Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1904-10-15


before 1t comes your turn to ride out
there in the big plumcd hack that new
or hauls its load back again. Don't
wait till you own your private carriage
or your automobile. Go while you are
able to walk AMI to think. From the
dead you may learn mur! of !fc Sean
all the virtues inscribed upon all the
hcadstOncs by loving la,ds aud among
them you will not find recorded the
possession of million dollars or a
dock.tnilcd horse. No! No! Th" head.
stones tell you only of things worth
while. \ graveyard Is rs good u place
rs any In the world for one to learn
what the world. religious and pagan
pretty much alike. holds IL bc the
greatest qualities. the richest posses.
siOns--s,nd the pOckctbOOk ar bank nc.
count Il never mentioned among them.
1t Is better to live u little every day.
nor refuse to accept the many simple
joys that are forever nibbling the hook.
than to expect To land later on some
monster whale of pleasure.
George Bernard Shnw's new Don
Juan play has already started n lot of
talk about ByrOn's Don llunn.'
byron did his best TO prevent this.
lie rliymcd Juan with new one"
and with true one" but lic has
| shared the fate Of the other English
poets. who for years and years. ana
almost for centuries. rlymcd cndix
with "ladics." They had annexed
Cadiz and had Anglicized II. Their
descendants have hauled down tho
flag. CadIz again belongs to the for
eigncr. 1t IL called "Calidccth.' We
say "DOn KelOte" And We shall
probably go Oh saying that II proJcr:
Is "kehOtic." Which leads to this gen
c.Tl rule for culture: Take all for.
cign words that have been Anglicized
and translate. them back into their
original languages" Versailles, for
Instance. became so completely Angli.
cizcd that In the mouth of the most
fusti,liOus English scholar II rhymed
with pals. To acquire culture. make
1t rhyme with pie. Then. some day,
the eXquisitely cultured man will
come who will remember that York
Is simply an Angllclzed corruption of
the name which the Romans gave the
town, and who will, therefore. talk OF
taking the train for New Eboracum.
| In spite Of the similarity Of their
modern education, 1t will probably con.
tinue 10 bc true that girls are dltIcr.
Ont from boys In taste, temperament
ana disposition. The mothers who. led
by books on child study, are surprised
ard pcrpleXcd by this fact Of expe.
rience, may take comfort In tho re-
Election that the world has gone on
with u reasonable smOOthncss now
these many years, In spite Of the Ill.
vcrsitIes Of gifts allotted to the sexes.
I'm very much troubled about my
little nlcccs," said u cultivated woman
to II teacher Of large experience. Il
want to ask your advice about them.
Ny two little nephews are the dearest,
brightest little fellows yOn ever saw.
| can interest them in anything with.
out the least effort. They are alb.
scrbed In their Nature study They
have made an aquarium and a hcrbarl'
nm; know every bird on the place; can
give you the names of great many
and have much more general informal
ton than ] have. Tut the two little
girls. Why, don't suppose you could
guess what Is their one interest! The
only thing they have any enthusiasm
for!" dolls, suppose" answered
the teacher, with smile. "Yes! How
did you guess? Isn't 1t dreadful "
| The teacher suggested that perhaps
the anxious aunt was combating Il
fundamental difference--One which il
would he impossible. and undesirable
To obliterate. MultttudinOus tasks and
interests press in upon the life of the
| twentieth century woman; but the day
has not yet come when she can ,oOl;
at the face of the favorite doll of her
childhood without the warm conscious.
ness that her devotion to ii held the
germ of many Of her later and best
achievements.
~SA
Prof. Mason, of the Smithsonian In
stitutiOn, has been studying the blonde
peoples ana now feels warranted In an
nOuncing that in six hundred years
the blondes will have disappeared from
the face of the earth. We are not go
ing to quarrel with Prof. Mason. As
IN attache of the Smithsonian Instltu'
ton he ought to know all about blondes
in the abstract, Of cOnrse-but per-
haps he has permitted the evidence
of his eyes to weigh against the testl'