New-York tribune., 1908-05-19
THE TALK OF THE D4Y.

Kaiser Wilhelm unveiled at Wiesbaden last week
a statue of William OF Orange the liberator Of the
Netherlands. This statue was executed by Profess
Walter Schott. who is ar present in New York
making arrangements for the representative exhi-
bition of German sculpture in which the Emperor
has taken warm interest.
But, Tommy" said his mother you asked for
two cakes and 1 gave them to you Aren't you
No, amt" growled Tommy, you was SO easy
! m kickin' mesef now cause didn't ask fur four
-Philadelpha Press.
Mrs Elise Blenker, who died at Mount Vernon
N. Y, few days ago, aged eighty-four,
markable woman who generation ago
conspicuous member of German society in New
York. Her husband Colonel Louis Blenker
who gained fame in the Baden revolution of 1SsS
before he 20 this country. He had been a
lieutenant in King Ottos army, then studied medi-
cine in Munich, end thinking himself untitled for a
career a physician, became wine merchant in
his native town. Worms. When the revolution
broke out Blenker of the first to join the
ranks OF the revoutionists, and his WIFE the
daughter of clergyman. enlisted in the drum
corps. She present when her husband captured
Iudwigshafen and besieged Worms and when the
cause was lost fled with him to Switzerland. When
the revoutionists We're expelled from that country
the Blenkers the United States and bought
farm in Rockand County. Blenker organized
the Sth Regiment. New York State Volunteers in
1861, the officers and men being nearly members
Of the New York Turnverein. Colonel Blenker died
forty-fve years ago the Rockland County farm
You can't buy happiness exclaimed the senti-
mentalst.
No answered the man who is sternly practi-
cal. You can't buy happiness. And at the same
time that fact doesn't imply that your comfort Is
enhanced by being broke. ."-WaShington Star
Good looking young women have found in Paris
a calling. playing the cured patient" Visitors
who find time hanging heavily their hands in a
doctors waiting room are drawn into conversation
The good looking woman, who is evidently In the
pink of health. tells the visitor how i'll she was
Neuritis. rheumatism. gout, dyspepsia and vertigo
were combined In her with appendicitis and
hallucination- Several physicians treated her ex-
pensively and left her She went IN despair
to the present doctor, who cured her In three
weeks. She has come to-day merely to thank him
The cured patient charges S5 a day. but doctors
find that the money is not thrown away.
Skat which has become the rival OF bridge and
has displaced II in some circles. is. according TO a
writer In the Revue, purely German game and
Altenburg is its home. The earliest records On the
subject show that II evolved out of Of ne card
games In 1917 by one Hempe who was a professor
at the Altenburg College. The article is illustrated
with picture Of C. w. Alters showing Adolf
l. Arronge, Paul Ltndau. August Forster and Gustav
hadelburs playing skat in Paul Lindau's library
Il love my love In the springtime warbIea tho
poet. '"o
'So?
Yes: it's cheaper then. Oysters are out or sea-
SON flowers grow wild and the theatres are rim
ming popular priced stock.'-Iousyile Courier