Evening Star Newspaper, September 6, 1924, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR Ix-rm-! waiter with' a keen perception of = - 5 food values and relationships may Vith Sunday Morning Edition. _ | " IR SO0 OO vieuinics WASHINGTON, D. C. }lh\' often heard, “Sorry, but we are all out of that now.” One cannot have SATURDAY. --September6, MOBL| O cinnotive T, THEODORE W. NOYES Editor| A Walter's job under this dispensa- 5 s ’m.n of discreet advice will be no easy The me. 1t will take some diplomacy and | tact to make a hungry guest abstain U dish. Waiters The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office. 11th St. and Penusylvania Ave. New Yurk of ast 42nd St. Chicago Ot Buildiog. Earopean Ottice: 16 it ‘London. Enzland. | are largely dependent for their in- The Evening Star. with the Sunday morninz | come upon the good will of those Siilon; 4 delvered by carriers IR U | whom they serve. Will they be likely Cents, ber montlh: Kunduy oniy 20 senis BT 4 risk displeasure and diminution of month, phone Main Tiers at the cud of 1or tele Ly car. sent by S made honor rivms by balking their patrons :ppetites? The restaurant keepers tion may adopt a code of ethi rylind and Vi p nirii. jbut it will be up to the waiters, after Daily and Sunday.1 yr.$240:1 mo, 70c | all Daily on!; 1xr. 30001 1 mo., 500 | &8 | Sunday o S1yr. $2.40. 1 mo, 20¢ | ———————— 1 ANl Qther State Getting at the Truth. Daflz and Sunday.4 57, $10.00: 1 mo. 8¢ | il salution of the Leisinger mur- | Sunday ouly ..1l1yr. $4.001mo. 2oc | der appears to be now possible, inas- much as all four occupants of the rurder car have been taken and some of them are making confessions and accusations. There is a contlict, as is usual at the first stage of a case of this kind, in the statements of those Member of the Associated Press. The Assoiated Press is excluxivels entitled o the use for republication of all new patches eredited 10 it or ot ofherwise cred in this paper and also the local 1 Tished All righta of pubt ape: b are also T herein. a chy . e implicated. In crimes participated in Wise Decision on Streets. Phy several people, each of them. Yesterday's hearing on the proposed | when rounded up, seeks to put the widening of certain streets oi T another. It requires pains- before the Commissioners afforded and patient work to get the evidence of the stronsly donivant{wiih But the truth is usually found. | sentiment on the pare of vitizens | 1o e it wonld appear that against increasing the tradiic space at{ the oceupants of the car were not ac- | the sacritice of sidewalhs amd This sentiment was pronoun. that the Commissgy v tre tially ced in bootlegzing at the were driving reckl streets at a late but a s0 hour, | | through cdiatel the ruled against thre prop sitiens, af-{and had obtained and were drinking fecting K. Eleventh and Teath streets, | liguor when Policeman Leisinger | while approving the widening of M {noted them and called upon them to! street and a portion of Bladensh }.\ b, Instead of halting they speeded | road fup. but ke gained a hold on the rear In the case of M reet there is a | bumper and began firing to attract particular reason for greater width. | attention or possibly frighen them It is, in effect, an extension of Penn- 1 into stopping. Somebody in the car | sylvania avenue, and is the m:\\'!l;:u\v the order to “knock him off, artery of Georgetown. It leads to the Key Bridge, which is the chief means of crossing the river, on t northern side. Thix chief outlet reccives w ward-bound meaning to shoot him. One of the oc- cupants of the car took a pistol and shotand killed the man, That the car had been and probably was still regu- | | traflic from seve larly used for bootlegging purposes sources. The sudden narrowing is indicated by the fact that, accord- Rock Creek is passed causes a serious | ing to one of the confessions, the | driver “turned on the smoke screen” when he learned that the policeman | congestion, which crease. Inasmuch a tically a continuat is tain re to in t is prac M s m of Pennsylvania was clinging behind. This device is avenue, this present proposed widen- | not used except by these engaged in ing is in the line of proper dev lawbreaking. Whether his action was ment. Bladensburs + road, also, wise or not, Policeman Leisinger sents special considerations. It is one | judzed correctly when he undertook of the suburban outlets for the city | to halt the machine. traffic and is much used. It can be| Public interest reverts to the fact widened without sacrificing lurge | that this car, riddled with bulle present values. It should have been | turned into a public garage and al- widened years ago, to anticipate the [lowed to remain there several days gTowth of the city and the increase | without any report being made to the in the volume of traffic. The other streets which were pro- posed for widening are a different category. In the case of K street an extension of the paved area would u|—" volve the destruction of two rows of { trees. The street is already wide enough for the present and the pros- pective volume of moving traffic. To widen it for the accommodation of parked cars would be no solution ef the parking problem, but rather gn aggravation. If parking is prope: regulated in the other two streets of the proposed program moving traffic can be adequately accommodated. Undoubtedly much of the cpposition | police, when the fact was known | throughout the District that a murder had been committed and that search was being made for a car in that con- dition. There is no present law on the subject of the liability of the keepers of public garages save to the owners of machines. Tt is evident from this > that if the law is not explicit enough at present it should be made 0. to the end that those who under- take the storage and custody of ma- should be held responsible to the extent of giving notice whenever evidence of crime appears. The will- ful concealment of such evidence con- stitutes accessory participation in the chin expressed at vesterday's hearing to|crime and should be severely pun- the widening of the three stretches of | ished. streets