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never peevishly clamoring TO so nome,
never upset by frivolous young laugh
ter and never neglectful.
To her own daughters or 10 her
friends daughters such a genial,
thoughtful chaperon is an invaluable
ally. In a social predicament the young
lady in her charge never comes to her
for helpful advice She can accompany
young woman TO a bail and almost
insure her a happy time. because, inn
bued with the due sense of the respOn-
sibilities of her positioN, she knows how
and where to find the most desirable
introductions FOR her protege. Alert
and thoughtful. she has not only the
guardianship, but the justifiable pleas
ures of her charge always at heart and
she takes no small amount of pains to
see that the girl is never q wallhower.
Such a matronizer as this neecs not
to be told that a girl can be gay. at the
same time the embodiment of sweet
dignity and all the more admired for
her aggressive seIf-respect- She is well
aware that the hoydenish athletic
maiden, who is a hale fellow well met
with any and every young man on the
hotel piazza, is not the masculine ideal
of feminine charm.
She is therefore the friend at court
of any damsel. for she instiiIs such
wise precepts and practices into the
UllnuS Ol ntE charges WITHOUT LEOMlS
and preachments. She does not permit
her daughters to address newly made
masculine acquaintance as Bob. and
Jimmie, neither does she allow Mr..
Brown and Mr.. Jones 20 gaily hail her
girls as JEANNE and Sally. She does
not sit on the gOssips' end Of the piazza
whispering criticisms of the behavior
of Miss Blank. as many so-called dot
ing mothers do when all the while their
! own fair girls are down upon the beach
in their bathing suits rOmping like lit
I tie children and rubbing sand into the
hair of the jolly young fellow who ar
rived at the Point only the night be-
fore. Her confidence IN the women Of
/ the younger generation is not lacking
nor misplaced, because she gives them
both her advice and her companionship.
/ But her belief is strong. nevertheless.
/ that an agreeable chaperOn is. for any
/ young people, the most Indispensable
OF social institutions and that she can
and should exert q beautiful. -efficacious
and dignifying influence from which so
ciety at large can draw an infinite
profit
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ciety Of Self-Culture. All rights re-
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sort, Mrs. Pedagog," said the Idiot.
AS the story comes TO me-. Mrs. Kutzi-
Kutzi packed the generals kit for him
before he set out for the front, and it
is believed that, in the excitement of
the moment and her naturally
nervous condition over the prospective
perils Of her husband she placed the
cut-out pattern in with the official pa
pers he was taking along with him.
while he. suppOsing that everything
was all right. took il for granted that
it was the thing he wanted when he
tried TO find his way through hith-
ertO unknown country. I haven't seen
a bazar cut-Out pattern since 1 was
a small boy. but I remember that in
their general appearance, lacking only
the printed names Of places, they We're
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infallible guides. much OF the time their
companions and always their friends.
From the lips OF the old-fashiOned
mother fell words of advice, restraint
and wisdom. and I am bound TO say
that the daughter was. as the rule, hap
pier. the more graceful and the more
truly intelligent and charming in con-
sequence
But the day Of the active chaperOn is
over; she is considered a cumberer of
the drawing room, a nuisance at dances.
a bore at picnic and a non essential
at the theatre. She has become a fig
urehead chiefly conspicuous by her alb
sence. and an because she herself has
drifted into the lazy and Unwise con-
clusiOn that our young people don
need the matTonizing influence any
LONGER.
Very unwise conclusion indeed. be-
cause the chaperon must and viii al
ways typify dignity in society and TO
young people, and. since the elimination
of the old-fashioned and semi-omni-
present mOtherly duenna from nearly
al but the most formal social gather
ings. our girls have lost not q little OF
their resolve and that repose that
marks the cast OF the finest type of the
highly bred American daughter.
] shall here point my moral and adorn
my tale with an incident. 1t is not
unique. incidents Of the same sort are
happening all over the country. but
this one is particularly illustrative and
il is just taken at randomfrom at least
dozen that came under my notice
when I stopped last summer at a very
famous and crowded seaside resort.
Under the roof of my hotel We're gath
cred many charming girls and some
equally nice young men, and gayest
! among them was Miss Nellie of the
nut-brown curls.
