Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1905-12-13

Charles Dana Gibson goes abroad
to live, but the girl he leaves behind
him.
The boy who kills himself smoking
cigarettes is likely to keep on smok-
Ing, reflects the Baltimore Sun.
A woman has fai h that man can
protect her from burglars, but knows
nothing on earth can from mice, OBJ
serves the New York Press.
We don't know what salary White
will receive as boss of all the Rus
sias, remarks the Hartford Times,
but he is pretty Ger ain to earn it.
The first thing that Russia, freed
and constitutional, needs to do is to
pick up its dc.icnary and learn that
liberty doesn't spell license.
A Boston housekeeper explains that
she manages to avoid changing her
servants by simply putting herself in
their place. That scheme should give
her most Of her afternoons and even.
ings of" the Providence Journal OBJ
serves.
The movement to compel women to
wear hats at divine service is spread
ing in New jersey, says the Chicago
lnter-Ocean, and, as el:ewhere, the
women are only concerned, for the
NEST part, in the hats they shall be
compelled to wear.
The president of a West Virginia
university has been burned in effigy
by the students because his rulings
as to the brutality of the game abol.
ished football. Our young barbar.
ians at play" it seems, must not be
interfered with, admonishes the New
York Tribune.
Have you noticed how seldom
nowadays wireless messages are call.
ed Marconigrams?" asked a contemp-
orary. In justice to the young Ital-
ian it should be answered that he has
always dis.iked the idea of calling
wireless messages Marconigrams.
says the Boston Transcript. He him.
self has always called them "air
messages or the equivalent of that
term. Marconi. by the way, is as
modest as he Is clever.
When we speak of the people"
we too often and too exclusively have
In mind the male portion of our citi-
zenship. AYERS the Boston Transcript,
because to them-in this portion OF
the country. at least-is entrusted
all direct dealing with great public is
sues. But a great mistake Is made
when the women are left out of the
reckoning. No great social or politi'
cal reform has ever been achieved
in which their influence could not be
traced and when large ethical ques.
tions are involved they are usually
the first to feel and respond to the
appeal that is made.
The real friends of football are all
united in deploring the brutality and
roughing tactics, il!-feeling and fisti,
cuffs which will unfailingly sound the
knell of what is, in its proper estate
splendid American game. Football
is fast coming to the point where II
must be either totally reformed or
abolished, declares the Richmond
Times Dispatch. Football is too good
a game to lose. but we had far bet
ter lose it than keep 1T in its lat
ter-day developments. Far better
would be the doing away with the
men who are wholly running 1t for
decent sportsmen. An intercollegiate
board should run down every man
guilty of dirty play and rule him per-
manently off the field.
He rescued mere than 100000 chill
dren from vice and degradation, and
he leaves more than 1000 in his
various homes. In those few words
Is told, in brief, the story OF the life
work of DR.. Thomas John Bernardo.
one Of the greatest and truest philan-
thropists, not only of these times, but
of all times, and whose death last
week in London, Eng, has caused
deep sorrow wherever his name is
known. Under the charge OF this
one man was the largest family in
the world, every member of which
looked up to him as father, guide
and friend. He needs no monument
to do him honor, avoices the Balti'
more American, for he left behind
him to bear his name and to tell OF
his good deeds nearly a hundred
homes and hospitals. nurseries and
orphanages, dormitories and lodging
houses, emigration depots and rescue
branches, all of which testify not
only to his success, but to the wide
spread influence for betterment he
exerted on hundreds and thousands
Of children and youth, who, but for
him would be added to the criminal
classes in the slums of great city
A Prosperous Cycle Year.
At the annual meeting of the Eadie
Manufacturing Company, at Birming
ham, the other day, the chairman
1T, .h,+ +ha noct year was the best