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THE PITTSBURG PRESS 9 TO 16. PITTSBURG, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 15, 1893. -PAGES deceit herself that, when she was threat ORDER, PLEASE! FRENCH LABOR TROUBLES. for instance, there aro four 7el7 beautiful statues in the French section 8nd very many paintings elsewhere it is very appropriate that she shon. be so many times represented, since and wa such a many-sided goddess, a friend of hunters, patroness of old maids (or raw As Exemplified by James Kier Herdie, of England.

Fun With Art Criticism at the Chicago Fair. putting his foot down on tbe latest boulevard uonsenso Find the diabetic at Bournemouth." He made a great mistake to delay so long, assuring the French government that England would make no mere gala inspections of tbe unfortunate patient at Taukerville hotel. It is not in the character of the Anglo-Saxon to keep nagging at a fellow when he is down, either from diabetes or from very grave accusations. Let Dr. Hers live or die in peace, and should he quit this islo of tears the French have the testimony of their two most able specialists that tho bedridden is ridden by bad health to next to death's Tbey have corroborated thus the opinions of their English confreres.

What more could chivalrous eno-mies desire? If the French "hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rose from the dead." If France be hot this year a land flowing with milk and honey, it is with cider aud wine. Tho apple crop in tho orchard regions is so abuudant that tho government has ordered tho railways traversing thorn ened with exposure, she gave baek the money for the sake of getting the contract, and never realised that a clever lawyer had that contract photographed to keep her from blackmailing his client, and that one of those photographs was in ui 5 pos session. After seeing this woinau I couldn't stay. I got out in tho fresh air as soon as Walking up Fifth avenue I met the colonel. He didn't say anything to mo about my brain, but as he dined with me the night before he spoke of the excellence of the mutton and of the great knowledge that it took to arrange a suitable dinner.

I told him about the club; he shook his bead very sadly. "It's all wrong, all wrong," he said. "The suitable clubs, as far as women are concerned, should consist either of husband and wife, of mother and children, or of a young girl and hor sweetheart These combinations are never parliamentary. When feminine clubs come in, good cooking goes out. I have the groatest respect, as you know, my dear, for all women, but I don't like to think of one hammering a meeting to order.

I don't like to think of one raising her voice so that she can bo heard all over a ball. When a woma begins tnis sort or thing she grows vulgar, and. vulgarity is more contagious than the smallpox. We men have always laughed at sewing societies, but at least, II there was considerable gossip, some good was done in making warm ciomos tor tne people who haven't any. The very fact that in some women's clubs, as 1 have heard, they fine a woman for swearing, suggests to my mind what a woman must be when a law like this bo-comes necessary.

I think you told me you once belonged to a club, didn't you?" I absolutely blushed, und 1 said: "Yes. 1 did for two months the club claimed to be formed of writers, and I don't think two- thirds of them had ever read the standard books, let alone writing anything more im portant than how to crochet a necklace for her sweetheart. One innocuous voung wo man told me she joinpd hoping to learn to write; and another one said she directed the envelopes in an office. Botwoen you and me, I think ber work was aboutthe most respectable of the lot But I bad had such beautitul ideals; I expected to meet the George Eliots, the feminine Walter Bosants, tne women who wore strong of brain and big of heart but alas! they either didn't exist, or hadn't joined that club. 1 dou't think woman is a clubable creature." "No," added the colonel, "when she is purely womanly she is not; her life is too lull of goodness aud swootness and loving kindness for hor to want to waste bar hours on a mob, as that lower animal, man.

does. The very minute you have women raciug to clubs, that very miutite you take her from her higher state and put her on a par with tho lower orders. I don't think "the good God will regard her as a club mem ber; 1 think Ho will take her quite by her self, and judge and be merciful to her according to the closer life that she tui3 lod. It is in her power to save the world, but she has got to do it by individual effort and not in the mass. You see, I am old- fashioned and believe with Mr, Walter Besant that the best prof'-ssion for a woman to enter is that of marriage.

Of course, my dear, I know that there are many lovely women who have to go out in the world to-day and earn the bread and butter for the household, but these are not tho women who are giving their opinions in club-; tbee woman are too busy for that. When the work-day time is over. their rests and their enjoyments are in the home. Toll mo, now, after a busy day, whut would vou rather do?" 1 felt as if 1 were being interviewed, and yet I can't imagiuo anybody telling tho colouel anything eko but the truth; so I said: "Well, for awhile, I like to read a pleasant book; then 1 enjoy the dinner which I have ordero 1 in the "morning, and enjoy it twice as much if I have a couple ot mends with me; then 1 like some Peo ple to drop in that I like; I like to hoar a bit of good music; 1 like people to talk things over, but not to urzuo. and I like to fuel, as 1 put my h'nd on a pillow, allowing myself flvo minutes of beauty sleep, that am at peace with tho world." "But," the colonel, "how would vou like it if, when the resting hours came, you were surrounded by women who talked about the beauty of work; who discussed nothing but shop, and who counted every thing but their ambitions small?" "1 shouldn't like it should bo hor ribly bored.

