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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-02

MANY other editions we're printed here
A'1 after John Broien brought out his re-
print. I have copy of an edition bearing
the date of 1887 and the imprint:
PUBLISHED BY JOSEPH ALLEN
AND SOLD BY GRIGG ELLIOT
No. o. North Fourth Street
on the back of the title page is the copy
right notice announcing that on September
"a, 1924, II. c. Carey and |. Lea had de-
posted in the office of the clerk OF the Dis
trict of Pennsylvania THE title of book
the right whereof they claim as proprletors,
In the words following, to wit: The Life of
George Washington, with curious anecdotes
especially honorable to himself and exemplary
to his young coutrymen.' The title page
contains further the announcement that this
1874 edition was the twenty ty-seventh-grcatly
improved" At the bottom of the page is a
note announcing that the copyright has been
purchased by Joseph Allen and transferred
TO him. IL Is probable, though I have not
been able TO verify it, that Matthew Carey
the predecessor of Carey & Lea. published
the book at one time But there is no doubt
whatever that it has been published in this city
continuously since John Broen first brought
1t out The Lippincotts purchased the plates
from local publisher years ago. and thew
have had the book on their list ever since
In fact II has never been out of print since
Weems first hired Georgetown printer to
put his story in a book 11S years ago. More
tnan elsnty EDITIONS nave appeared thus far,
and no one knows how many more will be
demanded before its popularity wanes
THE new edition is illustrated with repro
J. ductions of the old wood cuts which
appear in my edition of 1897. 1t is not
known who made these engravings, but some
Of them are signed in the left-hand corner
by roman italic "a" II they resembled
more closely the work of Alexander Ander-
son, the first American wood engravers they
could safely be ascribed to him. But Ander-
son, whose work is familiar to those who
have looked over the publications of the
American Tract Society, issued in the first
half of the last century, was fond of finer
line than is used in the Weems engravings
Benson J. LOSING, however, in his admirable
appreciation of Anderson, reproduces some
signed with "A" Identical with the letter
used by the man who made the Weems
blocks It might afford pleasant occupation
for some antiquarian to find out whether
Anderson did really make the engravings
or whether they were made by some other
early wood engraVer whose name began
with the same initial. Anderson was a New
Yorker, and most OF his work was done for
New York publishers, but as Philadelphia
was the publishing center of the country
when the Weems Washington was in it's
early popularity It would have been most
natural for the local publishers to employ
the best-known engraver in the country to
illustrate the book G. w. d.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-02
WAR GARDEN ADVENTURES

WAR gardening if one is TO accept the
w solemn word of many who indulge in
that fashionable sport is a far more thrill
ing gamble than poker or horse racing
The suspense is more prolonged. You never
know what is to happen next--or whether
anything will happen.
A pessimist at Amber thrilled by the
appeals of the food experts, went fervldly
to work last summer and wrung a crop
of potatoes from the bashful soil of his
domain. The potatoes cost him $12 a
bushel and he writes plaintively to say
that there was not one potato in all his
harvest that couldn't have been swallowed
whole without the least discomfort.
A group Of gentlemen farmers banded
together in Bucks County to do the thing
scientifically. They hired an expert, Sc
lected the ground carefully prepared TO
grow potatoes by the ton and lost $4,000
in the course of the season.
This is the dark side of the picture.
The little war gardens have been sue
cessful in the main. 1t is the common error
Of the amateur to suppose that you can
grow anything anywhere by merely plant.
ing seed and playing a hose at decent in.
teryals War gardeners will profit by
taking the serious advice of the scotsman
and by reading the simple instructions of
the Department of Agriculture before
launching the seeds into the willing but
not always adequate earth. Crops must
be planned according to the nature of the
soil. And even If nothing grows in them
war gardens provide exercise that is as
good or better than golf or tennis.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-02
THE TRIANGLE OF DEATH

