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our disquiet. AS we progress 80 do they
become deeper. noblcr and more beauti-
I full, and Marcus Aurelius is to be admired
above all men,. because, better than all
men has he understood how much there
is of the soul, In the meek, resigned smile
1t must wear, at;the depths of us.
Thus is IT, too, with the sorrows Of
humanity. They follow a. road which
resembles the road Of our own sorrows.
but 1t Is longer and surer and must lead
to fatherlands that the last Corners alone
shall know. This road also has physical
sorrow for Its starting point. 1t has only
Just rounded the fear Of the gods, and
to-day It halts by a new abyss whosa
depth the very wiscst of us have not yet
sounded. g{
Each century holds another sorrow
dear. for each century dlscerns new
sdestiny. 1t is certain that we no longer
interest ourselves. as was formerly the
case, In the catastrophies Of passion and
the quality OF sorrow revealed In the
most tragic masterpieces Of the past is
inferior to the quality Of the sorrows to-
day.
It Is only indirectly that these trag-
edies affect us now, only by means Of
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thinkable. Her friends. her books. her
tastes, and eventually, to very large
extent. her husband. were chosen for her.
Obedience was tho rule Of her early
years. to prepare her for the obedience
which was supposed to be the accepted
condition of her later life. But the mos
ment Of freedom came, and was perhaps
all the sweeter, and certainly more likely
to be misused by the newness of tho es-
pertence. The young married woman was
an Interesting individual. She could have
tastes and Ideas; she could talk and dress
and amnse herself at will. I we'll remem-
Der a. girl on the eve Of maria ge telling
ME that when she started for her honey
moon she was going to direct the car
rage to stop at a ID booksellers on her
way to the station, in order that sh Q
might buy selection OF French novels,
for she would then be able to read them
for the first time. The great danger OF
the situation lay8in the fact that natri-
monys could unlock the door that led &to
this unres trained life. and that conse-
ouently 1T was sought too often With
| more haste than prudence. SO At any te,
ma rrlage was entered into at the ca rliest
lpossiblet moment, often long before expe-
rlence or mental evelopment aided Y IN
| the selection, Nevertheless. all restrain
Is training, anu $Ollen Wnen {th s' ~
sweetness off, freedom had been fully
tasted { the old habits Of nselfishness
land discipline were resumed but, on the e
other hand insufficient education and nd
want Of mental, training brou gflt d. ga s.
/, trous results to the wife Of many a busy
man and lack Of experience made he e.
but a poor compa Mon. For the art OF
using leisure was one that she had never
Learned, and the power of organizing her
work had never been acquired s@
Suddenly the Fl new womanhood burst
4 open. the conventional barriers az OF the
seventies Daisy Miller, that type o. o.
Transatlantic charm created ans> epoch
Little by little, restrictions were relaxed la q.
and the tide OF 4 freedom set u, slowly.
but with relentless force. Girls were
Hooked upon as individuals, and We're q !
lowed to be interesting. was no longer
. considered a contscscension to take notice
\ Of them, but the final obstruction was
1 broken down ]. by no argumentatiYes pro-
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that which is broushtato bear on the sim
gle accidents Of love and hatred they
reproduce BY the reflection and new no.
sbility of sentiment that the pain Of liv-
Ing lins created within us.
There are moments when 1t would seem
as IL we were on the threshold of a new
tpessimlsm, mysterious and perhaps very
pure.
s The most redoubtable sages. schopenhau-
err Carlyle. the Russians. the Scandina-
vians and the good optimist Emerson,
too (for there is nothing moro discourage
Ing than a wilful optmist), all these
have passed our melancholy by unexplain-
ed.
We feel that underlying all tile reasons
they have essayed TO give us there are
many other profounder reasons, whose
discovery has been beyond them. The
sadness Of man, which seemed beautiful,
even to them. IS still susceptible of IN
finite enrolling. until at last a creature
of genius shall have uttered the final
word Of the sorrow that shall perhaps
wholly purify. 81
In the meanwhile we are In the hands
Of strange powers, whose intentions we
are on the eve OF divlnlng.
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French girl, whose training on her side
Is equally searching g.. thorough and Sc!
verc."
gehce which exists between the old idea
OF a girl'sseducation in England. as well
as in France. and that which has come
TO be the more usually accepted stand
ard, brought to us, no doubt, Ike many
other good things from America. For, IN
common with the French woman OF TO-
day. the English womanhood 81 the past
was bought at the expense OF her girl
hood Indeed that period OF life was
considered only as a narrow channel which
should lead 10 the full life Of matrlmony.
