| Show L Gathered On O c The Battlefield of Thought Opera lo Or Opera ra and nd concerts In InAnd I And Ali Concern Broaden ore are lra Within For FIl tho Mn In e tho thin reach tench of Ut f all ni The most Inot In the tho house hullo cost cont COlt two dollars lolaM and nd there thero arc aro oth r which one oils 01 can tAn perfectly but hut not wo ie rc tho the ata atLo o which cost coat about fifteen edith cento Tho Tue and ana American ro n residents etu tu Ind gallery dents donta dOltl etc elc frequent the th fourt Tho Tue 10 acoustics are al perfect II vary r ry many Duly people consider con scats loa II hero hare the tho te themore more moro desirable The Tho ho opera o rl season be bo begin begum gum gin about the of ot mid and nud lasts Inet throughout Ui the UIO year oar or with ti a 1 holl huh day of ot six nix weeks In and pre tire prel ol l the tho most moot performance In Inal Inal al all al Germany Be Belde sides the tho frequent per par performance tO of opera u m two tw series of sym symphony rn phony hon concerts are lre glen given during the winter In the opera house h lle It I la Is often of ton difficult to secure for those thone eon oon eerIe but thus the th rehearsals arc ara oro public and the he price of ot seats wats small The Tray Trav Travel el oh Magazine The Tue h ot of The Tho Marlborough born Turns Consuelo Vander I to Boks lder I hilt bilt bl has han hn not realized ed cli thu the hopes of her hr early girlhood She Shio has recently hoXeR made hor her first visit back buck Centy to tin country since her separation London society is very front from the duke luk el sympathetic toward tho the young oung duchess who Is III not only a it general favorite but bul buta bula a friend of ot tile the queen as ns well wall wol Life has liaa not dealt as well wel with lie hoi nfl an u anit It promised Ten on years ugo she was full of enjoyment of everything now she oho IN Is II saddened Maddened and not DOt strong and alid she aho seeks a IL retirement that her deaf dent fleas almost enforces By fly arrangement with wih her husband she ho has haa h hor lied two sons eons for half tho the year on und she silo has ninny many Int Interests r her embroideries her books bool s and liar her hr spaniels but It I is II all 11 very el different from what seemed before her Rumor Rum l ha has it il that she Bhe was as great groat greatly ly disappointed nt nl her hot husbands fail all failure failure allure ure to distinction In lit politics and that she nho hated to see the husband ot of Mary Loiter Leiter ot of Chicago KO go ahead to 16 honor after honor white while her hel own duke duko achieved nothing How However over ever though much has gone against her she Bhe Is still sti greatly admired in 1 London society and ond when sho sliu enters a I wearing her famous praxis vella that hat belonged to Cathar Catharine icu ine of at Russia her ill 1 health und and her cares carel cannot altogether dim her stale state stately ly beauty The Delineator for tor Janu January an anu nry ary In Menus The Tue he general movement liti ho which hen has hI gone so no fat tal Saloon War in iii the South shows so strong a tendency to spread over ocr the thE rest rH dt of f the country Is Isnow now new curious and apparently Import Important ant It Is not the thin offspring of ot the tile old Prohibition party lIart but bUl an Issue that takes hold of all wi tho the parties partes and car carries carries ries rles or 01 loses elections for them The explanations of at It Itaro are aro ai as a yet yot not very satisfying At first It said Bald to be ho due to the tho desire of tha tile south to keep Iee liquor away Iwa from the negroes but It ithan has han outrun that that explanation It seems to tobe bo be unemotional and It is possible that It Indicates a far reaching appreciation of at the tho cost of ot the thu to tho the families and Industries of the tho country and a resolve to reduce that cost costas as much as IS poel possible blo ble Franco France has suffered such enor actor mour damage of ot lato years yearn from troth ex ox excessive drinking that she he has ha hia bestirred herself hers lf energetically to restrain the of ol her hor population 1 Eng flag England EnglAnd land hula has adopted now new laws to the tho same annie r rund und end and In Germany there thoro are aro sIghS of ut a ii I that there thero la in 11 n it 1 limit to toI tho the expediency bt bf boer boor But But this I American an movement differs lter from front any anything nn anything thing ut of the tho kind that Is II going on 01 In iii In being apparently thUs ani popular and In Its It I not a n thing stimulated bY bv exhortation or excitement but the result rO lt ot or slow slowly ly I Ii matured conviction based on valium matred und anti experience Wo We Ve hope It may aton turn out as ni sane sans a it I movement as its It ItI how long to be Considering lOlI mankind I IB t lies has dallied with wih rum rm It U lu is II astonishing how little It has learned about It and how largo large a n proportion u of ot the experimenters continue to dally daIly With It to their detriment detrIment Maybe the world Is la Retting suddenly wiser w on this subject Harpers Weekly Alt An Athlete Unique and ali remarkable Who 10 Pros to tho power For Victory of prayer was publicly given by Tad JOnes Junes the recent football victory over Harvard At a ci 1 dinner given glon after Ater the tho game Irvine which Yale Tale ile won by a I ecore of ot Tones Jones stated that ho lie had hd prayed for 10 strength to play his best bent to help Yale win Wili and that he believed his hIl prayer PuY had been beon answered It I was wan Mil a curious aurous confession to make before a I crowd ot of college boys all 11 full ful of youth ful spirits and Ind enthusiasm and for a IL moment his hearers were wore dumbfound od and aid silent Then rhon realizing tho the silL ln de of ot lent tho th man they gave SIVe him tre tro tremendous As u it 1 result of his lila hard work in the game referred to Jones was ns for tor weeks laid up Ui In a I aho hos