New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-07

Apropos Of the birth rate problem. medical
paper points to the absence Of children in fiction
and on the stage indication OF the tendencies
Of the times in this particular. Children. it is
larlented have only small place in the new novel
and the drama OF the day deals but little with large
families This may be true enough The heroine
OF fiction IS frequently only daughter and the
hero IS apt 10 be lonely mortal with Few or nc
dozen groups but IL is not necessary 10 arge from
real life
An interesting and instructive little story is told
OF the recent visit paid by the German Empress
70 Zegenhals in Si1esia after the terrible inunda-
tons which have caused such distress there. Her
majesty was faultlessly dressed. but with great
SIMPLICITY and this fact made such an IMPRESSION
% he fI-Ted sVav I'm going straight home 10
tear the flowers out OF my girls ha1s-
A recent question in the British House o. COM
mons concerning the age at which men and women
have married Of late years brought 20 hGnt the
fact that besides marrying later in lie than lney
used TO- which every one knows 20 De the case
women no longer hesitate 70 state their exact
ages on their marriage certificates Thirty years
ago 50 per cent OF brides marrying over twenty
one described themselves IS OF -fuI age So MAJ
il almost impossible 10 gst az en- - ne sex
tistics 10 the usual marriage 49, a,Ii17y
The modern woman appear, 70 .. Sc - r5tbs- proud
OF it than otherwise.
Sir Francis j me recently lalu uONH TIT
that no woman can love two men al once WINE
- - +ba division Of his affections comes
naturally
.--o,os r., the letters Of Nile. de Lespinasse.
--tiob Mrs Ward has brought into prominence
nv her Lady Roses Daughter a writer IN ING
sd,.s Pictorial observes that to be Of importance
~, Gears before the French Revolution woman
80 have had an ardent lover and have been
cs,sr1e ~ sharing that lovers transports Jean
rao7res Rousseau had made 'senslolllty the lasA-
5or and women Of the great world were as PROUD
- an emotion as vain Of heart throb. as are the
women az the great world to-day OF their skln az
bridge or their knowledge OF STOCKS d[l1 60
This il is asserted Is why Mic os - lI-e+ess
: recognized leader Of French society lIt - =
q 0-s7o- vTbich was thronged every evening VIII
duchesses arnbassadors and -
Induced her at forty-odd 70 teaT LsLSSl1 70 ,,t-
over an impecunous soldier very nnuch ner Juii'-'
,.--,s, women cover themselves. Englishwonen
cIotbe themselves. Frenchwomen dress themselves
or. American women array themselves. This IS the
5iCr1r1 Of a mere man upon This all lInportal-
subject, and is, perhaps, not so "loe OF TIC ma =
Her husbands death was. perhaps, the greatest
blessing fate had vouchsafed her forty years o.
sscri6ce ard endurance and yet il was UnqUestion-
sbI-- the blow Of her life that there was not
renr1v within reach with which to purchase an
adequate supply OF Grape \ pension. ~eS o+--Ts
however for the otherwise worthless cLea ~ :
wh0rn a whole houseful q small chlldren cellel
father had once shouldered a gun IN ms cquL1f
behalf. and when some elgnt oI nlIe - t1~a
the first insJalment Of this arrived me nelsl2Gs
unaware OF the fact were anlaZeC 70 So y =; :,
? anoear at the village church sWathe1 II
biaclz Win veil fairly sweeping the ground y NJ
pathetic inquiries were MADE as 70 l1e cause
an this. 10 death had oeen he heard o. II ~ j-
Community. and when it was discovered 70 oe =
honor OF the neer-do-Wel now hearly q year 1lt9
ground and that the wnole aIIo-tH O psl9I $50
money received had gone 70 TINS sarolIg the sE--
pathy o. even those country .ca Iis+iS felt
itsef little bit overtaxed and drew into its she'll