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PhlladrlphU. Tntidsr. July 23. 1918
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s PENNSYLVANIA'S QUOTA OF WHEAT
' ,'fiHB national Department of Agriculture
Is about to ask the Pennsylvania
Sal mill i tn nlnnf 1 1581 ftflfl nrrt3 in wlnlpr
J Wheat this year as part of their contrlbu-
f tlon toward winning the war. Tills Is an
?A last year.
WT It ihe State DeDartment of Acriculture
J?" sTt busy and lets the farmers In each
n" t emmfw Irtinnf liniu mnv noma Hiov nrn
.o. rWM.akJ -. W .. ..V... ....... J UW.1..J ...KJ ...i
$ih .JtPected t0 Plant It will be easy to meet
.'Sfjjirtne requiremepts, or to surpass them.
i The market Is bound to be good and prices
' re'bounrl to be hlch. The onlv dlfllcultv
'& Htin securing tho necessary labor to plant
'I and harvest. This ought to be available
&. j through proper co-operation.
ij-i' xnis State is one or the ten great wheat-
growing Commonwealths. Its land is well
adapted' to the crop. We are so near the
seaboard that what we produce can be
shipped to the nations of Europe with
little delay. Every reason of patriotism
ad of self-interest conspires to more the
Ki"' farmers to raise wheat, and to raise thirty
i,j,Duaneis to tne acre, ji tney can narvest
' 'a crop like this we can produce on the
1.(00,000 acres nearly flfty million bushels.
i UBSMXy iwciuy uiiuiun uusiiuis.
u
WsfX i , ' if.aiici.il is uumy uiiciii incac
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gfe THE REAL SAVAGES
glfhB AVAfViV TT-ITA-M ,,! . I..UI -
w. ..iw.n.i a.uui. UIC IICIJJIII LU
'.'ji XX fight the Germans In the drive n
jSrogress. They have standards In wa
now in
varfare
gShlch must make their blood boil with
,yi inclination when they discover how Huns
i?. kavsi hipn vlnlntlnn nvprv nTlrnlnl nf
S'- honor which has hitherto been held sacred
fjiakSTrnr W4VU14CU uiiu sciujcivjiizeu peupies.
I??' presence of these descendants of
RfiMHaaraB-es In the battlellne re-enforces the
"Ws. conclusion that to "flcht llkn .a finrmnn"
wiy' WlH for the next hundred vears be thn
ft, wl aupremest expression of contempt for an
'Bible. .
The hot wave here Is nothing to that the
boehes are sweltering In between Ithelms
and Soissons.
'ARE MOTORCARS ESSENTIAL?
TN A DAT when trolley systems are
down at the heels and out of breath,
"When suburban train schedules have been
cut, when mails and deliveries aro slow
because of a lack of railway equipment and
ft when men are busier and in a greater
If? ; hurry than they ever have been before It
FJ.-t?7 tmtlsAA tn flnrl tfen ail.iinl l..., I ..I.
1- of 'steel allotments In a mood to regard
vj passenger motorcars as nonessentials.
!? tiA ailfr.mr.SllA la an BasAn.lnl 1IA
vSm i nowadays to the farmers who own most
K&-.f them. It Is impossible for men who
f; 'apend all their lives In the cities to rcal-
RS& lae the full usefulness of the so-called
v- . Dleaauro ears. Thev rpllpvn trnffl.. nn mil.
iS"- roads and electric lines, deliver goods, aid
e.i- -i' commerce and communication, shins: anri
ItwifV munitions are more lmnortant than antn.
."Vxnoblles, and If the full steel output is
A"t wmAail 6m aliltia nnji .. vl.ln .!. u
f B-W..M c.i.H .u ...uiii..uiia mo IV
fcjtt? uitwwua DUMnicu in t. aajiinb.on lor ine
pji "ioiorcr maxers win oe justified, other
Isjs wise the restrictions are unjust and un-
jiytvw.se. The rule would work an Injustice
i not only on the millions who own automo
&'&'". biles, but unon a vast IncliiKtrv nnrf nnnn
pre?, millions of workers dependent upon It.
zm r
fe. i - -"'' vhen GeTnany begins to talk and think
S& Emperor as the AH Lowest, Germany
jj;t will. begin to acquire wisdom.
