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? JERSEY JUSTICE
-TT REMAINS for some gifted student
- of national and sectional psychology
tjo1 explain Jeisey justice and the contrast
It provided yesterday with the spirit be
hind disgraceful and humiliating out-
. rages at Omaha and elsewhere.
The same crime which caused an un-
" believable reversal to savagery in west-
"i enfj and southern mobs was charged
BKainst ine neirro caoiurea near mount
Holjy. There was no talk of burning in
this instance. Jersey justice moved with
vits traditional celerity. The people mani-
.'i.j ; l: 1: 1. t .1. 1
W iestea an nisuncuvu respect ior inu law
j and within a few hours after the fugitne
it was caugni tneir respect was luny jusli-
iled. The trial lasted seventy minutes.
Yrhe moral isn't hard to reach. If the
f law is to be respected by the people it
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ter it
SAVE THE ORCHESTRA!
WROTE the other day "Help the
I x
Orchestra." We should have written
save tne urencstra," tor it is now maac
plainly apparent that unless the million
dollars asked for the endowment of the
-.i-.ii jit: r i .. r ..: 1 it--
iTTiaaeipnia urcnesira is raiscu iim; wuii-
jpuKprchestia must disband.
Sfefsyffa almost inconceivable, fpr the
ofcri(istra,'has become a nart of the citv:
deeply rooted, in fact, that it has be-
', cpme an institution. And yet the figures
plainly show that its probable disband-
ijuicni.' is uy nn means a mere campaign
U-MV...-4... .11. 111C1I ..IIU tVUJiJCII Will,
r nineteen years have paid its bills can
Monger do so. The high cost of every
itngflfas affected the orchestra as it has
,. all'pther things. The people of Philadel-
pnia, as a wnoie, are now asKed to get
back of it. not with a lot of mnnpv to he
, -, --, , .
fc-gent, but with a reasonable amount to
f pe invpstcd.
ISO lAf trWra fo fVlfl n.l,n.fa nml c .. , r
it; arid insure it not only for ourselves,
'but for our children. The money we now
giye to it will be there twenty and thirty
?r years from now; never a penny spent.
; ljt always quietly working, earning the
a.hterest which alone is spent to make the
jiVrtrcbestra nermanent. It i rrallw n
t tjfkacy to one's family and to the city to
c)ve an ive can to ine orcne.tra. J? or
fy naG j. c uiira-.
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THE HOG ISLAND AGREEMENT
kMONG the things expected of the in
dustrial conference beeinnine in
i-h-neton next Mondav is a decision
Jlf)Varinff on the rate of wages to be paid
w'tn 'Hhinvard wnrkprs.
Pf' I'TThe government has taken the ground
Krj.ui., tti-uuugu 1. win 1101 consiaer tne
Rlhatter qi an increase until after the
conference, it has no rooted objection to
jne,-men getting moie money, if they can,
-4vmmi uavau: unii.ra,
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rJli Tbft HArlfiinn. lnVinr Innrlova cat, nnmn
lf,JQtoo late to nrevent a fpmnnrnrv lavnfT
l'of shipyard workers on the Pacific coast,
pf the supposition being that if they had
Clv had the intimation earlier a strike miirht
a." liflvo hppn nvnirlprl
W 'Tr..-i' .L 1- r 1.
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Comnanv in accedim? to the workman's
tv .
i yCemana ior an aroitration ooard of ten,
five representing the employers and five
,the employes, has averted the strike
Scheduled at Hog Island. With that de-
j cision there will be general satisfaction.
WA
A KING WHO IS
'. TS liNti AL,B-.HT of Belgium is a better
' j- democrat and altogether a more ad-
able representative of free govern-
4nt than the radical-minded or pub-
ty-hungry municipal officials in two
iierican cities who fel moved to with
t -from him the ordinarv cnurtpsips
f distinguished guests of the nation.
