SWITCHMEN THE
HOLLN SCRAP HEAP
yr.Anr.T ALL MAIMED IN
SERVICE.
JlaponsibiUU; Which Rests on Men
FT ; Get Between -$4- > and
■?M a Month.
By r.mhan TComejrn T«jl<»r.
•Itag">* ? B. *O. No. 6. the right mam: shouted
fTrtt'h Tender Griffin through the telephone. It
«^f r -verification of th* order h<» had received.
f7! a ft* •••> BBBBty by the atde of the track
f^enefl almost be hurst with the volume of l is
tone*. *-■ «ne who pp«n<js twelve hour* of the
twenty-** o *, in a railroad switching yard must ac
ruFtorr! I'.ts voice at a never endine contest with a
r^JlaTn of -whistle*, bells and rushing; steam.
Puttins the receiver on its hook ana aaannag th«
£7t> doer. Griffin bent his six-foot frame through
fh» ppen::wc His lantern swung from the stump
cf hi* rtgM arm. -w-hirh had just encrajrh of an
*!.*** •■ make - hook for it. Baeeasalva. bars of
y»!]nw '!sht ai eiery slant an<3 snsle ciinte<i in th^
iarlcr'ss *? the reflection cam* from on*- track or
tstither in the tangle. He picked v is way across
them and «opj>ed to threw the switch. Scarcely
t«S be straightened up when out of the nicht
jartirf 'No. S." It clattered past the shanty, thurj
£c~r* - ■■- The aisjß •■■-;- bridge, and then, like a
fjvst skyrfvket. M BeaU ha se^r. sl->«iy hending
4-c «•-.- -of light around the curve before the last
f jre stretch into the white glare of the train-
Efce&
"You *cc." said Griffin, as he shut the doer and
ft * The stove the only housekeeping attention
xctrrh the shanty demanded of him. ■there's two »'
tb«S! maisf. One's the risht main and the other's
the 'Tocp main. They're the two tracks across
tie hri3re. The right main pom' toward the depot
if tha wrong one coming out. But sometimes if
tie right one is blockaded we have to send the
tra:~s in or out by Xhe wrong- main."
"Burpcs*," Niid I. ".another If sin was coming eat
ra its right main 3t the sanie time you micht be
beating B. * O. No. <! in on its wrong main.
"SVonioTi't aomOhtnc happen?"
"Fare: They'd clean it uj> with ambulance* and
j-ou'i! Lear the kids yellin" 'Extry:* That ■ just the
thins we've pot to look out for."
H:5 frankness was a relief. It showed mie thing
cenaiii.. ..at Griffin v.as keenly a»ar» of his re-
Fj>cns:L>::ity. In fact. I felt a sense, of assurance 'n
ffiscovexing Griffin"? motto nailed to the wall, be
*id £ ■ Sunday supplement picture. There was an
*!err:*:Ti of dead certainty about itj stronar lan
f.t-- It read: "Live every day so tv.at you can
look any damn man in the, face and tell him, '•• i
to he"!" "-a vigorous way. tie be san of sayinjr
"Be Mire rw are right." but one, nevertheless.
Dart cave you a comfort*it>le pens? AC double riveted
sec-urity. ""; ej-rcT net ••en among th' possi
b:!;t;^.
"Job importum ?" answered Griffin, in response to
an iTq-uiry. "W>H. you can Fize it up for yourself.
The magazines have had a bic lot of hot air about
•th* engineer. All their railroad yarns tell about
|J» Trair.'.oad at passengers whose Fafety reetewltr
Xi» rr:an in the cab.. What in heaven's name wrOuM
be do, r<j like to knew, if w- fellers didn't keep
•-' Bsncehas rijcht? Sweat the iiv«>s of the train
208-?s aaaand on the msn hi the shanty, too."
• was net in & ra<yx3 at dispute the ptaremeat. as
Gri2n caught eight of light in the distance, which
apiffly .-- Ito a *■-"• moon. "Great Western
Xd 3- he ma- hollowing through th» 'phone. "AU
•*-• ll— 188 wrong mam for her, and it seemed
«• II In had scarcely pone outside of th* shanty
*b«>n the Mi moon, backed up by eighty tons of
founding iron and clouds of choking steam, rushed
*•-■-. tracing hast a dozen deeper* that looked like
BBS eiccgated car.
