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BITTERLY ARRAIGNS ISMAY
AS MAN WHO BEARS BLAME
FOR DISASTER TO TITANIC
Senator Ravner Charges White Star Line Director
With Cowardice.
WASHINGTON, D. C. s April 19.—An indictment, rarely
equalled in its vigor, of J. Bruce Ismay, managing director, and
other officials of the White Star Line, holding them responsible
for the Titanic disaster, was delivered in the Senate to-day by
Senator Rayner of Maryland, who pictured Ismay “as the officer
primarily responsible for the whole disaster, who has reached
his destination in safety and unharmed.”
Senator Rayner pointed out that while there was no civil
"Jr criminal remedies available in the American courts, criminal
pui civil suits should be brought in the British courts and that
a congressional committee would have absolute authority to
subpoena every one connected with the disaster, and that if any
one should refuse to answer questions he could be indicted and
imprisoned for contempt.
“Mr. Ismay claims, according to reports, that he took the
last lifeboat,” cried Senator Rayner. “I do not believe it, and
if he did it was cowardly to take any lifeboat, for the manag
ing director, with his board, is criminally responsible for this
appalling tragedy.
YET ISMAY WAS SAVED
“If this had happened on an American vessel there would be
no question that an indictment would be found, and if the facts
were sustained the officers of the company could be convicted
of manslaughter, if not of murder, because the evidence is clear
that the vessel was not properly equipped with efficient life
saving apparatus.
I have not the slightest doubt that the northern route
was taken in obedience to Mr. Ismay’s direct orders, and that
with full warning he risked the life of his entire ship to make
a speedy passage.
I care not what the rules of the British admiralty are.
Here you have the spectacle of the head of the line failing to
see that his ship was properly equipped with life-saving ap
paratus, heedless of the warnings that he was sailing in a dan
gerous sea, forsaking his vessel and permitting 1,500 of her
passengers and crew to be "wallowed by the sea. The martyr
dom and agonies and separation that took place on board the
sinking ship are too fearful for the mind to dwell upon and con
template, but Mr. Ismay, the officer primarily responsible for
the whole disaster, has reached his destination in safety and
unharmed.
Let Warships Fight Icebergs.
"No legislation can bring back to
earth a single life lost upon that fatal
night. What we ca<i, do is to help to
Sx the responsibility, if possible, and
rely upon British justice to bring to
bay the guilty directorate of this com
pany.
"All civilized nations will applaud
the criminal prosecution of the man
agement of this line. If they can be
made to suffer, no sympathy will go
out to them and if it does it will be
submerged in the overwhelming lamen
tation that to-day re-echoes through
out the civilized world for the victims
of their culpable carelessness, a reck
lessness that sent hundreds of their
fellow-beings into eternity, desolating
homes and firesides, and turned this
land into a house of mourning.
"In this hour of our calamity we ap- (
peal to the majesty of the law to deal
out retributory justice to this guilty
company to the last degree.”
Two more bills framed on the lesson
drawn from the Titanic disaster were
Introduced in the House to-day. One
of them, by Representative O’Shaugh
nessy of Rhode Island, would compel
all oceangoing steamships to or from
the United States to carry constant
and adequate wireless; Representative
Parran ot Maryland offered a measure
to appropriate SIOO,OOO for naval target
practice in destroying icebergs by the
guns of the warships and by dropping
explosives from airships.
Saw Mr. Ismay Get in Lifeboat.
New York. April 19.—Mrs. Luclne P.
Smith of Huntington, W. Va., daugh
ter of Congressmar. Hughes of West
Virginia, a bride of about eight weeks
whose husband was lost in the wreck,
gave her experiences through the med
ium of her uncle, Dr. J. H. Vincent
of Huntington.
