Show I r I Dickens and Christmas I. I I N ENGLISH newspaper announces that on onI I AN the day before Christmas about forty lovers of Dickens w will Il undertake a journey in three I coaches over the route supposed to have been followed followed followed fol fol- fol- fol lowed b by Samuel Pickwick an and his friends Every Lvery- body will dress dross in the st style stylo lo of Dickens Dickens' day ay even evento evento I to the coachman and the es of the inn mn at ut Rochester r where according to the story Pickwick I and und his friends gathered The party will dine there thero therein theror r in the tho evening e just as Pickwick might have ha done This is merely one manifestation of what the speaking English world owes to Dickens at Christmas ChristI Christ Christ- I mas inns time If all who have felt the real Dickens Christmas spirit that spirit that feeling of love and sympathy and charity for all the world that universal good t fellowship which takes in prince and pauper were pauper were J to take concerted action the Canterbury Pilgrimage I would be a mere circus procession in comparison and andI I I the Crusades which almost swept lands bare of I people would sink back in the mist Christmas was vas there when Dickens began to I write but it was dull dali and heavy Y It moved on not by its own generous impulses and the quickening of religious fervor but through the momentum of the i ages Dickens put life and color and feeling in it Ho He humanized it He brought it down to the present pres s ent and it has stayed there ever since I I His Christmas Stories broke the tho spell Like the theman t man who pronounced the magic words in the AraI Arabian Ara Ara- I bian Nights and the dead city teemed with life so I these little tales of Dickens' Dickens woke the sleeping sentiment sentiment senti senti- I ment made a new world at Christmas time a world I of fun and frolic and feasting of gifts and good goodnature t nature ture of heart and happiness I What these Christmas Stories did yesterday esterday they J are doing today Only Ony last week tho the Kansas Cit City I Star one of the edited best papers in the tho country wiped out all nIl its editorials to print bits from these I Stories each under its proper head to stimulate if that were necessary good will to men mell and glory to God I And it urged as we do today that each man and woman no matter how busy on whom hom the hard truths troths of the tho world press too heavily hea read these f Stories over o to lift the burden for a time to blow the embers into a cheering blaze blazo again I 3 fr eI 4 1 I I The Freak I II I IDLE EILE it is too often true that the freaks I IW W 7 WHILE always come to the thc surface in a public movement move moye- meat ment of any kind and the equal suffrage I movement could se scarcely expect an exemption in its J case yet the dispassionate observer will find in in the I performance of the leaders an excellent I 1 reason why their cause has not made more head head- way For the purpose of spectacularly presenting I j to the governor of N New ew York a n petition for woman I I suffrage in the Empire state a party of J I is walking from New York City to Albany Naturally NaturI Naturally I ally the newspapers assigned staff men to the story and copious reports are being published of the incidents incidents inci inci- mci- mci I dents along tho the line of march Tho The natural consequence consequence conse onse- quence is that everybody regards the de demonstration I I no ns a n joke and the effect up upon n the cause canse will be more mora detrimental than helpful The equal suffrage movement mo deserves deser to succeed throughout the United States and undoubtedly will willI I within the next decade But it will proceed no faster by mountebank performances like that going I forward in New York An ability to struggle over o I icy roads from New York to Albany does not prove pro f 1 womans woman's right to the ballot or attest the degree of intelligence with which she will vill use it once she sheI S I gets it I Opponents of equal suffrage are arc not such because I they doubt the wisdom and judgment ment of women or orI I because that sex is not ph physically fitted to endure I military service The real objection lies in the misI mistaken mis this I taken idea that the admission of women to equal I rights of citizenship will rob Tob her of those graces and allurements which now now constitute her chief appeal f to the masculine heart The men of Utah and of other states in which I women have e the tho privilege of franchise have found that it robs them of none of their womanly attributes attributes t and that they are arc as charming channing as ever I lord of creati creation n in New York will capitulate just as asin asin in other states hut but the march to Albany brings tho day of ot surrender not a second n nearer 24 1 a o- o 4 3 1 a. II Forbidden Fruit Ever vr Toothsome WITTY cynic once bid successfully for fa fame fameI me A A I by remarking that morals are arc largely a ques ques- I tion bon of latitude and longitude for what seems highly Improper on Gr Greenland's icy mountains may be quite de do on Indias India's coral strang Mannel'S Man Man- Tan Tanners p ners nelS and customs of one section of tho the countr country I seem barbarous in another When Then the Raf fir Kaffir ir a meets an associate they greet by rubbing noses the I American who would salute a friend in t that at manner manS man ner fler would get himself arrested if the friend did not batter tatter him him to a pulp before the police arrived There still remain parts of this glorious Union where dancing is considered a highly immoral pastime partaking of the world the flesh and the devil de t to a scandalous degree in others exaggerated dances are within the limits of good form fonni i I In the process of reforming Salt SaIt Lake dance t I halls it t should ld be remembered that the first fruit fruitt t of which history speaks was vas forbidden den an and that only by arousing the curiosity of the woman was I Ithe I the wily serpent able to market the product I If Dan Dances s that hat harmful when I f are the tho participants I bend them to harmful uses may by opposition beI become be be- I fr come stran strangely ely alluring to those wh who would not I otherwise desire to taste of them J While public exhibition of the lewdness that encourages immorality should 1 be bc sternly sup eup t pr pressed compulsory righteousness never nevor becomes 1 permanent and lasting Vice 9 often t n doubles its capacity to attract when I the tIle activity of the authorities tends to make it seem criminal there is enough 11 human nature even I j in the twentieth century product to render desirable desirable desirable desir desir- able that which is forbidden I The eastern college professor oies i or who has bas found by investigation that hea red headed ed men seldom mat ma- ma marry t women with red hair had his labor for not nothing bIng The TIle 1 custodian of the in Washington ton could 0 i have bave given him that information off i Mexico exico is said to be for peace Praying seems to be the only recourse left in this case casc I One One tro trouble ble with the good little boy these days dayss is is s that he h her is almost too good t to bo be true 6 |