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EDITORIAL, PAGE THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN Published Every Af'ernoon Except Sunday Bj THE GEORGIAN COMPANY At 20 East Alabama St.. Atlanta. Ga. Entered as second-class matter at po.'.ofttce at Atlanta, under act of March 8. U?». Subscription Price—Delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week By mall, $5.00 a year Payable in advance. Atlanta's Real Love of Music Ison Trial » » tr The Size of the Audience at the Philharmonic Concerts Will Be the Test. Atlanta, proud of its annual grand opera season, its rnaii nifiei ut Auditorium organ, its reputation as a <ib of culture, has an opportunity this winter to prove whether it loves music for music's sake or fills boxes and chairs ai the opera h.-cause it is the correct thing to do. The Atlanta Philharmonic orches tra has become the test. Before a fairly large audience the I’hilh irnionie orchestra, sixty excellent Atlanta musicians, gave its first concert of the sea son at the Grand last Sunday afternoon. Its work, despite inade quate rehearsals, was a revelation even to the urnst critical music lovers in thi* audience. Such intricate, dil’fieull numbers as Beetho ven’s Fifth Symphony ami the Slavic march of the Russian intis ter. Tschaikowsky. wore played with technique and expression in keeping with their importance. Mortimer Wilson, the new con ductor. proved himself fully capable of w.dding into a instrument the sixtv individuals he had drawn togetlmr for the concert. It was not the Boston Symphony, it was not Theodore ‘Thomas, but it was an ondiestra superior to an.\ professional or ganization heard here in recent seasons, ami one of which Atlanta may well lie proud. The Atlanta Musical association believes the time has come when the city can enjoy and appreciate and support the best or chestral music, just as it has supported the annual season of grand opera. The Philharmonic will not pint rag-time, for there | is plenty of rag-time at unv five-cent theater. But it will give frequent concerts where music of lighter vein, yet excellent music for all that, will be played. It will make an earnest effort to bring about an appreciation of the best work of the greatest composers, ami to become as much an important factor in At lanta as its business enterprise, its public spirit and its universal energy. It may be the means of making Atlanta as famous as a center of culture as it is now famous for its commercial success. , The Philharmonic concerts are given on Sunday afternoons. •Firi . because many of its members are professional musicians i who must play elsewhere every day and night in the week, and second, because the musical association believes, with a great | number of other citizens that Atlanta has reached a period when ' public sentiment demands something on its Sunday afternoons besides the alternative of strolling in the streets or staying in doors with a book. It believes' that uplifting, inspiring music may be no less helpful in its influence because it is heard in a theater instead of a church; that the man or woman who profits by a sermon in the morning may profit again In a concert in ! the afternoon. Atlanta s real love of music is on trial. The size of the audience at the Philharmonic concerts will be the test. I < !"■ ......... ..■■■■ Richard the Lion-Hearted By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY. SEVEN hundred and twenty + years ago. King Richard the First of England, better known as "Richard the Lion-Hearted.” while making his way home from the point where he had been ship wrecked on the Adriatic, was made / prisoner by the Duke Leopold of Austria, and sold for a good round sum to King Henry the Sixth of Germany. »• It was the richest prize that had fallen to anybody for a long, long time. We are not informed how much Duke Leopold received from Henry for the regal capture, but we know that Henry made a mighty good thing out of it, for in order to get their king back the English people had to pay the German mon arch three hundred thousand pounds in gold, or, reckoned in our gs • money, one million live hundred thousand dollars. Sentimept and national pride aside, it was a very foolish deal on | x * the part of the English Th. b Heai ted was not worth < .