New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-19
TO DELLA, BRIDGE EXPERT.


Ny Della, how the days have gone,
Considered every goose swan
The thing did was always right;
About your simplest act motion
fingered the ridescent light
That never land ocean
Once lit it Is true; t thought I.t traced
1t turned upon a point of taste
SIN askS9 your PanS and you se d9G1n @ss,
1t needs 70 undergo correction.
Some day she II come TO recognize
The loss entailed by this rejection
BT Whch in a he mask S of Low.
Left me- just then. disconsoate
For you have lost your maiden doweri
You are Woman in the Fashion;
And Bridge, from fevered hour 10 hour,
Is your one and wasting passion.
We meet at dinner: you are pale;
An odor on the ambient air
OF club tobacco pungent; stale.
Steals from your loosely ordered hairs
n69 ' drca fese nes Of Sable
They sought the little green cloth table.
My gayest saIies seem to irk
Who gathers strength for serious work
At has last " your hostess leads the way,
Bidding curtai port and prattle.
And 10! you prick your ears and neigh
Like mare that scents the battle
We follow where the cards are spread;
L mark your animated mien,
Your face a little flushed with red,
Your eye perhaps thought too Keen
Alert 10 seize the subtlest clews,
Bold in assault, stout defender
If you could only bear to lose
You might be almost any genderi
Yet as watch you play the game
That gives to life it's only zest
O1ife as you understand the same).
Indeed, you hardly look your best:
Missing the cool detached repose
That ought to stamp your cast of features.
over US men and lower creatures.
There is a thought I will adapt
From some one elses wisdom's wealth
"a polished orator, and apt
TO toast aloud the Ladies' health
In proof how low your lapse must be
And now-I count you scarce my equal.
punch.
ed an old lady her bravery in fighting her way
to church against a terrible tempest, but received
the disconcerting reply: My husband gets so
cross-graned after meals that have to get out Of
his way 7 might we'll go to church
It Comes High.-He-They may advertise it a
free bazaar, but III bet you'll find it expensive be
fore you're through with it,"
She-Nonsense! How can thing be expensive If
He-Easy enough. Just get mixed up in free
fight, for instance. and see.-(Catholic Standard.
Early In the coming year an American Forest
Congress will meet in Washington under the au-
spices Of the American Forestry Association. The
Congress is called to consider the forests in their
on them, such numbering, transportation. irrga-
ton. mining and grazing It's intention in general
is to guard intelliSently forest resources and
bring to end the ignorant and destructive ravage
of the umberman and the wood pulp man, who, left
TO themselves would in a century denude the con-
tinent and provide the way for 1t to become q des-
sert. The congress is of national Importance. the
President will address 1t. and its aims have the
sympathy of everybody with sufficient intelligence
comprehend their bearing on the public welfare.
The congress may bear in mind and flourish forth
Humboldts dctum that wherever man has
appeared the earth he has prepared the way
for his extinction by his destruction of forests.
Easily Pleased Then-Nell-So their engagement
Is off?
BELIEVES She says he too hard please
That's funny. He must have changed since he
proposed to "-(Phiadelphia Ledger.
Father Ricardo, director OF the meteorological OBJ
servatory at Santa Clara College. near San Jose
Cal has discovered three large spots on the sun.
one OF them larger than the earth and the other
two of still greater magnitude The larger OF the
spots is a slight distance below the suns equator
and the two smaller some degrees above IT,
One Of the small spots appeared 10 grow in size
and the discoverer believes they will stin fur
Their increase.
A Danger Escaped.-"Im glad they caught us
and brought 10 safe place" remarked the
polar bear at the zoo.
Don't you ever pine for treedom?" asked the
~ used to- but not since I heard that thew are
going automobiles in the next polar expedi-
tion."-l Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.