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How to Bring Up a Child.
By Kate Thorn.
EGIN by considering him the finest, and brightest, and most beau
tiful child upcn the face of the earth! I.ook upon him as the
eighth wonder of the world! Tell everybcdy so. Keep telling
pu—— them so until he is big enough to hear and understand, for he
Bl should not be suffered to grow up in ignorance cf his own im
(CXRC T portance,’ !
Stuff bim with sugar plums when he cries. It will teach him
to ery more, that he muy get more sugar plums. It will give him a suggestive
lesson in causes and results. He ought to cry. Healthy children always
cry and it is healthy to listen to them, Crying develops the lungs—wards off
early consumption. :
Always let him bhave his own way. If you do not, it will break his spirit,
and what is a boy good for whose spirit has been broken? _
; Solomon’s head was not level when he said: “Spare the rod and spoil the
ichild.” Probably his brain was softening. Never command him to do any
whing. Ask him to do it if he pleases; but if he doesn’t please, never oblige
him to. It might rouse his temper, and give him an attack of colic or indi
gestion, '
If he should hecome disobedient or impudent, as perhaps.he may—
children are liable to-—consult a doctor at once. If you fee this gentleman
well, he will tell you that the child has “too much brain; large mental
activity; a mind of unusua: precocity,” etc, all of which will be pleasant
for you to hear, since it will give you the idea that you have brought a genius
into the world. He will tell you that the child mustin’t be crossed. You
must be careful how you demny him what he wants. Must not let him get
angry. Let him have his way.
After he gets older, he will be likely to learn the manly science of pro
fanity and the gentlemanly accompfishments of drinking and gambling.
Well, youtnful spirits must be run off in some way—must have some
outlet. Say, as thousands have said before you, that you would rather h;}ve
two knaves than one fool in the family. That is a very nice way of putting
it, and consecling, too. :
Make much of his bright sayings. Repeat them to your friends. If they
don’t see wit in them, it is because they haven’t brains enough to see wit in
anything.
Let them begin young to order the servant, so as “to get his hand in.”
Give him all the money he wants to spend.' Let him go out evenings. Don’t
tie him to his mother's apron strings and make a milksop of him.
If he calls you “governor,” and his mother, “the old gal,” don’t reprove
him. It is only young America cropping out and isn’t America “the land of
the free and the home of the brave?” ®
Get him a revolver by the time he is ten, so that he may be ready for
emergencies—a watch, and a revolver, by all means. At cighteen he will
need a fast horse and a betting book. ;
Persevere in this ccurse, and by the time he is twenty-five the world
will have heard from him at the end of a rope, or in Congress-——nobody can
foresee which. .
In this domestic country who can predict results?—New York Weekly.
TheFolly of Beingßorn P
el olly of Being born Foor
By Addison Fox, Jr. ! |
ey, AN s guilty of much that is incompetent and gtupid and in bad
N £ tacte. He is miserably unskilful in places where it would be
! A B rcasonable to expect from him a certain measure of acuteness
A msesenggy and prescience. But there is, perhaps, nothing in which he dis
plays his folly to.a greater extent than in being born poor.
TNt P Y He is apt to excuse himself from this lamentable weakness
oo by asserting that it is not his fault, and by various axioms which
are used to bolster up his vanity. Poverty, he a:serts, is no disgrace. The
love of money is the root cf all evil, and he assumes a respectful attitude- to
ward the horny-handed son of toil, as if that individual were the most exalted
of beingy. Inwardly, however, he despises him. He longs for luxury, for
that careless abandon that comes with moneyed ease and there are moments
when he hates himself for his own lack of forethcught. ’
The worst of the matter is that those who permit themselves to be born
poor are the very ones fitted by nature to enjoy wealth. They invariably
have kind hearts and generous dispositions. They have self-control in an
eminent degree. They deprecate mcney for its own sake, and only care for
it for what will bring. Undoubtedly they possess extraordinary qualifica
tions in its proper dissemination. There is never a snob among them, a one
who, under any circumstance, could ever go back on his former friends. On
the contrary, cne of the principal uses they would make of their money—if
they only had it—would be to have their friends enjoy it.
It certainly seems a cruel peryerse ness of Fate that all these people should
be cut off from what they are most em inently fitted.
