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32 THE SUNDAY OREGOHIAN, PORTLAND, JULY 13, 1902. N m II ETHICAL TALKS By eLE"RGg AND THE LAITy - , B lt . i . THE EVILS OF POLITICAL CORRUPTION BY THE RIGHT REV. BISHOP SPAULDING, OF ILLINOIS OUBTLESS America's Increasing: do- I B J minion lias helped to arouse In our "" public life greater sympathy and tenderness, a more complete .revulsion from cruelty -whether to man or beast. But more than pity we need justice, which Is the -first and greatest charity. The most grievous injustice -which op presses us, of -which the -weak and the poor, the laborers and their -wives and children, are the chief victims, has its source In the political corruption -which taints our whoje public life, and more especially the conduct of our municipal affairs. It not only stamps upon our name a brand of infamy in tho eyes of foreign nations; it disheartens the best among us and makes reform seem impossible. It not only Impoverishes, but it disheartens and dtechristlanlzes the laboring popula tion of our cities. It Is the foe of civilization, of religion, of morality, of God and of man. It thrives in tho mephltic air of saloons and brothels and gambling hells. It makes the rich lt3 accomplices, and com pels the respectable to connive at Its In iquities and infamies. It perverts tho public conscience, It de stroys the sense of responsibility, it makes effort at reform abortive. - In the presence of this moral plague even tho wisest and tho bravest are be wildered and discouraged. No subject is more worthy of the at tention of thoso who are Interested in the REASON WE BY F we compare tears and laughter wo will see that In splto of the eidont difference, there Is still a resemblance on some points. There Is no doubt that tears and laugh ter signify different things, but both aro under the control of tho will to almost the same extent. There Is a. laughter that Is absolutely Iitvpluntary, that Is irresistible, uncon trollable. Then there is the false. Insin cere laughter, that wo Frenchmen call the "yellow laughter," and finally there Is a seml-Tteluntary laughter, that Is, we very often foel like laughing, while at the same time, tills feeling Is not so strong that it cannot be resisted, and when we give la tgrft we really laugh, because we want towugh to show persons present that we appreciate a pun, a "bon mot," an allu sion, etc., so on this point there is re semblance. To the superficial observer, tears and laughter are exactly opposite extremes, and he makos In regard to them, a very simple and'uncompromlsing rule: "Laugh ter expresses joy and tears express sor row." If we look deeper Into tho fact, we ob serve that this rule is too Inelastic It is very true that tears express sorrow or sadness, if It is understood that tears are not always tho natural Im WHAT TO DO w: .E are confronted with the astound ing fact that with tho close of the public business high schools that there are more graduates than can possibly find employment, either In private or official positions. "While the Nation Is to be congratulated upon the Intelligence and fine qualifications of Its youth, at the same time a serious question arises are these graduates trained for any prac tical position or vocation? A professor of the Chicago University claims that col lege graduates are totally unprepared for the practical things of life, and that for -want, of discipline in the useful arts they are unfit for any positions of responsibil ity or trust. Parents desiring to favor tholr children all they can deny them selves evorythlng and do everything that is required to be done in the family, so that sons and daughters may devote all of their time to their studies, which they" must do to master the curriculum of these schools, to say nothing of tho time the must devoto to athletics, which havo now taken the place of former labors per formed morning and evening as necessary exercise during school days. Doubtless athletics are ail very well for the develop ment of muscle, but our observation has teen that they aro more attractive to most young persons than text-books, and VIRTUE OF "WOMAN begins upon her wedding day that suppression of herself and her otherwise visible emotions that life from year to year requires of her.i "Why it has "become a matter of estab lished and expected form that on the oc casion of the most sacred and personal affairs of life the bridal and the burial doors should bo thrown open and a cloud of witnesses should be asked In to view the exhibition, is explained only by our love of the spectacular or by the survival of the old Interest in gladiatorial shows and the baiting of the bear. But the public wedding, in the crowded church, or with the throng of guests at home, has become a usual thing, and the bride's business is to look as lovely as fate allows, and to show no atom of emo tion or of inner feeling, neither that of a Venus Victrlx or of a lamb led to tho slaughter. It Is not an easy task; but she usually succeeds In it; and when