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THRILLING WITH TODAY.

''Reproachfu1 is the ghost of toys
 That charmed while life was wasted, But saddest is the thought of joys
 That never yet were tasted
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Wed s1 Years.

Among the oldest married couples living in Litchfield are Captain and Mrs. George w Mason, who ce1ebrat- ed their sixty-frst anniversary Mon day.
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Rome in the company OF cardinals oo'-
emn and learned critics Of our own day
such men as the late ingenious Brunetiere
have expressed their disapproval almost
as alphabetically as our local censor, yet
Rabelais has had his admirers among the
polite in all ages. Nine. de Sevigne did
not think it improper to ask her son 10
read Jolly chapters Of Pantagruel to her.
Rabelais, like the miraculous fountain IN
his Fifth Book, will continue always to al
feet those who taste of his writings in dif-
ferent WAYS, according TO their several DIS
positions. Coleridge said he could write
treatise on the moral elevation" OF the
Gargantuan chronicle, yet there are sober
and lust persons who can discover nothing
in it but darkness and dirt. we ac-
cordingly have no right to laugh at our
censor for provincialism. If he has slnned
he has sinned in good company, for not
every one has succeeded in discovering
those occult and hidden properties" which
Rabelais limited at. On the other hand, II
he is still of the same mind, he need not
fear that what he has done will serve TO
nonularize the Objectionable matter"
Rabelais boosted that in two months more
If his hooks were sold than of Bibles in
nine wears. But Rabelais will never be u
popular author except among born Panta-
gruelists.
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Dom tn Rigula -shuns."
lfrom The LoalsvlIe OourIer.Journall

(Frop The Louisville Couricr-J0urndi)
Daniel Boone was too thin for his height
to pass the present army requirements for
the Mexican border patrol. Yet Daniel Boone
opened to civilization the territory from Cum
berland Gap to the headwaters Of the Missis-
sippi When Napoleon was graduated from
st. Cyr he was too thin to serve as second
lieutenant Of Company A, lst Kentucky Regi-
ment. julius Cesar suffered with sore feet.
He could never have passed the martinets at
Fort Thomas. Hannibal had but one eye. His
case would have been hopeless with the War
Department but the Romans found him fairly
efficient at Cannae and Lake Trasemene. Al
exander of Macedon had twisted neck gland.
Thumbs down on Alexander. Peterborough,
1.-The bravest of the brave" was too short and
skinny for the regulations at Washington.
Lord Nelson had a game leg. For that mat
ter, so has Major General Leonard Wood.
Pity them if they had to face the guns at
Fort Thomas.
9TH rigula-shuns," said Mulyaney with a
sheer as he talked to Prvut Ortheris, who
was bent on killing himself, dom tn rigula-
shuns, say |. There be times when they're
very valuable. That's on drss parade. There
be times when it's the harrut and head that
counts. That's whin there's fighting 10 be
done, me little game-cock of tn mithroplus."
Or words 10 that effect.
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The Voice.

Entirely aside from the romance Of 1t,
there is helpful suggestion IN the story
Of the Chicago broker who married tele-
phone operator after having been attracted
to her by the pleasing sound Of her voice.
1t is unfortunately a rare occurrence when
a telephone operator, or any one else
achieves excellence in this respect. II
seems that this young woman had prevl-
ously taken a course in vocal training at
a neighboring university, and continued
to use the training she had received even
in the monotonous tasks of her daily work
at the exchange board.
The matter of the voice tones is very
simple thing and may appear unimportant,
but it is not. II is as worthy of attention
as anything else connected with ones ap-
pearance or manners. The British, and
for that matter most civilized communities,
pay more attention to the vocal quality of
ordinary conversation than we do. Few
Americans take the trouble TO use their
voices correctly. Every kind of slovenli-
ness, harshness, nasal twang and rasping
explosiveness passes unheeded.
1t is the prevailing wild and woolly
american drswlP which is so often the
distinguishing mark Of citizens of this
country in foreign lands. There are whole
groups among US in which anything like a
conscious attempt 10 make the speech a
little less harsh and more correctly articu-
lated gets one laughed at as a would-be
"highbrow" and a snob. 1t is not neces-
sary TO put on airs and become artificial
in order to speak with pleasing voice.
People owe it TO themselves and TO one
another TO make themselves as little dis
agreeable as possible to those with whom
they are thrown in daily contact, and there
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-30
IL England Wins.
DR. Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune
Sir: Can one conceive sillier notions than
those expressed in the letters from Richard
A. Zerega and Maurice Leon? II you gel.
any more letters like these I hope you VIII
publish them, as they are certainly amusing
England has the right to stop intercourse
OF her citizens with Germans, but she has no
right TO boycott American citizens or hrm''
either openly or secretly. without its beng
resented by our government.
Americans have the right 20 deal with ether
oelligerent and our government must pro'se'
its citizens against any interference VIVA
that right What would be the use OF ms
"oDen door" in China II England could nuIii!
it by ordering its ships to refuse our freq"
either way?
Early in the war. when you published '0n'
of the hysterical letters telling what we mus
expect If the Germans should win, | tried ~
reassure them by stating that We had no~-
ing TO fear no matter who won, but that We
might have trouble with England If the Alnes =
won, because England would feel so "eocSy
on the sea. Now We are getting the eyidene'
that with England might makes right "a
against any nation poweress 70 resist her'
HENRY W. STRUSS'
New York. JUL "a. 1916.
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Wallpaper VS.. Paint.

