The midland journal., 1908-06-12
WORTH QUOTING !


A woman is never SO positive, de-
ciares the Topeka State Journal, as
when she isn't sure.
An exchange informs us that L
costs 100000 to raise an American
society girl. So far as we are aware.
observes the Richmond Times Dis
patch, Europe has never complained
that it wasn't worth the money.
Oratory, as an art, will always
serve It's peculiar ends, insists the
Atlanta Constitution. But indications
are unmistakable that it is not ia
play ss dynamic role In the future
as in the past of the country.
The weak point in the arguments
for woman's suffrage is their incom-
pleteness, argues the New York
World. If women want to adopt mems
code, whether in politics or morals
there Is no way that ordinary man
: can devise to restrain them. Women
will vote whenever the majority of
women want to vote. What prevents
their voting Is not men but them.
selves.
Says The Dial: "Washington's state.
ly literary style was, like his per.
sonality, impressive; and few OF
his sentences have impressed them.
selves permanently in the memory.
Perhaps the most familiar one, though
often misquoted, is this from the
Farewell Address, otis our true pol
icy to steer clear of permanent ALI.
ances with any portion OF the foreign
world"
Day after day the newspapers are
dlled with nastiness by the doings Of
the very rich. One after another,
names that have become famouB by
being associated with great wealth
become Infamous by being associat.
ed with some disgusting divorce suit
or with some scheme to multiply by
dishonest means the wealth which
Is already too great for its owners
good, laments the Weekly Witness.
While this state of affairs is very
disgusting and very injurious to the
morals of the community as whole,
it is not an anomaly, but just what
might reasonably be expected. For
riches naturally breed luxury and lux
ury breeds vice.
: To prevent the spread of disease by
systematic destruction of the insect
that carries it is one of the greatest
triumphs of modern sanitary science,
asserts the New York World. Yell
low fever was expelled from Cuba
and Panama by exterminating the
mosquito and cleansing its breeding
places. The recent campaign against
the rat in San Francisco was only the
indirect means of reaching the elu.
sive flea that communicates the germ
of the bubonic plague. While these
diseases cause little alarm in this
latitude we are cursed in summer
with swarms of the common house.
fly, which is known to be an active
agent il spreading the seeds OF
typhoid fever and other intestinal
troubles.
There is beauty everywhere out OF
doors. The weather is neither too
hot nor too cold The days are long
and the hours when walking is pleas
ant are many. Every nAkural con.
dition invites those who recognize
the Importance OF good exercise to
take it on their feet.-Cleveland Lead.
ed. This. comments the New York
Herald, Is sound sense from our es-
teemed contemporary in the beautiful
Ohio city. In these CHEEKY days
there are health and new mental vigor
in brisk daily walk away from the
humdrum of the Office or the shop,
And how much we learn of human
nature and gain in acquaintance with
this great city by such excursions!
By all means. let's take walk