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am not speaking against the woman
teacher, / am only saying this for the
boy. You must give him some kind of
manly associates and surroundings, and
you cannot rear him as he should be
reared if he is wholly surrounded by the
best women in the world
He must come in contact with the
manly character. and manly thought.
and way of looking at things. He must
go to the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation, which is. after all, the only
place where YOU can really surround a
boy with those conditions. and where he
really gets the thought that it is not
unmanly to be upright and noble and
manly. true. and high minded
God grant that there shall not be less
women in the church. But 7 say TO you
that sometimes. as you go into church.
you ind only very few men.
Coed Men Out of the Church.
The high-minded men who do things
and stand for the best things in the
community. and who do the best for
themselves. and are the best looked
up to. are not in the church as often as
they should be. until the boy begins to
think that about all there is in a church
is place for women and girls. And he
looks forward 70 the time by and by
when he is 10 De a man.
Love mother all you please. and al
that. And mother in her place IS good.
But somehow there is an absence OF
manly thought and manly recreations
and athletics. and so on.
God grant that 1 shall not seem to de-
tract from the wonderful moral and
Christian influences Of mothers and sis
tiers. But what / mean to impress is
that the boy must have more than this
or he is gone And that which is needed
is the hardest to supply.
The views Of the Secretary Of the Treasury on
the upbrlneing Of boys were expressed in an
address recently made before the \. NJ. {. A. 10
Washington. II is here presented in full for the
first time
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SHAW WOULD BRING UP A BOZ

or a family or a home where the boys
are invited as frequently as are the
girls of the HeighborhoOd, where they
have the boy companies in the evening
as often as they do the girl companies,
viii you please wire me at my expense.
There are some doors that swing to
the boy readily. but the door of the
ordinary home never swings TO the boy.
The door of the home never swings.
1t is very difficult to get hold of boys.
to really get a grip on them.
am not going to turn this into a criti-
cism OF the public school. But II seems
to me that the public school is little
weak here. About the only association
that is provided for the boy in the
public school is women teachers. Now
have gotten into trouble two or three
times from that suggestion. not saying
that the woman teacher is not very
much better dispositioned and all that.
l grant it.
But the boy does not come into con
tact with his father. The business mans
son does not see much Of his father.
lie says to his mother THAT man that
stays here nights has been whipping
me-"
See Little of Father.
He never sees much of his father.
The father is gone i'm the morning. and
the boy is in bed when the father comes
home. and all he sees is some other boys
and some most excellent and very COM
petent women teachers.
But you cannot raise a man without
bringing the boy in contact with the
man. Just as true as the world That
is what the family is for That children
should be brought into the world and
just left 10 the mother TO rear is the
darkest error.
But suppose he comes in contact with
both his father and mother?
The business relations take the father
away share of the time. But tine
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Fame of George Washington Ft11g Remembered at the United
States Capitol, the White House, and Other Homes of The
Government Which He Foarded-No Other Hero So Con-
spicuouSy Honored. ~ ~ ~ "a ~ ~

Copyright. 1908. by Walden Fawcett.)
4 THERE be any person i'm this coun-
try who on the eve OF another an
nlversary Of washington's Birth
day is prone to put belief in the
old saying that republics are ungrateful
he has but TO spend a few days at the
National Capital TO have the theory
most completely disproven. The mem
DRY OF Gen. George Washington. first
president of the United States, has been
honored at the seat Of the Government
which he founded with tributes which
far surpass in number and magnifcence
the testimgnials in bronze and marble
accorded 10 any other hero of any age
or nation.
Throughout the length and breadth OF
Uncle Sans domain the name Of Wash
ingCon has been given to hundreds of
States. towns, counties. townships
mountains. rivers and lakes, to say
nothing Of innumerable streets and
buildings. but Il is especially appropri-
ate that fl should find its most con-
spicuous perpetuation I'm varied perma-
neut memorials in the beautiful city
which he dreamed Of and planned and
which likewise bears his name No
matter which way the visitor TO Wash
hand tributes TO the greatest warrior
statesman Of all time. His fame IS
httingly cOmmemorated at the United
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States Capitol. and at the White House.
while scattered midst parks and boule-
wards are other reminders Of that domi-
nant personality to whom the first re-
public owes its greatest debt of graft
tuds
The Great Monument.
