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Philidtlphls. WHnnd.t, Jul? , 101
AN ENDOWMENT FOR PENN
ALUMNI of the Univetsity of Ponnsyl-
vania are numcious and influential.
Their energetic and patient eo-opeiation
as a unit would be almost adequate to m
suri to the university the endowment
fund which, like Princeton, it finds im
peratively necessary at this time of new
beginnings.
The University of Pennsylvania has
had a rapid physical growth in leccnt
years. Only a lack of funds has served
to retard it in other ways. Harvard,
Yale and Princeton have profited more
greatly through the practical devotion of
old "graduates and the appreciation of the
public at large. If the university is to
retain its place among the leading edu
cational institutions of the world its
salary rolls will have to be revised and
there will have to be a taking up of slack
at many places in the faculty.
Pennsylvania men might as well leal
ire that their university is badly in need
of their help. They have an opportunity
to atone for past omissions. Even a
"drive" for funds might do. Though
drives seem to have lost favor with the
general public, a drive inspired by the
army of the university's alumni might
yet be conducted successfully among peo
ple who are best able to appreciate the
work of Penn and the magnificence of its
present opportunities.
THE FIELD OF WAR ART
TT HAS been said that, although France
lost the war of 1870 in the field, she
won it in art. Though the public has for
gotten who commanded the Prussians at
Grfavelotte, it is thoroughly familiar with
- '"The Last Cartridge." The brush of a
Detaille or a Neuville has evoked thrills
for more than a generation.
What the victors will make on canvas
of their overwhelming theme remains to
be seen. America, which was virtually
negligible in painting in the Civil War
era, is now one of the most vigorous con
tributors to artistic progress.
The work of the lately returned stu
dents of the Pennsylvania Museum and
School of Industrial Art displays consid
erable distinction, informed by the un
mistakable flavor of personal acquaint
ance with the subject matter. It is not
flamboyant to imagine a more vital and
a maturer artistic treatment of the war
emanating eventually from this source.
In some quarters the performance will
assuredly be made. The extent of civili
zation's triumph is too solemn and won
by too much travail for the pictorial
talent of the winners to be stultified as
was Germany's in the age of Bismarck.
America has as good a chance as most
of her allies to realize her artistic oppor
tunities, and Philadelphia, one of the
active centers of good painting, is worth
attention. Never before have so many
wlelders of the brush been enlisted in
government service. The sense of truth
in the art should be instinctive.
THE PARKWAY'S REALITY
pLOUD-CAPPED towers, gorgeous
'palaces and solemn temples revealed
in the Fairmount Park Art Association's
attractive pictorial record of the Park
way development, just published, are not
to be disdained as merely the baseless
fabric of a vision. Fact gives validity to
fancy in this handsome and interesting
volume. The companion photographs
showing the view northwest from the
City Hall in 1907 and the same territory
today, with the spacious boulevard in
being, are significant and stimulating.
Reactions against the Parkway plan
assumed in the past two phases, both of
which now seem both false and petty.
Expense was tho burden of the first
jeremiad. Tardiness of the work was the
substance of the second. The magnitude
of the improvement and the abundant
possibilities it foreshadows are sufficient
'to give the aspect of narrowness to such
criticism.
It is true that the Parkway was long
in the making. Eminent engineers, archi
tects and city designers dreamed of
,-ii ,kl the project twenty-five years ago and
'xa.ve been studying it ever since.
TThe thoroughfare first appeared on the
:J-,i .municipal plan in 1904. The commission
. ef experts authorized by the Art Asso
j&ciatlon completed its comprehensive
scheme for the improvement three years
later.
'2 ' "Disposition of the major obstacles,
tVL'f . '-.however, has at last been made, ihe
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C hvchuc Arum wie iua.a iu nuutuutiv, oavo
' -f'or the presence of one temporary angle
1$ at. that terminus, is finished and is fast
'Qsjcoinwig cumeiy. nn; uugnu oijuuie
, ,rele, planned after the style of the
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RK wi kooq taste, incro is nu
t-tfci';K-iww .public library will
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partly frame this green area and there
should be none that the art museum will
crown the old reservoir hill as the climax
of the boulevard.
