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The tico noble it things, whtch arc sweet
ness and Hoht.Bwlft.
Tho Mayor decides that Brond street must
bo "lit up," too. (
As the cold wave comes In the crip norms
BO out. (lood-byl
Gasoline Is going up ngnln, but tho snlc of
automobiles continues unabated,
Tho Kaiser has sent tho Sultan a swon),
but to Constantino It was a wife.
It Is Within tho power of Congress to de
clare war on Mexico If It Is so disposed.
Tho Austrlnns have taken Ccttlnje. In
fact, they toko everything they can get their
hands on.
8omo Germans havo been found working
la tho vicinity of Wilmington, yet the nation
still survives. '
Thcro may bo worse criminals than black
mailers, but tt would bo dllllcult. to 11 nil any
more contemptible.
The St. Louis Park Commissioner knows
tho best place to como when bo wants to
learn how to develop a park.
It Is claimed that Roosevelt did not dis
cover tho "Illvor of Doubt." Maybe not, but
ho certnlnly made It famous.
Judge Sulzberger was saluted In eighteen
languages. Including that of rcgrot, nt a re
ception to commemorate his retirement.
Perhnps Mr. Knox would be too good a
President to bo n good candidate. States
manship and voto-pulllng seldom go together.
There may bo a few Armenians left when
the Turks gets through with them. The
buffalo, for Instance, Is not entirely extinct.
The official denial of tho Kaiser's Illness
Is also evidence of the fact that his physical
condition Is not nt all good. No ruling king
is ever very sick until ho Is dead.
Somo Kentucky nlght-rldors havo been sen
tenced to five years In Jail. First thing wo
know somebody In Texas will bo hanged for
taking part In a lynching bee.
Tho opposing attorney would say that von
Bethmann-Hollwcg's reply to the United
Press' question about the nature of the
"Kaiser's Illness Is not responsive.
"Billy" Sunday wants to know what busi-
3sss anybody has to criticise his slang. What
eed Is there for nnybody to crttlclso any
Klng when "Billy" Sunday himself Is thero
t do It?
Perhaps that old soldier who excused his
drunkenness by saying that drink was hi
only friend might have had more friends If
he had not been so friendly to drink. Tno
rule usually works that way.
Why have such a thing as national defense
when It Is posslblo Instead to have a million-dollar
postofflce at Podunk? "Defense
less and senseless" seems to be the slogan
of the never-be-ready advocates.
M'LIss has strong backing In her refuta
tion of the charge that woman is the world's
greatest failure. Thero are some people. In
deed, who are untvHltng to admit that a
woman can be the greatest anything.
It Is announced from London that docu
ments taken from Captain von Papen prove
that he paid Horn to blow up the Vanceboro
bridge. The former attache was proceeding-
home under a safe conduct, but appar
ently It was not very safe,
We are not surprised when a ls-year-old
bey and his youuger sister put out a fire In
their home because we expect human Intelli
gence from them. We reserve our astonish
ment for the time when a dog or a cat gives
the alarm In time to save his master.
The Crar, In whose country New Year's
Day Is always a little late, has issued a
proclamation In which he says that the
breasts of his soldiers have formed "an In
vincible shield of protection for the father
land," They have plenty of heart, but little
artillery.
In; his special cable to the Evening Ledger
yeaterday, Vves Ouyot, the French ecp
notnlst, discussing trade relations with Ger
many after the war, pointed out 'that there
must be free trade among the Allies them
Halves, "and to this must be added the ap
jsiicallon of tariff pressure to the various
states comprising' Germany and Austria.
This Is the only way o prevent 'dumping
u4er protection of customs charges." All
Jturope, obviously, is planning to do Us
"dumping" In America, with the assistance
of the Democratic party. Forewarned Is
forearmed.
yhe humiliation and murder of Americans
l Mexico was inevitable from the moment
fct the Wilson Administration refused to
MJfeaize the only Government that poa
Ifjwcd uny real" power in that miserable
oastaAry- The following months of mollycod
4t diplomacy, of the Bryan type, strength-
th coatempt In which our nationals
jtV hM ky to natives. That in the result
tfjg ae dtp " b ricMf-4
retary Knpx may have believed in "dollar
diplomacy," but It was lh.e Vn& of diplo
macy that lifted Nicaragua' out of the mlre.
toumanltarlanlsm becomes the most brutal
of nit Isms when It prepares the ground for
barbarism and anarchy.
HOW MUCH FOIt AN EDISON T
man pnta Ilia own price on hlmatlfl i
mnrhinr la nlnuya n marhlnr. Thf nlll In no
la Incnlrnlalilr wrnltli. Tn thr man who uM
hla lira In nil Hi I nan nrrpnaMhle.
