EVENING PUBLIC1 LEDCiER PIIILADELPIITA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1910 10 f U- S-v It i r Euening public Ifeftger PUBLIC LEDGER COMPYNY r-vnw It. K. crnTls, I'lsnuiirNT Chart i M I.udlmMon Vic" pp phlcni Tutm c M run,, vtnrv ond Trenicurir' Philip f c',.ninn, John II WUhutns, John J Spuryron. Ill citeM """ UUITOniAI, HUAIIti C-yjhs It. K Otini, Chlrnmn DAVID 11 SMttXV l..!llor J'lWO VvUTIN'.. .Clonem! ltunlnriiii VianK' r l'ublHh i! dn'lv nt I'isria t.mWEn UulKllnir. Ind n ndetuf Square. I'hlliulelphift. ihmii cm i'rm-l'num tliill'lliie vohk 2(0 Mrtrcpallttn Tower ticr.!iir Td roM Hulldlni? IT, l,mi. Inns rullrrtnn HulldlnB Cjiilalo 1302 Tribune llulMIng Kr.l I.I'BRAVS WASIrTi llt'Bl"! I. Car. I'm ir: Ivnnla Ave. n J 1 llh St. TCnw v 4k fii mui- T.ie f i iiuUfUiu? Lomi, n 1 in i London Timet si'nsciiiPTioN tkivms The immi Piiu.ic l.rjwi,. In nerved to ui eorilmri m I'hllndrliihU and surrounding :on nt tho r ' of twelve (13) cents per wetk. payable to 'h i irl r. I v n I to point n"t-tde of PhllanVlphlu H th: T It .1 stnt.'B. Canada, or United StrcUii for s no xtiito frus nttv (Vi) rents per mcmih Six (? i' '"'1 its re- vpnr ptviMo lit ndvnncn. To nil turMirn coimtrlut oivi (Ml doll'ir ti'i mei'li . .'. .. . I Not ' r nnprnjer winntf piinrc.is hiuuk'h must irlu uld n well n hi v :i lresi, HI LI . vnno l' M T KFTOE, MAtV aoo" tT Idrf- s otf ooinmnnlcnfloin ' fxiilni I'iIiIc ' i, linl(i mimic ,"?,ikiV(, 'ni 'id '"I . Member of the Associated Prcsa 7' SQCTATEn PRESS in rrccci- si u i pUI'i. tn the use for repuhUrii'tnn o' nit , i , rllspatelies credited In it or net oth (i is- tintltctl In thin paper, anti nt!!n tin-1 i I , ii , pnhHahal thcirin. , Ml ii, li'i of rcpuhlicatlmi tf upetia! (Hi- jia'i Ii h 1 1 rem are alio ineirril. I Ii ladilnhia, WIUnv, Notrmbrr 14. Ill" THE WAY OF THE SENATE rpiIK failure to limit debate on the -- pi n-f tieaty by the cloture rule is not not .tnly alarming. To have done ori-K i i .r would have been to break sena tor i!tl iMi cedent with respect to impor ta it Kv.-lation. Acts of vital conse quent aie almost invariably passed at the i-K i nth hour and after every iflrm her ol the upper house is thoroughly wen ',iil with futile oratory and prepos terou delays. Somehow the job gets done. One may not u'nute the procedure, but to bo rranii k about it is to squander the emo tion. The time eventually arrives when even !i Follette's voice is husky. Pei on- still unacquainted with the habit- mi' Congress may be fretful. The few philc sopheis will remain calm. They have mencan tradition to sustuin them. It i i i lent in everv .-tape toward the h rvtalile iias-aj'e of the treaty. THIS SIDE THE RIO GRANDE tirnniiKK j 1 le Ma; jewelry s.toret. in the C'inco layo, Mexico tity, sncKea. Guadalajara fur shop looted. Bandits cavrj eff 'afe from Chihuahua restau rant, liesperndoes terrorize Mexican town-. Robberies insolently Committed in davtime and in crowded metropolitan shopping districts," If the wires from Carranza's country whirred with cuch information there would be no doubt that life and property in the republic to the bouth of us were Imperfectly protected. Is there any less question about exist ing conditions in the ity of Philadel phia1 The hold-up yesterday in a jew elry store on Thirteenth street just bo low Che-tnut is the tenth ol a series of similar bold outrages sincp September 15 L RjrmXhe obligation of the police to prevent W such infamies is indeed extremely iress- inff Security should begin at home. A THEME FOR D'ANNUNZIO T)OETS in politics aie seldom on good -1- teim- with the Muses. Milton in Cromwell's cabinet was too busy to wiite another "Comus" and Gabriele d'Annun zio, lord of Fiume, stables his Pegasus and travels grandly in his military motoreai. This is regrettable on several counts, and especially because at the present moment there is a superb theme to be tung. The bionze horses surmount again tho main poital of St. Mark's. Rome saw them fh-t in tho first century of tljo Christian era, when Nero, it is believed, had them fashioned to adorn a triumphal arch Some 300 years latei Constantine, mindful of beautifying his new Rome on the