well done It helps her, with various previous experiments, to keep In tho background, har life long, much of tho visual evidence of herself which she finds it best to re serve from sight and knowledge. There may be many a thing about her htwbnnd not to her taste; as with equal possibility there may bo much about Uer not to his taste, either; things seen in the famHfarity of married life and unguessed before, but which husband or wife can Improvements of social life and condl- tlons. Legislation can accomplish little unless It Is supported by a more humane, a more enlightened, a more Christian public opin ion. "We need the assistance of noble-minded and educated woman. If in the home. In the school and in the church, whero wo man's Influence Is potent. If not para mount, the sentiment that corrupt politi cians are more criminal than convicts be awakened and fostered godd will have been done. Were it possible that the dally press should take a sincere and serious interest in whatever concerns the public morals what a beneficent power It might exert. But this cannot be hoped for while many newspapers continue to be chiefly a com mercial enterprise; for when the primary consideration is pecuniary profit. It will be deemed proper to publish whatever may excite curiosity, even though It pan ders to morbid cravings and prurient pro pensities. In the actual conditions the machinery and Institutions created to deal with the violators of the law are, in a large meas ure, the agencies whereby vice and crime are produced and diffused. The delinquents who aro .incarcerated are chiefly the poor who, had they money to pay the fines, 'would escape imprison ment. Tho heaviest punishment Is Inflicted on the most helpless, and frequently on tho least guilty and thus ' the morally weak, tho victims of unfortunate environment, aro degraded, hard LAUGH OR CRY PROFESSOR CAMILLE MELINAUD mediate and lrresistable effect of sadness. To be exact and true, the rule should be expressed thus, that "tears arc con nected with sadness, sometimes caused by an unbearable sorrow or pain, sometimes by a relaxation after the pain and some times by an Intention to show that we feel a pain, that we, If we wanted to, could very well bear It without showing It" "When the popular rule says that laugh ter always expresses Joy It is just as in exact, for while there Is no doubt -that Joy makes us disposed to laugh, this Is about all that I can concede. "We liugh for so many different reasons, laugh, for Instance, at the uncertain gait of an Intoxicated man, laugh at a lady who dresses in an old-fashioned way, at a man that mikes a mistake In' a speech, at the grimaces of a clown, at the sound of snoring In a solemn assembly; at an actress whose gown Is caught on a nail In the floor, and still none of these things cause us any joy, while they make us laugh. Laughter often means something else; It means that wo have detected a weak ness, a distraction, an infirmity in some one else, and here Is where another dif ference between laughter and tears Is shown. As Ilobbes 60 strikingly expresses it, laughter Is always a "sudden pride," a feeling of superiority over our fellow-men WITH COLLEGE BY MRSTJOHN A. LOGAN In more than one case have completely de moralized students, and not only caused them to fail at school, but laid the foun dation of their failure In any successful or useful position. "We read, with much disgust, a few days ago, an interview between a repre sentative of tho press and a young lady athlete and graduate, who spoke of their coach In qujte as flippant terms as any' man In any college could possibly have done, declaring that her own wise head devised the correct diet while the young women were training, by Ignoring the di rections of the coach and adopting "fudge and chocolate sodawater" as the proper diet, and manifested much braggadocio that they had wo nout on this nutritious diet "We could Imagine the manners of any young woman so thoroughly absorbed with such fancies, and found it difficult to reconcile that sort of thing with tho deli cacy of a womanly woman, or as at all desirable in the future wives and mothers of the coming generation. It would have been much more In keeping with our Ideals of accomplishments In women If the Interview had betrayed ambition and sat isfaction on tho part of the young woman to have carried off the honors of her class, and just pride in being considered a re markable scholar. To our old-fashioned minds, parents SUPPRESSING ONE'S FEELINGS BY HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD no more change now than the leopard can change his spots. The husband, the wife, was loved before, it is still desired by both to love and to be loved, to maintain .the warmth of mutual affection, each Is still dear In spite of any fault; and thus a very necessary suppression of personal tastes and preferences takes place almost at once. If, for Instance, a wife eald Just what she , thought, or showed just what she felt, concerning her husband's friends who