The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-11-20

but overlooked When I was a child
the girl with bookish tastes was an
exception. Now she is becoming the
rule and she is distinctly at a disad-
vantage after she has left the school
room.
What can she do? Ask the average
grammar or high school graduate
what occupation she wishes to take
up and she will answer stenography
or school-teaching, and In many cases
she has had no practical training for
anything she comes in contact with
the live responsibilities of the world.
these girls hold the future in
their unframed fingers. It is the
mothers of our children whom we are
keeping in ignorance Of the great
study Of home-making
What we need to remember is that
it is quite as important to have brains
in ones fingers as to have brains in
ones head. The girl who can't do
the higher mathematics. but knows
enough to put the butter on the ice,
so it won't melt, is quite as valuable
a person as the mathematical prodigy
who would be apt to forget all abou.
the butter
Very few girls to-day receive any
sort OF systematic domestic training
from their mothers. Sometimes the
mothers are themselves ignorant,
sometimes they are foolishly unset
fish, or bitten with the silly notion
that bcok-learning is the only genteel
knowledge. The children of the rich
are quite as much in need OF lessons
in domestic science as the children
of the poor"
Gathering grist for the joke mills
OF Nippon. Teytro Abiko, editor of
the Japanese Puck and censor Of pro-
fessional humorists in the land of the
CherryBlossoms and the Mikado, has
been having the time of his life for
the last three weeks in Gotham. The
Japanese Puck is to that country what
Puck is here and Punch is in England
1t keeps the nations pot of mirth
sizzling and gives Zest to the Empire
Love, politics and the suffragetts are
the three principal themes for its
satire. In layout it is very much like
the English comics after which 1t is
designed. The reading matter, ex.
planatory Of the funny pictures, says
the editor. are printed in three Ian.
guages-Iapanese. Chinese and Eng
l1Sh, so that they can be easily I'M
derstood. The drawings are in pen
and ink and crayOns and the covers
in six colors. like the most up-to-date
publication of it's class in the Occi
dent. The two most striking features
OF 1t, according to the editor, are the
absence Of drawing Of pretty women
and the fact that it begins in the
back and reads forward. The former
omission is unavoidable because there
are no Charles Dana Gibsons or Har
rlson Fishers in Japan to depict tn.
: native beauties in their prettiest pll
mage. During his stay in the city the
! visitor has been making the round:
OF the big funny weekly plants anG
collecting ideas TO improve the Japa
nese Puck which he expects to be
come a mighty factor in the futurs
affairs Of his country
. A bas with the hobble skirt. OF al
; tie freak, imbecilic contraption.
evolved for women by paranoic PART
sian designers, Captain Warth of tn,
: t'abre liner Venezia thinks they arr
: the quintessence Of human folly. H;
: speaks advisedly because his ship wa:
: held up for twenty minutes on 1t!
? outward journey to Marseilles TIT
ether day through them. Mr.. and Mrs
: george Linser, a young couple from
chicago on their honeymoon, VIII: