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EDITORIAL PAGE MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1 eh y Maurice Ketten] Bachelor Girl Reflections 7 we By Helen Rowland y _ Conrright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). T this time of year the muscles of a man's reart are too relaxed ta, hold any one object for more than a week or so at a time. ® he Da Rest OF THB ASSOCIATED PRESS, “Warning” a man against a designing woman is OD. ccsccreres » NO. 21,1%4 like telling a small boy on which if you've put the ‘ BUYER AND SELLER. . d ea } ‘ bug chocolate cake that he can't have. HE revelations in The World of Saturday, showing the incred- D ’ A man is not really beginning to get past “m‘ddle age” until the pockets in which he once carried pink notes and preased flowers . are filled with receipted bills and pepsin tablets... From the day on whioh she tips the scales at 140, the chief excitement of a woman's life consists in epot- ting women who are fatter than she is. ible quantities of food held in storage to await sale ‘at pre- anmably higher prices, demonstrate several pertinent things, @ first of which is that production is far ahead of consumption at | it coats to the consumer, who, though mulcted heavily for what “he buys, keeps down his outlay by curtailing his demands, thereby ‘piling up the mountains of meat that lie in the chilly chambers of the storage warehouses. We are suffering, not from scarcity, but from The first time he lies to a woman he loves, a man 4 finds it as difficult as getting the first pickle out of a bottle—but after that 5 i the fibs just slip out easily and naturally. « VUE HOU retHt ) arrestmeht of the Jaw of supply and demand, which bids Yair to rerwhelm those who are playing the very dangerous game. - The abrupt ending of the war had much to do with the over- tion. The country was speeded up on production and slowed on consumption, leaving the future to be liberally provided for, the future has not met the guess, Even “starving Europe,” buying largely, has not made a dent in the situation. Only thing can, and that is the encouragement of home demand which without lowering of without great loss to some This hoarding, desirable as it _ new more of a peril to the hoarder prices, and lowering of prices is one. was as @ precaution, is therefore than the public. The latter know food supply is safe. The former does not know how he is to and save his shekels. | It is beyond the power of ordinary capital to “carry” such enor- accumulations of goods, and but for the fact that banks regard receipts as gilt-edged security the pressure to sell would lotig ago have regulated the market, So it is that the savings of the People again become weapons for their oppression, ably aided by what to have been their financial safeguard, the Federal Reserve bank- |. One section of the buying public has also been at fault. The svishly paid workers in war and contributory industries ‘have folt the burning of unaccustomed bundles of money in their pockets, and ve been determined to onter upon the presumptive joys of the rich having what they want when they want it, The result is that for retailer there have as yet been no conséquences, and there can be 80 long as the packer and the banker hold the bag. , Those who those Republicans in | not gained increases in income have therefore ‘and curtailed in vain so far as the general effect is concerned, go further than in the case of i who refuse to salute the Presi- dent of the United States gracious applause w! he enters ' © © their miscelianéous presence? Are there no noble men but Re- publicans? ’ AS TO AUTOCRACY. HOSE Senatorial and Congressional critics of President Wilson to 4 to say nothing of other minor vexations. have drivelled along regardless of crying needs, w: who condemn his “autocratic” methods have only themselves During his long absences in Europe it has been _ quite within their power to deal with the railroad, | food both t plans Ins} pinitiative. Naturally the Executive acts, and often autocratically. if he has become an autocrat it is because Congress has made him by its own indolence and incapacity. ‘Some one must run. the Dey wit find, howeyer much , the reflex will fall upon them and not upon Woodrow Wilson. pada are the real promoters of his * et ‘\ Many equally stout hearted surrender. the