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Work, Affection, Power and
Health---Without Work and
Useful Work Life Is a Failure
and a Misery.
WORK, AFFECTION, POWER, HEALTH
Those are among the things that make life noble, happy and
worth while. Tell the young boys and girls of your family to
think and write about the picture at the top of this page
Not what others write, but what YOU think is important.
It is the intention of this newspaper to print from time to
time pictures with a meaning and ask the readers to study them,
discuss them, THINK AND WRITE about them
Vague thinking does little good. Merely to look and ad
mire is nothing. Young people should be encouraged and taught
to think and write EXACTLY.
Take an hour by yourself, or in the family circle, to discuss
this picture and its meaning. Write down what you see in it.
Don't try to do FANCY WRITING, but see how much you can
find in this particular picture and how simply and briefly you
can express it.
This picture is reproduced from the September number of
Hearst s Magazine.
In that Magazine there is an article based upon the picture
written by a well known writer—one of the best known in the
United States.
Before you read what he thinks, however, find out WHAT
YOU THINK.
Hundreds of thousands of different things may be said about
this picture by The Georgian 's great family of readers.
It is a picture of that which makes life WORTH WHILE.
Write out now YOUR list of things that are worth while in
life.
First comes USEFUL WORK—and that is the biggest thing
in this picture.
Without work and useful work life is a failure and a misery.
The highest type of work is that which exercises the brain
and the body, calling for imagination, patience and persistence.
Next in importance after work comes AFFECTION—the
power that keeps the race moving upward, the power that has
changed men from savages to human beings nearly civilised.
The affection of men and women for each other, the deep
devotion of a mother for her child—these are the forces that do
the work of civilization. And they are in this picture.
What else do you see in the picture?
You see the mysterious head near the hand that holds the
chisel. That represents the strange fascination of the unknown.
All the strange religions and beliefs for which men have given
their lives and taken the lives of others belong to the realm of
mystery—an interesting part of life.
What else do you see in the picture?
You see the hand that holds the scales by which we measure
values and typify justice.
Justice and property—and the laws—they are important to
life. They and many other things are in this picture.
Ask the children, young and old, what this picture means to
them. Teach them to think and to express thought. Ask them
what seems to them worth while in life, and of all the things
which one they think most important.
Is it success, happiness, peace of mind, love, glory, property?
An hour spent thinking about this picture and discussing it
with the family will do more good than much reading of ordinary
news and discussion of ordinary topics.
After you have thought over the picture yourself, you may
read in Hearst's Magazine the writings of a well paid profes
sional writer on the same picture. Compare his ideas and your
own.
The American’s Mission Abroad
By JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES.
THE summer tourist* that
come trooping home acfom
these summer bring
with them a freshly invigorated
and inspiring Americanism.
Paris and London have thetr
wonders and attractions. Em
bo.vfied history and gilded retni
niwence linger tn the recollection
of French and English capital*,
nd the gayetiaa and enjoyments
of those ancient and illustrious
cities are meeting now in compe
tition the progressive splendors
and audacities of Berlin, toward
which the tourist tide strongly
turns
But the steady drift of national
and international sentiment with
lr> the decade is to New York as
the foremost city of the world in
merest, in enjoyment, in vitality
end in promise
The Viscount Haldane, Lord
High Chancellor of England, said
more than one significant and Im
pre* si v© thing during hi® brief
stay in America Most flattering
find generous from so high and
e**-rene an inn* ’igence whs hi*,
parting <atement that his cheer
\ations had made him certain
that “the foremoit place m the
vvorld was assured to America
In the future.
But In the journey to Wert
Point this broad-minded English
man remarked. The glories of
the Hudson surpass expectation
Vo no sp©ak of them in other
< oun nes as mu* h as vou should.
\n \o‘. d<- <>• sp»*ak of the
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would be known throughout the
world.”
It is not often that American
enterprise or national pride Is
challenged for a failure to adver
tise But it is here justly ar
raigned.
Beyond Niagara and Mammoth
Cave. Yosemite and the Yellow
stone. foreigners hear little of the
wonders of scenery in a land
where the Hudson matches the
Rhine, where Pikes Peak and
Shasta vie with Mont Blanc,
were the chateau country of Ken
tucky and the Berkshire* com
pares with the region around
Tours, and where history gathers
at Bunker Hill and Yorktow n and
Gettysburg and Appomattox and
the Alamo as rich and inspiring as
Bannockburn and Waterloo and
Balaklava and Thermopylae—if
we would only tey so.
