New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-09

A prominent Spaniard Colonel Figuerola Fer
retri. says in recent article on Woman IN spain
that the welfare 81 that unhappy country Is in
tho hands OF it- women. when men have
better educated Mothers" he observes. "the mean
iuc Of patriotism will be better understood Let
MS hope that q new day u.s. dawnlug for spain.
since the lufaut4 Euialid. On her truly phian-
Platform at the &thenaurl I'M Madrid AT the first
women
The dovry OF daughters appears to have become
burning problem in England. where the ever
growing surplus Of women continually Increases
the difficulty OF finding a means Of livelihood for
girls who either from choice or chance are thrown
upon their own resources. The hopeless outlook OF
the SpIustor s a social problem which cries out
tor solution, ana even for the married woman a
Without il the wife is I'm the position OF hireng
band How the problem is to be solved IS another
matter. and London paper urges that the sub
Ject be constantly discussed. that IL be made the
motive OF novels, PLAYS sermons. lectures on eco
Monies etc. that IL be talked about not oe-
found for what is a social blot on the country.
Il was the German novelist Auerbach who dis
covered Cannes. and made Il famous by building
villa and wlnterng there from 1851 until 1865. when
he died.
Joliet H.. with a population OF forty-two thou
sand. is said b. 'The Journal OF Education to
have eighty given Up to public school grounds
SIX schools stand in grounds OF native wood one
with four acres Of timber around it. another with
five One school has its peach orchard. where the
fruit ripens Unmolested LAST year the school sent
q basket or Its peaches tC the state Fair and took
premium with II. A school lot OF seventeen acres
is enough to make the teacher OF nature study IN
an East Side public school turn green with envy.
but Joliet not only has one. but another OF tia
fine grove, and a delightful stream. On the public
school grounds thirty thousand trees. and every
school has its flower garden In the season
Americans are so accustomed to having their
women praised and admired that It gives
we're shock 20 read IN current ma gazine that they
are not generally attractive.
They are too animated. lack repose. are pretty
but hard and rarely distinguished They often
speak shocking English Their voices have I'M
proved IN the big Eastern cities-not IN the South
or West where the information is stu odfol,s Their
nervous undercurreut OF force that thrills and mag
netizes tho more stolld brain Of the Briton. and
permanent At any rate. the spell exists"
Frances Power Cobb has sent all the way rom
Dolgelly North Wales. TO This woman's Journal
which is published in Boston. a suggestion for
curing drugIess sleep. which Is worth noting for
the benefit Of chronic sufferers from Insomnia
Miss Cobb offers her remedy for after excess
I've mental labor" but there seems 70 be- no In
heren- reason why it should not also be applcabls
Gust nerves.
TO compel our thoughts 70 follow the memory
% dreams. and account 20 revert any
subject OF waking thought. pleasant otherwise
that is Miss COb5'5 formula.
''If we have already slept IN the night" she says
Eve should. IN trying to sleep again. recall the
dreams or the previous sleep and carry them on
II have not slept. then II IS necessary to 20
and less certainly successful But even this Is far
better for sleep than allowing the memory to
OH devices Of counting hundred. or picturing
sheep. etc"