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PETS OF BRITISH SOLDIERS. One Regiment Had Emu and Kanga roo, Another a Snake. Reynold's Newspaper. No less than thirty. regiments in the British army have pet animals attached. The dogs of the "Fighting Fifth" and "Jack" the retriever of the 12th, Lancers, march with their companies when on active service, and have tak en part in more than one battle. The drum horse of the Seventh Hussars presented by the late Queen Victoria -marches proudly at the head of the men, with white tail and mane flow ing. "'Billy,'' the goat of the Welsh Fu siliers, is better known, and is a very showy soldier indeed, as he struts along in all the glory of scarlet coat, with white facings and the badge and crest of the regiment on his forehead The Queen's Own Hussars has also a goat. A deer is the pet of the Seaforth. Highlanders. "Anthony," a little donkey, attached himself to the Twen ty-sixth battery while in India and became an established favorite, marching, eating and drinking with -the'men. A pet bear was the mascot of the Gloucester regiment, but be coming ill tempered had to be shot. The Lancers of New South Wales have an emu and a kangaroo. "Pe ter," the goose, became the pet of the Grenadiers while in Canada. The lame bird limped up to a sentry one night and held up a hurt foot for his inspection. He attended to the wound and the bird thereafter refused to leave the camp, so the soldiers adopt ed it. When the Devonshire regiment was in India, a snake was for many months adopted as a pet, and, though poisonous, it never attempted -to hurt any member of the company. When the men returned to England this un canny pet was left behind. The Professional Woman. The Spectator. The qualities which go to make up the different types of feminine char acter alter with the times, not, of course, in kind, but in proportion. In the professional woman of today we see a new development. Two charac teristics hitherto' inconspicuous have come to the front--independence, and the desire for definite work. By this independence we mean something far wider than the mere wish to have her own way, and by this industry some thing far more active than mere d!s like or disapproval of idleness. We mean that she has these qualities in an unnatural, we had almost said su pernatural degree. To borrow Mfat thew Arnold 's phrase, her industry and her independence are "touched with emotion.'' There is no more re-, markable sign of the times than the contrast that is presented by the Early Victorian woman of the 20th century who makes hers. The gentlewoman of 50 years ago who could not afford to do nothing had only one thing she could do. .She must perforce teach children, a task for which she had often no aptitude, and generally no training. She was in the position of a dependent chosen, not on the ground of proficiency, but on the ground of character. No prizes gleamed before her eyes, she had no field for her ambition. From social pleasures and chances of marriage she was almost entirely cut off. Naturally a sensible woman did not set out to earn her bread if she could help it. Nowadays hundreds are earn ing it from choice.- In the intellectual division of the middle class the wo men considerably outnumber the men. The chance of seeing a daughter past her girlhood a single woman with nothing to do is a prospect which af frights many fathers and mothers. A good education is cheap, chedper than a bad one. The girls' public day schools prepare pupils-or give them the chance of preparing themselves for many of the tests which fence off the arena of the professional woman. It is true that the training for many careers-notably that of a doctor is still expensive; but the average prosperity of middle-class parents has greatly increased during the last half entury, and they argue that a lump sum is not barely expended on a very good chance of a competence. The profesional woman has in reased the pace, but she works, so to speak, upon the same terms. Her work is never out of her mind. This does not mean that shei s always a bore. Very few people are bores upon their own subject; at least, they can not compete as bores with those who have none. Very often she is an en tertaining talker, for her training en ables her to bring her thoughts quick ly into array. An intense and abid ing interest in life is the best preven tive medicine against low spirits, and th profssioal woman is as a rule a very cheerful companion. It is a truism to say that women love power. Speaking generally, the woman without children feels the lack of it. But for power there exists a working substitute, very efficacious so far as happiness is concerned, and that is independence. The majority of women are burdened all their lives by a sense of trusteeship. It is a burden well worth bearing for the sake of its compensations; but