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By Lady Henry Somerset
T has been stated by Lady Lonsdale that -there are "few in
ternational .marriages, between English girls and American
men. simply because the .English girls will not have the
American men." . -.
I do not know how many months Lady Lonsdale spent
in America perhaps 1 should say how many weeks; .but . 1
think we usually find that" people who spend a lew weeks
in the" States are prepared to write a book:' after they have
been there a few months they hesitate, and when '.hey have
been there a year or two they decide that it is impossible.
They realize probably that it may be practicable to write something upon
one portion of the States in which they have happened to stay, but to write
vaguely and broadly of America with limited knowledge of the continent, is
ne of the snares into which only hasty travelers are apt to fall. -
Speakiug with but a superficial knowledge of what Lady Lonsdale wrote,
I should say she probably forgets that comparatively few American young:
Hi en make any lengthened stay in England. '
American girls who travel with their mothers or other women relatives
have leisure. A visit to England forms part of their education, and having1
studied our history and learned our traditious. the girls with fortunes scuu
io me now to prefer as a rule to exchange their dollars for English titles
father than to remain in the New World to enrich their own country.
The American young man as soon as he leaves college has usually to enter
business life, a life which under the present conditions gives but.Utiie leisure
and allows but little time for. travel or recreation.
A flying visit to London, to Home or to Paris is usually all that is possi
ble; it is not given to him to enter English society, to dawdle in country houses,
to linger iu our green lanes and trim flower gardens, or to take leisure to woo
juid to win the affections of the English girl. s
On the other hand, there are few English girls who travel in the States.
There are many reasons for this, but probably the most potent is the very
great expense which such a journey entails, an expense that ordinary English
families never contemplate, unless some strong reason of business, the claims
of relatives or the desire to seek a fortune in the New World make such an
outlay desirable.
It has often been a matter of surprise to me that the English mother,
.whose ambitions are not one whit behind those of the American mother, in
her desire to acquire for her daughter the best of this world's goods, docs not
contemplate such trips as a matter of speculation.
:, Perhaps she feels, however that the competition is too keen, that the
'American girl holds her place too firmly in her own country to be dispossessed
by the daughter of England.
Be" that as it may, I am fully persuaded that the reason which -lias been
suggested to me, namely, that the English girl would lose caste by such a
marriage, is not the real one. Caste has practically ceased to exist.
Wealthy grocers and rich brewers, gin distillers and speculators of all kinds
are now on the pinnacle of English fashion, and there is no hesitation in ally
ing the oldest historical names witl't the wealth of the self-made man.
Money is the key that will open the door to the most exclusive English
society, and the desire for money is not confined to the scions of noble houses
who seek rich American wives, but I think it would equally apply to the
English girl if she had a chance of acquiring the American millionaire.
By J. G. Phelps Stokes
Cn. pa HERE are upward of 1.000.000 death 'each year in the United
suite
State:
In ninety-two cases out
less than sixty-five years
majority of cases the cause
wear and tear.
It Is found on investigation that nine-tenths of the deaths and practically
II of the sickness in the world are due to unsanitary conditions that could
foe corrected, and to bad habits that weaken the body and make it less able to
resist the disease that comes its way.
But death is not, the only evil that results from preventable disease. Nat
ural death, such as comes from old age, is perhaps not an evil at all. Such
death is piinless, and usually comes peacefully, during sleep.
Death must, of course, come sooner or later; but the suffering and poverty
that are so often caused by unnatural death and by preventable disease, and
Ihe despair which so often follows and which so often leads to vice and crime,
are needless evils, and are very far-reaching in their effects.
The evils that are due to disease can be escaped just in proportion as the
conditions and habits that bring on disease become more widely understood.
,The social aspects of disease (that is to say, the effects of disease upon
others than the sick themselves), should receive wider consideration. If people
could be sick for awhile and die, without suffering themselves, and without
causing suffering or sorrow or loss to fathers or mothers or children or friends,
and without loss to the community, then sickness and death would be far less
tterious matters. But the person who is sick and dies is not the only victim.
