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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-09
Charlie Chaplin

Editor Of "What Do You KnoW"-l. VIM
you please give me a Geographic outline s,. :.
Charlie Chaplin and tell me to what nationalw
he belonds? 2. What causes halfmoons anu
ouarter.moonsq H. NJ
l. Charles Chaplin was born of Jewish par
ents in a suburb of London in 1890. His parents
were theatrical people He began his stage ca
reer at the age of as clog dancer in London
Later he attended Hern Boys College for we
years Then he appeared as Billy in Gihetss ,s
Sherlock Holmes for three years. He ealhs
TO America with Fred Karnos "Night In an
English Music Hall" Mack Sennett engages
him to pose for the movies" 2. The moon -
light on only that side which is turned toward
the sun When the earth is between the sun
and the moon see the whole face OF the IlooIs =
and ii Is then called full. When the moon -
between the sun and the earth the moon 10 ~ ~
visible because it's dark side Is turned sai.I 'ar
ward. AS the moon moves out OF line petween
the sun and the earth we begin to see the 90
cent of the new moon. When the moon ma ma
covered a quarter of it's monthly circuit arouhs
the earth half of it's illuminated surface is w
ible and 1t continues to wax till 1t Is hAtws
around Then 1t begins to wane until "
comes dark again.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-09
OH, MAY I JOIN THE CHOIR INv1sIBIE

Oh, may 1 join the choir invisible
OF those immortal dead who live again
In minds made better by their presence; live
In pulses stirred to generosity,
In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn
For miserable aims that live with self
In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like
stars,
And with their mild persistence urge mans
search
To Vaster Issues
So to live is heaven:
To make undying music in the world
breathing as beauteous order that controls
With growing sway the growing life of man.
SO We inherit that sweet purity
For which we struggled failed and agonized
With widening retrospect that bred despair
Rebellious flesh that would not be subdued
vicious parent shaming still its child,
Poor anxious penitence is quick dissolved;
Its discords quenched by melting harmones
Die in the large and charitable air
And all our rarer, better truer self
That sobped relgiousy in yearning song
That watched to ease the burning of the world
LabOriously tracing what must be
And what may yet be better-saw within
worthier image for the sanctuary, :
And shaped it forth before the multitude
Divinely human, raising worship so
To higher reverence more mixed with love
That better self shall live till human Time
Shall fold It's eyelids, and the human sky
Be gathered like a scroll within the tomb
Unread forever.
This Is life to come.
Which martyrea men have made more glorious
For US who strive TO tolloiF. May 1 reach
That puTest heaven, be TO other souls
The cup OF strength in some great aRan,,
Enklnde geneFous ardor, feed pure love
Beget the smiles that have no cruelts,
Be ms sWest presence Of q aood Siff,,ssa
and ia a1ltaslqn e9sn more Intense
So ahail iqin the choir inelsibls
8aozs mssas = Eas Sadness Il the uarld
aaesse Ela1
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-09

call not judicial decision but a decision OF
the whole electorate, and they decide to do
It without asking or caring what the cleo
torate thinks. The recall of the verdict of
the peopel All, now we are getting down
to the nth refinement of government. The
people we're to recall the officers, now the
officers are TO apply the recall to the people.
It Is a scream.
The people voted money, millions, for
certain kind of subway between particular
points, but along come few men who calmly
announce that this particular kind" does not
suit them and they intend to change the par
ticular points"
Some recall, others are called.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-09

The head of a lighted match flew off and
tell in the lap OF young woman dressed
in fllmy draperles. Her gown caught fire and
she IS now lying in a hospital terribly burned.
Il would be easy to say that the RESPONSE
bility for this accident rests upon the person
wsso lighted the match. but responsibility rests
farther back than that. The man who makes
and sells matches which are apt to act that
eay Is the real culprit. There are too many
such matches on the market. They cause
disastrous fires. Matches which ignite when
stepped on are about as unsafe as those the
heads OF which viii fly on when lighted. In
some cities there are prohibitions on the
sale OF dangerous matches The inspectors
q eombustiblas seize ali which do not come up
to the standard OF safety hxed by the fire
department II there are such regulations
hers they have apparently been ignored
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-09
Tom Daly's Column

