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On the Making of a Successful Wife
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Ilahlng and Shooting Hketchea, by Grover
i"lfveland. lllvstrited. I1.2.V Th Outing
Publlrhlnn Company, yew Tork City.
Grovcr Cleveland as a politician and
Jihfrman are two widely different per
sons. As a politician his record is too
well known for any discussion at this
time, and as a fisherman and sportsman
he exhibits naturalness and calm philoso
phy that makes anything he has to say
on these subjects of refreshing worth.
The present volume is another reissue of
an already famous book, and several of
the sketches are well known, but the
hook in its new and improved form is
the one you oucht to get for your library.
The name of Cleveland Is a good asset,
but the literary matter is so good that It
doesn't require the impress of a famous
name to sell it. The illustrations are
by Henry a. Watson.
Truthful .lane, by Florence Morf Klngs'.ey.
1.30. D. Applcton & Co.. New Tork City.
Occasionally, one gets hold of a pretty.
little love story with an English setting
which comes as the breath of old rose
from a delicately scented jar, and as one
reads it one seoms to pass through gar
den Kngland and Its leafy lanes. 'Truth
ful Jane" Is one of these delicious Eng
lish stories, and it amuses as well as in-
terests. It is just the sort of a story
that Is interest-compelling enough to fas
cinate the reader to the last page. Is'o
fcody is made to experience a violent
death in it, and there is no woman with
several husbands and a chloride past.
Jane Aubrey Blythe is a foolishly roman
tic young woman with high-strung ideas
which nearly wreck her life had she not
visited America, where she gained com-mon-sonse
and an excellent husband.
Hon. Wippllnger Towle is a splendid
ly drawn character, although it is a pity
be makes so poor a lover. But he stands
heroic in his unselfishness and unloved
middle age, Once he softly told Jane he
loved her, and that damsel replied: "I'd
like you awfully well for an uncle, or a
grandfather. There, I oughtn't to Ijave
said that. You are really not old enough
to be a grandfather. But mine are both
dead, and I've always thought it would
be lovely to have one.' ... It wasn't a
bit nice of me to say It. But then. I'm
always saying dreadful things. That Is
why" dejectedly "nobody likes me." In
spite of all this. Mr. Towle was noble
enough to leave Jane a legacy of 560.000.
"Trurtiful Jane" is also an epitome of
the servant-girl question from the serv
ant girl point of view.
The New Internationalism, by Harold Bole.
$1.50. D. Appleton & Co., New York City.
A calm, philosophical, economic study
nf world problems, particularly those af
fecting America, written in a spirit Of
cheerful optimism. The reasoning Is
close and thoughtful, but it Is never dull
each point being illustrated by apt anec
dotes principally selected by Mr. Bolce
during his recent foreign tour.
The new Internationalism unfolded In
these pages Is nothing else than a finan
cial and commercial amalgamation of the
nations. Mr. Boise says that the men
who are Inaugurating it are not poets,
that they carry their favorite oook in
an Inside pocket, and that the quotations
with which they are most familiar are
found through the ticker. Such men, he
thinks, are hastening a peace more' se
cure and a prosperity far more abundant
than anything sung by poets or forecast
toy political optimists.
Here Is another sugjresttve senKnee:
"The only way for socialism to combine
the nations Into anything like the unity
which money has already wrought, would
Be py an international parliament, an in
ternational fleet for police patrol of the
A seven seas, and an international constab
ulary. Tills Is the dream of a remote
A ready." Of course holding such opln
ions as he does, Mr. Bolce argues against
the criminal wastefulness of war, and
one chapter fairly bristles with facts
combating the standpatters. An admir
able book to put Into the hands of a
youth or young. man Just becoming aware
of life's more serious side.
The IJfe f Ir. Pvnuel A. Mudd, ditd by
Nilu NetllB Mudd. Illustrated. Tbt
Neals Publishing Co., New York City.
Among those, even of middle age, how
rpany remember that It was Dr. Samuel
A. Mudd who dressed Uie injured limb
of John Wilkes Booth, Just after the
latter had fatally shot President Lin
coln? This well-written book of 3D pages,
from the pen of Miss Nettie Mudd.
daughter of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd. tells
the momentous story of her father's life
from his own point of view with an
endeavor to show that he was innocent
with reference to the charge that he was
one of John Wilkes Booth's accomplices.
Miss Mudd clearly shows that on April
15, 1SS5. two unknown men called at her
father's country- house In Maryland, iC
miles distant from Washington, D. C,
nd that one of the strangers asked Dr.
Mudd to set a broken bone In one of
his comrade's legs. The injured man
vecelved surgical care nd ten hours af
terward was taken away by his friend?
"How was my father to know that the
injured stranger was Booth? At that
time Dr. Mudd did not know that "Pres
ident Uncoln had been shot." says our
author, in concrete. Dr. Mudd was sub
sequently arrested, charged with com
plicity In the crime referred to. and was
found guilty, with the result that he
passed nearly four years in prison.
