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Tho’ he be brave as Hercules,
Adventurous as Ulysses,
Even as sage as Solomon,
Or fair as Priam’s peerless son,
Or Homer's peer in making song.
Or Arthur’s in redressing wrong,
Gifted as Michael Angelo,
In all that geniuses may know.
Or Avon’s glorious bard renowned
Os every race the world around,
Tho’ versed in every art and wise
In all philosophers surmise.
ANNIE B. writes: “Don’t you think,
M. E. 8., that the Suffragists are
very foolish? If they were given the
right to vote they would want to hold
office, and a woman office-holder is
absurd. Women could not hold office
acceptably.”
Dear Annie 8., little as I admire
the Suffragist’s methods, I must tell
you that you are vastly mistaken as
to women holding office acceptably.
There are women who have proven
themselves fully efficient and nobly
useful in office. In Kansas no less
than seventy-four women are holding
public offices to which they have been
elected by the votes of men. There
are fort-yflve county superintendents,
five county clearks, six county treas
urers, six district court clerks, ten
recorders of deeds, two probate judges
and one mayor. In addition, there
are a number of offices which women
are. filling by appointment. Mrs. Ro
sie Osborn, town marshall of Hunne
well, Kansas, ’while on her way to
church discovered that the deuty
sheriff, the postmaster and two other
men, were indulging in Sunday gamb
ling in a store room, and with the
assistance of Mrs. Ella Wilson, the
mayor, and Mrs. Hilbon, the town
clerk, she arrested the poker players,
permitting them to give bond for their
appearance in court.
One busy little woman holds no less
than four offices. She is Miss Rose
Moriarty, of Elyria, Ohio, who is dep
uty city auditor, deputy city treasur
er clerk of the board of control, and
clerk to the director of public safety
and public service. During the seven
years she has been connected with
the city’s finances she has spent over
four millions for bridges, sewers and
water systems.
You can hardly imagine a woman
being a sheriff, yet there are a num
ber of women sheriffs in the United
States and they are said to be excel
lent promoters of law and order. One
woman sheriff in New York state has
for her special mission the finding of
suitable homes for the children of
dissolute or incompetent parents.
Miss Bessie Townsend, twenty-four
years old, has beep appointed con
troller of Atlantic City, New Jersey.
She will have the care of over three
million dollars annually and the sale
of all the city’s bonds. Women will
be in demand for these financial of
fices because they have shown them
serves more honest than men offi
cials. They have never misappropri
ated any of the public funds.
Some of the women judges of minor
courts are doing much good. Miss
THE HOUSEHOLD
A DEPARTMENT OF EXPRESSION FOR THOSE WHO FEEL AND THINK.
EDITED BY MRS. MARY E. BRYAN.
THE CELIBATE.
By Arthur H. Goodenough.
CHAT
The Golden Age for May 1, 1913
Or poets dream of when they weave
'I heir souls into the songs they leave,
Who never felt his pulses rise
And fall before a woman’s eyes—
Nor felt the secret tides that flow
Within us shower—swifter go—
According to her smile or frown
Nor been exalted nor cast down.
Nor seen upon her features glow
The look which lovers joy to know —
Has been an automan ’mid scenes
Os life, nor knows what living means.
Barteune, of Cook county, directs
most of her attention to helping err
ing young girls who come up before
the court. She says: “My idea is not
so much to pass judgment upon those
who have done wrong as to assist
them to do better.”
These, Annie 8., are only a few in
stances where women hold office ac
ceptably. They are said to be highly
respected by the men with whom
they come in contact and consulted on
public affairs also. They are said not
to lose their femininity—to be women
first and foremost.
Message of Love and Forgiveness.
In the fourth chapter of St. Luke
in one verse Jesus outlines his own
mission on the earth and the mission
of all who possess the divine spirit.
He was speaking in the synagogue
in Nazareth —the little valley town
among the mountans in which he had
lived through his boy-hood and where
through the earlier years of his man
hood he had toiled as a carpenter for
his daily bread that he might be able
fully to feel with men in their toil
and weariness, he was afterwards to
feel with them in trial, temptaton,
suffering and death.
He had come to this place of his
nativity, knowing what trial and peril
awaited him —being warned that a
prophet is without honor in his own
land. They had heard of him and of
his clam that he was the Messiah —
and they would demand of him to
prove that claim by working stupen
dous miracles. This he would not do.
They must first hear the message with
which he was charged—the message
of love and forgiveness, of service and
brotherhood —things new to them and
sure to be scorned.
But he delivered his message. He
declared that he was the Messiah and
that He had come to preach the gos
pel of love and mercy to the poor, to
heal the broken hearted, to bring de
liverance to captives, to open the eyes
of the spiritually blind and to raise
up the bruised in body and spirit.
This, He said, was His work be
cause the Spirit of the Lord possess
‘ ed Him, and this we may well conclude
is the work He intends for all who
follow in His steps. This is the work
that engages those who are helping
to make the heaven upon earth which
we are told by some has already be
gun to be ushered in.
What and Where Is Heaven?
This is a much discussed question.
The old belief that heaven was a won
derful city far off in space, and that
all which happy spirits had to do there
was to walk golden streets and play
on golden harps through all eternity
—no longer satisfies the enlightened
conception of men. They feel that
such a condition of idleness and mo
notony would not long be enjoyed.
