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DorothymDix ’ Letter Box

‘Are Women Parasites in MarriageZI-Which 3 is Better, Tidy Scold or Amiabie Sloven?

Father Who Wants to Give Baby for a Adoption

Dear Miss Dik—ln regard to women's rights to propose marriage to men, haven't women always picked out their husbands and popped the filestloh to them?

Isn't woman's love more material than man's? Do you ever hear of men selling themselves to girls for the sake of luxury and 800d times? Do you ever hear of men complaining that they have made a bad pick of a. wife, or complain that they miss the good times they had when they were single? You. hear women continually finding fault with their husbands and say they are sorry they didn't have sense enough to marry sober men instead of drunkards, etc. Haven't men always shown that they loved more than women? Haven't men al- ways written all the songs, poems and stories about love? Haven't men a better mental capacity for choosing their mates than women have? Isn't it- women who are thc parasites in marriage? JOSEPH.

Well, Joseph. [giving woman the right to pop the question to man doesn't compel him to marry her. I-Ie can always say "no," that this is so sudden, and that he had no idea that she entertained such sentiments toward him and that the most he can do is to be a brother to her,

Personally, I think that men will have a better chance to escape marriage, if such is their desire, when women pursue them in the open than they have now when it is done by stealth and ulider cover and a man never luiows what designs upon him a. woman may have hidden in some casual attention.

Perhaps women always have picked out their mates. Or at least they have known what particular men they would choose to spend the balance of their lives with if they had the say-so in the matter, but the trouble is that heretofore the conventions have forbidden them to take any active steps toward securing the husbands they desired, and that has crumpled their style. ‘Fliey have simply had to sit on the sidelines and look willingnnd only too often the mail who could have made them happy and whom they could have made happy has been too blind and dumb to see them and read their signals aright.

Perhaps women do marry oftener for position and money than men do, but that was a necessity forced upon them in the past by their in- ability to get the comforts of life in any other way. Now when any woman can make a good living for herself very few sell themselves for lucre.

But if you think men are indifferent to such sordid considerations as a bank account, you are vastly mistaken. Every well-to-do widow can tell you that the line forms on the right of the men who want to share in her insurance money and hang their hats up permanently in her front hall.

Also, you will observe that there are a. constantly increasing number of loafing husbands who let their wives earn the family's support.

Also, the world is full of the wailing of the husbands whose wives do ‘not understand them. It. is the theme song of every philanderer, who uses it as his approach when he starts a new affair with a new girl, Also, it is the alibi of every poor, weak failure. Did you ever know a. drunkard who didn't claim that he was driven to drink by his wife, or a man who went bankrupt who didn't blame his wife's extravagance instead of his own bad judgment?

Nor can you substantiate your theory that men love better than women do. You know what the poet says: "A man's love is of man's life o. thing apart, 'tis woman's whole existence." Far more men are un- faithful than women. Many men lose interest in their wives when they

get fat and middle-aged andlose their good looks, but few women cease to love their husbands because they have lost their boyish figures and most of their hair. A man seldom loves an erring wife enough to forgive her but thousands of womenlove their husbands well enough ‘to take them back after they have betrayed them seventy and seven times. You have known dozens of women who have nursed sick men with a love and

A MIRROR-

Only the waters that in stillness lie

Reflect the unbroken image of the sky;

Only the tranquil soul can truly show

The look of Heaven in the life be~ low.

-E:iwiil Henry Kcen.

FIDDLER. WHO SMOKES PIPE IVIIILE HE PLAYS

There have been many occasions when the old-time fiddler showed a. few wrinkles to the violin virtu- oso.

One of these occasions was to- day on Place d‘Armes Square, when a "fiddler" who was a street play- er, drcw the attention of u number of people waiting for street cars there by the way he casually play- ed.

He was getting some good music out of that fiddle. and with no ap- parent effort. The people seemed to appreciate his playing; but the thing that intrigued them more than anything else was that while he fiddled he was smoking a pipe. It was not a case of Nero fiddl- ing while Rome burned, but of this street minstrel fiddling while to- bacco burned. He kept puffing away eontentedly and fiddling as though he ivns enjoying himself. The question was asked by some- one: "Could Fritz Krelsler or Mis- cha. Elm-an have done that?" NAMES THAT BEGIN WITH I.

