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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-05
Ellen Glasgow. Realist.

In a recent interview on her forth
coming book. Virginia" which Is TO
he published by Doubleday. Page &
Co. Miss Ellen Glasgow made some
interesting comments upon American
literature.
There are three things a novelist
has TO do to prove herself she said;
first. show an ability 10 create per-
sonalities: second. exhibit a sincerity
of stvIc. and. third. evince the capa-
CITY for an intelligent criticism Of life
without these he is not worth very
much in a serious big way To con-
tribute to the knowledge and under
standing Of life-that should be his
motive in writfng-not primarily to
create a pleasant impression We
must free ourselves from the fear OF
fear.
Il really believe that one OF the
greatest handicaps OF the American
novel is its agreeableness. its tendency
to support the pretty sham instead OF
the ugly truth. As long as we perse-
cute the writer for not being pretty
so long will we produce the surface
action. We all need deeper serious
ness. deeper reason. and wider person
al freedom
As IS well known. Miss Glasgow Is
a Southern woman. and her books deal
Win Southern characters. and great
many Of them arc laid in the South
in the period following the Civil War
Virginia IS laid at later time.
whore the problems Of the South hao
taken on more Of the aspect OF the
n~obIer,s Of the world.-The North
Carolina Review.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-05

father of six childrep-the youngest
is a baby of a few months, to whom
President-Elect Wilson paid speciai
yisi. in Jersey City shortly after his
election. He is noted as an after
dinner orator. and We shall be disap-
pointed II he is not heard in Richmond
before many months go by.
His is a trying task, requiring rare
cievarness and skin in handling peo-
pie. He must be a buffer" against
whom the public presses at the door
of the White House executive Offices.
weighted with Gnnumbered respon-
sibilities. he must keep sill Corners in
a good humor. and be taSful in all
things toward all men. He must be a
saIve to vanity and a tonic TO POM
posity. And when yol start upon your
thorn paved way, surely all good
Democrats WI wish good cess to you,
Joseph Patrick Tumulty. and may your
smile never leave you!
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-05

Of study, must envy the versatile
Theodore his assurance.
That Bergson is real philosopher
needs no other proof than his mild hu-
NOR about his sea-sickness on the way
over. 1--WE teach in psychology that
we get accust omed to things gradual
ly. But ! felt that the furthe II went
and the mnger / stayed on board the
worse I grew" This process OF cor
reoting theoretical ideas by the bitter
test of actual experience is one OF the
keynotes OF the Bergsonian system.
What this gentle Frenchman has
given to the worlds thought is a new
way Of looking at time, and an inter-
probation of life as a process of crea-
tive evolution. If his genius wouio
reach 10 the height of telling us what
the helter-skelter Of our national Ire
is creating and. to what ends it IS
evolving, he would answer for many
men a problem that at present seems
without solution.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-05
HOW TRAIN THE CHILD

The average American is so firmly
convinced that education is the true
palladium of his liberties that he is
tues of his schools. Nowadays he
wants everything that cannot be
slipped in elsewhere done by the
school Probably much OF this ten
dency is wholesome, but the country
wide discussion of what should and
what should not be taught at public
expense seems 10 indicate an unre2-
sonable amount of muddy thinking on
the theme. II there be one thing Oh
which clean-cut, vigorous and phil"-
sophical definition is needed, il is ed
ucation.
For our own part, we think much Of
the difficulty might be avoided if some
time and attention were given to es-
tablishing the fundamental ideas as
to what sort of training is required
by the young generation, and what Is
20 be implied in the term school 1t
would be good thing if a great
classifying brain like Aristotle's might
happen along to get these problems
into decent order.
Is education for material success in
the business of making a living? or
is il TO train the mind in the general
categories OF reality so that he may
have an equipment for handling The
HETEROGENEOUS middle Of phenomena
presented by the passing years? Must
he set a mass of facts by heart, or
a few principles that will enable him
to use the facts as they are forced
upon him by experience? Must the
school teach him morals and manners?
Must il develop his body and the skin
Of his hand as well as the strength
of his mind and the ingenuity of his
Imagination? Must he be given esthe-
tic culture and spiritual sustenance
TO counteract the materiaiistic lean
ings of a machine age? Must educa-
ton aim at preserving the leve! of me-
diocrity or saving the isolated genius?
Must il do all OF these things pellmeli
so that none Of them are done wisely
We have no answer TO suggest We
do. however. desire TO point out o1c
fact. The general aim of the human
race seems to be 10 secure for the in
dividual a certain amount OF self
realization that we call happiness, and
to make of the next generation q
slightly better material than the pres
ent. Is there no mind broad enough
10 start with these principles ana
bring some kind of order out OF the
present educational chaos?
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-05
Voice of the People


