The Washington herald., 1920-08-10
In the Linelight
By George Perry Morris.
On Being a Jeliy6sh.

On Being a JeIiy6sh.
There are letters and letters. Mai. |
Gen. Clarence r. Edwards, U. S. A. !
wrote one last April that was a
model 1t deserves far wider pub
licity than IL has Just begun to get |
He sent IL TO men OF his division in
France, infected with the tubercu-
culosis. and then at a famous New
England sanatorium fighting their
way up TO health and back. He
wrote as a man who had been res
cued from the same fell disease by
treatment given at the Fort Bayard,
New Mexico. Hospital. Nine months
of obedience 10 the rules OF Col.
Bushnell did the job; and sixteen
days Of the time, he says. were
spent in learning TO be a jellyhsh.
Just what did he mean by this?
The letter explains: Now as to the
mental attitude which is so impor-
tant $50 per cent?. You can go to
bed and eat your heart out, curl up
] he effort should be to be a jellyfish
with one idea in mind. You
must cut all worries. and any man
!
literally DO probably the hardest
thing on earth. that is to eliminate
worry whatever the demand. from
the mind. Be acquiescent in the
cure and do what told you TO do
I in France. Keep your eyes UP in
/ the clouds; keep your chin out OF
| the mud OF France, and smile" So
the letter runs on in the most low
ing, sensible sort Of counsel. as from
an elder brother. No wonder the
/ Twenty-siNth Division men adore
Linn, and damn with deep oaths who
ever at the War Department is re-
spons!ble for his relegation to the
side lines. as IL were.
Days of George y. Penteeost Over,
career that began in IS4l has
just closed with the death OF George
F. Pentecost, who in his day was
one Of the most prominent preach
ers and evangelists of the CoUn-
try. His first years Of service after
his conversion were in the Bap-
tist denomination. Later he was
identified with Congregationalisl
and Presbyterian churches. incIud
ing a period in London. England
where he had a limited success a.
most American preachers do who
go there. He never was as radical
or Improbable as his brother
Hugh; and indeed in his later years
lie became a bulwsrk Of theological
orthodoxy. Nevertheless. it can be
said Of him that he usually die
his own thinking, and was not q
hrst-class religionist Of the insti.
.tutional type. Trained for the Law
and praCticing II for a time in hi,
early manhood. he had d logica
analytical sort OF technique ir
preaching the Gospel and in de
. Tending it. As a trained pollen icisI
and apologize he outclassed Moody
with whom he worked hand in hanc
at one time; and he never woulc
have nor could have descended [,
the buffOonery and horseplay o.
some latter-day evangelists. H
was a JovIal. full-blooded. life-lov
ing creature, without the slightes
trace Of the ascetic; and he knew
the value OF money and how {,
make it and keep it.
GaIIi-Curci TO be Americanized.
\ Trilling her JOY to be back ir
III the United States again, GalI-Curc
says that We seem to be like Z
| young and robust girl CompareC
| with the Europe she has recently
III visited-a Europe that is "a sor
II rowful old woman. withered o.,
II war Seven years OF seasonal con
II tracts with US. profitable pccuni
J arily beyond the widest dreams o.
her youth. have made this Italian
lyric soprano so much fonder Of u
than her native land that she Ia
t tends 10 become an American. an
d will take upon her the duties a
, well as the rights OF citizenshiT
- SChUmann- -Heink led the way d
e this process, and the list each yea
grows of European artists 70
whom the ancient continent is be
coming a "has-been land"
To Teach EsophaEoscopy.
Dr.. Chevslier jackson. Of Phna
delphia is to be the first incumben
Is Of the new chair Of hroChoscop
= and esOphagoscOpy at the medics
school Of the University OF Penn
- sylvania. He also will continue I
Y teach laryngology at jefferson Me,
r iCaI College. II is not necessaI
to tell the initiated how well fitte
. Dr. jackson is for the new post
i but il may interest the averss
'e man to know that his devices 70
,s removing foreign bodies from N
bronchial tubes have enabled th
< profession to reduce the rate {
N mortality from S5 to per cent {
,e cases where formerly il was safe
- to bet that the patient would di
than he would live. or course h
eI' has the sympathy as well as II
lie admiration Of a public that woul
~ hate 10 have to say "esophago
=, copy" as often as once a day M
to mention constant reference
it, II is one of those terms
classical derivation that imply
life Of leisure to utter rightly. Bl
then the art saves life. so VII
u complaint A man with a fshbor
TX in his esophaeus cannot argue ov,