New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 4, 1915, Page 6

‘of the oty a Month. er to be sent by mail 60 Cents & advertising medium n - bool d press vertisers. FOUNA on sale at Hota- 42nd S and Broad- City; Board Walk, and Harttord depot. alks not only +enhance any city, but they pro- and limbs of its inhab- y 1s fast passing when one flagging with all its - propensities in wet used as covering for ‘New Britain has an of this old time form # ‘Council is to be com- manner in which it ard of public works at on the Park Street The board recoms e tive flags be foot flags used to re- 'nn_uller dimension. re- ‘same treatment, Bet- e should: be substitut- we reiterate, are any community. untry concerte has ced the old fash- Particularly is iy sections, And ison for the change. made and laid fo foundation of cin- ne will last practi- flags and, what is L will e infinitely 'he concréte walk is ‘the eve and foot. It @ry footing whiie _is soon out of les on every hand. esidential streets been down a half ols and the re- walker. . Tn ome filled with s footing: :l'hs the flag walk is It is apparént, and needed to convinre W Britain of its )fiq found in num- | met, Tin being a white and brightly them. The ity narrow and for bet-: 'New Brit- in the factories - walks four times ¢ ‘v L Hundreds "?~ “have pecn d the work ‘until poor walks it every year to md thoroughlares 'eryone appreciates Anvestment. If it rses and automo- yoth going, it shovid ot that the peonle be, treated as well. week marks tae ndar session of the Q&t is expected that a nts and, motions the work of —es- dockét of as- is will serve |’ over the oid efther judges;’ v when a cas. Boston Post, which first neralded the ‘ties for it,—lightness in wéight, cheap- \hat should. last a _careful wearer sev- € {'might ask him how far he thinks it is practieally detu { z'erc returned i hing that coulfl not be handled b.‘-"\ Justices of the peace was sent. to Hartford to thg court “of _\con‘mmn; pleas. Becausé of that Arrangemeit much of New Britain's legal business was handled in the capital city, ai inconvenience for all concerned. Ur- | der the amended charter all this will be changed. Lawyers anticipated: big- ger business for this new court When it was announced that justice of the p&cg -cases would be added to the docket. Their predictions have been realized, as the court will now handle al the larger cases Wwhich formerly went to. Hartford. New Britain is big and broad enough to attend to its own affairs, not only in the legal line, but in all other walks of . activity. Businesa men and ‘professional men. should realize that they ‘do not have to 50 outside of New Britain to get many things. As a matter of fact the out- side business world looks more to New Britain than New Britain does to the outside world. There is no use getting testy about it, but as yet we have failed to realize our importance. New Britain has now taken its place in ‘man's estate. Tt is a fuli grown. full fledged city and should be run as such. That is why it is.a .800d thing the proper jurisdiction has beea vested ip the new city court. every- | WELCOME, THE TIN HAT. Wonderful are the ways of man. His inventive powers are marvelous. Noth- ing under ‘the sun seemns impossible when mere man sets out to accomplish something. Tired of trying to Keep his straw hat clean, one of ‘our fellow beings in Maine has invented a sub- stitute which seems lkely to be all the rage in men’s fashions next sum- mer. It is a tin hat, with a band made of copper. Because the name of the inventor of this wonderfut innovation is destined to &ko down tha ages, we record it with pride. It is W. H. Whit- ing; of Jonesboro, .in the Pine Tree state. % On a day such as this when old Jupiter Pluvius, that supreme tutelary god. directs his showers in abundance upon his wards, then it is that the tin hat gathers in its just appreciation. What man would be without one were it in easy reach? We learn from the | and preparedness is the difference be- | he khows how to be one if he has to.— imight happen to this country with .backed by German-American votes, we were inclined to be sarcastic we to Paris.—Detroit Free Press. The few immigrants now reaching our shores from Hurope are described by the authorities as being of marked intelligence. That is why they are leaving Europe.—Haverhill Gazette. The 'difference between militarism tween raising your boy to be a sflldif‘r and raising him in such a way that Philadelphia Evening lLedger. Heaven he praised that no subma- | rine has been, or is. able to torpedo the Ship of State—Manila Times. A sign writer has discovered that pro and con are abbreviations of pro- \ducers and consumers.—Wheeling In- telligencer. When an ordinary citizen disappears the police are notified, but when an, International league ballplayer is missing the pay rolls of the Federal league are scanned.—Rochester Post- Express. In his summer pictures, Carranza looks like Peace in pajamas.