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l
Lure of N Mre
-ipy -m Suicides, But
Oeatb More Publicity
By RABBI JOSEPH SILVERMAN.
Tmpla Emm El. Naw York City.
I do not believe there are more suicides to-day
than there ever were. Xewspuiiers are more alert now.
There were just as many suicides in ancient times.
Once upon a time when a man committed suicide peo
ple said he was "crazy" and let it drop. Now suicide
news is especially featured, but I think the actual num
ber is no greater than in a .ciont Home. Xature has
many ways of getting rid of her unlit.
At one time suicide was almost fash
ionable in Rome. Seneca advocated it, and
among his disciples there was what he called a "pas
sion for suicide." A man was justified in destroying
his own life, the stoics believed. A Roman senator
declared that the one point in which man's lot is su
perior to that of a god is that he has the power of
"flying to the tomb." He describes it as the greatest
proof of the bounty of Providence that in the world
there are so many herbs from which the weary man
can secure the means for a rapid and painless death.
Iccky says: "The dramatic death of Cato the Stoic was the. favorite
subject of Uoman cioguence." "Indifference to death": is a -favorite
phraseof the stoics. It is said that Seneca clung to the idea of suicide
with "passionate joy," as "the one refuge for the oppressed and wrong,"
saying: "Against all the injuries of life 1 have the refuge of death." It
is only weak minds, however, in my opinion, that for a moment seriously
entertain the idea of suicide. What the people need is a good cold bath
and some healthy optimism.
'tiii
The vogue of fancy neokwear has reached the proportions of a mania.
The amount of money spent on neckwear by the up-to-date woman makesse
rioiis inroads upon an ordinary dress allowance, and her new Dutch collar, or
Eton collar (which it really is), has become almost a craze among younger
women. Many different designs are shown on this page.
These collars are made up of plain linen or of linen and lace, which ap
peal to those young enough for the somewhat youthful effect. They are
mounted on a band, but are much deeper than the ordinary flat turn down.
They spread a little, coming down to almost Eton depth in front, but with
"sharper points and narrower openings than the Eton models show.
Other collars, much closer to regulation Eton lines, but mounted on a band
which while not high brings the collar up more closely around the throat
than the Eton, are much worn, and are comfortable for warm weather,
though essentially of youthful character. They are made of embroidered
linen of varying "softness and sheerness, ranging from the stiff ' boyish col
lar to sheer collars, exquisitely hand-embroidered and inset with lace.
Soft bows of silk with tassel and fringed ends are worn with these low,
turn-over collars, also jabots of lace or of finely plaited linen and lace fastened
just under the chin by a long jeweled pin.
PLAYHOUSE FOR A CHILD.
Simple Contrivance That the Busy
Mother Will Appreciate.
The small wooden fences used by
many mothers to keep the kiddies in
bounds are well known. Not so famil
iar is a miniature playroom invented
jy one young mother, who objected to
laving her child's toys scattered all
over the room.
She bought a large box. Had the
sidts cut down to allow it to go under
thebed. The box was put on rollers
so it could be easily moved.
The inside was lined with chintz
that could be readily taken out when
soile:'.. On the upright sides of the
box was white muslin, to which was
pasted all sorts of gay pictures and
animals that children love. When fin
ished this miniature picture gallery
was given a thin coat of varnish so
it could be wiped off when soiled. The
bffby's toys were inside.
When baby was deposited in his
playhouse he was out of harm's way,
and could amuse himself for hours.
When he was through playing all that
was necessary was to push the box
under the bed, where it was hidden by
the valance.
Ribbons for Lingerie.
The latest touch for lingerie is to
have cherry ribbon bows to fasten up
jthe dainty garments instead of the old
familiar baby blue and pale pink. This
Is a very decided change and one that
indicates a complete revolution in the
general dressing of the particular
woman. ' Where before she attempted
to wear only feminine garments of
the soft shades, she now would not
jihink of wearing the plain white gown
.without some touch of splashy em
broidery. As you see, she carries out the idea
even to her daintv bits of lineeries.
Light shades are far too quiet. Some
thing really definite must be worn, and
While all of the embroidered under
garments are quite simple and
trimmed, only with hand embroidery or
a band of real valenciennes lace, the
color of ribbons makes up for lack of
feminine frills and furbelows.
Bordered Mulls.
