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THE TRIUMPH OF EQUALITY
fPHE reat wome .'s movement t( ok the
world by storm in the years before
the war. It shook us out of our old
elves and made us look around and study
the world anew. It had little to do with
the mere Retting of votes. Votes are at
best a tardy confirmation of social
changes that have taken place In tho
hearts of men years before election.
The revolt of the women was as much
a revolt against women as against men.
"It said to the young women of the eighties
nd nineties of the last century: Abandon
dollhood for womanhood, earn your own
money, marry when and whom you want
and demand the right to teach your chil
dren or have them taught the truth as
you see it.
Women accomplished a thousand re
forms before most of us knew there was
uch a thing as n woman's movement
tlrrlng. They won everything they
went after. They were at the heart of
the revolutionary movement in Russia.
- They struck telling blows at gluttony and
waste In food and drink. They reformed
their own clothes, scrapping the trivial
fashions of mld-Vlctorlanlsni along with
the mincing manners and slushy senti
mentalities of slave-market davs. When
they had won everything else they natu
rally asked for the Vote. And then the
old fogies of the world woke up and said,
"A dangerous new movement Is starting."
Sluggards, you were awake only In time
to see the ending of the movement and
the triumph of equality!
The women's movement was the back
fire of democracy. Just when the Tories
thought they had made a u.sefu! tool of
manhood suffrage by which they could
cheat men Into keeping themselves down
forever, democracy llred from the second
barrel of Its shotgun, l-'or a woman Is
the natural foe of oppression. Kvery
oppressor shelters a rebel In his house
hold his wife. A man may become hard
ened to the condition of the poor and
sick, but not his wife and daughters.
To say the women's movement is di
vorced from social and industrial Justice
la as foolish as to speak of a living body
divorced from blood.
To teach refinement of feeling Is th
mission of women in their awakening.
The clearing away of our slum and
weatshop swamps, a check upon the
foul talk and manners of camps and all
places where men are massed away from
women, these unit u UiuukiihI other re
fining Influences are "woman's sphere."
This persistent refinement appears wher
e'er woman suffrage Is In action or Is
discussed. The Pennsylvania Suffrage
Association has Just given evidence of
this fact In condemning the White House
pickets, who, of course, represent not
one-tenth of 1 per cent of women; who,
Indeed, represent no one but themselves.
But the argument of Anna Howard Shaw
In this case rests upon refinement as
much as upon expediency. "How would
you or I like to have a crowd of women
standing in front of our homes calling us
names?" she asks.
It, Is. not enough to have refinement In
,' our own homes. Nonpolltlcal woman
could be trusted to keep her own home
circle attuned to the message of good
books and music, could Inspire the giving
ft the alms that are given In secret and
the many subtle kindnesses which radiate
beyond a family to its friends. Hut what
can 'we not hope for when these good
deeds are allowed to spread out Into
the larger family of the community, and
thence are reflected throughout tho
State and- nation! To expect only politi
cal reforms through women's votes Is
)p almost to insult the movement and the
- Weaning of a woman. To give woman
'-kjjunshlp is simply to recognize the
iy ct that the average modern community
been made a safely civilized place.
41;?ut we need the votes ,of women to
:. thj world civilized.
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;;ANISH THE MILK DIPPER
Vf mHRCB disadvantages and dangers con-
;,'aw the pall and dipper method of
MMln milk, any one of which la more
k ,tJKcJnt warrant for the existing
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ttch llpahod and Insanitary I
service. They are the opportunity af
forded unscrupulous dealers of "watering"
their stock, tho fact that handling such
a dellcuto and perishable product fosters
tho spread of badtcrlal diseases and tho
fact that, even If tho dealer Iff honest,
homes nerved from the top of tho can
will get rich milk and other, In tho
majority, Will receive a product not up to
the Htandard In nutriment.
The wtatutu Is warranted, but It Is not
being obeyed. Kvll evasion has reached
the point that hundreds of dealers are
dipping out milk, particularly In tho
poorer sections of the city, where protec
tion Is most essential. It Is high time
lor arrests and prosecutions. The cm-
' saile against derelict dealers Just started
i liy Assistant Director of Health Maco
1 nl -Special Agent Simmers, of the Stato
Dairy and Kood Commission, must bo
pressed to a ciulck conclusion In scrap
ping all tin dippers. Speed Is necessary
now and vigilance In the future, for
pure milk Is one of the mainsprings of
Kond health. Contamination must stop.
