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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-08
An Tmtimate's Angle ON tn Prime
Minister Of EmglamG1-"A Tired
DiSillusi0nized Man, Fun
damemtally Lazy"

smallest interest in the expensive and elaborate
alterations made by Mrs. Asquith in the official
residence i'm Downing Street. and provided the
chair in which he sat was deep and comfort
able would not notice whether it was covered
with the ancient chintz, provided in the eco
nomical days of Queen Victoria, or with price
less leather from COrdova.
IN the sense that he can assume an urbanity
of manner. sometimes almost reaching gent
alitv. Mr.. Asquith is popular host He smiles
pleasantly upon YOU if a triAe vaguely (for
he has not Mr.. Lloyd Georges memory for
faces and has often to be prompted and en-
lows a good story if the humor Is fairly obvi-
Gus and it is not too long. AT the huge social
brushes, usually given about twice IN the
season at the official residence the host is not
seen till fairly late in the evening, for he IS a
believer in the after dinner male chat cover the
walnuts and the wine" and does not look with
much favor on his wife's modern notions &C
cording to which every one adJourns to the
drawing room at the same time.
What Mr.. Asquith really enjoys at these
functions is a quiet chat in retired corner
with some one-man or woman-who can IN
terest him. needless to say not upon political
questions of the day. Find out who the
Young man with the pince-nez and the fair
hair is and bring him to me" he will say to
me at one of the big official parties, and
Young journalist or budding actor-for Mrs.
Asouith is a great believer in social mixtures
will find himself the observed of all observers
as he discusses the newest detective novel or
the latest play. while lords and diplomatists
fume impatiently at being kept waiting. When
il is the turn of the lord or diplOmatist, the
Prime Minister may assume an expression Of
extreme boredom but though he may look as
though about to fall asleep where he stands, his
mind is really alert Behind all, however, is
the haunting, ever recurring question, Cui
bono? | do not think he has ever answered it
to his own satisfaction.
AsQUITH NOT PERSONALLY AMBITIOUS.
For the Prime Minister is not in the least
personally ambitious. 1t will probably bore him
inexpressby when he becomes a peer and
has occasionally TO don the robes but Mrs.
Asquth will fill the role of peeress with i'm
mense credit and with infinite satisfaction to
herself 1t is more than probable that, had
it not been for family influence, Mr.. Asquith
would have resigned the Premiership some
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-08
There Is No Deciding Power i'm Him,
a Man of Subtle Intellect,
Lonely, Yet Placidly
Happy.
Happy.

in tranquil surroundings amid the trees and
flowers till Monday. To see him lying on
sunny bank with his hat tilted over his eyes
is to see picture of perfect content and peace.
He wants no newspapers-not even a novel
and Miss Elizabeth complains she has to
shake father" when the luncheon bell rings!
In his family relations Mr.. Asquith is plac-
idly happy. Years ago, when a rising young
barrister of twenty-five, he married pretty,
retiring Helen Meand whose faded picture, in
an old-fashioned frame, still hangs in his
room. Passion may have huttered her wings
around him in those far-otf days, but, on his
wifes death, thirteen years later some spring
seems to have been snapped; the sun perhaps
has never shone so brightly again. Many
people were surprised when three years
later, the stad and serious barrister married
one of the most eccentric leaders of small
intellectual clique in society. Miss Margaret
Tenant was by many believed to be the origi-
nal of Mr.. Bensons extraordinary interesting,
though scarcely attractive, heroine, Dodo.
Though the Prime Minister is in many re-
spects a lonely man, one of his most striking
characteristics is an almost fanatica loyalty
70 men WnOm ne mas once tTuSJedJ ne mas
never been known to throw over a political
supporter, no matter how that supporter may
have failed him. The recent reshuffiing nec-
essary for the constitution of the Coalition
Cabinet caused Mr.. Asquith deep personal
grief. He looks ten years older-a stricken
man.
As ! watched him from the back windows
of Downing Street, pacing the little plot of
grass in the small garden, while the band out
side on the Horse Guards parade played IT'S
a Long, Long Way to Tipperary," l felt
was looking on at a deep-a painful-mental
tragedy A momentous decision had to be
taken; the wait and see" policy no longer
served, and bitterest Of all, colleagues of long
standing had to be-if only temporarily
shelved.
The possibility of such hesitations and
heart-searchings in the hour of Brtain's
greatest peril sheds a strong-an almost sin
ister-light upon the character of the man in
whose hands her destiny lies.
Had Mr.. Asquith possessed a strong will,
as well as a subtle 'tellect, his name might
have been written in etters of gold upon the
pages of history; perhaps it is too soon TO say
whether the page will contain more than an
indefinite smudge.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-08
Look Back at the
Last I w e IA { y
Years-ThereHas
Been a F emini-
cation Of ak
A nm O m 6 nj e m
Adventure Has
Been Womam's-
Into Ind u S try
and Into Politics
Has She Ridden
Boldly.