in the midcity has arisen from oo the public feeling that the ail-day Fine Weather. parking of cars should not be tol-| % hington Autumn is famous. erated, and that other means of car- ing for the idle machines during the day should be provided. This auestion has recently come to a head through the proposal of the transformation of Franklin Park into a public garage. This preposterous proposition instant- | 1y aroused indignant opposition, and in consequence the police have been endeavoring, with much success, toen- force the rule against all-day parking in the congested area. It has becpme evident that the rule can be enforced, and that space can be afforded for the Poets have written praises of it, paint- ers have put bits of it on canvas, and a multitude of people have described it as “great weather.” The air is zippy, the sunshine is golden, and there is a haze which gives distant things a purple tinge. We have had some September days hot enough to do credit to July, but the weather has changed with the suddenness for which weather, and perhaps Washing- ton weather in particular, is notable. Yesterday was dark gray, with mist temporary parking of cars in theland rain. Overcoats were worn by transaction of business during the|some men last night, and those men day. Street widening, therefore, be- | who did not wear them might have done comes less requisite. If the all.day parking of cars is to be stopped the streets are wide enough. ———— In trying to revive the old dances Henry Ford may discover that he has undertaken more than he bargained for in the way of commercial com- petition. The music industry cannot be expected to submit tamely to scrap- ping all its fox-trot sheet music and phonograph records. ———— The management of publicity is a subtle art, with possibilities beyond what may at the outset he easily fore- seen. Senator Wheeler may yet turn that little indictment in Montana to with comfort. It was no vain boast of a man when he came to office this morning and said, “Out my way it was so comfortable last night that 1 pulled a blanket over me.” In some homes there was talk of start- ing up the furnace, and perhaps in some homes gas logs were set to work. Barly morning may be described as having been between tangy and cold. At any rate, it was “bracing,” and to some men it was shivery. But as the sun moved high enough to mark the usual hour for men to go to work the day was bright and as warm as most persons would have weather in Sep- tember. With good luck this kind of weather should hold through Septem- s0 account as a valuable line of cam- e = et Ple line of cam- |, "and October. We will not escape paign advertising. some sloppy days, and it would seem 5 that a frosty night is not far off. But Discrimination is now being exer-| o0 & TR REL 8T B8 B B cised in securing a campaign fund ‘?“:'”_""'; e ‘_; = i large enough to be efficient, but not isky. - an 2 catae fircat Eoes no further than to tell us that fair and slightly warmer weather is in- dicated tomorrow, with moderate northwest winds. ————————— New Yorkers desiring to show the Prince of Wales something both in- structive and amusing are sorry he arrived a few weeks too late for the convention at Madison Square Garden. %0 conspicuous as to be embarrassing. e Guardians of Health. Under the code of ethics of the Na- tional Restaurant Association, it was announced Friday at the convention of that body in Chicago. no patron to be permitted to gorge himself or indulge recklessly in inappropriate combinations of foods and beverages without caution from the waiter. Un- der this rule waiters, or servers, will give a diplomatic word of caution to the reckless eater. Then, however, nature must take its course. The res- News of London Bridge. From London comes a message that London bridge is falling down. This may be considered news to taurant owner or the waiter cannot firuw;-ux;n._lbu;ef;i se;x:m mL D::;,: s0 far as to intervene if _| heard of i . = Bo0d ad- |\ ice is falling down is not news vice, tactfully given, is ignored. Not even if signs are conspicuously posted to the effect that “we refuse to serve unwholesome combinations” can the waiter decline to bring whatever may be ordered. Britons express their concept of lib- erty in the phrase, “Every English- man'’s home is his castle.” This idea may be applied to the relationship of the restaurant patron to the eating place. Every man's stomach is his own. A doctor may order a patient to abstain from certain foods, may *“put him on a diet,” but it is up to the patient to regulate his fare, un- less be is confined to his bed and un- der the care of a nurse. When he goes into @ restaurant and orders his meal | have learned it from English chil- he i8 monarch, and if the food is to|dren. In 1628 Charles Perrault of be bad he can get it. Perhaps a ;‘i Paris published a collection of child — o children. This bridge began falling down, so far as American children are con- cerned, as early as 1719, when Thomas Fleet, a Boston printer, pub- lished a set of children's rhymes under the caption “Melodies of Mother Goose.” There was discus- sion as to who Mother Goose was, and some Boston antiquarians identi- fied her as Elizabeth Goose, widow of Isaac Vergoose, or Isaac Goose for short, who was the mother-in-law of Thomas Fleet, the printer. Long before American children learned in 1719 that London bridge was falling down, the fact was known to French children, and they must 6 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1924. e R ———————————— verses which the historian of this matter says were called “Cortes de Ma Mere I'Oye,” and which the French today would surely call “Les Contes de Ma Mere 1'Oie” or “Fables of Mother Goose." The report that London bridge is falling down probably started soon after the stone London bridge was built in 1209. It was such an amazing structure that there were probably persons who felt thet it could not stand long, and children began singing “London bridge is falling down.” The little ones kept the tune up so long that the bridge, though it did not fall down, weuld have fallen down had it not been re d on the