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6 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY....December 8, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES. Star Newspaper Company nsylvanin Ave 1nd' St 16 Hugent St., London, The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning ition, i ¢ cartiers within the ugland, oy, role bf Chief Executive. But Henry ' Sense will the Capital of the Umtvd! bimself had given no direct sign. _Then suddenly, again moving through an intermediary, he stopped the whole business. It was as though he had Editor | Pit @ sharp spike under the flivver's | Maryland wheel But this fs not an unusual experi- | ence. Booms have been started for | men in the past without their specific | approval and without their will. Presi- | lent-makers have been prone to play | with prominent names ever since this ' government began. Indeed, some ! Presidents have been made in that | way. Zachary Taylor, for an fnstance, | was virtually brought to the White | House by that process. | After this rebuff in the cancellation | of the meeting, undoubtedly by orders ! from the innermost inner sanctum of the Dearborn headquarters, there is | ol 1 ation of _ Better Pay for Teachers. A bill for feale 1 publi and will gress urgen present mands action of the Was entir revis schools in prepara and, it nt situation pay ching force is for considerat is enactm The ston at de- sent scale of oc s 1 No more work 1s re than the public sch d w of the ¢ 70,000 of ficiencies in the sery They and the ildven of the Capital, them. Owing to de- school building plant and in t of 5, the work put upon each member of t hard and exacting. r pay t ants pert teache ro cha training nearly iber Yet many in is drawn s in the business watch- | ments are h of moncy for thes relatively one of the the wirid of work gton ha school sys cks in quanti ;. in many th istactory But qualifications i mallest given in an admirable ‘m. £o0 far as it goes. It hough not qualitative- It more of at go to make up a sat- | icational establishment. 1l it needs a higher pay | the are the ) are of a high upon whose success of the vouth of the personnel, needs e irst of for f the syst abili depends of tr cher m, wi v, and the g th who rder work proce Capital. n | { | just ydon that there will be no liberal-labor | i most equal positiveness declared that | | is bent upon refaining its independent little likelihood of a spontaneous re- | vival of the Ford boom. South Dakota 1d Henry himself have pretty ef- fectually ended it. Of course, so long as the vast fortune is unimpaired | there will be those who would like to | see the motor in the role! of a candidate, a spending candidate. And maybe there will be some occa- sional mention of him as a possibility. But the events of this past week have about sent the political flivver the scrap heap. magnate to The British Political Muddle. As the returns of the Briti tion Thursday of sh elec- near completion the | the conservative party with cctionist proposal appears the complete. With the opposition divided between liberals and laborit the government party re- in plurality in the next house commoens. But a plurality of this ort, with the opposition united tgainst the major policy of the gov- ernment, is of little value, indeed of 10 value for purposes of maintaining @ ministry with parliamentary sup- port. Already it is suggested that the ministry will resign. In this case an | ymalous situation will be presented, | with another general election as a | probable result for the near future. Computations have been made of | the tutal votes cast for the candidates | of the various parties, with an inter- | esting result. Though the estimates | not in strict ement, it would ! ppear that a: ny these figure the conservatives hold 5,350,000 vot H the lahorites 4,450,000, the liberals 4, | 230,000 and the independents 220,000. | On the one issue of protection versus | free trade, including the independent | vote as opposed to protection, it would | appear that the conservatives with in: an | their 5,350,000 votes faced an opposi- tion of 8,900,000, giving a popular ma- ity for free trade of 3,550,000, It is positively announced in Lon- | coalition for the formation of @ min- | istry in the event of Premier Bald-! win's resignation, and it is with al-| there will be no conservative-liberal | coalition to support the present min- | istry or a combination. Each mrl)'; | organization. Obviously there can be | New | tor THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1923. more than willingness to accept the |18 not far off when only in a legal | States be bounded by the District line. There is no scarcity of water., The only question is the cost of dam, pipes, reservoirs and filtration. With nearby and Virginia drawing heavily\ on the Great Falls-Washing- ton system it would not be long be- fore a third conduit would be called for or the old Patuxent plan would be revived. A plan for