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New-York tribune., 1917-06-17
REPRESENTATIVE British pub

a hEfhESEN la LIVE pii'i0 P
~ ncation, THE Spectator" ex-
presses unalloyed satisfaction in
our decision to send an army to France as
soon as possible. This organ states;
President Wilson, having made up his mind
that war was the only way OF salvation for
rad followed and marked all the lessons
which the Allies have learned through very
painful experience. II is evident that he be-
lieves that a method of carrying on war
with less than your whole strength is the
the most cruel that can be devised. He wise
~ means to keep clear Of that method OBJ
servers here are impressed by the fact that
he is doing nothing slowly. and nothing by
halves. This decision to send an expedition
airy force without delay is probably one of
the wisest Of his many recent acts Of fore
nght and resolution. The display of the
American flag and the American uniform on
the Western front will be pledge and a
stimulus Of moral value out Of all proper
tion to the number Of troops sent. There are
many possible lines Of criticism Of the Pres
ident's decision. but we feel that the ROOF
Of his personal enthusiasm. of his anxiety
"a be "in II up to the neck" at the earliest
moment, will turn out TO be OF vast and de-
terminng importance
II has been said that the American regu-
lars are the only men who can adequately
:rain the new armies OF American recruits,
and that therefore they ought ali 70 be kept
IN the United States till the new soldiers
have learned enough 20 be independent But
we suspect that Mr.. Wilson has a much more
eogent argument than that. He probably
considers that nothing but the best training
Is good enough for the new armies, and that
rhe best training can be given only by those
who have taken part in the unprecedented
warfare Of the Western front. We are writ
ing quite without evidence on this subject
bat We hope that the sending OF division OF
.sRuisrs 70 France means that the Ameri-
can military authorities recognize that as
xosny Of their men az possible must be taught
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is a great rejuvenation atwork
among the searchers Of the occult.
u 81 CrooEac

among the searchers Of the occult
u With Sr William Crookes avow-
ing the possibility of communication be-
tween this world and the next; with Sir
Oliver Lodge proclaiming chow he became
convinced of the survival of the dead
with Mrs. Besant asserting that there are
millions of dead longing to come into
touch with the loved ones on earth,
emerges now the startling announcement
that the celebrated hunrorist, Mark Twain,
has dictated a new book through the med
iumship of the ouija board.
We have it on the authority Of Marie
| Russak Hotchner. editor Of "The Chan
nell" that this ghost -dictaton was made
to Mrs. Emily Grant Hutchings, of st.
Louis, Mo-, sitting in seance opposite
friend. The writer explains how the mat
ter was first brought to her attention:
In the summer of 1916 received letter
from Mrs. Emily Grant Hutchings, of st.
Louis No, concerning some communications
she had received with friend over the
ouija board. She asked me to come 70 Sec
her. Mr. Hotchner and having occasion to
visit that city some time later, called upon
her, and the outcome of the visit was inter
| csting.
We found Mr.. and Mrs. Hutchings delight
ful people Of culture and refinement, and Of
unquestioned honor and sincerity. Shortly
after our arrival Mrs. Hays came in and We
were told that she and Mrs. Hutchings sat
together at the board and had thus receive /
many communications.
Mrs. Hutchings stated frankly that she
simply lent added psychic force, but that she
alone could get no results from the boar; ;
together with Mrs. Hays she had received
poems, messages, and finally some very witty
remarks purporting TO come from Mark
Twain. As their style and humor were for
cgn TO any one present, and so truly that of
the famous wit, they felt reassured
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WHAT The SMELL OF
w FRYING BACON WILL DO.