PSYCHOLOGICAL MOMENTS IN
TKANSIT MATTEUS
WHKTlli:it th!
moment to
lis ! the psychological
negotiate and tatlfy a
lease of the new siibvas. as William
Draper Lewis suggests, depends on the
point of view.
If It Is desired to fasten upon the city
a lease which will turn the subways over
to the Itapld Transit Company on Its
own terms, this Is, Indeed, the psychologl
cal moment. S"o better Uims could be
i found. We are In the midst of raising a
national army and the thoughts of most
of the people, are concentrated on the war.
We are at the beginning of the holiday
season, when the thoughts of the rest
of them ate occupied with Christmas
shopping.
This Is Just the time to slip something
over.
If. on the other hand, It Is desired to
negotiate a lease which will be Just to
the city and to the Itapld Transit Com
pany no one wishes to be unjust to the
transit company no worse tlmo could
be chosen than the present.
There Is no need for haste. It Is
more important that the lease should be
right than thnt It should be executed
w.thout iluc consideration. It .s well
known that the present City Councils
will be In olllce only until the bi ginning
of the year and that the new Councils
will be under different contiol.
Can it be that the haste is dictated by
knowledge of this fact?
The proposed lease Is unsatisfactory In
many respects, not the least of which is
that its meaning Is In dispute. It should
leipilre no argument to prove that the
document should be so simple and clear
that there can be no doubt of Its terms.
Further, there is no doubt that Its pro
vision for a board of hlgh-salarhd engi
neers tg do the work for which the Public
Service Commission wascreated is mis
chievous and should be eliminated. Mr.
Twining still Insists that this Is one of
the best provisions In the document.
It will be several years before the sub
ways will be completed ready for the
opciatlon of trains. There Is time enough
yet to frame the proper kind of a lease.
The psychological moment when such a
lease can be framed has very clearly not
yet arrived.
MOKAL EFFECTS
rpili: attempt to tur
- has been redouble!
m the Italian flank
cd since Halg's vic
tory, and it Is finite credible that the
chief reason for this Is a Cerman hope
of overcoming the moral effect of the
battle of Cambral. The war has settled
down to a contest between "moral effects."
Thanks to the Cerman censorship, the
news of defeats Is very slow In reach
ing the Cerman ptople, and we thus gain
by the fact that when tho bad news does
eventually become public It has a most
terrifying effect, as they are never sure
how much Is being held back. It Is an
everyday occurrence at the front for cap
tured ofllcers to be amazed when informed
of successful Allied advances In other
sectors.
It would be well for us to Improve
upon the advantage we possess In having
truth-telling (iovernments by not ex
pecting too much benefit from victories
or too much loss from defeats. It Is a
civilian's fluty in wartime to Insist upon
accuracy of statement from tho.so with
whom he comes in contact. Public opin
ion Is a texture woven of a myriad pri
vate conversations, and the exaggerated
hopes or fears of the uninformed are the
chief menace to Its Integrity.
A MAN WITH A MIND OF HIS OWN
GOVKKNOIt I'KNNVI'ACKKK, in the
Installment of his autobiography which
will appear in the Kvknino 1,i;ui:i:ii on
Monday, writes:
In my fancies Homer fell below Vergil.
It may bu unorthodox, but I am of tho
same oplnlcii still.
This comment Is characteristic of the
Independent mental attitude of the man.
He had In his youth the courage of his
convictions even when they differed from
the generally accepted verdict of man
kind. He retained that characteristic
till the day of his death. As his story
progresses he puts down his own verdict
regarding men and events without regard
to the views held by others. This quality
Is making the document one of the most
Important contributions to contemporary
biographical Uteratuie which has been
made In ypars.
Is the Kaiser's peace proffer to the
Uolshevlkl written on a scrap of paper?
Maybe Hondsmlth may bo known
as "The Dandy Mayor" thirty years
hence.
The railroads and their employes
have put their grievances into tho hands
of the Administration. That Is' tho only
safe place for grievances In wartime.