There have been so many bad, very PAD
wallpapers in the past that wallpaper IN
the abstract has scarcely had far deal
Il is not some gentle hued, modestly
decorated sheet that one thinks OF hrst
when wallpaper is mentioned, but one oi
those red. red hall effects without which
TO boarding house or summer hotel is com
plete-not an ornamented wall but rash'
Or. in a more exalted vein, an active
outrageous sprawl of peonies and cocKa-
toos that leap out and bite holes in your
sleeve as YOU pass and follow you into the
land of dreams long after your host and
hostess have sent you to bed for the night
Why these have persisted as they have
GOODNESS knows. Perhaps it is just color
blindness. Perhaps it is an American de-
sire to get ones moneys worth at 90 cents
- roll. The better papers are to be had.
No doubt the average scale of taste mas
mounted with the years. Of course 1t
has. We have seen it ascend. But the
eyesores still persist. If you run through
a sample book of papers many of the
same old horrors arc still there-the hall
papers, the dining room papers, the draw
ing room papers, each with its special
equipment of starched stiffness and horror
and obtrusive color.
Thus, naturally, the painted wall has
gained in vogue. We learn from booklet
prepared by the editor of the "Wall Paper
News" that a real campaign is on between
the two schools and that the point OF
acrimonv has been reached. Certain ply
sicians have accused wallpapers of being
Wherefore the wallpapersts
declare that the painted wall originated IN
unfit work amid the slums. As final
argument the wallpaper advocates assert
that paint is twice as costly as paper.
Evidently the painted wall has become a
serious rival of the paperhanger
1t seems to US that the salvation of the
Wallpaper manufacturers lies not in be-
lifting paint or in portraying its costll-
ress, but in UNFOLDING good taste in their
,wn products. Throw all the red hall
oapers into the bottom Of the bay to start
with Then put as much skill ard money
into the designing of good background
papers as now goes into the vigorous
;plotches that, so far from refusing to
stay on the wall continually leap out and
interrupt the conversation. A wall is q
wall, not centre table or a prima donna.
It is in the background and it should stay
there. That must be the battle cry.
American taste may be slow in forming,
but it is fairly pliable under proper hand
ing. The vogue for plain paint is cyi-
dence thereof. Let our wallpaper manu-
facturers set a pace and the great buy
ing public will quickly follow.
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A Bird Census.
lFrom ~ Roston Hernla }


Birds, joyous birds, on the wandering
wing" do not seem 20 lend themselves easily
TO the task of the enumerator, yet the Blu
reau Of Biological Survey has already made
di dispositions for bird census
One thing the census will do is TO empha-
size and stimulate the new kind of interest
in birds which has arisen since the days in
which almost the only respecters Of them
were the poets. We now know something of
what birds do as scayengers, in the fight
against noxious weeds, in keeping down the
insects that ravage our forests, meadows,
orchards and gardens we have had dinned
into US the economic losses which most coun-
tries have suffered from official as well as
private efforts at determination in this field
Many a campaign against birds has reacted
upon agriculture in way to remind US Of
what Ralf Hodgson saw in vision" as the
result of bird destruction:
THE worm in the wheat
And in the shops nothing
For people TO eat
Nothing fog sale in Stupidity Street"
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The Fly Pest.
a the Editor OF The Tribune.

