Show Harder to Recruit Armies In his chapter on Militarism and Its t I Nemesis the late M Bloch contends with eminent truth that the conditions of war are such In modern times that military life Is much less attractive than It was ot old and in the course of i few years will be even less attrac tire The military profession does not enjoy the privileges It once did it is losing both Its prestige and Its power In most civilized lands The complex I requirements of modern life and the higher scale of living enjoined by modern mod-ern society the larger emphasis placed upon the humanities In our day upon Intellectual attainments and rewards of Industrial and commercial enterprise enter-prise all these things are turning tho thoughts and ambitions of men away from militarism and Its uncertain and Inadequate compensations Improvements Improve-ments In war englnery the ue of smokeless powder dynamite guns and other deathdealing agencies have immensely im-mensely Increased the risks and dangers dan-gers of war without any compensating I advantages in the shape of added pay or glory War has taken upon Itself n character more mechanical than knightly Battles fought where men I never come within miles of each other where there Is no smoke and no sound of bugles nor roll of drums are far less likely to give occasion for those teats of arms and the valorous deeds of individual men that illl so large apart a-part of the story of war In ages past And stripped of such accessories and seen In Its triie aspect In all It hideous hide-ous reality war must soon lose all the charm with which legend and romanca have Invested It Appearing In proper aspect as hell on earth and nothing less It will be shunned as It ought to be by all civilized and enlightened men and only remain at th last as n frightful fright-ful dream a horrid memory In the minds of the rctceia Salle A May Jiard in Leslies Weekly Never Leaves Bed Though he Is In perfect health Baron Ortlel a wealthy Russian nobleman has not loft his bed even for onehalf hour during the last tel years He claims that In order to remain In good health one must refrain sedulously from taking any kind of physical exercise ex-ercise and that his own excellent health during the last decade Is due to the fact that he has not exercised his body In any way On the other hand he maintains that the brain should be kept constantly at work and therefore ho spends much of his time every day consulting with his stewards about the management of his vast estate and makinir plans and estimates for proposed Improvements He IB propped up In bed while he talks to his stewards and whenever he travels ho lies In abed him a-bed which has been specially mado for Her New Vocabulary i p Silo pospossed a mind discerning That was stored and crammed with learn I hum And her thoughts forever burning She could suitably express All her sentenceS Wcr rounded And her words imposIng sounded 1 was really quite astounded As I listened I confcss I III It wits rather an Infliction AH this verbal unroetrlctlon But her elegance of diction Each precise and polished phrnat > And thc beautiful selection Of the words and their connection And her mot correct Inflection They were quite beyond all praise 1 But I saw her very lately And Ghc did not talk ornately All Unit Inngungo suave and stately She no longer kept on tap She was saying BesBums dlddums Where he bad old pin pot hlddums In his muszcrs pcloua klddums To tho baby In her lixpBoston Boston Budget |