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Show flffloip, ffl THE SERVICE OF B THE TEACHER8 01 The public school teachers are IS concluding their work, and aro now HI supposed to bo care free until Sep I tcmber. Thero Is a popular lmpres- HI slon that this long vacation makes HI their Job a soft ono. nut many ot Uffl them spend tho, vacation helping jj mother In the kltchon, and In most mm cases their summers are apt to be lnB laborious. H Tho parents turn over tholr chll- MS dren much as they would check their f H babies at-aday nursery ."It gets'tnem 8j out ot tho why, leaving mother free 'M , to go to the brldgo party. Tho par- .M" cnts cau only partly control their ' own little flocks. Yet they expect a R teacher to tako forty of theec unsub- A Jugatod little wills, iid'ico them to an HI orderly discipline, keep them sunshiny 91 and workluc, and turn them out ' ' ! equipped with the fundamentals of i ' da'Jy life. At homo the cross grained habits iof children are excused ou the ground that they aro nervous, or that they Inherited theso traits and aro not to i I blame for them,. When tho teacher undertakes te reduce tho youngsters to order, the children are Irritated at unfamiliar restraints, It a tea del- Mm lar a week teacher does not display M the diplomacy aud self controt ox- R pected from $000,0 executive tho Q parents petlttoa for her removal. H In large towns tb,a teacher Uvea f!fl an Isolated life. Low salaries keop In her moving from place to placo, So il clal succoss Is a matter ot giro and m take, and as sho has no favors to M offer, bor engagements aro apt to be m limited to church socials. jfl1 Tho blooming girl who enters the : M H school room at twenty frequently I I comes out !at thirty with a thin, pale, m drawn face. Hut nevertheless the r I school room Is -a placo ot good cheer. In The songs ot the children, flowers, 'Biff pictures, glvo a sunny atmosphere. I I The teacher renders an Incomparable N service. Sho Is entitled to high hon- HJS or. It Is a pity that parents do not fl Ft mako inoro offort to welcomo nor, and jlgf mako her life socially agreeable. il THE PREVALENCE OF Rlf BLACKMAIL jfl When a man ot woaltli receives H m letter ordering him to doposlt $5000 W ' under a cortaln stone, else his home S -will bo burned or ho will bo shot, ho i naturally feels disturbed. Formerly In u good many cases, ho gave up tho money. This stalo trick has been jr ! exposed so often that now ho knows m that" Quite ltkoly It Is tho work ot fit ri "'- Pf 11 hoys, oven though tho dirty threaten- OJttt log scrawl, with IU skull and cross w ' bones, may hnvo an ugly look. 5$ Most casss of this kind aro now- t j . adays put Into tho hands ot tho po- gHpfl lice In this way, the recent plot to ft extort $10,000 from tho Cunard pHBHBHHL SteamshUompany, and $35,000 from tho Ney,JIaven railroad, was prompts' prompt-s' uncovered. Uut thero arc still plenty ot human hum-an reptiles, who In this way live In comfort and idleness by proy'ng on tho Industrious. In tho larger cities, every Italian who accumulate a littles lit-tles nest egg from early and lato toll at his fruit Btaml, may bo tho victim vic-tim of tho slimy lizards ot tho Mafia and Cnmorrn. A gnng of horso poisoners flourishes flourish-es in all tho largo cities, tho existence exist-ence of which Is a revelation of the cowardice ot business men. Theso vultures In Now York City nlono collect col-lect $100 a month each from llvo hundred hun-dred stablo keopors. Tho horsemen feel It Is cheaper and safer to pay, for flvo hundred horses belonging to non-contributors flop in tho streets annually from stealthy doses of tor-senlc. tor-senlc. Political blackmail still flourishes In halt tho state legislatures and city councils. Many candidates seek of-, flee simply to Introduce strike legislation. leg-islation. Llko the stable owners or tho big cities, public service corporations corpor-ations think It Is cheaper and safer to pay than come out In tho open and fight. But evory time they yield they holp fasten upon our civic llfo a political po-litical Black Hand far more dangerous danger-ous than anything Imported from Sicily. THE PHILOSOPHY OF WEDDINGS )-)'' The social philosopher, who Interested Inter-ested In tho ways of men and women, wom-en, sets out to analyso the frtfman traits seen In modern weddings, ot course finds tho most abundant material ma-terial In June, the month ot high tide of nature's beauty. Perhaps the first Impression is the amount ot horso play which the humor hum-or loving American people tolerate. Probably In no other country do women wom-en In delicate s'lk gowns crawl down dirty coal holes In order to get admission ad-mission to churches whero notables are being married. In no other country aro bridegrooms kidnapped. Nowhere elso Is It considered con-sidered good form to persue a retreating retreat-ing couple to the hotel whero they encounter tho embarrassing mysteries myster-ies of tho wedding night. It is partly part-ly for this reason, partly on account of fuss and feathers, that father and tho bridegroom aro growing moro and moro favorablo to elopements. . 