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own clothes. and for the most part their
own meals, and the highest wage that
they can receive is $3.50. but tho ordinary
wage Is 81 per week.
Whcn the company was confronted
with the fact, the answer was that they
did nat require young women Who nnaded
10 earn their living, but girls who were
glad to exc out an income IN this way
Every woman who sets out TO earn
her own living ought to see that tho fact
that she does SO Injuries no other VINO
needs the Same provision In order TO
exist,
Eut to turn to the strongest objection
against business life for women, reeog-
ME, In spite of all that may be said or
denied. there Is no question to my mind
that in business life The serious hands
cap to woman is generally her health. !,
IT is useless to minimize this aspect OF
the question, It exists. They 90 not
run an equal race with men IN this re-
spect IT Is factor that has to Pc
rcckoned with, Then there are other DIFF
Gculties connected with clothing, VIII.
right feeding and with the trea tment OF
the physical side Of existence, when must
occupy q larger space IN woman's NE
Z Antsety, uneaslnsss break Woman
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the habit. | grleve to see all over this
country the immense palace hotels OPEN
ing everywhere. ! think 1t sets q wrong
standard OF existence, destroys the ideas
Of simplicity and REFINEMENT, engenders
the belief that soft carpets and marble
halls. brayIng bands and French cooking
and a hundred other expensive tastes arc
pnrt Of the pccessary pleasures of ex-
.stcnce
The fabric upon which such n concept
Is bait Is eth!cally wrong, The greatest
claim that can exist In any home Is the
sense OF quiet, Of refinement, of lndividu-
ality, Of personal touch which can only
be found In weli-ordered. wcll-ruled and
well managed houses.
SO far the business Of woman has yet
to be taught TO her. and | think | know
nothing more engaging than the pretty.
refined well,dressed housewife who Is
not ashamed TO own that many or the
dainiies on her table have been cooked
with her own hands. for those are The
women who hold the affection OF their
husbands and their children. not because
they can produce that which ministers
10 Their comfort. but rather because such
woman becomes the pivot upon which
The whole housaaaola turns. 70 whom all
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utterly unmarkctablc article. When the
old year went into nothingness 70 the
nervc-raclsing requiem OF cannon crack
crs and the tolllng of town bells--not 70
mention the teethng member OF my house.
hold in the nulscry--I pntted myself on
my 34-inch chest and proudly SAID An
nv bow you've learnt many trick III
1908. The New Year catches you Win
the goods on your person, and II you taii
to utilize them, there Is no hope OF your
even getting your name on tombstone
wnen you de-
But those seeking to elevate me 10 the
c,.iterional pedestal will naturally wish to
know the nature Of my expensive expert
cree, 50 that their own lives may bo pat
termed after my illustrious example.
Here 1t is: The prime error OF all my
transgressions lies in the fact that during
the year 1903, essayed to trot out, OF my
class-thnt /, a spawned old plug with
shaggy fetiocks, shambled and hobbled
out on the turf and tried to 90 the gait
of certain wcll-currled geldings and .gddy
FLIES who have never known an empty
corn crib or a disordered paddock.
The ambitious member OF our house.
Lcld-she who does not hesitate to call
me a fossil and mum,ny-is Sat the bot
tom of it all. Last year, Just about TINS
time. she bounced on me like duck on
n June bug and announced that had to
got out Of my old rut or she would go
crazy and the rest of the family would
60 to the almshouse. At the time OF her
attack, | was seated in my library read
ing a fascinating article of the vertebrae
of antediluvian saurians, and not giving
Il continental how the stock market
jumped, or whether the smart set wore
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rcigns over them. and nll on account Of
the severe discipline through which no
passed from youth TO mature manhood.
Imagine the sons and daughters Of
American well-to-do people and million.
aires having to submit to the same kind
OF discipline that princes and princesscs
OF the blood royal must endure
Heirs apparent arc not allowed as much
freedom as tho sons Of American free
men because their destiny Is fixed from
birth. and they must be fitted for Its
cares and responsibilities. ,t
Il Every American may$achteve tho high
est place within the gitt Of the nation
and yet the majority OF them are not
trained for such exalted stations.
Men who have amassed fortunes lose
sight OF their sons and seem to think TO
b. kind they must give them free reins
They are practically taught that their
money will take them through life. and
that they do not need to do anything.
