The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-04-23

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committing either.
The Massachusetts Floral Emblem
society of Boston has canvassed the
state to ascertain the peoples prefer
ence in the matter of suitable flower
to represent the commonwealth, and
has found that the mountain laurel is
the favorite.
In Lynn, Mass, $4,000 900 pairs Of
shoes were made last year; in Brock
ton SIT 100000 pairs, and in Haverhil
100000 pairs. These three cities
therefore, turned out enough shoes te
supply one pair for two-thirds of the
population of the country.
The Anti-Death Penalty league Of
Boston has petitioned the Massachu-
sets legislature to abolish capital pun.
fshment, asserting that the punish
ment Of crime by the infection OF
death has not acted as either a deter.
rent "or a reformatory measure"
According to a report which Sec
rotary Root transmitted to congress
there are in the United States 10,853,-
1886 men available for militia service
This is a fine justification of the mot
to, Hands off, and should appeal tc
our dear friends abroad, comments the
New York Sun.
A large proportion of the transpor.
tation Of Mexico is done in two
wheeled carts, with wheels six feet in
diameter. This is due to two rea-
sons, one being that wagons are taxed
according to the number of wheels
and also because the carts can get
about narrow streets, which are SO nu-
merous in Mexican cities.
A mercury vapor lamp was recently
exhibited in London which is made in
candescent by the passage of an cleo
trio current through the vapOr, very
much as the carbon filament is made
to glow in the Edison lamp. 1t is said
to have the advantage Of yielding a
given amount of illumination with
only fraction Of the power required
by the carbon lamp.
The Lady's Pictorial, in noting the
statement in an American paper that
it had discovered the abolition Of mid
gle age by the modern woman, says
that the discovery had already been
made in England some time ago.
Where it is possible for woman,
without being ridiculous, to retain her
youthful appearance, says this publ
cation, surely it is perfectly justifia-
BILE for her to endeavor to do so. Not
by juvenility of dress or manner, for
this defeats it's own object, but by
maintaining as far as in her lies the
CHEEKY optimism and light-heartedness
Of youth and lively sympathy with
and interest in the younger of her OWL
sex.
The clubs and other societies which
are composed of wealthy women have
been strongly reminded by the United
States commissioner of education that
one of the most helpful lines to which
they might contribute would be the
establishing of scholarships for their
own SEX. There has been some in
crease in such funds available for
women, but not nearly enough to meet
the need. If the most promising young
men might not push their studies be-
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such help it is quite as reasonable that
the women students should be aided,
but during the last 10 years that
women have been going to college in
much greater numbers the scholar
ships and fellowships allotted to them
have not increased proportionately.
The funds still remain much inferior
to those available for men.
| It is asserted by Henry T. Finck
that coeducation is failure and on
trial for life. In support of this die
tum he cites prominent educators such
as Presidents Eliot, Hall, Hadley,
James and Jordan, adding that two
western universities have retreated
from their former position and are
now against coeducation. 1t had its
inception, he remarks, in the sparsely