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" WOMAN'S WORLD.
1
DR. SARAH MORRIS, WHO TREATS
DRUNKENNESS AS A DISEASE.
Trained Nursery Maids — Woman Engi-
yy Reers—The Girl Bachelor--Her Political
| 'Aspirations— Women in Public Life—An
Interesting Reminiscence.
Philanthropy and science occasionally
get on speaking terms with one another.
When they do, it is a good thing for
philanthropy.
A Buffalo woman has embarked in a
new work which will excite wide inter-
est because it is one of practical reform.
The need for itis a need of the hour,
and the woman is Dr. Sarah Howe Mor-
ris, known by thousands to be giving a
lifetime to loving, earnest work for the
good of the world.
For years and by degrees Dr. Morris
has been getting to this special task—
the scientific and effectual raising not
of the dead, but of those sometimes
more hopeless, the inebriate. She has
endeavored to reach them through the
Woman's Christian Tempérance union;
she has looked into prohibition; she
has labored with drunkards individu-
ally and in the jails. Twenty-five years
ago she established in Brooklyn the
famous Morris home, where hundreds
of inebriates were cured simply by the
power of good hygienic living and
wholesome teaching. But there has al-
ways been something lacking until the
year of grace 1896. What that some-
thing is and how she found it make a
very interesting chapter of their own.
“Thirty years ago Horace Greeley
eXid, ‘Drunkenness is a disease, not a
crime,’ and he was roundly abused. for
his idea. The habitual drunkard was
the cherished target of the pulpit, the
press, the reformer and the judge, and
these powers refused to have their bulls-
eye knocked out in that easy way. The
drunkard was jailed with enthusiasm,
and he has been kept jailed most of the
time since at large expense to him and
tous. It is only of late that Greeley’s
advice has struck home, and by the help
of scientists we are finding that it is as
wise to imprison a man for drunkenness
as it is to ‘cage’ him for rheumatism.
His disease may be, often is, his own
doing—most diseases are the result of
our own mistakes—but a disease, dipso-
mania, remains,and we now rightly turn
to the physician for the solution of the
great temperance problem.’
Dr. Morris was one of the first to
come out and agree with Mr. Greeley,
and she has her half of a very interest-
DR. SARAH HOWE MORRIS.
Jing correspondence which the two car-
ried on over the situation. The inebriate
was a sick man. He needed medicine.
Man cannot live by bread alone nor can
the drunkard be cured by moral suasion.
After awhile the home in Brooklyn
was given up, but through all these
long years of heavy and varying labors
Dr. Morris never gave up her hope of
finding a remedy, a specific, for the
liquor habit.
Strangely enough, for many of us
look for nothing practical from a re-
former, the suggestion that led to Dr.
Morris’ new work came from Francis
Murphy. While visiting at her Buffalo
home he told her of a liquor cure which
was being used with great success. She
immediately went to Chicago, investi-
gated the remedy and was convinced
that at last the lacking something was
in her hand.
With this remedy at her command,
with a determination to begin anew
the work of raising broken men and
women from worthlessness to useful-
ness, and with a preparation, an expe-
rience and a personality extraordinary,
Dr. Morris has opened a home here for
the cure of dipsomania and the morphine
habit. She will not have it called an
*‘institution.’”” It has none of the ear-
marks, or hall marks, one might say, of
an institution. It isa home in every
sense of the word.
She is decided about another phase of
dhe matter also. It is not a cure for
worthless creatures, but a veritable door
of hope for men—men worthy of the
_-name—who have fallen through drink.
{ There is no shutting our eyes to the fact
that there are thousands of these brainy,
educated, valuable men and women
drifting round like wrecks. This is the
class sho chooses to set back into pros-
perity and peace.
It is interesting to see the home life
It might be copied
in all homes to advantage. There is
proper living without too much rule,
there is earnest direction without dicta-
tion, there is encouragement without
palaver and goodness without cant. Of
course there is good cheer, for while
Dr. Morris is able to bring a good, big
thunderstorm down upon things when
they need clearing ghe herself is a veri-
table sunbeam.-—Buffalo Express.
