The evening world. Newspaper, March 5, 1912, Page 15

Fables of Everyday Folks By Sophie Irene Loeb Pm y Bet @. (The New York World.) HER LAST By Eleanor Schorer CHANCE. Leap Year Holdups # By C. M. Payne Liss6n wae. Biggest Cowboy Story Since “The Virginian The Man “On the Job. NCE upon a time there was a man. O He was seeking @ job. In fact, he never stopped. He was AL- WAYS looking for one, For he was never ON the Job. He began his eeking habdit to do a chore he would begin; and, perhaps right in the midst of its & ¢ o omplishment, START something. It ts @ very good thing to start something. But you want to know who is boss start something"—OFTEN, This boy always started so many u that ho never came to be the er HIMSELF. That is, he was a!- WAys supervised rather than being the supervisor, 80 later when he came to take a Job— &@ RBAL one—tiere continually seemed Never stormed to turn+the question around. Job are casily PARTE selnce men may vate any HOLDING-ON prociivittes. cern for which he works. to the cynic's cry. hig everlasting COMPLAINT. This mau “higher up, gain con trary to the cynic's cry, was a real Matrimony N begin iife with simple, wholesome con- fort, to be increased as life wont on. But no, they must etart w! parenta left off, they must cut a dash, bites. that a man must make his fortune be- taken up by fortune and passively su: tal part. ha? wtempis to be to be something wrong with it. He Now, of all things, a man and his come and nen may go, but Jobs go on forever. Ho did not endeavor to culti- *Ore vf the attributes of the job- seeker iy tho everlasting beifef that he ib poorly paid, and ao ts ever seek- fag an increase, And rarely does the! increase seek him. Another attribute {a continually running down the con- Now it came to pass that the con- tinuous job-sceker found a job with & truly wo..h while firm, who had no hesitancy in making it known that If) their workers proved worth while to THDM they would prove worth while to the workers, which Is no UNUSUAL kigd of a firm these days. contrary |to us After going through the motions of hip work for a@ little while here he dewan his little squeal AGAINST the concern, the wanderlust again pelzed him and he went to his employer with héman who, unlike the others, did not hand him his pay-envelope with the On the Free List By Madison C. Peters. Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), 2—Love Versus Luxury. ANY «@ woman would be will- ing to sacrifice for the eake of becoming @ man's wife, but ] most men who do not marry on the pretext of economy hey fre persons who could marry iw were willing to sacrifice some of their lugurious habits and were content to their they love their pleasure too much to gacrifice any portion of it for domestic ‘The sentiment has become prevalent fore he marries, that his wife must have no sympathy or share with bim in the pursuit of It, in which most of the pleasure consists, This te unfortunate; ft fills the country with bachelors who are wulting to make their fortunes; tt destroys the true economy of the domes- tle institution, encourages ineMctency among women, who are expected to be e4 without any concern on thelr) ‘Phe state of life inte whtoh it has pleated God to call our daughters ts plainly, for the most part, that which entails the dutios of *he housekeeper and the homemaker; and for those @uties the learning acquired in the eohorle often doer muon to unfit them, qhe revult of thie unfaithfulness in the foundation education is seen in the extravagant habits of our modern » the tgnorant waste where the young lady finds herself unable to teach and Girect the servants in cases where ohe ts not required to do the) gn ‘actasl ‘work herself, and, Wearying of Copsright, 1012, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), Usual alr of good-riddance, But as man to man he spoke thus tu him: “Wo bought your talent, your industry and your LOYALTY. When you give; us but the first and withold the last you are OHBATING us, We do not em- Dloy dishonest men, therefore we should discharge you. The intense loyalty wo} require from you is the keynote of What modest success we have already achieved and what we may achieve In the future. "You neod not fear that some da: having fulfilled your part of the con- tract, we ehall adorn you with rattling Unware. If some morning you find the cashier adjusting your account for the last time you may be led to belleve| that we aro voluntarily depriving o-tr- | That will be} selves of your