te Vittnttig gg9jer rUDLtC LEDGER COMPANY emus it. k cutvriB. ftits. John C. Mafllrt, Traa-mrart Charles It Ludlntton, yhllln fcclllna. John P. Wllllama, Directors. , EDtTOnlAtiCOAnDj Cuts It. It. Cditib, Chairman. frir.tritAt.tit.. ..... ... Kiecutlte Blltar JOttl tf MAHT1K. .... . . .General nmlneas Minanr PaUlahtA ttally t rt)Uio I.Etxiri tlulMIr,, IriJependtnce Square, Philadelphia r t, Avm7Kll ucTBAT.. ,,.,,.. , uroaa ana ,ncRinui mrrviw IV Atlrt fTtr Prrkt.UtiHM tlulldlnr Ns Toatt , ITO-A. Uttroitollten Tower CttXbAtiA. ........ 81T Ham lmutnc Dulldtnr Set Us."( WW. k 8 Waterloo Place, rail Mall, 0. W. ft , NEWS BUREAUS i JfAniuscitft Bcaais ..The Patriot Ttullillnr WAtmnaTDK IlniBiK ,,.,,,,,...,.. Th Pitt JlulMlnr Nntr Toitx llcnitl,... ...The Tim' a rtullctlnr t'cutlN Iinmito .,. .. ........ ..00 Frte1r.i:hitre Anix)i iiDiug. .,..2 pn Mall Eat, 8 w, t'itu Bcaiuu. ...33 nut Louis la Grand BUD3CIUPTtONTEnM Sir carrier, ltT Ontr, elx cnf . Br malU poatpald uttlde of Philadelphia, incept where forelan peatat; la required, Dult oili, ona month. twenty-flvacental is fterlntfftna barabla In advance maLUSOOOWAtNUT KEYSTONE, MAIN 8000 BT Atfrent ell tommvnlcatiant to Kvtnlnp Lttgtr, littvnttne Bquar, FMtaitlphta. . . .I i in. 1 1 i 1 1 i , 1 MTtntB it tii rittUDrxrim roiTorr tea is becob er.im Matt- uxrtrjt. MIIIJIIEU'IIIA, MOWnAV. FF.linUAHV 1, 1915 Take ttock of yourself now and then. It may teaeh you. why your friend arc dropping off. Duty of the City to the Unemployed SEVERAL hundred men will ba put to work, as soon as tho relocation of tho sowers to make way for tho subway begins. This sort of help for tho unemployed Is tho bCBt possible. It put food In tho mouths of tho hungry and clothlnpr on tho bnckB of tho shivering and deprives no man and no woman of that self-respoct which Is tho most Voluablo asset of ovcry solvent citizen. Tho surest way to pauperize a man Ib to exhaust his reserve supply of this asset. Now, if $500,000 spent In preparation for tho now subways will relievo bo many men and glvo comfort to so many families, what will J40,000,000 expended on tho subways them selves do? Any boy In tho grammar grndes of the publlo schools can answer this slmplo question. In the March election on subway construction is wrapped up tho relief of thou sands of unemployed right hero In Philadel phia. It work on tho new rapid transit sys tem can begin this spring. Instead of somo time next year, a whole year of narrow ra tions and possible starvation Is avoided. But tho benefit of subway construction would not be exhausted by tho employment of workmen here. Tho manufacture of tho tfcel that will bo needed will give work to idlo steel mills. The cement and tho timber i . . .. .....1 nil V.n vnrtr , una ino motors ana me cars aim iui i.iu material and finished product that will do re quired before trains can be run will bo repre sented by living wages and a full pay on velopo avery Saturday night to workmen In a score of different Industries In various parts of the country. Even If present Inadequate transit facili ties wera not a compelling cause for begin ning tho work at tho earliest possible mo ment, the reason which lies in the benefit that would follow tho expenditure of two score of million dollars In these days of slowly recovering business confidence would alone bo enough to Justify Instant action by Councils In ordering a March election. Blnck-is-wliitc Econony CHAIRMAN McCOMBS, who Is about to sound the tocsin and bring together "de acrving Democrats" for a feast of Jubilation, does not miss tho mark very far when ho declares that the people are economizing and expect tha Government to do likewise. But phoqtlng frugality and voting extrava gance Is not tho kind of economy tho country Is after. It wants tho real thing, not a fake substitute. To take thirty millions out of the Treasury for Investment in steamship lines, which It is deliberately planned shall bo un profitable, Is a sort of black-is-whlto economy. Mr. McCombs should recollect that only a - minority of the people are fools and a ma jority will bo required to elect the next President, i What German Submarines Can Do ADMIRAL VON TIRPITZ knew what ho jCJLwas talking about when, ho said that It tho British navy attempted any raid on tho German coast it would have to reckon with the submarines. Tho German submarines showed what they could do a while ago when they sank a British warship in