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i I ili f (il i THE HoME MAGAZINE P THE DRESS REHEARSAL' A STORY OF A FAMILY SQUABBLE How a Gloomy Wife Came to See Things in a Different Vein Through an Unex- pected Meeting with a Friend. By Mabel McKee. €6 T'S two miles to my home I and I wish I could make it a million," Mary Nor- man almost talked out loud as she turned the corner off State street, and stood watching the crowd. "I would like to be some one else for a month. Perhaps then they would want me back badly enough to be agreeable." Trouble in the Norman home that morning had begun at the breakfast table. The children had been up late the night before and John, Mary's husband and their father, all primed for a contest with their offday moods, began an argument with Paul, the high school son, before he had been at, the table ten minutes. .He had 2nded the discussion in an arbi- trary way, and had shown his au- thority by refusing a favor which he had half way promised almost a week before. With his face glowering, Paul had watched his father finish his breakfast and leave for the office. Then he began to eat his own breakfast just as the other chil- dren were finishing. Reaching for an orange, he had refused a few minutes before, he upset the chocolate pot on the clean table- cloth. Sharply his mother re- proved him. When he left for high school, he was sullen and ceemed to hate the whole world. Margaret, the twelve-year-old daughter, had been inclined to as. sert her own will, too. Her hair had been puffed far out over her ears and she wore a cheap pair of ear bobs, But she scolded the two young- er children roundly. Because they had tried to argue with her, she became severe. "Not a picture show this week," she delivered her ultimatum with a show of satisfaction, But downtown she was bereft of the victorfous feeling she had seemed to have at home. But she was still out of humor. While she watched other women hurry by she waited tor John. He had ignored her hints for money that morning. Even her definite state- ment that she was going shop- ping for the children's spring clothing, Fad not brought any re- sponse. After a little while John came ~big and boyish and smiling, not the least bit ike the man who had left their home that morning. Jauntily he lifted his hat to her, pressed a larger check than she had asked for into her hand, and suggested dinner downtown to- gether that evening. "Let Hannah feed the children and put them to bed to-night," he grinned as mischievously as did his youngest son when suggest- ing a prank. With a Qistant air of hauteur, Mary Norman refused her hus- band's invitation. His face fell like a boy's, but she did not seem to notice it. In silence they turned and together walked to- ward the store where she usually shopped. Half way up the block he met a business acquaintance, stopped to talk with him over a prospective deal, and Mary with the check folded in her hand journeyed on alone. . Mary did not know what a trim, girlish figure she had. She did not dream that her husband Stood and watched her out of sight, a hungry, disappointed ache in his heart. He wished that at times she would be girlish, clinging and irresponsible as she had been in the old days. Right at the corner Mary met a girlhood friend. She was no longer slender; quite corpulent instead. Her chin was double, her walk was dragging, and her hair escaped from its net, and looked distinctly unkempt. But she was smiling and 'gay and al- most debonaire, "Oh, come with me, Mary," she invited girlishly, "I'm on a regu- lar lark this morning. I know one of the women in the new stock company they have at the little theatre around the corner and they're having a dress rehearsal there this morning. I'm invited a visitor and I'l be glad to +B you along." Mary's dusky head gave a de- cisive shake. But the other woman aded, "Just a minute or two-- ust long enough to see what $8 sals are like--see how different they are from the real performances. "A little later they sat in the back of the opera housa together aud watched the rehearsal on the stage. "They aren't allowed much in- 'tviduality; they get no applause, 'Lev are doing hard work over and over; and yet they don't seem to mind it at all" Mary wondered to her fmend. "Just uotice the little lady with the + gray hair, scene five times and stiill---" | "Oh," the other returned loftily, | I "they have to do that. because they are just the train- ances with all their glory." seat and looked at her friend rather than the stage. "Sort of like our own lives," the other laughed deliciously "My life is just vne monotonous when my children win some hon- Or when we have time fo have dinner down town together, or the children tell me they have the best mother in the world. That is my applause and it's so won- derful that I would have a million dress rehearsals for it." Mary just sat still. The people on the stage went from one cor- ner of tha stage to the other and back again. The director shout- ed orders, the stage hands changed scenery, but still Mary sat back and thought. Then suddenly she caught her friend's afm. "I must go, Nellie," she do." "Yes," Nellie, the rather fat, untidy but happy one nodded. "Go on, dear, if you have much to do. I'm going to stay on here for a time. Dress rehearsals, when givin by other people, have a lure for me." At the telephone