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A'd man gets out of life more than he
puts In it.
The Wearing of the Green
THE nncst trait of the Irish In .America
Is their fondness for tho old sod. Thu
roots of the shamrock which they wear today
are In tho soil across tho sea, but Its leaves
are making this town btight. And Its trefoil
represents that splendid trinity of lovo for
tho land of one's ancestor, love for the land
of one's adoption and love for the church.
Bt Patrick's Day Is none the less American
because It Is the national holiday of another
nation. This country Is big enough and tol
erant enough to welcome the observance hero
of the national dajs of every other nation
under the sun, for It Is proud of Its origins
and wishes to keep their memory green.
In the Name of New Freedom
0
NE of tho most grievous blunders of tho
Administration was Its attempt to put
tho Government In the shipping business.
Now a Senate committee Is trying to find out
why it failed by seeking to discover what in
fluences were lined up In tho opposition. Tho
assumption Is that If it had not been for tho
Improper use of influence tho Scr-te would
have been obedient to commands from tho
"White House. So It really becomes an in
quiry to discover who Is stronger than
Woodrow Wilson.
Tho editor of tho New York Times was
summoned before the commlttco and Insulted
hy being asked whether improper motives
had actuated him and whether English gold
was not behind his opposition to the, ship
purchaso bill. His explanation was a com
plete vindication of tho Integrity of tho man
agement of his paper. Indeed, If tho Times
had pot opposed tho bill its motives might
have been open to suspicion, for It has had a
consistent policy of hostility to Government
ownership In every form for SO years.
Tho vindication of the Times, however, is
of little Importance In comparison with
the humiliating exhibition of tho pettiness
of tho Senate committee. It was not content
with scekjng for unworthy motives for oppo
sition to the shipping plan, but It demanded
that the editor explain why ho had supported
or opposed every Important public mcasuro
of recent years, as If the Senate had a right
to exercise supervision over the Judgments
of tho press. If this sort of thing keeps on
the Impatience of the country with the New
Freedom will become clamorous long before
1916.
Liquor Champions on the Job
WHEN Mulvllilll and Neil Bonner gather
together at Hairisburg there Is some
reason to believe that n movement to wreck
local option Is on foot. These gentlemen aro
wprklng In the open, of course. They havo
not been backward In letting the Common
wealth know what they btand for. Their po
sition was well known last fall before tho
election. To be suro Doctor Brumbaugh was
explicit In his aiUocncy of local option, writ
ing a platform of his own that the record
might be straight; but the liquor Interests,
which aro as blind here as they havo been In
other States, had an Idea that ho was only
fooling. They have been disillusioned and
havo a real fight on their hands. Thoy aro
pretty suro of a rousing defeat If the Varo
Interests stand by tho Governor, as they
ought to do and will do It there Is any acu
men back of their politics.
The Germans Could Do It
THE report that comes out of Germany
that the Germans havo their navy yards
so perfectly organized and have enlisted the
engineering and constructing skill of tho em
pire so effectively that they aro turning out
a Submarine every day Is not Incredible. If
Henry Ford can build 100 automobiles a
day, It Is not Impossible for a paternal gov
ernment, with all tho resources of a great
empire at Its command, to build under-watcr
vessels at tho rato of 30 n month.
Whether one sympathizes with the Ger
mans or not, It Is foolish to attempt to with
hold from them the praise that Is their due
tor their remarkable efllciency and for tho
thoroughness with which they prepare for
their tasks. What victories they have won
thus far have been organized victories.
Nothing has heen left to chance. That Is why
ell tho reports that como out of Germany
reveal the unbounded confidence of the Ger
mans In ultimate: victory.
A Policy That Leads to Bankruptcy
THE administrative Incapacity of the Dem
ocratic party Is notorious, and It was
never better demonstrated than during the
pant two years. The Congress Just adjourned
made appropriations amounting to 12,000,
CW.G00, and It has boasted that this Is a
IJ.OGO.OOO.OOO country.
If business had been prosperous and the rev
enues of the Government had continued on
the usual scale there might have been Justi
fication for the appropriations. But the
party began to unsettle business by revising
tho tariff It may be granted, for the sake
of argument, that in the long run the tariff
change may he beneficial, but the first
t fleet been to reduce the revenues, to
produce an enormous deficit and to unsettle
business.