building of the present London bridge between the vears 1825-1831. The cable says, “River workers r port that one of the piers of Londor bridge has dropped four inches under the stress of traffic.” Such a mis seems to be losked on in England important, but if a Potomac or East ern Branch bridge should drop only four inches it is thought that it would attract little notice. We would prob ably put a sign on the bridge, “Go Slow and You May Not Fall Through.” We do these things better than older countries If the lord mayor of London could te coach across Branch bridse v with 1o in Eastern id louk at the rough fi lines of nail-heads sticking up. he would order his coachman and pos tilions to take him back in haste to the Mansion IHouse. where he would send out a hurry-up call for a spe cial meeting of the county council What the lord mayor might say to the aldermen should not be set down in these quiet columns. If the lord mayor could look at the Calvert street and Little Falls bridg 1 one or two others roundabout, he would probably say that Blackfriars Waterloo, Vauxhall, Westminster and Southwark bridges have W hington bridges beat a mil e It is reported that Judge Caverly has fully considered the record of the Loeb-Leopold trial and is now paring his remarks in connection with the sentence. The defendants will ne doubt be particularly appreciative if he will make them brief. o There is to be no mud throwing in this campaign. There will, however be persistent hints on the part of many an orator that he could easily toss few specimens of adobe with goodly aim if he were not too polite a — e Radio oratory is a great and convenience to the audience, hut the lack of response even by facial expression is likely to be depressing to a speaker accustomed to study hu man reaction - — e Eminent thinkers have asserted that people need very little sleep, but the Hollywood police have shown determination mot to accept th theory as an excuse for wild partie — e There might be fewer unhappy marriages in circles of art if pre agents were not continually holding out first-page display publicity as a divorce bonus. a comfort | Answers to Questions BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. Is there anything in the Consti- tution which prevents the enactment of 4 law requiring the citizens of the United States to exercise the right of suffrage’—G. H. A. The right of suffrage, except as provided in the fifteenth and nin teenth amendments to the Constitu- tion, is controlled by State law. A State could undoubtedly pass a law the purpose of which is to require voters to exercise the priviloge of voting. Q District entage ored? A W Colum I What is the population of the of Columbia, and what per- of the population is col- L W. E. - population of the District of in 1920 was 437,571. The xro population is 109,966, or about ver cent. it the head of the gov- Finland, and what is the Q. Who rnment of religion?—W. In. W, . Dr. K. J. Stahlberg is President o the Republic of Finland. The re lgion is Lutheran, with a few Or- hodox Greek Catholic Q. Are’ harmful gases given off when ofl is burned as fuel? L C D A. A fuel oil burner company says At there is but @ very small content f carbon monoxide in the fuel gases iven off by oil burners. It is en- tirely a matter of proper combustion, depending upon the burner itself, and, in case of rizing burners. have rDenlute contral over the intake of «r, and therefore automatically give vroper combustion, from which there i€ no trace of carbon monoxide. Q. Who owns the Sahara Desert?— M. S A Three-fifths of the Sahar ort in Africa is uwned by Frane remainder belonging to Spain. Q our Des- . the What disease wa soldiers during the R. A. Pneumonia was the cause of the greatest number of deaths from dis- ease during the World War. More than 40,000 died. Of these 25,000 resulted from the influenza-pneu- monia pandemic which swept through most fatal to World War? every camp and cantonment in thi untry and ca d thousands of deaths in the expeditionary forces. Buning the eight weeks ‘from Scp- “mbe 14 to the Sth of November, 316,089 cases of influenza and 1Yy of pneumonia were reported among roops in the country. The total of battle deaths was 50,106, Q. Are there any survivors of the | Custer mussacre?—3M. C. 8. A Crow Indian named Curly survivor of the Custer n; - dicd at Billings, Mont., in May last year. Q. Are the Hearst magazines printed in New York? M. H. A. The Hearst magazine been printed in Chicago since 19 | Q What is the chemical used to destroy the boll weevil?—C. U. A. Caleium arsenate is now used the currcncy of Poland at . M ccording to the quotation of 20, 1924, the Polish zloty, which is the new was quoted at 19. is 10.30c. Q. Please send me a map of the Allegheny National Forest—P. R K A. The Forest Service says that no map has been published of the Alle- zheny National Forest. This is one of the newest forests, having been ereated only two years ago, and no printed material has yet been issued urrency of Poland, The par value e Many Germans are going to Hol- land. This fact comes nearer being an indorsement of a Hohenzollern policy | than anything that has happened in a long time. ——————— - It is difficult to keep the fighting consistently implacable. When one party criticizes another the third is almost irresistibly inclined to applaud. ——————— — Failure to establish communication at this particular time prevented Mars from hearing some of the biggest base ball news ever in circulation. N There will be nothing in this Win- ter's price lists to prevent renewed suggestions for inquiries concerning the cost of fuel to the consumer. —_— e China may regard assertions that more war is impossible as a slight to very energetic activities in which she is now engaged. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. It Might Be Done! Some day a prince will come along Who has a sense of humor strong And wear no collar for a while— And we will imitate the style. A comic effort he may make All table manners to forsake, And get a laugh as he contrives To leave us eating with our knives. Frank Reply “Will you leave politics poorer in worldly goods than when you en- tered it?"” “No sir,” answered Senator Sor- ghum. “¥ don’t expect to leave under any circumstances.” Red Tapestry. For Winter we would be in shape, And carelessly we'd carol, 1f we could corner the red tape And weave it for apparel. Jud Tunkins says he sees several men foolin’ themselves the same as he did when he thought for a minute he was at the head of the class; only the teacher was countin’ from the other end o' the line. Keeping Under Cover. “Why don't you do something to put Crimson Gulch on the map?” ““We've thought about it,” answered Cactus Joe, “but the citizens’ commit- tee decided that more travelers 'ud be likely to happen along to patronize the hotel an’ the garage if they didn’t know this particular town was here.” The Sphinx. The voter now in solemn state, All silent and unblinking, 1s challenging each candidate To guess what he is thinking. “A spiteful come-back,” sald Uncle Eben, “is a confession dat you feels puffickly competent to hold yoh own in meanness.” {its hospital at Algiers, La., has a bed {capacity of 237, and on August there were patients in the insti tution. There are 11 medical officers. 11 dentist, 1 clinical surgeon and | nurs There are also technical workers on the staff. Q. Should one say “T am bringing these books to Mary” or “I am tak ing these books to Mary?'—W. M.S. A. Either sentence you gave may be correct, depending upon the mean- ing which you wish to convey. Bring s {to a nearer place, while take is to bear from a nearer place to a more distant place. Upon leaving the place where the books were procured you would say “I am taking.” Upon reaching Mary’s home, you would say “I am bringing.” Q. What is the name of Elinor | Glyn's husband?—E. J. A. Her husband was J. P. Clayton Glyn. He died in 1918, Q. How do Central Park, ]\'m'k Vity, and tock Creek Washington, compare?—E. H. J. A. Central Park, New York City, covers $40 acres. 400 of which are wooded. Rock Creek Park, Wash- ington, D. C.. is a natural park con- sisting of 1775 acres. It would be a matter of personal opinion as to which park is more beautiful. Q. What is the quotation about the “mist and the blinding rain, and nothing was ever the same again?'— E. M A. George Macdonald in “Phan- tastes” wrote: ‘“Alas! How easily things go wrong! A sigh too deep, a kiss too long, and then comes a mist and a weeping rain, And life is never the same again.” Q. Is it true that a little dog sits at the garden doorway of the Queen’s Doll's House?—D. H. Q. A. Recent photographs show a small dog sitting expectantly before the door. It is a “touch” that espe- clally appeals to the children who visit the Palace of Art at Wembley. Q. What was the name of the first steam-driven veesel to cross the Atlan- tie>—S. 8. C. A. The Savannah, an American ves- sel, sailed from Savannah to Liverpool in 1819 in 25 days. This was about one- third the length of time it took Colum- bus to sail from Spain to America, and is about five times greater than the time it takes a modern eteamship to make the trip from America to England. Q. Are dates grown in the United States?—O. M. H. A. For centuries dates have been grown in Southwestern Asia and in Northern Africa. Until recent years all of the dates used in our country were imported, but good dates are now pro- duced commercially in Arizona and California. Although date trees require much water, a hot, dry climate is nec- essary in order to dry the fruit. Q. What were the Suffolk resolves?— E. 0. B. A. The Suffolk resolves were the league and covenant made by many Massachusetts towns in 1774 to abstain from all commercial {ntercourse with Great Britain. They were executed aft- er the closing of the port of Boston by British authorities as a reprisal for the destruction of the tea in Boston Har- bor by patriots in deflance of the tax on tea. (Space can be given in this column to only a few of the questions that pour into our office daily. Those which are believed to be of greatest public interest are selected for publication. Any reader is privileged to ask any question he chooses, however trivial or profound, and it will be answered direct. Inclose o two-cent stamp with your query and address The Star Information Bureau, Twenty-first and C strects northwest. extensively in poisoning the boll wecvil. | lon it | Q@ What is the capacity of the hospital for soldiers at Algiers, La? | T. W. R ! A, The Veterans Bureau says that to bear from a more distant place | WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS The Library Table | | [THIS AND THAT BT ] RBY THE BOOKLOVER S BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. BY C. E. TRACEWELL. A super-woman, super-adventuress, b Apropos the possibility Rhat the|ivarius when the emergency arises. |super-trickster, super-charmer i3 | T who dislike cats suffer from 1924 presidential election may turn | Davis is also the possessor of a nick- | Ulrika Waoytich in Jacol Wasser- | o g 1en complaint. Supersti- [out to be another 1912 affair, an|Pame. dating from his college days [, ool ORI T s | Wasser ot the mother. of many evils, has amazing bit of unrecorded history |2 Washington and Lee, wherc he was { [ZR00 Jienily | translated | iovel | tiew in its grip. They may not real- e ke @ > | known as “Bones,” on account of the & o ¥ 0 it or ever admit it, but they are comes/dhis Beerver's » ne mght | hurce amount of covering that adorn- | this ambitious woman, who, free from . victims of thought habits handed n October, 1912, W. Murray Crane of [od' his slender frame. all personal ties, insinuates herself | gown to them from the days when Massachusetts, the old guard power * K into the lives of others only to ruin| uis and “witches” we soclated charge of Woodrow Wilsn's fortance, | L°F Congress, but no fower than 11 fthor. That Ulrika Woytich, atter an e 50 LLHUEE (90 Beaett Sers son’s fortune " DUbno Lo icldantinasi Bivin e sttt en nion, and the fact that at McCombs told Crane he would' like | 9ther women arc aspiring to seats in [aceldent has siven her aceess to the ), [, (o 000 d M0 T8 B00 G & to_meet him at once and impart, in |the next House. Pennsylvaniu