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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06
ARMS OR THE LAW

IF THE proposed draft bill is passed,
thirteen Senators and one hundred and
ten Representatives will have to fill out
questionnaires. By virtue of their legisa-
tive roles, exemption from service can be
legitimately claimed. Free choice limited
only by physical disability. is not denied
these statesmen. They may take up arms
if they so desire. There is. moreover,
ample precedent for such endeavor in the
present war. Several French Deputies have
served at the front, At home the case of
the late "Gussie" Gardner, who enlisted
soon after the war was declared, evokes
the memory Of a noble concept of patriot
ism.
Elections, generally speaking. are ire
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06
Human Beings

Human beings are divisble into two
classes: those who enjoy being called on
for a speech. and those who are panic
stricken at the mere thought Of such a
catastrophe.
The latter. of whom we are one. take
pleasure in these words Of the late Henry
James
never consentingly or Willingly. GO to
dinners where that custom tspeeches) pre-
walls. The mere thought of II fills me with
terror and anguish, and at the faintest
symptom Of being looked to to contribute
anything but charmed silence / become
undisCoverable on the spot.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06
Black Slippers
A T the table beyond us T
y With har lfflo r1indo elin,AAHA A

A T the table beyond us
"A With her little suede slippers of,
With her white. .stockinged feet fat5
Carefully kept from the floor by napkin.
She converses:
ConnoisSes-rous Ostendes ~ Il
The gurgling Italian lady on the other
side Of the restaurant ,- .. -
Replies with a certain hauteur, ,.,,.
But l await with patience
To see how Celestine will re-erter her
slippers.
She re-enters them with groan.
Ezra Pound, in "Lustra."
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06
Thunders Of Silence

Speaking of Frank Harris he tells an
amusing story of Oscar Wilde. Lewis Nor
ris, aVoluminous poet Of small merit, com.
planned to Wilde that the press would not
notice his work. Il am the, victim of a
conspiracy Of silence" he lamented. But
what can 7 do? What would you advise
me to do?"
Join it," said Oscar.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06

II there had been a
This Sounds Serious definition of useless
employments in the
old days the man who invented the patent
stop for an alarm clock bell would have been
the first to be Disseminated against That
device, when you stop to think of it. seems
the shining symbol of time that provides
with painful care for all sorts Of warnings
and safeguards and then prefers to forget
them
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06

That which il most prominent isn't al
ways the most important The bust of
Longfellow is the most visible thing in the
Poets Corner in Westminster Abbey: but
Henry w. isn't the greatest poet there by
many syllables.
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Quo Nadis2

Ludendorff lives up to his already high
reputation as a humorst by the statement
the enemy evaded us"
But sometimes we wonder whether the
German people enjoy Ludy's subtle brand
of humor as much as we do?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06
A Question OF
ationality

The Germans are in
A Question Of variably either unrea-
Nationality sonable or stunId
They are blaming their
naval officers for the failure of the subma-
iines when. as a matter of fact, the failure
of the submarines is due to American ana
British naval men. - ~,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06

It takes Who's Who to tell tragedy in
few words
HARRIS. Frank. author born Galway Ire.
land, 1854. Educated Universities of Kansas
Paris Heidelberg, Strassburg Goettingen.
Berlin. Vienna and Athens mo deoreesl
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06

THE suffering OF this terrible war has
spared no German home,"-The Kaiser
Wrong as ever, William. Potsdam and the
members of its divine" family party are
still unscathed
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06

The new taxes on tobacco will arouse a
good deal of grumbing among the Grand
Army of Nicotine. Another grudge against
the Kaiser.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06

Ferdinand Of Bulgaria is after peace"
declares dispatch. which adds that he is
zen route for Vienna and Berlin" Evidently
the king has an excellent "hunch" as to
where the first submissive request for that
long g-desired state of. affairs will be made
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06
Try This
on Your Piano

You can look at it
Try This both ways Mr. Tam
on Your Piano bo." Look at what
Mr.. Bones?" Why, at
the cause Of Germany's defeat. She failed
to reach Paris because the gait was too slow
and yet, on the other hand, it was much too
fast" II think get you, Mr. Bones"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06

AS the German general staff moves
backward, the most unpleasant thing it
has to face is the communicates it strewed
so plentifully behind it a few months ago.
Hurry up, Ludy! Keep moving, or some
of those catch words will catch up with
you.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06

Germany is said to be threatening
severe penalties" for those responsible for
rumors of the Marne defeat but the Allies
don't bit mind being the guilty parties.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06

Gain Of ground" and "Marne" are only
catchwords, Ludendorff adds. What If pan.
Germany and Hohenzollern should also
prove to be only catchwords?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06

