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fa their own inactivity. Lowell sal^ of Emerson that he “has that privi ♦ Topics of ♦ lege of soul which abolishes the calen dar and presents him to us always the ♦ the Times ♦ unwasted contemporary of his own prime.” Whitman foresaw for Amer ica a race “of splendid and savage old men.” We are accustomed to hear The man who can discover the dis “the hurry of business life” decried coverer is wanted now. and American ideals of life unfavor ably contrasted with European. But The next man who brings In. the the results in many cases are not so Oole will find a congested market. bad; after all. Look at our splendid and effective old men. The course from the pole to the lec ture platform is well charted, anyhow. Thus goes the old familiar song. “How dear to my heart are the scenes His wife being away on a visit, King of my childhood.” On second thought, •Alfonso has grown a set of whiskers. however, one may interpose an excep tion or two. Let the memory go back Many a baseball game Is lost on ac to the “parlor.” In the recollections count of the superior playing of the of childhood it does not figure as one other side. of the popular home institutions. There was something sacrosanct about Some newspapers spell it “Eski- mau,” and others “Esquimo.” Try to it that did not appeal to boys at least, and the girls didn’t seem to give it get together, brethren. much appreciation until Horace and You may observe that whether or Arthur accumulated sufficient courage not you accept the excuse for an in- to Inaugurate the custom of calling crease in the price of a necessity the around on Sunday afternoons, sitting on those frail and artistic Louis XIV. increase sticks. ,chairs and assuming the Joyful expres Everything looks favorable for a sion of slaves on the block while pass good crop next year. Would that we ing stereotyped compliments ilpon pho could say as. much for early Christ tographs in the family album, many of which pictured numerous freaks of mas shopping! the genealogical tree. Ed Howe, in In New Guinea, as the London his Atchison Globe, quoting an archi Chronicle reminds us, the women pro- tectural authority, says that the Amer pose. And to anybody who has seen ican parlor, as an institution of the home, or adjacent thereto, is passing, them the reason is clear. adding: “That word ‘adjacent’ is used There is comfort and joy in the advisedly, and with'a distinct recollec thought that we are to have a good tion of some parlors all have seen. In apple yield this year. Otherwise we the house they were, of course, but they were far enough from the home; might have to eat Ben Davises. perhaps adjacent is a little too close, By this time next year, people will since they remained a dungeon except frequent the housetops and take their on grand occasions like funerals, or evening recreation by watching aero weddings,' or entertaining the presld- ing elder, So the parlor’s doom will nauts trying to hog the aerial lanes. leave no aching void. It was some- Fortunately for their records, neith thing in the void Itself, when most of er explorer fished through a hole in an institution; devoid at least of com the Ice at the Pole and caught a good fort or cheer, of sunshine or fresh air. string, while the biggest one got away. And the chairs ranged about in such excellent order, added to the somber Funny tp hear those aviators kick light that filtered through shades‘and ing about the condition of the aviation shutter which strove to shut it out, grounds, isn’t it? You’d think that all made of it a nice, grim death cham they’d want would be a large bunch of ber, which purpose it served frequent ly, and better than the others, being nice smooth air. better suited to the purpose. When Peary and his party reached the Pole the Eskimos cried out: “Ting neigh, tlmah ketlsher.” This AN ARBOR-DAY IDYL. must have been disappointing to those who expected them to yell, “Excelsior.” RAM’S HORN BLASTS. THE J WE ARE MEN ONLY AS WE BECOME KEN. By Prof, George B. Poster. Almost every language contains the equiva lent of our old saying;} “He’s a chip of thé old block.” And then there is O. W. Holmes’ bon mot: “Every mdn is an omnibus in which all his ancestors ane riding.” More important still, the old church and the new science both know a law of heredita- tion. Man is hereditarily burdened with pre disposition to disease and vice, they both as sert. Now, the old church had a plan of escape from this network of necessity. A divine decree of grace ar ranged for the salvation of a part of the race from the ruin of hereditary sin. But this sort of salvation does not satisfy the moral sense of the modern man. That à fixed number were arbitrarily selected to be saved from the curse under which our common humanity groaned— this conception has turned out to be offensive, to the moral sense. No man wants that blessedness in which he must helplessly gaze upon the damnation of his brothers who were passed by in the decree of grace. It is not whether we have inherited bane or blessing, it is what we do with our heritage that counts in the world of values. And we can