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Show Fables of the Wise Dame BY DOROTHY DIX. ONCE opon a time there was a Woman Wo-man who, although possessed f the Average Measure of l'ui-chrHude. l'ui-chrHude. and mam Admrlabls Qualities, did not sun .1 in iiaar- inp down an Masculine Creature for a Husband, and who began to perceive that Spinster would le engrave, oij her Tombstone, (iapplly. tins Calamity cut n ier- w)th her for In was a Suffragette and Instead In-stead of sitting down and bewailing her F.ii.-. m getting I-eft at the Matrimonial Post, he Tooled herself as a Winnor "it may be. True," sin- said to herself "that those who Dope out the System of i.ii" are niphi when they figure it oul that the One Besl Bet is a Good Husband, Hus-band, but so many ot my friends have put their Money down on Also Rans that l am probably in Luck not io butt Into Hie Game at all. 'Inasmuch, however as I shall nol have anj Hubbj to stand for my Meal rlckel it Is up to me to Ret out, myself, my-self, and acquire a Wad. for I d i nol propose to be the fringe on Anybody's 1 'molly, or to i.osc im Beauty Bleep walking Borne other Woman's Baby with th Colic. "it may be that the proper Career for .'tn unmarried Female is t,, Listen to oilier People's Troubles, ami work Mippcrs for Preachers, but not ror Ainu ' I with this the Woman rolled up her Meeves and Tackled a GOod .Joii and Biich anergy and SacH,ii ,)ld Bhe display dis-play that ii was nol long before Money was coming to her on Wings, and she blew herself to Gleesoma Paraphernalia nlih Carbons a-plenty, and as .she had le- Husband to Audit her Accounts she Blew In her Dough whenever she liked on i heaters and Feeds, and Ufe was our Merry Tralu with her. ,"ow the Woman i,,,,) .A sjsU.r wuo was one ,,f those sue--' Pemlnhie Creatines Crea-tines that Men Admire, and m her earlv Touth she had Rapoused a 1 land.-. -me . 1 unter i umper in a i n-y I roods Km-I Km-I Porium and i hey ga a Llvlne Illustration Illus-tration of bow Raneless Is Mr, Roosevelt's ! F ear of Ua. e Sulolde indeed there were so many Mttls .one. .lumper.- rle ; ,,,f would lr-iv i '"' Blink xcepl thai Hi Old i Mh id Auntie was lwa) - i i f,- , : 1 "" h. and si j r, ,, the Rrm NotwIthsUndliig tins the Married State! Sta-te! groHtlj pitie.i her Spinster Slater, and i w he e.llll(. t0 brn Children I new Mi...- Mother would tell her Off" thai ihey hiual be vorj Kind to I I. inelj VUilt, "llou Sad." she would AX-clalm "it ' mnsl I- tn be an Old Maid ' ' '":.,) ,.,opJ kl" ''epited ihe Poln- ry. ' lH n"M 1 miss the Com. Husband, but , i I " I- ha im- Some . hie in Kn ei mv " 1,1 ' :"" Ponl ou m, We a knesse n tn I'::.- Bfte," ' lHal i BreVi; About "But" went on rh Married Sister oi, ave Man to r,CDend on, and navm tn earn your own Support " , rP8"iled the Si. in, f r. "hut w Hen i v n a new hai or '.. sro to h "I'l-io. umii can hyonot'o h1)Kbnd -o a ' desree i where i , Palnlesslv Ex. m I 1 ih Prlre fixm him ' 'Ala-.'' ;rl.- the Married Woirnn llOW le, tbg. milKI hc () , y , fo vour 1 a ii Rreed ' I "OutaWs .,f helns born .-, Mllllonalresa." ireplled the WDlnKte' "there are Pew -ofr Mi'mpa m hli ro' v m.-n. bm If datnw I w the i .-.Mi..- strove ind with he Broom and p.win Machine, and ; Nu-in.r i .I, , ami patching Tmuser In 1 n I mcl, ii h,,-' Gotten Pa! m :iUi j -oeaklng on the lei et i ;irh m0 ,.ou , JnD,.voui Sympathy r.-.r Horn orisump- I "There ere .... NVptarlnM so Acidulous. ' . yrked he Married Slater, complacent-. complacent-. I as those nut ,aoi bove our reach " ml r?i'e..K ur " replied Hie Pinster, but you please me too well," Mr.- .i ti,i, fable teaches that Hannl. Off than our- KmSSS ' ai' 1S(,,e,', |