T?fi Vf? "im EVKNItfG- PUBLIC LEDGEKr-PHILADELJWllA, THURSDAY, APRIL i7, 1910 lG37Z&HRW9m& i 4 li" IV ) - r & I It? 15 K? W w- ttJ- V?& o : tJt - ;v Vai t stt-.ui: ttx n)Vi. tuu mn?Miwr:l,Tnrr!Doii Si $ PUBLIC LEDGER COMPANY CTHUS H. K CTltTIS. Piiisidini rhtMaa 1( l.iifllnrtnn Vlr Prildnt Jnhn C trtln, Srrrclmrr and Trnurr, Philips Collini, John n. Williams, Jolin J. Spuritfon Directors nDITORtAI. coxno. A, Ciici II. K. Ccitis. Chairman tJXVlD E. 8MILKT. . . .Kdllor 'JOHNCjMAItTIN Otneral Mmlneti llanater Published dally nt riBi.li. Luxim Bulldinr. Independence Square, Philadelphia. Atlantic CtTt Prt-t'iilmi llulldlne Thw York '.'flit Mrlrnnnlltun Tower .Detroit. Tot rnrd. HulIrtlnB St. Lncit Urns Pullerion lnilldlnc CHICAOO 1.WJ Trllnnr UulKllns NIIWS HI IltlAVS 'WASDINOTOV nclFAC. , N V.. Cor I'ennljhnU Ate and Mill St Nnw Tok ncntai'. The Sun Bullditir 1.0D0N BCBCit . London 7"imr . SLUSCniPTION TLRMS ' Tha Etiimno 1-ibi.ic LltKjKi I served to suh rr1hra In rhllAitelhljL and surroundlnir town at the rate of twelve 111') cents per week paatle to the carrier. Iiv mall to points outside, of Philadelphia In the UnltMi .States Canada or mile l states pos oeaslons, poetae free flft t'ni cents per month Blx (8) dollars per ear raable In advance. To all foreign countries me (Mi dollar per month. Notici Subscribers w shine address chanred must clve old as well as new address. BELL, 3000 VtAIMT klVTOt. M MS 20CO K?" Address a cminunicaurms 10 Ex "ip Public Ltdocr, dlerf'ce square. Vtlia-'i.'pMn. Member of the sforiatcd Pres ' the asuri i n;i rr:i:ss is miu- tMlvclu entitled to the use for iciniblication of all nens diipatrlirs nrditrd to it oi not ottcntisc rtrditrd fit thii papei, and also the local news published tharin All riijh'i o' ii publication of special dit patches heir. n air also referred. 1'h.Ij.l. I.f.j Iliiit.Jn. Apul IT. I"!'" WHEN VARE. QUOTES PENROSE jDOLlllCb makes -iiauu-j n at.- ,-t - times. Scnacoi Vuiiufu i mniiu mi Mat us burg next week to put his piosum.- i ml rower back- i' some n t of Philadelphia ehartet ium'sioh billx which Seiuttui Van1 is sure to oppoM.-. Senator aie's niKuimut i that tlieto is no need for lcvmion at this tiiuo, that thu pu-senc linic-te-ted mctlimls uio hot ter than iicw-fanulcil ones, 'hat. these days of 'jphvavul and unrest aie -iot tit Li which to iL-mudel the i-itj's ''uiu'rirnon tal? of guwmmetit. Curiously enouRh, this is exactly the sanio diKumunt which Senator I'enrose uses tu sidetiuck -vmsiuii j( tin.- states cha'rtet- a il-msmiii ijuili' as suiiuu?Iy needed as tho Philadelphia vliaitur shake 5I, and ipiite a-, much overdue. i Can 't be that the argument is guod In oiu i:i,v and nut m the other ' Oi is it merely 'hat Senator IVnoe oontiols the state administration ird Senator Vare the eity? A JOB FOR THE CURIOUS NE of Hie mynteiiet vvlnc'i oi'tinu--' ally puzle the uniiiit'ated 's h. the 'o is always such a wide ditfe.-enee 'ii the amount foi which bidders fot ouoiic vwork offer to do tho job. Thn intouf illncf n lnn ...' .t... i.. crepancy is found in the oids foi? juild ing a section of tho surface tu-ot .ir line to connect the I-iaukford uli-vated with Bybcrry. Tho successful biddei will do the work for $370,802. The highest bidder offered to do it for uyj,i)(5S. Heie is a difference of i2G5,000. The low bid is made by a Chicago company and '.he high bid by a company with its head quarters and p'anc right ht'ie -u Phil adelphia. There must be a reason l'oi this other than the difference in the margin of profit with which different cuntractois arc content. Perhaps ome man of leisure with sufficient curiosity will study the bids for puolic work in -.he large cities of the country, including the names of the contractors competing, in order to discover just what the leason is. It would certainly be 'nteresti"g if he should tind out; and -t might jo important. THE PENNSYLVANIA CLUBHOUSE rpHE fifteen hunched alumni of the Um--k, versity of Pennsylvania living :n New York have approved the Suggestion that they build a clubhouse (or .he:r own use and for the use of Pennsylvania men visiting that city. There are ten thousand taduates of r ttjc Univeisity -n Philadelphia and the surrounding towns and cities, jut they bav- no local clubhouse. V -mal! pio portion of them belong to he Cniver a'ty Club in Walnut street, out tha' .