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abstract cares nothing for chastity.
But human nature has defed chas-
tity in all ages and all literatures. The
degreda tom ofSthe- family Is ever fol-
lowed by the service and worship Of
impurity, and this worship is against
human nature and for human societies
1t Is ruin. We are certainly far, along
in an evil way, borne on the stream Of
Gallo tendency-when women, the ed
ucators of young women, advocate In
the public press the destruction Of the
old racial and religious virtues and
traditions which have heretofore been
the upbuilding of the best nations of
the earth
sThere may be nothing strikingly
new in this presentation of the case.
The. subject even may be an unpalata-
BILE one and not half so entertaining as
the latest and most salacious musical
comedy, but It Is one now occupying
the best thought of the country and
demanding attention.
"One thing needed to help right
matters is the banding together of the
mothers of the land to fight the desc
Grafton and depreciation of the home
wrought by the Woman about Town
and another the vigorous boycotting
of Men about Town who prefer to I'M
dermine the happiness of the homes
of others rather than to incur respon-
sibilities of married life.
Married men, supporting families,
should be the preference by employ
ers, not only in regard to giving out
of employment but also in the amount
of wages paid, or else premium will
for ever exist on non-marriage not
only among the unstable and vicious
but also among the Industrious and
saving" H. e. C.
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Ancient Writers on wonnen.

