The Detroit times. [volume], August 28, 1917, NOON, Image 8

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1917
There Is Precedent In
United States History
For Her Desperation
I W
* The tenacity of the women who are
making things a hit unpleasant for offi
cial Washington just at present is the
very thing those who are opposed to
woman suffrage are afraid of.
There are a whole lot of things in thi>
government of ours that are not what
they should be.
For one thing our government is a
long way short of being as representa
tive as those who conceived it intended
Jt to be.
It is representative, of course, but of
the FEW and not of the many.
Our government, for one thing, is not
representative of.the home.
This is largely due to the fact that
woman has not had a full voice in it.
Man leaves the home to woman in the
natural order of things.
He has told her. as a matter of fact,
that/*here i» where -he belongs.
The home, in politics, therefore, has
been left to shift for itself, and THAT
means, that the sons and daughters in
the homes have been left to shitt for
themselves.
“Your place is in the home," man says
to woman, “but you shall not have a
voice in the home; you are to be left in
Conditions resulting from my own lack
©f interest; if you are not satisfied with
Iho <* c nditions. you must make the best
pf them, I am determined on one pmnt and
that point is that YOU shall not have
one thing to say.”
What a sorry spectacle man has made
©f himself in view of the way his home
has been entered and violated by its ac
knowledged enemies, and woman there
powerless to defend herself.
Figuratively speaking, she has had to
atand by while her son or her daughter
has been kidnaped, without permission
to call the police.
Can any man who knows what the
mother interest is, what it was in his
own case, fail to understand the great
motive behind the demonstration these
women have made in Washington?
We may not approve; we may hold
that she might have chosen a course
more likely to give her a lot of support
she is denied, but we have to admit, as
the sons of mothers, that we know she
is actuated by a love that never says
die and never dies.
She is everlastingly right in her con
tention that her case has not been con
sidered in our pledge to spread democ
racy.
It is easy to excuse her if she has
fedopted a course in Washington that is
not popular.
The desperation that is hers was the
desperation of the Colonists, pretty gen
erally indorsed and approved by all of
ns.
Wilson Embargo Is
the Hardest Blow Vet
Struck At Germany
Almost since the great war began, the
allies have sought to starve Germany
into submission by an elal>orate blockade
of German ports maintained by the allied
fleets.
And almost since the great war began,
the blockade has been a partial failure
very largely due to the fact that the
United States continued to sell foodstuffs
and raw* materials to the little neutrals
which surround Germany.
In this way supplies have seeped into
Germany from Norway. Sweden. Hol
land, Denmark, Switzerland and Spain.
The right thing, the logical thing, the
properly-timed thing was for this coun
try to shut off those supplies.
If any basis for the action was needed,
it was abundantly supplied by the fig
ures showing the enormous increases in
the exports from this country to the
neutrals.
Ami, singularly enough, the greatest
ex|K)ils were in precisely the things
needed tyy Germany—food for her peo
ple, metals and cotton for her murttttfifnr
factories.
The president ha now started the ma
chinery which will keep these things for
ourselves and for our allies. We will no
longer supply the neutrals, so they in
tom can supply Germany.
There i.s every evidence that this is one
of the hardest blows struck at kaiserism
since the war began. The headlines in
German papers tell the story: “Wilson’s
brutal methods in starving little neu
trala.” “Neutrals in Wilson’s thumb
acrews,” “How Wilson assaults neu
trals.”
Germany’s sudden tenderness over lit
tle neutral nations is one of the most
trinity humorous things of the war.
, Germany, which paid no attention to
the neutrality of Luxemburg, which de
stroyed Belgium because that unhappy
land tried to preserve her neutrality
which has constantly bullied supplies
from Holland and Denmark, which has
compelled Norway to trade fish for coal
—this militaristic, ruthless kai-erthum
pretends to weep over the woes of the
neutrals.
The real trouble is that the editors
see the hand-writing on the wall.
They see a Germany which can no
longer depend upon meat and flour and
fats and metals and cotton being sneak
ed across the borders.
They >ee a German> which wil! have
to face the fourth winter of the war en
tirely dependent upon her own rapidly
diminishing resources.
They see a Germany in which the
making every effort to feed and clot ic
the armies at the front, will lave to
take w ;th both hands f m the scanty
-tore of the people back home.
