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w$immm?mmmmmim THE DAY BOOK M D. COCHRAN EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. EM SO. PEORIA ST. CHICAGO, ILL Ton,nno Editorial. Monroe 3B3 SUBSCRIPTION By Carrier In Chicago. 30 cents a Month. By MaU. United States and Canada. JJ.00 a Yer. Entered as second-class matter April 21, 1914. at the postoffloe at Chlcairo, IU, under the Act of March J, 1S7. Starting in Friday's edition of The Day 'Book the editorial news and the Public Forum will be found in the rear section of The Day Book.. This change is being made so that we can have more space in which to run our daily increasing letters to the Pub lic Forum. GOOD NEWS FROM EUROPE- Like a ray of sunlight glinting thro' J me wo. uuuua wuiuu suauuw niurope comes a brief dispatch from Bor deaux that Madame Sarah Bern hardt has successfully stood the shock of the amputation of her limb and is steadily improving. Every man and woman who has been enthralled by the surpassing his trionic talent of this remarkable woman will delight in' the tidings and voice a prayer that she may speedily recover her physical health and with her great gifts unimpaired. Rosine Bernhardt, better known to the stage as Sarah, is now nearly 71 years old. She has been constantly before the theatergoers of the whole world since 1867 and has delighted untold thousands by "her-artistic un persons in "Camille;" "Theodora," "Fedora," "La Tosca" and "Cleo patra." Sarah Bernhardt is not only a great actress, but a sculptor, playwright and painter, as well as a loveable woman, SHORT ONES An impassioned orator" in New York demanded that Ireland be neu- traL When Ireland is neutral In any thing it won't be Ireland. Customs change. For instance nowadays every girl who does wrong is a "movie actress" and a dozen years ago she ,was a "dressmaker." A Sterling, ill., man struck at his wife, swung his arm through a pane, of glad and bled to death. Moral: Wives should keep a pane of glass handy. Napoleon they say was a great reader but can you imagine what he would have said if he had read the tale of Waterloo as it would have been reported in a Hearst paper of today? A South Bend man is father of five sets of triplets and two pair of twins named Ashbell, Archer, Austin, Ar thur, Arnold, Allen, Almon, Albibin, Alfred,Albion, Adolph, Abel and Ab ner. He probably now is ready to start on the Bs. THE PUBLICTORUM "STEC DID RIGHT." Stephen Stec was inspired by divine love that stood porter at the door of thought to protect his little brother from chastisement, and in protecting his dear parents from anxiety and worry he was rewarded by a higher power that saves us from sickness, sfk and death. He did right. Give us more' boys like Stephen. P. Jay F. SPANKING CHILDREN. I have read the story of Stephen Stec. I do not think it was loyalty as much as fear. His mother or father must have been in the habit of spanking the boys or they would have told. A case similar to this in some re spect I know. It happened about 20 years ago. A girl of about 10 was told to take her little sister out ta play and to take care of her. It was in the fall of the year. They went to play in the water in the