Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-09-24
STORIETTES.

The late Phil May once drew a pic
ture of cricket match, which To-Day
says preyed on the mind of DIR. Grace.
who afterward raised protest On
arriving at the Office one day, Phil
found the following telegram: why,
oh why; does square leg wear wicket
keepers gloves?" About two o'clock
in the morning the cricket champion
was reused out of bed by a special
telegraph messenger to read the HUI
morist's reply, which ran: ITO keep
his hands warm.-Phil May"
A well-known landscape painter was
busy "dashing in the colors of a sun
set In the country. The tints were
hurriedly conveyed from tube to pal
cite, and from palette to canvas, for
the artist was anxious to catch the
effect. A rustic standing by observed
the operation for little while. and
then remarked: "Ah, you be a-paint-
Ing two pictures at once That's
clever" He paused moment and
blurted out: Il like that picture best
the one you've got your thumb
through"
When Bishop Doane, of Albany, was
the rector of an Episcopal church, in
Hartford, Mark Twain occasionally at
tended the services. One Sunday, at
the end of the sermon, the humorist
said: ''Dr. Doane, | enjoyed your
sermon this morning. | welcomed it !.
like an old friend. | have, you know,
book at home containing every word
of it," you have not" said DR.. Doane
. co t6.ph .,t yAh
send that book to me- I'd like to see
it." I'm send it" Twain replied. And
he sent the next morning an UNI
abridged dictionary to the rector.
AS long as the name of James Nc
Neill Whistler lives among those who
saw him, it will recall the famous
white lock which stood out SO con-
spicuously from the mass of his black
hair. 1t was, as he used to say him
self, well placed" and was always
treated from the harmonious point of
view, to develop its greatest effect in
his appearance. One day, when Dor
Othy Menpes. daughter of the we'll
known English artist, Mortimer
Menpes, was a baby and was asleep
on her pillow, Whistler went to see
her A white feather had, by chance,
settled on her head, and lay in spot
exactly corresponding wlIu the white
lock on his own head. THAT child is
going to develop into something
great" he exclaimed, for, see, she
begins with feather, just like me-"
When he was young man, ex'
Premier Salisbury. who died in Lon
don, recently at the age of seventy
three, was extremely delicate. AS
Lord Robert Cecil, he was over
grown, languid and anaemic, and his
lungs showed some signs of weakness.
AS soon as he had taken his degree
and had been elected to a fellowhip
at All Souls, his friend and brother
fellow, DR.. Acland, recommended him
to take a long voyage, and to stay
abroad, if possible, for two years. On
this, Lord Salisbury came down in hot
haste to Oxford and protested vehe-
mently against Acland's advice. II
wish my son to enter parliament i'm
mediately, so you must be good enough
to recall your advice, and tell him that
he can face a political life with per-
feet safety" DR.. Acland, however, re-
fused, saying: MY dear lord, there
are six thousand practicing physicians
in England, and you will have no diff
ficulty in procuring one who will give
Lord Robert the advice which you de-
sire. But, unfortunately, | am the one
man who cannot give it. inasmuch as
| have already advised him in the di-
ametrically opposite sense" or
course Acland was obeyed. Lord Rob-
ert went to Australia, returned to
England with sound lungs, and as
Lord Cranborne and Lord Salisbury
performed lifes work of colossal la
Dor with no untoward results ~ his
health.