The National tribune., 1909-10-28

rhagen, from which he graduated with
h gh honors. In his study of these peo-
pie he has had the great advantage of
understanding and speaking their Ian
guage, and of the sympathy which his
kinship with them would give him. He
has written several books on this sub
iect, and tells us in one of these that
the Eskimos are divided into three
classes: first, those who I've in the west
and south of Greeland, who are Chris
tianiZed and what would be called civ
lilized, the East Greenlanders and the
Polar EskimoS. The Eskimo loves his
wife, Rasmussen tells us, but the shock
ing brutality which he sometimes shows
in his treatment of her shows that CIV l.
iZation has not gone very deep with
him after all According to the Eskimo
notion this Is the best way TO keep af-
| fection alive; the wife sees in it an eV :
fence of strength and power, and loves
her lord all the better for it. With
natural suspicion of strangers, which, II
removed. shows them good-natured,
cheerful and amiable, they have touch
of cruelty born of their struggle with
nature which surpasses that of any 9TH
er race on the globe, and can be as
savage and remorseless as their own
i""Nergs or the Arct c Ocean itself, when
their hatred is incurred.
I
school class in Cleveland. Every Sab
bath the oil king is found at his post of
duty, and between the reading and eX-
pounding of the Scriptures he works in
a good deal of advice to the boys. Don't
spend your money. boys" the great man
says. 'All money is good for is to spend
il on other people. tretIy SOON sod
boys VII go out into the world and be
gin to earn money. Pay your mother
lur your board as long as you remain
under her roof and save the rest. You'll
see plenty of things you want to buy;
the shop windows will be full of them,
but turn away and don't do it; salt
down that 81, So, $40, as the case may
be- Remember, too, that you have
duty toward the poor which you cannot
shirk and expect to prosper. Don get
4 into your head that men like me are
going to look after the poor, and that
you need not bother. Aou've got to
help, too. Pay your mother for your
board, give some 10 charity, and put
the rest in a good safe bank" SO say
eth John of the golden shekels; yea.
mountain high is the pile of golden
shekels of John. But does that pile rep
resent the ruthless extinction of many
OF the natural feelings of youth? 1t
looks good deal like it.
In spite OF her woman suffrage
work, her social demands and the thou
sand and one other claims on her time,
Mrs o. H P. Belmont has found op-
portuHity to write a book. AS matter
of fact, she has been writing the book
for several years, for it cons SITS of
number of stories she composed for the
benefit of her two little grandchildren,
the boys of her daughter, the Duchess
of Marlborough. 1t did not take the
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brother, Lord fvor Spencer Churchill.
very long to find out that grandma told
a rafting good story, and the upshot of
lit was that Mrs. Belmont just had to
get to work and put into shape these
children of her brain. She chose for
her subjects the pranks and doings of
her own little ones. ". K. and Harold
IN. Vanderbilt, and her daughter, Con-
suelo. so the stores are all true, which
adds a greater charm to them, and
made them -doubly interesting, of
course, to her little grandchildren. The
book will be handsomely illustrated.
and the proceeds from its sale will be
devoted to some of Mrs. Belmont's nu-
merous charities. What a pity il is that
some of the stories told by imaginative
mothers to the + young sons and daugh-
ters gathered about her in the twilight
hour could not be written outi But in
just this way do many of the very choic-
est things in life pass unnoted save by
a few. Like the unexpected fragrance
of passing breeze. they come and go
almost before their presence is recog-
niZed.-
We are now told, which serves to in
crease the very ncere admiration
which Mr.. ]. NJ. Barrie's friends have
of him, that he would take no steps to
free his wife by divorcing her until the
man for whom she had broken her mar
riage vows solemnly pledged his word
to marry her as soon as the divorce was
secured. Then Mr.. Barrie brought suit
for the divorce which was granted him
the other day. Perhaps no other mSl
n the world under like circumstances
has acted just as generously as Mr.. Bar
rie. Such instances must be very rare,
indeed, if they exist at all. Knowing
his wife's lover TO be a poor man, strug-
Cling TO make a name for himself in
the uncertain world Of letters, and that
she, in sharing his life, would be obliged
10 forego many of the luxur es pre-
viously enjoyed by her if not compelled
to face actual poverty, Mr.. Barrie
made a handsome settlement on his
wife before he took any action in the
matter of divorce, making her finan-
cially independent Perhaps, too, Mr..
Barrie WAS afraid that the man who
took her heart from him would some
day turn to another woman, and in that
case she whom he had loved and cher
ished would be at the mercy of the cold
world We're she without funds. II
whole attitude has been most noble,
generous and unselfish And he has
not been able to hide the fact, either.
that he was sick at heart, grievousIy af-
fiicted, by this unfortunate and dra-
matte turn in his affairs.