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UPETS OF Bkii1 SOLDIERS. ,one Reglment ' W4mu anid Kanga roo, Another a ,Snake. Reynold's Newsp4per. No less than thirty. regiments in the British army have pet animals attached. The (logs 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 druim horse of the- Seventh Hussars presented by the late Queen Victoria -marches proudly at the head of the mien, with white tail and mane flow ig. "Billy," the goat of the Welsh Fu siliers, is better known, and is a very showy soldier indeed, as lie 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 I and the bird thereafter refused to leave the camp, so the soldiers adopt- I ed'it. I When the Devonshire regiment was in India, a snake was for many months adopted as a pet, and, though f poisonous, it never attempted to hurt any member of the company. When t the men returned to England this un canny pet was left behind. t t 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 charae 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 sm pernatural degree. To borrow Mart thew Arnold's phrase, her industry and her independence are ''touched w'ith emot ion. '' There is no more rec markable sign of the times than the contrast that is presented by the Early Victorian woman of the 20th centuri y who makes hters. The gentlewoman of 50 years ago who could not afford to (do nothing had only one thing she could (do. Shte must perforce teach childrenu, a task for which she had often no ap)tit.ude, and generally no training. She was in the position of a dependent chosen, not on the groumnd of proficiency, but on tihe 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. Nowvadaiys hundreds are earn ing it from choice.' In the intellectual division of the niiddle class the we men considerably outnumber the men. The chance of seeing a daughter past her girlhood a single woman wvith nothing to (10 is a p)rospect which af frights many fathers and mothers. A good education is cheap, ehedtper than a bad one. The girls' public day schools prepare pupils-or give them the chance of preparing themselves for many of thme 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 'pros'perity of middle-class parents has greatly increased .during tIhe last half century, and they argue that a~ hump sum is not barely expended on a very good chance of a competence. The pi'ofesional woman ,has ini creased the pace, but she' works, so to speak, upon 'the same terms. Her work is never out of her mind; This does not mean th4at e a always a bore. Very few people are bores upon their own subject; at least, they ean not compote as bores with those who have none. Very often s1he Is n en tertaining talker, for her tr'aining en.. ables her to bring her th6hgf4t gailek ly into array. An intense and abid ing ite'rest in lifenistid'sfla*evei tive inedicine againust7low. sa1ts, an'd the professional woman -is as a rule a very cheerful companion. It is a truism to Say that womel love power. Speaking generally, thl woman without children feels the lacli of it. Dut for power there exists a working substitute, very efficaciot so faral 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 ror her livelihood upon her own ef orts, that she is beholden to no one ives to the professional woman a vholly illogical opinion. This right ;he imagines to be specially hers. She s apt to misuse it, and to lay hold mnd hold forth-upon unusual opin ons nierely in order to have the pleas ire of realizing that they are her own, t new stock, as different as possible ?rem 'those with which her parents Itted her out when sh set out to be ter own mistress. ' But it may be said: "You are peaking as though professional wo ien never get married." Of course, hey sometimes do, but not very often. )reoccupation lessens the power to lease, together with the abstract de ire for-matrimony, though no preoc upation will prevent either a man or oman from falling in love. But the celing must be strong on both sides o overcome the obstacle. Anyhow, lie fact remains that most. profession j1 women remain single; and when hey do not, they give up their Pro essions. To this, as to almost every eneralization, we find notable excep ions, and .in the present instance the xceptions are conspicuous ones. A ew, a very few, married women with hildren have succeeded in a remark ble degree, especially in medicine. liut such cases can never be common, s they necessitate quite abnormal jealth and strength. Women's work, even intellectual Vork, is not well paid, but in Iman) >rofessions there are prizes. Mor< han one woman doctor counts her in. 'ome by thousands, and very manj nake several hundreds a year. Th< -ivil service offers some fair salarie, ond a pension. High school mistress ,s may rise to $700 or $800 a year ounting head money. The heads o1 omen 's colleges in the universit' owis enjoy, if not very luerative, al east excee(ingly )leasant', position successes in music and( painting ma) >e 1had without much expendlitunrc ot raining, anid are just numnerou: miough to encourage the talented th ry; and in the sidle walks of art, such is dlecoration, good livings are not in requen thy made b)y wvomen. Philan hropy offers, certainly not a fortune mt a maintenance. Charity organi at.ion secretaries, hospital almoner; mud factory superintendents swell th< ranks of priofessional women. (W< biave purposely left hospital nurse int of our list. They are the mos important body of women who wvork mut their work is almost entirel: practical, and not intellectual. The: ure not wvha we mean by professiona women). That a wvoman should wisi to work is no longer regarded as a1 iccentricity, nor that she should hay to work as a misfortune, except amon very old-fashioned p)eople.. Nevertheless, it remains true than ihe cnnmot hope to secceed in any pro fession without having every sens of the phrase a great deal taken oni rf her. An appearance of strain I common to all alike, successful ari, uneuseessful. Take a wvoman wh makes her living and set her beside her sister who has made, a prosperou marriage, or even besides a countr; spinster ,who occupies her time an