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AU8TIH WEEKLY STATESMAN THURSDAY JANUARY 28 1891.
guisiiu Jitattsimtu
by Tim
T ATESMAH PUBLISHING COMPANY.
PKTTON BItOWN K. J. ITIU-.
President mnl en. Manager. Vleu-l'reslclent
Henry W. Bkown Beerctary.
OUIl I'LISUU lilllDCi:.
Mayor McDonald la his annual
message to the iiiy council usod this
language in referring to the late ex-
tension of the city limits and the In-
cluding within the same of South
Austin:
While wo can congratulate our-
selves in this increase of population
and wealth and rejoico that wo have
an Eleventh ward with two genial
and companionable aldermen we
havo also to recognize the fact that
there come now burdens with this
newly acquired territory.
While the limited amount available
for street improvements will perhaps
make it impossible for your honorable
body to do all wo might wisii lo lor
the newly acquired territory in the
way of street improvements 1 feel
satisfied you will deal liberally und
Justly with that portion of our city.
This subject indeed involves
sorious consideration; the most griev-
ous obstacle- in the way of our doing
at once all we should for our now citi-
zens being the unsatisfactory bridge
across the Colorado river. This was
built as u county bridge and finally
paid for out of tho county's money.
While now used to a very great ex-
tent by those lately made citizens of
Austin it is still more in tho nature of
a county than a city bridge
Hy far tho greatest travel over
it is by the country people
and surely the beaviost and most
blockading hauling over it is done by
them. For this roason for years lo
come it should bo held as quasi a
county bridgo and Thk Statesman
Insists the county equally with the
city should be held responsible for Its
improvement and putting In condi-
tion to accommodate satisfactorily all
tlio travel going over it. This should
bo a question of amicablearrangement
between the city council and the
county commissioners. Through their
joint efforts very much may be accom-
plished to make it a wider and hotter
bridgo while if each is left unaided to
Itself it will doubtless bo many a year
before the much needed work is done.
at their conclusions by what they con
eider a correct and logical course of
reasoning. There can be no doubt
however that Mr. Mills' views are
nearer right and more; in accordance
with the interests of tho people.
J'.ui.son has a little plan of his own
iu connection with the Chilean trouble
if It should ever resolve itself into a
war. All ho wants is twenty men and
an alternating machine of -000 volts
capacity. One wire would bo ground-
ed. A man would govern a stream of
water of about -100 pounds pressure to
the square inch with which the
alternating current would be con
nected. Tho ' lioo would then be
turned on Chile ami every man the
stream of water touched would be a
dead man. Edison will please hurry
up with his machine as it may lie
necessary to use it in the near future.
It should be turned on i'at Egan first
of all.
(Jov. Hoiks of Iowa started his in-
augural address with the remark: "I
cannot avoid tho conclusion that we
legislate too much." If he had mount
that remark for Texas ho couldn't
have made it moro appropriate. We
legislate too much and after our laws
have knocked nil tho prosperity out of
the country tho supreme court takes
our laws up looks thorn ever and de-
clares them unconstitutional. That
comes of having a legislature that
wouldn't know a constitutional law if
they were to soo it a legislature that
needs to moot in extra session to undo
the mistakes It lias made in the regu-
lar session.
Mit. .Nhwiikkkv a member of the
House from Illinois bus introduced a
bill asking for tho approprion of &S0-
000 with which to establish spelling
schools at tho World's Fair and in va-
rious parts of tho country. Mr. New-
berry should go to. Nine-tenths of
the great financiers and prominent
politicians of this country are men
who would Just as soon spell socks
"sox" as any other way. In fact the
man who knows how to spell is harfdi-
cappod in the race from the very start
and has no show at all beside tho man
whom Ignorance and unlimited gall
havo pushed away up to the head of
tho procession.
MliS. MOLUK MOORE I). VIS.
Tho .State Hoard of Lady Managers
of the World's Fairhaveadded two to
their number oneof them being Mrs.
