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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-13
THE orHER Side OLE Ir.

So much is said of the wealth Of million
aires, and to movements of m%illionaires
and their families are given so much space
in the newspapers that one may come 20
the conclusion that great wealth is the
only thing in the world worth having and
that human life is a barren ideality be-
cause so few can have their possessions
appraised at millions. BY the mass of
people great wealth is coveted because they
see in it exemption from toll and that life
of ease which so many mistake for a life
of unalloyed pleasure. 1t is just here that
captains of industry are the most over
worked men in the world. A great enter
prise is a cruel taskmaster. The men who
have charge of vast affairs die premature
ly. The late Philip d. Armour died pre-
matureIy. it is said, because the incessant
attention which his affairs demanded ex-
hausted his vital force. 1t is said that the
late Cornelius Vanderbilt and his father
before him were broken down prematurely
by the burdens which the great wealth of
lIc 1diIiiy ilipOStu. MI INOChtlcltI, III
r',hest man in the country, is said to be
A. feeble health because of the continual
strain which his direction of great inter-
ests imposes. The work the leaders in
great enterprises must do cannot be del
egated to others. The guiding hand must
be that of one man. Men of ability can be
found to execute, but the talent which is
necessary to conduct colossal enterprises
accepts no second place.. Once in such a
leadership there is no throwing off Of care.
The leader may go abroad or on vacations.
but with him goes the care of great en-
~terprises. Should the captain OF industry
and enterprise give himself over to idle
ness his enterprises will fail.
The millionaires whose names are we'll
known have great wealth, but they have
not the freedom of other men. This week
a Pittsburg paper said that Mr.. Carnegie.
while in that city, is continually beset by
all sorts of importunate beggars. This
besetment makes it impossible for him and
others like him to stroll through the town
or mingle with their fellow-men in public
places, even If they had the time. When
they go about 1t is in carriages, and when
discoveped they are followed and gazed at
by the aimless who possess nothing but a
vulgar curiosity. Now a new terror awaits
them in the experience of Mr.. Cudahy, of
Omaha-the kidnaper. who makes it a voca-
ton TO seize their children and demand
ransom in gold. Therefore, if mere pleas
ure, the pleasure of leisure or idleness, is
the end sought, 1t must be looked for in
aire.
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God; against all other odds, l prefer to see
him fight till the last armed foe expires
Penelope, in Ireland.
The distinctive feature of a woman's ar
gument is the feminine knowledge of how
TO tack. If the wind blows too hard from
one quarter she veers, then asserts that
she was stronger than the wind.-Her Bos-
ton Experiences.
All India is full of holy men, stammer-
ing gospels in strange tongues; shaken and
consumed in the fires of their own zeal;
dreamers, babblers and visionaries; as it
has been from the beginning, and will con-
tinue till the end.-Kim.
We know nothing at all really; we only
think we believe and hope we know; and
how thin that sort of conviction gets when
in our extremity we come face to face with
the one memorable fact of our own death
waiting for us.-An Englishwoman's Love
Letters.
There's a good deal Of cant in this world,
and it DEGREES that a woman shall love her
children equally, whether they be good or
bad, whether they be loving or hard.
whether they be inconsiderate or selfish,
whether they love her or not: but moth
ers are only human after all. "A
mothers love goes, as a rule, where il is
most wanted.-A Self-made Countess.
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gerous communicable diseases are spread
and the best methods for the prevention
and restriction OF such diseases. The meas-
ure is 10 be based on a similar law IN
Michigan. Attention Is called TO the fact
that the compulsory education law and
the rules issued by the State Board of
Health conflict in some particulars. and it
is asked that they be made to conform. The
movement originates with the Women's
Clubs of the State and is likely to have
the support of physicians. Whether or not
the plan could be made effective and ac-
curate, and data concerning diseases in a
shape TO be understood by children could
be secured, are questions yet to be de-
cided. but sine schools are a center OF
~contagion 1t is right that all reasonable
protection should be asked, and quite
natural that the effort should begin
among the mothers.
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erect 1t and gave it TO- The STATE.

