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PARENTS CAN DO IT
TOCTOR GARBER is appealing to the
public school pupils to make tho cele
bration of the Fourth of July safe and
Sane.
The boys and girls, howeci, wou'd re
spond more quickly if the appeal came
from theii parents, not in tho form of a
request, but in the foim of a command.
If the parents of the children want a
Safe and sane Fouith they can have it
by refusing to buy rlangeious firpwoiks
and by forbidding their children to buy
them, and by keeping then children from
places frequented by h rc-porsible hood
lums, who will fire off pistols ard throw
firecrackers under horses and at pass
ing automobiles in spite of all that the
police can do.
There aic many paicnts who take this
course, for they are more anxious to pro
tect the lives of their childien than to
gratify the youthful desire to make a
rioise. It is up to the parents. They can
have pretty much the kind of a Fouith
that they wish.
AN AID TO SPLIT TICKETS
I fpHE purpose of the Woodward bill to
k -1- provide for counting every ballot
which indicates clearly the intention of
,. the voter is good.
- Heretofore when a voter has marked in
the party squaie and made another mark
opposite the name of a candidate of an
other party the ba lot has not been
sv counted because the voter technically
- voted for two candidates for the same
office. It was clear, however, that the
voter intended to vote for all the candi
dates in the party column save those for
which he had voted in another column.
Under the Woodward bill it will be
easy for an elector to spl't his ticket with
er out having his ballot thrown out. Every
i" Independent favors such a law. Machine
politicians who aie opposed to split tick
ets have always opposed .-uch a statute.
It has been charged that unscrupulous
' ballot clerks when counting the votes
have surreptitiously made marks in va
Z rious squares on a ballot cast against
their party so that that ballot might be
r thrown out as defective. The bill would
- Temove this temptation. It is in the in
terest of honest and fair elections.
-- THE LAST QUESTIONNAIRE
TT IS entirely proper that Philadelphia's
pride in her service men should be sus
tained by an assembly of authentic rec-
, ordsi Mayor Smith's proclamation urg
ing the Council of National Defense and
t the city authorities to obtain the statis
tics concerning our soldiers, sailors and
marines in the war suggests the most
j- systematic way of handling the subject.
The questionnaire habit has been reck
lessly practiced. Hero is an instance,
howeyer, when its application will be
legitimate. The characteristic modesty
of the average American fighting man is
a fine thing. But a corporate unit like a
city is entitled to accurate information
concerning the way its sons have hon
oured it.
Sixty-five thousand Philadelphians
Kt fought for liberty in the universal con
flict. The exultation of the municipality
over their achievements is natural. It is
io be hoped that considerate attention
i will be given to tho last questionnaire.
It winds up a superb chapter in the city's
" history.
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- BERLIN'S BELATED TANTRUMS
"1ERMAN wrath and indignant dismay
rfiV concerning the treaty is characteris
tically belated. Were the practice of the
disastrous art of self-deception not
chronic in the empire of paranoiac ex
hibit might have followed the signing of
the armistice. But as the Teutonic na
tion deluded itself concerning the war
when it was in progress, so was reliance
I placed upon extravagant fancies during
' the negotiation period.
There is an abundance of evidence that
tho Hufis considered themselves unde-
jfe&tedi The hope of tricking the Allies
! nourished tho vanquished in spite of
facts. These were, as ever, disdainfully
rejected.
But the comfort in disillusionment has
parsed away at last. More than on? in
terpretation of the meaning of the pres-
J . eat fateful hour is impossible. Germany
.S c beaten and disgraced. A sane nation
l'n'i. ai1.1 linvfr wiallTPfl rlmr farf 5n Mfttro?vi
L .'. t ii 10m Ttiif'tian a Rftn nntinn wrail1
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ii riever-have challenged the whole world
't !; . A . ' . . ft r . .
"f "Her Ire today, expressed in,the treach-
; ' ,'rW8; ship scuttling, in' the 'burning of
It , j'thft'French war trophies which the treaty
i l V4(d' ordered Returned, and in the yellow
4& S Edging Tover" the appointment of Ver-T
,, ,4WH 'signatories, is .bitterer than any
can symbolize, The bitter cup of reali
zation is at her lips; She mut drink.
