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have contended that they were withir
their rights in threatening to sink neu
tra! the "war zone.'
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Station : . the Gulflight the wholi
which the "vvai
zone" proclamation ? I collapses.
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UM of the ancient treaty of navigation anc
friendship between the United States am
Prussia. Under that Bhe must make com
pensation to us whatever the character o1
the cargo carried by the (?ulflight anc
whatever the degree of regularity claimed
to have been observed in the destruction
of that v< '. The IW-rlin authoritie*
may try to treat the (?ulflight case as only
a repetir ??m of the i
But according to the reports so far re
ceived the <?< rman submarine commander
did not attempt to hold up the Gulflight
and pass upon the contraband character
of her cargo. H< simply dispatched her
on faith, a* the Dutch, Swedish and Nor
were dispatched. It will
therefore 16 extremely difficult to read
into the incident ti gree of r?gu?
lant] ed in the Frye con?
troversy. German Foreign
Office is unusually adroit, it will not be
able to meet the just complaint of the
United Stat? * without admitting the in?
validity of the "war sone" proclamation.
On our part then no retreat.
We a i .'ion of
our t- ? <?n the high seaa. We op
?achments on neutral rights at
the convenience of belligerent, trying to
enforce the doctrine that might makes
right. W< renting the battle of
civilization ?.' '.??rial law. We
must Bald ? to take any
which it may be necessary to take
to protect American lives and property
frosn the illegal attacks of l?elligerents.
Food, and Food Only!
city when a restau?
ra- inderstood I be a place for ob?
taining foi 1 m peace and comfort, not
a dance hall or a variety show, with food
as a ?fit 0? old
; 1 de-i re to take
their nourishment undiluted by fox trots
and van:? I ??ed that Li?
cense Coaomiasionei M-gulation of
the cabarets will sturt a downward re?
vision which will Stop just on the further
side of elimination.
Not all the pi places have de
livered th? ever to this digestion
destroying, rrii-..-ir.thro*,y-mu!tiplying de?
vice. It is still possible for the initiated
to got a /.Inner in public eating houses
whereat the palate may have It
undisturbed by whirling dervishes or mi
sical review? to-called. But the indivic
ual who ffols hunger '"trrlOp.n
must hunt far nnd faithfully to find
refuge from snug ami dance. 1 '
in a year which moat restaura t poopi
a?lmit to have I md no
wondrous hopeful in ils ;
It se? ans time for Rei ?
rm. Cabaret? ami miniature muai
.-hows arc costly. If tome ?
, l'lvni purveyor would only put into hi
.. without raising the prices of hi
dishes, the money now B]
tainment" it is not too much to believ
that his fame? would travel far.
Serbia s Plight.
Those who ),;, i . ntributed in ?in;
way to the unhappy Serbia ma;
find some sort of melancholy satisfactioi
in the testimonj i nt historial
er we publish to-day such sat
?.?faction ns lies in the assurance, if fur
ther assurance ? y, that thoi:
help wat sorely needed and that for wha
they have done the sulTerei
v grateful.
All witne -i - who have -n Ser
f late nre of ore mind, that it il
'
and misery of her people. Mr. Trev?
plain yet harrowing account of what h?
himself witnessed there last winti r con?
firms the observations of other travellers
and in this, as in nil relations of the kind
it is manifest that not half the story is
Out of the horror and misery on all
: ' to take here or
there an ? at may serve to sug
the hideous suffering that, pn
everywhere.
What has hitherto been ??one for thesn
unfortunate yet uncomplaining people is
small indeed in comparison with their
needs, and it may well he hoped that Mr.
Trevelyan's moving story of their plight
may serve as a stimulus to further efforts
on their behalf.
Prof. Haeckel's Belated Patriotism.
In tendering his resign '-onor
ary mem! er of a British publishii
sociation Professor Ernst Haeckel is at
great pairs to put in a kind word for
Shakespeare, Byron and some other Eng?
lish worthies. However unfortunate they
were in their birthplace, lie will continue
to hold them in "great admiration"; nor
can he prevail with himself to forget his
obligations to many personal friends in
England, Scotland ami the British col?
onies.