convert our curse into a blessing, our blessing into a curse, both into character. The law of heredity which at the beginning of my ca reer binds me to its network can in the end free me from its network. I may be saved by the law Jrom the law. Instead of thus denying the law we fulfill it. AMERICA NO LONGER MERE SPECTATOR. .By Sidney Brooks. It is difficult for Europeans, who live in a powder magazine and rarely have the fear of an explosion out of their minds, to realize the simplicity, spaciousness, and unhampered self-absorption of American life. Foreign poli tics is minimized by them at least as much as It is exaggerated by Europeans. Ameri cans can hardly be got to take them serious ly. A diplomatic dispute with another power, conducted on either side upon the implication of force, is of all experiences the one most: foreign to their nor mal routine of existence. Wiien you have mentioned the Monroe doctrine you have pretty well, indicated the sum of the average citizen’s interest in external affairs. During several years in the United States I do not recall a single well informed debate in Congress on the foreign policy of the republic or a single member who ever treated his constituents to an address on such a topic. The operative opinion of the commonwealth still desires to have as few dealings as possible with foreign powers, still quotes and abides by Washington’s warn ing against “entangling alliancés,” still, shrinks from any course that threatens “complications,” still clings to the policy of isolation as the one that most adequate ly squares with the needs of American conditions. This is so even though facts and necessity have out- Warning: Note« Calling; the Wickett to Repentance. The man who t blows into an old. gun to see wheth er it is loaded» never makes the foolkiller any run many of the formulas, prejudices, and traditions trouble. that a decade and a half ago were all but omnipotent, The peculiarity of America’s position in the general A woman can. scheme of world politics is indeed precisely this, that jump at a conclu- her people are unconsciously engaged in adapting their * sion and hit it mental outlook to their achievements. The Spanish war with both feet landed them on a stream of tendencies that has already while a man is- carried them far beyond their old confines, and is in bringing his wits around the corner. exorably " destined to carry t! n farther still. Some people never look up as long : as they can stand up. UNITED STATES, PRECEPTOR OP JAPAN. An enemy is an enemy, whether he carries a flag or a musket. By Louis Ichige Ogata, The organ’s sweetest music does not A visitor to Japan is at once impressed with the evident desire for education among come from the biggest pipes. the Japanese people that shows itself on No school will do us much good un every hand. The governmental regulation Jess we make life itself our school. that -makes education compulsory is really Sometimes the meeting is closed the little needed, for the parents themselves show tightest the moment the leader says it - the greatest eagerness to give their children is open. the best school advantages they can afford, Tell your troubles only to the Lord» In spite of the multitude of children who and you will soon have joys to tell swarm the streets and the vast number who work in to everybody. the fields and in various industries where the cheap The thing that makes a bulldog fa labor of children can be used to advantage, school sta tistics in Japan show a much better percentage of chil mous, is that he hangs on like grim, dren of school age in attendance than is shown in some death to the end. No man has done his whole duty to-- States in America. Recent reports show that there are about 30,000 pub God who has done less than his duty lic and private schools, nearly 120,000 professors and toward his next door neighbor. •teachers, and about 5-,295,000 students in Japan. There If every Christian always looked, is hardly an incorporated city in the empire that has happy, how soon it would kill the sa not at least one kindergarten. Many colleges and uni loon business and crowd the churches.. versities, public and private, furnish opportunity for Aim high. It won’t. hurt your gun . higher learning to thousands of Japanese young men any more to knock the feathers out as well as women, but the crown of them all is the im of an eagle than to splinter a barn, perial university. door. MARRIAGE AND GOOD LOOKS. By Betty Vincent. Girls, do you marry a man because he dresses well or because you love him? Do you love him because- he is 6 feet tall and broad-shouldered or because he is honorable and a gentleman? Prom some of the letters I receive from young girls I cannot'help in ferring that their ideal is a combination of a clothing house poster and a showman in a musical production. If the heart of'the man is tender and kind, what can it matter if every feature on his face is hopelessly crooked? The doll-faced man is as bad as, and worse than, ‘the doll-faced girl. The rugged man of sterling worth is the man to guard a woman’s future and happi ness. If you are impressed with a man’s smartness