the professional woman as a rule has not those compensations, and certainly she takes a great delight in walking without that burden. The pleasures of riches lies almost entirely in the sense of having a margin-in the sense that there is a sum of money in the pocket of the earner the~ desti nation of which is uncertain and without trenching on which all the bills must be paid. However small, it is a sum to dream about; it is, as it were, a deed of enfranchisement. Again, the sense that she depends for her livelihood upon her own ef forts, that she is beholden to no one gives to the professional woman a wholly illogical opinion. This right she imagines to be specially hers. She is apt to misuse it, and to lay hold and hold forth-upon unusual opin ions merely in order to have the pleas ure of realizing that they are her own, a new stock, as different as possible from 'those with which her parents fitted her out when sh set out to be her own mistress. But it may be said: "You are speaking as though professional wo men never get married." Of course, they sometimes do, but not very often. Preoccupation lessens the power to please, together with the abstract de sire for-matrimony, though no preoc eupation will prevent either a man or woman from falling in love. But the feeling must be strong on both sides to overcome the obstacle. Anyhow, the fact remains that most. profession al women remain single; and when they do not, they give up their pro fessions. To this, as to almost every generalization, we find notable excep tions, and.in the present instance the exceptions are conspicuous ones. A few, a very few, married women with hildren have succeeded in a remark able degree, especially in medicine. But such cases can never be common, as they necessitate quite abnormal ealth and strength. Women 's work, even intellectual work, is not well paid, but in many professions there are prizes. More than one woman doctor counts her in ome by thousands, and very many make several hundreds a year. The ivil service offers some fair salaries and a pension. High school mistress s may rise to $700 or $S00 a year, ounting head money. The heads of women 's colleges in the university towns enjoy, if not very lucrative, at east exceedingly pleasant-, position. Successes in music and painting may be had without much expenditure on training, and are just numerous eough to encourage the talented to try; and in the side walks of art, such as decoration, good livings are not in frequently made by women. Philan thropy offers, certainly not a fortune, but a maintenance. Charity organi ation secretaries, hospital almoners and factory superintendents swell the ranks of professional women. (We have purposely left hospital nurses ut of, our list. They are the most important body of women who work, but their work is almost entirely practical, and not intellectual. They are not what we mean by professional women). That a woman should wish to work is no longer regarded as an ecentricity, nor that she should have to work as a misfortune, except among very old-fashioned people. Nevertheless, it remains true that she cannot hope to secceed in any pro fession without having every sense of the phrase a great deal taken out f her. An appearance of strain is ommon to all alike, successful and unusessful. Take a woman who makes her living and set her besides er sister who has made a prosperous marriage, or even besides a country spinster who occupies her time and thoughts in the futile pursuit of out door games, and you will know the meaning of the French word reposee, and see the sad want in a woman 's ountenance created by the absence f the look of leisure. The truth is that a woman who becomes enamoured of her work--and the great majority of women who work with their heads do become enamoured of it-cannot stop working. Regular hours are difficult for women to keep. Their work for ages ha.s been ndefinite and i"ver done. The vast majority - of them had no regular work and no rgular relaxation. They have had no time which they could look on as cer tainly their own, and the habit of ages sticks by them. Every circle of persons associating freely with one another tends to take n a manner onmmon to them all. The fashion in professional women 's man ners is set by the strongest of the class. and in the case of the more sensitive it is very deceptive. Simple, downright, and very well assured in demeanor, the type of professional woman whom the others have elected to set up for outward imitation looks neither backwards nor forwards, and knows neither apprehension nor re gret. She goes straight on her strenu ous way, getting through an admir able amount of conscientious work, and deriving much pleasure from ad miring its volume. But behind the same manner hides a weaker sister, whose conscience wears her more than her tasks, who is