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ON BEING A CHRISTIAN
rpHE liveliest sort of verbal row involv--
inr social and religious workers and
women's organizations of this city has
Just) brought, an astonishing question
violently into the foreground:
'"Tan it society woman lie a Christian'.'
U is cheering to find representatives of
the Women's Trades Union League .stand
ing resolutely in the affirmative.
Let us sec. The records of the war.
of the I!ed Cross, of all humanitarian
effort show that many of the world's
iiiost devoted Christians have been
society women. So we suppose the tiling
Is possible.
TRIALS OF SEQRET SEEKERS
"PHE President, writing in a magazine
" article, expresses an abhorrence of
governmental secrets
Tho public agrees with him and it
entertained similar sentiments before
the Peace Conference opened. Vet the
sessions in Paris wore only reported to
the public when duly staged. Doors in
Washington, too. are often shut in the
face, of earnest inquirers.
vIn fact, doors everywhere arc. Com
plete frankness, utter candor arc nearly
us rare and as eagerly pursued as un ve
neered truth.
The world can expect an end of secrets
At just about the time when all their
possessors have learned how to keep
them.
QUERY
TJUMAN curiosity will never be satis--
fled. A reader, for example, dares to
R3k why it is that while the lighting
regulations for all motorcars arc Oeing
strictly enforced, horse-drawn drays and
lighter vehicles without motors are per
mitted to flit about tho city streets and
over nearbv country roads without anv
.lights at all.
The police show signs of great zeal in
.holding motor owners to tho letter of
the new laws. It would be nice of them
to remember that a horse-drawn dray
is quite as serious an obstacle as an auto
.mobilo that must carry a red light or be
(jBtecred to a police station by the first
patrolman who happens to see it without
the usual danger signal after dark.
ANiiXERCISE IN FUTILITY
"CWEMTES of prohibition arc trying to
-LJ make the nation regret the dry laws
by citing the loss of revenues to the
government and tho loss to tho manu
facturers of intoxicating beverages as
proof that prohibition is a financial mis
take. There was never a more profitless ex
cursion into tho realms of futility than
this, for every one who knows anything
nbout the statistics of the subject is
nwarc that the financial balance is on
the credit side of prohibition.
The nation's liquor bill has been about
?2,000,000,000 a year. This sum has come
out of the pockets of the drinkers. It
will now remain in their pockets to bo
spent for other things. If half of it
should be collected in taxes the govern
ment would be better ofT financially than
it has been while collecting revenues on
the. liquor traffic.
JOHN'S GHOST
At)D to the total of vanished license
-- fees the sums that New Jersey and
Rhode Island and other states arc pre
paring to spend in attacks on the dry
' law$ and you will have a fresh concep
tion of the costs of human perfection.
The suits now planned in the effort
to, raise John Barleycorn from tho dead
will continuo for a long time. And one
Is reminded that there was always lots
of fight in John 'and' that' his 'ghoit,' "when
Jt haunts courtrooms and wails under the
vjndows.of .judged will beenerg'eticand
tclHgcront.
A national amendment is a national
amendment. The Supreme Court of the
United States has no right to alter it.
Actipn of the Legislatures and Congress
i. necessary to its repeal, and a repeal
of the prohibition law is the only means
by which the liquor business may again
bfl legalized.
. For Uic time at least John is dead It
" his i
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his shado that walks tho land, wring-
is nanus i
A NEEDLESS TRAFFIC BLOCKADE
EXPLANATIONS of the York road
-' blockade between Spencer street and
Chelteix avenue advanced yesterday by
'o$cIals of the highway and surveys bu
TSmw liavo one fatal deficiency. They
V,4o. not explain.
The condition of one of the most Im
portant traffic routes In the city suggests
tlwt the convenience of the contractors
tether than the convenience of tho public
hita Veen considered by the authorities.