The volume contains many letters
written in .prison , by Dr. Mudd to his
wife, and the language employed is cer
tainly not that of an enemy of his coun
try. Miss Mudd's book is welcome as
shedding new light on a dispute his
torical Incident.
Alexander Wilson, roet and Naturalist, by
James Southall Wilson, rh. D. f2. The
Nealc Publishing Company, New York
City.
Although born in Scotland, Alexander
Wilson conies down through the years
as our first ornithologist and one of our
earliest poets. He was alike th friend
of "Bobbie" Burns and Thomas Jeffer
son, and his fame also lives in the names
of the many birds which he first made
known.
Professor Wilson, of the department of
English and history of the College of
William and Mary, has" written a unique
biography because It Is so sane, frank
and courageous. He gives a, close study
of Wilson the man. nature poet and
naturalist. In starting the biography,
however. Professor Wilson begins in a
crude manner by needlessly picturing the
licentious, drunken Scotland of Alex
ander . Wilson's boyhood. This criticism
can honestly be made. It would have
given the reader a more pleasant impres
sion in the very beginning of things
had the biographer launched his literary
craft differently. He ought to have first
interested the reader in his hero, and
then about the middle of the book to have
told what he considered the nauseating
truths regarding the Scotland of the
early portion of the 18th century.
Here are a few thoughts selected from
the first chapter:
The towns of Scotland were dirty and
sewerlesa. Even from the streets of such
ernes as jt,ainDursn ana uiasuow went up
the ater.ch of decayed refuse which had
been thrown from the windows above. The
churches were very frequently dlsorcanlzed
and factious, the schools poor and the
morals of the people loose, and corrupt. .
It was not uncommon for the beat-bred la
dles to accompany young men to the dirty
little oyster cellar bolow the street, where
they ate and drank together. . . . "
Especially appalling are the figures which
Illustrate the number of chlld-murderl
which occurred all . through the 17th and
I8t centuries. On one day. In Edinburgh
alone. In th,year J881, seven women were
executed for destroying their offspring; four
were hanged In Aberdeen In 1703 In a sin
gle day. and in 1714 there were executions
June JS and 24 and' July 9. It Is a signifi
cant fact that the severity of the punish
ment tor immorality was les for the lower
orders than for .the more enlightened
classes. A story Is related of a certain John-H
Pardie. who took appeal Jn a case In which
he wnjlnfd as a gentleman for 300 pounds
sterling 8cots, for" being guilty of Immor
ality. The lords Iti session tried the appeal
and sustained his objection, reducing the
fine to 16 pounds sterling Pcota. They! gave
as their very good reason that "he had not
the air or face of a gentleman."- . .- ,
Profanity kept progress with h spread
of drunkenness, in the midst of these con
ditions, -Alexander Wilson .grew up, and In
contending against them In part and in
sometimes yielding to them, his character
was formed.
Shades of Sir Walter Scott. David Liv
ingstone. Ian Maclaren, J. M. Barrle et
al.! Professor Wilson, you have drawn a
sewer Indictment of poor old Scotland.
If you should happen In the near future
to partake of hot Scotch, first analvser
that fiery liquid. It will be safer and
prohahly disappoint the coroner. .
Moeby'a Men, b.r John H. Alexander. - Illus
trated. 12. The Neale' Publishing Com
.' pany. New York City.
In no sense of the' word is this a hlar
tory of that famous Confederate body
of irregular cavalry known as Mosby's
Rangers. It Is rather a narrative of what
Mr. Alexander saw of Mosby's men and
their doings, and he writes most inter
estingly, for waa he not one of that cele.
brated command? He relates Incidents In
which he took part as his memory re
calls them, and" he certainly wields a
graphic pen, or is it typewriter? The
book Is valuable for reference, as it
deals with phases of the war la a manner
different from that to which we North
erners are accustomed, and It will by
reason of Its attractive, natural literary
style soon find for Itself & place in the
literature of the Civil Wax.
Guanajuato, Mexico's Treaanre-Houae, by
Percy F. Martin, F. R. O. S. 3. Illus
trated. The Cheltenham Press, New York
. City.
Enriched by 44 page illustrations, six
panoramic views and two maps and dia
grams, this book of 259 pages Is one to
enrich not only the knowledge and lmagi.
nation of the mining man, but the politi
clan and investor.
Mr. Martin gives- In detail an Illus
trated and descriptive account of Guana
juato's mines and their operations, up
to date. He gives lirst an historical sketch
of the busy Mexican mining town from
Its earliest days, and notes that the first
shaft in thu Mellado mine was opened by
the Spanlards-'ln April, 1568. Previous to
that, however, it is reported that a min
ing discovery had been made at San Ber
nabe. at L.a Luz. but it took a period
of nine years for the early pioneers to
discover that there existed such a thing
as a mother lode. Even Cortes sang its
praises. Experts say that the mines in
the district have from first to last con
tributed about three-fifths of the total
amount of the world's supply of silver.
