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rMUdtlpMi. Mend!-, JulT I. 111
THE BLOODY FIFTH AGAIN
AIjLi that Is sordid and Fhamolena In the
practices and methods of political
cjlques has been evident In the Fifth
V'ard murder caces, which shift to the
Chester County courts with a preliminary
argument today. The question of a fair
and Impartial trial has been secondary.
Delay and confusion seem to be the alms
pf the persons most Intimately concerned.
It may not be too much to hope that the
Ignlflcaneo of the Klfth Ward and Its
hooting scandals Is not altogether lost on
the) larger Jury that renders cery final
Judgment In public affairs that Is the
reading and thinking public. In proceed
irjga such as have characterized the
Deutsch case politics on the one hand and
legal practice on the other are stripped of
their traditional dignity. The lnstlnctlo
faith of the people In the Institutions of
government and order is confused. A day
of reckoning must come sooner or later.
Mr. Ro tan as the prosecutor In this In
stance Is called upon to defend more than
the rule of law. The ethics of his own
profession are Involved as well as the
safety of law-abiding men.
Kew headlines prompt the suggestion
that there are two Houses in Washington
and that Congress often has less to say of
fovernment than Its rival from Texas.
,(.!, LETS BE FAIR
$i. , AZ , PV1UP An.... ndiaii, mi Via tha TpAic-nvif
Tj, v r I XC4 r"!"'" H "" "J 1C tuiu.j
?jfW i- iHpartment ehowins the alleged cx-St-
rbltant profits of merchant!, and manu-
D5& fccturers. supplementing the information
0 einUIned in the report of the Federal
TraQV UUJT.rn.ss.uu, urc umaii ui.u ijua
VW Hading.
1... 4 .mall ViilalnMjflH man with i10-0An .rnn
&y "" - w...w . .---, .
ISf,. Kv ital who turned his money over twice a
&24.A3j. yr before the war may have turned his
v. ;jj capital over four or five times during the
5S'it'- And he may have made only a fair profit
., on the business that he has handled. To
J compute his profits on the basts of his
capital and to say that he has made 75
or 100 per cent Is manifestly unfair to
,- him. It holds him up to scorn us n
7 profiteer when he has been handling his
4 business only on a safe margin.
There Is nothing easier than to make
flgurec lie. It cannot be that the Treasury
Department is deliberately attempting to
create the impression that all business
men whose capital has been working over
time since the war began are dishonest
profiteers. "When dealing with such a vital
Xatter it ought to give out the whole
truth or none. Fairness will pay In the
long run.
Now New Yorkers w ill be ready to admit
that John Purroy Mltchel was a good Mayor.
MAYOR SMITH AND A FLAG
Ms
fME. SCHUMANN-HKINK Is a sweet
Inger. Her great voice lends a new
glory to our songs of patriotism. On the
Fourth of July alio moved Mayor Smith
almost to tears when she sang the "Star
Spanglrd Banner" at a great public demon
stration. A magnltlcent silk flag, rhlch
Mr. Smith had given the singer to wave,
as thrust again Into her hands. "T.ike
ill" cried the Mayor with great feeling.
"Keep it in memory of Philadelphia'" It
yna a glorious flag of rich silk, of vast
size, with a mahogany staff and streamers
of gold cord.
We wish Mme. Schumann-Helnk Joy of
the flag, which he took with her to New
york. The Mayor didn't know whose It
was, H6 had a remote Idea that It be
longed to Councilman John Balzley. Coun
cilman John had borrowed It from some
one else. Now the city will pay for the
(Jag Joyfully. But the owner Is said to
have been angry for an hour or two. He
Shouldn't be.
SkS??? 1 Independence Day would Justify itself
rsf tloqbly if ever' time It came around it
25i 'showed as vividly the Joy that a Dracticed
rt P,l"clan flnds ln Slvlng away the things
SS ' that do not belong to him.
WSIJil It will not always be fcummer. Plan for
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V'iJtlit JNUlSfc,
iPt , ANY city dweller who adventures Into
2&V'i 4 the country for a night realties on
ta return mat lie lives in oeaiam.
. ' Noise Is growing. The down-at-the-heels
iars of the P. It. T. provide most of It.