Oor owners und drivers are fully
JiisWflfd in complaining of a blockade
tlit:hutB the main artery for wheeled
3cr
traffic between the city and all tho north
cm suburbs and forces the use of u de
tour that is both troublesome and
dangerous.
The contractor who has blocked York
road is building n sewer. Engineers put
n railroad tunnel under the East river
without attempting to divert the stream.
In the face of that achievement it is hard
to believe that engineers could not put a
sower under a street without stopping
traffic for a period of months if they
wanted to.
TREATY IDEALISTS HAVE AN .
ALLY IN OUTRAGED BUSINESS
Borah and the Demagogues May Fret
Over the Fact, but It Is Bound to
Prove a Bulwark for Ratification
WHEN Senator Borah bawls that busi
ness is back of tin trcat.v and that
therefore tho pact should be renounced,
he is certain to win applause from some
quarters.
There were ringing cheers although
nu insufficient number of votes for Mr.
Bryan when he championed tho silver
fallacy in a frontal attack against the
economic and commercial structure of
the land.
Mr. Roosevelt, denouncing "malefac
tors of great wealth," was much more of
u hero than in any of his lion-hunting
exrloits. Moreover, it was not the mal
feasance which so particularly disturbed
the public. It was the alarming word
tceultli.
There is something to ho said on be
half of the national shudder. Rusiness
has its sordid aspects. It has some
grasping exponents. Its principles inin
ioter to the designs of selfishness. It
would be delightful if. in an altogether
virtuous, well-fed and comfortably
housed world, there were nu business
and if nobody had to attend to any. But
as America, with its present complexion,
would nut be 'a part of that alluring
world, a hint that it is about time to
quit fooling ourselves seems somehow
in order.
The queer truth is that the theory and
practice of business in this country fail
often to coincide. Every demagogue is
fully aware of this. He cuts the cloth of
his oratory to fit tlm theory. The welkin
rings and then, more frequently than
otherwise, the man who clapped the loud
est proceeds to figure out the most ef
fective way of securing a "raise." As
we are today the most important and
the most prosperous business nation on
the earth, there must lie n considerable
number of business practitioners.
Is it any wonder that foreigners are
puzzled 7 We luivc smacked our lips
many times of late over the indictment
that Europe was cynical, Europe was
selfish, Europe was greedy. Perhaps
Europe is. Perhaps mankind, if left ex
clusively to its own devices, would be
no difi'eient. I!ut Europeans who wish
to be able to pay their debts, who desire
to sec trade restored to a normal basis
and who have some notions of the value
of commercial reciprocity, are at least
not hypocritical. They face a pressing
problem and seel: to solve it.
Slowly, of course, and after flubdub
has played out its powers of befuddle
ment, the major business nation of this
planet eventually realizes the facts.
This end is usually reached after ideal
ism has been magniloquent and ha3
failed.
Every patriotic American would natu
rally like to believe that disinterested
exalted motives had governed every
crisis in our history. It would be pulse
tingling to think that commercial inter
ests had nothing to do with the Revolu
tion; that our prodigious and suddenly
developed trade as a neutral in tho
Napoleonic era had nothing to do with
our declaration of the War cf 1812; that
tho Mexican War was fought without
covetousness for rich territory; that prin
ciples of enfranchisement aside from poli
tics were exclusively involved in the
conflict between the North and the South,
and that we demanded the Philippines
solely because we thought it better to
do what we wanted rather than what
their inhabitants and their fcllow-revolu-tionibts
.si. d.
It is not to lie denied that high stand
ards of conduct were concerned in all
these episodes. It cannot be disputed
that they were productive of abiding
good. But alas for the hopeful self
deceiver! would they have happened if
motives of 100 per cent purity had pre
vailed, and none other V The point is
seriously arguable.
It arises again in connection with the
world war and its aftermath. The ideal
ists alone did not compel us to take up
arms, else we should have striven to
drive the Germans from Belgium at the
outset.
