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SLAUGHTER QF THE INNOCENTS
SIX children have been killed within
twenty-four hours, five by automo
biles, which ran them down in the streets
I, VI Mi liiVjf, ALU W..V UJ W.W..VJ ...
h It would be just as sensible to de-
i aounce all automobiles and all automo
bile drivers because of this as to demand
that writing; be abolished because certain
saein are guilty of forgery.
" TlAnnwi-in-firm tanll nftt en anvthfacr.
IP .Winnative remedial action is what is
i i.tAhA. Tn ti first nlace. there should
6c, more traffic policemen stationed at the
dangerous crossings. The police force
U short of men and the city is short
of woney. We cannot get the men until
Va get the money.
In the second place, the chauffeurs of
passenger automobiles and motortrucks
should bo subjected to some kind of
examination before they are licensed to
run cars through the streets. The ex
.amination should test not only the tech
nical knowledge of the applicant, but his
Judgment and sense of responsibility.
And, in the third place, parents should
teach their children to exercise the great
est possible care in crossing the streets.
We know it is difficult to persuade a
child to consider its safety, but it can
be done, as many parents know who
avo trained their children to look care
fully in both directions before leaving
the curb, and if an automobile is in sight
I V to1 wait until it has passed before cross
ing.
A certain number of accidents is bound
to happen every year, under conditions
tphich no one could foresee or guard
against. But six of them could not have
occurred within twenty-four hours un
less there had been gross carelessness.
And when men arrested for disregard
ing the traffic rules are discharged by
tne magistrates instead of being fined to
the limit, careless driving is encouraged.
A rirfid enforcement of the law upon the
might reduce the number of
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LINE UPON LINE
j.E first discovery of uersonal liberty,
., - according" to Bishop Woodcock, of
Kentucky, who is m town to assibt in
tie Protestant Episcopal campaign for
increased church membership, is that a
man's life docs not belong to himself,
but to humanity. As he is a clergyman,
of course, ho added that a man's life
also belongs to God.
There is nothing new in this statement,
but we have to be reminded of its truth
periodically. It is especially necessary
just now, when men of various classes
sre insisting on their rights without re
gard to the rights of others. The head
of every family understands it. He must
consider the rights of his wife and his
children. When he married he shouldered
"various obligations that he cannot shirk.
Ho cannot spend his income on himself.
Ho cannot consider his own pleasure in
the disposal of his leisure. He is re
sponsible for the comfort and happi
' Bess of others.
The state is only a larger family. A
citizen of it must consider the rights of
his fellow citizens if men aro to live
together in the same community. Men
who fulfill their obligations as husbands
and fathers too often disregard their
obligations as citizens. This indifference
is responsible for all the unrest and dis-
"sifeUsfaction. Bishop Woodcock is evi
dently aware that the old truths need
tobe restated from time to time lest
we 'forget them.
ROBIN HOOD OF WAYNE
TTIS other name is Robert P. Elmer
and he is the champion 'bowman of
the United States. He has demonstrated
iis skill by killing a rooster with an
rrow. As the fowl belonged to a neigh
bor he got into trouble. Unlike Robin
Hood of Sherwood Forest and the light
opera stage, he cquld not claim immunity
on the ground that he gave the victims
of his' bow" to fee"d the poor. He only
Jfept the rooster from scratching up his
neighbors' 'flower beds.
Thus are we fallen on degenerate days
hen ihe prowess of the bowman is
rxnappreeiated and the achiever of a good
(hot is' haled into court and fine'd instead
t being acclaimed by his envious com
petitors. " AwheTnowadays is a sport indulged
is by a chosen few to whom its romantic
JiJtWry appeals. Now and then there is
"iwwsn who uses his weapon in the
i ftrbls after the manner of the ancients.
Robin Hood we mean Doctor Elmer
paytthat one of them has recently killed
: mountain lion seven feet long with his
Jjiw'n. Brrow," as the 6mall boy says,
tad on the same day brought down a
fc"ers wdghing 100 pounds.
Wji assume that it was not with a
Meunon arrow such as is used in shoofc
ggjtt s straw target. There are a few
tactlNr( who have fitted themselves 'out
ith hnntintr arrows with steel barbed
! -salj?xpr!ssly for slaughter, but
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they are mostly on the Pacific slope.
