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A!ttlti TlTTTJr t TTOi T" Philadelphia, W rdnetdajr, January 7, 19J9 THE BOARD AROUSED ")N aspersion long cast at the Board f of Public Education has suddenly be come invalid. When the president resigns, when the agitated atmosphere crackles with contradictions, when the rctiiemcnt fit the superintendent of schools is urged, that important executive body which meets at Nineteenth and Market streets cannot be called somnolent. In the absence of detailed and dispas sionate information the public is not yet in a position to estimate the merits or demerits of the criss-cross controversies. Siiere are, however, general reasons in most any case for welcoming even fric tion in preference to less melodramatic torpitude. A little excitement now and then, if not carried to destructive excess, villi do the Board of Public Education no harm. Some of the criticism at times directed aafnst it has been extravagant and un "rg'asonable. Wo have no disposition to echo the conventional sentiments of fad dists, who have reiterated the charge of old fogyism until that, too, has become wearisome. There are some able as well as venerable men on the board. Their present differences of opinion are evidence of a certain zeal for convictions wrjiich is often a factor in progress. The board animated and awake, even if a trifiepross, is altogether preferable to the board asleep or merely suavely con tented with the educational status quo in this city. S-L WHERE PARTISANS AGREE WILL II. HAYS, in Chicago yesterday, V promptly answered the Republican Women conferees from fourteen states Who asked for a tabloid platform for 1920. This speedy crystallization of principles involved success of the party campaign, reduction of taxes, develop eJ& oi Detter relations between labor ,. -and capital, promise of an administra tion of law and order. ' fGood sentences, and well pronounced. Btit when the Democrats announce, as of course they will all political parties do substantially the same progiam, what will become of the vast partisan gulf which divides the electorate of this Tepublic ? eThe presidency for an issue! Leaders in both parties are revolving that thought today. It has little bearing on the "handy" program or the convention alized hurrah. t PALATABLE RFfiFPVfl.TinMC ti J mHE twplv RoniiWipr. v,,:i.i ,. ' la -. . - -..uu.,vii iHim icacivil- tionists who aie said to be considering i a fusion with fortv-four npmncrats in i?3 treaty tansle are in ;i nnsiHnn tn ,i Jta country an immense service. ' Sane agreement on this subject by flfty-six senators will not establish the necessary two-thirds majority, but the concert should be a stimulus to waverers. Once a specific, intelligible plan is afoot the sentiment of the nation will make resistance to it difficult to maintain. It is MntecHhat the compromise reser vations will be on lines close to those set down by Mr. Lodge. But theie is no inevitable reason to foresee deadlock in the movement. It was not so much the substance as the manner of the Lodge reservations which made them objection uble. They were bad-tempered, belligerent. A modification of their style and a very uigterial softening of tha obstructionary preamble should go far toward making them tolerable to the nations by the Bide of which we fought the v, ar. , DISTURBERS OF THE PEACE IP THERE is one thing that the woild rnnnnt. ufTnrrl it iu ml.i,n,l. n..j:.. between America and Rviinin ,, nr,,. f abatement of the sympathy that grew up i automatically between the two great ,, divisions of the Anglo-Saxon world in the years of the war. The results of any wide separation of British and American aims pn policies would be immeasurable and, r in, all probability, disastrous. Naval .rivalry on a stupendous scale would bo 'jertaln. But more dangerous would be i the suspicions and jealousies that confuse jMHigm, dissipate energy and make windlv co-operation irnuossiLle. jjljyery rational observer of events ad nSall this. And yet there are in Vsanricu J L'reat manv npnnlp wUn ... 8 fyjngr to revive the old-fashioned fJ-uH 411 1 1- I.