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w A MEMORIAL OF DEFEAT. - h u k mwv m w a J cnooLsoji o uay $ They Jlim to Create and Stimulate Useful ncss by UptoDate Methods. Charles C. Johnson. H 4-?"OW queer it would have seemed to the sturdy children who kicked with bare feet against tne ruae uucs ui trlct school a century aro to have been told they were to learn to cook, to make dresses, to tiim hats, to be boy car penters, etc.! Cut that was long before the Old World com menced to send us hundreds of thousands of her people every year. It is principally the children of those who come to America from other countries who make the public school of New York city the greatest In size and most im portant in the world. In order to make these young people as useful as possible, there has been established in the public schools of many of our large cities a course of work that seems to have little to do with gaining a school education as our parents used to think of it. It has been found necessary, in order to help the young students minds to grow in the right way, that the boys and girls of the schools should have what their teachers term "ethical training;" that is, the training which teaches duty to self and to others. These, among other things, are tau?bt: Duties to parents, brothers, sisters and playmates; to servants and other employes; to employers and all in authority; to the old, the poor, and the un fortunate. Conduct at home, at the table, at school, on the street, in public meetings, and in public conveyances. Regularity, punctuality, self-control, cheerfulness, neatness, purity, temperance, honesty, truthfulness, obedience, Industry and patriotism. I peeped into a manual training work-room in a big public school of New York city one day just to see how the boys behaved when by themselves, for no teacher was present. Each hand was occupied with the task of the mo ment, and each head was bent over it in a way that showed the keenest inter est. Instead of looking for a chance to be mischievous, every boy seemed bent on doing the work assigned him as if his whole success In life depended upon the result. It was plain no one even thought of play. "You see," said the teacher to me, when he came in, "each boy wants to do his very best. That is the spirit we try to instil. The boy who really wants to learn the best way to perform whatever he may be asked to do is the boy who is certain to gain success in some degree." This is just as true of girls as of boys, and there are hundreds of girls some home helpers and oth ers among the ranks of the wage-earners who owe the pleasure . they draw from Hfe to the system in vogue in the public schools. From St. Nicholas. The Faults of Women V5f Qj y Eeatrice Fairfax. i HE ouitor of the magazine page says that, having dragged man over the coals, it is only fair that I should take a turn at my own sex. It's rather hard to pick out the faults of . your own sex, so T asked a few men what they considered woman's worst faults. One man "said they hadn't any. That man should have an article all to himself, and it should have been called "In ability to Tell the Truth." The other men whom I consulted were ready enough with their criticisms. "Woman is vain," said one. Granted, good sir. We'll talk about that vanity later. "She thinks too much of clothes and attention," said another. Very gocd! We'll talk about that, also. "Self-consciousness is one of woman's greatest drawbacks," was the criti cism of the third. Fickleness, selfishness, flightiness, fiirtineas! Deary me, but the criticisms came thick and fast. Man does not seem to think much of us, my dears, if all these accusations be true. However, "tit for tat" is but fair, and perhaps ?.Tis Majesty is a little bit tore over some of his "deficiencies." Remember that, no matter what I say about my own sex, I am absolutely true to it. Woman has her faults, of course, and seme of them are very serious ones. Cut she is gcod, gcod, good all through, in spite of them all. So don't be touchy if the shoe occasionally fits, but put it on and make up your mind to cure yourself of your particular fault. Forget the faults of others for a while, and put all your energies and at tention on getting the better of your own. . Who knows but that some day you may almost reach the state of perfec tion that my friend gave us all credit and be faultless? New York American, of Foreign Labor Hy Frank P, Sargent, Commissioner General o o o o . . of Immigration. stfeteZj 0S DO not beliave it true that undesirable immigrants come wholly from any one country. We do not want people from cipher countries who are criminals. Neither do we want peo ple who because of political beliefs want to let as much blood as' they can, and we do not want people who are shift less or diseased and who have no ambition to become good citizens. But these classes do not come from any particular society, and it is because we must have labor that we are compelled to put up with a certain percent of bad timber. Industrial prosperity in this country is directly reflected in Europe. An im mense amount of labor is needed in the United States. We've got to have la bor, and we must take Italian labor. We cannot very well exclude all the Hunchakists