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MORNING ENTERPRISE. TUESDAY, JANTJABY 30, 1912.
Molly 's Test
And How Her Lover Stood It
By A. R. ST ANBURY
I loved Molly and wished her to be
rny wife, but she seemed in dread of
making a mistake; was always talking
about the horror of marrying a man
who didn't love her as she would wish
to be loved. I considered this ridicu
lous, for I knew and told her that if
anything should happen to deprive me
of her I should go mad. One day when
I was pressing her to settle the matter
- In my favor she said:
"Not for a year yet"
"Oh, my dear, why do you tantalize
me?"
"I have a fault that I wish you to
discover."
"I have discovered It already. You
are absurdly afraid that I don't love
yon."
She smiled, but said nothing to this.
"Well, what is it?" I asked.
"An Inherited taint that has come
down to me from my grandfather."
"Tour grandfather! I suppose he
drank a good deal of wine and got the
gout This he transmitted to you, and
when you get a twinge you are ready
to break up the furniture."
She smiled again and shook her
head. I begged hard, but got little sat
isfaction. Finally she agreed that if I
didn't discover her failing within three
months she would confess.
Within two weeks after this conver
sation I made the discovery. Molly
and I were at a house party. I came
In from a tramp with some of the fel
lows and, feeling tired, went to my
room, as 1 thought, for a rest before
dinner. It was quite dark, and the
hall not being lighted I got into the
wrong room. When I awoke a full
moon was shining in at the window,
and I saw some one a woman in the
room. She walked softly to a bureau
and picked up a little box made to hold
a finger ring, opened it, shut it, put it
In her pocket and glided noiselessly out
of the room. While she had stood for
a moment with her face toward a win
dow I recognized Molly.
Now, why Molly should come to my
room to take anything away with her
I could not conceive; but, getting up
and looking about me, I saw that I
was not in my own room at all. I got
out as quickly and as noiselessly as
possible.
But Molly! As soon as I knew that
she had gone to some one else's room
and taken away jewelry I saw the
drift of her having accused herself of
an inherited taint She was a klepto
maniac. I had never had any use for
the word kleptomaniac, preferring that
of thief. Kleptomaniac I considered
the name for high bred thieves, while
thief was the name for those of low
degree.
To gain time to consider my future
treatment of Molly I endeavored to
act toward her temporarily as if I was
ignorant of her vice. I found it Im
possible. The little endearments I had
given her fell flat.
"What's the matter with you?" she
said to me. "You are acting strangely
toward me lately. Has your fancy
been turned toward any of the other
girls here?"
Fortunately. 1 could deny this with
fervor, but I couldn't change my bear
ing toward her. I dreaded to hear
that some one in the house had missed
jewelry, and the secret was a terrible
burden to bear. "But a week passed
and no one reported a loss, or if one
was reported it was not given to the
guests. Although I could not treat
Molly as before, I could not bear to
give her up. She was immensely pop
ularindeed, was the life of the party.
I believed that if I should make known
what I had seen not one in the house
would believe me.
When we broke up and went home I
was a changed man. I felt that my
life was blighted. I lost spirits and
flesh at the same time. Nothing could
Induce me to marry a thief, but in giv
ing up Molly I gave up all hope of
married life, for I felt that I would
never recover from my disappoint
ment. I bore It as long as I could, then told
Molly that our engagement must be
broken.
"You have discovered my fault?" she
said.
"I have."
"When and where?"
I told her of my getting Into the'
wrong room when with the house par
ty and seeing her steal a jewel.
"And you wish to be released?"
"I must be released, for my life with
one possessing your fault would be
terrible."
"And without me?"
"It is blighted."
"You are now talking common sense
fnstead of romance. You would be
a fool to marry a thief. I had been
watching for some time to teach you
this lesson and at last found one. I
saw yon go by mistake into the wrong
loom and went In later that you might
see me lake an empty ring box. You
were In Dollie's room, and Dollie will
confirm my story."
I caught her In my arms and cov
ered her face with kisses.
Now that Molly has become a set
tled married woman she looks back
upon what she calls her folly with
regret. However, she lays the princi
pal fault at my door, saying that in
stead of applying a test of the strength
of my devotion she was really Intend-ing-to
show up the folly of my pre
tending that 1 couldn't get on without
her. Perhaps I could then, but. not
now. If I should lose her who would
run the bouse?
