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THE ROCK ISTJANP ARGUS. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 81, 1912. THE ARGUS. Published Dally iM Weekly at 1114 Seeons tTmna, Rook Islaao. IH IEn tared at the postoffloe aa second-clase matter. BY THE J. W. POTTER CO. TERMS. Dally, 10 cents per week. Weekly, tl per year In adrajioe. Complaint of delivery service should be made to the circulation department, which should alo be notified in every Instance where it Is desired to bar paper discontinued, aa carriers hare DO authority la the premises. All communications of argumentative character, political or rellsTioua, must bar real name attached for publica tion. Ko such articles will be printed over fictitious signatures. Telephones In all department: Central Union. West 14S and lltfi; Union Zleo trie 8145. Wednesday, January 31, 1912. Can you beat eggs at 65 cents a dozen ? Last day of January and no thaw In sight. Tbe strenuous one from Oyster Bay reiterates that he has no use for It but would take It in a pinch. If Detective Burns bas a confession in tbe IyOrimer case, it Is time to trot it out and irlte It to the committee for all It is worth. Somebody ought to tell the governor of Illinois to hurry up the Invoice of bis political wishes, for the primary and election are to be held in this year 1812. When the president of the United States, as a candidate for renomina tion and reelection, finds it necessary to get busy in his own state, it is a pretty significant sign of tbe times. A telegram from away up in Ottawa, Canada, says that it was part of the arrangement of the McNamaras' con fession thst they would be pardoned within two years. It would be a sad commentary on the execution of tbe law should this occur. Tbe self constituted Legislative Voters' League of Illinois Is again passing out Judgment on the mem bers of tbe Illinois legislature. The legislative voters' league is about as useful in the censorship of Illinois legislative politics as the Taft tariff board is In the so-called scientific re vision. It is rather pleasing to note that when the final test came 25 republi can insurgents la congress voted with the democrats for the passage of tbe Underwood bill cutting down the duty on iron and steel. Insurgency would not amount to much if It supported no reform that did not originate in the republican party. flaying the Game. Governor Stubbs of Kansas and Governor Glaupcock of West Virginia called upon Colonel Roosevelt at Oyster Bay. Coming from the con ference each declares Roosevelt is not a candidate and will not be a candidate, but will be nominated and elected. Governor Stubbs adds that the only circumstance that would induce the colonel to accept is a spontan eous demand from the people that he is the only man in the lnnd who can solve the great problems of the hour. Meantime, despite his statement that he 'Is not a candidate, it is worthy of note that the members of his old tennis cabinet and all his old time friends are busily engaged in urging the people to "arise spontan eously." Why does not Cclonel Roosevelt cease playing politics In the shadows and come out and state he is seeking the nomination? That would be the simple truth. New Light on Divorce. Tbe divorce evil 18 a sign not of decadence but of transition, the cost of progress, paid in tbe emergence of a more stable social order,' says Pro fessor Francis G. Pea body of Harvard. 'It la a sign of transition because it la a symptom rather than a disease. This symptom is caused primarily by the social disease of restlessness, tbe excitation of the nerves of motion, the condition which may be described as Americanitls. Thl disease in family life takes tbe form of rebellion, niigratortness and change. The family is not an ac cident of modern life, or a. contract between the two parties concerned, but an institution of society, tbe unit of civilisation, the type which has sur vived In the process of social evolu tion. Thus tbe break up of tbe family system means what the naturalists call a reversion of type to conditions of primitive civilization from which tbe human race has slowly and la boriously emerged." Profeeaor Pea body says divorce is increasing at a rate three times faster than population la Increasing. ; Butter-and Its Spreading Interest. Butter thl is a subject which spreads a consuming Interest through every borne la tbe land. At present with butter at 64 cent a pound, a serioca household problem la pre sented. How shall it be met? In New York a Housewives' league "&a been organized And has-nrged-a boycott on 50 cent butter. This pre sents an Interesting phase of economic conditions which govern prices of commodities. It would be well if con sumers