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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-14
WOMEN.S WAGES.
Some of the Weak Spots In Our Boosted
American Civilization.

| American Civilization.
| There is something wrong about that
| civilization which compels a woman to
work sixteen hours per day for six days
in week in orderto earn $3.50. Un-
fortunately there are women in the
large cities who have to work in this
way. 1t is hard for people who have
the means of supplying their daily
wants to realize that any of their fell
low-beings are doomed to II life of dark
ness and grinding poverty such as
these women endure. -.
That women are in many cases un-
derpaid for their services as seamstresses
and as saleswomen in stores is UNI
qucstionably true. Hard-hearted rs a
stone and cruel as a serpent is the man
who will cxtort profit from the pow
erty of the women who work for him.
But 10 would be folly to seek the cause
of this evil in nothing but the fiinty-
heartedness of employers. The trouble
is due, not to the form Of Government,
nor to the organization of society, but
to the civilization which drives women
by the score into certain employment
and keeps them out of others.
When dry-goods merchant may
take his choice from among TWEEN
ty applications for work at six dollars
per week it is not to be expected that
he will insist upon paying ten dollars.
The number of competitors in certain
lines of work reduce the wages. Wo-
men will work for starvation wages in
store or at sewing rather than secure
a comfortable living by doing house
work.
There is something wrong about the
civilization which teaches woman
that it is more honorable TO sew six
teen hours day for starvation wages
than it Is to secure comfortable liv-
ing in domestic service. There are I'M
doubleday hundreds of women and
girls working in stores or as seam
stresses who have not one whit more
refinement. and are not in any respect
better educated than girls who are EN-
u1oycd rs servants In households. But
the former hold themselves far above
the latter. The civilization is wrong
which teaches young girls and women
to make distinction of this kind.
1t IL also wrong civilization which
teaches young women, whose parents
are well able to provide for them and
who are surrounded by the comforts of
home life, that they are in duty bound
to 90 out into the world and compete
with their less fortunate sisters in the
struggle for living. Home life and
home work constitute the proper sphere
for every woman, and it is false phi
losophy which teaches anything else.
The woman. whether married or I'M
married, who can not live at home and
find employment in home work is un.
fortunate. But the unhappy condition
of these unfortunates is rendered all
the more unhappy by the competition
Of girls who, although they have com
Portable homes, will, for the sake of
earning a pittance of pin money, seek
employment rs "salesladies, y or clerks,
or seamstresses. - encer Tribune.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-14
The LOVE LETTER.


seqaentiy Not lie Ridiculed.
History is hazy concerning the writ
Ing Of tho first love letter; but mas
much rs love was included in the orig
inal outfit OF the human family II
must have been talked In Eden, and
ipasmnch Us writing is merely talking
Mt long range. 1t follows--the conclu-
sion we submits inevitable that love
letters passed between the first pair of
lovers who happened toa be separated
after the invention Of writing. Madam
and Eve had known how to write and
had known how much pleasure they
could find In the new sensation, we
have no doubt they would have parted
from each other a few days just to In
duige in epistolary communication
True, there was no general post-oflice.
no fast mail, no carrier system. no
green stamps in their time, but they
might have left their letters. ms mil
lions of their descendants have done.
In a hollow tree--an apple tree. for in
stance--or under some loose stone on
the top of the garden wall. Since love
letters are written by every one who
can write at all. or has some congenial
second self to write for them. why
should their publication in
courts Of law or in the
newspapers send smoker across the
continent Why do people old and
young, and OF all sorts and conditions,
rush in crowds to the courts and al
most travel over each others heads to
hear love letters read and then 90
home and laugh at them rs If they had
found something unique in the way of
funP Why do grave men and sober
women skip all the sensible reading in
newspaper II It happens to contain a
love letter. and. having read that
laugh at it as IL it was the latest and
best OF Gilbert's operate jokose Ten
TO one IL ali the old trunks in all the
old garrots were called to give up their
treasures they would convict these
grave mon of just such Stiffness" II
they please to call 1t so, as that
which eScites their risibles No man
or woman WAS ever thoroughly in love
and not to have been there. we are
Informed. is to have missed some hap
pines. at least--who didn't say and
do silly things. Why, then. doc.
every body feel such an irresistible in
clinatson to poke fun at the manuscript
love making Of an unfortunate whose
letters get into the courts and papers'
Why ridicue an universal traitp-
Farm and fireside
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-14