The beauty of work consists not in talking ubout it, but in doing it to the best of one's ability; but, colonol.tliose women think I am frivolous! Tho other day out in the park, while I was giving the dogs a romp, 1 met a club women, and she told me I was wasting my time. I didn't think so. I had bad a good walk: I had gained an appetito for dinner, and tho dogs were looking at me with eves full of delight and gratitude, because they had had such a good time. In addition to the pups, 1 bad two smail boys with mo; they weren mine: they were: and had show ed mo more odd nooks and told mo more about the loliago out there than I had ever dreamed of. After we dined that night we had all bad so much fresh air and such a good tramp that the Hush- a-by Lady from Lullaby street only had time to say good eight to us before our eves were closed.

The next momin? tho boys wore eager to get to tneir lessons; tho dogs were will ing to sit still, and, in their own wnv. discuss the afternoon before, and I felt that life was worth living and work worth doing. And yet the club-woman thought that if I had been writing an nrticln on The Woman of tho Future: What Will be Her Aims and Their Results' it would have been enough sight bettor than fool ing away my time, Ihat is what sho culled it Giving pleasure to three puppies and two ooys, drinking in no end of fresh air: looking at the trees in their red and brown frocks, and having big mouthfuls of rest- why, the woman of the future! Bother! I have got to look after the woman of tho present." Tbe colonel said: "My dear, vou put it a nine BU'uuKiy, i luniK you are rigtic. The country is getting to bo woman-ridden, and I am abit tired of it." -1 Tired of it," I exclaimed: "vou can't be half as tired of it as I am, but then I am tired of so many things." 1 am tired of women who refuse to make the country greater by bearing child ren. I am tired of the woman speaker, the club woman, and the woman whose mission is apparently to promulgate bad manners.

I am tired of rude children with diamond rings on their fingers aud impudent words on their tongues. lam tired of the belief that says the kitchen amounts to nothing and the club-room to a great deal. I am tired of the-type of woman who prides herself on not knowing what she eats, and looks it; on not knowing what she wears, and who, is In consequence a scarecrow on not knowing what she calls the smallnesses of life. Now, these smallnesses include agreeable men, amiable babies, affectionate dogs, singing canaries, boxes of novels, and most important of all, good temper. She can have all the big things of life if I only may have the little ones; she hasn't the remotest idea how absolutely tiresome she is, but I am sure if a vote were taken all of the men and half of tbe women would agree in the opinion of hor exprossed by Ba.

Js an Order Seldom Enforced in Women's Gatherings. WOMEN'S CLUBS CLUBBED Host Remorselessly by the Facile Faber of Bab Gall and Jealousy Rampant. Wrestling With (base's Digest Bad for Digestion. New Yobk, Oct. 10, 1891 HAT is tbe matter now-a-days with lovely woman? When two or three of her are met to gether she in variably wants to cull it a club, and begin to be pnrliamentary.

Eve's daugh' tern are not ll clubbable. When a few nice women meet, have a pleasant time, arrange to come together eoon again, and keep on meeting inform ally every week or so, it's delightful. But the very minute that the woman enters who has once belonged to a club, the leaven of unbappiness comes; a president is elected, rules are made, tbe women squabble, and they yearn for descriptions of their meeting to be written up in the newspapers. I once had for two months the doubtful felicity of belonging to a club, and dur ing that time I heard more bad English, saw more envy, hatred, malice and un charitableness, and came nearer to losiug my own self-respect than ever before, be cause I belonged to the sex that all that club did. Since then I have had the extreme pleas Ure ot being present at the various club meetings, and every time I go I wish I had the pen of a Dickens and the pencil of a Hogarth.

The woman with unmitigated gaii I am obliged to use a slangy and coarse word is the woman who is most in evidence. She pushes past all the more refined women and couuts herself the 'voice." Next to her comes the gushing woman, wno gets up ana distributes flattery with a trowel until the women about whom she is talking get to believe tbeni-BelveB something more than women and not less than gods. The feminine idea of parliamentary rulos is unique: some en thusiast will tbir-i a motion; another will get up right in the midst ot an argument as to now toe rent is to be raised for the club rooms, and after saying that she hopes they will soon get it, tell an affect- lug little story about her baby girl pray ing inai sue may soon lie old euongn to join mamma's club. Then overybody ap- inauas, ana one tenuer-nearced woman jumps up and Bays: "1 know that was a good speoch, because it made me cry." The last club meeting that I attended made such an impression upon me that I couldn't sleep all night, aud my family ob jecting to my nioaiKienng around in a long white robe aud frightening the dogs, think that I had better not accept any more invitations. The speaker, who looked as if she were in training for a prize fight.