Bospoius, transpoited them to Con stantinople. When gum old Doge Dandolo captuied the citv in 1204 the quadriga was natu yall among the most ehorishod prizes. Venice received them with joy and, sym bolizing her giandeur, they graced her catheihal for another cycle. Napoleon eventually extinguished the once proud republic with a gesture. Once more the horses weie spoils of war and Paris guarded them until the French empire was overthrown. The Congress of Vienna restored them to St. Mark's and there they remained until the dark days of 1917, when the Hun reached the Piave. Rome, whence they spiang, had her own again until the penl was passed. Longer than any where else, however, they dwelt in Venice where they recalled the days when he did "hold the gorgeous East in fee." It is lifting that they should once more dignify the gleaming piazza, miracu lously pi oof against the Austrian air men's bombs. It is fitting that D'An nunzio, who glorified Venice in "La Nave," should have something to say nbout the restoration of her imperish able trophies. It is art's loss if he chooses to smite the Paris conference instead of his once resounding lyre. THE ETERNAL GRANDMOTHER TT HAS finally sunk into our conscious- ness modern historians have seen to that that Washington did not always hold the constitution of tho United States in one hand and a sword in the other. We know also that he swore roundly at Charles Lee at Monmouth, that he was a wretched speller and, welljust human. Kings and queens seemod Icsb adapted to "realistic" treatment. Huck, Tom and Miss Watson's Jim decided that they wore crowns and "just hopped around." Scire? of them did inore, and that, as-a yule, made matters worse. Furthermore, pomposity always did make Americans tired. But most of us do like grandmothers, and when the queen dowager of Great 4 Britain writes Mr. Wilson that she is glad he could "spare a moment to see $ uJ7lirc3otf3 grandson," a mood aauch more of the old homestead than of Buck ingham palace is invoked. The change is refreshing ami yet fear fully subversive of our ancient antipa thies.. It is rer.lly, barling the "Reds," u cheery woild after all. Tho nicest gill in Providence is to be endowed, the coal miners won't fight the government, Jer sey trolley fares are tumbling and queens openly adore their grandsons. It is best, however, not to thadow the scene by interviewing his highness of Wnlos. It's fine to bo a favorite, but is It cricket publicly to proclaim a chap as "orecious"? Ginndmothers have no slmmc in such affairs. ThalV why they are so much more popular than mere queens. PLENTY OF WORK IS AHEAD ( FOR THE AMERICAN LEGION Gas Must Be Farad in America and the Time Hao Come to Mop Up ths Political Bodies Y'0U ft'"111 for ft' Now f?ua,'d ltt" So runs the 'command on posters issued to rail men into the American Legion. The reference is, of course, to the moral and political entity thnt Is gov ernment in the United States. It is an ane-ting summons. In these days the goernment that we know stands splendid and solltaiy above the clamor of a world in the pioce.-ies of change. There is nothing el.-e like it. Nothing eUv in human experience was ever planned with more pat-ionntc earn estness o1' a wiser concern for general welfare. There is no friendly and hu manizing policy of law or "tnics. no per fection of human relationships, no great experiment for a better civilization that is not possible with the political sy-tem that wo have inh"iited. It is a magnifi cent instrument that needs only wisdom and honor in its direction to be in har mony with the overpowering desines of fair and enlightened minds. Dntv and clumsv hands sometimes get ho'id of the machinery. But tho thing itself remain" fixed. It cannot be hurt. It can never be in clanger until men lose their hope and their honor. How shall it be guarded? By what means? Who or what are the agencies that seem to threaten it? The American Legion, which mny be said to have begun its career with the conventions and elections of the last few davs, ought to anproach that question unhurriedly and in a mood for close an alysis. The Legion will be n power in affairs. Its members set a great