-iuo has only twelve hundred mem'oe . "ep:e senting fifty or a hundred different col- w ' The Han-ard alumni iivniir 'n ami about Boston ouilt u ciubhouse a few years ago primarily for 'he use of -he younger men who desired a club ''.pme, but were not in the mood to pay the Ju.s of an expensive club which they would not use frequently. The dues of the new club were made low and the younger men joined it in ?reat numbers. Some jf them who had ' 'en members of -he C.ty Club, the dues of which -vere rher. onlv $15 a year, resigned fror.. f.hat organiza tion and transferred Ouir membership to the club made up jf ien who had oeen trained in the -isiversity with them. There seems to be a feeling among 'he Pennsylvania alumni he.e, nowever, that the .University Club, the Houston Uub aid the fraternity houses orovide all the club facilities which the ten thovsand graduates requi: 3. Perhaps the:- -s justi fication for this teeing. A.WORD TO THE "OPEN-MINDED" vf iDACK of every dangerous nolitical Kfej 4rf' movement there is always to oe sW-'Jfound a small army of well-meanmtr ffe'Jelty-brainB," whose adherence gives it gk'-.JS certain semblance of respectability; "fjvi'iitit tbev are never numerous ennnn-h. t J.'hr strong enough, .o keep it from ex-Vrtfeeses. KV- ''Here in America :oday not ail the Vt Vowed Bolshevtats are roughne;k3: ff ' , 'some are found among the highbrows t xfmi soft-handed, ":'"1 :?Tn nnd women of decent imnulaeo lprl oi-estray by visions of economie paradises ,y,4 tf, e-A Cm U,,rl,. ( !, H.d may i"u iouu " s frwBMunich that the communist gov eminent there '.".nd Issued an order com- ''iBIwiiiing all women, "including wives." 4Ylit U quit crue, as .nay wou.u jj qutcx. i Mt out, tnac tnifi .Domiruition is tfft: Wgwary part-of .'oowtHiuniam, It PX-f-Uit)Mwl-irf'tJte m ','-v' w'"V"W j- -r - W- . rl people with Bolshevist leanings wou'.tl opijsc any such measure. But it is nl wnyi well to remember that in all rov crnments, including democracies, mi active minority is i re polent than u passive minority. It ""Miinkablo that a niujonty of the people in Munich or Petrugrnd arc in fnvov t ' the wholesale immorality, im plied by this infamoiu order. But It i quite within the bounds of possibility that such an order ha vine; been issued should bo enforced, find eventually be come a matter of course-. Wo have had in the past "philosophic anarchists" and "libotal" advocates of "free love," but these people and their theories weio angels of liyht with milk-and-water dreams eompaicd ti such monsters of Bolshevism. YOU CAN HAVE A MAYOR OF YOUR OWN CHOOSING Ptuyiess dnd Uevelopment of the City Is Bound Up with Selflsnness of the Citi zens ir They Will but Heallie it 'piIK mayoralty campaign is on. Can didates are still under cover, but there are plenty of them. The political leaders are not sleeping, but arc busy night and dav planning, conniving, dickering, baigaining, lining up their lieutenants, preparing under tho usuul disguises to impose theit will upon the public. Ne.t to the governorship, the mayor ;.lty of Philadelpl :a i the richest plum in Puntisyhaiiia polities. In some ways it is richer, eairvinir mrm. nntrap t'ru- good and eil to persons than Hie a larger number of contiol of the 'tato auininisLration. With the vutoi, in next November's election uoos the destin.v of Philadelphia dur.nu tho ensuing toil.- yoats, destiny foi pi ogress oi for sloth, for tlcvelop" metit unci expansion or for lecession and stupefaction, for bettei or for worse, because, een though a eity stand still, it is going baokwaid in the race of Amer ican citio;- for vitality and sueees- Which is it lu (ii i The answer lies with ou, ill., Mrs. and Miss Citizen. If the result be not to your liking, vou will have only your selves to hluiiic. Don't look sin prised, for the pi oof o( this statenietu is easy. Sellishnesa is the euiso oi ut, govern ment in this country today. Not the selfishness of the grafters, the job holders ot the bosses, for that can be readily leached and checked. W'c mean tho selfishness of the public considered as individuals the public which essen tially is, or ought to be. the ieal gov ernment of a city as well as a state or nation. How due. this work .' Well, ill st of all, theie is that ubiqui tous citizen who shouts for refoini with a capital R, beginning about a week bo f .