The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-05-04
ISSUE LEADING HIM2a
A SYMPOSIUM ON A QUESTION OF THE DAY,
SOME CRITICISMS OF WARNER.

aaos1ng more than good journalism. Re
ane3 INTO the pages of book, Just az Qoot
WORK ls being done to-day descriptive o
gers. Stanley in Africa. KEENAN, in Siberia
carpenter in India. Kerr in Algiers, Lafca
dlo hearn in the West Indian islands. Gil
ger IN the frozen north-all American Jour
nalists. and who can Rainsay the brillianc
OF their work? For the home contingent
nteiiigent, audacious, vigorous, courageou
and ever on the alert, who shall saw the,
are not the makers Of history? Az, Of 70
mance2 For, as lola remarked to Flau
bert: We (litterateurs) all make use, i
our imaginative creations, of the investiRa
lions which journalism brings to bear OF
lea! facts and on the living actors Of th,
daily drama. The two march III step in tn
intellectual evolution of society, and tn,
same tool is in the hands of both workmel
during the same hour"
=, mr.. Warner seems to place little value OF
me tne newspaper e3 an educational factor
why his phrase newspaper-made per
SOM 1t might be profitable to himself
and 1t certainly would be interesting K
many, if Mr.. Warner would investigate hil
.,newspaper-made person. and hear what
that individual may have to say on the
SUBJECT OF his own intellectual advance.
ment. d. w.
JUST PLAIN YOUNG MAN.
To The INDEpENDENr: The so-called
wonderful advancement of young
women during the past few decades is
not matter of suoh great wonder, when
you come to think of it. There was such
vast room for improvement that the chief
made long ago. I take it that the progress
I've young lady of the period is not
IN the van of her progressive brother,
put that side by side they are MAX
ing their way forward, he not half leading,
nalt drAReing her, as formerly. Since time
began, young men have Eeen mae 90 f.
re MT by stern necessity: and never hay
ing been Considered hotaous, plants.
Early in life has he been thrown upon his
own resources, as it were, compelled 10 pad
Cle his own canoe. Unfortunately Tor was
it fortunately2) it has been differt Mt with
fl:ls. 1t is matter not open to dispute
that since Cain and Abel young men have
opportunities for ac4uirng polish and
ornamental schooling limited by the stern
struggle after hog and hominy for
mother, sisters, brothers and self. The
young man of to-day is industrious, honest,
fairly educated, and entirely competent to
prises Of his fathers. He is too worldly
though learned by rote, will Til a Iarder, Of 81
acquaintance with supercilious ethics mag
nifty bank account. Returning home
after hard days work in Office, store or
shop ne oraye ayes not disquisition on the
en Of Bso1m sss 'rGSasS
ness and precision by the adored Of his
heart, IN rigid cOmpOsure on a removed
pedestal, or wife rivaling Minerva in wis
dom and Mary Anderson in cold reserve.
Not much; he longs for the relaxation, rest
and nnInvnonk nj ia
blithesome spirit, the while gossipinR in
nocently and cheerily of ''sassiety'' and its
ways, pleasures past and to come, fashions,
tol6les and fancies; perchance he's mar
rled, ne would have his loving wife in pride
masticable steak, with oondiment Of CHEEKY
chatter of home and house and happiness:
then forgets he the worlds dull cares and
Tor the nonce he's happy and buoyant, and
on the morrow toll is lighter and life
is brighter. Excuse me, Miss Browning.
I've an engagement with Miss Gay Lark.
HARDY HEART.
BACHE1oR's VIEW.
10 The INDEPENDENTS: It seems to me that
Mr.. Charles Dudley Warner takes a verv
superficial view when he assumes that tho
marked tendency among women, young and
old, to form literary clubs aud disouss
Browning and other monstrosisies of litera-
ture indicates that the gentler sex ia ahead.
Of man, intellectually speaking. Women,
Not one in million can endure solitude.
They naturally seek the society of one
another, and how can the dear creatures
help it when they are so full of sympathy.
love and emotion? They do not come ia
rude contact with the world, and CON
sequently do not lose their finer qualities az
the young men do after a few,years' hard
battle with life. ! fancy the two sexes fare
very much alike at the start. At college the
boys are as chummy and confidential. "a
fond of one another's society, of studying
together, Of reading Shakespeare in clubs.
as are the girls in a seminary; but
s TneH 4bar shsy 60 Il. ont ; in the world
man becom0s hardened and loses all senti-
protected from the world, Keeps mn her
school girl ways far into womanhood. But
does the young man lose his fondnsss for
literature? Not bit of it, But he does
not seek out his fellow men and commune
With them over his Shakespeare and his
he pursues his reading in his
lonely bachelor quarters night and morn
ing, and no more thinks of calling atten.
ton to that fact than he does to his breath
ing. Who does not know score of Young
bachelors with we'll selected libraries Who
have been engaged all day in the cares of
night or early in the morning, propped up
in bad maybe-one of the most defirhtfnl
ways of reading in the world? Yet such
men do not belong to literary societies of
any sort. Thew have small liking for them.
and believe there is little profit in them.
The fact is majority of the clubs of the
Lay among young women are mere passing
lads, like the conversation clubs and the
lrt clubs and the Alpine clubs of the
lays gone by. I grant you that the voun0
women OF our day are bright, active and in
ellectual, but not more so than the youpo
men who have the same opportunities. The
ashton for forming reading clubs and other
of the sort is only a new form
+ feminine activity. Nor are these literary
iubs free from objection. There lie no guch |
hing as the association of several minds in |
downright, thorough, hard study. Many of |
'ur young women are getting mere shfeds |
md patches of knowledge from such institu-
ions. They mistake the name for the suh-
lance, and we are in danger of having =
ace of snowy, bright and entertaining but
uperfcial women. The great minds Of the
uture, as in the past, will be those trained
nd disciplined by solitary study, and 20
ar as l have observed, solitude has charms
Or men only. A BACHELOR,
CIGARETTE PUFF.
Ny Dear Fellah-Now what in the name
all that ID dwivelingly insane tempted
on to put that dweadful editorial on edu-
alton in last Sundays paper? It's all vewy
ell for the common people and that sort
thing to go in education; poor beggars!
m sure have no objection to their having
II the education and culchah they want; but