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PRIDE.
A QUEER thing this pride.
Few people but have pride, but the
things upon which they pride them
selves are often widely different. What
one person may be proud of, another may
be ashamed of. What one person prizes
above anything else, another may look down
upon with scorn. Pride is most elastic.
Miladi Knickerbocker can point with
pride to generations of noble ancestors, in
whose veins ran the blue blood of royalty.
That notable scions of her race had been
degenerate whelps with no manhood or ad
mirable qualities does not lower her pride
in the strain of kings from which she is
descended.
Mistress True, on the other hand, finds
pride in the sturdy, honest, God-fearing race
of which she is a worthy representative. The
breath of scandal has never been associated
for a moment with the stock from which
she comes, and she is proud of this.
Pride of ancestry is but one form which
pride may take. There is the lad who is
proud of his college athletic record, and the
boy who takes pride in his scholarship.
There is the man who takes pride in his
keen wits that baffle the lawmakers, and
the man who is proud of his ability to trace
the lawbreaker.
" In the municipal court of a large North
western city a few weeks ago, appeared a
woman, guilty of breaking all of the ten
commandments, as well as numerous man
made laws. She perjured herself without
concern while being cross-examined on the
witness stand. She used language seldom
heard from the lips of vile men. In short,
she had plumbed the depths to which a
woman can fall, and court attendants looked
on with' a mixture of disgust and pity.
" and this woman was sitting in hef
room, doubtless smoking, when the plain
tiff " The prosecuting attorney was in
terrupted by a shrill cry from the woman.
"It's a lie!" she shrieked. "You found
some cigarettes on my table, but a friend
had left them there." She drew herself
up with what dignity was at her command.
"I never' smoked a cigarette in my life!"
And this was pride.
love of fathers and mothers for their sons,
but it does mean a public recognition of boy
hood as a public asset.
The Boy Scout movement is perhaps one
of the greatest National factors toward
developing manhood in the youth, in teach
ing the youngster the true values of right
and wrong, in shaping the twig that the
tree may be straight. The corn-growing
clubs, so numerous in the Middle-Western
States and now being introduced into the
Northwest, and all ,of such have a valuable
work to perform. The Y. M. C. A. may be
commended for its efficient work in train
ing boys, through their own efforts, for the
fulfillment of their obligations to themselves
and to society.
All this is social engineering of a superla
tive kind. The method of social engineer
ing is as admirable as the result, for it ap
plies the old, eternally sound principle of
"helping others to help themselves." It
enables boys to solve "the boy problem."
The conservation of boys and the guidance
of their energies, to the end that their poten
tial capacities and powers may rightly be
deevloped into the dynamic forces of the
social America of tomorrow, constitute one
of the geratest duties which we. owe to our
experiment in democracy.
side of the world, i consummation, to quote'
Haiulet, "devoutly to be wished for."
For inasmuch as we appear to be thwarted
in our search for the individuality of Infin- -ity,
as intimated by Zophar the Naamathite
in the great dialoguo in Job, perhaps we
shall find solace in the study of mankind and
his history. Even so we shall be well re
warded. In connection with the" discovery of this
city mentioned, it is added that the Amazon
has been traced to its source, where, as a
stream not tw.o inches wide, it trickles from
a mountain nearly 18,000 feet high in the
mighty range of the Andes, a no small
achievement by the way, and one of great
value to geographers.
THE BOYHOOD OF THE COUNTRY.
OF aU the "movements" which give
gooa promise for the future of Amer-
ican life, none is more important or
more valid than the boyhood movement.
We are growing more appreciative of the
value of boyhood, and we are showing it
in better ways, This does not mean a new
ANOTHER "LOST CITY."
ANNOUNCEMENT is made from Los
Angers of the discovery, confirmed by
photographs and relics brought back,
of another "lost city of the Iucas" in Peru.
The story bears all the earmarks of truth
and there is no apparent reason for doubt
ing it.
In the unexplored areas of the South
American Continent, as well as in Central
America, evidences of a very ancient civili
zation have, from time to time, been found,
and while, in the past the professors and
savants of the nations have given Egypt and
the other countries bordering on the Medi
terranean almost exclusive attention, it be?
gins to look as if these later finds will in
future constitute a basis for active- study
and exploration.
There are evidences of a civilization as
old as that of Memphis and of Thebes in the
two countries mentioned, and it is by no
means improbable that it was as far ad
vanced. Certain it is that there are points of
similarity both in architecture and in hiero
glyphics as compared with the Egyptian.
' Pyramids have been found which, while not
so large as those of Egypt, are of similar
shape and it is related that many inscrip
tions bear a close resemblance to those found
in the land of the Pharaohs.
These circumstances have been considered
by believers in the existence of what has been
designated as the lost continent of "At
lantis," as proof that that land of mystery
once extended from South America to the
Continent of Africa and when destroyed by
an immense upheaval of the earth which
caused the waters of the great deep to flood
the larger part of its area, either the sur
vivors of the catastrophe on the western side,
or their predecessors in exploration, founded
new homes and new nations in the northern
portion of South America and in Central
America.
Of course all this is chiefly supposition,
but there is a possibility that when thorough
explorations and excavations have been
made, that the wise men of our own gener
ation may solve the mystery attaching to the
birth and growth of the human race on this
"CATCHING COLD."
TIIE recent cold spell in the Northwest
was heralded by a chorus of sneezes-
everybody catching cold, except that
fortunate, and offensively boastful few who
"never catch cold."
Why ? The reasons will be helpful in
avoiding cold. The Fall epidemic of colds
comes for these reasons: That the closing
of doors and windows against the outdoor
chill suddenly shuts off the supply of clean
fresh air, which is a sovereign safeguard
against colds; that with less outdoor exer
cise most people continue the heavy diet
that the outdoor exercise of Summer en
abled them to get away with nicely; and
that hermetically-sealed interiors form hot
beds for the spread of the germs that cause
colds for a cold is a germ disease and is
coutagious, and its germ is, moreover, dan
gerously friendly with the germs of wnsil
itis, diphtheria, pneumonia, etc,
A Philadelphia doctor gives this good ad
vice: "To avoid colds' avoid overeating,
overdrinking, overwork, exposure and other
persons who have colds." He should have
added, avoid foul air and cultivate fresh air.
"Everybody up nt our house has a cold."
Ever hear that? Many times. Think of
that, and then of that Philadelphia doctor's
advice about avoiding "other persons who
have colds." Colds run through a family,
for the Bame reason smallpox might run
through a family because one gets it and
gives it to the rest.
And don't scorn a cold as a little thing.
Generally it is a little thing, but when it Is
you are lucky. ".Just a cold" covers a mul
titude of perils; for a cold often suddenly
strikes at a vital point and plays the very
mischief.
Avoid colds by cultivating fresh air and
temperance in food, 'drink and work, by
keeping up outdoor exercise as much as pos
sible during the Winter months, and by"
avoiding contagion. And when you get a
cold, be careful of yourself.
The warring nations have been invited to
the biennial congress of the American Peace
Society. At which, remarks the New York
Sun, they ought to be able to stuff a pillow
with dove feathers.
They are now. making mock-turtle soupi
so well that the only people able to detect
the difference is the man who tastes it.
If it be true that the hookworm is in
Panama, it is evident that Colonel Qoethals
hasn't learned about it yet.
Venus has nothing on Gertrude Hoffman,
the vaudeville dancer, and Gertrude hasn't
much on herself.