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f has different hile. an automo- Snquirer-Sun. e uses (Ga.) come an increase in the cost of operation. They claim they car longer continue way —Columbia fi:erald. COMPANY. no | in business = to alleviate They cannot get along un- of supervision that makes them obey the laws of the Fed- eral Government and at the same time bend to mandates of forty-eig “ HERALD PUT HING unless | A April 1 is latest in a long succession of dates set for the disappearance of New York's last horse-car- It is a g0ood date, suggesting that the little bob-tailed antiquity may fool us vet again.—New York World. something condition. der is done this Issued daily (Sunday excepted) at 4:15 p. m., at Herald Building, 67 Church St. o a system Bntered at the as 8¢ New Britain part of the elty a month by ma cents a month, ht separ- P ate and individual states in the union, cach state possessing different regulations t its ions for paper advance, ar S India is able to send the allies 400,- 000 tons of wheat under a single au- thorization. The world wouldn't starve without our foodstuffs, but a good part of it might go on short rations in case of a real embargo.—Brooklyn Eagle. laws A e and an neighhor the city Cir room alwaya ulation open to 11 be ising mediu hooks and advertis On the material side the railroads are handicapped found on sale at Hota- nd, 42nd St York City; “3oard Walk, ind Hartford Depot. by a shortage of cars | which makes it impossible for them to ; and Broad- 4‘ At- | handle all the freight business thrown | their way. The Herald v Where they have cars the | 1 the vote in the so-called doubt- ful states is contested, it will be nice for the eminent lawyers but we don't suppose it will make much difference to anybody else—Ohio State Journal. locomot s are not sufficient in num- ber to haul them, and where cars and | locomotives are available terminal fa- ECTICUT. | cilities ure‘not capable of taking care 5 of the traffic. It is a sorry plaint, the Connecticut | 3 < plaint of the railroads. Yet o ALLS al Rooms COLORADO AND CON When the Colorado visits When You Leave Your Mother. (By Folger McKinsey). When you leave your mother, you say good-by, vou kiss and hug her and you see her start to ery; she puts her arms around you and looks off with saddened face— It's then you start to thinking your home’s a lovely place. is the air. This is Colo- It those who have studied the railroad with any degree of attention and sincerity know well that the present day condition of the Such oceun roads cannot be attributed alone to the spirlt of Colorado tn, regulations imposed by the na- s not ever ready to do homage to the tional government. The railroads spirit of Comnecticut? It is an estab-| pygt pe regulated. The regulation lished law_ of physics that opposites| gig not come soon emough in this g That Why Colorado | cage. It it had forestalled the po out bilities of such scandals as the New to | Haven and others the roads today Busy little Connecticut, a mere dot | would not be forced to utter such in the map of states; yet with enough | wails, At this particular time they industry to keep the nation’s wheels| are carning more money than ever be- turning. Colorada away up in| fore in their history, a fact wiich they the mountains looks over a broad ex- | fear will injure them in the eyes of panse of states, sees the black smoke | the investigating committee, and yet from the tall chimneys, and sends its| they tell us that one-sixth of the rail- N air over to brush the | road mileage of the nation is in the clouds And when the veil has| hands of receivers. These are some Connecticut comes up | of the outstanding points in the rail- smiling to greet the glances of her sis- | road situation that face the Newlands ter state thousands of miles away. | committee. There 1is momentuous Such a day is the wedding of the| work ahead and the hint of govern- East and the West, the honeymoon of | ment ownership is enough to make the mountains. and the meadows, the | every thinking man pause In his jour- communion of raw material and fin- | ney and listen to the arguments pro Ished products. The clear crisp air|and con. Government ownership in waves that brush the cheeks of Pike’s| other lands has proven all right, in Peak hover aver New Britain. As a | this country it would be beset with so result men walk with their heads| much political trickery and graft as higher, with an elasticity in their|to start a revolution. It would seem steps, with the blood of life tinglieg then that Federal regulation in