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PAGE EIGHT THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, TUESDAY, SEPT. 23, 1913 PALLADIUM'S MAGAZINE AND HOME PAGE

Married Life the Second Year

By MABEL HERBERT URNER. IT ELEN folded up her sewing and -A then took the crochet work - from her mother's lap. "Mother, it is after twelve. You mustn't stay up any longer you're not used to losinst uleep." "Are you Koiug to wait up until Warren comes" "I might as we ll. I can't sleep if I go to bed." "Ik he oftr xn late?" asked her mother hesitatingly. Helen nodded. "SometimeB." Reluctantly her mother went to bed. Helen settled herself by the light and tried to read. But the magazine soon fell from !;r lap, and she found herself lintoninj: tensely for Warren's step. She knew the condition he would be in when he came And that this should happen during her mother's visit! Mrs. Allen had seen enough of their desentions and quarrels to know that her daughter was not happy. But as yet she did not known that Warren drank. And this at least, Helen hoped to keep from her. HER MOTHER SHOWS SHE KNOWS. The door opened now, and Mrs. Allen came out in her night gown, a dressing sacqur over her shoulders. "Helen, this clock is slow it's almo:t one. Don't stay up any longer. It won't make him come any sooner." "Oh, I know, but I couldn't sleepTin too nervous." Her mother drew the sacque closer about her and sat down on the couch. "Helen, do you know what I think you should do?" Helen looked up in surprise. Her mother had respected her desire not In discuss Warren in any way. But fhe instinctively felt she was going to do so now. "I think it would be very wise if yen would take the baby and come home with me for a few weeks' visit." "Why, mother, how could I?" "Very easily. And it would be the very best thing that could happen for both you and Warren. In all marriages, there comes a time for a short separation. You haven't been away from him a day since you married, have you?" Helen shook her head. "That in itself is very bad. All married people should have an occasional vacation from each other. It gives them a new view point, a better sense Df the proportions of things. You grow to magnifying each other's faults and failings, if you stay with them too closely. "Now, make up your mind to come home with me. I've been wanting to suggest this ever since I came. You and Warren are reaching a critical period in your marriage, anl if you don't have a short separation now you may have a much longer one later on." "You men" Helen faltered, "That vou think in the end we will " SUGGESTS A WISE COURSE. "I mean that just, now, dear, you are under constant friction, and that you can com r home with me for a few weeks would be a very nice thing." "But, mcther. you don't think I've grown to magnify Warren's faults, do you? Surely you can't help but see that he is sometimes v ery selfish and and irritable." "My clear, 'all men are selfish. The lives of ici'' rmep are a constant adjustment t the selfishness of men. The thinr I fear most, with you and Warren, i your radically different tmi iT..irnt:v You long for affection, lor tenderness and he is very cold and undemonstrative. You have always been emotional and he loathes emotions And now you have reached the point where you are constantly waning where you have gotten on each other's nerves. That is why I want you to go away for a while." "You think that will help?" "I think it is certainlv worth trying." Helen was regarding her mother with mingled wonder and admiration. "And you have seen all this when I thought you didn't know'. When I tried so hard to keep you from knowing how how things were." Her mother smiled. "1 have seen hat too. that is why 1 haven't spoken before. And if I didn't think this rip might help, I should say nothing, 3ven now. For I have never believed .luttnde interference ever helps married people to solve their troubles." "But, mother how could I leave aow could 1 " "DON'T WAIT UP," SHE ADVISED. "Don't talk any more about it tonight. You'll only find reasons for not going. .Tust think it over for a day or so. And go if bed now I wouldn't wait up for Warren any longer. That is never a good plan " Helen took her mother's advice and went slowly to bed. When Warren came, half an hour later, she pretended she was asleep. But. until dawn, she lay awake thinking of her mother'r. words: "If you don't have a short separation now you may have a much longer one later on." $1,000,000,000 COUNTRY Where millions were formerly an adequate yardstick for measuring in dollars the commercial and other activities of tV United States, our growth in all respects has been so rapid and tremendous that the billion dollar measure is now being adopted. The com crop last year yielded a value well above the billion mark: Congress ai each session appropriates more than a billion dollars: exports of agricultural products of the country for the year ending June 30 for the first time passed the billion measure, with a total of $1,026,000,000. compared with $944,000,000 in 1912: the debt of New Y"ork City is approximately $1.000,000,000 and city-owned property is worth much more than that; the foreign commerce of the city is nearlv $2,000,000,000 annually. All of which goes to show that the United States Is a billion dollar country. BUYS COAL SUPPLY Coal, purchased by the township to supply the poor and indigent, cost 25 cents per ton less than it cost last year. The contract was awarded to Mather Bros. Four dollars and fifty cents per ton was the contract price. The coal will be delivered within a few days on request of applicants.

