Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-04-24

except, perhaps, colds in the head and
similar little troubles.
We are glad to learn. confesses the
New York Herali. from an esteemed
contemporary that the "parlor" kept
in cold storage for company" is be-
ing crowded cut of the old Kentucky
home. There are so few 'parlors" OF
the old type left in this part Of the
country that some museum should
hasten to secure one before the last
shall have disappeared.
There are only two possible ways to
put a stop to international marriages
laments the Richmond Times-Dis-
patch. One is to abolish American
heiresses by an amendment to the Con-
stitution. The other is to have The
Hague Tribunal compel all European
governments to supply their peerages
at all times with whatever cash sums
they may need, desire or apply for.
Asserts the Rochester Democrat and
Chronicle: Wherever there is dan
ger to human life and limb some at
tempt has been made to meet it by
inventive genius. American inven-
tions, including such safety appliances.
may be found the wide world over.
Yet President Roosevelt declares
common opinion when he says that "in
our use of safety devices for the pro-
lection of workingmen we are far be-
hind European peoples"
The suffragette is the woman suffra-
gist who is convinced that the periods
of words and grass are past. and that
1t is time to try the virtue Of throwing
stones, defines the New Haven Regis
ter. The suffragette has the spirit of
the old martyrs, lacking. frequently,
their sanctifed common sense. She
storms, gregariously, the houses OF
commons and the seats of the mighty.
She marches in the streets. she uses
Carrie Nation methods. she gets
rested. Thus is she martyr. though
how she helps her cause toward any
practical goal it is dificult to discern.
The business of putting up food ar
ticles-cereals, cured meats and liquids
lin boxes, wrappers, glass and tin, and
charging full price for the combined
weight, is fostered by the manufact-
urers of proprietary brands, insists the
New York World. The retailer of
course charges a profit on both wrap
per and contents. This is a matter of
deceptive labelling as fraudulent in ef-
feet as the adulteration of food and
drugs against which Congress has pro-
vided severe penalties. II a canvas
wrapped ham marked nine pounds ac-
tually weighs eight pounds and is sold
for nine pounds the buyer is cheated,
and he is none the less cheated because
the law overlooks this peculiar form of
cheating to the manufacturers and
dealers joint profit.
There can be nothing but common
dation for the movement which has
been set afoot to provide more and
better fairgrounds under improved
conditions for the boys and girls,
boasts the Philadelphia Inquirer. This
is a matter whose importance the COM
munity has been discreditably slow to
recognize. II children are to be happy
and healthy, II they Are to grow up
under the best auspices for developing
into vigorous men and women. with
the sane mind in the sound body for
which the maxim calls, they must be
provided with chance to engage in
plenty Of open-air exercise. It is. un-
fortunately. the fact that they have
very little such opportunity now. OF
late years something has been done TO
supply this crying need, but not much,
not nearly as much as the necessities
of the situation require. Most of the
public schools have around them a
small open space which, by courtesy is
called playground, but is 1t seldom
large enough for the accommodation
of those for whose benefit it exists and
only for part of the time ID it avail
able.