ippwu..(Aji.iuigf V io EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, MOSfiDAY, APRIL 28, 1919 r U Kiting Bublic Hedgcc iTHE EVENING TELEGRAPH tj.' i PUBLIC LEDQER COMPANY kv 'l." .crmJS lr. k. cun-rts. rmrirsT ,-nri- ji. i.uainitton vice rreRicint. annn v tlln. 8irttry and Tresureri Thllln P Collins, nn Jit Williams .lohn .1 Spumron Dlrcrtnri" " ED1TOMAT. HOARD. Cues It. K. Ccitik. Chairman OAVID K. SMILEY Kdllnr JOHN C MAIITIN... Ocntrl Hutlm-m Manager Published dally at rcatir l.rpeirR tlnlidlnc, Independence Pciunre TMiltadelphin A-nastta Cm . I'm Union RnlMInc Nlir Yot :.... 2a Metropolitan Toner JirraniT ,. Tot rorcl lliUMing ST. Itocm . loos Kullerton Flulidlnit C'HIClOO .... . . I30J 7rllncil" Kullrline news nunnAfs TvaimsCTds noro. N. K. Cor. Innnanla Ae and Hth st it ToK Pnaeitj The Sm HuiMint. Lospo;4 IlCREACt . . 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It I IVM ( i , rif'uiiLuiiuii rj "jit tin. w . .J . w..ttlt mm ft ,...,. . til ui ..., .f frft All vii.1 I nf iiniihfintinii nf tnfftnl .ft. J'.t f I'll 1 ril Fill. " ' . mi' fior,..'.. rhiladrlphla, Mondar. pr,l 2, KI9 A PREVENTABLE TRAGEDY REPEATEDLY m these columns gen eral attention has been called to the growing tiaffic congestion at the Dela ware river ferries. Last summet thcie were days when the ucr was almost im passable to the chicle ttaftic that oei whelmed the weary old feuybo.tts iegii larly every afternoon What the condi tion may be this summei is easily im agined. The feuy system was not de vised for its piesent uses. It is a iclic of old times. What used to be merely an inton- venience has now become a coiiskIcm able danger. The fcnyboats. undei the pressuro of necessity, aie packed almost to the deck edges with miscellaneous e hicles in a solid mass. All that has eer been needed to show how far we are behind safe and modern standaids tn this instance is a panic of any soit on one of these overloaded vessels. The unbe lievable accident of estcrday, bv which three persons weie drowned and others endangered, was due to preventable causes. If the motoiear that pitched overboard had not been too close to the deck's edge it might have been stopped in time even though the driver had been careless in the first place, x The simple fact is that boats are little better than obstacles in the tides of tiaffic between Philadelphia and Camden. A bridge should have been built acioss the pelaware yeais ago. AMERICAN WHEAT WEALTH LjArpHE new pidgram adopted by the . supreme food council undei the chau- roanship of Mr. Hoover furnishes a Mg nificant commentaiy on the economic and r natural resources oi .Ameucr as c-oin- ' pared to the othei former paiticipants p in. the war. Alone of all the e-belligei-E ents, we are to be distinguished for the jj. next three months, as the sole land of white hread. Our Minnlv of wheat stocks Iff ia declared sufficient not only for our own L-&. needs until the next harvest, but enough It to meet all export demands. CS- -o r i t. l.. i :..! Etuiupu s uiuuiuuu iciura cu uiu iuii:m- fiour basis five months after the cessa tion of actual stiife is but anothei index of the tenific momentum of the most w nfrrnnrif war rvnr fnnrrlif .Inct ii. tlm e-er ry .,. . ..- -j; conflict was so long in attaining its cli !S !i-r Inn intllrn tr imimnl nnnilitimn i also piopoitionately protiacted. Peace Iff. bv nuick flat is an attractive theorv. In wfi practice it will not hold, for all the le- sults and by-products of the war have ffW liAAM enmMA,ltllV-inlv mnirniml R,r That America is enabled to eat wheat R& bread with the assurance that by so doing it will not deprive hungiy Europe K, of food fits in with the whole magnitude of the scheme. Natuiallv. the nation K$y jvhich was potentially the biggest factor lei. in me war js me in si 10 lecover L1 $ wrmi flBuui riumt.' jyTAGNIFICENT hotels continue to " shoot up fiom the sands at Atlantic City as if a vagiant Aladdin were diaw- , ang pay lor overiime. iney all pay ana others will pay when they aie built. U$? This is not alone because theie ib a beach and a boardwalk and a caiefree and de lichtful atmosphere at Atlantic Citv. fv- AmnrietinG!n tVto Pncf of l..t ... drifting in laiger numbers towaid hotels. L? n.tl 4Vlt.lt. rlnclto frtl ilin tliin... ,U .. 