Civilization can comprehend the tan
trum without jndue nlarm. The con
demned criminal is up for punishment.
Justice is powerful enough to administer
it and will do so.
The prelude to the treaty signing re
veals Germany in the most contemptible
of all her roles. Her disgusting frenzy
should arm every clement of decency in
the world to support the scrupulous exe
cution of the treaty obligations at what
ever cost.
The most heartening feature of the
situation is its exposure of the folly of
mawkish sentimontalism. Germany, who
hoped to ain by it, has impaired what
ever specious vitality it possessed
SUFFRAGE TRIUMPHS REVEAL
THE NEW WOMAN EVERYWHERE
She Is Bringing Into Polities a Critical '
Sense Likely to Daze Old-Fath-loned
Party Bosses
'THO MANY incurably old-fashioned peo--
pie the immediate prospect of equal
suffrage in Pennsylvania will bring a
ense of unieality, of dismay, of an un
happy dream that must pass before it
becomes quite intolerable. These aie
hard ears for inflexible minds that ca.i
not change oi grow. To be slow in
thought, in perception, in sympathy is to
be left lonesomcly out of the world of
! action For, wheiever it may be eoinc.
the spirit of the times certainly is winged
and fleet and eager.
So we aie entering the eia of the New
Woman! The thought will terrify all
tnose who cheiish Iheir inherited opin
ions as you cherish fi agile antiques-" in
wool and lavendei. Haunting dread of a
chaotic future represents the penalty
which must be paid by multitudes who
pi ef erred to get their education out of
comic papcis in times when the comic
papers were even more stupid than they
are now. For the New Woman of popu
lar superstition, the stern being with a
check suit and a masculine jaw, never
existed beyond the imagination of over
driven joke carpenters.
The first suffragists wei" graduates of
the earlier women's colleges gentle
women who happened to be ardent, coura
geous, able and critical of their times.
Their ranks hae inci eased unbeliev
ably in recent yeais with the spicad of
education the education of the schools
and the education in life that women and
girls receive who struggle for a living in
offices, mills and shops. Wherever the
consciousness of their new responsibili
ties has dawned cleaily upon women and
gir's there you will find new women.
They read. They have foimcd new sets
of opinions.
They refuse to be befuddled by the thin
patter of professional party men. It is
easy to find girls working at office desks
and looms who are better read than a
great many men who run successfully for
public office.
There aie college girls of whom you
seldom hear who go out to careers of old
clothes and poverty in order to give battle
to those who are presumed to make life
too hard for women and children in in
dustry. There are the restless-minded
teacheis in schools forever in rebellion
against the conditions that press un
fairly upon little childien; and there are
women who have always made the causes
of the less fortunate their own.
These are the new women. They are
everywhere. The war, as it reacted in
America, made it plain that they have an
eerie genius of their own for organiza
tion. No one who knows anything of the
work which their organizations accom
plished in Philadelphia can doubt that
they bring a sort of passionate resolution
to ordered tasks. And certainly they
bring a fresh fund of idealism that, prop
erly directed, might easily clean and
clarify the atmosphere in some of the
dank and musty places in the economic
and political order of the state.
The demonstrations made by the
massed war organizations of women in
the streets of Philadelphia are memor
able. Marching and level-eyed, they
filled the air with a suggestion of some
thing austerely clean. They were as
sured. Their faces were like the faces of
those who had mysteiiously heard a com
mand and a promise. These, too, were
new women.
For the present at least the newly en
franchised womer of the country and
those who are still seeking the vote rep
resent a class consciousness through
their leaders at least.
We are beginning to hear of "Republi
can women" and "Democratic women."
For these naive designations one has to
thank the ingenuous national chairmen
of the two big parties. But the concerns
of the women who have given energy to
the suffrage movement are not Republi
can or Democratic. Experience elsewhere
has shown that they have little hunger
for office. They are for the most part
grave, ardent and disinterested in the
causes that touch women and children in
industry and the affairs of municipal and
school government.
