w York Letter

York—One cannot hare ooanet> and laire profit* at one same tine. That ha* often 1 out by investment circu- ' family lawyers. And now Long Island jury with the sion. Girls who accept ride* * automobiles do co at their says the jury. And so they the suit of Miss Annie Camp, ty years old, against leaec who gave her a ••life” on her 5 from work. The machine with another auto and Miss I was severely braised, being a welthy business man. as though hr might pay Jamt no, says the unsympathetic you go adventuring, there's some risk in It, and you'll

lake It

P. Belmont is going before long, planning It

spend the rest of her life

energetic Mrs. ''Ollie." her suffrage actlviiies

y from her by the cause n wor l.'en looking ■ yarning eyes Paris .line; and now that her Consuella. Duchess of Maris at last safely divorced, it - that she will hasten across

> make her new home, r popular there, and

•• refuses to make an excepr divorced woman, regardmerits of her case. So her London would not be as

heretofore. Moreover, it

. not so very secretly, that ’>• engaged to Jaques Bel-

nch sportsman and oldof the Vanderbilt 1am-

. Belmont will have I*aiiB ' ~bter once again together,

tot it Is the matrimonial his mother and sister held Consnella’s brother, erbllt , a bachelor, 1 do But bus purpose seems

Indeed.

enthusiast must have’ written'tn the USES “ A “" 1 “ *”"■ *° 6 ' New York of course Isn't sophisUeated. as she pretends to be. But every once in a while, she doesn't even bother to pretend When the e»cape of two puppies from a peddler's box can stop traffic right on Fifth avenue, in front of the Waldorf Hotel, to the point of needing police Interference, it seems like a pretty childlike city. Out Jumped the pup-

pies; ant* the crowd that gathered tol,,^

gaxe at them and play with th«n was The***e«r». . so disturbing that poor Joeenh Pos- k . America and American -n. Wbo.. tier I '° r U ™* M -

^h^nop., , 5 «„ | The nation Is enjoying exe» lent lealth, the year having been free from

Business Success of Past Gives Strength for

Future

By B. C.FORBES

Amid the depression, turmoil and pessimism and complaining act foreboding so prevalent today, pernaps It will be wholesome to devote a few moments to reflecting upon some of

What will happen, I wonder, when Fred Stu.ie starts out on un uptown walk some day pretty soon* For Fred lr the prond owner of two Buffalo calves which he has bought fro.n Central Park roo, and although the) are now safely parked at his Long I.Jand home, somelow anyone who knows Pred looks for an interesting parade along Broadway before long. He says they are to be broken to harness and

trained to an active career.

epidemics of any nature.

The eatrth has produced most bountifully, Insuring an abundance f sub-

stances for man and beast.

The threatened coal famine Is Vlng

Employment at high wages has >een plentiful throughout the greater part of the year, and even now not uore than a normal percentage ore oit of

work.

The cost of living Is steadily moving toward more comfortable lev -Is. The bolshevistic spirit has

being rehearsed at

- these days. But It will produced In another Hip-

r-hould think, ever to t audience large enough

i paying thing. Just bun--le there are in the east!

Ingly ex.ienslve proper-

Belasco was evidently on truly Belascoesque buying m he furnished the play.

Sanford White’s cne time home at 9 Gramarcy park,.has been made into the home of the International Insti-

tute conducted by foreign women of on (j^ BCOm

the Y W. C. A. The treasure house. ^ers are beginning for which he ransacked Europe for fcbt a wnungness to cooperate In inrare tapestries, carving and furniture; I creasing labor's productiveness, the house Where La Farge, Sargent. | xl)0 roitult of lhe p rewde nUal clecSalnt Gandens. and other artists of the j Uon has be en well recetred, and con country gathered to talk of 'heir art; | fld ,. nce th!lt lhe Be , t .dmlnis1s now llllod with the daughters of ; traUon w!U strive to asfagusrd and cn-

those same countries which gave »< - courage prosperity,

furnishings; and how to live on $10 The belief ^ mowing that the a week has taken the stage as the , United States will find some way oi most discussed problem threshed out unltlng wKh nation* 1o j,scourbefore the famous fireplace. age war and promote international

| harmony.

