Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1903-08-22


by earning more. but it is generally
pretty hard for them to make their
wives believe 1t.
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Michigan ministers ana undcrtakers
have united in q movement to abolish
sunday funerals. which they claim
desecrate the day. Up to
date. however, the doctors have not
got together to abolish Sunday births.
A Montana schoOl.teacher picked up
from under her desk what she thought
was a leather strap. She found she
had hold of Il rattlcsnake. and calmly
killed 1t with a ruler. 1t Is easy to
see what would happen to small boy
cutting capers In her classroom.
One OF our prominent physicians Is
charged with stealing an umbrella;
quod est absurdum. Nobody ever stole
an umbrella.
Because New Jersey 10Y would not
take a dare" he fell from Il guy.
rope, up which he was trying to climb.
ana was instantly killed. The unfor.
tunate lad did not know that 1t takes
more courage to refuse to do fool.
ish thing than to do 1t. Fear Of ridi.
cule Is not Il mark of bravery, but Of
cOwardlce.
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There Is limit to the number Of de.
sirable immigrants we can assimilate,
but much more us to the undigestible
mass. 1t Is nearing 1,OOO,OOO a year
ana three-fOurths Of this great horde
of humanity represents the undesirabl,
and Objectionable mass; not probably
ut this time. when labor IL plenty, but
what 1t will be when the labor sup
ply Is gorged and work cannot be
found for the newcomers?
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The Milwaukee Sentinel suggests Il
use for abandoned lumber camps scat
tered throughout Northern Wisconsin
Ordinarily the old camps have littl,
promise of future value. a few hun
dred dollars, says the Sentinel. would
buy and equip the deserted buildings
for the Open.air treatment Of tubercu'
lOsis. The success OF such an expert.
ment In Pennsylvania makes the prop.
osition the more interesting and req.
sonable.
$3.50
1t Is easy t. show them that a girl
In domestic service Is better paid, has
Il better room. Is more comfortably
than she would he working for factory
or shop girls wages, but she knows
that In domestic service she will moi
have SO much freedom. and she nat
urnlly wants personal freedom rs til,
first essential to real comfort In life
II domestic service were a non.residen,
calling 1t would attract younger WON
Ell readily, but until 1t Is they vii
spurn 1t when possible.
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One provision Ut tne hew automobile
law In New York must have been mod
eled on the Old-fashiOned methods Of
school discipline. When J0hnni,
abused his recess privileges, he wal
deprived Of his recess for while. TIT
New York law forbids the running o.
an autO.car faster than eight miles al
hour In cities. and Furnishes an Of
fender by prohibiting him from run
ming any car for certain period afte
his conviction. This provision shout.
be more effective than tine.
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"SiXty.eight," murmured young II
brarian as Il woman waiting for ,
book leaned forward and touched he
cheeks and lips to the top of the bras
guard about the desk. Beg pardon,
said the woman. Did you speak Il
meT" "Oh, no, / am just counting tn
persons whose lips have touched tina
rail this afternoon. You are the sixty
eighth" The woman started back II
disgust. and hastily wiped her lips OF
her handkerchief. II was unconscious
of what l was doing" she exclaimed
Il suppose they all are was the IL
comic reply.
There are few IL any devices made
for the amusement of the boys on thu
Fourth Of July that are more danger
Gus than the toy pistol. Every yea
many boys are wounded by the eX
ploson of the pistols. There was al
unusually large number of such acct
dents this year, and in the week or tel
days following the Fourth almost CIV
cry newspaper contained the report OF
the death of one or more boys from
lockJaw resulting from injury by til,
! toy, This Is Il good month in whlcl
parents can resolve to keep toy pis
tolls out Of their chlldren's hands mex
year.
To cook Is iorDiuuen IN some fash
ionable apartment houses, ana whel
an occupant OF one developed an after
theater appetite for fried onions, tn,
people in the rooms overhead prompt
ly demonstrated, and had the feas
suppressed. Afterward. as the story
goes, the heads of the two families be
came intimate, and the oniOn-lover re
preached the other man for being 81
particular. "Oh. l wouldn't find faul