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ROBINSON
THHE best that can be said of former
Superintendent Robinson, as he returns
to his berth at the head of tho I'ollce He
partment. Is that If he were lit for his Job
he wouldn't accept It.
The normnl pride of almost nny man
Would compel him to steer aloof from a
position In which earlier failure had been
conspicuous enough to bring discredit on
the community.
A sense of tolerance may be general, If
Robinson's friends wish merely to let him
erve tho short tour of duty necessary
before he can retire under the service pen
sion fund. Otherwise, unless the Vare
flmlth administration Is ready openly to
antagonize all the decent sentiment of the
community. It has made an extraordinarily
bad beginning for the new year.
Tha responsibilities of this new year
are. heavy enough to make It feel old at the
very outset.
IT IS ABOUT TIME THE LAW WAS
ENFORCED
XT7HAT happens when a law in not en-
'forced was again illustrated on New
Tear's Eve, when two persons were hilled
by firearms and a third was wounded.
No one is supposed to be allowed to carry
a pistol without a permit, and no one may
hoot a pistol or . gun in the streets unb-ss
he is authorized by the proper authorities.
Tet at every celebration for months,
when the people have been crowding the
atreets, some one has been killed by a pistol
hot.
If there were no pistols In the crowds, no
one would be killed. But the police ap
parently do not Interfere when men and
boys use firearms. .
A rigid enforcement of the law would
prevent the shocking "accidents" that have
marred the popular rejoicings. A pre
liminary proclamation forbidding tin- carry
ing of guns and the summary arrest of
overy one found disregarding it would
quickly make the streets safe for Innocent
participants in street celebrations.
Mr. Daniels's notion of disarmament
cm to be power strong enough to make It
Universally compulsory
POINCARE AS OUR GUEST
DIRECTLY in line with the doctrine of
. International friendship so forcibly em
phasized by Mr. Wilson in Ills Manchester
peech Is the announced decision of Ray
mond Poincare, President of the French
republic, to visit the L'nited States at the
conclusion of the Peace Conference,
Something more than a mere exchange
of courtesies will result from such an un
dertaking. Even discounting much of the
enthusiasm elicited by our own President
In France as an inevitable convention, the
Inherent psychological effect of his pres
ence there cannot legitimately be disputed.
Similar influences will work for good
When M. Polncaro comes here. The salient
attributes of American character and Amer
ican statesmanship are pietty clearly un
derstood the world over. Kronen traits are
continually puzzling the outsider. America
misjudged them grievously between 1S70
and' 1914, nnd new riddles have even arisen
In this reconstruction era. M. Polncam
Will be enabled to perform borne valuable
services here of deeper wortli than the
mere spectacular flabh of good feeling.
That lie Is the type of loader to grasp
such opportunities Is Incontestable. No
Tresldent of France slnco the Third IJnv
yire fell on September , 1S70, has so ig.
orously impressed his personality and pur
poses on his fellow citizens as 1ms this
scholarly and patriotic executive. I.oubet.
yallieres, Kaure nnd their kind were over
shadowed by their Premiers. Despite tho
eminence of men like Vivian! and Clemen
ceau, Raymond Poincare has remained a
dominant figure in the 'republic. America
will be proud to welcome him on his own
high merits.
"Man blasted Ills road with dnuinjte"
acresma our BnlslieWt manifesto And Ins
pelllnir likewise '
THE FUTURE OF COLLECE SPORTS
THERE is a moving sisnlHianco in the
fact that much of the activity nf those
Who are worklns to "hung college athletics
back" Is inspired by thoughts of men liko
Hobey BaKer, who can teturn now only
In the memory of the multitudes who know
and admired them. Whatever doubts may
have grown up about intercollegiate sports
must have vanished in the last year. Every
college athletlo field contributed brilliantly
to the work of war.
Like numberless other institutions of the
easy-going days of peace, however, college
y,athletlCB will never be the tame again.