Mollie Moore Davis. Theappointment
was a dolicato and merited compli-
ment for though Mrs. Davis is a citi
zen of New Orleans she is identified
far more with Texas than with Louis-
iana. It was in Texas that she grew
to womanhood and here she sung her
sweetest songs and wove her most
charming fancies. Texas claims her
by priority and it is fitting that she
should be one of the state's represen-
tative women to forward the World's
Fair work.
Y. M. C. A.
THE UKIVEESITY ASSOCIATION GOES
DOWN INTO ITS POCKET AND
RAISES A LARGE SUM.
Prompt Action Taken to Secure the Erection
of a Fine Building on the Campus An
Application for That Purpose Be-
ing Granted by the Egents.
Til K JOSKS MASIFKSTO.
Evan Jones tho sub-treasury thun-
derer lias shaken his ambrosial locks
and given the nod which is to ex-
communicato a certain Allianco num-
bered 658; but Allianco f58 hurls his
thunderbolt back in his teeth expec-
torates on its hands and tells him to
come on and it will mop up the earth
in Froestono county with his remains.
It further refuses to recognize his au-
thority and says it belongs to a stato
alliance which is duly chartered and
which does not need tho countenance
or influence of him Evan Jones. Al-
liance 558 also hurls Latin full at the
author of this manifesto and talks
about Ids brututn fuliuen and then
cruelly leaves the unhappy Jones
with the painful alternative of oil her
guessing at its moaning or in miring
of his mortal enemy Farmer
.Shaw. Tin: Stathsman grieves
to witness these dissensions between
the people who erst while were breth-
ren; but tho wedge has been driven
into the Alliance and has riven it
asunder. Thero are now two Allian-
ces which may be denominated tho
Hubtreasury Alliance and the Anti-
subtreasury Alliance. Or perhaps it
would be more definite toalludeto the
latter as Tho Allianco while the from-
er could be designated as The Other
Alliance. Tin: Statesman sends
greeting therefore to Allianco 55S
tho bright and coi' rugous representa-
tive of The Alliance. May it keep a
brutum fulmenof its own with which
it can annihilate the political dema-
gogues that would seek to make a tool
of it. Texas owes it many thanks for
the retort courteous it bestowed on
Evan Jones of Tho Other Alliance.
Tiik St. Louis Kepublic complains
bitterly that the new silver coins are
ugly that the eagle has been on a
spree and that tho Goddess of Liberty
lias a goitre. Hut to the great ma
jority of men the new coins will be as
welcomo as though they had been le-
signed by Angelo. Men will labor
for them struggle' schemo sin for
them pull one another down for
them just as they have always done
with no question of their beauty.
William Hockafkllkk president
of the Standard Oil company is about
to die from blood poisoning brought
on by a mere tack in his shoo. Well
it does not always take some large
causo to rive the spirit out of its tene
ment. Anacreon died of a grapeseod
and it is not beyond tho bounds of rea
son that Koekafoller who lias tramp
led down many a man In acquiring
his fortune should at last he over
come by a sore loo.
.Editor MiLNUitof the Henderson
Times uses Some very unpretty lan-
guage occasionally as is shown by
the following sample:
The Fort Worth Gazette which lias
been on both sides ot every question
of any importance in Texas is waging
a war on Mills which for slabber
slime slobber and slander has no
parallel in Texas journalism. It is
doing more to elect Mills senator
however than tho combined ellbrts of
his friends.
Pauls Tex. has caught an alleged
correspondent of the Kansas City Sun
day bun who tried to blackmail a
citizen into yielding up Sl'5 with the
alternative of being written up in the
Sun. It will be a cold day fortius
gentleman if ho should happen to be
convicted.
A wild rumor is afloat to tho effect
that Chile is sending vessels to guard
the straits of Magellan against Ameri-
can vessels. Tho rumor needs confir-
mation but if it be true we may con-
clude that Chile means to make her
apology with tho roar of cannon and
the bursting of shell.
Tiik Memphis Public Ledger says:
'Garza eludes his pursuers and (hen
ho continues to elude his pursuers "
That is Garza's forte. He may never
make much of a record as a revolu-
tionist but as an eluder ho is a dis-
tinguished success.
C'CLHKitsoN wants a tariff for reve-
nue only; Mills wants about tho samp.