people resent the exercise of supremacy. Garrisons have been known to Newest Notes of Science. jablishment of a new investigating Sweden's shale deposits for the Govern- hope of obtaining 1l- Yuminating oil, sulphur and other ‘products therefrom. _@arbonator, storage tank, cooler, fligpensing. faucets and rack for glasses are combined in a new space- ‘waying device for places in which bev- erages are sold. | Weaweed is being used in England ‘a8 a binding material in concrete ‘Diiilding blocks made of crushed slag “and other heretofore neglected mine- ral products, | Whe stand for a new electric flat- {pom automatically disconnécts the ‘eurrent when the iron is placed upon “44, the current flow being resumed a j$28 tron to lifted. to @ British scientist who Anvestigated seventy-eight families, - ineluding more than 3,000 individuals, yieft handedness is inherited, often ‘through several generations. tat] Chicago man is the inventor of apparatus for lifting patients hospital cots without disturb- them and moving them from room a tween rollers, vacuum apparatus gathering them into a receptacle. An English inventor's cardboard substitute is made by inserting a layer of sawdust between two sheets of paper and binding them together with an adhesive material and pressure. A new pulley that permits gradual, smooth starting of machinery without tranemitting shocks from a gasoline engine, has spokes which are resilient and bend when subjected to sudden pulls. ‘The Government of Formosa is plan- ning the establishment of one of the greatest hydro-electric plants in the Far East, capable of supplying 130,000 horse power and serving the entire island, A Minnesota invehtor’s biiazard fence to ‘protect railroads has panels which are slid up posts to keep pace with the increasing depth of thé snow by the force of storms oF the jarring of passing trains, Both visible and audible warning signals are given, the jatter electric- ally, by a new English device when the clroulation of water in the jackets of an internal combustion engine falis | below nornial. In a New York invéntor’s double control system for teaching persons to drive aftomobiles the instructor's steering wheel and brake equipment are larger than the learner's to give the former more power. * To prevent p leading from tanks ~ pent has been in- gan be piped from the tank oF bot <x aMule Ze, Ellabelle M By Bide ae Doolittle Dudley - Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World), She Demonstrates the Effect of Good Poetry on a Sick Mule ; LLABELLE MAE DOOLITTLE, | Whoa, old Jennie! Whoa, I say! the noted poetess of Delhi, has always believed that sickness is gil im the mind. It had only been about three years ago that she in- vented the Poetry Cure for all ills, you remember, dear reader? Un- lly you do, as papers all over the country printed stories of the wonderful cure of Mrs, Jed Cruik- shanks who had a pain in her back. On hearing of it Miss Doolittle sat right down and wrote a cure rhyme to fit the poor woman's case, Then she visited the sick room and read it at the patient, It follows: Mrs. Orwickshanks, you are not sick, You think you have the backache, Arise and move about very quick, For your husband biscuits bake, The aun is shining bright outside, And birds are singing rather gay. Get in @ buggy and take a ride, Don't be sick another day. My sister's child, Teeney Ricketts, Put @ dead mouse in Rickett’ shoe, fle thought he was gone when his toe hit it, Stop, Teeney, oF what shall we do? But, Maten, my dear Mra. Ornikahanks, Get up and be in delight, Mra. Macey doesn’t speak to Mra. Daly, Because of a recent dog fight. Everybody remembers how the sick woman leaped out of bed and about the Macey-Daly feud. Doolittle rhyme, All right! Last Wednesfay Jed Cruikshanks bad a mule to take sick with the heaves, Naturally he re- membered how the noted poetess had cured Mra, Cruikshanks and he tele- phoned her and asked 44 poetry treat- ment could be used on old Jennie, the mule, try, and in half an hour she was at the Cruikshanks home armed with a bright, snappy mule poem calcu- lated to cure old Jennie quickly. . Ac- companied by Mr, Cruikshanks the por went to the cow-lot, where the mule was harboring her heaves, and the poem was read. Don't think, dear reader, that the poem was @ foolish one. Far from it; the rhyme was real m stuf. With