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6 M TIIE BEE; OMAHA, SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 13, 1921. TheOmaha Bee DAILY (MUUMNU) - tVfcNiNU-SUNUAY T tn rvtumwa coupakt KUJkiN a UfbtkK. fitWMkti MCMatJI Of THE ASSOCIATED MIS1 the aaaniaa I'M M eftMa tM Itoe M a . H a ShalMlf WUIU4 M IU M fc IwablK.llaa St til MOT 4 M4IW4 M H ut M I kit . laatiaa at Mt epestel ataxiaM v awe im4 i Qssssj m H a Mitw at Ike aeaH Ml af Pam ik. MnN4 .UlfcofH. ee elfiliea S4lia ICS TUlHONEfl AT Untie 1000 far Nlfki Catla Alur ie P. M. HtKnil ATlaeBS 1U IK I omcu or thc ice Li .L. (WtMl A Ui IT Ml tM rifU . I Mk Siae MU MS Oat-el-Tewa Offkee St Mia in i Mmi . I'll O - Tfce elrs-Iatioe of The Omaha Bn SaaaJar, November 0, 1921, was 72,004 copies. THE Et PUBLISHING COMPANY CHARLES S. YOUNG. Bualeesa M.eaaar ELMER S. ROOD, ClMul.llaa Meaafir Swans la aa4 aukwrik.a befere bm tale ear el Nevemaer, Itlt. (Seal) W. H. QUIVEV, Neterr PuWI The Bee's Platform 1. New Union Passenger Slatioa. 2. Continued Improvement of the Na braska Highway. Including Iba pa" man I of Main Thoroughfares leading into Omaha witb a Brick Surfaea. S. A abort, lowrata Waterway from iba Cora Bait to tba Atlantic Ocean. 4. Homo Rula Cbartar for Omaha, with, City Manager form of Government. Long Life, or a Useful One? I lome fastness of the Caucasus, where a large jj proportion of the inhabitants nave auainea io yearl Deyonu inc cemury umiiv. i lira ivii5.,ij is ascribed to a diet of sour cow's milk and goat's milk cheese, with coarse bread. Pushing aside the means by which they live and a cen tury of life purchased at such a price does not appear especially alluring another question leaps forward. Is it worth while? "An end Ss an end," says Villon in McCar thy'! great play, "whether it cometh fin the winged '.ieel of a week or the dull crutch of a century." Life that is measured by days and weeks, months and years, may be pleasantly spent, yet eventually it" comes to an end. Life that is counted by the test of things oc complished, if it only be one single . worthy achievement, is the life that has been lived. When the late lord mayor of Cork was slowly wasting away in self-imposed starvatipn, scien tific men accounted for his great tenacity of life by explaining that he was using very little tissue in conscious effort, and that his involuntary func tions were operating at so slow, a pace that his consumption of the elements that make for physi cal life was reduced to the, minimum, and so a very little was needed to keep his machinery going. Such is the nature of the mechanics, at least, of the physical life of the centenarians lately found in the Near East. Not only their diet, but their existence is essentially bovine. Affairs of the world do not excite them, and no shock of circumstance breaks in on the even tenor of their round of rising and eating and going to bed. A few days of that sort of life is about all a normal individual might wish, and would probably satisfy the average man as well at a century of it. I One of Lytton's readable novels has for its hero a man Who has by ascetic practices sus pended the normal processes of decay, and al ready has survived many generations, with a prospect of going .on indefinitely. Something awakens human impulses in his soul, and he vol untarily resigns the chance of living on and on in order that he may taste the delights of love and life among his fellows as a participant and not as a detached spectator. A play now run ning in New York shows the Wandering Jew going gladly to be burned alive at the stake, a sacrifice for another, and welcoming death as a sign that he hai been forgiven for thc sin that brought the sentence : "Tarry thou until I come again." . Sir Motes Monteriore still was useful -at' 90, and so have been many others, who gave them selves always to the service of mankind. Others have sounded the depths and reached their zenith in a much shorter flight, yet who is to say they did not accomplish their destiny? 'The days of our yeara are three-score years and ten, and if by reason of strength they be four-score years, yet is their strength labof and sorrow, for we are soon cut off and fly away.". Man will still cling to life with all his facul ties, and will employ himself in finding ways for avoiding (sickness and distress and to post pone the end as long as possible. Each will measure success by his own standard, regarding himself as victor or vanquished as he gains or loses his desire. Ever the enigma .will challenge him, doubts will beset and perplex him, but if he can hold fast to the substance of things hoped for, nothing will "make calamity of too long life," nor will its early decline become a calamity. Our Friend, the School Ma'am. Permitted to speak for one side only, The Bee would like to say that Omaha appreciates the school ma'am. Maybe the feeling is mutual; we trust it is, and that it rests