EVENING PUBLIC1 LEDCiER PIIILADELPIITA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1910
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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
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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
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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."
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THAT PRETTY SCRAP AT
THE CONTEMPORARY CLUB
1 II Was as Exciting as Any Combat
With Fists at the Olympla
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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
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Today, let us hope miners and opera
tois In conference in Washington will show
n. disposition of mutual helpfulness.
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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.
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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!.
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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
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