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".,,jir Ah rloftfs o rep67lcnllon o .tpcclal efts. reserved. f" MilWelpWs. Tueio-iT. I Octeher :. Kit ..Sai-'fmiBaT UTTTItdc ud wrttcrkV ctiniii n F.fe WRITE rlH? 11HE President has written to Demo- wy, expressing the hope thnt he will suc ceed. In defcatlns neptihllcan Senator BaJrd for re-election, as Mr. Balrd voted against the suffrage amendment to the Constitution, although supporting the -President on all real war measures. , Senator Saulsbur of Delaware; Senator Bankhead. of Alabama, and Senator Shields, of Tennessee, all Democrats, also voted against the suffrage amendment and ar seeking re-election. Mn thft Prettfilent -rlttun Iftttnrc tn thplr Mvi fUpubllcan opponents expressing the hope & ini, iiic may uc cicbiru ucuiu iiicac (VTL-f -v . ..... Senators nave had the temerity to vote contrary to his wish? No teachers and no children with symp toms of the grip are to be admitted to the schools, and If there are any cases of grip in their homes they arc not to be admitted h"' tCi" "" -him ia wie rini way to Keep me ljfC','- ban on. . Wf CONTRASTS UNDER THE EPIDEMIC fgjf , aj.ax.iwN, atspassionate moralists may view ,. " tne generally namirame behavior or r1..,' . manlfnM PhllnflAlnVitn ntepn.l..D ,.inn. J"j-- ' - ....-......M, ........j. .fiO uuiint. tx " "'" i,moa "l lnB closing Dan occasionea rjy jyl, ? Influenza epidemic as a "mere perform-'.SS!?- anc" of nlaln dutv. Fldelltv tn tho Ip-. 'J$f"r .Alficance of that word, which no less an lYiWa h unhltmpKt In nui- Inncfimra M It. tin 3Uiun.clently rare to warrant something KiL ' iWr MAtak Vtiri fnnltAntlnnn1 haaahwIiI- i i vuutqjiiiuwm icmgnuiuii. u. It la true, ot course, that the embargo BviWM dictated by the urgent principle of m$ : : .rr .:..-- : . . "" il ' i iiuinHii rviifiv iirm anil rnor npntauTa LMaTatnsi it. were in aanger or ciasstncatlon iJSi AeartJess commercialism. Nevertheless. ?33k? th hardships under which virtually all r"lWd legitimate business labored were very . vfiisU P'lnf tho depression was tryingly exist- E'il"' taflt. Resistance to It on th nart nt hnl- afejT. .1.. stvtf, BCflK iiihii i:enprn iv. rnnnnru nr .rnrsa ' large and small, which suffered severely in f decreasing patronage during the height of SK?7 the Dlacue. theatres entlrplv rlnoorl Ef churches shut for the first tlmo lu several Kfa 1 areneratlons. and mnnv othpr unHortnlfnfa generations, and many other undertakings revealed a high sense of respect for order and"security akin to the commendable tamper of the whole country during the gaeless Sunday era. The sole blot on. this fine record has been the attitude of those saloonkeepers whose tactics served as a strikins example of ,,grross selfishness. Now that the ban Is lifted and the scourge is put, it is heartening to observe how cheerfully business and the other usual concerns of dally life have been re sumed with a vigor that shows the indom itably optimistic spirit of the people of this "busy and productive section. T That Are amolderlnr m a 50,000-ton pile V& SB? coal at a. P. It. T. nowerhnuno la a mfA F ,sjylow worm In comparison with the fires of ' -J&jJ; lnd(natlon that are smoldering In the heart li vi'f&!tf vry loyal Republican, ready to break ,' feSWMit next Tuesday. . 'mJ?..WII;nN RPPimilTrc rnrr 1-mnr. $?'M7HA.T.Jhe President meant when in his ' y '-tW " Pace terms he said that all economic X.a..,'.. i-l'.cfc.'. "--.. -- wuA.s&.b, 14lb AIliYLfr, rtjfi immtTitrn snoum ne removed and the estab. iV-4'' ifi'S,nt- of an equality of trade conditions i "ililnr nations should he, rnH u r,nn. ft?"i - ' -. - ..U.Y wear alter many months of effort to in from him an elucidation of what I isl hla mlnrf r Wilson says in letters to Senators etc and Simmons that he does not Ire trade, but that there must fee no 'trad discriminations by one nation t another, "such actions of dlscrlml- 1 bclnar left to tha 1nlnt artlnn e tL-V... aw-.'i.!,..,.. f.. it,. ,.... j i ,.,, i 91 jJmw Jwvm w. uib .uvo ui UBVI(Jlining . f mmm Bfl) vrlll not Burjmlt tn n nti.Ml m of justice and equity," Each Is to be left to determine its own '.. policy, whether based on protec- r free trade, limited only ty a restric :y international agreement on its ;to have a punitive tariff directed another nation, independent of the S1in the proposed League of Nations. ITtaldent is not quite fair, however, l.fc writes to Senator Hitchcock that he used In his January speech perfectly clear to any honest mind." were not clear, jsvery international . trader on this side of the ocean wel- rthem as an Indorsement of his pet and congratulated himself on the of having the Influence of the & of the United States used to i 9m traaa upon the world by an In. agreement. The President at .to Mam far the misunderstand. 