KThe spirit of criticism and the regard for
lettti- ethics now felt everywhere in the
'ad. cm r 111 sere to wipe out many of the
r1 formerly existed In the Inter
"MA WKtern of sports. The harsh and
ajjRnjr nrgfesalpnallsrti ..fqsteyed by I
it
paid coaches and meddlesome alumni nnd
the tendency to concentrate Intercut nnd
attention tin picked squads will be ills
rnurnRed by popular opinion. It will be
well If, when college athletic really "come
buck" It ciin come with something of the
broader and more htinviii systems that
have prevailed for yearn abroad, nnd eg
pcclnlly In English universities, where
sports are n mixture of art nnd science
developed nnd mnlntnlned not for the snko
of a university's reputation, but for the
tiuko of the youths of the land, whoso par
ticipation In nil games gives them u train
ing and a temper not available to the
undergraduate who Is only permitted to
Bit in tho bleachers anil exercise his lungs.
WORLD OPINION WILL NOT
TOLKRATIS SECRET PACTS
Perpetuation of llic Allies' Covert Treaties
of 1913 Would Render League of Nations
a Slum
I VHILK the war endured, vital reasons
of policy justified the taboo on the
topic of tho sccict treaties signed by the
Allies in the pact of London in 1915.
Portia's injunction, "to tlo a Rieat right
do a little wrong-," was a policy fre
quently applied nnd in a variety of ways
by all tho co-bellifrorcnts under pressuio
of a common peril. America's distaste
of backstairs diplomacy was of long
standing and yet secondary in the hour
of crisis to her abhorrence of German
autocracy, the foe of civilization and
sane liberty.
Wrangling over the details of covert
deals might disastrously have muddled
a problem whose solution depended first
of all upon united devotion to an imme-
,diate aim, the destruction of the Hun
menace. Wc shunned tho pact-of-London
theme. Our Allies, too, temporarily
brushed aside certain subjects intimately
related to their tradition and designs for
the future.
It is at once the weakness and the
strength of the Peace Conference that it
will lift many a veil of reticence. Dis
agreements, heretofore sidetracked, will
receive new emphasis. There are vir
tually none of the national pilots uncon
fronted by the prospect of some choppy
seas. On the other hand, frankness,
however painful, is usually of ultimate
salutary advantage. Ostrich-like tactics
at tho peace table might conceivably
bring forth a pact ostensibly radiant
with moral beauty. But such a pledge
would not he worth tho cost of the
parchment. Failing to take cognizance
of unsettled sources of international
irritation, it would be as futile a docu
ment as any which Germany signed at
tho Hague.
Happily, there is little reason to be
lieve that a sheer mockery of that sort
will be perpetrated at Paris. The very
fact that, as tho opening of the sessions
draws nigh, reports of conflicting claims
grow increasingly louder i. evidence that
a good many cards, on the existence of
which it was momentarily pleasant not
to dwell, will be laid on the table. .Some,
it is true, may, even yet, be reluctantly
revealed, hut it begins to look as though
there will be sufficient electricity in tho
council chamber air eventually to clear it.
Tho process should be wholesome. Tho
chance of resultant benefits ought to
fortify timorous souls now shocked
when they behold current problems
bristling. Pacing facts, although un
comfortable, may be also tonic.
Chief among the specific facts, which
it would be only folly for American pub
lic opinion to ignore, is' tho London
ugrccment framed in strict accordance
with the spirit of that ancient diplomacy
which liberals throughout the world now
hope to see forever destroyed. The full
toxts of those secret treaties have never
been publicly disclosed. From author
itative hints, however, it may be deduced
that three major intotests animated the
signatories that of unified strength
against the German terror, that of fer
vent national patriotism and that of
selfishness.
The result was a bargain of the con
gress of Vienna type. Italy, Franco and
Russia were presumably promised tei
ritorial expansion on '.he attainment of
victory. The interest of England, to
whom the ipport of their armies wa
indispensable, was to see that thev got
it.
The convention was not wholly incom
patible with certain aspects of the war
in 1915. Today, at least from tho in
stinctive American viewpoint, there are
hoth technical and ethical reasons why
this bargain must lapse if the Peace Con
ference is to be true to its announced
aims.
