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Rlld 1 '.111 St. t t'OUti 111 nllll Tlie Still HulMliw I.o.miun, ULRfHl London rtin- sinsemt'Tiuv T.:nna "The ISmsiMi ft iilli. l.rr.itu l i-rifil to vju mrllwrj tn t'blliid"'phli tnd ni-icundlns ton lis t tin nii oC i -lo ttL'i rut- tvr nsdi. pa. iMe I iv I nil . "nlnl in"! ? of I'll' uiteln'.'ia. In lie Unit ) -tnir i tn.idn or t'nitcd States ro-fl'ii'i- im-i h- f'-tt- r'f ii'iri'ii n-r n'iinlli UN (fill do ln ! ir. ni'i'lilo In iilVJW. To nil fo Ic" iciintrie uiii" (M dollcr Ivjr 'noiicf iuli-i rlbcra ulililnc ddri3 tinned muit eli' I w"ll an ' ' ft'ldreri. nMI., 3100 " tIMT Kr-TOM MMV otio XT Address n" z "" l.caon I "i '"' nti,!!cd( o- i (0 ;iTf:ip ri'tilic i(.ri.i S" 'o .. P.'illodciiiiilt'. Member oi' the Associated l're,:-s Til" SSO( I Tl Ti FiHiSS (3 C.vriii- . rii-f'n ,.nifii id thr f.f fur rrnnvhcattnii o all sift'-' tUspatclira trtdiicd to It or not olhenr'f .'UclrO in this )apd and also the total ,u u tiitbUthcd therein. Ml riiiht'- of irpubllcation of special dM patches herein, arc also reserved. 1'liiUiMi'ln.i Mnmla,. Jinuor IP. 19C0 WE OWN OUR HALL ALAS! rpiIK coiii-lti-iii'ii of the famous case of - Jarndjce er.-u.-Jaiiitljcu wnb hardly more i ron al tlnri is 1'ie a 'iiounrement that tin t'u I.'nl: it na.d foi at hut. neatlers oT "i'lcal; House" will lecall that in the noli-t li'd caiis' in chancery the . principal-- trot nothing. Citizen of Phihuiclphia liavc, it is j true, their Public Buildings. They have , their enormous pile at the enormous and .preposterous cost of $25,000,000, and their attitude k, in the Gilbcitian phrase, decidedly one of "modified rapture." On a misty night with clouds steaming about the lighted clock tower thci-e is a kind of crude picturcfcqucness to the City Hall. Artists, including Mr. Pcnnell. have caught thi.- attribute. But, in the piacticl daylight it is a'l incubus a tiiffic barr'er and a monu mental nuisance, such as jeopardizes the growth of feu cities on earth. Shudder as we do at the thought of housing our city offices in a more suitable spot, some J day that diaoCie step will have to be , takcn. Meanwhile. Phibdelphians are at least privileged to tun to that page in Dickens describing the sniden'c laughter greeting the word that payment for prolonged intrigtie and pcUiferjus delays ard ne- ! gotiation.- w:s ended. A "WORLD WAR" BLOWS UP CONtUDEHrNG the cabled interpreta tion of the rus'i of Iiiitkh states men to Paris the other day, it is unlikely that many tears will be sued if the pro fessional ''opestcrs engage in a vs nation. The Bolshevists "ho were to have been attached on ever.' front from Baku to Bombay arc now to be subdued by the bcguilcment of s.veet peace. Up goo- tlie Russian blockade, 111 go the food.-, medicines and trade vanguards and out, nuft'cd out, goes the hysteiical report of a new world war which the diplomatists ere said to be framing up in the I" ench capital. The change of tune is welcome. Na tions th?t are not sunk so low that they deserve bokhevism have no real need to fear infiltrating piopatanda. It will be powerless against the bulwarks of com mon sense and common decency. Rus sian amne, engaged in fighting the rest of the globe are pioducts of overheated imagination. The equity of raising the blockade is manifest. It throws the obligation for good beha lor direct; inon the soviet govcrnn cut. Should the leaders in Moscow then be so mad as militantly to challenge civilization, the armed reaction against th"m would br tremendous, in spired bj popular convictions of justice and not by mere sensational hullabaloo and trumped-up fantastic yarns. NOW WE'LL SEE rpiIE demand of the supreme peace -- .council foi the lUirender of the e tfutch Government former kaiser by th has been -ent to The Hague, according to Paris dispatches. If the demand has actually been made we shall ,-oon know whether the frequent icports are true that the Dutcii Govern ment would regard Vilhcun as guilty of nothing but political crimes and would insist on hk right to lemain in Holland ns long as lie pleased. Outside of Holland the situation is. re garded .is unpitwdrnted. and it is in sisted that the old rule.- regarding the extradition of offenders, seeking asylum i in lutilial countries Io not mn in thi- case. Tnn-c mil's weie, 111 effect, that how ever guilt; a man might be of ofFens.es again-' humanity, he could go -cot-free if he i-milil escape from the country in which tin ull'e.is-e- had been committed. This 1- based on the assumption that the crime.