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BY JOREPH PULITZER. Daily scent Bopaag by he Press Fubiiening Company, Nos. 58 19 : 43 Row. It. how, Becon4. ter, MeRT EST Cathand’ ana. the, Continent and in the International Union One Toar. One Mont A SNEER AND A SHRUG. 18 not an answer. It cannot be accepted as one. -eredible that it was so intended. The German Government well knows that at this juncture all-important question is not what it has done or what it thinks what it has done but what it means to do. Its provisional acceptance of responsibility in the cases of the ig and the Gulflight is not an answer. Its clumsy effort to cast doubt upon established facts regarding | the Lusitania’s character and cargo in order to mitigate the crimo of drowning the Lusitania’s neutral passengers is not an answer any thore than is expressed regret for the loss of American lives. * — fiven its disavowal of intent to attack neutral merchantmen is It is in- | discredited. Who aimed the torpedo that hit the Nebraskan? ms: Disregarding real iseues, Berlin coldly recommends us to review 4 which we have already carefully examined. And in affirming py Lusitania carried mounted guns, the German Government the lie to the Collector of this port and insolently impugns the ty of this nation’s neutrality. '. ‘What we asked of Germany was, before all else, low it proposed to carry on its submarine warfare without menacing the safety of e American voyagers on merchant vessels. ‘To this we have had no es | «The President’s note with rare tact gave Berlin an opening to what seemed to be acts of an outlaw nation. Tact appears 40 have been wasted. Germany’s response fights shy of frank ex- “pression or assurance of any sort. The next message from Washington should be a plain request Berlin declare at once in so many words how she means to treat rf vessels and American travellers on sea, No exchange of solicited. oe SPEAK OUT AND FEAR NOT. 30-MORROW or some day thereafter @ seemingly inquisitive person will seék you out and question you concerning your age, sex, color, nativity, occupation, etc. ~ Beo first if he wears badge stamped “State of New York, Seo- plary of State, Census Enumeration, 1915.” If so, answer freely without fear. Nothing you say will be used against you. Your is sworn to disclose what you tell him only to the Census You have the word of the Secretary of State that eought will be used solely for general statis = prosecution or punishment of any person for any suspected or Don't Be LATE STOUN IT'S A LONG Way FROM HERE AND THey EAT PROMPTLY AT ONE | | | KITTINGLY, the little actual violation of the law. » Once in ten years the State interests itself thus in you and your se. It can do you no possible harm to answer its queries. If you can be fined and put in jail. 80 speak out and save HISTORY WILL JUDGE. HE German White Book makes much of what it calls the incontestable fact that the German troops in Belgium ‘were forced in the interest of selfpreservation to fight against the population. the instinct of self-preservation might also manifest iteclf ° country under the tramplings of an invader’s armics find no place in German reasoning. make no mistake. A million White Booke can the blackness of one page. othe A BEGINNING. NOTE that « renewal of the embargo on the traneporte- tion of guns and ammunition from the United States into 4 Mexico is promised as & first move toward restoring some of reason and order in that distracted country. A year ago, when shooting was livelier than ever south of the o Grarde and shiplosds of American rifles were leaving our porte to various Mexican factions, The Bvening World pointed practically oll the arme used in Mexico were supplied from United States and suggested that If the Administration were to use the Booret Bervies to about o little and find out how some of the various move Menico are financed and where, thie country might to ae if thie advice bad been followed. The Mexicans prove hard enough to regulate, Mut if disruptive from without can be successfully shut off the task Hite From Sharp Wits what course of (rus love 44 never ye run 08 Deseret Nowe . A man never blows bis own hore Og ore be to 60 0 tent, ay thet teem Impereonal. blond grass widow, had called. “You're a lucky woman,” oid Mrs, Jarr, regarding ber butterfly friend. “You can come ‘and go when you like; with nothing to worry you, nothing to bother about.” Mre, Kittingly shook her very biond head, regarded her be-ringod and be-manicured hands and sighed. “You wouldn't say that if you knew the dreadfully lonely life I lead!” she said. “I don't see bow you cam say you fare lonely,” eald Mra. Jarr. “You're ” never “That's just it,” replied the grass widow. ‘I would be home if 1 wasn't ou lonely. 