come Into her purview, there would either bo a great disturbance upon the spot, and It would be found out who was master, or the husband would take to meeting his friends somewhere outside the home, where It might be best neither for him nor for her. Or, again, a wife perhaps objects to her husband's pipe or cigar; but she knows very well that it is wise not to waste herself upon the small vices, but to reserve her reprobation for the greater occasions. She may very possibly find things that are unpleasant io her In the traits of her husband's family but of what use to betray It? "Without question he may feel the same about hers, and It gives away her advantage to express It. There they are; and the wisest and pleas antest course- for her Is to suppress her feeling. And In the course of time the feeling that Is suppressed unites exasper ated to outburst or stimulated to ranker ened, and made habitual offenders. Nearly one-half of the soveral millions annually arrested became chronic crimi nals. In the face of the theory that pun ishment should be reformatory and pre ventive, the fact remains that In our hands It Is still largely a cause of corruption and of the spread of vice. Our city prisons and station houses are often nurseries of crime, and this may be affirmed also of many of our country jails and poorhouses. A recognized au thority .on this subject has said that If there is an Iniquity In tho land today It is the county Jail system; that there la no greater Iniquity In the world than the jail system of the United States. But the discussion of this and analo gous questions would carry me beyond the limits of a newspapor article. It is enough to have called attention to the fact that It is the part of wisdom to 're fuse to yield unreservedly to our American spirit of optimism. 1 All past ages, when compared with our own, were. In a sense, ages of Ignorance, and there may be reasons for thinking that the man of the future will place our century In the same category. A dark age certainly It shall be called, when considered from the point of view of conduct, when character Is held to "be 1 the only sufficient test of enlightenment. The Immature and the degenerate prefer pleasure to virtue and power, and they who prefer money to truth and lovo are also immature and degenerate. Greed not less than sensuality marks epochs In which all things are verging to ward ruin. "We are at present under the OR BLUSH of being free from certain foibles, that we see In others, while tears are a confes sion of weakness, an appeal for pity, a cry for help. Between laughter and tears stands the smile, perhaps a little nearer tho tears, because the smile is a language, because It can He like tears, because It Is very often semi-voluntary, but still, It must be said that the smile is far easier controlled by the will than the tears. I do not think that there Is an incoercl ble smile, and furthermore we can all smile exactly when we w'ant to, whether we mean anything by doing so or not. There are two kinds of smiles; In one caso we smile at a person, and then mean to express sympathy and benevolence. In tho other case we smile at a person, meaning at the same time to express scorn and disdain, as well as an entente with others present. So we see that there is a certain resemblance between tears and smiles. Tears are often a sign of sympathy and so is the smile, but at tho same time the difforenco is evident in .this that the smile almost never expresses pity, and when we talk of a pitying smile we really mean a smllo of disdain. Another sign of emotion that I might mention In connection with the smile Is the blush. Very often we smile when feeling em barrassed, and the same feeling of em GRADUATES should require of their sons the cutting of the wood for the family use, cutting and watering the grass of their lawns In Sum mer, cleaning off the snow from the side walks In Winter and many other necessary and healthful exercises, and If .they have animals, the care of them should also be assigned to tho boys. Mothers should Insist upon their daugh ters sharing In the household duties, fill ing In the spare time with their needles or some other refining occupation. In this way tho necessity for athletics would be mlnlmizcdV and the race developed men tally, morally and physically In a rational and useful way. For boys there Is nothing more benefi cial than a course in military tactics, and a comparative statemont of the results of training Jn military tactics, and in that of base and foot ball would beyond question be to give preponderance In favor of mili tary training, while the exerolse could not be better. The cultivation of a spirit of pride and nattlnoss In appearanoe In the military Is much more to be desired than the slatternly abandon and untidy appear ance of players of baseball, sprinting and other games that are In vogue in these days, not to mention the patriotic spirit inspired by marching and drilling under tho flag they might some day bo called upon to defend. "We have