but who at that time was only wrestling with the queon's English, announced that 6he wasu going to make a sot speech, but just give a talk, which talk she promptly proceeded to rend from a bundle of manuscript. It was an ignorant, vulgar piece of nailery usnnpiy praised everybody end everything, and summed up the situation by concluding that everybody who didn't yearn to wear the special badge of that ciud ana wno wasn't proud ot Belonging to it had better well, I don't know exactly what they had better do, but anyhow ge't on into innocuous desuetude. There is no comparative degree in a wo man club. very thing is superlative. A young woman, who wore a pink felt hat on which black feathers bobbed, and whose hair had the stamp that marks the caste of pej-oxide ot hydrogen, was presented to me '-Miss Lulu Smithers, the greatest dramatic actress living." conless to be ing frightened, and 1 know Miss Lulu Smithers set me down as being an idiot.

I bad met the divine Sarah; 1' had met the exquisite Jane Hading; I had delighted in r.ueu lcrry. loved with Kendal, stared at Dufb, hod lived years, had gone to mo tneater ever since 1 was years old and hud never beard of Miss Smithers, tbe greatest dramatic r.etress. Immediately alter that Mrs. Angelina Bas-Bleu came up, and was announced as "the writer of to-duy." She was tall, she spoke of herself as slender. But I find bony women often call themselves that.

She had a mouth like a bull dog and her Clothes looted as if they had been fired at ber and by chance stuck. Klie was gra-ciousness itself; indeed, it uiav be said that she condescended to mo to such an extent that 1 felt she was wiping up the floor with me. Her voice and her walk were alike strident In a sort of a long-distance telephone tone, she holloed: "i am told that you write a little." I grew two inches shorter, and said: "On the typewriter." Her nostrils inflated, she looked at uie pityingly, and added: "1 thought you were one of us. There are times wheii I feel that 1 must write; I feel as Chdttcrton did. 1 feel the divine affletus; I get up ia the night, and put my thoughts down in burning words, and for three days afterward 1 am perfectly exhausted." "I always like to buy a now book, so I very weakly saiu: ii may miuuu very ignorunt, but I should like to know the name of your last book, for 1 believo 1 would enjoy it." With a glance, that ought to have killed me, but didn't, she answered, and if it had been through the 'phone they would have heard ber in Washington, "I have never yet published.

My thoughts are too sacred for the world at largo." Then I had the same feeling that a dog has when be walks out of a room with his tail between his legs. I was introduced to the famous soubret who had never yet made ber appearance on any stage; I was introduced to the coming woman, to one who is to rewrite all tbe plays, to show the faults of tbe great dramatists and all the players of the present day; 1 was introduced to a young woman who asked me if I was to another one who asked me if I wore corsets, ami who called down upon me an awful present aud a future of fire and sulphur when I said I did. Funniest of all, I was introduced to a wprean who was called "tbe woman's friend' and who yet, to my knowledge, had defrauded a young woman out of WO by using the namo of a well-known tcti iics. and who was so conscious of this l-7- Jl.Sardou, the Dramatist, Interviewed on His Methods. THE RUSSIAN RECEPTION.

Veiy Little Entlius iunn in Advance Over the Event Dr. lieiz I'roticted ty iilnm-rieuiy of Purple Grnpes Miiko WJno Very heap. Keeuler Correspondence. TiRis, Sept. 30.

HE French coal war Continual t.n riirtluv atraiv- gling, a desultory cbar-l acter, the certain indices vA of the beginning of tho end. The strike seems to J- have been ratherthought- lessly started; no distinct cuarier ot grievances was presented to public opinion, so no sympathy for the movement caught on. Something more than the sbib-boloth of higher wagos and shorter hours must be submitted to impartial lookers-on. People want assertions substantiated and facts controlled, while being in no manner hostile to miners receiving a wage where humane considerations will not bo ignored nor supporting shareholders and proprietors iu any greed spirit for unfairly distributed dividends. The colliers have abstained from violence in the impending strikes, proof that their resistance is becoming educated; they had saved upsomo francs to, enable them to bold out, 60 they are qualifying for a war loan in a near future.

But they won several chulks above" the proprietors by'complying with the recent law, to submit their contentions to the government magistrate to enable him to try and reconcile the quarrel. The men were represented, but tho co.liory proprietors refused to attend. A new drama may shortly be expected from M. Sardou, as ho has commenced his well-known pull preliminary. Unlike Duinus ills, ho has no fear of continuing his play-writing while descending tho bill of life.

