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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, POBTIrAXD, SEPTEMBER 11, 1904. 31 : ; : ; 3 ; j ' ! Uncle Sam as an International Quantity :SmtosStt"hysRne y HICAGO, Sept. .6. (Special Corre- spondence of The 'Sunday uregonian.j It -was in a biff hotel on the shores of Lake ilichigan that I chatted last night with Senator" Shelby 1L Cullom about Uncle Sam. as an International quantity. Senator Cullom has had much to do with the growth of this country. Born in a log cabin in Kentucky, ho came in a canvas-covered wagon to Illinois wtjn its prairies were little more than a wilderness. He took part in the cam pacn which made Abraham Lincoln President, and had been elected to Con gress when Lincoln was assassinated. Since 1805 he has been in public life, and much of the time in the House of Repre sentatives and the United States Senate, where he has been prominent in interna tional affairs. He Is today the chairman of the foreign relations committee of the Senate, and as such is the head of the Congressional branch of our treaty-making power. Uncle- Sam and the World. "Uncle Sam la bigger as an internation al quantity than he has ever been," said Senator Cullom. "He has grown to be a giant within the past few years. The world powers now realize that he is their equal, and it may be said that he is at the head of the procession." "When did this come about, Senator?" I asked. "Our big growth began during our war with Spain." said Senator Cullom. "Be fore that the Great European nations rather looked down upon us as a second ary orce in the world's politics. They considered us a nation of smart traders fresh, green and exceedingly boastful. They talked of us as worshipers of the dollar, and appeared to think wo would not fight, and could not if we would. They disparaged our navy and laughed at our little army as compared with their gi gantic military machines. The war showed them that our gunners knew how to shoot, and that we understood how to handle our ships, and that our army was not restricted by the numbers in the ranks. They learned that every American citizen makes good soldier timber, and that the American National spirit Is not affected by the American pocketbook. Our easy success in that war astounded them, and they began to respect Uncle Sam. They increased that respect when, with John Hay as Secretary of State, we put our selves at the front in settling the Chinese trouble which followed. They now re gard us as one of the biggest factors in every world problem. Our opinion is asked before any settled policy is pro mulgated I might even say before it is formed." The United States and China. "Did the United States really do much as to the Chinese settlement. Senator?" "It did everything," was the reply. "Had it not been for our Government China would now be divided up among the great nations of Europe. Such a division was contemplated, and Germany, England and Housing for the WE AMERICANS are a practical people, surely. We are a pro gressive people, liberal, broad minded, rebellious against tradition and the downward drag of old customs. Yet there are wide areas of life where we might as well be Hindus for all tho advance we make. We have developed a breed of trotting horses which are the admiration of the world, we have bred the trophy, tomato and tho navel orange, and here Is Mr. Burbank ranging easily ahead in playing tricks on nature, with his "Plumcot" and white blackberries, his stoneless prune and pitless plum. In especial do we excel in two points in a keen, far sighted business sense and in mechanical adaptability. Also we are noted for our family affection and our general kindness of heart. Why, then, with all this array of valu able qualities, are we content to leave three-fifths of our population without proper accommodation? In the census average five persons are allowed to a family, two adults and three children. A growing population must have more than two children to a family, and we are growing. At the lowest com putation our children constitute more than half the people of the land. Thelr roaintenance, education and general shel ter and protection Is becoming every year more of a problem of civics, and good progress is being made in this line of study; but their housing is a problem In real estate, in building, a practical busi ness proposition, which could be met on quite other lines. The city is the place where these ques tions confront ns, naturally, and in the city they must be answered first. Here iu New York in a population of three and a half millions we have two million, one hundred thousand children. Parents Provide No Playgrounds. For this vast number of citizens the only provision made is civic the parks, the schools and a few playgrounds. Their parents, of course, do not provide these accommodations for children the period of parental supply Is long past; If chil dren were left to tho sole care of their parents only the few rich would have schools, and even they would have no gen eral parks or