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The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-29
THE SERIOUS SIDE OF MALE
ATTIRE

A prominent Eastern club is divided
sharply into two hostile camps because
a member dined in his shirt sleeves
and one-half the remaining club MEM
bers desire him expelled The fact that
he dined alone and that there was no
one else in the grill room at the time
Is not regarded by his critics as nit
lgating circumstance. The other day
at matinee given in a fashionable
New York theater a man who sat in a
box wore dinner coat and the news
papers all devoted a paragraph to the
eccentric spectator. Had he been
garbed conventionally he would have
passed unnoticed.
These incidents suggest the serious
side of male attire, but in reality, 1t
has no frivolous side. That which is
not according to Poole, instead Of be-
ing regarded as an evidence of an
amiable weakness, is used to condemn
a man. Feminine fashions change as
feminine fancy dictates, but almost as
unalterable as the laws of the Medes
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-29

$50o,0OO library. But he has not yet
stayed his hand. He has given them
parks and parlxways and constructed
all sorts of public works which the:
good folk of the place would enjoy
nightly if they were not taxed to
death. They are living only in the
hope that Searles will die and leave
them the $90,OOO,O00 he can't spend.
Methuen is not alone among villages
in being the victim of an i1l-advised
philanthropist White elephants are
plenty in this land, and there is many
a struggling town which held itself
lucky in being selected to enjoy the
munificence Of Andrew Carnegie and
others of his kidney that would now
gladly apply the torch to the library it
was so proud of.
1t is too bad that some of the thou
sands of honest hearts and willing
hands unemployed in finance cannot
De utilized to direct the benefactions
of men who have money to burn and
VINO insist ON somebody else providing
the fuel. 1t is really shame to have
Mrs. Chadwick shut up in Jail while
Searles, of Methuen, is going about at
large with roll calculated to choke
the Methuenites to death.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-29
SENTIMENTAL LEGISLATION

: bill has been introduced in the
South Dakota house of representatives
asking that song composed by
young South Dakota musician be made
the state song. The song was referred
to the committee on immigration, pre-
sumably for the reason that immigra-
ton has to do with foreigners and for
eigners are considered to have better
taste in music than native Americans.
An obliging clerk in the house offered
to sing the song to the representatives,
but his offer was hastily declined.
The immigration committee therefore
is now wrestling with it.
1t will probably report favorably
upon it. The state hasn't a song and
apparently no rival musician aspires
to the honor of writing one for it, and
if there is no good reason why it should
be adopted neither is there any good
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-29
AN EMBARRASSMENT OF RICHES

The people of the town of Methuen.
Mass, have been reduced to poverty
because one of the citizens insists on
bestowing million dollar public build
ings on the community. They have
been discussing the advisability of en-
joining their benefactor from running
them, but they dare not in the face of
his promise to enrich the community
by the ultimate bestowaI of the mill
lions he has not now time to spend
Just now they are hoping that the phi
ianthropist will die and make his
promise. effective before thew are
starved to death by excessive taxa
ton.
Methuen is the home of the man who
married Mrs. Mark Hopkins and in.
herlted her vast fortune. The name
of him is Searles. He always lived in
Methuen, and his enthusiastic nrida in
the place promises to be it's undoinp
lie Hves in castle big enough to
mousse comfortably the entire nonnla-
ton, and which he would turn into .
hospital if the natives would let him
He built a million dollar high school
for eighty scholars. and it was neces-
sary to increase the tax rate so per
cent to provide for its maintenance
The people prayed that he would quit
giving them things after he had added
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-29

