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The Chilhowee echo. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1899-19??, 1900-01-13

light and a determination to call i'm
mediately.
Another lady, of excellent social
standing, having purchased a home in
new locality, has not had any callers,
from her new neighbors. for the
four months that she has lived among
them
Can any one give any good reason
why strangers are treated thus, or
deny that they are treated in such a
manner?
| have heard ladies say that they
didn't want to know many people"
THAT it was too much trouble to call
on strangers. Any busy woman may
be excused from calling regularly, but
not for neglecting to call at all "be-
cause it is too much trouble"
| believe people moving into a
Strange neighborhood are entitled to be
taken as they appear until the con-
trary is proven against them. There
are comparatively few women in Knox
vile who have entertained any angels
unaware. ONCE A STRANGER.
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A LOST TYPE.
MRS. NJ. l.. RAYNE.

(O0H, for the glimpse of a natural boy,
~ A boy with freckled face,
With forehead white, meath the tangled hair
And limbs devoid of grace.
Whose feet toe in, while his elbows flare,
Whose knees are patched always,
Who turns as red as a lobster when
You give him a word of praise.
boy who was born with an appetite,
Who seeks the pantry shelf
To eat his "piece" with resounding smack,
Who isn't gone on himself
Robinson Crusoe reading boy,
Whose pockets bulge with trash
Who knows the use of rod and gun.
And where the brook trout splash,
It's true he'll sit in the easiest chair
With hat on his touseled head;
That his hands and feet are everywhere
For youth must have room to spread,
But he doesn't dub his father "od man."
Nor deny his mothers call,
Nor ridicule what his elders say,
Or think that he knows it all.
A rough and wholesome, natural boy.
OF good old-fashioned clay;
God bless him, if he's still on earth,
For he II make man some day.
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hWyENNS am asked to review the po-
NEAM sition of my sex during this
WAN century, in complying with
that request, it is almost in
evitable that | should cast more or
less anxious glance towards the future,
The retrospect suggests the prophet. |
do not prophecy, because | do not know;
but can promise that shall forbear
to speculate.
When we consider that for more than
three-tifths of the still current, though
closing century, one of the very fore
most places has been occupied by a
woman-one of the so-called weaker
sex-and occupied, to put it mildly,
with signal success in every depart
ment, it must be acknowledged that
have good case, if, indeed, | were
going to advocate cause, or even to
summarize my facts with an eye to a
verdict. do not understand that | am
asked to do anything of the kind.
shall therefore only gather up and
group together facts, leaving them to
tell their story.
With regard to that same grouping,
let me premise that direct my atten-
ton chiefly to the social and educa-
tional, including the professional,
status of women during the now mort
bund nineteenth century. With the
purely political aspect of the question,
save in so far as it impinges upon other
departments, am constitutionally less
inclined to concern myself; nor do | i'm
agine that a purely political sketch
would be appropriate.
In 1910, Sidney Smith glanced with
his usual good sense and sunshiny
style at the controversy then opening
between the friends and foes of the
higher education of women. At that
period, close on the frontier line be-
tween the centuries, the witty Canon
was moved to ask the reason why wo-
man of forty should be more ignorant
than boy of twelve, and to hazard the
answer that women had not their live
lihood to gain by knowledge. That is,
so to say, our point of departure. Han
nah More might perhaps be taken as
the brilliant exception to the rule Of
feminine ignorance and incapacity
which characterized the period in
question, If it were possible to associ-
ate anything like brilliancy with that
particular lady. Hannah's environ
ment forms the Dark Ages of the by
past century, so far as women are con-
cerned. We have happily changed all
that. Against the then prevailing ig-
norance of women, we can, for example,
point to the work done by the girls
public schools and to the ladies' col
leges and universities.
All these institutions, however, rep.
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20, BARNES. CUDDLE doom.

