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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-23

mon school system II almoat a. old. She
has given to the world among other things
tho sloyd system Of teaching. which COM
bines manual trimming with mental instruo-
ton.
Sweden has shown by her prominence
In literature. science, art and music that tho
higher attitudes do not chill the imagina-
ton or repress genius. and yet the country
is even more noted for the high average Of
intelligence among the people than for the
extraordinary accomplishments Of a few.
The Swedish language contains 30 many
words that resemble the English that tbs
Swedish newspaper looks much more
familiar than ths Greek or the Russian. but
It N not always safe to rely upon the stint"
larity in spelling. For instance. rum
means room. and when it appears in a win
dow or on a door IL Ia only an innocent an
,nouRCement that travellers can find accom-
modation/ within. The word bad" means
bath. and bad rum therefore is a familiar
sign in hotels.
swEDEN's SUFFRAGE QUESTION.
Sweden has her political problems. like all
the other nations. and just now her people
are absorbed ia the question Of extending
the suffrage. ...,t..
. The Upper house IL an aristocratic body
composed OF representatives Of the wealthier
classes, In ~electing members Of this body
a rich mans vote counts for more than a
poor IA vote, it being possible for the
richest person to have about ten times
az many votes as the poorest. As might be
expected. the upper house is conservative
and stands in the way of some Of the reforms
PROPOSED by the more popular branch
The last Ministry was a liberal one, but
resigned when the upper house defeated
the measure for the extension Of the
suffrage. The new Ministry has at it's
head Mr.. Lindmann, a business men, who
represents the. commercial and conservative
element, and his party is willing to accept
an extension OF the franchise provided
it is coupled with minority representation.
the aim being to increase the conservative
strength in the lower house in order TO pro-
tect the upper house from attack.
The Conserve tives fear, and not without
reason, that an overwhelming Liberal
M aiority in the popular branch would
soon endanker the aristoCratic character
II not the very existence Of the upper house.
The situ6 ton is interesting in that il in
dicates the growth Of radicalism in the
country. The Conservatives recognize this
and are prepared to make CONCESSIONS
they hope to retard the progress Of the
movement, but realize that they cannot
defeat it entirely.
Industrial questions are receiving CON-
sideration in Sweden; laws concerning
child labor have been enacted, accident
insu rance ha5 been provided and an old
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SERVICES TO THE NATION or
PIXIES PEAKS DISCOVERER,

Achievements % NO COmmemOrated This
week -Jeurney AlsnG the Missisplppi
and EntS New MexscO-APtkS's Book
CBasssc % American E~xEasSatisn.
Ths people Of Colorado will Celebrats
this week the achievements ~ Deut. Feb
uIon M. Pike. who discovered the Rocky
Mountains Of that State a hundred years
ago this fall.
The osIebration will be held at Colorado
Springs and Q long and varied programme
has been prepared, In which the United
states and Colorado TROOPS and various
Indian tribes will participate. The splen-
did background Of these festivities viii
be Plies Peak, which bears the name OF its
disooverer. Pike first saw these noun
tains In November, 1903, but the time OF
the celebration has been ixcd a little earlier
to avoid the approaching winter. .
The work dOne by this brilliant young
soldier il worthy of the highest honor.
He was In hls twentlcs. . boy In years,
when he made his two great journeys. He
was only 81 when he was killed ip battle,
leading q charge against the British In the
Wa Of 1912.
He had risen from the rank Of Lieutenant
to Brigadier- General, and no soldier In the
country seemed to have q brighter future
before him when he fell; hnt had he lived
he might never have won proudsr laurcls
than those which securely belong. 10 him,
Pixies great opportunity came 70 him
In 1906. The vast territory included In the
louisiana Purchase had been bought
with the peoples money, and the whole
country was eager 10 know moro sboat its
new domain. Lewis and Clarke were sent
by the President to traverse the great UNI
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Apprectatiye Critic.
From Me Wash nOton Star

From the Washington Star.
