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By George AIDE

Behold the Chink.' said Ralph. "Ac-
cOrd1ng 10 what you have told me. he
IS All that the Business Man should be
He Hustles early and late, saves his
Stuff, doesn't blow himself for Finerv
and his Food is Cheap and Wholesome.
Let us go in and hail him as a Broth
err
Not So" said the Father. Let US
not be too Friendly with him today for
tomorrow we may be called upon to
come around here and euchre him out
Of all he possesses. He is a Heather
and vas dipped in the wrong Vat. 1
viii admit that if he had been Born in
Providence, R. L, instead of Xxi VI and
could omit the Pig-Tau and grow
Throat Warmers. he would have us
blowing about his Sterling Qualities
and his Picture would be hanging IN
wise you to initiate him in many Re
speCtS, but be sure and wear a black
Diagonal instead of a blue Nightie and
then the Papers will speak of you as a
Substantial Citizen"
After that, little Ralph set out to be
a Chinaman, all except the Get-Up. lie
tOiled like a Cart Horse and abiured
all LuXuries. He kept everything that
came to him except when the Laundry
Boy CorneTed him and rendered a Bill
for I Shirt, 6 Collars and Pairs of
Cuffs.
At the age when most Boys are going
in for Neckwear Summer Hosiery and
Stick-Pins, Ralph was making Pay
ments on Town Property and trying to
beat the Record of the Man who lived
on Is Cents Day.
His parents were proud Of him. It
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BY William T. Stead.

on the trolley car. it seems probable he
will get in ahead all right. At the
same time, while we may deplOTe the
loss Of pride Of place previously en-
jOyed by our country, we only need to
examine each OF these instances Of
American competition better in detail
to perceive that while our rivals are
beating US, they are really comforting
the greatest possible advantage upon
the individual citizen. That is, indeed.
the great advantage Of industrial as
opposed to military rivalry. An Amer
lean, who. like MessTs. Bachelor and
Mulholland, would enable US to deliver
all our parcels silently in as many min
utes as they now take hours, is a ben
efactOr to the community at large. The
pneumatic tube may supeTsede thou
sands of the drays and parcel delivery
carts which make the city almost i'm
passabIe at certain hours, but the bal
ance Of advantage is Enthusiastically
on the side Of the tube.
The moral Of the whole matter is that
while accepting the goods with which
the American gods provide US. we must
make up our minds to start in and
hustle round, otherwise we shall be
badly left, without even a fOothold on
the slopes Of the modern Olympus.
Copyright, 1901, by ". r. Hearst.)
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manufacturers, when told that they
ought to bestir themselves, have some
reason for eXpostulatiOn when they
point to the fact that they cannot full
fill the orders which they have already
on their books; but that belongs to the
past, and what may be a very rapidly
vanishing past.
England was the first of the powers
to discern the possibility of Harvesting
steam to the service of mankind. Last
century was the Steam Age, and Eng
land, the land of Watt and Stephen
son. dominated the century. The TWEEN
tieth century is the century of cleo
tricity, and in electricity England can
not even pretend to pre-eminence. On
the contrary, We are submissively tax
ing a back seat in the application Of
electrical science, and are apparently
making up our minds to admit our in
ability to compete with America in
things electrical as we have already
admitted it in the production Of news
paper and magazine printing machln-
err.
At this moment, what is it that we
see in LOndon2 We have the TwOpen-
ny Tube, the new and most successful
illustration OF an underground metro
politan railway, worked by American
machinery. We have Mr.. Yerkes ar
ranging for making more TwOpenny
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husbands ought to read it as we'll as
wives. What lessons for them there
are in it, to be sureI I rejoice that we
have some one living among US with
wit to perceive that the life which a,
woman leads with the ordinary selfish,
beer-drinking, cigar smoking English
husband is little better than that Of an
eastern slave.
Take my own case. which is one out
of a thousand in our land. I belong to
my lord and master body and soul; the
duties Of a hOusekeeper, upper nurse
and gOverness are required Of me; I
am expected to be always at home at
my husbands beck and call. Tt is true
that he feeds me well. and that, for his
own glOrificatiOn, he provides me with
handsome clothing. It is true also that
he does not beat me. For this 1 ought,
of course, be grateful, but ] often think
of what you say on the wife and sery-
ant question and wonder how many
of US would like to share the cook s
privilege Of being able to give warning
to leave.
