Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1910 — Page 2

Why Give Thanks?

HANKSGIVING DAY. Humph! It’s easy enough for the President to give thanks on $50,000 a year, but what about the rest of us?" _ Can’t you see her fling down the morning paper with the Thanksgiving proclamation in

big type on the front page? In imagination, can’t you hear the Scornful, embittered aceent of her care-rasped tones? And v don’t you know her sort?— drab-colored frock, drab-colored hair, drab-colored complexion and drab-col-ored views of life? Just one of “the rest of us,” to whom the presidential salary of $50,000 a year represents a sum on which she thinks she could live comfortably to the end of her days, She is one of the thousands, too, who think that every man, woman or child save themselves has cause for giving thanks. Yet why is she so pessimistic? She has a position which pays a fair salary. She likes her work, or rather takes pride in the results of her labors. She has reasonably good health and would have better if she would only learn to walk on the sunny side of life's broad street « She is able to laj- aside a small sum each week toward the inevitable rainy day and she could wear much more becoming clothes if she knew how and took pleasure in choosing them. No one Insists upon her wearing dull colors, which make' her look old and faded. Every night she goes home to a tidy little apartment, presided over by a tidy little mother and supported in part by a cheerful younger sister. Here she finds the order she loves and the cooking which she enjoys. For pleasure she has her church and its societies, a free library just ■ around the corner, a weekly visit to the theatre, where she manages to see all the better productions, an occasional concert, as many invitations to evening card parties as she cares to accept; and yet she has no reason for giving thanks! ■—Why? Because she must earn all these things. She must pay part of the reht of the tidy little apartment. She must pay her own dressmaking and millinery bills from her wages. Often she must pay for her own theatre tickets and concert admissions.

As this is Thanksgiving and. we all have stomachs whose appeals belong properly to this and to every other day in the year, let us give thanks for the things of the stomach, for turkey |f we have turkey, for goose if we have goose, for sausage if we have sausage. For the power to earn and to enjoy the things of the stomach, we may be thankful, since the power to earn what our own stomachs call for is the power to serve the needs of all other stomachs. And Instead of being shameful or regrettable from any standpoint, an unspoiled stomach is natural, is right, is commendable and moreover is Inevitable in its operations. But over and above everything between turkey and sausage we have “potentials.” A potential is a simple thing. A shoemaker or a machinist is as apt to have it as an Archduke or a Czar, or a supreme court judge or a senator or a president. It comes into the brain as a constructive idea. It works out of one brain into ten, a hundred, a thousand, a hundred million. Then it is a force nothing can resist. Put men with constructive ideas into the wilderness and the desert and their ideas will show themselves the -highest realities, controlling all difficulties. What were the worst difficulties (serve constructive ideas as the raw material tor great states and great cities, for fields yielding their products year by year tn the hundreds of millions of bushels or of dollars, for new creation in a thousand ways, depriving none and enriching all, with .new opportunities created at every

By Anna Steese Richardson

She thinks the girls who have cause for thanksgiving are those whose fathers, mothers, brothers and sweethearts strew the pathway at home and abroad with roses and theatre tickets. She belongs to the large class of wor king girls who believe that only the girl of leisure hag any real pleasures In life. She does not know that the roses cast at the feet of the girl who is dependent upon parents and relatives are thick with thorns. She has never heard a mother upbraid her daughter for extravagance one minute and then load the girl with new frocks, hats and gloves of her own choosing the next. She never dreams that the girl who must look to mother and father for every penny is often afraid to ask for the one thing she most wants, because her parents prefer to think and plan for her . This girl never knows the joy of doing just what she wants just when she likes—which the dun-colored lady does seven days in the week. There are stout girls who weep because their mothers insist upon buying plaid silk frocks or blouses for them, and thin girls whose misguided mothers dress them in severely plain, unsoftened tailored suits. The dun-colored lady may wear what she will. It is her own fault if her life as well as her clothing is drab. She has made of duty a fetish, on whose altar she is sacrificing her youth and her pleasure. She thinks that because she must work for her living, she cannot enjoy the pleasures allotted to the girl of leisure. What that dun-colored little lady needs more than anything else is contact, physical and spiritual, with normal, healthy, happy, wage-earning girls of whom there are millions all over the United States. Above all, she ought to know a beautiful character who recently came into my own business life. Here was a woman close to 50, whose husband deserted her for a younger but certainly not more attractive woman. She had lived the absolutely sheltered life, never worrying as to where the next ’month's rent and the next week’s meat bill must come from, always assured of her weekly allowance and content in her daily routine of home-making. Then suddenly all was swept from her —husband, funds, sense of security, protection and privacy.