a nd bounding in their veins. It is a | Sensible manner is the way out of the thrill never be forgotten when | Problem. olorado comes to Connecticut. Go's day here. is ado air, | o e problem when . Colorado sunshine, could recommend anythin, r : = When When days who that ‘When is stfetches Your brothers yell good-by; But when you leave your mother There's a real tear in your eye. over the country and | pays court Connecticut, The dreams are fine and. dandy and Your vislon opens wide To the effort and the action you've started to decide; ‘All your hopes are burning brightly, and your sky's a sunny sky, But when you leave your motl 80 hard to say good-by. So hard to see her grieving, As she sits there, ah, so lone, In her memories of the childhoods That have blosscmed and have flown, sver that erisp Novem! away been removed every moment of the day; In the twilight she'll be standing Where the shadows gather gray, Looking off toward the city where And the night will find her kneeling in her holy hour of prayer. When you leave your mother, ‘When your lips on hers pressed, Ah, it makes all else so trifling, As you sob there on her breast. are to NEW FIELDS. NEVER TOO LATE, Four outlying possessions of the United States offer great trade possi- bilities never realized until the Euro- pean war cut off some American sta- ples. Alaska, Hawali, the Philippines and Porto Rico are markets that will | THE RATLROAD SITUATION. Without this country | would are the arteries | To cripple them means | Therefore, all sensible peo- sle want to see the railroads prosper. Phis is so whether these people belong o the class that owns the railroads, | he class that operates them, or mere- v the class that rides on their passen- er cars or ships goods on their freight The people of the nation as | "e not antagonistic to the Yet the railroads in this when they have proven them- elves unequal to a great emergency, | ecl that there is a fight belng made | nst They feel that a vast 1 the people want to see fhem crushed, that the various states the union have combined with the hational zovernment to put the rail- loads out of business as private enter- rises and to have them operated by e United States government. The affairs of the rallroads have ome to such a pass that a Congres- “ jional investigation is in order. Under | joint resolution authorized by Con- ress on July 30 it was begun yes- erday under the direction of Senator ewlands of Nevada who is chairman f the Senate Committee on Interstate ‘ommerce and who is also the author f the resolution providing for this in- estigation. Serving on the commit- ee with Senator Newlands are Sena- or Brandegee of this state and Sena- or Cummins of Towa, representing jhe Republican side; Sehator Robin- on of Arkansas and Senator Under- kood of Alabama, representing the Pemocrats; Representatives Bsch of isconsin and Hamilton of Michigan, Republican: Representatives Adam- pn of Georgia, Sims of Tennessee and ;unon of Indiana, Democrats. Rep- esentative Adamson is the author of e now celébrated Adamson ecight- our day law and Is also chairman of e House Love Comes When Least Expected but Causes Much Happiness. railroads decay. They pf the nation. Edith has slaved for ten long years in a law office as stenographer and general offic i cepted lot patiently plainingly. Her duty to surmounted any mere desire of her own. Edith was one of those souls whom realization of a duty ralysis. ant. bolster up American prosperity after the wav ends, although they cannot be expected to take care of every in- dustry in the country. With South American markets being won they should help materially tinue the prosperity now Joyed. According to United States govern- ment reports the imports from these four possessions ta America increased during the past fiscal year by the amount of $55,00,000 over the pre- | vious year, while American exports to these four places bounded ahead $10,- | 000,000. Such increases augur wvui for the future, as in the past little | attention has been paid to cultivating | the trade relations between these pos- sesslons and the United States. Once the relations are firmly established American trade should not fear com- petition after the war is over provid- ing the spirit of greed does not over- shadow everything else, her and her uncom- mother over | o to to being con- | parent Gayety or parents was congenial. en- was not for her; fine rai- rient, a joyous existence and romance were for girls with beeutiful faces and graceful figures and who were self-sustaining. So she watched the girls in the offices ad- joining, gayly attired, depart for the Iatinee on the Saturday half-holiday with a quiet resignation. She went home to do the Saturday cleaning. “Mother” must be relieved. he following Monday morning Edith had scarcely dusted her desk #nd adjusted herself to the dally morring routine when the' buzzer ounded, an unusual thing this hour in the morning. Two o’clock in the afternoon Mr. H.'s usual hour for dictation. But Edith took her note- hook and pencils and repaired to her chief's offic “Miss J.," our, mothers them. ority of said Mr. “this is Mr. Brawley, an witness in one of our cases me testimony to dictate ed transcribed at once.’ Mechanically Edith's little H. briskly, important He has When the railroad brotherhoods which he adopt an antagonistic attitude toward any legislation aimed to prevent 2 strike before full investigation they stmply resort to the same tactics used by the rallroad managers against the Adamson law. President Wilson's idea is to make it impossible for a strike to take place on interstate rail- road lines before a complete inves- tigation and a report is .nade. The Board of Mediation then should de- termine the merits of all tions in any given case. are not then satisfied have right to strike. The proposed plan is merely to protect all sides in the controversies that may come up and at the same offer room intent on other } usiness. Then meet those of her vis-a-vis, One long look, and then, confused and embarassed, she dropped her gaze to the noteLopk before he There was a moment of intense si- lence. What was thc magnetic thrill which passed between them > ‘What was it seat the blood bound- ing through her veins at a it had never gone before, suddenly nting the gray clouds of the morn- ing a roseate hue? Poor little Edith! Love, ex call, were to her meaningless terms. Never before in‘her manless, cid existence had failed to he e to analyze her emotions. But she must not let this man have the faintest suspicion of the feeclings that were surging within her. Nor did it occur her moiest little soul that perhaps he might be experiencing the same emotions. She never knew how they waded through that dictation, nor could she remember a word that had been said of a personal nature. She went about in a state of exhilaration. Some new element had entered her life secmed to make it worth while. The next evening, on reaching home, her mother met her at the door “Hurry, Edith, there is a box for you." An unexpected parcel was event in the little household and Edith hastily unwrapped it. Both women exclaimed at the sight which greeted them. Roses—great, vivid, fragrant beautic dozens, it seemed; a riot of and perfume | In the corner the mother's sharp eye, ad the inevitable It was m him, the man, asking if he might ‘nd when the ques- If the they men rate the romance, Committee on TInterstate lommerce. All the Senators and Rep- esentatives named his time protection to the public. ghe are members of comittee the two ranches of Congress with the excep- on of Senator same in FACTS AND FANCIES. Massachusetts reporf Mileh or beef?—Indian: a $6,000 cow. Tmes. Brandegee is jhiairman of the Pacific railroads com- littee. It will be seen that they have il had experience in dealing with just €h questions that will be brought €fore them in this investigation and @t the railroads should their hands. who West Virginia ought cither to change its name to East Virginia or quit acting that way-—Galveston New not suffer ncerely trust T. R. will feel no professional jealousy over this revised on of “The Winning of the West."” The task set before this group of | Ve Louisville Courier-Journal. nators and Representatives is by no eans an one. They will ked first of all to decide whether € railroads of the United States shall e owned and operated by the United s government or if 1ment ¢ easy be o Do not flirt with pneumonia in keeping yourself closed up in ill ven- tilated apartments to save a few cents in fuel.