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knowledged that it is not the colored
but the white mechanics who are not
properly appreciated for the former
are driving the latter out Of the bust
ness. Go to any new building that is
being erected. and if 20 per cent Of the
masons and carpenters are white men,
1t IS an unusual thing. In the shops it
is not quite so bad.
"Colored labor takes the place of
white labor among Montgomery me-
chanics, partly because colored labor
is cheaper, partly because it is sufi-
GENTLY skilled for the class of work
which predominates here. And colored
labor is cheaper because the negro can
live contentedly on less than the white
man can. 1t is only rarely that a
really skillful negro mechanic is found
but they usually have enough skill to
perform the inferior style of building
now in vogue"
1t is impossible here in the north to
understand the gravity of the situation
in the south. Here the question of the
negro in trade has received a simple
but conclusive answer by excluding him
from all but one or two lines Of labor
He can be a barber; he can be a waiter
in a restaurant or an indoors-man he
can be a coachman or hOStler or some
kind of a porter, and that is about all.
The negresS can be a, household serv-
ant or a masseuse and that is about
all. Whether it be owing to the jeal-
ousy of the trades unions or the pre-
JUDGE of society, the fact remains that
in his exercise Of life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness, the colored per-
son of the north is terribly restricted.
Perhaps the time will come when
some great department store will make
use of it's popularity to insert the small
wedge Of good sense and humanity into
the universal prejudice by engaging a
few nice colored girls to sell it's nee
dies and hairpins. They are quite Ca
pable of doing it, and they could hard
ly be more Indifferent to the wants of
their customers or more engrossed in
their own affairs than some of the
American and Irish girls who do the
selling now. Perhaps the time will
come when provision firms and faSirs
and coal and ice companies win feel
strong enough in the esteem of their
patrons to dare to hire colored men to
drive their carts and deliver their
goods
Until that time comes and the negro
is given half fair chance industrially
along with white men, the north has no
right to feel satisfied with it's treat
ment of the race it freed from the pro-
lection of slavery 80 years ago, and has
since left to its own resources.
A faint Whit of the Boston of 45
years ago breathes from the letters of
Thackeray that are published in the
new Richie edition. With manli-
ness that did him honor, Thackeray de-
clined to write slurringly of the Ameri-
cans-"if cut jokes against them, may
choke on the instant'-but this did
not prevent him from having a, sly little
good-natured laugh at Boston, which
he compared to a rich cathedral town
in England-grave and decorous, and
very pleasant and well-read. Elsewhere
he speaks of finding kind matrons and
pretty girls everywhere, land in Bos-
ton very good, fogeyfied literary So
ciety." VERY good" but 'fogey-
fed"
Woman has distinct Office in the
church" says Mrs. Julia Ward Howe,
Ito wit, that of keeping alive the spirit
of charity and of union. Hers shall be
to keep open the doors of the fathers
house, to light the fires, sweep the
hearth, and spread the board for the
great feast of all nations at which the
cup of blessing shall Danish the bitter
ness of cursing and anathema, and the
happy pledge shall be the unity of
Gods dear children
According to Mrs. Howe, the affec-
tional, emotional nature of women is as
necessary to the prosperity and useful
ness of a church as the intellectual
leadership Of men. Perhaps the church
supper is a proof of this?
The formation by English Unfair
ians of a monastic body within that
denomination is one more indication of
the cropping out for a deeper spiritual
ity which marks the close of the cen
fury The Unitarian sect is almost the
last place where one would look for a
brotherhood, and the fact that, after
nearly 1900 years in insistence upon
other standards and ideals, it feels the
need of such an institution, is indicative
of a dynamic change of attitude. How
ever, as yet the monastic idea has not
gained general recognition among Uni
tarians, and it may never do so.
THE Order of the Christian Faith
center of so many English religious
movements 1t is attached to the
Evangelical Catholic Church of the
Divine Love" The life, which is
strict and rigorous, and includes the
division of private income and the
daily work of the monastery, is binding
for only three years at a time. The
aim of the order is the propagation of
a reformed and purified Christianity
and the theory of Christian social obs
legation. In belief the brothers are
Unitarians, but in liturgy they are dis
tinctly ritualistic, employing many Of
the accessories of the high church SER
vice, and using the Book of Common
Prayer in their worship.
Thursday the Rhode Island Institute
Of instruction, which is their name for
a teachers institute, was held in Provi-
dence, and among the speakers was
President G. Stanley Hall of Clark Uni
versity. who spoke on THE education
of the heart" DR. William H. Burn
ham of Clark University was also pres
ent and spoke on Suggestions from
the psychology of adolescence. Both
gentlement developed lines Of thought
which they have made familiar to
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