and Black Hand people that come in with the labor. Every Ital ian is not a Black Hand, any more than every Armenian is a 'Hunchakist, but we must have laws th it will exc lude such persons from the United States. Ital ians, Sicilians and all ethers v. ho are honest, who want to own homes of their own and till the soil, give their children that which they had not an educa tion and who wish to become good citizens, should be given every opportun ity to come into the country, no matter what their race may be. We Are Paying Too Much For Civilization Cv Prof. Jclivsma, the Eminent Psych.atrist, of Berlin. ORH liiau two tlii ids the stud do cot finish their cruise, md either break down physically or mentally, or turn to their natural destiny of wife and mother. The more a woman devotes herself to study, and the moro she becomes a creature of modern civilization, the more is she unfitted for the duties of child-bearing and bringing up children who will turn out useful members of society. We are in a transition stae, and the appalling thing about this stac is that the number of nervous and mentally sick persons is increasing at a rate which is not adequately shown by the sta tistics of our hospitals and madhouses. Every psychiatrist knows this and feels al.irm, which ho does not like to express. If the transition state shall merge into one cf greater canity it will be well, but the prospects are all the ether way. We are paying too much for our civilization and culture; we are paying it with the deteriorating of the nerves of the human race. rmmimn mi" Dedication of a tablet at Wash af Colonial Wars to mark the route Duquesne in 1755. (x) British Am Leslie's Weekly. ington, D. C, erected by the Society of General Braddock's march for Fort bassador Bryce. Harris & Ewirig, in Computing Tape Measure. A computing tape measure, which provides a simple and convenient means for ascertaining weights and measures without employing calcula tions of any kind, is shown In the il lustration below. It is especially use ful in determining the weight per foot of tubes, pipes, bars and rods. The computing measure is formed of two or more tapes, arranged side by side. The one shown here, to ba used In ascertaining the weight of pipes, has two tapes, one ;ontaining figures to Indicate the diameters of the pipe and the other the weights per foot 'of pipes, of different diameters. 'The measure is used as follows: To ascertain the weight per foot of a pipe having an Internal diameter of 2 inches and an external diam eter 2 inches, the upper tap is drawn out until the figures 2 ap pear at the edge of the slot. Both tapes are then drawn out together until the figures 2, representing the external diameter of the pipe or tube, appear on the upper tape. The weight per foot Is indicated by the figure on the lower tape directly be low the figures 2. To determine the weight per foot of a solid cylindri cal rod, both tapes are drawn out to gether until the figures representing the diameter of the rod appear on the upper tape, when the weight per foot can be read on the lower tape. A third tape can be added having markingsndicating the cubical con tents, A measure of this character can ba readily carried in the pocket and can be quickly referred to for as certaining the desired data without employing formulae. Washington Star. . Sc hool For Russian Policemen. The Russian Goveinmen has es tablished a police academy in St. Pe tersburg, where the policeman is carefully drilled In the ways of burg lars, coiners, bank r.ote forgers, bomb makers and the like, the lessons be ing illustrated more practical by n personal handling of the appurten jyites of crime contained in the mu seum attached to the f cademy. Duly qualitiad inspectors specialists in particular branches of crime pre side over ea h lesson. The Reader. Diamonds. Why are diamonds expensive, be ing merely dust and ashes? Because women love them. And why do wom en love them? Because they are ex pensive and useless. London Chronicle. From Mr. Spurgeon's Notebook. Mr. Spurgeon was a keen collector of mixed metaphors, finding a rich field In the correspondence that daily overwhelmed him.-Two or three are given in The Cornhill. A lady en closing a small contribution for his schools wrote: "I hope this widow's mite may take root and spread its branches until It becomes a Hercules in your hands." The pulpit prayers of ambitious probationers added something to the great preacher's store. One prayed that "God's rod and staff may be ours while tossed on the sea of life, so that we may fight the good fight of faith, and in the end soar to rest." "We thank Thee for this spark of grace; water It, Lord," was the sententious, almost imperious, entreaty of another, prom ising young man. Still - another prayed: "Gird up the loins of our minds, that we may receive the lat ter rain." "As if we were barrels whose hoops were lcose," was Mr. Spurgeon's laughing comment. St James' Gazette. Long Walk For a Baby. Huston Glen Faubian, four years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Fau bian, of Houston) Texas, walked from the Cog Depot, Manitou," to the' sum mit of Pike's Peak Monday night and walked back, the round trip being eighteen miles. A seven-year-old girl recently made the ascent on foot, but Huston Faubian Is the youngest child on record to make tho walk. He was accompanied by his parents and stood the trip well. Colorado Springs Dispatch. MOROCCAN" HEADSMAN. m 1 . -rSf.w, u - fits vik.n.m'Mi' pte mm mi$m ill Executioner of the Ben-Messour Tribe, Which Sheltered Raisuli. i George E. Holt, Morocco, in Leslie'.' Weekly. . Rice paper, with which cigarettes are made, has nothing to do with rice, but is made from the inner lin ing of the bark of the bread-fruit tree. mm '. ''.''