honored and
decrepit age shall lean against the base of this monument, and troops of
ingenuous youth shall be gathered round it, and when the one shall speak
to the other of its objects, the purposes of its construction, and the
great and glorious events with which it is concerned--there shall rise,
from every youthful breast, the ejaculation--"Thank God, I--I also--am an
American!"

The Latest Viewpoints of Men Worth While.

Praise and Blame for American Women From Dr. Emil
Reich--Earl Grey and Secretary Root Discuss the Relations of
Canada and the United States--William J. Bryan Defines the
Limits of Socialism--Rabbi Schulman Explains Certain
Prejudices Against the Jews--William T. Jerome, Senator
Lodge, and Norman Hapgood Criticize or Defend the Noble Army
of Muck-Rakers--With Other Interesting Expressions of
Opinion on Current Issues of the Day.

_Compiled and edited for_ THE SCRAP BOOK.

FEMININE RULE MAY DOOM OUR COUNTRY.

American Women Are Like the Spartans
in Their Desire to Dominate the
American Man.

Dr. Emil Reich has been lecturing to fashionable London on such
universally fascinating themes as woman and love. According to the news
despatches, so great has been the popularity of his talks that there have
not been seats enough to accommodate his titled hearers, and at one
lecture the Duchess of Portland sat on the floor. He has said of "Love and
Personality":

Personality is always a mystery with its antithetically
mingled elements in man and woman. Women have loved wrongly
and known it, were perfectly aware of it--they only know
also that they were helpless to avoid it; the desire of
their lives has been gratified, something has happened.

What was there about George Sand, save perhaps pretty good
eyes, to send such men as Alfred de Musset and Friedrich
Chopin absolutely crazy? Nothing interesting about her--even
her unattractiveness enhanced by her constant smoking. Yet
she could inspire the "Prelude," which Chopin composed on
seeing her approach in a garden in Minorca--the greatest
piece of music ever compressed into a single page.

Goethe's Gretchen, the little bourgeoise, without apparent
attractiveness, yet inspiring his mighty genius--what is
this mystery of man and woman? The beauty of nations differs
very much. The Latins are less beautiful than the
Anglo-Saxons. The angul