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Show Ideals in Woman's Life. During hor engagement the woman of a certain typo upends her waking and sleeping moments building a pedestal ped-estal Umn which she places her beloved. belov-ed. Iloforn the honeymoon is over she decides that she built the pedestal too high, and proceeds to remove a few of the foundation blocks labeled "maidenhood's Ideals." ' About the third year of tholr married mar-ried life tho becomes possessed of the Idea that she belongs on thst pedestsl, and calmly climbs up. A year or so later she reads that Helen of Troy played ping pong with her nation's history at forty, and that Cleopatra had reached the tame mature age when she captlvatod Caesar, Anthony .and a few other notables of her day. Whereupon Milady Matrimony drops a bint to her matter-of-fact sKuae that he ought to be proud of the right to delve after money for the purpose of adorning and embellishing the figure of one who Is so marked a credit to his good taste, soys the Pittsburg Die-patrh. Die-patrh. Five years later she thlnka her husband hus-band Is Homntlilng of a bruto becauso lie cannot figure out how to send two athletic loving boys through college ami glvu daughter a few finishing touches in French and music all on ;3.MK) a year. Then, when the ntoriu has blown over and the boyshave set- j tied Into hualncHS without the college cdurailon, and daughter la head stun- ogrupher for Iilin, llurrell ft Co., at twenty per, she one day discovers that tho gray hairs are coming In thick lami lather'a temples, and that there aro lines In his face which she had never notlcod before. Then comes to her a moment of re flection, backward rolls the panorama pano-rama of their married Ufa, and she sees It through a gentle mint. Then, oddly enough, the man finds himself Just where they started out together on the pedestal. |