They grow up to spend money, In
dclge In dlsslpat ton and ell kinds OF reck-
less living. their lrdulgent parents look
Ing on without alarm. They have no re-
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character, and should tho Crown Prince
be called to the throne before he is as
sclu as his father was. he would no doubt
rrove worthyaof the example Of his illus
;trious ancestors:
aTIe has had TO work for the promotions
and favors shown him. Emperor William
being imnovable In his detrminat ton that
Ills sons. shall be properly trained and
we'll equipped /, for the exalted positions %
5which Btheya are to- inherlt,4the Empress
assisting to Hegs Vi st ability In the Sex;-:
ecutton OF all thas plans made !! for her t.r
sons NJ !. Il 81 u S s5. vi
ll.ned. the wisdom o6 flglds preparation
,forIlfe's dulies. From eight to eighteen
he was under the EtJttelage Of Col: Oslo,
ctne OF 1taly's sturdlest soldiers and stu si
dents. tss. .G ii
IIe was naturally tmperious, and having
been given absolute NJ control over the
young Prince;alte was unremitting In his
care OF his imperial charge and unre-a
tlentlng in his discipline Of him. i
He would not allow Inn to accept In
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TROTTlNG OUT OF ONES CLASS.
The Idler Describes How He Went All the Society
hit ExnanSiNH ExnAriGncH
BALks At THE IDEA OF. EVER DOING IT AGAIN.

cnscd In Prince Albert. Worse still, to
show folks that he doesn't feel too exalt-
ca by his Tuxedo man MUST have u whole
lot OF short, jaunty, sassy little sacque
coats, let alone a golf costume like chess
bonrd and a pair OF white flannel trous-
ers with which to sop up grass stains at
the summer resorts. With hats. too It's
the same way; you always need what you
haven't got and never quite get what you
need until It Is gone out Of fashion.
NJ The sartorinl paco set me by the Com
u'nnder- in.Chief soon had me blowing for
wind and wheeling like a porpose, and
when got homo and saw tho outlay
hanging up in MI PARTS Of the house,
didn't know whether T was a prince or
tho proprietor Of u second hand clothing
store.
But what are stlfr, scratchy clothes or
Asiatio cholera to finch partles And
what Is work, even on public holiday
tr tho awful, Il lndcscrlbable boredom OF a
society Function Yea how much more
fruitful OF results Is an hour OF nlaBti-
cation with chewing gum than like
period spent In tho may waltz when one
is rheumatic or little too passo Ito
stand the jolting. Mind you, 1t all does
we'll enough for tho colts and tho filllus
and those to tho manner born, but MOTTO
,mummies torn from their crurnbllng cerc-
nients, reconstructed by belated ambition
and yanked by sduress into modtsh habli-
.ments, which, by the way, have n marvel
GUS habit OF being most uncomfortable.
All many were the times In the last
twelve month when I, have sighed over
tho cafe-f rappe, tho chicken-salad and
the parslrnoniohs COB OF parti-colored Ice
CT cam. for my unabridged dictionary or
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vtations, not even from his royal par
jcrts. II It in any way connlcted with the
Colonels regulations, for his pupils
Neither could tho doctor prevent the exc
,cution Of his tutors orders.
& Tho King now claims that no owes
everything to his stern tutor in the sac-
austion Of knowledge and habits that
lave fitted him for a sovereign.
Els amtablo queen twas also reared In
the school Of disciplEte consI dered neccs s' :
sary fors princes ahd princ esses, conse-
,nvently ItalyAia-not outstanding the un-
timely death Of King Fl an 4 bert tand the
sudden change ,ofsrulers, has suffered no
political loss and the people are quite as
hnppy,fand prosperous as under his boz,
loved father. fl.5s
IT 10 the ambition Of the King to emit
late his father. who said: #
my sole ambition Is that at, tho end
Of the arduous path which lies before me.
these words OF praise may be accorded:
He was worthy OF his father
u II one can predict for, the future by the
POST Victor Emmanuel III. will do his
subjects good and not evil as long as he
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dcting grandfather. father and mother.
The nation itself is indebted to the In
II, xlblc custom OF fitting their rulers from
their birth for the great responsibilities
of sovereign OF a great people.
Their minds are developed, their char
ecters moulded, their tastes and dispo-
s!t!ons cultivated so that they may be
fitted to guide their people through the
maelstroms that overtake allEnatlons, and
to enable them to protect their subjects
from themselves and all other deStruc-1
tive influences.