Legally, a great holo has been torn in
the pact by the defection of Russia.
Her Adriatic ambitions are gone, and
the whole complicated relationship of
Ityly to the Dalmatian coast and hinter
land must rightly be viewed fiom a new
angle. Russia's eclipse alone renders
altogether impossible tho enforcement of
the tieaties as they were originally
darned. Only by the most specious
brand of jurisprudence could any agree
ment so elementally fractured be con
sideied valid.
Hut the ethical aigument is of still
more potent appeal. A league of na
tions, pledged to tho maintenance of
justice and fair dealing and proclaiming
its espousal of tho doctrine of open diplo
macy, can bo naught but a sham if
permitted to be organized on a basis
involving the enforcement of "insido
agreement."
With profoundest respect for the pit
eous sacrifice which our Allies in Europe
havo undergone, with tho sincercst re
pugnance felt by all thoughtful Ameri
cans to assuming anything that savors
of a self-satisfied "holier-than-thou" atti-
tu(V thfti is deepest conviction that
secret
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EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER
1919 constitute a betrayal of Ideals now
very precious to the whole mass of mnn
kind. The President, masterly in hl inter
pretation of popular sentiment, de
clared In Manchester that the league of
nations must be a full partnership for
the right or America would not enter It.
Something wider than a national policy
was there expressed. Sound liberal
opinion everywhere unquestionably sub
scribes to It.
The hope that secret treaty huckster
ing will go is stimulated by that fact.
In spite of immediate clouds', the faith
that men will in tho end not bo blind to
the war's appalling lessons Is very pas
sionate. Furthermore, It is most encour
aging that tho hidden theme Is up for
discussion. It was nevor so dangerous
as when quiescent.
Belfast's Sinn Fein prisoners nre re
ported n "playing revolutionary limes on
Instruments made from kitchen utsnills," and
It's safe to bet that the opposition got a thor
oughly vigorous panning.
NOT YET, I1UT PERHAPS SOON
rpHE HUggestlon of the London Express
- that the Prince of Wnles come to Amer
ica for a bride Is not likely to be taken seri
ously by any one. Hut If the prince really
wanted n bride lit to bo a iiueen, he could
find scores of girls in this city qualified
liy beauty, grace and intellectual capacity
to adorn any station In the Old World.
And It would Improve the royal Urltlsh
stock to replenish It .with fresh blood. Rut
that Is not a matter of great importance,
for there Is less Interest In royalty nnd
its pteservntlon today than nt any other
time for centuries. England, Spain nnd
Italy are the only consldeiahle PowerB in
which royalty still survives. It has dis
appeared In Russia, Germany nnd Austria
Hungary, where democratic governments
are now forming. It remains in England
merely ns n symbol or p"ylng point for
the scattered portions of the Empire.
l'et if the Prince of Wales were to be
allowed to choose his bride without regard
to her titled ancestry, he would doubtless
be delighted with the opportunity of com
ing to tills country, where he would be sure
to find a girl to his liking. Other royalties
have found such girls here, but, alas! they
have had to go back homo wifeless, for they
could not get the consent of thelr.famllles
to such a union, nnd the American girls
would not consent to enter a union which
for reasons of state might at any time be
dissolved.
Two words Ileserllo the creed of llol
fhevlom: hums end bombs.
WHAT DO THEY WANT?
fTIHERt
-- lines
IHERE Is "Ire In Congress," the head-
say, because of Secretary Dan
iels's suggestion for a larger navy.
There is "ire" in tho Senate because of
the President's suggestion for a League of
Nations.
How many newspaper readers will real
ize that they are viewing the stage ire of
the "willful" group which seems nowadays
to represent neither the Republican nor
Democratic party nnr the United States?
If there Is to he no League of Nations,
there must he a large navy. No one who
thinks at all questions this.
What we should like to know now is
whether the incurable enemies of Mr.
