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ARE MEN LESS CHARMING?
The adjective is not ours, it is used
by Mrs. Charles Henrotin of Chicago,
who very emphatically asserts that
men of today are, in matters of court-
liness and charm, in no way equal to
the men with whom her father and
mother associated 650 years ago. The
word “behavior,” she says, seems to
have beengdropped out of the language.
Forty-five years ago the men were bet.
ter they knew literature,
they were better conversationalists,
wonderfully well read, had a leisurely
bearing and good breeding that now
seems, she thinks, to have passed out
educated,
of existence, says the Pittsburgh Dis-
patch. Big cities the modern
civilization, in their tendency to part
the sexes, and the influx of foreigners,
are the causes solution
But are her charges true?
the greater strain of life has crowded
out courtliness, that few af-
ford a leisurely bearing in these days
and that
and
offers in
Grant that
she
men can
living,
abrupt than
of her
less
of increased cost of
modern manners are more
those of the old school,
other specifications? Are
well educated, less well read, less able
2? Of
what
men
to converse course
not.
gence
fused as today,
process has not
tion of well-educated, well-bred and ex.
intelligently
Education
were
reading and intelli
generally dif-
broadening
never so
and the
lessened the propor-
ceptionally intelligent men, compared
with 50 ago, but rather the re-
verse, the natural ! t of
wider
years
because
diffusion has
larger proportion of 1
The New York bo
ents has issued
teachers in
¢ity Lo do all in
the oral Engl
declared that the
popils of “t'row”
turn, “foil”
for
for girl, *
lawr” for law,
other similar expressions no
will be tolerated. If, as
implied, it prevails at
time, the fact
not only a lack of diligence on
‘thoyd”
longer
to be
present
seems
the
indicate
the part
of the teachers of the grade schools as
the
would seem to
well as high schools
slovenly
some of
pronunciation on
the teachers
Bright pupils usually imita
nunciation of their
waukeeans are aware from
tion of this tendency
longing to homes
guage
grown up
where
habitually em
was
with a good
lish because they imitat
¢
of their teachers in the
was $20,1
compared with
ada
T ne
respond
matic
into
mont}
moni
taken
account, and these
of the present
a reduction January,
1912, was marked by the most pro
tracted period of extremely cold weath
occurred the
the
and when the mercury is I
departments work at great disad-
In January, 1912, there were
er which has
tablishment of
since ef
weather bureau,
very low fire
vantage
536 fires causing a loss of $10,000 or
over, and in January, 1913, only 365
The largest fire of January, 1913, was
that which destroyed the Calgary meat
packing plant in Alberta, Canada,
Surgical treatment to turn a con-
useful citizen
setback in a
criminal into a
received a bad
firmed
case
where a great apparent change after
such an led to the pardon
of the remade His release was
followed by a series of burglaries
which necessitated his return to dur
ance vile. Perhaps one of the reforms
to come will be the better protection
of society from theory and experi.
ment connected with the eriminal
classes. So far, the experiments made
that morality is merely a
matter of physiology have not been
brilliantly successful,
operation
man
to prove
A college paper denounces the deca.
dence of students in allowing the old
time rough-and-tumble rush to be suc
ceeded by “sappy, effeminate teas
and dinners,” and pleads for the res
toration of hand-to-hand battles to try
their mettle. Probably thus did the
barbarians look upon the first en-
croachments of civilization. The col
lege-student estimate of manliness
needs badly to be revised,
A doctor in Rome caused a riot
and then was kept busy patching up
the wounded. It was rather a strenu-
trade, but that business energy Is ac
counted the best which gets a market
for its supply by creating a demand.
Kansas professor has discovered
surest way to become ugly is to try
and force beauty. Any manager who
has tried to force any of his stage
beauties to live up to their contracts
could have told him that.
MILLED IN
Devastation.
WORST KNOWN IN YEARS.
Cyclone Gales Cause Destruction In
the South—Snow and Sleet
Almost isolates Chicago
From the East.
Washington More thi
are reported killed
injured, some mortally,
tornado intensity wh
Central, Western,
of Eastern States
form in different
damage will run well
Definite ady
and
Southe
and took differs
CES
accounting for at
dead.
Ala
NEeAvies
Reports from
of life was
} §
number of dead 1
definitely placed at
fatalities
The town of
practically wiped
reports {
Tw persons
three in Ohi
in Missouri
JAPAN SERVES WARNING
Will Withdraw Exh
Allen Land
bits To
Law Passes.
Fair If
At
WHAT THE GIRLS NEED.
e Air and Sunshine, Says Noted
Physical Educator
A certalr
DOLLAR IN HIS
Out
Skull
HEAD.
Mashes
Silver
Coin Make
Plate.
Doctor To
Omaha, Ar]
this place, wil
person, but it
a8 A Cash
part of his
than
inch wide An
the skull
head
more two inc
Omah
plate from a col
TRUST PUTS MINIMUM PAY AT $8.
Harvester Company First To Recog
nize Claims Of Women,
yrus H. Me.
International Har
made the announce
beginning Monday, the
minimum wage for girls and women
employed anywhere in the United
States by the company will be $8 a
week, The present minimum is $5 a
week for apprentices
President (
the
Chicago
Cormick, of
vester Company,
ment that,
PASSENGER TRAIN DERAILED,
8t. Louis Railroad.
