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New-York tribune., 1918-03-17

ten or twelve inches square should be
cut in half Inch Sits from one side to
within a short distance of the other.
Half-inch strips of another color arc
then to be woven in and out the slts.
A needle specially designed for paper
weaving can be obtained at small ex-
pense. In selecting the papers to be
woven coiors should go harmonlously
together.
For sewing, cut out a piece Of card,
board about eight inches square, and
draw 3 circle on it within an inch or
two Of the outer edge Holes as big
as the end Of the little finger should
be punched around the circle about an
inch apart. A shoelace is the best ma
tcrlal to begin sewing with. Then, as
the little hands acquire some skill,
yarn and blunt-pointed kindergarten
needles can be used, smaller holes
punched, and the outline varied to the
gauarc or obiong. Holes should be
punched in these every inch, both
across and up and down, and may be
sewed along the vertical lines, the
horizontal lines, and diagonally. Sim
ple pictures may also be outlined for
sewing With some of the cards the
child should be allowed to sew what
ever he chooses.
Different colored yarns should be
used for each card to hold the child's
attention.
Drawing a Great Pleasure
Drawing becomes a source OF great
pleasure and profit TO the child. Sug-
rest that he begin by drawing some
thing With which he IL perfectly 1amli-
lar. In the kindergarten the little child
generally wants to draw a bail, "hlch
he can make with a simple rotary mo
ton. 1t very soon occurs to HIM TO
make two balls on his piece Of paper,
perhaps two large balls, or one large
and one small one. Because the pail
he playg with has string attached TO
il. ne next adds a string to his draw
ing. Then some ono discovers that IL
Is nosajb!e 70 use different colors, one
for the bali and one for the string.
And rnarvellods discovery, turned
inside down the balls with the strings
are like flowers on stcms. IT ~ nor
s,;rprisjnu to gee the next step quickly
follow, OF adding little leaves to the
stems. After this pcrhnls bird or
butterfly may be included in the draw
ing, and 70 on. :,
stringing beads, buttons, seeds,
spooa or anything else which can be
sirung will always hold the ehild'S m
terest and farniiiarize him with co'or'
form ard number. separately and IN
combination.
With a little time and ingenuity
spent in getting thesc various occupa-
tiong started any mother can direct the
antiyities Of her child INTO many cdn
cmtionaI channels nnd supply ing I'm =
peratiye need which the child -ecis for
self .expressjon.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
Queries and Answers
Mother Shipton's Prophecies

Ii. D.-Will you kindly give me in.
formation about Mother Sh;nton"o
was She. or He or 1t, a reality or =
myth? Where is there any published
data to be found?
M other Shipton," reputed prophet
ess, IS, in all likelihood, wholly myth
zeal parsonage. No reference to her
or carrier date than 164l is extant. In
tnat year there was published an
anonymous tract entitled "The Prophe-
Gle OF Mother Shipton in the Reign Of
Nhg Henry 9Th, foretelling the death
OF CARDINAL Wolsey. the Lord Percy
IN ensuing Times" (London}. Accord
ing to this doubtful authority, Wolsey.
alter his nomination to the archbishop
re OF York, learned that Mother Shin
ton had prophesied that he should
never visit the city of York, and in CON
sequence sent three friends-the Duke
OF Suffolk. Lords Percy and Darcy-to
threaten her with punishment unless
she recanted her prophecy. But the old
woman stood firm, Hospitality enter
tanned the ENJOYS, and at their invita-
tlon foretold in somewhat mysterious
phraseology their own future fortunes
and many events that were to befall
the kingdom.
The pamphlet, which bore on the title
page an alleged portrait Of the prophet
ess, was compiled in York, and may
have embodied some local traditions
respecting reputed witch named Ship
ton. One tract. of which only the title
survives. supplied "a True Copy OF
Mother shipton's Last Prophesies,, as
they We're taken from one Joane Wal
Ter in 1925, who died in March,
1641, being 90 years OF age, of whom
Mother Shipton had prophesied that
she would live to hear of wars within
the Kingdom but not to see them
164D. Meteorological predictions of
Mother Shipton" also multiplied. Will
lam Willy, the astrologer, in "a Col
lection Of Apcient Modern Prophecies"
which had already been identified with
Mother Shipton's" shadowy name. and
showed that sixteen had been duly full
filled. Richard Head in 1867. published
what was to be a full account of her
Life and Death" He presented her as
the daughter Of the devil.
Innumerable chapbooks, chiefly pub
lished in the North of England, have
since repeated "Mother Shipton's"
prophecies. one in 1862, which Charles
Hindlet had reprinted in garbled ver-
sion from the 1887 edition of Heads
life, and introduced some verses fore
telling the invention of the steam en-
CINE and the electric telegraph, and the
end of the world in 1881. But in 1879
Hindley confessed to having forged
them.
Most of the works above mentioned
and others about Mother Shipton may
be found In the New York Public
Library.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
The Japanese Week

