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Is the Ameri Interesting By David ] There are cultured American wornwtio are finding serious fault with the average educated man in this coun;ry. They tell us that he is not interesting to woman. He has lost many of his old romantic emotions, and is therefore a dull, poor lovemaker. He is so ignorant on many I of the subjects tnat aosoro mouem women's minds that he is socially dumb and stupid. But. worst of all, he lacks something more than mere knowledge and development; he lacks temperament. He lacks a state of mind and consciousness that woman is hungering more and more for in man. It is a psychic state of mind; a spiritual intelligence: a comprehension and sympathy; an appreciation and patience that know how to speak and. above all. how to inspire. No. the American man does not interest and charm woman as man does in most of the countries of Europe, notably in France and Italy. But why does he not? There are acute foreign observers who visit us and declare that American life has evolved a man and a woman who live in two separate worlds. Our men and women are fast becoming complete strangers to each other. They actually irnnw Ipss of each other and enter less into each other's innermost life than men and women in those lands where woman goes veiled or communicate: with man by means of a fan In church, or steals a glance at him through a window. The familiarity and equality of the two sexes in America have built a stupendous wall of ignorance between their souls. Woman has become commonplace to (man. He thinks he knows her only too well. While to woman man has lost all the mystery of his power. He is a thing of clay, and most inferior clay at that. Therefore, man prefers to associate wun man aim wumuu with woman. In no other country in the world are there so many exclusively men's and exclusively women's clubs. 1 These two distinct worlds of the American man and woman are separated by walls of adamant in educa1 tion, in business and in society. Woman in the middle and upper classes goes her way with her leisure for culture, her charities, her clubs and guilds and society. She investigates history and science, and she writes and reads. Her mind becomes critical and analytical. She is restless, she travels. Man. on the other hand, flings himself with all his mind and soul into that modern maelstrom ? business. In this world he forgets woman's heart, for it is a world without sentiment, without romance, without love. It is a world of producers and acculators. The American business man j is, in his mental state, like a ship leaving port. His mind is aJways go-! ing out. His occupation, his com-1 plete absorption in the things before j him. and his general attitude of mind j carry him as far away from woman's . wiriH r?r in onnosition to woman's j world as the east is from the west, j He loves business as a gambler loves his game or a miser his bag. He soon neither, knows nor cares for anything else. There are innumerable exceptions, hut this is the tendency and spirit of business. When man steps into woman's world, it is like a whale floundering on the shore or an elephant wading into the deep. He is timid, and his timidity is that of conscious ignorance, and it is often mingled with a feeling of repulsion toward himself. He perceives at a glance that his own 3pirit has tended to harden and make artificial woman's spirit. The late Mrs. Astor said of the modern American man, "Socially, he does not interest or please woman because he is not socially developed." He has no leisure for society, and that caste organization called society is in too chaotic a condition in most places in this country to develop him if he had the leisure. The American of importance is, as a rule, not at home in an assembly of women. He is a poor listener to things that do not directly appeal to him, and he looks impatient and bored on formal social occasions. His range of knowledge outside of his own profession is astonishingly limited. Ten represen* tative men?politicians, business men, manufacturers, lawyers, bankers, in surance officers, brokers, etc.?were asked the question. "Are the men you meet and know interesting?" The instant reply was. "Outside of their own work?no." The raconteur of extraordinary Rifts abounds in this country, but good story-telling is not conversation. The French, the finest conversationalists in the world, do not, in what they call their chamber-music talks, allow protracted anecdote. Conversation. according to the French art. is rapid, animated, lightly tripping and turning speech without argument. without difference of opinion in the company of about a dozen apt' lv selected men and women. In one of these comnanies a Frenchman is as near heaven as he ever expects to get on this earth. Seldom do men and women in our own couutry have a real taste of this rare social and