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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02

tain amount Of comprehensive pleasure
But he will say, I lost $4,000 yesterday
with exactly the same amount of satisfac-
ton. To him the game is the thing, the
experience to be gone through, not the
financial result at ALL Win or lose, it's
all the same. Your New Yorker values only
the activity
In the war 1t was the same way, colored
by great national altruism. I was stand
ing not long ago in garage talking to
an old man who had lost his two sons in
the war and whose business was failing be-
cause of war conditions and the lack Of
those boys to help administer it. We talke.
about the war
What do you think of it all | asked.
He stopped q moment and looked at
the floor. Then he called helper to come
with rag and clean up a puddle of petrol
he saw on the pavement. Then turning to
me, he remarked quietly:
"'That's what we've got to do-wipe it
up
This from an old man who suffered the
greatest personal losses in the war, but who
was absolutely unmindful of his own inter-
ests. The sense of participation in world
life dominated the personal and egotistic
phases. America Graves for life and she is
willing to pay for it,
and the three thousand miles, more
over" the journalist went on, make many
differences in your way of doing things
Yet l can't say that your way, being diff.
ferent, is at all inferior to ours for
eigner makes great mistake when he com.
plains. He has no right to establish any
hierarchy of customs. One way is just as
good another, only different For in
stance, in New York I cannot get used to
their giving away programmes in the thea
tres. We have to pay siXpence for ours
at home, but then we get book about the
play. Here | go to the theatre and when
1 have settled in my seat turn to the pro-
gramme. find information about what to
wear, what my wife ought to wear, where
to dine or spend holiday, data on cigar
cites and stays, motors and drinks Then
usually when l get to where they begin to
tell about the play, the curtain goes up
Still, that's one way of doing; New Workers
are used to it.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02

skyscrapers, not even a grdiron
OF choked streets and brilliant
avenues, but churning mass of
eager, striving people, is the way c. Lewis
Hind the metropolis when he came
here representative of the Imperial AS
ISOLATION for Assisting Disabled Naval and
Military Officers. Our familiar Manhattan.
with thousand hooks and corners Offering
fascinating material to the trained eye of
the journalist, presented above all this one
aspect to the visitor, 1t was not the physi-
cal city itself which seemed so striking, &C
cording to Mr.. Hind, but what it repre-
scented in the opportunity to crafty that
age-old instinct of the human mind name
ly. the desire to be or to know about the
other man.
High in his "roof bungalow" overlooking
Park Avenue Mr.. Hind detailed his reac-
tons to the influence of Gotham To him
the most amazing truth brought home by
the city was the markedly American traits
displayed by its people, regardless of the
presence of great foreign element as
yet unassimilated.
'Your city," he said, Seemed to per-
sorify to me all that I had heard about
America. Not alone it's hugeness and hurry,
but its crowds. There are all sorts of
people here, some like those we have at
home, some like the masses found in con-
tinental cities, but all marked with the same
cast of mind which may be what YOU call
Amerlcanism. If I chose to stay around
any of the clubs l should find men mostly
like the men of London; but when I have
surfeit of them and want just for time
to get a different taste of life, I stroll
downtown and come up on Fourth Avenue
car in the rush hour. Here are great tides
of men, mostly of foreign parentage, read
ing foreign newspapers, speaking foreign
tongues, yet as much part of New York
as your clubmen. In spite of the differences
of race and language, these men bear the
same stamp of thought that your leisure
classes do
what is it? I shall not call it Curiosity
for that has a slightly vulgar and shallow
connotation. 1t is rather what might be
termed the eagerness TO taste the life
which lies outside their own. Whether it
be question of absorbing a different sort
of life from plays or books or touching ell
bows with it in the streets, it all amounts
to the same thing. America to me can be
summed up in single phrase: Three
thousand miles away After all this COW
ers it completely 1t explains the intense
admiration of Europe for your war work
and the stupendous accomplishment of put
ting men into the field. II explains. too.
the eagerness Of America as | see it in
New York, to know what lies beyond YOUR
borders of everyday life
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02