—Atlanta Constitution. The United State commission.on in- dustrial relations is going to investi- gate the telephone . exchange girls. Will it please ascertain why operators persist in saying “thr-r-ree” ?—Pitts-. burgh Sun. PRITTES \ Judging by current neckwear, iAmerican ‘dyers have discovered some ! lof thoge ‘valuable German secrets.— ‘Minneapolis Journal. The great war is a year old—a year ‘too old.—Albany Journal. ) Neighbor is the pleasantest word in any language.—Boston Globe. It costs less to produce cloth-top shoes than all-leather ones, but you can’t prove it by retail prices.—Syra- cuse Post-Standard. The vibrations of an explosion at sea can upset the mechanism of a stock ticker thousands of miles away. —Washington Star. No one, has stopped to think what 2 Willlam Jennings Bryan as president, but in‘less than a year we may be thinking about it pretty “seriously.— Brooklyn Eagle.’ \ ‘Some men are born rich, some cut franchise melons, and some head Mexican revolutions.—Kansas City | Star. ‘When a dollar ‘is once broken it is a waste of time looking around for the pieces.—Philadelphia Telegraph. While it is eminently desirable that | more officers should be provided for the United States army, and in the advent of the tin hai, that a head- ‘Plece made of tin is absolutely rain- proof. Ms inventor claims other quali- ness, and finally its durability. One'tin eral seasons. We also tearn that a tin bat' will not melt under 282 degrees fahrenheit, 7 Just to prove that the tin hat.is practicable, its. inventor is. wearing she: first. model ‘about the streets of his’ own home town. ‘Naturatly the boys on the ‘corner snicker as he goes by, ‘but he is'a brave man and wears his 1in hat with the dignity and grace that Kaiser Wilhelm sports his royal hel- lustrous metal, it follows that the | wWearer of the tin heimet must be marked by his fellow men. | But when they all start wearing the new style, of course, no man-need be ashamed to don his metallic crest witn the flaring copper band and go forth for a stroll on the boulevard: It is coming, the tin hat; we take ‘our straws off to it. (Note—Connecticut map makers have omitted New Britain.) THE TOWN THAT'S NOT UPON THE MAP. ‘It‘s pnly a one-horse town, they say, It's not upon the map. A native son is but a jay, A poor, benighted yap. The trains don’t even hesitate; They keep right on a flittin’,— Don’t even stop for water In the town of ‘‘ole New Britain.” Now, I'm no first-class ‘“wisenheim,” A guy who knows it all; ‘But I've camped out in ev'ry clime, In Summer, Spring and Fall Yep. I've seen a lot of tank-towns, ‘Whose names hayve all been written, And wondered how they struck the map ‘When they leave off “ole New Brit- tain."” For, this here town is regular, ! In a big-league sort of way, With all the up-stage scenery For any kind of play. And map-producing gentlemen, in its pres- approval ted and resul “being returned fi afon .and vnce Before they pass the mitten, Could cut out lots of other towns, But leave on ‘ole New, Britain." | WY LADD. FACTS AND FANCIES. v not_send Jawn .Evers, K. 0. aud Bethle /2im oyer to' deal interest of that end the attendance at | ‘West Roint ought to'be largely in- greased, it is to be questioned if ‘the establishing of. additional military academies is called for, or would be desirable. The accommodations at West Point can be extended, and the attendance at least doubled, without any special difficulty.—Springfield Union. The women who are carrying on a suffrage campaign by telephone will place, less reliance upon long-distance political methods after they have had more experience. Telephones are ex- ceedingly useful for some purposes, especially for the circulation of prom- ises which those who make them do not intend to keep.—New York World. The German argument in thirty-five swords: What is the use of spending vears in gathering the arms and the men to whip any two nations if neu- trals are to be allowed to sell to these nations the means of defending them- selves 2—Chicago Tribune. Inventors haying patent self-starters | for a Mexican government of the 1916 model should send the same to Cor- nish, N. H., with return postage en- closed for the device, if not wanted. No Villa flavored individual need ap- ply.—Burlington Free Press. The war hag already cost France more than the indemnity, exacted by Germany in 1871, to say nothing of the destruction of life and property. And the worst is yet to come.—Pittsburg Dispatch. The fellows who followed the colonel out:of the republican party have evidently recetved a tip from him to lead him back.