A MAN with $7900 could go into tho auto
mobile show and buy tho most expensive
car on exhibition
It would lake much moro money to buy
tho most vnluablo animal exhibited at a fnsh
lonablo horso show. C. K. G. Billings paid
$G9,000 for Lou Dillon, or more than enough
to buy seven of tho finest cars In Convention
Hall.
Lou Dlilon Is a living creature, with nil tho
potentialities ot llfo within her. An auto
niobllo Is merely n machine. Tho horso can
co-opcrato with man and do her sharo 'of In
telligent work. The machlno can do nothing
of Its own volition. It Is dead and Inert, un
less a man has his hand on the throttle It
nets as If It were nllve, but all Its simulation
of life comes from the action of the brain
thnt mnilo It and tho hand that manipulates
tho valves and lovers.
Tho machine commands admiration. Its
silent power, as It moves over tho pave
ments, Is awe-lnsplrlng. Its ability to climb
tho hills and burn its way over the roadi as
tiro runs through stubblo makes a more man
envious of Its ability to cover great distances.
But the motorcar Is only one of tho tunny
products of tho human brain. It existed In
a man's mind before It was materialized, tt
hns mado a new business where none existed
before, and this business Is so extensive that
tho men engaged In It herc have spent $53,000
this week In advertising It in the local papers.
' Thcro are other machines ns marvelous
as tho automobile. Tho linotype machine,
used In sotting the type for every largo news
paper In tho country, Is almost automntlo
In Its operations, and It is sometimes called
Intelligent, but It has no more Intelligence,
thnn tho man who sits at Its keyboard Tho
machine Itself did not know enough to ad
just the expansion and contraction of tho
pot that holds the molten mctnl used In
casting tho type, nnd the metal pot would
crnck nnd put tho machlno out of commission
until it wns repaired. A mnn had to como
to the help of tho mnchlno. Ilu ilovlscd a
way of beating the metal by. electricity ap
plied Ih tho center of tho mass, so adjusted
ns to distribute the wnrmtli uniformly. And
In order to prevent the overheating ho ar
ranged nn nutomntlc switch which will turn
on tho heat when It falls below a llxed mini
mum and turn It off when the maximum, ten
degrees greater, Is reached.
"In Franklin's day," said n machinist who
wns ndjustlng rno of the electrically heated
metal pots, "electricity was untnmed. Now
we've got It cnllng off our hands."
No one should exhaust bis capacity for
wonder over the things that men have done
with Inert mctnl nnd the forces of nature.
Man htiB wrought grentcr hinrvcls with' him
self. Fifty years ago no one who looked upon
a certain sickly, asthmatic, nnrrow-ehestcd,
nenr-slghted llttlo boy would have expected
him to become ono of the most vigorous men
of his time, both physlcnlly and Intellectually.
,But Theodore Roosevelt wan thnt boy. Ho ro
mombcrs being carried from ono place to
another by his pnrents, who hoped to find
some spot where ho could breathe. His sight
was so poor thnt ho went stumbling about
until It was accidentally discovered, when he
whs 13 years old, that he needed glasses. Ho
decided to rcmnko tho weak body with which
ho had been born. He succeeded so well that
It is doubtful If any man of his years In the
country Is more vigorous or nblo to stnnd up
under a harder physical or mental strain.
What Booscvclt hus done with bis body Is
moro wonderful thnn anything that Inventors
have" done with steel. By grim determina
tion nnd resolute effort he fitted himself to
live the llfo which ho wanted to live.
Alexander H. Stephens, afflicted with bodily
Infirmities that ho could not overcome, re
fused to permit them to overcome him. He
became one of tho ablest statesmen of his
day and ono of the most powerful leaders
of his party.
Francis Parkman refused to permit his fall
ing sight to prevent him from completing a
monumental work on American history.
Robert Louis Stevenson, dying for years
from an Incurable disease, remained captain
of his soul and forced his feeble hands to
respond to his Indomitable will, and Lincoln,
handicapped as few boys aro now handi
capped, persisted In his determination to
know things until he had mastered all the
books In tho sparsely settled country for 20
miles around.
He did not say "Ah, what's the use. I never
can amount to anything because I ain't got
no chance."
He did not look around for some one to
give him an opportunity, but he made his
awn opportunities, and when the time ot trial
came the nntlon found a man ready to Its
hand qualified to stand the strain put upon
his honor, his patriotism and his statesman
ship. The will to do and to dare murks the differ
ence between a man and a machine, and be
tween the man who does things and the man
who complains because he has no chance.