and the Persians is the law that saws
what man shall wear and what he
shall not wear. Last season a man,
an acknowledged leader in the social
life of the big metropolis, wore at an
evening function a red tie. Instead OF
introducing a new fashion, he almost
lost his leadership. Men, willing to
accept the new cotillon figures he de-
vised, sternly drew the line at his sar-
torial departure.
Whether it is that he eyes with dis
favor the merry dance fashion leads
his womenlzind and is determined to
nave none of it in his, or whether the
question as to how he shall garb him
SELF is SO serious one in his eyes that
he must devote years to debating a
possible change, man alone can say.
And man, unless he happens to be q
tailor, has invariably declined to ex-
press his views on the subject of fash
80 AAA1~'1 VIC LCliilillilC IdSIllOIi.
Knee breeches and silk stockings may
be limited at in fashion papers, flowing
locks may be warmly urged But the
trousered and closely cropped male
pursues the even tenor of his way, re-
fusing even to stop and parley with
those would-be innovators.
His kind suffer because of their very
conservatism. Were individual man
permitted any degree of freedom in the
style of his clothes, shirt sleeved
dinner guest might escape with the
charge of eccentricity merely. But for
many years now men of caste have been
accustomed to dine in their coats. He
VINO ventures to do otherwise shows
himself to be not of that caste. And
the same is true of the unfortunate in
dividual who wore dinner coat at the
matinee. The rest. of his sex, slaves of
fashion, rose up and condemned him
without deigning to entertain the
thought that he might be attempting
to introduce new style.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-29
THE ST PAUL. GLOBE SUNDAY. JANUARY %. leo5

reason why 1t shouldn't be. Most
sentimental legislation in regard to
state flowers and state songs, though
it would probably stump many peo-
pie in many states to name either the
song or the flower Of their state.
OF course if state flowers were in
digenous to all localities of the states
they represent, and if it were the GUS
tom of audiences that gather in the
towns of the state to sing the state
song before they dispersed, it would
be much easier for the busy citizen to
remember both. Minnesota has state
flower and a state song. But if the
school children of the state were. ask
ed tomorrow to write the name of the
first and the opening stanza of the sec
ond, how many would be able to do it?
Perhaps a decent minority as regards
the flower, perhaps not even ten as re-
CARDS the song.
But this, to be sure, is no good ar
gument against the adoption of either.
Undoubtedly the selecting of song
and of state flower causes the legis-
lators, weary of cold, hard facts, to feel
a thrill of state pride. And the people
whom they represent derive pleasure
from the thought that the men who
are making their laws are capable Of
sentiment. All good citizens, there
fore, are the better, temporarily at
least, for the knowledge that the law
has provided them with state flower
and state song. If they promptly
forget the names of both, it is not the
fault of the legislators nor is it proof
in itself that such sentimental legis-
lation is waste of valuable time.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-29

so innocent. with such a singular con-
ception of its duties, so purely simple
minded that it could go out of the way
to revolutionize both law and practice
wherever fancy happened to seize it s?
Is it not clear beyond further argu-
ment that it is not safe to adopt one
section, one line or one word Of this
statute revision work until it has been
examined with a microscope?
The duty of the legislature is now
clear. The people of the state of Min
nesota demand of it the postponement
of action upon the code until it has
been gone over by impartial and COM
petent authority with such minuteness
that no jobs will be left in it. They
demand that the laws of this state, if
changed, shall be changed only after
due deliberation and by competent au-
thority. They demand that no unex-
pected and undesired privileges shall
be granted or rights withdrawn by the
private act of three individuals. They
demand first of all that primary. right
of every free people, the right to know
under what laws they live, and to have
a hand in framing them. On all
grounds it has been clearly desirable
from the beginning that this statute
revision work should be put over until
another legislature. 1t has now be-
come imperative The adoption of a
work whose possibilities for evil are
now revealed in all their magnitude
would be something worse than pub
lie scandal.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-29
A CHICAGO EXPERIMENT