Il understand your wife lectured you for an
hour last night"
Yes" answered Mr.. Meekton. She told
me about a few Of my faultS-"
"Didp'k u annoy YOU"
Tn a way. You see. when a woman Of
II enriettA's gifts condepcends to make .
small audience
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From St. Petersburg to Stockholm

Mr.. Bryan Tells Of the added Coaehmcn ofSt Petersburg, Hasa Glimpse
Of Finland and Describes the Charms Of the Swedish Capital
Indus tries, Publie Questions and ProSreSsiveness Of Sweden.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-05-20
The Young Woman's Right to Work
BY MARGARET z. SANGSTER.

The world moves I am never more
convinced of the fact than after 1 have
had talk with my old friend. Madame
X, VINO belongs to a former genera
ton. She is a beautiful and stately
dame and her age is a secret known TO
herself alone. If anywhere in a family
Bible there is a leaf with d record tell
ing whom 1t may concern that Louise
D. was born on a day somewhere in the
shadowy background OF a distant past,
that Bible is not on exhibition. 1t X
probably hidden in the dim recesses Of
a cedar closet or concealed beneath the
engUltng waves of an ancient hair
trunk, piled high with faded splendOrs
of another time.
Madame Y. must be IN her late
eighties, though she does not look 20,
and her ideas of everything social are
definite and precise and are held with
the grasp Of firmly-rooted convictions.
One Of these ideas is that girls grow
up for marriage and that if they do lot
marry soon after they are 20, there IS
something wrong with them and their
parents are to be Ditied.
Another equally firm conclusion of
madame's is that brothers have no right
to marry so long as they have sisters
who have a claim upon them. The
claim Of the young woman in the period
when my friend was young was uudis-
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nursing an invalid mother. who finally
died 1t was then discovered that most
OF what had been a comfortable fortune
mad melted away, but there was still
the house, ample and pleasant. in a
downtown street Fashion had desert
ed It and shops and offices and depart
ment stores had elbowed their way
close to the old homestead. House and
land were valuable, but could not vet
be sold until younger children should
grow up. The daughter took stock of
herself. She decided that she did not
care to teach and that to take boarders
and turn the home Of her fathers into
a csravansary for tTansients would not
be to her liking.
4 never could get on with paying
guests she said. and I should hate
seeing strangers in these rooms" The
one thing she understood was, in a
word, clothes. She knew what things
suited people and she had artistic no
tions that she thought worth some
thing ia the commercial field. She
started an original dresSmaking plant
engaging people who knew how to cut
and fit and trim and sew, but she did
not undertake closely to follow the die
tateS of fashion. From the beginning
her terms were high, but clients came
to her and she received them with the
air o. n princess dispensing favOrs. Be
fore many months she had gained her
fOOthold and became herself the fash
ion, and today she is making another
fortune to replace the one that van
ished.
What change the future may bring.
no one can predict. The pendulum may
yet swing backward. In entering the
fields of business and the professional
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pUted It was claim for protection
support and distinguished consideration
that must be paid in full by fathers and
brothers, let the sacrifice be ever 50
great and the price ever so high.
/ have been trying to show madame
that we have changed all that seemed
immutable TO the elders. The claim of
our young women Is not 10 support
furnished by others. but TO self-sUppOrt.
They abhOr CTutches, they ClamOT for
standing room, they demand place in
the world market. A young girl just out
Of college may possibly be willing 10
spend a year or more in society or in
the tranquil round of the home. but if
she does this of free viii and remains
cOntentedly in so restricted a sphere.
she is unique in the crowd. Nine girls
out of ten assert a 8 a right their inten-
ton to enter business or a profession.
What would be the thought of Al
bert" cries Ethel should he settle
down to idIeness, to making fancy deS-
serts, going to teas and devOting his
energies to the creation of new cos
tumeS2 Who would not ieeT with rea-
son at a man VINO preferred to be q
drone instead of a worker who as
sumed that TO be decorative was
enough when there were chances for
brain and hands in the competitions of
the hour?"
Ethel is scornfuI at the mere hint of
an existence like that for her brother,
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and her claim is that she has right
to work The right in these days is al
most universally conceded Not the
poor girl who works because she elects
to do so, makes this claim most en-
phaticalIy and imperiously today.
