Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 27, Number 32, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 6 February 1897 — Page 1

VOL,. 27—ISTO. 32.

ON THE QUI VIVE.

The metropolitan police business came to the front again this week, when Senator Early introduced in the state senate the police bill approved by a caucus of the Republican members of both houses, providing for an entire new metropolitan system for all cities in the state having over ten thousand and not over thirty-five thousand inhabitants, according to the census of 1890. There are few changes from the law at present in force, and the effect of the law, if it passes both houses and secures the signature of the governor, will be to continue the present system under the control of the Republicans in the several cities concerned, instead of under the Democrats as now. There are several minor changes in the law, a copy of which Q. V. secured through the cour tesy of Senator Early. The impression was created by a publication in an India napolis paper that the appointing power under the new law was taken from the governor and placed with the city councils in the ten cities affected, but this is a mistake. The power of appointing the commissioners still rests with the governor, and the new law simply means that the boards will be controlled by the Republi cans instead of the Democrats. There are sixteen sections in the law, as in the old, and there is very little change in the wording of the greater portion of these. Section 1 is word for word the same. Section 2 provides that the com missioners shall not appoint more than one patrolman for each ten hundred inhabitants, and not more than one oflicer, excluding the superintendent, for each five thousand inhabitants. This provision would cut down the force in Terre Haute, for we have at present thirty-four patrolmen, while according to the census of 18H0 we had but

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are but six officers now, excluding the superintendent, and there would be no change in this respect The same section also makes several slight changes in the limits of salaries of the patrolmen and oflicers, being a reduction of the maximum and minimum salaries of the oflicers, except that of sergeant, which, with the patrolmen, is not changed Here are the figures compared: Under the present law, superintendent, $1,000 to$1,500 captain, $700 to $1,000 sergeant, $600 to $840 patrolmen, $550 to $730. Proposed law, superintendent, $000 to $1,200 captain, £700 to $000 sergeants and patrolmen, same as at present-

There are but few changes in the law until section 7 is reached, where there is a provision that the expenses of' the department shall not exceed in a year $1,000 for each 1.000 inhabitants. The expenses of our police department for the year ending December ill, 18M, were $30,5)01.00, so there would have to be a slight reduction in this, as could be easily done with four patrolmeu taken off. In section 8 there is an important addition to the present law, and reads as follows:

It sltiill be the duty of the police force hereby ('rented when directed by the mayor of such city, to carry out all orders and resolutions of the board of aldermen and common council of such city as .shall have two such boards, and of the common council of such cit where but one of such boards exists, which pertain to the enforcement of the ordinances of such city, and shall serve all not lees. Issuing from the ofllce of the city clerk, and other city otllces, and shall report, through the superintendent of police, all street obstructions ami dangerous excavations and other defects In the street, and shall make all such other reports and carry out all such other orders, pertaining to the enforcement, of the city ordinances and resolutions as shall bo directed by the board of aldermen, and common council of such city where but one such board exists. Any failure to curry out any of the provisions of this section, shall be. ns against any ortlcer or member of the police force hereby created, good cause for removal.

This gives the common council a right to give orders to the police force regarding the enforcement of the city ordinances and the resolutions of the council, a right that body has never had before under the metropolitan system. It gives the council which foots the bills a right to say something about what the police shall do.

This, in substance, is the new police law it is proposed to give to the city of Terre Haute, a law that has received the endorsement of the Republican caucus in the legislature. Ordinarily this would ensure its adoption. But in the present case there is a questiou about it. At a recent meeting of the common council of the city of New Albany, the following petition to the legislature was adopted and copies of it sent to the New Albany representatives in the legislature, and to the governor aud the mayors of the nine other cities at present working under the provisions of the met ropolitan law: To the Mombers*of the Legislature of the

State of Indl&na. GKSTI.KMKN:—The

New Albany Board of

Common Council, regularly convened, most respectfully petition and pray that your honorable body will amend or repeal the present Metropolitan police law governing cities of 10.000 to SUMO population. In such ny*nner as to secure to the said cities local self government and relieve them of much unnecessary expenso.