Both these structures and a number of
others are charmingly pictured in the Art
Association's illustrated brochure. It is
a myopic vision which beholds them as
dreams. With the actual impetus already
under way, civic pride should immediately
respond to the inspiration of Jhose draw
ings. Sincerely to believe in them is to
make them real. Already the present
state of the Parkway is sufficiently im
pressive to make the skeptic feel uncom
fortable. A MEDIEVAL FERRY SYSTEM
SHOWS NEED OF A BRIDGE
Something More Than the Railroad Ad
ministration to Blame for Blocking
Holiday Traffic Over the Delaware
TF A collision such as occurred on Mon-
day afternoon between two Delaware
river ferryboats had happened on the
Fourth of July or on Sunday evening,
when the train boats were weighted to
the limits of their capacity with holiday
crowds, a catastrophe would have been
almost certain.
Even after the ban had been placed on
excursion traffic, the femes were crowded
uncomfoitably and dangerously. What
nas lacking v. as a bridge.
Business men at the shoie lesoits who
arc tabulating the losses due to the with
drawal of excursion trains can do better
than blame the railioad administration
officials. They can blame their own poli
ticians and ours and, in the end, them
selves and the general public for a habit
of mind which delajs almost eveiy great
public improvement in America for a
geneiation or two, while those in authoi
lty grope and wi angle and "make their
baigams.
The furtive and foolish method adopted
by the railroad officials to discourage
shoreward traffic, the talk of mythical
"troop movements," reveals the hand of
the amateur in railway affairs Appar
ently, what the railroad administration's
repiescntatives were thinking about was
the Philadelphia-Camden feny system.
The rivei boats could have earned no
more people. The medieval inefficiency of
the whole feny system in any ciush was
demonstrated again. If the traffic had
been increased by 20 or 30 per cent there
would have been endless confusion or
worse. This fact palliates the lailioad
administration's lefusal to sell special
excursion tickets. It does not relieve it
of blame for an unnecessary and silly fib.
There is little or no loom foi addi
tional ferrv boats on the river because
almost all the workable slips are in use
now. The railroads may be excused ,if
they lefuse to build others while a bridge
is almost within sight. Whoever suf
fered loss or inconvenience must piepare
to suffer again under similar ciicum
stances. If business men and commuters, motor
owners and hotel men and the public
generally had been less toleiant of offi
cial inefficiency, if they had tuined a
sharper scrutiny in the past upon the
methods and motives that delayed the
construction of a modem bridge between
Philadelphia and Camden, they would
not now be subject to losses, incon
venience and even danger by an outworn
and weakened link in a most important
line of communication and travel.
New Jersey was twenty years late in
getting seriously started on the Delaware
bridge pioject. Pennsylvania and the
Pennsylvania Legislature were even moie
backward-minded. Now Philadelphia
City Councils are furthering the delay.
In the course of time the bridge will
be built, just as the Parkway was opened
after generations of futile criticism and
discussion. Yet the need of a bridge to
Camden was made apparent when the
first practical automobile made its ap
pearance. In the meantime every com
muter, every traveler and every one who
drives an automobile to or from New
Jersey for one purpose or another con
tributes enormous tolls to political ineffi
ciency. If it were possible to estimate the costs
of the ferry system to the general public
in money, in energy and time wasted it
would be demonstrated beyond a doubt
that enough money has been frittered
away in the last twenty years to build not
one bridge, but two.
When people are ordered to stay at
home on a holiday because the lailroad
system cannot accommodate them, it
might be supposed that there would be a
general desire to inquire into the reasons
for so unusual an edict. General com
plaint should be aimed beyond the rail
road administration.
