The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-05-15
Some Epigrams BY Richard Garlic.

u don't want to be a tragedian;
there's enough tragedy in trying to he
a comedian. :,<, - *r@
The actor only thinks he know:
what's funny; it's the audience that
really knows. -.
A good gesture is worth two: bad
words 49,;
Many a man is amusing when he
isn't trying to be; but it takes an
artist to be funny when he's striving
to be-. -. -. D.. =.
One tug at the t:'heartstrings may
laughs to make a comedy. ,, - -
Don't be too: serious; joke may
prevent tragedy: -.'"
Too many comedians spoil the mu-
steal comedy. 49,; -; -5:*:,>* "".-
There is more shua1lor in a cab:driver
than in a club man. ~.
If you can't be original, initiate;
some limitations, have seen are
original. .s..--->~.:~ >-..:,.". ..:.,,
i Don't kid" your Audience; yohre
lucky if they don't ''kid'' you. + E H.
If you can act the fool cleverly
enough, you are sure to please the
public. -.
You can sirnetimes hide your lack
of wit by nispron6uncfng a word"
The most cruelS OF all commands is,
''be funny T. IS eiEj = ;: -i&':.,'.'>
Higher critism IS ali right; but I
prefer low comedy: = - g. - ~. -
Don't hog the center of the stage;
the audience will recognize YOU if you
are good. - :, = ::~- .
II you can sing the last; note Of your
song high enough you're sure. OF an
encore; but-ah, there's the. r,lb-a
good line can't he repeated. T." r. =. t.
"The Right Of Way" =.
which will be seen at the Lyceum next
Monday, Tuesday and. Wednesday
| matinee and night.
Having, in mind the saying lit takes
| nine tailors to make a. man., saying
the meaning of which has been dis
torted, Eugene :. W. Presbrey in his
decentralization Of 1.-The Right of Way
! has omitted the portion Of the story
in which Steele takes to the shears and
the, goose n old Louis Truders tailor
shop. Instead, he makes him carver
Of images, carrying only a little farther
the novelist's story n which Steele,
before the operation through which he
| recovered his memory, learned to help
Joe PUrtugais, in whose cabin he lived,
do carpenter work, make furniture and
even carve rude crosses for the good
| Cure" In the book, as everyone
knows, Steele becomes a tailor, finally
succeeding to the business of old Tru-
/ dl, but Sir Gilbert Parkers readers
! are probably not aware Of his almost
unique audacity : in daring to give
Steele this unromantic occupation. On
ly one other great novelist has dared
to place his hero in a sartorial en-
vironment, to-wit, George Mer edith, III
Evan Harrington. A curious incident
is related as having given Sir Gtlber,
the idea of making Steele a tailor 70,
a long time he had in mind the Garlic,
part Of '"The Right Of Way ending
with Steele's unaccountable disappear
ance, and was 10th to let It 60 as &
1 short story, feeling instinctively tina,
some day it might develop into a novel
1 One day he was called suddenly t
New York; it was Wednesday, and
he decided to sail on the following
Saturdays steamer. He ordered. tire.
suits OF clothes, and warning til.
tailor that he was to leave London 81
Saturday. he made him promise ..ft
/ TT him, carefully, and deliver. tn,
clothes on Friday morning. The suit!
were: delivered on time, but alas! no
one OF them fitted. T There was no tim,
n to lose, and tn novelist threw til,
clothes over his arm and from hi.
Ef1O1l4e IN Carletnu H1orrn 90 ,,,o,,% ,r,,,,n.
| the corner to his tadlor's IN Picadilly
In &. g rage,she asked the tailor what b,
meant by blngling the Job, and TIL
tailor pologized for his cutter. 5ex
planning that he was a new man III:
stead Of the one familiar with .si
Gilbert's measure. One mornerl t, 4, 8. Ii,
begged, and will fetch him. \ prom
J ise you the suits sfa 40 made srigh
and delivered this cit ernoo r1. IN
i tailor disapp eared through q door Il
the back OF the shop, and I'll 1of non
later tn ere appeared Il Is sdoOri.w,a.
nj ri AfrA TN