not heard of growth almost ceases to exist. One thing which, as a rule, never does cease to ex ist, is her objection to tho way In which her husband corrects the children. Xet to lift "an eyebrow about It she knows 13 not only likely Jo make a bad matter worse, but Is bad for tho children them selves; and not by a look askance unless positive and unbearable cruelty supervene will she discount the father's influence and authority. Nor does any of this Imply that there Is to be the least deceit on" the part of the wife. If she Is asked, or If she finds It necessary, she will declare her state ol mind; but experience and observation have shown her that tact la the viceroy of success, and that It accomplishes much more than the direct means of open oppo sition do. I Moreover, great love will always make her wish that her husband should be first, should have his own way wherever It is possible; and It tells her that he would too often give up his way for here if, ne knew her way were other than his; and she frequently derives her greatest happi ness In keeping her differing way effectu ally out of sight. Indeed that woman whose marriage has, been most conspicu ously a happy one, might tell you. If she would that it has been so largely through a long eelf-effaccment and suppression in many things, the balance of satisfaction tyrranoua sway of the spirit of commer cialism and expansion, and our very thought Is made subservient to the Ideal of vulgar success, but they who have the best insight havo a fine scorn of current opinion. They are able, to dq without Its approval and end by receiving It. The ends to which we as a people are called to devote ourselves are religion, education, justice and charity. If wo fall In this, wealth and numbers and the con quest of distant lands will have no power to savo as from ruin and shame. Nothing but a civilization resting on a basis of righteousness and morality can mako popular government and perma nent.. If we are to look, not to the triumphs of the moment, but to lasting results, for which the wholo world shall be grateful, we must trust to the largest thought and the purest love, for so surely as God Is, so surely are they destined to prevail. Tyranny Is the foe of liberty, greed, of justice, brute force of mercy and good ness; and wars which spring from the bar barous passion for conquest, from covet, ousness, from the savage's delight In vic tory won by cunning and- physical strength, pervert Judgment, destroy right feeling and foster the vices which weaken, harden and blind the people, and lead the way to destruction. "Unless we remain sensitive to moral dis tinctions, unless we prefer justice ana mercy to the dominion over the kingdoms of the earth, we shall enter the open ways along which the empires and republics ql the past havo rushed to destruction and shame. If, then, we lovo America, our country. If we believe In tho 'brotherhood of man kind. In equal opportunity and freedom for all of God's children, let us turn from dehumanizing greed, from vainglory ana prldo to follow after truth and Justice and love. barrassment will "very often cause us to blush. - . If we compare the blush and the tears we will see that they are almo&t opposite. Tears very often express an emotion that we want to show, because it is not to our advantage to conceal It, while the blush Is the vlslblo s.Ign of an emotion that we try to conceal. Under what circumstances do we then blush? Always when we try to control and hide our inmost feelings. We blush from modesty, we blush when somebody praises us-, and when this praise causes us great pleasure, while at the same time we do not want to show this pleasure, but, on the contrary, want to appear In different. "We blush from timidity when we feel that we are being attentively watched by many others, while we want to appear unconcerned and at ease. "We blush from shame, for Instance, when we have heard Indecent language, and want to make believe that we have heard or understood nothing, and we also blush with shame when we have been caught In -an act of doing Something that we did not want anybody to know any- t thing of. The will has absolutely no control over the blush; we cannot blush when we want to, nor stop blushing when we wish to appear unconcerned. In fact, the very effort tp control the blush will, In most cases, make us blush still more, and while we thereforo have a certain right to des ignate tears, laughter and smile as lan guages9, the blush could not be called thus, as It is only a sign, a show of emo tion, that It is beyond our power to con trol. any of the cadet corps coming off the 'field with broken boncar disreputable looking clothes and so used up that their best friends would not know them. In addition in the event of National trouble, we would have an embryo army that could in a brief period beponverted Into efficient soldiers, whose patriotism will have been much strengthened by their knowledge of mili tary tactics and education along the lines of usefulness for one's