L!Jjh people of the United States will
yelcome the Belgian king as a man who
jaye the world a magnificent example
I ,lf 'courage, patriotism and patience in a
I'tfaie when such examples weie needed
L-Vvwywhere. Albert was a 'man and a
jfldter first-and a king afterward. The
, mki of grace and understanding re-
fSfid in Milwaukee and Chicago will
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S THE ITALIAN VOLCANO
THK'sympathy of the Italian army
3 ViWa D'Annunzia at Fiuma it is
pfttarftivwtain that the next Italian elec
tfaOki tTnized to provide a referendum
f:a ;' otteetion aireauy ueciaea dv tne
liiftnH Conference, will show Italy ranged
triftiir Uie adventurous soldier-poet.
'ntefcpHtplicatton thus created could not
Imiftstsm infinitely grave.from the view-
intof latter-day diplomacy.
Th merits of the, case are now aside.
a onpqrtant thing s that the Pans
ifertCe could not withstand the as-
iyjt' on Ht, prestige which would be rep-
ted by the open disregard of one of
Its major verdicts by an associated
power. Italian pride was involved at
Fiumo since the beginning. It has been
far more deeply involved by D'Annun
zio. A poet has created a tangle that
diplomatists seem unable to solve, though
the fate of the league of nations itself
may depend upon the proper settlement
of the Fiumc affair.
EITHER BOOBIES OR SOREHEADS
COMPOSE THE CHARTER PARTY'
Last Agonies of the Vares Are Wearliome
to Decent Citizens Guaranteed Good
Government by the Verdict of
the Primaries
'pHE formation of the new 'Charter
party in this citj s fatuous and futile.
In the past membership in the politi
cal awkward squad has often consisted
largely of well-meaning, but inexpert, re
formers with a cqionic inability to ace
existing facts. But the motives behind
mishandled independent movements weie
beyond suspicion. Nobody, not even the
most ardent champions of paity "regu
larity," ever accused the foes of the va
rious powerful political organizations,
which too long and far to arrogantly
controlled the city, of being poor sports.
There was a romantic courage in their
endeavors, a lofty spirit of unselfish sin
cerity. Many an honest believer in the
best Republican principles called for a
straight party ballot at the polls and
then half-regietfully filled in' the ticket.
Ho would have born easier in mind could
he hae believed that the candidates
whom he indorsed weie equal in merit to
those opponents who were almost auto
matically destined for defeat.
Such apologetic sentiments can be dis
missed this year.
The most wholesome revolution, which
can have permanence in Philadelphia was
lecorded by the vcidict of the recent pri
mary election. Unsavory elements which
besmirched the name of the Republican
party heie weie then repudiated by a
majority of the voters. "Refotm within
the party" was then revealed, not as a
mete stale and empty phrase, but as a
solid and invigorating reality.
Fortunately, too, the purification was
accomplished not under the shadow of
defeat, but in the light of ceitain vic
tory. What was tantamount in effect to
the election of J. Hampton Moore as
Major of Philadelphia took place on
September 10.
It was, of couise, not to be expected
that the bicak-up of the Vare machine
would be hailed with .'elight by politi
cians who suddenly experienced a relaxa
tion of their stianglehold upon the city.
To be "sore" wIipii a decisive antago
nistic blow has been delivered is human
enough. But to exhibit this tesentment
with clumsy chicanery and shallow pre
tense is not only to couit fuither disaster,
but to srip from "piofessional" politics
the attribute which even its righteous
foes have leluctantly admired in it the
practical appreciation of incontestable
realities.
The MacLaughlin candidacy for Mayor
can mean only two things. It may typify
ludicrous peisonal vanity. In that case
it is worth no more consideration than
the aspirations of John Paiker 01 Pierson
M. StackhouSe. It may, on the other
hand, denote the irritation of the dis
credited Vaie organization and a fi antic
desheHo "get eyen.''