playgrounds. Our rich men's children have finer clothes, and private schools, but even they must be pushed and pulled about the pub lic streets and public parks their parents can provide for them only a remote nurs ery and small backyard. Poor and rich alike must mainly use the street for what outdoor life they get; and here tho poor child has some advan tage, for he is not herded by a servant, he has freedom of body and brain, and learns much more than the poor, dull' baby in the white velvet coat and leggings. But what a x scandalous Inadequacy it all is! Here are these thousands and thousands of growing citizens, and here are the cits fathers and the home-bound mothers equally Indifferent to their needs. Among the traditions we have not rebelled against, a superstition as old as those of Brahma and Vishnu Is our complacent assumption that the home Is the place Ifor children. Perhaps It was. once. Perhaps the cave-dweller arranged his excavation especially with a view to the advantage of the young. "Perhaps the tepeo of the Sioux or the many-celled hive of the Pueblo is planned for children the peas ant's hut, or the baron's castle, or the king's palace. Children Excluded From Houses. In that vast vague period of the Matrl archate, which antedates all history, there may have been homes made for children but there are not now. On the contrary the glaring and horrifying contrary we build houses to exclude children: wo do not want them in the home! Go about wiih a family of five children and see the atti tude of householders toward them. Lydia KIngsmlll Commander has shown us in The Independent this phase of the que3 tion with amusing conclusiveness. Our houses are built and planned en tirely and exclusively for adults, and in the more expensive ones children are frankly objected to often prohibited. Of course, we continue to have children, and they do live somewhere: so they must needs be huddles about in the accommodation for "grown ups," and turned Into the street, with all its dirt and Russia had each taken a foothold, when Secretary Hay said that the international policy should be the 'open door; that Is, that China should be Independent and free to the trade of all nations. After that the other powers fell Into line and advocated the 'same policy. The compar atively easy terms of peace which-China secured were largely due to the United States, and today the fact that that coun try is not the fighting ground of the war between Japan and Russia is. due to the masterly state papers of John Hay. "We have also opened up China to trade as never before. By our new treaty the local taxes on good3 from station to station throughout the empire have been abol ished, new treaty ports have been thrown open, and on the whole China has been made a free trading field for the world." Our Secretary of State. "You seem to givo Secretary Hay all the credit for that work, Senator?" "I do," replied Senator Cullom. "Oth ers have helped carry out his ideas, but bis is the master mind as far as our dip lomatic relations and successes are con cerned. I consider Mr. Hay a very great man. He Is the greatest Secretary of State this country has ever had. He has statesmanlike ability of the highest or der allied to - sterling courage and the genius of common sense. He Is experi enced In dealing with foreigners and with nations. Ho is a man of letters, and speaks the foreign languages fluently. He is cool, conservative, and at the same time bold and quick to act. No, I don't time we have ever had so great a Secre tary of State. Tho whole world acknowl edges his ability." John Hay's Early Life. "How long have you known Secretary Hay?" "All his life," was the reply. "He comes from my state, having been born at "Warsaw., in tho western part, on the Mississippi River. His uncle, Milton Hay, was my law partner, and I knew his father very welL Ho was a doctor and a man of ability. I remember he once Introduced me when I spoke In "Warsaw. His Introduction was longer than my speech, but It was good nevertheless. "My first close association with John Hay was when he entered my office in Springfield to study "law. He had been to "school at the academy In Springfield and had then gone east to Brown Uni versity, where he graduated. Our firm was that of .Hay & Cullom, and John came into the office largely on account of my partner, his Uncle Milton Hay. This was Just before the war, when John was 18 or 19 years old." ""What kind of a law student was he, Senator?" I asked. "He was very bright," said Senator Cul lom. "He had not been in the office six 'weeks before we could tell him what we wanted in tho way of papers, and he would go off and draw them up. He could draw up a bill in chancery, and, in fact, almost any kind of a paper. "We had other students who could never learn." "It must -have been then, that Hay be came acquainted with Lincoln?" said L "Yes, although I suppose Lincoln must danger, in the care of the casual police man or stultifying nursemaid. We are so used to this, so helpless under the weight of age-old customs, that it