dis- ate the younger membops of Ui | that they “hate cats.” Their reasons strictest confic information of | tricts have placed five women in|family is understandable, but that she | advanced for this dislike are so easily the highest importance to the Repub- | nomination—three on the Prohibition | should idly reduce to sub-|disproved that the only lican organization. To Crane's aston- | ticket, one on the Democ ticket | servience Herr and Frau Mylius is | js that sgive ? ishment, McCombs suggested that the [and one on the Socialist ticket. In |Lardly plausible. Esther and Aimes | meeting take place at the dead of \ Tennessee the Republicans have put | become her slaves because she fare| W 0¢0ee or how this propaganda night at a lonely spot on the Boston [up 4 woman in the Chattanooga dis- | nishes them the adornments a | aBainst cats got its start is hard to N in t a nts and post road. It was so arranged. What [ trict: in California the Socialists have | amusements of which their vouth has ! trece, but today it may be met with McCombs had to tell Crane was that |Bominated a woman; in Colorado the | heen deprived Josephin whose | In fine fettle in a majority of folk a careful, thoroughgoing poll | Democrats have placed a woman in | character s stronger, vields more | These are not afilicted with the well made by the Democratic national com- | the field; in Ilinois, two women—a | slowly, and then only to ccies of [ known disease recognized by medical mittee “indicated that the three-cor- | Republican and a Socialist—are run- | terrorism. Lotha pEetts, Qissnlute | ioiance: Telinaphobia. tenss, 1o nered fight for the presidency looked, | ning and in Nebraska a woman Pro- | hoy, is quickly subducd by her appeal | ;o000 T A at that hour, like a certain victory [hibitlonist & on a congressional | to his sex and his greed. What causes | €TI0 fear of felis domesticus. for Theodore Roosevelt. McCombs | ticket. The National Women's Party | the reader to prone « the story im- | *»“;u I¥ I asked the first ten pe wid that, under the circumstances, |has been making an intensive effort | probable, almost ible, is 1 ot ther they liked cats the Republicans’ duty was plain, |10 Secure the nomination of women | collapse of the elderly Myliu$ coupie € anawered yes. seven sald rigi Three weeks later Taft wus slaugh- |10 all of the congressional districts of | Who are portrayed as hy no means | sitive manner. About the tered the country. weak personalities. Herr Helmut | poxtion. i cto} ber met Bwith * K ok ok * ok ko Otto Mylius, world-famous dealer in|EeRerally, Yet the world has been o e por ot senstoplaviedican Tegation finPeking ana| WISbonen shoulzers lousive ayan i i I-"" i "“ emocrats are mak- | charge d'affaires in China during the | s°Uf Sweet sl S o g Cotomitie st 2 e D Tomonoos diive 4o hold e lpaiag otjil wat atomid el § s F L e e B ninth congressional district of Vir-|seems predestined to be in chief care | from every one. imcludiog ail ine| B2 night a nulsance and :Imm._ u,mlrr: is etary I 1] of Yankee interests whenever things | members of his famil Yet, for n Sontond 2 Slemp’s habitat break loose in the r East. He ha jreason whatever, in I asked one of these c _ The district went Democratic in 1922 pened to be charge d'affaires in Jupan | Moment, he reve s tell me just exactly why he dislikes :urdmle first time since the Civil War, | during the vital months preceding (and he is past 60) to|cats. He did so readily, and, being a i“var\‘ h\"'vrr “n'mn:v iGeorge « v.lmx_'”uixhn onvening of the Washington rika, who makes prompt use of her | man of unusual intelligence, his opin- eery. Who won it, is again contesting | conferenco in 1921. AIl of the deli- | knowledge. With equal ease, the|t0 5 FUUStES T STEEnce, BE optn- "nator Glass, who has as yet no|cate negotiations with Jupan, which | crafty Ulrika, in a few weeks' time |1 houncements of dislikes, » tion for re ction to the upper|finally made the nference possible dermines the wifely duty of Frau | @h! N ogrin Thes lousic, expects to invade the ninth dis- | wire conducted by Beil, who 15 ane of | Christine Mylius, the product of| “In the first place” he said, “cats often as ry between | the brilliant young “carcer men” of | Bereditary tradition, training and a|are dirty. In the second place, they election time. The Slemps | our foreign service. Dr. Jacob G.|49arter of a century of practice. T! do not respond to human affection. the constituency since | Schurman, American minister 1, | the masterful Ulrika rturns In the third place, they still have so = o e father of| China, is now on the Pacific, en route | the M lilymcmas Lo uy e much of the jungle in them. Fiashes - i -hand man | ¢, Washington. The Shanghai tur- | house and rents a “palace.” ¢n P o wild Deastios e represented it in the House for many [ moil boiled up only a das or tug | X ive servants, establishe oL the wild beast can'be seen, and it years. When he passed away Sascom [ after le legt Peking. 2 sumptuous cuisine, marries off the [NeVET can be tamed out of them. In Slemp ceeded him (in 1907) and | SR ghters with handsome dowries the fourth place, their noises are held t t continuously until the 2deg e and Father Myiju he miser, stand ideou il ! Lthe| Ldgar A. Bancroft of Illinois, who | MY 13 lnideous & Sixty Congress. To the Sixty-| 17 Bancr inois, Wholy,y wnashing his teeth, but pays the| There y84 have a plcture of poor seventh Congress Slemp was returned 145 Jjust been appointed Americ ills. And Jacob Wassermann does | puss drawn by a typical cat hater—a without opposition. | Ambassador to Japan, is in Washing- [ not even pretend that Mylius is in|man who speaks of them with diffi- S |ton fur consultation with the Presi-|love with Ulrika; in fact, he often|culty, grudging even the few seconds s % - |dent and Seeretary Hughes, prior to 1s that Mylius hated and feared | he allots to a discussion of their fail- President Coolidge belicves in cashiguioriurs “ror Tokio, Mr. Baneroft,|her. Why he feared her and why he | ings, as he sees them. customers for the purposes of the | E oo o >t did no e of his house is| This man ignores cats, St for the