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Jealousy j? By Winifred Slack OCIS PARAT, a French druggist, bun been called before .the French police to tell why be kept his wife chained to a I I "It ees of a nothing," laid M. Parat, when he went to the j police to explain. "I have in my heart but a gnawing 4. Jealousy. I cannot live and do my work when my wife la t rJ free t0 8 "id come where other men may look at her." I don't know what the French police are going to do about It. I know what I wish they'd do. I wish they would chain the uxorious Mr. Parat to a staple, and keep him tied up two years, Just to let him get a chance to learn to control that same gnawing Jealousy that causes him so much Inconvenience. I wonder If Madame Parat ever had any Jealous pangs while she waa chain ed to the wall. I suppose the gallant gentleman In this case quite succeeded In making hi wife believe that she was a very lucky woman to have a husband who cared so much about her that he had to keep her chained up, to keep him from going crazy with Jealousy. - You'll remember how Mr. Mantallnl persuaded his wife to do all the work for him by telling her that he loved to lie In bed and watch her work, she was bo graceful when she was busy. I suppose Madame Parat was very graceful when she was chained to the wall. Of all miserable, selfish, outrageous forms of Insanity, Jealousy la the most terrible. A woman who has a Jealous husband might as well make up her mind to one of two things the day she marries. Either she will be miserable as long as she lives with him, or she will have to teach him to break himself of the perverted egotism he calls Jealousy. Well-founded Jealousy is one thing. No one expects a husband or a wife either to be as blind as a bat or as dull as an owl. But the Jealousy that seea harm In every little harmless pleasantry, and wickedness in every open-hearted friendship is nothing more or less than a form of Insanity, and the victim to It should be brought to realize that. Is your husband so Jealous that he won't let you move out of the house without him, and that he turns green when you hand your fare to the street ear conductor? Call In a brain specialist. Your husband needs his services. And you'll need thera, too, It you let that sort of persecution go on unchecked. New York American. College and Afterward By President Had ley, of Yale BHE old curriculum, with all Its faults, had the element of com petition. Where all the boys were studying the same thing, rank meant something to them all. With the Introduction ot elective system we secured competition between teachers and got better teaching; but we have practically done away with competition between students, and have lost at that end the stimulus that we gained at the other. This loss has been a serious one. Much of the undue Interest in athletics In our college life today is due to the fact that this la the only place where there Is real competition among a number of men of different types of character. It was a mistake for the advocates of the old curriculum to think that all the students required tie same treatment It Is, I believe, an equal mistake for the advocates of the elective system to think that each student requires a different treatment. For while there Is a very large number of subjects of interest to study, and an almost Infinite variety of occupations which the students are going to follow afterward, there Is a comparatively Email number of types of mind with which we have to deal. If we can have four or five honor courses, something like those of the Eng lish universities, where the studies are grouped and the examinations arranged to meet the need of these different types, we can, I think, realize the chlet advantages of the elective system or the group system without subjecting ourselves to its evils. I am confident that we can secure a degree of col lective Intellectual interest which is now absent from most of our colleges, and can establish competitions which will be recognized not only in col lege, but In the world as places where the best men can show what Is in them. It may be objected that any such arrangement would render It difficult for a boy to study the particular things that he was going to use in after life. 1 regard this as its cardinal advantage. The Ideal college education seems to me to be one where a student learns things that he is not going to use in after life by methods that he is going to use. The former element gives the student breadth, while the latter element gives him the training. From Les lie's Weekly. " Modern Home By James NE of the favorite arguments agalnBt woman suffrage is that the normal place for woman is the home, and that In the home, fulfilling the duties and responsibilities connected therewith, woman has her supreme function and performs her noblest service to the race. This argument needs mod ification and limitation if it is to be consistent, because the i J home is still experiencing radical processes of change. The Xeeei home bad a large part of the supervision of industry in the days of homespun. Each household produced most of the goods for its own consumption, and much of the supervision of home produc tion was performed by the women. Now we have passed from the system of home production to the factory system and industrial supervision has gone largely from the home and woman's oversight. If woman had the fundamen tal qualifications of supervising and directing labor and determining its nor mal environment when industry was carried on largely In the home, then she ought to be equally qualified to perform that service while our present factory system Is In vogue. ' The question of woman' place in the economic and social order is In a state of