'kas'wwde. He teas resisted for tata;aMsmpt t Induce aim to make at. ae ana oeuld. wJ e" l" t f ;' THE WAH gND si Swift Disintegration In Germany and Solf" Latest Note Bring It Nearer TT SEEMS plain now that tho end of the war Is near. Austria's withdrawal yesterday with the long-expected plea for a separate peace has left the bat tered structure of the German military government wavering alone, desolate and forbidding, like the unprotected ruin of a house in n great storm. LudendoifT, the central prop, has been swept away. With him must go what ever shreds of hope the uniformed luna tics higher up had retained thus far. Doctor Solf's note to President Wilson was a fitting accompaniment to the Ludendorff incident. It was an appro priate emanation from a capital that is full of the noise of falling things. In one aspect the note seems like a gasp for time. In another it appears to suggest the final, utterly weary sur render of men dazed by the speed and terror of events about them. The sear ing arraignment of militaristic Germany in Mr. Wilson's last note is not an swered. No reply is made to the specific requirements of the-President's message. Very properly, however, the President might refer Doctor Solf's note to Gen eral Foch with the suggestion for a statement of terms necessary to an armistice. There are indications that no condi tions would be too hard for Germany's acceptance and that the men now in charge of affairs at Berlin are merely trying to save what they can from the general wreck. That they are ready to throw the Emperor overboard if need be seems apparent. They probably will give all the Hoh6nzollerns to the deep waters if the occasion demands it. Solf's note may prove merely the formality necessary to a statement of armistice conditions, and it seems reasonable to suppose that such a statement would not be invited if the Berlin Government was not preparing to acquiesce in every sug gested provision. For there is little more fight left in Germany. The half-comic, half-terrible machinery of the German military autocracy, as it is revealed in the light of passing events, is unquestionably the most picturesque ruin of any age. Colossal forces are battering it from every side. Ominously in the news from Budapest yesterday there glinted a reference to "commit tees of soldiers and workmen." These five simple words must be adequate to chill the hearts of the men in authority at Berlin, since they show finally that Bolshevism, that last frenzied recourse of agonized humanity, is sweeping in from Russia to send up its yell at the doors of palaces heretofore secure. And that is not all. American diplomacy has created new forces that menace the Ger man leaders at home. As France and Belgium are being" liberated with the Allied advance, so public opinion in Ger many is being liberated to make itself felt with the accumulated energy conse quent upon long repression. Solf and his associates are feeling the driving power of this novel factor in German affairs. Undoubtedly they are engaged in fumbling efforts to set up a sort of civil government 'that shall be something more than a sham and a pre tense. Mr. Wilson and the other Allied statesmen have the better knowledge at the present situation in Germany that is possible with the secret service and dip lomatic correspondence. They alone can properly interpret Solf's latest note. If they have found that a flat demand by Foch for the Kaiser's abdication, or for even his surrender as a condition of armistice, is necessary to inspire the German nation to the complete elimina tion of the Hohenzollern influence, the appeal for- an armistice may be referred without delay to the commander of the Allied forces as a matter of expediency. The enforcement of all of the sweeping conditions defined by- Mr. Wilson, which have wrung no single word of objection from the Germany with which we now are dealing, might then be left for en- forcement to the representatives of the Allied military forces. It is conceivable that this arrangement would be more comfortable for the unfortunate officials at Berlin who have now to deal with