In old Japan the week was entirely
unknown, and it was not until the pres
ent era that tho ieniroku, or HOLIDAYS.
one Of the Zones" and "sixes" of each
month (i. e., on the first, sixth.
eleventh. etc., were introduced. But
that was speedily abandoned for the
week system. Sunday is an official
holiday. with names adapted from the
Occidental names, as follows:
Nickayobi Sunday, Getsuyobi
tMoon- day., Kayobi {Mars-day). Sui
yobi (Mercury- day.. Mokuyobi dup
iter-day),. Kinyob; Venus s-dayl, Doyobi
fSaturn-day). Sunday is in vulgar
pariance also called Dontaka, which is
corruption Of the Dutch Zontag. and
Saturday is called Handow---that is,
'half-Sunday,"
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17

are certainly lower than those for
unrestricted warfare during 1917.
But French, Italian and neutral tom
mage is not included, and we must
reckon that the whole wastage, from
all causes, amounts to three large
ships daily, each ship of an average
5000 gross tons or $500 deadweight
tons. On this basis the million tons
Of Dutch shipping brought into the
account gives us 200 ships assured
to be of standard size, and they
would thus balance losses for rather
over two months out of the eight.
So critical is the position that this
reinforcement is Of immense signifi-
cance.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
By Mrs. Stella Clapsaddle

By Mrs. Stella Clapsaddle
WE often hear mothers lamenting
w the fact that there is no kin
dergarten in their neighbor-
a'oc. They know what benefit a
kindergarten training would be to their
eaiidren, but are not aware that some
7" the methods used in the kinder
s7ren may also be employed in the
some.
iais is particularly true Of kinder
Hf'en hand work, which comprises a
VT Of elementary manual training
ss1rse.
70. FOR hand work in the hon1e it is not
~sessary to expend much time, labor
money for materials; indeed they
nearly all be obtained in the home.
ras.lc clay may be used to advan-
~. Inc child can model balls, cubes
sss ~ cyiinders, reproducing simple OBJ
ne sees about him, or he can
ls@se from hia own imagination. Give
Gay into the child's hands and let
Iii Iii GO what he pieagcs with it. He
III. N. And plenty TO DO and greatly enjoy
sys ,s occupation. besides unconaciously
80 yr.ssssihx something within himself
'''h II VIII be valuable TO know.
Another Occupation
Paper folding ia simple. and an occu-
gasaea which the child can easily
4h'pu!ate himself. Give him a small.
sss t.sare piece Of colored wrapping paper,
sna % nm. nm bring opposite edges together,
Tt:. 'fen fold through the centre. once.
H.. Niii make book which he can
ne ~ reading or singing from, or
sist.sH snH cal! II a scrap book and paste
n lss in it Folded twice, the piece
kxeper makes nice little square
gsassefcaief which has just been
tss and IL ready To put away. Next
III, paper may be opened out, and IL
4. De seen that the two folds cross ut
"a .nsn're. The corners may be folded
ss,.a's 's centre one at time. When
III. corners are folded in. it looks
ss,, ~ open envelope: after the last
sasaaf ~ folded in the envelope IL
as;, sa' and the "lcttcr" is ready To
,s,rita little ingenuity many other
s M may be made by folding paper
rIgsssnt ways.
sHhE pictures from old magazines
" IL II o. the joys Of childhood. To
its,s 'x 70 do this well, the child must
st;,fs,,D1 nse his eyes and hig hands
saitslssspE IT IL splendid training, and
Is ..s,~s patience and concentration
nns'i ~ skill.
Sk,...n.I1nx is alto a Joy 10 the child.
1e1ss.sn this medium the different
fy.s fsr -, ssn be taught and appreciation
eeisr Developed
461a neasipg, eoIcred wrapping paper
sp's@s into lpIsy. A piece about
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
Prime Factor in Crisis Is Sea Poue Naval and Mercantile
brlfans Unrest Primarily Due to Fear Lest Building May
Not Equal Slnkings-American Yards Must Bridge Gulf

