Making Tomorrows.
World
8y WjALTEr WILLIAIMS LL.D.
FRANCE-WHICH PARIS IS NOT
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France surely
laughs in her
sleeve at her in
terpreters from
other lands. The
majority of these
interpreters, fas
cinated by the al
luring gayety of
the boulevards,
find in Paris the
key to the French
character. Oth
ers though, look
ing beyond,
sprinl:lo their in
t erpretations
with such adjec
tives of descrip
tion as light
hearted. vinlato
extravagant. Others, seeing the
French Sunday, learning that in the
charming French language there is no
word for home, observing the gay,
white ways of the cities, or reading
cf a declining birth rate, quickly pro
nounce France idle, undomestic, irre
ligious, immoral. Now France, curi
ously, is in many of her characteris
tics the antitheses of these popular
and far-spread interpretations. To es
timate her place and plrt in to-mor
row's world, a more nearly accurate
knowledge of her characteristics to
day is of course necessary.
Paris Vs. France.
First, in judging France it must be
kept in mind that Paris is not France.
Many of the descriptive adjectives em
ployed in picturing France do apply to
Paris, or, at least, to the sections of
Paris where foreign travelers most
do congregate. The vivid, colorful
cafes, the all-night restaurants, the
prurient novels and post cards, are,
to a large degree, an effort to give the
tourist-public what it wants, or what
Pans thinks it wants. The real France
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may not be seen on Paris streets aft
er dark. Paris is a beautiful city, and
the French are lovers of beauty. But
Paris is royalist and France is repub
lican. Paris is politically restless, and
France is stable. Paris is extrava
gant, and France is thrifty.
Paris is a sparkling diamond on the
broad blouse of all France. It is not
strange that the diamond's sparkle is
first seen and longest remembered.
But the republic is clothed and kept
in its right mind by rural France.
A Nation of Farmens.
The real ruler of France is the
peasant-farmer. Other great nations
are rapidly becoming urbanized. The
city is drawing men and women from
the farm with rapidity that is alarm
ing in Great Britain, in Germany, and
even in the newer United States. Civ
ilization confronts problems created
by modern industrialism. That fac
tory products have thus far too often
meant distressful conditions of liv
ing for the factory laborer and his
family is a grim fact in every indus
trial nation. France, in this change,
remains almost stationary and takes
time to adjust herself to the newer
and different conditions. The one
great European republic is an agri
cultural empire. The high and sta
ble position Which agriculture ocu
pies is significant. More than 42 per
cent. of the population in France is
engaged in agriculture, far more than
in any other country of northern Eu
rope, Great Britain, Germany, Belgium
or the Netherlands, and one-fourth
more than in the United States. This
percentage of the population engaged
in agriculture shows a slight increase
in recent years instead of a large de
crease, as in other leading nations.
This condition is idaintained despite
a density of population greater than
in neighboring countries, and nearly
six times as great as in the United
States. Density of population almost
invaaribly means urbanisation. Fance
is a notable exception. Iere the
farmer continues to farm.
Peasant Farmers Land Owners.
The French peasant farmer must
not be associated with the German or
I the British farm laborer. He is of a
different and a higher class. This
difference is brought about, in a large
measure, by the fact that he is an
owner of the land, not merely a ten
ant. Sixty-three per cent. of the
French peasants are householders,
owning their homes, oftentimes "a
small thing but my own." Revolution
does not easily originate among the
owners of homes. The French peas
antry are the conservative force in
the republic. It must not be inferred,
however, that with them conservatism
spells stagnation. Though not a rev
olutionist, the French peasant is not
a reactionary. He is materially and
morally progressive. He thinks with
a clearness that some philosophers
might envy. He expresses himself
with a grace and a precision that, in
herited by his children, gives them a
birthright of speech in pulpit, tribune,
fournalism, unsurpassed by any land.
Distinguished Sons of Peasants.
It is not strange that Rochefort and
Clemenceau, the journalists, Labori,
the advocate, Millet, the painter, Poin
care, Fallieres and Loubet, statesmen,
and a host of others, scientists, schol
ars, preachers, legislators, are the
sons of peasants. When the newly
elected president of the third republic,
Emile Loubet, halted his triumphal en
try into Montelimar that he might em
brace his peasant mother, the inci
dent which moistened every French
eye and warmed every French heart,
assured the new president's popularity,
for France recognizes its dependence
upon the peasantry and honors, above
most nations, motherhood. It is good
politics, therefore, when the present
scholar-president of France, motoring
through France to his country place,
as this ,letter is written, turns aside to
visit his two living predecessors in of
fice, finding them at work in their
vineyards.
