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Red Badge of Courage
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By DOROTHY DCS.
French mothers want legion or honor
Instituted to reward the perils of mother
hood, and a petition to that effect has
been laid before the senate, which is re
ported to think favor
ably of the plan.
These French moth
ers ask that - the
woman who has
borne and brought up
children be given a
medal corresponding
to the "Medallle
Mlllitaire" that Is
granted In recognl
tlon of valor, and
that Is the equiv
alent to the English
Victoria cross.
Let us hope that
the gallant French
men will accede to
this petition of their
country women, and
that before long on
every mother's breast there, will flaunt
the little bit of ribbon that la beyond the
price of diamonds and pearls in every
Frenchman's eyes.
Certainly, if bravery lir ever to be re
warded in this wurld. no one Is more en
titled to wear the red badge of courage
than the woman who takes a risk, as
oantii-rous as uny battlefield ever offers,
every time she bears a child. Nar. her'
heroism Is even greater than that of the
man who does the deeds of valor for
which decorations are given because, at
the worst, he but faues death by a clean
saber cut or the quick shot of a bullet,
while she faces death by lingering tor
ture. And this she does not once, but again
nd yet again, often a doien times, un
deterred by the danger she mutt past
through, undaunted by the sufferings
that she knows the must undergo. What
battle-scarred hero, with his breast cov
ered with medals, can show a braver
record than this? What man has dared
more for his country than these women
who have gone ' down where the very
waters of death lapped their feet to
bring up In their arms Its cltisens? Wo
more deserves recognition by the state
than those who dare death In Its mo
horrible form that the state may live,
and without whose valor and whose
courage it could not exist?
It Is easy to do some spectacular deed
of daring In time of war when the band
Is playing and the Tags waving, and th
multitude cheering behind a man's back,
but the brightest luster of such a deed
pales before the quiet courage of the
woman who withdraws solitary and in
silence into woman's Gethsemane.
There are no fluttering banners of glory
for her, no bold martial music, no cheer
ingnothing but agony with her own un
daunted eplrit to rarry her through.
Well may they pin the cross of the Region
of Honor on every mother's breast. No
braver heart has ever beat under It.
Whom do we decorate and delight to
honor? The man wlio stands by his col
ors until dtath, the sentinel who stands
'tlthful at his pose when all but he
bv ' deserted It, the pilot who laehee
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The Home
By ISEItTON BKALEY.
Out from the offices, oat from tbe stores e
Like a black river humanity pours.
Crowding the sidewalk! and filling the street
With the hurrying shuffle of numberless feet;
. The street lights are glaring ablaze through the dusk
The corner policeman Is busy and brush.
As bis uplilted hand keeps the motormen cowed
While they bang on their bells at the home-going crowd,
Down the subway and up to tbe "L"
The work-weary thousands are rushing pell-mell;
And Into the surface cars swiftly they swarm
Like a hive of black bees on an old-fashioned farm.
There's a rumble and clatter of wagons and drays,
Tbe booting of autos that thread through the maze;
The yell of the newsboys, unceasing and loud.
As tbe; dive through the stream of the home-going crowdl
Clerks who have laid by their working hour smirk.
Shop girls whose faces A.re drawn with their work;
Business men weary, yet tense with the strain
They've put on the forces of body and brain;
Workmen who sag with the long hoars of toll.
Shoppers all laden with bargain sale spoil;
The meek and the mighty, the humble and proud
Are all on a plane in the home-going crowd!
The day's work is over and so, through the gloam,
The workers are turning their face toward home.
It may be a flat where the little wife waits,
O? a boarding house full of the rattle of plates;
But It's home Just tbe same meaning dinner and rest
And comfort and freedom from labor's behest
And so, though it's querulous, nervous, harsh-browed,
T teres joy at the heart of the home-going crowdl
The deeg fne aazire p)a?e
EHOUvH SlR TO
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is Worn by
Her Daily Round in Life
Mm self to Ml mast and keeps his hand
to the wheel until the vessel goes down.