THAT great red triangle forty miles
= long which Hindenburg has thrust
into the breast Of civilization points at
the heart and soul Of all we hold dear.
For thirteen days that bleeding fang
has crept closer and closer. Spiritually
speaking, it is as close TO Philadelphia as
IL is to Paris or Amiens. What threat
ems them threatens us. And il is well
for every man TO realize the truth that
confronts us.
For thirteen days history has been on
the anvil. Our souls have been tense
with something not far from dread. We
have seen what we thought was impos-
sible: the iron battering ram of the
enemy thrust back again over the land
so dearly ransomed from the battalions
Of death.
Germany is not beaten. Amid
innumsrable proftless argumentations
and disputes as to what we have or have
not accomplished, how many airplanes
we have sent over, how many ships we
have built, there looms the one indis-
putable fact. The German army stands
today within gunfre of Paris, and at the
very suburbs of Amiens. 1t is busily
digging itself in, and unless our counter
stroke falls suddenly and soon it will be
too late.
1t is tragic circumstance that not
until the ninth day of the worlds great
est battle were the Allies able to agree
upon the appointment of a supreme COM
mander for all the armies of resistance.
Although it seems as though that
should have been done long ago, this is
not the time to mourn past errors, but
to profit by them. The thing to empha-
size now is that the generalissimo has
indeed been named. Our prayer is that
he may be able, disposing his armies
from one all-seeng nerve center, to
slash through the deadly salient.
1t is indeed the voice of the nation
that echoes the wish that Pershing had
a million men under him to hurl into
the reeling lines. Our hundred thou
sand, who are said TO be singing their
way on to the field, are valiant in spirit
and they will acquit themselves with the
gallantry of their blood. But we shall
need many more; we shall need every
heart and hand and soul in this country
before the smoke rolls away.
Germany has not broken through, and
for her the great and bloody advance is
indecisive enough; but it is no less
serious check to the Allies. Now is the
time fo- every American to nerve him
self for greater and greater efforts.
God knows that England and France
have done their share. From now on we
shall be baptized blood brothers with
them in the most gallant cause ever
allotted to men.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-02
WHAT 4 CENTURY HAS WROUGHT

TIME announcement that the hundredth
L anniversary of the establishment of the
present public-school system in this city
is to be celebrated this week is mislead-
ing.
The school system that was established
by the act Of 1918 bore so little resem-
blance to the present system that it's de-
scent from the earlier system is difficult
TO trace. The principles on which public
education is based have been radically
changed In a century. The act Of 1918
merely established schools for the free
education OF the poor II was based on
the theory of the Constitution. which prilr
TO 1890 directed that schools should be
maintained in which the teachers should
be paid such salaries as should enable
them to teach at low prices" This action
was amended ih that year so that the Legis-
lature was directed TO provide schools "in
such a manner that the poor may be
taught gratis" This remained the only
provision for free public education in the
Commonwealth until the Constitution was
revised in 1873
Free public education for all who de-
sire IL is a comparatively modern thing
here. In all the early years Of the city
and Of the State 1t was assumed that
the well.to-do would send their children
TO private schools The public schools have
grown, however. under this handicap untu
now they provide free education for the
children OF the rich as well as Of the
poor They train young men for college
entrance and they give TO those who do
rot care, on cannot afford. TO enter col.
iege good practical education. in many
cases better thau that which the graduates
Of me besl colleges received a hundred
1sae5 srQ
have E.et D cep,utx however.
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Answers 10 Yesterdays Quiz

1. Pennsylvania u called the keystone state on
account or Its central or "keyEtOue'' posi-.
tion In the thirteen original States.
2. King Henry VIII Of England was called 'BluH
ready manners.
3. The DobSudJa Is an important ,pros'nce Of
humanla. IL was 0verrun by the GeEmRns
and Bulgarlans, and Its separation frorn the
native land IL demanded Of Rumanln a. one
Of Berlin's peace terms.
4. "lerafel" y the 0penlnE and title poens u
the first collection published By H1gar Allan
3. Swiss shard j. beet. but the root l. not sai,
pie, The ieelef are used like spinach and
tne midrlbe uke asparagus II u bocOnnf
popular with American Eardenerh.
q. New York city Is colloaulally called Oothnm.
!. Attlc salt Eraceill and witty touches ln
qnaltlss. Athens bslnE tis capital Of xtiies.
8. snail stan Or baton" Is tho insiErdn ef
.. Ney91 e eitx IN France. on the 9l.e nitee
sassfe sassis haf been center IN shs fieaTdg
40 osnsrn Esralaenq Fssh, French. is ths r,p.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-02