Some of these understandings are come 10
bv sort Of telepathic suggestion inspired
bv the principle of Live and let live how
ever ncongruous that may seem in warfare
As an instance, recuperative work, such as
the bringing I'D of food to the firing lines, is
often allowed TO 90 on in comparative quie-
tude. Neither side cares to stand on guard in
the trenches on an empty stomach. Ofteh'
therefore. firing is almost entirely suspended
in the early hours of the night when it Is
known that ratons are being distributed
That is not the way everywhere and always
A private of the Royal Irish regiment told
me that what he found most aggravating in
the trenches was the fusilading by the Ger
mans when the men were getting ready bit
to eat.
81 SUPPOSE" he remarked, twas the smell
of the frying bacon that put their dandher
up"
But even defensive work has been allowed
70 proceed without interference, when carried
on simultaneously by both sides. Heavy rain,
following hard frost, turned the trenches
in the Ypres district into chaos of ooze and
slime "How deep is it with you!" Ger
man soldier shouted across TO the british'
"Up to our knees, bedad," was the reply.
"You are lucky fellows We're up to our
belts in it, said the German.
Driven to desperation by their hideous dis
comfort the Germans soon after crawled up
on to their parapets, and sat there to dry and
stretch their legs. calling out: "kamerads,
don't shoot; don't shoot, Kamerads' Inc
reply of the Irish was to get out OF their
trenches and do likewise.
On another occasion, in the broad daylight,
,inarmed parties of men on both sides, by
tacit agreement, set about repairing their
respective barbed-wire entanglements. They
were no more than fifteen or twenty yards
apart. The wiring party on the British side
belonged to the Munster Fusiliers Beng
short of mallets, one Of the MINISTERS cooiiy
walked across to the enemy, and said: GOOD
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Conquest