country. The Spanish-American "War demonstrat ed the value of the experience of our youth in the cadet corps of our public schools by furnishing some of our "best young officers and many soldiers that could have commanded men had disaster over taken all the officers of any company, bat talion or part of a command. There was never any trouble In finding capable non comml5sloned officers for any duty, no matter how important. Therefore, keep up the military drills; there is a future to that, and devise some Industrial branch that will also fit young men for useful vo cations In civil life, and discourage the now universal tendency to seek clerical and other precarious positions that are not In the line of real fruitful and stable work. Insist upon young girls learning the do mestic arts and useful occupations that equip them for wife and motherhood; and discourage them in the superficial prepa ration that enables them to take clerical positions In private and Government, offi ces, when, as a matter jf fact, tljey are ignorant of the fundamental principle of education, or in any sense prepared for the nobler duties and positions of a life that is In any sense beneficial to the world. being struck In others, and that it Is not alone the women of the convent-cell who are seen only behind veils and lattices. The Hours. Edgar Fawcett. Once amid- sleep I saw twelve sweet hours. Go lightly along, gay sisters, hand In hand. Some with gold flexuous hair and faces bland. Some dusky as night and wearing stars Ilka flowers. "Ah, lovely!" I murmured but the. secret powers Of slumber, issuing an occult command. Changed these fair wanderers to a mournful band That moved with earthward brows through leafless bowers. Then faintly across n7 dream a volca was 'borne, "The forms ..you first beheld, so blithe of mien Look' thus to eres that hope's warm glory cheers; While they that walk funereal and forlorn. Though etlU the same, by differing ejea are Through shadows of anguish and cold mist of tears.'" Sunxet "Wins Dante Gabriel Hossettl. Tonight this sunset spreads two golden wings Cleaving the western eky; "Winged, too, with wind It Is. and wlnnowlngs Of birds; as If the day's last hour In rings Of strenuous flight raustdle. Sun-steeped In . Are. the homeward pinions sway Above (he dovecote-tops; And clouds of starlings, ere they rest with day, Sink, clamorous like mill-waters, at wild play. By turns In every copse; Each tree heart-deep the wrangling rout re ceives Save for the whirr within. You could not tell the starlings from the leaves; Then one great puff of wings, and the swarm heaves -- Awav with ajl its. din. THE MODERN MATRIMONIAL H 0"W to marry is tho first question to what -justifies divorce, and to know how to do the first wisely . would In most cases obviate the necesslty of the other. Tho most important ques tion Is not how to patch up evils, but to dig down to the foundation causes of the discord and disorder on the surface. I would rather be instrumental In placing one. new round on the ladder of progress, by "which all humanity might rise a little higher than with moral anodynes to soothe the sufferings of one generation In their false relations. "We are doing two things- today to im prove married life. In opening all high schools and colleges to girls, we are giv ing men and women better opportunities of studying each other's tastes, senti ments, capacities, characters, in the nor mal condition. In everyday life In the recltatlon-room and on tho playground, tho real character reveals itself, and more congenial marriages will be the re sult of these early and free acquaintance ships, for different from those under the artificial stimulus of fashionable society. Thus, Do, In rousing a girl's ambition to go through a collegiate course, marriage will bo postponed to later years, when character and physical powers shall have been perfected and matured. This ot iteelf will end much of the weakness ana disability that so greatly mar the happi ness of married life of today. Moreover, girls ore beginning to have the Idea of pecuniary Independence, of the 'dignity of elf-support; hence with their minds occupied In study, their hands In profitable work, marriage will cease to bo the only goal of their ambition; it will be an Incident in their lives, not the whole" of It. A place In -the world of work will enable A VACATION SCHOOL FOR w1 ISB mothers realize that their chil- i dren havo a knack of growing out of knowledge spiritually no les3 than physically, and count It among the bleislngs of vacation that It gives time to make friends with ' their very own. Whether the Summer days are spent at homo or abroad, no mother who truly loves her boys and girls can afford to overlook tho opportunity of Summer leis ure. If she can manage to make herself comrade, and leader In sports, the prob lem of family government Is In a fair way of solving Itself. Comradery and leadership require some, thing of tact and forethought. There must be nothing which smacks of In fringement upon