They see a eGrmany in which the
seeds of rebellion and discontent will
thrive, because of a Germany underfed,
underclothed and underheated.
If the truth were in them, they would
not weep crocodile tears over th» neu
trals for whose right- they do not care
a snap of the finger.
They would tell the German people
that the American embargo, plus the
allied blaekade means the most serious
situation Germany has had to face since
the war began. And their headlines
would be: “Wilson's brutal methods of
starving Germany." “Germany in Vt il
son’s thumb-screw."
But of course if they* did that, there
might arise even in the disciplined,
lackey-minded, superior-loving Prussians
the thought that after all the war was
a failure, defeat inevitable and the time
opportune to crave from the allies the
best peace term* they would be willing
to grant as a boon.
Maybe It’s’ Poetic License
We fain would ask the reader’s advice
on a literary point. ,\Ve have a perfectly
stirring war poem, with a chorus that
will even rouse a patriot to mauling his
grandmother, but the last line of that
bloodcurdling chorus runs thus;
“When we -trike our Yankee blows, our
flag’ll win.”
What sticks us. orthographical!v speak
ing, is that “flag’ll.” We confess to a
liking to <hort-cuts in English, and we
sometimes go into the ditch in short cut
ting. but that “flag’ll” ha.- a sort of mis
erly sound that seem- to knock all the
martial swing out of that really glorious
chorus. It destroys the effect sought, by
bringing in a sort of flat effect, a- it were,
and reminds us of that time when we ut
tered a society item like this;
“Miss Lily Lovell'll leave a lovely im
pression upon our younger set” etc.
The young lady’s 6-foot brother came
in. next day, to urge that if we couldn’t
decently mention his sister without stut
tering, he would require that mention of
her be omitted altogether.
We want this war poem but that,
“flag'll” sure is a disturbance.
From Another Point of View
hy C. T. S.
They lived i:«c*- two tur 1*
So everyone, thought
Hu* :n thi* all the.r fri«*nd>* wr-rb caugh* nap; g
lake two turtles. true.
Hut between me and
Like the K-nd we refer j<> as * ripping
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If any Detroit fan ha- a preference a.
between the White Sox and the fled box,
it may lie that he i- -.till interested in tre
American b-ague pennant nice.
* • *
The man in charge of the menagerie
tells us that the kangaroo i- almost ex
tinct. In other word ,ina' a v :t r the
pork chop.
• • •
"We havin' M.*< n s’o* l * pr< h,•
T#*r me show vou sorr .-thing of » ,r r: -k*- •}.
it a gr*-Ht deal better
• » *
r >\\ a n * •
buying potatoes for fear in- m ghhor
will think he is cheap.
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The people* are Mr- dos h< .«r*nat >'• n,< n
g.ibbi*- about nothing. J> r.n tfnarp Wil
liam* That speech probt;bly won't g* ’ John *
Sharp Williams anything. * 1 • -
• » •
Word comes from Berlin that the Gor
man forces will soon Lc heard from. That
sounds as if school may 1*» about to open
for the fall term over there, aI-<>.
a * •
A Chicago w if»* ha*- noTjfl*vi a likml m
f'Trprjon b«*ard in that rn th*' .f M* hu- /
\ band trie* to put in an cx'mptlo/1 r|.<im on \
v her account, not to h*ii*v> ti 1 r.-i Sh« r- -
he upend* all hi* Mrm and money phning
pool. Suggesting that she receive* nothing
toward h**r -upport fror ’h* e. -n*-r po*,-*
■ • •
There is the exemption ttoarda cue; it
can proceed to rack him up.
DETROIT TIMES
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■Aetcsmti letters relating e«periences wnth advertisers have
been unfair tn their assertions or promotes—who have misled or
duped the reading public. It will pay proper recognit on to honest adver
t se-s Disforest advertisers who may be found in The Times will not be
spa r ed It will p- nt letters deemed of pub> c interest. Ad» ce will also
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Address Tf, e Ad Mirror, The T met, Detroit, M*ch.