IJARRY p. TABER, cosmopolite and poet
IL now living in Wilmington, blesses our
morning mail with this:
My dear Tom-we were speaking the other
day of the good ship MCewe, more recently ar
rived at wilhelnshaven as saith the news dis
patches after radng the seven seas Tor
months" Many times the question has been
asked as to the alluson 'the seven seas" "A
correspondent OF the New York Sun few weeks
ago made the fiat footed statement that the
phrase biblical but he quoted no verse and
chapter for the simple reason, doubtless that
no such allusILn occurs in the Bible
When I am In doubt as TO any question what
soever refer the matter to my friend and CO.
worker In the vineyard, Col william Churchill,
eminent FeoFrapher and lingoist. "a voice. You
said something.O Col Churchill quotes from
"Recollectons of Travel in the East" by John
de MarignolH. Papal Legate TO the Court of the
Great Khan, and afterward Bishop or Bisgnano,
thus;
I'm 1858 however there arrived At AvEnog a. EN-, n;
Andrew a Frank and fifteen other persons. They
BROUGHT two letters to the Pope The letter is meri
toriously short:
I'm the strength Of the omnIpotcnt God
"rhe Emperor Of Emperors commandeth
'rwc send our envoy, Andrew the Frank, with
chrsta1s 0' IL rranRSnd BSyond d. the % seven seas
tnne > where the sun goes down, to open tns
between US and the Pope and to request the
rSrnembsr US in his holy prayers. and to com
mcnd TO him the Alans, our servants and MS
scngers bring back to horses and other rari-
ties from the sun-setting
Written In Cnmbalcc In the year OF the Bat:
In the sixth month, on the third day of the Noon
About July 1880
Noc L. Mcincrt supposes thesc seven seas to he
the Aral, Caspian, Sea Of Asov, Black Sea, Sea or
MarmOra, Archipelago and the Mediterranean II
may he noted that Edris also rcckons seven seas be-
sides the Great Ocean, viz: Sea Of China Red sea
Green Sea persian Guf). Sea Of Damascus (iediter-
raneanl, Sea Of Venice. Sea- of Pontus and Sea OF
JOrjan tCaspRnl The Arabian nHvigators Of tho
ninth century also reckoned between Basra
and China but such scientific precision here Is
highly improbable. The reference Ia likely to
be the seven annular Of the Buddhist cosmogony.
and done Into vulgar English means that the Pope
lived at the Back of Beyond)
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-09
"The Face Upon the Floor"

Editor Of "What Do You Knoto-Would you
please be kind as to advise me where can
get the poems entitled 1.-THE Face In Tor on) the
Barroom Floor and Woman? N. j. S.
1.-THE Face Upon the Floor" was written by
H. Antoine Darcy in 1887. It's popularity led
the publisher of Bowery song sheet to Issue
a song of similar character. which he called
THE Face on the Barroom Floor" Mr. DArcys
poem appears in a small book priv sely printed
with others of his poems few years ago II
is too long to reprint here. but If you will send
a stamped and addressed envelope we will tell
you where you may obtain the book containing
it, There are so many poems called Woman"
that 1t is impossible to identify the one which
you seek without further particulars.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-09
Answers to Yesterdays Qui;
German

Answers to Yesterdays Quiz
1. General Petain.
2. Queen Victoria, 1837-1000.
8. KieI Bay, Northern Germany. German
naval base.
4. Congress wishes to warn Americans OF
belllEerent armed ships. President VIII
son is opposed to the measure.
8. Charitable.
g. Detroit. Mich.
4. Ireland has no Premier.
8. Alsace and Lorraine.
0. Famous French military academy
TO- From the god Mars. First month Of the
year until the change in the English
calendar, 1853,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-09
Too Much Politics