from the conception that public schools
should be maintained for the poor alone
into the belief that II democracy is to be
maintained the State must offer to all
alike the same kind Of education under
the same conditions. The change has come
about 80 gradually that we are in danger
Of missing its significance
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-02

to keep cook because Mr.. McSkitt stays In
bed all day TO read the newspapers and sits
up all night laughing at his own Jokes. I
have TO go to the hotel to sleep the night
before he goes on a lecturing tour. When he
gets an idea in his head he is quite unman-
ageabe. He wanted to burn down the house
the other evening because he said it would
be good joke the cook to come home
and find the house gone and us screaming
with laughter in the ruins He goes away
or trip and sends postal cards to the w.
G. T. U. saying, There's a very good bar at
the So and So hotel And when we go out
together he does the most humliating things
lie went up to the clerk of the Lacauer-Gilt
Hotel in New York and asked II II was the
BoWery Mission Ile ordered a dozen sets of
cocktail glasses sent to our minister and
mad them engraved with the bartender's
prayer He Keeps me busy apologizing all
the time"
ct CAN quite see that your life must be
notes.
Far too interesting" she said sadly zone
AFTERNOON ] came home and found that he
had invited the synod of Methodist bishops
mere to tea, Just TO see what they looked
IKE He laughed so at the idea of their
coming that he had forgot to tell me
about It, We only had one box of biscuits
in the house. While they were here a truck
load of porcelain bathtubs drove up and a
dozen tubs were delivered on the lawn He
mad arranged that to entertain the bishops
he said. The bathtIbs are all down in the
cellar now He uses them TO keep goldfish
in And he is always playing tricks on me.
such as advertising that free meals for red
headed men will be served here on such and
such date, or something of that sort"
7 HEARD door open upstairs and
i heavy tread
For heavens sake she whispered, don't
iet MIN hnd you here. He might crack a
joke and IL you didn't laugh he would assas-
sinate you. lie is dreadfully savage TODAY:
he was at the Women's Athenaeum today
and lost six buttons"
] fed, and as ! closed the front door
heard Mrs. McSkitt burst into falsetto
screams of laughter.
IL seems a hard life. SV
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-02

The clergyman who suggested that all
vice be swept out of the city to points be-
yond the limits of a ten-mile zone obviously
doesn't own any suburban real estate.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-02

1t is now planned to sweep all the idlers
from New York's Broadway Few viii be
left but the policemen. and they may be
taken soon.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-02

The Bolshevild are forming an army.
Look out for the new horror OF the explosive
adjective.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-02

The Kaiser hasn't yet thanked God be-
cause his big gun accidentally hit church
IN Paris and killed seventy persons But
ne will.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-02

Captain Archie
nut oermAn Air Roosevelt, when he
IA bau was bombarded for
fourteen hours hy
German guns, must have realized ho,,,. s,s,.
Of his papa's enemies used TO feel In tbs
old days "0
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-02
W,EEMSS SWASHINCTON
IN PHILADELPHIA

THE publication Of new edition Of
4 weems's life Of Washington. by the
j. B. Bippincott Company whose office Is
around the corner from Independence Hail.
recalls the fact that this most popular biog-
raphy ever issued on this continent has been
connected with this city almost from the
beginning.
The FIRST edition. the dedication of which
to Martha Washington bears the date OF
February 22 1900, was published in George
town There is copy Of this edition In the
library OF the Pennsylvania Historical So
clety. In Locust street. The society also has
copies Of the second and third editions. After
the first edition had been sold Weems made
arrangements with Philadelphia printer 90
bring out another one. This second edition
bears this announcement at the foot OF the
title page:
Reprinted by
JOHN BRoIEN. No. SO Chestnut Street
For the Author
Weems enlarged his book and changed the
wording Of the title several times. There Is
peculiar interest, therefore, in the compo-
sition and arrangement of the page as 1t first
came from the printers. Here it Is. copied
from the Historical Society's precious vol
ume:
HISTORY
or the Life and Death, Virtues
and Exploits
of
GENERAL GEORGE SHTNGTON
Dedicated
to
mrs. WASHINGTON
And containing a great many curious and
valuable anecdotes tending TO throw
much light on the private as well as
the public life and character of
THAT VERY EXTRAORDINARY MAN
The Whole
Happily calculated TO furnish a feast OF true
Washington Entertainment and
Improvement
Both TO ourselves and our children
y wits feather. and a chiefs rod
An honest mans the noblcSt work OF God,
Who noble ends by noble means obtains
Or failing. smiles In exile in chains:
y he good Aurcltus let him reign or bleed,
Like Socrates, that man Is great. indeed
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-02

