The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-16

eradicated and a dynamic change has
been wrought in mems conceptions Of
their duty to humanity, the nature of
sin and the future life, but society ia
only semi-Christianized, because men
are still half pagan ~ kGHH
Most women would be horrihed IL they
| heard their husbands called pagans
but in comparison with the more or
less complete Christianizing which wo-
men have undergone, they may fairly
| be called that. 1t lis to this survival
Oh the pagan in society that we owe
at once some Of the gravest blots on the
| Scutcheon OF modern civilizations and
| some of our most splendid achieve
| ments. The pagan strain serves as a
clear, cold corrective of the hazardous
and the ignoble influences to which ma
| lions and individuals are sometimes
exposed. 1t is hard, logical, relentless.
It. is robust, temperate, well balanced,
strenuous, vifile. When men give
| themselves for their country in bat
tie it is the pagan speaking in them.
| One reason why women suffer SO
acutely when their dear ones perish
in war is because of the conflict be
tween the Christian and the pagan that
goes ON in them. Paganism affords the
/ salt without which Christian civil
ization would lose it's SAVIOR.
Sometimes the pagan SO far oyeFsbai-
ances the Christian as to color the
whole temper and achievement. Cron-
| we'll and Luther had the pagan temper
ament, otherwise they would never
| have made the superb fighters they did;
| Goethe was pagan in his whole scheme
| of intellectual culture and personal
conduct; Carlyle was as self-poised and
| fearless as Eplctetus Walt Whitman
1 and Walter Savage Landor Walter
| Pater and Charles Addington Symonds
/ were pagans; Emerson was q pagan;
Nansen is a pagan. f1ll1
| Perhaps one reason why mon and
women still understand each other so
little and misunderstood each other so
! much is because in the final analysis
they represent two opposing ideals and
| civilizations.
One of the most innocent results Of
the war with Spain is the military walk
which the smart young woman has
made the fashion in place of the Yale
walk of last year. Then the girl who
was in the know copied the foot ball
| hero in her long, athletic gait;2now she
| holds her shoulders with West Point
| stiffness, and moves her legs without a
bend from hip to knee. She keeps her
| face and eyes 'front.' and when she
| turns a corner wheels with the sharp
precision of the military man. Has the
military walk reached Worcester yet?
1 A Broadway jeweler exhibits in his
window pair of drinking cups as
elaborate In workmanship as they are
| ingenious in design and presumably
costly in price, says The Criterion. They
/ are made from two siX-pound shells
that came, as an explanatory placard
says, from the guns of the Alnifante
| Oquendo. The brass of the shells is fine
| ~ polished, gold f1ligree work orna-
/ H. flaA A,.N Lee
and stands are exQuisitely wrought. It's
a pretty idea-to drink the health of
your enemy out of the missiles he has
] hurled into your ships nizzen, What a
/ fine present for some deserving naval
offioer
A great many people always have
their best times away from home Why
is this? Is it because strangers only are
i clever enough toyappreciats them or
1 is it that they have two sets of man
ners, of dispositions, of appearances, as
well as of garments, and only don the
best while absent from their native
place?
| Miss Alice Longfellow has definitely
put to rest any doubts that may have
existed as to the pronunciation of
Evangeline. MY father always pre-
nounced Evangeline with the Il short.
| Indeed, | never heard it with a long
| & until quite recently. 1t seems to me
| very Objectionable, and l trust will not
become prevalent
If all other resources fail, enc can
at least peddle horseradish and make
a frugal, if somewhat intermittent, liv-
ing out of the hot stuff. The number
of men who support, clothe and feed
their families on horseradish must be
| large proportionally, for as soon as cold
weather puts a stop to the chances OF
| outdoor employment, elderly men and
young men who have failed to get set
tied in positions, turn to the light oc-
equations which, while calling for lit
tie capital, may be relied upon TO bring
in small return, and horsera3ishing
| is one of these The profits have been
much reduced by the number of com
petitors in the field: hours may be
spent and miles Travelled without earn
! ing rs cents. An old man, looking IN
| derfed and chilled to the marrow, WHO
offered horseradish at the back door
of the writer, was so delighted at an
| order for 10 cents worth that she was
moved to ask him if he was doing well
at the business. well, Miss said he
sadly, 81 spent 13 hours yesterday
walking about from house to house, ara
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what you may call exactly. a like of lux
ury, nor millionaire's income,
neithers' tfE Etr
Thirty-fve cents in 1S hotre!
1t may be taken for granted that no
one peddles horseradish for fun 1t is
an employment that. people are forced
into by necessity and the failure to OBJ
tain work of any other kind. The we'll
to-do often talk snubbingly of these
| humble itinerant merchants as If they
chose to do what they did in prefer
i enee to entering the standard lines OF
labor. 1t seems to them that
next to standing on "a street
corner selling matches, knock
ing at peoples back doors must
be the easiest, most shiftless occupa-
ton left to a man, and they seem to
believe that by declining to buy they
will cut down the lazy vendors profits
and thus oblige him to enter one of the
legitimate trades. sas saftiB
1t appears that such reasoning and
such practice are mistaken and that
they entail a degree of hardship upon
a section of the poor that kindly-dis-
posed persons should shrink from in
f1icting. Substracting the time required
in getting from place to place, the
number of houses where people, are
out or no one comes, the households
already supplied, the families who
never eat it and the people who simply
don't want any today, the margin of
customers is very, very small. As
purchases rarely exceed 5 or. 10 cents
in value, it takes a good many custom
ers to yield a dollar.
i Horseradish peddlers seldom acquire
large fortunes, and they graduate at
/ the first opportunity. One need have
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