R&fr POLITICS AND THE PRESIDENT
riuiAiii mm iia uvats, .ur, lurpny,
.X lik most of the nthpra nn hntu ni
fcPpf the political No Plan's Land, are ex-
Ki"8(nsiBaiij u iney seem 10 regara as
fife's the,, bitter distresses of war. Like the
JfptjHtlclans in this and other States, Re
W.V 'publicans and Democrats alike, the
Alrv ainfflnppTM nf thn Ktatn In 'NTpa. Vn.l. An
'i'"3 vw-n. --- . -" w. I.IIU
l?$r. that-the war Is In their way. It confuses
rytneu- plans. 11 aenes old methods of
-sjmttw.
t.-'fs4. nPt...a Tantmani, mt.1.1. I. nt.... A li,.
3rt'Vt Ml,I.jr, TV11...I 19 UUUUl lO lilt.
W curtain on tne state democratic con
MU0R, ls'waitlng feverishly for "a state-
from President Wilson." Mr.
phy wants only a word from the White
i to give background to his campaign
I show that the Democrats are "flght-
rtaa President's fight."
Hie TThlte House has been silent. Tarn-
S
''jptay hasn't heard from It. Those who
flptelre Mr, Wilson and who have a high
jBjfh' In all his motives will hope that the
ikkn will leave Tammany to go it
,- and that the support which the
its In New York .are clamoring
111 be withheld. ,
L Republican more or less In office a
y Governor or a Republican Gov-
r'flMHra or less in New York will not
ska war. But Murphy and the men
1 tjrva In -both parties are doing their
Mr m&ttlii public brieve that, the
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W? fyfra
RUSSIA MUST BE SAVED
The President's Economic Commission May
Be Able to Find Out the Way to Do It
TT MAY be accepted as a fact now that
A the Powers have agreed upon a .plan
for some form of intervention in Siberia.
Definite statements come from Tokio
that Japan has agreed to the plan pro
posed by the United States. The details
of the plan are yet to be made public,
but it is intimated that the immediate
purpose is to secure the base at Vladi
vostok for the support of the Czecho
slovak army, which controls tho Siberinn
railroad as far west as Irkutsk, on Lake
Baikal.
Its larger purposes are to enable the
Russians to solve their own problems and
to prevent the Germans from gaining
control of Siberia. There is expectation
born of hope that German influence can
be kept from affecting any part of
Siberia and that its power west of the
Urals can be weakened. The whole plan
undoubtedly centers nround the arrange
ments now making to send an American
economic commission into Siberia by way
of Vladivostok to assist in the material
rehabilitation of the country.
The necessity of saving Russia for the
Russians is imperative. Unless this can
be done, as has been repeatedly pointed
out on this page, any peace that can be
made will be n German victory which
will be followed by future wars.
The problem is so big that it will tax
the abilities of the greatest statesmen in
the Allied countries. Germany has been
influential in Russia from the days of
Peter the Great. He invited Prussian
statesmen and Prussian business men to
St. Petersburg to assist him in the task
of making a nation of his empire. Cathe
rine the Great colonized largo tracts of
Russia with Germans. She was the
daughter of a German prince and her
successors married into German princely
families. The great industries of Russia
have been dominated by Germans. It
was German influence exerted through
Germans in high office at court which
paralyzed the Russian armies prior to
the revolution that overthrew the Czar.
Since the revolution Germany has been
doing on a larger scale what she had
been doing for more than a century and
a half previously.
Yet tho difficulties in the way of rescu
ing Russia from the Germans should
challenge us to the effort. Those diffi
culties lie not only in the hold which
Germany already has on the country, but
to a greater degree in the political inex
perience of the Russian people and in the
hostility to one another of the many
races which occupy tho country.
It may bo necessary for an interna
tional advisory commission to be formed
to assist the people in untangling their
affairs. The economic commission which
we are planning to send into Siberia will
have before it a splendid opportunity to
prove that a commission representing all
the Allied Powers could do something
toward rescuing Russia from the politi
cal and economic anarchy in which she is
now wallowing. Its standards of con
duct would in time appeal to the sound
sense of the great mass of the people.
