The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1895-04-18
MISERY IN WEALTH.

have no faculty for enjoyment. His leisure Is
converted into restlessness, Having no hobby,
he is as the soap-boiler who passed his leisure
in watching the vats of his successor simmer
and considered the stencbes more grateful than
the perfume of flowers. The millionaire
who has made his own for
tune is, however, in better
position that the millionaire who has inherited
his The one has certainly satisfactory
Prospect, while the other has too often only
dawdling, purposeess existence to look fore
ward to, sometimes marked indelibly by dis
sipation and plunging. Fortune is inherited,
but not greatness. There are scores of
scientific men whose names will live while the
human race persists. Their worldly goods
would only make tri6ing substraction from
the bank accounts Of many millionaires, and
yet the names of the latter will perish in the
next generation, and almost as soon as the
funeral is over.
MRS. STEvENSON's EXPERIENCE.
tSt Paul Pioneer
Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson, wife of the
late famous novelist tells a funny story about
her experiences in Samoa A friend of hers a
South Sea trader, had been in the habit of
supplying the natives with canned meats,
which they greatly liked, and were always
eager to purchase. On each can was colored
picture-an OK for beef, sheep for mutton,
fish for salmon, &c; but, unfortunately, as
the style of color-printer's art was rather
primitive, some confusion arose between the OK
and the sheep so that it was not easy TO dis
tinguish mutton from sheep. The trader,
therefore, changed the label on the mutton
cans, which he adorned with fabulous
monster something like a red dragon fiatter-
ing himself that distinction would now be
easy. He was rather surprised at the effect
upon the natives. When they saw the new
| cans, they shrank away Mortified; indeed, IL
was some time before they would hold any
communication with him, but when induced
had been religiously brought up, and that
nothing on earth should induce them to feed
ON canned devil" The trader had to eat all
his stock himself, the Somoans watched an
xiously every day to see what curse would
fall upon him in consequence!
BEAUTY AND BRAINS.
Philadelphia Ledger.I
1t was asserted the other day by a literary
man that all clever women, at least women
who had distinguished themselves above the
common herd of their sisters, were plain-feat-
ured, unattractiye, if not positively ugly. 'Tis
true and pity it's true, that almost all the great
women of letters, Nine. de Stael, Nine. Sand,
George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Mrs. Brown
| ing and Miss Austen, were plain women. The
question then arises, is this the fault ofnature,
whose niggard hand will not deal out simulta-
neOusy beauty of feature and power of brain,
| or is it the fault of women who are content to
accept the appendage of beauty as kindom
and power in itself, and seek no
more so long as there are slaves ready
and willing to be attached to their carr
Or is it that the plain women, handicapped in
the race OF life with her beautiful sisters, has
carved out a new career and new triumph
| for herselH Prof. Lombroso, no doubt, has
already answered for the problem. Mean
while the new woman might refute the asser-
tion triumphantly by growing beautiful as
well as clever Poetesses at least ought to be
lovely, width the example of byron. Keats,
Shelley, Schiller and Goethe, Alfred de
Musset and Tennyson before them. Nature,
fuse to women the privileges she lavishes on
| the sterner sex.