flux. The status of the home Is undergoing modifications, and when experience has established Its functions and limitations, then we can more truly determine woman's normal sphere. A Crafty Move. "My Brooklyn aunt has put me down In her will for thirty thousand. It pays to honor the old folks." ' "What did you do?" "I went into half mourning the time the pet rubber plant died." Louisville Courier-Journal. Samples of Turkish tobacco, grown In the Uganda protectorate, British East Africa, lost their Cavalla, char acter, developing a new aroma and Savor of good quality. ? Is Changing G. Stevens A Symptom. "I'm afraid that boy Josh Is going to turn out to be a poet." "AVhy, he says he's going to be a big banker." "Yes. That's what convinces. m that he's one of these Idle dreamers." Washington Star. The production of 1958 short ton of tungsten concentrates in the Units ed States last year established a new record for the metal. Of this amount Colorado yielded 1401 tons. A SOXGI FROM THE TENEMENT DISTRICT. The ministers preach on' the church mem bers prnv An' ben us t' live in a holier way. Steer clear o' the pitfalls ws lind in our path. An' merit God's mercy instend c4 His wrath. They think the tiling's easy t' do just because They've never crossed swonls with the natural laws Of circumstance laws which can't be un derstood Ey the f el Urn who've notliin' t' do but be good. They live in a mr.nsion or cottage, Queen Anne's, , An' such t nines don't go with the "rushin of cans'' Like a tenement does, where your domi cile's bare. Except Mr a stove nn' a three-leaped chair. They mean well when tliu they invite us t' take Up some needed reforms, an' our old ways forsake; But Fate's bondage don't let us net just as we should If us fellers huU notliin' t' do but be good. Oh, it's six days 0' workin' for us, an' the rest That we find on the seventh nin't allcrs the best For mornls. we'll own, what with cards and a "can," But they're "throw-off" that rest up a laliorin' man. Reformers the problem can solve in bonk But in the applyin' by hook or hy crook Sin wins fnr more battles than maybe it would If us fellers had notliin' t' do but lie enoi. Roy Farrell Greene, in Leslie's. x x x x x x x x x x INTELLECT IN LOYE Being What Happened to the Lawyer Frond o! His Mental Superiority. X X X X X X X X X X "Do you know why I love you, William?" she said. "It Is because you are so sensible." And as for William, he kissed ber fondly and he tried to look as much like Solomon as the limitations of na ture permitted. "You know," she said, "father al ways says that If I had been a boy I would have made a lawyer, too. He says I have the legal temperament." And as for William, be kissed ber again with the air of a man of intel lect. "If there Is one thing I admire," she said, " It Is intelligence. (William looked gravely intelli gent.) "For, after all, everything is founded on reason . . . William, I have been thinking over a few things. , You don't mind If I ask, do you?" "Certainly not," said William. "Go ahead." And he seated himself back In a sort of a Judicial attitude and pre pared himself to pass Intelligent Judgment upon any little points that she might care '0 submit to his su perior intellect. "Now, when we first loved each other," she began, "you wrote me every day. Last week I didn't get a letter. Now why Is that, I wonder?" "Well, you see, I've been so busy lately, and besides I call so often, and I know you know I. love you, and I think about you all the more, be sides." "Hm. You have been so busy late ly. But, William, weren't you Just as busy a year ago?" "Oh, dear, no." "In what respects are you busier now?" William fidgeted a little. "Are your hours any longer at the office?" she asked. "N-no. They're about the same." "Are you working nights?" "N-no." "So, really, then, William, you are cot busier than you were a year ago. Lt us now take up our second rea son. You say you call so often now." "Three times a week," said Will lam, significantly. "Three times a week," she re peated. "But didn't you call as often as that a year ago?" "Did I?" "Did you! William! Don't you remember?" "Come to think of It, I guess you're right." "So, you see, that disposes of the second point, You see, though, that now you know I know you love me. Wasn't that equally true a year ago?" And as for William, he fidgeted again. "Wasn't It?" she gently Insisted. "Not so much so." "Oh, William! You told me a year ago of your love for me and I told you I loved you, too. Wasn't that all sufficient? What more could there be?" "I wasn't sure," mumbled William "But you had no reason to doubt me, had you?" "N-no." "And I bad no reason to doubt you, bad I : "N-no." "So .that disposes of that. And finally you say that you think about me all the more. Is that true, Will lam?" "Yes, yes! If you only knew how much I think about you now " "But, William! A year ago you told me that all your thoughts were filled with me." "They were, too!'" "If that Is so, and I do not doubt you, William, how can you think of me more now than you did then?" William breathed bard. "It is true, what you said a year ago. Isn't it. William?" "Certainly." "And all your thoughts were filled with me?" ' "Yes." . "Then how can you think of me any more now?" "Don't know." "So you see, dear, there Is really no reason why you shouldn't write me as often now as you did a year ago. Is there?" "No." She looked at him with a melan choly triumph. "Well, William," she said, -"what have you to say?" "Nothing." mumbled William. "Dear William," she said, "you mustn't take it so much to heart. We mustn't quarrel, you know. Kiss and be friends." "What sense is there In a kiss?" asked William bitterly. "What sense?" "Yes! What Bense?" And know inc then that he was not without