Turks' defeats have begun to worry
the Kaiser. The Cerman people are free
from such worries. Their papers Just
leave out the news and print four-weeks-old
stuff about Italy.
In conjunction with the scheme of
wheatless weeks, Mr. I, Duwltt Aull.
suggests movleless Mondays, tangoless'
Tuesdays, wetjdlngless Wednesdays,
threatreless Thurs'days, fatlgueless Fri
days, ouseIes8Saturdays and solemnlesa
SuBdftya.
REPARATION FOR
LONG WAR NEEDED
Informed Opinion in London
Fails to See Early End
of Great Conflict
By GILBERT VIVIAN SELUES
Kiwlnt Corireimndenl til 12cnlne Ledger
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LONDON". N'ov. t.
TICK pretlotiH sections of this review have
Indicated tome, of the reasons which are
leading Informed opinion to prepare for a
war still comparatively long. The possibil
ity of a great thrust on the western front,
which will break through the Herman army
and ravel t up fin both Fides, does exist;
tho ability to win heights, to win victories.
Is certainly In our bunds. Decision nlone
have eluded us, and we mnv achieve them.
Hut when we deal with probabilities we
cannot count on such a break through un-It-si
we can show the reasons for It.
The phases of superiority have betn
the-v: Men, material, military thought and
Chilian sacrifice. In each one the fler
mans were temporarily superior to the
Allies and their superiority has bremght
them nothing, probably because In the third
Instance they were hampered by a political
Inferloilty whhh Is really shocking in a
civilized nation. Superiority In men and
niater'al they lind to such an extent thnt
they could eslnhlMi positions which even
now leave them free to move: and the great
"liject of our actlvlt Is to make them
Immobile, exeept for one direction back
ward. That explains the drive on Italy.
Superiority In thought they have bad III the
establishment of a unified control. Su
periority In Kiierltlce they still seem tn have,
although the sacrifice Is not voluntary, Is
State-directed and tyrannical. Mxcept for
the devastated regions, no country has sac
rificed 'so much as Germany. Compared
with her the three major Allies' are living
In luxury mid plenty. And e.u-h day of
luxury and plenty I an added day of
bloodshed inn tears.
For a jear I line watched the colls of
war wind tighter and tighter around Kng
la ml. And at the end of It some stray note
from Germany takes the scale from my
eyes and I fel that the war has hardly
begun to touch these Islands. They are
making sacrifices In men and treasure, as
much as any nation can he asked tf. bear.
Hut the realization that before the war Is
won something else inuft be sacrificed has
not ct come here. Thnt something else I
can only describe as the habit of civilian
life. It is the same thing that the I'nlted
States will have to give up. and she will
not have three years In which to do It. For
If we are starting where the Allies left off.
In the matter of conscription, t.f trench
warlare, of control of commodities, we must
also start whie they leave off In the mat
ter of sacrifices.
The Civilian Attitude
The civilian's natural attitude of mind Is
private, and the fine thing which this war
will not hrnnlt Is private advantage. For
a time Individual gain may persist, but he
fore the war Is over It will have to ko. The
moaning of that Is that little by little every
energy must be absorbed In war-making.
Too much Is nt slake to make exceptions,
unless It be for the few processes of peace
which must be kept going. Gr (dually Un
essential must be discarded: luxuries must
be given up; waste must stop. That the
Goxermnent will tnlte step- cannot be
doubted. Hut the citizen must be ahead
of the Government In this matter. He must
not only be prepared for sacrifice, lie must
Insist that the Government demand the
sacrifice. For It Is only when the authority
asks that sacrifice becomes equable and
Just. The German Government, which has
often shown Itself callous of the rights of
its subjects, has at least not made the tub).
take of asking or expecting unequal sacrl-
iices. i ne rich and the powerful have
managed to escape certain disagreeable
thlncs; but the general method Is that of
equal sacrifice for all.
in a war like this most men have onlv
the right to live, and that onlv until they
are called upon to die. They have not the
right to live well. Most women have the
right to ilo anything they choose, except
bo wasteful, until they are called upon to
work, Hefore twelve months are out tho
war will be making such demands upon us
that' we will regret passionately every hour
spent In work which was not war-work,
every thought which was not concerned
with the war It Is understood that flesh
and blood will not bear this concentration;
agreed that we must have our theatres
arid our little suppers. Hut we must stop
having our theatres and our little supper."
unless they are actually a relief to us after
work flone-esi-entlal work. We cannot
get through this war on the strength of our
dissipations In London or New York, or of
our Idleness and ease In Monte Carlo or
Florida. Nor can wo on our slackness In
smaller matters. Hefore the war ends we
shall hne to give up cerythlng e hob
dear; we shall have to give upmoi0 than
Germany has sacrificed.
