New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 16, 1916, Page 8

BRITAIN HERALD| ALD PUBLISHING COMPANY, - Proprietors, faily (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., Herald Building, 67 Church St at the Post Office at New Britaln Second Class Mail Matter. pd by carries to any part of the city 15 Cents a Week, 65 Cents a Month. ptions for paper to be sent by mall, able {n advance, 60 Cents a Month, 0 a Year. Iy _profitabla advertising medium in city. Circulation books and press always open to advertisers. 1d_will be found on sale at Hota- s New Stand, 42nd St. and Broad- » New York City; Board Walk, at- ic City, and Hartford Depot. TELEPHONII CALLS. Office .. 1 Rooms WHO ENOWS ME? the greatest trouble-maker the ever knew. P time immemorable men have the midnight oil in' my behalf they know me not. the bug-bear e ball a-rolling. of politics. > it not for editors of Re- be at me, n newspapers would a argument against their Demo- riends. I come in the front door, co- on -and “harmony go the it, the pall-bearer of politicians, upter, of sections, the funeral of dead careers. c. out Com- s all nations must bow. hnd Trade are my servants. Great. I Am. pw them all in the great marts ‘world g terms with me. day of the week, onth, every month of the year, vspapers are filled with facts cies, mostly fanci and yet no one is on every week about me. born morning, d voluminous during the day, every night. Yet I live on every grow hn is the only thing as fickle ittle brains of little men are in my sublime position T am b laugh at the feeble attempts the great mystery that ever me. It is my river. Every day I it. It pours over me in tor- Soothing ink from the writers. ~And yet it leaves Feeble ink. words, words. they me, condemning me, and in they say nothing. Before me, e silence. all other subjects fail, I am resort. pens Like the brook run on forever, s have been broken up on my and I am as innocent as an pnts have been crushed by my pnd I am as wicked as Satan. man wants to know me. No s know me. he Tariff. JERTY AND THE FLAG. great Republic is to continue foute mapped out for it by its the children of the impressed with the the trust handed down jho went before, the Eht and bled that liberty might ficeless heritage. From the ar the where nation rcred- by by men institutions d holds forth then must come e source of inspiraiton alon es. Patriotism and devotion puntry must be instilled in the these things are to thrive and The recog- fin the minds of the old. oard of New Rritain this and has commending wisdom of resolutions r fmall mounted American flag, es, be given.to each graduate blic schools at the time the ommittee the di- This for thé purpose of im- upon the minds of the young s the benefits and advantages by them from the state and nd symbolized in the Ameri- confers & .that the school board has ce the beginning of the ar has more significance than ple littie resolution advocating iita » American flag oys e ar irls who graduate ready Thesc f bovs s 1 Sl [I Eu- | of mustering applause. The Amer'tcan flag was made and nailed to the mast by the men who formulated the ‘dec- laration of independence, by the men who gave their life blood in the revo- by the sacrificed their sons on that the hook lutionary mothers and fathers who the of the nation, tion might live. It of the United State flag. It tells the of the greatest country on the face of the earth, its secrets to those who to those who have never studied the his tory of the flag and all that it mean to those who are ignorant of the his- tory back of sthe flag. It is therefore befitting that each and every boy and girl who graduates from the schools of New Britain, pub- lié and private, be given an American flag, the symbol of the great principles whereon this nation founded. They should know the great deeds | that have been done because of those E altar na- is the great is the American of the story glories but it does not reveal cannot read, was| principles, because of the love for that flag. And what they know they should transmit to othe In this way shall some of the slumbering be awakened. It he- | fore American s. was Elihu Root who' recently a state chapter of the Red Cross said: “This Republic can- not continue to live unless its people ® * Lib- are willing to give service. * * erty does not come of itself, and un- less we are willlag to make sacrifices for it, it will bé taken away from us.’ That is the entfre case. The American flag tells what liberty means, what wa's done to secure liberty. AIll those who enjoy liberty under the American flag should carry with them through life the emblem of a priceless gift, and stand ready to defend i WANTED, MORE During the last twelve months the has suffered the loss of more than million and a half butchered on the battle fields of Furope. Many of these horses wera sent from the United States, thus ac- counting for the great scarcity of these animals prevalent in this coun- try today. Senator Key Pittman, of Nevada, realizing the conditions which are rapidly engulfing the nation, has introduced a bill appropriating $200,- 000 to be expended in developing horses for agricultural and military purposes. The Committee on Agri- culture and Forestry, to which the measure has been referred, will prob- HORSE world Gt horses all ably make a favorable report and urge that something be done immediately to insure the future of the horse. Sen- ator Pittman hails from a part of the country where they know the value of horses. He has made a statement necessity of the United States having on hand a sup- ply of horses to do just such work as our cavalrymen are carrying on in setting forth the Mexico today in connection with the Nor does the from his own experi- punitive expedition. Senator speak ences. He quotes the Quartermaster General of the United States Arm General Aleshire, as saving that there are at present only 250,000 available the entire country and that of this number but 30,000 be pressed into service in case The others are not in work. Nor are They in times of peace automobiles have cavalry horses in could of en condition to do needed for war ergency. the horses alone. are still required what though the taken their places to great extent. The fields of agriculture need the horse just as the fields of need the 1t would seem good business and replenish the war horse. in to start now diminishing supply. after the of trying government for the city Denver, Colo., commission form three years, has gone back to old time aof offairs and has elected mayor by an overwhelming majority. of method running a ‘“boss” Commission form government seems rapidly to"be lpsing its favar because of the, shifting of responsi- bility which , must®.be necessarily part of the game.” -Even when a city has a “boss”.mayor it knows where to place the: blifie,when things go wrong. “The Voice,” By Norman Gale. As I went down the hill I heard The laughter of the countryside: For, rain being past, the whole land stirred With new emotion like a bride. searce had left the grassy lane When something made me catch my breath: the conguest of | A woman called and called again, Elizabeth! Elizabeth! a stated of time, won on e 111 the the and the nd‘are therefore well alive 1, ul complied ity city, the te and responsibilities pe folds of he The American silk, or bunting, or whateve that lie Stars anaq flag, a e made of, was not created be flung to the breezes and for the beautiful ipes and the gorgeousness of st purposes, nor was it put to- stump orators or vaudeville ho display it for the purpose b symmet by obedient | { | | | | | mere | £ | Deep in m It was not created [ It was my mother's name. A part Of wounded memory sprang to tears And the few violets of my heart Shook in the wind of happier 3 Quicker than magic came the face That once was sun and moon for me; | The garden shawl, the cap of lace The rcollie’s head rs against her kne Mother, who finest out a way To pass the sentinels, and stand hind my chair at close of das To to almost—with hanq ch me— | | B | breast how sure, how clear lamp deat How tremble; Elizabeth! The of love burns on till if T chance Elizabeth! FACTS AND FANCIES. There’s a fine field along ican border to recruit the Club.—Newburgh Journal, che Me: Ananias The Atchison Globe says that the real crisis will come when the admin- | istration runs out of note paper—and paper ing up.—Bennington Ban- | ner. | s are blasting away at Verdun, making progress it is true, but at a rate and a price that make Paris look a long way off.—Syracuse Post-Standard. The Ger The Peace League announces that it does not intend to interfere in the present war, doubtless having noticed what happened to some of those who did.—Pittsburgh Dispatch. The end of the war will come in good time, and it will mean the de- struction of the formidable fighting machine with which Germany sought to annihilate the liberty won by cen- turies of struggle.—Rochester Post- Express. things we must learn before democracy is entirely suc cessful. One is not to pass a law un- til public intell nce and common sense after careful investigation clear- ly perceive that it is necessa The other is to enforce a law when once it is passed.—Amsterdam Recorder. Two American peril the Democratic party is in the Roosevelt issue. In elevation of ideals, in enerzy of ac- tion, in devotion to the spiritual con- cept of ional honor, it must be in the van or it must fz The hope of patriotic Democrats that the party may use its majority control of the initiative to put itself whers it ought to be.