Mint and government records state that
the principal or mother vein at (Guana
juato has yielded the sum of $1.000.000. 000.
As to what it costs to mine and treat the
ores, the expenses of management, etc..
all these and more are answered in this
book. The personnel of the parlous min
ing corporations is also given. '
This striking quotation by the late Cecil
Rhodes is noted: "I am not blind to the
unison of opinion as expressed by scien
tists and experts that Mexico will one
day furnish the sold, silver and copper
of the world; that from her hidden vaults,
her subterranean treasure houses, will
come the gold, silver, copper and precious
stones that will build the empires of to
morrow and make future cities of this
world veritable New Jcrusalems."
J. M. Q.
IX LIHIiARY AND "WORKSHOP
If. O. Wells, the novelist, has "been seriously
Injured by oeing run dow n by a motor car
in Ixtndon.
The nonager (Juecn of Roumania "Car
men Sylvia." inakes an income from her
books that many authors cannot equal.
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The Indiana Trachers" Reading Circle, wtilch
Is one of the largest rea-tinp, circles In thn
rountry, has officially adopted "American
History and Its fjeoicraptiii-al Conditions," by
Miss Kllen C. Svmple.
Another of Mrs. Frances Hodgson Bur
nett's quaint "Queen Silver-bell" fairy sto
ries begin In the St. Nicnolsf. It has the
piquant title of "The Cozy l,lon"; and there
are a number of illustrations by the same
artist who lias made the pictures for the
earlier atorles of the series, Harrison Cady.
Professor Hugo Munsterberg. of Harvard
University, author of "Psychology and IJfe."
"American Traits." "The Ktorna IJfe," and
editor of tjio .'.Miarvard Psychological Studies."
him -been "honnr.-d by the (ifrman Emperor with
a Crown Orderi-of th second class. During
the midyear p.ealod- Professor Munsterberg has
been in tlermany, tfhere he .waa Invited to
deliver a courne of lectures. s . k
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Its 13lh year does not seem to bring any
lll-lurk ta "The Honorable Teter Stirling."
which, in a sen's may be said to have
passed its first half century, as its pub
lishers are, just having to print it for the
61st time. The politicians who succeed
. know pretty, well that personal maenetlsm
is probably as Important hi their work as
anything that ran be found m the text
books. It might not be stretching things
much to' say that the late Mr. Ford's re
markable novel Is perhaps being tijed by
many an embryo politician as a textbook
on prr.onal . jnagBettum and klnAred sub
jects. - , . ,
- Professor Ernest Rutherford, Macdonald
professor. of iphysics In McOIll Cnlversitv,
and author ef an exhaustive volume upon
"Radioactive Transformations," just pub
lished, has been appointed to succeed Tro
fessor Schuster 9a Langworthy professor and
director of the physical laboratories at the
vnlverslty of Manchester. England. In the
course- of their reviews of the volume above
mentioned the lndon Athenaeum says he
"has done more than anvnnd u
date the beharlor of radium and its conge
ners." and the Tendon Spectator terms him
one "of the chief leaders In this department
ox research."
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The portrait presented on the "bonk page
today of Mrs. Amalla Kuasner Coudert la
from a sketch of the American miniature
painter made by the Marchioness of Oran
by. Mrs. Coudert Is a native of Indiana
where she received her early education
through private Instruction. After studving
In New York sh went- abroad, painting
miniatures of the King of England, the
Prince of Wales. Cecil Rhodes, the Km
peror and Empress of Russia, and other
peraonages of note. She has written for a
recent number of the Century an account'of
her experiences and impressions in the Win
ter Palace of Russia.
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A new edition Is announced of Mr. Samuel
T. Pickard'a profusely Illustrated work, '"vvhit-tler-Land."
of which this is the fourth print
ing. It contains a portrait of Whlttler never
before produced, It being from an ambrotype
taken when the poet was about 50 years old,
and it Is thought by those who knew him in
that period of his Intense activity to be a most
striking llkenees. There Is also an addition
to the letter press. Including an account of
V hlttler's personal appearance and . manner,
written by the English poet and critic. Rd
mund Ooese, librarian of the House of Lords
who visited thie country In 1884.
Houghton. Mifflin V Co. have ready the
following new printings: 7th edition of "Tha
Opened Shutters." by Clara. Ioulse Bumham;
5th edition of "The County Road," by Alice
Brown; 4th edition of "Harding of St. Timo
thy's." by Arthur S. Pier; 3d edition of "Watt
Whitman," by musa Perry, and Cowper'a
I nation of the mining man, but the politi-
I I I
I "John Gilpin." Illustrated by Robert Seaver:
ana e-utions or "TiirougB Man to tlod."
by Dr. torge A. Gordon; The Memoir and
Letters of Frederic Dan Huntington." bv
Arria. Sv Huntington: "K'ety's Ralnv ftav
Picnic." by Olive Thorn Miller: "Books.
