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HE WOULDN’T TELL.
The eminent Dr. Llorente, physician
to the royal family of Spain, told a
reporter in New York recently that he
thinks the American woman is spoiled.
“In my own country,” said Dr. Llo
rente, “a woman is content to be queen
of her household, but here woman wants
to be both king and queen. ’ ’
The doctor, smiling, continued:
‘ ‘ I was surprised to hear that in some
cases the American husband has actual
ly to conceal the condition of his finan
ces from his wife in order to curb her
extravagance. Tims the rich young
wife’s complaint to her doctor, a friend
of mine in New York, would be impos
sible in Spain, where married people are
happy companions.
“ ‘ It is so ridiculous, ’ pouted my
friend’s young patient, ‘ to call the man
at the bank a ‘teller.’ Why, he won’t
tell you anything. I asked one the other
day how much money my husband had
on deposit and he just laughed at me.’ ”
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Editorial Etchings
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SEE AMERICA FIRST.
(From Leslie’s).
In a country so large as ours, one may;
travel extensively without going outside j
our own borders. Pride in one’s home
is a good quality, but it hinders dcvel- j
opment if one is so well satisfied with his j
own city or States as to care to see or
know no other. Even a hurried journey
throughout the United States would give
a conception of its vastness, the variety
of its resources and the diversified in
terests of the people, such as could be
gotten in no other way. See America
first!
But just as one understands his own
language better by having some knowl
edge of another, so one knows the ge
nius of his own country most truly only
as ho is able to compare it with other
lands. Fortunately travel is no longer a
rare privilege, to be enjoyed only by the
few. Even those of moderate means are
quite able to enjoy tho benefits that come
from seeing for one’s self the strange
parts of the earth and becoming familiar
with all races and nationalities in their
native homes.
OVERCOMING AN OBSTACLE.
(From The Youngstown Telegram). :
A South Sido mother hns set her heart i
on making a musician out of her 6-year- 1
old son, although tho boy is in no way
fitted for such a career.
The son’s music-teacher thought it
best to tell the mother the real truth.
“I am afraid it is utterly useless to
spend money on Frankie, ’ ’ said the teach
er, ‘ ‘ because he never will learn. ’ ’
“But why not?” the mother insisted.
“He has no idea of harmony,” the
teacher explained, “and he hasn’t the
time. ’ ’
“Oh, yes, he has; you just keep him
at it, ’ ’ tho mother replied. ‘ ‘ He has
all tho time in the world.”
WALL STREET.
If you live in the country, buy at 80,
sell at 40. Avoid all forms of eccentric
ity.
In Russia, on Easter morning of each year, the Czar
takes by the shoulders the sentry on duty at his door,
kisses him on both cheeks, and says: “Christ is risen.’’
To this the sentry responds: “He is risen, indeed.”
Around this simple statement revolves our civiliza
tion. Upon this statement hinges the future welfare of
humanity, both in a spiritual and material sense.
Upon the risen Saviour, the living Christ, hangs all
the hope of humanity for happiness here and hereafter.
The Christ stands out as the central figure of all the
ages, and from that radiant figure go forth into every
dark place of the world the light rays which can alone
sweeten and purify. Of himself man can do much; he
can tunnel mountains, traverse the oceans, navigate the
air, make the deserts to blossom, and in uncounted ways
prove himself the most wonderful animal of a wonderful
world. But when all is told, he is yet an animal; greedy,
grasping, selfish, often cruel and always for his own
hand. Let this man become truly touched with the spirit
of the living Christ, and there comes a change so great
as to be marvelous. The selfish man becomes unselfish,
the greedy man learns to be thoughtful of others, the
grasping man becomes generous, the cruel man becomes
merciful, all because a little of the Christ-spirit has
touched his heart.
We think the world a hard place, and that is too true,
but it is much less hard than it would otherwise be if it
was not softened and sweetened by the Christ-spirit.
Even those who do not acknowledge Him are un
consciously to themselves acted upon by this immanent
spirit of the Christ.
Slow as may appear to us the evangelization of the
world, it moves apace.
The 120 of the Days of Pentecost have become the
five hundred millions of today.
Protestant missions are not more than one hundred
years old, but today 125,000 missionaries and helpers are
spreading the Gospel in all heathen lands.
Wars have not ceased, but are much less numerous
than of old, and more mercifully carried on. Even uni
versal peace is talked about as a not impossible thing.
Christian civilization is taking serious account of social
and industrial injustice. Slowly, sometimes haltingly,
but always moving forward, even though with leaden
tread, the world moves forward to that great day when
all the world will acclaim Easter with the glad cry: “He
MONTE CARLO PRICES.
Judge William II. Moore, at a horse
• show supper in Gotham’s newest hotel,
discussed hotel prices.
“They are worse at Monte Carlo, per
haps, ’ ’ he said, ‘ ‘ than anywhere else
in the world. The German tourist is
sneered at in Monte Carlo because, when
lie enters a barber shop for a shave, ho
always asks what the charge is to be
before ho sits down in the chair.
“But what is a man to do in barber
shops whero it is no uncommon thing to
be charged $2 or $3 for tho simplest
operation?
“And it’s tho same thing in the hotels.
1 know of a man who took a suite at a
Monte Carlo hotel without asking the
price of anything—and in the restau
rants of such hotels it’s a common thing
to find no prices even on tho menus,
“Well, when this man came to pay his
bill, it was enormous. But ho paid it.
Then ho said:
“Have you any 25-ccntimo stamps?’
“ ‘Yes, monsieur,’ said the clerk.
‘How many do you wish?’
“My friend smiled, blandly.
‘ ‘ ‘ Tell me first, please, ’ ho said, ‘ what
you charge for them here?’ ”
UNNECESSARY CAUTION.
(From Tho New York Star).
After midnight on some of the sub
urban trolley runs the “No smoking”
rulo is a dead letter. There are no wo
men aboard to object and the conductor
winks tho other eye. About 1:20 the
other morning a gentlemanly stranger
got on a car toward tho end of tho jour
ney. Ho was smoking a cigar, and said
to tho conductor:
“All right for me to smoko now isn’t
it?”
“Sorry, Cap,” replied the knight of
tho bellropc, “but you ain’t s’posed to.
Rules is very strict.”
“Well,” said the traveler, “somebody
has been smoking here. I can smell it.
And look at thoso cigar and cigarette
butts on the floor. Where did they come
from?”
“Aw,” explained tho conductor,
“them was left by tho guys that didn’t
ask.’ ’
A NEAT KNOCK.
“Hobey” Baker, the renowned foot
ball star, was lunching in his native
Philadelphia.
A young girl, over her queer alligator
pear salad, mentioned the name of a
Princeton sophomore who had played
rather badly on his class team.
“He is an awfully nico boy,” she said,
“What was it he played on the eleven,
Mr. Baker—half back, quarter back, full
back?”
The handsome and herculean ‘ ‘ Hobey ’ ’
smiled.
“I think he played draw back,” he
said.
LAST RESOURCE.
A little fellow of seven was losing
his baby teeth when one day in despair
he came to his mother and said,
“Mother, if my teeth don’t quit coming
out, I’ll have to get some of these you
just slide in.”