pur, L O M Lho 13 in his 67th year, will make |34 MOt turn her out of his house i This min ignores cats, as best he nited States Governmen The . . = not explained nor can the reader find | m If he meets Tom in a friend's other day the head of a certain im- pecial appeal to the Japanese p | any explanation. house, he politely refuses to see the portant Federal department, which Is | Jh¢ beciuse he fs no longer youthful. | * K k¥ “striped varmint” Even if that | engaged in liquidating business .,._g‘” ”"V"‘. "“HH"\ nf\v’hn ui,‘nil is th For readers who desire to know |pleasant creature, in an excess of counting for many millions of « e hersanyrence for age, and, wWhen | something of modern continental fic- | affection such as the cat hater says ernment funds, laid @ couple of al- | 1= POrSON AN duestion s @ states-|yion and yet do mot read the tan-|it does not possess, jumps up beside ternative propositions hefore the T Be commands correspondingly | guages a number of recent transia- {him to climb into his lap, he con- President. One meant money later | STOAtr respect. Mr. Bancroft, who|(ione will be helprul. Among the|tinues to act as if no cat wers in on, with ecredit The other promised has never l."'{"r“ held public 4 | h books are Henry ordeaux s | evidence at all earlier results in real money The has had a distinguished career at the | ardens of Omar. Paul If attention is called to the crea- Chief Executive studied the two plans | | bar, mainly as the general | The Gaol,” Marcel Pre-|ture’s glistening coat and snow-white silently, as is his way. After a of important railroad and in- Don Juanes,” Roland | “shirt front,” the foe of all cats will atively brief period of deliberation Le | QUSITEal interests, idition to | aint Magloire,” Andre | make no comment whatever. This is handed one of them over to the official | those activities, he @ pioneer in | Maureis’ “Ariel,” a novel based on|one point where politeness fails him. who submitted them, indicating it} reform movement which cleaned | tpo life of Shelley, and two novels, | He will neither “damn with faint was the one Coolidge preferr up Chicago « politics 20 | Fespectively, of eastern Jewish and | praise” nor adopt Mr. Dawes' policy said: ¥I think we ought to get hold of | Y#ATs aea Mr. “‘"j'";'“;‘ ml-I}: colonial African ilfe, by the |of praising with a faint damn. ail the ready cash we can.”’ tual achievements include the author- | hrothers Jean and Jerome Tharaud, * X % ¥ PR | ship of two or three notable hooks— hadow of the Cross” and Now, first of all, a cat is not dirty. Brig. Gen. Charles G. Dawes isn't | n¢ Chicago Strike of 1 and { Long Walk of Samba Diouf.” All t He is undoubtedly the cleanest of [the only musician in the presidential | e S ey 1s fame); | Scanalnavian countrles have produced | gy iy He has to be, by the |and vice presidential big six. John the Foundation of Na [Gontes: “ins Bhticsopnars ste pycey nasune ofElsDEIDE B simoluted W. Davis is meE e il )estruction or | J. Auker Larsen, and “Christog {out in Carl Van Vechten’s “Tiger in Passionately addicted to fidaling, but | Regulation of Trusts | Columbus,” by Johanne the House,” the cat is ultra-clean in can toy entertainingly with a Strad- (« it 1924 fral Novwas, “Thel B srder to have no odor to warn mice of ang,” by Johan Bojer, and | his presence. . of the Age” by Knut Hamsun: from| o he cleans and polishes himself American Press Welcomes Sweicn: Biody Orchiar B HIINAT | 4" utey ‘apportanits, i the charac: ESuEyian SR G erman) M | teristic fashion of the cat family, one . written some vears ago, but recentls | )¢ pis” most charming and amusing fransatec wpe rst e urs|habits. The nicety with which he 1€ rince o ales | tromas Buddenbrooks.” lury | uacen lic away, rolling out that red Libed s A Week," is one of the | oue, washing his face and whis- most notable pleces of fiction Pro-|,.rg With his wetted paws, bespeak! | duced by Soviet Russia. The trans- ‘_““’.m“( tor ihis (‘I(-aflllr‘l‘~~" { A hearty welcome and a little sur- [answered They maintain “Miss | lation. from the Italian of Papini's | VO 0 (98 R BCEa I L e i { Teptitious svmpathy for the elusive- | Cahill" reports the Hartford Daily |novel, “The Failure.” written before |, <08 €A% MRS Fory Gov, THn 8 SET ness of his sought-for seclusion— |Courant, “had shown mno desire to|“The Life of Christ.” has done much f [ZRR8 & HEC - 1O S0or Ul Sect these are tha offerings of American|Mect the prince. and an attitude so |to explain the latter book. Two in-| 20 o€ A7 Co0 JWORTE, PrMe O (O editors to the Prince of Wales | unusuai “""“*“1‘ £o) unnewarded. - r"“"fd"‘ft‘;l’\“ e e fari | known as a “doggy smell” “There is a genuine ng of psand 1o he A ndoubtedly there are dirty cats, friendliness toward the prince him-{ The world's women concentrate to- | Concha Espina. the tims soitbete s AL ey | self, and also a natural desire to wel- | Jay on Edward P. of England out k S ) peland unkempt men and women. A come the heir to the throne of a|Of all the world's princes, the Rich- Victorian poet seen through the ! typical alley cat is not apt to be 99.44 | friendly nation,” declares the Albany |} s 1-“5 'lfarlvr be ves, “becaus of a modern—but ;m .n;;‘re::;uwr cent pure. Neither would a man | Evening News. The extent of Ameri- | 1¢ I8 about the most ‘unkingly” prince | tive, not a hypercritical modern—is| wpo jed the same sort of life. Cer- can regard for the prince is indicated "U‘ world has ever seen “Given | presented in the volume “Victorian the Rochester Times-Union explains. | by the fact that “down in the Canal|th® F‘rifl"v) might be inclined to mix | by Sl ore ople and be better in the principal club of Colon, |More with =people b - membership is overwhelmingly | inderstood” -~ says the Springtield { American, hang the photographs of | W4V Sews h aralinoriny of o | Wales’ much joked-about horseman- hangs the camera portrait of the| == o S e Times admits and on the other side Prince of Wale that of Theodore But aside from Am. . “the prince showed just a can good will Roose than all the cablegrams of greeting |y ", 000 O TF S * ok ok ok The prince is a democrat, the New Orleans