services. @ misapprehension on your part. The fact will rather be that you have failed to give us some of one or more of the things you sold us. You wil! have been) the one who has broken the contract. “Our part is only the formal sever- ance of the contract relations. We ai | not firing good men—we are hiring them. If you are a good man you will either remain with us or be called higher. If you are not a good man you! will automatically discharge yourself, “No empioyee has up to the presei time been put to the embarrasing ne- cemsity of avking an Increase in wages. We have invariably beat him to it. We flatter ourselves that we shall know rst when you desorve @ thicker pay- envelope. It may be thet some time we shall prove fallible in this rogard. In such @ case you will undoubtedly not hesitate to put @ bug in our ear, which we always keap near the ground listening to what we are doing. “It may be that we shall have mis-| Interpreted the tremors you have caused to be recorded by our seismo- | graph. On the other hand tt may be that you ‘have overlooked #6me of the| covenants and forgotten that loyalty is| in estimating the value of your 1s to a banker services, what promptne: in making 4 credit rating. “Therefore be LOYAL. If you can't, be honest. Don't cheat us. Get out!" |. The continuous job-seeker Istened and |learned and profited. For once he real- \ized the Job's a Job for a’ that and) , and alfo that blessed fs the a’ tha an who hag a job, for he shall 1 herlt a pay-envelope, even though it be a lightweight. MORAL: A JOB IN WAND 18 WORTH TWO IN THE FUTURE! Is Not household, she allows her Uttle kingdom to live without a head. Her husband finds that the expense of married life 1s greater than he had anticipated and the comfort less, As the expenditures {norease he sees that his hard work on one aide 1s only to supply the means of wastefulness on the other side, and that his children are growing up with notions of life which nothing but in- creasing riches can satisfy. We do not wonder that great dis- content prevails among married men. It 1» this extravagance and incom- Petence among women that accounts for the steady decline in merriages, To-Gay much of the education is so managed as to unfit women for practical lfe. I would make all the improvements in education and the accomplishments of manners suboriinete to the duties of the home—the means to make home happy. Of course, the man who prises woman | chiefly because she 1s capable of per- | forming tasks of this kind does not | deserve to have a xood wife, He should | employ a housekeepe> and pay her good | wages, And the woman whose {dea of | duty stops here and whose highest end sole ambition Is to keep house well, hi very low conceptions of her proper a'g- nity, The fault Mes with parents; unless they can give thelr daughter a fortune when she marries they perpetrate a fraud upon the young men, if by her lack of domestic training they ma! her unfit for the position of wife in t! le home of the young man who hae to make his way in the world. TRYING, Mr been trying al! the afternoon. Mi er Own | been,.—Boston © uti Ales | Uresome ride over the range. Both he she thought; and fell upon her knees He did not flee from her as had other men, He wag the only man who had ever smiled upon her! Courage and joy filled her heart and she was happy for one brie? moment. The tired little holdup girlie shook herself hard and found that she had been dozing in her chair. “Well, if I'm as tired as that I had better turs in, right now!" Here is my last chance and declared her jove to him. but smiled kindly. HIS poor iitile “holdup” girlie’s brain was so tired her head just And she thought that she was old and wizencd, with a high topknot and back comb and three or four curls on either side She saw herself dressed in funny, old-fashioned clothes and For there was not one man of But none would | of her head. heard her friends calling her “old maid.” her acquaintance whom she had not “held up" long ago. Just then the big face of Mr. Moon shone adove the horizon. “Hal hal" she laughed when she came | Cheer Up, Cuthbert! By Clarence L. Cuikin Beity Vincent’s Making the Best of Yourself (Copyright, 1911, by J, B, Lappincott Co.) SYNOPSIA OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. whith ont man, rmurdered white, Antelope, 1 and, store Waa Among Ve” guests fare, © ‘een Se anit teas ames ee Sadie id at Bg a ae re. fe stoppit at the to the ho of ratohing cattle thievon, a etreen, im