tho North Seal but on Saturday they startled tho Brit ish and astonished naval experts of all na tions by appearing in tho Irish Sea off Fleet wood, S3 miles north of Liverpool, and sink ing three British merchant vessels. The sub marines rose to the surface, hailed the crews Of the vessels, gave them time to leave in tho lifeboats, and then blew up the ships. This feat was accomplished 800 miles, by tho shortest route, from tho nearest German hflBa n.a MiiVimfir1nj hnri tn stall rlnwn thn g, r"" r ." . - North fcsea, tnrougn tno strau oi Dover ana the English Channel, out into the Atlantic, and then up St. George's Channel into the Irish Bea. On tho way to their work of de struction In tha Irish Bea they sank another British ship off Havre. The development of tho underwater war ship that can operate so far from its base and 4cc$p detection at will has given to the Ger man navy a- weapon the ffeetlveness of which it is not possible to overestimate. Mer chant shipping is powerless before It, and warship cannot guard successfully against tt attacks. The Zeppelins may terrorize the "53St"?:itea, hut the submarines do the work p-JoJ destruction at sea, and menace the naval ESj, gaprejuacy oi im oruuii ua tt nun nui uwn k. 4tsAj.t?i(i hAfdra alnca tha war hetrfln. ,,,. ' 1 ' 7 Philadelphia Wants a Wilson Elm TIJSJ Prt'ldeRt W0.B deeply moved last year by the privilege ot participating in the na tional Fourth of July celebration here, and he wit) ctrtalnlr be impressed by the weight of Ws obligation to his country when he is asked, to come hero in the spring to address tbeut 4W3 aliens who will secure their final pHizenahlp papers within a few weeks. The opportunity to tails to so large a amn fear at mea who will soon cast their first vote tat a IrM land would appeal to every patriotic But St must appeal with lire- ,Ie sirongth to a, man who has given his Ht to feaehJntT others tha art and science ot StsMtfe n4 the obligations of cKlsenabip. The ltoieilmt U expected to accept the invitation vjtltsut the slightest hesitation. And while be Is tire the opportunity can t jlv.srt to hi in to assist 1r the restoration i.f 3i.4treadi.ce Square to 1U aaatMt beauty, v.:w lr.:-s titers ax .getting ntf, PM?tf . Tttifsr m Kwfc, tfttjsMay iwt sb 44 v. mm- of isw b ana wf EVEKIKC? CBX)aElt-.IHIUDT31IPHra, MONDAY, FBTTABY 3?. 3.D1S: butting down those hopelessly decayed. Thero should be A presidential elm in tho Squrtro, planted by tho first President who cvor par ticipated In tho national celebration of tho Fourth in Independence Hall. Arrangements can easily ho mado to combine tho observ ance of Arbor Day by tho planting of an olm by Mr. Wilson with tho induction Into Ameri can citizenship of 4000 men by planting In their minds a proper respect for tho priv ilege and obligation of American sovereigns. Bo Americans First IT IS remarkable that any association of American cltlzons should organlzo a na tional movement "to ro-cstabllsh genuino Amorlcan neutrality" and mako their baslo demand tho adoption by tho United Statcf of a policy which would at once put tho nation squarely In an unneutral position. Thcro aro millions of good American citi zens whoso sympathies In tho great war aro with tho Fathorlantl. If Germany controlled tho seas and wero ablo to glvo safo conduct to ships loaded with munitions of war for tho Kaiser's troops, these citizens would re sent any attempt to closo tho American mar ket. They would bo right in so doing. It Is not for a neutral to mako Its policy nt tho changing fortunes of war, according to Its sympathies. It must follow precedent nnd International law. It Is oven moro unfortunato that nn or ganization should bo foimod to lntroduco Into our politics tho animosities of forolgn na tions, or to plodgo candidates to a courso favorable to this foreign Powor or that. Su6h a scheme Is freighted with peril for tho United States, and with moro peril for tho men willing to embark on so hazardous nn enterprise. Tho war may bo over boforo another oloctlon of importance takes placo In this country, and It will bo fortunato If It Is, for when our forolgn policy and our Inter pretation ot International law become parti san questions, to bo determined by popular voto, then crisis will pile on crisis and our days of peace bo numbered. Tho way to ba neutral Is to bo neutral, which means to glvo tho advantages of our open markets to whatevor nations wish and are able