Middletown transcript., 1895-10-26
AS TO wANAMAKER.

one time postmaster general, and is {
present, We believe a Sunday Soho,
teacher of more than local renoul
All these things are TO the credit {
Wanamaker aforesaid, and the right q
any American citizen 20 keep a store
attend Sunday school regularly, an
to hold office, is not called in questio
by any patriotic man or woman, an
the fact that Mr.. Wanamaker has til
business ability to become owner of
store; that his associates think him
fit teacher for Sunday school class
and that he has public fame enough t,
procure his appointment to high of
fee Of great honor speaks well for TIN
gentleman's reputation at home ant
abroad. That man with so NAM
claims to honor and respect, should
have some of the minor failings o.
humanity, would not be sui lject fol-
surprise, and if he had not, he would
be a very paragon of perfection, and 6
model to whom the rising generation
could be cited TO prove that to be vir.
tuous, is to be happy, and Mr.. Wana'
maker would 60 down to posterity az
one of the great men of the times and
his name would be enrolled on the not
too long list of immortals. But il
seems that there is another side to Mr..
Wanamaker which when held up in
comparison to his virtues as store keep
er, Sunday school teacher and office
holder, dims the radiance attached to
his name and seems all the blacker by
comparison. While his name has
been set forth as among the great men,
he has been paying tae young ladies
who sell tape, shirt buttons, and the
other etceteras, (which are found in a first
cl ass dry goods emporium, according
to the rules that obtain in Philadel-
phia, wages so small, that it is won-
der how they live at all. 1t has tran
spired that the wages of these young
ladies amounts to the munifcent sum
of $4 week, out of which, of course
the usual fines for missing spools of
thread and reels of tape is taken. In
a recent movement to organize in order
to obtain decent wages these yourg
ladies set forth that they are insuffi-
ciently paid, and are subjected to var
ious indignities at the hand of floor
walkers, such as humilate them and
should not be offered to dependents, in
the employ of philanthropist, such as
Mr.. Wanamaker.
This is one defect in the armor of
Mr.. Wanamaker. Another, is his son.
We do not believe that the sins of the
son should be visited ON the fathers
but there must be some
hing wrong in the side of the life of
Mr.. Wanamaker that is not turned to
public gaze, when it produces such a
specimen as Roddy Wanamaker, son
If the storekeerer. While his fathers
employees of the gentler sex are trying
% get more than 81 week from their
he is spending $40, 900 on
)ne dinner in Paris, and painting that |
gay town CORY red by sending special
carriage for each guest, and then hav-
ng prepared for each one separate
Inner, and spreading before them |
,nough to satisfy the appetite of |
,wenty healthy and hungry hoboes,
up the feast by setting before
ZACH, gallon of the rarest and most
costly campagne. 1t is to be feared
that the store keeper of Philadelphia,
las given too little thought to the WELL
are of both his young lady employees,
md to his hopeful son and heir. In
lis Sunday school teaching, he has
taken no heed to what the
Bible says about those who "erind the
ace of the poor" nor those p,rri ions
which refer 10 bringing up he sch in
he way he should 60. The same book
eclales that there is All economy
which scatteIeil abroad" In his
ase We see brilliahtexample Of " hat
) possible in this line. The economy
) found in the rate of wages the
oung ladies get, and the scattering
broad is exempli1ed in the actions of
he progeny of an economical father,
D wit John Wanamaker.-Fdrm Nescs.
aid Nature to Physic "What pity that we
1ho ought to be friends should SO seldom
agree.
[y strength is exhausted, my energy dead,
rom the volley of blue pills discharged at
my head"
It is not strange that nature should remon.
rate against the use of those gripping and
rastic blue marbles, with which old fogies of
edicine persist in dosing their patients.
hey are not only revolving in appearance,
1t oftimes actually injurious in their effects.
ct nature needs some help in overcoming
estimate dyspepsia, constipation and liver
oubles, and fortunately she has very val
lble assistant in DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets,
hich, small as bird seed and sugar-coated, | ,
,ver fail to act effectively though soothingly.
When and With Whom to Dance. tI
At a gathering of Kings Daughters q
; London, Ontario, the other day, t
.rs. Graham, Of Toronto, OH being +
Iked if dancing should be tolerat ed,
piled: ''Yes, but only in the morning
i hour before breakfast, and then the Z
oman should dance wi Ii her husband Ii
brother" This encouragement Of d
orning dancing, Eat time when I
orning prayers are said to be falling
to disguise, may possibly strike some
hristians as 1unwise. And there aIe b