of dress stop and think, girls, how that same man would look in rough and simple working clothes. Ask. your self, too, if you would be willing to give up many, of your own little vanities that your husband might gratify his own fastidious sense of adornment. X A NEIGHBORLY CONSPIRACY. Mr. Grimes had a large lawn in front of his house and another at the side, and it was his custom to get up» and run his lawn mower at 5 o’clock In the morning. In vain his^neighbor»- protested. Ih vain they complained, that he woke them up just when they' were sleeping the soundest, and that - they could not go'to sleep again» . “Nobody has any business snoozing: after 5 o’clock,” he said, “Go to bed early and get up early, That’s the way I do. Think I’m going to wait half a day for you people to sleep off the effect of your late hours, when my grass needs cutting? I guess not!” Then his neighbors did a little plan Eskimo wives and mothers, It Is ning. They fôund out that he went Every human activity may be con said, never suffer from the ailments sidered from the esthetic as well as to bed at 9 o’clock, and they made ar lettes, not to mention any use of hard rangements accordingly. Punctually at that afflict the matrons of a higher civ the practical point of view. No espe THE boiled eggs. Veal is cooked in 9( 9 o’clock the next moonlight evening: ilization. But it is no more than fair cial powers of discrimination are need ways. There are 80 principal soups. that there should be some compensa ed to enable the reader of this extract the sound of a lawn mower 'in action^ The nursing school of modern gas was heard directly across the street, tion for being an Eskimo wife. from the Chicago Ledger to determine tronomy is the Salon of Parisian from the Grimes dwelling. Presently Grefs. Here meet Paul de Amici o: another San Francisco is getting ready to where to place each of the two men one chimed,, in, then another whose conversation is reported. the QuirInal kitchens, Bosomporo o; celebrate the discovery of San Fran fifteen,, The man w-th the benignant counte the Vatican, Quenon of Belgium; Bo and another, and in less thqn in ac- cisco Bay. For the benefit of those dozen were minutés at least a nance framed in side-whiskers came to relli, with Prince Doria, and others. who have forgotten, it may be men A great catering combination it is tive operation. tioned that San Francisco Bay was dis a stop and spoke genially to the stur At 10 o’clock or thereabout an up— dy fellow who was planting the tree able to undertake * the most brilliant covered by Gaspar de Portola, who per window in the Grimes house was on 1 the lawn. gala dinners at a day’s notice. Its cen doesn’t seem to have had a single Es »closed with a vicious bang, but the- “Ah,” he said, “yours, my friend, is ter is Paris, It is run by business kimo In his party. rattle of the machines ceased not, and a noble task.” men who can offer many advantages 4Í* How iss it?” inquired the husky in that an artist chef, thoughtless of the noise became even louder. It was:-'' A test case is to be made in the dividual. money details, might not think of. It I a bright night, and the industrious- New York courts as to what criminal “ Yours Is a noble task. Now, when is the beginning of the end. of prince neighbors, bareheaded and in their statute is violated by the offense shirt-sleeves, appeared to be enjoying: all nature is sea^r and disconsolate, ly kitchens. technically known as “talking back” their exercise. There was no more»' you are looking forward to the coming to the police, and,whether arrest and grass to be cut, but they continued Aboreal Freak«. punishment In the matter are justified season of sunshine and flowers, and to go through the motions. In accord- Among the curiosities of tree life are doing what you may to beautify by the law. The question of illegal the sofar, or whistling tree, of Nubia. ance with the prearranged plan, there* and gladden the earth. ” arrest is really a serious one, as the When the winds blow over this tree it was no conversation. The lawn mow “It dake a vagon-load of whole matter of personal liberty, upon gives out flute-like sounds, playing ers werd permitted to make all the? for de hole vare diss dree which the principles of this govern away to the wilderness for hours at a noise, and they needed no assistance- “Yes, yes. Just so. I was speaking ment are founded, is Involved. At 1 o’clock the window that had. On the Orient Express an enigmatic the food. Be it the czar’s bear chops, time strange, weird melodies. It is the metaphorically, so to speak. I was re gentleman with a mauve ribbon in his the baby bear with bright glass eyes : spirit of the dead singing among the been closed was opened again, and the.- ferring to the time when this umbra The word “lobbyist” has generally buttonhole hastens to Paris, writes a. is brought in holding his own chops branches, the natives say, but the unkempt head of Mr. Grimes was« been used, with good reason, as a term geous verdure should——” correspondent from the French capital.