Show - LATEST Now THING IN DOORMATS York Woman Has Invented One That Folds Up and Is Easy to Clean A folding doormat that Is a conveniand saves ence for householders money to the manufacturers Is that deIt will vised by a New York woman also save householders’ money In localities where doormat thieves ply their petty trade for It Js no trouble at all to fold It up at night and stick The mat Is made It in the vestibule of metal with two side bars and a slats surface of SOMETHING seems to be going wrong In the usual even tenor of wedded life In the various parts of the United A sort of States a frenzy seems to be sweeping many staid and hu s respected bands In the va' rious professions and positions in the business world into the troubled waters where cruise the daring of love pirates The femininity government" has gone to the trouble of sending out a special commission to tabulate the causes of dithe vorce and number granted and the reasons for their being The granted commission not finished its work1 as yet but reearlier the turns indicate that the husband is going to have to shoulder the greater part of the blame Hundreds of dusty records containcases ing the details of are being dug out of the vaults of the courthouses in the big cities and the backwoods county seats Press dispatches from here and there over the country indicate that an epidemic of abandonments and wife desertions is raging St general infidelities Louis Los Angeles Waukegan WilNew York and liamsburg Pittsburg Long Island answer to the roll when the list of recent delinquencies is called The modern man seems to be drifting rapidly away from the old ideals of a wife children a home and a competency says a writer in the St Louis Republic Modern literature Is full of erotic and neurotic tales of clandestine love affairs and the churches courts and seem powerless to conventionalities hold the husband to the way of living loving and dying He won’t listen to the preacher he is not afraid of the court and he scorns The old Ideals are conventionalities The deeps of the losing their grip social order seem to be breaking up and casting their wreckage high and dry at a hundred places in this and other countries It looks as if the day of chivalry was dead the true chivalry that was rooted in something deeper than a mere desire to appear at one’s best in the complex wheels within For wheels of the society of something seems to be the matter Not that with the modern husband the modern wife is always guiltless of sins against herself and others but the husband seems to be the one that leads In abandonments abuses infidelities and other sins against the marriage state Old Bonds No Longer Bind It may be that the bow of Cupid is that the arrows losing its strength of the little god are becoming blunted or that his right arm is losing its cunning At any rate it seems that his arrows and darts are going astray and causing more heart aches and domestic troubles than the efforts of a rational little god ever should Preachers lawyers doctors business men and millionaires of the multiple class are furnishing from their ranks the latest examples of the loosening and breaking away from the old bonds “Affinities” came first then all the and now rage was for has the black flag of the been run to the masthead by certain of the more unscrupulous buccaneers of both sexes And as a result hundreds of homes in this and other countries are flying the distress signal This thing has swept across the country like a virulent epidemic leaving here and there a plague spot of esA few years ago pecial malignancy an artist with the artistic temperament developed to the point that exceeded even the eccentricities of a prima donna decided that his marriage was a mistake and straightaway proceeded to correct it by taking to himself an “affinity of the soul" The has matter was carried through with the most brazen disregard of public opinion that it is possible to imagine The artist and the artist's “affinity” went down to the docks and said good-bto the wife when she sailed for Europe with her children However the gentleman paid 'the usual penalty of the His house was wrecked by pioneer an angry mob of his neighbors and he was rather roughly handled himself But the popular indignation soon died out and the artist and his “affinity” settled down to an existence declared to be as idyllic as a poet’s dream or an artist’s vision Idyll Roughly Shattered Alas for the frailties of human nature and the erratic whims of the artistic temperaments But a few months passed until the artist was a court defendant in a magistrate’s charged with having laid violent hands on his “affinity” The matter was hushed up and things were quiet again for a short time and then the final explosion came The “affinity” went home to her mother considerably sadder and it is to be hoped somewhat wiser than when she left the parental The artist lost but little roof tree time in securing another and in order to be quit of the sneers and revilings of their acquaintances in America they set sail for Europe The disillusioned “affinity" with her notions of platonic love considerably shaken has recently returned from Europe under an assumed name To her intimate friends she has confided that the artist Is a monument of conceit and repulsiveness But the experience of the first of the affinity seekers has had no noticeable effect on others inclined to throw aside their marital vows for a pretty The germ face or a stalwart form unrest began creeping of material westward stopping to cause wife desertion in Pittsburg and a runaway elopement of a staid old organist and school teacher with the prettiest girl in the choir in a western village Illicit Love Above Life’s Work He left a wife and three children hind him when they made their mad dash away from respectability and social correctness