Show by ED HOWE are more mere ashamed than G GERMANS any other menia men if they do not boss their wives americans and frenchmen rarely expert expect to but germans always vigorously attempt to bismarck was one of tho the greatest of statesmen and devoted his life to the business but was more determined to boss hla his wife than to boss europe before their marriage he began training her he be had her complete submission in writing before the ceremony and ruled at home as tong long as he lived the diplomacy he exercised in managing his mother in law also was as aa constant and successful as h his is management of the french his biographers say his wife johanna worshiped him sho she gave that impression as part of her training probably she despised him the weakness of american men now the wonder of international politics may be due to their being universally henpecked our easy submission due to long training by our wives and daughters the fact that the germans control their women at least has not injured them as soldiers the henpecked french who attacked the germans in 1870 were overcome in a few weeks perhaps this was the best exhibition of soldiering since napoleon and frederick possibly historians of the future will say nay a still better exhibition of soldiering was given by the germans in the world war when they almost whipped all the other men in the world might have done so had note not the german women been temporarily out of control and clamored for peace when the panic of 1837 occurred the people regarded it as a passing jolt and expected the same prompt recovery that followed the panic in 1819 but hy by 1839 1830 it was evident that convalescence vales cence ence was going to be slow so ralph waldo emerson the wisest american then was appealed to in a series of talks on numan human life he said ridiculous things there is hope in extravagance there is none in routine emerson said later emerson completely reversed himself the real hope in human life Is in routine in patiently learning the lessons of experience and patiently following them the ruts the beaten paths have been followed by a vast multitude and for a good reason in previous centuries of world history there have been enormous exhibitions hibit ions of human sensuality cruelty religious fanaticism famine meanness rioting destruction poverty plagues pes in all these respects the ancients cientos established records I 1 do n not ot believe moderns will ever equal future historians probably will not have another horror like the inquisition to make their writing interesting nor will they have another war lasting thirty years a black plague sweeping unhindered over the world a reign of terror like that in franco france a woman as noted powerful and bad as catherine the great a king as magnificent and cruel as louis XIV but it remained for the present age to set n high water mark in lack of intelligence we have more food and easier produce it than any other race and more comforts but I 1 look for future historians to record that from 1929 1920 to 1933 mankind at last acknowledged its entire lack of intelligence telli gence every citizen put a fools cap on his head and widely proclaimed himself an ass A man of eighty seven who has participated in a good deal of honorable activity in the world writes if I 1 were an old gentleman that Is if I 1 were a hundred and forty or so instead of only a little over eighty seven 1 I should be filled with uncontrollable joy and merriment id be cackling loudly and horsly carsly with a bense of triumph and vindication As I 1 sat in my chimney corner eating my gruel id stop often and knock loudly with my spoon and call all the people to observe with me the sad remains of the young mans empire that came to its clamorous end with the smash of th tha sacred bull market in 1029 seen in retrospect that empire seems to have been run by children and I 1 could tell grent great and resounding tales of what its juvenile lu venile bosses did first drat to me and then to the country in general in those gay days forty five was waa the ago age of senility and nothing mattered but pep whatever that may mav be I 1 have never met anyone who knew and what fills me with mingled feel ings of joy and distress these days Is the manner in which these in lire life took their beatings hea tings in the days of judgment they collapsed in helplessness and fright on the downward WRT way they put up no decent tarca at nil all and many of them jumped from windows |