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THE SOCIAL erry-go-rou11d An illustration from Hun
SOcletY

receive, pontblank, the full force of
little Emily's remarks
There are six sketches of "Wild
Bores We Have Met One of the most
familiar and annoying members of this
species is cleverly hit of in this para
graph;
The Theater Bore
"To end day of perfect boredom it
is only necessary to 60 to the theater
with person who has seen the play
before and tells the plot to all those
within earshot. At tbs big moment
where the villain shoots the heroine) he
has just crashed into the silence bv
assuring the Wiberforce girls that
Vera, the heroine, isn't really killed at
all. Just wait until the next act he
says cheerinely, she shoots HIM then"
The authors assure rs that CTS a
lusty life if you don't week end" In
support Of this contention they de-
scribe and portray several brands Of
Possesses. Perhaps the most intense
and unmitigated anguish is expressed
IN the faces of the guests Of the mu-
sical hostess, who "is ALWAYS explor-
ing among the fauna Of Bohemia and
capturing some particularly Wild speci-
men. Her guests spend the week end
Ike Daniel, in Il lions den. There ia
no let-up TO the atrocities The guests
SIT In horror, thinking Of the things
they might be- doing in the city, while
nary, conscientious objcctor doeA
unmentionable things to piano"
High Society contains it's own "Ad-
vice 10 the Lovclorn." Among other un-
desirable suitors the romantic damscl
II urged 10 beware Of the modernist
poet
There is tina IN every girls life
usually around spring-when she
falls IN love with the professional
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poet. He wears his hair in the man
ner made popular by Irena Castle, and
ne believes in free speech and free
verso and free love and free every
thing. His favorite game is reading
from his own works-such selections
as his Lines to an Immoral Tulip This
type of poet does not go in very
strongly for marriage-it cramps his
style-with the other ladies'"
High Society really stands out as
unique product of the years literary
output. There has been nothing so
clever SO sharp. so biting. so ex-
uberant. Satirizng "society' is 50 old
a nastime that it may easily become
hackneyed. But there is never a sug-
gestion of the banal or the common
place in the art Of Fish or in the
comment Of her collaboration. Excent
for the abnormally stupid, there is
laugh in every sketch.
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4 PAGE of dogs Coror design Of Dogs From Le book
for lO1ers Of mans best fyiepd
A Book Of just DOGS

DEEFACED with "forebark." DogA
From Life, by Thomas L.
Mason, depicts our canine
friends IN many cases. The trials and
adventures of the dos are described
in picture and story. 4 lrs ancestral
feuds with the cat and the dog catcher
are outlined at some length. HIS DC
voted service with the Red Cross in
the war Is often comm emorsted. And
several sketches bring NJ tho image
of man silentiy mourning frf his
best friend
As might be expected. however, the
humorous element predominates in the
work. So we have picture Of a
somewhat distracted lady saving to a
dog fancier:
q want to buy dog. don't ex-
actly know what you call them, but
they look something like greyhound
with long hair and a head like bull
dog. Do YOU keep dogs like that
here ."
To which the fancicr grmly replies:
"No, ma am; We browns 'em."
Again, girl is shown carving
little elite dog On being asked what
breed it is she puts her finger to her
lips and whispers:
"Sh Not so loud. He thinks he's
a bulldog"
A more bitter note ia struck in
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These ministers, even though they
were well aware that Lincoln was
religious, could not forget that as a
young man he had read the works
of the freethinkers. 1t was simply
narrow-mindedness on their part.
"Recently, in discussing Lincoln
with we'll known man in public life
who required lots of convincing be-
fore he would believe that the mar
tyred President was a religious man.
| pointod ut that during Lincolns
Administration, for the first and
only time in world history, as far as
/ can ascertain, the name of Jesus
Christ was incorporated in an off
cial government document. This was
in 1863 when the national debt had
grown until the public credit reached
the lowest point in our history and
many regiments in the army of the
Potomac had not received pay for six
months. 1t was in this extremity
that Senator Harlan, of Iowa. called
the Senate to the recognition of
Jesus Christ Himself in the solemn
resolution offered in the Senate and
adopted without dissenting vote
a resolution urging the President to
proclaim a day of national hunilia
ton and 'deplorine the national Of
fenses which provoked His righteous
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Reading Of the Works of P Paine, VOL
tane and Other Freethinkers
Indicated a Broad Mind

