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All rights 0 icpuhliralirn if special c'ij patches hcirin arc also reserved. riuUdrlpliU. T!iunrU. June 12. I'D TEACHING AND BUSINESS WHETHER the belated admiss'on by the Board cf Publ'c Education that graduates of tlie business coulee' m thi high schools ave qualified to entet the Normal School will inc. case the number of students in that training school for teachers remains to be seen. Between 800 and 900 students entered the school every year before the wanes offered in business became attractive tc high school graduates who had thought of teaching. This number is now reduced to about 400. The graduates of the business couises of the high schools ought to bn good ma terial out of which to make teneheis in those com sos. Pcihaps if theie had been room for them in the Normal School they would have been admitted long age. At any rate, those of them who prefer teach ing to some other occupation are now to have an opportunity to get the necessary training. SENATOR SPOONER'S TRAIT A HIGH sense of patriotic responsibility was the salient characteristic of the late John Coit Spooner. It was manifest in his sixteen years of senatorial service, each one of which involved, according to Theodoro Roosevelt, "a direct financial loss which he could ill afford," and par ticularly in his activities as the moving spirit of the foreign relations committee. During his incumbency the Cuban, the Dominican and the Algeciras treaties were ratified. Senator Spoor.er's consid eration of them was devoid of shallow partisanship. These pacts were regarded strictly on their merits or demerits. They have proved to be good covenants. The obligation to serve the nation with sincerity was the impetus which impelled Senator Spooner to indorse them. That is a force so potent for gord that the loss of a distinguished Republican states man who was vigorously moved by it, even though he had retired from office, is particularly lamentable at this time. MOSQUITOES UNDER FIRE pHE most highly organized and delih--1- erately planned anti-mosquito drive ever devised in this state is forecast in the admirably bellicose mea-uie passed by the Senate in Harrisburg this week. Properly systematized, theie need be no doubt conceining the issue of this war. The mosquito pest is an uncivilized superfluity. It is altogether susceptible of being conquered. How readily this dangerous and disease-fostering nuisance yields to treat ment is proved by the modification it has undergone of late years in Phila delphia. Much of this impiovement has been due to private initiative. The public has been taught to understand its le Bponsibilities concerning standing water, whether in miasmic little pools or even on the small surfaces of buckets or cans. The process of reclaiming land in South Philadelphia also has been highly bene ficial. Mosquitoes, however, are still extant here on damp nights. Havana, which learned its lesson duiing the American occupation, is wholly free from them. The legislative plans will enable the city to qualify in that tropical city clas. Tho bill provides for the elimination of mosquito-breeding places, the expense to be borne jqually by cities or counties and the properties benefited, and for the con struction of dykes and trenches, in which the state Health Department will assume part of the cost. This is the vigorous and effective way to wipe out antiquated and barbarous sanitary conditions. THE NEW POVERTY TF, AS state officials on the far side of the Delaware have been saying, there are noi poor in New Jersey, then New Jersey is favored above all ofher com munities in America. What was meant, perhaps, is that there is no destitution discernible in places where the state had formerly to extend its aid to the old, the shiftless and the unemployed. Poverty of a new sort is pretty gen eral. Men with salaries that once mad? iVj em almost affluent now insist that they Cff 'know the pinch of want. War wages ,;j ueipcu uiuac wuu were accustomed to Inplo living. But war brought a fan- '- V0V uw t v tlUIUillllM VU LIIL' Iflllll ivnn F was accustomed to living to the limit of a a fcood. salary. The prices of luxuries ad 'i 'vanned faster than salaries and Hfn win,. j?J', but luxuries is, to the typical American jpenuer, nut a nine oetier tnan death. VWar wages were saved. War salaries , were spent, . The costliest pastime developed by the o sophisticated American during the twtr wm stoclt Bpeculaon. The air was T4imo qi war fortunes and rZ I the "fairly prosperous" streamed to the 1 brokers' offices when they dreamed of n share in the golden shower or when they found difficulty in making ends meet. Stock gambling was never