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The Washington times., 1917-12-02
There Are Crimes Against the
Spirit
Worse Than Crimes Against the Body.
De SaulleS Is Acquitted.

Mrs De Sauless free quite matter of course
You observe that her acqutta predicted with some con-
fdence in this paper when the trial began
Law and judges recognize only crimes against the body
crimes against wealth
Public opinion and uries recognize crimes against the
spirit than any crime committed with knife,
volver burglars tools.
Murder wrong but there something worse and the
jury of married recognized something when the
Young woman on trial told her story and convinced them
that she told the truth.
Her little boy, one day, said: Mamma met strange
lady. And Papa told must love her much love
you, because she going to be my second mamma" i
That enough It was not necessary to say that
Mrs De Saules had small piece Of bone pressing her
BRAIN maternal dementia, lapse of memory any
The jury knew when they heard the story of her child
and the other that there something pressing
her heart pressing hard enough to explain not to justify
what happened afterwards.
ALI on the jury were married men, Some of them had
their children into the world and knew what
meant for mother, first to give birth to child suffering
agony of which have conception, and second to
dure the agony OF having the child taken from her
and second mother for that child deliberately chosen dur
ing the life Of the first mother.
For about one hundred thousand years did as he
pleased and knocked the down in the when she
objected.
For another hundred thousand years, sometimes the
woman was knocked down she objected and sometimes
sharp weapons having been inventedthe man was killed
while he slept which taught other cave men caution.
Gradually it came to be recognized that must stay
the and take of the children created by him. in
spite OF the TACT m0Lner naQ grown OLD
there better fresher looking young dweler with
red hair down her back the other side of the valley
For few centuries marriage has been recognized in
stution with the wife the recognized inferior and the hus
band supposed to PRETEND to be faithful
And for the last few years have had fair imitation
of what real marriage will be day. We talk with
out meaning it. of the Single standard of morals.
Always the old days remembered, in the deeper
layers of the human brain. And when tells the
kind of story that Mrs De Saues has just told the jury says
"A1 right go home"
u,ould iurv hava
Women, please write to the editor and answer this
question
The Washington times., 1917-12-02
Will He Get Up?
Every Man Is Knocked Down At Least Once. 1t Is
Getting Up That Tests the Man.

You cannot feel safe unless you have been knocked
down at least by fate and have proved yourself able
to get up and fight on again
million from this country are going to fight in
France In just and holy to make the world free for
human beings that live it, and establish the fact that
mans will govern hundreds of millions.
Every one of those young men will go abroad full of
ambition and confidence
Every will get lesson that will be of the greatest
value all through life.
Over there the will be separated by experience
the classes to which they belong.
And every of them studying the victorious hero
watching the work of his fellows will realize that the real
is the that has been knocked down and got up
again.
No walks to velvet carpet all the
He to be ped who does know it and does not take
the knockdown blow announcement of the fact that
his work and experience have only begun.
Adversely wanting to my career, said Napoleon.
When he said it he prisoner St Helena, des
tined to die there of slow painful disease Adversely had
come but too late to teach him. too late to keep him from
attempting the impossible.
If he had got the knockdown blow of Waterloo earlier
when he Italy young and fought the Aus
rians ST. Helena might never have him. He might
have realized his dream made France the base of world
activity as Alexander made Macedonia his base And
history might tell of Napoleon Mohammedan according
to his program dressed in Oriental robes riding the
back of an elephant, and ruler of the whole world
But "adversity wanting to my career" said he
truly. And when adversely came late the blow too
hard He never got up =
The magnificent tomb, under the great dome in Paris,
where his body lies is not much monument to the great
of monument to the fact that defeat and
Continued Bottom of Last Column)
The Washington times., 1917-12-02

