New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 25, 1917, Page 6

(] e ST G A m ew Briti-lin Hera;ld: | HERALD PUBLISHING COMPANY. Proprietors. ued dally (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., at Herald Building, 67 Church St tere 1 [livered by carrter to anv part of the ety for 15 cents a week, 65c A month criptions for paper to be sent by mall, | payedle in advance. 60 cents a month, | $1.00 a yea. d at the Post Office at New Britain Second Claes Mail Matter. e only profitable advertising medium n the city: Circulation books and Fress room always open to adve-tisers. ® Herald will be found on sale at Hota- Maog's News Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- way, Nsw York City; doard Walk, At lantie City” «nd Hartford Depot. TELEPHONE CALLS. bness Omce .. 3 tortal Rooms THE RIFLE CLUB. °lans are under way whereby the w Britain Rifle Club will augment membership to the number of more n one hundred and form itself into regular military company. With arrival yesterday of fifty new rifles reased interest is being taken in activities of the club and a cam- gn for membership is now on.# It sxpected that within a very short lod of time the necessary matertal men and equipment will be at the hmand of the club. Mmder the leadership of Dr. Frank Maguire the rifle club in this city made steady advancement. Pro- donaliand business men have taken active interest in the enterprise 1 the result that great things are \cted of tlre organization.during the y spring and coming range at the state armory is at b |disposalrof the members.and when outdoor season is at hand the btice will take place at aifield con- ent to this\vicinity. e organization of this rifle club | prompted from a spirit of true Tdotism. The members are all American citizens, some of im were born on foreign soil, r alien flags. With the out- 4k of the Buropean war and with | errible possibilities that presented | selves to this country these men | the need of offering themselves e service of ‘Uncle Sam. To this | _they are preparing to be of usai he event their country calls them. | ritle shots aro at a premium. | ligent study and practice under | petent guidance it is possible for | intelligent man to become pro- | at in the use of a rifle. The New in Rifle Club offers a medium cultivation of this accomplish- t that should appeal to the patri- en of the city. ith the organization.of a militar ny among the members-of the | JMl will come many advantages ‘members and the citizens of ., Once: this company is zed by the state as a valuable asset therg.are privileges that | granted and.pleasures that will d which today are not num- | among 'the joys of living here. | 'War Department cannot fail to | jgnize the services placed at the | n’s disposal and will not hesitate | wite New Britain's company to all snal encampments. To thus se- recognition of the city is an en- ! or worth while. UNIFORM JOURNALISM. a bill introduced in the General | ‘mbly vesterday it is proposed to lse all journalists in this state. | ious to this action there may have some doubt in the minds of ¥ folk as to just what is a Jour- t. The definition that gaes along the bill dispels all doubt on this . A journalist, according to the er of the resolution, is a person earns his living at least four con- tive weeks a yvear writing for spapers published in Connecticut. submit that any person whe so s his living In the space of time tmentioned should be licensed. lgarding the blow to newspaper- . putside of the state who cannot onsidered journalists in the strict { r 3 of the word, not earning their & by .writing for “newspapers fshed in Connecticut,” we con- late the Senator, whoever he is, introduced this timely bill. It ed, it will prove a boon to the all means, license journalist e are the folk, as we understand fho borrow money from regular Not only should they Bcensed but they should be com- la to wear uniforms. Under the Army bill they are entitled to do Since the State Senate is inter- in the matter, we propose an humble suggestion as to the nd fit of a uniform for journai- To begin with, the hat: It flla possess a sort of bell-hop efrcet. as far the of it i!