intellectual experience. In levee conversation, in which Nv poleon, Victor Hugo and Gladstone shone like stars, and in which the present German Chancellor ir. at times an adept, the American makes a rather poor showing. The levees at the White House are generally crushes, and bon mots are absent. The President is delighted to see everybody, but we have had in no modern President a brilliant talker, and there are no three men in our public life to-day who have the breadth of culture of Mr. Balfour, Mr. Bryce and Mr. John Morley. A New York businass man packed his son off to Harvard, and the last instructions he gave him were that he should try to be "sociable." But the boy protested that he did not cave for society. His only passion wafl i can Man Not to Woman? j\ St. Clair. i athletics. When he had been at the university a few months the father visited him. and saw in his room the pictures of a number of beautiful t women and slippers and sofa pillows that had come from scores of feminine admirers. "Well," said the millionaire, looking around, "they seem to have found out who your father is." The young man smiled with just the slightest suggestion of derision and Kid: "Don't know. I have not informed any one, and I have never visited, any of these women. These pictures and other things have come to me because these women have seen me win on the gridiron." The millionaire father reflected for a moment, and then said: "My son, what I see and what you tell me reveal to me a great truth. If you had made a million dollars in Wall Street the fact never would have produced this evidence of woman's admiration. Plenty of women would like to have your money, but not one would think the more of you for having the money." And in this age of money-making that is the chief virtue of athletics. Woman to love man requires, as a rule, the exhibition of the heroic in him. In Europe educated men live more within themselves than we do, and they have constantly evolved from the inner spirif a world of thought and art that renew.-, life. They are sustained by a tradition and history, in whose rich, mysterious atmosphere we behold them as far more interesting than ourselves. They endow language and speech with an esoteric meaning that i3 absent from the written and spoken words of America. Woman is not herself a creative artist, but she does create art through the soul of man; and she does in turn breathe the interpretation of it physically into the hearts of men. The majority of women are not by nature democrats, and Europe still possesses those ranks, distinctions and spectacular shows of royalty and nobility that appeal to the feminine heart. European courts have a glamour for certain of our women that is not to be found in anything else. The throne is a social power and centre, such as no republic could or would ever build. "Don't ask me," remarked a patriotic, intelligent American woman, "which I had rather do?ride with the President of the United Stater to his inauguration or with the King of England to his coronation. I fear that I might confess something that would greatly shock you." Nor are the striking virtues of the American man attractive to woman. He possesses great common sens9, he loves facts and direct motion; and, above all, he loves good-humor and humor. He is a servant in the house. He is the most indulgent of men alive. He will let his daughter read the story of his bankruptcy and financial disgrace in the newspapers before he will cut off one dollar of her remittance. Woman admires his virtues and generosity, but they do not command her soul. To her there i'J , nothing heroic in them. They do not dazzle her. Her thirst of curiosity in man remains unquenched. She will fall in love with a stranger disguised across the footlights, or she will elope with her father's coachman in her efforts to satisfy this curiosity.? Harper's Weekly. And He Suffered. Little Willie, suffering from an attack of toothache, had paid his first visit to the dentist, accompanied by his mother. Father, on his return from the office that evening, was naturally much interested. "Didn't it hurt?" asked father. "Sure, it hurt," replied Willie. "Weren't you scared when the dentist put you in that big chair and started all those zizz - ziz?. - zizz things?" "Oh, not so much." "That was a brave boy. But. surely, you suffered?" "Of course I suffered. But I just kept repeating over and over the golden text we had in Sunday-school last Sunday." "The golden text? What was it?" "Why, 'Suffer little children to come unto Me,' " replied Willie, glib j ly. "I kept saying that over and j over to myself, and the first thing I knew it didn't hurt any more."