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WOMAN'S EDITION THE DALLES TIMES-MOUNTAIXEEK
Contributed jirtcies
THE WOMAN'.'
She looked from her tower window,
yThe day had died in the west,
And the tender shadows of twilight
-Purpled the sea's, warm breast.
And the mystery and the splendor
That darkened the bending skies, '-
Was tragir with life's deep meaning
"When reflected in her eyes.
And she felt the world's heart beating,
And surging against her own
The pitiful, cry of the children,
The mother's" pleading moan.
; The groans of the sick and sinning.
Through the recurring : years,
She heard with a: passionate pity,
With grief too great for tears.
And her sonlgrew faint with sorrow
For the toiling sons of men,
Who are born to want and misery,
AVho die and die again.
; Held by the forca of her yearning,
' All motionless si :ent" there.
The full tide of her being swept up,
White-flamed, to God, in prayer.
Mother-heart of the human world, '
That has ached since timers first dawn,
' Sensing the-fault and fall of the race
The sabre, angel-drawn !
To bear, and to love, and to lose, f
To suffer , as woman cai ! V ,;: '-:-.
O Mary Mother i Thy prayer was
heard. v V . '
Through Christ, thou savest man.
Lischen M. Miller.
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A MATTER OF TACT
The Tear was suffering from a severe
" attack of the blues5, t 'It looked : and felt
utterly depressed. To make matters
wbrsWwhen it confided all its troubles
To the gmlfthat-'heaftlesrm is it calls variety the 'spice of life !'
only laughed in a most exasperating It seems to me it is Bacon, but I really
fashion. Being naturally sensitive, the Ahave forgotten." T ,
Tear felt hurt. 4 r; ". s ; "Oh; come now,V broke in the Smile ;
tKY'6v fire?-very J unkind," fit" said. "you're getting slightly mixed. Youre
.' One would think you might show a too salt yourself to judge of spices of
little sympathy." ; , ; any kind, with your mind forever on
"Oh," answered the Smile carelessly, bacon and such things. It is a wonder
"you see I know you so well. It's only you wouldn't suggest that Shakespeare
,a.way you have; ybu'lE soon get over, it;" .made ; Hamlet say it. .Besides,' you'd
."No, I won't," said the Tear; "I nev- 'better not soar. too high, in your intel
er was so discouraged before.' ' Every lectual flights ; it's hardly safe for a
other Tear and Sigh and Smile seems to person of your vaporizing tendencies,
know just what to do ; they have a life- You might find yourself converted . into
yoyk,' Soto f peak; I have none. Sjill," an airy nothing. But, positively," it
it added reflectively, "I feel that I added, "you do make me Jaugh.,.,, Just
could prove to be something more than as though you could bring them togeth
a mere eye-sore if I had the opportunity, (er li- Why, bless you; 'm the one to do
I dread to think of myS evaporating that! I always have done and probably
without having done at least one good always will. There's really nothing
deed to which future generations of equal to my winning ways in a case like
elobules could refer with bride." f
i VBut what.could voii dfl?!Queried the
Smile. 41 You are so' very small and
well, really, insignificant, you know.
. "Thanks," said the Tear, in, as dry a
manner as it is possible for a tear to
assume, "You are charmingly frank.
I may be small, but you . must admit
that I am seasoned with unusual deli-
cacyi There are, infact,iew tears-so sneered the Smile',f'4Why; in' the first
properly salted as I. Then, too,' I shall placed you lack one of the prime essen
not always be so small, Just, jnotice to tials that characteristic not infrequent
what proportions I can swell even now,?, ly denied American girls by our best
and it enlarged its glistening sides until novelists. "
it became quite imposing . "And what is that may- I ask?'! Ih-
The Smilea9 inclined to be safcas-f quired trie tear. T'"
tic - 4Yes, you do fieemquit swelled
just now with your own importanceYu won't know when to start.
it answered..,. ;)t -y . jj?!.. .
"H m V flashed back the Tear, "I ,
don't have to spread myself the way
some people da in, .order to
kindjof aXhowingl"X X tfX.
make
mXt, .was,tortunate-forw the bmile -that it rolled hurriedly off toward the eyer
the Dutiful Daughter entered -the room - ,The Smile looked after it, highly
just at this point5; ,.as it-relieved whit amused. "Justus I said," it chuckled,
threatened to ? become'-arf embarassing aS it'turned to join other smiles,, "that
situation. ; j. . . - - Tear will never succeed. Tact is re-
Something had gone wrong ; that was quired in these matters. It's altogether
eyident;The Juttf uij)aughter dicl not A too soon to begin operations now!"
look happy. There was an ominous So the Tear found when it reached
gleam in her blue eyes and her 1 cheeks the corner of the eye arid peered cau
were flushed. She. wore no placidly tiously out: The Dutiful Daughter was
cheerful; air, such " as most dutiful in anything but a susceptible frame of
daughters find so eminently becoming; mind.
arid ; fond parents, admire,, However, i Just here the. Tear.c had & very bad
she did wear her new spring hatjscareIn its eagerness to. view the situ
This should have consoled her, but she
did not even, glance in the mirror to
see if it were on straight, nor to specu-
late upon the effect of yellow butter- t
cups against green velvet, nor to wonder
if it wouldn't possibly.be prettier turned
upa trifle more to he.ef t, which proves
conclusively that her thoughts were
then far from spring hats and all euch-be
vanities. She did not even think to
remove it as she seated herself in ti'e
'hardest straight-backed chair in the
room ami stared uncompromisingly out
at the apsurdly beautiful day. ..
The window had ben thrown open
and a faint breeze stole soft ly in, laden
with sweet scents from the garden. It
stirred the dainty white curtains and
.toyed playfully with the curl in the
middle of the Dutiful Daughter's fore
head, tossing about at unheard-of angles
' and causing similar consternation among
the ther well-trained curls.
