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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-
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- 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
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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
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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.
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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
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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-
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neas."
10. Ebbs and meat contain
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