Some of their leaders in power today
have, as Dr. E. J. Dillon has said, "no
longer a living faith in the principles
that lie at the root of civilized community
life." Such leadership cannot in the
nature of things last. It will collapse by
its very inexperience and ignorance.
There are already signs that it is totter
ing. It is important that there be ready to
take its place a leadership which has,
respect for the rights of property, and
the rights of the individual, and will not
countenance the abandonment of all the
moral conventions whicli make it possi
ble for the family and the home to exist.
There is perfect agreement on the ends
to be accomplished. What disagreement
there is relates to the means to be used.
No final decision as to the means can be
reached until more in known about the
temper of the people than is now avail
able either in America or in western
Europe.
Tho experience of shore-bound motor
drivers suggests the thought that If the Ger
mans were retiring in New Jersey they
would be arrested for speeding
SONGS OF THE WAR
rpiIE songs that are being sung about this
L war of ours are more interesting in a
way than the more ambitious poetry of
the occahion. The lyrics that you hear
everywhere nowadays are frankly doggerel.
They are unpretentious. They seldom
aspire above a tinkle. Of the glory and
magnitude of thi3 new great adventure of
our spirit they have little or no sugges
tion. But the people like these songs and
the soldiers like them. They must have
hidden meanings somewhere. In Europe
and on the fighting front the favorite song
of our soldiers is still "The Battle Hymn
of the Republic," with Its heroic rhythm
and lines of majestic prophecy. But that
Is In, France. The reactions of the folk at
home are different and perhaps even sub
tler. Nothing happens without cause. If
the less pretentious war songs are the
most popular, there must be a reason
somewhere.
It may be that the poets of Tin Pan
Alley, to whom we have left the task of
setting the war to words and music, might
be able to teach some unforgettable truths
to those writers and composers who know
more of forms and the English language
and less of life itself than they. The newer
war songs, to begin with, are simple, di
rect, explicit. They tell of goings away
and comings back; of longings and fare
wells; of love and promise. Little houses
are thick In the summer crop 'at war songs.
Mothers are glorified. There are dusty
roads and long journeys; peril, hope, cour
age, triumph. u
Now, these things suggest very lntl-'
mately the basic concerns of mankind.
They are linked Inevitably In those adven
tures of the mind and spirit that are the
common Inheritance of all sorts and con
ditions of people. Every on has said fare
irdl.tq. umtlhJtK.K oaubdy, mm b
one can go through' life without the ache
of a parting and the long wait that pre.
cedes a face or a voice returned after the
years. Any good poet knows the eddying
thrill that runs In human consciousness at
the very sound of tho word "Farewell."
The pain of other generations stirs dimly
In most people at the meaning of that
word because It was the first word spokeil
In tinhapplness.
Tin Pan Alley Is not so obtuse as you
have been led to believe. And Little Houses
well, most people llvo in them. Mother
hood needs no interpreter for Its beauty
and Its meaning. All life cries of It. The
Long Road, the Journey to tho Far Place,
the Return tho poet who writes of these
tilings or of hope or promise Is deatlng
with wonderful stuff because It Is with
these things that men first experienced
emotion. Far places to which other people
went In nges past, long roads that have
disappeared, separations and reunions of
those whose names you do not even know
contribute still to make you sensitive to
the war songs of 1918. The ages have
passed something on to you the shadow
of all their own basic experience, a dim sort
of memory of all that tho race has endured.
There Is the echo of tho sorrows of old, old
times in tho queer ache that comes some
times with tho unpretentious doggerel which
tells of somebody's going away or of a road
that leads home to a little house.
Indeed, the wealth that abounds In Tin
Pan Alley may be duo to the fixed sub
conscious sense In all people which tells
them that these, after all, are the only
important things In life. Mere forms and
subtleties cannot compare with them in
popular appreciation. The Tin Pan folk
have seemed to clutch that idea firmly.
They may have even a touch of that
greatest gift which some one has called
tho wisdom of the heart.
The tailors say that knickerbockers are
to be discarded for boys' wear because they
need more cloth than the straight trousers.
But how about those mysterious garments
that used to be advertised as pettlbockers?