Hut Culberson wants the money ques-
tion made prominent and thinks tho
tarltl ought to bo reformed and the
money famine ended by the froe coin-
ago of fcilver. Mills thinks tho free
coinage of tilver would do nothing
toward relieving the general depres-
sion as long as the robber tariff has
the country by the throat. Here are
two Texas statesmen holding diam-
etrically opposite views on vital ques-
tions; and it must be conceded that
both are honest and both have arrived
Ir issaidtli.it (iar.a has numerous
and sundry creditors in St. Louis who
are watching the daily dispatches
with great interest. Perhaps it is
Garzi's creditors who are keeping up
the war.
Hlaink is once more a very sick
man ami is liable to live not more
than a year. If this report should
reach Harrison's ears he will have the
dat on that china changed to 1S!)4.
The Young Men's Christian Associ
ation at the university wss organized
about a year ago. Inspired by the
example of Yale Princeton Cornell
University of Iowa Dartmouth and
other leading universities which have
recently erected handsome college
association buildings and im
pressed with the necessity of
having such a building in order to ac
complish the best results it was de
cided several months ago to begin i
building movement.
TIIK FIRST STKI'.
The first step was to secure thesauc
tion of the board of regents to the en
terprise and obtain from them a site
on the campus. For this they have
tieen waiting until the January meet
ing of the hoard. Monday informa
lion was received that although linai
iction had not been taken upon the
petition of tho students for a site that
the committee on ''buildings and
sites" to whom it had been
referred had reported favor
ably. On the strength of
this assertion a mass meeting of the
students was called for yesterday aft
emoon at 8:15 in the assembly hall
Dodgers were scattered over the main
building in the morning notices were
given and the meeting thoroughly ad-
vertised so that a large body of stu-
dents gathered in the the afternoon.
THE MEETING.
The meeting was sailed to order by
the president of the Young Men's
Christian association Mr. D. A. Pen-
nick who stated the object of the
meeting and then called on Col. Sim-
kins to state what was to be expected
from the board of regents.
Col. Simkins made a very en-
thusiastic and inspiring address
assuring the students of his hearty
sympathy co-operation and endorse-
ment aud promising them that they
should have the site. In speaking of
the way in which the enthusiasm of
the students in this matter contrasted
with the name which some maliguers
of the University would have the
State believe the character of the
students were the Colonel grew
quite eloquent and elicited the ap
plause of the whole audience. He
also spoke of tho permanent influence
such a building as was contemplated
would nave upon the University and
upon tho State.
SOME ENDORSEMENT.
After Colonel Simkins' address Dr.
Wooten arose and said he wished to
endorse most heartily all that that
had been so beautifully said by his
colleague. He added in addition
some words of encouragement.
The next speaker was Doctor Wag'
gener the chairman of the faculty
who said .although the faculty had
had no meeting to discuss the build
ing of the Associrtiou hall and he
could not represent the whole faculty
in the matter he desired to say some
words lor himself. Ho behoved thehigh
est purposes of the University would
bo furthered by such a building; he
believed the developing of a higher
typo of manhood was tho object which
the University had always had in
view and that a Young Men's Christ
ian Association building would mate-
rial I v aid in this. That although
SL'5000 seemed a large amount he
thought the people of the state would
come to the assistance of the students
in Texas as they had done in othor
states. After these addresses others
were given by Mr. Hrockman inter
national secretary of the Inter-Collegi
ate i . M. C. A.; Mr. Ftler chairman
of the building committee and Mr.
Fred Opp in behalf of the law class.
DOWN TO WORK.
After calling a business meeting of
the association the mass meeting ad
journed. It was in this business meet
ing that the subscription was begun
After the report of the building com
mitttee it was unanimously agreed
to open the canvass at once. There
were only i!5 members present but In
a very short time ?21G0 was subscrib
ed. There was no excitement about
this no applause but quietly and
prayerfully each man arose and stated
what ho feit he could give by close
economy and self denial.
Many who gave liberally can ex
poet no lielp from their parents but
will make it during vacation. The
subscription books will probably not
be opened to the faculty and friends of
t lie institution lor several days but
the students will be given a chance
to subscribe today.