‘rn?d. Tt should be round, as the bm. of an ink-well, with a tapering t like the neck of a bhottle. ing from this there should be a An eton jacket, of vellow, or to denote the character of palism indulged in, would be fit- In lieu of a' badge emblazoned [kpapermen. to is as hase is Pro- color summer. | | the victorious political party have | town and borough court | the governor how does he speaker's nalist,” we suggest that a more digni- fied method of extolling the profession be employed and that on the fold of a flowing necktie there be: fes- tooned the slogan, “The pen mightiey; than the sword.” of slender model, with stripes running is perpendicularly up and down the les to denote the length of service,—not of the trousers, but the man,—might be keeping with the rest af tho outfit. One of tortoise glasses for street wear, and a { would complete the picture. As there is no state in the union at present in the business of licensing journalists we suggest that the mem- bers of the Connecticut state legisla- ture lose no time in adopting the pro- | posed measure. It will add to our | prestige in the family of states to draft this measure forthwith. There can be but one objection to the plan | as proposed. That is the licensing fee. | Ten, dollars taken from the exchequer of some journalists in this or any | other state would probably put them out of business forever and a day. It | must be remembered that the practice of journalism is slightly different from that of “clipping coupons” or conduct- ing “war brides honeymoon | tour. The pen be mightier | than the sword, has vet to fathom the workin the stock market. in vair cane, on might but it gs of a WORK FOR A CHAMPION. Speaker Frank B. Healy of the { Connecticut House of Representatives [ of the proposal to power to borough champion his disapproval association’s in voicing ctate bar | confer upon the governor | neminate city, town and | court judges, poses a | of the rights of the people. The sin- cerity of his stand is questioned by those who have followed his career in state politics. Taking this power | away from the legislature and placing it in the hands of the governor would | te too great a step toward ‘“one- | men power” according to the states- om Windsor Locks. “Suppose,”’ says the one-time con- tender for gubernatorial honors, “there was a governor of decidedly | pelitical tendencies. By means of these city, town and borough court appointments he could build a giant one-man machine for the advance- ment of his own interests politically. I do not believe in any form of cen- trelizing power. That's one trouble with our American politics. We tend | too much toward taking power direct- ly away from the people and zmn:\ it into the hands of a few men.” This is something of course which no true politicians for the moment would The idea with them is al- By plac- as man fr | | sanction. ways to let the people rule. | irg in the hands of the governor the pewer to appoint judges to the minor courts the politicians at large would be robbed of their power. As mat- rk out now, all the leaders of a ters wo whack at the pie. It is not a one- man power. It is a one-party power. of Mr. Healy it may be asked, if he the appointment of city, judges by condone lie present mecthod of selectin® these officials? THen there is another mat- ter which is diametrically opposed to gcvernment of the people, for the peonle, and by the people. That is the organization of the eight counties of the State. The New Haven Journal- Courder in dissenting from ‘‘any form of centralizing power,” calls the attention to existing condi- Its editor shows how the county commissioners are all of one Folitical faith, “responsible to prac- tically no one, bevond the reach of even the governor should that official consider the removal of one of them to be in tHe interest of the general public.” If Speaker Healy is in earn- est when he sets out as a champion of the rights of the people he has plenty of working material, enough to keep him busy for some time to come. onposes tions. Francis Ouimet, the former golf champion, in declining to give up the business which debars him as an amateur, follows the precedent set by all former champions in every line of With them it is not a case interferes with It is athletics. of “When business pleasure, cut out the busine: just the other way around. Men are divided into two classes, those who stay at home and those who make other arrangements. of the been In all the re-arrangement of living there has no the cost change in wages of si FACTS AND FANCIE Because the government £180,000,000 deficit while the (e $1,098,000,000 orrespondent covernment ought to roads. Vice versa, we Cleveland Leader, has a rail- annual the i say.