? Thy hit the cross tracks at stieet lnter-
rf Sections with a crash that seems to grow
fitf Ttauid.r and mora discordant iverv hour
twiwrough the night. Motortrucks Increase
t. iM multiply. They use bigger motors
'vintl for some reason or other they make
saeat of their uproar after dark. Oil seems
it) be scarce. It seems never to be used
Mi street car brake or on the brakes of
fptetercars.
,Ttre la one consoling aspect of the
tlon: When the soldiers return from
Uumult of the battlefront they will
no reason to feel homesick.
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The Allied" Generalljilmo Is Evidently Pre
paring for a Great Drive 'When He Gets
Americans Enough to Insure Its Success
"IXfE ARE permitted to asaume from
information sent out from Washing
ton that preparations are under way for
a crcat Allied offensive.
If this assumption be well founded,
the war is clearly, entering Its final
stages. The Germans have had tho ad
vantage from the beginning in that they
have conducted offensive campaigns.
Virtually every great movement has
been made on their initiative. The Al
lies have waited for tho attack and have
repulsed it as 'best they could. Tho one
notable exception is the Somme drive,
but this resulted In one of the most
disastrous defeats of tho whole war.
The Germans gavo ground, it is true,
hut their retirement was on example of
brilliant strategy. The British had been
ptoparing for months to make the at
tack. They had placed heavy guns in
position in great numbers and had vast
stores of ammunition. But the Germans
simply withdrew their armies out of
range of the big guns, and tho months
of preparation went for naught. This
is admitted now, although at the timo
we were tcld it was a great British
victory.
The tiuth is that the Entente Allies
have never been in a condition to con
duct a successful offensive. They have
been able merely to dig in and hold their
lines. But now we are told that the ar
rival of Americon troops in France iB
increasing the strength of the armies
to such an extent that the policy of
digging in and resisting attack can
safely bo superseded by an offensive
campaign. When it will begin has not
been disclosed. But it is morally certain
that the winter will not open before
some great movement has been under
taken. General Foch is now conducting a
series of attacks on small strategic
positions held by the Germans all along
the line. He is surprising the enemy in
place after place and capturing the
points which he needs. The effect of
these tactics is to keep the Germans
guessing and to force them to have con
siderable bodies of troops all along tho
line. It interferes with their plans for
the concentration of vast forces at a par
ticular point, for it reduces the number
of divisions available for such concen
tration. When General Foch has a million
American fighting men at his disposal
he can decide the day and tho place for I
his first great offensive He knows that
we cannot win unless ho makes such an
attack and is prepaicd to follow it up
with sufficient force to drive the Ger
mans permanently out of that part of
France in which the action takes place.
He i3 a master of strategy and we can
safoly trust him to decide when the
time is ripe for action. All the reports
from '"ranee indicate that the American
troops will increase tho strength of his
armies to a much greater extent than
it would be increased by a similar num
ber of Englishmen or Frenchmen. The
Americans are fighting with an enthusi
asm and a determination that is a rev
elation to the veterans.
At Hamel on the Fourth of July they
went into action shouting "The Lusi
tania!" as n battlecry. They lealiza that
they are fighting tho Power that was
guilty of the damnabb outrage of sink
ing that passenger ship loaJcd with
women and children, and they are re
garding themselves as the instruments
selected by heaven to bring retribution
upon the guilty.
An army convinced that it is an in
strument of God's justice is invincible.
These American boys will be an in
spiration to the fighting forces of all
the Entente Allies because of the con
tagion of their ideals and because of
the guarantee that they represent the
power of r. nation with 10,000,000 men
eady to be thrown into the battleline
if they are needed.
So when the drive begins, be it soon
or late, it will be conducted by a confi
dent army determined to put an end
to ruthlessness and to t-ring peace upon
earth through tho destruction of that
barbaric Power which i-as violated it.
The Germans can't understand wh our
men go Into battle shouting "Lusitanla" as
their war cry. The Idea that we still feel
angry about a little murder on the high beas
Is so preposterous.
JAPAN TO AMERICA
VISCOUNT ISHII, the Japanese Ambas
sador, made an Independence Day
address at Fair Haven, Mass , which was
typically Japanese In gracefulness and In
sight. It Is only natural that the public
consciousness has been largely focused
on President Wilson's magnificent words
at Mount Vernon, but Viscount Ishll's mes
sage was also Important enough to merit
a moment of retrospection.
