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Autrriran Girl as Qlmnpar-mttlt 5jrr English (Enitsiu 2frw fcnglauJi iFarm SJauite for JFnrrst Planting American tSrni'lUDnilTtp Srsnlt of ma ifltuli Snipttls? By E. KEBLE CHATTERTON. By ERNEST HITCHCOCK. Vermont Stt Foreatry Commissioner. By ELLIOTT FLINT.

Geonrc Bernard Shaw said: "I should like to go to IIKE the city of New York, the American girl is a most interest- JIT I America, if I could do so qu.etly, without convulsing the whole I 1 i 1 1: 1 ,1 1 .1 I 4- nwmrTnm I ing contradiction. She is regarded as the world's greatest rep- 4 I resentative of feminine freedom, who ran rrn nnvutinrn ami lo HEBE are two things which during the past years have affected New England agriculture more than all others. The future of the New England farm will U- largely the working out of these conditions They are, of course, the competition of the new lands of the west and the increased use of farm machinery. These two counirv, wiuioui uenvcruig a nuiiureu rj without a salute of 101 guns, without the risk of being; forcibly naturalized and elected president, and subsequently seized and imprisoned by Mr. Comstock," there was some truth in his jest.

Americans are hysterically extreme. They either love or hate And they are fickle. A great man who is loved in America should beware. The love of to-day may become the if causes have worked together, eaeh dcjendiiig upon the other. anything without the irritating accompaniment of a chaperon.

And yet, at the root of her character 6he is the most prudish of all girls. She makes the best friend for a man and yet his worst lover. She cannot deny that she is a flirt, and yet she is at heart hard and selfish. She will do the most unconventional things and yet in no part of the world is etiquette more insisted In fact, had it not Urn for the invention our modern farm machinery the competition of the west wild never have been what it is, and had it not been for the demand arising from the vast level plains of the west, farm machinery would never have reached its present stage of advancement. Western competition with our agriculture has thus In en severe for two reasons: Superior fertility of the soil, and its better adaptability to the use of machinery.

Exhaustion of virgin fertility in ihe west ami improved methods of tillage and fertilization in the ca-t rendering the west less superior in the first respect. The other consideration I lielieve to be the vital one. The future of the individual New England farm depends upon whether or not it can be tilled by machinery. Of course, there is no hard and fast rule. Our farms vary from those that can be tilled as easily as a prairie to those that can be cultivated only with a pickax.

For the best class of farms I believe the future is bright and that prices will improve. In Vermont we have thousands of acres of land which can be bought now for $20 or an acre. If these hinds were located in Illinois or Iowa they would sell for $10 an acre. I cannot but believe that the future will bring a demand for this land. On the other hand, we have many acres in cultivation which I can best be given up to the growth of forest.

We shall see more artificial forest planting in New England in the future, and thereby see the land so utilized yield more net profit per acre than it now yields in pastures and fields. There is no occasion for discouragement in Vermont. I have never been one to mourn over abandoned farms or to urge artificial means to prevent their going back to forest. The causes working here are lK'yon'l the control of government. It is worth remembering that when a man abandons a farm he does it simply because he can live more ea.

ily and happily elsewhere. New England might abandon a third of the land now hatred of to-morrow; for not as he is but as he is imagined to ie is a great man regarded. When Admiral Dewey, after sinking a fleet of Spankh ships, set foot in New York, we were ready to give him the presidency. Indeed, we gave him a house, which, to our intense mortification, he turned oyer to hia wife. Subsequently, at the stance of his wife, Admiral Dewey announced that he would take the presidency were it offered to him.

But it never was; we grew tired of Dewey. Then Ilobson, because of a brave act, became popular so much sa that everyone wanted to kiss him. When, however, after first yielding, he closed the kissing bee, we had no more use for him. To the solier, reasoning Englishman such excitability is amusing. Though quicker than he, our quickness is of the heart rather than of the head.

We Americans would be less impulsive did we reason more. Thing3 reasonable are not wonderful in the ordinary sense. And yet we need soma education to le capable of wonder. The African pigmy, Ota Benga, when sight-seeing here, evinced not even surprise. This was not remarkable, though many considered it so, for few savages have the capacity for wonder.

They feel no more interest in skyscrapers, subways and suspension bridges than do horses or cows. Show a savage a watch and he thinks it alive, but to him life is not wonderful. Wondere unfold as the intellect develops. Our primitive ancestors did not wonder at the but we do when we look at them through our telescopes. The ordinary observer cannot won.b at the Milky Way as does one who knows that it would take light, which travels almnt miles a second, 10,000 years to flash across it.

On the other hand ihe intellect may so develop that many seeming wonders are explain-L and then they cease to be such. The tricks of prestidigitatcur are marvelous until he explains them. No one marvel at what he understands. on than in American society. The upbringing of the American and the English girl is as far apart as New York and San Francisco.

