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SUNDAY MORNING.
Parisian Artistic Life
Attracts American Girls
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The American girls who flock to
Paris to study art and music, re
main faithful to their respective cat
agories even in their physiology. The
art girls are always slender, nervous
and anaemic, while the music girls
are ever plump.
And, following the law that to him
Who hath shall more be given, the
future warblers live luxuriously in
enviable social prominence, while
the art girls are taking rheumatism
and lead poisoning, very much alone,
nsi is going to otns recitals if
LONDON.
fn draughty studios, with cold feet
and home cooking.
I The girl who comes to Paris for
the cultivation of her voice has no
ideal to fulfill in a grimy Latin Quar
ter. Her companions are not noisy
boys, long-haired, with uncut finger
nails, and two-day collars charcoal
smudged, uneducated, arrogant,
whose chosen salon is a dance hall,
intimates are models for the
girl art student, oven when
Hrell off financially, must absolutely
■have this dear artistic atmosphere,
Jw- she feels that she is not making
Hktzress. She must live in Bohemia,
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I have seen nice girls, reared ten
derly, both pout and pine because
tbelr prudent mothers, having
brought them on to Paris, would
not let them roll in Latin Quarter
mud; they must go to the studio, re
ceive their lessons and work their
accustomed hours, then return homo
to the smart pension, mother and
correct society; wherefore they
wailed that they were only amateurs
and dwellers on the threshold.
The girl who comes to cultivate
her voice has different temptations.
Her vocation exacts that she be as
dainty as her gong. F° r this kind
of. girl it is, at first, a pleasure for
her mother to come with her to the
gay French capital and entertain, go
out and profit by her daughter's gilt
to meet nice people.
Miss Smith, “whoso voice is just
like Patti’s, only two notes higher;"
Miss Brown, "who has won a silver
medal at the' Roody Institute for
declamation,” and Mr. Jones, "who
is studying for the Paris Grand Op-
DttroNT THE POET
ere,” together with young Dinkel
stein, "who is going to give piano
recitals in London,” and his friend
Dupont, the poet, “sing with notes
angelical to many a harp their own
heroic deeds.
The Latin Quarter influence is all
“Bohemian,” and, such is the force
of a long tradition, these young men
would not be happy at their studies
were they forced to he chan and
sane in dress and deportment. There
is no harm in them, but they cer
tainly are “cures.”
Now, it is just to these young men
that our girl students, coming to the
Latin Quarter, must look up; and
the thing is inevitable. Such young
men become painters; they have
made as great a name in "art” as
our girls have made in singing;
whereas the art girl admits that, as
yet, her fellow countrywomen have
made few successes iu her chosen
field.
One day last month I met an art
girl living what she calls the true
life, after long struggle with her
parents, A telegram from Berlin
told me: "Look up Miss A. We
hear that she is ill.”
I tpok a cab to the address. The
girl I knew to be a sister to an
other, married to a prominent Amer
iean; both would have fortunes from
their family. I was, therefore, scan
dalized if not surprised to find this
well-to-do young creature installed
with another like herself in an un
sanitary court, up dirty stairs, in a
barn-like studio.
They had two hammocks and two
folding beds, two tables, two wash
stands, a cookstove, some chairs and
a green-painted bench from a pub
lic square. The sick girl was proud
of this latter; it had been stolen
years ago from its place in the munici
pal scheme of things by an Amer
ican student since famous as a great
portrait painter.
Pictorial posters lit the walls with
color. Half a dozen easels stood
about, with pictures finished and un
finished. At one side of the stu
dio a great divan, covered with rich
stuff, was littered with innumerable
pillows, very pretty; it made the
one spot of beauty in the habitation.
In a corner stood a suit or armor.
On a table stood a dish of pared po
tatoes. The sick girl was eating
gruel. She coughed cruelly.
"You must, at least get a big
screen,” I said, “and a doctor.”
“1 would rather have two screens,”
she answered. “I saw two precious
ones In an antiquity shop around
tha corner. The dealer said they
were true Louis XV., and wanted
so much for them that I gave them
up; we poor art students must con
tent ourselves with bare necessities."
Here was a girl who, living up to
an ideal, had caught what might
have been pneumonia posing half
nude for three other girls, each talc
ing turn about, to avoid the profes
sional model. Yet one, to my knowl
edge, is or will be rich, while both
the others have comfortable allow
ances.