One of those excellent. but uneasy, phil
lanthropists who are always making sug-
gestions to the poor that will not cost the
giver of advice a cent has made a bill of
fare for a week which will cost a family
of four S2.25. One man who read it I'm
wisely attempted the experiment, and the
result has been that his living is not costing
him anything. The inadequate supply Of
pc or food caused him to quarrel with his
family and to beat his wife. He was ar
rested and sent to jail, where the taxpayers
pay for his food. In the meantime his wife
and children are supported by friends
This sort of maintenance is cheaper than
s2.25 a week. The general secretary of the
Association for the Improvement of the
Condition of the Poor, who has made a bill
of fare which gives a working man three
and three-fourths pounds of meat and ten
pounds of vegetable food for a week, prob
ably did not experiment on himself.
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A woman writer of an article on Women
in Business" thinks that architecture Of
fers a great field for them. One reason
for this view is that as it Is not a mans
business to keep house he cannot know how
a house should be arranged. with him.
says the writer referred to. closets are
merely necessary evils, whereas a woman
realizes that the closets should be outlined
on the plans first, and the space that is left
cut up into the number of rooms desired
There is some truth in this suggestion, but
it must be remembered that dwelling
houses are not composed entirely of closets,
and architecture embraces a great many
other features besides dwelling houses.
However, there is no reason why a bright
woman should not master the whole SUBJ
ject, including even the strength and cost
OF materials, estimates, etc.
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1t seems unnecessary TO stir up the mat
ter of the location Of the Morton statue in
the Legislature. 1t is as prominent as any
figure or Monument circle. and was placed
where it stands by men who are as much
admirers of the great war Governor as
are any other men in the State. Five hum
dred persons will see it where it now Is
where a score will see It in the Statehouse
grounds, where it would not be in proper
ton with the Hendricks monument. II its
location should be changed it would throw
the other three out of harmony, namely,
George Rogers Clark, General w. H. Har-
rison and Governor Whitcomb. There IS
no more conspicuous place than where 1T Is
Unless it should be placed in front of the
southern approach to the monument, which
would add nothing to it's prominence and
break the effect of the flights of steps. 1t
may be added that there is a Morton statue
because his friends raised the money To
erect it and gave it to the State.
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cavetles are a tax which should DOT be

gayeties are a tax which should not be
permitted.
These social gayeties are not confined
to the limited fashionable and wealthy
circles, but extend through all classes OF
young people. the difference only being in
the elaborateness Of the functions. A
double strain is put upon the students by
this custom. and 1t is no wonder that they
cannot support it and come under the doc
tors care. There are girls, too, and not a
few of them, who share in the household
labors during their school years. The
servant question, so bothersome TO a null
titude of women, does not concern another
and still greater multitude because they do
not employ servants, but perform all their
household tasks themselves, with the help
sufficient for the strength. or too great for
Ii. as the doctors believe. then this double
draft on the energies must be considered.
And there is yet another class of girls who
spend their leisure hours In reading books
which have no connection with their school
wcrk-unimproving fiction, for the most
part. Nothing is more likely to put the
nervous system into an unhealthy state.
No; the schools may not be ideal, and pos
sibly they demand too much of the pupil,
but 1t behooves the doctors to investigate
all possible causes for the frasility of
American girls before laying all the blame
on the school methods.
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ENDOWED GENIUS.

A writer in a recent issue of the Nine
teenth Century recalls the impecunious
condition of Wordsworth, Coleridge and
Southey, and thinks 1t horrible that these
divinely gifted, divinely illumined souls
should nave been left to go through
the little vulgar struggles of the common
herd and take their chance among the
out-at-elbows penny-a-lin IS. Except for
the spontaneous aid OF their friends and
admirers, the writer finds it difficult to
imagine what would have become of the
two first-named poets. In order that any
coming intellectual lights may escape the
struggle with poverty. he puts forward a
plea for the endowment of genius. 1t is a
plea that will hardly find acceptance either
by government or individuals of wealth.
