The Thibodaux sentinel. (Thibodaux, La.) 1905-1912, 1909-07-10
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The wirless phone, says Its inven
tor, will be secret. The wireless
then, ohirps the Atlanta Journal, i:
not lady's phone.
The queer way women can dres:
their children is nothing like as queer
to the New York Press, as the way
they can name them.
There are no more old maids now
adays Instead, laments the Allan
ia Constitution, they are women who
chose to pursue careers"
Many woman's ideas of economy
sneers the Philadelphia Record, is to
cook too much in order to make dain-
ty dishes of the left-overs.
Sending wireless messages to Mars
from a balloon, notes the New YORK
Journal, has one good point-it isn't
| likely to bother the Maritans much.
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The Frenchman who stated in his
| will that his last days had been
poisoned by diabolical machines, must
have lived to the windward OF an
automobile highway. suggests the
/ Philadelphia Ledger.
Germany reports great national
prosperity. This, insists the Wash
ington Star, ought to be some COM
pensation to the kaiser for lack OF
success in the roe of war-lord that
he was disposed to assume.
Investigators in st. Louis contend
that nine-tenths of the criminals In
that city are victims of the opium
habit. AS for the other tenth. COM
ments the Washington Star, 1t may
be that they stand in with the police.
Stay outdoors a little while and
take some deep breaths of the outer
air: better still, walk between the
work place and the home few days,
and get over this habit of kicking
about the weather, advises the Den
yer Republican.
If you persist in sleeping through
the sermon, you may wake UP sud
denly, warns the Atlanta Constitu-
ton, and in the confusion of the mo
ment place a $4,000 bill in the col
lectien basket-just as that Washing,
ton (Pa.) man did.
Says the Philadelphia inquirer: This
milk question is becoming of the ut
most Importance. An unclean dairy,
milking done under unsanitary con-
ditions and COWS not properly cared |
for are menaces to life, and they
must be dealt with.
The cause of the tree must be
won, AYERS the Cleveland Leader. The
forces ait work in the right direction
are too many and too great to be
Withstood. The problem of the for
ests will look much better in the
United States a generation hence or
even decade. +
Assaults upon the jury system, la
men.s the Schenectady Union, are in
roads upon the ancient plan of the
privilege of man doing equal and
exact justice as between his fellows,
who, under the recognized proceed
ure, aims for the granting of wha.
they conceived to be their portion.
School teachers should be the best
paid class Of public servants, as we'll
as the most efficient, insists the New
York Journal. And the fact that the
work that they have been doing has
been under-valued and under-reward.
ed for SO long is all the more reason
that it should be recognized and ade
luately paid now.
The recovery of $100,0O0,000 worth
Of coal lands by the Government as
The result of a suit against the North.
ern Pacific in the District Court OF
Montana follows close upon the set
,lement with the Union Pacific by
which the Government recovered
tract of mineral land This,
;ommends the New York World, Is
he right kind Of conservation of ma
ural resources. .
The maidens of Chicago are in de- :
pair. They have appealed to the !,
illinois Legislature to hep them dis ;
inguish a married from an unmar- .
led man. They want to know, ex-
lains the Boston Post, where they ,
tand as soon as they are introduced. =
0 as to waste neither time nor at :,
aotion. The weman's state is self-ad- :,
she is either a Miss or a :
lrs., while the man turks in a dual :,
apacity under his plain Mister. In /,
massachusetts,, where there are TO-,
% more women than men, there does !,
OF seem 20 be any complaint. Our i,
dies are keen. No New Englanl 5,
AN is married but carriers the stig- =
Ia of ccntented subsection. II it :,
ere not so, it would be easy to find
new title to unlock the male puy- ..t
e. We suggest the old-fashioned II
nm Squire. Let the married men
introduced as ,Sluires. That will or