to take them. Smug Apologists Instead of Leaders FORTY thousand men yesterday fought their way through snow and rain and slush to tha tabernacle. Almost unanimously theso 40,000 thundered their approval ot the evangelist's bludgeon blows for decency. Those two great audiences wero a shamo and a humiliation to smug men of Philadel phia, for they showed In tho most convinc ing way that thoro was In them a thirst for better things and they were ready, under mili tant leadership, to tear Into shreds tho whole fabrlo of political corruption, or any other kind of organized corruption existing In this city. Yes, a. humiliation to smug men of Phil adelphia who might, If thoy had wished long ngo, havo driven Into their holes tho wholo cotorlo of plunderers who havo waxed fat by pillaging the municipality. Thero were 40,000 men hungry for good leadership, such as smug gentlemen might have given. Who aro theso gentlemen? Their names were printed In boldface typo lost fall. They will havo a chance again to bo champions for honest government or apolo gists for dishonest government in tho ap proaching munlclpaf campaign. And in that campaign tho 40,000 of yesterday will vote. An Innocent Victim of Fame FAME and youth have been thrust upon the White Houso baby together at an age when he Is too young and too weak to resist either. His youth Is a concomitant of Ills entry upon the stago of life. But his fame Is due to the accident of his parcntago and tho place of his birth. It has compelled him, at tho tender and defenseless ago of two weeks, to submit to the unsmpathetlc gaze of the photographer, who after telling him to look pleasant, graciously permitted him to resume his natural expression. And the photograph") of tho tender thing have been spread broadcast for the satisfaction of the curiosity ot those anxious to know what a President's grandson looks like. Tho Infant could havo told them in ad vanco that a baby Is only a baby unless it la your very own. In such a case it becomes something too precious for words, as every mother knows. Bo tho prematurely famous child in Washington may be pardoned if he fails to understand why grandmothers, and just mothers, and would-be mothers are so anxious to look at his little round face with Its blinking eyes, its button of a nose and its triangular mouth with the dimple at one corner. The attention that tho youngster will ap preciate most of all that ho lias received Is, doubtless, the invitation to Join the Young Men's Christian Association, j;xtended by the newsboy who delivers tho papers to tho President, for tho smaller a boy Is the more delight he finds in being called a man. There are people who get all they can and can all they get, says "Billy" Sunday, and not all ot them are ward politicians. George Wharton Pepper qualified as an epigrammatist when he said that "It is a perilous thing to serve schemes instead ot souls." Chairman McCombs, of the Democratic National Committee, is going ahead with his plans for 1918 on the assumption that Barkis is wlllln'. Unless they exercise great care those gen tlemen who are trying to make a political Issue of American neutrality will never know what hit them. They may have voted, sheep in Colorado, but that is not so disgraceful as it is for men to vote like sheep, as they haye done for years in Philadelphia. A diamond cutter could make a brilliant gem from a lump of putty as easily as the Demooratlo Senatorial caucus pan make a perfect measure put of the ship purchase bill. The guards demonstrated that they could save the Liberty Bell in less than a minute it Independence Hall should get on fire, but they, have not been, trained to caye it from failing apart on a transcontinental Journey, If the tax on oleomargarine were lowered so that It would not be worth while trying to cheat the Internal revenue collector the poor who have to us it would be banefiUd and no eaa would suffer. The tax of 19. cent a pound U Ity by the Coreifet tft-Alie table of hs "try i It la JUftJuftiS&M h tfeGr TEA1UNG WHITE RAGS TO SAVE SOLDIERS The Big Neutral Enterprise of Sending Bandages to tho Hospitals of War Btrickon Europe Tho Law of Help Put Into Practice. By VANCE THOMPSON I KNOW now what Ruskln meant when ho said "tho hlghost and first law of tho unl verso" was tho Law of Help. I havo scon that law In operation. No. 41 West 38th stroet, Now York-It Is not far from Fifth avenuo. You wilt see In tho shop