- I i.. , , jtuc; uiut uacu iu ue nuuwii as ivwsi- the lion's tail. Riiplnnil Iins n imm 0f irresponsible men who are quite as de ,tinined to be offensive to thq United Sfstes. Thus Hearst has been fanning 'I'argotten prejudices to new life with )w-roports of British designs on Ameri can financial rpsonrces. Senntor Sliannin jn -t -- ---a"- - ... g.v.tf. f H JlyitT an ardent obbligato to the Tiliiiiif tunc, and the biir navv crowd in :lnd are shouting hysteiical wain- 1ini aim 4 mw i n 1 1 inoni(!n.. Vt.ni f$m:'pii;ge$t navy in the world is neces tlo keen the Americans from irrnb- xBornwuB i'i vne wonu. . BtjnyeHfrook, who ortranisc! British propaganda for the war and ad ministered tho system in a manner that offended the good taste of many English men and many Americans, is still at his old job. It is Beaverbrook who is pre sumed to have sent a mission of clergy men to the United States to explain the Irish question to the American people. It is most unfortunate that this enter prise is so organized and conducted that it may easily stimulate on this side of the world something of the religious bitter ness that is one of the fundamental causes of endless unrest in Ireland. The people of Great Britain and America need a new set of interpreters. Their aims and hopes are the same. Working and thinking in harmony, they can do endless good in a troubled world. Here and in the British Isles ancient mis conceptions were wiped out by the com mon adventure of the great war. It will be a pitiful end to all the sacri fice and suffering of the past five years if irresponsible jingoes and inexpert meddlers in public affairs can distuib a lelationship that is of the utmost im portance to civilization and create fresh dislikes out of their own ignorance and their own hysteria. MR. BRYAN EMERGES INTO THE LIMELIGHT He Is Willing to Be a Candidate on His Record and a Government Ownership Platform TT BEGINS to look as if the next Demo- cratic national convention would be forced to consider the availability of Mr. Bryan for the presidency. The Nebraska orator has emerged from the obscurity that has cnslnouded him since his retirement from the cabinet and will be the first speaker at the Jackson Day dinner of the Democratic national committee in Washington tomorrow night. That is, he will be the first to speak after President Wilson's "impor tant statement" has been read. That he is a receptive candidate goes without saying. He was receptive in 1912 and did not step aside until he discovered that there was no chance for him. Then he thiew his influence to Mr. Wilson and brought about his nomination, with the result that Champ Clark, who had the votes of a majority of the delegates on several ballots, was not on speaking terms with him for a long time. Before the convention Mr. Bryan, that year, had been setting himself up as a censor of candidates. He found objections to virtually every man mentioned. The cynics said that the only man he thought fit for the place was William Jennings Bryan, and his conduct gave excuse for this view. He is now said to be pursuing tho same course in" private conversations, and is knocking all the aspirants who have come into the open. He has not yet begun to give out interviews on the sub ject, but they are likely to come in the near future, and tho purpose of them will be to concentrate attention on his own availability. That he has certain elements of avail ability is evident to 11 who have not for gotten his record. Indeed, he can point with pride to the adoption of the things which he has advocated and to the woik ing out of the theories for which he fought. When he is told that the silver dollar is worth somewhat more than the gold dollar he grins with delight, ignoring the economic conditions that have brought about the change, and allowing the public to infer that fiee coinage at the ratio of sixteen to one would not have been so bad after all. He will not admit that he was advocating a fifty-cent dollar in 189G to pay a hundred cents' worth of debts, even if the hope for this delightful outcome was what made the debtors of 180G eager for his election. He has been a consistent advocate of woman suffrage, and Congress has passed the necessary constitutional amendment, which is now awaiting ratification by the slates. He has been a prohibitionist for years, and in 191(3 he prophesied that tho Demo cratic party would be a dry party in 1920. Events have moved faster than he antici pated and the whole country will be per manently dry in less than two weeks un less the improbable happens and the Supreme Court rules that the constitu tional amendment is unworkable. But" it may be said that suffrage and prohibition are dead issues. Yet Mr. Bryan can say that he was for them when it was unpopular to be in their favor. There remains government ownership of lailroads, for which Mr. Bryan has been an open advocate ever iince his Madison Square Garden speech, made on his return from a tour around the world. Other leaders of his party are afraid of this issue. Mr. Wilson has ordered tho return of the railroads to their owners on March 1, in spite of the fact that Mr. McAdoo, when in charge of them, urged that the government retain control for live years in order that there might be a fair test of the ability of the government to manage them. Mr. Bryan is aware that the labor unions favor government ownership, and that the