—Middletown Press. not just how shall nt ontrol opers rail- that | © The price of popular 50-cent advanced 60 cent to he nothing left for novels ~olor ownes he havir ma but to stick to the politi- er Union | seem ers o cal dope. complaint now is L no ing from overregula- > of government nce apital is withheld om them and that with this decr begi ing of The man who, when he boy »insterhood burned the midnight oil, has a | mnonths they were on their son who is also burning it ,but in a | n,oon,—Chicago Tribune, the the end I two honey- new was a now s revenue from investment sources “Your father shakes hands yith you, | it'a | &he’ll be wondering what you're doing | you've gone to face your care, ; But Edith ac- ! . : Jenny | Wren figure sank into the chair her | employer had vacated as he left the | as mechanically she lifred her eyes to | which ! NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, WHAT OTHERS SAY Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to tho Herald Office. (Waterbury Republican.) It is an interesting fact that is | pointed out by the London Times in | regard to the traffic in drugs and al- coholic intoxicants in the castern { countries. Says The Times: | “The traffic in alcohol, opium and cocaine in India, Seylon and China has more than a sentimental impor- tance. The trade with India amounts to nearly onc-third of the trade of the United Kingdom, and the supremacy of the empire depends upon the pre- | servation of that trade from the com- | petition of other Ruropean nations, { The traflic in intoxicants and narcotics was sapping the efficiency of the | nation, and government control can- { hot by itsclf keep sober a nation that | wishes to be drunk. The Indian gov- | ernment sacrificed a revenue aof 4,000,000 sterling when it put an end to the export of opium; and as it brings the trafic in alcohol under control the consumption of opium and cocaine increases, while in China as the imvortation of oplum is reduced { the sale of intoxicants increases.” Here in the United States the on- | ward rush of the wave of prohibition is attracting more attention with each passing election and as the num- ber of “dry” states increases it is in- teresting to note that the same states do not lose the offenders who are com- monly believed to be victims merels of a condition born of licensed | loons. Statistics as to the drug habit | are not so easily obtained, but there has been much said in recent years to indicate that the medical profession and the federal authorities had reason to believe that the use of drugs was growing at a dangerous rate. With or without licensed traffic in these com- modities it seems impossible to eradi- | cate their use, though there can be no gainsaying the benefits that have fol- lowed enfarcement of prolbitive legislation in most countries. Only through persistent and thorough edu- cation of the younger generations as to the evils of indulgence in these drugs can any nation hope to suec- cessfully combat the tendency of hu- | manity to flirt with the transient pleasures which they bring. 1 | } Booze and Bing. | The Strange Caverns in the Azores. Late forenoon found heading down-coast in our large dory toward a cavern called Furna de Fernao Jorge, in an unsubmerged portion of | a crater ring gvhose seawara side had i been broken Away by storms. We rowed into this great amphitheater, | which had once vomited forth a hell of fire and then sucked in the waters | of the Atlantic, An ever-falling curtain of water from the eaves of the great semi- domed cavern ahead screened the my terious darkness beyond. Through this shower shot the dory, bringing up on a steep-shelving cave floor of large water-rounded stones. From the arching wall hung festoons | ferns, mosses and small plants grew, | reeking in wetness. Tiny olive-green | canaries flicked by and were lost in the verdure or darkness. The sput- ter of Brving's bird-gun, as hs brought down two ecimens—the first of our collection—had an un- canny, smothered sound; one almost cxpected its report to bring the tre- mendous suspended mass crushing Cown upon us. “The dory’s adrift!"” | The subtle surze had worked from the steep beach into the fa sweeping current. With a flying leap land plunge John fortunately recov- cavern was no us it | ered it, for the lonely | place to be marooned at high tide. | Farther southward, we asga a left | the bright sunlight and steered into | the Furna dos Encharcos—a colossal | gash in the side of Floves. At first | we rowed in the darkness of night. | Then the bases of thc arching walls, like the transparent water, took on | a peculiar ultra-marine—daylight | turned to shadow and oxidized by nature. Cautiously for two hundred feet we felt our way into the bowels of the great cliff. Here the cave, nar- rowing, terminated in an inner cham- be The dory softly heaved to an uncanny, subtle, under-sea motion. “Back water! Look there!” came from the bow. TFrom the inner cham- ber issued a peculiar rumbling; be- ' fore the dory could be backed out of the narrow corridor it became a see- thing caldron. From its center a gey- ser shot hissing into the darkness, telescoped, then all was still. We warily reapproached this interesting phenomenon, which, after a few mo- ments’ quiescence, returned again ments’ quiescence, recurred again and again. That inner chamber was a weird, uncanny sight, an impression of direct connection with another world.