Marshalltown, Jowa.-
persons were injured, three of them
possibly fatally, when a passenger
Railroad was derailed six miles north
of here. Most of the injured were
from Missouri and Southern lowa, and
were bound for Minneapolis and the
SHOT 10 DEATH
IN THE PALAGE
Startling Accusations Made by
a Mexican Editor.
STRANGLED.
Representa-
de To
1 Arrest
sed As Peasants
Wife's Appeal
Ne r
SMOKING DEATH OF OLD WOMAN
Octogenarian's Pipe Sets Dress Afire,
Causing Fatal Burns.
Ind. —Mre, Will
old, while
Einora, iam Seneff,
80 years
allowed some of the
to drop on her dress, lefore other
members of the family could reach
had been so seriously burned
a few hours later,
her she
she died
ELIOT HAS NOTHING TO SAY.
Must Come From White Mouse.
Cambridge, Mass
mation to give about that ambassador
ship; all Information must be obtain.
ed at the other end of the line,” said
President Emeritus Charles W. Eliot,
of Harvard, tonight. Dr. Eliot
been asked for a statement on his
attitude toward a diplomatic appoint.
ment. He celebrated at
HIGH PRICES AND
THE GOLD SUPPLY
Over Production Bound to
Leave Effect.
DIRECTCR ROBERTS REPORT.
Great
U. 8. CRUISERS TO MEXICO.
California
Coast,
The Maryland and
To the West
Going
a¢
TO ENFORCE HATPIN ORDINANCE
New Orleans Women Offender
Be Fined Or Locked Up.
May
N ow here will
Orleans The | lice
inetru
tions to arrest
“hat.
be given special
¢
woman found vic
iat ng the
the city, recently
ordinance provides that
protrude bevond the
point is covered.
pin ordinance” of
passed The
no hatping shall
hat unless the
RIOTING AT PANAMA,
Authorities At Bocas Del Toro Tele
graph Canal Commissioner For Aid.
Colon The authorities at Bocas
del Toro telegraphed the Canal Zone
Commission requesting that a force of
men be sent there to aid in putting
down labor . riots Fifty
ONE CHURCH MEMBER.
Station Consists Of Single Person.
Trenton, N. J.
in the Third Reformed Dutch
in America, at New Bruns.
ship
Church
organization extinct and €{ssolve the
concern,
ING GEORGE
Sovereign Attacked From Be-
hind By Aleko Shinas,
Causes a Tremendous
Sensation In London and Other
Capitals—The
Foreign King
Killed In Saloniki,
ng George
RABIES KILLS HERO
Fifteen-Year Old
From
Lad Saves Score
Attack By Mad Dog
i es
up of giris
AWE fo
Were
the neck
SON'S STORY CONVICTS.
Father Found Guilty Of Murder Upon
Boy's Testimony,
New York — With 12-vearold Frank
Spear as the chief witness against his
iatter's trial for the kill
counsel! brought
e conviction of Alexander
for m the
A Supreme Court jury,
faith 5 thi
pier in f
ng of his wife, state
about t
Spear, 41
first
impressed by the son's testimony that
him on his knee and
with the aid of a knife and
how he would slash his
deliberated less than
vears old urder in
degre
father took
showed,
an apple,
wife's throat,
half an hour,
TOWN FLOOD-SWEPT.
O'Neil Of Alabama Asked For
Aid By Residents Of Garland.
Mobile, Ala.--Governor O'Nell was
appealed to for ald In behalf of citi
gene of Garland, a small town in But
ler county, which fragmentary reports
say has been partly swept away by
floods
Gov.
LIGHTNING STRIKES JAIL.
Covington,
Cincinnati, Lightning struck the
county jail at Covington, Ky, hurl
ing the 15-foot chimney to the ground
and bouncing the 60 prisoners, all
negroes, from their iron cots. The
prisoners were thrown into & panic.
The iron cells and cots made perfect
conductors and the lightning created
the impression that the cellhouse was
Ky.
FROM AUSTRIA
is Given One
Week to Comply.
THE WAR IS NEARING AN END.
Austria That
Not Keep Bcutar
She
Montenegro Shall
Even If
Takes It.
waa
Been
make
’
WEATHER CHIEF RESIGNS
L. Moore W From
Bureau J
DESTRUCTION WIDESPREAD.
Bix States Are Devastated and Small
Towns Wiped Out
Chicage A terrif
causing
lose of life and
the
BOTY ICH
wias fT
spread dest
pag tf
mor
A " .
diready de
raged
Middle
Yer
States Sund
Kansas
heavy
and
from Nebraska
Indiana indicate 1
owing to the wrecking of the telegraph
lines. the reports are fragmentary and
The
ismags«
Jacking in detail loss of
property in lowa Was
cording to messages from
swept district Dust storn
apd tremendous electrical
prevailed over Kansas
the greater part of the day
NEWS STAMPS FOR PARCEL POST.
Different Colors and Figures Will Dis.
tinguish Denominations.
Washington. The a new
and smaller parcel post stamp to re
place those now in use has been ap
proved by PostmasterGeneral Burle
son. Numerous complaints that the
present stamp, all denominations of
which are the same color, is hard to
distinguish as to value and easily
¢ 1 pwn at
design of
WILL NOT YIELD,
TURKS
To Hold Out.
Adrianople —~8hukri Pasha, the com.
they have now carried on for five
months, and all reports as to offers
made by them to surrender may be
dismissed as pure inventions. Only
starvation can force the capitulation
of the beleaguered garrison.