The public is continuing to pay for its
own negligence. It is paying in in
creased annoyance and inconvenience as
well as in money.
New Jersey and Pennsylvania, Camden
and Philadelphia should be as closely re
lated in any modern system of transpor
tation as they are related in their busi
ness and social affairs. The two states
and the two cities are, in fact, divided
by a barrier and that barrier is the Dela
ware ferry system. The sort of develop
ment that is normal elsewhere has ceased
in parts of Philadelphia and Camden and
in large areas of New Jersey and Penn
sylvania to await the construction of an
adequate connecting link over the Dela
ware river.
The attitude of City Councils here is
regrettable. It has served to nullify
temporarily all of the work accomplished
by forward-minded men in the two states.
The Legislature at Harrisburg and the
Legislature at Trenton finally admitted
the necessity of a bridge between this city
and Camden after the need had been
apparent for twenty years. Councils
ought to find the money at once. By
withholding a relatively small appropria
tion that might easily have been made
before the summer adjournment the pre
liminary work on the Delaware bridge
has been delayed for six months or
longer. Are mass,-meetings or a river
catastrophe necessary to force action?
MARK TWAIN STILL LIVES
ONE cannot read without a shock of
surprise the announcement that 658,
00Q conies, of Albert Bigelow Paine'g life
of Mark Twain have been sold since Its
original publication in 1912. And this is
so in spite of the fact that Mark Twain
is admittedly one of the greatest men of
lcttcis America has produced.
The b.ooks which Mark Twain himself
wrote have been deservedly popular and
aie still selling in large numbers, but
theic seems to have been an insatiable
curiosity about the man himself. The
biography is not a cheap book. It costs
between five and ten dollars. The
American public has paid out more than
two and a half million dollars to learn
tho story of the life of its favorite
author. The figures mean that in about
one family out of every forty through
out the country there has been interest
enough in tho man to lead to the purchase
of the book, nnd that at least 10,000
copies arc on the shelves of the private
libraries in this city.
If the genial philosopher, in whatever
state he may now find himself, is aware
of these facts they must be most gratify
ing to him. They certainly aie gratify
ing to those who are watching the de
velopment of a reading public in America
interested in something besides Polly
nnnaniasing and Haroldbcllvvriting.
A MYTH NOT A LEGEND
"X7HEN a gieat historic legend has been
tiaced back to its origins it has some
times been found that they were trivial
and insignificant. The facts had been
adorned and dramatized by men who
wished to use them for their own pur
poses. Consequently, it is possible that a great
historic legend may be built up about
Wilhelm Hohenzollcrn, whether he is
tiled or whether he never faces a juiv of
his betters.
But it is not probable.
There has been gome talk about a new
Napoleonic tradition growing up around
the deposed monarch, as though there
were any similarity between the Corsican
and the Prussian.
Napoleon was a great soldier, who led
his own armies in the field. He was the
"Little Corpoial" to his men to the last.
Theie was something magnificent about
him, which stiried the imagination and
drew men to him and held them the're bv
bonds of personal loyalty; not men who
would piofit by his power, but men who
found something admirable in the spirit
of the soldier who had added new glory
to the armies of France. Napoleon typi
fied the France which overthrew the
Bourbon kings, cast down privilege and
set up the common man in the seats of
the mighty. This is why there is a Na
poleonic legend and why the name of the
son of the family of Bonaparte is one to
conjuie with.
Wilhelm Hohenzollein is the last of a
line of tyrannical kings. He is the Louis
XVI of the present epoch. But he is
worse than that. He fled like a coward
when his armies were defeated and now
he is permitting his chancellor, his su
preme general and even his younger sons
to plead that they be punished in his
stead on the ground that he was not le
sponsible foi anything that happened.
A more puny and contemptible charac
ter never stiutted across the stage than
he. The world does not make heroes out
of such stuff. And not even the perverted
Geiman mind can distoit the facts to suit
any heroic theory about the man who is
permitting others to take the blame while
he skulks in a foreign land.