longer the buying and selling and the female
chase which were not long ago their main pre-
occupations: they do not even trouble them
selves about the getting of food. The end
toward which all their thoughts and actions
are arranged is a lamentable one-t is murder.
1t is not the quiet, careless murder Of birds
and beasts to which we are mentally accus-
toned. 1t is the slaughter of men who do not
differ by jot from themselves.
The fact that men should march to kill each
other is not sufficiently uncommon to be curious,
nor is the distinction we draw between an iso-
lated savagery and collective savagery sins
gular, for the blood-adventure is no game that
was discovered yesterday: it is a game so old
that we might have been justified in hoping
civilized man had outlived it, as we have all
outived the little brutalities of our school
days.
But this war is not the lood-adventure that
we had known. 1t is something vastly differ
ent from that 1t is a war in which no glory
can be reaped: in which scarcely an excite
ment can be gained: it is a war of hard. manual
labor of dull danger war in which man and
regiment and army corps have become anony-
nous and similar as ant and ant in the ant-hill.
And anonymous battling is not to the temper
of any man, less so than ever in these days Of
budding indvduaties and egotisms.
1t is not to this stultifying, mechanical as
pect of the war that we must look for the
change to come in masculine thought but to
its cooperative side, for as free trade was the
guiding thought of a generation ago so CO.
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years ago. But the household is run on most
lavish lines. extravaganza reigns in every de-
partment, the grand train of the Prime Min
isters menage being in curious contrast to
that of his ncighhor the Chancellor, at No. II.
The supercilious footman at No. 10 looks
down with some scorn upon the round checked
Welsh maid who opens the Chancellor's door.
Gossip attributes to Mrs. Asquith The re-
mark: But. my dear, we simply cant afford
it," when her husband, in a fit Of weary bore
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-08
By James Stephens.
,..l., If Here Are Ladies" The Crock Of
Cold etc.

Gold" etc.
,rI. the war mark any peculiar differ
w ence in the men who escape from it?
w In religious history what has been
,.usd "a change of heart" is not uncommon,
brt i Is strange enough TO be more curiously
.,pdied than it has been. If the Biblical state
,,erts regarding Saint Paul are exact an inter-
citing problenl is posed. Either Saint Paul
changed a nature native to him by heredity and
environment and which, mere habit of thought
srd action should have rooted too deeply to be
disturbed by any wind of events, or he was
nossessed. ! 90 not credit possession to any
srter+ but his conversion has been paralleled
historically in thousands of instances, and every
village can point to a man who was bad and
became good" often with lamentably senti-
mental results.
The inverse conversion" although we do not
hear very much about it, may have occurred
with equal frequency No, When | think again
Of that sentence | retract it. ! do not believe
good men ever become bad. They may en-
counter cerebral disturbance and go mad, for
good" is mental quality and must progress
along its own lines; 1t can go upward into re-
lgion or self-consciOusness, or sideward into
uuackery, charlatanry and nonsense generally,
but it cannot descend to the animal qualities
which we call badness"
When a good man falls we may often demon
strate that he had never been good, that ne had
been hypocrite. When bad man rises-can
the same thing be said? Had he been a hypo-
critic in badness? There is very little badness
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-08

DOM suggested retiring from his onerous posi-
ton.
1t is idle now to speculate what would have
been the result had he done so. Certainly no
one could have kept that Heterogeneous con-
glomeration of antagonistic personalities the
Liberal Cabinet Ito quote Lord Robert CeciD
together, as Mr.. Asquith did. Revolving 1oI-
lowers, more inarticulate than their leader,
were talked over; they were mentally asphyN-
ated beneath a flow of subtle words No one
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-08