men employed on tho lailroads whose wages were increased by Mr. Mc Adoo beyond their hopes would like the politicians to continue to have control of the wage scale. There are votes in this issue and Mr. Bryan knows it, votes from the railroad workers and votes from the people who are hostile to all corporations and would like to see them despoiled. Mr. Bryan has a large following among the haters of corpoiate wealth. So as a long-time friend of equal suf frage and prohibition, now virtually ac cepted by the nation, and as the ardent advocate of government ownership, Mr. Bryan can point with confidence to his availability as a presidential candidate by a party which i.s seeking for u man and an issue different from Mr. Wilson and the peace treaty. The uncertain element in the situation today ib the attitude of the President himself. At present it looks as if there were to be a contest between Mr. Wilson and Mr. Bryan for the control of the party. Mr. Wilson has been in office seven years awf he has made enemies in his party who Would like to see his power curtailed. Mr. Bryan has been out of office for five years, but he has not been idle. And he has not been playing Mr. Wilson's game. The "important statement" from the White Housfc that Is to be lead to the diners tenmrqw night will be carefully i lit. r ll,,..,'., ..... ...t i, jvi7i,u "'" wii.ii iMi . " jr.iu p owul-uii nn uie EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER same occasion in order to discover which makes tho more enticing bid to the loyal Democrnts. Wc shall know more about tho situation on Friday morning than wc know this afternoon, but It is one the un folding of which deserves tho careful at tention of every one interested in the approaching presidential campaign. WAR AT THE HALL? QFFICEHOLDhJRS allied with tho V Vares who found themselves tempo rarily or permanently jobless yesterday when the new city solicitor suddenly dis missed tho entire staff of his department need not rail at lIayor Moore or Mr. Smyth. Such communications as they may have to make in the present crisis should bo sent to the irrepressible Charley Hall, who, as the head of the Vare faction in the new Council, arosa at the first meet ing and clamored for fight. The dramatic invitation was accepted, but Mr. Hull was nowhere about to take the consequences or help the afflicted brethren. So it has always been with word-fighters. As an example of political tactlessness the out burst of defiance at the organization of the new Council was almost without a piccedent. A policy of frightfulness directed at the Vares and their friends was not con templated by Mr. Moore. It is to be hoped that it will not be necessary. The innocent, in such circumstances, 'would inevitably suffer with the guilty. The city solicitor has intimated that he will reinstate some of the people fired yester day and it is to be hoped that he will do so. As a demonstration of force the up heaval was convincing. Mr. Hall and his advisers ought to know now that it is unwise to start anything that you can't finish. A cry for war to the hilt came with poor grace from the leader of the Vare forces in Council. What Mr. Hall apparently forgot was that he and his associates in the opposition represent a discredited order of politics and that the men he challenged are actually pledged to better things. There are no evenly balanced issues to inspire sympathy for a fighting minority. The question in the new Council is one of good or bad govern ment. There is one way in which everybody can be relatively safe at City Hall. Everybody, including the Vare council men, can get in line and pull together behind a Mayor who wants good govern ment and is willing to fight for it skill fully and, in a pinch, without mercy. WITHOUT HONOR CONSIDERATIONS of honor and of '"' decency are restraining influences among all civilized people. Normal men hesitate before they lie or steal or answer friendliness with enmity. It is because the moral sense is utterly lacking in pro fessional agitators for the Bolshevists that more scrupulous people must deal mercilessly with them. Any crime is tolerated in the Lenine philosophy as a means to an end. Hereto fore only daring criminals went in for counterfeiting. But the manufacture and circulation of imitation money has long been one of the accepted methods of prac tical bolshevism. Fake money and fake Liberty Bonds were found by the agents of the Depart ment of Justice in many of the recent raids in this country. This evidence shows at least that some of the irreconcilables now in jail were preparing to adopt in this country a method that Lenine ap plied with extraordinary effect in Russia. The early Bolshevists adopted counter feiting a? the supreme form of