An English girl grows up to learn that whatever else she may bi, she is merely a secondary figure. I remember clever English girl once saying that before she realized anything else, she discovered for herself that whatever she wanted in life she had to get it through the help of and with the consent of man. Across the Atlantic it js the reverse. A9 the American girl reaches years of discretion, she quickly learns that she is to use American slang All the attention of the family is concentrated, not on the son, but on the daughter. And bo, being thus in her youth impressed with her own importance, she insists, not unnaturally, for the rest of her life on occupying the center of the stage.

The chief characteristics of the American girl tact, self-dependence and excitable energy do not commend themselves to most English male minds. To the American girl the Englishman, as a lover, is too self-centered and And it is another Yankee paradox that the most businesslike and powerful American magnate conies second in importance to his own wife. lie will work for a longer day period than any Englishman in a corresponding profession, and he must expect but little encouragement and sympathy from the American wife. True, the American man makes the best of husbands, if by that is meant a ceaseless giving of jewelry and a continuous lap-dog kind of attention. She has no real affection for him, if New York society is any test.

She has indeed but little time to see him, with her 6tupid culture societies, her literary clubs, her musical symphony matinees and her outrageous ideas of entertaining. The American woman is indeed adaptable and makes an original if sometimes vulgar, hostess. But she is always posing, either socially, intellectually or otherwise. An Englishwoman desires dignified rest, an American must have ostentatious notoriety. An American girl would rather have a dollar box of chocolates from Iluyler's on Broadway than a three-dollar box from any other equally good Her whole aim is to attain rather than to be happy to conquer than to love.

She cannot get away from the habit of valuing evevy pleasure in so many dollars. She is pro'-d of her engagement because her ring cost $1,000, and car.ie from Tiffany's, on Fifth avenue. She i9 a lover of romance, and yet she is not really sentimental- True, she knows how to put her clothes on and how to hold herself up. And yet, though she is always well dressed, she and her sisters are absolute slaves to fashion. If the fashion for a red coat comes in, not a few, but every American girl shopping on Fifth avenue, or Broadway, will literally paint the streets red.

Yes, there is something very attractive, quite repelling, infinitely amusing, and never uninteresting, about nervous, excitable, bright, being. One cannot ever deny that the American girl is a queen among women. She is, indeed; but she is majestic in marble. She is admirable, she is adorable, but she is not lovable except when distance lend in farms and produce more on the remainder than she is now producing and at vastly less exense. Snintstrial untitling in turning Jt3 Womanliness of Self-supporting Woman Probably no country in the world has done more than our own to advance the cause of manual training as a feature of general education.

Both the elementary and the secondary schools have felt the in-flnence of the manual If by womanliness one means the old-fashioned feminine dependency, it may said that woman by engaging in self-supporting industry has lost much of this quality. That she has lost in any essential gnu-e or power which distinguishes the By CHARLES F. WARNER. Principal Technical High School, Sprinaiield. Mm.

By MRS. ALICE PARKER LESSER. President of Pentagon Club. training movement and its value is universally conceded. The mora strictlv educational 'base of the manual training movement is naturally; found in the elementary schools.

In the secondary schools, while the educational side is by no means lost sight of. the distinctly practical element is properly emphasised to a certain extent. speaking, both the educational and the vocational clement in manual training may be considered as forming a part of highest types of the feminine character, I do not believe is true. The old-fashioned woman, so-called, the one at least which so often figured in the old-fashioned sentimental stories of a certain popular class, was of the clinging vine vtm-. with man in the role of the sturdy oak.

Yet that the greatest among the novelists and dramatists of literature enchantment to the view. entertained no such foolish notion of the real womanlv nature is made 2frm 3hitcrpritfattmt iif lOomanlinrss Women are womanly as men are manly when they realize th highest ideals poss ble to the individual; when they live by high standards of truth and justice and righteousness. The woman who enters industrial life to become By MRS. MARY KENNY O'SULLIVAN. Labor Writer and Oriuinf.

industrial education. But the programme of all manual training schools, even those ia which the practical element is most emphasized, i3 too general to admit of training along industrial lines sufficiently effective to be immediately utilized for the Unclit of the industries and for the profit of individual wage earners. What we need is trades schools similar to those of France and Gejw many, but suited, of -ourse, to our conditions and need. Oar manual training high schools can never become trades schools, nor can they enter very far into that fuld because the American people as a rule, though intensely practical and conscious of the demands of an industrial anJ scientific age, wish their children of high school age to have a broad training, with as much of culture as possible, at the same time tlsat they acquire a knowledge of fundamental scientific principles and some appreciation of industrial methods. To this end they have bnilt and equipped a considerable number of manual training and technical high schools and they will go on multiplying such schools.

