The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-07

will bring about healthier and broader
life may not venture to suggest this means
of accomplishing this result?-Mrs. Lame, in
The Club Woman.
Drudgery may not be pleasant nor well
come but it is in the doing of distastefuI
work that we learn the self-dscipline which
fits us for work at all, and establishes the
habit of work, which alone can make any
high achievement possible.
l have little faith in the youth who Is al
ways crying out against his condition and
telling an incredulous world what great
things he could do If his lot were different.
The boast of general talents for everything
usually resolves itself into particular talents
for nothing. The incompetent clerk. i'm nine
cases out of ten, would be equally incompe-
tent as writer artist or speaker
The superior talent always shows itself in
the superior performance of inferior duties
1t is the man who Is faithful In little things
to whom there is given authority over larger
things He who has never learned the art OF
drudgery is never likely to acquire the fac
ulty of great and memorable work, since the
greater man is the greater is his power of
drudgery.
Young writers talk about waiting for in
spiration; old writer's know that the best in
SEPARATION is the habit of work ''Three miles
d Jay Will carry you 900 miles in the year,
was saying of Cations In which James
smetnam took great comfort-The Poor
richard Papers, in Philadelphia Saturday
Evening Post.
When presumably capable women give I'm
housekeeping and betake themselves to
boarding because they cannot get servants
or manage them: when mistresses are palpa-
bly, afraid of their cooks, and unable tn nre
vent waste and even dishonesty In the kitchen
whfch they hesitate to enter, although thew
are tne1r own; when half the references given
are not truthful, or at least misleading; when
intelligence offices are the last places where
an intelligent woman expects to get satis-
factory servants; when wages grow higher
while work grows ever more grudging and
careless and when six months Is the average
limit OF servants stay In one household
so that an "old family servant is practically
as obsolete as the mastodon-when all these
signs show an utterly disorganized state OF
analfs IN Wonan's especial realm 1t GER
talnly does appeal to ones sense of humor
to hear the suffragists assert that the femi-
nine vote would straghten out all fine ner
plexlties into which mans inability to cone
with governmental problems has plunged the
nation
mere are only two aiternatives-either the
servant question Is bigger than any question
which man grapples with. or woman is less
nCteu 10 grapple with difficult questions than
man. l hardly think that even the most dar-
ing suhragist would choose the first of these
as a tenet of faith; yet the other horn of the
ollemma certainly is not calculated to con-
vince America that equal suffrage is as Its
supporters claim. the solution of all problems
and the remedy for all ilsi-Harper's Bazaar
The eternal fitness of things we believe
would scarcely suggest such discriminative
legislation as that proposed by the women's
clubs of Illinois. They propose to legislate
the female figure and face away from LIQUOR
and tobacco advertisers absolutely. and cur
tail their use among other advertisers to
strictly modest customs
1t Is popularity believed that illustrations
In advertising are used for the purpose of
attracting notice. Now the liquor and TO-
bacco dealers derive their trade altogether,
practically, from the male persuasion, and
quite naturally they turn to an illustration
which will attract the most attention.
But. Notwithstanding the logic against the
club women's argument, the nude art adj
vertisers are carrying things a trhe too
swift for good Judgment and decency. There
Is already good law enough, if applied, to
suppress great deal of advertising, which
on its face is not fit to go into the home
circle.
The club women might obtain early results
If they would turn loose upon the postmaster
general and demand fuH-dress illustrations.
That official has wide discretion and abso-
lutte power relative to mailable matter