The St. Mary banner., 1910-06-18

declares the AtChisOn Globe, 1t IS not
a serious one.
Many a retiring person is at the
front, observes the New York Tele-
gram, in achievement.
Many a sef-made man, explains the
Philadelphia Record, had pretty poor
material to begin with.
When you begin forgetting the day
of your birth it is a sign to the Com
moner that YOU are growing old.
That is far from being a home, dc
fines the Chicago Tribune, where YOU
cannot see the family for the furni
ture.
1t is a safe prediction, thinks the
louisville Herald, that the movement
to make Paris dry city will provo
popular.
Dr. Wiley must at least concede
Il
inside OF the egg contains no suspic-
ious preservatiye chemicals.
1t is SO difficult to locate the man
higher up. He is as elusive as if he
We're riding the tail of the comet, in
sists the Atlanta Constitution.
After looping five hundred buttons
on his wife's dress, man feels like
qualified delegate to a hookworm
conference, puns the Atlanta Consti'
tuition.
A lawyer received $4,000 for le-
gal work preliminary to the forna-
/ tiOn Of a merger, yet in all probabil-
ity another lawyer, prophesies the
Philadelphia Ledger, for less fee.
will try to demonstrate that it, was
not legal at all
The great rise in real estate values
in Chicago may be accounted for, sug-
gestS the Louisville Courier Journal,
upon the theory that rush is being
made to invest in something that
pickpocket cannot deprive the owner
of while he is glancing over his news.
paper.
South Africa has a brand new" ma
tional anthem, announces the New
York Tribune. The country endeav-
ored for some time to secure CON-
position suitable for that purpose, and
out of $50 compositions the work of
Berthold Kapolowitz was chosen, and
the citizens of johannesburg had the
first opportunity of hearing it per-
formed after it had been formally ac-
cepted. The composer is not pro-
fessional musician. He is a civil en-
gineer.
Thinks the New Haven Register: 1t
official statistics are to be relied upon
the movement from the United States
into the western provinces Of Canada
for the last eight months is the most
heavily financial hegira in the worlds
history. A total of 1883 settlers
crossed the border in that period, ev
cry man, woman and child bringing
into the Dominion, it is estimated, an
average of $1,000 cash and property.
This is an increase of 6S per cent over
the figures of the previous year.
The notion that women teachers
and girl schoolmates weaken a boys
character and vigor and manliness is
based on an entirely superficial and
erroneous idea as to the outward in
dications of these qualities, submits
the New York Press. The fact that
a boy is polite, we'll bred, does not
swear like trooper-in short, is not
a confounded nuisance to every
grown-up in his immediate neighbor-
hoods no argument against his
manliness. A man is never more
manly than when his heart has been
captured by a woman. There is just
as much reason for believing that as
sociation with sweethearts and wives
is disastrous to manliness as that
feminine companionship and control
during school days has such an effect.
The real sissy is born, not made. He
is a product of nature, not of educa.
ton and environment.
The obsession of the extraordinary
is responsible for some queer news
paper claims on our attention now
adays, remarks the New York Even ,
ing Post Only the other day. New