To the Editor or l ne lIlOune'
Sir: With the city in the midst OF an cpl
demic. assured one day the end is in sight
only TO be worried more the following day
when papers show an appalling increase. don't
you think more attention should be given 70
the fly? We read the Az is suspected to be an
active agent in spreading infantile paralysis,
but this fact is not driven home hard enough.
The fy may and may not have a great deal 10
do with il; at its best it's a pest this city
does not take seriously enough. With M >
of us our slogan, instead of being "Swat the
Fly" is "Shoo the Fly" and we're all wrong.
What Pm about to suggest is nothing new.
| hope it will appeal to you as being sensi-
BILE
Fly swatters" are inexpensive. Wouldn't
you consider starting a fund TO supply them
free all over the city, especially on the East
Side and other localities where seeds Of san-
tation usually die in barren soil There ara
thousands of children here unable 70 leave
the city this summer. Offering them a GER
tain amount for every hundred dead flies
would bring startling results.
Smaller cities have shown US the way, sri
unless I'm badly mistaken we have been 100
disinterested 10 follow their good example
The first Of August is pay day for the writer.
He's good for an iron man. and Tribune read
ers are not slow coming across" when
worthy appeal is placed before them. Won't
you start something? P. L.
New York, July q, 1916.
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The Superhuous Women.

Now that Sir Rider Haggard and Mrs.
Mary Austin have opened the debate upon
the problem of superf1uous women 1t
should flourish. England's million OF
extra women before the war will be
greatly augmented through battle losses.
The situation in France and Germany will
be even worse. Not even the economic
and financial dislocations of the war show
more occasion for readjustment and basic
amendment of social law and custom.
Polygamy, open or clandestine, is the
obvious device which a practical, immoral
view. seeking only the swift repeopling OF
Europe, has already put forward. 1t is
safe to assume, at the least, that the
whole problem of illegitimacy will be re-
considered in the light of new necessities
and. it can be hoped, with new frank
ness and fairness. Both Germany and
France start with far clearer view here
than does Great Britain, where a hypo-
critical silence has heretofore reigned-
national attitude with which Americans
are all too familiar.
But the most interesting aspect of the
whole question is whether these extra wom-
en- will be quite as superf1uous as present
prophets assume Heretofore discussion
has started with the axiom that woman
without a man available as a possible
husband is as useless and undesired and
purposeless as a vermiform appendix. In
every pioneer country the men far exceed
the women; yet no one talks OF superfiu-
Gus men. The distinction rests, of course,
on the theory that marriage and mother
hood are the only worthwhile and salts
flying occupations for women; whereas
many men live quite comfortably and &C
complish all that in them lies without be-
coming either husbands or fathers.
The change that the war has brought
about has been to give untold numbers OF
women interesting and worthwhile labor
with which they have heretofore had moth
ing to do. Wily-nilly they have had to
turn aside from being wives and mothers
to be tramcar conductors and postmen.
Is this Just a flash in the pan and will
the end of the war see these women re-
turning contentedly to the cradle and the
cook-stoves? Goodness knows! Sir Rider
Haggard and Mrs. Mary Austin both
think not. They feel that the new occu-
pations for women have come to stay.
If so, there may be real modification
of the superiority theory after the war.
Certain males returning for their jobs may
feel distinctly superfuous themselves,
some pessimsts predict However that
may be. there is a very fair chance that
women in the warning nations will have
found distinctly new interest in life and
may decide that marriage and maternity
are not the only roads to happiness and
service
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-30
Objectionable Matter"