sabotage. When they wished to bring Russia to her knees they began the demoralization cf the financial system by flooding the country with imitation money. They counterfeited not for profit chiefly, but to bring about social and moral confusion. Wc muchly four that Tho Eil Men Do tho old souk mny lip truthfully parodied to rond, "Tho 15oKhrist buy lins boon tired. II ha& 50110. but lip left bis dope behind him." After .lesterdny's ox- Aml One on the iiorioiico, wo enture MajorS Mionlder I lie kuoss that some of the chips that passed in the night wore those that foil when City Solicitor Smjth hewed to tho lino. Wouldn't it be ehoeriiiK if civil service could be substituted for the uncivil sen ice one so frequently meets with in street cars, stores and restaurants? n'Aunun.io's cashier bus decamped with n million lire. Tho Youiif; Lndy Next Door Hut One calls it "lyre," and hopes the poet bus one left to twang. Instead nf tnieKace increasins on United States railroads in lilll). it decreased f).'!:j miles. If this kind of thine keeps up it is going to bo hard on shoe leather. The Russian situation will have prob ably cleared lij the time hae bcromo reasonably familiar with tho countrj's geography. 'Jlie greatest crime of the Turk is not that ho has inuile the Armenians suffer, but that ho has made their suffering a common place. The one and only touch of gentub about Burleson is his firm belief that he knows a darned sight more than tho rest of the country. What many of our solous fall to realize is that Uncle Sam is a healthy guy aud can stand a whole lot of criticism. It may at least bo conceded that the habit of reticence acquired In the navy is not cbroic. Speaking of conferences, tor the "un speakable" Turk to hatr any "saj -so" beems a contradiction iu terms. Colonel Iluriey is tha country's fore most humorist. He has suggested Senator Lodge as a presidential possibility. Perhaps the Milwaukee product doesn't claim to be more than a "-'.75 patriot. Cheer up. xou. The longer you keep u resolution tho easier It in to keep. lllue loiter days this jcor arc January 111 mid March l.ri. When .lack Frost loics Ids grip bome Iwily duo Umlti It. j ( .SV-m V PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY; JANUARY THE GOWNSMAN NICHOLAS II WHEN Toby died, Ida disconsolate family thought that never again would they take to their hearts another dog. Perfections such ns Toby's could not bo thought o as centering once more in any crenture of the canine racoj and wc went on for a tlmc dreary and doglcss. It vas then that the foiclgn aristocrat, Nicholas, came into our lives. Nicholas was n diplomat by birth, as appeared later vjn his breeding and con duct. His father had been sometime of the American legation, -at what was then known as St. Petersburg; his mother was bred In Brussels and had tho entry or lay In the entry of our embassy to King Albert. Nicholas was the second because his father was tho first, and his father was named after an empercr in times when emperors were still undcturoiied and uumiirdercd. NICHOLAS was born in n chateau on the I.nke of Ooncva and just about the time of the breaking out of the great war. Being too young to travel, he (lelued the joung woninn who wan to eucort him to America, so that both narrowly escaped be ing interned In O.cnnany. When Nicholas arrived In New York he was mot by the (townsman and duly seen through tlw cus toms in company with n parrot of malicious nnd imitative temper. Nickj, as he was soon familiarly called, weighed rather less nt that time than the parrot, for he was only a few times the size of a grown white rat nnd very much of n white rat's complexion. Hut he had already gtnw'n a bark which tho malicious parrot had learned to imitate exactly, so that when the Oownsm.ui walked off the pier with n cage iu one hand and a basket in the other, it was quite impossible to tell ocnlly which was which. A legend came off of that ship with Nicholas to the elTeet that he had routed an impertinent peKinoso who had wisely de clined combat. Blood will tell. OP NICHOLAS it might bo said as of some other aristocrats, that he was possessed of customs, but no manners. His customs in time fell into abeyance and his manners im proved until he grew to be a handsome young fellow, sleek, white of hair on a delicate piuk skin, his ears only properly spotted, lithe, graceful and n beautiful runner. His eyes wore one of his points; they wore diagonal little slits, tho eyes of a dog. uncertain, not human like those nf his Uncle Toby, to whom, Nicholas would have, ".on know, he was only remotely related. To Nicholas, humans were a coinonient and somewhat irksome necessity, ronnected iu some imsterious wise with warmth, housing and provender; to be treated civilly as