The evening world. Newspaper, March 15, 1917, Page 14

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HE sinking of the American ship Algonquin by a German su’). | marine, without warning, was an act of deliberate defiance | and hostility. | Neither the fact that themselves, nor the circumstance that the ship was transferred from British to American registry last fall, affects the character of the| act itself or the responsibility of the German Government for what} the act represents. | Germany makes war upon the United States in the manner sho} has chosen, without coming to the point of an official declaration. | The United States Government has not declared war against Germany | and cannot do so now until Congress convenes, Meantime the President is using all the power the Constitution | gives him for the protection of American rights by arming merchant | ships and preparing to mobilize the navy. An actual clash, formal declarations are yet to come. But American vessels and American lives are in daily and hourly peril from German hostility which is repeatedly confirmed by German acts. American vessels are mounting guns and mean to fire them when necessary. Forms or no forms, low far is such a situation from a state! of war? lie crew of the vessel were able to save —— + “If we sink an American ship,” #0 Count von Bernstorff is quoted, “we shall get war.” We note with satisfaction that the Count has arrived in Germany with bis mental machinery | in excellent working order. | Ot BREAKING THE DEADLOCK? OLLOWING close upon the capture of Bagdad, the only stirring | or significant event that has occurred for many months in the| fighting on land, comes further indication of something hig) ing on the western front in France. The retreat of the Germans from their main defensive positious | in front of Bapaume is, according to Berlin, strategic. Mysterious hints of a new and terrible offensive emanate from the same source. One thing seems certain. Now that Field Marshal von Hinden- burg has taken command on the western front, the chances that; prep creased. Von Hindenburg is essentially a field strategist. In the east he fought the Russians with tactics involving sweeping move- ments over considerable are: Cannonading trenches week after week might well try his patience, Moreover, in what we learn of the increasing seriousness of | famine and privation in Germany, there appears good reason why the| resumption of submarine ruthlessness on sea should be accompanied 101 ' Co. cme Te Tork Bren! ng Wand U By J. H. Cassel | Fifty Failures Who Came Back By Albert Payson Terhune Comrright, 1917, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) 13—BERNARD PALISSY, the “Failure’’ Who Would Not Give Up. ROM the chimney of a French cottage one day In 1658 poured @ reek of black smoke that hung over the house like « pall Ia the road in front of the gate @ woman was wringing her hands and weeping aloud. A group of gaping neighbors stared in sym- pathy from the sobbing woman to the smoke-belching chimney. The woman loudly declared to her wondering héarers that her husband ~-Bervard Palissy—had gone crazy. He had.spent all their money, she said, for fuel to feed his silly pottery furnace. Then, because he could not make a fire hot enough to sult him, he had pawned or sold everything of value that he could lay hands on. t hy another desperate effort of Garman forces on land. The German retreat on the Ancre may ve feeoad hy the recent British capture of important and commanding sites, Even so, it will | Yesterday's Mothe encourage the British to a Spirited following up of their advantage. 4 Sy r Py Tor @ Heme eetimideeation: Nature boys to kiss you, to touch you un- ‘The taking of Bapaume is certain to be celebrated as a victory that Copyright. 1917, by ‘The Press Publishing Co, (The Now York Kring World.) knows that, You are physlony swe |nes sarily, not only because these acts, | pee " ; ‘ : ‘ Belay sac-|t0 be a mate and a mother. Na POrOrnied ’ waratecaly and ing. EO Tivea Oc rani ZF) tHe CIAFEAAD) ASrTemIOnY 1 thes Mra LagI0, BFEEGEN No. I. | fame with them she commits a s4c-| vty “rutigenmly: diarogand all else |feaaiy. are avprofanation ot (eee! tion for a great field fight, something approaching an old style con- | 1 know it ts frequently the boy |!f she coulc tures of love, but because « violent, flict of moving armies may be looked for. Either way there are signs that the deadlock may be breaking in this section of the west—with big results. EAR small daughter: One of the D reasons why it is specially hard to be away from you just now is because I shall miss the wonder- ful, absorbing ek Ses Dealers In Doubt About Milk Prices.