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Show Weals in Woman's Life. J ' Dufing her engagement tho woman of a certain typo spends hor waking and sleeping moments building n pedestal ped-estal upon which sho places her beloved. belov-ed. Boforo tho honeymoon is over sho decides that sho built tho pedestal too high, aud proceeds to romovo a fow of tho foundation blocks labeled "maidenhood's ideals." About tho third year of tholr married mar-ried llfo sho becomes possessed of tho idea that she belongs on that podcstal, and calmly climbs up. A year or so later sho reads that Helen of Troy played ping pong with her nation's history at forty, and that Cleopatra had reached tho samo maturo ago when sho captivated Caesar, Anthony and a fow other notables of her day. Whereupon Milady Matrimony drops a hint to her matter-of-fact spouso that ho ought to bo proud of tho right to delvo after monoy for tho purpose of adorning and embellishing tho flguro of ono who is so marked a credit to his good taste, says' tho Pittsburg Dl3 tu patch. yM Five years later sho thinks her husf H band Is something of a bruto becaust jjj ho cannot flguro out how to send two "1 nthlotlc-lovlng boys through college 1 and glvo daughter a few Mulshing -Ik touches In Froncli and music ull on 1 13,000 a year. Thon, whon tho storm has blown over and tho boys havo set- I tied Into business without tho collogo ( education, and daughter Is lioad stenographer sten-ographer for Blm, Burrell ft Co., at twenty per, sho one day discovers that -.! tho gray hairs aro cotnlns In thick I pbovo lather's tomplon, and tht thoro "jj p.ro linos In lift face which she had jl never noticed boforo. vl Then comes to 'hoi- a moment of ro- jl flection. Backward rolls thu pano- l lama of tholr married life, and sb ,l sees It through a gentle mist. Then, oddly enough, tho mun finds himself . Jl , Just whoio thoy started out togethor ' ; on tho pedestal. , 1 |