The Democratic Congress also, not con
ttni with reducing the tariff, passed a lot
of la wo changing the condjtlons under which
$ualij8 BW ba done. This also was un-uDtur-
Almost everything that lias been
iloutt luu been disturbing. Instead of reas-irnim-
Kw the tanking act. which Is a
itt.a lriwBt ovtr the Qld Jaw, is Jn-
,'iKK'dt W &asf tlia nMthsds of doing feiul- i
EVENINfl LEPq-Em-PHlLADELPHIA', WEDNESDAY, MABOHjJjlgf
ncss. Ho one known where ho stands. The
fcffect Is depressing and it wilt tftko nil tho
optimism In tho country to carry It throus'i
this crisis.
Whllo alt these disturbing things were be
ing doho tho Congress went ahead serenely
appropriating mrjney right and left as
though tho resources of the Government
wero Inexhaustible. It Is the policy of tho
spendthrift and wastrel, tho Irresponsible
act of a child who han learned 'neither fore
sight nor prudence. In short, It Is character
istic of tho party distinguished above all
things for Its capacity for blundering.
Who Make International Law?
INTERNATIONAL law, In tho broad sense.
Is not a structure, but a process. It Is a
series of explanations of tho way In which
nations havo ncted under different circum
stances, supplemented by moro or leva formal
agreements nmoag them to act an they have
acted If tho circumstances should ho re
peated.
The textbooks may glvo a different defini
tion, but when reduced to their elements nil
tho definitions will be found to rest on th s
simple proposition, namely, that tho law of
nations, like the law of nature, Is merely a
way of acting. The law of gravitation de
scribes how a suspended body behaves Itself
If the support Is removed. But If the tiico
adjustment of forces in tho wot Id should bo
upset, no physicist could tell offhand how
the law of gravitation would operate.
Tho bnlanco of power among nations Is
disturbed by this great war, and tho emer
gencies ntc creating new necessities and new
International law Is now In the making. Tho
prorcss has begun, and no one can tell what
fho piodurt wilt be. All that Is known Is
that In the struggle for c.xistenco tho warring
nations will pursue Hint course which they
think will host servo them, and they will uso
nil the power nt their command to defend
their right to Ignore old precedents or to
make new pieccdcnts. And theie Is no high
tribunal which can stop them.
Tho body of International precedents which
wo now have has been mado largely by tho
notion of England. France, Gormnny and tho
fnltcd State. Tho rnltd States Is tho only
Power Intel osted In holding fast to tho old
precedents; but It cannot compel France,
England and Gel many to make war accord
ing to rules that please Washington alone.
Tho United States Is in a minority In the In
ternational legislature, and It will havo to
ndmlt that the majority rules. Wo may not
liko It, but wo must submit because wo havo
not the physical power to onforco our wishes.
Who Will Grasp This Opportunity?
THE Government is making plans for the
building of flying machines nt the Lcaguo
Island Navy Taid or nt .some other place.
The League Island yaid offers advantages
which can be found In no other place. So
It is likely that It will be selected. Every
airship has to be equipped with a motor, and
the lighter the motor for each horsepower
the moro deslrnblo It become for use In a
flying machine.
Who in this city or in the whole country
linn the foresight and enlei prise and coinage
tn put money and brains into the develop
ment of a motor lighter than any other on
the market, or what motor manufactuier
right heie can convince tho Government that
his motor Is the best In the wot Id for the
UHC.s to which It Is to bo put? The final de
cision has not yet been mado to build nlr
bhlps at I.eaguo Island, nnd It cannot be
made until Congress meets again. There Is,
therefore, time enough for I'hlladelphla in
ventors nnd manufacturers to prepare for
the market that is likely soon to bo at their
doors, nnd that will carry with It control of
national and international markets also.
Popular Taste Is Sound
IT IS easy to understand why Ejdla Field
Emmet's painting, "Patricia," was voted
to bo tho best In the spring exhibition of tho
Academy of tho Fine Arts. The painting is a
flno piece of work from tho technical point
of view and tho subject Is nppropiiato for a
plctuie. A sweet child, standing, hesitant,
as If timid, that Is all thero Is to It. Hut
the artist put into tho painting that Inde
finable something which produces tho Impres
blon that a personality IooKb at you from
the caiiMis.
Miss Emmet will, tlieiefoie, rceeivo tho
prize offered by Edward Mok for the painting
which the great Jury of tho public selected
as tho best In the exhibition. The eidirt
Indicates that popular tosto is sound.
