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MARRIED LIFE

Baby's Name and By MABEL HERBERT URNER. A ND you haven't named the baby yet?" Mrs. Willard's voice expressed her surprise. 1 Helen flushed, Mrs. Wlllard was an old friend of Warren's family, and on her occasional calls somehow always managed to make Helen most uncomfortable. "No not yet we haven't finally decided upon a name yet." "And she is how old four months, Isn't she?" "Not quite three months last Tuesday." "Three months and no name why, I have never heard of such a thing." "Well, we have so gotten into the habit of calling her just "baby" that we haven't felt the need of any other name yet." "But the child I should think you would feel you were doing her a great ' Injustice." Helen repressed a smile. It doesn't seem to be distressing her. "Oh, of course, it's your child you can do as you please. But I would feel that I had been criminally negligent in my duty as a mother, if I had let a baby of mine come to three months without a name. Her Attitude About It. That night after dinner Helen brought up the subject. "Warren, Mrs. Willard was here today; she seemed very much shocked that we hadn't named the baby." "Well, what of it, it doesn't concern her, does jt?" No, but 1 suppose we really oughtn't to wait longer; we should decide upon something." "Well, that's up to you." Helen flushed at his curt, slangy manner. "Why I thought you had some interest in it." "Who said I hadn't?" "You spoke as though" "I said it was up to you, and it is. Didn't you object to every name mother or father suggested? Didn't you say it was your baby and you were going to call it what you pleased?" "Oh, Warren, you know I never said such a thing." ".-'. "Well if you didn't say it you implied it so strong that there wasn't much doubt about your meaning." "But that was your father and mothj er not you. I never implied anything about your right to name our baby." "You never seemed over anxious for my help. I thought you had half a dozen names you wanted to think over and finally decide upon. "I did. I wanted Genevieve or Mildred, but somehow I don't like either of them now. y The Way He Suggested. " "I should think not! I told you they sounded like a third-rate novel." Well, I've a long list upstairs; shall 1 get it? We can go over them now." "No, I've a better way than that." He went out into the hall and returned with the telephone book. "The telephone book!" "Yes, the telephone book," as he sat down and put it on the table before hlm.M

OCCUPIES POSITION OF DELICA C Y

BY DR. C. H. PARKHURST. s - ENSATIONAL stories, purporting to the statements of facts, sometimes appear even in our more 1 conservative journals, which excite not only the reader's surprise, but also his distrust. . It is worth while sometimes to run down such stories especially if interests of any importance are involved In order to discover whether they have a basis of truth. One of our morning papers, usually careful in its make-up, recently gave considerable prominence to a story of that kind, which seemed to compromise to such degree the intelligence and Christian sense of our local bureau of immigration that I was curious to get at the facts of the case. It reported that an old couple, each ighty-slx years of age, had just arrived from Germany among the second cabin passengers and were de- , tained at the port of entry because showing symptoms of advanced years -rather a natural condition, poor things, seeing that they had nearly reached four score and ten. They had originally emigrated to this country sixty years ago and had lived in Saginaw, Mich., where they had acquired property and been living in a state of competence. It had occurred to them that they would like to see once more their old home in Germany before they died and were on their return to what had 'S' MATTER POP?