Hardly a modern writer of any note
fails to pay chivalrous tribute of some
sort to a woman. But that was not the
way of the ancient Scribes. Here are
some Of their old-fashioned views on the
subject
Than woman there is no fouler and
Viler fiend. Homer.
It shall never tire of cursing woman.
Why did Jupiter allow them to appear
on the face of the earth ?'-EuripideS
There Is no choosing between women;
not one is worth anything. "-PIautus.
Woman thou art the gate Of hell the
in mourning. clothed in rags."-Tertulliau
Woman is the source of all evils Her
love is to be dreaded more than the ha-
tired of man. The poor young man who
fish which goes to meet the hook. -
Socrates.
And so on throughout the whole range
Of eminent classics.
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the adaptation of new and varying
methods to the pursuit of unchanging
aims. The last Russo-I3urkish war
seems to have permanently driven
nome upon her the lesson which the
Crimean war had already taught her.
Since then she has substituted for the
old policy Of overt conquest by force
OF arms that of subtle conquest by
pacific absorption. The results which
she thus achieved are already a splen-
did monument to the wisdom of that
StateSmanlike evolution, and one can
well understand that she should seek
fer an opportunity of, applying the
same policy in Afghanistan which has
already borne such admirable fruits at
Teheran and Pekin. For that it may
safely be asserted, is the object which
she has primarily in view in endeav-
orlng to open up once more direct re-
lat1onS with the government of sKabuf.
For this very reason also it, behooves
us to exercise the greatest caution in
dealing with the OVertures she may
make to us in this direction We
stand on the solid ground Of existing
treaties in refusing to release her from
the international engagements which
placed AfghaniStan entirely outside
her sphere of action. Kabul, in exist
Ing circumstances Is the very last
place which WeAshould willingness
W NC tIoAIo4OI1lCQ lLLlO d CSIklGT- OIL up
Iomat1c rivalry. Britain has refrained
from maintaining any European rep
reSentatlve at the Ameer's court, be-
cause good grounds exist for the be-
lief that the obvious advantages of
such representation would be out
weighed by less obvious but at bottom
far more serious~risks. A native Off
cfal suff1ces for the ordinary purposes
of communication between the Indian
government and the An1eer. But he
would no longer suffice il Russian
representative were accredited at Ka-
bull It is true that Russia avowedIy
limits her desire for direct intercourse
with Kabul to commercial matters.
But. without seeking to fmpugn the
sincerity of that limitation, one may
well. ask how the line is to be drawn,
nowadays, between commercial and
political relations, when Russian policy
more especially has shown in other
quarters such conspicuous success in
using the leverage of commercial en-
terprise for the promotion of political
aScendancy. So long. at any rate, as
the present uncertainty subsists with
regard to the aims OF Russian policy in
Asia, 1t would be folly on our part to
surrender. one of the few advantages
secured to US by that status quo, to
which we cling in other quarters with
pathetic fidelity, even when it has be-
come mere empty formula which
serves only to disguise a serious dis
turbance of the balance of power to
our own detriment.
Fortunately the activity of Russian
agents has converted Northern Persia
into a sphere of Russian activity and
Southern Persia has been left more or
less to British influence. This gives
to Britain a priority on the Persian
gulf and will make it difficult for Rus
STA to quibbfe in view of her own ag-
gresSions to the north"
Lloyd w. Trenowyth, R. A.
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Indian government has proved to be
Apiece of sound strategy and the
qualification of the various tribes into
united Afghanistan a clever piece Of
craftsmanship.
Afghans Stronger.
In conversation with a British off,
clal the latter spoke plainly on the
question. He said:
Russia realizes as fully as we do
the change that has taken place dur
,ing,the last two decades in the force
of resistance which Afghanistan can
oppose to any foreign invader. She
has. herself 1T is true, during the same
period materially strengthened her
strategic position on the Afghan Dor
der. Her Transcaspian railway, which
now extends from Khrasnovodsk to
Tashkend, h@s been carried down to
the very frontier of Afghanistan by
branch line to Kushk, and railway
materials are stored there which
would enable her at any moment to
push 1T on to Herat as quickly as we
could push our own line on from
Chanan to Kandahar. But this no
lOnger9 satisfies her. The Transcas-
plan line Is not connected with the
main system either in Europe or Asia,
and the passage across the Caspian
stnNalves transshipment at either end
She is engaged at present in repair
ing this lacuna by the construction
"a new line, which will connect the
eastern terminus Of the Transcas-
#pfan railway at Tashkend with the
Siberian railway. The new line starts
from Orenburg, already connected
with Samara on the main line from
Moscow to Vladivostock and Port Ar
thur, running through Orsk, Irghiz,
Kazalmsk, Peroosk and Turkestan to
Tashkend. It's completion may be
looked for within the next two years
and then the Russians will have two
alternate routes by which from the
7 least, las. well as from the west, they
can feed their economic base at Kusfk,
: IN the event of military operations
against Afghanistan. This railway
may not be building solely for strate-
8fesapurpOSes. 1t undoubtedly forms
part of M. Whites scheme for the
economic development of Asiatic Rus
sia,sand especially of the great cotton
producing region Of Central Asia. But
the results of this construction upon
stha+ strategic situation must not be
overlooked, Even then, however, It
may be Doubted whether Russia would
feel Inclined in any circumstances de-
liberately to challenge the defensive
resources Of Afghanistan. That she
anaturally wishes to be in a position
to strike effectively in an emergency
at Afghanfstan, and through Afghan
1stan at US, may be taken for granted
But Russian expansion has wisely
learnt to seek the line of least resist
ance, and that line is certainly not at
present to be found in Afghanistan,
but further west, In Persia, or fur
Their east, in the outlying provinces of
the Chinese Empire.
Patience Is Russian Policy.
. Patience, tenacity and seIf-re-
straint have become the dominant
characteristics of Russian policy, to-
gether with astonishing f1exibility in
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HOTELS OF THE FUTURE
What Simeon Ford Thinks Thev Will
Be Like


A school Of hotel keeping is seri-
ously considered in France, the land of
many hotels, which are not always.
but usually, good, says the New York
World. The proposal is to give "en-
hanced dignity to a calling which
yearly Increases in Importance"
Mr.. Simeon Ford, proprietor of the
Grand Union hotel in New York, says
OF the hotel Of the future:
1T will, in my opinion, be the small,
quiet, perfectly conducted hotel where
good taste takes the place Of display
and where the guests will not be so
numerous that they will be lost in the
shuttle, an arrangement so that each
one who registers his name and who
expects to receive and pay his bill may
be looked after properly
''The hotel of today will never be-
come obsolete. because there is nothing
else the big buildings can be used for.
but 1 believe that IN the future these
ponderous propositions will not be con-
sidered the best from the standpoint
of man who wants comfort and his
moneys worth. Already there is a re-
action. Men Of standing, when they go
to a hotel, like to have the room clerk
call them by name; like to be of some
Importance; like to get their mail
promptly and not take their chances
with 1900 others who are looking for
the same thing.
mo; the mammoth structures of the
present will not become obsolete so far
as their many details for the comfort
of the inhabitants are concerned, but
they will be chopped up-made on
smaller lines-and this solely to meet
the wishes Of the people, who viii,
believe, in the future want more actual
comfort for their money"
Personal attention to guests is one
Of the things the proposed French
school Is to teach, thus carrying out
Mr.. Ford's idea-if the school is ever
opened.
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LION WATCHES BEAR
IN The MIDDLE
@7Sse
EAST
British Assume Supremacy
i'm Persian Gulf While Rus
sian Influence Is Domi-
nant i'm Northern Persia
Some Points in Their Great
Political Game.