Ethics of Journalism
TWO years "ago Samuel Bowles, In an ad
dress delivered before tho Columbia School
of Journalism, said:
"To my mind there Is no occupation In
which men engage, none even of tho so
called learned professions, law, medicine,
theology, which demands a higher standard
of cthlca In Us pursuit than Journalism, nnd
thlB becauso of Its extraordinary power and
opportunities In affecting tho public wel
fare." The Ideals nnd inspirations of any com
munity inevitably parallel tho character of
Its Journalism, on which citizens must de
pend for tho presentation of tho facts on
which they aro to baso their conclusions.
Publicity is tho most powerful of modem
weapons nnd Journalism is tho Mdenco and
practice of publicity. No nation Is likely to
be greater than tho journalists who serve
It or to havo higher ideals.
Whatever Italy gets will be too much for
Austria.
Mars Is older than St. Patrick, and he
claims this day and all recent days as his
own.
Tho woman who Is a good actor beforo the
jury seldom receives the Just reward of her
bad acting elsewhere.
Secretary Daniels has discovered that the
navy never was so good as it has been since
he took charge of it,
It may be an abuse of Americanism to pre
pare for war, but it never was Americanism
to run away from a fight.
Whatever the place of Ireland in English
history, the place of Irishmen has been at
the head of the fighting columns.
In view of the cash returns, the wonder Is
that there are not more Billy Bundays.-New
York World.
Three of them have been operating in this
State this winter.
The complain of the Senate Investigating
Committee seems to be that the newspapers
influence public opinion, a thing which few
Senators can do. The newspapers deal in
facta.
Perhaps a specific law is necessary for the
punUhraent of fraudulent advertisers, euoh
as the Missouri Legislature 18 about to pass,
but tho general statute against getting money
under falsa pretensea ought to cover the case.
ARCH-SATIRIST OF
VICTORIAN DAYS
A Few Glimpses at the Ways of the
"Gilbert - and - Sullivan" The
Most Popular Plays of a Cen
tury and Their Satire.
By KENNETH MACGOWAN
THE wholo dramatic output of nine
j ti
teenth contury England there Is only one
group of plays which nro revived with any
frequency nowadays, and they add need
lessly to their author's fnmo by being tho
only group In the wholo range of our dra
matic llteraltiro which arouso that personal
affection which is so hopelessly lacking In
tho enso of that other much revived but re
verenco-luunpered dramatist. Shakespeare.
By tho coincidences of "bookings" Philadel
phia Is proving It thc9o two weekfl.
l'uttlng tho brilliant music of Sullivan
aside thero Is still such virtue In tho llbret
toes of theso "Gllbert.&.Sulllvnns" that they
richly deserve not only our admiration nnd
affection, but the term plnys. Picture-book
"Pinafore," first of tho lot; Ingenious "Pi
rates of Penzance," like somo sublimated
amatour theatricals; "lotanthc," which stands
bcsldo "Patience" ns triumphant topical sat
ire; less known but no less skillful "Sor
cerer" nnd "Yeomen of the Guard," and,
flnnlly, that last word In operetta, "Tho Mi
kado." Just why? Well, you may put It down to
a number of things according to your own
temperament and tho diversity of Gilbert's
accomplishments but the chief of theso tor
many of us Is satire.
Tho Kinjr of "Patter"
Of course thero Is remarkable technique
behind It. As a dramatist ho moved his
story forward with a theatrical mneness that
brought theatrical climax to tho comedy. As
a versifier ho had probably no equal, and It
was In his verso thot his satlro most shone.
A bit of thnt song of tho Major General
In 'Tho Pirates of Penzance" demonstrates
his technical command completely:
I am the very pnttem ot a modern Major
General,
T'vo Information vegetable, animal and mlnetnl;
I know tlio Kings of England, and I quote the
lights historical,
Fiom Marathon to Waterloo, In order cate
gorical; I'm verv well acquainted, too, with matters
mathematical.
I understand equations, both the simple and
qusdintlc.il.
About binominal theorem I'm teeming with a
lot o' news
Gilbert was cnpablu of tho most amazing
stunts in rapid versification. In the fastest
of "patter" he could achieve both sense and
nonsense. And he could put u particulaily
trenchant point with an aptness of phraso
that was nothing If not poetic.
Added unto nil this was that divine quality
of .satiric laughter. lie could even poko fun
at his own art, nt the customary pioccduro
ot operettn.