Thank God there have been such men
and we honor ourselves In honoring them.
But baa the bravest of them shown any
more courage than doea the woman who
stands before the door of her poor home,
and with her bleeding and work -knotted
hands defends It with the last ounce of
strength aha has, and to the last gasp
of her weary body?
Many men, discouraged and over
whelmed by the hopeless hardships and
poverty of their lot, are craven enough
to desert their wives and children. Many
men who have their fortunes suddenly
swept away from them commit suicide
and leave their wives and children to
the untender mercy of the world. But
women have more courage than that
Tou almost never hear of a woman turn
ing her back upon a sick or helpless
husband, or forsaking her little children
and leaving them to want.
In almost every plnched-faeed board
ing house keeper, in almost every woman
who drool's over a sewing machine. In
almost every scrubwoman that you see
down on her knees scouring the floor
in an office building, you will find some
heroine who deserves to have the Victoria
cross pinned on her breast. She la sup
porting helpless little children or feeble
old people, or some husband or brother
who has fallen In the fight. Hhe Is being:
faithful to her colors unto death. She Is
standing at ber post not for five minutes,
but through weary years.
What do we decorate men for? For
leading forlorn hope.
Who leada such forlorn hopes as women
do? Think of the women who spend their
Uvea trying to reform drunken son and
husbands, hoping, praying, struggling to
accomplish the miracle that never comes
to pass. There la no hour of the day
when their nerves are not taut with
anxiety, no watch of the night that does
not find them listening for the drag of a
heavy step and the fumbling of an un
steady hand at the door.
Friends have long since abandoned
these degenerate. Acquaintances have cut
them, but It never occurs to the wife or
mother to cut herself loose. Her courage
never falls her. She never ceases her
fight, and the battle to bring them back
to decent things is never ended for her
until her bands are stilled In her coffin.
Through a thousand years the legend
has been told of the bravery of the Spar
tan youth who smiled while the foxes
gnawed at bis vitals, but you can match
that story In a hundred cases of women
you yourself know who smile above
breaking hearts while they tell pitiful
lies to try to hide how the faithlessness
of their husbands la stabbing them to the
soul
The courage of women la beyond be
lief. Perhaps the reason It has never
been rewarded Is because It bas been so
common that It has not attracted atten-,
Hon. but it la time that we recognise this
gallantry and reward It as we do the
bravery of men. Too long women have
borne "the cross without the crown of
glory." Let them now have some of the
other kind of crosses the crosses with
laurel wreaths attached to them.
Coming Crowd
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By AX.VETTE KE1XERMA.NX.
Are you beginning to get the "out
door habit?
This Is tbe time to start It, and once
you get it, keep It. The outdoor habit
Insures your health, happiness and long
life.
W English and Australians, but more
especially the English, have the outdoor
habit down to a fine art.
No wonder we have the greatest sports
men and women In the world. From
very Infancy outdoor games and pastimes
are a feature of the life of every Eng
lish child, who stays Indoors just as little
aa be or she can.
Our - clothes are eminently adapted to
our o4 of door pursuits. The English
woman looks handsome in her well fit
ting tweeds and high boots, her riding
habit, her tennis frock or in the quaint
sunbonnet which she wears in the
garden. English women of social promi
nence don't disdain the sunbonnet, which
I the beat kind of shade-bat for out of
doors.
Every Inch of rtrer In England Is pat
to good use with punts and row boats.
and young and old spend every spare
minute out of doors. That Js why the
English complexions are rosy and also
why Engliah girls have sicb remarkably
fine hair. There Is no ru h tonic In the
world as out of door life, and If you took
about you you will find all kinds of ways
of getting out of door exercise besides
tbe ubiquitous walk.
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Many old-fashioned gnnn are
rural nic Into vogue here in America.
Archery Is excellent for developing
grace of movement, training the vis
Ion, and giving suppleness to (he
body.
