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The New York herald., 1921-08-14
The Servant Question.
Suggestions From an Englishwoman
of Wide Experience.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: Having
been managing housekeeper and private
secretary. managing housekeeper and
companion. managing housekeeper and
superintendent for the last fourteen
years in private families in the United
States as well several years in Europe.
l can speak from personal knowledge
and wide experience on the domestic
situation. t
That butler is right when he says
many private houses here are run with
insufficient help--three where there
should be five. The result is always a
mudoie; no system. no method. no any
ming but disorder; lists of silver, linen.
glass; emma conspicuous by their abb
sepce, so these articles have a wonder
full way of taking wing: the linen in
deplorable state of repair, the blan-
kets and carpets devoured by moths.
He Is also right In what he says
ABOUT the bedrooms allotted to domestic
help. ! have found several employers
having the idea anything would do for
the servants.
As to wages: Why can Japanese
demand and get a higher wage than
well trained white help? A Japanese
Is excellent when only one in help Is
kept for he will do anything, but as a
butler In a household of any preten-
sions--why, he is no higher in stature
than the seated dinner guests, and a
butler to be a good waiter should be
tall enough to command full view of the
table over the heads of all the diners.
Vet To ,,,tIa
wage of from $3.50 to $3.50, where
trained white man with good presence
asks from 500 to s120.
household must be run on a buai-
ness basis to obtain satisfactory results.
no help secured by Misrepresentation,
no promises made that cannot be car
ried out. Then II the employer knows
how things should be done, IL he treats
the men and women as human beings.
not pieces of furniture, allots them their
work and time to work, also time for
rest or recreation. provides them with
cheerful bedrooms. pays a reasonable
wage, the servants will remain. their
respect VIII be secured and all WIN
be plain sailing
There is question I would like to
ask When person fills the position
OF managing housekeeper where the
employer calls for woman OF culture
and a college graduate. why is she not
treated as lady, why is she expected
to associate with servants for society,
and why are the courtesies of life, Good
morning" Good evening"" though ex-
tended to the help. denied her. not only
by her employer but by all the guests
staying in the house? Will some Amer
lean kindly explain7
AN ENaLrsHwoMAN.
NEW YORK, August l3.
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Club Cooking Criticised.
Tried In Many Cities, 1t Is Found
Lacking in Distinction.

To THE NEW YORK HERALD: 1t has
always been wonder to me that the
cuisine OF club restaurants is so lack
ing In distinction.
My experiences In a number OF lead
ing clubs in our larger cities-Philadel-
phia, New York, Chicago, Cleveland.
Cinclnnati--confrm this statement. I
have found in most OF them the cuisine
Is much below that OF their own lead
ing hotels. and indeed In many cases
quite commonplace.
have noted one exception. the Road
Side Club OF Cleveland. prominent in the
heyday of the horse, but now probably
passing. It had one practice of serving
during meals fresh plates OF hot, deli
cious toast such as I have never eaten
elsewhere. and while small thing--if
anything delicious In the way OF food
can be small--it was delightful. Why
are there not moro such distinctive
touches in club room dining life3
BILLY PENN.
PHILADELPHrA, August 10.
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Candles.

These are the candles that I light
When loneliness draws too near,
When the wings of the night brush over
my heart
with their little sounds OF fear.
Sometimes they burn too aim, too low
Sometimes too bright and too high,
And sometimes their light is put out by
a tear
or by the breath OF sigh.
Ever / keep them freshly trimmed,
Ever they comfort me
with the wavering flame Of their ten.
der light
Candles of memory.
ABIGAIL We CREssoN.
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Jazz for Bait.