First i'm importance amsng memorials.
not only on this continent but through
out the world. is the great Washington
National Monument-that imposing
shaft rising/on the banks Of the Po-
tonac to bespeak the gratitude OF the
whole American people TO the illustrious
Father Of His Country. The Monu-
ment. which is the highest masonry
structure in the world. is an obelisk
and has height OF sos feet The foun-
dalton is thirty-six feet deep and the
walls of the colossal structure are
fifteen feet in thickness at the bottom,
gradually tapering to a thickness Of
but eighteen inches at the top. In the
huge pile are stones contributed by
forty different States of the Union. six
teen American cities az well as beauti-
fully carved blocks OF marble from
Italy, Greece. Switzerland. Japan. China
Siam. Brazil and other nations which
took this opportunity to pay tribute to
the worlds greatest Iiberator
The plan for erecting this great testi-
monial to the military and political SER
vices Of General Washington originated
during his lifetime. AS early as l7S3
Congress resolved to erect a marble
monument 10 the nations idol, and IL is
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said that Washington himself selected
as a site the spot where the monument
now stands. The project was revived
from time to time after the death of
Washington. but IL was not until 1893
that practical steps were taken to fulfill
the dream. Funds were raised by pop
ular subscription, and i'm 1S4S the cor
nerstone of the towering structure was
laid with due ceremony When in 1855
the shaft attained height of 152 feet
the funds were exhausted and the work
was at a standstill until 1873, when Con-
gress appropriated money to complete
the masonry masterpiece. The COM
pleted monument, which represents an
expenditure Of more than 81 800. 900. was
dedicated just nineteen years ago-Feb-
ruary y. 1895.
One of the most famous OF all the
memorials TO Washington. and one
which has had most remarkable his
tory. occupies the place Of honor on the
plaza at the United States Capitol-a
site about five hundred feet directly i'm
front of the great white-domed building.
This Is Horatio Greenoughs heroic
statue IN marble Of George Washington.
The figure scantily arrayed I'm the toga
Of a Roman senator is represented in a
sitting posture. The left hand clasps a
short sword. and the right hand points
toward heaven. On the low granite pc
destaI are inscribed the famous tribute
or General Henry Lee: First in War
First in Peace. and First in the Hearts
OF His COuntrymen.
The history OF this statue dates from
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BY LESLIE NJ. SHAW, Secretary of
the Treasury.

Z DON'T know much about a boy.
Have net been one for two months.
Il But / remember something about a
hoy.
remember a few things Of boyhood
days. ana think most OF US that have
been boys and those OF us that have
watched the boy. win have found and
recognized that while ne Is all things
cOnsidered-pardon me-the most vaIu-
able thing on this earth, 1 don't know
that -
Say what you will the things that
are done must be done by him His
hands are held up by others. He Is en-
cOuraged In all these things. But when
Ii gets down to the last analysis. the
hoy Is worth more than any other
creature that treads the earth. And vet
more than any other being in the world
] think there is less place for him.
No Place for Boys.
He is less welcome anywhere than
others. There are less kind words for
him than anybody else ] am not say
ing that he deserves more than anyone
else. ] am not saying that the lad
measures up 10 the standard as well
as the girls life. know IL does not.
1 VIII grant you that we are raising a
better type OF young women than we
are OF young men. But We are none
The less interested in the young man,
none the less interested IN the boy.
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Mother Apron Strings Not Good Thing
to Tie To-Lad Needs Contact With
Masculine Ideas :. :. :. :.

At the school exhibition the girls ap-
pear. Why? Because she can do better
work At the Sunday school concert
she IS on the program and the boy is not.
He would not take the place. probab bly,.
II you asked him to do IT, He could not
do IL as well If he did.
a mother said TO the nurse one dav.
Where is Edwin"
II don't know"
Go and see"
He Is out in the yard"
What is he dOing2''
Il don't know"
wei, go and tell him 10 stop it."
