The Washington herald., 1920-02-02
In the Linelight
BY George Perry Morri.

William Watson. Kipling's rival
as the Prftish poet of higher
politics." has been stirred 10 ad-
miration by the blazing ipdiscre.
tions" Of Lord Fisher. Watson has
a fsrtissimo pedal that he works
effectively for eulogy or for de-
nunniation. as the case may be.
This happens to be one Of his
dithyrambic effusions:
Foreseer renowned You, in your
lies far morn
Have you not told 1t ~ith 9
pen Of pride,
In this your hour Of glorious
To Englands Fleet came frfendIess
Shere, fighting them that drowned
in ways outworn.
You conquered, and tha dull
host Yithered and dIea
Conquer once more. with blows
resounding wide.
The, same blind brood from age 10
age newbern.
world-greeted se1-King-kpow.ns
you, IAkn0w
That mighty sIres OF thunder.
breathing SHIPS .
May yet have hearts as
soft as every sky
Looked down on And o nur5ed
in navies, though
The anger OF the sea is on
your lips.
The laushter7of the sea "a
in your eye.
London Times.
Now owen wIster or william
Roscoe Thayer should rise zuI dc
the same for Admiral Sims. Fish
er's American double"
Connecticut's war governor. Mar
Gus Holcomb, is a Yank with as ten
acious a will as Mr.. wilson's. None
Of the "friIls" OF contemporary civics
interest or move him. The women
of that tate can neither cajoIe moi
argue him into doing anything tc
favor them as citizens. much less
help them now in putting ConnectI-
cut in line with other States in en-.
dorsing the equal suffrage Federal
But they started a po.
litical backfre against Governor
Holcomb. led by Col. Isaac NJ. Ull.
man, of New Haven, who is not q
Yankee conservative but a Jewish
progressive. whose purse and whose
influence with his race make him
listened TO. The governor has tho
advantage of position and control
of what the military strategist,
would call the interior lines"
Margaret Bondheld. who is tc
stand as parliamentary candidate oi
the Labor party for the seat al
Northampton. is we'll known among
American women who labor for so.
Cial and political reforms by con.
stitutional methods. She Is secretary
of the National Federation OF
Women Workers of Great Britain
and as an expert came with the
British delegation TO the recent la
Dor congress in Washington. Pc
tite, piquant, and charming from
the physical standpoint, she lures
many a Mere Man" into thinking
that she is that and nothing more
and then her disciplined mind
trained by long years of facing con.
crete realities OF life and by the
rough and tumble of British party
forensics, begins to get its scissor
grip" on Mr.. Mere Mans" append
age that he calls his mind" and
the carnage is awful TO behold.
Senior Blasco Ibanez will please take
care OF himself The ''iu" may or
may not have been Spanish in orr
gin, but it is given a twist in the
United States that makes il best for
Spanish gentlemen who are snitten
30 stay in bed until quite well, and
not rise prematurely to keep lecture
engagements, not even in balmy CAL
ifornia. Senior Ibanez has laid out
plans for comment on American af-
fairs which will be invaluable IL car
Iied out. Washington is expecting to
give him a worthy academic and So
cial welcome in a few weeks. Let a
few ducats go Senor IbaneZ! Even
lecture contracts" have their moral
limitations.
If an artist, Interpreting the mas
terpiece OF an author. makes the
creator of the classic see more in his
work than he knew was there, then
the artist has achieved supreme sue
cess. Materlinck, who knows little
about music and who confesses %
failure to grasp the significance of
Dcbussey's Cperatic setting of Peal
lcas and Melisande." accepted Mary
Gardens invitation the other even
ing and went and saw her set the
part that gives her a chance 10 show
that she has a soul. He went eX-
pecting'to be bored. greatly bored, /"
is his phrase. lie came away say
ing: Thanks to her. it seems TO me
that fer the first time l have under
stood my work. have seen in IL so
many things which 1 have never be-
fore perceived. Score another triumph
for Mary the interpretative-creat tor.