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*Species of hen. *Last year Governor Hartley telegraphed the Child Welfare Committee: "Child welfare—what is the matter with our children today? In my, opinion, they are being made to pay the penalty for an overabundance of altruistic twaddle. . . . What we need is to get back to the simplicity of the oldfashioned, truly American family circle, and to stop a lot of this uplift gush. . . ." †With her father, Welsh coal king, she was passenger on the Lusitania when it was torpedoed, 1915. The father, who had twice refused a peerage, accepted one in 1918, and upon his death without son, the same year, Lady Rhondda succeeded to the title. She has since clamored for admission into the House of Lords, meanwhile directing her inherited businesses. *Poetess Sappho was reputedly a slave to this passion wherefore it is frequently termed "Lesbianism" after her Island. *Mr. Shaw's action is in line with that of President Theodore Roosevelt, who won the Nobel Peace Prize Dec. 10, 1906, for bringing about peace between Japan and Russia. Mr. Roosevelt devoted the $40,000 prize to a foundation for the promotion of industrial peace.
†Dislike of telephones is also general among scholars. Samuel Marion Tucker, head of English in Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, refuses to have his telephone listed. Edward Everett Hale, head of English in Union College and son of the author of The Man Without a Country, refuses to have any telephone at all at department headquarters, and also excludes typewriters.
*Anatole France claimed that when as a youth he, France, was uncertain of choice between literature and science, his mother's maidservant said to him: "Take literature. You haven't the brains for science."