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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELE GRAM, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 3, 1913.

PALLADIUM'S MAGAZINE AND HOME PAGE

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MARRIED LIFE SECOND YEAR

By MABEL HERBERT URNER. . . T- t . . 1 i OH I i 1 .1

-THAI I II IS . Bllllieu, enating joyfully. Ho tore the envelope open and 'disclosed the

rcl! of billM. "What's this?" iihe repated again in ;w.ii'.z( nit nt. !!t!u Ivj: drawn up a little stool .rid v i now sitting at his feet, her ::rm rn his knee. "Doesn't it look like money?" she laughed softly, gazing up at him with .'.-.inn;;; eyes. "Hut what's it for?" 'For you. dear to help pay that debt, i t" m not quite enough, there's t;;iy -SCO there. lint I thought if you had that ninth :t might be easier for yen to get the rest. "Where did you get this?" She hid her face against her arm which still rested on his knee. "Ah, that's my secret you mustn't ask!" "You didn't go to father?" sternly. "Oh, no, no; of course not. I didn't borrow it at all. "Then how did you get it?" "Ah, don't dear I'd rather not tell you. Just believe that it is mine and that you can use it without any scruples. "Helen, I must know how you got this money. You didn't have it saved up." "N-n-no." reductantly. "Then how did you get $250?" She hesitated. ' "Ycu must answer me." And she hid her face. "My rings," softly. "But 1 didn't want you to know." "You sold them?" sharply. "Oh, no, no I just had the money loaned on them." "You mean you pawned them?" She nodded, her face still hidden. The word "pawned" had never sounded so harsh and hideous. She seemed to feel suddenly ashamed of It all. There was a long silence and then he said:

"I'm sorry you did that, Helen." "Sorry?" She looked up quickly. "Yes, it was not necessary." "But you said you owed the money and did not have it." "I could have held off the payments or rather, I will hold it off, for I shall certainly not use this money." "You won't use it?" Her lips quivered. "Of course not how can I?" "It's mine! If I want to help you in this way, why won't you let me?" "There are some things a man can't do. If you don't, feel and understand that I can't explain it." 'But, Warren, I 'm your wife can't you take anything from me? Other men have let their wives" "Well, I haven't reached that stage yet. I still have some self-respect. Tomorrow I will take this money and get your rings. You have the tickets?" She nodded. "Get them for me now." ALL THE JOY DIED OUT. Slowly she rose and went to her room. All the joy died out of her heart. She took the tickets from their hiding place in the bottom of her glove box and brought them to him. He examined them closely. "You went to this place alone?' She nodded. "Don't you know it is one of the worst neighborhoods in the city?" "No, I didn't know." "Well, it is. The trouble with you is that you are too impulsive, too emotional You're always flying off at some wild tangent without stopping to consider the consequences." "I was only trying to help you," in a low voice. "Well, you ought to know I couln't accept help in that way. Not that I don't appreciate your motives," as he saw the tears in her eyes. "Of course I know you wanted to be self-sacrificing and all that, but hereafter use a little more judgment."

WHEN CUPID SA YS"I WILL RETURN" By NELL BRINKLEY

Parents, Make Your Children Respect You

Ly DOROTHY DIX. j the comfort and happiness of their

CHINESE scholar, who re-, Fractically ln e family know ccntly lectured in this city, the children are the 0nes Who Must savs that a ereat deal of the . . .

, ,. ; ae uDeyea. ineir win is law. Their

opinions decide matters. They have j the best clothes. They go to peaces of ; amusement while the parent:! tay at home. The father and mo f.er are merely upper servants to look after i the children's wants.

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has been due to the respect and affection in which young men hold their mothers, and that, it is not surprising that Chinese children honor their parnts. since they are taught to do so by means of the very first reader. 1 wonder if it would be possible to bcrrow any of these Chinese first readii's liv use in American schools and homes? Here's a Chance for China to leach Us a Needed Lesson.

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NELL BRINKLEY SAYS :

; Children Are Selfish Because ! They Are Taught to Be That Way. j And the children repay this attitude I of their parents just as you would ex- ! pect. They are insolent and overbear-

..ive bpem a .ci OI euo:i aim , ing and selfish and disobedient be mom y in sending missionaries over to , cause they have been taught tQ fee the so-called heathen Chinee. Here's a ; Thov av t,- ki, ., t

chance for China to repay the debt

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' been made to consider their parents.

