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W SELF-DETERMINATION THAT DOESN'T GO THE activities of Colonei l' 'i ire in distinct violation of tho principle oi , "M self-determination. He holdi no ofllco under the city government, but i o Is busy ing himself with tho neglected duties of the local authorities, who haQ been acting aa if the city hod an Inalienable right to determine how vicious it was to be. Colonel Hatch' thinks otherwise. If tho city will not protect tho soldiers and Bailors from the wiles of tho vicious ho will do it him self. , Fortunately for the men ho is looking after, he has ample authority. And for tunately for the success of his under taking, thero are thousands of citizens who agree with him that the right to de termine to bo icious and to contaminate others with vlclousness is not one which should be protected under any theory of local -autonomy. Happily the smallness of the President's bed in Paris has no effect on the magnitude Of his dreams. INFLUENZA AGAIN WHEN Influenza first became prevalent hereabouts, the State Department of Health consistently recommended the iso lation of patients and a systematic quar antine in regions where the disease was menacing. Self-willed if less intelligent local Boards of Health flouted this general , order. Physicians who knew less about Influenza than tho State health authorities refused to help in the isolation of patients Now thero are some signs of a recurrence of the' trouble. Doctors and Boards of Health, after some painful experience, have decided that science was right. We all come to that conclusion sooner or later. Doctor Krusen's order providing for the Isolation of patients with influenza will serve to prevent any general spread of 'the malady If It is observed. Do not trust to home remedies if you havo what you believe to bo a cold. Call a doctor. If you have symptoms of grip go to bed and stay till you are better. These are simple rules. But they will stamp out the remnants of the epidemic. ' Let's all hope that tho smile now on tho faces of tho children will not come off on Christmas morning. MILITANT SUFFRAGISTS AT PLAY TN EUROPE the people applaud Mr. Wil i son's speeches. They aro folic who have greater reasons than any American suf. ragtst to ache for freedom and to recognize It at a distance. In Washington the mili tant representatives of tho otes move ment who used to get arrested for picket tag the White House aro organized, with flags and speeches, to burn publicly a copy of every address that the President delivers abroad. This Isn't encouraging. Mr. Wilson's addresses are rather com pelling arguments for the rights that the suffragists seek. Somebody ought to tell the suffragists generally that they are getting some ex tremely unfavorable advertising. "We are not satisfied with peaceful evo lution," say the militants. "AVo want i something faster that will arrange matters for us, first of all, and attend to tho rest Of creation later. The rest of creation can Walt. We are the only important, op e pressed, aspiring folk In the world! " And so a great many people who hope for equal suffrage will wish that the j- vote could be kept from such unwise 1 women lest they abuse it as they do the privileges of free speech and liberty of action. There's no doubt about dermany having a whte Christmas. She signed up for one at Senlls on November 11. ,., I V PENSIONS AS PAHT TV Win r-r.cr Z-e.irt, v -." .. . . .. - M jwjva inougmo wevuaDiy ny forward ., ?-' to 1971 as one reads the reoort of th t $7 '.Pension Commissioner, which announces fru .' zb,uuu uvu war veterans are draw- !'frX.Ur,Pwln flfty-three years after .the 1 ""TTksa of that war. EVerv nnlrilpr fj't rr , . ,.. jf , .. .. BV. , rWTVBU 4U U1UOLJT WttJTB 4U1U WttB nOnOraDjy S?. discharged in entitled to a pension. A littl ,XMre than a quarter of a minion soldiers ' f'.. iv survived thn war hv flftv.thr V,J -? How many who have served in the pres- r v t war will be alive in 1971, or the same '' - jMnser of years from its close? And how ,,-JCy of them will be receiving pensions !sc injuries or inabilities that can be traced s (1rsifeUy to their service, but for which no pWrUlon has been made in Uie insurance Ursitni devised to save the Federal Treas- H, the burden of heavy pension pay. TkaW questions cannot be answered at but students of governmental oanaot help speculating about renyrt M.Js&e. ostlng, for It calls attention to the fact that almost as many widows of veterans as veterans are receiving' pensions, and that tho number pf pensioned veterans has fallen within ten years from nearly 750,000 to not qulto 300,000. This numoer will de crpnso much more rapidly within tho next ton years, but It Is likely that they will not all have died by 1940, for a veteran of the "War of 1812 survived till tho closa ui the last century. "Ve havo paid In pensions, or continuing war costs after peace was declared, more than the cost of all our wars up to tho present ono. Tho Civil War cost