Trained Nursery Maids.
In these days when all fields of work,
especially woman's work, are said to be
mand ‘ being from £0 to 10(' per cent
greater than the supply.
‘We can graduate only about 28 girls
a year,’ said the superintendent of the
New York Training School For Nursery
Maids, ‘‘and we have applicants for
several hundred during that time. The
subject of training nurses for the care
of children is receiving each year more
attention, and intelligent paremts are
beginning to feel that the old idea that
any person could mind the baby is
about exhausted.
‘In our training we do not attempt
to give medical knowledge, for we con-
sider ‘a little knowledge a dangerous
thing,’ but we seek to make them
capable of taking a healthy baby and
keeping it healthy. The nurse learns
nursery hygiene in its broadest sense
with the rudiments of kindergarten. As
a life work for women this profession
geems much to be preferred to that of
a shop or a factory girl. We have appli-
cants for our graduates from every state
in the Union and almost every country
in the world. Several of our graduates
are abroad now as nurses in the fami-
lies of the nobility. Of course, as I re-
marked at first, the demand is greater
than the supply, so we are forced to
answer ‘No’ many times where we
would be only too glad to supply a good
nursery maid. Only a short while ago
we had an application from the West
Indies, and the place was an admirable
one, but we had no one to send there.
Every girl graduated is already engaged.
“During the last two years there
have been similar schools founded in
Montreal, Newark, Brooklyn and De-
troit. All of these institutions have
been. modeled after this school. The
managers of one of these have frequent-
ly visited us, and in one case sent their
superintendent to us for several months’
experience. Whenever a new institu-
tion of the kind is projected the call im-
mediately comes, ‘Have you not some
one whom you can send to us to organ-
ize the work?” We are always forced to
say, ‘No.’ ”’
Wom: Engineers.
The Engineering Record notes the
fact that female draftsmen have for
several years been employed in archi-
tectural and other offices in clerical and
copying work chiefly and that one wom-
an in the Qhicago drainage canal en-
gineer’s office is doing creditable map
and color work. A firm of architectural
engineers in New York has gone beyond
this and employed one young woman
who has graduated from an engineering
school and shares the ordinary duties of
her associates, though, of course, at a
disadvantage concerning shop, mill and
field work.
This moves The Engineerizcg Record
to say: ‘‘ Every encouragement should,
of course, be given to extending and de-
veloping the scope of suitable female
employment, but it should not, in the
novelty of a new field, be forgotten that
the profession of engineering is a most
jealous mistress and exacts the utmost
effort and eternal enthusiasm, together
with indomitable perseverance and per-
gistence and superior special qualifica-
tions and sound judgment from those
who are to secure a permanent foothold
or acceptably to perform the responsible
duties assigned the engineer. No tran-
gient occupation or divided aim is toler-
able. The profession must be supreme,
and, further, to be truly a competent
engineer involves the necessity of inti-
mate acquaintance with all the prac-
tical sides of the work—the reconnois-
sance, the location, trial surveys, years
of patient study and laborious physical
work in the mines, mills and shops,
life in camp and in the field, hazardous
duties faithfully performed on the dizzy
heights of lofty false work for erection,
handling, of iron and machinery in tun-
nels and excavations, blasting and
building as well as drawing or even cal-
calculating a plan, and these lessons are
not only necessary to success, but for
the safety of lives and property always
dependent upon the engineer’s construc-
tions.”’
The Girl Bachelor.
There is no occasion to commiserate
the condition of the girl bachelors who
keep house. They do not want it, but
are rather to be envied. This is a mat-
ter of wonder to those who worry about
women going into trade on the ground
that it will destroy their love of home.
On the contrary, it develops it. The
woman who is forced to earn her living
and resents it seeks the consolation of a
boarding house. The real girl bachelor,
at least the sort with whom I have
come most in contact, is not a dis-
gruntled person who has known bette
days and always takes pains to remind
you of it. She is a healthy, hearty be-
ing, who wants, to be sure, to help out
the family income, to relieve her father
of at least one of his burdens, but she
is, more than anything else, an actual
homemaker and a housekeeper.
