorce on the ground of cruel and unusual punishment. And equally objectionable would be a husband who was such a perfect gentleman that he always made his wife feel as if she must have on her best frock and her company manners, and before whom she could never permit herself the luxury of appearing in a kimono, and saying what was really on her mind. A MYSTERY. Outsiders often wonder at the why of the family spat. It is so perfectly useless, and so easily avoided. They cannot see why the wife should not have kept silent on the topic that is like waving a red flag before a mad bull to introduce to her husband's notice. Nor can they see why the man hasn't prudence enough to turn away anger with a soft word. The real psychology of the domestic quarrel is that nature is trying to infuse a little ginger into domesticity to keep it from getting too monotonous, and so cloying on the domestic palate. A good round quarrel is the thunderstorm that clears the atmosphere and brings fresh ozone into the family circle. The immoral of all of which is that it is fatal to try to be too good a husband or wife.

Health," says Blanche Valuable Hints. shiny nature to account for it are bound to result from that attitude. "But I started to tell you what I think forms the most beautiful setting for beauty which is health. Magnetism, sweetness of disposition and a joyous willingness to work. The last two one can cultivate, but magnetism charm, the power that breaks down walls of indifference and of possible misunderstanding between human and human that is the gift women long most to possess and it is the hardest thing in all the world to analyze. "The nearest I can come to explaining my idea of magnetism is to suggest that women give all they can to life in love, in effort and in the desire to make others happy. Perhaps in this way they can add the final jewel to the setting about their beauty at least, so it seems to me. "Seems, madame? Nay, 'tis not seems. For the woman whose power reaches over the footlights and luncheon tables alike is the spirit of beauty and magnetic charm incarnate so her little suggestions for magnetism may surely point the way to all beautyseekers." LILLIAN LAUFERTY. of the victims of the accident that produced it. Those whales have been destroyed just because they were too large and too heavy to get out of the labyrinth of sand spits among which a high tide had tempted them. That same kind of accident has been happening to the Inhabitants of the earth for millions of years, and but for such accidents we should have known far less than we do of the strange creatures that dwelt upon our planet ages ago. If the skeletons of those stranded whales were allowed to lie in Penzance Bay undisturbed, becoming gradually buried deeper in the sand, they would in time become changed into fossils, and then a hundred thousand or a million years in the future some curious geologist of another age, when living whales had become

By ELBERT HUBBARD. COOX after the British Parliament passed a law forbidding

the cutting down of trees for j , fuel, Sir Walter Raleigh's ex- J pedition in laso discovered iron in this country, and in 1608 a cargo of ore was shipped from Virginia to England and successfully smelted. In 1644. the first ironworks was erected near Lynn, Mass. In 1740, Huntsman introduced the crucible process, and various mechanical devices were patented about that time, which materially stimulated the steel industry. In 1838, the invention of J. B. Nlelson the introduction of a heated blast caused a tremendous increase in output. This improvement was accompanied by Nasmyth's steam hammer, and in 1856 Bessemer gave to the world a process that was astonishing and remarkable. The discovery of the Bessemer process made it possible to produce steel at such low cost as to extend its use widely, and did much to supersede wrought iron in structural work. Bessemer steel is now almost unive rsally used for steel rails. The openhearth system of Martin and Thomas, with the regenerative gas furnace of Siemens, supplies steel that is used in enormous quantities for all purposes. Lately science has again prevailed, and in the products of White and Taylor and Robert Hadfield we have steel that combines great malleableness with great hardness a hardness that retains its cutting power oven when at red heat. And so we are marching on. From the savage who in wonder raked from the ashes of his fire a crude ball of molten mineral and slag, with which he formed a weapon of defense, to the safety-razor and the automobile of the Twentieth Century citizen, metal is supreme. CARBON AND IRON. Steel is made by combining a certain proportion of carbon with iron. The process determines Its value and variety. The most important of these processes are cementation, Bessemer and open hearth. The first system consists In placing bars of wrought iron between layers of charcoal in firebrick-lined retorts. Yellow heat is applied for a certain period until the required grade of steel is obtained by the addition of the necessary carbon. This is the steel from which edged tools are made. The Bessemer process is directly opposite in principle to the cementation process. The Resapmpr burn the carbon out of the cast iron. This is done in an egg-shaped furnace known as a converter, lined with firebrick, and capable of being tilted. At the bottom, a number of tuyeres or nozzles conduct the air from a powerful blowing machine through the molten metal. This burns out the silicon and carbon, and after the alloy has been added and thoroughly mixed the metal is poured into ladles, and thence to casting moulds. The ingots are reheated and rolled into the forms desired for use. In the open-hearth system.' steel is made from a mixture of pig-iron and extinct, might dig them out of their bed, and set them up, or suspend them, in museums as object lessons in the animal wonders of a long-past time. Why They Exist. We do the same thing today. The most interesting and gigantic fossils of extinct animals that our museums ! contain would never have existed but j for the occurrence of accidents simi:lar to , that which put an end to the ! lives of those whales in Penzance Bay. The great mastodons whose remains have been discovered in the United States, which they inhabited perhaps, when the earliest men were just beginning to clip flints into the form of knives and arrow-heads, , were all mired in marshes where they perished miserably because their weight sunk them deeper with every struggle. We do not find the remains of the thousands upon thousands of mastodons that died a natural death, because they left their bodies where the regular processes of decay and disintegration could rapidly dispose ' of them. There is an animal of past time called the iguanodon a prodigious creature, twenty-five feet long and fourteen or fifteen tall which was evidently very common on the continent of Europe many millions of years ago. But huge as were the bones of