"My niece saw Mr. Ismay leaving the
Ship,” said Mr. Vincent. "He was
attended by several of the crew and
every assistance was given him to get
Into the boat. And when the Car
pathia rescued the passengers some of
the crew of the Carpathia. together
with men of the Titanic, actually car
ried Mr. Ismay to spacious rooms that
had been set aside for him. As soon
as Mr. Ismay had been placed in this
stateroom a sign was placed on the
door: ‘Please do not knock.’ ”
SAILORTsHOT PANICKY
MAN ON THE TITANIC
His Body Fell Into Descending
Lifeboat.
New York, April 19.—Eady Cosmo
Duff-Gordon, who left in one of the
last of the Titanic’s boats, said that
panic had begun to seize some of the
remaining passengers by the time her
boat was lowered away.
“Every one seemed to be rushing for
that boat, nearly the last of all. A
few men crowded in and were turned
back at the point of Capt. Smith’s re
volver. Several were felled before or
der was restored.
"I recall that I was pushed along
toward one of the boats and helped in.
The boat was lowered part way down
on the davits. Just as we were about
to clear the ship a man made a rush
to get aboard and was shot. He was
apparently killed instantly and his
body fell into th» boat at our feet.
No one made an effort to move the
body and it remained beneath our feet
until we were picked up by the Car
pathia.
"I saw bodies in the water in all di
rections. The poor souls could not have
lived long because the water was terrl-
Wlw cold.’’
ISMAY TELLS STORY
TO SENATE PROBERS
He Wouldn’t Look at Titanic
When She Went Down.
New York, April 19.—J. Bruce Is
may!s own story of the sinking of the
Titanic, something about his own es
cape from the ship and the story of
Capt. Rostron of the Carpathia, told
with tears in his eyes, were heard to
day by the Senate committee that is
probing into the disaster.
When asked the circumstances un
der which he left the boat, Mr. Ismay
replied almost in a whisper:
“One of the boats was being filled.
Officers called out to know if there
were any more women to go. There
were none. No passengers were on the
deck. As the boat was being lowered
1 got into it.”
“I understand that you have been
told that the Titanic was running at
full speed. It never had run at full
speed. She was built to go eight?- rev
olutions and never had been sped up
to that. We never had all her boilers
working.”
Although he came on a “voluntarj
trip,” Mr. Isma?- said, "his purpose
was to see how the ship worked and
in what manner she could be improved
upon.’’
Knew Ice Was Near.
A representative of the builder, Mr.
Andrew, was on board. Mr. Ismay
said.
'•Did he survive?” asked Senator
Smith.
“Unfortunately, no.”
"During your voyage did you know
you were in the vicinity of ice?” Sen
ator Smith asked.
“I knew some had been reported. ’’
replied Ismay.
Senator Smith asked if Ismay sought
to send an?- wireless messages from
the Titanic after she struck. He said
no.
Isma?- said he heard the captain give
the order to lower the boats.
"I then left the bridge,” added the
official.
Three boats, he said, he saw lowered
and filled. In his own boat were four
members of the crew and forty-five
passengers.
"Was there an?- jostling or attempt
by men to get into the boats?” asked
Senator Smith.
”1 saw none.”
"How were women selected?"
"We picked the women and the chil
dren as the?- stood nearest the rail.”
Almost to the Last.
Senator Smith told Mr. Ismay it was
reported that the second life boat left
without its full complement of oars
men. and from 11:30 p. m„ until 7:30
a. m., women were forced to row the
boat.
“I know nothing about it.”
Mr. Ismay was asked how long he
remained on the injured ship.
“That would be hard to estimate.”
he responded. “Almost until she sank.
Probably an hour and a quarter.”
Then Senator Smith asked the cir
cumstances under which he left the
ooat.
“The boat was being filled.” began
Mr. Ismay, “the officers called out to
know if there were any more women
to go. There were none. No passen
gers were on the deck. So as the boat
was being lowered. I got into it.”
“The ship was sinking?” asked Sen
ator Smith.
“The boat was einkinfir.” almost
THE WEEKLY NEWS (TWO-TIMES-A-WEEK) MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1912.
HERO’S DEATH FOR
JACQUES FUTRELLE
WIFE TELLS OF PARTING
Mrs. Futrelle Says Young Mrs.
