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If You Know Thoroughly
the Lives of Three Men,
You Know Humanity
The education that men tret after they grow up is their real
education. Millions of men in this country are educating them
selves reading. What they know when they die will consist of
what they have learned since they stopped studying at school.
And this includes those that went to college, took the usual
degrees, and imagined that they were educated, when they
knew nothing.
Here is a suggestion for the man trying Io educate himself,
who has not had the advantage of direction by trained educators.
TO BEGIN. FIND (H’T ALL ABOI'T ONE IMPORTANT
MAN.
Better still, find out al) about THREE importent men. After
that, find out all you can about three important women. You
can’t possibly find out ALL about any important woman, for the
reason that MEN have done the writing of history, and hitherto
they have not thought it worth while to write much of a se
rious kind about the women, and. besides, they haven’t thought
it worth while to give the women a chance to do what they
might really have done.
A man who reads for half an hour about this great man. a
half an hour about that, and who at the end of the year has
read about a hundred or more men imagines that he is getting an
education. He is merely getting a smattering.
You ought to KNOW the man whom you study, the two or
three types of great men upon whom your attention is concen
trated, as the chemist knows the drop of sea water which he
analyzes.
A man has said truly that if you know all about one drop
of wafer, you know all about the ocean.
The solemn lady who sits beside you as you read this may
tell you that yon can’t know all about the ocean unless you
know all about the fishes in it and all about the pearls in the
decayed oysters. But that is apart from the question.
The ocean is made of salt water. It is composed of oxygen,
hydrogen and certain mineral salts. And if yon know all about
three drops of water from the Atlantic, the Pacific and some
other ocean, you know about all the oceans of the world.
Humanity is made up of certain qualities, certain spiritual
faculties, certain instincts working subject to environment.
If yon know all about three typical great men. you know all
about one-half of the human rae-- And if you know all about
three great women, you know all about the other half of the
human race.
Pick out with cart> the men and the women that you study
Don’t devote your attention to Alexander, Caesar and Napo
leon if you know all about Napoleon you know all about Alex
ander and Caesar. And if you know all about Caesar you know
practically everything about the other two.
Those three men simply represent ambition, expressing itself
in battle.
In studying men take three ditTerent types. Begin with Napo
leon if you choose.
Then take some great scientist, then a great poet or musician.
If you understood thoroughly ine character, the ambitions
and ihe work of three such men as Napoleon. Darwin and Beetho
ven. .f you studied them in every detai’ of their lives, private and
public, and knew them thoroughly, you would know all men.
And if you then vent back and studied others like them
Alexander for fighting. Aristotle for science and Phidias for art
you would Hnd no important difference between your three
great men of the old day and your three great men of today.
The important thing is to know three men absolutely, thor
oughly. ami three worn nas nearly as possible thoroughly.
THEN YOL WILL KNOW THE HINMAN RACE.
It is difficult to name the three women, for as yet women
have not had a chance.
Madame Roland is worth study, but more because of the
conditions under which she lived than because of her personality.
The sister of Herschel, the astronomer, exemplifying devo
tion to family and to truth, is worthy of study.
The famous Christiana of Sweden, who encouraged
philosophy, who prov d marvellously the power of woman to
govern, and then went all to pieces suddenly, is also worth study
ing. Her life teaches you that women are good as long as men
will let them alone.
Maria Theresa, who for so long protected her rights against
the greatest soldier in Europe, is another life to study.
The life of the wonderful Olympias, mother of Alexander the
Gr« at. the lady who probable killed her husband to put her son
on the throne, or to give the power and the treasure to her
lover, tin lad) ee ho danced dressed in nothing in particular,
with snakes around her. and who gave birth to one of the most
wonderful men in the world, would be worth studying.
The quiet little old Scotch woman smoking a pipe at the
e irm r of the fire, mother of Carlyle, or the broad-hipped Cursi
can woman. Letizia Ramolino. who gave Napoleon to Europe;
I ll«»l SANDS OF SITU WOMEN ARE ON THE PAGES OF
lIISJOIO Stud) thre. of them, know all that you can about
them.
