Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 13, 1894, Page 13

BONTBE A READY-MADE MAN DONT BE A READY. MADE MAN, DONT BE A READY MADE MAN THE OMAHA DAILY 1894-—-TWE DONT BE A READY MADE MAN ONT.BEA# READYE MADE MAN: DONT BE'A READY MADE MAN DO READY: MADE NTBE A MAN< DONT-BE A READYMAD MAN. DONT-BE A READY "MAGE MAN. UR famous and original saying “Don’t be a Ready Made Man,” which we have persistently repeated in all our stores from Maine to California, seems greatly to disturb our friends in the Ready Made line. One ready made Clothier in Omaha at a loss how to deal with this catchy and disturbing saying, has boldly placed it at DONT BEA READY-MABE the head of his advertisement and tries—quite cleverly too—to argue it down. It's no use, friend, it sticks— that saying—and there must be somethingin it or it wouldn’t disturb you to theextent of attacking it so hard. A ready made man is “not in it” with the man who orders his clothes made for him. He don’t feel as weil dressed and feels a sense of social infer out. Formerly people had to buy ready-made because so much iority to the custom tailor’'s customer—it’s so the world over and you can't rub it DONT-BE A READY MADE MAN . . cheaper, but our system of running a volume of custom business greater than any ready made business in the U. S. has enabled us to meet the ready made dealer at his own prices and bowl him over on the one point of giving the customer the luxury of having his clothes made for him instead of for anybody. LYMOUTH ROCK PANTS' GOMPANY, 408 NORTH SIXTEENTH STREET. UCNT BETA READY: MADE: ~MAN. %3 DONT-BE-A READY: MADE =S MAN DONTEBEA READY-MABE MANEF: DONT BE A READY-MADE DONT BE-A READY: MADE DONT BE A READY MAI DORT.-BE A READY.-MADE LOMAN = BONT.BE A READY. :MADE DONEBE A READY-MADE MAN:" & DONT:BE A READY MADE AMERICAN GLOBE-TROTTERS Obarles Emory Smith, Diplomat and Editor, Writes of the Greatest Travelers. READY APTITUDE OF AMERICAN TOURISTS How the FPeople of this Nation Are Regarded by Tholr Cousmns of Earope—The Right Kind of People. subject aspeets. wrhe American Abroad” is 2 which prerents itself under many and suggests many lines of development. There are the social and economic sides, the artistic and the educational phases, the polit- jcal and the diplomatic relations, the color jmparted to American life and the reflex influence on European life, the humorous as- pects and the broad and serious impress, the occasional vulgar displays and misdi- rected and unworthy ambitions which bring the blush to the true American, and the far more general exhibition of {rue Ameri- can sense and culture which is altogether creditable. 1t 1is possible in this paper to touch only a few of the reflections which are suggested. The Americans are the greatest travelers in the world. They fiood Europe and are getting to penetrate every cormer of the giobe. They travel farther, go oftener, probe deeper, see more, spend more and get more than any other people. They have a restless energy which is all their own. They have the practical turn which educates it- self by actual contact with men and things. Not less than 50,000 Americans are living n Europe for longer or shorter periods, and every yeer witnesses the flight of more than 200,000 to those attractive flelds. They leave annually in the countries which they visit not less than $100,000,000—an amount which in its potentiality in the domestic life and economic system of those who reap the rich harvest is as good as $200,000,000 here. This expenditure by the 100,000 Americans in Europe is almost one-twelfth as much as the entire savings of the 65,000,600 American e. It furnishes very mearly or quite $10 for every $100 saved by the entire popu- lation of Europe, numbering over 350,000.- ©00. Is it any wonder, then, that the American abroad is an object of very We- cided interest and of very considerable prin- cipal? THE AMERICAN UBIQU The Americans are found every Europe. They are entirely at home on Piccadilly and in Westminster Abbey. They throng the Champs Elysees and the Louvre They make the crowds of Luzerne and In- terlaken seem much like those of Saratoga and Narragansett. They are equally in the schools of Berlin and the glass works of Venice, under the shadow of the North Cape and on the massive walls of the Coliseum. There ts no place where they are not wel- come and where they are not treated with respect. Their patronage is a large factor and its comstantly increasing volume makes it more and more cultivated. I happemed to be in Rome shortly after the New Orleans lyuching. That event was followed by re- ports of violent outbreaks in Italy and of resentful and threateming manifestations toward Americans who chanced to be there It is doubtless true that the national fesling of a volatile and excitable people was kindled 0 some extent by that bloody and tempestu- ous tragedy. 