Sardou. after rising to wealth from boiug a weaver's son, and so to be congratulated, has now a palatial residence in a noble park yet he only contributed a paltry 60 franca to the fund for giving the Russian navy boys a national blow-out. The porter who gave but 2 sous, saved from reducing his supply of tobacco, is by this subscription standard a more pronounced patriot than tho author of "Ragubas." M. Sardou has just inaugurated the plan of double-barreled interviewing. A Castor and Pollux waited on bira, and told ns very little that is new about the great dramatist.

Many wilt agree with ISardou's estimate of Victor Hugo; that he was "totally defi cient in good sense." I his credit, Sardou is utile to trace his pedigree back to the reign of uouri iv. ms ancestors were all weavers. And why should not Bottoms aud skilled and honutt laborers have, too, their peerage volume? Tho first king was only a soldier happy as times go, if the last will end similarly. It appears that M. Sardou is 04 inches high Napoleon was undersized.

It is novel for interviewers to bring a measuring tape; doubtless tho other Siarueso brother will, in due course, carry a weighing machine, and if with tho slot arrangement for dropping in a penny, tho apparatus might bo made to defray its traveling exponses, Sardou, ns ho advances in ago, resembles in personal appearance, more tho composer agnor, and loss Napoleon tho "First," of course, understood. If Sardou lins not the aesthetic dressing of Oscar Wilde, be would appear to have at least bis adiposo features. Next to not being tho rose, is to live near the rose. A good deal of nonsense is reeled oft to demonstrate tho hereditary character of Sardou's dramatic ability. Dogberry anticipated all Darwinian theorioswhen ho laid down that reading aud writing come by nature, Sardou jays tho foundation idea not always his own, according to his adversaries, though Moliero took wherever be lound it-of drama, liko other playwrights, and spins the details as do other Tims tliero is nothing now under tho sun.

11j will ornso a word seven mes till he grips tho right one; Tennyson would do so TO times 7 till be chiseled his verbal cameos into things of beauty. Despite the illustrations of the two Dumas, Sardou claims the raculties for producing romances and plays to be distinct. Ha could not himself writo a novel, io moro than George Sand could compose a drama. Zola is in the r.unie siluanon us the authoress of tho "Marquis da Villemer." But who state what may yet be in reserve for the author of tho As-ioininoir" aud "Terre!" It is only a few days ago the areopngu of British journalists pronounced him qualified to write for the Religious Tract society. Surdou asserts that actresses have a weakness for red toilets, in order to attract attontion so more than maidens and moths are caught by glare and that six months, ''hard," is about the chartered time to produce a successful drama.

Dumas pere would effect the same work-in as many hours and Jules Verne in a far shorter time. The national enthusiasm for tho recop-tion of the five Russian warships does not, to all uppeurances, rho in temperature. The Ru'Binns have only to blame themselves for this by not officially proclaiming the formal, execution of the allinnce, so sincerely desired and so impationtry expected by the French. It would steady the foreign policy of this country, and mako the people feel comfortable iu addition to being contented. That union of political hearts could not give umbrage to England, since it would loavo her arbiter of tbe European situation.

There soems to be a conspiracy of silence respecting the new Russian loan put upon the market. Unquestionably the dispatch of a wing of the British squadron "to the Italian ports, to impart a mrmrn corda to Italians, takes the "bloom" off the rejoicings at Toulon. A dash ot smaller dimensions is tbe visit of tbe Grand Due Berge and bis grandeduchesse to Balmoral. It has been observed that wherever you find a stone yon will discover a Scotchman; Muscovite grand dukes will cut out the ubiquity of Sandy. Were it not for the augmented taxos burdens grievously to be borne nations could sinilo at the game of bloated armaments; but these will likely continue till Mr.

Stead estab lishes tho confessional, minus absolution, or till some Chauvinist remembers that, iUm! the English have not yet quitted Egypt while the khedive baa become so good as to be positively fit to be pnt into a tract Lord Rosebary is a "broth of a boy" for A-1 Ml respectfully, "girl the guardian of chastity and goddess of the cold, chaste moon. But there are some hard stories on Diana just the same. One is to the effect thatquite liko her proverbial sisters, she was so set in her way, that one follow who, through mis-tuken kindness, offered to "see ber home," was instantly consumed to ashes. Another runs, that the great hunter, Acteon, accidentally came upon her while she was taking her bath in a forest stream (a fashion that obtained in those days), she changed him into a stag and then "sicked" his own houndrf jipon him. Of course, they made a meal of him, and this is our first account of a stasr tfcjrty, and certainly the only stag party evpr ap proved of by a woman.

One really must know a little mythology to got the idea in these things, and while it is not well to bo arrogantly instructive, or vaunt such brand-new knowledge as mine, yet, perhaps, those who as yet who have not taken time to siuay up, will staud another paragraph or two aud be "much obliged." Mercury rivals Diana In point or popu larity among artists, and goes away ahead when it conies to finery. Being messenger of the gods be is represented In art by wiDgs on bis helmet and heels, by whic we infer be was not a district messenger boy. At tho door of this highflyer among gods we can, without fear of successful contradiction, lay the blame of having set the fashion for wings on millinery, a folly for which women and birds havo Buffered ever since. Prometheus is here also, several times over, paying the penalty imposed by Jupiter for stoaling the fire from hoaveu from which our first weapons were forged. In the Austrian section, No.