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I i '"THIS is the way in which Dr. Nai I than Schaeffer, Superintendent ! A of Public Instruction, Pennsyli vania, computes a boy's value: "What is a boy worth? What is an education worth? "You will find the value of a boy's time at school by subtracting the earnings of a life of uneducated labor from a life of educated labor. "If an uneducated man earns $1.50 j a day for 300 days a year, he does very ! well. If he keeps It up for forty years I he will earn $18,000. An educated man is not usually paid by the day, but by the month or year. If you will strike an average of the earnings of an educated man, begin with the President of the United States, who earns $75,000; the president of railroads and other large corporations, and run the scale until you come to the lower walks ii point of earnings and you will admit that $1,000 a year is a low average for the earnings of educated labor. Auto-Photographic By GARRETT P. SERVISS. I A FRENCH inventor has contrived i an improved means of flatter-1 ing human vanity, in the form I of an auto-photographic machine, with whose aid the sitter can choose his I own pose and arrange his own expression, without the intervention of a third person. All he has to do is to place himself on a stool before the machine, look into a mirror, fix his hair and his j necktie, and graduate his smile to i suit his mood or his fancy, and then ! drop a coin in a slot, or, if it is a pri- j vate machine owned by himself, touch a button, whereupon the mechanism j sets to work, takes his photograph, de- j velops it, transfers it t o a card, fixes it, and at the end of three minutesj delivers the finished photograph, in a permanent form, in a box at the bottom of the apparatus, and is ready for another pose. The entire process is effected by means of a system of electro-magnets, and nearly all the steps are visible to the sitter, who can amuse himself by remaining in his chair and watch-! ing the operation through windows iir the enclosing box. j i Lights and Shades as Delicate as ! if an Expert Did It. The machin3 also possesses a system of lighting which imitates the effects produced by the photographer's j shades and reflecting screens, so that j the subject is properly illuminated, ! and the photograph comes out as del- . icately modeled with regard to light and shadow as if an expert poser had superintended the operation. Few persons are quite satisfied with ! the proceedings of a photographer, or j are willing to admit that notwithstanding all his experience, he can ohoose for them the exact pose and lighting which they would prefer, but with this machine all can arrange such things to please themselves. One often says to himself when looking into a mirror: "Now, if 1 could only get THAT expression and THAT lighting in a photograph, how much better it would be! But I can't see how I look when the photographer has posed me, and I don't know how I am going to look until the picture is finished." It is to avoid this kind of disap YOU CAN IF A noted writer has said, "Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it." Every person gets at least one opportunity. The successful one has seen this opportunity, turned it to his advantage and advanced to the realization of his hopes and aims. There never was a time in the world's history when talen was more world's history when talent was more reward than at the present. The world is looking for loyal men to fill its responsible positions, but only those who have toiled step by step will be found ready. We all wish to better our positions in life. The fact is, the inherent desire of man is ever and always to better his condition. To do this one must have not only a high ideal, but must at all times be found striving to obtain that plane of excellence which will be one step nearer his goal. The great men of today are those who at an early age decided what they wished to accomplish and through