example in the war. They can s,et a great ex ample in peace. By clear and steady thinking they can do a new service to the country. They, of all people, should feel impelled to avoid the easy hysteria of the times, to look behind the dust of the scuffle for the origins of such trouble as we have. Theie will be soberer yea is before long and doufctless we shall look back with contrition upon some of the things that now are being said and done in the name of patriotism to confuse and dis tract public opinion when public, opin ion should bo informed, alert and inex orably discriminating. Flash judgments, intolerance, excitement are everywhere. An easy cvnicism, a sort of blatant hopelessness, was iccently the vogue in Europe. It succeeded horse racing and the gambling fever nmong people whose nerves were still sore from the war. It swept the newspapers. And ther) the rditors and publicists, tho paragi'aphers and the statesmen who had been wring ing cynical epigrams out of the peace terms, were suddenly struck cold by the news of Mr. Wilson's illness. Th.'V felt the shadow descending on them again. "We stoned him," said one of the Co penhagen papers of the President, "be cause he was not a god; because he was only a man'!" A lot of people are being stoned now because they are merely men, with men's normal desires and limitationa. That is not a good thing for the country. It leaves too many wounds. Let us admit what is apparent that the' Government of the United States never has been and never can be seriously menaced. The few malignant idiots who are about and the handful of pel verts who listen to them have made a small flurry in the current of events and that is all. Such revolutionary sentiment as exists in this country can be extinguished by a sheriff's po.-se or a fire hose. It seems to us that the men who went abroad into mud and fire and desolation to fight for the faith and the beliefs that are native to this land of ours have now, and will have in the future, a better con ception of- Americanism than a good many people who talked moie and did' les.- than they. The United States is in no danger. It has warmed and be friended and lifted up too many millions and made homes for too many of tho homeless ever to bo in danger. In" its faith, at least, it has been per fect. It believed in people and people naturally believe in it. It will grow stronger and more splendid, not by laws alone or by repressions and restrictions applied to groping multitudes, hut when every man everywhere turns to it, in some futuro day of enlightenment, with all the strength of his arms and all tho passionate devotion of his henit, tendered because that tribute is well deserved. There will bo no exceptions after we have had a little moro time. And mean while, so long as (heie is a man of a woman or a child removed in any way from tho inspiration that flows from the consciousness and experienco of pure and friendly justice, we can only feel that our woik is not yet altogether done. It is because the American Legion will be gieatly honored that it can easily in spire broader definitions of Americanism than those we are accustomed to hear. The traitors, rioters and murderers have had their day of futile violence. They are eliminated. And if there is ,nny danger to the country it can come only through mean or unfit men who are per mitted for a time to misuse the ma chinery of national affairs. There always have been, men who like to drag dirt into temples. And there always are others who believe that tL6y aro the avfnely appointed guardians of the holy, place, with the privilege of money chang ing in the approaches. Theie aie easy ways to deal with them. The method was provided when the 'constitution was written. The American Legion as an oiganizn tion should keep out of paity polities. It will be wiser to stand nnait as an influence for consistent and enlightened criticism all along the line from the city wards to the United Slates Seirtile. If the organization is to help in peace to icalize the alms for which its members fought in the war it will have to keep its eyes file of the duat that blinds a great many well-meaning' people. It will