A* I accustomed m: . <-*>i» to the surrounding*.
-rwever. I began to think of IBM thing* to 2nd out
■* nlcb I had stumbled down -the wet and rieket;
r-Jtpt from the viaduct and mad* my uncertain
ay Across and along the tracks. 1 bad heard that
* large proportion of switch tenders were, crippled.
" wasted to find out how they came to be to. he**'
They got their jobs, what their wage* were, and
a -*r if any, effort* were, under way to better their
cr-tKbtKmt Already I had become impressed with
•-• fict that a switch tender must be "all there"*
ail If to.© time, even if Mi "all" did happen to mr
r .de less than the normal total of limb* and digit?.
pyre, we're the human scrap heap in thi» bu*l
bsbj There* about as many of us maimed as aMe
&***<• Look down that row of white lights to
lac rirht of the nearest track, Each one of 'em
his a. shanty and a twitch tender. There's me and
Bar ■Uiams-bes my <*« v partner-In this
»•.*-■-. both of us lacking a right arm. 'Dave.' in
B» next shanty, he's got no lett hand. Next fel
>-* a:; sound. But the two after him-neither of
aa* can court more sis all ttfld on his fingers.
Oat Ci -weary in this yard there are seven maimed.
*'« among the **nm hundred or thereabout in the
'.'■■ I expect there's between a third and a half
handicapped. I>cnno how you would find out for
ture."
How did you ret chopped up?"
•T\>n. ■ Hill all about the same WaT Tcu i-e.
v f re efl of a* trailed and experienced railroad
Da This la the only kind they can use in t..is
Jab. No feUer that's maimed outside the railroad
■ersias could work in- Fact 18. most of us were
Wjolar iiiifi -' boys that ride around on
'•*• saajas footboard* and couple can-. Some da*.
« other it happened to th- re« of them just about
las say jt did to me. I lost that there hand making
« rood a coupling «• ever bumped together. Mai
PR my hand in, and when I went to aeJUt out the
IjsJbj bad it 'stead of roe. Done «° flick I ne-ver
*»ew ham it happened
"Don't you never call us cripples, younj fellow.
Wet, down and out so far as the wag«a go. .we
»ay hi bwai scrap heap-diey pay us «a If that
*as th, company's thought, anyway. Don tjou
taow they've got to have men posted on railroad
*C for thaae job*? It the, didn't take us they d
to pay the awitchmen 1 * regular scale. 37*
«•>!•*.• '■ "■ But they have us handicapped-all
■i can do m to take wHafa coming to ■>" and
*** Bise We get eomewhere bemecn J^ and *«
* north for twelve hour* a day. "«**» «*J" *
•*. I M bad a raise from *^7 V. to 111 That
•a. wfe.i*ih» i-witchmen got their last rrM( "';
'Tifty SoUara i- eighty Httl« for a aan *»«»_*
I&aih. But it coixMS tonsil for Uv-t " f «" « n#
bets "*** to twice vat «uxa-*ad B««£ •«
of m maimed chaps have. There's 'Jim.' he's the
president of Th( . union we're just forming. 'Jim's"
getting jsr., and a few years ago out West he war
yard superintendent drawing J3no a month. Of
course, when the accident coaaes. we usually get a
lump earn settlement from the road, but that only
makes a nest egg for the time when we'll have to
quit altogether.
"How, then, do you get these -- l «- I asked, In
terested to learn if anything like a bureau for the
handicapped was maintained by the industry re
sponsible for the Injuries. It proved to exist in
the human kindness of an individual.
" "Tom." the yard superintendent, kind o' has a
lookout for us fellers. He knows that if a chap
has one arm off that's no reason why he's not
likely to keep his head on his shoulders even better
than an ordinary chap. So the boy? know they
«t^n<i a rood Skew by -just going around to Be?
"Tom." In fact. 'Tom' told me yesterday if I kuew
any feller that had been up against it. hut who
was steady and had had experience in th*» ways of
the road, to send him around and he would take
care of him."