on such substan tial foundation that it will endure forever, grow ing firmer as years go by. Be that as it may and will our. admiration for the troops of teach ers who come once a year to hold their conven tion here is unbounded. One week in November is given over to the gathering- of the teachers, and programs that ap pear formidable to the ordinary mortal are ar ranged for the edification of those who are en- gaged in educational work. That is as it should be, but just now we want to approach the teacher from another angle. With no thought of taking her from the pedestal on which she is tradition ally set, let us just this once think of her as a 1 regular honest-to-goodness human being, a good -fellow, who understands and enjoys things that ' are not included in professional pedagogics. She " has interests and tastes of her own, just as do her aistera who order" their lives along lines in dependent of schools. Her aspirations for her profession are net the less because she knows ' the value of a becoming gown or a new hat, and the lure of a downtown window display is not lost on her because her duty deals with soberer things. . I'.Wbta text becks and lectures may be laid aside the school ma'am likes to go to the movies, can get bit of diversion from a play or a con cert, and tvea hat been known to frivol Just a little bit at a dancing party, and now and then to carry on bravely at bridge. It will be well for communities and school boards to recollect these elemental facts, and alwiys to consider that "teacher" is much like Gilbert's policeman, whose "capacity for innocent enjoyment is quits as great at any other man's." Poems From China. Americans may some day, as Witter Bynner fondly hopes, learn to appreciate Chinese poetry. A race that can develop a liking for chop suey quite possibly can acquire a taste for Oriental literature. . Even so, few will grow as enthusias tic as Fu Tu, who prescribed his verses as a cure for malaria. That was twelve centuries ago, during the golden age of China. It was then, under the T'ang dynasty, according to a modern Chinese writer, that poetry reached perfection. Voluminous it certainly was, a complete collec tion of the poems of this period including 48,900 pieces. Some of it was really beautiful, depending on suggestion for its charm, as in this poem by LI Po, the most celebrated poet of China: A tortoise I aee on a lotus flower resting: , A bird midst the reeds and the rushes In resting; A light skiff propelled by soma boatman's fair daughter, Whose song dies away o'er the fast flowing water. This picture is enough to convey the fact that the Chinese poets did not dot their "i's" or cross every "t," but left a great deal to the imagination that they summoned up. Many of them were like Wtng To, who, had to get drunk before he could write. Li Po himself, -who lived from A. D. 70S to 762, was a lover of wine as well as song, and was known as one of the "Six Idlers of the Bamboo Grove," early day aesthetes who retired to a mountain to bibble in peace. After gaining the favor of the emperor,- he was accused of sedition and drowned himself to escape persecution. One version gives it that he was intoxicated and fell into the sea .from leaning too far over the edge of a boat. His last words might indicate either this, or a fine poetic frenzy, for they were: "I'm going to catch the moon in the midst of the sea." Tu Fu, sometimes called the "Chatterton of China," died of dissipation. One might have guessed as much from the mere reading of one of his poems which is thus translated: From the court every eve to the pawnshop I pass, To come back from the river the drunkest of men; As often as not I'm !n debt for my g-lass; Well, few of us live to be three score and ten. The butterfly flutters from flower to flower; The dragon fly sips and springs lightly away; Each creature is merry its brief little hour, So let us enjoy our short life while we may. These two poems, more than a thousand old, are representative, each in its way, of Oriental literature. , The one graceful, the other disgraceful, neither has anything about it that can not be found in Occidental literature. Mr. Bynner, who bespeaks "reasoned reverence" fnr the poetry of China may regard it as seasoning ior our own literary dishes. Such it may be, in teresting, but scarcely vital exceDt as it sfinw the similarity of the ancient east to the modern west and leads to some better understanding be tween the two hemispheres, Superstition Outdoes Science. Mark Twain V "Yankee in Kinsr Arthur's Court" proved himself more than a match for the enchanter Merlin. Unless memory of bovhood reading is mistaken, a !lasso played a prominent part in the contest between the magic of the sixth century and , the common sense of the nineteenth. Brought thus into contrast, there can be no denial that the wonders of the past are as nothing compared with the achievements of