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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-20
ONE COLLEGE QUESTION.

At the banquet of the graduates Of De
Pauw, in this city, Friday night. two of the
speakers were assigned to speak on college
athletics. Mr.. Charles F. Coffin. who grad
uated about twenty years since, criticised
the prominence of athletics in colleges I'm
recent years. He held, among other things,
that the interest in athletics had destroyed
the literary societies, which in his time
were a feature of college life because they
afforded the student the opportunity of
practice in writing and speaking, enabling
him to make use of what he obtained in the
classroom and by reading. AT that time an
intellectual atmosphere pervaded the col
lege. This appears TO have been changed.
The literary societies are no more, and the
talk of the students seems to be largely of
college teams, qualifications OF members,
and OF the success of the teams in contests.
College athletics seem TO mean baseball and
football teams for a few and applauders for
the many. Mr.. Coffin would get rid OF the
term college athletics and nave a depart
ment OF physical culture in which every
student must participate as he does in other
branches.
Ex-Speaker Littleton. representing q
younger class. was the champion OF college
athletics. lie participated in them when in
De PAW and said he was the better for 1t
in that he could do more and better work.
he defended the contests between college
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-20
WISDOM OF CURRENT FICTION.

No one knows what the future is TO poor
w~omen.-The Methods OF Lady Waldehurst.
Husbands are ike conundrums with the
answers attached.-When Charlie was
Away.
To be misunderstood is often the bitter
est thing to bear in this life.-Mlle Fou-
chette-
Nowadays men like strength in a wife.
They'd rather be dehed than leaned upon.
Spindle and Plough.
The uninteresting lives OF men entirely
given TO the actually OF the bare exist
ence have their mysterious side.-Typhoon-
One of the keenest whips by which a
woman can be scourged is the undersigned
confidence of her friends.-The Story OF
Eden.
When a man stumbles over a command
ment, it's the commandment that goes to
pieces, not the man.-When Charlie was
Away
A man without a sense Of humor is like a
wagon on three wheels-not much good for
long travelling and hard roads.-By Bread
Alone.
1t is more difficult for a man TO bring
himself to the acknowledgment Of political
errors than 10 confess 10 infraction of the
moral law.-Mue. Fouchette.
/ don't see that it's any less I'm accord
with the Bible for God TO make a man get
up early and work late than it is for Him
10 send bread by ravens.-Shackiett.
Nobody's either moral OF immoral in
these days. It's all a matter Of taste and
manner. / haven't any morals myself. but
| have beautiful manners. A woman can
nave the kind OF manners which keep her
from breaking the cOmmandments.-The
Methods of Lady Waldehurst.
He told his wife so much that he seemed
to make her his general manager: and he
failed 10 tell her so much that she knew no
more about the engine running the hidden
machinery forming political loaves OF
bread and shaping destinies OF men than
the reader of the newspaper d~oes.-Shack-
lett.
Women who behave well rather than
wisely take credit TO themselves for carry
ing their own cloaks and climbing over
their oNs stiles. and generally saving
trouble for the men who are treading lies
paths by their side. Foolish creatures, The
men want 10 carry their cloaks and help
them over the stiles If only they will let
them.-Fuel Of Fire.
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The failure of the recent attempt to make
political capital of the Christmas and Dan
ish West Indies affair recalls a similar
iasco that occurred early in the last CEN
tury. Shortly before the beginning of the
war of 1872 the Governor of Canada sent
one John Henry TO Boston to act as a kind
of spy TO foment and report upon the dis
satisfaction that existed in New England
relative to the policy of the administration.
Henry's services were of no value, and he
was paid by the Canadian government, but,
thinking he had not been sufficiently COM
pensated, he went to London and filed a
claim against the British government for
R32, 600, or about $4,000. The British gov
eminent repudiated his claim. Then he re-
turned to Washington and approached
President Madison with an offer to sell
important secret correspondence for $780,
600. Madison was made to believe the al
legged correspondence contained important
political matter duplicating the New Eng
land Federalists in plots against the admin
istration, and he drew $4,000 from the Sc
cret-service fund and bought the papers.
This was just before the war OF 1872 The
papers proved to be of no Importance. but
President Madison laid them before Con-
gress, with a special message, in which he
asserted the existence of a plot 'for the
purpose of bringing about resistance to the
laws, and, eventually, in concert with a
British force, Of destroying the Union and
forming the eastern part thereof into a
political connection with Great Britain"
The Democrats Of hat day tried hard to
make political capital out of the alleged
disclosures" but they proved to be a
short-lived sensation. Henry was an Irish
adventurer, but a naturalized citizen of the
United States. His scheme succeeded bet
ter than Christmass, for he got $4,000 and
skipped" TO France, where he died.
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years themselves whose rapid passing he
resents so much as the fact they Indicate
that his limit Of work is coming TO a close.
He would not mind being sixty. seventy,
even eighty, were it not that he has so
much yet to accomplish before he is ready
TO bid farewell to mundane affairs; there
are so many things he wishes yet to learn;
there is so much yet to see and %enjoy-and
time grows short for it all. .
Age is a relative term, as the differing
standards held concerning it show. Thirty
means old age to the ten-year-old; to him
of twenty the man Of fifty is aged; when
fifty is reached he sets the limit on ten.
of view. Also it is a personal matter. A
man may in fact be really aged at nifty,
while another at eighty may be young in
the essentials that make life worth living
at any age-mental activity, interest In hu-
mainly and in current affairs. power to
enjoy simple things. 1t is a matter oil
temperament, of the attitude toward lie.
No arbitrary limit can make a man really
old if the spirit Of youth is in him. Nor Is
it we'll for him to heed such conventional
age limits. "Old mems associations are
not profitable. since they fix a limit, and
by so doing keep a fact in mind that might
better be ignored. 1t should be every mans
privilege to be old only when he feels him.
self so. AS for women-but that is a sacred
theme; let it stand undisputed that woman
is forever Young.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-20

