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-'Ik A I - rn 1y mm 7 QSLDEETi'S DEPATMENTj WOMEN ; THEIK 'huz. Women's Antagonism To the Suffrage Mr. Humphrey iVard. THEIR .Mli "VsM) r ,. , , 1 A FTER sixty years' agitation for the movement is generally dated In America from the meeting held in -New York in July, 1S4S the woman-suffrage demand, which during the second third of the nineteenth century was active through out the States and succeeded in forcing a constitutional amendment in favor of the women's vote in four of the sparsely peopled States of the West, is now In process of defeat and extinction and that not at the hands of the men, but at the hands of women themselves. Since 1896, indeed, in live States the suffrage constitutional amendments have been defeated at the polls, and in 1903 the Legislatures of thirteen States rejected woman-suffrage bills of one type or another. School suffrage has been secured for women in twenty-five States, but the striking thing is that the suffrage agitation and the "unwise pressure brought to bear on Leg islatures and public officials" have hindered the natural progress of women in this field of work so well suited to them. In two States Connecticut and Ohio the abolition of the school suffrage lias actually been discussed. School-suffrage votes have been defeated in five States in the last three years, and a bill "requiring that at least one-third of the members of boards of edu cation appointed by mayors should be women was defeated in New York in 1899." This melancholy result from an English point of view seems to be mainly due to the general disapproval and opposition which the woman-suffrage movement has excited; so that we have even, the untoward fact that at the present mcm?nt there is no woman upon either the New York or the Boston Board of Education. The movement has not only failed; It has checked the legitimate development of women's influence in the spheres which most truly belong to them. By quiet, resolute and slowly strengthening opposition the women of America, then, have defeated the woman-suffrage movement. The same re sult has now to be achieved in England, and can be achieved if only the women of this country will rouse themselves to the danger before us. Lon don Times. I Go West, Young Man By Ji. P. Jlnderson. w I HEN "Ambitious" asked J;he question, "How caii a young man without money obtain a college education in the West?" he voiced the inquiry of hundreds of young men who aim to meet the requirements of the age for trained minds. The colleges, particularly of the West, are answering the question to the satisfaction of scores of their graduates every year. They are inviting others to "come and see." And the young men and women, on the upward climb to success, whose struggles are made easier by the training which thee institutions of learning have offered, are loud in their praises of their Alma Mater. The two qualities which the West demands of its young men and women are perseverance and capacity for work. The colleges of the West are no exception. If "Ambitious" is seeking a royal road to learning, let him spare himself the trouble of crossing the Jersey meadows. If he has pluck and a genuine desire to get his B. A., let him save money enough to pay his fare to some college town of the Middle West the rest is a matter of time. Ono of the smaller colleges should be chosen. Their instruction is ex cellent, their courses are varied and complete, and the opportunities for per sonal acquaintance with the instructors are advantageous both intellectually and socially. Their endowment funds enable them to reduce the cost of tuition to a minimum, and many have a special fund from which they loan to needy students, without Interest, such amounts as may In the judgment of the Faculty be deserved by applicants. Board may be had at about $2.50 a week, and an excellent room at 75 cents more. Boarding clubs are estab lished by the men to reduce the cost of living. The writer lived in such a club for a year at a weekly expense of not more than $1.50. The Western measure of a man is based upon what he is, not what he has. The cad or dude has no place among the undergraduates of the West he comes East New -York Times. The Proper Treatment of Wives By the Rev. J. L. Scudder, First Congregational Church, Jersey City. ELFISHNESS is the rock upon which domestic bliss gener ally goes to pieces. A model husband never plays the ty rant. He treats his wife as an equal, not as a subordinate or slave. Seme women are married to bears. Some are caged birds, too sad to sing. Others have that word "obey" eternally thrown at them. Another quality in a good hus band is his determination to cultivate cheerfulness and scatter sunshine in his home. He will make himself handy around the house and not expect everything to be done for him. When his wife asks him to mend the sewing-machine, or put new wire on the screen door, he will not pout and say, "That