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# 'Mr Little Bobbie’s Pa By WILLIAM F. KIRK H USBAND, sed ma. did you reed that paecO' in the palper the other day wich sed that a prominent sientist sed that baseball wa» the curse of the United States? No, I dident see that artlkel, sed Pa, but the way it sounds I bet it was in a Sunday palper. How often have I toald you. sed Pa, that you mussent beleeve everythin* you see in the Sunday paipers? I guess I will hive to stop bringing the Sun day paipers hoam, sed Pa All you read in them is freek storios like the one you was jes»t telling about or else the ads. After you reed tbs freek stories you talk about them A think about them all the week, A after you reed the ads you cry all the afternoon & say you cud be per- feekly happy If you jest had a few thousand dollars to go shopping with. That isent so, sed Ma. You know it isent so. All I sed I wanted to go shopping with was a few hundred not a few r thousand. & beesides, this artlkel about baseball was the truth, brekaus 1 happen to know' the great slentlst wich galv the interview to the. paiper. He A his wife is cum- ming up to the house to dinner to- nite. You will have a chanst to meet him. He is a reely grate man. Ma sed, beekaus eeven his wife thinks so. Another Scientist. Oh deer, sed Pa. & so we have got to feed another sientist. I havent for got yet, sed Pa. the sientist wich cnim to see us last fall, the one wich was trying to prove that fishes breethed thru thare scales A not thru thare gills. He didn’t talk anything else except fish, A we had fish for dinner that day, too. I saw fish in my sleep tiiat nite. sed Pa. Oh, this sientist If* different, sed Ma. He interested in man. not fish. He beleeves that every man shud have the flzeek of a old Roman gladltor A wud have it if he observed the proper rules of hy-geen. That is why he thinks that baseball is the -curse of the United States. He will explain it all to you wen be rums tonite. Well, that nite the sientist A his* wife cairn to dinner. He was a llttel bit of a man A his wife was a fine big woman. She looked as if she ••lid have been a White Hope if she didn't happen to be a woman lnsted of a man. Her husband squeeked like a mouse wen he talked, A his hands was thin like birds feet. If I was a miui I wud like to marry his wife, but if I was a lady I wuddent like to marry the dentist. The sientist dident talk about aience during the dinner. I thought from what Ma sed about hy-geen that he wud be vary careful about what he ate, but he wasent I newer seen a man eet so much. I guess the way his wife looked at him he had forgot what ahe toald him about over-eeting beefoar thay left hoam to cum to our house. Hut after dinner Pa started rite in on him. I was to the ball gaim to-day, sed Pa. I was sorry’ old Matty had to lose that gaim. He pitched one of the grandest gaims of his career He Detested II. I detest baseball, sed the sientist. It Is the curse of the country. Jest think of it, sum days thare are maybe twenty thousand men watching a gaim of ball wen thay ought to be exercising themselfs lnsted of watch ing 18 men that are doing the exer cising. If they were all out exercis ing themselfs. thay mite be trained athleet** too. Do you exercise? ser Pa. Indeed T do, sed the sientist, three hours a day. What kind of a trained athleet are you? sed Pa That is neether here nor thare, sed the sientist. He saw his wife laf- flng A the w*as gifting mad. I newer exercise much, sed Pa. A I newer mis a ball gaim wen my bizness will let me git away, but I feel hp fine as silk A I gue«s I cud give Sam Langford quite a flte as long as my wind lasted Baseball is not the curse of the United States, sed Pa. with all due deference to yure oplnyun. Baseball is the grand est gaim that was ewer invented. It is loved by oaver a mllyun men A boys A is getting grater evvery year. Ladies can go to ball gaims A fergit thare shopping, Pa *aid, A men can go A fergit thare creditor*’ Long live baseball, sed Pa. A three cheers for McOraw. I think Pa is rite, but he is a raw person sumtlmes THE PROBLEM OF THE RED MAN An Interesting Discussion of a Vigorous Article on the American Indian in Hcarsl’s Magazine for May I F you should he so unfortunate as to be bitten by a snake and were not quite certain what sort of a snake it was, w'hether poisonous or of the so- called harmless variety, look at the in jury. If there are four punctures, or even three, the chances are that it was not a venomous snake; but If there are only two punctures it is probable that you have been bitten by an extremely poi sonous snake. While this does not always hold good, as a non-poisonous snake may have had opportunity to make only two Incisions with his four biting teeth, it is best to take no chances at