Culture and Character." by V . I. N. I.arned;
and "Christ and the Huiaa Race," by Dr.
Charles Cuthbert Hall. '
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A persistent error it! the press connects'
Maxim Gorky's novel '."Slosher," with a hook
of Imprewiotis of AmflHrjy recrntly published
In Italy. tJorky's "Mother" Is a novel written
In America, but concerned entirely with events
in Itustda. the story .taking Its name from a
peasant mother, whose son becomes involved
with the revolutionists, the mother herself
gradually being dranti into the dramatic Htruit
gle for life and liberty, j The novel "Mother"
Is being published es a' serial in Applcton's
Macazine, and will be brought out as a
book In the late Spring. It is perhaps the first
Instance of a great foreign novelist writing
his masterpiece in America and giving it first
to the world In Bnglish,
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In a late address before the Municipal
Art Society of Baltimore. Hopkinson Smith,
f- i'uok oi wnoc :oiie. uniii-r me now
Of" "The Veiled i.ady and Ot her ' r n and
Women." Ib about tor be published, said:
"The tendencies of our times the time of
the telegram of ten vrds and no more
tend to condensation ; In literature, and
wlier well done, ilo suggestion. Exquisite
as are the results, notaVl.v ... in the
school of modern p'renoli writers and our
own master, Bret Warte, and In the ear
lier siories of that literary comet, Ruriyard
Kipling, the danger ls that the writer of
the future, advancing along these lilies,
may give us only a paragraph out of wh.-li
to construct a chapter:, as Some naturalists
do a bone or a tooth ' from which to re
construct a mastodon." . ..
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Sidney lee. the well-ktlown :nKllsh au
thority upon Shakespeare., In. his recent vol
um.i upon "Shakespeare jand.-the Modern
stage;" enters a vigorous protest against
the present tendency towardr overeiabora
tlon of scenic display in thev presdntation
of the master-dramatist's works. aaV, as
the following extract from a recent crlTi
vlsm in the London Daily Mall describes:
"At His Majesty's Theater, last nifrt-,Mr.
Tree exhibited, under the tiNe of Anthony
and Cleopatra, manv exquisitely painted
scenes by Joseph Harkor andS T. E .Ryan,
supplemented with ' costumes- by Percy
Mucquoid. R. I., some charming incidental
music specially composed b? Raymond
Ijose, and explanatory teptt by Shakespeare.
The acting In almost every civc was over
Whelmed by the grandeur ot the scenic
effects." ' tir
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i In speaking of the manner in which Bar
uie obtained local color for "Pft-f-r Pan." a
erf Uc say.: "It needs but a walk in Ken
sington Park. I,ondon to kn
flrst knowing: his friends. Here has he rpfnz
many an hour at plav and a t Rtorv-telUnR
wilh the littlest of British ladles and Kcn
tjemen. And in this way does it happen
tjiat better than any other modern writer
Mr. Barrie knows the manner of speech; tlie
Walk, and the ways of the little dwellers in
Hie land of make believe. It hau been by
frequent association with all rtfl of, little
"kiddies." bv studying their wavjt r end
catching tliep point, of vjew that" Barrle
has succeeded in evolving a weave oT Imag
inings thai, frr all thefr faneUulness and
unoarthlness of mood, nevertheless pom
a humannes and fineness of fueling to be
found in scarcely any other modern fiction.
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Those best qualified to judjre say that Sir
'sn? fttepnen s nump of ravereur was
not mountainous. Nevertheless,- It will per
haps grlve most of u a jolt when one is
torousrht suddenly in contact with these com
ments upon Alfred Ird Tennyson in a let
ter of Stephen's to hlR pood friend Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Jr. We quote front Matt
land's "ltfe nf Sir Tepli- Htephen,'- tut
published "The IrM remarkable person
with whom 1 msde an acquaintance was the
quer old poet Tennyson. We spent a month
at Freshwater, and saw a deal of him nd
his pleasant wife and children. it the
queerest old bloke, to speak Irreverently.
tht I ever saw." There are th.ose who wUl
deprecate these remarks. Hero; however, it
is well to remember that Tennysnn. with
his portentlous incivilities of. speerh and
other peculiarities, had an impossible side.
Undue depreciation of tall estimates of
great men is not a thin to encourage,' hut
surely Sir Ies!te'B tone is pleaaauter to the
ear than that of the unctuous chorus of the
obsequious and deferential to which nc-nni
have listened now these many, years.
. m m
; Following upon their discovery or the
fact that the Cedarton of He well Ford's
toi-iea in his new hook, "Truogate of Moj?
ador. just published. Is really Toms River,
N. J., in disguise, the citizens of that vil
lage are reported to be busily engaged In
reading and discussing the merits of t ho
book. It Is also evident from the following
extract from a late news paragraph that
they are proud of his real success in mak
ing a book out of their sayings and doings.
