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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-04
Modern Worker /.

stand at q bar and drink more than Is good
for them in the name OF q mistaken idea OF
fellowship! II only the little woman were at
home now. could an electric car get him
there fast enough7
ltsis o'clock in tho afternoon OF raw,
chilly day in March and he is in the parlor
OF the little fiat, walking back and forth,
restlessly and feverishly. Now andrhen he
stops short listening intently. then takes up
the trampng again. stopping occasionally
at the front window to look out upon the
struggling grass in the parkway across the
avenue. An early lamplighter has Just turned
the corner. catching his wandering attention
when door behind him is opened quickly
and noiselessly.
It's Boy!"
Its a boy-and everything is all right
simply lovely!'
The speaker is a brown eyed nurse smiling
and soft of foot as she hastens on In the d.
rection of the kitchen of the little fat
"a great boy?" repeats the father the mex.
morning. as he opens the box OF cigars at the
Office. We'll, should say he is. Ten pounds
to an ounce"
Upon which the physician gets busy and
registers the birth with tho board OF health
downtown.
And the chances of his living are repeated
as being n little better than 3to2.
And the kindergarten method become APP
pllcable at years old
And measles and whooping cough and Group
and scarlet fever will have been billed for him
between the ages of and 10 years.
And school will have done with him at 10
years old according to law of averages.
And at 2S years, perhaps. he will be mar
ried with q chance of living to 40 years and
to the period Of social Oslerization. having
three children OF his own. for whom he will
earn an average of 500 year. considering
salaried positions always.
This and these are the worlds workers.
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Prey of Glass Yell-and pimplcs.

AT 10 years old he Is afflicted With the high
school yell and baggy trousers with meal
sack pockets. larboard and starboard You
may see his cap If you get close enough, but
you have to feel for his mustache prospects.
AT this time the state wouldn't let him go TO
work for SIT a minute. even II he wanted to-
and no doesn't want to by SIX or seven years
at least, His attentions arc all scattered
among football, plmples baseball forgery.
roofing for the homo team. and tearing ZIP
the early evening quiet with hobD.edehoy
girls OF his neighborhood. He knows moro
than his father ever did or Will know, and no
is half inclined to go on and leave " the old
man to his fate.
He Is not disposed to be In n hurry to choose
an occupation or profession in life Thepro-
fesslons are overcrowded. The apprentice
ship system is under sort OF ban OF tho
unions. Manual training In school never
agreed with him. anyhow. Politics and park
boards and any old $4,000 u year lob looks
good enough for him.
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Discovered Untold Wealth.

Then 1t was that Robinson, walking around
among the rude streets and dragging his feet
III a listless way, kicked u shining object from
the dust, 1t proved to be a fine uncut dia-
mond, OF which the millionaire who now
reads the value of any stone at glance had
not the least Idea OF the worth. Within two
hours after he had found the diamond he
sold 1t for $1,000, which was more money thai
he ever had possessed. From that time
every investment that he has made has been
successful to such degree that 1t is said
that what he touches turns to gold His
mine, known as the .'Rohlnson mine" turned
out TO be the richest In the Rand. An English
syndicate offered him 100000 for It, and
1t is only part OF his great possessions. The
largest diamond in the world was found in
another OF his diamond fields, and an offer OF
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-04
Only 1906 Men nillinsrs.

