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The San Francisco call., 1910-10-02
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her mothers pose, the pretense. the
falsity.' the assumption on which tnelr
life was based. She discovered that sne
had mind Of her own, for her own use;
that she was capable of decisions. OF
setting values on things and people, and
Of independent action. Heretofore she
had been absorbed, actually absorbed,
by her mother.
Here she was, expecting shortly to be
married, to become mistress of her own
household. to become. in time, mother.
And she had never had a thought ac-
tually her own, coined in her own mint
and bearing her impress; never taken
a step without orders.
She found no fault with the path she
had come. but she set day of emanci-
patton and planned her celebration.
Girlish enough it was. She went out
alone next morning without saying
where she was going, and spent the day
with broad minded friend. who did not
pose The following morning she gently
but firmly read her declaration Of in
dependence. She showed great discrim-
ination in what she said and what she
left unsaid. She called attention to the
fact that she must learn to assume her
own responsibilities. that she belonged
to a younger generation Of thought as
we'll as Of time, that she inherited her
fathers as well as her mothers tastes
and, naturally. was interested In mat
ters having no attraction for the elder
woman. She spoke delicately, but with
decision, on the question of pose. and
made a plea for the real things. the
common-sense views Of life and action.
The mother was bewildered by this
sudden awakening. but part OF the long
assumed pose was being gentle. and
even in this emergency 1t held. She
went quietly to her room to think.
While she could not subscribe to this
new creed, she felt that perhaps she
had erred: that it would probably be
wise to let the girl have a little more
rope and watch events.
So the girl sought the company Of
people who had done things, who were
living helpful lives. She revised her old
standards. She grew in mind and spirit
and womanhood.
Gradually, at first reluctantly, the
mother was drawn into this new at
mosphere. The real things Of life as
sumed their proper proportions and
values The mental cobwebs were swept
away and sane. healthy philosophy
established that admitted OF individual
development. The child outgrew the
mother; so the mother had the good
sense to grow up to the child. Harmony
was restored upon sounder basis.
SARAH CURTIS MOTT.
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Borrowers of Books

r HAVE not bound the poems yet.
I wait till people have done bor-
4 rowing them. I think I shall get
a chain and chain them to my shelves,
and people may come and read them
at chains length. For OF those who
borrow. some read slow, some mean
to read. but don't read: and some
neither read nor meant to read, but
borrow to leave you an opinion of
their sagacity. I must do my money
borrowing friends the justice to say
that there is nothing of this caprice
or wantonness Of alienation in them.
When they borrow my money they
never fall to make use of it.-Charles
Y.ar1h
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Value of Employment