-e election day, and goes to the polls to vote- only ui find that he forgot to qualify by legistermg. Mis excuse is that he is a busy man and leaves polities to, the politicians, you know, because it is so dirty and crooked. He's too eltish to arouse himself to his duties of citizen ship, but lie would be infuriated if you told him he was not nearly so good u citizen as the politician he scorns. Then there is the eminently respect ing tjp- -female as well as male who thinks that it is 'common" to bother with municipal governmental matters, but is intensely interested in the salva tion of Russia, the vindication of .Bel gium, the reclamation oi Frerjch terri tories or the reparation of Great Brit ain. The male sometimes has been known to boast that he never would condescend to vote because "the poli ticians control things anyway," over looking the fact that the politicians con trol noth'ng that they do not win the ngnt to control through the deliberate favor or else the indifference of the voteis. Another example of such selfishness may oe found in the business man who is courageous as a doughboy when it comes to facing the risks and buffets of tierce, commercial competition, but is timid as a kamerading Hun when he imagines that opposition to this or that political leader might bring reprisal in sly ways. It's not alone the bourgeoisie, as the Bolsheviki would call them, who are given to this kind of civic selfishness. Not at all. There are quite as many in the humbler walks the proletariat, to quote the familiar soap-boxer again. Sometimes he has a brother with r job at City Hall. Or he may have accepted favois offel-ed as neighborly kindness by his nvision leader for one or another faction. Or it may be he has hope of a "solt snap" himself. The list could be continued for col umns. But it would all point in the end to 'his human weakness upon which those master students of human psychol ogy the politicians, doorbell pullers and statesmen alike depend selfishness. But ail selfishness is not bad. It is only the kind that makes a man trip over his own feet that is bad the kind that keeps his vision limited to the muddy road instead of raised to the in bpiring prospect of the hillside and mountain-top. If these selfish citizens only knew it, they '.ose more than they gain b;- its practice. What we would like to encourage in every Philadelplr.an is selfishness of the good sort; selt-lnterest us exemplified in the improvement of the community for the benefit of every member in "it, not for special privilege and individual li cense and gain. So we say that when Senator Penrose goes to Harrisburg next week to lock horns with Senator Vare over charter revision, it ought to be a subject of vital import to every Philadelphian, unless he or she wishes to confess to the kind pf stupid selfishness we have homilized about here. Already a large number of persons formerly ih this class have seen the light, and we like to believe that the number is increasing. For example, there is Mr, Ernest Trigg and his confrere of, the Chamber of ComrctV'ryho.Ulje Hne to imm .that ,i.. "- ens w V-i .i . ...;" VrtMHlBVBMslBBBBBBssULlLP a L? i Ui it is necessary to take nn interest in pol itics at times other than when the tariff is in question. They aro doing a splen did work now, and wo wish them more powei to tho end. There are those twenty oi more organ izations which also have decided that they have not only the right but the responsibility of helping to determine what kind of Mayor and government the city shall have. They arc thrice wel come. If theyvbring but half tho shrewd ness and intelligence to politics that they bestow on workaday matters of daily concern in their own businesses, the ic sult will be wonderful. But there must be many more. They must be in every class of people and in every part of the town. Abovo all, they must bring no peisonal axes to grind With an awakened and thinking pub lie taking a hand in the choosing there will be no need to feat the outcome of the election, despite the