New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-14

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present at the ceremony A week later Mile Bris-
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what said at the Wedding dans Of the
young couple last week a ,h v,p pePs o,1:and
R se hgSest AND most me At learned Of
Brisson. who had heard this part of the conyersa
Pastor Wagner, why, will you not tina make my
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better" thereupon ps promised 10 DO what both
At the marriage there were Cabinet Ministers
Deputies, members of the Academy. professors; all
those learned and rich persons spoke OF the sim
pie sb6S HS hsd Gsed to up mg yo
friends my deep conviction that the true HAPPINESS
ence was very attentive, and the day following
ssySd Letter from should b gad + yon xon h
write for firm book s na the subject %6 of which
seived this letter an idea rose in my mind like
star, and walked through the room saying aloud
already written" l went into the street. and as
the chapters for The Simple Life" He asked:
"oh, as to that do not know. Give me time to
I il calmly"
Thus I had THE Simple Life within myself
without knowing it, and this book came to the life
very heart of his birthday.
THE Middle Wan'' is the title of a novel by
Edward Marshall, recently published by the G.
W. Dillingham; Company, that shifts it's scene
from South Africa to London and thence to
Cape Cod, with sufficient number of adven-
lures and complicated situations. Mr. Marshall
Wa he
American War; and was severely wounded while
with the Rough Riders in that campaign. More
recently he has been greatly interested in the
subject of tenement house reform in New
York The material for his book. however. has
not been drawn from his adventurous expe-
riences.
William Jasper Nicos in his little volume "a
Dreamer in Paris recently published by George
W. Jacobs & Co., writes pleasantly in a series
Of detached paragraphs the reflections made dur
ing his visits to the French capital They
were apparently set down they occurred
to him, and later gathered into the present book
It is not volume to be read through like
novel. but to be taken up and dipped into as in
clinaton and opportunity offer. Although the
work of dreamer" may find very
practical suggestions in it. In regard to learn
ing to speak French, for example, the author.
after relating his failures to acquire the Ian
guage by various methods recommended 10 him,
arrives at the following conclusion:
one can acquire a very satisfactory knowledge
method only. That is what l should call the sen
and not at the top and work down That is begin
at the beginning This method is easy. but not
more or less Happiness To be more specific buy
Tben buv eh9s rst reader and
afterward a second. third and fourth reader. until
n arked tn e the other dag MonseS Vous pa
lez la langue FRANCHISE CONNIE Voltaire!'
This he rnodestly states. was exaggerated
poiteness, a characteristic Of the nation since
Louis XIV, who insisted on its observance
among his subjects. How far merely being
polite will carry one in Paris" he declares. lis
astonishing" and cites the following anecdote;
street gamin opens cab door to let man out
before theatre. The latter asks him II the piece
Pas encore, mon ambassador: vous attend;'
was the ready reply, and the boys equally ready
hand closed over a merited franc.
Still, after all his musings the beauty, the
glory, the fascination of Paris he cannot get
away from it's wickedness its arti1cality, its In
sincerity. He becomes "homesick as
schoolboy," and haunts the steamship offices.
How homesick may be Judged from the final
paragraph
IT leave for Philadelphia in the morning. AS
the Scotch traveller remarked: Paris? Oh,
Paris is all very we'll: but for pleasure give me
DR.. Dudley Allen Sargent, the director of the
Hemenway Gymnasium at Harvard University
has received many inquiries concerning the
best methods OF physical training and the
proper maintenance of health-brought forth, he
believes, by the numerous physical culture
advertisements in the press-that he has writ
ten book himself the best means OF
swering them. 1t is entitled Health Strength
and Power" and bears the imprint OF the H.
NJ. Caldwell Company. novelty in the vol
is the large number of exercises without
apparatus, but modelled various exercises
used in the athletic field, such putting the
shot and throwing the hammer and on different
forms Of labor. such wood chopping, pitch
ing hay and moving, while still others are
named after their fancied resemblance to the
movements of the walking beams of steamboats,,
the driving wheels of locomotives and the
brakes of hand fire engines His principle of
selection is to take such exercises call for a
gentle strain many muscles rather than
severe strain any one, and thus to secure
an all around development. The book contains
many helpful suggestions based on DR. Sar-
gents thirty five years experience an