—— roads I profit thinks run the should i When ny, v — Albany vou want to be thought fun- something ahout limburger. Knickerbocker Press. the information, “I am a jour- B The submarine pe is a more rious menace to British shipping than - Pt s shell | Trousers | N. To set NEW "BRITAIN DAILY the activity of German —To- ronto Telegram. raide’ Among the welcome visitors to our city are the Great Bay smelts—sweet- er and better than ever.—Portsmouth, H., Times. The kaiser is a grcat admirer of Napoleon, but the peace talk indl- cates that he draws the line at fol- lowing him as far as Waterloo.—At- lanta Constitution, that armies march but the Germans Napoleon said on their stomachs, appear to be marching on the Ru- manians’ stomachs.—Toronto Mall and Empire. The farmers of Nebraska are hold- ing a convention this week, and will all go to it in solid trains of Pull- man cars. And still Nebraska talks about Massachusetta as the strong- hold of predatory wealth.—Boston Advertiser. The New (Rockefeller) Education. (H. T. Sudduth in the New York World). “Amo, amas, amat”"— At last we're done with that, The Latin verbs no more we conju- sate; No longer nouns decline; Or grammar rules define; Such rubhish old is clearly date! out of For Virgil's long since dead, And Horace can be read (If read at all) In English passing fair; We've science now to read, To grammar zive no heed, rhetoric would make Quintilian stare! Our No longer “freshies” seek To learn the moods of Greek, Or feel the tide-like surge and swell that come In Homer's mighty lnes: The vouth at ease reclines, Nor even “pony” rides to Ilium. The bovs no more burn For mathematics’ jlgs No more light nightmare weigh upon the brain; 'Tis useless lumber quite; 0ld Euclid (serves him right!) In learning’s halls no longer now may reign. “trigs,” TFor Science now has come— Just hear her airplane hum!— the sad old world again to rights; Her auto trumpet calls— She scales the classic walls, And drtves the old gods from Olym- pian heights! Tnaugural Press Agenting. (Newspaperdom.) To press agent the biggest spectacle on the continent and minister to the comfort of the special correspondents assigned fo cover the event—this is the dual duty of a committee of news- paper men lately drafted for service at the national capital. No sinecure is a position on the press committee of the presidential inaugural committee, but a respensibility that involves a whole lot of hard work between now and March 4, At the head of the organization for preparing the press notices on the second inauguration of President Wil- son is Frank B, Lord, a former presi- Without questioning the sincerity i dent of the National Press club and a writer whose selection would seem to be eminently suitable even if one did not take into consideration the publicity work which he did for the democratic national committee during the recent presidential clection, Mr, TLord is the Washington correspondent of the Buffalo Times—the publisher of which Is the genlal Norman . Mack, erstwhile democratic national chairman—and he has written exten- sively for the Natlonal Monthly, the political perlodical likewlse published by Mr. Mack and which, under the name Literary Magazine, has been cir- culated as a supplement with some seventy daily and weekly newspapers throughout the country. Serving with Chairman Lord on the press committee are other officers equally qualified. Grafton §, ‘Wilcox, of the Assoclated Press, new presldeni of the National Press club, is vice chairman; James D. Preston, super. intendent of the U. S. Senate Pross Gallery, is secretary, and William Donaldson, superintendent of the Press Gallery of the House of Rep. Tesentatives, Is assistant secretary. Other members of the body to engin. eer inauguration publicity Include Theodore H. Tiller, of the Washing. ton Times, Richard V. Oulahan of the New York Times, Frederick W. Steck. man of the New Orleans Stafes, nnd Washington Post, Willlam P, Kennedy of the Washington Star and B, Jesse Conway of the Washington Ferald Aside from the membership of the Press committee many well-known newspaper men have places on the other committees which will mannge the show In Washington on Marcl 4 For instance. on the over-imnormnt- Finance company we find J. Fred e sary of the Baltimore Sun, Frank B. Noyes, Rudolph Kauffmann and Flem. ing Newbold of the Washington Star. e sl Modern Courtesy. (From Life.) Should a lady get up and give a gen- tleman a seat in the car? That doubtless, depends somewhat upon the gentleman. If he is young and hand. some or quite old and feeble, ves, It he is able to stand up fairly well, then ladies should be governed in such cases by their individual judgments. There are undoubtedly some men who do not expect to have women give up their seats. There are other men who, when given a seat, do not much as say “Thank you.” All th howeve being frankly admitted, it still remains true that every real lady will offer her seat to a gentleman it hé looks deserv ng. It helps her as much as it does him. It is true mod- ern courtesy. as HERALD, .-THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1917. —— ' GOOD ARRAY OF NEW BOOKS NAMED | IN INSTITUTE’S LIST THIS WEEK “All Minds in the World's Histor Find Their Focus in a Library. This is the pinnacle of the temple from which we may see all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them. - - - Ages have wrought, generations g&rown, and all their blossoms are cast down here. It is the garden of im- mortal fruits, without dog or dragon.” —Gilbert de la Porree. D Apprlalciaps of Poetry, by Lavcadio can ‘‘Lectures to his Japanese pupils collected and edited hy Professor Erskine 8f Columbia university. They leoviv & new light on the English classics, showinmg them from the point of view of a stranger making his) first acquaintance with English life. —Publisher’s note. LA Bird Friends, by G. H. Trafton. “Under the headings, Value of Birds, Enemies of Birds, Bird Pro- 1ec*t}fyn and Bird Study in Schools, the Writér covers comprehensively, facts of interest not only to bird-lovers but to teachers and others concerned with community welfare.”—A. L. A. Book- list. e German Republic, man. “A forecast of the future, in which the writer foresees the German people awaking to the enormities of thelr rulers and founding a German repub- lic. Whatever the reader. .. may think of the author's knowledge of Germany, or of his gifts as a prophet, there can be no doubt that Mr. Well- man expresses the earnest wish of many who consider themselves loyal friends of the German people.”—Na- tion. by Walter Well- Intelligence of Woman, George. “These essays have created much discussion, as was evidently intended when they were published in the At- lantic. Although some of the criti- cism may seem unfair and made merely to startle if not annoy, many of the ideas are shrewd and show keen observation.”—A. L. A. Book- list. by W. L. Modern Germany Great War, Writers. “Translation of Deutschland der Weltkrieg. FEssays written by seventeen university professors and two state officials, published in Ger- many in the spring of 1915.”"—A. L. A. Booklist. .. in Relation to the by Various German und Nemesis of Docility Holmes. “The author uses the term doctlity to denote a lack of initiative and ser- vile obedience which is capable of hecoming ‘a destructive force of ex- treme violence’ Thought provoking and interesting.”—A. L. A. Booklist. .. O. Henry Biography, by C. A. Smith. | “The reader lives O. Henry's life with him, so sympathetic is the study.”—Springfield Republican. o ou e Our Hispanic Southwest, by F. C. Pe- ixotto “He writes sympathetically enthusiastically and transports readers to a strange America, with its pueblos, its Indians with their primitive customs, and its traditions of the ancient world."” T A Booklist “A volume not to overlooked Wwhen critics report upon the cream of 1916 literature.”—Springfield Repub- lican. E. G A, and his he .. Engineering, by W. . Parks and T. Lyle. “Contains chapters on the d l\_||n and acq ion of parks, de- sign. labor and construction. Usc- ful for park comnuesions and assocla- tions.”—A. L. A. Booklist. e e Poems of the Great War, edited by J. W. Cunliffe. “The poems come from Australia, Canada, TIndia, the United Kinkdom | and the United States. A notable col- lection both from the point of liter- | ;\r: merit and spirit.”—A. L. A. Book- ! ist. Compiled in the interests of the ! Belgian scholarship committee. e . Park Spiritual Pilgrimage, R. Campbell. “Religious autobiography of the author’s vears as Congregationalist , minister in England, his work at the City Temple. London, and the steps that led to his ordination as a priest of the Church of Bngland.” e ox Rev. J. by i { i Tales of the Labrador, w. Grenfell, by fivh . e We Discover the Old Dominlon, Mrs. Louise Hale, “Vivacious account of a mot~r trip through Pennsylvania and th his- toric places of Maryvland and the “Old Dominion,” told in the writer’s accus- tomed gossipy and delightful style.” by of travel as delightful '—Boston Tran- seript. . % Workmanship Kelley. “Arranged under four Grammatical propriety. Clearness, lase, and Force. . . The treatment conversational rather than formal, and interesting.”