Editorials from the Hearst Newspapers

Why Are All Men Gamblers? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
No Man Understands Iron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4
We Long for Immortal Imperfection—We Can't Have It . . . .9
Three Water-Drops Converse. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Did We Once Live on the Moon? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
William Henry Channing's Symphony . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
The Existence of God—Parable of the Blind Kittens. . . . 21
Have the Animals Souls? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Jesus' Attitude Toward Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Study of the Character of God . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
The Fascinating Problem of Immortality. . . . . . . . . . 38
Discontent the Motive Power of Progress . . . . . . . . . 43
The Automobile Will Make Us More Human. . . . . . . . . . 46
Let Us Be Thankful. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
The Harm That Is Done by Our Friends. . . . . . . . . . . 51
Shall We Tame and Chain the Invisible Microbe As We
Now Chain Niagara?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
The Elephant That Will Not Move Has Better Excuses
Than We Have for Folly Displayed. . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Let Us Be Thankful. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
What Will 999 Years Mean to the Human Race? . . . . . . . 64
The Azores—A Small Lost World in a Universe of Water . . 69
No Napoleonic Chess Player on an Air Cushion. . . . . . . 74
A Girl's Face in the Gaslight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

The "Criminal" Class. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
The Wonderful Magnet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Who Is Independent? Nobody . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
When We Begin Using Land Under the Oceans . . . . . . . . 94
Where Your Body Came From . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
How Marriage Began. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Man's Willingness to Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106
The Human Brain Beats the Coal Mines. . . . . . . . . . .108
How the Other Planets Will Talk to Us . . . . . . . . . .110
Shall We Do Without Sleep Some Day? . . . . . . . . . . .113
The Three Best Things in the World. . . . . . . . . . . .117
The Value of Solitude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121
There Should Be a Monument to Time. . . . . . . . . . . .125
A Mother's Work and Her Hopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129
Your Work Is Your Brain's Gymnasium . . . . . . . . . . .134
The Steeple, Moving Like the Hand of a Clock. . . . . . .139
Cultivate Thought-Teach Your Brain to Work Early. . . . .143
The Wind Does Not Rule Your Destiny . . . . . . . . . . .147
One of the Many Corpses in the Johnstown Mine . . . . . .151
"Limiting the Amount of a Day's Work" . . . . . . . . . .161
Catching a Red-Hot Bolt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .166
The Trusts and the Union—How Do They Differ? . . . . . .170
France Has Learned Her Lesson . . . . . . . . . . . . . .173
Union Men as Slave Owners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .176
Again the Limited Day's Work. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .181
To the Merchants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .185
What About the Chinese, Kind Sir? . . . . . . . . . . . .190
150 against 150,000—We Favor the 150,000 . . . . . . . .193
To-day's World-Struggle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .196
White-Rabbit Millionaires and Other Things. . . . . . . .200
No Happiness Save in Mental and Physical Activity . . . .203
The Owner of a Golden Mountain. . . . . . . . . . . . . .206

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The Human Weeds in Prison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .209
Crime Is Dying Out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .217
The Value of Poverty to the World . . . . . . . . . . . .222
600 Teachers Now, 600,000 Good Americans in the Future. .226
Education—The First Duty of Government . . . . . . . . .228
Poverty Is the Father of Vice, Crime and Failure. . . . .233
The Importance of Education Proved in Lincoln's Case. . .237
Knowledge Is Growth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .240
A Whiskey Bottle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .247
Those Who Laugh at a Drunken Man. . . . . . . . . . . . .251
Law Cannot Stop Drunkenness—Education Can. . . . . . . .253
The Drunkard's Side of It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .256
Drink a Slow Poison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .260
To Those Who Drink Hard—You Have Slipped the Belt. . . .263
Try Whiskey on Your Friend's Eyeball. . . . . . . . . . .266
What Are the Ten Best Books?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .271
The Marvelous Balance of the Universe—A Lesson in the
Texas Flood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .274
The Earth Is Only a Front Yard. . . . . . . . . . . . . .276
Last Week's Baby Will Surely Talk Some Day. . . . . . . .281
The Good That Is Done by the Trusts . . . . . . . . . . .285
Trusts and the Senate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .289
The Promising Toad's Head . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .295
Trusts Will Drive Labor Unions Into Politics. . . . . . .298
The Trusts Are National School Teachers . . . . . . . . .301
A Woman to Be Pitied. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .304
When Will Woman's Mental Life Begin?. . . . . . . . . . .307
The Cow That Kicks Her Weaned Calf Is All Heart . . . . .312
Respectable Women Who Listen to "Faust" . . . . . . . . .317
Why Women Should Vote . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .320
Astronomy Woman's Future Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . .323
Woman s Vanity Is Useful. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .326

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To Editorial Writers—Adopt Ruskin's Main Idea. . . . . .329
Imagination Without Dreaming the Secret of Material
Success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .333
The One Who Needs No Statue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .337
The Vast Importance of Sleep. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .339
Woman Sustains, Guides and Controls the World . . . . . .342
The Story of the Complaining Diamond. . . . . . . . . . .344
Don't Be in a Hurry, Young Gentlemen. . . . . . . . . . .347
When the Baby Changed Into a Fourteen-year-old. . . . . .351
The Eye That Weighs a Ton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .356
What Animal Controls Your Spirit? . . . . . . . . . . . .360
From Mammoths to Mosquitoes—From Murder to
Hypocrisy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .365
The Monkey and the Snake Fight. . . . . . . . . . . . . .369
Too Little and Too Much . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .372
Do You Feel Discouraged?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .374
Two Kinds of Discontent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .377
What the Bartender Sees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .381
What Should Be a Man's Object in Life?. . . . . . . . . .387
Cruel Frightening of Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . .392
It Is Natural for Children to Be Cruel. . . . . . . . . .395
Two Thin Little Babies Are Left . . . . . . . . . . . . .398
A Baby Can Educate a Man. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .400

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