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which always accompanies Presiden
tial election. is quite light this year
Is it because the election gamblers art
afraid OF losing their money because
the chances seem to be too strong fo1
Mr. Bryan, or because the morals o1
the country are improving? Let us
hope that it is both.
The New York Herald recently pub
lished statement that Spain will aban-
don the struggle with Cuba if the re-
bell1on is not put down by next March.
Spain has already lost 2OO, 900 of her
best troops in the struggle and the insur-
gents seem to be as determined as ever.
It has for quite while been thought
only matter of time when Spain
would be compelled to relax her grip
on Cuba by reason of sheer exhaustion
and whether the reports are true or not
as to the time OF ending the struggle,
If the Cubans hold out it will come
sooner or later.
At the Health Conference in Char
lotte two weeks ago, there were some
very interesting facts brought out about
fever In milk. One case was cited where
the COW had been kept in a lot where
there were all kinds of filth and garbage
which the COW had access to. The 9th
or was where COW was put in a dirty
pasture through which ran water from
a sewer, which water the COW drank
month after month and those who
drank milk from these COWS had ty-
phoid fever.
THE COMMONWEALTH has more than
once called attention to the fact that
there is great danger in drinking i'm
pure milk. Dalrymen ought to be very
careful to keep all food for the COWS
pure and the milk clean.
Things that are at first regarded as
"joke" often take serious turn at
which all concerned are rejoiced. Not
long ago much was said and printed
about big and high hats in theatres,
but when the agitation first started
few, if any, supposed it would effect
any relief for those who had to sit be-
hind the tall and broad head gear of
the fair listeners in front. But now it
develops that the crusade is bearing
fruit, and it is given out that fifty per
cent. of the women who go into thea
tres in New York remove their hats.
Those who are pushing the crusade ex-
pect to see the day right soon when
women who want to be respected will
not keep their hats on at the theatres.
This may move into other places of
public gatherings.
In 1868 Virginia Penny of Boston
published "Think and Act" book
containing a series of articles on the
work and wages of men and women.
The author took the ground that in
America woman's sphere of labor was
too circumscribed, and that she was Ca
pable of much work which sentiment
and other weaknesses denied her.
Sharp contrast was drawn between the
possibilities of women, by reason of ed
ucatlon, in the United States and
France, where all vocations are open
alike to men and women.
It has been more than quarter of
century since the book we refer to was
published, and many changes have
been wrought in our educational and
industrial systems. Formerly it was
exceedingly difficult for women to get
into the great universities but now
they are pushing into them, and soon
they will be admitted as freely as the
male sex. Twenty-six American wom-
en- have entered Berlin University.
Cambridge and Oxford, in England,
have not yet removed the restriction