.:A'jtfvr' - 1 -J mm mwrnrnm -mmmmmm m sa-SwiA.'-fcf a iu.; mmm mua mswi &j mmMmm m-Am SCENE IN A SIAMESE JAIL NOTE THE PRISONERS IN THE BACK GROUND INCLOSED IN LARGE CAGES. Sphere. New York City. The over waist In all its variations continues to be a favorite of the fashionable world and It allows of so many different effects and such charming treatment that the ta.es is easy to understand. This one is novel- and graceful and can be utilized either for plain material or for banding, while the blouse beneath can be made of anything thin and Black Velvet Dot3. In making up a black spangled robe over a ruffle of pleated chiffon it-Is a clever idea to connect the two by sewing to the ruffle at regular In tervals big disks of black velvet. , Fancy Blouse Waist. The pretty fancy blouse w-st Is the one most in demand at, the mo ment both for the entire gown and for the odcl blouse. This one is adapt ed to both purposes and would be exceedingly charming made from any of the fashionable thin materials. In the illustration crepe de Chine is combined with chemisette of lace and is trimmed with heavy applique, while the sleeves are finished with dainty little bands and frills of Valenciennes lace. The blouse, however, would be charming in louisine, in voile, in mar quisette, in chiffon and all similar materials and also in the fashionable filet and embroidered nets. The soft folds produced by the fullness at the shoulders render It peculiarly well adapted to these last and the model is altogether a most satisfactory one. There are the big arm-holes suggest ive of Mandarin styles, yet which are by no means clumsy or-exaggerated, while the sleeves can be made either in the pretty three-quarter or ful length. Altogether the bloiise gives an effect of eitreme dressiness and charm, while it is simple, involving very little labor in the making. The blouse is made over a plain . soft that may be liked. . As illustrat ed, however, the overwaist is mada cf embroidered banding, while the blouse itself is of crepe ninon with the chemisette of tucked mousseline. The sleeves thd!t extend just to the eioows and are finished with narrow frills are pretty and attractive', but they can be cut a little longer, cover ing the elbows, if liked, in which case they would be made with cuffs to match the chemisette, as shown in the small view. When the blouse is made with banding, as in this instance, the sections are cut separately and joined one to the other over the shoulders, but when it is cut from plain material there is no need of such joinings. In either case the over waist and the blouse are joined at their lower edges and are attached to a foundation gir dle over which the draped one is ar ranged. The bloKse i3 made with front and backs and is faced to form the chem isette, the material beneath being cut away when a transparent effect is de sired. , The larger portions of the over blouse are cut in one piece each withMhe centre front portion separ ate, and are arranged over the blouse, which is gathered at the lower edge and joined to the girdle. The sleeves are moderately full and are arranged over fitted linings which are faced to form the cuffs of the three-quarter sleeves or trimmed with frills of lace in the case of the elbow sleeve3. The quantity of material required for the medium size is, for the blousa, two and a half yards twenty-one, two and a quarter yards twenty-seven, or one and a half yards forty-four inches wide, with three-quarter yard of tuck ingforchemisette; one and one-eighth yard3 eighteen or twenty-one-inches wide orfour andthree-quarteryardsof banding two and a half inches wide for the over waist and sleeve bands; five-eighth yard of silk for the girdle'. lining without darts. This lining is faced to form the chemisette and the sleeves are attached to it. The blouse proper consists of the fronts and the backs and is arranged over the lining, the two being closed invisibly at the back. The sleeves are faced to form the deep cuffs when long sleeves are- Stockings must match whether white, blue or tan. shoes, used to form the V-shnnpH for those of three -flliartpr lonirlh Tho collar can be made either curved up back m th. t. or straight fcund more becoming. The quantity of material required for the medium size Is three and three-eighth yards twenty-one, two and seven-eighth yards twenty-seven or one and seven-eighth yards forty four inches wide, with one-half yard of all-over lace for the chemiscVe, uui jiiius ui appiique, one yard of Insertion and one yard of edging to make as illustrated, one and one-half yards of all-over lace when the deep cuffs are used. Ever so many of the very newest hats are turned up on the left side.
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