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eS ------ Pac IS Beatrice Fairfax Asks Why Keep Hid- den the Proudest, Happiest Event of Your Life? By Beatrice Fairfax, t Who occupies a unique position in the writing world as an author ty on problems of iove. €€ E'VE all heard the so- WwW called truism that 'a woman can't keep a secret." But observation and experience suggest that keeping a secret is just as hard for a man. Of course, we know that there are both men snd women who can and do keep secrets. But the fact remains that human nature tinds the chief charm of a secret in telling it to a friend. After that it's no longer a secret. So far as secrecy ig concerned, it's a failure, Your best friend, urged by the same love of imparting interest- ing information that prompted you to tell, confides the near. secret to just one other--"in strict confidence," of course. So the story travels and grows as ft spreads, Of all secrets the hardest to guard is that of the marriage news of which the two persons most concerned have decided to keep strictly to themselves. First obstacle to concealment: there's the legal record of the marriage which he who chooses may in- spect. For the law doesn't en- courage secrecy in marriage. Then, also, the man snd woman who are socretly married come to be known as intimate friends possibly betrothed. Their close affection is most likely to arouse intrested 'curiosity and. specula- tion. is roused aad <uspicions, a secret Is doomed. Thus the average se- cret marriage is doomed to fail ure so far as maintaining secrecy is concerned. Charles and Mabel decided to keep their wedding a secret. Their marriage was casual--the result of un trip across the ferry one Bummer afternoon to inquire about licenses, just for fun. "Of course," Mabel stipulated, "we can't marry for at least a year, We've no money saved. Mother would be brokenhearted. And we've only known each other a few weeks. That's really not long enough, is it, dear?" Charlie's reply was a stolen kiss.' They were in & delight fully secluded corner of the fery ry-boat deck. "Let's wet married to-day," urged Charlie when they found to their surprise that a marriage license was not necessary in this particular State. We can find a Justice of the Peace and buy a ring. There's no time like now." "But mother--and our friends --we haven't money saved; it's all so uncartain" demurred Ma- ble. But she wanted to be con- vinced, "Our marriage is no one's af- fair but our own," decided Char He. "We'll keep it a secret at least for a year. Meanwhile, we'll save money. Don't you know, dear, that two people can live as cheaply as one?" So they were married despite Mabel's obstinate doubts. For Charlie wag undeniably persua- sive and she loved the thrill of the adventure, Charlie and Mabel began their "light housekeeping" in Charlie's ve studio room in Greenwich Mabel asked that one or two intimate friends be told A8 a protection to her. mother who lived thousands of miles distant was to be kept in ce. ignorance. But their next-door neighbor told a friend who repeated the news to a friend who happened b be a friend of ahels brother, , & surprisingly short time Mabel's mother heard of the mar- ons prostrated with SE 'the protection of concealment is And when once curiosity | By Mrs. Cornelius Beeckman Signing a Wedding Telegram. marriages. If they are marriages of pure affection endorsed by £00d judgment, the unit of the family that results is made up of unselfish public-spirited citizens, vitally concerned in- the public welfare for the sake of home and children. And those children will be trained to take up in the spirit of service the world's prob- lems when their turn at govern- ment comes. The marrisge that through secrecy dodge the responsibility of home, children and active com: munity servics cannot prove last- ingly happy or successful. For in its selfishness it {ignores the nobler alm of marriage--to serve. There are exceptional cases, ex- traordinary circumstances, which doubtless justify secret marriage now and then. But generally speaking, the marriage that needs 50 Inherently {ll-advised, hasty or selfish that it might better be postponed until ft is strong enough, wise enough to stand and face the wosld, assured of suc- cess, If you love a man and he loves you and.therc's no good reason why you two should not wed, why make a secret of what should be the proudest, happiest event of your life? Your marriage will be the more successful because you begin it honestly, frankly, proud of the true love that has in- fluenced you to marry and found a home. CORRECT MANNERS Asking for a Telephone Number. EAR MRS. BEECKMAN: Would you please settle the following 'argument? A says when a young man is in- troduced to a young lady at a gathering by some mutual friend that it is incofrect for the young man to ask the young lady for her telephone number after escorting her home. A maintaing he should ask the friend who introduced them: B says it is not necessary; that he may ask the young lady her- self. A