Shortly after the escapade of the artist had faded from the public mind a new sensation was sprung by the disappearance of the pastor of one of the richest and most exclusive churches of Long Island With him had disappeared a communicant of his church a young woman of unusual beauty and a member of a This minister had wealthy family thrown aside his priestly robes and given up a reputation that he had been years in building and the two had disappeared leaving to the mercy of the public the deserted wife They vanished into the 80000000 other inhabitants of the union and were not heard of for months Finally they were discovered in San Francisco where the unfrocked minister was trying to earn a living for himself and his “soul partner” by working as Even a painter and paper hanger the staid and orthodox followers of the ancient Hebrew faith are not exempt The recent arrest of a former St Louisan by his wife when he made her a little visit after an absence of a couple of years shows that the rabbis of the faith of Isaac and Abraham are not able to stem the current that is making inroads on the morals of their faith This Jewish Don Juan had a wife in each of the three principal colonies of his people in this country — New York Chicago and St Louis — all having been the scenes of hla matHe has placed rimonial adventures three marriages to his credit or disBut he was so unsatisfactory credit as a husband that his St Louis wife after arresting and charging him with bigamy had him released and gave him $50 with which to get out of town Some Reasons Advanced The columns of newspapers magazines and other publications are full of articles on this evil from almost every imaginable source Hundreds of reasons are being assigned in editorials and special articles for the tendency to Ignore or shatter the bonds of Hymen One commonly given by some of the women writers and a majority of the men is the loss of the feeling among the men that women need protection The woman’s right movement has been coming to the front very rapidly in later years and mankind having seen women calmly appropriating cer tain jobs of the men who were supporting families have come to the conclusion that they are ambitious to attain economic independence Another thing frequently insisted on by women writers and women thinkers alike is that modern man is fickle beyond all understanding They claim that the deathless love sung by the poets and dilated upon by the romancer simply does not exist That most marriages after all are founded upon convenience and habit Women are generally lauded as being far the more faithful and long suffering of the two sexes The correspondents’ columns of the metropolitan dailies are full of letters from wives who write that their husbands are tearfully wearying of them although they have been married only a year or two The burden of the pleas that come up from among these worried wives seems to be the old poetical phrase slightly changed “Love is of man’s life but a part ’tis woman’s whole existence” But if the&$ women talk to their husbands as freely they write to the editors there is small wonder that the man in the case falls easy to the “other woman” prey Woman But an Incident One of the school” of authors in his last piece of fiction shows still another reason for the gradual growing away of the husband from the earlier devotional attitude that is the heritage of the honeymoon The hero is a professor in one of the little inland schools down in the country He has been there for years but now the time has come when he has received a call to go east into a wider field of usefulness that his ripened powers seem to merit Woman like his wife is still wrapped up in her devotion to him and their children He on the other hand is becoming more absorbed in his work than in her and his home She slowly realizes that woman is only an incident in the life of a man The churches and civic societies for decades have been fulminating against the rottenness of human nature the moral sense of the community always condemns it but whatever its causes may be they are always strong enough enough to sweep down the puny barriers of convention and law The new school of ethnology and social life has been giving these social evils its attention But the scientists admit the impulses of man’s character run so deep In raw human nature that a remedy is impossible Prof Starr whose vicious attacks on womankind and her nature have been so widely noted has recently taken up the study of the civilized male as a social animal Professor Starr’s first verdict on the ordinary man and his habits and was delivered with characteristic venom He had made his earliest studies of this character during the summer season Just passed and had found that the pretty girl in the chorus and the lure of fleshings were Just as strong a drawing card as the comic artist of all these years has been telling us The shows that contained the most coarse infidelity and the most blatant sneers at married life were the ones the husbands whose wives were away for the summer seemed most anxious to see Every joke with the married man as the victim was applauded uproariously The most popular songs were those that told of the joys of the married man while wifey was away “I love I love my wife but O you kid” was always one of the hits of the evening with these summer bachelors according to Prof Starr Affects All Classes And the staid bankers brokers and men would stand on the seats and beat one another over the shoulders with their Panamas when the cantatrice in pink tights would trip 'lightly to the footlights throw a kiss to the nearest box and warble "My Wife Is Gone to the Country" The whole bunch that came under the professor’s observation acted as if they were having the best time that had come their way since they left the altar on the day of