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The Matter of Marrying.
A mInlHtcr of the gospel 1ms written
n article for a magazine discussing
the question, "Why Women Do Not
Marry.." The caption demonstrates
dio article to be a fraud. It Is the
Ah statement of a "conundrum" that does
Ct' lot exist, for the purpose of showing
great deal of saploncy in answering
jhe question. Women do marry,
hough this minister Insists that If
they do they frequently put the wed
ling olT till after they are HO. It Is
.-rue (hat a wood many of the gentler
lex enjoy single blessedness till they
have reaehed this "old maid" ago, and
some of them remain alone for their
whole lives, but the ladies themselves
will not be offended if the opinion is
expressed that In a great majority of
sueh Instances the postponement is on
account of circumstances over which
the ladles themselves have no con
trol. If there are fewer marriages than
there used to be it is because society
and the economic system have been
deranged. The shifting of the respon
sibility of making a living has worked
hardship to both sexes. The explana
tion is made that "woman with an en
hanced sense of equal lights Is unwill
ing to sacrifice her own individuality
on the one side or to become the eco
nomic slave of any man on the other."
This is offensive. It is Insulting Id all
true men and women. There Is hard
ly a woman struggling to make her
wn living and maintaining her "In
lependence" who would not be glad to
exchange her condition for that of the
ld-fashioned marriage relation. It is
the same way with men. There is
lothlng in human effort that can bring
.oniplete happiness to either man or
ivoman, In single or double life. ( Jet
ting through the world is a rather
heavy responsibility at the best.
The old plan, though, of the man go
ing out into the world and taking the
sard knocks and winning the bread,
ind the woman presiding over the
louse and doing her graceful part to
ho rising generation, is the natural
md ideal condition.
A great many of the women of our
dine have not been raised or educated
!or the pride and beauty of domestic
,ty. They have been brought up for
tlerks in the United States Treasury
Department, and stenographers in
rountlng rooms, and "sich like." and
Iho current talk about the happy life
f "the bachelor girl" Is rank heresy,
lite phrase "bachelor glii" ought to
i be expunged from the language. It Is
m affront to womanhood.
And nil the upset condition of things
te not the fault of the women who
jvork In occupations formerly monopo
.zed by men. They nre bravely doing
the best there is for them to do; and
ft lot of the men nre loafing about do
ing nothing. They have not the touch
md refinement to do women's work
There has been no trade of employ
oient between the sexes. A considera
ble number of the young men of the
fount ry have been simply "sid
tracked." Cinelnnnt I Enquirer.
Don't bundle up its head except in a
Unst of wind.
Don't be cross and irritable about
lie baby, and then be surprised that
t reflects your mood.
Tie calm and self-contained always
n the presence of your little one, from
Is days of earliest babyhood.
Don't lot people outside the family
tiss the baby. Never so trample on
tour child's rights as to make it sub
nit to an unwelcome caress from nny
ai e.
Don't fasten its clothes like a vise
md then think It is going to be com
lortable. A child can't be happy tin
ess it can move every muscle of Its
tody freely.
A child has a natural dislike for
'showing off," and if you make It ne
tulre a taste for such a proceeding you
lave to spank it later for being for
inird and Impudent.
,,The Value of Practical Kunwlcdect
Many women unconsciously affect
01 incompetence which they do not
rally iKwseBS, partly becatise they do
tot feel that It Is Incumbent upon
horn to take unnecessary trouble, and
mrtly because they think It Is fem
nlno to be unnblo to understand prae
lcal things, like men. How few worn
ai, for instance, understand the- sys
em of plumbing in their houses, or
low to manage a furnace or even the
range! If the least tiling is out of
order they are helpless, and can do
nothing but send for a mechanic. The
oilier day a girl's frock was caught by
some machinery, and she was whirled
into a position of Imminent danger, if
her companion had not had the prac
tical knowledge and calmness which
enabled her to stop the machine, her
friend might have been killed or nm'll
ated. Nine girls out of ten would have
screamed or fainted, and done nothing.
Ivcsotirceful strength of mind belongs
properly to the "ewtg welbllche." It
Is essentially feminine (milady's Ideas
to the contrary) to be strong. "She
glrdetli her loins with strength, and
strengtheneth her arms." says tho
wisest of mouarchs In the finest de
scription of a perfect woman that tho
world has ever had. "Strength and
power are her clothing." lie reiterates.
She does not despise dross, far from
it, for It Is written that "her clothing
Is of silk and purple.' and "she cloth
etli her household In scarlet." Shu
adores iter children, who "arise up and
call her blessed," and she Is a true
helpmeet to her husband. There is
nothing of what one would now call
feminine weakness about this grand
woman type of the Old Testament, in
the delineation of whose character,
strength and womanliness are synony
mous. New York Tribune.