window a great black and whlto sign which reads: "SURGICAL DRESSINGS COMMITTED." And through tho window you will get a gllmpso of n long counter at which many women stand hour after hour folding up pieces of whlto cloth, That Is all you can seo from without and It has an air of mystery. If you nro a practical minded person you will go In nnd nsk what It Is all about. Then you will learn theso things: Tho Surgical Dressings Commltteo In an outgrowth a towering growth now of Miss Anne Morgan's Vacation War Rollof Work. It hegnn early In November, when the ro ports from our Amcrlcnn hospitals In Franco began to como In. What was wantod most over thcro was a supply of properly steril ized bandages. In that sort of thing we aro far ahead of all tho Continental nations and oven of England, where antiseptic sclcnco had its birth. In tho Amorlcan Hospital In Paris, In tho hundreds upon hundreds of hospitals that havo boon created everywhere In Franco, thero was n domand for what aro technically called "dressings" scientifically folded pads of linen, muslin, cotton; for bandages of all shapes nnd sires, for frnc turo pillows and absorptivo pads, for flannel bindings and all tho other cloths wherewith wounds aro dressed. So tho commltteo wan formed, with Mrs. Mary Hatch Wlllard as chairman and Miss Carlta Spencer as secretary. They raided their own linen closets and tho linen rooms of their friends. J. B. Corbln, a kindly man, who had already taken degrees In tho Law of Help, gavo them rent frco tho huge floor In West 38th stroet nnd tho collars beneath. A first lot of rags was cut and folded. Tho Watets Chemical Laboratory sterilized tho packages; of courso, In a fine gratuitous way. And November 15 tho first shipment went to tho American Hospital In Paris. That was tho beginning. Many Women Volunteer Dr. Joseph Blako, In chargo over thero, cabled for moro. In addition ho sont ovor ono ot his associates, Dr. J. Peter Hoguct, to act as consultant surgeon for tho com mittee. Doctor Hoguet knows, of course, exactly what Is wanted, both in tho ward room nnd In tho operating loom. And now tho work "marches," as they Bay In France, with mllltnry precision. Many women volun teered to help a scorce, two score. Should I print a complete lis' It would look as though I had torn a pago or two from the society bluo book. Then a Mcro Man Helped When things have to bo nmdo possible thero I& always a Man. Mr. del Grolla, at tracted by tho sign, went In ono day and thoy put him to work. In a mauvo colored silk shirt and overalls you may seo him any day nailing up boxes, building tables and cup bonrds, hauling goods. Ho Is, they say, an efficient exponent of the Law of Help! Tho great difficulty in tho beginning as it is today was to get enough linen. Mr. Wll lard, In his motorcar, was sent out to raid Now England. Ho had adventures, I assure jou, but they havo no placo In this relation of plain facts. Tho women of New England listened to him and opened their linen rooms. They filled his motorcar. They filled tho farm wagons. Linen that had lain a hun dred years In lavender "grandmamma's bridal sheets," In ono Instance wero given to stanch tho wounds of strangers 3000 miles away. And tho Ihlng grew. It grow amazingly. Thcro aro today "5 "sections" contributing to tho work. They nro scattered all over tho country In Philadelphia, In Pittsburgh, ns far west as Kansas City and as far south an Florida. Under competent local surgeons tho "sections" mako tho dressings and forward thorn to Now York, whero they aro storlllzod, repacked and sent on to tho clearing houso in Purls. How many do you think they havo sent? 120,000 Dressings Since November 15, tho dato of tho first shipment, 120,000 sterilized dressings, pads, pillows, bandages and all tho rest, arranged in orderly wardroom kits or operating kits. It's a fair record, eh? Most ot them havo gono to Franco, because that Is whero tho demand camo from, Ono lot was sent to Siberia and another to Budapest But that is chance, Tho Law of Help knows no fron tiers. Its warrant runs across tho world of war. And tho commltteo (here Is tho point) will send these kits to any hoipltal, in any country, If a properly authenticated request Is made. Notably they are glad to send them to the small hospitals which havo been ex temporized all over Europe In theso dlro days. Everything is donated, Nothing Is bought. Tho cloth, the rent, the letter paper, tho