The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-12-01
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

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 faith 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 certain to earn it.
The first thing that Russia, freed
and constitutional. needs to do is to
pick up its dictionary and learn that
liberty doesn't spell license.
A Boston housekeeper explains that
she manages to avoid changing her
servants by simply putting herself III
their place. That scheme should give
her most of her afternoons and even
ings off" 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
Inter-Ocean and, as elsewhere, the
women are only concerned, for the
most 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 contemp-
orary In justice to the young lta.'
ian it should be answered that '.e has
always disliked the idea of calling
wireless messages Marconigrams,
says the Boston Transcript. He him
self has always called them "alr
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 nave
in mind the male portion of our cltl-
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 great mistake is made
when the women are left out OF the
reckoning. No great social or pollti
cal reform has ever been achieved
in which their influence could not pc
traced and when large ethical ques-
lions 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, ill-feeling and fisti-
cuffs which will unfailingly sound the
knell of what is, in its proper estate
a splendid American game. Football
is fast coming to the point where II
must be either totally reformed OF
abolished, declares the Richmond
Times Dispatch. Football is too good
a game to lose. but we had far pet
ter lose it than keep it in its lat
ter-day developments. Far better
would be the doing away with the
men who are wholly running it Tor
decent sportsmen. An intercollegiate
board should run down every man
guilty of dirty play and rule MN per-
manently off the field
He rescued, more 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 HE.
work of DIR. Thomas John Barnardo
one of the greatest and truest phiian-
thropists, not only of these times, out
Of all times, and whose death last
week in London, Eng, has caused
deep sorrow wherever his name IS
known. Under the charge OF TINS
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 Oh
his good deeds nearly a huhureu
homes and hospitals, nurseries anu
orphanages, dormitories and iodgins
houses, emigration depots and rescue
branches, all Of which TESTIFY no'
only to his success, but to the vide
spread influence for betterment ne
exerted ON hundreds and thousands
of children and youth, who. but for
him would be added to the criminai
o,.ssas in the slums of a great CITY