I" ' i II I "- " f TvriiTV
Italian women are wild to spend
more on dress than the women of any
other nation. Their men attribute tills
extravagance to the example of Queen
Margherita.
A bequest of 2(M).0(K) marks from
Miss Eleanor Wallot to the University
of Heidelberg provides the first fund
ever willed to the higher education of
women In Germany.
Mine, de Thebes, the famous palmist,
meditating a visit to Ixmdon, consulted
many people on the subject, among
them Sarah Bernhardt, who, to her
question, "Should I succeed and bo
pleased If I went to Ixmdon?" very
pertinently replied, "i,oou into your
hand."
At State functions the Empress of
Japan dons European dress and takes
her place as a wife, not as a prime
favorite removable nt the pleasure of
her lord. The Empress, though llttlo
seen in public, Is generally regarded as
one of the potent influences In modern
In pa ii.
Queen Alexandra has been pictured
n thousand times, but one of tho most
interesting and least known present
ments of her is to be seen In Lendal
bridge at York. Her nlajesty Is shown
sculptured In stone as an angel with
flowing hair and bearing the royal
arms, the likeness to the queen being
in every respect unmistakable.
TonHt.
iiroad Is toasted not merely to
brown It, but to draw out all tho
moisture possible, so that It may bo
more easily digested. If a thick slice
of bread is carelessly held close to a
blazing fire, the outside Is blackened
ami naroened neiore uie neat can pen
etrate to the inside. The moisture la
only heated, not extracted; the inside.
is lough and clammy, and the butter
spread on the surface remains In the
form of oil. This toast is most indl
gestime. The correct way is to cut
the .bread in rather thin slices, and at
first hold II about six inches from a
dear lire so that it will become gradu
ally hot, and then decrease the dis
tance to let it brown. It should Ik
of a uniform color, light brown, all
over ami quite eriwp. and as soon as
ready it should be placed in a toast
rack or stood upright to allow It to
dry. which it will not do If laid flat.
TORIAi
Opinions ot Great Papers on Bmportant Subjects.
To Clean CarpctH.
Holl together until dissolved, eigut
ounces of borax, eight ounces of
washing soda and three pounds of
white soap in four gallons of
water. When ready to use. add two
gallons of water, four ounces of alco
hol and two ounces of ammonia to one
half of the mixture as first prepared.
After it Is thus diluted, wipe the car
pet ever with this, using a scrub . rush
on stains and very dirty spots; after,
wards, wipe over with a clean cloth
wrung out of clean water.
"A Poor Ivxciihc In Hotter Than None."
Mrs. Homer Leigh What do you
mean by telling your friends you man
ried me because I was .such an excel
lent cook, when you know very well
I don't know how to cook a pgiato?
Mr. Homer Leigh Well, don't gel
mad, my dear; I had to off-r some ex
cuse, didn't I? Woman's Home Companion.
Heroes of Pcuce.
HE present war In t lit East, like all others
which have preceded It, will doubtless develop
Its Individual heroes. Deeds of special bravery
in times of contllct such as thnt now raging
between Kusln and Japan have a spectacular
effect and attract attention and admiration en
tirely natural under the circumstances. Hut
let us not forget the heroes of pence who are always with
us. There have been some nomine cases or neroisin lately
outside of the war zone, and the Philadelphia Ledger ap
propriately alludes to some of them:
"To charge up to the cannon's mouth with thousand
of comrades is a small thing compared with going alone
Into a burning building, groping through the smoke up
stairs that cannot be seen and may be on fire, and search
ing an upper room for a person threatened with an awful
death. Five firemen stayed on the roof of a building in
llaltlniore till the roof was about to fall In, and then hung
to the eavesgutter, swung themselves to a telephone pol 1
and slipped down to the earth.
The engineer who stands by Ids engine with a collision
Impending; the fireman who crawls into an engine room
where a steam pipe lias inirst and shuts off the steam that
parboils him, and from which he does not always escape;
the man who steps out nlto tho street In front of a run
away team, catches I he bridle, is dragged for a block, but
stops the horses these and other heroes of everyday life
have not the support of numbers and discipline, they can
rarely look forward to promotion and still more rarely to
monuments for their rewards; but the men who wear the
Victoria Cross or the Iron Cross are not greater heroes.