Twpntv-one hundred
Pie! inonilicis of the Fiftv-
niuth Infantry, with
sovrntv officers, niO'-t of thorn members of
the old Tirst Delaware Infantrv, on Mondny
and Tuesday left Camp Di for tho "home
pie counter." Not one of them wishes to rc
enliht. The onlj thing about pioneering that
appeals to them is the first j liable.
John D. Rockefeller lit
The Daj's eight j mijs ho has just
Work Done begun to live. It may
be that he has just
heard the whistle blow and realizes that he
has nothing to do till tomorrow. And every
man is entitled to a pleasant evening.
Just when things calm down a bit, up
bobs the Thaw case again.
General Maitland's log seems to prove
that the careful observer must inevitably be
come a poet.
The Canadian border will he a favorite,
vacation haunt this summer for men who like
their "tea."
Many Russians who think they are seek
ing a stable government arc merely looking
for a mare's nest.
We trust that a full report of the Fryatt
funeral services in London appeared in the
Berlin newspapers.
A grateful country extends thanks to
Coatesville for successfully keeping out of
the limelight when publicity threatened.
Glass bottle blowers are holding con
vention in the one plaoc apparently where
they may blow themselves to a bottle.
Willard and Dempsey, if you chance to
remember who they arc, are both men of let
ters. One's'O. K. and the other's K. O.
The mirry-go-round is the name of the
latest "soft" drink. We are willing to bet
a nut sundae that all the spin is in the name.
It is a queer kink in public ethics that
permitH Ohio to stage a prizefight but re
fuses to allow moving-picture exhibitions of
the same event.
"I, AV. AV. Cox," began the St. Louis
radical in Columbia, Va,, and proceeded to
roast America. After he had been severely
beaten, no one questioned his ability to raise
Hail Columbia.
Maybe the President intended the
Franco-American treaty aa a substitute for
Article X in the peace treaty in case said
article received the k, 0, in the United States
Senate.
Declaring that burglar alarms no longer
alarm burglars and are an annoyance to all
would-be sleepe'rs, including night watch
men, the New York district attorney has or
dered the nuisance abated. It ista fair com
promise. Not being able to arrest the bur
glar, the police will arrest the alarm.
60NGRESSMAN MOORE'S
LETTER
How Congressman Vare Secured the
Fourth of July Orator "Tony"
Blddle's Interest In Athletics.
John W. Wescott as Orator
at a Boxing Match
Washington, July 0.
rpHHItE is a suspicion, a very strong sus
picion, that the insistence upon con
tinuing many of the war activities in Wash
ington has some relation to the presidential
campnign of 3020. Careful politicnl man
agers like A. Mitchell I'nlmer, Joseph V.
Tumulty and Vance McCormlck arc linked
up with the gossip that has to do with this
situation. It is not difficult even for the
uninitiated to see that the longer the power
of the, administration is permitted to thrive
upon the machinery which the war forced
upon the country, the better it will be for
Mr. Wilson's followers when the next presi
dential battle comes along. It is by no
means certain that Mr. Wilson's foreign
negotiations have made n hit with the coun
try so far as presidential aspirations nre
concerned, hut it is certainly n fact that
no President has ever had so much money
or so manv men at his disposal ns President
Wilson. No other President was ever given
$100,000,000 and more to spend ns he saw
lit, nor did anv other Chief Executive have
the power to create and employ so manv
bureaus, agencies and commissions to do his
bidding
Congiess is not altogether free from le
sponsibililv for the tremendous poweis ron
ferred upon the Piesident, hut since the
armistice and the moie lerent pence nego
tiations it has been making a heroic effort
to gel back to oHith The administration
malingers have watched this tendencj wllh
some concern, and finding that Congress
meant business, have already "covered in"
bv executive order some of the war agencies
that were marked for slaughtci. A battle
of the administrative nnd legislative wits
to determine the fate of many supposedly
useless government war appendages and
they involve thousands of offices held by
deserving Democrats or designing incum
bents is undoubtedly pending.
