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EDITORIAL PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Every Afternoon Ex-ept Sunday By THE GEORGIAN COMPANT At 20 East Alabama St.. Atlanta, Ga. Entered as second-class matter at postoffice at Atlanta, under act of 'arch 3. 18-5. Subscription Price—Delivered by cat Her. 10 cents a week. By tn a-1. 00 a year. Payable in advance. A Man Does Not Get Old Until He Is Ninety— . r ». r. Os Course Not,. Ninety Should Be the Prime of Life. A Hundred and Forty-four Will Be a Good Average Old Age in Days to Come. At a meeting of the Medico-Legal society, recently, it was stated that a man <»f fifty ought to have forty good years ahead of him. As a matter of fact, a man of fifty in the really scientific and civilized flays that arc to come, will have NINETY GOOD \ EARS AHEAD OF HIM. There was a day only a few generations back—when the sec- ond largest city in France had nos one single man or woman past fifty years of age. Sewerage ran through the open streets and info the wells. The graveyards were on the hills above the villages and the diseases of the dead ran down into the springs. Plague occasionally killed half of all the people. And regularly it killed them before half their natural life had passed. Now. a man at fifty is considered young—he. was once gray bearded, waiting for death. In days to come, and not far off, the man of ninety will be in his prime. Old age will begin long past a hundred. And death will eomc in the case of the average, well behaved num. at between 1 10 and 150 years of age. The exceptional man will live to two hun drrd and probably be very tiresome telling of the changes that lie has seen in real estate values. An animal should live at least ten times as long as the time it takes him to reach the age of reproduction A horse becomes a father at two years of age and lives to be at least twenty—even to forty. The animals, on an average, all live at least ten limos as long as it takes them to roach the paternal age. Man becomes a father at the earliest at about fifteen. And. according to the simple rule, he ought to live to a hundred and fifty. Life will he divided up into interesting periods when it reaches its full length Youth will last, with its imagination, hopes and romance, to about fifty. Earnest, bard work will last from fifty to a hundred. From nnc hundred to a hundred ami twenty-five years of age a man will work intellectually, getting the best results of his observations and experiences. At a hundred and twenty-five he will become self-indulgent, take life quietly, sit up at night examining the stars, wondering where he will go next, reading the latest books, traveling around the world occasionally—perhaps once a month when the trip shall take only one day. The old man of a hundred and forty will become really self indulgent, work very little, enjoy ten years of pleasure and intel tactual excitement —then die and begin all over again on this earth or some other. And that is not so very far off. This world moves very rapidly. Married to a Turk By WINIFRED BLACK MRS MARGERY SOMEBODY I ■SOMETHING, of Devon shire, England, has fallen in love with a Turk and run away and married him. and now she's gons to Turkey to wear a veil and anklets, and live in a harem, and learn to like sweetmeats flavored with perfume, and be a real harem heroine. How romantic—for a few n eoksl The Turk is » very handsome Turk and very well educated—and, oh! ho did make such desperate love —said he'd die if Margery Somebody Something didn’t mar ry him right then and there gave her rubies as big as pigeons’ eggs and emeralds the size of thimbles, and he fairly hung her in diamonds the very week they were married. And then he’s so divinely Jeal ous- almost died of fury when the waiter asked her what she would order next, and threatened to com mit murder if she allowed her own first 'ousin, who had been brought up in the same hntl'f with her, ever to speak to her again Delicious, delightful, glorious foj a few min utes I But afterward" Poor little Margery Somebody Something I wonder how long It will b- till she will give all the emeralds tn t’urkey to sec one hon est English face, and how long will it take her, 1 wonder, tn hate the very sight nf anklets and Io wt«h she had never b“en born when ebs nas to sit on a cushion and fit the anil 1 x of a gr* a y hedi tired dancing girl, w ho makes per feetly shocking eyes at the hand some Turk right before her 'tv eyes ? Dife in a harem’ H«w romantic it does sound fountain' bulbil’s, blank slaver, th* clash of anklets' the swish of tin oied veils Rut how stupid, how wearmglv. mad dening>v stupid it must b« after the first L't hours No one to talk to but the hand some Turk. and he doesn’t ■ are much to hear women talk. I'tanks No papers to read, no books, no friends, no traveling, nothing but sweetmeats and veils and perfume and the Terrible Turk Mystery, seclusion, secrecx how well they sound tn a book, amt what a hore they always an m real life. Mysterious people an never clever people, they are just dull and very often cruel ■ that's <1! The dark flashing eyes that are so alluring before marriage run be come