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Little Bobbie’s Pa
By WILLIAM F. KIRK
1 THE PROBLEM OF THE RED MAN
Are Children a Duty?
Art 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 ma, did you reed
that peece In the palper the
other day wlch sed that a
prominent sientlst sed that baseball
war the curse of the United States?
No, I dident see that artlkel, sed
Pa, but the way lt^ sounds I bet it
was In a Sunday palper. How often
have I toald you, sed Pa, that you
mussent beleeve everything you see
In the Sunday palpyrs? I guess 1
will have, to st,op brlrrglng-the-Sun
day palpers hoam, s#d Pa. All you
read In them is freek.stories like the
one you. was Jest telling dboflt or
else the 'ads.. ' After, ybu, reed .the
freek stories y(Ju, talk atjput them Ji
think atfout- themahll .the Vedk,'•*
after you reed - the* ads »you 'cry
the afternoon A.'zay.ydu'.cujl.be'per-
feckly' happy- If \ydu, J^at .hadja/.fbV
thousand dollaVs !to-go shopping .wlftt:
That lsent.soj‘sfd, Ma. .Yeti knows
It tsent so. AI1J1‘sedlljwanted .to'go
shopping wlfh was a few. huhdeel
not a tew thop^atAl. 1 to'hffesldesl'thU
artlkel about J)aset>allisvaB’thtB..tru(la
beekaus I happen* td kanw, the grea*
siehtlsk wlch .galv the'.Interview *td
s-‘wire, Is.
the palper. He,.& hla 1 -wife, la.cam
ming up to ,the> hptjse -to thinner jto;
nlte. You will have a'chansf to meet
hlrh He Is.a’.reely gratejman. MA
sed, beekaus e^ven<hlS'w(fe 4 thlnks(Sa.
Another Scientist. , , , •,
.Oh deer, aed.Pa,. &,so.we#haVe?got
to feed anpther sientls£..,’I havent fori
got yet, a*ed Pa. the' sientlst- wlch crfim
to see us last,fall,* the *onb • wlch' wm
trying:-to prove‘that fishes* breothf a
thru thare fob lea* A not,.thru thard
Rills. He dldh’t talk 'anything: *elsf
except fish, A we ihad.flsh for dinner
that day, too. * I saw fish,In my sleef)
that nlte, sed Pa.
Oh, this sientlst Is different, sed
Ma. He is Interested in man, not fldh.
He beleeves that every man shud have
the flzeek of a old Roman gladitor
A wud have It if he observed the
proper rules of hy-Reen. That Is why
he thinks that baseball is the curse
of the United States, He will explain
it all to you wen he rums tonlte.
Well, that nlte the sientlst A his
wife calm to dinner. He was a littel
bit of a man A his wife was a fine
blR woman. She looked as If she
cud 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
man I wud like to marry -his wife,
but If I was a lady I wuddent like to
marry the sientlst. ,
Th^ sientlst dident talk about slence
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 se^n.a
man ^et so much.., I.gueifs the * way
his wife’.looked -at.him he had forgot
wihat/ahe toald him, a boh t ov^r-eetlng
beefoar Uiay left*.hoam,to cum to,<*ur
house. • But *a’fter.dinner 'Pa started
rite in • on>h.!m.. . ... . , • •
,T was fto the-ball galn^to-day* .sed
Pa.* If was sorry#old Matty. h^d # to
lose ; that* Ra.lm%. He#pitched, one of
the grande?* ggims of his career.* %
He JDetested It. ^
* detest 'basqpfUl* sed * the »si statist.
It ,1s, the" curse of the, country. Jest
think of lt H sum days thare anemtarybe
bwiwfty-thousBnd men w-htphlng a
galm of .ball wpn bhay ought-to be
exn-cfslngrtlremselfa lnsted' of .watch
ing-18 men that are*'dMng , the exer*-
dlwhift. - If,.they were all out 'exercis
ing tth^mwrlfs. thay mlte.be trained
atnleeta tdo. • ', ■»
..Do.you (exercise? ser .Pa.
Indeed I do, sed'the’sientlst, three
hours a day.*
, ,What.klijd of.a trainedtathleet’ are
yoti? sed Pa. . ,
That Is nbether here*nor thari, sed
the. sleptlst. .• He saw his wlfe.laf-
flng & he was.glttlng mad. .
< I newer rtterdlse much, sed Pa. A
.1 .newer, mis a . ball«galm .wen my
blznesa will let .'me git away, but, I
/e«l a» fine as silk &.'I guess I cud
give. Sam Uangford quite a flte as
long as my wind,lasted Baseball Is
mot 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 hoys & Is getting grater ewery
year. Ladles can go to ball galms
A ferglt thare shopping, Pa said, &
men can go A ferglt thare creditors.