ST. Helena is not the only island eager
to welcome William the Damned. Hog Island
Nova Zembla and TERRA del Fuego would all
be glad to welcome him with open harms.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06

Even though the Germans are hustling
back toward the Ladies' Way" (chemn pes
Damesrthey are unlikely to enjoy any spe-
cial politeness from rude enemy in that
region.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06

A good instance of Americas determI
nation TO win the war is the fact that Mr..
Taft was In New York hotel the other
morning at o'clock hunting for a public
stenographer. r"- ...
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06
This Is Encouraging

Each soul is filled with power
To use at any hour;
To rise out from his hole
And grapple with control.
SAUL PATURFN.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06

Can it be that the original Inhabitants
of Hog Island are about to take their re-
venge on a nation of sausage makers?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06

The Crown Prince IA proud Of having
worn a wrist watch as early as 1905 May.
be by 1920 he'll wear ball and chain on
his ankle.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06

Probably the German papers are per.
suading their readers that Hog Island is
not one island, but whole archipelago.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06

Now that we have Ludendorff's "hip
pocket" let's go ahead and take the whole
garment. SOCRATES.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06
RUBBER HEELS

T UDENDoRFF's mastery skill in re.
~ treating prompts one to believe he in
tends to do more Of t.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06

It is said that the German verbs lag so
far behind Ludy's retreating armies that
they are being captured in millions. After
all. Germany has always been the home
of lost clauses
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06

What a pity that the famous slogan
They shall not pass" cannot be practically
applied to mounting mercuries which near
the ninety mark.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06

Were 1t not for taintins French prefix
by applying it to Hun we might call him
General DeLudendorf.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06

May the new German retirement from
the region of Albert presage a still further
retreat on the hoped-for day when the gal
liant king of that name comes back to his
own
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06

How angry Germany must be at Hog
Island for having launched a ship whose
name she can't even pronounce.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06

August too. seems to have started its
offensive,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06

Mr. Hoover is in France, and probably
every restaurant keeper in Paris wants to
slow him TO meal :,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06
Humid Humor

Let's kick the Weather Man into the
humiddle Of next week,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06
TRAVELS IN PHILADELP LPHLA
By Christopher Morley

mores, with the green and silver simmer
or the darkenns lake at one side, is a
cheerful place to sit and mediate I had
volume of Thoreau with me, and began
TO read 1t, but he kept on harpin4s upon
the blisses of solitude which annoyed me
when ! was enjoying the mrths and moods
or the crowd. Nowhere will you lind
happier, more sane and contented and
typlcally American crowd than at Willow
Grove. Perhaps in wartime we take our
pleasures little more soberly than of old
Yet there seemed no shadow os sadness or
misgiVins on all those happy faces and
1t was good sight to see tall marines
rompng through the Crazy Village" arm
IN arm with bright-eyed girls. Those boys
In the coffee and-milk uniform will see
cra2ier villages than that in Champauno
and Picardy. 1t is well to store up all the
innocent mirth one may in days like these
TNfiE last arrows of sunlight were still
quiVering among the upmost leaves
when the Marine Band began to play. and
the great crowd gathered under the trees
was generous with affectionate enthusiasm
And then at bugle call, the rest Of the
dusky aisles, climbed the platform and
sang their war songs with fine pride and
spirit. America Here's My Boy; ITS
Long Long Way to Berlin, But Wen Get
there, by Heck; "Goodby, Broadway: Hello,
France" and There's Long Long Trail"
were the favorites. And then came the one
song that of all others has permeated
American fiber during the last year-"Over
There" There is something of simple gall
lantry and pathos in il that | find genu-
inely moving. The clear merry, audacous
male voices made me think of their
brothers in France who were even at that
very moment, undergoing such fiery and
unspeakable trial. The great catherine
under the trees seemed to feel something
of this, too; there was caught breath and
culver of secret pain on every bench
over There" unassuming ditty as it is,
has caught the spirit of our crusade with
inspiration and truth. 1t is the informal
anthem of our great and dedicated resolve.
As WE walked back toward the station
"A the rolling loops and webbed frame
work of the scenic railway We're silhouet.
ted black against a western sky which
was peacock blue with a culver of greenisb
crystal still eddying in it. The bulfrogs
were drumming in the little ponds enam-
eled with green scum. And from the train
window, as we ratified down that airy val
ley, we could see the Groves spangles and
festoons of light. Philadelphia may take
her amusements placidly, but she knows
how to enjoy them.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06

Polish problems are brought painfully
near TO US BY ten-cent shinexH ~
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06
Spelled Several Way.