so general in the United States as it has been in the last year. Anil the sheared lambs out of Wall street, rather than the everyday wage worker, will raise the next cry of hard times. THIS IS NOT A NATION OF WELCHERS AND QUITTERS The Sooner the Senate Republican Lead ership Learns It the Better for the Country THE Republicans in the Senate ate BulTe'ing from a 'ack of intelligent leadership. They aie floundering around after the fashion of the Democrats of a generation ago seeking for some new if sue on which they can attack the Dem ocrats. There ate plenty of o'd issues on which the Ropuhlicnns have won campaign after campaign. Thv aie still nlivo, and the p-.nciples behind them ate rait of thf fahi-'c of RpDublicnn hiit.ory. The np plicat on of the3r prneiplo to present rond'tions is what is needed to eairy the nation through the grave crisis of the :ctoint:nn of industry to a peace basis and to the solution of the new pioblcms which hive a-isen out of the wreck of the in'ust: lal systems of Europe. Hut inrt".id of concentrating their at tention an 1 the attention of the nation on the gieat pi ineiples behind the his to'!e Rcpub'icrn po'.ieies, the Senate lead-eri-h p is doing it.s best to make the honor of the li'ition in 'nternational affairs a pai ty i. ue. They have done their best to dest'oy whatever influence the Presi dent bap in Paris because, foi. sooth, he is a Democrat. Mr. WiKnn is a Democrat at home, and a perniciously active Democrat, too, if you will: but 'n Palis he is (he President of the I'n'ted S!-tt s. fighting the battles oT the I'rit-d Stttes in '!v Peace Confer ence and using h - b-'t judgment in at-ter-ptmg to brTg about an tig' cement of the nations en the teim- of pence and on plans to make the embroilment of the I woi Id by any nation d'iv-i.U -n the future, j Th poPcy cf sniping and firing in the i back w hich has consistently been fol- i lowed for mtny months tines rot weaken M' Wilson so much as it urdernvm the l influence of the IVted St.it s itself in the Peace Cpfi ivrcc. If a del'berato attempt ha'l 1 en na-le to iilav into the j htnds of Genmany it would have been d'fPcult to conceive of a more successful policy. I Th"rc has been no better iMu'1-ation I of the sublime tsininU''- of the R'nilu- can lrado'sh'p in the Senate than that ' aftoided by th investigat'on into the charges that "Wall sfeet" htd secured copies of the draft of the peace treaty by ill'cit means. j Congress was called in session to pass ; the nerossa'y apprep ticn bills befo-e the expi -nticn of the .scal year at the I end of this month. The Picsident was 1 denounced for his lefusal to ca'l the extraordinary session earlier, and it was said that it would be d!ffi:u!t m the time allowed to do the wo which must be I done. Rut the Senate ha3 nnt hen doing the wcrk it was summoned to do. It has brcn playing poMt'cs. Page after nagc of the Cong c: siona Record has been filled with campaign speeches aimed nt tf'e leag'ie of nations fii-t and later at the refusal of the P.esiient to break his woul to the other rations lep-e.-enU' ! in the Peace Conference and make public on his own initiative the text of the tieaty. He might if he had chosen to do so. hae communicated to the Senate committee on foreign afft'vs a copy of the draft. It might have been a politic cotirs- for him to have taken. Uiil whether he should take it or not rested entirely in his uwn discretion. Then after Gcmany , published the treaty we began to hear , that copies of it were in the United i States. j Senator Borah, who comes from the part of the country whole "Wall street" is used us a bugaboo to f.ighten bnbies, raised that bugaboo in the Senate cham ber itso'.f, and with a line show of out laged virtue charged that by some in direct way the "inteiests" bad secured copi' s of the t'-eaty and were making millijns m speculation because of their advance Ino'vledgo of it1- conttnts. He sti'i lh s in pit of the fat t thtt a fanly faithful summary of the iIoument had been mode public and in spite of the fact, a'.so well known, that cojirs of the tieaty weie f'oeiv offered for tale in Germany, in Switzerland, in Holland and even in Paris it.