Ixing live baseball, sed Pa, A three
cheers for Mcdraw
I think Pa Is rite, but he Is a raw
person sumtlmes.
How to Tell the Bite of a Venomous Snake
By GARRETT P. SERVISS.
W E do not see ourselves ns others
see us, and that is as true of
nations as of individuals.
• To our eyes t)ie red man hai prac
tically sunk out of sight. To Euro
pean eye* he is still the most pic
turesque figure In.the Western world.
If you doubt that statement, then,
the,next'time you are in Europe fall
Into# convehsatlon. tttlth anjr, ilttelli-
gontjFrfenchman, German^or oUy*r na
tive of, (he,Old World,^ ahoqtUlfe in
America; smd'y.ou w{ll;be1 lively to dis
cover that *he,ls much,/more deeply!
interested Jn *IndJans.« tljan^in * flfty-
•tory*bulld1n^s.' Eten*the ponders of’
the Panama^Capal apffeal to jiim’ withj
far less'’forc»;than*do.'the history*;and'
the'fate of 'those .unique >trlbes whljch
own^d'tfiilflVbWlrienMn f«*e*slifi^)le for
centuries*before* our ancestors landed'
upon ♦ its .^shores. , 4 , ' • ; ,
If. you# haveMftibued, yourself - with:
pains to develop the skill of the In
dians In cultivation after peace had
been established.
It may be replied that the Indians
ran away and refused to be civilised.
True, in p&rt; but at lp.st they cqjuld.
no longer run beyond the white man’s
reaoh. As Red Jacket once eloquently
expressed It, "We are become a small
island In the bosom of the great wa
ters. We are ehcircled; we are en
compassed. The 1 waters rise; they
press upon us; and the waves once
settled over us, we disappear for
ever!” *
the notion that»”the onlyugbod Indian*
Is a dead*lKdian*”Vou may be a Utile
porariefl
vexod#to /find that, our {con tern porarl
abroad,'with t he I r 1 bird’s-feye viewiof
things^cfn^thls f side'^of the^wajer,“pfe-*
slst in regarding the American, red
I F you should be so unfortunate as to
be bitten by a snake and were not
quite certain what sorb of a shake it
was, whether poisonous or of‘the so-
called harmless variety/* look 1 at-‘the ; in
jury. / . .
If there are .four . punctures, or* even
three, the chances are that* it was,not
a venomous sdake; „but, if, there .are only
two punctu{*es , 'it ls / probable, that ybu
have been‘bitten by an extremely, poi
sonous snake.-
While this»does:nbt*alWays'hold good;
as a non-polsonous-snkke may.have had
opportunity to- msfke .only two inclslofis
wjth. his . four,, bltiiift teeth,\lt la best* to
take no chances.at aiL ; , .
The polsodous .HftRKe's wdeadly fangs
• re but two—gffncraUy x ln4.the # upp.er jaw.
Bbt, f no matter what sort .of ,a’ snake
bites you, the head*of,thatifcftake “shouhlj
whenever portiiDle,\ be kept-for. Identi
fication. . *
If, as generally* th>,case.*the r bite,ia
on an extremiiy,, tlenone or-more bands
above the‘“Injury, Inlise‘deeply, cut
ting across the fcuncrtireiJor atcleast ,one
inch and .well beyond the d#pth*reached
■—j.....—■. u..'.*ri • •
by the fanjB:. Next, wash In running
water, manipulating the part to pro
mote free bleeding, it running water Is
not available, suck the wound, then rinse
the mouth thoroughly‘With a solution of
potassium permanganate. Now, wash
th® wound well, and use in-and around
It the potassium permanganate solu
tion; or*.inJect*a 1 *to' lbO solution of
chromic acid, being careful to Infiltrate,
completely. -not»*only*the* wound, .but alio
the surrounding tissues .
, Do .nbt. give ammonia Stimulate
with, small-<loses. of whisky,* if •Indicated,
but do,not •overdue,' an more,persons
have been .kiUc t d*by. taking, large 'quan
tities 'of. whlKky. than by ^snake bite..
I IV k Atl TtWal * i.ial 1, nnp* n I*. (khf Ikn ...