After several years' experience tn New Albany under the existing law it Is found that it greatly Increases the expense of the department, as compared with the former system, and It Is not more efficient. That It has not been removed from political influence* the members of your body from Floyd county can attest. The New Albany board Ignores the request of the city government to reduce expenses and insist on keeping up a force far In excess of the requirements of the times and the depressed condition of business. The responsibility for the manage* ment of the police department should be placed where the people can regulate it. If mayors and councils prove Inefficient and profligate the remedy Is with the people who

will In all probability select as efficient and pure officials as the commissioners will prove to be who are likely to be selected for the governor by political bosses of the city or county. This body, which was chosen by the people of New Albany, respectfully urge that the present law be amended or repealed so that those who must pay the bills shall control the manner of their making.

A resolution very similar to this will be adopted at the next meeting of the city council of Terre Haute, possibly at a special meeting, and representatives of the council will go over to Indianapolis to urge on the legislature the enactment of a law to give to cities the right to control their own police forces, at the same time using their efforts to defeat the present bill. The mayor of New Albany, writing about the appointment of police commissioners by the governor, says: "If commissioners appointed by the Governor are necessary and the best for the police department, why not for every other city department? And why not govern every city by this method entirely The idea is repugnant, and is an insult toevery mayor and councilman in the ten cities affected. Mayors and City Councils will average up pretty well with Governors and State legislatures, both as regards honesty and capacity. Your commistioner is generally selected by the city and county bosses. The Mayor and Council by the People."

If the ten cities affected by the metro politan law unite in an effort to defeat it, the legislature can scarcely afford to pass it over their protests. But if able to muster enough votes to defeat the proposed law, it is possible that there cannot be enough votes secured to repeal the law at present in force, and every city now protesting against the system would be just as badly off. There can be no question but that there is a strong demand here in Terre Haute that we be allowed to govern our own police force, for which we pay, as we govern our own fire department, than which there is no better in the country in a city of like size. On the other hand, it is beyond disguising that many persons who opposed the metropolitan law when it went into force in 1891 are not so strongly against it now. Many objected to the bulldozing manner in which it was put into effect then, and object to the manner in which the department is conducted now. It is fair to say, however, that the most of those who have changed their minds are those who have mixed a little in politics, and can quiet their convictions in favor of home rule in order to have a police department that is taken out of the hands of the city council, and puts the blame for any shortcomings in Indianapo lis rather than in Terre Haute, where it may affect an election fttr city councilman, or mayor, or something of that sort.

If the caucus rule on the police law stands good, it will pass both branches of the legislature, and go to the governor, who is likely to veto it, because he said in his inaugural that he is in favor of home rule. If he vetoes it, it will likely be passed over the veto and he will then have the appointment here in Terre Haute of three commissioners, one term expiring the first Tuesday in 1898, one in 1899, aud one in 1900. And before the last term expires the city of Terre Haute will have a special charter, or the general laws governing municipal corporations will be greatly revised, so that cities of the importance of Terre Haute will have the right to govern her own affairs absolutely.

If the uew law does go into effect, there will be such a shaking up of dry bones around the northwest corner of Fourth and Walnut streets as has not been known in these parts for many, many moons.

The newspaper thermometer indicates that, following the 4th of March, readers of the Gazette who were familiar during President Harrison's administration with the phrases, the "McKiuley monstrosity" and "buffet (pronounced boo-fay)," will have a four years' whirl at "Mark A. (whatever the A. stands for) Hanua," and 'Smooth-bore Alger." Heaven give us streugth to stand four years of that!

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new apportionment bill agreed

upon in the Republican caucus this week gives Vigo county a senator and two representatives as now, and also a joint senator with Parke and Vermillion and a joint representative with Vermillion. The apportionment is claimed to be fair, and makes it possible for the party that carries the large and changeable counties of Marion, Vanderburg, Vigo, and St. Joseph to control the legislature. By the vote of last November the Republicans will have a majority on joint ballot of thirty-eight. The present legislature is twenty-four Republican on joint ballot, but the Republicans had nineteen out of the twenty-five holdover senators. The decisions of our supreme court on apportionment laws makes it certain that any anjust apportionment will be set aside if carried into the courts, and for this reason an effort has been made to make one as fair as possible. It cannot be changed for six years, if it stands the test of the courts.

Mrs. Aydelotte's pupils will give a very interesting programme at Germania theater next Friday and Saturday evenings, with a Saturday matinee. There will be a doable bill. The small children will give a comic play, "Society Fad," while other pupils will give "Stranded," a burlesque on the ambitions amateur actors.

