The Sunday Oregonian., October 05, 1913, SECTION SIX, Page 7, Image 67

THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLA3TD, OCTOBER 5, 1913.
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Start, and Never Make the
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Her' Parents or Yours, For
It. Is, Likely to." Breed Discord
m N the course of human events.
I shaped by the average honeymoon
pair, there comes a day when one
or the other yawns and sighs and
wonders
Oh. no. not anything! It Isn't a thins
tangible enough to be caught In the
written word, Just as It baffles the
spoken word.
It's just a "feeling," and a feeling
that comes soon or late and departs
If there is an adviser wise enough to
warn the two against this cloud, which.
like many another cloud that holds
potential storm. Is when first seen "no
larger than a man's hand.
Of course, you know the famous plo-
ture called "The Waning Honeymoon.'
There Is a curious fascination about
It for most people, for It is so abso
lutely human.
Most of us have felt that way, the
drooping feathers of the spirit stage,
when life seems a Fall day and one
that sits heavy and with the promise
of nothing: ahead. The vista of the
long years chained (braceleted would
perhaps be a politer way of putting It,
even In one's thoughts) braceleted to
an Individual whom one knows not
at all.
Stronar Feeling Come.
For this stage Is always marked with
a certain symptom, with the feeling
that comes to a woman or to a man
that the other one is a stranger In
spite of the fact that a short time
ago that one seemed the very affinity
of one's heart and soul.
Most people do marry strangers, and
there's nothing that reveals this fact
so inevitably as a protracted honey'
moon away from other people.
It Isn't a comfortable feeling this
realisation that the "other one" in the
world-wlthout-end bargain Isn't the
Ideal helpmeet one fancied, but a
stranger, and one who Is often found
Irksome. This most often happens on
the days when the world Is even fur
ther away than usual, because of con
tinual rain or because of some atmoa-
pherio condition that depresses the
spirit and keeps visitors away.
Many a honeymoon comes to an end
with a realization that the end truly
has come the end-of love. If not In
open confession that a mistake has
been made, by a dumb acceptance of
things as they are, and the brave reso
lution to make the best of a bad bar
gain. Tickled to Meet Friends.
Have you ever seen returning honey
mooners who didn't welcome old friends
with open arms and cling to these with
an affection even passing that of the
old days before the two who counted
the world well lost if they might be
permitted to lose themselves away from
the world they had lived in did betake
themselves far from the people they
have known?
And now the return. How different!
How the bored young husband clutches
at the casual man friend and drags
him off in sequestered corners to
smoke! How the young bride weeps on
the shoulder of a one-time friend and
renews all the ardors of the schoolgirl
days and begs that one not to leave
her!
It is even so. and the immediate
families may see with wide-open eyes
the difference in the tm, and the
chances are they get to speculating on
how long the union will last. One
shakes his head and regrets the awful
mistake. Another knew all the time
that Mary and John were not suited, to
each, other.
Marriages Only Human.
Alas and alas, that it took this to
make them understand that there never
was a marriage made In heaven, but
not having been made there, it'
hopeless problem to work out in this
world.
But this will pass, as all things pass
in this fleeting world. Nothing stays
put, not even mistakes. ot even mis
placed love, and most comfortable sat
isfactlon of all, our mistakes are soon
est bore away on the River of Time
that flows through every day, bringing
new Issues to be decided; new interests
to take the place of the ones of yester
day. The River of Time is everlastingly
at work to prove to us that nothing Is
final. Not even the waning of a per
fectly good honeymoon.
Perfectly good honeymoons have
waned before without the end coming,
however imminent it looked to be. Per
fectly good honeymoons with the best
sort of beginnings .have ended In worse
than the being bored stage, and still
survived and were renewed and waxed
more tenderly beautiful than ever and
with a new and different story.
Here la the Remedy.
And the remedy for a condition like
this is a perfectly simple one.
John is easy enough to read If one
listens to what he doesn't dream he is
telling. (Being a gentleman and a high
toned man of honor, he wouldn't for
the world be such a cad as to criticise
Ills wife or to question out loud the
wisdom of the' marriage. He doesn't do
It that way.) He simply talks, and be
tween sentences, the moody pulling at
the everlasting pipe, the silence, the in
terest he takes In other couples, his
sverlasting analysis of this one's ex
perience and that one s, he reveals
signs to anyone who knows what these
symptoms mean.