It is the girl bachelor who loves chil-
dren and is not ashamed to say so, the
girl bachelor who lives not unto herself,
but to all the world, because no visitor
is so unwelcome that he may not have
a cup of tea and a cracker, be his visit
ne’er so untimely, It isthe girl bachelor
who does not apologize for dust, or
care arap for what the neighbors think,
or hope to marry a rich man. She is
the future mother, because the volun
tary one, of better men and women.
My sunbonnet is off to her. She is
gettling the woman question while
other people talk of it. Financial inde-
pendence for herself is the explanation
of everything, -—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Her Political Aspirations.
Professor Felix Adler, in an address
on ‘The Political Aspirations of Wom-
en,’ says:
“In no country is there more defer-
ence shown to woman than in ours,
not alone in the outward exhibition
shown them of courtesy, but genuine
respect, which comes from all ranks of
society. Yet she is denied the franchise,
except in na few states, and there her
franchise is in most cases confined to
overcrowded it is a relief to find one; local matters.
exception. This exception is the profes-
‘‘Her position, it has been often said,
sion of trained nursery maids, the de- is similar to that of infants, criminals
and the insane. Some even go further
and say it is worse, for the infant will
grow to manhood and inherit the right
of citizenship, the sentence of the crim-
inal will expire and his rights be re-
stored to him, and even the insane per-
son may recover his reasoning power
and enjoy the franchise again, Inno
country is there greater liberty, yet it
was the intention of our fathers to limit
the male voters by a property require-
ment, which was swept away by a tide
of democracy early in the century. Our
fathers probably never intended matters
to be as they are, but their barriers were
unable to stand before the rushing tide
of young democracy. Then caine the
civil war, and the franchise was given
to the colored man, yet it is still with-
held from half of the population.
‘‘Women need the ballot for self pro-
tection. It is true no class can safely
trust its interest to another. This is to
me one of the convincing arguments in
favor of woman suffrage, and I think it
should be worked for deliberately and
conscientiously. I believe that when the
time is ripe they should be participants
in the government. I strongly believe
that, but I believe the time, however,
is not yet ripe.’’
In conclusion, Professor Adler said
that education was the argument to
open the gates. Great power, he assert-
ed, did not beget freedom. Whenever
there had been great political success
there had been great political training.
Women In Public Life.
Mrs. Lucy L. Flower, a trustee of
the University of Illinois, writing in
The Outlook on ‘‘Women In Public
Life, *’ says:
““Nine-tenths of our public school
teachers are women. Some of the very
best and most successful principals are
Women, and these women should cer-
tainly have a representative of their
own sex among the school directors,
some person or persons who can see and
present the woman’s point of view.
Our state universities are all coeduca-
tional, and the interests of the young
women in these institutions require rep-
resentatives on their governing boards.
“If a man be left with a family of
girls on his hands to bring up, his help-
lessness in the face of this responsibility
is often truly pitiful. He will generally
own frankly that he knows nothing
about girls, and he appeals at once for
some woman's help. And yet we have
been putting the interests of young
girls for four of their most impression-
able years entirely in the hands of men,
though there is a general acknowledg-
ment of man’s inability successfully to
cope, unaided, with the needs of Lis
own daughters. I believe that if there
were more of®*the right woman's influ-
ence in all of our colleges there would
be less dissipation, but where thcre are
girls it is a necessity that some one who
understands their wants as women—
which few men ¢an—should be able to
stand for these interests in the councils
of the trustees.”
An Interesting Reminiscence.
A. Wilder of Newark, N. J., writing
to the New Ycrk Voice, gives the fol-
lowing ren.iniscence:
“In the autumn of 1852 the national
woman's rights convention was held at
Syracuse. Iwas present ard reported the
proceedings for the Associated Press.
The lights of the cause were present, Lu-
cretia Mott, Paulina Wright Davis, Eliz-
abeth Oakes Smith, Ernestine L. Rose,
Clarissa Nichols, Martha Dickinson,
Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone and An-
toinette L. Brown. The latter two had
recently graduated from Oberlin. Mrs.