plots and countci plots and conspiiacies that may be nest ing heie and in ITarrisbuig. Only hf 7(s nil he gvrc tic uu ;iinil, ilml tliilil.'iUt. FITY THE STRONG! A-M one who inailitaitia u latiunul - view of the background of confused opinion being created in the United States and in othei countties for tho ic turn of the men who have borne the heaviest burdens at the Peace Confci ence must be moved profoundly to a new sense of the responsibilities of free citi zenship. Tl.eie is Home- sigmticanco m the sinu laiity of the criticism among the oppo nents of Wilson, Lloyd George, Orlando and Cloiwnceau. Each is being charged at home with saei dicing tho interests of his own people to the advantage of some one else. It is almost impossible to listen to the cluinoi of certain stay-at-home statesmen and editors without a convic tion that the war has taught them uoth ing. Whatevei hope, whatever coustuictiu principles Wilson. Lloyd George, Clemen ceau or Orlando brings to humanity out of the Pans conference will have to be hi ought through tire and kept safe against tides of passionate opposition. The one comforting thought, m this instance, is that free institutions benefit in the end by this inevitable test Only the strong and the just can suivive the flames of criticism. Nothing that is mean oi spuuous can get thiotig'i ahe. It is by devious methods that man kind seeks its destiny and responds to the ache tnat is at its heart for bet ter things. Wilson, Lloyd George and Olemoncoau are the loneliest men in the world today. There aie times, doubtless, when they are tho unhappiost. They face a wotld that is swep and tormented with hatreds and suspicion and fear. Theie is not onb of them who does not know how Lincoln felt amid the tumult thai inspired a fanatic to kill him in cold blood. Free criticism is constructive. It is a furnace. None of its terror should be removed or hindered. All great things have come out of it. And those who have seen the war at close quarters, who aie not callous to the cvery-day reac tions of the anguish that withered peoples and blotted them out, can only be grateful that the few men who now hold the luture m their hands are men of fortitude and courage. It would be well for every one to stop at a time like this to consider the leactions of the Peace Conference among tho free peoples and to realize thereby the price that others soldiers and statesmen alike have al ways to pay for liberty and justice. FALSE ALARUMS? BECAUSE a man got upon his feet at n banquet in New York and shouted an insult to the flag while Senator Cham berlain was quoting fervid patriotic verse, we are not ready to believe that the Bolshevists have taken to dress suits and dining out. One cannot but remember that New York is not yet bone dry. And who knows that some stray war profiteer, suffused with the stuff that destroys human will, may not have unwittingly spoken his mind" Then, again, Senator Chamberlain was quoting poetry. Who has ever heard Senator Chamberlain quote poetry will be able to understand such intervals of freiu as may carry a nervous person in ',c audience to . , act of desperation likely to break up the meeting. Many, mauy tity le t'orm movements have, been boru and many have died in years I'he Modern Method past Intolerable municipal conditions have prompted business men lo "go into polltits- in order to clean things up. And then, after a brief season of house-cleaning, the broom would be laid aside. There is more hope in the present movement on the part of the Chamber of Commerce and kindred organiza tions than in any of its predecessors, for, iMt.n.1 nf "coins: into politics," the business men propose to take the city out of politics. I T Ii e Tageszeitung, Its and ays a 'Wefmar dis- Ands patch, urges the Ger man Government not to sign the peace treaty. "If we arc steadfast our adversaries will and must yield I" it de clares. Doubtless. Ilindcnburg's famous dec laration at the beginning of the war that the nations with the steadiest nerves would win was equally true. Happily for humanity the Germans nre not sufficiently "steadfast." News from Philadelphia Is bcinj read with interest in Tokio today. For a heavyweight Lloyd George displays great ability iu walking on eggs.