—Headiine Pectin cee Not about which y to lide ‘em, though tles. I want to pac casla A abealienitig see you poised, laughing, on the WHERE ALL CAN SEE AND SIGN. | . IGNATURES of New York citizens who pledge themselves to, support the President in the war crisis amount already to { Pity own asd” ale imposing proof of patriotism, | ad “pers and fur- What the Mayor's Committee on National Defense is doing in| Semiaes pany cape. I want to have i ’ be done ° i rn i a you walé me up with a kiss after this city should be don in every other city and town in the country. | the long, quiet evening, during which In offices, banks, institutions, business concerns, manufacturing | dad has remarked frequentiy, “Isn't plants—everywhere it ought to be made easy for men and women to/!t time for that child to be back?” add their names to the roster. |} want to hear about tho encore . aa aail d I |dances and what Barbara wore and Post lists where al! can fee and sign them, bow many partners you bad; to Ils- Enough news of discord, division and disruption within this na-| ten to all the merry chronicle of your tion has gone over the cables (o cheer Berlin. ME threshold of the Mliving room, wear- ing your pretty | playtime, Now it will be Aunt Jeannette who Give the Imperia! German Government a new view of the} win enjoy those thrilling recitals. situation. And because I am going to be away 1 } from you for weeks, til! I get well; Convince it by documentary evidence that a vasi, overwhelming! because I mn aay M nanitic little majority of Americans of all parties and persuasions are lined op | rord. oF warning Via going to write +, k hi ie eels ere it is behind the President, ready to back him to the utmost limit in his] Dance to every tune but that o defense of American rights | pan-pipes, Enjoy to the utter- most your new play, and don't mix — vane ———- 1 ———~«<!,- | it with the serious business of love- . * . king. Hits From Sharp Wits ORIN.) chat: mone alittle’ eersonn of your age do not take love-making “Relative security” must be one of! Whatever a man {s his actions show| seriously rather adds to the awfule r relations we read about,|him to be: declaration {8 superfluous. | ness of Your attempts at it, Would Ingutre | Albany Journal, it seem dreadful to you if a clergy- on 8 : re. ©. 8 man invented a game in which On with the March: jet spring be| Nowadays the dollar isn't half as\used all the most sacred symbole of unconfined. — Memphis Commercial | big as it's cracked up to be.—Bulti-|his religion? Yet every ® Appeal more Americi is love pri ; ie a8 . a : ee does What she ‘spoon The lay of the hen is # thrilling, Ca having gone sky high, mushing’=-when, that is. wong to the man who guthers the they're now making cigars of hemp kes the beautiful words and egee—Toledo Blade, ; Milwaukee News of love and plays a sly Letters From the People Citteenebl leitigen, is r the Presi Railter of The ¥ denoy of Un BOM. |e N « crude little cabin In the V 1 was born in Treland this country when I was four 1 have never taken out any pa nd came to, Monday, Saturday, a of The Evenlog Word day of the week did May near the boun of North and South Caro. haw Settlement, dary years | To the ka What 1 lina, Andrew Jackson was bora junt bers and have been told that as 1! Fall'90 And Bleo Aug. 16 Span iey Andie talfaan taiday, and was @ minor { did not need an | Maer » Hib the anniversary will be fittingly com Kindly let me know if | am a citizen. | memorated by the many admirers of c DH. | 19 that sturdy and stalwart American Unless your father was naturalized) |, and warrior, before you became of axe t will be} nine and axain in 1832 he was necessary for you to take out citi-| 108 Presi of the United wenship papers. trade States, and, although lacking many Satdgabie. | siecttic f (he qualities of polished states : manabip, bis sturdy patriotism und eountry, being a resident of the! Let me know what days the follow Ms Vaited ‘states for thirt ears, ing dates fe Jan $08, and nd the os aad bis father is not 4 naturaiiced Marcu Li, Levy wR tua One Vast eataie, By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. homely title of Nature, cares a rap| not to serve her. You will not allow | ms ‘This rushing force of Nature is a precocious, tyrannical beautiful, a royal thing. Yet tt is n@ spring out of them, Then you will be everything in life, not everything in horribly unhappy, whether you marry Malin SmeEting ee Babs ny be. |love—human love, If you were alor fail to marry’ the little boy who begins “mushing.”, put—parhape be: | young fox, @ young deer, you could do! has roused in you not love of nim but fleve to-day's daughter can discour.