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fjJ5Bns ft. 4 THEMARIOlCDAiLY MIRROR, JUHI 30,1910. Jjf 9flt )A The Aviator By JAMES J. MONTAGUE PsycKo and Sap A Friend in N6ed Is a Team of Horses Suhset eio Oopjrriirht, 1910, by Hit New tort EreV.lrj Joumsl rubllihlng Coowisr. By WILLIAM LARMINIE il WW MOM It flOU.

JI Ml IB -iSHIH 18 planes are poised nbove the Thg envious below, sltr silent by his nest. He skims along tho cloud strewn trail that threads tho quiet Bkles, Across tho billows of tho galo his pinions dip and rite, Till wehry of the lanes that load beneath tho sapphlro dome, He checks his motor's recklcis speed and sails serenely home. i The foothills rise to meet him now, the zophyr hums and sings About his needle-slender bow, and blithely buoy' his wings. clustered village here and there, a ragged dingy town, Drift upward through the crystal nlr, as down ho swoops, and down. A solemn pine tree marks the way, ho circles slowly past; Tho helm commands, tho wings oboy, and hero Is home nt last.

Yet you and I know not tho Joy of conquering tho air, Wo only saw a little boy astride a locking chair. The Danger of Novel Reading By DOROTHY DIX AKBW Ehglhh sensational novel Is comes to Now" York, or that Mr. Belasco udvertlsed a hrtvlng caused thelo'rfcrs Ktngp-struck girl, tho mlniilo he death of a reader, the excitement of the. story producing heart failure. Thl Is probably a press agents story, the real cause of most fatalities among the rraflers' of modern novels being the The effect of excessive novel reading result of their' having been bored to(on married women Is responsible for aeatn instead of being unuuiy inmieu.

mine-tenths of the divorces. There nrc It Is Hot the risk of their lives, but the; tens of thousands of Idle wives, living rlsji of their morals and the sanity of around boarding houses and hotels, their view point that endangers excessive with nothing to do except to devour novel novel readers, however, and that makes after novel. Their days ore passed In th wholesale establishment of free public noraries almost as mucn or. a menace the -well-being of the country as would be the opening up of free saloons or bplum Joints. This seems a pessimistic view to take what has been considered an unmixed "blefslng nd benefaction, but no one who' Impossible for a woman not to! takes the troubtt to observe what the eo herself In every heroine, and.

doing) tffect pf having an unlimited supply ll does not take her Ions to Im-fictlon. obtainable without money "he Is wasted on the unro-j "without price, on which to gorge them-; mantle, hard-working man who Is toll- Llf. hn. ntt tftmun anA fnilncr hrtt-B Ing like a SlaVC tn flllllhnrf ItAP. ran fall to see that novel reading has'a," compares him.

to his disfavor, become a pernicious evil that Is fostered by the free library J)ur Reverence for a Book. In America we are still so half-baked educationally trrat we have a superstitious reverence for the printed paRe. To ub "A hnnk'ii hnnk. thniich there he 'nothing In It." Women give themselves if" "urel a lear aow" current superior airs about being literary because of tnoso Hfftlrs "'at aro so they always read "The Six Best Sellers." I and thrilling In books and rml pirents beim with pride and a In real life, -when they see their children engrossed -of no one would bo ao nar-In leading, apparently unaware that In i row "nd as 1 condemn novel th book the child may be keeping com- reading In toto. Much of tho best tn pany with th most depraved character ls ln Ul fiction.

It Is possible to conceive, and Is belnj Inhere are novels that are an Insplra- famlllarlzed with the filth of the gutters. Not long agj the father of a a VminnXr nf ftv.lv., tini.1,1 Ihnt 'hit One CBtl his son habitually read two novels a u. VVU. maijnasmucn as tne puoiic norary oniy allowed him to draw out one book a day, he and another young companion, who was also a novel fiend, each got a novel every morning, devoured the story at a sitting, and then exchanged books ln order that thty mlgh. be provided with their afternoon dope Action.