Although he lngenuouSly named 1t
the Daily Mirror, Alfred Harmsworth,
the London editor, was unable to get a
sufficient number of women to look
into his woman's paper to make the
venture pay. In spite of the warming
contained in his failure, however, Chi
cago will try the experiment of editing
newspaper for women, with the
avowed purpose of giving the grow
ing class of women who take an intel
hgent interest in public affairs a brief
daily review of the worlds history,
omitting all that is local, trivial or
scandalous." Sometime within the
month the newspaper is expected to
be on the street, but whether it is to
be hawked in the usual manner by the
newsboys or whether each copy is to
be tied with pale blue ribbon and de-
liyered into the subscribers own fair
hands the prospectus does not state
To the average reader of the daily
newspapers and the current magazines
1t must seem that the editors behind
the project have used their imagina-
ton to discover a field for their ven
ture. If they contemplate daily
magazine, the objection will be raised
that the very. women to whose needs
they desire to cater have not the time
to peruse such newspaper. If they
contemplate publishing an expurgated
account of the happenings in the world
each day in the week, they must have
overlooked the fact that in the average
American city there are to be found
newspapers of. many grades. and the
woman reader has merely to exercise
discrimination to obtain the reading
matter that she approves If their OBJ
Ject is instructive chiefly, they cannot
surely have read the signs of the times
Alright, for these point Enthusiastically
to the fact that the woman of TODAY
has no doubt concerning her intel
lectual equality with man. She would
resent an offering of the worlds news
in pink pellet form.
AS matter of fact the publishers
of the daily newspapers consider wom-
en- quite as much as men in planning.
making up and editing the paper. It
is because they have confidence in this
attitude of the publishers and because
they know that women show their an
probation by reading what is offered
them that the advertisers, who depend
chiefly upon the women readers for
their returns, pay for space in the
papers. The daily paper as it is print
ed today is as much woman's paper
as mans paper. A newspaper pub
lished exclusively for the gentIer sex
will undoubtedly be regarded here as
1T was in London, as a luxury with
which the majority of women can very
well dispense.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-29
Mutations

The chief trouble that we discern in
our philosophic scrutiny of Col. Bryan
is that he is too conservative. But
few years since and Col. Bryan was the
limit Of radicalism and the very ideal
of unrest.
Things have changed wondrously,
even marvelously. But we do not say
that Col. Bryan has changed at ALL
New York Sun.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-29
Elect the Senators

An impetus to the movement for
legislative resolution favoring the pop
ular election of United States senators
ought certainly to result from the un-
fortunate situation presented in the
Missouri legislature. - Mis-
souri, should lead off in general de-
mand of the states for an amendment
to the federal constitution, which would
vest the election of the senators with
the people.--Kansas City Star.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-29

AN ASTOUNDING REVELATION

All the work that 7 he Clio b e
has done and all the cautions that it
has uttered respecting the adoption of
the new code are more than justified
by the amazing discovery that the re-
vision commission attempted in it's
work to confer upon street railway
companies the power of eminent do
main. The evidence is clear and COM
plete. A comparison of old statutes
gives an enumeration of the corpora
tions to which this power is given. 1t
does not include street railway COM
panies. Inthe revised code those COM
panies are included. The revision
commission does not deny the change
in the law, but member of it simply.
and naively remarks that, he thought
these words street railway" "ought to
be there"
Not one other word is needed to
complete the utter condemnation of
the code and it's trainers and all it's
works. Here is new legislation of the
very first rank in Importance, affect
Ing millions of dollars worth of prop
erty and private interests of incalcu-
liable magnitude. 1t is interpolated
into our laws by the act of three men
without public notice, without public
consent, without even the bare sign
post of the word new" put up to call
the attention of the legislator or citi-
zen to the fact. We honestly do not
believe that anything like this has
ever happened before in any civilized
state
If this provision of the code had
gone through, the street railway COM
panies of st. Paul, Minneapolis and
Duluth-the street railways of every
city in the state for that matter, but
these are the places in which the new
rule would have been of greatest i'm
portance-would have had power to
take possession not only of the streets,
but of any private property at their
pleasure under condemnation proceed
ings. They could have run through a
business block or demolished a resi-
dence, they could have done exactly as
they pleased, subject only to an as
sessment for the determined value of
the property taken. The frame of
ind Of
Ought to be done" is unenviable and
almost unimaginable. Still more mar
velous is the frame of mind of the man
who thinks that it should be done
without discussion, without notice.
without public approval; simply by a
few strokes of the pen made in Sc
crecy, to change the whole tenor of
our laws. It is well for the public that
this discovery was made in time.
The moral of the matter, however, is
far greater than this. If a change so mo-
mentousr could be made in one portion
OF the code if these two words could
be injected into it, as they have been,
and escape discovery for weeks after
the code itself was in the hands of the
legislature and of the legal profession.
what undiscovered pitfalls may still
exist within it? How many more such
woodchucks still rest quietly in their
holes waiting to emerge until after the
code shall have become the law of the
stateG What may be expected in other
directions from revision commission
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-29
Gas and Electricitv in Politics

