TOPICS OF TIIE TIMES
CHOICE SELECTION OV INTER
ESTING ITEMS.
Comments and CrltloUrae naiad
Upon the Happening of the Dar
Historical aad Nowa Notaa.
Hatpins are the deadliest weapons
that now go about unconcealed.
Have you seen Hamilton lately?
His picture Is on the new $1,000 bills.
Why send missionaries to Africa
when a Pennsylvania court convicts a
woman charged with witchcraft?
Dewey thinks the American navy Is
the best on earth. We earnestly hope
this may not cause another scare in
England.
Abdul Hamld has It doped out that
It was fate that overthrew him. Fate,
and a bunch of Young Turks up to
the ears In guns.
An Indiana woman has just mar
ried her tenth husband. What a
choice assortment of pickle dishes she
must have by this time!
It should not be forgotten that Ab
dul Hamld Is one of those misguided
people who never permit themselves to
be Interviewed for publication.
A Detroit man was fined the other
day for laughing at a woman who
wore a beehive hat. Evidently he did
not pay for the hat, or else he would
have wept.
The Czar Is going to circumnavigate
the globe in his yacht. The last Rus
sian sea-going expedition did not get
quite around, being stopped in the
3ea of Japan.
Pullman Is spending some millions
enlarging Its plant. There will, how
ever, be no gymnasium for the porter.
He Is expected to get bis exercise pull
ing the public leg.
Elinor Glyn says In her new book
that no American men ever tried to
flirt with her. Her comments on
Americans and American customs are
naturally a trifle bitter.
We are glad to note that a start
has been made in building a free
bridge at St. Louis. A reporter for
the Times of that city saw a man a
day or two ago boring holes i.n the
river.
wno has not tot rich s&rt with Borai
feeling of pity, If not of contempt It
It desirable that we should all shake
ourselves out of this falsa Idea an
begin to understand thai there ar
what a noted New Englander has call
2d endurlngsatlsfactlons In life which
have nothing to do with money. The
love and respect and gratitude of
one's fellow men are worth more In
the evening of life than those who
have them not can realize. Every
worthy minister has these rewards,
and would not exchange them for
much gold. ,
A mean Chicago reporter took a
census and discovered that among 835
Chicago clubwomen three babies were
born last year. A baby somewhat in
terferes with club activity if you are
Inclined to care much for it.
A Pennsylvania woman's big hat
saved her from drowning. We de
cline, however, to utter a word in
praise of the big hat until we are
assured that it was not the lady's
headpiece which caused her to be
blown into the water.
A retired politician laments that
how he Is out of power his friends
have deserted him. A man of his ex
perience should have a better sense
of the meanings of words. Ills friends
have not deserted him, only those
whose professed friendship had its
origin In his or their selfish ends.
China is an example of a nation
which is showing Itself not afraid to
imitate other nations. Not long ago
six graduates of the Women's Med
ical School nt Shanghai recel"ed their
diplomas. The institution was founded
three years ago, and its principal is
a woman. Two of the Assays read by
he graduates were in English.
Germany has a resourceful govern
ment It is UBing as an incentive to
reluctant taxpayers a letter from Mar
tin Luther, in which the great re
former says: "I gladly pay my
groschen for the Turkish campaign,
and hope I am among those who pay
them willingly, for of grudging people
there are enough. And I would also
show a good example, and others can
then say that Doctor Martin baa
"lelped,"
The country is growing and tho
Bummer vacation Idea has boon culti
vated. Summer resorts have been es
tablished wherever there are conceiv
able excuses for them and before the
season ends everybody has been
"somewhere." Only a fow who go,
however, have luxurious vacations.
