The Washington times., 1920-01-09

Painted Clown and Girl.
Ancient Baku, Of the Oil.
Four Things Women Do
Well.
BY ARTHUR BRISBANE.
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clown with bright red spot on each
cheek and one on his nose Is
amusing. The girl OF sixteen
boldly painted. is depressing. You
see in her a child without real
mother.
The same woman denounces
modern dancing: Those dances
are the East African sex dances.
dances OF cannibals. They Kill all
modesty."
Not quite ALL modesty. zola
said truly: Every man has In
him a hog. slumbering." T..
Occasionally the hog grunts.
Occasionally 1t eats and drinks too
much. Occasionally when young it
cavorts In foolish dancing. whisk-
ing its little hind legs But there
is no serious harm In II. II must
do something. and il cannot think.
Ii is quiet and fat enough later.
One ship carrying extremists,
including Emma Goldman and Al
exander Berkman, who tried to
murder Mr.. Frick, is reported near
the Kiel canal.
There was anxiety about land
ing room for the exiled. News that
Lenine's armies, victorious, now
menace Persia after capturing
Caspian ports, may solve that
problem. o..
IL the enemies Of Bolshevism
continue running away, Lenine
will have plenty of room for all
the "reds" we can send.
Lenine's armies now attack
Baku, the town sticking out into
the Caspian at the end of the Pc
ninsula of Apsheron. There they
will view ancient palaces of the
Khans, four hundred years old;
MOSQUES of Persian rulers a thou
sand years old; Arabic relics still
older.
But Lenine is after something
older than Tartar, Persian or
Arabic remains. He is after the
Baku oil wells, put away under
ground millions of years before
any kind of human beings lived;
oil upon which the glorious rulers
of the earth largely depend in
their game of exterminating each
other.
Government census lists
woman, Anna Prater, colored, as
lis years old. She mentions that
she was ssold4as a slave fifteen
times, raised fifty-two white chill
dren, ran away from three mas
ters, was caught each time. All
the while she was busy sewing,
explaining that she had no time
to waste. One hundred and fif-
teen is old, but time does not
count.
Charlotte -Corday lived more
than one hundred and fifteen
years in the few seconds it took
her to walk into the bathroom of
Marat, revolutionary tyrant,"
and to stab him to death.
Dora Kaplan, young Jewess OF
Petrograd, probably lived years
in the time that. it took her to
shoot and wound Lenine, boss of
Russia. ...-..
And many years of life were
squeezed into a few minutes by
Miss Joanna Mackie, of the OBJ
servatory at Cambridge. She has
discovered a new star in the
Milky Way.
1t is a star too faint to be seen
by the eye, unaided, but greater,
probably, than the sun that lights
our little corner Of space. 1t will
be measured, weighed; the spec
troscope will tell what elements
it contains, whether it is going or
coming. And serious Miss Joanna
has the satisfaction of knowing
that she. first of human beings on
this little earth airship, saw and
catalogued the new" sun that has
travelled through billions Of years.
Three things-no, four-women
can do better than men.
They are better singers, better
actors, better students Of the
heavens, and, infinitely more, they
are mothers of the race. They
contribute at least seven-eighths
of its value to the human family.
Being so much better mothers
than anything else, even as sing
ers, dancers or astronomers, they
should concentrate on mother
hood.
Which would you rather be, the
genius that painted the Sistine
Chapel, or the mother Of Michael
Angelo? The mother, of course !!
The CREATOR is GREATER
than the thing created.
Mr.. Houtman. fifty, retired
from the Barber Steamship Com
pany. Mr.. Barber gave Mr.. Hout-
man a present, a check for $780,
900. Mr.. Houtman goes South,
he THINKS, to devote the rest