Special to The Globe.
TEHERAN, May 38.-The recent ut
terance of Lord Lansdowne with ref
erence to the determination of Great
Britain to prevent the establishment
by any other power of a port onsthe
Persian gulf has developed considera-
BILE interest for the moment in the
Middle Eastern question.
This British ultimatum may have
been the result of recent statement
in the semi official Novoe Vremya. OF
st. Petersburg, which was as follows:
What the Russians are striving for
IS not India. but an outlet to the ocean,
both in the near and Middle East.
"Such u.s." the journal adds. "the real
object of our advance across the
steppes and sandy wastes Of Central
Asia, an advance which proceeds at
times almost imperceptibly, but new
ertheless all the more irresistfbly."
sit would be premature" the Novoe
Vremya goes on to say, ito determine
beforehand the bounds Of this advance,
but it is absurd to imagine that it will
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Aquatic MAt Homes.U

Last summer a new kind Of social en-
tertafnment was invented in London by
a fashionable physician. who is an ath-
letic enthusiast with a special fondness
for swimming. 1t was a swimming at
home" The hostess. dressed in bath
ing costume, received her guests at one
Of the large swimming baths specially
hired for the occasion. The guests OF
both sexes were dressed I'm the excellent
swimming costume approved by the ANA
teur Swimming association. They spent
their time in swimming races or in social
conversation on the edge of the swim
ming tank. Refreshments suitable to the
exercise were served in the water to the
swimmers by aquatic footmen.
There were only a few Of these func-
popular They are to be revived this
summer IN London on a much larger
scale, and it is expected they will be
quite the most popular kind Of eat homes"
in the ''dog days"
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otherwise it becomes almost as extensive
as having several servants, but much
CIouole ana worry are saved. The meals
ere sent IN from the restaurant in stoves
knlyeS. forks and glasses have to be
provided; there is no washing I'D to he
zone afterwards The prices vary acc I'd
from about 40 cents upwards, and dinneas
on cents up. The wine is moderate and
good IN Rome, and Venice, and game in
rome ONE Is abundant and very. reasonable.
lngy unwise to engage apartments prior
70 personal investigation. Even tha
recommendations Of friends are often I'M
-MabelIe VaYasaIrf
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Her Definition of DOGMA"

A teacher, Is said to have experienced
the following: After explaining the mean
ing Of the word dogma" to her pupils she
wrote it on the blackboard and asked her
pupils to compose a sentence containing
the word. One little girl In too late for
the definition, but concluded to take her
part in the exercises nevertheless. Her
sentence was as follows: Our dogma has
three puppies."a
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The American Abroad .~"
ga
Finds Living Not Costly

