Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-27

"Ticense to marry! Holy smoke! What's that
got to do with it? 1 want a hunters license?
"Tben there was another couple. A high spirited
young girl from Tipperary, sor.' The man was from
County Sligo and wore the UNIFORM OF railway
conductor Two very representative young people
were these" says Mr. Sculy, land my heart warmed
to them. By way of pleasantly said You'll have
to begin to save your money now, the two OF you
The bride tossed her pretty head and said with some
asperity, oh, don't known
Well when 1 got married we had to save our
money.
'Shure, in tone of warm disparagement, 'shure,
We wuz niver the conducthor. And so 1t goes" COM
ments Mr.. Scully.
are given very high stool on the inside of the desk
facing the stage, to speak In this drama you
soon perceive that the stage settings and accessories
are unconsidered The actors are assembled from
the four quarters of the globe and for the most
part constrained and self-conscious They speak
various language and their lines are crude anu
unsudied The personnel of the caste changes Win
kaleidoscope suddenness but the stage Is Always
filed. Some stand out from the rest ana SUSTAIN
the action while many come and go, like great
chorus contributing only to the color and general
effect
lust at first you are 4 little confused. Perhaps
since the somewhat remote incident of the Tower OF
Babel there has been greater confounding OIL
tongues The clerks in charge of affairs here mod
estly admit that they have mastered the languages
of the earth since January. They go down the list
of questions glibly enough challenging an age mere
and a color there for the color question seems 70
present strange difficulties. One youthful swan
whose bride had brown hair and eyes alleged that
she was Eight brown" Another opined under oatn
that they were both natural color' inns soe no
subscribed himself "bsnos man" lin the llne 0I
neddling crackers and biscuits, it Developed his
bride had inserted, with uncertain dlcClon puC uiS
nant pen, II don't do no work. ,.1,
Challenges met satisfactorily follows the lneVlGapo
ouestion:0"Do you solemnly swear that all you nave
written here is the truthT
.Es+ce vrai?" rs das wahr?" "Cr to je pravadaT'
"Ouesto vero?' some OF the VariaC0ns Iune
upon the familiar phrase Most often OF al anu zap aP
parently generally understand is the Yddlsh ana Ger
man composite list allis emmisW In any case tne
AOpa
follows in the same breath without pause OF punctua
tion and seems to convey precise and concrete lnea
ing One lad brought forth pocketful OF dimes TO
meet the harsh requirement ana 1mparteu a 4i
the information thaC they hau oeeH N"' F ~
very purpose. ,,--. &, addition
to the fee, proffered what appeared TO 9e 1a
1arly abominable cigar. The high mlndeo clerk
strong In the moment of temptation, WaVeuII asIue
Poland certain localities in Russia and the Province
of Gacia in Austria are Wen repre S ,do c- i
f the Yiddisher ever arrives at years of discretion
nnvad "Store cIost on akownt Of hodayte ap-
peared recently on the door OF an east sue snoP, -
the nerturbation of the entire vicinity 1t was mat
fer of local knowledge that the particular DAY was not
n holiday in the orthodox calendar When at late
hour in the afternoon the sign was ken ~ +bn Foot
that the youthful proprietor was neither mehtaliy
afflicted nor religously astray. He had mace non
day for himself and taken Dr!oe anu weuuIis Iii Iii
He was now come back to business And SO you WIN
note among the Yiddish disposltlon 10 treat even
the formalities of this office as rather part oI Ue
"hoidayte." - r,, - 1+o1,ors
annear in numbers which make the American citizen
born of American parents rare enough lor " maui
monial museum. nice. 20 c,h,noso
with anv of our citizens, the crudest types Oh
the foreign born not Monaghan, conveys dlsCnct
shock to Anglo-American senstb11ties Wheil' Inert
fore chm Chu and Lew Kim appear with DAISY
Brooke and Annie Silver and suggest In good hhgsn
that they be given license TO "eu even '"e pNl'S