The Washington times., 1903-11-19
Free-Hand Comment
On Men and Manners

And thus. IN ways appalling
Things even up at last.
Yield not to grief beyond control
While gathering fuel IN
For If your bin has no more coal.
Al least yeur coal has been.
Pathetic. indeed. was the reply OF the
Panama representatives 20 those from
/ Colombia "Tha political ties binding
the Isthmus to colombia have been
broken The ties OF affection however.
never caa BE- broken. Ia view Of the
I fact that Uncle sam cruisers prevent a
naval war between the two countries.
I and there IS no way for them 10 set az
each other overland. afectioa seems 10
be their only alternative.
+ Parents Of children attending the
( Phelps school are justified ia their de-
mands that The promptest aud most
( drastic measures should be adopted 10
stamp out diphtherla. which bias ap-
peared in the neighborhoOd. This dis
/ ease is one OF the most contagious and,
/ eA en- with advanced methods Of treat
ment. one OF the most dangerous 10
! which children are subject II Is posi-
+ bic that fear may have exaggerated tlIe
state Of affairs. and that the school may
] not be -fuli OF dipbtheria as some re-
siding in the neighborhood allege liz
/ may not be- true chat SO many rs SIX
4 teen or seventeen cases have been taken
! from the school az The neiehbors claim,
/ but that several Of tile children have
! been brought down with the disease,
and that the school is IN danger OF be-
/ coming "a breeding place OF diph5helaa.
( there can be no doubt. The Times am
/ nounced several days ago that four
i 4
building. and since then new cases have
! developed in that immediate neighbor-
hood. The teachers. when interviewed.
/ are strangely reticent, and refer people
| 10 "A health officer This is not matter
/ FOR secrecy The fullest light should be
thrown upon the subject, 50 that par
onts, il they choose. can keep their chill
dren ut home. III .as high as sixteen or
seventeen cases Of diphfheria can be ,
I traced 10 the building. it should De
closed until all danger has passed.
A Cleveland woman has taken legal
steps which are likely 10 convince her
husband that marriage is a failure. and
no mistake. She has sued him for di-
vorce. and has got out an Injunction 70
prevent him from eating az her table
/ She says. in effect that hes "a great
lazy luDber who won't work and that
/ she is tired Of boarding him Evidently
/ the gentleman has neglected 10 make
/ love TO her. Men who marry women
who take in washing. and heiress-s.
should keep on the right side of them
Residents Of this city VIII hope 10 ses
/ the proposed appropriation for building
a monument 90 the private soldiers Of
/ the Union army go through. and after
it has passed they wiz hope stin more
| earnestly that the commission viii be
! intrusted TO some one capable Of grasp
| ing the subject with reverence. complete
understanding. and artistic perception.
/ Washington is now adorned with many
monuments 10 the leaders in the great
struggle. but no memorial has been
/ erected 10 the nameless heroes who gave
their lives for their country II the
work is TO be undertaken al all. no time
should be lost. for the ranks Of those
who fought in the war are rapidly be-
coming sthinned. and fewer and fewer
\ gather at each reunion. The monument
should be erected soon SO that as many
as possible OF the surviving veterans
may look upon IT,
Louise. former crown princess OF Sax
/ Ony, has not strengthened her case
greatly by the confession which she
made in her book. recently published
/ She did not love n. GirOn, she says. but
/ merely used him as a means to obtain
/ a divorce from the crown prince which
/ she had determined TO have at ali haz-
ards She voluntarily abandoned Giron
/ the moment the divorce was obtaiEel-
/ l. appears that Louise Graves for symp,s-
/ thy. she had hoped. she continues in the
same book. that her abandonment Of
/ her rank and her elopement with a com
moner. would cause all the world 10 APP
( plaud her, as il did John Of Orth. II
any such sympathy did exist for her, it
VIII have have been dispcied by this
/ cold-bIooded explanation. People pretty
| generally recognize that Our poor human
nature is subject 10 terribiV temptations.
/ and we may AT least feel pity TOR those
who go astray. If the princess was dis
/ appointed of receiving the general APP
plause which was accorded John of
| Orth. she probably owes this TO the fact
/ that the public is not prone to applaud
mothers who desert their children. But
/ the great mistake which Louise has
made lies in the fact that she has ex-
planned at all She had become pri-
vate citizen, and the world had all bur
/ forgotten her and her troubles
The Ohio supreme court has just rem
/ those people who neither keep nor buy
! chickens. but occasionally have them
/ Tor dinner A chicken coop, says the
J learned judge. is not a henhotese, am II
/ may therefore be broken into and rided
/ without the attaint of burglary. But
/ was not this point settled long ago IN
1 the public mind as proved by usage %
! speech2 Who ever heard of "chicise5r
/ burglar?
! The effort which Chicago has inau-
guTated 10 secure the Republican and
I Democratic national conventions serves
as the first official announcement tillt
we are on the eve of another Presiden-
l tial election. AS usual. Chicago is on
1 the ground early with both her large
feet. and is raising all kinds OF money
TO carry her purpose through So 1ar
4 as Washington is concerned. the big
village by the lake can have the coa-
I yenffoDS This cifv serves The ,-tsa-