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Show CROSSING THL STREET. A httuly of Until Krirt lirklnR llirlr tViiy nt it Unity Corner. Did you ever watch women cross tho street'.' Theie is the sweet young thing who picks her way con though tho stones lie swept bright and elenn. She nlw nys povM'tiws small feet mid wears pretty shoos und smart gowns and hns rn nppenllng look In her i ve when she MiirtMover. The policemen nlway ilielp lu-r, though they Imow -he needs no help nud sho knows they know II. Hut that makes no dilTcrcnce nt nil. Tho men always stop on the curbing to sco If.fchc rencheH her destination all light. Then, stiyn tho Chicago Times, there Is the business young womnn. who plunges into the fray lu uwful nbeiit-liilndcdness. nbeiit-liilndcdness. Sometimes she picks up her dress skirt, but she usually forgets nil nlHiut It, nndhersboes are not new, anyhow. The policemen know thuy ought to help her, but she is ulwayn across before they get lo her, and sho gives them fearful shocks because thoy know she Is doomed to be run down smie day and they only hopu It will Ihj on tho next fellow's crossing. 11 nil comes of her having her mind occupied. A womnn with nil oceupiod mind is bound to upset things, And liuully there is the pixir little .timid woman who isdi-nthly nfrnld of truck hones nnd Is shabbily dressed and liable to henrt disease. Klip gct ncrosi anyhow, no one knows Just how, liecnuso llie first two varieties take up nil the attention. And having watched the woman for some time, have you eter turned your attention tothc men? If you have you must have rrnli.-ed what n calculating nnlmnl ninn is. He never runs ncioss Hint Is, If ho Is n city mnn. He doesn't get II list rated nml excited nnd ho accomplishes It by calculation. A quick gliinco up and down tho at reel nnd ho knows Just how long tho cubic car will bo In coming up ditto In coming down, how msjii the express wagon and the coupe will take to reach his crossing, nnd so he picks his wny calmly over, almost saunters, lu fact, and, perhaps, rescues ono or two hysterical hys-terical women en loule. We can all dolt in tlio same way If wo will forcoournorvoussystcins under n certain control. Slen, too, bclietu that no driver will run them down if ho can help it. Women, per contra, feci convinced that the aim In Ufo of m cry "grlp-iiinu" "grlp-iiinu" nnd "jehu" Is to crush them it they can. Tim t'sco Tlmt Kill. "Iltery time 1 come to tlio Pulled Stntcs," said Mr. Ilugh.lamison.of London, Lon-don, Kngliind, "I llnil fresh cause for astonishment as-tonishment In the innneloiisfiicigy of the Yankee nation. It seems to me that tho people work on this s.de for Hie sake of woik, they appear to icgnril it not as u niciins to an cud, hut Hie end itself. Tills iiniiorsiil rush and hurry Impresses Itself icry forcibly on lm-ropenns. lm-ropenns. Some years ngo I was visiting visit-ing n friend in Itusski, which is u icry quiet country indeed, mid, the com cihit-tlon cihit-tlon tinning on London, some one re-uuiikcd re-uuiikcd upon Hip unceasing iiili.ily nnd press in the I Iritis)! t-npll id, nud how Hip people liuriled lilting the street during dur-ing the busy houis.of Hie daj . An old lliihsluu thereupon, with u gtaie shake ol Ids head, observed thuthehad been In London once, and that nearly ail Itscit-bens Itscit-bens were mad. I wonder whnt this old gentleman would hnvo thought if he hud ever made n pilgrimage to Chicago? Now, it Is questionable in my iniml whether tills Unfile pact, is a henltlo thing for n people. Isn't it the pH.-e that kills'.' Why not h-nip soniPthing fot'Succceillnggem-iiilioiistodoV Your lich men. Instead of tolling on big country estates and helping lo Improve I the Hind diittii'ls. seem tonll (inkier In the cities, nud to loutlnue adding to their fortunes. The mania for work, for nctlie eiulcntor, seems never to lenic them, nud their chlldicu inherit the rump loiidcnel.-'' Wnsh'iteton I'ost.- |