LIVE FOR OTHERS.
If we live to and for ourselves
only our life must necessarily be a
small and poor life since it is limited
to our situation and our powers.
But if we forget ourselves and open
our doors of work, thought and
sympathy into the great overflowing
life of the whole world we step into
so large and full an existence that
we can never exhaust ot tire of it
Patron our aavertlseni
Up Spake Little Agnes. .
"How well behaved your children
are," said the minister's wife.
"They are perfectly lovely children,"
added the minister.
The parents smiled proudly, and up
spoke little Agnes.
"Pa said if we didn't behave he'd
knock our blocks off, didn't you, pa?"
Newark Star.
Children In Russia.
Of 1,000 children born in Russia
about one-half only stand a chance of
reachine the aee of five.
points
for
Mothers
The Mother Heart Myth.
"We hear a great deal of the 'mother
heart' of women," says Dolly Madison
ip her chat on "Mother Hearts," "of
the Instinct which makes them tender,
kind, radiating gentleness. But I some
times wonder if there Is not, after all,
a certain narrowness about the high
estate of motherhood. Does it cramp
a woman's sympathies, contract the
boundaries of her tenderness, until it
Includes only her own little folk the
members of her own household?
"I am forced to ask this question
whea I see the many mothers who
cherish their own children, forgetting
the other poor babies who with their
forlorn mothers make the sacred rela
tion such a tragic circumstance.
"Perhaps there is no more self suffi
cient creature than the really happy
wife and mother. She Is perfectly ab
sorbed in her own children, her own
home, her own husband. And the
whole world might go down in dark
ness and despair without her knowl
edge unless her loved ones were af
fected. Then she would cry unto the
gods to save her children though all
the rest should suffer annihilation.
'I was struck by this manifestation
of selfishness during a recent residence
in an outlying suburb of a big city.
Most of the women who lived there
were mothers. By the divine right of
that relation they should have felt a
brooding tenderness for all helpless
ness, but did they? I could see no evi
dence of it. In their perfectly appoint
ed, well cared for homes they lived
strictly unto themselves. Few of them
reached out for any broader interests
than those of their immediate circle.
'We hear a great deal about the su
periority of mothers over the single
women in matters of heart interest
and of home interest. Yet I fancy that
the world would be much poorer if
the great mother hearts of certain
women had not been troubled about
the little people of the underworld.
"Yet many a mother sells her birth
right of sympathy more from thought
lessness than from actual intent. She
has had it preached to her for so many
years that all the virtues have been
bestowed upon her by the mere fact or
motherhood that she does not realize
that there is any need for effort on her
part
"There will be a great dynamic force
for good started when the happy wives
and mothers shake off their selfishness
and combine to bring happiness to
those less fortunate than themselves.
Bridge and books and pictures and
music may be perfectly legitimate ex
pressions of one's individuality, but
the real mother's heart will express it
self in other directions.
'In one of our big cities a rather curi
ous experiment has been tried by a
worthy woman who has four little
girls. She has adopted four little boys
because she felt that her own happi
ness and good fortune so overflowed
that they must be used to fill the lives
of others.
'While this may be the extreme point
of view, it illustrates to a certain ex
tent what I mean. The overflowing
love of a happy mother will not be
content to know of the unhappiness of
any child. It is not only her own child
that she must love, but a world full of
little children.
"Perhaps in the winter there is more
need for the sympathetic expression of
motherllness than at any other time,
there are so many little ones who are
cold and hungry and who need some
one to think of them. It is for the
hearts of the real mothers to respond
to this need and to seek out these shiv
ering little lambs and to shelter them
In some fold where they may be cared
for and protected."
Dressing the Child.
Some children do not lend them
selves to any sort of artistic dressing.
But, on the other hand, there are a
great many who do, the arrangement
of the hair having a large say in the
consummation of a picturesque ap
pearance.
Instance after instance can be re
called where a child with no real claim
to beauty has been rendered of most
attractive appearance, thanks to a dis
creet arrangement of the hair. But
it seems to those who have the dress
ing of children very close at heart
that we have come to a sort of stand
still. The lack of any really fresh de
parture is very marked. The same
ground is worked year after year, and
anything more deplorable than the
spectacle, of a little girl dressed in a
tight skirt, a travesty of her mother's,
is nowhere to be found.
The stage may, perchance, essay a
scintillation of any fashionable foible,
but a girl so dressed will go in with
the crowd.