It la high time that Americans
abroad were Impressing their his
tory and traditions, their heroic
memories and their immortal
names upon the Old World, as
the Old World has impressed its
history upon us.
We are no longer young. We
are old enough now to gather our
relics and marshal our traditions
while the photograph upon the
universal mind the wonders of
our material realm It is time
.i’bo for the Old World to know
that Pickett's at Gettys
burg were a 9 wonderfu as Lord
Cardigan's Six Hundred at Bal
aklava. and ’bar Thermopylae
had t» messenger of defeat, the
Ju-mo had tftena.
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(The above picture reproduced by permission from Hearst’s Magazine.)
Men Slaves to Beauty, Women Are Not
Girls of U. S. Won’t Find It Necessary to Form Protective League
Against Handsome Men, Says Dorothy Dix.
IN Berlin, where a man's a man
and a husband’s a husband and
hard to get. no matter what
sort of a face he has on him.
Fraulein Berben has organized a
society that is called “The league
Against Beauty.*'
The members of this organiza
tion are all young women, and they
have pledged themselves to marry
only ugly men. on the theory that
handsome husbands make more
unsatisfactory life partners than
homelx ones, and that in matri
mony pretty is as pretty does.
American girls will probably not
find it necessary to form a pro
tective league to guard themselves
against youths who are cursed with
the fatal gift of beauty. A polios not
being overly plentiful in this coun
try, however common they may be
tn Germany.
In America We Do Not
Exalt the Dandy; We
Make Fun of Him.
Indeed, in America the living;
picture man finds scant favor
either with his own or the opposite
sex. and we do not exalt the dandy
who is the glass of fashion and
the mold of form to a pinnacle and
imitate him We throw bricks at
him and laugh at him
Strangely enough, it is men who
are slaves to beauty and who make
fools of themselves over it—not
women When you tell a man
about a woman the very first ques
tion he asks you is. "Is she pret
ty?" He never inquires whether
she is intelligent, or talented, or
agreeable, or good or what she
has done to merit the approval
of her fellow creatures. The thing
that he is chiefly interested in is
her looks. He places more value
on her complexion than her char
acter. ahd considers the outside of
her head of more importance than
the inside
If a girl has yellow hair and blue
eyes, and a peaches and cream
skin, and a willowy figure, she
mat be the dullest, the stupidest
imbecile that ever lived, her heart
may be as hard as a nxk and she
herself nothing but a clothes horse
to hang tine dresses on. but men
will flock aioiind bur like bee*
By DOROTHY DIX
around a honey |>ot, and tight with
each other for a chance of marry
ing her.
On the contrary, when you tell a
woman about a mini in whom you
wish to interest her. she practically
never asks a question about his
physical appearance. His looks,
provided he is not u deformity and
wife •
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DOROTHY DIX.
has the appearance of a gentleman,
do not count with her What she
wants to know is whether he is in
telligent. and strong; whether he
knows how to tall, and entertain
her. and particularly what he has
achieved, whether he has made
something out of his life, or is one
of the "also runs."
Os course, beauty is a gift of the
gods, and if a man can have that
in addition to all the other desira
ble qualifications he is just that
much to the good. A woman would
naturally rather contemplate an
Adonis than otherwise, but a man's
looks cut a very small figure in her
estimate of him. Let him be
charming in manners, glib in
speech, a good dancer, and espe
cially know how to take care of
a woman, and do the little things
just right, and the man with car
roty hair, no eyebrows, a snub
nose and a stumpy figure can hack
the classical featured .six-foot tai
lor's dummy off of the board any
day
In proof of this observe the ob-
vious pleasure with which girls re
ceive the attentions of bald-headed,
bay-windowed men who break ev
ery rule of physical pulchritude hut
who are clever and bright and
overflowing with the graces of
mind and soul.
But can you imagine a fat.
dumpy, bald-headed woman ever
being a belle, or men deliberately
seeking her out as a partner for
the dance and rejoicing in being
seen in public with her? Never.
Such a woman might be the most
gifted creature on earth and a per
fect angel of goodness, yet no man
would ever take the trouble to look
beyond her homely face and see
the superlative beauty of her soul.
The opponents of woman suf
frage are always saying that when
women vote, the one and only
qualification that a candidate will
need to swing the feminine ballot
will be a handsome face. They
are dead wrong there. Women
won’t care a rap about a man’s
looks. Indeed, they are always
suspicious of one who is overly
endowed with beauty, but Heaven
help the country when we have
feminine candidates for office and
a Lillian Russell takes the stump'
! The men would vote for her en
masse, without ever stopping to
inquire which side of Hie political
fence she stood on.