F" HE beginning OF all true reforma-
ton among the criminal classes
l. depends on the establishment OF
institutions for their active employment
while their criminality is still unripe
and their feelings OF self-respect, ca
pacibes Of affection. and sense. Of JUS
uce not altogether quenched. That
those who are desirous of employment
should always be able to ind it viii
hardly, al the present day. be disputed;
but that those who are undesirous Of.
employment should. Of all persons. be
the most strictly compelled to it, the
public is hardly yet convinced: and they
must be convinced.
II the danger Of the principal thor
oughfares in their capital city, and the.
multiplication of crimes more. ghastly
than ever yet disgraced a nominal CIV
ilization are not enough, they will not
have to wait long before they receive
sterner lessons. For our neglect of the
lower orders has reached a point at
which Il begins TO bear its necessary
fruit, and every day makes our fields
not whittier, but more sable, to harvest.
-RuSkin.
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=+No:.f said the little -wonlan- I can't
= ride horseback" #
- Have YOU ever" went on the other
been stranded in Paris without a cent
or a friend and worked your way home
by your wits?'
NO said the little woman: 4 have
never been to Paris.
Have YOU ever watched out the ARCTIC.
night. with the midnight sun reddening
the ice fields and the Eskimo. dogs.
straining on their. leather thongs beside
YOU? Or have YOU ever gone in a fat
boat down the Nile. into the strange,
Old . countries. where English subjects
have never: heard English. and a Euro
.pean costume creates more sensation
than would the discovery Of a new pyra--
. midg' ~..
! -..No." said the little woman. I
haven't Travelled much"
Have you ever come out on q; white
elaring stage. before a dark, packed
house, and heard that house fairly rock
with applause as you appeared?"
NO" sad the little woman. I was
never in anything but a church enter
tainment or two"
Have you ever known the joy Of dis
covering in some old book in a forgot
ten tongue the new philosophy the
world discovered yesterday
NO" said the little woman. Il
haven't had much education
oHave you ever. beneath the creamy
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moon of a southern night, sat under the
perfumed: trees and listened to mans
burning words-and watched his
despair as you laughed lightly and
turned away?" - 80.
-4t:No.'l said the little woman. 81 ac-
cepted my husband the first time; and
he. proposed on. the porch of my fathers
home .:.... :: -
..Then,s laughed the other, you don't
know: what life is..'
But said the little: woman. in her
turn, shave YOU ever wakened in the
gray morning and climbed shivering out
of your hard bed to make the fire and
fry the potatoes and boil the coffee?"
Mo- said: the. other: Il have never
bothered with details of housekeeping.
.::'Have you. ever worked hard at un-
congenial. grinding labor. far. into the
night. until your throat ached from
tiredness+ and your head swan dizzily
: for sleep2'':
!: NO" said the other; 81 have never
had@to do anything much Itdidn't want
to-. -
Have you ever gone out into the
street in patched. clothes you were
ashamed to be seen in, and eaten food
that revolted your stomach, and saved
eternany on; the mean, little things that
marked you to- the world as hard and
stingy?''.
MO" said the other; Il have always
had money
Have you ever stood harsh abuse and
petulsnt scoldingi because the man who
gave It to you was sick and weary, and
had loved you :once after his fashion,"
NO" said the other; II have no pa
tience with invalids.''
Have you ever given to your poorer
neighbor clothes. you needed yourself.
and taken in an orphan to feed when
your own children were hungry"
NO" said the other. Il think charity
begins at home
Have you ever held in your arms
your little, dead baby, and found you
couldn't even cry?"
No" said the other: II never had
any children; they are a nuisance"
Then" said the little woman. with
a sad and loving smile. you don't
know what life is!''
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Heroisn