Figaio laughed in order that lie might
not be compelled to ween. Promptly
drying up any teais, therefore, it i-, ex
ceedingly easy to behold Joseph S. Mac
Laughlin, ostensible leader of the Char
ter party, filling the post of director of
supplies under the, administiation of
Thomas B. Smith.
Mr. Smith was the Vare machine's
successful candidate for Mayor four
years ago, and everybody has since been
made well aware just how much the
Vares did for the sensible new funda
mental code of municipal government.
Upon its behalf they labored ju.t about
as earnestly as did Germany to have the
peace tteaty diawn up in its piesent
form.
So far as independent and icfoim sen
timent in Philadelphia is concetned, Mr.
MacLaughlin actually represents none of
it. It was the Republican electorate's
inteiest in good government, its convic
tion that J. Hampton Moore stood for
civic development along honest and
stimulating lines, that made him the vic
tor in the Reoublican primaries.
MacLaughlin "reform" is either an ab
surd superfluity 01 else it is a mask for
disgt untied Frog Hollowism. And i this
disguise is worn, it is quite the thinnest
ever assumed in municipal politics. Not
much polished professionalism about
this!
If veteran ward leaders, assiduous
door-pullers, division deliverers and the
like do not blush with mortification when
the Charter party proclaims the names
of James M. Hazlctt as candidate for
recorder of deeds and William R, Knight
as coroner, then experience is, after all,
a wretched teacher.
Hazlett and Knight as Vare henchmen
defeated the Moore aspirants for these
respective offices in the primaries. The
game of running on two party tickets at
once may seem alluring, but from the
standpoint of "regularity" it has its
drawbacks. An iriquisitive public can
not be restrained from questioning the
motive. It is natural to recall the fact
that two years ago, in the Town Meeting
campaign, the Vares and the city com
mittee insisted that all Republican can
didates, including District Attorney
Rotan, decline to permit their names to
be printed on any other ballot than that
of the Republican party. Doesn't that
rple still stand?
The situation of Messrs. Hazlett and
Knight is equivocal, to say the least. So
is that of. thei floundering Vare machine,
prolonging the anguish of its defeat by
preposterous petitions and the useless
recounting of, ballots which serve chiefly
to increase the lead of Mr. Moore.
The public is traditionally patient.
The best factors in it are now comfort
able, in the knowledge that Philadelphia
is at last to have & good Mayor. The
agonized and dilatory proceedings of
John R. K. Scott' on behalf of the Vnro
outfit fail to disturb the sense, of security
which the public now enjoys.
But even though the safety of the city
is not imperiled by the court comedy,
good taste and" decent manners nre
offended. Only boobies refuse to admit
when they arc properly spanked.
There isn't the least doubt in the
minds of citizens of integrity and sanity
that J. Hampton Moore triumphed at the
September primaries and it is inevitable
that ho will be MayQr of Philadelphia.
The picayune dilatory tactics before
Judges Audenricd and Ferguson and the
MacLaughlin-Hazlctt-Knight maneuver
ing stand upon a common ground of con
temptible futility.
The city has turned over a new page in
its history and hopes to write some fine
tilings there. Having successfully sup
ported reform of the most substantial
character, it is relying upon Mr. Moore
to wield the pen with vigor, probity and
authority.
Save for the insult to its intelligence,
the community could afford to smile in
dulgently nt the MacLaughlin tomfoolery.
TALKING IN CIRCLES
AN UNFORTUNATE air of animosity
that has shrouded the issues involved
in the steel strike was not dissipated by
Judge Gary's testimony before the Sen
ate committee or the verbal sniping of
the temperamental Mr. Foster. Each
side in the debate seems more eager to
make out a case than to find and ac
knowledge the whole truth.
It is clear that some of the accounts of
oppression and violence sent out by the
strikers' representatives were highly
colored. It is equally clear that public
meetings were prevented by civil authori
ties subservient to the steel interests, and
it is a matter of lecord that one district
attorney in the Pittsburgh distiict was
forced recently to appeal against the
abuse of power by deputy sheriffs who,
according to Judge Gary's admission
yesterday, are on the payrolls of steel
companies.
