Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1904-05-14

the Formosan war: In the 18th the
conflict In Korea. In the 9th the
Chlna..Iapan war. and the present
year. the 31th of Mciji, is again dsas.
trous to peace.
The mother of nine children who, de-
serted by her husband. declares she
can take care of her family. might well
bc the first beneficiary of Mr.. Carne.
glc's hero fund.
A book publisher declares that no
first. class fiction is being produced
these days. Let him keep his eye on
the resolutions of the political conven.
tions.
4 woman calls herself good house
keeper when she worries for fear II
the house burned down the neighbors
would talk about the state In which
she left the ruins when she ran out.
One Of the entertaining professors
says every married woman should be
a wage.earner. This might easily be
arranged. Let every married woman
he paid 81 u week for doing her own
housewOrk.
One OF the japanese officers who
were killed ut Port Arthur has been
elevated to the rank OF war god In
Japan. Still, comparatively few Of MS
would care to he blown to pieces even
for that high honor.
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Dissatisfaction with present condi-
tions Is Il motive to progress. In speak
| ing on this subject before the Church
Association for the Advancement OF
the Interests Of Labor in an Eastern
city. clergyman recently said that
there was part Of the city where the
people are In the depths of brutaliz'
ing contentment." Unrest Is u good
thing because ii Is a sign of life. Did
any one ever see more restless crea.
ture than growing boy?
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From three important institutions OF
learning have come severe complaints
their inability to think clearly, to make
correct sentences. 20 spell and punctu
ate. This does not mean that college
boys are n picked class OF illiterates
they probably think as well as theil
contemporaries who are not In college
and they probably write and speak the
language better The charge of the
older teachers seems 10 he that the
present generation of youth is not, as
n whole, up to n reasonable standard
The charge points to the lower schools
Perhaps there Is too much mature
study" and physical culture" too
much painting and pasting of bits OF
colored paper. Certainly there Is moi
enough reading aloud, spelling aloud
and committing to memory thoughts
worth thinking. The boy who learn,
10y heart Webster's Bunker Hill ora
tlon, speaks it aloud with proper en-
phaSis, and can spell every word in il
j. getting the right kind of education
And when he goes 10 college. his in
Structors will not find in him cause L
blame the lower schools.
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The New York World urges parents
10 cease burdening boy babies witt
the names OF famous men. The thin.
has been Overdone, When William
Dean Howclls Green faces the polio,
judge on charge of chicken stealing
ana Henry Cabot Lodge Jones goes {,
the calaboosc for wife heating. ther,
does seem 10 he something out o
whack with the eternal fitness o
things, In the near future 1t woul'
be possible TO organize regiments o
William Jennings Bryans and Theo
dore foosevelts, with company o
two of Grover Clevelands in the pro
cession, There is another side TO il
Great men are but men, after all. III
to the day of their death 1t Is possible
for them to clothe their names will
shame. They may become as infa