New-York tribune., 1902-12-08

According to 'rDun's Review" the cost Of living
is per cent cheaper thar 1t a year ago. Fresh
eggs are two cents a dozen dearer. butter three
and half cents more pound and sugar is also
dearer but coffee. molasses. spices and hops have
gons down in price, while apples are & barrel and
potatoes 7415 cents a barrel cheaper than they
were. This decline Of per cent In the cost OF
living does not seem TO have borne any appre-
cia BILE fruit however, among the boarding house
keepers who persist in charging their old prices IN
cent spelled an increase in prices iRstead OF @ 9G
bedroom, back, would have heard Of 1t before nov"
Mrs Hannah G. Solomon. president of the Cen
eral Council of Jewish Women, which met in Bal
timore the other day. spoke some very true words
in her address on Wednesday regarding the en-
trance of into public life. Though women
may be undesirable in public hfe," she sald. no
one contests their right to labor for the bettermen
of social conditions Work Of this sort used TO De
considered the special function Of the church Ihe
change is an indication not 50 much OF the weak, AK
F fa u modern view Of religion which is
derstood to be the life we live rather than the
thought we preach"
The decline of the home is q phenomenon not
confined to this country, If recent book by George
Russell is to be taken seriously. In commenting
on recent changes in English society and contrast
ing the manners and tone OF 1902 with those OF 0'
Mr. Russell says that people really had a much
better time of 1t half a century ago, When enter
tanning was less ostentatious. more inforrnal anu
more freouent London he says, Is killing the IoVe
of country life. People live in fats and rush oack
and forth between Cape Town and Caro- Lonooh
and Delhi they fly around the & co1ny nof Where they
had luncheon; they refurnish very year OF t%o, w.
read nothing but trash and regard a Trip 70 Iite
country as more opportunity ior i,g is
short the modern MODE OF LasLiloAa ri,+,,ree6re
ostentatious. vulgar, unsatisfactory uLF0'
The Christmas ''Iady's Pictorial deVotes an
editorial paragraph TO the recent catastTophe III
Madison Sqrare, which it compares to the eH-
1oeion (,uv Fawkes didn't explode on that mem
orabIe November 5. nearly three hundred
,,ears ago -AThey were celebrating the return OF
q popular man 70 Congress-; and there being no
law in America prohibiting the discharge OF ire
H0[H Hd ~ Is the way the English paragraPher
S+ars in to narrate the circumstance, Whlch later
ne makes fhe fH1aIIv There is scarcely
zed country that is not tusthed IN Vauntl ll5ei1 SCI
Of human life is in question. Those poor Ola;
tottering effete monarchies OF Europe hhh nave r
nack Of protecting their subjects lives Whlch the
home of the brave and the land OF the 1ree mas
not yet mastered
The National Consumers League is sending out
thousands Of convenient little calendars Ior 1875
lust big enough to slip in a card case or pocket
book For each month there is motto IKE the
following:
January: Buy labelled goods at the January
February: Receive no goods delivered after
March: Can you arrange for one parlor meeting
Aprii: Have you secured one member for
'ig Nav: Have your merchants added kinds of
Inne: sDo not shop on Saturday afternoons"
August: Help to get the stores closed at and
the Saturday half holiday" ,,,,
september: "In this month all the children
should return 10 school. not to work 49,. -o-o,,o-.
oTaeTs 9efe0sTa enother Mhfi ike sG9 it, '"Y Oh q '-
December: shop early in the month. and in the
morning.