installing a gen- eral water system for Maryland towns near Washington by taking watef trom the Patuxent has been proposed, but the cost, compared with the tax- able resources, would be very high, Arlington county might build a water system, taking its supply from the Potomac, but with the present popu- lation and tax resources of the county the plan would hardly be practicabl The District's water -plant is & going concern, and it would only be neces- sary to increase from time to time its facilities for taking in and distribut- ing water. It is an interesting que tion and will cause bie dis- cussion. conside —_———— New District Committee Members. Assignment of Senators Edwards of Jer and Copel 1 of New York to the Senate District committee adds to that body men who have here- tofore been keen ested and widely experienced in matters of mu- nicipal administration, and r: s the expectation that they will be of ex ceptional service to the District their assignmen It is always helpful to the National Capital to have on the two committees of Congress that have particular juri: diction over legi: ive thos who have dealt and ted in community manag Edwards has sey politi activity dire ly inte ted in city matters. He was largely responsible for the adop- tion of the commission plan of gov- ernment for Jersey City. As governor of the state he concerned himself largely with such affairs. to the Senate District committee a signment, therefore, a direct acquain. tance with the need munities which cannot but be Senator Copeland comes to the Sen- ate virtually straight from his long- held office of health officer of the city of New York. in which ity sey in affairs g me his been ticipa n New Jer- 1pa was actively concerned with matters | of municipal administration. He always taken a keen interest in city management, and he will doubtles apply to local problems which are brought before the District committee has his knowledge and judgment gained | in course of his New York experience. It is desirable for the membership of the District committees to be com- posed, in part, of men who have been in close touch with large communities, Washington is nearly a half-million city, steadily growing. Its needs are metropolitan, and a metropolitan vision is required of those who are charged with its legislative vision. supe: —————————— The announcement that the Levia than is to be overhauled, like many He brings | WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS ¢ BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE | More than one of his friends think the most courageous thing about | President Coolidge's mepsage was that he delivered it In person. He |18 thoroughly conscious that neither | elacution nor oratory is his long suit. | Thus he embarked upon the cructal !address of hig career unafraid. The | President weathered the ordeal un- commonly well. He read his manu- seript with excellent, If not soul- stirring, effect. Ho accentuated im- portant passages tellingly, Consid- | ering that probably nine out cf every ten members of Congress who heard Eim had read the message days be fore, they listened with rapt atten- ticn. Mr. Coolidge attempted nothing in the shape of rhetorical Arewsrks until his peroration. The closing paragraphs were uttered with the nearest approach to fire and fervor |of which the Coolidge temperament 18 capable. * ¥ %k X | The President is a graceful, if not limpressive, platform figure. ‘Those | who remembered Mr. Harding's peri- odical appearances on the same ros- trum ‘could not help being struck by the fact that Mr. Coolldge does mot approximateiy look the part” Warren G. Harding unfailingly did. Coolldze unveiled o newly chiseled, faultl cutaway and striped trousers; wore horn-rimmed spectacles and spoke [from typed notesheets six by four inches in size. The President eschews i Nat @ single one marked | » , except occasionally 4 of the head. Part of the t hand was behind his back. His voice was seldom rais- ed abov cad level, Coolidge seems to scorn the stereotyped devices of the spellbinder and the rabbie-rouser. | * ¥ * * | There was a note of unconscious |humor in the President’s solemn pro- | nou ement, hich escaped near! 1o ybody except the vigilant news- ip louths in the press gallery. Mr. |Coolidge had reached {bonus section of his message. saying that “the American Legion will present to the Congress a legis- [lative program too extensive for d {tailed discussion here” What the President actually sald—and then cor- himself—was that the legion present a Program too “expen- or detailed discussion. * ok ok K s a faithful tabulation of “re- to the high spots of nt's message. reflected by a por Presic applause First outburst, occasioned by as- sertion that America sees no r son to join the league: applaus contined to republican side. World court proposal; mild ap- plause from both sides. Nou-recognition of Russia; gen- eral applause. Non-cancellation of allied debt; loudest applause