An automobile may bo worth $7900 and a
trotting horse may sell for 160,000. But who
can measure the value of a man?
If Edison were put' up on the block at auc
tion, what would he bring at a forced sale?
Grant, the tanner, did not seem to be worth
much to any one, but Grant, the compeller of
victory, was worth billions to the nation.
The value of a, machine depends on the use
man can make of It. The value of a man
depends on the use he can make of machines,
the raw materials of nature and other men,
and no bear market can prevent him from
making himself worth as much as he chooses.
MAYOIl SMITH SELECTS A SITE
TUB Convention Hall site selected by the
Mayor, on the Parkway between 21st and
Md streets, is wjthlp three pr four hundred
feet as near the City Hall as the site at 24th
and Chestnut streets, recommended last
spring. It is farther from the hotel district
and it is not so accessible by street car. Yet
it is within a reasonably short distance of the
heart of the city find can be reached quickly
by automobile, either Jitney or taxi.
The Mayor regards it as by far the best
site yet suggested. The advocates of the
early erection of the hall may not agree with
him. but they are doubtless wise enough
to co-operate in persuading Councils to
go ahead and direct the early erection
of the building. There never will be
general agreement on any site because
all that have been proposed bave faults.
What the city needs is the hall, and it needs
It without any More delay, even if jsoim po
il do set Wuh the sits sUct4.
Tom Daly's Column
LiTTIjR alBTER'H HEAV
Mv Utttc sitter has a beau
She's 'very fond of whom '
It is the otoccr's boy, you know
That rworks for Mr. Orootn
And mornina when he comes to get
Our order he vHll oiy
Ttefofe hcs scarce got there vet
"f,VeU how is she today."
At first when he addressed her so
I really was inclined
To froicn upon such talk, you know
nut now I do not mind.
Of course if it tent serious
Such cttnduct would not do,
Hut we don't care to make a fins
For she is only two.
And anyway I'm sure he fcnoiM
lie must not hope that he
Can be as friendly when she prows
To be a maid like me
And so J smile upon the lad
Whene'er I hear him say
With cheery face that makes her glad
"Well, how Is sho today."
LlTTt.ti POLLY.
Whenever we open a contribution begin
ning, "Of nil tho ensy Jobs, n Job like yours
Is tho easiest," wo know It's sttro to bo ono
of those dull episodes that keep tho Job
from being the ensy thing It might bo.
Lines on the Ease of Column Writing
Wpbiter linn tlin word, nnd t
Pick them up from where they lift
Twist and tut n them one by om
And rIvc tlicni plnces In the Hun
Here n word, nful there n wortl
It's io cnBy 'tis nbsttnl!
I merely range thorn In n row,
Wehsttor'a done the work, you know!
Word follows word, till .null bv Inch,
I hnvp n column I What a clttchl
I tnke'tlie words Hint Webster penned
And merely lay them end to end I
Don Murqula. In NVw York Ecnlni; Sun.
Lazy fcllnwl Shiftless youth I
Shall ice take your Hues for tiuthf
Is your woik, from day to day,
Done in such it slfji-sftotf uayt
It is not enough, my friend,
Juit to lay iLords end to end.
When that little job ii throuyh
Theie'i another you should do
Take those woids apart aoalnl
Clean up all the mess and then,
Like a printer at the case.
Put each word back in its place.
sc
IOMR dnys ago we ventured the opinion
thnt' tho Philadelphia Directory for 1789,
or thereabouts, would nssny Homo rich stuff,
nnd hero comes Dr. W. It. Fisher, of Mon
roo County, with a rare ropy for our In
spection. Tho book was edited by Clement
Blddlc, nnd was published for him by James
& Johnson, at M7 High street. In tho year
1791. Tho thing Is rather disappointing, for
we find In the casual glance allowed us less
of Interest thero than we hud expected. The
pages nro full of big names, of course, for
Philadelphia was then tho capital of tho
nation, and G. Washington's White IIouso
wns on High street, which as every ono
knows Is now Mnrkct. But bojond that
only these Items seem to uh worthy of
notice:
Tho cltv extend neurlv three niltiM, north nnd
pouth and one mile In from the Del ware.
Dock atrcet la the only ernokcil street In the
city.
Ilmry Kiijiler, fnrmer. irn Nnrlh Third ntreet.
Tlierp wni hut ono tlenth laat Hummer from
ilrtnktnir rohl water, whereiia eoino 5 earn ncn 1!0
haa not hcen an uncommon numher from thte
single cnuco.