<■ price that they paid for him. Except as Ea trouble breeder. Richard was not worth a penny. The English peo ple would have done bettei t > haw left their king remain in Henry's It keeping But the g< nerality of people m those days, even In Englund, were fetich-W<>rsht|>el>, i»U<I trit about H" their "kings” amt "lords” pt the Aleutian jslaudei does today about Ills totem |M>i<> or th< African ne gro uliotit his ".Mumbo-Jumbo' uttil • they felt that it was their duty to pay the ransom and get their adored “royalty" back again. The story of Richard’s reign is anything but a delectable one. Frowned in 11S9. the original "Rough Rider" began running amuck at once, which practice he faithfully kept up to the last. On the very day of his corona tion he gave the order which re sulted in a 24-hour massacre of his Jewish subjects, for no other rea son than the fact that they we.re Jews. With the blood of his unoffend ing Jewish subjects still undried on his coronation robes Richard be gan collecting money and men for rescue of the Holy City from the hands of the "infidels." We know how utterly fruitless his Crusade turned out to be, and how. after having perpetrated in numerable follies and brutalities, he finally turned ills face homeward again, to be .shipwrecked on the const of Italy and. later on, cap tured m the German forests Ransomed by his people, and re turning home, Richard spent the re«t of hi.- life —a period ot some five years—fighting his worthless brother John. who. it seems, had designs on the throne. .Millions of English money and thousands of English lives were sacrificed ip thi> foolish s niggle— a struggle that ' i- happily i tided by the at I v, hlch. mi th, ii|h of April, HOT. laid Hu haul low bofote th. ea.-lle of Clililu which he was al thui litte b* siemi.g The Atlanta Georgian In the Grip of the Antarctic Ice A Study of Captain Scott's Ship, the Terra Nova, Ice-Bound Near the South Pole —“’“I <-v■ . ■ ■ | ' I -• I i t I '•' & t/Tr 1 r ' // < ' ■ - . lowffiWWr/ ‘ K. Wu J ■ ' Lt i Is ■ i V at | I T ) 111 tiH ■■■■■■■ - •«. - - - - . - - - ■ This I'l. iure of the Terra NpVa made fOO miles from land, the* soundings giving a ci depth of .i\ r two miles. It h ws the wa} a vessel is raised by the ice. This photograph was tak Mi by I’eehcrt <I. Ponting. I'. R. G. S.. who.se moving pictures, taken on the expedition, are G teaching scientists the wonders of antarctic animal life. Woman’s Most Fascinating Age Tt TISS MARY GARIAfIN, who is •: £ generally corn < ded to '..now :i thing or two. has an nounced that 35 is a woman’s most attractive age, and that site never met'ns to go beyond it. Many other women agree in this I opinion. It is, in fact, no uncom mon tiling to find a lady so enam ored of 35 that site stays that age for 25 years at a stretch. Indeed, my-favorite stbry concerns a wom an who, when arrested foi some offense against the law and brought to trial, gave her age as 35. Five years later she was again haled into court before the same judge, and. again gave her age as 35. "But,'' said the judge, "when you were brought here five years ago you gave your age then as 35." "Very likely. Your Honor." re sponded the lady. "I’m not the sort of a woman who would say on ■ thing one day and another t hing tomorrow." But when is a woman most at tractive? it depends upon the wom an ami the taste of the judge. Heroines of the Past. in times past men's fancies seemed to have run to extreme youth. Sliakesp, ire made Juliet a chit of fourteen. Scott's heroine range along about seventeen and eighteen. The Melissas and Clar issas were all in the squab class. Sir Cliarles Surface and his fellow gallants toasted “the maiden of | bashful sixteen." We like them older now, find re gard it as the first evidence of senile dementia for a man to ex hibit a marked leaning ioward the kindergarten. To most of us no other human being is so absolutely uninteresting as a properly brought up young girl who is too old to be told fairy tales and too young to be told anything else. Undoubtedly. however, many women ate at their best in tin yeai »'bet w< -n sixteen and twenty . They have then the beauty and the grace that all young animals pos sess, whether they an kittens or puppies, or humans. They hav. a certain animation, of youth that wants to jump around and play and laugh t at we mistake foi inti lU gejlie Above all, they ale it an age when we do not ekpvct wisdom WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 11. 1912. l>\ DOROTHY I) LX. '■ e knowledge, and so we do not * detect their lack of brains. Twenty-two is a charming age. it is the high noon of youth. The i bud is just beginning to unfold, yet ! th' dew is still upon it. It is the iioi'f in which a woman first dis covers she really has a heart. Up to that tim< a girl has been merely co.•.■■■.■rued in having a good time, • .mil tne chief difference between one nri.i and another consisted in what l>" • ■ould do for h- r ph asure—how Well ho could dance: how many i t- tick -is ho was good for; v. -o'i rm- ov. ned an autoi'uobi?- or not. They F’ay Every Card. At twenty-two a woman's beauty is at its best, her ent'ius>a-ms are nt lull tide, she knows enough to li don intelligently, and not enough to make h-r opinionated. Above ail, sir- is ready to love 'and be lovi d. ami she is still plastic enough to be molded to the hand of the man who gets her. Thirty is the age at which the fool woman is impossible, tin- col lege woman at her best, and the worldly woman most fascinating. Tin- silly woman. who was a Channing little goose at sixteen, has developed into a bore and a bundle of heaviness by the time she is thirty. The < dirge bred woman, who is a late bloomer, has just come -into her own. and is a sensible, in- I telligent companion for men who I like women rved Up with a gar nish of brains. Also they have not y.