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rhllstltlplill. Monday, Au;uit 56. 1918
"KULTUR'S" JOKE BOOKS
THE presence of six hundred German
books In the central branch of the
Free Library of Philadelphia has been
revealed six months after the manage
ment's promise to temove "all works re
garded as Injurious to the American
cause." Some of these books have been
found to contain characteristically Teuton
lies. The feeling that the city's shelves
should not house such products Is natural
and may cause their banishment.
And yet as Foch, Halt; and Pershing's
men. drive forward It Is conceivable that
the comic spirit will be pained If certain
of these ponderous olumes are cast Into
the discard. Unconscious humor Is per
haps the most delectable of all brands
of fun.
Such solemn glorifications of Hun mili
tary power as the Tree Library contains
8em heading for tlio innks of Joke
sralthery. Judging by the extracts which
reach this country, thts German news
papers are already enlisted. Patriotism
may rightly frown on Teuton-made litera
ture, history and propaganda, but "laugh
ter holding both his sides" is often vastly
tlmulated thereby.
Lncldentally it may be recalled that borne
of the funniest things in history are the
pronunclamentos threatening the de
struction of England which Napoleon
launched from Boulogne.
After what the Senator from Mas'achu
setts said the other day Germany is un
likely to echo Cowper's longing for "a lodge
Jn some ast wilderness." Viewed from the
4esert of Hun hopes the scene must be par
ticularly -void of charm.
OUR EASY "SACRIFICE"
TR. HOOVER returns from abroad
WWi
rVS" "oaring our allies' thanks for our vol-
rE$ untary "sacrifices" resulting in the estab
lishment of vastly Improved food condi
tions for the liberty-loving nations of
. Kurope. While rejoicing that our checks
?f.'on waat and our reduced consumption of
wheat, meat and sugar proved so bene
ficial, the allusions to "self-denial" or
"sacrifice" should make us blush.
To save France, Belgium, England and
Italy from the famine which Germany
hoped to impose on them by her U-boat
piracy, It was necessary merely to banish
thoughtless extraagance and to rearrange
and systematize the richest of all national
cupboards. Nature, so nrofusn In hpr
fj?& blessings to the United States of America,
kjgR should be the real recipient of the grati-
ST M.ii mo wuu auiiuiuairator passes
2S$v,on from nations which. If we are faithful
E&. hls comparatively mild regulations for
'.the coming year, will be relieved of all
"wM. drhfitln rntfnnlnc cqva nnl. I ... 1
fc - - w....0 UMVU JttlJ, 111 UCC1 UliU
sugar.
No victory has been greater than that
ct freedom over famine. Vhat Mr. Hoover
nd his colleagues in other countries have
done Is worth ai Jubilee, bu the average
American, well-fed throughout the con
flict, has performed a relatively easy duty.
Tlatterlng unction hardly lies gracefully
on Ills lucKy soul
American Congressmen rode over Lon
don in American battleplanes a day or two
'ago and were told by the British officers
that the Liberty motor is to do great work
In ihe war. This is additional proof, of
course, of the complete failure of the air
program.
VTARREN BARTON BLAKE
death of Warren Barton Blake by
1 drWUKjing at Nantucket brings a very
f&yoiKnant aouuri,a 10 an wno itnew mm
jttjKS.nd Is a pVlbllc loss whose greatness can
;,jernaps oruy do realized Dy those of his
ips- own profession. Of all the younger Journal-
St ' .jets rearca in l-nnaaeipma, there -was none
ttof nioro honest and valuable achievement,
una. certainly none so instinctively modest
no", shy of the limelight. As a magazine
a writer it was his prh liege to do most
his work unknown and unsigned, but
sere was a sympathetic and luminous
dlty about his editorial articles In Col-
Tier's that made them ahvais recognizable
'?to attentive readers.
Although only thirty-four, Mr. Blake
' liari nlrpariv mndn hlnvNolf nnA r,e iUa In.
fc!i -formal ambassadors between this country
jtna ranee wno nave aone so mucn to en-
srthe two republics to each other. His
r,hls jnflpite, charm and modesty of
silly, wpn mm innumerable friends
i France, where he had spent much time.