Lonebowmen. however, ate indigenous in
every state, but the most that they
bring down, is the laughter of their
neighbors.
When the national archers' club holds
its neat annual meet we hope that it
will award to the Wayne Robin Hood a
medal of sufficient beauty to compensate
him for failing to persuade the 'court
that he was entitled to the immunities
of the merry bowmen who once gathered
under the greenwood tree.
IF SOME ONE WAKES CONGRESS
COAL STRIKES WILL BE NO MORE
The Wilson Cabinet le StumbllnQ Toward
an Industrial Code That Should Have
Been Established Long Aqo
E
iVEN the remote prospect of a coal
I fnminfi and ' consentient idleness,
suffering and industrial paralysis in
a country that has more coal within
sight and reach than it knows what to
do with is intolerable. It must inspiro
anger and bitter impatience in every one
whose patriotism takes the form of an
honorable regard for the dignity and
welfare of the nation.
Unforgivable negligence among those
who are supposed to direct national
affairs and the incurable disposition of
Congress to talk and act as if it existed
in a world removed from the concerns
of the rank and file have made chaos
possible in the coal industry. Doctor Gar
field's ultimatum to the operators yes
terday, like the sudden awakening of Mr.
Hines, represented an eleventh-hour
effort to avert a catastiophe to which
the country has been drifting open-eyed
for weeks.
The House did not intervene. It
appears never to have thought of inter
vention. It prepared with blithe un
concern for adjournment and left the
country to cope as best it can with a
situation charged with dangerous possi
bilities. The Senate was lost in a fever
of partisan debate. And meanwhile it
tiust shock the country to realize that
the authority by which Doctor Garfield,
Secretary Wilson and Mr. Hines are try
ing to avert a widespread calamity is
purely accidental.
If the treaty had been ratified, if
peace had been proclaimed, war laws
would have been suspended and no one
in Washington could have prevented the
operators and the miners from continuing
reckless warfare of a sort that would
stop industrial activity and throw about
16,000,000 men out of work at the very
edge jf winter.
What Congress has been unwilling or
afraid to recognize is" the plain fact that
economic rather than political factors
are, for the time being at least, dominant
among the influences that shape and
order the common life of America. Tho
issues thus shoved forward by the force
of circumstances may not be safely
dodged or disregarded. How costly a
policy of evasion may" be v,c arc per
mitted to understand by the tentative
plans for industrial embargoes and re
strictions prepared by Mr. Hines.
Tho two parties fri the miners' wage
dispute have been permitted to continue
a battle for advantage that is without
justification in any rule of morals, jus
tice or common sense. They have ,been
willing to see confusion spread from tho
coal fields over the entire country.
No one has questioned the decency or
sanity of their procedure because sav
age trials of strength arc still the only
methods generally accepted for the ad
justment and balancing of opposed inter
ests in the industrial field.
Repeatedly in these columns it has
been urged that a new method must bo
devised, that Congress will have to come
down from the clouds and formulate an
industrial code, enforceable by labor
courts or by public opinion, to insure
peace and civilized relationships in indus
try. Some such departure from routine
political action is absolutely imperative
to compel a general recognition of the
soctaZ obligation that rest with great
utilities like mines and railways.
The mine fields, like railways and
watersheds, can no longer be regarded
only as fields for private speculation.
Ccl, we are told now, is a commodity
essential to the safety and comfort of all
people. The people, therefore, have a
greater right than either operators or
miners to a controlling voice at the
source of supply. Yet no one has ever
defined or recognized their interest in
the matter. The output is limited or
greatly restricted by inhuman struggles
precipitated at regular intervals between
those who control the mines and those
who work in them. No means exist by
which fair and discriminating judgments
might be substituted for violence.
The miners, the operators and the pub
lic are alike without the benefit of ra
tional, humane and scientific decisions.
Strikes are settled in desperation, after
suffering and immeasurable loss. What
might be called the social view of coal
is almost unknown among the men and
operators. It is that view which the
government expressed belatedly through
Doctor Garfield yesterday when the oper
ators were informed that a continued
blockade of the coal supply or an effort
to saddle increased costs upon the pub
lic would not be tolerated.
