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placed the scales of justice
above the PROSTATE form VI des
pOtism, than what is now taking
place within the re tSOning pow
ers of man
Trerer TO the broad lickS AMI
hard cuts Of common sense that
are ehiseIing cut bulhter intel
lec,s. deeper natures and a
shameless pride which grasps
with a ready hand the uncut
Diamonds of human kind aud
gives with hearty good will
the master stroke TO li5era'e
their hidden Seintillations.
The world has whiTled ana
whirled until she is sick of the
giddy mazes of the death dance
Sh Is pausiEg, and in that
pause. she is asking fer an anti
dOte for past and present folly
hollOwDeSs. She no longer
glCais over the charms of silly,
brainless women, whose great
est accomplishment is q pretty
little helplessneSs and q lack of
wisdom, neither does she any
longer smile with cOmplacrnt
good humor upon the mosquito
STYLED dude. No, her loudest
cry il now for men and women.
Men aud women as God intend
cd they should he. creatures of
independent IntellectS with
hands TO take hold of thu Gil
BRAT rocks of life and turn the
key stones of wisdom to use
men aud women with flashing
eyes of honesty aud burning
cheeks of def nee ready TO bat
tie for the light and stand with
a death shOd utpou their lips on
the upward pro ress OF times
Revolution in labor system, u
complete metamOrphosis IN ed
ucatiOBal ideas aud practical US
es Of theories imbibed in the
professive scientific depart
ments is the pure, genuine
thirst of the present generation.
Muscle, brain and heart must
be cultivated alike, and the
poor stunted puppets of folly
and fashion will Don be driven
to the wall and pass into obliv
ion as completely as Il phan
toms in Looking Backward
Under the old regime, woman
was taught to look upon depth
of thought aud abstruse mathe-
matical problems not as beyond
her cOmprehensibility, but use
less pluDder in her promised
life. Now the world has learn.
ed 10 realize the more 4 wo.
mans mind is expanded under
mental culture the mCre saita.
BILE help mate she becomes foI
man, the more competent TO
rear her offspring, to conduct
her househCid duties, and to
manipulate in a thousand letIe
ways fer him that under the
weakCaiBg rule of old was veri
" "A ImpOssibility. Again, il is
Lard-pan tack that she wants.
The palmer the truth is set be.
fore her, the better she likes il
the harder the nails are driven
into tue walls of solid good
sense and things called by theii
Piainest, tersest names the bet
ter she IS pleased.
Delieate uothiugs have be
come disgusting. The day has
come when the shiImerIns
clouds of purple and gold nc
longer WhIrl in fleeing caring
smoke garlands In and out.
around and around the hideOus
form OF hatterys castle.
The smOldering hres of homes
~ that burned in the bosom OF
the hoaTy dead fathers of old
have asserted themselves and
are wildly raging in chat fields.
The most powerful element 10
the field is universal education
The soul of man without eth
er the pure lessons of logic, OF
the words of science is q Great
ure bat one remove above the
race. He shows II 10 the bosom
of has family by inordiuate sen
sual qualification and a selfish
diSpensation of parental power.
In public began indescribable
british will or force that soon
makes him unpopular ard intol
cradle, aad in the varied walks
OF life ae robber, murderer and
renegade. Men of deep thought
and broad brain basis fully real
lie this, and are struggling with
might and main to subdua the
brute by means of mental cal
ture.
Fashion and folly must sue
cumb, for in the worGS of
froude, Two diamonds can
never form cup aud socket
Maggie Downing Brainatl.
Hon. r l. Ross. editor OF the