eminent. The American saws: oh. well,
this is very free country; let it GOT
THAT is one of the things democracy
does for country. And that reminds me
of another thing have noticed. A strange
thing to me, when I see the great and sin
cere interest Of the people in art, is the
lack OF encouragement given to artists here
New York lets her artists go their own
way, possibly because she is accustomed to
having great many of them gather within
her limits. Plenty of anything makes it
seem inconsequential. But the real reason
l think, is which | am going to tell
you, and which you may not like Democ-
racy has taken the sensuous beauty out of
living, and art is an offshoot of this sem
suous beauty.
"By that mean this: Not that
men do not have the chance to make their
csreers-because am delighted with the
examples / see here of the ease with which
a young man can go up and up and gain
prestige, position and money. 1t is not
question of opportunity, but Of patronage
''Art is respected In England because it
is found in what the average man calls
for this or q royal institute for that and
so on. Art in America is not taken up to
any extent by the government or by society.
Everything in the nature of a movement
must have the backing of high society.
When you start relief drive or a charity
the first thing you do is to arrange an i'm
posing list of patrons and patronesses
There is so little organized patronage for
art in America.
Here is sample OF the effect of democ-
racy on art Recall the portrait of Charles
by Van Dyck-that suave, graceful, weak,
we'll meaning, utterly worthless Stuart mon
arch. He stands there with all his beauty
and pride, with those dogs and the blaze Of
that magnificent order on his shoulder.
There are romance and sensuous beauty The
economic and social conditions in which he
lived are nothing to US now: they pass as
We progress, but the beauty remains Now
turn to the portrait of President Wilson by
Sergeant. A portrait it is, and admirably
done, but there is democracy-simple plain,
commonplace, worthy, but unbeautiful de-
mocracy. All that it stands for is good,
perhaps the nearest ideal state under which
to live, but its romance and beauty are
gone.
I'VE visitors see all THIS IN America, es-
pecially in New York, and l am told that
when I go inland I shall see even more
plentiful examples of the difference the
three thousand miles make. New York on
the seaboard is eager; they say that the
West is more So But don't get the impress
sion that we in England are not curious
about America To US il is the land of big
things, big works, big thoughts and big
people"
He glanced out of the window which
opened the southwark sweep of Park
Avenue toward the Grand Central Terminal
There were hundreds of motor cars in a
steady stream hurrying homeward after the
business day. To the south the gigantic
Commodore Hotel doomed against the sky
and beyond it, little westward. light
sparkled from the pinnacle of the Metro
politan Tower.
"a big people" he repeated quietly.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02

the earth a feversh, irrational desire to
hurry sezes him. He may not be in a
hurry at all. He may have entered the
place just to kill time, for all | know. But
does it make any difference? He is bitten
like every one else. Perhaps for the only
time in his life he is convinced that time
is feeting thing. He seizes it by the fore
lock, if he does not get a death grip on
some one else's hair in his haste to seize
something. 1t may be for this reason,
though I had not thought of it before, that
hair tonic advertisements seem to prevail
in that galaxy of literature fosted upon
the traveller. At any rate, be he or
woman, he must grab something, push some
thing away. 1t may actually hinder him to
push. but does that make any difference ."
But" objected, every one has a reason
to hurry. They are anxious to get through
with it as rapidly as possible"
Kerwan levelled his forefnger at me n
accordance with the more scientific school
OF personality I thought at first he was
going to tell me that my hopes for better
job we're up to me and no one else but
he didn't.
Don't you see he replied, chat if they
did not hurry there would be no reason to
hurry out of it? You surely are able to
conceive, as | can, of the subway being a
pleasant place. | can even believe that 7
should like to lnger there-under certain
circumstances. But instead of looking out
for the benefits of every one, every one is
for himself. In his haste to leap into the
inferno of q car, even your friend becomes
your enemy. really doubt if he would stop
to help you if you were caught in one of
those DOORS provided he were going the
other way.
"But this is not the worst. Any one en-
tering the subway becomes so obsessed with
himself that he remembers nothing else
When he stops, he stops where no one can
pass him. With absolute unconcern he
blocks the way to train or to the ticket
Office, while hundred people are stopped
people who really may be in a hurry"
Here Kerwan paused. He saw he had
made faulty remark. He had caught him
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02

