Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-19

ward, that am not an expert swimmer.
/ don't want anything said that's untrue.
/ can swim about as well as the average,
but no better.
Il do not like misstatements, and hope
nothing sensational will be made of this.
l fear that too much is being made Of it."
do you not think 1t Is a wonderful
thing that your son should come out alive
from an experience that has proven fatal
to several before? Several have been
drowned at Great Falls
so 1 am told. and that makes me very
thankful that Edward was spared
do you not consider it a miracle?'
he was asked.
1T was the providence Of God" replied
the father, with a smile.
At Great Falls it was said that young
Coe was the first who ever went into the
falls and came out again with any life.
The Waterman there says that 1t was
one chance In a thousand in favor Of the
unfortunate who fell into the waters of
the middle falls.
IF the young man had fallen into the
Spout he would never have come out,
for that is the worst place in the falls. 1t
has much greater velocity and a deep
er TALL. while the current at the bottom
Is a perfect whirlpool, and there are deep
holes and low lying rocks that make it
a deadly place. few years ago a man
Jumped off the rock above into the Spout
and 1t was nine days later that they
found his body. not thirty feet from
where the falls received him. The water
there is calm. but there is an UNDER
current that sucks everything down.
Rather picturesque suicide. don't you
think?'
We'll. yes. But he was beaten beyond
recognition by the time he was found.
The part OF Middle Falls into which young
Coe fell is the worst part of them, and 1
wouldn't take the risk for Rockefeller's
money Several men have lost their lives
mere, though not In my time, and it's
good place to be careful in. Coe is the
first 1 ever heard Of who escaped. It's
a miracle, that's what it Isl
But there seemed to be an echo which
hoated out over the rocks and water, 1T
was the providence of. Cod
under the restraint of wholesome homo
influence, calls her SLOW" She has no
domestic ties to bind her. she has burst
them long ago and emerged into the free
dom OF her own self-wiled inclinatioua
She is no longer mothers girl or father's
pet. she has broken loose from the Old
fogies, disregarded their advice, forgot.
ten their teachings and gone her way.
self-conscious that she IS having good
time and getting the most out of life.
The good time" and getting the most
out OF life" are the shibboleths of the
girl of the period.
Whether rich or poor, these twin desires
become the scylla or charybdis on which
she comes to grief The good time" is
the gulf that sucks into it's treacherous
depths the faireSt hopes. and getting the
most out of life" is the rock on which are
rent the proudest ambitions
If the girl of the period rushing on
ward to destruction would only take
warning from example she could save
herself in time. But she scorns the warn
ing and. like the moth to the candle
courts the deadly embrace of danger
We have not only to consider the girl
Of the period from her own standpoint,
but In reference to universal well-heing.
She will be the woman of tomorrow-the
wife and mother-and on her will depend
the future of a nation. II
The hand that rocks the cradle.
Is the hand that rules the world
whittier are we drifting.
Is it reasonable to imagine that a gid.
1y, vain, ignorant, fashion hunting pleas
frivolous girl will develop into
1 steady. wise, home-serving, domestic
conscious OF her responsibilities
% her family. her country and God?
Logic is against such q Supposition and
experience ignores it.