COMMENTS OF THE PRESS
Newspaper Comment on live
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CONQUERING THE FOG.
(Christian Herald.)
li is to bo devoutly hoped that the
secret of fog annlhillatlon as explained
recently before the American lnatltu
ik.n of Electrical Engl tiers will prove
,L correct one. Electricity caused pre
cipitation is the principle depended on
i„ clear the way for ships at sea. moke
London visible to visitors and even
brighten up Pittsburg- for smoke is
. dually susceptible to this enemy of
darkness. Ships will send out a small
aeroplane connected with the Vessel
by a wire, and the electric current will
banish fog for a third of a mile ahead;
a system of wires will be installed ail
,.v.-r Loudon - tiiis is the plan—tu ward
ott fog bunks, and the chimneys of
groat manufacturing plants will be
wired to piecipltate the smoke before
it can escape.
•ENEMY" AS AN ADJECTIVE.
(Kansas City Star.)
A new English usage which the war
has brought about is the employment
hi oucjLuy as mi adjective. Dispatch
's used to refer to "hostile" slops or the
'enemy's'' forces. Now they speuk of
enemy" slope and "enemy armies.
Perhaps the Word was used original
ly to convey a shade of meaning differ
ent from "hostile" Eiuch shades of
meaning are embodied in the Vocabu
lary of diplomacy. Eor instance, when
Uie American battleships launch was
ured oh by a Smyrna battery, the com
mander reported that it was "an un
. iendly but not a hostile act." Tills
was not a contradiction. A hostile act
is one calculated to avoke imedlate
hostilities. If tlie battery had tired on
dm batllcsliip, the battleship would
have replied, and tile bring would liav o
been a "hostile" act. Hut as the launch
i mild not reply, the bring was merely
•unfriendly."
However, if any such particular
shade of meaning attached to "enemy
an adjective. It has been lost sight
of in the indiscriminate use of the
0»d. Possibly the adjoctivo form vv"S
wtou merely a- u. ootivenicnce to got
a.-.J from the awkward possessive
a se.
desertion no remedy.
(Seattle P.-I.)
Whatever claim tot* sympathy that
Uie ’hen-pecked" husband may have
had has been judicially removed by a
nigh court of New Jersey. In a re
cent vase in which an alleged "hen
pecked” husband deserted his family,
he was arrested and brought into court
it the behest of his wife. Here he re
lated a sad tale of domestic, unhappi
ness, In which his wife, his mother-in
law and his sister-in-law were stated
to have combined to make life a bur
den to him. His defense for desertion
was the insupportable treatment ex
tended to him by bis immediate rela
tives.
Tho court held that man is tho duo
and lawful head of tho household and
that he should not permit any inva
sion of his domestic rights, it was
lie- court’s view that the lord and
master of the home should not allow
his authority to be set aside, and that
in abandoning his home he had applied
the wrong remedy and made himself
amenable to punishment under the
law.
The New Jersey case should go far
toward stiffening tho backbone of the
"hen-pecked" husband but it will prob
ably result In no stronger exercise of
his authority than nature lias given
Mm strength to enforce. Tho law may
t lif-ilnltely flx the relations of husband
arid wife so far as theory may permit,
but the. practical, everyday relation
of tiie couple will continue to be ad
justed by themselves. Fortunately for
general domestic peace, instances like
the New Jersey case are. not common.
SEEING THE TRUTH.
(American Magazine.;
•*1 dreamed once of seeing the very
truth of things. As 1 worked alone in
my fields, with the great world all
open adn beautiful around me, I said
to myself ’I will be simple, I will not
dodge or prevaricate or excuse; 1 will
see the whole of life!' I confess now
with some sadness (and humor, too)
ihat I have not mastered, the wonders
of this earth, nor seen the Jruth of It.
