Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1910 — CHICAGO DOESN’T WEAR GLOVES [ARTICLE]

CHICAGO DOESN’T WEAR GLOVES

This movement to dehorn women's hats grows in favor. We suspect the hookworm Is blamed for doing a lot of things of which it is not guilty. —■ 0 Spokane has a woman policeman, but so far no one has reported a woman ice peddler. - With three nations racing for the south pole it is fortunate that Americans are nimble in their feet. T. R. Jr., who is to be married shortly, is well prepared. He has already learned how to beat the carpet game. Rubber is worth now almost half as much as silver, pound for pound. Here Is a chance for a more elastic currency.. ~ i_ - -■ This Is a pretty big country, and there are more than eighty millions of people in It, but there is weather enough for everybody. After visiting the north pole the Zeppelin airship expedition expects to “anchor behind Greenland.” Sounds like a nice cozy place to warm up in. London, with 40,000 children In the hunger line, needs to try something more far-reaching than reform of the house of lords for Its present troubles. The “Chantecler” umbrella has appeared. It would be an undoubted success if it would crow loudly when it was picked by another than its owner.

A New England woman detective is to marry a millionaire. Perhaps he thinks in view of the attacks on wealth, now the fashion, that a detective will come handy in the family.

. One aviator Is of the opinion that it Is just as dangerous to fall a hundred aa a thousand feet. But the man who falls a thousand feet will have more time to think of all the mean things he ever did.

According to a Chicago doctor, the dean of Rush medical college, the blame for certain affections which, when present in limbs and joints, are' commonly called rheumatism, should be laid principally on the torfsils, which, he says, should be cut out before the morbid changes take place in the joints. He adds that such an operation, together with plenty of sunshine and good food, will effect a cure. What a mistake it was for human beings to have tonsils, anyay.

A year or two ago an Ohio farmer, discouraged in his attempts to raise apples, was about to cut down his orchard trees for firewood. An officer of a neighboring agricultural college secured permission to take a part of the orchard and care for it in a scientific manner. This meant little more than careful,pruning and spraying, and the result last year was a net return, over all expenses, of nearly five hundred dollars. Nowhere is applied intelligence more productive of quick and abundant returns than on the farm.

Let the wife who is continually complaining at her husband because he isn’t earning enough to make It pqsslble for her to dress as well as the lady next door have a care. Let a wore} of advice be whispered to the woman who Is in the habit of finding fault with her husband because he says “them kind” or eats with his knife. Also let a gentle hint be passed along to the man who has become addicted to the habit of scolding every time he is asked to hook his wife’s waist; and to the man who never misses an opportunity to accuse his wife of extravagance merely because she buys enough hair to qualify as a waitress let a solemn warning be sounded. Justice Mills of the Supreme Court of New York has ruled that nagging constitutes good ground for divorce, and, accordingly, Mrs. Daisy Green of Yonkers has secured an annulment of the contract which bound her to Albert who found fault with her manner of housekeeping and her devotion to her relatives. Don’t nag. If you must have a divorce be sportsmanlike and go to Reno.

The Massachusetts youth who by day was a business employe of apparently exemplary habits and by night a burglar and, as it proved, a murderer, is a type of criminal that novelists and playwrights occasionally portray, though examples in real life are rare. It is a type criminologists have seriously studied, but only with the result of leaving the problem of dual personality involved an unfathomed mystery of human nature. The puzzle yet remains of the moral obliquity which diverts into criminal channels intelligence and capacity of the kind of which Spencer’s exploits as a burglar ■how him to have been possessed. But apart from moral considerations, the greater puzzle, seeing that he was determined to embark on a career of crime, is his voluntary choice of burglary, one of the most hazardous and least remunerative of criminal professions. Burglary at no time has earned its followers an income in any way commensurate with the skill required for its successful practice, let alone its risks. What have thirty-six years of. burglary profited the veteran cracksman with half a dozen aliases and a record of eight prison terms who was reported in the recent news as again oi«r arrest? None of tbs great bur-

glars of the past made more % bare living, and hedged in ae the pursuit now is by improved preventive devices and with bank burglary virtually a lost art, it affords only a precarious livelihood. Burglary is at present largely restricted to housebreaking a*4 offers no Inducements to •ambitious criminals, while it involves the constant hazard of capture or of murder as the alternative. Spencer could certainly have done immeasurably better at legitimate business, even though he was receiving only the wages of a shipping clerk.

Every annual report made to the Btate commission In lunacy of New York shows an Increase in the number of insane persons in State hospitals and licensed private asylums out of proportion to the increase of population. Probably the same showing is made in other States, though the increase is not so pronounced anywhere as in New York. The obvious explanation of this la that New York, with its great population and complex social conditions, abundant revenues and high state of scientific training, has been able and willing to make more extensive provision for the care of insane persons than any other State. New York has two hospitals for the criminal insane, in addition to those for the ordinary insane, and is now contemplating a special hospital and industrial colony of Inebriates. If this latter hospital should be established, it will Increase the apparent number of the Insane by bringing to public view persons now concealed In almshouses or hospitals or running at large. These statistics are issued every year and they appear to support the contention that Insanity is increasing rapidly through the nervous conditions of American life or of Increasing abuse of alcoholic liquors. Persons of unstable nerves always have tended to Insanity and the tendency always has been aggravated by alcoholic poisoning. But far more complete and accurate statistics of present and past insanity are required to prove an actual Increase In the number of Insane persons per thousand. There has been great increase in the number brought within the field of statistics by provision for their confinement or care in hospitals. It is not so apparent that the total number per thousand in hospitals, almshouses and families has increased. It is necessary always to be on guard against abuse of statistics.

City That la Too Buy and Too Great tor “Polite” Thlnga. What is Chicago, I will try to guess and to tell, says John McGovern in the National Magazine. It Is a population in number like Canton, In China, It is impressively great, because. for Instance, it daily uses 300,000 telephones and over sixty hospitals; some of them very large ones, Indeed, for here surgery, oft the battle field, has found its busiest haunts. The dead are buried in forty-six cemeteries. Then of them are Jewish and there are Turkish and Bohemian burying grounds. The union printers are filling their third large lot. There are about 300 great school houses, many of them groups of buildings, When President Taft visited the city in 1909 he was greeted by 150,000 little children, massed on the lake front park, and about 450,000 more were playing at home. Chicago does not wear gloves, does not carry a cane; It has no time for these “polite” things. We boast that it does more, with better machinery, than any other community on earth, it has a kind heart under its working clothes, and has always counted everybody in as one more Chicagoan. Its morals raise the present average of North America, or its population would not increase bo rapidly. In appearance it is often gray and melancholy, likb old ocean; but in spirit, as in history, it Is young and ever hopeful. It is the most prolific inventor that time has produced. It still welcomes everybody who can labor and Its generous salutation thrills forty-seven kinds of lowly people with a growing desire to cast their lot there.