—Charles Wellington Iurlong in Harper's Magazine, William Allen White's View. (Emnporia, Kan., Gazette.) Leadership has failed to divert the people. We elected a democratic president in 1912 through republican chicanery. And it is evident that the spirit of the West remalns un- changed today, in splite of the futile | efforts of the leaders of the progres- ! sive movemeht. The people of the West have not changed their purpose, | The opportunity to vote as they wished to vote was taken from a great body of them when the progressive party | auit busines But they would not vote with those who distrusted the aspirations of the | people. Not even the issue of na- | tional honor wayved these political | crusaders. Disheartened and ashamed, but with unbroken spirits nd un- shaken convictions these people voted for Hughes. Put the folks in the West refused to follow. They would ' vote for a man and a party that they | | distrusted, even though they respected | ts candidate. The West does not forget, oLl on the back { higher 1916. CHERUBS AND REPORTERS. s There is No Singing and Music in a Typical American City-Room; But in Buenos Aires,—Ah! To arrive in the morning, most likely by automobile, at the front of a $5,000,000 structure as ornate arch- itecturally as a European foreign of- flce or opera house; to lounge in a enough to store a day's supply of useful know- ledge; to listen magnificent library long to a symphony or- | { in The Women of France ', And Their Patrioiism Washington, D. C., Nov. of the most vivid and comprehensive 21.—One | operating street | trains, pictures of the sacrifices, the herolsm, | shops, subway] rifing In and xicabs and fiacre: nd serving as w cars te m itres: and the hopes of the women of France | the professions the French woman has which has come from war-stricken | made astonishing strides, not alto- Europe in many months is contained | gether since the outbreak of the war a communication Feographic society from to the National | Mrs. Har- | but in the last quarter of a Centurys For instance, the young dentiste who chestra in a sumptuous music room; | rjet Chalmers Adams, the only Amer- | had taken charge of the American to be conducted to one's desk in a suite of elegantly furnished | apartments, and in time to receive | the day's assignment from the editor on a silver salver; that is what | one might call being a reporter de | luxe, says the Christian Science Mon- itor. Imagination falters when it comes to describing, with like freedom of | touch, the possible experiences and | environment of the heads of depart- | ments of La Prensa of Buenos Aires. What with wainscoting of the cholcest woods, what with frescoing by the niost famous artists, what with orien- | ! divans and gilt chairs and hand- painted typewriters, can it be won- | dered that the literary editor, the fin- ancial editor and the river front of La Presna should turn out matter daily that is literally devoured by the so- ciety of the Argentine capital! Who could not write enchantingly and never-endingly in a magnificently | furnished suite of a $5,000,000 news- | paper building, fountains, the singing of canaries and | the music of a symphony orchesu-a‘: mingling with one’s toil. Ordinary newspaper men who, amid | conditions prevailing in the United States, succeed in supplying their edi- tors with a daily grist of fairly well- | written copy should, one would think, be able to turn out gilt-edged manu- | seript by the ream, on hand-painted | typewriters in mahogany-wainscoted, | mosaic-floored, velvet-curtained apart- ments in the Argentine. What could hinder the reporter sent out to ‘“get” a meeting of the city council committee on streets and | alleys from bringing back material | for an exhaustice Carlylian e; on | political economy. or from whipping | it into shape for the last edition! | Our correspondence from Buenos | Aires, describing the office of the | leading newspaper of that city, La Presna, says innocently enough: “An average reporter in the United States who found himself installed in | one of these beautifully furnished rooms, equipped with mahogany desks and the floors laid in marble mosaic, velvet curtains at the windows, and French front since the great offen- who is an author and lecturer of note, mahogany | jcan woman who has been permitted | dentist's office