the true holiday spirit. Suggestions even squinting at school work are not to be endured. At the 'same time It is easily possible to make Summer play fix and fructify "Winter lessons. One wo man at least found It so. She had Sum mer charge of nine children between the ages of 8 and 12. A shallow stream ran over clean pebbles In front of the cot tage, with other pebbles heaping tho banks. There she set her charges to play ing geography; that Is to say, to making of pebbles and atewr, islands, peninsulas, continents, capes, promontories, bays, gulfs, straits, seas, ,even oceans. At first single things satisfied the continent build ers, but long before the Summer sojourn .ended, they had built hemispheres with rivers and mountain ranges duly running through. And it took nothing from their enjoyment of the building, that a Chicago lad Insisted upon having Lake Michigan bigger than the Pacific Ocean, nor that the Mississippi ran for once without the suspicion of a crook between mouth and source. From abstract geography the transition was easy to cities, and especially to bat tlefields. Here the titular mother showed herself Invaluable 3he knew about sol diers and generals, and had books which told of military formations and the con figuration of battje scenes. Battles them selves inevitably followed. It was thrill ing to see lines of proud, red-coated tin soldiers maneuvred by three haughty British generals and one private, advance to assault pebble cotton-balo breastworks, behind which a feminine General Jack REDUCTION ONE of the modern tendencies Is a gradual reduction of the size of the American family, and another Is a demand for female suffrage. The first of these Is or may soon become a menace to the welfare of the Nation; the other might or might not be beneficent according to the circumstances under which It. should be exercised. To a certain extent, these two tenden cies aro linked together, and an argument against female suffrage has been that It would tend to take women away from the family life and Into the political arena. It Is probable that there la suh a rela tionship between these two tendencies, b.ut the fact that they may combine together to the detriment of the public welfare docs not necessarily Imply that they may not be combined advantageously. While, this country now belongs to those who control Its affairs, a little later It will belong to others, and these others' will not be the sons and daughters of the present owners, because they have very few, but to the sons and daughters of those who rear large families. A republican form of government" Is based on the idea that It shall represent the whole people and shall conduct Its affairs so as to be of the greatest benefit to the greatest number. In practice voice In the government of a republic Is limited to the male sex on the theory that females do not have the necessary Information and experience to decide affairs of state, and It Is further limited to males over 21 on the theory that children have not yet ac quired the requisite degree of education to vote intelligently. This discrimination against children on account of lack of Information Is undoubt edly just, but while we may admit that women as a mas3 are less capable of grasping affairs of state tban men as a mass, yet discrimination against women as women is not Just, because all women BY ELIZABETH CADY STANTON women to marry from the highest motives, not from their necessities. It will teach them, too, the value of money to earn what they will spend will be the best pos sible check to extravagance, and end much of the domestic contention over the al mighty dollar and this place she Is slowly conquering today. So long as people marry from considera tions of policy from every possible mo tive but the true one discord and division must be the result. So long as the state provides no educa tion for youth on these questions, and throws no safeguards around the forma tion of marriage tle3, It Is In Jronor bound to open wide the door of escape. From a woman's standpoint, I see that marriage, as an Individual tie, irf slavery for woman, because law, religion and pub lic sentiment all combine under this idea, to hold her true to this relation, whatever It may be, and there in no othen human slavery that knows such depths of degra dation as a wife chained to a man whom she neither loves nor respects; no other slavery so disastrous in its consequence on the race, or to individual' respect, growth and development. The question today with the Protestant world, is not whether marriage is an in dissoluble tie, but, as a civil contract, for how many and what reasons It may be dissolved. All this talk about the Indissoluble tie and the sacredness of marriage. Irrespect ive of the character and habits of the hus band, is for Its effect on woman. She never could have been held the pliant tool she Is today but for the subjugation of her religious- nature to the idea that In whatever condition she found herself as man's subject, that condition was