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EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, MOSfiDAY, APRIL 28, 1919
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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.
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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
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