And we shall hate, to ue Imagination.
The hesitant, step-by-step method of deal
ing Willi the internal affairs of a country
at war Is ruinous. Kittliener said three
ears, but Knglatid did not prepare for
three ears. If a three years' war bad been
in sight many things might hae been
done, but for somo reason the war has
always seemed too short to do the neces
sary things. In preparing for a three' years'
war It would have been possible, whllo
labor was still a tillable, to work over tho
whole, transport system of the ('nltd King
dom. It would have been plausible to re
arrange the methods of bringing frilt and
produce to market, so that the wastage of
tons of precious food would not have oc
curred hi 1017.
"Thinking Out" the War
As the habit of thinking of ore's self
passes, th habit of thinking for tine's self
must remain. It Is paradoxical but essen
tially true that with each Inroad on the
rights of the civilian the power of the
civil an grows greater. For every right the
Government takes away It gives a duty,
which is like taking away a popgun and
giving a howitzer. As the civilian's dutle.i
Increase he becomes more and more tho
decisive factor In the war. Jn Germany
the civilian has virtually no rights, for he
has been regimented ; and he Is powerful.
(He is. unfortunately, not fully conscious,
and he Is loyal.) The scale goes down until
in the I'nlted States, where the citizen still
rejoices in most of hi rights; ho Is powerful
only because we have been In tho habit
of listening to him and counting his votes.
The war power of the American civilian
will only begin to bo felt when the civilian
rights of the American begin to disappear.
It will bo then that the prime duty of
thinking the war out. of arriving at and
holding f.ist to right opinions, will be most
pressing. Speaking from observation of
Just that period In England, I should say
that America will be successful. For the
Imagination In us, which Kngllshmen are
Inclined to consider flamboyant, will pull us
through. Nor Is it likely that our Govern
ment will wait three years before realizing
the necessity of having an Informed public
opinion, as opposed to a merely patriotic
public opinion, on Its side.
Germany's advantage so far lias been
that she has a simple formula, an attrac
tive program and a good foundation of
education on which to work. It may be
that the education Is so good that It will
turn and rend her before the end. That
Is her lookout. What we need Is a well
Instructed civilian body; It is as Important
a contribution to the future welfare of the
world as our well-trained troops. For when
we turn from a review of the military
situation to some consideration of the pros
pects of peace, we find that the people of
the United States are occupying today the
most singular, the most powerful position
ever occupied by any people. Nations have
dictated peace; single Individuals have
wielded as much power, Never before hat
a people had tn Its hands the destinies
of the world.
And It Is precisely because so much
power Is In our hojids that we cannot af.
ford to delude ourselves for one moment
wun raise promises or victories and peace.
There are distinct reasons why we cannot
make peace ; one of them la that wa do not
I jret know our enemy.
I Tom Daly's Column"
Tin: viuhAQts l'or.r
Whenever it's a Saturday, an' all mv xcork
Is through,
There's stUl a patriotic Job or two for
mc to do;
An' walking forth nn Chestnut street to
day I got a clue
h'or wartlmn tunservatlon that Is posi
tively new.
I i)jay :ot grab a gun an' serve my comi-
try at the front,
An' so I look arounl to do sonic other
helpful stunt;
An' If upon my village rounds a chance
octMiM to me,
I feci as patriotic ai those lads across
the sea.
So that's the reason ivhy 1 smile an' xchy
my eye ts bright
I've made a great discovery that fills mc
n-tth delight,
A hint to one economy thai yet may win
the war:
Ono collar-button Is enough, so why use
any more?