of our British Admiralty, told US
that sinkings were lower than they
had been before unrestricted
u-boat warfare began. He added
that German exaggeration of our
losses was increasing, that sailings
to and from our ports were as fire.
quent as ever, and that our secrecy
over the fate of submarines was
deterlorating the morale of Ger
man crews. When that speech was
made sinkings of British merchant
mon had been as follows:
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
Over Under

The average for unrestricted war
1are during forty-fve weeks of
1917 had been Seventeen large and
six small boats week, so that it
really looked as if we were reduc-
ing the peril. But Secretary Baker
uttered the warning that the
C-boats were probably withdrawn
for reftting and it is remarkable
that since Sir Eric Geddes spoke,
the figures have again risen.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17

600 tons during 1918. If she man.
ages this she will have risen within
two years to the standard Of the
United Kingdom, which has been
hitherto the chief shipbuilder of the
world, and she will have done this
during a period of exceptional naval
expansion.
A larger figure than the above
100000 tons has been mentioned.
To be candid, I do not quite know
what tha estimate of 100000
American tons covers. Is it to be
dead weight tons? If so, that would
be about 100000 gross, or British,
tons. as ordinarily reckoned. And is
it to be 100000 such tons by the
end Of 1918 or 100000 tons within
1918? Does the figure include the
output for 1917 or is it limited to
output within 1918? cannot say.
But it is obvious that if your coun-
try turns out as much as 100000
tons by next Christmas, or even B.
100000, it will have done great
things.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17

all; for it is so long since Toulouse
a battle, yes, between Soult and the
Duke of Wellington, few miles out
side the city; there is a monument to
commemorate the death Of $4,000 men
time ago. Since 1914 one had had a
chance TO develop habits Of peace. as
you have developed them also in your
America. Only, do not understand me
es speaking adversely Of America. On
the contrary, we arc enthusiastic for
your country Your Red Cross is rep
resented in Toulouse, and we'll repre-
sented, and is assisting in the care for
our refugees and rcpatriates- strangers
from the northern provinces who do
not any too easily fit into our scheme
of life here at Tolouse. You are as
sisting us by opening dspensary also
so no wonder we welcome you Amcri-
cans! Only you, like the Toulousians,
are people who know more about peace
than about the war
"And what q region Of peace and
plenty it was down here Though the
city had grown to nearly $50 900 before
the war-it is well over 100000 now.
even if there is no census to prove it.
There was no lodging problem in the
Toulouse of those days; rents were
amazingly cheap, and before 1914 one
dined marveilously we'll and chcaply at
Toulouse. At what was, and is, the
city's very best restaurant. the La
fayette, one paid three francs-well.
three or four, don't remember-for a
dinner worth remembering. You know
the foic gras Of Toulouse? ? All, one still
has that! The Grand Hotel TT,
where you see so few guests to-day, but
perhaps one lonely British officer lunch
ing in state Che is running around the
country buying up hay for his army
and shipping it by the carload to italy,,
was famous for its pate-and to say a
particular restaurant in this city was
famous for its pate, when all Toulouse
is famous Tor the same speciality, is
something Of compliment. But these
people, who take so much pleasure cat
ing, are not serious!
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
Mars

O. H,~Nass will be in opposition
March IA. 1t reaches its summer
solstice March g. 1918, but sx days
after its nearest approach to the earth,
and will, therefore, be unusually well
placed for observations of its northern
latitudes.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
Output Increases
AS Months Pass

The real difficulty lies just here.
Your output is not constant, so many
ships a week; it is rapidly increas-
ing. Hundreds of factories are MAX
ing parts Of ships which are being
assembled at the yards for final con-
struction. In present circumstances
that completion depends on riveting,
which, as was pointed out in The
Tribune in a most interesting article,
is a slow process. This means that
scores of ships are on the ways
hundreds, it may be, but that most
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
They Read Poetry and
Few Improving Books

