Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1910 — WIVES IN THOUSANDS. [ARTICLE]

WIVES IN THOUSANDS.

But the Florida wats not christened with Florida water. I>n‘t It funny that one gets bo much mall the first few days of a month? Politicians who run in a circle find tt had to be on the square. There never yet was a spring In which the calendar and she climate worked in perfect harmony. Are we living too slow? A Harvard professor Insists that this Is 1913. Sometimes It acts more like 1813. South American republics manage to have a scrap often enough to keep the limelight trained in that direction. The only thing to Indicate that Dr. Cook Reached the summit of Mount McKinley Is the fact that the summit Is still there. Literature paid well In .r Mark .Twain's case. But that Is no reason why spring poets should expect to become millionaires. The Mormon youth has one advantage. His supply of grandmothers doesn't run out before the pennant race begins to get exciting. California fears an invasion of trained fleas. The general Impression has been that the amateur fleas were Just as annoying as the professional. A Chicago woman will be compelled to explain to the federal grand Jury why she refused to talk to a census enumerator. What about the old theory that woman is never able to hold her tongue? As one means of protecting the birds a kind-hearted woman proposes that little bells be suspended from the necks of - all cats. Undoubtedly the suggestion has the enthusiastic' approval of the mice. A number of good fellows went Into the social discard when King Edward died. King George Is said to lean toward persons of perfectly good lineage and eorreot deportment, who don’t -know an ace from a Jack. Fastest naval craft, like the biggest battleships, come along in confusing succession. Honors for speed now fall to the United States torpedo boat destroyer Reid, which recently maintained a four-hour trial speed of thir-ty-six knots, or more than forty-one miles, an hour. In Japan day laborers get 20 cents a day and women servants receive 84 cents a month. Our Informant does not explain whether the women servants get Thursday afternoons off or not, hut we suppose they do. Our indignation should be at once aroused If we thought they didn't. If conscription for army service In China were based upon the German plan an army of 22,000,000 soldiers could be put In the field. Bays the Philadelphia Record. Also, by the same plan, this nation would have an army of 5,500,000. But there is no sign that either the Chinese people or those of the United States would accept the plan. The late Justice Brewer was more widely known to the people of the United States than any other member of the Supreme Court. This was due partly to his popularity as a public speaker on topics of wide Interest, and to his deep religious convictions which supplied the occasion of many of his public addresses, and were known and respected everywhere. An Italian who was undergoing examination for citizenship papers was asked by the Judge what he would do In the event of war between this country and Italy. He did not understand the question gt first, but when It was made plain to him he straightened up and answered, "I would fight for the United States against the whole world!” There Is no danger that any such war as was mentioned will occur, but the spirit the Italian manifested was the right one. He deserved his papers, and got them. There are those who think that the Injunction to take no thought for the morrow applies In particular to vacations, and that a vacation Is all the more delightful when It is enjoyed In a happy-go-lucky fashion, with its program full of unpremeditated and unexpected features. Henry Ward Beecher regarded the Ideal vacation as “having a great deal of nothing to do." Others, as soon as one vacation season Is over, begin to look forward to the next one, and to make their plans, financial and otherwise, as to the best •disposition of its precious days. Probably those who are always anticipating the next vacation are in the majority; lor to most of us play Is more attractive than work, and In vacations, as In other good things, no small part of the charm Hes In the anticipation. Vacation means much to the young people In Bchool and college, but it means as much or more to the great army of older ones whose work, often humdrum In its dally 1 routine. Is broken only by a brief vacation each year. In their case it is not a question of affording a rest and change of scene each summer. They cannot afford to deny jtharaielrss such a rest and change.

Health and happiness and their highest efficiency, mental and physical, depend upon It. To them, during the months of winter and spring, there is sest and Inspiration in the study of time tables, maps and resort booklets, and In the consideration of plans and places, ways and means. Plans may go wrong, but there' are Joy and even more substantial benefits In the planning. Better plans unfulfilled and hopes unrealized than no plans and no hope. Recent action In two Eastern colleges In abandoning co-education revives the question subjects studied In college and the method of teaching them should be the same for girls and boys. Co-education seems to work better In the West than In the East, a fact which may be explained by the comparative youth of the Western Institutions. Difficulties may Increase as time goes on. Meanwhile there should be no bitterness In the discussion on the part of either sex. It is not that either is adjudged better or worse than the other, but that It Is different. A schoolmaster of fifty years’ experience summed up his views thus: "What makes a man a man never makes a woman a woman.” Education Is fundamentally discipline. The hour in’the class-room Is to the well-equipped teacher a brief and precious time for drill. Must It be every day practically divided In half that two classes may be taught? In history, for example, the boy cares chiefly for wars and constitutional development; the girl, for the progress of civilization and the arts. Each type of mind must be trained by the teacher to a complete mastery of the -subject. In composition the girl has native and fancy, and must learn order and conciseness. The boy Is naturally logical and accurate at the expense of ease and Imagination. A class conducted In the Interest of both Is really two classes. It Is probably true that there are many courses of study where co-education works ■waste of time and power, and where the teacher who studies his students as well as his text-books justifies the segregation of men and women. In the great state universities the difficulty is not; and is not likely to be, serious, since there Is ample room for choice of courses for both men and _women. It is in the smaller colleges that the movement against co-educa-tion is most prominent.

Parnifr* In Northwestern Canada Malting (or Cargo o( Women. The problem of domestic isolation Is about to be solved In a large part of the provinces of northwestern Canada. The Women’s Guild of Montreal has made arrangements with two lines of steamers plying between that port and England for the passage of 4,000 domestic servants to be brought over this summer. The officers of the guild announce that applications have already been made for the services of every one of these domestic servants and that the demand is so great that they could place twice the number already engaged. Most of these 4,000 servants will be sent to the provinces of Saswatchewan and Alberta. And as most of them are women, it is probable that they will be quickly snapped up as Wives by the desperately lonely fanmers of the northwest. Thus history will repeat itself, the Kansas City Journal remarks, and the scenes enacted In Virginia and the other colonies In the earlier days of the settlement of this country will be re-en-acted in western Canada. To any one who has experienced the depressing isolation of the tremendous distances of the silent places of this region there -will appear no anomaly in the question of the Canadian farmers marrying their domestic servants. Under such depressing conditions the question that presents itself is tho biblical one—that a virtuous wife is more precious than jewels. No social problems of caste will vex the minds of these lonely pioneers of the Northwest. They understand perfectly that if they do not promptly avail themselves of the opportunity to secure a wife some other farmer will quickly deprive them of their services by making an offer of marriage. And they also understand the curious trait In womankind which leads virtually every member of the feminine sex to prefer to work for a man all her life without pay In the coin of the realm provided the magic ring of matrimony encircles her third finger.