The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 23, 1904, Page 23

“ S — TREATMENT OF WIVES. men | iv th’ ol’ married know threat their a rockin’ chair— t comfort whin they're but apt to be in th’ at other times. might be different if th’ ladies. instead iv bein’ cured f'r life, was on’y held on a short-term lease.” n | “]t i It 66 HO is George Meredith? asked Mr. Hennessy. “Ye can search me,” said /Mr. Dooley. “What is th' charge again him?” “Nawthin’,” said Mr. Hennessy, “but I see he’s in favor iv short term marredges.” “What d'ye mean®” asked Mr. Dooley. “Reducin’ th” term fr good behavyor?” " said Mr. Hennessy. “He says peo- ple ought to get marrid fr three or four years at a time. Thin if they don't like each other or if wan gets tired, they break up housekeepin’” “Well,” said Mr. Dooley, “it mightn’t be a bad thing. Th' throuble about mathri- mony as I have observed it fr'm me seat in th 1’ stand is that afther fifteen or ars it settles down to an endur- ‘Women,” as Hogan says, ‘are v such beaucheous mien that to ve but to be seen, but,” he ORT-TERM MWARRIAGES ARE HERE DISCUSSED BY | He wondhers if he is really worthy iv “first name to be carrid to th’ altar. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, W he says, ‘we first embrace, thin pity, thin endure,” he says. Most iv th’ ol’ marrid men I know threat their wives like a rock- in’ chair—a great comfort when they're tired, but apt to be in th’ way at other times. Now, it might be diff'rent if th’ la- dies instead iv bein’ secured f'r life was on’y held on a short term lease. ~Whin Archybald, th’ pride iv South Wather sthreet, makes up his mind that it wud be | well £r his credit if he enthered th’ holy bonds iv mathrimony an’ selects th’ target iv his mad affections he thinks that all he has to do is to put a geeranyum in his buttonhole an’ inthrajooce himsilf be his But th’ ladies, Gawd bless them, are be nature skilled in this game an’ befure Archybald has been coortin’ two weeks he begins to shift his ideas iv his own worth. He finds that at best he has on'y an outside chance. th’ { love iv an innocint young girl iv thirty- | entire stock two. Has he money enough to support her as she shud be supported? He even has doubts, f'r th’ first time in his life iv his own ravishin’ beauty. that he niver see befure. He discovers that what he used to considher a merry twinkle is a slight,cast in th’ right eye an’ that th’ | flllin’ shows in his teeth. He consults a manicure an’ a hair dhresser an’ buys th' iv a gents’ furnishin’ store. Thin whin he’s thurly humble he goes thremblin’ to Belinda’s house reysolved that if th’ fair wan reyfuses him, as she prob’bly will an’ surely ought to, he will walk off th’ bridge an’ end all. “It’s at.this time that th’ short term con- thract shud be sprung. I don’t know how men propose. I niver thried it but wanst, an’ th’ hired girl said th’ lady was not at He detects blemishes | | SUNDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1904. MR. DOOLEY, WRITTEN.-FOR THE CALL BY F. P. DUNNE. 23 % Copyright, 1904, By McClure, Phillips & Co. marrid men give ye th’ impressyon that their wives stole thim fr'm their agonized parents. 'But, annyhow, we’ll suppose that Archybald, layin’ a silk handkerchief on th’ carpet an’ pullin’ up th’ leg iv his pan- taloons to prevent baggin’, hurls himsilf impetchoosly at th’ feet iy his adored wan an’ cries: ‘Belinda, I cam’ on’y offer ye th’ love iv.an honest South, Wather street commission merchant an’ mimber iv th’ Brotherhood iv Wholesale an’ Retail Gro- cers. Will ye take me fr life?” Belinda blushes a rosy red an’ replies: ‘Archybald, ye ask too much. I cannot take ye f'r life, but I'll give ye a five year lease an’ resarve th’ right to renew at th’ end iv that time,” she says. ‘Will that do?’ says she. ‘I will thry to make ye happy,’ says he. An’ she falls on his manly bosom an’ between her sobs scries, ‘Thin let us re- pair at wanst to th’ Title Guarantee an’ Thrust Comp’ny an’ be made man an’ wife,’ she says. “Well, afther Archybald is safely marrid his good opinyon iv himself reyturns. Be- linda does her share’to encourage him, an’ befure long he begins to wondher how as fine a fellow as him come to throw himsilf away. Not that she ain’t a good creature, d’ye mind, an’ slavishly devoted to him. He hasn’t annything again her, still, think iv what he might have done if he had on’y known his thrue worth. a good repytation he daesn’t have to live up to it. So bimeby Archybald, knowin’ fr'm what his wife says that he is hand- some enough without anny artificial aid, f'rgets th’ mannycure an’ th’ hair dhresser. Sometimes he shaves an’ sometimes he doesn’t. So far as he is consarned, he thinks th’ laundhry bill is too high. He advertises th’ fact that he wears a red Whin a man gets | versation is about' his lumbago. He fre- quently mintions th’ fact that he likes cer- tain articles of food but théy don’t like him. *~ Whin he comes home at night he plays with th’ dog, talks pollytics with his nex’ dure neighbor, puts his hat an’ a pair theayter. It