It helps you broaden and
strengthen yonr shoulders and de
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(Copyright, 11 J. International News
Service.)
"I do not much Ilk the piety that pro
claims Itself." said Leo XIII. A similar
remark might be nude concerning art.
The art that will win for Itself a niche
In the temple of
fame In the future
will be of a quiet
sort. The province
of art Is to express
em"tlon-to Impart
a feeling. The are
of exaggeration,
rant, bombast and
fustian Is gone for
ever. Kdwln For
rest, the Elder
Booth and John
McCullough could
never get a hear
ing now, much less
win the applause
of the best,
eloquence of Panlel
that the ponderous
It Is very possible
Webster, with Its rolling thunder, would
only excite pity In a Boston audlenoe of
today. Certain It la that the Bast Aurora
lawyer who went to the court of appeals
at Albany with his burst of Impassioned
and Beneficial Exercise
Mairy old-fashioned games art coming
Into vogue here In America which have
never quite gone out of fashion, and
which oomblne Interest and health giv
ing activity.
Take archery, for instance. This Is an
excellent gam for developing grace of
movsment, for training the vision and
giving suppleness to the body. In Eng
land and Australia archsry has never
gone out of date, because there were al
waya enough girls who like the quieter
sports and who appreciate tbe advan
tugee which archery wives to the girl
who wants to show oft a good figure or
to develop one.
Dows and arrows can be bought for
very little, or a clever brother can make
them of bamboo. In these days, when
girls learn carpentering and every uther
trade, you can all make them far your
selves. The target Is nf twisted straw,
covered with a painted bull's eye of thin
canvaa or paper. Archery tournaments
ran be held even In the confines of a
bark yard. The only thing to avoid es
pecially with beginners. Is getting within
the range of erratic marksmen.
Of course, if you shoot off one arrow It
won t do you much good, but If you go In
for archery with the Intention of becom
ing an expert, you can broaden and
strengthen your shoulders, develop your
lunss, and, beat of all, train your eye
sight. It Is especially good for short
sighted eyes, as It literally makes them
focus on long distance objects and exer
cise the stiff muscles.
I have already spoken of swimming as
one of the best. If not the very best, of
outdoor sports, and aa the time la ap
proaching when new bathing suits must
be bought, let me advise you against the
ridiculous tlght-wslsted and fanciful suits
which tempt one In shop windows, but
are really not fitted to swim In, and you
are all going to learti to swim, aren't
you? '
If you don't. I shall feel that I have
been writing for you In vain. But to re
turn to the bathing suit Aa stockings
are necessary In America, though no one
wears them abroad, even on the "mixed"
beaches where men and women bathe to
gether, I think stocking tights such as I
wear with a silk tunic over them are the
bent, most servicable and most modest
suits. If you are going to wear stockinss,
see that they don't come down. The only
av you can be quite sure of .this Is to
wear the entire garment.
The silk tunic can be fitted or loose to
suit the figure, and tbe undergarment
keeps the figure In shape and obviates
corsets, which should never be worn in
the water. Be sure and have wide, com
fortable armholea and loose sleeves, you
sre going to indulge In, have your cos
tume suitable and comfortable.
Ley In a supply of outdoor clothes.
Rubber coat and cap for rainy weather,
shade hats and bonnets for sunshine, and
be ready never to let the weather Inter
fere In your determination to cultivate
the out of door habit.
A Chance for Trnable.
' I see that somebody propose to have
a law making it necessary for every mar
ried man to pay his wife a salary for
looking after bla bouse and caring tor
his children."
"Well, it seems to ma that a wife who
dots that Is entitled to a .salary."
'Tea. but there wiil be on trouble
shout It,"
"What?"
