Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-10-05
THE REFEREE
Napoleon
(By Albert Apple

Napoleon
The first volume of Count Moles
Ions awaited memories is puDnsheu
in Paris. Its most striking point Is
this description of Napoleon at II
age of A:
while walking to and fro and
talking to me, he showed signs OF
fatigue. He stopped and leaned
against the billiard table; rolled the
billiard balls with his hand; n
seemed ready Involuntary 10 ran
asleep
NAPOLEON said that old age begins
at 80. Take heed, young men VINO
| are wasting your twenties.
Hypocrisy
Mole, in his memoirs, says Ma
poleon never wrote to his cnlloreh
without wetting his paper with huge
tears.
Napoleon told Mole: Don't sup
pose that 1 have not as lender q
heart as any man. l am q kindly
| man"
Imagine that, from one of the
most heartless men that ever
lived. Napoleon either was an arch-
| hypocrite or he kept himself hypno-
tized. At that, his opinion of him
| self was as close to the truth as the
average mans self-esteem. All men
| are vain. Vanity, self preservation
| and reproduction are mans guiding
motives.
The ex-kaiser's personal wealth
still is so great that the Prusslan
ministry of finance, commissioned 10
make a settlement between the Ho-
henZollerns and Prussia, is unable 10
estimate the value of it all.
In and around Berlin alone. Bill
claims SO palaces, mansions and
estates. He owns property all over
Germany and holds a stack OF
mortgages. All this, logically, should
be c%onfiscated and turned into the
Preparations fund.
Princes
While the ex-kaiser still rolls in
wealth, other German princes are
hard up. They hammer loudly a;
the door of the pension office.
A generals pension is applied for
by Rupprecht. ex-crown prince OF
Bavaria. George, duke of Saxe-Mein-
ingen, claims he is eligible for an
acknowledgements pension.
Prince Oscar of Prussia applies for
a brigade commanders pension, also
asks the salary due him for the last
quarter of 1918. He gets the latter,
in an envelope addressed to "Mr.
Oscar Won Hohenzollern." How are
the mighty fallen!
Paris reports that 1922 claret is
excellent and will take it's place with
famous xintages. Not since 1900 has
such honor been claimed for any
years run of claret.
Wine connoisseurs, however, doubt
that the 1922 claret will be as ex-
cellent as in 1873 and 1898, the years
OF the most wonderful claret ever
bottled.
Alas! 1t is enough to make the old
home brew down in the cellar turn
to vinegar, for shame.
Home-Brew
If you made blackberry wine this
year, how did it turn out? Bitter,
probably. Something was wrong
with the berries this season.
Weather last year was ideal for
ripening Of juicy ~blackberries. Not
SO. in 1922, most places.
Even chemists are unable to ex-
plain what's wrong. 1t is when you
take up the chemistry of wine-mak-
ing that you realize there are things
in nature that cannot be accounted
for by natural laws.
Child Crime
Crime among children is ~increas-
ing rapidly in Russia, say Boise
vik newspapers. Editorially the
Izvesta estimates that Russia has
10000 professional child-eriminals.
For this il blames IAN unprece-
dented state of neglect"
Holds true in all countries, ours
included. Back of nearly all way
ward children is neglect by the par
ents. That and poverty. Heredity