It will surprise no one if the conven
tional party bosses blunder in dealing
with these new voters. TJisinterested
ness always puzzles a politician. The
bosses wiH have to learn.
If women have good memories and
they are said to have better memories
than men they will look with mixed
emotions on the party leaders who now
run in circles and toss off glowing
speeches to bid them welcome and do
them honor. A few years ago these same
men tut-tutted them to one side and told
them that they should be at home mind
ing their children instead of meddling
with work which the Lord had set aside
for the unerring hands of men.
Mr. Vare, In stoutly supporting the
suffragists' cause at-the eleventh hour,
followed the example oi the influential
politicians everywhere in the country. In
New York, in Illinois, the leaders who
rnost fiercely opposed suffrage were the
first, elaborately to welcome the women
voters 'to, full citizenship when the vote
became Inevitable. They debated In
rival groups for the credit of having
brought the miracle to pass.
Elder statesmen everywhere still are
obdurate. Mr. Penrose and Mr. Knox
view the progress of suffrage sentiment
in Washington and at Hawlsburg with
woeful eyes. They are accepting the ex
tension of the .franchise about as the
Germans accept the terms of peace. They
will tell you that women will not know
what to do with the vote after they
get it.
Perhaps women will not know what to
do with the vote. In Chicago, for exam
ple, they arc charged with havfng voted
in supine and unthinking obedience to
their men and thus swung the city into
the control of the powers of darkness.
But this represents no adequate indict
ment of the cause as a whole. Indeed, if
the first years of equal suffrage should
bring failure and confusion to the newly
enfranchised women no one need be sur
prised. Women voters need practiced
leadership and they will have to have
time to develop it. They have shown no
disposition to form an independent
party and have thus revealed the instinct
of political wisdom, since independent
parties fpimed in the interest of one class
always fail for the simple reason that
all other factions unite against them on
general principles.
It may be predicted that the feminine
vote will drift to one party or another,
but it is not likely ever to be as solidly
bound within party lines as men's votes
are. Women unquestionably have a
cause. They wish to have a voice in re
vising and administering the laws affect
ing them and their childien.
SPROUL AND THE MUZZLER
G
OVERNOR SPROUL has made the
first big mistake in his administra
tion
It was to force through the vicious and
dangerous so-called "anti-sedition" bill.
He was able to put it across the speak
er's desk in the House only by the utmost
use of whip and spui.
All his gubernatorial power of appoint
ment, protection and favor was brought
into play, even to the extent of sending
bis pin ate secretary on the floor of the
House as a lobbyist after the measure
had been decisively defeated. With the
aid of county leaders the Governor
scared up enough votes on reconsidera
tion of the bill to squeeze it through. At
that he had only three votes to spare. He
is welcome to whatevei prestige he
thinks such maneuvering brings him.
But it is disappointing.
By this wide departure from the course
of dignity and poise Governor Sproul be
comes a pledge breaker. He breaks sol
emn pledges voluntarily made to the peo
ple of the commonwealth in his praise
worthy inaugural address last January.
Declaring that his long service in the
Legislature made him thoroughly appre
ciative and respectful of the dividing line
between the executive and legislative
offices, he said:
"It is the duty of the Governor to
recommend such measures as he may
deem necessary or important.
But it was never intended that the politi
cal power of the executive should be used
to control legislation or to influence or
dominate political action."
Has he forgotten those words already ?
Is he finding out that he must play the
game like all the gubernatorial failures
that have gone before him?
We thought the Governor was more
courageous than appears from his evi
dent tremors over what he and a few bad
advisers around him call the Red menace.
This hysterical sedition bill shows that
he has lost his nerve.
"The present bill is not intended in the
slightest to curtail the liberty of the
legitimate press," glibly explains one of
the Governor's spokesmen.
What rot! What has intention got to
do with it when nowhere in the bill is to
be found the least qualifying phrase act
ing as a restraint upon any mossgrown
mind on the bench that quails before
every new idea in the world and, would
glory in interpreting such a law in the
most inclusive teims?