To the Editor of The Times Dispatch:
Sir-The Mclean migratory bird bill.
which the United States Senate unan
mously passed on January p. is now
in the House. Every association work
ing for the cause Of bird life in the
United States indorses this measure.
and now that the hght is half won.
every bird lover should make il his
or her special duty TO write 10 the Con-
gresham from his or her district urg
ing him TO interest himself in the Nc
Lean Senate bill and see that il Is not
smothered
II this bill is not pushed and passed
By the House this session. II means
another years delay of a matter which
has already been neglected too long
In the closing weeks Of a session OF
Congress hundreds of bills are calling
attention. and unless we show Con
gressmen that the Mclean bill is OF
nationwide importance by flooding
them with letters and kilograms. there
will be no special effort made to get
this bill up. and all the work which
has been done on it will be wasted, so
far as this Congress is concerned
Don't write long fetter; postal
card will do: make il short; make IL
plain. urging him to hurry the passage
OF the Mclean migratory bird bill
The newspapers and the great dailies
are using their editorial columns freely
because they know the Mclean bill is
the greatest measure which has ever
been offered whereby our American
migratory birds can be conserved for
all OF the people. All who love birds
never had a greater service TO perform
than in writing our Congressman to
hurry the passage Of the Mclean bill.
and a days delay on any ones part
might mean its defeat.
VI. d. HART.
Treasurer Virginia Audubon Society.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-05
THE STUDENTS, HUNGER STRIKE.

The students of the University OF
virginia Commons. or mess hail. are
n, a strike. Their demands are very
.ionle. They want better food, and
mare Of IL. We do not know which
element in this phenomenon is the
more supremely indicative of great
,-outh-the use OF a boycott as means
If nrotection. or the tremendous con-
corn with things TO eat. The adde's
cent appetite is thing TO strike Ter
ror into the heart of any parent ana
when il is massed in some hundreds
Of rayening. d-blooded youths and
,.nefted 10 the last extreme by ath-
ietics 10 wonder the gentle dons OF
Virginias cloisters stand aghast-
though. We must admit, certain OF
aforesaid dons are stout trenchermen
themselves, and are probably not with
cut Keen sympathy. located not in the
heart. but in precinct bit to the
right and downward
However. the students are on hun
ger strike. They have improved bit
on the militant English method or
hunger striking. In the one case, you
strike 10 go hungry; in the other. be-
cause YOU are hungry, you strike TO
get fed If the striker would not be
struck. we suggest the second process
OF course. there is a certain amount
Of paradox about this The mental
nabuluIn furnished these boys might
be reduced TO an imperceptible mimi
mum. and they would never strike.
You might dilute STUDY &c the nth de-
gree Of intellectual humiliation. vet
hey would laugh and grow fat there
on. The Pierian spring could go dry
as a bone yet no bitter cry of thirst
would arise. The midnight oil might
BE cornered until one drop became so
priceless that it would support all
John DIS benefactions. and these Goths
and Huns Of the academe and stoa
would placidly go to sleep in the
benedcent darkness But let their
cruel get scant. or their meat passing
tough. and 10. the landlady of Preston
Heights and Main Street reaps harvest
I'VE trust the insatiate nav Of youth
may in some way be crammed. There
probably is "A bit OF reason in the
strike il is not unlikely that the
economical scholar has demanded OF a
maternal alma mater, forfend the bull
too much for his stipend. Perhaps. If
the Commons charged enough to fur
nish him with what he wants, and then
really furnished 1t, the mutineers
might be tempted back to use what
was built for their comfort.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-05
Uc.rd i'm the Fifth Grade.

