New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-09-08
THE TALK OF THE DAY.
seven.

At his home in Syracuse on Monday Frank His
cock, United States Senator from New York
1SS7'sS. celebrated the seventyhfth anniversary Of
his birth. The ex-senator, who is stiN in active
practice Of the law is strong and vigorous and is
able to be at his Office daily. Like many another
statesman, he Is an enthusiastic golfer, and his
recreation is enjoyed almost entirely on the links
HEROES AT HOME.
Out of his mouth much wisdom comes; his Dig
The world looks up to him well qualified to
He seems to be Of better clay than just the common
And we ' revere him as man whose ike We may
We seem to think that he's above the ordinary
Yet he too. has to run and hook her waist when
summoned by his wife
And he, too mushy phrases spoke and fell upon his
And promised if she'd be his bride. she'd always
know life of ease.
He's something wonderful to US. we sit and gaze at
But still there is a woman who refers to him as
And when at home he nightly goes and quits the
His mantle from his shoulders slips and he is told
to wipe his feet
I care not who your hero is. at home he's very
AS we who stand by to cheer at just the men
WI, ton of his name
When In his dining room he sits shut off from other
peoples view.
He dips his egg toast in his the way that COM
1t matters not how great his fame. like us. when
He loves to pick a chicken wing and in his fingers
mold the bone
Detroit Free Press
Holland has no claim aviation records but
according TO a report from Amsterdam. it is the
first country in which airship has been seized
for debt 1t is flying machine of the Voisin pat
tern, owned by La Mouette, Paris aeronaut asso-
citation which organized TO give exhibitions in
Holland. The promoter to receive a salary
and liberal commission the receipts for tick
VaTtOUS nOr,Y5 ho,-o
fine speculation. the article but for the fact
that the machine would not fly At the first at
tempt the grandstand, which had been erected for
the purpose, remained empty. but the thrifty
farmer who owned the adjoining meadows made
money by charging admission to his grounds The
promoter. who had spent time and money in en-
deavors to secure paying spectators wanted re-
Enumeration for his labors which the Paris society
refused to give him. Hence the seizure"
irish sa g9y hs rowing With that
"Rock-t The boat idiOt?" smiles the listener.
NO Not that kind. He is one of the sort that
proposes Life
British Health Review for the best answers TO
three questions of which is Are cereal eats
ing nations ever first class powers?" DR. Penny
offers some interesting arguments in the course Of
his answers: The latest modern example is the
japanese. Staple diet rice. vegetables and little
fish sometimes. The Romans in their prime were
practically vegetarian. Staple ration, corn 1t is
recorded that disease broke out in the
Roman army before Lilybeum in the first Punic
owing to their being forced to feed on meat
by the wreckage of their corn ships. Compare also
the complaint of Caesars legions in Gaul of mutton
being substituted for their ratons. The staple
food OF the ancient Greek is said to have been
maize vegetables and oil. The MahOmetans under
Omar and later, fed chiefly dates. milk and
cereals"
is
his baby threw his gold watch from the third
story window 10 the pavement and ne didn't
anything cute in it."-Boston Herald.
There is a revival of the tattoo habit in Germany
according TO an article published in a Frankfort
paper Heretofore. the writer says. it difficult
10 find a tattooed subject who had not been deco
rated at one of the seaport towns. The men were
sailors and the few women who had fallen to the
ha bit were wives sweethearts of tattoOed men.
The tattoo artist hnds willing subjects far
inland among people who saw a sailor or
the sea Recently a at Munich noticed that
The arm Of Young labOrer who pushing
loaded luggage cart deliberately tattooed. and
he asked TIE young fellow why he had submitted
10 the painful operation and why he had chosen
the portrait of q German philosopher To- decorate
his arm That's Nietzsche. he said. Il like his
face and he wrote Thou shalt fight like the
sentiment rs much as the face and he trudged
along laboriously pushing the burden The larger
patterns from which the tattoo artists ask their
clients make selections include portraits of Lin
coin. Franklin. Grant and Roosevelt and pictures
Of New York's highest skyscrapers.
Man with Vahse-I am going 10 the annual re-
union of the Smith family Do L set excursion
Ticket seIier-Not this year. The Johnsons are
claiming that Il is unjust and unfair discTimina-
tion-ChIcago Tribune.