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"For forty years you have $40,000 as the earnings of the educated man. Subtract $18,000 from $40,000 and the difference of $22,000 must represent the value of a boy's time spent at school getting an education. "You will admit that a man who works with his hands at unskilled labor puts forth as much muscular effort as a man who earns a livelihood by his wits and education. Now, if $22,000 represents the value of the time a boy spends at school getting an education, what is the value of a day spent in school "Say that the average school life of a boy or grl Is seven years of 200 days each. Let us say that it takes four more years to get a good education. Reckon eleven years of 200 days each, you will find that the 2,200 days of school are equal to $22,000, and simple division will bring it home to the comprehension of every boy and girl that each school day, properly spent, must be worth $10.00." Machine Described pointment that the invention described has been made. The pictures are made on the regular platinc-bromide paper and lack nothing but the photographer's touch: ing up of the negative, which often does as much harm as good. They are also made on prepared .post cards. In its usual form, the machine is intended to be placed In public places, like those that deliver candles, but it can also be used without the device of dropping money in the slot, and then the mechanism can be set In motion by simply pressing a button. Not a Detail, It Seems, Has Been Missed in Its Making. Thus it becomes a private photographing apparatus for the home. In such countries as France, where photographs are often demanded on cards of identification" for many purposes, its usefulness is apparent. No detail seems tot have been neglected in the automatic action of the machine. As soon as it hai been set in motion, a bell rings, and thereupon a placard appears before the sitter reading: "Attention! Fix your expression." In a few moments another sign appears: "Don't move!" Immediately afterward the picture is taken by instantaneous exposure, whereupon a third sign makes its appearance. "Thanks. The sitting is finished. In three minutes you will find your portrait in the box at the bottom." After that, as before said, the sit ter can watch many of the automatic proceedings of the machine through the windows. If it is a public machine that is used the sitter's coin remains in plain sight until the moment when the portrait is delivered. Your Coin Comes Back if the Machine Fails to Work. If for any accidental reason the apparatus fails to work through to the end, the coin falls into an outer bowl and can be reclaimed by the sitter. Soft as the inventor truly claims, his machine is "strictly honest," or, as he might have said, automatically honest, in which respect it may be regarded as a scientific instructor in square dealing. YOU WILL prosperity and adversity kept their ( goal in view. j Don't think your employer keeps i you down, for there never was an em- ! ployer and there will never be an employer who is seeking earnestly to j build business who will fail to wel- j come the growth of those who are j helping him. j All executives are seeking for men ' upon whom they can place some of the burdens which they are forced to j carry. i Another thing which a young man ' should always bear in mind is the : fact that no progress can be made i without strict honesty. The faithful farm laborer is of far greater worth than a so-called successful business man who carries a guilty conscience. If a man is willing to forsake low thoughts and associations, there is no , reason why he may not succeed. Good motives and righteous thoughts build ' a good character and foretell a buc- j cessful career. j In the words of Abraham Lincoln: "You can if you will." j AM PRCS! DENT of JJL TELEGRAPH COMPANY