They live up to an ideal. They
dress poorly and eccentrically. They
do some of their own cooking; while
for other meals they patronize a
students' restaurant, where young
Frenchmen smirk and wink behind
their backs. They live unhygenlc
ally; and the curious thing is that,
priestesses of beauty, their present
life does not have beauty in it.
One vjf these girls, only two short
years ago, was leading naturally and
happily a life of smart self-indulgence
with her widowed mother. They had
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three rooms in the best pension of
the lena Quarter.
The girl took healthy pleasure in
dressmakers, jewelers and hairdres
sers. She took other girls to tea
and was a judge of bon-bons.
One day at a picture show, it
seems, she overheard two young men
of fashion sneering at the life led
by one of their acquaintances, be
come an art student. What she heard
struck a strange spark of scornful op
position in her. Despising vehem
ently the fops who so lightly criti
cized their betters, the girl fell to
meditating on her own life, which
was idle.
Her first good work was to go to
a well-known painter with her moth
er, and sit for her portrait. And
sitting thus, long afternoons, the
studio poison entered into her. As
for the portrait, she despised It at
the same time she it.
“There is tfefftoaffnra.lt of an idle
girl!” she saicT
Her fresh and pretty costumes
came to be evil things. She went
in for drawing lessons and showed
talent. Within six months she was
drawing in a real academy and com
ing home to mother and the pension
in time for dinner.
Within six months more she had
AS FRESH AND DAIJITT AS ESB BONO.
won a great battle against family op
position and installed herself and a
girl friend from the academy in the
barn studio where I found her cough
ing. She bad made the great re
nunciation. She had given herself
up to art with a big A.
THE BRUNSWICK DAILY NEWS
THE WORK TO DO.
I don't keer fer de weather— Steady toilin' roun’ it,
Ef de sky is black or blue; Sunshine sho' ter crown it—
Gimme de work ter do. Lawd, Gimme de work ter do!
Gimme de work- ter do!
Gimme de lan' ter plow en hoe, Somers de light is shinin'.
Strength fer ter reap de seed I sow; Makin' de work look new;
TVhat 1 keer how de wild win' blow? Gimme de work ter do, Lawd,
Gimme de work ter do! Gimme de work ter do!
Girmn* de work you bless now,
What I keer ’bout, de pathway? Gimme de work dat’s bes‘ now,
Dat’s in de Lawd's ban*, too; 'Twell do word come: “Timo ter res'
Gimme de work ter do, Lawd now.”
Gimme de work ter do! inline de work tor do!
Up de hill 09 down it. —Atlanta Constitution.
The Division of La^bor
Interesting Article Showing the
Development of Commerce
“A century ago,” says an interest
ing historical writer, “each farm was
self-sustaining. Both food and cloth
ing were grown upon it. The farmer
made his own sleds, brooms, medi
cines, vinegar, soap, rope, shingles,
boxes, candles, barrels and furniture.
The homespun idea was the key to
everything in life and character. The
flax grown and the sheep raised cor
responded to the number in the fam
ily.”
If there be contrasted with this pic
ture a recent government map show
ing the articles which each locality
produces, the change which has come
over industrial life will ho very ap
parent. Each place produces in quan
tities that which it can raise to the
best advantage, and similarly each
man in the community devotes most
of his time to someone tiling—pre
sumably that which he can do best.
This is what is known as the “di
vision of labor."
II is a good principle, resulting in
great saving to the community as a
whole, but it has some disadvantages
and may he carried too far. Farmers
Rights of Union Men
Compulsory Insurance Brought
Prominently to the Front
Recently the Now York court ot ap
peals admitted the right of a labor
union to call its members out on
strike from a non-union shop. The
decision was based largely on the
ground that employers would not he
legally responsible if a union man
were injured'tbrough the carelessness
of a non-union employe. The right of
the union men to protect themselves
was acknowledged. Shortly before
this decision was made public, a hill
was introduced in the Maryland leg
islature providing for compulsory in
dustrial insurance, after the European
fashion, which should cover all such
The Denver Situation
Contractors Determined to Broak Up
the Building Trades’ Council.