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I'VE have heard enough about the
duty of training girls to be good wives
and good mothers. 1t is high time now,
as you so rightly suggest, that we
should hear something about training
boys to be decent husbands and tOler-
able fathers. Under the present sys-
tenn of education they are taught from
their cradles to despise girls as their
interiors, and the result is the semi
slavery of English wives which you
have so ably depicted. I will recon-
mend your book to every man and
woman whom 1 meet
Do, please, by all means; but I am
afraid, my dear Mrs. John Bull, that
you are rather hard on your husband.
No doubt ne thinks you such an Orna-
ment to his house that ne cannot bear
to know you outside it. Looked at
properly, it may be taken as a delicate
compliment paid to you. Do try smil-
ing at home.
An American lady writes very much
in the same strain and signs "A Neg
lected Wife" From morning to night
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to the cost OF the necessaries OF Tfe2
A man who marTies a woman because
she is pretty and dresses we'll is no.
the one 1 envy for your daughters. We
men are not all possessOrs of large
fortunes, and what we seek, when we
are sensible, are cheerful women who
Will be our partners. The life of an in
telligent bachelor is very we'll worth
living, and as we are all more or less
in search of more happiness we marry
so that we may be happier. At any
rate, that is the inducement
I am dark writes an American
girl; should I marry a dark or a
blonde man?"
Now, I like the looks Of a dark man
and a fair blonde woman arm in arm:
but, know il is idiOtic, don't like the
sight of dark woman and blonde
man.
Marry a man with dark hair-unless
you have a blonde one.
Avoid men and women with sleek.
black hair, with a suspicion of blue in
it. MAX O'RELL.
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crowns and coronets left in the old
world. and il will take some time be
fore all the treasure trOve of centuries
goes up the spout to pay our debts to
the new world.
One thing is quite certain, and that is
that any attempt 10 stem this tendency
by the imposition of protective tariffs
would be suicidal. There is no need to
be a fanatic in favor of free trade in
order to show that England, which has
been for half a century the foremost
power of the world, competing success
fully in every market triumphing over
all the protective tariffs that have been
used to shut out her goods, could not
possibly admit that she was unable
without protection, to hold her own in
the home market, without prOclaiming
her abdication before the world.
What we have to hope is that under
the double stimulus of the strain of
the South African war and the sharp
menace of American and German COM
petition John Bull mayspull himself to-
gether before it is too late. Energy,
enterprise and intelligence are qualities
Indispensable for the maintenance of
our position in the markets Of the
world. It is true, no doubt, that we
have had as much business as we could
do, and that at the present moment our
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cudgel my poor brains to discover
anything I may do to please my hus-
band, and I cannot get rewarded with
even a smile. I have to spend all my
evenings alone, while my husband is
dining, drinking and card-playing at
his club. I had the reputation of being
a cheerful, gOOd-tempered girl; but the
life I have to lead now would sour an
angel. have not a smile left in me-"
There is a cure for this complaint, in
America especially, Just tell your hUs-
band, dear madam, in a gOOd-humOred
way and with the best smile you can
put on: I now belong to the Colt
Alone club. On your way home from
your club at midnight or 1 o'clock, will
you kindly call for me at my club so
that we may return together" I am
not sure that the cure in infallible, but
would try it if I were you; it might
work well.
Z have eight daughters. What would
you advise me to do with them?" in
quires an English lady correspondent.