|o better than serve this force be- ye. Age such behavior and yet keep her| cause nothing in you would ask for! F sixteen you two are only PHende.. Tides whom ake cante more or different satisfaction. ‘children of @ larger growth,” unready are the little vads who would “Kkiss| But you have a mind, an imagina-| for the love of men and women, fnd tell," and enjoy the telling even | tion, a heart, The right love, the right | Have a beautiful time at the next Geers shan the wiseag: Hover must minister to all these, There- | party, honey, and know that I Hs }fore, if you are wise, dear, y Ten oil whe ee poate ale |make up your mind to rule Nature A poet and lover penned that eter- who turns a hand-clasp into a hand- squeeze, who steals a kiss, who at- tempts furtive caresses, who, in short, der how ino YOUR MOTHER. ered with a peculiar glazing. emotion may | MAN from Troy writes saying: | about town all the time, or any place A “I will be many times obliged | but “home, sweet home. | f you will kindly write an ar-| This young man is on a fair road to | ticle on ‘A Bad| changing his disposition. He has al- want- will | Ing you to have it, with all my heart. | And now, still clamoring for more beat, he was breaking the tables and chairs and beds to pleces and flinging them into the furnace, He was even i | prying up the wooden floor boards of the house for the same ridiculous | purpose. , ‘There was no food in the cupboard. There was no money to buy food, | And at this rate presently there would be no home, Bernard Palissy had not only scored a tremendous failure in Itfe, but in doing #0, he had won a reputation for insanity. There seemed tne less excuse for him, since he ofice had very fair prospects and had, of his own accord, thrown those prospects away. He was born about 1510, near Agen, France. father was well-to-do, and he himself inherited little fortune, He also had a smattering of could have lived in comfort but for a queer ambition, One day he chanced to see a white cup imported from China and cov- The only pottery glazing that Purepeane knew anything about‘at this time was a crude form of “tin enamelling.” Palissy began to study the white cup, trying to guess at the secret of its beautiful glazing. The quest absorbed so much of his attention that he neglected every- thing else. After several experiments he decided that the beauty of this A Man With One Idea, | new kind of glazing was due to the terrific heat to which it had been sub- © Jected, and he set out to duplicate the glazing by duplicating the heat. * “A lesser man would have been discouraged by the series of failures that crowded upon all of Palissy’s efforts for the next sixteen years. His moriey | went—everything went—and still he could not make his furnace fires hot enough, as he wrote of his experiments: “IT was like a man who gropes in the dar | After sixteen years of poverty—branded not only ase failure but asa fool—he succeeded. He found the secret of glazing. A local nobleman heard of his work, admired it and took Palissy under his protection—giving him funds for a factory and for making improve- | ments In his wonderful glazing process . Soon Bernard's name and his work were famous all { The Turn of § iimscif became the potter's patron, To-day, speci« Fortune. mens of Palissy’s pottery are worth a fortune. byte Sale leah cama) From failure to greatness—even to deathiess fame— that every one else declared worthy only of a madman. The fire had at ¢ } last reached the needful heat; and thgt fire hi er since been kept alight. . D . ren ‘ His Bad Disposition over Kurope. He gained wealth and honors. The King he had passed after the best years of his life had been given over to a task aNerm By Sophie Irene Loeb Consright, 1917, by The Pres Publishing Oo, (The New York Evening World) ready been able to analyze his short- ‘ Disposition. comings, and this is the foundation He goes on | for future retorin. it is half the Date “T have al tle disagree- disposition It was only