Special to The Globe.
BASLE, June 6.-The American go
Ing abroad for the first time is often
subject to an inevitable amount Of in
convenience as a result of not having
previously made inquiries as to the
proper course to pursue in regard to
obtaining apartments, servants, etc.
In the hope that l may be enabled to
smooth the way for few of my coun-
tryWOmen European bound, who will
not be above listening to the experience
OF one who has paid dearly enough for
1t am tempted to venture these few
suggestions.
I will dismiss the question of accom-
modations in England, for there one
finds little difference from the states,
and travellers are charged only the reg
~Hfar rates but on the continent both
English and Americans are considered
Legitimate prey unless they are able to
protect themselves.
In Paris apartments are quite rea-
sonable, cheaper, in fact, than in New
York, II not in the most fashionable
quarter. Four large rooms and a kitch-
en- may be had for fifteen dollars the
month.
The only drawback to living in flats
is the concierge system, the concierge
can make life unbearable to a tenant
and the landlord will not interfere.
This woman will spy upon the tenants
doings, hold letters and papers back,
lestrange your servants and commit all
the petty annoyances of which a mis-
rchievouSly minded person is capable,
but you viii find her power more tyran-
micah even han that Of New York
janitor accol ling to the funny mans
standards. / vt with all her annoy
anGes she will be infinitely worse if you
do not tip her every time you see her
and send pacifying douceurs between
the acts.
Need Fewer Servants.
You require fewer servants in France
than in England, the meals are simpler,
there are not so many things to dust
and keep Clean, neither is so much sill
yer used. Generally, bonnie a tout
faire is quite enough. The wages of a
good maid in Paris will be about ten
dollars q month If she understands
cooking and she can demand two dol
lars a month for wine and one dollar
for washing. She will work hard for
this. 1t is a great mistake to feed
sFrench servants in the English way;
it is more expensive, and they do not
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stop in Central Asia. Very possibly
there will be no mo48 gAoodshed and.
our march toward the South will be
peaceably accomplislfeT by means Of
the introduction of QUE civilizing in
fiuenee in those statess which border,
on our possessions in8 Central Asia.
"Our route" the journal concludes,
"lies not in the direction of India. and
the British therefore Wneed not be SO
Usoicitous about the defense of that
country, and least of all need they be
in so much haste over it."
In view of the paramountcy of British
influence in Afghanistan, and also in
Southern Persia. 1t is unlikely that the
Russians will be able to make the
with more checks than THE optimistic
tone of the Russian newspaper would
infer.
Afghan Is Rritain's Ally.
With Afghanistan for an ally. which
she certainly would be in the event of
a Russian advance. Britain would be
able to oppose a formidable front to
the Muscovite armies. 1t is estimated
that Ameer Habibullah could put in
the field between 10000 and 100000
fighting men who would be man for
man at least equal to the famous Co.'S
sacks. for every adult Afghan is train
ed TO the use Oh dfIIlS anu war is Lne1r
chosen profession.
5uc Even though Russia has for years
been trying her best to undermine
Britain in this neighboPhood the as
cendancy of the latter is proved by
the fact that she has recently been
called in by both Persia and Afghan
fstan to settle the Helmund river
boundary dispute between them.
Even Germans, chagrined as they
are at the British refusal to back up
the Bagdad railway scheme admit
Bfitain's~ authority in this sphere.
The necessary security of her In
dian empire has forced upon her the
necessity Of being the predominant
factor in the adjustment Of frontier
disputes in this region. Whatever the
Russians may have done to establish
themselves here. it has not materially
affected British interests. The SUBJ
sidization Of the Afghan army by the
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like it, much preferring to choose and
prepare their own food. The cook
should be allowed to do her own mar
keting; 1t is no saving for the lady to
go herself, as she will probably not
know the value of things, and prices
will be raised at her approach If the
servant is made to understand at the
outset that economy is necessary, she
viii mostly take pains to carry out her
instructions, and, as a rule, will be
found to be perfectly honest.
Wine is very cheap in France. The gov
to lessen the drinking of 1t. and has
brought down the tax on wine. A good
wine costs 20 cents a ltre. and there is
a cheap red wine which servants drink
that can be bought for so 'centines the
litre. Ii procured in casks it is cheaper
still. A servant can often get good wine
cheaply from country friends. Those who
do not care to drink wine can have Source
Badolt water. which can be obtained any
where for 70 confines a tbotthes, Meat is
very expensive; beef is So cents a pound,
While rs cents must be paid for mutton.
Vegetables are cheap and excellent all the
year round. Jams are EXPENSIVE ass in
deed, is everything containing sugar, on
account of the duty. which has to be
paid twice over on imports, namely for
things coming into France. and then for
coming into Paris: The cheapest sugar
enormous. Kitchen coal is sometimes as
high as SIS ton, and anthracite is SIG;
the French kitchen range, however, is
very economical s.s4
VuItures Swarm In France.
To be thoroughly robbed one must go
south. however The South of France is
the paradise of the lodging house .vulture
The English regarded as millionaires,
have long been regarded as natural prey
by these monsters and not only in the
unfrequented places is it possible for an
English or American family to escape the
eXtortionate demands Of these purveyors
to travellers Meat and groceries, while
inferior to those supplied in England, are
much dearer, although milk, eggs and
poultry are cheaper.
Dresden is not yet as costly as Paris,
although much more so than formerly,
but living in Brussels is cheaper and good
servants can be hired for IS a month.
In Rome suites Of three to five rooms
vary from $50 to $500 per month. two
furnished rooms averaging $50. There are
two ways Of living-either to engage a
staff OF servants. as in England, or to
have only one. and have meals sent in
from restaurant. The wages OF serv-
ants In Rome are high, so If economy be
an object. It L. better to adopt the latter
plan II only a stay ofsa short time Is
contemplated. and the family is small;
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Ghosts.