Wil-on's foreign policies are willing to ex
pand their war on tho President to a degreo
thnt will make It a war on the country.
Pr. Henry S. Tanner.
V'Htinif unci Fame who won notoriety in
188D by faMIng for
forty days, has Just died at the age of eighty
eeen years In the county hospital at San
Plego, fal. His experlmentattraoted Interna,
tlonal attention, and church people weie in
tensely Interested In It, for they assumed
that If he succeeded, then tho authenticity
of the forty days' fast recorded In the New
Testament would be established. Doctor
Tanner made another bid fur public attention
In 1913 when he asked Mrs. Enimellno Punk
hurst, then visiting this country, to marry
him News of his death was telegraphed
throughout the e-ountry, when men who hae
accomplished much more are allowed lo die
with no notice taken of them outside of their
own community.
Regrets over the death
Ifenili Prophet of Paul Marguerltte.
A
inillruteil who long ranked with
his collaborator and
liiutim', Victor, as one of the leading
writer- of France, are mitigated In part by
the fail that at least lie lived to see the Justl
n.'nt mi of his conception of his country's
dfstlnv The two nuthors were sovis of Oen
eml .l.'.m Augustei Mureuerltte, mortally
woumlid in a superb yet frultlp-ri cavalry
charge at Sedan In lt'o. Perhaps their most
important literary achievement, In addition
to the novels, was their history of the Franco.
Prussian war embodying their earnest belief
that French courage and French military
genius would once again thrill tho world.
Vindication of his forecast must have been
sweet to Paul Marguerltte.
The Urookiyn Rapid
Km pine Transit Company,
What l 'nun with Its consistent
record of bad eervice
and anogant manners, lias gone Into the
hands of a lecelver. The New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, for
Nliullat reasons, met a similar fate some
years ago This Is the familiar fruit of in
htltutlms which lieisWtently antagonize the
public, irritate It with Incompetent aelminls
tnitlon and at times Imperil Its life.
It must appear to any
Thej Wun'i lutlnnal-mlnded person
Hrllrve You that the news from
Europe Is adequate, to
assuajie the umtletiea of those politicians
who have been worried sleepless over the
likelihood of a third term for Mr. Wilson.
If the President has any special craving
nowadays, it must be for rest and peace.
One war that never
Wlier I'ea.-e will be settled, that
Coiiferrnre Are Virion will go roaring
down the line of
time long after all the nations have settled
down to ways of permanent peace, la that
which rages between the "wets" and the
"drys,"
The new year had a wet atari both
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- PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 2,
THE CHAFFING DISH
To Our Patrom
Very early In this New Year we fiile'
occasion lo thank our patrons for their
fo'rbearanoe during the period nf the War.
Owing (o the humor rnllons Imposed by
the flovrrnment Humor Administration,
nnd the very large amount of humor
needed In Congress ami by the Committee
on Public Information, It was frequently
Impossible for us to deliver adequate sup
plies of amusement for civilian use. Not
Infrequently wo had to fall back on sub
stitutes, synthetic Jokes, pathos or even
poetry. The public lias been very lenient,
and ive appreciate the patriotic spirit In
which you have subsisted on scanty fare.
It Is expected that In future deliveries
of genuine goods may be made with sreater
frequency. The Charting Dish.
It has heen our observation that tha
meek nre most likely to inherit the denrth.
We havo heen tnlklng with a United
Stutes vice consul recently returned to this
country after an unpleasant experience
with the Rolshevlkl. He wns thrown Into
Jail, together with another American con
sul nnd several hundred other persons of
nil nationalities and pursuits, on n vaguo
charge of "counter-revolution," and re
mained In captivity for over seventy days.
His imprisonment was marked by every
posslblo circumstance of hardship and anx
iety. He nnd tho other prisoners wero
herded live together into a cell Intended
only for one; they wero allowed nine
minutes a day out of their cells; they wet a
fed on a slice of black bread and a portion
of thin cabbage soup per day. They slept
on the floor; they were continually told
that they were about to be taken out and
shot, nnd, after the almost dally executions
of some of their fellow prisoners, one of
their guards used to come and tell them
humorously Just where the bullets had
struck the victims.