It never seemed ui to the father what the effect Of ul. of this excessive novel reading would have upon the boy. I i were almost better fpr bucH a boy not or of the mental Indigestion It miut sure-i rT' h- stubby accommodate you." he says to the af- 'Yrflm ead i A Su.h"v.n",J w.th" hU thumb at sul h.vTMea"Pep bunCh of "orse that WB8 brln- "'I'm Plain spoken man." says the 'with such highly spited episodes, an, nf? n(m mo mon he knew oston swclng 011t. don.t 'soaked In such a sauce of sensualism. rfn l0 "9 witiii sam tne stock- want no gent cnion." says ho.

"and I to' be able to read at all tiian to read much of the things he should not at his time of life. Books Dcmornlizing. This lad Is an extreme type of th novel-reading youngster, but there are far too many young boys In Ills clas. thin-chested, anemic little fellows, who- tre being given a post-graduate couise in, vice by reading eroilc novels tnat leave no phase of decadence unreveiled. We have laws to prevent the sale of liquor ind cigarettes to minora.

It should i a rfrlme to put within the. reacn of children baoks that wtilt at demoralising whiskey or tobacco. account has been taken of th effect' of novel reading upon women, but In1 all good truth It Is every bit as demoralising Jpr a woman to get the opium habit, or the drink habit, as It Is to get novel habit. It Is the rovel, more jh'an anything else, that is responsible for the abnormal woman, ine oivorcee, i 'th young girl, who goes aslray. is this as strange and Illogical as "if sounds.

Take a young girl who Is I 'pretty ann poor, ana wnose uai ai i spfot behind a counter or befbro a cook jt'x6v 8he acquires the novel reading "abit easily enough because It the one eheap by ebs. can escape, from her own hard life (nto a fairy c'tlll the Beautiful Cloak Model i stfangtr. who Immediately falls i Mn with her and marrlea her. and Tm, HI UlCflC w- 'Thn Heroine of the Novel. I k.il.l.

a. ia In itttlmarrltlahU splendor, or how Blr Guy de Montmor-, 'Oh, If he's married." admitted the 1 1 fails In love with fair Elaine as she J. b0'- nf 4 grubbing the steps, and marrle. "SUre." said tho Of r. bij.i course.

Btubby'd know what, to do with Hrr ui Buna ui an muujum 1 Such a girl, with a mind full 6f im- possibilities, Willi the Idea alwy before her that her beauty Is going to pave thernaii nours. urcui m.io um ot Aay for her to ease and luxury, is on the, "fltllJ, that was the way he made his lockout for adVetttUre and la ready attake. Heard about that, dldn you minute to throw tip her honest JJVa. It was the tlme he got flred and go atviy with any good lodufrigViefmwa'wlth' gmonth'a itarnii wh6 iiappens along. ho' many girls are1 lured Into Ivhji evil life by the rosy pictures of the 'rhder wbrid rrawn by novelist only the kicordlng Ahitel knows, but It Is a list tJ grows pitiably larger year by yuar, In the modern novel the heroine i -kt th' VirtUou rrjatden whq chooses rfjjeVeHy riiher thin wrongd6inr, but the thnfacter h)d up tor admiration is the niqUc dollar anJta'oiilevr 'uridyih filie-iil molitlii after aim oJO'jng woman who Oeciaret, to quote thp vlr r3llrM( "fhal khVmti a Hsht Jtejliv 1ie' li(u In her own wa'' liiiu fpOllM imly In novel that a writer snow that crowns the) mountain's crest, sees her, a contract to alar, but thou sands of broken-hearted young women have believed these lying stories and been the victims of them.

pasilon-laden atmosphere of high-pressure romance, ana wnen they are forced to come down to earth everything about them seems mean and tawdry, especially i their husbands. irn, 1 H0W WOniCll Read. jwttn the I-ord rcrclea with whom she associates in Dooka. She discovers that she Is unappreciated, misunderstood. bhe begins to have an Insn Mo yearning to have somebody mnko to her the fervent lovo speeches which Sir Percy poured Into the sholl-llke ear of Lady Guinevere, and alio drifts neP- out mere are also ore a contamination, and no more road without without bTlng defiled6 S.tni.