became a gentleman, but not to heroine too familiar with. Nicholas was polite and jielded occasionally to the blandishments of society, but kept himself aloof, perhaps dreaming of the aristocratic world of his aneestiy, of chateaux, embassies and lackejs attendant. TT IS difficult to think of two ideas so - repugnant ns those of a dog nnd work. In efficient Oermnny, even dogs used to work for the Fatherland, helping to drag carts, sometimes harnessed with a woman, and tills Hunnish practice extended beyond (lermany's .sometime borders. There are also tales, iu old dajs, of unhappy dogs unnaturally trained to turn a spit, thereby .assisting in that base occupation, the culinary prepara tion of food. Hut jour true dog is by nature either n gentleman or n vagabond. And he will fight for you, steal for you, die for jou, but not work for jou. He lonthos work even ns he Ioes sport, nnd he will growl at him who carries a bundle and snap nt the legs of the wretch who has the impertinence to go ill-dresed. Nicholas was an -inveterate respecter of persons and liked the well gloomed, especially ladies. For politic rea sons he responded somewhat to the butcher's boy ; but for folk in trade, as a rule, he pre served nothing but a contemptuous indif ference. WIIHTIinR born of aristocratic disdain or of some lomantic strcnk undiscernihlc in his honorable pedigree. Nicholas ever jearncd-for the larger, outside world. Neither persuasion nor discipline could cure him of the runaway habit; a door on tho crack, n gate ajar, and he was off to freedom, to ad venture, happiness. Many were the ran soms that wo paid for his return from points nt times miles awnv. It is said that ho always headed for Now York and the great white way, but this is not substantiated. "A white bull terrier answering when he deigns to answer to the name of Nicholas" be came a standing advertisement in the daily papers, aud strange curs were sometimes brought, even when Nicholas happened to be "at home," answering lemotely to the description in that they were not cats. One afternoon about twilight when Nicholas hap pened to be out, he was apparently brought home, but turned into the garden, beluncd with a strange and unwonted diffidence when approached und appealed to. He seemed weary nnd was fed nnd put to bed in his favorite corner. The next morning, the erituble Nicholas appeared, and upon in vestigation, the supposed Nicholas turned out to be a Nlelinln, n voritnhle cousin on the distaff side. Here was the beginning of a happy romance. Hut absolutely nothing came of it. 'Nichola was not a wedding belle. A PI'ARHNTLY our anxiety as to the rc turn of our prodigal was ill found. lie could take care of himelf. Tho pound never got him ; nnd he returned more than once with a broken rope nr rollarloss. Nothing could hnp been more ridiculous than his ap pearance in the early morning, whining at the gnte. dirty, miserable, blear-ojed, de jected. I'rei'Nelj like a man who had been on a spree, 1 rami drink, mono drink, and sloop, long, heat j, audible sleep. After which a bath and a good meal would make him oer as good a dog as any. What be cunic of Nicholas? The (townsman is almost ashamed to tell. lie enlisted iu tho navy. Or, ut least, he was parted with to one of those who go down to the sea iu ships; but not for n consideration. Who could so disgrace an aristocrat? Perhaps he became a famous mascot on a destroyer and now wears some kind of an honorable cross? Who can (ell? Dogs of war of lesser blood luic deserved well of the country. Prophets are a unit in declaring that Mayor J. Hampton Moore is not going to suffer from ennui during tho next few months. "Friends aud Oflico-seekers" reads a headline. Major Mooie can appreciate the distinction. The Major knows what the people wunt. It is now the duty of the people to help him get it. The real politician is first politic; then he uses an ax. Mr. Hall has discovered that the way to find trouble is to go out and hunt it. Near-beer has received another swift kick in its percentage. Near-beer is now Just n little further away. War ha somnliut ubrldgeil woman's loan-year privileges, 'TWIXT HOT WATER . ,.. ,! j 335 ' i'.LL. ., j'jf . .a-- " A 4 ' : m ,t ., vi $, -u-. mmm-?