Thoy wero never given nny semblance
of a trial, nnd all these things happened
In spite of the two consuls having completu
diplomatic papers nnd n correct passport
from tho Holshevlk official supposedly in
chnrge of the town where they were sta
tioned. The only explanation that they
could get for their imprisonment wns that
the Allies were killing Bolshevlkl in the
northern provinces nnd the Red govern
ment intended to go In for reprisals.
We asked the consul what Washington
said about nil this, hut ho would not com
mit himself. Finally he said, "Washington
Is sympathetic."
The more you hear about Russia tho
less you know. Rut there nre certain rules
about Intervening in a hornet's nest that
every country boy has by heart.
The Horrors of Peace
Douglas Fairbanks writes: "Some day
I propose to write n novel. The main rea
son fcr this determination is the fact that
I have never written one. By i-.o
doing I will expand my Imaginative facul
ties and thus prolong their usefulness. The
fact that not one novel in a thousand is
likely to measure up to a masterpiece
should not halt one's determination to put
over a winner If possible."
The Anatomy of Melancholy
MELANCHOLY is the privilege of hu
'' man beings. Horses nnd dogs, ele
phants and canaries may suffer extremes
of pain, want or discomfort; they are not,
I think, melancholy, which Is a pain.of tha
mind and Implies borne power to e-onslder
the world as a whole. Melancholy is cer
tainly a very superior gesture of the in
tellect. It Is not to be confounded with
peevishness. It is u proud misery: man
never feels so elevated, so entirely wise, as
in his melancholy fits.
A MELANCHOLY is of two kinds. It may
! ' be a settled philosophy or habit of
thought, inclining the Individual to a dark
cned view of life and its problems; or it
may be only a transient mood, due to some
vivid momentary realization of human mal
adjustments. It is not to bo scoffed at.
becauso it may be due to the most trining
causes, such as the contemplation of work
undone, or a surfeit of pastry, or n choked
plpestemwhen no-cleaners are liandy. A
melancholy founded upon a trivial matter
may rapidly spread, like ripples i'n a pond,
filling all the mind with active pulsations
of discontent, touching upon Innumerable
topics, such as municipal government, tho
price of beef and the activities of the Hoi
shevlkl. Again, melancholy may be due t
self-pity, or to pity of others. A man mav
pity himself because he Is so poor that ho
has no fun. or because he is so rich tint
ho has no fun, or so wiso that he has no
fun, or because others nre pitying him
This form of melancholy Is agreeable hut
transitory. A man may pity others be
cause thoy are unlike himself, or hn may
pity them becauso he sees them baitled by
Insoluble problems. This form of melan
choly Is to be encouraged.
TN FACT, all forms of Just melancholy
1 are to be encouraged. A thin and quar
ulous melancholy, based upon the minor
horrors of life, such as the growth of
beards thnt must be shaved or the neces
sity of having some Jolly-japery ready for
one's pavement friends, may, with en
couragement nnd careful solicitation, gro.v
Into a tender sympathy for all human
woes. Think nf the brooding melancholy
of car conductors, before whoso eyes is
dail enacted a panorama of human ills
tress which they are helpless to relieve.
A man who is never melancholy is cither
cruel or insensible. 1 havo seen lately a
number of statements to the effect that
the Kaiser Is very melancholy at Amer
ongen. This Is not so. He may bo peevish,
or disappointed, or insane; certainly ho Is
not melancholy. He has not sufllcient
brain or heart for that noble emotion.
M
ELANCHOLY, however, is an even.
tlally contemplative function. It re.
quires thought, and those who are too busy
to think have no time to be sad. Some
times you will hear It said that the world
(s sadder now than it used to be. This Is
not so- in public at least. A man who at
tempts to bo melancholy on the streets will
not long survive the taxlcabs. Perhaps the
Increase of motor traffic will rob us of our
mVlancholy, the racial heritage of the)
Anglo-Saxons. SOCRATES.