uni hicm iiiun no can xoucn nnrh V.m. UIH J-at-j The protest that I have tried to make here Is merely against the bad nOVel. and tOO mtlnh nnval raallnff which Is one of the great dangers of our time. tender, as he soused a breeching- Into pall of creamy castlle suds. 'You know what I think, so there's no need of me saying It," delicately remarked the Half Clrclo boy.

While thoy in town tho Stubby nround with tho "Honest to Henrietta Jane! Proie- ed the stock-tender. "He has to let hi. wife handle It. She woujdn have "Honest to Henrietta Jane!" protest- it no other way. Btubby'B reformed." i if h.

wa. irt tn himself. He'd (rive it all to the first tin-horn that he met for the privilege of pushing ohlpa around over a table for a few wee nnv. hs saddle, bridle, blankets, yuure. Chaps and slicker, and came out of It without 'em.

If the marshal hadn't ttken his gun away frpm him, he'd have lost that, too. Anyway, Sam Jacobs let htm out and he was loafing around town wondering It he wouldn't have to wash dishes for. the Bon Ton to pay hla board, when a Boston shoe millionaire came In on the stage and braced Ed MoVlcker to find him a. guide that would take him across trie Llmcstdpe Bang to Garnet Basin, where they'd ituek him on some mining claim. havan got" any profession! fuMu ardunOer.

Just now, hut I guess Know a gentleman who can take you, though," stys.Kd. Ho he sends fur Stubby and Introduces, hull. "This Is the gwiflenlah gjit How "Stubby" Got His Start in Life-By Kennett Harris 3t oF-wiBH sap psyc pinched now- VH VAS HERE TO ENJOY 1) MISS TH Ot-D CfEfeZER 7 yTHI5 Cg VJoi WHOir U)T PSTCHO? I'M 'feURE QUAD TO FIND Ydu -v- AqAIN SAP! I'M fON'TO TREAT YOU RIQHT FROM WVKNVVELL! IF VfjOW 6ti TO 6 V-: TOrx UT WNT V- Vy77vAS. (iV 1 Vv.V CTAP' no YOU A QTV vw jr kg-Miil slk X. SAP SOMETHIN' 0USTED vEU.tER-You (JlPzkRnJ cum imiyi vAn tunw-im- iS I FOR SAP! VOURE ye've cforro qetths I you s-said- r.Z o' truck- THINCr T1 TH' RePAIR-SHOP- Vou'RE CtoiW S- Cr HORSES? OM TO TH' lOW ARE wedoiH'T DO IT? T'TREATrlEf2- -BJ Sr-r i- y-: I RIGHT AINT Wtifo vU-3 JT V-v iter.

iirKirrK MmLn I 1 gentleman," say don't want no accommodation. I wnnt a handy man who knows tho country and can co-k a halfway decent meal and I propose to pay him well for It. He won't be accommodating me. He'll be doing man from Boston could boss big bank roll ho had. what I want him to do because he needs the money and I've got the money, so there's all there Is to that.

If (his fellow Is the best you can get and you think that he can tako me to Garnet Advice to the BETTER GO SLOWLY. rjEAB MISS FAIBIAX: I am a young lady twenty-two years old, good looking, and have a number of gentlemen friend who would be delighted should -I let them call on me. 1 think a groat deal of one of them, but several inontlm ago I met a young man to whom I took great fancy and still retain it. He la considered gdod looking, and as 1 ad-mlro a handsome man, I naturally Innli a nrlLl llktnir In lllm. lie tcllB Hie fie IIMUlia IIIUIC Ul lite b.4Dll uv him, but I do not think he Is alnceie, h.