1 In the circles supposed to belong tp society, all tho paraphernalia ot bridesmaids and flowers and spreads and favors are but little outside the regular machinery at lite. They are comfortably handled, it the price cam be raised or borrowed. But among many staple hearted people, & splurge is .made that la remote and foreign to, the ordinary habits ot life. Houses are thrown into turmoil, un til father can scarcely find" a closet freo from cumbrance of fluffy bridal material. After It is qvcr,ylt is found that the best damask sofa is ruined by a mayonnaise sandwich. It takes about a year for the furniture and decorations to recover. Young men from tho country make furtive trips to the Old Clo man to hire dress suits. Thore Is anxious searching ot the otlquet books by the, famlnlne element. Probably more and more people aro now realizing tho bad form ot an elaboration out ot lino with one's ordinary habits. But a great many pooplo spend moroon weddings than thoy can afford. ' CHEATING IN GAME8 English court Boclety Is upset over a charge that a mombcr of tho royal household has been caught cheating at poker. This Indicates much feeling feel-ing against gambling crookedness. Tho crate of playing brldgo for money fci-s swept through English society, so-ciety, until a girl can not ovon get a Job as a governess without knowing tho fam.e. Women seem to, compromise comprom-ise their good name by borrowing money to pay gambling debts, yot rarely is an accusation ot coating nihdo In this country, tho mnn with tho marked pack may arn his living i But ho makes no social tics. In high society women aro said to have loose Ideas. Ono result Is that some men sty they never play for money,, with women. As, a whole one would 'Be slow to boUeve that American wbm-cn wbm-cn play crooked. " In lawn tennis and golf, a high standard of honor seems to prevail. A fellow who had once been caught cou'd positively count on blackballs. at almost nny country club. Yet many men nre found who deliberately de-liberately Justify cheating in baseball. base-ball. Many famous plnyers In the big leagues have no hesitation In cutting cut-ting straight from first to third bhse, provided tho umpire Is nol looking. Half of tho bleachers will rise and yell to applaud their cleverness, Including In-cluding many of tho same men who would throw down a friend who shuffled shuf-fled In a marked card at poker. Yet everything of that kfhd Is all of the same piece, and Is all yollow. Perhaps tho many college fellows who aro entering baseball may help create cre-ate higher standards. Yet the freedom free-dom with which they plyy under assumed as-sumed names to dodge the rules against summer ball, suggest that they too may have their crooked streaks. It one believes In fair play, a player having agreed to conduct a gamo according to certain riles should be willing to abide by 'the rules he has helped to establ'sh. 4- SOLICITING BU8INESS One ot the recent progressive steps In the religious world has been what Is called tho Every Member campaign. cam-paign. It Is based on the Idea that there aro a great many peopte who attend church who would be willing to glvo to the work ot the church, it their contributions were solicited. . Most churches have not been conducted con-ducted in a business like way. Regular Reg-ular and borough soliciting of subscriptions sub-scriptions Is very rare. As the result re-sult of the new Idea referred tn, many churches that always used to have a, deficit, have been put on a prosperous financial basis. In one church ot about three hundred members mem-bers known to the writer, about one hundred twenty-flve new subscribers were secured by thiB kind of a campaign, cam-paign, with Increases ot contributions from, about seventy-five others, and a total gain in revenue ot $lt00. It Is not often that the churches can teach a lesson In business efficiency effic-iency to the business man. Yet here is a case in point. Many merchants 'are conducting their business with a lack et enterpriae which to luUM oaariced as- the bafcaaar war In which church finances are often ran. It goes to ho wthat it you want financial support for any klnd,oa proposition, yon hare got to get oat and hustle tor it. The business ana, has no force of unpaid workers, which like a body of church adherent adher-ent can get out from house to house nd sollcltfhelp. But the newspaper furnishes the means by which he can tell his story to the entire public. The mere fact that he appears tn the publto print with a story of his business spreads abroad the opinion that he is a pusher. Tho public values val-ues enterprise. It will pass by the old timer, and go down in somo side street to hunt out the man who shows inttlatlvo. It in addition Uio merchant merch-ant can ta,lk convincingly about his goods, and glvo the idea that he really re-ally has bargains, thero will bo no troublo about his success. I ! TRAINING THE OTHER WOMAN'S CHILD Thoy all sat round In friendly chat Discussing mostly this and that, And a hat. i i - -i t Until a neighbor's wayward lad Whs seen to net In ways quite badt Oh, 'twas sad! ' Ono thought sho know what must be dono With ovory child beneath tho sun Sho had none And cro hoi yarn had been qulto spun Another's theories were begun She had one. The third was noi so sure she lenew, But thus and so she thought she, "Bhe had" two. The next one added, "Let me see; These things work oat so different ir." ' She had three. The fifth drew on her wisdom store And aald, Td have to think It o'er." She had four. , And then one sighed, "I don't con- trve Fixed rules for boys, they're too alive." Sho had flvo. i r t" i Tprr" "I know It leaves one In a fix, This straightening 'of crooked" sticks." She had six. Aad one declared, "There's no rulo given, But do your best and trust to heav-en!" heav-en!" ' ' Sho had seven. Alice Crowell Hoffman. - a |