Astor Was Frantic.
N'ew York, April 19—Mrs. May Fu
trelle, whose husband, Jacques Fu
trelle, the novelist, went down with the
ship, was met here by her daughter,
Miss Virginia Futrelle. Miss Futrelle
had been told that her father had been
picked up by another steamer. Mrs.
Charles Copeland of Boston, a sister
of the writer, who also met Mrs. Fu
trelle, was under the same impression.
Miss Futrelle and Mrs. Copeland with
a parts' of friends awaited at a hotel
the arrival of Mrs. Futrelle from the
deck.
“I am so happs - that father is safe,
too,” said Miss Futrelle, as her mother
clasped her in her arms. It was some
time before Mrs. Futrelle could com
pose herself.
‘‘Where is Jack?” Mrs. Copeland
asked.
Mrs. Futrelle, afraid to let her
daughter know the truth, said:
“Oh, he is on another ship.”
Mrs. Copeland guessed the truth and
became hysterical. Miss Futrelle also
broke down.
Died Like a Hero.
‘‘Jack died like a hero,” Mrs. Fu
trelle said, when the party became
composed. "He was in the smoking
room when the crash came—the noise
of the smash was terrific and I was
going to bed. I was hurled from my
feet by the impact. I hardly found
myself when Jack came rushing into
the stateroom.
“ ‘The boat is going down; get dress
ed at once!’ he shouted. When we
reached the deck everything was in
the wildest confusion.
"The screams of women and the
shrill orders of the officers were drown
ed intermittently by the tremendous vl
braltions of the Titanic's bass fog horn.
The behavior of the men was magnifi
cent. They stood back without mur
muring and urged the women and chil
dren into the lifeboats. A few cowards
tried to scramble into the boats, but
they were quickly thrown back by the
others.
"Let me say now that the only men
who were saved were those who sneak
ed into the lifeboats or were picked
up after the Titanic sank.
"I did not want to leave Jack, but he
assured me that there were boats
enough for all and that he would be
rescued later.
” ‘Hurry up. May! You're keeping
the others waiting.' were his last words
as he lifted me into a lifeboat and
kissed me good-bye. I was in one
of the last lifeboats to leave the ship.
We had not put out many minutes
when the Titanic disappeared. I al
most thought as T saw her sink be
neath the water that I could see Jack
standing where I had left him and
waving at me.”
Mrs. Futrelle said she saw the part
ing of Col. Astor and his young bride.
Mrs. Astor was frantic. Her husband
had to lump Into the lifeboat four
times and tell her that he would be
rescued later. After the fourth time
Mrs. Futrelle said he jumped back on
the deck of the sinking ship and the
lifeboat bore his bride away.
“BE BRITISH, MY MEN!”
Such Was Capt. Smith's Order
to His Men.
New York, April 19—" Be British,
my men!”
This thrilling command, megaphoned
from the Titanic's bridge by Capt.
Smith, sealed the fate of great num
bers of the ship’s crew, hut steeled
them to self-sacrificing action that
probabiv saved scores of passengers.
The story was told to-day by a
member of the crew, who had an oar
in a life boat.
"When we heard the command to
lower the life boats,” said the sailor,
"some of the crew pressed forward
Then came that call from the bridge:
'Be British, mv men!’
"The command was obeyed. Like
martyrs the sailors hurried passengers
Into the boats, then they stepped back
to die.”
The sailor said Bruce Ismay was al
most thrown into the last life boat.
There were no women wafting.
whispered Mr. Ismay.
"Was there any attempt to lower
the boats of the Carpathia to take
on passengers after you went aboard
her?” asked Senator Smith.
"There were no passengers there to
take on." said Mr. Ismay.
"What Course did your life boat
take?”
Four Hour* in Lifeboat*.
"We saw a light and headed for it.”
“How long were you In this life
boat?”
"About four hours."
He saw no life rafts In the sea.
"How many lifeboats were there on
the Titanic?"