Miss Nellie wore enchanting little
white duck frochs on the beach and be
witChingly becoming beribboned organ
dies at the hotel balls. and she was sup
posed TO be i'm the care OF the mother
Of a young girl friend. This mother I
observed. along with almost all the 9th
or hote mothers, left her daughter and
Miss Nellie 10 their own young devices
Comfortably and selhshly she spent her
/ days on the shady end OF the piazza
immersed in gossip end wool work, and
serenely oblivious to and ignorant OF
the goings and cOmings. the friends and
the frolics. OF her two lovely and love
able charges.
Along with the majority OF the mat
rons. Miss Nellie's sC-called chaperor
elected as a rule 20 wander bedroom
wards at 10 O'Clock, leaving Miss Nellie
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and her daughter TO seek their pillows
at whatever hour they pleased, because,
as she was in the habit of remarking,
she knew that the girls could take care
of themselves.
And they did to the best of their
youthful and unguided ability and all
went for a time as meTrily as a mar
riage bell Miss Nellie and her friend
sailed on the bay and sat late on the
rocks. had divers hirtations of more or
less intensity with the young fellows
about the hotel, and did as they saw
the other quite unchapsroned girls do
ing-and then suddenly one day an ugly
episode took place.
Police officers came down from New
York and arrested a young man with
whom Miss Nellie had danced ten times
at the hop on the preceding night. with
whom she had sat till midnight the
week before on the rocks, with whom
she had daily ana intimately sailed.
fished. rOmped and driven and to
whom, oh. sad to say, she had given a
curl finer nut-brown hair.
Now, this favored young man proved
to be an impostOT of impossible ante
cedents, possessing a deplOrable past,
and his future is now consecrated to
compulsory labor behind stone walls.
Miss Nellie left the notes The same day
with a white little face, tragic looking
eyes and a little burr OF scandal stick
ing to her sgirts.
The moral OF this incident is not OBJ
scure. recommend it to the considera-
tion Of mothers who don't think the
chaperOnage Of their sweet young
daughters so very essential. Miss Mel
lie was not to blame. say !. If the
friends mother had been up and doing
daily a chaperon's full duty that sweet.
good. pretty and neglected girl would
have gone home as smiling as when she
appeared at the hotel. The friend s
mother could easily have seen to it. had
she been conscious of her responsible
ties. that Miss Nellie had all the liber-
" and ali the good times she needed.
yet in perfectly safe. dignified and
agreeable fashion. and the painful cpl
sode would never have darkened her
holiday and cast a tiny shadow on her
fair young name
The duenna who knows her business
can DO a vast deal 10 render her charge
happy as well as secure. That is the
moral side 10 the question, but / can
assure any mother who would like 70
argue the question with me that there
is the purely material side also. and
that has to do with manners.
! In her official capacity the ch2peron
has a large influence upon manners
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Her attitude tells for good or for evil
and if she is woman who realizes the
Importance of example, she may make
society and the young people about her
the more graceful and agreeable for
her presence.
The very best chaperon-in fact. the
ideal matroniZer-is a person of prime
Importance; one whose worthy aim and
mission in society is to render herself
agreeable to the younger set. But in
order to make herself liked she need
not, as most so-called duennas seem to
believe it necessary, make herself
scarce"
The correct type of chaperon is a lady
who is always ardently welcomed by
the young people Of both sexes, is al
ways as kind as she is firm. and as
sweet tempered as she is far-seeing.
If you are impressed with the necessity
of performing the task Of chaperOn
don't let your zeal for severity resolve
you into a social dragon. Obviously,
there is no need for preaching and
threatening and trying to restore the
old reign of prunes, prisms and prUdery
we do not wish and do not need such
Il regime as that in this country of
sound. wholesome young folk.
To WELD an influence in the duenna' s
roe you must have really kind heart.
a profound knowledge Of the laws of
etiquette. and patience with young peo-
pie. You must be affable and dignified.
for. bear in mind if you can, that your
authority rests on the reverence that
the younger element feel for your SUI
perior knowledge, your self-respect and
your unfailing good humor.
] have known the ideal chaperon.
] I know her. now. She is a gray-haired
, lady with a couple OF pretty daughters
IN society. whose young friends are her
friends, too. She knows how TO come
into the parlor where her daughters are
entertaining their beauX without cast
/ ing a shadow by her presence
! Young men just out of college are
! fattered TO claim the honor Of her ac-
+ quaintance. She has a kind. smiling
: way with her, she knows how 10 talk
( 10 them of their law studies. athletics,
/ ETC. and in spite OF her fifty years,
/ she also knows how TO inspire their
| confidence and listen To their converse
/ ton. She conducts no system OF espi-
onage, but she is perfectly well aware
/ who the young men are that her daugh-
( tiers meet and who their parents are.
