The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-12-11
Chicago Tribune.

Chicago TrlDune.
 Every now and then I am forcibly reminded of the fact that the millen- nium will have arrived when we learn to mind our own business.
 But it will be an Eveless Eden, with out a single woman in 1t.
 No woman has yat arrived, or shows signs of arriving, at the point or grace when she can behold another person making a pie without putting her fin- fer in it. It has always been that way. And it has always been her bane. She has broken her heart over other peo- ple's sorrows She has lain awake nights and lost sleep, over other peo- ple's worries. She has brought on more nervous prostration trying to run other peoples affairs, and stirred up more heart burnings and jealousy and bit terness and strife than all other causes combined just because she would not mind her own business
 Mania Is Distinctly Feminine.
 It is a distinctly feminine mania the end whereof is trouble and tribulation' The average man feels he has got about all he can manage with his own affairs and trouble enough of his own without borrowing his neighbours. The aver age woman attends to her business in the intervals she isn't speculattng about why the Browns don't send their chii- dren to the public school when Brown is only on a salary, and now the Smiths, across tbe street, can aIoro new carpets this season. And the Queerest part of 1t all is that py some quirk Sof feminine logic this unwar- ranted meddling with other peoples ar fairs is accounted virtue. womans definition of another woman who was a selfish creature, would be one who at- tended strictly to her own business and didn't interfere with some remedy Of her own when the children next door had the croup.
 This inability to attend to her own business, and leave other people to run theirs without any assistance rom her' goes long way towards explaining many of woman's failures. It Is one reason why so many women break down. They try to carry the universe on their shoulders. They could man age well enough with their own work and bear with sufficient fortltude tnelr own troubles, but when they add to that the accumulated aff1lctions of ev- erybody in the neighborhood they col lapse under the nervous stralh' It ID doubtless a pity that Mrs. Jones shoulu be such poor manager and so waste fuI and evtravagant; 1t Is much 10 be regretted that young Blank does not go to work and support hls widowed mother: possibly 1t Is a crying shame that the Gray baby should be fed on sauerkraut and beer instead of steril- ized milk; but after all we are not re- sponsible for these affairs. and there isn't a blesscd thing We can do about them. The Joneses and the Blanks and the Grays of our respective neigh borhoods don't want our advice and wouldn't take it at any price, and we merely wear ourselves into frazzles with unavailing worry over something that doesn't in the least concern us.
 Adding Needless Worry.
 Of course, when there is any real nood for a Solomon we all feel capa- bIe of speaking right up, but 1t is well to occasionally reflect that other neonle are almost as capable of run hing their own affairs as we would be This Is always surprise to us. There was probably never marriage when everybody in the community didn't feel that they could have made A much more judicious selection for hoth parties than they made for them selves. yet divorce is comparatively rare. Every one of us is dead sure that we could bring up everybody ele's children much better than they are do-