New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-03-06
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

He stood asleep in the middle of Fifth avenue,
few feet from the north AID street crossing. His
head dropped. Save for an occasional ohnklhs OF
his eyeiids he II >carven. Taxicao horns
footed in his ears and racing car sirens screeched
under his nose He didn't bulge. Men ana
women shouted at him carriage wheels grazeo
his legs He never moved. The rush and roar
of the avenue traffic at its height made no more
impression him than Brooklyn Bridge he
was horse OF the traffic squad!
Blobbs-What a paradoxcal fellow scribbler Is
Slobbs-Yes, he told me he wrote that book %
Hundred Dainty Dishes for the Chatting Dish
Just a Observation-Disclosures Record
Every now and then some tries to write
national anthem for Canada, but. In the opinion
Of The Victoria Colonst." every effort Is fall
ure THE Coonist' adds: Canada is not old
enough to have evolved national anthem The
sentiment Of the people has not clustered around
any particular person. event or idea. When the
average rhymester sits down to write Canadian
song he tries include everything in II, from the
herring fleet of Nova Scotia to the miners OF the
KIondke. and the result is species Of directory
BY and by something may happen. or we may do
something people, or some one may THINK OF
something that will catch the popular idea
Liverpool tailor shows touch OF originality
Recently he hung a sign in a conspicuous place
Man 9ls Sh Is made Of dust Dust settles Are you
man?"-Tit- Bits.
Nine Edna Rertonelle a seamstress in the Quar-
tier Montmartre Paris. IS said by the Paris news
papers 10 be the youngest great-grandmother IN
the world. She married at the age OF four
teen and her first child. a girl married at the
same early age. When Nine. Bertonelle wss
thirty-one she was grandmother. Her grandson
married at seventeen young woman few days
his Junior on her forty-eighth birthday Nine
Bertonelle was a great-grandmother
THE GADzOOKs HEROES.
In DAYS OF old
When knights were bold
Their endless scraps
For writing chaps
deal Of copy made
And II was we'll
AS things befel,
That they did slash and carve.
For han they not.
OF noTeIists would starve.
Louisville Courier-JournaI'
The Antl-Treat League is gaining many
members. avs Theodore Sutro In letter TO man
who inquired ne 10 the objects OF the organization
Besides being a step toward intemperanoe he says,
the foolish treating custom cannot be INDUCED IN
by men IN moderate circumstances without entail
ing Unnecessary expense We are opposed also
to the American barroom. where people stand UP
in droves and gulp down strong liquors in lightning
haste and in indefinite quantities. The association
is working toward the introduction Of the bar
less barroom where guests will be served at little
tables. There people may sit down quietly and sip
their drinks would tea or coffee each man
paying for what he consumes regardless OF the
thirst OF the man who may sit at the same table
with him. Not many men would become intoxi-
Gated in barrooms OF that kind
Yes sir. once lost over $4,000 IN less than
'Whew, That was going some, How did you
not 6pyng about ten tAopsSnd shares ao Of
single setback."-Chicago Record-Herald