The constraints, the restrictions. the con-
tinual repression OF individuality. made
every girl feel that her hour had not yet
come. Her attitude was one OF waiting
for some DEVELOPMENT which vas vas ne
5finaltty to which all education led her.
II 1t did not come. her life was in a m cas-
ure spoiled. She made the best OF It.
hut she was failure and consequently
an object OF pity and som times OF con
tempt. To the successful. independent
life began on the wedding day. whereas
according to the newer code OF education
matrimony ends that Independence when I,.1.
has been enjoyed to the. full UP to that
moment. z s.,
This IS the change which has reyolul-
4tionized society. and. while i am distinct
!lys In favor OF the newer conditions, 4 can
not but see that the sudden rcynlsio n
against the old code has brought with ~
danger and difficulty. The change IS SO
adical thatit invades every realm OF a
girls lifc To begin with, IN that ever
present question OF dress. girls n now a.;
take an entirely different view of the
essential. us j recollect when two white
! muslin trocks were all that were REQUIRED
s"for best. Print dresses made as the
housemaids wear them could be worn N
the park In the morning one a!nn In
very simplest fashion. white or eolored
tulle trimmed with little punches OF ar
tificiai flowers. were all that were deem IeeI-
ed necessary for debutante. yea
gown was unheard OF. tea jackets ana
lace connections for; an idle afternoon were
undrcamed OF. Motors were not invented
SO the whole OF that weird wardrobe pc was was
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Portrait Of Andrea del 5arto, by Himself.

the unconscious nobility Of expression about it which
characterized Raphael, and which maze MN g pTlnce
among princes and artists. 8 a
Raphael became enamored of a bakers daughter
and he immortalized her face in his pictures Andrea
del Sarto also becnme enamored OF. a handsome Wo-
man much below him in station and intellect, When
her husband died Andrea married her and Lucrezla
the beautiful, turned out to be atermngant Win
violent temper. Yct he loved her, and her race may
be seen in many Of his most beautiful madonnas But
she was not the slightest HELM to him., She was ex-
Htrayagant, and he Obliged to work much more
than he should have worked to support her ana her
relatives.
@ When Andrea del sarto was twenty he painted a
series of frescoes in SIS Annunzato IN FLORENCE when
placed him in the front rank OF Florentlne arusts
at the time Later he went to Rome where.he Old
some remarkable work, and at the urgent fequest q
Francs L. he visited Paris, where he lived ana WorKea
for several years under, the royal favor,
His wife urged him TO return to FLORENCE when
he did, and there he remained practically the rest OF
his life, until he died in the pague In l63l.
He painted many famous madonnns during ms
lifetime In addition to his frescoes, Whlch were NI-
riyalled In certain color qualities. 5
He WAS an artist Of high ideals notably before MS
marriage hut after that he sometimes apparently
cared more for money than art AK,
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SORROW AMID DESTINY BY MAUI

five could but follow from the heights
of another world the ways Of the man
over whom great sorrow Is impending!
And what man Is there that does not
laboriously, though all.iunconsciously,
himself fashion the sorrow that is to be
the pivot Of his life?
The Scotch peasants have word that
might be applied to every existence. In
their legends they give the name Of
FEY" to the frame OF mind of man
who, notwithstanding all his efforts. not
understanding all hklp and advice, is
forced by some irresistible impulse toward
an inevitable catastrophe.
It Is thus that James l.. the James OF
Catherine Douglas. was fey" when he
went, notwithstanding the terrible omens
Of EARTH heaven and hell, to spend the
Christmas holiday In the gloomy castle OF
Perth, where his assassin, the traitor
Robert Graeme. lay in wait for him.
Which of us. recalling the circumstances
OF the most decisive misfortune OF his
life, but has felt himself similarly pos
sessed?
Be 1t we'll understood that I speak here
only Of active misfortunes of those that
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man can 'be expanded to any extent We 9Ss
Q ,exa!t themselves to any high estate, and x
e hands. 81. b ri IA. SES
!, maze of figures to 4 the ma S. Of the
sun. This must be true, for it has been
discovered that If the earth contained
double Its present quantity OF matter ;hes
stone would fall at rate OF GA feet
pcr second. And Newton discovered that
IL the stone is taken 3. 1855 miles away from
The earth and dropped its speed at the
ond OF the first second will be sos feots
per second. But 1855 miles from the earth
is twice as far from the center as 10
the surface; and sos feet is one-fourth
OF S2.2; but A is the square of 2; SO gray--s
Increases. and directly as the matter ill--sS
creases The earth is 93, 00Oj00 miles from
the sun; and this. divided by 1888. EQUALS
23,4GB; there fore. take a stone to the dis,
lance Of the sun and It Will be 23.468 i
times farther from the center OF the earth
than the surface Is. Now, square the q. ~
1885, Multiply 32,a by 12 and the product
will be 3S4.6-the number OF inches In
s2.2 feet. Divide 3s4.6 by the big number
squared and the quotlent will be .0OO0007 Of
an inch speed with which the stone will
be falling at{the end OF the first second.