was selected by Mr.. Taft to accom-
pany him on speaking tour of the
West. He was in China during the
revolution of 1911-'12. and over his
desk hangs document signed by
DR.. WI Ting-fang declaring that
ne was the first foreigner to congrat-
ulate the founders of the Chinese
republic. DR.. Hill was a promi-
nent figure in the first World Court
Congress that convened in Cleveland
in 1915 and in the session that was
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28


referred to as poor Tyrrell." and
'n'o .ne adjective was poured a very
complex compassion sympathy for the
modernist's personal spiritual a,euish :
recognition Of that temperament which
Is the one most fitted for the Socintv
OIL Jesus admiration for genius; love
tor an attractive friend CONSERVATION
at the sHcrtcism which dosged tie con-
vert to the grave
Indulgence for Tvrrell vas carried
10 extreme limits. 1t is difficult TO
believe in reading these letters that
his ecclesiastical suneriors should have
put W with him for so long as tlev
did; because years before the excom-
munication he scans to have ceased
to be not merely a Catholic bu. a
Christian in any generally accepted
sense
And vet, dangerous as Father tyr
relI was-the movement he represented
was as subtle an enemy as the Church
had ever confronted every possible
allowance was made for him, and the
idlosyncrasles Of thc hereto met with
considerably more charity than has
formally been accorded by authority to
the idiosyncrasies of priests. Poor
Tyrrell'' they said, and hoped for a
happy ending to- hopeless tragedy
A Friendly Biographer
All this is borne out by the extraor-
dinarly interesting collection of his
letters edited by his friend and hios-
rapher. Miss NJ. .. Petre. published by
E. ?. Dutton & Co. She has done her
work ably. ihouch not always disingen-
uously, and = define Tyrrel's modern
ism as "oblit in the religious needs of
" ankind and in 'hc inherent power Of
the Catholic Church to satisfy those
needs is TO misstate the problem It
would be rather unfair to SAY that
Tyrrel's modernism was an attempt
to allow unhelievers to retain the
emotional satisfaction that accom- .
ranios belief throurh use Of the
symbolism which has reie ted the thing
symbolizcd; as he himself put it, "to
some extent symbolism is only sop
to Cerberus"
But along with his bcwildering in
consistencies and self lf-contradictions
Tyrrell saw things with startling def
riteness, as this passage, taken from
a letter written September %: 1898, to
Baron +. Won Heigel, will prove:
similar study, suggested by W.
Eaters Plato and Platonism, where he
confounds the Gus abstractiss Of
Neoplatonic contemplation and the
Gus determinatissim simum, or, as you would
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| believe, enabled me to do so con-
vincingly.
"Some one in an effort to prove
that Lincoln was an inhdel has
pointed to the fact that of the twen-
ty-three ministers in Springfield
during the Presidential campaign of
1860 only three voted for Lincoln.
This was merely the penalty that he
paid for his liberal -mindedness.
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q comments By Dorothy Park
er. George S Chappell and
Frank Crowninshield, published by G.
P. Putnam's Sons, is an extremely
brilliant burlesque, in which society
maids and matrons, Greenwich Village
artists. newly enriched oil millionaires
and long-haired musicians all con-
tribute their share of laughs. The
book bears the subtitle: Advice as TO
Social Campaigning and Hints on the
Management of Dowagers, Dinners
Debutantes, Dances and the Thousand
and One Diversions of Persons of
Quality.
Then follows the moving tale of the
ggin5othams, whose assault upon
the ramparts or exclusive society is
guided by the motto: "If at first you
don't succeed. dine EN- and dine 'em
again Their first plunge into the
social sea Is thus described
A Party of Intellectuals
"Tho 7. Pennypacker Higginboth-
ans reached the metropolis a short
while ago from the social ooze of the
Texas oil fields They wanted to
break into society. but. alas. a fond
ness for eating and a fortune of
twenty millions were all they had to
do II with. They are here shown at
their first important dinner-a little
repast of eight-at their palace
palace which, architecturally consid-
cred, is a cross between the Temple
of karnak and Charing Cross station
They arc wisely beginning their social
climb among the intellectual set
Brains are the best things to climb
on, until YOU get fairly high up, when
You can safely discard them. Reading
from left to right: T. Pennypacker
Higginbotham, Marietta Pilsbury
Powyss, author Of The Fear of Love
and More Than Kisses; Frederick Won
Nippelzow, professor of Czech and the
Siav and Bulgar languages at Oxford;
Miss sophronisba Ottwav, Japanese
lacquer ~orker, Etruscan embosser. de-
sigr~r Of Indian art-jewelry; Guido
Bruno Pfaf, lecturer on Malthusian-
ISM, Mendclsm and seaworms;
baoette La Rue, smock designer, gar
den stick maker, flower pot varnisher.
oook-end painter, art stencller and iig-
saw artist Bliss Merriwcather Gov,
play reader, author oy nine Shake
spearean masques, creator Of ballet
entitled TIE Birth Of Passion and.
finally the dazed hostess, about to 70
down for the third. time"
Among those present''-at all the
smart concert halls--we End one figure
who is sketcned under the caption
Long may he permanently wave":
4ns ~oF.d-famous pianist Who vas
once told that he had Beethoven like
brow and has been dressing the part
ever since. He can only manage TO work
10 one concert annually: the rest Of his
'iHe Is taken up IN making phonograph
and pianola records, posing for heavily
snAdowed Photographs, paying premiums
s%r tno insurance on his hands. and
lending atmosphere and tone TO tho
more exclusive studio teas"
The authors represent very wildly
several "dreadful moments in society. -
Perhaps the most dreadful is outlined in
The tale Of A careless critic:
Here is Miss Emily Rivington. vino
mas gone 20 dance and has Just re-
married, oYer her left shoulder 70 her
friend, Lucille Taplow, 7 ask you. nv
GEAR haY" you ever seen anything more
nsdeoos than this room!' OF course. tho
poor child was entirely unaware OF the
iaet u her hostsss had pussyfooted
nsr " into the room just In TINA to
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judgment and praying to Him for
succor according to His appointed
way, through Jesus Christ
Lincoln Issued the Call