where I called, could to visit the first-line trenches on the | | completely city | sive of the Entente Allies began along | had her the Somme last summer. Mrs. Adams, i not have provided me with suchs, & satisfactory gold —crow knowledge been acquired solely since August, 1914. “One of the most interesting and studied the women of France | appealing practices of the war is the with the appreciation and understand- | adoption of groups of peasant soldfer ing of a trained observer who has won ! distinction as an explorer in the An- des, in Central America, and in the heart of Asia. She saj “One of the universal mistakes which the American people make in their estimate of the women of France is the assumption that this war has created a new and spirit among the mothers, the wives, the sisters and sweethearts of the men who are fighting for the salva- tion of a nation. of visits to Paris and to the firing line would convince the most c: server that such a spirit of self fice and of complete devotion to eri- a cause could not have been created or | with the rippling of | born in the women of a nation in the | Americans space of two years. That spirit has been inherent in the French women | far beyond the present—it goes back | cause they to Joan of Arc. Repeatedly during the last few months I have been made aware that it has been an active and tal force for years because in many a base hospital T met young women of gentle blood who were experienced nurses, having served a grueling novi- tiate with the Irench forces in Al- geria and Morocco. “The splendid fortitude, indomit- able will, and tireless energy of the French women have always existed: this great calamity has not developed new characteristics, but has only served to make known to the world those great virtues of heart, hand, and mind which are saving a people and that people’s civilization. “Chiefly, perhaps, because of her charming feminity, and her dainti- ness in personal adornment, the Am- erican public has underrated the sta- mina of the French woman. Sup- posedly timid, this war has proved her to be the very opposite. For es ample, the 20-year-old daughter of a noblewoman in whose chateau I spent several days has been nursing the cherubs, flying over him in the fres- coed ceilings, would be inclined to lose | his American ‘punch.’ " Rather, we should think, would he he inclined to let his genius soar with the cherubs, But this is mere conjecture. Na Tnited States reporter, so far as we can learn. has ever written in such an environment, The average re- porter, that is, one who has had ex- perience, has probably written copy on evervthing save a mahogany desk. He has written copy in a street car, in a freight train caboose. on his knee, af a friendly brother re- hut never under flying cherubs flutter of velvet curtains, Not that he couldn’t do so. He would not he a real reporter if he could not enter the office of La Prensa, in Buenos Aires fresh from in New York, or Boston, or Cincinnatt, or Detrolt, or Denver, or Los Angeles, or San Francisco, or New Orleans, or Seattle, and settle down as comfort- ably and as confidently to his task on a gilded chair before a desk as he had ever settled write his story at a hasty lunch coun- ter at home. Still clearly. all this is conjecture. | Tt i« impossible to say just what a Tnifed States newspaper staff would | do. or would not do, if landed, with- out notice. among the luxurious fur- nishings and appurtenances of Ta Prensa’s establishment The proh- ahilities are. however, that the thing it would think of would he th~ eetting out of the paver ir time tn cateh the mails, Yet. there is porter, to the another side to this matter: Newspaper offices, in the Tnited States, as regards cleanlines comfort and convenience, are greatly improved over what they were a few | vears aso. They are growing better constantly. for most of them have learned that the traditional frowziness | obligations which each feels and ful- | o icide world to and Arabness and drearviness and smokiness of the editorial denartment is whelly unnecessary and avoldable. | Certain newspaper offices in tho! Tinited States today are luxurious in | the working avarters. compared with | the average offices of n score of vears azo. They have no mosale floors, no velvet curtains, no mahogany desks: | there are no music halls or aviaries or conservatories on the premises: there i< neither frescolng nor cherthum fn the newsroom. and vet evervthing is | there that makes surelv for neatness | and dispatch, | Salaried Man, Iiving Costs, (Meriden Journal). Much