-clf It was, indeed, hinted that the treaty had been obta ned by bribeiy. And what happened? Elihu Root, foimer Republican senator from the state of New York nnd former Republi can secretary of state, appealed before the committee at his own request and exp'ained that ho had shown a copy of the treaty to Senator Lodge. It had been brought to this country by Henry P. Davison, head of the Red Cross and a partner in the firm of J. p. Morgan & Co., at a time when no ban had been placed on its publication. Mr. Davison explained that he had obtained it from h's rnrtner, Thomas W. Lamont, one of the financial advisers of the Pr?sident. Mr. Root aso said that other represen tatives of big financial interests were represented among the advisers of the American delegation and that they all had copies of the treaty. The inference J3 clear, namely, that these men had participated in framing the financial clauses of the treaty and had first-hand knowledge of what it con tained and could not by any possibility be charged with surreptitiously obtain ing any information. But, as Mr. Root said, when German; published the treaty "no power in thr world could keep it secret." It was pt'Wff and open to any one who had interest enough to take the trouble to get a copy. The investigation, instituted for the purpose of proving that men in the en tourage of the President had sold copies of the treaty to "Wall street," thus dis crediting the whole delegation and sub jecting it to the charge of breaking faith with the other nations, falls flat and be comes ncncuipus. Ana it is made so toy ZSSr " '"""""" ' """ If Mr. Root had been consulted before the charges of corruption were made by Borah, the Republican Senate leaders would not now be feeling like crawiing into n deep hole and pulling the hole in after them, so that they might escape the stonn of ridicule nlieady gathering in the four coiners of f'e heavens which stretch themselves above the heads of sane and sensible men. The Knox resolution is not loss ridicu lous than the "leak" charges. Senator Penrose, who is usually too wise to burn his fingers with such inflammatory tin dor, seems to think that it provides a way out for the Roublicans by commit ting them, not to a league of nsit'ons, but to a system of alPancen with Emopcan powers entered into whenever an emer gency arises. "This new doctrine will rank with the Monroe Doctrine as part of our national policy in the future," he rcmaiks. Pe'haps it will. And then again, perhaps it won't. The American people entered into this war because their rights in the world i weie thtcatened by the European cm bro.lment. They decided that something nui't lie done to make such a threat un 'ikrlv in the future. The league of na tions, created now and leady to act at once whenever peace is endangered, appeal- to their common sense and to their self-ipteiest. They arc willing to assume the obligations involved because they arc neither e!chers nor quitters. And un ices we mistake the temper of the people the niMi who are seeking political ad t triage now by appealing to the quitters I and belchers for support will discover that they are hacked by nothing bigger than a corporal's guard. Unless the Republican Senate leaders see ,i gieat light and change their course in the near future, there must be a com plete change in leadership if the party i3 to be saved from destruction. 'THE OTHER FELLOWS' VICTORY TTE HAD, declatcs' one account of the downfall of a certain statesman in Paris, "the best wares ever brought to maikct. " He comes back with emptv pockets and a gross of gieen spertrcies." Concerning a certain statesman it may le io".:l that "never did the head of a government have the prestige such as he enjoyed in November 'ast. He is Igno'nnt conce'ning most of our mod ern problems. He has passed to the exaggeration of weakness." The foregoing paragraphs, .so similar in tone, aie not linked together by a cinmon -ubject. Woodrow Wilson is the theme of the first statements, culled from the New Republic. Georges Clemenceau r. the top'e, under discussion in the latter Fcntencos, extracted from an editorial in j the Matin. j R-fcrence to the London Morning Post I and its kind would reveal how pitiful a figuie Mr. Lloyd George has cut in the mesence of Mr. Wi'son and M. Clemen- j ccau. Theie are Englishmen who sorrow- fully believe that their premier has been hopelessly outmaneuvered by the "ideal 'st;c" American President and the "real- istic" Flench prime minister. I Ubv ously, theieforc, the "master m'n 1" nt the Peace Conference is pos sessed by whatever delegate is of differ ent nationality from whatever critic bar pens to be airing his views. The New Republic's commentator insists that "the Japanese mind was concrete, concen 1 trated and amazingly firm." Americans, Frenchmen, Britons can probably bo 1 counted upon to agice on this point. The 1 Japanese mind isn't any of their minds. It must, therefore, have followed a reso lute course at the peace tabic. The place to find out how Baron Makino had been outgeneraled wou'd be Tokio. When that awful collapse is exhibited the earnest i seeker after truth may bo forced to turn to Port-au-Prince or Monrovia. , One thing, at least, is suio. The various "nationals-, as the treaty text calls ' them, are wallowing at a great rate in woes the poignancy of which is the con tinual arrogation of triumph at the Quai d'Orsay to the other follow. But when the arc of dismay is pursued until it is a full ciiclc what is the mean ins f this mental lcl.iy ace? Unless the Paris conference demonstiates for the first time in history that it is pos sible for eveiybody to outwit everybody else, current int"i pi elation of the ses sions recklessly substitute hysteria for logic. The practice of seeing ourselves as others see us is of c waivable remedial value in these paradoxical days of gloom. The White-Tepper de Hot bnte on the I.rasue of Stuff Niitions was naturally a tnstv firato'ienl dish. A Itcd-Pcppor di'.etiMion of linMipvism would Iiiup more fire in it. however. If. ns Chief Davis, of Iiooslin? the ISureati of Wnter. Insurance Hates dee!nie. Philadelphia has outgrown its water works equipment the time to remedy it is light now. A city can know no more seri ous lack. It Is peifectly safe to No Hribery put Mr. Root down as a or uonupiion "Rooti witness." But it must nl-o be confessed that he proved Mr. lioruh made much ado about nothing nnd that Mr. Hitchcock, in rebuttal, went off half-cocked! Taking advantage of the Shame fact that our lion- on Tlicm! hearted constables are busy looking up clues in connection with the bomb outrages, ever so many inenn-spirited criminals nre busy rob bing people and beating them up in' all parts of the city. . Wc refuse to believe Pyrotechnics that we nre going to have a quiet Fourth. Money talks, but the $.'000 appropriated by Councils and the 1.",000 appropriated by the Legislature for the Philadelphia cele bration will do some shouting. It is alleged that the Governed by Austrian delegation at Precedent St. Germain has asked Germany to protest against the rigor of the peace, terms to Aus tria. It seems bard to believe, but Austria has aforetime shown lack- of wisdom u the choice of an advocate the gownsman I Phi Beta Kappa TVKUY collegian knows tlint there is a --J society called Phi Ilr-tn Knppn, thnt It exists in virtually nil our Aiiicricnn coIIckcs of stnndltifj, and tlint Its members "sport" nn nntlqiinted wntcli-key of pild to designate their membership. Prcwctl n little on the topic, tlio Average collegian will tell you tlint it is n society of "highbrows," "digs" nml "grinds," who, lie suppose, must hnvo so cieties like other people, nnil tlint bo be lieves tlint It is in some wn.v connected with nn imustinl fondness for (Jreek which he personally cannot comprehend. fTUIIS Is not a history of this well-known -L sorlety, but this much nmy be snld : Phi Hotn Knppn wns founded In the year of Inde pendence, 177(1. nt the Vlrglnln college of William nnd Mary, and it is todny the oldest college fraternity in America., It wns founded by wny of n species of protest ngnlnst n group of fellow students who were bnnded together for conviviality nfter a manner denr to the roysterers of old time, nnd, without being phnrisnicnl, Phi Hotn Knppn set store on srholnrshlp nnd character from the first. If the witless were to linvc their nssoeln- tions. why not those who strove nt least to he wise? By isoo their Men hnd spread to Ynle, Harvard nnd Dartmouth. Ity lRr,0 i there were fifty chapters in vnrlous American rolleRcs ; the present number is just short of ninety. mIIi:RD Is nn odd characteristic in the American college boy of today which Is not altogether tinviieaftiiiR. He deprecates the notion that you should think him too good, too lnw-nbidini;, especially diligent 1A J his studies or pnrtieularlj serious. He does j not think it quite proper to he caught reading j a erlotiS book, to have It known thnt he I studies much or enres for nnything impor- tnnt lie is n little suspicious of n society wini'it consciously sets stoie on Rt-iioinrslup; it seems too much like an interference with the functions of faculties. And hence he is heepish when found out to be a sound M-lmlar nnd even tries to explain it away among his friends. A ri'W j ears ago, in a western college, - two or three young men, elected to the honors of Phi Detn Knppn, refused to neeept, niguing thnt such things were undemocratic mid tlint they craved no distinction nbove their fellows. How fnr this novel nttitude nnv have been referable to the Socialists' notion if it be a Socialists' notion "Mnkc ill things level nnd then keep them so," the (lownnuin is unable to say. lie feels, however, that no one of those young demo crats would hav refused n reword of his nrowoss on the nthletic field, and be under "lands thnt one of these very men wenrs nioiiilly. nnd most deservedly, n war decora tion which distinguishes