1. .. t t 7T iW,lV t.tit uw.iv wt n.t tilings llldL auil ?JUe offers grows eveiy year. They find !jreedom irom housekeeping wonies and from the pioblem of maids and cooks ami t butlers. Servants aie hard to find and IX difficult to manage, if you take the woid of those who aie used to manv nf thpm. , So the increasing trend toward hotels ip and apaitment houses is in a sense due to ' the. war, which made the servant niob- i lem acute. i' .ntt. !- i!t.l- l!l -I.I. . , ., . . .. & ijiere i nine iiKcnnoou tnat we shall ftibecome a homeless people. Houses ean- TOmot be found by those who .still yearn to r live in them, 'that condition, too. is due tetothe war, which has complicated eveiy uiian activity ana contused eveiy way me. INCRIMINATING FRANKNESS JJONOB BARZILAI, who paiticipated 'in the indignation exit from Palis, 'declares that when the disposition of ijyumo was omitted from the seciet tt'ireMy of London "the' fall of the Hans- Lfcursr monarchy was pot foiesoen." "It fcjjwii) therefore natural," he insists, "that Etai jjujiuuinuii ui uu,uuu,wuu uiiiauiuiiH3 VlHajuiuupeitueiii. rturiHiic port Biiouiu no Vtj, blit Italy's decisive victory in 1918 Ml' effectively destioycd this aigument." 'BMtjwhat about those very inhabitants "right to a sea outlet Italy once m Were they all destroyed when went went under last autumn; Am impression is hard to dispel , eMNrWMd eeoplea of the for- '''i-K- nier Austrln-Hungary experienced life rather thnn destruction when the iniqui tous old RONcrnment fell. It looks ns though the Italian peace commissioners frankness has rather ex ceeded his intentions. What is actually tleducilile from his statement is that it was once entiiely piopcr for Tiumo to be the outlet for the Jugo-Slavin hmtci land. He docs not .pecify how its peo ples, still existent in spite of govern mental changes, are going to get along without the sea connection, but he docs declare that Italy should take it away fiom them because, as a lesult of her "decisive Mctoiy," she is now stiong enough to do that. In other womK it is not logic but op poitunism which niles his contention". It is scatccly imaginable how a lame case could be moie lamely stated. WHO WILL LET LOOSE A THUNDERSTORM OF HONESTY? If It Comes In Time It Will Clear the Atmosphere for the Charter Hearing Tomorrow rpllKUi: is needed in Philadelphia and - llamslmrg just no.v such a "thumlcr stoim ofhonest" as President Wilson let loo-o in Paris when ho issued his 1'iume statement. The most persistent obstacles in the vvav of the pence settlement had been tai-cd by the old faslvoned politicians, who weie lighting to .ive thin own .skins and thought this moie impoitant than the broudei issues involved in being just to cvcm.v one. lncliiding those to whom tliej did not want to be just. I.'oca politicians, actuated l).v the same motives as the Oilandos and Snnninos, aie raising all .soits of obstacles in the way of the piopei kind of chattel le-vi-ion. If Oilando can win .spoils of war foi Italy he does not care what happens to the lest of the world. If this local leadei 01 that can win political advantage thiough chattel levi sion he does not cine whether the lev ision is in the inteiest of home rule or of cconomj 01 of efficiency. Hefore the Legislature votes on the matter we should like to see some one in a position of authority issue a statement as honest, as dear and as just as that which the President put forth on the I'iume case. Self-dotci munition foi Philadelphia is at .stake not self-determination foi one gioup of politicians or fot another, but for the whole people of the1 city, rcgaid less of the foi tunes of any leader. The Legislature is asked to do what it tan under the constitution to give us contiol over our own local affaiis and to make it unnecessaiy to go to Haiiisbuig foi per mission to do those things which we want to do. When the membeis of the citizens' charter-i evision committee go to the state capital tomonow they are expected to piesent such convincing arguments in suppoit of the whole progiam that no legislator who consideis the subject on its merits can lefiain fiom voting for the bills. These bills piovide foi a sinallei Coun cil, for concentiation of powei in the hands of the Maoi, foi penalising the policeman who takes an active pait in politics and for peimitting