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THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1907.
BEATRICE FAIRFAX says.
Men Are Poor Judges of a Woman’s Characteristics—A
Pretty Woman Can Nearly Always Hoodwink a Man For
a Certain Length of Time Anyway. '
T HE may be pretty, selfish, a nonen
tity, but for a while her beauty
will outclass all her faults, and
some short-sighted man will marry her
in the fond belief that her mere beauty
will make him a happy man for life.
He does not realize until after he has
married her that a pink and white
ornament can not add materially to the
happiness and comfort of a home.
Then, when he is tied to a spoiled,
peevish woman, people will feel sorry
for him and say, "Poor So and So has
no home life at all;, he Is married to a
selfish. Incapable woman."
In reality he deserves no sympathy
at all. He never looked tor better
qualities In a wife, but married a girl
simply and solely because she was
pretty.
When^a man Is courting he Is quite
satisfied if his sweetneart Is pretty and
agreeable, but when he is married he
expects his wife to develop much more
substantial virtues.
BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
That is all very well, but he should
have thought of it a little sooner. He
should have said to himself, "Is this
girl anything but pretty and agreeable?
Will she make a good wife and con
genial companion?"
Of course no young man who Is In
process of falling in love can be expect
ed to keep an entirely cool head and
look carefully at all sides of the ques
tion, but he surely can exercise a little
common sense and not be swayed en
tirely by mere physical beauty.
There are hundreds of girls who are
sensible and bright, as well as good
looking, and the man who wins such a
girl can indeed consider himself lucky.
And there are also hundreds of nice
girls who, though not actually pretty,
are quite good looking enough to be
pleasant to look it ^ ‘
But often a man will pass them oy
and choose a pretty, little, empty-head
ed goose whom he will tire of within
a year after marriage.
Beauty Is a very charming quality in
a girl, but It won’t go very far toward
making her a desirable wife unless she
has other fine qualities to supplement It.
Young man, If you are attracted by a
pretty girl, find out all about her be
fore you invite her to share your name
and fortune.
Find out If she Is sweet-tetnpered,
neat and economical. Notice how she
treats her little brothers and sisters,
and whether she saves her mother all
she can or lets her slave while her
daughter gads about In fine clothes.
A good daughter will mako a good
wife. Sometimes the very pretty girl Is
vain and spoiled. If so, she w ill make
a selfish wife.
It is important to find out If she is
economical. An extravagant wife will
hold you back all your life.
Think of all these tilings before you
decide on taking the most Important
step of your life.
Don't jump to the conclusion that a
pretty face will satisfy an your ideas of
what a wife should be. Go slowly and
think it well over.
The International Sunday School Les
son For May 5 Is, "Joseph the Wise
Ruler in Egypt."—Gen. 41: 38-49.
JOSEPH, THE WISE RULER
The Golden Text Is, “If Any of You
; Lack Wisdom, Let Him Ask of God."
; —James 15.
By WILLIAM T. ELLIS.
W HO CAN REMEMBER what wns
Inst /ear's "lH»st selling" novel!
Or last Month'*? Modern stories
seem hut born to die; vrbst a con
trast Is afforded by the compact, living,
dramatic Old Testament tale of Jenlousj,
intrigue, heroism, abject suffering for the
sake of principles, and complete nnd splen
did triumph over all circumstances and
foes which go to make np the narrative of
the life of the young man Joseph. Absorb
ing human Interest, whieb grips youth and
age alike. Is fonud In these few old pages.
A perusal of the story—it can be read from
beginning to end In fifteen minutes—makes
one think of how a modern writer would
dribble over this wealth of material.
In connection with the moving tnle of
even the great literature of the Greel—
loses beside the compression ami massive
ness of the Old Testament. It Is this cooli
solidity of poise, this grave and welgfaM
compression of speech, that makes the <1
Testament literature so foreign. It has
I Bride of art* no Interest In the subjects
■nipremdons of the writer, no care ereu AM
the preservation of his name. It la aus
terely preoccupied with the lasting nnd the
reul, nnd aliove all. unceasingly possessed
hie. This eonsMnt preoccupation with the
eternal and the superhuman gives to this
literature n sense of proportion which again
separates It from other literature. In onr
modern literature It Is hardly possible to
find an author who lias not some touch of
the restless egotism that Is the enrse of
the artistic temperament; in the lllhle there
is no author who was not free from It.
