NO HASTY MARRIACE3, Bl|bW Education Main* Women Lcn Dependent. "So long as the attraction of sex re V mains yon cannot abolish marriage!” excitedly exclaimed the conservative man, according to Vogue.' "I hare no desire to do away with |: marriage, but simply to mitigate it," replied the woman propagandist. And i'V most thoughtful people will agree with the woman speaker that the reckless | ness which characterizes marriage should be moderated. It is encouraging ; to tho&e whose hearts arc touched by the manifold sorrows of humanity to observe that, in this matter of mar riage (a most prolific source of mis ery to human beings), different agencies x are at work, educating people to an ap preciation of the gravity of the estate, and its tremendous consequences to in dividuals and to nations. The higher education of women has, from the start, shown a tendency to disincline those who took the college courses toward early marriages and toward imprudent one*—quite a large percentage of them moreover, taxing up career* »nu re maining single. A recent canvass of college graduates Is said to have shown that, while 90 per cent of non-college women become wives, only 55 per cent of college graduates resign their lives Into the keeping of husbands. From other sources It is learned that those who marry do not swell the lists of Invalid wives; neither do 60 per cent of the children born to them figure In mortality tables, as is the ghastly fact with the everyday woman’s children. College women are not apt to marry a man to save him, and thus insure for children morally weak or vicious fath ers; neither does love (?) In a cottage— translated In these days Into a cheap flat In an unwholesome locality—ap pear to her liner or more winsome than the self-respecting Independence of the bread-winning positions that are now within her reach. Years ago some con servative men had the perspicacity to realize and the courage to state that fuller life for women meant the lessen ing of her Interest In marriage (the only profession her foremothers had been permitted to consider) and that she would be harder to please and more deliberate In her choice. That the phophecles have come to pass Is matter for congratulation .or for condemnation, according to the observer’s point of view. A WIPE'S nrRANNV. -fgj?- WZ1'' Some •( the Awful TKltfi she Does t< Anw Hot MukaM. She contradicts hla> at the bead ef hk set him right an an utterly untmpor tant little detail—say the date ofatraae action, which he makes the 7th of Sep tember and she asserts was the 8tb, she Interferes In all Ms arrangements, > and questions his authority In the sta bles, the field, the church, the consult ing-room; she apportions his food avd regulates the amount of wine he may take; should she dislike the smell of to bacco she will not allow him the most transient whiff of the most refined cig arette, and, like her brother with his victim, she teaches the children to de spise their father by the frank con tempt with which she treats him and the way in which she flouts his opinion and denies his authority. If she is more affectionate than aggressive she ren ders him ridiculous by her effusiveness. Like the "Sammy, love," which roused XMbn Alford’s reprobation, she loads him with silly epithets of endearment before folk, oppresses him.with person al attention and treaita him generally as a sick child next door to an idiot. All out of love and its unreasoning tyranny she takes him Into custody— In public as In prlvata Ufa—and allows him no kind of freedom. Robust and vigorous aa he Is, she worries over his health m though he were a confirmed Invalid; In the hey-day of hla maturity coddling him as it he were an octo genarian bordering on the second child hood. She continually uses the ex pression, “I shall not allow my hus band to do ao and so;" or, "I will make my husband do this or that." Never by any chance does she confess his right to free action, bound as he Is In the chains of her tyrannous affection, in the end she makes him what ahe has long fancied him to be, a backboneless valetudinarian, whom the sun scorches v to fever and the edat wind chills to pneumonia—one who has lost the fruit by "fadding" about the flower.—Chica go Chronicle. Dr. Clerk’* Moral Idea. The Rev. F. E. Clark, president of thi Christian Endeavomrs, suggested a unique plan a week or two ago. It Is to •tart a "chain of prayer," to reach clear ’ around the world, and In which every, member of the society, it he wishes, might tom a link. Each Endeavorer is to offer one short petition every day tor other members and tor the cause at large. Special objects may trom time to time be Included. To become a link in the chain requires but one con dltion, vis., belief in prayer. \ ' It Wu Batten. ▲ tory speaker in Berwickshire annt in his hand and said: "This repre sents the whole Church qneatton. ?his shell is the tree cfaureh, good la its way, hut not the boor of things. Hn crack IM ant sad ywt get (k» eaWh Halted church.” He cracked it and it is was rotten and he had to retire amid terislve cheers.—Fun. Blarney. Hia Reverence—I ctn’t take your cab, Pat I see your horse has been on his knees. 4 Pat—Anah, yer riverence; be aisy about that The last place he had was with a waste and faith, he had to keep up a simMance ot religion.—Sydney W-A1 Mk-. lie I n([i*rxtoo