The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-19
Of bitterness, as he views caste in
America, has been brimmed over by his
own daughter.

Psychologists, metaphiysicians, neu-
| rologists and all the others who deal In
nerves and their visible expression in
/ the human organism, may scott as
/ they like as to the fitness of woman
| in these lines of research, but when
| they come down to the concrete, as in
chemistry, every hat must be DOTTED to
Nine. Curie. Just think of that little
woman-for she is Of the petite type
being the actual pioneer-ahead of
her own clever husband, in sfact-in
I the discovery Of radium.
! That is now news, to be sure, but it
| is news to learn that this marvellous
woman chemist is now on the eve of
| producing newer and stronger ele-
ment, alongside of which radium, even
at millions a pound, will be common
| place. She has not yet named it, nor
| indicated its source or the cost of it's
production, but, she says, and with no
] little pride, that within a few months
| she will place before the world a sub
| stance whose youth-restoring powers
will be even more wonderful than the
| therapeutic powers of radium.
| Hasten the day, Nine. Curie Your
fame as a chemist and the creator Of
| radio activity will be as the suffering
| fame Of a tupenny dip compared with
a 10,000-candle power arc lamp, if you
| can bring back to advanced spinster-
hood the sprightliness and sparkle of
| the maid.
| All London is interestedei in the wife
| Of the Japanese ambassador to Great
Britain. She Is the typical Japanese
| mother-gentle, affectiDnate, enduring
| and loyal, but like all other mothers in
| Japan, regardless of caste, she appears
| her life and the life of every male child
| belongs to the government The Vis-
| countess Hayashi has onei;son. He is
not a soldier, and has spent most of his
| twenty five years Of life in England
| but If the call reached him tomorrow
| he would abandon all he 5has and all
| he expects to have to respond to it, To
| the American wife and neither the de-
| votion Of the women of Japan to their
country is almost terrifying. Their
prayers are for male children and the
| birth of a son Is made the1occasion of
| great rejoicing, and oh the ninth day
after the boy is born he solemnly is
| dedicated to the service Of the emperor.
| A mother who did not urge her son to
| war in these times Of war would be
disgraced In the eyes Of her friends.
| "Gird on your sword" is her admonf-
| ton, land go forth to meet the enemy
Of your emperor. Return to me vfctori-
/ Gus or do not return at ALL" Is 1t any
wonder that with such a spirit instflled
in the sons Of Japan by their mothers
the white Goliath of the North is being
beaten back by the brown skinned Da-
/ vid?
| Woman's equality with. man ever has
been held by Susan B. Anthony as a
mental and not a physical equality.
T The dear old lady made that clear in
discussing the subject Of female suf-
frage with some of the advanced sisters
4 who insisted that woman not only was
mans equal intellectually but in physi-
| cal endurance, and his superior in
withstanding physical pain. The mem
bers of girls gymnasium had the sub
/ ject under discussion yesterday, and a
big, broad4hippeda creature, who Just
had finished a fencing bout, snapped
her fingers disdainful1y when one of the
more demure members Of the class ex-
pressed the opinion that, hard manual
I tasks or arnusements belonged to men
and to men only. .Tusfi!" exclaimed
! the big girl, rolling up her sleeves and
/ uncovering forearm or which any
athlete would be proud, "I can row with
| them, fence with them, or do any sort
| of work with them, and can go longer
| without sleep, and look less like a
| wreck than any man I ever saw. There
is no work performed by any iaborer
that cannot be performed by a woman,
| If she be trained properly" No one
| dared speak for a moment. Then the
| demure girl, who could fence just a
little, remarked quietly: Don't you
think, my dear, 1t would be rather vex-
atious for a woman who wanted to
| have her hair presentable to become a
boiler riveter and lie on the flat Of her
back six or eight hours day, ham
mering over her head with her left
| hand?"
Only those who deserve the cold
! shoulder complain of the chilly de-
meanor of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt
She has been accused of frigid greet
| ings, and even of the cut direct, by
some of her fntimates, but surely no
one who saw her in st. Bartholomew
| church when the welcome was extend
| ed to the Rev. Leighton Parks on Sum
| day could have complained of any cold
ness Of manner. Her smile never was
more friendly. There was no more at
tentive auditor in the church than Mrs
| Vanderbilt, and she appeared to be in
| terested deeply in what DIR. Parks said
| about the need of help for foreign mis-
sions. It was a pleasant surprise for
| those who had heard of Mrs. Wander
bits iciness, and quite setback for
the carpers who asserted that all the
milk of human kindness ever possessed
| by Mrs. Vanderbilt had been frozen.
| One of the nearby worshipers was Mrs.
| Frank J.. Gould, who has become quite
! devout this winter, and is interested in
Biblical history and religious themes
generally.
In Columbus avenue. above Ninety
fourth street, lives a most estimable
| woman, with two grown daughters,
whose loneliness is matter of COM
| mon knowledge in the neighborhood.
| The mothers time, now that she has no
babies to attend to, is taken up princi-
| pally in catering. to the comfort of a
cute little King Charles spaniel, who,
blanketed from nose tip to tail, goes
| out with her every day for walk The
cold February made the. little fellow
! SILVER, even with his warm blanket,
and mamma" discovered when he held
| up one paw after another in most
| pathetic manner and blinked his watery
| little eyes, that he was, afflicted with
| what many poker players, are said to
get when winnings pile up and the hour
is late; so she has made with her own
hands four little bootees.f- They are. Of
| kid sole and flannel uppers and fasten
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