modern. times. , Ytt primitive people are not as deeolv im pressed with the progress of their civilized broth ers as might be imagined. Vilhjalmur Stefansson. in his exploration of the Arctic, found atriWna proof of this. The Eskimo of Union straits had never before seen a white man; they gathered their food with the weapons of men of the Stone age, and were about 10,000 years behind in de velopment and Intelligence. The explorer pre vailed upon them to do some shooting with their bows and arrows," and then showed them that with, his rifle he could hit a target twice as far away. They didn't seem to marvel at thjs in the least.. - . "When I explained to them that I could Mil a polar bear or a caribou at even twice the dis tance the stick had been from me," he wrote in his book, "My Life With the Eskimo," "they exhibited no surprise, but asked me if I could with my rifle kill a caribou on the other siri of a mountain. When I said that I could not, they told me that a great shaman in the neigh boring tribe had a magic arrow by which he could kill caribou on the other side of no matter how big a mountain." When he allowed them to look through his binoculars, they were much interested to find bands of caribou that were invisible to the naked eye. Still, they were disappointed when they found that the glasses would not enable one to look into the future and see the animals that were coming the next day, so that they might lie in ambush. Their own medicine men, they said, had charms that enabled them to see things before they happened. , , . Stefansson explains this attitude by saying that the Eskimo did not judge his wonders by ordinary standards, but by that of the super natural. A bow that would send an arrow fifty yards farther than their own would have been more remarkable, because it would have been judged by natural tests. One has only to com pare the incidents of "Arabian Nights" or any fairy tale or ancient mythology from Cinderella and Hop-o'-My-Thumb to Zeus, to realize how far short modern science has fallen. Man has always lived in a world filled with wonders but it is fair to say that there are really fewer now than at any time since the beginning of things. The War Finance corporation is evolving a plan for financing stocks of corn which the farmer stores, with the purpose of relieving the grower of dumping his product on the market But why is it always the case that there are no preparations made in advance to meet any of the contingencies which arise so frequently? Are governments always to be without foresight? The Husking Bee It's Your Day Stari ItWiihaLauh YOUNG HEARTS AND WARM, What odds if winter's drawing near And summer flowers long since dead, That it's a dreary time of year -With gray skies lowering overhead? Should we then be devoid of cheer And wait for clouds to drift apart? No winter's cold need we to fear While it is springtime In the heart. ' What odds if we are growing old And life at times seems chill and dark, Though silver threads among the gold Shows Time leaves its external mark? Time cannot make a heart grow cold, Though it brings winter from the north, ' No gray clouds can a life enfold While sunlight from the soul shines forth, 1 So let the inner fires burn To conjure up a gladsome wraith, Cold winds can give us no concern While we have cheer and hope and faith; Though hoary Winter has its turn, And hoary locks the gold Bmong, There's one glad lesson we should learn The heart may be forever young. PHLO-SOPHY. ' A little song in a storm is worth more than a whole concert while the sun is shining. . If you've got a job to do, jump in and do it. Don't waste valuable time looking for someone to help you. Remember it takes as long to sing a duet as to sing a solo. - Necessity is truly the mother of invention. Never heard of a married man inventing an ex cuse unless he needed it. Never could see the use of those saws and axes in the glass cases in the railroad coaches. Can't get at 'em to use in opening the windows. A boy always imagines he will do just as he pleases as soon as he is 21. Then he gets mar ried. , ' See that Doug Fairbanks is making quite a success in one of Alex Dumas' stories adapted to the screen, but scenario writers need not fear that Mr. Dumas will write exclusively for the cinema. WARNING. The winter days are drawing near, And we can see each morning Jack Frost is in the atmosphere , And brings to us a warning; . ' . Though we the beauty of the scroll Upon the pane admire, ' We'll have to hustle in some coal And build a little fire. a a "DEPRECIATION. Nice large basket of lusciout looking red grapes in grocery store window. . Marked 65 cents for Saturday sale. Customer picks off sample. Tastes good. Picks off another. Clerk approaches, so customer walks away. Clerk in spects1 basket, rearranges contents and picks off grape. Tastes good. Picks off another. Two girl clerks stop in front of window