The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-08-01
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Freaks of Habit.

II is very evident that the human brain
is full of cobwebs
The writer received a telephone call
the other morning from the wife OF a
Lake Shore conductor. who lives in an
Indiana town. asking the whereabouts OF
her husband. Subsequent inquiry
brought out the fact that this conduc-
tor. who had been off duty for month,
had gone TO the depot to meet his sister
in-law. When the train stopped at the
station he helped all the passengers OF,
cried "All aboard and i'm a few min
utes was collecting tickets I'm the smok-
ing car. In the second coach he met the
proper conductor, who accepted a ten
cent cigar and advised him TO buy a
guid wutrh for mis- stEtrr=iu-fHw IN peu-
ance for his forgetfulness. He got off a
the next station and walked back. 10
the writer he said:
II Is true that 7 was led by force OF
habit 20 make a donkey OF myself But
don't laugh at me until YOU hear what
the mayor Of New York did the other
day"
Then nc told me how the mayor got so
hot one afternoon that he went home 20
change his heavy frock coat for summer
garment When he arrived AT his room
he pulled Off his coat, then his waistcoat,
lntO one garment dittT anptutfs ana
finally got into bed As he pulled the
covers up 20 his chin he remembered that
ii was p. m and explained TO his wife
that he must have been dreaming
When his friends laughed AZ him about
the occurrence the mayor said
II only slipped a cog. that Is all. Mr.
Roosevelt did something OF this sort the
other day. Have you heard about IL?
I'll tell you
It appears that the vice president OF
the United States went TO Albany 10 see
tho governor of New York in reference
To some business matter He went
straight 10 the governors residence. and.
on arriving at the doorstep Of his friend
pulled ont his latchkey. AZ he was about
10 ht the key in the lock he was re-
minded Of his mistake. and. putting the
key i'm his pocket. he rang the bell.
When Mr.. Roosevelt was told that the
Joke was on him he merely said;
Mere habit that is all. The mind is a
hair-trgger affair and Is very likely to go
of in the wrong direction. Now. there
was j. Pierpont Morgan. Let me tell you
about him
Mr. Roosevelt said that Mr. Morgan
while i'm the National Bank of Commerce
one day last summer. grew so hot that he
took of his waistcoat After he had
hung II carefully on the back OF an office
chair he took his watch from his pocket
and deliberately wound IL up. What
did you 10 that for?" he was asked. Mr..
Morgan scratched his head and then an
swered "Well you see. when retire at
night | always wind my watch AZ ] take
off my wastcoat So when / take II of
I'm the daytime | go through the rest of
IL automatically Why, when the teller
at the window yonder came home from
the war i'm Cuba and went TO work In
this bank he did most ridiculous thing :"
Mr.. Morgan said this teller, who was
a Spanish war veteran. came to work
one morning with sack or eggs In one
hand As he entered the door of the
bank a humorous friend called out AT
tention." Thereupon the teller brought
down both hands In the obedience to the
command and dropped HIS eggs on the
floor His drill in the army had been
well learned Chicago News.