There was a Yiddish gentleman who stood
upon the street
An' 4W those useful articles; an' there
I eh meed to meet
A thrifty individual, a shrewd .Vcio ;;i7-
land son,
IHm piicrd the buttons on the tray, an'
only purchased one.
"lieu pardon, sir," I said to him, "but if
you do not mind,
You've purchased one to wear in front,
but how about behind"
"My friend," said he, "I've dropped the
one I wore behind before;
Onu collar-button Is eriougn, st. why use
any more?"
He held me. with his glittering eye; I could
not choose but hear.
An' thereupon he stood an' spilled this
wisdom in my ear;
"You wear a second button there behind
your bloomln' neck
llccause you think your collar, if it isn't
kept In cheek,
Wilt Jump above your shirt-band, now, an'
climb up In your hair;
lint try to do nlthout it, an' you'll never
wear one there.
Here, come an' do your bit with r c. an'
help to irtii the wart
One collar-button is cnoti-jh, so why Use
any more'.'"
lie held me with his skinny hand, he held
me with his eye,
An' ruthlessly he lure away my collar an'
my tie.
lie sought my rearward button out, he
pried It loose; an' then,
He picked my tie an' collar up an' put
them on again.
He laid the button In my hand an' smiled
upon me: "There!
That's better in your pocket, an' yon save
the wear an' tear.
If everybody did the same, we sure would
win the tear!
One collar-button Is enough, bo why Use
any more'."'
THKKK'S no poetry in the linos
printed above, but there's more truth
than you may imagine. Tho thing actu
ally happened to us. We have been
robbed of our back collar-button! At least
It Is no longer biting at our spinal col
umn. It Is in our vest pocket.
Wo have promised to fry to get along
without it for a week; and we have been
asked, If this abolition of tho back button
proves beneficial to us, to pass on the
joyful tidings to you. Hut we needn't
wait. We know now what our report is
going to be.
At this writing we have been back
but toilless for six hours. We cannot re
member when we felt so light hi our
neck before. And our collar hasn't once
slipped Its moorings.
When wo were a kid we wore a peren
nial patcli of green upon tho skin cover
ing tho northern terminus of our spinal
system. It was verdigris from a brass
collar-button of tho cravat-holding kind
In vogue in thoso days. They were asso
ciated with white wing collars, and they
galled many a cheap dude.
if you're addlc'od to upstanding col
lars now you cannot hope for exemption,
for you'll need an anchor to hold your tie,
but If your customary collar's a lay-down,
you can melt that hack-button Into a bul
let for Wllhelm.
HUUKRT H. UHOWN, ono of tho army
of I'hlladelphiuns who have become suc
cessful New Yorkers, dropped Into town
tho other day and bought a lunch for us.
In return for which wo laughed at all
his stories ostentatiously and at ono witty
remark quito unexpectedly and, therefore,
heartily. He had been talking about
another Philadelphia lad who had made
good In Gotham and wo sAld, "Why, when
wo knew Bill he was having trouble to
keep the wolf from the door." "Well,"
said Mr. IJrown, "his trouble now Is keep
lug his poor relations from tho porta
cochcre."
IHTTVlt 8TU1W
"I icishf," in accents wheezy,
Said little sli.ycar-old,
"This med'eine wuz as easy
To take as takln' cold."
I'ltYING Into the private life of a pub
lic character is no part of a newspaper's
business; besides, we don't believe tho
correspondent who claims to have over
heard this conversation In the vestibule
of a Washington homo:
"Good-by, dear. I must hurry to tho
ofllce. What? You won't give me a
kiss?"
"Certainly not, Herbert. How can you
ask It? You who are forever lecturing
upon conservation und economy?"
"Don't bo foolish! Kisses don't cost
anything."
"No7 You've frequently said they cost
you a new bonnet or gown."
OUH own dear paper made a slight slip
the other day, speaking of "the Rev. Dr.
II. G. Wilkinson, president of the
Wnscniiitftoit (D. C), Missionary College."