The one outstanding fact at the hear
ing was Judge Garv's frank refusal to
admit the right of workers in h-, plant
to belong to tiade unions. Theie seems
to be a conviction in the dominating
minds of the Steel Corporation that the
privilege would be abused in America as
it is now being abused in England The
doctrine enunciated by some of the strike
leaders seems to indicate that theie is
good ground for this belief.
But why is the privilege of collective
bargaining abused? What is the origin
of the hardening dislike of labor for capi
tal and capital for labor apparent in the
Pittsburgh .regions and in the British
railway strike? If it is ever possible to
get to the root of the matter it probably
will be shown that the abuse of privilege
by any group that happens to be in the
position of advantage is at the begin
ning of all labor troubles.
A labor dictatoiship is unthinkable in
any country that values its life and its
safety. Yet that is what Foster has been
dreaming about.
If the coming industrial conference can
find a way to grant associated groups of
workers and capitalists the privilege of
efficient organization and at the same
time provide a method b& which they
may be conti oiled in the interest of the
genet al public the country will be a step
nearer to a rational industrial policy that
does not seem to figure inUhe calcula
tions of Judge Gary and Mr. Foster.
T li p nnti hoarding
11 I'seil to He Cheap! lull jut inti oducorl
in tIip Senate at At
toriipy (!enernl I'nliner's behest would mnke
it possible fnij the go eminent to fono nst
nunntities of stored fpod on the market to
bring down prii es. An immediate lcninly
for the high cost of living thus lies eiy
definitely with Congress. Ah the inevitable
debate proceeds, the ountry can speculate
and groan about thp high cost of talking
"T he 11 1 il n 1 d e r
Time to Protest i hangeth, giving phue
to the new." A fanner
ot (Jwjuedil has publicly protested againt
the dropping of ndwitising liteiatuie fiom
nirplanes because Mime of it has lodged in
his farm machinery and "jammed it up "
It is well that the protest should he made
at this time. If the habit should gn un
checked the aviators might next be dropping
samples. '
Times have plunged
Progress Morris L. C.mke told
tl(e federal raihvavs
commission yes.teiday that the primarv neul
for efficient street-car operation is effluent
management, lu the old dajs the primary
need fot efficient street-car operation was
underground wires between magnates and
theiruling politicians.
The liquor men are
Uncertainty almost as uiuertain
of their ,fate as the
rest of the world that is waiting final deci
sions on the league of nations.
Striker Foster nu
Ode to Sj ndlcallsin and lost her in a red,
red reign. He stepped
in a puddle up to the middle ami never went
there again.
"He who writes and
runs away may live to
vvrjtp another day."
Mayoralty Motto
Oil-tank fires are now readily extin
guished by applying a blanket of bubbles
containing carbonic acid. There ought to
be a market for the blanket jn Mexico and
the IlalkaflH.
For every way of spending inonej there
is one way to save it.' That man is success
ful who masters the paradox and docs both.
Every Balkan boundary line is an ar
gument for the speedy ratification of the
peace treaty.
Thp price of lard ban dropped eight
cents. This U great news for the doughnut
jnduntry.
Airplanes and living cost began tp tak
the air about the same time.
England's railroad strike may take her
mind off Ireland for a while.
Philadelphia's interest lu the big terics
is purely academic.
THE GOWNSMAN
j
Should a Girl lie Sent to Colleger
AfilklJAT deal of water 1ms run under
London Bridge since that fine old bear,
Doctor Johnson, likened a woman's acqui
sition of (.reek, to that other pretty curi
osity, a do ('nneiig in a doublet. The
daluty llttlo lad, who screamed Tit a mouse
and fainted sentimentally oil occasion, has
gone her fragile way with crluollnes nml
her escort' early Victorian whiskers, and
left us with different, If not fewer, nffecta
tioii'j. We no longer call n school for '!
a "jouiig ladles' seminar." except, per
haps, In the South, where some of the
notions of the last generation htlll delight
fully linger. The ridicule long heaped on
that outrageous Innovation, Vnssar College,
is recalled only by Its earlier graduates, now
elderly women, many of them of distinc
tion, and the late Dr. Mary Walker might
walk the streets in the ugly ninscHiliiiP cos
tume which she affected, unregarded, if not
admired.
