The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-02

| State by building the home. A woman cannot be a honemaker in the high est sense of the word and kitchen drudge at the same time.
 "Build and develop and make ila- tton of your country with white men. Make secure foundations by relieve ing your women of drudgery. Give build and develop. use your inferior people to do domestic drudgery. Don't put merial tasks upon your women that will exclude from their energies the greater. nobler work of making the home"
 Germans vaaue Training.
 Theyrentarkable===poss an unprece-- dented--rnefcantiie advance of Germany during recent years. says an exchange, is looked upon by many who are thor- oughly qualiiied to judge, as the df- rect result of the thoroughly system atized public instruction given there both in technical matters relating to the science and practice of manufact- ures and in the arts and crafts per taining to these.
 It Is likely that the Germans, with their accustomed thOrougiiness, first consider every proposed step scientific ally. reduce 1t to a theory, test it prae- tically in limited way, and if it stands tLt6b lcSJ put AAtO general praClICes
 Then, after having been perfected in the crucibles of both science and prac- tice, they place 1t in competition with the products in the same line of other nations, the product of these latter, however, being the result of individual effort instead of the precise output of a centralized system, with the head of the nation as one of its most active sponsore.
 
 Not To Ese Thought Ok. Puck.
 There was once a muiti-milIionaire Che was very ''multy," indeed) who spent immense sums of money on his children. They had everything, includ- ing four automobiles and a steam yaeht egch.
 still they were not satisfied.
 Can you not they implored. spend little time with us, now and theu?n
 'Time9' cried the multi millionaire, greatly shocked. No. no! You are dreaming. It is impossibie."
 This fable teaches that time is not money, in any practical sense.
 Where Shelley Erred.
 The chief thing on which Shelley's enemies have replied to smirch his reputation, writes George l.. Knapp in Lippincott's, is his desertion of his first
 
 that act. No decent defense is possi- ble There were extenuating cIrcum- stances, of course--there always are for anything. Harriet Westbrook had undoubtedly done the major part of the counting; and while this Is perfect ly legitimate, it is seldom good policy. Shelley had never pretended to be deeply In love with Harriet and he was passionately in love with Mary Goodwin. Harriet had not been the best of wives or mothers: she was wholly unsuited to be Shelley's life-mate; and she insisted on the presence in their home of her sister Eliza, who seems to have been an intolerable nuisance.
 But after all, these things have lit- tie or nothing to do with the matter Harriet was Shelley's wifeH she was the mother of one of his children, and about to become the mother of another The least he could decently do was to wait until the child was born and the mother safe; and then, if need be- ap- ply for divorce. He would not have got it-it cost & deal of money and more political influence to lobby a di- vorce through the House of Lords in those days; but Shelley owed it both Nto his wife and to Mary Goodwin to try.
 His whole behavior was wrong. pitia- bly wrong. and is saved from absolute meanness only by the frankness with which he avowed his intentions. and the freedom with which he provided for Harriets support. Fortunately, one swallow does not make summer, and one wrong act does not fix a char acter.
 If we would give fewer halos to our saints and fewer stripes to our sim ners, 1t would be fairer to both par- ties. and better for ourselves.
 Had St. Augustine died as early as did Shelley, he would have been re- rI1embered, If at all, only as a rather clever and utterly dissolute rake. St. eAugustine expiated his youthful faults by life of piety, grand and inspiring but so lined with savage intolerance that it may fairly be said he harmed the world most when he thought he was setting it the best example,
 Shelley atoned for his one serious error by a life whose rare beauty and usefulness was irradiated by the gent lest humanism. And his life with Mary Goodwin was an idyll: 1t was one of the few perfect marriages in his tory.
 Dried grass clippings, thoroughly sun dried to remove all possible dampness make soft pillow. and at the same time one giving a delightful odor. Corn husks. treated in similar manner, also are nice and splendid for porch pillows. 6olI anu inexpensive IS that or the milkweed pods. Gather them whon ready to buFst. remove the seeds and center, and put down into your pillow for softness equal to those Xou pur- chase at the store. For hard, ornament. al ones, fill with cotton batting all the slip will possibly hold. These you can stand anywhere. Excelsior and news i papers torn in tiny striRs also are good | and lighter in weight.