New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-05-28
THE TALK OF THE DAY.s

The dialects OF England various that gram
NAUTICAL eccentricites are commoner even than
among the mixed peoples Of the United States
An English paper has been printing some choice
examples In Somersetshire party OF masons
at work. One OF their number is idIing. The
foreman appears
Joe Cwarnin glyl-Hi Ben, there Be garer eye
IN &c!
Ben-Aye. eyed ee eye T.
An example from Punch" but true 10 dia-
lectic peculiarities. is recalled 1t is the reply OF
farmer TO a former vicar OF his parish. who sym
pathized with him the fact that his three elder
ly daughters married: You zoe, sur he
said. when they would ha' they they wouldn't ha'
they. now they would ha' they they won't ha'
they"
OF TOP DRESSING.
Betty have IL in my honest heart
To let you know with what pure compassion
In the faInbcyant mode approved By Fashion
Something between
A stuffy turban and a tambourine-
Is It because few women dare defy
The other woren's tyrannous dictationf
Or that you hope TO melt some manly eye
That innocent souls
Offer to angels in their aureoles7
II that's your object. I am not aware
For whom you bind your sheaves OF mellow hair
BY processes of artificial ripping.
With borrowed fuff TO overlap the same
II cannot be for me; for middle age
1t must be some ono else. less timely sage.
More simple. more inpressionably foolish;
Some one Cor more)
Unskilled to doubt you genuine 20 the core
Yet If you care TO hear the candid truth.
From one who still preserves a sentient fraction
Thrilled 10 the best capillary attraction
can't admire
These bullying haloes riased on padded wire
It's not as II your hair was in, decline.
Nor do you need to have your head diminished.
Or 70 obscure scalp Of poor design "a. -
I've always said
You had rather nicely modelled head
But that portentOus bulk above your brow
70 be sincere (you Wish me. don't YOU Betty
Brains aren't your strongest feature. are they
The conventionaItes are not entirely without
defenders 'Afrc's golden sand" The follow
ing is from the Appam correspondence Of The
Gold Coast Leader: There are some scholars in
town who indulge themselves In the practice of
tending night services at chapel. especially on
Sundays, in wearing cloths. gowns and pajamas.
which fashion most consider indecent although II
goes by saying rend your heart and not your gar
ments.''
So Nea ec-- Yipelands =. J.. there lived a
German farmer WHO orewed his own beer, the su-
though no other person ever enjoyed an oRpor-
made wager that he could trick the farmer into
giving HIM taste Of the much vaunted drink
The youth visited the G@rTnan Sunday after
noon. and the conversation was deftly steered
around to home brewed beer. The young man
boosted that his father brewed beer that could
not be eQualed- The farmer at once vehemently
ordered up a mug of his own favorite brew. When
the other hand pressing his stomach, drank every
drop without taking breath Then, holding the
empty mug 70 the disappointed young fellow. hs
said, gravely:
You say your fader's beer iss so better as minel
Joost schmeu dot mugl"-Lippincott's Magazine
The subject OF the San Francisco earthquake
and the prompt response OF the other American
cities the call Of the stricken metropolis
naturally inspiring topic Therefore II IS
pardonable when The Bronson (Minn) Budget
eoquently compares the incident with the historic
one when all Hellenspont sprang 10 the rescue"
We quote: The concluding episodes which hung
around the closing scenes at San Francisco re-
minds OF another historic field the Pass OF Tier
mopylea, when Leonidas and his Spartans were
destroyed but not defeated and all Hellenspont
sprans 10 the rescue. San Francisco Is destroyed
but the courage OF her citizens mounts higher than
the flames: a resolution awful than the earth
quake sends them forth TO the hercuiean task OF
reconstruction But who Is there so slug
gish Of mind that cannot but feel the zeal o.
patriotism mount like wndhre thru his brainY
The city fell, and at the sound a thousand sister
cities beat Ike mighty hearts the dread alarm.
thousand trains streaming over the endless
plains like giant arteries"
Questions of the Days Dn~-what VIII becorne
OF the human race IN the future worldr
eel dunno; teu end IN dead heat. guess
Harvard Lampoon.