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Show . - ' ; Let woman propose. That Is the f"way Countess Sutherland wouJd settle set-tle the divorce evil. according to :her statement on her recent visit to -Newport, "Woman has a keener eense than man," says the Countess. ;MShe would not be guilty of the' ;;many blunders of plunging Into : matrimony. Men try to decide how " to be happy by reasoning out which Ji woman they love best and which J will make the best wife. They fall. MB! They have failed consistently for ' Hfcythousands of years. "Before reason" came to man he mated happily. hc -didn't reason. :He mated by Instinct ns the birds lido today. Woman still chooses her imate Instinctively and she chooses , -rightly. But she Is not allowed to j speak her choice. She Is tied down f. by fcustom, which says no woman 1 shall ask a man's hand in marriage. "You Americans are troubled more than any other people with V Ahe divorce evil. 1 have the rem-' rem-' .'edy. I would make it highly prop-fj prop-fj , er for woman to propose and I ' would give men the same oppor-r.- tunlty I give women. There should I - be no difference. J am not a. suf-. suf-. . fraglst. I do not crave the ballot. I crave happiness. In England p there is less divorce, but there is un- happiness In the home just tlie same yp.- 3 here. Wo do not rebel against , unhapplncss. When woman pro- -: poses, man can-no longer trifle with . v affections. Man ft'UI have to be . honest with all women. "Today girls are forced to allow many men to pay attentions to them-jff; them-jff; " for fear they will go through, life un mated. They are forced to, report K" Jr t0 trlckorv to draw men on. No one Krf cor"P'aIns when women Win men m& through their' wiles. But when a b woman speaks the word all con-demn con-demn her. Away with such relics of barbarism! ,,Mate the birds." The various cures suggested for divorce are legion. In Chicago dur-Jng dur-Jng 1,913 the Court of Common Re-1 Re-1 lations made the following report as to important' causes of dlvd'rce: - Interference of father-in-law," 1 per cent Interference of mother-in-law. -per cent. ' H Immorality of husband,. 12 perl H cent H Immorality of wife, 2 per cent H III temper of husband. S per cent. H 111 temper of wife. 3 per cent. H Immaturity, 4 per cent. H Laziness, 3 per cent. H Sickness, 1 per cent. , f A woman senses the .:bad, man.-, f Recording to the C'ountesVShe ills-' ' ml covers him beforcijhemdpbseFu't-i Iff she does not know the real reason for her dislike for him. Her in- stlnct tells her only that she should I mate with another. She marries R him and conquers her dislike and If; even makes herself think she loves If: him. She could discover the lazy If man. but when the lazy,., man pro-I pro-I posca to her, she accepts because j she has no chance to. propose her-I her-I self and It is either accept him or :. go unmated through life.- All ".the . I; ; f&Hfii IFntigiic in Metals. There is tjie lactor of fatigue, which plays a most important part in reducing the working life of a, sleam engine, and cannot well be-,V be-,V avoided. By th'-; is meant the ) weakening which certain ineluls suf-j suf-j for when exposed to a large num-'l num-'l her of repetitions of stress., saya a , writer in Power. Both the ' piston rod and the connecting- rod or a i 1 steam englnu are subjected to a cases cited in Chicago could be discovered dis-covered by woman If she had a chance, says the Countess. . WOMAN MARRIES DRUNKARD AND NAGS HIM AFTERWARD. " Thq Countess points to the woman-who woman-who marries a drunkard and then nags Him afterward. '"The woman believes that she may bo able to reform the drunkard," drunk-ard," says the Countess. "When she falls she nags him. In the first place, she would never havo married mar-ried hlin had she been free to ask whosover sho would.'' In the last forty years there were 3,700,000 divorces In the United States, affecting more than 5,000.-000 5,000.-000 persons. In the Middle West there were 032,000. In Illinois there were 120,000; In Pennsylvania, 03.760; in California, 60,000; in Now York State, 44. 