Hut these things amount to nothing as
against his political sentiments. Politi?
cally Great Britain is a sinner and polit
it is the duty of good Germans to
hate Great Britain. Moreover, Pr>
Haeckel's hatred is so deep-rooted that
he has no hopo nt nil of getting rid of it.
"I may live only a short time," he ex?
plains, "and any prospect of a reconcilia
with England i- for me excluded,
even after peace is made." Regretfully,
therefore, he withdraws from the society
that has published so many of his works,
for "in a political sense," he insist . "i
must despise England deeply."
This patriotic obligation is what Pro
? Haeckel never realized till ?piite
recently. Some thirty year ? ago, after a
tour through a few of the British colonies,
he was full of admiration for a sy-tom
which he has not ceased to quarrel with
and condemn since the war began. The
great robber state was then an object of
profound respect. He could nol conceal
his disagreement with those who looked
with disfavor on the policies of the British
in Egypt; "en the contrary," he wrote,
"it appears to me that they should he
hailed with satisfaction, alike on the
grounds of common humanity and on
those of national political action." In?
deed, at that time the whole British Em?
pire was in the eyes of the German pro?
fessor "an object worthy of admiration,"
the English were "undoubtedly gifted be?
yond any other nation with the genius for
founding and governing colonies," they
understood to perfection the art of ruling
"with as much tact as judgment," and it
was the greatest pity in the world that
his fellow-countrymen should look upon
their neighhors with envy when they
might well "study the political skill which
bring! progress and hen?!.! to the whole
human race."
It will take an ocean of hatred to wash
out the memory of these kind words and
Professor Haeckel se Ived in his
old age to conjure up the last drop.
Slackness in British Factories.
There is probably a great deal of truth
in the objections of the English labor
leaden to Mr. Lloyd George's diagnosis.
of the troubles in the shipyard- and else?
where. There is truth, of course, on his
side, too, but it may reasonably be sus?
pected that he has laid too much to the
charge of intemperance arid that other
causes, too, contribute considerably to the
prevailing slackr
Mr. Will ?"rooks, speaking for his own
constituency, attributes the conditions at
the Woolwich Arsenal to a want of intelli?
gent organization. Though nine months
have passed since the war began, no facili?
ties have as yet been provided for ti?
to get their meals, and this, he intimates,
i- hut cbaracteriatic ?if many shortcom?
ings to be found there and ? His
own opinion is that aoeusationi of ?
??ive drinking "have been spread broad?
cast by employers to cover up their own
shortcomings," and this opinion is appar?
ently shared by other labor leaders, who
are no less resentful of the general dis
jMisition to lay all the blame on the in?
temperate workingman.
Though there may l?e little ground for
suspecting a deliberate conspiracy among
employers, it is highly probable that con?
ditions in the factores do contribute to
the slackness observed there. "The British
Medica! Journal" suggested not long ago
that the government would do well to ap?
point a commitU-e of physiologists to su
porvi<*e ventilation nnd beating in places
where men work and to advilS generally
on questions relating to fnt it-no. It antici?
pated the labor lra.lrrs in attributing
the supply "f munit'eas
strain from overtime to
?''. ui atisfactory conditions ? . which
rV i done. "Many ? factoric?.,"
;? said, "are worked .? nnd day, and
hands taken on m a factory where
gunstockl are made have complained to ns
, , the old hands,
they say. will have the windows shut"
This i-* but one complaint. There are
'many other- no less considerable, (?irl
machinists are obliged to sit on benches in
shifts of four hours morning and after?
noon; they have not enough physical
exercise to keep them in good condition.
rig in badly ventilated, overheated
rooms and without sufficient rest and rec
eation, neither men nor women can be SX
? 1 to keep up to the pitch required
in these strenuous times. The conditions,
? ver, are peculiarly calculated to
prim?te drinking, and it is not at all
unlikely that the intemperance complained
of is in large measure a result of these
conditions.
Politics or the People?
Mr. McAneny's analysis of the appro?
priation bills is nmjile justification for
Mayor Mitrhel's appeal to the Governor
ay action on financial matters until
the city authorities have had a chance
to be hoard. Assumption of the necessity
for a direct tax this year is based on the
that each item in the appropriations
as adopted by the Legislature is impera
needed for the state's welfare and
may not be cut one cent. If $10,000,.
and more can be chopped out of the bills,
Mr. McAneny says, reasons for the
direct tax become mere excuses and im?
position of the tax itself an outrage, not
alone on this city but on the state.
