The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-07-17

ed her more favorably than President
Roosevelt did, who, she thinks, might
have read Three Weeks" and not
liked it. This would indicate the pos
session of a bourgeois soul" Mrs
Glyn, because of one silly, over
wrought book. is now on the top wave
of popularity, so far as interviews,
newspaper portraiture and cable dis
patches signify popularity. She is the
subject of common talk. Yet her first
work, The Visits of Elizabeth" a
( tTifie and not of an elevating charac-
| ter, remains her best book, and moth
| ing she has done is of worldwide in
trest--New York Times.
The Ocean Tramp
Pity the poor tramp; not him of the
wanderlust fraternity, who more than
almost any other is the architect of
his own fortune or misfortune, and
CaTVeS out his own destiny, but the
tramp of the ocean, the irregular car
Tier, that at this time is anxious to
be engaged in the worlds work, but
can find nothing to do. In New York
there are already reported from fifty
to sixty vessels lying as idle aa a
! painted feet upon a painted ocean,
without charters or hope of getting
them But the blight is not peculiar
| to this country. Perhaps in this re-
spect We are better off than most. be-
| cause the tramp ship as an investment
| is more prominent among European
nations In every large port of the
world these vessels, it is said. are
swinging at rusty anchor chains, look
/ ing for business and finding none The
I regular merchant lines, with their in
/ creasing facilities, can do all the bus
! mess there is to do The tramp5 de-
/ pend upon the surplus for their gucT
/ don, and with no surplus there can
/ be no winnings According TO the
/ Evening Post, the week opened in
! New York with a double list of these
wandering vessels of all classes and
sizes, extending from Liberty Island
to the man-Of-war anchorage off Stat
en- island and even a worse condi-
/ ton obtains in other ports of the
world. Idle tramps in our own ports
are not uncommon, but idleness over
: the whole seven seas is unprecedent-
! ed. There are times when blessed
are they who have nothing. If our
/ flag is a rarity in the commercial
ports of the world. in time of strait
/ like the present we can contemplate,
4 with comparative complaceucy, a sit
uation that at other times we regard
as a Mathematician Transcript
Woman's Greater Responsibility
| Nature has made man the purSuer
I and woman the sought. so when
woman has sinned ii seems to her that
her whole life is irreIrievably
/ lost How complete is the resultant
overthrow of the wOmanly nature is
matter of incOntestable and painful
certainty to all TefOrmers who have
/ tried to work in this most profitless
( and hopeless of all fields. The reason
why a man will pick himself up after
/ a fall and why society will help him,
/ though he is reluctant to help A wo-
man, is because his nature. as exper-
fence amply prveS. is not so wholly
wrecked and vitiated by one false step
( as a woman'S nature is. 1t seems
as if a wOmdn'S nature is so much
/ finer and higher than a mans, that
once it is shattered it is wholly ruin
/ ed like some rare and fragile vase
which is irretTievabIy lost to further
use and beauty. while an OBJECT of
some CoarseT material can he mended
and again put in use History is not
| wanting in suggestions as to the ef-
feet that is wrought upon society by
/ the assumption of an equal standard
/ of morals by women and men. All
/ that makes the home a sacred spot
ever calling its male members I'D to
I higher thoughts and pUTeT living. is
/ lost Even in our own day the circles
of the idle rich and the unframed poor
present many such a spectacle. 1t is
/ the woman who makes the atmos-
phere of the home. the social stand
! ards of society. the high level of NOR
/ al conduct and spiritual aspiration TO
which man, if he is worthy of her
/ companionship, forever aspires but
seldom reaches. Is il any wonder
that manly men and womanly women
instinctively Tecoil from the lax stand
ard of morals so ardently champioued
/ in the fleshly school of fiction. the
/ drama, art and life. on the ground of
securing for woman an equality with
man?-IndianapOlis Star.
Vocational Schools.
The decision of the school authori-
( tiss IN New York city to open two
vocational schools for children be-
tween thirteen and fifteen, or there
about, in order to train them directly
I in some measure for industrial cali
/ ings. may be said TO have been lit
orally forced upon them by the pres
| ent educational situation Proba bly,
! New York presents an extreme case
/ of great masses of children leaving
1 the elementary schools before gradu-
alton from the highest grammar
grades. II is to be remembers also
I that in eNw York the children of the
well-tO-do are not sent to the public
/ schools in the same proportion as in
/ the smaller cities The figures. how
1 ever, furnish a startling exhibit TO ed
/ ucators- The total enrolment the
I last school wear in Greater New