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v.1 A "‘ "2 ‘H ‘V -' v W' I ' h r . - v Dorothy Dixie Letter Box 50°“ Mm’ Happenings of the Woolf] 771E COOK 5 11w HOUSE WIFE and ‘ "Us": . L—- . CURNER , ‘ ‘i _ ’ . . m, n l‘ l, 1 mm the governor-generals’ of- task of saleswomonmthgolothcr dly ___ A “others, 1t Doesn t Pay to Guard Your "or .1 i112,“ °“;"§,,g“;,",;*;=$§“° "mus; l" *5 P“ Li”; .“ ma,“ c,“ ~ - .1 ‘ » - 3"“ - - i m v . » » Daughters too Closely - They Need to Rgoently coming across u» not. gfiafifmfinfejifflgui°°gflff ff mxfi, 111,“; Peggy Jfif,‘ “FEZY M23; E§§{._,°,“§’,§§Zf‘§; Qfifliéf‘... _ _ protective mechanism- , KIIOW AbOIIt Hi6 World and What ,"1“u§§‘°‘t’°° “$3 ",°.Y'°"‘,',"°°'"- nuudlnts at a p-m. res. '1. As £1121. onto.- 3n her way home she will cocoa. gory str%118’°°fl=°- v-“ielfo: "N" l-ffléhfhm, I 63:32”: 50,319,? Qgi, WE; ‘ 0f Men are in it n m‘ m’ _ °'_ e5 ' “n. “m: the drawing room will be held on visit her brother. Dr. John Andrew. cream. cups gill". Sifwdmd ’ 1 w _ or _ e ran I t’ a scan“ Bervlde‘ so’ B1991‘. 193111"! J V Milm“ m‘? the evening of the day following and renew acquaintances at the measurina. i sal spoon a I £0334; fir‘ mastitis" m’ ta! mud “iguana by the

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blinds.

' the day she was born. .,l l have studied with her.

tage of mother's day. matter how expensive are the clothes she has on. awkward and ill at ease among the boys and girls of her own age; who has hone of the chatter of the youngsters with whom she is thrown; none ' of their give and take; none of their gay comradery,

She is as much an alien in any bunch of young people as a. white Swan would be in a. flock of blaokbirds. not because she lacks attractivenes, but Just because she doesn't flt into

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. Ahsweii: There is no problem harder to solve than that of the children who ‘LIB enslaved by possessive parents, because the parents are so unalterably lure that they are right and that they are doing the very best; thing pos- lible for the children they adore. “Why, I-‘d give my life to save John or Mary a single Pang of suffer-

? 1H8.” they cry- "Why, I have never thought of anything except Mary since 1 have watched over her every minute of her life. 1 have played with her. I have sacrificed myself

‘ and my own pleasures and inclinations to her. I have guarded her every minute. 1 have never left her to shift for herselfqand get acquainted with strange children, as so many mothers do. the foolish things that so many young girls do. yourself that Mary isn't like the modren girls at all about us," they add

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Deer Mm Dix-This a spree from one who has not been allowed to

mature socially. My parents have don; much to fulfill my deslrg 1hr

hiowledlo. but have not realized my need for human relationships.

, have never been penuitted to do the things timt other youngsters do, or have any inti- mate association with boys and girl; of my 0W1! B8B.

I have never even had a girl friend. 8nd as the result I lack knowledge of life and emotional control, My parents consider that 1 am a. reincarnation of their youth and that I want to do only the things that they used to do when they were young. expected to illi in with this plan as if I were I baby. How can I make them understand that a girl of l9 has some right to make de- cisions for herself and to have her chance at

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I have kept her from doing And you can see for

You do see that Mary isn't like the other girls and you want to weep. You sec a girl who is prematurely old because her ideas are of the vin- You see a. girl who is somehow frumpy-looking, no

You see a girl who is

She is a Wallflower at parties.

in trying to do her best for her daughter, mother-has done her worst, because she nus uhfitted her to live in o. world in which she must live and in which the girl wants to live. I'm‘. after all, she isn't mother's age. is the other girls’ age and she wants to go out and have dates and to , laugh and be men-y and just one of the crowd. __ Also in trying to protect her daughter from the world mother has =_. made her vulnerable to all its dangers. 3 fruit still holds good with every descendant of Eve, and the more a girl ~: is kept away from boys, the more boy-crazy she is. The more she has ' been repressed, the wilder she goes when she breaks loose from her The loss she knows about men, the more glamorous they are to

She

For the old lure of Iorbidden

_ l her and the more unable she is to judge them. The girl who has never

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“y 1n ader to gotmanriod? the phrase goes, but am still unmarried, while most or my friends who r the conventions have husbands. many man, but I have never had honest marriage offered me. IS some sort of a shady proposition. clploa that seem to net her nothing. " and trust that out. of one of them might come marriage?