TN THE obscurity OF retirement,
amid the squalid poverty and re-
u voting privations of howell. scenes
of magnanimity and self-denial are often
seen, as much beyond the belief as
the practice of the great: a heroism
borrowing no support, either from the
gaze OF the many or the admiration
of the few, yet hoYrishing amidst
ruins, and on the confines of the grave ;
a spectacle as stupendous In the moral
world as the falls Of the Missouri in
the natural: and. like that mighty cata-
ract, doomed to display its grandeur
only where there are no eyes to ap-
preciate its magnificenca.
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"HERE are a. few women still who.
in spite of the almost universal
- supremacy of the child. hold the
seat of power in their families. Some
are belated representatives OF the
rigid sixties, some of the blessed fore
runners of a saner day slowly ap-
preaching. some the hybrids OF the
transitional present. who by happy
chance have felt no resistance. less
by reason of their own wise manage
ment than because opposition has not
yet been aroused in their gentle sub
jects.
1t is of the last of these three
groups that 1 desire to- speak and of
that time when their supremacy is
threatened. Two cases will illustrate.
One is that of woman who had
raised son to manhood. During all
these years she had held a firm hand
over him, compelling him 10 follow
the road she selected, disregarding as
a matter of no consequence his desires
in relation to the various interests of
his life,, believing that her greater
experience stood for 100 per cent in
determining conclusions and that his
Acquiescence was forced, but it COW
cred tumultuous depths.
Little by little he sidetracked in
ways not easily observed by one who
feared no opposition or disobedience.
Suddenly he eloped with girl whom
his mother did not approve. Not only
was it blow in itself. but it COM
PEELED her to realize the fact that her
son was a separate individual Of adult
age, that he was legally entitled to
act in his own behalf and that he
really had not been so entirely in ac-
cord with her al she had supposed.
She felt deceived and wounded,
condition she took no pains to conceal.
The young man was not wholly happy
either. The parting of the ways is
ever a wrench. They had, what never
before they had had an open session,
in which he claimed his rights. It
seemed that he had achieved his
emancipation.
But even as they talked the mothers
mind was picking up the broken threads
of plans. weaving a new pattern At
the same time the new wife was gath
ering together warp and woof for an
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essentially different design. The young
man had no notion Of relinquishing his
newly acquired independence; the hus-
band was not to be sacrificed to the son.
the wife to the mother. Freedom had
charms. marriage dignity.
The breach widened. Neither yielded.
The mother persisted in advice, in criti-
cism of husband, of wife. of household
management. She constantly exposed
herself to the pain Of having her coun-
sci rejected, ignored; even was requested
to permit them to re their own tudg-
ment. Relations bec~-ne strained: sep
aration naturally ensued. She thinks
him stubborn. He knows her to be mar
row The household Is divided. And all
for the want Of common sense to realize
that there is point at which individu-
ality must assert itselfl
The other instance is that OF mother
and daughter. The former, well-born.
well bred, possessed of wealth, had leis-
ure for raising her little girl with great
care. A woman of little real intellect
ual attainment, culture was her pose.
Religiously though almost to the point
Of boredom, she affected PHILOSOPHERS
and sciences beyond her depth. Family
and friends formed the habit Of hon.
age considerably greater than was jus
tilted; with the result that all she said
and did passed unchallenged as matters
of exalted wisdom.
The child living In an atmosphere
charged with reverence-being gentle,
loving little creature-was easy to man
age, unfailing in obedience and loyalty.
The most absurd, the most distasteful,
the most difficult requirements were doc
ilely fulfilled. No question of differing
likes and disiikes ever disturbed the
even current of their lives. Even when
at the age of Is the crisis of marriage
was preached, they were of one mind,
and the betrothal was satisfactorily
accomplished.
The mothes buried in the subtle
PHILOSOPHERS Of ancient and modern
thinkers, did not perceive the living
truth portrayed at her own fireside. She
was always gentle. but infexible, having
no misgivings as to her duty or her
methods. This being her only child, ex-
perience had not taught her how rapidly
youth develops in its teens. Conse-
uuently the reins were not loosened as
growth required. The girl grew restless,
scarcely realizing that individuality was
claiming its own.
Gradually the girls eyes were opened,
her mind was filled with questions, de-
ductions, comparisons. BY aid of the
forces thus set in motion she discovered
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Why gaze affairs with rosy
softens the hard lines ds the sharp points beaufes the
unattractive envelops cloud
OF beauty? 1t is better digestion
the Of your lines
mouth better naturally longs
beat to the tune joyful Interpretation of life.
Life must be looked sensibly there is absolutely
for silly disregard for caamities. I noe
uphoding foolish diphthera
leaking petrihed heart these things happen
and will happen. But understand why people
will not allow themselves to be happy when they
cannot fahom the who refuses to give herself
chance to smile.
Surely there must be something In life for which
you grateful Throw the smoke glasses
They obscured the light msrepresentd things
You have missed the little brightness all along the path Now
through you humor Of this
event? The underlying goodness In that? The for
rejoicing so-caled misfortune? They there IL
willing look.
glasses much becoming. They are
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Zone Touch of Nature

TIE WAS very black and very rag
RI ged and dirty, and he was being
AA slowly pulled up on top of a
granite block to the still uncompleted
roof of the big office building. Just as
he started his hat flew off and lodged
itself back of a scaffolding down little
side street. He hesitated and was lost;
the hat was too far away and the block
on which he sat was nearly up to the
second story. He was in despair.
Just then a well-dressed man, with
smoothly cut gray hair and an expen-
sive panama. took IN the situation. He
dived under the scaffolding, rescued the
tattered and greasy felt hat. emerged
breathless and red-faced and threw it
upward just in time for the workman to
catch 1t. And the passersby smiled their
sympathy as this democratic friend in
need went his distinguished way.
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glance around the restaurant.
Just ice cream, dear?'' queries
grandma.
No: cake" replies dear. in a de-
tached tone.
Very WELL sweetness. Waitress.
vanilla Ice cream and lady fingers for
the little girl. and for US"
NO. All the same!"s interrupts sweet
ness. And, anyway. I want chocolate
ana walnut. and cakes with cweam in
side"
Grandma looks slightly embarrassed:
aunt droops more than ever. Sweet
ness is unperturbed.
AS you say, sweetness: it isn't often
grandma has a chance to take such a
dear. lovely little girl away from her
mother for whole day. Don't you like
this pretty place. love?'
No." answers love: where mamma
and go is much nicer. and it costs
more. too. Hold my doll" :
The Ice cream arrives. Love sets to
work; aunt silently toys with bit Of
the chocolate; grandma frankly gives
up. ~:
:. I'm afraid it's too rich for me, pe,sy.
Does mamma let you have It always
Mamma lets me do whatever l. like"
replies petsy. nonchalantly.: why does
your hafr grow like that. Aunt Kath-
erine?"
Aunt Katherine bushes and Is silent;
grandma laughs shriHy.
Isn't she clever?' she exclaims
There is no end to this. I left hur-
riedly. while dearie-darling-dear-s
ness-love-petsy was helping grandma
and Aunt Katherine out with their un-
touched cream. ! could only. hope she
died from the effects
q took my seat she looked UP from
the menu she was reading. and said
IN acid-bathed tones. Don't sit here II
you want to be served" -:
What's the .troiible?":<I asked, as I
nevertheless disobeyed.
I've been waiting three and three
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EYFLIEN0NFl. 1ToASll:E:I[Es3;PE?' SLEEP? J ]