have to look beyond facts to find the truth. It will have no easy time with the politicians. Little and menu men will scheme and fight and plot and postuio and declaim for its support and friend ship. Yet the Legion cannot afford to move hurriedly if it i.r to effect the gen- i oral mopping up thnt is needed in tho field of polities, II ought rather to be frit as an agency of steadying, rational and inspired opinion and as the enemy of any one who deliberately tries to mis lead the easy-going and the credulous. To critics, politicians, capitalists, labor leaders, ultrn-conscrvatives and ultra radicals the Legion might say that the great needs of the.se times aie faith and patience. We have not yet completed the ta k that is possible with the instru mentalities of government. But we will. There is no other way to peace nnd no other way to happiness. Eveiybody will have to be patient, as everybody was who ever contributed unything of worth to America from the-days of Valley Forge to the days of -the Argonno Forest. The way to an ideal isn't easy for man or a nation. And we are on that way. J ' EDUCATION UP TO DATE TF THE other colleges follow the ex- ample of the University of Pennsyl vania it will no longer be possible to charge that the higher institutions of learning are uninterested 'in contem porary affairs. , When the local University set out to test the intelligence of the freshman clars it did not ask the students u lot of ouestions about the ancestry of Queen Dido, the difference between sublap sarianism and post-sublnpsarianism, and the theories about the authorship of the Iliad commonly cieditcd to Homer. In all the 1(18 questions submitted Iheie wo1 not one dealing with ancient history or classical mythology. A scoie or more were intended to test the ability of the students to detect false reasoning. Another reore were intended to disclo- whether they read a question carefully before trying to answer it, and several were directed to the discovery of their knowledge of commodities widely adver tised. For example, a catch phi use in a to bacco advertisement was quoted and they were asked what it referred to. A list of half a dozen well-known adver tisois was given and they were asked to pick out the hoe manufacturer. They were required to tell whether a trade name it was that of a typewriter was used to de-ignate a phonograph, an au tomobile, a bicycle, or a typewriter. The questions could not be answered unless the students read tho advertising as well as the 'news pages of the newspapers. Education is getting pretty close to contemporary life when the students of a university are expected to know these things. Of course, they must know oth ers also, but there' was a time when the colleges lived in the past and were un concerned with anything that happened less than a hundred yenis ago. If the reform continues wo may expect that soon every student will be recniired to read at least one newspaper every day in order that his knowledge of contem porary history mav giow with his in foimntiou abdut what happened in the time of his anccstois. Kiiniin fioldn nn le Wlioii, Kiiima! lu-i- in answer ques tions put to her in dennrtatluii prnpcetliujjs, emiti'iiiling that the (Vr.,'i,,IIO(illf llllM Till Vlirllt I.. It. . ..t ...., .. .. citizen's personal opinions. Aside from the ' fin I that I.mnm has not nlvvnrs bee. so reti cent, it may be noted that her refusal fur nishes n prettv good en-e asainst her. Tho citizens of this enuntr.v (fate the weight of their approval both lo Hie draft and income tux quoKtlonunires i-sued b. their govern -liii-nt: To run counter to the will of Un people fco expressed goon fur to prove one's ntiwortlilni'Hx of c itizen-hip. The executive com Good Out of Hvll mlttee of the Atlanta , ((ia.i IVderation of Trades I- ion-ideiiuB rcumnnendations thnt strlltes he stopped nnd that the money spent iu strike huulits be used in a nation-wide campaign to educate the American people in the pi iix Iplt'K of orgnnisscd liijjur. The sug gested uetimi is the direct result of the shooting of Americnu soldiers by 1. W. W. men in (Vntuilin, Wash. Which is one of tnanj instnuei- which seem to prove