The great majority go in crowded cars
or 'excursion steamers and stny In
bandbox rooms at hotels. And they
sUy but a short time. The average
summer vacation Is physically tiro
some, but it is a good thing, all the
same. It Is a change. It satlsflos
the nearly universal desire to go some
where. It gives to men and women
ail appreciation of their homes. It
's a practical lesson In contentment
No thoughtful person can contem
plate the scenes attending the funer
al of the flev. Dr. Theodore L. Cuy
lcr, in Brooklyn, recently, without
concluding that there are compensa
tions la the Christian ministry which
can be compared favorably with the
retards of secular business. Dr. Cuy
Ur was 87 years old, and had rutlred
from the active pustorate at the ago
of. 70, after serving one church for
thirty consecutive years. More than
two thousand persons crowded tho
meeting house of this church for tho
funeral, and ai many more gathered
In the streets outside to show thutr
affection and respect fur the good
man. This tribute was not a ft mil
and impulsive t-ffort to atone for luck
of. chuer to the man during his life.
It was the continuation of regard even
to the last possible uiomout Had Dr.
Ctyler devoted himself to luaklug
money, ho would have accumulated a
large fortune. Instead, he devotad
bUiisolf to the conservation of all that
I good and true aud beautiful In his
fallow men, and accumulated tor him
self aud for them a large store of
that which is Imperishable, Bo much
straw is laid on auccesa. In the su
of galtlng rich, that many poraoua
Had It difficult to look a a luau
The public refuses to get excited
over the portentous fact that the
American family Is dwindling In size
A census bureau statistician has been
compiling the figures, and he finds
that In the period between the first
federal census In 1790 and the last In
1900. the American family has de
creased from an average of 6.3 per
sons to one of 4.6. Around this cen
tral fact he groups a number of oth
ers. such as the fact that, whereas
the average number of children under
16 In each 1790 family was 2.8, it Is
now 1.5; and the fact that the ratio
of whites over 20 to those under 18,
has changed from .78 to 1.58 In the
same nerlod. While the birth rate
has declined In the paBt century, so
has the death rate. Modern science,
modern methods In the prevention
and cure of disease, modern common
sense about matters of hygiene and
health have worked wonders In add
ing years to human life. At the very
cradle the child has a far greater life
expectancy than the Infants of 1790.
We do not have so many children as
our ancestors, but we give them a bet
ter chance to live which Is, after all,
much more to be desired. The larger
percentage of children who now reach
maturity Is compensation for the
smaller aggregate number of births.
And still there Is much to be done In
America to-day in the way of giving
the child the enjoyment of Its right
to be well born and well nurtured. In
the slums of our great cities the per
centage of Infant mortality Is still ap
palling. Filth and squalor still fur
nish happy hunting grounds for ma
lignant microbes of many species.
The deadly germ flourishes In the cit
ies largely because of the concentra
tion there of the uneducated elements
that come from Europe. They bring
their uncleanllness and their Ignor
ance with them. Americanization usu
ally works a transformation, If not
In them, at least in the next genera
tion. It Is a striking fact that the
large family and Ignorant poverty go
together. The tendency of civiliza
tion, of widening intelligence, of so
ber thrift, Is to limit the propagation
of children. The obvious lesson is
that crusades against tuberculosis are
far better than campaigns against
race suicide. It Is more humane and
more in accordance with the true
principles of social economy to guard
the purity of the milk supply than to
Inveigh agalnBt the reluctance of
American women to rear many chil
dren. Fresh air and sanitary condi
tions are more to be desired than
large families In which deaths are frequent
Opinions of Great Papers on Important Subjects.
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IS OUR NAVY CRIPPLEDf
ONCEUNlNU a person who was what (for
a reason to the writer unknown) is called
a "bluITer," or "four-flusher," a well-known
wit recently said: "Enter his front door
and you find yourself in his back yard."
One hearing that may be pardoned if he
think of the American navy. It Is all
front all line of battle. Behind this nothing!
Virtually no colliers, no transports none of the hun
dreds of auxiliary craft that are as essential a part of
a navy as the battleships themselves, for without them
the battleships are Impotent for aggression good for
nothing but defense of our home ports.
Lacking these servitor craft at the back of it, and
at the back of these a merchant marine, and at the
back of that 'a const population of deep-water sailors
and fishing folk, a fleet of fighting ships is like an army
without teams, trains, forges, pontoons, telegraphs, va
ried Industries and a warlike people.