SCORH one for fongressmnn Vare The
downtown leader is a member of the
appropriations committee, nnd just now thnt
i" n verv important committee at the Cnpf
tol. The congressman holds high lank on
the committee, so miieh so thnt lie was np
pointed bv Speaker (Jillett. former 1 hair
man of the committee, a conferee with the
Senate on the sundrv civil bill. Here in
the seoiet counsels of the conferees the
Philadelphia member became the light
bower of the chairman of the committee,
the Hon. James W. Good, of iowu. I'nder
thevp favorable auspices enters John II
ItiuIe.v, chairman of tho Councils' Fourth of
Jul iiiiumUtPC. From time immemorial it
has been the prerogative of Mr. Itaizlev to
lead the procession of speakers to the plat
form at Independence Hall on the nation's
great holiday. Mr. Uah-Iey wanted a speak
er of national prominence. The question
was put up to Congressman Vine. The
ongi e-sninn put tho clamps on his fellow
(onfeiee. the chairman of the appropria
tions committee, nnd so Philadelphia se
emed its Liberty Bell orator for the Pouith
of Jul.v.
MATTIIKW C. imCSH gets a big snlaiy
for being presidpnt of the American
Intprnationnl Shipbuilding Corpointion,
which controls Hog Island, but n good ninny
Washingtouians are boginning to believe he
is worth it. The secret seems to bo in the
newfangled trade term "I'fliciencv." Mnt
thpw he calls himself "Matt" and induces
others to do it on shoit acquaintance is a
hustler, or lather a hustling pngiuper with
vpij broad vipws. Given plenty of money
Hrush would probably take n contract for
tunneling the Atlantic, or pontooning it
such is his faith in the power of oiganization
directed bj the "knowing" human animal.
The Hog Island president believes in the
svstematic application of human enetgy.
Ho has nppearcd befoie congressional com
mittees nnd surprised those appointed to
inteirognte him by his breadth of vision.
Up smprisps the boys at the island bv his
ability to get 111 with them on the practical
side of shipbuilding. And as a speech -maker
well! Speakpr Gillett, Karl Red
dling, Samuel Gompers nnd others prettj
well up in the game enn testifj as to his
adaptability in that regard.
WHAT a variety of topics engage the
attention of the historian ! There is
John W. Jordan, librarian of the Histori
cal Society of Pennsjlvanin, for instance
a veritable compendium of literary thought
and information. But who would think of
his digging into the ptosaie topic of water
ways and transportation? And yet Mr.
Jordan has just unearthed the "Procppdings
of the Canal Convention, assembled nt
Terre Haute, May -2, 1845, for the pur
pose of considering the best mode of apply
ing the proceeds of the liberal grant of laud
by the general government toward extend
ing the Wabash and Eric canal to the Ohio
river at Evansville." An equally interest
ing brochure discovered by Mr. Jordan in
cludes a speech in the House of Represen
tatives in 1840 by Representative J. A.
Rockwell, of Connecticut, in support of a
river and harbor bill, which, however, he
criticized as sectionnl. The bill carried
$3,078,450, a very large amount, according
to Mr. Rockwell; but he said it was ex
tremely unfair to the East, since the lakes
were to get $354,000, the Mississippi and
its branches $470,000, Massachusetts and
Maine $04,450 and the Hudson river $73,
000, the Delaware and south of it $100,000,
and Atlantic harbors $20,000. So the East
appears to have been as sluggish in asking
for appropriations in 1840 as it is today.