lNl4- EN- I'D vi lIt inhabitants VI
Great Britain regard the Prime Min
lister with a strange, blind confidence
it has become d habit. Yet GER
tainly not half of them would be able to &C
count for that confidence; the workman over
his pot Of beer says: Good old Asquith 'E's
all right" and the Tory aristocrat. after din
ner at his cub is under the same spell, re-
marking sententously: Sound man, Asquith,
no wild cat schemes about hjm!"
And yet ask either why he holds these opin-
ions he viii probably reply feebly ooh, well,
you know he never does anything, and after
alp
Mr.. Asquith just exists-stolidly, he is
anxious for a quiet life and would like every
one else 70 have the same. He is anything but
popular demagogue and makes no attempt
TO assume the role of the peoples tribune.
His speechcs are never eloquent nor inspiring,
though the phrases are always exquisitely
turned. The Prime Minister is in fact, master
OF words, but not a mover of hearts. Even
the historic utterance with which Nelson's
column and the walls of London are now pla
earded: no price can be too high when honor
and freedom arc at stake" was uttered in dry,
almost legal tones, the culver of passion-of
enthusiasm-was lacking.
GU BONO?
have heard Mr.. Asquith speak on many
occasions, IN the House of Commons and at
great popular demonstrations, and the effect is
always the same. 1t is that of a subtle intellect
uYng TO convince itself and then-there is
often curious anti-climax in the speeches
suddenly saying: What's the good of it all?'
The fact is the Prime Minister is tired
ana dsillusioned man, he is essentially and
fundamentally lazy, both mentally and physi-
'aNy, and hates taking a decision as much
as ne detestS walking upstairs or across the
horseguards parade
IN little things as in large this dislike, this
Smtinkng from making up his mind is shown
"hen particular book was to be presented
Miss Elizabeth on her birthday, her father
delayed about the choice of the binding till
NE birthday was past and then wrote her an
saoorate letter Of apology rather than face
we disappointed child at breakfast!
believe if the Prime Minister were select
ng a motto for his own use he would choose
anything for quiet life." He takes not the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-08

Continued on seventh page.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-08
By an Intimate of the AsquithS

-INE-TENTHS of the inhabitants of
/ Great Britain regard the Prime Min
Y lister with a strange, blind confidence
Ii has become d habit. Yet GER
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-04-20
SOME NEW RECIPES


IOREAMBED Hamburg steak-Put
n pound OF hamburg steak IN
~ q frying pan with one medium
sized onion cut line. cover with one
half cup Of water. salt and pepper to
taste. n let cool until water Is
boiled away. Add butter size OF an
esq and brown. sprinkle one table,
spoon OF nour over this and add m
cup OF milk, and stir until smooth.
II served on square slices of toast
Ell viii make "a delicious breakfast
dish.
Ham Nodded In Aspic Jeily-Soak
one envelope gelatine In one-half cup
OF cold water, add three cups boiling
water, the Juice of one lemon. one
teaspoon OF onion salt, one-furth tea
spoon OF paprika. and when cool add
one-half cup OF wine. Put a few
%spoonsfui OF this aspic jelly in the
bottom OF a mold and when set put IN
"a few slices of nice boiled eggs. Put
On more aspic jelly, and as each layer
IL set adj another. Part Of the aspic
must be kept warm while the other ls
getting stln.
GlOrined sunday Roast-Wash a
roast. either veal. PORK or beef; sea
son well with salt and pepper and
dredge with Hour. Place u In a
rooster. Cut up some carrots which
have been washed and scraped In
shapes Of fingers ald stand up all
around roast. Then place a ring OF
any vegetables that are liked, such az
tomatoes. turnips or potatoes around
the carrots. Cover the top Of roaAt
with thin sliced onions. Drcdge all
wen with salt and pepper, add water
TO come nearly half as high as tho
roast. Place In o moderate oven n
do not ncove until well done.
Jamholaya-One fat, young chicken,
one cup of rice, one-fourth pound OF
ham, ~ teaspoon salt, one sait-spoon
pepper, one quart OF boiling water.
Place in n saucepan the chicken,
which has been cut IN pieces M for
fricassee. Pour ove II the boiling
water and cook slowly for one hour.
Then put In the well washed rice and
add the chopped ham. salt and pep
per. Cover and cook slowly until rico
IL thoroughly cooked. Place ON a hot
platter and serve at once.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-04-20
A DREAM OF YOUTH
COME TRUE



