Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 250, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1917 — Modern Babylon. [ARTICLE]

Modern Babylon.

Forty miles from New York in tho direction of Berlin and just behind the Fire Island lighthouse, which we used to trail from home-coming liners in the good old days before the war, when cats might look at kings and the simplest citizen of these United States at the good things in the shop windows of the Rue de la Palx without being classed as a casus belli, is Babylon, Ralph Barton writes in Cartoons Magazine. What wag, what droll fellow ever thought of choosing the name Babylon for a south shore, Long Island, clam and flatfish village, the chronicles fail to relate. Its gardens hang right side up, and bear potatoes In a highly respectable and. patriotic manner, and the once Justly famous daughters of Babylon are as scarce as hanging gardens, for they simply do not exist. The moment the Babylonian female attains that age when a single swift glance at a male of the genus suffices to tell her'*the precise figure of his income, she takes the 11:04 to the better husband stalking preserves 40 miles to the west—and she does not return.