Suggestive OF Just what the man mill1ner's
opportunity Is in the United States at large.
the figures from the national census are strik-
ing. The total number OF persons worthy the
denomination milllners is $3.50. But as
indicating the chances OF the man In tho
business, the fact that of these mlllners
S293G are women and only 1906 are men, the
opportunity for hat and bonnet talent In the
ranks OF young men seems almost mex
haustible.
One light on these figuresin comparison Is
that few of the men who are listed in the
ranks of tho man mlllners really work at
making hats and that at the Same time a
good many of the men so classified are only
owners OF shops, administering the business
as they would any other commercial line
of which they We're the heads. Doubtless
several thousand of these women milliners
are working milliners in the shops Of the
men mlliners.
But the figures OF the same census on the
apprcnticeships of the two sexes show that,
while 3,1S4 girls are working ut the trade,
there are only 43 boys attempting to master
its !ntricacies.
From the point of view of the woman mil
liner, the wonder is not that so few men
are engaged in the business but that so many
have found field of work where they I" had
no business whatever"
As against this view, too, the man milliner
has little to say as n "come back" He
doesn't know Just why it was that he went
into the business in the beginning, though he
plumes himself upon the fact that were he
to so out of the business which he has built
up and relinqush 1T to woman, his women
customers would be the first to rise in pro-
test. however their husbands might chuckle.
For it is one OF the laws of the man mil
liner that the woman wearer OF his crea-
tons shall pay dearly for the privilege
All ievity aside, however. there are few
who will dispute that the capable man mil
liner naturally should be the leader in the
art. Under any circumstances where the
taste of the woman leans toward millinery
and when her condition In life is such as
TO force her to work, the millinery shop is
most natural venture for her. Just as her
material needs press upon her, the ease with
which She goes into the millinery business
Is patent.
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! chamber With smile on her lace ana
4 deep In her brown eyes.
It's a boy And everything is all
rlght-simply lovely!
Ten minutes before this suspicious appear
ance and smiling announcement, the most
serious thing in all the world has happened
to little wisp of writing red flesh coming
into the light with wall on its lips. 84
Life has been inflicted upon the littleverte-
brate, which in intelligence and lack OF SELF
preservative instinct is far below the scale of
life in the invertebrates and creeping and
crawling things of the earth. The calfin the
barnyard. ten minutes old. rises and seeks
its nourlshment unaded. The duckllng wad-
dies to the water with its shell remnant cling
ing to its back and swims with never a lesson
in the art.
But our boy? Is the nurse trustworthy?
Will she doze in the night watches? VIII the
milk be at the proper temperature? Are
those ilannels dry? Have the cribs bedding,
and equipment generally been looked after
as they should be? And, poor little helpless
darling. is 1t pin somewhere. or the collie !?
There! There! THERE
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-04
Mistress Should Be Considerable.

Now for the other side: Many women do
not care how much is wasted in their kitch-
ems, provided they have the reputation OF
giving the best dinners in the city. AT tho
same time they do not know. nor do they care,
II their girls have soul or not. Church
makes no difference so long as their meals
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-04
Nursemaid Gives Her Views
on Servant Girl Problem.
Bv Virginia. Wilson.

are ready just when they are ready to eat
them
Now, my opinion Is that if.a girl (be she
Protestant or Catholic) can give up God for
the sake OF q few dollars more wages she Is
not 1T to be trusted any moro than the mis-
tress who employs her on these grounds.
You know the old saying. Where there's a
will there's way" and nrmly believe thar
girl who will give UP going to church and
mistress who Will ask her to do 20 without
cause are neither one in the right.
On the other hand, girl who accepts q
position ought to understand that complca-
lions may arise In various ways Nothing
ever runs smoothly for lifetime. SO She
must give IN. at times. to do moro than she
engaged for; and mistresscs have to learn 10
be lenient at times also.
Girl nust Feel at Home.
think girl ought to feel at homo ana
have company once In a while In tho evening
or on Sunday. But IL she expects company
and wants to givo them refreshments let n
be ut her own expense. except In cases when
somebody comes unexpectedly. when I am
sure no mistress would object to her giving
them a little lunch, not secretly, but openly.
word OF praise helps also. provided IL Is
deserved. II a girl feels she Is treated like
machine she soon acts In the Same way
and docs not cnre how much she wastes.
Several times have heard girls say:
What does Mrs. Blank care for MOI she
never speaks TO me. never wants me to go
to church. etc. Why. should care for her
or her goods7"
II a girl has comfortable room where she
can spend her evenings or an afternoon
once in awhile, she is generally satisfied.
II =
Salary Is Not Everything.
So many girls go In for positions simply for
dollar more per week. and then are no.
qualified to fulfill their duties. The mistress
gets discouraged and probably cross.
think this question would be easily solved
IL both mistress and maid gave more atten-
ton 10 tho question OF ability in difreren.
lines.
For my part would prefer to work for
So per week and 4 kind word than for $40
and be treated with scorn. No matter II my
employer was worth millions, could not
respect her. and certainly would not live in
her home. and this. think. ;s go IN many
cases.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-04
Pulitzer Might Have Been Sailor.