If a similar' determination had been
manifest at Washington before this the
country would now' be far better off.
The cabinet decision on which Doctor
Garfield based his ultimatum represents
a painful and timorous approach to the
enlightened method of mdustnahjettle
ments and to tiie industrial code already
referred to. It comes late, as all things
rome at Washineton. and vet it show
' that there is more courage at the White
House than there is in a Congress, which
was apparently ready to shut its eyes
and flee from the coal crisis.
"The people of the United States,"
taid Doctor Garfield to the ' coal,
operators yesterday, "are veiling to
pay sufficient to maintain American
standards. But what are American
standards?
"The people want the operators to
have a just return, but what is a just
relurnf"
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virtually all industrial disputes continue
disastrously to revolve! yet, as matters
stand, Doctor Garfield can expect no
answer but the echo of his own voice.
Cautious politicians at Washington avoid
such queries. Yet il is Congress that will
have to answer them finally by the enact
ment of laws or the promulgation of a
code defining the privileges and rewards
which, in justice to the nation and in
the interest of society, the various par
tics in basic industries have a right to
expect.
We have said this before. We shall
.say it again.
It is for Congress to apply its mind
rosolutely in efforts to find a method by
vfhich reason may be applied in contro
versies that now are decided in 6vage
and costly struggles between powerful
groups of embittered men.
Nationalization of mines is neither
necessary nor desirable. But before the
coal industry is lifted permanently out
of anarchy and barbarous confusion it
will be necessary far the federal govern
ment at least to suggest answers to th.e
questions put by Doctor Garfield and to
see, by some such system of regulation
as was in force during the war, that" coal
production is kept at maximum efficiency
and upon a scientific basis.
The interests of society are above the
interests of groups of operators or groups
of miners. No one will deny that obvious
fact. Yet the rule is one that can be
applied only by tho abandonment of in
formal efforts at mediation and the estab
lishment of a recognized system by which
all grievances on one side or the other
in industry may be settled without the
strikes and lockouts for which in the end
the patient public has to pay.
Tho coal strike itself is the final argu
ment for a closer scrutiny and a more
deliberate settlement of labor disputes.
A little while ago the miners were being
violently charged with disloyalty because
they wished to cut off the nation's- coal
supply. More lately the- operators have
bn quibbling and wasting time at
Washington while the days of coal famine
drew nearer.
And even now it is difficult to tell
whose claims and contentions are just
and reasonable, and whose are illogical
and unfair!
LET THE WORLD KNOW IT
TVERY shipping man in every country
-' of the world should be interested in
the announcement made by Director
Webster, of the Department of Wharves,
Docks and Ferries, at a meeting of the
Engineers' Club that a cargo of 12,000
tons of coal had been put into tho hold
of a steamship hero in tho unprecedented
time, of twenty-two hours and thirty-five
minutes.
Those ports with the Best loading ma
chinery are favored by shipowners be
cause they save time and increase the
number of voyages that can be made in
a year and thus enlarge their profits. If
wo have better loading machinery than
ourrival ports we should let the whole
world know it.
Twelve Alabama
Mm or Their Word farmers, having fin
ished their harvest
ing, surrendered themselves at the jail in
Anninton, in accordance with an agreement
with the court, to serve sentences for mak
ing moonshine whisky. Which causes one to
wonder just what good purpose is served by
jailing such men.
The Philadelphia
Then Of After Coffee Board of Trade wants
the' sugar equalization
board continued after January 1 in order to
keep prices down. But the milk strike of
half n million consnmenTin New York may
demonstrate that there is another and more
efficacious way of keeping prices down.
A national otganization of newspaper
pressmen organized in St. Louis has adopted
a constitution which provides that there shall
be no strikes or walkouts, but that all dif
ferences shall be settled by arbitration.
Thoso men are pioneers and they are headed
toward Happy Land.
Five thousand insects hae been added
to tile museum of the Academy of Natural
Science. The number seems large, but cot
sufficiently largo to impress any of our boys
who experienced trench warfare.
