Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1909-07-09

| 10 the New IOrk l'reSS, dS ZIG way
they can name them.
There are no more Old maids now
adays. Instead, laments the Allan
ia Constitution, they are women "whc
chose to pursue careers"
Many a woman's ideas Of economy
sneers the Philadelphia Record. is II
cook too much in order to make dam
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 Marb.ans much.
The Frenchman who stated in Ii;
will that his last days had been
poisoned by diabohcal machines, mus
have lived to the windward of ar
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 oil
success in the roe OF war-lord tha'
he was disposed to assume.
Investigators in St. Louis contend
tnat nine-tentbs 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 westher, 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
lection basket-~just as that Washing
ton (Pa) man did.
Says the Philadelphia Inquirer: Thi;
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 at work in the right direction
are too many and too great to BIZ
withstood. The problem of the for
ests will look much better in tbs
United States a generation hence Of
even a decade.
Assaults upon the jury system, la
ments 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 bes'
paid class of public servants, as vel
as the most efficient, insists the New
York Journal. And the fact that the
work that they have been doing ha.
been under-valued and underrewari
ed for so long is all the more reason
that it should be recognized and ads
quately paid now.
The recovery of $100,000,000 worth
OF coal lands by the Government as
the result of a suit against the North
ern Pacific In the District Court OIL
Montana follows close upon the set
Element with the Union Pacific by
which the Government recovered 9
valuable tract of mineral land. This
commends the New York World, Is
the right kind of conservation OF ma
tural resources.
The maidens of Chicago are In de
spair. They have appealed to the
Illinois Legislature to hep them die
tinguish a married from an unmar
ried man. They want to know, ex
plains the Boston Post, where they
stand as soon as they are introduced
so as to waste neither time nor az
lection. The wcman's state Is self-ad
vertised; she is either Mss or a
Mrs, while the man turks in a dual
capacity under his plain Mister. In
Massachusetts,, where there are 20,
900 more women than men. there does
not seem to be any complaint. Our
ladies are keen. No New England
man is married but carriers the stig
ma of contented subsection. II il
were not so, 1t would be easy to find
new title to unlock the male puz.
zle We suggest the old.Elshioned
term Squire. Let the married men
be introduced as S1uires. That will
fix the gay masqueraeers.