Viscount Ishll, In giving a Japanese
sword to the town of Fair Haven, pointed
out the peculiar sacredness and symbolism
that the cleanest and keenest of weapons
has for the Japanese mind. The sword Is
the old chlvalrlc emblem of the Samurai
honor code. No other gift could so elo
quently testify the regard of the nation
from which it came. And the ambassador
did well to point out that one of the most
persistent efforts of the German suspicion
factories Is to create hostility between the
United States and Nippon.
Japan Is not only a proud and chival
rous nation; she Is u grateful nation. This
sword was sent to Fair Haven because an
old whaling master of that town once be
friended the Japanese donor, Japan has
a peculiar sentiment of friendliness towaid
the United States because we have been
of service to her In the past. There Is
every reason for Increasing understanding
and good will between the two nations. In
all sincerity we echo VJscount Ishli'u cor-
,vi
.(llal" word, "whloh.ahould be lm
the momorles of thoughtful Americans t:
Vi' trust you, we love" you, and, It you
will let us, we will walk at your side In
loyal good fellowship down all the comlna
years.
Uncle Sam Is listening for the step of
tho postman who will bring him an Invitation
to go to the help of Itussla.
MR. rOTTER'S NEW ALLEGIANCE
AS THESE crowded days go by It Is im
possible to avoid the conviction that
Colonel noosevelt must write another au
tobiography. Some of the biggest things
that ever happened to him are happening
now. 'William Potter, former minister to
Itnly, Is one of them.
Mr. Potter used to be one of the Chosen
Disciples. Ho was tireless In his devotion
nnd his energy In the days when he graced
tho Inner councils of the Bull Moose. He
Is a veteran of the Retreat from Chicago.
And now he has cast all tradition behind
him and declared explicitly for a third
term for President Wilson.
Times change and men change with
them. Mr. Potter Is now fuel administrator
in Pennsylvania tinder the Democrats. He
sought no counsel from his lonesome chief
of other days. He beat the rest of tho
country to n definite conclusion In relation
to the third term. His tone and his man
ner suggest a cheerful willingness to make
the election Immcdlato without waiting
for such trivial things as ye.irs and events,
settlements and victories to justify or ne
cessitate the odd procedure.
No extraordinary stretch of the Imagina
tion Is required to picture the consequences
and reactions In the brooding spirit at
Sagamore Hill the drops of sweat, the
reeling minute In which the brain refuses
to react to a calamitous circumstance.
Here, indeed, is Impious heresy. Where
was it learned? Mr. Potter used to bo one
of the most favored of week-enders at the
prophet's hearthstone. Can it be possible
that the maxims of the Third Cup of
Coffee have corrupted his "Judgment? is
the Colonel's bread returning upon a sea
of tears'
Well, well' There Is no telling. But one
may be sure that at Oyster Bay one Bull
Moose will be accused of the weasel word
and, for all you know, pilloried as a male
factor of great originality.
Kvery American city
A Itrnvp Citizen v 111 condole with New
York on the death of
Major and ex-Mayor John Purroy Mltchel.
Within a fortnight of his thirty-ninth birth
day he had made a remarkable record as a
lgorous and fearless citizen, a clean-cut and
hlgh-splrltcd man. It was natural that he
should hae chosen to enter the aviation
sen Ice, which nppenlw ho strongly to all men
of adenturous arteries.
They say that the
Itecllfjlni Facial Russians are adopting
Frontier tho electric fan. This
Is a sure proof that
the pan-Soviet republic Is shaving off Its
whiskers, because no man withji full mantle
of pargasso cares for electric fans. They
whirl that dignity round his map until he
feels like a blizzard
There has been a
Snim Mnn'a Land heavy sno fall In Aus
tria, but the unfor
tunate Austro-Huns will not find that
Ukraine winter wheat arriving any quicker
on that account.
A Berlin paper moans
Tlir Wearing that loyal JJermans
of the Clean should not waste
starch by wearing a
clean shirt cery day. Tho trouble Is they
have been putting on clean linen to celebrate
victories oxer Red Cross hospitals.
Students of ceramics asbure us that no
potter has eer yet made a President.
If the Sultan was assassinated some one
put something oer on the boss of Hades.