Some of us, curious about tho ways of
our ancestors, may bo Interested to learn
that a city ordinance provided that "every
chimney sweeper shall havo and receive for
overy chimney swept by him and passing
thrower1 two stories or under, 9 pence; for
three stories, 1 shilling, and1 for four or
more .'torles, 1 shilling 6 pence."
Careful count of tho two lending families
of the day shows: Smiths, 82; Joneses, 42.
Mr. Dnly'a 1230.000 prl poem. "To a
Thruh." In the "Lyric Year." I'Aoenlxvllfr Re
publican. We'd thunk tho Republican for that extra
cipher, but It gets us 0, Yet, on the other hand.
It offers an opportunity to call nttentlon to
the delightful brcezlness of Emma S.
Chester's column In that paper and there's
a real Joy In that.
"What Every Woman Knows"
"Over the door of a 'gents' ' furnUhlng store
on Ridge avenue," writes Doan Tewsman Ame,
"I noticed the following sign:"
MENSWEAR
The Perfect Movie Show
The girl who sold the tickets said, "How many,
please?" and pmlled.
And didn't let her face suggest a lime;
The ticket chopper's countenance full manly was,
and mild
He didn't chew tobacco all the time;
The ushers all were Mary Plckfords, dainty and
demure,
And did not romp, like -Ty Cobb, down the
aisle,
The seats were adults' alie, the air within
was fairly pure;
No apoonerB mushed, and clasped their hands
the while.
The pictures bore no captions, read out loud by
people 'round ;
The hero looked a decent chap enough;
The villain smoked no black cigars, no long
lost will was round;
There were no "comlo capers" or "rough
stuff."
And nobody blew up a mlne there was no mine
to blow
And not a plztol figured In a scene ;
There was a sort of plot for such, as had the wit
to know.
No Cable Forms (paid adver.) marred the
screen.
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And when the features ended you were told
that you were "through"
In ways that made your self-reBpect rejoice;
And you weren't "chased" by pictures of creek,
tuning In Peru
Or tortured by "The Organ With a Voice."
The drama's power had thrilled you and the
comics were a scream
The btat )OU'd ever seen, without a doubt,
And then an usher 'woke youj the darn thing
bad been a dream
You'd slept all night, and doped the whole
thing out
A. A.
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Very Well, How'a This Position?
Dear Sir
This simple stuff I send.
And though ill fate forfend
And keep it dowp. I'll bend
My humble knee
With dignity,
If it but mark the end.
Will Lou W.
" We make you the penultimate. Will Lou
W because if your signature appeared at
the very bottom you might be accused of
all the other Crimea kbve mt otherwise
fttttSaW or iaJMwi.
' THE TWO PHAYER3
A youth stood with uplifted arms and faced the
rising; sun.
"O God," he prayed, with earnest eyes, "ere my
short day be done,
O Ood of fiower. grant me power! O God of
strength, gtnnt me strength
To forge my way to fame, to clnlm ft conquer
or's crown nt length.
Till when death's shadow creeps n-ncar my name
may show on high
Peerless nmld earth's mightiest then could I
Bayly diet"
A mnn, still strong but tamed by care, by tem
pering sorrow tried.
Knelt, ere he slept. In humbleness, a spirit
purltletl.
"Grant, God of Love," he murmured low,
"grant mo the power to love,
The power to lighten tired hearts, the power
cold hearts to move,
Tho sense compassionate, nnd cro my working
soul tnkes night.
Let me forget myself, to wako sun-startled by
Thy light."
-Harper's Weekly.
WALTHER RATHENAU,
CHIEF OF INDUSTRY
The Man In Charge of the Business
End of War in Germany Ca
reer and Personality of
an Efficiency Expert
AL(
JCXi
LONG with talk of military prepared
ness we hear talk of Industrial pre
parednessfor war. There's doubtless some
thing In It Industrial resources havo to be
mobilized, ns well ns aimles, when wur
breaks out. England,
wo nro told, has had
n good deal of tintible
In mobilizing her In
dus t r I a I to'ources
Germany fared bettrr.
Germany was pie
pared. The success of
the Germans In the
flctil and their still
moro rcmnikiililp suc
cess in mainUilnlng n
nation cut off ftnm
commerce with the
rest of tho world nie
duo. largely tn tho or
ganization of industry
under scientific diicc-
tion. A year nnd ti half wai.tiiku hatiip.nai-.
ago the Kaiser's Min
ister ot War called Upon Dr. Walter Hnthc
nnu to tnke chnrge of tho manufacture of war
material His greatest achievement is tho de
velopment of the process of making nitric ncld
from tho nitrogen nnd avygen of the air by
means of tho electric spark. This provides
the nitrates necessary for ammunition and
agrleultuie, nnd ficcs Germany, probably
permanently, fro t icr previous dependence
on tho Hrltish ill' ..te beds of Chill.