This Is no indiscreet and unpatriotic revelation.'
There Is not a naval attache at any embassy in Wash
ington who has not repeatedly demonstrated our help
lessness to his government Not that It particularly
concerns the good naval attache; he is merely a spy,
gravely borne upon the rolls of his ambassadorial chief
and as gravely accepted because in some disguise he Is
inevitable. His duty is to worm out naval secrets, and
our lack of a real navy Is no secret. It is a matter of
record at every admiralty and chancellery In the world,
including, naturally and particularly, those of the Jap
anese. Ambrose Blerce, In Everybody's.
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I A GENTLE TEACHER.
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Scholars In America are, for the
most part hampered In their research
es by the fact that they must teach in
order to live. Classroom work takes
DERBY HATS AND BALDNESS.
HERE is in Russia a popular saying. "He
Is as baldheaded as a Senator." Senators
in Russia are usually baldheaded. On the
other hand, among the millions of Rus
sian peasants it is very unusual to And
baldness. A comparison of ' these two
facts led even the physicians to give In
tellectual work as one of the causes of baldness, and
this notwithstanding the fact that there are a great
number of women who are intellectual workers, but
who are not baldheaded.
Again, tho clergymen of the Russian church, who
are forbidden to cut their hair or shave their beards,
are blessed with long, luxurious hair, which by its
length and thickness will compare favorably with any
woman's hair, and the clergymen are Intellectual work
ers, too.
Now, my explanation of this fact la that the Russian
peasants and the common people at large wear capB;
women, shawls or hats on their heads; the clergymen,
only soft hats, with wide brims, while the Senators
always wear tall silk hatj with tight brims. These
tight hats, like derbies, bring about a gradual starva
tion of the hair follicles.
From these observations I have come to the con
clusion that baldness in otherwise healthy m?n in tha
prime of life Is chiefly due to the wearing of derbies.
In America it Is especially developed, because young
men begin to wear derbies in their teens. The ma
jority wear them all the time, even while they are
working in the offices or shops. Boston Globe.
P
CROPS AND COST OF LIVING.
1 REDICTIONS of cheaper living, based
upon ample crops, must be taken with
some caution. We. are not confronted
by tho problem of 2 wheat, which Mr.
Patten probably did not expect when he
wa3 predicting it last Bprlng. His predic
tion served his purpose admirably. In
stead of shipping wheat into Chicago and breaking the
May market the sort of thing that has broken nearly
every predecessor of Mr. Patlen In "bull" operations
the farmers held on to their wheat and waited for that
$2 quotation. Wheat is selling in Chicago for less than
a dollar.
Food ought to be, and probably will be, cheaper than
it has been lately. But cotton and wool are high and
textile prices show no disposition to recede. Most of
the prices, are rising.. Structural steel is not a com
modity that the average citizen purchases, but he 19
affected by Its price, iftid all steel prices are up. Hides
ere on the free list, but the shoe stores and factories
are stocked -up with gooda purchased before the repeal
of the hide duty and prices are not yet coming down.
The most important item of expense Is rent and with
the growth of population that tends upward, but the
extensive building operations all over the country may
keep abreast of the demand. Philadelphia Record.
A
WHY ENLISTMENTS ARE FEW.
N unfailing sign of prosperity is the diffi
culty United States recruiting officers en
counter in persuading desirable young
men to enlist in the army and navy. This
is now in evidence and shows clearly that
the demand for all kinds of labor through
out the country has checked the desire of
Young America to wear a uniform, with the assur
ance of good food, clothes and shelter for three years.
Young men already In the ranks and on shipboard aro
showing an eagerness to be released from their enlist
ments In order that they may accept more remunerative
employment in civil life.
There Is opportunity In both branches of the military
service for bright, capable recruits to learn trades at
which they can earn good wages in various lines of
manufacture. In the coast artillery and on shipboard
hundreds of men become skilled electricians by being
taught the mechanism of the big guns, torpedo plants
and regular electric machinery. They get a good start
In the new and ever-developing field of electricity, and
their services are at a premium when they are released
'rom their military occupation. Philadelphia Press.