Nobody?not even the legislators who
voted for them?believes the appropria?
tions cannot be pared down without detri?
ment to the state's interests. It has
?grown to be legislative custom to "put it
up to the Governor" when there is a ques?
tion whether or not to adopt a bill author?
izing spending of the state's money.
if tho Governor favors the expenditure
iwmakers argue that their judgment
-indicated; if he vetoes it they
derive only a slightly diminished political
advantage from the circumstances, for
they can shift responsibility for the loss
of the "pork" to him.
The bills now pending before Governor
Whitman are no exception. With a total
of $65,000,000, against approximately!
$57,000,000 last year, they contain salary,
raises and department allowances which
as much patronage grabs
as were the various "ripper bills" which
displaced Democratic officials for the
benefit of Republicans. How much of
this they contain only officialdom has yet
been able to estimate, for the printed
copies of the bills are just off the press.
A direct tax of 1.7 mills will mean
that next year's budget here will have to
include $14,000,000 to nay the tax. That
is, the city's tax rate will go up 17.5 points,
? ire which the Mayor well says will
"wellnigh confiscatory" of property
. ii - 100 pi r c? ni valuation.
Governor Whitman has the choice be?
tween cutting down appropriations to a
point permitting him to veto the direct tax!
and approving this practical confiscation of i
city property. He has the choice between
economy?rigid economy, which is an in-j
separable part of sound administration?
and money-grabbing which will handicap
?ty'a development seriously and bring
hip to thousands of its citizens. He
ha the choice between helping to build
up a party machine on public funds and
curtailing this city's school facilities, its
disease prevention and health propagation
work, its recreation extension, its chari?
table activities.
After what Secretary Josephus recently
?aid about love and marriage, he surely can't
have the heart to refuse the request of a
Ilrooklyn girl that the Olympia be sent here,
? may see her sweetheart.
r of lee to large consumen? advanced ?
Headline.
They may be trusted to pass along the ad?
vance to the poor ultimate consumers with?
out delay.
It. Fliot Seta Forth Baala of Peace. Head
.. ??
Peace with whom? Professor Kuno Meyer
or I'r. Dernbnrgl
ng irrisi?n Headline.
It used to be impending.
Antiseptic Tooth Washes.
.Frn.n Tho Lam -
The use of a tooth wash does not approach
the condition*, of a laboratory test, though,
?here can be little doubt that a good di
trermicidnl work in the mouth if ?j
riforoni application of the toothbrush, and
it rnny (,<> pointed out that the tongue mav
well t'f included in the process. To be effec?
tive, however, the action of all antiseptics
a, according to the vitality of the
ms they encounter, and nasally the
tooth brushing process does rot occupy many1
seconds. This question of time exposure I
important, but it is very generally overlooked
and consequently the antiseptic trea'men'
of the teeth falls short of that efT. ctrveness
wrrrch is shown to be the case in laboratory
menta. The tooth washing rrncs?
? ore prolonged an?) the antiseptic
vviish allowed to remain m con'act w.th th*
teeth and gums for sonn? ra in 0101 instead of
seconds before anally vaaaiag the mouth
dear of antiseptic with plain water.
Buds' Awakening.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Bin
Everywhere 'neath the ground,
I "i-ning for the gentle sound
Of the magic voice of spring,
Lies a tiny living thing.
How we welcome baby flowers,
Wakened by the misty showers;
From their mother earth they creep
At the glorious aun to peep.
H. I_ VARNUM.
?Newport, R. I., May 8, 1916. ,
WILL IT COME TO THIS?
MISERY AND HEROISM IN
Sfc.RBIA
An Ln^lish Historian's Tribute to
Brave and Long-.Suffering People.
To the Editor r.f The Tribune.
Sir: The generous help in money, in p?
sonal service and even in the sacrifice of th
live? of nurses and doctors which America
making to relieve the misery of the Serbia
population ?<?ems to d?mand a special woi
of gratitude from a friend of Serbia, espi
daily one who, like myself, has recently com
from that unhappy country.