Sthad only recently returned from six
i tn Paris, where he was In charge
'an Important division of the Red Cross
rork. He was indefatigable in his effprts
to; bring France and America together,
rsuid only a few weeks ago It waa our privl-
tb print on this page -his able article
("Awerlca In Alsace," written for Baa.
iiy-
If iJwtfOB Bloke had lived he would have
kaowtr m one of the ablest editors
i 'fjwsrattM.i'BQii wno loved him
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ELECT A REPUBLICAN HOUSE
TJiU WouM Render Hannlcis the "Disloyal"
Democrats Whom the President Opposes
WE ALWAYS regret the waste of
' energy" when wo see a man taking a
roundabout course to securo the ends
that he might secure by following tho
shortest route.
This is one of the reasons for our
regret that the President has seen fit to
write letters disapproving the re-election
of various Democratic Senators and Rep
resentatives. His purpose is to secuie a'
Congress which will sustain tho Admin
istration in its prosecution of the war.
We know that thus far Congress has
stood behind him. Indeed, it has been at
times so subservient to his will that it
has been charged with abdicating its
functions. Yet theic have been a group
of Democrats who have done their best to
prevent the entrance of the country into
the war and to prevent the efficient con
duct of tho war now that we arc commit
ted to it. The President, however, has
not yet condemned the chairmen of com
mittees who are seeking re-election,
although some of the House chairmen arc
the most persistent obstructors.
Take, for example, the case of Mr.
Dent, of Alabama, who presides over the
Committee on Military Affairs. He has
been fighting the plans of the War De
partment to be empowered to call the
youths between the ages of eighteen and
twenty-one to the army. Julius Kahn, of
California, the ranking Republican mem
ber of the committee, has been leading
the fight for the Administration piogram
and when doubtful amendments were
suggested on tho floor of the House the
members looked to him for guidance and
acted as he suggested.
Chairman Kitchin, of the Ways and
Means Committee, is equally objection
able, for he has been doing his best
to produce a revenue bill which will
fail to meet the approval of the Treasury
Department. The sound advice of Scc
letary McAdoo has been ignored by him,
while he has attempted to inject the old
fashioned Bryanistic Populism into the
measuie.
The re-election of these two men is
thus far unopposed by Mr. Wilson. But
they will retain their chahmanships so
long as the" Democrats control the House.
The simplest way to shear them of
power to hamper the Administration is
not to defeat them, but to elect a Repub
lican House. Then by the operation of
the rule of seniority Mr. Kahn would
automatically become chairman of tho
Military Affairs Committee and Mr.
Fordney, of Michigan, would preside
over the Committee on Ways and Means.
Mr. Foidney is a sound economist and
can be trusted to co-operate with Secre
tary McAdoo in devising revenue meas
ures which would raise the funds needed
without unduly burdening any class of
business. And Mr. Kahn is committed to
the proposition that the way to win the
war is to raise is big an army as possi
ble as quickly as possible by drafting
into it all the military material that is
needed, beginning with youths eighteen
yeurs old, which is admittedly the mini
mum for military service, and ending
with the men of forty-five, which under
ordinary circumstances is the maximum
age at which efficient seivico can be
lendered.
Every reason which Mr. Wilson has
offered for the defeat of individual Demo
crats applies with equal force to the de
feat of the Democratic majority through
the supremacy of which in the House the
obstructing committee chairmen aic en
abled to interfere with and delay the war
work of all kinds. It is impossible to
escape the logic of the situation.
But whether Mr. Wilson takes this
course or not, the country is likely to do
it, for tho prospects for tho election of
a Republican Houso improve every time
Mr. Dent obtrudes his narrow views
about the draft and every time Mr.
Kitchin seeks to penalize certain kinds
of business. The Democratic majority is
very slim and the defeat of half a dozen
Democrats would give a working ma
jority to the Republicans.
The high rents In Philadelphia cause
one to wonder whether a Job on a moving
van represents an essential employment.
WHO REMEMBERS CASTLE GARDEN?
TT WAS sadly like New York to rave and
quarrel and divide Itself into classes
over the proposed transformation of Bat
tery Park for. one of the war Industries;
to "save" that historic place amid a great
outcry and yet to miss the inner heart
of the question altogether. Of course Bat
tery Park should be kept inviolate. It
should be preserved like any other city
park and for the same reasons. But who
remembers Castle Garden and the epic of
American life enacted there year after
year Jn the old days, when much that has
made this country strong and great and
kindly was coming to us on the sea's own
tides?