Shakespeare makes Caesar say:
Men at time masters of their fates The
fault dear Butus is not our stars but in ourselves that
are underlings
All other writers combined have not the knowledge Of
ambition and human nature possessed by Shakespeare In
three lines he puts the truth that every man. without de-
ccving himself should carry in his mind It is our own
fault if we ''underlngs.'
Every one of us at some time is down.
But permanent failure is only for those that STAY
down
He who will may rise.
Fate sorts out with his big club the weak and the
strong the "underngs and the doers those that stay
down and those that get up.
Among savages the test of resisting power was applied
directly and physically.
the thick muscles under his shoulder blade By ropes
tached he strung up into the air. whired round and
round.
If he showed courage, kept his face cold and un-
changed allowed no sound to escape him. he was taken
down and accepted as warrior.
If he cried out in pain he released and sent to do
womens work with the squaws.
Every kind of savage, including the spartans of
Greece had particular way of testing mans fitness.
Fate, in civilization, has thousand ways.
For the proud it is humiliation that is the Of
power to get up after knock down blow.
For another it is loss Of money humiating failure.
For another, discharge from employment caused by
oVerconfdence neglect.
For another, humiliation caused by disappointment in
love physical deformity
Byron had been sound physically he would have writ
ten no poetry.
If John Brown had not failed in every money-maldnR
undertaking he would have gained immortality BY
his fight against slavery and his hanging at Harpers Ferry
Read the lines by Milton this page and the two IA
verses by Henley. If you feel Milton makes
Lucfer feel you determine to be your captain
and ruler, fate will not keep you down.
The Washington times., 1917-12-02
MabelDodge Writes onFear
and Its Results

nervous and afraid inside as she
ever was before. OF course they
did not treat her for fear, but for
thinness! | am waiting to see
how long she will preserve this
false confidence with which she is
upholstered. l expect to see It
melt away. because 1t is not or
ganic and functional fat; 1t is not
from the inside out.
Can the leopard change his
spots?" Or can man by thinking
add one cublt to his stature?
The answer to that is yes, yes. yes,
he can Just as by thinking he
can wear himself down until he is
a diminished creature.
But let US stop right here.
A critical scolding attack of this
sort helps no one. What | want is
to help you-you thin, frightened
woman. How can you be helped
to lose your fear?
Three Great Truths.
II you can realize completely
two or three things | will tell you,
you will be cured. By realization,
| mean experience these three
truths.
Look at them until you know
they are true.
First-Your own roots are deep
in the universe, along with every
thing else. Everyone and every
thing are firmly held together.
There Is no aloneness.
Second-Nothing is impossible
to the determined mind.
THAT is a wonderful truth.
Nothing is impossiblel.
Third-Whatever IS ior you
will migrate to you. This is a ply
sical-spiritual law 1t IS SO wheth-
en- YOU believe it or not;
Try to meet life openly-expand
to it as you would to perfume or
as YOU would meet an ocean wind.
II IS a mixture of both. The per
fume is sweet, but there is tonic
in the. bitterness if you VIII but
take it.
The Washington times., 1917-12-02
. HINNESs Is the contraction
OF fear.
y Thin nnnn1n ara nnnarnl1,-

n HINNESS is the contraction
| of fear,
Thin people are generally
afraid of life, afraid of the future,
afraid no one loves them.
They suffer from lack.
Lack is woman's complaint; just
as labor is mans.
Unless. of course, one comes
from a thin family" or suffers
from organic inefficiency, or has
worn down the tissues by work,
thinness is usually the outward
mark OF expression Of mental ap-
prehension.
Thin women lack confidence
and, very often, faith.
Faith is the greatest nourisher
In life, and so they who don't have
1t are psychically starved
Thin women look In instead OF
out, turning in upon themselves
instead of expanding outward to
the universe. So they fail to ex-
perience the boundless universal
love which would satisfy and fill
them.
They feed upon themselves,
which is always a starvation diet.
Fear Is Deadly.
By indulging in fear you secrete
a perniCious poison from certain
glands in your body which devours
you.
1t is the deadliest parasite.
Very thin, nervous women nearly
always feel that they are starved
for love. They are. They will
continue to be starved until they
forget their own lack in turning
out toward the rest OF the world
Then they will find what they
need.
| have a very thin woman friend
whom the doctors took In hand
lately. They fed her many meals
a day. of the most fattening foods.
they sickened her by stuffing her
with fats OF all kinds After two
months Of this she had put on"
twenty-five pounds: she looks en-
tirely different, In fact, she looked
like another woman, but she isn't
a different woman. She is Just az
The Washington times., 1917-12-02

A safety-first idea is contained in
a note from W. E. BIRGFIELD
1907 Park road. He suggests that
schools be no longer opened prompt
ly at 9 o'clock, but a little later in
the morning. Children would not
be on the street or on the street cars
at the heaviest traffic hour.
This may come about, under the
survey Of street and street car prob
lens which is now about to be made.
There Uds q hole IN the street.
Every night for three weeks a
q barrel over the hole and red Ian
tern on top of the barrel
Then one day q man came I1ith a
shovel and some stones and fired the
hole IN fifteen minutes.
Just after MAURICE SPLAIN
was appointed marshal of the Dis
trict Of Columbia, two walters at the
Press Club were talking Of the ap-
pointment.
One Of them wanted to know Just
what a marshal does.
Whereupon the other one answered
him:
Why, q marshal Is the man who
rides on a horse and wears . red
sash at the head Of parade"
The friends Of KEMPER COMING
are much wrought up over his recent
statement in defense of babies and
children in apartment houses. Mr..
The Washington times., 1917-12-02

Cowing's argument in defense Of
children seems to have settled the
noisy baby question. but the follow
ing letter from Rufus Andres, dated
"Bevoville," D. c., may reopen the
controversy:
"Mr. Cowing, whose significant
statement on the much discussed
fretful-baby question appears IN
your column, is q benedict and lives
in an apartment. He also plays q
fiddle to the accompaniment Of
graphophone fitted with records OF
the sentimental type"
The Washington times., 1917-12-02
a snake in the gar
denim November.

THERE'S snake in the gar
denim November.
Just think of it! A real
snake, striped, ugh! and sly, and
cold, and silent and terrifying.
And l never knew it. 1t freezes
my blood to think of it!
1t has been there all summer, it
seems.
And we none Of US ever dreamed
of such a thing!
Does it know, / wonder, how the
very thought Of it terrifies those
who live in the garden?
Has it heard US laughing and
singing and playing the banjo and
telling stories? Has it watched
us serving tea and being polite to
strangers, and with being served
with tea and being comfy with our
own people, and has it felt veno-
nous thrill at its cold heart to
think what we would do if we
even imagined it was there?
1t is afraid Of US. suppose, and
hates US, too. Hate breeds hate
and fear breeds fear. I'm glad we
never knew, and yet
My neighbor told me about it.
There Ii Was.
was in the garden raking up
the leaves. Don't you love to do
that? There's something so whole
some and natural about the falling
Of a leaf. 1t doesn't try to hang
on TO the branch. 1t doesn't pre-
tend it's a brand new little leaf as
green as green and very tender; It
just lives the summer through In
sunshine and IN rain. shielding the
delicate fruits and flowers, and
making a pretty shadow on the
cOmplacent lawn, and then 1t turns
a bright and glorious gold, or
rich and splendid flame, and some
night the autumn wind comes blus-
tering and singing into the garden.
and all the little leaves blow down
and worship him, and there they
are in the morning, bright and
beautiful, and odorous and nne'
The Washington times., 1917-12-02
Winifred Blacks Article on
Snakes and FaithleSSneSS

and / love to rake them up and
make a bonfire Of them, SO that
the SAVIOR of their sweetness will
float through the air to many
homes, and some who are wrapped
so deep in little things that they
don't notice what is happening in
the great old world around them
will lean for once from their win
dows and say:
There's a bonfire somewhere;
! can smell the autumn leaves.
Well, we'll, it's fall again! / hadn't
noticed It."
My nelghbor said that she had
seen the snake twice during the
summer when It came into her
yard, and two or three days ago,
when she looked over the wall, she
saw it lying in the sun in my own
little garden, and she thought she
had better tell me.
Burr, What shall do about Il?
We can never go into the garden
In any peace and comfort again, no
matter If 1t is killed and gone. |
shall always remember that it once
was there, and perhaps some time
when ! am not expecting it, an
other
! feel exactly as did when the
friend | trusted betrayed my con-
fidence.
Behind Those Eyes.
She was sorry and she cried, but
the thing was done, and shall
never look at her pretty blue eyes
and never see her sweet smile
again without wonderir. if per-
haps behind them there isn't
thought that is little cruel, a lit
tie deceitful, a little cold and mer-
cenary.
What would you rather have in
your heart than anything on
earth? Love, gratitude, friend
ship, appreciation, gayety-all of
these are lovely, but do you know
what | chose above them all:
Trust-confidence-faith-
wish the snake hadn't come
into the garden. My blood is cold
now-only to think of it!
Copyright. 1877. by Newspaper Feature Ser
VICE. me Great Britain Rights Reserved.
The Washington times., 1917-12-02
Fine Service!