The Prince of Wales characterized hisj
stay in New Yofk as "most delightful."
This being distinctly reminiscent of a notable
Washington interview, we confidently look
forward to an imminent "May I not."
Life can have no terrors for the mem
bers of the navy "suicide bquadron" who
during the last two years swept the North
sea clear of 50,000 mines.
M .
When it comes to naming a Director of
Public Welfare it may occur to Mr. Moore
that the only way to please the wom'en is to
name a man.
Murdoch KendricV wac told he could have
anything he wanted, and what he got was an
indorsement of which any man might be
proud.
It will ever be a 6ource of regreto the
Prince of Wales that he didn't take the time
to have his picture taken while in this
country.
The chiefest proof of the Prince of
Wales's democracy was the ease with which
be was embarrassed.
;
Tha Toung Lady Next Door But One
.opines that a get-together lunch means
either nass or Hamburg steal:.
Dropping mail from an airplane should
be the easiest thing is the world. The diffi
cult Jhlng is dropping it where' it is wanted.
If freight embargo is initiated it will
have a serious effect on the Christmas traae
of 6. Claus ft Co.
The cow th&t jumped dver the moon
racst be completing her jump. Beef prices
ara said to be coming down.
National respect for the ability of Be
ttor Lodge is accompanied by reservations.
D'Assunxio appears to have a compel
ling way about bits.
Zs the promotion of education a corn show
tosds to the development of big ears.
The supposition i that most of the
THankryvIri" t"rkv wre killed jn the war.
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THE GOWNSMAN
The Frogs and the Mice
TTOMER oace sang the battle of the frogs
" and the mice; the mice, quick, tempera
mental, impetuous; the frogs, cold -blooded,
croaking, leaping at anything. And it was
a dreadful fight, Involving squeaks, snaps,
croaks, flaps and splashlngs for the inno
cent bystanders', with flying epithets, dis
membered bits and splinters of prose,
"loosely flying" and as free as the freest
verse that ver exhaled, its fragrance out
of the soul of a vers llbrist.
AND in the days of Swift and the earlier
Georges, another similar and terrible
fray arose, dividing families, estranging
friends, becoming political ns the court took
one side and an insurgent Prince of Wales
the other. The matter was one of taste, a
question of preference as to the respective
merits, actual and relative, of opera n
conducted by Signer Bononrini or by "Myn
heer Handel"; and as it waxed furious, it
was only the Philistine who laughed; and
this was his cachinnation :
Some luiy, compared to Bononclni,
That Mynhr Handel's but a ninny.
Others aer. that he to Handel
Is scarcely fit to hold a candle.
Strange that this difference should fca
Twist tweedle-dum and tweedle-le 1
Of the parties to our recent fray of a cot
dissimilar importance, it might be invidious
to affirm which is Tweedle-dum. The Gowns
man will content himself with gathering up
for the curious one or two of the chips that
flew, having now served their purpose as
missiles, the obiter dicta that had little to
do with the case which, by the by, was
not decided.
TNDTJBITABLY theTe" is nothing that a
poet, of old school or new, so resents as
being aked, "What is the meaning, my
dear sir or madam of this poem of yours?"
The meaning of a poem! As if an atmos
phere, an aroma, "a return," should have
a meaning! Of course, in one sense, the
otjier evening, we did not "get it." It was
too subtle for Philadelphia; but we did
not lil e to be told so. It was too much like
that exasperating habit which some people
have of talking about the latest book they
happen to have been' reading, as if an un
acquaintance with their particular .reading
on your part were an inferiority. Or like
the man who picks out some unheard-of trifle
in n famous museum and, raving about it,
impresses upon you the futility of all your
knowledge ahout everything else. The Con
temporary Club of Philadelphia was treated
with the condescension, tho other evening,
of the very choicest Bostonese bray?; but
perhaps we deserve condescension if we sub
scribe to so implicit an acceptance of the
doctrine of a speedy evolution in literature,
as it wai enunciated then and there, by
which we find n steep artistic ascent from
the plays of Shakespeare to the works of
Tope, and from the works of Pope to the
labors of Mr. Carl Sandburg.