Th- telephone bei, rane auaiply. "B. *. O. Num
ber 4 is thirty minutes late." repeated Griffin in
verification. "Sure. "Tom.' I'll look out to » n a he«
down the risrht main." I left the shanty wondering
by what process of divination it was possible to
pick the headlight of "Number 4'?"' engine from
the maze of lights and signals in the distance.
As I made my way toward th» viaduct and its
rickety stops 1 heard Griffin's voice tan after me.
■ l>rop in and see a feller whenever you chance to
"• town this way."— Charities and t'ne Commons.
m:\vport villas open
Several Well Known Families in
Mourning — The Horse Shore.
Newport. R. 1.. June ST.— The shadow ,of death
has fallen on several of the families of the New
port summer colony In the last winter and spring
and this stmnner, and several of the most promi
nent families are in mournmg;. The summer will
■a =■ ant very quietly by them.
Th« death of Oliver H. P. Belmoni removed a
man prominently identified with Newport society
for many years. He almost without fail spent
either the whole or a portion of the summer, months
In his villa. Belcourt. The death of William B.
l^e"ds in Paris was a shock to the Newport col
ony, for he had cone away f«»linjr improved in
health and his return to Newport was looked for
early next month. Rough Point, his summer home,
which he purchased from Frederick W. Vanderbilt
in 1906. had already been opened for the summer
and all was In readiness for the arrival of Mr. and
Mrs. Leeds, who were frequent entertainers.
It is understood that Mrs. Leeds, like Mrs. Bel
mont. will spend the late season m Newport this
year. Some of the other families that are in
mourning' this rammer are those of R. T. Wil
son, Commodore and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Mr. and Mrs. Pembroke Jones, and Daniel E. Fear
ins.
A Bomber of the summer villas have been opened
in the last week, and there have- been several din
ner and mncheon parties. Mrs Elsie French Van
derhilt has thus far led in the entertaining, but
she will sail for Europ« soon after the first of the
month. The weather for the last week has been
ideal summer resort weather, and * sharp Impetus
]-.:<- •«-.• Riven to the diversions at the Casino, the
aoM club. Batter's B*ach and Other gathering
places.
Not antil ■ week after th» Fourth win Newport
be. hi full summer swing The music season at the
r^ino Trill not open until July 13. On that date the
recaiaz dally concert? will be begun. The horse
hr.tr trill he held en Monday. Tuesday an 1 !
•Tcdaeade? September 7. * and ?. The national
mwn tennis tournament will beatn on August i*>
Mrs El?ie French Vanderbilt when she gives
vr Newport and goes abroad will be, accompanied
VIEW OF BROADWAY AT SARATOGA SPRINGS.
GREAT MEN WHO MARRIED SHREWS.
Spurred to Ambition Perhaps
by the Scoldings They
Received.
Dictionaries ascribe the attributes of "scold,"
•\?hrew." "termagant" and -vixen" to women.
Men, however, compiled dictionaries, and Justice
if personified by a woman, not a man Indeed.
*o perfectly is the quality of justice developed
in woman that sh<* is represented as beiny able
to administer it even blindfolded.
Those who give -women credit for being
scolds, shrews, termagants and viragoes cannot
deny such women due praise for the notable
achievements of certain men urged up the path
of glory and toward the pinnacle of renown by
the free exercise of their wives' talent for scold-
Injr
Under the influence of emphatic and unbridled
feminine tongues some of the wisest sages,
greatest rulers, scientist?, artists and scholars
that the world has ever known have developed,
and shall the beauteous image refuse to give
due credit to the instrument which shaped it?
Who may guess how much of the tempering
of that fin*" metal which went into the make-up
of George Washington was occasioned by the
ability of Dame Mary and Lady Martha to
speak their minds, for the diatribes of the
scold the -hretr and the termagant are like
blows upon red hot metal, to temper It to greater
endurance; to bring out In It new and won
derful qualities, * nd often, to endow it with
something of the qualities of a Damascus blade.
It takes blows delivered with no uncertain and
no gentle hand to produce such an Instrument.
