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“Somebody has been pulling tue door ;
bell out by the roots and breaking the
windows again.” said the uian with a
tierce look in his eye.
‘'But we can’t tell who did it,” an
swered his wife.
“There is just the difficulty. If it
was our own children it is simply a
boyish prank. But if it was the neigh
bor’s children they ought to be ar
rested.” —Washington Star.
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Roger, King of Italy, is said to have in
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No matter what ails you, headache to a
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In the eighteen century silken cocoons
sold in the London market for one shilling
per pound.
If you would he well, keep well, and ward
•*>ff diseases of all kinds, keep “Crab Orchard
Water” on hand, and take it occasionally, as
required, it is Nature's own medicine.
The British public claims that the home
railroads run too many trains for profit.
Mr*. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for children
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Athletic sports are taking strong hold
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I do not believe Piso’s Cure for Consump
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Vertical writing has been abandoned in
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if not, it is free.
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Don’t drink too much water when cycling.
Adams’ Pepsin Tutti Frutti is an excellent
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Prosperity makes more fools than ad
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There are six species of mosquito found
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To produce the best results
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WOMEN OF THE FAR EAST
THEIR SEX IS THEIR HANDICAP IN
THE CELESTIAL EMPIRE.
DU appointment* at Birth, Slave* In Mar
riage, 15ut Kulers After They Become
Mother* One Rarely See. a Face
That Betray* Fnliapplne**.
Woman in China enjoys the distinc
tion of having escaped the admiration
of foreigners. Her praises are un
sung in the verses of other lands: she
is not enshrined on the canvas of those
whose ideals of outward being the
world has adopted; she has (lashed no
wit upon the page of romance or daz
zled it with her beauty. Everybody
has agreed in letting her alone from
the ankles up, as though her only pos
sible claim to consideration lay in her
cramped and tortured feet, which
everybody pities, and about which
nobody ever does anything except to
pass resolutions.
Even at home site is under initial
disadvantage. She starts life handi
capped by her sex. No family ever
wants a girl baby. When the women
go to the temples they always pray
for hoys and buy hoy images In the
hope that the gods will remember and
favor them. If a girl results, she is
tolerated, rather than enjoyed. While
hardly out of her babyhood her feet
must be swathed, if she belongs to
a proper family. As she grows her
liberty is restrained. She known noth
ing of life outside the walls of her
home, except such glimpses as she
may catch from a window, or from a
covered chair in which she may oc
casionally he carried to visit families
in which there are other unfortunates
like lie-self.
Thus she remains a prisoner until
ready for delivery to a husband she
lias never seen, henceforth becoming
the slave of that husband and Ills par
ents. A brood of her own springs up
about her quickly enough and by the
time that process ends she is a grand
mother. Life becomes easier for her
as the children mature, for the wives
of her sons must be her handmaids,
and the children are bound to provide
for her comfort 11s the most sacred of
their obligations, and to respect her
authority as long as she lives.
Modern credulity is taxed to recon
cile a life so circumscribed with a con
ception of happiness 11s free agents
understand it. The difficulty lies - 1
the appreciation of environment. A
Chinese woman knows no life but
this. Her aspirations are restricted
to it by traditions and customs that
seem to her as immovable and as im
pentrable as the walls that hedge in
and defend her city. There is 110 one
to suggest other thoughts to her. The
minds against which her mind brushes
have limitations as narrow as her
own. She usually makes the best of
her lot cheerfully and turns out a fond
wife and devoted mother. Os her
wifely duty she is larely forgetful. A
womanly instinct to please prompts
her to make lierself attractive to her
husband.
Heartbreakings may not always be
violent when the man strays abroad
and returns with other women for Ills
household, hut they are often pathetic.
Yet custom permits and the wife must
bow, whatever her feelings. Her main
comfort, is that additional women can
not he wives. She is alone in that re
lation. Secure iu her place she lias
an innate sense of its superiority and
of the dignity that befits it. Hence it
happens that wives are tolerant of the
others, and often provide for them
when husbands die, and rear the chil
dren they have borne.
This sketch of life, as found among
those of good estate. In character as
well as means, is analogous 10 a sum
mary applying in Western homes
where conscience joins with custom iu
regulating social and domestic con
duct. Circumscribed though the life
of a Chinese woman may be. and dif
fering so sharply in detail from ac
cepted standards elsewhere as to make
it seem almost Intolerable, it has
compensations of some weight. The
privation, drudgery, and subordina
tions to which a Chinese woman is
subject come when she has youth and
strength and buoyant vigor. As these
depart and she needs relief, social and
family customs provides it, and with
advancing years her cares I‘ghten, her
comforts increase, aiid her afternoon
is pillowed for her.
In spite of limitations Chinese wom
an is quite human. By foregoing the
pleasures of courtship and selection,
she does not, as a matter of course,
shut her heart to romance. When at
her marriage the gates of the world
open a little wider to her than before,
she puts her sharp little eyes to the
uses for which they were intended. If
they are looking for a ITince Charm
ing and they fall and linger on the
husband to whom she is Introduced,
there is occasion Tor thanksgiving.
It happens also that mild and yielding
disposition in a newly wedded pair is
not Invariably more pronounced in
the woman. When one of that sex
is assertive, the imagination is taxed
to believe that she is the subject party.
Man is, of course, supreme, but he not
infrequently finds it politic to declare
himself oDly in a figurative way and
for practical purposes appear to be
submissive. The national costume,
which puts the trousers on women and
the frocks on man in China, does not
always seem displaced.