Times-Picayune points out, “and probably he planned his voyage on the Berengaria along that demo- cratic line, but unfortunately’ the democrats who traveled with him would not have it =0, and the Beren- garia press agent has chronicled all too faithfully the snobbish adulations which held the prince in siege.” And A lot of us are slow to le Abandon the Use the Editor of The Star: wish their fellow citizens could see the world's most pursued bachelor come and go without frankly acting | the face of Stone Mountal If that were all, well. to say that if these ladi origin in many cas desire for it, the American public will be courteous enough to give him time for a little of the rest he wan s but it is more likely that he will Northern veterans with need another vacation when he is|Women, there is very little through with this one.” For a prince “might appear as Baron Renfrew in Canada,” but in this country he must be the Prince of Wales, the Illinois State Journal maintains. * ¥ ¥ X To any who have “the impression that all the prince is concerned with is having a good time, since he seems forever to be merely playing and going on junkets,” the Newark Ledger answers “the fact is, however, that what seems to be play is really his work,” for “he promotes good feeling.” It never seems to have oc- curred to Yankees, the Rochester Herald believes, “that the prince, who is heir to the British throne, is largely, responsible for the satety and continuity of his own job,” for, “with the world tendency all toward democracy. it behooves a prince to s tongues and pen: lated to keep alive secti And if, as the G. A. R. charged, they are trying faces of their own that is a thing which e heart ought to resist. least we can do in justice and feeble remnant of our the farm and the forge, in Lincoln’s first call. These resent the whole Union. ored alongside of those wh of the Union? step carefully lest he tread on demo- | The best way to extinguish sec- cratic corns.” With all this in view, | tionalism In most cases is by an hon- the Indianapolis News does not re- | est acknowledgment of the truth. Let gard it as strange that “the Prince |us no longer, by using such phrases as the States,” issues of that bygone day. ‘War came on not as a of Wales is from time to time repre- sented as tiring of his job,” since “there is never any forgetting his real identity and he has to belong more to others than to himself.” Of the mothers and daughters who, it 1s reported, have carefully followed in the prince’s trall on shipboard and on land, the editors say much. The question, “Why did his royal highness single out Miss Lenore Cahill of St. Louis, Mo., and have three long dances "v\uh her?” 18%easily saved! ’ ing to force the new wine the years 1775 and 1860 advantage of the average young man tation, as well he might, when ques toward Edward I'. himself, the Brook.- | oned e e Iyn Daily Eagle believes “a visit of | pii 1 VEOF L At i this kind is productive of more good | i) = [ToM @ horee, but only had feeling than all the solemn speeches | 1o o loves its royal joke, the cver gushea at 3 Pilgrime’ diuner, | RIVIS T8 TSCS fs Togsl Joke, the ever exchanged between the White | gig ran) off his horse, even though he House and Buckingham Palace | proves himself a polo player of parts, | The Prince of Wales came here 0|t j5 doubtful if he will ever ltve rest,” the Scattle Daily Eecalls, by ae it S onai | and “probably no royal personage dis- | There is one lesson Americans | likes &0 thoroughly the fuss and cere-l hoy1d jearn from the visit ot the mony and red tape which g0 With|prinee, asserts the Milwaukee Journal. | the position he occupie But “it is| The prince, crossing on the Beren- | one of Fate's little ironies that the | garia, did his three o four miles on rare treat for the occupant of pal-|jeck, toughened up his arms and | aces and the possessor of wealth iS|chest on a rowing machine. held his to be let alone and to be permitted | own with a professional boxer and the simple, inexpensive amusements good swim. All of which of those who have no title,” and that that the prince. who hasn't is so consistently denied him, accord- | g duties to] commands his ing to the [Philadelphia Public|time. reaiizes that he can be happie Ledger. for keeping his body in good shape. | Sectional Phrases the right to memoralize their dead on as if they were plumb crazy over |S0 choose; and it is indced a noble princes” “It is certainly “to be|monument, as nobe as any of the | hoped.” adds the Fort Worth Star- |pyramids, and likely to be just a Telegram, that “in view of his evident | lasting. But T wish s to the union of left in the recent manifestos of their These seem calcu- have read some of them and I know. commander commanders amped on the national coins, then This is the boys Who came forth from the field, not, and certainly did not, aim to rep- stood for a fourth part of it at the most, and why should they be hon- real defenders and finally the saviors “Lost Cause” and “War Between seek to confuse the real class hatred, but as the result of try- conditions which had arisen between moldy old bottles of the past. our forefathers of 1860 had seen this as clearly as we do today, oceans of blood could have been [lay, if such a thing be possible. bit of irri- and never arn that. i of | | 1 have noticed in your issue of the | (he preacher at large, the m. in, if they | owe their Southern trace of it onalism; I to get the very loyal to the few own brave answer to men could They only 0 were the The Civil product of of the new into the And it what BOWIE. country has several whe ar no comparison with the best of the past or present. Agnes Repplier is| one of these. She has never courted | popularity through fiction the drama, but has limited herself to the essay. In this field she has a { small but devoted circle of readers contributed by John Drink- | water to the Modern Readers' Be shelf Series, Mr. Drinkwater ven- turt to admire Tennyson, unpopular as that attitude is today, and sees his influence on other poets such as Ros- | setti, Morris, Swinburne and even Browning. In Matthew Arnold he| finds “a more