The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-01-10
Elizabeth Gladly Stanton.
B. Anthony.
Marie CoreIli on suicide.

The following letter from Miss Marie Corelli
was read before an English debating society
on the proposition that suicide is justifable:
Il may state at once that 1 do not consider
suicide justihable under any circumstances
whatever. 1t is quite true that God has given
us free will in the matter Of ending our lives
If we wish, but at the same time we must
not forget that free, will was not ours when
we came into the world There can be no
doubt that we, are brought into it for some
purpose known. only to the Creator; and 1t
Is but a towards act to shrink-nay shirk-
the work he has given to do The most
difficult course is the most heroic; to die is
easy; it Is but. the matter of few minutes;
but to live life Of hardship, toll, privatlon,
and sorrow and to live it well, is the work
of a hero. Does not one frah human nature
exult and glow when we hear Of some grand
act of self-abnegation or extreme bravery, or
when we read of the splendid acts of bravery
and heroism that men have performed ever
since the world began? Therefore, arguing
a la Socrates, the most difficult thing is the
best to do and the bravest.''
The Metropolitan Trained Nurses Club Of
New York is first and the only Incorporated
club for trained nurses in the country. Only
a regularly graduated nurse who can give the
names, as references. of three physicians and
must also have resided in New York one
year, TO be eligible. This conservatism has
given the club high standing, and has made
membership in 1t a certificate of excellence
in itself. Twenty seven members live
in the Comfortable quarters OF the club, and
with the elasticity that is an attribute Of a
nurses home there is usually room for one
or two more, says Harper's Bazaar.
When 1T is realized that In round numbers
there are 10000 trained nurses In Greater
New York it is no surprise that the mem
bership of the Metropolitan Trained Nurses
club is a large and rapidly growing one The
list has representatives from New Jersey
Connecticut Long Island, Pennsylvania
Washington, Massachusetts and MARYLAND
hospitals and also from those of England and
Canlada. This demonstrates at once it's
cathoiicity andiiits conservatism both promi-
nent factors In it's pronounced success. The
club has bcenlc in fiourishing existence since
1893. .
The Chicago West End Woman's club was
addressed recently ON the Limitations of
the Press" by Melville E. Stone. president
of the Associated Press. Among other things
he said:
1.-THE trend Of the newspaper is towards
better editingg Quantity is about to give
way to quality. More care will be taken, not
to get all the news. but to edit and present
that which is published SO that in the rush
ard hustle of a busy age the reader can get
the real happenings CT the world.
'sThe time was when the mighty men of
the press led-the thinking of the world With
the perfection of newsgatherfng their posi-
tion has passed away. l doubt II there is a
woman here who daily reads the editorial
page The London Times made the first de-
parture. Its editorials are written by specfal
writer's, generally instructors In the Universe
ties OF Oxford and Cambridge 1t Is absurd
10 expect a corps Of men TO have we'll ground