The Washington herald., 1916-05-08


A Line O. Cheer Each Day o the Year.
By JOHN KENDRIcK BANGS.
FIRST printing of an origina! poem. written daily
for The Washington Herald
ENRICHMENT.
The joy we give to the wight in pain
Comes back to enrich our stores again,
And the kindly word to the soul in cheer
Renews our stock in the Bank OF Cheer.
The outcome of the election last week Of
delegates to the Chicago convention certainly IS
not an argument for suffrage for the District.
They are catching FISH in trees, telegraphs
the correspondent at Winsted Conn., who keeps
right on, though they have been catching him
in lies for years.
Is it possible that there are spirit detectors
as we'll as perscopes on board submarines? Else,
why did the Germans not torpedo the 24,38o,ooo
Scotch highballs?
That Connecticut woman who refused to &C
cept $4,000 left her by a deceased relative has
changed her mind since a revaluation Of the
estate discloses that the aint is distributed over
ABOUT S@OO,OOO WOIlH Ol PLOPS4ty
The alienists will perhaps be able to explain
the case Of that 8-year-old Ohio boy who
killed his mother and then accused his father
of the deed but hardly that the rest OF US
will be able to understand it.
The ease with which our soldiers defeated
larger force OF Mexicans, killing forty-two
of them without any loss on their side,
does not seem to bear out the stories about the
superior military equipment Of the Mexicans.
New Yorks Baby Week contest resulted in
the discovery Of two perfect infants and in
awarding the first prize a $3.50 cup the judges
selected the which did not cry while they
were deciding. Superior intelligence evidently
did not count
David Lloyd George says that in England to-
day 100000 women are engaged in tasks which
before the war no one would have dreamed
women were capable OF performing. And per
Asps after the war great many of them will
refuse to give up their jobs to the men.
An indianapolis teamster who was injured
in street collision has sued for $1,000 damages,
alleging that his lower jaw dslocatcd, thus
"deprivng him OF the pleasure and enjoyment
OF chewing tobacco" Fortunately for the de-
fendant he is neither orator Fletcherite.
The extent to which we have come to re-
gard the issue of war and peace as depending on
diplomatic words and phrases is emphasized by
the confident assertion that comparison Of the
official text OF the latest Berlin note with the
unofficial text received earlier dspeIs all fear
OF a break with Germany.
Great Britain not only has decided to re-
lease the thirty-cight Germans and Austrians
taken from American steamer, but also to
modify her blockade rules. This looks like toss
ing away strategic advantage. She might have
saved these concessions for response to vgor-
note from the United States that Berlin
could have taken credit for.
Right upon the heels OF the one-cent-a-gallon
gasoline man comes a chap with a preparation to
make ton OF coal do the work of two.
These things all very we'll, but there is also
an opportunity for the inventor whose activities
operate in the opposite direction. Think of the
saving that would be effected if the half-power
orator could be produced for Congress
A New Jersey woman, described as Socially
prominent" who waylaid neighbor and lashed
him on the arms and neck with a rawhide
whip, the result of a difference of opinion
over some municipal improvements has been
arrested. Jersey justice often has operated
strangely, but if it recognizes that the law
against murder and assault applies to women
as well ss to men much will be forgiven.
a naturalist announces that those tender
hearted persons who have made it custom to
supply the wild birds with food in the winter
months really killing them with kindness
Birds, supplied with fat from the food they eat
in the summer, live through stormy winters with
out much food" he says, and often when over