Tho plan Is lo erect a building cost
ing not less than $J5000.
COMMENDAP.LE ENTHUSIASM.
Tho enthusiasm with which the stu
dents havo taken hold of this move
ment shows the great good which
they expect to come from it. The ex-
perience of every university which
lias had one proves that their appre
ciation of such a building is not un-
founded. It will perve as a homo for
the students binding them closer to-
gether. Its gymnasium will provide
for physical culture and it will also
add wonderfully to the broadening
Jiul intensifying of tho religious life
md activity.
SALVE.
Redding & Co.
BD5T0N.MAS5.
j I '. Jo.
Ulcers
fait Shexua.
Cc4d iiores
Soro Eyes
Festers Eto.
PRICK S3 CTS.
And Chicago gets tho Democratic
national convention ! Kansas City has
worked hard and showed a great deal
of enterprise in the matter and ically
deserved to have the convention.
STILL IT GROWS.
An account was given in yesterday's
Statesman of the meeting of the
university students at which 5:.'-
KI0 was raised for the Young
Men's Christian association building.
The interest showu in tho movement
has exceeded th hopes of all concern-
ed ami fhe subscription was
largely increased yesterday.
The subscriptions all during
the day yesterday were confined to
tho students the plan being not to
open the list to the faculty and friends
of the university until'later. Prof.
Calloway and Pmf. Primer aro excep-
tions to this rule as they are active
have had the privilege of the first of
the faculty to subscribe.
i'heie have been so far ten sub-
scriptions of t'100 and over six of $75
aud over four of $00 eleven of 50
two of $-10 besides quite a number of
ioeach. There have been uono less
ihan $:!5. There has been no pressure
brought to bear by the leaders in the
movement to increase the subscrip
tion list i here are quite a number
who will give liberally will write to
tlieir parents beforo signifying the
exact amount.
l'bere has never been any movement
in the university which lias met with
such hearty co-operatin from the en
tire student body. "It is the first
tiling that lias ever brought the stu
dents all together" was the remark
of Mr. Peuick yesterday. In addition
to me great moral and religious factor
which such a building will be it is
felt that no inconsiderable part of its
iiilluence will be the creating a uni
versity spirit and unifying the life of
tne university. Kvery college in
which there has boeusucu a building
nears aoundant testimony to this
Mr. Harnes of Cornell says that
tho building there has come to
form the center of the best social life
of the students. Evening receptions.
which are frequently held there. serve
me excellent purpose ot bringing to
gether upon a social footing the stu
dents and the families of the mo
lessors. ine smaller rooms are in
constant use for meetings of student
organizations."
the gymnasium in the building
will meet a long felt want among the
students for physical training. It has
been almost impossible to arouse
much enthusiasm in athletics without
gymnasium in which to secure
the best training. The placing
of a gymnasium in the
Y. M. C. A. building insures the best
influences being thrown around all
athletic sports.
Hut ot course the main factor in
arousing the enthusiasm and bring-
ing forth the self sacrilice of the stu-
dents is the moral aud religious bles
sing they expect it to have upon the
fellow students.
The subscriptions among the stu
dents will be continued during today j
ur. .uarreic nas Kindly ottered to turn
over his church to the students on
Sunday night when a plan will bo
presented to the citizens of Austin
but no subscriptions will bo received
at this meeting as the list will not be
opened to the public until a later day.
The full program of this meeting
which promises to be an exceedingly
interesting one will be published in
tomorrow's paper The total amount
of subscriptions up to last evening was
53500.
THE HOME CORNER.
THE STATE PRESS.
The Yoakum Times is one of the
livest "hustlers" among the new
papers.
The Palestine Advocate is workinir
hard to stir up an interest in factories
in Palestine.
The Corsicana Light publishes sev-
eral columns at a time to prove that
public balls are demoralizing.
lhe Colorado Clipper covers the
whole field in that part of the coun
try and ought to be liberally encour
aged.
lhe LI Paso Mercury has a good
word to say for Garza who it insists
is rar irom neing as nail as he is
painted.
lhe Iowa Park Texan ' eavs that
towns along the coast havo "harbor-
phobia." Hut is a very good thing
for Texas to have.