I can assure Americans that even in Pebrt
iry, when I was last there, the Serbians wer
deeply grateful for American help in the ho
. and I'r. Ryan, at Ilelgrade, was airead
a household word with them. Since the
America has been pouring in more and mor
men und money to fight the typhus and ha
lost some of her best lives in that terribl
straggle. The Serbian? are all the mor
?;rat"ful because America, a neutral country
with no commercial or other connections wit
Serbia, I ? acting there out of pure philan
thropy. It seemed natural that their allie!
the British, should come to their rescue wit
hospitals and stores, doctors and nurses. A
one of the British Seibian Relief Fund, o
whose behalf I was travelling in Serbia, I ca
testify to Serbian gratitud? for our Brit.s
aid. But for American uid, as coming fror
the prca!, beneticent source of neutral phi
lanthropy, they were, I think, ?till mor
grateful. There are many most unhapp;
parts of Europa where the American nam
will smell sweet when this war is over.
The Serbians are a people thoroughly di
serving of aid. The attempt to represen
them as savages has broken down hopelessl;
in face of the fact that in this war they havi
committed no atrocities, that their prisoner:
have nothing to complain of und that, as
can testify, the Austrian wounded are givet
?.bsolute equality of treatment side by sidt
with Serbians in the Serbian hospitals
whereas some of the Austro-Hungariur
- in the middle of August last, neai
Shal ,it7. and Losnitza, murdered from twt
thousand to three thousand Serbian civilians
burning several hundred women and childrer
alive in their houses and committing th?
most ghoulish atrocities on many others.
Those who have not seen the official report
on these atrocities can find equally good first
hand evidence on the subject in the article bj
If. Raise, of th? I'niversity of Lausanne, in
the "1'evue de Baris," April 1, l'Jl?. It wa
the knowledge that these atrocities had been
committed by the Austrian troopa in August
that caused the whole civilian population of
the northwest provinces of Serbia to fly be
fore the Austriun advance in .November. It
was solely on this account that over half a
million women, children an?l old men arrived
as refugees in the central and southern d.s
tric's of Serbia, M eaaaiag the frightful con?
gestion and the difficulties of housing, cloth?
ing and sanitation which have caused the
ravages of th? typhus to be so terrible. It
is impossible to reinstala any large number
of these refugees in their old homes at pr?s
eut because the northwest district was en?
tirely laid waste by the Austnans while they
occupied it prior to their expulsion la * ?
lember. I have ridden through this country.
? la Serbia; it is now a d
Th? Serbians are deserving of help, not
only because of what they have suffered ?t
the hands of a cruel foe, but becau-.
have shown that they can fight for their free?
dom. They are the most democratic society
in Kurope. Every peasant owns his farm, and
there is no class of landlords or of bureau
crats to make him afraid. Every one who has
seen the Serbian peasant at home likes him
for his kindliness and gsyety and hi? emo?
tional ahd poetical disposition. And every
nne who has met him in battle in the las'.
thr.e years, whether Turk. Bulgar or Aus?
trian, lias had cause to respect his valor. The
rampai urn of last December, when two hun
. tad Serbian peasant soldiers
cleared the northwest provinces of twice that
number of Austro-llungarians and captured
all their artillery, has been the most moving
episode in this world-wide war as a triumph
of the human spirit over material odds.
The sufferings that tha Serbian peasants
underwent during that Invasion and are now
enduring as a consequence of it long after
has receded are deeply imprinted on my brai
1 have seen children dead of hunger by tl
roadsida, with their mothers weeping ovi
them; the city of BhabatI in ruins and
whole ci>untry>ide laid desolate by Invade!
?who deliberately destroyed everything. <)i
of d?vastation is much like ariotht
ufter a few days the fact that evei
| house has been gutted cease? to arou
prise or emotion in the traveller. Hut I n
?member well one of the first of these seen?
?of devastation that I saw and the impressio
mad? up'.n me by a chemist's shop in a vi
'l?ge. It was a largo building, well fitted u
both on the private suie and in the profe:
Isional premises. It had b? e.-i stored just b<
[fore the war began with many hundre
?pounds' worth of medical goods. The Au?
strian officers had been quartered there, an
they had celebrated their stay by smashin
'not only everything on the privat? ?id? of th
house but the whole medical equipment o
|the dispensary rooms. The sight of the d?
liberate destruction by human malic?- of th
i costly mechanism of healing -icience seemed
?d form of murder. I shall never forge
?those thousands of little broken bottles.