Xo wooden otllgles have been erected In
Germany In honor of Walthcr Ilatlicnnii, but
this man has done more than nnybody olso
to organize Industry for war time and con
serve the food supply, nnd that Is a task
ns wonderful and important ns that of tho
generals in tho Held. Tho purely business
Hiilo of the war was Intrusted to Rathcnnu,
president of the General electricity Com
pany, of ' Iicrlln, and son of tho "electric
king," Km II itathenau. Ho Is a Jew, still In
tho early forties, nnd stands 6 feet 3 Inches In
his stockings. Ho Is an electrical engineer,
a banker nnd a man of Intellect and culture.
The Business End of War
Occupying n suite of four rooms nt tho
Ministry of War In Ttcrlln, into which ho
moved with his assistants Ave days after
Great lliltalt) declared wnr on Germany in
August of 19 H, Walthcr Rnthonau, a
giant In stature and a prince tn tho business
world of tho Fatherland, lost no time In set
ting up his wonderful artillery of efficiency
to reply to the British campaign of "attri
tion." This war. In the British mind, was
not to bo fought by British soldiers. Brjtlsh
sailors wero to have finished their labors
when they had cleared the seas of enemy
vessels of commerce, and by cstablshlng a
blockade of German ports had cut off the
subjects of Emperor William from getting
food supplies nnd raw materials necessary
to dally life and for the manufacture of mu
nitions of war. It was Rathenau who an
swered the blockado edict.
German preparedness was a division of
labor. Hlndenburg through many years of
peace, obsessed with tho Idea that Russia
would Borne day try to march upon Berlin,
fought like a. madman against the proposed
drainage of the Mfc- urian Lakes In East
Prussia, nnd thus saved Germany from a
permanent Invasion as well ns prepared tho
stage for one of the greatest battles of his
tory at Tannenburg. Mnckensen, in his pro
fessor's chair at tho War Acndemy In Ber
lin, meditated upon the possibilities of an at
tack upon the British Empire through Ser
bia and Turkey, Falkenhayn, while the pet
of royalty at Potsdam, was formulating the
masterful strategy which placed him at the
head of the great General Staff when 'the
best man was needed to rescue the country
from threatened annihilation. Walter Rath
enau, Inheriting his father's business as di
rector of n corporation capitalized nt $1,000,
000,000 (which ho bad served himself in every
department, beginning as a workman In
overalls) was using hla leisure to build up a
commercial fortification for the Fatherland
in the event ot war.
Mining on the Housetops
To obtain materials Belgium and Northern
France, conquered in the first weeks of the
war, were inventoried and an enormous in
dustry in warehousing and shipping their
metals nnd textiles was organized with In
credible speed, Poland added Its store of
wealth last August. And there have always
remained partly open a few doors leading
Into Germany from Scandinavia and Switz
erland. But these auppllea all put together
were not enough to wage war for an Indefi
nite period. Rothenau had to get most of
what he needed from Germany.
Upon the roofs of the houses and the fac
tories he discovered millions of pounds of
metal which can be made Into munitions ot
war, a reserve supply which he has so far
tapped only tip to 2 per cent. It Is enough
to last him. for years. Steel nnd zinc, which
are plentiful in Germany, were substituted
for copper and tin, which could not be ob
tained. Saltpetre, without which ammuni
tion could not be made, according to-theory,
was likewise a forbidden import. To replace
it scientists, working Imder Doctor Rathenau
discovered a chemical process to take ni
trates from, the air, a substitute declared to
be better than the original Potatoes have
taken the place of wheat in bread, and by
the system of distribution no more will be
consumed than can be supplied at home.
This' is the case In respect to every article
used by the people or the soldiers. The direc
tor of all tbla work of orsanizatlpn and eco
nomic, maintenance of tee nation is Doctor
KtbttaU.
fa j!" 63
HATS" ACCORDING TO IHJE L0CA
Favorite Foods of Different Cities and Countries Gastro
1 -1 r .1..ir. rutin nirliniilrma alirl ilio CUl!-.-
THERE Is no accounting for tastes. Somo
people nro said to consider salted water
melon a great delicacy. Tho man who salts
his watermelon Is of n kind with tho ono
who wears a sky-blue necktie with a shirt
striped with pen green nnd Tyrlan purple,
nnd novcr knows that ho hns made anybody's
flesh crawl. It certainly Is not entirely In
warring countries that atrocities occur. In
neutral Iceland codfish Is dried, ground Into
powder and made Into bread. Certain
Orientals aro said to like earthworms served
In n snuco made of wood lice. That is all
right for them If they llko It. As Lincoln
said about tho panorama, "For thoso who
llko that sort of thing, why it Is tho very
thing they like."