Rural Schools Progressing.
The evolution of the French peasant
is the history of modern France. He
is emphasizing education as never be
fore. The development of the rural
school in France is a remarkable fact
in the republic's progress. The con
troversy between state and church,
bgtted as it was in the extreme and
unfortunate, has made necessary larg
er state grants to education which
have been administered even in re
mote districts with increasing wisdom.
Certain distinguishing French charac
teristics, aptitude for science, clarity
of mind, concentration and the criti
cal faculty, intellectuality and artistic
taste, are shown nowhere more pro
nouncedly than in the French schools
-and reference is made not merely
to the Sorbonne or the Ecole de Beaux
Arts, but to the small schools far re
moved from the capitaL The French
peasant wishes the best for his chil
dren.
The French peasant not only owns
France-he works. As France leads
in percentage '- her population en
gaged in agriculture, France leads also
in the relative percentage of her pop
ulation who are economically active
members of society. In this sunny
land, where everybody apparently
loafs his life away, more workers are
to be found, in proportion to the num
ber of inhabitants, than in Great Brit
ain, Germany, or our own United
States. The census statistics show
that of every 100 persons in the United
States 38 are engaged in some chief
occupation, agriculture, commerce or
industry, including domestic service,
and not subsidiary or auxiliary. In
Great Britain 44 of every 100 are so en
gaged, in Germany 45, and in France
61. The French are workers, not
idlers, and this percentage increases
with each decade. Not only do more
I men work in France, but more wom
en, also, than in the other great na
tions. In the United States 14 per
cent. of the female population, at the
latest available report, was engaged in
E me gainful principal occupation; In
Great Britain, 24 per cent.; in Ger
many, 30 per cent., and in France,
nearly 35 per cent.
Peasant Woman Holds the Purse.
The French peasant woman, as
wife and mother, as village merchant
and farm manager, is a most impor
tant persolge. She holds the purse.
From h, r -,aviv ,gs came the enormous
indemnity whiclh Germany exa:ted
fronu France after Sedan. Often a
:-hop-k.feper, shei is always a .ou
ke( per. Laboriousness and thrift;
characterize her daily life. lecause of
this toil and thrift France, in mate
rial resuurce, is a nation almost or
quite suflicient to Itself.
The thrift has been aided by the
fact, explanatory of much in present
France, that the French peasant is a
land owner. His problems of legisla
tion differ from those of his German
and British neighbors. lie has no land
question. lie is occupied with doing
things, rather than with undoing
things inherited.
Women Largely Self-Supporting.
The French woman shops with a
market basket and not with a tele
phone, that modern promoter of high
prices. Essentially a home-maker and
a home-keeper, she enjoys an eco
nomic independence that her Anglo
Saxon sisters do not know. Many
French girls are self-supporting be
fore marriage, and remain so after.
1t9rds. Even where they do not
earn their living, they have a dot or
dowry-for which the parents save
from the girl's babyhood-and she
pays her personal expenses from it.
"It is rarely, indeed," said a
French woman. "that one sees in
France the helpless, incompetent wom
an, who can turn her hand to noth.
ing, having never learned to do one
single thing well. Adaptable and en
ergetic, the French woman can do
most things in the most efficient man
ner possible-her knowledge is never
scrappy and what she knows she
knows consummately." The new wom
an may be near at hand in France,
but when she arrives she will come
without strident voice or scial revo
lution, and will scarcely have more
power ihan now.
The Peasant at Home.
In journeying in rural France the
French peasant is seen at home and
at his best. He is not on dress pa
rade as Paris is upon its boulevards.
He is shrewd, almost cunning; digni
fled, almost courtly; uneducated fre.
quently, but never boorish; possessed
of all the homely virtues, frugal, serl
ous-minded and devout. To the
stranger he is hospitality itself, and to
his own countrymen he has a psic
fect genius for friendship.
High Regard for Woman. .