- The Easter hat this year will cast aside restrictions and appear in all its glory. What chance is a poor mosquito going to have if Director Kruseu gets after her? Meanwhile the wrong 'un at Araerongen, sits back and views tho ruin he has wrought. A. successful Victory Liberty Loan will help the German delegates to decide to ilga the peace treaty. Mr. Pepper went to Indianapolis where 1, mmln nttemnted to nut lull: nn th tail of Uh. ?&??' X . 'rj Mm marmimat(hnMm Ut mmmmmmMWAh' i irTffl.miiIi.in' " - jm.,-....!.,. THE GOWNSMAN The American Language TT WAS the fashion a few yeuis ago, - with ufter-dlimcr HpralcviH fnectlotisly to bound the Tutted States with the durum boreulls on thu mirth, tin- southern croM on the Bouth, the ifftto eiupiu's of Ritrope u the 0.1st and thu eternity vt the fnttire mi the wont. AW currently speak of these utatcs as America, oblivious to all that is British In llie north and till that ptitk Spanish Ami Ptn tuguene tu the south; and we ridl oursclvrs "the Americans," forget ful that, the .Sioux, the Kskimos, the PutuicouiiuiN ait- fur better entitled to thut designation, uml that the Cuuitdlaux, llia Kiliuim or Cubans are at least as fullv entitled to it ns are we. Thus far wo ot the T'uited Stutes iu North Amcricu have iittlicr chiui; to the Idea tlmt our language is Utiglisli, alihtitigli tve do not hesitate l use the largei, looser tli-iigiiutiou ''Aiaei lean." for our lltoiatuto stipposedl written iu the English tongue. ACLEVJ.lt mid ii lcaiiit'd bonk- lias iisi appeared vrith tin- Hi Iking title "The American Language." Ami on looking vvitliiu its cover"! u-p tind that it deals not with the Vlgmuiiiiii or other aboriginal speech, but with our I'miiiHur English "as she is spoke" by the hundred millions ot soiiIh now seething and bubbling in the greatest melting pot of history. Despite the heterogeneity of this mass, the langtiagi which I hey Oie in proet-Sh of ciolviug is loss, rnriod iu dhileet vn. nbliluiy1 even in enun ciation, than any old lungunge in the old world. There tire no such differences be twenri pw Toik ami San Frnucisco, Muiuc .and New Mexico us may be found between Ayrshire and Kent. Yorkshire and London, mid then- are tew marked localisms, idioms or peenliuiities. fu thin new uge of ease oE travel and eh eolation of nice, dialect is tliyiippiiirlug. the abrasion is between lan guage and language, and n great vital vigorous lingua franca for nil ineu will be the ultimate result, with the ehauces, us the world now wags, ten lo one in favm of English an the ultimate tongue of all mankind. WK W Dili put aside us uuv pieioa thut the author of worthy a sus- f this book uu "I lie Iniericnn fiaugiinge. ' being clearly of (icrmuu extraction and of a race withiu Otormuiiy which bus proved itself utmost more German rliuii the Germans, may be theiefoie skillfullv entering the tine edge oi a wedge of cleavage between the tongue oi (lre.it lii-ititiu ii in! the tongue of these United Staffs, Gortum it is, however, thut lie bus mussed a foruiidubli- urtuv of evidence, brnscd upon much learning ami keen obsot vutiou, to show the eTlraonliuar.v diversity between the two tongues 'ii voe.ibulurr, piouuueia tion idiom, mid especially slang, but hardly enough to piove the implication of his title in its isimpleleiK ss that the modern English man und Ainerieuii have come to bo llu guisticully mutually unintelligible iimilK AMERICAN LANGCAGE" ically begs the question, uuil mm here does Mr Meeelo'ii meet the itieiy, "What eou--stiluti a language? ' or, to put it another wiij "At what point m the divergence, of two tongues piutig from u common stock Rliuii we cull thut divergence a lungunge rut her than a diulect?" Theie is a difter euee between sectional speech and a great independent development along lines of its own such us bus been the history of Euglish speech m America; but the grammar, the temper and genius of the tongue are still the sumc on both sides of the Atlantic; und the imposing array of dirTerenees, usually two vva.vs of getting ut the same thing, is astonishingly smull in view of our English vocahuhirv taken us u whole. The educated Englishman und the educated American speaks u cosmopolitan Kuglish leadily com prehended by