?New York Times. The revenue of the Commonwealth of Australia for the last financial year was $71,750,000, a decrease of $3,325,000. WILES OF A1 How Old Daniel Dre Str* Daniel Drew, a Waii Street speculator. was at one time ( 1865) the richest man in the United States, worth, it is said. $13,000,000. Drew began life as a cattle drover, never altered his attire, but still dressed in the slovenly clothes of his cattle droving dress. Like Vanderbilt, Drew was absolutely uneducated. He pronounced the word shares "sheers." and Vanderbilt spelt boiler "boyler." Neither man believed in books, keeping all their gigantic accounts in their iieiius, a.uu tsrew s spcuuiauuus were colossal. Of the methods of making money the following anecdote will afford an excellent idea: One evening he entered a club In which were a number ot' men of the financial world. Old Daniel ran ia, as if to look for some important st,ock broker, and then ran out again. "Guess Dan'l has some points," said one. "He's on the scoop," said a second. "It would be worth a few million dollars to know what's in Undo Daniel's head," said a third. Drew re-entered the room more ex- j cited ttian lie left it. Carelessly culls The microphone makes the foot steps of a fly plainly audible. New York City and its immediat suburbs have 450,000 telephones. A project is on foot to found a so cial clubhouse for the girl students o Boston. It is estimated that the total pro duction of sugar throughout the worh is about 2,000,000 tons per annum. Nearly all the vines in Europe wer killed by frost in 891 and 893. Oi midsummer's day, 1033, in England there was a frost so severe that it de stroyed fruits. The Japanese have no use for but tons, buckles or nooits ana eyes, ^on serves every purpose of fastening am furnishes artistic possibilities seem ingly without end. Breaking into houses where funer als have, just taken place and plun derlng them is spoken of by the Ber liner Tageblatt as the latest trick o the thieves of that city. Rev. James E. Cassiday, of SI Mary's Catholic Church. Fall Rivei Mass., who was one of the leaders o the successful no license fight in tha city, has served notice that in hi parish at least the new prohibitor; law is not going to be a dead letter. The swastika is the oldest know] symbol, having its origin in the cros and circle. The swastika is now hel in common acceptation to be signif cant of good luck. Emerson was a notable suffere from the vagaries of memory. The ideal meal consists or preac butter and cheese, according to Dr. J E. Squire. The increased, cost of living in Indi generally and in Calcutta par.ticularl is severely felt hot only by Europeam but also by Indians. Lincoln's ancestry has been tracei to Samuel Lincoln, who lived in Nor wich, England. Emigrating to Amer ica, he settled at Hingham, Mass., i: 1638. In an English village an official nc tice reads as follows: "The publi are warned against using the well fo domestic purposes unless previous! boiled." Rev. Dr. John H. DeForest, a vet eran Congregational missionary a Senday, Japan, has been decorated b the imperial government with the Or der of the Rising Sun. The California Club, the largea civic club in San Francisco, has sue ceeded in getting the birthday o Luther Burbank set aside as bird anarbor day for the State. J. Pierpont Morgan belongs to thir ty-five clubs and his membership due figure over $7000 annually. Augus Belmont is a member of thirty-foil and Chauncey M. Depew belongs t thirty-two. Pooled hy Their Ladder. Clang, clatter, bang! Down th street came the fire engines. Driving along ahead, oblivious o any danger, was a farmer in a ram shackle old buggy. A policema yelled at him: "Hi, there, look out The fire department's coming." Turning in by the curb, the farme watched the hose cart, salvage wago and engine whizz past. Then h tiyned out into the street again an drove on. Barely had he starte when the hook and ladder came tear ing along. The rear wheel of th big truck slewed into the farmer' buggy, smashing it to smithereens and sending the farmer sprawlin into the gutter. The policeman ra to his assistance. "Didn't I tell ye to keep out of th way?" he demanded crossly. "Didn' I tell ye the fire department wa coming.' Wall, consarn ye," said the peeve farmer. "I did git outer the way fo th' fire department. But what i tarnation was them drunken painter in sech an all-fired hurry fer?"Everybody's Magazine. Alexander mutilated the dead tha the sight of them might be as horribl to the enemy as possible. SPECULATOR. w Fooled All Wal ?et. ing a large pocket handkerchief ou ot' his pocket to wipe his feverei brow, he drew with it a small piec of white paper, which fluttered to th floor, apparently unseen by him Then he hurriedly departed. A rus; was made for the slip of paper, oi which was written, in his own hand writing, the following ominou. words: "Buy me all the Oshkis stock you can, at any price you ca get it, below par." Here was news indeed. All though that particular stock was already to high; this accidental discovery clear ly showed they were wrong. Sorn new move was no donht imminent