- ui .in emperor or kinp arc to be judged l. it dill'erent standard from thai, used in iiut-iui ing the guilt of a private uli.cn. I tu until ruler- aie judged by tin- nj. ,,f die common law such wars as (hat t'i mi the 1 IVeel- of which Hie world in now -iiU'euiifj aie like!; to be precip itated l; .imbitious men. ISAAC SHARPLESS VTO'l onK Ilaiert'ord but Philadelphia ' and the -late at largo lose a good friend " the death of kuac .Sharpies,.". He wa- a man ca-l 111 u tino mold that had sonietliing of the Itomnn liitue of old. Hi- nigged simplicity, quiet and liniU'ai.iint; dciotion to the interests of his fellow ineii. mid his characteristic huniofuiid shrewdness made him a no lablo ri pusentative of the line tipe that uaed to 1." known ' as the "Quaker "worlll) "' Heated u a civil engineer, he fell into teaching almo-i by chance, but native merit and induslrj led him by degrees into the position where for thirty jears lie hail the good fortune to influence the llvpft of young men a president of Haver ford College. A deeply versed lover of literature, a man of good scientific train ing, tt faithful practitioner of what he preached in matters of conscientious ' eHucnship, a writer of valuable histories dealliig 'hiMy witli the itarkA of Jhc Society of Friends in Pennsylvania, it is doubtful if any college community in tills country could show, in recent years, a preceptor more graciously fitted to bo the guide and inspiration of youth. Ho was bred in the Inrgc-mindcd simplicity and practical idealism of the Friends, and under his clear-eyed guidance the college intrusted to 'him was nourished and guided in a tradition of courageous libernlimn and culture. There was much of the Ben Franklin in his make-up: A keen judge of men, an acute observer of the ways of the world, J a reverent and profoundly convinced : worshiper of the inner light. His long ' andfnithful career as a servant of the I common good brings him today to the quiet country meeting house he knew so J well, and those w ho knew him will pause for a moment in remembering tribute. ! A NEW PHILADELPHIA TO RISE 1 ABOVE THE WASTE OF THE OLD Great Opportunities Coming to the New Administration With an Era of Unexampled Building vjumc oj uic pians recently suggcsica iui t uieiuui tuts in mis t;it.j uuu eiscwnerc, uasea as they are upon tmniy disguised considerations of convenience and utility alone, aie reminiscent of the man who at Christmas was accustomed to give his wife a bos of the best cigars. It has become fashionable to sneer at monuments of the sort thit arc purely decorative or symbolical. The common cry is for useful things. Yet there is nothing to indicate that Mr. Moore and the officers of the A.nerican Legion have forgotten the essential purpose of war monument i in achocaling the plan to cicct a great auditorium 0:1 the Parkway as a memorial to Philadelphia soldiers v ho died in France. Such a memorial ought to have epic significance. The art of sculpture is the art- of speaking magnificently in stone or in metal, and the facades of any great building can be made to express a great deal. It would bea mistake of the most grievous sort if the proposed structure were conceived for its utility alone. It would have to be beai f.iful and actually monumental in its general character. The future would not bo fooled if we were to hand down to it only four great walls and a roof. It would know that by doing a necessary woik and calling it a memorial we proceeded under false pretenses and evaded a duty which we owe not only to fie soldiers themselves lut to the future generations. V building eloquent in its design, as great) cathedrals are eloquent, would be acceptable in every way as a soldiers' memorial. It might easily be an inspira- tion to the architects who will plan other buildings on the Parkway. That thor- i oughfare, when it is completed and built 1 up, will bo one of the most imposing in I the world. And it will provide an ex 1 Uaordinary test of our native taste and I intelligence. It will be no place for sheds I or for freaks of architecture. The authorities, .including the Mayor and his committee and the Art Jury, should, therefoie, keep a careful eye not only on the builders but upon themselves. Things that are merely ornamental and beautiful serve a very practical pur pose, though Americans have been slow in coming to an admission of this