The Livs Oak County Leader says
mat new men are being proposed for
president every day but that Cleve
land still nas the Leader's vote.
Editor Savage of the Helton News
is in the mad whirl of politics and is
a candidate for alderman in the
thriving little capitol of Hell county.
The Victoria Advocate is on its feet
again after its recent destruction by
tire and Editors Holer aud Mair
bring out as lively a paper as though
it had experienced nothing but pros
perity all its days. Hotter luck to it
hereafter.
How She Became a Missionary
"I'm doing missionary work a good
deal of the time" was tiie reply of one
of the most charming women of New
York to a friend who asked how she
busied herself. "I see by your looks
yon wonder what 1 mean by that. I'll
tell you. A few years ago life was a
burden to me. I had been a victim to
female weakness of the most aggra
vated ch racter for a longtime and
the doctors failed to help me. Exist
ence was a Jong steady terrible tc
ture a lingering living death. One
day I saw Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription advertised in a newspaper.
Something in the advertisement im
pressed me favorably. I caught at the
glimmer of hope it held out as lhe
drowning man is said to catch at a
straw. Still I did not dare to hone.
Hut I got the medicine and behold
the result! I feel so well so strong.
and O so thankful that. I go about
telling other women what saved me.
In no other way can I so well show
my gratitude to God and to the man
who has proved s uch a benefactor of
women and my lovo tor my suffering
sisterhood."
Specimen Cases
II. CliiTor.l. N v Ctt-" Wis. wis tro'ihlod
Willi Neuralgia ami tin; lthfiimatisni lii Sinni-
nrli Jtnd iHplerel. Irs l.if' r was a'l'ee'e 1 to an
!:l!illn' decree. Mtrt''tU'' 'Vll awnv. anil lip was
tiTrilily r ilie il in ll. sh a-'l 't" "i;th. Three
hurl. of KVrCi'' Hitter enrol hire.
Kihva il S!n plienl IlBrri-hiir-'. III. lifil a
running n' on his Ir" nl'riht years slaniliiv'
l'sr.1 thriw hotties of KVrtrir Bluer ami seven
liexes of Itueklen's vrnl a S ilvo. an'l his le? is
sonn.l aiel well Jol.n Speaker Calnwl'a. O..
ha I five lnreivKever s.ires on his les. lo -tors
sum rie was inritrnbV. One bottle hlerlne Hit
members of the association aud they ihiSU.TolTTj. t
They were out coastiug the other
day; two merry young girls whom it
does one's heart good to look at; and
iu one of their merry journeyings they
passed an old negro woman making
her painful way down the slippery
sidewalk with a load of stove wood in
her arms. She was old and black
she was poor aud ignorant and not at
all the kind of pen-on that would be
likely one would think to attiact the
attention of two happy girls intent
upon their glorious winter holiday.
Hut they saw her and were not too
busy or too happy to note how feebly
she walked under her heavy load
"Wait Aunt Easter" one of them
said as they ran after her. "Put
your wood oh our sled and we'll haul
it homo for you!" And then as she
hesitated scarcely able to believe her
own ears they piled the wood upon
the little sled and taking the rope
went racing away while tho old ne-
gro hobbled after them Dowu the
street they went and up the hill and
on to the little cabin that shelters her
declin'ng years; and there they laid
the wood on the doorstep and went
back to their coasting scarcely giving
the occurrence a second thought. A
little act so easily performed; but
there is large-hearted generosity back
of such acts and they go far toward
broadening the horizon and letting
the light of day in upon the world.