Miss Doolittie’s permission we Miss had cured ber with a age able to print it here as follows: hanging ran next door to tell Mrs, Wheeple, Miss Doolittle “said she'd ®” Why dre you so silly? Giddap, whoa, gee-haw, old girl! Rip enort along with Billy, Buck up there, Jennie, old girl, Blankety-dlank you sinner! Gee rip; whoop la; dlooey! Work and you'll get your dinner, My sister's child, Teeney Ricketts, Shot oraps with a little negro. Stop such practices, Teeney, | Whaddye think you are—a sig-row? But, Uttle aid Jennie, my dear mule, ; Giddap, Hee-Haw and Whoa! | You are a nice beast of burden, But you are not sick, you ho-bo! Strange as it may seem, when Miss Doolittle finished reading the poem the mule seemed brighter. She .snort- ed and shot about the cow-lot in a highly spirited manner, Jed Cruik- shanks admitted he didn’t understand it, but he was indeed delighted. “Miss Ellie,” he said, “you sare are some poetry queen.” He insisted that the poetess go into the house with him and read the rhyme to the whole family, Miss Doolittle -did eo and Chet Cruik- shanks, the eldest son, hurried out to try to catch the mule, The family applauded the poem with great gusto. All were pleased. jets, TREES. SUPPLEMENTARY SUGGESTION. 66D) ROTHER,” began the horse- faced man, “Ihave here & petition to the Town Council, praying them to make it @ misde- |meanor to play any game of cards, dice, billiards, checkers, dralghts, backgammon, dominoes, jackstonos jor mumble-peg, either in public or private, within the limits of the mu- nicipality, Now, brother, may I ask iyou to append your signature to it, * “Certainly, you may ask,” a trifle srimly returned the Old Codger, “I {will sign the paper in as many places |as you like if you will add, to be also placed under the ban, twiddling the thumbs, scratching the back at home or abroad, jaunting red hair in public yplaces, relating stomaohic symptoms ‘or reminiscences of the weather, and I will give $25 to the cause if oircu- lating petitions calling chance ac- quaintances ‘Brother’ and minding other business be made ae Bre os a Naat Fg UAL LL wrewman (Me | Never GIy MINE A Day” ore The Jarr Family By Roy L. McCardell Copyright, 1919, by Tho Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World) Mr. Jarr Determines to Stick for Self-Determina- tion, but Waives the Point rT} HATS that, another W ‘Drive’ button?” asked Mrs. Jarr, noting an em- ‘lematic celluloid button on the lapel of Mr, Jarr’s coat. “Button of the Personal Liberty League,” said Mr, Jarr. “Now, you've gone and joined an- other one of those things!” said Mrs. Jarr. “Another excuse for spending your money, and then, if I say @ word, you'll tell me that it's a fraternal order, whose motto is ‘Peace, Virtue and Protection to the Home.’ But they never. live up to the mottoes. On the contrary, you'll be out at night mére than ever, and say you are sitting up with a sir lodge brother”"—— here Mrs, Jarr gave a most contemptuous sniff, “This is nothing of that kind at all,” said Mr. Jarr. “Well, then, it’s a‘new beneficial society whi will march fqur abreast, dressed like monkeys in mourning, when you die, and have a squab: » with our minister of the church as to who's in-charge, and I'm to get @ $5,000 death benefit, for which you are to pay only $1.20 a month, and go many people will die und get the money before you do that they'll have to raise the rates till it ts $16 a week, and you'll have to drop out, after putting in hun- dreds of dollars, with nothing to show for it!” “It ten’t anything of that sort either? said Mr, Jarr, “It's just what it means, ‘Personal Liberty League!” “What do you want to belong to a Personal liberty league for?” asked Mrs, Jarr. “The trouble with you js you have too much personal liberty. I'd Uke to see women getting up any- thing of that gort! I'd like to see women try to have a little personal liberty! When they do, poor things, there is a pretty row! If women acted lke men do, staying out till all hours, going with all sorts of company they shouldn't be seen with and then call it ‘personal liberty’ "—— “Oh, don't worry, It isn't real per- sonal iiberty; it’s just something in the abstract,” said Mr. Jarr, “It's to fight against oppressive laws; it’s to protect against curtailing “the priv- G'day!"