the city to clean its sticets and do other public woik itself or by contiact. as .seems bet. Every one of these measutes will make it easiei foi the city to contiol its own affairs and will give to it some mcasuic of that self-dcteimmatton which eveiy householder enjovs within his own home. Whether the contiact system is chcapei or not is beside the question at issue. We aie asking the Legislatuie to peimit us to decide for oui selves how we want public woik to be done. The jus tice of this lcquest must commend itself to the judgment of eveiy business man in the Legislatuie, as well as to the judg ment of eveiy business man in this city. 'I he policemen cannot be taken out of politics merely by changing the control of the department from the Citj Hall to Harrishurg. Such a change involves nothing moie than the change of contiol from one group of politicians to anothei. It woultl plant the seeds of factional hghts and watei thtm and waim them with the sun of political hate until the police foice would be so tangled up with the weeds of political activity that it could not pel foi m its piopei functions. If we have a mayor who insists that the policemen shall be policemen and nothing else, we can take the police out of politics without any change m the laws. The plan proposed by the citizens' committee is the best that has yet been put forth for the leason that it does not leave us at the meicy of an indiffeient Mavor. He may appoint the duector of public safety, and this official may wink at the political activities of policemen, but the bill permits any citizen to insti tute proceedings for enforcing the law penalizing political activity of any kind. This opens the way for any gioup of high-minded citizens to coirect abuses which may anse under a complacent Mayor elected by votei.s indiffeient to good government. It provides home rule for the police and arranges for home enforcement of the laws intended to confine the police to their proper functions. Such inciease of the Mayor's powei as is provided for is for the puipose of con centiating authonty wheie it can be seen and where its abuse can be punished. The favoiite trick of the politician who wants to put something over on the peo ple is to divide responsibility among as many officers as possible so that when scandals arise the guilty may stand in a circle while each points to the man next to him and says, "He did it." And the smaller Council commends itself to every man intciested primarily inlthe efficient conduct of the public busi ness rather than in the conservation of his waul political machine. But nobody except the politicians cares what becomes of the waid political machines any more thart the people of England care what becomes of Lloyd George's cabinet. The j , -a people want results, and if they do not get them the cabinet must go. 'I ho whole put pose of the citizens' committee is to bring about such changes in the charter as will make it easier for the people of this city to get the lcsults they want when they want them. It Is not to intrench anj politician in power. Nor is it to prevent any other politician from increasing his strength. Every friend of the movement is in the mood of Colonel Roofovclt when he used to hay that he welcomed the suppoit of eveiy one who was willing to fight for the things which he was fighting for. If they weie going hi way he would be glad to leccivo -tliem in his company, what ever their motives might be. The Governor will be in Hnnisburg this week. If he chooses he can let loose the same kind of a "thundei storm of hon esty" as the President has precipitated in Europe and can lift himself into the eye of the nation as the champion of democratic self-determination for cities, big and little, throughout the state. He lias alieady committed himself to suppoit of thai tor revision. Will lie go the limit'.' CARNIVAL TAULIER civilizations than outs made -Lj the thnll and delight of color a pait of everyday life. Some dint suggestion of the ancient atmosphete of cat nival flashes back evety now and then in such schemes of decoiation as Ml. Pennell and his associates planned with perishable nintciial in Bioad sticct south of City Hall for the opening of the present loan campaign That space looked for a day like something out of the past. Even the stieet itself, seen fiom a little distance, might have been of fine mosaic. The popular reaction to such sugges tions as this is always significant. The human consciousness tcsponds with a leap to every similai depaiture fiom iion routine. All people want coloi. They find delight in intcivals of happy iite sponsibihty and relief in an.v means of escape from the stiff formalism and the harsh restiaint.s that aie out common in hentance. 