The clipping says that when they found him
out : i ney iooKea upon t ora as an ac
quisition, and used to point him out to tho
Summer visitors, with a look of conscious
pride, as 'That's Ford, Sewell Ford, the author
yeu know the chap, what writes horse sto
ries.' When the Presbyterian f'hurrh gave
a mimical and literary entertainment in
Cow pert h waft Hall. Ford was Impressed
into the service, and altogether the towns
folk looked at Ford as a possession to be
proud of and pointed out something like
the aiew town clock that the village wom
en's club put in the church . tower right
across from his home."
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T DEAR LITLE GIRL A Utile
while ago, just a little while, it
seems to me, though it may seem
ages to you. when you were a little
"iilfrif 'a-'crrtlrt. I used to take vou on
my. k nee. in the e.veuinjrs by the fire
light and tell you stories. Sometimes
they were just, to entertain you, but
some other timeB they had lessons hid
den In their sugar coats. Now, I want
you to imagine yourself a baby girl
again and t'liat you" are cuddled up 1n -my
lap, with your curly golden head
nestling against my shoulder, and .that
I am telling you the story about, the
two kings find the buttermilk pall.
Perhaps you don't remember the story
of the two kins Rod the buttermilk
pail? 'Well, dearie, .keep your head
right there on my shoulder and, I'M tell
it tp - you now.
Ofir.e upon a time there were two
kings, pretty good sort of fellows as
kings go, but they were both tremen
dously fond of buttermilk. One of
them liked it so well that he had a
palf made for his spe ial use that was
theiwonder of therwoild. It was ham
mesed out of pure sold, so bright and
shiny that when it was hung out to
air ;the sun hurried' up and got behind
a cloud, and it was set with diamonds
and rubles as big as walnuts. At last
ltslfam'e reached tlierHhcr king, who
had; been contentedly drinking his but
termilk out of a 10-eent fin pall and
wiping his mouth on his shirt sleeves,
and he straightway fell, sick with
envy. So lie-ient speiai messengers
to the first king's court to try and buy
the: wonderful buttermilk pail.
j AYIiat Startetf theltow. - '
But the first king' laughed them ..to
scorn. "11a. ha," he-tried, for he was
full of buttermilk and ' vainglorious.
"Go' tell 'your craven king, to stick to
tin." So theyf departed: And when
thfy had made their official report and
filed their expense account the second
king. jiimped out of his royal bd and
kl-kd his royal pajamas out of the
window. "Gadzooks!" he cried. Let
me. at him." So they went to war. And
when they had fought for years, and
thousands of good men who couldn't
afford buttermilk and didn't like it,
anyhow, had been' killed, the first king
caljed a truce and they had a parley.
'BJ' the way," said the first king,
"wjiat did we start this row about?"
"Blessed if 1 can remember," said the,
sedond king, "but whatever it was.
voi re another." "And you're another."
sail the lirst king. So they went at it
agftin, and after they were both dead
from appendicitis or rheumatism or
something like that. It was discovered
that the second assistant lord of the
poultry yard had been using the golden
buttermilk pail to feed the chickens
for the past -U years.
It's hardly necessary to say, my dear,
that I am not telling this story exclu
sively for your entertainment. I don 't
know whether you see the point or-not.
but it's there, and I am moved to un
cover It by a little conversation, scraps
of which I could not help but hear as
they floated -ocr the back of the car
seat in front of me this morning. It
was Just the ragged end of a family
Oitarcl, an insignificant little spat be
tween a young man and his'young wife,
but it carried my thoughts to you and
William, of course. I know you- never
quarrel, and even if you did yuu are too
well bred to do it in public. 1 can hear
you say this with a tos of your pretty
head and a retrousse curl of your dainty
nose thr.t might to be either tempting or
exasperating to Bill, according to the
way he feels. All the same, little girl,
unless you and he have got your diplo
mas and been measured for your heaven
ly uniforms 1 am eatisHed th:u you have
your little disagreements. And I don't
blame you at all for that. We -are all
more or less human, and no doubt, in
oiocr io Keep things from getting too
monotonous down here, the good Lord
has so arranged matters that no two of
us can always have the same opinions.
on can see at once, can t you. what
dreary place this would be if we all
thought alike. Why. we'd all wear ex
actly the same kind of clothes, live in
houses the same size and color, eat. the
same rocsa. and there -wotildn t be any
thins; at all to talk about. These dif
ferences of opinion are just as natural
auo , prooaniy just s frequent in your
house as in your next door neighbor's,
and quarrels are merely disagreements
gone io seca, . , . 3
Quarrels Have Tlielr Virtues. -
A little quarrel now and" then" isn't t
bad thin in any family. On the con
trary. my dar. it has its virtues: . Do
mestic life is too likely to become hum
drum if It is all cooing and billing. It
needs spice. But just a pinch, little girl,
just a pinch. Vou know what delightful
spice cake your mother) makes. Well,
now. suppose ahe should make a mistake
and put in as much spice as she does
flour. Wouldn't he tit to eat. would it?
