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CHOOSING A HAT AND A HUSBAND

THROUGH the mossy-carpeted, scented temple, where hats are lifted tenderly and deftly on and off of fair heads and dark, I strolled, the gentle cynic beside me, with one bright eye ' open for an Autumn hat for me, myself. All about the outer edges of the temple glass cases arose, filled with vari-colored chapeaux on their slender stands, like so many bright storks standing on one leg. Out in the -green open of the temple, two-faced mirrors stood about, each with a tiny gilt and mahogany chair before it. Tall women, slender as race horses; short ones, round and plump as partridges, all clad in trailing, ankle-binding black, insinuated themselves softly about, carrying meltingly perfect little hats on three fingers, their faces spread with the expression of a

Debt the Ugliest By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. A MAN who has made a great financial success, somewhat suddenly, is doing much charitable and helpful work for humanity, but he is marring his own character and making trouble for himself and others in the future by one unfortunate habit. HE NEVER PAYS A DEBT UNTIL FORCED TO DO SO AT THE ELEVENTH HOUR. Every one who knows the man knows that he is honest and generous. He is sure to pay all he owes and to liquidate every debt, eventually. But, meantime, he causes untold discomfort to his creditors frequently by his delays. Often, while some man to whom he Is owing a large bill is needing the money to push along his own affairs, his wealthy debtor is giving liberal sums to aid others or to help sonn worthy cause. But there is a leak in the lifeboat of this man which, unless mended, will eventually either sink his cr,aft or damage all its cargo. No doubt the habit was first formed when he was struggling to make his way; before fortune turned her smiling face upon him. But his very struggles and needs In early life should have made him more consistent in his dealings with his fellow men after he obtained his fortune. Debt is the ugliest monster on earth outside of crime. Every young man or woman who is setting forth upon a self-suporting career should keep his mental gunB charged and ready to fire upon the ogre the moment it presents its horrid face at the door. If the habit of debt is once formed, It Is almost as difficult to break as alcoholism or the drug habit. The longer It is indulged in the more difficult the cure. Everj' parent should teach a child that debt is a phase of shame. Tell your boy or girl that it is far more respectable to wear old garments and to be unable to present a smart appearance than to go about in clothes which are not paid for, or to indulge in any pleasures or privileges which have made debt a neces- , slty.

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Monster on Earth Then train them in the way of keeping a careful cash account each clay and of balancing up their books at the end of each week. Speak often and repeatedly of the honor which such habits eventually bring and of the corresponding dishonor which follows on the habit of debt. There are children born into the world with a tendency to be borrowers and even to be thieves, because their fathers were parsimonious and niggardly with their mothers before their birth. And the children received the mental mark of their mothers' unfortunate state of mind. One such woman longed for certain kinds of food before the birth of her child, and was told by her husband that her longings were extravagant and unreasonable. So persistent were her longings, however, and so small was the expense they entailed, that the unhappy, expectant mother purloined pennies from the pockets of her sleeping master, and when she had obtained the petty sum needed purchased the dainty she desired. But her child was born with a mania for taking things which did not belong to her; even when she could have them by asking, or possessed money to purchase them, she prefrered to steal. Men of that niggardly type often force their wives and children into the debt habit. It is astonishing to find how many men of independent j means hold tight the purse strings, I asks for a small monthly allowance, i and compel their wives to go emptyhanded, while given unquestioned right to buy whatever they desire, so long as their purchases are presented to the husband in a bill at the end of the month. Frequently these men make no complaint at extravagance, yet make bitter protest if the wife asks for a small monthly allowance. Children reared under such conditions have no horror of debt. They have been taught that it is the only way to obtain what they desire. Every boy and girl ought to be given a i small weekly or monthly allowance, ' taught how to spend it wisely, and ' made to keep a strict account. ! With such teaching should go a j continual kindly, persistent education

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slave bearing his master's pet jewel in his hand. We walked slowly and at last stood still behind a little beauty of a woman who twisted and turned on a mahogany and gilt chair under countless hats that were lowered to and lifted in swift succession from her head. Oh, la; such a weighty matter was this! Here was good, honest labor and thought spent recklessly! The race-horse saleslady in black charmeuse searched and worked desperately and absorbedly. The girl on the chair, brown-eyed, gold-haired, sought out her image in the mirror under a myriad of hats at endless angles ! Old Time trod swiftly by, and at last at last, the little lady rose honestly. "I must," she said, "I must think it over. I like this little blue one, but I must go home and think it over!" There was smiling and bowing and the lady of