I A nt as i am unaer tne imprtssioiwiie told that tp a number of Other KlrlB and I doing likewise In my case. I have given U) one of my delrtt friends for him, of which fact I unaware, and for which actjon I think; I may be sorry om day. Also wlieni call he wanta to kiss 1 absolutely refuse tu (At lillii do, hUt on. which lie, inslsle. po yoii think my llkinff for lilm Is reciprocated in any way.

M. A. II, I'll give film the Job, but I can't say I like his looks." "Un said that with Stubby.xight Interrupted tho Half Circle boy. Tha Kind of Fool He Was. "Sure," replied the stock-tender.

"He was jiisi umi ina o. told me he looked for trouble right there ana got oenina ine iovc, aian mane a move, ue ueiiaiiiij bki-ed surprised, but the next minute ho said, as meek as Moses, that he'd take the contract and hoped to give good satisfaction. 'Very says Uoston. 'Now you go out and get, whatever ls necessary for the trip. You can say that I'll pay for It here.

I'm not going to take any chances of your taking my money and spending It for whiskey. You'll get your pay when we get to Garnet and not "'That's perfectly agreeable to says Stubby, kind of husky, but still meek. So he hikes out and hires a couple of horses and a pack mule, and buys grub and a cooking outfit, and Uiey start out across the desert. At noon they camped and got dinner at Tarker's Coulee, and the Bosloner kicked like a brfy steer at every last thing. He didn't like the alkali In the water that Stubby boiled the coffeo in.

he didn't like the llapJacks, and he said that tho way the bacon was cooked turned hla stomach, and he cussed Stubby out for not gettln' him a horse that rods easier. "I'm mighty said Stubby. Tit try to do SUibby Takes Revenge, "Along about sundown, as thty -wbb gettln' to Pass Creek, lie began again about the horse, so Stubby reaches out and grabbed him by tho collar and Lovelorn By Beatrice Fairfax I THINK you are foolish to give up your friends for this man, of whose love you are not at alt sure. Hie igjod looks aro of small Importance; It Is, his character that counts. If-you diiUht his sincerity you are Veiv foolish tu waste ahy time on hlip.

Most certatli-, ly y6u'6houid not allow 'him to kns jou' unlese you arc engaged. i THE WAY OF A MAN. DKAIl MISS KAIJtFAX: Last Kehriiarv I met a voilnc Hn at 1. St tl.v 7 i.tn,, Bftui to be very nice, Since thai -tlnip I havo met him autte often at dtffeient placed, and he also called at my home quite a numoer or time we nave noin neen 011 very gooq 11 nw icnun aim erms. but lately thlmja icm to have Jng you to let 1 go.

The Only way "l.rSF':Kn taken a( different turn. At time he 0f winning him again I. by making "po MroanV1t takt S'tubbv8' seema 'ery glad to see me. and at effort to keen him. He haa not seen yoU it h.ntwn viSI hiy.Sor? other time, lie af ems very bored mnd very ttfn.

and It Is possible tha hi1 only lSltKr.6 ot In a hurry. I have seen him OU le 4 frit irlcnrlahlp fur mu. are taking I'HtuoVy nttis't liava iosl hlvritf ifA tilimlMT nt Hn th other young n. 4 dlflJ way, nnrtlt lHok "1I11T i at IuiIb." commenUVth dies, and jiav also beard of III- mucli Jim lieM tiilim do, VniUvll) "nlf rirola 'hoy. "But Vm glad he'! tliiuuifli my filvmiH.

li mi) imiler hi.i irpept, fvi'tl if his lOVo anyway." pulled him out of the saddle into a bunch i of prickly pcu'r. Bays Stubby. 'Now walk, darn you. nnd see how you like that for a "'You blasted ruffian!" says Boston. "Ho started to say something else, but Stubby slid off lit cayuse and cuffed him to a peak, first ono aide and then the Now you.

