Argosy, Vol. 120, No. 1 — page 152: what you’re looking at

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O rouge or not to rouge; cry write to the - , nator to one or not? TIT am sure my readers must have grown as tired of the discussion as I have, so here is a request to drop both subjects. In their place I! give you a topic which surely ought to be live enough in these times. How much salary should a man make on ~ which to marry? It appears that the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago has issued a dictum to its employees that no man of them receiving less than one hundred and twenty-five dollars 2 month shall marry without first taking up the matter with the chief clerk. In these days of high living costs a scant bit over thirty dollars a week would appear to involve pretty close figuring to support two in a city flat. The Sun heads an editorial on the matter, “ A Rule Against Mutual Misery.” Come, then, Log writers, what do you think ought to be the weekly wage on Which a man should consider himself justified in asking a woman to share it? wt eS | Sh The West from a different angle: the vast and diminishing perspective of the kingdom of sheep, yet a country of savage hates and loves, of passion and tragedy— that is our six-part serial starting next week— “ LONESOMENESS” BY GEORGE WASHINGTON OGDEN * ‘Author of “The Duke of Chimney Butte,” “The Listener,” ef¢. a story with a hero at once whimsical and brave; of a heroine of beguiling charm. Even as Jacob of old served the crafty Laban for Rachel, so John Mackenzie tended the flocks of Sullivan for Joan, his daughter, child of the wide spaces. And of the forces he fought, ruthless, terrible, elemental, there is none more grim in the wide range of fiction than Swan Carlson, the man without a soul; none stranger than Hertha, his wife, with her tragic melody; the brothers Hall, tigers of the range; Reid, strange anomaly, with wise eyes and salamander mouth; and, last of all, “ Dad” Frazer, whose marital misadventures furnish a note of humorous relief to the tremendous sweep of the story. | es 5 a Sherlock Holmes it was, I think, who pointed to an instance of the average man’s lack of observation; Watson had gone up and down the same stairs for years, with absolutely no idea as to their number. “A HABIT OF NOTICING THINGS” BY CHARLES WESLEY SANDERS Author of “ Fugitives,” ete. adds a rather unique ‘instance of a man who had eyes in his head, and photographic eyes they were, too—keen eyes—and behind them a brain like a steel trap. Is it any 142 = -- ee@nicboo CNS)