.*\Vhen hdsltlvely certain that (he poi-
on • has -been. removed from .-the 1 wound,
:u>8en cautiously the . ligatures,*, trfat
son
loosen cautiously the ligatures, .
ndhr^rft ,tne heart iflrst, but do not rrt-
move\thefm,*so Rhey may* be again tlkhN
ened if-symptom8 4 r«lcur. -In all cases the
victim* must have<the J>e8t surgical *carh,
and tHh wound, should be'kept open*,by
packing with .wqt afitlpeittlc gauge,, as
sw»»ls and. local gangrene’often follow a
snake,bite: » , ,,
man a?#a personage.quite, as inter
esting to the philosophical obeei^ver
as the*Arrterican'whfte manf and % in-
finitely more romantic. j*
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 a friend of your coun
try and an enthusiastic admirer of
Its 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 fdr saying
that I 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
abatement:"
A-Similar View.
. .Mr..Lsupp.appears.-to take.a-slm'
liar view.., He, has. I'fleos- abhtit. the
capacity-of., the Indtan- for .civllfza'-
tion,. and-about --the best a-ay - to d«--
V ®1°P, that^capa'rlty, which ‘ ought to
cdmirfand the attention of a' llberiy-
lovlrig,and -fair-dealing, people. .
, T*he. able. Idea- of, <Jur GoVetnment
seems to,have been,to make a jarfner
of. evpry,Indian., ,'JOlve him. a>. farm
and.make,h1m work'It,".ha’s been.th*
sloga'h. And when, the-.poor'Indian',
lgndrant of .the white -tnan> science
and..tt1h white mail's'-'metModsi.falls
to ‘ become "a , successful farmer * in . a
single ( generation, or .less,'he. is’,con
demned-as. good for* n'o’thlng ■ and
treated with contempt' and ^with^re-
om&n
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 claimeebfor it is true.
If suffering women could' be. made to believe ,-that
ing •
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-
1 ished in.the interest of 'any-other medicine. for:women in
the world—^and eveiy year we'publish many„new;testimo
nials,-alls genuine-and-true.’
newed. Injustice
.•Disregasdlng. the'.fact* that-he-has
netthpr (the'.capital,(to .develop, his
farm nor .the -experience' to enable
him-to compete In (afertculrtire -with
men of European.origin, whose'an-
t^stors^we^e trained. In* that kind of
Industry long before America was dis
covered. .the red man .i«> required to
devote htmself,.exclusively do work
for which, in many ,ca?es, .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 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
raidedithe.lake region of New York
he - destroyed farm* 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.-. Rutsuppose that, an
enlightened government had taken
Made Him a Brute.
'Taking advantage, of the’ terrible,
effect . that "flre-water”- i whlskyI —
had -upon, the unlmmunized : red*man,
his ’ white'. energies pressed it uprin
him, as. they press It. upon h tan's till,
jjntl.l. he became a bi\ite in spite of
himself. * 1 .
The^ Indian has .many useful: ca-
paclries-whicmhe would develop. If he
hh.fl, a 'proper opportunity, but the op-'
porturiity is refused to him. Read
what Mr.’ Leupp* bas/to say about’the
rrliilfitifile of red men who take* nat
urally to mechanic arts and to va*.
riops trades, arid the hopelessness of
their 'struRRle against the. Immense
agricultural*units that his v/hlte.co^n-
l>etitors, with comparatively unlim-
jted.^capital,, age*.developing around
him, and • you. may. be led to exert
your^infiuence to.have .the. doora^of
opportunity opened wider.to this long-
chea l ted race. , x ,
; We may consistently, keep out Jap
anese, ,but the- Indian wag here* be
fore-we were, and. the, principles of,
eternal .Justice .demand - that »he shall
'not have the door shut In his face.
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A Wisham Bride.
The Poet’s Plea
A Babe of the Apaches.
(These, pictures are reproduced by permission from Hearst’s Magazine for
■ 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-e!”
"My dearest dear!” breathed the
new-made hubby. .Why does my pet
weep so on her wedding day? Tell
her hubsie-wub.sle all about it. then!”
And, with her head on his shoulder,
the little wife faltered out at last:
“Marmaduke, I’ve hidden something
from you. I’ve not told you all. Alas!
What shall I do?”
Marmaduke’s heart stood still for
what seemed to him a century, but
wap, 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!"
*T c-can not c-ook!” sobbed the
little wife.
“Oh, lovey, is that all T* the young
man cried, as hisdieart beats slowed
1o normal time. “You frightened
me! But worry, not. T am a poet,
and. there will be precious little to
cook!” • *
The “Breach of Promise” Suit, Its Use and Abuse
By DOROTHV DIX.
Read What These Women Say!’