throughout the nation could be awakened to a sense of their re sponsibility for exhorbitant prices. Tb) blame does not primarily rest up on the consumer, but the middlemen, who corner tbe supply and manipulate prices at wilL Just whether such a moTement "as that started In New York by tbe Housewives' league can accomplish anything depends entirely upon the spirit of cooperation among consum ers generally. The present exorbitant price of butter Is due, so we are told. to tbe fact that the storage house men, who put away a much smaller quantity than usual last spring, are now in a position to collect a higher price and larger profit And right here Is where the cooper ative plan can get in Its good work. Those who hare manipulated prices believe that the demand is incapable of suspension and that their specula tion In butter and in some other pro visions Is sure to bring great profits. But if tbe consuming public could be brought to a realisation of its power and this cooperative plan as suggest ed in New York carried far enough, butter prices would go tumbling to a reasonable figure for which all we consumers would be duly thankful. But who is the first to take the ini tiative, in this locality, for instance? Such an organized effort seems abso lutely Impractical, but the theory is sound. Meanwhile we will continue to pay the exorbitant prices. Honor and "Obey. Dr. Parkhurst writing for the St Louis Star, has taken up the cudgels against women who object to the word "obey" in the marriage service. He says it has always been so, that man has been the head of the family, and always will be, in epite of the many examples to tbe contrary that must have been forced upon his attention during bis long and busy life. He admits that a certain amount of deference 'by tbe husband and wife to each other's desires Is necessary to do mestic happiness, but when it comes to putting the foot down it must be the male foot by right. If not in fact He says it is an evidence of a grow ing general contempt for authority, and quotes an alleged expression of a president of a woman's political union, that "it is wicked for children to be required to obey unless some very good reason is given for it" Here, he says, is absolute anarchy. He de clares that parental authority must be asserted without reason, simply be cause it is authority, because it is good for every human being to learn to sub mit his will to "superior will." He says that it is for the parent to say to the child, "Do so-and-so, for It is best that you should. You may not know enough to realize that it is best, but it is, and, therefore, go and do it." But is not this giving that "very good reason" the lady asserts should exist? When the parent gives to the child so good a reason as that, it is certainly not "wicked" to require the child to obey, and the lady president doubtless never Intended to say it was. In editorial comment, the St. Louis Star argues that "what she really in tended to say was that the fitful, pas sionate, unreasonable and often harm ful commands of incompetent and angry parents were wicked, and in that she holds to the theory better than does Dr. Parkhurst in his support of the absolute right of parents. "The unrestrained exercise of arbi trary authority over children by in competent parents is responsible for much of the crime, the ignorance and the brutality of the world. "Women will probably, with few ex ceptions, continue to promise to obey, with tbe mental reservation that they will not unless they want to, and par ents will continue to demand and en force obedience of children to their whims and even their wicked com mands, but Dr. Parkhurst will have difficulty in convincing tbe intelligence of the present generation tbaX such a state of affairs Is 6acred or by divine authority, even with the support of the archbishop of Canterbury's recent dic tum, that the marriage ceremony, with out the promise to obey in it, is ille gal." ILLINOIS NEWS Elope to Escape Ridicule. Chicago, Jan. 31. Fred Adams, a well-to-do farmer, and Hattie Mc Gill, both of Gardner, 111., obtained a license to wed in Chicago after hav ing eloped from their home town, Mr. Adams and his bride-to-be eloped because they could not stand ridicule at the hands of their friends. "Those people were 'kidding' us too much," said Mr. Adams. Miss McGill was formerly a school teacher at Odell, 111. Last spring she and her father. who is a civil war veteran, moved to Gardner and rented a farm across the road from that owned and oper ated by Adams. Adams soon offered his heart and hand, together with a farm of 240 acres and hundreds of bead of fancy stock, to the former school teacher. Neighbors noticed frequent trips made across the road by Adams and a great deal of good natured chaffing resulted. Adams and Miss McGill then decided to elope. Name Child Welfare Day. Springfield, Jan. 31. Governor Deneen has issued at Springfield a proclamation naming Saturday, Feb. 17, as chUd welfare day. Tbe gov ernor's pronunciamento, a copy of which will be received today by the officers of the National Mothers' con gress in Chicago, follows in part: "The necessity for public supervision of tbe education and training of the citizen has long been recognised by the state in the maintenance of the put Ho. school. I Join Sa the Z7 Jl MM3iaiIi "I am the champion easy mark," announced the father of two stren uous young ones. 