Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1901-11-30

Strongly Backed BY Repui
day or two after his nomination he was
asked to dlsplacc Republican official
of the court and substitute n Democrat.
This was his reply: "Do you think
when n Republican President forgets
party considerations and appoints a
Democrat that the Democrat must be
SO indecent as to ignore the precedent?
This office will be administered with an
eye single to the interests of integrity
and efficiency"
The remark of Mrs. Roosevelt that a
woman Of society can dress and look
well for $500 n year Is exciting consid.
cradle discussion. Mrs. Roosevelt. like
her husband. IL not accustomed to say.
ing things she does not mean and
therefore she adds that she has found
the sum mentioned amply sufficient,
but that as the Presidents wife she
must probably spend little more. To
those women who support an entire
family on $500 year the statement of
the first lady Of the land seems not
only reasonable but eXtravagant. but
to the wealthy woman Of society $500
seems pIttance. The latter some.
times pays $1,000 or more for q single
costume. Herbert Spencer traces the
innate desire of women for dress down
from the rudimentary taste Of our saw.
age forefnthers and fOremOthers,
though It Is not remembered that he
has told us why the desire IL largely
extinct In the male species. Certain 1t
IL that the inordinate desire for iinery
exhibited by many women has led to n
husbands bankruptcy. In this country
many wealthy women like to Haunt
their stunning costumes In public 10
the envy Of their more unfortunate sis.
tiers. In Europe. however. there Is no
such public exhibition. The arlstoc.
racy dresses plainly for the public. re.
serving the expensive wardrObes for
balls ana court ana high private func.
tons. Possibly they are unconsciously
following that suggestion OF the
French writer who, even before the
French revolution. advised the high.
er classes" to avoid display before
the common people for fear 1t should
irrltate the latter. As to the $500 Il
year. 1t should be said that all depends
upon the woman. A woman with half
or One-thlrd the sum can manage ia
appear well dressed while another
woman with twice or three times rs
much may look like a "dowdy." IA
that when the parvenues OF society
turn up their noses at the suggestion
OF Mrs. Roosevelt that she can dress
for the best society In New York for
$500 n year. II should be remembered
that Mrs. Roosevelt IL woman with
that intangible thing called taste.
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"The Dutch have taken Holland" il
not SO much Of trulsm rs 1t seems.
They have taken a part Of It ana intend
to take great deal more. There IL u
project on foot for draining the Zuyder
Zee. The undertaking has been q sub.
ject OF discussion In Holland for more
than half century. but now 1t has
taken on more practical shape ana Is
to be u political Issue. About fifty
years ago HARLEM lake was drained
and more than 10000 people are living
on what was once the bed of the lake
Zuyder Zee. which contains more than
1890 square miles. was, of triliing OK.
tent until All Saints day In 1917. when
the North Sea swallowed up Il large
tract of country. So the Netherlanders
In shutting out the sea are only re.
claiming what rightfully belongs to
them. 1t Is not yet decided whether
the work will be done by lnclosing
with dixie u large tract now under
water and then pumping this into the
sea or by constructing one great barrier
dixie and reclaiming the lncIOsed area
by installments. The latter plan Is the
more ambitious ana more expensive,
but doubtless more economical In the
end. 1t would require eighteen years
and the cost would be $40.O00,O0O 1t
Is proposed to raise the sum by loan
ana to pay It OIL, principal and inter.
est, In sixty years. The patience. en-,
ergy and thrift Of the Netherlanders
make the big enterprise thoroughly
feasible. In song ana story their mer,
its have been recognized. ana 1t was
not without reason that Goethe In his
greatest poem made the Dutch the type
of an Industrious, happy people, the
possessors Of free soil gained not by
conquest over weaker people. but by
an honest wrest from the shadows of
the sea that which was lawfully Its
own.
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Some months ago the statement came
from Berlin that the imperial govern
ment had approved of a prOject for the