fact. Great architecture is an inspiration to the life of any community. And builders and architects and the municipal officials ought to remember this now, when we are actually at the beginning of a new era of construction that will surely carry the city far from the dull practices af earlier years, in which no one bothered about the looks of any building that could be made to serve a practical purpose. This city has been peculiarly fortunate in having had the services of some of the most gifted minds in the world in the course of half a do;cn ycais given to thoughts and plans for architectural re construction. Two or three administrations, assisted and inspired by far-sighted private cit izens, have given a lot of time to schemes devised to retrieve some of the beauty lost in fifty years of reckless building. Joseph E. Widener did an immense serv ice to Philadelphia when he engaged the first of European landscape, aitists to 1 draw PIa.ns ior. extensions ot fan-mount ! "' T , ' ul. I I,sland- A this general scheme will League some day result in the reclamation of a large part of the Schuylkill river region from .-ordid accumulations of dirt and debris, so the great Delaware bridge will ulti mately inspire a new fashion of building and commerce along considerable lengths of Delaware avenue. In any serious plan. for a war memorial Mayor Mooic and the American Legion might take time for a survey of the possibilities offered by the Camden bridge. The first plans for this struc ture were drawn almost ten years ago. The architects even then determined to make the lowers and the approaches beautiful and significant with monu mental sculpture. They did not have tho war for inspiration. Their plans will doubtless be rciiscd because of changes in Hie general layout of the bridge terminals. Rut high towers that will be i isible over an extremely large radius will be a necessary part of the completed bridge. New .Jersey is thinking of war memo rials and so ate we. It i- easy to imagine that Pcnnslvania and New Jersej might -express uh.it the, fed about their -oldiers and write their tribute superbly in metal and 'tone above the approaches to the bridge on each side of the river. Almost, all American cities' have done appalling things with their rivers. This city is one of the worst of the offender?. Commerce, in a sirtual monopoly of the riversides, has insisted on a sort of divine right to be ugly and repellent, noisy and odorous. It is otherwise in moat of tho European cities. The people abroad have always felt that they had a sort of vc. ted right in their waterfronts somewhat like the right which we are all supposed to huve in the green and blue spaces of the open country. To the riverfront, eien in the cities, they go on summer nights to get the air and rest in spaces reserved and kept clean for them. In a time when it is demanded that people find happiness in rational ways, rather than in dissipation, every city will have to strive more earnestly to make the most of its natural advantages nnd to make and keep itsejf attractive, and satisfying to those who EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER must find diversion near homo at the day's end. The Delaware avenue waterfront ought properly to be u place where a largo part of the population might go in summer evenings. The public recreation piers were tentative experiments. They have had no marked success because they are piers and little 'else. The bleak old avenuo remains as forbidding as ever, a sort of barrier between the people and the lights, the romantic color and the refresh ing airs of their river. Certainly in the general work prelim inary to the erection of the Camtlon bridge much of the character of the cen tral Dclawaro waterfront will be changed. Commerce is most efficient where it is not ugl. Open spaces and even bits of grass are possible in that section unless we are less expert than the Euiopcnns in L the management and building of cities and in the business oT business. The Delaware bridge will not only be a great utility. It will be the beginning of extensive reconstruction in the water front region. The municipal authorities might well remember that Delaware avenue invites their attention almost as definitely as the Parkway itself. So does the Schuylkill river section. Mr. Moore and his associates in guid ing the work of the new city which is rising above the old one have opportu nities unequaled anywhere else in