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Show Woman's World Conducted by Helen Valeau. -Vaixatj-s answer. valeau "ill rr'y to all ques- M'fS j bv the feminine readers of ,innT8,rrnioi!Main Catholic. The well !hf ha-a'''pr alld au,horit pf her nn " . !io introduction to those "familwr with hf-r ability. Miss t'r'8C5 will take a kindly and personal va,eB" jn fh(1cp ho write to tier, and Itf" c p0 pains in seeing that their f ar answered fully and care-ir(lu care-ir(lu r' -riie nly on one side of the f"'5'" Adf,Tli.t lPttciP to Mi?s Helene intrmountain Catholic. re Women Dishonorable? wi-rn honorable than men, 'oiK'iUi'"1 that Mary llcaton Vorse i'gp Tvoir.n ask themselves by a 'rtr"v'0 i!1 H rnagazirie. She thinks . 1l''j)ar a l' k'en Fen.o of honor Jn e thin- and ciics the fact that r.'.;rs road their daughters let-',"cn let-',"cn 'tlv H'"a- ,nat tnc" ought to Tcha' bcinp written to them. 7 t)iat v A-iicn iiting: in their I . ,'nrt have nn pnmniinrUnn V-at Wprii''c' ti,c' bureau drawers. She 't(1 qudtrs from a man friend a stoTy Mat thr "iethod. of sraft in which Tlfn indulge, especially when they Ccpliectinc tnini! for charity. That ' fV arp );"i ?s truthful as men seems j5c arkii"vv'cdg'-d. also. j Women Given to Nagging. i jif. if a "ry had hoy," said a lady rf p;hT '!."y. referring to the son of ,,rr,-;glib-.r. "'I can't -Imagine why his dors mt have better control Jvfr Mm, scolds half the time." ii that 's. no doubt, just the very r'iW. a i:;ipging mother is just as r!ich responsible for the sins of her in mei instances, as the nagging ,-'i is rfsporeibie for the shortcomings f th? husband. The right sort of rithrs don't sonid. and their children, , s general Thing, do not need it. The Mathematical Mind. A literary worker who aimed to do liarf? amount of reading by proxy ad-vf'rtiffd ad-vf'rtiffd for an assistant capable of iWiinp the contents of a tremendous antity of books in a very short time. j wpighir.sr each applicant's quali-s'ns quali-s'ns for rapid, assimilative read-rf read-rf he inquired carefully into his atipmatioal acquirements. Finally it chose the man who was most skill-S; skill-S; at untangling arithmetical prob- "On the surface that seems an un-rcary un-rcary accomplishment in this cuse." he ?.il. "but experience has taught ine that anybody who is ex-jn ex-jn in figures can read any kind of l-:?r8ture put before him with greater j'.riiracy and speed than the person li.kiii? In .mathematical accumen." His Idea of a Birthday. Ar, up-to-riaie young mother, who is ifo a member of the Mothers club, l-i d'timined to inculcate in her 5-7i:-r'!d sn early the true spirit or rriiy. On the eve of Washington's fchoay as I'harlie was being put to k by his mother, she said to him: be a good boy. for tomorrow l Tashir.cton's birthday."' "Oh Try.'' siehed Charlie, "must 1 fvt him a resent, too?" , m . The Drunken Husband. "Pu"h husband." said Kev. J. F. ?;nn:t. S. J.. to a Juliet. 111., audi-r.:t. audi-r.:t. "is n-rrse than a polar bear. The iT,ken brute should be put Into a jaiid ell, and the most summary fanishnnt should be administered to Iri whenever he so far forgets hini-s hini-s to neglect his duties and abuse l"s ife and children. He doesn't care The children or their-" welfare, and T-Vn they ask him if they shall go io nas. ho tells them they may go tMht devil if they want to. and many :he:n avail themselves of that per-r:"i"n. per-r:"i"n. The man who scoffs,. at re-wr. re-wr. ha? no regard for the spiritual of his wife and children. He srp'y a brute who spends his 'tw k had piaees and brings home a V'; rf pcandal which he retails tMttmliy at every opportunity re ' t'1P demands oi decency '"'e example which he is set- his sons and daughters. When Mf exhausted his opportunities for 2j:;f!uenr.rP. he poes to bed like an and Sleeps an animal also, av no worry, for they have '''i to worry about." ll'ti Words From Little Mouths. f61t iiyr, tl r,no's heart atid close i'J, Cfir? 'TiPt the profanity or ij,s, but v.hnn one hears vile lan-Jn-j profanity In the ringing of ,ilr child, ifs a different thing. .:."5 vi o Hrf dan enough at -'!. 