But the Dutiful Daughter was seem
ingly oblivious to all this. Her breath
eame hard and fast and her disturbed
condition so painfully apparent that
the Tear and the Smile forgot their
recent strained relations in watching
her. -:-
"They have certainly quarreled !"
whispered the Smile. "I was afraid of
it when I saw him today with.the plaid
neck-tie on (she always has disliked paid
neck-ties.) Just see how angry she is."
.,. . The Tear, cocked its head on " one side
judicially. "She is more hurt than
angry," it said. "It is a shame." Per
haps he has been criticising her new
spring hat ; of course no dutiful daugh
ter would stand that. But I think r I
can fix them. In; fact, I'm, rather glad
they have quarreled. I have been want
. ing to try. my skill as psace-maker for a
long time and now the opportunity has
. home. , I thought it never would; that
is why I was so discouraged a moment
ago. They have been unreasonably
happy for 'a' mouth at least, and a little
variety will enliven matters. Let's see,
this." Modesty was not one of the
Smile's cardinal virtues.
"But." insisted t
the Tear, "I am sure
this particular quarrel was intended for
me;-1 feel called upon to do this great
work. It is a responsible undertaking,
but, as I sa', I feel called upon to do it."
"I've heard of poor, -misguided souls
who had mistaken their calling befoje,"
"Tact," briefly responded the Smile,
1 "For that matter," answered the Tear.
"I'm going to start immediately, so
good - bye. I must not waste more time in
any-tnlkintr , It is verv distressing to sf
the Dutiful Daughter so unhappy," and
ation, it leaned a little too far out of the
eye and barely escaped an untimely de-
structiori by pulling itself ' together and
drawing back with a violent effort.
"I'must be more careful," it gasped,
quivering with fright, "if J should lose
my balance all would be lost I"
The Dutiful Daughter continued to
entirely alone but in reality was not.
One is never alone when accompanied
by such obtrusive thoughts as now
claimed the attention of. the Dutiful
Daughter. Besides, some one had come
stealthily into the room as she sat there
and. unknown to her. was at this mo
ment crouching behind her high-backet
chair awaiting a favorable opportunity
in which to execute a bold and daring
deed ; one calculated to put to flight a
whole army of obtrusive thoughts pro
vided the intended victim had nerves.
But as it happened, the Dutiful
Daughter was unfortunately not bur
dened with these expensive luxuries :
and so, when she became aware of an
enormous spider descending gracefully
from the brim of her new spring hat,
directly in front of her nose, she did
not appear in the least alarmed nor give
vent to the conventional scream. Xo;
with remarkably quick perception, she
saw at once that it was merely a stuffed
toy spider, such as she knew could le
found at any Japanese store for the
small sum of five cents ; and she knew
also that the inevitable small boy was
trying hard to play a joke on her. It is
only one of .the pleasant little ways that
inevitable small boys have.
lie seemed rather embarassed when
he emerged from his hiding-place. It
is disappointing to witness the failure
of one's pet scheme. Presently he re
covered sufficiently to announce that
; dinner , was ready, which was really
what he had come to say. It would
have been better to have said it before.
Directness of purpose and strict appli
cation to business are excellent attri
butes. .
The Dutiful Daughter roused herself
with an effort. She was not at all hungry
but realized the necessity of appearing
quite as if nothing had happened. It
would not do for the fond parents to
suspect any unpleasantness. But the
fond parents did suspect ; they always
do. It is wonderful, what far-seeing eyes
love and sympathy have.
They noticed that she did not pass
her plate twice for scallopped oysters
and that even her favorite queen olives
were refused. Instead, she nibbled absent-mindedly
at her lettuce and was
frequently caught gazing moodily at
nothing. The inevitable " small boy
made various attempts to be entertain
ing by making facetious remarks con
cerning the Attentive Youth, but was
quickly silenced by the fond parents.
After dinner the Dutiful Daughter
tried to play a little. It usually proved
an efficient remedy for all such depressed
mental conditions; today it did not.
She at first sought comfort in the beau
tiful and suggestive "Cavalleria Rusti
cana" and was half through it when
she unfortunately remembered the At
tentive Youth's fondness for this par
ticular piece, and it at once became too
suggestive. Then she turned to Men
delssohn's "Consolation," but that was
so very sad, while her favorite "Hun
garian Danses" were decidedly too gay.
This was discouraging and she concluded
she might better be anywhere than at
the piano." Accordingly she took a book
and went to the garden.
Anyone familiar with the literary
tastes of the Dutiful Daughter would
have appreciated the fact that she was
not herself. Usually her selection
would have been the romantic "Lucile"
so entirely suited to dutiful daughters
of her age and poetic tendencies, or the
mysterious "Rubaiyat of Omar Khay
yam" over which she should delight To
perplex her unoffending brain with
great philosophic problems and ques
tionable conclusions; or she might have
chosen one of F. Marion Crawford's
fascinatingv Romish tales with their
clever delineations of the forceful Italian
character. . , ?
But none of these seemed to appeal to
her now. ...What she had taken with
her was a volume of "Studies in Physi
cal Research ." She was laboring under
the delusion that she could forget her
wounded feelings, and drown painful
recollections in the perusal of dry facts.
This was an "obvious mistake, as she
found when she had seated ' herself and
vainlv endeavored to center her thoughts
on records of curious phenomena. related
to the oceulL The facts were too dry to
drown anything.1 ' f
Although the garden, was prettyTas
gardens ! go,U it soon'-becarrie tiresoriie
and dull. So she sauntered leisurely
down the narrow path, out the gate and
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