HOWEVEK, because Kdgar Allan Pot,
then a rebideut of Philadelphia, was
once tioatcd noneytoo civilly in llo.ton, it
hanllv bclbmcs us to return h grudge bo
long remembered. The Gftwnsmanis very old -fashioned.
,He helfcves in the sacrednes of
giietliip. Ilf .n nlno ery nwfangled ; for
he likewise believes in according to woman
"nil the rights and privileges which nppcr-
tain" to man, with u few added courtesies,"
hers by reason of her womanhood. More-
over, can it ever bo quite fair to twit een
a minor poet of a jhinor school on single
poems or even shall we call them strong
lines? Drowning once wroto: .
"Hljrgledy, plKgledy, packed we He,"
ruin in a hamper, pigs In a sty,
Fleaj tn a carcase, eta
And'one line of a One lyric of bhatcspeare
runs:
"And Marian's nose looks red und raw."
Want of tnste in not confined to the vers
llbribts; und some of their critics of the
other evening contrived in this particular to
excel them.
IN.MUSIO we are more tolerant. We listen
to our $1,000,000 orchestra, pouring
forth tho golden melodiousness of Haydn,
the robust sonorousness of Wagner and the
cacophonous inconsequence of a contem
porary Italian composer, all on the same
program, and we applaud according to our
tastes. In art, too, we go to the galleries
nnd see, cheek bv jowl, old-fashioned art,
following the safe ways of precedent, and
things which are so bizarre in their futurity
that he who would "catch on" must needs
go the pace. Shall we be, less tolerant of
the art which expresses itself in words? The
Oownman holds to another ancient notion,
th&t only those despise form who are unable
to compass'it ; likewise, that form is a trivial
matter except as it is fitting to the thought,
which is alone the animating spirit of all
forms of art. Then why in conscience quar
rel over the rhyme or the rhymclessness of
verse or be jolted out of temper by the
IrreguViriries of anybody'j feet, metrical or
other? Each year has its growth of weedR
and flowers which go with the frost. The
weeds differ from year to year, while the
grand old trees survive the ages. Among
the small weeds at times come up what is
destined to live, however in our ignorance
we may not recognize a potential monarch of
the forest yet to be. The scythe of criticism
that would sweep all new things clean would
leave us in the end only dead timber where
with to make coffins. Only in growth and
change in art as elsewhere is there life.
IN THE paper which Miss Lowell read to
the Contemporary Club last week, the
Gownsman found much effective and bril
liant criticism. In her poem with its son
orous "returnj" to the world "Pcrfepolis"
and' what matters it whence it came?
he recognized that power to move, which
is the power of poetry, whether it swing to
the pendulum of a clock or ripple like a
wayward stream over the impediments of
rock and fallen trees to a new and varied
music. When'the. writer of the new poetry
dribbles, poses and offers us bits of broken
crockery as If he were n lapidary presenting
us with a Jewel, let us treat Mm or her
as he deserves, with neglect, disgust, if y6u
lite, but not with oblqquy. It is not alone
the vers Ifbrists who dribble and pose; and
-the grave clothes that wrap the corpses of
regularity are only more neatly folded than
those which conceal Inanity masking in free
vers.
A woman elected to the New York As
sembly bought candy for the families, of all
the men who worked for her. The Young
Lsdy Next Door But Ope wonders Jf tMs
kind of thing isn't responsible for the scar
city of'sugar.
The" steel strike and the coal strike
serve to remind us that the reason we "mud
dle through" when threatened with disaster
is a good constitution.
i
A 'steamed contemporary speaks of "a
wet oasis in Washington." Well, onenatu
rally expects a little dampness at an oasis,
doesn't'one?
Ludendorff -has called Bernstorff a (&?.
N6w if Bernstorff will t similarly frank
contcrnicfc Lndsadorff the record will be
complete - -
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THE CHAFFING DISH
The Colyumlst Soliloquizes
Upon tho Theme of rteturnliiy
From a Metrical Furlough
ARISE, O heart, resume the theme
And pass the scalpel o'er the strop :
Vacation's but a pleasant dream
Peel up the desk's old rolling top.