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BOBBIE, sed Pa last nite, the richest man in this country is dimming oaver to the hotel to have dinner with us tonite. I met him last nite oaver at the lodge. He rules this littel town with a rod of iron. Pa sed. In the short Summer that we have been staying here I know of a dozen mortgages wich he has fore-closed, sed Pa. He is a grand old sport, deesidedly not. The n oly reeson I asked him over was so you cud studdy him & try to be as different wen you grow up as you can possibly be. Jest then the rich old man cairn. His name was Mister Stone & wee I seen him I thought it was a good naim for him. He was thin & raeen looking & his eyes looked like the eyes in a big fish. He looked as if he wud like to maik everybody sufer. Me & Ma dldent like him & he dident like us. I always eat at this hotel wen I am Invited here, he sfd to us. Thay always wait on me, you bet, beckaus I own the place & sum of these days 1 will have the landlord & hi.- family out in the street. How nice, sed Ma. How thoughtful of you. You bet, sed Mister Stone Teepul have got to tote fair with me, or I set down on them good and hard. I suppoas his wife will snivel wen I put them out, sed Mister Stone, but I am used to hearig wimmen snivel & I ain't no tenderskin. I newer liked to hear a woman cry, sed Pa. I know thare must have been a lot of wimmen cried wen I married, but I cuddent help that unless I moved to Utah. Pa sed. Pa was trying to keep everything jolly. I guess he was afrade Ma wud bawl out his rich frend. We are going to stay in your littel village all of September & October, sed Ma. I think those two months is the luvliest months in the year, when all the leeves is gold and crimson & the 6ky seems so soft & tender. That is the time I git most of my munny, sed Mister Stone. You bet I git after them farmers wen they sell thare crops. I have to watch them up, too. Some of them will do you if you doant watch then until you git every cent and the interest. Sum of them complain beekaus the . crops is poor, but that ain't my fault, sed Mister Stone. Is it my fault if the crops is bad? Do I maik them that way? he asked Ma. You can't, but I think if you had yure way you wud, sed Ma. I cud see that Ma was awful sore at Mister Stone. I am going: out hunting to-morrow with Len Holloway, sed Pa. Maybe you would like to cum along. Not me sed Mister Stone. I don't have no time for such foolishness, & I wuddent trust that Holloway nohow. I turned him and his no good fambly out of one of my houses last Winter, he sed, & it would be jest like him to fill my hide full of bird shot. You bet I know who my enemies are, he sed. You must have a vary ree-tensive memory, sed Ma. Doant you ewer Mr$. Worrimevt "Just look at this dress! Isn't that awful? I was walking along the street and one of those big autotrucks splashed me from head to foot with mud! I guess I might as well throw the dress away." Anty Drudge "Well, if it was me, instead of throwing away several dollars' worth of good dress I'd get a cake of FelsNaptha Soap, wash those mudstains and have a good-as-new dress in a jiffy." A cake of FelsNaptha Soap will cut your washday work in half and give you time for rest and pleasure; save your strength; save coal or gas bills, and do your work better than it was ever done before. Fels-Naptha Soap works best in cool or lukewarm water, without hard rubbing or scrubbing. It washes clothes without boiling. It does all kinds of work easily and quickly. Jjt fUom tkt rfirrrfwMu on tke P'4 Naptk by tk carte or be 1. THm C. Philadelphia.

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"V 7 O one in this world is accused. ; j ju tried, convicted and hung j ! Quite as often as the husband, I and no one ever goe so often to the : gallows in ingnorance of what he did that sends him there. lie looks up from his newspaper and finds his wife looking reproachfully at him. and though he knows I not what he has done, or is doing, he feels the noose tightening around his neck. He wakes up gayly and goes off to work jubilantly, and returns merrily and meets frigidity, and it is not till : he has swayed at the end of the rope for a week that he learns his offense was neglect to kiss his wife goodby. He forgot it is his birthday, ami passes over the anniversary of the day when he first met her without a sign of recognition and swings for it. Sweetly determined to be above faultfinding and to suffer in silence, his wife never calls attention to his faults in the commission. She assumes the role of the silent maytyr instead. Lysander John Appleton is so accustomed to the noose that when he entered his home the other evening he was not surprised to find his wife in tears. He did not know what he had done to offend. He wondered with a sigh if he had done anything. She sobbed when she took up the dinner, and tears dropped in big gobs on the tablecloth when she served the soup. He looked to Daysey Mayme for an explanation, and found her countenance was also tearsoaked. Her eyes swan in tears like two oysters in a saucer of brine, and when she tried to eat she choked with emotion. Jyiiat." he asked nervously, "'is the matter?' Daysey Mayme looked at her mother, and from the eyes of each woman there flashed a look of resentful understanding that resembled in the prevailing dampness a flash from a lighthouse blurred by the rain. "Is somebody dead?" he asked, more apprehensive. "No. but there ought to be," both replied, turning their eyes on him. I.ysander John felt better. It is something to know why one is to be hanged, a consolation not always granted the husband. "You are responsible," from hit feel kind of ashamed of yourself wen you are alone at nite. Doant you ewer wonder if you wuddent have been happier if you hadden always been so hard with peepul. All I want is my just due, sed Mister Stone. ! Doant worry, sed Ma. After you die you will get it, & get it good all that is cumming to you. Goodnfte. Mister Stone. Be sure & doant call to see us again, won't you. WILLIAM P. KIRK. White Standard Golden Star Daytonia Sterling Sells for $18.00 Needles, Oils and Repairs. R. M. LACEY, 9 South 7th. Phone 1756 TRY COOPER'S j BLEND COFFEE i For Sale at ' Cooper's Grocery ! Signifies It j X

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