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1Q> L&r e OUAITRY OME TIMELf TOPIC? Shooting Our Albatross By $ishop W. A. Candler CotmcrzD melton. THE MUMMY SLEEVES. The latest news' from Washington is a skin-tight' sleeve, cut in a way to hold arms tight down to the sides, so that the arms cannot be raised but a trifle, and they call it a mummy sleeve. It is said that Miss Helen Taft has adopted it, and as she is coming to Georgia this week, the fashionables in Augusta, may be soon frantic to get the pattern.' The most of us have seen pictures which represented mummies, dead and gone Egyptians who embalm ed their distinguished dead and then wrapped them around in cloths which they fastened by scores of Wrapping scrips or bandages. If they had ever come to life in their tombs they would have been bound irrevocably, and to tally unable to move a finger or a joint. Why should our women desire tk> wear mummy sleeves? They can not be graceful and must be awkward beyond compare if necessity demanded the raising of the woman's arms. * In the days of skin-tight ’sleeves, some thirty years ago, the ultra fasn- ionables could not place on their bon nets unless they did so while the skin tight body of the dress was left open. The last performance consisted of hooking up the frock, everything so . tight-fitting that arm-raising was ; well-nigh impossible. The body was perfectly tight, without a wrinkle, the sleeves were perfectly tight.', no mat- 1 tier if the arm was only a bone with the skin left on it, while the bustle was huge and the panniers on the skirt voluminous. * Tl\e ultra-dressed would sail into a great reception room with a* little bon net on her head and her frock laced to the limit, the sleeves tight enough tp pop if they were pinched or punch ed. while the skirts had trails and the wearer could hardly find room to sit on a chair because there was such a Heap on the hips. What a sight it was! * *; Nowadays there is no cloth worth mentioning in the skirt, and the fit so tight that the wearer looks like the frock would pop around her low T er limbs, if it was pinched or punched, with a bosom swelled out like a pout er pigeon's, and then to pin the tight arms down to the sides until she , must act and walk like a mummy! “What fools these mortals be!” A GREETING FROM FLORIDA. | Jacksonville, Fla.. March 12, 1913. Dear Semi-Weekly: l ha\|e been need- ' ing.a rest for some time and concluded i to come to Florida and tour the state | before it was too warm in this wonder- ) l’ul Land of ’Flowers. ! So far it has been a delightful change 1 for me. I have taken a berth to Tampa; leave tonight at 9:30. But I will soon be at home again and j promise t tell you a good deal more about it. Yours, MRS. W. H. FELTON. WHAT ABOUT IT? If the newspapers did not fabricate a fake tale, the story in today’s paper which told of a woman who had six children in one year is a wonder. Three at a time! 1 really do think somebody should propose that she should be here after retired from further duty. She has earned her freedom—to put it mildly. I saw a set of triplets a good many years ago at a county fair. There were three little girls and they seemed to be a thriving set. The mother told me that they hoped to receive a money contri bution. as all hands were engaged in nursing them. The father and an eldest son had about lost a ^rop trying to wait on them. Said she: “One of them is always wanting something, and the feeding is no little job.” But six in one yeap fatigues our un derstanding! Two of them would al ways be wanting something, and that poor woman should draw a pension for the rest of her life, and never do more than play with lier sextuple supply when they were good. 1 am/ of the opinion that a child should have the individual interest of both parents until it can make its wants known by speech, and one baby, at a time is a whole handful, in an average family. Three at a time, and twice in a year, should' certainly get a congres sional appropriation, or the mothers of the country should clamor for a relief fund, as the people do when a city is devastated by fire or the Mississippi river gets on a rampage. Such an overflow reminds ohe of a litter of pigs, and—well. I can't find words to express the idea! WOMEN THE WORLD OVER Tlie Englishwoman's Case Against the Government. BY VIDA SUTTON. In the English system of govern ment the party having majority in par liament forms the ministry and all bills brought in by this ministry are known as government measures. When a gov ernment measure fails that * is taken as a rejection of government pol icy. The ministry resigns and another election takes place. At present the Liberal party forms the ministry. • This ministry promised fourteen months ago to give the quetsion of woman suffrage a chance this session, but the franchise bill brought in by the government recently was for adult male suffrage, and made no reference what ever to women. This proposal giving the vote to every youth of twenty-one, -'and taking no cognizance of even the most capable women are felt by even some of those opposed to woman suf frage* to be an insult to English woman hood. Protests and petitions poured in from all suffrage societies, and the mili tant wing began its pillar box attacks. The government said that woman suf frage amendments to the bill were in order, and promised to give to such their support and to use no party influ ence to prevent their pasage.