Chester, sitting at the switchboard,
drew towprd him a box cover contain
ing a miscellaneous collection of pins,
paper fasteners, rubber bands and
pens. He selected a rubber band and
JuBt so much of their energy from re- deftly snapped It .at the left ear of
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search, with tho result that It is only
the men of great strength of character
who can accomplish much besides tho
regular routine. In the Atlantic
Monthly thore are some anecdotes of
the late TrofeBsor Child of Harvard
College which Illustrate tho character
of tho man and the difficulties undor
which he labored.
A guest was asking him once how it
was that with so little leisure he had
been able to prepare a certain paper.
"Yes," he assented, as he stood by
the fireplace, "I hadn't much time for
It; but I kept the books and papers
ready on my desk, and sat down to
them, even If there were only twenty
minutes or so free."
"And you had to leave It," I suggest
ed, "to correct themes!"
A grim look came Into his face, "Do
you know," he Bald, solemnly, placing
his foot on a light rhalr in front of
him, "that I corrected themes in Har
vard College for twenty-five yearsT"
It has been remarked that Mr. Child
never lifted his voice unduly; but
some sort of physical emphasis was
imperative, and this was furnished by
tho chair. As he pronounced the
"twenty-five years" with the most ex
act and labored utterance, his foot was
released, and the chair found a new
site half way across the room.
Another story: Once, in a class
which was reading "Hamlet." he as
signed some ordinary passage to a
young gentleman who had been trained
to the wildest feats of "elocution." and
who now saw his chance for 1 minor
tallty. The rafters of that hare room
at the top of University Hall fairly
echoed to the freniled performance;
there were bellowtngs of rage, the low
hiss of scorn, the ringing appeal.
David, who sut with his head bent
over the letter book he was lndaxlng.
"Aw, cut it out!" protested David,
scowling and rubbing the Injured
member.
"Didn't hurt you, did It?" asked
Chester, with a grin. "Say, Dave,
'member that souvenir postal you Bent
me when you was over In Michigan?
That one where you and a bunch o'
other guys was settln' in a ottomo
blle?" "Uh-huh. What uv it?" Dave spoke
with some languor, for he was feeling
the reaction from a too-streuuous va
cation. "1 showed It to a girl up In our
block." replied Chester, "and she says.
'Who Is that good-looktn' feller that's
grabbln' onto tho steerln' wheel?' she
Bays."
"Aw, fudge!" exclaimed David. He
Rolzed his pen and applied himself to
his Indexing, his nose almost touching
tho imge of tho letter book.
"Ou the level, that's Just what she
said. I eays to her. 'That's tho kid
that sent the card," I says, 'lie's my
assistant.'
"'He's some classy lookin',' she says.
To look at urn you'd think he was the
guy that owned the machine,' she
says."
"Aw, go chase yourself." muttered
Duvld, flipping over the leaves of the
letter-book.
"She did, honest," declared Chester.
"She's a dnndy girl, too."
"Must 1 kinder foolish in her
head," commented David.
"All right. I ll tell her you said Rhe
was foolish," re-marked Chester. "I'm
goln' over there to night. Site's goln'
to have the hull crowd over to listen
to her uncles grapuophone. He's got
tha crv of triumph, the wall or
baffled hope, all accompanied by . 0,18
a kind of suppressed wheeze or "Tell nothln'!" exclaimed David,
asthmatlo undertone which I take V'Don't you go an' tell her anythln' I
to have been the "deep breathing" In- said. 1 don't care what you tell her,"
dlcated by doctors of this diabolical
art.
Mr. Child uncoiled himself slowly,
craned out bis bead, lifted bis spec
tacles, and peered, flist amazed, then
quizzical, then triple, at the yep
former.
"Heavens, man stop!"
No Aiprhenlon.
"I made a gardou this year, but my
next-door neighbor went In for fowls."
"Thore'U be trouble between you."
"Que not My garden ain't com
ing up and his chickens are dying of
cholera." I-ouUvllle Courier Journal.