In the first place, there is the difficulty Of
fixing the standard of genius. Who shall
decide whether a man meets the require
ments necessary to entitle him to the
public or private endowment? Shall a
literary examination, or shall his work
be measured by certain fixed rL-es? Who
shall establish the rules? Or shall it be
that the genius must wait for unmistak-
able public recognition of his supreme quail
ity before he may profit by the endow-
ment? The awb to this plan is that
when the world once recognizes a genius
1t claims him for it's own, pours money
into his pocket. and he is no more an OBJ
ject of compassion. If. as sometimes hap
pens, he is no longer on earth when this
recognition comes, another difficulty is pre-
sented as to taking universal opinion as a
guide. And. after all, does not genius. as
well as the com on mind. need the stimu-
lus of a struggle with the world? If there
were no friction would 1t shine as bril-
liantly? The greatest literary g~eniuses the
world has known did not nave the path
smoothed for them. No; genius may as
well be left to take care Of itself. If it be
genuine it will make itself known in spite
OF adverse circumstance. If 1t be not
great it will fall by the wayside of it's own
weakness. and the world will not be to
blame. Mr.. Aldrich says: :.
on grain.
Aeons to crystalline its fire and dew
BY what slow processes must nature make
Her Shakspeares and her Raffaels? Great
the gain.
Genius Is rare. The one or two in the
thousands will surely come to their own.
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school AND

The doctors are directing their attention
again to what they are pleased to term
female education" and the burden of their
girls produces very bad physical effects.
DIR. Shrady, for one. sounds the alarm in
the New York Medical Record. According
to his belief. the vitality of the race is being
Slapped by injudicious methods of educa-
ton. and to a greater degree in the United
gelmann. f Boston, contends in even more
fcrcible terms that the system in high
schools and colleges is resulting in a gen.
eral and functional deterioration in the
health of women. DIR. w. Gill Wylie as
serts that the heavy mental strain of the
schools causes all strength of development
to go to the brain, the body being corre-
spondingly weakened.
No DOUBT these doctors and all doctors,
in the practice of their profession, are
called upon to treat overwrought, hys-
-terical and physically defective school,
girls. Naturally. they feel called upon to
ascribe some cause for the condition of
their patients health. and school is the
most obvious one, just as coffee, tobacco,
beer. candy or other pet personal indulg-
ence is pointed out as the source of evil
in other cases. Physicians are asked the
why and wherefore of disease. and fall into
the habit of providing an answer whether
they are sure of its scientific correctness
or not. Therefore it is that they are not
to be taken too seriously in what they say
of the education of girls. 1t is quite prob
able that the processes of education in high
school and college may be too exacting for
the strength of some students, but that it
Is so as a rule the Journal does not be.
Iieve. Whether the education the girls get
Is the best they could have, or whether
they are being overeducated. are questions
having no bearing on the point discussed.
and need not be considered here. The ques-
ton at issue is. are the schools to blame
for the frequent nervous breakdowns
among the students? Now, this matter can
only be settled by eliminating all other pos
ton in social life. for example. A large
number of high-school and college girls.
during the last two or three years of their
school life. join in a variety of social func-
items; hey attend dances. teas. card par
ties, ETC.. with great frequency. and IL
they are not formally 'out'' in society their
engagements are sufficiently numerous to
occupy more time than they have to spare.
II is impossible to carry on school work
and do the society act' at the same time,
and when the attempt Is made Ii happens
either that the work is not well done or
that the worker suffers-often both. Dur
ing the holiday vacations social festivities
are almost entirely for the entertainment
of young people yet In school. There is u
ccastant round of teas, luncheons. dinners.
dances and theater parties. and when the
two weeks are over It Is a physically ex-
Lausted set Of girls to say nothing Of boys.
who return to their school work They
have enjoyed themselves. Of course. ard the
pleasures we're all n vacation. but e the
~>..xs~> a,&eM - oohoo2 oro an III nhum1Ia1
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Africa, where they will spend the winter.
The writer has rented a house near Cape
Town.
Mrs. Alfred Harmsworth, wife OF the
London editor who is now visiting America
was married when a mere girl and her
husband was but twenty-one. She has been
his professional as we'll as his domestic
helpmate ever since. She Is a tall, typical
English beauty, and is possessed of that
well-developed faculty of common sense
which Is found in so many English wom-
en- of to-day.