A beginning has been made in Loudon of the erection of
tablets not to tho memory of dead heroes of civil life, but
to record their names and acts while they are alive, and
while the respect and admiration of their fellow men may
be of some comfort to them. Every city ought to com
memorate upon tho walls of its public buildings the heroic
acts of Its cltlzcuts who, not being soldiers, are in danger
of getting no more substantial recognition of their daring
and their sense of duty than a few lines In the news
papers." There is nothing grander or nobler than doing one's
duty and risking one's life under such conditions as these.
The honor and applause won by military heroes constitute
their Just due, but save something of approval for the
quiet fellows who do equally dating deeds wholly because
It is part of their calling to Jeopardize their lives for others.
Troy Times.
appeals for advances; from many Industrial shutdowns
as a substitute for wage reductions; from the outcome ol
the New York building strikes; from the Erie Hallwaj
Company's appeal to Its employes to refrain from asking foi
advances; from the nnirmurlugs which liave been heard
In big steel manufacturing districts, and last, but not least,
from tho merits of the argument of Western bituminous
coal miners In their explanation of trade conditions and
why they were Impelled to ask for a lower wage rate.
Considerations such as these, In a year which Is evident
ly to be one of convalescence after the financial shock oi
ItKW, founded upon an exhibit of prevailing tendencies beat
lug upon the cost of living, should be well calculated t
appeal to the conservatism of employer and employe.
Newark News.
Tlte Cost or Living.
HERE is food for thought for all classes of
society In the published results of an Investi
gation at nine of the leading cities of the coun
try by the International Mercantile Agency
into the recent course and the tendency of In
dustrial wages, of rental values, of prices for
many essential articles of food and of clothing.
The showing Is made and that at all but one of the centers
covered the average rate of wages remains practically sta
tlonary, with a weakening tendency in some Instances, the
significance of which is 'driven in by statements that at
almost all the cities reported rents have shown a tendency
to advance, and that many of the more Important food
products and staple fabrics are higher In price than a few
months ago or than a year ago.
A further Increase In the cost of living seems to be fore
shadowed by the results of the inquiry as to house rents,
and food and clothing prices, when contrasted with what
seems to be a sharp check to further Increases in wages,
nnd in some Instances a tendency to moderate reaction.
One may hardly Infer that rents, food and clothing are
to cost more because of the average gain within a year of
perhaps 10 per cent In wages in many lines. The argument
for the latter was based upon an Increased cost of living
that had already taken place. That the existing wage level
amy not be long maintained in its entirely seems a natural
Inference from hi to refusals of railways to heed furlhei
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rcnrlcssncss, Courage, Urnvcry.
T goes without saying that whatever positive
moral element there is in courage comes not
from the absence of fear, but front Its pres
ence and the self-command exerted to over
come Its effects. Tho normally constituted
man, except In moments of Irresponsible excite
ment, Is frightened by any danger that con
fronts him. This does not necessarily mean that ho Is'
pnnlc-strtcken, but only that he Is conscious of the gravity
of the situation In which he finds himself. It Is, then tho
part of manhood for him to take himself In hand and re-,
press any demonstration of his fear which might react In
a demoralizing way upon himself. The courageous mnn
makes up his mind that, no matter what conies, and no
matter what threatens, he will keep cool and do the best
he can. Ho knows, when ho thinks It over calmly, thatj
his only hope rests In never letting go of himself, but;
being constantly In such a state of mind that he cun take
advantage of any opening that offers. The frequent ex
ertion of this self-control results In gradual hardening or
seasoning, so tliHt, although he never overcomes his fears,
It Is progressively cinder for him to avoid being overcome
bj them.
The actually fearless man, If wo can Imagine one, Is
not. likely to be very highly organized, for a lino organism
menus emotional susceptibility, and substantially all sr
ages nre brave. Ho may bo a worthy enough person, but
more or less wooden. Ho must bo clnssllled In an exclu
sive category, since he pessesses a trait of distinct value to'
himself and his fellows, but devoid of any high moral qual-i
lty. As the ancient philosopher explained why tho gods'
wished for nothing, by noting the fact that thoy had
already everything that heart, could desire, so we may say
that the fearless man deserved no special credit for his
good conduct In the face of peril, because he is under no
temptation to behave badly. Washington Post.
Seals in Lake Superior.
I'M AN Ingenuity Is tireless when it profit is In
sight. Now they propose to maintain the sup
ply of seal coats by breeding seals In Lake
Superior. As a matter of act, seals havo been
bred In fresh water, so that this transportation,
from their natural habitat Is not impossible.)
Hut there are other considerations which
stand In the way of Its profit and of Its desirability. One
Is the climate. The ice In Lake Superior is said to be
heavier than salt water Ice, through which the Arctic seals'
find their blow holes, and Incidentally enable the Eskimos
to catch them and secure their own dinners. Then If thel
seals could live In Lake Superior it Is a question whether
any other form of life would long survive them. A colony
of seals would be worse than a fleet of fishermen that cov
ered the whole surface of that Inland sea. They are glut
tonoiis beasts, and they would respect no close season.