The ethical question whether or not
the daughter of wealth is right in Occu-
plying a bTead-winning position to the
exclusion perhaps of her sister who is
the daughter of poverty, is usually ig-
nOred. If discussed, it is dismissed as
irrelevant or ruled out Of court without
much consideration. The sons of our
multi-millionaires 90 into business and
enjoy its contests and rivaIries. The
daughters are not willing in multiplied
instances to be left out of what seems
to them so interesting and so profitable
Twenty years ago a young girl who
could not find a Salaried position into
which she could fit and who did not
care for society, was apt to fold her
hands in some disbursement At the
present hour the same girl rents an Of
fee, purchases a few goods, sends out
her circulars and announces herself as
a business woman on her own account
she starts a little shop or an
informal wOman'S exchange OF in some
novel enterprise arrests public atten-
ton. Women are born shODkeepers.
There is no reason why they should not
succeed in buying and selling if they are
disposed to give time and strength to
the occupation.
A young woman left college several
years ago with hOnors, and returned to
her home i'm an eastern city prepared
to do whatever came next. The thing
that came next was a long siege Of
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Chicago TTibUne)

Would YOU mind letting that window
DOWN." asked the passenger in the rear
seat leaning forward. 1T makes things
pretty cold back here
Il don't find it any too cold" answered
the other
DID the ShlVering passenger lose his
temper and talk I'm loud tone of voice?
He did not, dear children.
He went and sat down in the seat in
front Of the window hog and raised win
dow himself
If this makes you uncomfortable, he
said. with a genial smile III put il down
again III be more Of a gentleman than
YOU seem to be. you outward semblance
OF human being with the interior me
chaniSm of an adult pOrCine quadruped' -
Then, with the same genial smile, he re-
sUmed the reading of his newspaper, and
the incident closed.
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thing of that sweet and appealing
charm of femininity that was once
their birthright. It is inevitable that,
on the surface at least, a woman shall
lose something Of the daintfness and
distinction and delicacy that are pure
womanly, when she enters the lists and
fights for whatever advantage she
gains. On the surface, let it be added,
is the loss Underneath in all that
makes character, true wOmanhOOd re-
mains forever unimpaired. What is lost
IN delicacy is compensated for by en-
durance, and in the end. the girl of the
twentieth century need not suffer by
comparison with any predecessor
Copyright. 1906. by Joseph B. BowIes)
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THE WINDOW HOG.

Copyright. 1906. by Joseph B. b
The San Francisco call., 1906-06-03
WATCHING BIG MEN PLAY TfE RUBBER IN GAME OF Lit

time" for the rest of his life.
He rad supposed himself q sound
business raan in the years the pupHsa1-
ing house had been ran anu ~ -
still believed that had ms alrecelons s
been followed strictly In It's eonduct
failure could never have come 70 it.
Re that as III may. he found one day
that his only chance to rehaoiiitate
his fortunes was to write enough
stabre Mark Twain COPY and denver
enough Mark Twain lectures 70 pay
his debts.
He had little trouble in getting a
contract to do lot. OF magazine con-
tributions at $1,000 %cOntrlo' anu
later other good contracts. came MS
way. so many of them. in fact, that
with health and strength the payment
O. his debts would not have been
very tedious natter Ill health came
soon. however. and made the years I'M
mediately following years of genulne
ordeal. years for which the worlq OF
readers may properly be thanktol.
however, for they gave "Pudd mead
Wflson. . "Tom sawyer. Abroad. - Joan
of Are and several other pieces OF
Twain's best work to the werld'
ANYWAY the task has been accon-
piished; it is years now since Mark
Twain was known b. the world TO
have won the rubber BY paying every
thing he owed. and the fact tnat ne
had II. H. Rogers for a helpful friend
has never been laid ap against him
even by the rabidsst haters of the
Standard Oil.
Not many think of Clemens nova
days as the man who. more than any
one else, helped General Grant to win
his final. rubber in the game OF life
after the disasters which followed the
rise Of the Appomatox hero's name IN
furthering the gst-rich-quick schemes
devised by Ferdinand Ward Yet II
was the firm of Charles L. Webster 81
CO. that published Grants book and
paid to GRANTS widow more than
$780, 900 in royalties.