was not down in the mar riage contract." He removes burdens wherever he can, and moves around the house like a bearded angel, blessing everything he touches. He over looks any, little weaknesses his wife may posses, instead of calling her a "cross-patch," and then becoming ten times as cross and ugly himself. He sympathizes rather than irritates. He is not always insisting that he Is right and his v,"t is wrong. He is jovial and lenient, and lets the little wo man have her o . way in many things, always allowing her to have the last word. A good husband also keeps up his courting as long as he lives. He never forgets to tell his wife how much he thinks of her. He speaks words of praise while she is living, and doesn't wait until the funeral to deliver sen 'ments she cannot hear. r . V X LSI The Cost of Convention .'. Badges .'. Pv ff. L. Beach. HE badge of the chairman of the national committee is usually a thing by itself. It frequently is of such gorgeous appearance as might make imperial Caesar groan at the sight of magnificence unattained. Then come the decora tions of the members of the committee, and usually there is little niodetty about these. This year the Republican na tional committee have decided to distinguish themselves by badges which will each contain two-thirds of an ounce of swlid gold. This matter is evidently intended by them as a pleasant surprise to the rank and file of delegates, for they have made espe cial cCfort to keep the" matter quiet. "Solid gold" means anything: between eight carats and twenty-four carats fine. The quality generally used In the construction of badges is ten carats fine, which sells in the commercial world for about ?9 per ounce. Assuming that the badges of the committeemen are of. thi3 degree of fineness, the members of the national committee will wear ?on their chests $G worth of gold voted by themselves to themselves for i -aeons which they themselves best understand. TL-e World To-day, BOBBY'S EXCHANGES. f wish I owned a motor-car a slashing big red-dragon, I'd swap it in a minute for a handsomo horse and wagon. And then I'd take that horse and cart, de laying not a minute, And swap 'em for a new canoe with nice soft cushions in it. And then I'd take that new canoe I wouldn't wait a minute, And swap it for a punpy dog with man ners fine and sniffy. ' - . And then I'd take that sniffv dog for fear that I'd be bitten, And swap it off with someone who pre ferred it to a kitten. And then I'd take t,hat kilty-cat and sell it for a quarter. The which I'd swap for one big pail of fizzy soda water. John Kendriek Bangs, in The Housekeeper. REAL BABES IN THE WrOODS. They had not lived in the country long, the Browns had not. They had just moved into the pretty farmhouse a few days before the things told of in this story happened. There were Papa Brown, Mamma Brown, Bulger Brown (a little boy) and Sis By Brown (a little girl). Now, before I go any farther, I must tell you that Bulger's real, sure enough name was not Bulger; it was Franklyn James. And Sissy Brown's real sure-enough name was not Sissy, but was Stella May. But as Papa and Mamma Brown always - called them,Bulger and Sissy it is better for me to do the same. So, let them be known in this story which is a very short one as Bulger and Sissy. Well, on the third day after the Browns had moved into their new country home Bulger and Sissy went out into the big yard to play. And after they had explored every inch of the yard they decided to investigate the barnyard. And it was such loads of fun to chase the big rooster about the barnyard, and to hear the hens cackle as if they were quarreling with them for their mischief. Then they visited the pig pen. And such a fun ny lot of little piggies there were in it, too, trotting about tails twisted into knots over their backs after a very fat mother had grunted, grunted, every minute, and who looked toward Bulger and Sissy with a distrustful glance. Then there was nothing new for Bulger and Sissy about the house, yard and barnyard. And they stood looking at each other, wondering where they should go. Bulger, being five years old, spoke first. "Let's go down yonder." And he pointed to a line of timber about a quarter of a mile from the house. Sissy, being four years old, trusted to her big brother's judgment and said: "All wight, buver." Then away the two totlings went, hand in hand, toward the dark woods. "It's very big an' dang'rous," ex plained Bulger, pointing to the line of timbar "Maybe bears are there." Sissy held tighter to Bulger's hand, not fearing even bears while safely guarded by him. "But no bears will bover us for I won't let 'em," went on Bulger. And then they reached a few of the outside, straggling trees. "Oh, it isn't so very big an' dark, is it?" asked Bulger. "No, it's just bufi-ful," said Sissy. But still she clung tightly to Bulger's hand. And so they walked about and about, going a little deeper and a little deepei into the