Frederick III. and Victoria were not
long on the throne, but they We're pre-.
rared for the high duties OF Emperor and
Empress long before the reins. of govern
ment passed into their hands. They were
b, So all those years fitting their children
for the places they felt thoy were des-.
tined to fill:
The wisdom. economy and frugality OF
Emperor William I. had been SIMULATED BY
his son. Frederick, while Victoria mad
been equally as carefully reared by her
Imperial mother. Victoria OF England. so
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Moreover. there are many brave girls
who find 1t necessary to earn their
living by working In banks in the Post,
office, In Government Offices and 1inan-
ola! louses tn-day,
There is, however. as ! have ALREADY
sud, one form of business life Which
strongly dcprccato. and that Is only 100
common at the present time.
girl, perhaps, has n good home and
nothing much to do; she wishes to m
crease her annual Income In order that
she may have more to spend upon her
pleasures. aud consequently It comes
about that one Of tho great hlndrances
to tho SUCCESS Of the wage-earning
woman IS created by the fact that there
arc hundreds, especially of young women,
Who 10 into tho labor market from homes
Of cnso and comparative afhuence, simply
to eke out their pin and pocket money,
and who. by accepting less than a liylns
wage. do an incalculable Injustice to
tneIr sisters, who require q living wage
In order 10 live,
n There Is In London a company DONG
nm immense business In tea shops ana
refreshment houses which furnishes N
illustration Of the evil. The COMPANY y
, payina enormous dividends. the young
Women women Who are employed there ana tllelFfi
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Charles Dickens lnlmltablo accounts Of

Charles Dickens lnltrtnbe accounts Of
poor white folks.
And many werc tho times when the
Queen Bee, though strenuously striving
to win 35-cent przo at a progressive
e,tchre party. has bethought herself Of
the croupy contingent In the crib and
secretly longed to hike It back homo and
grease the rafting crowd with her treas
ured cake Of mutton suet. 5
But the good wo,ndn was game. While
! wasted my lifenway taking off ind put
ting on my clothes, sho patiently await
cd the moment when would squeal and
beg for reunion with my bcwitchlng
astrnglio. Indeed sho was even unchari-
tsblo enough to intimate that my tall
ents" were not getting us much rccognl-
ton as sho had expected.
But 1t was the bills, bills, bills that
finally drove her to remorse and made
her confess that homo was good enough
for her. even though she never saw her
inamo III tho society column OF tho pa
per-
YES. dear she remarked confidently
after VIC had both sworn off, 4 would
ira Their catch those mice that are eating
my cheese In the pantry than win all the
prizes that oil the women on earth offer
q, their plague -take-it euchre PARTIES
"And for my part" said I. II would
jra ther read United States Government
report on caterpIlarss than be the heavy
weight finch champion Of the world.
Moreover, shall always have n contempt
fol society as long as 1t compels people
at supper to stand up and be pleasant
and witty. while they are holding plate
o.. turkey salad in one hand and cup
OF chocolate in the other, and wishing to
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Up at our house the crop OF New Years
"irresolutons" Is astoundingly short, ana
barring a determination to cut down eX-
penses 20 per cent.--n move necesstated
BY an increase in the nursery and de-
crease In our annuity-we show not the
slightest inclination to reform. ana so,
] II our neighbors note any change IN our
mode OF life, they must not suppose that
we have been morally Numbered. 1t SIM
ply means that we are reversing cuffs
as It were, and trying to make celluloid
suffice where once we desported ourselves
IN four-ply linen. To be pious. or even
to want to be pious, one must be prosper
GUS. O.e never gets truly grateful for
adversely until his own series of hard
knocks Is over and he sees the fellow
across the street getting thumped AS
the immortal bard OF Avon has said
Sweet are the uses OF adversely when ad-
versity Is viewed through u telescope or
Interviewed over the long distance tele-
phone
-@ on the other hand. prosperity softens
all the human emotions like soap softens
dirt or spirits of turpent!ne .-softens til
cold and naughty lump Of putty. my
self have known people who when sud-
denly enriched, would give away to the
poor things for which they-thc rich
could have no further need.
But all this Is quite aside from Nnr@
Years 'lrresolutions and merely men
toned to show why we shan't even make
q bluff at trying to be better. 1t does not
mean, however, that VIC haven't profit
by experience In the past twelve months.