! AT the balls she sits smiling. patient,
and Observant against the wall watch
/ ing her girls dance. holding their wraps
1 ard looking out new and agreeable
partners for them She is never tired
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BY John
kendriCk Bangs

II hadn't heard" began the domi-
ME.
DO you know. that's one thing
ike about the Japs," interrupted the
Idiot, growing enthusiastic over his
subject. Their daring is the equal
of that Of the French NIusketeer OF
fiction. and their sense Of humor-Why,
it's beautiful. The idea Of including
in the cars ransom a set of Tolstoi-
by the way, I forgot TO say these books
are for the Carnegie library at Toxic
the idea of doing that strikes me az
bully good fun. And then in this To-
Matzu eXplOit-crossing the Yalu in a
storm and stealing all the Russian
generals provisions. and then leaving
for him a note thanking General Pop
off for his pOpoVers.' That, to me, was
delicious. OF course, the thing lacks
the dignity of Washington crossing the
Delaware, and nobody viii ever paint
a picture Of TO-Matzu-K -Tschup
crossing the Yalu, put somehow or
other it makes you think of these fell
lows as brothers, human beings Ike
ourselves. and that brings US pretty
close to the 'front.'
It's an awful thing. is war" said
( Mr.. WhitechOker: land I've always
stood by old Hosea Biglow's dictuns
| 'Ez for war, I call il murder
That's all right" said the Idiot.
| But sometimes, you know. when a
| people won't do their duty in the mat
/ ter of race suicide, war becomes neces-
! sary, and If I have two quarrelinG
neighbOrs whose differences involve the
! peace of my family, somehow or other
I take an unhOly joy when things come
/ to a climax and each tries TO give the
| other the licking he deserves. By the
way. that was great act of Hays.
/ wasn't it. inviting the mikadO and the
! car to take tea with the powers. pro
/ vided they'd promise not to mash any
| China Say, Mr. Poet, that man has
a sense of humor, hasn't hep
J "WeN,' said Mrs. PedagOg, Il wish
| the war was over. ] hate it."
over" cried the Idiot why, it
/ hasn't begun. They're waiting.
Waiting? What for? What are
these fights we hear OF daily?' asked
the doctor
Merely practice bouts. They're both
/ tuning up. Getting in shape for the
! real fight said the Idiot.
But what are they waiting for?'
| demanded Mr.. Brief.
/ ''Davis-Richard Harding Davis"
! said the Idiot. HE has contract
with all the powers requiring that no
! hOstiities shall actually begin until he
/ has arrived. Unfortunately he has
been detained by the rehearsals of his
new play for Willie Collier. Now that
these ara over
/ "Well2' said the Poet.
The war may begin in earnest - re-
piled the Idiot
An hour later the Poet, meeting the
idiot in the vestibuIe, observed,
I say, old man, that war news OF
yours was great. Where did You get
ito"
oh" laughed the Idiot when
there's a war ON I write my own news
from the front It's quite as reliable
as any, and you dent have 10 contra
dict it publicly the next morning"
BY the way, Mr.. Idiot" the Poet
added. how do you pronounce Man
e-h-u-r-i-a. Man-tchu-ria, or Man-bu-
ria?"
Neither" replied the Idiot Fact
is. Mr.. Poet, there are some men I
never speak of. The Man you men
toni forget his last name-is one Of
them"
Copyright, 1905. by K. H. Holmes.
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AGREEABLE
CHAPERON

7 HERE is a very precious and happy
faculty 10 be displayed in eXercis-
ing the graceful, needful authority
Of q chaperon. She who exerts this au-
thority 70 advantage knows more than
little of the art of being agreeable.
Every daughters mother should very
clearly understand the role and the way
10 play it.
