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

MI SlCAlb1 SpeHhlIB, biitoih .
lNl 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 veritable
mirror of human emotions, running the
whole gamut, from pathos to bathosi from
love messages to the sale of an auto. Most
often, Brown Eyes" appears:
LOVE you, speak-YoGrs. Brown Eyes,
The next day she spoke thusly:
BROWN EYES probably off shortly. Don't
phone me lie till let you know-B. b.
But she misunderstood evidently, as
the following notice indicated:
BROWN EYES, for whom is your message
meant? BE as explicit 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.-Niy heart is with
you.--JEAN.
ADA " Nam still we'll and unhurt, dear
est Every one in best OF spirits and very
confident. All my love.-ARCH.
But we are not through with women as
yet, though this is of 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-
vded 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 Krw-green, s. w.
Then comes a plea:
BOY, months, son OF officer going to war
wants some one, good family. to adopt
him; r. C. preferred-BoX II 14o, The
Times.
There are many others some begging for
funds for hospitals; others asking help to
obtain military equipment. One, extra long,
denounces Englshmen for staying home at
their work instead of getting themselves
carefully killed. And at the bottom of the
column we find:
TO THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. supplied each
week New, fresh, simple and drawing
lessons from the present Send for
full list and specimen. siXpence.-Ouston
43 Page street, Westminster, S. w.
NN THE Isle of Capri, beloved by the mur-
~ dered Empress Elizabeth of Austria, is
an inn some 80 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 CS114. If any artist is too
poor to pay he shall paint picture on some
wall space receiving all the accommodation
accorded those who pay the highest price
If 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!
AMACHGNE politician and an independent
Awere discussing the Penrose candidacy.
Don't you like the way I'm dealing with
the question:" growled the machine man,
II don't mind the way you deal" retorted
the independent, its the way Won shuttle"
T ORD KITCHENER'S press censorship is
IL mild compared to that exercised in 1863
by Roger lEstrange in London. Being placed
in charge by the Government, he advocated
a reduction in the number of master printers
from 60 to 20; ordered periodic inspection of
print shops; closed their back doors and
issued an order that all printers guilty of
even the slightest infracton of his law be
compelled to wear insignia of their disgrace
but MS special aversion was the newspapers,
because reading Of them makes the multi
tude too familiar with the actions and conn
se.s OF their superiors, too pragmatical and
censorious and gives them not only an itch,
but kind of right and license to lie meddling
with the Government" He was so success
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 d
time, many years ago, when she visited
Vienna. At that time the Austrian capital
boasted of a wit named Saphir, who edited
q weekly and wrote all of its contents. Then
Nine, Sarah was as thin as the proverbial
rail fence. The day she arrived Saphr'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
10 play the flute Saphr came back with:
Nine. Bernhard 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
Saphir shone. Once, when he turned a street
corner he bumped into a stranger
Donkey" thundered the stranger
And MY name is Saphir" replied the wit
politely bowing
once upon a time an ex-President Of the
" United States and the Governor Of a
Middle West State We're taking luncheon at
the old Astor House in New York city. The
country was anxious to know how the ex-
President, who was soon TO be reuominated
stood on the free silver issue But the eX-
President was as silent as the grave so
far as public utteranCe was concerned.
Now il so happened that a reporter on an
evening paper had just received his salary