A peculiar situation prevails in Den
ver, whore the building trades are on
strike and the contractors are deter
mined to break up the Building
Trades’ council. The Amalgamated
Woodworkers’ unions, which was affil
iated with the Building Trades’ coun
cil, was working nine hours a day and
other trades eight. The union was re
quested to demand an eight-hour day.
It voted on the question and the vote
was against a strike. The council
forced it to strike and the other
trades walked out in sympathy. Then
Telegraphers Organizing
Chicago Men Are Determined
to Form a Strong Alliance.
The commercial telegraphers of Chi
cago, who for several years have been
without a union, are being organized
by the Chicago Federation of Labor.
All the preliminary work has been
completed.
The present movement of the com
mercial telegraphers to organize is
along different lines than those fol
lowed in former efforts. Several at
tempts have been made in the last fif
teen years to unionize this branch of
the telegraph profession, but as the
organizations were made secret af
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Exchange Saya Bualneaa Agent*
Are Frequently Too Arbitrary
Business agents of building trades
unions in cities outside of New York
are truly representative of the organi
zations by whom they are employed.
They make full weekly reports, and
receive instructions which they re
ligiously carry out. Those, if any,
who get “above” {heir business and
seek to dictate policies of use the
organizations to foster their selfish
interests are soon turned down and
other men elected in their stead. The
Manhattan business agent is the
Have Novel Scheme
Cleveland Strikers Arrange Camp
on the Co-Operative Plan.
The metal polishers, buffers, plat
ers, and brass workers of Cleveland,
who are on strike for a nine-hour
workday, have a novel plan in view.
It is to supply the strikers with tents
and equipment for a camp at some
place near the city. A large num
ber of met have already declared
themselves as ready to go into camp
at any time. President E. .1. Lynch
oftentimes make the mistake of not
sufficiently diversifying their crops.
The man in the factory who does only
one thing, year in and year out, loses
much of the training and experience
which the necessary "Jack at all
trades” of earlier days received. Ton
hours' work on one thing is doubtless
much more wearing than twelve hours
of variety. Shorter hours should In
fairness go with all extensions of the
division of labor principle, and to
some degree they have done so.
The forces that have mado the di
vision of labor possible are chiefly
the cheap transportation which the
steam-engine offers, the coining of
the factories and the growth of popu
lation. Without a large population to
consume its products costly machin
ery would not pay, and without cheap
transportation the products of the
factory or the farm could not reach a
large population.
People who have mado fools of
themselves all their lives try to look
very wise when too old for further
folly.
accidents as the New York decision
considers potential and other disabili
ties beside. The New York decision
is expected to encourage industrial In
surance schemes, which have long
been agitated; and the Maryland hill
is a very decided step to establish
one.
A recent Massachusetts labor bul
letin shows that in a working popula
tion of 1,032,000 in the state, 2,900
persons are maimed or lame as a re
sult. of their daily labor. In 1900,
about 1,500 persons were injured and
fifty-two killed, the highest accident
roll on record.
the Building Trades’ council decided
that the Woodworkers’ union was not
a building trade and threw It. out of
tlie council. This action was taken
on the advice of H. W. Steinbisß, sec
retary of the National Building Trades’
council, but it did not help matters, as
the contractors seem bent on disrupt
ing the central body of building trades.
The mill men are anxious to make a
settlement with the woodworkers, but
are being held in lino by the contrac
tors, and it promises to be a fight to
a finish.
fairs it was impossible io get any
great, number of the men to become
members, and the attempts proved
failures. It was feared by the major
ity of the men that if they connected
themselves with any labor organiza
tion they would lose their positions,
as the companies were opposed to se
cret unions. According to the pres
ent. plans of organization this handi
cap to a successful union has been
eliminated and the men will be asked
to come out in the open and join the
union.
dictator who lays down law for his
followers. Just what would happen
if they should suddenly rebel, rise
up and throw off the galling yoke,
he has never stopped to consider, as
he has not, for one moment, allowed
them to think for themselves suffi
cient to incite rebellion. He does
not know that he is stalking about
over a seething volcano, but he is,
and when the eruption comes, his
destruction will be swift and com
plete. —Exchange.
of the national organization is be
hind the movement. The camp is to
be conducted on the co-operative plan,
and the balance of the strike pay not
used in the expenses of the camp will
go to the men. At a meeting the dif
ferent locals affiliated with thjs brass
workers’ organization voted to give
$2 per week to each man on strike
in addition to his strike pay.