not a moment was to be lost. A1 those present joined, and the firs thing the following morning pur chased .'50,000 shares from a broke whom old Drew had in wait for then And he scooped in an enormous protl' ?Strand Magazine. Lightning kills one-half of those i strikes, while a few of the survivor are rendered blind, ueaf, dumb or pai tially paralyzed. THE SEASON'S New York City.?Such a blouse as this one will find innumerable uses. * It is graceful and attractive, it is becoming to almost all figures, and It is the latest style. The long lines given e at the front produce an effect of slen derness, aad the pretty puffed sleeves, ? with under ones of thinner material, are among the latest features. In f this case, the blouse is made of crepe t meteore and the trimming is net a braided with soutache in matching y color, whUe the front portion and under-sleeves are made of tucked chiffon i i e and the chemisette is of white lace to t I give a touch of lightness and relief, s | Various combinations might be sug| gested, however, and the centre-front d : could match the blouse portions with r the under-sleeves and chemisette n made from the same material if one s.'J liked. Treated in this way, the cen tre-front would afford an excellent | opportunity for the use of embroidery , or soutache. ,t 1 The blouse is made over a fitted lining and itself consists of the front back and centre-front. Both the - fronts and the back are tucked, but the centre-front is plain, in this instance cut from already tucked material for a portion of its length, from i lace above to give the chemisette ef feet. The sleeves are made over linings, and these linings are faced to t form the under-sleeves, while the i tucked portions are banded to form e puffs. The closing is made invisibly e at the back. , The quantity of material required h for the medium size is four yards a twenty-one, three yards twenty-four . j or one and seven-eighth yards fortyc | four inches wide with three yards of h ' banding, three-quarter yard of tucka J ing for the centre-front and underj sleeves, three-eighth yard of all-over ! lace for chemisette. L y o : Princess (iowiis. e The gown cut princess to below the ; > hip line and there completed with a 11 | deep flounce affords additional spacc t J for embroidery, a line extending quite - I around at the top of the flounce above ? the connecting seam. i, A Smart Hat. A smart hat to wear with tailored . '- suits has a facing of checked silk, one ! check matching the straw and the ,3 other forming a contrast, as blue and ".{ white on a white straw, and 30 on. ... . . . Pumps Have Straps. ' Pumps have straps, so-called ankle i j straps, which are a great comfort to ^ persons without much instep. ( W I J Neiv Neckwear. | ( In the stiff standing collars that are ' 1 so popular with the plain linen shirts, ' those formed of baby Irish lace, which 1 permits the colored tie to show 1 through, are being worn by smartly gowned women. The little pleaded < tabs, which can be fashioned of odd ; bits of embroidery and lace, and are v fastened to the collar with jeweled i pins, are practical as well as smart. Street and House Colors. In the street one wears brown, purple. gray and dark blue. But in the house the colors are much more delicate, and there has come a fancy for the pale shades of yellow and for to paz, that color that is just off yellow yet not quite a pink. Many of the new light shades are quite baffling, yet they are so pretty that one forgives them for being so odd. Infant's Dress. The infant's dress that is made with a shaped yoke ia a pretty and attractive one, and this model can be embroidered < by hand as illustrated:, or made with yoke of fancy material as preferred. The dress is laid in tiny tucks at the upper edge and can be ' finished either with a frill or with a hem. It can be made with short or lilt j long sleeves ami finished with a frill I or hem at the lower edge as prej l'erred. Fine white lawn with trim| ming of embroidery makes the dress i illustrated, but all those that are used for babies' dresses are appropriate, j The touch of hand work on the yolco means extreme daintiness and a great , many dresses of the sort are mad? with yokes of all-over embroidery or those that are composed of strips of lace insertion, and the model can be utilized in any way. i .The dress i3 made with front and back portions, which are tucked and < joined to the shaped yoke, and the seam is concealed by the trimming. The sleeves are full and gathered into bands and a little frill finishes j the neck.edge. : The quantity of material required I i- tV. orh fVi i"> rrla twon. in uiivu auu i.u?'3c-^i5uuu "*| ty-four, two and five-eighth yards thirty-twoor t\vo and three-eighth ^ : yards forty-four inches wide, with 1 threo yards of wide embroidery, four yards of banding, three and threemmrtai* varrlc nf narrow ariciner * * V False Economy. In a township in Vermont, the people recently undertook to build a road n imitation of modern highway meth- ?.