Suppose, for example, it came before
such a judge as the late Samuel W. Pen
nypacker, with his medieval ideas on
muzzling the press? How would he.
apply the loose and vague phraseology of
the act?
Moreover, what assurance can Gov
ernor Sproul give concerning the 'inter
pretations of this act after ho is gone
from office? Then how silly it is to talk
about "intentions," especially when there
is nothing in the act to express them.
In the language of the sporting field,
our revered Governor has "pulled a bone"
which has materially reduced the odds in
favor of his leaving the office perhaps
for a higher one with a satisfactory and
first-class record before the people. To
become convinced of this fact he need
only wait until the public is fully awake
to the significance of the muzzier with its
twenty-year jail sentence.
Thf Germans have postponed the evil
day as loni as possible.
Whoever gets the pen the Governor used,
the city gets the charter.
Pretty soon he dress designers will
begin to make voting costumes for women.
Seven stolen cars were found In West
Philadelphia garage, but It is ttill almost as
difficult to recorer a stolen automobile as a
stolen umbrella,
THE GOWNSMAN
About the Study of English
IN A ItECENT number of The Nation,
Professor Norman Foerster has made sev
eral notable discoveries about English, which
he finds Radly in need of reconstruction,
especially In our sraduate schools. He is
particularly troubled with the bocy of
"rampant bolshevlsm," as he calts radical
ideas in education, and faellcly divides
teachers of English as he might those of
any other subject into tliC'German oligar
chies whose thoroughness lie approves, as
who does not, and a surprising creature of
his imagination called the dilettante, whom
he describes as intolerant of scholarship,
possessed of bad taste "and likely to senti
mentalize over beauties, rhj thins, cadences
nnd emotional spontaneity." The Gowns
man has never had the misfortune to meet
this variety of what must be the genus
muller, no matter what Its sex. so he caunot
do jubtlce tQ this Ktraw man nor sympathise
with Profcnor Foerster's denunciation of
"the demagogic pnwei of dilettantism to win
a latge Btudeut following." a matter, surely,
of the most trivial vanity
SOME time ago an Intelligent rarpenter
was making repairs in a college building
and fell Into n pleasant passing of the time
of day with n teneher. One day this car
penter inquired: "What subject, sir, do
you tearh?" "English." "Why. 1 didn't
suppose anybody needed to be taught Eng
lish , lenstwajs in a college." Soon his face
brightened, however, and he added, "Well,
I have seen some of them dagos around here ;
I suppose thej have to be taught English."
And the teacher found the matter really
difficult to explain.
TTlNOEISH. in college, a-
elsewherct is
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quite a niimbfr of different things. And
first of nil, English is a tool ; to us who speak
it our daily, universal tool. I,ike any other
tool, the user must know how to handle
it. and become skillful In its use. Like nlmoat
any tool, it has possibilities nnd limitations,
and It will do surprising things in competent
hands and preposterous and dangerous
things in the hands of Incompetence. The
use of English can be taught like the use
of any other tool. Onee more, like a pencil
or a brush, for example, English may he
used not only as a utility, but as the means
of producing art: and guidance in this wav
maj be had. as in anj other art, although
its triumphs are individual and above all
rules of rote.
E
IN'OEISII, from another point of view, is
interesting as a growth which has gone
on from the early davs when our forefathers
were semi-savages far more Teutonic than
they have since become bv intermixture
dwelling among the dunes and sparse fir
fonsts of Jutland, and prartioing a form of
marauding w at fare of whiih the late Cler
man example is only an historic thiow
back How this rude tongue has developed
into a language of the power, the complexitv
and adaptability of modern English is'an
absorbingly interesting historical study, and
one naturally a part of the equipment of a
man of education. Back of this lie deeper
fields which concern the relation of English
to other tongues, the laws of its origin nnd
growth nnd the conditions out of which these
things have risen. It will not make these
things simpler to call them by the hnrd
names philologj, phonology and morphology,
nor better matters much by saying that all
these studies are linguistic. But it would
be clear to our intelligent carpenter, though
he had never reached a grammar school, that
there are things to inquiic about and teach
to others besides the uu-Englished dago.