never occurs to us that proper acom.no dations could be made for this largo and important class of citizens. We do not at the moment recognlzo what is meant. "Accommodation for chil dren? What do you mean? What do they need that they do not have?" If hard-pressed we may admit that the street! is not a safe or nobly educative playground; that the poor child runs hor rible risks and that the rich suffers drear ily In the benumbing clutch of an igno rant servant. But our Inert brain can see nothing else possible. "They have to be In the street," we say, sadly "they must have air. "What other place is there?" The Roof Solves the Problem. There is another place, even in the city; an unobstructed area, miles , and miles of it, with tho best air possible In the cir cumstances, and that is? the roof. "Roof roof but that Is where you hang clothes that is no place for children!" No, it -is not, at present. But It could be, it should be, it will be when we see the right and reason of it Take It from the private point of view: Here Is a city lot and house. The lot Is 100x25 feet, the house 25x75 feet, the yard 25x25 feet, and the sidewalk 25x10 feet. Now the sidewalk and yard together give the child but 875 square feet, whereas the roof would give him 1875 feet. In the street is dirt, noise and danger. In the yard is less light, less air and a sense of Imprisonment. On the roof is the best air a city has to offer, all the sun there Is, comparative quiet and security. But the private point of view is not the one from which to regard the child. One's own poor solitary private child or two, soon growing up to the longed-for age when they can have circumstances to fit them, can never command the attention and re spect which we must give to the bulk of our citizens a steady, permanent class. Your child grows tip and becomes an adult and forgets his infant limitations; but children the children of the city- SENATOR CUIXOM, THE LEADER AS UNITED STATES have known Hay's father and may have known him as a boy. Lincoln was a "great friend of Milton Hay, and he was fre quently in our office. "When Lincoln was elected President he made John Hay one of his secretaries, and he then began that diplomatic training which Is so val uable to him today." The English Mission. "Did you have anything to do with the appointment of Colonel Hay as minister to England?' "I have always had a high opinion of Children remain continually, In their thousands upon thousands. And the same roof O, purblind parent! will in course of years accommodate more than one child! Now, suppose our housebullders and In vestors In real estate should wake up to the fact that there was a market they had never catered to, a huge and Influential patronage clamorlng-for proper provision. Suppose, while your imagination Is In use, that this enormous number, of chil dren were organized and Influential that they knew what they needed, and had the money to pay for it. Fancy them forming a syndicate and in-, vesting millions in the building of houses which did not exclude adults, but did In clude children as the governing factor. What would they build? Our imaginations refuse to work. We never in our lives gave a thought to the needs of children as a class except as schoolchildren. What Can Be Accomplished. There we have, indeed, accomplished something. As soon as we consider them as a class as a permanent class we do make shift to meet their needs. Now children at homo are just as num erous and Just as permanent as children at school. Why should we not give as much care to providing homes for them as we do to provide schools for them? Now to really stretch our minds to the consideration of home accommodations for children. Let us take a city block in New York as a basis nothing worse will present Itself. If we can solve the prob lem n New York we can solve it any where. This block represents an area of 160, 000 square feet. In this block there are, say, 100 families; 200 adults, 300 children. This Is not a passing incident, but a con tinual fact. That number of children are the permanent residents of that block. They may change Individually as do the adult tenants, for that matter but as a class of residents they remain. Being the majority. It would seem reasonable that the place should be planned mainly with a view to their needs. The needs of children, as distinct from those of adults, are mainly educative. The adult is a settled quantity. He or THE CHILDREN'S PLAYGROUND ON TO FOREIGN AFFAIRS IN THE SENATE. Hay's diplomatic ability," replied Sen ator Cullom, "and when McKlnley was elected I wrote a letter without solicita tion on the part of Hay or anyone else, advising the President to give Hay tho mission to England. He got the appoint ment, but I cannot say that 'my letter was the cause of that. "When Johri Sher man had left the State Department and Secretary Day was about zo be elevates to the Supreme Court I again wrote Mc Klnley, advising him to call John Hay hdhie and make him Secretary of State. In my letter I put forth his peculiar fit in a Large City she wants a home wherein to rest after the day's work, a place of quiet ease, comfort, personal expression. In all this1, as part of the family, the child shares according to his powers. But the period of childhood has dominant necessities of Its own. To begin with the baby. He should have, besides proper food, shelter and protection from danger, the fullest means of growth, physical and mental. We dress Jur babies more rlth.'