'I hey want to be friendly. This is the uniecognized uige that re vealed itself in the sttects on the night of the armistice. The ciowds didn't leact to a sense of tiiumph. They were driven bv a desiic to be happy and lea sonahle and to have a natuial fling. An oppoitunity came and they giaspcd it. ll this soit of thing lepiescnts a natuial impulse to happiness. It is some thing that the Ait Juiy and the Patk Commission might think about while their plans for the Parkway aie still elastic. The tiowds that jammed Bioad stieet dangerously last Monday night andvthe discomfort and confusion which no. police arrangements could pi event in so lestricted a space suggested the need for a gieat open-air gatheiing place of some soit close to the heart of the city. If any such place could be made on the Parkway thete should be coloi theie in p'enty and the suggestion of light headedness. It might be a place wheie people could dance 01 sing 01 have open aii carnival. It ought to have a colored floor such as Mr. Pennell biavely sug gested with paint when he madeBtoad stieet appear foi a day like a magnificent couit boirowed from an old time. In some such sunoundings we could now and then foi get to be senous. And there the mind could find rest fiom the pano tama of chill and stately aichitecture that the Patkway will be when finally it is complete. "Miss Minr Inglium. i liuirmnn of thp n. Iimi'l Ask Us tiniuil Woman's pm n wlntli m otlur vvnuls is the niilitunts -intimites plainlv that tlio H. 000. 000 enfian cliiserl women in the I intrd Suites will bo evpiitcil to iust thru ballots foi a pi psalm li.il lamliilulp who sppins most f.mnabh dis liosccl tmviuil the Siis.in 1! nthoti amend nu nt 'I his i good politiis. ti politn.tl in nn meis si i linl one nui he pm nhp,l f, iisKin- hiinihlr whetlmr t hot o hip no olhpi ismhn us inipiiitimt .is sufrrugp In wliuh th Illness of a lien Ji rsnl nt mm be judged 'I Iip lipim.ins, the Hie Proud Alliance liusMuns. the A us tiians nud all their vaiions subdivisions have boon forming a now iilliauie that si, far bns had no pioppr defini tion Sioliiinh, theipfore. we iliicct the at tent ion nt the whole wot Id to the league 0f lUtlntls Villa, nhisppts ds Up Doesn't 'I liinU puti h luigiiall.v. is massing his tioop Cm it Iip thai Kiam ii it has drtPimniul to iiiwnli Canada bj way of thp 1 nited States.' The foi ma I lejeitioti of thp Monioe loi tune bv CanatiaV Waste, Words in Alevko i' pi Psent.it ii ps uppiI uul tiouble Ametna. Cauiinti isn't .Mevno. The (lei mans W1u dlnP inl 'Ibrir Noids? in Pans at lant. And tliev will cat uou. Whether oi not Piesiileut Wilson lias tli termination or obstinm depends on wlnthei .von niea friend or opponent of Ins The strong Apiil Iiippzch aie said to have ptevented the lomplete desti in lion of the I'ennsvlvanln ftiut nop bv the old snap. It'- an ill wind, etc. Now that (iPiioa lepeiits het Wilson tierl. vvhv not the htHtue to her native son. Columbus? Doesn't lie lome miilr! the lieailiiiK of primniy latises-' The high piites whiih (iptman helmets are now biinglng heie are enough to make then former vveaierrf wish thpj had gone into business with them instead of into the tienchis. TIiourIi the Italians may soon come back to the tuble, tha four months' absence of ovsters must be viewed as inevitable. It is aid that the breach will occur witbiu fortj. eight hours. The majority of (he vanguard of the (icimau pence delegation at riving in I'arls were servants, and it looks as though the tanks of the latter would be still more lu creased when signing day comes around. The New York i lub which beiumc in volved in a public m nodal when it Invited ISO aviators to what wan uot very delicately rcfencd to ou the curds as "tlio greatest soinc party In history." gave tbeaieople who walk something grave to think about. '. I