THE SENATE'S AIR PROBE
MEMBERS of the Senate subcommittee
which has been looking Into the air
craft complications have not been able to
restrain themselves long enough to submit
a report to the country through the
medium of an open session. The Senators
have begun to report through the news
papers while the formal narrative of the
probe Is being drafted. Millions, we are
told, were "wasted" in experiments with
the Bristol typo of airplane, and
"amatelirs" In the engineering and admin
istrative sections of the aircraft produc
tion board have delayed the aviation pro
gram. The Senate subcommittee is In a mood
to complain because a country which had
built few airplanes was not ready In a
moment of emergency with battalions of
experts for a vast war scheme of aviation
and motor building.
Engineers of any experience are not dis
posed to feel that money spent in the per
fection of a science so new as aviation is
wasted even when it docs not bring prac
tical results. It Is by failure that knowl
edge Is achieved.
There may be valuable information in
the formal Senate report. There isn't any
in tho hints tossed off by tho Senators.
In a time when politics Is being mixed
pretty freely with patriotism in Washing
ton the country at large will do well to
wait in patience for tho report of Mr.
Hughes and his associates In the aviation
investigation, and suspend final Judgment
till the whole truth Is told.
The Bolshevlkl have
Where Money taken all the late
Doesn't Connt Czar's millions. And
they are destined to
learn that the money of Itself can't be
taten or drunk; that jou cannot llvo In It
or ride on it; that It wouldn't keep you
warm in winter or cool In summer, and that
it Is useful only for tho things it can buy.
Thus, again, the Bolshevlkl will learn that
work really is necessary and that money Is a
mere Incident.
It would be useless In
We've Noticed It weather llko this to
suggest to a girl bent
on conquest that she keep her powder dry.
Even one's nose perspires In July.
New York Is thlnk.ng of calling the plaza
in front of the Grand Central Terminal "Per
shing Square." Why shouldn't Philadelphia
beat them to It and ca" the Parkway Marne
avenue? Wa could pay no handsomer tribute
to the heroism of the men of all tho Allied
nations who havo fought to hold the line of
that Immortal river.
A Swiss poet called Halter has written
a ilrrai to be performed on the peak of a
SwIfs mountain ns soon as peace" is de
clared He has lpft the namo of the victors
and vanquished blank, to be inserted as soon
ns he feels sura about them. It seems to us
that he is carrying neutrality almost to
excess.
tVhen a German gets off the ground
he sometimes begins to be decent. The avi
ator who overcame Quentln Roosevelt re
ported that the young American fought stub
bornly and with great valor, and that It was
his daring and his relative Inexperience that
cost him his life.
Congratulations to Ellis Parker Butler,
the well-known humorist, on his escape from
No Man's Land. "Who's Who" used to list
him as "Alice Parker Butler," but now the
new edition is out, and Ellis hops back among
the trousers, where he belongs. - ,
Spelling of Cocoanut
To the Editor of the Evening Public Ledger;
Sir I read In your valuable paper yester
day the following:
WAR SAVING
While conserving, why not leave out the "a"'
In "cocoanut"? Portland Oreconlan.
If with the word "cocoanut" one Is speak
ing of the "Theobroma cacao," from which
the "cocoa" Is extracted for making" choco
late, the "a" Is an essential letter and can
not be left out, whether In War or peace
times.
If It Is meant the nut "coebs nuclfera" the
"a" Is completely out of place, although the
oil extracted from such a nut is called
(wrongly) cocoa-nut-oil, even In most of the
technical books.
Probably for phonetic reasons the word
"cacao" was changed into "cocoa," like the
name of "Bilbao" (a port In Spain) was
changed Into English as "Bilboa," but in any
case it has caused lan error which is wide
spread today, the confusion being at time
very annoying to tne chemist.
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THE CHAFFING DISH
The Mystery Solved I
A Letter From Hindenburg
T"EAR SOCRATES; .
You about writing my epitaph so
Jolly have been, and me so companionable
a send-off have given, that It seems only
fair you off to tip, and about my move
ments you wise to put. '
Bill and I talked things over pretty fully
when Pershing on the Marne arrived. We
decided that since the Allies would not
play fair, but had so brutally called In
Devil Dogs and Boys of Dough to make
this war horrible, artists In destruction like
ourselves no longer could take a hand In
It Bill, as you know, has quite a touch
for epigram. He said .to me, while Ludy
was busy with some Devil Dogs near
Chateau-Thierry, "Let us while the going
good Is, go." So wo thatLudy might take
the chief command up-framed It, and I a
get-away made. Poor Ludy I He Is a nice
fellow, but he will some bumps be riding
before he the bottom of many more seldels
bees!