Out at Dugans Dam, in Pennsyl-
vania, FRANK STEEs has been turning
Jazz loose on minnows and then using
them for bait while they were still
out of their minds. The livelier the
minnow, Of course, the better bait he
is, and the more he is exposed to jazz
the more deliriously lively does he
become.
1t was CHARLES NEUBEcKER, de-
scribed in the news despatch as "a
deep student of music" who made
the discovery.
He had noticed that minnows in a
pail Of water standing near phono-
graph became greatly agitated when
ever a jazz record was turned on.
They darted hither and thither. They
seemed to be fleeing for their lives.
The longer the jazz boiler factory
clatter kept up the wilder became the
minnow antics. Even when they were
hooked and thrown overheard as bait
their st. Vitus convulsions continued,
commissions akin to those to which
humans are excited by exposure to
the same acoustic suffering.
Minnows so affected become the
liveliest kind Of bait. With one Of
these jazz crazed little fish FRANK
STEEs landed three pound bass
three minutes after casting his line.
Old anglers are quoted as saying that
in all their fishing experience they
bad never seen such fine bait as a
jazz convulsed minnow made. 1t was
hard on the minnows, something akin
to vivisection torture. This the ang-
lers were willing to admit. But the
end in benefit to angling humanity
seemed to justify the meanness Of it.
Now all this Is SO because it is
printed in the newspapers. And there
are FRANK STEEs of Steelton, Penn
sylvania, and CHARLES NEUBEcKER to
bear witness.
Surely we have here a great ad-
vance in the science OF fishing. In a
general way there have not been any
very great changes in angling tech
nique since the days OF I. WALTON.
But this evidently is an epoch mark
ing innovation. Obviously no bass fish
erman hereafter can feel that he Is
fully equipped unless he has jazz
charged phonograph In his outfit.
The New York herald., 1921-08-14

at Saratoga twitted the trainer. BOB
THOMAS, about bringing bedding such
long distance.
The manner in which Rey Ell Santa
Anita, Los Angeles, Volante and other
racers from the Pacific coast won
their races created a demand for
California hay, and since that time
no well regulated racing establish
ment, whether of thoroughbreds or
trotters, has been without it. When
C. X. @. BILLINGS sent his champion
trotters on their European tour
CHARLES TANNER took lot of it
along. On his way home he met the
late JIMMY MCCORMICK in Berlin.
MCCORMICK had gone from New
York to Germany to train the stable
of Baron OPPENHEIM. He had a fast
but finicky three-year-old which was
good enough to win the German Derby
II he would eat enough to keep strong.
Mccormick mentioned this fact to
TANNER and remarked that he would
give $500 for bale of California hay.
TANNER thereupon gave him one.
There was something in ths succu-
lent California hay which stimulated
the jaded appetite of MCCORMICK 8
colt, and history records the fact that
he won the Derby.
Californians say that stock will
fatten on their grain hay without any
other ration. Beyond the Rockies
alfalfa is a highly priced crop and
dairymen prefer it to any other fod-
der for their milking herds. Hith-
erto the bulk of the grain hay grown
on the Pacific coast has gone to Ha-
wall and the Philippine Islands. It's
introduction in big way into the
Eastern markets will be source Of
concern to farmers of hay growing
States east of the Alleghanies.
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SUNDAY, AUGUST IA, 1921.
Silesia Goes to Geneva.

If the League of Nations is good
for anything in its present organiza-
tion and ineptitude it is good as
q convenient pigeonhole for strictly
European issues upon which strictly
European diplomacy cannot, at the
time. come to agreement.
The interest of the Government and
people of the United States in the
reasonable solution of the Silesian
question: problem pregnant with
importance to future world peace
and world conditions-is not less be-
cause Ambassador HARVEY, represent
ing the correct policy of the Har-
ding Administration, sits in the Su-
preme Council of the Allies but does
not advise or vote.
The incident shows what this ma
tion escaped when the Senate refused
to tie up our Government in a con-
tract Of moral and physical RESPONSE
bility for the policing of European
territory whenever racial ambitions
clashed or local rivalries sounded the
danger signal at theoretical boun-
dary lines.
ss 1t is curious and notable circum-
stance that after all the expert
mental philosophy of the last twenty
years, and particularly OF the last
Yhree years in the matter of inter
twining and supergovernment, the
declared policy Of the United States
should be exactly what it was wher
the comparatively innocuous propo
sails of the Peace Conference at Ths
Hague were accepted by our delegates
with the following reservation.
Nothing contained in this conven-
tion shall be so construed as to re-
Quire the United States to depart
from its traditional policy of not en-
tering upon, interfering with or en-
tangling itself in the political ques-
tions or internal administration OF any
foreign State, nor shall anything con-
tained in the said convention be so
construed as to require the relin-
quishment, by the United States of
America. OF it's traditional attitude
toward purely American questions
That was in 1899. Not even the
supposed interests of universal peace
could then shake the two rocks of
our time honored policy, the Monroe
Doctrine and the principle of freedom
from ENHANCEMENT in purely Euro
pean quarrels. And in 1921 Silesia
goes to Geneva at which the United
States is not present; and Ambassa
dor HARVEY, as an observer of but not
a participant in the reference, tran
GULLY announces that the President
has felt from the beginning that the
question was one of distinctly Eu
ropean concern.
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Busy Buffers and Valuable Cooks.