The idealists alone did not compel us
to adopt tho peace treaty, or else the
President, at those times when his parti
san mantle was cast aside, Mr. Taft, Mr.
Wiekorsham. Lawrence Lowell, Mr.
Hoover and Charles W. Eliot would have
. won, tn , in stant victory.
Wo are not belittling the efforts of
those champions of international amity.
They' 'have' 'directed certain courses of
popular sentiment and they have accom
plished a great deal. They have not,
however, finished the job. The idealist
in this matter-of-fact world, much as
we may adore him, seldom does furnish
the knockdown argument.
Selfish interests are exceedingly po
tent, and when their purposes square
with the general good they arc to be
welcomed. At this moment the unan
swered national cry for the treaty is not
principally from students of More's
"Utopia" or of Plato's "Republic" or of
Bellamy's "Looking Backward" or of
H. G. Wells's fantasies or of Norman
Angell's estimable and veracious peace
platitudes.
Tho voice for ratification conies from
the general public, which is hurt by the
perversity of politicians who threaten
to convert the economic structure of so
ciety into a "House of Usher."
The business world foresees paralysis
if the pact of Versailles Is not revived,
The Ciiambcr of Commerce of the rtule
of New York, composed of eminent men
of tho most disparate shades of jiolitical
leanings, recently crystallized thT issue in
the following plea, sponsored almost
unanimously:
IttiSOLVtiD:
That some form of international cove
nant which becks to prevent war is it
moral necessity.
That the differences between the Presi
dent nml the Senate should he composed
without, delay by such mutual conces
sions rcgardiiif reservations rw may be
necessary in the treaty to secure ratifi
cation. Similar sentiments huve been ex
pressed by business organizations, great
and small, throughout the land, What
they hove dono must have cost Mr. Borah
indescribable shivers. Some hard-work
ing Americans, busily capitalizing their
talents and turning them into money and
comforts ns fast tisthcy can, arc perhaps
sharing in his agonies. "If business
wants it," declare, in efTcct, these con- I
tributors to the prestige of the most ,
extraordinary business nation in human
annals, "it must be wrong."
Koiiunalely, this theory, the Kohinoor
of spollbindcrs, undergoes a systematic
weakening as the problems which were
of the future become of the present.
The mischief which the treaty muddle
has made i"s now being directly felt.
Europe will be bankrupt unless Amer
ica becomes a partner in reconstruction.
Interest owing to America on the loans
aggregating t(),000,000;000 will not he
forthcoming. Internatiojml trade will ho
at a standstill. Already the cotton grow -ers
of the South arc unable to market
their product qhrontl and they are not
alone in their distress. It looks as though,
for all its faults, business had some
thing to do with keeping the nation
going.
When thiil fact is realized in the pres
ent crisis- of course it will be forgotten
again until the next mix-up compro
mised in the Senate will be mightily
npeeded. We all hate to laud the pocket
book, but it does seem just now to con
stitute the needed reprieve for the ideal
ists. Inevitably, and perhaps very soon,
it will be the effective agency in pushing
the treaty football over the goal line.
NO LESE MAJESTE LAWS!
VTOBODY denies that anarchistic aliens
' should be deported. They should not
have been admitted to tl'io country in the
first place. If they are revolutionary
anarchists their admission is forbidden
by the immigration laws. Those of them
who have slipped by tho immigration
officers should be sent back where they
came from.
The committee on immigration of the
Huuso of Representatives is going too
far when it proposes that every alien
member of the I. W. W. or any similar
organization shall be sent out of the
country. The bill which the committee
has reported to the House makes mem
bership by aliens in such nn organiza
tion, or financial assistance to it, an of
fense to be punished by deportation.
The judiciary committee is working on
a bill which will provide Punishment for
citizens who join or support radical so
cieties, whether these citizens arc guilty
of overt acts or not.