of all. Mellon tax proposal; Mentor to Yout " BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Of all the offices at the courts | Europe there is none that requires so as| 1y fitting morning suit—black | the soldier- | He was | the | Prohibition of tax-exempt securi- ties; strong applause, riff and shipping; no applause ot an. Raflroads; no applause, Prohibition and law ment; no applaus Anti-lynching Plause. Military and naval preparedness; strong applause. Immigration restriction and alien registration: loud applause, led by Secretary Davis. Anti-bonus declaration; mild ap- use, confined to republican side. ; discreet applause for of Treasury relief and government price-fixing. Muscle Shoals recommendations; silenc enfor: statement; ap- * ok ok % There w halt dren, all under ten years democratically disporting th among members of the House resentatives, mostly bed hair. The first occupant of the chamber was the blind congressman {from Minnesota, Themas D who was escorted to his seat by cherub of a daughter, not more than |s1x years old, Delightfully oblivious | to the solemnity of the n, the {tot clambered all over her sightless daddy durine the President’s address | A ruling of the Speuker, just before Mr. Coolidge arrived, was that by custom children of membirs are titled to the privileges of the floor. ,Mrs. Nolan of California | congresswoman of accompanicd by her : a red-haired damse * * a dozen chil- of Rep- giris with bob- | Mrs. Coolidge, flan | Hughes and Col. 1arvey in the pres |Bential box, beamed 1i} schoolgirl over the spontineo tion which gree smiles las she { huge audi and cheered enthusia of the President's I must have been the former Mz teacher who struggling country | band e N years ago. * % dent faced ¢ time. Hiram John W. U stood with tha it any apped hands Oscar W lette and Se among the |abstention Mr. upon a Gt other possibls of Indiana. I £ Virgis Watson New York Gridiron dinner (Copyright, hful Royalty Has Task of Great Proportions over him Duke of ¥ American friends. To eve them Louls Gre a familiar figure, Schall, | en- | The Library Table BY THE BOOKLOVER ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN “‘The Woman of Knockaloe' first of all a love story,” its pub- | lishers say. It is doubtless a love story, but I wonder If its author, | Hall Caine, agrees with that “first | of all.” It has seemed to me, as I read it. first of all an fmpassioned plea against war, and only sec- ondarily a story. In the form ‘of a novel, of course, Hall Caine’s dem- onstration of the futility, the irony and the tragedy of war will reach | far larger public than it would have AP ¢ ; Feche T A most wmy - othar” farme | I the fleld in order to develop spued Probably a great part of the reading | The present class is composed of public are togay ‘either bored with |thirty-six members, which will finish all war literature or are 50 hopeless | poywee ouer the effectivences of llnyl)nm:i‘ Ewcen sowiand Py that can be written against war, that | . How 3 I k as “The Woman of ,‘\.I‘.r\qd“mm" merely causes the | ‘Oh, ves, all true, but what's | The most fatalistic person | cannot fail to be impressed, however, with the poignancy of Hall Caine's | | is Q. How many practical bricklayers| has the Y. M. C. A. turned out since |¥ 1t began the class?—M. A. W. : A. The Y: M. C. A. says that Its first class for bricklayers started on September 10 and lasted for a period of ten weeks. Twelve of these men | are capable of laying brick which will pass inspection by the building department of the District of Colum bia, but they will require some tin Dr. Nalsmith, me, says toor 1 © of th who invented the It the name the players on ted the : prompt- mental prin- ame have that Q. A says cucumhers are vegotables nt development; ntioned in th H. 1 . verse, Te Bible ihers will ¥ ?2—D), T Fro! s Mardl Gras been | ew Orleans?—) s estab In Shrove of the Mardi Gr: fon, will fall on March 4. thousht the use 7 venting the day, the day heat Q usa? A | the * K K ¥ “Knockaloe is a large farm on the west of the Isle of Man, a litile to {the south of the fishing town of Peel” | o o {It s the habitation, on long lease, of |y 2 SHAL {old Robert Crane, his son Robbic | It Craino his/son Rouhi A. Hollywood is @ suburb of Los {and nhis daughter Mona—the woman | Angeles, The distance hetween ol of Knockaloe. “Knockaloe has a few | Wood and the center of the town | fieras cultivation (I see some | 2POuL eight miles. aer nd wheat), but it is e | chiefly farm, ' supply! A for the peopl s 2 9 the morning the | maids milk the cows, and at seven Mona drives the milk into town in a shandry that is full of tall milk | cans.” Then comes the war and the peaceful 1ife at Knockaloe is dis- {organized along with the rest England. Eobbie “joins up.” is soon ne and soon after is in Franc Then some government officlals cox When did tablecloths come into made their appearance in thirteenth century. is the dists les and Hollyw, e between pd?