While the good ladies in China, how- and it never occurs to them to do so. ever, are holding oyster suppers, and The other day a prosperous looking church fairs, and sewing bees to raise man entered a subway car with a the money for their missionary enter- much dressed up littla boy about six prises for our benefit, it may not be years old. There was only one vacant amiss for American parents to take scat and the child made a dart for it note of the fact that the volume that and got it. The man said: "Son, let is found so efficacious in instillTig father have that seat nnrt von -an cit

respect for parents in the youthful breast is the FIRST READER. It is not Differential Calculus, or Kant on Pure Reason, or any of the high-browed literature that a man peruses in his mature years. Which is to say, that if you want your child to treat you with reverence

in his lap." "Huh," responded son, "I got it first, and I'm going to keep it." And he did. while the man hung on to a strap. Children Raised in That Way a Curse to the Community. Everybody round about looked bale-

and respect, you must instil those fully at the child and as if they'd give sentiments in him while he is young five dollars to have him turned across and not wait for him to acquire them their knees in a good slapping posiwhen he comes to the years of dis-; tion for about five minutes, but I cretion. Conduct is nine-tenths habit. ! thought there should be some sort of Unconsciously we go on treating peo-ja commission appointed to commit pie the way we have always treated such parents to the asylum for the them, and the son and daughter who , feeble minded. have run rough shod over their par- i For that man, and parents of his ilk.

BESIDE you stretches a flannely bundle swathed like a small mummy. Only the face that ornaments the top of the bundle is not the black and gold, slanteyed, baffling face that gazes above the mummy case. Here is a pink face, the color of crumpled, pale, pink roses, crumpled a bit like them, too, you must admit, topped on its smooth head with a marvelous fine down of feathery hair. It is your dear delight to caress with the palm of your hand that exquisite golden fuzz. You like to hang above it, too brooding with dove's eyes and cooing with dove's voice. One slim hand bound about on its third finger with a golden ring rests and moves tenderly on the hard, shirted shoulder of the man who sometimes comes to kneel beside the bed to put his big chin on his folded fist and gaze and smile and whistle soft at the tiny face of his baby girl. Your face bended down his tilted up you study and yearn over and incessantly watch the atom between you. Sometimes, then, you raise your eyes to look deep and long into one another's. Sometimes, then you kiss and your hand steals closer about the

man's neck with the same curving, cherishing line it has when you slip it beneath your baby's head. And while you brood and wonder there is One who tiptoes over from the door, looks breathlessly at the blue-eyed, blossom-mouthed thing between you and then draws back with a smile. Sometimes in the man's eyes dawns a look that signals he is aware in a dim fashion of the presence of that One. And he looks rather violently then for a father has a fashion of getting ferocious over the idea that Love must come some day to his small baby girl. Under the blue curtain at the door Love turns and grins. "I will be back," he says, exulting, "in ANOTHER EIGHTEEN YEARS. She doesn't look like much material now. She has no hair to speak about, no teeth to smile with no

ineck. Her cheeks fit right onto her shoulders. iShe has so little intellect that she is intensely j amused for long hours with her ten toes. She

makes bubbles with her mouth all day long. And murmurs and holds forth to herself in a

j language no lover could understand. BUT j WAIT. I know these little atoms AND I !WILL BE BACK IN EIGHTEEN YEARS."

ents ln their childhood continue to run rough shod over them in their manhood and womanhood. We Americans are very scornful because the Chinese worship their ancestors, but ancestor worship is a much less dangerous religion than the child worship that prevails among us. H does a great grandfather's spirit no harm to be prayed to, but it everlasting ruins the child for its parents to kowtow and knock their foreheads before it. How other godlings act we do not know, but it fills the American brand with an insufferable self-complacency and self-esteem, and makes it a grinding tyrant who tramples its slaves into the dust. The modern car of Juggernaut is the perambulator, and millions of American parents cast themselves before It and let it crush out all of

are not only raising up their children to be a heartbreak to themselves but a curse to the community. It is these children who are brought up without any respect for their parents, or regard for others, and who are greedily intent on getting the best for themselves, who make countless thousands mourn by their inhumanity. Of course it seems to the adoring parents that it's cute for a tiny tot to defy them. They make a hundred excuses when Johnnie is impertinent to them, and Mary talks back when they dare to reprove her. They even think it funny when their child openly criticizes their ways, because they are so sure that when it grows up it will appreciate all they have done for it and the sacrifices they have made. It is a fallacious hope. Unless you have established an authority over a

child before it is three years old, unless you have bred respect and reverence in it from its very cradle you will never get anything from that child but contempt. And it's really all you deserve, because you had your chance and you threw it away. The Chinese are an older and, in many respects, a wiser people than we. That's why the child's lesson in its duty to its parents begins in the First Reader. There is no other feature in American life that is so pathetic and so altogether wrong as the relationship that exists between parents and children, and the fact that in the average family the father and mother are so afraid of their children that they dare not call their souls their own must make angels weep. Often the parents have given the children, at incredible sacrifices to themselves, advantages that they never had in their own youth but instead of the sons and daughters being filled with gratitude and appreciation they are ashamed of their father and mother, and correct them so often about their grammar and their manners, and their way of dress, that the

poor old people go thembling before them. The Only Time to Learn This Lesson Is in Early Youth. It is for these young upstarts, without reverence for age or respect for

their parents, that we need a hundred shiploads of Chinese First Readers. There can be no better education for boys and girls than to be taught to honor their parents, and the only time in life in which this lesson can be thoroughly learned is in early youth. And this is something for parents clso to remember if you want your children to reverence you when you are old, you must make them respect you when they are young.