II
""re OF making your moral
s'ap'e consist of the negative yirlpas
II IS good to abstain. and teach 9th.
els TO abstain, from all that l.
sinful or hurtful. But maxine a bns;
Ness OF It leads to emaciation of char
ncter' unless one feeds largely also on
,ne more nutritious diet of active, sym.
Holmes. =" '"1e"
Don be afraid to let your children
see your love for them. Letach;lJ
'eei that no matter where he ooos ~
what he does, no matter wbstbo,
trends forsake or foes SANDER him III
p"ren.s love md trust will ALWAYS fol.
low him. and that child il not ~.
SAFE Tor all time, but the THOUGHT Of tb;s
ioVe Will shine out like A lomn - :
uark place cheering and strengthen.
ing against all odds 'nen-
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-14
JOHN SURRENDERED.
A Gentle Hint Dropped at the Right
Time Leads to Happy Results
How funny some people are," she

Gentle Hint Dropped at the Right
Time Leads to Happy Results.
How funny some people are," she
said.
Funny"
YES, some people who are going to
be married"
"O!"
"les. some want to be married in a
balloon, some on the middle arch of a
bridge, some in boat some in rail :
road train, some on horseback, some
on the edge of precipice, some down
in u coal-mine--"
Yes, ! have noticed il"
what is their object. wonder?'
Marriage. of course;"
But mean their object in getting
married out of the usual way"
We'll. I'll tell YOU what think
They get married in this way so that
they can tell their children and their
grandchildren they were married UNI
der peculiar circumstances, as, for in
stance, your mother and me, chill
dren, We're married in coal mine, or.
your grandmother and me, children,
were married in balloon"
Perhaps it is the reason" said the
maiden.
"Of course that is the reason"
There was apause. Then the maiden,
with glowing cheek, said:
1--WE hecn thinking. John"
"fesP" he said, interrogativcly.
ave been thinking how funny il
would be-" Ga pause, and Il deeper
blush).
We'll, Bella, you've been thinking
what?' .t
i've been thinking how funny il
would be if"
"Yes"
If when the subject of marriage
ONES mp thirty or forty years hence
you could point.to me and say: WHY,
children, your grandmother proposed
to me in leap year and we were mar.
ried few weeks later"
John is very usy these DAYS furnish
NO a nice little cottage. and Bella is
experimenting he making of her wed.
ding-dress. -Aescdrk Jo1.yndL.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-14

American enterprise is felt at Her.
nosand, Sweden. which has just beer
provided with the most northerr
electric light station in the world. The
lamps there are lighted at half pas,
two o clock in the afternoon, and pu,
out at fifteen minutes past twelve
o'clock. midnight.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-14

Mrs. Charlotte Simonton. of New
Richmond. Wis. has reached the full
term of one hundred years. Her only
care is that her young son-he was
eighty-one last birthday-may learn
to smoke, like all the other bad boss,
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-14

IL he Rothsehilds are said to be en-.
gagged in an effort to control the di,.
mona products of the world. Tho
h"'hschlIds are powerful family. but
"hen they deliberately rush into com
petitIve fight with our native hotel
, ',,> 'ueir name is no longer Roths.
emit but Dennis. Front! Show Mr.
R9thschild to No. 4,l49. twelfth story
rear'-Btngaantton Republican,.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-14

"A young man of Brunswick, Ga,
went duck hunting. and while at least
mile away from the city fired at a
duck with u breech-loading rifle. The
ball came to the city aud went through
the door of a residence on Newcastle
street just missing child's head N.
Y. Sam
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-14
At a June Picnic.