To THE NEW York HERALD: As to the
pay of buffers. butler has to work from
A. NJ. until sometimes to Q A.. M.
He is responsible for the safety of the
house silver and must see that every
thing is kept o. K, besides pressing the
gentlemen's clothes, which II put out
would cost 81 a day; cleaning shoes
would cost 20 cents more. The rest OF the
work he does practically for nothing.
good cook Is always worth more
than she gets ANOTHER BUTLER.
TUXEDO, August 1a.
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A Filmy Filtration.

I saw a little country lass
Beside cottage door.
A milking pail was on her arm.
A gingham dress she wore.
Her eyes were very soft and shy.
Her smile was very sweet.
Here is the girl at last" / said,
ITO make my life complete"
Pray give to me-" cried. "A drink
or water clear and cold
From yonder we'll In which Is hung
The oaken bucket old.
From such fair hands, Q lovely maid,
Each crystal drop I sip
VIM be as nectar Of the gods
or honey to my lip"
A,asi.I had no chance to taste
The water from the we'll,
NV rainbow castles in the air
Rerplunk in ruins fell.
For at my edo camera man
Behold took up his station,
Nv charnier was a movie star
And there upon location.
MINNA IRVING.
The New York herald., 1921-08-14

When seven-year-old BARNEY GATES
wedged is arm in fire plug the other
day firemen, policemen. water depart
ment men, plumbers. PAYERS, laborers,
doctors. nurses and men and women
of half q score Of other professions
and callings worked with a will to
free him. without hope Of reward or
thought OF recompense. This was a
fine thing and, happily for the race. the
natural thing for them to do. 1t is
unfortunate that all the boys and girls
whose moral and intellectual arms are
wedged In way that menaces their
future cannot be seen and their peril
understood 30 clearly If they could
be, a terrible toll Of unnecessary suf-
fering would be saved.
The New York herald., 1921-08-14
Scott Born $50 Years Ago.