three billion, four hundred million dollars, and wo have paid more than Ave billion dollars In pensions growing out of It and about three hundred, trillion dollars In pensions for our other wars. As a commercial investment war does not pay. MUST COERCIVE MILITARISM BE ESTABLISHED IN AMERICA? Would General Crowder, Retaining the Se lective Service, Borrow a Curse That Europe Is Trying to Escape? TT IS too early for any definite appraisal of future military needs In America. That general question, unfortunately, is altogether out of our hands. It will bo settled for us in Europe. The answer must lie in tho states of mind and the relative dispositions with which the nations of the world emerge from the Peace Conference. But the world of mankind has been thinking of the recent bloody tumult as a war to end war as a martyrdom that v,ns worth while only because it was a prel minary to enduring peace. It is for thi3 reason that a great many persons aic sure to feci a vague disquiet in read ing Provost Marshal General Crowder's foiuful appeal for a continuation of the selective-service system in the United States. There are two questions suggested by this revealing incident. Is there, in the mind of a distinguished professional soldier, accustomed as it is to impact with harsh realities, disillu sioned through the brute force of swift necessity, no room for the sort of faith that has carried President Wilson to Europe? Must we believe that the men who make and train armies do not know how infinitely sick the world has become of enforced service under arms and have yet to realize the immensity of the forces which the mass consciousness of Europe has set in motion to dispose forever of the horrors of competitive armaments? General Crowder is one of the ablest men in Washington. He has performed difficult services brilliantly. His praise of the selective-service system indicates a frank reconciliation to the possibility of future wars in which the volunteer system cannot be adequate because war nowadays has become not so much a matter of valor or personal courage as a process in which sci ntifie knowledge, specialized study and technical equipment contribute accuracy in every detail of the colossal and intricate machineiy of the modern army. For this reason the selective service, a system devised to give the Government a complete record of the individual capabilities of every man of military age, was phenomenally efficient in the crisjs of, the last two years. But it is question able whether, because of this, we should establish in America a practice which has embittered all of Europe, driven nations at one another's throats, agonized and impoverished a whota continent at regu lar intervals and ended, final'Vi in a con dition approximating geneial chaos. It is needless to say that enforced military service in America under what ever name would not involve a menace to other nations. It would not. But how could we convince other peoples of this? We would, by continuing the selective service, give to militarism a prestige which it never has had before in tho United States. No one can disagree with General Crowddr upon the question of the sys tem's efficiency and fairness to all classes of men involved. The Government would be empowered hereafter to call up a given number of men each year from their studies or their occupations for a course of systematic training. The aimy and the navy could be kept up to tho required strength by an unfailing auto matic process. We should have an end less reserve of trained men within a relatively short time all of them schooled in one or another branch of the highly organized business of war. At any hour the War Department would know by turning to its files exactly how many electricians, plumbers, engineers, chemists .or similarly trained men were available in the whole United States for an emergency. Doubtless it would re tain a right to call as many as it wished if the need arose. There is no doubt of the efficiency of the system But so far thero at least can he dcubt about the wisdom or the necessity of it. Dtplomaftsfa of the past have grown more arrogant as the military force behind- their policies increased. Govern ments, when they grow militarily strong, often forget caution. When a State con ceives itself to be unbeatableit usually forgets morals. Germany would have been far safer without the colossal army upon which she founded so many ap palling delusions, Militarism organized from enforced service is almost certainly doomed in Europe. 