HUGH HIGGINS tells me Of
an instance where a Brookland
car marked plainly for that sub
urb was suddenly diverted from
its route and sent back in the
opposite direction. The conduc-
tor grouchlly ordered all passen-
gers of the car at North Capitol
and T streets, forcing passengers
who had paid their fares to wait
in the street for another car
bound for their destination.
The Washington times., 1917-12-02

C. LOOMS ALLEN, director Of
the war board of the American Rail-
way Association, favors the plan 10
relieve street railway congestion By
scaling the opening hours Of Gov
eminent departments. Under this
plan, some clerks would arrive at 8,
others at $50, others at 9, and leave
at corresponding differences in time
at the close of the day. This plan
may help the jam, and it behooves
the Government to consider this
thoroughly.
The Washington times., 1917-12-02

The Capital Traction Company
has missed only sixteen sched-
uled trips over its lines in three
months. The Washington Rail-
way and Electric Company misses
more than that every day.
The Washington times., 1917-12-02

My loquacious, but interesting
friend, RUBEN ROBINSON, who acts
as a sort Of a Boswell to JOHN MAR
SHALL. the East Capitol street
Ganymede, has this to say Of his
hero:
Ordinarily JOHN MARSHALL il
noncommittal. He Is outspoken In
his attitude toward the war, how
ever, and 1t has the true ring. OBJ
serve: Cou'se I'Ze worked mos oh
my life fob de Germans-dey'ze been
mighty goodsto me-but II my bog
Willie didn't hat to suppot his
mother deed he'd be jinin' dat army
sure NUT A splendid specimen OF
self-sacrificing, delayed patriotism.
by the way, do you know that
John has q card index Of the black
sheep Of Capitol Hill? Also, that
you can blindfold him and he'll lead
you to the exact location Of each
and every family skeleton?
THE Washington Railway and
Electric Company-the man who
doesn't ride on its lines out Of sheer
necessity ought to be tnterned"
A friend, signing ID. r. B.. . con
slant and appreciative reader" has
this to say about the Fifteenth street
and New York avenue guessing con-
test:
1t will take a. long to nnisA the
matchmaking Job a. II viii take
for passengers to comply with the
conductors request to Move for
ward. please; plenty Of room up
front" ..-..
The Washington times., 1917-12-02

Much Of this ethical culture not0
desceHded upon Warrington for the
rainy season should Be called Myth
zeal Culture.
The Washington times., 1917-12-02
Will He Get Up!

IContnued from First CoIumn)
humiliation early blessing, THE GREATEST OF
EDUCATORS.
The Washington times., 1917-12-02

Years ago, when l was a first grade
youngster in MISS WILLIAMS first
grade in the Peabody School, and
MISS WALKER was the principal
and MISS RAwLINs ran the fifth
grade with an iron hand, they used
to pass the hat for some kind Of
Christmas charity. Every child who
gave up a nickel or a dime got a rib
bon with a bell on It The ribbon
was marked &C. c. c." which stood
for something or other, but EVERY
kid in Washington year after year
dubbed it:
"Chinese Chicken Coop"
The Washington times., 1917-12-02
HEARD AND SEEN
By EARL WIN.

m the Powell School, a little girl
tells me, there are frequent colIec-
lions for various charities and near
charities.
One little boy couldn't bring any
money and the teacher scolded him, +"
said the little girl.
The Washington times., 1917-12-02

Doesn't that strike you as being
the outgrowth of rather a poor sys-
tenn? / happen to know that the
subject Of collections is looked into
very carefully by the Board of Edu-
cation, but would rather see ALL
school collections prohibited entirely
than subject one child to the humiIia-
ton Of being sc.lded for not bringing
money. In the PUBLIC schools in
this country there should be no op-
portunity for any such exhibition.
The Washington times., 1917-12-02
One Knocked Down
Courage Is Never
Really Conquered

What though the field be lost?
All is not lost; tn unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield.
John MILTON.
The Washington times., 1917-12-02