—A. L. A. Booklist. xox o Fiction. Beloved Son, by F. K. Johnson. “ The story of an unusually devot- ed father and son, the son's inherited desire for drink, and how his father helped him to fight it and overcame it. 1t is ably written and though pa- thetic at times is worth reading if only to sce the close relationship of the two men.”- T.. A. Booklist. in Words, by J. P. divisions, a e res. of Danger. an 18th cen- romance. by John Foster. an romance of the atholic World. - . . Bright 1) tur school.™ old Casco Bay yarns, by Wm. Haynes. i about Dead Yesterday, by M. A. Hamilton “It is not destined to be a popular book. But by its insight, its honesty | and its able workmanship, it will | amply reward the discriminating | reader.”—Boston Transcript. #The first thing to be said about | this book. . . is that it is a fine novel. . . It will, not, however, be discussed as a work of art, but as a document on London life and opin- ions before and after August 4, | 1914 London Times. P Desmond’s Daughter, therine Diver. “Romance of the Tirah Campaign of 1897 in Tndia. Contains good ac- counts of Afghan frontfer life.—A. L. A. Booklist, “It is always a pleasure to read a story by Mrs. Diver, because she elways has a story to tell, Her style and characterization are firm and vig- orous. She handles her material adroitly.”—Saturday Review. DRPE Old House, and Other Tales Fedor Sologub. . “He excels in fanciful realism. Tt Is exeremely grim, extremely power- ful. ‘and—in ‘The Old House'—very beautiful. No one who is interested in Russian literature, or in good lit- erature irrespective of nationality, can afford to miss the opportunity to | become familiar with at least this small portion of his work.”—; Transcript, ' SeRon by Mrs. Ka- | by .. Philosophers in Sl Trouble, by L. P. “Not since ‘Philosophy f % Owen Wister, have :e3hnd°‘:;chbi keen and amusing satire on the im- practicality of moral science.”—N. Y. Times. e v .. Slav Soul and Other Stories, by A. I " Kuprin. 4 “Most of the fifteen stories concerned with the peasantry. They are as searching and as vivid a Mr. Kipling’s stories, with which Mr. Graham compares them; they are dramatic, humorous, and told with the art of a first class raconteur.” Atheneum. . are Tplifting the Business Girl, Spasmodically, society has always taken an interest in the business girl. First, because it gives its members gomething to do; and, finally, because society has found that business women are really worth cultivating. But they have tried to help her from the out- side in. What do they know of the all pervading, saul-searing, bitter loneli- ness we know? They establish for us working-girls’ clubs and Jean clubs, and herd us into chilly institutions that are only one remove from a charitable institution. They put in for a matron some needy woman who needs a home and wha hasn't the faintest conception of how to make one for the dozens of lonely girls who flock to it. 1 have lived in these homes. Like the rest, I did not want to be uplifted: it was as unpleasant for us as it was for the uplifters. We wanted to get acquainted. They mean well, these women, and perhaps we do them some good. I suppose their in- terest in us comes at the deadly time of life when they realize that their waist-line will never again be what it was and they find themselves being shifted to the frankly middle-aged crowd at the hridge-tables. But when we have earned the money to buy a ticket to the theater or a concert, we do not relish having humbly to ask permission of a dis- approving matron to remain out after ten-thirty. Nor do we like to have the hoard of directors come to visit the home and poke around through the closets and our bureau drawers to see if we keep things neat and tidy. We have learned our economic inde- pendence and our right to keep our | upper bureau drawer as we please, we business women. Perhaps we have had to sacrifice a few ideals and per- haps it has been better for us to sac- rifice them. For, one by ane, as we Jearn how to boss our own jobs, we are discovering that the first office order to hustle out and earn what pread was needed in the house for the day by the sweat of the braw was the best thing that ever hap- pened to Adam: for it taught Eve that Paradise, even with a well-stocked ommissary, was a rather monotonous spot until her job opened up for her and she set forth to conquer it.