The sixty thousand Austrian prisoners no\
in Serbia, speakers of six different language;
wander about, unguarded in many ca.-es, al
most unguarded in others, on perfectly goo<
terms with the inhabitants, and expressing II
?most cases the keenest de-ire not to have t
i fight again for a causo that \-:, in no sens
-theirs The difficulty of clothing them am
Bg them was great when I was ther<
last winter, and it would now be impoaaibli
but for American and British aid. For cloth
,ing and lodging are lacking to the .Serbian
i themselves, whether civilian refugees o
?lighting soldiers. At Nish I visited the pris
? oners' largest barracks, and though they wen
sleeping on straw they were better lodge?
than the Serbian troops next door to them
But both they and the Serbians were ir
wretched estate, both for loding and clothing
land the epidemics now ravaging tho country
jare the result.
1 have visited many Serbian hospitals
i Some had beds, changes of clothes and goo?
?accommodations, but many more were horri
i ble places, with straw only to lie on and nc
i blankets or change of clothing; the man's
own soiled military uniform for his only cov
lerinf. But in every hospital, good or bad
Uho Austrians were lying side by side with
? th?.* Serbians. The wards of some of th BC
'Serbian hospitals leave an indelible impres?
sion of the u.si'less horror of this war from
the point of view of the splendid peasant
'races whom it is maiming a*:d massacring.
Ihcic they lie in rows, suffering, diaea ad
and maimed, halt and blind, dying and those
I who would fain die, speaking half a dozen
'different languages, Serbian and Austrian all
equals and friends in common human ni.sery.
?all devoted to their tireless doctors and
nurses. And the nurses and doctors tell me
i that the Serbians never complain. It is these
Serbians and the Austrian prisoners, too, thai
,America is asked, not in vain, to help save.
0. M. THE Via Y AN.
New York, M?y 3, 1915.
Christian Science and Deafness.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
St: The objector to Captain Ma'hews's
way of describing his experience with Chris?
tian Science healers is like many other well
! meaning people who are strong believers in
?free speech, free press, free schools and the
right to wor.-hip or not woiship God accord?
ing to the dictates of their own consciences
! until you strike their golden culf on the nose.
Yob, I paid the aurist his price. I paid th
Christian Science teacher her price, and the
time ?pent with each made the cost per
?week the same. I did not accept free treat?
ment: I told the lady she had to pay rest
?ind live, so I paid for treatment. I asked the
aurist: "If after three months' treatment my
hearing is not improved, will you think ray
case hopeless?" He said, "Yes," It was not
improved. I asked what he thought. He
said: "It would be worth while to keep up the |
treatment." I said: "For whom?" He smiled.
I had no idea of "ridiculing" the docor nor
the lady. I am past the threescore and ten
tea? and have greater charity for hu
. than ever before. I am enjoying the
care of the Gtod Shepherd, and offer up daily
a sacrifice of thanksgiving and praise to Our
Father in heaven and can pray, "Forgive us
our trespasses as we forgive." Amen.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM H. MATHF.WS, M. FI.
Brooklyn, May 8, 1013.
NOT A SHORT CONSTITUTION
But One Making Definite Provisions
for Governmental Structure.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: I nm quite frequently hearing expres?
sions of opinion that the New York consti?
tution should be a "short" document, "con?
taining only f sent?ais"; that it should "de?
fine the fundamentals of government" and
?"leave the law-making power to the Legislat?
ure." It seems to me that this public impres?
sion?if I may call it such -is fanciful and
sentimental. In other words, I think the
' are very numerous and should
be adequately taken care of.
For instance, it appears to me to be as
plain as A, B, ?J that the time is now ripe
rur determining accurately the structure of
; late government, defining the appropriate
departments in ?he eonatitution and making
?the various heads o? departments constitu
jtronal officers. At the present tune there are
rrriiry unnecessary departments than there
I are necessary department-. The functions of
' these various departments cross and inter
. and each year the situation becomes
| worse instead of better.