DANIEL E. GARGES, chief clerk
Of the Engineer Department, District
Building, is a Johnny Ferris Alum
nus.
The Washington times., 1917-12-02
Learn This.
! and LIVE 1t

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
1t matters not how straight the gate;
How charged with punishments the
scroll,
am the master of my fate,
am the captain of my soul.
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-22

Give. who had been dabbling In the art of
magic and mystery perfected a magician
act and was given his first vaudeville
engagement by the late Harry Rickard,
the man who founded vaudeville In AUS
tralia The prestidlgitator came TO
America fifteen years ago aud played MS
act first on the Orpheum circuit. and
then for twelve years on the Keith cir.
cult His last appearance In Phtadel-
phia was IN the well-known Illusion
"Spi"it Paintings" at Keith's Theatre.
lie played sydney Drew sketches in
vaudeville In South Africa and London.
He has lately won distinction as u movie
hero, playing the lead to Maxine FL
lott in Goldwyn pictures, and has Just
finished the lead" with Alice Brady
in her first picture with the Famous
Players. lie had an inviting offer to
remain with the Famous Players, but
gave II up for the present engagement
MIR Give is fine artist IN oils and
pastel and his pictures have been on cx-
hibition by the International Society ~
the Grosvenor Galleries. London I've
has forty or ffty studies of native scenes
and views in the Belgian Congo and Por'
tugucse East Africa. where he has beer
an extensive traveleT and a painting OF
the tomb Of Cecil Rhodes. All OF whicl
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-22
D ARE ENRICHED
Y HANS ANDERSEN
Irg Fairy Tale Of "The Seven
ns" to Be Screened Next
't Week

~ Princess Tweedledee was to
fhe wicked Queens son. All was
W and rejoicing and through the
u could be heard sounds OF laugh
A1d revelry. The little Princess
was sad and silent. She was no
x than dainty Marguerite Clark at
on her very latest Paramount
1nnSav. ..T'he Seven Swans" to be
M nj the Arcadia Theatre all next
which was being made under the
- directiou of director j. Searle
~ who made the adaptation from
~ Hans Andersens most famous
stories. dear to the hearts OF
houd. Not one detail of THE seven
n>'' Is left out After Miss CLARK
fhs Princess Twcedledee, has worn
IN her patience and fingers knitting
8IInents of sharpest nettles the Prince
Warming, as played by Richard Bar
xo1mess appears and carries her OH
b triumph to his palace. Here they
I'd amid splendor and entertained by
|o1scing and music.
All would be well were 1t not for tue
|1o1l OF the wicked Queen. which pre-
r0nfs the little Princess Tweedledee
MN ever speaking to her Prince Charm
GH. Also she is obliged to continue
- long task of weaving sharp nettles
|@1o shirts for her brothers until some
Ifues her white fingers are spotted with
hood. At last the Princess sees that
ne Prince Charming Is getting tired
IL hts silent and industrious guest and
iadiy she returns to her home In the
Rr-away Kingdom Of the Seven Dials.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-22
HENRY CLIVE HAS
HAD UNIQUE CAREER
Rainbow Girl" Comedian Was For.
merly Magician. Rancher
and Painter

sheep rsncher in Australia. n vaude-
vile magician of the first rank. leading
man with noted stars in the movies and
quite clever artist with the brush are
among the varied roles In the career OF
Henry Give. the actor who portrays the
theatre manager in THE Rainbow Cir
at the Forrest His real name Is Henry
Give O'Hara. He was born in Austria
liza and IL the son OF Doctor O'Hara, one
OF the most noted surgeons of the British
Medical Society and one OF the best
known citizens of Melbourne. After
spending some time on sheep ranch,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-22

What is her dismsy, TO find the wicked
Queen ruling In place OF her own mother.
When the wicked Queen sees the beau
tiful little Princess she Immediately
becomes very jealous and has her ac-
cused Of witchcraft. At FIRST the people
will not listen to the Queen. but as the
little Princess continues silent and will
never say word for herself. they-but
the sequence of the, tale will be fully
disclosed at the Arcadia Theatre next
week
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-12-22

before long he will have on exhibition
In New York.
"Thc Rainbow Girls" engagement
ends tonight.