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HOCIISTETLER, AT NEURA8KA CITY.
Case of Homely Girls
f lOM PLAINT is made by a young
I W " I woman who signs herself "llonie
I I ly" thnt an increasing tendency
on tho part of employers to re
quire good looks and plenaing ad-
Arena la all right for tho fortunate pos
sessor of those qualities, but death to tho
unfortunate one who has boon denied
them. She reenlls with an uppenrance of
bitterness that mntrlmony Is already rap
Idly .b.'ing closed to tho unattractive face
and figure, and sugegsls that If the field
of self-support Is to bo slmllnrly fenced off
the lot of the homely girl must booh begin
to take the form of the tragic.
On Its face, says tho Fortlund Oregonian,
the complaint Is well founded, and every
right-minded man must i'inlt that some
thing must bo done nt once. It will not
do for a world of otherwise deserving young
women to go through life unemployed as
well an unwedded, for no better ciuso
than for some mere negligible detail of
feature, bust measure, femoral construc
tion or linguistic Inaptitude. If it 1a to
this that our boasted survival of the fittest
la to come, out upon Darwin and all his
tribe! Justice must be done, despite the
crotchet of swains and the even losa
defensible tactlca of floor walkers.
On second thought, however, we Incline
' to doubt the seriousness of the situation,
la "Homely" quite sure of her facta? It
ta undeniably true that the society column
Justifies the belief thnt only the lovely,
beautiful, bewitching, charming, radiant
and unusually handsome girls Are even
given In marriage, but some allowance
must be made for the conventions of polite
uaage. The matter la a delicate one, at
best, encompassed by obvious peril on
either hand, but we can truthfully say that
ome of the most eagerly Bought and de
sirable girls lod to the altar hereabouts re
cently have made up for any superficial
departure from the classic models by
Sterling qualities, clear enough to the quick
eye of affection and approved by the se
rerer testa of close acquaintance.
Beauty la a wonderful gift, and secret
tears at Its denial can be understood and
forgiven, but as the race Is not always to
the swift nor the battlo to he arong, so
the prises that women covet do not fall
to the perfect face and figure so often ns
they find their way to merit of a less
showy, but less fleeting nature. Many of
the women who have had the world at
their feet have been homely wotie". The
women that the best men have picked out
for wtvea, and the women who brought up
ona to become household words to the
nations, have often lived to see their hand
some and sometimes heartless rivals pining
neglected on the stalk. Beauty Is a won
derful gift, but the beauty that compels Is
of the soul, and the grace that conquers
la a grace of mind and heart.
It Is Just ' about - so In, business. Em
ployers may rashly fancy that they, want a
handsome girl for .the typewriter or the
notion counter, but they don't, and they
ar sura to find out their mistake. What
they really want Is un Indefinable charm of
manner that tomes from sympathy, fidelity
and acquiescence in the plana that are
passed down .from the head office, all of
which soothe the anxious bruin of the em
ployer as surely as they entice the dollars
from the public. Your lieauty may be
spoiled, for either matrimony or business.
She Is apt to be vain; she Is reasonably
certain to have despised the patient arts
which are necessary to her ilntner !!.
but which send their possessor along
Swiftly toward the goal of satlf action rd
success. We suspect somehow that the
correspondent, even if not Joking. Is wiser
than she pretends, nnd unless her wit is
sharper and lesa kindly than it seems,
tbe secret of pleasing Is not a stranger
to her ken. If "Homely" will send her
true name and address to thia oftlce we
hall undertake to tlod her either a hus
band or a good Job.
THE ILLUSTRATED HEE..
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AND MRS. JACOB
Colonial Failures
(Continued from Pago Three.)
. upon which they are commercially depen
dent. Even before the recent volcanic eruptions
wrought such terrible havoc, St. Vincent
w:.s one of the most poverty-stricken, mis
erable, places on Jhe f ice of the earth. Ths
inhal.l'.uiits were a race of paupers.
bo:crs could not cam more than I) cents
a Cay ivrn if they were fottunate enough
to get woik, and thousands were only kept
from absolute "starvation by u dolp from
the government of a trifle lews than 6
cents a day. Since tbe eruptions, the condi
tion of tho people has been Infinitely worse,
as many of the plantations were wiped
out.