stamps, the pretty stenographer, tho pack ing cases, are all free gifts. Tho express Vans cart the goods for nothing; the steam ships carry them, free; in Havre Miss Anne Morgan's agents tako them from the dock nnd rush them to the hospitals all free. So, it you will send in your old sheets and pillow cases, your tablecloths and undergarments all your "white goods," as they say in tha trade they will be made Into dressings and dispatched (mark you I) to any authentic hospital In any country you name; and the gift goes free. The kits have been sent to France heretpfore because In. tho Invaded countries the need la direst and most imme diate; but you may Bond your sifts where your sympathy wills, It U a neutral work. Jobs for the Unemployed How fast it has grown In New York alono you may gather from the fact that a second loft has been taken at No. 481 Lafayette place. And here the Law of Help takes a wider extension. The Church Co-operative Association, which is helping the unem ployed, has sent 200 workless men to aid in the work of making bandages and dressings, It pays each man CO cents a day and ho is kept at work until he can find, employment at his own trade. The Grace Church, Settle ment Is paying as many more unemployed men nnd women and keeping them, busy at this work Yqu see it Is helping both ways. It U aid ing the ghastly -Ws "dring" the .wounded. ovewwa-J. U sMssvUtlng In a mcasuro tho poverty of workless men and women nt home. And MIs3 Spencor emerges from a whirl wind of work to Bay: "If tho women will only clear out their linen closets nnd send us nil their old linen nnd go to tho shops nnd buy now llnon nnd things It will bo good for trade, loo. 1 White Goods and Fingers "What is needed most?" you ask. "Whlto goods and fingers," says Miss Spen cer with epigrammatic curtness. "Wo want nil tho linen, cotton, muslin wo can get. It doesn't mattor what tho stuff la furnlturo covers or- anything. What Is not fit for bandages or pad can bo shredded up to stuff fracture pillows with. Above all wo want old blankets for flannel binders, you know. And wo want automobiles. If thoso who want to help and cannot glvo their own tlmo and labor will send their automobiles for an hour or two a day they will bo doing splendid service. And then volunteers! Wo need many, many moro fingers and hands and brains. Thcro Is so much to do, and every hour tho work grows. You soo wo do not nsk for money. What wo want Is cloth and fingers and tho neod is very, very great." The women's clubs and tho church socie ties aro doing a great deal in tho way of col lecting old linen and cotton, and tho "sec tions" nro springing up all over tho country, hut tho cry from abroad Is tragically loud these days. Civoa Petticoat My dear girl, tear up your petticoat and save a soldier's life! I watched Mrs. Bcardesley packing up kits of flat dressings from 2x2 to 10x10 In sots of six. A smiling woman, eroct nnd young, I did not wonder greatly that sho had stood all day at tho long tablo in tho Hnty loft. Then sho said: "I can hardly realize that I am standing horo doing this work. It seems like part of another llfo. For in our Civil War I stood at a table. Just so, in my old homo down South, helping my mother mako lint and bandages for our wounded boys." Then sho spoko of tho rough appliances of thoso days, tho unsterlllzcd dressings, tho crude horror of tho rudo hospitals whero wounded man died of poisoned wounds. And better than any ono thero better than any ono of us who had lookod in tho faco of tho world war Bho understood tho splendid use fulness of tho work sho was doing as, one by one, she piled up tho clean, poisonous whlto rags. It is good work; it Is many-sided and reaches far; It Is, I think, the best work that neutral hands can do and hands are wanted thcro. German War Songs From tha Emllih Havlatr. This Intellectual sentimentalist!, which the JKal&er found Is to easy to play upon. Is re vealed in the grandeur of their martial songs and the reverence with which they sing them. "Die Wacht am Rheln," "Zwel Grenadiers," "Deutschland ueber Allea," "Hell Dlr im Bleg eskranz" these are no ordinary aongi of patriotism. They are pregnant with old Ger man thought and tradition. Like the melody Of the Lorelei, they reflect the deep root ot German romance, of German thwarted loves and ambitions; they are the living voice of the qld Uothlo cathedrals. No country In the world has such