XXTHKS the question which heads this
' column was first asked, the resionsc
was in chorus nn enftriintlc "no." Anlrwe
still- hear old objections occasionally from
old-fashioned bachelors seldom from men
of family, for they hnve been taught better.
How, for pxnmple, education, carried too
far, unsexes woman, unfits her for the
duties of home and the rearing of children :
bow it levels up her vanity and levels down
man's respect for her. However, the ex
periment was tried and the woman's .col
lege enme Into being ns a separate and new
institution, as the appendix or addendum
to n college nlrendy founded for men, yind
lastly, frankly and logically, in the exten
sion to women, as tnSneii, of "all the rights
and privileges which appertnin" to scliol
aislilp'nnd the hlghvvn.vs of learning.
A XD, strange to say. nothing very due has
happened. Women, even college women,
arc still i harming and vvomanl.v, and
men marry the fools of the other sex no
more frequently than beforp learning scared
them. The man who hales to have his
sisters know so much more than he does
hus bad to brush tip n bit, and, putting his
condescension in his pockets, speaks with
his womankind as equal (o equal; and tills
has been good for them ns well as for him.
And yet custom in the incc is strong. As
lie at in his compartment of a sleeper, not
et innilo up. the other night, the Gowns
man iiiinvoidabl.v ovei heard n masculine
monologue, feipinlnelv aicompanled b two
intelligent nml cultljyited women. The mule
voice (outiniied on and on lu in endless
runnel of talk, small talk, dull talk, obvious,
commonplace talk And his interlocutors
interpolated tiniidlj with polite "nhs" and
"indeeds" and "lenlljs." occasionally at
tempting a lead, an objection, only to create
a moinentar.v edilv. a swirl, and the cur
rent Honed on in n disiourse us full of
"IV as is Mississippi. Why this feminine
deference to man'' Another generation of
equal education fur man and woman may
remedy this.
MQUini'l.D a gill be sent to college?" is
O less the question than "why should
she not go?" For the burden pf proof is
now upon the objectors nnd, with the
enfranchisement of her sex in business life,
in the piofcssinns and at the polls, there is
no logic in fuither denial to woman of any
educational oppoitunlty which is her
hiother's.
TDKXTITY, however, is not always equal-J-
ity. Wo ni-p adapting education more
nnd more to individual needs nnd recogniz
ing that training for one is not necessarily
the training 'for all. The elective sstem,
now so much discredited, was a groping
after this adaptation ; but it failed largely)
because it left the selection of subject to
the ihoicp of the immature mind of the
student, instead of seeking that guidance In
this matter which a more thorough and
etpeit undei standing of the working of
mind, character and disposition may be
able yet to give r. The Gownsman does
not know enough technical!) about psy
chology even to malign H nnd precious
little is needed for Mint ungracious purpose.
But if individual characteristics and apti
tudes should be taken into consideration in
the choice of a career In life and who
can question it? equally important is it
that such considerations ait in the choice
of the subjects to be studied in school and
college. And if all this is tine of individual
men ami women, may not sex, after all,
somewhat determine the natuip of the di
verse college courses which shall be equal
for man and woman, but not necessarilv
identical?
THE difference between the womani-li
mnu nnd the mannish woman is not that
of a button; both nre out of the norm and
therefore abhorrent. It is 'the qualities,
common to mankind, that we want culti
vated in both sexes and these nre, after all,
enormously in excess in point of number
and importance to those which distinguish
them and stand in contrast. There is a
question as to which is best, u college
wholly for girls (such as Vnssar or Welles
ley), a girl's nnnex to u man's uuiversitj
(HadeltfTe or Barnard, with rripR-t to Har
vard or Columbia), or nn InstiditlSn frankl.v
open to men and women on equal terms.