People have so many faults, aud Buf
fer so many humiliations, that we won
dar BDyoue Is conceited.
Carmauy U Uia culei laud of dual
at prul.
he added, with some Inconsequence
"Needn't get so sore about It," said
Chesti r, turning to thrust a plug Into
a hole In the switchboard. "Hello!"
he drawled "Oh, hello, there," In a
tone of suddenly awakened Interest.
"Huh! Suro I know who you are. Say,
Kit, I just been telllliK'Dave what ou
said about him, and he says "
"litre," interrupted David. "You
shut up!"
"lie says you're "
David sprang up and put his hand
over the mouthpiece. "Aw, chop It
now, kid," he cried, angrily.
"I ain't goln' to tell her." chuckled
Chester. He pushed away the Inter
potted hand. "Hay, Kit. he won't lemma
tell ou what he said, lie's 'fluid tor.
Huh? All right, I'll tell him. Huh?
UVII. I'll Irv to maka him. II' a-ikt
(a awful grvuch ,aluit girls, though.
Huh? "All right. See you this eve.
Good-by."
He turned again to the Irate David.
"Say, Dave," he said, "she wants I
should bring you over to her house
this evening with the rest of the
bunch. I told her you was awful
grouchy, though."
"Yes, I heard you," growled David.
"You got a right to keep your mouth
shut about me I bet I won't go after
what you said."
"Aw, come on, Dave," urged Ches
ter. "I was Just joshln. We'll have a
dandy time. Come on, now."
"You'll frame up some kind of a
fake story about me if I don't go,"
said David with an effort at gloomy
resignation. "What tlme'll you call
fer me?" Chicago Dally News.
THINGS TOURISTS DISCOVER.
THE WORLD'S BANK NOTES.
Hon tha Varlona Nation Differ In
Their Tnatea.
The only paper money that Is ac
cepted practically all over the globe
Is not "money" at all, but the notes
of the Bank of England. These notes
are simply printed In black Ink on
Irish linen water-lined paper, plain
white, with ragged edges. The reason
that a badly soiled or worn Dank of
Englnnd note is rarely Been Is that
notes which find their way back to the
bank are Immediately canceled nnd
new ones are Issued. The notes of
the llanque de France are made of
white water-lined paper printed In
black and white, whh numerous myth
ological and allegorical pictures. They
are In denominations of from twenty
live francs to otto thousand francs.
Hunk of England notes are - of a
somewhat unhandy size five by eight
Inches. South American currency re
sembles the bills of the United States,
except that cinnamon brown and slate
blue ate the pre ailing colors. Ger
man currency Is printed in green nnd
black, the notes being In denomina
tions of from five to one thousand
marks. The one thousand-mark bills
use printed on silk fiber paper.
It takes an expert or a native to
distinguish a Chinese bill from a laun
dry ticket if the bill Is of low denom
ination, or a firecracker label If for
a largo amount, the print being in red
on white or yellow on red. with much
gilt aud gorgeous devices. Italian
notes ate of all sizes, shapes anil
colors. The smaller bills, five and ten
lite, ate printed on white paper in
pink, blue and tannine inks.
The most striking paper currency tn
the world Is the one hundred-rouble
note of Russia. wblvU U barred from
top to bottom with all the color of
the rainbow, blended a when a sun
ray passes through a prism. In the
center In bold relief Is a finely exe
cuted vignette In Muck. The remainder
of the engraving mi the note is In
dark and llfcht brown Ink.
The American practice of scattering
strand of silk through the paper
fiber a a protection against counter
feiting la uulo.ua, Harper' Weekl.
