| Show books for all ages the publisher who advertise books for all ages tacitly recognizes recognises that the seven ages of man cah for different intellectual food the etc turea and fairy tales tor children and the philosophy and criticism tor serene old age are accepted as i mat ter of course but the debatable laud Is that between 16 and 25 and this es pec lally for girls it Is highly liefl for mary that she should read everything at hand it Is equally nn desirable for the man of letters that he should be restricted in his product to the book suitable for the sweet girl graduate As life opens before her she should have books which will interpret it tor her meantime for the men and women who are in the midst of life s actual struggle there should be other books no less delicate through covering a larger field tho demand of mature men aad who rely upon the imaginative writer to help them in their relations wath other folk Is not for wicked books nothing could be less to their purpose A clever novelist has recently said that our time asks 4 not brutal hooks not books but truth ful books american mothers may learn from french mothers what girls should and should not read ancy must also learn how to make a pro effective without its being either irksome or suggestive of disobedience bedi ence when a girl once discovers that her mothers book fits her no bet ter than her mother s bonnet it will be a gain for girlhood and for literature will american women be stirred it Is rather odd that english women who have the name of being conserva alve and retiring should furnish the most pronounced illustration of suf frage agitation the suffragette movement carried to the extent of violent protest and resulting in the ar rest and punishment of a number of ladles of rank and high social stand ing who participated in the demon Is still in vivid remembrance nor has it subsided in tact tha sut fra gettes appear to be in some respects more determined than ever they are even sending out mission aries to stir up the american women to revolt one of them has arrived in new york but apparently gets lit tie encouragement the women sut of the united states are quite as earnest in the cause as their english sisters and in many ways nore practical declares the troy N Y times they can point to the full suffrage won in a number ot states and qualified suffrage in various other sections american women often represented as impulsive and hasta in reality as a whole show calmer judg ment and are more deliberate in action than those of other lands As witness observe the difference between tho self restrained suffragists of this country and the somewhat tu suffragettes of conservative england that art Is long Is again illustrated by the delay in the completion of the equestrian statue of lafayette in paris for which were sub ascribed scribed bed chiefly by american school children nine or ten years ago A bronzed model of the statue was un veiled with elaborate ceremonies dur ing the last paris exposition in 1900 the sculptor paul wayland bartlett lett was not satisfied with this model and he has been at work on the figure ever since the latest reports from him indicate that be has finally pro deuced a statue which commends it self to his judgment and he will soon be ready to have it cast in bronze in the meantime the model that was un veiled in 1900 has fallen to pieces and its ruins have been removed from the re destal americans in paris are wondering when the completed figure will be set up the reputation of mr bartlett the sculptor Is such that one may safely look tor a fine work of art when be says that he has done his best with it the funeral of prof seymour of yale where the family wore no mourning and the rites were of the simplest was presumably just as he wished it many a man would prefer that no emblems of mourning be worn for him even by his widow but it Is seldom that such wishes are respected women do not necessarily prefer to don the gloomy garb but seldom feel equal to defying the con to the extent of reject ing it canada has now her own mint and going to coin her own money the colony has given the mother country another delicate intimation that though daughter in her mother a house she Is mistress in her own referring to the proposed plan to replace detective organs of th body with others in which the mechanism la la better working order there are t number of persona who cau stood new and improved brain |
