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is awejnsplring when wo understand
it. "Thin knowledge I of greater im
portance to the world than all other
knowledge on all other subjects.
Yet our colleges never Include one'
single referenco to it in a five years'
course of study to the Xuturo mothers
of men. Parents never refer to it
Men are equally ignorant, and they
marry with no recognition of the duty
incumbent upon them to specially
guard, protect and render peaceful and
happy the mothers of their unborn
children.
TJot long ago it was my misfortune
to overhear a conversation between a
young wife and her husband, the par
ents of one child. .The wife intimated
that she feared another addition might
be made to the family. The husband
replied angrily: "Well, if there is an
other kid., coming I'll skip tho coun
try." -- Could anything be more brutal and
, inhuman? And yet it is not an infre
quent caso. Hundreds of men become"
violently angry when they know their
wives are to become mothers, and in
stead of supporting them through the
months of expectancy with love and
tender care, they rouse their worse- in
stincts and Wonder later why the child
is so ill-tempered and nervous, and
resentful in its nature
iSuch men belong to tho male cat
species. Many male apimals, notably
the cat, despise their own offspring
and destroy them if allowed to bo in
tlieir presence.
- -No man properly taught by his
mother could treat his wife unkindly
at such a period of her life.. It is a
waste of sentimental platitude to call
a woman a "good mother" if she has
brought up a son to a marriageable
age who has not been made to realize
the sacredness of 'maternity and the
importance of fatherhood:
When in the West Indies I saw an
ignorant, unwedded child of nature a
young negress of scarcely fifteen years
"of age nursing her child with moth
erly tenderness.
She had not been taught our code of
morals. She dfd not know she had
done wrong to bring a child into the
world, and she loved her little one and.
cared for it tenderly and was not
ashamed.
I could not help contrasting her with
solme women I know married women
and. devout church members women
of wealth and station, who pay their
physicians (also church members)
large sums of money to destroy their
unborn children because they do- not
want to be bothered with them.
Somehow the little colored girl
mother did not seem the greater sin
ner of the two, to my mind! Crim
inals, lunatics, deformities, invalids
and degenerates are often the result
of a mother's attempt and failure to
destroy the child before birth.
And does it never occur to thesa
"Christian" mothers that an Immortal
soul cannot be destroyed and that they
must meet that spirit face to face in
another sphere which they have re
fused to encounter in earth life?
One can be sorry for the girl led
astray by love who In her fear of
this world's scorn riaks her life and
destroys her child before her shame J
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is known. But what can we say in ex
cuse of the 'society woman to whom
the act Is a frequent occurrence?
And our churches in every large
town can produce many such women.
. Madam, if you know motherhood
awaits you, face It with a prayer in
your heart and God's love In your
soul; Say to yourself, "I will bring a
beautiful and good child into tho
wc-rld; I will govern' my temper; I wiU
think cheerful and reverent thoughts;
I will put away every unworthy and
selfish mood, and think always of the
helpless, innocent soul intrusted to mo
and of my great responsibility; I will
ask God's aid to help me make that
child a blessing to me and to all hu
manity, and I will believe It is to be
all that I would have it."
This is the greatest work you can
do for the world, Madam,
Attend to it Ella Wheeler Wilcox,
in New York Journal and American.
Keep Cool.
Thus far the summer has been mod
erate, but heat and humidity are
bound to come In their season. ' "When
the hot days are here, let us all keep
cool. How? "
By refraining from undue Indulg
ence in heating and stimulating food.
Too much meat is a- prolific source
of heat in the summer solstice. By
keeping the table provided with ap
petizing cold dishes, by using fruits',
vegetables and cereals, with milk and
cream, and puddings made of farina,
sago and similar light substances, in
stead of hot viands, -which necessitate
enormous fires In a coal-fed range.
Next, by thoroughly airing the
house night and morning, and then
closing windows and doors during the
daytime, excluding the sun and tho
heated air.
Third, by wearing cool clothing. In
southern latitudes men Save learned
to dress in style befitting the weather;
to wear white linen Instead of thick
woolen clothes, and to a. void the sun.
An umbrella is as necessary for a
man as a parasol for a woman In a
hot noonday.
Fourth, by avoldipg alcoholic
drinks Tho person whoso usual bev
erage io cold water, Iced tea and iced
coffee, is much safer than tho onp
who indulges in wines and other In
toxicants. Even soda water may lie
taken to excess; probably . however,
the chief danger hero is to small boys
whose parents give them too much
spending money.
Fifth. Keep cool by controlling
your temper. Be not hasty to anger.
Do not be easily Irritated, by trifles
nor even impetuous; be not fretted by
those small accidents which are the
common lot Ink spilled upon a floor,
a grease spot on one's dress, a child's
frock torn, a cherished cup broken or
a. saucer nicked, are all in a life-time,
and there Is no common sense in los
ing equanimity over such trifles. Emo
tions recklessly indulged in wear out
the nervous strength that should last
for a long, long day. To be a spend
thrift of one's capital is very short
sighted, and conduces to greater evils
than "being uncomfortably hot in a
day of the mounting thermometer.-
Margaret E. Sangster. 1
a noble Roman, why didn't ho emulate
.the example of Brutus and Casslus
by perishing on his own sword? Why
should one American naval officer slay
men unnecessarily at tho instance of
a physical and moral coward, who,
having neither tho courage to . sur
render or fight, demands that Innocent'
soldiers be slain to placate his false
pride and ridiculous vanity?' W,hy
did not Dewey have the manly Ameri
can hardihood to kick this fellow out
of his presence instead of indorsing
his cruel egotism and executing his
barbarous and bloody commands?.
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Dowey and the Spanish Governor.
The statement made by Admiral
Dewey, "shows the capture of the city
of Manila to have been a sham battle,
as shameful as it was unnecessary.
Hq said there was no need for the loss
of a man in the capture of the city,
but the governor said his honor de
manded that a few shQts be fired, io
"r had to fire, and kill a few people,"
said th. admiral. This "may be very
regular and very ethical In the eyes of
military men, but if civilized warfare
demands that human life be sacrificed
to satisfy antiquated and quixotic no
tions of honor, we are. of the opinion
that the rule of civilized warfare are
badly in need of reform. If this
Spanish governor had such high and
ancient notions, why didn't he vindi
cate his priceless honor by sacrificing
his own life? JU. he desired to poe as
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Sublimated Bureaucracy.
The Hoot bill to provide for a gen
eral staff, with a chief to be selected
bytho executive, has been by no means
abandoned in the war office because
of congressional Indifference to its
provisions. Tho lieutenant general
commanding the army will have bee
relegated to the retired list when con
gress shall meet again, and the gen
eral staff project will bo urged anew on
grounds dissociated from personal con
siderations. Tho expanded army is a
tremendous factor in federal adminis
trative policy, and nothing will be-left
undone by those in authority to retain
ite control absolutely in tho hands
of war department officials, as con
tradistinguished from senior general
officers in the military establishment.
Already tho expert casuists, historical
authorities and cunning controver
sialists In tho service are piling up
citations, briefs and arguments In
favor of the general staff system, by.
means of which tho department tail
could always wag tho army dog. Sen
ior officers may command, of course,
but they must not control. That is
the function of sublimated bureauc
racy wherever great armies are mus
tered. Philadelphia (Pa.) Record.
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