And snallsl "All snails nre edlblo nnd nu
tritious," snys Canon Horsley In n book on
British land and fresh witter molluscs, nnd
If you see It In n book It must be so. He
goes 011 to say that even tho common or gar
den snnll, though Insipid, Is nB nourishing
ns calf's foot Jelly. Thero Is a large whlto
shellcd snnll called Helix pomatla that Is
commonly enton by connoisseurs In tho south
of Englnnd, while all over France, Italy and
Spain several species nro used ns food. In
Franco theru nro mnny snail farms, which
yield a good profit to their owners. In tho
French nnd Itnlian ciunrtcrs of New York
snails mnv be bought, either nllve or cooked,
nnd nt most of tho French lostnuntnts they
nro scrM'il, "esonrgots farcls" being iho most
usual form of the dish. Snails nro easy to
tnlso In largo quantities., They need llmo
for making their shells, but they do not navo
to be fed, its they cull find their own food,
whlrh Is inclusively tho leaves of many
plants. They -nro most delirious when
properly prcpated and cooked, nnd, as Canon
Horsley says, us nourishing as calf's foot
Jolly.
Gastronomy and Geography
Xntlons may he distinguished aecordlng to
tho foods popttlnr In each. It was not by
accident that England became known ns a
nation of beef-eaters or Frnnce as a nntlon
of frog-caters. In England, whero food
economy Just now Is something of a problem,
It bus been rashly suggested thut a. lesson
be learned from Norway. Even tho fairly
well to do In that Scandinavian country look
on the habit of eating moat every day ns
"swank," and among tho country-folk It Is
almost cntlroly rcplnccd by cheese. But what
chceso! Cream cheese, yellow cheese, green
chechc, little round chooses, llko penny buns,
dotted with caraway needs, and last, but fnr
from least, the "gnmmclost," or old cheese. At
which hlrtjidny It enters Into tho full dig
nity of Its title cannot be said, but It Is no
bubo when It appenrs on tho dinner table,
and you need to bo a strong man to meet It
without lllnchlng. For Englishmen, perhaps,
a little would go a long way; but' what
higher' testimonial could ono give In war
time? Its fragrance Is not lightly rorgottcn,
and, given a fair wind. It can bo snlffod
ncross tho North Sea. A sniff, presumably,
will suffice.
America hns no national dish or delicacy,
but we distinguish nmong our cities and
Stntcs, according to gastronomic standards,
each city "or State malntnmlng an attitude
of superloiity over nil tho test. Philadel
phia has Its scrapple, Boston Its baked
beans and brown brend. Boston makes other
claims. It Is said that swordflsh Is so peer
less fn Boston that Its sale to tho rest ot
the country Is forbidden. Boston also con
tributes to tho contest tho Parker IIouso
roll. Sandusky, O., clnlms to have fur
nished at least tho name ot porterhouso
steak. Charles Dickens, according to the
story, was tho principal figure in tho chris
tening. When Dickens visited tho United
States In tho fifties ho spent iovcral days
at tho hotel, which at that tlmo was con
ducted by a man tamed Porter and was
known as tho Porter House. The author, for
his first meal, ordered a steak, and it was
put up for him in such style by Mrs. Porter,
the landlord's wife, that It struck his fancy.
Porter House steak was Dickens' favorite
dish while ho remained In Sandusky. On
tho way back to Now York Dickens spoke
frequently of his Porter Hoiise steaks.
Friends and acquaintances happening this
way stopped at tho Porter House and ate
steaks. In due tlmo chefs from several of
tho leading Eastern hotels Journeyed to the
Porter House and from Mrs. Porter secured,
for the mere asking, desired Information con
cerning the manner In which she prepared
the steaks. In this way the porterhouse
steak came Into existence so the story goes.
Elucidation of Comestibles
Oregon and Washington have a Joint title
to fame in the fine, firm meat of the Colum
bia River salmon. But cookery enters into
tho competition. Chicken halibut should bo
eaten at Gloucester or Norman's Woe, say
some who have sampled the handiwork of
the chefs of those localities, and look at this
ecstatic bunch of exclamations; "Chesa
peake, home of the soft-shelled crab and of
his hard-Bhelled brother! Diamond-back,
composed as only Philadelphia cooks or he
of Baltimore can blend theel Maryland
fried chicken I What an Elysium to spend
one's days fishing on the Western Shore
and one's nights feasting at the Baltimore
Club! That, that were quite enough to In
duce blessed forgetfulnesa of swordflsh and
halibut to the North, of tarpon to the South,
of tunny and salmon to the West, 'Is it
any wonder,' demands the Baltimore Amer
ican, 'that Maryland girls nre fair?' No, no
a thousand noes and here we nre, con
demned to slave in a desert of table d'hotes
in that city of strangers, alien Manhattan!"