John is wondering nothing more
definite than that "just wondering!"
John isn't the only one who is
thrashing things out silently. MlstreSB
Mary has her doubts and her moments
of wild discontent when she wishes
she'd been so plain and sensible that
she'd never been silly enough to think
she could make a man happy. If she
bad been that plain and sensible she
might have had the intelligence to go
to work, and, having gone to work, she
might have found peace and satisfac
tion In duty performed, even if this
negative bliss had cut her off from
the acute Joys of loving. The latter
joys, she has come to appreciate, are
counterbalanced by suffering quite as
acute.
Whole Life In John.
The same person who means an
other's heaven means exactly the re
verse when conditions change. John
Is- the one man in the world who could
have meant happiness to her; by the
same token John Is the one and only
person in the world who can make her
miserable. And she has experienced
already the misery of what it means
when the man one loves best in the
world begins to chafe under new bonds
and to pretend not to be bored.
If he'd only be honest enough with
her to say he is. bored. But he Isn't.
And there the matter stands.
On her side she is quite as weary
r. i iTs 1 ill i m I im-v sjt- i , 1113 irwf t -ir - r- - - rf ' n i I -m m r a i -t.-m i v 1 1 r
I that these are the riches that money l f - t p 1
f-Ltien A 1 cannot buy. - I I I it
I Jr They took a little flat way up at the T " W
iOar end of everywhere. It was so little y f
lit I
as John of the bargain. The strain
of trying to entertain and charm a
man every minute of the day Isn't the
Joyous occupation she imagined it It
Is too much like doing a vaudeville
turn, the same one every minute in the
day. She reflects that even the hardes
Worked vaudevllllan isn't called upon
to entertain but twice a day. How could
she expect to stand the strain of this
continuous performance? And, besides,
of what avail Is her work? John
bored and she is weary of trying to
divert him. But the remedy? asks
someone. If there is a remedy, here
it is: Start to making a home!
Doit Let Miner Deter.
No matter If you've had such an ex
pensive honeymoon that you've got
barely enough left to pay the first
week's board, Just the same look
around with an eye to finding a good
place for a nest.
You're staying with your own mother
or with John's mother, you tell me, be
cause they want you, ana it is the
cheapest all-round thing to do. Tour
mother Is lonely without you and
John's people want both of you there to
liven things up.
And you continue the confession by
admitting that since you've both start
ed to boring each other so hideously
that maybe this Is the best arrange
ment.
It isn't. It's the worst possible
thing for you to do.
No matter if you're as poor as church
mice, you'll be wise if you start the
home Just the same. Make a nice little
church mouse Income home and in it
you'll And the best chance to regain
the happiness you think you've lost
forever.
The reason Is easy enough to find.
Tou and John are seeing too much of
each other. Tou are foolishly pretend
ing that you are interested in only
each other, and this is silly. Tou are
necessary to each other's happiness
grant you, but you don't want to make
the perilous mistakes of trying to swal
low each other body and soul
Leave Angel Love Alone.
That's a symbol of eternity, but
earth-born marriage isn't recorded as
one of the facts of the enduring heav
ens. Be happy here on earth In a nice,
comfortable, human fashion, and leave
th0 loves of the angels to the angels
ntll you reach your angella estate.
Get a house and paper it yourself If
you are too poor to have it papered.
Make John put up shelves and make a
dinlng-table, while you sew a rag car
pet. if you want a carpet and must
have something to cover the shabby
floors. Get a house in the country,
where John will have to commute, and
the little time you do have together
after then will make you each place a
new value on the other.
It will be as exciting as the early
days of the courtship. You'll have all
day alone to look forward to his com
ing. And If you are truly pool1 and the
most interesting lovers always are poor
there's an opportunity of your prov
ing your love for John by learning to
cook for him. I mean it. Learn what
food John needs and see that he gets
it, and well prepared.
Youll Have Hands Fall.
You'll have your hands full if you
start to work seriously, even if the
place you call home is a two-room cot
tage somewhere across the river.
Home Is where the heart is, you've
heard often enough, but believe me, the
heart Is most often where the home Is.
Do make a home, a real home. Don't
be satisfied with the makeshift of a
house. Make it cheerful and bright wilh
a real house spirit dwelling under your
eaves, and make a place distinctive,
with an atmosphere of its own.
Judged by Their Homes.
