St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-27


lower orders. Why, in watching some
of the ameba under the glass Pye seen
the whole Ten Commandments go TO
smash in a single half hour. Their
wickedneSs may be microScopical.
but it's awful. Whole families are
eaten by some one enterprSing mem
Der, they steal each others wives and
children, and lie and rob and practice
polygamy, and they're slyer than lots of
people, too. Pm going TO study cells
next term, and | expect TO find pro-
toplasm the most depraved substance
yet. L believe what theOlogianS call
original sin in people must be nothing
but prOtOplaSm working out.''
This many year the moralistS have
set down anger as one OF the things
that poor humanity should strictly
guard itself against, Notwithstanding
there are occasions in which anger rises
from q passive virtue TO an active duty.
Fore Xample:
When beast or a baby is beaten.
When friend suffers wrong or hurt
When you pinch your sole with tight
boots or your soul with envy, malice
and jealousy.
When a person crawls TO accomplish
that which he could do better walking
upright.
When a concrete woman by vanity,
littleness or treachery, impalrs the large
and tender respect that brOad-minded
men give to abstract WOmankind.
1t IS prOverblal that 4 man must ask
MS wife'S leave to thrive. 1t is quite as
true that a woman must ask her hus-
bands leave to be bright and amiahle.
Sugar bv fermentation turns to acetic
acid. 1.-The sweetest soul that ever
looked through human eyes" will turn
sharp and bitter under the ferment OF
rasping marital criticism.
Two women spoke of third; said one
enthusiastically: age cannot wither
her nor custom stale her infinite va
riety."
True" murmured the other. SIN
the last census report she is set down
as just two years younger than her eld-
est son, and her life'S stOry-I'Ye heard
it half dozen times, and it's always a
romance, and always new one.''
IL you value your youthful looks,
dress five years beyond your real age.
Your wardrobe, more than aught else,
should take time by the fOrelock. The
gay trappingS of sixteen go marvelOusly
i'll with gray hairs, and the wearer of
them Is sorry spectacle for gods, men
or the observing sex.
Nothing is so underbred as quarrel
ing, to say nothing of the waste of
nervous energy, and there is neither
honor nor profit in it. IT your adversary
is woman, she can heal her Self-esteem
OF your sharpest Stabs in a battle of tea
and tears. The manliness of manly
man puts him at cruel, dumb disad-
vantage-a coward can always shelter
behind your womanhOod. 1t is
much better to resent insolence or posi-
tive hurt with fine freezing courtesy than
with the most clamorouS sarcasm or the
most hysteric sobs.
There is story that testy old land
holder in the District of Columbia often
said 10 our first president, when he was
planning the City of Magnificent Dis
tances: Mr.. Washington, I'd like TO
know what you would have amounted to
II you hadn't married the Widow Gus
It's" Certainly, marriage with the
wealthy widow helped the handsome
young soldier TO the leadership in his
province that afterward flowed into the
command of armies, and gave indie
pendence to nation.
Strive to keep these things clear:
Your eyes, your complexion, your con-
science. These things soft: Your hair,
your hands, your heart. These things
clean: Your lips, your name, your
mind.
To know how to ride horse, to shoot
a gun and to tell the truth-once that
was held to make the education of a
gentleman, and it is still a very good
foundation for modern flourishes. as
The lady managers of the worlds fair
are already receiving most astonishing
letters applying for space in the wo-
mans building. The mother OF three
pairs of twins has written to say that
she thinks she is entitled to recognition,
and she would like to have a crayon
drawing of her offspring exhibited.
She also desires to know in what de-
partment she ought to have the exhibit