1 just got to hate the sight of my maid and my dogand my eat!" “I thought you hated your hus- band,” said Mra. Jarr quietly, . “1 used to think I did, too,” ald the visitor, “And he was « wretch, if there ever was one, but you are very fortunate, my dear, (hat you are not dependent on alimony, Mvery day before it fe due you are on neodies as to whether the come, ané wondering what you will Go if 11 dosen't—end with everybody pestering you for money you owe~ your dressmaker, the liveryman, the tradesmen, Why, sometimes I'm so whort that 5 hy © borrow from my | maid, That's what makes her so im- pertinent to me, Aad | have to stand 4 more eurlous to know how wold paid; if it lent, your bushend will have to #0 to jeu, won't her” “1 euppose eo,” euid Mra Kittingiy, betind the bare ond wus « jclmooy | towat” Mre. Jerr The Jarr Family “By Roy L. McCardell Copgright, 1915, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), Jerr bnew or could imagine ye of pampered servanta, but of Rest xacaeen., Se LAG ON ToP OF oun SUMMER COTTAGE «CENTRAL SAYS , NOBODY HONE HE MusT BE ON HIS WAY He's Gor CB ap, Wants Alimony ners, and that’s more than most mar- tied women do. They never get any- where,” said Mrs. Jarr. “But think of having nobody to say & word to at home except an impu- dent and deceitful maid, If i am in a temper I have to take It out on myself, I have nobody to love, no- body to love me!" “Don't cry, dear,” eald Mre. Jarr. “That is hard.” “I'd give up everything In this world husbands. Women are all cats, but men are just lovely.” “You say that, after your experi- ence?” asked Mrs. Jarr in surprise. “Certainly,” replied Mra. Kittingly. “It's just dreadful to be placed in the position Iam in, I have to be #o very careful, for no matter how a man acts 7 and ne matter under what ciroum- | ‘et the right to scold somebody,” anid stances a devoted and loving wite gets | Mrs. Kittingly, “But no, I have to & separation, everybody seems to be | D® 8# Pleasant as can be with every- watching everything she doss. ['d die) ’04¥ I meet. For if I am cross, if I thought I was talked about!” Mra. people will say: ‘No wonder her hus- Jorr maintained a merciful atlence, jbands left her!" And they didn’t leave but gasped. me, I left them, If I cry to myself “1 do go out & great deal, of course,"|they think I miss the wretches! Mra, Kittingly went on, “but I have, When you are divorced, you are to be #0 careful, and I am very, very ‘either maid, wife, nor widow—you unhappy: I envy you, You have a! are just an object of everybody's vul- husband who isn't @ wretch, and you'«ar curiosity!" Hore Mra, Kittingly aro free to go and come with him or started to ery, but remembered It without him. And, for all I know, I'm would make her eyes red and disturb followed by spies, and I am eo lonely | her complexion, and unhappy!” | “BUN, It'e nice to be independent,” “But you do go to theatres and din- suid Mra. Jarr in @ comforting tone, Reflections of A Bachelor Girl By Helen Rowlind Corral, 910, bY The Pree Pubihing Cn, (The Mew York Heewing Word) HIVALAKY te what makes a man say that be “failed to win" « girl when be really means that he “succeeded in loving’ her ie there; tut, once bie love has cooled, nothing on earth will soften it but another fame | A featous duchess and @ jealous chorus girl may vee different words eee ee ern sar ta | ahd & different accent; bul, somehow, the things they aay sound exactly alike When # man tries to open the sentimental game Vy telling you that perriebiy, “and sometimes | wie, if bie marriage was “ell « mistake,” you iney wafely (eller thet it waa 1 could du without the money, that be| bin wife's mistake COUGH wend IE Le tam, jemk 7 ome bien Hut be could tive oul of New York and not pay it, and) eometions | can't go 6 seep ot wight | for Uieking of bim leaving the Mate me waiting every nd then permite day, waiting for the mail to bring my Shout each other