NTOW l lay me down to sleep;
- pray the Lord my soul to
keep"
Was my childhood's early prayer,
Taught by my mothers love and care.
Many years since then have fed;
Mother slumbers with the dead;
Yet methinks / see her now,
With love-lit eye and holy brow,
As, kneeling by her side to pray,
She gently taught me how to say,
''Now I lay me down 10 sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
Oh, could the faith of childhood's
=. days,
Oh, could its little hymns Of praise,
Oh could its simple. JOYOUS trust
Be re-created from the dust
That lies Ground a wasted life.
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p4oaoins protesting
s.ons helpful will appear the
eooh away but If should to
myself. thank
know young girl insists upon adjusting the
sfoAecoiored goggles q call them that they
ernnenty unbecoming) every
De giving her the portion trouble fall
ones io III intends elements
decide to encourage the thrsting with few we'll
deserved drops she Immediately weather and
works herself into state swollen and red
nose She feels emphaticay the
thought that something has sighted
On the other hand everything apparently, is coming
her she refuses view other light than
belaed compensation that is little less than it ought
to be- In this she manages through the
lenses
The smoked glass habit grows Begin 1t with the
determination will time
when view life mental attitude will
be unable the little and bright along
the
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sized child of per-
haps 3 years: with
her = or. rather.
under het-are the
'eoncilfatory grand
ma and the abiect
aunt. .Dearie Sc
lects a place that
suits her imperial
will: grandma and
aunt trail lumber
ingly after.
How snicely you
c-h o o s e. darling,
Now what will you
have to eat? Shall
we have some milk
and a sandwich ?"
ice cweam." says
darling. with a blase
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The fruit of many bitter strife!
Oh! then at night in prayer I'd bend
And call my God, my Father, Friend,
And pray with childlike faith once
more
The prayer my mother taught of
yore: -.
Now / lay me down to sleep;
/ pray the Lord my soul to keep"
Eugene Henry Pullen.
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Can You Think !?

for you cannot tnen
being Therefore this page is Tor all human
beings O. E D. used in geometry classes
abundance of food for thought regular Ten
mother you have
haps In viii reflective the question
especially otherwise Then we all
scohng world look not at
another pertinent bit OF daoguenow many
iveda according writer's standpolnt
feeling DO " Ask Barbara Lee what we mean
all of color smoke before
optics Feeling always includes LAUGHING IN the civil
therefore glance restaurant 1ldo ana see
you nd yourself laugh at there !, !,
Finally there our poem feeling that touches chord
heart
the democracy appealing to the mind and the nt
Of every human being
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with a slightly
DO d expression,
and toyed absently
with the menu.
Just toast a n q
coffee. please" she
said IN a iuteliks
voice. "Coffe q
without cream, and
buttered toast"
Here IS what I
cali a gentlewom-
an" ! thought from
my table opposite.
The toast a n d
coffee came.
All. woe. She put
the spoon in tbs
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The Past

~ TILL shall the soul around it call
The shadows which it gathered
~ here.
And painted on the eternal wall
The past shall reappear.
Think we the notes OF holy song
On Miltons tuneful ear have died?
Think ye that Raphael's angel throng
Has vanished from his side?
Oh. no. We live our life again;
Or warmly touched or coldly dim
The pictures of the past remain,
Mans work shall follow him
-WhiktiaP.
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Bob s Discovery

