The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-16

Ireland once received a letter from a
disaffected tenant warning her that her
husband would certainly be shot, but
| that nothing would be done to injure
or annoy her.
During time of unusual poverty in
Christiania. Norway. last winter, "por-
ridge stations" were opened where I'M
employed Workmen and their families
could get a nourishing meal at no ex-
penSe.
An anthology society has been re-
ported from New England. It's object
is the excelsior from the marriage serv-
Ice OF the "barbarous word obey" and
the members are solemnly sworn never
to make the VOW of obedience them
selves.
DR.. G. Stanley Hall, the father of
child study in this country has taken
occasion lately to say that even the great
good 1T has done and the greater good
10 be expected from it have been so far
counterweighed by some positive harm.
IL mas often led to interference with
nature, and sometimes even to distrust
OF her. "Viewlets" have been taken
as facts, and the children have been
practlced on to an extent which has
sometimes jeopardized their mental,
physical and even moral health and
growth, and made education a kind of
NEEDING interference with nature.
perhaps 1T is a perception of this ten
dency that makes some people choose
TO keep their children at home until
they are of school age rather than send
them to the kindergarten, where child
study often RACES. Among some of the
educational fads which DR.. Hall dep
recates are 'idiotic busy work in lower
doc
ing the alphabet, blob drawing type
writing and shorthand in the high
school, four foreign languages for girls
and boys in the early teens who have
almost nothing in their minds to ex-
press in the vernacular, Latin and alge-
bra in the grammar school, wood and
iron work in manual training courses
that are wooden in their intelligence
and iron in their infleXibility," and so
on.
English physicians are much inter-
ested in the extraordinary case of Ell
len Bates, a girl twenty-five years old,
from whose body hundreds of strange
animals have been taken. The girl
was strong and healthy until year
ago, when she was seized with this
mysterious illness. She continued to
fail, and during February she threw
or four each day. She got worse, and
finally was sent to London, where an
operation was performed. and hundreds
OF animals-large and small-were
found near her left shoulder blade.
She died under the operation. The
doctors said she could not possibly
have lived, because one of the animals
had Travelled from her shoulder to her
heart. One physician, who studied
this unhappy girls condition, con-
ciudes that the animals found
in her We're parasites which de-
veloped from drinking water in
fected by pigs or dogs, and that the
story that eating watercress was the
girls complaint was probable enough
In the human body these parasites
form hydatoid cysts, most frequently
In the liver. he says. Around the
cyst the tissue hardens, so that the
parasite may remain long without in
terfering with the health. Within the
cyst numerous small cysts, called
daughter cysts. may form, varying in
size and sometimes running into the
thousands. The parent cyst OCCASION
ally bursts through into the stomach or
lungs, or even into the membrane sur
rounding the heart. The theory Of
this medical man accounts for the
vomiting of small animals, which were
probably the daughter cysts, and for
the animal which was said to have
Travelled to the heart. This may have
been the parent cyst, which had burst
it's enveloping tissue.
Mrs. Michael Conlin, first vice presi-
ident of the Indian Territory Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs, is the daughter
of full blooded ChoctaW. Her mother
was of the Chickasaw tribe, but had a
strain of white blood in her veins. Mrs
Conlin is the wife of a lumber mer-
chant, born in Wisconsin. Library
work Is what chiefly concerns this
federation, which distributes and cir
culates a large amount of literature in
that thinly settled part of the country.
included in the membership of the
fly eight clubs which form the Indian
Territory and Oklahoma federation
are between four and five hundred In
dian women. Many of them are pro-
gressive and highly educated.
A waif, the horizon of whose short
life had been bounded by the half doz-
en- squalid blocks about her city home,
and whose pinched features and stunt
ed growth bore witness to the rarity of
even the plainest food in plenty, was
taken to the seaside during the last
summer and, to her escorts surprise,
seemed far more impressed by the sim
PIE GAPdIoc I'll water LIldH any Oh the
self-evident beach attractions.
Don't it never give out ?" she asked,
in awe struck tones, after silently
watching ample wave after wave break
over the shore.
What? The ocean? Oh. no; not
possible"
Couldn't anybody ever use it all up,
so there wouldn't be any left-ever?"
mo, indeed; not ever"
The mite settled herself back in the
sand with folded arms and a rapt ex-
preston on the pinched, wan face I'm
glad I comed," she breathed, presently,
"'cause 1 JUS never seed a nuf of any
thing at onct before"
In an interesting little tract on MAR
riage" by John Wesley, the founder Of
Methodism, all the duties of wife are
summed up-in two rules, namely, that
she must recognize herself as the in
feriOr of her husband, and that she
must behave as such. These were John
Wesley's theories, and that his practice
may have been somewhat similar is
shown by the following sentence from
a letter to his wife: BE content to be
private. Insignificant person, known
and loved by God and me-" John Wes-
ley's opinions on this subject were per-
haps the fruit of his experience, but it,