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WEDNESDA » SEPTEMBER 3, 1919 ~ The Hero Held Germany at Bay How Cardinal Mercier, of Belgium, COURAGEOUS PRELATE’S COMING VISIT . RECALLS HOW HE DEFIED OPPRESSORS, TO SERVE HIS IMPERILLED ,COUNTRY. Flayed Invaders, Preached Resistance to Authority, Defied von Bissing, Fought Deportation of Bel- ‘ gians for Forced Labor in Germany, Raised Funds for Needy, Bore Persecutions and Im- prisonment, but Never Once Quit the Fight. f By Marguerite Mooers Marshall Coprrtght, 1919, bY The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Rrening World.) ARDINAL MERCIER, hero of Belgium and certainly the greatest non- secular figure in the war, sails to-day to pay his long promised visit to America. While New York relate, it is bound to recall the stofy of his oppressors of his gians. “Germany dinal. cent men were shot. were put to death And in these noble words he paid tribute to the Belgian Army: “Our soldiers are our saviors. A first time, at Liege, thoy saved France; a sec- ond time, in Flanders they arrested the advance of the enemy upon Ca- lais. France and England know it, and Belgium stands before the entire world a nation of heroes.” But the most daring sentences of all concerned the German rule in Belgium, under which the Cardinal was then living. “Occupied provinces ate not conquered provinces,” he de- olared, the words ringing like a trum- pet call to battle. “I hold it as part Of the obligations of my episcopal of- is planning its welcome to this noble plendid stand against the country, a modern story of courage, devotion and endurance which recalls the golden legends of Christian saints and martyrs of other days. t was at the first war Christmas, in 1914, that Cardinal Mercier sent out his famous Pastoral Letter, to be read in every church in Belgium, one of the most damning indictments ever written of the German invasion of Belgium and the treatment given the Bel- violated her oath.Y charged the Car- “We can neither number ovr dead nor compute the measure of our ruins. sens have been deported to the prisons of Germany. Thousands of Belgian citi- Hundreds of inno In my diocese alone I know that thirteen priests relations between yourself and me. But that does not buy my own or my cotntry’s honor.” Despite German attempts at sup- pression, the Pastoral reached not only the Beigian-but the Allied pub- lc, and helped mightily in crystalliz- ing world-opinion against Germany. And this first “J’accuse!” of Cardinal Mercier was followed by many other bitterly eloquent protests against the German invader. Over and over again this dauntless old man chal- lenged the “Mailed Fist” with his pen, In May, 1915, he appealed to the Pope to abandon his attitude of neutrality., In January, 1916, at a personal audience with the Pope, Car- dinal Mercier submitted sworn depo- sitions concerning 137 Belgian priests put to death by the Germans, It was announced that the Pope would ap- point a commission to investigate the atrocities. On July 21 of that year eighty-fifth anniversary of the as- cension to the throne of the first King of the Belgians and eighty-sixth of the declaration of Belgian inde- pendence, the intrepid Cardinal ap- peared before # great congregation in his cathedral—Von Bissing and all his emissaries were present—and defi. antly predicted a Belgian victory at arms in the immediate future and the return of King Albert. In November he issued a ringing protest to the civilized world against the deportation to Germany of Bel- gians for forced labor, The next flee to instruct you as to your duty imface of the power that has in- vaded our soil and now occupies the Sreater part of our country. The au- thority of that power is no lawful authority. Therefore, in soul and con- agience you owe it neither respect nor attachment nor obedience.” ‘When the German authorities learned of this sensational deflance one utterly in their power, they and destroyed fifteen thousand copies of the letter, arrested and fined the printer, forbade the reading of the letter in a large number of par- Ashes and placed the Cardinal himself Under arrest in his palace. ‘Three officers compelled him to sub- mit to forcible interrogation, he was not allowed to pass bis palace doors for several days, and an aide of Gen. yon Bissing told the Cardinal he had been instructed to stay in the palace wail a retraction of the pastoral had been signed. Needless to say there was no retrac- and when Von Bissing wrote @mmplaining of the