—Buffalo En- quirer. | wouldn't tell her s The Need For Preparastom (Bridgeport Rarmer.) * 1t seems necessary that'the United States shall look to its military pre- peration. By the logic or events, and by the laws of trade, as. well as by the operation of modern inventions— such as cable telegraph, wireless, swift ghips, submarines afd so on—this country no longer occupies a position of insolation with respect to Eurgpe. In one way, oOr' another, the ssues of, the war threaten; sooner or later, to involve the United States. Tt will be many years before the old certainty #s to peace with all the world can be ours. In shipping ammunition to the allies we do a lawful thing. Even Germany and Austria admit i.. Sut the hos- | thity that flows from the trade will iinger long, If we cease. to ship am®* munition, enmity in an equal degree will be incurred from the Britannic { allies. g ey WHAT OTHERS 3AY Views on all sides of timely Questions as discussed In ex- changes that come to Herald office. Uplifting Music. (Bridgeport Telegraph.) Charles Edison, son or Thomas A. Fiilson, the inventor. has opened a little theéatre in New York for the pPurpose of ‘“uplifting music.” The theater geats only 250 and admission Is free. Its promoter’s purpose ls to g1ve a hearing on American composers who cannot get their works produced otherwise. Already some wierd music cf modernistic tendenctes has been broduced, and probably also, some musie that is good. This experiment of tne younger Eg]llon is interesting, not for its own sake, but for the contrast afforded between the efforts of a practical man and those of a dilettante, When Ldison the elder wanteq ‘to uplift ‘music he did so by inventing a talk- ing machine and thereby paved the | way for bringing the very best vocal | and orchestral music into some mil- ilons of homes throughout the whole world. There has been a revolution in musical taste entirely coincident with the spread of the talking machine and the player-piano, Frison gave music A real boost when he made it possible for the man of moderate means to cultivate musical taste right in his own home by listening to the world’s best singers and instrumentalists, playing the finest of compositions. Not that BEdison did all ‘of this himself—the talking machine busihess has been enormously developed by a host of concerns, including one ur the largest right in our own city—but Edison laid the cornerstone for it all, The basic 1dea came from his brain. Probably Edison the elder would curl up and die if he had to listen to some of the music produced in his son's futuristic theatre. Heivis not cuitured enough for that. His taste runs to Old Black Joe ana the Arkan- saw Traveler. But just the same, it is Edison Sr., not Jr, who will be remembered gratefully as an uplifter its fellow- agent of civilization, | | | of music—for the man who can de- | mocratize an art upijifts 1t tremend- ously. “Old” Songs, (Waterbury American.) The revival of ‘Silver Threads Among the Gold” some four or five Vvears ago, prompted a . woman of about 80 to say: “I always liked that song. I used to sing it when I was a girl.” A woman a, generation younger smiled when she heard this, | ana when out of the old lady’s hear- ing she said: “I suppose she thinks she did. But as a matter of fact, that song was new in 1875 or 1876, when she was in her 40's, though 1 It is a common thing Wwriters to speak of a song or - a hymn as an old one, and put it into the mouths of their characters, when, if they looked up the age of the com- position in question, they would find for story it was writen when those characters were beyond the age at which taey are representd, or at last, when they would have regarded it as something decidedly new. The hymn ‘Lead, Kindly Light,” was written, it is true, as long ago as 1833, yet it did not come into general use till much later and so, af least so far as general knowledge of it is concerned, it can. not be said to be a really ancient hymnn. The younger generations of churchgoers have always known it and it seems to them as if it must date back in its use as far as the hymns of Watts, Montgomery, Wes- ley and other hymn-writers familiar to the men and women of past three- score and ten in their days of youth and song. On the other hand, the man or woman of middle age is often startled by references to things as “‘awful old” which seem to the mind of 45 or 50 rather new, or at least by no means belonging to a remote past. It is one of the cold water douches which ail must expect after passing the half- way mark, especially if good healtn and congenial occupation have made that passing practically unnoticed. Like the real cold water showers, these metaphorical ongs have their beneficial effect if rightly taken, and help the one who receives them to guard against yielding to petty an- noyance and to great conservatism-— things which make people show their | advancing years unpleasantly themselves and to those about them. College Girls. (Kansas City Journal.) The University Missourian, the offi- cial organ of the State Universuy contains in a recent issue a news art- inle which probably will arouse con- #iderable discussion among those who have the best interests of the institu- tion. at heart. The opening para- graph embodies the gist of the situa- tion explained at greater length the body of the article: “'Will the university be compelled to build more dormitories for women? The present tendency of to | | turning { Dividend rumors, both favorable and one who is no ‘could; ot be permit- ted to keep girls—she does not want