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Jones has sat in an easy chair and lolled
away her happiness. Discomfort invariably
accompanies inacton, and in its train are
the other mental and physical Ills which
make life unbearable to herself and bring
misery to her mate. Yet if that same
woman were given something to do. some
thing that she felt compelled to do, either
by duty or from the sheer love Of it, the
mere occupation would remove the shad-
ows from her mind, bring the blood cours-
ing through her veins, redden her cheeks
and brighten her eyes, substitute smile
love which is the handspring of happiness
she wants to do within the bounds of her
capacity. If she takes pleasure in house
work, don't hinder her There is nothing
degrading about it. On the contrary, there
is no more honorable employment for
wife, and there Is none by which she can
add so much to the peace and contentment
of the home and to the happiness of her
husband, her children and herself Talk as
the advanced woman" may about the en-
largement of womans sphere, she cannot
get away from the fact that natures in
exorable laws have given her a field pecu-
harly her own, a field in which she has no
rival, In which she can do and does do her
greatest work for humanity, and that field is
bounded by the four walls of the home
1t is true that homework has its cares
Its myriad annOyances. that often bring
tears of vexation or disbursement but
no method of life has been yet discovered
that does not have few kinks in it, and
there never will be. 1t would be dog
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woman than your mother, and she has
worked, worked hard, all her married life.
not because she had to. for I've always
made enough to take care of her without
IT, but because she wanted to, because she
would have been unhappy otherwise, and
/ dare you 10 say that Your Anna Nav is
any better than my wife-I just dare you'll
No. John, let her work; let her do lust as
much as she pleases to do in reason. 1t
In the world than housework-and il Will
make her better wife and, please God,
better mother when the time comes
1t is true there are some wonderland
1t pains me to see the number growing
larger all the time-who have q strong
aversion to domestic labor / don't be-
lieve Anna May Is one OF them but If she
is, let her follow her bent If It does not
destroy your domestic relations There is
no more pitiable object on earth than a
woman of energy and talent compelled to
live a life of inaction, because her little
tin god of a husband would consider him.
self d!sgraced If she were TO do little
honorable work on her own account Don't
be that kind Of chump It's pure and
unadulterated selfishness. That's all there
is to II. If you love your wife. give her
freedom. Let her do the work that pleases
her best, for therein lies her greatest hap
piness. But keep her at home; keep her at
home! / draw the line there. If her am
billion takes her beyond the portal for her
labor, employ housekeeper, but preserve
the home. II is her haven and yours.
There is no satisfactory substitute for it.
1t attains its highest glory when the wife
is its head and directing force. when her
life is mainly devoted to its welfare: but,
whether or no, it is home, and nothing else
will serve. Your affectionate dad,
JOHN SNEED.
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all to each other. She just had to do some
thing. but she would infinitely prefer the
labors of a home with its cares and its
joys, 10 the triumphs of her profession.
The home is the best place for the devel-
opment and exercise of a woman's talents
for numerous reasons, most of which are
entirely obvious. Whether it is an original
gift TO the sex or the result of the train
ing of thousands of years is immateral.
The fact remains that she shines with
greatest brillancy in the domestic atmos-
phere and here she should be allowed to
sparkle unshadowed. The majority of
women realize their duties and response
bilities and desire to fulfill them. They
Know that they best be fulfilled IN the
home, and If let alone they will derive the
greatest amount of satisfaction and con-
tentment from the performance of the tasks
which home service brings to them. l
don't believe that a woman should be a
drudge; l don't believe that she should be
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Special Correspondence Of The Star
DUBLIN, May TO- 1905.
TN the absence OF big favors we have TO
be thankful for small ones. Mr.. AS
quith, the chancellor of the excneauer,
has promised to investigate Irish finance
ITO see how far it is possible to adjust the
negotiable financial relations between the
two countries" How unfair these rela-
tions are to the Junior partner was shown
In the speech of John Redmond, which
ELECTED the pledge from the chancellor OF
the exchequer. He pointed out that ac-
cOrding TO the report of the financial rela-
tons commission, composed largely of
British financial experts, Ireland was pay
ing two millions and three-quarters sterling
(sl3, 100000 in excess of her just proper
ton to the British exchequer. This was
some ten years ago. And, as Mr.. Redmond
showed. this confessed injustice, far from
having been redressed since then, has been
greatly aggravated In the interval the
population of Ireland has declined a quar-
ter of a million, but the burden of tax
alton imposed upon her has been increased
by sl500o00 a year
Tied 10 the richest country In Europe.