Humanly speaking, only a woman sufficiently
ha* the courage of her convictions to deliver
Peking as a punishment for scolds was Insti
tuted by Noah, and not by hi* English or New
England T grandchildren. Chaucer tells us that
M rs Noah was a veritable termagant. History
does not relate just how she was «>"•*» Into
t£J*~~- before embarking upon th !. ark.
SriSve. to^Painful conjecture what Noahs
Tte may nave Ken while afloat. But consider
h l- usiful Noah Proved to be to the human
r-\r -\- vtto dwell u,..,n the salntU and
4
NEW- YORK DAILY TRIBUNE,* SUNDAY, JUNE 28. 1908.
WHO SAID "SPOONING MUST BE STOPPED" AT ATLANTIC CITY?
by her mother, Mrs. French, and by her son. Will
iam Henry Vanderbllt, one of the brightest little
fellows in the Newport summer colony. It hi
Mrs. Vanderbilfs intention to make a tour of the
Continent while abroad, and she will take one of
her new touring cars with her.
Consulting soothsayers promises: to be as popu
lar as ever this summer. The women of the smart
set seem to delight In having tneir palms read
and listening to the mysteries of the future as re
vealed by palmists and clairvoyants. The honor of
reviving the fad this summer goes jointly to Mrs.
Reginald C. Vanderbilt and her friend, Miss Laura
Swan, who this week paid a visit to a clairvoyant
who has recently arrived in Newport for the sum
mer. Revealing the name of Mrs. Vanderbilt was
an easy task for him. but he admitted that Miss
Swan was a puzzle too deep for him.
There are still plenty of cottages to be bad. Mr.
and Mrs. George H. Benjamin, of New York, have
been looking for a cottage.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Berwind, who have
opened The Elms for the summer, have as guests
Mr. and Mrs. Torrey, of Florence, Italy, parents
of Mrs. Berwind. Two other visitors from abroad
nrr> the Marquis and Marquise ViHaverde, of Lon
don and Madrid, who nave taken apartments at
the Muenchinger Kins cottages.
"SNORED LIKE A GENTLEMAN!"
When Beau Brummci, th« celebrated dandy, was
in consequence of bis fallen fortunes residing at
Calais he had occasion to visit Paris. Through the
kindness of the consul at the former place he was
enabled to accompany a king's messenger to the
capital and thus travel free of expense, when the
messenger returned the consul was curious to
know how lie and his aristocratic companion had
fraternize on the road.
"What kind of travelling companion aid you find
Mr Brummeir' asked he. "Oh, a very pleasant
one indeed. sir: very pleasant" replied the mes
senger. "Ah! Aral what did he say?" "Say. sir?
Nothing! H. slept the whole way. " "Slept the
whole -a;. : Do you call that being pleasant? Fer
haps li* snored.*'
The messenger acknowledged that Brummel dm
so. but Immediately, as if fearful of casting an
improper reflection upon so great a personage, he
added, with great gravity. "Yet I can assure you.
sir. Mr Brummel snored very much like a gentle
man."—Chicago News.
"Have yon ever been arrested for speeding?"
:<■-•. sir. answered the chauffeur. "But I
think it's because the police in the town where I
worked had a grouch against me and wanted to
k«r- me from ever getting a job running: a swell
car for a re».l sport." — Washington t-tar.
is to be thanked for It? Few give her credit for
schooling Job to a spirit of subjection and de
jection wfaldl mad- 1 every calamity appear as
slight in comparison with the railings of bis
tempestuous wife, who -when he was bereft of
everything else on earth was spared to distract
his mind from a sense of his sufferings and en
able him to bear them with proper meekness.
Scolding has eeemed to be a soil in which
philosophy thrived, a? witness Socrates, than
whom no living man was pmbably ever more
cruelly berated
Speaking of the wife of that, great philosophi
cal divine John "Wesley, who at the age of
forty-eight married a widow with four children.
Scut hey says:
"By her outrageous jealousy and abominable
temper she deserves to be classed in a triad with
Xantippe and the wife of Job."
The first husband of this vixen had quickly
succumbed to her tyranny, but the good John
Wesley patiently endured It for twenty years
when, no -longer having youthful encumbrances
to burden her, she abandoned her victim, taking
with her his papers and Journals, the latter of
which he never recovered. Wesley is probably
in heaven now. He had his hell on earth.