Blufftrtn,' Ohio.' — “ I wish ,to
thank you for the good I derived
from Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegeta
ble Compouftd 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 curea. I. thank-you for
what your remedies have done for.
me and should anything bother
me again, I shall use it again, for
I have great faith in your reme
dies. 1 ou may use my testimo
nial and welcome. I tell every
one what your* remediesihave
done for,me.”—Mrs'RhoDA Win-
gate, Box.396,*Bluffton, Ohio.
• Pentwater, Mich.—“A year ago
I was very .weak, and • the doctor
said <1 had a'seriotis disjilacement.
I had backache and bearing down
pains so bad-that-1 could not sit
m 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. p. No. 2, Box 77,
‘Pentwater, Mich. . • .
Compound has been the standard remedy for fe
male ills. No one sick with wotnan’s-ailments
does justice to herself if she does not try .this fa
mous medicine made from roots add.'herbs, it <
has restored so many suffering women to health.
t Write to l.vmt E.PINKHAM MEM CUTE CO.
(CONFIDENTIAL) LYNN, MASS., for advice.
Tour letter will be opened, read and answered
1 held in
by a woman and I
l strict confidence.
I N.a, recent srtlcl# In. this, column *1
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, and. that ..if ,a .man found * out
before. marriage that he was tfhed 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 *fromia.bar
gain. that would bankrbpt k his; life.
These # sentiments have ’ brought a
howl*of protest* from • a large number of
my feminine readers, who.accuse me of
being altraitor to my. sex, and berate
me ,ror encouraging perfidious man to
trifle with»the tenaar affections of trust
ing maidens.
I eonfbss that I don’t’quite..catch the
point* of view of 4 my correspondents,
nor do I. grasp their ideal of matrlmonay.
If their theory ot marriage Is the. sor
did on4 of marryffig for a home and.a
meal ticket, and that it'ls*easier for a
woman to work'a husband than • it is
to-work a typewriter .‘or *« sewing ma
chine, or stand behind a counter, then
I can'see why they, think* that ,a man
should,be compelled to carry out a mat
rimonial engagement, <no matter how
loathsome It nad - become to - him. nor
how he dreaded the. .prospect of having
to spend the balance of hUi Ufe with *a
woman who had* lost -her every vestige
of charm for him.
Thie argument would have* been a
good one in the old days, when no
gainful occupations were ,op#n to*wom-
en. and*the only way a lady hafd of get
ting a home* wds to marry it; but we
have chang'd -all of that * Any* able-
;btxUed<and intelligent, girl can, support
1 herself quite as well as ,a husband is
1 likely to do^t^afid in consequence mar-
equence
riage* has*become a *sentimef!tal luxury
and not a bread-aikt-butter.neceesttv, as
it • used . to a be. .
If.you should suggest- to s the average
high-spirited and .independent girl * of
to-day that she should)coerce an unwill
ing and protestingcman: into marching
to- the ’altar wilh 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 God # she didn’t''have to. make
hers that- way. *
She wouldv also,remark that she .was
not a confidence womanjWho.ran a skin
game on any sentiihental Tommy, , nor
was she at L*ady' Shyibck ‘ who would
exact,the last drop.of blood in a-man’s
heart in payniertt of a‘little indiscreet
love-making. Further, she would .add,
as did one girl that I 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 no 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
to take a'ny 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
“ >lll(
count 1 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 matrimoriy. is , to, disillusion. It
thrusts, people* together in' a. relation
ship where their personalities clash, and
where th,ey 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 gla^s 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 prdtty good
bluff at loving a husband
hate.
they actually
him downtown of evenings. You.could
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 bores 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
Most people eat too’ much
meat. It is the one big item in
our high cost of* living. 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.
Faust 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 5c and 10c packages.
MAULL EROS.
St. Louis, Mo,
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 ml,nd one may
almost dare .to’ reply .in .the rnegative-
to. the question asked ’above.
For that»quespon is not. fAre children
a Joy, a comfort, a ‘{privilege ?/but, Are-
they a duty?* ‘
Race Would Die, Out.
'Doubt, comes often sto, one’s mind in
reading .the opinion^ of certain-: writers
wh6 discourse on the sin.,of; childless
ness, the evils of race stil£ida, ttfe, sel
fishness of unfruitful* marrlalges. Right
here one m&y patise,to acknowledge.that
the* arguments in'favor of' child-bedr
ing to perpetuate 'the race are, irrefuta
ble. One cannot erect a building* with
out material,, and. the ra.ee 'would. Hie
out were there n6 children‘.born. Soi
for the purpose of continuing the ’.spe
cies, children * are ’certainly ressentldl.