their own people. It is not likely that in any event the President will discon tinue the processes which are tending to peace. The Germans may wish to await the statement of conditions by General Foch before they attempt to haggle and bargain. But haggling and bargaining precede every armistice in the field and peace is never long delayed. In this connection it is well to remem ber that, though we in this country have already given and suffered much, France, England and Italy have given and suf fered more. Approximately 1,000,000 Englishmen have died in the battles of this war. More than 1,700,000 French men have been killed since the war began. Europe is black with mourning. And the desires of the nations that have been longest pitted against Germany must of necessity weigh heavily with those who have it in their power to decide when the Germans have been ade quately punished. President Wilson has had this to consider from the first. P Spell It how you will, the once formid able "roar" of emperor now seems hardly more than a pitiful squeak. WOMEN VOTERS IN NEW YORK THE complete registration returns for New York show that a total of 2.918,974 persons are qualified to vote next Tuesday. The total vote for Governor In 1816 was l,71e,7St, The difference between the vote two years ago and the registration this year fa due to the enfranchisement of '- . ..' . dastrtow, where personal m' double that of previous years, becaM the names of all the women voters have been put on the roll. In the cities, where personal registration Is required, the pro portion of women who have qualified for voting Is comparatively small. lnk New Tork County, for example, there were 270, 000 votes cast In 1916. The registration this year Is only 364,000, or an Increase of 94,000. If all the w'omen had registered there would have been an Increase of 270, 000 at least. Suffrage thus works out In New York In a way to make It possible to double the Republican vote In the Republican strong holds, while In the cities, where the Demo crats are In a majority, the vote will not bo Increased een fifty per cent. Tho re election of Governor Whitman seems to be absolutely certain. In the hungry capital of Austria It seems to be a case of not so much Vienna bakery as Vienna beggary. MORE BONNIWELL BUNK THK palm must be awarded to Judge Bonniwell as the supreme political bunk artist In the Commonwealth. His statement of what he will "require" the General Assembly to do next winter la a gem of purest bunk serene coming from tho dark unfathomed" caves of the Judge's skull. As a matter of fact, he will be In no posi tion to "requlro" the General Assembly to do nn thing, not even to remove the Mayor and permit him to appoint a man to fill hh place. A Governor's powers are well defined by the Constitution, and unless pcrerted they do not permit of this kind of action. Alter having been The Isles t but two years under "I'll Help" the American flag the Virgin Islands pur chase $86,000 worth of the fourth Liberty Loan. It would be Interesting to know how much the German colony of Hast Africa subscribed for Hun bonds before General Smuts put a stop to any monetary campaign ing for the Kaiser In that otice oppressed territory. Tho only illsconcert All't Vara In ing aspect of Doctor rosea and War Krusen's urgent re quest that the citizens of Philadelphia themsehes shall endeavor to keep the public thoroughfares t'dy Is that "the largest street-cleaning contractor In the world" may be able to blow of having the "globe's largest corps of voluntary assist ants " i In her present mood rienty ot It would be hard to Light In Europe con Ince Germany that an alleged short age of power was an Issue In Philadelphia. She has a highly vhld Impression of the dynamic energy of Pennsjhanla when trans ported to the battlefield. "ISvery meal should "Vtter Disillusion- be eaten," declares ment" of the Cheek Mr. Hoover, "with the war In mind," and all restaurant patrons promptly qualify as pa triots. The prevailing food prices make for getfulness of the conflict bitterly and con clusively impossible. Whatever policies. And the Tariff whether of free trade W 111 Be High or ita antithesis, the Entente nations may eventually decide upon, It Is undeniable that the German people at this moment look long ingly toward them for protection. The lifting of the ban Cheer Up! on the movies tomor row will give a new life to the Industry which culminates In publishing