And decision is bj no means simple. Per
haps a college whollj for girls tends o too
much accentuate the ery cliffij-ence 'which
it is intended to obliteinte. Inevitably the
institution which is fully co-educational
intersperses with those wholesome bojish or
girlish activities of college life which we
believe so valuable to joung people a cer
tain amount of ' that social intercouise
which is called "society" and which for the
young had better come later than earlier.
But bojs nnd girls nre born into one
family, and in most of the country they
are schooled together. N'eed we separate
them in college? And will not the adapta
tion of subject, alluded to above, partly,
at least, solve the problem?
IF TOU have a daughter, send hpr to col
lege. If she must earn her living, edu
cate her In her vocation ; if she need not
earn her living, educate her as fully nnd
completely as her brother for that thing
which men anif women most waste, her
leisure.
That it is cheaper to move than pay
rent is an old sajing, the rrtitli of vv.hirli
is debatable theBe Any. Transfer men,
in New York nt least,' appear to know -a
few profiteering tricks that the landlord
has forgotten. '
The London Times complains that
Americans are "copping off" all England's
famous paintings, including a number of
Whistlers. Why worry? Some of these
days some of our boys will go over and paint
some more for her.
A former resident of the Eastern peni
tentiary hos been arrested iu Richmond,
Va.,with bis fifth wife'. Marriage is a
sacrament with most people. With this
man it has degenerated Into a habit.
Japanese business men have offered to
build up Bolivia. They have already shown
similar enterprise In Shantung.
Word comes from Steelton that foreign
ers are buying up grapes by the ton for
wine-making. .John- Barlecorn has many
aUascjaand more lives then a cat- '
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THE CHAFFING DISH
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OUR OWN CONDENSED CLASSICS
"I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles"
fTlIlE verses of this magnificent song, ten-
der'and appealing as they arc, may be
omitted iu any rigorous -.condensation, ns
their message is adequately summed up mid
crystallized in the poignant chorus, which
seems to be intended by the author to sjm-'
bolize the dark nnd drenching futility of
human existence. What could be more pn
thetic, after all, than the collapse of nn
iridescent bubble, spun from the soapsuds
of dreams and colored by the rosy blush of
hope? Our learned condensing specialist
also wishes to point out that this poem is
undoubtedly intended ns an allegory sug
gesting the downfall of Bolshevism. Bub
bles, be sa.s, imply soap ; soap means a
solri-box in the bnckgiound; and n-bubble
is ii spherical filmy envelope of liquid in
closing gas or heated air, which, when un
duly distended, fractures nnd is irretriev
ably dispersed. Condensation, he adds, is
necessarily fatul to nuy bubble: If the air
within the envelope .condenses, the weight
of the liquid breaks the supporting film and
the end of that bubble is immediate. Barely
have the grandeur and serenity ot this ditty
been surpassed in contemporary folk-song,
which may be met upon almost every human
lip.
THE first line of the chorus juts boldly
into the theme. The anonymous vocal
ist asserts with refreshing candor that his
entire career is spent in blowing "bubbles.
This statement is made without any reserve.
! the use of the woid "forever'Mie Imme
diately shuts out all other occupations,
whether active or sedentary from his atten
tion This concentration, so rare in modern
life, is enough to rivet the attention from
the stait. This preliminary note of deti
nue and possibly cynical decisiveness is rc
cuired to again later, becoming the unifying
motif of the whole composition.
THE rapid development of the author's
theme does not permit ns to remain in
doubt as to the cbaracter-of these bubbles.
The blower hastily explains mat tne
blowees (the bubbles) are-of an enchanting
beauty They are (as he describes them
with a quaint inversion) "Pretty bubbles
bright aud fair." There is a note of appeal
in this apparent artlessness that emphasizes
the pastoral and lyric tone of the ballad.