a frightful nuisance after the wedding ceremony if they never do anything hut flash And. putting I everything else aside, oh. Margery Somebody Something, didn’t you realize in the least the terrific ef fect of centuries of absolutely dif ferent training" Why. it’s hard enough to get over the fact that your busband likes hot biscuits when you like "light bread," as lie will persist in calling for it. though every one knows or should know that bread is bread and biscuit biscuit. it's difficult enough to get on with a Westerner who is always finding some excuse for ’’shedding" his collar, if you Irippen to be New England born and want every stick in the wood pile as straight as a string. Rut to marry a man of different nationality, different training, dif ferent ideals, oven different tastes in clothes, and quite, oh. quite, dif ferent notions of the proper thing to eat for breakfast, is a much more serious matter. Oh, little Miss Margery Some body Something, my heart fairly aches for you this very hour, it does, indeed'. Whit ate you doing now, pray tell" Having paint an inch thick smeared all over your nice, fresh English complexion to please your lord and master? That’s what he is over there, you see; not Just a plain husband but a lord and mas ter. Are you begging him humbly to let yon go out with a eunuch for a toddle jurt a little pitiful, veiled, waddled toddle in a walled gar drp omen here, where you can’t see a soul but the old toad who live under the great red-flowered bush by the water gate.' 1 your mother-in law living with you in the harem, and how many favorites are there there now ? Non* and vou r»'gn alone" M’ell, it’s early yet. and you are. they say, very’ pretty . you haven’t cried all the blue out of your poor eyes vet poor thing, poor, little, foplish thing. 1 ittle Miss- Margery Somebody Something, tell us. pray, what do yon expect, and why in the name of common sense no you expect it" You are as foolish as the man 1 know who has Just married a lit tic g...we <>f a flirt Just because she b.is pretty hair and a dimple, and who is beginning to blame her for •mt knowing what he means when lie talks about the "higher destiny of mail " Marrtag. is no talisman turrsing < a I.oh nature right straight a round. How ryot did tny of u- get the !<!• t t liar it w a I’liaf' what al- I ■« a -tmzzlf m- The Atlanta Georgian HE NEVER HAD A CHANCE That Is What Nine Men Out of Ten Who Arc Failures Say. Look Out That You Don’t Say It Yourself. By TAD JHH ga f ■■ || apis ■ wffl nil No. 5. Yuni’s little lighter did so well that the money was coining in faster than he could spend it. It was really the first soft dough he ever had. and it went as it came. easy. He learned to play pool around the neighborhood; then later was so good that he meandered up to the Broadway pool parlors, where lhet played for money. He might as well be seen up there with the big sports. Who was better known than Yum’.' He met a boy from his old town up there ami got an earfnll of news. Some of his school friends were in business and getting along fairly. DOROTHY DIX WRITES OF Some Reasons Why Women Love Scamps Bv DOROTHY DUX W’ V du zrai ■''less* jnod-fnr nothings seem to have a peviiliai fiiscinai ion for women ’ Why will a wife cling to some worthless, drunken reprobate of a husband with a devotion that nothing can lessen, while she will get up and leave for a trivial a perfectly upright and worthy man who is a g.ioil provitlei Why is the black sheep im ariably mother's darling among all hci children'.’ To answer these questions we have to go back to the Garden nf Eden attd our first mother, who risked Paradise to find nut ahfmt wicked things 'he had no business knowing. The same curiosity about forbidden things is still rampant in every Innocent and ignorant femi nine breast, and the man who is re puted to bo wild and lawless still fires her fancy as lin serpent did Eve's, because he reptesenis lo her the world of things whose doors arc closed Io her. Heaven knows that, in reality, there is nothing romant'c in the drunkard, or the gambler or the roue, or the ne’er-do-well. He’s a sordid enough figur* to any wlm look at him with clear eyes, but the imagination of foolish women make of his vices a prime's cloak towrap him in. and Hirn his weaknesses and shlftlessnrss into high spirits, laterally no good, honeio. indue tiiuijs, every -day soft of a man can compete in a woman's favor with a scamp, and no man has st potent a wax of wooing as be won h.t the story of a dark and stni-im past to tell. The Roller the Worna.it the Worse She Takes the Man Tn Rr And. • urmtisly enough, th*’ better the woman the worse she the man to be That is why tmt; so often marry villains. The woman who has seen much of the world, and who knows that pasts have a way of coming home to roost, imb that there is nothing '■mitnlic or dashing about a man who comes staggering along. ftuidb >1 with drink, or who gambles away the grocery money, picks out a goon clean, thrifty man when she want' a husband. Rm the unsotthisti atcl woman, who knows nothing of the roalitb -of life, falls > viriim to tim bi < mil = hnumi a of Hi. .amp if In f > r-n . o t ,« . W EDNESI) AY, XT