this evening that my mother said to me: ‘Of the five girly and three boys I have raised | been and say: mean, able ‘he groat trouble with most ba dispositions is that yu do not hi the power to se yourself as others see you. A bad disposition is a sure sign of selfishness. tom is a ers hat is the sum and substance of it. They The way to cure a dispe sition” im | Its main symp- lack of consideration for Peoplo are not born w.th them, Just acquire them. have “disagreeable est you the hai meanest! j; mean men and wom:a that have al lowed this babit Gor ie i ise) to grow with the years. Th» most unloved, the most un- happy and the loneliest persons in the world are those who have cuiti- vated the dovtrin: of “ine first." There is no one more disliked than the fal- low who goes through life growting at everybody, and insisting that bis the so-called bad habits, That 1s, I/ should be the tirst consideration, , | do not drink, and amoke only moder- | Be ia the, aver who hoards up his spd cen. | Wealth for his heirs to spend. ately. Fat I can't seem to concen-| "He is the man who wont givéitan trate om any one thing, wanting to be | office boy a recommendation for fear he will get @ better job, nothing “Now, | have tried to overcome thi ‘unwarranted and very bad habit, but |T have been unsuccessful. I always find @ reason to go out at night and neglect my studies | quired in my position. I do not have which are re- B. paloiment of those who trifle | ae dul z with love's rites. There is still an- other reason, little daughter, why you | | h e Al arr I aml ] y geuld jot play at lovesmaking. It { By Roy L. McCardell He | the individual who puts a wet | blanke: on enthusiasm | He is the man who brings gloom jinto every joy pirty. # e the play may end in grim earnest, | You do not want to marry now,| Conriaht. 1917, by The Prem Publishing Ce. | antl started to spiil a little cpatter. do you? You understand that you 0 New York Brening W , | For when one enters the home in are not mentally, temperamentally, saw something on silence one's wife pt Lo come snif- fling around and say, “Ob, 80 you've ome home sulky!” “I'd be astonished to Bad myself on Fifth Avenue at all," remarked Mrs, Jarr, “I'm glad that one member of the family has nothing but leisure and can stroll down New York's fash- onable thoroughfare and see what's to be seen,” “L was there on business,” said Mr. Jarr, ne Loss sent me up to see a real estate man, What do you want to start picking on me for every little : 1 stand. | {Bie for?” It's no use trying (o rafse a man’s moral stan ‘tL wasn't picking on said ards by raising your voice at him, Every time Mrs. “IT was only saying that wowan gives a man a piece of her mind she 10s€® ®| you never have time to waik up Fifth piece of his hea econom|cally prepared to become any body's wife, But do you suppose the | queer force with many names, which you may recognize best under the “cc PLL, [ Fifth Avenue to-day that astonished me!” said Mr, | | Jarre as he came in the other evening | Reflections | | By Helen Rowland Copyright, 1917, by The Prem Wublishing Co, (Tue New York Frening World.) } I OVE ts a parachute that wafts you gently up to the clouds and drops | you to earth again with a bard thump when it collapses, you,” | javenue with me, I lke to walk up = Fifth avenue, Mrs. Stryver drives Flirtation is merely turning on the electric ght! on witty avenue, and what pleasur of sentiment and basking in its radiance—until you| she gets out of it in that awful jam happen to touch the live wire of love. of vehicles I cannot see, But I sup- a | pos® she wants to show off, just as Dreams that come in a bottle, like complexions | yoy do!” that come in a@ box, are colored with artificial roses,) “1 told you 1 went there for the Which look foolish and sickly next morning | boss," said My, Jarr sulkily, “but any excuse tu find fault starts you off, Sweet are the uses of advertisement, You've got to get yourself UD/ im a@ tine sight to walk up Fifth like a poster, put yourself on the social market and make a catchy dis-|avenue to show off, ain't 1? I'm a play if you want to attract any attention from men nowadays. | swell dresser, a glass of fashion and ja mould of form, ain't I ‘There is no way of two people really knowing each other until after) «your clothes are as good as most they are married and have to share the sane dollar, the same table, the} men's," said Mrs, Jarr, “only you | came newspaper