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y Dix-Does a girl have to live a loose life in these dflyfi I am nearly 30.

' been permitted to have a date loses her head and her heart over the first boy who makes love to her, but the girl who has played around with boys llnce her grammar-school days doesn't take any love-making seriously that isn't a. out-and-out proposal of marriage,

Parenm make no greater mistake than when, as the girl says, they intoginmthelr children to be relhcamations of themselves, animated by the same impulses and tastes and, desires. times. Each of us has his own individuality and each of us has his right to live his life in his own way. And parents commit n. cruel wrong against 131d: children when they deny them this right and try to force them into

This is not truc once in a million

There is nobody for whom I have greater sympathy than the child,- ren of possessive parents.

DOROTHY DIX.

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I have kept myself pure, as

1 have had the admiration of Always it 1s it silly for a. girl of my age to Would it be wiser to

~" d date about this I should like to know.‘

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You must live in a community in which thc moral standards are unusually low if only soiled doves flutter to the altar and where men pre- lu- wlves with bedraggled skirts to those who come to them clean. What- ever o. man may be himself, he seldom invests his all in second-hand

Airway: the women of easy virtue have had more attention from men than their more austere sisters.

‘They were good enough play fellows

and men have liked to go with them on whoopee parties, but they have not been the women that men married. Men did not want to trust their honor in hands that had notthought their own worth Protecting. They did not want for the mother of their children women whose pasts had to And if the time has come when men no longer de-

b9 veiled in. secrecy.

, mnnd purity in their wives, it is a sad day for the world. beginnig of the deterioration of the human race. That is a holy task that must not be given into the hands

1-‘ torch of life. of prostitutes.

1t marks the

Women on the

You say that in your community loose living helps a girl to get a hus-

’ band, but do you suppose that many such marriages are haPPy?

If YOU

r do I wish that you oould read some of the letters that. come to me on the subject. Women wrote me that, although their husbands "forgave" them before marriage, after marriage they throw up their pasts to them in

- every quarrel between them. And men write that, although they believe a that they were their wives‘ only lovers before marriage and that although thir wives have been true to them. so far as they know, they feel that they can never trust them. Always in their minds is the thouiht that the woman who was weak enough to yield to temptation once would do so again. and that the woman who had not enough moral principle to hid her Straight; wuld al-

ways go crooked under provocation.

So you see the marriagm you envy

whiny have little in them to envy, if you knew all. ' Anyway, it seems to me that virtue is not i. matter of expediency but of right and wrong, and that if you have to lower your ideals to get a hus- band you are better off without one. You can pay too high a price for a RUTH

‘wedding ring.

Two who live as cheaply as one,

ihow it

when‘ a man is full he is never

lly responsible.

' The most you can do for l it'll!

‘l i» to be his friend.

f" Veal is that pan. of the cow we

I The chief difference jay two men is usually a woman. criticize their

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DO Y DIX. neighbors instead of setting them an example.

‘The little red school house is much more desirable than tho lit- tle red citizen.

A grade crossing often proves to be the meeting place 0f headlights and light heads.

An optimist sees opportunity in difficulties; a pessimist sees dif- ficulties in opportunity.

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ommehdatlon of "The Moonstone" by Wilkie Collins as a very sub- stantial old time mystery upon which many modern thrillers an based, I decided to put the advice into practise as far, ht least, as the detective story is concerned, and‘ discovered what the old timers in that llne really were like.

The result was very satisfactory. "The Moonstone" kept me reading far into tho night.

Pei-ham by modem stream-line standards it would be considered rather long drawn out. It is long drawn out, but not in a tiresome way, the element of suspense is sometimes sustained to a madden- ing degree, but Wllkie Collins is such a master story teller and at all times in such perfect command of the situation that ontfs interest is never in danger o; lagging. The narrative is told through several of the characters-a method that has been criticized often, but often successfully imitated-end the characters are human and humorous and interesting though ometimes slightly overdrawn.

“The Moonstone" was written in 186B, and in some particulars was founded, as the author points out, on the stories of two of the royal diamonds of Europe. Like the fam- ous Koh-i-Noor, now one of the crown jewels of Emgland, the Moonstone was supposed to have been a. sacred gem of India and its story is meticulously traccd by Wil- kie Collins from its theft by an Elnglish officer at the storming of Seringapatam, India, in 1799, through its tragic sojourn in Eng- land to its dramatic rctum in 1850 to fie very shrine when: it had been worshipped eight centuries before.