woods. And then it became a little darker and they could not see so far about them, and Bulger decided they would better return to their home. "I dess we'd better do home, Eulver," said Sissy, seeing the uncertainty in her broth er's face. "Yes, it's mos' dinner time," said Bulger, not wishing Sissy to know that he was getting a bit afraid of the lonely woods. And so they started out to go home, but, having forgotten just which way they had come, they went in the wrong direction. And so they walked and walked, growing so tired at last that Bulger said that he would have to sit down and rest a bit. And all the while they had been walking both Bulger and Sissy had been afraid, but neither owned it to the other. While they sat on the mossy bank of a little brooklet Sissy fell asleep, her head in Bulger's lap. Then Bul ger's blue eyes grew heavy, and he, too, fell into slumber, forgetting where he was and that there might be bears in the woods. And there isno knowing how long the two little Browns might have slept In the woods or whether or not they' might have come to harm, or have been forever lost, or whether at night the birds might have felt pity for them and covered them with leaves; but about half an hour after they had fallen asleep their own dear mother found them, and, lifting Sissy in her arms and calling gently to Bul ger to wake, she kissed each and said: "Thank God, I found my dear little babes safe in the wood." And Bulger and Sissy were thankful to be found, too. and nromisfid nsvpr tn m I away from home again without their mamma's consent. Washington Star. ; NELSON AND THE COXSWAIN, Just before the battle o Trafalgar a mall was sent from the UngUslt fleet, and word was passed that it might bo tho last chanco to write be fore the expected engagement. Th letters had been collected from the ships, the letter bags were on the voa sel which was to take them, and she had gone some distance on her way, under full sail, when Lord Nelson saw a midshipman approach and speak to Paeco, the signal officer. Then Nelson showed the side of his nature which so often won the sail ors' hearts. Pasco uttered an exclamation of 3gust. and stamped his foot In evi dent vexation. The Admiral called him and asked him" what was the matter. "Nothing which need trouble your lordshlr," was the reply. "You areuot the man to lose your temper for .nothing," rejoined Nel son. "What was it?" "Well, if you must know, my lord, t will tell you. You see that coxs wain?" pointing to ono of the most active of the petty officers. "We have not a better man on the Victory, and the message which put me out was this: I was told that he was so busy receiving and getting off his mail bags that he forgot to put his own letter to his wife into one of them, and he has just discovered it in his pocket." "Hoist a signal to bring her hack!" was Nelson's instant command. "Who knows that he may not fall in action to-morrow? His letter shall go with the rest." - That was Nelson all over. Wash ington Star. .' SMART GIRLS. The boys of this country must not get the idea that they are the only smart things in it. There is a girl in Mississippi who lost both hands three .years ago, but has learned to do good typewriting with her toes. There is a girl in Ohio with a wooden foot who plays football and runs racea and beats all the boys. In Wisconsin a girl of twelve year of age swam a horse across a river and saved a passenger train from disaster. Michigan has a girl of fourteen who can do any sum in mathematics you give her and not be over ten seconds about it. Penn sylvania has one of eleven years who can learn and repeat any chapter im the Bible in twenty minutes. Delaware has a miss, now sixteen years old, who went into the grocery business when she was only ten, and at the present date she is making $2000 a year, and Connecticut has one of fifteen who has traded horses and got the best of it over forty times. The American boy is pretty cut, but the American girl isn't going to be left very far behind in the race. New Haven Register. A LITTLE GIRL'S FEAT. Little Miss Evelyn Albee, of Alna Centre, may deservedly be called a heroine. A few days ago, while play ing near an open well, she accident ally stepped in. The well was eigh teen feet deep, with six feet of water. Her playmate heard the splash, but was too frightened to call for assist ance. Miss Evelyn, who Is not six years old yet, was equal to the occa sion and clambered to the top, unaid ed and unharmed. "How did she do It?" is the general question asked, but no one but the lady herself knows, and she wishes to forget it. That she wasn't hurt in some way was truly remarkable. Kennebeo Journal. A NEW GAME. The youngsters of Harlem evolved recently a game that i3 enjoying great popularity among them. A coin is placed on a crack in the side walk and the two players stand op posite each other and at an equal dis tance from the crack, usually upon the next one. A rubber ball is then