"Twenty altogether, I think.”
"Were all the lifeboats that left the
Titanic accounted for?"
“I think so; I’ve been told so, but I
don’t know it of my own knowledge.”
"It has been suggested.” Senator
Smith continued, “that two lifeboats
sank as soon as lowered. Do you know
anything about that?”
“I do not I never heard of it and
I think all the lifeboats were account
ed for.”
“Did you see the Titanic sink’"
"I did not see the Titanic go down.”
Mr Ismav said, shaking his head
mournfully. “I did not want to see her
go down. I was rowing in the lifeboat
all the time until we were picked up. I
turned back only once after we left
the vessel. I saw her green light and
never turned back again. I did not
want to see the end.”
"Was there confusion apparent on
the Titanic whan you looked back?”
"I did not see anv.”
"After you left Capt. Smith on the
bridge did you see him?”
“I did not.”
Senator Smith asked Ismay if he had
anything to do with selecting the crew
for his lifeboat.
What He Wore.
"I did not.” was the snappy reply.
Ismay said he knew the government
inspection was thorough or the boat
never could have sailed.
Mr. Ismay declared that the ship
was specially constructed so that with
anv two of the larged compartments
in the ship full of water she stlil
would float.
"If the shin had struck head-on she
would in all human probability be
afloat to-day,” he added.
"Did you attempt to Interfere with
the workings of the wireless on the
Carpathia?" he was asked.
"The captain probably will tell you
that I was not out of my room the
time I got into it until last night,"
was the reply.
Mr. Ismay was asked what he wore
when he got into the lifeboat.
"A pair of slippers, a pair of pa
jamas. a suit of clothes and an over
coat." he real led
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WOMAN TELLS OF MAJ. BUTTS
FIGHT TO SAVE WOMEN FIRST
Mrs. Henry B. Harris, Whose Husband Was Lost,
Pays Tribute to Bravery of President’s Aide
on Big Liner as Boats Were Leaving.
NEW YORK, April 19.—Mrs. Henry B. Harris of Washing
ton, whose husband died on the Titanic, in an interview in
Washington to-day, described the heroism of Maj. Butt. She
said:
“Archie Butt was a major to the last. God never made a
finer, nobler man than he. The sight of that man, calm, gentle
and yet as firm as a rock, will never leave me. The American
army is honored by him and the way he showed some of the
other men how to behave when women and children were suf
fering that awful mental fear that came when we had to be
huddled in those boats. Maj. Butt was near me, and I know
very nearly everything he did.
“When the order came to take to the boats he became as
one in supreme command. You would have thought he was at
a White House reception, so cool and calm was he.
“When the time came he was a man to be feared. In one
of the earlier boats fifty women, it seemed, were about to be
lowered, when a man, suddenly panic-stricken, ran to the stern
of it. Maj. Butt shot one arm out, caught him by the neck and
jerked him backward like a pillow. His head cracked against
a rail and he was stunned.
“THANK GOD FOR ARCHIE BUTT”
“ ‘Sorry,’ said Maj. Butt, ‘women will be attended to first
or I’ll break every d d bone in your body.’
“The boats were lowered away, one by one, and as I stood
by my husband he said to me, ‘Thank God for Archie Butt.’ Per
haps Maj. Butt heard it, for he turned his face toward us for a
second. Just at that time a young man was arguing to get
into a lifeboat, and Butt had hold of the lad by the arm like a
big brother and appeared to be telling him to keep his head.
“How inspiring he was. I stayed until almost the last,
and know what a man Archie Butt was. They put me in a col
lapsible boat. I was one of three women from the first cabin
in it. The rest were steerage people. Maj. Butt helped those
poor, frightened steerage people so wonderfully, tenderly and
yet with such cool and manly firmness. He was a soldier to
the last. He gave up his life to save others.”
Smiled in Death's Face.
A graphic story of the heroism of
Maj. Butt was told to-day in an in
terview given to the Washington Star
staff correspondent in New York by
Miss Mary Young, a former resident
of this city. Miss Young is believed
to have been the last woman to leave
the Titanic and the last of the sur
vivors to have talked with the Presi
dent's military aide.