I always judge a person's real charac
ter by the place that one calls home.
And this isn't an appraisal In any sense
of the word of furniture or of orna
ments. The real atmosphere of a home
tain kind of ball fringe to go on the
cheese cloth curtains, and in searching
for shades that will strain the sunlight
through a certain yellow texture that
will make the light that never was on
land or sea or anywhere except in a
room that some woman's maglo touoh
has conjured into being, she hasn't any
time to bore John with recriminations
and regrets that the day should arrive
when they haven t anything to say to
each other.
If the little wife were only wise
enough to see she'd know that the day
of silence is the thing to be desired,
For that Is the stage when two are so
perfectly united that there is no need
of speech. They can love each other
without cheapening their affection by
putting it into words. And there's
nothing that helps one reach this stage
of love so quickly as homemaklng.
There's nothing so satisfying to a
love that hasn't occupation enough to
keep it busy as heaps of sofa pillows
to be made, or even a sofa Itself to be
upholstered.
Homemaklng Fascinating.
Homemaklng is fascinating employ
ment. The devil that still finds mis
chief for Idle hands to do passes on
down the road when he reaches the
little house where two lovers are busy
making their home nest. He. knows
nobody there has any time to look
over anything he has to offer. So he
goes on to the next neighbor. Wise
old devil that he Is! -
When the honeymoon begins to
wane, the quickest way to revive the
fading Interest is to substitute new
and different ways of diverting the
one who seems to be growing weary.
And a home offers more opportuni
ties to the square Inch of holding a
man than anything I know. Get a man
interested in his home and proud of It
and of you and there'll be no complain
ng about indifferent husbands and
love that has grown cold.
This seems prosaic enough and al
together foreign to the advice one usu
ally reads on the subject of how to
hold a husband, but it is true.
Turn your thoughts back to your
friends who have married in the past
five years. In the number there are
some rich ones who married rich men
and life continued to be a luxurious
sort of game to them, but In the num
ber haven't you observed that these are
the very ones who have soonest started
to yawning, in whose eyes you first
have read the fatal sign of growing in
difference?
Money la Jfot All.
Money does make life a good deal
softer, but few of us who are observant
are silly enough to believe that it in
sures love or interest. The happiest
people I know are two couples who
married when they had so little to live
on that the marriage seemed almost
like daring fate. But they have lived
nd grown in mental statureiand proved
their metal by the way they have met
life and fought for their happiness.
They have gayly kept an undaunted
face toward poverty, always just ready
to turn the corner to call on them.
She's been often enough, this gaunt-
eyed poverty, but they've welcomed
her as a poor relation and have bid
den their real feelings from her ana
on
Clutches at Man Friend.
Weeps
Her Shoulder.
may dwell In a place as bare as a Japa-she's never had the satisfaction of
nese room.
I've seen a Japanese room furnished
with four mats and a poem" that was
a poem full of peace and Joy and hos
pitality. And with no furniture more
expensive than what may be made by
you and. John you can xurnisn a nome
that will compare with the most ex
pensively furnished house.
For homemaklng Is something apart
from the collection of things. True, it
presupposes a certain amount of inti
mate personal belongings. One's own
simple prints, a few photographs of a
few friends, but good friends, and the
books one loves.
I really don't see how any home
could be a real home without the books
that mean most to those who make It.
I've never agreed with the poet who
sang we can live without books. I think
we can very well dispense with cooks,
especially when we're poor, but we
never get so poor that our spirits do
not need the tonlo of a fine and en
nobling old friend found between the
covers of books.
When a woman Is perfectly en
thralled with converting a 10 by 12
closet into a charming living-room, and
to do this is absorbed in finding a cer-
feeling that they feared her coming or
were inhospitably and timorously forti
fied to keep her out.
If today there was not butter for
the bread, they laughed over their
good fortune In still - having bread,
and optimistically waited for the com
ing of the morrow, knowing that
there's an ebb and flow in all things,
even in the provisions of the house
hold larder. They might be poor to
day, they were given to declaring gay
ly, but how much keener would their
enjoyment be tomorrow when all they
needed or some of it would be com
ing to them? A spirit like this Isn't
the kind that quenches love. It
strengthens the bonds of affection and
knits the hearts of those who bravely
endure all the more close together.
Here's an Example.
