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By Tad
By WINIFRED BLACK.
So your boy Is out of school and noth
ing will do but he must go to the big city
and be a cartoonist.
He Is clever, you say, and so eay his
teachers; and he realiy can draw such
tunny pictures of
people that" every
one In town laughs
over them, and he
doesn't take any
interest. in anything,
oh earth but pen
cils, " p ap e r and
and Ideas. Shall you
let him go? Where?
"When?
Ought you to sell
your home and go
with him. to take
care of him? It is
It right to let h(m
go alone among
strangers? What if
he should fail? Who's going to take care
of him if- he should be 111? How lr he
going to know what to say to the editor
, when he does gee them?.
''.Dear me, what a mother you are, to
be sure; what a regular mother from the
very first letter of your name to the
very last drop 6f ink at the end of your
signature!
Let him! Why, what else can you ro
but let him? He isnt' yours; hies his
own. - . ' '; ' ' ' "
Yes, I know. I know you've nursed him
ahd walked the 'floor with.: him, and
you've sat up at nlghf. and taken 'care of
him through that spell of typhoid, when
the doctor said there wasn't a chance
for him to pull through. You've evoked
for him and mended for him. and agon
ized for him and hoped for hm kwT lived
tor- him.
Let's see, It's nearly nineteen years
ago that you heard his first feeble Wail,
isn't It? Nineteen years! How many
parties did "you stay at home from for
his- sake; how many dresses have you
Worn when you really should have had
a new one, to save money for his new
suit? How many times have you planned
and thought and worried to help him out
of some foolish boyish scrape? He is
all you have, you say; all you live for.
Well, then, in the, name of justice, give
him his chance to, live. .
Let him learn how few people there are
who will care & cent whether he is hun
gry or not. Let him learn how many fel
lows there are in the world who are
twice as clever as he; let him learn that
the only way to get anything on earth
is to "work for it ahd work in dead and
desperate earnest.
' Ybur boy Is too big and too strong and
too smart to be ruled by, you any longer,
little mother; ,et him go and rule him
self, and yet him go with a smile and a
blessing.
. Ungrateful, selfish, cruel hearted? Not
a bit of it;. he"s a boy, that's all. Some
day he will be a man If you'll let him.
Dependent upon you,- .is he, under it
all? Can't find his own socks,- and
wouldn't know how to buy a suit of
clothes for himself if he had all the
money of Croesus?
He'll find his socks all right when he
has to, and about that suit don't you
worry. He'll get cheated a few tlmei;
he'll buy the wrong thing and have to
wear it, and he'll learn.
A cartoonist, eh? Poor boy, he'll learn
never to say that word above his breath
He'll learn to laugh at his own work antl
to smile at his own disappointments, and
he'll learn to be thankful for a chance to
be a plain, every day "dub," as they c-Vi
j them in the ai t rooms of the big papers.
He'll be Joked for coming from a coun
try town, and he'll be made fun of lUl
I there isn't .an ounce of conceit left !n
him, and sometimes he'll feel as if he'd
give all the world just to be little aga'n
and run home and hide his face in your
faded old dress and cry and have you
comfort him.
By ANNETTE KELLER JIANN.
Ia my. last article, I think, I got my
bathing girl 'safely dressed and to the
water's edge.
Today she takes her first dip. '
I hope she won't scream and, shriek or
act coy and silly when her toe touches
the water. Not that I'm a strong-armed
advocate of woman's rights and expect
masculine fortitude of the girl who takes
her first swimming lesson. I believe
first and last and all the time In com
mon sense. As for rights I may eay
here, I've taken the right to beat many
a man at my particular specialty, which
is swimming, as you all know, and some
day I expect to get a few more legal
rights, but that doesn't worry me. What
I am preaching Is health, and If every
woman was perfectly healthy, with a
sound mind in a sound body they would
have the strength to sweep the world
and the intelligence not to want to. The
healthier a woman Is physieallly, the bet
ter her mental balance, and her power
to consider the vital questions of the
moment, from all sides her 3lde and the
other fellow's side. So I'm for health!
Well, here I am, like Silos Wegg, drop
pLn' into politics, not poetry, when I
should be swimming with you bathing
girls.
I begged you not to scream, didn't I?
To me there is nothing quite so mad
dening as a lot of howling people in
the water. Everyone is bound to shout
from sheer Joy of water and sunlight
and the sparkle of dancing waves, but
please shout musically if you can. At
scmo beaches nature seems absolutely
desecrated by the yelling mob around.
While I'm scolding I might as well add
that a bathing beach should be treated
with as much respect as a park, and
newspapers, tin cans and debris from
picnics ought to be burned up or gath
ered together neatly for removal by the
caretakers or thrown out to sea.