1t has been generally believed by those
engaged in dairying that cows could not
be MIXED by any mechanical mixer. A
Glasgow, Scotland, firm claims 20 have
a machine that will do the work and
wants TO exhibit il at the Pan-Americsn
exposition at Buffalo next summer. The
milking machine is said to be built on the
pneumatic system, with valves, suction
rubbers, etc.
While Henry Latouchere. NJ. p. and
editor OF Truth, was in the diplomatic
service he was sent on a long journey for
which his expenses were not provided. Mr..
I~abouchere started, and. nothing being
heard of him for many weeks. anxious in
quiries were made. At last a letter arrived.
saying: las expenses are not allowed Mr..
~Isabouchere is <obliged TO walk" Mean
while the budding diplomat was having a
happy time at a foreign spai
Mrs. Cushman K. Davis has returned 10
Washington and is already busily engaged
In compiling her distinguished husbands
works on law. politics. diplomacy, litera-
ture. war and the miscellaneous lectures
which he delivered at various times during
his public career. In this labor she will be
assisted by Bishop Hurst. of the Methodist
Church, who was an old and esteemed
friend of the late Senator Davis.
Those who buy eggs give the preference
to color of shells. In Philadelphia and
Boston eggs with dark shells are preferred.
but In New York city the preference 10
for the white eggs There is also a pre1l-
dice on the part of some against pale yolks-
Experiments show that the color Of the
shell has no influence whatever on the
quality OF the egg. and that the color OF
the yolk depends upon the food Yellow
corn, carrots and clover will give color 10
the yolks OF eggs. but a yellow yolk is no
richer than a pale one. The fact that a
perfect chick can be Matched from a pale
yolk egg as well as from a yellow yolk
egg Is evidence that the contents OF both
are alik for. IL there should be anything
lacking the egg would fail TO produce q
chick.
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One OF the writers who have compared
the achievements of the nineteenth CEN
fury, and particularly the last half of IL.
that the later period produced few. IL any.
immortals in the domain OF art. He de-
clares lat IL there has been evolution In
painting. sculpture and poetry 1t must
have been backward. There were. he says.
no architects and sculptors in the nine
teenth century who could compete with
those who built the Parthenon. The mas
tiers in painting lived in the early centuries.
before the making of window glass or the
use Of the tallow candle. There were no
poets in the last century who could seri-
ously rival Homer. Virgil, Dante and
Shakespeare. There is probably much of
truth in these complaints. Nevertheless, if
a Parthenon were to be built, and arc
sealed proposals., there is reason to be-
lieve that plans and specifications would be
offered that would fill the bill. We may
have no poets like those named, but there
$50
masses than any Of those named. except
Shakespeare. Many more men and women
wrote very good poetry during the last
century than during any preceding one.
and a host of people, much larger than
ever before, who are confident that they
have not been duplicated, but art as rep
resented in pictures and in advancement
has never been so excellent, and has never
been so much appreciated.
If the nineteenth century did not produce
the scattering individuals whose names are
immortal as poets and painters, 1t more
than made up for such a lack in those dis
coveries and achievements which have been
a blessing to humanity. From the time of
Christ to George Washington the methods
OF travel were little changed. The devices
for the filling of the soil were not much
more advanced a hundred years ago than
in 1000 A. d. When Nautilus gave out hat
the human race, at the rate 1t was In
creasing in his day, would starve because
bread could not be produced to feed the
population, he was probably right. but the
railway, the cultivation of the prairie, the
invention of the reaper and binder made
it possible with less labor to produce three
times as much food. When the nineteenth
century began the homes of the masses did
not have many more comforts than they
had three or four hundred years earlier.
Now more of comfort and luxury are
found in the home of the mechanic than
in the castle of The feudal baron. The APP
plication of steam and electricity to ma
chinery has taken from labor the severest
drudgery, and by rapid and cheap trans
portation has given to the masses the
products of every cline. Science has taken
the place of poetry, and mechanics have
superseded the art of the early centuries.