ITALY'S CLAIMS AS HER , HISTORIAN SEES THEM I Ferrero, Defending the Possession of ' Flume, Differentiates Between I That Question and the Subject of Trieste and I Trent i i In tmilinst tn the eieited aciieiatUaliaiii tii irhuli Italy' national nnpirntwiin are now being loitcd me the iprdfir aigument an aljiitil and ndiamed by Prof, (higtielinn I'eirein m Hie following ailirle, irliieh nrniinallii appeared in 1'iench in the Parts I ifoo. The inilei. lehoie lemaikable trnrh, "'I he (iieatneai mid Drtline of Home," ha pinttaiined him a the most notable historian in his field suite (iibbon. has long been n ihnntpioii of Itbeial lirirs inidly erpiessed irlien he leitined in Milan on inilitaiism and its dangers. It is signtiiant that tn spile of Ins crpressed ram it lion that I'iume should betomr Italian, he tonsidrrs the icsed ques tion ns lying beyond the subjeet of the geo oiaphttal unity irhith he leguids as essential to the fitting destiny of his nation, and that he emphasizes Ci si ol till its ilnims tn the 7 lenlinn and thr Istrinn Peninsula uhtrh hate tihendy been irioynized by the Pente ( onfeicui r. A NATION" is a inni.il tinitv vvlinh seeks y- to lealie. ns fai as it mar be possible, its material tinilj geoginphie. economic and political If the theorv of natuial fion tipts has been inn led too fai. it is none the less Hue that onlv thp possession of nntliril frontlets tan tendei pei fpi t, sure and tlrli nUe thp liistoiie foi mutton of a nationality. What wnis have desolated the oat 111 simplr because gieat plains olfet . to divide peoples and states, cmh the ideal lines timed bv the stiength of men' Vow if theie is one conn tiv in lluiope of which nature has made n pet fee I geographic- unit v it is Italy In all epochs, geographeis hare seen in the Alps the natuial fimilipw of that prninsuln cles tincd to be the fiit health of c iv tliation in Eutupe. It inn ensilr he undei stood theiefoie. Iioh Italv iume to include amoug her wat ambitions the nim of gntlieiing to bet self the noitlipin and eastrin nests of the Alps, tint is to sa. Hip fionttPis which Augustus had assignpd to ftaly. but which weie held in 101 I bv the Atistiiin. empiie. Itv advancing to that Imp and bv aiineiiig the Tientino n ml Istiia. Italy would achieve at one and the same time both het geogiaphiial nnd her tiilional unity. She would be. in I'urope. the almost petfec t model of the nation which should a desne foi wat sc i?e upon hoi, must face the gieatest difhculties in attacking olheis possessing the vtlnle the best facilities of defense m case she weie attacked br OtllPls. QJUMUWUAT outside thp cpipstion of the geogtaplncal boundaiips of thp peninsula we hud the matter of I'iume. uhii h )s at this moment exciting Italian opinion in the high est degiep. This question thiust itself sud denly upon Kuiopp; indeed, the nimisticc was wanely signed. To undei stand this matter one must hare a clear idea of the situation in which Fmme had been placed bv the fall of the Austio-Hungarinn empiie. Kiume is an ancient Italian town sunouiided bv Slavic mi ill distncK n town which has pir solved its Italian ehaiaitei in spite of the pioseme of a number of Hungaiian. Cioatian and (Jeiman elements, in imn h the s-me wav thnt Von otk. in spite of its millions of Kumpoaiis. pioseives its Amen cm chinaclei. This town, while under (ho domination of the Hapsbui. had been in coipoiated with Hungary, whose pent upon the Adriatic- it becime. The town was, theiefoie. subjected to foieigu domination. Her situation, hovvovei. had certain com peiisatious which lendeied it toleiable. Kiume was not onlv a self-governing city lejoic ing ,in i ei tain piivilegos; n as also the second poi t of one of the gieat powei s of Kurope and foi mod pait of an empiie which hnd n high uiltiiial rank For an Italian i in. founded and inhabited by a people able to claim the light of the (iist-boin among thecivilied peoples of Iairopo. this conipen sntiou had a capital impoitauco. D'"1' tho Austto Hungnnau empiie has -L dtsappeaied. and fiom its disappeaianco is boin the question of Kiume. If Kiume had boon able to sta in the Austio Hungarian empiie the town could nevoi have been in cotpotatecl. without rioleiice and injustice, into that new Slav state which is using ou the mills of Aiistna. The