Mary gave definite orders to Hannah. The children were to have ice cream for dessert that night. And Mary and Paul could each have a guest if they wished. If the little boys were good she would take them to a movie the next evening. At John's office door she hesi- tated a minute. Yes, this was one of the big minutes for which she had had dress rehearsals for weeks. She would make the most of it. Daintily she opened the door and tripped across to him. "Dear," she slipped her hand into his, "I've telephoned Hannah and she will care for the children. I'll shop a while and then come back, and you are to take me to a perfectly splendid place for dinner. I'm--" But both of John's hands were holding hers tight. "Mary, you darling," he beamed. "You look like a girl, and I can hardly keep from smothering you. We'll have a party, you pet." - Mary's heart thumped on. Oh, Indeed thie applause was splen- did--worth all of the dress re- hearsals of almost a lifetime. OW yellow and how shin- H ing this gold men covet 80! How wearisome its mining, what risks to glimpse its glow! Turn back through his- tory's pages and trace its gleam- Ing trail, see how in bygone ages we find the self-same tale. Gold always was a charmer and in those early days men, girding on their armor, fared forth to make a raise. Attired in hardware raiment, they chortled to their foes: "Come over with that pay- ment, or else we'll come to blows!" Fierce pirates, out for treasure, threw peaceful chaps in swoons, then robbed them at their leisure of shining gold doubloons. Men left their homely labors and quit the plowshare cold, deserting friends and neigh- bors to join the quest for gold. They left the pleasant places, the ingle-nook of home, kind hearts and friendly faces for ice huts north of Nome. So, through the years it's lured them where grief :' but nothing yet f grasping after gold. Men might be blithe and Jolly, untouched by care and cark, it they would leave the folly of hoarding yen and mark. terrible and bloody, day lose its hold She has done that Dress re- | hearsals are very vital to them | ing school for their big perform- | "Oh, yes," Mary sat back in her | dress rehearsal after another, get- | ting ready for the big minutes, | or, when my William makes a | good deal and takes time to mur- i mur a few words of praise to me. | said. "I have so many things to | The Very Smartest Paris Styles Republished by Special Arrangement with Good Housekeeping, the Nation's Greatest Magazine of the Home. : + This charming but dress is made of gray rep doubdle girdle effect. gimple with a An afternoon gown of green crepe de chine with draped girdle and long side panel. | BOBBIE AND | HIS PA By William F. Kirk A, I sed, here is a puzzel, a Psion has five rooms & thare is six men that eeach wants a room, how does he give eech of them a room? Forget it, Bobbie, sed Pa. I want to reed my newspaper. Why doant you tell the littel deer the anser, sed Ma. It cant be done, sed Pa. # 1 will show you that it can be done, I sed. The landlord puts Number one & Number two Irv the first room for a minnit, I sed. Then he puts Number Three in the second room & Number four in the third room & Number five in the fourth room, I sed. Then he tiks Numberone out of the he talks Number one out of the fifth room, I sed. Is that cleer, I sed. That is as cleer as a total E- clips, sed® Pa. Well, I sed, it ts sumthing like that anyway, I sed. Bobby, sed Pa, tt will be better for you to lern strate reeding & riteing & rithmetick & grammir, sed Pa, than to lern a lot of dip- Py puzzels. Pa sed. Many a man is in the Hoapless Ward, Bobbie, sed Pa, hoaplessly bughouse, Pa sed, from trying to. do puzzels. Do not bother yure hed with fancy puzzels, Bobbie, sed Pa. The income tax is bad enoff, sed Pa. I think puzzels is good to build up a chile"s vrane, sed Ma. Deer old father used to be grate at puzzels wen he was a child, sed Ma. I think that must of been what made him kind of quear in his older yeers, sed Pa. He thot he cud talk with the spirrits of his deeparted pals, sed Pa. No dout he cud talk with them spirrits if he sed so, sed Ma. Maybe, sed Pa, the old gent & his pals had plenty of spirrits wile thay was living, ardent spir rits, sed Pa. 1 know another puzzle, I sed. It a hen & a half can lay a egge & 1 | A turban by Evelyn Varon with the mystery of the East in its draping and a bow quite Parisian, By Loretto C. Lynch An Acknowledged Expert in All Matters Appertaining to House- hold Managment. RECENT article on the A need of nurseries where a mother might leave her child while the shops, visits, rests or goes to the theatre, has brought a host of letters to me. The question each letter asks is, "Just how does one go about opening such a place?" In the first place, the woman who would mind children by the hour or day, must be conveniently located. In other words, the woman who has an apartment in the heart of a residential neigh- borhood where most of the resi- dents are young folks unable to keep a regular 'helper, is in a much better position to swing the project than many of the women who write and tell me they have a large home only an hour's ride from town with the usual country surroundings. The young woman who wishes to leave her child in a kiddie koop for an hour while she goes away, will not travel an hour in each direction to bring and call for her