his individual br.ivei) in nn nnny of brave men. A MOltK boyish manifestation of this feel-'- lug. "Dou't let us look like goody goodies." is to be found in the ironical i-o-eietv nourishing nt nt least one well-known institution in Philadelphia, known ns Phi K.tpnn Itetu, n necessary qualification for membership in which, the Gownsman was onee credibly informed, is failure in nt least two subjects to study each term. Here, nt len.st. we nre to have no pretense of the "liMimow," nnd n gold watch-key clipped at the corners for distinction Is the bndge mai-kim,' this protest ngtinst the distinction of distinction. It lnny be rennrked that the watch-key of -neither the veritable society nor of its parody really winds or unwinds nn, thing. Which circumstnntc let the Phil ist'ne make what be will of. Hut more pre po.steious than this refined irony wns the position of an old professor, who regarded this whim of childhood ns nn affront to learn ing nnd wanted Phi Kappn Beta suppressed, Small things nt times disttub academic equanimity. ASSOCIATION for mutual content nnd the advancement of sound scholarship needs no excuse, and many a joutli who blushes nt his early honors lives to take n solid sntis factlnu in the things of the mind. A badge, be it n libbon, a sheepskin or n pin. is only a sign of value in pioportinn ns it represents something actual. The war has necuMomcd us to these counters. thee designntions by the way. of uniform, button or other emblem. ns to where we stand and what we are. And it is no more tin-Americnn to bear such a sign than it is un-American to be taller or heavier than another man. . The sign itself is indeed nothing, and the deeper reason for the distrust of some in Phi Heta Knppn lies in the notion that it stands for the mainte nance of dead learning as against progressive ideas, for the humanities, which nre usually interpreted to mean only Latin nnd Oreek, nnd these languages to the exclusion of newer and mote practical subjects and methods in ediiatlon. The old society does Hand for the humanities and for n maintenance of the study of the old olnssics especially : hut it stands not for these things alone, but lihe wise for sound scholarship at large and the qualities which make for a liberal nttitude of mind in all things, intellectual nnd other. In the dajs o the societj's founding theie was little besides the classics in n college course, and they stood ns the signs of scholar ship ind the humanist nttitude of mind. The newer Immunities had nor come as jet to eo.nnete with the old. No1- have they tie s(to 'd tbein. Why give up approved good fur suspected good? Why not welcome whnt ewr is good, whether new or old? TO TIID humanist -and we need him now more thnn the mere scholar, the educator or the man of mere science there is no con flict between newer humanities and the old, between the tried, so to speak, nnd the trying. All lie wants to know of any subject is whether it enn bo approved as serviceable in humnnuung the mnn nnd not a mere matter of lote, technique nnd humanly soulless. Liberality lies In the spirit, not la the eon tent of any study, and the enemies of Latin nnd Greek nre apt to be the enemies of nil liberal study. Such n one, for example, was the man who snid the other day thnt the war hnd done some good it had taught Jones to swear.- The Gownsman does not know Jones. Jones may have been difficult to teac(i. But let us hope that the war has taught Jones to swear at the Philistines as well as at the boches. Philander Philander. Knox where Knox should July 1 completely overshadows July 4 this year. The Washington search for the reads like n convention of plumbers. 'leak' Maybe the telegraphers can be induced to air their grievances in a minor key. It begins to look as if Governor Sproul's chances In 1022 were pretty good. It is an unusual day and an unusual meeting that lacks a swat for Postmaster General Burleson. The effort of Senator Knox to isolate the league may be due to his belief that it is contagious. i It hezlna to appear as though the suf frage workers will soon find their occupa Itiongoqe y - "aid undt comfort yett- " ; .