that tlio-e sohlit i- did not die in vain. The speclurleof Si.vra .SouiuIn Like Hultiir ease students armed with rillcs patrolling their gi ou ud- in order to prevent Coign to "spic-" from learning their formations for the annual football game tomorrow savins somewhat of farce comedv. Are we to pro. mime thut they would have liked their guns if "-pies" laid shown IhemselvesV Whnt kind of a gunie is football becoming, any. how a gentleman's game or a game for Huns with Hun tactics? Considering that the A Pointer government Is going to retain and lease its piers niid warehouses to commercial In -tei-i-ts. nil of which Ims Hignitiennce iu niaUinr Philadelphia one of the greatest ports in the world, (iiecnwlih Point may well he considered one of the city's chlefcst point- of iuteicst. The lint en to has I'iflty Kaw grunted Austria a loan of SCid.OOO.OOO, most of which will he utilized for the purchase of raw mateiiul. Must he going to buy some of Its old propaganda. The joy being manifested da the few newspitpers in the country thut nre opposed to both the covenant uud the peace Ireaty jn the fuct tlict both seem to he j danger is on a par with the psychological condition of the maU iii pre pjojilbitiou days who wan "dfU< and sJad o( it." 1' t THAT PRETTY SCRAP AT THE CONTEMPORARY CLUB 1 II Was as Exciting as Any Combat With Fists at the Olympla i rpiIK IhliiB- (hat Pericarp is not Interested in aie so few Hint I never know what he will be occupied with 'when I make my wuv to his house. Last night 1 found htm In his lihnir.v with a litter oT books on the table. Some of them weie IiIr quartos and uthi t ' were thill and innll like loddllllt! ehllilreu In a nursery. As ti-iiul, he gave no heed lo me when I enleied. Hut he was not leading Ili'lh arms were stretched out on the desk. There was a lliln hook In his left hand wilh a llngir inserted between the leaves to Keep II open. Ills face wore an expression f deep thoughl and his eyes weie looking invviird Instead of at the out ward scene I scratched n mutch lo t flight 'my cigar. The slight noise -eemei! lo bring hint lo himself. "Oh. it's jnn. i- It?" he said quietly, locking in in) direction nt last. Yywn j op ever nttetul u meeting of the -- Conleniporarv Club?" he asked. "Xo? Neither did I until Wednesday night," and he smiled romini-eciitly. "That club Is a great institution. I left lry coat, hat and umbrell.i with the check bo) nnd strolled Inward the meeting room in the Itellevttn St rn t ford A few men smoking cigarettes were lounging in the outer eoiiidor. At the door stool n guard. As I wus passing him he said qiiiellj. hut wilh n fiim Insistence, our Invitation, please.' I bunded him Ihe tnlisinnnic card nnd was ndmitted to the -acred m-ceincts. I found the huge room lilleil with men nnd women in evening diess, seated in row on low of chairs which my mnld tells me nre made of gold. Women were bowing to one nnother across the loom nnd the men were looking for the most part n- If thev knew many u place where they would find greater en.io.Miient. licfoic the evening .was over I was unable to find a single man who looked as if he were bored. "It was us pietty u scinp as X ever saw. And the thai in of it hi.v iu the tact that it was conducted the wn children play their gnmes. You know they make their niles as the,' go along. When one of them is get ting I lie wor-t of it he insists on a new t tile which will let him out." 'i'.iit what was it all about?" ffOIil'AT. .jumping Jeho-nplmt. man: -" Don't j on rend the papers? It was .tbiiut the etiquette of literal y criticism. Am Lowell, a biahmiiiee from Huston. nppnrentl,v Intoxicated by the incense which has been burned by her admiiers, and still -uttering fiom the cerebral tumefaction which nhvnvs accompanies a state of in toxication, had many pungent things to n iiliimt W'.ilt Whitman. She slung word about without regard lo the feelings iif n nv one and she seemed to enjoy it. ut W.ilt is dead. And during his life he was used to hostile criticism. Miss Lowell up pnienlly believed that it was proper to con tinue lo -ay hard things nbout him in spite of the old Latin miixiiu, de moituis. nil nisi boniim. Put