Traveling; Abroad la Really an Edu
cation for the American,
About half one's time in traveling
abroad Is spent in buying stamps, a
writer In the Delineator says. No mat
ter how many I put on a letter I had
no faith to believe that it would reach
America. I found that I could send
a letter with one stamp on it if I
paid enough for it, also that I could
get a denomination of which it would
take twenty. In Cairo I put fifteen
sphinxes and pyramids on the front of
a letter and five on the back. As for
postal cards Imagine asking for one
In the Belgian language Wereldpost
vereenlglng! But It Is In a Mahometan country
that an American mind needs read
justment. We woke one morning in
Constantinople and found our calen
dar nine days ahead of theirs, our
watches seven hours behind and the
name of the month Ramadan. The
Mahometans seem to live up to their
religion In a more definite way than
we do, and we soon learned what to
expect. The porter would drop one's
trunk when the muezzin called to
prayer! the saeredness of animal life
compelled us to walk around the hun
dreds of lazy dogs asleep on the side
walk; we were required to take off
our shoes Instead of our hats when en
tering a mosque; women were not al
lowed p pray because they "have no
souls." Friday was the day for Sun
day, and a camera was an "evil eye"
and could not be carried Into any
sacred place. Our artist was once
charged 20 cents for keeping an evil
eye In his room all night.
Before the Journey ends the tourist
has lost his Identity completely. At
first he Is from "Kalamazoo, Mich.,"
then from "Michigan," later the
"United States," soon the "States,"
and the writer was once Introduced to
a gentleman from Tuscany as "the
lady from North America."
A Vlceroy'a I'lalu I.IvImk.
The book which Miss Juliet Hredon
has written about her uncle. Sir Rob
ert Hart, the "Grand Old Man of
China," for many years In charge of
the Imperial Customs Service, Is full
of characteristic and entertaining
stories. Among them Is the following:
One of the most Influential of Sir
Robert's Chinese friends was the great
1.1 Hung Chang. The diplomat liked
Li's household because of the simplic
ity he found there no wearisome
courses at dinner, but fish and, per
haps, a dish of chicken with rice. In
cautiously, as it turned out, he praised
this frugality to his own Chinese ser
vant, for the remark reached I.l's ears
in a distorted form. Next time Sir
Robert went there he had to face a
grand ceremonial banquet.
"Von shall not have the chance to
go away again and say you have been
fed like a coolie In my house." said
the viceroy, proudly, at the end of the
banquet
"Nevertheless, the very simplicity cf
your hospitality was what I most ap
preciated." Sir Robert replied. "But
If you believe that I could have made
any such reinirk. aud If yon persist
In altering the style of my reception.
I shall not route to lunch with you
again."
What a grand old world this would
be to live In If opportunity kuocarc
at a inau's door aa oftcu j the III)
colliKtvrt
FISH THAT CAN WALK.
tllmblna; Perch Travel Over Land
from Water to Water.
It may seem absurd to Bpeak of
fishes as walking. The flying fish is
well known, but its flight looks much
like swimming in the air. We natural
ly think of fishes aa living always In
the water, aa being Incapable, in fact,
of living anywhere else, Pearson's
Weekly says. But nature maintains
no hard-and-fact lines of distinction
between animal life which belongs to
the land and that which belongs to
the water. If we can believe the ac
counts of naturalists, there are flshea
that traverse dry land.
It is reported that Dr. Francis Day
of India haa collected data of several
Instances of the migration of fishes
by lnnd from one piece of water to
another.
A party of English officers were
upon one occasion encamped In a cer
tain part of India when their atten
tion was attracted by a rustling sound
In the grass and leaves. Investiga
tion showed it to be caused by myriads
of little fishes that were passing slow
ly on. There were hundreds of them
moving by using their side and small
fins as feet, now upright, now falling
down, squirming, bending, rolling over,
regaining their finny feet and again
passing on.
These flshea were the famous cllmb
Ig .perch and they were passing over
the country to avoid a drought. When
the stream in which they had been
spending the season dries up they
scalo the banks and, directed by some
marvelous Instinct, crawl to another.
Wilson Vance's novel of a Crom
welllan soldier in old Virginia en
titled "Big John Baldeth" Is to be
brought out In England by the noted
Bristol publisher who Introduced Hugh
Conway, Jerome K. Jerome, Anthony
Hope and other novelists of note.
Wilson Vance Is the father of Louis
Joseph Vance, author of "The Brass
Bowl."