And next winter we may be advised to
put In a summer's supply of Ice wtll in ad
vance of the davs of necessity
JFhe food administrator has not et put
I ban on what Is frequently descrlbid as
"linked sweetness, long diavvn out."
Rrcfy meals may return, but the Ham
burg steak Is still an outlaw, unprocurable
In the city of Us origin and patriotically
metamorphosed Into "fa'allsbuo" here at
home,
America's Man-Power
From a apeach In the Senate by Mr Cummins.
of low a, reported In tile Corcresjlonal Record.
Our man-powir Is not utilized. 1 ventuio
to tay, and I believe It can be established,
that there are at least l,200j000 men betwten
thirty and forty who had far better hae
been assigned to military duty Instead of a
similar number of men between the ages of
twmty-one and thlrt. It would not hive
been necessary to have assigned nil of thein,
but they could hau borne their proportion
There are nearly 1,000,000 batween thirty
and forty who havu no gainful occupation
whatever, and even If these men had been
classified with the men between twenty-one
and thlity It would have relieved many hun
dred thousand men engaged In useful and
necessary occupation between twenty-one and
thirty. We would In that way have actually
added to our man-power, in mv Judgment
It is, of course, in part an Estimate we
would have added before Class 1 had been
exhausted a million men ' to our effective
working useful laborers, and that without the
slightest Infraction upon the right of a work
ingman to chooaa his own occupation, and
without the least infringement upon their
jiriv lieges against the conscription of labor.
Let t tee Kor the moment I disregard
the men above forty-five, although I think
there should be an assimilation and an as
signment of men above forty-five. Just as I
think there should be Imperatively one below
forty-rive. There were registered of men be
tween twenty-one and thirty. In round
puinbers, 9,500,000. There are between, tha
ages of eighteen and forty-five In the country,
omitting the men between twenty-one and
thirty, 13,998,019 men. I am using the per
centage of increase since the census of 1910
that has been adopted by the provost marshal
general's office that Is to say, I have added
15 per cent over the census of 1910 in order
to take In the growth of the lust eight years.
Mr. Warren Taking them by States sep
arately? Mr. Cummins Altogether; all the returns
from the States.
Mr. Warren The sum of them, altogether?
Mr. Cummins Yes; the entire man-power
between the ages of eighteen and forty-five
will be found to be 23,498.0(9 men. You will
remark that the division made by tht
provost marshal general's office Is not Just
the division made by the Census Bureau
that Is, the Census Bureau classifies men as
engaged In gainful pursuits, and otherwise)
There were engaged ln gainful pursuits men
ot eighteen and over, and I am estimating
the men between sixteen and twenty, giving
to each a half, because those are the periods
taken by the Census- Bureau 30,970,203
men. These Include all ages without Hm't
above eighteen years. Engaged hi gainful
pursuits from eighteen to forty-five, 22,.
500,520 men, about 1,000,000 men fewer than
the population of men between eighteen and
forty-five. Not only so, but there are a
great many men between the ages of thirty
and fcrty or forty-five who are engaged in
gainful pursuits who are not engaged in any
productive or necessary or essential pursuit.
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Torpedoes and Rote
REAR ADMIRAL. AARON WARD, a
former Phlladelphlan, who died on
Friday at Roslyn, Long Island, was a dis
tinguished naval officer and an authority
on torpedoes and high explosives. He saw'
hazardous service In the Spanish War and
was nt one time commander of the cruiser
Pennsylvania. But It Is an evidence of
humanity's love of the beautiful that he
will be remembered as much for hla mar
velous rose garden on Long Island as for
his professional services. His name and
that of his wife will be certain of a' fra
grant immortalisy In the Mrs. Aaron Ward
rose, a blossom of rich and Incandescent
yellow.
Torpedoes and rosesl Their kinship is
not apparent, nnd yet perhaps man's most
blazing explosive and nature's fairest nug
get of color and sweetness have an Inner
rapport. The same Inscrutable power let
us use Garabed's word and call It Free
Energy that uncurls tho soft petals
toward the sun dwells ln the tingling
chemicals and acids that blossom with
hideous suddenness ln the scarlet flower
of death. They both have their thorns.
Admiral Ward was happy In his career.