this world would be eo lent thet you could hear « pin iiwd do it, too, only be drop from the Matters to Heriem. cant veer to live ewer from thie In thie complicated age of reversible sentiment an eligivic vacheler aypeare to have almost as many pursuers as be bas pureuite i Tf women (old men no more than men tell women about themeeives oF Love ond war are something elike; each ie merely « matter of sighting “then dow’ care how they ae.” 0\4) vor vietion fret, luring him out of retreat, cutting off his exeape, and then springing *# mine or dropping » bomb on bin | Byam lore should Ge jewelled with consistency Mrs. Jarr’s New Grass- Widow Friend You can melt # man's heart as you ean melt iron, ae long as the flame |; HE Must BE LOAFING SOME WHERE, HE'S ALWAYS LATE HE GETS MY GoaT | and a Husband, Too. “Your alimony is your own to do what you please with. I suppose you may have your troubles, being a grass widow, but you could marry again if you wanted to, couldn't you?” “I'd lose my alimony,” sniffed Mra. Kittingly. “Oh, this is a hard world on women; why can't they have hus- bands and alimony too?” ‘When Mr. Jarr came home that night Mrs. Jarr told him that she tlought Mrs, Kittingly wasn't as bad as she was painced, Wit, Wisdom and Philosophy HYPOCRISY IN CHARITY. By Massillon, truth there are few of those coarse and open hypocrisies which Publish on the housetops the merit of their holy deede; th is more adroit and never imm unmasks. One hardly sees any of these onten- tatious sealots who do not keep their eye out for miseries of renown and, Piously wish to put the public into thetr confidence concerning their largeases, &@ good many means are sometimes taken to cover them, but nobody ts sorry that an indiscretion has drawn them out, one will not seek the public eye, Wut one will be e: raptured when the public eye takes ua; und the liberalitt remain unknown are almost ae-howt, Alas, with their gifte on every side 4 the marke of their © public monuments of our fathera woud of our If You propose only to please God, wiving, why expose your ye to other even Mie? Why hall Mie minisiore them: selves, in (he myst awful functions Of the prieathoud, appear at the altar, where they ought to bring only (he sine of the people, loaded and cl@thed with marke of your vanity? Why these (ties and inscriptions which immertaiize on sacred walle your @ifte and your pride’ ‘Was it noi enough that those gifte| should be written by hand of the Lard in the Hook of ’ Why engrave on marble, whieh wilh gh, the merit of am action which he charity of it wae sufficient to Aone mani wt man is given to thie ous Deliewe that (hese pulriie monuments aliure (he liverality of the ” ee the Lord charged your van- tad by an utter absence of « ng, boun- emai! ity with the rare of attract wd ana A DEFENSE OF THE COLLEGE WO By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. HE popular sociological sport of baiting the college woman hae begun again. Prof. Roswell Johnson of the University of Pittsburgh is the latest to proclaim that she must marry oftener, that she must have more children. ‘ This is sheer impertinence, and the college woman is more tl a little tired of being told how to manage what, after all, are her purely personal affairs. Repeatedly she has been made the victim of an invidious class distinction. No one rises to enjoin marriage | upon all electrical engineers, to declare that all professional dancess must become parents, to urge solemnly that all newspaper men take upon themselves the responsibilities of a home. There is absolutely no reason why the college woman should marry for the sake of marriage, or become a mother to boom the | birth statistics, although she is at least as willing as other women to serve the world in these ways if she finds the right mate. If she doesn’t, she is better qualified than many to be an efficient social unit. A college woman, the first of her sex to hold such a position, is in charge of New York’s Department of Charities. A college woman created Chicago’s Hull House, accepted the world over as the most successful flowering of the community spirit. Nave not these unmarried, childless women justified their lives and their college training? There are many others. Pace for the college woman! OOOO iThe Of Stories Plots of Immortal Fiction Masterpieces 1 By