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■1), MAGAZINE Little Bobbie’s Pa 1 THE PROBLEM OF THE RED MAN j Are Children a Duty? By WILLIAM F. KIRK. An Interesting Discussion of a Vigorous Article on the American Indian in Hearst’s Magazine for May By VIRGINIA TERHUNE VAN DE WATER H USBAND, sed ina, did you reed that peece in the paiper the other day wich sed that a prominent sientist sed that baseball wa?< the curse of the United States? No, 1 dident see that artikel, sed Fa. but the way it sounds I bet it was in a Sunday paiper. How offen have 1 toald you, sed Pa, that you mussent beleeve everything you see in tile Sunday paipers? 1 guess l will have to stop bringing the Sun day paipers hoam, sed Pa. All you read in them is freek stories like the one you Was j* et telling about or else the ads. After you n*ed the freek stories you talk about them & think about them al] the week, after you reed the ads you cry all the afternoon & say you cud be per fectly happy if you jest had a few thousand dollars to go shopping with. That isent so, sed Ma. You know It isent so. All 1 sed I wanted to go shopping with was a few hundred not a few thousand. & beesides, this artikel about baseball was the truth, beekaus I happen to know the great sientist wich gaiv the interview to the paiper. He & 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. <)h deer, sed Pa. & so we have got to feed another sientist. I havent for got yet, eed Pa. the sientist wich caim to see us last fall, the one wich was trying to prove that fishes breethed thru thare scales & * not thru thare gills Ho didn’t talk anything else exoopt fish, & we had fish for dinner that day. too. I saw fish In my sleep that nite, sed Pa. Oh, this sientist if different, sed Ma. He is interested in man. not fish. He beleeves that every man shud have the fizeek of a old Roman gladitor & wtid have it if he observed the proper rules of hy-geon. That is why *he thinks that baseball is the curse of the United States. He will explain it all to you wen he eums tonite. Well, that nite the sientist & his wife caim to dinner. He was a littel hit of a man & his wife was a fine big woman. She looked as if she cud have been a White Hope if she didn’t happen to be a woman insted of a man. Her husband squeeked like a mouse wen lie talked, & his hands was thin like birds feet. If 1 was a man I wud like to marry his wife, but if I was a lady 1 wuddent like to marry the fientist. The sientist dident talk about siende during the dinner. I thought from what Ma sed about hy-geon that he wud be vary careful about what he ate, but he wasent. 1 newer seen a man eet so much. I guess the way his wife* looked at him he had forgot what she toald him about over-oeting beefoar thay left hoam to cum to our house. But after dinner Pa started rite in on him. I was to tlie ball gaim to-day, sed Pa. 1 was sorry old Matty had to lose that gaim. He pitched one of the grandest gaims of his career. He Detested It. 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 wi n thay ought to be exercising themselfs insted of watch ing 18 men that are dofng the exer cising. If they were all out exercis ing themselfs. thay mite be trained athleety too. Do you exercise? ser Pa. Indeed l 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. Ho saw his wife laf- fing & he was gitting mad. 1 newer exercise much, sod Pa. & I newer mis a ball gaim wen my bizness will let me git away, but I feel as fine as silk & I guess I cud give Sam Langford quite a fite as long as my wind lasted. Baseball is not the curse of the United States, sed Pa. with all due deference to yure opinyun. Baseball is the grand est gaim that was ewer invented It is loved by oaver a miiyun men & boys & is getting grater evvery year. Ladies can go to ball gaims & fergit thare shopping. Pa said, & men can go & fergit thare creditor?’ Long live baseball, sed Pa. & three cheers for McGraw. 1 think Pa is rite, but he is a raw- person sumtimes. How to Tell the Bite of a Venomous Snake I F you should be so unfortunate as to Vie bitten by a snake and were not quite certain what sort of a snake it was, whether poisonous or of the so- called harmless variety, look at the in jury. Jf 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 iixisions with his four biting teeth, it is best to take no chances at all. The poisonous snake’s deadly fangs • re but t\v<>- generally in the upper jaw. But. 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 exiremily, tie one or niore 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, wash in running water, manipulating the part to pro mote free bleeding. If running water 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 large quan tities of whisky than by snake bite. When positively certain that the poi son has been removed from the wound, loosen cautiously the ligatures, that nearest the heart first, but 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 7 .a snake bite. '<0 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 by 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 U nited States more genuine testimonial letters than have ever been pub lished 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! one what your remedies have done for me.’’—Mrs Riioda Win gate, Box ol»5, 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 bad that I could not sit in a chair or walk across the floor and I 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. By GARRETT P. SERVISS. "T “T tk do not sec ourselves as others \i\ 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 Western world. If you doubt that statement, then, the next time you aro 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 la much more deeply interested in Indians than in fifty- story buildings. Even the wonders of the Panama (’anal 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 ancestor? 