The best way to bring about the de
feat of such legislation is by making
the bills as drastic as the most hysterical
congressman can desire. This will force
tho sane-thinking congressman to seri
ous reflection. They know that it is not
a crime to be radical. They know that
it is neither a moral nor a political of
fense to declare that democracy is a
failure. If it be an offense, then the
late Henry Adams was guilty of it when
he wrote the series of essays recently
published under the title of "The Degra
dation of the Democratic Dogma."
It is fatal to assume that everything
is perfect. Some one said the other day
that the only safety for a democracy
lies in the preservation and cultivation
of the faculty of self-criticism. If our
institutions cannot withstand the critical
attacks of the I. W. W., then they ought
to bo changed. If the theories of tho
I. W. W. arc unsound, as we believe them
to be, they cannot stand exploitation.
The common sense of the majority will
reject them.
If we have so little faith in the sta
bility of our institutions that we must
clap into prison or deport every man or
woman who says they ought to be
changed, it is about time that we exam
ined the foundations of our belief.
Iispitc of the attempts of a hysterical
minority in Congress to make martyrs of
the radicals, they are not likely to suc
ceed. So long as the radicals talk their
theories they are harmless. When they
incite to violence they can be punished
by existing laws. It will be soon enough
to punish them when they make them
selves liable to punishment under tho
laws passed when the nation was in a
calmer mood than it is today.
niram Johnson's tinnm
Is likely to be bnlKril
by thnsp who MifTered
Hushes Close
to the Lino
liiilfinc In California in the Inst presidential
election. His old-time vlelnry may bring
Mm present defent. He is a figliter. but
there will be found those willing to Knock the
chip from his shoulder.
Au Aplihiirn CS. V.)
The Hiitterinllli Coir cow last year pro
duced Rl.flOft pounds
of milk, from which 1000 pounds of butter
were ninde. The soupp who called on Provi
dence to bear witness that he askei fur but
termilk would probably get what ho asked
for in Ashbiirn;
A'orwaerts, of Berlin, afler calling the
ex-kaiser a half-witted person, continues;
"It is quite clear that under such a person
fiermany was bound to rush Into war and
lose that war." One cannot get away from
the. belief that. Vorwaerts considers the losing
of the war the greater offense.
" rrom the stones thrown by Industrial
belligerents will eventually be erected a
court that will without disturbance settle all
disputes between employer and employe in
"key" industries.
Tired of the political bickering over the
peace treaty, the people are calling: "We
dou't care who killed the pig. Bring home
the bacon !"
Jack Frost Is now teaching all and sun
dry that it Is mighty hard to swap a warm
bed for a cold room.
The end of the world has again been in
definitely postponed,
7
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THE GOWNSMAN
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Systems? "Honor," and Examinations
THE whirlirig of t lino has wriggled aroiiud
once more at Pennsylvania to an "honor
s)stem." newly dubbed nu "alt-university
honor code"; and tlm student body pro
poses to take the matter, into Its own hands
to effect n complete and lasting reform.
Three points' stand out in (lie proposal:
HrM. gel the teacher out of the cxainiuatioii
room this has been dropped from lis im
portant first place, perhaps becnuse too ap
parent. Secondly, sign no obligation that
,ou will not cheat nu Important Improve
ment on the stultification and worse of many
of the old rodcH ; nnd. third, coiihtltllte your
self the vigilant keeper of your fellow stu
dents' honesty,' we must assume, by watch
ing blni, spying on him and informing on
him lo n committee ot bis fellows, carefully
constituted to try him, judge him nnd pena
li.n him. ,
tffTTONOIt pricks mo on. Yea. but how
- If honor prick me off when I come on?
tlow then? Can honor set a leg? No. Or
nn arm? No. Or tnke nuny the grief of
a wound? No. Honor linlh no skill in
surgery, then? No. What is honor?' A
word. What is in that word honor? Air.
fin modern English we would heat it.) A
trim reckoning? He (bat died Wednesday.