There me many names in this

section of’ great interest. First of all, therefore, let me give you the brief meanings of some of than:

Laura, “a laurelz" Laniilifl. from the Latin, “of Latiumf’ Letitia, al- so Latin, “joy, or gladness, or hap- pinemz" Lilian and Lily, also La- tin. "a llly," as you would expect: Lois, of Greek origin, "better? Louisa, German, the feminine of Lucius Lucreta, snot-her Latin name, u chaste Roman Lady or light?’ Lucy, feminine of the Latin Luclus; Lydia, Greek. "native of Lydia."

Lavinia, not mentioned in this l'st. is the name of a Roman girl, the daughter of Ietinus.

The Italians bestowed the name freely upon their daughters in the Middle Ages.

’I‘here are two peculiar names in this series. Lilnette and Lynette. both derived from liun, meaning "a shape." They can therefore be said to mean shapely. The name ap- pears in Morte D‘Arthur as Iinet. In certain French stories it appears as Lunette, although some people declare that it oomes from an English martyr called Elined.

Lydia was the name of the city‘ whence came B, convert of St. Paull Like many other Biblical names it was used a great deal in Puritan times, but since then it has fallen into disuse and now is very rarely met. with. '

I/suise, Louisa, and Louie are feminine forms of Iewis and Louis, and were very 07ll1lll0h at one time acrcss the channel. It is thought, however. that the name came to this country with the Princesses of the House of Hanover.

enly woman at the head of it. months old. My husband says three

no children and ivant to adopt him. for the child more than we can.

and liberty and human give and take, and the husband and children never want to leave home and adore the sweet-tempered. easy-going, slov-

Dem- Dorothy Dix-We have four children, the youngest a baby 4 and he wants to give the baby to a nice couple whom we know who have

My husband is crazy about the three other children, but doesn't seem to care for this little baby.

DOROTHY DIX. children are all we can take care of They are well-to-do and could do

I am ag-l-aid

And reds with purples in harmon-

Nor mold my fancy in cold, tone- Nor cast in bronze, nor grave in

'I‘iie shape of shadows lh the light

But as my medfim I have chem:

if I do not yield to my husband about this that it will break up our family and we have always been so happy and congenial. What should I do? MRS. G. G. M. Answer:

I think that when it came to really giving up the child that your hus- band would find that he couldn't do it. His love for the little helpless creature would be too much. So why don't you get the couple who want the child to keep it for a few months and see if the arrangement works?

pf course, if you are not able to actually feed the child and give it the proper care, it will be better for it to be in a home where it can be given

world have come from homes aspoor

the things it needs, but many of the greatest men and women in the

as yours. DOROTHY DIX.

patience that never fziltered through the years; women who waited out- side of penitentiary gates to take back the man they love when he was set free, but a man's love seldom survives invalidism or disgrace.

As for men having a. bciicr mental capacity for making a wise choice in marriage, look nt their picks and you will not think there are many Solomons among them. But before we can judge a woman's capacity along that line we will have to see her choice. Probably there won't be much to boast of on either side.

Nor is the average wife a parasite. She is more like a perpetual motion ninclune. DOROTHY DIX.

Dem‘ Dorothy Dim-Does a tidy, shrcwish woman make a better wife than {good-natured untidy one? J, R. K, Answer: '

Depends upon ease of mind versus ease of body, and whether you would rather have a wife who saved your pennies or saved your dis- position.

A woman can be a human vacuum cleaner who keeps her house as clean as the proverbial new pin. She may have every floor scrubbed, every window polished, every chuir in place. She may set well-cooked food on the table on the very tick of the clock, and yet make a home that ls such u place of torment that her husband and children flee from it.

