c . Considers Race Has Pate Highly for Development of Past Century. What, then. I» t us ask, has h> < r the price of this retilurv el unpn > dented progress? in h ;• u with w» have grown (I tr ill of < tifln si and have become nmewhat cytilea and = tpcrflclal withal. We Mm th« surface of life, without lime to link our Impressions our me W< on the v ay to hefeim a -itiially r-i poverisitod peoph . omewlmt lacking H the* gcm-inu qualities whirh i .in sustain n great friendship or a plen did dream We are ultra sophisth tiled yet easily deluded In the place of rest, appreciation. have acquired tint * r We an lik< men who whll* following th® eh a--■ have forgotten Wliat is the quarry, II it is 1.applies wo are pursuing who knows hut what she has doubled on her tracks and Is now behind us' Yet wo stiain breath lonely forward, never pausing to ask, "To what purpose?" Having become cogs In the great i Ilia. Iillic that We OUI • lv. have build ed. how are we to snatch opportunity fin thought, for eontemplalh n, for the leisurely savoring of life, amid the ceaseless whirring of the wheels? Is mediocrity to be lltc price the race, «uust pay for Its civilization? The itmdorti schedule leaves no lime for the secretion of those by products of the soul which give Joy and dlstlnc W<*n to lift* If the race continues to cut Itself off more and more from ' this sustaining communion, where at last will we turn for leaders, or even for men?—W Roberts, In (’riilts man SUNSHINE NOT GOOD FOR ALL Blonde Races Fall to Thrive Irt Cli mate Like That of the Amer ican Northwest. Charles E. Woodruff of Manila, P I , discusses In the Medical Record the physical degeneration that is found to •ccur In north European races when th«'|r settle In the dry. bright atmos phere of the American northwest. Although the first generation does well, tin* second one Is feeble, easily attacked by tuberculosis and other •hronic diseases, and the families die •ut in a few generation*. The bru nette races do well In bright sunshine, because they are accustomed to It, while the blondes are made nervous b* It Hut it Is the northern blonde race* that give us the strong bruins ttiat we need to perpetuate our na Kiwi, mid these do not come from tin1 brunette races of the south. It Is im portunt for us to preserve these Monde types, and to that end it Is accessary that physicians should ad Mse them to keep from the Influences Kmt Injure them. The best Aryan \ Wood Is being wasted from our nu Kiwi at present. Scandinavian colon! ration ts Impossible in the tropics, ’mie average brain weight and Intelli giwice Increase as we go north In Eu rope, and this brain weight does count We should favor the emlgru Uon of these northern races and pre serve them as far ns possible West ern and southern Alaska furnish a climate that is congenial to them. As a health resort for neurasthenics It is also of value, the cool, damp air being kelpful and Quieting to the nervous system. Cats as Human Food. The Hrussels correspondent of the New York Herald (Paris edition) notes that In Hrussels eat is consid ered a delicious food In some classes. Workmen In breweries fat-on cats and turn them into a stew, Edward Topsel, who wrote learned ly about the eat of his “History, of Four footed beasts" was published In K>07- was of the opinion that the flesh •f cats can seldom he free from poi son. 'by reason of their dally food, eating rats and mice, wrens and other birds which feed on poison, and above nil the brain of a cat is most poison, •us, lor It being above measure di\. Moppeth the animal spirits, that they cannot pass into the ventricle, by reason whereof memory fnileth. and the Infected person walleth Into a Fhrenzie Hut lopsel was prejudiced against the cat. The people of Savu who lived the natural life when ('apt Cook visited them, preferred cats to 1 sheep and goats in Germany many a cat has been sold for hare, and jugged cat has bee^ relished there by foreign sojourners The handsome daughter of a landlndy far up in the Canton Yarn! told us as a matter of course that when (he snow was deep and communitton was cut «^ff. they all ate cats. Suffragette Papers. Great Britain has three papers and first-class magazines devoted to wom an suffrage Holland. Denmark. Nor way, Sweden, Germany. Austria, Bus- ■ si a. Finland. Iceland, France, Switz erland, Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland have each a woman suffrage paper and a few of them more than one. Belgium has a woman’s paper which advocates the enfranchisement of women, though this is not its chief abject. In these publications 1L* lan guages are represented and in each case the paper Is edited and managed by women. In the rutted States there are seven woman suffrage patters, and the International Woman Suffrage A! liance has a monthly paper published nt Rotterdam.