Lincoln Issued the Call
Lincoln, I informed the gentle
man who required convincing, showed
his religious feeling by Immediately
issuing the proclamation requested
What else could he do?' queried the
gentleman. He could hardly refuse
a request Of that kind l thereupon
told the skeptical gentleman that the
wording of Lincoln's proclamation
left no doubt as TO his deep religious
feeling, If he had issued it merely
to oblige the Senate it would have
been perfunctorily worded. As mat
ter Of fact, Lincoln said: We
have become too self-sufficient to feel
the necessity of redeeming and pre-
serving grace, too proud to pray TO
the God who made us. =. It be-
hooves US, then, to humble ourselves
before the offended power, to con-
TESS our national sins and to pray
for clemency and forgiveness. Now,
therefore, in compliance with the re-
quest, and fully concurriug in the
u'ears Of the Senate, I do by this nv
proclamation etc. The use of the
phrase fully concurring in the views
of the Senate proves beyond doubt
that Lincoln issued the proclamation
not to please the Senate, but be-
cause he believed in it himself.
"a Lincolnian recently told NE an
anecdote that is as amusing as it is
typical Of the martyred Presidents
Views of God. A delegation of New
Workers. was calling on the Presi-
dent at the White House. The
spokesman. addressing Lincoln. said ::
We believe in God and Abraha
Lincoln Lincoln replied: NV
friends, you are more than half
right
'Lincoln's favorite SAVING "A
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An Agnostic's Anger