With all
appeals arouse their enthusiasm to its
highest point: Woman, as wife and
mother; the tri-color with its declara
tion of liberty, equality, fraternity;
and the republic, which to them stands
for political, social, economic progress.
Characteristic of the French, in dell
acy, woman-adoration and felicity of
speech, was the manner in which the
sad news of the death of the distin
guished French statesman, M. Thiers,
was announced to his widow: "Mad
ame, your illustrious husband once
lived." Again, a presidential candi
date, a peasant's son, who married a
woman of doubtful reputation, was
sharply attacked in the Paris and pro
vincial press for his political views,
but never a word was published re
garding his wife. No woman's name
is dragged into the public prints of
France.
"The English "have a scornful in
sular way
Of calling the French light. The lev.
tty
Is in the judgment only, which yet
stands;
For say a foolish thing but oft enough
(And here's the secret of a hundred
creeds
Men get opinions as boys learn to
spell,
By reiteration, chiefly) the same thing
shall pass at last for absolutely
wise
And not with fools exclusively. And so
We say the French are light, as if we
said,
The cat mews or the milch cow gives
us milk.
"Is a bullet light
That dashes from the gunmouth, while
the eye
Winks, and the heart beata one; to
flatten itself
To a wafer on the white speck of a
wall
A hundred paces off? Even so di
rect,
So strongly undivertible of aim
sla this French people
"All idealists.
And so I am strong to love this noble
France,
This poet of the nations, who dreams
on
Forever after some ideal good
Some equal poise of sex, some un
avowed love
Inviolate, some spontaneous brother
hood,
Some wealth that leaves none poor
and finds none tired,
Some freedom of the many that re
spects
The wisdom of the few."
And this is not Paris, but Prance!
If the supreme test of tomorrow's
world is what it makes of the indivld
ual in his daily life, there are many
lessons ·to be learned among the
grave and gentle, idealistic peasant
folk of La Belle France.
(Conyright 1914. by Joseph B. Bowle&.)
BLOUSE MUST BE TIDY
NEAT ADJUSTMENT PT THE BACK
IS IMPERATIVE.
Small Buttons to Fasten Garment Are
the Best-Not at All Hard to
Arrange and Keep in
Proper Shape.
Somre, people seem to think that the
back fastening of a blouse is a thing
that doesn't matter much because they
(cant see it themselves. But it does
balter very much indeed, for, though
you can't see it, other people can.
and an untidy row of gaping buttons
and holes down the back will spoil
the smartest blouse that was ever
made.
I often use patent clips on the back
of a blouse, but the thing against
these is that they sometimes rust in
the wash. Little buttons are safer,
and, if you put them on correctly they
Mvill be perfectly tidy.
You see, you must make a plain
hem down the left-hand edge, and sew
the buttons to this. Then finish the
right-hand edge in any way you like
some people put a box-pleat, others a
couple of tucks turning different ways,
others just a straight hem. But, what
ever it is, it must be all tidily done
and finished before you have any
dealings at all with the buttonholes.
These holes should never be worked
into the back of the blouse. They
should always be done on a separate
bit of stuff-a piece of material fold
ed double, or a strip of strong tape.
Work holes through this to match the
buttons, and then put it inside the
blouse and sew it down at the inner
edge only.
You can catch the outer edge of the
blouse to the outer edge of the but
tonhole strip by a knotted stitch here
and there, if you like. But the main
parts of the two edges should be left
separate from each other, so that you
can slip your finger in between them
when you want to fasten the buttons.
When the button has gone through
the hole, it Is hidden under the right
hand edge of the blouse, so that it
does not show a bit. And, if a button
hole gets torn, there Is no particular
harm done, for the material of the
blouse is not spoiled by it.
It's quite a good plan to keep one
of these little buttonhole strips al
ways in your basket, and work at it
when you have a few spare moments.
-Exchange.
Plaids for Spring.
Plaid gowns have taken a strong
hold upon the fashionable world this
inter as the result of the novel ways
e French couturiers have devised
f combining the latest loom products
f many colors. The idea of modeling
straight lines
Sare at -ctve
Jn other words, untrimmed dresses are
having special prominesce for certain
occasions and depending for style upon
their simplicity and the modish ac
cessories of the hour, Morning dresses
have new prolinence this season. In
a way they tale the place of the erst
while tailored sutt of mannish cut
when worn wit the separaite coats
that also are em asized more than for
many winters.