each. Th Englishman adds to that knowledge an acquaintance, from daily contact und use, with the eockue.v speech ot Loudon, which will compare iu inej inventiveness with our American vulgar tongue; in the country he may know equall.v well li Eorset or Hardy's tongue of Ves set. So the America!! has the acquaint nuee and the use of the vernacular English of America to enrich a tongue as essentially English as the I oudoner's own MI. MENCKEN' sbserves a greater vital ity and vigor, a "renter power to coin, change anil invent words and phrases iu the English of Vmerien as contrasted with that of England. This is unquestionably true. And equall.v sound is his vindication of the function of slang in the growth and life of language rather than as merely a factor iu its decay. But" this very freedom, the in creasing intercourse across the Atlnutie and the mutual borrowings nnd exchanges which he acknowledges, go to show that we are not observing the split of one dialect into the. uucleus of a new language, but the familiar condition of two dialects of the same tongue, accidentally developed by space nnd dis tance, in struggle for a supremacy which will result in greater unity. WHEN Mr. Mencken says; "The exi gencies of my vocation make me nlmost completely bilingual. I can write English, ns in this clause, quite ns readily as Amer ican, as in this here one," he is scarcely fair to his ovvu theory; for "this here" Is hardly so universal as to be considered Pan "Amerienn." When he speaks of being "in trigued by the subject," lie seems to the Gownsman to be uning neither American nor English. But when he speaks of the "powerful impulses from Germany on Emer son" nnd surmises that "German influences may be behind the general faculty with which 'American' forms compound nouns" German, the language whirh has given "American," nt most, some tens of words, mostly concerned with drinking nnd eating we recognize that the philologian has be come lost in something else. However, the author is usually more wary. lie does not avouch the old preposterous suggestion that President Lincoln's name is the German Linkhorn assimilated to English, but he quotes it. Shakespeare. Napoleon, Dante, all genius and .success is Germau. (Save the mark! a necessary precaution at the moment.) Another subtle suggestion by way of quotation, warily not passed on, is that we may owe the work "poker," as the title of a certain modest little game, to Yiddish. Sociologically, If not phllologl cally, this might be worth investigation. German delegates to the council at Ver sailles will be housed next to a police sta tion. Safety first ! General Pershing's praise for the Iron Division simply proves that he knows a good tliius when he sees it. It is reasonable to suppose that the Big Four have a rod in pickle for the German delegates who show any hesitancy in sign ing the peace treaty. It was perhaps John Barleycorn who cried "To hell with the flag!" while Senator Chamberlain was addressing the Sphinx Club. John is frequently patriotic, but recent legislation has left him lota. To commemorate the deeds of Philadcl niilans in the world' vvar by the establish. meat of amall parks In. the eity to bear their I ...tu t. tA Jtt.iwn .,i .i.j. ...i.i. ; Wfa"-, j . , , "YOU NEFFER OAN THE CHAFFING DISH AMONG those who will oversubscribe it " w ill he yeteriuaiiuus usurnnce Agcuts (JlintDng Dish Contributors Tailors Oculists Heal Estate Brokers reast Makers Lawyers . OH Uetiners Auctioneers ewspaper Men It happens tlmt today, April 1". is the an niversary of the death of a very patient and gracious' lady, Mrs. Anne Walton, the wife of Isaac Walton the nngler. Mistress Wiil tou, despite her husband's hnbit of being awny from home a great port of the time and returning late nt night in a state of cheer for which his catch was not wholly re sponsible, seems to have been a lady of ex emplary temper and gentleness. It is to be surmised that she found her husband's famous book insupportably tedious, and was weary of his insistence upon having his he loved trouts nnd chubs nnd gudgeons cooked after his own recipes. Mayhap she sat iu some impatience when his friends came home unexpectedly to dine with him, nnd Isaac talked without, ceasing of