on the nobility of independence, and the dishonor of debt. If children form such ideals before they go out into the world, there is small fear that they will ever form the habit of debt afterward. A BIG, beautiful soul has passed from a weak, suffering body, and the cot occupied for sixteen years in the Home for Incurables by Lucy Adams is vacant. Readers of this column have, at various intervals, done sweet and gracious acts to help brighten the life of this girl, whose story has been made known to them. Lucy Adams tell from the elevated station in New York city and broke her spine when she was only seven years old. For fully twenty years she lay in bed unable to sit up; and for the last sixteen years of her life she remained in the Home for Incurables at Third avenue and One Hundred and Eigthy-third street. Despite her helpless condition and the pain she suffered almost constantly, Lucy Adams was a beautiful looking girl, with an animated countenance, a sweet voice and a wonderfully well-informed mind. It was a pleasure to converse with her. The smallest favors gave her great pleasure, and her letters were always filled with gratitude for benefits and blessings received, instead of complaints for the privileges denied. Two years ago, readers of this paper responded to a call for assistance, and the young invalid's life was brightened and cheered by the gift of needed sums of money, of flowers and fruit, and calls and letters. It should be a source of deep gratification to all who remembered her in these various ways to think they were privileged to be of some comfort to so lonely a soul Inherrelease from physical fetters those who loved her can only rejoice that she has passed into a larger and higher realm of consciousness. And that she is surrounded by bright and beautiful angels, who are leading her from joy to joy and pleasupe to pleasure, and bestowing upon her all that she missed in thhe earth life, is as certain as that after the night comes the morning. God's fullnes sof love and peace and joy be with you, sweet Lucy Adams.

Nell Brinkley Says

MARRIED LIFE By MABEL HERBERT URNER. "B UT, Warren, she's not even clean. She uses the tea towels for the teapots and pans, and I saw her wiping off the bread board with an old floor rag." Warren shrugged his shoulders. "But why don't you tell her show her how you want things done." "I do but what's the use? I can't stand her that's all there is about it. I can tolerate almost anything except uncleanliness but when it comes to that" "It's no use telephoning she's a sample of the kind they send when you don't go there yourself." "Then why don't you go?" "How can I and leave the baby?" He shrugged his shoulders, again, as though it was a problem quite outside his province. WARREN NOT KEEN FOR THE JOB. "Warren, you'll just have to go! You know what kind of a girl we want and you'll have to go and engage her." "Not if I know it! Passing his cup for more coffee. "Then I'll have to do the work myself for I won't have this woman about. If it was only for a few days I wouldn't mind, but Anna writes it may be six weeks before she can leave her brother." "How about the woman who comes hene to clean?" "Mrs. Fitipatrick? Why I did send for her, but she has a place now as a scrub-woman in a hotel!" "Then telephone to the employment agency, I tell you. Explain to them just what you want. Make them understand they must send you a girl who is satisfactory. "Oh, I tried to do all that when I sent for this one." "Then try another agency." "You know they're all alike. Warren you MUST go! You can stop on your way to the office; it won't take you long." "Stop on my may to the office! That's what you always say, as though everything under the sun was right on my way to the office. This place is miles out of the way.' "Then I think you should go out of

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the startling brown and gold face-coloring was gone. The gentle cynic turned and smiled wryly. "Look at that, pray, mademoiselle! That reminds me, because it is so different, of the fashion in which that same careful little lady will go out and take unto herself a husband! Of course, sometimes a woman walks out of a temple of millinery with a fright on her head, just as she leaves the church door with a fright by her side. But in the first mistake it isn't because she didn't spend time and gray matter on it! "See, now, this little lady. She worked like a little tow-head, using time, patience, all her brain, her judgment, her artistic sensibilities. She didn't stop at one. She tried two dozen on the top of her gilt head. And now she has gone home to 'think it over.'

SECOND YEAR the way. With the baby and all the care I have, the least you can do is to help me to get a maid." Perhaps the responsibilities of justice of this struck him, for he said reluctantly: THE TASK OF PICKING A SERVANT. "Well I can't go until late this afternoon." "That will do. They probably wouldn't send any one until morning anyway! Here the new maid, a Blouchy slovenly looking girl came to the door wiping her hands on her soiled apron. "The grocery boy's here, lie wants to know where is them packages of oatmeal you wants to send back." "Very well, I'll get them." And Helen hurried into the kitchen. When she came back. Warren had left the breakfast table and was getting ready for the office. "Oh, I hope you'll get somebody that's clean! Just now I wanted to wash my hands, after getting out that oatmeal, and the spigots were so greasy I could hardly turn them. What ever else you do, be sure you impress on them that we want a girl who is CLEAN!" "All right," he answered carelessly. "And tidy about her clothes. If possible see the girl yourself. You can tell so much more." "All right." "And yet a young girl if you can. ! they are always so much more willing and agreeable than the older ones. I think a Swede is the best, one that hasn't been over here very long." "All right," patiently. "And aek he if she likes babies; it's so much better to have some one that does." "All right, more impatiently. "And oh, Warren do try to get some one that can use the 'phone, this girl acts as though she never saw one before." WHERE WARREN LOSES PATIENCE. 6 "Now here, do you want ME to get this girl or do YOU want to?" "Why, dear I was just trying to tell you" "Well, don't tell me any more! Leave it toie, I may not get an arch angel, but I'll wager I'll get about as

