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By Beatrice Fairfax
O you know that “luck" L a word which might will De
* T dropped from the dictionary? It. Is generally misused and
D- i a made girl Not who a sort long had of ago just scapegoat I been overheard Invited (or inelfiofancy. a group to Europe of girls by a talking friend. about
“Isn't she the luckiest thing?" said on© of them, envl-
! ously. "T'his i: ttic third lov* ly trip she lias been invited
: to take.' "Yet!," said another, with sigh, “she certainly does
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have gr< at luck. Last y< av Mrs. K. invited hei to go South with her, and the
year before she went on that lovely cruise with the L s. 1 wish I had her
luck."
They simply thought, of her ns being lucky, but ! happened to know that it
was her extrenx sweetness, cheerfulness and unselfishness that won her all
of those delightful trips. There was no luck about it. It was entirely a ques-
tion of popularity.
“How lucky to be so popular!" you might say; but don’t for a moment
imagine that popularity is a mutter of link. There is no chance about it. It
must, be work* <1 for, and worked for hard.
Men will look at the successful man and exclaim, "What a lucky beggar
he is!" They don’t stop to consider how hard he has worked for his success.
Luck is the ability to recognize an opportunity and take advantage or it.
Just let, "luck” take care of itself. Hard work and good judgment will
help you along better than all the so-called luck in the world.
If you a re lazy and slipshod in your me! hods, you will in all probability bo
a failure, arid you will weakly blame your failure to bad luck.
Write out these words and paste them above your looking glass:
"There is no such thing as luck, what I am and what I achieve is owing
to perseverance and ability on my part."
People often ray to me, "Oh, Miss Fairfax, you are so lucky to have work
that you like, and that you can make successful!"
I am indeed fortunate jn being able to earn my living in a thoroughly con¬
genial occupation, but it was not by any means easy when I first began it,
and there were many hours of discouragement.
It is not luck that, has brought me any success that 1 may have found, but
application and interest in my work.
Forget that there is such a word as “luck,” and just go ahead trying
your best to succeed in whatever you may be engaged in.
If yau wait for luck to come your way, you may find it a long wait. Luck
comes to those who work for it, not to those who wait for it.—New York Eve¬
ning Journal.
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k Millionaire’s Money
I Ey F. W. Heives
g A] GREAT reservoir of water, undistributed, leaves men and
women to perish of thirst, and growing crops to parch and
die. So. also, vaults bulging with stagnant money leave
inen and women to perish in abject poverty, and ripened
crops to rot within the fields and orchards that grew them.
Therefore, what happens to the dollars of the millionaire is
a question of the first Importance.
Those of us who believe in praying for material bless¬
ings will do well to pray long and earnestly that rich women
will never cease to buy $100 hats and $1,00') gowns, with diamonds and other
jewels to match. That they will continue to give balls and teas and enter¬
tainments of the most expensive kind. That they will be recklessly extrava¬
gant in gewgaws and folderols of every description, because it will be good for
us who depend upon an income drawn from the multitude of operations in¬
volved in producing, merchandising and transporting all those gewgaws and
other gimeraoks that go to keep extravagance at a high pitch.
Let us hope that rich men’s sons will continue to spend their father’s
money ns foolishly as they are reputed to do. Not because it will be good for
them, but because it will be good to have the money poured into the wage-
earner's money-channels.
Let us doubly hope* that the rich men may be prospered in their money-
getting, because they will not let it He idle. Whatever their wives and chil¬
dren do not spend, they put into stocks and bonds, and thereby turn it into
the wage-earner's money-channels. Let us be thankful, too, that neither the
dollars of the poor are of any value save as they go into the wage-channels of
active circulation.— Harper’s Weekly.
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NLY one oyster embryo out of every five million produced
♦ grows up through all the successive stages of youth to the
Oi individuals adult ber of state. young into Even there consideration in is animals great destruction, only which a produce single and pair taking a small of all young num¬ the
♦ arrive at maturity to replace their parents. There is
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exception to the rule that every organic being naturally
multiplies at so high a rate that if not destroyed the progeny
of a single pair would soon cover the earth. The elephant
is reckoned the slowest breeder of known animals; it commences to breed at
thirty years of age, dies at one hundred, and has six young in the interval.