Well, Sociatcs, I am on my way to St.
Helena to fix things up so that Bill and
I can live In decent comfort when he
arrives.
We shall tho island Si. Kultur rename,
and we will not have much" from homesick,
ness to suffer. In fact, I think wo will be
able to have our little bit of frlghtfulness in
a quiet way. Of course, it will not be the
real thing, but then fellows like Bill and
I, who such advantages In that way have
had, must now be content things a bit easy
to take, and let others their fling have.
Personally, I don't want to stand around
while those Dogs of the Devil are blowirg
Bull Durham smoke down Unter den Lin
den. Now I must tell you what we plan to do
the island habitable to make for Prussians
of high class. It is a quite 'large Island,
as you know, and there will be Bpace for
all sorts of amusements such as we are
accustomed to. First of all, and most Im
portant, we shall on one side of St Helena
a dummy village lay out, which we shall
call Paris. Our flrst care will be to see
that a great number of baby carriages
about the streets are scattered. Then,
hiding behind a hill, Bill and I will get
exercise, valuable for mind and body, in
throwing bombs over the village, with
especial aim for some imitation Red Cross
hospitals I shall mark plainly.
Throughout tho country In the Interior
of the Island, various replicas of cathedrals
will bo placed. Dear old Bill! Can't you
see him taking a pot shot at them every
now and then, when he feels In the mood?
With such excellent sport, how can he miss
his old home? And if ho should ever a bit
downhearted feel, wo shall have a model of
tho Lusitania off the shore anchored, with
a torpedo to fire at her, and a lot of dum
mies made up to represent American
women nnd children on the deck. And I
have another brilliant Idea had: I am writ
ing to the moving picture actor who took
tho part of Mr. Gerard In the photo play,
and we will get him to come and live on' the
island, In his Gerard costume. When Bill
his peevish fits has, we will Gerard out
take and throw turnips at him. I can
nothing devise that will Bill in such high
spirits put.
Of course we shall a few acres set apart
for a model Belgium, where a little looting
and burning and other stunts can be per
formed, and a few tons of paper scraps
will be kept In our farmhouse for Bill on
rainy days to tear up. We shall a kind
of Toonervllle Trolley lay out, which we
Berlln-to-Bagdad Pan-German Eisenbahn
will call. And, of course, we shall have to
persuade somo of tho inhabitants the part
of Bolsheviks to take, "when amusement is
slow. Wo can lota of good sport have by
Erest-Litovsk treaties devising.
Best of all, as Bill said to me just as I
left, thero will be no Crown Princes, no
Hardens, no Hertltngs and no Llchnow
skis. Naturally Rosner will come, along to
take a little dictation. And every evening
over to our imitation Paris wo shall walk,
and dinner will for us In tho Louvre bo
waiting. Ach Knabe!
Perhaps when Rosner is not busy taking
dictation he will to find time able be you
for your Chaffing Dish somo stuff to send.
You can, if you like, send us some read
ing matter, but please no volumes of Dr.
President Wilson's speeches. Some one
put a volume of them In Bill's pyjamas the
other day, for a Joke, and he a terrible
vertigo had. Wish us luck.
HINDENBURG.
The western front Is no longer. a con
questern front for the Germans.
The war Industries board is going to ask
the .newspapers to. bay everything In as
few words as possible. Now will that
mean more work for us, or les3?
The Kaiser's dentlst.havlng come back to
this qountry, probably Bill Is sending those
U-boats over here in the frantic hope of
kidnapping some sculptor In ivory who
can put In some new fillings for him. He
may well be anxious, for there are no
dentists on St. Helena.
Elegy, in a Country Soviet
(with apologies)
It was a summer evening, ,
And Trotsky's work was done;
And he, before his soviet,
Was sitting In the sun,
And by him sported on the green
His fellow-Bolshevik, Lenlne.
He saw his cheery little pal
Play ball with something round
That he, beside the firing squad,
In snooping there, had found.
And Trotsky ran to find out what
In Heaven's name-Lenine had got.