* * * I heard a catbird singing in
the bash, a friend stopped me by tho
roadsldo, there was a star in the far
heavens—and when I looked up I was
old, and truth was vanishing behind
the hill. Something of All this I had
in iny thoughts as Noil talked to me.
and It came to me, wistfully, that per
haps tills burning youth might really
have In him the genius to see the truth
of tilings more clearly than 1 could,
ml tell It better than 1 could. Tea,'
1 said. If one could only sec this city
ol ours as it really is. all the poetry
of it, all the po >h of It, all the dull
ness and tnex i >ci. iy; all the tragedy
of fuilure, all at is in the hearts and
souls of those a. :e—what a thing it
Would be! liow it Would Stir the
w ol i d!' ”
SUFFRAGE AS AN ISSUE.
tNew Volk, levelling World tU.aii.i
In announcing that he will tote for
woman suffrage the president Is care
ful to reiterate his view that "in no
circumstances should it be made a
iiariy Question."
It won't be. We doubt if suffrage
gets this fall the attention it deserves.
One of the most significant ittid pro
gressive politico-social movements on
record, in former times, with less going
on, it would have been a great issue.
But now tlie ears of the world ate
full of clash and clurnor. Kvcn peace
ful nations are preoccupied -inspecting
In loundatiomf ol their peace.
Suffrage as an issuu fails to rise.
There is too much else to think about.
NOTHING BUT LEAVES.
tfjdnpurium tivali.i elate i ter. >
.V news dispatch declare* that suil'cli
to ue taken out oi coiiars tor men
next session, Winch sounds reasonable |
enough. But what casts doubt on the
assertion IS the lurtiier ueoiarution that
.he idea is to make men comlorinbh .
t\ inch ig absurd. The whole tendency
ot civilianliuu is Lo make men uncoiit
xui'tablu. The whole faslnon ot wear
ing clothes al all is conspiracy against
Uni comfort of men. The natural slate
■ i inan is to mink creek water burn
• uw - chips, eat puwpaws and walnuts,
pin uu a buffalo tail and run wild.
l coin tile time we left Udou, which
'flaw its frsirbod comfortamp; men nave
psqu adding one torture t , another.
.up. while they may tak* the staroa
out ci our cutis anu coiiars, they prob
ably will put somethin!; in the other
end of the shirt to make up for the
small comfort they have vouchsafed to
us. There is tio rest for the weary—
al least, this side of Jordan
EATING CONTESTS.
(Troy Times.)
A bill bus been introduced in (he
legislature designed to put an end to
eating contests in which the partici
pants seek to prove their capacitj for
"getting away with” large quantities
of food. The proposed legislation,
which is favored by republicans and
democrats alike, is not the result of a
desire to conserve tho food supply, as
might be inferred from tbo present
high cost of living. It appears that
the ineasuro originated as a sequel to
a "match” in New York city where
there was a lobster-eating contest for
a prize. Then umber of lobsters con
sumed was enormous, and (he impair
ment of digestive faculties was said to
be serious But should the. law con
cern itself with tlie welfare of per
sons so reckless as to jeopardize their
physical well-being In this fashion?
THE NATURAL LINK.
(Boston Record.)
The natural link between women and
tho home is based on something that
is overlasting. No uinount of ‘‘femin
ism” and "advance" will eliminate that,
nor Is it desired by the thoughtful. But
development, equality, justice and rec
ognition of comradeship and mutual
responsibility in a democracy, do not
spell a lessening of the influence of I
women on the home and of the home J
on woman. On tho contrary, increas- j
ed educate adequate legal protec
tion, and political equality will make
the home a cleaner and better place in
which to bring up children and focus
human establishment.
Miss Alice Henry, an eminent woman
who speaks with authority, made this
significant and comprenhenslve obser
vation in her talk last sight:
Today men realize that women nro
definitely out of tho home; but they
seem to think, "When we get things
straightened out again, the women will
go back Into the homo."
What I want to know Is, what will
they do there? Their work has been
largely taken away from them.
To talk about “women's sphere” when j
ail about us we see women doing tho ]
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u ■ i k of lh« world, la futile. Women
hi. oui of the home; so are men out
i-I the home. iiut both are in the
home, too, and will remain so, because
; the home as sn institution Is r.nt an
i uncial growth, but a logical re
sponse to the needs anil demands of
Humanity. Increase in the undertaking
»nd elflci»ncy of hmnnnity Is not going
to destroy th> home. It is going ro
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