After seven hundred and fifty years, supposing all the offspring of a single pair
fulfilled the rule and were not destroyed in an untimely way, there would be
nearly nineteen million elephants alive descended from the first p»lr.
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EASTS are denied the light of reason, and for that their
: J comfort waits simply on the indulgence.of desire. With man,
B + on the other hand, since reason is his especial gift, comfort
J waits But on the reasonable is such indulgence bore that of desire. enjoy almost nothing
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let or hindrance. Of course, it isn't comfort which we thus
obtain,—only luxury, which is of comfort the caricature,
Luxury, then, is another fruit of responsibility, that gift in virtue «f
which the humankind may the good prefer yet ah! the worst pursue,—may
vauntingly account inferior beings not dowered with it, and end by so using
it ac to raise a doubt whether its bestowal on themselves was not a huge.
grim joke.—From Life.
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which are tucked and joined to its
lower edge. The sleeves are in one
piece each, with the seams so ar¬
ranged as to be nearly invisible, and
can be made either long or in three-
quarter length. When the high neck
is used a regulation stock collar
makes the finish.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size is four and five-
eighth yards twenty-one or twenty-
four, three yards thirty-two or two
and three-eighth yards forty-four
inches -wide with three yards of band¬
ing and two yards of edging.
Wide Belts.
What extremely wide belts are seen
among the new models! Some of
them assume the proportion of a bod¬
ice, and most of them are beautiful.
Slits in Sleeves.
The exaggeratedly-long sleeve has
a slit at one side of the part over tire
hand to allow the thumb to pass
through.
Larger Huttons.
Buttons grow larger and dressier
day by day.
Stenciled Shirt Waists.
Instead of being embroidered, the
new shirt waists are stenciled in the
most charming designs and colors.
White Tulle Strings.
It is said that white tulle or mulle
strings will be seen on many of the
spring hats for younger women.
Color Everywhere.
It is as nearly certain as styles
ever are that the coming season will
not be an all-white one. Touches of
color are everywhere. i
Nine Cored Skirt,
The simple gored skirt is always a
desirable one and always in demand.
This one is novel in that the side
gores are lapped over onto the front
gore, but otherwise it is plain. The
lines, however, tend to the fashion¬
able slender effect, and, as the skirt
can be made either long for the house
or short for the street, it is adapted
to every seasonable material.
The skirt is made in nine gores and
the fulness at the back can be laid In
inverted pleats or the skirt can be
cut off and finished in habit style.
The quantity of material required
for the medium size is one and three-
quarter yards twenty-four, eight
yards thirty-two, five and three-
eighth yards forty-four or four and a
quarter yards fifty-two inches wide
when material has figure or nap;
seven yards twenty-four, six arid
three-quarter yards thirty-two, four
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A Foe.
In view of the fact that there are
no more enthusiastic advocates of
good roads than the owners of auto¬
mobiles, it is somewhat surprising to
find that the high-powered and speedy
machines they drive are the greatest
enemies to good country roads that
have ever been discovered. Accord¬
ing to the experts of the department
of roads of the Government, soft rub¬
ber tires strip the hard surface high¬
ways of the rock binder that protects
them from the weather.
The department declares, in fact,
that the modern fast moving motor
car is the greatest menace to mac¬
adam roads that has ever made its
appearance.
On some stretches of thorough¬
fares, especially in New England,
where many broad and smooth roads
have been constructed, the retrogres¬
sion is not less than forty per cent.,
and it lias been forced upon the direc¬
tor of the office of public roads and
upon many highway engineers that if
some plan is not speedily devised for
overcoming the bad effects of man’s
latest and most sensational mode of
land transportation, the monetary
loss will be stupendous and the good
work of many years will go for
naught.