—RBrooklyn Eagle. The real to The best news that has come the navy for a long time is Secretary Franklin D. Roosevelt's re- port that wight-five per cent. of the men whose enlistment terms expire The was a time were manned with with comparatively and althe we boasted about their efficiency they were not as well trained and de- pendable as the British seamen most of whom remained in the navy New York Sun. from Assistant ships ilor exceptions; h Aerial warfare is to putthe govern- ments of the world to the additional expense apparently of installing new and more elaborate boundary mark- ings. A properly tagged wire fence would do so long as armies fought thy | to hear l while walking on terra firma. Now that German aviators have bombard- ed a Swiss village, secure in the bhe- lief that they were all the time pour- ing bombs on France, Switzerland making preparations to install distance devices by which her fron- tiers will be clearly marked by day and by night. Aeraplane border pa- trols may be required in addition to everything else man may fashion for Mother Earth. And thus we see that in many respects the war is disunit- ing the world.—St. Louis Times. is long- Imports of Gold. (New York Herald.) Although the loans floated by American bankers for foreign gov- ernments, with the credits extended to them, probably aggregate at this time the billion dollars, efforts from this country are so far in excess of im- ports— the balance in our favor av- eraging about two hundred millions a month—that the rest of the world is continually running in debt to the United States. This suggested by the receipt here vesterday of two and a quarter millions gold from Canada—presum- ably exchange in stablizing the ster- ling exchan It is an unprece- dented situation. American investor: are steadily repurchasing securitios from foreign holders, but it seems that the proceeds of these are not sufficient to pay for the enormous quantity of merchandise we are ox. porting and it is necessary to send gold. In addition to keeping the proceeds of our own mines—nearly a hundrea million dollars—last year we recetved nearly five times that amount from foreign customers. Never was a land so favored with prosperi is The Blue Asks the Gray. (Meriden Record.) Washington has sent a delegation to the Confederate veterans, holding a session at Birmingham, Ala, this month to ask them to hold their an- nual reunion at the national capital next year. The suggestion was made by the last encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic- Undoubtedly Washington will be glad to welcome the Confederate vet- erans. The meeting of the Union and Confederate veterans at Gettysburg three years ago proved how harmon- ious and really pleasurable such a combination could be. so there is no reason to believe that anything would develop which could in any way be detrimental to the comfort of the visi- | tors. Suflici the major may not be ent time has elapsed to make forgive, even though they able to forget, for it much easier to do the former than the latter. The wounds are still there and though they may not smart they make themelves manifest in many ways. The surest to make the hurts non virulent is to acknowledge their presence and frankly consider the causes which occasioned them and the benefits which have come the suffering endured. is | wa from | 00t and Du Pont. | (Philadelphia Ledger.) The latest suggestion for the re- publican national ticket is: For pres- | ident, Elihu Root of New York; for | vice president, Gen. T. Coleman Du Pont ¢ Delaw The platform would probably Millions (or bill- ions) for defensc and no interference | with corporations. Such a ticket might carry Delaware, but we would have our doubts about Vermont and Utah, which stood by the G. 0. P. in 1912, e | | things that any new device in NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD. TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1916. THE DIRECT PRISIARY. No Fu tile Performance; Probably Effected the Course of the Republican Convention. (New York Evening Post.) In defense of a system for which good men fought so strenuously and upon which such high Thopes were based, it may be said in the first | place that the present reaction | against the primary is only a char acteristic expression of our public | temperament. It is in the order of ! our political or social machinery shall be hailed as the promise of a new heaven and a new earth, and that immediate- ly. Tt is equally in the order of things that the first hitch in the new machinery shall be received as a sign of permanent failure. Apparently, we lack the patience of a thorough test. We fail to recog- nize how every great political and social innovation is an experiment and a rough approximation when it goes on the statute books, and that it needs a long process of adjustment in order to bring the original plan into conformity with the complex facts of life. In the parliaments of Europe few important pieces of leg- | islation go into cffect before the pro- | cess of amendment begin A tem | like the German insurance laws or | tRe English land laws in Ireland is built up through the years. It is not so different with us, if we look into the facts. With us there comes first the great enthusiasm, then the great disappointment and then silence and indifference. And while public atten- tion has turned to some new great hope, the original scheme goes through the inevitable tinkering and trimming and enters quietly into the