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THE SUNDAY OREGOHIAN, PORTLAND, JULY 13, 1902.
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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.