Dulli he feel it? No. Doth he bear It?
No. 'Tit Insensible, then? Yen, to tho
dead. But will it llo with the living? No.
Why? Detraction will not suffer it. Thcrc
ifore I'll none of it. Honor i n mere scutch
eon ; and mi ends my catechism.'
Thus spake Sir .Inliu KaMaff. the most
engaging and the mo-l disreputable of tho
Philistines: a drunkard, a gourmand, a thief
nnd sharper, for the gain as well as for
the fun of the thing; a warrior who hacked
bis enemies, being down, and ran away from
them when they stood up against him; a
man I hat Prince Hal took to his heart in
I lie mad dnys of hN wild oats, wdioni he
repudiated in his righteous kingship. This
man took a practical view of "honor" and
iniglil have used a "sj stein" or u "code"
to his advantage in this world, if not in
the world to come.
rpllR (Sowm-inan has an innate uvcrslon to
todes and systems, organizations nnd
arrangements limiting personal liberty; and
this is because ho is the opposite of the
socialist, in most of the many misconcep
tions of the .ocialist. Cheating in school
nnd in order to pass examinations is the
silliest form of dishonestj , because -the
cheater is cheating himself and seriously
injuring nobody ekse. But this kind of
ill-honesty is as completely a inisdcinenuor
against the body corporate in which it
occurs as is theft, for example, in the com
munity at large. We do not need a society
of thief takers, recruited from honest citi
zens, unlit tho constituted authority of the
law breaks down, nod we do not need r
vigilance comniiltce of students in a college
until the constituted authority there can be
slioiMi lo he inefficient or ineffective.
WHY this extraordinary aversion to a
lenc.her or n proctor in charge rrf an
examination? Do we quarre with the police
man in uniform and on the street to protect
the public? There would be no need of n
policeman if we were all of us honest and
law-abiding. There would be no need ot
a proctor at examinations if human flesh
were not weak. But is the policeman any
more an offense lo the honest innu than the
proctor should bo to tho honest student?.
It is the evil doer who fears being watched,
not he whose, acts are open to the eyes
of all. The Gownsman is glad to see that
this feature of the "all-university honor
code" with the damaging inferences possible
from it has been recognized and silently
omitted.
pi'T even nmre damaging Is the article
-'-' which provides that a student shall report
any help which ho may okserve passing
among his fellows. Examinations have been
regarded as serious enough and as requiring
for success n certain degree of singlcuess of
aim. The unfortunate creatures of this
"nil -university1 code" if each is to do his
duty must now perform at each examina
tion a double function, try to answer tho
questions before him and keep a weather
eye open as to all bis neighbors. Suspicion
must lurk in his heart while his brain is
working problems; for not only must each
student pass honestly himself, but be re
sponsible for every other man's honesty.
Verily this is to be jour brother's keeper,
to perform simultaneously the function
of tilt honest citizen and the alert police
man. Is it .a matter of houor to be on the
qui vivo to observe if the processes of your
neighbor nro as "honest" as your own.
And can wo think that any man, in college
or out, will oluntarily court the repute of
an informer? A "code" based on such n
misconception ot honesty is destined to
certain failure.
THE Gownsman would not trouble his
renders with this matter of schoolboy
morality did he not feel that it.involves a
deeper question. We have been simplifying
our ediicational methods until education has
become as easy as ljing, nnd partially con
sistent in that ancient art. Entrance ex
aminations are gone, certification now
' covers a multitude of sins, less of admis
sion than of omission. The old bones on
which we used to cut our intelleetunl eye
teeth, after becoming mere bones of con
tention, hnve been, for n large part, thrown
to the dogs and we are living on educational
gruels. General intelligence tests mny yet
reduce us "all to the intelligence of the
general, and that general is not the commander-in-chief.