the bans. "Saloon Men Out for Bonniwell," says a headline. They are likely to be out be cause of him. Germany's diplomatic correspondence, once so sulphurous, Is now merely Solferous and most suppllcatlngly so. The Berlin National Zeltung seems to Intimate that "Gott mit uns" means that Ho hais given the Kaiser the mitten. The Kaiser was gqing to rule the world, and now It Is said he will be content If only they will let him retain the empty tltio of king. Beginning tomorrow tho persistent rf forts of dusty-throated Phlladelphlans to call spirits from the vasty deep will be at last' availing. I Instead of entering Paris in triumph it looks as if the Kaiser would be escorted out of Berlin in disgrace, as the latest member of the great Couldn't-Put-It-Over Club. Why1 does not Bonniwell, who is a mag netic speaker, offer to stop political spell binding and turn his power plant over to the Philadelphia Electricsl Company in the present crisis? ' N They are soon to have an election in England ; but they have had a coalitien Gov ernment there for a long time, bo nobody can say that his party must be supported on pain ot giving aid and comfort to the enemy. That was a pertinent question which Senator Knox put when he asked whether It Is the will of the American people or the will of Woodrow Wilson that is to determine the policy of the United States. On the theory that only the wicked love darkness rather than light, the theatres, which open tomorrow after .nearly four weeks of inactivity, can't be such bad places after all. In breathlessly demanding a separate peace Austria shows a nice appreciation of just the kind of peace she is going to get when she Is separated from the long mis ruled Csecho-Slovaks and Jugo-Blavs. Aad the hlp Bella Oa The elephant trumpets, the donkey brays, And these seem terribly parlous days Until ourt memory makes It clear That thus is election ev'ry year, Nothing Easier Mother I hear that Harry Smith Is the worst boy In school, so I want you tq keep as far away from him as possible. THE ELECTRW CHAIR KAtStn PREPARES TO WEAR MUFTI SON BORROWS FROM HARDEN Dlspeteh From Our SpttM Cort'tponitnt A German Abdication Center, Oct. 28. THANKS to my friendship for Karl Ros--ner, I was privileged to attend the Grand Crown Council held in Berlin the other day. All the crowned skulls of the Hmpiro were present, also a few of the brains. The business of the meeting was to discuss whether Germany was licked or only defeated. Also the question of what to do with the Kaiser was on the table. Rosner and I met.Wilhelm In the ante chamber. He was looking stouter than when 1 saw him last and was carrying" suit case. "You're looking well," I said. "Put on weight, haven't you? This sort of thing seems to agree with you." ' He smiled faintly. "I've got my civilian clothes on under my uniform," he aald. "I thought It best to b'e prepared for any emergency. Abdication Is rather simplified If ltt simply means taking off one's coat and trousers. It was dashed good. luck 1 kept my civilian suit, wasn't It? It's virtu ally new, too. I don't think I've worn it more than'once. That was In 1908. Dear me, how time files!" "Doesn't It!" I said. "Almost as fast as the Death's Head Hussars." Wllhetm looked pained. "You mustn't make fun of poor Willie," he said. "He's having a deuce of a time. You know he never had any civilian clothes at all, and now ho's trying to get some, made for htm in a hurry. The tailor says he can only make them of paper. Imagine Willie's shanks in a pair of brown paper, breeks!" "Never mind," 1 said. "St. Helena Is a warm climate, I believe." TTS all very embarrassing," he said. -- "I hardly know what the etiquette It for an occasion of thli sort. It is some thing I was never -prepared for. Do you suppose Llebknecht would ' lend me an extra pair of trousers? I hardly like to go away with only one pair. And I suppose Llebknecht will have spilled soup all over them. Those Socialists are such careless fellows." - "My dear chap," I said, "perhaps every thing will Tvork out all right. Very likely ,ou won't have tc go away at all. You know, It doesn't make much difference what sort of trousers a fellow Is guillotined In. No one Is disposed to be hypercritical nt a time like that. The utmost leniency and good feeling always prevails on such occasions." He looked a bit staggered, but Rosner whispered to him. I could not help over hearing. "American humor," said Rosner "You must play