girls under her care to do things she would not want her own daughter to do.. The landlady must sit’ up and worry when her girls have gone pick- nicking for fear they won’t get home on time. She gives the boys a latch- key and goes peacefully off- ta her slumbers.” s “Master Farmer.” (Alantic Constitution.) The degree of master farmer Is Now one of the coveted honors of the Ulah State College of Agriculture. It was conferred recently on five citizens of that State. The Abilene (Texas) Reporter says the institution figures that men who live on farms and are successful in special lines of endeavor should be publicly honored. Here is the point made by our Texas contem- porary: “Doctors, lawyers, schoor men, min- isters, ets., have conferred upon them honorary degrees, and the farmer so far has not received that recognition that his service to the country de- serves. Whatever and whenever a constructive man is found tilling the soll in a way to make two blades grow where only one gred before he should he sought out and honored. His work should be called to the attention of others and his methods published to the world. We say let the schools of Texas honor our worthy men of the 5011 by conferring upon them the de- #ree of master farmer, a degree which, if deserved, will rank with D. D, 1LL.D., or’any of the rest of them, and oftentimes he who receives and wéars the degree of master farmer will re- ceive not only the high regard of his reighbors and friends, but he will re- eeive the lasting gratitude of progres- sive men everywhere.” It is the day when the progressive farmer looms large In the world’s work—among men who are doing things; new honors are ' constantly coming his way, for it is a time of greater farm efficiency, and the effi- ciency of the tillers of the soil makes for the real upbuilding of the country's industries. Sound American Diplomacy. (Chicago News.) American diplomacy has not always been respected in the chancelleries of Furope. Crudity at times has marked our handling of international affairs. When great issues did not impend political appointments to positions in the American state department too frequently have brought reproach upon the efficiency of that department In times of crisis, however, Amer- icans have usually acquitted them- selves with credit in the varfous flelds of government, that of diplo- macy included. In the present emer- gency American diplomacy is seen at its best. Citizens of this nation have a right to feel satisfied with ‘the manner in which the president and his dipomatic advisers are per- forming their work, President Wison, long a student of history, is making history of a wholly creditable kind. The present head of the state depart- ment is a trained diplomat who brings to the office the knowledge and experience that are essential to efficiency and wise action; The various notes to Germany that have emanated. from Washington since the sinking of the Lusitania have been clear, firm. statesmanlike and well supported by reasoning that must appeal not only to the Judg- ment of the world today but to his- torians of the future. They have been at the same times courteous in tone with the absence of anything savor- ing of bluster. The Stock Market. (Waterbury Democrat.) All indicatidns on the Stock Bx- change point to reviving activity. Transactions have been iargely trans- ferred to the war group, which now constitute one-half tc three-quarters of the daily dealings. The advances in these shares have been extremely sensational. In some instances they may be Jjustified on account of the enormous and very proftable con- tracts for ammunitions which it is known have been secured, The dif- ficulty of securing accurate informa- tion regarding these contracts, how- ever, afiords abundant room for ex- aggertion and misrepresentation.; Naturally the speculative spirit has been keenly aroused. Some of the advances may be justifiable, others are undoubtedly exceptional, and cau- tion is particularly urged in opera- tions in these shares. A healthy feature has been the widening ac- tivity and strength of some of the leading railroad issues, which have 1ong been neglected. At the mo- ment railroad traffic s still below normal, but indications point to an early recovery which, coupled with better Tates, will probabiy prove a point for the railroads. unfavorable, have been current re- specting some of the prominent is- in | rooming | house keepers to prefer young men | to young women indicates that time is near. Aside from the num- erous private families that are chang- ing, Pemberton hall ,probably the Jargest girls’ dormitory, will take boys this fall. Numerous reasons are assigned for the preference, but all simmer down to the one general state- ment: Boys are less trouble.” Elaborating the reason involved in | the ‘“‘general statement,” the Missour- | jan quotes a number of boarding- house keepers who have had consid- erable experience in accommodating both young men and young women. Boys are not in their rooms so much, declares one. Neither