To lead the active life of a seaman, with
the broad laughter of the ocean ln one's
mind, and then to spend one's last years
ln a rose garden; it Is the technique of a
master in the art of life.
The Crown Trlnce says the frogs in the
Allette marshes croaked so loud that he
was able to rlng up'hls artillery without
the French hearing It. Is ho suro it
wasn't the. croaking of the Death's Head
Hussars?
Hlndy can't be harassing General Per
shing much or he would hardly have time
to dictate all those nice letters to ladles
over here.
The Marines
"With the help of God and a few mnrlnes
We won the day,"' so rings the battle
cry;
With joung, bravo boys to whom death
only means
Some brighter battle 'neath some bigger
sky.
The islands they have guarded, fairy lands
Allen nnd strange and sunny, where they
heard
History beating In their sunburned hands.
How many legends of their deeds they
spin
Back In tho States, through little, scattered
homes!
And there Is always Some One Else who
leans
Breathless against the doors of Paradise.
The Warrior Maid loves those who fight
for France.
She waits for every one and, as each comes,
She takes him by the hand and leads
him In.
BEATRICE WASHBURN.
The Economic Circuit
Mary had a little sow,
Tho sow had seven shoats;
When sold they brought enough to buy
Two gowns and several coats.
Warrensburg (Mo.) Star-Journal.
The shoats were tarmed, but profiteers
Got most of Mary's oclt:
She bought them back at a ruinous price
In the form of a Sam Browne belt.
The Baby Casualty List
In 1917 there were 42,917 babies born in
Philadelphia.
In the same year 4617 Philadelphia
babies died under one year old.
This Is a vastly greater death list
than that of our army ln France. In one
year of war we have lobt 3S37 soldiers, In
cluding deaths In action, at sea, by wounds,
accident nnd disease.
The 1917 infant death rate ln Philadel
phia wus 107.G per 1000.
In New York it was 88.8 per 1000.
In Grand Rapids It was 71 per 1000.
The Infant death rate In Philadelphia
'will probably bo higher this year than It
was In 1917. Each month of 1918 so far
has shown a higher mortality thun the
same month laht year. In May, 1917, It
was 9C.7G per 1000. In May, 1918, 101.03.
Karl De Sthwelnltz, of the Society for
Organizing Charity, gave us these figures.
And he ndds. very Justly, a city's Infant
mortality accurately Indicates Its standing
in civilization and good government.
John Kendrlck Bangs la back from
France, but there are still other sounds
over there to disturb the Kaiser's peace.
The Turkish infantry who called them
selves Janissaries were abolished In 1826,
but tho term has taken on u new and more
honored meaning since the doughboys in
France udoptcd Elsie Janls as their pa
tron saint
When William Thomson, the famous
English electrical scientist, was made Lord
Kelvin, did the electrical wits of that day
say that he was raised to the ampeerage?
SOCRATES.
Hoo ?
To the Editor of the Wcninp Public Ledtjer:
Sir
Who. versatile with protelds and such.
Holds In his clutch
A nation's palate? Who, veritably
A granary
The world embracing, aims to commandeer?
Who erges near.
Himself, to that wide scope his plans com
prise? AVho erlfles
Our Judgment on the conservationist
That with a twist
Of magic dispossessed the gaping Hun
Of Belgium won?
Who verisimilitude to Moses's fame
Can better claim?
Bare one deny a superstar has rlz
Who 'veracious Is?
STANLEY K. WILSON.
Philadelphia, July 6.
We Don't Think So, Harold
Harold Begble, a well-known English Jour'.
uallsV, went to see the Fourth of July base
ball game In London, "But." he cays. "It
you think I understood the game or the
brilliant strategy of the players, who wore
Jockey caps and long stockings and boxing
gloves and fencing helmets and swung Indian
clubs, gentle reader, you are in error,"
The stimulation of modern philately Is
beat expressed ln terms of thrift stamps.
The news that "Germans can seise sup
plies from China" Is calculated to make en
vious many a sweet-toorhed American res
taurant patron who has failed to get a second
crack ut the, elusive sugar bowl.
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ROMANCE OF WANT ADS
By Sarah Addington
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LEANOR and I have a good many ex
clusively feminine traits that exas
perate the head of the house almost to the
breaking point. Our taste for mayonnaise,
our devotion to tea napkins, our preference
for sweet-smelling soaps all these are
sources of the deepest pain nnd disgust to
one who thinks that sugar and vinegar
are good enough for any tomato that ever
grew, who enjoys no napkin unless he may
shroud himself in it and who revels In the
strong soap that most civilized people use
only for the dog members of their family.