all. The poisonous snake's deadly fangs • re but two- generally in the tipper jaw. Hut. no matter what sort of a snake Bites you. the head of that snake should, whenever possible, be kept for identi fication. If. as generally the case, the bite is on an extremily. tie one or more hands - above the injury, Incise deeply, cut ting across the puncture for at least one inch and well beyond the depth reached by the fang Next, wt*h in running water, manipulating the part to pro mote free Weeding If running w-ater is not available, suck the wound, then rinse the mouth thoroughly with a solution of potassium permanganate. Now. wash the wound well, and use In and around it the potassium permanganate solu tion; or Inject a 1 to 100 solution of chromic acid, being careful to infiltrate completely, not only the wound, but also the surrounding tissues. Do not give ammonia. Stimulate with small doses of whisky, if indicated, but do not overdose, as more persons have been killed by taking largo quan tities of whisky than by snake bite. When positively certain thnt the poi son has been removed from the wound, loosen cautiously the ligatures. that nearest the heart first, hut do not re move them, so they may be again tight ened If symptoms recur. In all cases the victim must have the best surgical care, and the wound should he kept open by packing with wet antiseptic gauge, as sepsis and local gangrene often follow a snake bite. %ud 0771/2/71 What more can we do to convince you that you positively can find perfect health and relief from your suffering by using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound? All the world knows of the wonderful cures which have been made hv Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, yet some wo men do not yet realize that all that is claimed for it is true. If suffering women could be made to believe that this grand old medicine will do all that is claimed for it, how quickly their suffering would end! We have published in the newspapers of the United States more genuine testimonial letters than have ever been pub- !ished in the interest of any other medicine for women in the world — and every year we publish many new testimo nials, all genuine and true. Read What These Women Say! By GARRETT P. SERVISS W E do not see ourselves as others see us, and that is as true of nations as of Individuals. To our eyes the red man has prac tically sunk out of sight. To Euro pean eyes he is still the most pic turesque figure in the Werterti world. If you doubt that statement, then the next time you are in Europe fall into conversation with any intelli gent Frenchman, German or other na tive of the Old World, about life in America, and you will be likely to dis cover that he is much more deeply Interested In Indians than in fifty- story buildings. Even the wonders of the Panama Canal appeal to him with far less force than do the history and the fate of those unique tribes which owned this continent in fee simple for centuries before our ancestors landed upon its shores If you have imbued yourself with the notion that "the only good Indian is a dead Indian," you may be a little vexed to find that our contemporaries abroad, with their bird’s-eye view of things on this side of the water, pre- sist in regarding the American red man as a personage quite as Inter esting to the philosophical observer as the American whUp man, and in finitely more romantic. In Hearst’s Magazine. Then you might with advantage turn to an article in this month's number of Hearts's Magazine, where Mr. Francis E. Leupp, recently Indian Commissioner, explain;* his ideas about the way we have here tofore treated the red men and the way we ought to treat him. A great-brained European once said to me; "I am n friend of your coun try and an enthusiastic admirer of ife ideals, but I most respectfully pro tect against the manner in which you have dealt with one of the most in teresting races that ever existed on this earth. Pardon me for saying that 1 think you have done very wrong. You might have kept him and made a good citizen of him, in stead of driving him into extinction, or, what is even worse, into racial abasement.” A Similar View. Mr. Leupp appears to take a sim ilar view. He has ideas about the capacity of the Indian for civiliza tion, and about the best way to de velop that capacity, which ought to command the attention of a liberty- loving and fair-dealing people. The sole Idea of our Government seems to have been to make a farmer of every Indian. “Give him a farm and make him work it." has been the slogan. And when the poor Indian, ignorant of the white man'; 1 science and the white man’s methods, fails to become a successful farmer in a single generation or less lie is con demned as good for nothing and treated