ordained "ot heaven, whether burning on the funeral pyre of her Husband in India or suffering the slower torture of bearing children BY A MOTHER son waved a kitchen knife sword, and shouted to her riflemen, who, like herself, wore skirts: "Aim, for the whites of their eyes." Perry at Lake Erie was played lower down, where the shallow stream ran into another quite three feet deep. The flag ship was a gorgeous thing of sails and paint chips,, chunks and bit of plank, along with tin cans, leaking badly through tho holes In which their stick masts were stepped, made up the rest' of the fleet. Only the boys fought In the naval battle wading in boldly to touch off the fire cracker cannon high on deck or slung at the masthead. The girls were sadly anx ious to be Indian allies, with paint and feathers stuck In the hair, but since both tho British and Americans flouted them, they ran off with their heads very high, and spent the whole afternoon working on Jhe book of leaves. The book of leaves was going home to the littlest girl's papa, who knew every thing about all the things that grew. All the children could help with It, under cer tain restrictions. That is to say, if they were sure they wanted to badly enough to do careful work and keep their hands very clean. The book was stoutly bound with roughlsh blank pages, grayish white and of fair sir. "Leaf prints went upon one side of each page. To make them, fresh leaves well wilted were pressed against paper which had been evenly blackened by holding It over the flame of a lamp. By rubbing the leaf delicately it left its image In whlto lines upon the black, but that did not count. From the black paper It was lifted Into its place In the book, blackened side down, covered with soft papor, and rubbed all over with a bit of cotton, tied In thin silk. It came away, leaving Its picture upon the book page. There were few or many on a page, according to size. The littlest girl's papa was to name and classify the pictures a very good puzzle for him and then the book was to go into the library of a pri vate school. The work proved so fascinating that several of the youngsters made leaf books of their own. Another among the older ones was moved to skeletonize the leaves and fill a bigger book with them. Printing leaves on sensitive paper was OF THE AMERICAN FAMILY BYCL REDFffiLD, ME. are not Inferior In this respect to all men. In a republic the only valid ground for denying any citizen a right to a voice in Its government Is a lack of the Intelli gence necessary to exercise properly that voice, and In drawing the line between the eligible and the Ineligible it should apply equally to all persons. Although children, by reason of lack of Information, do not know what govern mental policies are best for the Nation, and consequently cannot be permitted to exercise the right of franchise, yet they have the same right to life and protection that adults have, and the future welfare of the Nation is bound up In their welfare and education. They are, therefore, vitally interested In good government, and should be represented by proxy until they are able to represent themselves. And who, it may be asked, should repre sent the child during his minority? Un doubtedly, the child's parents have a bet ter conception than others of the child's needs. The parent Is burdened with the child's support. Is his legal guardian and should be his political representative In a government whose future existence Is de pendent upon the proper rearing and edu cation of It children. The object of a republic Is the attain ment of good government, and It Is quite certain that a government controlled by he fathers and mothers of families will be better than one.controlled by bachelors and old maids, who have no children and never expect to have any. Suppose we meet this condition by ex tending the franchise to women and also to children by proxy through their parents, dividing the extra votes equally between father and mother and giving the odd vote to the father when there Is an odd number of minor children. Under present condi tions, there are economic and social dis criminations against parents. The parent Is burdened with the expense and care ot children. He Is compelled to forego many PROBLEM every year in America, to drunkards, dis eased, licentious men, at the expense ot her own life and health and the mind and the body of her progeny. TVomen would not live as they now do In this enlightened age. In violation ot every law of their being, giving the very heyday of their existence to the exercise of one animal function. If subordination to man had not been made through the ages the cardinal point of their reHgious faith and daily life. It requires but little thought to see that the indissoluble tie was one of the necessary eteps In this subjugation. Human nature will bear anything so long as ills seem inevitable, but when a door of escape opens the Inborn love of life and freedom in the human soul fires the whole being to seek liberty at ail risks, throwlnsr