at the opera. my trip abroad if want it.
In short have climbed far up the ladder
that l can tell you secret"
He was leaning across the table, pointing
at me again, his gaze holding mine, as the
cobra in his lair charms the Indian swal-
lows.
t'This is the secret There is plenty of
room at the top. Plenty of room for the
man who is able to get there How did
do it? you ask. How did | manage to
achieve one of the big jobs in this nation
of big jobs? You will laugh when 1 tell
you it was easy The whole thing came to
me in a half hours talk one evening with
my wife. There was the usual little argu-
ment over the butchers bill. She was say
ing it was queer that could not do as we'll
as Mr.. Jones across the hall, and in the
midst of her statements / came to realize
that something was the matter That is all
you have to do, realize something is the
matter-and then face the facts. | faced
them, squarely and Systematically, and
when had finished this inquisition, saw
what it was that was holding me back in
the for success
81 had not been going fast enough l had
oSSi 0iio"iHB otHeIS 10 pass me. L reallZed
at once that it was time to speed UP. YES.
just as We speed up tagging department
at the Office. Having reached this conclu-
sion, had to decide next just how I was
going to make haste. This was easy;
perusal of a magazine had already taught
me my trouble, but I had not realized it
till now. And, believe me, am convinced
that the ball and chain which made me lag
in the race is just the same as yours"
Here Kerwan thumped the table vigor-
ously with his fist and stuck out his lower
jaw aggressively.
Man, it is SO easy when you just como
to realize it. Perhaps I should say if you lust
come to realize it. because there are so few
who deign to take the trouble. All that
was the matter with me, all that was keep
ing me from thrusting myself into the front
rank was certain deficiency in self-pro-
lection"
he allowed his features to relax into q
benevolent smile.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
VaCheI LindSay'.s
Audience

Il shall give you sample Of this eager
ness and the differences that three thou
sand miles make. The other Sunday night
dined at the Hotel Brevoort. Incidentally.
mere Is fruitful topic for the journalist
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02

pay generous admission fee for the privi-
lege of looking into the lives of this man
and his comrades at the front. All because
they want, at all costs, to know every kind
of life which is lived outside their own
horizons.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
By Archie Austin Coates

TEW YORK, not pile of towering
4 skyscrapers, not even a grdiron
of choked streets and brilliant
avenues, but a churning mass of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
At Our
House
By Martha B. Thomas

7 WISH you could spend an evening at
our house. Especially winters even
L ing. Often and often I have paused
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
By John P. Vanguard

TT is MY opinion that the subway is
a benetcent institution. After being
spurned and battered in our spheres
Of labor, it seems just balance on the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
1.-THE Little
Mess
Rv F. Morton Smith, u. S. N.

" Y is service record had little in it.
Robert jerks. thirty-hve years
l. II old, physically fit for sea duty.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02

'lOtIiio. botn are Warly unconscious.
Charlie apparently has eyes in MS tall
for those in his head are tightly closed
Tepsy opens hers and regards me gravely.
They both know what IS coming. yet they
never fail to present fine air Of studied
innocence.
l pick up Charlie, 2 laA, limp weight Of
warm fur. He lies exactly as gravity pulls
HIM Not culver in his tai, not stirring
Of his whiskers. He feigns unbroker SUM
Der; It availeth not He is handed across
the cactus into the night and skilfully
comes TO life in mdair. where he executes
q turn and lands safely on the porch rail
ing From this vantage point he waits the
election of his contemporary.
Topsy does not yield so easily to persua-
sion. She clings frantically to the cushion
upon which she lies and has been known
to make fruitless attempts at escape rum
ming into the dining room and hiding under
the desk. But she is caught. She make.
felnt of being clumsy with the cactus.
She scrambles the window ledge and
tries to fall on this side of outdoors. But
| urge her gently. and she drops on the
ground in heap. / think she tries to work
upon our sympathies, hoping for thirteen
years that out of pity she will be called
back. The newsnsners ara folded
the bird cage enveioped in a ging-
ham apron, the lights blown out
and we journey to bed.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-18
RICHMOND TIMES DISPATCH: SUNDAY, MAY 1s, 1919