Yet nil these are but faint shadows of
the real cloud that dims our lord's bright
conception of lovely woman and her attri
butes. For Eleanor and I have a still
darker vice, a deeper sin, a blot that no
amount of sweetness and light from other
directions can In the least lighten or fade.
Eleanor nnd I read the want ads, and
thereby hangs our disgrace.
NOW there la nobody who has greater
respect for journalism than the writer
of this apologia. One who earns a living
by writing pieces for the paper naturally
would take some stock In the business.
And Eleanor and I agree that the war
news is most Important, that an editorial
page is good enough reading and that po
litical news has' Its virtues- But as we
point out, when these discussions arise, as
they do systematically at Sunday break
fast, are there any reasons why one should
arbitrarily and didactically decide against
another page of the same paper, even If It
does happen to be at the tall end and done
In the smallest type In general use ln the
art of printing?
IT REQUIRES genius of a particular
order, a delicacy of feeling of a rare
sort, a perception of unusuul fineness, I
claim, to appreciate want ads'. There they
are, tucked away, with no gouging head
lines, no arresting titles, no pictures; Just
rows of human wants, line upon line, pre
cept upon precept, like beans ln a row or
orphans In their beds,
And I claim still further that the man
who cannot see the romance there, who
cannot read the stories between the lines,
or for that matter In tho very words them-
ttelven well, I was going to say he had no
imagination, though of course one would
never say such a damning thing about
one's own chosen mate.
TAKE one of the most obvious groups,
for example, the situations wanted.
Whata flood of ambitions welter through
the "Young man, 18," who "wishes position
In architect's office while studying ln archi
tectural school." Can't you see him labor
ing over his blueprints, dreaming pillars
and domes and beautiful things of marble?
But his pocketbook Is not as big as his
ambition or his bills, so he puts In a want
ad at thirty cents a line, while ilils future
waits a few dayB until some architect does
or does not answer his ad and his prayers.
BUT what about the young swashbuckler
who admits the following: "Prepos
sessing appearance, tact, vision, Initiative,
executive ability"? Will he or will he not
get ulong In this world of press agents and
pushers? He will. And while hs's waiting
to see which large corporation he will l.onor
with his services he takes a lesser Job at
1C and Uvea on beans and bluff.
AND bo It goea on throughout the entire
list. The overwork mother adver
tises for a maid, meanwhile holding Up
under what would be nervtius prostration
If she had time for it. The lonely coupls
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whobe sons have gone to war and whose
daughters are married advertise their
house for sale, the old family place where
every! corner has a memory, every stick
and stitch a history yet they feel they
must get Into town nearer the girls, nearer
the stir of war that makes tho loneliness
of war a little less empty and silent.
"Young business woman" writes out her
want ad. "Room wanted with congenial
family; breakfasts and dinners." Don't
tell mc she Isn't sick und tired of the sky
light and the cheap restaurants; that she
hasn't been wondering lately whether she
didn't make n mistake to come nway to
the city when home had been so comfort
able and pleasant. Well, she knew some
thing was the matter with her, bo she
thought she'd try for a "congenial family."
rpHE farmer's wife takes her chance and
-- asks for summer boarders, "Maybe the
work won't seem so hard," she figured out
to herself, "If there's somebody around be
side the hired man and a little money
coming in." So she goes to the garret and
gets out the old lace bedspread and rum
mages In the cherrywood chest for the best
tidies and dollies, and one afternoon between
dishes and milking time she opens up tin
spare bedroom in preparation for the city
folks who may come up her road in an
swer to the announcement that "Farmer's
wife will take summer boarders; garden
vegetables, fresh eggs and milk; near Chau
tauqua and fair grounds."