The following poem, which fairly riv-
ais the most exquisite and tender of
Burns's household LYRICS was written
by common Scotch laborer some fif-
teen years ago. He was a section hand
on the North British railroad, and the
poem was published in a local paper.
So far as can be learned the author has
never given any other evidence of liter
AIRY talent than that contained in this
one marvellous productions:
HE barnies cuddle doom at nicht
VIZ muckle TAUGHT an din;
o. try an sleep, ye waukrife rogues,
Your fathers comm in,
They never heed word speak,
try to gle a frown;
But aye hap them up an say,
80, bairnies, cuddle DOOM
Wee Jamie wi the curly held,
He aye sleeps next the wa,
Bangs up an cries, ~ want a piece"
The rascal starts them
rim and fetch them pieces, drinks,
They stop a wee the SCUM,
Then draw the blankets up an cry,
moo, weanies, cuddle doOnn
But ere five minutes gang wee Rab
Cries out, frae meath the claes,
"Mither, maxi Tam gle owre at ance,
He's kittlin' WI his taes."
The mischief's in that Tam for tricks,
He'd bother half the toon;
But aye hap them up an say,
60 bairnies, cuddle doom"
Atlength they hear their fathers fit,
An as he steeks the door,
They turn their faces to the wa,
While Tam pretends to snore,
"Hae a. the weans been gude?" he asks
As he pits aft his shoon.
1.-THE bairnies, John, are in their beds,
An lang since cudded doom"
And just before we bed oorsel's,
We look at cor wee lambs; :
Tam has his arm roun' wee Rab's neck,
An Rab his arm roun' Tam's.
lift wee Jamie up the bed,
An as straik each Groom,
Iwhisyer, till my heart fills up.
"Oh, baiInies, cuddle DOOM"
The bairnies cuddle doom at nicht
WI mirth that's dear to me;
But soon the big warl's cark and care
VIII quaten doom their glee.
Yet come what may to ilka ane,
May Hewha rules aboon,
Aye whisper, though their pows be bauld,
20, hairnies, cuddle DOOM
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WHEN WOMAN'S NEAR.
[C. L AULTMAN.l

AZ OMEHOW troubles are forgotten,
m And the hours are full of cheer;
ESomehow man is lifted upward
Il When lovely womans near.
Il You can tell her when you're near her,
For there's something in her roice,
fAnd there's something in her manner
! Makes your sullen heart rejoice.
+ Eyes that tell of souls behind them,
n True as needle to the pole;
Every look and gesture speaking
y Volumes to a kindred soul
BE she stranger, friend or sweetheart
X There is naught on earth to fear;
Man has found one sure redeemer
n When lovely womans near.
And If man is ever vouchsafed
Just a taste of heaven here.
tJust breath from fields Elysian,
n TITS when lovely woman's near.
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THE WINDOW BABY.
FRANCIS NELSON woRTHINGToN.

m I'D you ever have an uncanny
u. feeling? If SO, you will appre-
ciate what happened to me, one
sitting July afternoon. l was deeply
interested in one of Marion Crawford IS
novels, and hoping not to be interrupts
ed, when suddenly | had the Impress
ion that L was being looked at intently.
| put down my book and glanced around
the room but | was alone. | commence
ed reading again but felt eerie and my
pleasure in the book was gone. Glanc-
ing out of the window to see if the
cause of my disquietude was from with
out, my eyes rested upon small attic
window in the next house. The ar
rangement of blue and red glass around
plain centre was somewhat unusual,
but it was the appearance of small
child, possibly three years of age, which
rivetted my gaze. She was smiling
broadly and one little fat hand held
back the muslin curtain. So this was
the glance which had disturbed me. /
smiled back at the baby and waved my
hand. No movement came in response,
but the smiling face gave me greeting.
Again | returned to my story only to
find myself glancing constantly at the
child and wondering that she was allow
ed to stay in broiling attic on such an
afternoon. All interest in my book was
gone but the child remained. | wished
that she would move, the set smile and
unchanging attitude made me nervous.
| could see with my eyes shut, the round
fat face above a low necked blue dress,
and the smile, which had now become a
most unpleasant grin. | felt as one
imagines a drunkard might when he
sees live snake. | wished to be con-
WINGED that the child was actually there
but was ashamed to call any one and
ask the question.
At last | went down to the porch, put
my chair out of sight of the obnoxious
window, and resolved not to look at the
child again. | fancy | may have kept
this resolution five minutes, then | was
gazing again at my neighbours attic
window. There she was, not the slight
est change in position, but the smile
seemed to have broadened. | had then
reached the end of my nerve. | called
my maid, but she found nothing strange
in the smiling child, not having had
her grinning diabolically at her all
afternoon. The fact of her seeing her
at all was reassuring, but to procure
more relief sent her next door with a
civil message to the effect that | sup
posed they did not know that one of the
children was in the attic that swelter-
ing afternoon. She returned in few
moments with the reply that they had
no children and that what | saw was a
life-size colored print of "Mellen's
food baby" put there to amuse passers-
by. | have yet to be amused.
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AS OTHERS SEE US.