—E. W. s trees nre pec F.P. A. The following are some of the most important trees that are found in their native state only in North America: Hickory, ball cypr se- anoia (both species), loc (all species), vellow poplar, Arizona cypress. white pine, western ye nd Dougl far to North into | man internment camp vilfans in England. they must remain and keep ture land that lies on the hilsi {in order to provide the fresh milk I do required for the camp.” cubmit to war orders and soon amp is an established fact. Wo ire not desirable ahout the imp, thongh one woman Who knows h run the dairy is necess 0 all maids are replaced by und “Mona is now the only woman on the land." How cost Q war L. A. Attempts have number of statisticia ! to compute the world w The vary of Prof. of the ternation: were 218 grand total much —D. E the at results * % ok * { Then the aaily life of the camp {and the news from outside both give n in every event for Mona's al- 1tly ery—“Oh, n make wars? ate iny a wreath wers ch Mona his grave. “He wother, too, and Mona receives the watch of her brother months after the news has reached Knockaloe. been sent by a « i in Mannheim, who, oner, had lain for hours | in’ the British trench ! jed, while the behind. Mona night and think: i bitterly two brave boys ng out there in that deses d dug- Le friends at the last, was dbvil that had made them' s prisoners in the Knockaloe can @ Christmas morning service Mona hears them singing 1 . th tune that the Wesleyan chapel, glish words, tronghold our God is s iinks, “The tame hymn, the sam ement direct and the indi- the rea e A young and wh When n camp his called sther ser Gern of artificial 1 1o put on of his 1 wh is was literature applied the nozzle erence | name being @ candle or I erence to mat sense Is found in Is whipping as a legal punis nt for crime practiced in C: and 47—H. F. K A. Whipping punishme women was in _Ensl during the relgn IV. As punishment for pping m I b admin only son is a wido £ his death watch ha soldier inded pri i a s a t ished of Geor: wdvance ping as still a penalty sentence | women { no majority-supported government in | Great Britain on the basis of this late | election, and this is why & new ele another ship, is received with inte 1 In addition to many other advantages of the much sound judgment, level-headed- ness, patience and infinite tact as that of mentor to youthful rovalty. and the news of his resignation will be & source of regret * ¥ gion, the same God, t nd vet—how wicked! how stupid! * ok kK —_—————— Railroad Consolidation. Fake Diploma Mill Inquiry Secretary of Com Hoover, illl an extract from his forthcoming an- | nual made public yesterday, | idation of railroads pro- | but with | o » process The trans- t of 1920 required the In-| terstate Commerce Commission to la out a plan for merging existing rail- road svstems into nineteen or twent: great corporations, maintaining as far as possible the present competitive system. Hoover says that the experience of the Department of | Commer shown the necessity for the consolidation of railroads un der private ownership into larger sy: tems. He erce repor s cons sed by sures says the urgent importance of | early consolidation warrants consider- &tion of methods to expedite it. Under present provisions, he points out, for | wholly voluntary action, subject to | the Interstate Commerce Commission, { many consolidations are likely to be | long delayed. He recommends that the consolidated systems be given fed- eral incorporation, and after the lapse of some appropriate period for volun- tary action the Interstate Commerce Commission be given authority to create definite erganization commit- tees for each system, including repre- sentation from the public and the component roads There is no more important domes- tio question before Congress than rail- road rates. Consolidation is urged as one means for equalizing and reduc- ing rates. The theory that reasonable rates can be effected through competi- | tion has heen abandoned for the policy of federal and state regulation. Consolidation tends to lessen waste and bring economies which can be re- flected in reduced freight rates. Con- gress can find food for thought in Secretary Hoover suggestions. ————— The fact that every citizen is a con- tributor in taxation does not prevent a widespread readiness to take money out of the United States Treasury in the belief that there will always be plenty more where that came from. —_——— There is a tendency on the part of a few statesmen to regard a Pr dent’s message as strictly a campaign document. ————— Flivvered! ympathy must be felt and ex- pressed for those ardent Fordites who =0 enthusiastically worked up a boom for Henry and went to the point -of calling a national conference to be held at Detroit next week for the pur- poke of starting the actual campaign for a presidential nomination—any nomination—only to find that their hero was after all only a “chocolate soldier,” liable to