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THE WLLMINCTO#b£ Messtttntr.JACKSON Jc BELL COMPANY.TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.TATLY MESSENGER by mail, r, 17.00; «lx months. J3.50; thre*. JL75; one month. 50 cents.SEMI-WEEKLY MESSENGER(tw • pa** paper*), by ®ail. one earHt stz months, BO cents, in advance.WILMINGTON N.CFRIDAY, OCTOBER 11. 1901-BAD RESLLTS FOLLOWING WOMENathletics.per filling some fifteen pages oL the able Scottish Review had lately an instructive and entertaining discussion of the great redundancy of unmarried women in England. It copied from many authorities and authors all establishing the fact of redundancy as v. il as suggesting causes and possible remedy. There is a vast disproportion between married and single women. This condition has existed for a quarter of a century, but has grown worse v ith the passing years. But in 1S81 a *. riter shows, that for every 100 males i. England and Wales there were 105 ; males, and in London 112 females. In ngland and Wales between the ages• : twenty and twenty-five the per cent-i-ge of females was 106 to 100 of males. From twenty-five to thirty years of age, the ratio was 187, and between thirty and thirty-five it was 172 women to 100 men. Coming now to the relative members of married and unmarried women, we find that while over all England and Wales the spinsters en masse stood as 178 to 100 women married. in Ken*ngton the disproportion rose to 256 per cent..We cannot follow the statistics far-tl. r. The causes as given are many .or less marrying than formerly. The st'-le of living, competition in ail branches of work, the invasion of place3 by females o»ce held by men only, the elaboration of the modern club life, the athletic craze among the women, the increased liberty of women, 'he higher education of girls and so on. These and other causes operating are urged and discussed through many pages. Lady Jeune in the book “The Modern Marriage Market” notes this: “That women are much more mannish than formerly; and that has grown out of the greater freedom and indepen-lt;J ice they now enjoy. It may have ii.’cen away some of the dependence ai.l softness of women, but it has given them a strong individuality, strong opinion. • • • Girls think and act for themselves.They put off marrying as a result. Miss Hepworth Dixon says: “At present we are in a transition stage, and there is now-a-days a certain amount of misunderstanding between sexes which makes marrying and giving in marriage a somewhat hazardous enterprise.”The entire paper is educating and ■very full of matter and facts- There seems to be no doubt that the rush of the women into athletics has been unfavorable and detrimental. The author •of the paper gives this:“And so, all unconsciously perhaps, our Muller Musculosa is placing another barrier between herself and her chances of matrimony. The outburst of athletics among the middle and gentle folk circles, is scarcely over a dozen years old. But meantime it has so bitten these classes that a part from the present war troubles little is talked, little is done, little has a chance of being cared for, among them, save muscular sports of one kind or another. Boisterous bodily exertion is enshrined in the modern young lady’s creed and ambitions. as at once “the correct thing ' and the chief thing in life worth living for. Of this Insane muscle-worship we see not yet the ultimate consequences.”Much is said by women writers as to the bad effects upon marriage, character. form and refinement of the women who try athletics. A distinguished English woman who is Miss Kenealy, but is also an M. D., writes of her sex -or that part represented by the Mulier Musculosa—that they are restless and clamorous, and some how is no warning to the others. Of this representative woman she writes, as the reviewer quotes:She never can get enough, for the reason that the thing she asks is not the thing to satisfy her nature. The up-to-date female is losing her power of sympathy, a quality which is in the inverse ratio of the habit of assertiveness. And assertiveness, says Miss Kenealy. is the blemish of the modern woman- The haze and color of the higher womanly emotions—sympathy to understand, affection to be found. Imagination to idealize—are being absorbed into mere violence of movement physical and mental.Of the injury done to the womanly physique Dr. Kenealy is equally emphatic. This in fact is very urgent, very emphatic. The contrasts which the girl was in her original charm and what shew became. She writes excellently. Read this:“Where before her beauty was suggestive and elusive, now it is defined. • • *. The haze . the elusiveness, the subtle suggestion of the face are gone; it is the landscape without atmosphere. • • • she inclines tobe. and in another year will be, distinctly spare, the mechanism of movement is no longer veiled by a certain mystery of motion which gave her formerly an air of gliding rather than of striding from one place to another. In her evening gown she shows evidence of joints which had been adroitly hidden beneath tissues of soft flesh, and alreadv her modiste has been put to thenecessity of puffing and pleating, where nature had planned the tenderest and most dainty of devices. Her movements are muscular and less womanly. Where they had been quiet and graceful. now fney are abrupt and direct. Her voice is louder, her tones are assertive. She says everything—leaves nothing to the imagination.”We copy all this because of the serious lesson it imparts. The portrait is well defined and exact. We give but a part of what Miss Arabella Kenealy so impressively says. She shows what makes the handsome, attractive woman evolved from the lovely girls. All Is now thwarted by athletics.” The author of essay is evidently disgusted at the outcome, and no wonder. How can man look on at the robust athlete who was once of true womanly type? He is moved to say that “the womanwho has assumed the masculine variation from the puerile stage of life may be an excellent fellow,” but as a feminine human creature she is a failure. She has not reached her proper full de.