111HL3 juhl ine uiiicreiice. AS lue tiOOd
book says, a little leaven leavens th
whole lump, but you want to be mighty
careful about getting too much leaven
in. It's so easy to go too far, partlcu-
riy in the matter of family quarrels.
The best way to hold them down to the
right proportions Is by trying hard not
to have any at all, Balng human, you
probably can't do. it, but the mere effort
will serve' to keep them front jumping
out or me spice box - into the nourbln;
so that when I say. solemnly and with
pareniai srernness, (ion 1 quarrel, I mean
don't quarrel any oftcner than you can
possibly help.
But when you do quarrel and this
Is the meat In, the coeoanut when you
do quarrel, make It up quickly. Don't
let it drag. Don't put it back In the
refrigerator and warm it up for to
morrow. Have it out at once and then
forget it. That's the quality that
makes the little tilts between husband
and wife harmless that's the gentle
art of forgetting. One, of the happiest
couples I ever knew was old .lerry Pal
mer and his wife, who used to live
just around, the corner from us. " I
really believe there never was a day
that tTiey dUl not have a quarrel, and
I am just as confident trfey never had
it on their minds when they went to
sleep. I mention them Just to show
the possibilities of forgetting, not -as
an example for you to follow. Nrit by
a lang ehot. Palmer and his wife were
exceptional cases.
"' They were a good deal like some
Mexicans who won't eat strawberries
unless they are seasoned with red pep
per. Their dally life had to be sea
soned red-hot. Such a diet, mental or
physical, Is unhealthy for 99 out of 100
married couples, and you and Bill, I'm
pretty sure, belong to the 99.- So I
say, try not to have any family jars
at all, but when there is any broken
crockery around the house mend it the
same day. before the lights go out.
Then your quarrels will be like little
Summer clouds that obscure the sun
for a while, but make It seem all the
brighter when they pass. There ' is
nothing much sweeter in life, my-dear,
than the sunburst of love and trust
which follows a domestic shower; that
Is, if the love and trust are there and
undlmmed.
Don't Xurse the Quarrels.
The 'trouble is. little girl, that too
many quarrels are not allowed to pass.
Like prize chickens, they are fed and
nursed and petted and grow stronger
and harder to kill every day. They
ere drawn out it's quarrels I'm talk
ing about now, not chickens they are
M
drawn out day after day. until lovo
grows tired and slips out the front
door, nver. perhaps, to return. And
all for wha.t? Just a little too much
pride, Just a little too much, stiffness
of the neck, just a little too much
derned fool stubbornness. That's .it.
"He's wrong and I won't give In."
That's what you say. No doubt that's
what he says. And so you go on with
the corners of your mouths turned
down and the ends of your noses
turned up. sacrificing all that is good
anrt true' and . beautiful in life for a
buttermilk pail. Do you gut the point
of that' stcry now? Practically all
quarrel3. . particularly domestic ones,
are about comparative trifles, but they
are too often carried on until the real
cause Is forgotten and in its place Is
a mutua-1 antagonism, unforgiving and
unrelenting, the dTcstrOyer of happiness
and, chief commissioner of supplies for
the divorce courts.. Oh. my little girl,
quarrel, if you must, but don't let 'em
drag, don't let 'em drag.v
But you may protest, he says tlilnsrs
that hurt, things one cant forget so
easily. . L'h Huh! I guess so. But. my
dear. I'll bet my old gray horse against
a small boy's pocket-knife that what he
says 'to you, is Ilka soothing syrup com
pared to what you say to him. The srood
Lord provided every animal with soma
kind of a "weapon of offense ori defense.
A man's .Is his list, a woman's Is her
tongue. Civilization lias so far pror
gressed that a man that is. a gentleman
cannot use his natural weapon In. deal
ing with a woman. That's all right.
Civilization has made .'some mistakes,
but that Isn't one of them. But it has
placed no such limitations on woman's
weapon, and ages of .constant use have
given her skill that Puts a., "man at
a pretty co'frstderable disadvantage.
Whether she uses it as a poniard or a
meat-ax depends upon her temperament,
but the result is usually the same; the
man picks up his hat and Jumps for the
front door. Now, It's a peculiarity of
A Condiment of Words
RV MA HOI'S
IJfe is but a waiting for the
morning's paper.
next
About all some of us amount to is the
ability to second a motion to adjourn.
It is curious why so many people's idea
of a good time always ends up with a
wet towel around the head and a dark
browti taste In the mouth. -
There are probably people who enjoy
the smell of boiled cabbage.