1t would be strange and un- natural if it were not so. But I found that the chief and most lasting feeling was one of concern lest these reports of an indig- mant and menacing attitude should deter the usual influx of Americans and should thus make a poor season. The Americans who were there had no uppleasant experiemces, unless i very exceptional instances. A CREDITABLE REPRESENTATION. The great body of the Americans who g0 sbroad are creditable and worthy repre- sentatives of their country. It is true there are exceptions, and he exceplions cut an re in altogether disproportionate figure in th rent idea. There is the sycophantic tuft hunter and the despicable snob whose small foreign imitations show that they have no true American instincts; there is the pa venu who betrays himself in his eager o tentation and his awkward freshness, th oceasional ambitious woman who shames the American blood in hunting the glamour of | a title, the Elijah Programs who let the eagle scream at all times and place These are the objects of contempt and car cature, but do not represent the body of traveling Americans any more than the Eng- lish cockney represents the traveled English- man. attracts special notice. If cynicism and ridicule find expression they are based on a few illustrations. The obtrusive, the o0s- tentatious and the pretentious draw par- ticular attention. The great majority pur- sue the even tenor of their way and are rec- ognized as intelligent, sensible and self- poised. The mass of Americans abroad is made up of earnest, courageous students, who illustrate the American energy and de- termination to get ahead, and the cultivated, experienced and rational people, who travel to widen their observation and culture and who reflect the worthiest and best American life. AMERICAN ADAPTABILITY. The American bears himself well even in strange climes and unaccustomed scenes becamse he has apdtude and adaptability. He has had ‘various experiences and under- stands how to it himself to surrounding con- ditions. He is as a rule endowed with a saving sense, and it guides him correctly through the emergencies in which he may be placed. The freedom and competition of American life develop the faculties which are equal to the occasion. They strengthen judgment, self-reliance and confidence. It is this ready aptitude which makes our American ministers for the most part suc- ressful, despite the lack of diplomatic train- ing. In some quarters it is urged that our country should follow the practice of Euro- pean nations and establish a distinct and permanent corps, with special preparation and qualifications, through which alone ad- mission should be made to the diplomatic and consular service. This view is partly right and partly wrong. Our consular serv- fce should unquestionably have more sta- bility and permanence. It deals with com- mercial intercourse and development. Time is required to learn its demands and capa- bilities. When a consul bas acquired that knowledge it is foily to substitute another who must go through t same process of learning. But these considerations do not apply to the diplomatic service. The ques- involved are of a broader character, epecial and technical and dependant more upon general principles. Mere spe- cial training is of less value than robust sense and intellectual force. The success of the American minister depends more up his general equipment accomplishments ted with practical ability, than wpon par- ticular knowledge of forms and usages. He is ordinarily a man of large experience in affairs, and with this general training he readily adapts himself to the immediate de- mands. A QUESTION OF TASTE. The same sort of facile aptitude carries the American abroad through the situation in which he finds himself. During two years at St. Petersburg I knew of only two acts on the part of American visitors about which any question even of taste or propri- ety could be raised, and neither was at all serion Cards to visit the Winter palacs are granted upon the application of the vari- ous legations. During one season of several weeks while the palace was undergoing re- | pairs the legations were irformed that it would be closed and requested to make no | applications. It happened that just at this time a resolute young lady appeared upon the scene who, with rather more~shan ordi- nary American freedom, was traveling alose. She was greatly disappointed to learn that she could not visit the Winter palace, and was not disposed to abandon the effort. On her tour she had made the acquaintance ¢ an elderly Russian offcer who bad gallantly proffered any assistance within his power during ber stay at the capital. To him she applied and finally succeeded under bis es- cort in going through the palace under pre- tense of being comnected with his family She was mot exactly an “official wite, sort of officlal niece or cousin. She illus- trated in an extreme form the American determination to triumph over obstacles, It is the 0dd and exceptional which | 1 rd | e from t r | sometimes brin, | tying a spirit that proach upon our travelers, her cond | tar as I know, was unexceptionable