by ~, and permission OF the
editor for anyone having anything to
say, to say it, leads me to express my
opinion:
Concerning Ossoli and the University
deponent, sayeth not.
| have noted the utter lack of appre-
citation of, and pride in, our Univer-
sity, that seems to be unaccountahle
ana Can't think mat one society, how.
ever large, can be responsible entirely,
for the lack of appreciation of the best
seat of learning in Tennessee, if not in
the whole South.
Neither should the 400 be held res
ponsible for so much, as observation of
them induces the thought that most of
them have so recently attained the des-
tinction of belonging to that magic
number, that they do not dare to rec
ognize any one, or anything, until they
have the sanction of the old stagers.
1t is upon the subject of hospitality
that | wish to express my opinions, and
they do not apply to Ossoli, or the 400
in particular, but to the women of
Knoxville. The soldiers were well
coined royalty, blue uniform being
all the passport required, but that
proves not the hospitality, but the pa
triotism of the people of Knoxville,
something that needed no proof, as it
has never been doubted.
How many people have taken the
trouble to call upon the families of "the
boys in blue that have come here
since the war?
They have heard glowing reports OF
the hospitality and friendliness of the
people here.
Some of the strangers may have been
society leaders in large or small way.
/ They locate here, expecting to be
treated as if they were at least Christ.
ians. Days, weeks and months pass,
and often the neighbor that brushes
against them every day, does not look
as if she saw them at all.
No wonder that socially enclined
person gradually congeals, or else be.
comes so home-sick that she packs VI
and goes home, preferring a frigid
climate to frigid people.
A friend said to me, Don't come tC
Knoxville: they never make friends
with one. They gossip about you but
never take the trouble to find out the
truth concerning YOU"
Here are some cases in point:
A lady said, 81 have lived on this block
three months, my nearest neighbors
being two members of the church that
| attend; one of them teaches the
class in Sunday-school where my little
girl goes, my other neighbor is the
wife of Jew. The only caller have
had, is the Jews wife"
A lady was calling on another lad,
and said, Come with me to call or
Mrs. -, who has just moved into
the new house down the street." The
lady stiffened perceptably and said, q
don't know her" The first lady said
'Neither do |, but it is not long be
fore am going to know her."
/ 1t turned out that Mrs. was al
old-time acquaintance of the lady who
'didn't know her." On her way home
the caller stopped and informed the
lady that she was mistaken about mo
knowing her." she expressing great de
The Chilhowee echo. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1899-19??, 1900-01-13

Elizabeth Petrovna, Empress of Rus
STA, daughter of Peter the Great, had
$4,000 dresses at the time of heredeath.
She was generally styled the Humane
Elizabeth, because of vow she made
never to inhict capital punishment dur
ing her reign. She was, however, ex-
travagantly luxurious, as shown by her
having at her death $4,000 unused
dresses in her wardrobes. She died in
l76l, in the twenty-tirst year of her
reign and the fifty-third year of her
age. Queen Elizabeth, who reigned in
England from 1868 to 1903, was also
given to extravaganza in the matter of
dress, and at her death left upward of
5000 dresses, all of them fit for use, and
having been occasionally worn by her.
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THE MEXICAN MAN.

