The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-08-21

6lNto lis NlCMo Ol odOD a o. HIS
great practical value
The Rover is the name Of a new illus
trated monthly magazine for boys, pub
lished by E. and NJ. Hutchinson. 17 Dear
born street, Chicago. It's articles have the
merit of not being written down for juve-
nile comprehension, but are. nevertheless. in
language that any intelligent child can
comprehend. Among the contributions to
the August number are: Traits of a Few
% n Fi Isst An nMHw a Cat . sayed T T kieg:s
School," Postal Development and-par-
ticularly enticing-"How to Make a Box
Kite"
THE Monster Of Lake La Metric Is the
title of a weird tale in Pearson's Magazine
for September of a monster left over from
a prehistoric age in a lake among the noun
tains of Wyoming. The Illustrations show
that the artist has read the text of the
story. There Is other very good reading In
Mohammed khan "The oueerest oCs raft
Afoat" and Nell Gwyn, Comedian for
instance. An article on "Pinhole Photog-
graphic art. Cutcliffe Hyne's serial, 1.-The
Lost Continent" Is a tale worth reading.
Parsons Magazine for September con-
tains the opinions, offered by a number Of
successful men and women, as to what con-
stitutes the secret Of success. All agree
that hard work is a necessary element. Per-
haps the best definition is given by Mr.. Ed
win, Lawrence Godkin. editor of the New
York Evening Post. He says: Generally
speaking, the way to win success is to get
a good education, select an agreeable occu-
patton. work very hard at it, take a
tudicious amount Of recreation, be honest,
regular and modestly self-reliant. But in
dividual himself. If he is fully determined
he will find out for himself how to win his
success Wi mMs 1t the gutdance Of any set
est self-reliance Is not commonly considered
to be one of Mr.. Godkin's characteristics.
People who are interested in psychical
ENTHUSIASTICALLY. spirit communication
and the nke-will find a good deal of matter
Of that sort in the Coming Age from month
to %b mGnth. w In the . Apggst Rumbsr Lillian liam
many admirers, discusses with much SINGER
lily of feeling certain phases of spiritual
ism. Sne Is a firm believer in the possibility
or communication with the departed, and IN
from Kate Field, through Mrs. Piper, the
now famous medium whose seances have
Society to declare that they have discovered
traces of Independent intelligence in her
communications. A department treating Of
dreams, visions and other mental phe-
nomena Is a feature of this magazine, which
Is now published in Boston.
1t is probably co~nstitutionally impossible
for Sarah Barnwell Elliott to write a story
which has the cheerful ending that all nor
mally constituted novel readers like, but
she can and does produce stories that hold
the readers close attention to the end
ssIens' " Telltwra!sen vaasnaa often 2 sh,o Sramatic
the complete novel In the August Lippin-
colt, Is less dramatic than some of the au-
thors earlier ventures. and its leading char
acter Is rather an impossible young woman.
but for all 1t Is a very entertaining piece
OF 81 if insg II contains some clever pictures
to metropolitan life form a social element
In striking contrast to the staid and con-
SENTATIVE old-time residents. The CONVEX.
sations are especially we'll handled. In the
same number is a short story, "Noah's
Ark" by Z~angwill.
Quebec, the Silver City," is the title of
a descriptive article In the Internationa,
Magazine for August. A paper by Law
renee Irwell. on Gambling as 1t Was and
as 1t Is" concludes with this paragraph:
That gambling is deserving of the most
severe censure cannot be denied, vet the
Split tina underlies 1t is very often only
misdirection of courage and energy. A
gambler Is quite frequently a great man
gone wrong. The qualities that enable him
10 await without a tremor the turn of a card
tnat carries his entire fortune, or the stock
QUOTATION that may make him a pauper.
will lead him, If he ever gets the oppor-
tunity: to face death unfinchingly at the
can OF nonor or duty; will bring him first
over the breastwork when a forlorn hope
saves the army. and will nerve him to risk
t nsn hns tn tn d deseu,ng of disess In a; a fire ! In at
and In saving women and children in cases
of ~shipwreck."
Two articles treating from different points
of view of the International Council of
Women and its work are features of the
North American Review for August. One,
by the Countess of Aberdeen, until recently
president Of the council. talks in enthusiast
tic way of the good accomplished and to be
accomplished by the organization for women
in particular, and through them for man
KIND In general. She reviews the proceed
a eulogy of the Queen, whose sixty years
reign" she says. has done more for wom-
en- than the centuries which preceded it,
she Is apparently forgetful that the fact
OF this influence does not quite support her
previous arguments in favor of women's
advancement and independence, for the
Queen has been VIGOROUSLY opposed to much
of this so-called progressive work among
women Kassandra Vivaria, an Italian wom-
an, writes with considerable force in opposi:
ton TO the stand taken by the council, and
especially TO the separation of
work from mans work. or the work of the
The sort of solitary spIendor in which
women are trying TO cloak this modern form
or morbid vanity called feminism will be
fatal to their own efforts, from the double
fact that whatever social. administrative
legal or government concessions they NAV
aspire to will have to be wrested from men
ana not from women, and that the intelIi-
gent men in whose hands so much of wom-
ans future freedom resides, are generally
found willing enough to yield points on the
score of justice or humanity, but are to-
tally callous and impossible to bias when
the cause Is put forward as a woman's
cause. as a sex question. That man has
still the advantage of women in many OF the
walks OF life to which 1t Is not only her
right but her duty to obtain admittance.
that much can and should be done for WON.
en- In almost every direction of employment
Is so evident as to be beyond discussion.
but that she will gain her end by an indie.
pendent crusade In which mems sympathies
cannot. for obvious reasons. be spontan-
eously enlisted. seems very doubtful. And
for this / have vibrated in unison with the
views of the congress when the speaker
happened 10 express herself in the name of
down-trodden humanity or neglected Justice
and have turned away perfectly Indifferent
when she spoke merely for woman"
Publishers' Notes.