The "all -university honor
code" will render examinations innocuous.
for no body of American students can be
found be it said to their eternal credit
to administer a code so dishonorable.
THE Gownsman approves one kind of
examination above all others, nnd that is
one In which each man stands on his own
feel and, eye to eye with bis examiner,
speaks up as to what he knows, It Is only
the Impracticability of larco numbers, the
nature of certain subjects and, to be frank,
the laziness of instructors that prevents
the greater vogue of this rational test. The
best examination is Hint which needs no
bolstering of "honor codes" or policing
system. Shall I lead even my younger
brother into temptation?
As' the world did not end, the astrologers
are willing to compromise on n tidal wavo
due tomorrow as a result of yesterday's con
junction of planets. Your terrorist is the
only optimist. He Is never disheartened.
The subway system now has a $",S0(), -000
yachting cap. The $50,000,000 yacht
may come later.
The Supreme Court decision still rever
berates In the news like the pop of cham
pagne: KxtraJDry!!!
May wo not look for n declaration of
Independence from Democrats lu the United
Slates Senate?
The fuel administrator and the weather
man are uo longer working in harmony.
The planets, apparently, did not have
auy pull with Jack Frost,
e tun spot failed to rais lie degefc
T TT7"11 V"VTT nTTVO
TRAVELS IN PHILADELPHIA
1
By Christopher Morlcy
In West Philadelphia
CLIMBING aboard ear No. 13 ominously
labeled "Jit. Moriah" I voyaged toward
West Philadelphia. It was n keen day, the
first snow of winter had fallen and sparkling
;uslics ot cum swept inwaru every iimo ib
side doors opened. The conductor, who gets
the full benefit of this ventilation, was feel
ing cynical, and seeing his blue hands I
didn't blame him. Long, lines of ladies,
fumbling with their little bags and waiting
for change, stepped off one by one into the
wiudy eddies of tho street corners. Ono
came up to pay her fare ten blocks or so
before her destination, nnd then retired to
her scat again. This puzzled the conductor
and he rebuked, her. The argument grew
busy. To the amazement of the passengers
this richly dressed female brandished lusty
epithets. "You Irish mlckl" she said.
(One would net have believed it possible it
he had not heard it.) "That's what I am,
and proud ot it," said he. The shopping
fcolbticc is not nil fur coats and pink checks.
If you wntch the conductprs in the blizzard
season, and see the slings and arrows they
have to bear, you will coin a new maxim.
The conductor is always right.
TT1
-1 li
IS always entertaining to move for a
ttle in a college atmosphere. I slopped
at College Hall at. the University nnd seri
ously contemplated slipping in to n lecture.
The hallways were crowded with earnest
youths of both sexes I was n bit surprised
at the number of co-eds, particularly the
number with red hair discussing tho tribu
lations of their lot. "Think of it," said one
man. "I'm it senior, nnd carrying twenty
three hours. Got n thesis to do, liO.OOO
words." On a bulletin board I observed the
results of n "General Intelligence Exam."
It appears that, 1770students took part.
They were listed by numbers, not by names.
It was not stated what the perfect mark
would have been ; the highest grado attained
was 1."0, by Mr. (or Miss?) 735. The low
est mark wits 23. I saw that both 410 and
1121 got. the mark of 140. If these gen
tlemeu (or ladies) are eager to play off tho
tie, the Chuffing Dish would bo happy to
arrange a deciding competition for them.
Tho elaborate care with which the boys and
girls ignore one another as they pass In the
halls was highly delightful, and reminded
me of exactly the same thing at Oxford. But
I saw the possible beginning of true romance
in the following notice on one of the boards :
WANTKD: Names and addresses of ten
nlco American university students who
must remain in Philadelphia, over Chrlst
iiuis, nway from home, to be Invited to a
Christmas Eve party to help entertain
eoine Bryn Mawr Collogo girls in ono ot
the nicest homes In a suburb of Philadelphia.