Ho Ito Is one otie ole of the most capable ot of 10 athletes being tho the baseball welt well aa u a captain for next season seMon a I 05 wellO football player He lie has h s been n a aleader great l leader I ador at nt Yale In religious as a wel well as lS athletic work anti and Is In secretary of tho the thoY thoY Y V M li C A in the tho Sheffield Scientific School les ics Weekly When China A giant sunk In slum If Is I her bor under tho the Infill Into Life Once of a t spell april does docs not cast It oft off lightly and and China a I giant slant in potential power but Ignorant of ut its Is It own strength does dol not nol easily emerge mergo from froni the lethargy of ot But Dut now tho the time Is II com coni coming ing It has hiss not yet come comb It wilt will wl not come COllIe C 0 In a day or year eal oven when China will wi throw oft off of Its Is Inertia pro pre pared to exert a giants strength That great slow alow moving moving mass Is being stirred d dInto Into life 11 The rue spirit of progress has ba boen been quickened Soon much sooner than most people imagine China will willbo wi willbe be bo ready to act act to defy dot as IS well aa as a to defend deene The Tho progress of any people can cnn be measured by Dy the tho ment mont thoy they enjoy China ChIno has haa ha for cen centuries turks lain under undO tho the blighting influence ot or an autocratic government a a gov gO eminent that was WIS centered In a n few tew hands and I nd deprived tho the of all ahl al voice In their own affairs Ten yeara ago ao nobody dreamed that China Cinn would bo be under tinder a constitutional form of gov government but tho the world moves m with Wh In Incredible Incredible credible rapidity in these days day and at atno atno atno no time Urna has it moved moed more swiftly I than In 11 tho the last Inet decade Earnest E men mon men Inch of at progress and Id Idal ideas as men who know Inow that with all al Its vices the civilization tion lon of ot tho west ivest Is 1 the renil civili civilization the tho world has hs known such men men mentor for tor Instance as ns Sir Chon tung Liang Llon LlonCh Cheng Ch el g the former Chinese minister to tho the United States and now nOlo ono one of tho tim t high officials of ot the flue Chinese customs haVe haVo labored labor zealously laly anti nna lo to brIng brine bril about a change In the te ti form torm U I government They have cn I many obstacles J thoy they haw hl ha had t to 1 prejudice and Ind Ignorance at a tint they tey In peril lerl of their T b they thoy over never faltered The Tho reform China have hav triumphed ft q Chino for tor on tb that list the tho lt l of at this e 1 I Ielo a the tho peard dowager ger empress le decree declaring deciding China to be ha b eed I form tonn ot or I government nI tile the Chinese Chinos reformers reformer n j are merely with paper pa or decrees lot that and a working constitution l that means lenns something 1 is 18 long hong gap gup ap that must lUt be b they thoy have Iwa taken O ton tho the first firm Maurice toW Low L In th January Forum Bonn Somo Hut But It I is not nol the tita Of or American to L n which lie he b us IS IL a depositary oc of the lh pies plEa dignity which remind him oeo M directly that his big or t inac something very different vl front from an ac n ab a solute rest rent and freedom from h peoples service Ho lb Is 19 tt th Io deluged m newly written books of tt vit il Indifferent or positively tb and three these thel ho lie is ts expected to read r d n M commend for advertising S IM is II made a target gt for tor all manner miLner ot of IS solicitation 16 embracing r sorts of objects ranging from lar large ei et at funds and ot of tars fers of ot fabulously profitable invest ment molt to pathetic and depressing peals tom for the relief ap fol of ot Individual tress tre s Ho lie is almost dally de to Join In the tho management of or public semipublic enterprises which O prot prof i ti bo ho useful or beneficent or l I He lie Is persistently le urged to make ai ad dresses on topics and for tor purposes tJ ad are bewildering and at times te nol aal places that are Impossible His jp dalli mall conclusive ls 1811 tta I his Is Ii not lut overlooked by tha Jm an class clans of or 01 condition of oC our Io plo in O amp corner of our Or land and the visitors hi Islon receives receIve forbid the to reflection that h I i ionly 4 only on n it 1 melancholy product t V of ot om eni eui I governmental d Cleveland In TIle Tho Youths Companion n Tho Thio The mine mie horr Prom Front which th tha Mine lne Owners Owner nation I Uon at the Cioce of or the year or 1007 1107 10 mato maltI continent a 1 mockery In tho the face of tha need ned fOr tor tr vigorous action Every vic y tim tm Indicated tod In tho the solid MUd Ie ot names published bel by tho the United hi Workers Journal Joural Is a 0 mute protest Pretest against words and a I demand for tor such laws as ns will wi show whether or not nt Beel th tM tho American nation U is I In earnest enest It expresses Its Is lament at disaster and an e its Iti It purpose to o prevent prent Its Is recurrence Even Eom more mora to bo ho heeded cue aro the tha Hrin protests against injustice the wives and noel young children of ot the tha dead fIen r who have havo with this en loved tere upon a 1 daily struggle for tor hOnIS hOl and arid bread brend Their heroic efforts win will not bo be known kown to the country countr aa as was vai 1 tho to tragic death of their thel husbands an ano act fathers But their life of struggle should not drop from the tue public mind until laws shall have been en enacted to t prevent as 1 tar far as al possible the In Increase increase crease of ot theIr number and nd to do o jai us uslice lice to those similarly bereaved Sym Sympathy pathy and relief rollof funds are needed but they theY are a 1 sorry substitute for tor pre preventive re legislation and mind for tor compensation tion ton or pensions when whon accidents accident do da oc ec occur ot cur Graham Taylor r in the tue January Janul Charities and Tho The Commons |