The question of the price of gas and
electricity in New York city has en-
tered into politics, and Tammany and
the Republicans will run it for all it is
worth The Republicans and some of the
Democratic organizations expect to use
1t to draw votes from Tammany. But
Tammany will profess to favor munich
pal control to hold it's votes and draw
strength from the Republicans. If
neither side is in earnest the people
are not likely to derive much benefit
from the controversy. = Binghamton
Republican
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-29
American ShipbuiIdina

If shipbuilding needs encourag cement
the fact will not appear until the arti-
fetal restrictions under which it labors
have been removed. The steel schedule
in the Dingley law is too heavy load
for it just now. Lift that load and see
what happens. Until then there will
be no ship subsidies.-New York Trib-
une.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-29
Contemporary Comment
Reckless Automobilino in New York

Reckless racing and speeding by
automohilistsrin New York city has be-
come SO serious an abuse and menace
to the public safety that District Attor-
ney Jerome threatens to make thor
ough campaign against them. What he
purposes to do about it, Mr.. Jerome
does not say. 1t is a fault of the en-
gaging young district attorney of
Gotham that he is prone to generalize,
start Campaigns" and ''crusades,'' and
do most of his laundering in the index
But that something ought to be done to
abate the excesses of reckless chauf-
feurs the general public will agree
Albany Argus.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-29
AFFECTION IN CHILDREN

AFFECTION IN CHILDREN
Affection in superabundant pro-
portion in the child is sign of fee
bic essmindedness," says medical per-
son who has been commissioned to OBJ
serve the children of the public
schools of New York with a view to
determining what effect the affections
nave ON the intellect. We may assume
that the observer is not impulsively
affectionate, yet in spite Of that we
are inclined to the idea that he or she
is chump.
The medical party declares that the
little boy who falls in love with the
Juvenile bit of femininity who sits
across the aisle from him and upon
whom he bestows such pledges of his
young affections as his resources af-
ford, is backward in his studies in
proportion as he is fervid in his love
affair. But what is there of evidence
of feeble mindedness in that? Tommy
Smith is in love with Sally Jones' $50
firmly is his souls desire set upon Civ
ing pleasure to Sally that he can think
Of nothing else. Perhaps the little
maiden reciprocates the affection she
pretends to spurn. More likely not.
, The maiden takes an early start in
these matters and generally gets
point of view that should commend
her for her strength Of mind to the
analyst who is watching her. But
Tommy's love affair is of a character
to place the limit Of his ambition Just
beyond the spot occupied at the mo-
ment by Sally. He puts without the
pale of the things of which he is cog
infant such denominations as reading,
writing and spelling. In cases where
he is badly hit he even forgets the lure
that fingers in hygiene and foregoes
opportunities to find out from the
study Of physiology why it is that his
heart goes pitapat. He loves Sally
so much that he is willing, almost. to
give her the bigger half of his apple.
and cares not a bit if he is classed
with those units representing the
feeble minded in the statistical re-
ports.
We do not believe that he is feeble
minded. The learned party to the
contrary notwithstanding, we are in
clined to look upon affectionate Tom
my as human and rather a desirable
specimen of man in the making. His
love for Sally is part of the soul ex-
panslon that will make him the better
man by and by.
Let us hope that the statistical
f1end's report will be pigeonholed by
the New York board of education. 1t
is best that lovesick Tommy should
take his lessons in life as early as
possible. His feeble mindedness will
disappear just as soon as he adminis-
eeis q HehluS 10 the boy VINO super
sedes him in the affections of Sally.
And we love him for being loving.
The only good the Investigations of
the alienist will accomplish will be
to direct the attention of the school
authorities to the necessity for leav-
ing the child alone in it's manifesto
tions OF affection. Any attempt to less
en- the number of feeble minded chill
dren who are only classified that way
because they are affectionate should
be repelled with the only argument
likely to appeal to the statistician who
would destroy the bloom of childhood
in the interest of scientifically pre-
else maturity club.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-29
THE PASSING OF THE BATON