There will be given to the world
this autumn two books about the late
Lord Kelvin, one of the really great
men of science of the nineteenth cen
tury. One Is the formal biography by
Professor Sllvanus Thompson and the
other Is a volume of personal reminis
cences written by his sister, Mrs. King
who has lately followed her brother
Into the other world.
Mrs. Velma Swunston Howard, haa
returned to New York from a visit
to the celebrated Swedish author, Miss
Selma Lagerlof. A new edition of
Mrs. Howard's translation of Miss
Lagerlof's "Christ Legends" has Just
been Issued. The book Is having a
success as literature aside from its
religious significance. Many of the
legends it contains are not to be found
in the Bible and have a distinct
qualntness and charm of their own.
Harry Delacombe, the author of the
"Boy's Book of Airships," has been In
the British army and became much
interested in the subject on which
he writes. He Is now a specialist In
it and haa a personal acquaintance
with most of the leading Inventors.
He haa withheld his forthcoming book
from the press as long as possible in
order to get In the very latest Informa
tion, and it Includes accounts of the
Zeppelin dirigible and the Wright,
Curtlss, Farman, Blerlot, Antoinette
and other aeroplanes as they appeared
at the International contests at Reims.
To see ourselves as others see us
Is always an Interesting occupation,
and nothing can be more Interesting
to an American than to know why he
13 unlike the English and the causes
that have made . hJm the energetic,
enterprising, active man that he is. In
A. Maurice Low's forthcoming book,
"The American People," these things
are explained and the working of the
American mind Is carefully analyzed.
To be told that American character
has been Influenced by the- Indian or
that one reason why we are-different
from Europeans Is because of our
"cold waves" Is Interesting.
Cicely Hamilton, the author of "Mar
riage as a Trade," frankly admits that
she speaks as a spinster. Her claim
la that woman's one trade or means
of livelihood haa been to please man,
to marry hkn If possible, and to do the
work that he Judges too tiresome or
uninteresting to do for himself. The
result has been not only that her
profession of matrimony has been
overcrowded but also that the low
grade of woman's wages Is due to her
lack of Interest in her work and re
gard for it on account of her belief
that her only respectable career was
the marrying of some good man, or In
case that failed In becoming the wife
of an unworthy man. Miss Hamilton
Is an English woman and the author
of "Diana of Dobson's."
SO NOT PROLONG CAiXh.
LlaserlnBT at Meal Times Makea On
Unpopular,
When paying calls on one's friends,
whether formally or informally, do not
utterly disregard the hours for meals,
for it la not good form to linger until
the lunch or the dinner hour when
yon have not been invited for the
meal. If you do, you are likely to
place your friend in an awkward posi
tion. Either she must ask you to re
main because she feels it necessary,
or she has the meal delayed waiting
for you to take your departure.
Do not put yourself In the position
of allowing either of these alternatives
to occur, for no housekeeper likes tha
routine Interfered with, and unex
pected guesta are not apt to be popu
lar, for In all weir regulated house
holds the table is as conventionally
laid for luncheon as for dinner, and to
rearrange it at the last moment ne
cessitates considerable change and
special orders for the kitchen. All of
which many housekeepers dislike, and
therefore do not feel obliged to Invite
callers at the last moment.
If you are really wanted, you will
be asked during the early part of your
call, for the hostess who wants you
will Insist that you take off your hat
and stay for a long visit. If ahe does
not ask you In this spontaneous way,
do not embarrass her by remaining
until the moment the meal is an
nounced. No well-mannered h03tess allows her
maid to announce a meal while a
caller is present, and If the visitor is
thoughtless the lunch or dinner is
often delayed until it i's almost spoiled,
for cooked foods should be eaten as
soon as they are done. This waiting
Is a trial to the housekeeper and a
cause of irritation to her husband,
If she has one, and the visitor respon
sible for such a state is never popular
in that family.
When you ask guests to a meal, If
one of them is late, do not wait more
than ten minutes. At the expiration
of that time the meal should be served.