-s1 view to our sense of beauty and to the protection of our clothes and furnishings than with a view to the care and free growth of the llttlb body. If we. In our house i)ulldlng, pro vided proper apartments- for babies, con sidering their smooth and normal devel opment as the main thing, they might be very differently dressed,, and wholesome ly undressed most of the time. 'Air, Sunlight and Quiet. For air, sunlight and quiet the roof and the floor .under it are the natural place for the little ones. When a whole block Is thus arranged we shall have an outdoor space of two-thirds the whole area quite a park. Ope side could be for the infants, three for the older ones, who require more space. For the babies the quiet sleeping rooms, bathing rooms not only for lava tory purposes, but with wide, shallow pools, where the delighted fatllngs could play in the water for blessed hours when the weather was not suitable outside, baby gymnasia and general nursery ac commodations. Above, with insurmount able high railings, there" could, be sun gardens, sandgardens, flower-gardens, too, of sorts', and, again, gymnasia in the open air. Babies cannot. It Is true, swing clubs and dumbbells, or do elaborate acts on ladders, but they passionately enjoy such physical exercises as they are capa ble of pulling upon s&ft, large ropes with in easy reach. Incipient swinging, climb ing up and rolling down and sliding; there are plenty of exercises in which the wa king hours of healthy yearlings and two-year-olds could be passed In pure delight and great profit. No perambulators needed. The child could get the air and sun while stationary, and get real exer cise while In motion. They do not like to be strapped In, smothered In blankets v,;i THE ROOF OF THE IDEAL CITY HOME. ness for the position, saying that he could handle the foreign powers better than any other man living, and could fill the place as well as any man in the country; McKlnley was then considering Hay and Wbitelaw Reld. There were many in fluences at work, but Hay was chosen, and I don't think that McKlnley regretted it." Uncle Sam and Cuba. The conversation here took a foreign turn and I asked the Senator whether he was satisfied as 'to what had been done as to Cuba. He replied: "I think that island Is being greatly ben efited by Its association with us. and that the United States should be congratulated on Its connection with It. "We have through our treaties secured Its independ ence and at the same time made it prac tically a dependency of the United States. By those treaties Cuba cannot enter Into any questionable or entangling alliances with foreign powers; she cannot go Into debt beyond her ability to easily pay, and her situation la such that sooner or later she must become even more closely asso ciated with the United States than she Is now. It may be that she will one day ask to be annexed to the Union." "How does Cuba get along governing herself " "Very well so far," replied Senator Cul lom. "Estrada Palma, the president, is an able man and he can control the people. He Is a strong friend of the United States, having lived for some time in this country I can't say what will be the status of the island when he passes away." "How is the country prospering?" "It is growing very rapidly as far as new industries and the development of its resources are concerned. Many Americans are Investing in Cuban lands and in other properties of all sorts. Sir "William "Van Home, tho head of the Canadian Pacific Railroad, who got his railroad education In the United States, is now building a railroad from one end of the Island to the other. This will open up much country which has heretofore been inaccessible." Porto Rico and San Domingo. "What Is the condition of Porto Rico?" "I think it steadily, grows better;" re plied Senator Cullom. "Porto Rico Is a valuable Island, although by no means so rich as Cuba. Cuba Is one of the most fer tile spots on the globe. The Porto Rlcans are easily governed. "We have established schools everywhere thepeti and I believe that the island will eventually be one of our most desirable possessions." "How about Santo Domingo, Senator? Will we not have to take that island to keep the people In order?" "I hope not," replied the Senator. "At least not until they have had enough wars to wipe out the turbulent elements among the Islanders. I think we have our hands full as It Is." "Are you satisfied with the condition of the Philippines?" "Yes; the Philippines are doing very well now, and they will become much more valuable as time goes on. The people are fast recovering from the war, and we may expect a continued