ain’t a bit like rale life as T | see it in business hours,’ he says. Afther a while whin Belinda begins to tell him a l thrillin’ says-she about wan iv the neigh- bors he lapses into a pleasant sleep, now an’ thin arousin’ himsilf to murmur ‘Um-m.” % - WHO DOES NOT APPROVE OF THE MEREDITH IDEA % ART OF PROPOSING. “l don’t know how men iv cuffs on th’ piannah, sets down in front iv | At 9 o'clock he winds th’ clock, puts th’ Propose. I niver thried it th’ fire, kicks off 'his boots an’ dhraws on a | dog out f'r th’ night, takes off his collar but wanst, an’ th” hired girl pair iv carpet slippers an’ thin notices that | on th’ stairs an’ goes to bed. Belinda sets said th’ lady was not at th’ wife iv his bosom is on th’ premises. | up a little later an’ dhreams Richard Hard- h ‘Hello, ol’ woman,’ he says. ‘How’s all |ing Davis wrote a book about her. . ome. ye'er throubles?’ he says. “Wanst a year Belinda meets him at th’ dure with a flower in her hair. ‘Well,” he says, ‘what are th’ decorations about?” he says. ‘Don’t ye know what day this is?' says she. ‘Sure,’ says he; ‘it’s Choosdah.’ ‘No, but what day?* ‘I give it up. ' St. Path- rick’s day, Valentine’s day, pay day. What'’s “But th’ five years ar-re up at last. Wan mornin’ Archybald is glarin’ fr'm behind a newspaper in his customary jaymial breakfast mood, whin his wife says, ‘Where will I send ye’er clothes?” ‘What's that?” says he. ‘Where d'ye live to-mor- rah?” ‘Don’t be foolish, oI’ woman. What d'ye mean?’ says he. ‘I mean,’ says she, “Most married men give ye th’ impressyon that their wives stole thim fr'm their agonized parents. “In me heart 1 think if people marry it ought to be th’ answer? ‘But think” °T give it up. ‘It's | ‘that th’ lease has expired. At tinthirty | | f'r life. Th’ laws ar-re alto- th' annyvarsary iv our weddin’. ‘Oh,’ says | to-day it roruns out. I like ye, Archybald, | | gother too lanient with thim. he, ‘so it is. I'd clean frgot. That'’s right.. | but I think I'll havé to let ye go. Th’' I raymimber’ it well now that ye mintion | Property has r-run down. Th’ repairs | - haven’t been kept up. Ye haven’t allowed enough fr wear an’ tear. It looks too much like a boardin’-house. I'm goin’ into th’ market to prospect fr a husband with all modhren improvements,” says she. “Well, wudden’t that be a jolt fr Archy- bald? Ye bet he’d beat th’ quarter-mile record to th’ joolers. He’d haul out ol pitchers iv himsilf as he was th’ day he won his threasure an’ he’d hurry to a it. Well, betther luck nex’ time. There take that,” he says. A’ he salutes her on th’ forehead an’ goes down in th’ cellar to wurruk on a patent skid that will riveluch- ionize th’ gracery business. If he suffers a twinge iv remorse later he tells her to take two dollars out iv th’ housekeeping money an’ buy hersilf a_suitable prisint. “He’s pleasant in th’ avenin’. At sup- have per, havin’ explained hzs_danly maladies a} Bertity inhaleterie 4ht sy Vs o i night full length, he relapses into a ‘gloomy si- Tikasithat there :Apolla. Pelvntuss: s % Bank. lence, broken on’y be such sounds as es- > Y€ | din’ can without tearin’ me down altogether.’ coffee. | 1t wud be fine. He'd get her back, maybe, cape fr'm a man ~ dhrinkin’ -hot stoop. th’ objeck iv his affictions that she cud put up with him f'r another five years they journey, rice fr'm their grandchilder.’ t they're seen an’ made secure,’ home. No wan will iver tell ye. Most flannel chest protictor. His principal con- ' Billy Emcrson died,’ he says. ‘I hate th’ birthday came around, an’ ivry time th* annyvarsary iv th’ weddin’ occurred e'd a firewurruks display fr'm th’ front Whin he’d succeeded in convincin® cud go on their weddin’ journey. Y'ad read in th’ pa-apers, ‘Misther an’ Mrs. Archybald Pullets were marrid again las’ be th’ president iv th” First Naytional They departed on their twelfth wed- followed be a shower iv It wud be 4 % 7 43 A h ‘Whats-his- Afther supper he flgure_s on t.h pfob l?le Bitt 18 wit be o sthzagglc ' Aw ahiics thet fmeh I ope George at’s-his-name puts market f'r rutybagy turnips, while his wife : 2 it through. A AR Edvertiseiint 4 th' theayt about a year befure th’ conthract expired “Ye don't believe wan wurrud ye say,” :'-rea SD - ,"‘;I'S'm::,s Y X’ eay, :I:s. again ye’d see him pickin® purple ties out | said Mr. Hennessy. ‘Jawn 5 rew 1s here this week, says she. | i, th’ shop window, buying theayter ticke “P’raps not,” said Mr. Dooley. “In me Is he? says A,r:hybald. That’s good,’ he | ets be th’ scoor an’ stoppin_ ivry avenin’ at | heart I think if people marry it ought to says. ‘I haven’t been to a theayter since |a flower shop to gather a bunch iv violets. | be fr life. Th’ laws ar-re altogether too He’d hire a man to nudge him whin his ! lenient with thim.” — + THE ROYAL ROAD TO SUCCESS .z BY THE REV., WALTER M. WHITE, D. D, Pastor West Side Christian Chureh. WISH d with the young men e for every young to succeed. And nothing rare as I desire to have s0 f the boys Francisco especially, be- c 1. with all my heart, believe that g men of our city to-day have open door leading