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New-York tribune., 1907-03-17

at Hobart. but II would seem that distinction
may be drawn here. About one-half of the col
iege women only have n special career in mind.
and that, with the great majority. a single one
teaching. The rest have in view merely the con-
tinuance. more or less conditioned by their apti-
tudes and tastes OF the general education they
have had in school. Before most OF these lie
lives OF homemaking-a few years as the
daughter at home" followed by many wife
and mother. Most college women. then, VIII be
teachers or homemakers: all who are either will
exercise TO certain extent the functions OF both
For the average teacher. and most emphatlcaly
for those who go TO the housekeeping ma
jority, that course should be best which will
Sive the largest general eflcency-whch will
render the mind and spirit most active I'm all d.
rections and the life. In the widest sense OF the
term, most fun
One consideration, to be sure. gives us pause
Too exclusive emphasis upon broad. general
training has its dangers. Although so many
women have not the career in mind. or per-
haps because they have not. II seems all-impor-
tant that their curriculum should contain in IT.
SELF far possible. the seeds Of future intel
lectual endeavor and the stimulus to IT, To that
end the preference and bent OF the individual
student must be not only consulted but encour-
aged. Along with the proper balancing and bal
lasting" OF such aBtitudes by broader culture
must go the development Of them by sufficient
special appeal
Yet the key that is TO unlock life TO our youth
must At more than one door, Well trained fac
ulties and wide interests are after all the best
and surest foundation for future mental and
moral activity How this master-key is 70 be
fashioned 1t is beyond the present purpose "a
inquire. In speaking OF the ideal woman's
college It is permissible to dwell upon ends
rather than means. Such course should be
tree as well as broad. granting liberty 70 culti-
New-York tribune., 1907-03-17
Outlined by O. Man Who May
Create a Close Ap"
proach to 1t.

Professor Milton Rsight Turk. % D. has been ZEN, ap.
pointed warden womans college which @Itl bS
Geneva N y on a foundation Of S4I5.0oo. given 6y
Smith. OF that city ~ spetao ~ .fa, ~
idrai toans college IN America ought 20 he ana also
what he hopes the new womans college VIII De
To point out what the ideal woman's college
IN America ought TO be is a task which only the
experienced should undertake and which they
with the wariness born OF experience, would per-
hans shrink from attempting. The William
synit, school for Women at Hobart College is
not vet in being and the writer's opportunities
for extensive observation OF the problems con-
nected with the collegiate training OF women are
vet TO come. In such circumstances one can at
best speak Of the educational questions involved
only in very general terms
Efficiency in some sort seems to be the end OF
all education 1t may be a special efnciency In
a Darticular science or art or handicraft-the
develoDnent of some single human faculty or
the nursuit NJ some branch OF human effort: or
r. NAV he on the other hand, general efficiency
tho development OF all the powers Of body.
mind and spirit OF which the youth is possessed.
Many Young men specialize from Qf not before)
the time they leave the high school. and those
who take up a course Of general culture are apt
n give II a specIal trend. A man has his way
n make in the world; he must find his post and
occunv Il: this means concentration IN some
direction, and as the young American is usually
in a hurry (and has discovered perhaps. that
he has entered college too late) the sooner this
special.zation commences the better ne Is
pleased.
1t is not yet possible to observe womaR's ways
New-York tribune., 1907-03-17
AND STILL THEY COME.