It is not only in America that this
condition prevails. England, France,
Germany, Holland, Belgium and oth¬
er countries of the Old World where
hard surfaced highways are appre¬
ciated have also learned that the big
soft rubber tires of the automobile
are doing an almost incredible
amount of harm. France has offi¬
cially taken cognizance of the condi¬
tion, and has called an international
congress to meet at Paris on October
11 to discuss plans for saving the
roads, while in no way interfering
with the development of the automo¬
bile, for no scientist will condemn one
worthy civilizing influence because it
temporarily conflicts with another.
He will merely admit that a new con¬
dition has arisen and then set on foot
an investigation with the idea of mas¬
tering it.
To many it may seem beyond be¬
lief that a pneumatic rubber tire can
work any injury to a road composed
of bits of crushed flint rock, but it be¬
comes plain when the theory of such
roads is explained. The macadam
road was first laid down by the emin¬
ent French road engineer, Tresau-
get, of Limoges, who figured that
slowly moving iron tired wagons
would crush dust particles from the
stones of the road’s surface; that
those particles would be constantly
sifted between the interstices of the
lSrge stories; that every passing
wagon would crush them firmer into
all ruts and inequalities; that rain
would aid and the ultimate result
would be a smooth surface, water
shedding highway.
The rubber tire, being soft, creates
no rock dust itself as does the iron
tire of a wagon, and the very life of
these roads demands a constant sup¬
ply of that material. It is the surface
binder that keeps the road smooth;
cracks filled in; that maintains the
evenness and binds the rubble stones
into one impervious mass.
It is obvious that the automobile,
having come to stay, something will
have to be done to save the roads al¬
ready macadamized unless future
roadmaking of the kind is to be sim¬
ply a waste of money.—Portsmouth
(Va.) Star.
A Benefit to All.
It is certain that if the roads of
this country were what they ought to
be—wliat they surely will be—the
automobile would he much more pop¬
ular than it is now. With better
highways its range and usefulness
will steadily increase. There is no
American industry better assured of
growth and great success far into the
future than the making and selling
of motor vehicles.—Cleveland Leader.
Bad Roads Waste Money.
No nation is rich enough to be as
extravagant as the United States is
with the time and money wasted ow¬
ing to bad roads. A statistician has
figured that bad roads cost us $25 0,-
000,000 a year; that is to say, it
would cost us $250,000,000 a year
less to haul crops to market over good
roads than it now costs.
Of Enormous Value.
Any movement that will secure for
the people of he United States good
country roads will be of enormous
value to all the transportation inter¬
ests of the country, since the inferior
and at times impassable roads are
great burdens upon the people and
add in the aggregate an enormous
sum to the costs of transportation.
Vermont For Good Roads.
Vermont also is out for good roads
as a means of drawing business to
various parts of the State, Most
places have learned the lesson; oth¬
ers seemingly never will.—Brockton
Enterprise.
The United States annually exports
more wheat, including wheat flour,
than any other country in the world
— 146,000,000 out of 646,000,000
bushels.
BITTER WAR ON INTEMPERANCE
SOLDIERS FIGHTING THIS CURSE
GREATLY CHEERED.
It is a Poison.
Is alcohol a poison? It may seem
a little strange that science regards
any substance as a food and also as
a poison, but this point can be cleared
up when we take into consideration
the definition of a poison. The pop¬
ular conception of a poison is some¬
thing which is capable of producing
death very promptly, but the scien¬
tific definition is less exacting, and is
briefly this; ‘‘Any substance which
when applied to the body, or digested'
causes disease.” The term is a rela¬
tive one and means that a substance
to be a poison does not necessarily
need to be capable of producing death
instantaneously. Many articles which
are used as foods, if indulged in to
excess, will produce irritation and
disease, and hence are, in a technical
sense, poison. Toxicologists classify
poisons as corrosive, irritant and nar¬
cotic, Alcohol ranks with tobacco,
chloroform, caffeine, ether and nit¬
rous oxide gas as a narcotic poison.
