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SATURDAY, APRIL o, 1913
A MODERN UTOPIA
DAWNING FOR WOMEN
(By Vida Sutton.)
The striking thing about the woman
movement among the French women
is the breadth and scope of their de
mand. It is not the vote primarily
they are concentrated on. That is in
the near future. Their ideas and hopes
penetrate much further. It is for a
moral and social reorganization. They
•desire to free womanhood. To give
woman equality of opportunity in ev
ery branch of life, that she may bring
the best of herself to the aid of the
race, and to a new social order.
One of the most interesting as well
■as conspicuous workers in the Na
tional Council of French Women,
whose work embodies these ideals, is
-Mme. Leonie Camusat Rousade. She
represents the working class. Her
father was a watchmaker, and his re
publican ideas led him to give his
daughter a liberal education. After
iier marriage with Auguste Rousade,
•encouraged by him, Mme. Rousade
threw herself with great enthusiasm
into the study of social problems. She
was a member of that celebrated fem
inine congress arranged in 1878 oy
Marie Deraisme, and in 1881 she ran
as municipal candidate for the Twelfth
Arondissement, Paris. No woman has
been yet elected to such an office, but
it is part of the .principle of th :
French suffragists, while working for
the vote, to put up a woman candidate
at each parliamentary election.
In all of this work, Mme. Rousade
has been most active. She has lectured
•and she has studied, and she has writ
ten. And now, at the age of seventy-,
ft ve,” she is dreaming of the Utopia
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“Let’s go West and kill Indians.’’
“What’s the matter with you, kid?
Some of our best baseball talent is
being picked up among the redskins.’
-—Pittsburg Post.
The preaching that engenders too
much shouting is oftentimes not
lasting in its good results.
Piles Cured In 6 to 14 Days
'. ‘ Yonr druzgi»t will, refund mon«y if PAZO
. I OINTMENT fails to cure any case of Itching,
*• Blind. Bltcdinz or Protruding Piles in 6to 14 days.
The first application gives Base and Rest. 50c.
that shall come some day. Her books,
l ‘ The World Overturned,” “The Voy
l age of Theodore to the Island of
Utopia,” are the fruit of many years
■ of labor and of study. The last book,
i “La Femme et Le Peuple,” set forth
, her social ideals. In the last chapters
. she gives in the form of a catechism-,
questions and answers, the new world
i that is coming; a new order that we
• are unknowingly moving toward, a
: utopia beyond the wildest creams of
■ Sir Thomas More.
As steps to this new world, Mme.
Rousade demands the education of all
children, poor as well as rich, and
equality of opportunity. For this the
i over-rich will pay. She asks a law
: that will guarantee every individual
man and woman means to be well
lodged, nourished and clothed. Labor
and leisure for all. Idleness for none.
• As women need everything that men
, need they must have the sariie rignt
• to everything, she says. They are in
, complete without each other. A differ
. ence, not inequality, does not mean
that the same free chance for develop
ment should not be granted to each,
i Marriage, she would have a volun
i tary union. And would give to the un
i married mother rights and recogni
; tion.
Above all, no one should be so driv
• en by labor that they should not have
! leisure to grow and to be beautiful.
All these things and many more are
• in the lines of humanity’s progress,
i “They will prepare us for a day,” says
• Mme. Rousade, “when we shall look
for the gods, and behold, we will see
. they are ourselves.”
HOW CLOTHES TELL
WHAT WE ARE LIKE
Gloves, Hat and Shoes Tell
of Vanity
In an article on “A Girl and Her
Clothes,” published in the March Wo
man’s Home Companion, appears the
following:
“You may not speak a word to me,
but the manner and line of you, the
gentle or brusque, gracious or awk
ward little tricks of body, the way
you walk, the hat you wear, the
clothes, the gloyes, the color and fash
ion of them, the manner of wearing
them —all these, along with the look
in your eyes are expressing you and
are saying to me, ‘She belongs to this
class, or that.' ‘She is this manner of
person or that.’ ‘See, she is careless.'
‘See, she is tired and i\orn,’ ‘She is a
person of good judgment,’ or ‘whimsi
cal,’ ‘dependable’; a person of lovsli
ness’ ;‘unloveliness,’ ‘of taste,’ or ‘lack
of taste.’ ‘Don’t you understand what
we are saying to you?’ Read us! Read
us! As plain as day!’