the United States. Architects have the ad vantage that comes to a painter who works upon a clean canvas of large dimensions. One may only devoutly hope that they may make the best of it. , THE SIMS CHARGES A FTEU a lapse of forty-eight hours since the first publication of Admiral Sims's letter of indictment leveled against the bureaucrats of the Navy Department, most citizens tire experiencing a deep sense of disgust and shame that such things had to be. If there was one branch of the govern mental war machinery which to the lay man seemed to work smoothly and with out the customary scandal, that one was the navy. Yet now that Sims has lifted the lid, it appears to have been tainted with the same old tar of office politics and armchair inefficiency. Admiral Sims's long letter is categori cal in its counts, but too vague and gen eralizing concerning personalities. They must be made specific and brought home to the individuals directly responsible. It will not do to say that "the Navy De partment" did this or did not do that. The gravamen of the offenses is too seri ous to allow the acceptance of a broadside so sweeping without narrowing the blame to the persons involved. In this case the guilt cannot be otherwise than personal. Therefore, it will be the proper and logical course for the Senate navai com mittee to broaden the scope of its medal award investigation and clear up the whole unsavory mess without fear of con sequences to reputations and records. Who was the man who told Sims not to let the British pull the wool over his eyes and to remember that this country would just as readily fight them as the Germans? Let the name be blazoned out without equivocation or qualification. It will go down in history as that of the prize idiot of the age. There has beta delay Dui'none It J in issuing 1020 dog liccuscs as ttfe tags arc not ready, and the station houses have been besieged b.v tlog-oivners who arc afraid their pets will be caught and killed. On the prin ciple that every dog has his day, the owner of u dachshund will probably apply for "dcr tag." Sir Oliver Lodge has won his welcome to this country as a scientist and his wife AVhere Loe Conimat.ds Delicf wins hers as a womanly woman. Whether one believes or disbelieves in psychic mes sages, one doll's one's hat in reverence and respect when the mother of a dead soldier tells of words received from her loved one. On thr Wis of the Lei's All duess ''finiv u n i 1 rl irni ' which was just about to comineuce. word arrives mat commercial relations will be reopened between the allied nations and the Russtan people." Looks as though tome people don't know whether the game is poker or tiddlywinks. Revenue ofliccrs dis- JarU Frost Nips covered that 11 truck John Harlejcorn held up by the blizzard near Plattsburg, N. Y., was laden with whibky. There is uo hope for the bootlegger when Jack Frost acts as a deputy rcienue man. Pcschancl is bind to Case of All My Ejc be glad he beat fle- nieucau because Clc menceau wounded him over the ejc in a duel fought twenty -six years ago. Rut this is inferring 11 littleness of mind which it is uufair to impute to n man of big caliber. A popular soug writer Works liuth Wajs charged with being a drug addict told the court that he had written -.11 his succcsbru iihi'e under the influence of o.ium. Well, it's a prettj good excuse any nay you take it. Alexander IJerknian Whoa, Emma! and Emma Goldman say they will return to America to "save it." Perhaps the "flu" germ has some bueh idea when it makes its periodical usits. It Is well the.liiiotjpc O.K. Now machine has super- It. o. Then seded typesetting by hand of older days. No old-time "k" box could 1 laud the strain of present-day reports from Russia, Automobile owners are Doing Thetr Hit now doing their little bit toward defraying the expense of the last batch of Rockefeller benefactions. Gasoline has gone up. The olive K'cma anxious to get into the amc dabs as wood ulcobol as a killer and blinder. Of course, the Dutch Government will tdiow uo unKeemly. nste in gcttlns rid ol the cS'kalscr-i pat- .. - PHILADELPHIA, 'MONDAY, JANUARY 19, r PICTURESQUE FIUME Cltj Made Famous by D'AnnunzIo Quaint Mixture of Past and Pres ent, With Many Very Curi ous Streets Is IJy OKOUGl!: NOX McCAIN AMERICANS fnmllltif with the northern anil eastern shores of the Adrlntie lime been interested in the reiohitlouary caprices of P'Annunslo. The poet, playwright, poseur anil rciolu