While We're in critical mood let us remark,
apropos our general subject, that politics can
be carried much too far. In Texas, anyway for
there you may read on tombstone: He re.
maned to the last a decided friend and sup.
porter of Democratic principles and measures.
Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord"
According to an inscription in Baton Rouge,
the last words of David Jones were: "I die a
Christian and a Democrat"
The nsmes bestowed on children have in
previous articles come in for our serious cen
sure Our feeling in the matter is not dimIn-
ished by reading this:
Farewell thou little charming son;
a,s,Yo asy9F ,it,i s9Si n eepT Thy voice again.
May We together In Heaven rich blessings share,
So 1t goes. If you want to critieise there's
always something to criticise, Epitaph writer's
are critical. too, We don't much mind what
they say about the doctors, but why they
should pick on such good friends we don't
know. Anyway, the epitaph on little Johnny
Smith appeals to us:
Four doctors tackled Johnny Smith;
They blistered and they blsd him;
with sauills and anti-biliOus pills
na ARey SfgaS StirTed 'Gsg Sin isa up R @5 o.,oD.
Ana tried t to move NOV Z his |if% liver: Sa'0n''
But all IN vain-his little soul
Was waited Ger the river.
Then there's this, on the doctor himself:
This dapper doctor was so small
SO small his sugar pills,
That all his patrons looked aEhast
To see his monstrous bills.
OF dentist It is written that "he is auins,
his last cavity" and of coroner that "be
lived and died by suicide"
The manner of death or cause thsrsor q
often the subject matter of an epitaph In
Oxford. n. H., this strikes the eye
To all my friends l bid adieu;
sudden death you never knew
As / was leading the old mare 10 drinl.
She kicked and killed him quieleFn a wink.
Somebody In Schenectady:
He got nshbone IN his throat
And then he sang an angel hole
a eolored lady who was burned n tie lirs thai
destroyed her house Is remembered mus.
Wen aesekhoa seea sna leAhna 4srsaaE
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-09
CoMEHoW this postscript to Harry Taber's
- letter slipped way down here;


Col. Churchill continues: ''You see this car
ries the Septem Maria back a century and a
half before Columbus, so far as dates go-indef
initely more remote In Note l. which we owe 10
Henri Cordier, editor of the Chronicle
II mustn't omit such Of the names If tha
other fifteen blessed Christians as have bssn
preserved in this record
I'VE Futim Joens, Chatcen TungiI Gemboea
EyeRzi, Joannes Iuchey and Rubeus Pinzanus
with our heads In the dust salute holy Father
Thus see how Futim Joens goes 10 prova
the measureless respeetability Of the Jones fam.
lily.
Having traced to its source the earliest vsf
erence 10 the seven seas and realizing the In.
dehnitensss Of the eolloeAtion, the ouestion is
still inspissated and more or less befcgged VET
one may conclude that the phrase Is become gen
eric for the vast expanses OF ocean OF Whatever
time and place. The Wise Men Of Gotbarn
sailed the seven seas In bowl Of Blessed mem.
oFy and Mr.. Kipling in the most wonderful ~
all sea poems In the English language has sung
gloriously Of the Seven:
20 Him, -
Ana sta5iiahad is bo1dara unto All eternity.
Ar the slps anat abroad - the slorg 81 the Lard
Nha heard The SHY sailor mea ana gave lhsaz
oaeA their Sea-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-09
QUIZ

I. Where is the old City HalI7
2. Who the youngest man elected to tbs
Presidency?
8. How much did Jefferson pay for the Louisiana
territory and from whom did he buy itq
4. How much larger is Texas than Pennsylvania
3. How many Secretaries of State has Mr.. Wilson
had?
g. Was any President Of tho United States born
in PcnnsyIyania?
I. How many counties there in New York
city?
8. What Is the meaning of the name Of the
SchuyllSill River?
0. Where is the Pennsylvania State College 10.
Gated?
10. How many Roman Catholic Cardinals are there
in the United States?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-09

When the rest OF Pennsylvania is made to
understand that the port OF Philadelphia is
not local institution. but one of the most
valuable assets Of the Commonwealth, there
VIII be no difficulty in persuading the General
Assembly to do its share in appropriating
money for its development. The travelling
commission Of the Chamber of Commerce
which is now touring the State is planting
the right kind OF seed.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-09
WHERE MASEFIELD
HAS MANY RIVALS
It's in the Field of Epitaphic Liter
ature-Examples of a Passing
Art Cited in Pseudo-serious
Mood, With Charity for All