cherished traditions as tha Germans. There Is a quality In their muslo which seems to spring out of mamoriea of the soil, ot the caztlea, of tho Father Rheln. The students at the universities meet and drink precisely as their ancestors did In Luther's time. Lore, sen timent, tradition, antiquity these are a national cult, visible In the national respect for learning and research. It is no exaggeration to say that the Germans are still steeped in medieval thought and habit the proud and conscious "barbarians" ot .Europe. So in the young Em peror they saw nothing untoward or artificial. He seamed to Germans to stand at their head as the vary "go!V of their genius, the incor porate figure of the true German valor, armed cap-a-ple like some hven-sent emissary of Wotan to bring deliverance to his people. The Island of Hong-Kong. From tha New Orlaass States. Hong-Kong la a small Island, containing n square miles, lying to the northeast of the estuary ot the Pearl River and SO miles from Canton. The new territory, the Kowlooa ex tension, contains JW square miles The popular ton of Uouj-Kaug aoti ttie new territory an. fcrextreate M9.W8. ant the European pMl Um 4o at exceed JiOSO, ot whom WCS ere seUtwta "OW-OO-OOt" M FEBRUARY, A MONTH OF BENEFICENCE It Has Had an Unfortunate History, But Its Interesting Associations and Gifts to Mankind Raise Distinction in "A little month." Hamlet, 0 ,F ALL llttlo months Fobruury Is tho littlest. No wonder. In tho making of tho Calendar, February took most of tho hard knocks. No wondor, lndocd, that It Is n dwarfed, stunted, sawed-oft month. Ono might call it vacillating, if its vacillations had not becomo rogular. February, however, neod not bo looked down upon, for It has lUgher distinctions than Its diminutive pro portions and that mystery which It presents to tho youngster whoso birthday happens on tho 20th. Tho Joke, too, of vanished birth days Is unimportant. Onco thcro was no February, not even In tho Roman calendar, from which wo derlvo our own. Romulus never thought of It. Tho omission was corrected by his successor In tho Kingship, Numa Pomplllus, who decided that 10 months wero not enough and accord ingly started off tho year with January, relo gatlng February to last place. Thrco centu ries latci' In 462 B. C. tho decemvirs moved February up to second position. When It was found that tho calendar was still out of Joint, February was selected as tho goat to bo operated on and an Intercalary month was Inserted every second year between tho 23d and tho 24th day. J. Caesar abolished that nulsauco and assigned 29 days to Feb ruary 30 days ovory fourth year but Aug ustus kicked because his month was shorter than July. So Julius took a day from Feb ruary and gave It to August. The Month of Purification Numa gavo tho month tho namo of Fcb ruarlus, which comes from tho Latin word, fobruore, to purify. It Is tho month of puri fication. In Roman times It had that char acter, and in tho calendar of tho holy days of- tho Christian church. Candlemas Is tho festival of tho Purification of tho Virgin. Lent begins In February. Our English ancestors designated tho snowdrop as tho purification flower, partly becauso of Its whiteness and partly because it blossomed about tho tlmo of Candlemas. In Uko manner, by tho way, they designated tho crocus to St. Valentino, as It appeared near tho day set apart In honor of that friend ot Cupid, Februa was a Roman festival ,of general expiation and lustration. On tho Ides ot February, the 13th, tho Lupercalla were held. Originally the rites wero celebrated In honor of Lupercus, who was tho guardian deity of shepherds and kept the wolves away. They wero associated, too, with tho tradition of tho shepherd who suckled the twins Romulus and Bemus In n cave nt tho foot of Mount Aventlno; but the Lupercalla of later times boro no relation to the Bomulus legend. The object of tho festival was, by purification and sacrifice, to securo tho frultfulness of tho land, tho Increase of the flocks and the prosperity of the whola people. "On the Lupercal" On this occasion, you know, the common era had coma out "to see Caesar and to re joice In his triumph," and when Antony, on that fateful Idea of March, had secured the ears of "friends, Itomans, countrymen," ha reminded them thus: You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown. Which he did thrice refuse? With such beneficent, religious and his torical