I know one girl who- was brave
enough to marry a man whose salary
was simply a pittance. And she had
been used to better things in a mate
rial way, but, as she gayly put it,
she'd never known such luxuries as
love and honest affection and comrade
ship. And she was willing to pay for
these, for she was wise enough to see
that these are the riches that money
cannot buy. -
They took a little flat way up at the
end of everywhere. It was so utuo
you couldn't swing a good sized cat
In it. And the furniture was home
made and they oouldn't afford to keep
any sort of maid and still they were
haDDV.
"It's play," the girl told me, "and
this Is the stage setting. I am the
star and I go into the pieoe with my
whole heart and In determined to
keep up the romantic Interest to the
end."
She did. With all her own work to
do, and the husband had to be at the
office by 9 in the morning, she rose
with the sun and prepared his Dream
fast for him. He had to hustle, so he
didn't have time to more than kiss her
goodbv. and before S o clock she had
her marketing done and -the tiny flat
swept and garnished.
She embraced every free library priv
ilege she heard about and studied the
cookbooks and all books that dealt
with household economy. And she
learned to cook wonderful things that
weren't at all expensive, and she spe
cialized on spaghetti. Why I don't
know, except that she used to laugh
and declare that she was "luoky" with
spaghetti. Besides that, it was cheap,
' Gathered Friends Around.
And because they were hospitable
souls they determined that they would
offer what they could afford to their
frfends.
It ended in openhouse on Sunday
morning for breakfast, and the meal
consisted of coffee, hot rolls and spa
ghetti. , .
Not much, you say? Well, I don't
know. The breakfast had a flavor that
many a more expensive breakfast I've
had to sit through lacked. Just as the
tiny nest of a home had an atmosphere
all its own. It was good lor anyone
who was smothering a grudge toward
life to come to see these two, who were
demonstrating every day that high love
can triumph over a low living wage.
And they were happy.
Ana more than that, people used to
go there for breakfast who couldn't be
prevailed on to go to the houses of the
rich and the great. There one met
artiBts and writers and all sorts of
brilliant and delightful men and women
who were real friends. And the two
who offered this hospitality had the
satisfaction of feeling that they were
loved for themselves alone.
"If we were to lose all tomorrow,"
she used to laugh and say, "we'd still
have our friends."
"Because," the husband would reply,
"we haven't anything but eaoh other as
It Is and our friends. Yon don't count
Women Money Makers
(Continued From Pass 4.)
principal owner of the Boston Store
was Mr. Charles Netcher. It wasn't
Inne- before he discovered that the
Alniner eirl was a good saleswoman
Within six months he put her in charge
of the underwear department. She In
stilled a little of her own spirit into
the eirls under her and the underwear
department became the model one of
that establishment.
Three years after she went there as a
shoo girl. Mr. Netcher married ner.
They went to live at the Avenue Hotel
at first and then Mr. Netcher built a
palace for his bride on one of the
great boulevards. Each morning Mr.
Netcher and his wife would drive down
to the store in their carriage. Mr.
Netcher would get out and his wife
would return home. In the evening
she would drive down again to bring
him back to dinner. Fourteen years
after they' were married, Mr. Netcher
died.
Meanwhile he had bought out his
partners. When he died his estate was
appraised at $4,000,000. He was very
capable, but he had trained no one to
take his place. Mrs. Netcher had three
small children. Her whole fortune was
wrapped up In that store. Unless the
business were kept going and handled
to good advantage, there would be a
tremendous loss. Knowing of no one
to turn to, she went to the store her
self and took charge. She had no ex
perience except those three years be
hind the underwear counter. People
shrugged their shoulders at the idea
of a woman conducting such a Dig es
tablishment, but it wasn't long before
she gave evidence of remarkable ex
eoutlve ability. She has changed the
whole character of the establishment.
Without offending the shawl trade.
she has gradually raised the tone of
the store and has broadened its spnere
until now it Is one of the biggest and
finest in the Western metropolis. She
built a great 20-story structure to
meet Its growing needs. She has
bought more land and as soon as the
present leases expire she is going to
build a 20-story addition that will make
her store the largest in America, if not
In the world. From a $4,000,000 con
cern, the Boston Store has developed
into a $20,000,000 one. She directs ev
erything. She pays the highest rate
of wages in her line in Chicago. She
Is very charitable. She has great sym.
pathy with shop girls. She has been
Instrumental In the organization of
sick benefits and social societies and,
although she wasn't much for balls
and parties when she was a girl, she
makes a point of always attending
those of her thousands of employes. She
demands one privilege in connection
with all these affairs. That Is the right
to purchase the first ticket sold. She
always pays $1000 for it.
