Evening star., 1923-06-07

IL Is not surprising that WeSternerS
who come from cowboy land and have
been familiar with lassoing, all their.
lives, take q livelier interest in the
stunts Of the wild west "rodeo" than
| most easterners, to whom such skill
Is a novelty.
landscape is most interesting to one
who is acquainted with the natural
| scene.
Is not the secret, in both cases, the
personality which the behoIder him
self can put into what he sees? The
Montanan. seeing the cowboy throw
| and tic a wild steer, invoIuntarily
puts the same task up to himself,
and he lives through the trick as If
he himself were the performer. He
may not realize that 1t is his own
imagination that thrills him. The
| spectator Of painting of The or
Swimmin' Hole" who has often swum
in that or a similar hole" takes
keen interest. as he looks at the pic
ture, not in the mere technique of
art. but In imagining himself back
there, a jolly boy. yelling. Jaw, come
on in, the waters fine"'
One whose swimming experience is
in the surf only has no enjoyment
in the picture of the shaded nook at
the bend of the river, with its clay
bank and sandv slope and the crude
springboard. How can he imagine:
The waters hne?"
"If you would bring back the
wealth Of the Indies. you must take
the wealth Of the Indies with YOU" 1t
Is not fact, but imagination which
gives US most pleasure. So thousands
of our sweltering Shriners will cool
of aFt n na
the burning sands" will recall and
rebuild In their imaginations the
splendors of Washington and its Gar
| den of Allah, and, living over the joy
Grace Greenwood's wise saving: 1T
is pleasanter to have travelled than
to travel"
Those Georgia peaches that few
from Atlanta to the White House
were dazzling beauties and were well
coined most cordially, yet there has
not been manifested a single pang of
jealousy by any of the Washington
society beauties. The latter's mag
nanimity is magnificent. Even the
Cleopatra of the Shrine. chosen as
the most beautiful girl in Washing
ton. could boast no roster cheeks nor
more velvety complexion. Yet she only
smiled graciouslv when asked if she
feared the rivalry of the Georgia
peaches
After all. why should any girl be
jealous Of a peach? We all like them
sliced-the peaches-with cream and
sugar-and like them as fresh as
Washington debutante. That is how
they were served at the White House.
Canada is proposing commercial
reciprocity with the United States
but when it comes to nautical co..
operation. she declines. The United
States proposed joint action in inn
proving the ST. Lawrence river. SO
as TO make il navigable for ocean
vessels. The cost was to have been
shared equally by the two nations.
The State Department is officially
notified that Canada decides that II
would not be to her interest to open
the river. except to her own large
vessels. As she controls. indepen-
| IDENTIFY. the part of the river which
! is not on the boundary, she can block
the project.
What a commerce might Canada
build up. if all big vessels were to
stop at her ports. before coming on
to the United States. in order to un-
load their supplies of liquor, and then.
on OUTGOING, to take them aboard
again, Yet traffic experts ask whether
the liquor supplies constitute the
chief aim of shipping. They point to
the fact that Canada. with all her
ports has never developed Boston,
| New York, Philadelphia or Baltimore,
when on parity as to the liquor
| traffic. Will the eighteenth amend
ment tip the scale now?
| X * X
Not much has been heard. in recent
years, of the project to turn Cana
dian commerce northward through
| Hudson's bay. BY that route. winni-
peg is as close to Liverpool as is
! Buffalo With a railroad terminus on
the bay. traffic would be possible, ex-
cept for the fact that the grain is