Cardinal's breach wt thele personal relations the great ny replied succinctly, “There _) ve been, as you 94x, good personal month he told Von Bissing that, it the deportation must go on, the! clergy bogged a place “in the van of the persecuted,” and he threatened Germany with “the reprobation of the civilized world, the judgment of his- tory and the chastisement of God, Thanks to the intervention of Cardinal Mercier, Pope Benedict, early in the year of 1917, announced that he would do everything in bis power to put an end to the deporta- tions, Then the Cardinal appealed to neutral nations not to stop at verbal protests against this cruelty, le- cause certain priests had refused to aid in compiling lists of the members of thelr congregations for use by the German deporting agents, they were fined. Cardinal Mercier sent a latter of protest to the Acting Governor General, in which he said; “We await our vengeance in patience. I am not speaking of our earthly vengeance, We have that already, for the regime of occupation that you force us to underge is despised by everything that is decent in the wholc world.” In 1918 Cardinal Mercier wrote a de- nunciation of the spoliation of the Belgian churches and indignantly at- tacked the German attempt to stir up strife between the Flemings and the Walloons, Meanwhile he was working to raise funds for his peo- ple, particularly those too proud to beg, and was makjng door to door visitations on those sentenced to exile in Germany, He went through the bombardment of Antwerp and Malines, early in the war, and shells tore huge holes in the throne room of his palace, He per- sonally interceded with a German officer to prevent the burning of a part of Malines, Petty persecutions were heaped on Cardinal Mercier. And after ‘his protests against the deportations he was agala roported imprisoned in his palace. His secretary and other members of his entourage were sent to jail, he was refused safe conducts on returning from his visits to the PopeJ and when he applied for per- irriendllasadaliitl | } and burn, oh barren gain, oh bit- NEW i ARON ROBIN D’ER- LANGER, the son of Baron and Baroness D’Er- lariger, has evolved a new idea in hat designing. He creates a hat and then paints it according to his idea of the temperament of its fair wearer. The ac- companying pictures show examples of his latest work. It is now but a step to milady’s having a hat for her every mood, just as she now has one to match every gown. A Hat t |_ WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1919 ea oa Ignorant Essays By J. P. McEvoy KAMAE Copyriaht, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World), HAIR AIR is the thatch on the H human roof, the sum- mer fur om the sopho- more's lip, woman's. crowning glory when it is flowing and a rat when it has fled, Hair grows in mysterious ways its wonders to perform, most of them awful to look upon and incredible be- yond all human understanding. | For example, side-butns, bangs, | mutton chops, puffs, Charley Chaplin mustaches, any other kind of mustaches, toupees, Vandykes and spit curls, Hair may, be any color and often is, Some is (are) as light as the foam on a cool stein of beer (Oh memories that bless ter | ), while on the other hand, I mean head, the hair is blacker than a Pullman porter's pocket at midnight, There are four distinct classes of human beans as identified by the hues ef their hair—btunette, titian or red, blonde and chemical blonde, ‘The last is a distant relative to the goddess whom the ancient hailed as the “Ox-Byed Juno.” The present day species are sometimes @eferred to as mission to journey from Mechlin to Brussels in the gecond year of the war he was not allowed to hire a carriage and had to walk most of the way—although he |s sixty-eight years of age. And still the Germahs wondered that “their extravagantly gentle and considerate treatment of the Arch- bighop of Malines” had not “turned him into a friend!” A tall man—six feet two, at least— of pare frame, with a keen yet gentle face and kindly voice, is Cardinal Mercier, the fighting’ prelate, No churchman ever fought a more un- elding battle for a nobler cause, May he receive all honor ip the land which, he himself has sald, saved his own, ‘ a i peroxide Junos. Sometimes the nap rubs off the human crest, in which case the victim is said to be bald, It is no disgrace to be bald so long as one is bald on the out- side of the head and not the in- side, It {s not strange that some people become bald. On the