The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-24

ing. II can't help it, Rosy Posy heard
her say to the matron, lit seems to me
that every one OF those babies Is crying
mouth and howled. Too frightened to
speak, and with an awful sinking OF her
heart. Rosy Posy found herself bundled
way with Laura Louisa and Laura Louisa's
aunt Heavens, what should she do? She
did not see how in the world she could
gain courage to tell Mother that Baby
sleeping in blue bed at the ''Orfiing
Asylum. She remembered that Mother had
been very fond of that baby: Father was,
CRY, as he was that awful time when some
one poisoned his setter pup. But as she
reached her home. there in the lawn swing
his latest tricks to Father. AS Mother as
sured Rosy Posy that Baby Brother had
been on the porch all afternoon, she be-
gan to realize that probably she had made
a mistake. The sorrows of childhood are
short lived. AS Rosy Posy ate supper that
night she was filled with a heavenly peace,
for the demons of jealousy and remorse
which had ragged within her small breast
were stilled. and from his high-chair in
the corner Baby Brother crowed a bene-
diction
An Indianapolis woman who has a fatal
facility for putting her foot in it, and
what is rare. has>the good nature to laugh
would make some waf1ies for supper An
investigation in the kitchen regions
vealed the fact that there was no sour
milk, most necessary ingredient to tooth
some, delicate waffles. She recalled that
while riding in the street car she had no.
ticed a shop bearing a sign. Sour Mix"
and not to be deprived of the wafiies she
took large pitcher and tripped three
blocks to the shop in question. II would
a n liz MIA
she. said extending her pitcher. why,
We haven't any sour milk; can give you
glass of sweet milk, if you desire"
Then" Indignantly, what do you have
responded the courteous proprietor, that
sign reads sour mash"
When Addison c. Harris was minister to
Austria-Hungary and lived in Vienna he
always had considerable difficulty in con-
versing with the Austria Hungary foreign
secretary. The foreign secretary could un-
derstand English and spoke French very
well. and Mr.. Harris understood French
well, but could not speak ii to any extent
at that time. Not knowing, for long time
that the foreign secretary understood Eng
fish Mr.. Harris found conversation with
him very annoying.
Towards the end of his stay in Vienna,
however, Mr.. Harris made the happy dis
covery one day that he could make himself
understood to the secretary in English
After that Mr.. Harris always addressed
the secretary in English and the secretary
addressed himself to the United States min
lister in French
Until found that could address the
had great difficulty in conversing," said Mr.
Harris. THE secretary spoke excellent
French and 1 could understand him all
him because | could speak but little French.
'One day the foreign secretary and were
transacting some very pressing business at
the United States embassy.
." L know what Is In that document he
said in French, when / began to tell him
the best could in French what an Ameri-
can document of state contained.
=" The document is in English / said in
French, and 1t hasn't been put into French
yet
"I read English replied the secretary.
and understand it when spoken, but can't
We'll, 1 understand French very well,
when spoken, but 1 cannot speak it, 1 re-
piled in English.
"'You address me in English and 1 will
speak French to you,' said the secretary,
and we won't have any more trouble in
making ourselves understood o.
so after that L always spoke English
to the foreign secretary and he addressed
me in French, and We got on famously."
xxx
Captain Hart, ex-auditor of state, tells
a good story his friend. Eli Marvin, of
| Frankfort, who is the Democratic men,
Der of the board of trustees of the Central
Hospital for the Insane.
This happened good many years ago,
when Marvin and 1 were out southwest of
Frankfort working with a Midland Rail-
road surveying gang" said Captain Hart.
81 was treasurer for the gang and always
paid the board bills. We stopped with
| farmers along the route.
lat place there was a young woman
| i'm the family who had a new piano Mar
| vim liked to sing pretty well, and when he
went into the parlor the first night we
| stopped at the house and saw the piano. he
suggested to the girl that she play and he
| would sing. We stayed there several days
| and every night Marvin and the girl played
and sang all evening. The girl was enjoy
to be having a pretty good time too. And
/ noticed that the old farmer was very
| favorably impressed by Marvin. Well.
| l asked the farmer how much his bill
amounted to. He had the bill figured up
for each mani He had charged us about
when / gave him the money he handed
me back the amount for one man.
whats this for?' 1 asked him. You
said you would charge me g for each man,
| and I have given you just that much
"'Well. but I'm not chargin' anything
| for Mollie's beau.
"'Mollie's beau?' / asked.
"'Why. yes, / won't charge Mr.. Marvin
anything the fellow who did the singin'
with Mollie.'"
Secretary Hurry, of the State Board of
! Health who is one of the busiest men in
indianapolis. forgot to go to lunch one day
not long ago.
DR.. Hurry is absentminded at times. and
this was one of the times.
When the doctor gets to working with
a pile of statistics smallpox or scarlet
fever or typhoid fever or almost any other
disease known to the Hoosier State, or gets
| to studying some new germ with his big
microscope, other things might as well get
| out of the way, for he will have nothing to
! do with them. Lunch and what King Ed
ward is doing and the latest literary ef-
| fort, and, In fact. most of the things outside
the scope OF a State board OF health are
small and uninteresting things to DR..
Hurry. All but a few of his thoughts are
concentrated upon his effort to keep the
people of Indiana well.
The doctor is SO thoroughly interested i'm
round, instead of betaking himself to some
trout brook and leaving all thoughts of
work and sick people and how fast small
pox spreads locked up securely in his private
office, he goes to a medical convention.
That is DR.. Hurry. But to get back to the
first part of this story.
At 8 o'clock the other afternoon re-