It was an Intelligent rector who re1
marked on the kindness of the Maker of
the Universe in putting a good .barber
beside every large city. He should have
kept on noting how a startling accident
or two was furnished every day from
the same source for the benefit ot the
newspapers.
. Very few of us pay 10 per cent on the
investment.
Two classes of people wear shabby
clothes men who have not a cent in
tlielr pocket, and men who have a super
abundance. The fellow in the middle
dresses well.
When a woman picks up a novel, she
always turns to the last page to see how
it ended and what happened to Gwendo
line. ' Why caii't we do that to life?
We have courses of . treatment for fatty
rtegencratlon of the heart why can t we
have something similar for fatty degen
eration of the pockctbook?
1
. There is no poetry In the patter of the
rain on a leaky roof. ,
.
A large ninpth does not necessarily
mean that the possessor thereof is an
orator; li may be that he merely loves
pie.
. .
The North American Indian named his
children af'er incidents in his every-day
llfe. "" Of "a'consequence. we do not have
any chiefs named "Man Makes Money
Hand-Over-Fist.'' or "Ten Per Cent White
Horse." . " .
The smMI of gasoline on a man's
clothes does not necessarily make him an
automobile owner.
...
It is a' grtod thing that no trolley lines
run by 'the gates of 'beaven. for the
Dwellings Associated With Lincoln
Continued l-'rom lage Forty-Kighl
achievements ot the 18th President. He
was born in Kentucky, he found his wife
there, -"nd had lie lived, be would un
doubtedly have made the effort he always
contemplated, to makenioney reparation
to those plantation owners who were
ruined b' the loss of their slaves.
The Springfield . home of . Lincoln Is a
modest dwelling, ' such as any business
man of moderate means would thmk none
too good. It is Infinitely inferior to-, the
dwellings of thousands of Lincoln's con-
temporaries of far less fame. But to
Lincoln it was home, the best-loved place
in the world. Most of the happiness that
came Into his sad life, he found there,
and what he thought of it is shown in
the pathos of his farewell to his fellow
citizens of Springfield when -lie left for
vrashlngton to take up one of the most
fearful tasks that ever fell to the lot of
mortal man.
The State of Illinois now appropriately
enough owns the Lincoln homestead. Af
ter the death of his mother. Robert T.
Lincoln, son of the martyr, himself Min
ister to Kngland and Cabinet member,
and at one time prominently mentioned
as a possible candidate for the presi
dency, presented it to the. state. Since
that time it has been most reverently
cared for, and lias become the repository
of many, relics of Lincoln and ills family.-
Another building prominently Identified
with Lincoln is Musical Fund Hall. Phil
adelphia, where was held last Summer the
celebration of the Soth anniversary of tiio
birth of the Republican -party.
This venerable hall, still standing in
much the same condition it was then.
is nearly a century old. and has echoed
to the voices of the most famous singers
of the world. ,
In that first Republican convention held
there in 3S56. 'that saw' the beginning of
the party that has been dominant with
an interval of only eight years since I860,
Lincoln was a commanding figure. In
fact. It may be said that this convention
really launched him as a Presidential
.factor and paved the way for his nomina
tion In Chicago four years later.
Lincoln's 6 feet 4 Inches of height made
him a marked figure physieally. and his
fame as a lawyer had attracted general
attention to him from members of the
bar, many noted lights of this profes
sion being conspicuous at thg conven
tion. Moreover, the country was still
ringing with his masterful reply to
Douglas . delivered In 1555, during the
campaign to elect Mr. Trumbull to the
Senate over General Shields.
Lincoln was mentioned for both Presi
dency and Vice-Presidency at the Phila
delphia convention, which finally selected
rremont to bead the ticket, and many
prominent leaders felt dissatisfied when
Lincoln was pRS.sed.
But though he failed of nomination.
most women under such circumstances
that, while she remembers with highly
ma?nllled clearness all that lie says, and
much that he didn't, she entirely forgets
the occasional remarks she made her-f-elf.
I want you to reverse that process.
Think over what you ?aid. an'r long be
fore, time for Bill to come back from
work you' will be in the proper frame of
mind to meet him with a kiss, to he your
own sweet setf. serene and smiling. Just
a If a quarrel had never happened since
the world began. -Then. f..r Heaven s
sake, don't refer to the disagreement
again. You can bet your life Bill won't.
Vse Mrs. Adam's Method.
Of course, you aro entitled to your
own opinions, all yon want of them. 5o
is he. But let me tell you one tiling, my
little girl, and if I was a printer I'd put
it in the biggest type to be had. there
never was nn opinion that was worth the
prli-c of your happiness. Have your opin
ions, but don't try to impress them on
Bill with a potato masher. That way
isn't effective, and. besides, it lacks re
tinement. When you want him to think
your way just put your arm around hi
neck, and but pshaw! Tou know how.