aimed and thrown at the coin and caught on the bounce by the oppos ing player. The coin, or it? equiva lent, becomes the possession of the player hitting it. It Is a gambling game, of course, but that is probably what gives it the vogue it enjoys. New York Sun. THE COMPOSITION OF A ROCKET. The ordinary skyrocket is made of various compositions packed In tubes round a . cylindrical core. The match by which the mcket is explod ed i3 placed in a cavity at the bot tom. The movement of the rocket would he irregular if it were not for the guide stick, which is made very light, so that it does not retard the flight ot the rocket when the gases come out and hit the ground, with all their might and send the rocket up into the air for all that it is worth, American Press. In the sandy deserts of Arabia, whirling winds sometimes excavate pits 200 feet in depth and extending down to the harder stratum on wbicJi the bed rests. The British salmon Is Sjil to 1j8 rorth $550 a ton. TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY. Whether she works for a living, for her own Cultirtion, or for the bet terment of social conditions, the mod srn woman is in earnest and wishes to be taken seriously. She is willing lo be criticised," disapproved, disliked, even hindered, rather than have her tabor treated as a piece of pretty play icting, or be branded with the loath 3d label of "amateur." From the By stander. " NEW BANK PRESIDENTS. Mrs. Phoebe Rideout, of California, ts the latest recruit to the ranks of the woman bank presidents. Mrs. Rideout has just been elected to suc ceed her late husband as the-president of the bank at Oroville, Cal., and also as president of the banks at Marysvillo and Gridley. The aggre gate capital of the three institutions is said to be more than $3, 000, 000. Mrs. William Langdon, wife of the city attorney of San Francisco, has been" re-elected president of the Union Savings Bank , at Mode3to. New York Sun. , CAN MARRY ORIENTALS. Anglo-Saxon women cannot be de terred, it seems, from marrying Ori entals. Even the unspeakable Turk is not excluded from" tho possibility of winning an Occidental bride. A woman writing to a London paper tells of having been stopped in the streets of Constantinople by a closely veiled woman, dressed entirely in black. She bent down her head a moment to whisper that she was an English woman married to a Turkish merchant, and begged the. stranger to save other of her countrywomen from a like fate. New York Tribune. once haughty and piercing, she said, indicatinsuher visitor's shapely right hand: "What hf the matter with your fingers? What makes them so yel low?" The other woman, with a hasty look at her haifd, where unmis takably1 was written the saffron sign of the cigarette smoker, blushel deeiv red. Her tone lost its acidity in her subsequent sentences as she hastily gulped down her pekoe and bade her hostess a honeyed au revoir. San Francisco Call. KING EDWARD'S ADVICE. The Tatler tells an"amusing little story about some advice given to the Queen of Spain by her uncle, King Edward. Her majesty wished to have LIGHTENING CLOTHES BURDEN, The burden of clothes has evident ly grown too great for the modern woman, for she serems to be trying this year to divest herself of as many garments as possible. Her gown is commonly all in one piece, while th'e undergarments "have been reduced to two combination garments. There are also various other economies, as Miss Elizabeth A. C. White told the Dressmakers' Protective Association at the Masonic Temple. "What kind of a blouse did you wear with it?" somq one asked after Miss White had exhibitod her travel ing skirt. - , "None at all," answered the oracle of fashion. "I did like the FTench women wore a little white sleeveless slip waist, with a lace jabot, and kept my coat on.. I wasn't going to pay; $60 for a blouse. : "You don't wear any blouse under the new Directoire coats," continued Miss White. "You keep it on when you make calls or go to afternoon teas, and under it you wear one of these little slip waists, with a, hand some collar and jabdt. Or," if you like, you can drape a piece of this wide figured ribbon across the front and fasten it with handsomebuttons. "At other times the French woman doesn't wear any coat at all. She has the new coat gown, made of any: heavy material and worn with furs. - "This is proper for any occasion calling for a street costume," said CD O ca CD o i C2. 