The middle of homanity thou never knewest, but Khe extremity of hoth ends s~Timon of Athens, Act IV, Be i : 1 the eyme philosopher of of Athens," was a ruiler "aang humanity. He had faith in so one; according to him all men were base and sordid. But even Apemantus could utter words of wisdom, and this pithy summing up of the cause of the ruin of Timon should be taken to » heart by all given to extreme courses. Timon was prodwal of his wealth. He lived in the present, with no thought of the future; he had generous' im and He selfishly gratified his , without stopping to consid er whether or not he could afford to bestow costly presents on every favor te. In his state of prosperity his motto was, "We are bors to do bene fits"; in his adversity he proclaimed, "1 am Misanthropos, amd hate man kind." His fault lay in the fact that he had failed to select the 'golden mean between excess and defeer. Even a colossal fortune would sot have withstood his extravagance. He ha . y supposed that ult 'men were %, rudely awa'tenci from his : Wis faith in humanity gone, he fled to the wildernoes and lived like a beast of the forest solacing hgmsoll Hy unpacking his heart with words against the world he had left. Apemiantus and Timon were prede eessors to Aristotle, and Shakespeare, in the words of the text, but antici: Pates the philosophy of the great reek tenclir. Very man has to wonfront in one form or another his Charybdia. of exerss and Sevilla of de fect. The 'men who are able to the widdle channel where the weep water is, and, with a strong hand on their passions and appetites, steer a watchful course, are in ut little danger from the rocks and whirlpools, The evil offecis of extreme action "have many illustrations in life. Take for example the mutter of cating and drinking! Yood. is cesentinl for ex « The great majority of the ills that Hesh is hair to are due to over-indulyence or unwise abstinence, the ane band there is the glutton, who seers unable to resist the crav. ings of appetite: on the other, the amoebic, who starves his body. The Fiutton becomes comrse, gross and tly, a mental sluggnred: the as - oetie grows emaciated. ansemic and apathetic. Food and drink are excel ent servants, but must not be either overworked or underworked. lothes are likewise essential to ex istence. A man may survive without & schoolmaster, but -he would perish without » tailor. There is nothin: more indicative of character than 'clothing. A lizhi-brained butterfly = de - Hghte in fanciful, gaudy apparel, a . vulgar mind, in loud and startling of. . fects. The fop, the dandy and the vubzarian in dress wsaally have minds to mateh, A mun slovenly and cave Jess about hiv appearpnen is lacking in self-respect. It nay he that his mind 8 80 preoceinied with stidy or work that ha hax no time 30 hink about hig personal appearancy. He could toil and spin inst ax well if he rave a lit- He thought to his clothing. It is not the man or. woman who runs after mothing equals them. I have used them for rheumatic pains, perfect satisfaction." HENRY COURLEN, ", Boenton, N. J. the newest fad who is esteemed, nor 'he one who is careless of all fashions, For usefulness, the esteem of others s vssential, and a foppish or sloven- y¥ individual repels, In the mutter of language there we many who sean unable to ¢ 1+ middle course. The prevalence of sinig is a manifestation of the desice 'or startling and striking modes of ex- wession, There is slang that is mag. sificently expressive, Sut the vulgar wave allowed it to run riot with their speech. The extreme is nothing but had. It pollutes the "well of Enzlish ndefiled': i tongue On other hand there is affectation, a fop- wry of speech, finical expressions are wed, ua drawlinz accent is resorted to. This is as much a mark of an empty head as is fanciful apparel. Take the niddle course ! It fs not diffieult to have force and fineness. Slang and affectation are not essential. The evils of excess and defect are hetter shown in the matter of the use of wealth than in any other way. The wthieal" value of "Timon of Athens" is that it teaches the need of selecting and following' the nu'ddle course, Timon came to wreck of fort- une through over-lavish expenditure ; in rushing to the other extreme he ruined what might have been a noble life. In the use of wealth the exercise of reason ix necessary. As a general thing, as with Timon, mere impulse is followed. Something catches the eye, it is bought: ~n fadivideal is in dis tress, he ix helped; a craving asserts itself, it is satisfied. Vanity is aroused bv the oslentation of others poscessed of wealth: they are inftated or out dome. On the other hand there ave those who lay too much store upon vealth, who make a vod of it. whe hoard as though earth were eternity, and they were to have infinite time mn which to use their treasure, Safety wd happiness lie in choosing «mid: ls course, accepting the good ¢ift of dehes and usin: it for the benefit "of nankind. As. Timon remar¥ed, man 's born to do benefits; bat Tile spend: 'ng should He regulated by his men Cure for Stage Fright. At the climax of their careers some stars still feel stage fright, but no one need ever know that sensation any more. Dr, Pierre Donnier has a complete cure for it. Indeed, eure sounds