AND B. THIS 18 distinctly stretching a point--to have the sponser of an introduction continue his role as a chaperon. No, I agree B, that, after the introduct no "middleman" is necessary. To begin with, how could the intro- ducer be sure that the young lady wished to have him give her telephone number? It seems to me that this would be taking a good deal on himself, and quite unnecessarily. DEAR MRS. BEECKMAN: Kindly tell me the proper signature for a wedding mes: sage telegram. Is the t or full name used? I'have never met the groom. K MK. JT is wiser to sign the full name to such a message, sent at such a busy and usually conf And, since it is friendly of you to include in your telegram congratulations to.the groom as hic as Tolicliations to Be bride; t is es necessary for you to sign your whole name. It is very confusing to receive several messages signed "Dorothy," even if each Dorothy believes that that stretchings, mind elongations, unbelievable reachings-out of the imagination and thé roving spirit in each of us--and the well-known and long written-of swelling of the heart! For Spring is stretching her white arms, too--and she's the first little girl in the game of "follow my leader," and everybody has to do thumbs up," or Spring says, "Every- body stretch," and everybody does. But somebody has to wake the young lady herself first. somebody that wakes first of all--deep down in the earth twisting roots, in a warm grass, where he has lain eurled and lost in sleep, while the white snow whirled in the world above? He is Pan--almost another word for Love. tell which is which and which isn't! Vira "stretchings" are going on this time of year. as she does. It's "Simon says who is that under the i * : EL 3 3 2S EP 2 5 7 GISRRN Nia Cn (RTS \ TA QA... . ANY \\ =X = '. Soul golden thatch of his hair. tiny black hoofs. was Cupid. Maybe it was HE who looked at Maybe his Surely on his Back you ea And was it an arrow and bow, instea or the image of both? kind. He had gold curls. other. And nest of Autumn moss and dried WAS it--Pan or Dan, CRET MARRIAGE A SUCCES "Lazy Spring, Won't You Wake Up?' DRAWN BY dark hole under the beech-tres roots dances befare your eyes. You think his eyes are uptilted and his ears pointed like a deer's. You are sure he had two nubbins of horns growing through the Surely his legs ended in goat's curls and And his smile was wild, licious, any, godlike. That's it--like the old gods. unhuman, bewitching, ma- And one of them you. His eyes were merry and toes were pink, instead of that gt & glimpse of downy wings, of a pipe, he held! Whichever But he it is who wakes Spring with his piping or a graze from It is very hard to The face that rises out of the his arrow, calls her a lazy Jane, and brings along with him a young man ina straw hat and a girl in a Spring bonnet! --NELL BRINKLEY. FASHION FADS AND FANCIES leweeBy Mildred Ash--- ORDERING on Extremes.-- Borders are extremely styl- ish on all types of Spring coats. Many twill or charmeen coats take horders of Russian de- sign and colorings, embroidered in gay waols, or have borders of their same fabric pleated in flounce effect, while béfigaline models are either bordered in fur or show an interesting new treat- ment of hand-made ribbon. flow- ers. This latter style has but re- cently been imported from Paris, where it is greatly in vogue for formal dress wraps. Daringly original are the latest glove fashions, foremost among which are the glace kid gloves with turnéd-back cuffs lined in plaid silk and plaid colorings em- broldered om their backs. Two little pendants of gayly colored wooden beads dangle coquettigh- ly from the cuffs and add an air as saucy as it is Parisian. Footprints In Fashion's Sands are being made by the trim tan calfskin pumps that are desig: nated as the correct footnote to the tailored costume for Spring. A yoke effect plece is stitched across the front and to one side it is trimmed by a dull gilt mono- gram. This style shoe has a cov- ered high Cuban heel and a smartly rounded toe. Amazingly Animated--Are the lines of the newest ensemble cos- tumes, for they are not content to follow the straight and narrow name means only her to the bride | A Lm A hh: 1) Copyright, 1925, by Premier Syndicate, Ine. WHEN DID IT th of former seasons. They reak into definits Action by the troduction - of spucy flares, unty kick pleats, rippling jabots and streaming scarfs--not to mention the frequent streamer ends, floating from the cuffs of HAPPEN? 1--When was the Confederate in theo, ia 3--When was Leovigild king ot the Visigoths in Spain? 4--When was Simon Bolivar proclaimed "Liberator of Vene zuela?