it may be Just a tremendous effort, Europe continues to make progress to attract the tourist or it may be the ; rehabilitation and stability, result of the general resilience of the an(1 thl , BFlrlt miu ,'fested at the first French: but at any rate, hotels and lb i Blorlc) session of the League of Nahotel life in Paris are rapidly getting j tioM Js fa j, of promise, back to normal according to Albert J. j FaIUn costs B ti nm Ut<' hopes that Norton, who has just arrived .lorae th( , scarcity of homes wiU shortly befrom France and from rather close in- ^ to ^ remedied-a matter of suspect'jn of that particular situation. pre me social, moral and economls

Mr. Norton, who is president of the , r>ortance.

O.d Colony Club of this country, estab-1 g^s commodities of all kinds lished new ouartera of the club In are in abundance, and the power of the Paris while he was there, thereby glv- p^p,* t0 obu i n Uiem Is increasing inp the onranixation a scope of 6000 thro ugh the lowering of price*, miles from cast to west. FYom San J draBt i c declines

Francisco to Paris, now, any one of

j curl ties and the curtailment of boslj ness, there have been no serious 111 | dal failures and very few commercial failures of magnitude. | The financial community looks forward to good times next yec.r. Business no longer Is being conducted on grossly artificial levels, but is rapidly approaching solid ground. Our banking system has withstood both the shock of war and the si rain of transition to peace conditions. The American people are now saving more money man any previous

time in history.

Capital is becoming available in larger volume for the launching of new enterprises and the developing of

existing enterprises.

Interest rates are universally pected to ease after the turn of the

yew-.

Gold continues to flow Into this country by the million every week. Our exportations sUll outbalance our importations by quite as geenrous a margin as is desirable. The upbuilding of the merchant marine fleet approaching in magnitude that of great Britain strengthens our ability to enter and retain a full share of the world's markets. Our land transportation has under-

Jo,, .M DO 1DDV. I«m now Ml ff*»* , omuioD ureurt Iho pm.

1 inp of sound legislation to fortify railroads' credit and through the very

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saw that appealed to him I serves as local quarters of the club. ■ disposal. Plans are to make the club

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«,'able improvement in efficiency efficiency since the return of the roads to private operation. Road building is going forward in this country ns in no other country on the face < f the earth, a form of progress desirable and valuable beyuno consumption. The increasing inflow of abl&bodiod immigrants Insures an adequate supply of unskilled labor to aid in tilling the soil, erecting new buildings, running oar industrial plants, developing mines, digging our coal, manning our oil pnperries and Improving our transportation facilities. More Is being done today than ever before to educate and assimilate into the national family the foreign-burn already h-»re and those flocking io our

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eed for Inordinate gain, exhibited too flagrantly both by profiteers and by certain classes of workers, is i the wane. The interdependence of employes Is steadily becoming more fully understood, and more measures than ever before are being instituted to draw both sides together on a friendly operative, satisfactory basis. Our capacitv for producing the necessaries. the comforts and the luxuries of life has increased phenome-

nally.

America's power and place in the world have risen beyond parallel in

history.

Practical, comprehensive steps are being taken by our financial communextend financial succor to the temporarily crippled nations of Europe, and the broader sense of our international responsibilities begotten by the world war Justifies the general faith that hereafter Americans will throw off some of their provincialism and become investors wherever attrac e opportunities arise in any part of the world. Our schools, colleges and unlversi9s are educating unprecedented numbers of children, young men and young women, and the am runt of money now being devoted to education far exceeds the record of any previous year. The millions and millions contributed voluntarily to our Institution.-! o higher learning during th<* last ye* have evoked the admiration and the envy of other nations. Religious animosity is giving place religious tolerance and even co-oper-ation. and, although certain comprehensive plans to bring about Interdenominational unity bare suffered setbacks, the trend clearly Is In the tight

direction.