This alien spelling of the capital of the
Republic suggests a few conversions that'
might follow the Kaiser's conquest of ui;
ST. LUDWIO SCHICKAQO
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MARK TWAIN'S VIENNA LECTURE
How His Strictures on tho German Language Were Received by a
Fashionable Audience Effect of a Democratic Amer
ican on Austrian Society
By CHARLEMAGNE TOWER
unhid States Minister
1SII7
IS
THU publication by .Messrs. Harper of
the letters of Mark Twain Is an event
of very unusual Interest, and, It may be
said, of peculiar Import men to the literary
world because of the oportunity which It af
fords us to make an Intimate acquaintance
wllli one whom everybody Knows in general
through "The Innocents Abroad" or "Huck
leberry Finn" or a hundred other sayings
and writings repoited and reread these
many yc.rs. ,
All these became public property long
ago; but we have now an entirely new
presentation of tho life and vicissitudes, the
Joys and sorrows of Samuel Clemens as
ho passed through them and felt them, as
ho described them while their Impressions
were still fresh upon his mind which brings
us Into contact, as never before, with tho
man himself.
Hero Is Mark Twain, portrayed uncon
sciously, we may say, by his own pen. A
life made up of eery kind of human ex
perience, immensely full of knowledge of
tho world ami acquaintance with men. The
narrative of It carries one through a whole
epoch of American history, and It is Cosmo,
polltan In the Impression that It reflects
from his contact with natives of every race.
In turning oer the leaves of these vol
umes ono Is reminded through some of tho
letters which they contain of an Incident
that Jias frequently been recalled with
pleasure by those who knew Samuel Clem
ens at tho time, one of the strangest
episodes of a singularly varied career which
was certainly not lacking In startling sit
uationsMark Train's visit to Austria,
where he spent the winter and spring with
his family in 1S9S and 1S9D.
His appearance there was in Itself a
great surprise, for It seemed llko a con
tradiction to find this fresh breeze from
tho Sierras penetrating Into tho conserva
tive and Intensely old-world atmosphere of
Vienna ; and. Indeed, Mark Twain had be
fore that scarcely approached, either In
interest or intellectual sympathy, the orbit
In which thoso people move, nor bad they
tho least conception of him. Their tradi
tions were not even vaguely known In the
world In which he had lived, neither was
he much acquainted with their habits of
thought of their dally life. And yet ho
went there to lecture to tho Viennese upon
the construction of the German language!
Only Mark Twftin Could Do This
Nothing In his whole literary achiever
ment exhibits so distinctly perhaps us thhj
undertaking the difference in character and
Intellectual quality between 'Mark Twain
and other men; for It may be said that
If another, who was governed by the or
dinary rules of human conduct,, had planned
a bhnllar enterprise It could, have been set
down with confidence as a failure from tho
start. In the case or Mark Twain it
proved to bo a complete success.
For, In winning the attention, even the
attachment, of the public ho was not sub
jected to the methods that are prescVlbed
for men In general. It Is' Inconceivable'
that any one else could do as ho did In
Vienna. The boldness of his announce
ment In Itself procured him an audience for
his first lecture from among tho Journalistic
and literary Inhabitants of the capital who
had some remote notions about the repu
tation ut home of the great American hu
morist, and not a few of those who are well
known socially at the court went, with a
certain curiosity more or less cynical, to
hear "what ho could possibly have to say of
their mother tongue whlcli he did not know
much about himself. So that at his llrst
uppearance he faced a roomful of people
whose sympathy, to gay the least, ho had
yet to win.
He Introduced hla subject by explain
Ing tothem that the German language
is In fact essentially Incomprehensible
and that In Its present form no human
belnc can safely use It who wishes to be f
unnirvww. i9 rcminaea tnMi that not
in h ... h.J t,u- -ml TZTl ..'
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GATE IN THE 1NDENBURG.LINE
to Aulrla-IIunrarv frnm
to lSIPU -
it In their Intercourse with each other, were
really able to grasp the meaning that It was
Intended to convey; for all of which he
was profoundly, sorrowful. And bo inti
mated that It was his sollcltudo for them,
as well as his conviction that something
ought to be done at once, which had
brought him over from America upon this
errand. Ha declared that tho vnmanage
able composite words which had dis
tracted the Viennese throughout their
Ives thus far. as well as the involved and
Interminable sentences so detrimental to
their national progress, must all be dis
entangled In order that the language might
have u natural development as a vehicle of
human thought; that-this was his mission
and this the task which he was about to
undertake.