Lenlne explained, with nonchalance,
So truly bolshevik,
I meant to tell you sooner, bo,
I've been and murdered Nick.
You'd -like to know Just what these are?
They are the medals of the Czar.
"You hasty chap," old Trotsky cried,
"You'll get us all In bad;
Poor Nicholas was harmless, now
Such cruelty Is mad!"
But Lenlne laughed. "It was," said he,
"A famous Bolshevictory."
SOCRATES.
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KISSING
By Etsu Inagahi Sugimoto
ONE time I went with several friends to
see a modern play In which there was a
great deal of what Americans call "love
making." Afterward we went to a supper
and were discussing the play, when some one
said:
"Is It really true that In Japan there Is no
kissing even between husband and wife?"
"There Is bowing, you know," I replied.
"That Is our mode of heart expression."
"But you don't mean that your mother
never kissed you !" exclaimed one young lady.
"What did she do when you came to
America?"
"Only bowed," I answered, "and then she
said very gently, 'A safe Journey for you, my
daughter.' "
I had not been here long enough then to
understand tho peculiar expression which
came over my friends' face, nor the moment's
silence that followed before the conversation
drifted Into other channels.
JAPANESE people are very undemonstra
tive. We aro taught that strong emo
tional expression Is not consistent with ele
gance and dignity. But that does not mean
that we try. to repress our feelings only the
expression of them. Bowing Is not only a
bending of the body; It hay a spiritual side
also. One does not bow exactly the same to
father, younger sister, friend, servant and
child. My mother's long, dignified bow and
gentle-voiced farewell held no lack of deep
love. I felt keenly each heart throb and
every other person present nlso recognized
the depth of hidden emotion. Until late
years the repression of any appearance of
strong emotion was carefully drilled into the
mind and life of every Japanese child of the
better class. There is much more freedom
now than formerly, but tho Influence of past
training Is seen everywhere In art. In litera
ture, on the stage and In the customs of
dally life. Artists paint the autumn moon,
which every Japanese adores, but he wraps
the brilliant disk within a veil of cloud.
Novelists lead the readers to the borders of
the enchanted land, then Just at the crisis
leave them to complete the Journey by them
selves in the realm of imagination. On the
stage our love scenes arc generally so demure
and quiet that no American audience would
ever be thrilled, but the dignified bearing of
thoso taking part has a stronger effect on a
Japanese audience than would the most
ardent and eloquent raing3.
WHEN I saw Ellen Terry In "The Mer
chant of Venice" It was one of the great
disappointments of my life. I had been quite
excited over seeing for the first time a west
ern actress of world-wide fame, and had
formed a plcturn In my mind of a modest
young doctor of laws, who would walk across
the stage with slow-moving ceremony and
with grave dignity deliver the wonderful
monolocue. Of course, I unconsciously pic
tured the Japanese ideal.
Instead a tall figure in scarlet gown and
cap, which looked to me, like the dress of a
clown, swept on to the stage with the free
dom and naturalness that belong only to
common class people In Japan. Portia
talked too loud and fast for a lady of ele
gance and culture, even In disguise. And
the gestures oh, most of all, the vigorous,
manlike gestures! I had no Impression but
one of shocked surprise.
The beautiful moonlight scene where
Jessica meets her lover and also the last act.
where the two husbands recognize their
wives, were full of too many kisses and
seemed to be most Indelicate. I wished I
was not there to see It.
I know now how Ignorant I was, but
then Just as Japanese actions are so often
misunderstood by Americans my face crim
soned over what to an American would be
most Innocent and perhaps beautiful.
THE Japanese lack of demonstration ex
tends deeply into the customs of dally
life. With all the cheerful hospitality and
friendliness of everyday Intercourse there In
a certain stillness of etiquette which holds
In check all exuberance of expression. It
dictate's the ceremonies of birth and the cere
monies of death and guides everything be
tween working, p'aylng, eating, sleeping,
walking, running, laughing, crying. Every
motion Is chained and by one's own wish
with the shackles of politeness. A merry girl
will laugh softly behind her sleeve, a hurt
child chokes bflclt his tears and soba out, "I
am not crying I" a atrlckon mother will smile
as she tells, you that her child Is dying and a
distressed servant will giggle as she con
fesses, having broken your treasured piece of
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themselves In the background. A display of
one's own feelings would be rudeness.