* on a silver plate garnished with scientific white man says that the thrust forth. “ Diss isn ’ t dot kind'of a dree. Diss of reproach, yet it is well to remember The Cologne Express carries another, smilax. When Edward eats his fa sounds are due to a myriad of small “Say,” he called out, “how long are- that one may have commendable rea iss a moundaln-ash.” , the Sud Express a third, A fourth vorite turtle doves they come boned, holes which an insect bores in the you fellows goipg to keep up that: “ Very true. And a beautiful species sons for approaching legislators and racket?” comes by the English packet. From wrapped in a' chaud-froid sauce with spines of the branches. trying to Influence their deeds. In it is, I have no doubt. How splendid Lisbon and St. Petersburg two start; cameo design in black truffles. They “Not more than an hour longer/*' The weeping tree of the Canary Isl Washington, during the last session of it is to realize that one may be a hum from Rome and Constantinople two are ranged round a bed of Spanish ands is another arboreal freak. This answered a voice. ble instrument in the furtherance of Congress, a woman was spoken of “Well, say,” spoke Mr. Grimes again» arrive. All wear the pale mauve rib? chestnuts puree. But, above them, the: tree in the dryest weather will rain as “one of the most aggressive «lobby the plans for making glad the waste bon. after a pause, “if I’ll agree not to run», beautiful birds spread their white down showers from its leaves, and the ists ever seen at the Capital.” She places! In years to come you will They are the cooks of four great wings. natives gather up the water from the my lawn mower before 7 o’clock in. journey, perchance, to this spot and was acting, however, merely as the Such “presentations” of the dish are pool formed at the foot of the trunk, the morning after this, will you stop kings. representative of California club gaze upon the towering monarch of the Without the best butters, vinegars, the chef decorator’s work. He—almost and find it pure and fresh, The tree that noise and let me go to sleep?” forest which shall arise fijom the women, and her mission, happily suc “We will.” wines, truffles, mushrooms, herbs, a taxidermist—spreads the tail of the exudes the water from innumerable cessful, was to help insure, the preser shrub you are planting, and to your cream, spices and raw materials of all peacock in his gorgeous feathers over pores situated at the base of the “Well, it’s a bargain,” he said. soul Will come the cheering knowledge vation of the giant redwoods, which kinds, there is no grand cookery. The the roast peacock, whose breast meat leaves. that it was your hands that made it are one of the glories of the state. A Queen May Look at a Man. is eaten. Never will the sauce possible. Even next year you will pantry chef hands out the ingredients only Busy Mr. Harries. cook try to roast nor the roaster There is an old story current in hi®; of every dish completely garnished to come here, no doubt, and----- Gen. George H. Harries, commanu home city, Brooklyn, about the late touch a sauce. Those turtle doves Meat has been officially introduced his colleagues. He has one specialty*. “Yess. I gome next year unt pull as a part of the Japanese army diet, der dree ould again if der feller don’d All cold dishes are his particular care. pass from chef to chef, each adding er-in-cihief of the militia of the Dis Dr, Theodore L. Cuyler, which illus trict of Columbia, is the busiest cen trates how a son is to his mother the and, as a result, the Japanese board seddle his pill. He iss slow pay.” The kitchens of Edward, the CzaF, what the lilac ribbon orders. turion in the land. In addition to be of agriculture has sent a commission Alfonso and Leopold are to-day near, Quellian, head chef of the old sul ing a soldier, he runs an electric light most important being in the world- abroad to investigate and take steps Sparrows Served as Woodcock. perfection. Francis Joseph up to ten tan, taken over by the new, quit the company and manages a traction com In Dr. Cuyler’s case one could not for Introducing the breeding of cattle Justly question his ability and useful Friends of State Senator Sterling years ago kept the most princely table Cafe de Paris six years ago on $2,000 in Japan. One reason for the change R. Catlin» of this city, who attended of them all. When age forced him to per year salary and an admitted com pany that is the wonder of those who ness. Besides being a successful pas of diet is to avert a repetition of the a dinner he gave -the other night, are go slow he still invited the archdukes mission on purchases of from $6,000 know what good car service means. tor he was the author of many re scourge of berl-beri which sapped the now wishing they had not accepted, and their suites. Then finally the force to $8,000. To-day he has a real .dilet In addition he is a member of all com ligious Looks which were read here and abroad, as well as a frequent con strength of the army during the Rus for a joke he played upon them be was handed over to the Archduke tante to work for—the new sultan is mittees of civic organizations. “I piet Mrs. Harries just a few min a poet, rose grower and gourmet; but sian war, and