"In this art which Is not art, then, in
this absorption with the solid fnrta of re
ality nnd the neglect of man’s comment and
luterpretstloii. In the unswerving Instinct
for the lasting, nnd. the sense of the con
stant mid Immediate presence of an omnipo
tent God. the lllhle stands apart in. our
literature."
The Climax of a Career.
The portion of the biography of Joseph
which the world's Handay schools are this
the favor of a nation, of Its king and of
the King of kings. Here we see-vindi
cated the troth which abort vision ao fre
quently obscures, namely, that God’s laws
are yet operative. He Is stilt managing
his universe In his own way. And while
lie Is running an Immeasurable universe,
He Is not too busy to give heed to the per
sonal affairs of every mortal that depends
upon Him. In the day’s renaissance of
Ideals, It is well to be reminded by Joseph
that the man who pins his faith to God's
eternal *
a time
lire car
of Jehovah from Ills throne. During the
two long, lonely years between the making
of the butler's promise nnd Its fulfillment.
Joseph's faith must have been, sorely tried.
Hut he believed God, notwithstanding all;
he kept his flag flying In that miserable old
Kgyptluu prison, und eventually It proved
to be n flag of victory.
Getting Ready for the Big Day.
Of course Joseph's chance came; the
Lord never lets go to waste such an equip
ment aud fidelity as Joseph's. If He ran
help It. The inan who has drilled himself
to fitness in the school of hard, dark days
Is certain to come up eventually with his
great opportunity. The trouble with not a
few young people Is that (hey are bewail
ing their lack of a chance In life. Instead
of seriously preparing for the day of their
visitation. Opportunities are only Judg
ments to the unprepared. There are full
msuy men grumbling aud gossiping on
street corners or in village stores who
Mliould lie hard at the task of perfecting
themselves to obey their call when It
comes. Joseph hml not pined away his
soul nnd his fitness In prison: he had coin*
idled the direct rlrrmustance* to minister
o his effclency. It Is often said that the.
icst way to preimre for tomorrow's task
h by n faithful fulfillment of today's; true
nough, bat Is It not also true that today's
task Is tietter done If It Is realised ns u
»ration for tomorrow's
A Great Ambition
.he living present” Is _ .
lint the present most also lire Bi
Therefore the power of a great goal. _
pli took on to the throue with hint all
H>nenth the brilliant stars of Canaan.-There
never was an hour In Ills life when Joseph
wns not ambitious, uud all that befell him
he made a servant of bis great purposen.
Ambition is one of God's levers. Had would
be the day for the race when the "divine
discontent' ceased to stir In the hearts
of men. The difference between America
and China, America and India, or America
and Turkey Is—noble ambition. No nation
can ever greatly achieve whose youth does
not greatly aspire.
I once chanced to be nhoard the same
ship with a Japanese prince, traveling ns
royal envoy to the king of England, and
“ * ‘ resting to note his dally lesson
as a fresh proof that there Is
I her of his suite, so the ruler of Egypt
turned to Joseph. Thus the real king,
"the man who can." ever wields a sway
over the mere hereditary monarch. A later
wise man than Joseph wrote, “Beast thou
a man diligent In his business? He shall
stand l>efore kings." Ho Joseph proved.
In truth, the clean, self-reliant, self-re
specting, efficient man ran stand in his In
tegrity anywhere, and this ability to standr
unabashed In the presence of anybody or
orerylKKly Is one of the royal privileges of
a true man. Joseph was not embarrassed
or put at disadvantage when his sudden
opportunity came.
A King’s Bad Dreams.
PfUllI more dreams. This time It was
Pharaoh himself who had been visited by
two dreams, one of seveu lean kino devour
ing seven fat klne. and of seven scant bends
of grain devouring seven full heuds. In his
perplexity to find an Interpreter the romlss-
ness of the butler was brought home to the
latter, and he remembered the skillfulj
reader of dreams in the prison. Ho Joseph
was sent for.
"Unexcited by the sudden change 'from
the prison to the court, and uiielatcd by
Pharaoh's praise, Joseph disclaimed any
skill of his own; it Is 'not In me; God shall
give Pharaoh an answer of peace.' This is
the modesty that springs from true depend
ence ou God. The Interpretation wna aim
pie, hut It Involved Important consequence*.