Well, am engaged, seriously en-
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Tubes, which will bring Charing Cross
into a rapid communication with
Hampstead. We have a third Ameri-
can, Mr.. Mulholland, engaged in negO-
tiatiOns for the establishment of uni
veTsaI pneumatic parcel and post deliV
cry throughout London, which viii en-
tail the expenditure Of millions, but
which would undoubtedly be of the
greatest advantage in overcoming the
congestion of traffic and the delays
which are so ruinOus to business. Fur
Their, Mr.. AT Johnson, the brother of
Tom Johnson, the mayor Of Cleveland,
who is much talked of as a possible
presidential candidate at next election,
has arrived in London, full of a scheme
for constructing an electric railway
which will enable Londoners to run
down to Brighton for a shilling in an
hour. st the same time Glasgow in
stalls American machinery to drive all
it's trains, and puts thousands of IN
necessary horses upon the market, the
Quadruped having no more work to do,
thanks to the intrusion Of the American
electrical competitor
All this points in one direction. As
the steam engine outpaces the horse,
so electricity is distancing steam. As
long as the steam engine held the field,
we had no difficulty in holding our
own; but now that Uncle Sam has got
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gagged, and can only advise you to ap-
ply elsewhere for relief But how old
are your daughters? If they are still
in pinafores there is the system Of
plain diet and early hours, pursued
with success, I believe, by our old
nursery acquaintance who lived in a
shoe. But perhaps my first sUrmise
was the correct one and having eight,
more or less, manageable daughters,
you are at a, loss to know why men are
not besieging your house for wives.
Now, madam, let me ask you one or
two questions Have you judiciOusly
trained your eight daughters2 Have
you been careful to have them taught
all the Ologies, the higher branches of
science, the piano, and a Snattering of
half a dozen accomplishments? Have
you carefully shielded their sensitive
natures from all knowledge of the de-
grading trivialities of housekeeping?
Have you duly inculcated in them a
contempt for anything but for silk and
satin. the best style of dress, carriages,
furniture and lady-like indifference
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to sleep there on the sofa all night
with the windows open and all her
clothes on. He is very indignant.
don't know why. He tells her that his
heart is a firebrand, and you wonder
why he doesn't take something for it
a cooling draught She sets there, -
bolt upright looking like a hen that
has swallowed q penknife. Don Pablo
leaves her and says something about
Tomorrow" She signs. IF he had
said Today" or Next year." or Next
century" she would still have sighed.
As soon as she is alone Daniel, the re-
jected, enters. He has followed them
and comes upon the scene so charming.
She has never cuddled him before but
this time, as she is married, she throws
herself into his arms In Continental
romance" marriage with one man is
the strongest incentive TO embrace an
other. No sooner has the marriage
ceremony been performed than ex-
traneous kisses are in order. During
the three acts of Mariana" wnen she
could have been his. in the very legiti-
macy OF it all. she would have nothing
10 do with him. But now that she IS
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one of the most read and appreciated
French writer's and poets and also one
Of the most fascinating and lovely Pa
risieunes.
Daudet and Browning could. ROstand
can, afford to have literary wives; but
who is the man of ordinary Intelligence
in the ordinary pursuits of life who
can? Who is the man, the manly man,
who can be happy with a wife superior
to himself or, much worse still, who
believes she is? Charlotte Bronte,
RhOGa BrOughtOn, Ouida, Marie Corelli
were not or are not married. George
Sand was married, not much though,
and not for long, and pity it is she
was-fOr her husband
A disappointed English wife writes
to me; 4 feel very grateful to you for
the admirable way in which YOU have
shown up the true position of women in
England. Every Englishman ought to
read your book, and, although my
husband was very dverse to my doing
so, L have read it myself and am very
glad that 1 did. And let me add that
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to be carried on between a country
which has more than enough of every
thing that it wants and another cOun-
try which has nothing which it can sell
in the American market.
To this there is one answer. and a
very unpleasant One-to-wft, that al
though the Americans may no longer
take our steel or our copper or our
Goals, they viii buy up England itself
or, rather, to use the phrase, they viii
pick out the eyes Of England and take
them in exchange for their super
abundance Of natural commodities. Al
ready we see this process going on in
the purchases of the famous country
seats in the old country by wealthy
Americans. Mr. Aston. by the might
of his millions. supplants the Duke of
Westminster at Cliyeden. Mr.. Carnegie
establishes himself at SkibO. Mr..
Phipps of the Carnegie firm, succeeds
Lord Lytton at Knebworth; and even
Mr.. Croker establishes himself in his
modest retreat in King Alfred's Want
age. As it is with palaces and castles,
SO IT is likely to be in an eEer-increas-
ing ratio with titles and all manner of
bric-a-brac. If we produce from field.
factory or mine nothing which the
Americans care to take in exchange
for their commodities, we have a few
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line, is employed to secure the control
of the British empire? We may keep
our monarchy and its trappings as the
Leyland steamers keep their British
ensign But the hand that grips the
throttle-valve Of the state. viii it also
be American? There win be no need Of
annexation. All that is needed is a pre-
pOnderant interest. And that may yet
be in the market.
