The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1920-03-19
President of New Jersey Public School Commits
sion Finds Youth of Today Not Running True
to Ancestral Pattern = Notes on Ibanez's
Treat EN- Rough" Gospel and the Due de
.TaIleyrand

A range had been provided within easy
: distance OF the school The guns were
to be OF the most modern, and prizes
would be offered to incite competition.
That last seems to have betrayed a
lurking fear in Mr.. Rice's heart. To
the old-fashioned boy a gun ana a
vacant lot-oh, wilderness were Para
disc now.
AS Mr.. Frank Tinney used eioquently
70 state, he put 1t over and It laid
mo one, apparently. wanted to learn
70 shoot Mind you. good many OF
the elder brothers OF the same boys
were volunteering. New Jersey has the
same right to be proud OF the part her
young men played that the other states
have. When put to the test there was
no lack Of the lighting spirit; But
shoot.
Mr.. Rice was surprised and bit hurt.
His faith in the American boy had been
Jared for the moment. So he made an
investigation. After time he selected
a red-headed boy he knew as the sort
OF boy who would know why the
boys aid not care to learn how to shoot.
A 1tine. outstanding. clear-eyed kid was
the red.head. His father had begun
life as a mason---many q time Rice had
met him in the streets white with
plaster tractor. The boy 10 q husky.
He eri l. fun q singer and hot sand.
Why don't you boys Join a shooting
We didn't want to get our hands
dirty" said the red-head.
The case IL submitted.
MoraIlxino on Ibanex.
All Of which was brought to mind
by the recent statement in Philadel-
phia OF Vicente Blasco Ibanez. the
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the United States after his own less
appreciative country had failed to rec
ognize him in any effective way.
American women" said he, fare
tired OF the eternal bowling and scrap
Ing. OF the American man. They want
to be Dominated. Time after time they
This is a variant on the ordinary Eu-
ropean conviction that the American
man Is roughneck who completely
lacks any semblance OF manners
though II runs true to Europe in the
all times wax In the hands of their
women. The average American will
insist, too, that the bowling and scrap
ing IL done by the European male
rather than by the American. He will
probably insist, likewise, that the Eu-
stun" as Senior Ibanez called 1t. with
more assurance than the American
does. Centuries of cavemannishness
have taught both sexes in Europe
something about 1t. witness kirche,
kinder and kuchen in Germany, and
the French laws on a married woman's
bank account and the English attitude
toward divorce. But why be nasty?
Sometimes" observed Travelled
New Yorker. "the European caveman
doesn't get away with It. The owner
of very well-known name married the
daughter OF a wel-known New York
family some years ago. She adored the
masculine In man, che said. She
wanted to be bossed. But about the
first time they quarreled after the
is, really quarrelled;
they had some tiffs over the amount
OF his allowance--she banged him on
the bean. with silver teapot. They
say he cried"
ReVIvIng a Dear Old One.
Which recalls the tales OF the late Due
dc Taliyrand. The story Is known to
every American who ever visited Paris, |
but classics never grow stale. Most
people know there are two unforgetnble
insults In the French language. II Is
hideous to call woman a ''vache"--a
cow-but the very crest Of infamy ia
suggested when one calls a woman a
chameau'--which is a camel. Even
those who live IN the shadow of the |
in Paris do not permit |
themselves the use of such atrocious |
words.
The old Duo de Talleyrand loathed
his wife. But he was SO feeble that he |
could only be brought out once q day, |
brushed and rouged and perfumed. and |
propped In his seat at the head of the
table. Then his head sank on HIS
breast. From time to time he was
given q titbit by his special servant.
No one paid the least attention to him