The fish of Lake Superior are more valuable than the
seals would be. even If seal culture! there Is possible. The
seal has the broad Pacific for his own now, He Is dls
appearing then;, but Ills disappearance, with his shiny
and luxurious' coat, would not be nn unmitigated calamity.
-Hrooklyn Eagle.
MAGAZINES OLD AND NEW.
Con trust Hetweeu Those of I'ifty Years
Ao and Now.
The contrast between the American
magazines of llfly years ago and those
of to-day Is so marked that it will Im
press the most careless reader. Take a
bound volume of Putnam's Magazine
from tho shelves of a public library,
free it from Its layers of dust, turning
its yellow pages, and, Io! you are con
fronted with some of the most famous
names in (lie literature of the nine
teenth century. Contrast this treasury
of wit, humor, pathos and sentiment
embodied In tin clearest of English
prose, in the most musical English
verse with the current number of a
magazine of to-day, and the unfavora
ble gulf between tho two periods will
at once be apparent. The great names
of literature have given place to those
of men and women who have gained
a passing notoriety through good or
bad fortune.
A successful Wall street broker Is
traveling for health and pleasure and
in a mountainous country of Eastern
Europe Is captured by bandits. The
bandits. In a businesslike manner, de
mand .ffiO.OOO as a ransom; otherwise
tho American traveler will return to
his sorrowing family and friends
minus his ears. Negotiations are en
tered Into with the outlaws and after
long delays, during which the bro
ker's precious ears are constantly
threatened, the money Is paid, and lie
returns In an unmutilated condition to
his oiilce in "Wall street. Hut his ad
ventures havo made him a famous man
and magazine editors aro clamorous
In their demands that he shall tell the
story of his capture and retention by
the bandits In his own way. Their or
dinary rates of payment shall not stand
in the way of this much desired contri
bution; the manuscript, if accompanied
by photographs of his eminent ears,
will he paid for at his own valuation.
The Wall street broker, being a man
of business, if not a man of letters,
writes the desired article or series of
articles, and receives In return a check
that satisfies even his own conception
of the value of his work. His eminent
ears are photo-engraved for the public
edification, and all that can possibly
be made known of his perilous adven
tures h given to the waiting public.
The result is double-distilled dullness,
presented In the most unattractive
form and without the slightest natural
or acquired literary aptitude. Hut 'the
editor believes that he lias satlsiled the
curiosity of the readers of the mag
azine of which he has control; from his
point of view, the lasting value of the
article for which he paid so high a
price does not enter Into the question.
And when the eminent ears of tho
Wall street broker have ecu Red to In
terest a fickle public the frost-bitten
nose of an nrctic explorer may be used
as a substitute.
There can be no doubt that a famous
or notorious name adds a seeming Im
portance and weight to a mngazlne
article, however lacking it may be
in Interest or attractiveness of treat
ment; and a contribution which on
its intrinsic merits would be rejected
Is published if it bears tho name of
some celebrity of tho hour. Of course,
readers are primarily to blame for this
state of things. They yearn for names
with which they are familiar, and the
editors of regular magazines endeavor
to satisfy them as a mere matter of
business. The question of literary
culture Is not considered either In tho
editorial rooms or by the purchiiser.s
of the periodicals of to-day. And It
must be admitted that the voice of a
fi.ghorn canity further than the most
dulcet notes of Pan's pipes.
Maiden.
When the May baby and the Juno
baby got well acquainted they ex
changed confidences.
"My milk conies from a certified
cow." said the May baby.
"So docs mine." said the Juno baby.
"It Is milked by a man in a whlto
miiI I . with sterilized hands, through ab-'
sorbent cotton, and kept at a temper
ature of forty-live degrees."
"So Is mine."
"It Is brought to me In a prophy
lactic wagon, drawn by a mndllled.
horse."
"So Is mine."
"Then how In thunder do you man
age to be so fat and avoII?"
The June baby winked slyly.
"I chew old paper and the corners
of the rugB and anything I can find
that Is dirty, nnd In that way I manage
to maintain the bacterial balnnco
which Is essential to health," ho said,
chuckling.
Tho May baby laughed long nnd
loud.
"So do I," said he.
Tho mammas heard tho goo-goolng,
but they assigned to it only the usual
fantastic significance. It was just as
well. Life.
Whenever we want to loaf, we don'f
give tho excuso that we are going flsb
lint. . , .