And angle Is triangle Win V"i'
two side.
Geometry teaches US how TO biseN
angles. ,...a
Parallel lines are the same distance
ALI the way and do not meet unless
YOU bend them
Horsepower is the distance one horse
can carry pound Of water in one
hour. . 49,
Gravitation IS that which 4 there
were none we should all fly away.
A vacuum is large empty space
where the Pope lives
AIgebraical symbols are used wneh
vo,, don't know what you are talking
about. -
King.
In India a man out Of cask may not
marry a woman out Of another cask
The Salic law is that you must take
everything with grain or salt-
The Zodiac is the Zoo of the SKY
where lions. goats and other animals
go after they are dead.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-05
WILSON CABINET OBSERVATIONS.

interestingly recalled in connection
with the speculation and doubt as to
how President Elect Wilson will con-
stitute his Cabinet, and the reasons
that may animate him in his selec-
lions are some observations he makes
regarding Mr.. Cleveland's choice Of
Cabinet advisers, in his History Of
the American People"
Says Mr. Wilson: In his (Mr
CleveIand's) first Cabinet there had
been men like Mr.. Thomas F. Bayard.
of Delaware; Mr.. Lucius Q. c. Lamar,
Of Mississippi; Mr.. William F. Villas,
of Wisconsin, and Mr.. Don VI. Dickin-
son. OF Michigan" These, he adds,
had been chosen in accordance with
well recognized presidents ia such
matters. because of their service in
party councils.
But. continues our historian, the
rest were men. so far as might be, OF
his own personal selection, whom he
chose. not for their influence among
politicians or in political canvass. but
because of their efficiency as men Of
business. Next Mr. Wilson notes that
in Mr.. CIeveland's second Cabinet the
element of personal choice was still
more marked, and in conclusion re-
marks that The Presidents object
was 10 surround himself. not with
party council. but with capable heads
of departments"
An appeal from Wilson. President TO
Wilson, the historian, might throw
some Trustworthy guiding light on
what may influence Mr. Wilson chiehy
in forming his Cabinet. although 1t
is calculated to cause an uncomforta-
BILE futter in the dovecotes of those
who base their claims to his consid-
GRAFTON entirely upon influence among
politicians or in political canvass.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-05
GENTS CLOTHING. SHOES
AND NECK WEAR
GOING UP"'
According 10 Uncle Abner.

II amt so very hard to git rich so
long as you earn plenty OF money ana
never spend any. ..
Two can live as cheaply as one IL
they live with her folks and don't pay
any board. -
They say il costs twice as .auch 70
live nowadays as it did forty years
ago. Well. by gravy, IL is worth ABOUT
five times as much.
Hank Tumms says he doesn 20
oatmobile riding with eVeryDody w.
indeed. They don't all ask him.
The Teller who gives the cheapest
nresent is always the one who talks
the most about 1t.
Hod Pe:ers's wife belongs TO so
many litry clubs that Hold hasr had
suspender button that he could place
any confidence in for nine years
If every Teller would work as haru
10 hang onto his job as he does 10
get il back after he loses II, the pat
ting average OF efficiency in tins couh-
try would jump about 100 per cent.
The brass bands with the hGsh'esI
uniforms een'ally make the music thaI
Is the hardest 20 listen 20
old colonel Hardtack. Civl war
veteran had cork leg which caused
his family n great deal Of trouble
when there was anything in particular
TO he done around the farm. which the
colonel should have done. he acc IDENTIFY
lost the cork leg and was thereby IN
capaciated for manual Nlabor OF any
kind His wife would Invariably hunt
nm the leg. however. and found II III
tbe most surprising places. once IL
was found hanging in the well by
string, and several times buried IN the
nav Finally the detective instincts OF
his wife began TO pail upon the war
rior and he went to the village thi'S
garage and sold the leg for quart
~ tho stuf that made Kentucky more
or L.. famous The proprietor OF the
place cut the leg up into corks Tor ms
bottles. and the colonel thought ms
troubles were over. But his inNehtiFe
wife had made him wooden ies o"'
of an old white tree and has tas-
tened il onto him with ir1n straps
locked with three padlocks, to wnioh
she holds the keys.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-05

Or. Lewis swift. Americas great as
troromer. died to-day az bis none ~
Marathon. never recovering cohs.,o
ness following stroke "t DE- ~ 49, -
sustained New Years Day i"'
raj will b. held Tuesday. ~,
Dr suift was a Fellow Of the Royal
A.t-oron,iral Society OF England. and
-, - canada. received three gold
medals from the Austrian academy 81
s.,.,e-rc. Al Vienna for discoveries The
,,-cst..f number ever given 70 any one
nan. ard also received the baiance
silver medal and 80 francs ION
France Tor the most RAPID "'seo'eis
OF comets ever made.
~ e~ggt was born IN Charleston.
.,e--o. County. y Y February -,
Sese "a February 20. 1908. as he him
- h.s written. was my twcEty-hrst
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-05
An Idol Shattered.