training stations and the various training
ships. Again. the cruises are not so long.
the rations are better. the liberties and
privileges are greater and the punish
ments fewer and more humane. AL these
things have combined to bring a better ele-
men into the naval service and 10 make it
almost exclusively American. As now con-
Quoted there are few better schools of dis
cipline for a young American than this
service, and it should be the policy OF the
government to maintain the American
standard.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-20
NeedIework or DressmakIng.

New York Commercial Advertiser.
1.-The next generation OF sewing girls will
be born blind" exclaimed an exasperated
dressmaker the other day after two OF her
best hands" had to be given sick leave
because they simply could not see what
they were doing. This hemstitching mania
and feather stitched Insertion are bad
enough" scolded madame. but when IL
comes TO working three days on a pair OF
sleeves l call il fine needlework and not
sewing. Ten of my eighty girls have had
TO give up work within the last three years
since the fancy work on gowns became a
craze. and l wouldn't like TO ask how many
of them wear glasses.
The narrow ribbon work and the tiny
ruchings with narrow lace edgings are also
maddening. It's DELIGHTFULLY."- nuny and
dainty when it's done. but think of having
to sew $50 yards Of baby ribbon on a point
d'esprit skirt"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-20
The American Girls Nose.

New York Evening Post.
Two pages OF photographs in a recent
periodical. all Of daughters Of officers OF
the government at Washington, and there
fore representative and national. suggest
that the new American type OF young
woman is not that OF Gibson, nor that OF
WenZel, nor that OF Christy. 1t is a type
familiar enough. but uncelebrated as a reg
ulsr thing. save by the illustrator who
signs her work "AspeIl" The dineren-
tiating feature Is the nose. In one OF this
weeks novels. which the publishers declare
to be essentially American and especially
faithful TO particulars, the heroine has a
Grecian nose. Nothing is more
even in Greece to-day. than the Grecian
nose as immortalized by Praxiteles. Why
should IL reappear in an essentially Amer
lean novel. true TO particulars, and dealing
with northern Michigan? According 10
much OF the late graphic testimony as 10
the physiOgnomy OF Americans girls. the
nose is more French. more Scotch. more
Irish, than Greek, and has a piquant ten
dency TO tilt up.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-20
THE ELEvATING POWER OF woRK