When Joseph Pulitzer came over to Amer
lea he talked to sailors and his absorbent
mind made him believe that his future was
on the ocean. He was landed. was thrown
among men who were struggling for poor
living, and believed he was lucky. to get q
berth on a whaling vessel which was starting
for three years cruise. But something
went wrong and the young man failed to get
the Job that he hoped for cutting whale blub-
Der. He went to the front In the American
war with the army OF the north. He had
varied experiences, one Of which was knock
ing down an officer, for which he was ordered
for court martial One day an old general
OF German blood was hunting for someb body
who could play chess with him and was told
that there was man under arrest who
played we'll.
To the general chess seemed OF moro Inn
portance than courts martial, and he was so
amazed at the young man's mental force
that the matter was patched over and tho
trial never came of. After this he earned
living by a succession OF hard working ex-
perlences until he became member of the
Missouri legislature at 81.
II 1t had not been that the small savings
representing fifteen years work were sud-
denly swept away by the failure OF Paris
the great flower painter of America It was
crushing loss to the young painter, who at
q, had lived a lifetime Of hard work, having
supported himself since he was IL. He had
also been the father OF a family since he was
is. It seemed an irreparable loss, for which
there was no cure but heroic measures. These
were taken when he accumulated a few hum
dred dollars, gathered together few Of his
choicest paintings and his family. and came
to New York.
1t was an undiscovered country, and an
an unfrlendly one, for, the first three years:
but with the suddenness with which his af-
fairs had taken turn for the worse. they
took one for the better when no thought Of
making an exhibition OF the work which he
had been doing but not selling. The exh!b-
II caught the public fancy, the newspapers
and the critics gave him space and praise,
$1,000 worth OF his pictures were bought at
one time, and from that day De Longpre's
fortune was made In America.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-04
Rice; Old shoes-"Lucky poe!"

Then one momentous evening In his life he
comes hurriedly down fght'of front steps
from brilliantly lighted house, holding to
the arm of a pretty girl all in white. lodging
3oid shoes. bags Of rice. bouquets. and all the
missiles showered after the average young
man in his state Of mind and condition OF
servitude. They come back to the fiat ten
days later and begin to pay for the furnish
ings on the installment plan. He is 90 years
old; she is Just 81. He has $500 in bank ana
his prospects at the office are better than
they ever We're. But in looking at his saw
ings bank book he feels how foolishly he
has squandered his substance In the years
that are passed.
But two years later. when the mistress
OF the little fiat is at her mothers for few
weeks, and when he feels that he. too. will
have chance to take a little OF the old time
gayeties OF dinner, an evening with the boys
at the sheater, and a supper afterward.
What q wretched change Could he ever
have had taste for the foolshnesses that
still seem to mean so much for Jones and
Smith? What horribly tasteless food at ta-
BILE! What tawdry lights and gayeties in
vaudeville! What a silly thing for men to
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IN the following letter from nursemaid
to her former mistress tho young woman
gives serving womnn's views Of the
I ever interesting and always important
servant girl problem:
You were asking me tho other day my
opinion on the servant girl question, and
have been thinking It over ever since,
I have come to tho conclusion that much
can be said on both sides.
First, many nistresses employ q girl with
out first finding out her principles; girls like
wise take positions for which they are ut
terry unsuited.
Nursemaids Must Love Children.
Take. for instance, a woman or gLrl who,
having no love for children, will take a posi-
ton as nursemaid. She may BIO perfect in
every other respect, but no one can BIO re-
sponsible or Trustworthy with children I'M
less she can listen and sympathize with all
their little grievances. This Is an impossl-
bility for any one who does not love them.
They may keep them in better order. mako
them moro refined and old before their time.
but they never can win their confidence or
love, and the consequences arc that tho
babies early learn to be selfish and deceitfui.
Now, take cook; she understands her
duties MS cook. yet II she does not take an
interest In housekeeping. no matter how
many Moe dishes she can get up, she In value
less to her employer. II she be given to un-
derstand in the beginning that practical
economical cooking Is required mot lot
OF extravagant dishes which are never half
eaten) she might Just as we'll not be q genius
in her limo II she be not willing TO submit
to the circumstances.
SO 1t is with everything else. Now, take
a seamstress. who Will go out by the day.
probably scarcely able to run straight
seam. and demand full wages; might she not
Just as we'll go to your pocketbook and take
out the money!
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-04
John Coleman.