This "half and half" weather seta corns to stinging. A simple remedy is made of stale bread softened with good strong vinegar. Bind on the corn over night. After two or three applications the corn* can easily be picked oat. It takes oat the soreness, too.

ABOUT WOMEN. 1 L'

To send children happily to bed should be one of the mother's most ordinary tasks. No little one should dread the bedtime hour, nor fear the dark, nor be allowed to go to rest under a sense of disgrace or alienation from household love. Whatever the child's day time naughtiness may have been, at nightfall he should be forgiven, and go to rest with the mother's kiss on his lips and her tender voice in his ears.

Hardly anything can be worse for a young child than to be scolded or punished at bedtime. The mother does \^11 to be a little blind to some things, remembering that a good deal of childish culpability is superficial only, and washes off almost as easily as does the dirt which the evening bath removes from the skin.

The main thing with children is to have them well started with good principles, which they will carry through life. Obedience, truth, unselfishness, purity, are essentials, and these can all be lovingly cultivated, and will flourish in the right home atmosphere.

When the nursery brood is undressed and in bed, the lights turned low, the room quiet for the night, the mother, or nurse, or elder sister, or the kind auntie, who is still to be found in some^ rtunate houses, should have a little fund\if stories on which to draw for the small listeners' pleasure before they embark on the train for dreamland.

Fairy stories are always enjoyed by children, and the literature of fairyland is not far to seek. Imagination is very active in little children, and occasionally one meets a mother who does not understand the child's world, having forgotten her own early days and their illusions, or who is afraid that fancy and its imageries will lead her child into deceit. While the most exact and rigid truthfulness should be practiced in our dealings with children, and they themselves should be taught to shun equivocation and every form of lying, still we need not fear to let imagination give them pleasure.

They early learn to discriminate between the false and the true—or perhaps it would be better to say that they learn to find the truth wrapped up in the husk of the story. Our fairy lore is older than civilization. The same stories, with variations, have in all ages and climes been taught and told to children, and they have their origin in the needs and the heart of the race. Children thrive on fairy stories, and are the better able to grasp other literature if early fed on these.

There is every indication that women are growing stronger physically and mentally under modern conditions. College athletics, the bicycle, physical culture, club lectures—all have had their part in accomplishing this result.

The "woman wage earner, whether in factory, store, oflice or school room, can not spare time for sickness, and undersanitary conditions her regular employment is a prime factor in keeping her well.

But after all women's progress toward a stronger body is due largelV to increased attention to healthful surroundings and better food.

The study of home sanitation and application of its laws remove the causes, and thus scatter the headaches and malaria which once wasted the time and strength of so many women.

The introduction of cooking schools is leading to more thorough study of the composition of foods, aud the part each has to play in building the human body. Women are no longer proud ^f a dainty appetite. The woman of to-day realizes that her personal appearance, .her bodily endurance and her mental grasp are all dependent upon the food she eats, and she governs herself accordingly.

"GOOD-BY, LITTLE BOY, COOD-BY."

Good-by, little boy, good-by, I never had thought of this. That some day I'd vainly sigh

For the baby I used to kiss. That Into his corner a man would grow, And I should not miss him nor see him go, Till all of a sudden the scales would fall, And one be revealed to me straight and tall. Then I should be startled and sadly cry: "Good-by, little boy, good-by!"

Good-by, little boy, good-by, You are going despite my tears. You can not, and neither can I,

Successfully cope with the years. They fit for the b'Vjden that all must bear. Then, at their •, ./asure. they place It there. I love you, too, but my heart Is sore For the child who has gone to return no more, And deep In my bosom I sadly cry: "Good-by, little boy, good-by!"

LITERARY NOTES.

If Anthony Hope had written nothing but "Phroso," he would have done enough to have rendered himself famous. As a critic of great reputation has well said of it, "It is a story wherein the elements of the real and the fantastic are so adroitly mixed that, According as it falls into the hands of the young or of the middle aged, it will be perused with breathless interest as a truthful record of adventure, or with the smile of gratification which rewards a happy feat of skill. We care not how sated and cynical a man may have become, we defy him to lay 'Phroeo' down if he once takes it up he will finish it at a sitting and count a night's rest well lost. Viewed merely as an example of intricate yet methodical construction, 'Phroso' deserves high commendation,' while, as regards invention, it contains enough to furnish forth a dosen novels of the ordinary type." fifty illustrations,

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Anthony Hope is just finishing a sequel to "The Prisoner of Zenda." It is a novel Of the same high, romantic kind as "The Prisoner of Zenda" itself, bearing the title of "The Constable of Zenda," and carries the attractive personages of the earlier story through a new series of strange and moving incidents. The exclusive right of serial publication in America has been secured by McClurefs Magazine, and the publication of it will begin in that magazine in the course of a law months.