He had provided himself for the occa
sion with a few German sentences by way
of examples of tho defects to which be
alluded and In Illustration of the methods
by which he Intended to carry out his re
forms; but, as these were so )ong and so
Intricate, ho announced that the hall In
which he was speaking did not afford him
spaco enough In which to manipulate them,
but ho Invited his audience to accompany
him to a neighboring bridge, whero ho
nilKht spread them out and glvo to each a
proper length and a reasonable Grammati
cal composition by which Mils hearers
should bo ablo to estimate at a glance the
Immense value of the reform which he
was about to Introduce. "And then, ladles
and gentlemen." lie exclaimed, "you will
bo able to understand what Is being s-ild
when you speak to each other!"
Discovered He Wus Not a Buffoon
Nothing of the kind had ever been heard
u Austria before. or anywhere else, for
er.rkT,,3,,aU,l,(Ilcowa(
-..... ,,ul ,ey began to discover as
he proceeded that this man, with a nrso
head and somewhat disheveled l,ar a
droning voice and an Imperturbable sel
possession, who looked at them with
twinkling eve as he let r.,,i u
a Hhancr'tlctamhor touched wUh"." there
upon the weak spots n human i.,SarcaHm
evidently not a mere ...J? "ature. was
contrnry for haWng "aPd " 'he
from the strict construct 'on o? thT? n"'
language with which he m,,i v, h nerm!
entertaining them bef" ufnwUh ?f
ous descriptions and with TwdrnJi 1,um"r
with flashes of wisdom that , i'?1"' n""'1
to any people or to any onVue ' Cnnned
This was characteristic nt X , -who
was. Indeed. In " sense ,ak TwaIn'
was by nature In ensely wn(T bZ"? He
fellow men, he had a facility V l,ved,nl"
them and understanding Lm whlclf 'nt
exceptionally his own. HeS l, ch waH
noted Incidents as othermen'dofb" LS"?
ho saw trans ated Itself bv J? Ulat
that was either gwteuo or humoTn?"0"
subtle in detecting human tra " Rm Tn r
way that fastened the attention nn,i " a
voked mirth. It caused him nnd Pro
fort; It was his InstX " " me,,,al '
Tho Viennese, who stn.iu,. ,.,
iZWr. c.tof'. t"n we 'CI'1 ,'"
have been In the habit of doinL" e,"a
because he was a stranger to them dX2Zl$
In his discourse the wit o a tn 1"
critic, which. In fact, he -was? as win I''
the clear Insight of an observer who who8
laughing at the Incidents of life abom m"b
did so with the tact nnd percemion nt"1'
man of the world. He galJeS thi ?na..La
lion, ana with It came their good win
They accepted hhn Anally and alma '
recognize In him a Lachender I'hllotsoph.
"Liebling" of the Viennese
As tho winter passed Mark Twain b
came a familiar figure In tha Viennese Jn'
clal world, whither his repuWlor Tharf n"
ceded him and had opepJd the doom' to
prepare, a welcome, no Inconsiderable m
of which was due to his having estahtiiif i
his family there amid urrfundnbii8h
a moBt winning and attractive domeii
life. His home .was graced by the M!
ness and refinement of Mrs. Clemen- ... V
With her two younT,dauhte.rn taking th.n:
rvart-ln the, and. I oelvl.U. 2, II!" ,n.br
t.w. .... sw ,Us,ui s.uiutni taxing thale 1 their own aaae must ioixb ma issue.
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What Do You Know?
QUIZ
I. What Is iintlnusto?
'-'. Define ut-wultoitT. '
.1. Why Is it ptufiofortff so railed? 1
1. Who Niild. "I would riithfr be rlnht tttu t
President '?
S. Ill wlni t class, iiiidrr the new nrlrrtba wn- "
Ire rulrs, will he plurtd a nmrrlrd nai
whoe wife and rliltdrfn ure tnnlntr it.
nemlrnt on his lalxirs for support?
(1. Who Is (irneral H.riiR?
