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PRACTICAL LESSONS IN THE ART OF WINNING A WIFE. BY HARRIET HUBBARD AYER. YELP ~ FOR TABLE DECORATI 4 ? Mercy makeshigts, Being extracts from “The Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son,” by George Horace Lorimer, published in book form by Small, Maynard & Co. Boston, and reproduced here by special permission of the publishers. (Copyright, 1902, by Small, Maynard & Go, Eatered at Stationers’ Hall.) D EAR PIERREPONT: A business man’s conversation should be regulated by fewer and simpler rules than any other function of the human animal ‘They are: Have something to say. Say It Stop talking. Beginning before you know whut you want io say and keeping on after you have said {t lands ® merchant tn a lawault or the poorhouse, and the firet is a short cut to the second. I maintain a legal department here, and it costs a Jot o money, but it's to keep me from going to law. It's all right when you are calling on a girl or talking with friends after din- ner to run a conversation like a Sunday-school excursion, with etops to pick flowers; but In the office your sentences shouNl be the shortest distance possibie between periods. Cut out the introduction and the peroration, and stop before you get to eecondly. You've ot to preach short rermona to catch sinners, and deacons won't believe they need long ones themselves, Give fools the first and women the last word. The meat's always in the m{ddle of the sandwich. Of| course, a Little butter on elther side of 1t doesn’t do any herm if it's Intended for @ man who likes butter. Remember, too, that it's casler to look wise than to talk wisdom. Bay less than the other fellow and listen more then you talk; for when a man’s listening he isn’t telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who ix Give most men a good listener and most women enough note-paper and they'll tell all they know. Money talks—but not unless {ts owner has a loose tongue, and then tte remarks ere always offensive, Poverty talks, too, but nobody wants to hear what tt has to I simply mention these things In passing (because I'm afraid you're apt to be the fellow whols doing the talking, just as I'm a little afraid that you're some- times Ike the hungry drummer at the dollara-iay house—tnclined to kill your appetite by eating the cake in the centre of the table before the soup comes on. T HE eupremacy of the Ribbon, pre- ticultural display made of ribbons, and) for table doc ung, 5 coming on here and going to work; but you mustn't get yo ft ell ‘het up" wea eae an it does a!l other femi-|the variety of flowers #hown illustrates The sprays of roses, made in any shade Cea ACG Ages eel merrein pa a Cacitede aera bo] the detalls of the Summer Giri'a gowns, |orations will be a prevatiing fancy In| the adornment of a table. or chand rod aud the besonA Wie for Thar Whey won’ bel By Several aiboy (hatle/no! hats and parasols. She has her ribbon | table ust only follows the decree that| draped effects and for the trailing ( 5 8. third, boa of roses and foliage, her corsige | the ribbon shall rule the realm of wom-| signs extending from the center of Of course, I'm glad to see you swing into line and show the proper spirit about ‘ learned just how Mtlle work hi do and keep his job, while th att Zaery Day Penta pty bath ab SR Lins urubinloniceearinroes Reeaanteitl one| CAO, but stl more ingenuous are|en for the coming season, table outward. the spraye of, romety “Ty The Good Ort ate hand and beginning to reach for the job just ahead of him with the other. I don't ve Uae designs which my Indy may| While the illustrations show violets,| pink, yellow or red are mean that he's neglecting his work; but he's beginning to take notice, and that's| f°, ™ the adornment of her dining |hynolnths, pinies, roses and snowballs, | Tao ribbon ioc i eae ti table. which may all be used tn the details of| [eaves are