old authorities and dog mas to the winds and tramping the chains of a long and wearied bondage under their indignant feet. The Indissoluble tie" was found to be necessary In order to estab lish man's authority over woman. But the day Is breaking. It Is something to know that life's Ills are not showered upon us by the Great Father from a kind of Pandora's box. but are the result ot causes that we have the power to remove. By a knowledge and observance of law the road to health and happiness opens before us; a Joy and peace that passeth all understanding shall yet be ours, and Paradise regained on earth. "When marriage results from a true i union of intellect and spirit when moth-' ers and fathers give to their holy offices even the preparation of soul and body that the artist gives to his conception of hie poem, statue or painting, then will marriage and paternity acquire a new sa credness and dignity, and a nobler type of manhood and womanhood will glorify the race. PARENTS also tried, but the little people did not care for it, as they did not know how to fix the pictures after they were made. But they got no end of pleasure out of cheap drawing pads and plentiful colored crayons. Sometimes the titular mother told or read them something, making It as short and plain as possible, and letting each) hearer picture his Idea of what he hadt heard. Some truly astonishing creatures I resulted, but the story teller found tho pictures wonderfully Instructive. They were Indeed a fairly accurate Index of tho great temperamental differences In atten tion and comprehension. Some of tho children to whom spoken words seemed to convey the least were able, after seeing pictures in a book, to come much nearer reproducing them, than others who, work ing by hearsay, had done much better. Indeed, it Is not too much to say that If for 10 months In tho year parents edu cate their children, thrdughout tho other two normal children do a deal toward ed ucating their parents so fully grown up they are glad to be In part chllJren again. One such mother who founJ. her self unable to go out through a whole Summer, kept her five children whole somely happy and content by playing stories with them. Sho got the best and brightest books none of them juvenile and read them to her flock, a chapter each morning. After the reading the young sters wero permitted to choose who in the story they would be. First choleo was the prize of all-round good behavior, and no choice at all the severest punish ment. -"Whatever was chosen, the chocs er had to live up to, as nearly as possi ble, until next morning. One of those children feels to this day a grievance against Fate In that she was never lucky enough to be the Fat Boy In Pickwick. A whole season of story playing is, of course. Impracticable outside one's own home. But for a day or special occasion It might serve very well. Children lovo nothing better than qcting witness their j close Imitation of those round about them. Irt the family, as In the state, the least governed are commonly the best governed, and those so indirectly controlled they seem self-governed, the happiest and most .peaceable of all. luxuries and pleasures he might otherwise have, and in his peregrinations through the world the sign "no children allowed" meets him at every turn. And this In a Republic and Nation whose existence de pends upon these parents! If the parent Is the political representa tive as well as the legal guardian of his minor child, the politics of the country will recognize the parent. Instead of the mu nicipal office of emolument going to tho ward heeler whose children. It any, reside in an orphan asylum, it will go to the father of a respectable family, who wilt thereby be better able to support and edu cate the future custodians of the country. The mother, who Is now ignored, wilt then have a certain social prestige arising from political Influence. The country will b'e better governed, the children will be better educated, and we will never fall Into that childless age which proved to be the destruction of Greece and Rome. Shake Hands "With Fate. 'Tis a sad old world, and a bad old world, It is scarce worth while at all; Its sorrows cling and Us friendships sting. And even Its Joys will pall. But dear -is life for all its strife. And love Is better than hate You'll And a grace In the surliest face If you Just shake hands with fate. "With light In your glance and right In your glance And your lips In a curve to tho sky; A spring in your walk and a ring In your talk. Sure, hope will not pass you by. The path that you will winds over a hill. But It leads to an open gate; So trill you a song to lure lovo along. And just shake hands with fate. TIs In yourself is the demon elf. 'TIs in yourself is God: And you'll never stray from yourself away God's light or the devil's prod. Whatever your mind you'll meet In kind. And what Is yourself create; The world will view what Is really you Therefore, shako hands with fate! Reglna. Armstrong la Leslie's "Weekly.
