Evening star., 1923-05-05

not of the class which subscribed to
tne reasonable song. II Didn't Raise
My Boy to Be a Soldier" These good
mothers are to be patriotic or they
will lose their palms" Mothers Of
FEWER than four children are to he
decorated ID. S. CO.. according to
their motherhood. but when they
show quartet they will be 'palmed''
The society undertakes to erect =
temple to motherhood in Washing
ton, and a feature of the temple viii!
| be forty-eight pillars, each to repre-
sent state, and upon it's own pillar
the state will inscribe the names Of
it's best twenty-five mothers in an
honor roll. '"These are my Jewels
| This million dollar temple will he
the monument proposed to honor
| motherhood
| DIR. Mary Gage Day OF New York
states that by sanitation and medi-
| cine and dietetics the span OF life
| has been increased from forty-one
years in 1870 to fifty-six years in
! 1928 and it can be further increased
! by scientific measures.
Has not the introduction of labor
| saving housekeeping devices had
much to do with the lengthcning Of
| life for the homemaker? The psy-
eiioiosiCdI eHtcl OF. women no longer
! retiring from the pleasures and ac-
! tiVlties Of life at middle age has
| given them the habit of thought that
| they are still many years from retire
ment. men, w nat man Cor woman
youthful thoughts, mingle with the
young. stay young.
| x K x
| The weather bureau is planning 10
| predict the weather a month ahead.
! Such predictions are easy, for the
scientists say they win look up the
/ averages for each month for the pre-
vious five years. and prophecy that
! the weather will be just like that this
coming month. How simple.
! The only loose screw in that prog
nostication is that the inability 10
forecast the weather for tomorrow
indicates that trying it for thirty days
| ahead will have about thirty more
| chances to miss fire. Why stop a.
thirty days? The old medicine al
| manacs (Which treasures the new
generation knows nothing about.
! alasO, used to predict over the whole
year, Every April was allotted
j showers" or thunder and rain" and
! in December the almanac usually sug-
| geSted extreme cold; killing frost"
1
| colder"
i Wonder If the modern weather
prophets have not found one OF those
old almanacs. If the signs OF the
Zodiac on the title page do not scare
| them. they might tell us what good
the signs were. at the same time that
they explain what good is a forecast
| which misses so often.
| The astronomers of the Smithsonian
| Institution are inclined to consider
| seriously the South American practice
OF reading weather forecasts from the
| twicedaily observations of sun spots.
but such science is scoffed by the
| weather bureau. which persists in
| demonstrating that "all signs fail In
dry weather'-or is il wet weather.
| Anyhow, the sun has cooled degrees
recently and all its fire may so out
| some day.
British authorities foreteil that the
! continents are going to sing and he
overwhelmed by the oceans. What
has our own weather bureau to say
{ about that prephesied wet spell?
y X
What will become OF the "three-miIe
! limit when "old oceans gray and
melancholy waste" covers the whole
| continent England is already pre-
pairing to appeal from the recent de-
cision of the United States Supreme
| Court, in the case in which the court
is alleged to have ruled IAN attack on
the liberties and rights of other peo-
pies" in forbidding other peoples"
10 run rum piracy into America from
! the threemi limit OF the high seas
So they are going 10 move the coast
line to the top of Pixies peak or
| bust. This "bally Supreme Court
has dealt "a smashing blow to the
prosperity of all the ocean-going com
panies." The case may be carried, on
appeal. TO the World Court and the
| United States Supreme Court be re-
versed. if the raving of some oceanic
interests is serious.
Copyright. 1923. by r. v Collins