To be happy in such condition they
would need to change their human
nature; they would need to go coun
ter to all their ideals and all their
experiences during their probation on
earth. And this was not intended.
We were put on earth to live such
lives as would fit us for broader and
nobler life hereafter.
Work —service to others, progress,
growth—these are what bring us hap
piness in this life and what on a
larger and finer scale will insure our
happienss in the world to come.
Freed from the necessity of labor
ing to care for the body we will have
leisure to develop our mental and
spiritual natures and to help those
who are below in the scale of devel
opment.
Be sure there will be social service
in the life to come —the life to be liv
ed in heaven —wherever heaven shall
be, whether in some far off realm of
space or here on this earth —mad*?
beautiful and perfect—through the
thousand years of growth and prog
ress.
Do you believe that this earth can
be made a heaven? Why not? We
are told so in Revelation, and the
wonderful progress which man-kind
has made in great ideas, great dis
coveries, and great movements for the
betterment of the race during the last
three decades would lead one to con
cur in the belief entertained by many
that the thousand years of the mil
lennium began thirty years ago.
NO FUTURE FOR BOYS IN GLASS
WORKS.
874 boys between 14 and 16 were
employed in 23 glass factories visited
this winter by H. H. Jones, special
agent of the National Child Labor
Committee. 38 apprentices had been
taken on during the year in these fac
tories and they were without excep
tion boys eighteen or nineteen years
old. This means, as Mr. Jones points
out, that for every 100 boys under
the age of sixteen who are permitted
to do night work in glass factories
not more than 4 stand any chance of
becoming skilled workmen. And in
view of the fact that machines are con
tinually replacing skilled workmen in
the manufacture of blown ware there
will in the future be less and less
justification for the employment of
young boys on the ground that they
are learning a trade.
Mr. Jones found further that, al
though each employer claims that the
particular work for which he uses boys
can be done only by boys, there is
some difference in the use made of
boys in different plants. In some
places, the small boys are used only
for carrying and “warming-in” and
older boys or men operate the moulds.
In others the “carrying-in” is done by
men and the smallest boys are “hold
ing moulds.”
The report testifies further that the
statements made about the glass in
dustry in the Federal Report on the
Condition of Woman and Child Wage-
Earners in the United States, in 1907-
08, do not exaggerate the conditions
that exist in Pennsylvania, except that
the old style bottle houses form a very
Never in all the world before has
there been so many and so wise and
active movements among men to help
each other. Formerly, rich men spent
their money selfishly on themselves
and their families; now they give
thousands, millions, to build colleges,
libraries, homes for the old, hospitals
for.the incurable, ana reformation for
erring youth. Half a century ago, if
a poor boy craved an education, he
had to work hard to get a little learn
ing as Horace Greely and Abraham
Lincoln did. Now, he has opportuni
ties offered to him free, he can learn
a trade or at free industrial schools
he can be taught how to treble the
products of the soil. Formerly, when
a man yielded to evil impulse and com
mitted a crime the prison doors closed
on him and inside his life was that of
a chained beast. Now he is treated as
a man —a brother man for whom there
is still hope, and when the prison door
is at last open to him he does not
come forth to be an outcast, driven
back to crime by scoffs ana hunger.
The helping hand is held out to him,
he is given employment, he is encour
aged to come among his kind in
Christian meetings.
Instead of being herded with hard
ened criminals, the erring boy is car
ed for in reformatories where he is
taught trades and farming and care
of stock —the girl is taught a useful
business and helped to honest em
ployment.
You would be surprised to know
how many of these helpful institutions
are in and around Atlanta alone —
homes for unfortunate girls, homes
for aged women, homes for incurables,,
free kindergartens, baby shelters, or-
small proportion of the industry in that
state. Mrl Jones reviews the bad
effects of night work. He quotes, by
name, glass workers in different local
ities who have not allowed their own
beys to entei’ factories where night
work was required because they know
too well the physical and moral dan
gers involved. The report enumerates
six possible substitutes for boy labor
and quotes several glass manufactur
ers who express themselves as defi
nitely opposed to it. That boy labor
is not necessary is proved by the fact
that all the large glass producing states
except two do not employ children
under 16 at night. If thei Walnut
Child Labor Bill, now pening in Penn
sylvania passes the senate without
amendment and becomes law, West
Virginia will have the distinction of
being the only state where boys un
der 16 work in glass factories on the
night shift.
Prof. Pennington—Bill, make me a
sentence with a conjunction in it.
Bill James —The cow was tied to the
fence by a rope; rope is a conjunc
tion because it connects cow and
fence.”
CHEWING GUM A HAD HABIT
for bad breath. This does not purify the
breath at all, but simply covers up the
odor for the time being. A better way is
to wash the mouth and gargle the throat
thrice daily with a solution of Tyree’s
Antiseptic powder. This keeps the teeth,
mouth and throat in a sanitary condition,
and the result is sweeter, purer breath
Get a 25c box at any drug store (or by
mail) and if not pleased return the empty
box and get your money back. J. S. Ty
ree, Chemist, Washington, D. C. Mr. Ty
ree will mail a liberal sample of his pow
der with full directions, free to ail who
write, mentioning this paper.