“Whether we realize it or not, we are
perpetually expressing ourselves, and
our clothes speak for us—condemn us
or recommend us, praise us or blame
us—as plainly as though they spoke
with voices like our own. I have seen
girls apply to business houses, seeking
positions, and I have seen them refus
ed good positions and they never
guessed the reason. Some of them
brought with them reasonably good let
ters of recommendation, saying, per
haps, that they were capable, willing.
But of what avail was all that when
all the while huge masses of yellow
puffs, dowdy clothes, low-necked shirt
waists and tawdry jewelry, badly
chosen aiid designed, were saying as
plan as could be, ‘She has no judg
ment.’ ‘She does not know true val
ues.’ ‘She frivolous.’ Could you
trust a girl to be careful of your ac
counts who is evidently careless of
her own?
Then the kjndheartedtiess of the
employer, perhaps, hesitates. After all
might she not do, this little girl mak
ing a pitiful enough showing as she
Sits waiting for an answer? Isn’t it
right to give hes a chance, anyway?
• Whan we parents we
winder how some {children can ever
amount to anything; ■
HUERTA, BETWEEN
TWO FIKES,TO QUIT
El Paso Hears the Story of
Retirement
El Paso, Tex., April 4.—To satisfy
all factions in the Mexican melee,
General Huerta agreed to the
naming of Pedro Lascurian as provis
ional president, said advices here to
day directly from the national capital.
Lascurian would serve out the un
completed term of the late President
Madero.
As minister of exterior relations in
Madero’s former cabinet, Lascurian is
entitled to serve as next in line, in
view of the deaths of Madero and
Vice President Suarez. The Huerta
cabinet would be retained by the com
promise.
This arrangement, it is said, has
been offered to the constitutionalists
now fighting the Huerta government
in Northern Mexico. It is declared
that Governor Carranza, of Coahuila,
has agreed and that the Sonora insur
rectionists will fall in line. The de
cision of the present provisional pres
ident is said to have been occasioned
by the recent uprising of Zapata in
the south, which places the Huerta
forces between two fires.
Mexican military men here estimate
that Huerta has not more than 14,000
troops in all Mexico with which to
meet the situation. This is even less
than Porfiro Diaz posessed in com
*
bating the Madero revolution. Madero.
or taking office, began recruiting voi
unteer troops with the ex-insurrecto
corps as a basis. In the meantime the
regular army was not recruited to no ■
mal strength. The desertion to the
opposing side of the majority of the
volunteer groups has left the actual
government forces far below par.
I The One Man Store Success I
I It costs money to buy advertising space in the newspapers, and not I
I infrequently I meet a merchant who sees nothing but the cost side I
j: T TSUALLY such a man believes i; i; HPHE man with a wide calibre ij
!’ U in being h‘is own janitor, er- w wot sees that such expenses are |
rand boy, clerk and general man- i! fl || lip IlAPl' ;; incidental to increase volume of | lf ■
ager. He lives in terror ot a pay- ii VII LJ ftj 9 l|||j V l; business, may be the very best
ii roll, and the expense of expansion i; I ■■ 9* 999 IB* vestment that he can make. He fl
improvements fairly palls him. I Ilf 99 Si IllH ii I His willing to pay clerks good wages k
A man of this type is just as big ii ** w w amwrxj- to double his stock if necessary, h fl
today as he will be 20 years from <: i; and to pay out money to maintain ;;
j| now, if providence grants him life j: |j an attractive store if, at the end of d
d and unlimited prosperity. He is I; M I I; the month, he is able to show a ];
ii carrying a portion of the same i; I M. ii net profit above the net profit of
stock that he had five years ago, !: the one-man store. He is the type : :
l: and unless he happens to have a I; that sees the relationship between l| ■
ii call for these articles, he will hold wmmm ** ii his business and every other sue- ; ;
ii them on his shelves indefinitely, j: fl |\ I I I* i : cessful enterprise, and he reasons j:
He will tell you in a confidential, I 11 9 fl If 9j 9 fl V : i that selling methods successfully
way, that it might be alright for I LI 111 Tll 1I lr ii used by his fellow merchant, even j;
f merchants in other lines to adver- 9 W W 91 9 m 9 91 IjlLj though the latter be in a totally <:
:: tise and make special ofters, but I; A 1 m :i different line of business, may
jfl \ his lines is “different you know.” i; be used with profit to himself. |
1 Some men can understand the reason for, and the necessity ol adver-> I
rising,. They know that money invested in a business message in the '
I COLUMNS OF THE TIMES-RECORPER I
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I today will go out in the highways and fill their store with buyers tomorrow. Os §
I course it costs him money to advertise, so it does to hire clerks, to keep a delivery fl
I service and to rent a building in a choice location. I
I - , But these things are part of his plans of doing business, and if he should fal- fl
I ter in doing any of them because it cost money, he would not be the man that he is fl
I —he would be running the fl
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SCIEN fISTS FIND MANY TREASURES IN
THE RUINS OF CARACALLA’S BATHS
(By Garrett P. Serviss.)