mot long ago l was talking to an
agnostic who worships Lincoln.
When I told him that Lincoln was
religious he became infuriated
When. to prove my point. Informed
him that the great President fre-
quently read the Bible to the colored
help in the White House, he said he
would have to have a dozen eye
witnesses before he would believe
anything of the kind. The word of
several eminent biographers was in
sufficient to convince him. Then
there is the agnostic who agree that
Lincoln was religious, but is kind
enough to take it philosophically. "A
man is bound to have some faults
is the view Of this type" DR.. Hill
smiled broadly as he said this.
President-elect Harding has writ
ten an introduction for DR.. Hills
book. In it he says:
"Abraham Lincoln was from his
earliest years religious. The Bible
was the book Of books to him. He
prayed so constantly and confidently
as to seem kind Of modern Brother
Lawrence practicing the presence of
God. He worked out a theology in
general conformity with the accepted
standards of Christianity. In the
darkest hour Of his White House
days. when personal bereavement
was added to national anxiety, he
literally lived on his knees"
DR.. Hill has had an interesting
and colorful career During the
Presidential campaign of 1908 he
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Uncle .Joe's Religion

"By the way, you may be inter
ested to know Cannon's views on re-
ligion. After the meeting, when l
consulted him on this, he said: I
believe God Almighty organized this
pig corporation known as Humanity.
issued all the capital stock and is
responsible for its maintenance at
par value, and Iii be hanged if I'll
part with my holdings.
1T was Lincoln continued DR..
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held at Carnegie Hall, in New Yorl
the following year. At the Non
York meeting he was elected genera,
secretary Of the league. He was also
the first editor Of the World Court
Magazine. He organized the Worls
Court movement in Japan and had
an audience with the Emperor and
Empress, at whose request he ad.
dressed the leading universitie,
churches and civic organizations Of
Japan.
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with me that Lincoln
was a religious man." said Dr. John
STesley Hill, chancellor of the Lin
coin Memorial University, whose
book, Abraham Lincoln, Man of
God, has Just been published by
Putnam's. "He has been good enough
to write me: / am glad that you
have undertaken to set at rest much
foolish speculation and to convince
the most incredulous that Abraham
Lincoln was as sincere in his relig-
ious faith as Robert Z. Lee or Will
lam E. Gladstone'
"In 1910 / delivered an address on
the religious side of Lincoln's ma
ture at the National Theater in
Washington. Among those who at
tended were Vice President Sher-
man, Charles D. Hiles. then Secre-
tary to President Taft; Secretary
of War Dickinson, Secretary of the
Treasury McVey. Postmaster Cen
eral Hitchcock, Uncle Joe Cannon
and other prominent men, and the
enthusiasm that these men and the
other members of my audience were
kind enough to display convinced
NE that the public was deeply inter
ested in this subject, and it was
then that the thought of writing a
book on it occurred to me.
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cory Of autogrephed phoogoph gire By Lincoln to his
~ Sunday School teacher Mrs. 1cy G. Speed Used by per-
mission OF the Cenf'7n Compapy
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est Bi0grapher Proves That Lincoln Was a Religious Ma

house divided against itself cannot
stand is known to all Americans. l
have yet to meet a person who did
not believe Lincoln originated it. As
a matter of fact, it is a direct quo
tation> from the Bible (Matthew u,
25). Lincoln never claimed it as his
New-York tribune., 1920-11-28
Letters of "PO0r Tyrre1P"

BY Theodore Maynard
n THINK that in every case where
have talked about Tyrrell With
Il any one who knew him he was
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n Pencil Burlesque of Social Life

w1GH SOCIETY, combination
y of drawings by "Fish' and
comments by Dorothy Park
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Evidence in Support Of the Conten.
don Submitted by DR.. John
Wesley Hill

<<N a y FRIEND, President
10 NJ elect Harding, is one
4 v h of those who agree
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08
Mrs. Asquith's tsMemc!re"

MFRS. HERBERT ASQUITH, the wife
= ~ Of the former Prime Minister, Is a
remarkable woman. Some would call
her eccentric; others would say she
was genius; still others would put her
In with the freaks Of the time. It is
certain that the judgment Of others
would cause her no worry. The wife
Of British Liberal, she Is an lnde-
pendent Of independents. No other
British woman of modern times has
had greater influence IN British af-
fairs. Extremely ambitious, she has
had powerful hand in British politi-
cal and social affairs. Possessed Of a
strong personality, 1t is not surprising
that she has made many enemies and
enjoys few real friendships.
Mrs. Asquith's "Memoirs" are now
being published serially, and they will
appear in book form in October. The
first installment deals with her early
life, and those who anticipated extreme
frankness have not been disappointed.
Her early love affairs, her comments
on her father and mother, would be
startling from any one except Mrs.
Asquith. The British arc awaiting with
interest the chapters dealing with
David Lloyd George, who wrested the
Premiership from her husband at a
crisis in the war.
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What the English Are Reading
Cobb, Spiritualisn, Golf and Mrs. Asouitl1
Before the Public