routine of our political public life. But the defense of the direct pri- mary does not rest merely upon such general considerations. It needs 1o particularly close study of the situa- tion in the republican party today and as it was before several of the great republican states had elect their delegates, to discern that, far from being a futile performance, the primary has profoundly affected the probable course of the convention at Chicago. A month ago therc were qualified observers who professed to regard Col. Roosevelt's nomination as inevitable. Then came Massachusctts, and these same observers now regard the Colonel's nomination impos- sible. Either view may be overstrained, but the difference in the public tem- per measures the effect of the Mas achusetts primary. And after Ca fornia has spoken out as Massachu- setts has spoken in the matt of Roosevelt, it seems idle to insist that the primary is a failure in respect to shaping the action of the convention in accordance with public senti The swift ebb in the Roose: the corresponding flood of sentiment, are the work of two speaking out through their primarie If the ideal of the primary is merc to place a candidate before the con- vention, then the primary is a failure. If the purpose of the primary is (o voice public opinion in a way that no amount of loud loyalty to a favor- ite son can express, and thereby to influence the counsels of the as- sembled delegates. Massachusetts and California have fully justified thc hopes . based on the. sytem of dircct nominations. a Loving One's Enemies. (Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.) The hardest inj ction laid in the Sermon on the Mount command “Love your Ministers aren’t very terpret it. Nobody t comply with it literally fergive an enemy is not unusual, icult sometimes it is. But to love that is beyond us! What practical for consideration here is the futility of sustained enmity. his latter doesn’t get you anvwhere nor save you anything or benefit anyhody. True, there is the party of the second | part as to an enemy as well as to a friend. So that the advice to make up with an enemy if he isn’'t willing to meet you half way Is useless. It is possible, however, for one on his own account to restrain his rancor, withhold his hand and coniroi his spirit so that, at worst, the enmity is cne-sided. That in itself is a moral triumph of no mean spirit. Justice Lamar had the right idea. When he wrote his will he knew of no enmities, but, realizing the insta- bility of human nature, he wasn't certain there would be nane later on, Hence he stipulated that ““if such un- happy hereafter arises, let them be fcrgotten,” That comes pretty near to approximating the Sermon on the Mount. It is forgiving and forget- ting in advance—a saul preparedness | admirable in its conception of Chris. tian duty and foresight. If more people would act in the same manner | nd charity there would be fewer | heart-burnings in the world and a | great deal less strife. dawn is the enemies!” to in- nxic i able to 1S one— is more a “Tom” W (New Haven Connecticut has a warm place in | her heart for ex-governor Thomas M. Waller of New London, who the “grand old man” of the days of Nutmeg State Democra The Bridgeport Post } thi editarial tribute to his record achievement as a leader of his part and a servant of the state whos work was of a high order of meri The Post says: “Speaking of the Hon. Thomas M Waller, one is reminded that he Ccnnecticut’'s leading relic of a mili- tant democratic party in Connecticut, He can place ‘former’ before his rame for more important offices than almost any other democrat. He is the only living demacrat in the state who ever secured a majority vote of its citizens for governor, if memory is rect. That was back in 1882, s makes Mr. Waller the oldest I'ving former governor. He is alsa the oldest living former secretary of state, having served in that office 46 years ago. Still again, he is the oldest hnn_g speaker, presiding over the bouse in 1876,” Ner, Union.) s now palmy ‘fine | | American soldiers | is cooked | the | out. The Land of Chile Con Carne and Hot Tamales Washington, D. C., May 16—If the had been forced to live on “the fat of the land” while on their punitive expedition into Mex- ico they would have found it decided- 1y lean and would have had occasion to complain bitterly of the commis- sary, for although the neighboring republic has within its borders an extraordinary variety of food pro- ducts, including most of the vege- tables, fruits and cereals grown in both the temperate zone ‘and the tropics, there is neither variety nor abundance in its northern states. A bulletin on culinary practices in the Southern republic, issued by the National Geographic Society in Wash- ingfon, says: “‘Since the days of the Montezu- mas, Mexico's staff of life has taken the form of the tortillas, made of Indian corn, svhich is indigenous to the country. The perparation of the tortilla is the work of the Indian women, who first boil the grain and