For instance,' it is plain that if a wage-earner is kept from his work by
sickness or death the ability of his family to support themseives is lessened or
destroyed. If increasing poverty follows, more sickness is apt to follow, too;
for the chance of sickness increases as the body becomes less well nourished
and less well protected from cold and exposure.
There is a sort of '"endless chain'' system at work here. The sickness of
wage-earning father, for instance, brings poverty to his family; poverty
lessens the ability of the family to secure the food and coal and clothing that
are necessary to health;; for where the body is weak and the health poor dis
ease more easily takes hold.
The whole family, perhaps, becomes sickly 1n consequence of the bad con
ditions which caused the father to become sick and unable to support them.
In fact, the whole community suffers when the people become sick and die;
for the people are the community, and disease anywhere affects the health and
Aappiness and welfare of the whole.
Consider also the effect of disease upon the people's habits and morals.
jWe know that poverty often leads to despair and . desperation, and that
despair and desperation too often lead to vice and crime.
Many men and women stand -the trials of poverty with splendid courage
and in the noblest way. but very many have not the moral strength for this,
and are "driven to drink" and to every kind of vice and crime and wrong
doing.
Where vice and crime are the results of poverty that has been caused by
preventable disease, they are as needless as the disease itself.
When the people by individual and united effort have corrected the condi
tions which underlie disease they will have prevented a vast amount of suffer
ing and poverty, and will have removed a fruitful source of many evils that
poverty brings. New York Evening Journal.
An Arab 8p.y Outwitted.
Onee at least, in Egypt, the loss of
Ids eye in an earlier campaign proved
a great service to Lord Wolseley and
his army. lie could get no information
nt the enemy's strength or position.
An Arab was captured prowling around
mv outposts, and was brought. ' before
.him. It was ten to one the sullen fel
low knew everything. Lord Wolseley
questioned him. The fellow answered
neer a word, standing stolid between
Ihe two soldiers. At last a happy idea
jstrm-k the General. lie said in Arabic:
K is no use your refusing to answer
Xue, for I am a wizard, nnt at a wih
ecu destroy you ami ywr masters To
arry menc$ns
f
Kness
of a hundred the people who die are
old. So it is plain that in the great
of death is neither old age nor natural
prove this to you, I will take out my
eye, throw.it up. catch it, and put it
back in my head." And. to the horror I
and amazement of the fellow. Lord '
Wolseley took out his glass eye, threw
it up. caught and replaced it. That
was enough; the Arab capitulated, and
the information he gave the staff led
to Arabi's defeat. London Onlooker.
lifrtiiaii I'ostonU'e.
Germany has ."2.."I2 postortWs one
to every 1481 inhabitants.-The number
of letters arid newspapers handled in
1902 was .".1)00.01)0; besides which
there were 42,MKUMKi telegrams . ;ind
T-jT.uOO.OOo of telephonic conversation".
THE MONEY THAT SLIPS AWAY.
"I get fifteen dollars a week, and I
never have a single cent of it when
Saturday comes," said a boy of nine
teen to me one day not long ago.
"Perhaps you have some one besides
yourself to support," I said.
"No, I do not," was the, reply. "I
pay four dollars a week for my room
and board' at home, and all the rest
goes."
"How does it go?"
''Well, it .lust seems to slip away
from me somehow or other. I just can
not save a cent of it. There's so much
to tempt a fellow lo spend money
nowadays. I never expect to save a
cent."
I looked ttt the young man as he
stood before me. lie wore a handsome
tailor made suit of clothes. His tie
must have cost one dollar and fifty
cents, and he had a pin on the tie for
which he had said rather boastingly
that he had "put up" eight dollars.
