Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1903-06-13

zens Of the United States Of America.
As usual. We got there first, The
names America and American have
risen to some prominence In the world.
II was the American milton which did
II. The Canadian can not call himself
an American. Neither can the Mexi.
can. And the inhabitants of South
America must remain South American.
Other nations recognize this. In diplo.
matte notes the word America refers
to the United States Of America. There
Is only one America
My country, tits of thee,
~ Sweet land Of liberty.
OF thee we sing.
The natural conclusion Is plain. II
other residents on this side of the globe
wish to be known as Americans"
they'll have to get annexed; that's all.
There Is common belief that the
man whose wife Is out Of town has n
hilarious time. details of which are not
to be even limited ut In print. Moral.
lists have exploited this belief. Humor.
lists have thrived on It. The public
has beer, forced to accept 1t out of re.
spect for Its venerable age. The only
man who suspects,thnt there Is nothing
In II IL the man whose wife IL out Of
town. To him It Is all a Joke without
humor, sermon without n point.
When the wife goes the husband may
Mt first experience an eXhilarating
sense Of freedom. He will be one Of
1.-THE boys" again. he thinks. He will
return to the old haunts ana the old
friends. He will know ngaln for III.
tie while the delicious thrill Of bohe-
milan responsibility. that must be all
the sweeter because Of the burden Of
restraints he so long has borne. Yes.
for once, he will do Just as he pleases.
But he soon finds that somehow the
old haunts are changed. The old
friends IRE mostly missing and the rest
are not the same. He tells them his
wife Is out Of town ana that he II In
for weeks good time. They slap him
on the back, wish him great success
and-turn away. The sympathy Of In.
terest. that II the soul OF friendship
among men. IL gone. The names IRE
the same. the faces are the same. but
all else In different. He finds himself
Rip Van Wrinkle come back among
strangers and among old scenes and
old sounds that have become strangely
new. Lonesomely he wanders from
one to another and finds them the
same In their difference. He goes home
and finds the house dark ana desOlate.
He puts himself mt ease with his feet
ietinntly on the furniture and imagines
he Ia a free man. But the paper or
book he takes up Is intOlerably dull.
At last. In despair. he goes to bed
ahead Of time. Next night he tries 1t
all over again. There Is nothing else
he Gun do. He knows no places but
the old ones. He can mt least look ON.
The old "boy" he encounters now and
then stops moment to ask him II his
wife Ii still gone and he IL having a
good time, and then--passes on. The
more of his old friends he sees the
more he feels alone. 80 he goes home
and to bed earlier than before. This
night he dreams that the bonds he had
30 gladly cast aside were precious
strings Of Jewels. He wakes to a real.
ixation that the whole world has not
changed, but that he has. He sees
that the sympathles. the interests and
the impulses that were his when he
was one OF 1.-THE boys" can no more be
recalled by him now than can the
years that divide them from him. He
finds It dull business-this being free
from the sympathies. the customs, the
attentions. the companionship that have
become 30 important part Of his life.
When at last she comes home again he
IL ut the station an hour ahead OF the
train. And yet, the world persists In
accepting It as settled that this man
has had the time Of his life."
Mr.. Putnam, the publisher, has been
telling the English writer's that II they
will do hrst'class work they may De
always sure Of appreciation In Amer
lea, but that English second and third
raters are now beaten on the home
field by native competitors" This Is
undoubtedly true. When 1t comes
down to second and third, even fourth
and fifth, raters, America leads the
world and laughs and SCOTS at compe'
tition. So far as literature Is con-
cerned, we make no pretenslons, but
In the matter of selling book covers
with fairly good measure OF sixty
or seventy thousand words In the way
of contents we are without rivals.
The milliners are Joining In the cru
SADIE against the decorating OF women's
hats with stuffed song birds. 1t Is evl
dent that the milliners have found on,
how to make ribbons just as expen
sive.
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What can a young man do with more
, millions than he can spend? Not man!
young men need bother their head
with that question. But there Is one
Alexander Smith COchrane, 20. of YOn
kers, N. Y.-whO Is up against II
J Young Cochrane's development of TIN
) lmOneymaking instinct Ia abnormal, Hi