'No one who has observed tho trend of feeling and of events In Eng land and on the continent doubts that it must go. If tho statesmen who meet at Versailles cannot find a way to rid their peoples" of the abomination, the people thwnwrvw will sponer or later take the jk fet tjkniK A Uto M""! EVENING, PUBLIC LEDGElHlLADEliPHlA, TTJEfcA", DEdfiMBEKiV'lSfS' tholr methods may bo clumsy and un pleasant, their work will be complete. Four years of butchery by factory methods and twenty million dead men aird cripples have inspired the plain peo ple of Europe with a purpose from which they will not bo shaken. Every states man in Europo knows this and that is why tho successful formation of a League of Nations ought to be possible. And that is why General Crowder's sug gestion of a system of militarism in the United States, patterned, although modi fied to les3 rigor, after the system that is now almost sure to be eliminated in Europe, carries with it a suggestion of awful fantasy. Later it may be proved that General Crowder was justified in his point of view. But that seems hardly likely when statesmen like Lloyd George, driven by public opinion, aro determined to make the universal elimination of en forced army service one of the central principles of tho peace agreement. In the United States we shall be pretty well armed for peace. Wo shall havo the equipment for an army of 5,000,000. We shalj have an unlimited number of trained officers and 3,000,000 men hard ened in tho field. Even if it becomes necessary that we maintain a large, standing army, the exacting provisions and all the unhappy implications of ,tho selective-service system need not be nec essary. If young men must be syste matically trained, it would-be better if they might be entered in camps during two months of each summer. Thus, in three years, .pach would be given the period of intensive training now consid ered adequate for junior officers. The discipline of this sort of training might be universally beneficial. Were the embryo soldiers to begin training at nineteen and paid at a nominal rate fixed by Congress it would be possible to add 600,000 men annually to a fully trained reserve and we should not have to face a condition in which older men in great numbers would be called away for longer periods from their business, their studies and their familiar relationships in the years when these considerations be come of the utmost importance to all of us. And we should not have to feel that we uere living by a method that in the end helped to disorganize Europe before Europe sickened of it. Almost simultaneously Mr. Wilson raises one glass to President Polncare and another to the head of the Treasury Department. MR. WILSON IS APPEALING TO CAESAR WHEN the Roman citizen appealed to Caesar he took his case to, the seat of highest authority. Mr. Wilson, who is in Europe to do his utmost to make the orld safo for democ racy, made a most subtle "appeal to Caesar" in the course of his address at the Paris City Hall jesterday, the significance of which will not be oerlooked by the men who will meet with him to discuss the pre liminaries of the peace treaties. He said among other things: s You hae Interpreted with real Insight tho motles and resolution of the people of the United States Whatever Influence I exercise, whateer authority I speak with, 1 derUe from them I know what they have thought. I know what they ha've desired, and when I hava spoken what I know was In their minds it has been delightful to sec how the conscience and purpose of freemen everywhere re sponded. If this means anything more than the desire of the President to say gracious things to his hosts, It means that he is gllng notice to the statesmen of England and France and Italy that their masters, the people themsehes, are back of tho ideals which he has proclaimed and that they are as desirous as we in America that a peace should be made whose sole purpose shall be the establishment of Justice among nations. If any one is seeking to "put something oer," that person may well take warning from this address and consider well the force of the new spirit 'which America, speaking through Mr. Wilson, has eoked a spirit that will not be de nied. An agreeable reader It Should Have Been rang up 'yesterday to l'mlnllkeabarglar inform us that his travels and his ex perience with the linguistic traits of the Dutch taught him long ago. the manner in which tho name of William Hohemollern's present abiding place should be pronounced. The name of the unhappy village, Ve were told, rings, when it is properly spoken, with a mstic implications of the former Kaiser's state of mind. Amerongen, when a Dutch man speaks of it, Is said thus: "Ah'm a Wrong 'Un." . A very, very clever Crltclaro stenographer whom we know complains that the boss Is absent-minded and Incoherent when he dictates, and that he mutters and mumbles his words. She would just love, she observes, to sign all his letters "Dictated but not said I" ! Who these days Is yf. llobenioUernl not asking the help and the kindly offices of the President of the United States? Carter Glass, who became Secretary of the Treasury yesterday, is the first Virginian to hold that office. Ohio has had six secre taries, the, last of whom was Charles Foster, who served under Benjamin Harrison ; Penn sylvania has had seven, but none since Wil liam M. Meredith was put in the place by President Taylor. New York stands first with eight, beginning with Hamilton, urider Washington, and ending with McAdoo, under Wilson,. . France is slowly becoming American ized. The telephone girls In Paris are ex claiming, "Pour l'amour de la Mlquel" and the street gamins are singing "Hall) Hall I the Gang's All Here," under the impression that it is the American national anthem. And the good work has only Just begun. The empire bed in which Mr, Wilson is sleeping in Paris is too short for him. The, whole world, for that matter, ls.outgrewlki lW iiio wi wttHro (un m kU .