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Women decide to adopt the report OF
their committee and 90 endeavor to
secure the establishment Of popular
lecture courses in this city the ques-
tion arises whether such a project can
be made successful Possibly it will
be contended in opposition that such
a system will be costly, that climatic
features indispose the people from
seeking such methods of recreation and
enlightenment and, finally, that there
are but few suitable places which are
available for lecture audiences OF this
type
This last objection is at present a
valid one but it will be recalled there
is an old adage that Where there a
will there is a way" Instant success
must not be expected, but difficulties
melt away before determined persons
and this hindrance can certainly be
overcome. The same obstacles have
been encountered in New York and
have been surmOunted. 1t is a fOrtu-
nate thing for San Francisco that dis
cussion Of such an innovation comes
up before the adoption of the plans
for the new school buildings.
In the light Of the long experience OF
DR.. Leipziger in this field his recent
words are emphatic: mo problem to-
day is more important than that Of the
continuous education OF the great body
of men and women who must earn their
livelihood. All these need to have their
drudgery beautified. their routine dig
nif1ed, and taught TO believe that moth
ing is menial or low, and this can be
done only by idealizing service through
knowledge. and thus it may be hoped
that the schoolhouse Of the future may
become not only the piace OF instruc-
ton for children, but a place Of intel
Iigent resort for men and women"
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problem. Some of the old school
houses have auditoriums, though usu-
ally they are located at the top of
the building. The new schoolhouses
are all provided with assembly halls,
generally being placed on the ground
floor. Churches are glad to give the
u-a of their halls and chapels to fur
ther such educational efforts.
Better evidence of the value of
these lectures to uplift and inspire their
attendants can hardly be given than
by culling a few extracts from thou
sands of letters received by DR.. Leip-
ziger: THE lectures are a boon to
us mothers. They keep us in touch
with our sons and daughters at high
school"
II work hard all day and the look
ing forward to this entertainment
once or more times a week proves a
sweetener of labor"
A teacher writes: Il do not think
can show my appreciation more fully
than by the fact that in spite of being
tired out when Friday night comes,
and Notwithstanding other engage
ments. 1 simply could not stay away
from one of the lectures. My only re-
gret is that they end so soon"
Il am a busy housewife and the
lectures have created for me a diff
ferent atmosphere and have afforded
about the only amusement that has
come into my life. The knowledge
there received so freely has broadened
my range of thought and enables me
to answer more fully the many ques-
tions of my children
II haven't had any education to speak
of EXCEPT that which 1 manage to pick
up here and there. 1 am 81 years old.
and appreciate now very much any
form in which gather it. I am trying
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MR. DOOLEY ON THE BRINGING UP OF CHILDREN

jooced me to a toothless OF gintle
man, who was settin' up in a cradle
attn his right foot. Amt he fine?
says Hogan. 'Wondherful,' says l..
Did ye liver see such an EXPRESSION?
says he 'Niver,' says 1. as Hiven
is me Judge, niver.' Look at his
hair he says. 4 WILL says 1. Amt
his eyes beautiful?' They ar're,' says.
ARE they glass or on'y imitation!
says l. An thin cunning little feet,
says he. ON close INSPECTION says l,
yes, they ar-re. They ar-re feet.
Ye'er offspring don't know it though.
He thinks that wan is doughnut.
He's not as old as he looks says
Hogan. He cudden't be- says l. He
looks old enough to be Dimmycratic
candydate fr Vice President Why,
he's lost most iv his teeth l says.
Go wan says he, he's just gettin
thin. He has two uppers an four
lowers, he says. If he had a few
more, he'd be a sleepin' car says l.
Does he speak? says l. Sure says
Hogan. Say poppa,' he says. Cab,
says young Hogan. Hear that?' says
Hogan; that's poppa.' Say momma,
says he. 'Gah,' says tn projidy.
That's momma, says Hogan. See,
here's Misther Dooley.' says he.
'Blub,' says tn phenomynon. Look
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BY F. P. DUNNE
COPYRIGHT, l9O4, BY MCCLURE, PHILLIPS ( CO.