A few Sundays ago a preacher in this
city spoke Of the redemptive power OF
work. 1t was an excellent because a sensi-
BILE and timely sermon. He declared that
toll is a blessing. and that If all the people.
particularly men and boys coming to the
age of bread-winning. should have ade-
quate employment TO keep them from idle
ress and 10 occupy their attention the
world would be much better and the record
OF crime and pauperism much shorter than
It is now. A business man. a few days
later. in an address to young people. in
sisted that an early life of idleness nearly
always led TO a useless or d~isreputable
later life. and he made the sweeping decIa-
ration that for man to work is a part Of
the divine economy. and consequently a
young man. no matter into how great
wealth he come. has no defense for
being an idler without occupation. These
are but two OF many expressions which
have appeared OF late regarding the up
lifting influence OF work or employment
and the certainty Of deterioration. mentally
and morally, OF the man who leads a life
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-20
A Boston Poets Needs.
New York Post.

New York Post.
Here is a life tragedy. told in a three-iine
advertisement in "A Boston newspaper. This
Is the advertisement
WANTED-Sunny. airy. quiet. comfortable.
unfurnished. inexpensive, independent
room by nonsmoking, tidy. middle-aged, UNI
married poet.
Only a case-hardened soul could read
these lines without tears. Think Of ~ A
poet I'm his tidiness and his middle age.
hunting a room There is unspeakabie
pathOs In the cheerful way ne puts II, Win
the glad things first. Sunny. airy. quiet.
comfortable: here speaks the poetl Unfur-
nished. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS born OF mid
dle-aged experience. independent hash
again OF the old fire. Poor poet. His three
lines tell more than he could cram into a
whole volume OF verses. How meagre are
the rewards OF worth and virtue. What IN
centive for young men 10 be nonsmoking
and tidy. when tragedies like these are
enacted before their very eyes, What Won
der that we are cynics. sconersi IL Is net
alone ~ Boston that the poetic IRE flashes
forth. but how can our youth be expected TO
fan IL into flame. when the outlook Is for
an unfinished. inexpensive room. during
a tidy middle agey
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-20

Emperor William and Mr.. Carnegie are
announced as in favor of temperance. The
Kaiser is supporting a project to ave the
liquor traffic controlled by corporations
which shall have no %pecuniary benefit from
the sale. His assumption is that men
drink too much because they are coaxed
70 do so by saloon keepers. Mr.. Carnegie
warns young men who wish to achieve
success that hey must not acquire the
drinking habit. Mr.. Carnegie's warning
may have influence. but the Emperor will
seek in vain for a company which will en-
bark in the liquor traffic with a view not
TO make it profitable.
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teams because they are designed TO stimu-
late an interest in physical culture. He al
luded to President Roosevelt as an example
of what physical culture can do for . man.
holding that his training in athletics pre-
pared him for the intellectual and active
life he has led.
Both these addresses were able presenta-
tons of the opposing sides in a controversy
which excites interest outside of college and
university circles. Outsiders read the re-
ports of college life in the newspapers.
They see that much of these reports is de-
voted to the college teams and the college
contests. Many naturally conclude that
athletics is the chief feature of college life.
The old graduate has discovered that the
topics which were of the greatest interest
when he was in college are now quite ig-
nored. No student talks of Plato Socrates
and other ancient philosophers who filled so
large a part of the college course and dis
cussion years ago. and this neglect of the
ancients strikes many old college men as
sure evidence of a falling off in the stand
ard of liberal education. Consequently, there
is much doubt if the higher education is
worth the largely increased cost of going to
college. The impression also prevails that
only the teams practice athletics while the
mass of students simply make the college
cries to encourage the gladiators.
If, as was suggested at the banquet, the
college should make physical culture a part
of the course and also make IL nouelectiVe,
so that every student must take the lessons
as he now does mathematics or German,
college athletics would meet with little out
side criticism, because all intelligent people
realize the Importance of physical culture.
When it is well known that such a policy
has been established and that college ath-
letics means more than the contests Of pro-
fessional teams there will be less adverse
criticism.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-20