one argument brought against the Tenement
House act when fl was frs, projected was that
the provisions affecting tenernents thereafter to
be constructed would tend to check building Op-
erationz Not a few people honestly felt that
fear. but IL has certainly proved % be ground
less. OF late tenement houses and apartment
houses have sprung up in greater New York
like sprouting corn on moist, hot night. Nearly
six thousand of them we've erected in 1901. when
the new law had had four years trial. But
IN suite Of all this building activity, IL seems
as If space enough could not be found in the
lower end of the city 10 meet the growth IN pop
ulatiou, 10 accommodate the people VINO WIsn
10 live there. improved transit facilities. OF
course. will help matters. but what OF the my
riads of men and women and boys and girls
who must live near their work Il often ask
women" a tenement house inspector tod the
writer. why they don't move our 20 The Bronx.
where they would have more room and good
air. and the answer always is, " oh, my hilS-
band Tor my and daughrerSl works down
here; he could nor go so far Many OF them
too. could ilI AFFORD the dime the journey would
cost each day"
What. then. is the remedy: 1t is. say souls
thinkers who have been looking n the problem
from every side 10 move some OF the work out
Of the Cungested lower end OF the city; the peO-
pie would then follow Some OF the men ami
women who helped form the Tenement House
Commission whose Investigations brought
about the passage OF the Tenement House act.
are now suggesting another commission. COM
mission inquire into the feasibility OF limit
ing the building of factories in the crowded dis
tricts of New York. II more factories were To-
Gated in the outlying regions. say theS6 men
and women. groups Of tenemeutS would grow up
around them. little settlements OF new law ten
ementS where the workers could live whole
some life and vet there would be none OF the
loneliness OF the country We are often told
remarked Mrs SimkhOvitch. OF Greenwich
House. the other day, that the people down
here wouldn't leave these crowded streets II
they could When il Is question OF migrating
from the social attractions OF these streets TO a
farm. IL isn't perha ps an entlcing prospect to a
person whose life has been passed. in teue-
nlent. with hosts OF peighbOrs. But when it's q
question Of migrating to a settlement affordinZ
plenty OF COmpaniOnShp. that Is quite different"
The suggested commission is all in the air as
Vet merely suggestion made by few earnest
people. but. then. there a time when the
Tenement House Commission merely suS-
gestiOn. too.
New-York tribune., 1907-03-17
A BRIGHT OUTLOOK.

The Tenement House act having passed the
crucial test. however. all that the department.
needs in the future, Of it's officials remarked
to the writer, is ito have politics kept out Of II.
and to be allowed money enough TO do It's work
At this stage OF progress il has not money
enough TO do nearly all that ought 70 Be done.
but nevertheless something rs being done and
mere this year than last year. and more last
year than the year before. OF course, II IS a
triie iiscouraging to know that 90 really carry
out the provisions Of the Law there should be in
New York City. instead Of the present force OF
two hundred inspectors. Ave or six times that
number. II is discouragins 20 read that Of the
dark rooms which existed in Manhattan Brook
lyn. Queens and Richmond IN 1901. In round
numbers 361 Sol. only 1889 had had windows
cut through into them up TO the time Ine iast
report was compiled, January /. 1907. But, on
the other hand. it is a hopeful sign for the tut
ure that OF these II 500 windows I.34S were
placed in 1906. as against only 4,591 IN the
whole course Of ths four preceding years And
If a force OF two hundred inspectors Is tnsufh-
cient. at least IL is a vast Improvement upon
the former condition Of having none at all
The inspections stir up the stagnatton down
here bit. anyhow, remarked a seasoned lnSpec-
tor whom the writer accompanied on MS FOunoS
through some teuelnentS Of about the WORSE
kind TO be found in the city The sight OF tne
uniform healthy effect The most STAT
ternly janitress, II she wants 70 keep her job.
and most Of them do. Is apt to wake up when
she sees the badge OF the Tenement House De
partment coming TO begin TO scurry around.
make promises. produce keys and show that
size realizes tina, she can't let the dirt lie quite
as thick as she has been doing There's one re-
suit. and there's another and wider result
though il may seem awful slow when you think
what n mountain there IS to be cleared away
But depend upon Il most Of these old rOOkeTieSs
and he nodded at one tOIterinS group. will not
be CumEeciES this city eighteen or twenty years
hence. You mus, bear in mind that it's not only
Violations In he old buildings thar have TO Be
dcalt with The present force OF inspectors has
70 cover every ne1v tenement that's finished and
these have 10 be inspected and reinspected. sev-
eral times maybe before the builder gets his
certificate testifyiuE that he's satisfied every re-
ntIi~enlcnt Nf the law.
New-York tribune., 1907-03-17