Albert Payson Terhune DOODOGOOEGDOODOHOIOGDHOGONS Copyright, 1915, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Dvening Wertd). NO.7— THE DIAMOND LENS; by Fitzjames O’Brien. INLEY, a young New York scientist, had but one life aim—to make @ perfect microscope. His researches told him that this could be done only by means of a lens cut from a 140-karat diamond. Diamonds are dear, and Linley was poor. Yet he would not abandon his quest. He learned that Jules Simon, a little French peddler who boarded at the same house with him, had stolen an enormous diamond in South Amer- fea, and, so utterly was Linley consumed by his craving to perfect the mi- croscope, he murdered Simon and took the diamond from the dead French- man’s body. For the next three months Linley worked over his 140-karat gem, pol- ishing it, grinding it, subjecting it to electrical treatment. At last the dia- mond lens was completed; the perfect microscope was ready for {ts first experiment. With trembling fingers Linley put a single drop of water on the “slide” and fitted his eye to the lens. So magnified was the water drop that he saw in {t @ vast tropical forest full of rare flowering trees and gigantic ferns. Buddenly, as he gazed at this water-drop forest, the giant ferns parted. Through them and out into a little glade stepped a woman. She was the most gloriously beautiful and graceful creature Linley «& ThevGin fad ever seen, He etared at her enraptured. Her - } figure was divine in its poise and contour. Her face in the Forest. {© was indeacribably lovely. Her every motion was the sublimated poctry of grace. And as he gazed Linley knew he was in love with her—with this marve! of beautiful womanhood who existed only in a drop of water on a microscopy slide, and who wag invisible save through the power of the diamond lens. Linley named her Animula. And he spent the whole day feasting hin eyes upon her. At nightfall he tried to laugh himself out of his absurd infatuation. He told himself he had spent too much time on his studies and had geen too little of the world at large. He resolved t break frew from his love for Animula by being interested in some mortal matd. There was an Italian dancer just then appearing nightly in New York-~ a Signorina Caradolce, famed as. the fairest and most graceful woman on earth. Linley in an effort to forget Animuja went to the theatre where the Italian was dancing, and bought a froht ‘row orchestra seat. Prea- ently, to soft music, Signorina Caradolce glided onto the stage. ‘A storm of applause greeted her. But a spasm of sick disgust shook Linley. Compared to Animula this dancer looked like a cow. Her ankles were thick, her face was coarse, her steps were like the bumping of a lumber wagon. Linley ran out of the theatre and back to his own rooms to revel in the sight of Animula, He anatched up the microscope and peered through the lens at tho drop of water. Yes, Animula was still there, But she had changed. She was thinner. Her lovely face was pale and haggard. slow and she seemed stricken with a mortal illness. The tropical forest, too, was wilting and its flowers had vanished, ‘All at once the truth dawned on the horrified Linley. The drop of water was evaporating. ‘With a fascination of despair he continued to gaze. The forest shrank to nothingness. Animula dwindled into a mere akeleton, writhing in agony as her former glowing Animula'e health departed. Then, little by little, she crumbled to Strange Fate. § dust, And the microscope showed only « blank eur; Daeneeoreerenrn? face, The water drop had evaporated. The lens fell to the floor from its holder’a nerveless grasp and broke to atoms. The other inmates of the boarding house found Lénley lying eonseleon beside the wreckage of his wonderful microscope, And from that hour he was hopelessly insane, Mollie of the Movies == By Alma Woodward == Coygriam, 1918, ty The Free Mustishing Oo. (The New York Kreving Wend), # long as they've got societies) Only thing against him wae his Prag. Ray of food, chil. | “Archibald, Any one with peyohio rarer proclivition would have guessed thet ren an the mother who named her boy t | have known, intuitively, hie de- tom, Ihut, anyway, from the eut+ he looked grand. ot Male Mhama, » full of them=~ and what they get away wille=di mi! 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