peace." "Do you think Canada will ever be a and helplessly pushed around. When asleep a baby can He still; when awake he should be free to move The peram bulator is a device to keep the child tol erably safe and clean in our unsafe and unclean streets. vWhen we have the sense to provide a proper place for babies they will not need these antiquated devices. Our retinue of nursemaids and the "un ceasing care" which the fond mother gives- are necessary while the poor baby roams among the elaborate furnishings of an adult home or the dangers of the street, but legitimate accommodations will simplify "the care of children" re markably. For the older ones the same general needs are to be met. Rooms suitable' for child life, where their natural activity can cause no Inconvenience to older peo ple and where are provided opportunity and occupation for those activities, In stead of expecting a child to be "good" in doing nothing, and calling it naughty for nearly all It does. As I have remarked In another place, mischief is a term we use to describe the natural Interaction be tween a child and a home. Will Not Make Mischief. When children have homes- really planned for them they will do no mischief there will be so many natural things to do. The elements are a delight always earth, air, fire and water and with ex periment and unconscious Instruction they could play and learn from year to year, having a jolly good time every day. Simply playing In Water Is occupation and education In itself under right super vision. A shallow swimming pool, chutes to slide down splashlngly, boats to sail, all the games posslblo in this delightful media there could be one such in every block. One carefully fitted gymna sium, too; but, mainly, large playgrounds, with little Individual garden boxes and such like provision for happy growth and observation. From the cheapest and easiest arrange ment of a clean, safe place to play to the most elaborate and advanced for uncon scious education, every block In the city, according to its rents, could offer suitable accommodation to this large proportion ml part of the United States, Senator Cul lom?" I asked. "I used to hope so, and that the tjme would come soon. It may still come, but it seems to me that it Is farther away now than It was 20 years ago. The Brit ish provinces north of us have become united since 'then, and a greater love for the mother country and the King has sprung up." "How about the great Northwest, where so many Americans are emigrating? Will those American settlers not.create a pro annexation sentiment?" "It may be so, and I should like It so. I should like to see the United States extend northward In one great block to -the Arc tic Ocean." "Yes, and southward to the Panama Canal?" said I. "I don't know about that," replied the chairman of the foreign relations com mittee, "although our destiny now seems to point that way. Americans by hun dreds are investing in Mexico. They own mines, railroads and lands. They have property In Central America, and now we have - acquired that ten-mile strip across the Isthmus of Panama and are to build' a great canal through it costing hundreds of millions of dollars. All that indicates the Americanization of this continent, and I don't know that I like it. I don't want to see our country grow so big that It will be unwieldy, nor to overload It with races different from ours. As to the Canadians, we could easily assimilate them, for they are Anglo-Saxons, as we are, but the races to the south are Latins, and the Latin races do not mix with ours so well. In deed, I doubt If we would be wise to acquire, those 'countries with the idea of their eventually becoming states of this Union." "What do you think of the Panama canal, Senator?" "There Is only one way to look at It, and that is as one of the most important undertakings of the century. It is now a fixed fact, and within eight years It may be completed: We shall have about 20,000 men at work there within a few weeks." "Do you apprehend more trouble as to the Monroe Doctrine?" "I do not. The Germans and the Eng lish both acknowledge It, and It will be come more firmly established as time goes on." Our Trouble With Morocco. "What, do you think of the Perdlcarls Incident, Senator? I mean the American citizen that the Moroccan brigands re cently captured and held until he was ransomed." "I don't like it, and I do not approve of our methods of yielding to such mat ters. The great powers ought not to be at the mercy of 40 thieves who act as brigand chiefs in the Mohammed art re gions of Africa and Asia. If their govern ments cannot restrain them, If they can not protect their own citizens and their foreign residents, they ought to be wiped out. Such things are an outrage in these The Roofs as Playgrounds s2f By Caroline Perkins Gilman in the Outloook. of Its tenants. While the whole block may be beyond our reach at present, even a small apartment-house could begin the good work even a private house if the owner could afford it. But private inter est and private means are no