the measles. whooping cough, Group. and
scarlet fever ought to mean little some
thing to the rest Of the world. II by that
time he has Job somewhere in an office at
$3.50 n week he goes out and gets desk
card reading in big. black letters. " DO IT
NOWr'
BY this time he has appreciated that the
best science and medicine have done is to
promise him an average of thirty-seven years
of life. The worst that social conditions
SO far has done will be to call him old at 35
years. with just a chance that If sanitation
and the materia medica add another five
years to his life, social economy may allow
him later to use the time in the worlds IN
terests.
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Started with $500.

This was tame, however compared totao
way In which the chance to fortune fell at
the feet of James d, Robinson, the South
African millionaire, He and his wife ar
rived Mt Cape Town from England In the
carly ,T0s. possessIng about $500 They made
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geny, their state. and their country,
or descendant of a social gambler. who
seeks the ruin OF all men. who takes from the
poor the inheritance OF bread7
Being lowly civilian. lacking power ex-
cept that which must create By my pen.
lacking money-which my pen has not
created-with which to crush out the mon
ster social degradation" I am in no posi-.
ton to attack the pillars OF degeneracy and
brstling forts OF multi-mllionaires.
Therefore. inversely. with Antony, have
coma to praise. not to bury, him."
Is 1t not fit and proper that our youth OF
the golden spoon should be LAUDER Being
left vast fortune. does he not at all times
seek the welfare OF his fellow beings. is he
not constantly thinking OF how he may aid
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-04
Was Broke and Homeless.

He was nearly 40 years OF age, and MS the
hot African sun sank down that evening he
realized that he was not only homeless and
penn!less, but that he was in the worst coun-
try In tho world IN which to be without
money. There was no sympathy for the man
who was broke and ne could not borrow
money with which to go to the dlggngs at
Kimberley 200 miles away. His wife sug-
gested that they walk there. and the husband
shouIdered his little belongings and started
for the diamond Mecca
1t was a fearful Journey over the hot Afri-
can ltaroo and hills. and they were a strange
looking couple when they arrived at the
dlgg!ngs. footsore and weary. For three
weeks they had to depend upon charity for
food and lodging at farm houses along the
way. and when they got to Kimberley things
looked extremely dark for them.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-04
Succeeds Best as DESIGNER.

~ is as millinery designer thatvhe man
always has shone. Women everywhere are
wiling to conccde that in this work the
competent man Is the superior of the com
petent woman. even If she will not acknowl-
edge just why 1t Is so. Not all women are to
DE battered into buying q hat creation just
because II Is the work OF q man and for that
reason should cost twice what the same hat
from woman's hand would cost The man
dressmaker Is the epitome of his art; the man
millirer naturally follows close second
TO him. In each OF these fields there is the
natural indspostion of the man to enter,
all else being equal. andi may be conceded
that 1t Is some oyermaster!ng taste In the
art of millinery and, dressmaking alike which
brings the man into 1t.
There are more great men painters than
there are women painters; more great men
poets than women poets; more great men
\ in literature than there are women. Yet
for generations upon generations these fields
/ have been open !mpartia!ly to woman,
II 80 far as concerns the artistic nature In
the man and the woman who are DESIGNING,
hats, the point is that the impulse to the
woman is natural and thc,taking up OF the
work easy; whereas for the man the impulses
Is unnatural and the expression Of public
opinion natura! deterrent. Thus greater
art in the mani exacted before he goes into
the work. and having this greater art and
the higher concentration Of his powers lis
work shows them.
AS an opening for mems endeavor the mil
llnery field in this country is broad and In
wiling. First 10 experiences the strong In
/ tu!tive pronptlngs 10 the work is necessity;
\ after that application and study promise
= more than an ordinary degree OF worldly
success,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-04
Is Spared "Course of Sprouts"