A'
the topic of oui
friend we had almost written our
young friend of The Nation, and that is
English considered as literature ; as the
humanlRt considers it. English as one of the
humanities From a subject scarcely known
except in the form of the old rhetoric, Eng
lish has becomf in a single generation, in
America at least, n subject of universal at
tention, rommanding large departments as a
subject required of all and taken by choice,
where choice is free, by large numbers of
students. This is not because English is
made up of "snap courses," for nearly all
such work entails much reading nnd mickle
writing. It is not because the dilettante
rules in the English room. Tie modern
young man-and voting woman do not flock
after the dilettante. Much less does a
Prussian efficiency in the hunting down of
facts attract him. The reason for the at
tractiveness and success of English in our
colleges is its humanistic spirit, which only
crass ignorance ran wholly impair. The
reason for the popularity and success of
English in our college classrooms is refer
able to the fact that English is the last
stronghold of the humanities. And the
humanities we must have,
IN OUR. graduate schools we have been
most Prussianized and our scientific
friend has held too undivided a sway. There
is need that we do away with some of his
superstitions about "original research" as
the only thing which should .demand the
activity of man. and that we should give up
genuflections and the hushed voice of adora
tion whenever we hear of some inconsider
able trifle as "added to the sum total of
human knowledge." Human knowledge is
a good deal like money and the getting of it
like money getting. It is not tne acquisi
tion uf knowledge that is important; it is the
use we make of what we get. Any one can
make money: few know how to spend it to
advantage. So any one pf -average ability
can, learn things and, going about iu un
trodden ways, pick up n strange pebble The
use of knowledge is the rarity. And w hile w e
can no more train the aptitude that makes a
large use of knowledge than we can train
poets, prophets and seers, it Is that which
counts in the march of the lace, not the
mere acquisition of new facts. Wherefore
by all means let us prize our humanists and
the larger ideals they practice. Let us have
more of their spirit in onr Ph.D.'s as else
where. But don't let us think thnt we are
the first generation to discover them.
'Let us by all means
A Sane FUthT have the sane Fourth
that earnest gentle -
in KviTTwhere have demanded since the be
ginning without avail. Then, looking at Rome
of the gowns that are worn and pictures that
are painted and politicians who are elected
and reading the poetry that is being written,
let us gtrlvearnestly to give the other 304
days of the calendar the 'semblance of ra
tionality. Dy consistent effort, If the reform
progresses es It has progressed with the
Fourth of July, the sanity movement might
be advanced Into January in about 40,000
years.
The question of em
Idle Hands ploymcnt of prisoners,
raised by Judge Mar.
tin in his defense of Warden McKenty as the
Investigation of the Eastern Penitentiary ap
proaches, Is always a hajd.one. Certainly
the state law which forbids the employment
of more than a small percentage of convicts
In prisons Imposes a difficult problem on a
man in Warden McKcnty's position and
contuses the whole business of prison man
agement. And yet, admitting all this, one1
cannot help but wonder why the convicts who
actually clsraor for work after they are In
jail didn't start earlier and keep out of
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THE CEDAR CHEST
WE HAVE been desperately hoping that
the last drop of humiliation will be ad
ministered to certain willful senators by tho
treaty being signed on June 29, which is Mr.
Borah's birthday and Mr. Lodge's wedding
day.
A New Yorker Mr. Trotsky is running
things in Russia ; and another New Yorker
Mr. De Vnlera is calling himself president
of Ireland. We can't help wondering
whether Germany won't have to go to the
mystie island of Manhattan to find n really
acceptable chief executive
And yet when New York wants a mayor
she has to go to Brooklyn for him.
Our friend Lew is Shanks insists that going
bv a second-hand bookstoic on Ninth street
he saw a sign displajed:
DICKENS WORKS
ALE THIS WEEK
FOR $4
Nothing startling about that, you will
grant: but Mr. Shanks also insists that he
overheard a brawny laborer say. as he lamped
the sign, "He does, does he? The dirty
scab!"