Mott presided and displayed parlia-
mentary ability and tact of a superior
character.--Miss Brown evinced her log-
ical ability, Mrs. Rose her characteristic
energy, Miss Stone her readiness and
grace of delivery. She was the star, but
the others supported her well. This,
however, is not the point. There was
free speech on all sides, and some of it
was very free. Several men were far
from complimentary, and the defects,
the petty spites and other naughtinesses
of women were forcefully depicted. One
evening a lady whose name I forget
took the yatform. ‘We read,’ said she,
‘that God made heaven and earth in six
days. Then be created man. After that
he created woman from one of his ribs.
Now, if that one bone of man is so
wicked what must the “whole of him
be?’ »’
Oueens to Be Crowned.
Miss Lavinia Dempsey, queen of the
Society of Hollund Dames of the New
Netherlands, will be recrowned on the
ext anniversary day, some time next
winter. Almecst rcral state will be at-
tempted, Miss Den.jsey riding on cor-
onaticn day from her home to the Wal-
(fan a stately carriage drawn by
six white horses bedecked with orange
colored ribbons and flowers. The queen
of the Cennecticut Holland Dames and
Mrs, Leonard Forsdick, queen of the
New Jersey Holland Dames, will also be
crowned vext winter.
The Society of New England Women
intends to give an entertainment in
November, and the ‘‘ Mask of History”
will be presented. The central feature
will be the representation of events of
general and local American history by
the descendants of those makers of the
nation who participated in them,
Miss Hocart, a daughter of a Wesley-
an minister residing in Paris, has been
awarded the second of the prizes annu-
ally presented by the French academy
for ‘‘noble living.” The award is in
appreciation of her work in the slums
of Paris and the value of the prize is
$300.
An old cool® noted for making the
most delicious of loaf cakes was asked
her secret for never having a failure
and replied: ‘‘It’s all in the baking. The
richer the cake the slower must be the
oven, ’’
A woman's journal has been started
in Constantinople, in which the doc-
trine of the equality of the sexes is vig-
orously advocated. }
“A BRIGHT ILLINOIS GIRL.
She Has Been Called to the Chair of Elo-
cution at Alleghany College.
Miss Alice Huntington Spalding, an |
Evanston girl, hus been elected instruct-
or in elocution and physical culture at
Alleghany college. Her remarkable rec-
ord while a student of Cumnock School |
of Oratory, Northwestern university,
gained her this important position. The
news of election came to her as a sur-
prise, as she did not know she was un-
der consideration for the appointment.
She has accepted and will leave for the
east Sept. 22
Miss Spalding is one of the foremost
young women of Evanston. She isa
member of the Country club and was
prominent in college affairs. After
completing a course in the Evanston
high school she entered the school of
oratory and was graduated last June.
For her work while under Professor
Cumnock she was given honors in Eng-
lish, the first ever conferred upon a stu-
dent of the school. In local dramatic
affairs she has figured prominently,
having taken leading parts in several
popular entertainments. The Country
Club Dramatic association, of which
she is a member, is composed of the
best talent in the suburb. Miss Spalding
has been a member of the casts of near-
ly all the club affairs for the past two
years.
Her acceptances of the instructorship
at Alleghany college is not a surprise to
those of her friends who knew her as a
favorite. Miss Spalding lives at 1984
Orrington avenue and is only 20 years
of age.—Chicago Times-Herald.
An American Woman Abroad.
The wife of General Porter, present
embassador to France, is thus described
by the correspondent of the London
Telegraph: ‘‘A bright, sunny faced wo-
man, with berry brown eyes and gray
hair of that peculiarly attractive snow
flecked, silvery gray that American wo-
men so advantageously monopolize, sug-
gestive of a marquise Quinze Louis,
with powdered coiffure, and who has
won golden opinions from the many for
her pleasant and kindly way of receiv-
ing. It may truthfully be gaid that in
no embassy in Paris are good looks or
elegance so well represented as at that
of the United States. Upon the present
occasion the embassador’s wife wore a
lovely gown of soft, silver gray, silken
material, slightly a traine and made
over pale green glace silk, the dress and
basqued corsage spangled lightly with
steel and inset with pale yellow gui-
pure, forming a floral design, branching
to right and left of the tablier in grace-
ful fashion, the green of the underdress
peeping charmingly from between the
trimming and spangled outline of the
lace foliage design. The corsage was
finished with narrow plaitings of cream
colored mousseline de soie. Her éxcel-
lency’s ornaments were pearls and dia-
monds.”’
