The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-10-02

says.
LAS long as woman is comfortably
cared for by her family OF by mar
riage. she is not likely to do anything
rash; but an unattached woman has
a tendency to become an adventures
not so muca on economic as on
psychological grounds. Life Is rare
ly SO hard that young woman can
not earn her bread; but she cannot
always live and have the stimulations
she Graves AS long, however, as she
remains with her people and is known
to tne whole community she realizes
that any infraction of its habits, any
immodesty OF immortality will ruin
her standing and her chance of mar
rage, and bring her into confusion.
Consequently, good behavior is a pro-
tective measure - instructive. Of
course. But when she becomes detach-
ed from home and Is removed not only
from surveillance, but from the ordi-
nary stimulation and interest afforded
by social life and acquaintancesiip,
her restraints are likely to be relaxed
The professionally irregular class
OF women represents an extreme and
unfortunate result of an incomplete
and unreal relation to society. There
are many sorts of natural dispositions
among them-as many perhaps as
will be found in any other occupation.
Many women of fine natural character
and disposition are drawn into an ir-
regular life, but recover and settle
down 10 regular modes of living. In
this respect the adventures is more
! fortunate than the criminal Chat
other great adyentitious prOduct, be-
cause the criminal is labeled and
his record follows him, making refor?
nation difhcult; while the in-and-out
life of woman with reference to
what we call virtue is not officially
noted and does not bring consequences
SO inevitable. But If you drive nature
out at the door, she will come back
through the window and this interest
is greater stimulation is. l believe, the
dominant force in determining the
| choice-or. rather, the drift-of such
woman"
Wheat and Gold.
liz | should tell you of a new gold
mine which yielded more gold in a sin
| gle year than Alaska has yielded in
all the years since gold was first dis
covered there-can you imagine the
stampede of people from town and
county from the big city and the vii
lage hamlet? ! once had the luck,
or the illluck, to be present in such
DpSuC u OuC Ol Inc ROlu
heids. | was on one of the first trains
to enter the new camp. Men and
boys climbed in the engine, on the
cowcatcher, on the coal tender. Talk
of standing room. The train was
packed literally two and three deep;
for men, and women too. crowded
from the interior of the cars, Chamber
ed to the roofs and perched on the
trainmen's planking, out-iooting the
engine, shouting themselves hoarse,
as the train whistle announced the be-
ginning of the journey to the gold
mines. Yet that gold camp had not
produced ten millions of gold in a
year; and its total gold production
since has not rearched forty million
If | slould tell you-and prove up
my telling-of a gold mine that pro-
duced more gold in a single year than
California and Nevada and Arizona
and Alaska have produced in all time,
what kind Of fool would you thiak
yourself for not knowing about that
mine. What kind of a fool would YOU
thing yourself for not investing in that
mine, for not getting in on the
ground floor and backing up the en-
gineers who exploited it with sala-
ries that would put the Steel Trust
to the blush? The Steel Trust has a
capital of billion plus, and thinks
IL does well to pay dividends of four
or six per cent. The mine of which
write pays yearly dividends equal
TO fifty per cent. on tAe capital of the
Steel Trust; or half billion dollars
yearly.
Such a mine is Americas wheat
hard, soft and semi-hard, Red Fife and
Blue Stem and Turkish Red and Du-
rum, and all the subdivisions and
crosses and re-crosses of these, which
have so multiplied that thoroughbred
or pedigreed wheat today must be
named and cataiogued by numbers as
pure-blood stock is registered-From
Harvesting the Wheat" by Anges C.
Laut in The Outing Magazine for Oc-
tober