The Washington times., 1920-06-04

Democracy and Millions.
A Cart Horse Mother.
BEST Girl" Qualities.
Grateful, and Dying.
By Arthur BRISBANE.
(Copyright. 1900

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John ID. Rockefeller, jr., is on
trip. in a special train. One car
clear Of furniture, is taken along
as a playground for the children.
Wisely, Mr.. Rockefeller asked
newspaper photographers not TO
make pictures of his children, say
ing: ut is hard enough to keep
children democratic these days,
without having their pictures IN
the newspapers" -,
1t must be very hard to keep
children democratic, when they
travel with whole train OF cars
to themselves, and observe officials
of cities coming down to the sta
ton, almost mot quite) on their
hands and knees, before the great
est fortune in the world.
Some grandchildren of the late
Jay Gould, travelling with their
father over the Missouri Pacific on
tour Of inspection, were inter
ested in the mayor and aldermen
Of a certain town, assembled at the
track to ask respectfully for a
new railroad station.
One of the children, now mar
ried to an English nobleman, said
to her father: ut is nice Of those
peasants to come and see you,
isn't it papa?"
1t is indeed hard to keep chill
dren democratic or make It seem
worth while for them to work, when
their father has many millions.
You cannot keep servile flattery
away.
The picture of an interesting
orphan is published in Lord North
cliffe's Sunday Pictorial" With
'ungainly legs the orphan stands
by it's foster mother, a huge cart
horse. The mother of this orphan,
Tagalie, the famous winner of the
Derby in 1912, died "in foaling."
The magnifcently bred young
race horse is made foster child Of
cart horse, not Of a race horse. Ex-
perience teaches that the cart
horse type, possessing strength,
good nature and bulk, makes the
better mother. There's a warn
ing for women that try to be too
thin. Breeders of thoroughbred
bulldogs know also that it is pos
sible to overdo the Thoroughbred"
part. They take thoroughbred
puppies from their mother and
put them to nurse mongrel
mother, cruelty drowning the lat
ter's puppies.
Motherhood is complicated.
Read what Renan said about it.
Observe that both Napoleon and
Lincoln had mothers of the big
heavy type, broad and solid.
4 Count Bainotti, of Turin, dying,
established ten thousand dollar
fund, interest to go every year to
the most virtuous and in all ways
admirable young girl, unmarried,
aged twenty, daughter "of the
common people," in the city of
Providence, r. /. .-... .. :.
The Mayor is working on the
problem now, also the Mayor Of
Turin, where Count Bainotti es-
tablished similar fund.
The Providence mayor has been
told that these are the qualities
most important in "best girl:"
Strength, truth, justice, kind
ness, reverence, humility, duty,
amiability, prudence, faithfulness,
patience. truthfulness, good con-
duct, and, eff possible" discretion.
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you most important?
You will observe that THE i'm
portant quality for the young
woman, and the children to come
after her, is omitted, namely,
INTELLIGENCE. Give women
strength plus intelligence. Ma
ture will do the rest.
The mother of Alexander the
Great lacked at least thirteen Of
the fourteen points, but she had
a wonderful son, and that is the
important thing. OF an artist
you ask what sort of pictures he
produced, and Of a woman, what
sort of children.
In all news Of this day, all
news of past ages, including
Dante's description of Francesca
and her young man, still devoted
to each other in hell, you find
nothing more pathetic than this:
Viola Carpenter had lived over
a year with Robert M. Taylor.
She always wanted him to marry
her; he wouldn't. One night he
shot her; he says 1t was an acci-
dent; the police say no. Told
that the CIR! would die, Taylor
said, "Then let me marry her;
she has the license and the ring.
It is what she wants"
Father Plunkett Of Chicago
wisely consented to perform the
ceremony. The girl wept with
ioy and GRATITUDE and in half
an hour she was dead.
There you have sufficient proof
of woman's moral superiority and
innate goodness and whole prob
lem play boiled down into short
police report.
When they first started the