at that says Hogan, he knows ye,'
he says.
well, We know, Hinnissy, wan iv
tn things that has made me popular
in tn ward is that l make a bluff at
adorin' childher Between you an
me I'd as lave salute a dish rag as
a recent infant. but I always do it
So l put on an allurin' smile an says
l, We'll, little OF goozy goo, will he
give his Dooleyums a kiss? At that
minyit Hogan seized me be tn collar
an dragged me away firm tn cradle.
'Wud ye kill me child? says he
How? says I. With a kiss says he.
Am I that bad,' says l. Don't ye
know that there ar-re mickrobes that
can be transmitted to an infant in
a kiss?' says he. Well says l with
indignation, I'm not proud iv mesilf
as an antiseptic American l says,
but in an encounter between me an
that there young cannibal, l says, I'll
lave it to tn boord iv health who
takes tn biggest chance, l says, an
we wint ont followed be howl firm
tn projidy. He's singin', says Ho-
gan. He has lost his notes. says I.
"Whin we got down stairs, Hogan
give me a lecture on TIL bringin' up
iv childher AS though l needed it,
me that's been consulted on bringin'
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the birth rate. which has gradually led
to great disasters. The decline of an
cient Israel dates from the close Of the
reign of Solomon in all his glory" The
splendor of the age Of Pericles was
short-lived, and the Augustan age was
too brief for mankind to retain and
perpetuate it's benefits. Society to-day
is as surely verging toward a collapse
even more dreadful than it has ever
suffered IN the past unless there be a
universal reversion to the principles
and conduct enjoined upon mankind by
the law of nature. Even should a civ
ilized people respect natures laws and
faithfully preserve the fecundity at
which nature aims, this, however, it Is
universally conceded, is not enough for
the welfare of society. Mere physical
birth is not the birth of the whole man,
an intelligent creature endowed with
free will. His destiny is to work out in
himself his likeness to God until he is
united with the divine perfection, be-
coming a "partaker of the nature Of
God" God, says Holy Scripture, made
the nations of the earth for health, and
there is no poison of destruction in
them, nor kingdom of hell upon the
earth" (Wisdom, i:14)
Consequently we must include in our
calculations a system directing and
conserving the sources of society in ac-
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how they've got it rayjooced to a
science. They can almost make a
short baby long or a blonde baby
black be addin' to or rayjoocin' tn
amount of protides an caseens in tn
milk he says Haven't ye liver
kissed ye'er young? says T. 'Wanst
in awhile he says, 'whin I'm thurly
disinfected, l go up an blow kiss
at him through tn window. he says.
Well says l, it may be all right,
I says. but if cud have a son an
heir without causin' talk | bet We I'd
not apply fr a permit firm tn Health
Board f'r him an me to come to-
gether. Parents was made befure
chiidher anyhow. an they have a
prize claim to be considered. Sure,
it may be good thing to bring thin
up on a sanitary plan, but it seems
to me that they got along all right
in tn OF days whin number two had
just larned to fall down stairs at tn
time number three enthered TIL wur-
ruld. Maybe they were stronger thin
they ar-re now. Th' docthor niver
pratinded to see whether tn milk was
proprly billed He cudden't very well.
TIL childher was allowed to set up at
tn table an have a good cup iv tay
an nickle at two. II there was more
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thin enough to go around. they got
what nobody else wanted. They got
plinty iv fresh air playin' in allays an
vacant lots an ivry wanst in awhile
they were allowed to go down an
fall into tn river. No attintion was
paid to their dite. TIL prisint race iv
hayroes who are now startlin' tn
wurruld in finance, polytics. tn arts
an sciences, burglary an hthrachoor
was brought up on wathermillen rinds,
speckled apples, raw onions, stolen
firm tn grocer, an cocoanut pie.
Their nursery was tn back yard.
They larned to walk as soon as they
were able an if they got bow-legged
ivrybody said they wud be sthrong
men. As FIR anybody previntin'
fond parent firm comm home Satur-
dab night an wallowin' in his beau
cheous child, tn docthor that sug-
gisted it wud have to move. No. sir
says l, get as much amusement as
ye can out iv ye'er infant says l.
Teach him TO love We now.' l says,
before he knows. Afther awhile he'll
get onto ye an it'll be too late"
eye know a lot about it." said Mr..
Hennessy.
Il do" said Mr.. Dooley. "Not bein'
an author, I'm a gr-reat critic"
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up half tn chi1dher in Archey road.