Castle Garden, which distinguishes the
Battery Park, is, as a matter of fact, one
of the great landmarks of American his
tor. It was the receiving place for im
migrants in the days before Ellis Island,
when the north of Europe was sending
most of its adventurous souls to the new
world. ' There are men and women still
living who passed through Castle Garden,
and they are sure to remember it as a
temple of sortfj as a place of ends and
beginnings, where happiness and tears
wcje strangely mixed. The immigrants of
that time were not Bolshevlkl and they
were not fatherlandersj they were not of
the kind who believe that America was
discovered and ordered and civilized and
developed for themselves alone. They came
as seekers after Justice and opportunity,
and they were the mothers and fathers
of much that Is best In America today.
History will yet recall them .when the
time comes to glorify the bravest and most
lovable pioneers of all time.
They are talklnsr now of nuttlnc- im n
tablet to thevmen who "saved" Battery
, -saved"' Battery
pha Car.
or the country Itself were to put up a
tablet In honor of the early Immigrants
who ventured, often amid difficulties. Into
a now world that they enriched with their
Industry, their strength and their great
devotion. They ought to be remembered
now, surely, when nil tho world has so
much reuson to know the truo value of
honor and simplicity and purity, of heart.
Germany may not approvo of tho Bkip
stop system, but she's ndoptlng it every day
in Plcardy.
SENATOR LODGE ON PEACE
SENATOIl'LODGn Is nn able man and a
sophisticated Interpreter of political
motives. He is now the dominating repre
sentative of Republican party opinion in
tho Senate. Ho has a national audience
on the occasions when ho tnkes the floor.
His formal definition of acceptable peace
conditions, therefore, Is of extraordinary
Interest. And every one will nt onco ap
plaud tho similarity of his view to that
of tho President and tho unity that Is
apparent in tho purposes of tho Repub
lican leaders and those of tho Adminis
tration. For Mr. Lodge's program Is In nil essen
tials Mr. Wilson's program, a shade moro
explicitly stated, somewhat moro harshly
phrased and having as Its leading char
acteristic the commanding note and chal
lenge of tho victor. It is not ns a sot of
peace conditions that Mr. Lodge's pro
nouncement can clam novelty or perma
nent attention. What may be termed the
Republican peace program represents
actually the beginning of a now epoch in
our relation to tho war the period when
we nssumo all tho rights and privileges of
tho offensivo and the attitude of the con
queror for tho ilrst time. Formerly Amer
ica had a sense of struggle in which
strength was evenly matched. But Ger
many is winded and totteiing. A change
in tho psychology of this country is in
evitable and Mr. Lodge has been tho first
to senso that change and to meet It. A
pronouncement such as ho has made will
provide, in fact, a definite test of the tem
per of the American people under the
growing stimulus of success and victory.
A principle not clearly visible in the
text of Senator Lodge's address Is in
volved in this Instance, and it may yet
develop ns a ground for argument between
tho two political parties Always In tho
bnck of President Wilson's mind thero
seoms to have been an insistent hope for
salvation of some sort for tho German
nation and nn untrammelefl future for the
German people after they have been re
lieved of the burden of their military
clique. Tho Piesidcnt's sense of charity
for the individual German is not always
reflected in popular opinion. The passlon
ato hatred of the world at largo for the
Germans of Belgium, the Germans who
murdered and plundered, the Germans of
poison gas and flame-throwers and sub
marines, has left in many minds a wish
to see flro and the sword dominant upon
German soil. It has often seemed even
to charitable minds that a policy of nn
ejo for an eje, of fire for Are, could offer
the only decent and Just finish to a war
such as tho present one has been. It may
bo assumed that such a view would sat
isfy general opinion now. But what
diplomatists will have to determine Is
whether it would satisfy the world opinion
of the future as well.
Senator Lodgo In urging the necessity
for a victory dictated on German soli docs
not go too far. He might Justly have
urged a victory dictated in Berlin. It is
safe to say that a largo part of American
opinion will not be satisfied with less. It
Is ev'en questionable whether a victory
otherwise arrived at would be altogether
convincing to Germany or convincing to
tho gun-mad leaders of the Hun. Sooner
or later wo shall have to decide questions
such as this. But what If the Germans
should surrender after somo great disaster
in France nnd sue for peace upon Allied
terms? What if, after a complete down
fall in the German army, wo might be
called upon to fight another jear and to
lay Germany waste in the advance to
Berlin and set aside the opportunity for
a peace that might bo fair and lasting?
