Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1910 — Editorials [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Editorials

Opinion* of Great Papers on important Subjects.

> PROFIT AND LOSS. YOUNG man of wealth married a chorus gtrl In New York a few years ago. Shortly afterward he enlisted In the navy. mmmmmrn From a callow youth with little common sense and less knowledge of the hard facts of life he has returned home, strongly i muscled, manly, cheerful and in perfect

control of himself and the spirit of temptation. He has ceased, however, to be fond of his wife. She is now engaged in suing his for a half milllonsdollars, charging them with weaning away her husbaud'B affections. Were the lady in the case demanding for the loss creathre- she knew as husband the suit were ridiculous. He may have .been worth, many times a half million dollars in property, but worth not five cents in person. The man is a different fellow' altogether now, in the state of his heart as well as his mind. In sheer point of possibilities of value himself ami to the world he is not to be weighed against sordid gold. Unhappily, the courts have no other standard by which to measure the price of affections < and the object of affection except money. The chorus girl wife -must Beek such balm as is available. If It is true that the young man is all they say he is, radiant of health, sober, proud of hig service and eager to assume a permanent place as a worker, who can blame the wife for lamenting her loss? li the courts can’-t do more they might give sole possession to the memory of the youth to whom she was married. • The parents would surrender that with enthusiasm.— Toledo Blade. - '

is woman “Economically wobthlessp”

ROFESSOR Patten of the University of j I Pennsylvania, an original and progressive I thinker, declares that one of the four maJor causes of the increased cost of living is the “ new Btatus of -women.” Civilization and mechanical progress, he says, > have deprived women of their former

share in bread winning, and they are “left with their hands, idle." “Let women take up their share of the work, and the pressure on the resources of the family will be equalized,” concludes Professor Patten. Let us see. The next census- will probably show that* about 7,000,000 women are engaged in gainful occupations, in spite of our “ttvilization.” It will not show how many millions work longer hours than any factory or office employe, in kitchens, nurseries, tenements, flats, farmhouses, without getting any “wages” at all, but we know that the wife of the laborer, the mechanic, the clerk, the small shopkeeper, the struggling farmer, the young professional man, does not sit with her hands idle. Is not the woman who cooks and washes, cleans, sews, brings up children, doing her share of the work of the family? Is she economically worthless? The number 61 idle women is very small in this country, and this number the majority devote themselves

to charitable and reform work, to the cultivation of letters and art, to the propaganda of political and moral causes. Sending them into offices and factories would scarcely benefit true civilization. Man does not live by bread alone, and have not foreign observers extolled American women for their successful pursuit of culture and idealism? Even froni' an economic point of view, the women who do not toil are not worthless. Morals and aesthetics and culture have their economic value to society.—Chicago Record-Herald. -

SICKNESS AND EATING.

are actually committing a crime against your stomach when you eat while sufferr iug from acute disease. I defy ..any stuN— —, dent or scientist to disprove* this state? ment. you suffer from acute fcjSgjifca disease, pneumonia, fevers, etc., the principal object of which is simply the cleans-

ing of the blood, every particle of food you take into your stomach retards recovery. As a result of careful experimentation hygienists find that a typhoid fever patient will lose weight and strength faster when being fed than when no food Is glyen. In other words, he will lose less- "itrength and recover far more quiskly when no food is given. When the digestive organs do not require food and you persist inputting food into the are poisoning yourself and adding to the disease. If these statements do not impress you as being reliable, a little experimenting on your own account will soon prove their truth. What is needed in disease is to give the human body, that marvelous mystery that each every one of us possesses, a chance* to cleanse itself; a chance to eliminate the poisons that are clogging functional activity. There is no need of fear, no need of anyone dying or an acute ailment unless vitality has been very greatly retarded through dissipation, through prolonged use of alcohol or sotne other similar cause.—Physical Culture. .> ; i

FFETE eastern cities that sneer at the tan- 4 I || booted, slouch-hatted westerner are being ! committed by their undertakers to new bJmmSrn extravagances which, to the humble eye of the plainsman, are not exactly m good tagte. Blue, pink and lavender coffins are the very latest in art funerals. The trail-

NO FUNERAL DISPLAY. * — . lb

ing arbutus or winding creeper may bedeck the pall.' Artist and upholsterer outrival each the other, with gilding' and gauds to adorn the narrow house of humanityls cast-off clay. •»«. The march to the tomb borrows trappings from the circus, attd the pompous ceremonies with which our dead are to be recommitted to earth’s embrace seem to mock the quiet of God’s acre. This should not be. The door of the tomb 1b no place for display. The dignity of death forbids it. Every finer instinct protests at exploitation attempt to restore extravagance in funerals will not succeed. —Chicago Journal.