other case was that of a young gent | who made the natural mistake of app | at 2 morning function in a morning coat in- stead of the conventional evening dress which is required on the eontinent. Our people are sometimes too dent. A sim- ple inquiry would have saved him some mortification. AMERICANS IN RUSSIA. Doubtless the chronicles of Paris or Ber- lin or Rome with their greater floods of tourists would show more eccentricities. But St. Petersburg is by po means neglected. Through the summer months the registry at the legation will average from twenty-five to forty names a day. The traveling American bas’ exhausted the old and familiar routes. He is sighing for other worids to conquer. He is pouring by the hundreds from Stock- holm across the Baltic, and many take the 1000-mile ride by rail from Berlin. The characteristic life of St. Petersburg is in the winter, when the Americans are mos at home. With the constant snow and the little droschkies, with the merry troikas and the dashing Orloffs, with the crowded streets and the flaming brasiers, with the padded isvostchiks and the gay colored snow netting, with the prince in his sable and the mooji the stream of all classes on the Nevski and the promenade of fashion on the Quai of the Neva, with the plaintive Russian opera and st bal in the world, the Russian capital in winter garb is full of brightness and_anima- tion. But it has much that is attractive in summer. Fashion takes its flight by May even from this far northern city. The court goes to Gatchina or Peterhof. The mnoble goes to his estate or to Paris or to Mo Carlo. But the glory of the Neva and | delta remains; the drive om the islands, more picturesque than tae Bois de Boulogne, with more of nature than the Thiergarteu; the spiendor of the long days and the glow of the white nights; the strange, wierd blending of Byzantine copies and Muscovite forms; the canais and waterways that make a northern Venice, and the palaces and cathedrals that make a northern Rome. The American goes everywhere practically without let or hindrance. The only excep- tion is that Russia puts up the bars against the Hebrews. Our government has steadily protested against this proscription. It has contended that under the Buchanan treaty Hebrews are entitled to all the privileges of travel and commerce enjoyed by any Ameri- can citizens. The Russian government has replied that the tre: gives to Americans only the same privileges which Russians en- joy, and that, under Russian laws, Hebrews are on a different footing from others. The discussion has gone on for years without con- clusion. Lately it has been stated that this prohibition ag st the entrance of American Hebrews has been al 1f so it is doubt- less a concession to the American sympathy and aid during the Russian famine. In trav- eling in Russia there s no disagreeable espionage, as is often suppceed. The one requisite is a passport, properly vised. The custom house offers no terrors to in- nocent travelers. It is mo more vigorous than other custom houses. When I w in St. Petersburg the correspondent of a New York paper wrote to me that he was com- ing with a number of prohibited books, and be wished me to provide against their seiz- ure. He followed his letter within a few hours—so quickly that there was no time to arrange any safeguards or protection. Nev- ertheless his prohibited books, which lay nmear the surface of his trunk, were not dis- turbed, and when he reported he was pro- fuse in the thanks he owed to nobody but the lax officials or the loose system. It would not be wise, however, to presume upon that experiment Europe regards America as rich, enter- prising, andacious and irrepressible. There is much ignorance and much misconception about our country, but whatever errors pre- vail, there is a distinet and vivid impres- sion of the extraordinary growth and daring | genius of our people. 1 have heard the best informed and most self-poised express unfailing wonder at the colossal achieve- ments and boundless possibilities of this nation. Whatever the American abroad may be, America abroad is making s deep, powerful and permanent lmpress. The world may think that she i3 young and crude and raw, but it has & master sense of ber gigantic capabilities. Peter the | pick the opeming from end to end of old | Great planted St in order to have a window to look out om Europe. Europe finds in America a win- dow through which to out on future. Something of the tion is imparted to the jcan abroad is a force and and we may rejoice on_the whole, with occasional whimsicalities, he is a creditable representative. CHARLES EMORY SMITH. Philadelphia, Pa. e KELIGIOUS. Bishop Kephart has gone from Baltimore to Fostoria, O., to be present at the annual meeting of the General Missionary board of the United Brethren church. Bishop Tuttle, Episcopal, of St. Louis, who has just identified himself with the Salva- tion army, is said to be the first bishop who has ever taken such a step. The numerous friends