For .e Brld.
Now that it hai wisel* become the
fashion to' give thN bride a really use
ful wedding gift, ear n mind that
every housekeeperpeedsh cedar chest.
Really beautiful 4ts tbly make, for
they are highly po)bhed, carefully fin
ished, fitted with ltall locks of ar
tistic workmanshiland are in every
respect ornamenta If the bride is
to live in a hotel 4 wal welcome a
steamer trunk sa ed chest, which
may be slid under e bed, but if she
has taken an atment choose a
cedar box in winds seat form that
it may help towarhe furnishing of
the new home.
MAKES A PREY PRESENT
Pipe Rack and Ma Holder Appr.
clated by Any t That Uses
Tobai
Our sketch showi: useful little
present to make far man who is
a smoker; it is a ra#9or holding two
pipes and some mlkes. For the
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foundation, a piece c rardboard
must be cut out in .;*ape shown
by diagram A on the It side of the
illustration, and it be scored
across with a pen kz at the points
indicated by the dott M
This board is smoo vered with
pale blue silk, whic be tacked
up to the cardboard tf. points
where It is to be ben pior to do.
OUTDOOR COSTUME OF MERIT
Heather Mixture Tweed the Best Ma
terial-Norfolk Coat Has Distinc
tive Points Worth Noting.
This costume is in heather mixture
tweed. The skirt has a strap taken
part way down each side of front; in
verted plaits are then made, these
give a comfortable fullness at foot.
The Norfolk coat has straps taken
from shoulders to hemrn at back and
front; the strap at waist is passed
under these and buttoned in front;
buttons and corresponding holes form
fastening. The collar is faced with
plain cloth.
The hat is of the same material,
with narrow folds of satin edging the
bows.
Material required: Five yards of
tweed 46 inches wide, five buttons,
two and one-half yards lining 40
inches wide.
Present for the New Baby.
For the latest baby of your dearest
friend, get up a "surprise box" from
materials at hand. Somewhere about
the house you will be certain to And
an oblong pasteboard box which may
be reduced to about 12x5x5 inches pro.
portion. This should be smoothly
covered with white lawn and its top
transformed into a lid working on
hinges of narrow ribbon run through
double sets of punch holes, the
mu-mrwere. Two big white bath
towels from your reserve stock of
household linens should then be In.
itial-embroidered in pink or floss and
laid in the box, leaving just enough
space at one end for a pair of pink
or blue w'ash cloths. Lacking a sup
ply of face cloths, squares that will
do as well may be made from a partly
worn fine damask napkin, herring
bone hemmed with pink or blue floss.
Vogue for Flounces.
Flounces of black and white tulle,
black and white chiffton or black and
white lace respectively are introduced
into many of the gowns designed for
southern wear. They trim the back
of the draped skirts, the typical Louis
XVI. sleeves and the upper portion
of the botices.
The skirts In black, violet or olive
green taffetas or charmeuse that will
be worn in the south this winter open
In a point at the back of the waist
over five or six flounces of equal
width, and this effect is continued on
a moderate sized train for the even
ing.
ing this, two pockets for the pipes
must be sewn in their proper position
on the silk, and on the material which
covers the front of the division for the
matches, the word "Matches" is work
ed in scarlet silk. The diagram clear
ly shows the different portions of the
rack, and B forms the back. D is fold
ed upwards, and C forward, until the
edges meet, when they can be secure
ly sewn together.
The pockets are edged with a fine
scarlet silk cord, carried into three lit
tle loops in the center, and the edge
of the rack itself is finished off with
a broader cord of the same color.
At the top there are three loops
of cord, the center loop being made
rather larger than the others, as it is
by this loop that the rack may be
suspended from a nail in the wall.
PAstened with glue to the upper part
of the back is a small strip of sandpa
per on which the matches may be
struck, and when complete, the rack
should measure nine inches in height
and six and one-half inches in width.
Hat of Many Uses.
The newest think on the Paris mar
ket is a "dismountable hat." evolved
because of protests against the monster
fashions. The new hat is many in one.
It can be made a town, theater, auto
mobiling, or affixing aigrette, bow, or
row of brillia;ts, and being twisted in
to a new shape. Its practical utility
is that it saves an accumulation of hat
boxes when traveling.
Use Lime Water.
