The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-05
Men, Women
and Things

| 1t is pleasant to learn from a week.
| ~ publication that there is prospect OF
| surcease of the deluge of advice upon
how to succeed. 1t is bad enough for
man to waste his time giving advice
| TO another when 1T has been asked for,
| but to sit down deliberately to write
| long chapters on what young men
| should do, young. men in general, the
whole race of young men, who know
| more than their fathers ever thought
or knowing, is simply stupid. Mr.. Car
| negie was the last victim of the space
| writer's, and he made some highly
original remarks; choose a profession
| Wheh very young, think of nothing
| else, dream of nothing else, and work
| as II the universe depended on you;
don't smoke cigarettes, don't chew,
| etc, ETC., and success Will surely come.
| Some one asks what is success? 1t is
TO earn S2O,OOO,000 and then be afraid
to go out alone and have all ones Wis
| 1tors searched. To say goodbye to
freedom and not sleep nights Oh, yes.
! to get ones pictures in the coIored
| supplement and to be followed, haunt
ed, terrorized and hunted by reporters
DAY and night, and to have a hat
named after one. This is success. Also
| to be monotonously solvent, always ia
| tally solvent. To be poor is to have
something to look forward to and to
J want something. Let him who reads
| take his choice.
Like Man With a Bio M.
One may sneer at women and call
| them not practical, and say they prefer
society men, but there has been a re-
cent instance in New York which proves
| beyond a doubt that women like a man
| with a capital NJ, who is sturdy and
does not object to hard work. This
| was evidenced by the number of love
letters received Ia 81 I'll in a
| graduate of Cornell and son of a
wealthy father, when he announced his
Intention of becoming an enlisted man
| in the navy and serving his country in
| that capacity. 1t seems that young
Mr.. McFarlin might have been almost
| anything he chOSe,S but he declared that
he preferred to serve his country in a
sailors uniform than to lead a cotillOn
in the Waldorf Astoria Splendid Mr.
Mct'arlin! 1t was then that the let
ters in question Began to pour in upon
him, and to most of them was append
ed. ,""object, matrimony." These came
from all sorts and conditions of maid
ens-and not few from widows, who
are usually quick to recognize good
thing when they see it. One Chicago
widow wrote that she had often longed
for man of McFarlin's stamp, and she
promised to settle $4,000 on him the
day they were married. Another writes
in the interest of her daughter, and
says she feels a profound respect for
the man who despises the "filagrees
and furbelows Of fashion, which is
not so bad for a$lay writer But, like
Charlotte, who went on cutting bread
and butter, McFarlin continues to pol
lsh the windows at the navy yard, and
has not held out any hope to the as
piring ones as yet. If there are other
widows who are looking for a husband,
now is the time to apply.
Women Receive Attention.
Brooklyn women of late have been
| having troubles of their own. A GER
| tain Capt. O'Reilly, who has been sta
toned in Gotham and accustomed to
boarding the tiger in his lair. has been
transferred to Brooklyn, and finding
time hanging rather heavy on his
hands, he looked round for something
to raid, and thereby hangs the tale. He
heard thatat a certain hall many wom-
enWere wont to congregate about once a.
week and engage in a harmless game
Of euchre at so cents per- and for an
elegant assortment of prizes marked
@down to $1.49. So the good captain
dashed himself into a rage and took on
the Judicial air with which he used to
frighten the masculine gamblers to-
death, and proceeded to roar about the
euchre games. q He said it was a dan
sgerous form Of gambling, and he in
tended to put stop to it, even if he
mad to take the entire party in the
patrol wagon to the station. The Wom-
en- heard about it and said what did
they. care about any old police captain;
they would play just the same. The
captain continued to lash. but it is
not recorded up to date that any of
the women have had a ride in the
patrol wagon. 1t would seem to the
unpreJudfced observer that the law has
been unduly severe on women Of late
he law couldn't have been very busy
T NOW, for instance. within the last few
weeks, bill has been introduced in
the New York legislature to tax bach
elors, in Pennsylvania one to tax
spinsters over thirty-fve, in Missouri
q Dill making it a misdemeanor for a
man to. f1irt with the teachers, or pu-
pills Of a boarding school, in Louisiana,
10 compel women to wear skirts that
DO not touch the ground. in Montana
an appropriation Of $4,000 for triplets
born in Butte. After this list one takes
a long breath. Are women to be Iegis-
lated off the face Of the earth?
The F;eed, of Juries. US
There is nothing clike placing ones
burdens upon the Estate. A man in
Kings county, New York, served on a,
jury, and the food was so bad that he
80 diSoo1iol, anu HOW he INTENDS to
sue the county. The food was so poor.
he says, that the jurors were unable to
eat 1t, and were made i'll by the Door
quality of the sustenance supplied
When you sit upon ia jury, of ali other
tunes, you want to, be nourished with
strong. we'll cooked food. so as to leave
the mind in excellent condition to be
as impartial as possible. Not only
should juries be we'll fed, but they
should be comfortably housed, and
the sheriff of st. Paul is going to run
a sort of European hotel for juries
that find 1t impossible to make I'D their
minds before shutdown. When women
are allowed to serve upon 1uries things
VIII improve, and twelve women will
nave no dlfhculty in settling weighty
matters before the stores close.