ttouist has had for tln Held of his opera tions some of the most picturesque territory in southern Europe nnd some of the oldest. Prom Cattaro. the toy elty of Europe, up to, Fiiiiue the region is rich In beauty, history, romance and tradition. riiunc itself should belong to 1'lly. It has been the shuttlecock of Mugs and con querors since Roman days. It is. t thrhlt, a matter of record that In the space of century Eiume changed masters eight limes as a result of war or diplomacy. Its possession by Atjstro-liutigarj prior to the world war was the result of diplomatic tactics designed to i?lve tlnit rotten monarchy another outlet to the Mediterranean. The city of Finnic Is a quaint mixture of past nnd present in the matter of architec ture. Tts harbor front bears a resemblance to that of Marseilles. Roman remains are found upon its main llioroughfatcs. It has more curious streets than any city of its size I was ever in. I recall one in particular. The square of somcthlug-or-otlier is approached by three narrow thoroughfares. I entered it by one nf these, and although I saw people moving across the square and disappearing suddenly. 1 could at a distance discover no exit. 1 faueicd the pedestrians were entering a church which toileted high above the pave ment. 1 follow I'd Hie crowd and discovered an acute nngfed opening or street lislblc from but otic point of the square. It was barely wide enough for two people to walk abreast, but it was a street just the same. After 100 feet it emerged upon a narrow avenue, which in turn opened on a wider thorough fare. FIUME is the great, if not the greatest, wine port of southeastern Europe. Prac tically the whole, of tho Istrlan peninsula pouts the product of its vineyards into Fiuinc by sea. There is what is known as the "canal, which cuts the town in two nnd is available) for coastwise sailing craft of light draught. It is bordered with mooring posts, and hun dreds of ships carrying wine exclusively are moored here throughout the year. Merchants from all over Europe come to buy the wines of Istria and the heavier grades that are produced on the slopes of the Dinaric Alp3 along 'tnc .uaimuiiuii cuust. One of the most common sights, and'sv.' prising too, is to see two-whcclcd drays as wide as they are long, nn which are mounted huge wine hogsheads, ciglit'fcet high by six feet in diameter, lolling onward from the canal wharf to winehouses tp the city. The largest hogsheads, or tuns, I have ever seen, with the exception of some of the great beer tuns of Germany, are to be found in Fiume. Sometimes a barrel of red wine smashes as it falls from the ship's hoisting tackle, and then the wharf temporarily re sembles a Bolshevik battlefield. The population of Flume is mostly Croa tian and Italian. The Croat, like the Italian, is a rugged, easy-going sort of fellow until ho is roused, and then the fury of devils possesses him. The Italian, gentle and soft spoken, romantic and musical, is the foil to the Croats' fiery and often brutal tendencies. The intermingling of the races has resulted in a hybrid product neither Croatian nor Italian, but possessing, as the case may be, the gentle or objectionable predominating traits of each race. ONE of the finest characters I ever met was a young tutor in riumo who, in his spare hours, added to his income by acting as guide and interpreter for English and Ametican visitors. His father was an Ital ian and his mother of Croatian blood. His opposite was a fellow about his age and build, who typified the other element of 1 the mixed races. He was evidently akin to the Apache of Pans. On the Via Andrassy one morning I saw a young woman rush from a narrow street near the Roman arch followed by a man. As she reached the curb she half turned, just in time to receive a blow on the face. She staggered and fell, lose nnd started to run, when she was again knocked down by her pursuer. Men and women passing along toe wide highway halted nnd looked on with evident curiosity, but no one interfered. It was a horrible sight and instinctively I started forward. A firm grip on my arm retained me, and the interpreter said : "Stop. Do not interfere. You will get the stiletto." The woman regained her feet and stag gered across the street, while the brute, un molested, swaggered back from whence he came. The two men, the tutor, my guide. ami tlio uruio were 01 1.1c ..ju.m ,aLx-. I npHE eab driiers of American cities in the i- hevdav of their