1,:!,,;!T" 'Mr elders in their ,v",:n '1 v ,y that is inexpressibly !',ns" j' iv easy to see that they :!C 'r!y 'A 'kiiia: in comprehension of r,.'"' ? ;! ' arp oniP themselves. -ar Jr' tr,"1 as would cure any - nl-, V :'t"ri y "r Profanity to hear "'a"'' '"ess duplicated' on the ',7' hc,y 'ho is building Mv !".?: ' 's 'n1 ,Me tissue of his 5..; ""''-"iriously. :,lv'rP rp"tt break off a habit 'r, ,',r? ''' 1 liar's in infancy. 011 -rht " Hr'' ' '"prison mcnt. they '":n; '" be instructed in the rjnj',' Et ,vi:! fif,,'ruc to them from ; ; r' 1 a to the ill effects fir''.1'1 Wit!l these things tko j,na:'r" ry Pp"l',f? would not "3 vjff, r ' a"a''don profanity or w! r 'it ,xn" f wears habitual-; -a:iV,r ' ' ,;' s 'hat worse pro- 1 vv.V:'. 'sl "f questionable jokes V f,Cr. ":iCf'- fucht to know is :"iorv ' ! .!' "rgariv,,! vibrates in W'b,7.'.:h " " v.-ords he utters. The "liV'i '-' 11 A flX0,i- solid thing as .s;y . . "' 'hing that is marvel -'8,'7.VW'. ;" 'ery sort f impres-' impres-' finPr ,,!' ' v'brates to every word ;!lv vir-r'IKS' A mn that habit-'-'y -' " ' fr" !if-h oaths and vul-' vul-' Tntnt-1-5 ,,ims",f Physically iir vih",":" H ' ''ror,ic stat of in-suffrr in-suffrr .ITv' Iivi,y. from which he kw's , ' rr'!Kr '' lives where there 't:ds'tv,,,.'lJ'',f"'1 115,11 for t or not. r'!,?li 'scir' a Sfl,i?;facti.n having thi. roi just to keep still kir.r ',, . un rope, instead of icts ri !l,')p-" that the person va.f, ' "" -ust of icmpvr or every ;v'r k,,,," 'lHK,J him off his feet, can t'linn ! f k$itr.J , , . for out of it are Ir,'r,M,; "'''' ip a strictly scien-,v scien-,v lurvi'v ""' e thoughts Ave al-'stm:W al-'stm:W X'' 1hink: 'he words we n,ri 6rl r,i ' S,'" Klv-ak are keeping us !k.n if "'" mferior rates of vi-15 vi-15 ii. fl"?' ;''rr' ir'fi-ior in quality. 'riv-;M-tn ''f'tore which hvpocrisv Mf.j..'' , '""hmicness. It isn't what ii,'r, ,,11' think of us; it isn't i ui 7'"" llla' i-ucceed in thcrfc; it is the impres sion we are making upon ourselves with out thoughts and words that we cannot escape. The man who swears, doesn't hurt God: the man who uses obscene Ian guage insults his own bodv and soul worse than ho does his hearers. Even so his words are not as injurious to him as the thoughts that prompt them There is nothing that tends more directly di-rectly toward health and prosperity than to think strong, wholesome thoughts and to avoid words that are not a match for them. There is a tonic effect in such words as courage, enerev truth, persistence, faith. If men are to be forbidden to use bad words to which they have become enslaved en-slaved from long practice, they should be given- a lot of inspiring, thoughts clothed In strong, clean words to tak their places. Tliese should be posted ncht alongside of the prohibitory notices. I French Economy. A man doesn't have to go to Paris to learn something about the econ- IVi Grf F,rench cooks." said a janitor. All he has to do is to get a job like mine in a house occupied mostly by F reiich families and he'll learn some astonishing lessons in the art of saving. sav-ing. Up to two months ago I worked in a building of that kind. So far as attending to the garbage was concerned. con-cerned. I had the easiest time of my life. There was practically no garbage. gar-bage. The people lived well enough, I guess: anyhow they received pack-aces pack-aces from the butcher and grocer, nut they never seemed to throw anything away. About the only thing they didn't eat was coffee grounds and potato po-tato skins and tomato cans, and there was precious little waste of even that. Where I m working now the families are all American. That is where the food goes to waste. The people in that house throw away enoURh provisions every day to feed all those French families a week." A Shrewd Yankee. An American farmer, having occasion occa-sion to engage a man to help him on the farm, advertised in a local paper. One morning two applicants appeared! one i decidedly decent-looking fellow and the other of a much less prepossessing prepos-sessing appearance