1 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 white man, and in finitely more romantic. In Hearst's Magazine.. Thon you might with advantage turn to an article in this month’s number of Hcarts’s Magazine, where Mr. Francis E. Leupp, recently Indian Commissioner, explains hi? ideas about the way we have here tofore treated tfoe red men and the way we ought to treat him. A great-brained European once said to me: “I am a friend of your coun try and an enthusiastic admirer of Us ideals, hut 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 I think you have done veri- 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'? science and the white man’s methods, falls to become a successful farmer in a single generation or less he is con demned as good for nothing and treated with contempt and with re newed injustice. Disregarding the fact that he has 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, he 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. che*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 flrmfc 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. Rut suppose that an enlightened government had taken pain.s to develop the skill of the In dians in cultivation after peace had I sen established. It may be replied that the Indians tan away and refused to be civilized. True, in part; but at last they could nc longer run beyond the white man's reach. As Red Jacket once eloquently expressed it. “We are become a small inland 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 unimmunized red man. his white enemies pressed it upon him, as they press it upon him still, until he became a brute in spite of h inf self. The Indian has many useful ca pacities which he would develop if he had a proper opportunity, hut 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 arts and to va rious trades, and the hopelessness of their struggle against the 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 iniiuence 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. A Babe of the Apaches. (These pictures ar< reproduced by permission from Hear. M ay. 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 sobs. ■*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 hubsle-wubsie all about it. then!” And, with her head on his shoulder, the little wife faltered out at last: “Marinaduke, I’ve hidden something from you. I’ve not told you all. Alas! What shall I do?” Marinaduke? heart stood still for what seemed to him a century, hut wa>\ in reality, a second; then: •Tell me”—ami his voice was hoarse—‘‘tell me what you mean at once! I can not bear this suspense!” “I c-can not e-ook!” sobbed the little wife. “Oh, lovey, is that all?” the young man cried, as his heart beats slowed to normal time. “You frightened me! But worry not. I am ; and there will be precious little I. B EFORE beginning these .three short plain talks it may be well to warn the idealist who allows 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 inind 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 mini! 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. (>i\e cannot erect a building with out material, and the race, would die qut were there no children horn. Ho, 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 th$t 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 I hat we take them at their face value without analyzing them. Some j opinions have been voiced for so long that their very age oonfers upon them a seeming stability which we seldom thing of disputing. “I am glad to see that you are one of the women who fulfills her mission i in life,” was said to a mother of eight i children. “You have been conscientious- ! ly doing your duty in 'having a goodly number of sons and daughters.’’ ! “Yes.’’ assented the pale-faced moth er, "through all privations and self- 1 denials 1 have had the comforting as surance that I was doing my duty.” Surely Not Herself. ! To whom? Surely not to herself, for she is a semi-invalid whose 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 i midnight oil in the effort to make both i ends meet, and is always conscious that tl\ey never do; assuredly not to the rhildren, the oldest of wrom—a bright lad of sixteen—baq had to surrender all iiopes of a college.education, as his earn- ‘ jpgs in a shop are required to help j support the little brothers and sisters. I and to pay the of the doctor needed with appalling frequency by the deli cate mother. To whom then was the duty performed? Recently I heard a heated altcrca- ! lion between a mother and her modern and irreverent daughter. At last the mother, losing all patience, hurst forth ! with: “You girls of the present day do not j appreciate all that your mothers did for I you! You seem to forget that you owe 1 a debt of gratitude to me, the womaii I who braved death itself to bring you i into the world!" I The twentieth century girl shrugged her broad shoulders. “I consider it no debt," she declared | “I did not ask to come. Then why should I thank you for hearing me?” I A coarse and vulgar way of stating a trutfl Mothers seldom consider whether their children will find the gift <>f life itself a positive blessing. And after we have brought our children here the least we' can do for them is to give them as good an education and as cul tivated an •environment as possible so that they may start even with their as sociates This is one of the few ways 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 gnnd would not care # to live It over again if we had to learn the same lessons, make the same mistakes, suffer the same penalties that we lave already known. Now that we are here we love life and want to say as long as we car. Some of us are very happy, others very necessary, others have a natural curi osity to see how it is all Voing to turn out. But as one cannot miss that which one has never had, we would have missed none of these things had we never been born. Fut 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 1 have made and profit by them." But. unfortunately for our children. ,hey win not or cannot profit by the mistakes of their parents. Each one must fight the battle for himself, and win out or fall for himself. ( 6f * is about time, said the farme I to the hostler, as the two stoo passing the time of day, "fo ihese sportsmen to act more sportsman like. They ought to quit shooting cat tie. "Nearly all the farms are posted i ‘>ur part of the county, and we ar going to forbid shooting along road and waterways also. ‘I tell you, there Is entirely too muc cattle shooting. "A fellow starts out for a week-en bun? He takes along about fort rounds of ammunition, w’hich gel heavier