Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1910 — FAMILY IN EVERY NATION. [ARTICLE]

FAMILY IN EVERY NATION.

What? Walla Walla, Wash., Want Wet? Wow! Since he quit talking Mr. Peary has gained In popularity. ▲ woman wastes a lot of smiles when talking over the ’phone. The races* at Juarez, Mexico, were run In a blinding snowstorm. Medicine Hat papers please copy. Banta Claus is the only person who has' ever succeeded in getting any great speed out of the reindeer. Dr. Eliot declares he Is satisfied with his new religion. Which probably means that he will use no other. “Don’t run after a street car or a woman," says one cheerful optimist, “another will be along in a few minutes." Charles W. Morse diffesa from most trust magnates in salient respects. Every time now he loses a case he goes back to jail. This will be a notable year if West Point and Annapolis decide to get through it without a hazing scandal, and there is no reason why they shouldn’t. An exchange deliberately expresses the opinion that stud poker is a more brutal game than football. Possibly. But give bridge whist a show in the competition. At Urbana, Ohio, the other day a boy aged 18 married a girl aged 15. Fortunately the child labor law will not bar him from the pleasure and privilege of supporting her. The wife who keeps a trunkful of letters her husband wrote during the mellow days of his courtship can usually get him to arbitrate any little differences thatwrise in after years. One aviator, it is said, has succeeded in repairing his aeroplane without descending to the earth. And still more remarkable, he didn’t hit his thumb or drop the monkey wrench on anybody's head. Owing to the big crops and the high prices of the past year western and northwestern farmers are reported to be eager to buy more land. Their ambition will hardly be approved of by the gold brick artists of the country. A New York preacher wants John D. Rockefeller to contribute to the world’s religious literature 100 words defining his position with reference to evangelical Christianity. Could so good a man- as Mr. Rockefeller possibly put all his religion in 100 words? At a recent wedding in the aristocratic circles of Vienna, an Innovation was introduced when the bride’s mother was crowned as a part of the ceremony. The significance of this feature is somewhat obscure, and those who are tempted to treat the subject with levity are reminded that mother-in-law jokes are no longer tolerated —-even on the vaudeville stage. Many college students hope to. enter the service of the United States government next spring as census enumerators. Those who are fortunate enough to secure appointments will benefit in ways quite as important as the money they will earn. They will be brought into personal contact with all classes and conditions of people, and will acquire first-hand knowledge of wages, nationalities, populatior, and scores of other matters never so well learned from books. If the enumerators are carefully selected, the government also will benefit. In the battle of Manila Admiral Dewey’s fleet was under fire for seven hours, and only six men were wounded and none killed. In the naval battle of Santiago the American loss was one man killed and a half dozen wounded. In football in the United States, during the season now closed, the casualty list stood as follows: Thirty deaths, 216 players Injured, 12 broken collar bones, 8 broken noses, 12 broken legs, 19 broken ribs, 9 broken arms, 19 broken ankles, 18 broken shoulders, 8 broken wrists, 8 broken fingers, 6 broken hands, and 3 broken jaws. Football would, therefore, seem more dangerous to life and limb than real war. A teacher who asserts tbat she has occupied important positions in the public schools in various parts of the country and has filled them satisfactorily, makes a series of “Confessions” in a recent magazine article which go to show, if they show anything, that the business of teaching as carried on in the public schools of the United States is largely a fake. She condemns the methods mostly in use as ineffective and the instructors as incompetent. She avers that every teacher hates her profession and that all of them are ashamed of it. The women usually continue in it for life unless relieved by matrimony. But the common imputation which lady teachers have of being sour and prim repels desirable suitors, so that they usually have no choice but to continue In an occupation vapulsl va to them.