do they in- terfere with househald arrangements, Therefcre America, having followed | the rcad .thus far, musc prepare to keep the path she has chosen. This will require-many forts, guns, ships, Since preparation must be- ma were ‘m that it 'be soon made. want rainwater to wash their hair, mor are they ''forever dabbing out handkerchiefs and hose in the bath- | room.” ' “The moral responsibility is too great,” amother is quoted as saving. “If a woman in the | sues, but the more frequent improve- ment in net results has imparted a decidedly better tone in railroad shares, and some substantial re- coveries have already taken place, Compulsory Education. (Norwich Record.) A race to avold being the last state in the union to adopt compulsory ed- ucation laws is apparently under way in the southern states, according to reports received at the United States Bureau of Education. There are now only three states without such laws, Florida having recently joined, Texas and South Carolina in adopting com- pulsory education by legislative en- actment. The three states still with- out law are Georgla, Mississippi and Alabama. Although the Filorida law is of the optional type, it is a clear recognition of the compulsory prin- ciple and is regarded as a real step in advance. Offifcals of ‘the Bureau of educa- tion point out that this year’s com- pulsory educational legislation is part of a big educational advance all along the line. Nearly all the state legislatures were in session during 1915, and much of the educational discussion that has been going on far several years crystallized. into law. conscientious—and | The Alabama Jegislature has recon- 'summer session and much school legislation will be dis- cussed, including a compulosry edu- cation law. e fact that Alabama does not meet again for four years makes it likely that Georgia and i Mississippi may get ahead of her in adopting compulsory legislation, un- less action is taken this year. In the field of compulsory educa- tion throughout the United States it is believed that the next steps will have to do with the adoption of state- wide lawg where optional laws now | prevail; jthe raising of the age limits in conformity with the best princis ples in child-labor legislation; and more strict enforcement of existing ! laws. Good-Bye, Henery! (Waterbury Democrat.) It's hard to get cxeited over the announcement that Henry James, the novelist, has surrendered his Ameri- con citizenship and become a Brit- ish subjeet. Some of us are sur- prised to Jearn that he ever was an Ameriean. As a matter of fact, he has been English at heart as well as in residence and in literary work for & geperation or su, and where the heart is the national allegiance might as well follow. England is welcome to Henry. If it had been his brother William, the great Harvard psycholo- gist who died a few years ago, the country’ would feel a sense of per- sonal loss. But when 1t comes to Henry—we've never been able to wmake him out, dnyhow. Far be it from a mere newspaper man to pre- tend that he's fathomea the verbose and polysyllabic depths of his novels and descriptive books. Possibly they ere work of genius and possibly they're not. If threé-volume yarns crammed with interminable talk by medioc; people on uninteresting topics fire literature, thun give us the latest detective story of the sporting supplement. Yes, we can worry alcng without Henry James, as long as we have such writers left as George Ade, James Whitcomb Riley Booth Tarkington, Mary Roberts Rinehart and the author of “Ruggles. of Red Gap.” Whatever their de- fects, they're Americans, A Boat To Investigate, (New Haven Register.) No wonder what was mistaken for a cry of “fire’” caused a panic on the Grand Republic. It is only eleven vears since the old General Slocum, just like the Grand Republic, was burned at the cost of 900 liveg in the itast river. It is only a week since the Eastland capsized, taking more than a thousand people down. The panic can't wholly be charged to un- reasonable nervousness. So they're running tne old Grand Republic yet as a passenger steamer, a Sunday excursion boat. She was 1 built in 1878, She draws a shade over 13 feet of water. She 1s 41 feet beam for 282 feet of length. She has four decks, with the most room on the upper ones. She has been reported condemned and abandened for passen- ger service more than once. To be sure, they were not carrying 4,000 peo- ple on her yesterday, but evidently they are permitted {0 carry 1,000 on her. . It seems that a new investiga- tion of this boat might be desirable in view of what happened yesterday, though her owners may assert that she stood the test of panic very well, A Harrowing Discovery. William Thaw, athletic millionaire of Pittsburg, is fightng for France in the French aviation corps, where his fiving has won him frequent ' official praise. In a recent letter to a Pittsburg banker, quoted in an exchange, Mr, Thaw said: “'Omne of the horrible features of this war is the number of amputations it is entailing, Young men without legs, without arms, without hands are to be scen everywhere. “Those young men are sensitive about their affliction. They . won't &tand questions from strangers. A stranger in a train said to a young c¢hasseur the other day: “ ‘T see you have lost a leg, sir.’ "The chasseur gave m start, took hold of his empty trouscr, felt it up and down hurriedly, and exclaimed: " 'My goodness, I do believe you're right!" Renewed After 42 Years, (Phila. North American.) John T. Martin, 65 years old, of Paxton, Tll., has married Mrs. Emma Knepper, 63 vears old, a Fostoria wid- cw, the same woman he led to the alter 42 years ago. Twelve years after tmerr marriage, Martin while traveling in Illinois, was icjured in a railroad acident and suf- fered a complete lapse of memory. For ten years he was in a State hospi- tal, lost to his family and friend: When he suddenly recovered his memory, the first thing ne did was to look for his wife. He found that she, divorced him and married a A man named Knepper, who is dead, Martin renewed his suit, and now they are married for the second time, &nd are on their secona honeymoon, u trip to Florida. Around Warsaw, (Providence Journal.) Petrograd is profoundly Interested, of course, in the retreat from Warsaw. S far it can be judged rrom the news from the Russian capital, as well as that directly from the rront, the Ger. mans, although they have broken through the Russian lines in A number of places, are being strongly resisted for the most part, and Grand Duke Nicholas seems likely to be able to re- tire the most of his great force in- tact. Warsaw has been stripped of ry- thing useful in a military sense, and while the loss of the city to the Cen- tral Empires will be grave, from a strategic as well as a sentimental point of view, Russia's offcnsive power will survive unless the;pulk of her soldiers are captured. Places’ :oh&t m&:; 1 portance in war than anits, bl ‘soft yet sudden catastrophe; it is al- juggler, combine i should be the top of eny holding up.” \ NEW BRITAIN'S BUSTEST BIG STORE “ALWAYS RELIABLEK" RAINCOATS AND UMBRELLAS A Safe Investment When you buy one of these speciall s Raincoats that we now have | Women’s Raincoats . 1 Four unusual values at $3.98, $5.00, $7.98, 8 each. Value $§5 to $12. Children’s Raincoats At $1.98 and 98 Each Children’s Rain Capes. At $1.98 Each " Children’s Umbrellas At 49¢c, 75c, 98¢ Each Men’s Umbrellas At 59c, 98¢ and $1.49 Each .. Try one of our guaranteed Crave anette and Jersey Lilly Umbrellas for men and women at $1.98 and $3 each. 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Much of the brunt of the fighting in Flanders has been borne by the artillery, and this arm of the service has been brought to a hitherto undreamed-of state of perfection and emciency, but the “punch’ reposes In the infantry, still the backbone of any army, whi even the cavalry has not been supre- seded to the extent that might be fm- agined from the reading’ of some Fe- ports. In northern France the cavalry Las been dismounted for the reason that the men cannot be used to ad- vantage in trench war, although on the western front it will be repeatedly used cavalry in charges un entrenchs ments. So far as the United States is concerned, joint manoeuvers conduct. ed this summer in Rhode Island have demonstrated the value of the mount. ed man, The New Engiand regiment of cavalry is today in better condis tion than it has ever known befors, and the men have returned from Quonset Point more than ever con- vinced that their branch of the ser- vice is to be a permanent part of the military arm in America, where,: in the event of war, enormous distances would have to be covered in what« ever area the fighting might take place, 1 is encouraging to feel that New England's caval is a well-trained body under a single head represent- Ing not only one State but this entire section. Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts contribute their troops to the regiment, which, as the result of the closed order drills that have been in progress tnhis year for the' first time, have heen delded into a compact machine that could take the field as a single unit, As a man- ifestation of the constantly growing unfon of these six States the New England cavalry is an institution to he nurtured and perpetuatea i Good For Jugglers. (From the London Chronicle.) G. K. Chesterton does not like the modern way of eatihg asparagus. ‘ Excluding cannibalism . he writes “and the habit of eating sand (about which T can offer no opinton )there | is really nothing one can eat which is less fit to be eaten with the fingers han asparagus. It is long: it s greasy t is loose hnd liable to every sore of ways eaten with some sort of olly sauce; and its nice conduct would in- volve the powers of a professional witk some practice n climbing the greasy pole, ‘Most things could easjly be eatem with one’s fingers. * * * Oniy this one tiresome, toppling vegetable I eat hetween my fingers ana thumb, I tter off as a giraffe eating Paim tree; it doesn't want - | N ¥ \ } |