advance Of rent as when incoming tenant
AYERS that his family consists Of three. himself
wife and child, and 1t Is afterward discovered
that this number is being augmented Oy eisht
or nine dodgers. The dodgers mean more wear
and tear on walls. floors and stairs. more WORK
for the 1anitor. and the landlord cannot be
blamed for advancing the rent But these are
individual cases. and the rise in rents is gen
eraL You will find two room flats bringing $lZ
a month now or S1S. which formerly We're S.
II seems as if the increase would make good the
money spent in the alterations the new law
Down in a basement in N1lnetta Lane the
writer talked with a gaunt. intelligent LOOKING
herman janitor, for a few Germans stiIl remain
IN Greenwich Village. though they are rapidiy
being crowded out by the Italians and SyrianS
MlEetta Lane runs at the head OF Mlnetta street
the two making a crooked little letter T. IheTS
is many a dilapidated tenement house here, ana
from both short streets narrow entrances lead
70 rear alleys upon which open more OLD houses,
filled mostly with Italians whose women bend
all day over their tables. making artidcla! flow
ers for the large shops
Property around here" said the German
1anitor pays IS 20 per cent. There's
hardly a house in this row, except this one and
the one next door, that hasn't changed hands At
least fifteen times in the last twelve years. and
every new buyer puts a little more rent.
When man buys house worth. say. $4,000. he
pays, generally, s.. 100. He wants to get back
tisal extra SOD. 30 ne anus enough 70 tue rent
OF each tenant 10 make UP the sum IN the course
Of the first year
Up In of the old wooden houses Il little
black eyed Sicilian woman opened her door in
answer TO a knock They had three rooms. and
paid $14 a month, she said when they first
came the rooms were SO One dark
room originally but a window had been cut
through INTO the adjoining She was max
Ing artificial daisies, for which she was paid Is
cents gross BY keeping steadily at It she
could make three gross a day. She had four
children, and her husband was a longShore-
man. but could not always get work. Il tel
YOU, she said in her slow English. "a poor per-
8, ,r1N 1a
And my husband shaking her head with a
twinkng smile. VIII have wine, too. 1 like a
cup Of tea, but II I give my husband tea for
supper l think he viii be throwing the cup at
me. And you must pay for wine so, 80 cents
a gallon. for you do not wish 10 be poisoned
And there is always the rent, always higher
You wish to the landlord? He lives two
doors from here; but" anxiously. you're not
telling him you saw me?"
New-York tribune., 1907-03-17
REToRr THAT woN oLNEY.

When AIR OIney was Secretary of Stass. it was a
hrnl rule OF his that all corsuls should bs able %
sneak the language OF the country to which they
appointed
once politician sought consular post in China
To him Mr. Olney said
Are YOU aware that never recommend man
who cannot speak the language or the country 90
which he is seatc Now. 1 suppose yOI ctlnot
speak Chinese
The arpIcant's reto-, gained him the appoint
ment.
''If YOU. NJ. Secretary VIII ask me question Ir
Chinese. I shall be ready TO answer N-"-Judsss
Library.
New-York tribune., 1907-03-17

Charity Organization Society. and who has been
making special study Of the rents question,
visiting over a thousand tenement houses in
sion was that rents of the poorer apartments IN
the districts below 14th street had doubled In
the last five years. He confined his investiga-
tions 10 the lower end of the city, as that Is
the chief tenement region
There are various reasons back Of this IN
crease. which has taken place not all at once
but by degrees he said 1T is due in part to
the boom in all values. due to the great de-
mand for living places 10 the influx of immigra-
ton to the necessity people are under Of being
near their work, and often it is the direct result
Of speculation. When a house changes hands its
rent is pretty sure 10 60 up a notch recall
ono house in Barrow street. I'm Greenwich VIII
Iage which has changed hands four times since
March 1906. and each successive landlord added
a tax Of so cents a month 70 apartment
making for each tenant an increase of 80 a
month In ono year That is only one Of many
like cases The Tenement House act or the
expenditure compelled by its provisions, is fire.
quently the pretext for an advance in rents
But it's curious thing that this law operates
as effectively fer the landlord who has not made
any alterations as for the who has. When
YOU visit house which has just been made
over with new plumbing new fire escapes. fresh
paint and all YOU are inclined TO say Well. this
does call for more rent But YOU enter ad
joining house. and behold. no repairs. but
similar raise in rents. That confounds your poll
tics
New-York tribune., 1907-03-17
LANDLORDS DIFFER.

Landlords differ" said the inspector a little
later. Now this landlord" he added. leadine
the way through tenement house in Water
street. is a white man. I conclude" Alrora-
tions had been ordered and made in thorough
fashion. All rubbish had been cleared away.
New-York tribune., 1907-03-17

small square Of white cloth the size Of n hand
kerchief upon her head. wept and walled as
only an Oriental woman can do. Her body
shook with shuddering sobs. All the grief 0e
the ages seemed embodied in her mourning.
This famine means more to those two lonely
women than il does TO my scientific friend.
New-York tribune., 1907-03-17
NOBBED A MISSIONARY
Starring Cinnamon TrampLe Him
Under Foot an Rush for Aid.
by william 7. ElIis.
copyright. 1907. ny 5e=e2a 2. EOwlss.