was said to have been came public property. The main Ferdinand, whose, simple living is nat M-. Quellian deplores the Turkish craze utes ago/’ said one of the general’a tributor to certain magazines. When he was in England he and his due to the rice diet, and another pur course at the dinner was named as ural and whose enthusiasm did not pose is to - add to the stature of the woodcock, and the guests remarked ’last a year. For the first time in .for stuffed meats of all kinds. They friends by way of making talk when mother corresponded regularly, and at great* length, so the tradition goes. race by a general introduction of meat how small and tender they were. 1,000 years the court of the Holy Ro actually want the Rouen duck com they met. “Fine. I’m very glad to hear it,” plicated with a stuffing—that terrible One day a letter came in which he eating. Here In the Occident there is man Empire (till 1809) had no longer It was noticed that Senator Catlin strangled “high” duck, whose sauce returned the general. “I met her my described his presentation to Queen. an increasing conviction that the meat the greatest kitchen of the world. did not seem to eat much of his, and Victoria. Mrs. Cuyler read it with diet has its penalties as well as its To-day Francis Joseph eats alone. demands its liver festered in the sun! self last week.” to-day the guests .learned why, for, as M. Menager, head chef of Edward; eagerness, hardly able to wait till she benefits. When he goes on a }gastronomic spree Pecan Culture. a joke, he had them served with com it is with frankfurters and horserad and M. Peltier, head chef of Queen had finished before telling some one Pecan nuts are grown successfully what had happened. When she at last A recent visitor to one of the larg mon sparrow instead of woodcock.— ish, with “spaetzle” cakes, But the Alexandra, have fixed salaries of est of American cities stated that it Wilkesbarre dispatch to New York kitchens of Nicholas, Edward, Alfonso $8,000, free lodgings and a rake-off of in several States, but mainly in those got through the letter she hastened States south of parallel 40. Forty to a neighbor’s house and announced: ’Was not the subways nor the. tall American. and Leopold are run on the great old S per cent on all purchases accepted by feet Is generally the distance apart of buildings that impressed him so much, “I’ve just got a letter from England» them. Queen Alexandra has simple lines of: Better Not. the trees. If the triangular method and, do you know, the queen has seen as the great number of prosperous, tastes — a breast of Bohemian pheasant, fron. Nephew (just returned 1. A pantry chef. of planting is adopted forty trees can well-kept, good-looking old men. “They abroad)—That franc piece, aunt, I 2. A chef of soups, entrees and hot a slice of Danube sturgeon, or a sad- be grown to the acre. Pecan trees Theodore.” are,’’ he said, “seen on the streets by got in Paris. ( die of Siberian young boar. On the desserts, including souffles, fritters Musn’t Waste His Time. may bear a few nuts at an early age, the thousand, carefully dressed, lei Aunt Hepsy-—I wish, nephew, you’d (sweet or otherwise J, hot fruit croutes, contrary, King Edward probably but paying crops cannot be expected “ Why not have our store physician surely In movement, yet apparently fetch home one of them Latin quarters etc. knows more about great feeding than under ten years tand full crops under keep busy between whiles?” actively concerned wjth affairs. It is they talk so much about.—Boston I did Carlos himself. He delights in 3. A chef roaster, who also directs “As to how?” a stronger indication to me of the ac-i Transcript. plovers’ eggs. He adores little birds. twenty. The annual yield of a tree in all grills and fries. “Offer bargain operations in appen cumulated wealth, of the established The art of these cooks is sublime. full bearing has been variously report* 4. A sauce chef, who rules over all ed at from one to twenty bushels. The Cylinder Printing; Pres«. dicitis. Only one to a customer, of success of the city, than anything else Each can give you a choice of 5,000 that carries a sauce ; fish, braised course.**—Washington Herald. In 1814 Frederick Koenig invented 1 meats, etc., 1. e., the majority of dishes. There are 125 ways of pre I have seen.” These old men are splen Hard Graves, did specimens. The game of life in the cylinder press in London. It was 1 dishes. paring eggs, 32 “on the plate” (not Before a grave can be dug in the The Tongrue. terests them and they have the good used here first in 1827. Koenig in fried, but done in the bainmarie); 47 churchyard of Llanbadoc, in South 5. A pastry cook. There are “blind spots” on the vented it to the order of Walter of sense to keep actively employed in it 6. A chef decorator. Do not think poached, 20 with cheese, 13 “en co Wales, the rock has to be blasted tongue which are insensible to some rather than to confine themselves to the London Times, the world’s great he decorates the table. He decorates cotte” (tiny earthen dish), 32 ome- away. flavors. their homes or to eat their hearts out est newspaper in those days. kingt S