WHITE women in the houses
w And strange men in the street.
Muddy horses in the fields.
Trampling down the wheat.
And so they took the village
Whose men were all away.
Women screamed and soldiers laughed
II was glorious day!
But over on the hillside
Up which the footpath led,
There was town they could not take
The village Of the dead.
HI. W. Holbrook, in The Masses.
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81 don't suppose he understood a word OF
what | said; but he clung to me, crying
'Kamerad! Kamerad' ! was more glad tnan
ever that hadn't the blood of him on my
soul. 'Ts queer thing to say, maybe, OF
man who acted like that; but. all the same
he looked A decent boy. every bit of him.
81 suppose the truth of it is this; We
soldiers on both sides have to 60 through
such terrible experiences that there is no
accounting for how we may behave. We might
be devils all out in the morning and saints
no less in the evening.
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pageantry," writes Mr.
Stephen Stapleton in The Contemporary
Review" 1T is bloody, ugly and horrible
Yet romance is not dead. IL still survives
radiant end glowing, in the heroic achieve
ments of our soldiers and in the tender
fancies of their hearts
And this writer presents very vividly
some of the manifestations OF this undi
minished spirit of romance-strange anc
haunting interchanges of sentiment be-
tween the war-locked trenches:
In the trenches one evening battalion OF
the Leinster Regiment held a "kailee'
(ceilidh). or Irish s;ng-song, at which there
was a spirited rendering OF the humorous old
ballad. Brian OLynn," sung TO an '"fec-
tiously rolicking tune. The opening vers
runs:
"Brian OLynn had no breeches to wear,
So he bought sheepskin to make him a PAIR
with the woolly side out and the skinny
side in,
Faix, It's pleasant and cool, says Brian
OLynn."
The swing of the tune took the fancy 0
the Germans in their trenches. less than hfty
wards awav With a "rumty- y-tum-tumty-
tum-tumty-tum- -tum," they loudly humme 1
the air of the end of each verse, all unknow-
ing that the Leinsters. singing at the top Of
their voices, gave the words a topical appli-
cation:
"'with the wooly side out and the skinny
side in,
Sure we'll wallop the Gerrys.' said Brian
OLynn."
Hearty bursts of laughter and cheers arose
from both trenches at the conclusion OF the
song. II seemed as if the combatants gladly
availed themselves of this chance opportunity
of becoming united again in the common
brotherhood of man. even for but a feeting
moment, by the spirit Of good humor and
hilarity.
A young English officer of a different
battalion of the same Leinster Regiment tells
of more curious incident still, which like
wise led to a brief cessation of hostilites
Two privates in his company had quarrel IN
the trenches. and nothing would do them but
to fight it out on No Mans Land. The Ger
mans were most appreciative and accommo-
dating Not only did they not molest the
pugilists, but they cheered them, and actually
fred the contents of their rifles in the air
by way of a salute. The European War was,
in fact, suspended in that particular section
of the lines while two lrishmen settled their
own little differences by contest of fists.
"who will now say the Germans are not
sportsmen?" was the comment Of the young
English officer.
There is, however, another, and perhaps :,
shrewder view of the episode. II was taken
by sergeant of the company.
"Yerra come down out of that, We pair OF
born FOOLS" he called out to the fighters. "lf
We had only glimmer OF sense, ye'd see Sc
We would that tits playing the Gerrys game
We are Sure, there's nothing they'd like bet
ter than to see us all knocking blazes out
of each other
But as regards the moral pointed by the
officer there must be, OF course many
"sportsmen" among the millions of German
soldiers though the opinion widely prevail
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better vehicle for her good heart this time
Note by Mrs. Hutchings-Mrs. Hotes
ner had desired a communication from Man
Twain on the subject of reincarnation, bu
she made no mention of this to Mrs. Hsy'
or to US.
Bonrd-I should like to talk with yos
about reincarnation. Those who pirate sbou'
their wonderful personality are arrogstns
a thing that is not theirs, for that persons'
ity has been a personality for ages. Ycu'
wonderful personality, man Of wondenu
magnetism, may have descended to you fror
David, beloved of God despite his faults
That gift is not gift. 1t is soul reborn
polished and added to by years Of added re-
birth, for each age adds to the value OF
soul as each age grows in value; but N"
soul had always its value infolded.
Mrs. Hotchncr-It is my desire to hep
give that message to the world.
Board-In the hands of those who kn''
is that which is of fulness and can be d'
closed understandingly. 1t is not every 0''
who can carry seed for planting and s',
know where is fertile soil. And ! am g''
to put my message in your plastic han'' ;.
for the moulding (and, by the way 'pe"
nolding sright), mold my words into '''''''
of virtue for the adjoining of temples o. e'n'
mon sense. You feel my touch on your un''
ed fingers? So hope that you VIII s'''
that electricity through the pages OF y0''
book-such flashes as will light Psrn's
sus.
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Mark Twain's Ghost Is Writing New Book
Mrs. Emily Hu of St. Louis No. claims haze established speak,
n relations wi the genial through mediunhp of aab0ard

had left unfinished most Of what was given
them to do. prayed, 20 God. let me live
longer in strength" One day the door swung
open, and I walked through into fields of
green; but fields of green were not fairly
won, and wanted TO tell the world the
stories was too old and lazy to tell them
while was yet quick; so graciously it was
given that come back to work.
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anguish. He had been disabled in the course
Of a raid on the German trenches made the
night before by a battalion which was re-
lieved in the morning.
These appeals Of his were like stabs to the
compassionate hearts of the Irish fusiiiers'
Several of them told the captain they could
stand it no longer and must 60 out to the
wounded man. II they were shot in the at
tempt, wha. matter!
II happened that little dog was then
making himself quite at home in both the
British and German trenches at this part OF
the line. He was a neutral; he took no sides;
he regularly crossed from one to the other and
found in both friends to give him food and
kind word with pat on the head. The happy
thought came to the captain to make mes
senger of the dog. So he wrote: MAY We
take our wounded man in" tied the note to
the dogs tall and sent him to the German
trenches The message was in English, for
the captain did not know German, and had to
trust to the chance Of the enemy being able
to read it.
In short time the dog returned with the
answer II was in English, and 1t ran: yes;
you can have FIVE minutes" So the captain
and a man went out with a stretcher and
brought the poor fellow back to our lines.
Then. standing on the top Of the parapet'
the captain took off his hat and called out:
"Give the Germans three hearty cheers, boys.
The response was most enthusiastic. With
the cheers were mingled such cries as: Sure
the Gerrys are not all bad chaps. after all,
and NAV the heavens be the bed OF those OF
them we may kill" More than that, the in
cident brought tears to many mans eyes
on tre Irish side; and, it may be, on the Ger
man side, too Certainly, answering cheers
came from their trenches.
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All Is Not Grisly and Dark, for Human
Nature Has Always Some
Resiliency