old Italian town would lose its lank and its piiuleges of self gmeinuient: it would pass tioin one of the gieat empties and high cultuies of Kurope In a seiondai-i state, one which will m,. elcnibteillv make a bnlhant campaign in the held of higher iiiltuio. but still has to win its ontiance to that domain: the town, un able to lejoin those of its own nationality, would again undeigo a foreign domination'. For Fiume alone, the vvcnld war. which is biinging to so many peoples both libeitj and the sntisfac-tioii of national uspiiatiuns, would appeal as a calamity and a disaster. Theie lemains, moreorei , the question' of the military security of the Adiiatic- and the Italian tovvus and ceuleis of Italian life which flow pi- upon the eastern (oast. last vestiges of Venetian colonization, Xa'ia, Spnlato, Sebenico. eti- Italv des-iies that the eastei n mast of the Adiiatic. so lith in poits and islauda (a famous nest of pirates sime i lassie times;, shall not be able to threaten the western" coast, which is almost dofouseless. She de-s-iies also that the Italian gioups of the eastei rj coast shall be able to live m peace and freelv develop then- natioual life. Jtaly cannot long tolerate these towns nnd gioup., being the object of persecution or a cam paign of violent denationalization, even weie these attacks disguised. Such aie the foundation stones of the na tional aspirations of Ifalv. In mder that they may be recognized, the Italian people look above all to Piesiileut Wilson's high spun of justice aud to the wnim friendship of Fiance. B Y HIS disinteiested imnai tialin . I'msi. dent Wilson hns been able to ilominnt,. i thp lolc of judge and urbiter. tliii terrible tinged of Kurope. We hope, theiefoie. thnt he will lecognize that in all the qiien tinns Italy is looking less to the mutter of territorial annexation than to the matter of sustaining and bringing to n tiiumphaut con clusion eeitain ihcrishcd principles. Coin paied with the terrible sacriric-es which we have made i'00,000 dead. 80,000,000,000 lite spent, our existence disordered for half n century the territory which Italy claims is but smnll. Fiume, whose fate is the object of the lively anxiety qf the enliie nation, is only a pietty little towu of 473,000 inhabl tants. There is no comparison possible be. tvvren the. territorial gains which Italy will make and those which Serbia will uttaiu. Hut these territories, small though they be in extent, are symbols to us of certain prin ciples which arc vital to the whole world complete emancipation of Italian ponula. tlons from ull foieigu domination, the achievement of tjie moral and geographic unity of the nation, the sec urity of frontiers nnd seas, the possibility of plnjing u part in the political system which will ussuro Kurope the peace and liberty of all people, both great and small. We have, willingly borne all the sacrifices necessary to carry to victory in war these very principles; we hope to rejoice in their tiiumph as far ta justice and the safety of western civilisation do) rcfluU-e us. i? ' ,i l ' ljr III V .j1 i If V. j '3 ll Ci. fetfr,;.a...t 1 ,w NO si. yAlMf " ' B-jar1 -rf . ''"- "' f yv ( -t . . i i j rap-" THE CHAFFING DISH Lullaby for an Oversubscribed Quota R OCA Ml) .'. yo. heie tomes the long git en. 'Sour oici subtil iption is plain tn be seen, I'oi Mother is tal ing in hale uilh a shout, father is tinning his jeans inside out! TJ I .S.IM ;. nolo, no oi ri thr lop' LJ. When the tutnl is added, sre Class's eies pop! All oiei the land people shell out then bones I'oi the last nud the best of the l.ibeily Loans! C V V V Thev kppp telling us thnt the tieimans will clef the Pome Confoietic e, will lefuse to sign, eti Defy, we hnzaicl. in nun h the same way thnt Andv (Sump defies Mm. And if vou don't know who A ink i pshaw: what do ou bu.v papois foi. auy wAV V V V Mrs. Izaak Walton Writes a Letter to Her Mother Chancer l.ane. London, April i8. 