A V 29, 1912. <if course, in explanation of why women seem to have a peculiar mania for loving unworthy men, it may be said that the black sheep very often has graces and charms of personality lhat his white broth er lacks. It is a truism that vice is generally more attractive than virtue, and ail of us know from per sonal experience how much more lovable certain people are who have nothing but their faults to recom mend them than certain other peo ple who are models of all the vir i ues. We have all seen sonm man who was a light in the church, an ex ample in the community, the very pattern of probity, and honesty, a man whose wife rode in her auto mobile. and had a fine house, and rich clothing, and everything ap parently that the heart of woman could desire, die. and leave a widow who made scarcely a pretense of regretting him. We have seen an other man d’e who had been almost an outcast in the community, and whose wife had gone shabby and poor, and toiled to support him, and he left behind him a broken hearted widow who mourned him to the day of her death. Woman's Ruling Passion Is Desire to "Reform Some One. Sm h «poeta< l‘ ' irmlaf m marvel at th# s i I logic of won.op. and '■•ay that a man h.t -- small encourage ment to co straight, oi to work hi fingers to th* bom upporting h v ifp. if he »->xi ip« t h.ei to love liim in proportion for v- hat hp i? m dor for li'-'i Th* s answer i? that I\ r- i o f ’ niAtri’ of v<»ljtinn, and the man who gives hi wife <ympa th* and tcnde r ?i'--s sometim' < giv r s h< v I’.i.o’. thati hp \xh.» bivrs his V ifp and 'bom*•»nd Another rea »n wh\ . lack ht=pp hfjvf a fa * • nie» ti<»ii for waiicn ' lip'-aiisp the ruling passion v ith th* 5 px i< reformation No woman < m • . thing, or anybody, without a consuming d' s sir. iq make th'-m o\ oi according to h'-r own littl* poitorat'd p<ip»i pattorn.- ’rho man who is tir»a'i\ walking in th. straight ami narrow path of fp| • small opportunity foi the ex er iso of th' 1 piejsim of refortna tion The im»‘ t hi- wife can hope to do ’ to make h>m rut his hair •jn.'thpr wax. <m| lm\ anotlmi cty|o collar and let hr» ph k mp hi - n..’ki,e- but th*» «l»nnkard. or »h- Ol‘ course, it would hr sears before they’d £et what he made in a week. He smiled as be heard of them. Hoot' boobs! An uncle wrote Yum offering him a position in a big store with a chance Io advance, but he couldn’t see it at all. Why work like a slave when you can get it by managing fighters? Huh? The game was flourishing, but there was some talk of putting a stop Io it. Yum was a bit worried, but figured boxing too popular to be stopped. He played pool and spent his even'ings in pleasure. Why should he worry? (To Be Continued.) gambler, or the man with a past i.« like a free ticket to a picnic to her. She has a vision of her altering his entire manner of lift', xycaning him awa.x from all of his former associates, quenching his thirst, outing the itch in his fingers for the pasteboards, blinding him to all other womop and leading him upto the higher life, during all of which proceeding she is having the time of her life. That is why. when a bad man makes a little, ignorant, unsophisticated gill his Mother f’onfessur. ami tells her that he only needs her influence to make him another man. that it is all over except semling <»ut th*- wedding cards. Still another, and the crucial reason, why women love scamps is the eternal mother love that is at the bottom nf every woman's la-art, and that is its guiding impulse. Women max admire strength in a man. but weakness makes an ap peal to the very < ore of their being that strength never does. They max I'-vere the man who stands alone, like a rock against the storm, who has th*- ability » » achieve and com mand. hut tb»’.x take the poor dere lict of life, v. jnd beaten, broken, hciplPS', in ihpir arms, and hide his -‘hame upon their breasts. Thcx max glory in the triumphs of the speeps: ful man. hut it is the failure wh" <onip ; - limping home defeated sot whom they—make a <iown out of thmr tenderpes'- and pits Mother T.nveg Wayward Son Because Hp Needs It. than hpi -trong. clever, healthy children the mother loves best the ptie that i o* LI \ or dpfornied. nr fppt,u> minded Because he ne» d her patience and her lox e most the* tooth'r lox e her w axward son most Because a'l others have turn • d awax from him and he has no oth* t home -dip keeps the light burning in th*' imiow for the prodigal, ami has the warmest wel come for him .when he comes • •topping bark in rag and tatters God gave to woman this divine power of forgtxcnrss. this fountain of love that tlow s the more the more it is drawn iipmi this brood ing (rntbimss that take- in and shelter all th* weak and ormg. \nd men m*x well think < «od th it it i ,-o. THE HOME PAPER Ella Wheeler Wilcox \ Writes on 1 The Future of the Public j I School I -—and--- * fi I The Situation as It Is ||MH I Now | Written For The Atlanta Georgian By Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copyright, 1912, by American-Journal-Examiner. A BOY of erratic tendencies, to gether with exceptionally bright intellectual qualities, was always in trouble in his city school. He took small