There Is almost no dream that a
boy ever dreamed. however wildly
improbable. that has not been made
to come true. Every boy has read
stories Of travel and adventure n
from them has woven visions Of his
own exploits In untamed regions
He has looked al rse s.npty spaces
on the map and wishes himself "out
there somewhere"
James Chaplin was 10 when ne left
Columbia univcraity, whore he was In
his third year. and In company with
Herbert Lang led an expedition OF
the American Museum OF Natural
History into the Interior Of the Congo
region. He has returned with IA coli
lection OF 10000 specimens. after six
years III isolation In the midst of a v
agery.
He Is a man now sunburned, lean
hard ana with the poise and sob. iety
OF one who has grappled with dan
gcrous realities. During the period
When many youths are ~perf.cting
themselves In the changing styles Of
dances. are learning TO call head
walters by their first names n "a
aubslat on short allowances OF sleep
Mr. Chaplin has been tasting the fla
vor Of true adventure. adding to the
fund OF scientific lore and finding out
his innermost self under b acid
test Of hardship.
lie Will be envied by every hoy In
the United states who heara Of his
exploits.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-04-20

ppfiefnrA fpeetef' ~ pew pef4p'I
'fq onit from feentflts y uhien I
l. certain tnnt loot ana mopsn az.
e@4f docs not exist, ~ the d4nse'
f'qtn this 'errer mai b aaid 70 hef,
been stimulated The epiaemics q
ieos . 1905 wtfe easstd Nv ne
Am~perin,ion o yeeeine from <epar'
which had IN some way secome ON
nminatna With the insestlon. This
ayenue e also believed 60 have beer
Chased BY Ieaislhuon nnd admmistra-
I've regulations
The origin Of tho present out
break. which h ~ mr. the msat ser-
ious that the country han ever ex-
pefsenced. q sill nnknown II has
been psccr'alned. however, that the
eefm found ~ way into southern
Aichia4n ana that sklmmed milk
trow lhfeeiea eewa' was fefrfned BY
4 creamery % BE- fed - hoes. The
hoeH II urn were stflehon and 9
shinment passing through Chicago
Inherited Inc pens In the niockyarda
other shipments % livestock pensine
through inesc pens catfiti the dis-
e'se 60 states a. far apart - wash
mston and MnHsAohusssa Tho soaih
~ southwest escaped because prae-
''eally ne whole movement 81 stock
Naf away ana MOI mto Sec
ARR me discovers Of tne exins-
oi INC n''ease the hsst enoft on
INC par' OF anshor''ies ~ns 70 tface
~ shipments from chiteeo, round
~ ana 'ns eAposea Stock
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-04-20
LINENS SET APART
FOR THE vERANDA


ITALIANS already 3uEin TO crop up
for moving TO the outdoor living
\ room, the porch. The porch
couch must have new pillows and a
fresh washable cover. there must be
new table cloths and doilies and nap
kins for eating "a on the veranda,
and the table for books and papers
must be fitted with a new strip 10
match the awnings.
Most popular this scar are the
plain art linens, which come now In
many Of the softer pastel shades. as
well as IN the nut browns and pur-
pies. The cloths are Eaished with the
Grecian knotted fringe eight inches
deep ana braided about four inches,
and they are weighted at each orner
with lttien lincn-coyered lead weights
TO defy stray breoxes. These "a be
removed when the cloths are launder-
Cd. The napkins to match are COARSE
~ hemstiiched: some Of the liaens
are marked with Tfour-inch cfosz-
stitch Initials that are quite effective
and are not difficult 10 90.
or curse the dishes used with the
cloths include the various craftsman
and art domestic ehinas. the Bavarlan.
Danish. Hungarian and English china
and pottery where possible 10 oOtaia
It. The Japanese gray, yellow and
green wares are good and Chinese
ware Is always ntrhtvesgor TIM pur-
pose. especially IN the ola Glue willow
patterns.
The tan table linen doae IN Russian
and Danish pattcraed borders In col
-. 40 - 49, MsasaN .uH .tselfu.
embroidery, ~ very decorative. In
some cases the color design is worked
In medaliions where the threads have
already been drawn which gives the
border or the cloth a lacy appearance.
The edges OF these cloths are often
finished with lace OF linen the same
color al the cloth.
owing TO the cessation Of imports.
particularly from Germany, there are
not the usual varieties OF colored da-
masks OF the white cloths with coll
cred borders to choose from. though
there are plenty % the japanese
TOW ellngs which are being utilized for
the PURPOSE. The strips are herring
boned toeethes until they are wide
enough. thea one long piece Is made
10 form the border, which IL hem
stitched.
OF cushions there seems no end IN
choice. those with the dainty lingerie
cases appearing among the others TO
use particularly az head rests. The
craftsman shops furnish a pleasing
variety In the crash n linen covers
embroidered, %stencied, and even
painted. spanish ana suede feathers
are among the heavier cushions, while
embroidered ginEhams and block
prints come In fascinating designs.
Several of the sales from community
headquarters In the southern states
bring unusual cushion covers In hand
woven linen. which are In excellent
color combinations ana follow ne
patterns reproduced In rugs and drap-
cries from our grandmothers' bed
spreads.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-04-20
Found The Legislature No
Place for a SensohDe Man