associations as February has accu mulated, it certainly is not the least among the dozen months. Poets may sing of the "the leafy month of Juno" and 'the merry month of May" but on old book gives this humanly Interesting de pcrlptipn. The Ited of tfcjeSApplo "February comes In like a sturdy country maiden, with a tinge of the red, hard winter applo on her healthy cheek, and as she strives against the wind, wraps her russet colored cloak well about her, while with bent head, be keeps throwing back the long hair that blown about her face, and though at tlmw half Winded by tu a!U; and iw, till cotttlwiea b.r course cowaswujiy." Tfcoui fcljwacw's yeSwwy may aav S It to a Position ot Proud the Calendar somowhat different from ours, It Is novortha less an engaging picture that ho gives: S Then camo old Fcbruaiy, sitting In an old wagon, for he could not ride, Drawn bv two fishes for tho season fitting. Which through the flood before did softly slide And swim away: vet hud ho by his side M Ills plough and harness fit to till tho groundjj Ana tools to prune tno troes, uororo me priat Of hasting primo did mako them bourgeon wide It is truo that tho poets havo somewhat slighted this courageous month, but thelg noglcct Is compensated for by tho praise ot winter, which you shall find In ono of Low ell's most exhilarating essays and In a chap; tor of "Walden.' Which reminds you th somo of tho wlntor poets, even If thoy dill not mention February by name, are appro prlato reading for tho month that begins to; day. Groundhog Day Tomorrow How much of tho winter Is left you will know tomorrow. Tho groundhog, Unown-tg tho Now Englander ns tho woodchuck, wfll como out of his liolo, and If ho caBtsIS shadow, a return of wintry weather ran' ln evnpntn.1 TiViIll U'Bnlhor tnmnimw I a good omon. Tho superstition la not conj nnoa to mis country. Germany s barometer. It tlif linilirnr TTrt nAnnn nnr f IiIr hnln oil Candlemas Day, and when ho finds snogi walks abroad, but If ho finds tho sun shining ho withdraws Into his house. A German! proverb runs thus: "Tho shepherd woull rather seo tho wolf enter hli stablo oil 1 Candlemas than tho sun." frnilllHhnr T1nr nnlna Inln Innlf-nlflMinri bcsldo tho festival of St. Valentino, whlcffl somo pessimists think has so degcneraiej that it no longer dosorves tho namo ot fesl 3 '3 val. Howovor that may bo, tho observance of tho occasion Is not what it was 200 anjjl sou years ago. A writer of tho 18th century describes tho principal ceremonial as lot lows! ' T "The Lottery of Love" "On tho eve of St. Valentino's Day thi young folks of England and Scotland, by vory ancient custom, celobrate a llttlo festl vol, An equal, number of maids and bacheJB lora gee logoinor; each writes their true oi somo feigned namo upon separate bll'e'5 which they roll up, nnd draw by way of lots. tho maids talcing tho mon's billots, and tfffl men me mams'; so that each of tho youns men lights upon a. girl that ho calls his val; ontlne, and each of tho girls upon a manS whom she calls hers. By this means eacjl nas two valentines; but the man sticks faste; to tho valontino that has fallen to him thai to tho valontino to whom ho is fallen. Fon tllnA llflVtni- tli,,M lt.l.7A.1 ,1.A n.n.nnn, Intsfl bo many couples, tho valontlnoa glvo baU nna treats to their mistresses, wear thei bluets several days upon their bosoms sleeves, and this little sport often ends i love." The history of St. Valentino's Day bfgal away back with tho Lupercalla. The prl cipai custom, at,tho very beginning, was tho nature of a lottery, Two Birthday Anniverearies ' February is so rich in days of peculiar I terest and significance that it is hard io dad justice. February gavo us the savior of the Ito to whom Lowell paid splendid tribute The ktndly-earnest, brave, foreseeing maty " Bagaolous, patient, dreading praise, not WUSS ""' n or our new soil, trie first Amen; And this is what Will Carleton "Washington Month": FebruaryFebruary How your moods and actions vary Or to seek or shun I Now a smile of sunlight lifting, Now in chilly snownakea drifting, Now with ioy shuttles creeping Silver webs are spun. Now with leaden torrents leaping, Oceanword you run, New with beUs you blithely Bin, 'Neath the stars or sun, Now a blade of burdock bring '& the eufPring one: Maajf blessings rest above iou ?m oe day .! so we love 04 Qive U4 Wastoiiigttnv XI t. 1 aflft1
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