ing in the British army is that they are
often treacherous fighters. Indeed, to their
dirty practices is mainly to be ascribed the
bitter personal animosty that occasionaH!
marks the relations between the combatants
when the fighting becomes most bloody anc
desperate and happens at times IN all
wars-no quarter is given to those who allow
none
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IAt Length
IA Story
Game Through

Finally the story, Jap Heron" was given
them and they submitted it 20 Mr.. Mitchell
Kennerly, who accepted it, and we were told
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<<VVTAR has. outwardly, lost its
w romance with its color and
W pageantry," writes Mr..
Perth Amboy evening news., 1917-12-07

Actually the building OF week S
menus with meatless Tuesday ana
wheatless Wednesday and Wasteless
everyday Is fine piece of economic
engineering! All! those long-vanish-
ed days of the telephone order!
Pounds of this and pecks of that
and never a thought but-what would
the family enjoy!
But now one takes a pencil, paper
and a long Sunday afternoon and
laws out a food campaign like unto
the strategic scheme Of battle. con-
sidering: 1-Balanced food values; 2
economy: S-meat substitutes; 4
wheat substitutes; 6-conservation OF
fats and sugars to 10o0-pleasing
the familyi
Just to aid the mental and financial
struggles of the patriotic housewife
we suggest the following menus:
Breakfast--Grape fruit. uncooked
cereal with top milk. creamed chip
ped beef on toast coffee.
Dinner-Stewed chicken with
dumplings. creaIned carrots and peas,
sweet pickled beets. apple, celery and
nut salad with mayonnaise. steamed
graham pudding with maple syrup.
Supper-Minced chicken sandwich
es, hot chocolate. gingerbread, canned
peaches or pears.
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JAMESBURG CLUB ELECTS
OFFICERS It MEETING

JAMESBURG. Dec. 7.-Mrs. VIII
lfam c. Crosby entertained the Round
About Book Club at her home Wednes-
day night at one of the most import
ant session sof that popular organiza-
tions OF the entire year. Featuring
the evenings proceedings was The cleo
tion of tine officers and the naming of
committees for the ensuing year. The
officers chosen were:
President, DR.. ]. r. Dare; vice pres
ident, r. Glenn Dawson; secretary
Miss Bessie Enremore; treasurer
David H. Smith. The committees NAM
ed were: Program, DIR. ]. r. Dare. Mrs.
]. r. Dare, Mrs. c. A. Deveney. Mrs.
J. E. Marryoft, Rev. Henry johnson
Mrs. john H. Baremore, Mrs. David
H. Smith, Mrs. B. S. Everitt. Mrs. VIII
liam C. Crosby; books, Mrs. Condit 81.
Dawson, Mrs. Joseph NJ. Perrine, Mrs
John L. Suydam, Mrs. Isaac 8. Buck
,elew, Mrs. Herbert E. Smith.
Featuring the numbers presented
was the address by Lieutenant G. Les
| ly Shultz, son of FORMER Mayor and
Mrs. George A. Schultz. of this place,
who has Just returned from the Of
f1cers Training Camp at Fort Orgle-
thorpe, Ca, where he won a heuten-
ancy. He spoke on the work of the
training course and was marmly con-
gratulated at ITS finish for the inter
esrng talk on this timely subject. Oth-
| er mum bers were a piano solo by Miss
Bessie Baremore; paper on "Oui
Years Work." by Mrs. H. d. Zandt
! reviewing the work of the club; an in
strumenta1 solo by Franklin MaTTyot,
and the singing of the song America. u
| by the members.
| The usual social hour followed dur
ing which the hostess entertained her
guests with refreshments.
| The next meeting of the club will be
the final one for the year held jointly
by Mrs Benz jamin d. Dawson and Mrs
| r. Glenn Dawson and will in the ma
ture of a musicale arranged by the tall
ented pianist, Miss Mary E. Dawson
/ of this place This meeting will be
held "Wednesday night, December 10
Perth Amboy evening news., 1917-12-07
Thursday