into the lls of success that are to be anywhere in our land. The boy it in him need not seek other green very doors the fields are white already unto the harvest. Let us for a moment look at th eubject, which indicates the lines elong which we wish to direct this talk, “The Royal Road to Success.” The, because there is no other which leads to true success; Royal, because the best blood, the purest and noblest of ours and every other land, of ours end every other age, have passed along here in their acquirement of success; Road, because the word itself sug- gests a journmey. He who would at- tain success must often make a long, long journey; Success, because no word sounds more pleasing to the ear of the hard toiler than this—success, Come, let us see. Is it suecess, true, 2 THE TE in this article, to speak a| and young | fields from which to reap | vests of success. Right at your | genuine success which we are seeking, or is it a mere gauzy delusion with which we are willing to be wound about and made to believe that we had attained something real? If it is the real you are looking for, I believe I | can help you; if it is the other, away, away, I will have nothing to do with it. There are some things as essential to genuine success as fresh air, pure water, plenty of exercise and well cooked food are to a healthy body. They are what we are pleased to call the milestones along the royal road | which leads to success. Our starting | point we will call the City of Selection. In which particular field of this great | world’s activities are we looking to for ‘cuccess'.' Artemus Ward said: ‘Every man has got a Forte. What each man's particular Forte is he wants to find out. The sooner the bet- ter. Foolish is the man who starts on a journey not knowing whither, nor caring where, the road may lead. What- ever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed. Be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.” The theory that the son be what the father has been, and do what the father has done, has been the means of scattering along the high- way the bleached carcasses of failure, while if the child had been permitted to have chosen and pursued an avoca- tion to his liking, he would have | passed triumphantly along the royal |road to Success. I urge, parents, give the boy a fair starting chance, by per- mitting him large freedom in choos- ing his own life calling. To the young man I submit the all importance of the right appreciation of a well chosen vocation. Mistakes made here are difficult of correction. Being some- bedy for life is better than being a prodigy for a day. ‘What shall T do to be forever known? Thy duty ever! This did full many who sleep all unknown, ©Oh, never, never! Think'st thou, perchance, that they remain unknown ‘Whom thou know’st not? v By angel trumps In heaven this praise is blown Divine this lot. We will find close, very close to our starting point—the City of Selection— the first milestone, with the lettering cut deep, the memory of which we will need to carry with us all along the road which leads to success, an honest desire to be that upon which we have set our hearts. Far too many young men have really ambition to be anything. If success were to be bought with a price of gold willing enough would they pay it. If some kindly disposed friend should bring it all tied up in a neat no package and place it in their hands gladly enough would they receive it. Remember, though, my young friend, success comes not after that manner. If that good thing you would obtain there must be an honest desire. It is an old but none the less true saying where there is a will there is a way. An honest desire sees and seizes the opportunity, where others less earnest allow them to pass by all unnoticed. “I can’t; it is impossible,” said a foiled lieutenant to Alexander. ‘“Be gone,” shouted the conquering Mace- donian. “There is nothing impossible to him who will try.” As another requisite to genuine suc- cess I miention invincible grit. Bonar sings well and truly: ‘What though ten thousand faint, Desert, cr yleld, or in weak terror flee! Heed not the panic of the multitude; Thine be the captain's watchword—Victory! The road to success is full of diffi- culties. Many are the discourage- ments, much need will you have for all your powers of determination. Our faces must ever be set toward the goal. “Our greatest glory,” said Goldsmith, “is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.” Hav- ing once put our hands to the plow we shall not look back. Every dif- ficult problem, every rough place, every hard knot along this way should be mastered and so thoroughly mas- tered that each would become a step- ping stone upon which we shall mount pearer and nearer our goal—success. It is an indication of royal blood to behold the young man with head up, eyes flashing,” shoulders thrown back and, like the eagle, his gaze ever set on the sun of success. The final analysis in the majority of failures will reveal the fact—lack of application, afraid of hard work—has been the cause. “Work