Ireland. which is about the poorest, has TO
pay vastly more than her fair share OF
lavish British expenditure. She pays the
piper while England calls the tune or
that the Beer war is an illustration Ire
land protested against it from first to last,
and is today taxed for it far more heavily
than England scale OF expenditure
which to the wealth OF England is com
paratively trifiing is absolutely overwheim-
ing to the poverty Of Ireland. But even
yet the myth prevails In some quarters
that Ireland profits financially by her union
with England. The last land act is often
cited as proof of England's generosity
But as Mr.. Wyndham showed, when NOV
ing Its second reading, the loan represents
a good investment for the British treas
ury. And, as Mr. Redmond made clear, 1t
is the same with other loans Ii Is small
relief that Ireland obtains from the new
budget. But il is something to obtain from
British chancellor OF the exchequer an
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required or allowed to do more than she
wants to do When her work ceases TO be
a pleasure, then it has passed the limit of
expediency and defeats its most important
object. Where the line should be drawn
depends entirely upon her temperament
and her physical strength. Some women
can do joyfully and with benefit to them
selves amount of labor that would de-
stroy others. and there are some women.
like some men, whose excess energy car
rfes them far beyond their physical pow
ers. Too much work Is as bad as idleness.
There is golden mean, and instead of
trying to prevent Anna May from doing
any work at all you should exercise your
authority or your influence, whichever you
please to call 1t. to keep her from doing
too much. l say this because 1 We got an
idea that she's a hustler, and while hus-
tiers are admirable people as rule they
need a little restraint exercised for their
own good However, there are not many
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acknowledgment that Ireland doesn't get
square deal.
Unlike the great ma jority of his country
men, Cardinal Logue. the archbishop of
Armagh, is somewhat pessimistic. lie
does not share the impression that seems
to be general in the country at the present
day that there are brighter and better
times in store for Ireland
Hope" says the cardinal, may be a
good tonic, but 1t is mighty thin diet.
Whether wings or tories are in Office, the
number of Irishmen who are permitted to
rise to any post of trust, emolument. or
honor are as few as the ripe grapes after
a well-gleaned vintage. Liberals, like
tories. take care to withhold the university
foundation which should qualify Irishmen
for the competitive age in which we live.
/ do not think there Will ever be prosperity
either in industries or in commerce, or in
any other things that contribute to the
ma terial prosperity of the country, with
out a good, sound, practical higher educa-
ton for the young people capable of re-
ceiving it
Cardinal Logue will have nothing to do
with commissions to inquire into or re-
port upon the higher educational problem
in Ireland II know what commissions
too WE'LL he says. They are simply
a cheat and humbug; political institu-
tons Invented for the purpose of hanging
up questions that are ripe for solution"
X
Lady Aberdeen has earned for herself
the title queen Of the socialists She Is
determined to go one better than Lady
Warwick and. beautiful and clever as the
Countess of Warwick is. she viii have
very serious rival in Lady Aberdeen.
Lady Aberdeen now makes a point OF
going into the Dublin shops and shaking
hands with every assistant who serves her.
She enters into long conversations with
them, and always makes them remain
seated while thew sneak her. This and
other actions OF similar nature have
aroused great deal of indignation among
the castle set, but the lsrd lieutenant's
wife is of the order who literally carry all
before them so the directors have had to
grin and bear her ladyshp's little ways
The story is going around that she intends
to give during the summer either a dance
or q garden party for all the Dublin shop
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-20
The Lumber Industry.

What vast interests are involved in the
lumber industry of the United States is
shown by the preliminary report of the
forest service as to the annual cut OF lum-
Der in this country. The report does not
cover the whole ground, but there are re-
ports from II $40 firms, covering practically
all the states and territories. The figures
are so large t4lat they are expressed In
units OF a million feet board measure. On
this basis the total cut of the year 1906
was q, 73S million feet The leading variety
was yellow pine. amounting to S,727 million
feet with Douglas fir and northern pine
over 5000 million feet each. Twenty-efght
other species are classified, but they all run
much lower in the total The total cut of
shingles was 13.s6s millions and the lathe
c,It was 29I0 millions.
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assistants. and that the leading clergy of
every denomination, as well as the aris-
tocracy, will also be asked.
Lord Aberdeen never presumes to dictate
or even suggest to his wife. He has
learned the desirability of smiling on all
the countess arranges. Fifteen years ago
she Initiated him into the art of dining
once a week with his servants. He thought
1t very peculiar at first, but now he has
grown rather to like 1t. Some of the Irish
servants at Dublin castle objected to the
company of their master and mistress at
table, and not few of them, in the first
instance, gave notice. Lady Aberdeen,
however. reasoned the matter out with
them, assured them that there was really
nothing to resent, impressed on them that
she and her husband had no intention of
them all as friends SO things were molli-
fed, and now all goes quite smoothly.
x*
No one who knows Lady Londonderry
large heartedness and her interest In the
welfare of children would accuse her of
the slightest desire to exaggerate when she
discusses the problems of the nursery. Yet
an utterance of hers recently at a meeting
of one OF the nursing societies of the north
OF Ireland has given serious offense to
Irish mothers. 1T was terrible thing to
contemplate" she said, that one child in
seven born In these Islands never lives to
reach the first anniversary of its birthday.