melt under the heat of the first adverse token of the public will. * Tt must have been, indeed is, a bit- ter pill for these President-makers to swallow. True, they were working without any sure token of approval on the part of the “Sphinx of Dear- born.” He had said no word of direct encouragement. His attitude had been even loss explicit than that of Barkis. Some friends of his had spoken as with some authority to indicate | must “go to the country” on | have an | port can a parliamentary majority be | its necessary margin from the liberal {the Distriet. tion is likely to follow shortly. i In such a case there will be a new alignment on issues. Conservatives will hardly venture to propose again a protection policy in view of its over- whelming rejection on Thursday. They | some other question. And equally the lfb- erals and laborites will each probably affirmative proposition in- stead of standing in attitudes of re- Jjection and opposition. Will there be | a competition between the conserva- ve and liberal parties for labor sup | port? Plainly enly through such sup- | obtained, unless the conservatives can win from liberal sources or liberals an win from conservative sources. And there remains the possibility of a labor majority through labor winning ranks. —— The records to the effect that the north pole has been discovered would not detract from the interest of an ship exploration. There is a great deal about the north pole that is still to be learned. ——————— Admirers of old-fashioned oratory may as well accept Mr. Coolidge’s latest utterance as a conclusive assur- ance that he has no aspirations to be regarded as a spellbinder. —_—————— England has made the tariff a lively political issue, with an abundance of action taking the place of long speeches. Mexico has periods of quietude, but never allows her politics to drift into apathy. i Water for the Suburbs. A bill has been introduced in Con- gress to authorize connection of the water system of the District with Arlington county, Va. It authorizes | the District Commissioners to deliver water from the District system to the Arlington county sanitary district when such delivery would not cause inconvenience to water consumers in Payment for water would be made according to regula- tions prescribed by the Commissioners. There is no obligation on the part of the District to give suburban sec- tions outside of the District the bene- fit of the Capital’'s water system, but there are many reasons why this might be done when Washington's water supply is sufficient to meet the needs of the District of Columbia and the “metropolitan district” in Mary- land and Virginia. Consumers in those districts would pay the cost of bring- ing the water from Great Falls, stor- ing and filtering it, and other charges. The benefits to the transdistrict con- sumers would be obvious. The population of the “‘metropolitan district” is growing fast, and 'to serve. it with Great Falls-Washington water would very much reduce the margin between District demand and supply and bring demand close to the capac- ity of the two-conduit system at a much earlier time tham calculated. But the people of the “metropolitan district” are virtually in some ways citizens of Washington, and the time | the grand old boat has one finest publicity svst —_——— 1s ever devised. As usual, people are standing in line with bills to be presented in Con- gress. A liberal supply of “unfi a business"” is already assured. —_————— In addition to shopping early for Christmas autoists are advised not to delay securing their license tags for the New Year. —_——— One of the life-saving duties of the coast guard is to assist in preventing landsmen from drinking them: to death. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Republics and Ingratitude. That republics are ungrateful A philosopher has said. They grow sometimes harsh and hate- ful When they think the led. Many persons make a nation, Persons great and persons small. A republic, grand in station, Is but human, aft ve been mis- - all. There are lobbyists and schemers, There are mercenary elves, There are dilettante dreamers, Toiling but to please themselves, ‘When a great republic’s feeling Seems embittered, now and then, A resentment it's revealing Only natural to men. The Urge of Culture. “You at least have an abundance of food. “Food isn't everything,” answered Farmer Corntossel. ‘“We agriculturists are entitled to the refinements of civilization. We want pictures and poetry on our food, the same as you city people get at the delicatessen store.” Jud Tunkins says a selfish man, af- ter considering nobody else, finds nothing much to do except sit around and wonder why he is lonesome. An Air Full. The gossipy fair are now burdened with care, Since radio answers each call. There’s so much in the air that it causes despair, For there's no hope of hearing it all. The Silenced Serenade. “In days gone by the young men came around at midnight to serenade