or| starve” is nature’s motto—“it is writ- ten on the stars and the like—starve mentally, starve morally, starve phys- ically.” There is no success in God's universe for the idler. Hard work is the price we pay, diligent application is the price we pay. But he who will thus apply himself will get full re- turns, measure for measure heaped up, pressed down, ‘running over. “There is but one method of attaining excel- lence,” said Sydney Smith, “and that is hard labor.” The mottoes of great men reveal the secret of their success. Here are a few: “Voltaire’s motto was “Tou- jours au Travail” (always at work). Scott’s was ‘“Never be doing nothing.” ‘Work! work! work! has been the motto of hundreds of men who have left the blessed heritage of success to all com- ing generations. Daniel Webster said, “I have worked for more than twelve hours a day for fifty years”” Do not be afraid of work, young man, if you would obtain success. I have reserved for the last thing to ACHERS' INSTI be mentioned—preparation. Here we have something all important. The very first steps along the royal road should be steps of preparation. Our preparation for any given work nat- urally suggests to us the necessity for some natural ability, the more the bet- ter. Success for the mentally incompe- tent is out of the question, but with a fair degree of natural mental ability the work of gaining the acquired abil- ity should and must be diligently pur- sued. Some years ago the writer spoke to a young man regarding his prepar- ing himself for a certain profession for which he had considerable ability, and for which he confessed he had no lttle liking, but he as frankly confessed two things: it took too long to prepare one’s self for such a work, and, see- ondly, one had to know so much that he did not wish to undertake so diffi- cult a task. That same young man is still sitting around the stores of that little village waiting for success to come to him in some easy way. The golden crown of success awaits the brow of him who is willing to strive for it. The royal road which leads ever in that direction is the road of wise selec- tion, honest desire, unflinching deter- mination, hard work and adequate ability. He who will choose and faith- fully apply these principles will attain unto the coveted prize of this life— success. ‘Addit.iona.l Opinions as to Their Value by State Educators. VERY California teacher knows that the maintenance of the Teachers’ Institute, or the substitution by a superior mode of instruction, is of vital importance to the educators of this State. It is evident from what has recently been published in The Call that marked dissatisfaction on one side end extreme opinions on both sides 21l on this subject among educa- tional workers. As out of a liberal dis- cussion of the merits of prevailing methods and those which may be de- vised some possible way to better con- aitions may be found. The Call is glad to present som® additional views of those who are closely identified with the work. Professor Elmer E. Brown of the de- partment of education in the State Uni- versity believes that to a resourceful guperintendent institutes prove to be a fiexible and useful institution. The Napa County Institute of the current week is cited as an example. In their sessions a series of lessons has been given on United States history, one on the study of James Russell Lowell and a third on professional problems. All of this work was conducted by pro- fessors from the two universities, is a continugtion of similar lessons at the last institute and is based on studies maintained since then by the teachers. Such instruction is of vital worth. Professor Brown offers as suggestions for the general improvement of insti- tutes that some of the lectures be based on carefully directed studies of the teachers during the preceding year; and that a portion of the institute time be given to discussion by the teachers of real problems in school work. He emphasizes the urgent need of the em- ployment of a deputy county superin- tendent in the larger counties to visit the schools continually for the special purpose of the improvement of teaching along the newer or more difficult lines of instruction. By such helps the coun- try teacher realizes some of the advan- tages which are constantly enjoyed by the city teacher in- conferences the supervisors of special subjects. Still further, Professor Brown deems it possible that university extension may be so directed as to co-operate effectively with the institutes. He also thinks that the experiment should be tried of securing in agricultural coun- ties such effective co-operation between teachers’ institutes and farmers’ insti- ‘tutes that the work of the schools and the farmers should come into more in- timate relations. C. N. Shane, Superintendent of Placer County, reports his views on this ques- (tion by saying: “In the absence of something better, I strongly:believe in teachers’ institutes as they are now conducted. It would be a serious blow to our schools were they dropped with nothing