When Jars and Jugs have been put
away and smell musty, rinse them
with lime water. This is particularly
good for vessels used for milk.
WOULD SIT DOWN
COULDN'T GET UP
And This Lady Would Do a Little
Work and Have to Go to
Bed for an Hour.
Columbia. Tenn.--Mrs. Jessie Sharp,
of this town, says: "I was a sufferer
from womanly troubles for five years,
and it got me( down so I could rnot do
any of my work. Would have to lie in
bed nearly all the time. When I
would sit down, couldn't get up, with
out pulling at somt thing to help me.
I would do a little work, and have
to go to bed for an hour.
I would have those awful trembly
spells, and a swimming in my head. I
surely felt that I had rather be dead,
than be in my condition.
I finally wrote to the Ladies Ad
visory Department, of the Chattanooga
Medicine Co.. and they advised me to
try Cardul, the woman's tonic, for my
troubles. I did and now I am sound
and well of all my troubles. The sec
ond bottle helped me so much, that I
didn't have to go to bed any more.
I certainly feel that Cardui is worth
its weight in gold to every suffering
woman."
If you, lady reader, suffer from any
of the ailments so common to women.
try Cardui.
For more than 50 years, Cardui has
been used with entire satisfaction, by
hundreds of thousands of weak and
ailing women. It will surely help you,
too.
N. B.- Wrik .*a Ladies' Advisory Dept.. Chatta.
nooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga. Tenn., for
SeCeallniracoyn, and 64-page book."Home Treat.
ment for Women." rent an plain wrapper, eo
request. Adv.
Face and Fight Worry.
Realize your worries for what they
are worth-for what they really are.
Face them-stare them in the face.
Leave the future to the future, and all
your worrying and anxious wondering
will not alter it an atom. All you do
is to burden yourself with your exag
gerated conception of your worry and
to carry it with you upon your back
into your future. Face it, realize its
limits and fight it.
FALLING HAIR MEANS
DANDRUFF IS ACTIVE
Save Your Hair! Get a 25 Cent Bottle
of Danderine Right Now-Also
Stops Itching Scalp.
Thin, brittle, colorless and scraggy
hair is mute evidence of a neglected
scalp; of dandruff-that awful scurf.
There is nothing so destructive to
life; eventually producing a feverish
ness and itching of the scalp, which
if not remedied causes the hair roots
to shrink, loosen and die-then the
hair falls out fast. A little Danderlnoe
tonight-now-any time-will surely
save your hair.
Get a 25 cent bottle of Knowlton's
Danderine from any store, and after
Ie first application your hair will
e on that life, luster and luxurianco
which is so beautiful. It will beqpmo
wavy and fluffy and have the appa'e
ance of abundance; an incomparable
gloss and softness, but what will
please you most will be after Just a
few weeks' use, when you will actual
ly see a lot of rpe, downy hair-new
hair-growing all over the scaip. Adv.
Modemrn,
Winifred was the guest of a coun
try gentleman of sporting proclivi
ties. She wuas walklng with her host
through the park one morning when a
fox leraped from the covert and darted
across an open space.
Winltred clung to her companion's
arm. "Heavens, Mr. Tubbs!" cried
she, "what was it? You don't mean to
tell me that red fox fur can run about
all by itself?"
IlzzY, HEADACHY,
SICK "CASCARETS"
Gently cleanse your liver and
sluggish bowels while
you sleep.
Get a 10.cent box.
Sick headache, biliousness, dims
aessu, coated tongue, foul taste and fool
breath-always trace them to torpid
liver; delayed, fermenting food in the
bowels or sour. gassy stomach.
Poisonous matter clogged in the in
testines, instead of being cast out
of the system is re-absorbed into the
blood. When this poison reaches the
delicate brain tissue it causes con
gestion and that dull, throbbing, sick
ening beadache.
Cascarets immediately cleanse the
stomach, remove the sour, undigested
food and foul gases, take the excess
bile from the liver and carry out all
the constipated waste matter and
poisons in the bowels.
A Cascaret to-night will surely
straighten you out by morning. They
work while you eleep-a 10-cent box
trom your drunggist means your head
clear, stomach sweet and your liver
and bowels regular for months. Adv.
A girl can't throw a stone, but that
Is no reason why she shouldn't have
ua aim in life.