for conference. Exchange compliments and pow der puffs. One picks off grape. Other ditto. Both ditto.' Basket now lop-sided, so they pick some off other side. Basket too large for contents. Contents too small for 65 cents. No buyers. Monday morning. Proprietor rearranges grapes. ' Marks down to 49 cents. Proprietor finishes and clerks inspect job. Pick off a few samples. ' . Monday afternoon. Contents of basket re tailed by pound bring 30 cents. a a a ' ' WOULD SAVE ALIMONY. ' Love at first sight often wishes it had been endowed with second sight. v... : " a a a Often' where the spirit is willing, the purse is weak. . a a a See where a young couple down at K. C. went up in an airplane to be married, As if they couldn't fall out quick enough on earth, a a a YOU KNOW 'EM. There's one pest we know Who will always annoy, He's the chappie who greets us . With "How's the old boy?" ' There's another guy, too," . Who fills us with woe , He's the fellow who meets us With "Whadda yuh know?" a a a Sh$; I say you were sound asleep. He: How do you know? She: I heard the sound. ; a a a Ambition, historians tell us, was Caesar's un doing. Couldn't however expect Caesar to be a very modest gent when he spent the greater part of his life in acquiring Gaul. a v Speaking of ambition, a girl will come to the city with, a dream of a $50,000 position as a screen star, but she is usually willing to accept temporary employment at $9 a week, ; a a a . .. . " ' .BACKWARDS. . . Most girls tell a joke the same as they get off a street car. . a a a Two birds on the South Side were arrested for sticking a $20 bill in a policeman's pocket. The officer happened to be awake and caught 'em at it. a a a HUNDRED AND COSTSI Judge Foster is fair,' He believes in just dues Bootleggers beware, He is hard on the booze, a a . a Wasn't it our old friend Bill Spooksheere who quoth "Beauty unadorned is adorned the most?" . Indicating that a few Stratford damsels may have rolled 'em, too. a a "Ahoyl" cried the lookout on Columbus' flag ship. "I see dry land," It proved to be America a a a .. Japanese envoys seem to be agreeable to dis armament on the Atlantic, but not in the Pacific. a a a HURRAH AND A COUPLA YAWNS. Willard is champing for another fight with Champ Dempsey. But it doesn't promise the fight fans much. They say a pug is somewhat like a postage stamp. Not much good after he has once been licked. '' ISNT IT THE TRUTH? The time, the place and the girl Is a happy combination. To set man's heart a-whirl And fill him with elation But such a combination's rare, We are here to state, The time and the place are always there But the girl's most always late. - How to Keep Well By PR. W. A. EVANS QuMtlaaa Mcaralat arta, Malta ttoa aa4 aravwi'Ua at 41.ua. sua miitwi la Dr. Evaaa y raster af Tka Baa. IU aa miwbW aaraaaallir, auajsct te r Itwluttaa. wkara a auaif.a, a4aVw4 aavalapa la aa alsass. Dr. Cvaa will nat mmk a'Usaaal ar praKrlaa far iadlvMual llmm Amtim lUrt la (are at Tka Baa. Coprrvsbt, by Dr. W. A. Ivaae, Conference and Literature AFTER -THOUGHT: has a ounch in it. A rum joke usually PHILO. WHY WE BREATHE. Ja there such an animal as a lasy breathing man? The answer Is yes. The slowly movlnr, thoroughly tnactive man Is a lazy breather. He may not breathe aa seldom as does a snake in win ter, but he breathes alow enough and ahullow enough to entitle mm to ba called a lasy breather. Can a man train himself to breathe deeply? Suppose we an swer no. Can a man stand up and breathe deep and full as the result of a con scious effort? Bure! II ne is an ordinary man he can do this for a minute or two. Of if ne is a very determined man he can keep It up for twice as long. But then, alas, he-lapses Into the hibernating type regardless of his determination, and If. in the first In stance, he breathed deeply twice as long, In the second he will loaf on the breathing job twice as long. And here is how It is. Our tis sues use up oxygen and produce car bon lo acid and acid wastes, to neu tralize the acidity of the wastes, certain tlnsues are drawn on for alkali. The alkali combines with the acid of the waste to make neu tral waste products, which are elimi nated by the kidneys and other organs. This action draws on certain al kali reserves and produces a certain degree of alkali starvation. Tho effect of the oxidation of tis sue then is to exhaust the supply of oxygen In the blood, to draw on the reserve of alkali In the tissues, to make carbonic acid and to increase the tendency of the body to acidity. The Increased tendency toward acidity, but especially the Increase of carbonic acid in the blood, stimu lates the breathing center In the brain. The result of this stimula tion is breathing. If there is no stimulation, auto matic, unconscious breathing stops. If the stimulation is what we call normal, breathing is likewise what we call normal. If the stimulation is very great, breathing is deep