Now I've said all the disagreeable
things and with an easy mind I return
to the bathers.
At your American beaches, especially
on the Atlantic, where the waves are
high, the rope dinger Is especially popu
lar. I don't believe in bobbing up and down
And then he'll fall in love with a fool. I while hanging to a rope, because it is
and he'll fall in love with a. eirl who will ! often dangerous, the women especially
time be got really down and out and
hadn't the price of a night's lodging.
He'll take you to dine at the gay res
taurant you read about In the magazine
article on "The Real Bohemia," and
he'll let you hate all his enemies and
love' all his friends and be sweet to all
his sweethearts, and then you'll see that
it was all worth while. The long strug
gle, the bitter anxieties, the cruel care
all worth while a thousand times over,
for he's a man; the boy of yours a man.
And you, the little, plain mother there
at home, you are the one who let him
be a man, and helped him every step
al6ng the road, though, he didn't know
it and you didn't either, then.
Good-bye, son, the road is wide. See
how it winds along among the shadbws
there. Hark! What are those strange
voices calling from the clear woods along
the way? Look! There's a rough place.
I don't see how you'll get over it, but
that's your affair, not mine. I've walked
the road, walked t In sunshine and In
storm, walked It with bleeding feet and
with a sore heart,- walked It when the
stars sang together for very joy.
What a thirsty road it is, and how
hungry you'll be sometimes; how aching
with weariness. But It's your road,
your own road take it and walk it like
a man.
So, there are no tears in my eyes. See,
I am-smiling.. There's the open road,
son take it like a man.
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The Right Road to Health
The First Dip of the Season and
Some "Don'ts" for the Bathing Girl
do her worst to break his heart, and he'll
fall In love with a woman old enough- to
be his mother, and he'll spend every
penny he makes buying presents for
some cold-hearted creature who will
i make fun of him to his very face.
And he'll get Into evil ways maybe for
a while and walk along the brink of the
precipice. You'd hold your breath if
you ould see. him, but he'll learn, he'll
learn, and some day when he has learned
he'll come home and tell you all about It.
standing just In the trough of the sea
where the waves are strongest and where
the undertow Is most severe.
Added to this kind of hysteria com
bined with laughter and fright, which
weakens the holder's grip on the rope
and -you have the material for many
bathing accidents and fatilltles.
Learn to swim, that is my advice. Then
if you want the fun of bobbing with the
waves, hang on to the rope a little fur
ther out. beyond the spot where they
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beautiful to him than all the faces he i , , v, ... .
v.. . u. . . u .. anchorage you will always have presence
has seen In all his foolish dreams, and , , ' r . . 4 .u,,u
h-a j . . ... of ra nd enough to swim through the
your tired voice will sound to him like . . . .
., , ,, -v. , u . . waves as they break over your head,
the music of all the angel choirs, and t
he'll bring you a new gown and make! 1 advise ev""y woman who learns 10
you buy a new pair of pretty shoes, and j sw!m t0 be6ln very early t0 dlve :hrouSh
he 11 take you to town with him to visit
He'll take you to the theater and to thu
the waves. This gives her confidence In
her own powers, and she will need
park, and he'll show you the town and , thls experience, because it is always
; laugh at your old fashioned ideas very I better and less dangerous to dive through
tenderly. And he'll buy you a posy to
wear in your little plain gown, and he'!!
a wave than to let it break over one.
Begin with small waves to accustom
show you the place where he slept the j youi3df to putting your head under
Don'ts for the Bathing Girl.
Don't bob up and down while clinging to a rope. This is weak
ening and the cause of many fatalities.
Wet your head. This will keep the body at an equal temperature.
If you know how to swim, practise relaxing, and you will not
tire so easily.
Exercise your arms on land, in your home, to give you in
creased strength for swimming.
Don't stay in the water after you get chilly. It's time to go in
when "gooseflesh" appears.
water. Some women, otherwise excellent
swimmers, never get used to this and
will never of their own accord get their
heads wet. It Is much better for the gen
eral health to wet the head by dipping
it under water, as this kepps the body
at an equal temperature. Of course,
when the sun is hot. you will burn and
tan unless you protect yourself with a
thick coating of face ereaJn. Personally,
I like to see a face tanned by the sun,
with the glow of health in eyes and
cheeks, but then I don't Treckle; other
wise I should feel differently.
It j-on tire very easily when awimmlng
Sit Us iu-obatr because you do't relax
and because you keep your sptoe abso
HuSelr still. Relax, relax.; that's the only
way yon will ever he a yood rwlmmer.