and manner. The farmer, after some hesitation and" after scanning the applicants with a keen eye, chose the latter. A friend who was present and witnessed wit-nessed the selection, very much surprised sur-prised at his friend's choice, asked: "Has this man ever worked for you before?" "Why, no," replied the other, "in fact. I never saw either of them until today." "Why did you" choose the shorter man? The other had a much better face." "Facel" exclaimed the proprietor of the place in disgust. "L?t me tell you that when you pick out a gardener, you want to make the selection according ac-cording to the overalls. If they arc patched on the knees you may hire him. If the patch is on the seat or the trousers, you don't need him." Disappointed. inc. circus naa come to town and there was a tiny boy, not more than three years old, who was too excited to eat or sleep, so filled was he with visions of the wonders tlfat might be seen. So his father (who was a big boy himself) decided to take the baby to an afternoon performance, and the two st off together. It was a gorgeous afternoon, and the two came home with exciting tales of the marvels they had beheld. Never had there been vuch a show or such animals! Language was quite Inadequate Inade-quate to the occasion it had been a thing of pure., golden joy. At 6 o'clock the little fello"- whs having supper, when he suddenly stopped, h,is mouth lull of porridge and the spoon sticking out from it at a defiant angle, and burst into a roar, deafening, heartbroken, and inarticulate, inarticu-late, the spoon dropping with a clatter clat-ter to the table. His father was puzzled and asked various questions as to possible stomachache, stom-achache, stray pins. etc.. meeting with no answer whatever. Then he remonstrated. remon-strated. "Why, Jackey," he said, "do you think tnis is nice of you? Father Has taken you to the circus, and just think of all the things you've seen! The polar bear, and the elephant" But Jackey's rage at this became ungovernable, and he found words. "The elephant " he wailed, "the elephant ele-phant wasn't wasn't half big enough!" Happening of the Unexpected.- The neighboring women were condoling con-doling with Mrs. fti Bennett over her latest affliction. With commendable cheerfulness she replied: "I've raised four jrirls an' three boys, expectin ev-erv ev-erv time they'd be twins and red-he'aded red-he'aded like their Grandpa Bennett, an vet thev ain't, an' I've worried consld- I hie over smallpox breakin' out in my I big family so fer 'tain't. An' last 1 summer durin' July an' August, an" mebbe part of September. I was real meloncholic, fearin' I'd got an appendix, appen-dix, but I guess I ain't, an' through it all it .never onct occurred to me that Id be the one to fall through them rotten old meetin house steps an break mv leg in two places, but 1 be." A Telepathic Dog. A New York do fancier, who has a particularly vivid imagination when it comes to spinning yarns touching on the subject of dogology, tells this one: "I don't know whether there is such a thing as telepathy betwen dog and man. but I'm inclined to believe there I is. Let me give you an Instance. Recently Re-cently I had a dog who used to bring matches to me whenever he saw me take out a cigar in my own house. I would just hold the cigar up where he could see it. and he would march into the dining room, pick up the matchbox match-box that stood on a small table, and bring il to me, though I hadn't said a wor-dto him. One day it happened that I had a matchbox, but no cigar. I showed the matchbox to tbe dog, and he went straight into my bedroom and pot a cigar from a box I kept among a half dozen others under the bed and brought it to me without so much as makinr it damp. Folks said at the time that it showed that the dog could re-ison It showed a good deal more, for it showed that he could understand what I wanted, though I never said a word to him. ' "till I don't pretend that theie was realiv any telepathy about the matter. If that dog had been a mile away when I wanted a cigar, and badj instantly