A vigilant and scrupulous custodian Of
public propriety has been overruled by the
Treasury Department: Rabelais has been
formally admitted to the United States
upon the joint recommendation Of the Ii
brarian Of Congress and the Collector Of
the Port of New York. And though there
is reason to suspect that the Pantagruel-
ian books which have lately made their
way across the continent are not the first
that ever passed our censors, yet we ought
to be duly grateful to the bookseller Of San
Francisco that he drew from high and in
disputable authority the official assurance
that the writings Of the great Jester are
to be counted among the worthy works of
literature.
They were doubtless new TO the cautious
and painstaking examiner who pronounced
them unfit for American readers, nor can
we Justly quarrel with him for holding
that they Contained Objectionable mat
ter" They do; and if he was unduly
shocked it must in candor be allowed that
he is not the first who has mistaken
Rabelais for a disorderly character. 1t
might be difficult to point to a recent Incl
dent of the kind abroad, where the official
Icensors have for the most part learned TO
recognize him as a licensed buffoon, yet it
is not many years since Mr.. Punch, who in
his own country is regarded by many as
sort Of public arbiter in wit, dismissed him
unceremoniously as "a dirty old black
guard"
Nor can this hasty judgment be attrib-
uted to a peculiar English way Of think
ing. for among Rabelais's own countrymen
there have been many equally unwilling to
admit the validity of his genius. Did not
La Bruyere find him alike incomprehensi-
bic and ineXcusable, mass Of dirt and
corruption-"an enigma without an an
swer"? And Lamartine went even further
in denunciation. Radicals in his eyes was
nothing but the Filthy genius of cynicism
opprobrium of heart and ear, OF sense and
taste; the poisonous, fetid fungus, off
spring of the dungheap of a medieval
cloister, the granting pig Of Gaul," and
much more to the same effect Voltaire
himself in his early days loathed Rabelais.
He saw that he had wit, but he regretted
to see wit so wretchedly abused, and fol-
lowed La Bruyere closely in describing the
divine books as "eXtravagant," "imperti-
nent" and "unintelligible." But Voltaire
changed his mind in later years and openly
repented having spoken so i'll of him.
The taste for Rabelais is determined
neither by national prejudice nor by period,
but by some constitutional quality in the
reader. 1t is folly to attribute the ''objec-
tionable matter" TO the taste of his time,
/ for even then there were readers who
would have put him down as an old black
guard. Calvin. of course, thought he de-
served TO be struck blind for his sacri-
legious blasphemies, and a monk of those
days was shocked that he should be seen in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-07-30
Moral Preparedness.

The letter written 10 the fiesluVHV ny
a devoted mother in Indiana, protesting
against the inconvenience to her son con-
nected with his service in the Nationai
Guard on the Mexican border. reveals 1he
need of what might be called moral pre-
paredness. When unnecessary hardshlpS
of military service become menace 10
health, and are the result of Official inca
pacity and neglect, it is proper to raise
objection. But it is quite different mat
ter for a parent to object just because her
son has TO take his turn at little strenu-
Gus activity or is forced to endure little
wholesome roughing it in the open ar
or make some small personal sacrifice IN
the task of protecting his country.
When all is said and done, the whole
matter of national defence settles down 70
the willingness of the American people 10
perform certain acts Of personal sell
denial for the general good. No one ques-
tions the fact that such is the genera
shirt of the great majority Of the people
Of this country. 1t has been proved over
and over again in the crises of our ma
tional history. But there are always those
who are patriotic enough until II comes
down 10 a demand upon their own pleas
ure or of some member of their own TAM
lily. -,
5Parents who would bring up their chill
dren to expect everything and give up
nothing often cannot understand why inc
natior should not be equally indulgent
toward these favored ones. The truth
cannot be repeated too often that pam
nered son is a national menace. lie Is
living negation of the American SPIRIT
The practice Of certain indulgent parents
Of shielding their children from every dn-
fculty and danger and helping to bring up
a generation of soft, self-seeking' ease
loving men, who cannot stand this universe
and begin to blubber every time they are
asked IN bear their share of LIES burdens
IS the surest way to invite national dlsas-
ter.
There is no country in the world wnere
neople demand more of life than we 40
no Mace where ease and comfort are so
easily attained, no place where one may
so easily become the victim Of the illusion
that he. at least, has been lifted out OF the
struggle for existence. All too prevalent
Is the desire to find an easy berth for one
self. to seek some magical short cut to
the possession and enjoyment OF the gooa
things of earth, shirk the hard knocks
and pass on the disagreeable end OF the
business of living to some one else.
Every republic in history which mas
failed has gone down principally Tor the
reason that its pampered citizens wanted
somebody else to bear their burdens ana
do their fighting for them. The best thing
about this Mexican trouble is that 1t has
provided an opportunity to impress upon
a hundred thousand young men OF TINS
country so that they will never forget 1t
the lesson that patriotism is something
more than mere sentiment about the nag
that manhood demands strenuous effort,
that the advantages of great, free ma
tional life may not be enjoyed without dis
cipline. self-sacrihce and hard, common
place tasks well done and shared by all
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is nothing which more instinctively at
tracts or repels, or more correctly reveals
the native qualities of ones spirit, than
the voice.
The English language at best is unmusi-
cal. It lacks the rich vowel tones Of The
Latin tongues and the soft, purring con-
sonants of the German. To speak it cor
rectly il is as necessary to guard ones
tones as to observe the rules of grammar.
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