Further than that, it has become the estab?
lished practice for each .??'ucceeding adminis?
tration to reorganize departments, principal?
ly for the purpose of securing partisan jobs,
the Legi-.lature of 1915 probably being the
worst offender in this respect that we have
ever had in Albany. At the risk of a much
longer constitution, I should like to see our
Constitutional Convention go into this sub?
til the greatest thoroughness, defining
the ten, twenty or thirty departments which
it regards as absolutely essential; create
these as constitutional departments and pro?
vide that all new functions which may arise
must be assigned by the Legislature to one
of these departments.
I do not see how it can be expected that a
man of character and experience can be
asked to make the sacrifice of accepting a
tenure of otiice of six years at a moderate
?alary, when there is added to it the con- j
tingency that even that fix-year term may
be chopped off by a ripper Legislature at the
end of two yeurs.
In the same connection I have introduced a
proposition for amendment to the Constitu?
tion providing among other things for the
^--establishment of the state convention for
state offices. I have heard the suggestion
nade that, whatever the merits of my propo?
sition, this la a question which should be left
to the Legislature. I do not agree. It has
been the policy in past constitutions to define
with some particularity the conduct of elec?
tions. For instance, as to registration. I
do not think that in defining one or two de-;
tails the constitution goes far enough. I
think it high time that the voters should be
able to familiarize themselves with the fun?
damentals of nominations and elections in
la of twenty years instead of having to
leiirn annually of changes in the election'
system.
There are als-i a great many other subject*
which will occur to any one as to which
there Is real need for scientific d?finition and
stability, and I think that the .-aft-guarding
of these various subjects by adequate provi?
sion in the constitution is of more itnpor-i
tance than the idea that we should have a
"short" constitution, rather than a full con-?
s'itution. I should not be speaking on this
subject at this time except that I feel some,
one should make this alternative suggestion,
M that the general pubic nay have it in
mind. JOHN GODFREY. BAXE.
New York, May 3, 1915.
Dummy Musicians in Parks.
To the K.iitor of The Tribune.
Sir: I was very pleased to see the letter
published by you on April _4 calling atten?
tion to th? absurdly inefficient manner in
which the money devoted to music in our
public parks is administered. During the
sat I attended as many of these per?
formances as possible, and the conclusion
was forced upon me that the city money is
being shamefully wasted.
I detected quite a number of "dummy" mu?
sicians, men who ?at with an instrument in
their hands which never "spoke" at all. The
letter signed I'nel l'avis brings out very
clearly the crying need for responsible and
expert oversight. If there is. which seem?
incredible, ? committee of supervision of
park band? it ia pitifully incompetent.
_ ,, MARY S. BKF.RE.
Brooklyn, April 80, 1916.
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Phelp.s's house, when ? laaft
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and I did play l
Jack Crawford, wl n, too.
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?li?l play him tR
handily. With F. i I Mr. Wei?
to an inn in Milford, where we did hare
a fairish
brew, called coffee, ever I * I Horn?
then, by ?team-train
2? With S. Spaeth i to th?
tennis-courts, and I beat Kim, but with
much difficulty. In the ? I i Neily
Tyler's, when- .. whi>
vows I would be ? fine . I but
. it; and furthei to ca ";e and
blandish me into dancing about; but I an
too awkward and too > of of
awkwardness to essay the dance, fef I
mislike to do that which I do ill; or in?
eptly.
3?S. ?Spaeth beat me this mornir.t-;bnt
I did well enough. .\nd nil afterr.' . *'?
my office, labouring, that I might ?car?
early to see B, S ha.-'- "A " and th?
Man." which A. Daly ' 'or ??
doing.
WIFE of Officer now at Front ?rill b?
*Y irla.i to WRITE bright,
LETTERS to i ' '???? or
Navy.?Box I London Times.
Votes for Women 1
Athwart our jitney path at Milford?
Conn., last Saturd Dxtk?mm
"I took a chance," telling 'ni*-***
"just like Steve i.r?>die."
"Vivicnno," writes Morrie, "think-? pro?
hibition will save th? ral?
of the universe. 'A ?hi **?!*?
'in corpore sa:.
THAI WE HAVE
Forgotten
About This Space
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There is nothing so original, so da'inf
about the way New Yurk women lire**
W.> lm\e yet to we a hat with a horirOB
tal feather rmire than 30 inches long.
//? if the doleful, mart'd' knelltl
Hot I
Miss Arabella Cinch, meet Little R^1*
the onctMimi.l Yank.
We hope you'll become good friends*
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