-"." ' - THE CHAFFING DISH Advertisements We Covet tffp.VRDON my frankness, my dear fellow, but I must brg you not to tell me your name, your business connections, jour tele phone number, your wife's maiden name and the title of your favorite book." The decisive accent in the voie enught my enr, nnd though it is not my custom to enves drop upon strangers, I was irresistibly iu teiestcd in this odd pronouncement. The two men were just getting into a tnxicab, and I leaped on behind. Nestling within the curvature of the spare tire I was able to hear distinctly what was said, for both the pas sengers spoke in the loud and assured tones of those accustomed to travel in the smoking compartment of u Pullman car. "You see," said the first speaker, with a certain nervousness in his tones, "if you tell me those data I shall never be able to forget them, A memory like mine is n posi tive curse. Once I talk with a man I am never able to forget all the details of his affairs. I just met a fellow I hadn't seen for fifteen j ears in the lobby of the hotel, but as soon ns I laid eyes on him I blurted out: 'Of course I place you. You are the fellow I met at the bar in the Hotel Ham string in Omaha on the 20th of July, 1004. How is that bare lip of your wife's brother? Did thnt operation succeed?' Well, after n little talk I saw that I bad mortally offended him, because Nebraska has b.-cn dry for some time and he is now a leading official of the Auti-Runihounds. "Yes," he went on, "it is terribly trying. You know bow ninny boobs one meets. It's e oppicssive to have to lemeniber their names nnd telephone numbers. Hut they're simply filed und indexed in my brain. I can't get rid of them. Whenever 1 lunch with n man I'm always the liist to remember to call for the check. That means I usually have to pty the bill, A poor memory is n tine alibi for all sorts of perplexities. It's the man who remembers who gefs stuck every time. That's why I am pleading with you not to tell me your telephone number. I wouldn't' ever forget it, nnd you might hnvc it changed, you know. The old number would go on ringing in my brain down all the ages." "What a frightful affliction!" cried the other mnn, edging toward the door o' the cab. "How do you get that way?" "I went to n Rotary Club luncheon in Seattle," said the first, "and there I met a memory expert. He was feeling fine that day and offered to give n!s memory course free to one of the guests. I wns, the one chosen. Since that day my mlntl shuts clown like a steel trap on facts and figures and faces. You notice I am steadily averting my gaze from you, so as not to fix your features in my memory. The worst of it is, the man's memory course is so easj It's just like piny. In three simple les.ons he can fix you so that you enn stand on your feet and talk an after-dinner crowd senseless. As he him self says, it's as slmpte as falling off a log. Hut who wants to fall off a log?" The taxicab spun around a sharp corner and I fell off. I thought I had better put down this conversation before I forgot it. It's jolly to be able to. forget things, don't you think? Mr. Pennell, writing to a New York paper about the Independence Hall grand stands, says, "A match thrown in any part will set the whole ablaze." We wish wo could get hold of some of the kind of matches that Mr. Pennell uses. Philip Hale, the learned and ingenious wag of the Boston Herald, has written a pleasant lltfte essay on sternutation, which, for non Hostonlans, we may explain means sneezing. He quotes Plutarch's "Discourse Concern ing Socrates His Demon," in which Plu tarch tells us l Socrates's demon was nothing- else but the sneezing either of himself or others; for If another .sneezed either before, be hind him, oron his right (hand, then he pursued hie design and went on to action; but If on the left hand he desisted i one sort of sneexlnr confirmed him whllede-' ' it 'TUU,' -.' '!) liberating and not fully resolved; another stopped him when already ujion action. The original Socrates, like bis humble namesake in this column, must have suffered from hay fever. The Fourth of July poems nre already dactyling in. We find a certain cheery sim plicity in the following, as also in the note that accompanies it : Dear Socralei Inclosed pkase find a poem, I would like your opinion of it. Please let me know tiie errors in it as I am nnxious to know Fourth of July Fourth of July hns come nt Inst, The canons burst and the trumphets blast, The streets are lined with Hags so gay, While here und there the bands all play. On July theMth in '70, Before Camp Lee and before Camp Dix Our dear old Llbertv Bell did toll, While the flags in the breeze flew from eveiy pole. But now not onlv in the IT. S. A. Do we celebrate this glorious day, But in lhighind and France they have been taught Why the revolution was fought. ANNA MARTIN. Shrinkage It seems only natural that Germany should want to be one of the "high contracting par ties" composing the league of nations. She has contracted more than any of them. HKFOnn YOU LEAVE TOWN THIS Sl'MJIIMl I'l'T YOUIl AVPAIRS IX thi; jiamis of thi: ciiaf- I'lNO IHSII Hperfal Vault for Family Skeleton. Let us clip jour coupons for you! Leave your prli.ite papers with us. Ther may be exquisitely humorous