Always Doing Wrong.
i see a good many heads nod al that
That Is true. From morning TO night
1t is stop it," and Don't do this -
and Don't do that" and Don't come
in here with your muddy feet" There
Is no place for him.
And il Is time to find place for the
boy.
II is difficult thing to rear boz.
II is not the easiest thing in the world
to rear n girl. You viii bear me out in
that. IL is little embarrassing always
for anyone 70 speak on these subjects
/ heard OF a man who wrote a book.
just giving all the details OF how TO
TO the printer-because of n little epi-
sode in his family-he called II back
and put a little note at the bottom.
There are some instances when the
best rules will fail.
l attended a surprise party one even
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boy should see all sides Of his fathers
character. He should see the character
Of both his parents.
Here is a fight on the street, and
some fellow gets whipped. As true as
the world. the woman's heart pities the
fellow that is whipped. but the manly
heart thrashes the fellow that whips
man you must bring the boy in contact
with the manly character
Boys Want No Frock Company.
Did you ever go to a rendezvous down
town where the boys congregate. and
you wanted to break II up. Put wo-
man clerk behind the counter and the
boys will leave. That is "A psychological
fact, demonstrated again and again.
Not because a boy does not like a
Iady's society. But there is somehow
a hungering for manly companions, and
it must be provided. There is not any
substitute to the boy for manly char
acter. You just send your boy to a
military school and you will find him
delighted.
l remember one time. while driving
through the country with father twenty
five or so years ago. he showed me the
schoolhouse where he taught school one
winter He had about thirty young
men and women that worked every ex-
ample I'm the best arithmetics-the free
edition of arithmetic used during the
winter They spelled every word they
could find I'm the speller books and had
TO go to the dictionary.
Man Teacher Attracted Boys.
I remember quite we'll i'm my State
the law prohibited boys over twenty-one
from attending public school The boys
stayed in that schoolhouse because there
was AMMAN teacher. and the girls stayed
because the boys did. IN my own State
YOU can hardly find boy In the public
school after ne is fourteen or fifteen
years OF age.
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ing In my home town. The family had
moved In from a farm. The mother
had sent five or six boys out into useful
lives. lt was quite a remarkable family.
We gathered around there and filled
the house pretty well and she went up
stairs and brought another chair and
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she asked few Of the people to move
along there and said II want 10 make
room for. my boy" and she put that
boy. ftwelVe or thirteen years OF age,
In there with the rest
In-thes averaTe hofps there is no place
for the,b9yH Some .tsme when you hear
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-15
THE Cars Mother and His Wife
Fail to Agree on Many Points,
and Their Differences Cannot Be
EReconci1ed

its morning bath. Her own mother
had washed all the little princes and
princesses of Hesse, SO the Empress
called for tub, soap, towels and
big flannel apron, and, rolling up her
sleeves, gave her little daughter a
bath in good style. She then told the
nurses that she would do the same
every morning.
The Dowager Empress was shocked
and disgusted. There was a commo-
ton in the palace, traditions were
cited, rules of etiquette discussed, but
the young Empress went right on
bathing and dressing the Grand
Duchess, and the Emperor would not,
or could not. say her nay.
Court Gossips Say
The Czarina
Opposed the War.
After this demonstration of her in
auence over her husband, the Empress
began to take more interest in affairs
of State, and to encourage him to talk
things over with her and listen to her
advice. Now it is said in court circles
that because the Dowager expressed
her contempt Of the Japanese and her
belief that Russia would easily sue
ceed in crushing them, the Empress
most earnestly opposed the war.
She has not yet been able to exert
the influence in State affairs that her
motherin-law still wields, nor has
she been able to get following in the
palace. The officials, the men Of the
family and the chiefs of the army,
who have known the Dowager many
years, and who have a profound re-
spect for her grasp Of affairs, side
with her to a man, while the Empress
has only following among the minor
officers, the young men, and all the
servants, who like her for her indie
pendence, her kind-heartedness and
her scarcely yelled contempt for those
antique stumbling blocks in the way
Of comfort called rules of court
etiquette.
The Empress Is
Feared for
Her Gift Of Sarcasm.