or fast, or both deep and fast. Suppose we gave a man pure oxy gen to breathe. Would he burn up? No. In the first place, his blood could only pick up a certain amount, placing a limit on the effect In the second place, the increase in oxygen would lessen the amount of carbonic acid carried, since the red blood can carry so much gas, and if we increase the amount of oxygen we decrease the amount of carbonic acid to the same degree about. But if we decrease the proportion of carbonic acid present in the blood, we decrease the stimulation of the breathing center in the brain, and bfeathing becomes shallow and slow. In other words, the supply of dxygen to the tissues regulates itself automatically. Nothing we can do at the nose end of the breathing chain materially changes the amount of oxygen absorbed by the tissues. Is there anything we can do at the other end of the line? That is another story. Work, exercise, effort all these Increase the amount of tissue turned to waste, the amount of oxygen used. by the tissues, the amount of car bonic acid absorbed by the blood, the amound of acid waste produced, the amount of alkali reserve takep. from the tissues. ..J The increase of carbonic- acid In the blood causes the breathing to become rapid and in some cases' deep. Deep breathing exercises de velop the back, neck and trunk mus cles. It Is fine for cold feet. But beyond these limits It does not avail. Foe Baby 8 Months Old. Mrs. J. S. K. writes: "l. What temperature should the house be for a baby? s "2. What temperature should he bathroom be for a baby's bath? "3. Is it all right for babies to sit on the floor in winter? - "4. Does it matter If a baby gets oft the rugs on the bare floor?" ,' REPLY. ; . Much depends on the age of the baby. I will answer for a baby 8 months old. 1. Night, 55; day, 68. 2. About 72 degrees. - 3. It is better not to permit this because of the dust and the drafts. , 4. The bare floor generally Is cold. . ' Restore "Raven Locks." J. M. M. writes: "An eastern medical authority states that 5,000 people die annually in America from pyrogallio acid poison contracted through a hair 'colorine' advertised as 'perfectly harmless.' This ques tion Is very vital to me, as I am only 28 and very gray-haired and have been contemplating using this, hair 'colorine.' " REPLY. I am not very strong for hair dyes, but this story about 5,000 fa talities is a dream. Baron Munchau sen has been walking out your way. Usually Called Goiter. E. A. H. writes: "1. What Is an over-active thyroid? "2. Can this condition cause my heart to beat very fast when ner vous or excited? "3. Is this curable?" REPLY. v - 1. One that secretes too much. Goiter is the usual name for it 2 and 3. Yes. Can be cured by operation, X-rays or radium. Some cases are cured by medical treat CENTER SHOTS. "Write as you feel," advises Con stance Talmadge, talking to scenario writers. Many do hence the board of censorship. C leveland Plain Dealer. - ' . It has been decided that the moon is rot inhabited. That's good news for the earth. It means one less country to send relief expeditions to this winter. Tulsa Tribune. A newspaper litem says Admiral Sims has declined to make a speech, but those who know the admiral are almost postlve he has been mis quoted. Detroit News. THE HUNTRESS. Wa follow meekly In her tracks. . Our guns neglected at our backs. And hang- upon each word that slip . So sweetly from her roy lips. The dogs all wag- delighted tails Tha whlla she tatks ot harea and quails. Of woodcock, squirrels, deer and grouse, And yet aha never kills a mouse. She wears a natty suit of tweed The hue ot grasses gone to seed A little cap on purpose made For ehowibg silken curl and braid, A fraauft g.rre. a mannish sh.H- (Ah! what a foot to tread tin dew). Tha breeze that with her skirt 'coquette Is edoraua with violets. The equlrrel wtth a saucy air Sits ap nor fears at her t stare. The woodcork lifts a flurried wing. She cries. "Please let him go, poor thing! She will not shqot the gentle doe, 8he bids the staMled pigeon go. And takes the timid rabbit's part But wrars a ithi-ld upon year heart! alliuia Irriaa- to lae Ktw lark Ilmee. (l-reea the Baatee Trawrlpt.) There is at leant a strong chance that posterity will be more Inter ested In the reporters of the Wash Inston conference than in Its prin cipals, rrlme ministers come and go. The great ralmerston la now In process of being forgotten, ami his. tory begins to have Its doubta even of the greatneaa or Ulaoatona. Few remember an Evarts.tir a Campbell Ilannerman. Lloyd Uenrga looms Urge today, but where will his name be in SO years? Letters outlive, poli tics, and books are our nearest earthly thing to eternity. Men are coming to report the conference who have written great books. In the eye of posterity, it may. be with the statesmen of this day even as It was with the great portraits of paat cen turies. People have mostly