'The water will keep you up; you don't
meefl to worry 'or to stiffen to stay on
top. The more you relax, putting all
your strength Into your leg and arm
movements, the better you will swim.
If you think your arms are no, strong,
"exerctse them -os land, patiently and
By.stematHcaJly, going through th up and
'down movements with a rod rr dum
Ibclls. ;as 7 Ihave .'already 'described. The
Wat Tyler's Insurrection
Bjr RiV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
On June 14, by royal appointnwnt. the.
rebels, to the number of 60,000, met Klfuf
Richard at Mile-end. They told the ktnr
what thy wahted-flrst, that they ihoui.i
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JOSS ANNETTE KELLERMANN IN HIGH DIVE.
(Other poses in silhouette by Isabella Jason, of "The Winter Garden.")
same with the lower limbs. If you feel
that your "kick" lacks vigor, strengthen
the muscles by exercising on land.
t Isn't heroic to stay In the water
after you are chilly or "gooseflash'' ap
pears on your arms.
Children, especially, should be care
fully watched and no child should be
allowed to stay In the water aftsr its
lips or fingernails begin to show signs
of cold by getting blue. If the child has
been taught to Bwim these signs won't
appear for a long time, but I am always
sorry to see children half In and half out
of the water, shivering with cold and
getting no exercls at all.
Exercise all the time you are In the
water. Don't stand around.
Don't Uath Immediately alter eatln.tr
or too long after meals, when you are
(Top picture) Ejercis your arms on
land. (Bottom picture) Prac
tice relaxing to keep from get
ting tired while swimming
weak from hunger If you do this
last you will get void at once.
Don't sit around In a wet bathing suit
shivering. No matter how warm ou are,
give yourself a good hard robbing down
with a Turkish towel.
if your skin does not rwt properly
rub with alcohol. But if you have been
swimming, not merely a-tnglng to a
rope, this won't bo necttuary.
Jan IB, lSSl.
Wat Tyler, one of the earliest of tn
pioneers In the great struggle for demo
cratic equality and human rights In gen
eral, met his martyrdom 631 years o
today-June 16, 1381.
The common peo
ple of England had
long been suffering
under great oppres
sion. The slaves of
the lords of the land
on which they lived,
they were treated not
only with Injustice,
but, In many cases,
with Incivility and
contempt; In fact,
they were regarded
not as human beings,
but as cattle.
The pent-up wrath ef the people was
simply waiting for a. chance to assert
itself, and the chance Came In the snap?
of an insult to the daughter of Wst Tyler
The collectors of the hated poll tax ram
to Wat's humble cottage and behaved
toward his H-year-old daughter in way
that caused her to cry for help; Kr
father, at work not far off, ran , to his
daughter's assistance and killed the ruf
f lanly collector on the spot.
Instantly the men of the town of Dart
ford arose in rebellion, and In an amts
ingly short tlma 100,000 men wers march
ing on' London with Wat Tyler as their
leader. Entering the city they broke open
the prisons and freed the captives, d
stroyed some great houses and palaoes,
chopped off the heads of some unpopular
persons, and so frightened the king and
his henchmen that they shut themselves
up In the Tower, trembling like "guilty
things afraid." But there was no rob
bery or thieving. "We are honest men.
not thieves and scoundrels," cried the
Kentlshmen; and, true tu their Word, they
laid their hands on no man's property.
not be made slaves any mors; seoond.
that the rent of land should be a certain
price In money, Instead of being paid In
service; third, that they should be freo
to buy and sell in all markets, like frr
men; and, finally, that there should , hi
an all-round amnesty for pas offenses.
"I grant it," replied Richard, and he bade
them go home, pledging himself to at
once Issue orders of freedom and. pardon.
Ip the meantime, some of the rebels.
remaining in the city while the Mlle-end
conference was going on, had broken into
the Tower and cut off the heads of Arrfn-
bishop Sudbury, the treasurer and the
commissioner of the hated poll tax, and
when Wst and the king met on the fol
lowing day . there were naturally some
very hot Words between them.'
We shall priest)ly never know Just
what was said or done as between Wat
and the king, but In the midst of the
difficulty, whatever It was, William WaU
worth, lord mayor of London, plunged
his dagger into Wat's heart, killing him
instantly.
"They have slain our captain! Kill!
Kill!" shouted the crowd, but with cool
courage, the young king calmed them,
and after giving them the same pledge
that he had given their comrades at Mite
end sent-them away home.