child. My first advice, therefore, is, if you are in earnest and you haye not a good location, get one. One or more of the physicians in the neighborhood who might vouch for your surroundings and yourself personally, wil help greatly. You might go to your own family physician to whom you are well known and get his endorsement. Once you begin to get your little guests, one satisfied mother will suggest your service to an- other. No matter how much you may want to add to your income, it is bad policy to take any child which seems to be fll. It is wise to have a definite understanding with mothers leaving children and obtain permission to call a physician if you deem it neces- sary while the child is in your care. Be quite certain as to whether you are to feed the child, Just what and when, HOUSEHOLD HINTS Sometimes in cold weather windows are apt to steam when the rooms become hot. This can be obviated by applying a gly cerine rag after Polishing. . To fry cutlets allow about ten minutes. ' Never wear a shoe that will not allow the greater toe to lie 4 '|ADVICE TO THE LOVELORN By Beatrice Fairfax Saving for a Home. DEAR MISS FAIRFAX: A friend became engaged to a young man and he asked what her people intended to do about their marriage. She told him they were going to give her a very nice wedding and her trousseau, all kinds of lin- ens and the customary things-- nothing more. Her people are not poverty-stricken, by any means, although the above ex- penditure would mean some- thing to them; but of course, it Was necessary, and also their own desire. He then informed her that it was customary for parents of the bride to furnish her home and she told him that even ii her parents could afford it sho would not permit it. He re- plied by stating that It was her duty to stop giving them her salary and save for her home, and he was very much aston- ished when she told him it he had ideas of that kind, he should have expressed them be- fore they became engaged. The young man, by the way, earns a very good salary, but has never saved any of it. J.C. THE girl has no reason to be- come offended, for though the young man seems mercenary, he probably had no wrong mo- tive and - was impelled by the desire. to see his sweetheart in a fine setting. Frequently . Wealthy parents do furnish the nest for a young couple. But there is no custom, no necessity in this connection. The girl must not let sentiment cloud her good common sense. She sees the thing one way and the man sees it another. This is bound to happen often even when there Ts great ov Jot ween two e. e thing Lave pW friendly talk. The man ought to save toward a home. A simple, unpretentious start is all that is needed. HOW OLD IS MAN? ABOUT 400000 YEARS, SAYS SCIENCE He Is Thought to Have Made His Appear- ance First By Garrett P. Serviss, Eminent Astronomer and Author- ity on Subjects of Scientific Interest. : "Please give some data con- cerning prehistoric man, as, for example, the Neanderthal and Heidelberg man. Where were they discovered, and about when did they exist?" AN as far as we know at M present appears to have made his first appearance upon this planet in what geolo- gists call the Quaternary period, in the later phase of which we now live, and which began with the "Ice Age." Various estimates have been made of the length of time that has elapsed since the beginning of the Quaternary, but an average may be struck amounting to at least half a mil- lion years. But man did not appear coin- cidently with the start of the BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE By Wm. A. McKeever. Widely Known Lecturer and Author and a National Authority on Juvenile Problems. HAT are you doing to WwW teach your child unsel- fishness? Are you aware that every selfish deed and thought which goes into his growing personality must come to the surface in some form of future {117 We pay a double price for sel- fish acquisition. We pay through the effort spent in getting it, and Wwe pay agaln later in the effort to get rid of it. Why not begin now to relieve your child of the necessity of paying such a double Penalty in the [uture? Recently I heard the plaints one by one of some twenty pa- rents who imagined they had a deep trouble in connection with the management of their chil- dren. One was in a row with his boy, another was in trouble v:ith a half-grown daughter, another was in a bitter agony of {il- feeling toward a neighbor whose child was supposed to be a "bad example" to the young of the dis- trict. One father was worried because he had fallen down in his ambi- tion to make his boy the smart- est in tho whole school. He im- agined that if his child could head tha list every month he himself would be perfectly satis- fied. One mother proved to be deep- ly concerned to have her girl win mors recognition and hon- ors than those of her school class. She complained that other parents were using unfair means to shove their girls to the front. Two mothers came together to complain of a chid. of the district which was "very rude and not fit for their own children to assocl- ate with." They were willing to &et rid of the supposed offender at any reasonable price, or to take up any easy scheme of keep- ing their children away from him. The father who would be happy to have his boy smartest is short- sighted, unsocial and unfair to his child. Selfishness, envy and