One hundred years ago "Kenil-
WORTH the thirteenth of the Waver
ley novels, appeared. The series had
begun seven years previously with
'Waverley, or 'Tis Sixty Years Since"
which had been succeeded at the rate
of one or more year by other nov
els of wide popularity, such as Guy
Mannering," Rob Roy" "The Bride
of Lammermoor'' and "Ivanhoe."
They were all published anonymously
and they were referred to as the work
Of "The Great Unknown" But at
least twenty persons knew who ac-
tually was the author and most of
the world guessed. After financial
ruin came upon him ScoTT acknowl-
edged that he was the author OF all
from "Waverley" to Woodstock,
which had just appeared.
August Is, 1771, one hundred and
fifty years ago tomorrow, was
ScoTT's birthday. According to the
prejudices of my country" he wrote.
"my mirth was esteemed gentle, as !
was connected, though remotely,
with ancient families both by my
fathers and mothers side" He was
the ninth OF a family of whom six
died in early youth; the narrowness
and peculiar depth OF his head which
must have struck all who have stud
led the busts made Of him by CHAN
TRY and the portraits by Sir EDWIN
LANDsEER and RAEBuRN were due to
some congenital error of bone max
ing. His health in boyhood was un-
certain and he was lame owing to an
arrest OF growth in the right leg in
infancy. This was not a drawback
to a boy with his eager thirst for
knowledge.
He was INDUCED to his delight in
ballads, legends and romances of the
Scottish border: he was an eager
listener and he fairly absorbed the
stories told him by his mother, his
aunt. the women around his grand
fathers farm, old DR.. BLAcKLocK, the
blind poet, an aged military veteran,
and men who had studied the his
tory and traditions OF the border
clans. II was in this way that he
collected that romantic and historic
lore which remained with him all
his life To critics who complained
OF his lack of research for his his
torical novels he always referred to
these early impressions as his great
est treasures. In one period OF i'll
ness he dictated THE Bride Of Lam
mermoor": when he reread IL he
found nothing Of his own creation
only the legend indelibly fixed in his
mind in boyhood as told him by his
mother.
Under ScoTT's treatment the his
toric romance reached its highest
point. lie wrote largely of his native
land, because he knew at first hand
and he had sympathy for the Scotch
men and an ardent love for Scotland.
But he wrote for humanity, In that
he presented the simple elements
OF romance, those elements which
the reading public understood and
which Il was prepared to accept. 1t
has been said that we remember his
places better than we remember his
characters The reason OF this Is
perhaps that no one before him in
English literature had studied nature
50 diligently to get his background
OF scenery and no one had made the
place such a vital element in the
story.
He never wrote with bitternessi.
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he excused and tolerated the weak
ness of men; he did not excoriate
vice but unmasked it, and that with
a feeling more of charity than criti-
cism. He delighted in hobbies,
whether they were the exploitation
of aristocratic lineage, mania for
antiquities or archaeology, or the van
tiles of life. His rogues always have
saving grace. Boutwell, may be a
cutthroat, Hatteraick a rascal and
Dalgetty self-seeker, but ScoTr al
lows them all some goodness.
What a troop of characters the
memory OF his novels summons! The
Highlander Evan Dhu, who offered
himself and six of his clan in his
masters stead. The barber in "The
Antiquary," who makes the world
turn about his wigs and exclaims
when one of his customers Is in
peril: "Haud care, man--an' ye ia
over the cliff, there will be but one
wig left in the parish and that's
the minister's" In "Waverley" we
have the whimsical, pedantic Baron
of Bradwardine, the Jacobite maid
Flora MacIvor-and Davie Gellat-
ley, who could boil an egg and turn
rhyme. In "Old Mortality" Bal
four of Burley, who brandished his
sword and Bible with wild eyed fury;
in "The Heart of Midlothian" Effie
and Jeanie Deans and Dumbiedikes,
eloquent in his silence. Then there
are Peter PEBBLES in "Redgauntlet, +"
Meg Merriiies in Guy Mannering,'
Norma of the Fitful-Head in "The
Pirate" Rebecca in "Ivanhoe"-and
the list is scarcely started.
The output of ScoTT's pen was
marvellous; 1t has been said that his
literary production for a man of SO
many and varied Industries was
without parallel. This may be
questioned. To his novels and works
of romantic fiction must be added his
poems Of earlier years, his works
upon Scottish antiquities and histor-
ical research, his great mass of criti-
cism and articles written for mag
azines, his History of Scotland" and
Life of Napoleon" Toward the close
of 1925, when he felt that he was
secure in fortune earned by eleven
years of prosperous literary labor, he
suddenly discovered that, through the
failure Of publishing houses in which
he had invested, he was personally
responsible for $650,000. He rebelled
against the dishonor of bankruptcy.
He asked no consideration from his
creditors. In two years, from 1926
to 1928, he reduced the debt by nearly
100000. He died from overwork
before his self-appointcl task was
finished.
On his deathbed he spoke to LOCK
HART, his son-in-law and biographer,
almost his last words: II have but
minute. My dear, be good man
be virtuous, be religious-be good.
Nothing else will give you any COM
fort when you come to lie here"
Years ago TAME expressed what b
perhaps the judgment of to-day upon
ScoTT's career and attainments: by
his fundamental honesty and his wide
humanity he was the Homer of mod
ern citizen life" The world may not
read Scott now as it did a half CEN
tury ago, but 1t still feels in it's life
and literature the influence Of his
life, industry, courage and nobility
of character These qualities will
survive forever.
The New York herald., 1921-08-14