Gilbert was never guilty ot the pietenso nt
lovo which passes for romance In every olio
of our musical comedies. If he waxed sen
timental ho know It and promptly pushed
It to burlesque Ho could do this in Victo
rian Knglnnd, and In those days when nobody
doubted tho wisdom or humanity of any
nrmed act of John Bull ho could poke fun
at narrow patriotism with his "Pinafore"
fong, "Ho Is an Englishman." Ho could
oven bring a pirate band Into submission b
the simple expedient of Invoking Queen Vic
toria's name. But that could also make him
do many years without his knighthood.
"Pinafore" Up to Dato
Thero were other things that Gilbert
laughed at and, In our modern phrat.o, "got
away with it." Thnt civilian Lord of the Ad
miralty, who furnished tho material for his
first success, "Pinafore," was one of them.
And if it very nearly laughed tho amateur
sailor out of olllco it haH just ns sharp a sting
for certain similar tendencies in Washington
today. Wo smilo at another man besides Sir
Joseph Porter, K. C. IS., when wo hear him
hay: "Hum this over at your lolsuie. It
Is a song I Juno composed for the uho of
the royal navy. It Is designed to eneourago
Independence ot thought and action In tho
lower branches of tho service." Wo don't
need the poet of tho Now York Trlbuno to
point tho moral with
When I was a youlli I pondeied como
On tlm teirlblo effects of tho demon mm.
I never dallied with tho dread highball,
And I never bought a bottle ot champagno nt
all.
1 kept away fiom guzzling men
Till now I am the ruler of tho U. S. N.
There Is this llvo satlro everywhere! in Gil
bert, but nowhere Is It richer or sharper or
moro two edged than In "lolanthe," which
'TIS PATRICK'S DAY
Written to the air of "O'DonncU Moo," an old Irish tear song.
By J, ST. GEORGE JOYCE
THIS Patrick's Day! Spread yo wide the glad tiding,
JL Heralds of suniise that dawn vigil keep,
Fly swift and go where tho dream-god abiding
Holds our dear Slreland in thraldom of sleep.
Loudly over mountain dell,
Blithely by mead and fell,
Waken tho echoes with your gladsome lay,
And as yo glide In air,
Bid youth and maiden fair
Arouso from their slumbers, for 'tis Patrick's Day,
Nature rejoices, the spring time is beaming,
And Erin Is clad In a mantle of green,
O'er wood nnd meadow tho sun's raya are gleaming,
Tinting wltli gold spray their emerald sheen.
In every spreading vale,
In every sylvan dule,
Brighter the shamrock than roses in May;
On every breast is seen
That glorious triple green
Emblem of Ireland on St. Patrick's Day.
Thus was It, Erjn, in days when thy glory
As beacon light blazed the way to thy plains,
When king and chief were emblazoned In story
And valor was theme of each minstrel's strains.
Then every Gaello sept
Sacred the festal kept,
Unbound by despot; '.heath no Saxon sway,
Then were our fathers free,
As crest of the swelling sea,
And gloried in freedom on each Patrick's Day, - '
f Thus, Mother Erin, in the brighter days waiting
For thee in the future, may freedom be thine;
May sorrows surcease, and In great Joy elating,
Your sons offer incense at liberty's shrine.
Proudly In heaven's eight,
May all ypur creeds unite,
And to the Father of all humbly pray
That until time shall cease
Ireland will thrive In peace.
And bo the greater each Patrick's Day.
wo arc to hear this week. Pooh Bah may bo
a comlu masterpiece, tho Pirate King mny
sing with renewed vigor today his song:
When I sally forth to seek my picy,
I help myself In n. loval way.
I Fink a few moro ships, It's true
Than n well-bred mourn ch ought to do;
But many a king on a llrat-clnss throne,
H lie wants to call his houl his own,
Must manage somehow to get through
Moro dirty work than cer 1 do.
But "lolanthe; or, tho I'eor nnd the Perl,"
remains the piece In which Gilbert satirized
a ludicrous subject most ludicrously and In
which he achieved tho nemo ot his art
satire from both sides.
Spooling tho House of Lords
It is no business of a reviewer to spoil
sport by telling too much of what Philadel
phia may seo Thursday evening, but' It can
do no harm to recall bits hero nnd thero of
the adentures of Strcphon, fairy and Con
servative abon the waist, mortal and Itad
leal below. Passing over tho abysmal yet
heartening reflections of Pilvatc Willis, on
sentry-go outside Westminster.