—Judgey leges of a tree-born American citizen; that’s what it is!” But he still kept it dark that the purpose was to re- store the hop in hops at this time when even near-beer needed friends. “Oh, it's one of those political things!” said Mrs, Jarr contemptu- ously, “I was wondering if it wasn’t about time for you to break out with buttons and badges and make a silly of yourself shouting for a lot of poli- ticlans that never did anything for you after you elected them!" ‘or Mrs, Jarr believed her husband was &@ political Tower of Strength. “That's a woman's way of looking at it,” said Mr, Jarr, “We've got to guard our liberties.” ‘ “Who are going to deprive you of them?" asked Mrs. Jarr, “The pro- German spies you used to talk about so much when you joined the Home Guards and paid eight dollars for a uniform and @ club to guard Gu: place?” “No, nothing like that,” said Mr. Jarr,, sulkily, “besides, I never guarded Gus's place—I watched it!” “I should say you did—with friendly care,” replied Mrs, Jarr. “But about this new thing you've joined— I don't know of anybody who would deprive you of the sort of pers nal liberty you and your friends want, except the police.” “Oh, I say, to“hear you talk, psople would think I was @ second-story man!" said Mr, Jarr, “Well, who else wears those buttons —that man Rangle? That's what I want to know! You are acting very queerly about it,” said Mrs. Jarr, “You never mind who wears them besides me! It's personal liberty ‘button and I'll take the personal lio- erty of wearing it and the personal liberty of not telling you more about it!” replied Mr, Jarr in injured tones, At this juncture the janitor came upstairs to stop a leaking faucet. In a buttonhole of his jumper he was wearing a Personal Liberty League button, “Where did you get that?” asked . Jarr. “What is it for?” got it down at Gu in the cor- * gaid the janitor. “A brewery collector g}ves them out, and you tell him your name and where you vote from and then he sets ‘em up to 2.75 ‘béer, which ain't no good at mit!” Having to feed @ man and then suffer for his thdigestion is the eternal punishment which Eve brought on woman the day she started the thing by giving the little apple party and letting Adam overeat, Byery girl fancies herself a perfect Marcoii! as far as discovering the secret wireless workings of a man’s heart is concerned. ‘To,a man the end of youth's romance is just an eplsode—to a woman it 18 life's epitaph. The Romance of Words ~ By James C. Young How Everyday Expressions Had Their Origin, FEW years ago the name of “Herman the Great” was one of the most familiar in the public mind, for this wizard had puzzled half the world with bis tricks. An earlier magician, equally famous in Europe, is responsible for a term which every schoolboy knows and uses when he wishes to convey tho idea of something cleverly done. This master of wizardry was Ochus Bochus, and because his name was hard to pronounce it became “Hoous Pocus.” It now is the catch word for person who undertakes a trick, used as a kind of magié command to the powers of darkness. Not many men have left behind a name which will oe so often employed, although -almost none of those who speak it know who was the bearer. Such is fame. Another worker of magic has given ws the picturesque word charlatan. His name was Latan, and in the first quarter of the last century he held forth as a well known figure in Paris. At that time quack practitioners often acquired fortunes with some of their nostrums. This Latan went about Paris and elsewhere, riding in a gor- geous carriage drawn by gayly be- decked horses. But neither could compare with his owh magnificence. He affected elaborate uniforms, some- times a headdress of feathers, thena brass helmet, Latan was a dentist as well as a doctor, by his own admis- sion, and wherever he went his reme- dies sold without trouble. His coming must have been something like the cireus parade of our own day, and ad- miring throngs halted to watch. Latan How It Started Hob-Nobbing IRDS of a feather hob-nob to- B gether, They do not always drink together—that depends upon the feather. But because of those who, years ago, did drink to- gether, and because of the incidental customs of the time, we have the ex- pression “hob-nobbing” for any inti- mate association. To-day we. often speak of “hearth” when we mean “home,” but there are very few of us who are fortunate to have this luxury, that is, a