the technicalities of their art and of the handsome milkmaids they had seen along the meadows. We have often wondered whether her pri vate letters might not throw' some new light upon the trials of being a fisherman's wife. But at any rate it is a coincidence that upon the anniv'ersaiy of her death there should come to us the following communication from the Angler himself. Greeting to Pennsylvania Anglers From Master Isaac Walton 'Y GOOD Friends As I have said aforc- J-'J- time Ime. sitting by a river's side is the quietest and fittest place for contemplation, nnd being out and along the bank of Styx with my tnckle this sweet April morning, it came into my humor to send a word of greet ing to you Pennsjlvania anglers. Some of your fellows, who have come by this way these past jears, tell me notable tales of the sport that may he had in your bright streams, whereof the name of Pocono lingers in my memory. Sad it is to me to recall that when writing my little book on the recreation of a contemplative man I had made no men tion of your rivers as delightsome places vvheic our noble art might be carried to a brave perfection, but indeed in that day when I wrote more years ago than I like to think on your far country was esteemed a wild nnd wanton land. Some worthy Penn sylvania nnglers with whom I have fished this water of Styx have even told me ot thirty and forty inch trouts they have brought to basket iu .that same Pocono stream, from the which fables I know that the manners of our ancient sport have al tered not a whit. I myself could tell you of a notable catch I had the other morning, when I took some half dozen brace of trouts before breakfast, not one less thau twenty two inches, with bellies as yellow ob marl gold aud as white as a Illy iu parts. That I account quite excellent taking for these times, when this stream hath been so rolled and troubled by the passage of Master Charon's barges, he having been so pressed with traffic that he hath discarded his an cient vrssel as-Incommodious nnd hastencth to aud fro with a fleet of ferryboats. M Y GOOD Friends, I wish you nil the comely sport that may be found alone those crystal rivers whereof your fellows have told me, nnd a good honest alehouse wherein to take your civil cup of barley wine when there arlscth too violent a shower of rain, I have ever believed that a pipe of tobacxo sweeteneth sport, and I was never I Ht.A,.i Mdi.,.. . KAMlArf .AhLwUt u 'ii.- -lPW ,r90te:tilly TELL 'TIL YOU TRY seizures. But come, what is this I hear that .vou honest uuglcrs shall no lougcr pledge fortune iu acup of mild brcvvugeV Mesecm eth this is an odd thing and contrary to our tradition. I look for some evpliiniition of tho mutter. Mil hup I have been misled by some waggishuess. Iu my dujs ulong my beloved little river Dove, where my friend Mr. Cotton erected his lisbing-hotise, we were wont to take our pleasure on the bowl ing green of an evening, with a cup ot ale huudy. And our sheets used lo smell pass ing sweet of lavender, which is a pleasant fragrance, indeed. "NE matter lies somewhat heavy on my -' heart aud damps my mirth, that in my little book I said of our uoblc fish the trout that his name was of a German offspring. 1 nm happy to confess to you that I was at fault, for my good friend Muster Charon (who doth sometimes lighten his labors with u little casting and trolling from the poop of his vessel) hath explained to me that the unme trout deriveth from the antique Latin word tructa, signifying a gnawer. This is a gladsome thing for me to know, nnd more over I nm bountlen to tell jou that the house committee of our little nngling elub nlong Styx hath blackballed all Gcruiun members henceforvvurd. These riparian pleasures are justly to be reserved for gentles of the true sportsman blood, and not such as have de filed the fair rivers of Erance. And si good friends, my love and bless ing upon all such ns love quietness nnd go angling. ISAAC WALTON. Mixed Doubles Wo often wonder whether the Big Four iu Paris have nrfi'M fours for breakfast. And now that Lloyd George is in Loudon, Balfour is the natural substitute on the Big Four. Literary Notes Au American in Paris had a copy of the French edition of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," which appenrs over there in two volumes under the title "L'Onele Tom." Ho took them to n binder to be rebound. When they returned the backs read thus: L-'OncIe IOnrle and Tome I Tome II If Miss Agnes Itepplier should by any chance want to know what has become of her copy of Courthope's History of English Poetry, Volume I, we beg to inform her that we saw it for sale at our favorite second-hand bookshop, with her autograph iu it, price .