con- trary, it is more remarkable that Nature is able in so many in- stances to raise a good stand of hair on solid ivory knobs. Bald- ness is a sign of wisdom, hair growing luxuriously where there is plenty of bonedust for fertil- izer, In spite of a popular concep- tion to the contrary, women be- come bald as often as men. No man was ever known to get bald more than once, There are more baldheaded men, however, than baldheaded women, the reason for this being that the number of baldheaded men exceeds the number of baldheaded women. Another reason is that there are fewer baldheaded women, * Many people try to grow new hair where Father Time didn’t replace the divoté, by anoint- ing the denuded areas with hair tonics, After every application they confidently expect to see the new shoots bravely pushing up through the bone and in fancy they again carelessly brush the thick, unruly locks back from thetr tall alabaster brows, As Perlmutter would. say: “They should live so long!" Poor de- luded wretches, ‘There are hosts of other things to be said about hair, many of them very good, but I can’t wait to write them now. I am off to the barber shop to have the wuninmey o Match Your Temperament IDEA IN DESIGNING EVOLVED BY BARON ROBIN D’ERLANGER a an : | \ THE the Same One. Old. 1019, by The Press Publish! ey one-time lovers ever be frie! through the ages. Is it pos other love but theirs to reach the that have met in platitudes? walked side by 8: love have wed. old love affair to aman. Once he has allowed the last flicker from his soul it is gone—out, a new fire, a new flame, but it will never be the same one. He must have It is [auite possible ‘for him to meet that same woman as a friend, because there is nothing left from the old fire. || Even if it were possible for him to new material, new inspiration, * || love her again it would not be in the same old way. He would have to ‘}love her as a new woman, in a new light and for very different qualities than the first attachment. And be- cause he has allowed every spark of the old love to become cinders and ashes he is well able to meet his oe- time love purely basis, He can enjoy ger society as a ;|clever conversationalist, a splendid dancer, a good bridge-whist player, jand never give a thought to love. Man's memory for love scenes hever seems as accurate or as given to “attic reminiscences” as woman's, Even the husband who is as much in love with his wife after ten years of wedded bliss as he was on the day she became his bride cannot remem- ber certain little picturesque loye scenes and words which passed be- tween them, Many the time he smiles ||| wife endeavors to recall some whis- ) |pered words under a trysting tree, or a particular paragraph which he has written on pale blue paper. It this is true of real love, imagine how leasy it is for him to forget every- | thing! But CAN a woman ever forget? When she is in the presence of an old }lover can she ever forget those love days and become a mere friend? Per- *|haps the masculine type of woman might, but I doubt if your truly fe me “How to Dance the “‘Internationale’’ summer fur on my upper lip | taken off and stored for the winter, Ther smnilitary in effect, | Der Sve steps military in Diagrams and Description of Steps in New Dance | | aS three auick ncing "4 Gna tates Sets j waxed arena, it foot el Stare Tight side with foot ana click heels- Invented by Dancing Masters at Recent Convention , Repeat same step to AST week the dancing masters met in this city to devise ways and means to curb the present method of hopping about on the In days of yore Matilda would don her freshly ironed dimity; Jabez would take his black cutaway from the clothes closet, shake the moth balls from the hip pockets, and the two inno- | cents would hie themselves to the village hall. | gentleman with a rubber collar would. Matilda let him kias her hand | af, the door, : | But—'tis all different nowadays. Just as soon as you san release | Jabez danced as any &@ step that is a cross between the festival manifestation of, joy a la Hopi Indian and a theat® musician slinking into the pit, right away vaudeville agents want to know your telephone number. sional dance teachers have brought forward a new step fo offset this apparently vulgar expression ‘of art it. The artist has by .herculean effort been able to graphically depict the various movements. With the aid of a little haymony a la razz-m'tazz, this step may easily be mastered in the parlor, ‘The protes- “The Internationale,” they