— Tlizaheth Sears in Harper's Magazine. Who Sank the Lusitania? (From the New York Times.) To have taken home to Swine- munde as a prize of war the big Brit- ish steamer Yarrowdale, with her big cargo of just the things Germany needs most, would have heen an achievement of which the prize crew might well have been proud—and all their countrymerf not less— even if the perils of their voyvage had heen only those to be feared from the cruisers of the Allles. That the thing could be done at all was due, of course, in no small meas- ure to pure luck, but it was luck of the sort that falls most often to the brave and the efficient, and it is they alone that have a right to expect it with any degree of confidence. The Yarrowdale’'s new crew, however, be- sides consisting of only sixteen men— a number which in ordinary ecircum- stances would be considered absurd- 1y inadequate—also had on their hands 469 prisoners, every one of whom, it can safely be assumed, was constantly pondering the possibility of recapturing the ship and taking her to a British or French port instead of a German one. Evidently the sixteen could have done little sleeping. and that little must have been disturbed by dreams of a rush on the scanty guard. Why no such rush was made will no «doubt be elaborately explained, and no doubt it would have been ex- tremely dangerous for the partici- pants—no doubt it would have meant death to several of them. One can- not help thinking, just the same, that in other days—the spacious days of {of German sailors performed | appointed task. las they Queen Elizabeth, for instance—the 469 would not have been either so cautious or so docile. Be that as it may, and really those of us who were ' not here have small right to discuss a question so delicate, the little group their Tt was a fine job, finely done, and no wonder the German authorities, naval and governmental, have taken care promptly to let the world know the name of the man in command of this prize. ‘“Deputy Officer Badewitz” is the form in which it comes to us, and of course he and all his subor- dinates will be feted and decorated deserve for serving their country so well. But—ahd this should have a deep significance for Germans at home and abroad, and for all @erman sympathizers—the world has never been allowed to know the name of him who sank the Lusitania. We have heard that he, too, was decorated, and his exploit has been vehemently defended and justified, but it has never been deemed expedient officially to reveal the iden- tity of the man who inflicted on the enemy a far greater injury than did Deputy Officer Badewitz. Why not? Let the Germans swer. an- Life at the White House. The White House is far and away the most desirable residence to let at the natlonal capital. (This in spite of the nability of vice-presidents, which of course obliges them to the generous tradition of Fillmore, who said, when he was called to the executive man- sion, “This is my first misfortune.””) It is the most personal, most pictur- esque of the government’s passessions. its history is the history of many of the American ideals. In the early days of the Virginian dynasty of presidents there were “le- vees” and “drawing-rooms” at the White House and it sheltered some- thing very like a court. The court ideal dles hard. KEven now the red- velvet rope, which in more effete civil- | ization separates the social sheep from the goats, is occasionally almost put into use when new administrations try to have receptions where the privi- leged few are allowed a brief encoun- ter with the royal presence in the Blue Room, serving temporarily as a holy of holies. The White House, as is natural, is the constant theater of the conflict to be observed everywhere in American life between our wish to have an aristocracy and our wish not to. But, on the whole, the disinterest- ed observer must adjudge victory to our deep-seated demacracy Wwhich makes it Teally unsuitable that the White House should ever be exactly. fashionable. ‘We never forget not only that the presidential resldence is our house, but that the president is our man. The almost utopian democracy of public receptions at the White House is both engaging and plcturesque. In the early days congressmen used