then, while adding water, grind it 10 a stiff paste on a metate, or flat mortar. This paste usually is mould- ed with the hands into thin cakes and much after the fashion of the ‘hoe cake' of Dixieland. “The frijole, or Mexican bean, fre- quently fried in fat, is another staple, both when served alone and when constituting an important ingredient of the famous chile con carne, a sort of goulash, compounded, customarily, of beef and beans, with a plentiful seasoning of chili, the Mexican pep- per. “The hot tamale has made its way across the border, but it does not have the same flavor when taken from a can as when the particles of meat are seasoned Wwith pepper, mixed with corn meal, wrapped in corn ‘shucks’ boiled until thorough- ly cooked, peeled out of and eaten from the shuck. “One of the odd dishes of North- ern Mexico is the pipian, made of finely ground squash-seed, boiled in a sauce pan. “While the tortillas, con carne, and tamales, ‘washed down’ with liberal potations of pul- que, may be considered the founds tion of his menu, the peon of Southern Mexico has various appeti- zers ‘which are unknown to the peon of the north. There is, for example, the ‘water wheat,’ which is not ex- actly what its name implies, but the eggs of flies. The native Mexican eats his water wheat with the same epicurean relish that the Chinese mandarin eats his expensive bird- nest, the Central African his raw hippopotamus, the Canton merchant his stall-fed dog, and the West In- frijoles, chile dian his palm worms stewed in The water-wheat fields are pond which the peon places bundles reeds or rushes the insects deposit | their eggs in incredible numbers. The bundles are then removed and the ‘crop’ is shaken off. The eggs, re- sembling fine fish-roe, are made into small cakes and are sold in the mar- kets, to be caten either as we cat cheese or mixed with corn meal and fowl eggs. The insects themselves, which are about the size of our houseflies, are also eaten, the method | of preparation being to pound them into a paste and boil with corn husks. “The fruits of Southern Mexico are numerous and some of them are delicious. One of the most unusual is the papaya or melon zapote, Which grows on a tree and often weighs as much as 20 pounds. It has char- acteristics which link it to the can- taloupe, the pumpkin and the water- melon, and in addition contains con- siderable pepsin, so that the diner may take his aid-to-digestion and | his dessert at one and the same time. The parrot fruit is peculiar chiefly on account of its striking resemblance to the green parrakeets which are to be found in Mexico. These little birds frequently elude hawks Ly perching among the fruit, from which they are almost indistinguishable. “The traveler who plucks fruit from the arbol di dinamite and stows it away in his suitcase will be startled {to hear a loud explosion in a short time, as the product of the aptly named dynamite tree detonates when- ever it is placed in a warm spot. “The Tarahumare Indians, who are especially fond of fish, frequently organize community fishing parties | which last several day: On these occasions they find it impractical to depend on their crude traps and thorn-pointed spears, so they make a fish poison by crushing the leaves of two varieties of the maguey plant. These leaves are thrown into a stream which has been dammed and the following morning the fish, some merely stupefled and others already dead, are easily gathered. The poi- son, fortunately, is not of a character to affect human beings. Tadpoles, larvae, and waterbeetles are other aquatic delicacies dear to the Tara- humare palate. “Lovers of chocolate bonbons and drinkers of cocoa are indebted to tho ancient Mexicans for.the cacao bean. The Montezumas called the beverags made from this bean, which was at one time used as money, chocolate, from choco (cocoa) and latl (water.) Another valuable bean from tropical Mexico is the vanilla, which grows on a climbing orchid.” The Aland Islands. (Montreal Star.) Another neutral nation comes into the spotlight with the Swedish un- easiness over the Russian fortifica- tion of the Aland Islands. It would be sheer madness for Russia to for- tify these islands during a war with Germany. They entirely shut off the Gulf of Bothnia from any German naval operations, and constitute a most valuable base for the defense of the Gulf of Finland and the ap- proaches to Petrograd. If Sweden takes open offence at this time, it be the general impression that she seeks a cause of offence—not that she finds this new condition intolerable. The theor: indeed, that wha she fears is not the present fortifica tion of these islands but the main- tenance of these fortifications after war is over. Well, this is obh- v a question to be settled—if sincerely put—after the war is over. Sweden will then, with her unim- paired army, be in a splendid position to present her case; and Russia, with her new outlet through the Dardan- elles, will be readier than ever to assure Sweden that she has no de- sire for a foot of her coastline. True Swedish interest lies in a smashing Russian victory That will turn Russian attention toward the sunny South. But then Sweden may be rising this point of the Aland Islands today merely by way of cutting comment on the dismissal of her officers who have been in command of the Persian gendarmerie. Although the Swedich government had no responsibility for these officers, it could hardly pected to relish their this be the cause of the trouble, will soon drift away cloud. viou elimination. If it like a summer An 0dd Baseball Game. (Author Unknown.