Another of the world's most eminent preach
ers — the Rev. George Whitefleld — doubtless
agreed with a declaration of the afflicted Scall
ger, made centuries before:
"A wife 1b a hectic fever and not to be rured
but by death."
A chronicler, referring to Whitefleld, says of
his wife: "Her death In 1700 set his mind much
at rest." Could he have enjoyed this mental
rest if he had not experienced the opposite?
Scarcely a man capable of ever delivering a
lecture but has hi/? name imprinted upon the
back of a book, and pome have lectured so well
that their names are graven even upon the pub
lic mind, and to them the public hand has raised
up monuments In marble and In bronze in token
of appreciation. But who ever saw a monument
erected to that vast multitude of lecturers whose
eloquence may have done more to shape the
destinies of the world than all the thunders of
the Roman Forum, the Athengsum. The Hague,
and Carnegie Hall rolled into one colossal syn
chronism of pound — who ever witnessed the un
veiling of a statue to the Curtain Lecturer?
And yet ran any unprejudiced man point out
a class of lecturers whose words have produced
more powerful effect*, more visible results or
more lasting imsrtaeioual -^
BAR HARBOR
Diplomatic Colony in Force—Promi
nent Cottagers Arriving.
B«r Harbor, Me.. June week at Bar
Harbor has been notic-able for the arrival of mem
bers of the summer colony. Among these were
Mr. and Mm John D. Rockefeller, Jr.. who are
nere this year for their first season. They have
the cottage of the late J. Montgomery Sears. They
were accompanied by Miss Aldrlch. Mr?. Rocke
feQer*s sister, a recent debutante, and. it is ex
po ted. o win <io much entertaining.
Another arrival of the week was Dr. S Weir
Mitchell, who will be hard at work this summer
THE LAWN OF GEORGE FOSTER PEABODV3 SUMMER HOME AT LAKE GEORGE.
with his pen. as In farmer years. He is a tireless
walker and is acquainted with every spot on the
Island. Every summer has se«»n him at work on
manuscript, and most of his works have been
written ar Bar Harbor.
Those with influence In a departmental way are
striving hanl to persuade the navy officials to send
the naval practice squadron here for a short visit.
Bar Harbor misses the visits of the North At
lantic squadron, and wants to get the middies. »t
least. The fleet, which is now working its way up
the coast, consists of th* monitors Nevada and
Arkansas, the cruiser Chicago and the frigate
Hartford. They are to come as far north as Bath,
and it Is hoped they will pome here.
New York arrivals include Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer.
who has Joined her family at Chat wold; Mr. and
Mrs. De Witt Clinton Blair, who have opened
Blair Eyrie; William Rhlnelander Stewart and son.
Mr. and Mr*. Casimlr de Rham Moore, Mr. and
Mrs. William H. Duff, who are at their cottage at
True, men do not hasten to engage front
seats to hear these lecturers, but it cannot be said
that they hear them without price. Sometime?
it co?t!< them a p*>d deai. and many have baaa
heard to remark that they "felt Ilk" thirty cents"
after listening to one.
Moat lecturers of public prominent are
philosophers as well — or aim to be. Hegel gave
the intellectual minds of Germany a twist in
eighteen volumes of philosophical lecturea, in
which the only thing clearly demonstrated to
many people waa that he didn't know what he
was talking about A curtain lecturer can
prove in eighteen word? that she thoroughly
understands her thesis and. incidentally, her
audience, and no counter philosophy has b?en
known to sidetrack the current of her thoughts
-~and their expression — until she has complete
ly elucidated her theme. Whether her elo
quence be brief or far otherwise, her remarks arc;
always to the point and are delivered like grape
shot, with a vif-w to hitting not only the visible
target, but as many invisible ones as might hap
pen to be around and whose presence Is merely
suspected.
THE DUCHESS OF MARLBOROTJGH.