especially + |a mighty hopeful sign in either a young clerk or a young widow. ‘The illustration shows a veritable hor- | gowns, the flowers are especially designed| massed effect of a asc piece. Summaries: - 1 : h You've got to handle the first year of your business life about the way you Lesson Il. Deals with “First Ate] the deautiful | parks “in the good oldyout permitting the harpies of greed to] would a trotting horse. Warm up a lttle before going to the post—not enough 7, 7; a summer-time, devour their pure sense of enjoyment. to ve In a sweat, but just enough to be limber and eager. Never start off at a tcntions, and ells How me must not persuade her to go to) A young man fs not just to the girl he} gait that you can't improve on, but move along strong and well m hand to the uch His 1 | places where, if strangers should see her,|loves if he feels he cares more for|qharter. Let out @ notch there, but take ft calm enough up to the half not to iC o Is AcOMe = Aj her reputaticn might in any way be com-| "the things" he can gtve her than she break, and hand enough not to fall back into the ruck. At the three-quarters you promised, A young girl cannot afford’|reatly cares for himself. ought to be going fast enough to poke your nose out of the other fellow's dust, r nae TE TI Young Man Should Spend on} te be much “talked about” by people} ‘The two lovers together will enjoy the] [os tatcloy Meine bitaiees ta tho eran eee ee ae tne a i ans : aie peg a : ee His Sweetheart’s Entertain-|orone to harsh criticism. Hep lover | present, but they will remember to plan| time, ana you won't be ao apt to shy at the Mittle things by the side of he track. heey casita atts f aa Boccauet Gray, for years a nurse in the Chile iould surely never be the one to blem-| for the future. Each entertainment or| fread up, tall over the dashboerd—thet's the way the winners look in tho old we Fi, oh gs es % ¢ dren's Home in New York, Cute ment, ish her good name and fair fame. pleasant outing will then be selected in| jictures of Maud §. and Dexter and Jay-Eye-See. And that’s the way I want to (es " tig ‘ 3 { Feverishness, Bad Stomach, tl There is no need to go to doubtful] accordance ‘with what may be wisely seq you swing by the old man at the end of the year, when we holst the numbers ie (bey Ain i i , : . y ing Disorders, move and regulate HEN the young man has met his |P/*6eS 1 search of recreation or amuse-| Afforded. Even their little feasts while) of ¢he fellows who ee good enough to promote and plok out the saleres which ; i iat . ka young man has met his) ont. Plenty of perfectly proper re-| Out ‘a-pleasuring’ will be every bit a5! need @ little sweetening. of 5 : ; 5 Dowels and Gestray Wore ideal his courteous ‘first atten- Golighttul s¢ economy instead of expen-| TOFD. hin° Bmees tal WEN \elg004 tat tpremeton ite tesinens/on tn (Goer ; b 3 SRt ‘ BS g are so pleasant to the taste awe? i z : at Z barmless as milk. Children) sorts may be found when they 4rel give outlay decides the men ul nh adn ns ig lone” to her help the acquaintance |isovca for, where Innocent pleasure yengall, first attentions and in atten- tions in a language more eloquent than To %e unselfish instead of self-| be something in It for all I know: but I'm dead certain there's no such thing as ; = es ¥ druggists, 25. Ask t words. ‘These first attentions may take any form suggested by the young man's wish and the young girl's kings. provided al~ a ” Ing. fo progress very happily, Through his 4 " 2 . ; th (°) 10,000 testimonials of” ay d > e growing out of finst ones the "it read Gf 0 Py 5 : em. Over 10, ma ie attentions he often declares his tnten- pare ee ti esayaee ee ue been Tan should remember tivese briet | Yowll read @ good des! about “love at first sight” in novels, and there may F > ‘ cures. They never fail. Gold by all! ~ repeated that a young man while pay- ing: to be thoughtful instead of] love at first sight in business, A man's got to keep company @ long time, end Jag attentions to hig sweetheart must| carelessly neglectful in, the little cour-| como early and stay late and sit close, before he can get @ girl or a job worth [be carefu) not to go deyond. hig. means. Ttlnwead of rote and bootant {to re.