With corncob pipe your courage prop
And get jou to tho task, poor fish,
Till from the tree of words you lop
A Ballade of tho Chaffing Dish.,
WHEREVER human follien teeuv
The watchful scythe may swathe a crop
Of genial japes, and skim the cream
Of mortal error As a sop
To local satirists, jou'll drop
A scoffing tush, an acid pish,
Or, pulling out your bassoon stop,
A Ballade of the Chaffing Dith.
DAMN satirists, tor they will scream
Your tender stuff is sugared slop
Damn sentimentalists, who deem
Your bitter musings you, should chop ;
Damn all, and lay on with a niop
Or with a hatchet, as you wish
And sing, if you should "feel de irop,
A Ballade of tho Chaffing Dish. ,
tinvoy, to d Lady,
An Required by Tradition
A DAME before whose charms we flop
Is needed. Rhvme suggests Mies Gish
Let Dorothy or Lillian cop
This Ballade of the Chaffing Dish.
bend on the Broms
We notice th'at the writer of the best
business letter during the current fiscal year
will be awarded a bronze statuette by La
Balle Extension University. i
Here is our entry :
Dear Birs:
Your order, accompanied by remtffaitca,
received today. The goods have hein.
forwarded. Hoping for further favors,
r Faithfully y'ours,
Oil A Ft1, DISH OO.
.Always tecund, it occurs to us that it
might be well to submit more than one letter
for the competition. Perhaps this one will
grab off the prize.
Dear Sir:
Your offer of a ?2 raise in salary Is re
fused. I beg to inform you that owing to
the death of my unclo in Australia I have
just .entered upon tee disbursement of a
fortune of three million dollars, and our
connection thus comes to a severance. Hop
ing for a continuance of the same, yours, e'tc.,
DOVE DULCET.
We Tilt at Windmills
The Bishop of New York, in presenting
a Bible to the Prince of Wales, said :
This Bible Is the King James version,
for which w are obligated to tho Church
of England and whose pure English and de
votional rendering have become so large a
part'of the reljglou6 history of the West
ern Hemisphere.
Since the 'worthy bishop laid stress on
pure English, we feel called upon to protest
against his mUuee pf the word olligatel
when he meant nfeod. Obligated, one of
the most frequently misused words on the
far-from-Hterate isla,nd of Manhattan,
means bound by coatract,with an uncom
fortable sense of penalties and burdens at
tached. We feel sure that if only the pricpe had
been given a Bible in Philadelphia cone of
our local bishops would have fallen down
in this way.
' Managing editors never have to reprimand
reporters for loitering when a fire occurs: in
a factory where th girls work in bloomers.
On of the most annoying features of all
the will-power questionnaires that we hare
9iiiU. thnlr iftls' - r , jtv.' aifaUtir
OR YOU'LL GO HUNGRY,
of a mind that wandeis. E cry thing, worth
while in the world lias been done by thoso
whose inlnds v. ere able to wander from the
beaten path, Tho most entire fullure wo
Lnow of is the man who Is completely con
centrated on one task or idea.
The Tyrant
TJTTHA'r, gio you half 'tho bureau?
xj But what about poor ma?
iou know I need quite everyvinck
For all my lingerie.
It is too bad we cannot
Bothsummer by the sea,
But then hot weather never did
Agree quito well with me.
You'd have, you say, your sister
To stop with us a week 7
You know how I dislike her,
So countrified and meek. '
Now if it were my sister
'Twbuld be a dlffeient tune;
Grace is so gay and stylish
And cannot come too soon.
You won't be home to Sinner,
A smoker at the club?
Old Shakespeare knewyou sinners
In saying "There's the rub."
Oh dear, I wish life wasn't
On such a horrid plan,
To either iivo a spinster
Or servo the tyrant man.
HELEN U. ATKINSON.
Soolal Chat
Our high-spirited friend J. Jarden Guen
ther was, we are told, the onfy Jocal civilian
to welcome the prince at North Philadelphia
the other day. We know no one who can
bear the burden of a frock coat with more
honest pleasuro than Jarden.
,
Hugh Walpole, the genial English novel
ist, will tell theBryn Mawr girls about lit
erature this afternoon. Any man who can
tell Bryn Mawr something she doesn't know
already is going eome, we hazard.