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T v - Mre . w orth Wholesale grocer- mplos The f--J • inr *nal order
*chrm» *• I per or*!®- It 1- The same pian/haT the Inie-ha*ioral S .pp;v
i'.mpsnt *r?ed ir I»etro|t withou* sucre-, in »he latter ra«e jack of capital
wa.< a contributing factor
•* < bicago concern i.« in 'rouble, ’oo l*« manager has been cirri
♦n appen- before the cour*- in * hlcngo on a charge of deceptive adver*
Using
T I** wa* en instance where the po«*»>r Pualne** Bureau, nt t'hicaro,
“opd’.'-'ed -.nder the c.i-pires of the a.. ia*e-J Advert.i- ng <’lub- of tb<-
W<>r!d, wa- able to rer.de- »he di**tric* a’'orne taluable a-sfs*ance Tb»
v re*j \< < . e.i up *he r , .i'i n rre and J.« .i.d.ng actively :n the prosccut n
of the < The o'j-nnme w.U be known in a few days.
What Is Going on in Germng!
A- Told By the V\> f,ct From the Teutrtnic
Empires and Neutral Nations.
Tie f•.r• •»i »r. Hurgertettung says
Th*- v. ar h.i- t,.ijgbt us that nu
' inTrin ically worthies* on
Jects ran be turn
( rPi m.rn t and nto hv *o: *of
Women f.ive r **’ r, lu '
i’nportance rir.<-
Hair for of -j
War \ r,th
• r - ha r, which :•
/•••! - t ~ m:
J *ar purpe-c-
• the r, t ( rot- has now- e^tab
col;* ;n.r depot. To *ec ure
! large q»iantfti« -of It
Fo v ' di*tr>t of Prc-ncn the
f • <p H'iu * ai>.union fca- non
I !<> : taken this pa*rio* > worV The
• n .«nd - orren ' harged with <he
| i of th' hair have been fur
I '.i.-hr 1 w/t bage which • h*\ ’Aill
* rr; < n v * • mon»hly bouse-to
r :c,!; The ha r |« to be e-.
and in fb.evc btig- which are 'her.
c.-Aard and to -I* rentrd collection
! r'. they are cfcharged
! ; or empty on* -, and these In tbei*.
,’n af* agiln filled wi*h fresb
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GERMANS WEARING
PAPER CLOTHES
Germany - f»*t t*<om!nt hard »jr
I 'or wcar:n? appsr*l and Inventors
v .ve «’ifo -Vd In Ending an »-f
feet ivc I'lbeMtute for and
»ftor f*hf:' Th* new material
l be* n te»t * rl and proves both
; wearable and wsshable. The <lraw
K ' I • I I ’ t h *
*••> 4 rather -• iff. bp by «pe
( a! rr< atrr,enf expert* hoj»e to pro
ii< • a -’ur - jfP* 1* ntly fine and
e»ft to he n**d *nn for *jnd* rwear
Ti* Her! in Tag«bl*tf devotes the
b* -t ,*it of ,t rol min to this Itn
[" rant r* v l it ion in f lothe« Work
1 m*-n' clothing of -tronr feature
• r » ** ■ b*»*.xb» ,n toe H* rlin
i *'P *nd men’- ’ro’iVers, -pecial
tv itnpr* .-nat* fl to wi»h*’*nd rain,
ar*- ale*) on -ale %
Th* *TaK*hiatt says hv next
spring, men women and »h.ldr*-n
of ail c!**<*•* ’aHI probably be weir
inc complete ojtflts nia<l«> of the
n* w mat* rial l» i* worth noting
fha’ fhese roofjs, like the tnaterlais
they replace, arf only pureh w iblc
on riotning penmts. (
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And Advice to Investor*
If The Times Prints It, The T.met Be' eves It
i r * Berlin Z
prin* Me follow.ng story
r>n M recent mark* ♦ day at
Fried* r aj. 'r* wo
Scrapping m;t , s v, A
Over egree<l to pay f n
Ittod k '‘ " r ri
1 VegcTjbJe stand
be «uoj c,f *>o cen*« to • i quantity
r,f ky. ■. a hi. when a lady’ ; n >*'an<i
• n ' • md h*r shout* and to the stall
kc<• j...- You sell me the kho! rahi
• ' K• * >u ?S pen.* i •
There.ipon the original f i-tor,i*r
admin ‘*-*d e. s< ne* i>f T ; 'r)ginc
I 'oe* ris;ht and left on her nv • >
| cheeks exclaiming ‘Nov then, votj
' r ''*r the cn r.r- • ■ i| .