$1, Albert Mordell is about to publish a book even the title of which it would bo un seemly for us to mention in this family de partment, but it will create a certain liveli ness among the blue-hosed. Speaking of the transatlantic flight, this department s most distinguished correspond ent, "William McFec, wrote a novel some years ago dealing with just this theme. It is called "Aliens," nnd is remarkably worth reading. The more 'copies of that book that are sold the more time Mr. McFee will bavo to write for the Dish, Philip Warner, the waggish bookseller, has sent us a "copy of n book entitled "The Camel, Considered with Itefereuce to Ills Introduction. Into the United States." This book was published in 1850, and Phil thinks It is one of the earliest bits of prohibition literature he has seen. Dr. A. S. "W. Ilosenbach, the well-stocked bibliopole, served a luncheon gr several fanatics yesterday. The guests assembled from such diverse points as Atlantic City, Daylesford, Princeton aud the office of the Chaffing Dish. When the representative of the Dish was forced to leave by the lm perceptible passage of lime, Mr. A. Edward VAivt-nn'H morale was rnnslilprnhlv itmlpp. I.h.tm,f k. iaiiAllfn r ttiT,,,..!..- t . y WT ii-iiiffiiMgimifNii SOME MORE YET!" j-'tt- .r;-.";r. J"' '-X',''".';.-- "TV-- -. --..v.'i.i.. i...'rfc,'!w'"'i!s'J A QUERY Do you lovo me tq distraction .Mildred, mine? For my lncutnl satis faction (oo! that's tine) will you bat me out a letter, telling me on love me bet ter thun you ever loved another, Baby Mine? Are your brown eyes brown 'us ever. Honey Mine? Is .vour coiffure quite as clev er? (My, what shine!) Am I mentioned in your chatter? Does jour heart go pit tor putter w hen the postman b lows the li i b 1 1 e, Wifcy Mine? Do you weep sad weeps a bout me, Gir ly Mine? Do you get the 3 creeps with out me, any time? Do you hanker to ca ress me?Does my ab sence here distress thee? Art thou wearing out my bath robe. Lady Mine? Sergeant Allan It. Thomson, in Stars and Stripes. What Do You Know? QUIZ 3. Whom did Sir Walter Scott call the "Homer of the French drama"? li. Name the author and occasion of the "Commemoration Ode." 5. What is an iconoclast? 4. What is the party iu opposition to the Bolsheviki in Itussia? .". Who is the commander of the Third Unircd States Army, now in Germany? 6. What is meant by the "honors of war"? 7. Who was Dr. Alexander Wekerle? 5. What is the "Hind"? 0. What is a "Gretna Green"? 10. What American city has been called the "Modern Athens"? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Geneva, Switzerland, has been selected us the scat of the league of nations. li. Paul Hymans is the Belgian minister ot foreign affairs and one of Belgium's delegates to the Peace Conference. 3. There are four lieutenant generals nt present in the United States military establishment: Generals Liggett and Bullard, of tho First and Second Armies In France, and Generals Miles and Young, both retired. 4. The Golden Horn is an estuary of the Bosporus, on the banks of which Con stantinople is built. 5. John Qulncy Adams was the secretary of state at the time of the promulgation of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823. 6. Johnny cakes nre made of Indian meal and baked in the ashes. 7. Maize or Indian corn is the cereul which the new world has given to civilization. 8. New York is known fiy the nlcknama "Gotham." 0, "I would rather be right than presldeut" Is ascribed to Henry Clay. . .- .... M 10. There have been live Liberty Loans Iu w all, counting tho one for which prep- uruiiuus i uuw uuutr jvujr, 1111) vt I tlnMl In.n lMin I, a fnit ,,.. amY .,', Unit v - I UUt.fvuu v wu vK .vu, nuif WUBJfc i V f 11 i ,' N 1 C- li I
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