The sea coast echo., 1908-05-02


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It Is only In novels, claims the Chi.
cago News that girls receive propos-
ais of marriage in a conservatory.
Now that lead pencils are being
made out of potatoes, it probably will
be easier than ever. thinks the Kansas
trouble by writing indiscreet notes.
Feats OF equestrian daring without
which horse show is incomplete sug-
gest to the Providence Tribune that
great deal OF talent is wasted in So
ciety which would be Of value in the
circus. "a
Thinks the Detroit Free Press: We
are being too heavily penalized for
our American manner of life. To in
sure greater longevity we must re-
turn to simpler conditions, to simpler
tastes-to a life which is simpler in
every particular.
Indiana has even put the lid on the
Ohio river excursion boats, declares
the St Louis Post-Dispatch, but it was
not until there was lawlessness and
crime on them that this was done. It
is lawlessness that has put weapon
in the hands of prohibition every
where.
When the transportation of stom-
achs becomes possible, prophesies the
Louisville Courier journal, there will
be sharp bidding among the profess
sional boarders of America for the
stomach of the New York Zoo toad
that has to eat a meal once in 1000
years.
What is needed, pleads the London
Times, today is some treaty laying
down the absolute integrity and neu-
trality of Sweden, Norway, -enmark,
Holland and Belgium. To be of any
value it should be a treaty signed, not
by one or two powers in opposition,
perhaps, to the rest of the world, but
by at least the four powers principal
Iy interested, England, France, Ger
many and Russia
Addressing the Wellesley college
students recently, the Rev. DR.. En-
dicott Peabody, head master of the
widely known Groton school for boys
said: "The shame of our land today
is the frequency of divorces. Why
is it? Because men and women are i'm
moral. Because they have not the self
control and the patience and the
courage to endure unhappiness and
disappointments which may come in
married life; because there is a spir-
it abroad of feeling I have a right to
be happy This is the fallacy at the
back of what is called new thought.
n ono af the napazinpS
who speaks of the bulk of the Chinese
people as little, stopped, pinched fig
ures''-yet a wonderful nation of sur
vivors-surely wears grotesque glass
es or he would have noticed that the
Cinnamon are by no means physical
ly feeble, argues the New York
American. The burdens Chinese cool
les bear, the lifting they do, indi-
cate no physical decrepitude. Nor are
the well-to-do and rich Chinese small
and decrepit men, If the Chinese were
not such a tough and hardy people
there would be less reason for consid-
ering seriously the yellow Peril"
Nature is slow to abandon anything
with which she started out. Let an
organ have lost its original use in
the evolution of higher species from
a lower and she will find a new use for
it, many new uses contends the New
York Mail. This unvarying fact is IL
Illustrated in the history of the tail in
fishes, reptiles, birds and animals.
Originally it was means of 1ocomo-
tion, in function corresponding pret-
ty closely to the screw propeller of
the ocean steamship. Now it is a
means of sexual attraction, a protec-
tion, a caudal whisk, rudder,
brake, fifth hand, a weapon of Of
fense, and, as in the dog. means OF
expressing sentiment.
Lord Kelvin, who achieved his
greatest scientific distinction when
he was still Sir William Thomson,
said on the occasion of his. 50th an
niversary as a professor of the uni
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