The American papers which an
nOunced the transit of the Leyland line
to PierDOnC Morgan and his colossal
combination. maliciousIy headed the
news with the title. England Selling
on There is just sufficient truth in
the matter TO make some of US little
uneasy.
American capital is now coming over
here to be invested in British enter
prises, and interest upon that capital
VIII have to be RENTED in some way
or other to the United States. The
Americans are producing everything
they want themselves; but what is it
that we can give them in exchange for
their gOods? 1t is nonsense to say that
We have 10 pay for it in gold, because
there IS not gold enough in the country
for any such purpose, and the question
which puzzles some people is how much
longer il viii be possible for business
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a bride. and that hubby is in another
room, she purrs at him and says, You.
You'll Only you" and pretty little
things Of that sort.
Just as she is about to fly with him
and he is wrapping her up in a hun
bred guinea cloak, bought in Albemarle
street, w, she remembers that his ia
Their must have looked like that when
he induced her mother to fly This re-
minded me of the Dickens character
who burst into tears when ne heard the
clock strike 10, because ne had once
heard it strike 10 when he was a laugh
ing lad. Mariana has mysteries. She
rushes TO the door and calls her nus
band. Come. come" cries she, "and
save your honori" (Which, by-the-bye.
she had been about to give away as
though it were a gift with pound OF
tea). She makes such a noise at the
door that If it hadn't been well-regu-
lated. solid and balgy sort of door II
would have given way. Don Pablo en-
ters. takes in the situation, is told by
Mariana. who likes to rub It IN. that
she adores Daniel, and then, taking
a pistol from his pocket, shoots her. As
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the last curtain falls Daniel is moan
ing over her body, and hubby sinks
from the room.
Isn't il a sweet little thing in plays?
What object can be served by the pre-
sentation of such degeneracy? Yet, If
we had endowed theatres, 1t would be
just this sort of maudlin trash that we
should see, because nobody but cranks
wants it, Nobody appreciates char
acter more than I do. but I like my
characters from the life of every day
and not from that of the hospital or
lunatic asylum. Mariana" is the most
1ugubrio1sly ludicrous play" I have
ever inspected. and to see the poor TO
gies in the pit sitting gloOmily through
il was a stuGy.
But Mrs. Pat herself was splendid. She
has greatly improved. and 1 shouldn't
be a bit surprised If she made hit
in New York one of these days. But
she wastes herself upon these scared
and Duruleut drammers- She waits
until 2 playwright grows eczematous
before she patr0nizes him. II IS a pity
She is TOO good for such a fatuOus poll
icy. However. the pit revels in her
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mommer, and instantly she gives her
hand TO a gay old cOdger with curls
and a retrOusse mustache. She hates
him. but insists on being his. And the
rakish Spaniard, with the brain of a
Spanish omelette. is quite satisfied.
This brings YOU TO the last act, which
is of course THE act, for which Don
Jose Echegaray has been saving him
self up.
1t is their wedding night (HushD
The scene is Mariana's country hsuse
in La Granja. The bride and bride
groom come TO their home She IS
sumptuously clad. but looks so dis
agreeable that you feel like giving her
a good spanking. When 1 see play Of
this sort I always send psychology
and metaphysics a-promenadinS. me
whole case revOlves itself into good
spanking. If I had been Don Pablo l
shouldn't have bothered with her at all.
But in the iong-haired drama those
nasty. sulky vixens are always Drlm-
ming over with character
Mariana won't have anything 10 DO
with him. She packs him of about his
business. and tells him that she intends
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lrs Pat CanpbeIPs Remarkable representations Alan

dresses. Mrs Pats gowns beggar de-
scription. She is simply laden down
with gown. She is so much dressed
that she is overdressed. You wonder
how she can get it all off again. That
is the trouble with London swaggery-
Everything is 50 prOfusely trimmed
that you can't see the real figure. It is
hidden and Gisfgured with laces and
tassels and jigglery and dangling
things. Mrs. Pat looked like a Christ
mas tree, all lighted up, and you mar
yelled at the possible dismantlement
later on.