up to it or you'll never get preferred position on the front page." "Oh, yes," said Wilhelm. "The guillotine, ch? Dear, dear, and I shaved this morn, ing. What a waste of time." To tell the truth, I thought better of him for this. After all, he has only made the worst of a bad Job. "You Americans have such a robust sense of humor," Wilhelm said. "It's a bit overpowering at times. Now that man Wilson, when he called me 'the Intolerable Thing of which the masters of Germany have shown us the ugly face.' Don't you think that's a bit stiff? But perhaps I am a little morbid today. You know I am going to lose Rosner, and I feel dreadfully about it, I don't know what I shall do without him." "Is that so?" I said. "I hadn't heard. "What are you going to do, Karl?" "I've been offered a perfectly corking Job as publicity man for a Swedish match' factory," he said. "Well," said the Kaiser, "I didn't feel I could stand In Karl's way since there is a chance for his advancement But things won't be the same. However, he shall have a brand of fountain pen named after him in honor of his services." H(F COURSE." said Wilhelm," "I'm al. '-' ways willing to admit it when I'm right, but in this case I seem to have had things doped out wrong. Naturally, I'm not a bit keen on abdicating. It seems rather a plebeian thing to do, don't you think?" "It has been done in some of the very best families," I said. "If I do abdicate I shajl do so with my fingers crossed, so that if things should turn out our way I can repudiate it." "I hope," I said, "that If you are guil lotined you will also keep your fingers crossed. Then if they should find a mis take had been made it would be all right" "The point is this," he said. "Why should I abdicate? Why pot simply change the name of my office? Why, as far as I can see, a President has Infinitely more power than a Kaiser, Now", why shouldn't I be a President who wears uni forms? I wouldn't mind a bit being a kind of hereditary President of a German repub lic. The sort of king Albert ot Belgium Is you know." "That's easy," I said. "Just give the Allies three months inside your frontiers, old chap, and you'll feel a good deal like Albert." 771ROM the council chamber we heard the sounds of tables being pounded and vio lent arguments proceeding. ' "In grim times like these no scruple of taste " Solf's voice was saying. Some one else shouted "Foch!" In a hoarse voice. A'thlrd gutteral kept re peating, "Bean him!" "Perhaps we'd better go to the meeting," Rosner suggested. "I think I prefer to stay out here," said Wilhelm. "Solf and Max and those chaps have been rather rude lately, and I don't want to run any risk of being insulted tn public. Listen to them shouting about Foch. In the old days It used to be Hoch, pot Foch! It's pretty rough. I'm not mas ter any longer; and as for Ludy, he's not even quartermaster. He's quit. He says the game's up." Just then the Crown Prince rushed In carrying a paper parcel. "It's all right, dad," he cried'. "Go as far as ypu like. I've borrowed a suit of tweeds from "Harden, Give them the once over." Rosner and I went in to the council cham ber, leaving the elated royal pair sitting on footstools in the anterooom comparing notes. As tha Crown prince unwrapped his precious bundle I heard him say, "How the devil do you put 'em oar SOCRATES. A milkman draftee makes a novel com- .mlsUm. ,-x w;mtvm P."Y, Wt V'V- ij at" A 1 ?lS Ea9eBBUBTlBBBBBBsWQlB sFJBrsBBBBBBBnsBsalsBwVV WhQIMA . intaT a SsbbbbbbbbbbK l3MjHi9BTA-Vi l ifcVHssU&2asBiS T'jpjaasyiyWaW l1at.gMK?ggftffiyTfr7 aaaW6al,st!?S'flaHeeJ pa.. 1 ism ll - ' I TRA VELS IN PHILADELPHIA By Christopher MorJey' t Ninlh Street at Night OP ALL gifts to earth, the first and greatest was darkness?. Darkness pre ceded light, jou will remember. In Genesis. Perhaps that Is why darkness hpems to man natuial and universal, it requires no ex planation and no cause. Wo postulate it. Whereas light, being to our minds merely tho cleansing vibration that dispels tho black, requires some origin, somo lamp whence to hhlne. From the nppalllng torch of the sun down to the pale belly of the glowworm wo doem light derivative miracle, proceedltaB from some conceivable source. We can conceive darkness without thought of Ilglit: but we cannot conceive light without darkness. Day is but an In terval between two nights. In other words, darkness Is a' matter which includes light Just as the conception of a Joke Includes that