Chapters of Life’s Oddities.
STRANGE STORIES CARNERED FROM
DIVERSE SOURCES.
Unusual llrquireiuents For matrimony.
The marriageable girl in Tunis has
n trying ordeal to go through after her
betrothal to the man not of her choice,
but whose choice she is. She has to be
fattened to (lie required size before
the ceremony can take place.
As soon as the betrothal takes place
she is taken to a room and there
cooped up till the fattening process is
concluded. Silver shackles are fas
tened round her wrists and ankles, and
the task of her parents and future
husband is to increase her bulk till her
wrists and ankles fill up the shackles.
If the husband is a widower, or has
“discharged” his first wife, the girl lias
the shackles of the first spouse placed
on her and must till them out.
It takes a long time to do this, as a
rule, and sometimes it cannot he ac
complished in spite of all efforts. It
is then open to the future husband to
cry off the bargain or waive the condi
tion. In the case of a bachelor he
takes care to see that the bracelets
and ankles are not too large—that is,
if he is fond of the girl—hut if he is
being forced into the marriage by his
parents, lie is a great stickler for'cus
tom. Stout girls are the more quickly
snapped up in Tunis.—Pictorial Maga
zine.
African l'yginJo*.
The heads of the Pygmies were of
the brachycephalic order, says Samuel
P. Verner In the Atlantic. The mean
cranial index of the skulls of eight
adult males was eighty-one degree**.
The nose was small, but more aqui
line than that of the real Negro. The
mouth was large and the chin usually
receding. The lmlr was of a lighter
color—almost a shade of brown—and
was kinky and woolly. The hands and
feet of the Pygmies were small and
well shaped, the hands in particular
being delicately formed. In proportion
to their size, the strength of the Pyg
mies far exceeded that of all the other
Africans. Their powers of endurance
on the march or In the chase were
phenomenal. Fifty miles a day was
an ordinary march for them, and they
were almost as much at home in the
trees as the monkeys themselves. The
senses of the Pygmies wore unusually
acute. At quite a distance they could
distinguish the chameleon from the
foliage in which It was hidden, al
though the color of the little animal co
incided with that of its hiding place.
Much of their quarry was discovered
through the powers of the nose, and it
Is no exaggeration to say that the
Pygmy's sense of smell was as keen
as that of his dog. They were such
shots with the bow that I have seen
one send an arrow through a rat at
twenty yards, while it was running
across the village.
A Topsy-Turvy Boom.
A recent writer says: “An actual
topsy-turvy room existed near Paris
some years ago, and may still exist.
1 was the guest of the owner of the
house from Saturday until Monday,
lie was a bachelor, very convivial in
his taste, and we were a very jolly par
ty of men. When we broke up, about
2 o’clock on Sunday morning, one of
our number, sound asleep on the couch
in the billiard room, was carried oui
like a log by a couple of servants. My
host gave me a solemn wink, and told
fine that if a sudden summons came
I was to rush from my bed-room, or
else I might miss u sight worth see
ing. I wanted nothing but sleep—and
was relieved when the summons came
to find that it was broad daylight.
Yawning, I followed the valet, and
found myself with four others, silently
peeping through little holes In a wall.
The scene was absurd, ridiculous. A
dazed man, slowly waking to full con
sciousness, was lying on a plastered
floor, looking up in horror at a car
peted ceiling. Two heavy couches, an
easy chair, chairs and table, securely
fastened, stared down at him from
above. The man’s eyes at last rested
on a flower pot directly over his bead,
from which a flaring rose—apparently
leal—was blooming. He gave a cry,
and rolling over, grasped with fren
zied hands the stern of the chandelier
which came up through the floor. The
host burst into the rooom with a loud
laugh. ‘They nil do it,’ he cried. ‘They
fear they will fall up to the ceiling.’ ”
Curious Circular Boats.
The accompanying picture shows one
of the “goofas,” or curious circular
boats in use on the River Tigris. In
spite of Its clumsy appearance the
goofa is eminently suited to the swift
current of the river, and is, in fact,
.