.® n tt) # ti m *
'lf *€■ hrd more of *h:- *or‘ of
ropulsr execution of j'i-t'*e ih* r»
won’ j h* tar less suTcring and the
• ur -c proud minocjty high pln~ed
of c»* ► vroubl h»* r due < ,\ ir
*be proper 1» vej by Ih* ride if
|* * ■•■ir ft rior.* ”
Gratitude
T* f* r ».f Meet fJirl (before th*
[ s roof «n'raini What would y r i
*av * T kissed y*.u r.gbt b* for* oil
! Tfcis crowd*
'I e - ,-djcr I’d ssy, “Thanks f*»-
’he *ir kaiser’”- Ptl* k
Footle- or letr-r pride tumbles *»ul
**f *’ « balloon
11 1 oh GmrdciM i Sftjrs
A- cabbages are particularly j
1 f-T ly and can stand considerable i
fr-.«? i* will pay to give r,«r*ftl I
atrentinn *ven to very sm.ill
plant- for They are likely to head
ir sc h> Oit I. Th*- only wav. .
‘bo’uc'i to k«e.p cabbage* grow
■ Ing is to cultivate th*tn con
r tn-*all> v If the heads of ol«l*r
I j [.lan* bnn to burst push them
1 over »i*h the foot ao a* to
: break *he root* on ofie side, a* ■
I ‘hi* w;l| check growth and stop !
th> trouble C’abhsre* shottld
b* k*-. t growing ** long a« po*
j s|t>lc a* they are difficult to
i *tor«- until the weather I* cold
By Webster.
The Keep Well
Column
HAY FEVER.
Hay fever dim*' wiW sud be here*
\ -*rding tn 'he American Hay
Fev*r Prevention association th*r*
•ks.. ♦ . „ \. Hjla . $
are two kmd« of
ha v fever in the
I’ntted State*, the
vernal and the au
tumnat f o r rn s
While these vary
somewhat in the
different atHtes.
the average fives
if* from M*v ;
'o July .si for 'h«- flrst ar l from
!a'e \ «lkf I-1 to t|. r flrst for 'he
-e*ond term
The principal cause of autumnal
h.*v fever s* th>- pollen of com
m'-n r»gw*-ed, the giant ragweed
n.a-'h elder- and c*>* nle bur r»
p i'lnc ‘ - in 'n<- -* ''ions or ag
gravatint 'h** infeetion
Writ o f K vr* < * autumn hay
fever is principally due to the worm
woods tArtemis :*«i of which there
are manv varieties .n 'he paclflc
and Rocky mountain state* Tie
western ragweed, marsh za< r
tenAdas *nd cockle bur* ar* a-»o
ia *** c,,u«es in some Idealities
As 'he control of th»* hay f* ver
weed* i* of *he flr't importance in
hay fever everyone should cooper
ate With the health a ithorltir-s in
enforcing the anM w*-ed laws, which
already exist ,n many riMes
Efforts are now being made tn
e.sfahll h a«lerj'intc anti hay fevt-r
1* gis’iK'ion in every state, the < n
for< em«*n' of which w ill -tamp out
hav f#-v»-r in mn-' localities.
In order to prevent or diminish
?>•,e rri'a'ing * au-*- of i.'tl- disease,
h.« . fever * th'ect • -hould avoid
road• adjoining field* or lots with
nejf.. 'f '! weed and u'ing 'he |) * y
f*". <-r <•< a son An a'ta* k d'ie '*,
uf'h t-xpos ire low *r- the patient •
resistance *o that for a long time
after* ard* he more susceptible
to the hay fever pollen
:n the majori'y of ra*-es a diet
reduced in meat, fish, cheeae. milk,
et • )« eg henefli in dimml-hing the
,u **a e k and vegetabi* sand fr'iit
h' uid be given th*- preferenc*
Sni'>king and alcoholic drinks
.hot)ld be avoided.
Health Oueafiona Antsceced
H T "How .an l keep my hair
from falling out .-,n ! ibu- leaving
me prematurely hald^"
Keep voir h* ar !.* ,t4*f . hr m"an*
of thorotigh washing, hrumhing and
ruh* tnc e)f the j calp.
Pointed Paragraphs
The w** puy and the fool'*
money = o*>n g«* together.
It vn a hot day in Rom» when
if pot up so N'ero.
A plr!'* watch !■ uaually more or
nam*nt.«l than useful.
