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THE MAGIC OF IMAGERY.
The feat of the imagination is in
showing the convertibility of every
thing into every other thing. Facts
\, melt had never before left their stark
common sense, suddenly figure as
Eieusinlan mysteries. My boots and
vnuir and candlestick are fabrics in
disguise, meteors and constellations.
All the facts in nature are nouns of
the intellect. * * * Every word has a
oouble, treble or centuple use and
meaning. What, has my stove and
pepper pot a false bottom? 1 cry
you mercy, good shoe box. 1 did not
know you were a Jewel case. Chaff and
dust begin to sparkle. • * * And
there is a joy In perceiving the repre
sentative or symbolic character of a
fact, which no base fact or event cun
ever give.—Emertson.
JUST SUPPOSING.
(Seattle Star.)
Suppose that these many years past
Austria had treated the common people
light. Suppose they had been given
economic Justice, instead of having
been tyrannized and oppressed. Suppose
the rate of pay. the working hours,
and the working conditions had been
tne same in Austria factories as in
American plants. Suppose, in short,
mat the Austrian had been treated in
..ustria as Austrians have been treated
in America.
Then can you imagine Austrian sub
jects flocking to this countty In such
numbers that their employment In only
one line of business must call forth
a threat from their mother country?
cannot.
JERSEY AND SUFFRAGE.
(Seattle P.-I.)
Suffrage has met a decisive setback
in conservation New Jersey. It is
no surprise, vny other result, at this
time even .vlth the support half
heartedly given the cause by President
Wilson, would have passed understand
ing. Older states of the union are
h‘gw to accept innovations. But the
fact remains that conservative New
jersey cast 136,000 or more votes for
suffrage, which is a remarkable show
ing and a most striking evidence of
growth. Nugent, the democratic boss
of Essex, exultingly ascribes the ver
dict to the activities of "long-haired
men and short-haired women." That
characterization is frazzled with age
and wholly impotent. A movement that
command so large a support of the
Jeisey electorate is not to be dis
missed or halted with coarse, worn
out gibes and jeers. In his heart this
jubilant chteftian sees the meaning of
the ballot. If he does not, his rise to
bOKslsm has failed to give him the
smallest modicum of Intelligence or
foresight.
IF THE GERMANS SHOULD WIN.
(Boston Record.)
Should the war end today, It would,
by general consent, end In a German
* victory. Some observers who In the
beginning doubted Germany’s finan
cial power to stand the strain are now
seriously considering what would hap
pen were Germany to emerge triumph
ant, after all. Thus a writer in the
New Republic rejects the fear of the
allies that this result would reduce
the rest of Europe to vassalage, add
ing:
If Germany wins, she will seize for
herself as much of the territory of Eu
rope as will strengthen her, strate
gically and economically. She will not
let a primordial megalomania seduce
her into an attempt to absorb great 1
masses of recalcitrant populations, to
generate irredentist and nationalist un
rest through centuries. The experl
ence of Alsace-Lorraine is not loBt on
the Germans.
What that seizure would amount to
is, of course, conjectural; but this
writer thinks that northern France and
Belgium would be traded off for peace
and the restoration of oversea colon
ies: that Poland would be made a Ger
man ward, and Prussia extended to
include the Baltic provinces; that Fin
land and Lapland would be allotted to
Sweden in return for pledges of mili- '
t:iry co-operation; that Austria would
take Serbia, Montenegro and Albania;
and that Bulgaria and Roumania would
be appeased by compensations at Rus
sia's expense.
"Assume," he continues, "that no ter
ritorial changes other than these fol
low a German victory, what will Ger
many have won by the war? Practical
ly an Impregnable military position, an
offensive and defensive.alliance of pre
cisely the most militant peoples of
Kurope. The Qermans realize, better
than any other people, that modern
military power is based upon economic
power, and German victory would be
lollowed promptly by an energetic In
itiative in the fields of industry and
commerce.
“If Germany wins, the basis is laid
for a broader and more cosmopolitan
industrialism than the world has yet
seen. The prodigies Germany achieved
in transforming itself from a poverty
stricken waste into the second richest
country in Europe will have to be
overtopped by the allied group if they
are to live in a secure peace.
THE WORLD SHOULD SLOW DOWN
(.St. Louis Republic.)
The world has lost its silence. That's
the trouble with it. By silence we
means, ot course, a sense ot leisuie.
Thut surely is gone. The lamps arc
no longer lit on quiet. Every min
^ ute is packed with noise or acuou.
! The photograph, the movie, tne auto
I mobile mean always something to near,
something to see, somewhere to go.
) i hat is the constituency the moueru
artist auuresses. it has developed in
him a new teciniique, a spur-oi-tne
moinent style. W ere a Lickens here
today, wno would listen to nun! cer
tain! y people of proiessed culture woutu
not. They no longer read uicaens.
thackeray grows tiresome with tne
years. Trollope, whose notion sureij
was engaging, is u dead letter. If a
publisher announced an edition oi
nawtnorne touay his competitors wouiv.
grin. V» e who have more time than
ever, really have leas time than ever,
t ne song in that forgotten opera of a
few' years ago, "1 want what 1 want
when i want it," hit us to a “t.” vv e
are votaries of the now. The present
instant ii our shrine. Speed up is tne
watchward. Culture, unfortunately,
nas become a cheapened woru, but lai
more unfortunate Is it that the fact
of culture itself is threatened. to.
culture in its real sense, we take It,
means thoroughness. “Uod is nevei
in a hurry,” said one of the 1'ilgriin
lathers. It is the world's foolish, bar
oarous haste that is making it uugod
,y. Slow down.
NEW THEORY ABOUT WAR.
tPhiladelphia Ledger.)
For instance, one evening not long
ago, McGilligan fell to talking about
war.
“Do you know what causes war!
said Andy.
“Tea," said L
“No, you don’t,” Baid Andy. 1 he
cause of war is—wives.’
I gasped.
“It’s true. I don't mean that men
like to kill each other. But they do
like the camp. They like to get away
together, where they can flick theit
ashes where they please, and express
themselves as forcibly as they like
when things go ^trong, and cut away
the foolish distinctions that creep in
among them at dinner parties and
everywhere else where the Influence of
.. es is dominant. They get tired of
the everlasting necssity of having to
be slicked up and polite—polite to
Brown because he is rich and his wife
is in society, and impolite to Jones
_st* he is not rich and his wife is
not in society. That’s why men go to
war. For a chance to break away and
be dirty and be friends with whom
they like. When they get tired of that,
too, they get a shave, and run home,
and take up again the burden and the
bore of being civilized."
That a profound truth resides in this
novel idea, no husband will deny. Not
that it refers to anything in the day's
news. I merely throw it out in the
hope that a little of It will soak into
our wives and assist them to temper
the tyranny of their refinement.—O. K.
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