The Savannah morning news., 1904-03-06

| every time he projects himself into the
| line of vision of an enthusiastic aud
| ience?"
That's true enough" said Mr.. Brief
But they were not cheering his Pol
| onius."
What difference does that make ?'
demanded the Idiot. He got the glad
| voice just the same. What's the use of
| going into an analysis of the reasons ,
| He made hit by his resemblance to
| Prof. Aorist-it was his resemblance
that won the applause; and in this
| particular instance it seems to have
| been genuine enthusiasm. If peo-
| pie praise it to the skies for some
| thing I'm going to take it and be
happy over it, and not get mad be-
cause they didn't yell their heads off
over me for some other thing. If his
| Polonius did not profit by his unexpect-
| ed wave of popularity, then he must
| have had dead press agent"
| And how about the others in the
| audience who went to see Hamlet? p
| asked Mr.. Brief.
Why. as for them," said the Idiot
L should say they were in great luck
They must have got something new in
+, Hamlets which is a rare thing these
| days, and / have no doubt that for
| once anyhow it was clearly demon
/
mad or not. I'll bet ten. dollars that
| upon this occasion there was no doubt
| about it."
| Mr.. Brief retired from the fight with
| sniff Of contempt which was not at
| all appeased by Mr.. Pedagogs laugh
| ing observation to the Idiot:
You ought to have been q lawyer"
| We'll, / agree with Mr.. Brief" put
IN the Bibliomaniac. ''The college boy
for pure unadulterated cussedness is
| one of the great achievements of the
hour, and his cruelty to his fellows is
something abnormal. My sisters son
| was Initiated into a secret society at
! his college one night last week, and
what do you suppose they made him
boz"
''Pd hate to tell you" said the Idiot
| with q grin.
well, blush to tell it myself" said
the Bibliomaniac. But they made him
sit in wash-basin with a wooden
| tooth-pick in each of his hands and
pretend he was stroking a varsity
| crew."
What were the tooth-picks for?"
asked Mr.. Whltechoker.
Oars" replied the Bibliomaniac
Just think of the spectacle. There he
was rowing like the dickens for a full
five minutes with a lot of bowling bar
barians around him telling him to
whoop it up to 3S strokes, hailing him
as coming Hanlon, and behaving like
| a pack of monkeys generally. What
have you got to say about that, Mr..
Idiot? If that isn't the act of a bar
barian, what is it?"
THAT isn't barbaFianism at ALL" re-
| turned the Idiot. at is the outward
and visible sign of an over-bubbling
buoyancy of youth. The original bar
barians as matter of fact didn't use
wash-basins, or wooden toothpicks, or
have varsity crews, either. So on
| every point of your indictment the
boys are acquitted. 1t didn't hurt your
nephew, did it?"
1T was a distinct assault upon his
| finer feelings" returned the Biblio-
maniac. 'He told me he was never so
Inundated in his life before
DO him up in cotton, Mr.. Bib
| CALCULATED the Idiot. do him up in
| cotton--absorbent cotton, SO that he
may be properly absorbed. He is too
delicate for this world if mortifica-
| tion sets in on so slender a pretext
| If they had forced him to use the
| toothpicks to pick his teeth with in
| the presence of his fellows l should
| have agreed with you that there was a
| baFbaric element in the exactions i'm
| posed upon him, but when you tell me
thdl Lney were used Oniy as oars, Dy
| the proper use of which his chest
| might be expanded, and his ambitions
aroused, then cannot but think that
| for public use any way the toothpick
| has taken on some of the glamor of
respectability; and so I, at least, tally
! one for the college boys. Did they
| do anything else to him?'
Eyes, they did" snapped the Biblio-
| maniac. "They made him stand on his
feet on the top of a piano and recite
| Mother Goose"
| mo-" cried Mrs. Pedagog, did they
reaily?"
"They did that, Mrs. Pedagog," said
the Bibliomaniac. How about that