Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-10

ing of the feet a celebrity could produce
his own accompaniment.
This was the way in which the tin gods
made character in the old days-eyen the
best of them. Our sense of humor was in
its infancy then and whiskers were fash
ionable. Now the popular tin god-states-
man, playwright, actor or poet-cultivates
some little eccentricity that will mark him
out in a crowd.
He knows the value of advertisement,
and 1t is for this reason, rather than lack
of good taste, that he wears checked
oYercoat of English ma terial that looks like
a made up steamer rug, mauve tie soft
shirt bosom and one emerald stud in an
aluminium setting with prongs like oyster
fork.
If he is an actor he sits well in front of
| the stage box at matinee. during a roar
ing farce, without once relaxing the cold,
! Greek severity of his lips. 1t takes more
| TO make him smile than merry scene in
| which the thin comedian bats the fat one
around the stage with a plank.
Our tin gods are getting to know thing
or two about tin godship, and while they
| keep off the farm they play the game Only
| the political tinships travel in the subway
| and employ a press agent to keep their
names out of the papers.
| Some of these are never known to smile
! in public, for there are newspaper rumors
| that one tin god who even dares to laugh
when he feels like 1t might have been Pres
! ident If he had only curbed that unfortu-
nate weakness of his for fun and cultivated
|
man, serious as the sixth plume of hearse.
! But whatever the tin god does, whether
| he laughs or cries, trims his beard like
| Shakespeare or wears his hair crimped he $
| in for it. He won't do If he lives an or
binary life. He must drink champagne out
of ladies' slippers or else go in heavily for
religion, SO that he may be tagged hypo-
critic
! The report of a amination, still
fresh in our memory, of a tin god witness
| began: His hair, usually curled was
| brushed back plainly from his forehead
| and as he moved his hands nervously II was
! seen that he wore a seal ring on one finger
| Otherwise no jewelry was visible In his cos
tune"
Poor little tin god, This is a sample of
| the way in which he is made to suffer-
| His hair was uncurled and brushed plainly
back. but even then he wouldn't dp! What's
/ the USE If you're little tin god?
This one, tortured. interlaced his hands
| nervously and it was seen that he wore a
seal ring. How queer. And he wore 1t on
one finger? Stranger still No other Jew
,elry visible7 What do We know of the Jew
/ eled suspenders, maybe diamond garter
/ buckles that he Haunted unseen probably?
! No escape for a tin god. although he
/ brushes out his curls and wears a seal ring
/ on one fngeri How much better Ii would
have been had he appeared without socks
and given US something TO chat about.
There is no escape for the tin god but
taking to the woods. He can't get rid of
! his. halo by merely brushing his hair. One
poet cut his hair in desperation the other
day in the hope of quieting his friends And
yet he used TO say there was money In his
hair And there was until he acquired
/ eoronet that glittered like the roof of a
house In the sunlight,
He made a mistake when he parted with
his fuzzy locks, for as have before sug-
gested the only thing for tin god to do
/ is to play the tin god game. Wear purple
evening clothes, serve dinners backward.
sleep In a coffin. see ghosts never cut