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SUNDAY MORNING. Parisian Artistic Life Attracts American Girls f 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, .■fch not at heart herself Uuiio- j L L _i '9 tr| JjA W W b' “ - u , JL BAD A VELVET COAT lIM / - AND AN IMPERIAL. bW /""If , wi-g fjgf 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 UEB OOVfANIONS | Mlfe •IKK CACOHT R.YRT7MONIA WHILE POSINO FOB THU OTHER OIBLB 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 44 One-Ms^n pv Power 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, . ' 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. _