The Washington herald., 1911-02-27
VIEWS AND
INTERVIEWS
Church Ushers as Idols.

Church Ushers as Idols.
1.-The matinee girl finds her prototype
in the church girl with a prediction
for ushers." said H. J. Lamb. Of New
York, ut the Ncw Willard recently. Mr..
Lamb years ago used to be an usher
in one of the largest churches OF, New
York.
No matinee idol has a harder time or
il getting away from love-sick danseIs
than the ushers of a church well at
tended, as most churches are, by women
For many girls" he continued. ''an
usher seems to exude the same sort OF
fascination as does the minister in
small town church. and it seems to
make very little difference whether he
is good looking AT homely married or
SINGLE rich OF poor. so long as he wears
Z frock coat on Sunday mornings, shows
people to their pews with the proper dis
elimination. or without IT, and passes
the collection plate politely. In any
case he Is a pseudo-public character.
and as such. fair game for any young
woman with matrimonial intentions
There are three types Of these young
women. and it's hard to say which is
sentimental notes. valentines and Easter
cards; the second waits around after
church or looks you up at your place
of business and asks you point-blank
to marry her, while the third. trying to
be coy, succeeds in being silly
Let the Women Also Work
Prof. 8. N Patten, Of Philadelphia says
that the American woman Of to-day Is
economically worthless and that under
present conditions one-half of the popu-
lation of this country is supported by the
other half
let the women Of America take up
their share of the work, and the pressure
upon the economic resources OF the fam
lily will be equalized.
Gradually the prejudice against women
in the commercial world will disappear.
AS there is Improvement in conditions
under which women labor. the so-called
chfvaIry of man will resent her economic
equality less.
mo one admfres and believes more
strongly than 1 do in what usually is
termed wouan's womanlineSs. I would
not have her lose one of the sweet
gentle traits that appeal to a man and
make woman the lovable creature she is.
Not at all. But 1 do not see why q
developed intelligence that would enable
women to earn their own bread and
developed economic conscience that would
spur them on to do so necessarily should
destroy the finer characteristics Of the
wife and mother.
Years ago our grandmothers worked
hai ir-iro
value The cotton our grandfathers grew
was woven into cloth by our grand
mothers. They made into bread the
wheat that was raised in the fields. The
household duties they performed were OF
definite economic value. With the ad-
vance of civilization. the tools with
which women earned their share Of the
daily bread were taken from them. Mod
ern conveniences made many forms Of
manual labor not only unnecessary, but
impractical Women were left with their
hands idle"
Pleads for Futures.
Trading for futures on the boards of
trade of the United States keeps the
complicated machinery of business in
harmonious activity by converting into
ready cash the enormous crops Of the
country, independent of the volume Of
fered or the consumptive demand at the
time of the sale, according to George
F. Stone, secretary of the Chicago Board
of Trade. who was seen recently at the
Arlington.
The tangible assets OF the United
States are not in Wall street." said he.
They are found in our agricultural re-
sources, made constantly available at
fair prices, and not subject to violent
fluctuations in values under the opera
ton of the system of buying and selling
for future delivery. This system was
devised solely in the interest Of the
farmer and interior grain buyer.
1T has brought into existence the chief
grain markets of the world. Without it
the great West could not have been so
fully developed and the Mississippi Val
ley so quickly formed. 1t provides the
agruculturist with ready money, which,
in turn, finds it way, through the coun-
try stores, to the wholesale merchants
in great centers Of trade. In this way
the chief grain crops of the country are
moved and realized upon.
The only option feature in the system
ing the month for which the sale is
made. The obligation all the while ex-
lists to deliver the actual property sold
during the month when it was agreed to
make the delivery"
Army Policy rs Fuss.
l. P. Jenkins. OF Portland. Greg, who
is at the Shoreham, in discussing army
and navy appropriations. said: Take
the fancy buttons off the soldiers uni
forms, strip them of their gold lace, and
fasten their clothes with hooks and eyes,
and 1 think much of the charm of the
military would disappear. The military
esprit de corps is not raceable to the
lion and the leopard. but to the peacock
and the turkey gobbler.
THE psychology of a standing army Is
the same in a turkey gobbIer as in a
major general" said Mr.. Jenkins, 'and
much of the belief in war is the result
of foolish romantic idea. I have been
told that the women urged the Con-
federates to continue the war in the face
! of certain defeat as they had clothed It
in the glory of heroism. This attitude
of nature, but not to the intellect. Pos
sessions, conquest, and dependencies are
words that do not belong in the vocabu-
| larry of democracies. In the trial OF this
| shallow hero worship even religion and
morality have been caught We shall
never have peace with this present policy