Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-05-28
HUMANISMS
BY WILLIAM ArHERroN pU pUY

reputation gained by the consideration he
habitually shows for other people. con-
siderntion which this story will show Is even
extended to the dumb creatures that play
the part Of lesser satellites Of man.
Tambo was small and woolly dog be-
longing to n niece of Senator MCKINLEY.
Tambo's tastes ran to Ice cream and his
instinct was marvellous in smelling ont
church socials. Mt which he was invariably
n good customer.
One midsummer night Mr. Mckinley gave
his niece a five dollar bill and sent her and
Tambo to a social where they quite surfeited
themselves. 1t was hard to keep the dog
happy. however. and the next day 1t lay
painting and miserable beneath the states
mans desk.
Presently a long distance call and two
kilograms having accumulated, the stan be-
gan search for Mr.. Mckinley. About the
same time the dog Tambo was also missed.
After much hunting a long shot from
the back window into the alley revealed the
two. Mr.. Mckinley was sitting on trash
box and Tambo was between his knees. In
Office shears and he was giving Tambo
haircut to relieve his suffering from the heat.
Had not certain romance of mis-
sionary worked out as it did down in
Georgia seventy years ago Miss Alice Rob
ertson would not have been the lone woman
seated among her peers in the House of
Representatives today.
Her father was sent from New York state
to minister TO the Cherokee Indians. The
good church people who sent him kept in
as close touch as they could and sought in
many ways to make up to him for the pri-
vations that were his.
Among other things they came to the con-
clusion, influenced by Scripture, that It
was not well that man should live alone.
They would send him a helpmate. They
would select from the flock an ardent spirit
who would go into the wilderness and marry
him. They did select her and start her on
her way
But the missionary felt the spirit of
revolt that has dwelled in the breasts OF
men and women for whom marriages have
been arranged since time began. And, be-
side, there was in the scenario a young
woman missionary whom he had met under
conditions where eye flashed back to eve
those subtle messages that wed soul to
soul as God intended they should be united.
So. two days before the arrival of the
matrimonial candidate. there was a hurried
mating falsely based on other considerations
than the desires of the two principals to it.
And SO were united the parents of the
congresswoman from Oklahoma.
Major General Wendell G. Neville. of the
marine corps, has done much handy fighting
and suffered many strange experiences, as
brevetted for conspicuous service at Santi-
ago bay in the Spanish American War;
awarded the Congressional Medal for dis
tinguished conduct at Vera Cruz; and given
the Distinguished Service Medal and many
foreign honors for the sort of things he did
in the world war.
But he also met his humiliations. There
was the matter of the overcoat in the Meuse-
Argonne fight, for instance. 1t was n
splendid overcoatt bought out of his own
pay and 1t was brand new. 1t had lot
Of mud on 1t. but that would have scraped
off when it got dry.
He had fOundercd around in the mud for
two days and was so dead tired that he put
his head on a bale of hay, pulled his new
overcoat up over him. and went to Sleep
1t was probably some doughboy of the army
who thought that it would be good joke
to steal the stars off the shoulders of a
marine corps general. And so he did.
a day later the outfit was further along
toward Germany. was muddier. tircder. The
general hung his overcoat sans stars on a
limb and started pounding his ear again.
Along came n soldier and spied this fancy
overcoat with nothing on the shoulders and
the unusual stripes of the marine corps on
the sleeves. He thought IL was a German
coat. So he took out his pocketknife and
cut the sleeves off above the elbows that he
might send them home as souvenirs
This finished the coat.
=, Marine corps ofhcrrs are celebrated for
their gallantry to the ladies, and Gen.
eral eral Nendell y. NeViiie Is the most pune
tiiious OF them oil.
Imagine his embarrassment, then, when
on the march 10 the kline during the
recent r,t unpieasahtness ne was forced to say
no to the opportunities of grand
duchess far-famed for her beauty and
graces'
IL happened IN Luxembourg. When the
young grand duchess who rules that small
principality, found that an American gen
eral was leading his forces through her
country she sought to extend hospitality.
She sent an invitation to General Neville
to rest and refresh himself at her palace.
The general was forced to decline. Or
ders had Deen issued from ". IL. y. to the
The situation was explained. She wired to
general Headquarters; she wired to Paris.
She just must entertain the American gen