The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1905-08-31
Editorial Symposium
Selected from the Columns of the Leading Nswsps-
psrs Of Amsrica.


Baptist Observer: tits a beautiful
thing to study the lives of those who
are nearest you, and to try to supply
those things which are lacking. If
you have any invalids in your home
see how much of the things which
they miss by being shut in you can
make up to them. Tell them the
stories of your pleasant and interest
ing experiences. Bring to them all
you can of the life which they would
have lived If In health, but out Of
which they have passed because Of
their illness. BY careful, loving
thought you can make their lives 80
rich and full that they will hardly fell
that they are missing any of the good
things of life.
MARITAL EXCHANGES AMONG SMART
SET.
Era Magazine: Marriages of con.
venience, nuptial bands entered into
to insure the inherent prodigalitv,
alliances for financial considerations
or to maintain caste through opulence,
have turned New York's smartest set
into a sort of connubial money mar
ket. The first motive or inducement
in effecting a marriage between the
children of Mammon seems to be to
secure by the contract the largest
accretion of riches essential for pur.
poses of ostentations display and to
out.dazzle the dazzlers of a luminous
social organization. 1t is a transac-
tion adapted and fitted to the evolu-
tions of money mania; a contract of
courtesy between the parties, grac-
iously entered into for personal felic-
itations. What could be further re-
moved from anything sacred or sim
cere than these ephcmeral unions
limited partnerships with restricted
liability, carrie. on for private gains
strictly and 10 be dissolved at will
with or without the mutual consent,
neither party assuming any response
bility? The creed upon which these
incongruous marital contracts are
formed Is grounded in selfshness.
The contracting parties, If they spoke
their minds literally at the altar,
would say:
81 promise at all times to consult
my own wishes, and to look after my
own interests, to so live as to keep An
eye on the main chance and to take
care of number one to give an inch
If can take an ell: to love, cherish
and do as like until divorce doth us
part"
It is an affair started in buffO0nery
and carried on in q wild reveal Of
rainbow chasing until, after a brief
period, both parties, satiated, wearied
and heartsick, turn from 1t with re-
pugnance to seek another alliance
and new sensations.
4 CURE FOR ANYTHING.
Baltimore Herald: DR.. William
Osler, in one of his Baltimore lectures,
recited quaint old cure for the gout
"a cure, from a seventeenth century
medical work, that was designes to
show gOut's hopelessness.
"First pick, said the odd cure, "a
handkerchief from the pocket of
spinster of thirty.five who never
wished to wed; second, wash the hand
kerChief in An honest miller's bond :.
third, dry it on the hedge OF parsen
who never was cOvetous;. fourth, send
it to the shop of physician who
never killed a patient !. ffth,, mark it
with lawyers ink who never cheated
= client, and, sixth, apply 10 hot 10
the gout-tortured part. h speedy
cure must follow"
GOOD GUESS,
New York World: Governor Cum,
nius Of Iowa urged the national reei.
procity conference to declare war On
the ''standpatters." Evidentay Con.
erDss CuDmins 10 not trying to carry.
bis state delegation for Secretary
Leslie n. Shaw, Of Iowa, at the nez6
RepsblicaA national convention.
JUnoMB As A NATIONAL. E1GURE.
Washington Post: In the midst of
other weighty Affairs NO one can afrerd
to lose sight Of the evolutiou of vii,
liam TraveTs Jerome into. = figure Of
national Importance. Possibly the
nation has never heard Of Jerome. but
1t Will He 10 headed straight for tho
Whike Hease, in the opinion Of thou.
sands OF New Workers. They take
him seriously, and, of course, the rest
of the couatry must.