Missouri has an annual "Fried Chicken
Day." Hut Indiana claims to be the fried
HAYES MECHANICS' HOME.
To the Editor of Evening Ledger:
Blr The Evening Ledger, of January U last, ,
had a full column publication describing the
hemes of the aged, the dependent old folk, shabt
by genteel and how well the city is taking
care of them, etc.
In that Hat of homes published by the Even,
ino Lbdobh you bad among them our vhotne,
the Hayes Mechanics'.
Now, sir, you are much mistaken la regard
to this home being taken care of by tbe city, or
State either. Our home here is supported by an
endowment In the will ef the late George Hayes,
and oy generou contributions of well-known
philanthropic ladies and gentlemen who are rich
In their own rights
Furthermore, we Inmates here object to you j Note The writer of the 'orlol"$Jf
classifying us as among the shabby genteel. ' mistaken in thinking that any rrttr5
knows we are genteel, but not shabby Our (fen was, elthe Intended or pads in v
hvrv oiia vina -ees us in ine wslikb or ma Hav uihnn . s Home ur ujij -r-
ciointns comey nrii-nanaea irom me jeacLng 1 to wnlcn be refers ll na'-" ""
department stores in town and besides that our , eluded in a list of rhariubui ana s
food U as good, it nt better, than what re t nstlttton la ta city. EtUter 94
iu-u vt M mi mm v., M.ff. ' )- 4f-at4 f
grapnicai ivivuiiico mc iuiv.,.uuu .. ., uumimp
Merits of Baked Beans and Terrapin
cnicKon atnto par excellence. Every 81S
Is fried chicken tiny In Indiana, gjl
uuiiiiuissuui j 1. 1 igu ciiiciten at Its bcst?ii
chicken as It can bo nnd should be u r
only In the Middle Wesl tnd South, anjfi
whero hns the art of fr ng It been tt
mastered ns In Indlnnn. New Englafiaji
frlensseed chicken, smnttinrrt.l t,i,.... w"S
, .....u v.,m.nen,s
chicken, but to fried chicken In Its beff
it Is n stranger. The cold storaee Mo,
I to which Eastern cities are condemned'Jj
not possess irying properties. Fried cfiw
Is the reliance nnd tho comfort nf ifcfe
try housewife In emergency. A fat pQlietl
beheaded, Its feathers removed. Il W..12TE;
membercd and tho pieces placed In tliSTffl
Ing pan before the unexpected guest haiiS
to think of dinner In nn hour or lesfjfS
the tlmo thnt unsuspecting pullet wajTpSi
suing, tho elusive bug It Is served sraoltlii
hot ipon the tnble with nil tho "falnS
crenm grnvy, hot biscuits and other toS?
Bomo dainties nnd Is fulfilling the hljBS
purposo Of Its being, that of glvJngjS
gratification to the Indiana appetite." J
What will Maryland say But wo spokS
scrapple. Scrnpplo Is so distinctively Jw
delphlan that to describe It as I'hltadete
set apple Is rank redundaney NevertheMi
thoro's n llttlo vlllngc In tho molinta133
West Virginia where scrapple Is known&Jtl
said that tho mountaineers spcoKlfcw
language of Shakespeare, for the forefatKSi
brought It with them an 1 nobody tooffa
away. Not long afco a Philadelphia trafjft
Phllndelphians do travel, don't theyffli
mnklng his way, saddla-back, up and
., .... ,l. ....- . .v!
mo jiiisses 01 mo moiiniain country when)
linked nf the dnnr 01 tbe irst.lnn1ln?Xi.
In the little group on the hillside and(aSSi
If ho might stay the night Hosplla'blyjS
was taken In, but warned that be mlgiifte
llko the breakfast nd what did ht$j
for breakfast' Sciappie Krrnpplo S
mountains of. West Virginia, for the w?3
ono of the early settlors tn that countryfe
horn nnd brought up In Germ ntownTjK
and the science and art of scruputlnflMl
been passed down from gcnei.ttlnn to KtnftS
tlon till the tlmo of tho Philadclphlan'sTtft
to Gcrinautown, W Va. dM
What Is tho gteat problem of today fjjj
cording to Professor Jung, nn nuthorivSf
gnstronnmlcs, tho question of when, howia!