and heavier during the da; Seeing nothing else to shoot, he shooi a cow, simply to get rid of a shell tht costs five cents and weighs a pound. "I snpjM)se. too, he wants to see th cow jump and run. That is fun f< the hunter, hut not for the cow nc for the farmers, either. We hate 1 have a cow come lumbering into th house and crawl under the bed whe we are discussing the crop reports. "Nor is it any fun to get up out < I warm bed and take the broom an jab prider a bod or a sofa to cha? out a cow that has been shot at an scared. It isn't a bit of fun. “\Vhon it comes to milking that eo i- no easy job. She thinks that ever obe who comes along has a srhootin Iron and that she is g*.ing to get stun again. Poor, patiem animal. She neva lid any harm except for an occasion) thinness in her product. “Cows, I admit, do not look as grace ful and dainty as minuet dancers whe they exhibit speed mania charadtei istics, but there are so many oth« funny things nowadays that it is ur sportsmanlike to shoot cows in ordt to get this kind of entertainment. “The cow has a perfect right t graze in her owner’s pasture unmoleste except at milking time, which com* often enough. Besides the respons billties of the dir.v she has flies an lots of other things to worry her. “A man who would shoot a cow r even shoot at her would welcome can paign contributions from any sourc and root for the opposing team in world’s series." The “Breach of Promise” Suit, Its Use and Abuse Bluffton, Ohio. — “ I wish to thank you for the good I derived from Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegeta ble Compound -sometime ago. I suffered each month such agony that I could scarcely endure, and after taking three bottles of Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com pound I was entirely cured. “Then I had an attack of organic inflammation and took Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and I am cured. I thank you for wnat your remeuies have done for me and should anything bother me again, I shall use it again, for I have great faith in your reme dies. You may use my testimo nial and welcome I tell every For 30 years T.vdia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound lias been the standard remedyfor fe male ids. No one siek with woman’s ailments -does justice to herself if she does not try this fa- «nou> medicine made from roots and herbs, it has restored somany suffering wonicntohcalth. ns“fle*»\VritetoIA MA E.PIXKHAM MEPICIXECO. f COXFIDESTIAL) LYNN. MASS., for advice. Y our letter will lie opened, read and answered • - 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 ihe affections as a wom an is, and 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 I grasp their ideal of matrimonay. If their theory of marriage is the sor did one of marrying for a home and If you should suggest to the average high-spirited and independent girl of to-day that she should coerce an unwill ing and protesting man into marching to the altar with her she would over whelm you with 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 Gyd she didn’t have to make hers that way She would also remark that she was 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 tha; 1 knew, that if any man could get tired of a love affair sooner than she did and change his mind quicker lie would certainly he 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 ■11 Mini I y 1 * * (S dm M Mwuir 1,11,1 c* I .1 t . ,3 1 i m ' 1 D- 'fill pi * 1'IV, ’ 1 * * n .11*1 meal ticket, and that It is easier for a ! ground can my correspondents advocate woman to work a husband than it is ifm holding of an unwilling man to a t<> work a typewriter or a sewing tna- matrimonial engagement he has made? chine, or stand behind a counter, then Gertalnly no one who knows any- i can see why they think that a man: hug of life can hope that such a mar- should he compelled to carry out a mat J rlage will bring any happiness to the rimonial engagement, no matter how woman, or result in anyth:: g hut misery 1- athsome it had become to him, nor for both parties. Malignity itself could | how lie dreaded the prospect of having | devise no more cruel fate than the to spend the balance of his life with a j long-drawn-out years of torture that are woman who had lost her every vestige the portion • « an unloved and um>-ned ‘of charm for him. , (wife She drinks the very dregs of the This argument would have been . a |d:n of humiliation. ! good one in ’he old clays, when no, Even in the ordinary marriage, where gainful occupations were open to worn- the swain is romantically *nd passkm- • n. and the only way a lady had-of get- ately in low. an-’ when he counts im- i ting a home was to marry it: but we | patiently the hours to the wedding day have changed all of that. Any able- i the ardor of the man o,ols off .-oor, j h- died an*l intelligent girl < an support i enough. N is rod Jong bef<»ie he 1 ' or; elf quite a« well as a husband . is | to take any interest in heldir-g bis w fs’s t'mly to d«- it. and in consequence mar- 1 hand, and when he goes to sleep of ;-n ■gt I ys become a sentimental luxury J evening when ■d e tries do. talk to hi-o nod rot M b- ead-and-butler necessity, as land begins to have bus'n* ss i at ke< i- 1 it used to be. 'him downtown <f evening* 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 where 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. Ganaries have been bred in eages so manv generations that they are perfect ly satisfied to live in cages. Women iiav** been bred for <> many centuries to put up with whe-1ever domestic lot they draw in life tl at they endure an unhappy marriage with stoic fortitude, a ml many of them y it up a pretty good bluff at loving a husband they actually bate. v . . * But men hflive- no such finesse, nq such paii< noe, no uch amiable hy pocrisy. When a man is married to a A-oman < f whom he has grown tired, and who bejes him. he frankly negioer. if he Is forced to marry a woman after 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 compromise*! her without being far worse off than if she had wdped the slate **lean and blotted out his score against her. MORE NUTRITIOUS FOOD AT A LOWER PRICE. Most people eat too much meat. 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