A striking contrast exists between the pres
ent lovely and amiable Duchess of Marlborousrh
and Sarah, wife of the great soldier-duke of
that title, who, in spite of the wretched exist
ence which she led him. loved his virago to the
day when death released him from the torments
which she inflicted. Her temper was such that
to spite him she one day actually shaved oft her
beautiful hair, In which he took great pride, and
placed it where he would see It. The tempest
she had hoped to arouse was never manifested,
and It would seem p? though even her cruel
heart might hay« been touched upon finding
after Ms death lier shorn tresses locked away
In a cabinet among treasures which he most,
prized. When this great soldier, whom no fort
unes of war had ever daunted, succumbed to
his wife's ceaseless persecution and lay palsied
and dying, his duchess released pome of her
temper upon the physician in attendance and
was known to follow him to th« door, swearing
with a fluency which horrified Dr. Garth.
Vanbrugh. architect of Brenhelm Castle, was
wont to rail its duchess "that wicked woman
of Marlborough!*' She kepi him constantly
seething in her wrangles, for besides £10,000 to
Winter Harbor; Mrs. Edwin La Monta«B«, Mr.
and Mrs Geor&e Draper, Mrs. Robert Abbe. Mr.
and Mrs. John J. Emery. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis L.
Delafleld. Mrs. W. B. Hoffman. Mrs. Buchanan
Winthrop and Mr and Mrs. Merle Midflleton. of
Tuxedo Park.
The diplomatic colony is here in fore© this sum
mer, too. Baron and Baroness yon Hen*elmUller
and the other members of the Austrian Embassy
have been here for some time, and the headquar
ters of the embassy will be here this summer. M
Constantin Brun. the Dani»h " Minister, and his
staff will also be here during the entire summer.
A number Of Russian attaches will spend a portion
of the summer here later, and at Seal Harbor
Colonel James, of the British Embassy, and a
number of attaches will sprr.d the summer.
The colony of New Yorkers already gathered
here Includes William Ordway Fartrldze. Mrs.
Paul Morton. Arthur C. Train. Mr*. Robert Abbe,
Mrs. William •*•>■*"■ Mr. and Mrs. S. W.
Brldgham, th- Misses AiwlilßliTßßßj Augustus C.
Ournee, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Burton Harrison.
Mr. and Mrs. John Hone. Mrs Herbert Parsons.
Mrs. Frances xtasgrave, Mr. and Mr?. John ?.
Kennedy. Mr. and Mrs. 1.. K. Opdycke. Mr. and
Mr«. William Jay Schleffe'lln. Mrs. George A. Bob
bins, Mr. and Mr?. David B. Ogden, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles M. Oatranasr. Mr. and Mrs. Dave Hennen
Morris. Mr. and Mr?. Laak B. McCass; and Mr.
and Mrs. John Calendar Livingston. Mrs. R. H.
Townssad and her dancater. Miss Mathilda Town
send, were among the week's arrivals. It Is
rumored that Miss Townsend will soon become en
gaged to a well known Spanish duke.
The Eastern Yacht Cmb As expected here on it*
annual cruise early in July. The resort Is to have.
a first class athletic field this summer, the sift of
John S. Kennedy, of New York: Clement B. New
bold, of Philadelphia; G*or<e B. Dorr and Dr.
Robert Amory. of Boston, and Fred C. Lynam. of
Bar Harbor. It consists of thirteen acres close to
the centre of the town and cost some $40,00"). A
cinder track and football and basebali fIaMS are
bein«r laid sat and plans for athletic carnivals are
maturing:.
SEAL HARBOR.
Seal Harbor. Me.. June 27 — This suburb of Bar
Harbor is facing the busiest summer In its history.
Practically every cottage Is occupied or leased and
the hotels are already about exhausted for accom
modations during July and August. Amons the
newcomers to the cottaj<e colony thai season are
Mrs. James A. Blair, of New York; T. B. Dane,
of Boston, and Lieutenant Colonel Bernard James,
of the British Embassy at Washington. ATI th°!>9
have taken cottages for the summer.
Mrs. Marcus A. Harm* also arrived this week.
Others of the cottage colony here Include the Her.
and Mrs. William Adams Brown. Mr. and lira
Louis Svecenski, A. B. T^awrence, George B.
Cooksey. Dr. and Mrs. William A. Rockwell, jr..