Communication IN the Tucumcari
Sun from J.. ~. WEIGH, member from
Quay county - last New Mexico
house o. fcurt6rntativea)
Edltor IncumcAl1 sun. TucumcarL.
n. "A.
Dear SIR: Perhaps a few obserya-
lions 8 my experience al santa Fo
as a representative from Quay county
In the session ~ the legislature ,ust
closed, might be OF some Interest 10
some " yoar readers.
! can't say that 1 was disappointed
a. anything that happened there, or
IN the hnal ~reenlt1. therefore. do not
think that the public IN general was
disappointed. When Jesus made his
appearance d. Jerusalem and was
PERFORMING his wonderful works the
JowE -~ over suspicious - questioned.
Can any H0od thing coma from Max
areth2' And 40 the people OF this
state hHVa bee asking. Can any
good thing be expected OF the He
publican partyf.s
Iwoula gay, however. that person.
ally 1 have ms grievance. was
treated with al the eourtesy that I
could ask ny the majority members.
ana the spepker Of the house a.
well. ON the whore. however, | was
not very favorabiy Impressed with
what ! saw, and heard. and felt,
while there ~ a LEGISLATOR. Indeed.
] have been forced to conclude that
the session OF the legislature lust
closed was not the place for a think
or. was not the place Tor advanced
thought. ana the reason Tor this "
that every measure Of special import.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-04-20
PROHIBITION AS SHE
is IN ARIZONA
tFiagstaff SUM-

l. tftagatnff SUM-
a couple hundred barrels az beer
were rolled out ia the street last
Tuesday evening and they gathered "a
large crowd OF the parched, the
baked and kiln-dricd p~opulace. in
Guiding city officers, county officers
and precinct officers. The barrels
were being transferred from the
basement on the east side OF the
street 60 the basement on the west
side Of the street by l.. "A. noghe.
one barrel had a splitting headache.
consequently yawned. one progress
siVe individual Immediately endeav-
ored to protect Il by sitting on n.
A bottle OF beef crawled out and got
into his hip pocket. Someone was
looking and the friendly man was
pinched by the officers.
The transfer continued until along
about , o'clock In the morning. with
law on ~ side n a thirst on the
other.
Somehow along during the tcdioua
process of the spectacular transfer,
three or four barrels that had been
patiently waiting their turn 20 be
lowered into the basement wandered
on owe into the redlight district on
a tour Of inspection. Officers dis
covered them, kindly brought them
back again and held them as silent
wt,nosses that they had etnayed from
home.
l.. NJ. Hoghe wns arrested on com
plant Of sheriff Dickinson on charge
OF having sold the beer and a mum
Der OF others were held as witnesses
90 appear before Judge Harrington at
"A preliminary hearing.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-04-20

hill that the corporations Ola not ap-
prove wns sm0thercd to death Ia the
committee room,
Upon y occasion which I have IN
mind, some five Or six bills. which
had passed the other house. were be-
lore q committed. A representative
Of the corporation affected appeared
lbefore this committee. He read the
numbers OF these objectionable bills
which were killed then ana there.
4 would not have you underatand
that 1 object 70 the lobbyist. that Is
for the representative OF ans Interest
presenting h wishca and needs N
such Interests; but what I DO object
TO is that the representatives elected
~ \ people TO represent the inter-
esta OF all the people should unduly
represent certain classes.
Again II was not the place for q
thinker, because the man Of refine
nient as to feelings and who has n
proper regard for the obligations due
MIN from other gentlemen. Il doesn't
matter how profound his judgment
or how lofty HIS ideals are, he n
loath 70 place himself In a position
70 be criticised n even ridiculcd.
Jesus sid IN his memorable nermon
on the mount. "Ye give not that
which IL holy 10 dogs. neither cast ye
your pearls before swine. lest they
trample them under their feet and
turn and rend you" The man who
had the most vitriol on his lips, nnd
could command the hittcrost sarcasm
was the one who had most influence
on the floor of the house.
am. very rcFucctfuIlv
J.. II. WEIGH.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-04-20
OF CAMFIELD
CASE TO U. S. COURT
Is ARGUED IN VEGAS

East Las Vegas. y. NJ. April Co.
The question 81 the removal Of the
suit Of the trustees ~ the town ~ Las
Vegas against tt,e Camncli Develop
ment company. an action involving
some 500. GOO. was argued this after