Desk Mottoes
We live in n series of rushes like the in
fant Mose. H. H. MUNRO.
Pax Del
LORD, All merciful, grant us Thy
neace.
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The peace of truth, of justice, righteous
ness. That maketh strife engendefing wrongs to
cease
And all the world with equity doth bless.
Grant us Thy peace; on truth deep founded,
sure,
The truth that bares the wrong deceit
would hide,
And builds on rock foundations to endure,
Thy pence, wherein' good will and faith
abide.
Grant us Thy peace: let justice have her will,
For justice perfected with mercy blends.
In righteousness our lives themselves fulfill,
And nations just attain their lawful ends.
The League of Nations, seeking for a way
To lessen war, in wisdom. Lord, increase,
Thnt, happier than its hope, it speed the day
When wars of nations, wiser grown, shall
cease.
Not for a Truce of God we make our prayer,
The transient stopping of the cannon's
roar,
Thy peace we ask, for all men everywhere,
That furls the flags of battle evermore.
Our hearts that pray for peace, search Thou !
Make clean
From war producing greed, from self-will
base.
The wicked thought that stops at naught be
tween Its selfish aim and profit, power or place.
Into Thy secret place lead us, Most High,
Teach us and train to stay our minds on
Thee,
That, conquering every war-begetting lie,
We gain Thy pence, of love and liberty.
CHARLES T. 8EMPERS.
To a Thief
THIS has been a dream day,
Winging hours along
Like a culprit skylark's
Theft of Orphean song,
With the clouds accomplice
To ber blessed wrong.
THIS has been a dream day;
Burglar of my heart
Yon have Btolen visions
That were set apart
Just to tempt the cunning
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figure save perhaps that of Mr. Taft in the
old days that would round out a commence
ment program more plumply.
Speaking of which, some one says to us
that Mr. Taft is no longer really a fat man,
and his pretending to be so is only a pose.
Only an adipose, we might venture.
Every time one of our shoelaces snaps we
wish those perishable articles might be woven
of the extraordinarily tough and durable little
ligaments that connect the links of a chain
of frankfurters.
It Is said that the seals that the Chinese
and Japanese delegates will affix to the
treaty are "adorned with quaint figures."
There are also other portions of the treaty
adorned with figures, including some long
rows of ciphers, which strike the Germans as
so far from quaint as to be positively un
seemly. We have done our level best to keep the
visiting Humorists' attention away from the
subcellar position of Philadelphia's ball
teams.
One obit that will be greeted with unmixed
joy next week will be that of the three-cent
stamp.
Notes on Men's Wear
A correspondent sends us the following
clipping from the Manchester (England)
Guardian:
It was noted at the Derby that some
dignitaries on the grand stand were wear
ing silk hats of a new type. The pre-war
topper curved outwards slightly like an
Inverted bell. The toppers at tho Derby
were rather higher In the crown and were
slightly tapering. There Is a rumor that
this Is to be the fashionable hat for peace.
Our correspondent says, in just Indigna
tion :
It appears that one of our most sacred
Institutions, the two-quart hat, is not to
escape the blighting Influence of these
revolutionary days. Jf I understand the
writer's description, the new Kelly la fash
ioned somewhat on the style prevalent In
Cho-sen (Korea). There, however, a gen
tleman Is not dressed up unless he has at
least three in pyramid form on his dome.
Our own impression is that the conical tile
is by no means new. We have frequently ob
served that It is worn by all the young profli
gates on the"screen, and in a great many
cigarette ads.