There are homes where a man has to wipe his feet before he enters; where he dare not move a chair out of its appointed place; where to drop a paper on a floor or to spill cigarete ashes is a high crime and misde- meanor, and where the whole of life goes on with the never-ending nag- ging and fretting and whining and complaining of a shrewish woman.

And there are other homes that look us if a cyclone has Just passed over them; where nothing is ever orderly or overly clean; where meals are never on time and nre badly cooked: where there is a lamentable lack of thrift and management, but where there is always laughter and good nature and sympathy and understanding.

A man may collie to such a home secure of being drawn by. tender hands across the threshold, of beinglpetted and made much of, of being praised and jollied and appreciated. Children's toys may be scattered

Say many who started to protect their teeth properly years and years ayo

Men and women, happy in the pos- session of sound teeth, will freely admit as a rule that they started to safeguard them years before. It is known that half the adult teeth lost are due to pyorrhea. It is also known that four people out of five past the age of forty are likely to have this fearful trouble with their gums. Still more impor- tant is the fact that pyorrhea may be working five years, ten years, even longer, before it is ever seen or felt. The moral of this is: don't wait for danger signals. Remember: you can't “fool around” with pyorrhea. You sim- ply 1nuat have professional dental advice about twice a year and

over the floor and the dog may be asleep on the best soft, but there is fun

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KATHLEEN NO.

First Installment

WES "Gee, that is pretty!" said Mary

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Margaret Pethcridge Johnson, in an awed whisper, Small, shabby, alone, and shuddering with pleasurable ex- citement mid chill, she hung upon the gale of the paternal residence and paid to the mirnclc of paling

' and brightening lights and colours in the gray world about her un in- voluntary tribute of delight and reverence.

Behind her shabby little back. ind th" tirngglrrl SJIHQS of hcr ihnbby liiilc kitchen fllTflil, and the fiarcfessly mnsxsod riuglcts of hcr

‘ousicd litilh head, the sun was ri.- Street gate, liuwrver, saw and heard

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The Johnson cottage stood at tli; ,sm:|ll cur dog. Tic olher ‘figure was

dwelling, disreputable, lacking paint. Behind the cottage was a. low row of miserable outbuildings, none able to stand alone, each one yet manag- ing to afford a wretched support to its neighbour.

On this cool winter morning, a light from the kitchen window lay warm and yellow across the bright- enlns Yard, and a cat, huddled dis- gustedly ngnnst the closed kitchen door, mowed wccmionnlly in n pro- testing flllfl nfroiltcd fashion.

The tY-o v-zllrls that were at the

nothing of 1121s. One of them wm a

when you take up seriously the

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very top of a. steep city block. It that of Maggie Johnson, a meek, self-effaclng little

"It's pretty," she said aloud, in I. dreamy voice, as the gold flashed on distant windows l and dripped through trees, and the familiar sil- houette of the city grew more and more recognraiile. "It's like it was a big tide-unshin’ every one along before it!"

For, as she hung there, trauced. whistles far uwny and nearby shrill- ed the quarter before seven o'clock, and the early workers in factories and in the big machine shop: begun to gather visibly in the streets. For a few minutes, their shadows moved, long and red, ahead of them. Then it was day, ordinary, commonplace,

work-time again, and Maggie, rous-

“Iiumg People have no monopoly on brilliant sound teeth"

home treatment of your teeth, it will pay to use a toothpaste in- vented by a dentist. Dr. R. J. Forhan devoted n lifetime to pyor- rhea treatment. His professional formula is used by thousands of dentists and his home formula is embodied in Forhanfa Toothpaste. It's the finest toothpaste money can buy, with an extra-protection feature in its special formula. Don't let pyorrhea get started. Use prevention. Use Roi-Iran's. Use it twice a day-old and young. It's never too early to start the chil- dren on Forhanh, the double-duty toothpaste, at all drug storol.

ing herself with a guilty start from the luxury of dreaming, returned to her household cares with the veloc- ity of a little dynamo.

The sense of beauty and adven. tux-e was still strong upon her as she caught up the bottles that supplied the Johnsons with their breakfast milk and cream, and fled back to the neglected kitchen.

