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Show THE BEE. It has been found that a groat part of the money brought to the school savings bank would, without it, have been spent in candy, gum, cigarettes and other injurious indulgences. The exercised by a child whoso mind l r uquers his animal appetites, and the demanded of one who perseveres in saving, stimulates aud increases the mental powers and t makes the child more and more forceful in character. The reports also show that almost always the money is withdrawn for some good purpose, often to aid in emergency cases at home or abroad as was the case in the Johnstown disaster. A Philadelphia school contributed over $100 from its fund to aid those left homeless. self-denia- l self-eou-t.o- self-relian- UNSOPHISTICATED. There are four women in the United States next door to simple. It is impossible to doubt that they have listened, :a a dull way, to female suffragists and have heard about equal rights, but take note of how they apply the remedy. They havo entered the locomotive engineer aud fireman profession. Wo do not know the number of their engines nor where are their runs, but they the four are put down as engineers and In the book of statistics. fire fire That isnt what equal What blundering in a secondary rights means. Equal rights-w- ell, way, it means the right to vote, of course, when youve a mind to, but it means first and primarily the right to your own fair half of the family pocket-booyour own half every day and poosibly, upon state occasions such as come along Christmas and Easter times, a dip over into the 7 neering ; it covers up bad appearances, silenced the streets ami frightens the little folks for awhile. The uatural result will be to make boys and girls more sneaking, less upright. They will not only have their parents to deceive but the officers under such a law. And when one happens to be arrested or driven home, the chances are ten to one that the childs mother or father will literally destroy its respect for the law and the guardians of the peace by the way that policeman one is criticises! for making an example or victim of the ouly juvenile offender he happened to catch. We all kuow bow it is. But the worst features of tho curfew Rystem are the encouragement of parents in their neglect of children ; the cultivation of a dependent spirit ; the return to paternalism ; the demand of father aud mother for municipal aid in bringing up their children while, all too often, they are engaged in a more facinating occupation. A law which would fix a penalty upon parents for allowing their children to roam the streets at will might auswer the purpose. But no ordinance will keep children out of mischief or at home if a parent cannot, although it may drive them from the glare of the street Odserveb. lamp. 1 k, other half too. word for it, when men Take a letrn the wisdom of carrying fat pocket-bookand sharing them freely and fairly the most of this talk about emancipation will cease. While so far as the danger of being crowded out of such professions as firing and engineering, that likewise will silently steal away. lack-a-daisy- s s THE CURFEW QUESTION. GREAT many things may b said in favor of a curfew law and some few7 things may be urged against it. There is a growing disposition on the part of most people to shirk the cares and duties of home, to bury themselves in books or business, to plunge into the social swim or the cultivation of some fad, while a nurse or a policeman is expected to take care of their children. Too many parents are already trying to avoid their responsibility as such, without needing one bit of encouragement. They are anxious for some one to help them control the children, to make them mind, as it were; but a curfew law does not chanere the parent although it may terrorize the child. And parents who are unable to keep their children off the street connot keep them from assembling elsewhere, in dark corners, in barns and other places where in back-yardfully as much vice may be developed, and more than could come from romping through the streets of an overgrown village like this. If the sole object of a curfew law were the prevention of noise in the neighborhood it might be the remedy required ; but as a moral factor it will certainly work both ways. The effect of such an ordinance, whre it has been tried, is bound to be pleasing, but the good accomplished is like ve s, ill-heal- th 3-- erer aud has no permanent abiding place, that the base of the braiu and the chin siem to attract each other, that the brain has slipped from the top of the head down into the upper part of the neck, and that the neck itself has scarcely more room thau will accommodate the wiud-pipe- . Is it possible that we are a nation of poor observers, or is it because we cannot express what we do see intelligently, or both? D. R. A UQ SHU KG. fllMscellaneous flfeatter. WHEN THEY flARCH HO.IE AGAIN. They huve gathered round the White House, ten thousand office seekers strong-With petitions uud indorsements in it grand and gorgeous stack And for weary weeks theyll warble their distressing dreary song, And at last drill home disgusted , fire-wome- n , These were drawn f y intelligent, Figs. educated persons aud are a fair average of what may be expected from a company of gentle folks. Observe that in all of the drawiugs the eyrs are in the top of the head, that the ear is a wand OBSERVATION. Ask people generally whether the eyes are in the upper or the lower part of the head, and in almost every case the answer will be, in the But this is not so. In upper part, of course. a well developed head the eyes are in the lower part. Again, a6k which is the longer, the distance from the bottom of the chin to the top of the head, or from the end of the nose to the back of the head. The answer invariably will be, from the bottom of the chin to the top of the head is the longer. In reality these distances are usually about equal. Draw a square and divide it horizontally into four equal parts, as in Fig. 1. This square will contain a well formed human head, Fig. 2. Note that these distance from the end of the nose to the back of the head is equal to the distance from the bottom of the chin to the top of the head, because the distances are bounded by the sides of On the Railroad 0, theyve labored for the party for a Track. hundred years or more, Kver putting up their boodle when the others all held back. They have shouted and have spouted and have won the votes galore, But no difference; home theyll travel On the Railroad Track, Theyve been promised many places by the party bosses all And for high class commendation, no, indeed, they do no lack; Bat upon tha jobs they settled, some one elsa has now th e call ; Bo home they'll tramp disheartened On the Bailroad Track. ' - tt READ . THE BEE THIS the square. The eye is in the lower part of the line that head because it is below the divides the upper and lower part of the head equally. Some of the other points that are not usually f recognized in the human head are that of the head is above the ears ; that the end of the nose, the lower part of the ear, and the base of the brain are in the same horizontal line ; and that the parting of the hair is about half the distance from the top of the head to the root of the nose. Convince yourself that the above points are true by measurements on the head of a friend. Why is there such a superficial knowledge of this form? Surely, of all objects, the human head is the one most interesting, most looked at, most studied, and most thought of, and ought to be a test of our knowledge cf form. But look at MORNING. half-wa- y one-hal- SUBSCRIBE THIS AFTERNOON . . . . Tsy |