10.19 MY DKAKKST MOTHKll: Mattel s indeed pass fiom badd to woise. and I fear mee that with 1-zank spending all hvs tvme angling nlong livers.vdos and neg le'cliug the millineiy shoppc (w.vih is oui onlie suppoile. for urn bocke and sonic be keppt in one br a few paltric biace of tiouts a vveekeVI wee shall sooue come to a soirye eude. How manv tymes, deaie .Mother, have I bewailed mv folly e in wedding this ciea tuie who seemeth to nice mine a f.vsh than a man. not menily by leason of li.vs nmdnesse for the giac elesso prnc lice of watei -dabbling, but eke for hvs passion for svimmiug in barley wine. ale. malmsey and other in iiiriHtvng I'mum"8- What manner of coiii pnnve'dotb this dotnid keepe on his fyshlng pnstimes. (iod wot I l.o be is wonte to come home at some gieivous home of ye uyglite. bearing but n smalle catihe but plent.vful aroma of diiuke. and ofttiincs alsoe Ii.vh lybalde fre'uids do aicompan.v b.vm. Nothing will solve but the) nmste Blouse our k.vtchcn maide and have some paltry cbubbor gudgeon fijed in gieese. filling e house wyth nau seous odoures. and wyth their ill piatlle of fy shins tnckle. not to say the ninicl mllke inaides the have seen along some wanton mcadoWHitle. soe that I am innate distiaught. You knowe. in dome. I never eoldc ab.vde lvsslie being lolde clnmm entures, and loe o'nlyc last nyghte thin Moutter dyd come to my 'beddsidc wheie 1 In.ve nuleepyng and wake me fromm a sweet drowse by dangling a string of loathsome queasy trouts, still dt.vp pinge, against mv nose. I.o, says he, aie these not beutiesV And his leek of baile.v wine did lille the iliiimuer vvoisio oi nue. deaie Mother, this nll-ndvised wietcho dutb spend alle lib) vnniut houies in loinpiliug a bookeon theJirt (usbeialletb it I of angling, surely a tiifilng petty wanton tnske that will make' by m the laugliing-stocke of all sober men. (iod forbidd that ouie littel ton sholde be b'l ought uppe hi this nastye squatideilnge of tynie, vvyih doth breede nought (meseema) but ule-bibblng and ye disregaule of truth. Oute bouse, wych is but smalle as thou Unovvest. is all ilutteied wylh his slimy tackle, and loe but yesleidaye I loste a cus tomer fromm ye millineiy shoppo. thee nver riug (and I trow lygbtly) that c shoppc dyd stinkc of fysshe. Ancle soe if thyij thng do continue longer I shall rlpp uppe and leave, for I thoght to wed a man and not a paddler of dytcbes. O bowe I longc for those happy dajes with thee, before I ever knew such a tb nc as a fysshe existed ! Sad too It Is that he cloth justlfye his vala Idle wanton pasttjrac by misquoting scriptures, Saint Peter, 'and soo " Thieo kytebpn muldea hnvo leftc us latclye for barbyng themselves upon bydden hookes that doe scatter our shelves and drawers. Thy persecuted daughter, . ANNK WAJ.TON, V V V M'l. C!.i.mtn tHVfitu tinfn lL.,t, . tl. Hotel des HcBcrvoirs at Vergalllcs. 'To cool 1 their heels, wc suppose. i , t, A'L:t A ' 'fe ..V U' . i A, 1 .OC-tlMU'A r . rff?. . . . . i . S-. ARGUMENT AOUTJT Philadelphia in 1830 "I lie gie.it and most sulking contlust between this citv dinl iho"-e of laiiope Is peicelved after sunset, caicel a sound Is . heal d; liaidh .1 voIlp o. h wheel breaks the stlllnes "the stieels aie entlielv cl.uk, except vvheio a stia lamp niaiks an hotel oi the ll.e, no slioiis are open, but those of the apolliccaiv, and heie and there a cooks shop, siaicelj a step Is heaid. and fot a note of music or the sound of mirth I listened In vain In leaving the theatre I saw not a slnglo uirlage. 'I his darkness, this slillneti" is so great that I almost felt It awful Vs v e walked honm one tine pioonllght evening we icmatked that we alone seemed alive In this gieat citv , It was 10 o'clock and a most, loveh cool evening, after a burning day, et all was silence Regent street, Bond street and still mote the Inllan boulevaid of Pails tose in stiong contrast on the nieni oi; the light, which outshines that of da the gsv, gtaceful, laughing tlnoiig the elegant saloons of 'lorionl, with nil theli varieties of cooling neetai weie all lemembered Is it an l.uropean piejudke to deem that the solitan diam swallowed lis the gentlemen on quitting an Anieilcan theatre Indicates a lowei and mote vicious state of manners than do the- Ices so sedu lously offered to the ladies on leaving a Kiench one?