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the Telephone Book "It's the place to get a name for everything; why not for the baby?" "Ob, Warren, you can't be serious you wouldn't name our baby out of the telephone book?' "Why not? It'll suggest names you never thought of; it's a darn sight better than your list upstairs." He opened it at random at the H's. ; Helen was leaning over his shoulder in amazed silence. "Now here" running his finger down the column. "But they are all men's names!" "Not all. Here Mrs. Sarah J.'' "Sarah! Surely, Warren" "Now, just hold on; nobody suggesti ed saran: Mrs. KiizaDetn K j "Your father suggested Elizabeth." "Miss Amelia B." "Oh, I've never like Amelia it sounds so-so-meek!" "And if the baby is anything like ! her mother she'll not be meek eh! ! Mrs. George H. why, on earth, don't I she use her own name? Here's another J Mrs. Richard L. and a milliner, ! too. Now, Kitten, whenever you start ; a millinery shop, you'll please not use ! my name. Do you understand?" ! Short and Simple. ! She laughed and kissed him on the I collar. He had been so irritable lately that she responded eagerly to anything verging on tenderness. And Kit ten was one of his old pet names for her that she always loved. "Miss Ida F Ida Ida! How do you like that? Its short and simple." "Oh, no-no, I had a cousin Ida whom I never liked, and I always associated her with the. name." "Well, here comes the hospitals and the hotels I guess we can skip those. He turned to the next page. "My, what a lot of Howard's and Howe's as she settled herself on the arm of his chair. "And they don't look interesting let's turn to another! I don't think I like the H's, with a laugh. "Let's try something else." . She lifted his hand from the book and opened it to another place "V." Van Dusen, Van Dyke that sounds impressive; let's see along here." Again he started at the head of the page and ran his finger down the column. "Miss M. F. that's enlightening! Mrs. Helen by jove, here you are j Mrs. Helen E. Van Norden. Hair Drsg. I What on earth is Hair Drsg?" "Hair Dressing, of course." "Oh, well since you've taken up that business" Helen laughed. "But at least I'm using my own name." "Mrs. Caroline C Miss Winifred L .,, .'. "Winifred! She caught his arm. Winifred! Winifred! Oh, I've always loved that and I haven't even thought of it! Winifred! Winifred Curtis! Don't you like it?" eagerly. "Yes, that's all right.", "Settled" as he closed the book. "So the telephone book served the purpose didn't it?" "Oh, slipping from the arm of the chair into his lap," the telephone book is wonderful! Winifred, Winifred Curtis! Dear, that's the sweetest name. been for more than half a century their adopted home in Michigan. The newspaper story ran that on being sharply questioned by the immi gration ofllcer and on being given to understand that they might have to be sent back, they protested that there was nowhere for them to go. The Story Made Them a Very Pitiful Couple. That all their old German kindred and acquaintances were dead; that Saginaw was their only home, and they had such ample property that they would never be dependent upon any one. Nevertheless, so the story ran, the officer told them they would have to be transferred to Ellis Island and the case referred to Washington. Now, with all our American hospitality our country cannot be made a retreat for all the world's aged infirmity, a poorhouse for all the world's poverty, a hospital for all its invalidism, nor a jail for all its criminality; but the circumstances in the case of Mr. Mrs. Arnd't were so pathetic that the account given of the grim treatment accorded them excited my incredulity and a contempt for any such method of enforcing immigration restriction. Accordingly I addressed to the office of the Commissioner of Immigration the printed story and a courteous inquiry as to its substantial accuracy.

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I the sun" as we have been I frequently informed, but there are new combinations of all the old ideas, and a clever combination of five or six old things results in one brand new one. Just a year or two ,ago we fully persuaded ourselves that tangoes and turkey-trots and bunny hugs and monkey wrenches were the latest things on Broadway and everywhere else but they weren't bless you no! They were cakewalks and barn 'dances and two-steps arranged in a to-be-well-shaken-before-taken conglomeration and accompanied by a little hula-hula or other music native to any other soil but our own. Now two of New York's cleverest ! dancers have thought up a fascinating j new combination and permutation of steps taken from the tango Argentino, j the Spanish bolero and the beautiful and so completely forgotten as to be ' really new minuet. In a little three- J cornered chat with Katherine Witchie and Ralph Riggs, of Lew Fields' "All Aboard" company, I learned just how to do the new tango bolero, as they The following is the acting Commis- j sioner's reply: Act of Immigration Board Is Explained by Commissioner. "Rev. C. H. Parkhurst, Placid, N. Y.: D. D., Lake "Dear Sir I acknowledge receipt of j your favor inquiring as to Mr. and . Mrs. Arndt. In so far as the article in question refers to any action by the ; immigration authorities, it is without foundation. Mr. and Mrs. Arndt ar- ( rived on the Ss. Kaiserin Auguste Victoria July 26. 1913, as second cabin passengers. They were discharged at the steamer's pier without detention.

