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Show Smart Gossip for Smart Women WHAT is the disease that now rages with such fury? The summer bargain fever. You cannot escape it. The bacillus is bred in alluring forms in every shop window. You don't want to escape es-cape it. Bargaining is the one epidemic epi-demic that does not cause thrills of dread in womankind. She welcomes the semi-annual periods of inoculation inocula-tion with real joy, however the purse filler views it. It is a germ once acquired, never cured. It may poi3on your life for the time being when the disease fells common sense. 'But there is always enough vitality left to ibob up at the next marked down sale. The disease being epidemic and fostered fos-tered by the authorities, there is nothing noth-ing to be done but let it run its course with the least danger possible. The bargain fever Is innocuous if treated with antitoxins of common and money sense. Think to get something some-thing for nothing and the germ Is sure poison. The thing that is to be had for little is worth little. For the benefit of those whose discernment dis-cernment is not keen thi3 health bul-letin bul-letin is issued: Avoid buying junk just because it is cheap. Never borrow to bargain. Take frequent doses of good judgment. judg-ment. Pay cash while bargaining. Was It not Byron who said that "Love is woman's whole existence?" How we smile now at the sentiment! senti-ment! Just think of it there are about fifteen fif-teen hours that makes 5,475 hours of every year to be filled with love. To tell the real truth, love means little more to women than it does to men, now that the old restrictions are removed, and women are free to live their own lives. I have a theory that half the tears that are shed in this world a good half are distilled from rage, disappointment, disap-pointment, self-pity, and self-love not from real grief or true affection, The other half those that mean real grief and sorrow are of a different differ-ent aort. It really ought to be as derogatory for a woman of breeding to cry over trifles as it is for a man to shriek when he is hurt. Save heartaches and unhappiness by forcing yourself to overcome super-sensitiveness. super-sensitiveness. Forget unkind remarks. Do not brood over fancied slight3. If some one is malicious enough to repeat to you some unkind remark a friend is supposed to have made, if you consider it serious enough to no-' no-' tice, go direct to your friend and give her a chance to defend herself. Always give the other woman a chance to tell her side of the story. We may not be willing to give our enemies any quarter, but let us give our friend3 the benefit of a doubt. Does it not seem odd that so often thrifty women are of bhe nagging sort? Is it because money loving must always al-ways Influence the disposition toward hardness? But then one may be thrifty from far better reasons than mere love of money. Perhaps it is just in the difference dif-ference of motive that the solution lies. Hoarding and scraping for one's children should not harden the heart of the hoarder and scraper. But does it never? However, there must be far more selfishness and consequent hardening in reckless extravagance than there can possibly be in thrift. If I wanted, for any reason, to pick out the hardest hearted woman in the world I should at once look for one who has dragged her husband into an abyss of debt by the extravagance of years. How important women are to the farm, and how successful women can be as farmers, is being demonstrated on all sides In these progressive days. Probably no back to the farm movement move-ment has had more success than that fostered by the government department depart-ment of agriculture as canning and poultry clubs in southern farming districts. dis-tricts. The government Is glad to help every girl on a farm who wants to earn a little money. The government govern-ment enters into a vigorous cor"o-apondence cor"o-apondence in order to help overc ne difficulties. In the clubs in South Carolina, which are tomato clubs, they made a splendid financial success and are rapidly becoming rivals of the boys' corn clubs. The women of the country seem to be coming to realize that there is gold buried in the smallest patch of ground. The minute artificial diamonds of Molssan were produced by causing the carbon of molten iron to crystal lizo out under great pressure. A Berlin Ber-lin chemist, Dr. W. von Bolton, now uses coal gaa, or other gaseous carbon car-bon compound, and on decomposing it by the action of mercury vapor obtains ob-tains carbon both in the amorphous form and as diamond dust. By introducing intro-ducing a diamond chip as a nucleus or mother crystal. It Is expected a diamond dia-mond growth of appreciable size can be brought about. In the experiment made, the mercury was supplied by. sodium amalgam, which was placed In a long testing tube under a coating of water glass solution and amorphous diamond dust, and the tube was kept at 100 degrees C, while a slow current cur-rent of coal gas was passed through for one month. The brilliant crystals formed, too small for analysis, burned in oxygen like diamonds. |