THANKSGIVING

step forward end the Open Road into the future cleared and kept open, never to be closed and kept closed by any force or any fraud. If we doubt that constructible ideas have this force in them for the future we have only to look around us into the present and back into the past which they and they alone converted into this present. These things are for all men. For ourselves, man by man, if today we can look back and see how by the use of any idea of ours we have been able to escape struggle, to subject others and to dominate them while giving a single constructive idea its force in serving them, or if we can look into the future and see opportunities opening before us for this,

"If I were sure the candy sold in that shop was pure and free from bacteria, I should be glad to get you a couple of pounds,” says the scientific swain. “But in these days of reckless adulterations I feel thkt I cannot take too many precautions to preserve your health and beauty.” The fair young thing, who has a normad candy appetite, coos a word of appreciation of his thoughtfulness. Next they approach a place where a soda fountain continues its glad work. “You are fond of soda and ice cream, are you not?” he asks. *1 just love it.” "If it weren’t so often filled with dangerous germs I would be happy to get you some.” -

Some one told her she was wonderfully well preserved for her years. The compliment gave her an idea. She said: “I’ve kept down wrinkles, manicured my hands, and exercised my figure into' good condition, all for myself. I wonder if I could show other women how?* She took a few lessons from expert manicurists and facial masseurs, had some cards printed, rented a tiny flat, moved in what was left of her old home-fittings, established her mother ana picked up her new life with a smile. >» I .asked her today why she was thankful. She smiled her radiant, honest smile and answered: “Oh, for so much! First, to think that a way was opened for me to earn my living and thus be independent. “Second, for my health. I feel so strong and capable again. ' “Third, for my mother. She makes home for me now. “Fourth, for the fact that I do not owe a dollar. Debt is such a terrible thing ■to face on Thanksgiving morning.” How the dun-colored little lady would have stared at our new-found friend. “What’s the use of being healthy and good-looking,” she would ask. “If the man you had loved for years is not around to admire you? “And what is the use of being thankful for just a mother. Every one has a mother—and then this woman must support her mother from her slender earnings. That looks more like a cause for worry than for thanks. “Then one deserves no credit for being out of debt when you have so small an income that you do not dare have anything charged.” Dun-colored little ladles always have their own arguments with which to fight any unruly feelings of thanksgiving and happiness. But of a tcuth the wage earning woman today has much for which to be thankful. I recently met a whitehaired woman, who ranked among the pioneer business women of New York. She said that when she first opened her shop, the curious-minded, boys, men and women, used to hang round the door for a peek at her and often followed her on the street. The American girl in business is particularly fortunate, according to the light of an Englishman, who has been studying sociological conditions in America. He found himself one noon at a great white and gold restaurant in the financial district of New York City. All around him at other tables were well-groomed, well-dressed, well-, behaved young women. He said to his host: “And who are these-young women? Do they buy and sell stocks?’’ His host smiled. “Not at all. They are our’stenographers, clerks and private seertaries.” “Ah —” said the bewildered Englishman, “but —er —they look so like ladies.” Yes, we have reached the point where we may work for our living and still be regarded as ladies in the broadest sense of the word. Breadwinning is today a badge of honor, and the woman who earns her own living is not a social outcast. So much snobbery has America lost through the womanliness and intelligence of its business girls. So much have tl\e little dun-colored ladies to be grateful for—independence, and honor and happiness in independence, if only they will follow the girls who have learned to walk on the sunny side of life's broad street. —AH happiness la comparative.—AH causes for Thanksgiving are comparative. Do not look towards those who are better off than yourself when you are counting your beads of gratitude. Look rather on the state of those who may well envy you—and then give thanks. —Chicago Inter Ocean.

then we can see that which, for each one of us, man by man, means power, the highest possible power for us, as for each one of us and for all it is liberation. Were there only one man tn the million of us who had such cause for Thanksgiving as that would mean for himself and for all of us, all would surely go forward with him to greater power, to fuller prosperity, to the only possible independence, the independence which belongs to the highest possible freedom of service. The man who has such independence has the highest cause for Thanksgiving— That man la freed from se*Ue sands Of hopes to rise or fears to fail, Lord of himself. If not of lands. And, having nothing, yet hath all.