His link cuff buttons were showy and
expensive. A full blown rose, for which
he had paid twenty-five cents, was in
his buttonhole, and one of his pockets
was bulging out with expensive con
fectionery. I heard him say that he
and "some other fellows" were going
to have a box at the opera the next
night, and that it would cost them 5
apiece. And yet, he could hardly tell
why it was that he could not save any
thing. Now, the men who have made them
selves independent, and who have
money to spend for the goof of others,
were not like this young fellow when
Ihey were boys. Had they been like
him they would never have been iude-
PUZZLE OF THE
There is another young lady and
are they? Detroit Free Press.
pendent. I suspect that this boy will
verify his own prediction that he would
never save a cent. He certainly will
not, until he acquires more wisdoin
than he seems to have at the present
time. .The wealthiest man 1 know
once told me that from his earliest
manhood he made it a fixed rule never
lo spend all that he earned.
When he was nineteen he began
teaching a country school at a salary
of IS a week, and he saved $3 of it.
Later, when his salary had been in
creased to $10 a week, he saved $-4 of
it, and when he was earning $1T a
week, he saved $7 of it, investing it
carefully.
Of course, he did not wear tailor
made clothes, and did not buy a new
tie every two or three weeks and pay
a dollar or more for it. I doubt If he
ever paid a dollar for a tie in all his
life. And yet he is by no means nig
gardly, for he gives away thousands
every year to the suffering and for the
benefit oi humanity in general. There
were" temptations for him to spend all
his earnings, but he did not yield to
them. I have heard him say that he
never went iu debt for an. thing. If
he could not pay for it, he went with
out it. Seme one, has ;.aid: "Never
treat money with levity; money is char
acter."-
It is certainly proof of a great lack
of force of character when a man al
lows all of his earnings lo "slip it way
from him somehow or other." There
is an unhappy future in store for the
boy who spends m11 that he earns. The
boy who begins by doing this Is sure
to spend more than he earns before
very lonj. ,
I have knowledge of a young man
earning a salary of $20 a week, who
had his wages attached by a tailor to
whor.i he owed $oi for five fancy vests.
His excuse was that "a fellow had to
dress well nowadays or be nobody."
How' much do you suppose those Jive
unpaid for vests .added to his charae
1er or to his standing in the eommun
ity? And of what value is the good
opinion of those who judge you by the
clothes you wear?
You may set it down as a fact that
if you do not save anything in your
young manhood you will be sure to
have a poverty-stricken and dependent
old age, and there are no' sadder people
in this world than the old who are
solely dependent on the charity of
others for their support. If all that you
earn is "slipping away" from you, you
will be wise if you go straight to a
savings bank and there deposit a fixed
proportion of your earnings before it
"slips away" from you. And having
once deposited it, let nothing tempt
you to draw it out. Any successful
business man will tell you that this 3s
good advice. Yoimc People.
loiiald's Itetort to Lord. Burton.
It is said that Lord Burton's good
natured heiress, Mrs. Baillie, of Doch
four, likes sometimes to assume the
role of the enfant terrible of adoles
cence. But it is not generally known
that the great beer baron's tenants at
Glenquoich also cultivate a frankness
that, respects-not persons. Wherever
he may be Lord Burton has an irresist
ible impulse to improve the face of na
ture, and at Glenquoich, though it is
only a shooting box, a number of alter
ations have been carried out. In the
MISSING LOVERS.
her sweetheart in this picture. Where
course of the work he found it neces
sary to remove a little cottage and re
build it with better sleeping accommo
dation. The tenant was a very old
man, so in deference to his years Lord
Burton went to him personally to ex
plain. In his kindly way he began,
"Well, Donald, I'm very sorry to have
to turn out such an old man as you "
when the old fellow cut him short in
the middle of the sentence and snapped
out: "Hech' sorra, did ye say? Sorra?
Na, you're na sorra or ye wada hue
dune it!" London Onlooker.
Toli of the 1) like of Devonshire.