That every little boy or gd
That's bom Into thu world alive
Is either a little Liberal
Or else a lltllo Conservative.
we may recnll the declaration of tho fairy
queen that she will force all Strephon's bills
through both houses:
You shall sit, If he sees lesson,
Through the Biousc-und-salmon season.
Peers shall teem In Cliiiatendom,
And a duke's exalted station
Bo attainable by competitive examination.
Of course It Is a simplo and a very direct
attack, nothing for a humorist to bo con
spicuously proud of, even If It leads a peer
to remark: "Well, but think what It all
means. I don't so much mind for myself,
but with tho House of Peers with no grand
fathers worth mentioning tho country must
go to tho dogs. " I don't want to say
a word against brains. I've a great respect
for brains. I often wish I had somo myself,
but with a Houso of Peers composed exclu
sively ot people of Intellect what's to become
of the Ilouso of Commons?"
It Is characteristic of Gilbert's popularity
In his own day and pcihnps of his popu
hulty now that it aroso from satlro of tho
social excrescences of his time and ours, not
ot the roots of Victorian civilization. Ho
twitted tho nobility, tho olllclous, tho up
starts; he poked his fun nt the vagaries of
tho drawing room. But ho never went be
neath to thrust his scapcl Into tho drear and
noxious reality of commercial exploitation
which had followed upon tho industrial revo
lution and which mado tho nineteenth cen
tury a hideous ago. It was something doubt
less too bitter for our amusement.
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"OH-H-H WAITER!"
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BEST THOUGHT IN AMERICA
DIGEST OF TH
(1) American "I should Say So."
(-') Collier's "SalcratUH Smith."
(3) Cosmopolitan "Tho Tango Thief."
(4) Everybody's "Making Money."
FORTY STORIES
w:
HAT constitutes the goodness of a good
story?
Thero aro so many standards of goodness.
Goodness In people, for Instance. To somo
tho Idea of n good man necessarily Involves
being n church member, while to others It
merely suggests honesty nnd integrity and
decent living. So n good story mny mean a
story that gets printed In a magazine, ns
compared with all tho thousands that travel
wearily back to their wrlteis In the return
envelope; while, again, a good story may
mean a story that tickles the Imagination
and leaves you 'refreshed and stimulated, or
It may bo one that will mako you burst out
crying. Evon that Is not very definite, how
ever, for thero are as many ways of tickling
Imaginations ns thero aro Imaginations to
tickle Tho vnrlous magazines have quite a
distinct Individuality, in the types of stories
they print, so much so thut thero aro story
brokers who mako their livings reading story
manuscripts and deciding to which magazines
they should bo submitted. James Montgom
ery Flagg shows tho various types cleverly
In his skit "I Should Say So," In tho Amer
ican Magazine this month, which describes
"Breaking Into tho Art Game" (1). Ho char
acterizes tho various styles of fiction and pic
tures likely to mako a hit with tho vnrlous
magazines, for the guidance ot would-ho Il
lustrators: American Magazine Tramps who became
Governors or Ambassadors to Ilussla; com
mon fellows playing cornets In garrets In In
diana; sweetly pretty girls doing nothing
whatever sweetly.
Ladles' Home Journal Rabbits; nlno girls
in kimonos making fudgo recklessly; com
mencement: .stuffed shirt hnudlug rolls of
blank paper tied with pink ribbon to hun
dreds of thousands of beautiful and puro
young ladles.
McCluro's Covers of girls showing acres of
neck and an expression "papa" would not tol
erate. Cosmopolitan Illustrations for Brlsbanlc
sermons; smudge-faced Greek looking soulful
at you because mlllstono hangH around his
neck galley burning on horizon doesn't mean
anything In particular, but seems psycho
logical. Harper's Southern kunnel, In Buffalo Bill
make-up, starving to death at the plaza; "old
cullud gem'n" on his knees beforo old "Mar
stah" begging him to share his watermelon.
Llfo Cupids; man, girl, moon; moon, girl,
man; cuplds.
Saturday Evening Post Man seated at
desk; ditto standing by desk; ditto walking
away from desk.
