The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-03-24

And strives to keep the peace.
He never goes to buriesque shows
Or racetracks any more,
lie wipes his feet when he comes home,
And always shuts the door.
When mother says a thing is 50
All arguments now cease.
For father says he's working in
The interest OF peace.
Pa says he's fought a heap of fights
With ma, and lost them all;
1t took him twenty years to learn
His chances all were small.
And now he says he's on the Job.
Till death brings him release.
There's nothing that he wants TO do
So much as keep the peace.
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Something to Give
The Friend Who Travels.
If you nave a woman friend who is
planning to take a long trip to Florida or
South Carolina, or the still longer jour-
ney TO southern California, next month,
make her d silk hat bag and win her
porters ere ready TO supply the traveller
with pap bags for the protection of the
hat, but [ Use bags are stiff and I'M
wieldy, anG one of soft china silk, pro-
yided with a ribbon run through q casing
at the top, will be much more convenient.
On the outside of the bag, near the
lower edge, may be placed pockets,
closed by snap buttons, for the accommo-
dation of gloves and veil. Thus every
thing for a little jaunt away from the
train is at hand when a stop is made for
any length of time.
-Os.O-
The Increase in Suicide.
That suicide is increasing at a most
alarming and astonishing rate is rec
ognized by all who nave given the matter
thought. Suicides are. indeed, becoming
so common that they no longer startle.
The daily record of suicides is so great,
to say nothing of a still larger number
which pass without notice, that the ac-
count Of a suicide has ceased to create
in us the impressions which naturally
belong to this unnatural mode of death.
According to the New York Tribune
November 4, 1909, the rate of suicides
per 100000 of population for 1908 was
21.8-the highest ever recorded, j sui
cides to the 100000 more than in 1907.
The actual number of suicides for 1908
in this country was 1867, which is 601
more than for the previous year-an in
crease of 16 per cent The increase in
population during the same time was
% per cent, which indicates that sui
eide is increasing more han five times as
fast as the population
AT the present rate of increase the
number of suicides in 1913 will be more
than 1900, or double the number of 1907.
Ii the increase should continue at this
rate, doubling in every six years, the
number of annual suicides in 1887, or
twenty-Seven years from the present
time. would reach more than 100000.
and the death rate from this cause would
be more than go to every 100000 of pop
ulation.
This increase in suicide is one of the
striking evidences of the race deteriOra-
ton and degeneracy which are taking
place in this country, and may, in a GER
tain sense. be regarded as a measure of
this deterioration. The tendency to de-
teriOration is not confined to this coun-
try. All Europe has recently been stirred
by the discovery of the astonishing
prevalence of child suicide in Germany.
According to statistics recently published
in that country, there occur each year in
Prussia alone more than 600 suicides of
persons under 20 years of age, ana be-
tween so and 20 cases of suicide of chill
dren under 10.
1t is evident from these facts that this
enormous increase of suicide cannot be
attributed to physical want or misery,
the result of poverty. 1t is an indication
Of the mental and moral deterioration
which are the necessary accomplishments
of the general race degeneracy which
is going on at al increasingly rapid rate
throughout the civilized wOrld.-Good
Health.
Teach Children to Be Competent.
Do you want your children to be sue
cesses in life?
If you do, teach them to be competent.
Teach them how to do some thing we'll
and thoroughly, and as it should be done,
and you have secured fame and fortune
for them.
1t doesn't make a particle of differ
ence what the thing is that they do,
whether it is sewing ON buttons or man
aging a trust, people will be seeking
their services and offering them their
own prices because a man or woman who
is capable of turning out a good, hon
est, reliable piece Of work is a marked
person in the community, and everybody
is after him or her.
The young man who gets a reputation
for being a competent boOkkeeper, who
is quick and accurate, never has to walk
the street looking for d Job. Employ.
erS. worn out with the SlOVenly work of
men whose ledgers will never balance,
are out hunting for him and offering
him more money to come to them: The
dressmaker whose gowns always fit, and
whose skirts hang right, can charge
what she pleases, and women, disheart-
ened with having their goods ruined, sit
humbly at her feet and importune her to
condescend to sew for them. The cook
whose meats are always done to a turn
and whose sauces have a flavor doesn't
stay a cook. He becomes a high sal
aried chef.
1t does not make any difference how
small a task a child is given to do, the
parents who want him to succeed in
life should take the trouble to see that
he does it properly, and not in a sloven-
~, incompetent, messy sort of a a
Even chiIdrea's play should be super
vised. and they should be taught to play
a game according to the rules, to build
a neat block house, or a kite that will
fly. or set a dolls table as a real table
should be set.
Because right then and there, in those
little things, the child's habits are being
formed and the question OF its success or
it's failure is being settled. l know a
very wonderful man, who against al
most insuperable difficulties had strug-
gled to a brilliant success, and | have
often heard him attribute his ability to
achieve to his father.
Il have really been beaten, and down