with contempt and with re newed injustice. Disregarding the fact that he lias neither the capital to develop his farm nor the experience to enable him to compete in agriculture with men of European origin, whose an cestors were trained in that kind of industry long before America was dis covered. the red man is required to devote himself exclusively to work for which, in many cases, lie is ra cially and constitutionally unfitted, or else to become a drunkard and a pau- per. Some Indians make good farmers. Some of them have the gift and the ancestral tendency. Every reader of our history knows what the Iroquois Indians did in the fertile valleys of Central and Western New York. When General Sullivan mercilessly raided the lake region of New York he destroyed farms and stores of grain, of which any industrious Eu ropean agricultural community might have been proud. That was a war measure and, as such, perhaps, excus able at the time. But suppose that an enlightened government had taken pains to develop the skill of the In dians in cultivation after peace had teen established. It may be replied that the Indians ran away and refused to be civilized. True, in part; but at last they could no longer run beyond the white man’s reaoh. As Bed Jacket once eloquently expressed it, "We are become a small island In the bosom of the great wa ters. We are encircled, we are en compassed. The waters rise; they press upon us; and the waves once settled over us, we disappear for ever!” Made Him a Brute. Taking advantage of the terrible effect that "fire-water”—whisky! — had upon the uniminunized red man his white enemies pressed it upon him, as they press it upon him still until he became a brute in spite of himself. The Indian has many useful ca pacities which he would develop if he had a proper opportunity, but the op portunity is refused to him. Read what Mr. Leupp has to say about the multitude of red men who take nat urally to mechanic art* and to va rious trades, and the hopelessness of their struggle against thf immense agricultural units that his white com petitors, with comparatively unlim ited capital, are developing around him. and you may be led to exert your Inliuence to have the doors of opportunity opened wider to this long- cheated race. We may consistently keep out Jap anese. but the Indian was here be fore we were, and the principles of eternal justice demand that he shall not have the door shut in his face. Are Children a Duty? By VIRGINIA TERHUNE VAN DE WATER A Babe of the Apaches. (These pictures are reproduced by permission from H M a v. I T was all over. They were in the the carriage at last, man and wife, driving back to the wedding breakfast. But suddenly, without warning, the youthful bride burst in to heartrending "Oh-o!” she cried. "Oh-o! Oh-o!" "My dearest dear!” breathed the new-made hubby. Why does my pet weep so on her wedding day? Tell her hubsie-wubaie all abcut it, then!” And. with he#head on his shoulder, the little wife faltered out at hast: "Marmadukc, I’ve hidden something from you. I’ve not th’d ^ou all. Alas! What shall I do?” Marmaduke’s heart stood still for what seemed to him a century, but was*, in reality, a second; then; "Tell me”—and his voice was hoarse—"tell me what you mean at once! I can not bear this suspense!” "I c-can not c-o.ok!” sobbed 1 lie little wife. "Oh. lovey. is that all?” the young man cried, as his heart beats slowed normal t ! mc. "You frightened poet. I. B EFORE beginning these three short plain talks it may he well to warn the idealist who allow’s sentimental tradition to preclude honest and inde pendent thought to read no further lest he or she be shocked—possibly scandal ized. Yet one should bear in mind also the fact that there is a sentimen tality sometimes degenerating into a selfishness that amounts almost to cruel ty. Such cruelty unpremeditated and unrecognized. Bearing this truth in mind one may almost dare to reply in the negative to the question asked above. For that question is not. Are children a joy, a comfort, a privilege? but. Are they a duty? Race Would Die Out. Doubt comes often to one s mind in reading the opinions of certain writers who discourse on the sin of childless ness, the evils of race suicide, the sel fishness of unfruitful marriages. Right here one may pause to acknowledge that the arguments In favor of child-bear ing to perpetuate the race are irrefuta ble. One cannot erect a building with out material, and the race would die out were there no children born. So, for the purpose of continuing the spe cies. children are certainly essential. But of those who inveigh against the iniquity of childlessness only a few look at the matter from the standpoint of the good of their kind. I think I am safe in asserting that not one parent in one thousand has sons or daughters for the express purpose of perpetuating the race. So we will leave that aspect of the question out of consideration. Some expressions become so com mon that we take them at their face value without analyzing them. Some 1 opinions have been voiced for so long | that their very age confers upon then* a seeming stability which we seldom hing of disputing. "I am glad to see that you are one of the women who fulfills her mission in life,” was said to a mother of eight children. "You have been conscientious- j ly doing your duty in having a goodly number of sons and daughters.” I "Yes," assented the pale-faced moth er, "through all privations and self- denials I have had the comforting as- | surance that 1 was doing my duty*.’’ Surely Not Herself. To whom? Surely not to herself, for she is a semi-invalid w'hose frequent attacks* of illness are a menace to her life and to the happiness of husband and children; certainly not to the hus band who works in a poorly-lighted, ill- ventilated office all day and burns the midnight oil in the effort to make both ends meet, and is always conscious that they never do; assuredly not to the children, the oldest of wrom—a bright lad of sixteen—has had to surrender all hoVes of a college education, as his earn ings in a shop are required to help i support the little brothers and sisters, and to pay the bills of the doctor needed 1 with appalling frequency by the deli cate mother. To whom then was the duty performed? Recently I heard a heated alterca tion between a mother and her modern and irreverent daughter. At last the mother, losing all patience, burst forth with; “You girls of the present day do not appreciate all that your mothers did for you! You seem to forget that you owe a debt of gratitude to me, the woman who braved death itself to bring you into the world!" The twentieth century girl shrugged her broad shoulders. "1 consider it. no debt,” she declared. "I did not ask to come. Then why should 1 thank you for bearing me?" A coarse and vulgar way of stating a truth. Mothers seldom consider whether their children will find th$ gift of life itself a positive blessing. And after we have brought our children here the least we can do for them l« to give them as good an education and &a cul tivated an environment as possible so that they may start even with their as sociates. This is one of the few way* in which we can "make up” to them for their having been born. Some of Us Are Happy. Does this sound like pessimism? It Is not that. Some of us who are glad that we are alive and to whom life has meant much that Is joyful and good would not care to live It over again if we had to learn the same laasong, make the same mistakes, suffer the same penalties that we save already known Now that we are here we love life and want to say as long as w# can. Some of us are very happy, others very necessary, others have a natural curl- ' oslty to see how It is all going to turn out. But as one cannot miss that which one has never had, we would have mlssecj none of these things had we never been born. Put the question to any one as to whether he would care to go back and begin life once more as a tiny child, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hun dred the reply will be: -'Perhaps I would,” or "Yes,” always coupled with the proviso—"If I could remember the mistakes I have made and profit bv theth" But, unfortunately for our children, they will not or cannot proftt by the mistakes of their parents. Each one must fight the battle for himself, and win out or fall for himself. <<I T is about time,” said the farmer j to the hostler, as the. two stood passing the time of day, "for these sportsmen to act more sportsman like. They ought to quit shooting cat- tie. "Nearly all the farms are poated in our part of the county, and we are going to forbid shooting along roacta and waterways also. T tell you. there is entirely too much cattle shooting. "A fellow starts out for a week-end hunt. He takes along about forty rounds of ammunition, w’hich gets heavier ^nd heavier during the dav. Seeing nothing else to shoot, he shoots a cow, simply to get rid of a shell that costs five cents and weighs a pound. ‘T suppose, too, he wants to see the cow jump and run. That is fun for the hunter, but not for the cow nor for the farmers, either. We hate to have a cow come lumbering into the house and crawl under the bed when we are discussing the crop reports Nor is it any fun to get up out of a warm bed and take the broom and jab under a bed or a sofa to chase out a cow that has been shot at and 3cared. It isn’t a bit of fun. "When it comes to milking that cow t is no eaey job. She thinks that every one who comes along has a shooting Iron and that she is going to get stung