On the other hand, with respect to those who are born wealthy, there
can be no doubt that they arz generally unfit, incapable beings, exiremely
undeserving of their lot. It would seem as if, having expanded all their
genius upon being born rich, there was none left to help them make a proper
use of their pcssessions. They are very likely fo be snobish; selfishness
is with them more or less an art in itself—an art in which it is necessary to
maintain the illusion that one is interested in wothers, when, in reality, one’s
own personal gratification is the only thing one is striving for. They are also
likely to be dissapated, and somewhat cruel, and to betray a strange lack iof
sympathy.
; These are the miscreants, who having seen to it that they were born
rich, now rest upcn their oars, while we, the Teal people toil on, the galley
slaves nf injustice or our own folly.
We hdve made a fatal error, and we are now paying for it.
And so, to these yet to come, we would give fair warning. See to it
that the family you are bern into, no matter what their natural unintelligence
may be, is more than comfortably off. Only in this way can the race ever
hope to reach its highast ideals.—Life.
A Good Doctor,
One day 'in Shanghai, says a writer
In the Chicage Record-Herald, when
I was feeling sick, I called a China
man to me and “said, “John, do you
have good doctors in China?”
“Good dcctors!” he exclaimed,
“China have best doctors in wo'ld.”
“Eudon, over there,” I said, pointing
to a house covered with a doctor's
signs, “do you call him a good dce
tor?’ .
“Eudon great doctor!” he ex
claimed. *‘He great! He best doctor
in China. He save my life once!”
“You don’'t say so!” I said. “How
was it?”
“Me velly sick,” he said, confiden
tially. ‘“Me callee Doctcr Han Kou.
Givee me some medicine. Get velly.
velly sick! Me call Doctor Sam Sing.
Givee more medicine. Me grow
worse. Going to- die! Blimeby call
Doctor Eudon. He no got time, no
come. He saves my life!”
An English print, dated 1819, con
tains a picture of a woman on a trj
cycle.
A REAL FIELD FOR WOMEN.
French Chefs Are Being Supplanted
' By Our Cooking School Graduates.
This is good news that eomes from
Philadelphia, if it is only true. It is
that many cf the rich with big estab
lishments are replacing high priced
French chefs with women who have
learned their trade in Ameiican cook
ing schools. The explanation is not ]
patriotism, but poverty, at least com
parative poverty. The shrinking of
incomes caused by the slump in the
stock market last year led many rich
people into retrenchment and this
substitution of women cooks for high
priced men is cne of the devices to
tide over hard t.mes. The interesting
pait of the story is that the substi
tutes are said to be satisfactory, or at
least their cooking is. It is even ad
ded that these women might hope in
time to secure the same salaries
which used to be paid to men cooks if
they had executive ability enough to
run a big kitchen. On= o two women
run theaters, a few conduct large
shops and porhgps in tinzie women will
develcp ability enough to manage the
kitchen of a country place, and to
cook also. At least the salaries paid
in that field are well worth trying for
and far excéed those earned by wom
en, or by all save a small minority
of men, in the professions which wo
men have shown sucn anxiety to
enter. :
A curious, even pathetic side of the
movement fcr the “emancipation of
women has been that while women
were anxicus and proud to fill small
nitches at the bottom of the profes
sions which used to be considered as
exclusive fields for men, they have al
lowed men to usurp the places at
the top in the lines which were once
thought cf as peculiar to women.
Not only were the best paid cooks
men, but the best paid dressmakers
and milliners as well. When able
women wer2 leoking for new fields
it has always deen a good deal of a
puzzle that th%* did not really con
quer thesp original sphres of WO
men’s dominions and pitch the in
truding men out. Apparently some
women are at last turning their eyes
toward the private kitchens whers?
salaries running into thousands are
paid. There is room for a great
many more women there and the re
wards are of profsssioncl size.
One objection to the work on the
part of women may b that ccoking
of the sort demanded is both a sci
ence and an art, and that excellence
in it requires years of patient and
faithful study and practice. Prace
tice over a range may not be harder
than on a piano stcol, but it isn’t
nearly so crnamental, and the girl
who spends three or four years learn
ing all ther2s is to be known about
cocking cannot very well prevent
that she is just having fun. The
cooking schcols have made this sort
of serious study easier than it used
to be, and, in spite of wue uaicrous
.results achieved by rich girls who
just smatter at cooking in them, they
seem to have done some good.