C,op,rigtt 1907 by Joseph 2. Bovles
d, depends upon the bumps on a mans mead
,b,- he viii tnink of great famine Il ms
,e,ti &c bump be large he viii point ont, dlspas-
efonatelv and learnedly. thar famines are one OF
ors-cieS a. beneacent nature 10 keep down
,be surplus population and 70 insure the sur
,,,-al % the fttest. They are ainfu like a sur
ms oneration. but they are really wise pro-
,.i,ion fo- the health Of the whole mass Of man
kind.
oyyhv did you carry that baby?" asked my mis-
-t,,srz. friend of an aged. Nithered old woman
~ ,-e # The famine refugee camps n central
-r,r,a last month, pointing 10 q starTeiing Whlch
,be trembling old arms held. There IS no one
slse the father and mother have both died.
Ana plainly TIE infant would soon follow them
,itbin the portals OF starvation gate. through
,,f,b So many hundreds are daily passing. The
aaqtb Of the parents and the survival OF that
ia woman and tiny babe were famine para
sov-e FOR most Of the victims at this stage are
ne very old and the very young
IA still another instance l saw WrinAleo'
half blind old grandmother seated on the pare
and frozen ground. her only home in the camp,
7i,ssinC with a child the thin rice SFuel
which she had managed 10 secure at the reHei
kitchen. How she ever made her way through
,bo, lam of voracious wild creatures cannon
,oli. on the same day. at the same place, sa"
a man SO crushed by the jam that he could ho'
get 10 the mission hospital without help.
The cruel. crowding selfshness Of the ChliieSe
in the scramble for daily bread under Ordinary
circumstances is more elemental and uhoon-
oealed than anything known IN the west auo
actual -tarvation as a motive ana You uhcl'al"
al the savage beasts that lurk IN the receSse'
Of tum6n nature
A few days ago a missionary al Sucn Sucnlen
.,,o,,obt N alleviate modicum Of the distress
,1ar surrounded him by distributing 100 work
tickets 10 able bodied men, using renel ~ IuIlus
for navn,ent When the hour OF distribution al
-i,,a5 IN was very early in the morning. mon
~ one thousand men. each determined 20 selze
This chance for work, no matter p" no HisLt -
iast e,,~rad around the missionary Ihey crushed
hin, and finally bore him down-all win no @ eNii
irtenfion-and trampled him under tooI ultl
he was rescued. unconscious. on WIN graz
ee. 5,FHcultv and his life barely saved
New-York tribune., 1907-03-17
LANDLORDS TROUBLES.

Landlords have their troubles and in some
cases are justified in what seems an arbitrary
New-York tribune., 1907-03-17
HnNGER MAKEs MADMEN.

IT,. ;s the sor, Of thing. and worse. which the
.,,,torities fear when they refuse 10 allow indi-
-id,,sls 70 go out into the camps and disburse
-elief II is more than a little trying to white
mans nerves TO have starving people clutchlng
a+ his coat or falling the ground before hi''l'
nv holding forth hungry children for his pity
,bilA he dare not ease his feelings by scattering
.be few coppers that are jingling in his pocket.
2t The rule is rigid and doubtless wise that not
q conner penny or brass cash may be given
out directly.
7, fsc, the ofHoials as well as most other on
rervers rather anticipate serious outbreaks a.
q consequence of the famine. Let nooouS
5elude himself into the belief that the Chlnese
are the abject serfs Of an aulocraoS o 60 eee
Tnent: the hundreds of mandarins who nave peer
heafen dipped in huge jars Of NTH, covered WIZ
mud stoned and otherwise in-treated pH NOUS
know far different. The Chinese are htaIIS a. a.
---a,-e vipe FOR riot At any moment the Dig
zn-orld which has been so callous 70 the dNlIi-
ness OF this famine that has swept away me
.ntire subsistence Of 100000 people, out or
sotsi nonularion of 10.O00.0O0. dwelling in an
area of 40 600 square miles. may he started INTO
attention by a great outbreak OF mao, NJ, i2D 1, ae
peration in which all the Foreigners NllilIll i -.
may neTish IL so, be IL remembered thal poiss
snd self-restraint are qualities scarceN 10 p@
expected OF men in the throes of actual slaFFa-
These furnishing Chinese are. as matter o.
observation displaying respect TOT lhN Millli
could be expected of no Western people sliili-
lsrlv situated I have been amazed 70 see heaIS
Of rice and other foodstuffs freely exposed TOT
sale on the sidewalks of streets along MhiCh
daily mass hundreds Of men. in the indescrinaoie
grin ~ The primitive passion Of hunger. Yet not
a gram was stolen. Al Tsin-hlang -fu' d c@its @
~ al hou+ 150O00 inhabitants, saw tons OF rice
SO displayed and all the restaurants open 10
fbe street while outside the city wall We're en-
carped 100000 famishing refugees driven from
their homes by want and many Of them dying
daily from actual starvation. HangchoW mas
an encampnaent Of 10000 refugees. Of whom the
Chinese Governor said that 1.O0O died in single
night from cold and starvation. Nanking has
three camps of these miserable mortals, with
about 100000 people in them. and Chinklang
tss "a 0OO These moreover are the strong VINO
are able 10 pile their meager goods on the fam
tlv wheelbarrow and travel south from the
North River famine district: of the other
Fnvriads who are perishing in their homes, moth
ing can be said. Nobody has ever written a
description of the death throes OF rat IN lis
hole
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DANIEL DIDN'T MAKE
so MUCH MONEY