In the OF days says he, 'childher
was brought up catch as catch can,'
he says. But it's different now.
They're as carefully watched as a
geeranyum in conservatory he says.
Here it is. Th' first thing that shud
be done f'r child is to deprive it iv
its parents. Th' less tn infant sees
iv poppa an momfna. tn betther f'r
him. If they ar-re so base as to want
to look at tn little darlin,' they shud
first be examined be a competent
physician to see that there is nawthin'
wrong with thin that they cud give
tn baby. They will thin take bath
iv sulphuric acid. an havin' carefully
attired thims in a sturized rub
Der suit, they will approach within
eight feet iv tn objeck iv their ig-
noble affection an lave at wanst. In
no case mus they kiss. hug or fondle
their projeny. Many diseases, such
as lumbago, pain in tn chist, pre-
machoor badness. senile decrepitude,
which are privalent among adults,
can be communicated to a child firm
tn parent Besides it is bad f'r tn
moral nature iv tn infant. Affection
f'r its parents is wan iv tn mos dan
gerous symptoms iv ricketts,. Th' par
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ents may not be worthy iv tn love
iv a thurly sturlized child. An in
fant's first jooty is to tn doctor to
whom it owes its bein' an stayin'
Childher ar-re initiative an if they see
much iv their parents they may grow
up to look like thin. That wud be a
great misfortune. If parents see their
childher befure they enther Harvard,
they ar-re f'rbidden to teach thin
foolish wurruds like "poppa" an
''momma." At two a properly brought
up child shud be able to articulate in
distinctly tn wurruds "Docthor Bolt
on til Care an Feedin' iv Infants"
which is betther thin sayin' 'momma"
an more exact.
Gr-reat care shud be taken iv tn
infants food. Durin' tn first two
years, it shud have nawthin' but milk.
At three a little canary bur-rd seed
can be added. At FIVE an egg ivry
other Choosdah. AT siven an orange.
At twelve til child may ate shredded
biscuit. At forty tn little tot may
have stewed prunes An so on. At
no time, howiver, shud tn child be
stuffed with green cages. pork an
beans, onions, Boston baked brown
bread, saleratus biscuit or other food.
It's WONDERFUL says Hogan,
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mutual cooperation by which prop
erty is Justly distributed. Industry is
promoted under the strongest incen-
tives in the efforts of parents to pro-
vide for their children. and the safest
insurance OF a competence in old age
is secured by having a large family
of dutiful children. For the poorer
classes early and prolific marriages
are the greatest boon; they sweeten
toll by causing it to yield its most
beneficent fruits. The numerous
beneficiary societies which flourish to-
day are only an artificial substitute
for the mutual help which marriage
and consanguinity naturally and much
more eficaciously provide.
Would that this benefcent author
ity had never been set aside, for then
the civil power would never have lost
the respect Of the people, nor would
so many wars have been fomented 70
blight the earth with desolation and
death. Nor, again, would multitudes
have become so demoralized by dis
obedience to law and idleness that in
these days of plenty the land is filed
with homeless vagabonds not willing
to labor and not ashamed to beg. Pow
erty then would not be associated. as
it often is. with our boasted progress,
which, if it be blessing, should make
the conditions Of all men more happy
and prosperous.
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them into peaceable and industrious
peoples, if it has abolished the curse Of
slavery left by the old corrupt civiliza-
tion of paganism, and has given to US
the accumulated wisdom Of past ages
which but for it would nave been de-
stroyed, may we not conclude that it's
mission is divine and that it's laws fur
nish a safe rule of human conduct?
Its wisdom inspired the establishment
of the great universities and schools
with which the civilized world is filed
to-day. 1t has done more to promote
the arts and sciences than all the civil
institutions in the world.
Furthermore, marriage. an integral
component of the religious system, is
not only the normal source of increas-
ing the members in our population,
but it determines essentially the char
acter and quality of the members Of
society Its legitimate fruits, there
fore, are not produced unless it is a
relation as enduring as the lives OF
the parties who enter it. To lessen it's
bond means to impair the lives and
fortunes of its people more extern
sively in the long IN than the worst
epidemics of disease ever known.
Next to the marriage relation itself
the ties of consanguinity are the most
useful and Strengthening cords by
which society is held together. They
are the greatest safeguards of that
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cordance with the richest possibilities
of human development.