'Mud) line, ini'u KNOW ALL that you can about each ope.
(| ■ ir to otic man. rather than givinv a year to three hun-
II 1 i'>• and )mi will knov - inietliinv YOl’ WILL KNOW
I THE HI MAN RACE
The Atlanta Georgian
FT PACKING UP
By HAL COFFMAN.
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Some Truths About Feminine Fascination
77/f Clinging Vines, With the Come-Hither Lmk in Their Eyes, Exercise It Most
A GROUP of women were dis
cussing another woman who
was neither uncommonly
beautiful, nor clever, nor accom
plished, but had made three very
excellent marriages. They could
not understand the secret of her
fascination for nu n.
■ Ah," said an old Scotchman who
was listening to. them. " "tis not
beauty, nor intelligence, nor wit
that draws men to a woman. It's
the come-hither look in her eyes.”
"But what is the come-hither
look in a woman’s eyes?” they a-k
--ed him but the old man could only
shake his head. He recognized it
when he saw it. but he eould not
describe it.
Neither can any one else tvll
what is the secret of a woman s
fascination; nor do we know why
one woman has it, and another
lacks it.
It has to do with a woman's
look-. Yet the whole of it is not
beauty. for we all know women of
classical form and features whom
all men admire at i distance —and
are content to keep their own dls
st nee. Some of the handsomest
women in ever', community arc old
maids, the tradition of whose
youthful fairne-s lingers like 'a
halo about them as long as they
live. It is also notorious tha' beau
ties generally make the worst mar
riages.
Marriage Easy.
< »n the other hand, there tire girls
with no claim whatever to pulchri
tude. who could have as many hus
bands as they have fingers and toes
were not one husband as much is
any woman can stand mussing
around the house. Indeed, it is al
most an axiom that the woman who
can marry once can marry again
should Providence or the divorce
court free her.
Nor does i woman's fascination
for men have any relation to her
worth of character. Theoretically,
men worship goodness, purity,
amiability, modesty and domestici
ty in a woman, but |>ersonally they
do not run after the model of vir
tue that possesses all of these shin
ing attributes. That kind of girl is
generally the girl that a man rec
ommends other men to marry, but
doesn't himself.
The women who have held men
In thrall, from the time of Adams
first wife down to the youngest
chorus girl have not been noticea
ble sot their goodness Men have
known them sot what tluj were,
they have it piobrulvd them, ami
ITIFRSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1912.
Bv DOROTHY DIX
despised them, but they saw’the
come-hither look in the women’s
eyes, and they followed it to their
doom.
Even less has intelligence in a
woman anything to do with her
fast ination for men. (>n the con-
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DOROTHY DIX.
triry. feminine brains are caviar,
as a general thing, to the mascu
line taste, and the less sense a
woman li s the bettor men like her.
Any pretty fool can marry a dozen
times to a college graduate's once,
and the surest way for a girl to
eliminate the beau proposition is to
attempt to talk to men as if she
w ere a reasonable human In ing in
stead of a foolish, fluttering butter
fly.
Brains Below Par.
The limit of intelligence that the
average min will stand for in a
woman is for her to have shrewd
ness enough to hide what she
knows and jolly him along so that
she mah'S him feel that he is as
big and strong as a real giant,
and knows more than a dictionary.
If neither beauty, wit nor virtue
light the bt aeon In a woman's eyes,
what does then?
I’t Imarlly It is sex. Tin re are
women who are human beings, and
there arc other women who are just
w omen. There are women in whom
femininity is raised to the ninth
power. There is not a line of their
, bodies nor a quality of their minds
nor a fiber of their characters that
isn't just all woman, and these
women by the very law of nature
draw every man they meet toward
them, as a magnet attracts the
needle.
Clinging Vines.