The effects are very similar, the first
being that of a stimulant; the second,
that of a narcotic, and if pushed too
far will produce death. The reason
why the system can tolerate so mueu
alcohol is because it becomes gradu¬
ally immune in the same way as im¬
munity is produced by antitoxins. As
a poison its first effect is that of a
stimulant, increasing functional ae-
tivity for a time, but its second effect
is that of a paralyzer, so affecting the
brain cells that they refuse to perform
their functions, and we have the
blunting of the higher sensibilities,
the incoherent speech and the stag¬
gering gait. By its local action the
secretions of the stomach and other
digestive organs are changed, and it
produces structural changes in the
liver and kidneys. Persons subjected
to it are more liable to disease, more
easily fatigued, and are more suscep¬
tible to heat or cold. If immunity
has not been produced, it is perfectly
possible to produce death if sufficient¬
ly large doses are given.
A Poisonous Food.
From the standpoint of technical
dietetics, alcohol is a food. In the
scientific world, however, foods are
classified as either good or poor, and
as such they perform the function of
either tissue-builders or energizers.
For example, wheat bread, beefsteak
and eggs are considered good foods,
but onions, cabbages and radishes
are considered poor food in a strictly
technical sense. That is, foods have
a greater or less value according to
the ease with which they are digested
and assimilated, and also as to
whether they produce any injurious
results. With this classification we
are forced to say that alcohol is a
poor food. It is a poor food for sev¬
eral reasons. First, because only a
small amount—about three ounces,
which is far less than is required to
sustain the body—can be oxidized,
the balance passing through un¬
changed. Second, because it has been
determined that it is not a tissue-
builder, and only serves the purpose
as an energizer. Third, to give suf¬
ficient amount to sustain the body
would, considering the small percen-
age that can be oxidized, leave enough
residue to create irritation to such
an extent that the physiologic func¬
tions necessary to life would not go
oi. In a limited sense, it is a food,
because it is a generator of energy,
but it is not a builder of tissue. Thus
we have the soundest scientific sup¬
port. for the statement that it is poor
food, and has no use in the category
of foods. As an energizer it acts
only as a whip to the flagging organs,
and, as one authority remarks, "we
have no more right to use it than we
have to lash a willing horse.”
No Place For It.
Civilization has found out the sa¬
loon. After several centuries of ex¬
perience with it, it 'has written its
epitaph. One of our great railroad
lines in America has recently made a
sweeping order that any employe of
the road who cashes his pay check in
a saloon will lose his job. Twenty
years ago one of the great railroads
in this country paid so little atten¬
tion to the habits of its employes that
from the writer’s own knowledge a
train crew of twelve men lay drunk
around a freight station sobering up
from a day’s debauch and the freight
train which they were to man waited
more than half a day before it pulled
out. Such a situation at present
wmuld be impossible on any railroad
in America. One of the finest things
about the agitation rising up all over
the world against the liquor business
is the hand which business has begun
to take in it. After awhile no busi¬
ness worthy of the name will emnlov
a man who drinks at all.—Home Her¬
ald.
Cultivating Inebriety,
“Alcohol is a cause of race suicide
among animals,” declared Dr. W. S.
Hall, of Chicago, in pointing out that
it cannot be considered a food. Dr.
T. A. Williams also took a fling at
alcohol when he declared that the
mother who gratifies every caprice
of the child to keep it quiet and the
father whe studies every form of
amusement to attract and interest
his hoy are cultivating inebriety in ir.
which will develop in the future with
the slightest exciting causes.
Why States Go Dry.
The foolish manner in which the
retail liquor business is conducted is
so patent and general that it may
easily be rated as the most important
single factor in bringing victory to
the Anti-Saloon Leaguers throughout
the country.
Temperance Notes.
Poorly cooked food often drives
men to drink.
A California chemist declares that
he has discovered how to rob whisky
of its powers to intoxicate. But every¬
body knows how. Don’t drink it.
The saloon must have boys or ft
must shut up shop. One family out
of every five must contribute a boy in
order to keep up the saloon business
to its present prosperity. Will you
help? Which of your boys shall it
be?