50, be can be seen in all naturalness chained to the same old rock on Mount Causius, with horrid crim-eved vultures devouring his abnor mally largo liver; while all the grief- stricken women of his acquaintance stand arouud helplessly weeping, which would seem to indicate Prometheus was quite lady's man. Venus is, of course, reproduced in all kinds of marbles, aud more paintings than auvono has time to study. Sho has a wide acquaintance Evon the sightseer who is trying to see with bis mouth, points ber out in terms as familiar as if they bad mado mud pies together, But tbe people do not all know that Aphrodite, whom thev meet in these gallerlus auite as often. and Venus are one and the sunto and since we are told the exposition was originated more for the education of the masses than for the gratification of the few, why in the world does not the cutaloguo stop in its wild and aimloss career long enough td tell the people this, and rather than lot a bit of mythological scandal no forgotten, tell them also that this same goddess of love and beauty furnished tbo first material for tho divorce court when she preferred the rod god of war to lame Vulcau, to whom Jupiter had given her in order, I suppose, to keep her in the family? Those and kin dred items of interest tbe little art manual has omittod. Hercules is another character artists seem never weary of reproducing, and he is to be found in nearly every section of tho art palace.

The people all have a Fourth of July acquaintance with him, for It anyone ever hoard a Fourth of July oration in which the Infant Hercules, in the attitude of strangling the serpents, was not dragged In, let said person hold up his right hand I Of course Cupid and Psyche, or love and soul, are every where, aud in all sorts of fetching combinations, and more people know their history than know their own. The French section, it goes without tolling, Is the place to study the nude in art, aud considerable study it takes, too, if one gets more than the spectacular effoot. For in stance, a wheat field that has just boon harvested, a haystack and two girls, each in her birthday suit, without as much as earrings or garters by way of docora tions. This picture has been called "The mystery of the art palace," "The world's fair puzzle," and several other names, but no one has been ablo to gues what the artist was "driving at," and many there aro who think he did not kuow himself. Somo folk with vory elastio imaginations, try to believo tho girls are harvest hands; others imagine there must be a creek just around tho corner, and that they have boon bathing, leaving their clothes on tho hickory limb wbilo they came out in the sun to dry.

As usual, the catalogue throws no light on the subject. I have been wishing I could have had the critic's conmnnv through that section do- votod to Holland, for I am sure he here would have found realism enough to last him a lifetime, It is worthy of mention that in all that exhibit I failed to discovor a single picture devoted to tbe classic gods. Almost nil show work or workers, or in somo way suggest work. There aro peas ants plowing, digging and driving cattle; and homo scenes with the cradle never left out, and that represents work, too, as every mother will testify, and there are canals aud ports crowded with shipping and many beautiful pastoral scenes in which ladies' traveling silken robes cut no figure. Nearly all are of tho utilitarian cast and all that are not, are religious.

"Tho Dutch seem to have found an art in work and then mado a gospel of it," some ono has well said. They have only one type of female boauty, however, and beauty" must be writton with a question mark and paronthesis. une cannot see any difference in tneir Madonnas from tbe numerous women drawing canal boats. Another section, and one that women with nerves and we who are given to night mare should avotd, is the itussmn. une whole hour among their paintings and I would have developed fits.

There is, so much knocking down and dragging out; so much blood and thunder in their art. No one denies that their pictures are wonderful, but they are so awfully intense. The whole black tragedy ot ftusslan history is here spread upon canvas and soems to draw and fascinate the crowd. One pic ture stands out luridly that of a riot at Borne grand duke or other's wedding feast, and thero is so much of this same sort of art that one cannot holp wondering whether the Russian artistic mind does not turn naturally to the dark and dreadful. But whv trv to iro through, in one lotter.

such a collection of art as is here exhibited, which for variety of attraction surpasses anything ever shown "under one tent?" Meo. A New Optical Photometer. For determining how woll lighted a room may be. Dr. Simonoff has devised a simple arrangement, which may serve also as a test of vision.

A book is made of 24 pages of graduated tints, the first page being a clear gray and the last nearly black, and on every page a few phrases are printed in blaek letters of different size. The degree of illumination is estimated by turning over tho pages of this little book until a selected line of letters can no longer be read nt a distance ct about a foot from the eyes. In a well-lighted department the characters may be clearly made out on the twontieth or even twenty-fourth page, but with pooror light legibility may cease -at the tenth, twelfth or fifteenth page. The power ot the eyes of persons making the tests must, ot course, be intelligently HE FAVORS HOME BUIE. He Would Establish Home Colonies for tW Production of Such Articles if Are Imported The Government to Snnnlr fhn rnnltnl Fflf A Af Iba Kill.