Kvviftl.v the author carries us to a realm of
powerful imagination. These bubbles, after
he has blown them, ascend to an elevated
region of blithe fantasy, "Up in the, sky,
the fly so high," he says. The heart of
the reader (or hearer) follows after them,
exhilaiated. This is one of the most stir
ring portions of the narrative, nnd leads one
on unsuspectingly to the first climax.
The high. flying bubbles do not maintain
their altitude. Suddenly, .with almost crush
ing power, a note, of unrelieved sadness Is
introduced into the plot. The unfortunate
bubbles fade and die. That, of itself, would
be a sufficient tragedy to engross the sympa
thy of the public. But the downfall of
human ambition is made complete by the
admirablv terse and bitter parallel drawn
by the author. "Like my dreams." he says,
"they fade and die." Not only are the
bubbles shattered, but his own dreams and
sweet illusions are withered arid defunct.
The melodj . rising to a mourning potc pt
piercing grief, reaches Its tonic summit of
despair.
WITH superb art and brusque economy of
means the, author brings us back to the
refrain, He realizes that human endurance
cannot long support this peakload of Bor
row. He drops back to the familiar and
haunting theme, and asserts again that he
is forever blowing bubbles, This atement
is now vividly enhanced by our knowledge of
thp sad fate in store for these bubbles. The
mood of resignation, so .valuable, from the
philosophic standpoint Is thus induced. Iu
spite of the fact that these bubbles nre
innmAl in r1af mi .! l.i tlfrlMnilPR it In
I Hate them, la thlg cjaiclwij, or Js,it praise-
J5rl. praise
WME RUN OR FOUL?
v . . - jam
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worthy perseverance nnd stubbdru courage?
The sequel will tell.
There follows n regrettable lacuna in the
tex"t. The present condcrtser, not having
had access to the authoritative edition, only
knows it in the popular (but presumably
spurious) version, which runs thus:
ltum1y-1um-ti-tumtiimrtuMtuin. More forr
tunatc Investigators, for whom the complete
text has been available, nssert that this line
carries the story to Its highest pitch of re
strained and melodious grief.. It is prob
able, however, that many will have to con
tent themselves with the conjectural line
given ubove. in its very lack of certainty
this version seems to add n pregnant sym
bohzation of human mutability.
rpiIERE can be no doubt whatever as" to
'- the author's meaning in the closing lines.
Willfully and with brute power he re-echoes
the dismal motif ot this drnmn of human
frtistiation. He continues to blow bubbles.
The bubbles are, ns before, beautiful. But
their beauty (we now see) is n tragic one.
It is a beauty born only to vanish. Thus
the story comes full circle : the refrain
which seemed nt first merely a dainty pas
sage of fancy has become an unanswerable
indictment of human life. Life, one might
say, is hit below the belt, and has nothing -to
say for itself in rebuttal. The last line
dies away, ostensibly with a jaunty light
ness, but in reality a savage mockery. One
turns away, to suffer in siience.
Still Hopeful
BAHICEEPEIt, middle-aged, thoroughly
experienced, wishes steady position In first
class place. Xew Yorjv World.
We note that Mr, Cattell has discovered
Iiish blood iu his veins. Looking the matter
up in such reference works ns we have nt
hand, we are convinced that we should have
known that before, lu 1005. Mr. Cattell
published n book called "'Philadelphia From
the Green Town to the Great City."
The Hard Working Race
WHY NEGLECT A DAY'S BUSIXESS?
Marriage Licenses Obtained Privately
Advt. in n local paper.
Mr. De Valera used to be a mathematics
teacher, we hear. He must find his popu
larity strange. Math teachers nre not ac
customed to adulation.
We hear a good deal said about the
"fruits of the war." aiiey seem to be
mostly lemons and sour grapes.
