your Old Dog Tray qualities of friendship lead to your being made a fool.

In short, study carefully the animal qualities that make up your temperament and prove in your own person the falseness of Napoleon's irritating statement that a man's temperament can never be changed by himself. It may interest you to note that when man becomes insane the fact is at once made apparent that his mind had acted as a ruler of a savage menagerie. Many crazy men imagine themselves animals of one sort or another. Nearly all of them display the grossest animal qualities, once their mind is deranged. Women of the greatest refinement sink into dreadful animalism when insane. Heine tells of a constable who, in his boyhood, ruled his native city. One fine day "this constable suddenly went crazy, * * * and thereupon he began to roar like a lion or squall like a cat."

Heine remarks with calculated naïveté: "We little boys were greatly delighted at the old fellow, and trooped, yelling, after him until he was carried off to a madhouse."

There is, by the way, much of the natural animal in "little boys." It takes years to make a fairly reasonable creature of a young human. For that reason many ignorant parents are foolishly distressed at juvenile displays of animalism, which are perfectly natural.

The same Heine, whose writings you ought not to neglect, describes beautifully a human menagerie. Heine was living in Paris in the forties of the 19th century, and used to visit a curious revolutionary freak named Ludwig Borne. Of this man's house Heine wrote:

"I found in his salon such a menagerie of people as can hardly be found in the Jardin des Plantes (the Paris

"Some one must be patient, hopeful, interested, proud. always devoted." Mrs. Coolidge, first lady of the land has never been too proud to be her husband's helpmateand even today in the White House, she appreciates the importance of being a good housewife.

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zoological garden). In the background several polar bears were crouching, who smoked and hardly ever spoke, except to growl out now and then a real fatherland 'Donnerwetter' in a deep bass voice. Near them was squatted a Polish wolf in a red cap, who occasionally yelped out a silly, wild remark in a hoarse tone. There, too, I found a French monkey, one of the most hideous creatures I ever saw; he kept up a series of grimaces, each of which seemed more lovely than the last," etc.

If Heine's polar bears, wolf and monkey had studied themselves, as we advise you to study yourself, they might have escaped the sarcasm of the sharpest tongue ever born in or out of Germany.

WOMAN SUFFRAGE-WORTH IT

Out of the war has come suffrage-worth many millions and many lives.

Politeness and cheerfulness are the oil that keeps the ball bearings of social life and good business in working order.

The oil of politeness costs nothing; on the contrary, it helps him that pours it, and him upon whom it is poured.

If ten million dead from the battlefields could rise and walk through the streets of the world's cities, trailing their bloody garments, with ten million others killed by the flu, following and sneezing in the rear, that would perhaps make the world realize that war, international or industrial, does not pay.

Why is Married Life Dull?

It is dull, too often. The fault is with the man usually.

THERE are many people in the United States, unfortunately, rolling over in their minds the above question.

Needless to say, there are exceptions to the dulness of which the majority complain.

Radiant thousands of young married people are so happy that the mere suggestion of dulness will make them indignant. Many old couples, too, after years of married happiness, wonder that any married people find life dull and tiresome, calling for variety.

The conventional honeymoon undoubtedly is often a dismal, foolish institution.

The young couple set off by themselves, traveling in railroad trains, stopping at strange hotels, or, most idiotic of all, going on an ocean ship to become seasick.

Young people that are just married-the young wife especially ought to be at home, with the people they are accustomed to, and with ordinary amusements to keep them interested, and to keep them from thinking too much about each other and getting tired of each other.

If a man or a woman suddenly acquired possession of a very large mince pie, very agreeable to look at, that person wouldn't think of going off on a mince pie honeymoon for several weeks, with nothing on earth but mince pie to fill the time. Yet that is exactly what young