1t may be worth noting that no
famous writer in the game Of life has
ever been dismayed by run Of hard
luck.
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man? What was he doing? Why did
he do il? They saw the revolver, and
Jack. and drew back. On and on Martin
crawled. up the hill. painfully. his hands
cut by the frozen ground. his head heavy,
his heart faint; and behind him, with
the revolver-Jacl1. So they came to the
church, to the door of the study. Martin
paused
on
Vaughan was reading by his desk, un-
der the lamp Absorbed in his book, ne
heard nothing. Slowly the door was
pushed open. A rough. red-brown head
appeared and approached him, hanging
down. Two hands, crimsoned and bleed
ing. struck out over the floor. The Great.
tlre crawled TO him. put out big swollen
tongue, licked his boot. munbled. Il m
a damn liar" then sprang up and He'd.
A long. sinewy arm reached out, on the
thresholds, caught him, shook him, and
hurled him into the night. Vaughan saw
for an instant Jacks face, then II. too,
disappeared. He had seen the other. IN
that brief, dreadful moment. the small.
blood -shot eyes, the thick. matted beard
and had known it for Martin Yonng's
And never, in all his life, though he live
10 be an old, old man. would he see on
human face such look OF unatferaole
hatred as he saw on that face then
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and E. H. Hartman, not yet finally
played out perhaps, would make an
other
Lawson hasn't won his rubber yet
apparently. though F. Augustus Heinze'
his opponent for years, seemed recently
to have done so by making peace with
II. II. Rogers, who won his so over
whelmingly, years ago, by playing
partners with John d. Rockefeller, that
to-day it isn't thought he could pos
sibly lose the advantage he has gained.
The struggle of Stuyvesant Fish Win
the insurance problem is practically In
the nature of a game for the rubber.
The struggle of no other man in the
world to win the rubber in the game of
life is attracting so much attention to-
day as that which ie being carried on
by Sergius witte, the Dutch Russian
railroad man. Government official and
peace commissioner. whom the Gar
made a Count as well as Premier TO
reward him for concluding the Ports
mouth treaty with Japan. yet whose
game is opposed at every point by some
of the ablest and most of the high
born people in all Russia. No man in
the world is playing for higher stakes
than Witte.
1t is the belief of a good part of the
world that In winning the rubber
Count Witte would also win new privi-
leges and noteworthy advancement for
the whole of Russia; II MAY or may not
turn out that way. Undoubtedly the
Count would like to see all his fellow
Russians as comfortable and happy as
possible, but some of those who have
studied his course carefully dc not
think it harsh to say that he cares
more for final personal. success and the
preservation of the autocracy than foi
anything else, nor do they forget thai
before the war with Japan he was
often ranged upon the side OF retro
gression.
If Witte does win the rubber it will
be a great victory for socialism of the
sort Bismarck believed in. Amons
other things. Witte agrees with Bis.
marck that the State should own al
the public utilities. like railroads
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telegraphs, etc, and 1t was Witte who
created the Russian Government mon
opelies of the trade in alcoholic drinks
and tobacco. Should he win the rubber
this time he may renew the PROPOSE
ton he put forward some years ago to
establish the price of wheat by inter-
national treaty.
Robert e Peary. now in the far
north on his seventh polar expedition,
is playing his rubber for stakes OF an
entirely different nature.
No one has SO persistently sought
the secrets of the north as Peary, but
the list of men who have staked their
all on the Arctic game is long and the
history of their futile efforts is
pathetic.
1t Is rather a curious thing that
while several of the pole-snekers have
taken men of some experience of the
Arctic fee. the Arctic water and the
Arctic weather with them, almost
every one of the explorers themselves
has been mar who knew nothing
at ali about the north prior to his
first dash for the pole
Peary. though positively green in
Arctic matters when he began to tackle
the north's icy fastnesses, is now a
man of greater Arctic experience than
any other arctic explorer who ever
lived. His first reconnaissance OF
Greenlanas icy cap was undertaken
twenty years ago. and he has devoted
much of his time and practically all
of his initiative to the north ever since.