Breakfast-Stewed pears, uncook-
ed cereal with cream, omelet, toast.
coffee
uncheon-Macaroni with cheese,
water cress salad. fresh apple cake,
tea.
Boiled corned beef, pota-
toes, carrots, cabbage, lettuce and
celery salad, graham mullins, sweet
peach pickle, orange tapioca-
Friday
Breakfast-Sliced bananas un-
cooked cereal with cream, sausage
cakes, toast, coffee.
Luncheon-Baked rice and cheese,
lettuce sandwiches, jelly roll, tea
Dinner-Large oil sardines broned
and served on toast, baked squash,
cabbage salad, rice pudding with
hard sauce.
Saturday
tast-Oranges cooked cereal
with figs and top milk, biscuits,
honey, coffee,
Luncheon Creamed caulifiower
and green peppers on toast, pruncs
stuffed with English walnuts, cream
cheese.
Dlnner-Tomato soup. fried liver
and bacon with milk gravy, baked
potatoes, escalloped parsnips, steam
ed date pudding.
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ARE WOMEN ONLY STUBBORN?

| ARE WOMEN ONLY STUBBORN?
But, Margie," exposfulated DICK. al
! ter my feminist outburst- ou your
self know how hard you women are on
each other"
J mo, l don't, Dick. think women
: are more lenient with other women
( than are men. Oh, don't radse your
i eyebrows and smile your little crook
ed smile, of course the good woman
! of whom we have just heard is a sam
| pie OF the old regime, but l think YOU
yourself know at least one woman who
F., has done very differently. You for
get, Eliene."
But it was Harry she forgave,'
| exclaimed Dick 1--WE do not know
what she would have done had the
girl lived"
Little book, Is 1t possible that Dick
has forgotten what did in the case of
Eleanor Flairlow? l actually believe
he has.
| rs it true" said Jim, that the av-
erage woman sends her sisters to Cow
entry for the hg'hteet infringement OF
/ the moral law. Surely you can't deny
that, Margie."
| No, 1 do not, Jim," / answered,
and that is because we are still in that
wife, mother, sweetheart, etc, class.
Do you know you men never thank OF
us except as your wives, your moth-
ers, your sweethearts, your daughters
something that belongs to you. You
never think OF us as individuals. To
somewhat paraphrase Shakespeare.
Hath not a woman eyes, hath not
woman hands, organs. dimensions, SEN
ses, affections, passions? fed by the
same food, hurt with the same weap-
onS, subject to the same diseases,
healed by the same means, warmed
and cooled by the same summer and
winter that man is? If you prick us
do we not bleed. If you tickle us do
we not laugh. VI you poison us do we
not die?'
"And if we do wrong may we not be
punished the same as you and no
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moreP
AYE, there is the mob of it ali
punished the same as you and nc
more
And still they smiled, and still the
wonder grew that one sman head
could harbor all she knew" misquot-
ed Dick in his turn.
You don't get my point Margie, il
is you yourselves that pronounce
sentence on your sex. How many wom-
en- knowingly recognize a woman who
has stepped outside? Men do not
make these foolish distinctions"
NO" / answered now thoroughly
aroused. You men win bow to Mrs.
s.. whose name mblazons the first
page of the daily papers with scandal,
but you will forbid your women to
speak 10 her. I will make the asser-
ton here and now that nine out of
ten women are only hard on the sin
ners of their sex because some man
that each one loves has forbidden her.
either by word or manner to recog-
nize them. You will bow to Mrs. S.
with all politeness, lifting your hat
from your head with the same cour-
tesy that you do to me, but you would
be perfectly furious if you should sec
me stopping ON the street corner
where alls might see u.s. to wish her
Good Morning And now, dear
friends, am going to bed. jim, I'm
awfully glad you told me that story.
I'm proud of you for helping the girl
and most of all I'm proud that it was a
woman to whom you sent her.
You see, gentlemen, your argu-
ment falls TO pieces when placed be-
side Jim's action. Inconsistent crea-
tures bid you Good might.
"But-Margie," suggested Dick, II
had made up my mind that you would
sign the proxies for your stock over to
me so that / could vote them at the
meeting tomorrw."
so there is to be a meeting tomor-
row." said. You did not tell me be-
fore. Well gentlemen, 1 vote my own
stock"
But Margfe. you know nothing
about the inner workings of the mat
ter"
You may explain 1T to me before
the meeting or will ask for explain
ations there"
Come. we will explain Vt to YOU
now"
1T Is late. and I am tired. In the
morning please"
WAS ever anyone so d Stub
born?" asked Dick IN despair as !
shut the door.
(To be Continued.l
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Monday