COTCH John Bornf should be the nam of James Keir Hai die, tbe member for West Bam in the house of commons. A correspondent ot the New York World, who had talk with him the other day, de scribes him aa tenacious, cautions, and a man of thoroughly independent character; of Scotch physiognomy, with shock of light hair, blue eyes, firm month and jaw, powerful physique. Asked what be thought of the Independent labor party, he said: "Such a party is undoubtedly forming Outside of London tbe rank and file is very" strong. At the last election in eight con stituoncieS where a labor candidate waa opposed to both i Liberal and Tor there JAMES EIEB HARDIB. was an independent labor vote of 14 pe cent, of tbe electors.

At that time there was no organized independent labor party. At the next election 25 per cent, of the voting power ought to be in tbe bands of the party. 'The ideals of liberalism and the Ideals of the working class are incompatible. The objoct of commercialism is shareboidism the object of the working class is tbe abo lition of shareboidism that is to say, the nationalization and municipalization of in dustry. 'The working classes are thoroughly ripe for such a movement.

They have not, however, altogether thrown over their old leaders, leaders for whom there is every excuse, since there Is no real working-class demand behind them, but who are thoroughly identified with official liberal ism." 'I presume you are in favor of home rule generally?" the correspondent suggested. "Yes, indeed," he replied. "Home rule is tho movement of the age. Parliaments for England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, with a representative imperial parliaments one of our first necessities. The present bouse of commons is hopelessly out of date.

Its procedure is altogether at fault, involving enormous waste of time. It deals with a thousand things that would be much better dealt with by local bodies, and is equally behind the needs of tne empire and the needs of cities and municipalities." You have been somewhat idon tilled, Mr. Hardie, with tbe unemployed question?" tbe correspondent observed. Yes. un that question 1 am a humani tarian.

Some people say we must keep the unemployed as an object lesson of the economic laws of capitalism. We must got rid of the 'blackleg' for two reasons- one, because when out of work be la one or the unemployed secondly, because when in work he helps to break down strikes. And yet how can yon well blame the individual who, seeing his wife and children starving, accepts work when he can get it? He belongs to no trades' union as a rule; be gets no strike pay. It is a life and death problem for him, and not only for blm but for the nation itsolf." How could you moot the question! Would you give public work and put it on the rates Do you think that tbe higher the rate the higher tbe civilization?" "Yes. I do think so, but the people are slow to educate on the rate question.

I think that something might be done in that way, but nothing adequate to the demand; neither would tbe eight-hour bill meet the question. The experience of the 10-hour bill is that as much work can be done in 10 hours as In 12. The work done is bettor the men work more willingly, and thorofore faster. It will be the same with the 8-hour bilL "What, then, are you in favor of?" "I am in favor of home colonies, work through municipalities. Compulsory pur chase of land for such purpose would, ot course, be a necessity.

ould not the productions of such colo nies intorfore with the outside market?" "No, I think not; for I should only allow them to produce such articles as would least do so, while such articles as we get from abroad eggs, butter, poultry, eta would be the main products of such colonies." Where would you get the funds to start such colonies?" 'I would obtain a direct grant from the government for the purpose." "Are you not afraid of such a scheme being too much outside the economic move ment in general ot at all. I think It entirely feasible, and one which should be adopted to handle the question of the unemployod." "What do you think is to be the fate of the homo-rule bill, Mr. Hardie?" "1 tbink it will probably be sent up to house of lords two or three times. Tbe government will at the same time press through its radicul measures. Backed by these and with the gathering sentiment against tbe house Of lords, if it should so persistently oppose the will of the bouse ot commons, tbe issue is not doubtful." Secretary Lnmont'a Real Work.

From tbe Hartford Post. Tbey say that Dan Lamont's real title is not secrotary of war, but secretory of pol itics ana expediency. MYTHOLOGY IS NECESSARY To a Ct mplele tii prehension of tho Classical Works of Art Diana's Stag Party How Veim First Set tho I'aco in Divorce Court Proceedings, Etc. CniCAOO, Oct. 12.