quite radical, and even violent, but those who have felt sta fright sav that they would give their eyes to be rid of it. According to Or. Bonnier, they need only give a portion of their noses. He has ob served that stage fright is due to con- tractions of the diaphragm. Now the muscles of the latler ape somehow connected with a facial nerve runs up through the nose. The re medy is, therefore, obvious. You have the nerve in question burned out of our nose, and you are ever after as Id as brass before the footlights. Without ever having acted in your life you play Humlet before an audience of dramatic critics without turning a hair, Incidentally the removal of the But Dr. Bonnier does not say whether it may not spoil one's nose. That would be a heavy price for actors and actresses to pay even to be cured of stage fright. On the other hand, dome noses might look even better without the facial nerve than with it, and the odre would thus be doubly beneficial. ~Parig Correspondent, London Stan- dard. » Courteous, While a bitterly waged war was in progress in Washington among the women of a well-known organization, in. which there were iwo militant camps, many cruel, biting things were said by the one of the other: A gra- cious matkon, noted for her consum- mate fact and the skill with which she handles difficult situgtions, essayed the part of peacemaker," with the re sult that, being a person of nice dis- cetnment, she at once abandongd the plan. a She called on Mrs. Boawn, who was the gandidate against Mes Jones, Mrs. Brown complained bittegly that her op- nent had wilfully" misrepresented acts and showed certain infirmities of taste and temper, for which there could be no excuse. "Well," said the ambassadress, who was friendly with both leaders, "you whould not let the passion of politics narrow vour horizon, my dear, t should be broad visi that her mission was futile grace. As a specimen of resdy wouhi be dificult to beat the. retort of Charles {| the forward pass found | there are two additional rest periods: the | the quarter-back is now virtually i hall-bick, and may run anywhere with | crew, was praising which | f row, nerve mentioned also cures neuralgia, | You Brown. And the tactiul Soman knew THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 17. 1000. CAUSES FOR DIVORCE. ------ Lawyers Do Not Usually Impart In- formation Free. The Green Bag. ? * Lawyers do not usually impart in formation for nothing, but an excep tion has to be reco in favor of J. Arthur Barratt, who at (he interna- tional conference of members of his profession gave an illuminating survey of the causes for divorce prevailing in } different lands. " In most continental countries mu tual consent, under certain restrictions iis a cause for divorce. Habitual drunkenness, or being an habitual | ciminai is a cause in Norway; bon (demnation to penal servitude in | France, Norway, Hungary and Den j mark; desertion in Denmark, Holland, apd Germany. Insanity is, too, a | cause in Germany, and Norway; grie- i vous bodily injiries or serious viols- tion of matrimonial duty in Belgium, Germany and Norway. In Poland it is a common cause for divorce of a Jew that he is engaged in an occupa: tion which gives him such a disagree { able odor as to. create in his wife ine | vineible aversion. No state in the Uni ted States of America, liberal as that country is in the matter of divorces, is t half so considerate of feminine sensibi- lities as Poland seems fo be. The two most interesting specimens in the mu- seum of legal curiosity in cause for divoree are "loquacity of the wife" in } Formosa, and the "discovery of a "previous wooing' on the part-uf the husband in Algeria, where there had not vet been either acceptance or re fusal by the other lady. The Football Rules. Youth's Companion For several years the rules govern ing foothall have been subject to an annual revision, as the result of the growing dissatisfaction with the ame as it has been played. Much of the criticism was the outcome of serious accidents. Some attacks were hysteri- eal outbursts by those who knew little about the game-unjust generaliza- tions based upon an isolated of iy jury or foul play. But the friends of the game have been prompt to meet the situation, and honest revisions and reforms of the rules have follow- ed. This year unusually radical chan have een made in the attempt to provige a more ope; and spectaculpr game, and to lessen the danver of in jury to the players. The flying tackle it prohibited; no pushing or palling of the man with the ball is allowed: there must be seven offensive plavers on the line of scrimmage; there greater protection for the receiver of ar onside Kick ; is n the Dall; and 4 plaver who retires from the game may later return. The Laughing Barber. Jim Bice, the coach of the Columbia a stalwart fresh. man. "He's 80 young and tender," said the conch, "vou'd never think he could Why, they laugh at him at the barber's. "As he was getting his hair cut' th other day be said to the barber wist- fally : "Do vou think I'll have a beard * 'My father has a very one,' "Mt looks to me," said the barber, "as if vou took after your mother.' "' ~Washington Star. : strony Strang Sound Advice. 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