of humor. One can think (alas!) of Jokes without humor; but no one can conceive of humor, without jokes. THIS philosophy, probably scotfable for the trained thinker. Is a clumsy preface to the thought that city streets at night are the most fascinating work of man. Like all other handouts of nature, man has taken darkness and made It agreeable, trimmed and refined and made It acceptable for the very nicest people. And the suburbanite who finds himself living in town for a week or so Is likely to Bpend his whole evenings in wandering espial, poring over the glow ing caves of shop windows and rejoicing in the "rich patterns of light wherewith man has made night lovely. Night by herself, naked and primitive and embracing, Is em barrassing; she crowds one so; there Is so much of her. So we push her up the side streets and Into the movie halls and out to tho suburbs, and taking her a little at a time We really learn to enjoy her compuny. THERK Is a restaurant on Arch street near Ninth where one may dine on ex cellent Jam omelet and coffee, after which It Is good to -stroll along Ninth street (which I esteem the best street in Philadelphia) to admire the different tints of light that man has set out In order to get a look at the darkness. There Is the wan white glow of the alabaster Inverted bowls that are favored In barbers' shops, There Is the lucent gold of Jewelers' wlndqws, where naked electrlo bulba of great candlepower are masked In silvered reflectors along the top and bottom of the pane. There Is the bleak moonshine of tiled and enameled restaurants, where they lose much lightness by having every thing too white. If ((for Instance) the waitresses would only wear scarlet or black dresses, how much more brilliant the scene would be. a THE long, musty corridor of the postoffice Is sn Interesting place about 8 o'clock in the evening. Particularly in these last weeks, when movies, saloons and theatres have been closed on account of the influenia epidemic, the postoffice has become a trystlng place for men in Uniform and young iadles. The gloomy halls at each end of the cor ridor are good ground for giggling, pojloquy., light love (curiously) approves the dusk. Through 'the little wndows ope catches glimpses of tiers of pigeonholes pscked with letters, and wonders what secrets of tne variable human heart are there confided to the Indulgent secrecy of Uncle Sam. II a novelist of Imaginative sympathy might spend a week in reading throuth those pigeonholes, what a book he could make of them i Or could we only peer oyer the Shoulders of those who stand writing tne blackened, InVtstalned desks, what meshes of Joy nd pain we might see raveled ln the lives of plain men and women. The great :...-!. ' . ... ll II.. all round us. and we have to pluck at Its patter a thread by thread, ,M mint Buntin nt tha Traaaurv aaya ia i "- :."-.' Ji'.Zv": H7:r.aw i. are posted statements of stores and mate rials needed by the Federal departments. One finds such notices as this: Scaled pro posals will be received Il' Cte wnderslfrtird unfit 2 oWocfc p. ni October SO, for supply ing this buihlturj with three dozen scrubbing brushes. And the Navy Yard's bulletin board, near by, nlwajs lias interesting require ments: Wanted, or United Stales naval training camp, icvenly-flvc bubbling heads sanitary drinking fountains. (Imagine how amazed seamen of the tarry pigtail era would be at the Idea of drinking from a sanitary drinking fountain !) ' The Inspector of En gineering Material, U. S. N., Cleveland, O., announces that he desires spaco for Btorlng one five-passenger Ford touring car and wash ing It at Icabt once each week for the period ending June 30, 1919. It would.be a bit in convenient, we think, to store tho flivver here in Philadelphia. The Navy Yard de sires bids for supplying submarines with copper-jacketed gaskets, which has a business like sound. Tho Public Works Department tdmtts that one dozen mouse traps, revolving, are needed, to bn delivered and Inspected at Building No. 4. Navy Yard. Wanted for overseas vessels (here our heart leaps up at the prospect of something exciting) eleuert rc'iolving office chairs, oak finish, ana eleven dozen pencils. The Naval Hospital at League Island asks bids on 100 polnsettias, B0 cyclamens, 100 primroses, 100 carnations, 12 hydrangeas, all in pots. And there are requisitions posted for wires nnd shackles, for anchors and propellers, for chemicals and talcum powder