Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-01


in blissful doze.
MODERN life Gas we say struggles
A'A against this sweet enchantment of au-
tumn, but Nature is too strong for us. Why
is 1T that all these strikes occur just at this
time of year? The old alternating instinct
again, perhaps. The workman has a sub
conscious yearning to scratch together nice
soft heap of manila envelopes and lie down
on that couch for a six months ear pound
ing. There are all sorts of excuses that
one can make to ones self for waving fare
well to toll. Only last Sunday we saw this
ad in a paper:
HEIRS WANTED. The war is over and
has made many new heirs. You may be
one of them. Investigate. Many now
living in poverty are rich, but don't
know it.
Now what could be simpler 1--WE said to
ourself as we stood contemplating those
doughnuts) than to forsake our jolly old
typewriter and spend n few months in ''in-
vestigating' whether any one had made us
his heir? 1t might be. Odd things have
happened. Down in Washington Square,
for instance 1--WE thought), are a number of
sun warmed benches, very reposeful to the
sedcntary parts, on which we might recline
and think over the possibility of our being
uHuWdTtS. we DuC
apparently many had had the same idea.
There was not a bench vacant. The same
was true in Independence Square and in
Franklin Square, We will never make q
good loafer. There is too much competition.
60 WE came back, sadly, to our rolltop
~ and fell to musing. We picked up
magazine and found some pictures showing
how Mary Pickford washes her hair. 'If
/ am sun drying my hair" said Mary
(under n photo showing her reclining in
lovely garden doing just that) II usually
have the opportunity to read scenario or
do some other duty which requires concen-
! tration." And it occurred to us that il n
strain like that is put upon weak woman
we surely ought to be able to 60 on moiling
for a while, Indian summer or not. And
| then we found some pictures by our favor
ite artist, Coles Phillips, with that lovely
| simmer around the ankles, and we resolved
| to be strong and brave and have pointed
| finger nails But still, in the back of our
mind, the debilitating influence of fall fever
was at work. We said to ourself, without
! the slightest thought of printing it (for it
seemed to put us in a false light that the
one triumphant and unanswerabe epigram
| of mankind the grandest and most resolute
utterance in the face of implacable fate, is
|
| the snore.
| One of our alert clients finds the. follow
ing ad in Philadelphia Sunday paper:
| MARRIAGES ARRANGED. quietly, at
| your convenience and all at a moderate
| expenditure Satisfaction guaranteed
| We would like to know more about that
guarantee. Is it irOnclad?
Desk Notices
BY day l was much among people, and
had many trials to go through; but in the
evenings l was mostly alone.
JOHN W0OLMAN.
II Is!
Dear Socrates:
Isn't it coincidence that the man who
is here to voice the thanks of the Belgian
people is Mercier9 FRANCOIS.
In the old days, before the war, whenever
Mr.. Wilson took day off it was allowed
to leak out that he was reading detectiy,
stories.
Nowadays, we guess, he reads the speeches
of Messrs. Borah and Sherman. which ar.
even more mysterious than the average tall
Of crime.
gOCRATNQ