The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-05-12


the same sort which New York or
London or Paris would turn cut on
similar occasion" Together with
probably the majority of Americans,
General Mott had an idea that every
thing that was worthy the name OF
society in Cuba was Spanish. He
found that really the best society was
not only Cuban, but open to Cubans
only, generally speaking, before the
war. 1t was the boast of the Cubans
that no Spanish governor general Tor
twenty-five years had been admitted
into Cuban society.
There is no use denying that civil
zation hes its drawbacks. 1t has
brought in its train a long list OF
vicissitudes which primitive man never
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, corns. ap-
rendicitis, dentists and such things.
Our savage ancestors were no germ
chasers; a whole gourd full otemi-
crobes didn't scare them even q little
bit, and the man who attempted to
get up a scare over the impurlty OF
the water was either sold at bargain
rates to some neighboring tribe or
neatly baked in mud oven. In that
age good health was contagious. and
the person who contracted disease
was accused OF pampering himself
with luxuries. Life was tranquil
Joy, simple fare and absolute freedom
from the perils which attend modern
progress.
Mail collection by ordinary trolley
cars. successful feature of the service
in Hartford, Conn, has been broad
ened in Grand Rapids, Mich, where
every trolley-car in the city has been
made a mail-car. Each car is equipped
with two mail-boxes placed one at
either end. The boxes, which are OF
the ordinary type found on street
corners. are placed just inside the
vestibule by the controller stand, an
opening being made in the front OF
the car large enough to slip letters
through. The side of the box from
which the carriers remove the mail is
next the vestibule door, enabling col.
lections to be made without entering
the car. The instructions issued by
the company to it's employees are that
while they are not compelled to stop
at all street corners for the deposit OF
letters in the boxes, where there are
no passengers who wish to get on OF
off, they are expected to do so if they
can maintain their schedule time.
Every courtesy is to be shown the
people in their use. The boxes are
locked every night by an official OF
the post Office, and the postal author.
tiles collect the mail from every box
on each trip at its nearest point to the
post-ofiice. Thus far it is purely
gratuitous service on the part of the
railroad company.
An interesting effect of the employ
ment of women in many new spheres
of labor which has been seen during
the lasttwenty years is the remarkable
extension which has been caused in
the working period of woman's life.
Every day the term of woman's &C
tivity is being heightened, and instead
of retiring from strenuous work at
thirty-fve, which was the limit form
erly fixed of the ordinary woman's
business career, the woman of to-day
at that age is only approaching the
plenitude of her powers. c. E. Col.
lett, in regard to the domestic bear
ing of this change in the status Of
women, says: Formerly at the age
of eighteen the young person was ex
pected to relieve her invalid mother
of household cares and brighten hen
aged fathers declining years. But
mothers i'll 1900 refuse to become de-
crepit and take to the sofa merely be-
cause their daughters are grown up.
The new mother may be considerably
over thirty five, bordering ON fifty
perhaps, but she neither feels aged,
nor looks it, and is rather inclined to
look beyond her home for full scope
for her powers when thus set free
from maternal cares. Mental activity
gives freshness and interest to life,
and to be fresh and interested is tc
be young" Miss Collett insists that
it is because girls have been taught
to use their brains, and women have
been encouraged to keep them in re-
pair, that this old stereotyped con.
ception of the necessary failure OF
woman's power after thirty-five years
of age has become absurd.
Prosperous When Women Rule.