SAFE

This time she does not coo appreciatively, and they continue their homeward walk in silence. When he is leaving her, he bashfully hints that he would like to kiss her good-by. “You may.” she says, to his surprise. “You can be sqre there won’t be anv germs in the kiss, either, for you haven’t'glven me the chance to acquire any.” Ho sleeps but little that night because of his mental effort to determine Whether she is thoughtful or sarcastic.

By Another Nome.

“Then there is no bowing to publie men in America?” "No; we caU it for the office.”

MINNESOTA’S FOOTBALL STAR

To eulogize the work of any Minnesotan in particular in the recent game between the Gophers and Maroons, in which the latter team met defeat, would be only an Injustice to the others, for the eleven in every department is so thoroughly and powerfully organized that it is equally irresistible on offense and defense. The 1,400pound line ripped the the lighter Maroon battle front into shreds or shoved it far out of the way and I hen turned and resisted as a stone wall when attacked by the futile Maroon offense. The back field, led by the agile and alert little McGovern, was set for the

ZBYSZKO HAS “COME BACK”

Polish Wrestling Champion Here to Secure Another Bout With Gotch—Shows Improvement. Stanislaus Zbyszko, champion wrestler of Poland, has returned to America. Zbyszko’s object is to secure another match with Frank Gotch for the championship of the world. Gotch says he has retired, but with Hackenschmidt and Zbyszko after him he may come back . Zbyszko thinks Gotch tricked him into defeat and he is of the opinion he can stand off the world’s champion now, especially since the disparity in age is greater than formerly. Zbyszko says Gotch promised him another chance after his defeat last winter. The Polish champion took three Amer-

Stanislaus Zbyszko.

lean wrestlers home with him and has been in constant training ever since. He has shown great improvement, his friends say, and is confident he will be able to send Gotch into permanent retirement. Although this has a strangely familiar sound, it must be admitted Gotch is growing old and Zbyszko is still young for a wrestler. Zbyszko has forwarded SI,OOO to his manager. Jack Herman of Buffalo, who has posted that amount to bind the match.

HOOSIERS MAY GO TO COAST

Indiana Team Likely to Play Washington on Christmas Day—Good Game Is Expected. Washington University will give Indiana University a football game here on Christmas day, is the belief expressed by the management of the athletics if only Coach Gilmore Doble can be persuaded that his men will not be stale by that time. Doble has always been reluctant to allow his men to play as late as Christmas day, despite previous requests, but when the Indiana authorities sent their request to Seattle the other day it was practically decided that the game would be arranged. Dobie's team for two years has been Champion of the Pacific coast

Johnny McGovern, Crack Quarterback.

next play before the present one was determined, and the. end runs of McGovern and Johnston and the crossbucks of Stevens and Rosenwald seldom failed to gain ground> McGovern was everywhere. He tore off run after run of good size, fooled the Maroons at every point and kept the Gopher speed at top notch. Once he got away for 60 yards. The brilliant quarter-back, who earned a place on last year’s All-American, was the prize terror throughout, and not the least of his achievements was his headwork in solving some of Chicago’s pet defensive formations

SPORTING FACTS AND FANCIES

London has two municipal golf courses; Brighton and Nottingham, one each; Edinburgh, ten, and Glasgow, three. If the University of Chicago baseball team opened the eyes of Japan fans what will Jimmy McAleer’s AllStar nine do in 1911? Major Delmar (1:69%) and George G. (2:05%) are board and needed exercises as errand horses at Ardmar farm, the home of Bingen Jockey Henry Horner, who rode 38 winners out of 54 mounts at St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russia, has returned to America. He will ride in the Czar’s domains next summer for a salary of $5,000. William Fife, the English yacht designer, has accepted a contract to build a racing schooner, capable of defeating the American-built -yawl Westward, which won at Kiel and Cowes. The prospective owner’s name would not be divulged by Fife. Pitcher Cole has been signed up for three years at an increased salary. The fact should Inspire the youth of the land to emulation. But while it is true that every American boy cannot become a great baseball pitcher some may fall just short of the mark and be presidents.—Chicago Daily News. —’’Doc" White’s baseball quartet of Sheckard, Hofman, Joss and himself will not be on the vaudeville stage this winter. Wives of the players thought they ought to hear their husbands singing around home part of the year and the argument won. White says Sheckard was too bashful, and gives that as the real reason.

