The Washington times., 1921-03-08
Today
German War No. z.
More Irish War.
GroWn-up Children.
Our intellectual ''Betters."
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~ ARTHUR BRNBANJ

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Armies Of the Allies will march
INTO Germany today" Cities viii
be occupied, revenues conhscated.
whatsvex can b taksn will b
taken, 10 make up the amount the
Allies want and that Germany says
she cannot pay. More wars In
that program.
Two days ago you read that Cen
eral Cumming, Of the British
forces, had been murdered by 6inn
Feiners. This morning you read
that the mayor Of Limerick and
the former mayor Of Limerick are
murdsred in their beds. ~ "re-
prissl" for Cummings killing.
Cumming whsn killed was armed.
sarrounded by soldiers. Clancy,
the Limerick mayer. was in bed;
% was his wits, also shot. The
"honors Of war" 20 to speak,
would seam to b On The side Of
tie Sinn Fsiners.
Pretty photographs that como
from Palm Beach show in detail .
~children's party by grown-ups."
A man and . full grown woman
sit in q box filled with sand. each
with . little tin pail and . shovel.
shoveling the sand, wearing little
ehildren's clothes. and sox. With
bare legs above, etc. What intel
lectual Representatives Of our bet
ter classes display themselves ct
Palm Beach!
That is the sort Of thing that
hlls the humble lower classes"
with profound respect for their
betters, and makes those lower
classes delight to work hard, give
. full days work, ''iiquidats
wages" etc, to enable the grown
up children's parties" to be sue
cessful. and frequent
The chief of police Of Sunbury,
Pa, says ladies' skirts must como
four inches below the knee. That
is not bad suggestion, but there
Is no need Of any law. Women
should wear heavy woolen stock
ings in winter, light stockings in
summer. sensible low-heeled shoes
always, bloomers, fastened just
below the knee, all the year round,
and skirts to suit themselves. Tho
length Of the skirt will depend on
the shape. and mora or less On,
the separation Of the knees.
The main thing 10 10 keep the
short skirts, never 90 bsck to the
dragging seTm-collectors.
Woman has achieved recently
two kinds of freedom; one, the
ballot, giving freedom to her head.
admitting her ability to think; the
other, the short skirt, giving free
dom I'd her legs, admitting her
ability to walk. Both kinds OF
freedom must be retained.
We shall all be safer, the prob
lem of disease will be solved. when
men, at last, are the only. living
creatures on the earth. It will
take time to kill all the others.
from elephants to ultra-microscopic
disease germs, so small that even
the microscope can't see them.
A hunting party has just left
London. not to shoot tigers. trap
goriilas, or hunt the grizzly, but
to find q certain fresh water snail
in the West Indies. This snail de-
velops a germ that attacks the in
testines of human beings. You
get the snail disease by drinking
or even swimming in water in
habited by the snails.
The tse-tse fly spreads sleep
ing sickness, getting the germ
from the mouth Of the crocodile.
Typhoid develops inside the horse.
The mosquito carries malaria and
yellow fever.
Mans painful task IL to kill off
all the little and blk brother and
sister animals that were with him
in the Garden and on the Ark.
keeping the earth exclusively for
himself.
When that is done 1t will be q
less picturesque but a safer planet,
and perhaps, after q while. men
will find as much excitement in
study Of the stars as they do now
in chasing fox or shooting tiger
from the back of An elephant.
Mr.. John Nicholas Brown, of
Harvard, once called richest baby
In the world" now one OF the
richest young men, says he loves
The poor and wants to spend
twenty millions to help them.
What COULD and would you do
II you loved the Door and had
twenty millions to spend?
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