Women, Bicycles and Consumption.
At a meeting of the American Statis-
tical association Dr. S. W. Abbott, sec-
retary of the state board of health of
Massachusetts, presented some figures
regarding the proportion of pulmonary
tuberculosis in females to that in males
in Massachusetts. The rate in 1851 was
1,451 females to 1,000 males; in 1890,
1,065 females to 1,000 males, and in
1895, only 974 females to 1,000 males.
Eighteen hundred and ninety-five was
the first year in the history of the state
in which the number of deaths from
phthisis in females was smaller than
that in males. The fact that a uniform
reduction in the rate of female deaths
began some five years ago, about the
same time women were beginning to
ride the bicycle extensively, Dr. Ab-
bott considers significant, and he is in
clined to attribute the decrease in the
death rate to the great increase in open
air exercise among women by the use
of the bicycle.—Sanitarinm.
The Indiana Way.
In order to find that women have not
the right to vote under the present law
the supreme court of Indiana has been
compelled to reverse itself.
within three years it has reversed itseit
three times on this most perplexing
woman question—first, in admitting
women to the practice of law it holds
that the express use of the word ‘‘male’’
in the constitution is no bar to the fe-
male; second, in interpreting the right
of women to sell liquor the same court
holds that the express use of the word
‘‘male’’ is a bar to the right of a fe-
male; third, in the right to vote the
court holds that by the express mention
of the male the female is barred from
suffrage. Truly the way of justice is
hard in Indiana.— Union Signal.
Women and Colleges.
Of the 451 colleges and universities
in this country, only 41 are closed to
women. But, to make up for this lack,
there are 143 schools of higher learning
open to women only and having 80,000
students. The University Courier says:
“Will it not soon be time to raise the
question why men should be shut out
from the advantages of these 143 schools
of higher education which now are open
to women only? Forty-one institutions
are closed to women and 148 are closed
to men. Why?’
W
Indeed |
Woman ‘foward Woman.
The new woman might well emulate
the virtues in which men excel The
kindliness of intercourse found among
men does not characterize the attitude
of woman toward woman, A man will
make himself comfortable on a long
journey, and at its conclusion will have
made an acquaintance and perhaps a
friend of his neighbor. But for a wom-
an to speak to a fellow travelcag@ her
own sex without the conventional in-
troduction is to invite a snub. Should
she inform her neighbor at the dry
goods counter that she has found a cer-
tain new lining for her frock most sat-
isfactory, the information would very
likely be received with a haughty stare,
plainly declaring the suspicion that the
informer gets a percentage on sales.
There is small opportunity under such
circumstances to love your neighbor as
yourself.
The experiment has but to be tried to
demonstrate to the graciously inclined
woman that there is little room for her
who Would, even in a small way, wish
her sister woman good luck upon her
way. Steamers in passing each other
display a white flutter of handkerchiefs
from the human freight aboard, but the
wayfaring woman is considered a fool
if she inclines to that sort of gracious-
ness on land. And yet a woman is not
necessarily either disreputable or de-
signing simply because she speaks to
another woman. without introduction.
Graciousness, however, need never sug-
gest familiarity. A helpful word may
be spoken with dignity and yet with
kindly interest, and she who resents it
is to be pitied for her lack of under-
standing. A gracious ‘‘Thank you,”
even if the well meant information is
not needed, proclaims the gentlewoman.
—Delineator.
Sense In Exercise.