prosperity, excluding en tirely those of Niagara Falls a generation ago,' were pilloried ns the most-cotiscicncc-less robbers on earth. They were pikers, though, compared to the hotel porters and dock runners of the Ualmatian coast, along which D'AununzIo has been operating. Take Zara. for instance, the scene of one of his maritime demonstrations. It is a beautiful little city, with odd streets: nar iow. dark, picturesque t hot ough fares that exude the romance of If.OO years. Kara looks westward upon the Adriatic, and prior to the world war had just iiwaKeueil siimciently t to the possibilities of 11 tourist invasion to 1 arouse tlir latent iiiiiionesiy uuu acqnisi tiieness of its lower elaWs. There k no doubt that'evcry porter and luggage carrier of Zara has taken tho thirty third degree in the supreme council of tho Indescribable nnd Infamous Order of Laud Pirates of the Adriatic. They arc tho hu man crabs of Palinutia. Once they fasten on you there is uo escape until you yield to their extortions. There is one escape aud redress unavail able b.v ttraDgcrs: a comprehensive knowl edge of their tongue am n oeabulary of de periptiie profanity tn meet their prayerful protestations of honesty and poierty. " schino manufacture. .Tust as the wine in plethoric cusks and hogsheads rolls into Fiuu"1. s" schooner loads of cherries swing into the harbor of .aru. A most wonder fully gorgeous and colorful scene is pre sented at its Imv. unriuw wharves liny morn ing during the season when cherries are ripe. Shiploads and wagunlouds of cherries to be transformed into oirdiul. While the famous maraschino is a product of the entire Dalmatian coast, Zaru is the center of the traffic. And there was oh much difference between a glass of maraschino in Zara, such as I tasted In the little office of tho banker to whom I hod letters of exchange, and the maraschino of Broadway or Chestnut street in pre-prohibltiou days as between a grape fruit that has been n week divorced from its parent stem in u Florida orchard and u ripe, full-flavored fruit plucked nnd eaten under a tree along the shores of Indian river. Under existing conditions tnc past of such thlugvi-, phlufiiL tlilueV"! l11'""' WHO THE CHAFFING DISH Song HERE, in the heart ot tho hills, Under the great wide slsy Where, tho wild sweet lips of the f. lpsy w ind Sins sweet lovo of another ltlnd Here let us stay Forever anayc Just You, and the hills, and I. HERE, in the heart ot the hills, Out -where the cool lakes lie Mtrrorlner line after solemn line Spruce and oak and odorous pine Il'ere let us stay Forever and aye Just You, and the hills, and I. . HERE, In the heart of the hills, Where the dreaming clouds drift by- Calm In the vault of the bluo above, Drifting tlioug-hts ot light and love : Oh, let us Btay Forever and aye! Just You, and the hills, and I. HERE, in the heart of the hills, Plenty of time have I, As the red suns rise and the red suns sink, Plenty of tlmo have I to think How we shall stay Forever and aye Just You, and the hills, and I. NOR, in the heart of the hills, Need we ever say good-by. Hand In band and heart to heart, Ever together and neier to part Here shall wo btay Forever and ayo--Just You, and the hills, and T. SO HERE, in the heart of the hills, Last shall we sleeping He, Safe from the world and Its woe and pain With the soul purged pure of its every stain 1 Hero shall we stay Forever and aye. You and the hills and I. C. It. VAX HOUSEN. Genius, cried the commuter as he ran for the 8:13, consists of an infinite capacity for , catching trains. Our Anthology of Sins We have often thought of compiling au an thology of human frailties, a volume which would he immensely cheering since it would show that the sins that so easily beset us ?8re daily companions of the good and great or till ages. One of our favorite passages would be the following : Procrastination 111 cj.co.sf was a mat king fcaturo in Coleridge's daily life. Nobody who knew hlni cer thought of depending on any appointment ho might make ; rplto of his uniformly honorablo intentions, no body aUaehoil any weight to his as burances In re future; those who nsked him to dinner or any other party, as a matter of course, sent u e.irrlago for him and went perHOntklly to fetch hlni ; and, as to letters, unless the address ivero in r.omc femalo hand that enmnianded his affeetlonato es teem, ho tossed them all into one general dctd letter Ijinca'i, and rare Is I belieie, opened tlietn ui