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"You can't Imagine." said th? pampat
little woman, "how I wish I had had
that book years ago when the children ,4
were mere babies! What 1 might have
accomplished! It makes me want to
cry now when 1 consider the time
wasted! Still, I am going to begin at
once and make up for lost time!"
"I don't take much stock in it," commented
the lady who bad brought up j
six children, all of whom had escaped
the penitentiary.
"Mercy!" cried the earnest little
wnman "Hrnu r>???> ?,?>?! ~i ?- -'
?? .?v*f v?u j vu icci tudi \> cky i ,
What particularly impressed me wae
the part which said not to liaiiiper
their individual development, to give j
them mental freedom, to allow their ;
minds to work out problems their own |
way, and always to answer their ques- i
tions, because they may be working to
the point where they will be presidents
or something famous some day!
As for corporal punishment?it made
me feel I deserved to be shot at dawn
because I used to spank them once in
a while! I am going hereafter to treat
them like human?"
"Molher!" interrupted seven-yearold
Henry, "kin I go over to Oscar's?"
The earnest little woman smiled at
him beamingly. "No, darling," she said.
"I tcld you yesterday you could not go
to Oscar's at all!"
"Why?"
"Why, I explained to you very carefully,"
eaid the earnest little woman in
some surprise. "Oscar is not the sort
of boy I want you to be with. He is
not the right kind!"
"Susanna! Come Down at Once!"
"I wanna go to Oscar*tk!" roared her
eon i<w^v, "i - v.!^
Rising hunieJpPi^Pearnest little
woman clutched"her recalcitrant aon'B
arm and turning him over her knee administered
the old time discipline. After
which he departed growling.
"Of course," said the earnest little
woman, somewhat flushed, "that was
unavoidable. In special casee I guess
you have to spank them. Argument
seems to make no?"
"It'l haon mv ovnorlnnnA " AV?^.
woman who had brought up six, "that
argument hasn't any effect on anyone
this side of the grave! Of course, it's
good for the lungs, sort of exercises
them, if you care for that, but for children
especially argument is nothing
but an annoying noise!"
"The book said you should always
explain to them when you refused
them anything," said the earnest little
woman, somewhat mournfully. "And
then their quick little intellects would
grasp your meaning and see that you
knew best?what?"
"I Just choked," said the woman who
had brought up six. "I never knew
even a grownup who 'would abandon
something he wanted to do and thank
you for your wisdom ?lf you tried to
etop him! 1 suppose you are following
the few rules with Susanna, and in
that case it is all right to let her climb
that tree out there?when that limb
breaks she's now on It will develop?"
"My goodness!" gasped the earnest
little woman, dropping her work: "Susanna!
Come down at once!"
"But you must let her work out her
own problems!" reminded the woman
who had brought up six. "She'll learn
a lot about gravitation before she gets
through?"
"Susanna!" cried her mother underneath.
"Come right down!"
"I don't wanta!" protested Susanna,
climbing higher.
"Susanna!" shrieked her parent.
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ii, >1 ur?ai?ana you 11 nuri youraell
badly?"
"I don't wanta!"
Crack! Crash!
Binding up the lump on Susanna's
head with trembling hands somewhat
later the earnest little woman spoke
at last through her teeth. "Susanna!"
she said distinctly, "if ever again you
don't mind instantly when l"tell you
to do a thing, without stopping to talk
about It, I'll give you a spanking you'll
remember! You are lucky you're not
.killed!"
"Why?" inquired Susanna.
"Cheer up!" said the woman who
had brought up six, as the earnest little
woman clutched her brow and
breathed hard. "Only I'd dig a hole In
the back yard and bury that book!
There's nothing much beats the old
way of bringing up children!"
"I'd like Jolly well to meet the woman
who wrote It!" vindictively said the
earnest little woman.?Chicago Daily
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The worthy Mr. Francis Scarlet \^i3
>ne of the city'8 most brilliant law- '
yers. Petito Pa'Um
kn.jAJl wiy melia was his
wlfe. Uoth were
fond of a little
-Mis. Scarlet had '
A * a mania for clubs,
f | She was an active
J J J member of severV
. iw al, which she atV
I t, IvJy tended religiously.
\ fY/] ^ r- Francis
Scarlet's one
p.' source of recrcavi?*3"
l'on was i-on,^c
' "ll(| opera, for which
ho had a weakness;
particularly opera of a spectacular
nature requiring a large and
good-looking chorus.