! A news article of recent date said
"Five persons were killed and fully q
score were stunned by lightning dur
| ing the freakish thunderstorm which
swept the nearby parts of New Yorl
and New Jersey yesterday with the
violence of a tropical hurricane"
"Freakish' aptly describes a storm
which formed with scarcely a warn.
ing, wrought tremendous havoc. and
disappeared as quickly as it formed
The static or electrical waves Gre
ated by lightning may be compared
| to the waves created when a stone is
thrown into still water. These wave!
may be caught by apparatus after the
order of a wireless receiver specially
tuned to catch waves of great length.
At 2 o'clock of the day Of the storm
these waves were SO feeble at the
Mount Vernon substation of the
Weather Bureau that they were
scarcely noticed; indeed it was not
thought that they were thunderstorm
waves. At $3.50 o'clock they were sc
sharp as to be painful when the
listening-in telephones were placed tc
the ears. AT o'clock the storm broke
During it's passage over Mount Ver-
non the wind reached a velocity OF
about fifty miles an hour driving In
furious gusts that spread the wreck
age of trees all over the city and sent
swinging signs skyward. For a few
minutes chaos reigned in the electric
| lighting plant. Within the interval
Of five minutes nearly three-quarters
of an inch of rain fell.
The storm travelled rapidly toward
the southeast for two hours; then II
ceased as suddenly as 1t had formed
At $50 o'clock the signals were hardly
discernible.
Thunderstorms are Dame Natures
terror breeders in the eastern United
States, just as earthquakes strike
deadly fear into the hearts of the
superpeople of the Pacific coast, and
each pharisee boasts JOY in being
free from what the other fellow gets
So far as fatalities are concerned 1t Is
pretty nearly standoff between
them, and victim of either has never
complained because he did not get the
other.
Lightning statistics for 1920 are yet
incomplete; in 1919 the number killed
by lightning in the United States was
Ala. OF this number sixteen was the
toll exacted from New York city
where nearly fifty times as many
were killed by motor vehicles. Light
ing and power wires shock twice as
many people to death as are killed
by lightning.
For two centuries humanity has
been warned of the danger of taking
shelter under trees during thunder
storms; nevertheless even to this
day, the shelter of a tree is the place
where about three of every flve are
killed by lightning. Death from light
ming stroke to people indoors Is al
most always due to one or the other
OF two cnuses: an in draft from ar
open window or contact with water
or gas pipes.
Lightning rods afford by far the
best protection against the fires that
frequently follow a lightning stroke
Statistics gathered by j.. Warren
Smith of the United States Weather
Bureau show that damage from fire
to buildings thus protected is negli-
gible. THE NEW York HERALD quoted
the summaries of eighteen Canadian
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ny way Of Explanation.
From the Kansas Cttv 81,

From the Kansas CITY star
ABR sighed the presiding elder. why
do so few parents nowadays sing to their
chlldren7' ~
"one reason ] don't" replied Gap John
son OF Rumpus. Ridge. Ark. "is that the
last time tried Il they ganged me TIL their
nav had to fling hot water on em to make
'em turn looso."
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Dean Of Pioneer Drivers.

To THE NEW YoRK HERALD: With
Captain Anderson of sewickley Pa., OF
ss years of age ] think you have struck
bottom in the matter OF the Oldest OF
the pioneers of Western travel still liv-
ing. 1t must have been quite an un-
dertaking TO get an organization Of 500
at that early date. 1s4s. 1t took us
two months or more to get our party
made UP and ready to start on our trip
overland to Colorado in 1859.
q. q. DowNHAM.
ALEXANDRIA, Va. August H.
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A Footprint.

on yestereve. at early matin call
(The thrushs matins). as trod the
glade
And saw the dreamy beryl slowly fade
And fash to gold along the woodland
wall,
And sensed the dews and felt the sooth-
ing thrall
or balms distilled within the slumber-
ing shade,
/ dropped my gaze. and 10. the loam
betrayed
A single clear limned footprint-that
was all
Ave. that was ALL and yet that cloven
hoof
Awakened fancy till before mine eyes
Trooped by the pageant OF an elder
dawn.
And l beheld from coppices aloof
Pass, pipes upraised. head held In
antio wise.
The goat-hoof Pan. and many
dancing faun.
CLINTON SCOTLAND.
The New York herald., 1921-08-14

Senator AsHuRsT Is authority for
the statement that on land brought
into cultivation by operation OF the
Newlands reclamation law agricultural
products, not including live stock
have been raised which were priced at
s4o0, 900, 900; and that $4,000 homes
have been built thereon and 100000
people live on the lands either as
home owners or laborers. When the
late Senator NEwLANps first advocated
the project he was laughed at