The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1918-06-28
SOLDIERS CORNER

These ~onalescent days and nights ,
when ali li9ht is loneliness give to the
air a mystic and glorious splendor,
and in r. I'VE do seem to live and move
The long range Of vision possible to
tho ova gives to the inner vision hints
and hones Of greater spiritual vision
when we shall have attained to that
nureness of heart which is the secret
of spiritual dominion and of the sight
These glorious days of golden SUM-
light do but mark for US our limita-
tons and the extent to which we are
earthbound. for we have not attained
to the dominion Of the air and Of the
elements in which we live, and yet
NAV not one of the most remarkable
results of this war be to carry us
forward to a dominion OF the air which
shall forever alter our mental and
spiritual vision!
Today our bravest and noblest boys
are masters Of the: air. They have
dominion over it. They. have put a
bride upon it. They rid its whirl-
winds and direct its storms to their
own needs.
What they have seen so doing they
scarce have had time to tell, and so
%supernal have been some of the things
that thew have seen that they are
quiet when they come down from their
mountains Of vision. They need the
pen and the brush Of a Blake to de-
clare what they have seen.
But the time will come when they
will make their revelations known to
us, enlarging the vision of US all and
bringing us into more conscious touch
with the great main" of all life.
Parisians' Mascots.
During the last month little dolls
of green and yellow wool have ap-
peared in mems buttonholes and lad
les corsages in Paris. They bear
names for they are the new "protec-
tors" of Paris. One is annette" and
the other is "Rhintintin." The first
is a Gotha mascot the second pre-
serves the wearer from Berlin's
shells.
Paris, light-hearted as usual, ever
in the face of imminent danger, is de-
lighted with it's new toy. The little
midinettes, other workers., old and
young, vie with faultlessly dressed
ladies and their escorts to secure these
mascots, much to the satisfaction of
the pavement traders who are doing a
roaring business. - London Daily
Chronicle.
: Presidents Limerick.
President Wilson is a famous col.
! lector and writer of limericks, and has
: written one on his wi personal ap.
8 pearance to the following effect:
: For beauty I'm not a great star,
There are others more handsome by
far,
But you see l don't mind it
Because I'm behind it;
: It's the fellow in front gets the jar.
i 1t was Judge Wadhams, an emf
Y nent American judge, who has beer
t visiting the western front in an off
cial capacity, who retailed this lin
n the American Luncheon club of Lon
t don, and the moral he drew was tina
the fellows in front of the Americana
in France were surely going to get tn
jar.
1t is to be regretted that Matthew
a Arnold did not live to see this war
not only because we should have gon'
on admiring him year after year as
critic, but because we should have ha,
d the pleasure of refuting him as an i'm
3 moderate scold. Here is his opinion
Of the nations:
$ Not in sunk spain's prolonged deaf
IF agony;
il Not in rich England, bent but to max
a pour
i The flood of the worlds m O
le her shore;
Not in that m%adhouse, France, fror
whence the cry
.e Afflicts grave heaven with it's lonl
If senseless roar;
r. Not in American vulgarity,
Nor wordy German imbecility-
Lies any hope of heroism more.
And frow all of these a heroisI
such as the world has new seen b.
r. fore!
s. Tattoo and TattO0ing.
he "Souvenfr ~tattooing" is the late
H. fad of the fighting men in Franc
though it does not yet seem to ha,
become very prevalent among Amer
can soldiers. The old-fashioned d
It. signs Of lovers knots, flags and coil,
snakes have given way to miniatu.
colored reproductions of tanks, aer
Us planes, machine guns and trench mo
tars. Absolute accuracy in detail
~ insisted upon, and some really wo,
IS derful work is being executed. E
pert wielders of the tattooing instr
re ments are in great demand. Their fe'
range from five to twenty francs, a
g cordingly to size of design and amour
of detail required.
The HOrrifed Dean.
The English Dean Inge's obpectie
to permit women to take part in
ceremony at st. Paul's cathedral, Lol
a don. forms the subject of a goo
story.
. Colonel Seymour of the Canada
expeditionary forces (late of the I'm
ted State army at the annual NEE
ing of the British and foreign I'm
tartan association, said that befol
he went to Canada, Dean Inge agree
to allow five American flags to |
placed in St. Paul's. Colonel Seymo,
asked Mrs. Page, wife of the Amer
can ambassador, and Lady Perle
wife of the Canadian high commi
sioner, to put the flags in positio
and they readily consented. He hu
ried to tell the dean, who threw ,
his hands Mortified. "To allow W
men to take part in a ceremony
St. Paul's cathedral would be to e
tablish a precedent" exclaimed Il
old-fashioned fellow.
"That's all right" said Colonel Sc