The school board gets him at years old.
but here again he has the bulge even upon
his own father. He is forced to go to school
by statute. of course, but against this handi-
cap the old course Of sprouts I" In which
his father took a thirty-third degree every
week has been, eliminated in favor of nature
study. the chucking of the spelling book, and
the " fad regimen, generally. His eyes
are tested for notes and beams. II his lower
jaw isn't good fit the school board has one
for him at once. The teacher sends word
home by him that his anthropometrlc metrics
are al wrong. even after being reduced to
decmals. In short, life is made so serious
for him that he can't play with It naturally
he mustn't imagine any more that he is
steam engine, especially II he talks to him
self between the exhausts and the whistle
for the crossings.
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BY g. r. Clarke

a long and tedious Journey to Bloemfontein
and opened grocery and general merchan-
disc store. Customers were long In coming.
and when they did they asked for credit-a
plan at which they were,old hands; and at
which Robinson was new enough to let 1t ruin
him. The crisis came, an official took charge OF
the store the burghers who had ruined him
came from all parts OF Bloemfontein to see
the sport without making any effort to pay
him. Robinson stood by In dazed sort OF
way. hardly realizing what was taking
place
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81 $50 900 which an Indian rajah made for II
in the rough. Robinson refused.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-03-04
Millinery Field
Open to Men.
BY VIM. 6. Richards.

N
E~~ liner in the United States offers to
mans millinery talent more induce
ment to venture tfrln is to be found IL
any other occupations.
AS first proposition, the man mtlliner Is
accepted generally as the dictator OF all that
Is desirable In hats and h,nnets. regardless
OF the measure OF his ant in the concrete
product. That hat designed by a man and
bought OF a man naturally should be better
than the same hat designed by a woman and
bought of a woman is one OF wonan's super
stitions, to say the least. In this alone tho
man mitliner has a BUSINESS proposition
made before he opens shop which may 80
long way toward distanctng any possible
woman competitor opening a place In tho
game block
But stronger than this is the further fact
that where II man with the taste for n mil
linery creation and the nerve to tackle the
business does undertake the work Of tho
man milliner, he promises farsmore to the
art of hat making than does thewoman who
has the same Inherent art.
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- That right have TO exist? I, who
Y A I am not a descendant, either OF one
wv OF those whose illgotten wealth is
menace to themselves. their pro-
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Seven Ages

THE nurse comes out from the darlsened
chamber with smile on her face and
deep In her brown eyes.
MINs q howl Ard eyarythinC Is all
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The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-12-29
All Around the Globe.

At the inquest held over Linford L.
Dilworth at Pittsburg, verdict of sui
eide while insane was rendered.
William G. Sanderson, factory fore
man. has been elected Mayor of Spring
field, Mass, on the Republican ticket.
In the municipal election at Los An
geles the Democrats claim victory for
their mayoralty candidate, Harper, by
5000.
Bernard l.. Carter of st. Louis, repre-
senting st. Louis and Chicago capital,
at Denver, has offered the Colorado land
board $1,000.00O for 100000 acres of In
demnity land in Routt county, between
Hayden and Steamboat Springs. It is
believed to contain coal.
The wages of the 10000 operatives in
the Rhode Island cotton mills will be adj
vanced from 5 to 10 per cent. 1t is un-
derstood that a corresponding advance
will BE given 5000 operatives in Massa-
chusetts and Connecticut factories con-
trolled BY Providence officers