Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-26
PASSED BY THE CENSOR

| NTBTAPHYSICABLY speaking, Britain's
| 1fl mental viewpoint is best reflected In the
agony or personal column of the London
Times. AT present, when the land is dis
tracted by war, the column is a veritable
mirror of human emotions, running the
whole gamut from pathos to bathos; from
love messages to the sale of an auto. Most
often Brown Eyes" appears:
LOVE you, speak.-Yours. Brown Eyes
The next day she spoke thusly:
BROWN EYES probably off shortly. Don't
phone 116 till / let you know.-B. e,
But she was misunderstood evidently, as
the following notice Indicated
BROWN EYES for whom is your message
meant? Re as explicit as you can.-B.
But Brown Eyes" was not the only one,
for there were messages from the 'front.'
uncensored, and from the heart
LIEUTENANT J. McD-My heart is with
you.-JEAN
ADA V. Nam stiil well and unhurt. dear
est. Every in best OF spirits and very
confident. All my love.--ARCH
But we are not through with women as
yet, though this one is Of a different type
perchance a militant:
DOCTORS WIFE, middle-aged will UNDER
take to perform the work of any tramway
conductor, coachman, shop assistant or
other married worker with children, pro-
vided that worker will undertake to enlist
and fight for his country in our hour Of
need. All wages earned will be paid over
to the wife and family.-Apply Mrs. Lowry,
1 Priory terrace, Kcw-green, S. w.
Then comes plea:
BOY, months, son OF officer going to war,
wants some one, good family, to adopt
him: r. c. preferred.-BoX II 140, The
Times.
There are many others, some begging for
funds for hospitals; others asking help to
IL ,,,;1t
denounces Englishmen for staying home at
their work instead of getting themselves
carefully killed. And at the bottom of the
column find:
TO THE CLERGY-Sermons supplied each
week. New, fresh, simple and drawing
lessons from the present war. Send for
fun list and specimen siXpence.-Ouston,
43 Page street Westminster, s. W.
IN THE Isle of Capri, beloved by the MUIR
" dered Empress Elizabeth of Austria is
an inn some so years old, conducted under
the will of its founder. an artist of the school
of intemperanCe and i'll fortune The will
provides:
The charge a day. two bottles of red
Capri wine included, shall never be more
than six francs (s1.14. If any artist is too
poor to pay he shall paint a picture on some
wall space receiving all the accommodation
accorded those who pay the highest price.
II any German artist shall come to the inn
he shall be accommodated and shall receive
the amount of his fare to Germany upon his
promising never to return to Italy"
What grudGe the proprietor had against
German artists is not known-perhaps he
was one himself!
kMACHINE politician and an independent
IAwere discussing the Penrose candidacy.
Don't you like the way I'm dealing with
the question:" growled the machine man.
Il don't mind the way you deal" retorted
the independent, its the way you shuttle"
T ORD KITCHENER'S press censorship is
- mild compared to that exercised in 1868
by Roger lEstrange in London. Being placed
in charge by the Government, he advocated
a reduction in the number of master printers
from 90 to 20; ordered periodic inspection Of
print shops; closed their back doors and
ISSUED an order that all printers guilty of
even the slightest infraction of his law be
compelled to wear insignia of their disgrace.
But his special aversion was the newspapers,
because reading of them makes the multi
tude too familiar with the actions and coun-
sells of their superiors, too pragmatical and
censorious and gives them not only an itch,
TQGQQllng
with the Government" He was so success
full in suppressing newspapers that he elected
the admiration of the Government, according
to contemporaneous accounts.
Q ARAH BERNHARDT is raging at the
~ nefarious Germans, but never again will
she be as infuriated as she was once upon a
time many years ago, when she visited
Vienna. At that time the Austrian capital
boasted of a wit named Saphir who edited
a weekly and wrote all of it's contents. Then
Nine. Sarah was as thin as the proverbal
rail fence The day she arrived Saphir's
paper contained the announcement:
An empty carriage drew up TO the hotel
entrance and out stepped Nine Bernhardt"
The actress threatened all sorts of dire
things. but the worst was yet TO come, for
when she announced that she was learning
to play the flute saphir came back with:
Mime. Bernhardt is learning to play the
flute In order to distinguish the instru-
ment she has decorated it with a blue
bow
But it was as an impromptu wit that
Saphr shone. Once, when he turned street
corner he bumped into stranger
Donkey" Numbered the stranger
And MY name is Saphir" replied the wit
politely bowling
n ONCE upon a time an ex-President of the
" United States and the Governor Of
Middle West State were taking luncheon at
the old Astor House in New York city The
country was anxious to know how the ex-