Taking this as a basis ot classlilcatlon for
tho various magazines, tho 40 stories In a
group of magazines of tho month may bo
further subdivided by their own Individual
subjects. Ten of them tiro serial stories, and
consequently and necessarily Involve one or
moro lovo Interests each. Of tho remaining
30 short stories, 11 aro frankly love stories,
threo aro about married people and triangles,
live are adventuro and detective yarns, five
aro about boys and six are miscellaneous.
Financially speaking, tho most spectacular
story is tho thousand dollar prize story
printed In Collier's last month (3). Oddly
enough. It la not a, love story, but a revival
story, with tho further religious smack that
It carries the Indorsement of "Billy" Sunday,
to whom it was submitted beforo it appeared,
The story Is about a tough Negro, "Saleratua
Smith," who ran the most prosperous and
amply "protected" gambling Joint In a small
town. Suddenly he became religious, smashed
up his gambling outfit with an ax, In the
midst ot his astonished patrons, addressing
them afterward in the style of a colored
"Billy" Sunday,
He dropped his ax with a thump and
leaned out over it. "Listen yere yo' niggers I
Low down, lousy, mean as de meanest of yo'
Is, yo' has in yo' away down where yo' for
get all about It yo' got a sweet place. Listen
yere Bring it up like de cow do her cud.
It tastes good. I has my mouth full now,
and da more yo tastes, de faster It comes.
Look har, Jim Slocum I see yo'! None of
datl Dct liver half-moon Up o' yourn hang
ing down like de handle of a crutch showln'
yo underteth. Don't go comteplatln' no
rough housln'l Yo knows me! J'a goln'
down to de meetln' to take my stand and
yo' all got to go 'long and hear yo'selves
whlzzln' down de glided chute.
"Looka yere," he roared, "dar ain't a nig.
ger yere but what's a born, bone believer 7n
de 'Fluences. Yo'a afraid of ghosts. Yo'a
afraid of de evil eye. Yo'a afraid of de Bad
Man. Yo' every one knows dar somethln'
runnln' things higher up. Yo'a afraid of it."
Ha distorted his face Into an appalling ex
pression, and crouching down lower yet,
slowly swung the whiten of rolled up eyea
arpund upon them, "It's yere. De room's
chuck full with It. It'a ouUlda guirdln' the
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And It's God AlmlgMr1
no one can Bhakfc M
Jllsself. Dar ain't
p'sesslon."
High Life and Psychology
xnuiu ih a niceiy adjusted mlxtiirn nt w.i
life and psychology and mystery nnd m.
penso in a detective story by Arthur nK
In tho Cosmopolitan (3). The Rusnn. I. .3
long and complicated matter, but tho ratherl
typically Cosmopolitan psychology and hljul
llfo may be briefly quoted: ,
,wr?.'.1Bll,tl10, Io,bby of tllp fumous newhtH-'i
telry wo slowly lounged nlon?. Then, down
a passago Into tho tearoom, where, In thtV
contro of a circle of quaint little wlcktr X
chairs and tables, was a glossy dancing floor. 1
At ono end of the room an excellent orchatra
was playing. I gazed about fascinated. M
tho dancing tea was represented apparently'?
much wealth, women whose throats and fin- i
gers glittered with gold and gems, m k
whoso very air exuded prosperity, or at least
Its veneer. About It nil was the glamour rf i
tho risque Ono felt a sort of compromising .
fnmlllarity In this breaking down ot old io-t
clal restraints through tho Insidious infltn,.)
enco of tho tearoom, with Its accompaal
ments of music and dancing. 'J
"I suppose," remarked Craig, after we hal'
watcnect tno brilliant scene, "that, like manjt!
uiucia, uu nuvu ouen wonuereu wnetnej,
theso modern dances are nctually as stimu
lating as thoy seem." I shrugged my shoul
ders noncommlttnlly. "Well, there Is what
psychologists might call a real dance-ntU'
Trial Q " ltr tt'nnt nil inntnmti1nl txreAtr 4n4fM
.rwU v MUtllf XJIi LUII kVill'l((Lll CI J fcUJtUfe .
vltli n rrlnau "In fnnt fnit nAroini ran 14
via i naitj.js 111 Itttli AVI J)V.kOWIl9 V" j"
withstand tho physical effect of the peculiar ,
insulin, inu ciouu contact una mo Binuoux
movements at least where, so to speak, tM"
surroundings nro suggcstlvo nnd tho danoii
becomes less restrained and moro sensuous,.
as It does often In circumstances like tcese1
among strangers."
