The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-06-07

The Smithsonian Institution Is an estab-
lishment of which every one has heard, but
about whose history and purposes compare
lively few are informed. In Self Culture
is the first of series of institution papers
on the subject.
Robert Louis Stevenson, but it has re-
manned for two of his cousins" to offer
chapter of new and pleasing "reminiscences
OF his childhood and youth in the English
Illustrated Magazine.
The plan of teaching foreign languages by
aid of photograph which reproduces for
the pupil the words spoken by a skilled
teacher was undertaken by the Interna-
tional Magazine (Chicago) a few months
ago, and Is now said to have passed the
stage OF experiment and to be success.
Trained Motherhood for June treats,
among other things, of Genius in Chill
dren." Period of Infection" Success in
Raising Infants" "Children's Books"
Childhood of the Nineteenth Century"
Babys Requirements and Nursery
Talks Talk There are also "A Doctors Talk
with Mothers and a number OF editorial
articles.
Just why the Bookman is publishing Paul
Leicester Ford's story Janice Meredith"
as serial after its appearance In the Sat
prday. Evening Post is not made plain. Per-
haps 1t is the theory of the Bookman that
the two periodicals have not the same class
of readers, but this is a rash assumption
in the days when so many people Tread
everything" The Chronicle and Com
ment' of the Bookman is unusually inter
esting this month.
A writer in Self Culture makes a remark
that will afford encouragement to absent
minded people who are so often criticised
Tor their popularity. He says: mo one
ever succeeded in any great work without
becoming distinguished for 'absent-m minded
ness: For no one can concentrate the at
tention thoroughly, as the suns rays are
concentrated by burning-glaSs, without
Withdrawing the attention from the sur
roundings. Hence what is often regarded as
an indication of mental weakness is an in
dication OF mental strength. Concentration
ing
Outing for June has some very attractive
features For golf players Is a chapter of
practical instructions by Findley 8. Doug
las in the various movements. There Is an
account by Hanson Hiss of Golf Round
and About the Quaker City" OF interest
Sidney Cross's story of his experience,
Five Weeks Awheel in France" For the
home-keepers, whose outings never take
useful chapter on Practical Camping-out
Near Home. In the department devoted to
c cycle touring is map of route between
Chicago and indianapolis with directions for
following ii.
In Ainslee's Magazine John Gilmer Speed
has some interesting statistics concerning
the millionaires of the country. He finds
in the United States 1900 persons with
wealth amounting to one million dollars in
value or in excess of that amount. OF these
by far the larger number are rated as pos
sessing about one million" Fourteen hun
dred of them live in New York, the other
$500 are scattered throughout the country.
He finds that the millionaires only own
traction more than per cent. of the wealth
or the country-rather a remarkable show
ing in view of the loose talk about the great
capitalists controlling the finances of the
country. Mr.. Speed adds: IF the aggregate
wealth of the individuals not worth a mil
ion but worth more than 100000 were added
TO this-and 100000 Is often great wealth.
the amount of wealth possessed by the rich
would be more than doubled"
Prof. G.. r. Carpenter discusses ip the
Forum the question why Dumas Novels
Last" He considers the exciting plot i'm
MATERIAL but finds that one explanation of
the deep effect made on the reader by the
volumes is the fact that. recklessly as
Dumas wrote, he somehow managed to
build his characters out of genuinely hui
man material After enumerating several
of these characters Professor Carpenter
says: How the author could have pro-
duced them We may never cease to wonder;
but they do exist. He lived a foolish life.
and he wrote in haste; but he wrote from
his heart, and his heart was by nature
clatrvoyant. These characters appeal to us
because they are implicit in the lives of us
ALL because they are the varied types of
wide appeal assures their permanence. So
the odyssey lives, not because of the roll
of its hexameter. but because millions of
men, far wandering. made by fate to tarry
for time on enchanted isles, have pressed
increasingly forward by force and guile
toward the longed for day Of their home
afxar ptrt l.,
penter made an original discovery? Is it
not precisely the power to reproduce human
nature that causes the lasting popularity of
all great novelists?
In Mr.. Speeds article on millionaires in
Ainslees Magazine he notes the curious fact
that no Jew to-day in America has a for
tune of the first class. and adds: I'm list
of the fifty richest men in the country there
is no Jewish name. If such list were ex-
tended to one hundred there would be none.
The Jews are great traders, no doubt. but
the Scotch. the Scotch-Irish. the French. the
Dutch and the pure Yankee can beat them
hollow when the trading is done on a large
scale, requiring executive ability, courage
and absolute confidence in the integrity of
a great deal of money. but they are specu-
lators and gamblers, and what they make
is not always held securely Then again
they do not, or. rather. they. have not in
cured by Inheritance. Nor have they until
lately, invested in land: They are also
Oriental in their taste and spent with much
liberality to themselves in their living. A
jew, when profits accrue TO him, is usually
very generous to himself and to all that
belong TO him. And many generally belong
to him. for the Jews are noted for their
large families. They are money-makers but
not money-savers. Every man who reads
IL Is statement will have knowledge of ar
Individual Jew to confute IL. / am not
sr eaking of an exceptional Individual here
and there but am making a general state
ment. However, L repeat in entire conf
dence, there is to-day in America no fndi-
yicual Jew so exceptionally rich that he can
rank in wealth with the fifty or one hun
dr ed men who stand at the top.