-t developed a mission in life, us they are liable to later on. so thirty is their most attractive age. A- for tie worldly woman, at thirty she is no longer an amateur at the game of life, but a profes sional who knows the value of every card and how to play it. She has learned how to mak< the most of her charms, how to dress, and. mote valuable still, sue has acquired the art of playing upon the weaknesses of men as upon a harp with a thou i"d strums. Any man who es capes from the woman of thirty who bus mailed him for her own de serves a t’uriiegie hero medal and I entitled to tin world's sprinting record. At thirty- live, aot ordhig to Mis- Garden and others whose experience entitles then opinion., to respelt, II '• woman is at her best. Certainly she is midway between youth and age. and has some of the charms and advantages of both, but her youth is the youth of sophistication. It is a time when she calls art to the aid of nature, when the bright ness of her eyes and the roses on her cheeks, and the redness of her • lips, and the gold of her hair owe sonn ti'-ing to the corner drug store: when she enthuses over things with 'malice aforethought, and loves with I her head instead of her heart. .1 It is an age at which a woman is most dangerous because she knows with deadly certainty what she wants, and is coldly calculating in her way of getting it. It is an age at which a woman marries for an establishment instead of a hus band. and when she would rather have a string of pearls than a heart’s devotion. Forty-five is the age of the sur vival of the best fitted among wom en. All the others have gone into the discard. It is the age at which the business woman is at her best, when she is sanest, most comradely and most interesting. It is the gold en age also of the spinster, who has given up the struggle to be a fas cinator of men and absorbed herself in other pursuits. Many women who have been unattractive in youth at middle age have an In dian summer of loveliness of mind and person that their springtime never knew. Come Into Their Own Then. There are other women who never Come into their own until they hold a baby on their breasts. They may have been homely, awk ward. hard of face and blunt of speech, lacking all grace; but moth erhood turns them into madonnas that send us to our knees before them. And there are other women whose best hour is almost their last hour. Ugly in youth, tk<-y are beautiful in age, for life ami expe rience Often chisel rough features into beauty, and love lights a lamp within the dull soul of many a woman that Irradiates her whole being. Just tile goodness and the klndm ss on many an oid woman’s face make It beautiful. \ woman Is at her best anywhere from th< cradle to the grave ac cording to the woman bn«elf. THE HOME PAP J Garrett P. Servisl Writes on Carnegie’s Pension | jl Proposal & Reception Accorded Plan to Provide for Ex- I Presidents Proves That We Are Not En- I tirely Money-Mad. Simple and Digni- I fied Remedy Would Be to Increase Salary “ST z s«| or to Provide a Government Pension. 1 I By GARRETT P. SERVISS. rTAHE American people needed just such a shock as the rich Mr. Carnegie administered the other day. It has helped to clear the atmosphere, and to give a stimulating lillip to the spirit of in dependence which has made this country what it is. it has caused the American people to wake up to two important facts—first, that they ought to look out for their own dignity In earing for their pub lic servants, and, second, that money is noi everything, nor even the greatest of things, in American eyes. The idea of having an ex-presi dent of the United States, or the widow of an ex-president, made comfortable for life by the bounty of an ultra- ich individual is ab horrent to our entire social and po litical system. Very wealthy per sons are liable to catch the Monte Cristo spirit and to think that “the world is mine.” How It Was Meant. Os course. Mr. Carnegie had no thought of assuming a patronizing attitude in making his offer, but if he had stopped to think long enough, and if he had re-read some nf the pages of his own book on “Triumphant Democracy,” he would have foreseen the revolting aspect of his proposal, and then he would never have made it. When a man has occupied the office of president of the United States, the greatest office in the world, he is not afterward an ob ject of charity, even if his pockets should happen to be empty, which is not likely ever to be the ‘Case. But if it be true that