of General Booth, the head of the Salvation army, are getting ready to relebrate the fftieth anniversary of his conversion, which occurs this year. He will be presented with a jubilee thanksgiving present of $50,000. The late Bishop Re although a pre- late of the Irish Protestant chureh, was a native of Yor! England. He was a man of great lear his strong common eense. and he exercised much influence in Ireland. Rev. Dr. Thomas C. Y brated th ship of S delphia. parish it was in the strageling village of Hamilton, and the church was surrounded by farms. It is now in the heart of the city of Philadelphia. The United Presbyterian church of Scot- land has a membership of 185,664, an in- crease of 1,589 over the previous year. The Sabbath school scholars are 141,545, crease of 1 The total offerings for missionary and benevolent purposes were $410,200; the missionary showed an increase of $11,000. Rev. F. K. Clark, the originator of the Christian Endeavor movement, is gener- ally known as “Father Endeavor” Clark “The name originated as a huge joke,” he says. “It was given me by an oid school- mate, who possessed a remarkable propen- sity for punning names. He took the ini- tial letters of my mame and from these originated the name ‘Father Endeavor Clark.’ * It has been said of Nr. Bartol, the Boston clergyman, who has just anpiversary of his birth, that him preach for @ year you were made ac- quainted with everyihipg of importan that was guing on at the Hub. distine delivered more notable eulogies of the great'men of this who have died than any other pastor in ) England, with the possible exception of the late Dr. Peabody The one hundred and sixth general as- sembly of the Presbyterian chureh in the United States of America is to convene in the First Presbyteriap church, Saratoga Springs, N. Y., on Thursday, May 17. The communicant membersfip a year ago num- bered 855,089, divided among ized churches, baving an aggregate of 399 elders and 5,356 deagons. The ministers numbered §,509. The Sunday school mem- bership numbered 909,082, The total cont butions of the churches reached nearly $15,- 000,000—$1,000,000 of which was given for bome missions. - Chamberiala’s Congh Remedy the Best. LOCKEFORD, Cal, April 21, 1584.— Having been troubled with frequent colds during the past few years, I have from time to time used the various cough medicines in common use. I have arrived at the clusion that Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is the best, and mow use it in preference to any other. ASA WARDROBE. This remedy will cure & severe cold in less time than any other treatment. It loosens a cold, relieves the lungs, aids ex- pectoration and effects & permanent cure. It is also without an equal for croup and whooplng cough. For sale by druggists. w Bl Lo bas finished with a silver the seven-mile tunnel out of the valley of Mex- fco, which when completed will have cost $10,000,000. It is being comstructed to save the City of Mexico from lnundations. 11 has just cele- ary of his reetor- it you heard President Diaz ing and remarkable for | an in- | contributions | | cated celebrated the lst | He has the | gion without a basis in the form of a prepa- ew | | win con- | | bed normal DEPARTMENTAL INSTRUCTION | Superintendent Fitspatrick on the System of Specialty Teachers for Special Studies. BELIEVES ITS EFFECT DISINTEGRATING Contends that the Influence of Speclalists Should Be Exerted Upon Teachers and Not Directly Upon Pupils. Writing on the subject of “Departmental Teaching in Grammar Schools,” Superinten- dent Frank A. Fitzpatrick in the Educational Review says: There are two reasons why this departure 1is objectionable: Onbe, that it is counter to the spirit of reform in teaching, which is moving in the direction of w and co- ordinating the various Sranches of study in the elementary school course. The other, that it attacks the organization of a system of schools, increasing the instability without any compensating advantages. L] b There is yet another valid objection to the plan of converting the general or class teacher in elementary schools who is a shada better teacher of some one branch, special teacher of that branch. She does not have the perequisite general culture to | do special work. This is the case even in Brooklyn, where Superintendent Maxwell is, he tells us, laboring diligently and arduously to elevate the general culture and teaching | power of the teacher: Now, the common school is a general school in which only generalizations should be taught; specializa- tions, special work, professional work, can- not be taken up profitably until the founda- tion has been laid in the gemeralizations of the comman school, and to a certain extent also in the secondary school. It is, I think, | axiomatic that any attempt to erect a profes- | sional or special structure upon any founda- tion other than more or less thorough grounding in general knowledge will produce a more or less abnormal structure. The boy who enters a law schooi, or