Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-10-05
THE REFEREE
Napoleon
by Albert Applc)

Napoleon
The first volume of Count Moles
long awaited memories is publlsheo
in Paris. Its most striking point is
this description of Napoleon at the
age of A:
while walking to and fro ana
talking to me, he showed signs .,
fatigue. He stopped and eaned
against the billiard table; rolled the
billiard balls with his hand; and
seemed ready Involuntary to TAIL
asleep"
Napoleon said that old age begins
at so. Take heed, young men VINO
are wasting your twenties.
Hypocrisy
Mole, in his memoirs. says Ma
poleon never wrote to his
without wetting his paper with huge
tears.
Napoleon told Mole: Don't sup
nose that l have not as tender d
heart as any man. l am a kindly
man"
Imagine that, from n 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
aVerdSe uhdu > Sell-SobeSih. Ai AhS"
are vain. Vanity, self preservation
and reproduction r mans guiding
motives.
The ex-kaiser's personal wealth
still is SO great that the Prussian
ministry of finance, commissioned TO
make a settlement between the Ho-
henzollerns and Prussia, Is unable TO
estimate the value of it all.
In and around Berlin alone, Bill
claims SO palaces, mansions n
estates. He owns property all e
Germany and holds a stack OF
mortgages. All this, logically, should
be confiscated 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 R%upprecht, ex-crown prince OF
Bavaria. George, duke of Saxe-Mein-
ingen, claims he is eligible for an
inspector-generals 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!
Wines
Paris reports that 1922 claret is
excellent and will take it's place with
famous vintages. 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 1893, 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
r%ipening 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 r 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-criminals.
For this it blames IAN unprece-
denied 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