more to be trusted to make suitable homes for chil dren than they are to make suitable schools. Take an ordinary apartment-house of the more reasonable sort five stories high 10 families with an average of 30 children. Even on that limited roof space a big sun parlor for babies and sand gar den for toddlers could be placed, and the other half fitted as a playroom and gym nasium for the older ones. Below would be, as now, tho family home, to which the child would return from his own playground as he now re turns from the school or the street. Hav ing a place of his own, with acknowl edged rights and privileges, he would eas ily learn to respect those of others a somewhat difficult lesson now to a healthy, vigorous child who grows up on sufferance in an adult home and on the street In the matter of expense there is no serious obstacle. The rich could save enough off their armies of futile nursemaids to pay for first-class care in the roof playgrounds. The poor would have less elaborate pro vision, and could save what was needed on doctors' and undertakers' bills and the taxes which support our prisons and asylums. The question of association among the children will not trouble the poor, who now flock thickly in the street, and need not trouble the rich, who can keep their little ones in solitary confinement in in dividual pens on' their roofs If they pre Purses and Bags for Fall Suits ONE of the necessities of the up-to-date girl Is her wrlstbag with a nat ty little purse to match. Whether she Is riding on the car to fulfill the du ties of her $7-a-week position, or whether she Is lounging in a viotorla on her way to a 5 o'clock tea, she has her wrlstbag. And In these days of pocketless frocks, what could she do without lt7 The autumn styles In handbags give faint promise of the return of the chate laine, although there is no decided move ment In that direction so early in tho season. A tendency to flatness is the most marked featnre of the modish purses and bags, introduced flrst In the flatlron bag and purse. The former has two handles, which are like ihe adjustable handle, of a flatlron and hold the bag together at the top. The envelope bag Is a large leather envelope with little envel ope purses tucked Inside. Replacing the gaudy scarlets, greens, purples and royal blues of the- Summer are bags in the more subdued tints and in dull black, rather than in conspicuous patent leather. A new and effective fad In wristbags is to have them made to match the color of the vest worn with the all-fashionable Dlrectolre coat. In putty-colored suede, in soft kids and leathers, in chamois color, and In an odd shade of old rose, there Is a bewildering array of self-sewn bags and purses. Very little mounting Is shown on the tailor made bag, so that the severe effect may be carried out throughout. An onion-colored walrus leather bag. mounted In Roman gold In an orchid of design, is one of the novelties. Down in the lower corner the face of the tiniest watch peeps out. The face measures half an inch, but it tells the time of day. "Portable toilet tables" is tlie name given to some of the modish bags by Ir reverent men. These are exaggerated In size, and Inside, each tucked into Indi vidual pockets, are found a vanity bag with powder and a minutely fashioned puff, a tiny metal case with a cake of rouge, a slender eyebrow pencil, a mirror and a cutglass vinaigrette, to say noth ing of a pocket for the handkerchief, an other for a cardcase, and still another for a purse. Many of these elaborately-fitted bags are of alligator skin. Contrasting with the largo bag is the pretty little jeweled purse some girls carry on their middle finger. It Is of gold or silver, dependent from a chain on a gold ring, and Is only, large, enough for days of the twentieth century civilization. It may be that our actions as to Miss Stone gave us the reputation of being easy to work, and that the stealing-of Perdicari3 was a repetition of it. I don't know. I am sure, however, that such actions should be prevented and that their per petrators should be made examples for all the world to see." "I should like to see Morocco cleaned up," continued Senator Cullom. "That whole North African country was for years a den of pirates which preyed upon tho commerce of Europe. We had a war with them as far back as 1S01 be cause we would not pay the tribute they wanted, and In ISIS Commodore Decatur brought the Dey of Algiers to his knees , by threatening to blow his city to ruin if he made any further demands on American vessels. Indeed, the United' States was the first to bring the robbers In North Africa to time." Law Versus Politics. I have referred to Senator Cullom's early law practice, when John Hay was one of his students, and asked him If he had ever regretted leaving the law for politics. He replied: "I can't say that I have. My political career has brought me into the swim of public affairs and I have been a part, greater or less, of our history for the past 40 years. I have liked the life and its struggles the ability to do things and