(r, tQ be Kood or we'll have a heap more dirticulty, he says, But when thoy out in tho stubby look his roveng 'This Is the Joyful moment I've been a-holdln' In for ever since I seen 'Are you going to kill me?" says Boa-ton, whimpering. "'That says Stubby, If stand It. I like this young man very much, and would gladly have continued, as before, on our friendly terms. 1 know that I have done nothing to hurt hi anu 11 would simply be ini- possible for me to write and ask him' jvhff Jt a my mother dlstlnoU? p. to gentlemen, ven If si0 lld permit It, I am sure I am a little too uroud to do ao.

Can you suggest some other way for me to win his friendship back again? Bo you think It Is only Btubbornness un nn pari The thing (hat seema most peculiar to me Is that he doesn't seem to care, nnd I do. I really cannot understand 7 7uN I yf HURRY! Sb MOH nst'T' i-ri2scrv EriN z. wmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmKmmmmmmmmmmmmmmtmtmmmmmmmmt i It. M. ii vmiiw irnni amba aa vab.

nn i nn tt 1 Q' UIET aro tho trooleas hills, Clnd with tho ahor( coarse grasi' rind heather; Around thorn tho sky's wldo clrclo Anu Doneatn tirem tno silent sea. And around tho sky's wldo clrclo aro clouds of Towers" of flaming snow; And tho plain of the gleaming tea reflects the glitter In lonely patches of calm. Wild, florysplcndld sky 1 V-V Bllcnt protest against nlghtvB dark domination, Over thy splendor already hangoth the do'mo of gloom. And jho sea lnscrutaoio rests, vait level of flickering darkness, "Watching tho sunsot go; All day' tho sky it has spoken, arid In brightness anrwered to brightness, Now will It speak to tho night. If thcro.ls gloom ln tho heavon, Shall, not tho gloom of hell bo twice Intense? Thoroforp yo faces rltol Yo that within tho sunioss depths havb dwellings, And by tho doopor terror of your eyes 8mlto the night's heart with trembling.

The Self-Reliant Woman By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. Copjrlght, 1010, br the Ne York EttoId Jounisl rubllihlni Cominnr. "OWEVEH tho old-tlmo man may I I have liked the clinging woman, the 1 1 dependent and Incapable woman, who appeals to him at every turn for advice and counsel and assistance, thero Is not ono man In one hundred In America to-day who is not made weary and sick unto death by long association with a woman of that type. A very young man or a very old man may enjoy an experience with a ''leaner" 'and ''cllnger" for a brief period. It flatters lils v-inlty and makes him feci lie 1b a Solomon of wisdom and I Samson of strength lot ollhor ho verv vmine or ho very old man marry the twlnlng-vlne woman and he will, In a short period, wish ho were anything but an oak tree.

He will He awake in the still watches of the night, after a year ot two, and i wonder what manner of trellis he can I Invent that will enable Mm to be relieved lot the growing weight of this vine. The tendency of the last twenty-flvo years haa been to make women self- I reliant. They have learned to think out problems for themsolves and to make their own plans and to thcr own duties. Men Like Women of Spirit. However man objected to this Independence of the weaker sex.

In tho beginning, he has grown to like It now. He flnda It comfortable. Listen to any half-dozen men when they discuss some who ls porVr- vou behave, I won't much moro than half.klll you. You hlko ulong- for wnlBn' 4 bunch of green yonder and I'll tell you I have known a attractive young the rest when wo got woman to lose two admirers whdvouJd "It wob about six mile to the creek hHve been candidates for hoj- hand h'ad thon, nnd when thoy stopped, Boston she not oppressed them with her atttn-dropped In his tracks. tlons, "'ilore, got Up anjl unsaddle theso1 Kach man In hi 'turn made lovollke horses and picket says advances to nor, nnd In both Instances giving him a kick.

Tvo never had a gave her heart too re'adlly, or, millionaire, flunkey for me on the trail ratheri nB Kve them ,0 hills whero money didn't count to the fullest extent. i yet, but I'm golnsr to now Picket the nd ttl YU ,0 take OUT tlnm nrnniltnir thn T.linatnna We've got a week's grub, and we'll eat It all up before we get Boston got up and reached for hi amm collared him away "Tr'om "Im. Then he slapped him some moro S. 1I. Hooi wlU ou ploku 'I II do anything- you say says Boston, nnd he limped off with the lariat.