3 i O GO i 3 O - CD CO r3 Georgia Split Peas. Pare and boil three large Irish potatoes until very soft. While still hot mash them finely; add a cup of blended lard and butter, two eggs, beaten sep arately, and a yeast cake dissolved in a pint of warm milk; finally add enough riour to make a stiff sponge.' When this is light add a heaping tablespoon of salt and another of sugar, then work in flour to make a smooth and, satiny dough. After letting this rise again, roll it out on a bread board to the thickness of half an inch. -Cut into biscuits; butter each one over the top and place it over another bis cuit. Crowd them slightly in the pan to keep them from spreading and brush the tops with a piece of melted but ter. They will make their last rising very quickly, and should be baked as any other roll would ba, Washing ton Star. church, caluikr and f. . some friends who were not of royal blood stay with her, but, finding that this was considered absolutely out of the question in the Spanish court, she wrote to the King and askedvwhat she should do. The reply of that as tute monarch is said to have been: "Do not make enemies and respect other people's stupidity when nec essary. In time, if you are wise, you will get everything your own way." New York Tribune. CARE IN DRESSING. A woman who is well groomed can not afford to be careless of her ap pearance. She must dress so as to bring out her good points. To do this takes time. At least half an hour is required for dressing in order that she may present that perfectly prepared appearance which Is the in describable charm of the well groomed woman. Particular atten tion must be paid to the finishing touches. Each, hook and button must be perfectly adjusted; her hair must be as neat as possible, with no strag gling, ill-kempt locks flying about, and her hands must defy criticism. Indianapolis News. Miss Wrhite, teas." Along with this lessening of the number of garments worn goes a less ening of the quantity of material. Skirts are both scantier and shorter than ever before. "Even long skirts are not very long," said Miss White, "and Paquin is .showing short tailor made3 this season for the first time. How short should they be? That depends on the style of the gown and the style of the woman. A young girl of medium siza who wants'to show her pretty boots may wear a skirt three inches off ths ground, and if she is small she may have it shorter. Even six inches isn't too much for a trotteur costume to bs worn In bad weather. A large wom an who is not young, and wants her dress for the promenade, should have it from one and a half to two inches off the ground." New York Tribune, Jy ONE FUR COAT INSUFFICIENT. There was a time when one fur coat was all a woman needed, and she wore it unhesitatingly with all her frocks whenever the weather really called for fur. Now one must ho a nlntnprnt tn wpnr furs nrnnprlv. Sealskin demands a gray or mole col-l yoke and lon ored frock, and sable calls aloud for black satin, ermine i, charming with beige and clay color, and silver fox happily has an affinity for many dif ferent colors and textures. It is, therefore, pleasant to be told that a new variety, of silver fox at about a quarter the usual price will be put on the market this winter. It is achieved by dyeing the., hitherto un salable red fox, and the imitation is said to deceive all but the elect. Kew York Tribune. HER STAINED FINGERS. In an interior city which prides it self upon the respectability of its j smart set and its superiority to those who indulge in fashionable fads one 1 of the society leaders is a woman who Is always criticising her neighbor's actions. Whether it is a brainstorm hat, a sheath gown or a petticoat overlaced to her taste, she never fails to express her opinion of the wearer, usually an opinion spiced with spite. The other day she was calling upon a young matron, and as she condescend ingly accepted a cup of tea she began to carp as was her wont. The young matron stood the caustic remarks un til the tears rose in her eyes and she felt she must rebel. With a glance at New swagger leather bags have art inside frame with outside pockets. Fancy chiffon cloth waists ars trimmed with braid and silk bands. White bodice vests of Italian silk; for transparent guimpes are stylish. A colored chiffon waist made over white or ecru silk has a latticed braid shirred sleeves. A vanity case with chain handle is made of gold plated German silver and contains powder puff, mirror and card receptacle. "A Brvsaels net waist trimmed elab orately with taffeta bands has long sleeves made up of alternate silk bands and tucks. Shell tomb sets comprising back : and side combs have ornamental en crusted rhinestone tops in bowknot, loop and Mercury wing design. A black broadcloth suit of Direc toire inspiration has a clinging skirt which is modified by pleats let in at the sides and back below the knees. A new Irish crochet stock inset with Irish crochet and hand embroid ered has turn-over points at top and a short Ascot scarf around the bottom, of the collar. One of the' wide new neck ruffs ot ostrich and mnrabou is just long enough to go around the neck, is high about tho throat and flutes around the lower part of the neck. Among the neckwear there is a new finish for the front of a waist in the shape of a handsome band of hand embroidery and Iris'crochet lace with a full wid v-'iichfl nrh '' ..(on, same kind onijiLi1)1. i ... of. V
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