Of course the king did not keep hi'
pledgehe never Intended to and the old
oppression continued just the same. Bat,
nevertheless, Wat Tyler's rebellion did
much good. It showed the oppressors
thsjt the "worm" could and would turn,
and that It behooved them to be a llttls
more careful In the future about thr
treatment of the people. Later on, in
the finished temple of democracy there
will certainly be found some reminder it
Wat Tyler.
f
Worship of Brains
By CHARLES FERGUSON.
Is It possible for a man to have both a
powerful mind and a mean soul?.
If you say yes, beware lest you dis
qualify yourself for any real under
standing of the prophets and wise men
who tell us that
the world Is bound
to be ruled at
length by generos
ity and heart-power
and that the
"meek shall Inherit
the earth." For
what sense is there
In saying that love
makes the world go
'round, and that
tho truth makes
men free, if smart
rascals and liars
are forever to sit
In the high places,
and If faithfulness
to the truth has
nothing to do with
real force?
Perhaps there is no more senseless
superstition than the prevalent worship
of brains mer cold cerebration. Moral
chaos lurks In the notion that a man tan
acquire a tltanlo Intellectual ability with
out having any character or conscience
about the way he uses It. If that were
rtally the case, the hope of the rule of
Jrstlce ard beauty upon the earth wouME
be Infinitely postponed.
If It were not established In the ground
plan of the world that moral meanness
Is related to mental weakness, the
"knaves and dastards" would never be
"an ested."
Of course It Is obvious enough that In
telligent scoundrels have now and again
flourished In power for a season. But
why be perplexed about that fact? Prob
ably they have flourished beeausa the
mob of btaln worshippers have raised
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them upon their shoulders.
Modern experimental psychology should
put sn end to brain worship. For research
in this field is bringing us every day
nearer to exact demonstration that the
intellect grows out of the emotions, and
those who have the most energetlo feel
ing. Thus it appears that men can goln,
knowledge and undertsandlng, only -to
the limits of their sympathy or working
interest.
Thomas De Qulncy tays somewhere
that "the Intellect Is the meanest of'Sll
human faculties'." It was a literary suit
of course; but the meaning was that the
intellect degenerates Into a trivial kind
of cunning when It cuts itself loose from
the heart of life.
The man who said that Francis Bacpn
was "the wisest, brightest, meanest of
mankind" was overfond of -epigrams.
Wisdom and science are In their very
nature public, explosive, or universal
service. . ,
One is reminded of such things by n
editorial In the Globe newspay.-r, whldh
undertakes to explain the quaditlea- it
Senator Root. The editorial writer 'says
that Mr. Root "Has the Ix.'Sc brain among1
all President Taft's advisers," out . that
he Is a "conservative by temperament
nnd self-interest by the kind of tumpora
ment which permits self-interest t tnji
his "ve what It shall see and what Jt
shall be blind to."
Ctertalnly Francis Bacon tho father
of inductive science was not iite tljit;
nor any other historic man of Intellectual
weight and scoya in polluc.i or religion,
In art or science. .
If the description of Mr. Itoot is cor
rectIf Mr. Root genera'.1 v sees '.hlnss
only through the blinding bias uf his
personal interest and yet has "the beat
brain among all President. Tatt's al-visers"-lt
is certain that Mr. Taft is III
advised.
"A Ladr."
Representative E. W. ToWnsend of
"Chimmle Fodden" fame said apropos of
the misery of the poor:
"On the one hand we have this misery
and on the other hand we have a wealth
that Is often coarse and vulgar.
"Tbey tell of a New York woman who
once asked her maid:
"This person who celled without leaving
' " ru rv muHam' u nvfwnt- lsHv ' the
ma!d replied. 'Her hair was dyed the
loveliest gold she was covered with pearls
and diamond's and she smelt of Egyptian
cigarettes, and champagne, madam.' "
ashinston Star-
F.eal City of Churches.
"Don't call Brooklyn the City uf
Churches." taya a globe trotter, who is
equally familiar with the Hudson, the
Rhine, the Ganges and the Nile. There
Is a city in India which is looked upon us
"holy" by Buddhists and Brahaias whicjt
might dispute the title. Benares has
cbout 2,000 temples, and In these and
fixed in the narrow streets where tho
public Is free to worship are about SOO.OQd
idols. According to Hindu belief, it t
the gate to Paradise, to which all who
dwell within its walls enter Immediately.
New York Tribune.
Pointed Paragraphs. y . '
But an actor who cuts no Ice is apt to
be In frost.
The nicest thing about few people Is
their obituary.
The fellow who is cornered doesn't think;
he's getting a square deal. .
Try loving yourself as yon do your
neighbors and see how you like it.
When the question ts popped it is ta
ually followed by a noise U!i a kiss.
Chicago News.