Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1903-12-05

than usual? And why does 1t persist
in the United States? They are partly
answered i'm the report of the consul
England has not been interested I'm
dolls. apparently because of the Boer
War, which seems to indicate that bat
tie. murder and sudden death do not
comport well with the innocent Occu.
pations Of the nursery. 1t would not
be just to hint that because the Brit
ish discovered that some of their po-
litical dolls were stuffed with sawdust
they have become disguised with dolls
of all kinds. Another reason for the
decline In the demand Is that the high
tariffs of Austria Hungary. France.
Sweden. Norway and Denmark keep
out foreign-made dolls, and the little
Danes and Swedes. Austrians and
French must content themselves with
the home made article. OF course dolls
of home manufacture are sold In all
the countries. including the United
| States, from which the tariff keeps
some of the Thuringian product. But
| IL Is still true that distance lends en-
chantment to the doll, and the Ameri-
can misses love their imitation babies
from Nuremberg and SOnncberg more
dearly because they have come across
the sea. No sociologist has yet told us
whether the doll habit has permanent
| ~ declined. and no statistician has
given us figures to show to what eX-
tent the domestic doll has displaced
| the foreign. In the absence of figures
one must fall back on general princi-
| pies, and hold that. as there Is an
"etprnnl feminine which changes not
with the iceting years. there must
also be an eternal doll hunger which
demands satisfaction, II with nothing
better than a clothes.pin wrapped In u
handkerchief.
On All Souls Church. oxford. En-.
gland. there is an inscription reading
"Periunt ct imputantur." which means
that the hours perish and are laid to
our charge. There are too many In
the world to-day who sorrowfully real.
lie the truth of these words. When 1t
IL too late they recognize that mans
days are numbered and the night com.
eth when no man can work. Time like
life can never be recalled. The only
good that time can do us II the good
that we put in It. A bad hour can
never become clean. 1t carries ita
stain forever, and II leaves Its mark
behind. What 1t deprived us of we
have lost. 1t has gone into eternity
and out Of that there IL no return. So
1t IL with the blessing that the good
hour carries That. too. goes into eter.
nifty and the blessing that Is In II
abidcs with us and operates again
minutes. A bad action seldom lasts
an hour. Evil Is rapid in Its process.
But the Indifferent actions which Dor.
der NO closely on bad ones IRE the &C.
lions that take up minute after min.
ute until hours are consumed and un.
less remedy II applied before the
habit becomes formed. even weeks.
1t Is to them that we should give our
attention. 1t Is the spare moments.
which IRE 10 apt to be Indifferent ones.
when we are lost for something to do,
that we should transform into good
hours. Success In self-improvement
IL rarely the product Of. genius. More
often 1t IL the fruit of careful employ
ment of the Invaluable fragments Of
. time called "spare moments" Let
|, any man take one hour In the even
|, Ing away from frlvOlity or vain dream
Ing, devote 1t to study and In u re.
markably short time he shall have
mastered the lntrlcacies of complete
science. Let an ignorant man do the
|, same thing ana in ten years he will
have become learned.
The hoy problem Is much Older
than any other problem. 1t therefore
follows, naturally, that we have a vas
} literature on the subject Of Its solu
ton. Since the days Of TON Brown
ut Rugby" that literature has multi
piled with great apidlty. As there
: are very few persons of ordinary In
. telllgence who are innocent OF idea
regarding the "bringlng up" Of bO!
! the average parent need not suffer TO
lack OF counsel on this subject TIL
boy Is the crux Of the educational prob
p lem. lie II the interesting ana delight
/. fully uncertain quantity In the hom
}. life. Just how the girls will "turl
b out" does not appear to concern tn
0 parents or the educators. EverybOd!
{ knows they will develop into wa
( manhood that will reflect credit upOl
( the family name. But how about tn
o boy? What IRE You going to do will
n this bundle of lively and interestin,
r pOtentialities? Before the Chicag
n Union Of Liberal Sunday Schools a
d Hull House Mrs. Milton LamOrcauX
r In discussing the "bOy problem" said
q Between the ages Of III and II OG
O ours the crisis Of the feelings In
!. boys existence. His life shuts up. II
!. loses his old frankness and become
4 secretive. Happy the father or mothc
- or teacher who. when the boys III
|. shuts up, Is shut w inside" Her
9 We have the pathOs OF the boy prOl
10 lem, as well as the parental ObligG
I. ton, pictured In a few words. Pedi
n gOglcal trcatises, based upon theOrC
d or upon experience, may be more /
|. Illuminating than this, but they can al
IS very little to the impressivencss @
% the truth that when boy "shuts up