Among the many pretty French
mulls a new idea has developed in nar
row stripes of color that end in the
border design, and correspond to the
deepest note of the tinting given to
the flowers In that, or to the Persian
pattern, for this latter effect is almost
more popular this . season than any
other and comes frequently above a
(Solid color border band that is in some
ivery beautiful new hue. Mousseline
d'India 1s another very. light and airy
fabric of but little more than gossa
mer texture and is pinstriped length
wise, which gives a tiny bayadere
stripe to the gown when the goods are
used as attached flounces or in tunic
effect, which the 30-inch width makes
riecessary. The side border is in
either two narrow bands of Chinese
flowers, as quaint as if worked on a
sampler, or in little cross bars of the
color, broken by a center stripe; other
groundings with pin dots" of color have
Persian designs at border. Vogue.
REALLY NOVEL SOFA PILLOWS.
Renewing the Edge of Skirts.
In buying a new petticoat it is al
.ways wiser to get one several inches
too long. Run in one or two tucks
just above the flounce, and when the
edge is worn it can be cut off, re
'hemmed, and the tucks let out, and
the skirt takes on a new lease of life.
Do not leave the drawstring in the
top of the petticoat. This means a
certain ridge at the waist line. The
top should be cut off, darted to fit, put
Into a narrow band and fastened with
!a hook and eye or button.
Curls in Fashion.
Among the folk fashions borrowed
from Poland is that curious one of the
rlangling curls at the sides of the
face. Some of the daring women in
Paris are trying the little curls which
fall over the temples and account for
the stray locks about tb r
How One Woman Found Use for Small
Embroidered Tea Cloths.
A woman who can cleverly utilize
odds and ends that most of us would
throw away has found a fascinating
use for small embroidered tea cloths
that are too small for a card table
and too big for a centerpiece. She
turns them into, sofa pillows that are
striking in their novelty.
If the cloth has a deep embroidered
border the center of linen is cut away
and the border appliqued to a cover
of colored art linen, giving it an air
of handsome hand embroidery.' These
cushions are made up to button so
they may be easily laundered.
A tea cloth with drawn work border
Isused as a cover to a colored lining,
which gives a charming effect with no
work. Sometimes a large monogram
is embroidered heavily in the center of
the tea cloth. . It is done either in
white or in a color to match the lin
ing.
This Is an excellent way to use
centerpieces that have worn into holes,
though the border is still in good con
dition.
FOR A RAINY DAY.
Natty empire raincoat of elephant
gray, waterprook silk, trimmed with
black satin sash, cuffs and collar, and
silver buttons and belt buckle. Such
a coat is dressy enough for general
spring wear.
The Day at Home.
The feminine custom of having a
day at home originated in Prance in
the beginning of the eighteenth cen
tury with Mme. Scudery, says the Mil
waukee Journal.
Mme. Scudery was an authoriess
and a woman whom all the great per
sonages of old Paris delighted to
honor. She was as busy as any mod
ern American woman, and for that rea
son being also a wise woman she or
ganized her activities. She had two
days a week at home. Her Saturdays
became historic, for it was then she re
ceived the brilliant men and beauti
ful women who made famous the salon
of Hotel Rambouililet. On Tuesdays
she received her intimate friends.
Scarfs Edged with Satin.
There is a widespread belief that
the colored chiffon scarf may not last
much longer because it is too uni
versal. The tulle scarf and those of
metallic net will be even more popu
lar. They have been edged .with fringe
and fur but the new thing is to finish
the sides and ends with a narrow bind
ing of self-colored bias satin.
REVISION TO COME
Back Stitclng.
To start back stitching, take a short
stitch on the upper side and a long
one on the under side, bringing the
needle out a stitch in advance of the
short one just taken. Insert the
needle where the short stitch on the
right side finishes, passing it under
the material and out again a stitch in
advance of the last one taken.
TARIFF CHANGES SURE, BUT WILL
NOT AFFECT BUSINESS.
Legislation Is to Be Shaped by Men
Who Appreciate Value of Policy
of Protection in a Judi
cious Form.
President Taft is beginning his ex
perience with misquotation, and he
may expect a good deal of it. Every
thing he says now is of interest, and
some of it is certain to find its way
around in a twisted form.
The other day at Indianapolis Mr.