CNOMEBODY exhumed the other day mock
- epitaph that John Maseficld once wrote on
the back of his own photograph. 1t may add
nothing to the poets fame but it adds some
thing to popular appreciation of the man.
For the ability to write an epitaph in jest
commends its author to the liking of the world
Other men have written their own eptaphs,
as did old Tom Chatterton, whose appeal to
charity was quite serious-and pathetic And
many literary parsonage as such, has writ.
ten epitaphs. Epitaph writing, indeed was
once a favorite literary diversion. Not long
ago we presented some exhibits from the rival
pens of Aleck Pope and Lady Montagu. From
the time of the ancient Egyptians epitaphs
have engaged the interest of mankind, and
choice examples may be found today in any
churchyard.
Should you happen to be stroling about the
little town of Rockville, Mass, don't miss this
brief inscription on an ancient tombstone:
In memory of Jane Bent,
Who kicked up her heels and away she went.
The Parson Speaks Out
Presumably 1t wasn't James pastor who
wrote the inscription, but if you wonder what
a minister might write for his own epitaph,
consider the following lines by Boston cler-
gyman:
Beneath this stone Hes the body of one
Shametully treated in life
BY his wife's and DR.. Thorn
And Daniel Seavey's wife.
Such confession is good for the soul. But
some epitaph writer's are of little faith, as you
may see from this pessimstic brevity:
The chlsel can't help her any.
On the other hand, you'll sometimes find real
cheerfulness carved in stone:
Cold is my bed. but ah. love IT.:
For colder friends above 1t.
Lets talk of graves and worms and cpl
taphs" That's from Shakespeare. and poor
excuse is better than none.
And besides, we think expose of grave
yard literature is beneficial thing. Take, for
example, the matter of grammar. over in
Tom Daly's column the other day aspers!ors
were cast a dyeng Notwithstanding pul-
intended, thank heaven;
We dye
To please
Both you and /.
Or something like that. But listen here-it's
an epitaph;
Here lies I.
Killed by sky
Rocket in
But speaking of advertisements, here's one:
Sacred to the memory of Jonathan Thomson
pOus Christian and affectiOnate husband
His disCnnsulate widow continues
the Tripe and Trotter business at the place
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-09

ITTE DON'T know whether the typewriter
w of DR.. Maurice Francis Egan, Minister to
Denmark, slipped. but this is what he writes
from Copenhagen:
Fisher Unwin is thinking of bringing out
a book of my lighter essays. the Internal
Feminine etc"
Also, incidentally. he tells us of his love for
old Philadelphia. Says he, Il have the old
brass knocker from my fathers white-painted
door, to which three marble steps led. There
was fine garden behind the house. full of
larkspur and bergamot and pansles."
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-09
GOING SOME

fsREAT was the intellect that devised the
\ scheme to recall Mayors. city commits
sloHefs ana other executive officers OF govern
ment. Greater still was the talent Of the
genius Wio went one better and yelped for
sha recall not only q Judges but also OF
Judicial decisions.
het tlsef uers plkers. For il Philadelphia
HIaas come fes worthy gentlemen. some
zsHelaeEs ana soms nol. Hho asaHs to re-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-09
The Name Jones

Editor of "Whdt Do You Knot1"-Will you
kindly give me through your column a history
of the name Jones" In what country 1t orig
mated, its meaning and whether IL 1t is Welsh
or Irish. it has any other way of spelling than
that commonly used? c. M
Jones is a variant spelling of John. which Is
derived from the Hebrew through the Latin
Johannes. 1t has different forms in different
languages, as Jams. Jahns, Johans, Johns, Jones
Joannes. In the form Jones it is common
Welsh name.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-09
PATRIOTISM DAY!

I Ia time for great coming together Of
Americans. to express In monster and
solemn celebration their devotion to Amer
icanism and the principles Of government
which have been developed on this hcmi-
sphere. Let this be held in Philadelphia,
the birthplace Of American liberty, during
the week of the convention of the Associated
Advertising Clubs of the World.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-09

Must the upstairs or downstairs tenant in
q two-family house shovel the snow from the
sidewalk? When this question was put to
the Brooklyn police they lodged 1t by saying
that the tenants must settle the matter them.
selves. In West Philadelphia they sometimes
settle it by leaving the snow where it fell.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-09
NATIONAL POINT OF VIEW

Renewal of discussion of the tariff supplies
testimony that removing protection from articles
OF general consumption fails to lower their cost
TO consumers or to reduce the expense g living
Spokane Spokesman-Revew.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-09

The feebe-minded exhibit in the Widener
Building closed last night, but the exhibition
of feeble-mlndedness will continue in other
parts of the city, participated in by men who
ought to know better than to make public
spectacles of their Incompetence.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-09