QO IS it, after all, such stupid reading
back there ln the want columns?. Are
Eleanor and I nosey old women to devour
the little paragraphs so eagerly7 Are we
mean-spirited and picayune to turn there
first and back to the headlines later? Am
we less loyal to the great world issue!, of
the day, to art, to politics and to, ye gods!
the great financial market, Just because we
prefer a little "human interest" first, not
the kind manufactured to order, but the
unconscious little tales of life and living
that stand there tn'all their pith and truth,
sometimes Just three lines long7
No, we say; the allegations of him who
takes his paper as his editor would have
him, Instead of as the business rrmnager
would choose, aie false. But I'm afraid
we're going to have even a more Intimate
experience with the want page some day,
be pitched headlong Into It ourselves some
what like this:
Friend Husband Come home. We'll
promise to read the paper In the order as
bhe Is wrote.
New Ideals
War Is In Itself damnable ai profligate
misuse of the accumulated brain-stuff of
centuries. Nevertheless, there's many a man
who has no love of war. who previous to the
war had cramped his soul with littleness and
was chased by the bayonet of duty Into the
blood-stained largeness of the trenches, who
has learned to say, "Thank God for this war."
He thanks God not because of the carnage,
but because when the winepress of new Ideals
was being trodden he was born In an age
when he could do his share. Conlngsby
Dawson, ln "The Glory of the Trenches."
Some Famous Affinities
Collar and Necktie.
Slate and Pencil.
Jack and Jill.
Milk and Water.
Conductor and Motorman,
Shoes and Stockings.
Knife and Fork.
Comb and Druxh.
Huns and Atrocities. -
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OUR HOUSE
By Andrew McGill
IT SHOULD be yours, if I'could build
The quaint old dwelling I desire.
Wit! books ond pictures bravely filled'
And chairs beside an open fire,
White-paneled rooms with candles lit
I He awake to think of ltt
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A "dial for the sunny hours,
A garden of old-fashioned flowers
Say marigolds and lavender
And mignonette and fever-few.
And Judas tree and maidenhair
And candytuft nnd thyme and rue
All these for jou to wander In.
A Chinese carp (called Mandarin 1)
Waving a sluggish sliver fin
Deep In the moat: so tame he comes
To lip jour fingers offering crumbs.
Tall chimneys, like long listening ears,
White shutters. Ivy green and thick,
And walls of ruddy Tudor brick
Grown mellow with the passing years,
And windows with small leaded panes,
road wfndow-seats for when it rains.
A big blue bowl of potpourri
And yes, a Spanish chestnut tree
To coin the autumn's mlnt'ed gold.
A summer-house for drinking tea '
All these (Just think!) for you and me.
A staircase of the old black wood
Cut in the days of Robin Hood,
And banisters worn smooth as glass
Pown which our hand will lightly pass,
A piano with dear yellow keys
For wistful twilight melodies,
And dusty bottles In a bin
All these for you to revel in!
But when? Ah well, until that time
We'll habit In .this house of rhyme! ,
A Bitter Prospect
It Is doubtful whether rhubarb will ever
rally from the blow of the Government's
sugar-ration order. Chicago News.
Seasonable
It Is pleasant to contemplate that the
weather has become warm enough again to
permit tho resumption of furs. During those
cool days they had to be laid aside. Cin
cinnati Commercial Tribune.
Origin of a Name
The familiar wash tie seems to have de.
rived Its name from the fact that It always
needs washing. Kansas City Star.
Try to Find It
The uncommonest thing now is common
labor. St. Louis Qlobe-Democrat.
What Do You Know?
VUl ,v-
1, Who vrtm Cardinal Rlehalleo?
2, Vthfr U Ilayhrouekr
8. Name author of "The Fair MaM sf
rerth."
4. Who w ''flail Ileeo and whs! km his ,'
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k llnur minr dtvlalofia rumnrlaa an amir nvaif v
(I. Wa WaslilnstAn a seneral of full rank?
7. VI hat U an antl-nlrrraft tan?
S, What la an "dmlraltr?
0, Identify "Th Admlrnhle Doetar,"
10, Mho was MohammedV?
Answers, to Saturday's Quiz
I,. Martin. V"j ""'V. 1n !" elshth .'resident
' nf the Vnlted Btatfi.
2. The i" In the nutlonal floral emblem of
Knclana.
3, Vlttorlo Kmmanuele III la the Kins of Jtalr. l.iij
i, Hmlth Caret Is nt Northamnten, Maaa.
fi, llllnola rm from Indian words mtsnlajr
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strictly terhnlrnl or allghtir fiumoray'C
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