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THE GOWNSMAN
The Egotist
EGOTIST Is a person who Insists on
AK,
talking about himself when you want
to talk about yourself. His talk Is Incessant,
fluent, often eloquent, but It suffers from a
certain monotony of subject-matter, for it
swings, as Inevitably as the stars in their
courses, nhout one great center of gravity,
himself. The egotist Is at least as often a
woman as a man ; and, as In other respectr,
one sex Is deadlier than the other: which,
will depend on your own. In conversation
the egotist habitually emulates the practice
of Lord Maeaulay, who, knowing that It was
quite unlikely that nny one in the room
could approach the Inimitable conversational
powers of his lordship himself, naturally
asked, "Why waste time listening to dull
fellows?" The egotist Is rudderless and un
steerable In discourse; he Is, Indee-d, no very
good listener. For when not himself talking
he employs these Interstices In his own con
tclousncss to a better purpose than listen
ing, that of thinking up what next to saj.
In short, the egotist Is a tiresome nnd dis
agreeable fellow to everybody but himself.
But In this ho Is more than compensated,
for the buoyancy of his self-esteem sustains
him lightly In the surges of life on which
ho floats as tidily as a cork ; for, come what
may, he will sing no miserere.
EOOTISM Is somewhat like moisture.
Spread as dew upon the leafage of an
open nature, It Is harmlessly exhaled In the
sunshine of a rising day. Accumulated until
It fill a little essel and frozen by neglect
In the shade, it will do as water does, ex
pand and erack the pot. "Great wits to
madness are allied" Is merely the popular
expression of a recognized truth, physically
demonstrable in the circumstance that, like
the pot, the cranium will not give; where
fore the expansion technically known as a
"swelled head," If It go on, must Inevitably
crack something. There wns a boy once at
college who sedulously and fmpude'ntly
affected red and blue socks. Not red and
blue on one sock, not red socks at one time
and blue at another, much less socks of any
color decorously concealed In high laced or
buttoned shoes, but right foot red and left
foot blue, alternating with right foot bluo
and left foot red, worn with shoes only
properly to be designated decollete. The
punishment meted out by his classmates to
this orgy of egotism In color It does not
become a modest historian to disclose,
Kutllce it to say. that punishment did not
cure, for the egotism which once expressed
Itsolf in red and blue socks now finds Its
outlet In mauve and yellow "poetry," as Im
modestly decollete ss were over those sopho
morlo feet. The Gownsman will not say that
as et anything has cracked, but there is a
great strain,
SOME persons nre more subject to egotism
than others, though nearly any human
being may fall Into chronic megalomania 1f
fed too much on the rich food of adulation.
Persons of under-stature, especially If they
be stout, often walk about on a species of
cothurnus or choplne of self-appreeiatlon by
means of which they approach more nearly
the Inches of their more fortunate brethren.
Peformlty Is sometimes most pathetically
sustained in a similar manner; and fools
tioat merrily In the shallowest waters, buoyed
with their bladder-baubles In which Is only
the rattle of drlfd peas, Small poets are
an egotistical breed, seeing deeply Into mill
stones, sandbllnd as to their own miserable
little weans. Reformers who discover ex
actly what l wrong with the world are apt
to find, each man for himself, the only pana.
cea to right It. And when a man lias made
a pile of money, especially If the process of
the making has Involved chiefly Incubation,
there Is nothing which he will not tell you
precisely how to do. "Money speaks" in all
the Idioms of egotism; too often it thunders
111 terms of the veriest tyranny. The megalo
mania of a inonnrch has wrecked four em
pires in our day, the megalomania of the
Holshevlk another. And tnegaleananla Is only
human egotism raised to n dangerous higher
power and Intrusted with a mechanism be
yond Its comprehension or control.