young women.” he custom is impossible now,” commented Miss Cayenne. “A popu- lar girl is very seldom at home at that hour.” \ “'Tain’ no great credit,” sald Uncle Eben, “to be good-natured after you've got everybody so scared dey jes’ natu- rally lets you have yoh own way.” ————— Sees Some Compensation. From the New York Tribune, It that deadlock had continued in- definitely, thereby wiping out one Wwhole session of Congress, it would, of course, have been too bad, But think of the compensationl The sovereign. the members of the | reigning family, the government, nay, the entire nation, rely upon the men- tor to mold the character of the prince intrusted to his charge, to pres rom every kind of harm. physi- well as moral, to keep him out of every scrape and to insensibly ac- quire such a degree of influence over the royal youth as to virtually direct his life. Above all, he must prevent the prince from having his head turn- led by the adulation of those with rve contact, and to preserve him, in | most discreet manner, from designing { persons of both sexes. way wise to select for an office of this kind « courtier. that {s, a man al- ready accustomed to court life, since he is apt to lack the necessary inde- pendence of character or breadth of view. Commander Louis Greig, who has just resigned the controllership of the household of the royal Duke and Duchess of York, though remaining a trustee of their estate, has been an lideal mentor to the duke, with whom he has been in the closest and most intimate kind of contact since the prince was a naval cadet at Osborne, away back in 1908, nearly fifteen ¥ A graduate of the famous Merchiston Castle School at Edin jburgh, and of Glasgow Ul { Greig joined the at Osborne as a young naval surgeon and immediately became a hero to the boys by reason of the national celeb. rity which he had already achieved as a crack foot ball player. Both the Prince of Wales and his brother Al- bert, the present Duke of York, fell undér his influence and took to heart his constant exhortation to “play the game." At the beginning of the great war | Greig sought active service, and, at- tached to the naval expedition for the relief of Antwerp, in_ August, 1614, was taken prisoner fn Belgium, man- aging to effect his escape in Septem- ber of the following year, when he was at once appointed to the Malaya warship, which was precisely the craft on which Prince Albert was serving as a midshipman. The prince fell dangerously ill on board, which esulted in his being twice invalided ashore, under the medical and per- sonal care of Grelg, the illness final- 1y necessitating a dangerous abdomi- nal operation. * X Kk At the time of the operation, the great surgeon Sir Frederick Treves, who had charge thereof, insisted upon Louls Greig joining him in signing the official bulletins, as one of the royal surgeons. On the restoration of peace, the prince took up his studies at Cambridge with Greig in permanent attendance as equerry, and when Prince Albert was transferred from the navy to the royal air serv- 1ce, Greig followed him to the latter with the rank of major. It was in the company of Greig that the prince made his first flight, and that, too, fn particularly stormy weather. In 1920 Greig was appointed by the king to be controller of the house- hold of the prince, who had, mean- while, become the Duke of York, and to take charge of his entire es- tablishment. He has been the ad- viser of the duke in all the latter's schemes for industrial welfare, and was the confidant of the duke's court- ship. If he is now resigning his po- sition at court, it is, first of all, to take advantage of a very important business offer in the city, with the object of building up a fortune for his family, and also because he feels that now that the duke s completely grown up and a married man, ft would be better for the continued de- velopment of his character that he should be able to rule his own life without any interference save that of his consort, and that, at any rate, the controller of his household shoul be a man of his own -lecflon‘md not & tul whom the voungster is brought into al It is not al- | Royal Naval College | Lord Campden, immediately ached to the statr Spring-Rice hington rs, the rank « shire Regi has just formerly at the and 4 ent at been Miss Al Who is next to hir ton borox to his in | man Lord Gair not always been Cathali late Farl of Gainsborough, renow {his piety amd for his pt the first to turn to the Ci being received into it by ¥ himself. Lord and Lad: ected tl anted to them wept, whereuy daughter, Lady Blanche Noel, convinced that the holy father was ill-using her , proceeded to attack him m with fists and kicks. died in America, coming to this cous t the time of her romantic with Thomas Murphy. The the organ chapel at Through Lady Blan hapel music, she w ¥ contact with the some, fascinating voung in the most natur: came_about tha er the rest of the fa d left the ¢ to practice