THE BALLROOM TANGO A Pretty and Refined Way of DancingThis Popular Whirl

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mean to call it. Of course, the careful training and the untiring study of their artistic calling that the clever couple bring to make their dancirig a thing of beauty even if it is, alas; a joy for but a few fleeting moments, instead of the hours and hours one would gladly sit and study their twinkling twirls, "But we'll show you just how and we'll tell you just how," said pretty little Miss Katherine, "and then if you practise and practise, and if every one who reads follows the same course They were not 'sent to Ellis Island.' and, of course, their case was not rei ferred to Washington. "Respectfully, 'Signed) B. H. UHU Commissioner.' "Actinj A newspaper manager once being asked why he allowed misrepresentations and misstatements to creep into his columns, ingeniously replied that it was Because there was no opportunity to make sure of the accuracy of what he printed before it was time for the paper to go to press. The Commissioner of Immigration ! occupies a position of exceeding dif- ! ficulty and delicacy in deciding upon the dubois claims of certain classes of immigrants, and the charge, justly

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chorus. GOOD MUSIC ESSENTIAL. "First of all, be sure you have good music the tango and the bolero. Then make sure that you know how to point your toe gracefully In somewhat the way the ballet dancers do. Then take a waltz position, girl's right hand on her partner's left shoulder, or unjustly, has sometimes been brought against it of dealing In a manner forbidden by ordinary principles of reason and humanity. It seemed, therefore, only fair to the department that it should be cleared o? the accusation that was in reality Involved in the story published in the newspaper above mentioned. Cannel ice cream, crushed fruit, peach ice cream and eight other popular flavors of creams and Ices served at Price's. Philadelphia is to establish a municipal pension fund for the benefit of employes twenty years or more In the Bervice of the city.

man's left hand at the back of his partners waist, the other hands clasped loosely and held almost at shoulder height, faces turned toward the outheld arms, and correspondingly the girl's left and the man's right foot pointing straight in the direction of the arm.

"Now. to tango music take the eight , steps and the long gliding slide and ; i recovering stamp are character-

jtion via Argentina. Then with arrosrative Men re errgariou4i like 8Qefp, I still nnintinc to the cirl's left, do the:-j .

- i auu iena 10 live in ncros. same steps toward the right, bwlng Th,8 dilfIW4lticn aa farmerly torninto all the tango steps you know and , what discouraged bv lhs great mortalcan do easily and gracefully, and then j tv iacllent to conienFed population suddenly the music changes to the real J becaU6? of unsaniUry condition, an Spanish bolero and you go on. Ralph.' oUucIe hich ba, now WeD JargelT

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Mr. Riggs laughed his appreciation ( ting, a ruiTicient supply of water ana of the feminine desire to be the lis- of food material. tening partner, and 'went on": Aa the j St am and civil engineerUig have bolero begins, the girl is left and the ; now gotten the better ot these dilliculman is right. Her4left foot points for-; ties also, so hat under those changed ward, her right arm is held high above conditions there U no necessary limit the head, just touching the tips of the i set to aggregations cf population. Conman's fingers, while the other hands ' ecquently the gregarious impulse can touch at arms' length at waist height, j now have allowed to it perfectly fre

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little grapevine in and out and in and J gin in other than local and transient out by the upstretched fingers. At the j causes and inheres in economic condlend of this movement he is holding j tions and in man's native dispositions her at arm's length, his lifted right is proved by the fact that for hundreds arm holding her left hand, and from i of years fruitless efforts have been this position he draws her around in j made to prevent people from leaving

; front of him and they do a nice flying forward step in perfect unison, right

arms held together and weight on the Cicero and Virgil and the legal measright foot at the beginning of the ures to the same end adopted by Jusmovement, and left foot pointing to j tinian and Queen Elizabeth, the back and dropping slowly to take j . , . ' ,

the weight. "Do this back and forth eight times In tango style, and then awing into figure three hands clasped in front, and girl's left and man's right foot pointing toward the side back In a knee-high position parallel to the floor. J Swing from foot to foot, looking in the

direction of the uplifted foot: do thisi n lo iioe. u i pre.u, eight times, as for all dances of the P,d rte of Increase, and if our poptango family. And now for the pretty 1 u,at,on 18 olnS to bul ltscIf at urb"