She and Maj. Butt had long been
friends. Miss Young having been a
special music instructor to the chil
dren of former President Roosevelt.
Miss Young said
"The last person to whom I spoke
on board the Titanic was Archie Butt,
and his good, brave face smiling at
me from the deck was the last I could
distinguish as the boat was being
pulled away from the steamer’s side.
Just as Always.
“Archie himself put me into the
boat, wrapped blankets around me and
tucked me in as carefully as if we
were starting on a motor ride. He
himself entered the boat with me, per
forming the little courtesies as calmly
and with as smiling a face as if death
were far away instead of being but a
few moments removed from him.
"When he had carefully wrapped me
up he stepped upon the gunwale of the
boat and lifting his hat smiled down
at me.
’ ‘Good-bye, Miss Young,’ he said,
bravely and smilingly. Luck it with
you. Will you kindly remember me to
all the folks back home?’
“Then he stepped to the deck of the
steamer and the boat I was in was
lowered to the water. It was the last
boat to leave the ship; of this I am
perfectly certain. And I know that I
am the last of those who were saved
to whom Archie Butt spoke.
"As our boat was lowered and left
the side of the steamer Archie was
still standing at the rail, looking down
at me. His hat was raised and the
same old genial, brave smile was on
his face.”
As if He Were His Brother.
Washington, D. C., April 19. —With
all hope tor the rescue of Maj. Butt
abandoned. President Taft to-day is
sued a statement showing the high re
gard in which he held his military
aide and his belief that he died as a
man should die in the face of such a
disaster as that to the Titanic.
The President said that Maj. Butt
was like a member of his family and
that he felt his loss as if he had been
a younger brother.
TWO DYING MEN THREW
KISSES TO THEIR WIVES
New York. April 19—George D.
Widener, the wealthy Philadelphian,
and Arthur L. Ryerson of New York,
went to their deaths like men. is the
statement made by Mrs. Ryerson to
her brother-in-law. E. S. Ryerson,
who resides here. She says that when
the women were put into the life boats
they saw Mr. Ryerson and Mr. Wid
ener standing behind the rail of the
Titanic both waving their arms,
throwing kisses and calling farewell
to their wives and children.
—Robert L. Borden, the premier of
Canada, who is at the Virginia Hot
Springs, is known as the earliest riser
at the Springs. He is up at «:30
every morning, and from that hour on
is likelv to be found on the golf links.
LIABILITY OF THE
TITANIC'S OWNERS
MUST SUE IN ENGLAND
$3,375,000 Limit of Liability
Under British Law.
New York. April 19.—Maximum dam
ages for which the owners of the Ti
tanic may be held liable under the
English and American admiralty laws
for the loss of life, personal effects and
injuries were explained in detail by E.
G. Benedict, an international author
ity on admiralty law to the World to
day. Under the English liability stat
ute. he said, the owners may be held
for a maximum liability of $75 a reg
istered ton. or about $3,575,000. as in the
case of the Titanic's owners, hut un
der the law of this country the owners
may be held responsible only for the
total amount of money collected for
freight and passenger fare.
The insurance money carried by the
Titanic’s owners, said to be $5,000,000.
cannot be taken for damages either in
the United States or in England. Bene
dict said. The English law gives claim
ants more protection than the Ameri
can law. he pointed out. for the reason
that in England the owners of steam
ships are held liable for damages at the
rate of S4O a registered ton for freight
vessels and $75 a registered ton for
passenger-carrying ships. In the United
States the law provides that the own
ers of a vessel are liable to the extent
of the value of the steamship and the
amount paid as freight charges, as it
may be determined after the accident,
he added. The Titanic having gone to
the bottom of the ocean, leaving noth
ing in the way of cargo or vessel to
attach, the property available for dam
ages. according to the American law
is nothing. If the Titanic had com
pleted her voyage then she would have
been subject to seizure, he said, but
now only the amount paid for fare by
the passengers who did not finish their
trip may be sued for. Survivors can
not recover their passage money, but
they have the right to sue for per
sonal injuries and loss of baggage. Ben
edict added.