the fun came when sonic cither people began to say Ihings about the living men and women writing free verse. Miss Lowell tefused to countenance criticism of the living. The cause of free verse is sacred. It is sacrilege to cast slurs upon it. "Now 1 gather that the proposition which Miss Lowell wants to put over is that it is pioper to sn.v luiid things about those who can't defend themselves, while it is u grate breach of literary etiquette to saj anything hut piaise about- Unit little group of writcrx of new poetry, the chief of which she has frankly admitted herself to be." "It must Iinve been almost ns entertaining ns n scrap at the Olvmpin." said 1. "I have never attended a debate at thnt temple of nrt,". Pericarp confessed, "but 1 do not believe that those who do attend ever enjoyed unj thing theie more thoroughly than (he members of the Contcinporaiy Club enjoved the unexpected combat staged for (heir benefit." lie pnii-ed a moment and fondled the vol umes befole him. A quizzical smile lit up his face. , i(J HAVi: been lerending some of the new poetry," he went on. "And I have been lefreshing mv memory on Miss Lowell's views about it. She takes it and herself very seriously. Did yo'u ever see an eighleen-jear-oid boy order a new suit of clothes? lie hns studied the fashion plates and is mo-t deeply concerned about the width of the lapels, the number of buttons on the eulTs and such things. That (he suit is to cover Ills bodv and give it warmth seems to be forgotten. The trivialities of its structure seem to him of much gieater importance than nil tiling cl-e Xow the free-verse people leinind me of such a bow A new fashion' in poetrj has arisen. Who set the fashion ill the nie-ent dnv does not matter. Miss Lowell. Ira Pound, Carl Sandbqrg, Helen Doolittle and a -cure of others are following it." "Whnt does the new poetry amount to?" 1 asked to keep him going. He opened a thin book and read: "When K.tng Yl had been long dead the empress decreed upon him posthumous decapitation, so (hat he walks forever d'Fgracecl among the shades." "This is a snuqile fiom 'Profiles Prom Clilno.' by Kuniie Tietjens. It is a whole poem, contained iu a sentence with' no at tempt to break it into lines of varving length. It is nn extreme case, it is true, but much of the free verse is like it. Noth ing more N attempted (ban to produce an impression on the mind of the render. The.v call It imaglst ver-e a- a subdivision of free verse, It remind- me of an arti-l's pre liminary skrtches fni n painting. If there is to he a group of figuies the artist will draw n hand and an ear. a foot and a bit of ill apery, nn arm and a leg, a tor.-ci and a nose. P.ut the artist due- not regard these sketches ns completed pictures. They ate merely prcpui aliens f. XIP picture. ffrpr.NN'Y.SON in in- late,- yrnrs lISP,i tn J- bewail the faci ih.it the younger poets were occupied with triolet- nnd cither poetic (oufectlons Instead of dealing with the big human problems of their generation. The free versifiers seem conleni with n medium which does not lend i..)f t,, the exprt-sion r lipr Ideas, and (heir ntieotU,, Iu c. r..ti.. occupied with technique that they do licit 1,, i.'.. - --- , ..,. llll.l till iivii. seem to be able lo think f nnjthing else. 'Mint that was u piettv scrap' Wednesday night," he went on " , it did not settle nuyii"". "" """ii"iisiiqi neir was not it win led tothe victor, for theie whs not any winner. Yet the.v (ell me it whs one of the most satisfying nnd succes-ful meetings of the Contcmporarv Club in all its history." 1 escaped just as Pericarp began to rend to me from an anthnlogv of new verse a poem hrglnniiiK: r live In a om-rocni louse Hecause a one loom house Is all I liuvo 0. W. l)i Today, let us hope miners and opera tois In conference in Washington will show n. disposition of mutual helpfulness. The market anticipated the mercury tn the thermometer In the inatinr nf tni-tnw n tdrojj. hf v f lilt w lift'"- '"SfSirft - .:.-:: .v.::-':..-- "- - ' -- TF THE SAUCEPAN t Vers Libre T CAN , --- Write vers libre. All I need , Is it few ideas And a publisher Who'll pay Space rules " Por what I can fi!'