The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-06

journey. So men passing touch not his
hoard, for some day they may be in the
same case, and a precedent is bad
thing.
"One comes unexpectedly upon a
birch hanging from tree limb says
the old trader, cor a whole bunch Of
snowshoes depending beneath the fans
of a spruce; or tangle of steel traps
thrust into the crevice of a tree root.
or supply of pork and -four swathed
like an Egyptian mummy lying in state
on high bier. These things we have
passed by reverently as symbols of a
peoples trust in it's kind.
1.-The same sort of honesty holds in
regard to smaller things. I have never
hesitated to leave in my camp firearms,
fishing rods, utensils valuable from a
woods point of view, even a watch or
money. Not only have never lost any
thing in that manner, but once an In
dian lad followed me some miles after
the mornings start to restore to me
half a dozen trout flies had acciden-
tally left behind"
Polish women are passionately patrf-
otto, says a recently returned traveller
from that country, and for this they re-
ceive respect that amounts to homage
by their countrymen. Even the most
Will SuTT0IlUST Ills
seat at any time to "a lady," and no
man remains seated in a public con-
veyance If woman is within sight. At
even casual meetings of two or three
women a moment is found for a word
on patriotic affairs; everything, the
founding of a library, a hospital, a
sewing school, is made a way to
strengthen the Polish cause. The wom-
an of position rises between II and IL
o'clock in the forenoon, and goes to bed
at 4 o'clock the next morning. She
drives from one visit to another, but
in reality she is laboring all day for
public interests. Polish women are re-
nowned for their beauty, the perfection
of their hands and the smallness of
their feet. They place the fineness of
the hands above all other charms. II
regard my hands, not my face" said
one, and 1t is reported in Warsaw that
the Vienna shoe dealers keep a separ-
ate case of shoes for the delicate feet
of their Polish customers.
Polish women maintain that when
they shop in Vienna and show their
small feet, with the high instep, to be
fitted, the tradesmen exclaim, "Ah,
those are Polish feet!" But their pleas
ure in this distinction is not so much
a matter of personal vanity as of salts
faction in the superiority of anything
belonging to their country.
Male "housemaids'' are the most re-
cent contribution to the solving of the
servant problem in Great Britain, it
seems. Several thousands of foreign
young men have recently been trans
ported to London to engage in general
domestic work in British households.
So far nothing but commentator is
heard on the subject These men serv-
ants, say their employers, do the work
that has generally been allotted to
women in cleaner, quicker and more
thorough fashion than the sex they
have displaced. They waste less time,
have no grievances, no visitors" ask
no higher wages and do not bother
about evenings out" Altogether. II
the future carries out the prophecy of
the present it will not be long before
the reign Of women workers in the
essentially womanly field of house
wifery,' will be quite eclipsed by the
masculine superiority therein shown.