-^. In other words, the suffrage question would stand on its own merits in the house of parliament. Accordingly Sir Edward Grey drew up an amendment deleting the word “male" from the phrase “male persons” in the bill. This, however, was not enough’, because in the English law ‘-‘person” means ‘male,’’ unless other wise defined. Another amendment defin ing “person" was necessary. The. second amendment, known as the Henderson amendment, put forward by the labor and Socialist members, pro vided for full adult suffrage and would have added 13,000,000 women to the’ electorate. However, as even the suf fragists in the house do not favor un qualified suffrage, a third amendment was offered by C. M. Dickinson, of the Liberal party giving the vote to women householders over twenty-five, or mar ried women whose husbands were house holders, thus adding about 6,000,000 women to the electorate. The Conserva tive suffragists felt this too great a con cession, and they proposed a fourth amendment giving the vote to women Who were already municipal voters. As the suffragists have a majority in the house of commons though they are divided among the Liberals, Conserva tives, Labor party, and Socialists, .there was a very good chance that the Grey amendment and either jthe Dickinson, or Conservative amendment would be pass ed. F6b the first time the quetsion of woman suffrage would dome up as a definite measure, though', since 1897 a majority of suffragists, that is, mem bers pledged to vote for the questiom, have been returned to the house of com mons. \ The bill was scheduled for. debate the 24th of January. The militants de clared a truce, and the various suffrage organizations reminded the members of parliament of their pledges. The anti suffragists held a meeting and warned the public that the life of the state was in danger. When United Britain was waiting the result of a test vote, the speaker ruled that if any of the amend ments to the government bill were passed? the face of the bill would be so altered that it would be necessary to bring in a new bill. Thereupon, the government withdrew the franchise bill, and the best chance the question of woman suffrage has ever had of be ing put to a vote collapsed, and the •matter was ended for this session. The women considered they/had been tricked by the ministry which had tak en this method of shelving the ques- ti n. The feeling on the part of all suf frage workers was intense. The prime minister having refused to bring in a government bill sugested that a suf frage committee draft a bill and pre sent it at the next session as a private jnembers’ bill when he would promise, it all the facilities of a government measure. A private members’ bill un der the best conditions has little chance of passing and the constitutional suf fragists who have labored so valiantly and complied so nobly with the meth ods of English politics were aroused to the greatest pitch of indignation at his proposal. They have however accepted the situation and will support the com mittee consisting of Lloyd George Mr. Dickinson and Sir Edward Grey who have been \appointed to draw up the bill. The Women’s Freedom league how ever having for fourteen months pinned faith on the promise of the ministry and awaited their acting have now re pudiated the government and the law which they say has’ so deceived them. Their members have decided to refuse to pay taxes especially the insurance tax as that applies particuiarly to women. Their venerable leader Mrs. Despard was sentenced to fourteen days’ imprisonment for holding a meet ing on the steps of St. Martin’s church and obstructing traffic. The other mil itant body, W. S. P. U., of which Mrs. Pankhurst is the leader, have refused all compromise. They demand a gov ernment measure as the only bill that would have a chance, and they have de clared guerrilla warfare until it is granted. There is a weird poem by Coleridge in which is told the story of the 'man j who shot the albatross, and how the bird was hung around his neck, and lie was pursued by a phantom ship, and led through the uttermost misery, i L't is a parable of what must come to us if we wound that pure white bird of social and political peace—the | holy Sabbath. ! The observance of the Sabbath has had much to do with the safety' in which our ship of state has come thus far on its voyage. At the beginning of the War of Independence, in August 1776, General Washington in a general order to the army said: “That the troops may have an opportunity of attending publje worship, as well as to take some rest after the great fatigue they have gone through, the General, in future, excuses them from fatigue duty on Sun days. except at the ship-yards, or on special, occasions, until further orders. We can have little hope of the blessing of heaven upon our arms, if we insult it by our impiety and folly’’. In 1862, when the country was torn by civil war. President Lincoln issued a general order in which he said, “The President, the Commander-in-Chief of the Army arid. Navy, desires and enjoins the orderly observance of the Sabbath by the officers and men in the military and naval service. The importance for man and beast of the prescribed weekly rest, the sacred rights of Christian sol diers and sailors, a becoming deference to the best sentiment of a Christian people, and a due regard for the divine will, demand that Sunday labour in .the army and navy be reduced to the measure of strict necessity. The disci pline and character of the national forces should not suffer, nor the cause they defend be imperilled, by the pro fanation of the day or name of the Most High. At this time of public -distress, adopting the words of Wash ington, in 1776. ‘men may find enough to do in the service of God and their country without abandoning themselves to vice and immorality’ ”. These two historic orders embody the best sentiment of our people concerning the Sabbath from the beginning of the Republic through all its life until the present.