WHEN American people Judge tho degree
of affection between husband and wife
by their conduct to each other they make a
great mistake. It would be as bad form for
a man to express approval of his wife or
children at it would be for him to praise any
other port of himself, and every wife takes
a pride In conducting herself according to
the rigid rules of etiquette, which recognize
dignity and humility as the virtues that
rellect greatest glory on the homo of which
she Is mistress. ,
Ono other thing may explain some seeming
peculiarities. The Japane&e language has no
pronouns, their place being taken by adjec
tives. A humble or derogatory adjectlvo
means "my" and a complimentary one means
"your." A husband will Introduce his wife
with some such words as these;
"Pray bestow honorable glance upon fool
ish wife." By this he simply means, "I want
you to meet my wife." A father will speak
of his children as "ignorant son" or "un
trained daughter" when his heart is oer
fiowlng with pride and tenderness.
GENERAL NOGI. the hero of Port Arthur,
had two sons. They were his only chil
dren and both were young army officers of
great promise. The general was a rigidly
Just man, and was unwilling to place the
only sons of other fathers in positions of
danger from which ho held back his own.
Therefore he sent both his sons to tho battle
front. They did herolo work for Japan and
the Emperor, but both were killed.
A childless home in Japan is a most terri
ble calamity, as Japanese people believe that
every man's sacred duty to the nation and to
his ancestors is to continue the family name.
This noblo sacrifice of General NogI, the vol
untary offer to the nation of all that means
pride in this world and hope tn the next, was
greater than any westerner can understand,
yet on the sad day when he stood In his
tent studying a war map and the dreaded
message was brought that his second son
also was dead, for ono moment he stood
silent, then slowly lifting his head he looked
at the message-bearer and with a slight bow
quietly remarked:
"It Is a great honor that the nation had
accepted the sacrifice." Then he went on
with his work.
When an American friend read of this she
Impulslcly exclaimed:
"It's the most heartless, heathenish' thing I
ever heard of! Such a man didn't deserve
to havo any sons!"
To a Japanese, the cool, deliberate mannet
when that brave heart was struck with
deadly hopelessness expressed more Intense
feeling than could the wildest outburst of
hearttiroken grief,
I SHALL never forget my first experience
in seeing kissing between manand woman.
It was on the trip, across the continent when
I came from Japan. A seat near me was
occupied by a young lady, very .prettily
dressed and with gentle, almost timid man
ners. She was a young married woman re
turning from her first visit to her parents.
I was much attracted by her free, yet modest,
actions and planned how I would try to Imi
tate her. One morning I noticed that she
was dressed with unusual care, and it was
evident that she was nearlng the end of her
Journey. Finally the train began to Slow
down and she watched out the window with
eager interest. The train had barely come
to a stand when In rushed a young man,
who threw his arms around that modest,
sweet girl and kissed her several times. And
she didn't mind it. but blushed and laughed,
and they went off together. I cannot express
my feelings but I could not help recatling
what my mother said to me "Just before I
started for America:
"I have heard, my daughter, that It Is the
custom for foreign people to lick each other
as dogs do." '
milERE wag no criticism In my mother's,
J. heart nothing but wonder. I repeat her
words only as an Illustration of how an un
familiar custom may appear to the eyes of
a stranger,
Yeajrs of residence In this country have
taught me that the American mode of heart
expression ha? Its spiritual sld, Just ns bow.
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THESE stones are not a hearth until f
they know .
The red and kindly miracle of flame. -,.
Nor this house home until love makes,
it so.
Houses, for good report or dubious . .,
fame, i
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minds; ,
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hidden in the brain
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and blinds:
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pain,
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dread;
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await
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Rapture and grief and all the gifts of
fate.
But when a hundred human years have
gone,
Here, on this south and sunward
looking slope,
God grant this homely fortress fronts
the dawn
With still unconquered kindliness and
hope.
Don Marquis.
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The annual drive on General Potato But
we trust Is going well. Syracuse Herald.
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Doubtless the new Avenue Wilson In Paris
will be a safe road for democracy. Brooklyn
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get anywhere without the assistance of the
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