Fidgeting Children.
The child who shows no disposition
to move about and is apparently hap
pier sitting still will grow up to be
slow witted, heavy. On the other hand,
the baby who Is always using its arms
and legs will be intelligent its brain
will work quickly, and it will without
doubt be clever.
Children should consequently be en
couraged when In the infant stage to
throw their arms and legs about, to
play with their fingers and toes, and
when they are older the wise parent
will not insist on their beeping still.
ENGLISH RACKET REVIEW.
Williams' Defeat of Jamsitji Most
Sensational Phase of Sport.
With the appearance in this country
of Charles Williams, the racket cham
pion of the world, a review of the Eng
lish season In this sport with which he
was very much identified seems at this
time to be quite apropos because of the
fact that iany well known players had
either retired from the game or had
taken no part in the championships of
last year. The statement is made that
the season would have been unevent
ful had it not been for the return from
India of Jamsitji, who, unchallenged,
had held the world's championship for
years. -
He went to England to oppose O.
Williams, who, for many years profes-
OHARLES WILLIAMS, WORLD'S CHAMPIOH
RACKET PLAYER.
sional to the Prince's Racket club,
Knightsbridge, was regarded as the
most promising of the younger players
and was the holder of the champion
ship of England. Curiously, both Jam
sitji and Williams had won their hon
ors very cheaply.
In three preliminary matches with
B. M. Berleiu, who was receiving three
aces, Jamsitji showed himself to be in
good form, although he was twice
beaten, but when he opposed Williams
for the championship he simply ?ould
not withstand the latter's pac, for
Williams attacked resolutely frou the
first and easily wrested the champion
ship from the holder.
In the military tournament at the
Prince's club Captain A. C. G. Luther
at last gained the honor of becoming
singles champion, which he had so
often missed by a very little. His most
dangerous opponent was Captain Rich
mond, a player from India, who was
marked out as an easy winner by the
professionals with whom he had
played.
Apparently he had nothing in reserve
in the way of severe finishing strokes,
and when he opposed Captain Luther
in the final he could not compete with
the latter's pace. The doubles cham
pionship fell to the army service corps.
Major J. Puckle and Captain A. Ber
ger. The amateur championships were
disappointing, owing to the small num
ber of well known players who entered,
and E. M. Berlein very easily won the
singles.
HARVARD'S STRONGEST MAN.
Crimson Football Player Heads Half
Yearly Strength Tests.
Fred Huntington, captain of the
Crimson hockey team, who played cen
ter and fullback on the football team,
is Harvard's strong man. He heads
the list of the ten strongest men in the
university for the first half of the year,
made up from tests participated in by
more than 500 students. Huntington's
total of 1,303 points, however, is ten
points under the record of F. H. Les
lie, who headed the list last year and
who is second this year with 1,209.
Leslie and Tudor Gardner, who is
third with 1,132, and H. B. Gardiner,
who is tenth with 1,040, were also
members of last year's football eleven.
SKATING ON ICE IN AFRICA.
Artificial Rink at Johannesburg Makes
the Sport Possible.
Johannesburg has a great artificial
Ice rink. The building will be used for
ice sports and embraces the rink and
clubhouse and is practically 200 feet
square. The rink itself is 14,000 square
feet being 180 feet long and 80 feet
Hide.
What is known as the Niagara Ice
Skating club has been formed with the
object of developing ice skating in
South Africa. The membership totals
500.
Connolly Oldest Umpire.
Tommy Connolly is now the grand
daddy of all the major league umps.
Tommy broke into the big leagues as
an arbitrator in 1896, one year after
Hank O'Day.
Francs Spends Fortunes on Horse.
The French government distributed
over f4,000,000 in 1910 as prizes at horse
shows and is otherwise fostering the
Industry. -
Expediting Matters.
"You might as well accept this
poem," said the poet to the editor. "I
intend to keep on sending it to you
until you send me a check."
"You are not a bad fellow at heart i
hope," mused the editor. -
"Why er no," stammered the poet,
somewhat taken aback. "I don't be
lieve I have a mean disposition."
"In that case." purred . the editor
sweetly, "would you mind putting
some kind of mark on the envelope, so
I will know that the contribution
comes from you and I can throw it
into the waste paper basket without
further loss of time ?" Birminglw tt
Ase Herald. - v
Photo by American Press Association.
