A GOOD SUGGESTION.

"The World is taking itself too seriously," says Premier Nitti of Italy; and we think that perhaps he may be right. Our "ravelled sleeve of care" is in a more tattered state than Macbeth's ever was, so that something more than sleep will be needed to knit it up again. And even Hamlet's eminently just complaint that the times were out of joint would today be ranked as an improper understatement of the facts.

We are not quite sure what remedies Macbeth or Hamlet would suggest for our present maladies. With all their excellent qualities, neither of those gentlemen would be suited to express an intelligent opinion on Prohibition, or the Overalls Movement, or Sinn Fein. If such afflictions as these had been added to their lot, we are confident that neither of them would have succeeded in surviving beyond Act Three.

Premier Nitti, however, has some hope to offer. The cure that he recommends consists in smiling and in a cultivation of a sense of humor. He evidently takes little stock in the attitude of his former companion, M. Clemenceau, who is reported to have said that he was tired of the human race, and hoped in Egypt to find more congenial friends among the mummies. Certainly, if Premier Nitti advice were followed, many of our present difficulties would soon disappear. Life would be much easier if we could all recognize a joke when we saw it, even it were officially classed as an "international problem" or a "grave symptom of social upheaval." The worries of the General Public have reduced him to the pitiably bedraggled state in which he usually appears in our newspaper cartoons. To him we recommend Premier Nitti's remedy, "guaranteed to effect a speedy recovery." In good humor is to be found the cure for half the ills of life. When these are removed; the other half will scarcely matter.