Many n m«n who I* willing to be
pr>ofl i* unable to make pood
T’hlloropher« are men w- ho Imaeino
that they hHYf to b*’ fool*
The man who in near the hoffom
of the ladder hasn’t far tr» fall.
In aff'-r v* nr* a man b* pin* to
appreciate th* woman jho banded
him the |fv mist
rrur ld**a! of a tm* l hern the
man whf> I rinp* a friend home to
dinner on wa-h day
It 1 i« Inipo**lMe to live without
working Kven tbof* who are *up
po--»*d to know ‘how are really \<w
paired in working aom»bodjr
Some m»n achieve matrimony,
•oiri*- have it thru*f boon thorn, and
others aro lucky enough to eacape
"If girl* would oat mor% onion*
they would have fewer from
phyakolana." *aya a aclentlst also
from other young men.
Solidarity
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in 11. 1111 l CK
Author of ‘Th* Kwl.il* of IVrinn
• ■tty," "P*jrrhi»l«|jr and
Parenthood." etc.
Robert A Woods of |(oaton. tin**
of the hem known mk i»| service
orior- m the Pnited States, hu;
prepared for the \m«tican Institute
<f Social Servlti a wart mi* com
inunit) program
I cannot jjiv* It here in Its en
Mrety. thouah if l had the -pace |
-ho'ild gladly do o Hut I invite
ittentton to ou»' phase 01 Mr
Woods’ pr< gram which seems to me
•i special Importance from the point
of future as well a.- Immediate
needs.
The longer *he war has gone on
■hq more has become apparent 'he
tie* 1 1 sot a kci'ii s. nse *>t ■>*>, jal re
sponsihilitv on the part of ho* h old
ind young In union there ts al
ways strength, but Mur cm b* no
real unity of effort uni* -.s every In
It vidua I in a •oniniunitv appre* lates
his obligations to hts fellow « Irens
To assist in developing this ap
preciation and gr» atei community
solidarity Mr W *od- n 'h*-s*
recommendation'
I'rge membership campaign* in
hnrebci* and .ill pubMc : u it*-d or
ganiration- Scour* further use- of
bur* h and -hn«»| building- a eom
•minify eenter* Kind some interests
about which all churches can unite
House puhli edict* I* to new op
yortunitlcs of iroteiMing the com
ul unity and enhancing its in'eusts
Encourag* different racial groups
v r* .*•>• i *:••* w imi '' triiu: th* -r in
crests, ami by drawing them rc
sj onstbly in'o th* .* n* ral schi*me
Kmphasue the fact ’ha: with the
probable falling off of immigration
l* will b«* an « com mi* as well as a
;-o!iti<\tl necessity that we u ure
•he fullest rir« :I »ion in th** wor
•ud Inf - rest a of Mi* nc *n *»n th*
part of the Immigrant population
I’rovule for th* care. *tn a com
t unity has -of health and morn's
R* nforc** and •t'tnl provision for
•>to»‘(tion of infant It'* and for the
medical inspect ion of school chi!
dren.
Heard against tendencies toward
relaxed m.u-ui standards among chi!
!;.u and young p»’op> Provide
i-.it'a'ive and leadership in whole
s >me recreation for them, as well
** ways In which th*-v can be in
volved m 'he plan of communi'y
service
S* f forth for adults a hotter re
-.m< and standard of lit' under th**
stimulus of war requirements.
Seek a higher and a finer
sentiment throughout the com mu
nitv a« a whole Organize commit
ni'y singing at ! • u-< m <rt v
j 'he Inspiration of patriotic serv ice,
tr.d p ib‘'a n:» etfr gs of 'he forum
| 'vpe in which* t y i*> deeper signift
! * *n*-e of Atiorican par', ipation In
■ the war i- continuously sc forth
He alive ns a community ’*> the
I n-w religious aw akening which is
»pl>earinir in one after another of
* *he conn*ries a' w .*r
Organize during M >• w ar to carry
! over everything that s ***.«•*! n 'h*
: war «* n* in .-n* in'-' the future re
cons'rnc".' n period
Enrmr ic* • .*■ 1 • >t- n 'o •ah*' n
j new me t ir>- of his tikll powr
j and r> *pon Ibilitlr s ‘Emphi.iz* the
• .y , - , - • • » ! be’: g ropr» and
!ui >n ’he Wor 1 i of ’*• value of * vert
| human heir g
| Suggestion* such a* these mad*
' h\ Mr Wood*, could and should ! *'
arr * and »n' > •h* * 1 " v ■" ’
! niunity in the land in * , vs r jr city,
i- ■ ir v an an. v <g ■ »t <! **e * Ted
! settlement. Among 'h* thing- ii>
(indispensable today, community
i solidaritv and individual appr«ria
I Mon of social responsibilities surely
j have a foremost ; |:o •
j \ud if tn doubt how to carry the*r
suggestion* *n'o effect With the
jgrta'est like ihood of securing the
* desired results w *it* to *b*- \men
j can Ins’ltute of Soi.nl Service A«
j *or Place New \, rV < itv, for d*-
tailed information on am special
Not Censored!