'Tor four day Stubby kept that fellow on the trail packing wood and drawing water apd put In his own time studying- up new names to call sv ibu at by. then Boston got Into a plum thicket where two cinnamon bears (were feeding and they got after him I and one knocked him down and was I beginning to maul him when and unllmbered a Sharp on v. ui B5to" come to. Sttibby had him all fixed ,110 and bandatrad and ihn beara ekun, and. wa pnoklng baij- uoston wa Vfsr fv; i )r -V- lar among, them, and you will Invariably hear some word regarding her executive ability, some pliraae of approval for her selt-rellancQ and a note of admiration for her independence.

Independence does not mean reckless-' ness or wilfulness. Helr-rellance does not mean deafness to counsel, and executive ability doei'nbt mean that a woman should plan, a outside her home. Not any of these things pleases ths lords of creation, "but- they, like a- woman who can carry her portion of th world' worries and cares and responsibilities; and carry them with ease and grace and with air of having performed miracles. "a ner pians ana.pre- Darea hr work In any direction a man I woman "'m. about It and nls suggestions, and if aho altera detnll tQ please him he Is Im mensely grattnea.

Wants Her to Think for Herself. lfv she abandons tho whole thing at his request, for reasons, he 'is pleased. But he likes to know she can think for herself, and that aho does not forever' depend upon him for Ideas. Men In love are delighted to be told that they are never absent from th thoughts of their sweethearts, but the husband finds this consciousness a trifle. wearing.

As bad as the clinging vine Is the wqrp- an who makes her devotlop too Incessant. The wlfo who never thinks of anything' or anybody but her husband Is apt to persecute him with her attentions at Inopportune times. She Is never tacfful, never conscious thaL he wants to be let ajone occasionally, never capable of making herself and her'affectlon a novelty to him. And this Is a fatal. error on the nart too speedily.

A Wife's Fatnl Mistake. Shp wrote two letters to one of their, she planned and sho re scolded If they failed" to meet' her half way. I a wife who made the same fataf'error. Every hour In the day she asserted In some manner her complete dev.otloji. She had no plans, no hopes, no ambitions; no purposes, no pleasures that were not lad before her husband, and he was exrecled to devote every spare moment to her.

i She "surprised" him frequently at his office, at lunch hour, expecting him to be delighted with her C4many, Sh.a, him at the corner of itrfet when he came home a trifle late, ebe "went a plrce'iiwlth him, ok the children say, 'in the morning, In fact, she nearly drove the poor man into a retreat for the Insane with her demotion. JJ ail-absorblnglove glorifies the untrerse nnd unnnlilnf thA 1. the life and nature of the one eo loved. that love in Its fulness. Don't Let Love Become A woman should never make herself common' to her husband, She should never visit him at' his bU8'ne" frequently, tha her coming; Is not a novelty, and she should not lettn 11U0n persltently hit hp weight become a burdini If one of marble Venuses turned Into llesli 'and blood and pUrsUed a fropt morning to night, andffrom ntlrht till ip would jiopn beg; go' back tr her pedetaU If Minerva came to life and appealed to man tb' think for bfeatiwj fix her, plan for her, he would be' flatte'red for the period of a week, perhapi month; aft that he' would tti-Am J'.

pveary of. her society, and tell her he a unexpectedly called away on a matejTor builntss. 'ft LoVe much, but cultivate tact and di- crt(on Iti showing lia Sr.WdjffefpiVjSE lay It on a blt6Ul trlnr. hut An tint rtl.nl, siileUi, so that the object of your arreotioa il ijicirvi tinning you, to liesr inur 'niNMt of telling Ulm all beW hak i cu ujr a new ana via r.I. trkxiUl.

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