When you read the name of the Em
per or Caracalla you recall, with a
shudder, the long , series of cruelties,
murders and abominations that history
has associated with him. Says the '
great historian. Gibbon: "Caracalla ;
was the common enemy cf mankind!”
If Gibbon could read in the March .
Cosmopolitan, the story of the discov
eries recently mbde in Rome by Pro
fessor Alessio Valle he might modify
his opinion of Caracalla. At the very
least he would be compelled to admit
i
that the empero. whom he helped to
cover with infamy in the eyes of the
modern world had another, and a v rv
1
unexpected, side to his nature, a side
which everybody must admire, in
spite of the brutal and criminal in
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stincts with which it was joined.
i
We all know that Caracalla erected
1
in Rome an enormous bath palace,
now called the Thermae of Caricalla,
i
whose gigantic ruins constitute one of
the sights of the Eternal City. Two or
i
three of his successors extended and
embellished the work, but to Caracalla
i
belongs the honor of having conceived
it, started it and filled it with some of
the greatest works of art that the
world contained.
Their Great Beauty.
Soffte of these masterpieces were
discovered in the fuins of the baths
many years ago, and they now adorn
great museums, but Professor Valle
has dug deeper and found that the sub
soil of the immense edifice is rich in
precious marbles, the possession of
any one of which would establish the
fame of a modern museum. The ex
ceeding beauty of these sculptures
may be judged from the photographs
that accompany Professor Valle’s ar
ticle. Such a store-house, a large part
of which has been buried and forgot
ten for centuries, furnishes a partial
explanation of the disappearace of
the thousands of precious works cf
the Greek artists which are known to
have been brought to Rome after
Greece had been conquered and looted
by the armies of Italy. Not only the
gold of the ancient world, but nearly
all of its finest works of art were
poured into Rome, and have been bur
ied in its majestic ruins.
A Public Library.
But above all his other discoveries
Professor Valle puts that of a great
library which he has found in Cara
calla’s baths. This, he believes, con
tained many of the missing treasures
of the famous library of Alexandria,
brought to Rome by the order of the
emperor himself after his suppression
of a rebellion in Egypt. It is the first
time that archaeologists have unearth
ed a public library of ancient Rome.
It gives a new idea of the importance
of the great thermae in the life of the
imperial ages. The arrangements fo.’
the bathers were cn the most sump
tuous scale, but, in addition, the great
buildings served as club houses, plac
es of public assembly. Tammany halts
for political plotters, conversation
rooms, art galleries, and even librar
ies.
Not less astonishing and interesting
are the evidences of engineering skill
that Professor Valle’s excavations
have disclosed. Immense galleries
extended under the building, which
measured a thousand feet in one direc
tion and nearly 1400 in the other, and
the total length of these underground
passages was over two miles. You
I
will read, with interest, the discov
erer's suggestion as to the uses to
which these passages were put
The arangement for supplying and
disposing of the water, tor lighting
the enormous structure, whose solid
walls were 150 feet in height, and for
i
ventilation, are such as the most skil
ful of modern engineers and builders
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might envy. Vast quantities of lead
pipe employed for the conduits wery
evidently carried away by the barbar
ians who looted Rome. But I am not
writing a summary of Professor
Valle’s discoveries; you should read
his articles in order to form ai* opinion
of their extent, interest and import
ance.
As It Really Was.
When you have done that your Im
agination will form a picture of what
this palatial edifice must have been
when it was crowded with representa
tives of the wealth, fashion and luxury
PAGE THREE
of imperial Rome, which held the
world in its irresistible grasp. Around
them were displayed the most beauti
ful statues that man has ever create!
or looked upon. They walked througn
halls of marble and alabaster, on tes
selated pavements, under glittering
ceilings, fanned by obseqatouss slaves.
and never dreaming that such power
•’ 1
and splendor would within a few cen
turies, be buried in dust, while their
very names would be forgotten, only
that of Caracalla, “the ambitio'us, the
bloodthirsty, the magnificent,” re
maining.