He with u bunch of wild flowers in
his hands All, my dear Miss Sereand.
yellow. what kind of posies will you
choosee
She lin a perfect twitter)-O, Mr..
Smith! 0, tie, he; tie, he; will choose
PROPOSES.
Mr.. Smith sinks into the EARTH
Washington Critic.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-14
flslilAn VIM

A xs,,.,
Aa.sa,ar. i NJ
81. ! made a journey !. :, ~
iive miles frea M, = III
s Is haa !, to VIM
night. said 10 be ! u, S' 20
s = r'0 = and ., duh ss.siss
active. The river were i
bran branches RAINING s ss,''s
but in ilood-time i " s''yt
space Of 200 yards :, s''''a
between high bluds : rss
ms ms bird !l, was waiting d, !"
ped OF the river, with ii II
burning brightly. Tss y .e'a
eorax ,sp.) was verr y, ~
perched on a rock e / ~
was tied pretty tigb,,,
lower part Of the th 1e
the shoulders, from wbis,
a piece Of bamboo (ha ,Sa =
each end), long enough |.
yond the birds wiues
foaling of the cord, Viii,
in the water.
Every thing being re,,,
man takes the torch II Y.
AMI clasping the cord y
bird is attached, wade, I
stream, the bird folIoxi,'s 1
after performing a hasts NJ
his head and neck in ,bs l
preening himself, begin, 4
of the night The fisher.
torch directly in front M /
birds head 50 that it en-, M
the clear water. The bird,
perfectly fearless, and !. I
sparks of fire are con,,,c,l, /
his head and back. Thss.s.]
up stream, the maa sudle,3
could do to keep pace with n
the water surgesup nearly Nj
in fact, it was hard work 4, I
to scramble along amonr n
the uncertain light anil MI
ut the Same time. TIN 4.
swims under water for NJ
yards. comes up and il Il,
working very rapidly and !
taking fish. When the d,ar,
he bird is allowed 10 ~.
three in his throat at a Tin.
sized fish is immediatelr i
him and put into the basss
During a space Of half an
fishes were taken, whlcb
nounced a COOL catch conf
brightness of the night I,
of these fishes, which wsr
same species. were nine ID
in length, and having bea
metliately from the besk j
were scarcely bruised. Thsl
best Of thess we had the ne,
for breakfast. the Others We,
friend, the eormorant, who,
assisted by his master to q.
the cord which constricted
SO that he could not oths
swallowed. --Anericas Nau
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-14
Elder Willis Warre

- Elder Willis Warren, a noted
colored Baptist preacher of Georgia. is
remarkable man. He is very large,
lat, jolly and bald. He can not read or
WRITE but he has gained complete
authority over thousands of his people
IN Lee, Dougherty and Baker Counties.
Each OF his followers is assessed one dol
lar Year, which is religiously paid, and
Papa Willis income is very LARGE.
de owns large plantation, which is
worked by members of his congrera-
uon In turn without any expense to
NM He drives into Albany, Ga,
where he has recently built a large
church seated in a handsome carriage
behind housekeeping black horse
II Is sand that he uses his great power
win ms congregation for good and
that his advice to them is excellent.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-14

-Mamma-"Who dwelt in the Gar
den of Eden. FreddieP" Freddie-'O
/ known, the Adamsesv' - Harparf
LampeoA
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-14

-Fourreen clocks keep the time at
he State-house in Augusta. Me, all
eight-day. Two of the clocks are over
forty years of age.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-14

The woman who shows her love
of admiration has not been spoiled by
hatlery. O.ly the spoiled girls take
it as matter If course. -PhiiadcI hid
CdA
The man who borrows one dollar
from you and neglec 5 to return it is
often thought 10 have a poor memory,
when. in fact. the man is poor. and
not tho mcmure.
There once was a lover named BDgS
With voice like taat OF u trogg
Meath her window he'd ling
Er of ev'ntags and sing
Till his trousers were ehawed by the dogg
"A. T. Star
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-14
A GROWING EVIL.