In Illustration of the lavishness with
which Chat worth House is endovjed
with art treasures, and of the dista'ttit
element which is supposed to be a feat
ure of the Duke of Devonshire's mind,
an amusing story went the round of
the French press at the time of the
last Paris exhibition. The duke, it was
said, was strolling; through the loan
section of the English exhibits with a
friend, and stopped, to look with ad
miration at a porphyry table of match
less beauty. He examined it long with
the eye of a connoisseur, and at last
exclaimed: "1 wonder who is the owner
of such a beautiful specimen of work
manship. I almost feel inclined to envy
htm." His companion, who had con
sulted the catalogue.. handed It to him
with a smile. It. contained the infor
mation that the table came from Chats,
worth House, and was lent by the
Duke of Devonshire. London"" Chroni
cle. In the cotton zone .2.",000,KiM acres
are devoted to that staple, the yield t
being 10.S27.0OO bales of ."()( pounds
iAhi, worth in cash .j'425,000,000.
of
EJfe,
HAT.
The hat of the average Panaman,
In most Kocial circles would ban a inao,
liut the gun, at the Isthmus,
fcven ,on OhrUtmas,
Y ould otherwise grievously tan a man.
Puck.
THE ONE OBSTACLE.
"Is there anything- between you and
my daughter?"
"Nothing but yon." Town Topics.
SARCASTIC.
She 'He's awfully sharp-witted,
isn't he?"
He "Y'es. His points are so fine I
can't see them at all." Detroit Free
Press.
THE BRUTE;
Mrs, Bixby "Mother says that she
Is goiitf to die and join father.."
Bixtf--I wish there was some way
to give your father warning." Town
Topics. 1
IMPERFECT FACILITIES.
Mother "Have you taken your cold
bath yet, AVillie?"
Willie "No, ma. There wasn't any
cold water warm enough." Chicago
News.
WOULD NOT BE HANDICAPPED.
The Lawyer "I'm afraid I'm goins
blind."
The Friend "Never mind, old man.
So long as you retain your sense f
touch you'll be all right." Life.
QUITE KILLING.
"So, Mr. Juggernaut, I hear you're
death on motors?"
"Well er now and then but only
man-slaughter, you know." Ally Slo-
per's Half Holiday.
HIS FAULT.
Nodd "On the impulse of the mo
ment the other night I told my wife
an awful lie, and got caught.1'
Todd "Serves you right. Every lie
a man tells his wife ought to be pre
meditated." Life.
AND NOW THEY NEVER SPEAK.
She "I suppose if a pretty girl
should come along you wouldn't care
anything about me any .more?" .
He "Nonsense, Kate! What do I '
care for good looks? You suit uie all
right." Chicago Jmal.
HER OVERSIGHT.
He "Do you know, dear, t was just
upstairs looking at baby, and ; I' be-
lieve she hasgot your hair."
She springing up) "Good gracious!
I thought I had put that .switch out
of the child's reach:" Yonkers. States
man. !'?,..
ONE SORT.
'There goes Roxbaoi. Every time
I think of that man's financial euo
bamnssinent it makes m? yearn to
help him."
"Financial embarrassment?"
"Yei; he's got so much money he
doesn't know what to do wttU it."
Catholic Standard and Times.
MANY YBARS TO WAIT.
Poet "I told her we would, be mar
ried when I received a check for last
MSS."
Friend "You should be careful. You
know you promisd not to inwrry for
mally years yet."
Poet "Don't worry. This matter
was taken by a pay-on-publicatioii-magazine."
Chicago News.
UPHOLDING THE LAW.
Magistrate (.not long in the "coun
try") "Have you ever been here be
fore; Have you ever been under ar
rest before?" -
Offender "No, yer Honor. I've al
ways had great luck up to this time." .
Magistrate "You are diK-barged;
but the officer 'who arrested you is
fined $50 for not arresting you before."
Boston Transcript
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