Monday
Breakfast-Stewed ratsins ana
prunes, farina with top milk, mullins,
honey, coffee.
Luncheon-Barley cream soup,
toasted cheese sandwiches, head let
tuce salad, cookies, tea
Dinner-Plank steak stuffed WIFE
onions and green pepper, caulihower'
celery salad, chocolate blanc mango,
sponge cages.
Observation-Disclosures
Breakfast-Sliced oranges, cooked
cereal with top milk, biscuits with
syrup, coffee.
Luncheon-Bean timbales, lettuce
and green pepper salad with French
dressing, cup cakes, cocoa
Dinner-Casserole of vegetables
corn mullins, spinach with vinegar
and hard-boiled egg dressing, bunch
raisins and nuts.
(Wheutiessl
Breakfast-Stewed apricots. oat
ZEAL with top milk. buckwheat cakes
corn syrup.
Luncheon-Creamed salmon, no
rice bread, sliced pineapple, oatmeal
cookies, tea.
Dinner-xCelery soup, beef hear
with dressing, head lettuce and Gu.
cumber salad, sweet potato bread
baked apples with nuts.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1917-12-07

medicine I took. Every month since ]
was a young girl had suffered with
cramps in my sides at periods and was
never regular. saw your advertise
ment in the Newspaper and the picture
Of q woman who had been saved from
An operation and this picture was inn
pressed on my mind. Tho doctor had
given me only two more days to make
up my mind 20 sent my husband to the
drug store 1T once for bottle Of Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and
believe me. soon noticed a change and
when l had finished tho third bottle l
was cured and never felt better. Igrant
you the privilege to publish my letter
and am only too glad to let other women
know Of my cure. Mrs. THos. MCGoN.
ICAL, 1892 HArtville Street, Phila., Pa.
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Childish Deductions.

Mary and her little brother, Billie,
were standing in the parlor of a big
hotel. Much awed at their luxurious
surroundings, they were gazing about,
when Billie's glance fell on a picture
of Marie Antoinette. Edging up to
Mary, he whispered: "Who's that
lady?" To which Mary replied In a
confidential tone: "Why. she's the
one that owns the furniture"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1917-12-07

III NY oiOo eAlu U6CA
until I nearly went
crazy. l went to
different and
they all said l had
female trouble and
would not get any
relief until l would
be operated on. !
had suffered forfour
years before this
time, but l kept get
ting worse the mora
Perth Amboy evening news., 1917-12-07
AN OPERATION
AvERTED

Philadelphia, Ps.-"One year ago I
was very sick and suffered with pains