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Show Times can't be very hard. Most ol the "Lost" liners are about jewelry. Civilization may get somewhere yet, if the supply of gasoline holds out. All is well that ends well, but a lot of speculation in oil ends in no well. It is war's overhead that makes Europe Eu-rope so long in getting out from under. No doubt the efforts, of scientists to conquer Age give Time many a laugh. Parisian skirts will be shorter and veils will be worn. That balances some. When the four-hour work day comes in nobody will have time to replace the divots. Mt. Etna is smoking again, which isn't so bad, provided she doesn't start coughing. Germany and Russia now plainly see that, evil or otherwise, real money 13 very necessary. Communism has a queer way of trying try-ing to pass as brotherly love and making mak-ing a mess of It. Bread is the staff of life until it comes to comparative prices. It is then a wheat elevator. No efficiency expert has come forward for-ward as yet and boasted that he can. put war on a paying basis. That Frenchman who wrote 23,000 words on a postcard must have had a grudge against his postmaster. One of the terrors of autumn is the r ' anaemic poet who insists that nature feels as bad about it as he does. It's a poor college nowadays that can't muster a football team and a professor or two with queer ideas. Discipline is a good thing, and husbands hus-bands who have to sew on their own buttons seldom sow any wild oats. France for years has been worried over its low birth rate. Collective worrying, wor-rying, however, seems to do no good. Wall street la so sure hard times are coming that it has gooseflesh whenever a favorable report comes In. There now are several countries ID-Europe ID-Europe where a man can be a millionaire million-aire and a pauper at one and the same time. Another trouble about a nlnety-nlne-year lease Is that a fellow hardly ever lives long enough to renew one of them. That war teaches no lessons Is apparent ap-parent from the fact that there are-still are-still people to speculate In German marks. In Italy an eleven-year-old boy has written an oratorio. But can he make u good boy scout campfire without matches? A wife suing for divorce alleges that she found letters from three women wom-en In his pocket. A man. It might be-said, be-said, of affairs. Instead of coming all the way to this country "to study farming," King George of Greece might invite one of our touring senators to 6top off at Athens and explain all about it. |