We deplore the habit, now growing, of
christening the good!d trades by new-fangled
and high-sounding names. We notice a
large real estate agent in Xew York now
calls himself a "property management enirl-
neer." The time may jet come when nJ
loaler will call nimseii an indolence broker;
a colyumist, a wholesale intellect demobil
izes and the elevator boy will claim to be
un alternator of barometric pressure.
AValking up Chestnut street nbotit the
time Mr. Dc Valera traversed that highway
we observed the following:
7'nree green umbrellas,
A green scaffolding al the corver of Eighth
tircet. ' ,'
John Joseph Conly, Ae Liberty Hond
poet, haranguing a gathering of business
college flappers 'more thaw enough to be
tailed a "group," but pot quite enough to
make a "levv" arwird iojM .4merfc jtnd
I fish flags and a brass trumpet.
A number of unnecessary hawsers along
the curb.
'But what was the police patrol wagon
ftolng, drawn up In Ranstead street?
, Doesn't Broad Street Station ever get
jealous of North Philadelphia?
Association of Ideas
HMia Acin.,latf1 Press corrpsivonflpnl iln
into Flume concealed in a load of coal, ills
nama waa probably Bill
utuuq woa juuuauij ..., uuv--Je,
BUgilATES,
No More!
AX AUTUMX wind came swingin
Across the tremblin' tree,
The song that it was singin'
Sounded pretty good to me
X'o more superheated skies!
Xo more skcetcrs! Xo more flies!
They talk about old winter,
An' the stormy winds that blow.
I'.m longin' to begin ter
Carry wood an' shovel snow
Xo more hornet! No more snake!
Xo more ague cure to take!
The fiejd has turned to stubble,
The preserves arc on the shelf.
If your heart.is set on trouble
You must make it 'for yourself
No more haminock in the shade !
Whistle blows, "All promenade !"-
Washington Star.
The rapture and safe jailing of the Xew
Jersey criminal hunted for thirty-six hours
by a posse is a triumph of justice and a
credit to citizen sanity.
It takes more than a government con
cession. to stop n Pacific shipyard strike when
the men have decided to take a brief vaca
tion. Spite ot prohibition and the high cost
of living, the Allentown Fair this year made
more money than ever before.- Prosperity
will not be denied. '
An earnest subscriber wishes ,to know
what relation hcre is between Muuna Loa
and Mono Lisa. We know of none save
that each has an open countenance.
When it comes 'to spouting Jiot stuff,
'Manna Loa has all orators backed off the
map. "
What Do You Know?
QUIZ
1. AVhat is the hoist of a flag?
2. When' was the government of the United
States free from debt?
3. What is the fuselage of an-alrplatie?
4. How.dld is Albert, king of the Belgians?
5. What celebrated 'volcano in American
territory, Is now in eruption?
0, What American national song originated
in a 'composition called "The Presi
dents. March"?
7. How do the English pronounce the sur
name Marjoribanks? , .
8. Who was Pliny?
0. What is the common origin of the words
czar and kaiser?
10. What Is specific gravity?
Answers to Yesterday' Quiz V
1. The seat of the Belgian government dur
ing the greater partrofj'tbe war was
Havre, France. .i"-
2. Joseph Tumulty is President) Wilsdn's
secretary. -
3. Jenny Lind wrs called ''The Swedish
Xlghtingale." ,'
4,'The order of the -Legion of Honor' was
founded by Napoleon Bonaparte In
'180','.
5. Senator Smoot is from Utah.
0. Et Dorado was an imaginary country,
localized on the upper, Amazon, South
America. It was supposed, to be
enormously rich in precious stones' and
gold, some ot which OrfllajUa, the
lieutenant of Plzarro, pretended to
have seen in Manpa, the capital,
7. A palankeen .Is a covered Utter for one,
In India and the East carried usdally
by four or six men.
8. Dean Swift was the author of the ex
pression, "Tell the truth and sham
the devil." '
0. 'Nebraska is the "Bhtckwater state,"
10, A tandsttckor is a Swedish wooden lucis
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