"Suits may bo filed in the United
States or in England under the admir
alty laws of the respective counties by
any person, regardless of nationality."
Benedict said. “The laws differ wide
ly from each other. AU money award
ed by the English court will be held
until all the claims of the litigants
have been heard and adjudicated. Mon
ey received by the owners in England
for freight and passenger fares cannot
be sued for in the United States, and
the same law applies to English claim
ants regarding freight money held In
this country. It is simply a case of
jurisdiction.”
WOMAN’S WORLD
THE WIFE IS
THE BEST FRIEND
Most assuredly a man should discuss
his business affairs with a wife, says
Mary Dowell in the Philadelphia Ledg
er. She is his partner, and how can
she govern her mode of living if she
be not conversant with his business
standing?
If the man be a salaried employe
he should also discuss with her his
difficulties and successes. If she be
a woman ignorant of business she will
help him with her wifely devotion and
interest and with her womanly intui
tion she will arrive at a clear conclu
sion, even though the only reason she
may give is •’because.” If in addition
to these qualifications she has intelli
gence and a knowledge of business
methods, which the majority of the
women of to-day possess, how much
better able is she to help him with
her counsel’.
In this age of competition men can
not trust each other; it is positively
unsafe to confide ‘in any but the most
trusted and the well tested friend. A
man’s best friend should be and gen
erally is his wife. When disaster comes
she should be the first to learn of it
—she will advise, and perhaps devise
away out.
Frequently a kind man refrains from
discussing business with his wife from
the mistaken notion that he is sparing
her. Oh, he may have cause to regret
it. He may be sparing her now
only to heap trouble on her later which
her advice might have prevented.
The fighters in an army cannot see
clearly as those who are watching
the battle. What a blessing then a
man has in the possession of the most
trusted friend on earth, who is out
side the battle carefully watching it,
ready to help her fighter with loving,
thoughtful advice, and to whom he
should go with all his affairs, busi
ness and otherwise.
THE CHOICE' OfThUSBAND
Mgr. 8010. talking to young men and
women, says that exceptional beauty
Is not to be despised, but requires to be
linked with moral value, for the one
only attracts, while the other retains,
according to the London Standard.
Mgr. 8010 is also very decided as to
the worth of housekeeping qualities,
and laments over the families where
the servants break and steal and the
husband pays, while the wife is turn
ing the fashion shops inside out. His
advice on the choice of a husband im
plied long engagements, which he ev
idently approves.
"While he is your fiance he is the
most delicious liar, so do not marry
him till you know him well. Keep your
confidence for after marriage—you
will always have too much before.
Watch your fiance well, for in big
things men always show themselves as
they would fain appear, but in little
ones such as thev really are. And do
not be in a hurry to marry at ad
costs."
Then came some timesing illustra
tions such as how ene young girl
would never marrv a man unless he
wore an overcoat with a tight waist,
and another must have a husband
named Gaston. As a matter of fact,
nine out of ten French girls of any so
cial position have still very little to
say as to the choice of a husband, and
Mgr. Bolo's remarks addressed to
mothers and relatives were more to the
point.
Diogenes searched for a man with h
lantern and he compared too many
French mothers to the old sage with
always a lantern in their hands. He
was also severe upon the packs of
matrimonial agencies and friends of
the family, and on the systematic
chase .after a husb- nd that goes on at
fashionable resorts
’’But.” he added, "good husbands are
not caught like trout rt every cast of
the fly, and the intrepid offer of oneself
is not without danger to modesty.”
This excellent priest and man of the
world, as he showed himself to be. had
no objection to the honest artifices or
the toilette, though he refrained from
specifying where the line should be
drawn between honest and dishonest
artifice, but he d!slikes powder and
paint, for "game files before the dress
of the hunter, and a rat smells the
trap under too tasty a morsel of lard."