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CROSSING THE TIGRIS IN A “ GOOFA.”
the only small craft to be seen at
Baghdad. It consists of a wooden or
wicker frame thickly covered with tar,
something after the style of an ancient
British coracle, and is propelled by one
or two rowers who stand in the bow
—if a round boat can be said to pos
sess a bow. The passengers, as shown
SEPTEMBER 7.
in our picture, either stand up or sit
down on the gunwale. It is considered
the height of luxurious goofa traveling
to have a stool provided for the ac
cominodation of passengers.
Queer Store-Iloiihci,
During the summer months the Dig
ger and i’iuto Indians may he seen at
their camps near Indian Canyon, Yo
semite Valley, the men engaged in rais
ing and selling ponies, and the women
at basket weaving or beadwork. In
autumn, when the acorns ripen, they
are eagerly gathered by the red men,
who regard them as a great delicacy.
The squaws grind (lie meat of the
nuts in stone mortars, converting it
into a sort of flour which, perhaps,
would be unpalatable to American
tastes, but to tlie Indian it tastes quite
as good as our best roller flour.
Tlie visitor to the far-l’amed valley
occasionally runs across a group of
acorn store-houses or granaries, like
the ones shown in the illustration.
Their construction is most interesting
and ingenious. At a little distance
they have a grotesque appearance, re
sembling somewhat some gigantic fig
ure. Strictly speaking, they are large
baskets supported by a section of a tree
trunk, or stump, and three or four up
right pine poles. Tlie skeleton work
of the basket is constructed of long,
QUEER STOREHOUSES IN THE YOSBMITE,
flexible willow twigs. These are bound
together by wild grapevines twined
about them and securing the baskets
lo tlie uprights. The side of the basket
is lined with fir boughs, and the top
thatched with yellow pine and some
times a bit of burlap. Occasionally
they are further protected from the
rain and snow by a square board. To
tlie amateur photographer or the paint
er they offer a charming subject, ns the
color effect of their wild setting of
rocks, shrubbery and mountains forms
a “bit” that every tourist likes to carry
away with him as a souvenii-.
To Wod the Ugliest Mon.
Extremes meet in the fickle feminine
fancy. The attractiveness of the
Adonis for women Is not to be com
pared with that of the man who is So
fearfully and wonderfully ugly as to
serve as a living confirmation of the
truth of the Darwinian theory regard
ing tlie descent of man.
A bevy of lovely American girls
have formed a society, (he object of
Which is to search the land for the ug
liest men to be found outside a mu
seum, and, when found, to marry them
as soou as possible.
Ever since the time when Mirabeau,
the ugliest of all Frenchmen, had his
host of female admirers really hideous
men have been worship by women.
This extraordinary fondness of
women for extremely ugly men is seen
when some especially villainous look
ing criminal, accused of a particularly
atrocious crime, is exhibited in the
dock and immediately becomes the
idol of all (lie women who attend tile
trial. The more hideous his nppeftance
and the fouler his misdeeds the more
enthusiastic is the worship of the
women.
“He Is so delightfully ugly,” said a
pretty girl, when asked what partic
ular fascination a brutal criminal pos
sessed for her.
It is a fact that in ail ages and coun
tries this strange feminine tendency
lias been strikingly demonstrated.
No explanation that seems plausible
has ever been given.
Moors Indifferent to Life.
Of all tiie Oriental races there are
none more callous and indifferent to
human life than the Moors. A trav
eler who has recently returned from
Morocco related the following anecdote
in proof of this fact. The grandfather
of the present Sultan was one day boat
ing on the lake in the gardens of the
palace, the boat, by the way. being a
small steam launch given him by
Queen Victoria. By some accident the
boat capsized, and the Sultan and two
of his wives, by whom he was accom
panied, were thrown into the water A
soldier on guard in a part of the palace
out of view heard tlie cries, and run
ning up, sprang into the water and
rescued the Sultan’s favorite wife, the
ruler himself scrambling out unaided.
Later in the day the soldier was sent
for and presented himself joyfully be
fore his monarch, convinced that his re
ward would be great. "You are the
soldier who rescued the delight of my
eyes?” quoth the Sultan The soldier
bowed. “Did you dare to look at her?”
“I dkl, your highness,” replied the sol
dier, taken off his guard. The Sultan
turned to an officer, murmured a few
words, and a moment later the soldier
was on his way to the headsman. That
was his reward!—Family Herald.
Even the man with an elastic con
science is liable to have it fly back and
sting him. _