XYoUNG HOPEFUL-Papa. you said
If I'd read the obituaries of great
- men in the paper every day for
year you'd give me gold watch Well,
did, and the year is up.
Fond Father-Very well, Bob. but I
said you must read intelligently and
draw a lesson from the lives of those
VINO have won fame and fortune.
Now. what have you most particularly
Observed IN your reading?
Y HI noticed that nearly all the
great men fitted themselves for one
thing, and then got rich or famous at
something else
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Discoveries at Venice

NONE very interesting discoveries
have been made in the course OF
~ excavation work around the
island of Lido. at Venice. where
number of ancient pieces of artillery
have been found beneath six feet OF
mud. The cannon are all in a state
of excellent preservation. though 1t
is clear, from their construction. that
they must date back to period al
most Immediately after the discovery
OF gunpowder, and 1t is believed that
they will prove of very great artistic
and historic value.
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ness and Joy refracted striking your own nature
There who wear the gray Witnout
becoming To the bright cheerful
rays will and children ever
turn for comfort.
Tomorrow rise TO tackle the rroblems or the
day. try adjusting the rose-coiored Please!
BARBARA LEE
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Poverty

II OVERTY is. except where there Is
an actual want of food and raj
A ment. a thing much more imagi-
nary than real. The shame of poverty
the shame of being thought poor-is a
great and fatal weakness, though aris-
ing dn this country from the fashion Of
the times themselves.
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AM NOT referring the the pipe versus the
perfume of the merely wish to ask the Ques-
ton about the color glasses through which you
accustomed to the world.
The advantages optimism have always been lauded from
substantial the cheerful
thinker AS matter of selfish of living the op
mstc recommends itself the sensible.
color that using, sister? OF course
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TO women met at
the crossroads Of
life.
II a y e y.o u
ever said t. h e
taller Of the two.
with a contemptu-
Gus smile at. the
others worn face
and meek aspect.
ridden a horse
full gallop across
the western des--
ert. when neither
of YOU had: had
food or water. for
two days or more
!. and your life: de-
PENDED q i h e
ride?''
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cofree-and kept 1t IN. she dipped the
toast in the coffee-still with the spoon.
She blew into that coffee to cool 1t. And
then she took that poor. nangled cup OF
coffee. and. with the spoon gently nes-
tling against her delicate cheek. she
drank 1t to the bottom.
And as I went out almost wept.
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there's the satisfac-
ton that you might
manage TO 'unearth
in the self-pity that
results from feeling
that you are the
most abused woman
in the community.
The gray. threaten
ing clouds that you
decide are gathering
most thickly over
your head may pos
sibly form a pretty
setting for your
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SO kind, too, for
there 1 s a hidden
power In optimism
t h a [ gives every
9th er b e in g a
squarer deal. a bet
ter standing in life
and q happier rela-
ton to humanity.
including you, Then,
too. the rosy tint in
the lens is a me-
dium through which
the rays of good
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RESTAURANT IIDBITS

quarter minutes by my watch; two peO-
pie have been served before me: and
not a waitress has come near me yet"
AS she spoke she drew from her belt
a gold watch heavily set with diamonds.
She wore linen shirtwaist suit, but she
glittered with diamonds-hatpins. ear
rings. horseshoe at throat. bracelets and
rings. I wish she had been more cheer
ful; If she had laughed could have
seen whether her teeth were set with
diamonds. too.
While 1 inspected and apoIogized for
the absent one. the waitress arrived.
She looked at me. II should like" I
began.
Chicken croquette. coffee. peach ice
cream and huckleberry pie" rapid-ired
the bediamonded before could finish.
They arrived; then-I gave my own or
der.
isn't there any sauce for this GRO
quette? Where's the cream? Napkin?
Butter? Ice water? Sp-"
The waitress was new; also she had
a temper not yet crushed by such as
these. I heard her mutter as she went
away.
''Impudent thingp snapped my friend.
why doesn't she attend to her business
properiy?"
II guess she's tired" I ventured to
suggest.
Tired! Huh! Exercise is good for
them: they get fat on It. Well never
again in this restaurant for meH' and
she gathered up the umbrella and the
gilt bag set with-diamonds.
I hope so. I'm sure; the restaurant
happens to be favorite OF my own!
UERY sweet and delicate and dignfaed
she looked, as she went up the long
line between the tables. She was dressed
IN mourning. SO that her clothes had an
air Of quiet simplicity she sat down
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(6AY ow. dearie. you shall sit just
IN where you like"
Il Dearie is an anenic. under