(Copyright, 1911, by Richard Bpman.) j
the trash in this plaoe any real worldly
prossesslons. do your
But she did. They were her Lares
and Penates and sne sent up nice ntue
thankful Dravers that it was such com
fortable furniture, even though it hadn't
oost them anything at all compared to
what real furniture costs.
And so It goes. Look about you and
keen your ears open. Many a silver
weddlnir is celebrated even In these
days of quick and easy divorces, but at
most silver weddings the remlnlscenoes
tend to eo back to the time when
these two were "so poor and so happy."
There are compensations In every
thing. One of the compensations of
poverty is the wealth of love that
usually goes with it. Only a coward
of a woman fears tA marry a man be
causa he is poor. Only a man who
lacks understanding hesitates to offer
what he has to the woman he loves De
cause he fears it is too little to satisfy
her.
What if one Is S3 poor as Job's
turkev. Don't you think it's a poor sort
of love that could be Increased by the
addition of dollars and cents? I do.
Do tou think that a real honeymoon
is ever based on the size of the hotel
hlllH or graduated by the tips the
hrlrtperoom scatters behind him? I
don't
Honeymooning Is a trip to tne Jf'or
tunate Isles and bills shouldn't enter
there, or anything so prosalo as money.
no matter what form it is in. If you
have too much money, or too much time.
or a too easy time, you 11 have to Keep
a sharp lookout that you don't stay
keen enough to keep each other's inter
est
If you are poor you'll have to use
your mind and your wits and you'll
have to take the honeymoon time when
It can be snafcfled. If you're too poor
to take a few weeks off, then you'll
both have to work along and spend
your honeymoon by the hour. Which
Isn't such a bad way after all. One
Saturday afternoon a week Isn't a poor
little period to have out oft seven days
for absolute happiness and love mak
ing. The very fact It isn't more than a
day and a half a week will make the
honeymoon last all the longer.
Don't Envy Rich Their Time.
Even if one is so poor that this
can't be spent anywhere except under
a green tree, looking up at the blue
sky, still It's something.
When you are prone to bewail your
lack of a honeymoon. Just reflect that
it's infinitely better to starve love than
to surfeit the young gentleman. And
be a good philosopher. Be thankful
for even a small allowance of leisure
to love in and love all the harder for
it
Don't begrude the rich and the great
their time. Time hangs so heavy on a
lot of rich people's hands that they
can't even kill it.
So If you have had a long honey
moon, one too long for the good of the
honeymoon, take this advice and get
busy with new, fresh interests. Choose
anything you like, but please try to
remember this, that a honeymoon Is
safest kept at home. The honeymoons
that have stayed freshest, that have
Russia, Greece, Italy, Germany, Switz
erland, Austria, Servla, France, Great
Britain all over. When this office
first opened, two years ago, there was
not so very many foreign-born depos
itors. But the number Increased rapid
ly, much faster In proportion than the
native-born. But lately the American
born are taking more Interest and the
ratio is decreasing.
"It would surprise you to see who
puts money In here. It was thought
at first that only the very poor would
confide their funds with us, but It
turned out otherwise. We have an in
creasing number of teachers, dentists,
tailors, physicians, ministers, attor
neys and business men. We're not
permitted to give names, but if I could
I think I could surprise you with the
number and standing of the business
and professional men who have ac
counts here. One of them calls his
little $500 here 'an anchor to wind
ward. "
He had sandwiched this information
between a gentle refusal to pay a $5
certificate to a woman who oame in at
6 o'clock an hour after the paying
window had closed, and wanted the
money and counting and paying inter
est to another depositor. "Interest
is payable at any time," he explained
to me. "Any time it la due and we
are open for business."
The next In line was an aged couple
who wished to start a Joint acoount
When they were told this was impos
sible, they explained that the old man
expected to go to the hospital In the
near future and wished to have the
money available to his wife "in case
anything should happen to me" as
he phrased It, In that pathetlo evasion
of old people. They put In $100 and
went away, his faltering steps guided
and aided by her love and care.
Next was a newsboy, black-eyed,
curly-haired, with all the lmplshness
of his kind.