Women Do Not Care to
Cater to Caprices of
a Vain Man.
In reality, it is not too much to
say women rather resent than ad
mire beauty in men. It is a poach
ing on their own preserves, the in
vading of a field they hold sacred
to themselves. If anybody is going
to be admired, a woman knows
who ought to be IT. She wants
the tributes laid at her feet, and
not to be compelled to scatter
roses before a man and tell him
what beautiful eyes he has got,
and how exquisitely his hair grow s,
and what a magnificent straight
front figure he possesses
Faugh! The very thought of
such a thing knocks romance out
of the ring with the average girl,
nor does the idea of being the ordi
nary looking wife of a handsome
man make any hit with her.
If there's going to be any Beauty
and the Beast business in her
family she wants to qualify for
the role of Beauty. That’s the
reason that you often see a pretty
woman marry a grotesquely ugly
man, but very rarely a handsome
man married to a homely woman.
. Another reason why women do
not care for a superabundance of
good looks in a man is because a
handsome man Is invariably inor
dinately vain, with the vanity that
makes the vainest woman seem
humble and self-deprecating. He
has a vanity that requires to be
continually fed on flattery of a
warmer and more piquant kind
than any domestic brand. It seems
a pity to him to waste so much
charms on any one woman, and
that one a mere wife, so he roams
abroad to give other women a
chance “for to see and to admire"
hiui.
An instinctive sense of self
protection makes women choose
homely men as husbands. They
may like to feast their eyes occa
sionally upon a matinee hero, but
when they go home they want
something more than a living pic
ture in the house. They want a
man, and if he's intelligent, and
good, and kind, and generous, they
don't care a button about his looks.
Stars and Stripes
Although straw hats have been
automatically retired, we may be
excused for wearing ours a few
days longer for three reasons—
the first being ample.
Philadelphia woman who traps
husband by imitating her rival
apparently solves the whole
marital problem.
Food prices jumped 60 per cent
in thirteen years. Always a fen
jumps ahead of the consumer.
Thaw case is so involved it will
take habeas corpus writs to get
the lawyers out,
Peace is rapidly being restored
in Mexico—3oo more killed in
Chihuahua.
Boy is arrested playing police
man; qualified for the force.
Tim vaudeville circuit is might
ier than the battleship.
Grate time* are coming
‘ Br-r-r-r-r!
THE HOME RARER
Wonders of the
Planet Jupiter
He Is t h p **<' oni p t
Catcher*’ of the Uni
verse—Were It Not for
the Sun, Our Earth
Would Revolve
Around J upiter —So
Fast Do the Big
Planet ajid All His
Satellites Move That
His Day Is Only Ten
Hours in Length.
By GARRETT P. SERVISS
IF you look t.wward th? Fouth in
th? early’ evening you will see
the planet Jupiter glowing
placidly among the constellations,
like a great super-star which has
no need to twinkle in order to call
attention to itself.
You will understand at a glance
why th? ancients gave to this
magnificent planet the name of
the chief of their gods. W’hy the
Chinese called it the “Regulator”
and th? Egyptians •‘Horus, the
Guider of th? Sphere.”
In our scientific way we have
found more accurately deircriptive
terms for this Mg planet, which
exceeds the earth about 1,300
timeM in magnitude. Among other
things, we call Jupiter the •’Comet
Catcher.”
Nearly Thirty Comets Have
Been Captured by
Jupiter.
Its power of attraction is so
great (more than 300 times that
of the earth) and its position in
the solar system is so command
ing (about five times as far from
the sun as the earth is) that It
often draws wandering comets
out of their paths as they ap
proach the sun from outer space
and turns them into smaller,
shorter orbits, ao that, henceforth,
they are unable to so very far
away, but continue to revolve
around the sun in elliptical
curves, whose form lias been im
posed by the Interference of Jupi
tsr.
Nearly thirty comets are now
known which have thus been
"captured” by Jupiter.
Ho is not powerful enough to
keep them for himself, but Is
compelled to hand them over to
the sun. He is like one of the
great feudal barons of the Mid
dle Ages, who had to surrender
his prisoners to his lord, the King.
Still, he sometimes Interferes
with them a second time, if they
venture near him, and sends them
scurrying off in new orbits.
He has also created havocamong
the orbits of the hundreds of little
planets, called “asteroids.” which
he has trained into groups, and he
is even suspected of having
turned some of them Into his own
retainers, in the character of lit
tle “moons.”