AWr Wife 'WsM'z j & i v ;;&' w " lifter J

THE t skirt of the very useful and smart afternoon gown illustrated on the left-hand side is slightly draped. A fold of material runs diagonally from the waist to the drapery. The bodice has lorig sleeves finished off with a row of small buttons and the bodice is cut in jockey style. In the center is shown a charming evening gown carried out in white with a touch of color in the japonica tulle waist-band. The foundation

scrap-iron or steel, which is melted by direct contact with the flame in a regenerative gas furnace. STEEL EVERYWHERE. To follow these different processes to Bee the ore cold, dead stones transformed into things of utility and beauty is a revelation and an education. We realize that the Missabe Range and your wire fence are associated by applied ideas. Steel is everywhere. the iguanodons, they have almost all disappeared except in places where the animals became the victims of accident which left them in such a situation that they could be rapidly covered up with sand, clay or mud, which, thickening and solidifying tor ages, gradually encased them as in a preservative cement. A wonderful accident of this kind, millions of years ago, overwhelmed a whole herd of iguanodons in that part of Europe which is now Belgium, near a place called Bernissart, It is believed from appearances that a tremendous storm, a cloudburst it may be, overtook them, and swept them, all together, into a deep ravine, where they were swiftly buried by in pouring mud, which afterward solidified into rock. Then, while they lay there, the great Coal Age came on and made another deposit above their burial place. At last came man. digging for coal to bum, using his brains to revolutionize life on earth, and found the buried skeletons of such creatures as he had never seen and read their story with his intelligence as clearly almost as if he had been present looking on when that infinitely ancient storm swept the Iguancdon herd to swift destruction. A Death Trap. Mr. Pycraft, an English naturalist, calls attention to what he calls "the most awful death trap in the world."

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is of ivory charmeuse ana over tnis Is arranged the crystal-embroidered tulle. Crystal trimming is carried out on the sleeveless bodice. A smart gown with graceful skirt is illustrated on the right. A tunic of accordion-pleated silk partially covers the charmeuse skirt; the ends of the sash are finished with heavy silk tassels. The collar and cuffs are made of white linen edged with pleated frills.

Circus horses, farm horses wear it for shoes. Wire rope In elevators, and in ships and mines the telegraph and telephone wires, and all kinds of electrical wires from the ignition wire In the automobile to the submarine cable. Aeroplane plates, boiler plates and castings. We sleep on steel springs and shave with a "safety. We use nails and tacks, and the shafting for machinery is nothing more or less than big round wire! This exists in California'. It is the asphalt lake at Rancho la Brea. For ages an unceasing series of animal tragedies have been in progress on its treacherous shores. Here, too, the stories of the death struggles of the innumerable victims can be read. Such animals as camels camels In California came to the edge of the

CUPID'S PLA Y CROP

By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. TOURISTS guide books give explicit directions for those who wish to go to mountain or seashore, suitably dressed for a climb or a swim. ; Don't wear thin-soled shoes; don't Iwear long-trained skirts; don't wear J silk hose; don't wear garments built (exclusively for show; don't wear this jand don't wear that; page upon page for the guidance of the gisl who Is packing her trunk, and not a warning about a certain little adornment commonly worn in summer in a most conspicious place. Here Is the warning which they wilfully omit: Don't wear your heart on your sleeve! A sole too thin, or a bonnet too perishable never returned from a summer outing showing such Irrc

We see all these things in the manufactured goods. . We talk of the tone of our piano, we boast of the wonderful speed, endurance and economy of upkeep of our autos. We speak of cheap and rapid transportation; of our spring beds, our easy shave. KJf But do we ever associate these things with (he men in the mills? I hope so.

water to drink and found themselves caught in the sticky asphalt- Then sabre-toothed tiger pursued them, seized their prey, but, instead of car rylng it triumphantly off, became themselves the victims of the black, clinging slime. Wolves and even eagles have been caught in this .trap, and are caught there today. parable signs of wear as the heart that Is worn on the sleeve. They may be replaced; it can never be. Ths damage to the shoe and the bonnet are forgotten. One seldom entlrelf recovers from the damage done to jjj one's heart. BEWARE THE MOON. Few things said in the moonlight are said seriously. A boy, a girl, a moonlight night with its poetic ac companimer.t of silence and solitude; and Cupid chuckles with impish glee He knows a spell has been thrown over the man which will cause htm to cay things he does not mean. He also knows that the moonlight will make of the most doubting girl the most credulous. It is a rare setting for his annual play crop, and be raises his bow and takes careful aim (Continued on Pae Nine.) By C. M. Payne

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