, 1884-10-30
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Some Hits OF Information worth
FASTING In Your Serap-Book.
Rohart / Rurdatta

some Hts OF Information Worth
FASTING In Your Serap-BOok.
Robert J. Burdette.l
Westward Ho-Certainly, son; go to Cali
fornia by all means. Glorious climate. First
six months OF the year they pray for rain;
t'other six months they climb trees and run
away from floods.
Spiritus-No, we don't know who said:
The good die yung." But II you are no bet
ter than your spelling you VIII have to cut
your fourth set OF teeth and see q president
elected without a scandal
Melville-Your drama covers too much
ground, like a Colorado cattle company. II
rsminds us OF a patent insides" newspaper,
which contains in one column interesting and
interviewer articles on "Spring Work in the
Garden Summer Bathing and Directions
for Treating Persons Rescued from Drown
ing How to Collect and Preserve Autumn
Leaves and Household Christmas Decora-
tions."
Aristophanes-Your joke about the bathing
suit being so small that il was carried in the
pocket-book is good 1t Is too good to use. II
will keep. At least II has kept all summer.
and this cold weather will not impair its
vitality. What We particularly like about it
is its air Of newncss-its unmistakable flavor
of originality. There Is no veneer or imita-
ton about it. II is original So was the
ark, A~ristophanes, 50 was the ark.
Dreamer-You must indeed be a dreamer.
Want to know where you viii find u poem
containing the line,
The melancholy days have come, the saddest
OF the year.
Never heard OF such a poem, and If the
line you quote has any existence at all, it
must be in tho airy cobwsbs OF your own
dreamy brain. Dream out the rest OF it, and
wen print it for you. Send the MS. to the
business office, they're offering special rates
for melancholy poetry in car lots this season.
Nicotine-The custom Of making genuine
imported Havana cigars of brown paper and
wrapping them with leather had its origin
among the Connecticut cigarmakers in tho
hard times OF eighteen hundred and naughty
five, when tho tobacco crop failed and the
most rigid economy had 70 be practiced by
manufacturer and consumers. As you say
you are only 10 years old, it doesn't make
any difference TO you what cigars are made
OF. You can get just as sick on burnt leather
US you can on tobacco, and you'll enjoy II
just as much.
Young Theologue-Yes, we think you
might class gosh dunn and dad bling" as
profane swearing. ~Gaul ding" may also be
considered a swear word. Pm swizzled" is
another. All these words bear the same re-
lation t. thoroughbred, sky-blus profanity
that the pale-pink lemonade Of the Sunday
school picnic does TO the raw whisky OF the
target eompanys excursion. They are the
outgrowth of a terrible struggle, a theolog-
ical compromise arranged by our Puritan
ancestors, who recognized with u ~faultless
spiritual vision and worldly acumen the
necessity Of a pure life and a sinless vocabu-
larry, and at the same time the utter impcssi-
bility of blowing a New England stone patch
without a class Of words designed to relieve
the o~verburiened mind and astnnished feel
Ings every time the pillow handles broke "a
mans ribs and extorted every last drop Of
vital breath from his painting body.