gone to a tobacconist's and oien a cigar and brought it to me, 1 should have had to admit that telepathy tel-epathy was the only explanation of the ariatr. Insidious Heritage of Young America , - 1 11 " trolley the other day was 0 "ttle boy of six or so who was not content to sit quietly by his mother, out insisted upon kneeling upon - the scat and looking out of the window at the moving street and people. His mother labored with him. trving to make him understand rat she thought it better for him to sit down beside her a nd watch , the prosaic people peo-ple in the effr. But lie was determined and stayed where he was. Another argument apparently occurred to the mother and she whispered something to him. something inaudible to the other passengers. The child's voice was then heard, incisive and penetrating: penetrat-ing: "But why" can't I look out of the window? His mother remained silent, possibly searching for a reason that should be convincing.' and before she found it. the boy spoke again, this time with a hint of doubt and perplexity in his voice: "Does it cost -more to kneel up and look out of the window?" Sculptor in a Police Court. At a recent reception in New York. tutzon Borglum, the sculptor, was presented to a well-known society woman. wo-man. .The latter looked at him hesitatingly hesi-tatingly for a minute, then said: "Yes. I am certain. T am very glad to see you again, Mr. Borglum." ' "I haven't The great pleasure of remembering," re-membering," said the sculptor. "Yes. it was in Los Angeles." said the woman, "and you were the defendant defend-ant in a police court case." Borglum was 1 flabbergasted, but managed to stammer out that he was never in a police court in his life. Then the woman explained. It seems that Mr. Borglum, when in . Southern California, owned a magnificent English Eng-lish mastiff. The dog was amiable, but the children of a neighbor vere frightened by its grfit size,- and so. one morning the dog'i owner, was arrested ar-rested on the charge of allowing a vicious animal to run at large. The judge ordered the animal to be brought in. and the great beast gravely marched march-ed dowri the aisle to the bench, and. putting a huge paw on the Judge's knee, looked solemnly into his face. The case was at once non-suited. 1 Cure for That Tired Feeling. By way of alleviating the mental and physical discomfort following a trying day one is surprised by the effectiveness effective-ness of taking a bath and changing all the clothing. This treatment, in fact, almost offers a sure cure, but the per- son who would be most benefited thereby there-by is the person so obsessed to pursue the miserable tenor of his way that he scouts the suggestion that he thus bestir be-stir himself, instead of sinking into an easy chair. He may, however, accept the suggestion that simply changing the shoes and stockings is extremely restful when reminded that if he had worn kid gloves all day he would be relieved to free his hands from the incubus, in-cubus, and, if gloves must still be worn to put on a cool pair. It is a farther aid to physical, and indirectly to mental, comfort" if one can learn'to wear low shoes and the thinnest underwear the year round: the former is almost a panacea for fidgets: the latter lessens the perspiration, which increases the suseeptiBility to drafts and to even moderate lowering of temperature. The prevailing belief that this procedure is dangerous is disproved by the experience of the many who have given It a thorough trial. G. Lt. Walton, M. D., in Lippin-cott's. The Right Kind of Charity. A thoughtful woman asked the other day, in the course of conversation, "Are we charitable Enough? Not the charity chari-ty that consists in almsgiving, do I mean, but the charity that thinketh no evil and speaketh none. Are we not too prone to judge our fellow travelers on life's highway? And do we not credit too readily the whispered reports of evil concerning our neighbor? "Now." she continued bravely, "I afi not trying to condone the faults of this one or that one. nor asking you to accept