The mere guess of a clever dream Inter
preter was Insufficient to found a fourteen!
years' policy on. For this there was needed
the assured solution of a divinely-inspired
Interpreter. Observe the difference be
tween speculation and revelation; the
lielng authoritative and conscious of Its
authority, the other not. Joseph resists
the temptation to make his fortune by
posing as an adept In the *cleuce the magi-
da us professed, and'In which they seemed
bunglers and apprentices when compared
with him. Joseph, not content with Inter-
nretetlng the dreams, proceeds to advise
Pharaoh how to net.'*
The specter which J' " * ** ’
up was the awful one <
and Interdependence has been wrought l
a network of railways and commerce which
has made whole continents one neighbor
hood. Not so In andent Egypt; not so In
present-day Chinn. In the hitter country I
have seen the starved nnd the starving, I
have heard the re-echoing cry of the parents
pleading for food and the Inarticulate ap
peal of Infants who knew uot that their
cry wns hunger-born; f have felt the clutch
of hundreds of claw-llke hands upon my
clothes; I have seen the deadly famine
B*ypt
A Young Man on the Throne.
"A romance from real life" we cull the
rise of Joseph, and all kindred Incidents. As
If romance were strange in real life. Let
me whisper a secret: It Is the practice of
at least one great American story |wiper—
perhaps the most
to clip from the
which they scud t
Imre record i.
ble hlnv to see a world of stories.
There Is scarcely a day pusses that does
■me before was among those who la*wed
the knee. The commercial world Is full of
this; so is every other sphere of human
activity. Josephs are every day flndiug.
scepter* of power thrust Into their bauds;
well for them If they ure not like some
notorious msde-orer night millionaires,
whose bead* were turned by authority nuu
position that tuey made public exhibition
of their* unfitness. Joseph belonged to the
|noble army of competents. He won place
..... _ _j young ■■
■ For I'hnfuoh was quite ns little InteresfRI
n* l> ttie modern world In n nuni'a nnteee-
dent,. n«e. or' npixuninci': the thing he
for nldllty to flu
fully. Thtm, hy Joseph's exaltation were
exulted the Idenli he tind I*I long eherlnhefl.
nnd the tlod upon whom bo de|>ended for
nil hi. .kill nnd success. livery true sur
er*. of a llodly man Is a glorification of
tlod himself.
THE HEARTLESSNESS OF
MODERN COMMERCIALISM.
By Rev.Thomgs B. Gregory.
Is civilisation a blessing or (i curse?
To take the bull squarely by the
horns, Is the present condition of the
world nn ailvnnce upon Its condition a
thousand or three thousand years ago?
Lot us pause before answering In the
alhrmatlve.
Those early sges look pretty grim In
the perspective of history. The annal
ists have told some pretty tough yarns
of the nnclent folk: but how do til?
stories that come down to us of the
Pyramid builders nnd the rearers of the
Babylon walls compare In cold-blooded
Inhumunity with the {acts of our mod
em civilisation?
“Most favorably, Indeed," must be
our answer.
Herodotus and the rest of them never
tire of reciting the brutalities of the
Egyptian taskmasters nnd the Meso
potamian bosses, how they made the
poor make "bricks without straw.” with
lashes and curses for refreshments
We are told how the men who reared
the Hanging Cardens of Babylon and
the tombs of tho Pharaohs were driven
to their work by goads nnd kept ut It
by clubs until, tired nature being able
to endure It no longer, tho poor crea
tures fell dead at their tasks und were
borne away to mako room for other
victims of man's vanity and heurttess-
Ilut how much less truo is the bar
barism of modern conditions.
If the Pyramid builders nnd Hang
ing Carden bosses were cruel and un
feeling. what Shall*we'say of the mod
ern bosses, of the present day captains
of Industry, who, bent upon the nl-
mightv dollar, arc crushing their hu
man victims as remorselessly
many Juggernauts!
If human life wns cheap In the days
of the Nebuchadnexiars and Phara
ohs. what Is it In these days!
Modem commercialism knows noth
ing about any such thing as the ss-
credness of human life, it crushes nut
self-respect and the spirit of Independ
ence, and love und hope In the heart
und soul of inan as remorselessly as
the wheels of the locomotive pound the
steel track over which’ it speeds.