Van Cleave, speaking to the tariff con
vention then in session, advocated the
appointment of a tariff commission.
with large powers to. investigate tariff
duties aud make such changes from
time to time as it thought best for
the country. His proposition was
that congress could not be relied upon
to deal with the subject intelligently;
that it lacked both information and
practical ability. And he emphasized
his remarks by declaring that the pres
ident was in sympathy with the views
he was presenting.
Without intending it, probably, Mr.
Van Cleave conveyed a wrong impres
sion. President Taft was not in S3'm-
pathy with the speaker's attack on
congress, or with the proposition that
the tariff be handed over to a com
mission of so-called experts for re
vision. He had gone no further than
to express the opinion that congress
should have the fullest light on the
subject, and that liberal provision
should be made for assisting congress
in the collection of statistics. He well
understood that congress had no pow
er to surrender its control over the
tariff, and would not do so if "it could.
Now a report is abroad that Presi
dent Taft attributes whatever business
depression there may be to the Ding
ley schedules and to the agitation, for
their revision. He is made thus a
free trader and a standpatter rolled
into one. Down with the Dingley law,
and yet what a frightful penalty we
are paying in preparing to get rid
of it!
Republican criticism of the Dingley
law relates only to Its extraordinary
success. It more than fulfilled the
calculations and expectations of its
friends, and soon produced a situation
calling for revision. This was true,
as Mr. McKinley pointed out at Buf
falo, eight years ago. And every year
sfnee has increased the necessity
of revision.
As for the effect on business of the
agitation for revision, the matter has
been greatly exaggerated. Business
has not felt the shiver this time that
it did for a year preceding the tariff
revision of 1894. Then the coming
legislation was to be shaped by men
who professed hatred of protection
and a purpose to put an end to it.
The Democratic stumpers in the cam
paign of 1892 had danced linguistic jigs
all over protection. To-day revision is
in the hands of the champions of pro
tection. That policy is to be kept in
mind in whatever is done. Wherever
protection is necessary and working
good in the public welfare, it is to be
retained; but wherever unnecessary,
as the result of long enjoyment and
the growth of business, it is to be mod
ified or ended, as the public welfare
demands.
It is too late for anybody to play
tricks ,wilh this question. President
Taft's position is well known, and the
duty of congress was so emphatically
laid down at the polls last November
that a disregard of the instructions
then issued would cost the Republic
ans the next house of representatives.
A Tariff Argument.
While there is something to be said
for revision of the tariff downward
there are some remarkable examples
of argument without reason. One of
the most flagrant examples of this sort
is the article of Miss Ida Tarbell in the
March American Magazine. Through
out this writer takes the prices of
commodities for the lean year of 1896
and compares them with the prices of
the boom year of 190t, 'charging the
difference wholly to the Dingley tariff
A more absurd comparison could hard
ly be conceived.
That there was an 'immediate Im
provement in business after the elec
tion of McKinley in 1896 everybody
knows. That it was followed by an ad
vance In prices and in wages is equal
ly well known. But the era of greatly
advanced prices did . not set in until
after the Spanish war, and really not
ntil two years later. Without any
change in the tariff there has been a
material decrease in prices of many
things since 1907 and a marked ad
vance in others. In the commodities
Miss Tarbell particularly mentions the
course of prices abroad has been in
the same direction as here during the
past ten years. Surely the tariff in
this country has not advanced the
price of the English-made goods.
It is such ill-considered theses that
have created the confusion that pre
vails on the whole tariff question. If
writers of reputation cannot distin
guish between diverse causes and ef
fects they ought at least to refrain
from adding their confused percep
tions to the discussion of the question.
HAS APPROVAL OF COUNTRY.
Result of Fleet's Great Voyage.
Our battle fleet has become an inter
national factor. It has drawn Australia
and New Zealand near to the great re
public, it has stilled the clamor of
Japan. It has given China new hope.
It has steadied the loyalty of the Phil
ippines. It has revealed our naval
power to all South Asia from Singa
pore to Suez. It has shown that a
thU-i! great fleet can divide the Medi
terranean with England and France.
Philadelphia Press.
President Taft's Cabinet Both Repre
sentative and Abie.