interest in his studies, was often late, and his report usually brought sorrow to his home. He moved into the country and entered a graded school, and be came enamored of study, went eagerly to his classes and was re ported among the leaders in all his studies. There were two explanations of this change. One was the normal, free, out of-doors life the bov lived; the other was that HE WAS ONE OF FIFTEEN IN HIS CLASSES IN STEAD OF ONE OF SIXTY, AS IN TOWN. He felt no individual responsibil ity in the throng, but in the smaller band of students he stood forth a personality, and be felt the "no blesse oblige" of the situation. A wave of dissatisfaction is sweeping over the country regard ing our school system. And eventually this will cause a change to be made. The larger understanding of mothers regarding education will result in the personal element en tering into the training of chil dren More Teachers, Higher Pay, Fewer Scholars Needed. When women have a voice in the affairs of the nation there will be more teachers, larger salaries, fewer pupils in each department, and more attention will be given to the temperaments and varying dispositions of children bv their in structors. Instead of regarding the little ones who enter public schols as machines which must be taught to go according to one rule, each child will hr studied as a threefold being, and his mind, body and spirit will he cared for and developed accord ing to liis own peculiar needs. All this "ill come slowly, but it will come. Before children enter the' public schools there should be a great, sifting process under the direction of a national board of scientific men. The brain equipment of each child, the tendencies given it at birth, should be tested: then the nervous, hysterical and erratic minds ought to be placed in a school by themselves, under th° tare of men and women who know the law of mental suggestion. Quiet, loving, wholesome rules, followed day after day and month after month, would bring these children out into the light of self control and concentration. The The Little Suffragette I I By WILLIAM F. KIRK. 1 j SHE wouldn't know a ballot if she saw one. ], She doesn’t care for Roosevelt or for Taft . I She couldn't tell a "cooked'' poll from a raw one. I And never dreamed of Senatorial graft ! She never prates of woman’s real position. ■ And, up to date, has never cared for strife. 1 She hasn't much to say about ambition ffi She couldn't make a speech to save her life. r She’s dainty as a morning-glory petal. She's sunny as the brightest morn in Mav, She leaves the votes to folk of sterner metal >M Because she's only two years old todav. I U If stubborn men could catch her dimpled greeting ■ H And get one chance her curly head to pet; They'd sanction women's voting yes. rcpeatingl ll Every one love* a baby suffragette, f 11 hurried, crowding exciting meth* ods of the public schools are disas trous to fully half of the unformed minds sent in the intellectual mael strom which America provides der the name of public schools. Schools Unsafe for Average American Child. For the well bom, normal tnlnd-* ed, healthy bodied child, who has wise and careful guardians or pa rents to assist tn his mental guid ance, the public school forms a good basis on which to build an education. For the average Ameri can child of excitable nerves and precocious tendencies. It Is like deep surf swimming for the inex perienced and adventurous bather. The great foundation of educa tion—character—is not taught In the public schools. There Is no sys tematized process of developing a child's power of concentration; there is not time for this in the cramming process now In vogue and with the enormous pressure placed on teachers. No teacher can do justice tn more than fifteen children through the school hou-s. In many of our public schools there are fifty amd sixty children under one Instruct or. This is fatal to the nervous sys tem of the teacher and deprives the pupils of that personal sympathy , which is of such vital Importance. Luther Burbank, the famous (UK - -- I —- ifornia horticulturist, declares that the great object and alm of his life Is to apply to the training of chil dren those scientific Ideas which he has so successfully employed in working transformation in plant life. The Rev. Dr. .lames W. Lee, pastor of St. Johns Southern Meth odist church, of St.J.ouis, and for merly of Atlanta, went to Santa. Rosa. Cal., for an interview with Mr. Burbank He said Io Mr. Bur bank that he had referred to his work In an address at Portland, Oreg., and had expressed the wish that he might introduce into the method of rearing children some of the scientific ideas that he was ap plying every day to the improve ment of plants. Burbank Says Children Need Spiritual Influences. Dr. I.ee says that Mr Burbank replied: "That Is the great ob ject and aim of my life." Continuing. Mr. Burbank de clared that plants, weeds and trees were responsive to a few influences in their environment, but that chil dren were infinitely more respnn -ive. and the failure io recognize the spiritual elements in the. en vironing conditions of children'hail - ' been the fatal lack in dealing with them _ |