450, of which IS, 160 went to other States, Probably there were 10,000 more, of which no records were left. In the. last twenty years 170,000 of the divorces wero eecured by a change of residence. resi-dence. In 1012 there were 100,000 divorces In this country and 70,066 children were deprived of one or both parents, and from 25 to ?0.pcr cent of these children were jent to reform schools. g- These figures appal the Countess; She advocates equal liberty, for men, . , and women. - . "Not only do I agree lhat women should havo the same chance with men to propose," she says, "but I bellove with Fola La Follette that women should have the right to use ' their maiden name after marriage. Wc have a vexing custom of taking upon ourselves the name of our husbands hus-bands upon "marriage. That fetish should go." . ' . ,i Fola La Follette, daughter of the J Wisconsin Senator, has started ''a country-wide discussion over the right of women to retain their names after marriage, . ' In a recent speech she declared the custom of adopting the name of one's husband was unjustifiable and that no good reason existed for Its continuation. She boldly called for Its elimination, elimina-tion, declaring that the identity of i.thc woman became entirely lost when she dropped her maiden name. BOSTON SUFFRAGIST AVOUlD DROP MXtS. .; - Alice Stone -Blackwell, a Boston 'suffragist, believes. In abandoning hc-DCiyjTront ofa' woman's name. "A woman submerges her individuality indi-viduality completely when she takes the name of her husband, and -why should sho?" she continued. If - ahe happens to be a woman of note before her marriage It works an Injustice In-justice on her to lose-z-all that she,--mado for herself while unmarried. "Women who hac become famous fa-mous on the stage under their maiden names do not drop them tenslble and a comprehensive load at each revolution, the effect of which Is to lead to disintegration and weakening, particularly if tho range of stress Is high. . Where only low factors of 'safety are adopted In the design, the probability prob-ability of failure and breakdown from fatigue Is much greater than where the margin of safety Is large. It would be posslbl to almost en-tlrcly en-tlrcly do away with fatigue rbyjmak- - i - ... .'; ing the parts of such strength that the" working stresses would be very low, but this would necessitate massive mas-sive and costly parts; hence in actual ac-tual ..practice., fatigue 13 always to . bo considered. Exporience has shown that engines do break down from fatigue. Two beam engines built from the same patterns were supplied for driving a large textile nilll , Both engines were put to "'TJ6rk at the sanootluie and under- . .r i. I. (Fi. , - -'' . the same conditions. After working for nearly twonty years, the beam of one engine broke. Within a short time the beam of tho other engine similarly failed. During tho years thesfc engines had been running run-ning each beam had mado about 200,000,000 oscillations. Steel Veiscts Magnetic Tt Is a curious fact that the steel ."built hull of a vessel is mado mag- $ ' ' ' .-,"' -- netlc during construction by the hammering of the motal, and that every steel vessel should 1 therefore havo Kb compass corrected to counteract coun-teract its own magnetic linos of force. The magnetic Influence is further complicated by the load carried by the vessel, if this load'Is magnetic" or capable of being magnetized. mag-netized. Ore-carrying vessels experience reat difficulties on this account JL - when they marry, boca-use the names In their Instances have a certain cer-tain commercial value. Tou know In the olden days," Miss Blackwell laughlpgly commented, com-mented, "a woman had abBolutely no rights whatsoever. And in merg-- merg-- lng her identity into that 6f hr husband they even carried it beyond the grave. J "Go into a.ny of the ancient graveyards grave-yards arid there you will find the poor woman referred to not as a 'Mrs. Somebody, but merely as the 'relief of a Mr. Somebody.' "But, seriously, Mlw lo. Follette's proposal is well worthy of consideration. consid-eration. Only a. short tlm ago Miss Miiholland, one of tho moat notable suffragists of the country, married a Mr. Boissevain. "Instead of losing herself under the name of Mrs. Boissevain, she now very sensibly calls herself Mrs. Mllholland-Bolssevaln. "All that the name of Miiholland stands for has bfcen preserved by this plan, for her husband was practically unknown in this country coun-try before the marriage. MEN REFUSE TO ' ' GIVE UP JTAMES. "It's a poor rule that won't work both ways, but how many men can you find who aro willing to give up their own names and take those of their wives? "It was my mother, Lucy Stone, who was probably the first woman in this country to insist upon the right to retain her maiden name when she married my father, Henry B Bakewell, in 1855. And it met