This Is exceeding slow; gravity 4 exerted
Ey mass OF the earth %, 900, 900 miles away
Is weak, But the center Of the earth Is J:
that distance from the center OF the sun
and actually falls every second toward
the sun with speed at thu end Of tho
second with a velocity Of .22ss2so of an
inch, which Is something less than one (
fourth Of nn,inch. Divide ,22Ss.so by ,O0OOo7.
ana the quotlent is 1913, 426! That Is. there
IS ass4sa times more mater N the sun
than in the earth, 5t
Now 60 and multiply this by Z sextll-S
lion, to find the number Of tons IN the
sun, Suppose we make a mistake IN THIS
small decimal fraction large enough TO
wipe out 426 from the S2342, then u we
did Ii would not amount to much, How
the earth forever falls toward the sun
and never hits It Is shown IN the cnt.
l. at a show the place Of the center %
the earth at the beginning OF q second
and X Its position at the end then the
line a VIII be eighteen and one-half
miles long. But il the earth had not
moved to x 1t would have fallen from
"A ia C. and on and on to the sun. where
it would be turned to gas, The length
OF the limo "A c Is 1868 OF an inch. some-
thing near one-ninth OF one inch, and
B is OF the same length, SO the earth fa!ls
from x TO 3 all the way around the
sun and q slides on the curve, or the orpit
OF the earth, The diameter o. ths earn
|%is 7sls miles. a bar OF Iron ,sl6 miles
In diameter joining the earth and sun
would SNAP IKE thread man effort TO
nun the earth from the line "a y. E'es-
semer steel wires ordinary telegraph
size. nine to each square inch IN hsmis-s
phere OF the earth would lust draW tas
earth aside and not break. AZ H Ell
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Z Bv LADY HENRY SOMERSET.
Q mechanism

cess, but by the very simple mechanism
OF tho bicycle. a.
4 In the seventies no girl was supposed
ever to escape from tho vigilant eye OF y
her mother, she must never be alone with Il
a man. except the few moments snatched 4
at a ball or stroll in the garden; but \
when tho bicycle became the common
mode OF locomdtion tho middle aged
chaperon could no longer pursue. And Z
so 1t came to pass that girls and young rg
men were allowed to take this form OF
amusement together, and the last strong Il. "a
hold Of that conventionality was broken A
down. I confess that i rejoiced over the VI
result, and felt that the disastrous and
artificial restraint which had hitherto
existed between young m en- a nd A young
women was well gone; 3S but like ieveryr-.a5
thing that Is new the exaggeration ca me Z
also. There IS band Of girls In rldon
who are known as the oliganR girls
that Is to say, there are young ladies' Il
who & consider 81 that all sconventfonality5
should be abandoned, and tina the grea y
object! OF life Is simply to amuse $yourselL
as the will OF the moment shall di eta te,S
without having any regard to appearances
or proprlety. for according to $their stand ~
ards, life only means ia good tim ,'sst !
have heard OF such girls leaving q sball "a!
room with their rents to ia ke g M NJ
drive on the top OF an omnibus OF sl1S
In a hanson cab in ord err to be able sy 81
pursue a 4lllrlatlOn lHS@tHe .So'I.pet
peace and quiet OF the street. Other es: =.
capades are related which II Is not well
to detail. @ 81 g ls3
This state Of things. I believe. 4 ts the the,
result Of reaction from the former con- ln1l'j
straint. The newly acquired & freed 90 ON mas
not yet brought with T the sense o. per-
sonol visibility and self respect which
is & Characteristic OF the best America an
Gil. THAT 1t is only Of phase, am cerT7iz
tain; when liberty Is M lon ger q N w ex-.5
!, perience modesty and reticence Will re- s;.g
assert thcms elves. Moreover, the condi-s
| lions OF which I have spoken exist only
among girls who form very small II s,por-7
tion OF society, albeit they may thi ltllt
themselves the most Important The s
pendulum Will undoubt eddy swing back a;cI
again, and thai hlchsis .her. nea
l5itaEe will instead OF being q source y ot
reprehensible lleyity, become the corner
stone on which the characte 5of woman MAJ
will be most enduringly built. 5sj t5i
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schools In the spring and opening them
in the fall.