Dr. and Mrs. E. K. Dunham, Dr. and Mr? Chris
tian A. Hertef, of New York: Mr. and Mr* George
1.. -■ bins, of Lawrence, Lone Island; Mrs. L.
■P. BoggS, of Harrisburg. Perm.; Mrs. Henry A.
Rowland, of Baltimore; Professor and Mrs. 3<"lz
wick, of Yale, and Mr. and Mrs, James F»r<i
Rhodes, of Boston.
A MEAN MAN.
'The Bhonglish have a queer marriage custom
The groom holds his nose against a small cylin
drical object. I couldn't quite make out what It
was "
"A grindstone, probably," interposed Mr.
Grouch. — Louisville Courier Journal.
spend upon Blenheim her j?ood lord had be
queathed her an additional £12,000 a year "to
keep herself clean with and go to tow," of which
latter permission she was prompt to aval! herself.
Her loving: husband had meant no aspersion
upon her in the first clause of this bequest. In
those days great ladies wore fine clothes till
they became much foiled and then cast them
away- Compare what th* old duke accom
plished with the record e»f the present duk« and
you may learn the value of a shrewish •wife.
At one time Enerland kindly permitted men t-»
jell their wives, for there were at that time
courageous hearts to be found willing to a*
tempt th* taming of a shrew.
THE SCOLD'S BRIDLE.
There as also in use a 'scold's bridle," made
of metal bands, which held the tongue M that it
could not move. Strange to say, the name of a
man with fonlhardiness enough to apply this
device has never been published, and its in
ventor thought best to conceal his own identity.
The married man who said he "went to the
Mexican War to have peace" only imitated the
eloquent French advocate Pasquer, who ex
claimed: "To have peace I am ever obliged to
be at war!" It was hi? wont to drown Mi
wife's angry voice with the thunder of his own.
The Earl of Shrewsbury, who was living
apart from his wife, received in l"90 a letter
from the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry
wherein a fellow feeling creeps through thes?
lines of admonition:
"But some will say. in your lordship's behalfe,
that the countess is a sharp* and bitter shrewe.
and therefore llcke enough to shorten youre life
If she should keepe yow. Indeed?, my good
lorde, I have heard some say so; but if shrewd
negse or sharpnesse may be a just cause of sep
aration between a man and wife I thlnck few*,
men in Englande would keepe their wives longe;
for it Is a common Jeste. yet trewe in some
sense, that there is but one shrewe in all the
world, and everee man hath her; and so everee
man must be rid of his wife that would be rid
of a 6hrewe."
Notwithstanding the histories of men who
have possessed shrewish wives, it must be
pointed out that "The Anatomy of Melancholy"
was written by a bachelor. The man with a
shrewish wife seldom gets leisure enough to be
come melancholy, \
CRIPPLED CHILDREN
FARMING. PARTNERS
LEGS AND ARMS BETWEEN
THEM.
Harcest Their Crops on De Witi
Clinton School Farm — Lacls of t .
Teachers in Gardening.
Trobably the queerest partnership in all Kea?
York is that entered into by a child whoa* '**
are crippled for life and another child who has no
arms. These two children, who came from a school
for cripple^, combined forces to work a garden in
De Witt Clinton School Farm, on the middle "Went
Side. They have seen five hundred oth»r normal
children dig and plant and care for their llttl* plots
and finally gamer a harvest of radishes, beaaav
lettuce. b«-eta. carrot*, onions and com. Each llttls
cripple wanted to as th« same. And this is the way
they did it. The little fellow with useless ><•»
was carried to his plot. where he lay on hi«
stomach ready for business. The chap with the
legs walked there, and with his toes, which were. '
fln«ers to. him. loosened the weeds. He stas
brought water and tools, which were hung arewnd
bis shoulders. The nth.«r crawled absot and polled
the. weeds up. dug holes in the soil and dropped la
the seeds.
They could not plant things dose Dig ether be
cause the crawler had to haw room Tsetwsaß th»
: rows for his body.. But between them, the pair
! did make a garden where tilings grew. They w«r«
handicapped somewhat because they could not
i catch "and study batterfllee and bugs which aM
plants or harm them, but the Instructors and other
children brought captives to them to study so that
they also grit the benefit of the, elementary science
and nature study which the garden is dsstsjnsai t»
teach.