Several years ago a fower-loving citizen
Of Cleveland, O., organized a club for the
ornamentation of the home. Out Of this
small beginning has grown the Cleveland
Home-gardening Association, otherwise
known as the flower crusade. Children are
enlisted in the movement, which is under
the management of the association. This
organization distributes seeds among
school children, examines the gardens ex-
hibited in competition, and distributes the
prizes. a number of which are offered. The
seeds went to 2O,OO homes last year. Not
only are homes beautifed by these lowers,
but schoolyards. Last year the children
results are SO evident that the casual OBJ
server notes the change in the smoky city,
and it is known throughout the State as the
city of flowers st. Louis has now taken
the matter up. a botanical club has pre-
pared a system Of seed distribution in CO.
operation with one of the seed companies.
The reward offered in this case TO the chill
dren who are most successful is a diploma
signed by the mayor, indicating that the
holder is worthy of merit for aiding in the
identifying of st. Louis. This sort of enter
prise will show results long after the
flowers Of any given year have faded. The
experience of the children will not be for
gotten by them, but Will be renewed when
they are in possession of homes Of their
own. And this form of ornamentation will
open their eyes to the needs and POSSIBLE
tiles in other directions. Until recently
American towns and cities have been given
over to negligence partly because the neces-
sity of looking after the more practical and
immediate interests made attention to
aesthetics impossible, and partly because
people did not understand just what their
towns lacked or how 10 remedy the de-
fciency. Both these conditions are passing;
education is tending in the direction of the
artistic and the rising generation Will have
much better ideas on the subject than pre-
vail at present. The flower movement is a
useful feature of this education.
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Fastidious Cleanliness.

New York Evening Sun.
"Cleanlines is still an unknown quantity
to most persons" said the woman. MY
laundress. in spite OF my vehement pro-
testations, will insist upon bundling my
freshly washed clothes IN newspapers. At
the place where / get my gloves cleaned
the wrapping is any bit of a soiled paper
that happens to be handy-newspaper pre-
ferred, OF course. / once heard a hospital
nurse say that the great difficulty with
most OF the young women who present
themselves TO be trained for that sort or
work is 10 teach them and 20 make them
understand what cleanliness Is. Every
thing else comes with more or less ease.
The prevailing ignorance with regard TO
this elemental factor in beautiful. not TO
say healthful, living seems TO be profound"
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Blank" he admitted. 'Tll take 80 Of. and
how much did you say you wanted 10 pay
on account2" The young man grew red.
coushed and finally produced a s. note.
That works every time" confded the tall
or 10 an interested bystander after the Gus
toner had departed. Nothing brings a
man here in such a hurry as 10 Overcharge
him on his bill When a customer gets n
little backward and lodges the place / send
him a bill Overcharging him. He comes on
q rush 10 have the mistake corrected. and a
little diplomacy does the rest. Best Of all.
IL doesn't hurt his feelings. as would A
visit from a collector"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-20

For six years the admirers OF the late
General Benjamin F.. Butler have been an
nually besieging the Great and General
Court" of Massachusetts TO appropriate
$4,000 to erect a statue in the Statehouse
yard, where stand those of Webster and
the war Governor, Andrew. Heretofore the
vote In the House has been very close, but
enc day last week the proposition was
voted down by an emphatic majority. AS
General Butler in his day and generation
was arrayed against about every prominent
man in both parties, such an honoring of
his name and fame would be regarded as a
tacit %disapproval of those upon whom he
made war.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-20

Discussion relative to the employment Of
Chinese sailors in our merchant marine
has brought out the fact that our naval
service has become almost thoroughly
Americanized 1t is said that twenty years
ago an average of 20 per cent of Amer
ican-born or naturalized citizens in the
crew Of a naval vessel was very rare. while
now the average is'nearly 30 per cent. This
great change is attributed TO the naval
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-20
4 Chance Yet.