Indeed, there has never before been
period In our lives when we paid such
fancy prices for experience or laid up
such goodly supplies Of that useful but
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XIV

A prominent minister at Philadelphia
has been recently speaking some strong
words to the cultivated classes, as 10
the necessity Of young women being so
educated that they shall be "a helpnect
10 trelr husbands instead Of n help-eat.'
The idea thus crudely pu, before us
+ embodies, however, very serious prob
lein--as 10 whether or not girl should
be taught to be seli-support!ng before
marriage
think that the whole question needs
to he dealt with from two stanGpoiuts:
first. the necessity of learning some use
full occupation on the part OF the woman.
and secondly. how far any woman Is
Justified in entering on calling or a
trade who does moi absolutely need It in
Greer to BE- self-suppoTt!ng.
am strongly of opinion that women
need TO be taught their business, We
have heard win persistent reiteratlon
that home Is a woman's place. be-
Iieye 1t with all my heart; but the
business of the home Is the last thing
z flat fhe Is usually taught,
Us What does II lnyolvei
First, some sort OF knowledge of com
nercial life the power OF buying and
IL selling. of Keeping accurate and orderly
accounts, OF understanding how to gov
sEp and super.ntend Servants ana such
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Of angry smoke; furious effort to say
something cnustic).
Nov don't consider me disngreeable"---
this after all she had said. too--"you Know
that am warning for your own welfare
Unless we 60 Into society and mix with
People and show them your talents. you'lll
never prosper, aF IN
Tactful allusion to talents marvel
lously soothing. but not wishing TO re-
veal this the victim resolves to say some
thing cynical and remarks: &,
Cromwell charge thee. fling away
ambition; by that sin fell the angels.
Eyes, but you're no angel" retorts the
pestiferousS dame, who follows UP the point
She has gained by decreeing my Snbso-
lutte divorce from the precious serngllo
OF books, pipes, minerals, curlos ana TO-
bacco Jars In my dirt begrimed den.
/, And thus It came about that shambled
out of my class, or rather was dragged
out by the eHterprising Eorgon described
Socially speaking, Twas literally nude
when made my debut at the finch par
ties, pink tens, solrees and other "func-
tlcns" into which we butted Never be-
fore did any bud enter society with such
a limited number Of metaphoricul hg-
leaves First there was the Tuxedo TO
be bought--.thl,e. locked nag q gao
rags" Then we discovered thut one
never needs d a Tuxedo except when he
ihusn't gotyit---that the tapping spiketailedi
coat Is the thing. But on acquiring the
second sino qua non of social parapher-
MALTA, the gorgon and myself learnt that
ftrere comes n tide in the affairs Of men
when neither q Tuxedo nor a spike tall
viii do--a time when the masculine form
might as well no cold in death as not en-
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Emperor Williams recent illness has
attracted the attention of the whole
world to the Crown Prince of Germany.
The German people are the best dis
ciplined in tho world, and beyond ques-
ton maintain the best discipline in the
home the army, the navy, the church and
the State OF any other nation on the
globe.
Domestic discipline lies at the bottom
OF the permanent welfare of all nations.
and hence we see in Germany, where IT
Il the best. marked stability in every
thing that affects the interests OF the peo-
pie.
The crowded heads of Germany have
from tine lmmemorial prepared the heir
apparent by the most rigid training for
the predestined positions they were TO
fill. Emperor william himself proving the
wisdom that had been exercised In fitting
linn for the crown that rested upon his
lead when he was very young.
His strenuous life and indefatlGahle en-
e:sy is but the ou;growth of the severe
discipline given him In his youth by his
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Having learned how to use the feet,
hands and body, viii now explain how
Hcme of the blowa used in boxing are
rtruck.
You haye mot forgotten that the feet
must be.hek. apart, with the left leg be-
fore the right and the left knee bent q
little. Also that the weight of the body
rests on the right leg. You remember
what told you about keeping the mus
cles free and easy. and not held stittly
All this Is important in striking blow
1t is not only the hand and arm that arc
Used In striking; the legs, body and
shoulders also come into play. There
arm working like the plston-rod OF an
engine. In story-books the nero always
knocks down the villain with a blow
'straight from the shoulder
That is all changed now, A blow to
have force must have the send OF the
legs and the swing OF the body with It..
