The Washington times., 1905-07-09
NOTHING DEGRADING
IN TRADE, SAYS SIZE
"John Strange Winter"
Deals in Hair Restorer.
CARPENTERS ART OF LIVING
Canadian Settlements in Which Rider
Haggard Is Interested-A Pageant
on the Thames.
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CARPENTERS ART OF LIVING

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LONDON, July S.-iGrs. Stannard. the
gifted authoress. known as John
Strange Winter who at this moment is
in the forefront of the crusade against
the crinoline. is one of the many delight
full American women who sojourn in
England
Her first book, which made her repu-
tation, .Bootles Baby was refused six
times by various publishers, so 40 bud
ding author need despair If rebuff meets
his first work. for her popular novel has
brought her fame and fortune.
Mrs Stannard, however, does not con-
fine her work only to literary enterprise;
she has keen commercial instincts, and
Is known in business circles in connec-
ton with a hair grower, hair dress
ing. and a skin lotion.
What is there degrading says this
lady, s-in making money in trade? 1t is
to my mind just as honorable as TO
make it in profession
UuionisIl for Woman.
The great objection to married women
entering the field of labor must always
be that they come into direct competi-
ton with single girls who are Obliged
to work for their living.
This supply of girl labor is so unceas-
ins, that it results in the average wage
for women being disgracefuily loW
When 1 realize that women are toiline
for a pittance which cannot possibly
be considered living wage, and the
scramble that there is in the women s
market to obtain even that. feel that
much remains to be done in this dfrec-
ton, and that we shall never stem the
tide of immortality until the question OF
woruen's wages has once for all been
settled.
The chief difficulty, however, lies with
women themselves. They have at pres
EFT too little experience to realize the ex-
treme Importance of co-oreration and
organization.
Whether this instinct is not inherent
in woman, whether she never was in
tended to band herself with her own
sex is n matter that has still to be prov
ed, but the fact undoubtedly remains
that eae-ef the most- pressing questions
of modern life cannot be settled until
she learns the necessity of union
: .Art.of Living. = x "
The art of living Is probably a ques-
ton which occupies the mind of the
thoughtful as much as any of the many
problems which confront us in these
complicated days
l know nobody who has made a better
practical demonstration of how to sinpli
fly life than Edward Carpenter. Tolstoy
has described him as "a successor a.
Ruskin and Carlyle and the descrip
ton was especially generous when we
consider that Edward Carpenters phi
losophy of life and Tolstoy's are entirely
opposite. Carpenter welcomes those ex'
periences which go 70 make up the
beauty and charm Of life. while thy
Russian patriot sternly denies man,
right to enjey them.
Carpenter is q man who Is now oyel
sixty years OF age, but no one would be
lieve that he had passed more thar
forty ears. so trim is his figure. so ath
1etic his gait, 50 clear and bright hi
eye
| know men who say that his verI
presence brings them strength, that the.
thing, and that his strong personalit.
catches hold of their imagination. AM
makes them desire that same strengtl
and purpose m life.
War Against Convention.
Edward Carpenter has for years waget
war against our existing codes of civil
1ization, and refutes the idea that t
build up comforts and intricacies rount
a man is to make him happy. for b
believes, that the multiplication Of prop
and aies and labor-saVing appliance!
ends In the production Of effete crea
lures, too weak to even interpret tn
consequences of their own blunders.
They liyS, he says, in contradiction (
facts, and the facts r'4nish them. TIE
they fly panic-stricken to science. i'm
ploring it TO sacrifice any amount o
animals If by any means they may es
cape from the Hines their vice and stu
pidity have brought about.
1t is the artifciality that we have t
get rid of. he contends, and his cree
is that morality is made for men. no
men for morality. that rules and moral
are splendid things. but that man mus
not make of them an Idol that they tdv,
to be adjusted and readjusted in orde
to fit the conditions of the time, tha
a crank is one who is consumed by on
moral principle, which he has set Ii
as an idol and demands all men to wor
ship.
Moreover, he says, 1t is impossible t.
generalize. You cannot say that a MAJ
in the country is the absolute happ
man, and the man in the town is cursed
The ideal thing Is to endeavor to com
bine the two, TO get the fellowship o
towns in addition 10 the freshness an
space of the countryside.
Carpenters outlook upon life there
fore agrees with Walt Whitman. 1t II
health and sanity which produce hap
piness, and the means by which thes
are arrived at should be the object o
those who want to make the worl'
better.
Canadian Land Settlement
Canada has made the magnificen
offer of 100000 acres for city totIers
and Rider Haggard, the celebrated nov
elfst, has been maturing scheme o
national land settlement. After ex
haustive inquiries into the Salvation
Army colonies in the United States an,
at Hadleigh, the result Of his negotia
tions has been this splendid Offer