FLYNN NO MATCH
F0RJ0HNS0N
Heavyweight fliampionsKp Bout
Has All Earmarks cf a Joke.
PAIR MAY NEVER MEET.
Some Doubt as to Whether Battle
Would Attract Any Great Interest
Pueblo Fireman Is Too Small For
Negro.
By TOMMY CLARK.'
Since Jack Johnson battered Jim Jef
fries into submission in Reno over a
year and a half ago he has proved that
the only thing he could be depended
upon to do was the unexpected. The
fact that he had sidetracked the fight
arranged for the championship with
Sam McVey in Paris and clinched a
match with Jim Flynn instead does
not surprise those who have become
accustomed to LIT Artha's vagaries.
i On the first day of the new year
Johnson chortled over the match ar
ranged by Mcintosh to take place in
Paris on the night of the Grand Prix
and declared that he would rather fight
there than anywhere else in the world.
Then Windward, Nev., appeared as "a
rival to the French metropolis, with
Jim Flynn as a side issue. The pair
have signed articles to fight in the for
mer city some day in July, probably
the 22d of the month.
A curious phase of Johnson's policy
of breaking agreements is that he ap
pears to have formed the habit of
avoiding the dangerous men of his own
color, preferring something easier in
the line of a white fighter. He dodged
Bam Langford when under contract to
meet him in London, skipping off to
Australia, where he had an easy time
with Tommy Burns, and has been
dodging the Boston "tar baby" ever
since.
There is no denying that at his best
Langford would prove a dangerous op
ponent for the champion, and it is
reasonable to suppose that McVey
would be another tough customer, he
having gained a decision over Lang
ford. So Johnson finds an easy avenue
of escape by taking on Flynn instead.
For his little picnic in Windward the
champion will be well paid, as he is
to get his stipulated price of $30,000,
Photo by American Press Association.
IiATKST PHOTO OP JACK JOHNSON.
plus $1,100 for training expenses and
one-third of the moving picture re
ceipts. Meantime sporting men are wonder
ing how Flynn's claims to a champion
ship fight got such quick recognition.
He has had a checkered and by no
means successful career in the ring.
Sam Langford knocked all the fight
out of Flfnn In ten rounds and later
did the trick in eight. Four years
ago Johnson stopped the Pueblo fire
man in eleven rounds and allowed
Flynn to remain on his feet until the
picture man secured some good views.
Stanley Ketchel went twelve rounds
with Johnson under similar conditions:
Ketchel, a good middleweight, never
had any business in the ring with a
giant like Johnson. - The same goes
for Flynn, who fights at 165 pounds.
Can you. imagine Flynn, weighing
165 pounds and standing five feet nine
and one-half inches, battling Jack
Johnson, who stands over six feet In
his bare tootsies and tips the scales -at
something like 225 pounds?
Flynn's chief glory was attained by
hammering Carl Morris for ten rounds
In Madison Square Garden, in New
York, a few months ago, but that was
before the Oklahoma giant had the
least Idea of how to fight.
There is one thing which may inter
fere with the battle or, at least, with
Its proving a drawing card, and that Is
If Flynn persists In his plans to meet
JM Palzer. The articles of agreement
stipulate that neither man shall en
gage in a fight after May 1, but the
Flynn-Palzer bout is scheduled . for
February in New York.
Emslie's Blinkers Still In Shape.
Umpire Bob Emslie has Just won an
other trap shooting championship. And
for several years the players have been
yelling that Bob couldn't see and
Bhould wear a pair of "cheaters."
Detroit's New Pitcher.
Detroit has "a new twirler, Mauser
by name. He should be able to shoot
them over, and upon his entering the
box It will be a war to the flnlsh-h-h!
Returned the Compliment.
"A guy told me 1 had a case of ex
iggerated ego. What did he mean?"
"Exaggerated ego is a puffed up L
lo to speak. What did you do?"
"Gave him another." Boston Tran
script. '
Logic
Abandoned Alfred They say that
iteady dripping of water'U wear away
1 stone. Dreamy Pete Jes think,
then, wot'd happen to a man's stom-
fh by pourin' glassfuls Inter it" Al-
i Jr, rnal.
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the, Philharmonic band of this city
under the direction of R. V. D.
Johnston. Many of the old roosters
that will be here Friday and Satur
day are learning to keep step to "Al
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