St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 4, 1906

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SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 4, 1906. F

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ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH. ‘Founded by JOSEPH PULITZER. Published by The Pulitzer Publishing Co., 210-212 N. Broadway.

—__ ~ The Sales of the Post-Dispatch in St. Louis and suburbs are greater each day than all the other St ww With the stand-pat knockout in Iowa and the fact that Populist Leader Marion Butler has joined the Republicans, it is not quite clear just now where the Grand Old Party is “at.” ly. hi.

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— -— = CUTTING OUT THE ROOT OF EVIL. There are interesting possibilities in the new de- parture of the “Pennsylvania Society to Protect Children From Cruelty.” As announced in Phila- delphia telegrams to the Post-Dispatch, the society has adopted the theory that criminal tendencies are due to something wrong with brain or body, which may be cut out by intelligent surgeons so as to re- move the criminal tendency with it, The result in the case of “seven children put under the knife” in the hope that the most skillful sur- geons of Philadelphia can remove their criminal ten- dencies, real or alleged, cannot be known for at least half a life time. It may take that long to make sure that the root of all evil was cut out. Even then, it may be supposed by some that criminal ten- dencies, if théy actually develop, got into the skull again from the outside after the operation. Such a thing might well happen, even in Philadelphia. If, however, it is now scientific in Philadelphia to take it for granted that criminal tendencies can be removed by surgery, it follows inevitably that other pernicious tendencies can be removed in the same way. A tendency which demoralizes the world even more than crime is that to foolish fads and fatuous crazes. If those who are manifestly afflicted with these are to be operated on, the surgeons of Phila- delphia may be kept so busy that they will have little time for sawing open the skulls of children. Before they begin operating on the general pub- lic they may find some employment among members of the Pennsylvania “Society to Protect Children From Cruelty.” They may even discover the exact place in the skull of a scientist which needs to be sawed into in order to make his scientific judgment absolutely proof against the pernicious tendencies to criminal fads and follies he can so easily detect in other scientists. hp A; our Presidents now cost us $472,000 every year, we cannot be too careful in making our next se- lectin.

hp Lith rw FINDS WHAT HE SEEKS. If Anthony Comstock’s discretion were equal to his zeal he would not make the blunder of raiding an art students’ league in search of the immoral. Artists search for the truth; Comstock looks for the impure, the base, the lewd. And he always finds it. Comstock finds what he seeks while the artist often fails; but is not the artist’s failure nobler than Comstock’s success? The works of art seized by this guardian of good morals were approved by the best taste of the best artists in New York. This is evidence enough of their essential purity. But because Comstock has neither taste nor true understanding he is unable to distinguish between the pure and the impure. The notion that the artists who produced and ap- proved these paintings and studies were animated by anything but pure love of beauty and goodness and truth is too absurd for’consideration. That is the artist’s only motive, it is the master motive of his life. With it he appeals only to the highest in the mind of man. Those who see evil in the good are numerous and active, and too often they are pow- erful. They can drag down the best to their own level and attach to it the stigma of uncleanness. Art students are innocent of any evil intent, but they reckon without their Comstocks who can sup- ply an evil suggestion out of their own sadly im- perfect and deformed souls.. Truth makes its way slowly through clouded minds, which make a medium of high refracting power. It is not strange, there- fore, that often what is true and beautiful appears false and ugly. Nevertheless Comstock should not be censured for these blunders. He no doubt means well and has the interest of real morality at heart. But he is to be pitied. And it is a pity that real morality has not a guardian in New York who knows what it\ really is.

A gi THE RIGHT KIND KEYN From the New York cme. ss — The Hon. Gumshoe Bill Stone says that Mr. Bry- an’s speech in St. Louis Sept. 3 will be a keynote. The Hon. Gumshoe refuses to discuss the report that he will succeed Tom Taggart as Chairman of the Democratic Committee. If Mr. Bryan wishes to sound a keynote that will encourage Democrats he

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| JUST A MINUTE With Post-Dispatch Poets and Humorists