nnd vast radio, towers to be erected at a naval base In France. War, you Bee, Is not all a matter of powder and shot. If you aro ever tempted to won der what the Government doen with the Lib erty Loans, go up to the Federal Building and look over a few of those Invitations for bids posted on the bulletin boards. NINTH street, as I said, often seems to me), the most alluring street tn town. Perhaps It Is because of a certain bookshop ; perhaps It Is because at a table d'hote res taurant above Market street I first learned the, pleasant combustion of cheap claret and cigarettes Ignited by the tune of youthful converse. To these discoveries of a doxen years ago I am happy to add others; for example, that the best spaghetti I have ever eaten is served nn Ninth street; and that there is a second-hand bookstore which ia open at night. Nor am I likely to forget a set-to with sausages and corncakes and sirup that I enjoyed on Ninth street the other evening with vj certain soothsayer. We had been motoring In the suburbs, a i crisp and bravely tinted October afternoon, and 'getting back to town after 8 o'clock aa hungry as bolshevik commissioners, we en tered into the Joy of the flesh In a Ninth street hash cathedral. Here and now let me pay tribute to those blissful lunohrooms that stay open late at night to sustain and replenish the toiler whose business it Is to pass along the lonely pavements of mid night. Waiters and waitresses of the all night shift, we who are about to eat salute you! Let It be a double portion of corned beef hash and "coffee with plenty," And many a midnight luncher has blessed you for your unfailing good humor. Is It not true, admit it, that most of the happy recol lections of mankind deal with food we 'have enjoyed? ' m 0 YOU will find It well' worth while to take a stroll up Ninth street some evening. You wilt usually find a roasted chestnut cart at the southeast corner of Market street. The nable savor of cooking chestnuts Is atsne worth the x effort of the walk. Then you can pass on northward, by the animal 'Shop, where the dogs sleep uneasily In the window, agitated by the panorama outside: past the cuckoo clock shop and the , old Dima Museum. As the street lesds on to less exalted faubourg you wilt" notice" that it grows more luxurious. Windows glow with gold watches, diamond studs," cut glass carafes. Haberdasher set, out ft alUxahlrta. striped with ' tha ratabew, laaaltaly, mese W iH: i 1.-ST " ' i I h. s MY WEE PINT POT MY MIND the universe enfolds My wee pint pot! Ay, all ,that Is my pint pat holds, And All the rest is not. At least, I very plainly see ,. That all the rest Is not for me! Still from tho well of Truth I fill -. My wee pint pot. And, while I'm drawing, what I spill Is doubtless qult.e a lot To me, because of mental twist, , The overflow does not exist. With confidence and pleasing art My wee pint pot ' Drains Reason's brain and Nature's heart And solves Life's puzzling plot. That Is, from things both great and small, I take my little pint that's all. GRIF ALEXANDER. . READER'S VIEWPOINT The Claims of Ireland "" To the Editor of the Evening PuMlo Ledger; Sir I notice In today's Evbnino Public LEnonn a map of Europe marking the places that are to be free under President Wilson's fourteen points, but there Is one little place qot marked, vis: Ireland. The President In his great speech in New York specifically stated that all peoples muet have the right to decide their own destiny without any outside Interference, and that all, friend and foe alike, must coma to the peace table ready to pay the price. Now if President Wilson means what he says he means that Ireland as well as the other small nations must be freed at the peace tible. ' " - The Irish people In this country are dolsg their share in making the world safe for democracy and when the time comes will re that a little of that commodity Is applied to Ireland. FRANCIS J,- SCULLY. Philadelphia, October 25, , X A Better Sign Than Flowers , ' "I think the boss wants to .retain m,1 declared the blonde stenographer. "Bought you some Bowers?" "Bought me a dictionary-" Louisville ' Courier-Journal. , What Do You Know? QUIZ What la the Brat nana ef Gesers! urnT In what does the atraUtia vatae" ef AtaBa. -I jbs caw nam sv ueaersi s.f7"1 In what praTlaca.af.ltalr are. Maa iriintMf I jtwrsiians aiamai las Asetnans a.eaa. B. Whet la "esrlllan"- ,13-1 . 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