In the large cities 1t is something ap-
Mailing to know what to do with the chli-
dren. The school room and desk accom- sso.1
modations are never what they should pc
md always insufficient for the tnumoe o.
chtidren WHO desire TO attend school: "A 8
The day approaches for the opening o. I ne u
nublic schools the superntendents Des..'
10 realize that every grade Is TO pc over s'.'
They do all they can, but school rooms ms
are not like omnibuses-ulWays room lloI5
nne more They must pay attention ~, 20
q The sanitation and health OF the, Pupils:
8nnd are Sometimes driven to their Wis,
end As to how to get forty children INTO
Z q Room that only seats twenty-five COM
fortab lc They take the children as sthey
come and ask to be. enrolled. Some par par,
entsg neglect to apply Tor tnelr ch.ia ,!,
for y, Mace on the roll until the last, mo.
ment,4 when probably j Is impossiple V
Then they make complaint that they are
unfairly treated; that Jones's and Smlth
chiidren are admitted and ''tnelrs are
Il LETT ont simply because they are poor;
They make furious attacks on the teach
ers IL their children are sent nome ~
have their faces and hands washed anS
* made tidy enough to be N schooi WI" NJ
the other children or tolerable 70 we
= teachers. Such parents have no aPprecise
alton Of the blessings they nave or OF
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e4 whole catalogue OF woman's att
tributes. The woman whose role 1t was
Ito be helpless has practically ceased to
exist. The clinging woman has gone
with crinolincs, curls. strawlbonnets and
flowing riding habits-intd the region OF
forgetfulness. This is distinct gain to
the world, for whenever common sense
trIumphs, humanity benefits; but between
the shrinking maiden who could never
4 be seen In cab. and had 10 be protected
by the fcotman, who walked behind her.
If she,vcntured TO go out ione,~ th ouSn
4 st might only be to cross the STREET 70
call on a friend. and the entirely eHsi nci-
pated and utterly irresponsible girl whom
we too often meet to-day, there is surely
4 golden mean. 5 Is
Dr.. Emil Reich's last book, Success
Among the Nations. does not profess 70
give more than bird's-eye view. OF th 9
human forces that have raised some ma
tons to the glory OF success. Neverthe-
less. from that point OF ysntage. COOKING
chooses the French woman as his heroine.
and the reasons he gives are worth quot.
ing He defends the long seclusio1l Il o.
4 her g!rlhood, and says:
ut is out OF this captivity OF years that
the French girl emerges into the Frencn
woman. She has The character when
Will carry her through the humble rless
dif1iculties. the numberless deprivat tons y,
tho innumerable self-nbnegations Win
which her pa tn Is strewn Her character
> has been bought with a Spartan training
J In her youth. We have seen the cos al
which English Wfi1n1:power and Fngl tsh
&'virility are purchased. From the age OF
ten. by the systematic suppression OF
youth and gnyety, the equally sea r s.
ing test OF a. precocious responsibility. the
English boy at eighteen has become a
volitional athlete. without peer In conf.
mental Europe. He can be, and frequently
Is. entrusted with positions OF confidence
and responsibility at an age when the
Frcnchman is certainly still In parental "a
4 leading strings. The English hoy has his
4 complement, his counterpart. In >the
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'-1--,'-,ss act of finding the quantity OF
matter the bodies contain. Weight Is SIM
ply a relative9 term; for a stone at the en-
act centre Of gravity Of the earth would
not weigh anything. Weight as daily used
in commerce Is referred to the surface Of
the earth. because we live thereon.