"I want 30 cents worth of cards,"
he informed us. "Nix on the comedy,
cull; I want cards straight no stamps.
That's better." And he strolled away,
followed by a couple of admiring com
panions. The next person was a Greek laborer,
who thrust out his envelope and $100
in bills, the dirtiest bills ever handled.
We don t get much paper money in
here, commented the olerk, as he threw
the bills into the till. "And sometimes
I'm rather glad of It. These fellows
carry bills in their shoes, drop them
Into the soup, and scramble their ham
and eggs all over them. You oan al
ways tell an Easterner by the way he
pronounces the name of the .Willamette
River and the way he demands paper
money. I m Westerner enough to prefer
gold It may be Just as dirty, but you
can't see It.
You have lots of women banking
here 7"
Yes. Most of them are married, and
do the banking for the family. I think
more than half of our deposits belong
to this class. It Is Interesting to watch
people save. Those who get the least
often save the most. These day labor
ers. who don t look as If they had a
second shirt to their backs, often save
$60 or $100 a month. I often wonder
how they get it. On the other hand,
clerks getting a .fair salary often save
very little, and put In a few dollars
one day, only to draw It out the next,
"This Is a regular school for savers:
a man will come In here, or a girl, and
put in say $10 or $15. A few days later
they draw out part of it, and a few
days later they draw out some more.
Perhaps they close out the account and
quit But seldom for long. They have
the saving germ and It stays with
them. They come in and start another
account perhaps putting in only a dol
lar or so. i Then In a week perhaps they
will, put 'in a few dollars more, and
Js
iWhen'onYdui?
Honeymootl
You Begin id
Feel Bored, It:
Is Time to Set
,Up That Home
No Matter i
!' Is Small
pay Interest by the year, and probably
not more than half the money stays In
for a full year, we have quite a profit
beside the matter of paying only 1 per
cent interest to our customers. Then
lots of people don't draw out their
Interest as soon as It Is due, and so we
draw Interest on their Interest whloh
remains in the banks."
"Then, too, I suppose people lea
their certificates," I suggested.
"That doesn't lose them their money
they can apply for duplicates. But
sometimes a fellow might lose his life
and bis certificates at the same time
be drowned at sea, for lnstanoe, and
In that case. If he had no relatives
who knew of his account here. It might
never be claimed. That wouldn't hap
pen very often, though."
"When anyone cashes a certificate
we take out the duplicate and compare
the signature he made when he put
In the money with the one he has Just
made. Then we stamp them both paid
and put the duplicate back In our en
velope. We mark up the amount of
the withdrawal and the balanoe re
maining on the backs of both en
velopes. The paid certificates we send
back to Washington, D. C, with the
monthly report."
I passed and watched the row of
waiting depositors that is the usual
part of the postoffloe scenery. What
an interesting story it spelled that
stream of humanity that drifts forever
past What tales of struggle, of pa
tient toil, rewarded here perhaps by
comfort and prosperity, perhaps des
tined there to end in the dismal morass
of sickness, misfortune and poverty.
How many a young man has stood In
this line, watching the mounting bal
ance that may mean a chanoe to strike
out in some little business for himself,
or perhaps become part payment for a
a home. How many a dollar has age,
with trembling fingers, here put by
for that unavoidable hour when the
hands cease from laboring. How many
a swart Greek or black-eyed Italian
has accumulated here the means to
return from exile, or perhaps to bring
over here the ones he Iovea How muoh
of hope, and despair, and endeavor and
happiness, has filed past this grated
window, and how much will file?
a. a m.
Ireland's Tide Turns
Find a Good Place for a Nest.
Learn to Cook for Him.
remained as sweet after 60 years as
they were at first you'll find I'm right
If you look up statistics are those
that have been stored away most of
that time In the best safety dejoslt
place of all for such a treasure undei
one's own vine and fig tree.
Postal Bank Popular
(Continued From Pace 6.)
Italian where to sign on one of them.
A moment later he showed me the
signature, which resembled a futurist
sketch of a railway train telescoping
with a bunch of flatcara. "How am I
going to copy that?" he demanded.
By dint of questioning he managed
to secure the man's name and address.
But it was a delicate task to get all
the necessary information, for the
foreigner spoke very little English.