~ PAPER originally published in
~ China contains the following de-
scription of foreigners by
Chinaman:
We are always told the countries of
the foreign devils are grand and rich.
but that cannot be true, else what do
they all come here for? 1t is here that
they grow rich. But you cannot civil
ize them; they are beyond redemption.
They will live weeks and months
without touching mouthful of rice,
but they eat the flesh of bullocks and
sheep in enormous quantities. That is
why they smell so bad, they smell like
sheep themselves. Every day they take
bath to rid themselves of their dis
agreeable odors, but they do not sue
coed. Nor do they eat their meat cook
ed in small pieces. 1t is carried into
the room in large chunks, often half
raw, and then they cut and slash and
tear it apart. They eat with knives
and prongs it makes civilized being
perfectly nervous. One fancies himself
in the presence of sword swallowers.
The opium poison which they brought
us, they do not use themselves; but
they take enormous quantities of
weshi-cher and shang ping (whiskey
and champagne) The latter is very
good. They know what is good, the
rascals. 1t is because they eat and
drink so much that they never rest. A
sensible, civilized person does nothing
without due consideration, but the bar
barans hurry with everything. Their
anger, however, is only fire of straw;
if you wait long enough they get tired
of being angry. | worked for two of
them. The one, we used to call the
Crazy Flea" because he was always
jumping about; the other we named
the wooden Gun" because he never
went off, though he was always at full
cock
They certainly do not know how to
amuse themselves. You never see them
enjoy themselves by sitting quietly
upon their ancestors grave. They jump
around and kick balls as if they were
paid to do it.
They have no sense of dignity for
they may be found walking with wom-
en-. They even sit down at the same
table with women, and the latter are
served first. Yet the women are to be
pitied too. On festive occasions they
are compelled to appear almost naked
before every man who likes to look at
them, and then they are dragged
around room to the accompaniment
of the most hellsh music.
Thousands of persons in Germany live
literally ION straw making it up into
blankets, panniers, boxes, ,knicknacks,
hats, bonnets, &c. Professional schools
have even been founded where the
trade is taught in all its varieties.
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In Abyssinia the coffee plant grows
wild in great profusion, and derives its
name from Katfa district of that
country.
The Chilhowee echo. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1899-19??, 1900-01-13

Thousands of persons in Germany live
literally ''on straw" making it up into
blankets, panniers, boxes, knicknacks,
hats, bonnets, sc. Professional schools
have even been founded where the
trade is taught in all its varieties.
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IT. UUI IIVNI UttU UIItU WI D WIS dIl
old-time acquaintance of the lady who
didn't know her. On her way home
the caller stopped and informed the
lady that she was mistaken about mot
knowing her." she expressing great de-
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WOMAN'S PROGRESS.
[CouNTEss OF WARWICK. ]

MS | am asked to review the po-
IN sition of my sex during this
AZ century, in complying with
that rennaSt Ii is almost in
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1900-07-19
Paris Bazaar

Para las pr6ximas tiestas que
hara la Colonia 'Espaf1ola en- honor
de su patron Santiago, el Paris Ba-
Ear de Pedro Giusti, tiene: Bande-
ras Espafolas de lanilla de todos ia
n.af1os. Para alderman las fachadas
de las casas. Hay ,escudos con ban
deras; para iluminaciones faroles de
papel y vasitos de cristal de colores.
Gran surtido en- distintivos, insig'
Mas, cinturones y abanicos de Ia
Bandera Espanola. Todo a precio
limitado
Ha fallecido en- Ponce don Os
Car Schuck personalidad honorable
y de gran prestigio en- Ponce. Fun
dador del cuerpo de Bomberos en-
aquella ciudad le cupo e! alto honor
de haber sido el primer Jefe de
aquel institute. Nuestra condolencia
a la distinguida familia por la ire
parable perdida que acaba de ocu
rrir.
En- la provincial china de Khan
ST han sido asesinados por las tur
bas 13 ingleses y Is alemanes.
AL Auditor de Puerto Rico Sc
le ha remitido una communication
del Fiscal Suplente del Tribunal de
Distrito de Mayaguez, acompAfando
cuenta de honorarios: presentada
por ell doctor don Benito Gaudier
por la autcpsia practicada por 81
en- ell pueblo de Aflasco en- ell cada-
yer de don Emilio Goico.
AL Juez municipal de Maya
giez Sc le ha manifestado con res
pecto a una consulta que hizo al
Attorney General sobre ell incidente
ocurrido en- ell juicio seguido por
dof1a Antonia Pecunia contra don
Francisco Ferrer por deshaucio,
que dicho centro no tiene competen
cia para resolver dicha consulta,
pues los tribunales ajustan sus
actos a 10 que las leyes disponeu.
Sc ha despedido de nosotros
para Yauco, nuestro amigo Don
Antonio Mattel Lluveras, a quien
deseamos pr6spero viale y feliz su
ceso en- sus negocios.
Conforme exlge La moda, son
los colores de los Plisses- sifon y
muselinas; guantes blancos de to-
dos tamanos, y las sin par mantillas
de almagro que han recibido en- clos
Dependencies, Fortaleza 49, 5
Manuel Salas Miranda, guar.
dia municipal que fue de Rio Pie
dras, donde presto muy buenos ser
vicios, ha iDgresado en- la policfa in
sular siendo nombrado para la
guardia de honor de la Fortaleza.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1900-07-19
premiada en- seis exposiciones.