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Deg Outwts Aiare
SIBKRO. ' il Wien hit alarm
do* k f* •ri to wc r .T • . . Atklfls
jyfifis
jnv* -titrating loot i m j u ni
• log, who h.*d <ori' a* t. *i Atkins’
habit of late ri*mg turned t)v
alarm lever e,ff «v.-r> r gh' after
Aikin- was .t -1 •n. and th* n Mimed
H on '-lit: th* '<\' morning to
avoid suspicion Vklns i- httying an
electric t |e>< k v 11 1> * t.n;* loe k
Fingers Betray Him
ni.r»OH \ la .1* ff Freed. Wanted
on a iot g• • trharg* , who worked
n the Eve * I lor r* '*.u;r.in' bet** Inst
winter, was ejmgr.f hy a pr.vkte ,|*
tArtivo and id*n'ifl» I thru finger
prin*< on a soup plain in the r**«
lanran*. Th* proprietor explain*
• ho durability of the finger y.rintbv
_M> ink that th* plate* nr re U*ed
only for n> ■>*«•! oup. nr»t erred In
r umm* r
I’la red
"On whai ground* do you rbtlm
exempt ion?”
“Short * ight* ln*‘f«*.”
’That'* all right. Theu will pu»
yon up tfi th*’od\an*«Ml tr 4 n*’h**a '*
Judge
I tiMsy K«l» lor
Editor That's a good Joke. hu*
if . too course
M* «l* r W< 11. you’re pretty fnany
The Literary IHc< ,t printed it.
Yale Record.
carrier in TVtrolt. F cent* a week; els»
where, 10 cent a a week Hy mail, $5 a
ye,tr. c’all Main 4f»20. tillered at tho. Posts
office In Detroit as second clans mail matter.
The Spider.
BY UR. FRANK CRANE
(Copyright, IJMS. by Frank Trane)
Shi* was beautiful beyond all dreams,
with eyes of infinite sympathy (even to
understanding) and calm, wide brow
from which the abundant hair waved
back as the sea rolls away from the
white sand, and mouth that seemed the
nest of sweet desires, and she sat in an
old Florentine chair among heaped up
pillows, and the lace upon her breast waa
filmy as a spider's web.
1 pon the walls of her room were
hangings of KlemUh tapestries, of an
cient joustings and hawkings, fair cava
lier." afield and graceful damsels sitting
beneath elms gazing at sailing swans in
°.t pool, and in the corner of the ceiling
a spider clung to the rungs of his web.
The rug beneath her feet was a price
less treasure from the Hast, a blend of
subdued, harmonious colors, rich and
quiet, for many workers had toiled at
it thru a hundred years, -pinning their
dusky souls into it. as spiders weave
their webs with their own substance.
1 pon her slender finger gleamed a
diamond that caught the light, broke it
into a thousand pieces and scattered it
thruout the air; it was a jewel men had
died for, and from his corner the spider
eye I it. and anon would shake his web.
She was very wonderful and divine to
see; such a face had she as stopped a
man’s heart and then set it stumbling
on. such a look as swept a man’s being
with paralyzing sweet mss. such a smile
jas would send men daring to the ends
of the earth, and Ik* unto them sufficient
reward for all the perils of the seven
seas, as if here the Maker of all things
had made the supremest of His works.
*\hausting Hi- last almighty skill of
handiwork, so beautiful was she, as she
-at there and wove her fancies, as a
-pider weaves his web.