ance. II is delightful to be out in the
OPEN where YOU can literally feel YOUR
muscles grow. and where YOU can
partly boss yourself. You will prob.
aolE DO sore and tired at first. but a fter
week that will disappear and YOU
VIII feel strong as an on
Make up Your mind to save your
summer wages. There should BIO lit
tie expense aside from that of travel
20 inc place of employment. and tho
walking is always good Take your
ola clothes along. Forget the movies
and tho other thrills of the city for a
season and 'carn I" rcvcl in tho rough
farm.
Now. cut loose my boy. Leave that
narrow little place. You can probably
strength AZ n farm position which pays
at trSt about half as much Write. as
nave stated. Re persistent. Follow
up INC INJURY. The soil is calling you
ana YOU need the soil &c, out and
diS IN 1t and learn to love it,
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-18
IF BACK HURTS USE
SALTS FOR KIDNEYS
Eat less meat if Kidneys feel
like lead or Bladder
hOtherS.

Most tols : lorN.f tags the kidneys
Hike the howtiS, '"rct sluggish and
ciosEed and need \ flushing occasion
ally, else we have backachc and dun
misery in the kidney region. severe
headachcs rheumatic twingcs, torpid
'iNnr. acid stomach, slecplcssmcss ana
al sorts OF bladder disorders.
You simply must keep your kidneys
tct!Nc and clean, and the moment YOU
tcel an ache OF pain in the kidney re
Sioh get abcu, four ounces Of Jad
Hails from any good drug store here.
take tablespoonful in a glass of
"aici before breakfast for a few DAYS
and your kldneys viii thcn act Zinc.
rms famous salts is made from tho
acid al grapes ana lemon juice. com
hned Win li;h!a. and is harmless 10
lush c!oSEed. Kidneys and stimulate
them 10 normal activity II also ncu
irahzcs the acids I'm tho urine so i, no
longer irritatcs, thus ending bladder
disorders
Jsd salts rs harmless: Inexpensive
makes e delightful cmcry csccut lithia-
water drink Vhich everybody shout,
take nov and then to tcop their Kid
neEs clean, ,hus avoiding serious com
plica tons
wel-hnown local druGgis, sans lie
sells lots Of LAD salts to folks who
believe ia overcoming Kidney trouble
while II is only ,roubic.-AdN.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-18
EarIlc.t Account. Of RUNNER

rhc Importance of rubber. or c,ou,
rhou' mas increased by leaps and
bounds. owing largely to it's cAtcu-
actual date OF its discovery is NM :
known. but II probably was employed
bN the Indians for centuries before
world nc
The Spaniard CionzaIo Fernandes
doviedo Naldas. in his History OF
the indies, published in Madrid on
1S6, appears to have been the nrst
70 mention rubber. Next Father
NaNier de charlevoix 16S2-lI6l)
tives: which Mounds and rebounds
tnhncr appears to have been first
introduced in Europe by La Condamne
VINO wen; TO Peru and BRAZIL. in l136
with an expedition organized by the
faris Academy OF Science to solve
the question OF tho shape of the earth
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-18
LEMON JUICE
FOR FREcKLEs
Girls! Make beauty lotion for
a few cents-Try It!

Squeeze the juice Of two lemons into
a bottle containing three ounces Of or
chard white. shake we'll and YOU hay.
a quarter pint Of the hes: frccklc ana
tan lotion. and complexion boautifuy.
At very. very small cost
Your grocer has tho lemons and any
drug store or toilet counter Will supply
three ounces uf orchard white for n
few cents. Massage this swoetly tras
ran lotion into the race. neck arms
and hands each day and see how
frecklcs ami h'"mishes disappear and
how clear. soft and rusy-whiic tho
skin becomes Yes: II is harmless and
never irritatcS.-A
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-18