Upon the billboards there appeared
the flaming pictures and large type 1
announcing the coming of a much- 1
talked-of musical extravaganza. Passing
the box-oftlce Mr. Scarlet was nn.
able to resist the purchase of a seat. '
The next morning as he donned '
his waistcoat a siugle thread broke *
and a button fell to the floor.
"Great Scott!" he exclaimed. "I
can't go into court with a button off." '
"Perhaps I can fasten it," smiled 1
Pamelia.
With a sigh of relief he tore oft the 1
waistcoat, handing it to her as she returned
with needle and thread. Then 1
he went to the library to collect some
papers. I
After sewing on the button, Mre.
Scarlet gave the waistcoat a shake. ;
A small envelope containing a matinee
ticket fluttered to her feet. 1
Snatching up her scissors she cut
down a postal card to the exact size
Of the ticket. Inserting the counterfeit
she sealed the envelope. I
Precisely at two o'clock Frnncil
Scarlet, with a flower in his buttonhole,
entered the theater lobby. Tearing
open the envelope he drew out the
bogus ticket.
"What in thunder is this!" he exclaimed.
For some weeks small articles and
loose coin had disappeared from the
office. Suspicion lay between the
clerks and the Janitor
Having an acquaintance with the
opera house manager he explained the
plrftlimcfniinna toUI* ? ?' ? * A -1 '
v..vuuiuvuuvco, mill a View IU CttlCQ"
ing the thief.
"Do you remember the location, of
your seat?" he Inquired.
"No. 5; Row 1; Center."
"Go in and enjoy the show," suggested
the manager. 'Til watch for
the culprit." , t
i"ij <*. **icunru ikuy presented
ticket No. 5; Row 1; Center.
At q. sign from the manacer an officer
approached.
"Guess you'll have to como 'long
v. ith me, lady."
"Sir!"
"You're under arrest," he affirmed.
By this time the attention of the
late comers was attracted and a crowd
blocked the entrance.
"Come, hurry her out of here," commanded
the manager.
"I'm Mr. Scarlet's wife," informed
Pa in el ia.
"You can tell that to the sergeant,"
sneered the policeman.
_ Before she knew it she was rattling
down the street in the patrol wagon.
At the statjon-house she failed to convince
any one of her Identity. Dlrs
threats of vengeance, and pleadings |
that would melt a stone made littla
impression upon the sermonnt. The
most she Rained was permission to sit
In his office until Mr. Scarlet appeared.
"Hello! Yes, this is the police station.
That you, Mr. Scarlet? We
Kot her safe enough. Says she ia
your wife. What's that? Wife gone
to a club meeting. Oh, yes, I'll hold
her till Monday morning. Good-by."
Calling the matron, the sergeant
gave orders to have the prisoner held
for trial
Sack to his seat went Mr. Scarlet
for the final act. Hy the time he
reached home it was nearly eight
o'clock. The telephone bell was ringing
furiously as he entered the house.
"Hello!"
<lrFTl1? la IHo ? "
. ?.wo |iwm;i"?iaii(iii, answered
the sergeant. '"The lady lias
club membership cards with your
wife's name?""
"Why didn't she show them In the
first place0" interrupted Scarlet.
"She's trying to fool you."
"Says she didn't think of It," continued
the sergeant "Of course, she
is lying, hut you'd better come down
and see about it"
Securing a cab Scarlet drove to the
station at breakneck pace.
When he entered the sergeant's of
flee Pamelia threw herself Into his
arms, exclaiming:
"Francis! how could you do ItT
Take me a we v from here."
"It's all a mistake, sergeant. Come,
Pamella "
Not a word was said till they were
nearly home.
J Pamella'a hand stole quietly Into
his. Cautiously he gave It a gentln
j squeeze.
"Pamelia," said Francis, "did you
take that ticket out of my pocket?"
"Yes," who timidly replied.
"Well, I guess after this, If you can
spare the time from the cluhs. we'd
better attend matinees together."
"I'm going to rese-.n from every ona
of them," sho Replied.
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MOl)S!E THE MANIGURTST!
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By C. L. CULLEN. ^
(Copyright.)
Mousle Mildred broke into c. merry
ittle muffled laugh. She had heed
f silently intent upon
ray nails for
quite some time. The
sudden oatsurpriBdd
. me : \
\ she repljeffi^l^^
head sidewlsjs^iebd
J to glance at
ran with artless archness frdu?} that
angle, "I lose, that's all!"
There was nothing elucidatory about
that cryptic phrase. So I inquired
again.
"Lose what?" I asked her.
