El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-05
For the Better Half

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rations are often not only tC
cheaper the article but to improve 1T.
| Europeans always mix chicOry with
coffee to improve its flavor. Glucose
candy is easily digested where pure
sugar candy gives small folks and bic
folks stomach ache. Oleomargarfue Is a
good cheap substitute for butter. Good
oleom argsrine is much better thar
! inferior butter. Tee usual standard
manufactured foods have a perfectly
/ good right to live aud many OF the 60
called adulterants have their legiti-
mate place among food stuffs. 1t Is
true the public ought to know what II
| is getting, but the public insists upon
being humbugged. Every woman
WHO goes TO grocery store
knows that the French sardines come
from the New England coast, but she
picks out a can with a French label
| in preference to one with New
Eael land label and who csn blame the
manufacturers for using French titles
| for theIr cans. She knows that she
ca not get big bottle of pure essence
| of vanilla for ten cents but she'd rath-
err get a big bottle of adulterated
vanilla essence Lnan a few drops OF the
pure for the same money. In the New
England factories of cotton goods tney
have little printing press that prints
the gilt edge labels, .'Made n Germany
that are so attractive to the eye
feminine. The woman will not patron
ize American manufactures OF prints
and cloths if they can get foreign
made goods or wh at they think to be
reign made goods for anything near
the same money. 1t is not entirely
the fault OF the manufacturers and deal
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fraud and deception in their wares.
1t IL odd that Ell Paso with all of it's
clubs and all of It's earnest club work
and it's interest in books and art, has
no Shakspere club. Shakspere clubs
obviate one great difficulty in the
argument against the many clubs OF
our day-:hat men and women are not
together in their club interest but
brothers and sisters, husbands and
wives have entirely separate pleasure
in them. Furthermor Shakspere clubs
accomplish part of that culture" so
greatly longed for and eagerly worked
for and often missed by many clubs.
To read and study Shakspere is to
progress up one of the surest paths to
the circles of higher Thoughts.
Books like Janice Meredith and
When Knighthood Was In Flower
are good enough books in their way,
excellen books but surely not OF suf
too much like literary confectionery
to be really mental food. 1t Is not
really loving books to devour one such
popular novel after another. 1t is
decidedly cloying and destroys ones
finer taste for real literature.
Next after the Bible Shaks-
pere IL the worthiest book in all
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songs as sweet as poets can sing, humor
az mirth provoking as testers and gay
and happy folks can produce. tragedy
deep enough to thrill the soul with
awe. history that makes US friends
with kings and queens, ethics that
show US how high minded, pure souled.
and brave gentlemen and gentle women
are, how soul devastating a sorrow
can be, how well yelled wrong soma
times is, how subtly vileness can
creep into life and how far goodness
can flash forth It's light from our every
days. It is q grand school of ethics to
be found in Mr.. Shakspere's plays
Shakspere women are perfect types
of feminine possibilities, from the gen.
tie, lovesick Juliet to the ambitious,
blood stained Lady Macbeth. To
study Shakspere is to known ones
town, once neighbors, ones family,
people will think twice of such indif-
ferently good books as Janice Meredith
and will go year In and year out with
out q peep into the pages OF the Shaks-
pere on their shelves.
The news from Havana OF the cruel
death of Mrs. Wilson, wife of General
military governor Of Matanzas,
should be q warning that goes home to
svery man and woman, to be scrupu-
lously careful about matches and fire.
Mrs. Wilson stepped on a match as
she entered her carriage. She was
dressed in summer clothes. her light
skirts caught In the tiny flame aud In |
In instant she was In a blazing shroud. |
The fire could not be extinguished be- |
fore, she was horribly burned and after |
a few hours of agony she died. Such |
an accident is possible every day in |
every house where matches are left |
the floor or stairs and |
where women go about. Men are care |
less about matches. They usual |
~ have their pockets more or less full |
Of them and scatter them about heed |
less of where they fall Women are |
very careless about fire, about the |
lame that heats their curling tongs, |
and about matches. The fact that |
such terrible accidents as that to Mrs |
Wilson are not frequent does not
make any less than all precaution ex-
cusable. In fact these accidents are con-
though not frequently OCCUR
Ing. 1t happens that Mrs. Wilson be-
Ing the wife OF one in high authority,
we know of hers when Others have ga