rewarding poet, with waste tissue in his work and, as goes on, richer in_undiscovered | han either Tennys or | Mr. Drinkwater has di- vided his book into two parts: “The| Manner of Victorian Poetry” and “The Material of Victorian Poetry.” less time country Browning. % The essay in its perfection, bining reflectiveness, humor. ori point of view and cultivation of style—such an essay. as Montiagne, Charles Lamb or W r Savage Lan- dor could write—is a rare thing to- day. Among the few real essay writers now practicing their art our| need f tainly environment has much to do with cats as well as with children. Give a cat half a chance, however, and he will keep himself as clean as a pin. * ¥ The charge that cats do not respond to human affection is based on ig- norance of cats; that is all. It is a common belief, hinging largely upon an unconscious comparison with that other household pet, the faithful dog. As pointed out before in this col- umn, much unhappiness and mis- understanding comes about because people are not willing to accept other persons and things for what they are. Some men want cats to be dogs and roses to be asters. They rail at golf because it is not like tennis, or growl at “bad bovs" because they do not act like grown men The house is one of the gre est sufferers from this mode of faulty thinking. The average cat hater—I will ba willing to bet that the man who wrote the “Hymn of Hate” also hated cats—does not like cats because they are not doxs. What a reason! self-respecting cat in the world would want to be like a dog. hat!” meows Tom. “Wh nt to be like one of thos, should stu 1wy who ulways look for her essuys inl(ipiyge with their slobbering, put-on the magazines which habitually pub- f 280 WILE ot Bo e g of lish them, and buy Mer volumes when | {000 TG e even at they appear. The last volume of [ or 0 (W%, CERE (Ol 8 st for Miss Repplier's —essays iz called |, ycement? Give me plenty of meat, Under Dispute” and includes a quiet cushion and a seemly amount dozen titles. As the volume lof affection and T am satisfied. | indicates, the es are all on could do tricks, too, if I wanted to: jects concerning which there is dif- ference of opinion, even controversy. She discusses, with humor and satire. rful idolatrous dog. * k k k¥ To the growing literature of mental hygiene, composed of good, bad and indifferent books, that are either erotic (mostly Freudian), neurotic, or simply tommyrotic, has recently been added a sane, helpful book, “The Mastery of Fear,” by Dr. William S, Walsh. The author holds that “it is only theorists and others who have little or no clinical knowledge of abnormal fear. who offer as panaceas, platitudes, day-by: and similar formulas, and so on. Such methods may be of limited utility in mild and transient fears, but th do a person who has a well estab- lished fear as much good as a bread pill.” To help, one must know the individual and.the basic reason for his fears. Some of the normal and abnormal fears discussed Ly Dr Walsh are fears of illnes opinion, ridicule, old age, de su- perstition, heredity and maternal impressions. He closes his ver: sensible and suggestive book with a chapter on the fear habit and how to overcome it. “The Joy of Killing.” To the Editor of The Star: The joy of living is easily under- stood, because ncarly every one has experienced that kind of joy; but the joy of Killing is understood by very few if we except hunters who kill animals and birds for “sport.” Those two students in the West have explained to their satisfaction the joy of killing a defenseless child. The pleasures of assassination have been made a matter of court record for the first time. Let the law take ity course without unreasonable de- x THOMAS W. GILMER. but, honestly, I have too much brains to fall for any of that silly stuff. I have enough sense to come in out of the rain, you know.” now that America has the privilege of [ 1st of September Mr. Meacham's spir- | Puritan, the divineness of discontent,| (s do demonstrate affection, in entertaining the prince. the Cleve- |ited defense of the U. D. C.'s aims and | the battlefield of education. allies. | puny ways, All one has to do is land News suggests, “it might be|objects as he sees them. I certainly [ When America laughs, the happiness ke the close acquaintance of a cat uspected that millions of Americans | 4pree with him that these ladies have | *f Writing an autobiography and the |t find this out. There no cat instances cat. fancier but can give many of affection on the part of h As for the traits of the jungle in the cat, this ctly one of his greatest charms. He is nearer to his Maker than men, and is uided solely by his instinets. And who gave him his instinets? So independent that he might serve as a statue of liberty, utterly free and natural, the cat con- descends to be the friend and com- panion of fettered man. As for his “hideous noises.” The cat has a musical quality in his voice, as a matter of cold fact, that results from his use of the vowel sounds. The dog makes use only of the harsh consonants, hence his char- acteristic bark. A cat fight is dis- tinctly a more melodious affair than a dog fight or dogs barking hour after hour through the night. * k * X The friend of cats tries to convert the cat hater because he feels that the latter is missing one of the treats of this world. Friendship for ani- mals is next to friendship for his own kind. Among the animals l}_\ere are but two that show any real friendship for that arch animal, man. These are the dog and cat. From the days when Tobit came home to find his dog waiting for him the cat has oc- cupied his own place on the hearth. Despite the cruelty of the ages, and a persecution from man second only to that visited upon man himself— “man’s inhumanity to man”—the cat remains his friend. If he is so for personal gain, it is exactly the same reason that ties millions of men to their jobs. So why blame the cat? The average cat hater ought to knqw the' cat- better: He should be- come better acquainted. 1 believe that at least six out of the seven foes of cats would become their friends upon closer acquaintance. -