Philosophy and history teach us that
a social bond like that of the family
has for its object not only the material
welfare Of the members of it, but also
their moral improvement, and it fur
thermore establishes order in the vari-
Gus acts of men. Hence we conclude
that religion is necessary for mans
social well-being because it is the
foundation of his moral conviction and
conduct upon which the stability of
human society depends.
If the ideas of moral responsibility
and obligation which religion has in
culcated in the minds and conscience
of men were wholly obliterated society
could not be held together The author
Of nature must therefore also be the
author of society and religion, and the
great social problem of this age, as it
has been Of every other must be to es-
tablish harmony between them
If the theories of such men as Pro-
fessor Haeckel, author of THE Riddle
of the Universe" and of our own Pro-
fessor Edgar L. I.arkin, We're univers-
ally accepted, universities and observ-
atories could not exist.
If religion has been able through the
Gospel, to carry civilization to the most
degraded savages, and has transformed
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relative. male and female. To this
collection he added we'll worn shoes
belonging to various prominent person
ages. In most cases some character
istic of the owner was known to him
and ticketed upon the shoes. When
the shelves were full the doctor set to
work to classify his acquisitions He
sorted out those that were worn even
ly, those that were worn on the outer
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that it is as exact" as phrenology or
chiromancy. Broadly stated, the fun
damental principles of the art are as
follows: II the soles and heels are
worn evenly and there is no undue
tendency to thinness in any part DR..
Garre is able to assert that the wearer
was a steady. respectable. methodical
business man of regular habits, man
Of even temper, seldom or never
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stirred by passion. If the shoe belongs
to a woman and is thus evenly. worn
the wearer was chaste, inexpensive,
of simple tastes and a constant mind;
one who is content never to wander
from her own fireside. So far the sci
ence has taught nothing that an ordi-
nartly observant person could not
have found out for himself without ex-
amining footgear. However, it is far
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edge and those that were worn down
at the heel. BY arguing from the
known to the unknown, by comparing.
deducing and contrasting. he was at
last able to lay down the broad line OF
the. science. He passed long hours
among his old boots. amplifying and
extending the rules he had discovered.
iuventing fresh ones and accounting
for contradictions.
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there is profit. In fact if the soles
and heels are worn along their en-
tire length the wearer is, no doubt, an
adventurer. This is hard on sailors,
who are often bow legged. The wom-
en- who tread on the outside of the
sshoe have the same general character
in less pronounced FORM
DIR. Garre first began his study Of
boots by collecting pair from each
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more frequent that the sole on one
side is worn like wafer, while on the
other side it is of normal thickness,
and the heel is sliced on to wedge.
A person having bow legs will nat
urally walk on the outside edge of
the shoe. Such persons, says the
learned doctor, are obstinate and
headstrong. They are ambitious and
take UP any scheme where they think
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9" =

" his: SAID Mr..
Dooley.
Wait till he's had iliven." said Mr..
Hennessy.
oh, " coorse." said Mr.. Dooley,
'ye have cOntimpt f'r an amachoor
father that has On'y wan offspring.
An OF PROFESSIONAL parent like We
that's practically done nawthin' all
ye'er life but be father to helpless
childher don't understand tn emotions
" tn author " limited edition. But
Hogan don't care. So far as 1 am
able 10 judge firm what he says, his
is tn on'y perfect an complete child
that has been projooced this cinchry.
He looks on you tn way Hinnery
James wud look on Mary Jane
Holmes.
Il wint around to see this here pro-
jidy tn other day. Hogan met me
al tn dure. Wipe off ye'er feet" says
he. Why says l. Baby says he
'Alikrobes,' he says. He thin con-
Quoted me TO a basin iv water an
instructed me to wash me hands in
a preparation " carbolic acid. Whin
was thurly perfumed. he inthra-
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CltyS water SUPPLY is Two
fold. Unless nature has
~ been bountiful in her pro-
vision the energy Of the
aqueduct builder is powerless to meet
the demand. Unless the system of mains
and conduits is thorough and generous
and diligently preserved in its efficiency,
natures bounty is in vain.