Although much has been said of “moral slump” having followed the war, our farewell offerings to the Red Cross and other philanthropic agencies have been In such volume that millions of children In Europe are being thereby kept alive. And there are not wanting signs that more men of great wealth are learning and acting upon the profound truth that “it is give than to receive.”

Fathers and Daughters

There Is a certain kind of love which always charms me when I an example of it I refer to the love between a father and a daughter. Of course mother-love la the most powerful and the most unselflsh love in the world, but the love between mother and her little girl 1* something that is expected. We take granted that there Is a close bond between them, but when we find a close bond between a father and his small daughter there is—to me at leastsomething mflnltely touch in k and appealing about this comradeship.

A Sight I Love to See

I love to see a father walking off on

a toot with a small daughter. More has been said about the father and son going off for their first hike or their first fishing excursion together, and that. too. Is a eight that evokes a

tender smole of sympathy and pleas 9 in their pleasure. But I like Just well to see a big man with his wee

daughter trotting by his side, rigged

her very best, her tiny hand

folded in his big one—chattering os

only a small child (and never a mag-1 , * 1 * 8 "t*iomeni even stronger when she

poke of “the cowardly manner in which the greet queetlon of the League

Mrs. Catt Deplores

Stand of U. S. on the League

On the eve of sidling for Europe. Mrs Carrie Chapman Catt had no intention of expressing any opinion on' the international situation or Ameridnty toward the League of Nations, but the newspaper reports of events in Geneva induced the President of the International Woman Suff rag* Alliance, who Is going to London for a meeting of the board of the alliance. to give vent to opinions and emotions which have been pent, up within her for several months past. Mr*. Catt has now said publicly what she said privately as far hack as May. At that time the suffrage leader was almost heart sick at the unexpected delays and eleventh hour flallure of the thirty sixth State to ratify the suffrage amendment, but she said: “The attention of America toward its responsibilities to the League of Nations has caused me greater dlsilluslonment than the delay it gives in giving her women the right to vote.” Now Just before sailing she made

pie, I am sure) could chatter. There is an idea that the normal

man wants a son more than he does a daughter, and that may be true. Man s philaprogenitiveness can hardly be satisfied without a son to carry on the name. A man with several daugb-

apt to feel cheated,

and. whether he does or not Is always pitied by his neighbors But I think It is often true that when his family pride has been satisfied by the existIt Is, nevertheless, the daughter in whom he really takes the

keener pleasure.

I know more than one man who is reasonably firm with his sons but absolutely spoils a small daughter, who can wind him around her finger. Any man who Is or has been truly ! live with his wife Is sure to be fascinated by this Uny replica of the charm in her that has ensnared him. And the fbet that tb's reincarnation is modified bv the addition of some of his own qualitien, and thus, perhaps made easie.- for him to sympathize with and understand—put more into harmony with him. as it wore—Is the

final touch of perfection.

was thinking, when I began to wi e especially of the relationship between the father and the wee daughter but It is equally beautiful to see the companionship between them grow and develop when a small daughter

grows Into a big daughter. A Bulwark for a Girl

A mother walking proudly beside a 11 son is a picture we have always loved to conU-mplute, but I think the companion-piece—the father glowing with pride over a lovely daughter. Is

just as appaling.

As girls go in more for athletics and for all the outdoor things I ti .. this comradeship in going to become more and more common. I know a girl who would rather play tennis with her father than almost anything else In the world, and out of that mutuallyloved game has grown a deep and understanding friendship between the Do you think any system of chai •»nonage would prove a greater bulwark to a girl's happiness than such & relationship with its Inevitcble calling forth the wish to justify his pride and love? I doubt it.

of Nations has ben treated by the country I love." she added, “i have suffered mure agony of soul than during all the thirty years Ihave witnessed in the straggle for suffrage." “Meeting today in Geneva is the greatest body of men that has over come together." Mrs. Catt contiuue<*. "They are there to find ways and means to end barbarism and build up civilization. There arc forty odd nations represented and ojra Is the only eligible nation in the worid that is left out. For this situation you cannot blame any particular person. It Is American statesmanship that has broken down. When ITesident-elect Harding does mobolize his own mind about the question It won’t make much* difference, because he will be confronted with many different opinions." "It Is not A League of Nations that patriotic Americans are going to stand for. It is the League of Nations.” asserted Mrs. Catt. "even though we have to go it with special reeei rations, because we are too cowardly to go in as the other forty-one nations have

>ne in."