Those who have denied that there is any
thing sinister about white vest margins will
kindly heed that fact that (if we may trust
a photo in a much -respected Sunday paper)
one of the recently deposed German peace
envoys to Versailles wore this illicit adorn
ment. An Unheard-of Combination
With refreshing candor Mr. Alois P. Swo
boda says of himself:
Ewoboda'i mind and body art to alert and
so Active that In hla presence one leala com
pletely overpowered. Hla personality dominate!
everything with which It comes In contact: yet
Swoboda la real! there li absolutely nothlnc
myaterloua about htm: He knowa not what
fatlfue la he la a tireless worker. He dellchta
In maklnr alclc people well and weak people
atron. He lovea hla work becauie he feela be
la of benefit to humanity maklnr a better,
more vital, more potent race of men and wom
en. Swoboda la not only a mental superman,
but a hlfh powered physical dynamo, an un
heard of combination.
It seems pitiful that we should have been
represented at Versatile by such pigmies as
Wilson, House and Lansing (to say nothing
of Sea-Lord Grayson) when Alois P. might
have brought the enemy to their knees one
time, t
We are Instructed that it Is entirely nntrue
that the Germans scuttled thtlr ships be
cause they heard they were to be commanded
by Admiral Grayson
Said Admiral, by the way, had better lay
In his seasick remedies.
Is Charley Chaplin going bsckt W see
blm billed this week m an "Added Attrao
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THE SWIMMER
MAN'S works are graven, cunning ana
skillful
On earth where his tabernacles are-j
But the sea is wanton, the sea is willful,
And who shall mend her and who shall
mar?
Shall we carve success or record disaster
On the bosom of her heaving alabaster? ,
Will her purple pulse "beat fainter or faster,
For fallen bparrow or fallen star?
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T WOULD that with sleepy soft embraces
1 The sea would fold me would find me
rest
In luminous shades of her secret places,
In depths where her marvels are manifest,
So the earth beneath her should not discover
My hidden couch nor the heaven above
hjr
As a strong love shielding a weary lover,
I would have her shield me with shining
breaRt.
ADAM LINDSAY GORDON-
The unanimity with which the judi
ciary committee of the national House of
Representatives agreed that a man may have
liquor in his cellar after July 1 without
being liable to prosecution suggests that the
members of the committee have been fore
handed in preparing against a dry spell.
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. Who is Francesco Nitti?
2. Who said "These are the times that
trv men's snlll"? I tt
3. What was the original name of Cin
cinnati? ' -
4. What is a bathorse? V,
5. What is the English equivalent of Jbe;
tnsn name onawn :
fi What la the longest river in Australia l
7. Of what country is the ex-Empress
Eugenie a native.' '
8. What is the largest tidcless sea Ihthe
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0. What is the unit in weighing gold?
10. After whom is the month pf July'
named? . '
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. A "reltre" is a swashbuckling German'
trooper. The word is French.1 In?
English the form Is "reiter," derived'
from the German "ritter,"
2. Twelve capitals are also the chief cities
of their respective states in the Upton,
These cities are Hoston, Mass. ;
Providence. It. I.: Richmond, Ya,,
Atlanta, Ga. ; Indianapolis, Ind. ; Des
Moines, la.; Little Roc,k, Ark.;
Oklahoma City, Okla. ; Boise, Idaho;,
Cheyenne, Wyo. ; Denver, Col., -and
Phoenix, Ariz. ,
3. The "Sparks" of a ship is the man In;
cnarge oi tne wireless. -,
4. The Archduke of Austria was Assas
sinated at Sarajevo on June 28, 1014.
5. Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac was an emi
nent French physician and chemist,
Hie dates are 1778-185Q!
fi. Brand Whitlock, who was minister to
Belgium during the war, is to be made
ambassador to Italy,. The American
ministry In Brussels is, furthermore,
to become an embassy. , .j
7. A leveret Is a young hare. 'y V'
8. A parabola Is a plane curve formed by
the Intersection of a cone with a plane
parallel to Its side. '
n Mother Goose was born 'In Boston. Hen
eldest daughter Elizabeth " married;
Thomas Fleet, a printer. Mr' GooM;
used to sing the rhymes to' her grand";
ton,' and Fleet printed .them la a
book published in iuu. .5
10,
The dog days, occurring In the hottest,
part of the summer, were so described
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Dies." according to their theory, were
under the influence of the' dovstar,f
Rlrina. which rose with the sun','sa4 I
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