The Indianapolis journal., 1903-11-15
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and wreathed them around tht brim. The
result was something surprissagly pretty
and tasteful
AS 1 write Charlie is glidinl, down the
sidewalk with a grace the new Duchess
Of Roxburghe might envy an old blue
silk skirt trailing yard behi1d him. his
pink cheeks and lovely eyes aglsw. his curls
clustering beneath the rosebuds OF a dis
carded summer hat-a living witness TO the
fact that there is one masculine being who
envies our privileges!
The New Orleans Picayune saws: The
rarest combination In the world is women
and common sense. Tradition and
custom :alike have
Women and conspirea TO foster
Common Sense. this weakness in
women. III is taken
for granted that they will be illogical and
unreasonable and that they win burst into
tears and swoon when the time for decisive
action arrives, and that they tfl generally
be guided by their hearts ins5ead Of their
heads"
Shades of the eighteenth ceflturyi Is IL
possible that the woman who bursts into
tears and swoons in an emergency when
she ought to be doing something. still sur
wives in the South, That the south largely
clings to the literature and She ideals OF
that century We all know. buk / had sup
posed the always-fainting-aYay woman
was as extinct as the ichthyqsaurus. Did
the girls in the rear cars of the Inflated
Purdue special faint when they saw that
awful sight? Were they not: instead. in
slant in helpfulness and deeds Of mercy?
How the matter went in this city have
not heard. but in neighborirg town when
vaccination of the children a. the schools
was ordered, there were some cases OF
fainting under the slight operation in each
school building. The personi who tainted
was boy in every instance. AS for being
illogical, the majority of meh. or women
either, are illogical-don't know an argu-
ment when they meet it, are; incapable OF
drawing a logical inferenca prefer the
style of argument that consists in abusing
your adversary and misstatinf his position.
But the women who can reason clearly and
correctly often seem illogical to men, be-
cause they reason so rapidly. "A man trying
to follow them is like an aritrmetician who
can see no sense in an algel:raic solution.
AS for being unreasonable. let me whisper
a secret, Mr.. Picayune: Mem seem just as
unreasonable to women as women do to
men, and a little more so. i: is a case OF
difference in parallax, causeds by difference
in standpoint. If women follow their hearts
rather than their heads, that z well. The
hearts Of the human race-l-of the we'll
meaning part of 1t. that isf-are much
more likely to be right than their heads
as the history of all religionh shows. The
theories and descriptions of fiod. or Of the
gods, have often been monstrous, but in
spite of everything the heari OF humanity
has always clung to the trufh that God is
| good.
Finally, IL the editor wishes TO learn
something about women and common sense,
let him take thorough course OF the
| works of Josiah Aliens wife" Common
sense is the immortal Samantha's speciality.
The funniest form Canada's wrath at
| England has taken is the Suggestion made
| by some OF her prominent men that she
get even with England
Canada and and Uncle Sam at one
Leap Year. fell swoob, by coming
into the UAion. This goes
beyond the traditional scherSe of marrying
a man to get rid of him. 1t rather suggests
| Shakspeare's
To take her in her hearts EXTREMIST hate
With curses in her mouth. te4rs In her eyes.
| But does she think our shreAvd Uncle Sam
uel is looking out for that knd OF bride?
/ And will she wait for Leaf year to pro-
pose?
| Speaking of leap year. 1904 will be the first
one for eight years-and no sone now living
will ever see eight years without a leap
year egain, for it will not aappen for two
hundred years-not till 2l0O
The Moseley committee have doubtless
seen much that was interesting and much
that was excellent in educational methods.
but they swill not learn
The Mose1ey the secre. OF Americas
| Committee. greatnesss by a rapid
| inspection: OF q few pub
| lie schools in big cities. The one significant
really American feature OF ihe schools viii
| probably escape them. TheS will not know
| that of two pretty, well-dtessed. well-be-,
haved. bright girls. sitting side by side in
the high school, one is the Slaughter OF the
Governor Of the State anG the other the
daughter of man who. twenty years ago.
was a starving tenant Of a, wretched little
Irish farm. Moreover. the .men who have
| thus far made the greatness OF America,
whether in industry, commerce, or states
manship, have not been educated In the
| graded schools. These schools are won
derful machines for taking: all manner OF
raw material from Europe, and making 1t
into intelligent American citizens, but they
have been only one factor among many in
producing the American type of manhood
and womanhood, and American success.
There is the unlimited opportunity set be-
| fore every man; the canalsdriver may be-
| come President; the section.hand may come
| to own two or three CREST railroad sys-
tens; there are the boundssss resources OF
a virgin continent. on the whole the most
| favored in natural resources and conditions
of any on the earth.
| Behold / the lanti a.
| Hid Of old time in the Vest,
| AS the sculptor uncovers the statue,
| When he has wrought kis best.
| says the Lord in Emerson's poem There is
the enormous educating h.fuence OF local
self-government. A republic OF the French
! or Swiss type, where schools and police and
roads and all details are administered and
! controlled by bureaus of tise central power.
| is no more educative in citizenship than a
constitutional monarchy. 1T is the town
| meeting and the self-regutated school dis
| trict that are the training schools OF Amer
| ican craftsmanship. whese every citizen
learns the rudiments OF government. More
| than ALL IL is the profound religious earn