Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1904-08-06

the public Is about ready to receive a
polite, proper story. told in good. clean.
correctly spelled English, us a genuine
novelty.
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The minister who felt 1t was his
bounden Christian duty to speak to
the ladies of his congregation In a
inost confidential, heart.to.heart man.
ner concerning their petty faults and
foibles. has now had 1t made clear to
him that he had better be listening
tor call to some other pulpit. "Never
be critical upon the, ladies" was the
maxim of an Irish peer. remarkable
for his homage to the sex. The only
way that a gentleman should look at
the faults of a pretty woman is-with
his eyes shut"
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Three thrones In Europe want boys.
And If the wants aren't supplied there
Will be three dOwncast queen mothers
and rs many irate king fathers. II
1t u bit curious. the perslstency girls
have shown In forcing their society on
the royal households Of Russia and
Italy. though 1t does accord with the
general misunderstanding Of the con-
trariness that Is In human nature. Not
that little girls aren't the incest things
In the wOrld-everyone knows they are
but for dynastic purposes Italy, Rus.
sla and Holland would like boys.
please.
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Hetty Green tn. richest woman In
America, ute lunch the other day In II
Boston restaurant which the gaping
crowds say she apparently enjoyed.
When she presented her check to the
cashier 1t called for eight cents. The
stlngy old thing! Had the check called
for 80. Mrs. Green could have paid II
as easily. though such extravaganza
would doubtless have made her quite
III. II she were to eat lunches that
cost IS every half hour Of the. twenty.
four and every day In the year she
would be unable to spend a twentieth
part OF her income. One naturally asks
why this rich old woman should prac.
tice stlnting. She has more money than
she knows what to do with. One
would think she would desire at least
the comforts Of life. The fact Is the
woman has economical so long 1t Is q
part Of her life. She finds certain
sort Of pleasure In 1t. TO save few
cents Is to her triumph Of manage
ment. But there is lesson In Hetty
Green's eight.cent lunch-a lesson the
American people need. We are likely
to spend SO cents rather than eight. We
are extravagant. We have our thrifty
people, but they are the exception. We
are inclined to blow ourselves. The
prOverbial "rainy day" has been ex
plunged from the average American cal
endar. As a nation Of spenders VIC
may well point moral with Hetty
Green's eight-cent lunch. as well al
adorn tale.
Serious charges are those which ths
president Of Brown University brough.
against college athletics during the
conference Of university presidents at
st. Louis. II they are substantiated
the authorities Of our educa tlOnal In.
stitutiOns ought to unite In drastic &C.
ton designed to check the existing
abuses. even though, In order to do So
1t shall prove necessary to prohibit
intercollegiate athletics altogether. II
has been matter of common belief for
II long time past that the football
teams, baseball mines and rowing
crews of the colleges are made ny
largely. II not wholly, from profession
ais matriculated solely for that pur'
pose, says the Chicago Journal. II
has been more or less positively known
that the intercollegiate exhibitions OF
various athletic sorts are largely, II
not chiefly, money-making enterprises
President Faunce has turned these
suspicious into certainties and has dis
covered In all college athletics shock
ing state of affairs which would JUS
tify their total abolition SO far as inter
collegiate contests are concerned. Ath.
letics is vitality necessary accOmpani.
ment of college training; the sound
body is equally essential with the
sound mind within It. But 1t 10 a mat
ter Of health more than OF winning
victories. The result Of It should be
health and its preservation rather than
the joys Of triumph. When 1t becomes
thing 90 important that the students
are willing to sacrifice their honor al
gentlemen by hiring professionals
under subterfuge 1t IL time to do
away with 1t. Too many young men
60 to college and devote most OF their
attention and energy to sports and
games, and this Is due to the promi'
nence allowed athletics in the cur
ricula. But 1t Is the college authori-
ties WIN ara IN hin mo for this Thav