"Som men trill be sure li get It bej
if they pay t-elr wives higher salaries
than their stenographers draw." Chicago
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Fustian
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eloquence found himself speedily and
coldly brought hack to earth. ' ' "
The famous Mondsjr lectures of Joseph,
Cook, with their heated explanations and
fine shsrp qulpa and quillets about noth
ing would never do now. The needles
realism of John Rogers In sculpture Is
not to our taate, and ail those pretty
groups that once filled the mantels of the
model American home are now consigned,
to limbo. . ; ,
This change from the loud and strident
and the plush-covered to the quiet and
simple In manners, housekeeping and art
Is owing more to the Influence ef William,
Morris than to any other ma et the
century. . .
Morris said. "We need fewer things,
and want them better. All your belong
ings should mean something to you.
Every act of life should signify." . .. A
And the world, little knowing or cartas;
from whom the voice of authority came,
has lowered Its tone, softened Its manner.
and no longer In good company do women
shriek In falsetto or appear adorned la
yellow and red.
They talk less and' listen more or
should. . i
We are gradually growing honest.
Fledglings from Harvard, possibly, may
know how to write, but they have no,
thoughts worth recording. Preacher
who have Just been taught hew at Prince
Ion seldom have a message. Olrla who
get stags struck, run away and take the
boards are not for us. Singers who have
acquired skill by Correspondence courses
do not touch our hearts. - 1 j .
We are moved only by souls that have
suffered and the hearts that know; ana
so all art that endures Is a Hying, euiv
arlng cross section of life.
The change In favor ot modesty, med
eratlon and sanity In life Is nowhere
more apparent than on the stage. It Is"
not enough now that an actor nwatorisa
Ms Hnee-he mnsf know and feel .ems
shad ot meaning. Every sentence musf
be reinforced with Intellect, and all the
pauses parked with feeling. Not th
fine mental qualities of George Arlies.
and see how the silences of Maud'
Adams. Julia Marlowe, or Mlnnt Mad
dern Kisk affect you to tears. . '
And so I think that In literature the
man who wins In the future cannot at
ford to he diffuse not too profound. II
will be suggestive. . and the reader must
have the privilege of being learned and
profound. All the writer will do Is to'
make men think and drive them to the
encyclopedia. ' -,
It la not fur an author to replace the'
"Brltannlca." And the artist who min
isters to our sense of sublimity must be
Intelligent, suggestive and quiet. We
must know. He will be oa who has
suffered, and he must, too, ' have en.
Joyed, and out of bis experiences he will
have evolved knowledge, poise and sym
pathy. v . t
And love shall season all. -'. . . ,
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RICHES
I may neither sport 'nor feaat; '
Wealth la not for me to 'make; .
But tbe sun Is mine, at least.
And my blue hills none can take,
If I own no gardens fair
I can see the wild rose twine. .
Wood and world are mine to ahara;
And the hills', the hills are mine.;
Though my purs can never buy ,
Place to hear the diva's song,-
There s a lark against the sky.
And io me the birds belong. -
Though I own no acres bread, ' ,
Though I hold no farms In tea,
Toniler glorious bills of Cod.
Hold their purple arms to me. ,
If my cellar lacka of wine, . '
Blowing aplendtd from tbe sea, . -.
Are not all the hill-winds mine, , ''
Brimming golden cup for mo? . 1
If my shelves of book ar bare
Have I not the akles to read, -
And the wild flowers that deciar f
What Is aye Ui cleaner creed T
Let the wealthy hoard their gold, 1
Let the famous guard their wealth!
All f ask to keep and hold .
Is my path across the health;
None my freeway to withstand,' . ' " ; '
None my faith and m to part.
Just the winds to hold my hand
And the hills to keep' my heart. ' V
H t Hold. .. ' t
"Reform," remarked - Farmer Oonstoa-
set, "is something tnat.Aas to b. sp
proached with great caution aad par,
spicacity." -i'V - "
"Yet you must adneH 'that need r--1
form." V.'..... -
"Yes. But so doe that colt. Only every
time I start to reform bint he lame
himself, breaks the spring wagon aad
give the who! family nervous prostra
tion." Washington Star.
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