Suppose we wishgto find what the entire
earth weighs. This plan might be adopt
ed: Saw 1t up into blocks, bring one at
a time to the surface, even from the CEN
tire. weigh on scales and return each to
Its place. II each block should weigh
a ton then there would be slightly less
than seven seXtiion, This Is an ebor-
nous number of tons, but there was a
time, on April 2. 1oo4, when this entire
world weighed ounce, then one-half,
one-a,larter and so on, until Instantly IT
lost all It's weight but during the next In
slant 1t began to have weight again,
on October 8. 1904, this earth will lose all
It's weight as completely as In April, II
might have been without weight during
the 1-5OO0 00th OF a second, for It moves
1872 miles per second, The path OF the
earth around the sun Is not circle: SO
BIT varies its distance from the sun con-
tinually, and this changes the strength OF
the suTs attraction on It, which Is
weight. But in April and October each
year the earth is at an exact average
distance during a fraction OF a second, at
which time it Is without weight Ia
The job OF cutting up the earth INTO
Hooks and weighing each would be en-
pensiye. IT is much cheaper TO use
pencil, a sheet of paper and mathema-
tics, TO get mathematics costs some
thing. however,
70 weigh the sun,-we must find the
quantity Of matter In the earth and cal
that one az, or 5pn!ty.afTh next thlns
to do is to go to the top. Of a mouse,
drop a stone to- the ground ana and now
lar ii will, fall In one second; and also
something OF far greater Importance, now
fast 1t will be moving at the exact enc Eng
7 OF the first second OF time, A11eF s svo
years Of trial by trained men, using dell
cate instruments. In all parts OF the
world lit has been found that the stone
Viii BIO l6.l feet below the starting po'ht,
and Will be moving With a yt<,clty OF
s2.a feet per second This 323 Is one O.
the cardinal elements 81 human AH o"t7
edge 1t has been named
Given sufficient data, then. BY lts use Use
inrinitesmal man can weigh the s9oereai
universe. Every object In the celest. y
vault seen by the eye Of man Is q ta'l-
lug body. The earth Is 9 body forever
falling toward the sun, ana me lHooi'
toward the earth Il We can flnd MIN
what speed the earth is falling toWaro
The sun at the end OF the exact second, =
clue is obtained that viii Aead throush
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- HERE is something about this portrait Of
n MI Andrea del Sarto, by himself, which reminds
one OF the famous portraits of Raphael which
i that artist painted of himself. Both these
&. young men We're contemporaries: both We're
famous at an early age, and had not Raphael lived
Andrea del Sarto might have been regarded as the
master painter Of the period, But he fell Just short
of Raphael in about the same degree as the great
dramatists of the Eizabethan period fell shors OF
Shakespeare, ~
It IS saying much, however. to compare him with
Raphael in an age when art flourished as It had never
flourlshed before iItay and as It has not flourshed
since It was the age of Michael angelo, OF Titan,
Leonardo da Ynci. Gorgione, Fra 7Bartolomm and
others, all gleat--al masters in their way Yet this
Andrea del Sarto--son OF tailor, as his name i'm
pes--rose to eminence at a very early age among
this galaxy Of artistic genuses Like Raphael he
was precocious He showed talent at seven, painted
pictures that attracted attention atIhe OF ten,
and by the time he was twenty he was already famous
for his frescoes ss
This portrait In the fflz gallery in l'lorence was
evidently painted when he was about twenty years
Of age and when he was idoized by the young art
students of Florence. tt is decidedly the face OF an
artist with the large dreamy eyes and the sensitive
mouth and nose. The chin is almost feminine ~
character Though handsome as y Whole. it has not
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ADLL might It be said that from,
$INA century to century tragic
lV poet "lias wandered through the
kW29d labyrinths OF destiny with the
(k2GG0 torch Of poesy In his hand"
For In this way has each one, according
to the forces OF his hour. fixed the soul
OF the annals Of man, and 1t is divine
history that has thus been composed.
M 1t is in the poets alone that we can
follow the countless variations OF the
great unchanging power, and to follow
them is indeed interesting, for at the root
OF the idea that they have formed Of this
power is to be found, perhaps, the purest
essence OF a nations soul.
Il Is power that has never entirely
ceased to be, yet there are moments when
1t scarcely seems to str, and at such
moments one feels that llfe Is neither
very active nor very profound. Once only
has 1t been the object OF Individual wor-
ship; then was 1t, even for the gods. an
awe.inspiring mystery. And there is O.
thing that Is passing strnnge-it was the
very period when the featureless divinity
seemed most terrible and most inconl-
prehensible that was the most beautiful
period of mankind, and the people to
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new, but the daily pape, was neverlgnllty
OF the leyIty of dress column and tlfe
advertisement Of corsets and transfor-j
nations would have been looked upon
as indecent. The habit of economy was,
at any rate. cultivated, and the absurd
expenditure In dress did not begin until until
q later period in life. 80
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The same repression was also observed esr"', q
In "a girls manners. She was not sup
posed to air her IDEAS or tastes. but
5meekly to wait until some benevolent
elder ecigned to address her and allowed
her to talk The idea that the daughter
OF the house had Views, or that she as
pIred to carve her own career. was UNI