Colt and c. T. Alison. Both are au-
thorties on the game, and their book
is recognized as the last word in this
art. The authors deal with every
branch of course construction, paving
particular attention to the reconstruc-
ton of links.
In the majority Of cases 5000 yards
Is regarded as the maximum length for
courses. Three one-shot holes Is con-
sidered the minimum and five the max
mum for any course The experts
consider the largest holes should not
exceed $50 yards, ranging from that
distance down to $50 yards. 1t is in
the matter Of hazards that the authors
have some interesting suggestions to
offer, and most American greens com
mittees are bound to read this section
of the book with profit. Any student
Of the game will find much to interest
him in this book.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-08
British Read Golf Books

WALTER HAGEN to the contrary
w there is real active interest in
golf in England to-day. Perhaps no
other nation has so many participants
in sport as the British. Though fair
sized galleries follow important golf
matches, the majority Of the enthusi-
asts prefer to spend their time playing.
The same holds for most other
sports. British sporting literature is
large and admirably done. Books on
golf are numerous, and they enjoy a
considerable circulation. Harold Hill
ton is regular contributor to the
press, as Is A. c. Croome, an Oxonian
and golfer Of no small merit.
One Of the recent contributions to
golfing literature is ~Some Essays on
Coli Course ArohiteEture.~ by a. s.
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The New America
A Symposium on Social
Reconstruction
SICNOCIAL life is organic and not

ssCoclAL life is organic and not
mechanical" says Herbert
Hoover, in his foreword to
"Amcrica and the New Era" (Dutton)
a symposium on social reconstruction
edited by Elisha NJ. Friedman. This
sentence admirably strikes the key
note of the work. The authors who
contribute to the symposium differ
widely in viewpoint and outlook; bat
they all display a spirit of freedom
from dogmatic concepts Of receptive
ness to new ideas. They are not radical
or reactionary; they are essentially
liberal.
Mr.. Friedman opens the discussion
with an analysis Of certain ASPECTS Of
the new era which the war has brought
to America. The spirit of the present
age, III his opinion, is fluid, not rigid
progressive, not static The world
stands in need of processes of con-
struction, not of disintegration. The
administrator, the engineer, rather
than the radical critic, must shape the
course of future industrial and polti-
cal institutions. Progress is coming
rapidly enough from the mere pressure
OF circumstances; we must be on our
guard lest its fruits be snatched away
by too hasty adoption Of new methods
Mr.. Frederic c.. Howe, in an article
entitled "The Immigrant and America. u
recommends the adoption Of definite
and constructive immigration policy
He suggests that the admission of for
egners should be made dependent upon
industrial conditions in America and
urges greater care in the selection of
our prospective citizens Incidentally,
he calls attention to the recent pre-
pondcrance of immigration from south
ern and southeastern Europe, and
points OUT that the domination Of the
Anglo-Saxon strains in American life
IS seriously threatened.
Mr.. Richard T. Ely, the economist,
takes up the land problem In Amer
lea. He asserts that farming CON
ditions in this country are compare
lively good and rejects as exag-
gerated the statements which are
sometimes made about increasing
tenancy and the amount of land which
is allowed to go uncultivated. Mr.
Francis G. Peabody pleads for more
emphasis upon the spiritual traditions
of American life. Mr. Peabody sees
in the war a great conserver and crea-
tor Of moral values.
Political questions also are discussed
in the symposium. Mr.. Victor j. West
a co-author of THE Foreign Policy OF
Woodrow Wilson, 1913-l7,' advocates
more flexible and easier method OF
amending our Constitution. Mr.. Fried
man himself believes That the American
government could be carried on with
more efficiency and less friction if the
European principle Of a cabinet re-
sponsible 70 a legislative majoritywsrs
adopted