. And then I'll make enough 'l'o keep me And my friend wife Iu luxury The rest of my days. It pajs, li'gosh. OAKLKT. We Say So! Amy Lowell looked nt the assemblage of men and women in evening clothes nnd said apologetic-all "I bad to appear as 1 am because my trunks have not nirived." Ai.d we have no doubt in the world that she would have looked very well iu 'em. 15ul she miiuuged to make n -ensation, any how. Thanks, Awfully Chaffing Dish or Saucepan, We like our evening trei.t ; lSi oiling in the saucepan Or chafing dishes heat. Wi-snhickon glories, ISntli would fnin repeat; , ( 'hailing Dish or Saucepan. Keep up the glowing heat. i Life is but a chaffing dish, The daily round of man ; And inanj of our worries Aie like the frjing pun. The wi-est man will seldom fret, Unjov life while he can, With icli-.li taste the Chaffing DWi Or wealth of frjing pan. ,iay-ma-ki:m. "Letts Clear Klgu of the Cermaus," says a newspaper headline, tiood iiilvite. Let's. A Prescription When ou hnve what they call the "blues," When zest and joy of life ou lose And ut jour tak jou balk, Don't stn.v iudoois nnd nurse jour ills; Try this 'tis better far than pills (iu out nnd take a walk. You'll find that brenslliig winds nnd storms Oft drives awa.v those ugly forms Of doubt that with you stalk, do wash in 'Cod's pure air your soul And let the sunshine make jou whole Co out unci take a walk. Although within a town jou bide, There's sun. there's rain, sky arches wl-'e, And clihlien nt their ploy ; And even on a city tiee The leaves of healing grow for thee Co, walk from enie away. The ones who sit nnd mope at fate, Of 'melancholy days" who prate, ' v Show plainly by their talk They need the robin's song to know, To find the treasures nf the snow Thev need to take a walk. MAT!) PltAZKR JACKSON. Lnuiel Springs, N. .1., Not ember 10, 11)10, A Household Hint There Is u hardwood floor polish that I can contiduntlj vouch for hut hcfjitntc to recommend, said the Lady of the House j but I'll give jou the recipe aud jou may uso jour own judgment. Take a dozen quinces, half n dozc;n pears and five apples; carefully pare, core and quarter, cover with water and cook until soft, fruit In one saucepan and n"arlngs la nnotheVi.- Put In a stout bag nnd let drain andjlrip nnt.il moisture bus all been squeezed out.' Whllo waiting for thQ.neart conslgn ...., i rJ mirnr return to the saucepan nnd ht, 'parftfully, measuring exact quantity iu 'Hit. ' """ ' - ' T '' - "- ' "COME ON AN' LET'S GET ACQUAINTED !" cupfuls. At boiling point pour into a glass fruit jar with a eiacked bottom. Mop up the mess with a housccloth and a scrub pail. The result will.be a perfect floor polish with a jelly finish. My Girls There's Annabel, Alice and Dolly, niizubeth, P.lsie nnd Flo; Also Margaret. Mabel and Polly, And Katie and Mary and .To. Now Annabel says I'm a darling, While Margaret calls me a dear; Jo thinks I'm the king of Ugypt She must have been dreaming, I fear. I'Isie nnd Flo sorm to doubt me, Their tender regnids I hnve spurned. lOllzaheth swears my love is the kind For which she bus alwajs yearned. It's nearly the same with the others, I've set each dear head iu a whirl; Uccausc every one of them loves me Uut I love another girl. CLAYTON ALCOTT. The Bard of Common Things I sing of haystacks, nails and tacks; of plumbers' bills and milkman's tricks; of gladsome hearts and weary backs; of jo.vous blurbs nnd grouchy kicks; of out-of-doors nnd coining frosts; of hearts aud sweet en gagement tings; of poker games both won and lost, for I'm a bard of common thing-', No highbrow stuff e'er hits my lyre. My low-geared muse ne'er lilts the high. Of simple things I never .til o. To give tliein interest I try. Of piohibition I may tell; aud oft the daily poeniv sings of trials of II. C. of L., for I'm n haul of common things. So hail the Pegasus I ride! lie prances nt a jo.vous gait along the merry country side. lie isn't dull at any tnte. And whnt I have to say majhap will cause your troubles to take wings. Ah, yes, I nm a clever chap ! I am the bard of common things! JDItltY HILT. The Hopes That Vanish Like a sentinel nt a lone enmpfire A star shines at break of day ; And it seems like the