A straight blow has not the telling force
OF swing. This Is because the swing
has all the weight OF the body behind it.
A Simple Blow.
An important blow Is the straight left
lead for the face 1t is Il simple blow
and easily landed. But 1t Is not one OF
the hard raps In boxing.
TO deliver a straight left lead watch
your chance when the other has his
guard low. Step In qulclly, Swing the
left shoulder forward from the hip, al
the game time sending the arm out in a
straight line, AS the arm goes out shut
the fist. Keep the palm OF the hand
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WOMAN AS THE HELPMATE OF MAN. -
LADY HENRY SOMERSET.
:. BY i.


quicker than they do a business man,
She puts her whole soul into her work
with greater cagerness, expends more OF
her vital force. gives herself to whatever
she undertakes, and consequently out-
wears herself more easily
at the same time strongly deprecate
tho idea that woman who has been
trained to business (und by trained"
near who has had all the discipline that
u really sound education In any phase
Of lfe must brlng) Is in any way o.
fitted for domestic life.
Such an education would only tend to
make her understand more readily her
husbands difficulties, perplexltles, ankle
ties. The trouble Is that most men can
neync talk with perfect equality to their
wives. In France, where the woman
shares, more than In any other country
her husbands pursuits, Mere Is more
spirit OF camaraderie that IN any other
nation, and believe that thy 'e Is nothing
that so maintains that tnterdependenca
which is necessary for human happiness
as u knowledge that each can bring an
equol intellect, an evenly balanced mind
!ppd Il perfect understanding Of the afr
fairs Of tho other, for only thus Gan
life be equally divided between heads ana
hearts that are OF equal worth &,
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= !, lin 4. crayats With their Tuxe-

white or black cravats With the' y l'&e :
dos h,
"Got your nose In book as usual.
uuoth the Queen Bee, ns she ouSzeu
around me. ''antl what's more, III bet that
4 II you learned 1t BY heart your intorma,
ton wouldn't 80 much as yield you the
price Of postage stamp
n (Grunt from the student of paleontologyl.
Eyes, and the worst part about IL al
"a TINT, even after that book IS llnlsheo'
you,ye rot a cart load moro on the same
5unpronounceablo subject awaiting your
attention. o! for q man who can pue
down carpets and do the ma ar m
sjend Of being sphinxliko literary ge-
rims, with the conversational powers OF an
oyster. .3
& n,sonnroy,ng Er,1nt and eruption Of to-
bacco smoke from innocent victim OF
attack. 3s aa
"or il not a domestic saint, at least q
soclahle animal who shows some inter-
est In every day affairs or nan1fests semi
annual willingness to put on st I .[',l
white Shirt N.Y.. !4Ssrit3t 5;,S
(Grc1,, q. agony and sacrlflcial- ia np
look from target OF feminine oosisS
also signs OF irritationo Is .., sas.l \, &.
Eyes, It's always Il grunt and q groan
md a further lapse into Inertia, while
oobwebs grow on your oAce fair name
md the, very friends Of your boyhood for
get that you ever lived. You're q back
number without even having the virtue
Of being rare edition. Up, venerable
mossbacl1, up: quicken into life, o. an
cient mummy; away from your geologi-
cal prison. dear fossil or even the CITY
directory will ignore YOU. &.
(Staccato in grunts and groans; volumes
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go with their wants, their difficulties or
their problems
She knows how to DO q mother ana
how to be a wife. because she has been
at the pains to master science. for al
knowledge Is acquired.
Again, on the other hand, l feel mat
II is or nestimube advantage TO many
sirls to have tho possibility OF turning
to some distinct business OCCUPATION. the
business woman Is none the less a
woman because she Is In business. and
there is, think, nothing more honorable
than the woman who boldly goes out,
perhaps through the pressure OF cltcntlt
stances leaves her surroundings, because
necessity prompts her to do SO. ana
makes her way In some Anunclal uh-
dertaking,
Again and agalnfI have known In
stances of men who have failed ~
business, who have had homes OF ease
and comfort whose wives have never
finched wher 1t has been necessary lot
them to take their bread winning weapon
into their little hands and have opened
shops In tho most fashionable thorough
fares, have not been ashamed TO serve
behind their own counters and 70 SCI!
to the frIends who they have often me.
In tho equality OF ocial intercouT re- anu
tor such ! have not thing but AdInlf ~ o.