- In the South especially, the holy day has been scrupulously respect ed by all classes and all races. But* a different spirit is beginning to show itself among some people in our midst. A concerted effort is being made to open moving-picture shows and other places of amusement on Sunday. The agitation is systematically undertaken in Atlanta, and at the same time it shows up in Birmingham and other cities pear-by. Defenses of these evil^ things are put forth • in the name of the floor, a kind of plea which demagogues have used to disguise their wickedness ever since Judas Iscariot objected to the breaking of the alabaster box of oint ment on the head of Jesus in adoring love, saying it “ought to have been sold and given to the poor". Greed was at the bottom of the base words of Judas, and the present agitation for the introduction of the “Continental Sabbath’’ in the South springs from the same evil motive. The mongers of amusement wish to make money, and their apologists wish to win the political rewards which they believe will come from pandering to such things. Neither the show-men nor their apologists care a snap for the poor; they neither fear God nor regard man, but seek only the wages of sin. But they will accomplish their evil designs against the Sabbath day unless good people awake and resist them most promptly and vigorously. And when they have succeeded in their •purpose, they will h r .ve given religion in the community a most deadly wound. Voltaire was no fool, whatever else he may have been, and* he said, “There is no hope of dstroying the Christian religion so long as the Christian Sab bath is acknowledged and kept by men as a sacred day.” Again he said, “I despair of destroying religion while millions meet together for worship on the first day of the week”. Perhaps some of the anti-Sabbath agitators de sire to do what Voltaire despaired of doing, and taking counsel of his utter ance they begin their work of pulling down religion by seeking to overthrow the Sabbath. There are men in both Atlanta and Birmingham whose hope for political success depends upon making religion weak and making im morality strong/in these cities. They depend mainly r i immoral and irreligious fnen to back them in their political movements. They fight re ligion because they fear its general prevalence would undo them politically and otherwise. \ But people of all churches and of no churches* who care for the welfare of the country, ought not to be misled by them. Intelligent men, who have read any modern history, ought to know that our country is ruined with out religion, and that it will have re ligion no longer than it preserves the sanctity of the Sabbath. That acute French writer, De Tocqueville, saw -his, and said during his visit to the United States, many years ago when the Sabbath was more strictly ob served than now, “France must have your Sabbath or she is ruined”; and the tempestuous history of France s'ince he uttered these words has ver ified his statement. ^ Sabbathless Mexico, reeking with blood and rioting with murder, ought to warn us, if we will not attend to the example of France. Our own great historian, Bancroft, wrote a few years ago, these profound words: “Certainly our great united commonwealth is v tlie child of Chris tianity; it may. with equal truth be asserted tl?at modern civilization sprung into life With our religion; and faith in its principles is the life-boat on which humanity has at divers times escaped the most threatening perils". Shall we allow any men, or set of men, to destroy this life-boat by cut ting away its undergirding, which is the Sabbath? Shall we do so now, when an increasing tide of foreign immigra tion threatens us as never before? Shall we risk the solution of our race prob lem, (an ever present perplexity) to a Sabbathless and godless generation? Do we desire to thrust our children and children’s children into a future, which is already dark enough, without the light of the Sabbath to guide them and without God’s pillar of fire to guard them? Is the issue between capital and j labour so full of the promise of peace i that we can afford to adopt a policy I which will carry both capitalists and la- j bourers beyond the reach of the sober- } ing influence of the Christian religion . with its weekly day of rest and wor- ■ ship? Shall we shoot the albatross, the bird of. good omen, and with its dead body hung upon our neck be driven into £he greatest disorders and the worst disasters? But we are told that these things are done in other great cities, and that At lanta and Birmingham are no longer “back-woods towns”. All of which is quite true. But observe the results that have followed these things in other cities. New York has tried the lax Sab bath, and what city ever showed such a horrible police record