planet of Heart's Desire (Though the hopes will fade with the dying fire, As the star fades at break of day). Like n beacon bright on the storm-tossed wave The sun shines nt close of day; Aud it seems like the hind of Things We Crave (Though our hopes will vanish beneath the wave' As the suu sinks at close of day). Like the watchful ej-e of the Cod of Night The moon shines nt enily eve; And it seems like the promise of hopes in sight (Though the promise will fade at the close of night As the moon sluks at early eve). So thci Sentinel and the Uenccut Uright And the K.ve of the Diukness Cod Hold out strands of hope to tho earth-bound sprite ; " To the pauper and prince and clod; (But the hopes will vanish us does the night When tho day lights the path we plod!) iKmnirr l. iiRLi.ior. Fight-hour day with rates unchanged urged for nurses. New simper headline, Let's sec. Three muses nt $.'l.- n week, doctor tit $:i u visit. jiicdlvlui'M? Cheaper to die than be sick now. That Heed instruhient persists Iu keep iug out of tunc. Tho fear expressed in these columns, thntjioiuc umon tl city's policemen would -1 Innnemna wliim ralfnn mi r nf vmlltfiiu lioii rfValrndT' been dustlfi!. jtf - t ,i LITTLE ESKIMO T 1TTLH Eskimo, nre you -'-' Clad you live in jour igloo' T would spend the snowy day Thinking tlioughttf'oC far awa.v, If 1 were jou In your igloo Here the houses arc so tall People need not creep nt all Whi'ii j-ou creep iu, I'-kiino. Do jou find it pleasant, so? Little D-kimo, do yu Play with snow (lie long year through, Make a sunnncr-snow-man, too? You have never been at piny In n wagon full of hay, Itoinped about in meadow flowers All the long vacation hours. Little Eskimo, would you Like to live in our land, too? -Annette Wynne, in For Dajs nnd Days. Officials of tne University Hospital ex pect to catch the thief who stole the ?0000 tube of radium by bums that will develop as a result of carrying it around. Either that or the evidences of worry consequent to the expectation of such burns developing. Somewhere in town theie is still a man whose heart has not pionipted the giving of a dollar, and Ued Cross workers continue the search for him until Saturday midnight. Mr. Walton finds much significance la the telegram onco sent by Senator Quay to Covernor Heaver: "Dear Beater, don't talk." What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. Name two famous books written by foreigners'. concerning government and institutions? AmcriciinitoaJ L AVhen was the first fall of Jerusalem? ',). Who is the patron saint of Scotland? 1, How ninny submarines did ficrinnuy build during tho war? fi. What is the correct pronunciation of tlic. French phrase "hon mot"? fi. What is the attitude of the Hritish House of Lends concerning the ad mission of women as members? 7. Wlio was Vieuxtcmps? S. Niune tlnee kinds of whales? 0, How old is the Washington monument? 10. How did William IVnn come into pos session of Pennsylvania? , Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. ltadlum is metal resembling barium, jielded by pitchblende, discovered In lb!)8 and' named from its radio-active power. '2. Eugene Scribe was a prolific French playwright ivud opera libiettist. His. dates uro lTUl-lSfil. I!. The Bolshevists have been in power III, Itussia since November. !)17. 1. Atigufitin de Itiirbide was emperor of Mexico from 1822 to 1823. Ferdinand Joseph Maximilian, archduke of Aus tria, became emperor of Mexico Jn ISOst. He was executed at Querctnro iu 1S07. 5. Aitfiicial legs came, to he cnljcd cork legs because numbers of them were manufactured by a firm in Cork, Ire land. G. Franklin D. Itoosevelt Is ussiatant sccietarj' of the navy. 7. The miiiotnur was a legeiiilury mon ster with the body of u man and the head of a bull, kept in (he lnbjrinth of Cuossos, Crete, by King Minos, The seus of Athens slew the animal, 8. "A laveilck in tho lift" means n lark In the sky. The Hue is frouj Uiirfts, 0. French Is the language of the Island tifc tjundaltSupu In the West Jjidfeif JO, Tint great gonoral of Klnjf pavhl'-wali JMb. .' l 1 n' '.' lj'viij21..f,.V jJ4SC.1 S. fca.m( -.,-,. i
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