again. Poor, patient animal. She never ■lid any harm except for an occasional thinness in her product. Cows, I admit, do not look as grace ful and dainty as minuet dancers when they exhibit speed mania character istics, but there are so many other funny things nowadays that it is un sportsmanlike to shoot cows in order to get this kind of entertainment "The cow has a perfect right t< graze in her owner’s pasture unmolested except at milking time, which comes often enough. Besides the responsi bilities of the diry she has flies and lots of other things to worry her. "A man who would shoot a cow or even shoot at her would welcome cam paign contributions from any source and root for the opposing team in a world’s series." me! But and thpre cook!" little Fhe ‘‘Breach of Promise” Suit, Its U se and Abuse BI tiff ton. Ohio. — “I wish to thank you for the g<x>d I derived from Lydia E. I’inklmm’s Vegeta ble C’ompouud sometime ago. I suffered each month such agony that I could scarcely endure, and after taking three Lotties of Lydia E. 1’inkham’s Vegetable Com pound I was entirely cured. "Then I hadan attack of organic inflammation and took Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and I am cured. I thank you for what your remedies have done for me and should anything lother me again, I shall use it again, for I have great faith in your reme dies. ^ ou may use my testimo nial and welcome. I tell every one what your remedies have done for me.”—Mrs Hiioda Win gate, Box 396, Bluffton, Ohio. Pentwater, Mich.—*‘A year ago I was very weak and the doctor said I had a serious displacement. I had backache and bearing down pains so bail that I could not sit in a chair or walk across the floor and 1 was in severe pain all the time. I felt discouraged as I had taken everything I could think of and was no better. I began tak ing Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegeta ble Compound and now I am strong and healthy.”—Mrs. Alice Darling, R. F. D. No. 2, Box 77, Pentwater, Mich. For 30 years Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound has been the standard remedy for fe male ills. No one sick with woman’s ailments does justice to herself if she does not try this fa mous medicine made from roots and herbs, it has restored so many suffering women to health. tR^^fcWrite to LYIMA E.P1NKHAM MEDICINECO. (CONEI UENTIALf LYNN, MASS., for advice. Your letter will l«* opened, read and answered by a woman and held in strict confidence. By DOROTHY DIX I N a recent article in this column I expressed the opinion that a man is just as much entitled to a change of mind and a change of heart in matters of the affections as a wom an is, aod that if a man found out before marriage that he was tired of the woman to whom he was engaged, and no longer wanted her for a wife, he had a perfect right to break the engagement and withdraw from a bar gain that would bankrupt his life. These sentiments have brought a howl of protest from a large number of my feminine readers, who accuse me of being a traitor to my sex. and berate me for encouraging perfidious man to trifle with the tender affections of trust ing maidens. I confess that I don’t quite catch the point of view of my correspondents, nor do l grasp their ideal of matrimonay. If their theory of marriage is the sor did one of marrying for a home, and a meal ticket, and that it is easier for a woman to work a husband than it is to work a typewriter or a sewing ma chine. or stand behind a counter, then 1 can see why they think that a man should be compelled to carry out a mat rimonial engagement, no matter how loathsome It had become to him. nor how he dreaded the prospect of having to spend the balance of his life with a woman who bad lost her every vestige of charm for him. This aigument would have been a good one in the old days, when no gainful occupations were open to wom en. and the only way a lady had of get ting a home was to marry it; but we have changed all of that. Any able- b* Lied and 'intelligent girl can support herself quite as well as a husband is likely to do it. and in consequence mar riage has become a sentimental luxury ■nd rot a bread-*ud-LuWU*. r . as it to be. If you should suggest to the average high-spirited and independent girl of today that she should coerce an unvMl ing and protesting man into marching to the altar with her she w'ould over whelm you wdth her scorn. She would say that in her opinion the woman who married for a living earned it in the hardest way on earth, and that she thanked God she didn’t have to make hers that way She would also remark that she w-as not a confidence woman who ran a skin game on any sentimental Tommy, nor was she a Lady Shylock who would exact the last drop of blood in a man’s heart in payment of a little Indiscreet