This la only fair to your punctual
guests, who deserve to have a good
dinner, and not one that has been
spoiled by standing. In order to get
their guests together at just the right
time some hostesses resort to the sub
terfuge of naming a dinner hour half
an hour earlier than they mean to
have the meal served. This gets the
tardy one there on time,. but It is not
quite fair to the punctual ones, who
are kept waiting. That old adage.
"Punctuality Is the courtesy of kings,"
should be observed by everyone.
Washington Post.
American I'aahlona.
"Why American women should bu.
their dresses abroad Is more than I
can understand," declares Mme. Nor
dlca, the famous prima donna. "No
matter how exclusive a shop I go to
abroad, I find a score or more of
American women buylag the best and
prettiest designs for their shops in this
country. No matter how much care I
might take to purchase a dress, on my
I return to America I Bhould be sure to
see the very same model displayed lu
I the window of some shop. Why
'American women should feel It neces
Isary to have Imported gowns at all Is
more than I can understand. America
no longer Btands second to London or
.Pari in deslgnlug gowns, for if It
does not lead them It Is at least their
(equal. American fashions are second
to none in the world.
Breaklan- a flecorj.
"What was the matter with that boy
I sent you?"
"He ln't honest."
"You must be mistaken!"
"No, I in not. He said he was truth
ful and that h lovad work, aud a boy
that can lie twice with half a doiau
words is too swift (or our bulot."
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ELEVEN DAYS IN THE BUSH,
W. D. Pltcalrn, in his "Two Years
Among the Savages of New Guinea,"
relates an adventure which befell a
friend of his. Bob Sanderson, In north
Queensland. This friend, who was a
man of good education and an experi
enced bushman, waB on an expedition
in search of new country adapted to
stock raising. He had with him a
party of men with tents and all neces
sary provisions for the journey.
After traveling about four hundred
miles they found a good looking coun
try, and pitched their camp. Mr. San
derson wandered some distance from
his party, and on returning at night
fall, found the place deserted. His
followers had struck their tents and
made off.
He was four nun deed miles from
civilization, alone in the pathless
bush, the home of "wild and treacher
ous blacks, without a morsel of food,
and with no weapon ut a revolver.
There was nothing for It but to face
the Inevitable, and he started on his
long Journey.
- Day after day he plodded wearily
along, without any covering at night
except the trees, finding here and
there a few berries, and often suffer
ing horribly from hunger and thirst.
One morning at sunrise he was de
scending a slope, when to his dismay,
about fifty yards below him, he saw
a large camp of blacks. One of them
had Just risen, and was stretching
himself directly in the faee of the
white mtfn.
This was a moment to test the stuff
of a man already reduced by days of
continuous tramping and starvation.
But Sanderson did not hesitate. With
piercing shouts he rushed down upon
the camp, firing his revolver as he ran.
The blacks took it for granted that
he bad a large force at his back, and
immediately broke In confusion aud
fled across the river.
For several days longer the man
struggled on. Then on the eleventh
day he sank to the ground, quite un
able to go farther. Happily he waa
now near a cattle station, and a stock
man who waa out riding stumbled
upon him. He was taken into tho
bouse and every attention was be
stowed upon him, and eventually h
recovered his health and strength.
A Deimrture.
Mrs. Oatcake Maty Jane, who waa
that young feller In th' parlor last
nlghtr
Mary Jane-r-He' an automobile
Irummer, mother.
Mrs. Oatoake Fer th' land's sake!
Hev they got tew usln' drums 'stead
uv horns on them pesky things?-
Brooklyn Citizen.
At Their Wont,
"She doesn't think so much of men
"What's the matter with her?"
"Weil, she's cashier In a tailor shop.
She's used to seeing men get fitted for
their togs." Louisville Courler-Joui
n&L
kceui Reasouable
"Everybody feels thut be ought to
see Shakespeare."
"That's one reason why they don't
go, I reckon." remarked the theatrical
manager." Louisville Courier-Journal.
er I.ILrlr!
"She thanked him with a look."
"I a 'pose her gown waa ao tight that
the couldn't trust beraelf to speak,
eh " IxiuUvllla Courier-Journal.
Women are superior to niaa bcau
alaajra aa U7 ara.