So far as the men teachers are concerned, she asserts that the profession attracts only an inferior class of men, except in the case of some young men who use this occupation as a stepping stone to other desirable employment; that the men teachers who continue until they reach positions of principals or superintendents are as a rule less competent and efficient than the women teachers, yet the women teachers would rather serve under them than to be “bossed** by members of their own sex. If this arraignment of the personnel of the teaching body in our public schools were correct, it would be unnecessary to seek further for reasons for Inferiority of the schools, for no profession can be carried on efficiently by people who are ashamed of it. The care of the conduct and morals of the youth of the land and the development of their minds should be esteemed one of the most honorable of professions. It is no doubt true that too many men and women seek positions in the public schools as a mere makeshift or last resort to earn a livelihood, but we have faith to believe that the large majority who continue in the work become duly Impressed with the Importance and the sacred character of their calling, give to it a conscientious devotion, and entertain a reasonable hope that their achievements in it may constitute a crown of pride to a well spent life.

Leaion of Smiths May Be Pound in the Directories of AH Cities. The New Yorker who offers a timid apology whenever anybody makes scome caustic remark about the city directory ought to take a peep at foreigh directories. What If New York has fifty-two columns of Smiths, with the various spellings, fourteen columns of Johnsons, nine of Joneses and ten of Whites? Is that anything to be ashamed of? They are nice, honorable names, and European cities are glad to put them on the list. Take Smith, for instance. The New York Times says there isn’t a town in Europe big enough to boast a city directory where Smith has not worked his way to the front. London is fairly overflowing with Smiths, but then London is the home of the Smith family and the seventeen columns of the commercial directory and the twelve of the court directory, not to mention the thirty columns of the plain everyday Smiths, do not excite the least surprise or derision. London also has her full quota of Joneses, Greenes and Whites, but that, too, is a matter of course. '7 “ When you come to Berlin you might expect to find things a little different, but you don’t. The German capital is quite proud of her Smiths—Schmidt they spell it there. The directory shpws sixty columns of them, and everybody knows that the column of a Berlin directory is long and impregnable, wfith eighty-five names to the column.' By a little figuring you will be able to ascertain that that qmounts to quite a nice little family of Smiths. But Berlin’s banner family is the Schultzes. There are seventy columns of them. This is a creditable showing, but they are closely pushed by the Mullers, who can point with pride to sixty-seven columns. The business directory of Berlin is interesting. Judging by this proper-matter-of-fact book, it would seem that the people of Berlin must take pains to kick out their heels and toes, for it taes fifty-two columns of shoemakers —still eighty-five to the column —to repair their boots and shoes. Of bakers there are fifteen columns, and last, but not least, come the barbers, who muster up thirteen columns strong. What Smith is to New York Martinet or Martinot is to Paris, with the Girards, the Picards and the Moreaus bringing up the rear. But even In Paris the Smiths are not downed. There is almost half a column of them, their vocations ranging from importers and lawyers to typewriter repairers. Rome’s long suits are the.Albertlna, the Rossinis and the Guidis. But with all this wealth of poetic nomenclature the Eternal city still clings to Smith and proudly announced that at 119 Princess Margherita street there is one Tullla Smith, who is engaged in the peaceful calling of making candy. At 22 in the same street ,is another Smith, Luigi by name, who is a barber, while not far away is Angelo, a dealer In toilet supplies. In Naples the Morellis and Vitellis predominate. They do not crowd out Mr. Smith, however, for he is here, two of him. One is called Enrico, the other Robert; Enrico has an office at 66 Riviera de Chiari and sells agricultural implements; Robert sells liquors. Brussels Is alive with Jansens, but they have not exterminated the Smiths, one of whom is dealing in tobacco at 91 Lesbroussart street The land of the czar blds the Smiths welcome, and a few of them have gone boldly into competition with the Smirnovs, who are, by all odds, the strongest numerically of all families in Russia. In St. Petersburg Otto Smith la a glass merchant and Theodore and W. T. Smith regale the public with wines and spirits. Even in Odessa Alexander Smith has settled wown and earns a living by making sailors* suits.