| Having. There's nothing comes without calling in this world, “and efter you've iIt is the charm of the compliment it-| spect and honor his sweetheart as much | called you've generally got to go and fetch it yourself. ‘ ay self and not the money yalue that/as he does his sister or his mother; and] ‘The swamps are fuN of fellows who'd rather make @ million a night tn their , ria . aes Amusements. FREE. | Address Allen 6. 0 Le Roy, N.Y. Ways that the lover does not pay for hi: eweetheant's entertainment with money) appeals to any, trge young girl, Her|to allow nelther himselt nor any other! neads than $5 a day in cash. I have always found {t cheaper to lend @ man of, . 5 ag ‘ MA DEN... leuich iatdusiesniewhers elke. lover naturally gives her of the bests) fy focaet dunt or oad tell you what | that bulld a little money than to hire him. As a matter of fact, I have never EN OSE Se acc iy : DISON SQUARE GARDE! ‘An occasional evening at the theatre| She accepts it ms» such, whether {t/a girl naturally expects and demands| known a fellow who was smart enough to think for the house days and for him- sel | > , Afterooba at 2 and i Brening a2 8 ole, costs him two or three dollars or only pore man who 1s scexing to win her| sei nights, ‘ ‘ ‘ ee a oe : . opal an besa ear! 3 Aman who triés that s usually a pretty poor thinker, and he isn't much good, ; Rr ; ‘aeaace, ets the yong man’s salary must be}not the girl to make a good wife |f| _— TANS |, other; but it there's any choice the house gets the worst of it. weg ar Raye 2 ; overdrewn—or -{f he must borrow the|she appreciates only expensive atten- To-morrow's lesson explains I simply mention theso little things In a general wi If you can take my word i ; BARNUM & Bille Money and thus begin the hard losson of| tions or !f she gauges her pleasures by what a girl has a right to expect 9 for some of them you are going to save yourself a whole lot of trouble. There are - a. Aebdt—1t would be Infinitely better to at-|the amount of money expended upon|# 344 demand from the man who | others which I don't speak of because Ife ts toc short and because tt seems to tend somo of the delightful free lecture| her entertainment. footer afford a follow a heap of satisfaction (o pull the trigger for himself to see if it 1s courses which are given each winter, or} Young lovers, above all other peopie,|g !8 to be her husband, loaded; and a lesson learned at the muzzle has the virtue of never being for- pend happy Saturday half-holldays in| ought to enJoy thetr halcyon days with- | gotten. Your affectionate father, JOHN GRAHAM. may be pleasant to both the young people. Bt if for the price of the tick-|an hour of his time. Be sure she ts A recent fire at Hannibal, Mo,, has destroyed the historic Kreigbaum home- | 5.3Uifeuy Cor stead, The house was the old home of Tom Blankenship, known as “Hucideberry Inn," given prominence by Mark Twain in the book of that name and tn “Tom f Sawyer." The house stands on the opposite side of the block in which the boy-| ‘Admiasion to all, incladiae nam Strered UPHILL WORK—BY H. CARRUTH.;THE CONTROL OF HEREDITY; we & ssminer he visited the pine wh some Of hi ont playmates and ianding Inthe ieee a tint tee street 'ront of it, in! 3 e pranks ‘om nkons vivate xOn, x seats, The Story of a Strange Ride and Its Sequel. 