On the whole, the new cabinet will
be receive with favor by the countryi
Senator Knox is one of our oesi
equipped men for the position of sec
retary of stale. There is no rival.
anywhere to Secretary Wilson as head
of the agricultural department. Frank
Hitchcock is thoroughly equipped fort
the task of directing the post office de
partment. While his appointment
might be regarded as the reward for
political service, it wilt be remem
bered that before he entered upon th
Taft campaign he was assistant post
master general, and now returns to
the head of the department in which
he was formerly a most efficient as
sistant. His executive ability and his
capacity for work which he so ttrik-'
ingly illustrated during the recent
campaign ought to make him an ideal
postmaster general.
Franklin MacVeagh, the new secre
tary of the treasury, is one or the
merchant princes and bankers of Chi
cago. For years a prominent Demo
crat, he left that party in 1895 and
has since affiliated with the Repub
licans. He is a pronounced tariff re
former and should be of material as
sistance to President Taft in carry i us
out his well known ideas upon the
tariff. No cabinet officer will be con
fronted with graver or more difficult
problems at the beginning of the ad
ministration than will Secretary Mac
Veagh. His talent and ability will be
taxed to the utmost.
Messrs. Wickersham, Dickinson and
Ballinger, as attorney general and sec
retaries of war and the Interior, respec
tively, are new men to the country
and have yet their spurs to win in
the field of national statesmanship. Yet
they rank among the ablest attor
neys in the land and have adorned the
positions of responsibility and trust
they have held.
Secretary Meyer is a member of the
present cabinet and his appointment
as well as that of Secretary Nagei ls
probably due to political considerations.
An Odd Sort of Coolness.
It may be, as various wise observers
have it, that "there is a coolness be
tween Roosevelt and TafL" It may
be that the ex-president, after fighting
manfully for the present president for
two long years or more, is now "jeal
ous" of the latter. Yet somehow it
doesn't seem so. r
President Taft summarized the
Roosevelt administration in a tribute
to the head so full of real affectloa
that no one can doubt its genuineness.
Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt invited Mr.
and .Mrs. Taft to spend the night of
March 3 with them at the White
House.
If the "coolness" existed e-Presl-dent
Roosevelt would not bare delib
erately made his last evening in the
executive mansion an unpleasant or
deal for himself, bis wife and the
whole Taft family as well. As we '
said before, this tale of "estrange
ment" may be true, but it doesn't
sound altogether reasonable.
Taft's Tariff Talk.
President Taft has been driven by
misrepresentation in New York to a
fresh statement of bis position on the
tariff. This should not have been nec
essary, for what he now says is but a
reiteration of what he said repeatedly
during the campaign that bis party
is pledged to an early revision of the
tariff and the country now expects
the immediate fulfillment of this prom
ise. As to the precise changes to be
made in the tariff, President Taft did
not then and does not now express
opinion. That the present tariff needs
revision modification, equalization,
adjustment of duties to actual condi
tions is agreed. Whether the revis
ion be "up" or "down," or in some
places up and in others down, is a
question of detail, the fundamental
purpose of a protective tariff being
conceded. The great thing at pres
ent . is to reach a conclusion as
early as possible, that business may
be relieved from suspense.
Tillman Represents Only Himself.
Senator Tillman is fond of voicing
on the floor of the senate extreme
views with respect to the race ques
tion and asserting and assuming that
he is speaking the sentiment of the
whole south. Senator Bacon the other
day found occasion to remind him that
he was not correctly representing the
sentiment of the whole sontb, and to
advise him that he assume to speak
only for himself or for his state in
giving voice to extreme ideas. Sena
tor Bacon's point was well taken. Too
many persons are prone to accept Sen
ator Tillman as a representative of
southern public sentiment, whereas be
is nothing of the kind. He doesn't
even represent South Carolina, as a
whole, but only himself, and that for
personal purposes. Savannah News.
It is noteworthy that only one mem
ber of the new cabinet Is under 50
years of age. Postmaster Genera
Hitchcock will be the youngest mem
ber, having been born in 1867. Secre
tary Wilson at 74 will be "the grand
old man" of the executive council.
Five of the cabinet are lawyers an
Secretary MacVeagh is himself a Ia"
graduate and for a number of years
practiced law before entering npon his
mercantile career. With President!
Taft at their head, there will probably
be gathered around the cabinet tabid
of the next administration the largest,
and ablest array of legal talent in th
history of national administrations.
This cabinet may be classed as con,
servatively progressive. As such i.
should merit the confidence and sup-'
port of the country.