medical school, or normal school insufficiently edu- in the generalizations which should form the basis for such special work is, I | think, more or lcss permanently dwarfed by | such action. Certain it is that no profession suffers so much from this dwarfing proces resulting from the enmtrance into a profes- ration the any in gemeral culture, as that of teacher. The inevitable tendency of attempt to specialize work on the part any one who has not had general tra be to make that individual formal, pedantic, narrow The plan is further unwise because it sets | up, I think, inevitably, in the mind of the departmental teacher, an erroneous idea of the importance of her department as posited against other studies, which has a tende to maguify unduly ber own work, both as regards importance in the course of study and the quantity and quality of work given by her to the puplls. That this tendency has already become quite marked will be | evident to any one who takes a survey of the average departmental teacher who Is now teaching penmanship, drawing and music. That it will bave a narrowing effect upon the pupils may, I think, be inferred by any one who will wateh the abortive ef- forts of so-called specialists in some of our High schools, who are trying 1o te quan- titative and qualitative analysis in chemistry to immature boys and girls. It is ridiculous | to compare the preparation and work of | specialists in colleges and universities with that accomplished by would-be specialists in the com: schools. 1f it is desired to find | a type approximating to the la will find it in the atmosphere school,” which confers the gree of A. B. In two years after fra have been mastered, and graduates the y man a full-edged “professor.” The friends of departmental te the common schools are again u in the a y they draw from the general employment of special teachers of music, drawing, cooking and sewing. Under wise rtunate | present | may be called a linear extension. | would ts ars employed the teachers, mot to teach the pupl just in proportion to the success which at- tends the teaching of the teachers teach these special branches co-ord with other branches, is the success or fa ure, so far as results are concerned, of fal study. 1 say so-called special study, because so long as it is a special study, and not co-ordinate with other studies, it cannot have any rightful place in the course of study for elementary scho A special study is special only so long as it is new and vuknown, comparatively, to the class room teacher. It is the province of wise supervision to convert each special study into a co-ordiniate study as soon as the teachers be properly instructed by the special supervisor. EFFECT ON TEACHERS. Departmental teaching in elementary schools, again, tends inevitably to the weak- ening of the corps of teachers by allowing faculties which should be exercised to be- coma atrophied by disuse. The point of ab- surdity is reached when because one teacher in a building can teach music or drawing better than the other teschers in the build- ing, instead of raising the rs below the , it is delibe ately proposed to cr in the corps of other teachers from a part of their fabors. Good super on has for ity end and aim the bringing about of such conditions in the teaching fo hat s, developing suc power, such tact and such skill—that each individual feacher of the force would be self- determined, self-superv A not need any super of teachers could be brought up to a compara- tively uniform but versatile excellence, and its homogeneity preserved, there would then be little need of supervision. But in the atus of the profession of teaching the inscability of the teaching force is so great that it requires the constant effort of the supervisor to maintain even a moderate stability. On the side of organization one of the diffi- cult problems that falls to the lot of a su- pervisor of schools is the proper assignment of teachers who are to fill vacancies. In the city of Chicago for the year ending July, 1893, there were upward of 400 teachers added to the corps to 811 vacancies and take care of the increase in school popula In a western city having upward of 12 inhabitan‘s that I have in mind there i by one teacher tn the force whose employmen dates back seventeen years; there a three whose employment dates back twe years, » were members of force t ¥ It is probable that mo such Do n any eas relieving gation giv with additions to the teaching force b son of increase in population, this cha the personnel of the curps of be over rather than un annum. Under present conditions is distributed over what may be surface, that is, the vacancies are filled the placing of one teacher in a cer or grade in one school bu teachers, it may be. in anothe different part of the city, and so on, thus reducing the friction by equalization and distribution so that the shock may not be so severe But the departmental pl it a school system s working upon , the friction resulting from these vacanc