7. I'nder what lVdrrnl control are vharvN.
dorks und frrrlrs to i pl.irrdf
s. What Is meant by tho budicrt sjntrmf
0. Who wrote "Peter llilietson"?
10. Where Is the Kremlin?
Answers o Yesterday's Quii
A dornillnry Js so railed from the IjUln
I.
erh 'diirmlre, to sleei.
2. I'lmrles t'oteswnrth I'lnrkney mid. "Mil-
lions for defense! not one rent ftr
Irllinle." In reply to (lie, (alteration of
Naiioleon's finance minister that tb
I'nlted Mutes pui money for certain prom
ised iifhiintuec. "
3. tienerul W. -I. Kulin Is In committal of the
National Army rntitoninent Hi Admlnl.
.Murliitid.
1. Chiunher music Is written for n small num
ber of Instruments for performance In an
Mntluiute" rmlrnnmrnt. Ptrlnr qaar
Irts ure the ipost usual form.
5. Remhrunilt pulnlril "The Mill." It In tall
that hulf ii million dnlhfrs waa Bala far
this iniisterpiece of the Ditch rhool to
V. ,. II. Wldrner. of I'hllodelnhla.
1. Poet's narcissus Is u sprinr hulhoua tilaat
with n ery ulibretluled trumpet and Terr
friiRTUtit "perianth, or iielnls, ,
7. "Ooree KIM" Is the mime assumed if
Mury Ann Kfuns, the nnielUt;
H. firorcp Wushlncton Is n rhtrurter In Taafk
eriu's "The Vlnlnlnna."
0. A liuildary Is un expert cutter and polliMf ;
of crenis. i .,'
10. A "fiidae" Is u term used In WftntMt
litTlres for tile slmrt Items, prinira u-u-.-
on the llrst pure. Klrlne news mat csmw
":
In ufler me etiitinn una mine to i""-
welcomed.hls acquaintances and made tr
many friends, so that neither he nor the
were looked upon much longer as strange")
In Vienna. As his reputation grew his
works were generally read. He was soulM
out and Invited to altnost every Important
general entertainment, so that It was usi'i'l
to expect him and to meet him upon W
occasions. Mark Twain had become I
III l1.1l..s,'l di illn 1NaI1I1A1.d '
Of course, after several months Han V v!J
passe1, the time nrrlved for him to return ,.- -a
to America, to break up ana leave oenuw .
the associations of the bright capital, which
was. after all. not hla permanent home, nor '
could It be. Hut H ' painful to both him.
and his family to say farewell to so roucti .
kindness, and, on their part, the people or
Vienna were sad to see him go, Indea.
they kept him long In mind and sent rne
sages to show that they were still thlnklnf
of him. , .,,.
It was In reply to one of these, at tn
end of tho following year. In which wai
expressed a request for a New Year's ere'
lng to his friends In Austria, that he em
tho well-known telegram;
"I send mv kindest New Tear's STtttWfl ,
to all my friends throughout all the Km
plr and to my enemies as well, but onijr
for New Year's Day."
CUT OUT USELESS LABOR
More and more tho corjtest resolve" Um"
Into a strugg'e of labor forces. The
flclcnt mobilization of labor Is the seer"
of Germany's power. We may have more
workers than Germany, but If they are not
working at the war the figures, are not
relevant. Kvery day nnd hour spent
nonessential work Is a concession to Ger
many and means a prolongation of the war,
more lives, more treasure. Kvery plan"
made, every pleasure automobile manufac
tured, every gallon of gasoline uselessly
consumed Is a loss of labor and a pro
longation of the war. It was recently Btated
that If the consumption of gasoline In
"Joy riding" In the eastern part of the
country could Be cut BO per cent. 30.000
tons of shipping now carrying oil could be
released to carry wheat to France. The
example could be multiplied a hundred
fold. How long Bhall we refrain from mo
bilizing our vast labor resources till losses
and 'misery compel It, or In time to bring
about an end? Shall we be deaf und blind
to the lessons which Kngland so earnestly
endeavors to press upon us, or Bhall we
learn only by the lesson of necessity forced
slowly on us? This li really the vital ques
tion of the war. There must be a survey
and census of all our labor, a cessation of
nonessential work, a redistribution of labor
resources on a vast and yet, unthought-of
aenle. Our leaders must grasp this fact:
if they are unable to do so the people for -j
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