This thing of being elected to pub
lie office has a terribly demorSiZing
effect on folks. No one-Saiius Demo
Graf ever suspected their idol would
come to il. but Mr. Wilson has con-
scented to wear silk hat as he re
views the parade on inauguration day.
and discard the old SLOUGH which we
had learned to love as associated with
democratic simplicity. You never
know whom to trust these days. What
will the horny-handed. sun burnt sons
of toll who till the fields OF old
Augusta, and incidentally ride around
in automobiles. do now for an iceal2
ANYHOW. can't we get that old SLOUGH
to put in Staunton's arChiva Wilsonia ,
-Staunton Leader.
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How 10 Catch Reed Birds.

George Fitch. the famous autnor o.
the Siwash stories and the motor ooa'
stories. was dipping contiguos 10 'he
writer recently and reed birds We're
~, tho h;1I Of fare. Reed birds are so
snau that IL is almost necessary -
take a microscope to perceive them
on the plate
George. how do they get these
microbes. anyhow: do they shoot en-
spear 'em or catch them in metz
was asked.
Well" drawled George Il am sur
prised that you don't know. Ihey
catch them on fy paper, Of course
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-05

Here's ray OF light on the winter
Gloom from the ohio state Journal:
one thing which the reading public
should remember IN the photographers
favor. even in the most trying mo-
ments. is that II they weren't para
graphing they might be trying 10
write poetry.
Yes. please remember the little
things that make LIES pathway cheer
ful. orr poets poetry may be bad
enough. but IL this poets paraSrspher
ever slips a few lines across. wei.
,ou should worry
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-05
To the Back Yard With the Rhyme


To the Editor of The Times-Dispatch.
Sir.-Another sufferer is encouraged
70 protest How have we Sinned Ia {.
We should be Obliged to read those IN
couth aggregations Of words, sawed UP
into more or less regular lengths
some of them called "sonnets"-that
The Times Dispatch publishes from
time to time under the name OF
Doetryg Are there no back yards Or
dark alleys in Richmond where our
poetS may be delivered OF these things
LIT them emulate the cat. which. In
deed. makes strange and hor-ti noises
in darkness and out-of-t he-way places
Tut IN company behaves more Sccmly
nd prudently. And caution them all.
II they would set out TO be poets. that
they should first learn to write Eng
l.sh. o. learned editor. be mercifui and
snare us. Publish other crimes. II
you will. but let these be hidden fer
they are more than We can bear.
V.
Richmond
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-05
SEND 4 POSTAL FOR BIRDS.

II each of the farmers and Sports
men and nature lovers in virginia
would spend a penny for postcard
and five minutes time in writing on II
an appeal to his or her Congressman
for the passage of the Mclean migra-
tory bird bill. and if the same measures
were taken in other States right now
this important act would he called be-
fore the House and passed before the
end of the session. The bill has passed
the Senate unanimously. But, as the
treasurer OF the Virginia Audubon So
ciety points out, it may be lost in the
rush and confusion of the few remain
ing days of the SiXty-second Congress.
Hundreds of measures will die without
coming to a vote. so that urgent and
immediate pressure must be brought
to bear on the Representatives to save
the Mclean bill from a similar fate.
Direct pressure on Congressman by
letter. personal appeal, telegram or
postal, will give evidence of wide
be made law.
We have before emphasized the need
for such law. 1t is to extend the pro-
lection of the national government
over passenger birds that are not per-
manently the game of one State. At
present these birds may be saved from
slaughter in one State, yet be open TO
pitiIess plumber in the next. Uniform
ity of action. cooperation. and the
strong power of the nation are needed
to handle the question adequately.
The sportsman already knows the
terrible inroads on our wild game made
by pot-hunters. The bird-lover misses
the charm Of feathered life in the
woods and marshes. Most of all, the
farmer will feel the loss of the birds
III the increase of insect pests that
play havoc with his crops. 1t is an
economic matter with him. more than
a question of recreation or sentiment
Can he allow the market hunter TO
profit by the extinction OF this natural
remedy for agricultural pests? The
Times Dispatch urges sharp, quick ac-
ton TO get the bin through the House.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-05
Ont Spur Of the Moment
By Roy K. Moulton