In one sense. too. he has played win
ming game, having made himself a
figure of world interest. which he could
not have done as a civil engineer in
the IInited States navy
In 1902, when he returned from his
four years voyage; he announced that
he would make no further attempts to
conquer the pole, but the fascination
of the game has proved too strong for
him Possibly he is now fated to lose
hfs life In playing II, as so many have
before him, though his friends believe
he will win. Peary rounded the Green
| land archipelago. proving Greenland to
be an island. and gave the name OF
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Of rough diamonds when he started
after Livingstone, but picked up won
derfully in the matter of polish after
Livingstone hads been found. and a
dozen years before his death, two years
ago, married Dorothy Tenant. then
the most popular and one of the most
beautiful young women in London So
ciety.
He was also elected to. the House OF
Cohmons after a lively contest. but
the real deciding game of his life was
play ed in darkest Africa.
Africa has been the stage upon
which, many men besides Stanley and
Livingstone have played the most inn
portant parts of their life games. Chi
nese Gordon played there and lost; so
did Efnin Pasha. both being killed by
natives who objected to being civilized.
1t was in Africa that Cecil Rhodes.
whose patronymic has Been perpetu-
ated by the application OF the name
Rhodesia to great section Of the Brit
ish South African possessions, played
his great game. winning for the. most
part, though not unqaalifiedly.
1t was in Africa. and largely through
Rhodes that the Beers lost the rubber
in their game for o national life of
their own. as Kitchener won his in de-
ledtlHB lleln dtl6T OtneTS 'ndQ 1ditcu
Whatever defeats Kitchener might
suffer now, his victories in South Africa
made his place in the annals of his
country secure; had he failed. the fame
his earlier achievements gave him
would have been sadly dimmed.
Many of the worlds most famous
poets, novelists, sculptors and painters
have had to struggle desperately in
the game of life before winning as
sufed position, and in some cases their
struggles have been SO long and so
desperate as to make them lose we'll
nigh all hope before the final winning.
To not a few this did not come till
after death.
The story of jean Francois Millet,
the French peasant, who struggled
with poverty all his life. but whose
little canvas The Angelus" sold for
more money a few years after his
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Cape Morris X. Jesup to the most
northerly known bit OF land in the
world on his last voyage, but he VIII
have to do better than that town the
prize he has been striving forfso long.
Tne only great game of exploration
left in all the world is to be found IN
the two polar zones, but in the years
it was being played Henry M. Stanley $
bulked larger in the eye of the world
than the game of any one playing Tor
lesser stakes than dominion oyer a
section of the earth. and powe over
millions of hurnai4r pefn gs: Stanleys
game finally approachcd these Things
but he began to play 1t. as ordered, as
a newspaper reporter in 1869.
s,tanley's life was one of the most
romantic ever lived by mortal man
His origin was obscure. When fifteen
he shipped as cabin boy ON a schooner
bound for New Orleans. When the
civil war broke out this piece of human
hotsam was just about wenty-one
He enlisted promptly, on the Confed-
crate side. Of course. served till cap
tured by the Fcderals, and then, not
being very particular whose game It
was, so long as he was playing, en-
listed In the Union navy, in which he
rose to be acting ensign on the iron
clad Ticopderoga.
After the wars close he became a
newspaper correspondent and went to
Asia Minor. Bennett liked his work in
Asia Minor, and sent him to Africa to
report the expedition led by Lord
Napier against Theodore, King of Abys-
sjnia- Stanley did so we'll at this job
| that Bennett decided he was the man
to be intrusted with the difficult mis-
sion he had in mind of finding the
missionary DR.. David Livingstone, who
had then been lost" for years in mid
Africa.
That was in 1871, and though the
elder Bennett did not die till the fol-
! lowing year, it was the younger who
commissioned Stanley from Paris
| Livingstone died in Africa without
discovering the source of the White
Nile; Stanley finished that part of rLiv-
/ Eingstone's work He was the roughest