little minuet finish you Katherine, please." And murmuring something about "in at the finish," Miss Witchie concluded our profitable little chat with a description of the quaint and dainty step. , "It is the conventional dancing minuet bow. The man holds his partner's outstretched right hand in bis left, with right hand on heart, and left toe pointing forward. The girl points her right foot, and holds her right arm poised with upturned wrist n m i4 4 y Att eiiiia1i niAiY a-h Atffht lSfi uva l juu iuiuk mil a ucar uiue cunclusion to our tango-bolero? And don't you think It would be perfectly polite to dance that in any ballroom?" Perfectly nolite and verv fetching Perfectly polite, and very retching and pretty. I think, dont you? And I hope we may all learn to do It with a fraction of the dainty grace and mod esty shown by its inventors. LILLIAN LAUFERTY. " CTDflMr'C "H1TD WnDItV MKUIMUD UUK WUKLD BY DR. C. H. PARKHURST. D R. JOSIAH STRONG'S new book. "Our World, the first of a projected series of three volumes, commends It self to the attention of those who are interested In the trend of present events and in the social crisis which we all somehow suspect to be approaching. The general purpose of the book is to show that the current of the general 'life, here and abroad, is reaching the point where it can no longer be held within the channel that it has worn

) for itself, nor restrained by th tar- , riers with which it has been artificially damned. The author !a temperate la his stateI ment of the situation and thoroughly optimistic in his anticipations, but

puts the case strongly and illustrate his position clearly and in terms la which hesitation finds no part. The closing chapter occupies itself mith tne new problem of the city. Tha author has no faith in, and little patience with, the cry of "Back to the Land. There has always been a drift livtvwani SomMihst of iho iirhan Im. pui5e cme ft lw exp,elon M Tli. 4n ,,, hififoPV -K r f th ' Tower of Babel in the plain of Shinax, T b ixavT0S ti methods. rmeriy, also, tne size ot a city was nmited by imperfect means of tranapor scope. So that, although the constant effort is being made to get people out of the city into the country, and although the Government has brought pressure to bear in the same direction, and during the fifty years following 1?50 had put nearly- half a million acres of land at the free disposition of the people, the urban population continued to increase mere rapidly than the rural three times as rapidly between 1SS0 and 1900. as is reported on the basis of th l national census. j All of this seems sufficient evldenc cf the fact that there is a current stj ting In the direction of the city, hav- : Ing its icurce in the very nature of ; things, and moving with a momentum j which neither humanitarian effort nor 1 governmental discouragement will suffice to resist. That this drift cityward has it orl- ( the fields for the town. Dr. Strong quotes the appeals made by Aristotle. uppusiug ine vuywara Trend Like Trying to Bottle the Wind. Opposing the tendency would therefore seem to be very much like trying to imprison the wind or like taking up j arms saJiut the tide If this movecentres, me prospect is rraugnt win practical and serious consequences. We have to think what will be its effect upon human physique and human character. We look to the country for physical sturdiness. It is by re-" cruits from the country that the city maintains a certain moral determination and strenuousness that seem not to germinate and thrive so readily In urban soil. Whatever may be the reason for It, such undoubtedly remains the fact. Perhaps it is because the country furnished more that la real, the city more that is fictitious. The City Democratic, the Country Republican. In the effort which we make in this lo mrcgn a gooa cause ' nd pUt BOOd 4nen ,nto offic we on the ability of the ... 4 ,.. K ' . ence of N. Y. City Tammany would never have built its nest in the coun- ! try, even if it does frame It to some extent from straws plucked in the ru- ! ral districts. It is the rural vote that prevents the passage of enactments authorizing the open saloon. Republicanism is more at home In the country Democracy in the city. Th Catholic church flourishes in the latter, the Protestant church in the former. Why these things are so Is a question not so easily answered. All that we are concerned with at the moment is the fact, and it Is not quite easy to understand why it will not become more and more the fact aa the urban tendencies now in force go on gathering strength, as in all probability they will. Ice cream is cot used to a great extent In England. If the season is unusually warm there is a good sale for bottled soft drinks. By C M. Payne

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