In eighteen hundred eighty-one
| listened to a man.
And he sold me a fine shotgun
On the installment plan.
I'd like 10 get the paying done,
But don't believe / can.
Each Monday during all the years
He's been right at the door
II seems as though he really tears
III seek some foreign shore;
And each time that the man appears
| sware to have his gore.
The whole world seems 10 stop unul
| pay my share each week.
You'd think il was monstrous Dill
To hear the fellow speak
In tones mysterious untll
feel just like a sneak.
I'm sure that when ! die
I'll still be on his slate.
And every Monday he VIII ME
Unto the pearly gates
And call me out and heave sigh
If I'm one minute late.
Sure. SO Is Everything Else.
Elevator call in department store;
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-05
, PATRICK IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

Next 10 his shillalah. what an Irish
man most wants when he Is about TO
meet all corners in a free-for-all fight
& another Irishman to stand by and
cheer him on. Perhaps that is why
woodrow wilson's right-hand man
Is 60 be Joseph Patrick Tumulty, "a
rosv-cheeked Irishman with fine
furd Of good humor." and proved
.nufty TO hearten his combatant chief
With words Of superlative encourage
pent. Indeed. what other race could
supply such a happy combination OF
the qualities needed in a Presidents
secretary IS the Irish good humor.
serressi.-e patriotism and suave di-
plomacy? wilson Is at least half Irish
hsns= 1.-THE woodrows are canny
scotch. indeed. but the Wilson's are
irish through and through. The
t7venty-cirhth President Of the United
states is % the Scotch-Irish folk who
have given so much steadfast courage
aud stubborn loyalty 20 the cause OF
liberty on the American continent
the same strain from which sprang
andrew Jackson. James X Polk. James
Buchanan. Chester 4 Arthur and VIII
Lam Mckinley.
-Joe+ Tumultv IS the President
elects first appointee. That is as it
should be. He was a Democratic mem
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-05

Franklin Pierce Nelson. that saucy
old bachelor. of Rose Hill. has on his
war paint again. The mild winter
seems to keep too much warmth in
him for his good. and we serve notice
on him that the next time he attacks
us on the court green, We purpose TO
defend ourself. Because "A mans girl
lays him of for ten days or two weeks
is no excuse for getting sour all over.
Northampton Times.
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Hoy, Ahont n. Rrothcr,

Whenever VIC hear man taikihS
about his wife's not being able 70 keep
a secret w can but wonder II he wouiu
b. able 10 remain in the neiEhborhood
were she 20 tell what she knows on
n.-Biacksfouc Courier.
j. this a confession Newport News
Tirues-Hcrald
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superIatiye Rappahannock.

Friends. We believe in Rappahan-
mock. and our columns are always open
for anything TO push" the old county
forward We have some Of the best
Il nd in the State. raise as fine apples.
cattle and corn as can be raised; then.
too, our girls are the prettiest In the
State, and the men good looking
Blue Ridge Guide.
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Virginia's hams heed no wine cider,
jeilies. fruits. candies or kickshaw any
more than any oyster needs shoes and
socks.-New York Press
And for Virginia oysters. no tabasco
or other condiment, when opened
fresh from the "rocks."-Virginia Citi-
zen.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-05
Always Something Doing.

Richmond has 1.so0 cases OF measles,
but something is always breaking out
in that town.-Norfolk Ledger-Dis-
patch.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-05

when the nurse tried 20 spank the
r- Hon dollar Mclean baby. the de-
,,rtive who guards the angel child
,.r,ed In and had the nurse fred. Too
much - this sparing-thc-rcd will
nah. the Million dollar Baby hard to
keep NJ with Million Dollar Kid.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-05
The Ultimate Consumer.

Parcel post Is great thin,.
YEP assented the gr"ceT' ~ -
.,f.t, . etamn on a can Of corn and
end IL right out % a farmer. wash
iugt0n Herald.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-05

birthday. not my twenty second, be-
cause there was no leap year in 1909
ana went eight years without a
birthday" Dr. Swift was the acknOwi-
edged discoverer Of more than 1900
nebulae. or little worlds" and fifteen
comets -Philadeiphia Inquirer.
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She Had.

Have YOU any unmarried daughters,
3frs. De Willoughby?" asked the Wis
itor.
on. yes. Mr.. VanderbIOom. NJ
daughter Minnie was unmarried last
week by Judge CuttsIn. OF Reno" re
piled the iady.-Harpers Weekly.