The other night in New York city
a foreign gentleman with an unpro-
nounceable name tucked careIessly un-
der his arm the baton that was handed
him and led sixty musicians through
the intricate mazes of a symphony
with the aid Of his hands alone. The
event proved a great musical triumph
for the foreign gentleman, and critics
ascribed his success chiefly to the fact
that orchestral direction is more subtly
effective when given by the hands in
stead of the usual little ivory stick.
The result, Of course, is easy to
prophesy Had the gentleman been an
American he could never have hoped
to introduce a musical departure in
this country. But being imported, like
will undoubtedly be initiated.
1t is not probable that the 1aymen
will object. Not, to be sure, that it
would make the slightest difference
If they did. The average American,
especially the average male American,
sure of s.Bedelia" but of nothing else,
is so well convinced of his barbaric
taste in the matter of music that he is
not apt to raise his voice in protest
against any innovation in the manner
of its presentation. The ways of band
and orchestra conductors are not his
ways. He has found them in the past
amusing, but he will doubtless reflect
that Creatore can tear his hair even
more effectively when not handicapped
by stick, that Sousa deprived of his
must still retain his picturesqueness,
that other leaders can perform their
acrobatic feats without the baton's as
sistance, and will accept it's banish-
ment.
But the conductors themselves must
regret it's passing. It has been in the
past their implement of office, their
symbol of power At it's flourish
naughty prima donnas have stood at
tention" and supercilious tenors have
been brought to time. Printed records
show that on occasions it has done
more than point out merely the mu-
steal way. Many a first violin in an
earlier period Of musical history has
felt its weight upon his shoulders;
many an oboe player and many a
f1utist has had better appreciation
Of discord because the baton unex-
pectedly came in contact with their
craniums. But in these mild manner
ed times the baton has become nothing
more than a symbol of the conductors
power. Long ago the leader establish
ed his right to dictate to all who play
ed or sang under him. Today sopranos
and tenors, altos and basses are anx-
ious to please; first violins and futists
to play in harmony. Other conductors
therefore can with safety follow the
fashion set by the foreign gentleman
with the unpronounceable name.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-29
Her own Affair

"What do you think you are going to
hatch out of that door knob and that
piece of brick?' sneeringly asked the old
rooster.
I'll hatch skyscraper If I want tor
and attend to your own affairs. I'm run
ming this branch of the business. Chi
cago Tribune
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-29
Limited opportunities

Caller--Anything new in the neighbor-
hood today?
Mrs. Awlears-Nothing that know of.
I suspect that the Smiths are preparing
telephone has been out of order all day,
and l haven't been able to learn any OF
the particulars. Provoking, isn't it?-Chi-
cago Tribune
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-29
Bless Her Heart

A sweet little maiden named Mamie,
Once started to say: Now, 1 lamie-"
But she slept tight and fast
Ere she got to the last:
sanlie.
Houston Post.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-29
Fell in Heavy Chunks

1t may turn out eventually that the
trouble in st. Petersburg was not caus-
ed by the discharge of grape shot from
one of the bourse battery guns, but
was due to the explosion of a London
Times editorial in the pocket of the
British bassador.-Chicago Inter
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-29
Hard to Get Ahead of j. P.

J. Pierpont Morgan has purchased
from King Leopold, of Belgium, the
Canton- -Hankow railroad and conces-
sion in China. If the Japanese have
any designs on China they had better
hurry up.-Philadelphia Ledger.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-29

Sir Thomas Lipton's intimation that
he will again attempt to hoist the
tankard doesn't seem to have made the
least impression upon that hot old
sport, Russell Sage.
The Saint Paul globe., 1905-01-29
Among the Merrymakers
A WILLING Giver

in the interest of the city's poor children.
1 thought you might like to contribute to
our fresh air fund for them''
'-Of course replied the kind-hearted
suburbanite ''You may take as much as
you please from my place. But how in
the world are you going to carry it?"-
Catholic Standard.