to be a part of thlngs.1 I have been able to accomplish something for my friends, and a little, I hope, for my country. And still J have had to pay well for this, in that I am a poor man today! Had I stuck to the law I should probably be rich. The year before I came to Congress Milton Hayand I each made 520,000 out of our practice; and the money came so easily that I never thought It would not always be so. When I gave up the law, however, I dropped my practice, and I have been engaged in politics from that time until now." A Story of Abraham Lincoln. "How did you come to enter politics, Senator Cullom?" "It was largely through Abraham Lin coln. He was my Ideal hero and 4 tha friend of my boyhood. When he was elected as President I had a desire to go into Congress, and the night before he left Springfield to be Inaugurated I told him: 'Mr. President, I want to come to Washington before you leave.' Lincoln's eyes laughed as I used the words 'Mr. President.' I was then the young Speak er of the Illinois Legislature, and he re plied, emphasizing the formal mode ofl address: 'Mr. Speaker, I hope you will.' "It was then that I began to schema to go to Washington, and soon after thalj I was elected to Congress. Lincoln, how ever, warned me not to make politics my life work, telling me that it would not pay. I disregarded his warning, and I soon got In so deep that I could not get out." (Copyright 1904.) FRANK G. CARPENTER, fer, or, even, as now, give each a servant to sit gossiping with- the others and drag the child about. It would be In a safe place, that is all- Neither is there any question of separating the children from their mothers. The mother may, if she will, sleep by the child at night, and sit, stand or walk by It all day (as she does now!) It Is simply that she would have a proper place to do it in. As a .matter of fact, very few mothers are In cessantly with their children. The poor have too much work and the rich too much play. Also thes.e last are ashamed to be much seen with their children in the street lest they be taken for nurse maids. I remember once, when I wa3 wheeling my own baby, being stopped by a bnevolent old lady, who admired the child and asked: "Whose baby 13 it?" It never occurred to her that the mother could really be with her child. This building provision need not ex clude the most devoted mother, not for an Instant; It merely provides permanently for the needs of our young residents. One more thing may affright us: "Where shall we dry our clothes?" Pos sibly the home is meant to be a place for children as much as a laundry- When we do make It a place for children we may be forced to take dirty work outside. So let us look forward to the advertisements of the far-seeing landlord: "Elegant resi dence for families with children. Best roof accommodations in city. Absolutely no smoke. Double railings. Outer and Inner promenade. Ample provision for swimming. Gymnasia for one year up." And so on and so on. L The market waits. Two million children In New York permanent residents will no one build houses for them? "Wanted: A home. Apply to the Child." change. The jewelers are showing these little purses in exquisite designs and studded with precious gems. Old-fashioned embroidered bags on heavy silk and poplins are candidates for favor, to be carried with the garments patterned after the Louis styles. Queer beaded conceits are shown in some of the shops, but a short life Is In store for them. They are a trifle too gay for the average girl. An opera bag of black velvet, richly embroidered In gold pailettes; Is pretty and is used much like the handbag. It Is the evening edition of the wrlstbag. and Into It are transferred the bejeweled vanity box and mirror. Gunmctal chatelaine bags will be worn this Winter with velvet street gowns in the same tone, although they wear off the pretty soft pile of the fabric with the constant friction In walking. Gold-beaded bags are expensive, but are liked with dressy frocks. A lining of chamois or white silk Is sewed inside the metal. The Little Waves of Breffny. Eva Gore-Booth. The grand road from, the mountain goes shin ing: to the sea. And there la traffic In It, and many a horse and cart. But the little roads of Cloonagh are dearer far to me. And the little roads of Cloonagh go rambling; through my heart. A great storm from tho ocean goes shouting o'er the hill. And there la glory In It and terror on tha wind. But the haunted air of twilight la very strange and still. And the little winds of twilight are dearer to my mind. The great waves of the Atlantic sweep storm ing on their way. Shining green and sliver with the hidden herring shoal. But the Little "Waves of Breffny have drenched my heart In spray. And the Little Waves of Breffny go stum bling through my soul. , My Love'3 Attire. Anon. My love In her attire doth show her wit, It-doth so well become her: For every season she hath dressings fit. For Winter. Spring and Summer. No beauty she doth miss "When all her robes are on: But' Beauty's self she Is Whea all her robes are gone. X I