the It is nothing ‘stran; anthroy rch of ¥ o Pius IX brought _into nist, a hand- Irishman, and should remain with him. the hours and vespe: orgun, the vouns, enthusiastic 'Lady Blanche and the im- pulsive young Irish organist should have fallen in ldve with eac After their marrh found the prejudices that in ¢ Blanche of her family band, on account of his birth, too strong to admit of their remain- ing in England without being sub- Jected to all orts of hun ations. And so they ame to th United States to embar upon a new life and to earn their living, Lady Blanche in the realms of literature and Thomas Murphy. first as the or- ganist at New Rochelle, N, Y. and then as organist at North New' Con- way, N. H. where he also (aught music at the Rev. Frederick Thomp- son’s Boys' School at Three Elms. Lady Blanche wrote a great deal for the Atlantic Monthly, for Scribner’s, the Catholic Review, ' ete., yet found time to do all her housework, For she and her husband were too poor o keep a servamt. William Dean Howells was their warm friend and mentor in literature, and was wont to declare that Lady Blanche had the most_analytical mind of any wo- man he had ever known. * % k¥ Without being beautiful she was a pretty little woman, with a fresh rosy face, framed with thick gold brown hair; very modest and very shy; altogether singularly attractive, She aled very suddenly from pneu- monia in 1881, at the age of thirty- five, her husband surviving her un- til 1890, and while his remains have found a resting place on this side of the Atlantic, hers were taken over to England and repose beside those of her parents in the family mausoleum at Exton Park. Lord Campden has a strain of royal blood in his veins, his grandmother, the wife of the second Earl of Gains- borough, being the daughter of that Countess of Erroll who was one of the grandchildren of King Willlam 1V and Mrs, Jordan. Even before coming to America with Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, Lord Campden had traveled extensive- 1y in the United States. For he had accompanied his sister, Lady Norah Noel, to the western hemispheré when she took part, as one of the soloists of the Sheffield choir, in the great in- ternational musical festival at Cincin- ) be music { and of her relitives against her hus- | WWhen the armistice has heen signed | nd the war is over, still the bitter- | s and hatred remain. The com- ? the Knockaloe camp sums “It's a pity, but it has al-| my experfence that thel rs of ap are worse than he last vea a war” Mona, speaking of the race hatred caused by the war, savs to her German lover Oskar hat me another war me doesn't He replies “It does, and when day comes God help the poor world and | everything in it % ok % Revelations Called Appél]ing andant ¢ 1l up: bee Quackery in medicing or s w thing. But the disc ake diploma mill” investig at Hartford, Conn., are appalling their revelation of the nt tow quackery has been made an organized| bus operating widely on an in- terstate scale, in the view of the na- re in in 0 e ssures the it that old This w certain two ! | state regulation nd the con standards of opinion of the New which says: “This matter in which states their own laws and restri hindered by what other s Connecticut is waking up to the fi so much the better. Nor is the les- con confined there or to this phase of state regulative activit Its teach- 3 ing has a much broader applicati e Caprable Hours lone state's duty 1o s rd the peo-| mori quaint fancles, | ple, according to the Newark subtle humor and delic: requires “that due knowledse o are all combined in Crothe caling art sought to be practiced, Blies Pe © 1« entitled T, ud possession of the | Praise o its kev- | character which must ace note from Eras frave @ responsibility, shall be qer His style ary " | onstrated adequately. ne with humor, a of proportion | attests, but by and.a gift for vivid pictorial settings. | Likewise, the * % agrees, thi . ness will contt < “Uneanny Storie ¢ Sinclair, | In the Union falls in behind New are full of ap) ions, visions and other { State and requires all doctors apply- cychic phenomena. Distraught ghosts | 118 for license to tuke same test, | PEYOhic. NloRomEns straught ghosts | pieh makes it necessary for them to L:aunt the scenes of their earthly sins | know anatomy; physiology, medicine, | B and tried in vain to escape the | surgery and pathology ads ot ghostly companions of those ' however, s a development with t ical pract in | | | { tion's editor: | to appear e rise of ued advance requirem, Two new volumes of essays by | of our most delightful American sayists come just in time to be Christ- | mas gifts for any friends who the to appreciate a really “The Cheerful Giv MeChord Crothe ddition to the title its wts, in the York World, peculiarl enfor un- it have lit- an aste is a can e L in- essa tions, ates do. tutional Go: Own Mind, for Methods in of a Con One's Aging.” Morals” of John gentle e sins. * % * As t Harrist