Show Whoever Whoever else else may be demobilized 5 5 quickly it Is unlikely that the many G Gypsies who have been serving In the British army will be parted with easily easi easi- ly that ly-that that is is if the commanding officers have any say in the matter The genS genuine gen Romany is too valuable an acquisition acquisition acquisition acqui acqui- to a cavalry regiment or to any mounted unit like the array army service corps or the horse artillery to 19 be parted with lightly He knows probably probably ably quite as much about the ailments of ot horses us RS does the average a army vet more about the best methods of ot shoeing the ones than the farrier sergeant and more about breakIng break break- Ing lag in and riding the obstreperous ones I than the riding master Belgium will get the first indemnity paid But who or what Is to recompense recompense 1 pense her for her four years' years agony for her murdered people for the priceless price price- u i less works of art and her magnificent 1 cathedrals destroyed by the vandalism r r- r of ot the enemy Her losses are irreparable ble and nothing can ever remove their r black stain from tho the pages of German GermanS S t. t history for all time 7 We Europe that in the ther I We t X can assure r finality we shall not Insist upon making mak ing over their forms of government according ac ao- cording to our own views of what is isi I i best Still Europe ought to realize l that we are wise enough to Improve greatly upon everything they have t anything they are or whatever they 1 t. t do unless it be fighting and courtesy i r. r King Alfonso of Spain 18 is going to I I visit South America j to develop eom It I L. l it A. A r l possibilities with Spain Spain Heis lie He lieIs e I Is the first to realize that under the new v order of things kings will have bate to work to earn their salaries As a press agent for tor his country he will willbe willbe be of far more practical value than thanas as Its figurehead r like charity should begin at home declares a St. St Louis clergy clergy- man How can reform begin at home unless It will spend some time at home The trouble about reform Is is It grabs Its umbrella and sallies sallies sallies' forth while the dust of sin gathers on Its Its' I very family Bible Count Von German military military mili mill tary expert says further war is is It Is about time to round up such prophets and put them where their sinister suggestions will have no fertile e grounds to fall faU upon to produce produce produce pro pro- duce crops of mischief in la the future Next to studying the literature of a country the learning of its songs is the surest and sh shortest path to the tIle heart of ot its genius No better service could be done the great foreign-born foreign and foi descended foreign population than to teach It the music of America The Nashville Banner says married women live longer than single ones They have e a greater incentive to live than old maids For even after the children are grown there are the grandchildren and great At least there ought to be A French sapper of eighty eIght was recently recently recently re re- re- re out mustered mustered out after enlisting at atthe atthe atthe the beginning of the war going through a training camp and serving at the front No wonder the Germans failed to conquer a nation with a spirit like this Som Somebody body lectured on n Our Dough Girls in France What we need are dough girls In the homes homes girls girls who knead the dough more and need the dough less Mother and the girls have their minds concentrated upon a peach of ofa ofa ofa a hat But father still till clings to the grand old dream of liver and onions Hobble skirts are a strain sti-nin on the nerves says a physician They must certainly give a woman that jumpy feeling eeling An year old French lieutenant lieuten neuten ant has been mustered out of tire the army after four 5 years years' ears ears' continuous service He will find the discipline of his milItary military military mili milI- tary experience a great aid In molding his character as he matures The only duty imposed Impose on that shipload shipload ship ship- loa load of soldiers soldiers' and sailors' sailors brides brides' imported Imported Im im- ported Into the United States was to love honor and obey r I IThe The low heel oxford d Is the spring announcement for femininity Not because because because be be- cause It Is more sensible gracious m ne Its It's fashionable When anyone wants to call an anyone o else a particularly bad and goat get ting name nowadays he calls him a bol- bol American soldiers have started a movement mo to erect In Washington a monument to American womanhood In commemoration of the loyalty sacrIfices sacrifices sacrifices sac sac- and imd devotion rde of the American AmeriC n woman to the American expeditionary forces Such would be a 11 tribute at once honoring the heroism of the women women wom wom- en of the country and the chivalry of the men German poison gas Is used In French agricultural districts to kill c caterpillars Which seems in the general degradation of things Teutonic Teutonic Teu Teu- tonic that this application of a medium medium medium me- me me me- which was to subdue the world put to killing Insects the last step from rom the sublime to the ridiculous The United States has supplied the stricken people of ot Europe with 05 95 worth of food and other It would be a a. nice mathematical problem to calculate what proportion of this relief wOlli have been furnished furnished furnished fur fur- by Germany to the tIle victim nations nations nations na na- na- na had she won tho the war An English firm Is going to make the worlds world's cheapest automobile out of a n synthetic metal mewl made of sinkers sawdust and a few things like that Something cheaper than tin cans will have lave to be found In this country if America expects to keep up Uv The practice of ot children eliciting money In any way vay or 01 for any ruse Cause use on the he streets is n a bad one lOne and should be discouraged It Is an annoyance to the public and find It la lays 8 the way open for fol many nany temptations t tt to young and led ed minds A statesman statesman Is isto to often intelligent intelli- intelli gent ent man who doe doesn't nt know what Is right Ight until the vo voters rs who are uninformed torme formed ormed tell him at to do t t 5 1 p 1 i. |