''Politeness arst" is
For Conductors the new slogan fash
TOOs ioned for trolley pas
sengers by the p r.
r. We would suggest TO the management
that it is never polite to let lady stand.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-02
Burning
shame:

Mayor Smith was in
Burning Atlantic City quite
shame" near the place where
the big fire started
yesterday when the news of Secretary Dam
iels's charges reached him. No one ever
had an adequate notion of the Mayors
capacity to blush.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-02

The Agony Column of the London Times
is always delightful reading. Not long
ago we clipped from it the following per.
sonal":
ALFRED-Send the disguise TO the usual
place Leave the parrot with Aunty; IL
will cheer her up. VIII see YOU FTidav
as drIahseo' K. W.
We love TO speculate about that meet.
Ing on Friday and wonder whether X w
had brown eyes and what her disguise was
and how Aunty got along with Pollyanna,
the glad parrot
Some years ago an anthology of the
Times's Agony Column was published re-
printing the choicest bits culIed from the
years 1sOO-1S7o. We have tried for a ,ong
time to get our hands on that book. For
any hctioneer or playwright it would be
better than hundred years Of CORE.
spondence courses. We told Earl Derr
Bggers, the author OF Seven KEYS 10
Baldplate," about the book and he said
III had copy would never have 10
think again"
The volume is called "The Agony Col
umn Of the Times 1sOO-7O" and It was
published In London by Chatto q windus.
about twenty years ago. Has any one In
Philadelphia copy he win lend us?
A friend Of ours was asked what scenes
he enjoyed most in the movies. 'The
windy ones" he replied.
How much easier It seems to spend a
quarter on tobacco for ourselves than a
dime on milk chocolate for Xantippe.
Xantippe tells US that ice cream sodas
Or sundaeE have gone up 20 twelve cents
a ths Mafathon pharmacy. SOCRATES.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-02

Dispatches say the
No News Irish regiments won
In This heavy odds on
the west front. That
is habit of Irish regiments
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-02
BEEF, IRON AND VINE
Dying Confession of an Advertising
Man

IN MY day I was genuine valvein-head
L shock absorbing human dynamo. I was
the subject of that famous article in one
of the efficiency magazines, Forging Be
hind in Business, or How One Man Fought
a Long Fight and Lost" | invented pep
punch and paprka. My copy was always
a big thing to look for, a small thing to
find / wore Rippenheimer clothes, smoked
sensible cigarettes brushed my teeth up
and down, obeyed that impulse, had the
skin you love to touch and always asked
the mah who owned one I never omitted
to include the words supreme, obligdtc and
ultimate in every piece of copy. ] could
split an infinitive at fifty yard; and always
used to say how much more forcefully the
Old Testament could have been written by
Orison SWEET Marden. ] invented the dou-
BILE page spread. l never neglected to ray
tOhon for who.
Then some one said that ads ought to
be written in good English.
That killed me.
But have filed application for preferred
position, next to pure reading matter
among the obts.
FUROR GRAMMATICUS.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-02

GREEN & ENGLISH, GEORGE-ToWN
(PriCe 2s. Sd. only.)
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-02

Don't walt for the Liberty Loan cam.
paign to open. Buy now.
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II doesn't appear as If the Kaiser would
ever eat that dinner in Paris
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PRINTED FOR THE REV. NJ. /" wEEMs
OF Lodge No. So Dumfrics
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-02
HISTORY
or the Life and Death, Virtues
and Exploits

wits feather. and a chiefs a rod
An honest mans the nobest work OF God.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-02
Ode TO a Quartermaster