—American Suffragette On the Way. “That humorist says there are only eight real jokes In the world.” ’’Well,” answered Miss Cayenne, wearily, "why doesn't he occasionally •write one of them?” TALE CF A LOST UMBRELLA Two People at Least Who Palled to See Any Humor in the Sit uation. It was a (rain coining through j southern Wisconsin On hoard whs one of those Impromptu < moody crowd# from the lull grass that hadn't Any Idea it was funny One woman suddenly descended on her husband with the thrilling Imptlry "Where la that umbrella or mine?" I dunrio, grow’ed the husband "Well, you bad It last " Itidn't neither "Vou did, too, and you’ve got to glt busy flmlltt It I bet it's up forred there where we was a set tin before we come back hyer," More growls from the husband, who w as sleepy. Vou got t'help me hunt It, any way." She took him and went forward, peering under the seats. All up ami down tin* aisle they went, searching vainly. The more uncomfortable the stooping made her the madder ant! Worse excited the woman got and the worse her husband growled. Finally she began poking under the seals to see If she could touch the umbrella la some recess beyond her vision. A fclrl with a blue feather In her bat, who had been timidly watching tho performance and showing a blush ing tendency to Interrupt, could con tain herself no longer. "What's that you're poking under the seat with Isn't that the lost um brella?” she asked. The woman straightened up, gave one look at the tightly grasped Instru ment, and snapped out: “Yes, It is!" She said It Just as If It had been tho fault of the girl with the blue feather In her hat. FOOTWEAR CAUSE OF WOE Popular Pump is Rough on Silk Stockings, But Girls will Wear Them. The bachelor maid twisted her pret ty foot around and looked ruefully at the heel of her silk stocking, Just above the lop of her patent leather pump. “What do I care about airships?” she exclaimed mournfully, "or wire less telegraph Improvements or deep sea navigation? What women most need Is some kind of an invention that will keep pumps from cutting through stockings Just above the heel. That would meet a real human need, i paid $3 for those stockings and this is the second time I have worn them. <*ne pump has cut a long gash, as you see. and it is useless to mend it. The same kind of a gash would bo cut through tho mending silk in a few hours. "Why not abandon the wearing of pumps? Oh, horrors, no! They are the most adorable footwear on earth. No sane woman would lie willing to surrender them. 1 will wear cheaper stockings if I must, but give up pumps, never! Surely there must bo enough igenulty In the whole world to rise to this demand. 1 believe a manufacturer who would devise some means, either on the pump or in the stockings, to obviate this difficulty would wax rich.” Bachelor cousin had a brilliant Idea. 'Couldn't some leader of fashion make it the style to leave an open space in all stockings, just above the heel, so there would be nothing to cut away?” "Except the skin! Wretch!" American Banks Needed Abroad. Germany ami England have chains of banks In foreign countries which afiord Important facilities to tli/lr compatriots Interested in tho foretgn trade as well as to the native business Interests In their respective spheres of activity. i he lack of such facilities repre- ! scuts a serious handicap to American export trade and the intercourse be tween the foreign nations and Ameri can commerce. In many ot the most important territories, which by the mere reason of geographical position are within the natural scope of Amer ican export activity, every dollar that * Images hands between Americans and their foreign connections yields a tribute to German and British banks. • American