TONY BIDDLE and Billy Rocap figured
in the big fight at Toledo. What else
was to be expected. Both ,are devotees of
the sport and each has a good amateur
record with the mitts. As usual, Billy was
on hand as a correspondent, but Tony he
was there as a major of the United States
marines, the boys who are as clever on
land as they are on sea and who like to be
regarded as "the first to light." The ap
pearance ot .Major rsiuaie was in a measure
official, as the army and navy encourage"
boxing, and efforts are being made to put
the sport on a high and healthy plane. Evi
dently Billy Rocap was not pleased with
the outcome of the fight. Having backed
Willard as a probable winner he was dis
appointed with the pitiable exhibition made
by that ponderous individual, and naturally
so, for In bis day Rocap was one of the
fairest and pluckiest fighters in' the national
amateur field. And that brings to mind that
wonderful turnout at the Academy of Music
years ago, when the sporting fraternity of
Philadelphia and vicinity tendered BJlly a
testimonial. The proscenium boxes and gal
leries were filled to the limit, the blood
flowed on the stage as freely as it did in
the Deropsey-Willard bout (sportsmen say
there is more spirit in an amateur show,
anyhow) and there were uo big "stakes,"
or "rake-offs" or anything of the kind.
And the orator of the evening! He wag
none other than John W. Wescott, the
Camden lawyer, who afterward nominated
Woodrow Wilson for President of the
United State,
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THE CHAFFING DISH
Our Old Desk
TTTE SEE thnt there hns been a fire at a
second-hand fiirnitmc warehouse on
Arch street. Wo think wp can offer an ex
planation for the bln.se. Our old desk was
there.
Thnt desk was always a hoodoo. Last au
tumn, when we gave up commuting and moved
into town, we had to get rid of some of our
goods in older to squeeze ourselves into nn
apartment. The very first thing we parted
vv ith vv as our old desk. We did not tell genial
Mr. P.. the dealer in second-hand furniture,
thnt the piece was n Jonah, for we were
nfraid it would knock fifty rents or so off
his offer, but now we feel inthcr shame
faced foi not having warned him.
We bought the desk before we were mar
ried, at n department store in New York.
It was almost the last article that store, n
famous one in its dnj, got paid for. Soon
after selling it the libuse failed.
We moved the desk out to n cottage in the
country. We snt down in front of it. Wc
didn't'know it then, but wp are convinced
now there was some evil genius in it. It
must have been built of slippery elm, full of
kupts, cut in the dnik of tho moon while a
brindlp cat was mewing. Tho drawers stuck
once n week nnd find to be pared down with
n lock-knife. We sat nt that desk night
after night, with burning vjsions of literary
immnrtalitj. We wrote poems that no one
would bin . Wp wrote stories thnt gradually
became soiled nnd wrinkled around the folds
of the manuscript. Wc wrote pamphlets
eulogizing hotels nnd tried to palm them oft
on the managers ns advertising booklets. The
hotels accepted the booklets and went out of
business before paying for them. We com
posed sparkling essays for a newspaper in
Toledo sitting nt that desk, and after the
paper had pi inted a bunch of them we wrote
to the editor and nsked him bow about a
check. He replied that he did not under
stand we were writing that stuff for" actual
money. He was quite grieved to have mis
understood us so. He thought we were
merely writing them for the plcnsure of up
lifting the hearts of Toledo.
There was another odd thing nbout that
desk. There was some drowsy sirup in its
veins. Perhaps the wood hadn't been prop
erly seasoned. An way, we couldn't keep
awoke while sitting at it. Night after night,
assiduously, while the jolly old Long Island
mosquitoes hummed in through the open
windows like Liberty motors, wc would begin
to scribe. After an hour or so we would
always fall asleep over the fawny keys of
our nneient typewriter. It may be that tho
trouble lay partly in the typing bus, for we
were bo inexpert that we couldn't pound rap
idly enough to keep ourself awake. We re
member memoiizing the letters on the first
tow of kes in a vuin hope that if wc could
say qwertuiop oft by heart it would help us
to move along faster, but it did no good.