All women do. The trouble is they some
times allow their tempers to blind them
to the old reliable, never failing metlmri
that they have hail copyrighted since the
days of Mrs. Adam. It s an old paying
that it takes two to make a quarrel, "and
there's another almost f.s old. that iL
takes but one to end It. Both are equally
true, but when it comes to closing up a
domestic controversy a woman will suc
ceed where a man will only get his foot
in deeper, and she can do it without con
cessions, without humiliation, by th
sujiplc trick of forgetting. That's t!i
sfnff that will mend family jars quicker
and more effectively than anything else.
Paste the recipe lu your cook book, my
dear, and take a. look at .it every titn'n
you get on the, warpath. So Ions:, little
sweetheart. Your affectionate dad.
' JOHN SXEKD.
(Copyright. 1P07. by Casper S. Yost.)
XV. BOBBIN'S.
American relic fiend would have them
shipped down to the hinges In a very
short 'imc. 1 '
I . . .
In the first days of the Legislature, it
is always going to be economical, but it
ends .the session by the members swiping
even the spittoons.
One thing suspicious atjout the ordinary
theory of hell and the fallen angels is
that it is laid up to ambition, and does
not seem to have any woman in the case.
We have platcglass, burglary and acci
dent insurance, why can't we have an
insurance against divorce and the pay
ment of alimony ?
From one point of view, earthquakes
and fires are indicted on us for the pur
pose of enabling the sawmill inttu to make
a decent living.
The Iind of Nod must have been
paradise for bachelors.
If most of jis were smelted down, the
nugget of good that would result would
be very small indeed.
Grants Pass. Or.. February 1.
Girl.-. Karncd More Than Youth.
New York Herald.
Columbia University's committee frr
employment of students made public
recently its report on what students
have been earning during the vncntlon.
Of the 581 students who applied for
positions, the total earnings of 31. T
who turn in reports amounted to
$104,210. s Last year 388 students
earned $92,436.
Most of the 90 colh-ge men who ap
plied received positions as tutors. Sev
eral were appointed to secretaryships,
and others acted as clerks and sales
men for shipping houses. The average
earnings of these men was $113.1:1.
The law students, 4u in number, re
ceived the largest salaries, averaging
$281.5!. Nearest to them were the stu
dents of the College of Physicians and
Surgeons, -1 of whom averaged
$202.19.
Girls at Barnard beat tlielr brothers
in the college at Columbia. Twenty
seven, acting as clerks, stenographers,
private secretaries, traveling compan
ions and governesses, averaged $117.10
to, the Columbia men's $11.1.43.
After tli e close of college .1M em
ployers applied for students to fill posi
tions. -
Musical Fund Hall will ever be Identi
fied with Lincoln, because it was there
he took commanding place as a Na
tional figure, and make, folks begin to
think of him as the right man for the
crisis of 1S0.
From Musical Fund Hall it is an easy
step to the White House, next in the
line of buildings associated with Lin
coln. What he did there will survive
as long as history lives or as men ad
mire devotion to principle. What he suf
fered can never even be remotely guessed,
for those who knew him intimately say
that the burden he bore would hav
broken a man of le3.er physical strength,
mental caliber and lofty devotion.
It was not the White House of now that
Lincoln knew. The new executive wingx
part of the improvements of W2. had
not been ad-deil. and the changes in the
dwelling part to accommodate the larga
family of President Roosevelt, were then
not even contemplated.
Not far from the White Houe stands
the New York Avrnui Tresbyterlan
Church, where Lincoln worshiped 'while,
he was Chief Kxecutive -f the Nation.
This historic old place of worship is
probably the only church of note Inti
mately associated with Lincoln. Tho edi
fice Is in appearance today practically the
same as In Lincoln's time, anil his pew.
when the interior of the structure was
renovated some time since, was left un
disturbed and is constantly an object
of great Interest to visitors to the Na
tional Captitol. The New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church is one of the oldest,
churches in Washington. Several years
ago it celebrated its centennial. t
which time Lincoln's intimate connection
wtth the church was given much promi
nence. A few blocks from the Kxecutive
Mansion are the two buildings directly
a-crpss the street from each other that
saw the sad story of Lincoln's lifo com
pleted. One is Ford's Theater, the other
the house in which he died.
That deed of hlood performed -there,
in that Tenth-avenue structure, only a
stone's throw from Pennsylvania avenue,
on April 14, 1S65. gave the United Slates
oerhaps the most terribler shock It ever
knew. The dying man was carried to a.
dwelling directly across the street, and
there at a few minutes before 7 o'clock
he passed Into the Great Beyond.
Appropriately enough the buildings that
knew him after death still survive, for
111 that pathetic prosress across the
country to Springfield the body lay In
state in many .statehouses. including' the
most famous of all. Independence Hall.
Philadelphia, the cradle of American lib
erty. The increasing veneration for Lincoln
shown at each recurring birthday is as
surance that Americans will never per
mit the- piussing of one of these struc
tures associated with his life and death.
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