Worrying Today Advised Put Off Till Tomorrow
The Chicago News counsels readers to delay anxious decisions and to postpone worrying, urging practical action instead.
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Newspaper
Georgetown Daily Item
Location
Georgetown, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1908
Page
2
The Chicago News counsels readers to delay anxious decisions and to postpone worrying, urging practical action instead.
The Christian Register asks what impulse leads otherwise respectable women to morgues courtrooms and similar places where horrors are displayed or wickedness is shown.
The New York Globe argues that a man over thirty who preys on others is beyond reform and society must protect itself by restraining such individuals, viewing them as a persistent threat needing containment rather than rehabilitation.
An American bee keeper found bees moved to the West Indies do not store honey due to year round warmth. The New York American scoffs at the idea, saying the keeper gets what he deserves for forcing bees to work year round.
A proposal urges bank examiners to survey all allied banks simultaneously to prevent asset double use. Critics fear it may professionalize the trade and draw dissent from bankers skeptical of the move.
The Rev Dr Charles H Parkhurst at Madison Square Presbyterian Church New York warned that self-destruction is more common than at any time since the Caesars. He argued many people waste time in personal crisis and likened wishing time away to cutting one’s throat without the act.
The annual report shows 1742 West Pointers 1436 promoted from civilian volunteers and 550 rising from the ranks. Many officers began as enlisted men. Only 29 Civil War veterans remain active. Eight years ago there were 400 Civil War veterans in active service and 216 vacancies exist now.
The New York Tribune recalls a royal assassination in Lisbon where a queen blocks an assassin with a bouquet as her husband lies slain. Two princes, attacked, draw pistols and return fire, a dramatic tableau that stains history with tragedy.
The New Haven Register weighs citizen rights and duties diverging by gender. It notes that extending privileges to women is advancing and will continue, and praises the pace and quality of American women's methods in pushing suffrage forward.
William Jennings Bryan argues in World To-Day against selling the Philippine Islands. He says selling people is wrong, not just land, and asserts such a proposal conflicts with American instincts and government theory. He doubts any Congress would support it.
Louise Imogen Guiney in the Atlantic reflects on blessed dead who rise beyond suffering, their spirits free from sin and pain. The poem imagines saints of ended wars joining the living, inspiring courage, consolation, and a shared light that outlives time and tears.
A governess trains a princess in character over beauty and arts, dismissing vanities and urging virtue. The princess cycles through art and music, growing thin and worn, before meeting a foreign prince in a plain street basket of charity, still seeking moral beauty and a future.
The text highlights Sir Mortimer Durand as a diplomat long associated with Asiatics and a seasoned traveler. It notes his Teheran post, a Persian silk collection, and a Sultanabad carpet from the late ambassador’s treasures. It recalls his 1873 Indian Civil Service entry and a border settlement mission to Afghanistan with Lord Roberts and the Ameer, plus his skill with maps and chalk.
New York fashion notes describe a breakfast jacket that pairs with odd skirts and various shirt waists. The design features tuck fronts and back to create shaping, elbow or long sleeves, and adaptable materials from handkerchief linen to dimity and tatting. It outlines fabric quantities for sizes and notes finishing options like lace embroidery and bands.
A magazine editor relates Zangwill’s unlikely start printing his first story as pamphlets sold for a cent each, earning him $150. He later turned to plays, claiming books offer little reward despite talent and effort. The editor quotes Zangwill’s view that fame comes far harder than winning a prizefighter’s glory.
A large man struggles to convince people he is ill, facing skepticism and repeated tests as he attempts to prove his sickness.
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