strong Physical Constitutions.
DR.. William A. Hammond read a
paper on Brain Forcing in the Educa-
ton of Children" recently. before $50
members and guests of the Nineteenth
Century Club. He told of little girl
brought to him one day afflicted with
st. Vitus dance. She had been to
school and in her book-bag she had an
English grammar, an arithmetic, n
geography, u history of the United
States, an astronomy, temperance
physiology and hygiene, a French
grammar, French reader and treat
Use on general science. These sub
jects she was expected to master at
home in six aud half hours, If she
gave the needed time To sleep, to eat
ing. to dressing aud recreation. Con-
tinuing he said:
She had learned all these things, but
she was spending her brain capital, not
her brain income. Intellectual bank
ruptcy was staring her in the face. We
are living too much under the reign of
the schoolmaster. The brain of child
ut seven years is larger in proportion
to its body than is the brain Of an adult
for after that age the brain does not
increase in size. Children in their first
ten years ought to learn solely through
the ordinary use of their senses. If a
child doesn't look at book until he is
ten years old he will learn to read
quicker than child who studied his
letters at three. Laws prevent physi-
cal overtaxation of children; why not
their intellectual ovettaxation? Mem
DRY is not knowledge. Because chill
dren recite we'll does not mean that
they understand. They recite by rote
So do parrots. Such cultivation of
memory weakens the brain powers
How much better it would be if we had
more objective teaching. What idea
can child get from DR.. Johnson 5
definition of network "a reticulated
structure with interstices between the
interSections'p There is too much
examining in the schools in spite of all
the teaching against it. confess too
strong sympathy with the intelligent
truant Wemust remcmher that man S
brain differs vastly from woman brain.
They ought not to have the same kind
Of education until they have the same
Kind of brain and the same kind of
nervous systems. ". Y, Tribune.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-14

On a recent cruise of the United
States man-of-war Michigan, a sailor,
who Is Chicago man, attempted to
throw an exhausted quid of tobacco
over the rail into the water. His aim
was bad, and the quid fell on the deck.
An officer observed il. He would not
allow the sailor to touch it. but order
ed the entire crew to rig up gun
tackle. The gun tackle is hawser
three and n half inches thick and
weighs $500 pounds. Being seldom if
ever used, it was slowed away in the
hold and covered up. To get it on
deck and ZIG it up is long. hard task.
But the gun tackle was rugged up and
the commanding officer attached TO il
silk thread. He made loop in the
thread, lassoed the quid of tobacco.
made it fast all hands gave along pull
and strong pull, and the qud of to-
bacco was hoisted overheard. Then
the gun tackle was taken down and
slowed away in the hold. 1t required
eleven hours of hard work to Get the
tobacco overheard, and it is the opin-
ion OF the commanding officer that no
more guilds of tobacco will be thrown
on the deck of the Michigan for some
time to come -.hi'aUaltkee Wisconsin
1t is a most hopeful sign of the
times, when, as we are assurel
learned professors in German Universe.
ties urge young men to the utmost MIR.
ity OF life in order that they NAV have
the highest possible amount of br,in
power.
Faith without repentance is no
iaith' but presumption; like a shin Ali
sail and no ballast, that tippeth over
with every blast And repentance
without faith is ncs repentance. but
despair like ship all ballast and ma
SAIL which sinketh of her own WEIGH.
-Sanderson
we need to watch our tendencies
!hey may be leading us in RIGHT direc.
uons' but also in wrong ones, and we
should therefore be careful to know
whittier we are moving. Are wa
craving nearer God and DWELLING in
Inc love with which he surrounds usp-
United Presbyterian
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-14
INSANE PATlEHTs|
IN Interesting Chat With an "
Asylum Nurse