all. llourrlenno mentions a mode of abridging tho troublo attached to a icry eitenslvo correspondence, by which Infinite labour was saved to himself, and to Napokon. Nino out of ten letters, uupponlng tlietn letters of business, ho con tends, answer themselves: in other words, tlmo nlono mn t soon produce, events which irtually contain llio answer.' On this principle tlw IclteiH were opened peri odically, ufior 1 iterials of elx weeks; and at tho tnd of lint tlmo, it was found that not tn.iny icniahierl to require any further moro partlctiUii answer. Coleridge's plan, lioweicr, i. ns shorter; ho opened none, I uiiderctoo'l, mid answered none. Uo Qutnccy, Reminiscences of tho Lake l'oets. We are considerably interested fo read, in David Karsner's life of Horace Traubel, just published, that Traiibcfs last words, on his deathbed last September, were "Iugh, fur Ood'h sake, laugh." This seems to u.s it good epitaph for 11 braie man. Sir Oliver Lodge, we hope, will be rcheied by Doctor Macnitucy's assijrnucc, reported by the Eieniug Riillclin. tliul "I he greut in tcicst of people in spiritualism is not evi dence of an iuterisi In ininiorulily at all." The Skillful Skillet 'the salary ot tho Chef ts far, lar ahead of the salary of the aierage college Professor. Which Isn't a. bit unfair. Both havo brains hut the Chef haB special skill in addition to brains Philadelphia Hotel Adt. ' This modern policy of telling the truth in advertising is getting to be very painful. Just the suiiie, wc, would like to see a Hhow-dowuou thtit waflet'of the, cornptinUho salaries of hotel chefs aud college professor 1920 SAYS THE WAR'S OVER? - wrt feu. m Sfyjss. "jfc"" j oiBa5sSBtg?.23S3SapLsrJ77 -i-vi'S- 1&mmmmsr'- .IftEJraHflSW' -r -,A-yvA '-"" JS i"' A "full professor," as tho colleges call him (that is, the head of his department, just as the chef is head of the culinary works), gets five or six thousand dollars for nine months' work, and is often worth twice as much. Wo wonder, to be quite candid, whether the chef in question does get "far, far" more than that? We'd like to talk it over with him. On Becoming an Ingredient LAST night I hufrlcd home; My overcoat flung wide. What though tho wind should sweep and roam My heart was warm with pride. 1 I even walked, without my sloves, Walked, -when I wanted to sprint. I'd seen, what every . human loves ; Something of mine In print. Something, no matter how small or how bad ; That something, my dearest wish. No wonder I hugged both Mom and the Lad. That something appeared In the Dish. MAC. A price that ,vould have amazed the gen tle "Eliza," and caused lively gossip, no doubt, at Doctor Johnson's tea table, wa3 paid yesterday for the original manu script of "A Dissertation Upon a Roast Pig," Philadelphia Inquirer. Considering that the good old doctor drank his last tea in J7S1 aud the first essays of Ella weren't written until nbout 1S20, the gentle "Eliza" (whoever she may have been) would have been justified in her amazement. Grey Stone Hall A Friend's House in Wartime A GREY stone-sinewed hand Clutching tho crown of a hill Where men fought men years past Leaving their restlessness still To whisper, and cry nnd call Past woodlands aud ivied wall And over fountaiued lawns at even And sadly through the great gates seven. f VH, AND there are nymph-nooks, tool And apple blossoms to lie beneath And watch the sky from grey to blue. And the sunshine's gold made emerald isy the lucent le.aves' sweet alchemy; And, dreaming so, forget, forget, Beyond all struggle, past regret, Nor any more afraid to die. ALEff R. KTEYEXSOX. France, May, 1017. t " The H. C. of Meat Wc note that our learned friend, Doctor Rosenbiieli. paid 12,(100 for (lie manuscript of Lamb's Dissertation on Roast Pig nt a sale here last week. Wo hope that none of the packets will hear about this. Rut the manuscript of Rurns's "To a Mouse," also sold in-this city recently, brought only Si 1 500. This, we presume, was due to Robbie's iipgiiartlwl reference to pro hibition in. that poem. He suid, jou re member, "I'm truly sorry man'u dominion lias broken Nature's social union." The leeenl sale of the New York Herald has revived the gossip about the temperamen tal oddities of the original James Gordon Rontictt, the founder ot that paper, One of the most mnusiug of Reuuett's whimsies; wo think, was the way in which ho announced his mnrringe in the Herald. It ran thus: '' iw mi. uulh;ics OI,i TIn-, jjErt. A LD- Declaration