The Chinese do not think it worth
while to name a girl. She is sister, and
goes by number. If her mother gives
her a pet appellation, that Is their own
dear secret. The husband never learns
of it. To him she Is the Chinese
equivalent for “HI, there,' or “Oh,
say.” until the babies arrive when she
becomes "Chang's mother," or is oth
erwise Indirectly designated. That
Joe.- not bother her, for she knows no
-liber gii-1 except as the owner of a
certain number in ,-oine man’s home,
i’-t mother is a term of love ami
power. A man may do as much as he
likes in regard to his wife, hut though
he be gray and bent he cannot embark
in any enterprise or undertake a jour
ney, if his mother is living, without
her consent. Sons will once in a while
get a refractory Western notion into
their heads, and imagine that since
they are middle-aged, and have for
many years kept the pot boiling for a
large domestic establishment, they
need oonsult no wishes but their own.
It 13 in the power of a mother to
cause tlie arrest of such a son for dis
obedience and to indicate the number
of bamboo blows he should receive in
punishment; and the Magistrate must
give the order that she prescribes.
If civilized woman were always
kiniuy treated, it might he worth while
pointing out instances in which that
lot has not uniformly fallen to her
Chinese sister; but careworn faces are
rare in China, and one of the most
common sights is that of women
trudging about with quiet babies siting
in strap cradles across their hacks,
or at play with their chubby, laugh
ing, heathen offspring. Foreign fami
lies who employ Chinese nurses find
them tender and faithful. They think
themselves of a family when they
join it, and the children love and trust
them.
Higher in the social scale, where
women are kept from the gaze, not
only of visitors hut also of all natives
except the closest friends or relatives,
there is no reason to suppose that they
.-ire less blessed than the lower orders
with the essential of happiness In their
station. One may get glimpses of
their round, contented faces, of tlie
tiny feet that charm a native hus
band, of silks, velvets, and embroid
eries with which tlielr garments are
fashioned, and of gleaming hair, orna
mented witli pearls, heads, jade and
gold—a setting so ornate that one can
not doubt tlie quality of the jewel.
Chinese history is not minute enough
to tell how far she has shaped na
tional character and destiny. In tlie
two instances In which she lias so far
risen above the plane set for her as
to become the ruler of the vast empire,
her talents have not suffered by com
parison with those of the Emperors.
Tlie Empress Wtt, 1400 years ago, in
trigued her way to the throne, but
she ruled ably and did as much for
China as any other ruler of the Tang
dynasty. To-day an Empress Is a
refugee, but under her rule the trade
and prosperity of Chinn have assumed
proportions never before contemplat
ed, and when the history of the for
eign troubles may he Impartially writ
ten. in the light of all the facts it
may not unlikely appear that they
owed their first impulse, not to the
Empress, but, perhaps, in spite of her;
to the instigation and advice and ir
resistible pressure of her superior
council of men.—Frederick W. Eddy,
In the New York Times.
If in Good Story.
This young man has a good place
with a Wall street firm, and is anxious
to “get along.” He also likes to shine
as a raconteur, but lie has a very bad
memory as to details. However, the
germ of the story sticks in his mind,
and he is aide to make a good blufl at
telling it. Recently he heard a funny
“Wall street story.” Nothing but the
story end of it stuck to him. A week
or so later the junior partner in high
good humor because of a certain suc
cessful manipulation, in which tlie
young man had been concerned in
small degree, magnanimously invited
him to luncheon. The young man
strove to “be agreeable,” and told a
number of stories over tlie coffee
which seemed to amuse his employer.
Then he told in elaboration liis latest
Wall street yarn. There was no re
sponse.
“I thought that was very funny—did
the bloke up rich,” said the young
man. “Perhaps you’ve heard it be
fore.”
“No,” said (lie junior partner slowly,
“I don’t think I ever heard It before,
hut I know something about it. I was
tlie bloke.”
The young man is now cultivating
the study of mnemonics.—New York
.Sun.
Break*.
To write a social letter to n man and
ask him to reply. Boors are not In so
ciety.
To ride one’s hobby-horse around tlie
dining table, to the confusion of one’s
hostess.
To toast “youth” where women of
uncertain age predominate.
To Ignore one’s humble friends for
one’s smart acquaintances. Fortune
plays madcap pranks.
To boast of our own. Human nature
repeats itself and family prejudice is
never convincing.
To he inquisitive. No one cares for
a human interrogation point, and who
asks all shall know nothing.
To he too anxious to shine, glitter
and glare, conversationally, is not the
highest proof of clever polish.
To seek favor. Merit Is self-evident.
Mediocrity seldom achieves, socially or
otherwise.
To pretend. Age has given the world
wisdom and a keen eye for shams.
To gush. The being who faces about
on all necks has strangling possibili
ties.
To protest too much. The obvious
refutes doubt, and goodness needs no
placards— Philadelphia llecord.
Indian Girl* ami Whit© Hu*ban<l*.
The South McAlester Tribune ex
plodes the popular notion that Indian
maidens fancy white men, and that a
white man who wants to become a
“squawman” can have liis pick. “’I he
average Indian girl,” says tlie Tribune,
“would not give twenty-five cents for
a white husband. It was Pocahontas
who is responsible for the erroneous
belief.”
The f.urgrut Opal.
Tlie largeHt opal in tlie world weiglut
seventeen ounees, in worth
and belongs to tie.* Emperor of Austria.
The Chinese make a fetish of their
dead. Some of the finest shops
to be seen in Chinese towns are the
ones selling eoffius.
England’* Army and Nnvy.
It wm recently stated that England’s nrmy |
and navy is inadequate to properly defend 1
hornelf from a sudden onslaught. England is,
in this instance, like the individual who allow*
disease to creep into hi* system through a
stomach too weak to properly digest the food
taken into it. To strengthen the stomach
there is nothing better than llostetter‘a Stom
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indigestion, liver and kidney trouble, and as
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