forgot ten who the subjects of those pic tures are, but they remember well that they were painted by Velasquei or Itembrsndt or llubeii. From the other side of the ocean there came to us reporters such men as II. G. Wells, Arnold llennett. Tertlnox" the lrrepreaslble and Stephen Lansaune, while among Americans even a Wilson will dip his pen in Ink as one of the histor iographers of the occasion. Doubt less If be were younger, we might even "have Anatole France sitting at the reporters' table; and Is it too late to look for D'Annunilo? At all events, and even without the two last named, we may say that an occasion which is graced by the at tendance of II, O. Wells Is made by that clrcumstanoe noteworthy. Lately we have seen Mr. Wells de scribed aa "the greatest living au thor." . Whether he is that or not will depend upon the verdict of pos terity. Contemporary opinion In such a matter is not worth a straw. Posterity's selection of the greatest author of the third decade of the twentieth century may fall upon some man or woman who Is as yet totally unknown to fame. But those who put Mr. Wells in the highest place among living authors have evi dently forgotten that Thomas Hardy still lives; and perhaps they have never heard of Anatole France, or of D'Annunzio, or of Maxim Gorky. We may all agree, however, that Mr. Wells Is one of the foremost figures in the literature of the day, and all may muse expectantly upon the na ture of the contribution to future letters In which his observations at Washington will result. In contemplating the pleasing prospect of a masterpiece from his hands, may we not hope that Mr. Wells will recede a little from the pontifical tone which he has as sumed in his "Outline of History?" The Judgment of the time may be blurred a little from pxtrpmp nerr ness to this work of Mr. Wells' un doubted genius, but there Is a preva lent impression that in this gigantic pamphlet he has, in the expressive language of the land to which he now comes, bitten off rather more than he can chew. If a Milton did not altogether succeed, in "Paradise Lost," in justifying the ways of God to man, It is quite possible that a Wells may have fallen somewhat short In overruling the decrees of God and substituting a new and par tial judgment, as well as a new and lesser God, In the place of the old judgments and the Ancient of Days. Mr. Wells world has become ego centric, and his assumption too vast for his performance, If, in writing of the conference, he would but lapse from the manner of "God, the Invisible King," and take up once more the pen that wrote "Mr. Brit ling," or"Tono Bungay," or "The History of Mr. Polly." or that well and dearly ' remembered master piece, 4'Love and Mr. Lewisham!" It is not too much, perhaps, to ask or a man who can write four notable books In a single year that he shall give us at least one book on the con ference which will put upon this wonderful and hopeful assembly of the nations the eternally descriptive touch of the master of characteri zation. As for Mr. Arnold Bennett, why should we not hope for something from him in the realistic vein of "The Old JSVives' Tale," which re mains his masterpiece? Is the genius of a great writer to be ex pended wholly on Mr. Peavys, while in a Lloyd George, a Briand and a Hughes sit at a table settling the destinies' of the world? At all events, the distinguished men of let ters who are coming to the confer- ence have the chance of their lives. Let .us hope that they will rise to it. The Old Theater (From the New "fork Fost.) The bullet fired at Serajevo de stroyed whole cycles of ideas, whole libraries of books, whole systems of custom and culture. We look back on the pre-war period as finished and ticketed. Much that seemed only yesterday sparklingly fresh now appears quaintly archaic. For ex ample, New' Yorkers are noting with a little' surprise that Granville Barker's "Madras House" withered during the war. Brilliantly written, neatly constructed, full of shrewd characterization,' o quote our own critic, its scenes are nevertheless ob trusively Victorian, and "the social upheavals of the last . decade give them the appearance of the antedi luvian." - Another satirical comedy was pro duced two nights later. It dates from a period since which the earth has shaken with the drums and tramplings of a dozen great wars. Its wit was expended on nothing so modern as the white slave traffic, but upon the exaggerations of Puri tanism. There is nothing neces sarily permanent in ' that theme. Critics might say that only one speech about cakes and ale is a real epigram. Yet every one who goes to - see Sothern and Marlowe's "Twelfth Night" speaks of a fjlled house, of spontaneous laughter and applause, of evidences of unflagging interest and delight in the humor, the poetry, the romance, and the melodrama of a play which is ap parently inexhaustible and peren nially new. It is a narrow and