never withont a scruple or a remorse, and who, if it were possible, would make conscien tiousness ridiculous. She would be truly deserving of pity if she did not repeal it by the fact that she is seem inglv a little vain of her weakness (long ago women were vain in the same way of cowardice and helpless ness), if she did not at times mistake a constitutional difficulty of decision for a moral sense of exceptional nicety. We have all heard a great. deal of the professional woman who desires to be like a man. She exists, but she is not very common, though she con trives to make some show upon com mittees. All her sisters recognize and detest her at once. The odd thing is that it is upon men that she makes at first sight an impression of busi ness ability, aid when she succeeds, she succeeds by their help. For her every discussion is a fight, every con cession a sacrifice of principle. She is a most dangerous item in any large common understanding, especially if both sexes are engaged in the same work. She will risk any cause for the sake of appearing hard-headed, and forego the essentials of any victory for the sake of a verbal "socre." Perhaps the best type of profession al woman is the one who has a passion for dealing with her fellow-creatures and their affairs. She may be a doc tor, or she may belong to any of the professions open to women which re quire her to come into intimate con tact with a constant stream- of people. She is less limited than the majority of her professional sisters. She en tes into the normal lives of the peo ple, she works for so completely as to supply something lacking in her own. Her work absorbs her entirely. She finds in it her only recreation. Interest in other people, whether concentrated in her devotion to hus band and children, or diffused among~ friends and clients, is, after all, the natural interest for a woman, and no more feminine character could be found than the one we are depieting-. Standing always in the whirl of small human affairs she learns to be ever on the alert to help up those whom the inalculable cross-currents conspire to ove'throw, and she comes to forget herself altog'ether. For the sake of her wvork she will make the last fem inine sacrifice, and take without comlaint blame which properly be longs to some one else. Her heart goes out to 'every man, woman or child to whom she can be of any use or consolation. Pity and love become in her not merely akin, but identical. She is over-indulgent'to the weakness es of humanity. Nothing could lead her to neglect a frienfd but his or her continued excellence and prosperity. Perhaps in an ideal state of society there would be no professional women, or not enough to form anything which could be called a class. But we are a long way from any ideal slate, and it is certain that the professional woman is a good outcome-a far better one than her great-aunt-of inevitable circumstances. At her worst, though a disagreeable, she is not a despicable character; and at her best she has no faults, except her virtues. A Keen Retort. General Jubal Early was as keeni sometimes with his tongue as he was with his sword for the southern Con federacy. The Pittsburg Dispatch il lustrates this by the following inci In the summer of 1877 General Ju bal A. Early was a guest at the Ar lington hotel, Hot Springs, Arkansas. Among the other notables stopping there was' the somewhat famous ex Governor Stearns of Florida, who had b'en recently appointed by President Hayes a commissioner to adjust the claims of citizens of Hot Springs who had improved real estate which was afterward decided to belong to the national government. One day the two gentlemen, who had no personal acquaint ance, met in the hotel office. 'General Early,'' said Stearns. p)olitely, ''you ought to be willing to shake hands with me. 'You owe me an arm,' and he indicated his empty 'How is that, governor?'' queried Early, at the same time extending his "I lost that arm in the cause o. the Union at Winchester. where you commanded the Confederate army.' "Indeed,'' responded the general suavely, as he stroked his long gray beard and slightly straightened hic bent figure. "You musn 't blame me for that. I always instructed my men to do their duty; but somehow the rascal's would blunder.'' The future intercourse of the two gentlemen was limited to a passin bow. The Stranger-Excuse me, but dc you ever play the races? The Bookmaker-Not me; I. wort the guys that play 'em.-Chicagc News. SMrs. Naggs--Did you missime when I was away? 'Mr. Naggs-No, dear, I went tc lectures every night!-Ally Sloper'. Half-Holiday. Hungry Higgins-Didn't the wo man over to that house give youse nothin'? Weary Walker-Nuthin' but a cake. Hungry Higgins-Well, hurry up an' gimme a piece. Weary Walker-Youse can have it all an' welcome. 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