and (he same chiffonier, | won’: take care of them. You ne | were neat; you won't bruM™ your coi To a wan being married means giving up four the closet, To a woman {t means giving up four opinions, Gib GP AtOsRODMS AD oo pave: cau teausars) crassa, out of five of her] unie and } rag.” “Vm sorry I'm not a tasty dresser | | ‘Love is tewporar or f insanity which at hs eve od is @ temporary form of insanity acks everybody now pall acrid |to be a credit to T tie your cravat it looks like| He is the landlord who puts the | sign out, “No children allowed here. | He is the say anything after this." bea ae ela Mea I! y ans premature gray hairs t / ‘Why, Edward Jarr, you are get-|sunoring mother, ? '? BS long ting to be such an old crank a per-| In a word they are the people who son can't say a word to you!” cried| ave an ingrowing aptitude for inc | tieting pain, And when all is said and done what do such people have at the end of it? ¢ They are usually shunned and lett ¢ outside the pale. ‘They grow! and th world growls with them. They hate and are disitked in return, Always, always they live to see the day that their disposition finds them out. They always pay a price. No man ever succeeded in anything worth while who went about With chip on his shoulder. Somebody will knock it off sometime, and then there will »mething doing.” It is the wise soul who, like this young man, seeing the woeful way ahe: i of him, stops :o find means of correction And how? Smile, sacrifice a little, seratched his “Weil, it head and wasn't such @ said: strange thing, considering how women are these days, but I saw a couple of very women on Fifth Avenue with a couple of children on dog leashes.” “I've beard of that," said Mrs. |Jarr, “They pretend that they can| | manage and take care of children | better, keep them out of danger and | #0 on, with those dog harnesses, b | I think it's disgusting!” | “It looked very queer to see the poor little tots straining at the leash,” said | Mr. Jarr. ‘When I gat back to the! and do not consider mir first all the oMce and told Jenkins about it he! time. Do the unexpected thing. id it was a good thing, Ho said he| If your mother thinks you are go- saw people on the ferryboat with i7& (2 be Mean about something ‘be | those dog harnesses on their children, roum the mireete gomes’ on ear ei te and it kept them from running| the desire and stay at “homer swect ’ around the ferryboat and getting un. | bane jarouad che Tarr Meh ANA ttt qa¥ho knows, something very inter- | sting may come up at the time "Oh, I've no doubt he would treat | his children like dogs if he had any,” jsaid Mrs. Jarr. Bring home @ little bunch of flowers to the weary mother, You will get “He's just that sore|20mething out of the look of joy and surprise that she w of & person. I never liked that Jen-| necple wet inte J Bae Ca . |kins, anyway, and the airs his wife/ances so that it pains them No be eae Ae pleasant. To oure @ bad disposition, be pleasant even if it burte, Re La he has ever given the matter | “Maybe it ts @ good thing, though," said Mr. Jarr, “I mean the dog bar- ness around a child's body and under J", its arms, and the strap to it; especial | (ROvEnt At all, the average person lly when a child is just learning to uavese Gaeumed that 106 |walk and is apt to stumble.” | Dig steel fighting masts, towering te ey cee ST Above the decks of our dreadnoughts, them : were put together piece by piece { | stumble and fall, too, than to put dog) the positions tn which haat prt | harness on them," said Mrs, Jarr, in-|The contrary is the case, homens | dignantly. “Su The fram »pose I put a dog hark | work is lifted into place by and then, and the only thing to do for it is to reduce the frequency an he: learn. |#% crane after being fab) ° | violence ae He attacks by ee 8. i @}Jarr, “but my mind bp Ai lay 4 Ld fag anne me nan ne wae learae | Popular Mechanics.” Gripped near ° | nce of (tacks by mahe a Living and hold my job these| ing to walk?” top, one is swung aboard a veusel and | |hard times, Thought you'd be in-| “Why didn't you, Maw?” asked the upright almost as easily aw if jt It Is uttorly useless to tell a y (he Honest truth, Tisat is the last) rerested in what T saw, but as you/little boy, who was listening eageriy,| Were morcly a light waste basket ot 1% thing om carth woleb be ever expe bear from her. Jevery Une 4 open my mous J womsjgie and sive duu a) dertoby ; under the coat or ay peepeleg ane