Industries A Gibe, William Mil chi'll Lewis, of the Na tional Association of Automobile Man ufncturers, was talking in Uaclno about the improvements in motor ears that die Iasi decade has witnessed. • 1 remember the time," said Mr. Lewis, "when It was a common sight, as you drove ^long a country road, to see a motorist kneeling in the dust beside Ills ear, puzzling over a great heap of cog-wheels, screws, tiny springs, and other delicate pieces of machinery. "I know a man who knelt beside a scrap-heap composed of his car s in nards when a pretty farm girl stopped beside him, put her hand to her head, 1 and said frankly: " Would a hair pin be 0f any use to you, sir?” The Cynic and the Curio. Jerome S Ml Wade, the Duluth col [ lector, was showing his beautiful col- • lection of Louis Seize furniture to some ladles "I believe in collecting nothing,” said Mr. McWade, standing among his treasures of obel tapestry and pale, delicately carved wood— noth ing that is not intrinsically beautiful. Too many collections remind me of cynic's definition of a curio. “ 'A curio,' the synic said, is some thing that costs ten times what its worth ' " Tiiimni in ■■>!■! pi i in win— —i ■ ii—i iii i i ii i The Point in Question THE KINDLY CRITIC Ii I -i Idoiu i tiut a resident minis* ti l lut i (In* ti in rily to “hand" our koi ial lenders n "package” of admon ition oi iritiik-rii; it usually fa Ulna iio i 'e lot of (lie itinerant "sky pi lei." in larrup and x> ourge she who par ia) • rt cd Ih< “i legam" refreshments and j; awarded the prizes at th“ so cial i hi die ' - Hut here in Kails Cily Sunda there was an exception^ in that rule-a resident iu in later "spoke out in meeting." it was at a meeting for ladies only at the Christian church. The minister Ink ins a copy of Tin- Tribune, read a portion ».f lli ■ society doings of a r> < fit issiii wherein it treated of card parties ami the winning of prizes it was (lie prize winning fea ture of the hoi ml function that he objected to and condemned It's a hard problem to solve these card playing functions, with their prize-! winning feat tires, because it is one of tin* doses society serves If Mrs. A. I gives a card party, Mrs. II. is in duty' hound to follow suit or else move off tlie social reservation. If .Mrs. Plump awards a hand paine d salad bowl to the lady winning the most games, Mrs. Angular is just forced to at least keep pace with her and award an "1X47" soup spoon. Its tin- proper tiling in card playing so cial circles, and no doubt will hold wa> - .1 old Dame Fashion in. cuts omdbin ; new that is of <••!' a! fas cinat h' l lor the ladies. Fiir I playing. afti i all. is simply a mailer of taste or ''raising." To Mrs \ il is harmless and a pa. k of cards i ioa< with the wiekfil spots on tie in is placed before her child ren Hi ann as are books and toys Now Mr wa an audible till t noticeable all) over I he church Hut it is a wi ll known fn i that llmre are lots of pc< i; I. • who kno w a mil k ef cards from deuce to aee. and yet never "backed” a "straight" or a 'flush." •lust because the good brother knew ilu name desired is no sign that lie is an authority upon the game. Nei ther does it follow flint it was a trap laid by the preach* r to catch the good brother. It is possible that the preacher really did forget that it was "clubs" lie was trying to name. Th*1 decree of fashion has dealt the local Beau Brummel a “nawsty” punch below the belt—peg leg trous ers have been tabooed and from now on will be worn only by younger brothers and "plebs." The real simon-pure peg hg trout*-r was a success in point of eonspteuaiisness mikI the wearer seldom fail. d to at ’rad attention. And now they an* to go; are to lie relegated to the old ' • pile . lid to til • II". I a: 111. k of the rag man. Years hence a gen .■ration of freaks will gaze upon tin* fa liion plates of this period and laugh ai our oddities oi dress. and perhaps pity our ignoium c. the saun as we do when looking at tin- styles of our forefathers Hut if the "png,’ must go; if it must be buried along with other obsolete fashions bury i deep and pack tin* earth firmly above its resting place. Cheap and Safe. The small sum of $2 will buy a $5,9uo policy, good for five > ■af®.front the Uichardson County Farm Mutual Insurance Co., provid<