'That'a strange." exclaimed the person addressed, "I thought I took the first prize along that line." ' Well, I've got you beat," declar ed tbe dad aforesaid. "I will eluci date. "The other day I read an editorial in the paper about fathers paying more attention to their children. It truck me as a bang-up good edltor- lal said dad should play with his boy and get acquainted with him, et cetera, you know. I began to specu late if I had been a little remiss that way myself. "Now about that time my oldest hopeful was reminding me, about ev ery time I saw him, that our back yard would make a whackin' good place for a skating pond. He had a pair of new skates be was suffering to wear out and it struck him that there was no place like home for the purpose. "Therefore dad, with the spirit of that editorial strong upon him, went forth and prepared the back yard. Tea, sir I ridged up abound the edges of the whole space and turned the hose on and It certainly made a bang-up good skating place. "After that there was no peace in our household. There were skating races and hockey matches and every thing else that could move and yell and otherwise make a noise in our back yard. My small daughter gave skating parties there also. However, I thought 'let the kids have a good time. They're young only once.' "But the thing that proved me the champion easy mark occurred this morning. "You know it snowed last night. That meant that the family skating rink was covered with about three Inches of the beautiful. I did not take particular notice of this until my attention was called to it. It was borne in upon me by both my son and my daughter that said rink was out of commission and that it was up to father to see that it was put in condition for a hockey match sched uled for that p. m. "At first I was Inclined to grouch. But again the spirit of that editor ial overcame me and I labored before breakfast and after clearing the snow off that back yard, after which I turned the bose on for another freeze, until the surface was like glass. Then I hustled into my busi ness clothes and got down town an hour late. "Now, if anybody disputes that I'm JANE ADDAMS AIDS WISCONSIN WOMEN IN PRE-ELECTION ,-appams if p $l Xa 14 : i Kiss Jane Addams, tho Chicago social worker, has enlisted on the side of Wisconsin women, fighting to strengthen their cause preparatory to tne election in tnat state in .or not women snail do given tno most eninuaiaetic reception when she mendatlon that Feb. 17 be observed by tbe citizens of the state of Illi nois aa child welfare day and that it be characterized by exercises, ad dressee and other suitable means for the advancement of child welfare." The proclamation was Issued in rec ognition of the movement in the in terest of children started by the Na tional Mothers' congress. Lean Associations In Gain. Springfield, Jan. 31. The state auditor ot public accounts in his an nual report on building and loan as sociations issued says there were in Illinois during the year 1811. 668 associations, a net gain for the year of J 8. Forty new associations were JacorxoraUd. and 10 association the champion easy mark, I'll go to the floor with him I" "Better be careful about the kind of editorials you read after this," cautioned the other. SHE W AS IN A HtKBV. A certain progressive young per son believes that housework could be made much easier if women would only avail themselves of the various labor-saving and time saving modern inventions. Therefore, whenever she is down town and finds something new along that line, she buys it and takes it home. In this way she acquired, not long ago, a patent nutmeg grater. It was some sort of a thing where you put the nutmeg in and turn a crank and presto, your nutmeg is grated with out danger of skin scraping at tbe same time, "I took it home and gave it to mother," said the P. Y. P.. "and she allowed that it might work all right. I felt quite proud of having added ... I another time saver to our kitchen equipment "Sunday I was helping mother get dinner and