In fact, Jupiter is so powerful
that he would make the earth re
volve around him If the sun were
absent. One of his four principal
moons is larger than the planet
Mercury, and yet he swings It
around him once every week,
making ft travel in that space of
time more than 4.000.000 miles.
The nearest of them, which is
considerably largeb than our
moon, is whipped around him at
a speed of 40,000 miles per hour.
Everything goes fast about
The Supreme Court
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
I It was one hundred and twenty
years ago—on September 11,
1787—that the Judiciary Com
mittee of the Federal convention,
assembled at Philadelphia, pre
sented to the convention its final
report on the third of the three
great departments of the General
Government—the Supreme Court.
With very little bickering the
committee's report was sanction
ed, and the “most remarkable and
original of all the creations of the
convention'' became a part of the
Constitution.
The Supreme Court is unique
among the intellectual work of
the ages. At the time there was
nothing like it anywhere on earth;
nor, for that matter, is there any
thing like it to this day. Mr.
Gladstone declared, with unusual
enthusiasm, that the Constitution
of the United States was the
greatest piece of work that ever
sprang from the human mind;
and the Supreme Court is in
many ways the most wonderful
part of the Constitution.
Its creation stamps the men of
the Philadelphia convention as
having been pre-eminently wise
and far-seeing. They were form
ulating a government for a fami
ly of States stubbornly tenacious
of their rights, and they knew
that there would be endless strife
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Jupiter. He turn* on his own axis
si> rapidly that his day is only
ten hours long, and if we were
situated on his equator w? should
find ourselves whirled round at
th? rate of more than 27,000 miles
per hour.
One consequence of this i«» that
h? has flattened his own polea and
swelled out his own equator by
centrifugal force to such an ex
tent that he measures about 5,000
miles less through the poles than
through the equator. His equa
torial diameter is about 88.000
tiiHps, and his pnlar diameter only
about 83.000 miles.
This difference is so striking
that you can see it easily if you
look at Jupiter through a tele
scope. He is not round like a
baseball, but elongated like a font
ball. or, rather, flattened like a
pumpkin. Another consequence
of his mad energy of motion,
which you will see if you inspect
him with a telescope, is that his
whole surface is covered with
parallel belts of clouds drawn
out into bands by the swift rota
tion. These clouds vary in color
and In form, and while you are
watching them you will actually
see the planet turning, if you
continue observations for an hour
or two
Discovery of His Moons
Upset the Ancients’
Astronomy.
Another thing of fascinating in
terest which a telescopic view of
Jupiter affords is the motion of
the four nearby moons. It was
Galileo's discovery of these moons
that upset the ancient system of
astronomy. They seem to fly as
if terrified at the possibility of
being drawn down into the grasp
of their relentless master. In the
course of a single evening you can
see them cross his disk or pass
into and out of his shadow’, and
often you can watch thetr own
little round shadows, as black
as ink drops, moving swiftly
across his broad, oval, shining
face or disk.
If you have not studied as
tronomy—a subject that every in
telligent human being should
know something about—begin at
once with the planet Jupiter, if
you can not get a chance to look
at him with a telescope, watch
him with the naked eye, observe
his place among the stars—he Is
now in the constellation Sagitta
rius—and see how that place
slowly changes from week to
week. Then get a book on astron
omy, and learn from it all you
can, not onl.v about Jupiter, but
about other things in the sky, and
the result, in the broadening of
your mind and the tranquillizing
of your spirit, will be both a de
light and a surprise to you.
between the local and genera!
authorities unless it was fore
stalled by some sort of constitu
tional means. Congress—the Fed
eral Legislature—would pass the
general laws— the laws that
should concern the States in their
confederated capacity; but what
if this or that State, or this or
that citizen of a State should
question the validity of the Fed
eral statutes? “Well." said the
Fathers, “we will settle all such
troubles in the Supreme Court,
before the decisions of which all
must bow.”
The Supremo Court is the near
est approach to earthly omnipo
tence that we have any knowl
edge of. A statute enacted by-
Parliament must stand until some
future Parliament sees fit to re
peal it. but an act passed by both
Houses of Congress and signed
by the President may still be set
aside as unconstitutional by this
most august of all tribunals—the
Supreme Court of the United
States.
Most nobly has the illustrious
body served the high purpose for
which it was created, and th©
most cynical or pessimistic of
Americans would hesitate long
before offering the faintest insin
uation against its honor or effi
ciency.