The Washington times., 1920-05-03

caused the strange emotion In the
court at Quebec. A girl of fOur-
teen had been killed by tortufD
after months of suffering.
New York is trying man ac-
cused of similar cruelty toward
his own daughter, without actual
killing. Details arc too horrible
70 read or print.
These outbreaks, where brutal
power has helplessness in its
grasp, show that the wild beast is
still alive in men. The wonder is
chat there should be 50 little delib-
Terate cruelty in war, where killing
: Is the game and highly honorable,
vngeance and hatred deliberately
encouraged.
In Paris, false hair, nice, fresh
ly clipped, adapted to making fool
ish old women think they look
younger, is worth ten times its
weight in gold.
Hilkiah Cooke, physician to His
Majesty James First, had inter-
esting theories on hair, quoted in
Thomson's Brain and Personal
ity." The hairs are round, accord
ing to that ancient one, Just as
wire is round because squeezed
out through little round holes.
And hairs, made of "a sooty
thicke, and earthly vapour" are
forced up by more vapour below,
their chief use being to rid men
of "the vapours which otherwise
would choke and make smoaky the
braine."
Hilkiah Cooke, with all his fool
.ish ideas could not have conceived
of paying for fresh cut hair ten
times the. price OF, gold, and twice
ten times for extra fine and long
snow white hair. Some women with
sense enough not to dye their white
hair are still foolish enough to
pay any price for a wisp to hide
the honorable thin spot on the top,
at the back. Men make fortunes
copying, with wood fiber, the silk
worms spinning. There may be
possibility there for hair imita-
tion. A pound Of ugly hair is
worth several pounds of silk.
Whiskey in quantities, at thiev-
ish prices, is sold everywhere in
this country. That is fact. But
the whiskey is drunk by those
who had already the whiskey
habit. 1t is not being pushed over
ten thousand bars at young and
old, urging each other to "have
just one more" With whiskey at
a dollar drink, there is less urg-
ing and the temptation to prove
that you "can take it or leave it
alone" is not so strong. Besides,
whiskey and whiskey selling are
pow properly classed as criminal,
with gambling, drug using and
other vices. Whiskey drinking is
no longer decent and it will not
grow among the young people.
They, as a rule, never took to
opium, although it could always
be had at price.
The pity is that the whiskey
poison could not have been elimi-
mated, as Jefferson advised, with
out making illegal the beer and
light wine that entire populations
have used for ten thousand years,
without drunkenness, and that
keep contented those that do the
hardest work. Recent voting and
legislating indicate that an intelli-
gent compromise may be reached
eventually.
Meanwhile you can, it is true,
get whiskey and unusually poison
GUS whiskey, for a dollar a drink,
il you are fool enough to want it.
But whiskey as the American
drink, to be had everywhere, is
dead.
There Is excitement in London
and at Windsor Castle where,
within great stone walls, the
gentle English King lives and
selects his suit of clothes each day
as you might imagine a white
rabbit smoothing his whiskers in
the ancient camping ground of
Attila.
The King wrote to Lloyd George /:
Come and spend the week
end" They call that a "royal
command" in England. II an
American got such an invitation,
especially the kind Of Ameri-
can usually representing this
Republic at the Court of St James,
there would be a great upheaval
Mamma excited, papa almost
delirious, clothes pressed, hair cut,
servants flying, educated secre-
tar wing last instructions, etc.
But LLOYD George, born over
there, Of the humblest people, just
sent word he could not 90. He
was tired after the trip and long
talk Of San Reno, wanted to rest
a while in Wales and, anyhow,
, he thought the King could wait to
hear what had been said at San
Reno, especially as he has nothing
10 do but say amen.
Lloyd George let the royal COM