some kind of future remorse will be the reward of himself and of hig child also, if the boy allows the lesson of selfishness to "take." A far better way is to urge your boy to strive for the mastery day by day of his lesser and weaker self, Not other boys of less ability, but his own poor abliity will then be held in con- tempt. The mother who strives to have her girl win superior honors over her school mates is thus soving the Sind of envy, hatred and bitterndss for the future of her daughter. She should teach her girl to love and praise all her mates and to strive merely to be worthy of their happy fellowship, to keep him from contaminating their own, are very shortsighted and selfish, Through the same amount of ef- fort they could teach their chil- dren to associate with the de- spised one in a fashion that would tend to save him, and also to put good will und democracy into. the tender young hearts of their own. If the "bad" the neighborhood and has no re- sponsible parent to care for him, then, his care and training 1s a respoasibllity for every worthy man and woman about him. They owe it to the boy, to their own unselfish Datures and to the future of society to help make 8 good man out of that boy. Think, watch, be careful, Dear Parent. Develop your child ato thus save many 4 gay oraD and y & day of sorrow or bitterness for somebody. NT -- ANECDOTES OF boy belongs 1n ° in the Ice Age and Steadily Developed Since. $ Ice Age, and it could not be ex pected that he should, for when the land was covered with vast glaciers, grinding and planing off the very tops of the moun- tains, filling up the valleys, and deeply covering the plains, over the greater part of what are now the most civilized portions of the northern hemisphere, there was no opportunity for a new and higher race of animals to be de- veloped. But the Ice Age as a whole was not attended with similar glacial conditions. Taere was a serfes of "interglacial" stages, separ- ated by successive "invasions" of the ice, which always advanced | southward from the direction of the Arctic, and during these in- tervals, when the ice retreated and warmer climates prevailed, the conditions were such as to favor the appearance of man--or at least we conclude that the conditions were thus favorable, since it was in some of those interglacial stages that the first creatures of human shape left relics of themselves that have en- dured to our time. There. were four glacial and three interglacial stages in the Ice Age. The first glacial stage began about 500,000 years ago, and lasted about 25,000 years. It was followed by the first inter glacial period, lasting about 75,000 years. Then came the sec- ond glacial period, about 25,000 years long, which was followed by the second interglacial, sup- posed to Lave lasted 200,000 years. The third glacial stage of 25,000 yoars was followed by the third interglacial of 100,000 years, and then came the fourth glacial, also of 25,000 years' duration, which is thought to have ended 25,000 years ago. The time that has passed since the last disappear ance of the glaciers is called the post-glacial stage: Now, the earliest human type vet found is called Pithecanthro- pus erectus, meaning, as Dr. Loomis Havemeyer translates it, "an ape-like individual that walks upright like a man." It is gen- erally conceded that this creature lived during the first inter-glacial stage--i. e.. at least 400,000 years ago. The only example of re mains of Pithecanthropus known at present was found in Java in 1891. "Heidelberg man" is considered to have been somewhat higher in type than Pithecanthropus, ranking "somewhere between the apes and modern man," and he is assigned to the second inter-gia- clal stage. His remains were found near Heidelberg on the Rhine in 1907. "Piltdown man," discovered in England in 1911, is a rather pusz- zling personage, but it is thought that upon the whole he may have represented a slight advance upon the Heidelberg type, and he is put into the third Inter-glacial stage. which ended with the on. coming of the fourth glacial about 50.000 years ago. "Neanderthal man" was a de- cided advance upon all his prede- cessors, and it has been suggest. ed that he was an evolutionary development of "Heldelberg Man" Neanderthal's remains have been discovered at various places in Europe, but the first were found in 1857 pear Dusseldorf. The Neanderthal are ascribed to the fourth glacial stage, and not to an interglacial stage lke their predecessors. Naturally they lived in a cold climate, together with Winter-loving animals which came down into Europe from the borders of the Aretfc. With the disappearance of the ice, the opening of the post-gla- cial stage, a very much higher race, the Cro-Magnons, came into Europe from Asia, perhaps as much as 25,000 years A890. These were physically, and apparently mentally, almost comparable with the better races of contemporary man, THE FAMOUS St. Paul's, Covent Garden, has a curious history. The church jormerty occu; Sale to Inigo Jones. our race," sald the great archi 3 Yu build you the finest ach nD the world." And that is what Le did. St. Paul's fast Garden, 1s a vast barn in with wide overhanding eaves, . » - Frederick the Great always be- an his day at five, and during the last few months prior death his Privy to bring him their to his llors haq reports at four was at seven,