1 :nt tn eat Is ono of the nm.it seilous1"
lems confronting tho nntlon. "The, h3j
nnd hupplncsH of our men nnd womenXj
says,' "rests on the abolition of the qaw
lunch counter, for ns 11 result of Imp?3i5
food, improperly caton. comes melaricfiilj,
nnd nfter melancholy ne-iily evcrytHjjjj:
Bring back tho good old home cooltlnsr.JIjt
n wife's love for her husband be bprnejy
by her cooking." Snys Meredith: "Civil!
man ennnot live without cooks." 1'rofew
Jung recommends that every man learnTu
cook for himself.
Cooking in Washington
That Is exactly what some men have do
In tho national capital tho Army nndiXiij
Club, tho Metropolitan Club, tho CoSi
Club, tho University Club und In fact v5l
club In Washington hns in the mcmberili
men who think that they are tho flncst'coOls
in tho World. Each nnd overy one of.thcf
has a specialty. One mnn can mal:e'tkm4
crab, another knows how to propare an'ilril
stcw, still another Is confident thatjft
method of concocting a Welsh rabbltjpJJ
duces a more palatable dish than thatwjflf
other person. Others can put sweetbreads
tho table to shamo their colleagues. Andse
it goes down tho list. (9n
James K. Jones, a lawyer of tho tojnj!
F. B. Conger, fonncr Postmaster of thejy
of Washington nnd now n contractor'sgSjl
nro Joint owners of a boat which is propellif
by gasoline. These gentlemen frcquejitfc
ganlzu little parties for trips dovnljSJ
Potomac. They go without a chcfW
usually their guests demonstrate their iS
to produce toothsome viands on the SJjp
stoves with which tho boat Is pro?g
About four years ago one of these EH?
"Tony" Richardson, bragged about his ajjjjjjl,
to cook a ham in champagne. Whores,
Mr. Conger snecrlngly remarked thajtj
could coo'k a ham In Ink, which anyunbfijjf
person, would decide was Just as '"''yiJ
hnm cooked In champagne. "In other worjtf
asserted Mr. Conger, "It makes no dlnj
what tho ham Is cooked In, for It wlllt
absorb the flavor of the material."
During tho last four years Mr. Congeryij
rf ninhni-Honn Imva tn l,n thC COllOGWl
expression, "chewed tho rag" over IhtlrJM
spective ideas. But finally a wager rcauip
and last Wednesday the test was ma.deJW
Conger bought eight stone bottles flllWffl
Ink, and Mr. Richardson paid for four flag
of champagne, and a small stove was rwm
and sot up In the establishment of tba Jm
maker Comnany. which is one of tne BW
ing places for newspaper correspond
nrmv nfflpAra Kenntnrs. memoers Vll
House nnd other Jovial people. The InK
brought to a boll and bo was the champaa
Mr. Richardson, being the advocate 01 (
nacno as tho best material in wnicn to
hnm. nlneert hla nork'ln the "wine Of FT
and Mr, Conger Inserted his In the but
black writinu fluid. Three or four,,
afterward the two cooks announced th
feast was reauy ror inose nu " -fsy
n too tl.a nrtll.mtti rf thft CUllnary &".&
..1 . n 1 n iv
two men. and during the next hour all VJ
tn thn parnhllshment. and there weftl
thun 100, were requested to state whl
ilia. iictMf.1 tt
Anrt thorn wns not a than who coukUl
scientlously say he could tell tne.d'!
I.,tan Ilia hnm rnnked in ink Sad !-
nnnlrsH In nhnmnairne. Unfortunately PTlrt
wVw..ww ... -.. -" - - t iLr'iUB
advocate of ink, he had argued tnat u
fellow "should be the Judge, and very
ally the oher fellow decided in his own
one of us has a separate room JJc,LSj
immaculately clean, ana steam '"",.,.-).
nnrt electric llchts: also washrooms, VH-g
toilets, etc.
The admission fees to come In here atM
tJVl ,n 17131 on.l (,. ,m nf nDDllCantS W" J
7?jjw "L-jj?" MSftSa
bo well known as reputable men wm j
We have members of the Mas ionic
as inmates, wbo couia oe :-. -LVfij
homes of that fraternity, et they "M
the required fees to come neru 7i
because ot the atsttnguisnea "- -
Mechanics' Homo bears tor in- "'
. .. .-.-, .. , ..... Mimiufl nere.
PhlladelDhla. January 14 AN "'