OME people are more observant than others, yet few have paused to notice that externally, as well as internally, the art palace in the world's fair grounds is a true palace of art. They appreciate the general effect in beauty, but fall to notice tho ionic purity of tbe columns, the chasto and yet massive simplicity of the statues, pedimeuts, bas reliefs in short, all the figures so suggestive of the progress of art, from tbe dawn of history to the present time. There certainly is not another building on the grounds and possibly not another in tho country of which tho exterior more fitly suggests its purpose; but it's a study. For my own part I have got along vory well with the outsido, and have to far progressed in high art as to understand all the figures on it, from "Victory to Cores," aud from the tall angles to the little caryatides but in all candor I will say I have bad a sorry time within the building. Not boing a prodigy I don't understand evorythlng I ee, and explanations aro always in order forme; therefore in a spirit of kindness I would say to all belated world's fair visit ors who will cortfess a kinship with me iu this regard, before you go upon that vague uncertain tramp through these magnificent galleries, hunt up a littlo purplo-covered pamphlet.

bearing the titlo of "Art at tbe White City." Everyone will find it a great advantage ovor the provokingly tncoin- plete catalogue; and to the student or am ateur it is a positive boon, ll contain condensed aud 'highly intelligent critiques by Walter Cranston Larned and other knowing reviewers; and there aro neat little bits ot biographical gossip, bright comparisons, compliments and exceptions and briefly scholastic talks on technique and tone, given with an enjoyable clear ness within the grasp of the least enlightened otherwise I should not havo under stood enough to rccommond it to you. Any thing about art niust lie set down iu plain English if I am to understand it. I confess this fcarlesRlv sinco doing tho world's fair galleries, aud learning I am not alone in my k-noranoe. To affect art is not my particular IM, but no one, not even theenior-bitnd, "sees tho fair without visiting the nrt galleries. though many an aspiring; faddist must leave them mentally bluniter than a sheet of whito paper upon winch nothing is written, because of luck of lucid informa tion about the artists and their pictures, Some of the tritles concerning the artists' lifo, a definite indication of special buau- tios or evidences of talent, hinU upon style, finish or sentimental elegance, may fix the identity of a work of art upon un tutored minds moro effectively than any lecturo or erudite dissertation, on- any amount of puzzling before tno pletii'.

But helpful hs the little purple nook Is, there aro some things even it fails to ex plain and sonn artists' minds it does not pretend to read. For instance, it offers no explanation of the numerous wntteau maidens who are always strolling through meadows or being assisted over stiles in costumes fit only for the swellest recep tions. Idealists seem to have lost their heads over women's finery, and silks, satins and a profusion of laces adorn every feminine creation from princess to milk maid. Rabid individuals who go in for realism and sound souse evon in artists stand before theso pictures and almost foam nt the mouth in helpless rage. heard one such explodo in front of one of these- aristocratic dreams after tho follow ing manner: Just look at that picture," be was say ing.

"Isn't that enough to make one lose faith in his fellow mortals? Why, that artist should lie skied clear through the roof for preaching such a lesson ot extravagance to women. Just like them to all rush off and array thnmsolvos In flowered silk, old lace, dancing slippers and silkeu hose, nud then go through tbe country looking for lovers, expecting to find the )rindows as nioquet-cnrpet-like as theso minted ones. Oh, I want to go off and die lard when I see a picture liko that." Just then some one who has not learned to hold her tongue very well could not help telling him ho was as lar from tho truth as the artist, and that women those days did not go looking tor lovers, rather were they busy giving tnom tho slip; and had he not heard that theso wero "progressive days," and that clubs, congresses and spoech-nniking had "skied" nil such nonsense as lovers? and that flowered brocades, Venetian point and satin slippers had gone out with lovers and tho ndvout of hard times, but that women evon in their most feiui-nino days always had more sense than to go trailing their satins and laees through wet clover aud mullein stalks? Then he inquired if we thought any right-minded girl would expose hor hands and arms to the deceitful kisses of the sun, as this painted girl was doing. We assured him to tho best of our experience and observation that any "really" girl of our acquaintance so lovely as this would not only have on gloves as loug as stockings, but that sho would wear a broad-brimmed hat and a veil, carry a sunshade in her hand and a powder puff rind receipt for freckle lotion in her pocket, which honest confession seemed to put the critic in a good humor, for smilingly he moved off to a still life study. "Laughing Potatoes," in tho United States section, which I tbink was painted by liauah Tempest Jenkins, of This picture was well named, tho critic said, and that was moro than could be said for many another iu tho galleries.

He thought artists nine times out of ten should get friouds to namo their picture. He had seen potatoes laugh until they burst their jnrkets jun like those in the picture, and didn't we think the old fashioned blue dish which held these steaming murphies bad come out of somo grandmother's corner cupboard? And we said yesVout of our very own grandmother's corner cupboard. There are statues and pictures in these galleries, and tho Greek gods and goddesses are constantly recurring. Even in pictures with very nioderu titles we can see old mythology cropping out. Of Diana, to reduce tho rates of transport, to as to allow any one.

that pleases to manufacture his own cider. A barrel of the latter of a capacity of 50 gallons can be had for francs, about 3 sous per gallon! Ordinary ine is relatively cheap, so much so in the soutb of Fiance, the department of Her- anit especially, that it does not pay to niaKo the wine, une proprietor owning vineyard of 050 acres has a vintage labor bin to pay of hu.IKX) francs, including the purchase of commercial manures and the autumnal irrigations. Upwards of 100 wo men cut off the grupes, drop thorn into their aprous, to empty later into baskets; 45 laborers, iu addition to the permanent tnrm bands, load the carts with berries, discharging them into a hopper, where they aro crushed between two stone rollers. The purple stream flows into immense stone vats, seven feet deep, and each of a capac ity of 42,1100 gallons, capable of drowning nil "that ever existed at once. Tho wine sells at 10 francs per 22 gallons.