Washington Star.
81 am afraid said the high-browed bard.
that my poetry will never attract public at
~tention."
cheer up" said the loyal companion. May
be you'll get appointed 10 office one CT these
days, and then everybody will talk about your
poetry"
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Might Have Been Worse.

Chicago Tribune.
You make me very tired.' groaned Sindbad
the Sailor.
And yet I'm not a real tyrant.'" chuckled
the Old Man of the Sea, wrapping his lean legs
still closer about his victims neck. You
ought to be thankful I'm not the Man on
Horseback"
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COuIdn't he True.

Philadelphia Press.
"rd like to see Miss Passay." said the man at
the door.
toothache."
Impossible. for I'm from her dentist. ana I've
got her teeth here in this package"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-20

Two young Presbyterians who aspired to
be preachers have been refused licenses by
the New York Presbytery because they be-
lieve that Adam and Eve are mythical
characters. The New York Presbytery is
fixing things so that young men and women
who might be Presbyterians will turn their
feet toward a more liberal and more mod
ernized church.
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His Gift.

He gave her on her birthday
Because he loved the maid
A costly paper cutter
With precious stones inlaid.
She took it and she thanked him,
He saves to pay the bill;
She opens all her letters
With the handy hairpin still
philadelphia Inquirer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-20

Equal suffragfsts. on what ground it is
not made quite clear. are asserting joyfully
that REesident Roosevelt is in favor of full
political rights Cor women. This being the
case. it is up to" him to appoint some
woman to n lucrative office. No man was
ever in better position 70 prove his faith
by hts works.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-20
His Metal.

Philadelphia Press.
In his writings" said Goodart. "'our friend
Hackrite INDUCES a great deal in irony. doesn't
hep
"Huh!' exclaimed wryveIl. most of Lis stuff
is cold steal
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-20

The gathering Of the members Of the
women's Republican Club of New York
city at the clubs annual luncheon is de-
scribed by New York papers as ian I'M
paralleled display of beautiful spring gowns
and millinery Well. why not? 1t is a
poor sort Of woman who cannot grasp a
political situation and wear a good gown
at one and the same time.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-20

There are a great many people in this
and fair-minded Americans who have been
sent to the Philippines can be better relied
upon for the truth regarding the occur
rences there than Aguinaldo and his sup
poFters.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-20

1t has been about five years since the
first loan made by a foreign government,
financed by Americans and in American
money. was made. Now no foreign gov
eminent thinks of making a large loan
without having part of it financed in this
Country
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-20
A Tnilor's Trick.
Philadelphia Record.

Philadelphia Record.
you've made a mistake in my BILL" said
a young man excitedly yesterday to the
proprietor OF a prominent tailoring house.
That can't be- asserted the tailor mildly.
furry. Look herei $40 too much charged
on this bill" The proprietor compared the
bill with his books. You're right, Mr.
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1t is said some Of the Protestant churches
are sending protests 10 Washington
against what is called diplomatic relations
with tine Holy See. in Rome The refer
ence is 20 the plan OF having Governor
Taft stop at Rome on his way back TO the
Philippines 10 consult and arrange with
the Pope relative TO the friar question and
the disposition of church property in the
Islands. These are purely business ques-
lions. and direct consultation with the
head OF the church Will greatly facilitate
their satisfactory settlement. AS the pro-
posed arrangement is intended to bring
about a separation Of church and state in
the islands and pave the way for religious
freedom. the Protestant churches should
favor II instead OF opposing.
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One gets the impression from several
as practiced in that city for two Sundays
is the very essence of cruelty, which makes
It a barbarism rather than a punishment.