Spelled several Ways
What the business world needs right now
is more cents.--Detroit Free Press.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06

Turkey, IL would seem, is giving Germany
the icy mitteleuropa--Chicago Evening Post
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06

Happily the Quistconck slipped more
easily from the ways than IT does from the
tongue
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06

The richest prize which France secured
in re-entering Scissors was her own superb
cathedral
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-06
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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-05-31
USE BUTTER INSTEAD

Hoover says it is necessary that ev-
cry child should have dairy butter.
How can It be done, the average
housewife asks, when butter is SO
cents a pound. It can be done, and
many do it and have shown others.
Buy a butter mixer, and you can
make double the amount by simply
adding a certain amount or milk
namely pint for every pound.
Put one pound of butter to soften
in a warm place until it is the con-
sistency of whipped cream. Put one
pint of milk in a warm place to
warm. When butter and milk are
ready rinse mixer with boiling water.
Then put in butter, milk and salt to
taste and churn until all the milk is
mixed with the butter. Then empty
into dish and set away to COOL
If you weigh it afterward you will
find you have two full pounds, which
will cost you 81 cents a pound, which
is cheaper than any of the substi-
tutes.
If you cannot afford a mixer, sim
ply warm a large bowl and use a large
sized Dover egg beaten.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-05-31
MEAT AND ONIONS

In these days of high prices this
delicious recipe for preparing cheap
er, tougher cuts of beef will be very
welcome. It is used with great sue
cess in countries where tender meat
is hard to obtain. It is especially
good for tough meat
Cut the meat into slices, about 2
"A inches and IL inch thick. Pound
it a little. Then pour over it a little
vinegar and allow to set in a plate
for an hour with the vinegar. This
makes the meat more tendere. Next
have a little hot fat or butter in the
frying pan, and quickly brown the
slices on both sides. After that cover
them with boiling water and slices of
raw onion, two or more onions, &C
cording to individual taste Let all
simmer or boil very slowly for about
three or four hours. Salt You will
find this meat a delicious flavor and
very tender. By adding pieces of raw
potato in time for them to cook, you
will have still another and perhaps
more delicious dish, with a thicker
gravy. The vinegar does not taste in
the meat. Another way is to fry the
onions first, remove from fat, fry the
meat, then return the onions, adding
the hot water. A half teacup of sher-
ry can be added to the meat, while
simmering, instead of the vinegar.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-05-31
PI'etentiOuS Raid Made
By Hun AiI'Inen Back OF
US. Lines In Picardy
Bombs Dropped On All Sides Of One Of the Largest Hos
pitfalls Many Miles to Rear of the Front-Wounded
Soldiers Taken to Caves and Cellars

With the American Army in France,
Thursday May So-(By the Associat-
ed Press German airmen made a
pretentious raid on the area behind
the American lines in Picardy last
night. Bombs were dropped on all
sides of one of the largest hospitals
in a town many miles to the rear of
the front. American and French
wounded soldiers were carried to eel
lars and caves by American nurses
and members of the American Red
Cross.
Only a few persons were injured by
flying glass, as most of the windows
in the hospital had been shattered by
bombs dropped the previous night.
Several private houses were wrecked
and a number of civilians, including
several babies, were killed.
That the raid was planned on a
much larger scale than recent ones
over this territory is evident from re-
ports made by many Americans in
villages over which the raiders pass
ed. The Germans came in wave
formation and then scattered widely.
One squadron dropped bombs few
hundred feet from an American field
hospital and at the same time one OF
the long range guns she1led a village
a few hundred yards away.
The first alarm was sounded at II
o'clock. The dropping OF bombs and
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-05-31
LYRIC

"Mary's Ankle is showing up in
good shape at the New Lyric theater
this week and has proven an attrac-
ton that has exceeded the expecta-
tons of the most sanguine. While
it is a well known fact that nothing
is too big for the Poll Players to
tackle they have surprised everyone
in their manner of handling this very
excellent comedy production. Aside
from the fact that ''Mary's Ankle is
one of the best of the better grade
of laughing successes, the Players
have interpolated between the lines
many original situations which have
made the play even better than it was
when originally produced by the first
company which produced it.
Next weeks attraction is one of
those unusual crook plays in which
two yeggmen land in a country town
where they intend looting the village
bank and make their getaway before
the citizens are aware that they are
there. One Of them falls in love
with the village belle and is imme-
diately reformed and decides to re-
main. The other laughs at him and
is for robbing the bank and there is a
quarrel. "Pal O'Mine" will tell you
the rest all next week at the Lyric.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-05-31
BIC CIRCUS is
COMING TO CITY
2IST OF JUNE