™ rr i li EE i i 3 i kgs i | FOXY GRANDPA'S STORIES Registered U. 8. Patent Office. NTS ARE TRAINED FOR TIGER HUNTING. €6 ES, those elephants are 4 "They don't mind that," de used to hunt tigers," I coe Bobby. "But live tigets said, as Bobby, Bunny | move. Suppose they would soe a and I walked toward the corral, | live tiger. That might frighten where "several fine elephants those glépbants and they'd run were tiled. "Men ride In the | away from the hunt." howdah--that basket arrange- "That will be guarded against ment which is fastened to the ele- | in the next lesson," sald L phant's back." After another few days, we 1 should think the elephants | went back to see our friends, the ould be afraid of tigers," said | elephants, and then we saw the bby. last and final stage in their "They are in their wild lite," | training for the hunt. * said Bunny. "But animals, es- As we neared the eorral, Bobby Decially elephants, can be trained suddenly pulled back and whis to do most anything." pered: "How do they ever do it?" "Foxy Grandpa, do you think asked Bobby, as we approached | we had better 80 any nearer? the corral. "Why look, Foxy | Look, there is a tiger with the Grandpa--look at that tiger | elephants. He might get after us." ' skin. lying there by that ele- phant." "Ha! ha!" I laughed. "1 wonder it the elephants are fooled the "That's. the first step in their training," I replied, delighted > that Bobby should see for him. | These is no danger at all" self just how it was done. Bobby wasn't quite convinced. "Why do they do that?" asked | But he knows that I would never Bobby. his eyes as big as saucers. | take him deliberately into danger. Til tell you" I said. "The 80 he set his little jaw and brave first ¢ ele- | ly walked toward the fénce with phants to hunt tigers fs Just what | me. you see there. thrown tha the 'elephants, NELL BRINKLEY SECRETS OF HEALTH AND SUCCESS By Charles A. L. Reed, M. D. Former President of the Amerl ican Medical Association. Heredity and Environment and Their Influence on Your Children, N the bearing of your childred you have at least the same ¢onsideration for your off- spring that the intelligent animal breeder has for his colts and calves and pupples. What you most desire to trans mit is chpacity for the well directed exercise of power, both physicdl and mental capacity. Certain of these powers are de- veloped from within, due entirely to original capacity, and are said to be hereditary. Certain other powers, also due to original capacity, are devel oped from surroundings, called environment, and are sald to be acquired. i But, remember that it is a nat- ural law that power begets power. The greater your matur ity of power as a parent the greater will be your children's capacity for power. This is the central law upon which the breeder depends for the improvement of his stock. Some years ago Redfield inves tigated the pedigrees of trotting horses of the 2:10 class or better. He traced their ancestry back through dams and sires fpr eral generations. In many stances he found their begin in comparatively slow stock. "training and continued careful selection as to the maturity of the breeders, the speed was im- proved until the tine records were scored. The Jerseys and Guernseys and Holsteins -- the finest of milk ADVICE TO LOVELORN By 'Beatrice Fairf Winning His Friendship. DD MISS FAIRFAX: I have never before cared for anyone, but Bow I am very much in love with a man five years my senor. I ses him abotit once 8 week. He seems to care when he is with me, although he accuses me of being cold. Apparently he is willing to let a week go by without call- ing me up, and yet he says he cares for me. He is not the ftmid kind. . It he doesn't care for me, 1 can't see him any more because 1 tare go much. Yet if I refuse to see him, might I not drive him away if he is only just be- ginning to care a little? I have Ro che to give me any advice. tell me what to do./ BLUE-EYED. ENJOY as much of hig friend ship as he accords to you, but don't allow yourself to think of him as more than a friend until he proves he loves you by asking you to become his wife--if he ever does. Be as sweet and charm as You can when you are with him. Possibly in time his friendly feel ing for you may deepen into love. But meantime if you are wise you will go about with all your friends and not permit Yourself to "fall in love" with & man who shows no evidence of other than , Mere friendly regard for you. cows--have been evolved by the same method of selection. So have the finest breeds of dogs and sheep and swine. It so happens that the human animal is at times slow of de- velopment. At twenty, he or she may have a mental age of only twelve or fifteen. It may so happen that this same person as the result of later development, through growth as well as by educational influetices of schools or actual experience, may attain a normal mental level at thirty five or forty. It is perfectly plain that thet person would make a better par ent at thirty-five or forty than at eighteen or twenty-five. It is likewise perfectly plain that the bearing of children should be based first upon the general excellence of the indi maturity of the parents' powers. These great facts must enter into our unexpressed but prof: felt ideals of marriage school, who "was Some facetious remarks i": "But aft vidual parents, and next upon the. dent of the Bean Dra ; CEA a S? A ins Sinus 5 so oe