Do you believe in ghosts? lido,
and it might as we'll be stated that
it took many stories and an actual
experience to convince me that
there was such thing as a ghost.
About Eve years ago I was in
vited to join a hunting party which
was making ready to go to the
northern end of Lake Winnipeg
for several weeks. After making
all preparations, we left Selkirk,
Manitoba, on a large passenger and
freight steamer, the ''City of Sell
kirk, owned by Robinson and Co.,
one of the large lumber companies
operating in Canada. We pro-
ceeded to the northwestern end of
the lake to the Norway House.
The old Norway House is an old
Hudson Bay trading post. It is
chiefly built of stone. The sur
rounding buildings are low and
the population is largely made up
of Indians who follow trapping Tor
q living. At that time there was
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"Wbat Shall We eat,"

Every day the same old question,
What shall we eat for breakfast,
for luncheon, for dinner? assails
with monotonous regularity the
patient housewife who seeks to pro-
vide good living for the family in
agreeable variety alta moderate cost.
There is q daily department in the
Chicago Record Herald which is
intended to answer this question
satisfactorily every day in the year.
It is entitled ssMeals for a Day"
and provides menus for the three
meals every day, with the neces-
sary recipes. These menus and
recipes are carefully selected by
the Record Herald's household ed
itor and cash prizes are awarded
to the best that are received.
Housewives everywhere are in
vited to participate in the compe-
tition. For full particulars see the
sMeals for Day" department in
the Chicago Record Herald. -Adv.
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Feminine Ingenuity.

Exhibitions designed to show
what woman can accomplish are
held in this country from time to
time. At none of these exhibi-
tions, however, has there been q
display of woHen's tools. This is
quite unaccountable, for the inge.
nuity shown by women in convert
ing into tools things which were
never designed for that purpose is
one Of the most remarkable char
acteristica of the sex. When man
wishes to doa piece of work which
requires a tool. he searches for the
proper instrument, and if he can
not find it, he fancies that the pro-
posed work must be abandoned.
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The money was. He told me to-
mark the tree so I could find II.
again which i did by cutting
notch in the bark with my pocket
knife. Here the old man disap-
peared. feeling no doubt that his
earthly mission had been fulfilled.
I returned to my room and after
tossing for some time upon my
bed, I fell asleep again. I arose
quite early the next morning and
as was only natural the first thing
I thought of was the ghost, the
murderers, the money and it's hid
ing place. On dressing / glanced
in the mirror and there discovered
that I had been walking about the
room in my sleep, as I was in the
habit Of doing, and had gouged
out small chunk of tallow from
the side of my candle and had rub
bed my temples and face where /
had been bitten by q few of my
bed mates. AS to the money and
large tree and the ghost, I then
realized they were only a dream.
The next morning I started for
the old Norway House and from
there took the boat for home which
place I reached in safety. Since
then I have always believed in
ghosts. Wouldn't you? G.
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Eow SUMMER coarist Rates.

Via Chicago Great Western
Railway. Round trips to Colorado,
Utah, Black Hills, New Mexico
and Texas points. Tickets on sale
daily June LIST to September Both.
Good to return October 31st. For
further information apply to any
Great Western Agent, or j. P.
Elmer, e.. P. A., Chicago.
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Farm Wases in Scotland.

Caithness, Orkney and Shetland
are Scottish counties in which the
wages of agricultural workers are
at the lowest. A plowman there
still considers himself well paid at
IA shiIlings week. Y. Times.