arms of offense lie frowned intellec tually and said: "Katherlne!" . "Yes, William?" "You have said you have a legal temperament. I think you have. But is there (do you think) nny romance in the Revised Statutes?" "Why, no." "Would you expect to find a lover in the Law Reports?" -"Why. no." "There are hundreds of thousands of girls In this city. I might love any one of them almost. I love you and only you. Why?" "I have often wondered!" she breathlessly exclaimed. ' "But you say that everything Is founded on reason. Give me the rea son." She clasped ber hands instead. "Is love founded on argument, do you think?" he Inexorably continued. "Why, no." "Then why do you argue with me? You can argue with everybody but you can't love everybody. Not very well! Hereafter, shall I greet you with an algebraic formula or shall I greet you as I have always done?" "Please, William!" "Instead of singing together, shall we discuss the difference between law and equity or argue on suitable re strictions to guard against the abuse ot habeas corpus proceedings?" "Please, William!" "Instead ot sending you flowers, shall I send you botanical essays? In stead of sending you poems, shall I send you Tate's Elemental Gnomen try? What sense Is there In flowers? What sense Is there In poetry?" "Please, please, William!" He made a grand gesture. "Shall I now proceed to explain logarithms to you?" he demanded. "Or" And bis voice tell to the lower register, "or shall I tell you bow I feel when the moonlight gleams upon your hair?" "Oh, tell me how you feel," she whispered, "when the moonlight gleams upon my hair!" New York Evening Sun. Rural Free Delivery In the Sonth. Throughout the mountain districts ot the South the mall is carried on horseback. The pouch Is about five feet long, divided In two sections and opens in the middle. Half the mail Is put in each side of the sack and In this way it is carried on the horse's back. In the rough mountain, section the work is anything but easy. Where there are no roads it is bard work, rifting through storms, fording streams, climbing steep and rocky trails with almost perpendicular cliffs above and below. One . mis-step means death to horse and rider on the rocks below. The postmaster Is notified to have the mail ready by the tooting of the horn which every mail carrier car ries. He blows the born before he gets to the postofflce, as a signal to be ready for him, so that there will b no delay In making his trip on time Fur News, What She Said. When a person's dress and bearing are striking it Is natural to expect that voice and conversation will be In keeping. ' Nevertheless it does not al ways turn out so. A man standing on the street cor ner waiting for his car saw two pretty and tastefully dressed girls approach ing from opposite directions. Their smiling faces showed that they were acquainted, and as they came nearei the observant man prepared to bear gracefully expressed greetings and well bred tones ot voice. What he heard, in a chirping bird like treble, was this: "Wot you chaw In', May?" Youth's Companion. , THE NEW COLLEGE GAME. When other arms and other legs The game of football pluy; And fair co-eds and wispy sega Commingle in the fray There may perchance in bleachers rise The voice of some old frnt, To say, with sorrow and surprise, "And so, it's come to that!" V Chicago Tribune, .' RATHER ALOOF. , "That woman is unsociable." "Isn't she pleasant when yon meet?" "Yes, but she won't abuse the neighbors." - Louisville Courier Journal. RURAL AMENITIES. Fair Passenger "But, good gra clous, why didn't the train stop here?, It Is supposed to." Porter "Yes, miss, but the en gine driver has quarreled with the station master." Pele Mele. INTERNAL TELEPHONY. " "Why didn't you lUten for thatr small voice within called con-' science?" "I did," replied the discovered and therefore repentent grafter, "but I guess the line was busy." Washing ton Star. JUST ABSENT. "Does your temper?" "If she does she knows where to find it again." New York Telegram. LIMITATIONS. "So you are going to spend thot summer inland?" "Yes; we like to be exclusive, and. father has bought us a mountain." "I see. Even money can't buy in. Individual ocean." Loulaville Courier-Journal. .t PROPER SPIRIT. "Do you really think it necessary, to gtve Mrs. Blgwad anything on her; birthday?" "Yes, Harold, we really must She remembered all our children at Christmas, and now the least we cm do is to retaliate." Puck. UNSEEN. "In those old Arabian Nights sto ries it was quite easy for a man tol. become Invisible." "Yes," replied Miss Cayenne. "Now the only occasion on which a nan Is practically Invisible Is his own wedding . day." Washington Star. n : ARTISTIC TEMPERAMENT. "Hamlet seemed to speak with au thority In bis advice to the players." "Yes," replied Mr. Stormlngton Barnes, "although he was rather quiet and patient. But In bis other, scenes be was as nervous and irasci ble as a regular stage manager."' Washington Star. - MODESTY. The Crltlo "What, in your opin ion, are the. three best poems in the English language?" The Poet "Well, there's Shelley Skylark' and Keat's 'Grecian Urn and I hadn't thought up a Soi title for the other It Isn't reslly fin ished yet." Cleveland Leader. EFFECTIVE DISGUISES. "We like progress." explained the young Turk, "but we cannot silo! ' our women to appear publicly with out veils." "That's all right," declared the tourist. "You needn't fall behind the procession. Put 'era in auto gog gles." Louisville Courier-Journal. ' A NATURAL RESULT. " "What caused the accident tr which the aviators were thrown from their airships?" "I believe they quarreled. "How did that cause the dent?'" accl- their' "Naturally, It resulted In tailing out." Baltimore American. wife ever lose her