ac-cept as your associate one whom you are convinced is not worthy of your regard. re-gard. But, good friend. I would rather be imposed upon and trust an unworthy unwor-thy person than to .charge with evil, even in my heart, one who is, to all intents, in-tents, trying to live right. " For Thin Eyelashes. There are many women who are ig-norantly ig-norantly or perhaps carelessly wandering wander-ing around this world minus their eyelashes. eye-lashes. If you are one of them, get busy and make for yourself what nature na-ture has forgotten to make for you. Eyelashes, to be sure, will grow longer lon-ger and more beautiful if cut in infancy, infan-cy, but if you begin to cut them wheni you are big enough to wear long skihts and to do your hair up in the latest fashion you will certainly ruin them. The growth of the lashes can be. Increased In-creased by touching them with castor oik Moistened salt will also make them longer, but be careful not to get any In the eyes, for it will smart dreadfully. i ' Consider Well Before Choosing Your -Friends. "Associate with the good." says an old proverb, Vand you will be esteemed es-teemed as one of them." A girl cannot can-not be too careful about her companionships. compan-ionships. If sh,e is careless in this matter mat-ter she is sure to deteriorate herself in the estimation of others. Friendships that are quickly formed rarely ripen with the years and are frequently fre-quently the cause of much unhappiness. The thoughtful girl chooses her friends carefully and cultivates their society in such a happy, well-bred way that her friendships are always a source of real J pleasure. j Just as the least blemish spoils the 1 beauty of the lilj', so the little mistakes that the careless girl makes robs her character of- its charm, arid leaves her 1 with a name that does not stand for j much in the estimation of others. "Opinions rule the world," says Car- , lyle. and happy indeed is the girl who has made only good and sweet ones. . Between Ourselves. The girls who win their way into the the inmost recess of others' hearts are not'usually the most brilliant and gifted, gift-ed, but those who have sympathy, patience, pa-tience, self-forgetfulness and that indefinable inde-finable faculty of eliciting the better nature of others. Most of us know xlrls who have appealed ap-pealed to us in this way. We. have many friends who are more beautiful and gifted, but there is not one of them whose companionship we enjoy better than that of the girl who perhaps never makes a. witty or profound' remark, re-mark, but whose simple quality of human hu-man goodness makes up for every other deficiency. v And if there came a time of real stress when we felt that we needed the support of real friendship, we should choose above all to go to this sweet girl certain that we should find intelligent sympathy, a charitable construction con-struction of our position and difficulties difficul-ties and readiness to .assist us beyond what we ought to take. Beauty of spirit is more than beauty of face and form and remarkable intellectual intel-lectual qualities are not to be compared com-pared with unaffected human goodness good-ness and sympathy. j Extravagance of Americans. "Extravagances are always and everywhere, ev-erywhere, a crime against the imperative impera-tive needs of humanity. Self-indulgences not only to the undoing of the paiikiivnt: they .11 sS idard th..- a.i-van;t!ment a.i-van;t!ment of humanity's weal. Ex-tr-ivagences are also a sin against both self and society. Therefore, extravagances extrava-gances should bo avoideVl studiously avoided. The necessities of life belong to all honest toilers, but the' extravagance extrava-gance to none. "The American people are surely extravagant. ex-travagant. .At least some of them are. for last year fabulous amounts were spent for the extravagances of life. Eight million of dollars were spent for coffee: $170,000,000 for confectioneries: $700,000,000 for jewelry: J700.000.000 for tobacco and $50,000,000. an,d $1,500,000,000 for intoxicating beverages and liquors. |