their marriage There is no sign that seems to show such instances as that of the preacher and the choir girl who were arrested in an Illinois town recently are on the decrease You can hardly pick up a paper metropolitan or rural without coming across a headline telling the story of a recreant husband There seems to be a germ in the air that makes for loose living no matter what the consequences It is a far cry from this affinity craze back to the simple living loving and dying of our pioneer grand parents In the “Good Old Days” They say that hr the good old days before marriage had come to be discussed in the light of a “failure” no one ever dreamed of suggesting that the husband got all the ha’pence whilst the wife metaphorically had nothing save the kicks and pinpricks of matrimony The varied trials and crosses that come into every married life were accepted as matters of course and to have suggested To some sweet young in the days ere she was a that her lord and master had the “best” of life would have filled her with equal amazement and horror “Appetite comes In eating" say he French And assuredly the talking and writing indulged in on the subject of matrimonial jars increases them to an astonishing extent The mere acknowledgement of the tiny pinpricks magnifies them to say nothing of the desecration of the dear old loyalty that washed (if there was any to wash) its dirty linen at home and turned a smiling' and unruffled face toward the cold criticism of the world Apart from nature having elected to handicap the fairer sex in a physical sense — an injury that even the most discontented new woman must surely the recognize futility of railing against more especially since without an effort on her own part it obtains countless concessions from the opposite sex— apart from this one immense superiority of man — and wherein lies the “best” that husbands in general are said to enjoy? Woman Often to Blame? A freer more diversified life? Unbut in nine cases out of doubtedly ten the woman who so bitterly complains of the "monotony" of her life is largely herself to blame She has laid herself— a willing Sacrifice — upon the altar of home and children and then grumbles when the sacrifice is unthinkingly accepted! Paradoxical as it may sound womanly unselfishness is at the root ol The wife lays much married trouble upon her slender shoulders more than any one pair can carry and when she fails beneath the unreasonable load blames Providence and the marriage state grows discontented sharp tempered and is actually a less desirable wife and mother than a more commonsenalcal if selfish sister who lives up to the belief that all work and no play makes Jill an exceedingly dull and morbid creature like folding gates Attached to opposite ends of the side bars are crossbars by means of which the mat may be held in position when in use Otherwise the continual stepping on It would contract it Manufacturers finda very appreciable saving in freight In shipping mats of this design as a dozen or more can be packed in one box Another advantage ol this type of mat is the ease with which it can be cleaned By unfastening the locking ends and extending and compressing it several times the dirt that has accumulated on it can be quickly disposed of Meat for roasting should not be washed but wiped with a dry cloth Bacon rinds should be scalded and for flavoring stocks and stews should heat gradually Sausages when cooking to prevent the skins bursting Never try tojkie a cake hot and let layer cakes get nearly cold before putting together All lard to fry fritters and doughnuts must be very very hot before putting In the batter Do not salt stock till it has been thoroughly skimmed as the salt prevents the scum from rising Before broiling a steak dust It with ' salt and pepper and rub It in well with Balad oil This will greatly improve it Delicious are hot biscuit served with Break them open butter game them generously and then spread with currant Jelly To keep silver from tarnishing when packed away make small cotton bags and fill with camphor gum Place them among the silver of the Always lower oven some after a roast has been In for 15 or 20 minutes — Then the juices will be retained used Sausage Omelet Beat five eggs into a basin add one finely chopped shallot beat up well and add one heaping tablespoonful of chopped smoked ham or liver sausage and season to taste with salt and pepper Melt one tablespoonful of butter in an omelet pan when hot pour in the eggs etc stir until it sets Shake the pan whilst holding it in a slanting position so as to give the omelet its proper size Leave it over the fire for a moment to brown then turn out on to a hot dish and serve with white sauce Cold Tomato Pickle f Fsel peck ripe tomatoes fine and drain two hours Add quart vinegar and let stand while the rest of the pickle is made ready Chop fine enough onions to make one cupful add one cupful each white sugar and white mustard seed two tablespoonfuls black pepper one teaspoonful mace two or three heads celery chopped fine one small red one cupful each pepper chopped grated horseradish and chopped nasf turtium seeds and cupful salt Stir together and can without cooking chop one Whole Wheat Gems Beat one egg add one cup of sour cup of sweet milk one quarter cup of sugar and one and cups of whole wheat flour sifted twice with f level Weather Predictions teaspoon of soda Use whole wheat When a hurricane is announced at and not graham flour conviction coming in this direction Good 8choollng Not Harmful that there is no hurricane or that it After a long study of school chilIs belated or that it is headed some dren in London the Medical Record other way amounts to a certainty says Dr Harman finds nothing to An International weather code Will show that good schooling hurts chilsoon be In use the world over dren’s eyes milk |