AS THE DOCTOR~SEES HER
"What is the matter with that wom
an?” asked the Doctor's colleague, who
had come in to carry the Doctor oft
to a consultation, just as office hours
were closing and the last patient was
leaving, says the New York York Post.
"That woman.” answered the doctor,
•’is slowly dying of too much time in
which Jo think about love.”
“Oh. 1-luve—l-luve —1-luve.” cried the
colleague. “Half my patients are sick |
with it.”
"Half the women in the world are."
said the doctor. "Or. say rather, sick
with a misconception of what love is. i
what can tie expected of it. Take that
woman, that just went out. for In
stance. She had a good husband,
stocky sort of husband maybe, but all
right and fond of her. Busy as a
cranberry merchant, of course, and |
forgets to tell her he loves her more j
than six times a week. Well, she has i
managed to stew herself sjck wonder- j
ing if he does. She can t eat. and
she sits on the edge of a damp cloud,
questioning, questioning. Now. you
and I know that love Is a good tiling
"Very best in the world. But it is
the one thing in the world that can’t
live just in itself and on itself. Its
business is to animate and whiten and
beautify other things. It’s no good as
a vocation. Show me people who live
to love, or try to. and I'll show you
some that are soon going to stop lov
ing to live. Poor eld love! We are
always piling on it with ail our weight,
and then wondering that it snaps. It
goes the same with all kinds of love
—the love between the sexes, the love
between friends, between parents and
childrn —always the demand Is heavy.
It's a beautiful thing, we say: it's
the fairest lily of life: so we attempt
to cultivate it with a ploughshare and
wash up its roots with our tears.
Women have a lot to answer for in
this regard. Women's tears, and wom
en’s pulling at the rents to see if the
roots are really there, have cost the
world a lot of love. It's the women of
leisure mainly. They have time to look
in on themselves and study their own
emotions too much. Then they look
out and want to emotionalise every
body and everything around them. It
makes for trouble.”
"What's the answer?" asked the col
league.
“Work.”
WOMAN’S WILES
NOT WANTED
A new view of America free from
feminine diplomacy is given in Mau
rice Low’s book. He says: “The
American social system has been an
drocratic. No woman Ln America has
exercised the least semblance of pow
er; seemingly no woman has aspired to
this power. Presidents have not been
made or unmade by a woman’s smiles
or a woman’s ’wiles; love of woman
has made no man patriot; no man has
played traitor to win a woman’s fa
vor. In American history there Is
neither Helen or Borgia. There is no
romance, no epic, not even a mythi
cal character flitting through the pag
»s. ’
A LIST OF GRIEVANCES
AGAINST MEN
In the May American Magazine. Ida
M. Tarbell publishes a piece of docu
mentary evidence showing that the or
ganized movement for woman's rights
as we have it in this country was
founded on the idea that man is a con
scious tyrant. Following is a docu
ment —a List of Grievances which was
adopted with a Declaration of Senti
ments at the first convention called in
this country to consider the rights of
women:
“The history of mankind is a history
of repeated injuries and usurpations on
the part of man toward woman, having
in direct object the establishment of an
absolute tyranny over her.
"He has never permitted her to exer
cise her inalienable right to the elective
franchise.
“He has compelled her to submit tc
laws in the formation of which she ha?
had no voice:
"He has withheld from her rights
which are given to the most ignorant
and degraded men.
"He has made her. if married, in the
eye of the law civilly dead.
“He has taken from her all right in
property, even to the wages she earns.
“He has so framed the laws of di
vorce. as to what shall be the proper
causes, and in case of separation, tc
whom the guardianship of the children
shall be given, as to be wholly regard
less of the happiness of the woman.
"After depriving her of al! rights as
a married woman, if single, and the
owner of property, he has taxed her to
support a government which recognizes
her only when her property can be
made profitable to it.
"He has denied her the facilities for
obtaining a thorough education, ail col
leges being closed against her.