The hands are fed by a contractor; ho has to supply five meals a day, of which two are with meat; he receives 10 sous per head, plus a quantity of wheat equivalent to sous; the wine is kj libitum. Une full barrel of wine will be given in exchange for live empty casks. The extra hands, who traverse the country during the vintage, as do the harvest men elsewhere, are lodged pell mell in the out olllcos. After the last meal they finish up with dauces, but there is no animation, no laughter, no fun. it is a terpsichorean feat, as solemn as in tbe middle ages, when dauces took place in the churches, to recall, perhaps, David's saltatory movements round the ark.

Rarely is there music; but some mountaineer executes a monotonous lilt, of a few hours duration, to illustrate perpetual motion. That's all tbo poetry in the vintage. Every year a certaiii number of bouses have their facades scraped or painted in rotation; heuco Paris, liko Chicago, can claim to be a white city: but her "white house" persists ia remaining a dusky gray. Annually, also, tho nomenclature of the streets is overhauled. You go to bed with the nume of your street "Josephine," to find it in the morning baptized ''Cron-stadt." Residonts, and business people abovo all, dislike these changes, which are said to produce premature baldness in cabmen.

The rebaptisms now pending are causing a commotion in advance, ns the municipal council intend calling somo streets after the heroes of tho commune. Tho government can rovlve the financial proceedings of the oediles, but has no veto upon Its feaks iu "orismology." The first proofs of tho season's breaking up have arrived, and are known as tho "winter swallows." This social ornithology cousists of "swallows," or invalids more or less sturdy, duly going into southern climes, aud other "swallows," or little sweeps, arriving from the south, to Paris. These boys are fanned out by a speculator, anil his happy bunting" ground is Savoy and Piodmont. Tho journey to Paris is made on foot, and chiiuuoy scrapers huve to beg their way. As the Frouch peasant is neither very tender nor very pitiable, not much relief is bestowed on the exodus, whose members are' clad in a variety of costumes, either too big, or too narrow, following the donor's Those Italian lads still cling to at least the outward and visible signs of religion; few villages in Franco but have a stone or metal wayside cross; excepting the old women, the villagers pass it they do the ancient mile stone; but tho Italian itinerants- not tramps since they have a healthy appetite for work, invariably take off their hats or phrygian caps, make the sign of tho cross aud waft a prayer to the madonna.

Piety is tho natural olloyof misery; when one is unfortunate he instinctively looks upwards to have help, hope or even an illusion. Ibsenism nt last explained. M. Lo Roux, who i-i in Norway studying the miraculous draughts' of herring und codfish and the Hcunuunavina drama, suggests, iu a way, the inlluence of a fish di-it on tho genius of Ibsen and lijoruson Bjornstein. It looks rather very a whabi.

a Reckoning. Speakinj of our terrible and increasing we.ste of fuel, Jeremiah Head, in his British association paper, said that our stores have been drawn on to some degrees for 1,000 years and extensively for moro than UK). Authorities tell us that anotiier 1,000 years will exhanvt all the more accessible supplies. But suppose they hold out years, tho human race will at last, as fur us we can at present see, havo only wind, water and animals ns motive power, and the only modes of transit will bo sailing and rowing, driving, cycling, riding and walking. Sir Robert has estimated that in not less than S.OOu.OOO and not moro than 10.0110,000 years the Hiin ill become too cold to support life on this plauot.

Between the years when fuel will certainly be exhausted and the 5, 000,000 when all life may be extinguished, there will be 4,005,000 years in which, occordlng to present appearances, man will havo to give up his hardly earned victories over matter and other animals and the latter will again surpass him, each iu its own element, because he has no fuel. Starvation. ben deprived of food, the greatest loss of the body is in the adipose tissue and glandular organs, a table by Voit giving these results of starving a cat 13 days. Adipose tissue lost 97 per cent, of its original weight; the spleen, 03.1 per cent; the liver, 50.6 por cent. the skeletal muscles.

30.2 per cent the blood, 17.0 per cent. the brain and spinal cord, 0. Lean animals, therefore, are exhausted by starvation much moro quickly than fat ones. Iu children dying from wasting diarrhea, ac-cordiifg to H. Ranke, atrophy of the various organs occurs, just as in starvation.

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