We started a novel, but after six months of
wrestling we decided that as long as we
worked at that desk we would never get it
done. Wc tried writing on the kitchen table,
in front of the stove it was winter by that
tjraP nnd we got the novel done in no time.
When we moved to Marathon, the van con
taining that desk broke down near a novelty
factory in Trenton. Probably that novelty
factory was its home nnd the old flat-top had
nostalgia. In order to gerthe desk into the
Marathon house its top had to be unscrewed
.and the screws were lost. After that, when
ever we were trying to write a poem in th
small hours of the night, when we got aroused
in the heat of composition and shifted round
on our chair, the whole top of the Vlesk would
slide off and the inkwell would cascade on to
the floor.
There yas one drawer in that desk that
n.. Innlr hflplr nn with particular nffpptlon.
We had been asked by a publisher in Chicago
to contribute the section on etiquette for a
Household Encyclopedia that was tp be is
sued. That was about 1014, If we remember
rightly. We knew nothing whatever about
Etiquette. The article was to deal with the
prlgln and history of social usages, coming
JWBt0 theery latUrin table man.
E-E-EV-ER-RR SO HUMBLE
ners, accepting nnd declining invitations,
specimen letters dealing witli every social
emeigpiicy, such ns being invited to go to 5i
clambake, a wedding or the dedication of 11
sanitary dog-pound. Wc hnd an uproarious
tune compiling the essav. It was to contain
at least fifteen thousand words and wc were
to get lift dollars for it. In the chapter on
sppcinipn letters wc let otirsplf go without
restraint. In these bpeclmen letteis wc
amused ouiself hj using the names of all our
fi lends. We buckled to think of their
amazement on finding themselves enshrined
in this Household Encyclopedia, writing de
nim e and stilted little regrets or acceptances
for imaginary functions.
The mauusciipt of this article had to bo
mailed to Chicago on a certain date or the
lift dollars would be foi felt. Late the night
before wp toilpd nt our desk putting the final
touehps on Tho Etiquette of Courtship and
l.tiqupttc for Young Girls nt Boarding
School. Xpvpc having been a young girl ut
boarding school, our ideas weie largely theo
retical, but still we thought they were based
on sound sense nnd a winsome instinct as to
comely demeanor. Wc threw our heait into
the task nnd felt thnt Louisa Alcott herself
could not hnve counseled more becoming de
corum. It was long after midnight when we
finished the Inst reply of n young girl to the
young man who had called her by her first
name three months before wo felt he had any
right to do so. We put these last two sec
tions of the manuscript Into a drawer of the
desk, to give them a final reading the next
morning.
Lato that night there came n damp fog,
one of those penrlv Long' Island fogs. The
desk drawer swelled up and rctired from
active lifp. Containing its procious freight,
Jt was immovable. We stood the desk upside
down, we tugged frantically at it, wo ham
mered nnd chiseled nnd strove, but in vain.
The hour for mailing the copy approached.
At last, bnfflrd, wc had to speed to a mail-
iiox and post the treatise on Etiquette with
out those two chnpters. The publisher, we
knew, would not miss tlrera, though to us
they contained the cream of our whole
philosophy of politeness, containing our
prized aphorisms on Consideration for Others
the Basis of Good Manners.
Wc weie never able to get that drawer
open again. AVhcn we sold the desk to Mr.
P. It was still Rightly stuck. Some months
ago we were passing along Arch street, just
tinder the Reading Railway viaduct, and we
saw a familiar sight on the pavement. It
was our old desk, covered with dust and dis
played for bale, but unmistakable to our
recognitor- eye. Furtively we approached it
nnd gave the well-known bottom drawer a
ank. It was still jammed, and presumably
tho manuscript was still within. A'e thought
for a moment of buing the old thing again,
splitting it open with an ax nnd getting out
our literary offspring. But we didn't. And
now this fire has come along and undoubt
edly the desk perished in the flames. If only
that chapter on Young Qlrls at Boarding
Sc(iool could have been rescued .... AVe
have a daughter of our own now, and It
might have given us some bints on how to
hi lug her up.