substituted for them. But in this age of centralization there is a chance for more efficieit work to be done along this line. Were it possible to form district teachers’ summer schools, a district to be limited to say, approximately, 500 teachers, the same energy now given in many cases to in- stitutes of seventy or eighty teachers if trebled would be sufficient for the said 500. Then allow such schools to continue in session for at least four weeks, the expenses of teachers while attending the same to be bérne by the State. Attendance being compulsory upon all teachers, and certain definite work to be done by them, upon which credits would-be given. All credits so made to be kept on file in such form that school officers could t them when desired. Institute expenses in this county are about $20 per teacher, while the plan suggested would: cost much less in proportion.” "P. W. Kauftman, Superintendent of | ion by saying: “My observation in tutes are of inestimable value to those teachers who are hunting for the bet- ter way. The best results are secured where five or six contiguous counties hold their institutes at the same time for several days and then adjourn to a central place for the remainder of the week. In this way some of the cap- tains of education from differgnt fields are secured and they bring to the rank and file of teachers the same con- fidence, courage, enthusiasm and im- pulse for achievement which a great general brings to an army. “I all the institutes in California are equal in merit to those held in the southern part of the State, the people than they give for them.” ‘The views of James D. Graham, the Pasadena Superintendent, are con- tained in the statement that: “The present manner of conducting insti- tutes is valuable to the teachers, in that it gives them inspiration that comes from hearing speakers and lecturers ‘who are experts on tye various sub- Jjects ‘on which they are talking; also sented to the teachers of various grades, new subjects or new methods of presenting them might be given to the teachers of the county as a varia- tion from the present method and be satisfactory, but I would not advocate a permanent change from the present plan.” * ugh J. Baldwin, Superintendent of Diego County, states that, “The economic and educational value of the annual county institutes has been a source of considerable discussion in the county institutes of the State and in the annual gatherings of the California Teachers’ Association. In each place strong arguments are presented both for and against, usually ending the de- bate by referring the matter to a com- ‘mittee that never reports. “In analyzing the school system of this State and on tracing the sources that have evolved our excellent edu- cational institutions, one can readily discover the great mission that™ the county institute has filled. It has assisted in developing many of the strong features of the system and a professional spirit seldom met with outside of California. This evolution has caused us to outgrow it. The gar- the teaching force of this State is too well prepared for the old regime con- templated by the law now on the stat- ute books. The State teachers’ associ- ations and the summer schools under the management of the universities furnish mental equipment for our teachers far beyond the possibility of the county institutes of the day. The county institutes have well filled the pioneering in the evolution of the school system of the State. Now we want something greater and higher.” A correspondent who wishes his name to be withheld writes that he is one of those who believe that teachers’ in- stitutes have proved of incalculable benefit to the school interests of Cali- fornia. Yet, in his opinion, the time is ripe for a partial change in the law which sustains them. He claims that the institute provisions of the school law were framed for a different period, refers to the failure of many institutes to afford instruction to teachers, men- tions that the summer schools furnish invaluable stimulus and knowledge and vigorously protests against allowing this statute to remain in force for all parts of the State: He adds: “Dismiss, then, the idea that the institute provisions must be uniform in their bearing throughout the State. As well might the inhabi- tants of San Francisco, whose ocean breezes compel t e use of Warm cloth- ing, contend for uniformity of wearing in California. TUTES & & Doubtless, for some time to cofe some of the counties, especially the mountain counties, will need the peculiar advan- tages which institutes bestow. This fact, however, should not militate against a change being made by those counties which demand it. I propose that the %hool law be so amended as to allow the exercise of the principle of local option. Let the amendment provide that any county shall be ex- empted from holding institutes when its Board of Education shall prescribe attendance by all of the regular teach- ers of that county for four or six weeks, once in two years, at a summer school. Said il finlee s | : ¥ p}