our presidents have to expend, in order to main tain the dignity of their position, more money than their salary af fords them, then it is the PEO PLE’S duty to see that they do not suffer in consequence. The simple and dignified remedy is to increase the salary, or provide a pension from the revenues of the govern ment. If Mr. Carnegie should be permitted to furnish money out of his private resources, the whole world would, justly, point the finger of scorn at this great common -1 v. ealth. Rich Man’s PhilosofTy. Perhaps we owe a vote of thanks to Mr. Carnegie for shocking us into a realization of the situation. Possibly he intended his offer sim ply as a rebuke to our negleat—if we have really been neglectful. Anyhow, it is more kind to him to assume that he had that intention than to take his proposal as an in dication that he believes that the American people need a Maecenas, a rich man to pay their debts and maintain their dignity. This is beyond question a money age. Everything is apt to be meas ured by its money value. If a man gets rich first and becomes a phl- The Song of the Rail By ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. Copyright 1912, by American-Journal-Examlner. OH, an ugly thing is an iron rail, Black, with its face to the dust. But it carries a message where winged things fail; It crosses the mountains, and catches the trail. While the winds and the sea make sport of a sail; Oh, a rail is a friend to trust. «f The iron rail, with its face to the sod, Is only a bar of ore; Yet it speeds where never a foot has trod; And the narrow path where it leads grows broad; And it speaks to the world in the voice of God, That echoes from shore to shore. Though the iron rail, on the earth down flung, Seems kin to the loam and the soil, Wherever its high shrill note is sung. Out of the jungle fair homes have sprung. And the voices of babel find one tongue, In the common language of toil. Os priest, and warrior, and conquering king. Os Knights of the Holy Grail, Os wonders of Winter, and glories of Spring. Always and ever the poets sing! But the great God-force, in a lowly thing, I sing in my heart of the rail. losopher after he has establi slled ß his residence on “easy street,” hisH philosophy is sure to be tainted by| his previous narrow experience. Ip He everything through sole-1 en spectacles. He forgets that Ue l love of money is the root of al! Bi evil, if he ever knew it. and adoptjß • the belief that the possession q M money will cure all evils. He ought® to begin by meditating on ti:el words of Confucius: “The sagejß dealt with riches so that dieyß should not have the power to make® men proud, nor poverty the power®: to make them feel pinched." 1:? Most people think that the mil.® lennium means the reign of peace.® Nothing of the sort. The mil. ■ lennium means the REIGN OF® CONTENT, and it can only come ■ when all men shall have b-arned ® to be satisfied with enough to meet ® their actual wants. There will te ® no multi-millionaires and no dwell- I ers in the slums to be stared at and ® patronized when that happy time® arrives. It is not war that keeps fc back the millennium; it is the spir- ■ it. of greed. The young man who, I starting out in life, sets the indica- I tor on the dial of his ambition at I SIOO,OOO, and when he has got the ■ SIOO,OOO sets it again at $1,000,000, I and when the $1,000,000 is obtained I nuts it forward to the $100,000,000 I mark, AND THROWS HIS Soil I AWAY TO REACH IT. will not I be a fit inhabitant of the earth to I the millennial age. | Industrious Will Get Money. The proposal to provide a private I pension for ex-presidents will be a I boon if it sets men to thinking of I tile relative values of things in this I world. It should make the young I look within themselves to -e I whether there is not something no- I bier in their nature than the I money-getting instinct. Everybody needs a certain amount I of money, and the industrious wil I always get as much as they need. I But there are a thousand things " f I the highest importance to man I rrttich neither breed money nor I need it. At the beginning of your I career you may have to achieve I pecuniary independence, but when I you have achieved it. stojf and think |. of more important things. If yoo I do not. you will become among men I ’ what Carthage became among na- I tions —a thing of scorn for hisw- I rians; a money-bag obstructing the I path of human progress. Even if you should remain post I in money all your life, provided th:’. I you have developed your better na- I ture, have remained upright an. I honorable and self-respecting, hare I recognized the fact that you have an immortal soul and a mind tntrst- ' ing for knowledge, and have learned to look broadly upon the ea 1 ” 11 and up at the stars, you will able to meet death with a serenit' at least equal to that of “him "h° - hath great riches."