"The colony Is so hoplessly impoverished
that the British government is seriously
considering whether It would not bo well
to nbun.'on It entirely, haul down the flag,
nnd transplant the population to more pros
perous I: lands, Ki'Oli as Jamaica nnd Trin
idad, Jamaica, which needs a larger poptt
lutluh, has offered to resolve them and
give them land. It la probable that the
scheme will I e carried out If the state of
affairs In St, Vlncunl grows worse, us it
si ems bound to do.
Dominica, ' St.' Kltts and Nevla are no
torious failures of Eng.lsh colonization.
Thtlr Indust'.ks aro 1 .nsuLshlng, lli.lr p.o
plo are barely nils to get c.othi s or lood.
Discontent is rifo and haj found vent in
aeveiu. sanguinary rati. There 1) In St.
Kitta an isolated sugar estate which used
to produce a millionaire's income. It li
now tho roving ground of wl d cattle. Th.it
is typical of the decline of thesj colonics.
Many .of. tho Virgin Islands, an archi
pelago of the West Indie?, are n.w d.sti
tuto of all tho institutions of civilized
government. The white planters who for
merly ruled them have been ruined by tho
commercial decline of the Antilles and .
have left tho ruiu of thilr one magnifi
cent 'estates to a few black "eiq tad i s,"
who are now rapidly relapsing into a statu
of barbarism. .
Some of England's West African col
onies are . .even . worse failures, for tr.ey
have led to a largo unproductive expendi
ture of b,luoJ and money. Shrra L,jjq,
"the whito man's grav," is a blue.- name
in 'many Eng.lsh families who have Bent
their sons there to dlo.
There Is always troub.e with tho natives
of the "hinterland," owing to attempts to
enforce a hut tax which is opposed to all
native traditions.
. The Gold Coast colony . is a perpetual '
drain, on the British. exchequer through its .
fondness for the costly luxury of native
wars Those two colonies are always cost
ing England heavily In soldiers and gold.
They have never Justified the expenditure,
. and In all human probability they never
will. English statesman and colonial ad
ministrators do not hesitate to call them
ghastly failures. The same remarks are
true, in rather less degree, of the Qambla
. colony,
The Philippine Situation
(Continued from Page Thirteen.)
admin stratum, which 1, to say the least of
It, mediaeval in character, and which the
Fillpir.os thought oppressive, could not at
once make application of the theories of
our government which were absalutely new
and strange to th. m. It has been suggested
that the Filipinos 'could never learn to gov
ern themselves u niece from tho beginning
they weie given the opportunity to do
ao. Just as. a man cannot be taught
to swim without going Into ths
water. Unqestlonably merj theory
cannot supply the place of uctual practice,
but it uppears to me that he would be .re
garded as a very poor adviser who would
counsel a man Ignorant of the art of swim
ming to at once plunge Into a stream be
yond his depth.
The Filipinos,, except la the most limited
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and Indeed nominal way, have never had
any participation In their own govern
ment. Such education us they have had,
from our own standpoint, at least, Is mal
education. Of necessity, therefore, wa
cannot give them a syxte.n of gnvcrnment
and a body of laws with which they are
wholly unfamiliar, then Icive them to
their own devices and expect satisfactory
results.
In saying this, I do not wish to be mis
understood. The Filipinos u;e in no way
lacking in natural ability and posse.-s many
attractive qualities. They arc courteous
and hospitable to a degiee; they are lovers
of music and have co'Midi rable aru.-iio
talent. My own imprc-fions of tbcoi aro
mo:t agreeable, und my Intercourse , with
them has Insphed a genu. lie t.a:'.l. I
believe they are capnbie of rjreat impiove
meat, and in time may be brought to as
high a degree of advancement as any
tropical people. One must understand,
however. In order to truly appreciate the
sl.uation, that they are not a ho.uogcnootis
people; that they are composed cf many
tribes, speaking different languages and in
many respects having different eu io.ii.--.