Fired by the commendable desire to
be slender as to waist lines and lithe as
to motion, half the young womgn and
fully a third of the old ones ny into
athletics. A small, almost unnoticeable
percentage of them go properly toa
gymnasium, are £veighed, measured,
tested according to approved methods
and then are set to exercises suited to
their needs and their strength, The rest
read, mark, learn and inv ardly digest
rules for reducing the size «i their Lips
or acquiring a graceful pese of the neck,
but they skip the impcriant statement
that all excrcises must Le tulen foutly
and gradually.
The result is sad. Ilclen, who ~“arted
out on Monday to acquire a swunlke
neck, has a stiff one on Wednesc She
has bent her head in 17 directions for 20
minutes instead of for four. She is dis-
couraged by her experience, and when
her muscles finally regain their normal
limberness she gives up beaut fying ex-
ercises for good. Elaine, whose ambi-
tion it is to have a 24 instead of a 29
inch waist, goes through wearying con-
tortions on the floor for L:.!f an hour on
Saturday and is unable even to limp to
church on Sunday, so stiff is her back.
Muscles unused to exercise must Le
gradually trained into it. Exercises ad-
mirable in themselves become positively
dangerous when taken violently by per-
sons not used to exercise. The time spent
in effort at first should be but little,
and not until the body is used to exer-
cise should it be violent.-—-Philadelphia
Times.
| Woman's Fitness to Govern.
Ask not whether woman is fit te
participate in the government, for that
was answered 1,000 years ago. The
answer is preserved in the archives of
every house in every empire and repub-
lic since the world began. The world is
FOR LITTLE FOLKS. |
SMALLEST IN THE WORLD.
Atom Is This Pony's Name, and You'll
Agree It Fits His Size.
Atom, the smallest pony which deal-
ers in horses ever saw, recently went
from David Dahlman’s stables, on East
Twenty-fourth street, not to Queen
ATOM AND YARRUM.
Mab, but to Robert W. Fitzsimmons,
Jr., who is 18 months old. Atom is
843{ inches high, and he will never be
taller. He is dark brown, black and
white—the horsemen say piebald. He
is the son of Howland L. and of Stella,
and he was born two years ago on a
farm on Long Island, near Jamaica. He
has dainty little hoofs which are of the
color of old ivory, delicately shaped legs
and the oddest little whine, affectionate
and pathetic, that one ever heard. He
is apparently an aristocrat, which may
be explained by the fact that his parents
have won premiums at the Madison
Square Garden shows for five successive
years.
Atom will find in Fitzsimmons’ yard
Yarrum, who is only a dog, taller than
he and a bear in comparison with the
weight of which his will be insignifi-
cant indeed. —New York Journal.
'
So Hot!
“Oh, it is so hot!’’ said Betty. ‘It
is so hot! Mammy, I don’t know what
1 shall do, it is so hot!’’
Now, Betty was not doing anything.
She was sitting by the window, with
her head on the sill, and the shade of
the big horse chestnut tree made a little
coolness, 0 mammy went on with her
mending and said nothing except that.
it was hot and she was sorry for Betty.
Presently Betty saw a hand organ
man with a monkey coming. She raised
her head, and he stopped under the win-
dow and began to play.
“Oh, mammy,”’ cried Betty, ‘‘the
monkey is dancing! May I go out and
dance too? Oh, he is such a dear little
monkey! Now he is climbing up the
fence and walking along the top. Oh,
mammy, may I climb up ahd walk
along the fence? Please, mammy, say
I may.” And Betty jumped up and
down and danced little steps like the
monkey's and tried to look like him,
but fortunately did not succeed.
“I thought it was so hot,” said
mammy. ‘Do you think dancing will
make you cooler, Betty?"
“I don’t think it is so hot now,”’ said
Betty. ‘‘Not quite so hot, mammy.
You see I didn’t know what to do then.
It's always hotter when you don’t
know what to do, but now I do know.”’
— Laura E. Richards in Youth’s Com-
panion.
The Iirst Steamboat Whistle.
Early in May, 1844, the steamer
Roch qd from Buffalo, bound
for 1 The engineer was a me-
chanical ius named McGee, and he
hed co steam whistle from
pliss which b 1 seen in a scientific
papcr. On the way up the lakes he blew
it at every stop, much to the astonish-
governed by man, and man is governed
by woman.
the crown and established the republic.