A wife who dies in doubt of her hus-| fThe Boston Suljec L Land’s love hovers about as a phan- | tentioneto the peril in care- tasm until she is convinced. One lessly welcoming physicians upon caped spirit watches the preparation | transter from a state which does not of her own body for burial. A woman | g0 57 didate. with sori With pevehic healing powers finds | eXemine each Sl E Nerself on the verge of the insauity | bulous regard public safety and maintains “the lines must from which she has fd»-li\ervd friend. The ghost of a first wif, , S niin St oonly {comes back to separate her husband | o V" tisht against quacks, not g from the second wife who is occupy- | the ones who are inadequately equip- ing her bedroom. There are many |ped mentally, but, above all, those other hair-raising situations, some!who are unequal morally to the rious responsibility which rests upon all doctors of medic " To which detailed, some only hinted. Alto- gether, the collection of stories is well named. The individual titles|the Chattancoga Times adds, “All states should require physicians to file with the county cierk a sum- are: “Where Their Fire I Not | Quenched,” “The Token,” “Thel Flaw ) o 5 mary of their experience and of their school training.” in the ystal,’ he Nature the Evidence,” "If the Dead Knew,” “The Kk Victim,* and “The Finding of the Ab-| But behind the problem of elimi- nating the fraud stands that of pro- viding city and country communities solut % x with an adequate supply of trained | and honest physici s the Indian- polis Star se gesting that ne thing needed, possibly, is means to enable students with adequat incomes to defray the heavy expenses of a medical education”™ but he | & - o hopeful sign is that we are progress- | ‘the amazing ing from an age of proprietary med- | tion which pre ical schools und rule of thumb medi- | these giganti cine into one of orgunized sclentific care of the community's health.” Waterbury Republican claims Connecticut Electri Medical A cation is failing in its purpose If it does not interest itself in what its members do to the extent of protect- ing the profession against quacks.” There is no is for the charge of professional jealousy If the profes- slon helps run down and punish the oftenders, because a dignified pro- fession of men and women has a right to be jealous of fakers, ol serves the Ohio State Journal, which urges that “all the diploma buyer: and the diploma sellers be sent t prison, that the world be warned that the public and the medical pro- | rizht timore fession have no patience with the get-{rail ind there rich-quick idea when it professes to|house in sight anywhe tinker with affiicted humanity and|common practice and toy with life as if it were a play- | pe The cot thing.” The Knoxville Sentinel con- |seems to have small urs in this opinion and feels that|peopls who have to use eputable ‘physiclans everywhere |if anything happens to my wife and would like nothing better than to do |daughters on = ant of anything of a thorough job .of housecleaning and |that kind, somebody will pay dearly put the charlatans out of .business ifox it FRED W, COLE also calls at-| soy ealled or offerin tochnical 5 but be the qu tice is Who w involved ountant in other higl for a stated fee I and wrongs public ai n the v C A m in sucti es- ca for the be n Cons dvance shown R nec a how Advoc term cut H to ty with germs fata hem over to The Roches- wants to lly practic its utmost, Patriot conclude is that s to be so cle s can succeed.” From Pinafores to Politics” is the taking title of Mrs. J. Borden Harri- man's book of reminiscences. Talf way between the pinafores and the politics are her days in old New York soclety, from which Mrs. Harriman tore herself away in order to play a part in the activities of feminism, labor and the war. She was an active member of the Industrial Relations Commission during the war, The book is full of the names of inter- esting public personages with whom Mrs. Harriman has been assoclated ‘n her work. then turn rs to cure Protests Practice On Cabin John Curs o the Editor of The St I see in th attack on a line. My wife go Cabin John, two wife and a negr: i m 0 n account of woman at the District t on a car marked d because there wer: on * X X X After producing short stories for a number of years, Fannie Hurst has at last turned to the novel, In “Lum- mox" she has portrayed a Slav peas- ant woman, Bertha, transferred to a New York water-front environment about twenty years ago. Though Ber- tha's life is spent in scrubbing and emptying slops in sailors’ lodging houses, she is still an idealist with a deep, Inarticulate love of beauty and poetry. The misery and sordidness of the events of her life are in_contrast with her simple nobility. She is a strong, primitive type, with an infin- ite capacity for silent suffering and an_instinctive reliance on an inner the car, my ¢ changed | w | the ’

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