In estimating the strength Of the
modern social fabric we must first of all
look at the fecundity Of our race. The
birth rate is the prime factor in social
development. Although each genera
zion passes away so quickly that society
as q whole seems 10 be little affected
by it, yet the whole fabric rests upon
that primitive and natural union of the
sexes by which offspring is generated
and reared. Consequently the more uni
versal and normal marriage is, the
stronger and purer society becomes. A
nation which depends chiefly upon i'm
migration for its increase of population
is as really becoming extinct as if 1t
were being exterminated by an invad-
ing army.
Great as are the benefits which civ
Iization has conferred upon mankind,
its history nevertheless shows that it's
progress has repeatedly been marred by
a moral degeneracy directly affecting
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system? This is the question now asked
by the local council of women Of San
Francisco. Their committee appointed
last year in a late report have taken
strong ground that such a work should
be begun and maintained for the edu-
cation Of the adult population Of this
city.
As a distinct educational influence
free lectures have long since passed
the experimental stage IN New York,
Boston, Chicago and other cities. These
courses Of lectures are an outgrowth Of
a prevalent belief that our common
schools IN cities are accomplishing but
part OF their legitimate work. Instead
Of being supported for the education Of
children exclusively ii is held that they
should aid in the education of the en-
tire community. Stern necessity COM
pels an early entrance by a large ma
jority Of children into a life of toll.
Thereafter favoring opportunities to
gain in knowledge are few. except
through the public library. Boys and
girls enter manhood and womanhood
and those only vino are readers make
intellectual progress. How shall the
host Of nOn-readers be reached? In
what way shall the increasing leisure
Of the laboring classes be used for their
best advantage? I'VE are great cow
ards" says an educational leader. IF
we believe that the masses Of the peo-
pie kept in health by a wholesome
amount Of daily toll, and once more
erect with self-respect, are going to
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name is taken from the Italian word
for an old shoe, scarpaccis, the di-
uainutive Of scarpa. He claims for it
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I the authority Of the
French papers, a new
science of "scarpol-
ogy" has been invented
by DR.. Garre of Basel,
a Swiss scientist. The
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HE problem Of a great
city's water supply is two
fold. Unless nature has
been bountiful in her pro-
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I'D ye liver see a
man as proud iv
anything as Ho-
gan is iv that kid
iv his 7" said Mr..
DOOleV.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-20
SAID HE'S DEPEW'S SECRETARY.
Young Man Procures Some Books at the
War Department and Later Is Arrested.

WASHINGTON Oct 19.-Representing him
self az the private secretary of Senator
Chau ncey NJ Depew, a well d ressed young
man called on Major William d. Beach in
the Office of Lieut. Gen. Adna II. Chaffee
in the War Depar tment, a day or two ago
and said that the New York Senator de-
sired copy Of the twelve volumed electric
manual He was promptly accommodated.
Something in the mans manner aroused
a latent suspicion in the mind of Major
Beach that all was not right He therefore
took the first opportunity to get into COM
munication with Senator Depew and asked
if he had got those books all right
When the Senator promptly disclaimed
either having received or asked for any
books whatever, and said that he had not
sent his secretary to the War Department
at ALL Major Beach told the Washington
police, who tonight arrested young
man Of the name of Holland, son of
Government clerk. AS soon as arr ested
Holland admitted his guilt, saying that he
had needed a little money and had sold the
books to q local dealer
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MISSING MAN HAD ENEMIES.
Friends OF Sanitary Inspector Walsh Fear
He Met With Foul Play.

A general alarm was sent out last night
by the Police Department for Richard p.
Walsh, a sanitary inspector in the employ
OF the Health Department in The Bronx
Walsh has been missing since s o'clock
Tuesday morning. His mother told the
fremont avenue police that his family be-
lieve he has been the victim of foul play
Walsh's district covered a part Of the
lower East Side. 1t was his duty to report
on the sanitary conditions of lodging
houses, and his mother said he had in
CURED the i'll will Of several lodging house
keepers. He had said recently that he was
afraid some of his enemies would get the
best of him.
DR.. c. F. Roberts, sanitary superintend-
ent in The Bronx, has instituted a search
for Walsh in conjunction with the police.
He has ordered inspectors to go over the
ground that Walsh covered.
The missing inspector is 80 years old
He weighed about $50 pounds and is an
athlete. He was well dressed in dark
clothing. He wore no jewery save a
five dollar gold piece as a watch fob. This
was inscribed Geneva to Dick"