2 Rr) A PLEA FOR LATE MARRLAGES, [oot ieee eee eee nie ene ee eee Saar oman: Gd (opyright, 1903, by Dally Story Pub. Co.) the hoss jog along slow to rest occa- seat ati 00 upward. BR name |s Matilda Chollop—old | sionally, ‘cause he seen it was a hard : Nie reserved he teterhnne. Gquire Chollop's daughter, Pretty] Dull, So they poked along,and Hanks LIVER WENDDLL HOLATES'S |aeven, the author proves that the over-|that children born of fathers between ene i elena ee MAT-TO-TOR- JEROME fine figure of a girl. Good many| said he reckoned he'd have to get out remark that a man‘a education | whelming majority of the world's great-| thirty and forty would ehow @ love for ROCTOR’S 79 Bie $e ROW, 25c.,50c. Je fellers been sweet on her. Had my| and walk {f the hill got much steeper. should begin with his grand-/est intellects were born of fathers of| the pootic and the bemutifwl; that eons EMTS PE Ses} THE BILLIONAIR y and by Matilda begun to get} father, and $f possible, even earlier, | mature years, produced between forty and @fty would Breen! Ones own Inclinations that way. Don't go round talking ‘bout ‘em though, Not @ word to say what she thinks of me. May know, put shan't tell, Will) *7d I don't remember no such- awful aay this, however, that she thinks less] >@ng-on-and-last-forever hill.” of @ certain feller named Hanks than| “Ob, that’s all right," says Hank Morsis Groain, Anna it i Gas “wnlie's ‘Dory ounere PASTOR’S, Mth at, Seiettoge 34 A Soo Modern Orusse. Beryl Hope, eirumwell, Florence Reed, AN 2 & 30 CTS, oh hie. {isi i favorites, big vaudeville | jovns Sym. WENHARR. JONDS gear TON ON, LALLA. 'GBIN SL{WARD. & VOKES.| era i is Re a Mats. Mon, Wed., Taura, Bat, a sorta HG Ay AN. LAl- ‘sth Sl. {Tham icent ie Nod Howard Poet, | Ty ausica T | Other Bice" vavor 4 now burlesque The Dlg Lattle T ATRE | AGA! “EMY 0 or MUSIC, Wh BROADWAY: ‘ He's SUCCESS," "N.Y. WOR nky, and says she; {9 the text of @ very interesting book] Mr, Redfield exeumes a youth, strong,| be keen, practical men of affairs, and "ve been over this here.road beforelon ‘The Control of Héredity; a Study |healthy, active, of more than average | those born after the half-century mark of the Genesis of Evolution and De-| mental abitity, and traces his Ufe his-| would be philosophers, moral reformers generacy,”” by Caspar Lavater Redfield, | tory. and philanthropists. published by the Monarch Book Com-| As ho approaches thirty he interests] This Mfr, Redfeld dectares to be very ‘she did. w we're goin’ up the Gristm!!! hill.”") pany, of Chicago and Philadelphia. himself more in Mterature, art and mu-| largely correct, He tnatances Aristotle, ‘You see, this here certain feller namea| “But where was tho holler betwixt| By careful siudy of the {amnilles/sic. He goes to theatres and to con-| Bacon, Buddha, Confucius, Franklin, Hanks came here from the city for| 8Plnner’s hill and the Gristmill nill?"|from which the great men, both an-j certs. At thirty-five he is the embodt-| Lalbnitz, Moses, Seneca and Soomon as Bis health, he anid, inquires Mattida. clent and modern, of the world sprung, | ment of artistic taste. born of philosopliic fathers all over fifty You see, old man Popdale, who lives} “Only way I can figure it out ts that} Mr. Redfleld proves that the excep?) As he approaches forty he heoomes| years of age. out four or five miler, give a dance | ‘he Toad commissioners must a-filled it] tionally gifted individuals of the race more interested in practical affairs. He| The keen, practical business men and one night ast fall to christen a new| UP 0d made one long hill of it,” eays|have been, as a rule, the children of | Degins to work for dollars, not for fame. | statesmen born to fathers between forty Hanks, “Can't tell what a road com-| fathers who married late in lite, ‘He looks less at the beautiful and more|and fifty are illustrated by Bismarck, t Pan. ‘wap just about the darkest night| missioner will do, you know."