to come to them with howie-knives in their high, cowhide boots: and in Jackson's time guards with stout sticks beat back fl’!e guests while the food was being fetch- ed from the kitchens. Then an even- ing party had all the charm of a riat. A diplemat complained not so long ago that even at the exclusive recep- tions for the corps the American voung ladies surreptitiously cut all the Dbuttons off his clothes for souventrs. Another diplomat, new to these democratic shores, arriving late for a New Year's day reception, was aston- jshed to fnd that the negro hackman who had driven him to the White House had slipped in ahead of him and was the first to grasp the presidential hand! He could not understand that the executive hand is as much the people’s property as the mansion. Mr. Washington did not shake hands, but since then every presidential paw has heen squeezed by the populace almost bevond the power of flaxseed poultices or massage fo bring it back ta an thing like original shape The shake i« expected to be wholesome and heartv—even a BRoston gentleman complained. under Tyler's administra- tion, that he had caught cold from shaking the president’s hand.—Harr! son Rhodes in Harper’s Maga: The Government Pays Alimony. In the Ashbrook pension bill, which passed the last session of congress, the American government for the first time offers certain of its women cit- izens an insurance against unsuccess- ful marriage. Up to the present time a pensioned soldier’s widow who remarried automatically disappeared from the pension rolls. But now, under this new legislation, she can resume her pensionable status on the death of her second husband. But the law does far more than that. In case such a soldier's widow marries again and is divorced from the sec- ond husband for causes that reflect no discredit upon he 1f, she again au- tomatically regains her pension. Evidently remarriage is thus made safe for soldiers’ widows; the sacred institution, so far as they are con- cerned, loses its traditional character of a lottery. Taken 11 connection with the easy divorce laws of many states, the eligible soldier's widow runs not the slightest risk. She en- ters the state with the foreknowledge that, if the prospective husband prove unsatisfactory, the government stands ready to protect her against the financial consequences of having made a bad choice. Such a widow has her alimony provided for in ad- vance:; for there stands the Federal Treasury, which, on presentation of a aivorce decree, places the happy “grass widow' upon the Federal pay- roll at a rate of from $12 to $30 a month. In “The March of Even —The World's Work. North Dakota’s Women. (New York World.) North Dakota. which rejected at the polls an amendment giving women the ballot, now extends to them by act legislature the right to vote for presi- dential electors. This is following the example of Jllinois. One house of the Tenessee legislature has passed a sim- ilar bill, and .t is probable that other states would take the same action if the amiable ladies who are picketing the White House just to be disagree- able could be called off, Where Society Is Wrong. (Detroit Free Press) The old saying——which is by mno means a truism—that “two can live as cheaply as one,” has many times been quoted as an excuse for a mar- Tiage in which the parties have no financial reserve and must depend upon permanence $f employment and consequent earnings. If the girl is al- so employed the pair imagine pooling their resources, 8o to speak, they can live at less expense and en- Joy each other's companionship also. Like many other visions, reality fails to sustain it—save in the cass of a few exceptions that prove the rule. It works out, theoretically; in practice, the human equation enters and alters the situation. Marriage' ' means—at least it should mean—the upbuilding of a home, in which ¢ . woman is the main factor, and the es- tablishment of a famjly. How is tlis possible when each goes about the daily business and home means mere- ly a shelter and a series of make- shifts? There may be a saving certain particulars, but as the colored woman said; ‘It takes fo’' chops 'steader two,” and clothing, carfare and other ircidentals remain unchanged. Unless the man is wlll- ing to resign his pet extravagances and find content in the simple joys of home, and unless the girl can and will do her share toward making a home, the necessary self-denial as re- gards habitual personal