material In them, the possthllltles of which ou have never realized. Estates of Heirs Minor especially solicited. As the immortal Mrs Malaprop remarked, the Senate is as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile. The Snvender or Sub Rosa O Socrates, why in the name of Sleep . Did you bring to my mind the chubbish chnvender? The night is cool the pillows soft nnd deep, The snowy sheets arc scented sweet with lnvender, And as I float toward sleep in quiet bliss My mind begins to work something like this : The Tiger loves her-cavender Her cavendcr or cub, I like a pen that's stavender A stavender or stub, Boston's the wise world's havender The havender or hub. Gone is sweet Sleep from out ray quiet room, I groan and cuss and then snap on the light, And take a book to cheer away my gloom, Wond'ring If I must stay awake all night. But ever, ns I scan the printed page, Within my mind these maddening lines will rage : When I have had my tavender My tavender or tub, I need a good brisk ravender A ravender or rub, Or else I feel a davender A davender or dub. SUB IIOSA. P. S. If I but bad a clavepder I'd hit you with a club. S. It. The covenant seems to be who; the hosiery folks call interwoven toe and heel. Given a little, judiciously diffused moon light, the Knave, of Hearts is quite helpless before the Naive of Hearts. j " ", POORATKS. JrSj- J I yf -- w DISTANCE rnVO pale old men i Sit by a squalid window playing chess. The heavy air and the shrill cries Beyond the sheltering pane are less To them than roof-blockaded skies. Life flowing past them W men with gay eyes, Ite.surgent voices, and the noise Of peddlers showing urgent wares Leaves their dark peace unchallenged. They are Innocent Of the street elnmor as young children bent .1 Absorbed over their toys. A j lie utu iu'uus noti ; A parchment-covered hand Hovers above the intricate dim board. And pntient schemes arc wovcu.where they sit So still, And raveled, and reknit with reverent skill. And when a point is scored A flickering jest Brightens their eyes, a solemn beard is raised A moment, and then sunk on a thin chest. Heedless ns happy children, or maybe Lovers creating their own solitude, Or worn philosophers, content to brood On nn intangible, reality. Shut In an ideal universe, Within their darkened wdndow-framc They ponder on their moves, rehearse The old designs, Two rusty skull-caps bowed Above an endless game Babette Dcutsch, In "Banners." What Do You Know? QUIZ , Which arc the first three states to ratify . the suffrage amendment? .f On what bide did the Poles fight dQrinj the Nnpoleonic wnrs? TInti iiinli Id n antllMAn? s3 4. What is the plural of mongoose? I 5. Whnt are sequins? 0. From what is sepia derived? 7. 10 Of what countries is the grapefruit r native? Who was the oldest President of United States at the time of his in5 nuguratlon.' What is the meaning of the word grum?,t Why are matters appertaining to the public revenue called fiscal? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz . 1. The Portuguese title for Sir. is Senhor, pronounced "Sane-yor." with the 'ac- 2. Tendcrfcct is the plural of tenderfoot, -, 3. The constantly recurring parliamentary 1 bill authorizing-marriage with one s deceased wiles sister was described, by W. S. Gilbert, in "Iolanthe," as "that annual blister.' Since the date of the operetta, the t !sh Parliament has passed the me- 4. Tirade literally i a long Bpeech, The word Is derive through the French J and Italian from the Latin word "ti ' fare," to draw out, pull. Tirade noW'j describes a long Bpeech of censure, il 0. Mrs, Andrew Jackson's ex-husband wosJ living at the time of Andrew Jackson'sL Inauguration, lie was a uapinin ivr- 1......1.. fPltn mnrilni.n nt ltfa wife Tin- UUlun, .k4u ,.M..e v ... ..j.w -.ill Cliei 10 Auurew juckbuu cuuocu twuir Rhlerable severe comment, since the palW took what wns only a legislative warrl rant for a. trial as an actual divorce!,! The Jacksons were remarried in 1703,51 after the divorce had been granted". Mi 0. Bryn Mawr means Brown Hill. 7, Thanksgiving Day is always proclaimed J for trfe last Thursday In rsovember. il ft. Sarrebruck is the largest town on the;1 Sarre, with about 17,000 inhabitant. ',fl 0. The kraken, a fabulous sea monster;'' was supposed to nave oeen Been on; the coast of Norway. It was nrst da-; Rerlheil hv I'ontonnlclan in 1750. It was oal.l tn reaemhlp nn Immense ncfnmia. ."J in. Dr. Karl Muck, former conductor the Boston Symphony Orchestra, 'w has been interned at iort wgietnor tin., is to go dock to uermniiy-s wcckv j ' , , , .$' p vVyr m fc. ' cr K ,A '. l ,i , -? w -v . j&Mn 3Viiki W.-M fl L J !J ,
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