II she is not able to realize the part /
am more than willing TO undertake the
not at all unwelCome or unnecessary
task OF showing her how 10 assume the
character. because L am an ardent be-
lever in chaperonage and because l
also hold that its precepts and duties.
cares and obligations. rightly fulfilled.
add infinitely 10 the wholesome charm
OF polite society
Further than this 7 consider that &c
is a sacred responsibility for every ma
tTOu to know how to act as chaperOu
on any and every occasion This is a
social accomplishment that no rightly
ambitious woman can overlook and II
she does overlook ii there viii sooner
or later come a time when she viii have
grave reason 10 regret this flaw in her
social education.
am not. ! hope. an old fogy. but I
am. nevertheless. POSITIVELY convinced
that wise and firm. mild and discreet
duennas are wanted but at present
there is a depl0rable lack Of good and
gifted ones. and this mistake I unhes-
itatingly lay at the door OF the up-tO-
date mothers. The reason for the mad
eQuate supply OF graceful authoritative
chaperons is not far TO seek. Nine
tenths OF the matrons whose acquaint-
ance I enjoy fail TO perceive that the Of
fee Of chsperOn is ancient and honor
oble. and most essential. and in conse-
quence they shirk its powers and privi-
leges and no longer dispense its bless
ings.
Its blessings. ] would like to have
them know, are many and varied They
ought 10 descend from mother O.
daughter. and thus into very general
society. and make for sweetness and
solidity. for comfort and dignity
therein.
Now, in the good old days when there
We're chapsrons who had a pride I'M
their positions. and who attended strict
~ 10 business. young ladies did not
find IL necessary to write 10 newspaper
editors and etiquette columns for III
formation on delicate points of socia
conduct. Those questions were settled
FOR them ia their homes and in confer
ence with no less Improbable author
flies than their mothers. who. I'm socia
as well as domestic circles, were then
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man leave il in a pail in the morning
when he brings the cold cream. Mary.
please pass me the fine sugar. l want
To sweeten this maple syrup
That was a very daring achieve
ment." said Mr.. Whitechoker. Indeed
il seems hardly credible Such things
often happen in fiction but rarely in
real life"
general mistaking a bazaar cut-Out pat
tern for a road map of Siberia is quite
as interesting" put in Mrs. Pedagog.
II wonder how on earth he ever came
TO do such a thing. Tt was such an
extraordinary kind Of mistake for a
military man to make. Where did he
get it?'
The details are Of the most meager
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Bing harbor last night, under cover Of
darkness, and sunk seventeen Russian
battleships, five cruisers, sixteen tor
pedo boats and the dinkey of Admiral
SmartaIilSien it made Deweys little
Spanish omelette at Manila look like
a shirred egg. If they hadn't made a
mistake in the dark and pinked Bob
Evans Flagship on the bOwsprit with
? siXteen-pOunder. there'd have been
nothing but glory in the victory
why I didn't see anything in the
papers about that said the BibliO-
maniac
Didn't you, Mr.. Bib" returned the
Idiot. well, maybe you don't read
your newspaper as carefully as you do
you books. Some people merely glance
over the headlines anyhow and think
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INA. Peru.-It was evening In old
Lima The wind was very low.
and flaming banners of red were
waving in the west. Along all sides OF
the square the porters were busy put
ting up their wooden shutters for the
night. Lights were beginning to flare
in the cafes as darkenlng shadows fell
over the old. old city. II was a TT
hour 10 hear the stories that good old
Father Francisco told me of this an
cient stronghold Of the Catholic
church He told Of Pizarro. the iron
hearted conqueror, whom the old
llft to perish by an unknown mother,
and who would have starved had he
not been nursed by a SOW. Pizarro be-
came founding of the church. and
although in after years It had cause TO
blush for his vandsl acts. he was a
valiant soldier I'm the cause Of God and
king, and even though he caused riveJs
Of blood to flow through the fair val
leys Of Peru, he put cross on every
hill.
The Sign Of the Cross.
when his time came to die" said
my venerable narrator his assassins
dealt him the death blow as he knelt
10 make the sign of the cross IN his
own blood. IT was his last act, and
very fitting. for his way up and down
the world was marked by much car
mage. IL is told OF him that he could
not read or write, and that his muir
Ger of Atahaullpa, the Inca chiefta IN
d
greatly deplore-was caused by an in
cident exposing that fact. The writ
ten accounts relate that PizarrO had
agreed TO give the Inca ruler his lib
erty If his subjects filled the room i'm
which ne was confined with treasure
10 the height Of a mark made on the
wall This mark WAS as high as the
noble prisoner could reach with his
finger tips while he stood on tiDtOe.
