The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1900-02-28
BY MRS. HATTIE dRINNELL.

janice Meredith, story OF the Revo-
luton, by Paul Leicester Ford, has been
very popular. II appeared in serial form
last year In Golfers Weekly, but have
Just gotten 1t in book form and am de-
lighted with it. Ford is forceful and
makes it felt in his characters. l like his
"Hon. Peter Stirling" better than any Of
bis works.
Justice Brewer, Of the United States
Supreme court, predicts that the twentieth
century will be noted for greater unity
in Christian life. Well, the good Lord
grant 1t, for this has been one Of rivalry
and strife. We want Christian unity.
We are drawing closer, closer, and are
afiliating in thousand forms OF labor,
unknown even fifty years ago. We all
want to forget the inquisition, we pray
to obliterate the burning of witches or
the persecution Of the Quakers. We
want to serve one Master. We are less
radical in 1900 than in 1900 We want
TO grow more and more tolerant one to
the other.
A Pacific cable has long seemed to be
q necessity OF the near future. Our re-
cent acquisitions in the Pacific have nov
made it necessity Of the present. An
English cable is assured and an Ameri-
can one will follow soon, no doubt.
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heartily agree with Mrs. Alice Free
man Palmer. late president Of Wellesley
college, that 1t is not possible TODAY any
more than II was possible q hundred
years ago to annihilate the womanliness
OF our American girls by anything that
you can do to them in education. A
womanly girl Is ever keen in her ambi-
tons for usefulness, and tender-hearted
in her desires to be a good comrade to
the American man with whom she ex-
poets TO finally live her life twenty-five
years ago we were all sure, for
one was sure, that when girls began to 60
to college, they would naturally turn to
languages and literature; to history, fine
arts and music, the esthetic side Of life. |
never, will admit, thought they would
turn impassioned to pure mathematics,
TO physics, chemistry, biology, astron-
omy, yet we all know they have, and
have been successes, and have shown
great aptitude for the exact sciences. l
do not want them, however, TO leave out
poetry, sentiment, music and art. In all
things only let them be sure that when
the time comes they will make good
wives and mothers.
Prof. Atwater, of Wesleyan Univer-
sity, IL calling forth extended comment
upon his assertion that alcohol is food.
Much controversy Is thereby stirred mp.
H sffirms that alcohol is oxidiEed in the
body. We may not deny that but 1t
does not prove alcohol to be food. Many
poisons besides alcohol are oxidised in
the body. Prof. Atwater asserts that
thus alcohol furnishes energy not
denied again. But nothing is proved,
because the injurious effects far out
weigh the energy given. He makes q
number Of statements that cannot be
supported by official bulletins prepared
by noted scientists who have declared
that there is always loss OF heterogeneous
material from experiments of taking al
ohol Is q food. Experiments do not
ustain Prof. Atwater In his claims. In
ich statement We find the very germ
battle. The conflict lie on and has
cen since June when the Professor
Jade bis costly and elaborate expert
ments TO prove the food theory Of alco-
hol. The whole temperance world has
been up In arms which Is likely to van
quish the learned Professor.
The death Of Mr.. r. d. Blackmors at
his country home near London last
tQonth. makes as naturally think of his
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