St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-19
SUNDAY CHATTER.

SUNDAY CHATTER.
JOE Cook, the theological expert Of the
Hub Of thought, culture and ethereal inscru-
tables miscellaneously, lectured in st. Paul
not long since, and INDUCED in some pessi-
mistic representations about the public
school system, based upon sectarian grounds
These. however. are part Of his professional
outfit and attract no special attention. HIS
premises are largely assumptions In an
other lecture in his collection, which he has
delivered In Canada, as that has been q
refuge for many things not adapted to the
United States atmosphere he Is reported to
have said that there is no paper published In
America that Jesuit is not connected with.
There is a man down In Illinois who claims
to be the Christ and to be on the earth for
the second time, but he does not exhibit the
omniscience of JOSEPH Cook. Whether the
sectarian class referred to are the most use
full In the newspaper calling or not, Is not
considered, but as q matter of fact it Is posi-
BILE that the Boston divine separates himself
SO far from current verities as to throw dis
trust even upon his infallibility as spiritual
illuminant
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SOLOMON, in his noted erotic songs, speaks
Of sleep as peculiarly grateful bestowment
upon the object Of affection. Nature has
always insisted that it must have stated
and sufficient time for restoring the waste
and repairing the impairment Of the human
machinery II 1t is to run smoothly and not
break down prematurely. Some recent in
quiry of GLADSTONE. as to the means that
have enabled him to retain his great mental
and physical vigor so far beyond tho average
Of men in active and public life, ELECTED the
statement that he always had good sleep
not less than seven hours every night. He
secured this by temperate and regular habits,
and Diminishing from his mind every thought
of business or politics, hoy1ver exciting
they might be. He said JONI BRIGHT would
have been living yet had he followed this
practice, but he thought out his speeches and
business in beo. A man who has not lost a
day from i'll health in twenty five years says
his p-actice has invariably been to put Office
and shop out Of mind at home, and always
think of pleasant cheerful things when re-
firing. SANcHO PANzA, too, is good authority
on sleep,
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That the world grows better is both pleas
ant and easy to believe. Rev. DR.. LORD, who
was for nearly third of a century the presi-
dent Of one of the New England colleges,
and is recalled by st. Paul residents as among
the most eminent educators and theologians
of his time, was strenuous incubator Of
the theory that the world had been degen-
Grating for 1000 years, and was not far from
the final collapse. But it moves on about as
smoothly as ever, and the signs of final
catastrophe are not half as portentous az
they were few decades ago, when wars were
numerous in the old lands and the big storm
clouds were bursting on this side. There is
fair promise that there will be found good
ness enough in the race for many years yet to
save it from destruction. 1t is misfortune
for person to look upon the dark side Of
things and imagine that society and the
world are growing worse. The good old
times when everything was done right, and
honesty, integrity, and oil that sweetens life
were tenants under every roof, was always
long way back. No one ever lived quite SO
far back.
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Modern sanitation, and the more humane
disposition prevalent in regard to the protec
ton Of the human animal, have cut off some
of the checks to over-population in the past.
The duration of the average life is being
greatly extended, and plaques and pestilence
do not have much chance. Wars are not nu-
.merous and protracted. 1t seems to be an es-
lowing the injunction to the anc1ents, partic-
eularly, to increase and multiply. more sedu-
lousy and with larger results than ever be-
!; fore. In England the question is being raised
,aSAo what shall be done with the growing
population. The Pail Mall Gazette says that
lin twenty years s,Oa0,OOO will be added to
.lthe numbers OF the crowded islands, and
tasks what is to be done with them. At the
present ratio of increase it will not require
very long to populate the world in an uncOm-
Portable way. This country, however, will
ahave room enough for several generations
yet, but it has limitations, and there are no
new worlds to discover.
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3 The centennial has brought up the faces of
the last century, and made specially conspic-
uous the change in the way the facial depart
tment is arranged. The hair was then kept
on the head, and not on the face. A good
deal was worn on the head. aud no shaving
of the back and top, to give the baboonish
aspect that the young man SO often affects in
these times, was INDUCED in. An observer
recently noted the change since the war in
regard to the mustache. He had the curl
osity to count the faces he met in walk on
the streets of the city. Out Of the first 100
he met "a had the mustache, not counting
those who do not use the razor at ALL In
the country it is more common to find
smooth faces. In cities the society young
man is more tenderly solicitous of his
moustache than of his girl. Before the war
it was regarded as the sign Of dandy, the
antecedent Of the dude. But it gave an air
of fierceness to the soldier. and now there is
no development that Is more eagerly looked
for or generously Iertilized. But heavy
mustache and the back and top of the head
shaxep would have made WASHINGTON laugh.