The victor in arms is not likely to waste
tlmo on such subtleties. President Wilson
differs with Senator Lodge In that he
seems able to imagine a whipped and re
formed Germany that yet Bhall prove
amenable to Justice and reason and escape
the horrors of forced invasion. There is a
school of opinion that supports this view.
There are observers who insist that a
devitalized and broken Germany would be
a burden and a menace to civilization.
They hold that a peace founded upon a
humane consideration for nil the people
will bring Germany back again as a
friendly element In the family of western
civilization and recover to the world some
of tho good which German character con
tributed in the years of its sanity.
It remains to be seen how America at
large will feel in relation to this theory.
It must bb remembered that Senator
Lodge and the leaders with whom he con
sulted before making his address have
none of the responsibilities of the Presi
dent. They can become more conciliatory
or more harsh without any violation of
political ethics. They are freer to talk
than Mr. Wilson. They easily can be
more explicit. And yet It must be said
that Senator Lodgo has again acted with
signal patriotism In departing from rou
tine to strengthen the hands of the Ad
ministration, to ask more of the country
even than the President has asked, to sup
port ever a sterner policy than Mr. Wil
son's. And Anally in the name of his
party he has withdrawn all hope from the
conciliators and the Lansdownes in Amer
icafrom the faint-hearted and the cow
ardly. Of America ct this moment It may
be said that she is more completely united
in sentiment and In purpose than any
other nation In the world.
Not Bad In The chap who gets any
Tula Weather real satisfaction out of
looking at the ther
mometer to see "how high it Is now"' might
be said (but not by us) to be a victim of
mercurloslty. ,
On the whole It Is pleasant to learn that
some detachments of German troops are
being transferred from Finland to the west
front. We won't have to go so far to lick
them.
Neither one) nor beveral swallows make
a summer satisfying to the Hun, a truth he
uarxi, whjl. he process, compellmg him to.
THE CHAFFING DISH
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OFTEN wonder whether the Qcr-
an soldiers write as much poetry
as the Yanks do, Probably they wrote o
good deal of verse in August and Septem
ber, i01, but not much since then.
Cur own boys seem to find pleasure in
putting their thoughts into rhyme. The
following lively ballad was icrllten by
Sherman Gardner Coatcs, formerly an
architect in thts city, who cnlllcrf i o
pirvatc and when last heard from tt-ae a
corporal in the 100th Machine Qun Bat
talion. Presumably the poem was co'm
posctl before he got his stripes. The author
says it was written in a French cattle car
or "Pullman side-door dc luxe." Apparently
the real reason for the buck private's hu
morous grumbling Is Iwt being able to get
at the enemy soon enough.
"Sprccdycoro' -"
(Esprit do Corps)
IF KICKIN makes a fightln' man, then
I've got this to say:
That this here war's as, good as won, I'll
stake my next month's pay!
F'r a meaner lot uh kickers never cussed
a Yankee cuss
Th'n us guys glttln' ready to clean up this
German muss.
TI
IHEY ain't a single. gol-darned thing in
this hero army game
That suits us half-baked soldiers, an' the
way wo knock's a shame.
But still wo don't mean awful much it's
Just our Yankee way
Uh lettln' on we're Just as good ns them
what draws more pay.
WE KICK agin our officers they're
dumb as Paddy's sow
Ther' ain't a. private buck of us what
couldn't tell 'cm how!
An' as for our dear sergeants well, tho
Loid mado Insects tt(0,
An' ther' ain't a lot uh difference, from us
privates' point uh vlow.
THE corporals, they ain't so bad, 'cept
when they make us work,
Er drill us when wo want to sleep, er spot
us when we shirk.
But any guvs what likes their Jobs, an'
tries to git ahead,
Wo spend our evenin's dumping them
mitt-Hoppers out uh bed.
WE HOLLER at our doctors with their
pills an' Iodine;
We ell becuz It rains at night while
drlllln' weather's fine;
Wo try to kill tho captain if our pay's a
few days late;
We howl llko fiends if we're on guard Just
when we got a date;
WE HATE the chow we get to eat, an'
swear we'll eat tho cooks.
An' cuss the commissary fer a gang uh
dirty crooks;
We think our uniforms about ns good ns
burlap bags,
An' tear 'cm up, an' then we kick becuz
wo're dressed in rags;
flTE'RE tired uh being here an' wish to
' heck they'd move us on.