Editor Press-Please publish the
following correction of a statement
in last evenings Press saying that
collected rs cents each from $50
persons who stood in line to make
filings upon land. l kept order and
saw to 1t that first come was first
served on my own time, as l had
finished my days work for the city.
kept the name of each person in
line and gave each slip with name
and number upon it. The land Of
fee officials accepted these claim
ants just as numbered them. One
hundred and one were given num-
bers. Those in front that were in
line all night paid me for my work.
The time put in by me was 16 hours,
for which l received 1925. Although
was offered more money by nearly
all of them, no one can say he con-
tributed more than rs cents and not
one of those who came in the latter
part of the night and stood in the
rear end of the line paid cent. l
would not undertake the same work
again for double the money. AS
regards the order kept and the
many comments upon same by ap-
plicants for land refer you to s. A.
Wells and Hal J. Cole, who are in
charge of the land Office here. Yours
j. w. DANIEL.
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The Daily Short Story

laughing. He was too unanimously
engaged in getting breath between
the frequent submergings. In fact,
in couple of minutes Slocum John
was engaged in the interesting pro-
cess of drowning; and pretty soon
Matilda noted the process, and
shrieked frantically for aid. None
came, for none was near. Then
Matilda acted. In a twinkling her
shoes were thrown off, and two lit
tie feet were speeding swiftly on
the dusty road, in the upstream d.
rection, along the river. Twenty.
five yards she ran, then fearlessly
dashed into the wild waters, swan
bravely by the cruel boulders, but
keeping steadily toward the point
where the luckless Slocum John
was fitted in between the big
stones, dashed by the foaming water.
At last she was safely at the
rocks imprisoning Slocum John.
Carefully she dragged herself to the
top of one Of them, then reached
down and with strength born of
love, pulled up the now almost limp
and lifeless body Of Slocum John
upon her rock, and patiently and
tenderly held him there until the
superabundant store of water had
all poured from his threat.
When at last he was revived and
had murmured something he meant
for thanks, and gazed with unutter-
able bliss upon the wet bare feet Of
his rescuer, Matilda Justify called
for aid and at last was answered by
a passerby, who presently came out
in a boat and took the imprisoned
pair to the shore.
The party at Dodgers was held,
and at it's close far in the moonlit
night Slocum John went home, with
his head in the clouds and in no
BILE state of exaltation.
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"You are in doubt" said Nine.
Skinner, shutting the pack.
"Yes," l says. $50 is your lover -
she wheezed, turning up the ajck Of
spades. "No, he is in Nebraska"
told her. For that fresh remark
she gave me a black look, but hav
ing seen me with a half dollar in
my possession, she predicted that
the clouds would blow away, that a
handsome Adonis far off adored me,
that I would come into great for.
tune, that I would wear orange bios
SONS soon, and that diamonds
would sparkle on my fingers. 1t
certainly sounded good to me. and
well worth the price.
So it is all on account of Nine.
Skinnem that sat down and wrote
a letter to Mr.. Finglemower that
would consider his proposal, but
would have to see him in person be.
fore deciding, for, said many a
maiden heart is narrowed when
love is too loosely cultivated"
l am excited, but happy.
To be cOntinued)
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MILLIONAIRE FLIES AWAY.

READING. Pa, Aug. 15.-Be-
cause his children, by falling in
love with Americans, have thwart-
ed his dream of having them marry
into the British nobility. Jos. Dives,
a merchant prince, who owns a
string of department stores from
the Atlantic to the Mississippi, has
given up his palatial residence just
outside of Reading, stripped 1t OF
it's costly furnishings, and returned
to his native town, Canterbury
England. The first blow to the
millionaire came Oct. 20, 1904,
when his daughter Belle eloped
with Frederick H. Clarke, a New
York lawyer. Other of his chill.
dren followed suit. and now the old
man has quit the country in dis
gust.