0 1 PERSUADING CHILDREN J I ~ : - I By LILLiAN YOUNG. J % ? "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. U- l- a " ? 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 News. :--f? v. *? " . ! ? # ? ? i ONE MATINEE.TICKET 1 | > < i < | By BRADLEY.VANDAWORKER.S < ? < ? (Copyright.) 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. V + mf W I# 9 0 9#9 0#9###^##9 MOl)S!E THE MANIGURTST! ? ,? 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 iw.O.u.d ?sv 44 " 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." 3 At 1 have purchased the 5 and as there are many f Odds a 'h that do not want to a Jfering many of these art Kali and .take a look and T* B* I On Ocl L Pee Dee Iron 'under new mai heed ANYTHING 5 h'. i> paGhine Shop a tout it will pay : about it. Yoi . yarop in and ins) When you come t Pee Dee \ Founders < i I ^ Cher; ffS ij At W. T 1 I h ? v m , HBBBKBHB o M S Below art H : | bale B< ie BRHBHBnBH ? 1 Shir n M $1.00 Shirts for c m Q 50c ts 1'? M 50 44 work shirts m M ? 0 Dry goods < ut Q Best grade outing i if, H .% inch percales lg* U 10c Dress ginghams ro H Men's 25c Ties on ho B -i-'c Suspen B 1 " 20c ? > H Itest 10c sheeting 7 1 >to B "12c Crepe 9c nd W Best grade oilclotl :!lt 0 Silk thread at 3c a sp uH ^3 B 1 lot Lace curtains B 5<>c Scarfs at B ;h I 40 yards im. B Space permits ? B Con e and see for M :ho U li W.T. Ed( ith f nxxnmxnzmnnni j4f. i, v* '' t *. VT- r % Jz* ' Cost S. H. 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