* Mr. Redfleld goes further than Dr. | At the practical end useful. He takes an|Canning, Carnot, Cato, Cromwell, Glad- SUBURBAN % ‘y0 ¥B0 you ever seen. No moon for six weeks 80 they poked along for another half] Holmes, and says that one's education| active Interest In politics. stone, Webster, Peter the Sree and ‘and the stars behind forty miles of solid hour, saying nothing, ‘Then says/@hould include a considerable amount| When in his fifties h¥ has passed the! Machiavelll, loud. And it happened along about| Hania: , accumulated by one’s great-grandpa-|heat and passions of youth and looks miveisiane and. artiate, whose “Matildn, this does seem to be some| ents, and that the amouot of one's|more at the moral and philosophical aide! rathers were between thirty ang forty See Sere tae PRINCE PILSEN a re - considerable right smart bit of an|mental power will be proportioned to|of things, Statesmanship, the «00d of! years of age at the time of their birth Wallack’s, Bram. $15. ate Wea. & Sat, 216, : that some blamed rapsoailion, or rap-| Cone! y ir bir ¥ ‘ARL of PA ¢ eminence, I don't gitogether fathom | tbe scoumulation of the three genera-| mankind, engrosses his attention, were Bach, Beethoven, Goethe, Schiller, ist) the Bost eresios! plore tn Sern: } goallions, went out of that barn and into tons, Having established this typical fether,!snaxespeare, Angelo, Raphas!, Rem- 4h Month, Henry W.Savage Prosents thao Aden, shed where the hosses wus hitched. | the mystery of it." Then after some é thie here feller, or Calete, they | More hard climbing, with hoss resting ‘He predicts that the race which will| Mr. Redfield proceeds to study what ef- brandt, Carlyle, Goldsmith and Ma- * Absolutely Pure dn future dominate th: ord is that feot the diff oF MAJESTIC poig Mal ee ete A und rhile—prob'bly did—| ffequently, says Hanks; "Bet @ dollar)!" future asada dligh at one} fect the different changes in his Ghar-|cauiay, while the children born of atch th Anos ar they |‘ half we're on tho wrong road, Reck-| Which can inorexse in numbere at tne] acter as st develops will ave on ai oft-| young aggressive fathers between twen- THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE WIZARD OFOZ "Souveniea, ‘ to have entered into an unholy and | Om we might bear off to the left.’ latest average age or reproduction. ‘'hs| spring produced during the different |ty und thirty were Alexander, Napoleon, r; Tig, | “ita Moutwowery & Stone,'Wed. Met Apr, 38, ‘ V IC! TORIA Mate We iV BLANCHE AMERICAN 01 to make trouble for} © they beared off—wtill uphilk ‘Then |!ncrease does not need to be rupld, but} ages. Under @ strict interpretation of Charlemagne, Charles X1J,, Wrederick they beared off ¢o the right—more nit, |'t must be aotual. Fear need not 9) tho laws of use-Inheritance wo shoul! Grant Hannibal, Pom, tna " Boe, to $1.60. ‘Then they Jegsed in all Nicotine; |expresded because some earlier repro-| expect the sons of very young men w | ott arab ni! ist POU wrens LSH MATINER Daly, up’arda, lke the Excelsior falier, ‘Then | (UME race ie inereasing mors rapidly In & chapter op Degeneracy, which be Amusements “RESURRECTION,” ce 74 after going for a milo ‘a’ a halt staight| Cory erenter the earlier reproducing defines as “'a tendency toward a dovel- SMPIRE THEATRE, irosicay & ah at. | —— Yarn Py aS fact, thal Up @ big lll chey turned square around | Comet ETONlCr tie eet ve war| VICTIMS TO “PROGRESB.” | Pment lesw pertect or ieee udvanced| ‘ares, £20" siuines WED. tot BAR SAS ‘tess unknown, low-minded fellers | 8nd started Dack—just as ateep, before the stronger and more intelli- Mian that which ts norma} or healthy,” eWay | \THE UNFORESEEN ; Must s-made s powerful dunny pana tne ioc natin 4. the | gent. : Mr Hediield declares that doxencracy| .WERISS |) oar UNEOR =iC rR RE “ EATRES 4. fe Cae ve-hiok-el of it if anybody could Hin qayers fs fouled into. one! wen, get To prove his case he selects twenty- ta) i fe) Sereno | Bat *conamiony “inthe colidten an ele oy RICK THEATRE pear IR CL PLABCY preseate | ne i a | Sopet aad ous Amenk rom those ad- ‘ LH r t Mf | parents, b ie ie — — cin bates | 4 Gaxk; must a-looked @ #003 |i Sees, Bia 4 ang wa fore Crngue ASUER RD, Tier Ieee AAs sah Si} se | | die cles ine history of a famous tam. | jarbt Sih Matinee Win DALY’S wre £8 ie = Dufferlo—high in front, low them eroeting tO the dush-|thom Washington, Jefferson, IAncoln, vite — MN HLugaele tbat or whe eakeat Memiee | oe JAMES T. POWERS ia “QE A BIJOU.