Before the war they were gay, un
rejecting, expansive. They did not have
to work hard to live much better than
people in the north had to work to live
less we'll. Unless food Of the River
Garonne overhowed St. Cypricn, they
were as happy as larks and as free
from cares. Victor Cambon writes in
one Of his chapters that a bookseller
and when one wants to know what
people in any town are like it is very
useful to talk with booksellers: Tell
me what you read, and | will tell you
what you are runs the old proverb--a
bookseller told Victor Cambon that he
had kept shop in half dozen towns in
France and that Toulouse was the place
where most poetry was bought and few
est improving books. .. That
was before the war.
"When the war came, Toulousians
hated it. They Showed good sense per-
haps--and yet what was there for
France TO do but fight? And the troops
Of Toulouse did not behave too we'll.
You see, they all knew their officers in
civil life, and a private who, in civil,
counted for moro than his lieutenant
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
Child raining at Home
By Mothers Who Have Been kindergarten Teachers

This Of articles prepared uder the direction OF the Ome
Kindergarten Assocadtn
Zach is oho has put her training INTO practice
Nth her m5odies the uisdom she has learned II
d t articles helpful t" TO
ether reaching al the mothers Of the
eounty
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17

or his captain-well, he found it mighty
hard to take that captain, and his
orders, seriously. To-day the troops
from this region are commanded by off
GERS from other regions-the cards have
been shuffled so that such troubles as
that have been cleared up. And must
confess the Toulousians at the front to-
day make excellent soldiers after all.
Yes, they aren't so bad by nature, after
Ill
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
1t Bears Out the
Old tradition

but think of it, SIR have been here
a year! Is it any wonder that you
hear me not very enthusiastic about
Toulouse? For my friends are else
where, and look at the hours l keep.
leave this house at 1880 in the morn
ing and don't get back from the Powder
Works till 8 at night! Yes, do get
home for luncheon, but have to hurry.
If want to get my hair cut have to
ask for a special permission to be
absent from the Powder Works. And
| don't like Toulouse very we'll, any
way; my wife does not make friends
here, and / tremble to think that my
children may catch this terrible twang
Of the Toulouse accent. Quaint, you
think it? To an American, perhaps To
Parisian-barbarous
COT course, all these things we have
spoken of are trfes. My real quarrel
with Toulouse is that even now the city
hardly realizes that there is war. We
are too far from the front l should
prefer to be back on the firing line"
l have set down Captain Dash's con-
versation just as it occurred after an
excellent dinner in his excellent apart
ment-leaving out nothing but my part
in it. And it bears out the true tradi-
ton of the French army--of all
armies: the tradition of grumbling.
Napoleon's army was famous for its
grognards. The Powder Works at
Toulouse has its grognard; and he is
brave soldier, with more than one cta-
tion to prove it. But he doesn't love
Toulouse, or his peaceful war work.
Toulouse is the city where, when you
ask your way somewhere, the native in
sists on taking you there himself, dis
coursing entertainingly en- route.
He Showed Strangers
The Towns Treasures
Yesterday when I was promenading
one Of the boulevards an old gentleman
introduced himself, expressed his per-
sonal appreciation of American CO.
operation in the war, and forcibly led
me to the Capitol, where he had the
picture gallery opened, after hours, 50
that l might see the "Salle des IL
lustrcs' with it's paintings by Benjamin
Constant, Henri Martin, Jean-Paul
Laurens, ETC., good Toulousians as well
as good painters, and its sculpture by
Citizen Falguiere and other regionaux.
The old gentleman insisted on himself
doing the tipping of the custodian-"I
am host, monsieur" he explained with
gravity "and the privilege of showing
the art treasures of Toulouse to Bel
gian, British, and Serb officers has been
a very real pleasure to me since the
war. This is the first occasion | have
had to show our Capitol and some Of
our Renaissance architecture at Tou-
louse to an American"
Something of the graciousness Of life
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
Toulouse Still Sings-War Not Yet N ar

remains at Toulouse. May no airraid
ever destroy it.
Life is not without its minor troubles
for Toulousians, if you come to that.
Before the war knew this city, and
and knew it not just for its architect
ure, it's paintings, its Conservatory of
Music, its university (whose public
lecture the many renters OF the city
loved to attend), but also for its res
taurants and cafes.
The Cafe des Americans and the
other principal cafes Of the grand
boulevards of this southern capital had
this not inconside distinction:
they had deeper sidewalk terrasses than
any Paris could show
Nowadays, the terrasscs are as be-
fore, but, except of Sunday after
noon, how empty they are! And at the
Grand Hotel Tt, aged walters
shuttle drowsily through an empty day
and a dreary evening, and a fat fox
terrier sleeps undisturbed in the middle
of the floor. How many of the two
hundred rooms (and haths) are oc-
cupied tonight, | wonder?
For my part, am at a family hotel
round the corner; it is less dreary in
wartime than the TT. | ask the
lttle proprietress what the greatest
war difference is to Toulouse
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
The Relative Position
OF y. S. and Britain