But of thbse Who inveigh against' the
iniquity of childlessness only a ; few ‘lob
at the matter from the sta^idpoirft»of
the good of their-kind. I A 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
opinions have been voiced for so long
that their very age confers upon them
a seeming stability which we seldom
Jiing of disputing.
“1 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
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-
denials I have had the comforting as
surance that I was doing my duty.”
Surely Not Herself.
To whom? Surely noFto 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; x certainly not to the hus
band who works in a pobrly-llghted, ill-
ventilated‘office all day., and burns the
midnight oil in the ‘effort to. make both
ends rrieet,,and is always conscious that
they never, dd;. assuredly^ not to the
children, the, oldest of ‘wrom—a bright
lid of sixteen—has had to surrender all
hopes{of-'a college/education, as his earn
ings in a shop ’ are required to 'help*
support' the. little brothers, and, sistets,
and to.pay.the bills of.the doctor needed
with appalling, frequency by' the deli
cate mother. -To' whom. then, was the
duty performed? . , *
Recently *1 -h eard a heated * alterca
tion between {a•’mother and her modetn
and Irreverent daughter. , At' last, the
mother,- losifig.all* patience.* burst, forth
with: i * * , . “
“Y ou; girls ,ofthe a present f day, do. not
appreciate all that your ,mothers did, for
you! You’seem to forget-that:you bwe
a debt of. gratitude ’to .me, .’the woman
who braved death -itself .to', bring. you
into the world!” ,
The twentieth /century *girB shrugged
her broad shoulders. r • . .
“I consider .it’no debt,”‘she declared.
“I did not ask to come. Then why
should I thank you for-bearing me?”
A coarse and vulgar way of stating
a truth. Mothers seldom cohsider
whether their-children will-find the gift
of 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 aa cul
tivated an environment as possible ••
that they may start even with their as
soclates. This is one .of the few ways
In which we can “make up” to them for
their-having been bom.
Some of Us Are Happy.
Does this sound like pessimism? tt
Is not that. Some of us who are glad
that we are alive and to whom life
has meant much that Is Joylul and
Kdod would not tare to'live It over again
If we had to learn the same' lessons,
intake ■ the same mistakes, suffer ‘ the
satde-penalties- that we - Vave already
knowri. "Now that we are: here We love
life, and want to'say. as long as tve can.
Some of us are .very happy, fethers. very
necessary, others' have: a natural. curl-
oslty*to u see how It Is all going,to turn
out, But as one cannot miss .that Which 1
one. has, never - had,. we . wo.qldt haye
hilssed . 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
£egin- life once more’ as a tiny .’child,
and In ninety-nine cases out.of a hiin-
dred the reply .will be:. "Perhaps'. I
would',” ,or "Yes," always'coupled wfth ’
the proviso—"IP,.l could, remember th* 1
mistakes. I have made and profit, by
them.” ‘ ' . . ’
But,, unfortunately for our . children,
they^ will not or. cannot • profit .by the
mistakes . of their. parents. Each one
must, fight the'battle for hlmStlf; and
win out or fail for'himself.
«*¥T is about time.” said the farmer
I to the hostler, as the two stood
passing the time of day, "for
these sportsmen to act more sportsraan-
t' k * They ousht to <l ult shooting cat-
Nearly all the farms are posted hi
our part of the county, and we are
going to forbid shooting along roads
and waterways also.
“I 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, which gets
heavier and heavier during the day
Seeing nothing else to shoot, he shoots
a cow, simply to get rid of a shell that
costs five cents and weighs a pound.
"I 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 ths crop reports.
“Nor.ls.lt any,Tun-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
spared. It isn’t a bit'of fun.
"When: it comes,tomllking, that-cow
t is no easy Job. She thlfiks that every
one wbo .comes.along-has. a shooting
Iron and that she Is going,to get stung
again. Poor, patient animal. She .‘never
did 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
furifiyr things nowadays that It ls-un
sportsmanlike to shoot .coVs-In-order
to get. this kind of entertalnment-
"The cow. has. a perfect -.right*t«
graze.ln-her;owner's pasture unmolested
except at. milking- time, which comes
often enough. • Besides the responsi
bilities of the dtry she has ' files .and
lots; of,other things to worry, her.
"A man who would shoot. a cow or
even shoot at her would welcome cam
patgn contributions from any; source
and root for the opposing team In*a
world’s series."
Should think .lt 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 compromised'her
without being.far worse off. than if .she
had wiped the slate clean and blotted
out his score against her.
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