baseless view which holds that people go to Shakespeare as a matter of cultural duty, and come back in a thank-hAven-that's-done mood. It Is an equally false view that they go to Sothern and Marlowe, or Hampden, or Ben Greet to enjoy the intellec tual experience of comparing differ ent renditions; that they care less for Viola than for noting how Julia Marlowe's presentation of It differs from Adelaide Neilson's or Ellen Terry's, less for Malvollo than for comparing Sothern with Henry Irv ing, r Could Sothern and Marlowe, Hampden and Greet, Mantell and Faversham come again and again to crowded theaters if these theories were not absurd? People go to see Shakespeare. He Is not an institu tion, an Intellectual exercise, or a duty, but the warmest and highest pleasure a pleasure that no lapse of time can make less popularly appreciated. Best Band or All. There are brass bands and silver comet bands and even angel bands, but the sweetest -music is the snap of the rubber band on the old bank roll. Seattle Post Intelligencer, American Huin$ (rreaa the Ckleasa Kewa.) One of our new foreign visitors In tha vanguard of a dulagatlon to the Washington conference on the limitation of armamenta has remark ed on the atrangaiieas he feels In a country In which the Inhabited Maces seem usually ao newiy innao Had and In which he seldom en counters a community that seems to conaiMt principally of reminiscences of some former and departed popu lation. Such a thought la almost certain to strike a foreigner, and Is often found even In the minds of natives. Yet the fact la, of course, that in thla new country of ours there Is a certain region containing a larger area of outright surrender to the paat and ot outright desola tion In the present than could hardly be pointed out anywhere In Europe. In Europe there are ruins of cities, rnatles, temples, roads and many other sorts of human struct ural work; but about them and even on top of them one usually finds contemporary structures for a liv ing population or else very actively cultivated fields and crops. No where in any European country within the range ef familiar travel Is there any scene ot former activi ties and of present mere remin iscences comparable In extent to the one that stretches through mid dle New England, and that comes to Its closing note of neglect in over grown woodland roads as lonely as the Roman forum Is populous. Through forests seemingly untouch ed, these roads run often, In such a network of circles and crlsacrosses that at last the stone walls that run beside them begin to suggest out of their tangles of shrubs and bushes the thought that presently Is con firmed by .orchards still showing straight lines of planting In the midst of the wilderness, by pastures that still lie open to the sun on the tops of great hills, and by stone cellars denuded of their houses, but still distinguishable from the clutters of bowlders about them. This forest Is not a primeval forest. These roads are not the casual tracks of hunters and trappers. Here once was a thriving, settled life farms, homes. markets, churches, schools, and, by ! means of these many roads, a fra quent Intereourne of commerce, government, town nirullnif libertlr, revolutionary rlalima. Here a people of UritUh stuck ad vanced mile after mile in a fight won Inch by Inch agalnat the forent. Here they made a priHipeious, eelf usittlulng country-slile, made It. lived In It, produced In It tha phil osophy that produced the battle line at Lexington, and then, when the competition of the new land of the Mlaslaslppi valley made their rocky fields untenable, movnd on Into the west, not British any longtr, but American. Huch apots are the true shrines of this republic. In tham grew, and out of them came, the aplrit that saved the west for the union, and d saved tha union for the world. The spots in New England that are still thickly peopled are New England. The spots that are emptied are America, , A foreign observer might walk them for many a year before he hud walked them all. In the end ha would say: "The strangest thing In the newness of this country is that It holds vaster spares than have been noted In any of Its mother countries of cultivated, populated land wrung from the wilderness and returned to the wilderness." "business is w you' L.V. Nicholas oil Company IM INCENSE, CANDLES and SILK CORDS A BE to b found In great variety In our Art Department. A package, containing a clever burner and a pack age of Vantine's Oriental Incense, sells for 76s. The same incense in powder or cone form at 85e per box. . j: HANDLES are shown in all sizes, shapes and colors, from the plain twisted styles at 15c each to the beau tiful polychromes at 11.00. Bright red candies for Christmas decoration at 10c each, if you buy now. OILK cords are the things to use when hanging your nicer pictures and mirrors. 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