from this wasting away of a corps of teachers, is localized in the wost possible way. namely, on what That is, the gap is mot in a class room where a teacher takes charge of ffty pupils out of perhaps 1,000 in the school building, but would appear in four or five rooms, in each of which this department teacher would be teaching all the pupils in some one branch; that is, 250 would be affected ail along a continwous line by the faliing out of a teacher, whereas at present only fifty pupils would be affected. Any principal not need to reflect long to decide which of these plans would be most de stru on the side of organization. In other words, the tendency of departmental teaching wo already great & sys diffic tain equilib )S TOWARD COM The effect of devel the principle of division of labor in the grading and organization of schools has been in the direction taken by the development of the principle of division of labor in arts. That is, along the line of finishing all th work to be doue by any one individual at a given stage in the process. The work done in the arts by one individual is not partly done at one -handling, and then passed to another individual and returned again to have certain finishing touches put on again by the individual who has handled the pro- duct heretofore. The effect of such a pro- cess would be to render more complex rather than to simplify the process of manu- facture. It has been said by some of its advocates that the departmental plan tends toward efficiency by proceeding on the lines of division of labor. I take it that quite the contrary is true when we come to examine the workings of the plan in all its bearings. It tends toward complexity rather than toward simplicity. It is cumbersome and inefliclent in operation in a modern school building. It wowd be most efficient in buildings constructed upon the assembly- room plan which were in vogue forty years ago, familiar specimens of which may be found in central New York and other east- ern states. The evils arising under the old system, to obviate which the medern ling was created, were more inherent plan of instruction than in the build- They will appear again even in mud- ern buildings if the departmental plan of in- struction should be generally adopred. In the machinery world the efforts of inventors in recent years have been in the direction of reducing friction, of gaining power by reducing the waste-friction. The general introduction of the electric motor promises to reduce the non-available power to a minimum. In the school world we are seeking to lessen the friction by devis- ing such a plan of organization as will in- sure eficient and helpful co-operation be- tween boards of education and supervisors on questions of a proper course of study, the use of proper text-books, the appoint ment of teachers, the assignment of teach- ers, and kindred subjects. Are we to drift Into & system of organization which, by creating disturbances and friction, wiil counter-batance the advantages gained fin other directions? _Again, if it is proposed to inaugurate this pian by bhaving the regular class teacher teach most of the branches, and relsgate to the special teacher geography, arithmetic and grammar, for instance, it will have the of unduly narrowing the work and ! of the regular class teacher in a different way from that in which the special will be affected, and thus from both sides will attack the idea of co- dination les. The plan proposed is further® because it will have a tendency te the pupils by bringing about such ons as render it at least improbable e departmental teacher can know ately or particularly the 256 pu- o will pass 1o review before her gaze the day. If, as ma allege, it is for any teacher to do i a class of fifty pupils whom she has in charge for five hours per day, how much individual work can a de- partmental teacher accomplish with 250 pu< pils, of whom she sces twenty-five or thirty for about twenty-five minutes each day? The proposed plan isolates the pupil as well as the teacher, because it ne ates mora or less preparation of lessons in a different atmosphere and under the eyes of a differ- ent and confessedly inferior teacher. The assumption that the teaching of these pupils for five years by one teacher will be pro- ductive of results overbalancing the results obtained by five teachers in five years suf- ficient to make up for other losses is not conclusive nor apparent. It is not apparent in high schools, where the work procseds upon departmental lines. The tendency of the pupil who contin too long under any one teacher is to become provincialized by copylng unconsclously the mannerisms, oddi- ties and caprices of the teacher. In the COom me school, aw at present o ucted, this ndency is restrained b the change in teachers, whic ually In the of the subject and the uni- character building, sid world re- stultifying and dividual capric-e The limit of my standpoiot, second year o artm tea ng, fr uld not extend below the the High sehool