The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-09-28
RothschiId's Play.

Baron Henri de Rothschild was once
involved in an amusing incident, in
which a well known Partisan theat-
rical manager took part. The baron Of
fered him a play, which he practically
accepted without looking at Eyes, my
dear baron" he said, "of course I'll
produce it. and / am very fiattered you
should have brought it to me first"
Eyes, but you must read. it," insist
ed the baron, ''for it may not suit you.
/ am not at all sure that it will l
win come again tomorrow, when you
will have had time to look over it."
ssAll right, do" answered the man.
ager.
Next day, when the baron presented
himself, he was received with enthusi-
asm. Its masterpiece, my dear
baron-a masterpiece. l shall be de-
lighted to produce it, and as soon as
possible Well have it next season."
On the managers desk lay the roll
of paper Baron de Rothschild had
brought the previous day. He picked
1t up, unrolled it and showed it to the
manager. All the pages were blank.
The unsophisticated at Sea.
According to a local paper, one Of
the petty officers of a man-of-war at
the New York navy yard recently
made requisition to the paymaster's
office for two horse pipes" The story
goes that the poor man meant "hawse
pipes" Now, any one who knows
what hawse pipes are will wonder
what he wanted with them. suspect
some one was playing a practical joke
on him. The same paper gives another
alleged occurrence which shows how
little is known by some of the naval
recruits Of nautical terms. The recruit
in question got a monkey wrench, a
donkey engine, the dogwatch and the
cathead so confused In his noddle that
he called for "a watch dog to stand by
the cat engine" and referred to the
captain as donkey head" AS a re-
suit the veracious chronicler deposeth
ships brig, there to repent and learn
better. Both yarns are probably of
the type usually told to the Marines"
but nevertheless it is fact that NAM
ludicrous mistakes of the kind arr
made by those whose knowledge of
the sea is limited, and many practical
jokes of which they are the butt are
made on the unsophisticated.-S Ship
ming Illustrated
Getting Ready For Fresh Start.
Gwendolyn de Courtenay, the hand
some society favorite, was nervously
agitated. Even a blind baggage car
could see that. She paced up and
down in front of the large cheval
glass in her room. Evidently she was
greatly aggrieved over something.
Finally her high strung nerves got
churned up to such a pitch that she
lost control over herself and began to
clutch and tear wildly at her hair, pull
ing it out In large handfuls.
Your sympathetic nature is around
and you cry: 1.-THE poor woman is tenn
porarily insane. Why doesn't some
one stop her before she does herself
bodily injury? She must be in terrible
mental agony to stand the pain of
pulling her hair out by the roots"
But hist! Be not too lavish with
your sympathy. friend. Up to now
Gwendolyn has pulled of only four
teen pounds Of puffs, three miles of
interlocking switches and a few de-
tachable curls She has some distance
to go yet before she touches the real,
cross your heart hair. Gwendolyn is
merely distracted because her maid
cannot get her floating hirsute equip
ment on In becoming array. She is
simply getting ready for fresh start
Puck.