POEMS BY THE COPY BOY. On Working Saturday Afternoon. thrice Bitter kurses on The morn the Art of printing Things was born and Twenty 3 and nothing Less for him Who maid the printing Press who Wae it maid the Alfabett here’s hoping he Is burning Yet And into haydees For the chink inventur Of our printing Ink A lass had Thay not buted in thare Wood tewday Be no such Sinn as Working saterdaze when All The other kidds are playing Bawl Thairs jimmy. jones rite Down the block he's Owf tewday at ONE o'clock he’s Inn a bank and Fait has sent Tew him fer Boss a christan gent ind Thares my Bruther Isadore Who wurks inn a Dupartmint store he’s off On saturdais at 1 And genurally Beets the gun bijo It warps Won’'s sole and Greys won’s Hair to work On saterdays When all the other Kids are out and Hammuring the Ball about were i My life to live Agen now Knowing what I dew of Men ide Find me pleasantur pursoots And Bosses who are Nott such broots g whizz How brite the day Withal And how a good Baw! gaim can Call a fellow Into pleasant Ways And ring his Soul on Saturdays aw Me what blisses Have i mist Resolved tew be a Jurnalist and How much more Were i content an Working for a christan gent hayho The ways of Life are Strange sum Dogs have bones And others Mange and Some kidds play Amidd the dells And uthers Work fer Infaydels AN UNROMANTIC ROSALIND. It is not on record that the exiled Duke or Jacques or anyone but Rosa- lind read Orlando’s notes which he tacked to the trees in the forest of Ar- den; it is not on record that she com- plained to the police, or diverted the Sheriff from his task of keeping the /id on saloons. Why all this bother over the amatory epistles found pinned to fences, slipped under doors and at- tached to trees about the Willard home in St. Louis County? Some one loves Edna, some Orlando is wooing his Rosa- lind after a manner we vote most poetic when we see the drama on the stage. May we not import the devices of Shakspeare into our day and our locality and our life? Why go gunning for a youth who does naught but plead his cause in temporary anonymity? Let his notes hang that Edna may read them if she chose, and if she do not choose she need not be his love.

OT. LOUIS THR 7 yl i) —Fonny GLASSES WRIT TEN FOR THE POST= DISPATCH J Ipvin.S§. Cobb. HUMAN NATURE IN A TWO-PIECE SUIT. OME! Let us away from the teeming city. where so many of the milk & wagons are watering carts in disguise. Let us haste to the seaside, and if we are strong and husky we may be able to crowd our way into the water. The trouble with St. Louis in the summer time is that it has no ocean. The scene at the beach often makes a St. Louisan homesick. It reminds him so much of this end of the bridge at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Coarse, brutal men, with push-buttons upon their toes, plow a path through the frenzied multitude that are fighting to lave themselves in the H20. The edge of every wave is so full of legs that it looks like the profile of an expiring centipede. But notwithstanding the need of a platoon of police to handle the traffic congestion, the seaside is a splendid place to study human nature with its top shirt off. We readily discover that the process of lefonizing others goes on just the same even when you haven't any pockets in your clothes. For example, consider the girl proposition as it pertains to the seashore in these parts. We all profess admiration for the sensible young female who puts on a bathing suit for purposes of bathing, and not solely with a view to encouraging the rubber industry. We have naught but contempt for the frivo-

lous young hairpin who appears upon the shimmering sand in what would be a ballroom frock if she only took about @ yard and a quarter off the top and sewed it on the bottom. We consider her—with her planked steak hat and her stays, boned like a table d’hote shad, and her high collar and her hand- laundered complexion and her peek-a-boo stockings which would shrink like the hopes of the Sage heirs if she were ever carelesa enough to let ’em get damp. We consider her, I say, and then our nose curls, and we tell the sen- sible bathing girl to wade right in just as soon as she can find an opening in the ocean and put the real Mexican kibosh on her vain sister. Accordingly she wades in. She's a sweet girl, but her costume is apparent- ly cut out with a knife and fork. The Skirt sags so far thag even a casual glance tells us that her train is never going to connect again with the Cot- ton Belt. Her hair is rolled up into a compact knot about the size of a guinea egg. She has acquired the durable complexion of a hard-baked firebrick. Her nose is the color of the last bite of a rare sirloin and she is moulting freely in the forearms and the back of the neck. Nourishing perhaps—a nourishing spectacle, we all agree, but not adapted for the fancy steamer baskets. As aforesaid, she wades in. And when she has swum four different styles and dived a bunch of dents into the closely settled Atlantic she looks back to catch our commending glances. And we—fickle we-uns—are trailing the costume. tasty counterfeit In the anti-wet THE FUNNY PART: The real bathing girl never seems to tumble to the reason. . er ae First Lieutenant (at the opera): I! wonder why that little soubrette keeps looking our way while she is singing? Second Lieutenant: For inspiration, of course.

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Visitor (admiring a beautiful rug on the floor): So your husband shot this tiger himself? A wonderful skin. Practical Wife: Yes, and worth such a lot of money.

| ETERS FROM THE PEIPE | This column is open for discussion of pub exceed 160 lic questions, Letters should not words.

Don’t Shoot. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. I think the police or Humane Socle- ty ought to protect dogs more in St. Louis and stop this business of tying cans to r, innocent dogs’ tails. Peo- ple wonder why there are so many mad dogs. It is because they torment the poor dogs until they go mad, by tying cans to their tails. That is the cruelest thing that can be done. If ever the writer of this letter sees anyone — such a cruel thing she certainly wil have them taken in. Then if the law does not punish them, she ts going to take the matter in her own hands and shoot the first one she sees doing that to dogs. I am a lover of animals. MRS. R. H.