She abolished the decemvirate and re-
stcred the consular government. She
wrought the constitutional change
which gave the plebeian the right to
government.
the world’s literature sought to solve
the problem which had baffled the wis-
est man, he called a woman to the
bench, and in the character of Portia
we have a second Daniel come to judg-
ment. Unfit to govern? The contradic-
tion comes fiom hosts of women who
stand toduy in the front rank of the pro-
fessions, who have :icquired property by
their individual efforts, who have waged
ality and humanity.—James Francis
Burke.
Go West, Young Woman!
ernni: nt land yet unclaimed.
poi .ng women have Lere an opportuni-
ty to obtain land and homes in the west.
lle discomforts aud loneliness incident
tH pioneering are the ¢r draw -
| Lacks, but they are materially lessered
when friends go in colonies. The len:
of residence (<n a hemestead is ton ¢
tain degree optional with the “‘filer.”’
The filing fee, including all expense, is
$18. At the end of five years one may
make final proof on the land, but the
homesteader is not compelled to make
proof until the end of seven, Where a
ctost
rest
for the purpose of earning an honest
livelihood, coupled with bona fide in-
tention of complying with the law, such
dence.—New York Tribune.
Marriage.
It is high time that the mothers and
daughters of the Anglo-Saxon race
should unite in a league in defense of
marriage, banding themselves together
in a solemn covenant to fight to the
death the pernicious influences that are
corrupting our literature and through
our literature the minds and condact
of our generation. Regard for the order
of society, regard for the children of
the fireside, regard for the common
mere selfish gratification of the mo-
ment, call in clarion tones to all lovers
of their kind to rally in defense of the
abused and atracked institutian of mar-
ringe. —Zion’s Herald.
In Rome woman abolished |
a thousand battles and won a thousand |
victories in the cause of charity, mor- |
Thee are thousands of acres of gov- | mje five |
Self sup- |
th |
absence is accounted a constructive resi-
weal above personal interest and the |
ment and terror the inhabitants.
| Just Lefore res
Rochester, after a lively ra
| steamer Geri ral
| Gager. Engineer McGee celebrated the
| victory by blowing his whistle de risive-
| ly and noisily. When both boats reached
the wharves, Captain Gager rushed up.
hold the highest office in the world’s |i, u rage, shaking his fist and daring
3 agter i 4 . .
When the master mind of | McGee to come down and face him.
““What are you squawking that thing
at me for?’ he roared.
And if it had not been for mutual
| friends steamboat whistling on the
| lakes might have been introduced with
a lively battle of fisticuffs. —Chicago.
Record.
Five Little Brothers.
Five little brothers set cut together
To journey the livel
In a curious car re all 1
They hurried away, away
One big brother and three quite small
And one wee fellow, no size at all.
was dark and none too roomy,
ve about
| The carriage
And they could not m
tle brothers w very gloouy
And the wee one began to pout
| Till the biggest one v-hispered: “What
| say ?
Let's leave the carriage and run awa:
do ve
|
mpered, the five together,
away they sped.
found that carrage cl wather,
she shock \
fo out they
And off :
(«When sone
Oh, my, hc
Twas he
knows,
And the five little brothers were five little toes.
—Independent.
Not the Ones Meant.
| In a western school a little fellow
was called up to read for the county su-
claimant temporarily leaves her land | perintendent, who was paying the school
a visit. The boy was a good reader in
all respects but one. He gave absolutely
no heed to punctuation marks. When
he had finished, the superintendent
asked:
“Willie, where axe
Willie dropped his
both hands
‘‘ Here they are, sir,
delphia Times.
Your ¥
Has it ever occur
how far your cyes
The distance will not
haps, for 1,000,000 letter
type would measure Lurdly mu
1 mile, placed side by side. In a
however, the average reader wen
way through 2,000 wiles of print
average novel of 300 pages con
mile of reading—that is, the ¢
1,760 yards in reading the bool
—New Moon.