* velopment. She will never be the inspiration of any man’s life.” In the elaborate discussion there is very mut h to arrest and inform. We have not space for more, but we are well satisfied that what the eminent historian Lechy says in his “Map of Life” is true “that amusements which have no kind of evil effect upon men often in some degree impair the graces and character of women ”POLSOME VERY STRANGE HAPPENINGSThe astrological men seem to have had very similar observations and impressions as to dangers possibly threatening President McKinley in his second term of office. The Messenger has given particulars of their observations of the heavens. A third prophecy as to McKinley and the stars comes from Massachusetts. Last January an article signed “Anna Pharos” appeared in an astrological journal published in Boston called “The Sphinx.” It is curious and interesting. * The forecast made last January was strange. But it is all too long for use here. That article had a question—Will the moon’s nodes affect the new Presidential term?” To go back. It is stated that in August 1897, in this publication,there appeared a horoscope by JuliusErickson, of President McKinley’s inauguration March 4. 1897. in which we find the following: When election day rolls round in 1900 the people will not care to change parties. If President McKinley lives, he will be re-elected.” But let us quote at more length. The article said:“But whether or not this re-election is a blessing to President McKinley remains to be seen; for, from a certain standpoint, this presidential term is both inauspicious and very peculiai inmore ways than one.In the first place, as an ill-bodir.g omen, let us note that the rnoon's node, astrologically known as the Dragon, was, at the time, iji the sign Sagit-atrius. under which the November elections take place; and when the president is inaugurated next March, the Dragon will be in Scorpio, the sign accursed.Now, in the nation’s career there have been three others elected or inau-rated when the Dragon was in imme-j diate vicinity of that sign; and these three were Garfield. Lincoln and Harrison, all of whom died in office.”We make another extract which is atleast informing:“Now a rather uncanny fact is that the A. D. 1900 election is the fourth in an unbroken series which at the regular interval of 20 years, have been under some malefic influence, as will be seen from the following: Twenty years ago (1880) Garfield was elected, and was assassinated in 1881: 20 years prior to that (I860) Lincoln’s election led to the splitting of the union, the shedding of a sea of blood, and finally to the assassination of Lincoln in 1S65; 20 years previous to that Harrison was elected in 1840. and died in about a month after his inauguration: all of which fatalities we .attribute to the malignant presence of the Dragon in the vicinity of those elections.”The paper before us is curious andelaborate somewhat. It is all suggestive of surprises. It enlarges upon what has happened while Neptune is turning at the Topic of Cancer. The list is too much to be given now. After telling of the many serious and calamitous happenings it mention's that President Carnot of France was assassinated on 24th June 1S94. and on June 13th an atempt to assassinate Preident Faure of France, was made: Let usgive some few of many other tragic events:: “In June, 1812, Napoleon started for Moscow; June 18. 1S15, he wasdefeated at Waterloo; June 27, 1837, Queen Victoria succeeded to the British throne; June 27. 1S44, the Mormon Joseph Smith assassinated; June 19, 1S67, Maximilian shot in Mexico; June 10. 186S. Prince Michael of Servia assassinated; June. 1889. Johnstown. Pa,, destroyed by a flood: June 15, 1S96,tidal wave in Japan destroyed 30,000 lives. It is said also that the ’ assasi-nation of Garfield occurring within two weeks after the sun’s turning (July 2) should also be included in this Cancer list of tragedies.As above stated, in June. 1901, while the sun is still agitated with its turning. as it were, it will be in conjunction with Neptune (that ancient of dayswhose voice is as th sound of many waters”) at a point which indicates a great turning of tide. It will be recalled that the young astrologist whose prophecy has been clearly noted in the Messenger, that June and September were the dangerous months for President McKinley. We take the facts given above from a long article in the Baltimore Sun.ThNewophjsee I ual : and In idiscandlawi of t thar anol perfc no ibutof tl thar suffi liter dora man annlt; tion in a som spir:and“1vievties.selfchisviol;consandrestferaepoclantthatfearlowor i Wsenscoulof bfarthawillof cTheforicananyjurimoithaTheasaredistof ;fraisigiopiiin tsimtior to It \ enficodcarparT pro ele; ner the to me sur brc die Ne lis| onlt; usiEVSNAPSHOTS.Admiral Dewey cares nothing for the many editorials hostile to Schley in the northern newspapers. He says he prefers the facts. He decides against newspapers as evidence.The bubonic plague—a dreadful enemy of the human race—is spreading in most sections of the world. So reports from all parts to the Washington marine hospital state. In British East India this plague is terrific.Five negroes have been lynched in Harrison county and the race war is reported as “spreading in all directions. 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