is being said about the plight of the salaried mau in these times of | high prices. The pinch hard on a good many men whose wage but are paving everything, particularly when food products are so does come is stationary, who for this fall scarce, Yet if the salaried man’s wages re- main statlonary while the pay of oth- er workers has increased, let him not altogether blame the fates and the opposite political party. Perhaps he has been at fault somewhere. It has generally been true, where a man has been thoroughly on his joh, growing in effilcency and resourceful- nes that he hag had his raise in argely compensating for the higher scale of prices. If he hasn't had any, he may be the one to blame. Pert h spent too much time reading about the high prices. when he should have been thinking up means of enlarging his productive- ness. he an office | mahogany | down to | | son, husband, brother, wounded for two vears. When the war began and the trainloads of mu- tilated soldiers began to pass through the station near the chateau. this voung girl, then only 18, who had never had a sight of human blood, arose each morning at 6:30. met the t ins, and went through the cars caring for the wounds of had heen placed hurriedly on hoard to he taken to the hase hospitals in the vear. This girl labored. and is still laboring, from 10 to 14 hours a dav \melioratine the sufferings of are hundreds, i loved France. And | thousands of other noble young wo- | | men serving the republic. | "Some of the American war cor- | respondents who have heen permitted ! to visit the munitions plants where thousands upon thousands of girls and women are laboring to keep the | French artillery supplied with high- | explosive shells ana shrapnel, have | deplored the fact that the nation is al- | Jowing the potential mothers of the fice their strength and health in such ta . T confess that T cannot share this regret. To me it seems eminently fair and appropriate that these danghters of France who of necessity are prohibited from giving their lives to the cause on the battle- | future to sacri | field itself should enjoy the privileg of oftering themselves wholely and without reserve to their sacred cause, whatsoever rapacity their bodies 1d their brains are most effective for ‘hat far-off. divine event—the restor- ation of France and the fruits of a peace that shall last for all time. “One of the most amazing things ahout Paris today is that it is a city of smiles. It is no longer ‘Gay Paris’, but ‘Cheerful Paris’. A student of pschology, however, who looks deep into the smiling eyes of the women, realizes instinctively that one of the fills is to make appy as possible the six days’ furlough that the men from the trenches are granted from time to time. “The Opera Comique and the Gr Opera House are crowded each night, but that regulation which once re- quired all persons occupying the fa- mous tiers of loges and the parquet chairs to be in evening dress no long- er obtains at the opera. The ‘horizon hlue’ uniforms and the simple gowns of dark material, most often black, are to be seen on every side. And one of the appealing customs of the hour is that every woman as s;h‘f: .:H:“l:rthe r and of her escort— theater holds the hand HiCho ~_while from the eves of the fiancee o less than from those of the silver- haired mother there shines the light | of maternal love, a love which would | protect and comfort, not one which demands or allures. “It should be mentioned that the | Sisters of Mercy have returned to France, bringing with them a gentle- ness, an unselfish devotion, a tender- ness, and withal an efficlency not surpassed by any other group of nurses in the world. The herolc ser- vice upon the battlefields of the Fran- co-Prussian war are brightly written upon the pages of French history. “One of the interesting by-prod- ucts of this war has been the creation of countless new occupations for wo- men workers and for ‘disabled’ sol- ¢ lines of endeavor no- have developed remarkable in- itlative and in some instances aston- ishing inventive faculti With arti- ficial hands, maimed men are being ! taught many gainful pursuits, while women nurtured in luxury have rand ! These soldiers make thi { home nobler | day furlough. Even the briefest ! their entertainment ual ob- | trenches they never fail to those who those who have glven thefr all for her be- | | the | | i i i for cleansing purpose: | dirt of the skin, even the dead skin, | must be regularly removed. bath. the body the spiration turned their unpracticed hands to typewriting, the making of munitions | batning 15 necessary by the well-to-do women of Paris One acquaintance of mine, owning a large estate on the outskirts of x'h\' capital, is godmother to 150 soldiers whose home before the war was in a. district now occupied by the enemy estate thel they on a six- She cares for them ex- actly as if they were her overgrown children not only watchful of their whenever are i material comfort but solicitous about as well. soldiers return When to the writé ¥ to affec- these boyish their ‘chere Aimee’, tionately call her “In the beginning I said that had always courage and of the French women be- were always judged as frivolous oh account of their attention | to personal adornment It worthy of note that the war has not changed | this instinct in the slightest. I saw thousands of girls handling "’é‘l\\ shells in the munition plants: every one of them had her hair neatly dressed. ana was otherwise observ- | ant of her personal appearance as Be- | fits a French woman. During my stay lin Paris my little stenographer wora the same tailored rv day, yet it was always neatly pressed ‘|nd‘1\t'\1 waist was always immaculate. Her | high-heeled boots were always freshly polished, and her coiffure heautiful. No. the French woman has sacrificed none of her chic in the pursuit of her | hizh calling as a war worker. “Do you know that the imperinal | fleur de lys is no longer the national flower of France? Tt has been sup- nlanted by the heantiful ‘tri-color’ of the fields—the red poppy. the hiue | cornflower, and the white ~ datsy. When 1 made my unforgettable visit to the first-line trenches the soldlers plucked these flowers growing on the | edge of the embankment and present- { ed them to me as a token of the af- i fection in which France holds all | those Americans who have given so | freely to mitizate the sufferings in hospitals, to ald those whose hosges have been destroved. and to succor the widows and orphans of those whn gladly died that ance and French civilization might live.” as they the under-esti- the strength of cter mated cha suit eve What Baths Will Do, The of exerciging | have always gone hand-in-hand with health. The unclean who the | magic effects of abiution the and thus of disease, in use water and shun are hearers of dirt | says Louis Henry Levy Pictorial Review. Uncleanliness courager of dirt and it is in dirt that ’me germs of disease live and thrive. is the clean skin than Jhe clothes that make you feel clean feeling is a healthy feeling of comfort and case. But cleanliness means the use of water. It is nature's wise Lrovision for the protection of man asainst his enemies, the disease-pro- ducers. Upon th is the en- 11i rather clean. feeling—a surface of the skin, the w=ter acts in many way: Althou®h the skin, to our unpenetrating eyes, seems just a covering for the body, it is as busy and as active a place 1: any within the body. There is & e nt come and go of biood to the tiniest unloading the waste coilected every corner tho body ions of are the po: s through Daghs continuously this v ru hish. The very finest of nerves pene- trate right to the ecége of the skin and carry their me from the heart and and ling fo greater activity sources oily and watery ather and if not regula ly removed, accumulate at the pores hreatening to hem and s ir usefu! function To activate heart, to stimulate the nerves, eradicate the body debris and to clear pores, there is constantly at vour vice—water, intelligent use of quires a proper working of ite actions. You hear frequent mentioned the hot bath, the bath, the shower, sea bathing, the Russian and Turkish baths, a con- fusing, complicating jumble of words, valueless unless properly sorted out and mentally indexed The first demand made of water is The oils an¥ vessels, from mi of he pores must e es muscle; stimulating upon From substance. ese other block ser The, water re- knowledsd co Man s constantly shedding his skin in minute pieces instead of in large sheets such as are shed perlodically by the hiber- nating snake. and grow and the tiny rubbed Just as the halr grows the nails grow, so does the skin by rubbing it when moist lifeless pieces can easily away The cleansing bath is not a hot It is the comforting warm or tepid bath that soothes and calms, that sends gentle messages along the nerves to other parts of the body telling them to lessen their work for a few restful moments. Such baths twice weekly except dur- ing the summertime suffice to keep clean and refreshed. When days are at hand and per-®w incessantly bathes the body excretions more frequent: hot with its