of Loie Caught at Last Oolng to be Married -New Move ment in I'lvlll.ation. My ardent cleslro has been through llfo o reach the highest order of human ex uellenco by tho shortest posflblo cut. As Foclatlon, night and day, in'NlcknesH and in health. In war and In peace, with 11 woiivin ol the highest order of excellence, murt prod u eo some curious results- In my heart and lcellngs, una these results tho future will dm clop tn duo tlmo In tno (olumns of the Herald. Meantime I re 1urn my heartfelt thanks for tho en thusiastic patronage of tho public, both of Europe and of America. Tho holy estate itt wedlock will only Increase my dealro to bo still moro useful, tlotl Almighty blefs you . 'I. JAMES C1UUDON lll-Jr,. NRTT. What the bride may have thought of this ardent personal publicity is not known to tho present commentator. SOCRATES. Recauto ot. the publicity thus afforded, expulsion from u legislative body of a man duly elected is to give to his views, whatever they .may he, an Importance which ia, usually imiucasnraui ucjomi iiiqir merits. s" r' In Provence: The Young Dead A II, HOW I pity the young dead who gave All that they were, and might become, that wc With tired eyes should watch this perfect eca Reweavo its patterning of silver wave Round scented cliffs of arbutus and bay. No moro shall any roso along Ihc way, Tho myrtlcd way that wanders to the bliore, Nor jonquil-twinkling mendotv any moie, Nor tho warm lavender that takes the spray, Smell only of sea salt and the suu, But, through recurring scasous. every one Shall speak to us with lips the darkucsi closes, Shall look at us with cyc3 that missed tin roses, , Clutch us with hands whose work was jut begun, Laid idle now beneath the earth wc trcad- And always we shall walk with tho youus dead Ahhow I pity the young dead, whose eyes Strain through the sod to sec these pcrfett skies, Who feel the new wheat springing in thcii stead, And the lark singing for them over head ' Edith Wharton in the Yale Review It is fitting that the faculty and stu dents of Ilaverford College should do honor to Dr. Isaac Sharpless this afternoon, foi men of his caliber and fineness give characto to their calling and dignity to the institution with which they arc connected. The defeat of Clcmeneeau ftr the. iionii nation for (he presidency of France is addH proof o the truth of the axioms thnt orf never knows nnd that it is fhe unexpected that happens. The imminency of the second world war will now remain in abeyance until the Luro- pcan correspondents have another scare thrown into them. 1 City Hall is nowfrce of all eneum , In-ances meaning cash, of course. There arf 1 still a few politicians The daily blotter will also help Diicelor Cortclyou to rid the police force of iinilcsit nbles. What Do You Know? QUIZ 1. Why arc policemen colled "cops"1 2. What is a rondeau? n. Who was the first Turk to rule in Con stantinople? "1. Who coined the expression "Iiarlcis n willin' "? 5. When did Catherine the Great live? 0. How far is it by water from New 'lk to Rio Janeiro? 7. What Presidents of fhe United states were surveyors in early life? S. Who wrote the once widely popular noci "Queechy"? , 0. Who is tho new President of France. 10, AVhul is generally given as the date 01 the Crucifixion? Answers to Saturday's Quli J. Sir Oliver Lodge was originally jcnoimci as a physicist. . .., 2. A rostrum was originally a beak 01 Roman galley. The speaker s I'l. form in the forum was adorned w the so beaks and eventually r rum came to describe the platform Use ' :i. Three operas by the late ItosinnlU Kovcn were "Robin Hood.,, Roy" nnd "Rip Van V inkle. t. A Lochaber ax is a weapon coni j of a pole with a long ax nrd. ' , provided with a book at its end, ui by Scotch Highlanders, .. , B. The tune "Old Hundredth" ' because it was set to Ketuo 8 rw of tho Hundredth Psalm. -,.. ,s 15. The quotation from "J" usc8j"3 f "Cry havoc and lctllp tho d"8 warV' not "unleash. ' ,. caP 7. General George II. Thomas, of Ci ., lame, was kdou -- Am,rican . , .. ., "i in iccx 1. . lie "uiu -" 8. .1, Q. A. Ward was a nunu bcuipior. jj,. to t"0 0. The opening form of n;"Vlr.. 0r Prince of Wales . ,Wiiw sculptor. ' "May it please our i- UO) neas." 10. Ebbs and meat contain arut su""- 1 01 nvQicine S ....,. 1 , . 'uJ it I 'tii. f&&tfm&u,.l vMOA i.-- ,ABMffiSs -"""V '- yv SM!iW'$iw3, mMm T dtoi.v .,-.-. M.'jjti&mfc&tosmR. - ' m lllfi' IW
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