The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-28
zebras and other animals on Table
Mountain.
Warrior Likes Acting.


zebras and other animals on Table
Mountain.
Warrior Likes Acting.
Gen. Baden Powelrs recreations are
"pigsticking, stage managing and act
ing" Bndon Blood Stoney says he
creates himself anew daily by read
ing the Times newspaper" and yet
1t is sometimes said Englishmen have
no sense of humor.
Dear old Dean Stubs, author of
half a hundred formidable works.
amuses himself by "carpentering,
maker and patente of the sleepy hollow
chair. showing English, but especially
American, friends round the Cathed-
raj | wonder if any Americans ever
absentmindedly offer to tip him?
Sir Walter 7 Besant. novelist and
chronicler, confessed that his chief joy
was just looking on" His business
in this state made him a looker-on here
in Vienna"
Bernard Shaw dramatist and critic,
wants only change of work." Earnest
Rhys, man of letters, finds recreation
in men and mountains" Prof. w.
Rippman 'idles in the company of
children" when he is not teaching
German, and c. K. Salaman, COM
poser, INDUCES in octogenarian REM
iniscences."
Samuel Smiles says he is too old
for recreation" But he is only eighty
six.
William Halls sport is shooting
crows" The Rev. E. j. Hardy finds
his delight at Ibis wife's tea-table"
and in the cups that cheer but not
inebriate." How Cowper would have
loved hint
DR.. Hermann c. Ethe, the distin-
gushed philologist throws off dull care
In the may dance and In amateur
theatricals and amateur photography
William Clark Russell, writer of de-
hghtful sea tales, takes his pleasures
sadly. His recreation he sets down as
crippled by rheumatism one won
ders IL he would be any happier if he
had beri-beri or locomotor- ataxia.
Sir Charles Dilkes delights in "rapier
fencing" as might have been supposed.
DodginG the Curious.
Some of the confessions are obvious
attempts at acknowledgement always
successful. John f. Fraser, who circled
the globe on a bicycle, like the Scotch
man he is, TESTS with difficulty" His
recreation is, he says, lodging people
who want advice on cycling" E. S.
Mott, journalist, says his recreations
were formerly gambling, now garden
ing" He is betrayed by ALTERATION.
Nicholas Darnell Davis. Adjutant-
General of British Guiana, says he
knocks off work to carry bricks" and
israel Zangwill, novelist, likes "all
fofms OF locomotion except the motor
car. The recreation of the Countess
of Aberdeen is-Ireland!
There are also a few Americans who
make confessions about their recrea-
tons. William Gillette says he does
not like any whatever" Joaquin Miller
(Cincinnatus Heine Miller)' Poet of
the Sierras," plants trees between his
mountain songs and lamentations.
William Rideing, of the Youths Com
panion," admits that his knowledge OF
ocean steamers is something extensive
and peculiar" Joel Chandler Harris
CUncle RemusO gives his recreation
as thinking of things and tending his
roses. He lives in the suburb of West
End ATLANTA, Ga), where he has had
a comfortable home built to a veranCea
or five-acre lot, full of birds.
flowers and children"
Here is one recreation too delightful
~ English to be omitted Sir sydney
Hedley Waterlow confesses that his
recreation consists in the performance
Oh his duties" Here is the true shirt
of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. (the great adj
mlral first wrote "Nelson'O expects
every man to do his duty" But is
not this the very towering, the fine
neur, of that spirit when recreation
mas come to consist of "the perfor-
nance of duties?' 1t is naive. IL is
beautiful, 1t is Englsh-it is delicious