But what the Dowager and her
friends fear most is the quick and nip
ping sarcasm of her youthful rival
AS rule, the Czarina is silent wo-
man, and rarely confidential. She is
reserved and melancholy, and she
amuses herself chiefly by looking af-
ter her young daughter and reading
English books. But when she is an
noyed, her gray-blue eyes assume a
steely CLINT, her thin lips are pressed
together for moment, and then she
retorts in phrases that fly straight at
their mark and have sting.
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VIE Czarina has little war of
her own which has been rag
4 ing for several years. She
suffers from too much moth
er-in-law. That is what the St.
Petersburg gossips said last autumn
when the Empress retired to the coun-
try, officially to nurse bad attack of
earache. There was a general smil-
ing and raising Of eyebrows in court
circles when the country visit was
announced.
The Dowager Empress
Is One of the
Cleverest of Women.
1T is a plausible excuse, of course"
said a Russian lady to an American
woman, who was at that time visiting
St. Petersburg, but in spite of the
almost sacred seclusion in, which DIR
royal family live and the admirable
police protection they enjoy, runlor
cannot be stifed. For some years we
have all been aware that the Dowager
Empress and her pale, proud, beauti-
ful daughter-in-law are not as friendly
as they might be.
THE trouble began as long ago as
the first year of the Emperor's mar
riage, which was carried out wholly
at the suggestion of his mother, who
is one of the cleverest, most capable,
managing and ambitious women in
Europe. She is the true daughter of
her enterprising mother, Queen
Louise of Denmark. That lady was
chiefly famous as the best butter
maker in Denmark and the best
matchmaker in the world. Queen
Louise married her fourth daughter,
Marie Dagmar, to the late Emperor
of all the Russias, and never had an
occasion to regret her choice of her
son-in-law for her favorite child.
Her Beauty and Her
Mental Strength
Are Both Remarkable.
The Princess Dagmar, at the time
of her marriage, was considered quite
as beautiful as her elder sister, who
married King Edward So fair was
this Danish princess that when l saw
her enter London, in the train of her
e;e+ar A 1aD-ord-o +bOuoL+ her far
more beautiful than the latter She
was tall and slender, her skin was like
milk and roses, and her face beamed
with intelligence. Furthermore, her
manners were the perfection oi
natural social grace, tact and good
will, cultured by the most careful
training"
The Russian woman went on to ex-
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while thoroughly
angry, was none
the less deter
mined to have
her way. 1t is
said that once
her mind is made
up she n ever
changes it. Any.
way, the Princess
Alix was welded
to the present
Gar at the bed
side Of his dying
father. The En-
press S Dagmar
stood by and
saw the : bust
ness carried out,
thereby consum-
mating her great
est blunder.
She had sup
posed that her
new daughter-in-
law would he like
clay in her hands,
to be moulded as
she chose, and
that idea was
strengthened by
the girls consent
to the marriage.
Naturally, t h e
Dowager wished
to have a nom
entity for her
sons wife, so
that she might
continue to WELD
her old power
a n d influence.
She had passed
over other eligi-
b e prlncesses
because she had
thought they
would prove to
be dangerous ri
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walls. But, for
once in her life,
she made. a great
mistake, which
she has often had
occasion to re-
gret.
Princess Alix
was pretty, even
beautiful; S h e
was young and
she had not had a
very elaborate
education; b II t
her mother-in-
law did not real
ize that she pos
sessed a mind Of
her own. She had
had a romance
in her teens, a
hopeless love af-
fair with a gal
liant German cap
tain; she hated
dress and elabo-
ra t e etiquette.
and consequently
she came into the
formal Russian
Court very sore
at heart and
much injured at
having to change
her religion.
From the be-
ginning til e r e
w e e G o o d
grounds for her
disgust with her
matrimonial bar
gain; but gossip
says her first
contest with her
mother : in : law
arose over a pair
of pearl earrings.