"Why," Craig exclaimed, looking out at Ui
wiunimr l:a e doscone. "hero In the most aav
vanced era, peoplo of culture and Intelligent
rranuiy say that they aro 'wild' ror Bom
thing primitive."
"Still," I objected, "dancing, even In th
wild, stimulating, emotional manner you r
here, need not bo merely nn Incitement to
love, need it : May It not no a normal grau-
iit'fiuoii m lilt- love iimilliri r 11 iiiaj ,ti"c-
.. ..... .... t ii. .ii irn- y
scut sex, nut not neeesH.iniy uuuiy, ,- .
nedy nodded. "I'lidoubledly the effect of th r
dances Is In direct tutlo to the sexual tera-
perament of tho dancer," he adinutca. ii3
touched iny arm. Instinctively I followed
tho direction of his eye. I realized that tn .
....... ...1,1. -at-., c-r.ni....... .,.... lm sharnurne.
Jllflll Will! itllD. . .lull, J Illllt " w..,.-
our "tango thief." Fashionably dressed, M-.J
lauie. secminKiy Huoeruumiiy in '"',
educated, I could not help seeing ot a 6MJ
that ho was ono of the most gtaceful canctn
on tho llttlo floor. ,
Owen Johnson has started his fourT&l,
boys Into the whirl of mad glad New York
In this month's Everybody's (4). First off,
tho hero has an encounter In her 5th ovenut
drawing room with tho younger sister of th
young lady ho has called to see:
nV,1, .lm., lj-niiir mrt T'.ri TntnlV thfl tef
.1.- II.. x-...',l..i, on., vnll thought
. .1.11.1 T. -IT 10 i Tnnnarv. Dt
course, they'vo told you I'm a terro;l
"VMi
nodded, which seemed to pieaso nur.
ii. They had to keep mo away till Dolfj
ted the Duko. Havo you seen himT W"!-J
Hat's a Duke, nil I'vo got to say Jjl
I iiiii
hooked
u iiiutn iv wunr, iii "- " -,-uirip
think ho's a muff. Of courso you re wallinr
im a ,1
k ho's a muff. Of courso youre wu:
for Doils, aren't you? Well, a Jolly WWJ"'
it, i...n , nn-lu fu unlnKhintr tuuuu-
,i. . .....I .ini.int. iii,n Roma in m
iimoiiK inu unit," ' ),"' ,-, von'rti
.,,,,iHi t lilro vnn. von'ro all right, af""'!'!
not like a lot of theso fashion plates tB"
come In on tiptoes. One tiling a m ".
you, you don't wear spats. ,
... i , i w iiia wadding.
"1 suppose youro iiiiuio ," - ",,h thW
ho asked, "or uro you through with t l
hoarding school?" "Didn't you near ?.
hoarding school- "uiau '"X, rteneJi
this?" sho said with
sho said wun a mucu iu .- j r
hair.
Tney women inn in tuMi- --- v
AndwhenHieysaldleh
l i
said I wouldn't.
vhen tney " ": i
,-self, 'I'll nx them 9.
como out, I Bald to my
Bald to inyaeii, '" ,."" halr
can't como out.' nnd I haciceu ou . - ,.--
and now If the plaguy om B"'"'T'h"rd; yoa
ten around to bobbed lialr! What o f
think?" -
ITALY AND THE MUSS 1
From lh New York Evening Poit. j
tYte viintriiv mil lUDiuuii -..- -- - -
A Ttnlv nilcht say:
Man wants but little
Ilerr Buelow.
m
UPON THE HOUSETOPS
. . .. . . n m tii a North
"Alone upon me nuuseiui, " ,1 ,h-tkrr ,
nd watcn me ii6'" ',;" worth.
our of thy
Come back to me,
..t,.i, m f.et the still bazaar la lld'
Far, far below the weary came
The camels and the captives of tl
Come back to me, Beloved, or
"My f.thej-a wife U old and harsh wKMl
And aruage oi mi ny !"".",";;, ttart,
My bread is sorrow and my drink Is t"
. . a - ClAlniia1 fit 1 DID
Come pac iu .., """""Klplttf
A MAN IN OUR TOWN
There was a man In our town
Invested all his health.
With madly avaricious aim.
To win the goal of wealth.
And when the same he had attain,
wlih oil til mlirht and main.
He vainly lavished all bis weaitb
To U hU beUh, again.
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