That Moderate Lid. To the Editor of the Post-D With due respect to ee ftotner’s” knowledge about the “‘lid’’ question and her criticiem of my “moderate lid’ plan, I cannot but in turn crificise her view. I do not quite see why I should prepare my Sunday’s beer on Saturday. Perhaps we shall soon have a propo- sition to keep all saloons closed all the week, except for an hour on Mon- day, during which all beer should be prepared for the coming week. No, mother, think of the beer for Sunday's dinner these scorching hot days and also of the forgetfulness of men who will forget to buy their Sunday's beer and ice, by keeping saloons closed dur ing church hours only on Sundays. LOUIS CHACKES.

The Passing of the Frog. From the Binghampton Press. Owing to the fact that. he has come to be esteemed as an article of diet to no less a degree than his European cousin, the American bullfrog (Rana catesbi- ana) has been hunted so closely that his loud voice is seldom heard on our rivers or the many smal! lakes adjacent to this city. The edible frog of the south of Europe (Rana esculenta) is In- ferior in size and flavor to our own bull- frog and is raised for the market ex- actly as American farmers raise chick- ens or ducks. Canadians have started in the business of frog raising during the last 10 years in the endeavor to sup- ply the growing market. Ten years ago the Chenango River, even within the limits of Binghampton, was a favorite lurking place for frogs. Noyes’ raceway, the small pools in and around the island just above the rail- road bridges and the upper reaches of the Chenango River then were never sij- lent during the summer nights. The Susquehanna River for miles in either direction also harbored hosts of large frogs. But today the familiar booming calls of other years cannot be heard. The spear, fiyhook, red-flannel lures and small-caliber rifles have done their work.

From Lustige Blatter. Waiter: Will you have some of these postcards as a remembrance of the hotel? Guest (who has been pretty wef fiebced) : powerful remembrances, I assure you. Innkeeper’s Son: I say, father, there is a student outside who has asked for

he glass of milk. Innkeeper: Milk? Good heavens! must keep my eye on him. -POST-DISPATCH'S DAILY EDITORI af a is enn 2 eA pot |

QUIZ.—Rubber will airtight your box. L. E. A.—Protoplast, the thing first formed. E. M. A.—Try asking at 9%5 North y. i R.—We have no cornmeéal-in-England quotations. . 8. L. F.—U. | on S. agent at Kimberley, 8. A. G, 35,516. B.—There is no “Romanische Consultat” in the A. United States. Chain of R Pp, i et may apply for first papers on the day of his arri already growing vaseline is F. F.~Where hair is said to stimulate it. GLADYS.—Angora goat is ngora Turkish Province in Asia Mince ow Jac | marry without a dispensation. i are paid $5 to $75 per month. | 3 H. B. L.—It is not good form for a lady to wear & morning gown to breakfast on a boat. J. P. 3.--In the first case it would be a breach of trust; sce lawyer about the other case. boy see Dr. K.—For place as police telephone Faulkner at Four Courts, See a. m — opposite Lindell avenue, —Try gasoline or turpentine or phor for the insects in your booklets, files and clippings. 8.— The offense is a misdemeanor, iniprisonment if fine is not paid. Get a divorce. inches wide and $ inches thick will Weigh 300 Ibs. WM. J.—Pitt County, N. C., county seat, G ville; newspapers, King’s Daily and the Reflector. grease spots. Keep them away from artificial heat. READER.—Write General Land Office, W Pe yn E. oe ou ave to advertise, and é@ven th . obtain it. ~~ CITIZEN.—If you are damaged b neighbor’s spout, see a lawyer it change its course, water from your he refuses . but how could you for something else? tenant moving out of house without gi month’s written notice. Louis Court of Appeals you can hunt without in the county in which you reside, . MARTHA.—On warships and in coas vigation searchlights are necesary and they pamghtn oe wher- ever a far-reaching light is needed, “ Potass ‘ cyanide 40 grains, water 1 oz. Mix Keep in dark $e. wift of catlgns forn bi noted for the blundering simplicity of its inhabita § F.—In 1900 the negro population of St. Louls was D. M.—-In Catholic churches second cousins cannot F. C. B.—Street railway conductors and motormen K. C.—Washington phe ogg pen age Skinker | ie ‘ 8s, 0, pce ton, D. C., for information as to public-land transfers, _ t work at home In lemure you G.—The game law does not mention rabbits or ; : . J. E. P.—According to a later decision of the St. Otherwise there — é * 4 O. H.—If you properly will all your pro | your wife she will get it and it will at ner death — ge A.—If you are “hep” to anything, you understand “Joseph” or = : Bee Ate ea * P ee w - ete 4 f ™, aqua , « 3299, Revised Statutes, and following. Better raise your neighbor's ra ‘7 A. B.—Hair parasites: Saturate head and hair with in good, strong vinegar, drying without using towel. : : hy oe oes f ees af » , Fs Ps Wiehe

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