Although now nearly a year gone by, the coronation of the Czar and Czarina of jflrassia possesses a new interest in the entertaining description of that event by Richard Harding Davis, in Harper's for February. Other special features of that ttumber are "Lincoln's Home Life in Washington," "The Awakening of a Nation," a,n interesting description of Mexico and her people, the first of a series of articles by Charles F. Lximmis, and "The President of the Orange Free State," by Poultney Bigelow. The short stories possess more than ordinary interest, and consist of "A Passage at Arms," a story of an encounter between a woman art student and an Italian bandit, by John J. a'Becket "The Stout Miss Hopkins's Bjpycle," by Octave Thanet, illustrated by C. S. Reinhart "The Assembly Ball," a colonial romance, by Sara Beaumont Kennedy, illustrated by Howard Pyle and "Princess I-Would-I-Wot-Not," a modern love-story, by Margaret Sutton Briscoe. "Architecture and Modern Life," by Thomas Hastings, is a plea for frank and spontaneous expression of the genius of our generation. The "Editor's Study" discusses the celebration of the incorporation of Princeton as a university and the "Editor's Drawer" is introduced with "Jane, a Domestic Episode," by John Kendrick Bangs, illustrated by A. B. Frost.

The second instalment of Richard Harding Davis's "Soldiers of Fortune," in Scribner's for February, introduces a lot of interesting characters, and shows the president of the little Republic and the curious circle that surrounds him. The picture of life in a small South American it&l isgraphic and amusing., There is itSTactiofi in thlS^ tale than In any previous story by Mr. Davis. It is full of dramatic surprises. The second paper on "Great Businesses," "A Great Hotel," by Jesse Lynch Williams, shows the intricate organization, the many checks and balances and economies, the advertising and executive ability, that go to the making of the peculiarly American development—.tte great hotel. The most novel thing i»xhe number, however, is the appearance of C. D. Gibson as the writer of the notes which accompany his first series of sketches portraying "London as Seen by C. D. Gibson." As a writer he sees things with that fresh eye for what is significant and picturesque in character that marks his drawings. His drawings (made during his residence in London) are studies from real people, and suggest entirely new types. There are short jtories by Robert W. Chambers, C. Grant La Farge, and W. H. Shelton, the usual art features, departments and poems, all uniting to make a more than ordinarily interesting number.

That Polite Member.

The leg, wh'^h has long been tabooed as a thing not to be mentioned to ears polite in genteel circles, is now no longer alluded to as "a limb." Thanks to the bicycle, the leg is to the fore and now takes' its place as first on the anatomical list. The bicycle has destroyed a good deal of the poetry and romance, the glamour and mystery that has hitherto invested the leg with charms of its own wo have all suddenly awakened to the fact that legs are not confined to man, and there are now connoisseurs in legs just as there are in art. A professor of leg, culture is no longer deceived by a padded calf. Once mounted on a bicycle, every leg has to run the gauntlet of criticism, as it were, and be voted a thing of beauty or a misfit. The bringing up of the leg to the highest point of muscle and beauty is one of the great results of bicycle riding. A crooked spine and a humped, round shoulder is the price to be paid for an up-to-date pair of legs which are, however, not always "out of sight." In view of the painful thinness of some and the disposition to remain bowed in others, leg culture "is not all beer and skittles."

The Shlrt-Walst Remains In Favor. Emma M. Hooper describes "Fabrics, Colon and Gowns" for spring in the February Ladies' Home Journal, and of shirt-waists says: "The comfortable cotUj waist will be in vogue more than ever, and will not be confined to percales, cheviots, ginghams and such substantial goods, but dainty dimity and flowersprinkled organdy, as well as silk gingham, will be called into requisition."

Licensed to Wed.