was watching her make the dessert. Suddenly it dawned on me that she was grating some nut meg on the apples in the same old w ay with the same old grater, " 'Why don't you use that patent one I bought for you?' I asked. " 'Oh,' said mother, 'I'm in too much of a hurry. "Now, what do you think of that!" exclaimed the P. Y. P. SAUCE FOR THE GANDER. "A man can't stand the slightest bit of criticism about himself or his clothes," said a young matron with a humorous twinkle in her eye "Now, there s my husband ever since I've known him he's made fun of women's clothes. He's ridiculed and he's criticised and I've been ex pected to take it in good part But the other day I saw an article which ridiculed men's clothes Just about as much as the usual man ridicules ours and I told my husband to read it. It was a very sensible article, I thought and every bit of it true. It seemed quite right that somebody should tell the truth about men'B foolishness in return for what we must always be hearing about our silliness. "But it seems that men have con sidered it their inalienable privilege, through the ages to monopolize the criticising, and when the tables are turned they get mad. Here's what my husband said when he'd read that article "Humph! Of course a fool wrote that. Can't those women writers find anything better to talk about than the way men dress? What do they know about it anyway? Huh!' BATTLE FOR BALLOT November which is to decide whether right of suffrage. She met with a Journeyed to Madlton to BDeak on were dissolved. One went into Ihe hands of a receiver and one associa tion, the Cooperative Builders' asso ciation, did no business during the year. The total resources were in creased by more than $5,775,000, the total Investment now being $68, 975. On this Increase the 214 asso ciations in Chicago gained about $1, 800,000. Approximately $15,750, 000 on account of Installments were withdrawn and matured and $3,000, 000 by way of proflta were disbursed to stockholders during the year. The earnings receipts of the year totaled $4,765,513; the operating expenses were $467,860. The net earnings were $4,298,151, an increase over those of 1910 of more than three- quarters of a.. mil lion dollars. m at-, s, v-.-ot. .ja. -at : j Aivm Humor and Philosophy V ZSCAJ Mm SMITH PERT PARAGRAPHS. JJANY people spend more time hunt ing cross cuts to success tnan it would take to insure it by going all the way round by the road. Youth is the hope of tbe race but tbe despair of tbe eid folks. We are likely to regard company manners in much the same way as we do the makeup of theatrical people. One man's success is often several men's failures. Some persons get a lot of satisfaction out of the good that they are going to do. The only young man at a house party nas harder time than a solitary kit ten in a nouseiul of children. It would lower our esteem of angels' crowns if we saw them offered at a bargain sale. It is a mistake to say that worry does no good. It has saved many a fr- son from ennui. The vanity of the world never seems W1 " "PParent as when one discov d-ttae wnai atamambV 4tm Iiaaani tin m ers that one's overcoat is becoming shiny. Same Old Way. 'When Adam first made love-to Eve, Although without a chart To guide him In romantic walks And tell him when to start. Be did as well as has been dona By peasant or by prince Or any one on down the line Who has been at It since. He stammered quite a bit at first And acted like a duaoe And said she was the only airl. Which was the truth for once. Then he made clear to her how much He liked her winning ways Exactly In the same old way The boys do nowadays. He promised he would love, protect And cherish her for life And do a lot of other things If she would be his wife. He eald without her by his side The sun for him would set In very much the sort of words The fellows tell them yet We have improved on many things Since Mr. Adam's day; Inventions have so multiplied That work is almost play; We have advanced In arts and crafts And furnishing a flat But making love Is still the same We can't Improve on that Their Quarrel. "Mrs. Green and Mrs. Black seem rather frigid to each other. What's the trouble r "Mrs. Green says Its Mrs. Black's tongue." "Been scolding the Black children?" "They seem to thrive on it, but Mrs. Green says she just won't stand the mean things Mrs. Black says about Fido." Complacent. Didn't the bank failure shock you?" "No; I am something of a philoso pher." "Did you have any money in it?" "No, but I believe my divorced wife's second husband did." Knew Better. "Willie, you mustn't throw stones at people." "Why notr "Because it is wrong." '"Tain't either. I don't live in no glass house." The Pretty Girl. "That insolent man wants to flirt with me." "He's perfectly quiet. How do you know?" "Because he's a man." Had to Take It. "It isn't safe to walk in tbe middle of the street" "Yes; I had a bint to that effect." "Did you get the number of the ma chine?" The Reason. "Why do women hate to keep se crets ?' "They don't consider themselves .storage warehouses." Serious Problem. "Who will do tbe wsshing in China?" "Under the new republic they will all be too proud to be laundrymen." 