"He has created a false public senti
ment by giving to the world a different
code of morals for men and women, by
which moral delinquencies which ex
clude women from society are not only
tolerated but deemed of little account
in man.
“He has usurped the prerogative of
Jehovah himself, claiming it as his
right to assign for her a sphere of ac
tion. when that belongs to her con
science and to her God.
"He has endeavored, in ever?- way
that he could, to destroy her confidence
in her own powers, to lessen her self
respect. and to make her willing tc
lead a dependent and abject life.”
WHAT HAS MARRIAGE
TO OFFER A WOMAN?
"What has marriage to offer in com
ipensatlon for the man?’ things of
which it deprives her, Is a question
that the young Miss of to-day asks
herself with a growing skepticism.
What opportunities of enjoyment does
it held that are rot open to her before
marriage" asks J. Nilsen Laurvik in
the Woman's Heme Companion, and
with an increasing sophistication she
confident!? - answers. 'None ' weighing
with the greatest nicety the actual and
known Joys of girlhood against tt>«
problematics! and restricted joys of
wifehood. And not infrequently all
the fuss and feathers attending her
engagement is merely the parapher
nalia of the mo't delightful make-1*...
lieve ever invented, in which the c'r
pretends to the man that site regards
hint as the noblest and handsomest of
human beings, while secretlj- in h r
heart she feels herself superior to him
or anv other mere men' At least that
Is the half-veiled attitude to-da?- in
certain sections of American society,
whose women members have come to
adopt definite!?' the view that the girl
has nothing to expect from marriage
that she did not already possess; that,
j Instead, she is confronted with •'ertatn
definite du.ies attendant upon the care
| of a household which, if not positive!?-
distasteful to her. sre certain!? not to
be regarded as sources ot actual pleas
ure It must be admitted that 'he 1?
far oftener right than wrong in arriv
ing at this conclusion, and who will
blarn" her for refusing to allov herself
to be either cajoled or coerced into as
suming a relationship that offers so
I ft w opportunities for seif-development
as does the average home of to-day*”
“Coeducation has done more thar
anvthtng else to rob marriage of Its
attractions, by divesting the man o
| most of his oid-time glamour and ro
mance. This earl?- contact with th:
other sex on a footing of equality
which the majority of girl studen’’
more than maintain intellectually, h :
tended to produce that contempt of the
much-vaunted superiority of man that
i is as a rule reserved for those post
nuptial discoveries which make mar
riage such an interesting venture. Th“
American girl comes- to realize only too
soon that intellectual!?- and cultural!;-
the man is often her inferior. She
pursues her interests farther than does
the man who very generally subordi
nates his interest in. the fine arts to h:s
one desire to succeed in business or in
some particular profession.
"In this restiect the influence of tire
higher education has exactly ’he op
posite effect upon American girls io
that of the German or Scandinavian
girls In these countries every move
ment directed toward giving woman .1
greater share in communal life has m
far contributed toward establishing the
idea of the home and the family mn~
firml? than ever. In fact, it may be
said without exaggeration that al!
these efforts,toward enlarging wom
an's life have sprung from, one basic
Idea: the right of ever?- woman to a
home and children.
"And inasmuch as the general edu
cation of the voung men of those coun
tries is on a relatively higher plane
than here the higher education of their
women has only resulted in bringing
the two sexes nearer together, con
tributing new charms and possibilities
of comradeship to the family life. It
has made for mutual respect and ad
miration founded on an intellectual
and spiritual equality in which both
find a fertile field of happy co-oper
ation. The girls of those countries
look forward with keen anticipation to
being mistresses of their own house
holds. and rhe character of the higher
education on the whole is of a kind to
make the voung women better fitted
for marriage. This is probably due to
a mixture of practicality with ideality,
such as we are only now beginning tc
feel the need of in American college:
and universities."
Harsing Mothers anti Malaria.
The old standard Grove’s Tas teles:
Chili Tonic, drives out malaria ano
builds up the system. For grown peo
ple and children. Me—ad.
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