expenditures soon leads to criticism and reprna(‘xs and the bluebird leaves for more cofi- genial quarters. The youth of toddy , is not trained in the homely virtugs. But even when affection conquefs worldly prudence and two embark wp- on the adventure, the man dependent upan his wage alwavs lives in t%s Fear of the Job. If he loses it, He faces he knows not what of poverty and deprivation. If he has that tres- sure a man should not be willing to lay up in Heaven, a good wife, g, fears being out of work the more, be- cause of the suffering it will bring to ler. From pulpit and press we hedr much about the diminishing birth- rate and the extinction of the native American stoc For this society 1§ primarily responsible through estab: lishing a high standard of living ami limiting the value of the wage-corn<.” er's compensation. Crimes azainst ' the unborn for which the woman psys‘i‘i in suffering and loss of health and® phsyicians break the law and debase their code of professional ethics are not committed because the wedded do* not desire children, but because the. pay envelope forbids. Pulpit and nress encourage marriage, society dis- courages it. e Some itney Conversations. (Helena Smith-Dayton in Cartoons Magazine.) ] “Hello! Petunia-nine- seven! hold-the-wire-please! vour call, number nine booth. Wath g!” The seeker after the number “Petunia nine-six-thr-r-ree-seveny was a cane-swinging broker type, well preserved. By his leisurely air it was evident that his call was socidl and not concerned with business, Every one present strained ears 0 sten in” when he said: “Hello, gi¥e me Mrs. Dashleigh’s apartment.” “Is this you, down town at a pay station. I thought - perhéps you'd like to go to a matinee »: . Isn't there something you'd like to see . . Oh, I wish, yol would, dear ...... You *n‘t k A lheadache—Oh, that™, too . It would do you good to I felt Just like ‘going, I haven't anything else to do 4 As the above conversation was re- ' iterated for the fourth, fifth and sixth time the women listeners looked cach other with uhderstanding. ualized before their eves was a dash- ing blonde widow at the other end of the wire. “Well, if you don't care to go to {he matinee, dear, I'll come home T've got a lot of work to Go anyway . . Oh, you are going out . . All right then, I'll be home in time for dinner.” “Good land! he was talking to bis wife all the time. That just showd vou mnever can tell” remarked a woman to her friend. -thr-r-ree- Therels Marriage As a Job. Every once in a while—and not so frequently as formerly—I find a bus- iness girl who rather looks on -mar- g riage as a deliverance. She is not § really a business girl; she is only a } #irl in business. To the real business’ woman marriage is getting to he as much of a side-issue as it is to a man. I can remember when there were only two vocations open to a woman: she could teach or she could enter domes- tic service, or she could carry and combine these occupations. If she did not succeed in marrying by the time she was thirty, she was looked upon indulgently as one who was forced to enter the business world to forget the fact that she had been « drug on the matrimonial market. My business hours are from nine to flve; but, as nearly as I can learn, my mar- ried friends keep office hours eight- cen hburs out of the twentyfour, try ing to catch up with their domestic dutfes. I heard a girl in an elevator..the other day discussing with a sympa- thizing friend her differences with a floor-walker. “Aw." she said, “T don't have to take any more sass off'n that gink. I'm goin' to quit here, anyhow. I'm goin' to be marrfed. No more work and no more bossing for me.” Any girl of her mental chliber who enters the married state is walking right into the hardest job she can ever hold down in her life, and totally un- equipped for her position. Inside of a year, if sha is as poor a wife as sha has Dbeen a shop-girl, there will he Another man hanging around the cor- ner saloon jrying to forget in a gluss of cheap beer the confusion and the bad food in the flat at home. When she gleefully announced thatshe w going to stop work, the thought of the meals, the cleaning, and the laundry had evidently not occurred to her. And the floorwalker doesn't live who can hand out orders like a hushand. You have jo take them from a nus- band, too. for vou cannot quit yonr job in matrimony as easily as vou can in\a shop.—Elizabeth Sears in Hor- per’'s Magazine. 6 i hy - e 5 | 3 L1