War was the vocation of rulers a few GEN.
turtles ago., and to it they devoted the en-
ergies of the people; but war has given
place to commerce and the discovery of
utilities engrosscs the attention of the
genius of to-day. 1t is better.
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The Zorn-Pierce portrait case of st. Louis
will take its place in art annals along with
the celebrated NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. case.
In the latter case Mrs. Mackay was so dis
satisfied with the portrait of herself painted
by the great French artist that she refused
to pay for it. Suit being brought she was
compelled to pay the artists full price. but
took her revenge in destroying the portrait.
Mr.. Pierce, of st. Louis, engaged Mr.. Zorn,
a Swedish artist of scmc note, to come
from New York and paint from photo
graphs a portrait of the late Mrs. Pierce.
This he was to do for $1,000, later increas-
ing his price to $4,000. He also stipulated
that he should be allowed to paint a por-
trait of Mr.. Pierce, this agreement being
made on condition that the portrait of Mrs.
Pierce be satisfactory to the family. After
reaching ST. Louis he insisted On being
allowed to paint a portrait of Mrs. Rich
ards, Mr.. Pierce's daughter. Before any of
the pictures were finished Mr.. Pierce fell
violently i'll and renamed SO for several
weeks. When he recovered Mr.. Zorn had
left the city, but had sent in a bill for
$1,000, claiming that all the portraits were
finished in the highest style Of art. To the
family all were highly unsatisfactory, and
OF the two women were not recognized as
likenesses by intimate friends. Payment
for them vas refused, and a few weeks
ago Zorn brought suit In a st. Louis
court, dispatches giving an account of it
at the time. Now, it appears, the matter
has been settled out of court by the pay
ment by Mr.. Pierce of all emand He ex-
plains that he believes he would have won
the suit, but rejecting that the pictures
must then be turned over to Zorn. who
might make an improper use of them. he
decided to prevent this in the only way
possible, namely, a settlement of the
claim. He will. however. destroy the can
vases, he says. 1t is the old and vexed
question OF artistic merit over which ar
fist and layman so often disagree In this
case the layman seems to have right on his
side. but it is costing him a pretty penny
just the same.
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Lord Brougham commonly spent three or
four weeks in study before writing a great
speech.
Somebody advertises in the Boston Tran
script for a neat young woman who sings
and can do second girls work and teach
ten-year-old boy the piano. Wages g."
Tre Empress Eugene, who is now at
Marlborough, has once more proved her
wonderful elasticity of health and spirits.
1t is long since she has been so well or so
gay.
William Waldorf Astor's business Office
is the handsomest in London. and is, in its
rich appointments. unique among those of
London's rich men. who usually transact
their business in ofices rather shabby than
otherwise.
Governor Dietrich. of Nebraska. who is a
widower. declines to occupy the guberna-
torial mansion in Lincoln and advises that
the building be sold. or hat II be main
tanned at State expense, like any other pub
lie property.
The Guest House" and the -Four
SEoppes'' Of St. CHESS parish are to be
demolished. These buildings are among the
most ancient In London. The Guest House
was probably built about 1866. the other
houses about ninety or a hundred years
later
Gen. John w. Foster. secretary of state.
in the Harrison. administration. has been
elected president of the American Bible
Society, of which he has been for some
years a vice president. He Is active in
the Presbyterian denomination. and es-
pecially interested In missionary work.
Aesyet no purchaser has been found FOR
Rndyerd Kipline's former home in Brat
tIehQFp. VI. Several prospective buyers
h4x1 &pcoro1. boVoveF. and . nalo may Be
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Obdurate.

Detroit Journal.
AT this point I brought into my story the con-
ventional inn full of guests.
There isn't a room in the house save the
haunted chamber / managed to make the land
lord say.
In that case" haughtily observed the man
whom / had intended to be my hero. II will
sleep in the COW stable.'
OF course this upset everything. How / cursed
myself now for having obligated myself to write
a Yuletide serial. while knowing full we'll how
difficult it is for a great novelist to control his
strong characters,