You can not think of these women
standing alone in the world, or
fighting their own battles. They
are bound to have something to
hang on to, and it is to the honor of
men that these clinging vines never
stretch out their tendrils in vain.
Some man always stops up and
qualifies for the oak role. The
more utterly feminine a woman, the
more irresistible her eharm for
man. and this shows why the busi
ness girl, the good fellow girl, and
the athletic girl who looks and acts
like a man's little brother hasn't
got the come-hither look in her
Undoubtedly, also, the come-hith
er look in a woman's eye is a look
that expresses w illingness. It is not
the hard, predatory look of' the
huntress of men, of the woman who
is determined to chase down a hus
band and catch him, and bear him
as a sacrifice to the altar. From
that look even the boldest man
flees for liberty and life. Nor is it
the cold, self-satisfied, self-contain
ed look of the bachelor maid that
says that her heart is an impregna
ble fortress that she dares a man
to try to break into. That look
affronts 4 man's vanity, and makes
him feel that the game isn't worth
the candle.
The come-hither look is a flatter
ing look, a gentle, yielding, caress
ing look that makes every man feel
that he is a hero of romance, and
ready to swear that he is the ONLY"
ONE that has ever had that signal
wig-wagged to him from the eyes of
beauty. It is a fluttering, flaunting
beacon to come on into the land of
love, and a man would have to be
more or less than a man if he didn't
answer it.
A curious thing about the come
hither look in a woman's eyes is
that no other woman can see it In
her sister's orbs. She only recog
nizes Its results. Nor can she ac
quire It If she hicks it. It's a gift
of the gods, and comes, as Dogberrj
thought a knowledge of reading and
writing did. b\ nature.
THE HOME PAPE
Thomas Tapper
Writes on
The Educa
tion of the
Voter ■
The President’s Cabi
net, Consisting of
Nine Men, Each of
Whom .Ip Chosen
for His Ability to
Run the Depart
ment of Which He
Is the Head.
THE affairs of a country so
large as the United States
constitute an extensive busi
ness. Like any other great busi
ness, it depends for successful op
eration upon a head (the presi
dent) and a large number of as
sistants. who are deputized to do
certain branches of the work.
As the head of no large enter
prise can personally attend to
everything that arises in the daily
progress ’of its business, so the
president of the United States is
powerless to run the government
alone. So far as in him lies, he
is expected to organize the work, to
deputize as much of it as possible,
and to supervise it all as closely
a.4 any one human being can do so.
Associated with the president of
the United States are nine men.
These nine men constitute what is
known as the cabinet. To each
man there is intrusted a depart
ment of the government’s business.
These men are appointed by the
president, by and with the consent
of the senate, it is assumed that
each man is chosen for his pecu
liar fitness to do the special work
of the department of which he'is
the head.
Each Cabinet Officer
Has Many Assistants.
Seven of these nine men are
known as secretaries. They are the
secretaries of (1) state, (2) war,
(3) navy. (4) treasury, (5) interior,
(6) agriculture, (7) commerce and
labor. The remaining two are the
(8) attorney general and (9) post
master general.
Each of these departments is an
extensive business requiring a large
corps of assistants to carry it on.
The members of the cabinet meet
at the white house to report upon
the work of the departments to the
president, and to discuss with him
all matters of government business
and policy. These conferences are
known as cabinet meetings. They
constitute a department of govern
ment work not provided for in the
constitution.
No record of the cabinet meetings
is made, and the public is not in
formed of what takes place at them.
In fact, the cabinet has no legal
existence, in a strict sense. It is
merely an advisory body. The
president may, or may not. follow
the advice of the cabinet members.
Their duty is tn consult c?ith him
and to offer such advice as seems
to them pertinent. The duty of the
president is to make up liis own
mind, after weighing all evidence,
and then to decide on his own re
sponsibility.
Tlte constitution provides, in ease
of the removal of the president from
office, or his death, resignation, or
inability to discharge the powers
and duties of that office, that the
vice president shall succeed to the
WHERE IS ARMAGEDDON?