8teady Diet War months the presidential tangle. From out whose maze will walk the winner. Must be hashed up from every angle And served for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Have yon a weak throat? If so, you cannot be too careful. You cannot begin treatment too early. Each cold makes you more liable to another and tbe last is always the harder to cure. If you will take Chamberlain's Cough Remedy at the outset you will be saved much trouble. Sold by all drug Jist. The Argus In a Fog By Edwin C. Chandler. Copyrighted, ltll. by Associated Literary Bureau. Were yon ever In a London fog? a t have been, and I never knew what a fog was before. A real fog in England isn't the sort we have in America. In which two people may see each other dimly when a few feet apart Ob, no; it isn't that at all. One may be right alongside another and not be able to tell whether there is any one there un less he hears a sound. I always stop at a hotel In Charing Cross when in London, and on this morning when tbe fog came down, but toning my coat up around my throat and taking a cane in my band for blind man's purposes, I sallied forth, intending to work my way through Pall Mall to Regent street, thence up to Oxford street and down into one of the parks. "Beg pardon, sir," came a man's voice, tbe owner of which had nearly knocked me down, "can you tell me where I am?" "Piccadilly circus," came another voice through the mist "Oh, dear! I thought I was in Whitehall ! Laughter came out of nowhere like the mockery of spirits. I was glad to know where I was my self, for I hadn't the slightest idea. However, I had plenty of company, for I could hear tbe busses and their driv ers snarling at one another in a dead lock. "Who are you?" I asked of one I seized by the arm to prevent my fall- FOB HEAVEN 3 SAKE," I XXCLATKED, "HETTY. ABCHABD!" ing backward into the street off tbe curbstone. "I'm a bobby." "Oh, I see! No, I don't Bee. I mean, know. We call you fellows cops in America. Point me toward Oxford street" "There you are, sir. Keep right on. and you'll come to it." I slipped a shilling into his hand and pursued my way. I had scarcely left him when I felt a hand on my sleeve, evidently put there for some such pur pose as I had put mine on the bobby's, and, since It was small and gloved, I knew by the sense of touch alone that it was a woman's. 'Oh, heavens," enme a sweet voice: "I'm frightened to death!" Then a chuckle seemed to deny the assertion. "Can I assist you, madam or miss? I don't know which?" "I wish to go to Oxford circus." "Theu you are in luck. A bobby has just pointed me that way." "Would you mind taking me under your protection? You are a gentle man, I see." "You see that I am a gentleman? Then I must be blind. I see nothing." "I mean I cau tell that you are a gentleman from your voice and in tonation." I crocked my arm and felt her hand slipped through it. We walked on very slowly, I feeling the way with tbe end of my stick. I wondered If she was pretty. How can we men blame women for vanity when we ad mire beauty and have so little use for homeliness. I judged from ber voice she must be young, though I could not be certain. "Why do yon wish to reach Oxford circus?" I asked. "I can get the tube there." "The tube! There's an idea in that to please tbe mole. We humans like to emerge from underground into the light, where we can the better see. You are wishing to get underground where you can not only see, but move rapidly." She gave another chuckle. "And yet," 6he rejoined, "there are eases where it may be better not to see at any rate, be seen." "Such as"- "Why, we women are dependent for our happiness on our looks. I have never on that account been so happy as now. I am on an equal rooting with the most beautiful woman in tbe world." "Perhaps yon mean that a homely woman is in this fog on an equal foot ing with you." Another chuckle. "If it were better that we should see all things," I said, "Providence wouid have opened up to us the spiritual world." "There is another per contra in this existence :t is better that we should see. As to the spiritual world, it is better that we should remain in igno 1 ranee." "True. Yon have evidently studied about these things." JIou. seem to be of a