Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1903-06-27

of climate. for the climate of India Is
as enervating as that Of our achipel.
ago. There is no nostalgia. or scarcely
any, In India. Why is this? Well, for
one thing the nerves of the American
are not as well covered as those Of the
Englishman. The American soldier
will stand more strain of fighting than
any other soldier In the world. In bat
tie his nerves are taut as fiddle strings.
But he Is peculiarly susceptible 10 pulls
on his emotional nature. His affections
are acute. He lacks the stolidity Of
the Englishman. And then. the Ameri.
can, though he Is descended from wan.
derers and conquerOrs and emigrants,
Is not good cosmOpolitc. He Is es.
sentially home body. lie will travel.
but he will return home. lie fourishes
only In his own soil and latitude. He
seldom eXpatriates himself. The Amer.
lean In the Philippines Is like fish out
Of water. Edward Everett In his Man
Without a Country" shows us how
hardly an American can give up Amer.
ica. There Is 50 much to get hOniesicli
for!
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There have been many good things
said of Richard Henry StOddard. the
aged poet. who died not long ago In
New York. He was an old.fnshiOned
man. with Old.fnshlOned notions of
honesty and courtesy, ana II nature
IN ~ IN
est story OF his life was his love for
his wife. Half Il cntury ago. he mar.
ried her and for 80 years he made
her happy. They say that true love
ana real sympathy speak without
words; that u man and Il woman. their
lives In tune. can sit hand In hand
and each understand the very heart
thrObs OF the other without one spoken
word. That Is true. sometimes. 1t
means devotion that Is unselfish and
holy. When a man lives for years
with that kind OF human comfort ut
his freslde, there can not be much
In life after death has entered his
household. When Mrs. Stoddard was
dying, she smiled fondly into her hus.
bands face. touched his hand with her
wan fingers ana whispered, "GOod-by.
dear. am going ana yOu must take
care Of yourself" He stood by her
open grave witE the sun shining on
his grand face and told the mourners
what one woman had done to COM
pletely fll the life Of her husband.
After that he didn't want to live. YOu
are young. There are no aches In
your bones. no great sadness In your
heart. You can't and do not under.
stand how human being can yenrh
for the end of material things. Pray
that the day when the sun goes out
for You may he long deferred. Rich
ard Henry Stoddard survived his wife
eight months and died happy In the
belief that in the great mysterious
somewhere he would again feel the
strength of her presence, the glow of
her tender affection. He wrote many
beautiful thIngs he penncd nothing TO
equal the love story of his own life.
No parents vino lave the means to
buy decent clothes would allow Il son
or daughter to 20 out in seach OF Il
position without seeing to 1t thal he or
she Is neatly dressed. Appearances
count for much, and clothes AND Il
clean face are so obvious that they
are usually well attended TO. Mln-
ners come next. They should come
lirst, 1t may he; bur. not 10 quarrel
about ;nat. they generally get some
attention in the final Instructions. II
it Is nothing more than 'Now mind
your manners, Jimmy, ana be polite
to the gcnteman." There still re-
mains one other thing-we are now
considering appearances, not character
and that Is the speech OF the appli-
cant, the language In which he states
his case and answers questions. Here
1t Is that many a boy OF girl undOes
all that neat clothes, clean hands and
an acceptable Difference have accom-
plished. Are your parents living?"
"Nope-er--that Is. not both OF 'enl
amt. l got Il mother, but amt got
no father" Indeed. he does not get
any further, because the prospective
employer does not want boy from
a home where such language Is used
This may be an unjust way 10 look at
1t. In particular cases 1t would be