There was everythlnl. domestic- ally speaking; to be done in the kitchen, but nobody in Maggie's seventeen years had ever done it, or even half done it, and the wild dis- order troubled her not at all. At seventeen, a peculiarly youthful and innocent seventeen, she was not an- alytical. She had spent every night of her life under this low, old- fashioned cottage roof and the dirt and disorder that Ma and Liz created in their wake and spread about them instantly were one of the simple and unavoidable condi- tions of her life.

Maggie had to push aside the sugar bowl and the blue plate of stale and broken soda crackers. to find roam on the cluttered table t:

. beautiful color effects. When I told

GARDENING a g-QfifihQifi -. zwc lfit LANDSCAPE GARDEN!!!

I can not dip my brilrll in glowing oolorfi. C t And wake blank canvas into vi- brant life . . . ' Massing cool blues and. greens with amber splashes,

ious strife.

I can not capture thought in chiselled malibie,

less clay; burnished copper

of day.

gardens.

Formed pictures ou-t of all flowers that blow; i Set rocks, pools, arches in an order- ed sowing;

And God has taught my pictures how to grow.

-Hclen Dickson, in the Chatelaine

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WINDING PATH

A well planned path usually adds to the appearance of any garden. Curves are advisable, but unless there is an obvious reason such as a. corner of p, building or fence, one should be supplied by planting a tree or clump of shrubbery. A path curving under some covered trellis and leading up to a new vista. of the lawn with the flowers behind, is very effective. Several materials can be used. mat lime- stones laid irregularly are probably the best, though gravel, cinders, brick, or, if the traffic is not too heavy, a. grass passageway between flower beds are also very good. Ini laying the other materials mention- ed, particularly brick or stone, this should be done in such a way that the surface will be flush with the top of the surrounding sod, so that the lawnmower will run over it. Sun dials, pools, garden seats, per- golas and arbours can be incorpor- ated in the general lay-out.

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1 cup butter

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It's carried out in a subdued black for pattern No. 2350. and white woolen check in a rough ' transparent weave. The guimpe is tubbable white crepe silk.

Dawn-blue crinkly crepe silk with white organdie guimpe is another cute scheme.

Style No. ‘l0’! is designed in sizes 14, l6, 18, 20 years, 86 and 38 inches

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"A wealthy lady from the City of Quebec who was visiting here bap- pened to see the rag rugs I had just finished," writes a Three Rivers woman. "She said she had never seen such artistic ones and asked if I bought new materials to get such

her I had dyed my old scraps with Diamond Dyes, she simply couldn't. believe it. Besides being beautiful colors, they are fast and washable." In the popular art of rug making women prove again tile real value of Diamond Dyes for permanent dark colors by boiling. No other dyes make old materials look so new and rich in color. For light dainty shades without boiling for lingerie, summer blouses and dresses. use the wonder- ful new Diamond Tints. Ali drug stores have both Diamond Dyes and Diamond Tints.

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Several times a week the young man had dropped a nickel into the old fellows hat as he passed by on his way to the office. One morning he stopped and said, "sorry, Tom, but I shunt be able to help you after this; I'm going away to get married."

"What!" exclaimed old ‘Dom with a flash of resentment, "you are get- ting married at my expense?"

earth the coffee-pot from the con- fusion of the sink and rinse away the cuff of black ground from its spout before she could mix fresh coffee and set it on the stove to boll.

This done, she seized an instant to run into the adloining bedroom and whisper into the ear of the man who lay-asleep there:

"Seven, Pop! Linen —- seven o'clock!"

The man. a small. lluddled, in- significant flgure in the close gloom of the ugly little room, roused him- self alertly. The double bed‘: other occupant also roused, groaned, and Maggie's mother stirred reluctan y and asked anxiously, apparently out of deep slumber:

"Maggie, how's the Mayor?" "I didn't have time to look, m. But don't get up," the girl urged her, ooncemediy. "I'll bring you in some breakfast, and the paper mo!" "It don't seem right you should," Mrs. Johnson said perfunctorlly. "Iii Lizabeth up?" she asked.