philosophic 6.r - S5jn7i?i II Daily Story turn of mind yourseir." "I have always been so. It seems to me that sooner or later we are forced into philosophy. There is a gradual fading of all things" "Don't knock me down!" said a voice of one I jostled, a feminine voice. "Beg pardon, madam." "I'm not madam, thank you. Im miss." "Why did she resent being called madam?" I asked of my companion. "I can construct ber from that re mark a9 Professor Huxley used to con struct an animal from a single bone.; She is an elderly woman who has been disappointed in love. Consequently the bare mention of the married state irritates her, just as the mention ot education irritates ignorant persons." "Tbe fog does not conceal the fact that you are a thinker." "Any more than it conceals that yon, are a philosopher. Yet after all. we are simply using one sense Instead of. another for communicating. Just as: the brute would do the same thing.) Did you hear that dog bark? That; was to let his master, who cant see: him and whom he can't see, know; where he is. Yon and I can't see each I other. Therefore we use our voiceal and our ears just as the dog has." "From all of which I can construct! one feature about you, just as yon con structed the woman who was provok-j ed that I called her 'madam.' 1 "She was not provoked. Her retort j was simply a feminine inconsistency.! But go on with your reconstruction of me." "You are not beautiful." "How have you arrived at that truth?" "You are too Intelligent Beauty and brains rarely go together. We heard a voice ask, "Where am I?" and another say, "Oxford street" so we knew we were on that thor j oughfare. "'Now I think I can guide you to the tube entrance," I said to tbe lady X was piloting. "Which way do your wish to be transported?" "To the Lancaster gate station.' I knew which way to turn, and by. ehouting the question, "Where is the tube entrance?" I might have soon been directed to it But I was loath to awake from the illusion I had formed In spite of what I had said that the gloved hand resting on my arm belonged to a pretty woman. "I presume," I said in order to do a little pumping, "that you live near Lancaster gate?" "I board there. I do not live in Lon don." . "Indeed! Nor do L" "You need not tell me that. I know from your Intonation that you are an American." "I am. And yon?" , "I am an American too." j "I would never know that from your : speech." "That is because my borne la in , Canada. But I was educated in the I United States." ' "Where V "At Smith college." "Good gracious!" "Why do you exclaim?"' "Because I am an Amherst man." "Tube to your right!" cried a volco. I was now quite ready to see my ! companion's face, so I turned with her : into the tube entrance and in a mo ment was standing In a lighted space, j where I could see her pluinly.. "For heaven's sake!" I exclaimed. "Betty Archard!" There was no surprise on her face, only a pair of dancing eyes and a mis-! chievous smile. "You were very stupid not to recog nize me by my voice," she said. "I knew you by yours at once." "I thought I had heard that chuckle before," I said. "Had you?" "Yes, and if I had heard It anywhere but in a London fog I would have rec ognized you by it" "And yet I knew you by tbe first sound you uttered." "Oh, women are much quicker than men in such matters?" "In nothing else?" "Well, yes; your constructions 'from the hoof,' so to speak, were brighter than mine." We went down in the elevator they bare in a London tube station and took a train. When we reached Lan caster gate we emerged, and I piloted Betty, blind man fashion, again to her boarding house, where she was good enough to keep me to lunch. It does not require mur-h foresight to construct from this meeting in a fog a continuance of an incipient love af fair that had taken place several years before between two college students. Ard. having gone so far. one may point out the natural result, a elrl keeping a man for a Ion? while on the anxious seat and finally yielding just when she had succeeded in making him believe his case was hopeless. There have been a number of strange coinci dences in my life, but this meeting tbe woman who was to become my wife and chatting with ber without bein? able to see ber is the strangest of them all. Jan. 31 in American History 1732 Oouverneur Morris, statesman in tbe Revolution, born: died 1818. ISSO-Hon. James Gillespie Blaine, statesman and presidential candi date, born; died 1393. 1895 Judge Ebenezer Hock wood Hor, noted jurist, died; born 18i$. Sydney, Australia A general strike of all trades unionists has been or- t dered in Brisbane, Queenstown, In sup- ! port of the street car employes who ! demand that they be allowed to wear ! union buttons. .- I