For the serious thing is that in
January British production fell to
about 10000 tons. That is at the
rate of only 850,000. tons a wear,
which is not nearly good enough. I
assign no explanation. You have
weather and so have we. You have
trade unions and so have we. You
have shortages of material and 50
have we. You are rapidly increas-
ing your navy and so are we.
But here is, obviously, a reason
Why we should put forth even great
er efforts per man than YOU do.
You are laboring to carry help to
otners. 1t is for others that thou
sands of your citizens, unaccustomed
TO the sea, are recruiting for YOUR
navy and your growing mercantile
marine. Doubtless they are obevinp
their country's call, but none the less
they are carrying food and convov-
ing troops away from their country.
They are not bringing these rein
ioTcements to save their country.
NO one in America will starve if the
ships do not sail But many people
N Italy. France and England will
starve if the ships do not arrive.
This being the case, must ex-
PLAN that many men have been
taken from our shipyards for mill
tary service and cannot be in two
places at once. ! must also make it
clear that Glasgow has been some
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
A Toulousian Should
Sing. If He Can


Yes, one must live. doubtless, but
not by bread alone, and God forbid
that Toulouse, city of song, capital Of
King Rene and Of the Courts of Love.
should ever descend too prosaically
and completely into economics-should.
in capitalizing to the utmost the
white coal" Of the Pyrenean water
falls, and in developing electricity, its
making, its furniture factories.
its powder works and cartridge plant
and arsenal. with their tens of thou
sands of workers. lose its love of tho
arts. its perfection of the arts OF love
and life! 1t is not only war that France
WAS made for, when all is said; and
isn't Toulouse turning out plenty of
powder and cartridges and soldiers?
Why. shouldn't the Toulousian sing,
also, If he has tho heart?
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
BY Barton Blake
TOULOUSE, February 27.

(APTA1N DASH. Partisan de-
Z core, and retired from the
army eighteen months ago for
serious wound that does not show,
Captain Dash ISLANDERS Toulouse, with
reasons enough. | suspect it is be-
cause he would much rather be running
his own factory, in suburb Of Paris,
or else in active service, instead Of
being assigned to job in the great
powder works that the war has brought
to the ancient capital of Languedoc.
Anyway, he talked like this at dinner:
"When the war began, people down
here at Toulouse said: But this isn't
our war! The Germans never do
anything to US You see, the Ger
mans of the French revolution
ary wars, the Germans who entered
Paris in 1914 and the Germans whom
we threw back from Paris at the Marine
never did reach Tolouse. Down south
here the tradition of hatred based
upon direct contact, such as you find
Normandy, is totally lacking. And you
don't know how provincial we French
are, in spite Of being an old nation.
For that matter, you are not in France
at Toulouse; you are in the oldtime
capital Of Aquitaine, the city of the
Roman counts of Toulouse, the Tolosa
of the Consuls.
New-York tribune., 1918-03-17
7s VIII Win or Lose War in Next Eight Months

OF these vessels will be finished
toward the end of the year.
Take Hog Island. The schedule
gives no completions, am told, until
October l. But after that date one
delivery will follow another very
rapidly. Here then you see why
many competent authorities speak so
definitely about the eight months
period. When October comes not only
will Hog Island but many other of
your shipyards display their real ca
pacity. Vessels now maturing will
come on with rush. Or, to be more
accurate, ships now being construct
ed will yield the first fruits in actual
tonnage.
am informed there was delay
last year in getting to work. Ap-
parently orders to proceed were is
sued in many cases about the month
OF October. This means that by next
October American industry will have
had twelve months clear to show
what it can accomplish. There have
been SO many prophecies that l will
not add mine to them. But / say
b!uhtly that | am far less anxious
about the ultimate result than I am
about the intervening months-the
best months for submarines
through which we must grimly hold
together.