with his full approval, for he real- ' lzed all that her name meant to 'her. "On legal d6cuments she always signed herself as Lucy Stone, wife of Henry B. Blackwell, "Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, the famous English suffragist, is pec-haps, pec-haps, the one prominent woman vho has suffered the most because of changing her name through .marriage. .mar-riage. "She was born Carrie Lane and .married Thomas Chapman. "On the death of her husband she continued her lecture work as Carrie Lane Chapman. "Her second husband was a Mr. Catt, who was exceedingly proud of this old English name. Mrs. Catt, however, felt that the value of her previous lecture work would be diminished di-minished under the name of 'Catt' and naturally was timid about the fun that was bound to be poked at her because of tho name. "But, inasmuch as they were traveling together on their lecture tours and registering under different differ-ent names, it soon became obvious that the average hotel proprietor ESPECIALLY POSED AT THE HIPPODROME. and for some time hydrographlo authorities au-thorities iiaVo been endeavoring to teach pilots and captains of vessels plying in this trade how to check their course by means of the pelo-rus. pelo-rus. The pelorua is an instrument similar simi-lar to the sun dial, being provided with a gnomon and1 a graduated arc on which a shadow of the gnomon is cast. The. instrument is set in a. north and south direction, as indl- s v 1. i was .not quite prepared for che buo f y den change in conventions and she was reluctantly forced to assume her husband's name. Ever since sho has been the butt of many jokes at the expense of the name." ' Dangers of Measles. ' There is a popular tradition that -! measles is one of the Inevitable dis- eases of childhood and that t Is i ' better to have it and be done with ' it as soon as possible. The Depart- f-' mont of Public Health and Chari- j- ties wisely reminds us In it6 latest 0f bulletin that on the contrary it Is;- I one of the moBt dangerous of dis- I V eases that afflict young children, and that no pains should be spared to guard them from It, Measles causes more deaths of children under two years of age than any other contagious disease. and even when, it is not fatal. It is1 often the forerunner of such other"' ; diseases, .as pneumonia, pleurisy, f- consumption, paralysis, nervous L' i disorder and afflictions of tho eye 1 : apd ear. Parents who fail to bear j i ? these facts in mind deliberately in- vite not only their own bereave- ; ment, but put in danger the lives '-j of hundreds of other little ones, for jSE the disease is highly contagious. i The department's warning is timely, Is February, March and April are the ljf: months in which measles is most pi likely to be caught. The wise moth- i er will be watchful, not only of jier ' ! own children, but their playmates, p i and may save many precious lives jfa by sending for the doctor on the , lg slightest sign of the well-known .' jj symptoms of this very dangerous I' ' 1 malady. 't I Reverses Darwinian Theory. 1 A New York Dr. J, Leon Williams, of M London, an eminent authority on an- JH thropology and geology, arrived re- '9 cently from Liverpool with fifteen Jpf, skulls of prehistoric man, one of Jrcl which he estimated to be one-half mil- rifl lion years old. "ifm This skull was found by workmen -j J near Folkestone, England, In strata fmt that dated, back prior to the Plelsto- ? IM cene era, and its existence and dis- . covery have confirmed Dr. Williams In V ' the "belief that mankind is at least half 1 .1 a million years old. 1 Dr. Williams said that the finding i of these ancient skulls and other hu- ; jl man bones did not disprove, in his l?u 'I opinion, the Darwinian theory, but al- - ' w tered It in some degree. Instead of Kj man being a descendant of tho ape. ! t Dr. Williams said, these skulls tend to ) j ij confirm the belief that the anthropoid !J ape was an offshoot of primitive man. jf-One jf-One of the chief distinctions between 'jib' these skulls and those of apes, he said, .aBj was to be found In the teeth. Baltic U more Sun. jl catod' by the compass, and. then, by noting tho shadow on the gradu- ated arc, it is possible to 'tell by comparison with tables just how Ihbb far from the north and south posl- JH tlon the gnomon really lies, thus showing the compass error. . .' Embarrassed. Gabe Why do they nny a mantis bI .financially embarrassed? Steve Because when he is broke JBbb he is ah. ' r" JhH |