Certninly there is tho stage set for a short
story. Perhaps uot such a short one, either.
1ST
ATUBALLY I could not resist a visit to
the library, where most ot the readers
seemed wholly absorbrd, though one student
was gaping forlornly over a volume of Ten
nyson. I found an intensely amusing book,
"Who's Who in .rnpan," a copy of which
would be a valuable standby to a newspaper
paragraphcr In bis bad moments. For in
stance: SASAKI, TKT.SIJTAIIOt One or the
highest taxpayers of lAikushlma-Uen, Prcsl
dent of tho Hongu Heeling Partnership,
Director of the Dal Nippon Had I urn Water
,Co. ; brewer, reelcr; born Aug., 1800.
SAKDHAI, lOillHAKU. Member of tho
Nllgata City Council; Director of tho
Nllgata Gas Co,., Nllgata Havings Hank.
Horn June. 1872. Sludlrd Japanes- and Clil
nose classics and arithmetic At present also
ha connects with the Nllgata Orphanage
and vtwlouji obar-phUanthleplo bodies, Wa
WT?TT? DAnTM) l?fT
AN END YESTERDAY!"
Imprisoned by acting contrary to tho act
of oxposlve compound for seven years.
Ilccreatlons: reading, AVostcrn wine.
pELYlNG on my apparent similarity to
'' the average undergrad, I pluugcd into
tho sancln of Houston
Hall and bought a
I copy of the Bunch t?oyl
What that sprightly
journal calls "A littlo group of Syria's
thinkers" was shooting pool. The big fire
places, like most fireplaces in American col
leges, dou't Fxcin to be used. They don't
even show auy traces ot ever having been
used, a curious contrast to the always blaz
ing hearths ot English colleges. The latter,
however, aro more necessary, as In ICngland
there fs usually no other source of warmth.
A bitter skirmish of winds, carrying pow
dered snow dust, nipped round the gateways
ot tho dormitories, and Tait MacKenzio's
fiue statue of Whiteticld stood sharply out
lined against a cold blue sky. I lunched at
a varsity hash counter on Spruce street and
bought tobacco in a varsity drug store, where
a New York tailor, over for tho day, w,as
cajoling students into buying his "snappy
styles" in time for Christmas. There is no
more interesting game than watching a lot
of college men, trying to pick out those wdio
may be of some value to the community in
future. the scientists, poets, teachers of the
next generation. The well-dressed youths
one sees in the varsity drug stores are not
generally of this type.
t
TUB Evans School of Dentistry at For
tieth nnd Spruce is ai surprising place.
Its grotesque gargoyles, showing (with tmo
medieval humor) tho sufferings ot tooth pa
tients, arc the first thing oue notices. Then
ono finds the museum, In which is housed
Dr. Thomas W. Kvans's collection ot paint
ings and curios brought back from France.
Unfortunately there seems to bo uo catalogue
of tho items, so that there is no way of
knowing what interesting associations belong
to them. But most surprising of all is to
find tho traveling carriage of the fimprcss
Hugenie in which she fled from France in the
fatal September days of 1870. She spent
her last night in France at the home of Doc
tor Kvans, nnd there Is a spirited painting
by Dupray bhowing her leaving his houso
the next morning, ushered into the carriage,
by tho courtly doctor. The old black
barouche, or whatever ono calls it, seems in
perfect condition still, with the empress's
monogram on the door panel. Only the other
day wo read in the papers that the remark
able old lady (now in her ninety-fourth
year) hns been walking about Purls, revisit
ing well-known scenes, How it would sur
prise her to see her carriage again hero in
this University building in West Philadel
phia. The whole museum is delightfully
French m flavor: as soon ns oue enters one
seems to step back into tho curiously bizarre
nnd tragic extravagance ot tho Second Em
pire. ONH passes into the dignified and placid
residence section ot Spruco and Pine
streets, with its distinctly nendemje air. Be
hind those quiet wnlls one suspects book
cases nnd studious professors and nil the de
lightful passions of tho mind. On Baltimore
nvenno the wintry sun slione white und
cold ; in Clark Park, Charles Dickens wore
a littlo rap ot snow, nnd Little Nell looked
more pathetic than ever. There is a breath
of mystery about Baltimore avenue'. What
docs 'that largo -sign mean, in front of a
house neiir Clark Park TUB EASTERN
TItAVKLEHS? Then one conies to the
famous shop of S, F. Hiram, tho Dodoueaean
Shoemaker ho calls himself. This wise col
ored man has learned the advertising advan
tages of the unusual. Ills placard reads:
Originator of that famoua Pobruinilyl
rivtcm of repairing
When one enters and asks to know more
about this system, he points to uiiutlicr
placard, which says s
Itiunie. tb picture pnH ohRraiter.pJ .