Mrs. Catt advises all those who •tid for Harding, because they thought he would go Into the League of Nations, to write him and tell hipi so. and she advises that all those who voted for Cox, because they thought ho was more ready to go Into the league than Mr. Harding, also to write to Mr. Harding and tell him that.

In short, in no other land are the people of all ranks so well fed. so well clothed, so well boused, so well employed, so well educated, sc blessed with religious facilities and freedom, and so able to extend a helping hand to others, as in this land of ours, so abundantly favored by a merciful Providence. l os, therefore, fare whatever Ijrdhhipb oon.ront ns -ith strength, fortitude and faith.—Public Ledger.

What is Electricity If the question is now asked. “What is electricity?" we may reply advantageously in the words of Jo!;ai:A thing of which we know little more than nothing and a little lees than something. A little more than nothing, for we know ills of the nature of light and heat, ex'ending itaelf like them in waves ot motion. A little less thar. something, for the essence of electricity Itself, whether static namlc. we are still absolutely in the

dark.

There has been no want of other

theories, but the fundamental tendency of the age is to reduce ail phenomena and froces to the fewest possible primaries: and it is not improbable that this will be facilitated by the wave

theory of the so-called ether. The problem of gravitation, too.

which was so long regarded as a force acting fro n a distance, is now equally attributed to the agency of a medium.

In his efforts to demonstrate the

oneness of all na'ural forces, the physicist is not likely to be led astray.

en although the cognition of force

presents one of those world-problems, the solution of which most forever escape us—aye, although as the final result of the most exact investigation it should forever be denied to him even

assert decisively. "It Is only force,

and the ether Is its medium of tram-

mission.”

Steward—"Did you ring, sir " Traveler—"Yes. steward. I—1 rang." Steward—“Anything I can bring you

r? "' Though the ship's cook may boast Traveler “Y-yes. steward. Bub-. ability to prepare a good me^l. he bring me a continent, tf you have one, j generally m^kee a "mesa ' of it >r aa island—-anything, steward, so ' •lul long aa it's solid. If you can', sink j .. I m better off." buzzed the fly, as he j tried to break away from the fly-paper.

Lord Bryce Pictures World at the Brink of Calamity’s Abyss Boston—Lord Bryce, formerly British ambassador to the United States, pictured the world at "the abyss of calamity Into which the war has plunged it" in a letter to the Colonial Society made public recently. The American and English peoples, ue said tpeclally called to try to rescue the world from the danger. He added that America's Influence is prized because "she is impartial, raised above the jealousies and ambition that vex

this distracted Europe."

Lord Bryson wrote to express re■et at hts inability to atten the annual meeting of the society, which this year celebrated the tercentenary of

the landing of the Pilgrims.

“The little band of humble men who landed in wintry weather on bleak Plymouth coast planted amon,. you those principles of ordered freedom and self government which have spread from ocean to ocean and become .v beacon light to the nations of two worlds," he wrote. "Your whole history is a witness to their powers. The common faith of the American and English peoples in those principles —1 speak of peoples Lot governments, for governments sometimes misrepresent their peoples and make them misjudged—the common devotion of these people.-! to the same ideals of justice and liberty as the foundation of peace, mark time out as specially called to stand side by side in trying to rescue the world from Jie abyss of calamlty into which war has plunged IL Everything depends on their friendship. and we prize the Influence America con exert, not only because she is strcng. but because she is impartial, raised above the jealousies and ambitions that vex this distracted Europe. In the cordial cooperation of these two peoples, animated by *he same high traditions, lies the best hope for the future peace of the

orld.”

When the goat tackled the can of dynamite, you ought to have seen the butter fly! fYed—"Whr.t do you think of my argument?" W1D—“Sound — most certainly Fred—What else?” Will—“Nothing else, merely sound."