disbelief whcrcupon YOU put the egg
on the moor in a corne. Of the room
close no against the two walls. or
course no point OF the hoop can then
touch 1t.
Place lighted candle on a table Mt
the far end OF the room Blindfold
one OF the company and lead him up
to the candle: tell him to take three
steps backwards. turn around three
times. then advance to the candle and
blow 1t out. II sounds easy. but try
II.
Fill a glass with water: cover it
with hat. and profess your readiness
TO drink tho water without touching
inc nat. Fut Nonr head under tho
table. make a sound ms OF drinking.
arise and wipe your lips. Some mem
Der OF the company is sure to lift the
nat to sec If the water is gone. where
upon YOU seize the glass. and drink
without having touched the hat.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-18

y remarkable difference EXISTS be
Wccn the climates Of WcStcrn and
central Japan, so much so that these
districts arc distinguished by tho
names OF Sauindo shady side and
SanNodo --- sunny side rcsDcc.jyclV
During the long and rigorous winter
Of Western Japan the central prov
in'cS. bordering on the inland Sea. en-
JOY dry ana comparatively mild
weather The Two regions arc sep
aratcd by mountain ranges and the
factors determining their climate con
ditions are distinct. y Japanese writer
SAYS that while IN" winter climate Of
central and southern Japan depends
on the southwestern monsoons that
OF the western coast is directly related
TO the baromctric area OF North China.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-18
HEADACHE AFTER
DANCING Or WORK
Easy To Stop 1t. Easy To Clear
The Head Make Sheep
Come Easy

When the head spins around like a top
and throbs with headache--when YOU
feel SO tired you arc ready to drop-ju.t
roach in pocket or purse for n tiny en-
velope of Yum-put Yum on the tongue
swallow a glass Of water.
That's all-auay goes headache. head
clenrs up, nerves seem to steady an6
you feel better right away-just Xix.
magic. No wonder people in the iii
Town" use It 50 much After e1cesse.
strain. mental exhaustion overwork o.
play-dancinB or late hours-it ts life
saver" they declare.
Get packet OF Yum at druggists for
dime-use one now or keep handy in
purse or pocket
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-18
ADVISES FARM FOR BOYS
DURING THE SUMMER
Prof. McKccvcr Urges Lads to Put
In the Season I'm Open
Air
WOULD AID TUE NATION
Ono Who Goes With Spirit of
Willingness and Anxiety to Larn
is Certain to Receive Aid From
the Farmer.

Many hoyS OF tho upper teen ages
are writing IN" and appealing for as
sistaucc in finding a place to work on
the farm during the coming summer
season. Now. rs This inquiry is tied
up with a question of tremendous i'm
portancc to TIA" cntirc nation--ths
problem turning more people toward
the soil and food production shall
try TO he specific:
First % all. write 10 the state En-
ployment Bureau" AT YOUR State cap
'tal. making known your purpose and
specifying as nearly as possible the
farm work Desired
| assume that YOU know practically
nothing about farm employment. There
fore, you would better say, Am will
ing and ANXIOUS TO learn to do any
Kind OF work that Is available" n
YOU Go as u green hand" the farmer
VIII he Siad 10 teach YOU, provided YOU
become willing. earnest learner
Donr HING Back on Wages
DO not hang back on tho wage uues-
ton. Accept tho first reasonable
chance and so TO it. You are almost
certain 10 be paid about what YOU are
worth. and The first 'hins is experience
a, any price IN week or TWO YOU
should he able TO handle team. a
pillow tn. hayins implements and the
like. and to help With the work about
the barn. After that YOU will begin
10 sec Your WAY wonderfully and 10
experience feeling of iudcpcudCncc
You VIII soon know how 10 apply for
n sood place and a wages TO match
From an experience OF twenty five
wears on tn" farm and in ranch work
| nave learned 10 know the thought
and language of the farm people. They
SIMPLY want value received and they
VIII treat YOU fairly.
Make up your mind to learn To 40
faithfully and we'll cvcrrthiug as
siEned 20 YOU Slowly select the tyne
OF farm employment YOU like best and
specialize on that and soon tho farm
crs will he bidding for Your services
at top wages.
VIII Change the Youth
one summer honestly sn"n, an the
farm viii change YOU for iifc Will add
20 your physical and moral strength
your s"if-rcSpcct and vow se!t-rcli-