| Show The Progress of Woman Miss Nettle C Peterson Is now startIng start-Ing out on an examination tour for the National Civil Service Commission She Is the first woman who has ever been on such a tour Miss Peterson will conduct con-duct examinations in St Louis Kansas City Topeka Denver and other points In the Southwest She will be a novelty city From what people soy about her she will also be a success But how unhappy some men will be hell was a time when womens ignorance igno-rance of the kinds of work which men do was pretty complete or rather complete com-plete and pretty Men liked It It pleased the expert accountant to have his wife regard expert accounting In much the same way na she regarded the conservation oC force the profession of the equinoxes the nebular hypothesis metempsychosis or any other great mystery She then looked al him with the fame admiration with which a savage sav-age looks at I telegraph Instrument or a cow looks at a comet Wasnt T kwon k-won mul There was admiration on both sides Jack admired Gwendolyn because she was so helplessly Ignorant To have charge of such a lump of Igno vance or rather of such a hunch of Ignorances fled him with the greatest appreciation of his OMI powers and with a tremendous sense of responsibility responsibil-ity Meanwhile Gwendolyn kept on admiring ad-miring Tack because he did such wonderful won-derful things downtown Could there have been a better arrangement What Is the arrangement now Gwendolyn may have Herm through a business college herself At any rate she has been through High school She knows l that expert accounting while a difficult and honorable thing Is not a superhuman or even a superfemlnlne accomplishment She could do a little accounting herself If necessary She has eaten another apple from the tree of knowledge Another Eden is lost She appreciates her husbands work now because be-cause It is what It la not because she doesnt know what it Is And the old relationship of appealing Ignorance ont till on-t oneside and imposing knowiedge on the other has to be abandoned Chicago Chica-go Tribune City Birth and Country I appears that a child horn where he could first wittingly open his eyes upon a noble square framed In by palaces whose frescoed and sculptured fronts should face in gardened spaces a lovely fountain with groups of beautiful beau-tiful statuary glimpsed through the leaves ind waters ought to feel the impulse to creative art far more than a child that first looks opt on a barn and a henhouse with a pump in the foreground and a woodshed straggling along in the middle distance and some anc cattle emerging from the background 01 on an empty village street athwart a dooryard with a Mondays washing hanging out In it I t says Harpers Magazine Mag-azine Yet the chances Immensely are that the farmborn or the villageborn boy will feel the divine Influence which will not visit the soul of the cityborn child or if citybirth Is not wholly alien to the creative will that It shall stir in the spirit of some boy born In a mean house or a back street or over a shon and not in the heart of a boy born In a palace on a noble square The Wrong Side Representative A D Morris of Schuyler county had an experience In the Ilouse the other day that was somewhat mortifying to him for a short time says the Kansas City Journal He had been writing a letter to his wife In his haste to prepare an amendment to n resolution that was pending he mistakenly wrote It on the back of a sheet of paper in the letter and sent It to the clerks desk He arose at the same limoand said Mr Speaker I wish to offer an amendment The gentleman from Schuylor Mr Morris offers an amendment sid Speaker plO tern Duncan Rend IJ Mr Clerk Clerk Jeff Pollard with a quizzical expression began In an unusually loud clear voice My dear Maggie find myself awfully aw-fully lonesome here without you Hold on there Mr Clerk cried Morris Thats not right Thats the wrong side The House held Its sides to laugh while Morris sank back Into his scat with a ery red face and Clerk Pollard Pol-lard turned the paper over and began to read the resolution Send by Enclosed Girl An East side druggist Is preparing a unique scrap book I contains the written orders of customers of foreign birth and these orders are both curious and amusing Here are some that arc copied from the originals Dear Dochter pies glf bearer five sense wore of Auntie Toxyn for gargle gar-gle babys throat t and obleagc tT have n cute pain In my childs diagram Please give my son something some-thing to release It My little baby has eat up Its fathers i parish plaster Send an anecdote quick I as possible by the enclosed girl This child Is my little girl I send five cent to buy two slUes powders for a groan up adult who is i Bike You will please give the lettlc bol five cents worth of epecac for lo throw up In a five months old babe N B The babe has a sore stummlck I haf a hot time Iri my Inside and inch I wood like It to be extinguished What Is I good for to extinguish If The enclosed money Is the price of the extinguisher Press ex-tinguisher Hurry pleasNew York Tho Rich Man Ho had I gem of wondrous light WhoKO nIght ray would pierce the darkest 1 Experience his Jewel He 1 purchased It will blood and tears The sacrifice of wasted wlHtcd years And with privations cruel CIel Before Ids moilnl race wns run Hu tiled If ulvo It to hls son iwnss scornfully rejected ITo tiled to trlve It to the world But every lip dcrliilvc curlrrt And none the gift rejected He had somft gold Its cost waa small A imirltct8 fleeting rise or fall I smnl A ohouply bought t concpfision Time hnrjJha gathered round his bed Before his llmil nsith l > had aped And fought to gain poHOHflon I Elaine York Sun McLandburgh Wilson in New Must Leave the Ministry A well known Scotch mecnlster took up golf and despite great practice could not succeed in 1 passing the tyro stage His simple exclamations ol Tot tut Oh dear now Well well and the like were plain evidence of a perturbed spirit One day when the perspiration flowed freely from his lofty brow and his honest countenance shone with 1 luster and radiance which alas was not due to calmness of soul but rather the heat of the sun nnd his laborious la-borious efforts to move the obstinate gutta poroha from its Htntloii on the tee he was tempted to indulge In strong language Dear dear hut Ill have to gle It up Ill have to gle It up he said l at lust with a despairing look at the bal Give up the game Mr D exclaimed ex-claimed his friend who had been a witness of his attempts Na na tlc meenlHtry answered the other with a sigh Philadelphia Public Ledger Wanted t Trade Nat Goo wln receives many letters in the course of a dramatic season While playing In Brooklyn recently he and his dog Inspired the following which Is probably the most original in lila l collection Dear Mr Goodwin Me and my Bro Teddy want to trade a jack knife 4 n Flxblader and our new Ulster Uls-ter for your bulldog which we saw In at the matinee In Act II the other day Weve used the jack knife six times and the Times baby four ecksNeW York The Old Maid She cannot woo the man she loves ah no She rmiy not hint In word or none or lrha She may not ploAd with eloquence of eyes Nor with I touch of hand dare let him know She should not think of him with love although Her hrtnrt In hunger passionately erlcP Although her womans soul the world defies Shall honor drag t human hope this low If sho but chance to pass him on the street Her heart Is grateful that they sometimes meet She masks emotion under calm control But wears his snubs lika Jewels on her soul And from thin love pent In her breast draws store 110 To lavish on hor I friends and on the poor Rosalie Isabel Stewart In Smart Bet Too Precious A village clergyman has this choice bit among his annals One day he was summoned In haste by Mrs Johnston who had been taken suddenly ill He went In some wonder because she was nol of his parish and was known to be devoted to her own minister the Rev Mr Hopkins While he was waiting in the parlor before seeing the sick woman wo-man he beguiled the lime by talking with her daughter I am very much pleased to know your mother thought of me In her illness I ness he said Is Mr Hopkins away The young lady looked unfeIgnedly shocked No she said Oh nol But were afmM its something contagious and we didnt like to run any risks Youths Companion |
