The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-05-06
SOME VIEWS AND REVIEWS.

Federated clubs on behalf OF shorter working
hours for our clerks should command the
Individual cooperation and sympathy OF /
every woman In Texas. We ARE not wiifully |
nesiectful OF these sisters of ours but we |
are none the less culpablc.
The other day. three little maids from |
sohool came down town. out for good time. |
They were as fair and dainty and sweet as
any illiies that grow aud apparently as in
nocent of transgression. Suddenly one OF |
them stopped We've lots OF time. let's go |
70 blanks and try on hats" she said Toe
otntr TWO promptly assented and the PROPOSE |
'lon was carried out forthwith
me closing hour In the millinery depart
ment OF the big store had come and other
xaits. penlnd the counters, had wearily locked
me eases aud covered the boxes. thankful
mat the work OF the day was finished. II
was Easter week and the demands upon their
NERVES and strength had been heavier than
usual But three possible customers such
as THESE. must not be disappointed 80 the
ilsnts were turned on again, the cases I'M
.ouked and one hat after another was in-
spected and tried only to be laid aside.
| When there were no more worthy OF notice
tne visitors left not before Now. who Is
responsible for such heartlessness as this?
| Ihe perpetrators? In measure. yes. But
the chief offenders are their mothers. We
40 not, to our shame be it said train our
daughters and our sons, by precept and ex-
l.h ~.
! these little thoughtful omissions do not count;
there is no principle involved"
But there is vital principle involved. aud
| we are sewing the seeds OF bitter harvest,
| by and by. For sefshness is the root of all
! the evil in this world. 1t is inherent in the
whole family of Adam. and the only way to
| eradicate 1t is to recognize 1t and battle with
| IT.. whether the struggle be within our own
| fallibe natures. or that harder fight which
we must make for the purifying and uplft-
| ing of these Young lives committed to our
| remembering
ment which reminds us of the debt of love we
owe to those whom we do not even count
among our nighbors, but who are our
brothers and our sisters in a Fathers eyes.
49,
An act OF reparation. tardy enough has
lust been made. which restores to the place
it once held among the honored commanders
of France the name OF Bazaine In herosm
and nobility of self-sacrihce 1t stands first
of all. even though the objects of such loyalty
be most unworthy of 1t.
The world has not forgotten the events OF
the tranco-Prussian war. nor the GROWING
calamity to the French cause. tho surrender
oil Metz. That impregnaole fortress, tn hlga-
est triumph OF the engineering skill OF Frame
aud garrisoned with 100000 troops, the hover
of her great army. Military critics every
where. characterized the act as something
much verse than a blunder. and the French
people received the news with bust OF
furious indignation only equal to that which
overwhelmed the unhappy Dreyfus Bazaine
was tried and condemned to traitors death.
subsequently the sentence was committed to
lifelong imprisonment on the island of st.
Marguerite. His friend and oomrade. Mar
shall Mcmahon. accomplished this i'll his be-
half
The old soldier went in digni1ed silence TO
his prison whence some wears later. he
made his escape to Spain 1t Is very evident
now that the French government permitted
that escape. as an act of ameloration for an
; innocent victim of misplaced devotion
. Bazaine owed his rank and high position to
E the emperor. whose favorite ho was. ana ne
cancelled tho debt at Metz,
In Madrid. In exile. and wearing the stiS-
1 ma of disgrace. this marshal of France spent
the closing wears OF his sorrowful life. re
/. fusing to the end to utter the words whlei
q would restore to him his home his friends
4 and what was dearer yet the honor OF Ms
g name
+ Recently the ex-Empress Eugenie has con
d fessed that 1t was she who was responsibi
h for the surrender OF Metz. She ueremptorh'
ordered Bazaine to eapituate, believing ~
! armistice could be effected and the great arm
liberated to crush the revolutionary move
u mont in Paris. and to re-establish the re
gency The Bonapartes were ever an un
worthy race. but none who bore the nam
have been less entitled to distinction an
honor than this Spanish woman. whom IN
z, third NAPOLEON elevated to the throne o
lie France She ruined her husband and drov
l. her only child TO his death In foreign lan9
Her cold-hearted Indifference to the old Sol
der. who would not himself break the 81
II lence which condemned him. is but eonclu
O
IF since bestowed upon her in the land OF he
adontion She was its evil genius and IT
fitting she should be remembered tners
"une femme nefaste'-a hanefui woman
" ~
30 The April Mcclure contains biographici
Sc sketch which is worthy of more than pass
l.. ing glance 1t is taken from the advane
al sheets OF the forthcoming life of Hu&lel
ne nv his son Leonard. The latter wisely allow
in his fathers own letters to tell the story OF h
M early struggles and hardships; OF his doub
as IN the wisdom of his choice of callin
from a business and peeuhiary point
NJ, view Doubts based solely on his apprehei
- sion of being unjust to the woman ne love
no and who had promised to be his wlle. +
he was constantly harassed by the Ieeline "
he he owed IL to her to pursue some more II
h. orative calling than that which lay neare
en- his heart. pure science; Brewing, storehe exec,
T. ing. and suuatting in Austral,a, were amy
he those which suggested themselves, anu Whl'
ed were submitted for her approval. one
or tempted to wonder as to the result had M
st Heathorn been other than she was-a WON,
nj Of high unselfsh nature. OF me inteilectu
a. gifts and true and loyal heart
,re Perhaps in no other way could we ma
m gained so accurate an estimate OF the gre
scientist himself as tnro snrer yles sa whoi
he scme and true IN tone that one Is eonst1 !
,ar Impressed by the fine and sterling qualltl
'' az the writer There Is no posing after enc
no vain. tiresome inntrospecti9n, but simI
earnest record of hlrgself ana his WORK. u
Of his warm and tender affection for ms :
Ioved sister and even more dearly ioVeo WI
, One very interesting feature Of the MARI
tive is the number Of distinguished men "
were Huxley's professional associates
vain friends and OF whom he writes IN I
same unaffected pleasant fasnlon. Ihe
were Lyell Murcheson, owens. roro
. =, Hooker and many another name wen Rno'
~ in the scientific history Of the worlo'
r,s. Huxley met Miss Heathorn at sydney.
an isi7. and they became engaged lie v
then assistant surgeon in the navy. and "
a.. only % wears old, and she was year your
iiss err. Four years later he was elected a tell
tue of the ROYAL society and awarded the Ro
mas medal. Other honors and awards follow
hse in rapid succession but they were, alas, tr
IA pecuniary point OF view. yalueless. 81
~ they brought no emolument IN thsir IRA
,at ano IL wss not until 1855 that ne was a
wy TO marry. Meanwhile. Miss Heathorn
NAT returned TO England so broken in healtn y
was one eminent authority allowed her only
lsn months OF life but neither she nor ~
her Huxley would accent so HOPELESS vese
nus and time only served to Justify tns VISA
nat OF their decision. In letter TO slr y
'eeh Hooker the eminent botanist. ana MS near
on aud oidsst friend, Huxley alludss very char
lere ingly to mis- own happiness and ahxsousF
'hed the shadow that dimmed IL: - -
'ook IA waverly Place Wednesday'-My y
Hooker NV wife and ] met again on ,
ain day iast and | have established herself