Wm. T. Larison and Effie Gess. Chas. M. Smock and Annie E. Ward. Wm. R. Smith and Ltxzie Smith. Pearl 8bew and Grace Hearn. Geo. Sttckaen and Katharine Kllnet. Richard L. Drake and Minnie A. Hunt/ Charlie Parish and Maud Garderwlne.* Geo. A. Taylor and Halite M. Carter. John R. Lukea and Florence M. Bidainan. Geo. Lee and Laella Corbett

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TERRE HAUTE, END., SATURDAY WEEING, FEBRUARY 6, 1897. TWENTY-SEVENTH YEAR.

dSxteen of them full-page, have been made this by Henry B. Wechsler, and it is a "beautiful specimen of bookmaking. Mr. Wechsler spent several months on the Illustrations, working from the model and a collection of Greek costumes and firearms. For sale by the Book Department of the Havens & Geddes Co.

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PEOPLE AND THINGS.

A Virginia woman, Susan Smith, has been made a deputy sheriff. It is said sheriff's sales in Virginia will now be run on the bargain counter principle.

Yvette Guilbert and Anna Held can earn more money by indecent than by decent songs. The abdominal wriggle of Otero, Omene and Fougere gives them good incomes. It is the public that makes immodesty prosperous. Our grand dames last year entertained Yvette Guilbert at luncheon and applauded with enthusiasm her wickedest songs, and it is to be remembered that when they could not see her sensual dance in a vaudeville house our fashionable ladies invited Carmencita to an artist's studio.

Grand opera stars receive ten times the salary earned by actors. The best of our players is glad to earn $300 or, at most, $500 a week. Mme. Calve receives $1,500 a night and Jean De Reszke generally takes $2,500 as his share of a single performance. The other evening Melba sang only ten minutes, so she earned $150 for each minute of actual work. The president of the United States works a year for $50,000, during which period he directs the political affairs of *70,000,000 people. Melba's income for seven months last year amounted to $380,000. Yet she began her musical career singing at penny readings in Australia for a compensation of 62 cents, or two and six pence a night. Col. Mapleson says that he used to employ Jean De Reszke for $50 a week. At present the tenor's income is $9,000 a week, or at the rate of $400,000 a year.

A LITTLE CRAVE.

Dark are the mounds where tho snow-blast is sweeping, Wild is the cry of the wind on its flight. Oold Is the drift that the north wind is heaping

Over the nursling alone in the night!

Alone In the night and the dark, that went creeping Out of her arms but a daybreak ago! Anguished with sorrow, her watch she Is keeping,

Far would she follow through storm and through snow.

Nay, tender mother, have done with your weeping, Not In the night and the dark has he parti His all of bright heaven save when ho Is sleeping

And dreaming of heaven, warm, warm in your heart! —Harper's Bazar.

That the most fatal kind of heart failure is the kind people don't die of. That women have such queer ideas about literature because they think in dialect.

That when a good man dies, the man who takes his place has a mighty hard time of it.

That kissing girls under the mistletoe isn't out of date unless there are other people around.

That love is like absinthe—it's nice to sip, but if you drink too much of it it makes you sick.

That no man who likes to listen to his little child when she says her prayers can be wholly irreligious.

That a woman imagines that other women treat her cool unless they kiss her every time they meet.

That there is an instance in Terre Haute where the woman goes out and has the time and the man is "true."

That most men turn over a new leaf as though they expected to find a green caterpillar on the under side.

That a man never puts as much solemnity into his vow at the marriage altar as into his oath when assuming office.

That a man can make a resolution to be strictly truthful and stand some show of keeping it so long as he meets no women.

That the people who have inventive genius should try and invent a sugar bowl so small that housekeepers can keep it filled.

That when some one tells of the generous donations a man makes to a church, the women present murmur, "How good he must be!" and the men say, "What an idiot!"

Philosophy for the Feet. Never wear a shoe that will not allow the great toe to lie in a straight line.

Never wear a shoe with a sole narrower than the outline of the foot, traced with a pencil close under the rounding edge.

Never wear a shoe that pinches the heel. Never wear a shoe or boot so large in the heel that the foot is not kept in place.

Never wear a shoe or boot tight anywhere. Never wear a shoe or boot that has, depressions in any part of the sole to drop any joint or bearing below the level plane.

Never wear a shoe with a sole turning up very much at the toes, as this causes the cords on the upper part of the foot to contract.