} “The game opened with Molasses at the stick, and Steam Ship pitching. Cigar was in the box, with plen smoke, Horn was on first bas, Fiddle on second, backed by Corn in | the field, who made it hot for umpire | Axe came to | Apple who was rotten. bat and chopped. Cigar let Brick wall and Sawdust filled the hases. Song made a hit and Twenty made a | score. Cigar went: out and RBalloen | started to pitch but went straight uy the Cherry tried it, but was will. 0ld Ice kept cool until he was hit by a pitched ball and then you ought to | ave heard Ice Cream hhage good head and kept quiet. Gr 2 s | covered lots of ground, and the crowd | | cheered | Bre when Spider d loafed on th Organ, who played fz caught a M. | d and bumped t and put Light | In the fifth inning, Wind began to blow about what he could do. Ham- mer began to knock and Trees hegan to leave. The v they roasted Peanuts was a fright. Knife was put out for cutting first base. Lightning finished pitching the game and struck out six men. In the ninth. Apple told Fiddle to take his base, and Song made an- other hit. Trombone made a slide, and Meat was put out on the plate. There was lots of betting on the game but Soap cleaned up. The score was 1 to 0. Door said that if he had pitched he would have shut them out, be ex- | l Texas As a Belligerent. (New York World.) We must say that Texas is a dis- appointment. For many vears that noble state has assured us that it was able to settle the Mexican ques- tion single-handed. Nothing re- strained 1t but the refusal of the National government to say the word. | We have trusted Texas in the belief that, no matter what disaster might overtake the Federal forces on the | border, the avenging citizenry of |the Lone Star Commonwealth would | prove equal to every emergency. |” Not many presidents have ventured | to invoke the mighty military power | of Texas, but Mr. Wilson has taken | the awful responsibility, and what | does he find A powerful National Guard effuipped to the last button? | A fierce and seasoned body of war- riors thirsting for gore? Hardly. | What he sees is an organization nora- | inally embracing 3,381 men, and en- | Joving the distinguished honor of | standing at the bottom of the list of |the states in efflciency at the latest inspection by the War Department. Tt appears, therefore, that in de- | pending upon Texas we have leaned | upon a reed or a lath. It has been tace to face with danger; it has talked | terribly; and vet when the tocsin | sounds we discover that the fighting force of the greatest of states is only | an awkward squad and that part of | the equipment supplied to it of late | by the National government has been | corruptly sold to Mexicans across the | boundary. Alas for Texas and alas for the | Americans who have felt secure in th presence of its sword and buckler For our second line of defense on | the Rio Grande we now nominate the | organized militia of Iowa and Minn- esota, most of whose members never saw a Mexican. You Never Can Tell, (Springfield Republican.) An awkward toastmaster at a Wash- ington dinner, in introducing Mr. Taft, then president, once alluded to the | great responsibilities that had fallen | to him in making numerous nomina- tions to the supreme court. Yielding to one of those sudden irations fatal to the man who is | when keeping to the speech he re- | hearsed to his wife or his mirror, the | toastmaster added “and he may make | ‘one more.’” The court was then en- joying good health, collectively and | | individually, and Mr. Taft, unseen of | the toastmaster, could not refrain | from winking a large and solemn wink | in enjoyment of the break. Régard- | | less of what may become of Mr. Bran- | | deis, it gro increasingly probable | | that Mr. Wilson “may make one | | more” very soon after the Chicago convention. If he should nominate Mr. Taft to succeed Justice Hughes some saphead in the top gallery | might suggest that it was done to take Mr. Taft off the stump during the campaign, but with that exception | the country would pretty generally ap- | plaud an opportunity well turned to account. It would be a strange coin- cidence if, instead of this result, it should later fall to Mr. Hughes to nominate Mr. Taft, by whom he was himself nominated. a | times WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed In ex- changes that come to the Herald Oftice. Slammed the Door. York Tri poct of Chr! Since Nora (New elderly