"U. S. QudrtermdStcr IN France mis-
takes foot poIcder for hour."-News
Item.
Quartermaster save that powder
For the weary feet:
1t was never meant for chowder.
And net designed TO cat.
Powder to relieve forced marches
Made against the Huns,
Meant for corns and not cornstarches,
For bunions, not for buns!
You to degradation shall come
If you do not know
Uncle Sam sent you that talcum
For doughboys, not for Cough.
DOVE DULCET.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-02

Dove Dulcet has never had much pub
lie recognition as a poet, and the fact that
we havI printed several of his verses lately
seems to have gone to his head lie sent
us long telegram last night from his
home at Obesity, N. j., (collec) suggesting
that he should do daily poem for us.
dealing in light-hearted manner with the
events Of the day. And as an evidence of
good faith he inclosed the following:
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-02

How much easier It seems to spend a
quarter on tobacco for ourselves than a
dime on milk chocolate for Xantippe.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-02

MANY other editions we're printed here
A'A after John Broen brought out his re-
print. I have a copy of an edition bearing
the date Of 1897 and the imprint:
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-02

A friend Of ours was asked what scenes
he enjoyed most in the movies "The
windy ones" he replied.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-02

Nantippe tells US that Ice cream sodaa
Or sundaes have gone up 20 twelve cents
a &c Mafsthen pharmacy SOCRATES
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-12-11

named for the King. AS he descend
ed 1t in 1857 an attempt was made to
nssassinate hum and the would-be muir
oerer was tortured IN one of the Guard
Rooms in the presence of the Minister
OF Foreign Affairs There are any
number of rooms filled with paintings
of various periods and finally we come
to a curious set OF pictures OF royal
residences well worth looking at If
only to show the extravaganza OF the
French kings. The room in which
King Louis XIV died may be seen
Then there are more pictures, some
very remarkable because they are by
Madame Vigee Lee Brun. who made u
speciality of painting famous women.
Several pictures of Marie Antoinettr
and her children by Madame LIE
Bruins brush hang in one Of the rooms.
Anothersroom shows n humber of
clocks for 1t seems that this King was
particularly fond of clocks and had
an entire room OF curious ones all set
TO strike at the same hour After d
short walk through the arcade we
come upon more pictures, many OF
these of Napoleon. There is also stat
uary-f-one piece especially interesting
to the United States---it being copy
of the well-known statue Of Washing
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-12-11
uuA>SAnu
~ y

Then came hi> nineteenth irthday
and with Il a presen. OF 81 cane from
his nurSs With instructions to go
ahead and use Il.
Now if all goes well. and his nurses
believe II will, they are planning IT,
take away his cane on Christmas
morning and tell the young veteran
that he can walk &ca n like other men.
What better surprise could anyone
wish?
T12re vii bc 2imoss more JOY IN the
hospitals this Christmas tide than any
where else faf viii NOT the prospect of
gradually regaining their health and
activity a. we'll as the knowledge of
victory wen cheer the men as nothing
else could?
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-12-11

Sedan, which started on November
and ended when The whistle blew TO
quit work on the day the armistice
was signed.
II Is 4 safe wager that the SIN Reg.
iments band will be playing HAT,
Hall, the Gangs All Here ,"5on Christ
mas morning az part OF their jubila-
ton. but the gang Will not ali he
there. Hundreds Of them lie buried
IN the rayines OF Belieau Wood-pow
called the Wood of the Marine Brigade
and upon these graves the cratefu,
French people Will be placing new
American flags, where the elements
have DESTROYED the original ones and
humble tributes of holly berries.
And in the homes in America 10
which these boys viii never return.
proud mothers will wind the laurel of
victory around the holly wreatnes
which will hang before their sercics
flags with their stars OF gold
In The Hospitals
Numbers OF the Marines who have
been wounded In the past years fight-
ing Will spend Christmas in the base
hospital IN France. where they vii,
be given a royal time by the Red CrSsx