TRUTH. Nerve thy soul with doctrines noble. NoMe in the walks of time. Time that 'ads to an eternal. An eternal life sublime: Life sublime in moral beauty, Be.iuty that shall ever be; Ever le to l'.:re thee onward. Onward to t!ie fountain free; Free to every earnest seeker. Seeker for the fount of youth. Youth exultant in if beauty. Beauty of the living truth. Anonymous.

Ey Prey. "I'd like to see the woman who could make a fool of me" "Very well. Just glance at the nt rood looking one you meet Chicago ttecord-Herald.

SIGNALS FOR RECORDING TIME

By GARRETT P. SERVISS. j SINCE July 1 time signals, giving j the exact hour as determined j by astronomical observation, j have been radiating through the air from the lofty Eiffel Tower, in Paris, speeding in all directions with the velocity of light, and all that peopie who want to keep their clocks and . watches regulated in accord with the . steady motion of the earth on its axis ' have to do is to capture these flying ,

signals with a wireless telegraph receiver attached to a telephone. Awav off in Africa, In Algiers and

Tunis, the invisible electric waves are 1

caught with perfect ease, and ships at sea, off the French coast, can take them at will, and thus regulate their chronometers and ascertain their position with an accuracy hitherto unattainable. This Is truly scientific magic. Just think of it! You want to know the true time to the fraction of a second, and all you have to do in order to get It is to open your electric ear to these sounds, which seem to drop out of the

sky as If Old Time himself were speak- j ing to you! It Is Like Watch Wheels Geared j To Rotating Earth. It is very much as if the wheels of ! your watch were geared for a moment

to the rotating earth in order to correct their rate, for the whole thing

is done automatically. The pendulum of a special clock in the Observatory of Paris a clock whose running 1b kept accurately in accord with the rotation of the earth periodically closes a circuit, which instantly actuates the wireless apparatus in the Eiffel Tower and thus sends forth an electric voice, traveling with a speed which would suffice to carry it seven times round the earth in a single second, and which Bays in radiotelegraphic lan guage. "ten a. m." or "midnight," as the case may be. For hundreds of miles around, in every direction, this mysterious voice drops out of space and can be heard in any telephone attached to a wireless receiver. Beginning three minutes before the automatic transmission of the hour is made, a set of warning signals is sent out, by listening for which the receiver may be prepared to note with great accuracy the difference between the time indicated by his watch and that given by the observatory clock. A practised observer can make the correction to .the tenth of a second. Even home-made wireless receivers

suffice for picking up these signals. Within the confines of Paris and it suburbs the signals are so distinct that an ordinary gas pipe may be employed for an antenna to catch the electric waves and a water pipe to form the connection with the earth, while the detector may be of the simplest form, such as any electrician can make. Persons near the Kiffel Tower may employ their own bodies as antennae, merely pressing between two fingers the terminal of a wireless receiver. Similarly, the wire connecting the electric bells in a house may be used for an antenna.

On Cloudy Nights Signals Ar Flashed by Wireless. If a cloudy night prevents astronomical observations ln Paris, corrections for the master-clock are received by similar wireless signals sent out from a series of observatories, as at Algiers, Marseilles, Nice and Besancon. It is almost impossible that cloudy weather should prevail simultaneously at all these places, but even

if hat should happen, provision Is made for keeping the clock regulated by the aid of a number of other very accurate clocks railed "time guards," which can he depended upon not to vary more than a small fraction of a second in the course of several days. As the means of sending out such signals improve, so that they can be transmitted across the whole breadth of all the oceans, from properly chosen central stations, navigation will attain a degree of safety hitherto unknown At present the officers of a ship at sea have to depend for the accuracy of their calculations of longitude, or distance east or west of Greenwich, upon the more or less true running of their chronometers. Such a System Would Definitely Have Located the Titanic They can ascertain local time and their latitude by celestial observations alone, but such observations do not give the longitude unless the true Greenwich time is also known. This the new system of wireless transmission will supply with a degree of universality and accuracy that is truly, marvellous. If such a system bad been in operation at the time of the wreck of the Titanic there might have been no such uncertainty as was actually shown in the calculations of the positions of the various ships that played a part in that terrible tragedy of the ocean.

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