The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1902-01-04
Answers to
Correspondents


wish YOU would define for me the
issues involved in the present political
campaign for the mayorship OF this
city. Third WAhD'
This column is not for the discussion
of political questions, or rather parti-
san politics. You write as if we were
the author of the issues and conse-
quently should define them. The cam
paign has not yet opened. Wait until
the local orators open their batteries
upon you and you will probably nave
all the defining you want.
received a. Christmas present from
friend in Michigan from whom l did
not expect it, Would it be the proper
thing for me to send her present next
Christmas? x. Y. z.
There would be nothing improper
about your doing so. We think, how
ever, it would be in better taste to show
your appreciation of the gift in some
other way. To treat her gift as a BID
for gift from you might be doing her
injustice.
had a secret and told it to lady
| friend of mine who gave me her most
| solemn promise never to tell 1t to any
| one. I have good reason to believe she
betrayed my confidence. How should
I treat her for being so mean? Ought
I to ignore her for all time? Hasn't
she forfeited my respect? IDA.
How could you expect her to keep
your secret when you couldn't keep 1t
yourself. The best way is to convert
the imperfections of others into a
mirror for discovering our own. If 1t
was so very important a secret why
did you tell it? Some one has defined
secret as something told to every
body in whisper" She probably took
as good care of your secret as She does
of her own. You had no right to expect
more from her. Experience will prove
to you that promises to keep secrets
are always attended with a certain
amount Of mental reservation. Your
questions involve a degree of Vindfc-
tiveness entirely disproportionate to the
offense of which you complain. The
three most important female qualities
are, First-Sweetness OF temper; Sec
ond-Sweetness of temper; Third-More
sweetness of temper. Read the small
pamphlet by Henry Drummond entitled
1.-The greatest thing in the world"
Where can I get a good book on
debating? don't mean Roberts Rules
Of Order or any book of that kind but
a book that will teach me how to put
my thoughts together; not only that
but how to think thoughts? w. S.
The principles of Augmentation"
1Se1,1 1Sr O. &c
good work. Works on rhetoric are gen.
orally more critical than creative and
are, therefore, not what you want. No
book can do as much for you as you
can do for yourself. Read speeches,
debates, essays, lectures, history, biog-
raphy, etc..
This is the second time come to you
with question. You didn't answer
my first one, unless you answer it this
week. want to know if it is necessary
to have this country represented at
the coronation of King Edward?
j.. r.
No, not absolutely. Presume, how
ever the ethics of international
diplomacy demand that we should
make polite recognition Of the event
by being represented at it. Your first
question must have been in some man.
ner mislaid as we fail to find any paper
with your initials.
We have a dispute and agreed to
submit it to the Labor World. An an
swer to the following question will
settle it, Who commanded or rather
led the Noble six hundred" at Balak-
lava? CHUMS.
Lord Cardigan.
Where does the Labor World stand
on the divorce question? Don't you
think divorces are a disgrace to civil
ization? MRS. ---
There are many things in our civiliza-
ton that are no credit to it, and yet our
civilization is the best and most ad-
vanced the world has ever seen. The
perfect state is the ideal one. Our social
conditions are steadily improving
Complex problems are being solved and
adjusted much more rapidly than
superficial observer would think. Di-
vorces are result of some imperfec-
tons in our social system that will
eventually be overcome by education,
and by education we mean a disciplin-
ing and developing of Individual char
acter mentally. morally and spiritually.
1t is really a useless waste of time
and energy to be forever murmuring
and lamenting over social evils that
were here before we came and will be
here after we are gone. We think the
better way is to be cheerfully and
earnestly working for the advancement
Of every positive good. There Is a way
Of doing this that is infinitely prefer
able to wasting our nervous energy in
worrying over responsibilities that God
has not committed to our charge.
The following is perhaps the "High-
Landmarks Prayer for which ~. r."
inquires:-"Good and gracious Pro-
violence, bless all the Macdonalds and
all the Macdonalds' weans for thou
sand years, lang syne; be graciously
pleased to send us rivers of whiskies,
the finest of WHISTLES, and mountains