HAPPY Is tho cobbler who stle-ks to Ids
last. The neglect of this obvious course
of conduct develops curious manifestations of
egotism at
ts. The man who has
achieved a ml
rn of success in noma one
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thing feels therefore thnt lie may spenk
with authority on all others. One who knows
a little law gives forth deliverances on state
craft for the Instruction and enlightenment of
potentates. And he who can translate some
prehistoric Inscription or has Imposed on the
world a belief that he can becomes, there
fore, an authority on the latest air route to
Japan. Oliver Goldsmith was not content to
be the foremost stylist of his time, a master
alike In drama, essay and fiction; but ho was
even mote proud of his skill as a gamester,
wherefore be died heavily in debt He was
emulous one ilay of the feats of an acrobat,
wherefore he fell over a chair and barked
hl. shins. Alas, poor Noll!
"pOSSIBLY, like much else, egotism Is only
-- n matter of degree. Consciousness Is In
separable, from lire nnd self-conscltmsnefs is
only a more concentrated, a more centered
consciousness, and so o-i to egotism and Its
excess In vanity and megalomania. It ,ls not
only the weak v ho are egotistic. Indeed,
some of us float ordinarily below- tho line ot
a proper appreciation of ourselves, water
logged with the notions prevalent at tho
moment, which ooze In on all sides, and
leavo us at the mercy of every wave and new
current. However, Some of the strongest
men have been quite conscious of their
strength. Artists, authois, musicians and
tho like Irritable genus exhibit an exasperat
ing hyper-consclousuess and dilation of the
Image of the ego; and there Is something
about religious ministration which well, not
to mince matters Justly herds together
many of the cloth Into a class, not wholly
male nor yet quite female. As to such as
make a profession of that art which wu all
exercise, the criticism of others, It was said
of one such that his love of letters centered
In the middle owel of the alphabet aim
stopped theie. Certainly his charity never
extended to the fifth, for there is nothing so
repugnant to the true egotist as excellence
In others.
STILL great men aro not Infrequently ego
tistic. Greater men lose themselves in
the largeness of their idea?, their art, their
projects. Cailyle was a grumpy egotist;
Whistler a waspish one. Bernard Shaw Is
nn exasperating egotist, against whom there
Is only one remedy: "Don't read him" And
there nre not wanting examples of any of
these much nearer home, did not politics,
discretion and good taste forbid the naming
of them. On the other 'hand, It is dlfllcult for
the man of aerage self-assertlveness, of the
usual self-seeking, to conceive of any one as
possessed of a woodpile wherein an African
of greater or less stature and blackness Is
not continually hiding. The last thing that
a veritable egotist can appreciate Is disin
terestedness In anybody other than himself;
and In himself disinterestedness is commonly
nn optical illusion.
The ex-Kalser will be getting Jealous of
poor old Torquemnda If he learns of the
outrages now being committed in reference
to his name.
Surely these are dream days n England,
Count Tlunkett, Just elected to Parliament
by the Sltm Fein, had to be released from Jail
before he could take his seat.
Pluck carried tho French armies to glory.
Pluck, under the other definition, seems to be
the watchword of not a few French states,
men.
It Is surprising Bo learn that a riot In
Posen caused Ignace Jan Paderewski to faint.
Judging by his valor In the concert hall, we
had thought him proof ngalnst the nervous
shock of any tumultuous uprising.
General Pershing's Cobleni order is in
tended to let the Germans know that peace
Is not yet made and that war conditions
enforced by the occupying army must be
respected, willy nllly. The sooner the Ger
mans recognlie that they nre conquered th
better It will be for their comfort.
Senator Hoke Smith cannot understand
why President Wilson can seriously consider
"so Impossible and impracticable" a plan, as
that for a League of Nations. And we can
not set how Georgia can seriously consider
pofi'inposslbfe and Impracticable .- man as!