--.m-r -f - 0- t uRV9i " t ' T t" J JtQ ; ift r THE CHAFFING DISH TVTH. WILSON'S hat won't bo much use XIX t0 him on this trip. Brief Essay on Immortality Tho National Institute of Arts and Let ters, America's most unscalable Parnassus, has hoisted up to its snowy summits eleven new immortals. Wo are a far more gen erous nation than the French, who go through fasting and prayer before they admit a genius to the deathless "Academy." Here we go, making eleven men Immortal at one blow, without even consulting pos terity. Of the eleven laureates, eight aro literary men. Two of tho appointments tho Chaf fing Dish is ready to ratify without churl ish reserve, being thoso of Mr, James Gib-' bons Hurieker, a Philadelphian; and Mr. Walter Prlchard Eaton, whoso essays on this page vero always agreeable, and pleasing. The others include Albert Bigs low Palno, best known as the biographer of Mark Twain; Edgar Lee Masters, who terrified us all by turning a cemetery ln Mlde out, and Stuart P. Sherman, an erudlto and delightful professor from Illinois. There are three more among the literary Immortals, but so little known to the publlo that wo shall not puzzle you with their names. American efficiency has discovered the way to create imperishability with least overhead expense. A man's fame cannot die if it has not yet begun to live! Undoubtedly all the Kaiser's enthusiasm for Shakespeare was due to the fact that the bard dedicated his sonnets to "Mr. W. H." Snggestions to Poets Wo receive a great many poems sont In for the Dish by friends kind and dear, but Just now almost all of them revolve ur?on a monotonous theme, viz, What is to be done to the First Citizen of Amerongen and tho Werewolf of Wlerlngen? Inevitably they contain the following rhymes. Kaiser and wiser and Prince and wlnte. A good many of them suggest that the reign is over and the arraigning is about to begin. We firmly believe, however, that tho Kaiser will meet some worse fate than merely haing poems written about him. Therefore we suggeet that our poets let their minds browse over a wider .terrain. There are all sorts of subjects waiting for tho aspiring mUBe. We suggest a few below: On Doing up o Package of Laundry. Elcgv (t) on the Death of a Newpaper Bu- niorist. 3Ionodu on the Death oy Drowning of a Scandinavian Manufacturer of Impreg nated Bafctv Matches. Poems Dictated but not Signed, On the Use and Abuse of Bilk Hats. Poems Written with a Toothpick. Sargasso from Baragossa. On Gating at the Back WaK of an Apart ment House. On Winding up the Estate of a Miflor Poet. On Clipping Liberty Bond Coupons. On Starting a New Check Book. On Obsenlng a Telephone Muffled in Anti septic Qaute. Bonnet to a Red-haired Taxi Driver. On Studying a Rotogravure Section uo o fifundai Paper. On Recehing an Envelope with a Trans parent Ldophole (yo'u knbw, the kind that flourish about the second of the month). An Ode on the Rapid Deterioration of Car ter Elastic. Poems on such bracing topics will be ex amined with care They will spare us th effort of writing them ourselves. Some unfeeling person in Life has written a "Burial Service for a Newspaper Joke.'1 If he knew the suffering and struggle en dured by the parents of stich Jokes, and the" care and devotion with which they are nur tured through their tender years, he would have been less cruel. Is there no S. P. C. J.? Count Bentnlok's castle is said to be pro tected by a considerable moat and a num ber of bastions. Evidently Wllhtlm seeks the benefit of the redoubt Only one more week to postpone writing those Christmas letters! Count Bentinck Adds Codicil to His Will " It having been agreed between Mr. Hohenzollern and myself that all royalties accruing from the sale of his -autobiography are to be paid to my estate, I direct my heirs and assigns to use these moneys in erecting fortifications to keep oway any future uninvited guests who may wish to visit Amerongen. , "It is my opinion thnt the revenues of Mr. Hohenzollern's work will be consider able, as fiction; olw ays sells well." - The question whether the German people are really hungry or not is now debated with considerable fervor. The mere fact that Buch a question is deemed worth consideration shows that we aro a homano nation. Philip Glbbs, a Just and kind observer of human sorrows, says the German children have not enough to eat. This must be remedied, for in the German children lies one great hope of the human race. But it is also worth remembering, espe cially at this time of year, that there are many children of our own who are hungry. Bear this in mind the next time you take out your checkbook. It is not hard to guess what Count Ben tlnck's Christmas request to Santa Claus will be. SOCRATES. Every one has a heart, but there are a few so poor that they have not a dollar. The latter are not expected to become mem bers of the Red Cross. 