An' when we're there we hate it worso,
an' wish we'd never gone;
We think our outfit alwuz gits the worst
of every deal,
An' cuss an' bust off at the men behind
the steerln' wheel.
BUT, though we're great on soundln' off
an' klckln's our delight,
We won't fly out no yellow flags when
once they let us light!
An' when we git our chanct at Fritz, my
bet's nineteen to one
Our orn'ryness '11 proye to be the smashin'
uh the Hun!
JERRY COATES,
Co. A, 109th Machine Gun Battalion, A. E. F.
An army variant of "hand-ahaKer " a fellow
mho tries to make himself popular ulth his su
periors. Lenine's Version
The fault, dear Trotsky, is not in our
Czars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Give Him His Due
We have always felt a good deal of pity
for tho late Czar, who may have been
weak but certainly was not contemptible.
The passages from his diary after his fall
which are now being published are full
of the pathos of a baffled and bewildered
man. "I read much In Julius Caesar," ho
wrote of a two-day train ride. A German
paper professes to find in Nicholas's diary
tho proof that his personality was "insig
nificant." But insignificant people do not
turn to Shakespeare for consolation. The
fact that the Czar pondered over the
drama of a Roman emperor overthrown
by tho bolshevlkl of, his day seems evi
dence of considerable humor and phi
losophy. Nicholas's personal tastes in literature
being excellent, It Is curious that he chose
for reading aloud to his children during
their captivity a volume called "A Mil
lionaire Girl." It would be interesting to
know what the book Is.
But There Wilt Be Others
East of Chaulnes is the village of Mis
ery, which the Huns have compelled to
live up to Its name. Foch, as a humane
man, will soon put them out of It. '
A British merchant captain who waa
captured by a U-boat complains that she
was terribly overcrowded. The submarine
was 200 feet Jong and carried a crew of
seventy-seven." The gallant skipper evi
dently has never traveled on a Woodland
.avenue trolley.
Why is it so much easier to think when
.one's feet are elevated about forty inches
from the fioort I there anything Dar
winian in' the matterf
Flashlight manufacturer arrested on top
of Mount Washington. Headline.
People who amuse themselves these days
by waving Jlghts on tops of mountains are
apt to find their vacation prolonged to
an uncomfortable extent.
Two Is Company " ,
A play has been produced In New York
with only two actors In the cast. Is this
a profiteering dodge to release eo many
more of the population for he audience
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Two Girls Solved Their Problem
By WALTER PRICHARD EATON
WE CALL them "tha girls" in the village,
though either of them, I should have to
suspect If I were forced to do anything so
Indecorous, could In years easily be the
mother of a debutante. "The girls" Is a spon
taneous vlllago tribute of affection and of
recognition that jouth of tho spirit Is eternal.
The girls are two In number, sisters, and
they live In a little cottage of nnclent vint
age, surrounded by a little garden forever
new with fresh blooms, midway down tho
village street. It bounds llko "Cranford,"
doesn't It, or a story by Mary E. Wllklns?
But the girls aro about as much like "Cran
ford" as a picture by Fontaine Fox is like a
Kato Greenaway. The times have changed.
Who knows but even In Cranford the dear
ladles are now demanding the ballot? At any
rate there is nothing early Victorian about
our girls except their piano and tho portraits
over It. They pretend to be prim, old-fashioned
spinsters sometimes, but their hearts
are in the twentieth century.
THE girls earn their own living. They
didn't nlwavs have to, as the family por
traits attest. Onco upon a time they dwelt
in a large city, amid comparative affluence.
But do they now lurk drably In that "genteel
poverty" of our Victorian story-tellers? They
do not. They have no liking for poverty,
genteel or otherwise. Just ao nobody has who
is In his right mind ; and they at once, when
the blow came, set about devising wayB and
means honorably to avoid it. Do they talk
sadly and with much show of haughty pride
about their days of affluence? They do not.
They never mention It. That's over. Here's
tho present, a most fascinating tlmo, full of
things to do, plans to make, people to see.
When they depart, in speech, from the pres
ent, it Is always to speak even more cheerfully
of the future. Unconsciously when It called
them "the girls" the village hit upon a pro
found truth.
