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

| n NTETAPHYS1CALLY speaking, Britain's
lHl 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 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 thusy:
BROWN EYES probably off shortly. Don't
phone me 116 till l let YOU know.-B. e.
But she was misunderstood evidently as
the following notice indicated:
BROWN EYES, for whom Is your message
meant? Be 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 still well 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 one is of a different type
perchanCe a militant
DOCTORS WIFE, midde-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. Kew-gree S. w.
Then comes a plea
BOY, months son OF officer going to war.
wants some one good family. to adopt
him; r. G. preferred.-BoX II 40, The
Times.
There are many others, some begging for
funds for hospitals; others asking help to
obtain military equipment. One extra long,
denounces Englishmen for staying home at
their work instead of getting themselves
carefully killed. And at the bottom of the
column we find:
TO THE CLERGY-Sermons supplied each
week. New, fresh, simple and drawing
lessons from the present war. Send for
fun list and specimen, siNpence.-Ouston,
43 Page street Westminster, s. w.
ON THE Isle of Capri, beloved by the mur-
" 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 ill fortune. The will
provides:
THE charge a day. two bottles of red
Capri wine included shall never be more
than six francs CsL1H. 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,
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 srudge the proprietor had against
German artists is not known-perhaps he
was one himself!
AMACHINE 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
L don't mind the way you deal" retorted
the independent. its the way you shuttle"
T ORD KlTCHENER'S press CENSORSHIP is
~ mild compared to that exercised in 1868
by Roger IEstrange in London. Being placed
IN charge by the Government, he advocated
reduction in the number of master printers
from oO to 2O 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 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
but kind of right and license to lie meddling
with the Government" He was so success
full in suppressing newspap pers that he elected
the admiration of the Government, according
10 contemporaneous accounts.
Q ARAH BERNHARDT is raging at the
~ nefarious Germans, but never again will
she be as infurated as she was once upon d
time, many years ago, when she visited
Vienna. At that time the Austrian capital
boasted of wit named saphir who edited