Thin partnership, which Illustrates the deep tall
est all children In crowded cities have In raalc^g
things grow, was made possible through the trans
formation of a large city lot which was a. pO« a*
brickbats and tin cans, Bad was used by the ne:« -
borhood as a dumpinr place for old mattresses arl
other discarded household zear. The land wa3
purchased for a park, but before the ground waa
p::t into condition Jl'-s. Henry Parsons thought of
•.wing part of it for a children's school farm. Ths
rtiboish was cleared off and top soli put in. arc!
from th» besinnin? more ehOdreo asked for parts
than could be accommodated. A little house ori
th* grounds was used for a model kitchen and
Jivinc room, xvhere atarta ami boys, too. learned to
cook and keep house.
They >v»" scrubbed •»«•« witli delight. Th» plin
soon won la* approval of the municipality, whtch
now appropriates a\M a yaa* for keeping up la*i
work. This appropriation, it is found, provides sjm
necessary srardeninsr lull II l"l 1 wh3 tBBBI UW
Mrw !n two groups each sea^n. Many of tIM
gardTers also brii? brothers and sisters wtti»
them, so thai at least C.*»> children are benefited
CHILDREN pju PRODUCE.
In Hill 818, some thirty public schools send their
classes ban for nature study, an<t the Teachers'
Training- Srh«>ol makes observation work la th«
aaraaa part of it* course for graduation. In air.
including adult?, some nix thousand parsons enjey
the gar-Jen annually. The aaccßßl of th« plan ha*
led '■•' the opening of two other large gardens b>
the Board of Education. And out of a* BBS grown
the International Children's School Farm Lesgu*.
which is pledged to encourage the establishment
of school farms ■ other cities, with the Idea of
raßdafßWJ vacant lots of direct benefit to the chil
dren.
This movement has —•' with immediate response
in many localities. Th* model farm operated aC
Jamestown spread the idea, widely In the South,
and many other cities now have, or soon wt!l
lave, similar farms. In som» localities, the gar
d<*ns. in addition to teaching •Jementary agricult
ural science, arc most favorably regarded because
. the products of the little plot* are welcomed, as
food in their homes, for the little farmers are al
lowed to take home- their vegetables or to sell
them. In a big city fresh vafjsaaalai find a ready
sale. Where the children aM Iks instructors arm
careful to see that they know the real -value c"
their ware*, and do not «ell for a penny or MM
produce worth 25 cent*. It is found, too. that th*
garden experience makes wise marketers out of
the children, who learn so much about vegetable*
that the greengrocer finds II Impossible to palat
off stale aooda on little customers.
Only oaa thirst, as Bar, has impeded th* «en
•sal spread of the league's idea, -dins; to U.i
officers. This is a dearth of properly equipped
teachers, for it is found that, while the practical
gardener can show children how to stake things
grow, he Is unable to tell them reasons why they
do or do not grow Unless th« srarden plot a|iw> .
teaches the child about the wonders of natur*
and through plant ar. tlorv ataas M eBBSSBBB Illus
tration of the importance of plenty of fresh air
and sunlight to himself, it U>«» Its frreatest effect.
The gardens are not provided merely to enable
children to raise things which they can eat.
In farming districts the garden also must store.
the child an elementary training in scientific farm
ing methods, which later. If ha takes up agricult
ure, will lead him to employ scientific means Instead
of raising things in a haphazard way. Such work
requires the service* of a teacher who combines
practical gardening ability with pedagogical ability
an.l Wats knowledge of elementary sctenc% and
nature study.
The league, to meet this demand for teachers.
has agreed to finance a special normal course in
children's gardening in connection with th» gen
eral pedagogical department of the New York Uni
versity Summer School.
The university ban obtained for th» firtealnii
, class the use of a large garden adjoining the
I campus on rntversity Heights, and win devote
a building to the Indoor t-lasswork. Under the
; leadership of Henry Grlscom Parsons, secretary
| of the league, the students will receire practical
! Instruction In planning and managing gardens
i and hi the maktng of such apparatus as la aeaaed
[ |or classroom d-imonatraticnv
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