No one can deny that the important factor
In the matter is parental carelessness. The
want of knowledge has a serious effect
upon the rising generation, and mothers
do not seem to realize the full responsible
tiles of motherhood"
Her Iadyship, as is the custom with
women who refuse to treat Ireland as
separate entity when discussing British
evils might like to know that the NOR
tally among children In Ireland is 80 per
cent below that of any other part of the
united kingdom. Irish mothers strongly
resent the allegation that their children
are neglected in or out OF the nursery.
They do not resort to the expedient OF
rocking their babies to sleep on condensed
milk as Is often the rule in England. Con-
densed milk and similar compounds are
practically unknown even among the very
poor In ireland. =. x. CULLEN.
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in good condition. There has been an in
finite amount of trouble over this one thing
with American shipments. and the bureau
OF manufactures has had a lot of photo
graphs taken abroad showing the havoc
wrought with ill-packed goods and tho
din erent methods that foreigners employ.
These pictures have been a revelation TO
American exporters. and some of them al
most refused to believe their eyes when
shown pictures of their own goods and the
condition In which they arrived at their
destination.
This subject Of foreign packing VIII be
seriously taken up by the bureau as soon
as it has the time and money, and il prom
iscs TO develop an entirely new line or
trade that will furnish employment FOX
many good men in all manufactures mat
contemplate an export business.
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OF samples of cotton piece goods. such as
are In demand on the Chinese market. This
collection is the result of much work on the
part of the Department of Commerce and
Labor's special agents In China. It was
classified and arranged In convenient form
for distribution among the cotton manu-
facturers of the United States.
The Chinaman. according to a recent
statement of Mai. Carson of the bureau of
manufactures is only human after all. He
wants certain sorts of cotton goods, and
he will buy no others. But when it
comes down TO the coarser grades of
white and gray cotton all goods look alike
TO him, and If they come reasonably near
to all his requirements he is certain to
buy where he can get the best and cheapest
goods. 1t is In this way that the present
trade In cottons of this country with the
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Telling the News in Holland.

from I1t-BIts.
In Holland births. marriages and deaths.
instead of being recorded in newspapers.
are indicated by windmills.
When a miller gets married he stops his
mill with the arms of the wheel in slant
ing position and with the sails unfurled.
His friends and guests frequently do like
wise with their mills, in token OF the cere-
mony.
To indicate birth the wheel is stopped
with the arms in a slanting position. but at
a more acute angle than for marriage,
and with the two upper sails unfurled.
Should miller die the sails of his mill
are all furled. and the wheel Is turned
round until the arms form an upright
cross. in which position they are left until
after the funeral has taken place
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the foreign market. Manufacturers here
are entirely too prone to put up goods for
ocean shipment as though they were going
by train from New York TO Chicago CT
Denver. The result has been in many cases
that the goods have arrived in China IN
broken boxes and damaged beyond re-
pair.
Packing for foreign shipment is trade
by itself. The British and European ex-
porter who has a big. steady colonial and
foreign trade has reduced packing almost
to science. Zinc and tin-lined boxes to
withstand dampness. crates and boxes that
will stand the pressure and knocking that
they will get in the middle of ships cargo
and many other points of the trade have
Al been developed by the foreign packer TO
a point where he knows that when his
goods once start they are going TO arrive
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uses to which put, relative popularity and
other information of value to manufae-
turers and exporters. Below the photo
graph was attached a small piece of the
fabric, which was sufficient to show the
texture. color and finish and to enable ex-
perts to make an analysis If that should
be deemed necessary. There were secured
description of cotton piece goods imported
into China. These were cut into nearly
10000 pieces. The bureau received many
requests for these samples from manufac-
turers. and in consequence OF this large
demand 1t became necessary to limit the
distribution to commercial organizations.
Complete sets were also sent to the textile
schools of the country.
Some congressman, mill owners and others,
have seen the samples and had the card
scheme outlined to them, and both they and
the manufacturers at milling centers are
keen to act on the plan and get all they
can out of the eastern market They real
lie that this country cannot dump It's
surplus goods into China and expect 70
sell them. This fact has been borne in on
them by painful experience But now that
they have a cheap and certain way of find
ing out just what Is wanted, they are will
Ing to manufacture for the market.
Some of the patterns are of a sort that
would not go for a minute IN this country.
Again some of the samples of cloth that
would do for furniture covers here are
used as dress goods by the Chinese Blu:
the designs and qualities wanted are es-
te blished by generations of education and
prejudice and American manufacturers
have come to the conclusion that 1t is
easier to make the Chinaman what he
wants than to sell him something that per-
haps he ought to want, but does not.