Tom Daly is very busy these days auto
graphing copies of his new book of poems
for those who insist upon buying it. The
volume is said by connoisseurs to be beau
tifully bound, printed and illustrated.
m
Miss Phoebe Foster, the charming actress,
told us that when she was playing in this
city last year she was so fascinated by Philip
Warner's gentle smile every time she bought
a book that most of her spare time was spent
in a citadel of the muses on Ninth street.
A placid ripple of the features is almost as
good an asset as a memory course, is our
only comment. .
.,.
Page Alllcson, the volatile squire of
Town's End Farm, West Chester, is having
tho spare room beds aired In preparation for
his ..annual party after the Haverford
Swarthmore game. Pago having forgotte
to seed us the customary cask of cider, "this
is about as much space as we intend to de
vote to this amiable person.
V V
The board of trustees of the Ludlow Street
Business Men's Association met at a Tenth
street ordinary recently, and, as usual, Mr.
A. Edward Newton was permitted to reach
for the check.
T, Woodrow Wilson, the' increasingly ag
gressive Invalid," spent a happy morning
watching the White House' sheep, and is re
ported to have said tbit he wished the rena
tors were more lite them.
'
Thomas Smith, 'the well-known, collector
of handshakes, is ctilMpconsolBbl over the
absence of one nrlncelyjfl'aRp from iU other
vlv rnjwfcnrt'v" C' . "y .
TOO!!" '
ON A SQUIRREL
NOW that in gorgeous polychromes
The trees hobnob,.
A workman in gray jumper roams
About his job.
ljjrom sunrise he inaintaina lop ipeed
Till darkness lowers,
Nor ever thinks if he cxeecd
Eight working houro.
So eager he to spot his spoils
And promptly fob tffcm,
He fuils to ponder as he-toils
Tho labor problem.
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His sense of honor's somewhat blunt;
He goes and dines, I
Nor ever bothers, much to hunt
"No trespass" signs.
'Tis true a chestnut to him is'
Naught but a nut;
That all abstruse philosophies
He'd greet with "Chut."
But though he might not recognize
His Latin name,
He gets a quality to prire
There just the same.
Maurice.Morris, in the New York Sua.
Denying their cilor Is the readiest thing
the Reds do. Perhaps the reaction is natu
ral with them. As danger approaches the
blood recedes, displaying a streak of yellow.
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What Do You Know?
quiz-
1. What former German linerl is now a
subject of dispute between theeUnited
States and Great Britain?'
2. How does a cow's method of getting op
from the ground differ from that of e
horse?
5. What kind of an animal is a bono!?
4. Who, was Charles Brockden Brown? '
B. What is the Esch bill, which has jnst
been passed by the House of Repre
sentatives? 6. How many American soldiers were sent
to France during the war?
7. What celebrated English novelist was
, born a hundred years ago this No- .
vember?
8. Where is Zara, which D'Annunzio re
cently captured?
9. What was tho Missouri-Compromise?
10. Who was Vice President during the
second term of Theodore Roosevelt? -
Answers to Yesterday's Qulc
X. The two ex-premlers who were returned
to the French Parliament in the recent
elections were Briand and Viviani.
2. Fasces were ensigns of authority in
Roman times. They. were a bundle
of rods with an ax in the middle car
ried by a lictor before a high magis
trate. 5. Nathaniel .Hawthorne wrota the cam
paign life of Franklin Pierce.
4. San Domingo, capital of the republic of
Santo Domingo, in the West Indies,
and Seville, Spain, are the two cities
which claim to possets the remtl&s of
Christopher Columbus.
5'. Hospodar means lord. The governors o!
Wallachia and Moldavia, which later
formed Rumania, formerly bore that
title.
6. George the Fourth of England when b
was Prince of Wales, -was 'the inti
mate of Beau Brummell, the cele
brated dandy,
Donnybrook is now included in the sub
urbs of Dublin.
8. A malaguena is a Spanish dance. It
derives its name from the city oil
Malaga.
0. Neptune, is (the planet farthest fro-j ths
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10. Charles Frobroa-t was lost on th .Lwsl-
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