We talk about preparedness with great sea
power and great land power yet to be acquired.
We don't know what preparedness is, even with
the puny navy and the negligible army already
in eXistence-Washingto Times.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-09

There is something decidedly humorous in
the Mayors statement that so far as transit
is concerned he is willing to let the people
decide. 1t seems not to occur to him that
the people did decide last May. How many
decisions does he want?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-09

More than s2,OOO,OOO,OOO year are spent
for drink In the United States. II this sum
were diverted to paying for a bigger army
and navy the nation would be better pre-.
pared to hold its own in the world, both eco.
nomically and otherwise.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-09

Not since the time when the fathers of men
now carrying the obligations of American citi-
zenship found determination in patriotism to save
the Union has the United States asked so much
of its people-Chicago Tribune.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-09

What the world needs is not huge mouthfuls
of hard words and scintillating philippics, but
restrained speech, coupled with actual, prodi
gious and unremitting efforts to set wrongs right
Albany Knckerbocker Press
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-09

Astronomers report that Taylor's comet has
been split into two parts. Some Mayor Smith
of the heavens must have been monkeying
with it.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-09

The Ten Commandments to be edited
by the Episcopal Commission on Revision and
Enrichment of the Prayerbook and lot of
people are wondering whether they will leave
out any of the nots.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-09
Sir-Lines in last nights column prompt me
to submit to you the following:

Slr-Llnes IN last nights column prompt m
to submit TO you the following:
Why all this "guff' about New Yawk?"
1t makes me sick to hear such talk
You who in 'slow'' old Philly flop
Can't understand that just TO stop
In dear Manhattan's genial isle
Is bread of life to dis yers chile"
Why simply to walk up and down,
And in and out around the town;
And breathe the ozone from the Bay,
And see the folks on Old Broadway;
Walk 42d back and forth
Then up Sixth Ayenue-going NoCr)th-
Thru Harlem thence to Riverside;
Across the Lurdly Hudson ride;
The Palisades; West Point, and then
The Hudson Day Line back again.
All that's the life few understand
Unless they've lived in that good land!
An Exile.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-09

The President writes shorthand, but recent
events in Washington prove that he has a
long reach when he gets after Congress.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-09

1t is a singular coincidence which shows in
the dry goods news story of scarcity in
garters, followed by report of falling off
in hosiery
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-09
What Do You Know?

Queries Of general interest tCiH be anstcerca
in this column. Ten questions, the dnsuers
to tohich euery 1rell-tntormed person should
bnoiU, are asked daily.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-09

When the Fairmount Park Commissioners
got busy they showed Councils Finance Com.
mittee how the money could be secured for
building the Art Museum. What is lacking is
not money, but a disposition to use it in the
right way
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-09

reserve the right to fire on any merchantmen
which makes motion toward its hip pocket.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-09

Those Democrats who opposed the Presi.
dent in Congress may now prepare to do
penance, not for forty days but for the rest
OF Mr.. Wilson's term.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-09
Our UpIift Series
LITTLE LESSONS FROM CLASSIC LIVES.
From the Verses of MafE. the Persian.

From the Verses of Manz the Persian.
"T1AKE this" said the leeCh, pushing
i pill into the mouth of his patient.
(Oh Farm, posing ddintlyi)
Take this" snapped the Business Man,
pouring mess of frcnzed, unintegible glib
berish into the ear of his stenographer.
(Oh, Sea, thou art at the hoodU
Take this murmured the burglar, handing
swift, juicy punch to the bewildered house.
holder.
(Oh, Star, bcdmin0 distdntlyi)
Take this" whispered the yelled lady, slip
ping an infant to the benevolent looking man
during the rush hour at the ferry.
ION, Stranger, TIM name is lIud!)
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-09

There is such thing as city's being so
economical that prospective citizens pass on
to another town what amt"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-09

But for protection we should not now be en-.
joying our great and prosperous foreign trade
We built our industries in face of the protests
OF the free traders and we made them success
full, and with them the country.-Dayton Jour
nal
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-09

q There lot of Congressman who never
heard of international law until a few years
ago who now want to interpret it. Let em,
but the Interpretation should be for the folks
at home and not for foreign Governments.