as that city has disclosed during the past year? Its po lice department has been exposed as the hot-bed of graft and murder. Do we wish that sort of result in Atlanta? Chicago tried the same evil ways, and Chicago has produced the “Hay-Market Riot” and deeds of corruption and vio lence only second to the scandals of New York. The case of Cincinnati is one strik ingly in point. The fearful riot in w r hich the court-house was burnt some years ago was traced directly to things of this kind. There lies before me now a newspaper account of the cause of the riot, written at the time, after full in vestigation of the outbreak upon the ground. It says, “The city laws which forbade the sale of liquor on Sundays, and prohibited various amusements, were repealed, though they had not been much enforced of late. Now, saloons which had opened their side doors on the Lord’s day, threw their main entrances wide open. Theatrical performances, base-ball matches, balloon ascensions and other Sunday sports multiplied. The better classes—or rather their repre sentatives, for the majority seemed strangely apathetic—secured the passage by the Legislature of an act closing theatres on Sunday. It was enforced a few months. This was followed by a law shutting saloons on Sunday, under penalty of fine and imprisonment. One Or two prominent offenders were con victed. Some .of the papers fairly raved over the alleged outrage, the narrow bigotry, the ridiculous Puritanism. They had previously laughed at the law and suggested many impracticable ways for evading it. These proved of no effect and the Council was invoked by the at torney of the saloon men to interfere, and the lawyer who had fended a no torious murderer successfully was em ployed as the attorney of these saloon men before the Council. It was slow in doing so. But at last an ordinance was passed empowering each council man to select the names of jurors from ie residents of his ward, and give them to the clerks of the police courts to draw from. The councilmen picked out the worst possible ‘men. and there were no more convictions”. The account goes on theji to show .how. the very fountains ■of justice being then corrupted, condi tions became intolerable to the bad ele ments of the community even. Explo sive forces being thus brought together, only a spark was necessary to make a fear-ful conflagration; pretty soon the spark was dropped, and all the world knows what followed. Do we wish riots like that in At lanta? Have we not seen enough of w r hat riot means? It is time for all good people to rise up and put an end to' these wretched evils that some men are trying to bring into our community unawares while they pretend great Interest in the poor. Let nobody be afraid of their puerile' stuff about “narrowness”. “Puritanism”, etc. Narrowness indeed! Washington, Bancroft, Lincoln and De Tocqueville narrow', while these ward-heelers pose, as paragons of broad-mindedness! Their vision does not extend beydnd the limits of a ward-polling place, let alone com passing a great question of wisdom and virtue. YOU AND YOUR WIFE By Graham Hood WHEN SHOULD YOU MARRY? At what age should you marry? Is marriage between a boy and a girl likely to lead -to greater happiness than that of a mature man and woman? Or, does age play little if any part in de termining the matter? Such questions have been asked countless-, millions of times in . the past. In all likelihood, they will be asked as fiequently in the future. Yet the problem which they present }s no near er a solution today than it was a thousand or more years ago. The rea son we find no answer to the ques tion is that so much depends upon general principles that it is impossible to formulate a rule that will fit even a small majority of cases. The man and the maid who are. in love are different from other individ uals. They live in a different world— a world of their own creation—a world in which the experiences and customs sanctioned by other people have no practical application. If they make strangely enough, there are no statistics to show us that happiness may not be reached by either road. One fact which we often forget is that true love is one of the greatest of all adjusters of differences. The girl who feels the awakening touch of love ceases to be a child, and no elixir of youth which has yet been discovered has so rejuvenating an effect upon the heart as the thrust of Cupid’s tiny arrow. Even tlie fact that a fleet ing fancy is frequently mistaken for positive symptoms of love throws no new light upon the problem, for such mishaps occur in the most carefully arranged marriages quite as often as they do in those at which the world protests most emphatically. So far as we have any information to guide us, there is evidence to support the opinion that comparatively early mar riage is best for the lad at least. When a man is single he is apt to get into the up their minds to marry, they will habit of considering nobody but himself, carry their determination into effect As a result, it is the selfish side of his in spite of all the obstacles which may nature which is developed, usually at the be put in their-*\vay. Boys and girls expense of the generous and manly traits who have scarcely passed the bounds of which must assert themselves if matri- childhood, arrange their future with- mony is to bring real happiness. 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