| Show THE FOLLY OF IT comans womans national the act of tho woman in denver who ran into her burning home to secure some jewels she had forgotten and lost her alfo in tho names Is commented on as an exhibition of folly at the most the jewels represented mere money value and nofa a great deal of that while in placing her alto in jeopardy she was endangering that which replace the height of folly all will agree but not moro foolish than things we see done all about ass every day but which through long usage have become so familiar to us that they hardly attract notice As an instance take the case of jibe woman who sacrifices health and comfort tor dress maybe its her shoes that make her miserable torture almost beyond compare will she submit to or the gratification of her vanity tribal in itself perhaps thia matter of tight shoes but none the less illustrative of one of the commonest of follies at the best she can get but a little vainglory and even that is doubtful while the pain and the penalty aro absolutely certain carrying the idea into larger fields there is the man who for a few or for many lars will sacrifice health and happiness men all about us every day place their very lives in jeopardy tor the chance of getting money they overwork they and they overtax themselves in tun dreda of ways and the ultimate reward the only compensation they ban hope tor comes in the shape of dollars we need not particularize the spectacle fa only too common there is the woman with the araza for social preferment the desire to get into and stay in society what is there she will not do what sacrifice will she not make to accomplish her ambition having attained her end what Is her reward As nearly an empty nothing as one can imagine women sacrifice their home times throw aw ay the love of husband and children and put themselves to all kinds of discomfort and and a little thought will show them they cannot possibly get anything in return but the emptiest of hollowness does the typical girl ever stop to count what a big price she Is paying tor what s he calls her pleasure and what very small returns she Is getting what little genuine happiness sho is getting compared ciui what she could win by staying at home part of tho time and making herself her mothers side partner in the affairs ot the domestic hearth what an abundance of home joy eho is thrusting away from her to chase alter the of mock happiness there Is tie young man who thinks he must havo his fling and who can only find opportunity port unity tor that fling in dissipation he wrecks hla health ruins his reputation breaks his mothers heart and whitens hla fathers hair all bo cause he pursues folly from which there Is absolutely no possibility of getting the least profitable return when the banga panga and the penalties come as they inevitably must what compensation Is there in having a greater tool than himself pat him on the back and call him a stood fellow and there Is the old tool who is the greatest fool 0 all who do sorts or neglects his wife and family to follow after a woman who happens to at him simply because thero Is no other monkey about to her laughter what nn awful price he paya for borea than nothing these are some of the tollies that we see all about us every day by the eide of which tho act 0 tho woman who rushed into the burning house for her jewelry might almost be commended aa wisdom and these follies are pursued by men with their eyed open they are bald follies not oven veiled with the thinnest sort ot a disguise men and women who indulge in them know them to be follies yet pursue thorn to the painful end it daoa seem that people kueht to learn the value of dolanga little thinking and it would take a very attie thinking to save them from following after the follies that can lead to nothing but buffering and worse than death A california professor 10 cents worth of peanuts Is more nourishing than a porterhouse steak walk up to a peanut stand and get a dinner tor a dime the fact that the moors are permitted ta go on knifing christians strongly indicates that the moroccan government must have borrowed money from some ot ahe influential bankers of london paris and berlin wo understand that mars Is now in full and rapid retreat from its position of proximity to the earth it Is probable that he saw the strike coming senator bob taylor goes richard pearson several tetter by asserting that we shall need a hundred battleships with watch to fight japan no candidate for president over stepped from the united states senate to the white house remarks the duffalo times except we might add to get what was coming 0 o him in the way of plo at the national counter where will woman stop aska alie roanoke world wherever there ap pears an ad reading was 7 now the prison yawns for the standard oil company says a contemporary no wonder the wait has been very long and tiresome iho boston transcript charges that during the recent coney island fire the most terrified of the freaks was the fire cater perhaps like a good many of us he dreads tho result of an overloaded stomachs english battleships are to be equipped with refrigerators tor keeping he powder cool one of these days perhaps 0 similar equipment may be installed tor the use of tho officers the ohio man who has appealed to the courts to compel the return of his mother in law would bo sent to the insane adjlum before a jury of married men an eastern man put off applying tor a divorce until hia wife had thrown bottles and mirrors at him poisoned his coffee told him she preferred other men and chased him through the flat with an army revolver but being a man he will undoubtedly be suspected of having acted hastily in the matter stuyvesant fish threatens to tell all he knows about mr harraman Harrl man just at the time when the newspapers are glad to get any kind ot news george ade says ho Is making money faster than he can spend it if he is at all worried over it he can find a few lines in the help wanted column the quickest way to obtain relief according to tho a southern paper col watterson has built a democratic platform which has a leg on each corner and a foundation that will catch it in case it sags in the middle evidently the colonel has except od the inevitable that is providing for mr bryans increasing weight senator knox has managed to maintain a boom of very respectable proportions without any embellishments bellish ments in tha way of rescued or in the beverages it seems that almost any of us know more about john Ds business than he knows himself well he says ho pays no attention to it and all the rest of us do that explains it railways are not nearly so cheerful in obeying a law that establishes a two cent fare as they are in heeding one that abolishes passes i mr bryan la to announce hla can dudacy for the nomination in the fall we suppose there is need of some formality about such an announcement but as a news item it la valueless |