Ambrose sends us tho following, which he
received in the mail recently.
Dear. Sir:
You Bay jou want to cele you patented Tor
drink and machen and all ot tha opatented in
for eale cheap and I want to buoy you pat
ented at one for drink aa you nay for mi.
cheape and I want to buoy at one ahd pleaie
wrlKht b at one plaae and how much do you
want for you patented for drink and can you
come to see me at one for I want to buoy Sou
patented at one end vvrlght me at one plaae for
how much you want for you patented for you
tay will aeale cheap and wood like to buoy
some mllke hald for or Just out new for the
atore and we want dealer and agents we want
at one at Wilson at one and plaae wrleht me
at one plaae for I no how much you want for
you patented for you ay will aeale cheap rind
I want to buoy at one and can you come
to tea me at one plase and ptase wrleht me
at one plase for I know how much you want
for you patented.
Very yours truly, II. WILSON.
In case any one Bhotild question the
validity of tho above we beg to state that
Ambrose has sent us the original letter.
There is a deal of pathos in the appeal, par
ticularly if (as seems likely from the text)
',', - r. A. SOCRATES.! ..
Amorose una n private uu tor sale,
OUT OF FIRE
WHAT wondrous love from out this war
has sprung;
Love for the aged, and for babes denied
The boon of hope ; for girls who glorified
The menial tasks, and women brave among
Their bodies to the guns, and those who
died
Dearest of all, who in our hearts abide
Forever holy and forever young I
Great loves are these, indeed, but greater
still
One high devotion must our spirits claim
Love for our country. Pure affections thrill
Our thoughts at merest mention of her
name.
For her this hope, and this our truest will:
A love made perfect in the test of flame.
Mnrgnret Ashman, in tha New York
Herald.
First Transatlantic Air-Mall Stamps
The news dispatch from England that th
mnilpoueh on the Sopwith nirplane in which
Harry G. Hawker and Commander Mackenzli
Grieve attempted their transatlantic flight
was salvaged is of interest to philatelists.
In this pouch it is understood there were 111
letters, each bearing a three-cent Newfound
land stamp, with tho surcharge, "First
Transatlantic Air Post, April, 1010," in
five lines. "April" appears in the overprint
because it had been expected the birdmen
would start during that month. The sinking
of the mailpouch would have lost to collec
tors what may bo destined to become some
of the rarest of stamps. Collectors In Eng
land are on the watch to obtain the canceled
copies of this issue, which, of course, is an
unprecedented one. It Is reported only 200
copies were printed, twenty-three being
spoiled during manufacture and the post
master general of Newfoundland retaining
eixty-six in his possession.
What Do You Know?
4
QUIZ
1. Where is the present sent of Admiral
Kolchak's government?
2. What is the difference in time between
1 New York nnd London?
3. Who was Joseph Grlmaldl?
4. AA'hat is a henchman in political par
lance?
5. What country was formerly called th
"Hermit Nation"?
0. Who said, "The philosophy of one cen
tury is the common sense of the next"?
7. How many United States senators are
there?
8. What is a Gorgio?
0. Of what city was Mozart a native?
10. What is recitative in opera?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. German Enst Africa was regarded as the
most important of Germany's former
colonies.
2. "Papier mache" literally means chewed
paper.
3. Marie Taglionl was a world-famous
dancer. She was born in Sweden, but
was of Italian descent on the paternal
side. Her dates are 1800-1884.
4. Boreas was the classical god of the.
North Wind. f
5. A gazebo is a structure whence a view
may be had; a belvedere, lantern,
turret or balcony.
0. The latitude of the Mason and Dixon
line is 30 degrees "43 minutes. It
separates Maryland from Pennsyl
vania. 7. Arcturus is the brightest star in the1
heavens. This classification is ex
clusive of planets.
8. The Gulf Stream flows at a velocity of Jf
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