Tile educated class, us cot:'
total population, Is very small, tho great
mass being 'tola. ly isi ...w ......
fluenced by the designing.
It must be the work of many, yeaii to
fit them for the full duties of self-government.
There could be no greater misfortune for
the Filipino people than that the govern
ment established for them by congress
should be administered In a partisan way
or affected by partisan politics. The ad
ministrative government In the Philip
pines should In no sense be partisan. Re
sults creditable to the American people
can be obtained nly by making
the administration national in. char
acter and based upon purely busi
ness principles. Both President Mc
Klnley and President Roosevelt, in
appointments they have made upon the
commission, have evidently taken this view
of the matter, and the govemoi and the
commission have acted upon tho theory hit
the welfare of both the American and the
Filipino people could be truly subserved
only by Uavlr.g out of view all political con
siderations. , It Is believed that to Inaugurate the prac
tice of making appointments for political
service or from personal favoritism would
result In bringing the administration lifo
confusion and utter discredit. The opposite
course has been pursued without variable
ness or shadow of turning. In order to
avoid any possibility of Improper influences,
the commission has never debated, or cv n
considered, politics In making appointments
to oftica. A comprehensive civil service law,
September 20, 190&
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CHURCH AT CjTJUNG, Neb.
DR. LETA M. PICKETT.
covering all departments except the Judi
ciary und ediicuiiona., has been enacted,
and is beina i.gidiy enforced. '1 here arj
sonic olilcts in l:.e. government thus e&t.b
lithetl which musi ncctssai ily Le 111 eu by
Anie.li uns, but tne gieut bulk of t.iein a. a
op.n lo Ai:ie. lean, ui.u I' l.iii.oa aiil-.i, J
tile latter u.o iu.i..g i.npu. lu.a potl.iorn a-'
trust in all ot uic ucpa. inn ills, una a.e, I
am p.eused to sa, as u. gei.eral lu.e, Jtl
filnt, the eolilidcliie icposed in Ihem. T,.e
civil service law in being ixtcnd.d, ai.U, it
is bei.cvcd, will be tinaliy made to cover all
of the departments except perhaps tha jud.
ciury. in this connection 1 ought to tay
tl.ut neither 1 reuidenl McKltiiey nor I'resi
dent Roosevelt has ever, di.ectly o,' indi
rectly, attempted to dictate the selection of
civil so. vanis in ihe insular guve, nmeiit,
but ihey have left ttiut duly to the evil
governor und the commission. Wlitn 1 is
lerr.e.i,bti.d lio- gieut is the pressure upan
tne uuinuii.-,iialion lor uppoinlmenls lo i.n
J .it and lucrative offices, thia s.atement
fcp j. voluir.es. 1 verily believe that thai
policy pursued in the creation and ma n e
nance of the civil service system as abjve
outlined has made a strong Impression upon
the Filipino people, and hus had great
weight In convincing them of the rectitude
of our intentions with reference to them.
Up to this time the legislation of the con
. gress and the commission has been mainly
directed toward establishing the govern
ment and putting into operation lis ma- .
chlnery. There" aro large questions of gen
eral policy, looking to the social, moral
and material development and Improve
ment of tho Islands yet to be made the sub
ject of legislation Prominent among them
is the settlement of the trade relations
which shall exist between tho United S ates
and the islands. If Intimate commercial in
tercourse is to be established, necessarily
. tariff barriers must be lowered or torn
down. The great bulk of the business of
the islands has heretofore been, and still is,
transacted with Europe, and the business
and commerce of the islands are now, to a
great ex ent, In the hands of foreign -is. The
Islands are naturally of exceeding richness
and produce in abundance sugar, hemp,
copra and tobacco, and are also rich In
their mineral resources. The principal
wealth of the Islands Is In their agricul
tural products. The people have as yet
engaged but little In manufacture, and the
methods employed both In manufacture
and in agriculture are primitive in th
extreme. The losses growing out of the
war, cattle plague and cholera epidemics
have worn heavily upon them. American
methods and enterprise, backed by Ameri
can capital, would, If properly directed, be
of Incalculable benefit to the Filipino peo
ple, and, it is believed, would yield satis)
factory returns.
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