IN interesting Shat With an "
Asylum Nurse
The treatment of patients 4
sane a 'yium Is radically did
the mental pictures that att
the families of those who hmI
unfortunate rs to REQUIRE 70
Afler the first few DAYS III
overcomes the horror that lid
attaches to mad houses tA
his wandering intellect thsr
CLEAN of light that makes blu
ed with his rroundings nd
comes tractable. aud the
and trained attendants ca
grasp his case. exposing thsH
points of his character, whlca
to control the patient IN y
moments. OF course. whsn
women are seized bya parula
citing them to destruction
selves or to damage property
only one alternatiye-lhsl
rendered helpless, so tha
violent moods they can das
Patients become very muea
to special nurses, and tbs
fostered by the physicians ~
an awakening of the menll
and renders the insane persons
ceptible. You would be sT
see n slender little Sister Of Y
St. Vincent's Asylum enlr
of a patient who had tornh
into shreds. smashed the fcs
furniture in his room and U
male attendants like an
beast. 1t was my first eiF
the kind, and | expected to ~
little thing torn to pieces y
man. | WAS deceived. "
seemed to exercise speli0M]
strapping fellow, who welesI
two hundred pounds and sps
in his stockings. She spoke
way that Il mother wonld ado'1
child, told him he was 'e9
that he wasn't doing rlg'A
until he was ready to ben'"
she would have to punish mD \
ting on the Jacket" and 'a ~
of the worst devices in an 'nD
lum. That man could have ~
brave little woman to a F%,
making an EFFORT, bu: ne pss y.
over the scolding and suoA \,
man. priest. doctor or a',en''a
have approached him, ana l !,
ter could have controlled llN
singular attachments L'us' III,
meric origin.-St. LOU" W.
crdt.
= a
De fiuctuation OF ~ ~"
'stonishin'. IF yo' owe
annoddah man mus puty0 y
bit; wh'reas eff n dollah AN v. !.
yo', yo' min nebber neeu' :
Judge.
Meet difficulties with un Y
perseverance,. and they VIII !, \
at last; though you sho,llu -. =
struggle, You will be hv| s
shrink from the task w.
desi,ised. Church Lrt0a. :,
Tho real work OF Tue W"
by tie mechanics and the al y
are also mechanics in '''. :,
sphere. Politicians ana s VS.,
merely policemen. VIII SO II IN,
to keep order while the l,''
the farmers do the worA'
NdchiaiSt.
We are apt to thll'e .,ins
our own troubles, forse'' !,
are objects of affection y =,
at least, and that while We -,
ing over our own misii 4,
saddening the hearts anu s,a
tho lives of those who ueP0. :,
OF comfort.-E Ella Seianss
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-14

Think you
went ni'l
Charles
In Int
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the
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could !
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a success
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Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-09-14

Wearing !
called vi
he straisi
Ny senses
From shell
He took d
u-eeches
"srnallcio
Laced dou
II was q y"
But twas
They were
Twas onl
How very
And while
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Think you
I went ulll
Charles
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-11-20
Hugging Societies.

Hnggin2 societies have been in
,roduccd in Missouri. A paper gives
the following scale OF prices: Girls
under sixteen twenty-five cents for
each hug Of ono minute; from six
tecn to twenty years OF age, fifty
cents; from twenty to twenty FIVE.
sevsn,y,6ve cents; schoolma ans,
forty cents; widows according to
looks, from ten cents to two dollars;
old maids, three cents apiece or two
for a nickel, and not any limit Of
time. Ministers are not charged.
Editors pay in advertising, but arc not
allowed to participate until everybody
else gets through.-Porsland Co.,
Daily News.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-11-20
QUARTZ DUST CONSUMPTION.
THE Title Given a New Disease By a
Local Physician.

Virginia New ChronicIe.l
A local physician says the preva'
lence here of coughs, hoarseness and
ptlegm expectoration i, not produced
from taking cold, but from inhaling
f;ne PARTICLES of quartz dust with which
the air has been filed for several
months. Tl,sse particles are carried
into the lungs aud throat and cause
irritation, aud the frequent coughing
il the Intellectual effort Of nature to
rid the system Of the foreign parti-
cles.
Tho physician further stated that
constant inhsling OF this 6ne quartz
dust will produce symptoms almost
identical aud more speedily fatal than
hereditary consumption. He cited
the well.known fact that the fatality
among miners employed in the Crown
Point and Belcher is due to the upper
levels OF those mines being constantly
filled with quartz dust, which has
played havoc with the young men en-
ployed there during the past five
years.
The doctor referred to christened
the disease "quartz dust consunp'
ton" says the only remedy for !, is to
emiyrate to moistcr climates like Ore.
gon or Washington Territory or To-
cate sson sands that are salt from the
kiss OF the sea-" The preventive is tc
keep the stroots thoroughly wet down
and to cease ballasting them with
Quartz Pol.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1888-11-20
A Scrap OF Paper Saves Her Life.

1t was just an ordinary scrap Of wrap
ping paper, but 1t saved her life. She
was in the last stages of consumption,
told by physicians that she was incurable
and could live only Il short time; she
weighed less than 20 pounds. On a
piece Of wrapping paper she read of DR..
Kings New Discovery, and got Il sample
bottle; it helped her, she bought large
bottle, it helped her more, bought an
other and grew better fast, continued its
use and is now strong, healthy, rosy,
plump. weighing 140 pounds. For full
Ter particulars send stamp to ". II. Cole,
druggist, Fort Smith. Trial bottles of
this wonderful Discovery free at J. A.
Rupert's drug store.