Not long since the Home Corner
came upon- a paragraph which said
that every man ought to take off his
hat to the primary teacher and
honor her as the wisest and most effi
cient of womankind. She takes the
untamed young savage fresh from
the nursery the ruler whose word has
been law all his life and who has
held the family in complete subjuga-
tion and she has made a very respect
able youngster out of him whom to
know is to love. Pie suddenly begins
to take on little graces of manner and
speech which you have striven in
vain to teach him all his life; and he
tells you unblushingly that he learned
them at school. The small kiuder-
gartner even allows none of your
careless peccadilloes to pass unno-
ticed and criticises unmercifully all
your breaches of etiquette. "You
wouldn't be allowed to put your
elbows on the table that way at our
school papa" he says much scandal-
ized at your poor manners. He Quotes
nis teacner to you on all occasions.
and if you should happen to disagree
with any statement of hers it will be
all the worse for you. The primary
teacher has not only civilized her
horde of young savages but has made
them her loyal knights errant aud
they all know that whatever she does
is right. JS'o teacher that comes after
her ever gets the same amount of ad-
miration and fealty.
She was reading aloud from a pa
per a bit of verse that had attracted
her attention but she got no further
than the first four lines:
"It isn't thing that you do dean
It's tho tiling you leave undone
Thai Rives you the hit of heartiii he
At the sett us ol'ihe stiu."
"I wish that were not true" she
exclaimed wistfully. "I believe half
of us who live quiet straight and de-
cent lives go down to our graves bur-
dened with sins of omission. I had a
friend once to whom I often spoke ol
writing a long cheering letter; for he
was one of God's noblemen and he
needed cheering if ever a man did.
Put a thousand trilling things enter-
vened.and I put it oif from day to
day; aud one day came a message
that he was dead. And I had let lit-
tle matters of sweeping aud dusting
calling and receiving calls keep me
from sending one last word of greet-
ing to a true ami noble soul that stood
on the very brink of the river even
i hen and was about to step down into
tho chilling waters. If I had only
known! Hut "we never know until
knowledge is too late. Tho truth is
we allow so many things to come in
the way of what few good impulses
we have and the worthy things we
do make a very pitiful showing in the
end besido tho long array of things
we might have done."
The Home Corner lias it in mind to
preach a few practical sermons and
tho people at whom the sermons will
be leveled are sitting in a good many
home coiners today and they will not
complain it some of the arrows fly
straight and true and strike them
between the joints of their armor.
One of them is the woman who has
never been a mother to her children
because she was so busy being tlieir
seamsuess. one nas Had no time to
romp with them in the evening to
walk with tlum on holidays totalk
with I hem and be made the reoinbiit
of their childish confidences at all
times and seasons. When they came
to her with their childish hurts to be
petted and comforted a little. n i
children need to be she pushed them
n WAV nnil fluid- "TIhitd n nin..
. - .uwiu uilfllUII" j)y
I'm busy." When they Wen silnlr
she gave up some finie to them but
aside from that they ha ve known noth
ing 01 a raotner s care. Uut what
seamstress she has been to thm i
Early and late day afterdav anil
alter year she has given herself up to
that work with as great assiduity as
though she had been created and
given an immortal soul merely ti..
she might do that especial work. All
inrotign ner married life be brain has
i-Liuuru ami ner iiurrP1.8
lit. and her eliii.i
certainly fair to look upon with their
tucked and embroidered dresses and
underclothing every Mrmt
which represents hours of needless
oi is. .a nu i t en. II nt
pastime or relief from monotony but
the one who gives up her life to it and
has no ambition and no sympathy
outside of that. People who do this
are not so rare as one n ight suppose.
If all the hours which go into the em-
broidering ot lambrequins aud tidies
were given to improving the mind
knowledge would begin to increase at
the wy placo where it is needed
most-i'm the home. If all the energy
and patience which are put into cro-
chet aul fancy knitting were turned
into some channel for alleviating suf-
fering litis world would soon blossom
as the We under the glad sunliglir of
happineis and prosperity. Yd " is
woman at Whom this sermon is ; '!
will devote Jong and patient i rs
every day lto turning linen thread iato
an intrictfie crocheted pattern and
will announce triumphantly that she
can make $ whole yard of such tiim- .
tiling in t'Vee days by attending
strictly to vbusinesn! One-third of a
yard of trimming to show for a day's
patient work! And she could goto
to any store and buy trimming as
wide as pretty and as durable at 50
cents a yard. Does it not seem that
she is putting a low estimate on her
time if one counts it by the day or on
her life if one counts it as the sum of
all her days? Was this woman createfl
a living soul that she might sit in an
easy chair and do fancy work? Was
any woman created for such purpose?