-, v ,. TH& CHAFFING DISH ' Nothing Is Imperishable In "For All Wo Have and We Are." Klp llnir has shown his possession of the su preme faculty ot uttering in Imperlsliablo phrase the emotion ot his people. Brander JIntthews, In the New York Times. The phrase was not so imperishable in the hands of the New York Times liuotjper, however. It should have been "For All Wc Have and Are." Mythical Characters The veterans of this here, now, lute world war to whom wc doff the derby are two: lie who, when asked if he got his connnis siou, srfys, quite simply and without1 ex planatory asterisks, "No," ntd he who, never having been carried into the war zone, sajs, without reference to sailing dates on or about November 1L', "No." ALBINO. Wp were contemplating upon tho decline of beards nnd whiskers in politics, viewing the small aud neatly trimmed mustaches of the Major and some of his new cabinet as they sat lined up for inspection at a lunriieon jesterday. Then we reinembeied thuc Mr. Cattell is still city statistician. Discussing the late Sir William Osier's delightful book. "Aoquanimitas," as we wore with Dr. C. P. Franklin nt the Klwnnis lunch jesterday, the waiter came nlong and decanted n plateful of food upon the doctor. Then we wore privileged to obsenc a most pleasing exhibition jof the equanimity recom mended by the great physician and essajist. Like tho lady in Teuuj sou's poem, Doctor Franklin "nor wept nor uttered cry." He only remarked "That doesn't help much," ami wo made a mental note to seek bravely for similar restraint and calmness iu our own life. There are mauy heroes at a public luuchcou besides those at the speakers' tabic. Doctor Franklin aNo told t.s an interesting tale about his experiences in Italy during the war. We may bao missed tome of it during tho recrberatioti of cioekory, but what wc got ran this waj : On the buttloiield of Yit torio, north of Venice, duriug tho last dujs of the war. Doctor Franklin noticed some Italian soldiers carrjing medals they had ro moed from the bodies of (load Austrian ofli ccrs. He had a fancy for one of these as u soinenir, but the Italians did not want to part with them. A small boy, seeing that he wanted a medal, offered to get one for him for three cigarettes, lie ran off into the town and shortly returned with tin imposing bronze disk which bo gno to the doctor. The latter, on examining it, found that it wns u modal nwarded by tho Philadelphia Centennial Imposition in tS7(i. lle brought it back home with lilin, but was unable to find out to whom it had been uwaided. Geometrical Meditation The sorict circles seem to have been biokeu up into arks. Why are the ladies in the Heauty Corner alwnjs ".Miss"? pretty girls ccr got married? buck page Don't the Another Henry VIII Cut Off Too Soon From the cheery "Log" of the Circum navigators' Club, edited by our much-respected contemporary Jim Birch, oor in Burlington, wo cull the following. Jim found it In the "In Mcmorlam" . ilumn of uu Australian Wer. AITKKN". Henry Crawford In lolng memory of Harry. W'ho died nt my home, nelvedere, Daylesrord, November 0, JD17, aged 33 years, Just when his life was brightest, Just when Ills hopes were best, To a beautiful ltfo came a lwuceful end ; He died as he lived every one's friend. (Inserted by Ids fiancee, Ida Kathleen Michaells.) AITKKN, In loving- memory of Henry Crawford AUken, who died at Jtyleisford, November 0, 1917. (Inserted by Ids flnnceo Tho-riEo Atu'truen.) T, 1920 AND HOT AIR TH' OLD RIGHT ON THE JOB A City Notebook Studious observation of typos seen in Broad Street Station during the evening yields the following analjsis: Main Lino commuters. Mostly ladies with very large fur coats and very small feet. They walk fast, with an air of great de termination, and are difficult to assess merely from a roar view. Bridal couples, extraordinarily young. Mostly going to Ehnlra and Peuu Ynn. Men going to Williamsport and Erie wear soft hats, pushed down over resolute brows. Men going to Ilnrrisburg wear derbies, tilted very far backward over their ears. Commuters to Media carry green lawjers' bags. Men going to Chicago on the limited arc the object of much respectful attention by the porters. These men all wear shell spectacles and take with them two small, narrow suit cases of cry rich brown leather. One con tains silk pyjumus nnd a copy of "That's Me All Over, Mable," and a tube of shaving cioam (never shaving soap). The other contaius, we are persuaded, "tho papers." They nil say, with the sharp decision of im portant biibincss men, "I'll be nek on Fri day." The first thing they do on reaching Chicago is to send a telegram sajiug "Back Tuesday evening," Ladies seeing other ladies off to Buffalo aud Boston. They are orj keen on seeing "the last" of the dopuitiug friend. After the latter hns gone through the gate tliey stuud with a lather appealing wilfulness, gazing thiough the iron railing. "There she goes; sec, just getting on," they say, savoring the last pang of paitlug with a greedy an guish. Their cje.s are full of sweet sortow. If they are young, lotcly aud frost-tinted ns to cheek, one lias an impulse to comfort them. They may be recognized a few min utes later taking u very cold nut sundae ut the drug btoM' and lcmovitig the little smudge on the left side of