Never wear a shoe that presses up into the hollow of the foot. Never have the top of the boots tight, as it interferes with the action of the calf muscles, makes one walk badly and spoils the shape of the ankle.

Never come from high heels to low heels at one jump. Never wear (me pair of shoes all the time, unless obliged to do so. Two pairs of boots worn a day at a time alternately give more service and are more healthful.

Never wear leather sole linings to stand

upon white cotton drilling or linen is much better and more healthful. Never wear a short stocking, or one which alter being washed is not, at least, one-half inch longer than the foot. Bear in mind that stockings shrink: be sure that they will allow your toes to spread out at the extreme ends, as this keeps the joints in place and makes a strong and attractive foot. As to shape of stockings, the single digital or "one-toe stocking," is the best.

Never think that, the foot will grow large from wearing proper shoes pinching aud distorting makes them grow not only large, but unsightly. A proper natural use of all the muscles makes them compact aud attractive.

AT THE CAS OFFICE.

The Man Wlio Had a (Jloat ("onilnn ta lliiu nt the Olllce ol' Soulless Corporation.

This is the week in the month wlien every man in Terre Haute who uses gas makes an oath that he will have his gas shut off and put in electric lights. 'Cause why, this is^the week that the gas bills come in, and whether.or not you have bsen sparing in the use of the gas, and have practiced the strictest, economy, the meter, like George Washington, can never t.'ll a lie, and shows that you have used more than usual. Every man who has passed through that can appreciate the happy frame of mind of the Washington man who walked into the gas ofiice to. gloat over the company:

There was a look of joy about his face as he went into the gas office that made the man behind the counter glad in his soul. It was so different from the expression which visitors ordinarily wore. He walked to one window and then to another and Btood around and smiled. "Can we do anything for you f" the clerk inquired. "Nope. Go right ahead with your business. Don't mind me." "If you came to get warm/' the clerk suggested, "the heater is over on that side of the room." "I didn't come to get warm. There's a genial glow through me that makes external heat entirely unneccessary. I had a few spare minutes and I came here to gloat." "Over whom was the surprised query. "Over the company." "I—I must say I don't quite understand you." "I suppose I'd better explain it. It's too __ jSl ment out of If that ybu*llr 6Ave tb excuse me if I tell it slow, so as to make it last longer. You people are very particular about your meters." "Of course. We have to be." "You've got it down so you can measure the extra pressure that occurs all through the city if one of the workmen happens to cough in your gas factory." "We haven't got it quite so close as that, but we've done our best to protect our interests." "Well, I had occasion to have a sanitary plumber in my house yesterday. He's the man that made the discovery. He informed me that there was a whole lot of sewer gas in my house that you never discovered. You didn't have any arrangements for measuring it in the meter, and it got clear past you. I'm not naturally vindictive, but I couldn't resist the temptation to come around and tell you about it and make you feel bad."

THE MAIL WOULD LIKE TO KNOW

Who is to be postmaster under the new regime. What has become of the project to erect a Masonic Temple at Eighth and Main streets.

If Terre Haute will be compelled to go through aoother winter without a firstclass theater.

Why it is, as the days grow longer, and the nights correspondingly shorter, the gas bills grow larger.

If that swell "Charity Ball" for the benefit of the Union Home for Invalids will materialize this year.

Why the man who takes the state of your gas meter carries a lantern when he doesn't have to see the meter to fix up your gas bill.

How many have heard of the petition that went over to Governor Mount a few weeks ago, signed by more than twothirds of the members of the Republican county committee residing in the city, asking the governor to remove the present police board, and appoint an entirely new board.

Know the "Hmall Graces" of Life. Young men should not get the idea that to know the "small graces of life" is useleas or frivolous, writes Edward W. Bok in the Ladies' Home Journal. What we call the "social graces" are very valuable to a young man. That is the great trouble with young fellows who are earnest they are too earnest, and upon all occasions. They can have a high aim in life, a lofty purpose, and yet not close themselves up to all social pleasures or amenities. Girls feel uncomfortable, and pardonably so, when they go to a concert or any other form of entertainment with a young man who constantly makes mistakes in little things. The small rules and laws which most be observed on all social occasions are not to be frowned down: they are Important, and a young fellow makes a great mistake when he considers them beneath him or unworthy of his attention.