agricultor de. Pto.Rico que reside en-
Sosua hace meses, trajo por e. va,
por frances del 5, 50 emigrantes,
agricultores todos, con destino la
plantation de guineos.
Proceden todos del pueblo de
Utuado, que tiene fama en- aquella
isla de laborioso.
Azotadas las labranzas por ell
ciclon del s de Agosto, suspendida
la ley hipotecaria que favorecla los
lntereses agricolas supeditado ell co,
lono por la irresistible competencia
del capital americana que va absor
yiendo todas las industrias y acapa
rando y explotando las riquezas ma.
turales de la isla; la emigration de
agricultores puertorriQue11os es una
nccesidad imperiosa de la que debia'
mos nosotros aprovechar,.
Despues Sc extiende ell colega
Ell consideraciones sobre la ventaja
que seria q Sto Domingo favorecer la
emigraci6n de puertorriquenos labo-
riosos fin de levantar e, estado pre-
carlo de la agricultural.
Los gobiernos previsores CO.
nocedores de la ciencia economical
procuran evitar a toda costa las co.
rrientes de emigration porque es ell
principle de la ruina &c un pals, fist
ca y moralmente, porque general
mente em;gra 10 que trabaja y 10 q.
vale y quedan los que no pueden
emigrar 9 los degenerados que sa,
ben soportar tanto la esclavitud So
c1al como la economical
Aun es tempo de corregir el
NAL, los que no saben 6 no quieren
dar libertades poIfticas, quieran y
sepan dictar sabias medidas econ6mi
cas- y Pto Rico Sc habra salvado.
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La Canala de Representative.
SU DEBER |; SAGR.ADo.
iNuestra patria de IutO!

mento para dirigirnos los hombres
que vendran formar la Camara de
Representatives.. Asf como ante el
cadaver de la madre Sc olvidan las
rencillas de los hijos, ante el luto de
la patria Sc olvidan las querellas
de los ciudadanos. Al penetrar en-
los salones donde deba alzarse la voz
que representa- a Puerto Rico, debe
llevarse ell coraz6n lleno de genero.
sidad, ell cerebro brindando energfa,
la lengua lac6nica, resuelta y segu
ra. No necesitamos pol1ticos en- la
Camara; nj queremos ret6ricos dis
cursos, nj pensamientos poeticos,
nj <perfodos felices&
Nuestro deber allf es ir en- ayu
mas, porque los hombres que van a
remediar hambre no deben repletar-
Sc ell est6mago; tratar como primer
asunt3 ell emprestito y no pasar a
otra cosa sin dejarlo dirigido al Co.
berno para su aprobaci6n.
Como tenemos libertad de pedir
dinero donde mejor nos convenga,
no olvidemos que Francia ofrece Ca
pital al tres y al cuatro por ciento;
81 ell emprestito Sc demora en- New
York pase11os Paris con la veloci
dad del TELEGRAPH.
Establecido con este capital un
banco agrfcola dirigido por nuestros
hombres de competencia en- ese ra
mo, termina la perturbation de las
hipotecas y nuestros agricultores,
descolgando de sus cabezas la espa-
da de Damocles representada en-
nuestro actuales bancos, que han en-.
carecido y sepultado la juvenrud
agricultora de Puerto Rico, con sus
plazos de seis meses, improrroga
bles, pasado que hayamos a transac
clones de mas alivio para nuestros
agricultores vendra ell renacimiento,
es decir, ell hombre sosegado en- los
campos arrancara q la terra de
nuevo, productos que significan ORC;
y pidiendo la Camara nuevos mer-
cados para tabaco y cafe, ya que ell
americana no los solicita, salvare
mos los dos primeros productos del
pals.
La Camara debe votar primero
el emprestito, segundo pedir en- Wa
shington, tpatados con Alemania,
Francia, Espafa eInglaterra, para
favorecer nuestro tabaco y cafe ST
los elegidos por ell pueblo hacen
ESQ, demostraran que comparten con
los desamparados los dolores de su
patria.
DIR. Jesus Ma ANA DEO.
HOa Alta