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women who need a check rein in the mat
ter of work. They are a good deal like US
men in that respect. Most of us believe in
temperance when It comes TO labor, and
some of US are total abstainers. But,
whether men or women, we all better
Off IL we perform a reasonable amount of
good. honest work every day. and fortu-
nately the ones of either sex who are con-
tent to do nothing comparatively few.
X X
Your wife must have something to do,
and your silly pride should not stand in
the way of the doing. Idleness provides
more cases for the divorce courts than any
other single agency. 1t doesn't usually ap-
pear in the evidence under that name, but
it's responsible just the same Most fire.
quently it is disguised as incompatibility
of temperament, which means that Mrs.
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they could produce they have not bothered
about China. That is, they have sold what
was demanded. but they have not been very
keen about creating a demand. The result
has been that European countries have
bought raw cotton in this country, manufao c.
tured 1t into prints and sold It In China and
there has been about 500, 100000 worth of
cotton trade going to Europe China and
India, when the bulk of 1t might Just as
well be done direct from here This coun-
try grows fve-sixths of the raw cotton the
world uses, and 1t is rather a wasteful pro-
ceeding to sell It when we could Just as well
sell the finished product
The importance and value OF the trade in
cotton piece goods is apparent from the
fact that In the calendar year 1905 Great
Britain alone sold $3.50 0G0, 900, of which
upward of s50,000,000 was sold in China
The total sales Of the United Staes In China
for the same year aggregated nearly s4S,-
100000 of which $33,5140o0 was sold in
China. Hence the educational samples.
- 4
1t was obviously impra cticable for this
government to collect and distribute to the
manufacturers big samples of all the cottons
demanded by the Chinese market But It
secured large number which are now on
exhibition at points In the New England
and southern states, where they are accessi-
bic to manufacturers. In order to ac-
commodate the largest possible number of
manufacturers with printed goods the sam
pies were photographed, the photograph
showing the full width of the goods and the
pattern. AS the samples are intended for
the information and use of designers and
/ other experts, the photograph conveys all
needed information In regard to the pattern
The photographs were mounted on a card
9x12 Above them was printed a full de-
scrption of the goods, the country of man
ufacture, prices at which sold IN China
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be attained, because nature has implanted
in every normal human mind a strong
and overwhelming desire for action. The
world must be kept moving. and It's UP
TO US to turn the crank. The labor of
woman is as necessary to progress as is
that of man. and Il doesn't matter wheth-
er il Is your wife my wife orSthe hod-
carriers wife--each has a definite duty to
perform and viii find her greatest hap
piuess In its performance.
Now. don't go off half-cocked. l dom
want 10 see your wife scrubbing the front
steps, although If II is necessary even that
probably would do her no harm. I wouldn't
have her do anything but that which she
is physically able TO do and wants TO do.
Mind what / say now-wants to do. The
fact that so many women are useless dolls
Is mainly due to foolish young husbands
like yourself who force their wives to a
life of inactio1. If given their own way
they would choose labor of some character.
and 80 per cent of them. impelled by a di-
v!neiy given instinct, would say house
keeping.
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orient has been built up. Now the manu-
facturers are preparing to go after the
print market. and this Is the purpose of the
card catalogue samples that have been pre-
pared.
There are certain designs, certain qualities
OF cotton and certain lengths and widths
that the Chinese market demands. English
and European manufacturers know what
these are and cater to the local taste. Amer
lean manufacturers as rule do not know.
and when thev send consignment OF goods
to the far east and cannot sell them they
think there Is something wrong with the
market, and as they have up to date had a
good market al home for more goods than
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THE MAKING OF A
SUCCESSFUL HUSBAND
BY CASPAR s. YOsT.

That's Just where you're wrong. my boy.
W omen IN this respect are not different
They must have something 10 do. and the
man who imposes a life OF idIeness upon
his wife. believing ne is thereby contrib
uting TO her happiness. IS making a blunder
that ne VIII pay well for in after years
grant that his intentions are good but
they are Of the same character as those
used in certain quarters for paving mate
rial, and unless the wife is an invalid or
is exceptionally constituted his object.
prompted by love as it may be. will NOT
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Among my acquaintance is a young man
who has your idea very deeply impressed.
When he was married. three or four years
ago, he took his beautiful wife to a board
Ing house and mas kept her there ever
since She pleaded for a home. but he
weuld not have her soil her hands. The
inactivity OF a boarding house was TO her
unbearable She has a very fine voice and
rare dramatic talent He reluctantly con-
scented to allow her to give music lessons.
Now her income is larger than his own.
a brilliant future is open to her, and yet
she continues TO plead for a home just Il
little fiat where she could do all the work
herself, where he and she would be all In