Wilkie Collins, the English nov- elizt, 1824-1889, was the older son of William Collins, R..A.. the land- scape painter. His novels enjoyed great popularity in his own day. A recent book Their Reading" by Amy Cruse in- ciudes an interesting picture of a

Victorian writers—(‘wrge Macdon- ald. Froude, Wilkie Collins, Trol-

‘lope. Thackeray. Macaulay. Bulwer- has returned from a brief visit with Mrs. James Paton, Prince street. . . .

Lyttcn, Caryle and Dickens. Besides “The Moonstone" Wilkie Collins wrote "Antonina. or the

dale," "The New Magdalen," ‘End t

"The Life of William Collins." Edgar Allan Poe, "the most in-

in American literature" was

tive story. He was absorbed

and gruesome. His tales are a hangover from Gothic romance and

mainway of life but out of border of existence."

A new edition under the title “Pods Tales of Mystery and Imag-

includes “The Murders in Rue Morgue," “The Gold B115." “The Pit and the Pendulum"; "M. B. Found in a Bottle"; and "The

weirdly beautiful drawings.

Poe are "Israfel" by Hervey Allen, author of “Anthony Adverse" and “Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849: a

Hennessy.

With the realization that pilote- graphy has beoonu; an art in its own right the National Gallery of Canada. aided by the Camera Club of Ottawa experimented last year with the first Canadian Interna- tional Photographic Salon.

The exhibition was most success ful and was afterwards sent nearly all over Canada.

A similar exhibition has been arranged in Ottawa for this year and will later travel throughout Canada-the custom "of the Ca1- lerys Loan Inhibition Paintings. If last Wars enthusiasm is evident it is likely that the Photographic Salon will become e. permanent part of the Gallery's annual pro- gram.

Fmm over sixteen hundred prints submitted from forty countries two hundred have been chosen and hung, makings very distinguished collection.

Perhaps this year, because of its "Presentation by an Art Society, Prince Edward Island will b5 in- cluded in the itinerary of the trav- iciling Photographic Ebfhibition.

Sir Walford Davies, Master of zhe Kings Mirsick, an office paral- lel in many ways to that of Poet Laureate, has recently written "The Pursuit of Music" which has been published in Canada by Nelson, Toronto, and reviewed in the Christmas Literary Supplement of thcrToronto Saturday Night.

The book is not a. text book, nor a ilsiooi history, nor a history of composers, it is addressed to "those who would seek some ex- p‘anatioh and understanding of the pleasure they derive from music" and its purpose is to snowm- the question "What is Musiolbout?"

"The Pursuit of Music" cmmended in music lovers for its charm. its deft relating of the diffi- cult to tho familiar and its ingen- ious illustration." .

Sir Welford Davies composed the music for John Muefltldifiubilec Bonnet of Ihnnltwiving. first hear‘! lllt June at he Siiv.“

Tam st Alumna! "'

side is being cordially welcomed to

the city, having come to spend the

winter wizh Mrs. T. B. Woodman. I I I

Alfredo. Pickarci lefrHTuesday on a visit to Montreal. I I

"The Victorians and Lputee Hziszard delightfully for six tables of brid;c at the Queen bcwhiskered group of favourite Hotel.

Fall of Rome," "Basil," “The Wo- day on retuln ta Montreal alter a man in White," "No Name," "Arma- visit at. hcr home in Summer-side

teresting and disreputable person disposition of lvlrs. Charles liyn the man which necessitated 112i‘ cnlcr- man destined to invent the detec- ing the P.E.I. Ho plial for treaz- 111 met, having a stvcrc mystification and in the morbidiphiobitis.

his WON! comfis-Pnot out Of the borough and their family

the Christmas at ihcir rcsllcnce, Stan-

sted Hall, Rho-land. Castle, Hunts. I I I

ihution" has just been published. It a pleasant visit to hcr parents, Mr. the and Mrs. Chalmer Hicks, Upper Sackville, N.B.

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Masque of the Red Death": it is a Pirate Bridge last semi-day flight illustrated by‘ Arthur Rackflufs in honor of Miss Bessie Beer, a social gathering very much enjoy- Reoent biographies of Edgar Alla-B ed by her guests.