MADE INSANE BY ATHLETICS

College Boy of Noted Ancestry Suffers Through Ambition to Become Famous as Athlete. Samuel J. Randall Lancaster, son of Charles C. Lancaster, a prominent lawyer who practises in the supreme court at Washington, is suffering from dementia in the Hood Wright hospital, New York. He-is a member of the Pennsylvania university football team. Associates say he was made insane by athletics. ■■ ..■> It was Lancaster's ambition to become a grtat runner, to lower running records, and do many other things that would win him fame. An entry In his diary read: “Get in good condition on track team so that you can win a medals lion ” 1V The young man i» a grandson of the famous Samuel X Randall

RAILROAD MEN. HAVE HEART

At Cost of Extra Coal and Late Trains They Place Little Girli'on , the Flyer. She was just a plain little girl of seven, yet for her two great limited trains were sidetracked on the prairies, their schedules thrown out 20 . minutes, and SIOO went up* in locomotive smoke. Homer Bull, of Bull Brothers, printers, of Seattle, Wash., told the story. When, he was coming from Wenatchee, on the Great Northern, the other day, a tiny little maid, all by herself, took the seat in front of him. “You’re on the wrong train, my little girl,” said the conductor, as he looked at her ticket. “Is anybody with you?’ l "No,” she said. “I just got onwlth the rest of the people.” “But your ticket is for Spokane and this train is going to Seattle. The bridge is burned behind us and there is trouble in the mountains. There won’t be another train for 24 hours.” “Well, I’m going to Spokane,” she said with childish faith. “All right, little girl; we’ll see what we can do.” Then trainmen and dispatchers got busy. The west-bound train was to wait on a siding for the flying Spokane express to pass it. The Seattle train rushed to the siding. Miles flashed under the wheels. Then a flagman was sent out to stop ■ the Spokane flyer. The west-bound train skidded past the standing train. Then the copduptor picked up the little girl and handed her to a brakeman on the Spokane train, with a word of explanation. It made two trains late and cost something in extra coal. “Railroad men have hearts,” the conductor explained. “I’ve got a little gal at home myself just about the size of that youngster.”

FOR SAFETY ON RAILROADS

Commerce Commission Orders Uniform Equipment at Enormous Cost to the Lines. Uniform standards for the equipment of railroad cars and locomotives with safety appliances were prescribed by an order Issued by the interstate commerce commission. The order is the result of a long continued agitation for uniformity. All the appliances covered by the commission’s order are now used, except that two additional ladders are required on certain classes of cars and two additional sill steps are required on all. Although the railroads contended that the changes would immediately cost approximately $50,000,000, the commission is of opinion that “compliance with the order will not cause any undue expense to the railroads, as the order applies entirely to new equipment and is immediately effective only with respect to new cars.” Sufllcient time will be granted to the railroads properly to equip their old • cars with the new standards. Edward A. Moseley, secretary of the commission, who has devoted nearly a third of a century to the work of obtaining these standards and to securing the enactment by congress of safety appliance and employers’ liability legislation, collapsed from an attack of heart disease on the day the agreement as to the Standards was reached. His condition is regarded as serious, and he may never be able to resume active work.

Size Settles Question of Fare.

“Curloug,”safdan old railroad conductor to a New York Sun man, “how parents’ memories lapse Sometimes about the age of their children. But up at Bronx Park, in running the electric launches that ply from the boathouse there on the Bronx river, they have a fare system that avoids all such mistakes and does away with any necessity of remembering on the part of parents whatever. On these boats the fare for adults and children over four feet in height is ten cents, for children under four feet InJheight, five cents. There’s a that seems to be simplicity Itselv don’t you think? You never have to ask how old a child is, you go by the child's height, regardless of age, and I don’t know but' what that system might be applied to advantage on railroads. , You could just have a fourfoot mark* on the jamb of the door through which passed, and just back the child up against that mark. It would take far Ims time than the talk now necessary In arguing about the child’s age.”

Pullmans for Invalids.

Invalid railroad travelers in Swltserland will soon be able to enjoy all the comforts of a well-eqMpped sick foom. The Swiss federal railroads have just ordered four Pullman coaches specially fitted for the tranafort of invalids. Each car, costing $12,000, will be divided into seven compart manta, the center compartment being for the patients. There is to be an operating room for urgent cases requiring immediate surgical treatmdent and another compartment will be equipped as a pharmacy. Electric bed warmers and bath heaters will be provided. The other compartments will be set apart for doctors, nurses and friends of the patients.

Could Not Do Otherwise.

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