-| )ds. They did not seek expert advice is to wearing and binding qualities Df stones, but used marble chips from i nearby quarry for the metalling and is a roller is a roller, and no other f being "handy," they used an ordinary farm rolter to compact the marble screenings. This roller, the report says, was so light that when it accidentally ran over a dog in the street if the dog was not injured. Soon after Tai the road was completed, it is needless to say, it proved an utter failure, and the time and cost expended upon it Be went for naught. The people of that A. community in this attempt to get a good thing at less than cost have proven again the old, old fact that cheap material combined with cheap workmanship has never, and can never, produce satisfactory results. wr There will be always people who will patronize bargain counters and who can be induced to accept, instead of the standard article, one ae which is "just-as-good" if It is sold at kn & little less price. The idea is that ^i of getting something for nothing. It is speculative instead of business-like, and more money is lost than is made in such ventures. .. , m< It is important for localities .to have good roads, but in road building it 19 tai more important to use the good sense of requiring the best materials obtainable and the best kind of workmanship in placing the materials. ye Sometimes, of course, it is wise economy to use the material at hand, even g0 though a little inferior, than to im- jn port It at excessive expense, but the work of making the road, especially with such material, should never be slighted to save expense. - f The cost per mile of building an improved road in the country districts usually strikes the farmers, at first e.. thought, as prohibitive?they may not have their respective shares of the tax on hand or In the bank that they feel they can spare for such a pur? po83, and though the work of seeding and planting rests for its results on greater uncertainties than almost "any 10 other kind of business, the farmers, as a class, are most conservative t nwonf 1 n rr mnnnv ml f V* r?n f O auuui/ 1utc.duu5 luv uv; ntvuvHV m demonstration that value will be returned. at There are two ways of purchasing things, either by paying "cash down," al or by deferred payments, and both Lt are considered legitimate business methods. Many men buy farms and give a mortgage in part payment for them, because they believe they can in make the farm support their families Se and pay the mortgage; and many men in business borrow money at the (rj banks, believing that they can make it pay a profit. On this same principie, if it is not possible to pay the cost of building a good road in one pay* ment, it is possible and It is wise for a community to issue bonds to supply m, the money to pay the coat, for a good ^ road?if it is a good road?will always pay for itself by increasing the value of the real estate and by adding to the comfort and convenience of the inhabitants.?Good Roads Magazine. ^e Don't Waste Road Money. su Our road building must be done by road men. If a schoolhouse is to built iu a ward, no ooe ever thinks 01 telling the police juror from that ward to take the mon#y and build the 1st schoolhouse. If a courthouse Is to be built, the police jury never thinks of wc telling the member from the county if seat ward to take the money and Jo build the courthouse. In both instances competent architects are employed, who draw plans and specifications and competent builders are bit selected to follow the plans of the Sh architects. Yet, in road building, the average police jury appropriates so ^ ?? ? -- - ? J ~"4'? i* A, /J ln_ muca muney aim puis il ai, tuc moposal of the police juror from each ward, who is, neither by education nor training, a practical road builder, and it is expected that the money to ' be spent by inexperienced hands on the installment plan will ultimately result in a permanent system of high- ' ways. The result is inevitable that the money, no matter how honestly 101 spent, fails to realize the results anticipated. In order to have good roads you must build them ju3t like you would build a courthouse or th' schoolhouse or bridge. You must first get a competent engineer to survey the ground and lay off the road he and then secure the services of an atl expert road builder to see that the St specifications of the engineer are carried out. Jload building to-day is a profession and a- trade combined. You employ an architect to draw the pl< plans for a house and a carpenter to 3ai build it and a mason to do the brickwork. You must put the same trained Ba mind and hand to work on your pub- at lie road if you desire results; men tm trained to do this work, men who know how .to do it, men who will speqd the money, not only