Colonel Theodors Roosevelt,
At Large in U. S.:
Dear Colonel—Lots of us in
Georgia are fer yer, and will fight
fe> yer, but I notice you say the
fight is to be at "Armageddon," and
we fellers don't know whar that is.
We have inquired of all the boys in
this n ek of the woods and no one
seems to know whar it is. 1 got
down my old gography and looked
all the way through it, but I can
find no -ic<h place as you say the
fight is to be. Is it near Red Oak
or Lick Skillet, or Griffin, or Way
cross, or is it somewhar neat Bull
Run 01 Bunker Hill, or Gettysburg,
or Yorktown, or Austerlitz, or Wa
terloo?
Good many of the boys think it is
near Waterloo. 1 hope not, as this
place has a bad reputation for
Progressives.
1 asked all my nabors about it
and they can not tell me 1 a'ked
Colonel Lowry Arnold, who knows
what manj a light took place, a-
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lie THOMAS TAPPER.
office. In the event of the removal
of the vice president, in turn, before
the expiration of the term, the office
of president devolves upon the sec.
retary of state, in fact, provision
js now made for the presidential
succession through the entire list
of cabinet officers.
The Most Important
Cabinet Officer.
It has happened five times tn the
history of the United States that
the vice ptesident has succeeded to
the’ presidency— John Tyler, Mil
lard Fillmore. Andrew Johnson,
Chester A. Arthur and Theodore
Roosevelt being the vice presidents
who succeeded to the higher ofli< e
through the death of the president.
It is generally recognized that
the first in importance of the cabi
net officers is the secretary of state
He has in charge all business be
tween our own and foreign gov
ernments. He is, strictlly speak
ing, our minister of foreign affairs.
He is • authorized (and no other
cabinet officer is) to negotiate with
foreign governments in the name
of the president'. It is the duty of
the secretary of state to supervise
the publication of all laws, treaties
and proclamations.
The salary of each cabinet officer
is $12,000 per year, a small sum
when one considers the importance
of the offices to be filled and the
experience and skill necessary to fill
them propelly. It has been urged
that the services of cabinet officers
would be of greater value to the
• government if they were given
seats in congress. This would tend
to loosen the restrictions by which
the officers are bound.
It must be remembered that the
nine executive departments of our
government were created by acts
of congress; that the bringing to
gether of these nine men to consti
tute a new organization, advisory
to the president, is sanctioned
neither by tile constitution nor by
law. Custom alone has established
the relation of this body of tnen to
the chief executive, and the impos
sibility of any one man attending
personally to all the business "f the
government makes such an advis
ory body necessary.
He Must Keep in
Close Touch With Policies.
Hence, it has come about that
the importance of a cabinet officer
is greater in his relation to the
president than to the actual busi
ness of his department. For the
latter thbre ate skilled assistants to
v horn the important work of the
department is intrusted. But, so
the former, the necessity of c'o-’
and intimate relation with the pres
ident, his party and his policies is
so great that any considerable dif
ference of opinion between a ■ abi
ru't officer and the president gener
ally results in the retirement of the
cabinet member.
he is solicitor and tries folk fer
fighting, but he is sure there is no
sich place, unless it is some place
in the Bible, and he says he is not
posted on places mentioned In the
skripters, tho’ he ought to be, for
he is goin’ to one of ’em some <1
Maybe the place you nam
sonu whar near "All Hazards
have hearn of All Hazards, but
was never located, alt ho’ our
friend. Bill Arp, made a 1
search for it. If we can not
’em at Armageddon because ""
not Know how to git than just t
back and we will try to lick
t'er yer at All Hazards.
You ought to name some
place for the tight more. f< ’
to us boys In Georgia l.’i.i
Armageddon you speak of ’
you ate goin’ to git the
licked outen yer if you don't
up and tell us whar Armage i
and how we can git than
As Evet Youti
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