call ‘One will notice the artist has suc ‘Can a Man and Woman through the fire of an intense love, confess there is no one else on earth, down deiiberately from love to friendship? flame of love to} | forever and ever, amen, He may start upon a platonic] vacantly and abstractedly when his| Who Once Were in Love 4 Ever Be ‘“‘Just Friends” MAN Can—For to a Mar Nothing Is'So Stale” res as a Dead Love Affair—When the Laat Fla Has Flickeréd From His Soul It Is Qut Forever He May Start a New Fire, but Never Rekindle THE WOMAN Cannot—Her Mind Tends the Old Fire Ecen When Love Has Passed From Her Life—‘ Even a New Love Burns Amid the Embers of the By Fay Stevenson ing Co, (The New York Evening World), nds? ‘This is a question that has puzzled both man and woman all ® sible for a man and woman to pass 0 point of white heat, and then cool Can lips warm kisses ever converse in platonic’ Or is the adage “Once » lover always # lover” well founded? ‘ Everyone knows “There's many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip,” and not all the lovers. who have” ide, hand in hand and vowed eternal Now. the question is:* Can thes Romeos and Juliets ever cast aside their lover-like attitude and go back to just plain friendship? It seems to me there is a division in the sexes. a man I would say yes; to a woman, never! There is nothing so stale or so dead as an} gt? To nine woman has that gift. There will always be a certain consciousness in jthe feminine heart, Her mind has |lived over those love scenes many times, they have become a part of her. Even when it was all over, when she realized that love had passed from her life, she has tended the old fire and | thrown fresh thoughts and. memozies |upon it as new coals, Her fire hes never actually gone out, it hes |merely been smouldering. A new love, marriage, children, absolute happiness, and still theres something left of the old fire. It ig in the attic of her heart, stored |away among girlhood days, laces and satins and ribbons. It would be perfectly safe for « man to meet bis old flame om a friendly basis, Frequently men do |take their wives to visit “one-time loves” of theirs, It is even possible |for a bachelor to-call on @ matron |whom he once wooed. His thoughts | will not return to old love scenes, but remain entirely in the present—such as “How portly she is getting,” and “How very, very strange I never noticed that her chin is quite inclined to recede.” But no matter how bald t time lover may be, no matter how large his waistline, woman goes back™ to those first days, those days when the new moon shone ever their right shoulders and life was green and young, She may meet him as @ friend, but who knows what scenes are passing through her mind? Samuel Johnson gives us the mas- culine outlook on love when Boswell asks: "Pray, sy, do you not suppose that there are fifty women in thé world with any one of whom @ man may be as happy as with any one woman in particular?” ‘To which Johnson replies: “Aye, sir, 60,000:" and adds that “One, and one only,” was no part of his lover's creed. Woman does not necessarily live | upon the “One, and one only,” creed, but she does have the faculty of remembering every ONE who sver came into her life as a lover. Certain it is that no woman ever smiles When she hears of the marriage of a une- time lover of hers. If she knows the woman he has married she will be quite apt to remark that “it does seem too bad for poor old Tom te marry such an old stick, such @ little flirt of a woman, who ts at least five years his senior.” But just tell @ one-time lover of Dolly, Caddie or. Ruthie that she has Wedded and he will immediately ery out: “Good, I chap!” in nine cases out of ten, “Once @ lover, always a lover” ap- plies ‘more to the feminine disposition than to the masculine, It might be a very simple matter for a one-time lover to become a mere friend, but I can never imagine a truly feminine woman slipping all the way fram the highest peak of love to the firm, flat ground of common, everyday friend« ship. SIE ee a I PROBABLY DOGFISH. LANK had had a day off, and B when he returned to the office the foliowing morning his pals wanted to know why he looked so dijs« gruntied, erything went wrong,” grumbled Kk, the fish?” "No, She sald she was sure they were perfectly happy, because they. were all wagging their tails, don ‘Tit-Bits, hope she has married a darn good), “Did she protest against hurting” it ‘ 4 cessfully climinated the “cheek-to-jow!"” movemens, Py ~ Ake ee a