honestly, bat efficiently.?Governor Sanders, of j Louisiana. Not to Be Deceived. The cheap statesmen who attempt- au ed to defeat good roads laws last tr< winter on the theory that it would be a popular campaign i3sue are finding ?to the great credit of Kansas?that the farmers are not opposed to the payment of taxes employed in such ^ public improvements as permanent roads.?Kansas City Star. j ???????? His Answer. . . fo' Little Dale, aged five, when spending a night with his auntie, was very much pleased over the prospect of buckwheat cakes for breakfast. He constantly reminded her that he could eat six, but when the cakes appeared they were so much larger than he had anticipated that, try as hard as ,(a he might, he could only eat three. ^ ''Why, Dale," said his auntie, "what sa is the matter? I thought you would eat six." With chair pushed back and head down, tha little fellow in very languid tones replied. "They 00 ain't very sood."?Delineator. so Petticoatcd and wearing women'i hats, six poachers appeared on grouse lih shooting lands in County Derry (Ire- hi: lard) and shot freely all day. Tr With the ??nfQHL Bbbblo His Bonnet. , Tradesman, in thine hour of e e 0 it, on this paper you should cccc, ke our advice and now be y y y y( straight ahead and advert i i i i. u'll find the project of some u u n u, gleet can offer no ex q q q q, wise at once, prolong your d a a a a, silent business soon ae k k k k. ?Success Magazine, A Gift Cigar. V*'' "Cohen's ill in bed, I hear." . ^ > ( ^ "Yea. He smpked & cigar from ui?; ong pocket"?London Opinion. So I Understand. Many a man will say, "Yea, I unrstand," when he thinks you don't ow what you're talking about.? Sympathy. The Poet?"Poets are born, not V ide." The Girl?"I know. 1 wasn't blam? 5 you."?Boston Transcript. His Malady. 3JS Bridget?"An' did th' docther say. t had any pronounced dis'aae?" Pat?"skure an' he did, but, be* rrah. Of couldn't pronounce ft! dge. Very Pine. "What do you think of the view >m the hotel veranda?" "Magnificent! I- can see four heir- v ^ ses right from where I sit."?Louis* g lie Courier-Journal. A New Twist. "Please, sir, me grandmudder?" >/] Tell a new one, Jonnny." "Promised to take me to de gams . ?>. -day if you'U lemme off." He got off.?Pittsburg Post. * j His Method. ; f M "Do you always keep a-smiUng ,.-m out your dally duties?" "Naw; I look grouchy. The? I -?5w n't asked to do no extra work."? misville Courier-Journal. , Essence of Sport. "How does your husband manage MS the winter when the automobile ason is over?" "Fine. He takes up bowling and ' ies to kill the pin boys."?Puck. Evidently a Connoisseur. "Bliggins is a connoisseur in d"He must be. Otherwise he might ' ji ike an occasional mistake and give >; ray a good one."?Washington Star. Afraid of Oonaeqnences. Dog Hater (tremulously) ? "See re, sir, will that dog bite fiae?*r Dog Owner (scornfully)?"Do you ppoie he has no instinct of self eservation?"?Baltimore American.. ? Hardly in Keeping. "So you think these parlor Soclala do not liy'e up to their creed?" "I npver saw cine of them that mldn't monopolize the conversation he could." ? Louisville Courierurnal. $ A Mountain Colloquy. "Did your husband get that terrl9? red nose working out in the sunine?" asked one woman. "No," answered the other. "That a't sunshine. That's moonshine." -Washington Star. \ ' Boom in the Henyard. tT Qtiihlia "Tliflir osv hlloinaU xiaua Miutjua pickin' up all around." Bige Miller?"That ain't no idle Ik. neither; we got two more aigs aterday than we did the day bere."?Boston Herald. An Important Use. "Has any use been discovered for e vermiform appendix?" asked one ident. "Yes," replied the other. "It has lped many deserving physicians ta tain a good income."?Washington ar. ' ' 'II Time's Ravages. "It is not so many years since peoi were laughing at the telephone," id the earnest inventor. "That's true," answered Mr. Sirius irker. "Now, instead of laughing > it we lose our tempers."?Wash5ton Star. ?? Some Souvenirs. "Did your wife bring many ?Ouvers back from Europe?" ' "I should say she did. Sixteen oons, a silver sugar and creamer, a ssert fork and oight wine glasses. 1 from different hotels, too."?De>lt Free Press. A Disappointment. r Kind Old Lady (talking to a, t imp)?"Have you ever made an efrt to get work?" Tramp?"Yes, ma'am. Last month got work for two members of my tnily, but neither of them would ke it."?Human Life. She Lost Out. "I'd rather waltz than eat!" conied the summer girl. "Then we'll have another dance injad of going to that fashionable reaurant," remarked the thrifty swain. * ind," he added mentally, "that's $6 ved."?Kansas City Journal. Suburban Amenities. Little Girl?"Papa would like to rrow your lawn mower." Subbubs ? "Tell your father I'm rry. but I've made a rule never to : it go off my premises. But if he'd ;e to use it on our own lawn, it's at s disposal at any time."?Boston. anscrioL