WHAT do they do for a living? They make
Jams, Jellies, preserves; they can fruits
and vegetables (which they raise themselves
In their little garden, with hollyhocks In the
middle of the asparagus bed and the cauli
flowers between tho larkspurs). Further
more, they convert in summer their dining
room, with Its creasy floor, its big celling
beams, its old, wide fireplace, Into a little
shop. Here they sell their Jams and Jellies,
or such Jars as have not been made on order,
and arlous articles of handicraft nnd even
somo antiques gathered in the neighborhood
In front of their cottage swings a little whlto
sign. They painted It themselves, letting the
black paint from tho letters run down at the
bottom. If anbody else had done that it
would have looked simply Bloppy, But the
girls did it and the effect is charming. You
will Know the sign by this mark and by the
colored roses on one side and the colored
Jelly Jars depicted on the other.
PERHAPS, too, you will notice something
else nbout their little red cottage behind
the sign. The entire roof of the veranda
(now Bagging a bit in the center) is covered
not only with a Virginia creeper, but with
green moss In which the characteristic flora
which grows in mosB-the small grasses,
ferns, saxifrage, etc. is present. Just as
though tho veranda roof were the top of
some ancient boulder in the woods. The girls
did that. They went up to the second story
with palls of earth and dumped them out on
the shingles. Then they set out pieces of
moss and even scatteied a little seed. The
village thought them crazy. The local car
penter, In an excess of friendliness, hurried
over; to tell them it would rot the shingles
and In time the very beams.
THEY laughed. "All right,." said the elder,
"when that happens you shall make a new
roof, so we can put more earth on It. But
we must have moss on our veranda roof."
"Yes," said the. younger, "we simply can't
live without moBS on that veranda roof. It
Is quite unthinkable."
The carpenter shook his head sadly. He
told his wife the girls were "queer." Mean
while the rains came, tho sun shone and In
a year or two that veranda roof became a,
thing of beauty.
THE girls enjoycannlng. For that matter
they enjoy, everything. Life Is ail a de
lilhtful "party," as they would find it But,
having set out to make a living by .canninr.
why presto I Canning la simply the most
fascinating thing In the world. Their can
ning kitchen Is the whole upstairs of their
;,,hmte tmM ?ta'Wta MSl
story-ana-half house KnocKea into one room.
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stove stirring a great kettle of fragrant
raspberries they look out from one of theso
windows' close by and see their gaiden Just
below, full of hollyhocks, feathery aspaiugus,
current bushes, rows of chard, bird baths.
Beyond their garden Is a meadow and a
brook, then a haj field, and then distant
woods and the long horizontals of the Berk
shire Hills. It Is a pretty picture, framed by
the rafters and the v lndow sash. TheJ' know
It. They live It. They stir nnd look nnd
look and stir, and upon my word something
of tho beauty of the picture goes into their
Jam.
TtlE girls are always dressed up and they
are never busy. Yet they are almost al
wajs dressed for work and almost always
working. 1 suppose that faculty, like tho
gift of poetry, can ncvr bo acquired. God
gave it to them. Call at 10 of a morning
when three kettles of fruit are on the stove
and their faces aro not flushed, they have
tlmo to talk to ou, to mako you sure ion
were tho one person they really were "Just
djlng to have a visit with." Yet some how,
while tho conversation waxes merry and
laughter floats out over thetarden, the Jam
gets stirred,' the glasses filled. I would some,
business men I know could take a few les
sons from the girls. I'm sure the world
would be a happier place-
WHEN the girls go to walk they carry
faslonablq canes and wear white shoes.
They return with bunches of wild flowers
and weeds, Indiscriminately mixed, after
having spoken to all tho babies, boys, women,
men and chauffeurs on the way. These weeds
and flowers they dump into old baskets and
bean potB and other unpromising receptacles,
give the bunches a pat here, a pull there, and
suddenly their isrch, their parlor, their shop,
is lit up by the color, and you would not
change a leaf of the bouquet nor suggest
any other possible receptacle.
THEY make Jam because It Is fun to mako
Jam; they adore their view because It Is
nn adorable view ; they hugely enjoy exercis
ing their bright wits in conversation because
being bright and witty Is lots more fun than
being literal and dull. In fact, their world
is so constantly full of a number of things
that they are much more happy than any
kings nowadays. They are the happiest peo
ple I know. The result Is that nobody can
be permanently unhappy in their presence,
and the village will call them "the girls" till
they aro ninety.