She did not mind
at all when the
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THE Beautiful Woman Who Sits
on Russia's Throne Suffers From
Too MICH Mother-in-Law and
Declines to Submit

plain that Princess Dagmar was a
great success in England. When a
little while afterwards her betrothal
to the heir of the Russian throne was
announced, everybody said that she
had big opportunity and would
make the most of it. And that is
just what she did. She was baptized
into the Russian Church as Marie
Feodorovna, and speedily became a
true Russian princess. Il:
She set about captivating the heart
of her husband and winning his conf
dence, and she evidently realized both
of these ambitions. She also won the
people and officials with ease. Every
man who met her realized that she
combined the brain of true states
man with all the intuitive de1icacy of
woman
After her first two children were
born she lost a great deal of her
beauty, but she has retained her fine,
slim figure and her clear color, and
when gorgeously dressed for a State
function, as she loves to be, she is a
dazzling and impressive parsonage.
Her health is superb, and her industry
irrepressible. She gets up with the
lark, has a sponge bath in ice-cold
water, breakfasts, exercises, and then
gets to work
How the Dowager
Chose a Wife
For Her Son Nicholas.
She loves work, and power and
prestige are essential to her happiness.
She had complete influence over her
husband. He told her everything,
took counsel with her before signing
State papers or giving an important
audience, and brought up his son
Nicholas to reverence and obey her
opinion as if it were Gospel
When the question of selecting a
wife for Nicholas came uppermost IN
the minds of the royal pair, it was
the Empress who went wife-hunting
for her son, and who decided that
Princess Alix of Hesse, the niece of
her sister, then Princess of Wales,
would prove an ideal consort. She
talked the matter over with her rela-
tives, and Priacess Alix was told of
the good match in store for her.
This princess was beautiful, but
very impecunious; no other royal
gentleman had asked for her hand;
and there was much surprise and dis
gust in her family when at first she
declared that the future Gar was not
to her liking.
! But the Empress Of Russia.
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A Battle Royal
For a Pair
Of Pearl Earrings.

For three weeks a struggle for the
possession of the pearl studs was car
ried on. The Empress wished to have
them, her mother-in-law wished to
keep them. Records were searched,
laws examined, precedents cited; the
unfortunate Emperor was called upon
to decide, and at last the Dowager
yielded. The pearls were transferred
from her ears to those of her daugh-
ter-in-law, and at that moment a
covert, but none the less deadly, war
was declared between them
In securing the earrings the young
Empress suddenly tasted the sweets
of victory and the joys of power.
Thereafter the aughter-in-law began
to assume many hitherto neglected re-
sponsibilities and dignities, and now
it is generally admitted that these
two ladies pull in diametrically oppo-
site directions and have agreed to dis
agree.
Their second big difference Of opin-
ion arose over the Grand Duchess
Olga's morning bath. When the
Grand Duchess was three weeks old,
and the young mother was up and
around, she decided to give her baby
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Dowager Empress went on managing
the housekeeping affairs Of the palace,
giving advice on official Business to
the young Emperor, and generally en-
joying all the power and influence she
had formerly possessed; but she did
seriously object to the Dowager's use
of pair of magnificent pearls that
had been purchased by the great
Catherine and worn in turn by each
Russian Empress.
The young wife of the Car does not
care in the least degree for dress; she
wears plain black cloth suit and
straw sailor hat most Of the time, and
only puts on a Paris frock when
State ceremony must be endured. She
never allows an inch of lace to be
used on her underwear, but she has
passion for jewels, and more espec-
tally for pearls.
When she was married, it is said
that her one consolation in yielding
to family persuasion was that she
would have the finest jewels in the
world, and the most noble string of
pearls. With this string of pearls
there belonged a pair Of ear studs,
but when the Romanof jewels were
given into the keeping of the young
Empress the pearl studs were miss
ing. They were to be plainly seen
glistening in the ears of her mother
in-law
, 1904-10-12
An Enemy to Renntx.

1hefe never yet was a beautiful wo-
man who was not upright in figure.
1Aat Is n of beauty's sternest rules
a graceful, upright carriage. Again, it
S the secret of the mysterious charm
we so often find about a plain featured
woman. Round shoulders are so ugly
40 10 make one look almost deformed.
pretty face will not compensate for
. +u shoulders, nor, indeed, will beau
ulul hair, eyes or complexion. In these
s.nietc days the plain girl becomes Il
a"nserous rival of the pretty by
naAllg herself graceful through the
pie means of gymnasium practice
VI The popular exerciser.