But these schools are costly and they will be required: to give the greatest possible return on the investment. It is a fair question to ask whether these expensive equrpment3 in buildings, apparatus and teaching force cannot be made to yield good returns along the line of trainin" for the trades as well as in the field of general education. evident by the number of splendid characters that have been jNirt rayed for us which lose none of their superlative feminine charm invause of their strength and go.nl sense. It is true that femininity in a woman and masculinity in a man are necessary attributes of either sex. But the manliest man is not the roughest and coarsest, and the womanliest woman is not the most timid, shrinking, retiring and dependent.

On the con ran- the perft woman called upon to endure burdens, to contend with trials and sorrows, and to assume responsibilities for which she requires the most generous measure of strength. The rr.osi attractive women are no longer, if they ever were, the lackadaaisical, the simperingly subservient creatures. A true man wants a true woman, one who will have strength to supplement his own. The woman in self-supporting industry is letter qualified than her stay-at-home sister to judge of the conditions under which it is most desirable for her to marry. She is as much of the marrying kind as any other woman, but she chooses a husband with greater dclilwrutfon, with better knowledge of her own heart, and with more independence of choice.

She is not frighteened by the terrors of old spinstcrhood which once loomed large in the life of the average woman, and she is not driven to hastv or inconsiderate selection in matrimony. That woman by engaging in self-supporting industry has become more independent and more self reliant I Mievc is tme, but none of her essentially womanly qualities have been aiTeetd. and sh is still distinctly elf-supporting does so in order to relieve others of the burden of her support; she works to save others from working for her. And this generous spirit of self-sacrifice cannot surely le called unwomanly! To say that a woman is unwomanly tecause she supports herself is like saying that a man is unmanly because he refuses to strike his father. No one believes that women should be idle, but there are those who (hink that a woman who remains in her home and who embroiders doilies that are as useless to everyone else as they are to herself is "womanly," although she is as clearly wasting5 her time as if she were really unoccupied.

Women are individuals as well as men and they possess individual talents, energies and capabilities. It is on the face of it absurd to assume that because one-half of the human race are women, they must all do the same Some women are good cooks; so are some men. But when a woman "not only can't cook, but hasn't the wherewithal to get even a breakfast, it is almost too 6evere to condemn her as '-'unwomanly'' for doing something else. There are other parts of the world's work to be done, and if they do the part they are lest fitted for they should praised and not blamed. There is something of degradation in the idea of dependence and something of nobility in the idea of service.

There is little work that women can do in the homes these days that is economically useful. Thev must choose between' going out of the home and being 'indejwnd-nt. and in thn hom and beim? burden. In the one eae she hilts into 1 feminine in all her ways and views, but on a higher range and of a more substantially and enduringly attractive type. Slir (Call nf tltr dlntrrh The call of the church is that whk crmes to tie respectable men and women who begrmlge time and morvey given to the church; who are prudential here while they are lavish elsewhere; who subordinate the claim of the church By REV.

DR. JENKIN LLOYD JONES. Seanuntr Cooperation The time is coming when every man shall sit under his own vine and tig Tree, when all shall realize that "righteousness is not revenue," when all the nations of the earth shall co-operate. War is the outcome of links, the theater, opera ''society," with ita By DR. EMIL C.

HIRSCH. land hunger. Having despoiled the soil in one locality men seek other places, take their inhabitants and make slaves of them to till the soil. It is said that war is m-ceseary, that without it there is nothing to stir the mind of the nations to higher things than trade, luxury and the ideals of the attainment of comfort. This is not tme.

Modern life is a great school. Its complex scheme to the- claims of the clubs, the school, the golf and that something called go-called social duties, its social demand-, its social expenditures, ambitions ami gratifications. What is this church whose claims disturb our quiet and interfere with our accumulations and our pleasures? We need not go far for an arawer. Experience, philosophy and history unite in saying that the church is now and always has been a school of an academy of morals, the training ground of character. The church is a human compact in the interest of religion and one of the fundamental quests of religion everywhere and always is righteousnetd.

eurj iitj, the world's service and liecomes a "soldier of the common in the other case she is served and probably by those who have a' ready In. me their measure of the world's burden. There was a day when it was manly for men to wear perfumed ringlets laoe ruffles and satin knickerWkcrs there was a day when it was to be pale and anaemic, delicate and altogether useless. Those davs arc "one. Womanliness now is measured by usefulness instead of uselessness, and every woman is -womanly" in so far as she fulfill-; impossibilities of service that are afforded her.

Of the S.iWuW women in our factories, the great majority are there leau it is the chance lor work that the world has offered them. The work is rot eay and it i not alwavs pleasant but it brings with it the self-respect that is Wn of independent self-support. If such work is unwomanly, then seniee is unwomanly and womanliness is some- ft thing to be scorned. USilKlt HCU(. i-VvTA' 1 r' Si gives as rigid, as perfect discipline as does the camp.

The- inventions which are brought out from year to year teach that the plan of co-opcra- tion, of co-ordination, is the plan to follow. It is not necessary to have the scourge of war, to bring forth moral power. It is shown in every day life. The affairs of peace develop it. The things that men must do, the difficulties which men must face produce the same endurance as does th battlefield.

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