and ie In. ala tw toes Beats a ceric ere ene she ts" merely trying to. reform | ¥ Halston ‘theratore avoids ber, and to ask why ‘¢ pony runs hand Ralston race to catol the fun: CHAPTER XI. (Continued. ) The Best Horse. ORA'S eyes were Oriliiant as which waa more natural than it hed|‘¢ made, been for days when addressing him, “It was splendid! Sho ts splendid!" and he slowed, feeling that perhaps he was in- Little in ‘her praise. want to watch out now," said soberly, “Smith'll never rest till “hunk, to join them, or were golng to ask him to do #0; but she did not, and, although it waa some satisfaction to feel that he had drawn first blood, he felt his de: jelre. and Susi He walk for Moliy to vol a bit before he let he! drink, preparatory to starting on his | “sound and the Colonel believed that the thieves | “,, would soon grow bolder, and his strong. est hope lay In coming upon them at it ougnt to He had noted that there were no fresh ong those which hung on th , and he sauntered down to have r look at the old ones, With hte foot he turned over something which tay close against a fence-post, half con- cealed in a sage-bui Stooping, he un. rolled it and shook It ow eenien whistled softly, It was a fregh hide " with the brand cut 01 Ralston ah J regret working the Maclonald Did the Indian woman know, dered, Was it possible that Susle was in tgnorance hall hia heart he the house and lvaned against the jamb of the kitchen door, Jave the makings, Ling’ He passed! hia tobacco sack and paper to the cook. sald Ling jauntily, “I Uke y smoked fraternally to- gether they talked of tvod and Its prep- ubjects from which Ling'’s seldom wandered fa! over baking powder were thoroughly ex- by tieanor Ciapp The Bashful Wooer. OME of the young men and women who write to me are trot with bashfulnoss. They blus’ HERE are few who don't Groan Internally! iblishing Co, (The New Yor It does not matter so much what kind | of corsets the thin woman wears If | they Mt und do not unduly compre: Most slender hip development ‘ipp are certainly "no hips at all’ 4 Copyright 1912, by The Crew Pi THE THIN MISTAKES OF as Bad as Repoat- ing the Doss! HIS ts emphatica the thin woman. eulty in talking to thelr friends of the oportions and the We Imagine that on of the hips. But | eyed that pe | he setd case of a very me figure It 1s some when we're only nt to place a th pad made of @ layer of two of cotton 1 her tt ts stil them many painful | everything possible to necessary for choose her frocks with care If whe wants dear| to make the Lest of herself, The elender silhouette self- consciousness, | ted skirt, the kimono serve are all in- ed on by the great dressmakers, but | this does not mean that ie ever becomingly as shapeless as a lath and g an old-fashioned ‘The Best Way to The trouble with ev the form wilght roundness and is to Beat him to young people, the tlehtly Mite You are continu. Columbus had to disregard the Sneers, and #0 did Galileo! when your thoughts dwell around you you only consider them in their relation to yourse w England | Try for a different mental attitude.) expression, “So you can't tell whether Btop thinking “How awkward 1 am!! she !s goin’ or comin’,’ How etupid my friend What sort of an Im; We Imagine that we're merely Em- when we're Tiresomely Dogmatic! vcks have a distreasing | varance of the neck ow- collars. being down on thy neckband must think me!) ‘The woman who fs too thin should | @lvays remember that No Regular Zig tries to Impose Condi- tions that he hinself Wouldn't Accept! « front of the in the depth o: {nsist on wear- Jing a frock with one of t friend looks to-day! manner Mr, — has 1 know {t you will be ohat- ting happily because you your mind outward Instead of inward of Friendship. “A young lady was The Past {# Pickled, but the Future ts It Always makes us Excessively Fa- ara Young Feller Shaving Age pulling that lever one goes, one tw sure t 1 old or young wi nan who ex- ling blasts of winter, came in and kissed them, ae is his| 8nd (what 1s worre) to the gaze of the He has known them aince| Public. they were children, But ought the young lady, @ stranger, to have permitted him to kise her?” She would have shown better ta: not ¢o eilow it, unless the man is old. visiting friends, From now on a Lot of us are Going to |Spend a Heap of Perfectly Good Time Gathering worry about who's Going to President of the United your parenis as long as you are under | States! any more attentions from him?” age and Hving at home Certainly