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NOT Irresponsive to a hint of ankles)
Not without a certain soft derision ' ''.,
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As engines of'thls haste
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her, i(i Vi
Braking even my usual twenty-mlnute-to-do-
thirteen gait
Lest I shall overrun her snaillng with furTous
seven-Inch ateps. . : I
That comfortable Half-there-leeway; of the
whole time grant
I hear In tmconsulted- certaVnty -within- my
waistcoat pocket- , . ;
Nor turn a hair when down .the line '' '
Wheez! Cluff ! Ouch! Cltiff ! a train! " '
Leaps then my lady a full major thlrd-out
of her furs
Clel! Has she no watch? Oli.ves, but will
sliii trust '
Or even 'check up with it?
Oh, no.
Further, can it be douhte.d that she has
allotted . , . ' ''
At least one half hour by some credible dock.
Infallible chronometer-of the kitchen, say?
Verily.
Yet lo, this sprint, '" . ' ' '
Frantic, disintegrating, synchronizing pu,ff
with onswceplng puff, - -vi-,
Scuffling on nonaccelerabla heels, ,
Generously redeeming promises lodged In a
hint of ankles. - . - , c
I let out a link. t t
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local .
Can't very well climb over it. v "
Rut every day for every year abe could
digest this pedal lesson. ...
Yet scurry at the near sno'rt of the superior
threat. ' '
I have let out a link v
No sharp addendum, two mor.e Incites, in, a
lazy stride, perhaps
And dubltate whether it Were not charity""
To collar her, - . -,.,- .
Thinks she to glance around and .learn vot
that long loafing line behind? .
She thinks not. , '
I should be glad' to translate nonchalance
for her, - j,
Pounding the gravel in her., waketwlth! a
deliberate halt. ' r "' '
Rut there: she flutters on;'and after all'
These be ankles. - . . i- . .
Breathless but swollen qf triumph she -pulls
up at length
And the express yields her' a slap-In trie
face. i ... ,,
Five minutes later she rushe the. local
Dawdling In
And I 'surrender sltm farewell rc-V th'e'Udda'r
to a ruminant Bmoklng-can"' ' '
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Reejwleacat
Hero Wilbolm sleeps. Kor M'erejy's sake,
Tread softly, friend, lest he, should, w;ake,.'
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What Do You Knaiv?
QUIZ
mrtitlon of i'blumt tlA,e 5lhintl! nS
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S. Where . Abraham I.lnrpln Imitji. anil frrrm
what .sta(e wan nelrttd.ta.heJ7ft7J(rJL
3, How many Sinn, Felner won, et 'inT iit
llrltUh I'arllsmrnt lnFth,e Ment "Vlflin"
4' ,M"Sft"bV?',1",t t.u'n.J4Jn
5, Hoy- jiiany feet make a 'knot oV rtauUftl
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A, What rulom are In the. flac.ot Jlpinanla;;, '
7. What w the enl name ef Jenny l.lnd. tha
famous ulticer? '"
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8. What la n laburnum? '. ,
0, Kram 'what rmiiintaln illj . MoNt-TlaV-ltht
10, Who van i . called- the WMlilncton f South
Amerlrar - .- ... , ""Ml"
Answeri t,o'Y6te"r'dayV-OiU'rW '''-
1. FrnnVlln '. ftoosevVlt'la 'AMifVanVfVcrrptry
of the ?ttTy. i .
3. I'lti-tireen lUllrfk wrroie "jfarco UoiiarU."
3. The nieetlnic da tnr tha Tretldent'a Cabinet
are Tueailay and I-rlday, , , - "' "
"III, "'.'.l ?'" nns In place of, Imteael .f.
J'ilu" helqa Krnirh for ptafe...v "yV
3, The Mnnt-'
nntOenl tunnel riir.i.1 mj -41. .
ern .1, .11111 rarni the n0und4rT-.betireVn
t'rnnea nud llulj. Jt l nearly- elht nillia
Bill)
lour.
0, Itudjurd Klpllnt boriOIK IlbmMiy, In'dla.
' xr,T5'lin: ,n thI l''n""VSdhtVn''ea'n.
tslsrd lari nearapanulatloiiifhiriViiy
other Aaierkan 1tN. ,i, 4, 7 ' ,, .J""
n, re -""i iivru -peiTair- mean "I hara
tinned." . '
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