Why Guynemer Wore His Medals
Something of the modesty of Georges
Guynemer, the world-famous aviator. Is told
by Jacques Mortane In "Guynemer, the Ace
of Aces." Guynemer wapf asked why If he
were so modeBt ho went, about with his
crosses and medals upon his breast.
His reply was, "If I do this It is not be
cause I take pleasure In it, for Jf it be sweet
to know that you are celebrated, glory is
accompanied by many drawbacks. You no
longer belong to yourself, you. belong to
everybody. To be well known is to see
ajound you all the time a number of persons
who never cared for you before, but have
suddenly assumed a pseudo-friendship for
you. All at once they find out that you are
a charming conversationalist, an" Infinitely
fine soul and more of the same kind of gush.
Their object Is to go out with you 'and to
take you tojsee their people. And when'they
look at you they Imagine that you admire
them. The misfortune of renown? You no
longer know where sincerity begins, whether
they are,'pleasant to you out of friendship or
vanity. You are apt to become unjust to
those who do'1 not deserve It and confhlot in
others who-deserve it. still less. The women
roll their, eyes tenderly as they look nt you,
and when you think that they are looking at
your face they are studying your medals. I
am the French Ace of Aces, and foreign
governments have recognized me, as such. I
no lollger belong to myself. Some may assert
that I am merely a shop window, but it is a
window over which It would be rude on my
part to draw down the curtain. It would
be like the person ta whom you give a beau
tiful Jewel which he shuts up at the bottom
of a drawer, I consider that acting as I do
is an act of courtesy on my part toward
those who have decorated me, as well as an
act of Justice to aviation Itself. My breast
on the one hand arid my officer's uniform on
the other will remind every -passerby that
In the Fifth Arm there are not only cox
combs, Always the same, walking up and
down tn Pailt, flooding' all kinds qf bars with
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from .
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face lean, worn and lined, Intent,
grim, sage,
Most soldierly yet with tho thinker's
brow
Soldier of France and our great leader
now! '
Not with the Prussian War Lord's bris
tling mien,
No air of pomp or of piestlge; serene,
Unchanging confidence Is his whose might
Springs from tho sacred senbo of being .
light!
No flow of windy words, no pageantry
Of arrogance and pride; the dignity
Of one whose plans spell victory, yet know
A code of honor to a perjured foe!
The son of a Republic, born to be
Its saving, selfless "man of Destiny";
Strong In retreat, yet stronger In advance,
Tho brain, the hope, the diiving Will of
France 1
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Grave-eyed and sad he looks, as one whose
part
To wear the scars of battle o'er his heart.,
The wounds of France are his her grief
sublime
And her untarnished glory for. All Timet
Elizabeth Newport Hepburn, In the -New
York Times.
Texas Doesn't Adjourn Politics
Of this year's registration in California
621,000 registered as Republicans and 326,000
as Democrats. It seems that the large
majority of the voters of California have
simply lost all sense of shame. Houston
Post.
Hard on Jim Ham C"J
Life Is full of disappointments and when-
ever tho paper announces in a conspicuous
way that tho war is going to end this year
wo read on and discover that at least that's
what somebody like Senator James Hamilton
Lewis says. Ohio Slate Journal.
Just About as Popular
Perhaps calling whale-meat sea-beef wtlj
make it as popular as dogfish has been since
it began to be called grayflsh. Boston Globe.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. Who Is rrime Minister of Spain?
. What Is a murrain? i
S. Who planned the city of Washington? ,
4. What la the orhtln of the word candidate? ,
5. What riser discharges the larsest volume
of water?
6. What U the real name of Gabriels B'An-, t -
nunxlor ,
7, What Is breadfruit?
R. What French marshal surrendered Mt .j
the Germans In the Franco-Prussian Wart
0. What part of the United Htatea waa Included
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9. Tlin orlaTlnal raauftnleuiu wa a maxnlfleent
lomu rreriea 10 niauioina, iunjx or carta in ,V,
Asia Minor, by lilt queen. Artemetle.
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ourtli renturr IK 0, The word has tlnf1 '
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1, The line "nneaay Ilea the head that wears
rrown" Im npoken hy Kin Henry IV la
Hhaketpeare play nt that name. "
8. The Frenrh word "souffle" (pronounced fib
Hay "I literaiiy mean -mown."
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of '.Uht. frothy foods, usually -made
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