Arizona republican., 1900-10-19

the exquisite possibilities of charm, alllurement and alimony penned with in its walls. and the knowledge shakes :hem like the ague. It is by no menas the first time the Ely institute author ities hav- preferred charges of this sort, which suggests the possibility that it may require advertising. It is all
 ways full of agreeable girls. who are modest as well as pretty, and who. Of course. would not lay themselves open -o the charge of possessing gutta per cha necks for the world. There is a 'arge yard adjoining the school, in which they play basket ball and other healthful games in bicycle skirts and white sweaters. At the Eighty fourth street sid of the yard. jus; beyond the fence there is sharp declivity of green surf down which few of them Occa- sionay slide. toboggan- fashion, and then rise, to look blandly into the faces of fright ned passers-by. as who would say: 'How's that for a minary stunt?" It is an athletic performance. Sut not elevating.
 A wise man in Boston has just writ ten a pamphlet that has provoked no lit.le discussion in that outwardly se- dat and inwardly Sprightly town. It expresses some views that are more or less sharply defined, the writer hold ing. for one thing. that gentleman may be a gentleman eV n if ne posses ses little or no religious conviction Of any kind: always provided that he Is just to his fellows and indisposed to do violence to his own conscience. The subject is perpleXing, if only for the difficulty one experiences in d4hninS the term gentleman" It is term much abused and not always under stood. Students vary in their conclu- siOns on the subject; because the eVl- nee Obtainable is not always con- VinCing. An individual who looks like q gentleman not infrequsntly shatters the impression when he speaks, and another, born q gentleman. grieVes his friends by wearing a high hat with snort coat. Nevertheless, the man of any class who will not insist that he is q gentleman. and fight if denial is made to the claim. is, of course, mo gentle man." Illustration of this is found in the attitude lof the gentleman who blaWls over his beer and announces hims If to be a gentleman. be heavens. with q clenched fist and q terrible frown to emphasize the declaration. That his geE.lemanly quality would be suspected in the absence of his statement do5s not trouble him in the least and it exercises no effect on the general proposition.
 When one approaches the religion of a gentleman" the probls m increases in gravi:y. Religious feeling is a mat ter of some delicacy with all of us Some gentlemen are reared in one faith. some in another. and their degree of gentility can scarcely be gauged by the church that they attend or the form of devotion that they pr5f Aside from considerations purely spiritual. there are a few signs which. when closely interpreted, seem to mark the behavior of a gentleman. To be firm in your faith but tolerant of the faith of others; to be clean in body and fair in mind: to drink if you must drink at all. in your house or your club, and never over a public bar; to be amiable to the aged and kind to tne children; to be slow in quarrel and terrible in fight; to be g nerous SO your friends. chiV- alrous to your enemies. and faithful to the death to your love. That is the re- Iigion of a genteman.-Harold Richard NYnne in Chicago Journal.