She always surrounds herself with
good people. Gerald du Maurier CTril-
by's SOM, G. 5. TitReradge, Berte
Thomas and George Arliss are all very
excellent actors. Mrs. Pat has a mu-
steal voice and the very keenest sort
of dramatic instinct. But she loves
those certain 1ydy'' characters that re-
joice in doing the wrong thing al the
wrong moment. Her Mariana is better
than her Magda as a piece Of acting,
but life is too short TO bother about
pieces Of acting in plays that are noe
uous1y contemplate
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-shoti
funny
lack of i n a
Of the the s
all
his and him
to the
thai
in will
hasa longm
be
he is
and this where the
give
Don't look like striving to win
If were to
the
Copyright W. R. Harst)
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CoTrPTE owning a Son named
a paInb resolved TO mould him
- into a Money-Getter. When he
y was in Short Dresses they told
sin, that candy destroyed the Teeth
"a peanuts caused Pimples, Sc the
- thing he could do was to plant his
.c,o,ers in the little Tin Bank.
when Christmas came they did not
,,9H Ralph by giving him a lot of Gew-
csws and TrUmperies. They cut out
80 skates and Nolasses Taffy RaIphy
900 unc0il himself on Christmas
-orDing and crawl out in the ghostIy
Silence 20 iuVeS- igate the Stocking and
- if he had pulled a Blank. At first
{, would seem Limp and Empty, but
aVav down in the Toe he would find
FrIe Pass-BOOk and on the First PAGE
here would be inscribed in a Firm
Ruyfness Hand, cash, So"
Oh. what q Tidal Wave of JOY would
sBeulf the Young Soul at that Moment.
r. had not been forgotten by Old
ssutv after all. No. indeedy! he had
Eve dimpled Dollars locked up in the
Bank, to Gnger there until he should
Be o.
Although he would be unable to han
de the Coin, the Knowledge that it
vas in the Custody of a responsible
Corporation and could be Withdrawn
n Is Years was sufficient to give him
several quiVers of Delight.
With what Ecstacy little Ralph
would scamper of tC put Papa and
Mamma next. He would wave the
BGnk-B0Ok above his Head and his
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heil'-which was surely a very rude
thing TO say. But Daniel was very
much ia earnest and masticated cud in
a most melodramatic manner. And
Mariana Yes. she loved him.
That was all. however She insisted
upon dashing his Spanish hopes TO the
ground? Why? Because, as she pref
tily said, she liked to see people suffer
Her own mother had suffered Poor
mother had been led astray by an am
orous Don Something or-others and
then Left -(Ah-haD
she tells the story Of her life IN
staccato tones, plus the soft pedal. She
digs il all up. These ladies love to ex-
cavate the past, and Mariana revels.
She is a horrid person When poor
Daniel hears that his 1ather has apo
pleXy and is anxious 10 go 10 him, she
is quite put out about il. The idea OF
leaving ner for an ap0plectic popper!
At this point the play is so ludicr0us
that although you would like TO grow
indignant. YOU can't You settle down
10 the Unconscious comedy Of the thing
Later OF. Mariana discovers that Dan
lei is the SOD Of the man who ruined
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Americas Electrical Conquest of England

Re recent purchase Of a controll-
ing interest in the Leyland
steamship line by the American
combination which has Mr.
Fierpont Morgan as It's directing brain
has set people thinking. Are we on the
eve Of a new conquest? Is the new
World about 10 OverrUn the old. and ap-
.-5plale, Ike other conquerOrs, what
eel 10 thinks is worth taking
u IS not a pleasant suggestion. For
- one likes to admit that he is beaten,
zen oy his sons. And John Bull has
assered so long at the very fOretop
-ae world that the notion that ne
10y no longer hold his own seems akin
e.asphemy. Nevertheless. John Bun
~ nave 20 face the music and admit
ne facts.
5he Leylanc company continues TO be
1-l,lsh company. The Leyland steam
~ WEI continue to fiy the British flag.
behind this unchanged exterior
.ilng the company win be Jntrolled
- ne interest of its new American
-eIs. There are other British com
tt-il5s under American control. and the
4. --eAcy IS To increase How long viii
- = o. some are saying, before the pro-
- - OF Morganeering. which has been
@-ectlFe IN the case Of the Leyland