'Now that the embargo on chewing gum has been lifted, the men in .France who have missed It mayaoon hav one. more' of the comforts of home. .. The Mayor seems to have carried self determination to a new point when he de cides in his own mind that the annexation of Bristol and Chester to Philadelphia would be a rood thing. A dispatch from Berlin declares that "the pojputotlon is dressed in artlflolal ma- a,4- m . ..... -,-. ..,... -C - , . - i : .?-X&. ii ii r'JW.; Vf'ift ..; ' R.S.V.P. 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PORTUGAL'S ROLE OF HONOR The Tragic Loss of Her Esteemed President Commands Sympathy for a Nation Where Crowns but Never Treaties 'Are Scrapped ONCE again Portugal appears before the world in n role cruelly mlsrepresenta tive of her Intrinsic worth, her aspirations and the potent influences which she has exerted on civilization, In the assaslnatlon of her estimable and scholarly President, Dr. Sldanla Paes, it is ."asy for the hasty minded to read an alarming commentary, on her national character. In the eight years of the -republic four Presidents have held office, one of them twlco, and none of them .for the full' con stitutional term. Mention of a much-advertised music hall star calls to mind tho dethroned monarch, Manoel II, now a,resi dent of England. His father, Carlos, and elder brother, Lulz Felipe, were slain in a bomb outrage. Ugly facts like these have naturally cast the impression that Portugal is a little nest of turbulent conspirators, a land as pestiferous as insignificant. Evil needs no press agent. Record of it travels with untamable swiftness. Despite these deplorable instances of political rest lessness, stability and fidelity are cardinal elements of Portuguese character. England has known this for centuries, accepted it almost aa(a matter of course, referred to it with comparative lnfre ouencv. .Rather contemptuous indifference to Portugal and her achievements has been the most prevalent attitude Of other out siders The Portuguese are an unboastlng race, and hence misconception of their Ideals and accomplishments has become chronic. At the risk of repeating facts which are per fectly assessable (though persistently ignored), it is part of fairness to restore proportion to the picture. ..TTNSTABLE" Portugal .can -afford to U look with righteous scorn on tho "scrap of paper" principle in international obligations. Since the fourteenth century she has kept inviolate treaty ties wun England and at least twice in the midst of tremendous crises with which she had no direct concern. In 138S five hun- 'dred English archers dispatched to "old John of Gaunt" assisted the Portuguese to win their Independence from. Spain in the overwhelming victory' of" AUubarrota, now commemorated in the exquisite abbey of Batalba, one of the most precious, architec tural gems in all Europe. Gratitude for this assistance has profoudly affected the1 whole course of Portugal's history. r The alliance was often strengthened, never imperiled. , II has been said that Portugal of late years has materially prof ited by British support and thereby re tained her .hold on vast African colonies. Indorsement of this view can be validly made, but at the same time it is slgnlflcent to note what, Portugal did. In the two' greatest armed struggles of history,, with whose causes she was not originally in volved the Napoleonic wars and-the late war 'conflict her sense of treaty obliga tion was paramount, The glory of Wel lington in the Peninsular' campaign owes not a little to Portuguese fidelity, which permitted, a base of operations to be main tained in tho fair little kingdom. SHEER loyalty dictated Portugal's part when she enlisted in the European, strife la IBlt. She has poured forth such treasure as she possessed and gallant soldiers witoe uiooa ienno-H.sfjBra t - wtwmMmm." w ' " yjfKv'l" jc. j h - .-i Jjf ; 'wi l . j,-S.A ,. & v . .......it.tt-j--.-w-.-jt-. . i i m i ill I hi 1 1 i . i- mr-MJUMrimmimammnvim-rviM jmi iT.ir - ' a. r i tiL"-KHi.' u 1?sy?ai- ! 