t
TVTlH rtirt frTrn M1
an appellative noun, and carries the avtlol
Tho System.
His shop seems tOContaln odd curios ai
well ns the usual traffic of a cobbler. "The
public loves to be hoodwinked," he adds
sagely.
And tho travel ended at the borne of Mr.
Frank II. Taylor, the veteran artist whose
published, drawings go back to the old days
of tho New York .Graphic, and who has cer
tainly dona more than any other living man
to keep alive Philadelphia's appreciation- of
her historic past. What other man has
given Philadelphia not only hundreds of
charming drawings of her old beauty spots
nnd quaint vistas, but also a son who stands
in the lirst rank of American artists?
GIVE US PEACE
J
f LORD of Peace,
who art Lord of
v l
Bightcousuess,
Constrain tho anguished worlds from sin
and grief.
Pierce thenl with conscience, purge them
with redress,
And give us peace which Is no counterfeit!
Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
The advocacy by Governor Allen, of
Kansas, of a court of industrial relations
makes us feci like a proud father whoso child
Is winning recognition in tho world.
What Do You Know?,
QUIZ
1. Who was Benito Juarez?
2. What is a duodecimo volume?
H. What was the middle name of James
K. Polk?
4. Who said "Wine makes a man better
pleased with himself. I do not say
that it makes him more pleasing to
others"?
fi. When was the ago of Pericles?
0. On what does the breadfruit grow?
7. What American state has tho smallest
population?
5. What is tho origin of the word leree?
0. What is the complete title of Charles
Dickens's "Christmas Carol"?
10. What Is the second largest city In Cuba?
Answers to Yesterday's Quiz
1. Enver Paiha, a Turk, has recently been
crowned king of Kurdistan.
2. Gil Bas, of Santtllaua, Is the engaging
hero of Lo Sago's picturesque romanoe
ot the same name. The book was pub
lished in 1715. ,
8. Tho musical term "moll" Is from the
German and means minor.
4. James W. perard, formerly American
ambassador at Berlin, has entered the
race for the presidency,
5. Isocrates was a noted Greek orator who
lived during the latter part of the
fifth and the tirst part of the fourth
century B.C. Socrates was the great
Athenian philosopher, teacher of
Plato, and a contemporary of the
orator.
0. A sailor came to 'be called a tar because
' hla hands and clothes were tarred by
the ship tackling.
7. Chintz means spotted and Is derived from
the Persian word "chinz," spotted,
stained.
8. Luis Cabrera Is the Mexican secretary
ot the treasury,
i). "Old Christmas Day" was Jannary fl.
When Gregory XIII reformed the cal
endar in 1fi82 he omitted ten days, but
when the new stylo was adopted In
England and America In 1752 it was
necessary to cut off eleven days, which
drove back .Inniiury fl to December 25
of tho previous year. So what wq now
call January 0 in the old style wouldf
be Christmas Day, or December 25,
10, Ip 'dry wluo ull tho sugar haB ben emi
rated into alcob.pl, ,
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