"How will it be when she takes a mate? He will probably pick up her wisp of a handkerchief on the train between here and Chicago, they will look once into each other's eyes and the next day there will bo a wedding and their pictures in the paper. She'll never know if he's becoming to her style of disposition until after she has him. She'd never in a thousand years walk out with the first hat that ravished her eye. She goes home to 'think it over.' But she walks off with the first man who touches her heart. And it's after that she 'thinks it over.' "Tell me why that is when the hat may be chucked into the yesterdays when this short season is over and a husband lasts forever?" So I have made a picture of it for the cynic's delectation. If he is right or not I do not know.

good as they've got. And you can fire this one as soon as you like. I'll promise to have the other one on the job in the morning." When the door was closed after him Helen stood for a moment in anxious thought. Then she ran out into the hall. "Oh, Warren, be sure that 6he's " But the hall was empty. The elevator had just taken him down. AS TO CONTENTEDNESS A MAN generally manages to be pretty comfortable with what he has, provided he knows of nothing more and is not thrown in with those who are more liberally fixed. So far as we learn, our ancestors, while still living in the woods, with no suspicion of modern conveniences and luxuries, had a very good time of it, lived as long as they could and passed on. as regretfully as we, into the celestial fields. Onlv the Few Have Grace to Be Satisfied with Their Lot. A magazine writer has lately been trying to prove to those among us who are less comfortably situated that they ought to be satisfied with their lot, and that because the amount now on deposit in the savings banks of the country is four and a half billion dollars, as against half a billion in 1870, there ought to be no complaint on account of hard conditions. Such condition I roceeds from a failure to appreciate one important ingredient of human contentedness. Some people have the grace to be satisfied with what they have, be it more or less than what others have; but the attitude of mind of the big majority is this: "I am as good as anybody and therefore deserve to have as much as anybody, and because I have less the public treats me unjustly." And because he is so busy being angry with what he hasn't got he forgets to enjoy what he has. and goes off and joins the Socialists or the 1. W. W.'s. There is no doubt that there is a great deal of unfairness in the world. A great many have more than they ought to have and a great many more have less, and this will never be a pleasant and harmonious world till there is a better adjustment than ex-

By Nell Brinkley

isis at present between the conflict ing claims of the different elements of society. Look Not Too Much Upon the Things of Others, to Be Happy. At the same time whatever readjustments may ultimately be made it will always be the case in this world, and probably in the next, that our satisfaction and contentedness will depend upon not looking too much upon the things of others, but upon extracting .ill the juice that is contained In the blessings that are our own. TRIED TO BE TACTFUL Ye L't-.le Glory's Schema Didn't WerW Out According to RuU. i "Cbildrrn." said Mr. Timkins. mho bad t-en Mnll'i:ty uim t-d t deliver little sermon :is lit- svtallowfd tils aec ond egg at lii'akfat. wlf never tU hear au.vlKxly ay anything tueao or unpleasant, act as tlutuIi you badn't heard It. Talk alrfiut MHuetbius and pretend you don't hear. That' what we -all tact." Wben Mr. TiniUiis got home tb.it afternron from the office he observed that sotnelxuly IijhI strewn Ul favorite golf chili and all his gulf hall! oer the front yard Summoning hi six-year-old daughter ilory. he sal'J sternly: "Glory, did you get all dad's golf tlilnzs out and puf them here whera anybody could steal them?" -Dad." replied Glory with perffr-t composure, "bn't it too bad our cream freezer's out of order, 'cium Mary can't make any ice cream?" "Glory. d'Hvn dig up all this turf knnt kinz tbo? balls around?" "And Uncle Randolph came anJ took mother for a ride In bin auto. continued the six-year-old. "When are r goin to pet an auto, dad?" "But. Glory." nail Mr. Timkins. "I want to know about these golf club. Did you strew tbem aroond beret Why don't you answer?" -Well. yen. I did." said the younc person. "Ln I wan trying to cban the subject, 'cause 1 didu't want yon to know thr.t I heard something meaa and unplejtsjint. New York Post. Women clerks in the iorestry department of California will hereafter receive the tame wages as the men clerks. Bv. C. Payne