1 1' -Mi tme&mmm.'r'K ,i "Xw&Kf'rjr - " Portuguese contingents also paid a tragic price for their espousal of freedom and solemn treaty pledges Americans are pleased to say that their purposes in tho peace negotiations are un selfish. But we do not' play a role of striking prominence in the present drama. With no announcement of material rewards for her sincerity and valor, Portugal Is mute. Lisbon has made no claim for any thing ' It is indeed a generous people who have now so haplessly lost an admirable na tional pilot Charles II cannily realized this trait when he courted Catherine ofs Braganza and made her Queen of England. Portugal was weak then, but she was as ever lavish. In addition to a monetary dowry she turned over to Great Britain Tangier, a misprized gift productive of one of the most ignoble chapters in English history, and Bombay, now the choicest Jewel of the whole British India empire A NATION cherishing suet unselfish ideals of honor is assuredly worth con sideration at an hour when her struggles for republican freedom are shadowed by a series of misfortunes. The democratic ex periment in Portugal was bold Indeed, for education had long languished in a land where a mild climate and a fertile soli make for docility, and where the poor are much more illiterate -than wretched ,The Spaniards, In their lofty pride, are wont to regard the easy-going Portuguese as the "rubes" of the Peninsula They have helped to spread the false impression that a nation which discovered the sea route to India, which can, claim the daunt less 'rover Da Gama and the Immortal poet Camoens and the ancestors of Velasquez, which still holds nearly a million square miles of colonial empire' in Africa and Asia, and whose language, the idiom of Brazil, is spoken by some 30,000,000 people, should shine by the reflected light of 'Cas tilian history in southwestern Europe. Simple-minded ' country folk, Indeed, many of the wine growers along the Tagus, the Douro and the Mondego still are, and for that reason -a certain amount of easily acquired political demagogy- has smirched their Ideals of. self-determlnrtlon, ' ' ' But th'ere were minds and forces in Por tugal keen enough and brave enough to sdrap an obsolete monarchy in 1910, when a new republic on the continent of Europe was truly a subject of scornful cur(oslty. Xt is profitable to recall this acutencss of her statesmen, most of them products, as was doctor Paes, ofthe venerable Colmbra University, just now wnen new clouds seem to be gathering. A people withf such A a grasp of world progress eight years ago 'should have' in tho end some chance of ' going right' under the new order when most crowns are as worthless as that of the Indolent Braganzas. Sk Postmaster General Burleson's colorful promises in relation to future telephone service under a cut rate suggest again that talk is cljeap and that It may .be- even cheaper. The beat way to renew the imperiled truce with the "flu'' is to make the terms of protection more drastic. Ever since the Hlshland "kilties" marched Into Cologne the Huns' hays Sound Trr --toti Little Studies in Words fe GRINGO ' "f A MERICANS since the forties of the last .. century have been known in -Jx)ce as gringos xne worain tni.a; sense- naa, spread to other SDanlahAmerican obuk tries. florae etymologists say tntkt th'sworjl jg is Spanish for gibberish, and wmu applied to the language of the foreigners in MxlcoJ .--. A rlAttm- ATtifonltlAn. rtMu2vk. I. ftiafVK given by the historians of the .Mexican 'wer.-S rm. iai .. .il -. iLi- .liis..,2. fond the rushes, they had nothing .betW to do. The .& Uvea assumed that the first two Wprda-, Were one and they soon betan to'call the 4t soldlors "gringos," with the r of the 4oqg elided Perhaps the enunciation of the sol diers was so indistinct that 'the natives dU ? not catch tho r in the sone. But however' that may be, the word has continued la, v ubi) iui mors man aixiy years as,xne name) for Americans " -'.- t ETIQUETTE m mHtf silk label in a coat contalnlngtaal name of, the tailor is teQhnkaily,'knowiy I as the etlauette. And tnUntt t an. aM'L'I n, i i. French word for a tlcketo labetiTniFJf English word ticket is older, than'thej'j French form 'When it became the cujs torn to write or) a card the ceremonial! rules to be followed on formal- ocoiajone the name of the card or the etiquettenWMjS transferred to the rules. So now,, the com-Jg mon meaning of the word. Is, the proper conventional forms of polite so'olety oVS. aA .laA 1... ,llAn. a MM!, 4...V. A J t.. Ww....... i.m "? ow TOM wj ,mvuu nvbliaiwiiicu KV illUT tm iT such circles' and carefully studied by, those '; who do not yet move in them, but hopi. some time so to uo. ' j xne Kngnsn wora ticKot-nas a meanli In some phrases that is akin, to',theco; mon meaning of etiquette, Fervexample,' when a man is trying to arrange a'jfbonif " or write a letter for anoUVer'andoflnaUjrtt atM-nAMn in the nattiifflntlnn nf till .,.- 'oerned, the man who is beings served' wilt if' exciaim "fnava tne ucKeti, wunouanirv: nnnftnfmia ItnnwlArifrA that Via (a tTnrblnVf back to a form of words that is olderf thaajP the Declaration of Independence. i V-'ir iw ,:. , What Do You.Knoivf VI T quiz - - jy.$ $j j 1, wnar l "r j-ortnraete naraa lor xjttomT H4J 2, To what data hs thr armtr tic wlUt nimaaii S, Is what century did Danta life? Vl it "'yj h-.n"...-Afrit.v " -: r?'?'. !ij v .. . .T . n M -. 6, .Who. Sploasa and to what tui-IU m Manx? t ' U IV "J 'CenoecHrat1 d rf S. 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