| MARIE went on til mebby 3 Board dar dea ie “ive tailee tn anager: | Hmerson, Lamnnteliow and many diettn- 4 tar) ; : ¢ first Reieration’ im wot definitely "fist Mon, Opie Resa’ ¢ cy, SNANGY BRS) on til mebby 3 | ianeous directions, hy | guished jurists and statesmen, He finds! | fy. | 02 but from the second, consisting : a id fo Read's quaint ¢ te there, and then it|run, ie begun | t, and|that George Washington's father, Au-| |fowet ; bo “cw crits A rt taeeate 1 MATINEB TO-DAY, OT eu Be swe all Believing’ tn Fy Me ee gustin, waa thirty-eight years old at! [fev } ‘ : ra NEW SAVOV THEATRE. aiip > DAWEY 3 uanny B Night © Broadway PRIGBS 250, Be iuat die Sa rk into | she time of his son's tirth; that Augus- 2 4 r vee Nad, Musinees Weenie ene ee! Mibras.. $10. Matinee Satur Party at Sakuae tin was born of a father over thirty. F nd crim ob : scnessey ® Saturday, | oe yan ac | on re suow, Noveutres. | OPBK ay ¥ Be eres een a thie ear of We who was the non oF : cheer pi de ies ly | HENRY MILLER. “SPRAIN cy ee A toy. that sa you audaolous viliain!| @ man of thirty-four, ‘i ; winlen Mir Redield cites: gl Po perrce ry . | WEST END, ; The Fatal Wedding pes Bre. 618 law Wal ee ne around such a| Of, jeld examined the ancestry o! Me, Bae Crime a# compared 16 pauperism in- i April 12, one week only, and aie ie outa he ‘wf atu nd} ench of theese famous men in detail. a Gleales vigor, i ge af, tations | Pest ret gatestint “EVERY! eee _ A Desperate le tf eakne CENTUN ‘ - “4 Stung lung mount out Finally, by adding the ages of their | |Miiiwmg i ay Bon oF eeaenead “ages or tajurys | MORSLITY PLAY, BRYFIAN $4th St. Theaire sear ih ave. Alain Weds @ Hat EDEN iit eit 2B aw i oui she yg ng {he Wheel andl ewentystwe fathers together and divid- gee ‘The 'eldent cliiid tends to become the | aDIsON BQ, THEATRE, ‘nel, G oy nek iu! Spotless ‘Town. | musee, sit ere A “it Wie fo er Has [in DY twenty, be abiaine bn 8 rage cee hn family, and the young: | Lan Sd ‘WoitE The 4 {Nest Week (only) ALPHONSE AND GASTON, A ee! nage of fathenho ry six years lx — / Mr. old expla. ELS! le sci U Fhe vad of a im Hot ie ow ta tix | months and twenty-two days, tour years ite ataier caah ate ellie ya sori tA. ATLANTI “haven weer, at Canal BE that of the whole tion, milive by aay’ aler The ‘ ' pansel of some 30 or 30 others which | Above What o hole population, ‘The Condition of the famous temples criminal ciaey ee AONE ai Maxwell 4 dual Mamie Bi Brooklyn: Amubieanaial lance Aippen on] By examining the records of great men} at Paiiae, since the construction of the ’ yi peaches his best loal di a Bat, mht tot ful “gud neigh itt 8) of all ages and times, notably Bolomon, | groat dam at Assouan ie causing any-| not lar from, tho age of twonte hee HEL Tis es ve a zat i MURRAY "ii malt o r stirs MONTAOK,, is STUART Rc r a en 2 it to be cheer ia he having o born when King David was Mtty-three, |iety, eays the Graphic. It is expected| after which decline, due to Intempe: Vay DAY, iu y rere} oy —-— i COMFORTS OF strapees for bf heal, 20, Contyclus, who was the gon of @ man|ihat the palns, which will be immorsed | 480° Qt Gther exce y th the fife of | HERALD 80, vas, 4.10 0am ~ Lt ” : t te, mayaat between sixty-five and geventy; Alcibi-/up to thelr heads fer reveral months, such J seni eFe phye okay snore vigor. | GRACE Siwrati is PL i a STAR rm ida 101th. Mat jades, whore Kather Wag over Atty wh; eer ister s Dauga avacus | snpvsned ga tt shiety of tne sams) NARihY, pexole ae at Nhe tent "iho: QABIND kr aaah uel ae i” ‘Hed>] ples, ip ‘of the proceutions a, ne the reserei 5 PUINGESS THEATGR Wee & 290 ot ny 40 be ect Vigorous. Lerealnge, $30.