The table bv her side was of old wood
and dark, inlaid with ivory; her eye
’ shes were long anti languorous, the
mints that enfolded her white body were
-of* a ' filmy mists upon the morning
hills, the hook in her hand was of blue
and gold and the lines upon the open
page spoke of very curious things; the
echoes of distant mu-ic crept into her
j chamber, she was fre- h and fragrant as
a newly opened ro-e; all about her was
the atmosphere of innocence-and fineness
and the suggestion of tilings exquisite,
, and the poet in the hook she read was
' speaking of how strange a thing it is
that the spider, a little spot of poison,
can spin so beautiful a web.
Let the People
Rule and Write
Democracy at Home
To Ih* Editor nf-Th* Ttmrs:
P mn luinliv h» rj ll * *tion**d that th*» world
i- r.nw in ft.*- t;rrh *hroo«i <,f A crt-n'or frt-odom
« r- '•!< jrf-' t fl« rr.orr;u v fh;»n i* ha* known.
■ir*J O *f w • MU-’ j>,.*'■ an ;u't 1- f par' in it- <* ' %
*<«riiirav
It > *’ •".? h< quo*Mnnod that had **«• n* > n m..,*•
.'• r* *o In ' ; j,r, n tho r >achf ** of 'hr- poop!**, H **
• i ’v in 'lf i oir duf> miffht ho rloarrr
and It?- r*r»-roiis now
H I ; -I • •* I 'it' ;.* born riven a rood
•!> :"i 'tii-ti of demorrarv n action. had »<*
.■n-i-tr-d on frordom frntn nutorraev horn in
\ " < ■ fa, ih<* f.hj* of I* * on in ight ha '.**• morn
i poor 'h:yi built to correct aiiforracv In Flu (
i rope nf'W j
i V. - * anno* i* <-nnah’, hopo to rijro autorrarvS
iin r irop* w h a itorrac) n Arnorira Two hm
| mor* auto»-racier will riof niak<* a d* mocrar M
I \nd <*n!> a* w <- r<> n» thl* dutv in the true xpirfl
,of «lcniocrat|r frciajom onlv a* the will of \>JM
1 people t*. made known and worked oui, c*M
! democrac) he < -tahll-h'd f*r mulntatncd here *|,
elftew here A
If j* is our duty to re«*lnt to the death
»o* racy in Kurope and it may he, la If
mu* h more o*ir duty to r* |«*t to the death t*M
tocracy lore in America'* i
If we ar*- to ineift to the Inst *!rf»p of
»*nd *he last ouhee r,f treiuuire, that the wi||9
the p*>oti|e b*- uprerne In central Kuropr, mil
we not |ik*w|f*e to in c lvt, to the la*t dropV
hlofid and the la 1 -* ounce of treasure, that H
will of th<- people b iuprenu on every rjuehkl
here in America? H
If of America may no* claim the right V
democracy, wha* a futile, foolish act it |*.»
-’riv#- io force the people of Pruaala to ct§
"tir h righta.
J H SYKER, 4
Mellevue. Mich , Auk 27. lf)17
Danger! Shouts Hollandla f j
To thr E'lttor nf Thr Tontt
We would like to have you pul a piece In voujl
paper regnrdihtc the temporary ha'htnr hear®
( Ui the head of lte||e I ale, the *ame hejnr
»*r»'wn wit|i broken bottle** and other aharp oh- ',
J«ct«* an*l t onarquently exceedingly dangeroua 1
Our clul* having-held » picnic th< re recently,
we . \j,* nenced tbl* *o our great discomfort an f
for *l* r if our duty to give fair warning to tu«
public in general.
PHILIP HOKKSTRA, Sccy. Hollar,din
Aug 27, 1917. 7H. r , Hums Ave.
Laugh With Us
A woman and her four year old non were on
a vl«it to her brother In-law In l^*n<lon
One morning at the breakfast
fable th*' uncle aaid to the b*iy ;
I*ll**re. Teddy, I* xoniet hlng yon
don’t s*** 4 In 1,/u‘icn‘thire,''’ at
th* 4 *ame time placing some
email ball* of butter In front
of him.
"bon'f n*. though'" said the
bo» ‘ I h* r** are thr»*o bai.a • *
butter hanpinp ou*sl«le th*- *n«ip
where mcdher take* our clothe*
tvery u*‘a4io jucriunc: Ain't ther«\ moth eft*
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