- It is commonly said, too, that the
‘social barrier against domestic ser
vice ke2ps women of education or of
American back-ground out of the
work. That is no doubt true so far
as general housewcrk in ordinary
homes goes, but it is difficult to be
lieve in any very serious social bar
rier against a woman who earns $5,
000 or $lO,OOO a year running the
kitchen of some plutcerat. Who is
going to administer the snub of pro
fessionaldom to her? Will it be a
$2,000 doctor cr a $1,500 teacher or
an $BOO lawyer, who will rise and ob
ject to a woman earning four or five
times as much to the clubs and so
cieties which are open“to profession
al women? That would be a spec
tacle for mirth truly. Club women
furnish a good many entertaining
stories for the newspapers, but no
election in a federation ever equalled
the intersst which would be com
manded by the blackballing of a wo
man cook earning the income com
manded by men in that business on
the ground that she was a “servant.”
If women really have the brains to
cook as well as men do, they would
petter start in and prove it. The pay
is far beyond anything they can hope
to command in medicine or law or
teaching, and the social position of
any woman- who earns that income
will take care of itself. If women
of brains are coming to see this, “the
woman movement” will grow less
lopsided.—BroJdklyn Eagle.
LB S ST
Gold in the Transvaal.
During the first four months of 1904
the Transvaal mined 1,192,514 ounces
of gold, worth $24,651,143. During a
corresponding period in 1903 the out
put was 831,128 ounces, worth $17,-.
387,532. The total product of gold
in 1903 was worth $61,265,570. If the
rate of production of the first four
months of 1904 is maintained, the
Transvaal will yield in 1904 at least
$77,864,000 worth of the yellow metal
—in cther words, as much as in the
- just preceding the Boer War.
The introduction of Chinese labor is
expected to put the colony in a posi
tion to maintain the production fig
ures of*previous years. English en
thusiasts are lcoking for a future out
put in the Transvaal of $120,000,600 to
$150,000,000 a year. :
What such & production must mean
to the world’s workshops is hard to
realize. It will mean a vast increase
in South Africa’s purchases of dyna
mite, explosives, steel, quicksilver, cy
anide, zine, electric and other pumps,
steel hammers, stone-boring machines,
pipes, ete. Fcoods will be wanted in
vast quantities. It will take a year
or two to get the increasing ratio on
o reasonable basis. What the effect
is to be on the stock of the South
African companies can hardly be ar
rived at by means of the information
at hand, and no very great optimism
ought to be indxllg;ed in. The stable
concerns are now high above par, and
the others may ¥xever reach par, even
with increas:d production.
Hard to Explain. ;
A lawyer who appreciated a first
class joke on himself was at the Galt
House last night. Phil B. Nelson, of
Roanoke, Virginia, is his official title.
“When a barrister of cnly a few
months’ experience,” said he, “I had
cecasion to examine a negro witness.
1 was getting along fairly well until
I asked the negro what was his occu
pation.
“ I'se a carpenter, sah,” hz said.
“ ‘What kind cf a carpenter? 1
asked. . i
““They calls me a jack-leg carpen
ter, sah.’ :
“*“What is a jack-leg carpenter?’
“‘He is a carp:nter who is not a
fust-class carpenter, sah.’
f“sWell explain fully v2at you un
derstand a jack-leg carpenter to bs,
I insisted.
“‘Boss,’” caid the witness, ‘I declare
I dunno how to ’splain any mo’, ’cept
to say it am jes’ th: same differsnce
‘twixt you and a fust-class lawyer.”
About Voices.
Fine voices, it is said, are seldom
found in a country where fisn diet pre
vails. Those Italians who eat the
most fish (those of Naples and Genoa)
have few fine singers among them.
The sweet vcices are found in the
Irish women of the country, and not
of the towns. Norway is not a coun
try of singers, because they eat too
much fish, but Sweden is a country
of grain and song. The carnivorous
~birds croak: crain-eatine hirds .sing.
| A wueer Phenomena,
A French authority had two ther
mometers—one of ordinary glass, the
~other painted black—placed in the
~sun. In the white glass the mercury
~rose to 144. Under the black paint
it went up to 157 in the same position.
The inference is that people who wear
black ccats are warmer in the sun
shine than those who dress in white.
P.reparations are being made by the
Swiss Blondin, a Genevese nmamed
Chaupis, to climb down a wire cahle
froni the summit of the Eiffel tower
in Pazpis. ,