down bune.) An years sat year 1879 'to write his first play the end of Act III his heroine, Nora by name, marched her doll's house with banners waving and slam- _ med the door. Behind tho door the left a husbandiwhoso sole fault, calm- ly considered, what he was supposed to be, That is to say, the called his wife his “little twittering ' lark,” his “littlc squirrel,” his “littie feather-hcad,” what he regarded as her inability to’ think, and in so many words urged her to “lean on me.” “I should not be a man,” he explained, “if this womanly helplessness did not just give you a double attractiveness in So she slammed the door and sonia ona fa in the At at out of was in being a husband. welcomed my eyes.” took to the open air. Such an utter husband have been even then a shade old-fashioned may among the advanced styles of Norway. " But plenty of husbands 1n and out of Christiania arose to shout this dis- approval. The Torvalds of real life emptled derision and worse on the old vet ever young head of Henrik Ibsen. And it was only an cxcep- tional woman in the world about that saw anything more in Nora than a selfish little cat with no more sense , than to throw up a perfectly good job as a wife for the absurd ure of proclaiming her creed: lieve that before all else I am a rea- sonable human being, just as you are —or, at all events, that I must try and become one. That seven years ago. The Torvalds have not passed away, by any means. They still exist in profusion—perhaps a little less puffed out in the chest, a good deal more ad- dicted to persuasion. But essen- tially the same. An especially choice specimen comes to mind Irom re- cent fiction, Edward, husband to a heroine of Mr. George's creation, in “The Second Blooming.” He called her his “Gracy-Bracy,” with other . baby talk to fit, and, as we recall, was wont to pinch her ear amorously So she took the only course open 1o her as the heroine of a modern English novel and ran quite a life of it until her second blooms faded and it be- came,_ time to return to Edward There are undoubtedly many Amer- ican Edwards left. Yet as a type we seem to recognize a greater preval- ency for a significant hero named Henry W, Henry who appears all too infrequently in dialogue form upon the pages of “The New Republic."” He has a wife Edna, who is plainly a descendant of Nora; and two chil- dren. Henry has discarded the play- fulness that was wont to cheer the heart of Torvald. He is rather lugu- brious—a rooster with his wings clip- ped, to revert to primitive metaphor. But he struts along over the same old route, flaunting his traditional ommis- clence as a last hope in a woman-rid- den world. Edna ki him on tha fore head punctures his fine theory with an obviols, particular instanc and goes singing on her cheerful, in- dependent way. She is more of a mother to her absurd Henry than any- thing else—a modern mother, that kind and firm but not disposed spoil. Which strikes us as an excellent spot upon which to leave the pendent who slammed the of her doll's house in 1870 has apparently returned home. ing some wisdom with her. And she is still a woman—quite as unmistak ably a woman as ever. Actually, open air has done her good. to inde- aoor She bring Poverty as a Cause of Consumption. (New York World.) The report of the public service on tuberculosis in health American citles provides valuable data tearing on in the statis- tles showing its relation to poor lving The new the disease investigaters found all tuberculosis cheap houses, and one-fifth are traceable to hazards and bad work- ing conditions. that ‘‘the great factor underlying the entire problem is seemingly that of economic conditions.” Bad housing in conjuction with in- comes too small to provide adequate food occasions an exhaustion of vitality which opens the door to dis- ease. In the tenement districts af Cincinnati, where the tuberculosis death rate was found to he three as great in the better see- tions, the average monthly fncome of the families afflicted wag but $57 A gimilar situation was found in Pitts- burgh. The conditions. that one-sixth develop of cases in lodeing oecupational The conclusion 1= as investigators covered racial differences tibility to tuberculosis under the same conditions of poverty which perhaps require a qualification of the indictment of economic conditions as the main cause: “Almost without exception with a higher percentage of Scandinavian and German stock those in which the negro is relatively large, have a correspond- ingly high mortality, while those where the Ttalian and Jewish element is propartionately great have a low tuberculosis death rate.” Why should TItalian Jewish workers show a lower death rate in similar financial circumstances? Ae- cepting the general truth of the statement that economic condifions are the main factor in causing tu- berculosis, it is probable that ine dividual standards of economy and of however, citles Irish, and population and careful or wasteful living have much l to do with.the case, ¢ ‘e ‘.