- .Mis 'mm,, Tiollope, In Domestic Mnnneis of the Ameilcaii" V V V It's lucky the newspiipeis have liuot.vpe mai bines those days to make type as tiiey go along. For if wo had to depend ou flie old-fashioaed font, leitainlv the supply of Y's would inn out. what with the Kvv'ivas nnd the Victory Loan iieins. V V V Useful Unto the End I'd like to iido. And ude toil.it . Along the plac id Milky Wni. I'd like to go Somen heie this spnng Wheie I could heal the Welkin Itmg I'd like to stop At some fast pi no And see the ho-iitllnl Ilumiiu Itnce. I'd like to sail. The sa.v tn gHJ L'pon the famous Ship of Stale. And if I saved that Ship fiom loss. Then I could get Hie Double Cioss, If, after that. (iient Doomsclai i im k I'll nail it up with Income Tax, I ANIUYK KINII. V V Another Crisis Auother uisis in I'aris, sa.vs Ned Jlus. ihamp. seems to be indicated In the follow ing which be culls fiom a leather tiado journal : COAT SKINS: Stocks ,,. j,niteI and anivaU aie quickly disposed of. V V V Dr. Maurieo Kgan, that delightful dlplo mntbtt who recently loturued from minister ing to Denmatk, says that the Department of State instructs our ambassadois abroad to observe Mother h Day by lisplnIng the flag from suurlse to suuset, and he adds that one of his most perplexing tasks was trving to explain to inquiring foreigner what Mother's Day is. , Hut it -eenis to us thai there aie other natlonaf festivals of ours that might be even harder to elucidate, suih us (Jroiud Hog) Da), or Htrnvv Ilat Day, or Iliiudkcixlik-f Day, this bciuB August ir, when the hay . v aOCttATKa.ri J.-I, t .. vu. a.-JCISAi , .. 1, Ballade of Lavk of Time rpIllUtK is a stoic of little si nips of things Hid in dim. lobvvebbed nisles within iny head A cliisly pile of half-ienieiiibei nigs. The doubloons and the silks of books I've I ead : Most ptec-lous goods well wrought b men long dead. Oi fellows who still struggle with lifo's,skoiii. Though all should be ranged nently there, instead A clustv trenstii o-c best lies in my lu.iin. Heie is a jeweled token I Ionic i biiius. And (heie a i ubi pluase of Wilde glows led ; In the farcoiuoi, glints of seabnds' wings Which Coui.nl gnriieied as a slim ciaft sped ; A blight, keen diamond won! which John son said : Sweet, poi fumed tapcstiies fiom Old Mon taigne The cloths aie faded aud the gems lack tin c ail ; A dust tieasiue chest lies m mi btaiti. Then- aie tli siKei sounds of silver stiings Willi h Swinburne's nnging touch to nbisic led : Then- glimmer Dumas' heavv signet nngsj The thoughts which llanied thiough llcu- lo's boms of eh end : The gieat ideals foi which men hveel and bled. Odd pie-cos of gieat jor and bittei pain, Mixed with the i hec-i upon which smiles are fed A dust tiensiiie-chest lies in mj brain. 1 lK.WOI Heigh ho! Those things aie ib ilisonler spread : ISut some day I will suit them out again; Meanwhile, as I have got to oaiu mv lucid, A dusty tioasuie-ihost lies in mv biaiu. Cutliboit Collins, in the S.vdnc-.v Mtillotiu. What Do You Know? QUIZ I, What is nn uutie.vi lone'i L'. What is the meauing of the musical tenn "legalVj"? ",. In what pail of Italy is the city of Tin in V I. Wlieic wns the Kmpioss .losophiue bom? "i. In what ear did Home become the cnpl ' tal of united Italy V II, What is the oiigin of the wind meander? 7. What is the significance of single quota tion niaiks in printed or wiltten con veisatiouV S. What is a poiist.vb-V SI. What is an atoll V 10. Whti! is the oiigin of the pluase "pi tines , mid piisins"? Answers to Saturday's Quiz 1. Ilioi l.elolfl -ltuntziiii is to head the six piiucipnl lienmiii delegates who will go to Veisailles. '1. .lean Fiaucois Millet painted "The Aiigelus." il, Fiedeilc- Com (land IVuIIpIiI was Amer ican ambassador to Austtiii Hungary before the iiiptuie of diplomatic rela tions. J. The Aiabs belong to the Semitic- biauch of the white iiic-e. ti. A bernouse or burnouse U u cloak-llko hooded gurment woven iu one piece . and wotn by Arabs and Moois, lnigely as a sun protection, 0. Molokol is the Hawninn island set aside for lepers under goverment tiiatuieut nnd supervision, 7, The llible is translated fiom (Jicek and llebi ew. 8. Legume: fiult, rdible pnit, pod of le. gumlnous plaut; vegetable used for food. I). A. canon in music Is a piece with differ-, rut pints taking up the same subject successively In strict, Imitation, ' 10, James Uuibanan was the only President oi wii) united Mimes wiio was n barn- hif ,. or tkrpugbout JiU ful tcrw of ofivtf -1-. rJJ.'. . I .f ' . .. . .-.,V:,W, ,r. A' 4 XI I f nH 'l s " A ri y 7. Z-iTIMiM,u&.-'A. .i ' I 7
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