Can any woman afford to do
fancy woik? The Home Corner has
but one answer to all these questions
aud it is a deep and unmistakable No!
Tho next sermon is not quite a ser-
mon either. There is not the slightest
use in preaching to the woman who
lacks common sense and that is just
the woman one would like to re.ieh
with a sermon too. Though thou en-
trance the world with thine eloquence
and dazzle it with thy wit thou art
nothing but a sounding brass and a
tinkling cymbal. If one can get a
gift from the Gods by asking and can
ask but once let him call on them to
give him common sense their best
gift to man. The woman' who has it
walks jewelless rather than wear
paste when she is not able to buy
jewels. If she is poor she makes no
pretenses neither does she make any
pretenses if she is rich Hich or poor
she is her own genuine unaffected
self and being so is better than any
imitation she could devise. She knows
how to keep some of the petty annoy-
ances that enter into her own life in
the background so that they will not
annoy those she loves us. well. Her
pleasures she always insists on divid-
ing but when she has a Vexation she
keeps it to herself so fair as possible
If there should be a family skeleton
in the house she locks it in the closet
and throws away the key. Never by
her hand is the door unlocked and the
grinning thing brought forth to shake
its rattling bones and murder sleep iu
any weary and heavy heart. She may
know nothing of Greek iambics and
Latin hexameters but thank Heaven
the knows how to greet trouble with
a brave and honefui mviii .
cneer the sinking courage
witli a warm and steady
handclasp. She may not be a' mem-
ber of Sorosis or a btight Chautau-
quan or in any way gifted or dis-
tinguished but she knows how to say
the right thing at the 1 ight time and
how to keep silent When silence is I ot-
ter than speech. And Just the oppo-
site in every respect is the woman
who lacks common sense the woman
against whom this sermon would have
been directed if it wot.ld have done
any good.
Then there is tho house-keeping
woman the woman whose waking
hours are one long battle against dirt
and when she sleeps dirt 's the hor-
rible nightmare that rol.s her of her
rest. No speck of this! is ever so
small as to elude her eagl e eyes. Car-
pets and curtains furi.itui e and books
railing aud wainscot walls and ceil-
ing these absorb her thoughts and to
hem belong all her ti...? sbo may
have a husband and children anil
inay manage to subsist si(1o way. but
heaven pity the wi etched victim's who
live in a house that is not a homo be-
cause his mistress is a lm isekeeper
Kobinson Crusoe on his deport islamt
was a prince compared willfi the chil-
dren reared ia BUfh an al niosphere.
No wonder the boys resolve to run
away and be pirates as soon as (hey.
are old enough. No wonde the " ns
marry as soon as possible anid ".t into
homes of their own wllorf
have a little breathing sL.a e u-'th
out somebody shouting
t..i V'.." one's own mmnr.
1
aZ?todevoCtehe"VaTrn fea11
housekeeping? aItWher to
And taken altogether there is but
one conclusion to all of ti.
Women have too j
great . tnniw
T VP thm.l -vuiiouy u
vi.."7 . . UP t( trivial things.
.' V.:." ei"g has ;
is me and It is
a right to waste
it bo thLt "Joes tto -Vf Wmaia Ca
eating lau'hh r t ? ?h a round of
burteiilv win. 1 H7 Patterns? A
woman lavs asiifV:V' '- " hA't true
tt'oi k she was ca He t 7 " anrt noWe
of .mti.-V l t( do. and i Link
overworked woman dies nnd eome fill and a tin PtiV-l"1 a llf"se ''Wuti-
ouier woman raises her child own fumii.. or. u everyone itit her
' U i .i. . Aiere is ouitn Dlwv.
The Horns Corner's next arrow i
prepared expressly for the woman
who does fancy work; not the woman
who lakes up a piece of fancy wort
occasionally as a bit of riQ:
work ti.-fl.-. "u'eis quite ahothei-
momen an ' Z T-d b tLink
knows how to find it " sW that
m-r H.rop.
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