love-making. Further, she would add. as did one girl that 1 knew, that if any man could get tired of a love affair sooner than she did and change his mind quicker he would certainly be a marvel of rapid action. Admitting that few young women in this day are willing to marry a man just solely for the sake of the loaves and fishes that he can provide, on what ground can my correspondents advocate the holding of an unwilling man to a matrimonial engagement he has made? Certainly no one who knows any thing of life can hope that such a mar riage will bring any happiness to the woman, or result in anything but misery for both parties. Malignity itself could devise r.o more cruel fate than the long-drawn-out years of torture that are the portion of an unloved and undesired wife. She drinks the very dregs of the cun of humiliation. Even in the ordinary marriage, where the swain is romantically and passion ately in love, and when he counts im patiently the hours to the wedding day. the ardor of the man cools off soon enough It is not long before he ceases take any interest in holding his wife’s hand, and when he goes to sleep of an evening when she tries to talk to him. and begins to have business that keeps him downtown of evenings You could count on the fingers of one hand every husband you know who is still a lover after five years of married life. What prospects of domestic felicity has a woman, then, if she forces a man to marry’ her who does not want to, who is not in love with her. and -who is al ready' tired of her before the long mat rimonial journey begins? To say that he will fall in love with her after mar riage. and that she will win his heart by her devotion and her goodness, is to talk idiotic nonsense. The whole tend ency of matrimony is to disillusion. It thrusts people together in a relation ship where their personalities clash, and w'here they strike fire out of each oth er’s temper and temperament. Brings Out Faults, Matrimony brings out every fault in a woman as exaggerated as if it were under a magnifying glass. and the woman who could not win a man. nor hold him, when she had all the allure of distance, of always being primped up, and on her best behavior, can never do it in close quarters of domesticity, where her husband sees her in her everyday clothes and surrounded with an aura of bills and boiled dinners. Canaries have been bred in cages so many generations that they are perfect ly satisfied to live in cages. Women have been bred for so many centuries to put up with whatever domestic lot they draw in life that they endure an unhappy marriage with stoic fortitude, and many' of them put up a pretty good bluff at loving a husband they actually hate. But men have no such finesse, no such patience, no such amiable hy pocrisy. When a man is married to a woman of whom he has grown tired, and who bore3 him. he frankly neglects her. If he is forced to marry a woman after he has ceased to care for her he makes her pay for it by his brutalities to her. so it is incomprehensible why any one should think it better for a woman to compel a man to marry her when he doesn’t want to than to be jilted. In reality such a marriage is the sub stitution of a gnawing agony that never ends for a scratch that hurts for a moment and then heals. A woman may not even collect a debt of honor from the man who has eomnromised her without being far worse off than if she had wiped the slate clean and blotted out his score against her. MORE NUTRITIOUS FOOD AT A LOWER FRIGE. Most people eat too much meat. It is the one big item in our high cost of Jiving. We go to this meat excess under the mistaken belief that it is neces sary to nourish our bodies. You can get food more nutri tious at one-tenth the cost by buying Faust Macaroni. Fau,st Macaroni is made from Durum Wheat, the cereal ex tremely rich in gluten, the bone, muscle and flesh builder. A 10c package of Faust Macaroni con tains as much nutrition as 4 lbs. of beef—ask your doctor. Write to-day for free recipe book. In 5e and 10c packages. MAITLL BROS. St. Louis, Mo. i New Grand Central Terminal, New York Your train will arrive at this wonderful terminal, the most conveniently arranged in the world, if you use the famous Mid-day Limited from Cincinnati to New York Leave Cincinnati 12:10 noon Arrive New York 9:11 a. m. Arrive Boston 11:55 a. m. NewYork&ntral Lines Big Four—“The Water-Level Route” OTHER TRAINS Leave Cincinnati 8:30 a.m. 6:05 p.m. Arrive New York 7:55 a.m. 5:00 p.m. Arrive Boston 10:40 a.m. 8:15 p.m. Trains from the South make good connec tions in same depot with these trains. Full particulars regarding this service and any assistance in planning your trip will be gladly furnished on application to E. E. 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