A fellow ought to have the gift of
tongues for this Job," remarked my in
formant. "There isn't a country of Eu
rope but what has representatives
banking here. Japan, China, Australia,
Africa, South America, Turkey, India,
pretty soon they will be saving money
at a pretty fair clip.
"Lots of these people wouldn't save
at all If it were not for this bank,
know I was that way. I've got an ac
count here, myself. I used to be
ashamed to take a few dollars to one of
the big banks, so I never tried to save.
Here the clerks don't care whether you
put in one dollar or a handred they're
paid by the month and they count it all
in the day's work. Some of them when
they first start in apologize for draw
Ing out a dollar or two, or explain why
they only put In a dollar or so at a
time, but they aoon get over that
"We often have people come In here
with quite large sums which they wish
to deposit and we are compelled to re
fuse them. I think that some time this
limit we now have of $100 a month,
$500 in all, will be raised or abolished.
That will make our work more diffi
cult but Increase the amount of busi
ness. In two years we have had over
15,300 depositors, and more than half
of them are still open accounts. Our
deposits now total more than $800,000
and we are Increasing every day. The
receipts are turned over every day to
certain designated banks, which pay us
2 hi per cent on daily balances. As we,
That the tide of Irish national life
whloh has been steadily ebbing for 75
years has turned and that the "old sod"
promises to take on new vigor. Is the
claim made by Francis J. Kilkenny,'
originator of the Irish home-golnar
movement In a statement a year ago
he asserted that a new era had already
dawned for Ireland, whloh Is now sub
stantiated by figures of the recent
Irish oensus. Today he is out with new
calculations which show that for the
first time in more than 70 years the
population of Ireland is Increasing.
During the fiscal year ended June $0,
1912, It appears that the birth rate ex
ceeded by 1102 the loss by death and
emigration. For the same time the
deaths from all causes were the lowest
since 1871, and the Infant mortality the
lowest ever recorded, being only 8f In
every 1000.
"The population of Ireland was at
high water mark in 1841. the official
figures for that year being 8,175,124,"
says Mr. Kilkenny. "Between 1841 and
1861 the loss by death and emigration
amounted to over 1,600.000. Census
statistics for the ten years ended in
1861 showed a decrease of over 11 per
cent; in 1871, the returns showed a
6 hi per cent decrease; in 1881, about
4 ft per cent; In 1891. t per cent and in
1901, 5 per cent For the decade ended
1911 it was only about ltt per oent
and - now, for a single year there la
shown an increase Instead of the con
stant decrease. I am satisfied that the
next ten-year census figures Instead
of showing a decrease will display a
most satisfactory increase in the pop
ulation of the island. The census re
turns of April 2, 1911, make the total
population 4.890,210, viz: 2,192,048 males,
2,198,171 females, being a decrease from
the prior census of 68,658, or the
smallest since the decade 1871-1881,
however. In one province (Lelnster)
there was an Increase of 9215, or nearly
1 per cent So It Is shown that Ireland
at the time of her low tide has about
half the population that she had 74
years ago; and that she is, therefore,
the only country In the civilized world
whose population has been terribly de
pleted through restrictive legislation.
"Ireland has suffered a heavy loss
from emigration. The drain upon her
population In this direction even during
the past five years averages 80,000 an
nually. In 1907 39,000 left Ireland for
other countries; In 1908, 23,000; 1909,
28,000; 1901. S2.000; 1911, 30.000; 1912,
29.000.
"From May 1, 1851, to March SI, 1911,
nearly 4,200,000 natives of Ireland emi
grated to other counties. The larger
proportion of these emigrants were be
tween the ages of 15 and 35 years. Re
munerative employment In Ireland for
men and women will help largely to
check this drain upon her population.
"One good sign of Ireland's growing
prosperity is the increase In the num
ber of Inhabited houses. The number
of inhabited houses In 1911 was re
ported at 861,879, or an Increase of 8721
over the returns for 1901, while the re
turns also show that a better and more
modern class of cottages Is being built
than In former years. Another sign
promising great things for the future
of Ireland Is that the vast estate '
formerly held by absentee landlords
are now being cultivated by the Irish
occupiers of the soil, who, under the
land act of 1901 and subsequent acts,
have become the owners thereof. The
land acts of 1903 and 1909, the laborers'
cottage act of 1906 and the old age pen
sion act of 1908 were enabling measures
which have given much relief and en
oouragement to the Irish people
Washington (D. C.) Cor. Boston Trans
script.
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