thoughts in the futile pursuit of out door games, and you wvill knowv th meaning of the French word reposc and see tIhe sad want in a woman countenance created by the absene of tlie look of leisure. Thme truth that a woman who becomes enamoure, of her work-and the great majorit of wvomen who work with their head (10 become enamoured of it-eanne stop) working. Regular hours ar difficult for wvomen to keep. Thel woi-k for ages has been ndefinite an n aver done. Thme vast majority . c them had no regular w~ork gmnd 'n regular relaxation. They have had nm tiune wvhich they could look on as cel tainhy their own, and the habit ( ages sticks by them. .Every cirele of persons associatin freely with one another tends to taki on a manner common to them all. Ti fashion in professional women's mv ners is set by the strongest of t class, and in the case of the mc sensitive it is very deceptive. Simp downright, and very well assured demeanor, the type of professio' woman whom the others have elect to set up for outward imitation lou ieither backwards nor forwards, a knows neither apprehension nor gret. She goes straight on her strer ous way, getting through an adm able amount of conscientious wo: and deriving much pleasure from v miring its volume. But behind I same manner hides a weaker sist whose conscience wears her more th her tasks, wiho is never without scruple or a remorse, and who, if were possible, would make conscit tiousness ridiculous. She would truly deserving of pity if she did r repeal it by the fact that she is see inily a little vain of her weakn (long ago women were vain in I same way of cowardice and helple ness), if she did not at times mista a constitutional difficulty of decisi for a moral sense of exceptioi nicety. We have all heard a great.deal the professional woman who desii to be like a man. She exists, but F is not very common, though she c trives to make some show upon co inittees. All her sisters recognize a detest her at once. The odd thing that it is upon men that she mal at first sight an impression of b ness ability, and when she succee she succeeds by their help. For I every discussion is g fight, every c< cession a sacrifice of principle. E is a most langerous item in any lai common understanding, especially both sexes are engaged in the sa: work. She will risk any cause for I sake of appearing hard-headed, a forego the essentials of any viet( for the sake of a verbal "socre.'' Perhaps the best type of professi< al woian is the one who has a pass! for dealing with her fellow-creatn and their affairs. She may be a d< tor. or she may belong to any of I professions open to women which quire her to come into iltimlate e< fiact with a constant stream. of peot She is less limited than the major of her professional sisters. She ters into the normal lives of the p ple, she works for so completely as supply something lacking in her m 1-er work absorhs her entirely. finds in it her only reereation. Interest in other people, whet concentrated in her devotion to b1 hand and children, or diffused am< friends 1141 clients, is, after all, natural interest for a woman, and more feminiine character could found than the one we are depictj Standing alhays in the whirl of si human affairs she learns to be evel the alert to help up those whom inealculahle cross-Purrents conspir overt hriow, antd she comesC toa foi herself alt ogethler. For the sake lier work she will make thle last f inline salcrifi(ce, and take witlh comatplatintI blame which properlyv lonugs to some oneL else. HeIr h< - goes out to 'very man, wo'(man ,child to whom she can be of any - Or consolation. Pity and lov'e hee< s in her not merely akin, but identi She is over-indulgent'to the weakn 3 es of humanity. Nothing could I S her to neglect a friemid but his or t continued excellence and prosperi Perhaps in an ideal state of soc Sthere wvould be no professional won or not enough to form anything wv] could be called a class. But we al long way from any ideal state, an 1 is certain that the professional woi o is a good outcome-a far better i than her great-aunt-of ineviti circumstances. At her worst, tho Sa disagreeable, she is not a despici - character; and at her best she has 13 faults, excep)t her virtues. t - ..-_ _ __ _ _ A Keen Retort. General Jubal Early was as 1, sometimes wvith his tongue as lie Swith his sword for the southern ( Sfederacy. The Pittsburg Dispatch 'lustrates this by the followingi dent: In the summer of 1877 General b al A. Early was a guest at the lington hotel, Hot Springs, Arkani Among the other notables stop] e there was' the somewhat famous SGovernor Stea.rhs of. Florida, wvho Lbeen recently .appointed by Presi< 'Hayes n' commissioner to adjust S claims of citizens of Hot Springs had improved real estate which eafterward decided to belong to national government. ' cOelay two gentlemen, who had no pers< acquaintance, met in the hotel o1 ''General Early,'' said Sten o politely, ''you ought to be willinj -shake hands wvith me. 'Youm owe an arm,'' and he indicated his err sleeve. SHoWv is that, governor?'' iue e Early, at the spme time extending ehan.. n. '' lost that ahn' In the cAise of he the Union at Winchester, where you ,re commnded the Confederate army." le, ''Indeed," responded the general in suavely, as lie stroked his loit gray ial beard and slightly straightened his ed bent figure. "You musn't blame me ks for that. I always instructed my men ad to do their duty; but somehow the 7e- rasdal% would blunder. 11- The future intercourse of the two ir- gentlemen was limited to a passing ,,k, bow. d he The Stranger-Excuse me, but do you ever play the races? - The Bookmaker-Not me; I. work . the guys that play 'ein.-Chicago it News. nl be ot Mrs. Naggs-Did you missime when m-- I was a way? ss Mr. Naggs-No, dear, I went to he lectures every night!-Ally Sloper's 4s- Half-Holiday. ke on Hungry Higgins-Didn't- the wo ial man over to that house give youse nothin'? of Weary Walker-Nuthin' but a cake. -ea Hungry Higgins-Well, hurry up lie ain' gimme a piece. m- Weary Walker-Youse can have it m.- all an' welcome. 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