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who knits many woollies for the Critical Biography" by Una Pcpc- Babies Cot Guild, Princess Eliza- beth has learned to khit very cred- itably for her age. Now she is t0 learn to embroider, and the Duch- ess, who, with the Duke, has been for some time engaged upon petit point chair seals for their country home, is to teach her. An animal design upon canvas, with the gay- coloured wools and needles tucked away inside the parcel, was chosen by the Duchess for her elder daughter before she began he

eifng by five hundred men of the

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that on which Parliament opens. Governor - General and Lady Twcedsmulr will receive together. Ladies are requested to appear in evening dfۤj but wearing of veils, feathers and of trains is optional, according to the an- nouncement. Traihs, if worn, should be straight from the shoul- der to the ground and should not exceed two yards in length or ex- tend more than 18 inches from the heel of the wearer. The white tullc veil attached to the feathers should not be longer than 45 1n- chea. Gentlemen will wear full or evening dress. I I I

Lord and Lady Charles Cavendish. o! London, have arrived in New York for a visit. Lady Charles Cav- endish was Adelc Astaire. sister of Fred Astaire, the famous dancer. Lord Charles Cavendish is the son of the Duke of Devonshire.

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Hon. Flrank R. Heartz was re- ceiving congratuatlons Tuesday on the occasion of his 65th birth- day.

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Mrs. Harry Brown was hostess at three delightful parties this week, entertaining at bridge on Tuesday evening, Wednesday after- noon» and again on Thursday evening at her pretty apartments in the Queen Hotel.

. t e - entertained bridge

Mrs. A. W. Weeks the Thursday afternoon club at her homo this week.

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Mrs. Alfred Plckard and Miss

Miss Eleanor Toombs and Miss entertained very th:lr friends at

I I I Miss~Kutli"ecn Logan of Haliinx

MissCarrie Holman Lft Wednes-

Ottawa Civic Hospital- I I U

Miss Gladys Holman. Summer- iide, has returned homo from a

very pleasant visit with her sister in Boston. I I I The Misses Agnes and Bertie

Ramsay. Summerside. Wh° h!" bran spending a few weeks in Bos- Lon returned hom‘e last night.

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M155 Violet Richardson, daughter of Mr. R. B. Richardson of the Royal Bank, Summcrside, and_oi Mrs. Richardson. returned ~55‘ evening from a very 919559-113 V15"? to friends in Boston.

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Their Excellcncies the Govemor- General and the Lady TwcBd-Smull‘ will visit the mining districts o!‘ northern Ontario, between January 1a and 11 and plim to so to Nor- anda and Kirkland Lake. The Gov- crnor-Gencral will visit ‘Toronto on January 22 to open the New Wo- men's College Hospital and attend a meeting of the Association of Canadian Bookmch. Their Excel- lencies intend going to Mvntrcal the latter part of January to at- tend the annual Charity B811 be‘ lug held on January 3i.

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Mrs. (Du) Conroy is quite serious- ly ill at the sacred Heart Home and her sons Frank of Moncton mid John N., of North Batticford, have nrrivnri here to be with hcr. Her niece Mrs. McManus of Mem- rnmccok, N. B., is also in the city.

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Miss Bessie Billingsly is visiting her friend Mrs. Ewen McMillan, Ycrk Point, for several wzeks. I I_I Mr. and Mrs. Alex Home of Summcrslcie left Tuesday on a holl- day trip to Florida. I II I . Miss Emma Nicholson is rBStIIIZ comfortably in the P.E.I. Hospital foilowirg an operation on Monday

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Mrs. A H. Mould left yesterday on o. visit to relatives in Montreal. Mr. Mould accompahitd her as far as Monctcn. I I

Miss Margaret Walsh was the guest; of honor at a prettily arrang-

he guest of hcr mother, Mrs. R. T.

Holman.

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attack of

The ‘E2111 and Countess o.‘ Btss- spent

Miss Marjory Hicks has bcen on

I Mrs J. L. Curran was; hostess at

Under the tuition of Mrs. Knight.

ed Bridge at the Quwn Hotel oh the eve of leavin", for Cambridge, Niass" to resume hcr teaching dut- ies in the High School. there after a pleasant holiday. Her hostesses, the Maple Leaf Club, presented ‘~ r wLh a very dainty gift to marl ‘Tic happy occasion. other prim ' ncrs were Mrs. Allan McDonald. Mrs. Ray MacDonald, Mrs. Ernest

ltfzCaroy and Mrs. Emmet Mc- Donald. I I I The Qurcn is again making ex-

tensive purchases of home-spun twccds from the Highlands 8nd U19 Western Isles. These orders pro- vide wc-‘come work for the weavers. Most of the suits worn by _the Royal keepers and other outdoor workers on the Royal estates at Sandringliam, Windsor, and else- where nre made of these tweeds. The Queen's example has done much to encourage other landown- ers to p‘aoe similar orders. Young- er members of the Royal Family also buy these tweeds.