In the mad game of money-making
the finest human sentiments ure
crushed ns the falling tree crushes the
wild flowers that He In its way.
Troth, Justice, kindness, courtesy,
ure lit only to be hove over among the
rubbish. No regard is had for human
feelings. A man is valuable, and Is
respected, only to the extent that he
can be used ns an Instrument of "prof
it" to his employer; and when, In the
employer's opinion, he is no longer
"prafltublc,” he.Is kicked aside without
ceremony and without explanation.
Great fortunes are being plied up—
fortunes tn dollars and cents. In houses
und lund—and in the meantime the
only thing that makes life worth hav
ing—human lore und kindness, the
spirit of symputhy and helpfulness—
Is rapidly diminishing, its place being
taken, by the spirit of the pachyderm
that Is happiest when it Is crushing
something that Is weaker than Itself.
And this Is civilization, with Its
steam engines and autos. Its skyscra
pers and steamships, Its billionaires
and captains of industry!
Better, a thousand times better, the
uncivlllzatlon—the barbarism, if you
please—of the older time, -sr biota, with
all of its crudeness and roughness, had
yet some little poetry nnd love, some
little regard for human rights and hu
man feelings, than Lhe heartless greed.
which, In Its haste to “make Its pile,'
mocks the holiest sentiments of the
soul and rough-rides it over all - the
graces nnd refinements, all the chari
ties and courtesies that make man
man.
McGill RE'S ALLIGATOR YARN.
"Delegate R. 8. McGuire Is telling
a Story since his return from the canal
xone which will make W. M. Grimes,
U. V. Guss,. J. W. McNcal, Judge Bur-
ford and others sit up and take notice.
Two years ago Joe McNeal, upon Ills
return from Canada, said a new In-
dustry was thriving along the coast
which would give a new source
milk supply to the world. Several en
terprising men had discovered that by
taming female whales they could be
taught to come Into the bay every
evening to be milked. The cream sup
ply was thus being Increased and for
tunes were being made by the sale of
milk.
"I-ast summereU. C. Guss and Wll
Ham Grimes returned from Michigan
with a story of having witnessed
water spaniel dog catching tlsli by
Jumping into the lake and diving Into
the waterj
’Judge Burford is not considered
very slow in the (lsh-story line, but
Will have to give away for Bird Mc
Guire’s alligator story.
"White visiting tho Panama canal a
party of congressmen were taken down
the coast for an alligator hunt. Each
gentleman was armed with a rule hav
ing a magazine capacity of sixteen
heavy shells. The party was under the
guidance of Captain Stinson, chief of
police of the zone territory. The party UmpSIHHI
started early In the morning, and ufterKunsas CUy Journal
sailing about thirty miles In a launch,
took small boats to the breeding place
of the alligators, about six or seven
miles up the river. They reached the
runting grounds about 1 o'clock, and
were fortunate In finding the game in
large numbers. The animals were not
frightened by the approach of the bouts
but remained perfectly still, with their
heads and backs out of tho water, sun
ning. The party opened Are on" tho
alligators, but the first volley proved of
no avail.
"A few moments later. Delegate Mc
Guire's boat wns fortunate In reaching
a point where a big fellow stuck his
nose out of the water. Raising his
gun lie fired n bullot straight Into tho
eye of the animal, and the fun com
menced. The alligator lloundered In
the water in Its death struggles, while
volley after volley of bullets were fired
at Its body, about sixty shots being
fired. Two or three times the boot was
almost struck by the beast, Delegate
McGuire stating that the last time the
alligator Jumped out of the water Its
tail missed the boat by an uncomfoiV
abiy small margin. Finally seeing that
the ghost was up, the alligator made
for the bonk of the stream and peace
fully rested Its head upon the ground
to die In comfort. Tho measurements
proved it to be a fraction over twenty-
three feet In length nnd weighing per
haps two tons. As the skin becomes
so tough after the animals pass the
third or fourth years that It is almost
Impossible to tan the hides, the alliga
tor was left Arrangements were made,
however, to secure the teeth, which ore
supposed to be about eight Inches In
length, for corroboration of the story.
Willie the teeth are being secured,
McNcal, Guss, Grimes and Burforil
promise to prepare for tho future In
order to retain their reputations.''—