The treasure was I'm the form of plates
of sold and silver brought from the
temples of the barbarians. During the
time II required for the riches to be
brought. the royal captive amused
himself by learning words of the Ian
Suage Of his keepers. He had one Of
them scratch the name Of God on one
OF his finger nails. and il pleased him
much 10 see that the lowliest of the
conqueror's followers recognized the
letters arranged in such a novel
place"
Pizarro Could Not Read.
"One day when Pizarro' called upon
the royal captive. the latter held out
his hand that his visitor might see.
but PiZarro could not read and did not
understand. When the prisoner discov-
cred that his captOr's menials were
less ignorant than their master. the
thought amused him and he laughed.
Pizarro's pride was hurt. and although
the room was eventually filed with
gold nearly'up TO the mark on the wall.
he broke his word. and killed the
lordly Inca i'm cold blood. This foolish
oct of vengeance VIII ever be q stain
upon the honor of the arms of Spain.
Stronghold OF the Church
But even ihOush the conqueror's
cruel deeds left much to regret. his
ValOr won for Spain great domain.
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THE GENIAL IDIOT

they know all the news of the day
That's a great mistake. You might as
well claim 70 have enjoyed the full
flavor of butternut from having
merely glanced into its plush OvercOat.
But that was famous exploit for the
Sinkem- Yam, and if Lieutenant Pinly-
Pc, who was in command of her, is
not made an admiral before the war
is over it IN be because the miSadO
IS a man utterly devoid of appreci-
alton
The Idiot paused a moment.
That was great business. wasn't it,
Mr.. Whitechol1er, how that detachment
from TO-Matzu-Ka-Tchup forces
crossed the YaIu river and ran off with
all of General POpof's rations," the
Idiot resumed.
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cathedral, and the first sacrament ad-
ministered were all performed by the
Dominican friars- As a souvenir Of the
first administration OF the sacraments
the members OF this order still retain
the first baptismal font. In those times
the friars lived in reed huts and
begged their food from door to door.
Hundreds of Masses Daily.
yes. 7 can tell you how many
masses are said IN Lima every day. /
have it in a little book here. / know
il is more than q hundred every day,
but I have forgotten exactly Can you
make it out by the light of the lamp
back OF yOu7 You say it is S9.607 in a
year? Well. that is considerably more
than hundred day, isn't it2 I know
that about 10000 of these masses are
paid for by the various brotherhOOds.
Another point you might jOt down in
your book, my son. is that we celebrate
in our churches 459 festivals every year.
which is considerably more than one
every day"
Fortunes in Furnishings.
'T heard a statement the other day
which will give some idea of the for
mer great wealth Of some of the broth
erhoods. When the decree was made
by the government that all the prop
eFlN OF the VARIOUS DIONAeinoouS SuOuiN
be managed by the board of relief of
the poor. the extracts from the in
ventOry of one altar showed that the
Weight of its silver service was $500
pounds. The heaviest piece was a kind
Of hand barrow for carrying the relics
Of saints. This, together with twelve
lNamps. comprised about half of the to
tai weight. although the front of the
altar. and the Virgins throne were
each embellished with several hundred
pounds of the precious metal. My in
formant said the semOnstrance con-
tanned more than a thousand diamonds.
as we'll as a Large number OF other
valuable stones, topazes and pearls.
I have forgotten the number of the
latter as we'll as the total value of the
Whole. but It was a sum princely
| enough to ransom king. 1 can assure
you that.
Besides the intrinsic value of the
1 furnishings of the Old churches here,
| the workmanship on the decorations,
| inside and out. represents a quantity
calculate. Take the wonderful carving
/ on the front of the church of la Mer-
| ced, for example. Where in the world
can we find the wor<men to duplicate
4 the carving on that stately old edifice
! It's splendid tower riddled with the
! bullets of many revolutions. and
/ crumbIing with the decay of the CEN
! turtles that are pressing hard upon it,
/ cannot be replaced when once it falls
/ over at St Augustine's. in n nearby
/ street. they are repairing the church
| The other morning when 1 was there
they were taking up the floor and cart
ing away the bones of monks buried
| there hundreds of years ago. The new
| structure VIII be very fine, but II vii
be far different from the old one.
st. Rose Of Lima
NO mention of the glory Of tht
| church in Lima would DE complete
without the telling Of the story of St
Rose of Lima. The wonderful history
of the life OF this holy daughter o
Peru has few equals in sacred htera
ture. She was Americas first saint anC
was the daugllser Of hon0ra bic parents
Her baptismal name was Isabella, bU