hearth, which formerly was considered a necessity. In the old days, when one man invited an- other to a chat and a goblet at his “hearth,” be could back up his in vitation, He would lead his guest to a room, rosy with the glow of firelight, draw a chair and table close to the home-making hearth, and lean wack in all is glory. Before the toast there was yet another ceremony to be gone through;\ the hearth supplied yet another comfort. The flat piece pro- truding from the side was for warming the “spirits.” called the “hob, nd the little table upon which was served the refresh- ments was called the “nob.” would bow and wave his hat, where- upon the crowds called back, “Voila! le char de Latan,” Eventuaily he be- came better known as char-latan, and now his name has been presérved tor the ages. ; ‘We scarcely think of a rufMan as a trickster, but the word formeriy had a different significance than now, An old chronicle of 1619 telis us that was @ game at cards, somewhat whist, and when the player took trick he cried “ruffe.” The game must have been similar to our own poker, ” for the writer says thit “much assur- ance” was needed to play it. From this we get our word ruffan. ‘The seventeenth century writer notes that “@ swaggerer is one that plays at ruffe, from whence he took the dee nomination of ruffyn,” Another kind of faker who deserves mention is the claque, which is French for clap, and that is the special business of the claque, Many New York theatre manavers have employed professional .claques, and all of them distribute tickets in the hope -of holders applauding. ‘The claque goes back to Rome, and hag ‘been a part of the Parisian theatrical organization for centuries, The French claque is an artist, They be- come specialists, some of whom are able to laugh themselves—and maybe &n audience—into hysteria, Others, especially the women, devote thelr talents to sadness, the women Foye 4 being able to weep even easier than @ movie star, As for mere c! - the Paris claque has jester tends which send forth salvos of applause on any occasion, . By Hermine Neustadt! Nodding “Yes.” 12 adit a child fearns to say “yes” or “no,” he instinetively nods his head—a haughty, con- descending up-and-down—to show that he approves, or a vigorous shak- ing from side to side when the im- periots will has been crossed. Later on, as he seems to show a preference for this way of expressing himself, it i often necessary to remind him that he can speak, Many of us may sympathize with the man who said to Darwin, “Your ancestors may have been apes,” but it cannot be denied that we have many things in common with the other spectes, Watch a young animal ready to receive food, With eager eyes and mouth open, it makes quick, for- ward movements of the head, When the food ts not acceptable a tightly clenched jaw ahd sideward motion of the head serve to keep..the mother animal from forcing the food upon it. So after all these centuries man’ mouth ‘is still relaxed when he nods “yes,” but there is a strong tendenty to olench his teeth and even ¢lose his eyes when he #hakes “no,” “But what is the bytton for?” asked Mrs. Jarr. “Oh, I don’t know,” said the janitor, “But it’s to elect somebody, I sup- pose, and then beet, real beer, will be a nickel a schooner again, and there'll be free lunch again and"-—— “So they are given out at that place on the corner, are they?” asked Mrs, Jarr, “You take off that button, Ed- ward Jarr!” “I won't do it,” said Mr, Jarr, fcr personal liberty!” But he took it off, just the same, What's self-determination when a man's married? ATTENTION,-MOTORISTS, An inventor has patented a small frame to be set in a window of an inclosed automobile and covered with & loose sheet of transparent material, “It's through which a driver cap thrust hand for signalling. f THE THOUSANDTH OF AN INCH, By Thos. A, McMahon, Popular Mechanics.) T night I sit and ponder On the thousandth of an inch; I knit my brow, and scratch my head, And then my fists I clinch, O show to me the man, sez I~ If Irish, Duteh, or Frinch The man who first invented The thousandth of an inch! When finally I craw! in bed, So thankfyl for @ snooze, T drive my sorzows all away Without the aid of booze. I dream that they have caught the man, And him they now will lynch, By jinks! The man who did invest | The thousandth of ap incti! a! . ¢ 4 , if “@ \