Life — February 18, 1915 — page 40: what you’re looking at

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300 “* Magic Drops of Malt and Hops to Refresh the Body and Cheer Ale Possesses much that is quaintly honest and supremely good. Its genial glow soothes and|- mollifies and dispels Winter’s chill and gloom. Try it at home for real Fireside Comfort. There’s Evans’ Stout, too! In Bottles and Splits Any good dealer will supply it Signs of a Clearing Mind in Germany HEY tell us that the Germans can put four million more soldiers, old and young, into the field this year, and that the Allies can do at least as well. These large reinforcements would keep the war going vigorously with resulting mortality and other losses as per the record of the last six months. Is there any sign that this further investment of useful people may he averted? Here is something. On January 26th the New York Evening Post printed an abstract of an address made lately at Berlin by Professor Karl Lamprecht, of Leipsic, an historian. The Herr Professor laments aloud in the Prus- ian capital over Germany's mistakes in foreign policy, speaks of a clamor- ous demand for reforms in “the in- adequate foreign office which has seen no reforms for decades”, the diplo- matic service and the information Wureau. “With the estimate of for- cign nations in vogue with us at pres- cnt,” he says, “we will not gain a single noble soul in the world.” The final outcome of the war he finds very uncertain. “Let us hope there will be formed a Middle-European Con- federation of States which will give the German people a position some- what similar to the one held hitherto by Prussia in the Empire.” To mate the Germans the Prussians of Middle Europe does not look good in view of the current estimate of Prussian influence in Germany. But that is a detail. At least in this ad- dress are several rays of sense and appreciation of German errors that made it look as if the German mind might be clearing. And whenever the German) mind clears there will begin to be a chance to stop the war. How wonderful it would seem to think again of Germany as a country no longer mad! A Strange Omission S there to be a child labor exhibit at the Panama Exposition? We have heard of none, although plucky Belgium is, we understand, to be represented there. Child labor is one of the most important industries in this country. Without it several of our most prominent States would, according to their own admission, have to go out of business. It keeps employed thousands of human beings who, if they are lucky enough to stand it, will eventually grow up and some day or other be citizens of this great Republic, the home of the free, the land of the brave, and the sponsor for child labor, All this being so, why has such an important feature of our national existence no representative exhibit at such a grand show of our energies as the Pacific Coast is now holding up to view? “Extradited from Bohemia” Poor little letter!’ When Hoskins got it, he set right out for New York City as fast as he could go and—when he got there—But it’s all told better by O. Henry in one more of his wonderful stories. 274 of them—about war and love and people— are yours at a little price if you send the coupon at once, ‘Record for Q), HENRY O. Henry has made another record, Up others and not to you? 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