Advertising Car No. 1 of the Bar
mum &, Bailey circus arrived in the
city today with a corps of 80 men in
charge of w. C. st. Clair.
W. l.. Wi1ken, the first arrival Of
the press agents, is calling on the
newspapers, and once again the glad
ttdfngs are being spread broadcast
telling of the coming of the Barnum
& Bailey circus. The Greatest Show
on Earth it is announced will be ex-
hibited here on Friday, June 81.
It is promised that nothing to COM
pare with the present Barnum &
Bailey performance has ever before
been seen under canvas. New and
novel features have been imported
from abroad and a program of events,
thrilling, educational and screamingly
funny will occupy every instant in
three rings, four stages, and riggings
above and the hippodrome surround
| ing for more than three hours.
There is a new and gorgeous pa
geant entitled, Aladdin and His
Wonderful lamp" in which nearly
1,40O persons and one thousand ami
mails appear IN magnificent costumes
rivaling the dress of the people of the
famous Arabian Nights" story. This
will be followed by host of acts in
all parts of the great enclosure. There
will be sixty clowns, greatly in
creased menagerie of wild and I'M
tanned animals four great herds of
elephants, several caravans of cam
els and many recently born baby an
imals. $500
The free street parade, which will
start from the circus grounds at 10
; O'Clock on the morning of circus day
lis entirely different from anything OF
| the kind ever seen before. 1t will be
three miles in length.
With the largest tent in the history
of all circuses, the Barnum & Bale!
circus promises this season to make
: good again its boast that it is the
Greatest Show on Earth. Five rail.
road trains comprising SO railroad
cars, will be required to transport its
. paraphernalia, and more than 75t
horses will be used to transfer It:
wagons from the railroad yards to the
show lot.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-05-31

tho firing of many anti-aircraft guns
began almost Immediately. Later
the raiders returned to remain almost
until dawn.
A new American evacuation hos
had been opened only yesterday in a
certain village. A bomb fell in
front of it last night and shattered
windows, but none of the patients
were injured.
In some instances the bombs fell
within 80 and 40 feet of a hospital
building but, Fortunately, there were
no direct hits. A French nurse, her
mother and two little sisters were
killed in a house short distance
from a hospital. Another nurse was
standing on the upper floor of the
hospital ministering to patients when
a piece of bomb struck her, piercing
her lung.
Five American nurses were in the
same hospital. They were Miss Nat
ale Scott of New Orleans, Miss Helen
Spalding of Brooklyn, Miss Mary NC
Cadlish of Atlanta, Miss Blanche Gil
bert of Cleveland and Miss Constance
Cook of San Francisco
While the raid was in progress they
went about cheering the patients. Al
though many serious cases of sick
and wounded vera aggravated be-
cause they had to be moved, the
nurses had to carry them to the lower
floors and the cellar.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-05-31
PLAZA

Constance Talmadge in her latest
screen feature, up the Road With
Sally" is the big attraction at the
Plaza the latter half of the week,
and it's worth going out of your way
to see, it's so different from the or
binary and so all fired entertaining
from beginning to end. Between
! Aunt Martha and Sally and the gem
tlemen burglars and the robbery and
! the storm, you are kept in a frenzy
iof excitement until the final scenes.
And as for the scenes themselves,
both the interior and exterior, they
are positively gorgeous. Such pro-
duction of film stories should be en-
.couraged. They're a treat.
A classy little bill of vaudeville
features with the big musical come
RATA, "Pay as You Enter" the chief
attraction was received by last even
ing's crowds with enthusiastic dem
onstrations. There are eight in the
cast, many of them girls of the type
that can wear pretty gowns without
looking like statutettes and they car
hold their own when it comes to
singing also.
happy comedians - the type thai
laughs while you're laughing and
makes you laugh twice as heartily be-
cause of the fact.
Australian Stanley, who bills him
self as the eccentric pianist, is thai
alright. Stanley gets away with al
inebriate character in fine style ant
puts over some songs, comedy, reel
tations and piano playing in a man
ner that makes you hate to see hin
leave.
A pair of clever and comical ma
nipulators who answer to the stag
cognomens of Kale and Coyne wol
instant favor yesterday for their yer,
commendable efforts.
A Christie and a James Montgom
cry Flagg comedy. completed a pro
gram that is worthy of your atten
ton.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-05-31
EMPIRE

mile A Minute Kendall with
Jack Pickford in the leading role will
be seen at the Empire theater to-
night, tomorrow afternoon and even
ing.
The story is told in the following
lines:
Jack KendalPs happiness was speed
In motor-car and lass,
he loved to buy his chicken-feed,
And buy his motor gas
Her nose was white, her soul was
black
She drove the youngster silly.
And when she said she'd marry Jack,
He thought his Rose a lily.
They motored to a wayside inn
But there they had a wreck;
Jacks daddy trailed them, raised a
And Rose quit for a chez.
o. Jack was ill-and Jack grew
worse;
And sicker was his soul;
But, Joan, a childhood chum, played
nurse,
And soon she made him whole.
Then Jack gave up the Gay. White