their nose with a lilliputian handkerchief, using a small round mirror which is inside their handbags. Then they go off along Fifteenth stieet and brighten their souls at the shop windows. Vry young men, with straps at the backs of their overcoats und long-pointed brown shoes. These bhocs are hlghlj polished, but tho soles seem very thin. They are made to lace all tho way up. The confidence with which these young men survey life und its problems is a great solucc to one who some times is u little uncertain us to the destiny of man on this planet. Those joung men aro so sure about life, it must be all right. They aie ery careful!) shaven aud seem quite un abashed. Apparently they are not traveling anywhere. After a mysterious disappearance (pethapa to tho moties?) they reappear about 11 p. in. iu the lunch rooms, whcie they drink very hot coffee nnd eat ecg bandwiches. The brides of petty officers in tho navy! These tiro mostly oh their way (with their husbands) to Mauch Chunk, and gaze with delightful adoration upon their riithor em barrassed lords. They seem j earning for an udmlrul to pass by, so that they can disdain him. , Hoarding school girls fiom Brjn Mawr, in woolen stockings and low, brown, heellcss shoes. The seem to speud the whole ow ning lu going up and down the maiu slair waj, looking for the chaperon, who is struggling to get out of the phono booth where, bhe has caught her mesh bjg in tho hinge of the door. Frod W. Hreitiuger, our special legal ad viser, sends us it corking wheeze, but.- well after all of course ever body admits fctill Dove Dulcet offerb a new definition ot poetry. Poetry, ho suys, is the kind of thing you put on paper because jou would b em barrassed to say it aloud to jour best niulo friend. We often wouder, what does a billiard champion do when he's off dutyV mmwm t ' t' - 1 - i .,- iL-.! 7. u PUMP'LL CONTINUE A "! if C iv A IH ?,U-V-rr ..A ' rmr Ra 4SS SEAGULLS ALL day long where, the sunlight gladdens Rock and headland, nnd beach aud shoal, White as the fierce salt surf that whitens Crested breakers that shoreward roll, Hither, thither, with brave breasts buoyant, Loiter the gulls from near and far, Now aloft on their spreading pinions, Now w ings folded on beach aud bar. Salt airs breathing and lungs expanded, Thus I watch them till day grows dim ; Nigh aud distant, the great sea, psalming, Lifts triumphant a ceaseless hymn. Back from the shore when the shadows lengthen, Far, far homing, before the night, Sunset tinting their wings with color. West, west ever, they take their flight. Far, far westward tho gulls go speeding. League and league through the dying day, Till, low specks on the western skyline, Faint nnd fainter, they fade away. Birds, brave birds, when your flight is ended (Daikness veiling the rose-red'west), Stars above you, and night surrounding, Whore, oh, where do you take your rest! Where I know not; but this I witness (Dawnlight flooding the landscape fair), Eastward lljing, your snow-white legions ' Course their way through the dewy air. Back again to the white sea-burges, Back again ere the world awake Brave breasts buoyant and wings extended Knit, cast ever your course yo take. Roderic Quiuu, in the Sydney Bulletin. Those intciested iu the Public Welfare Department at least feel assuied that there is plenty of activity on the top floor of tho Tustin Building. What Do You Knoiv? QUIZ 1. AVhere is Dvinsk, reported captured by tho Poles iu a drive against the Bol shevist? 2. Who is secretary of the interior? I!. Why is puce color so called? 1. Who was the great epic poet of Por tugal? ri. What is the meaning of tho Latin phrase "coram publico"? 0. What Is a betbesda? 7. When was tho Bessemer process of steel invented? S. Whut was a backbut? f). Namo two important cities in Persia. 10. What state in the Union has an arc for its northern boundary? Answers to Yesterday's Quiz 1. Dr. Willinm Osier died at the age of seventy. 2. His biirnnme should be pronounced with the "o" long, as in the word only. 3. Tho turkey ik u domestic fowl native to America. 1. Tho Tudor iiiouarclis of England were Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth. 5. The ruler of tho Jugo-Slavs'ls Prince Regent Alexander, son of King Peter of Serbia, 0. Tho cathedral in Sevlllo is the largest Gothic church in the world. 7. Jean Paul Freidrich Richter, German satirist and nhilosophcr, was popu larly known simply as "Jean Paul." S, Tho Mi'suirs w'erc privateers, particu larly privateering vessels of Barbary 0, Frederick Olllett Is speaker of the Houet of Representatives, 10, IFho average marlmum ago attained "J elephants is 100 yefirs. -rag- 9'fi l V .t s i . . -L 4j I vtJiS.cfl VistAS mm f T(,'t v " '-
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