not, since you don't ayy Habit makes a Lot of us Hold-Up Men, with Ourselves as the Victima! "AG." weltes “I am eighteen and ich in love, but tny parents don't] to bim, ax attentions upon me, thoush I) want the young man to wall on me, Flatt—Alioe can not seem to ir that diMoult piece of mustc. when ho eeos her he s What eaall I do? Joseph Conrad, a clever writer of the Ens}ign, Language to-day, didn’t Know ‘A young man bas! very m to forget me. ally: hard to beat.” good butcher.” ood butcher.” Bo, after all, more. twas the Indians who| i} Ralston sauntered on to "Tube, you really have a most remarkable | T crawled in a winder and et up a batch ot" -a-gun-in-a-saok’ that the fetl- red a Arthur, wiping hie fountain-pen gare. come in up . fully, declared Tubbs proudly, “he never even | “st is."* nocked me to my knees." “Tt ta of the type of dolichocephall the Inst time T had a hatr cut,” ob- served Tubbs blandly. “*Tubbe,' sa: ou ought to have aj every lay the b'areli plenty." markably suggestive of the | very There's no T clared with at pure mongrel—English and Dutch h in me," Tubbs peculiar.” He felt of Tubbs’s head with growing | Wit her unusual pugnacity.’ restraint, ‘Ah, that renders the eiul! pathologi- but, even ao, it is an interesting | Proprietorship over ber which Sturt to an anthropologist-—a really value | 18 resentment to himself, able skull, It would be to me, ilustrat- to be bie? Would he I advise you to give up suc a Word’ of English till he'd Reached the young person, care for him a bit. Now he esems What shall T do?” A Grown cold, Should 1 accept! 1 am afraid you will have to o)ey Nextdore.—Yes. Indeed, she has ‘Transcript. trae tt does certain features in dis- ¥ cons her, her actions, putesjor which I have stubbornly con- er friend? tendgin controversies with the Prepac: _ Ste By Caroline Lockhart i} they always wore under ex- \ H} citement; and whoa Ralston | sading it to ea son } dismounted she stroked Mol-| to offer you a ly'e nose, saying ‘in a voloe| “It's on by-produe: Ralston thought the Schooimarm heat: |", tated, an if wie wore waiting for him| sag ‘ae’ mam atest Deyment te to business," tmtere rupted Ralston. “What 40 you eam on +4 your skull worth?" le know as I'm go turridle anxious 1 can eat with it, and {t gits me ‘Tubba's tone took on the assumed difference of an astute horse po a ‘I've always held my head high, you might say, and tt looks to me aa, bring « hundred dollare % the open market No, I eouléa't of lettin’ it go for less tham a cash, McArthur coneiderea. “If you will agree to my will give you my check for dollars,” he said at iast, “That sounds reasonable,’ should want stantly upon your person my address and writ the care of and disposal in the event of your demise. J. shall’ insist that you do not voluntarily Four, head where your skull may be lured; beat hoped she ws He walked lelwurely to] i¢ tt were ‘padly crushed it i as to of your skull, hy rou to be mounted? I know ior hausted as a topic Ralston asked caer lover there near the ‘Yellowstone +_ | What J Who killed your last beef, Ling? It'a|gq natural yoo mondo dead. Wouldn’ kinds Yellow Bird” he replied, “Him| mo cotta’ around “he h teeth showin’ Ralston agreed, ‘I should say! mouth? I'll ies bay ow Bird was an uncommonly gel; you my hull hide for the advantage of soda and leave word in them instru Barer replied ironically: never have regarded bestowed upon his hireling, nament, Tubbs." bald Tutbs looked at the check McArthur skull handed him with satistact: ubbs, visibly flattered, smirked, “That's what I call clear ‘= claimed that It's double by people | declared, and went off chuck! what have tried to work me over, Onct |{t to his friends, he hammered me over the head with) “Yos" and Ralston, no longer atte the stovelifter didn’t trouble him, but,” | contain himself, shouted with mused MeArthur, CHAPTER Xil. ‘A barber told me that same thing Smith Gets “Hunk.” MITH'S ugly mood was stilt im when he picked we. MMs grammar that evening, Jealous, humiliated by the loss of the morning's vengeful thoughts and he wanted to hurt somebody hn of resentment —something—even vague, sullen notion that she waa te “It t¢ an extremely curtous skull—most | blame becau upon @ disco him in the beginning, he told hii ehe could have stopped it. Unaccustomed as Smith was te selfs quickly showed his where a mule kicked me and|of mind to Dore. He had no {g out of joint,” sald Tubbs) teire with whieh te conceal his humorously, desides, he entertained « fen!