The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-25
The Ideal Husband.


 A CHICAGO minister has made an A effort through inquiries address 4 \ ed to the young women of his congregation to discover the sort of hus- band these girls desire.
 The replies are significant.
 What is the chief quality of the man. do you suppose. these young women ihsls1 upon in their ideal husband?
 Good looks?
 Not one Indeed, some of these sen sihle girls actually object 10 hand some husband as one too apt to have 'affinities.'
 Wealth?
 Scarcely one of them names a money requirement. Some expressly stated preference for a poor young man that they might have the pleasure or helpihs him up in the world.
 Occupation?
 Neither occupation nor position in so- ciety cuts any figure in the selection Of q desirable husband. Any honest em- ployment would suffice.
 what, then, think you did these 100 modern girls, ranging from IS to 25 years, insist upon as the one desirable trait in the man of their choice?
 Pathetic insistence-
 Every young woman put into her re- uuirement that she wished. above all things. to marry man who would be kind to her,
 That's all
 The husband might be plain of fea- ture, rich or poor, millionaire or laoorer' but-he must be kind.
 And here is the distinctly feminine viewpoint, a view often misunderstood by men.
 Says the mystifed husband who has domestic difficulty: Do I not provide for her? Am I not neat and clean? never touched her in anger. What more does she want?'
 What more does she want? Tenderness, sympathy. She is built that way.
 The real woman of today doesn't mind burdens if there Is husbands sympathy. She gladly makes sacrifices if he shows appreciation.
 I tell you MT. Man, the things you may account as trival--a touch of kind ness. a shy caress a grateful look-these are all in all to your wife.
 It Is so easy to make woman happy. All she asks in return for giving you the best that Is in her is just kindness.
 A Good Frau.
 Behind the newspaper stories of the successful flights of Count Ferdinand Zeppelin the venerable German aeronaut is fine tale of devotion.
 It has been 50 years since the count gave his life to the invention of an air ship.
 He belonged to a distinguished family of the nobility. was rich, accomplished and popular. The cup of pleasure was his for the drinking of it.
 Nevertheless
 This man chose the better part In- stead of life of luxury he turned his back upon society fitted up laboratory and went to work upon his idea
 Fancy what people of his generation would say of man who would try to invent a flying machine! Of course he was put down as crazy.
 Fifty years ago, remember. there were no practical appliances of electricity. no street cars or telephones or automobiles. The possibility of wireless telegraphy had not entered the conception of man. The Morse telegraph was still a nine days wonder.
 Zeppelin's generation was inhospital to his idea
 That rich nobleman should give up the chances of a social career or ser vice to the state or to the army in order to tinker on a machine was evidence to his peers that there was a screw loose in the mans head.
 For many years years of ridicule most ly Zeppelin worked without a word of encoura cement.
 Let us take back part of that statement. At 3l Ze0Delln marrle0-ne IS now IL and for 40 years his wife has been his helper and sympathizer. When his ma- chimes fell to the ground she nursed his bruises and broken bones and comforted him. And
 When the count had spent all his for tune in experiments she sold her property to help him. She became his laboratory assistant She never lost faith in her husband.
 Finally. when the aged aeronaut and his wife had made themselves paupers in order to perfect the invention, the Ger man government took up the project and provided the means of carrying it out. And thus after years of team work by husband and wife success came to them.
 Fly? And long distances? And stay up for hours?
 Why. how could the man help but fly with such a frau by the side of him?
 Fifty Million Dollars.
 Fl. H. Rogers, Standard Oil magnate, left fortune of $50 000,0O0.
 Can a man honestly accumulate in a single lifetime S50.OO0,0oo?
 Passing by such a natural inquiry, 1t is worth while to ask ought not a portion of this mans estate accumulated from the people, to be returned to the people?
 Ex-President Roosevelt thought so and recommended a federal inheritance tax graduated according to the size of the estate.
 Is there any good reason in morals or policy why the government which gave Rogers opportunity and protection should not impose a heavy tax upon so much wealth?
 Tn this respect we are behind every civilized government. It is rightly held that beyond a reasonable limit a rich man holds his property in trust for society.
 In France for instance, under the inheritance tax the state would tax Rogers estate 1872 per cent. or s9,0oo0oo Many of the states in the Union have inheritance tax laws. Winconsin, perhaps imposes the highest tax. Had Rogers died in that state his estate would have paid $4C00.000
 If each state levied such tax upon inheritances and the government supple noentad this by like tax the sum would still be less than that collected in France As it is the general government whose interstate laws made Rogers millions possible gets nothing.
 Moreover the heirs do not need the money and the government does.
 It is apparent the beneiciaries Of the Rogers estate would not miss 5000 600 The Rogers will give 30 per cent of the bequests at the age of 40 years the other 50 per cent being put in trust to give the heirs a life income.
 It fig very plain that Rogers doubted the ability of his heirs
 Now
 t is apparent to everyone there must be some kind of limitation put ,,r,ou inc sfsvyo1an'' fort1Inea of fhfs