"Oil rtiit V? Jn' 1 ? Ik?
ivr uic ?111517 KWIO'
ibout," replied Mousie Mildred, id
bing at the refractory cuticle with tn!
orange stick. "I drop a little bet that
I make with" myself about you wheri
rou limp in. that's a'l: but seein' that
it was on'y one o* them mind bets, 1
ilon't have to ease any hard-gouged
kale to the hand-hook, and so It's all
right; there's no harm did."
"Hut what was the nature of the
bet?"
"I hate to tell yuh." she replied,
coing after an imaginary hang-nail
with the cuticle scissors, "because
rou're one o' them zigs?I mean gents
?that's a hull lot more dignified than
they look.
"If I tried to tell yuh about the bet
i tried to put over with myself yon
might get sore as a stockyards
sweeper and sart in to raze the plan!
to the groun' and fire a volley over
the remains."
1 reassured her as to that, and again
urytd her to unfold the character ol
her wager with herself.
"Well," suid she. bestowing anothei
dazzling upward glance upon me out
of the corner of her wood-violet eyes
"it's this way, seein' that you're pin
nin' me to the stick and nickin' me foi
what's inside my think-dlsh.
"When you come in. a while ago
and lamped around the tables, and
piped me takin' a peak at you, and
then come browsin' over to my table
here, 1 made one o' tbem 36-cent mind
bets with myself that yov was one o
them oh-you-babesky-doll kind, that'4
hardly pass your mitts over to tw
made bum n lookin'^halore-i?
theater,
and then aet bus^guH^^'WWi^W
liked the way they dish up spaghet
at Dufanti's, or would I prefer to too
out to Foodmanston Inn in a chug
chaise, and poke provender Into m;
map al freshco, with the birdies twll
torin' tweet-tweetie in the trees, an<
all nature smilin' like a front-row gel
on the end of the line slantin' a Pittt
burgh steel magnet in box A.
"That's the way I have you tucke'
away in the back of uiy bean whe
you squat in front of my benA, an
that's (he bet I made. Y' ain't ma
over my tollin' yuh, are yuh? You ae
me. and I had to unreel It."
Again I reassured her, and she pr<
ceded:
"Yuh can't always tell about a 7.o
?I mean a gent?that's there wit
that town-tease, hamlet-hoiden, ol
such larks look about him when h
first breezes into a mitt-maison an
doeB the hurry pipe aroun' the tabic
to sort over the lookers.
"You ain't the lirst gamble I los
with myself tryln' to pick 'em right c
the blow-in, nor the twentieth, whe
it comes to that.
"I'm just as often Little Lucy tt
Loser when I try to pull Hint Tead-'ei
quick numbah as any o' the rest o* tt
claw-polish in* dolls scattered arou
these works.
"We all get in German just as oft<
as we dope 'em right. As I was sayil
I handicapped you for one o' the
stout?just stout enough?cut-u;
that'd be purlin' the old numbah nil
bunk into my pinl.ie-winkie listene
long before you lifted your paws o
of the soakln' pan. Says I to myse
'This keg?I mean gent?will be dan
lin' one o'them cochineal-red-ink fee
at the Cafe de Noah's Ark at me befo
I have time to find out whether 1
bites his nails.
"I'm Jerry to it new that yi
wouldn't kite a claw-trimmin' doll
a wop or any other kind cf a tahb'-dc
for the hull lower half o' the isla
on account o' bein' 'fraid o' what mig
come off later when the family w
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liry|M U IV AW*
Unwelcome Invitation.
Donald, aged four, had been kep^
home for some time for fear of cat<
ing the whooping cough. so ono aft
noon, after much pleading with 1
mamma, he was permitted to take
little outing While Kitting on a ben
in the park -l child sat down beside hi
who at once began to cough violent
Donald's mother snatched him aw
quickly and Immediately started
home. Donald was quite silent on 1
homeward Journey, but Just as sc
as he stepped Inside of the door of
home ho exclaimed excitedly to
sist? rs: "O, kids! Wbat do you th'r
| I go? invited fo the whooping cot]
today."
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DENTIST
Pagelafltd, S. C.
Will be at Jefferson on Wednesday
and at Ruby Thursday
Mt. Croghan Friday of each
week, remainder of time at Page
land. Office in rear of Joseph's
new Store, Pageiand, S. C.
M. M. JOHNSON
ATTORNRY AT LAW
Will be in Pageiand Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday of each week.
Notice of Election
Notice is hereby given that an
election will be held in the town
of Pageland on Wednesday December
30, 1914 to elect an inten- ^
dant and four wardens to serve
during the ensuing: year of 1915.
R. L. McManus, Intendant.
C. M. Tucker, Clerk.
October 26, 1914.
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