New-York tribune., 1909-07-04
INTENDED ESPECIALLY FOR THE BUSY MAN

our noble police guardians sneeEea Busy Mar.
ANY new athletic records
'John ] Flanagan. OF the Irish-Arnsrtcan Attn
lettc Club thew rne lspound hammer $50 feet es-
tahlisi.ng a nav worlds reco-d. Miss Hazel Hotch-
kiss OF Bs-.eley, CAL Won the womens national
sir sles lawn tennis championship, and in partner
ship the woraen's doubles and the mixed doubles
all in one day. al Philadelphia. Harvard defeated
Yale in their annual rowing contest between the
varsity eghts et New London Yale also cut
rowed the four-osr and freshman races
In the annual regatta OF the Intercollegiate
Rowing Association. the Hudson River. Cornell
won the races fer tbs varsity eights. the fresh
man eights and the varsity fours. Colunnhia
second in the varsity eights
Baseball at night by>>electric light vas after
trial at Cincinnati. reported feasible
where is this sort of thing going 70 stop"
ousried Busy Man we may soon be having golf
horse racing and football by electric light. What
then. will become Of the expiring art of sleep?
What has been going among the educators7''
Harvard bestowed upon its ex-President. Dr.
Eliot the hoaorary degrees OF Doctor OF Laws and
Doctor OF Medicine. the latter in recognition Of
what he has done for the progress of medical edu-
cation in this country. Dr. Eliot later III the dsy
declared that he had left the Bible and Shakespeare
off his famous hve-foot shelf OF books at the
request of the publishers Tor whom he undertook
the task of selection. Professor George Herbert
Palmer Of Harvard. aged sixty-ssven and twice
married advised the girls OF Radcliffe and the BOYS
OF Harvard TO hirt little with one another as
the surest road toward the proper knowledge OF
social life. he asserted. A scheme for the inter
change Of university students between the United
States aud England was set foot. The Gluten
Club or Amherst College students demonstrated
by actual experiment that about 81 q month ,s
all hat is necessary to spend for food Their diet
consisted OF gluten mixed with water and cooked
in many different styles"
Would life be worth living" asked BUSY Man
"on gluten? When viii the Panama Canal be I'M
ished?'
"IIow do l know" sasped Constant Reader.
taken by surprise What made you ask me tkat?''
Thought college commencement orator
would be sure to have settled that little problem
among others" chucked Busy Man. Have the
suffragettes been doing anything new?'
over one hundred OF them were arrested for
stor ming the House OF Parliament in London in
making their thirteenth vain attempt to obtain
access TO Premier Asquith by deputatIon. Their
dsorderly acts included siaPpiag the faces of po-
loemen and throwing stones through windows"
~ nation which breeds such Amazons,' grum-
bed Busy Man. need not fear German invasion
Any thing else l ought to remember"
The dreaded browntail moth which has done
such immense damage TO foliage in Eastern Mas
sachusetts. appeared in Westchester County Ten
nessee Joined the ranks of the teeoal states when
IT'S law prohibiting the sale Of intoxicants
within four miles of a schoolhouse went into ef-
feet. and New Jersey dairy former discovered
that by placing a phonograph IN his COW barns
ing time the animals gave down more willingly
and the flow Of milk vas greatly increased in
volume"
That new law is likely to have the undesirable
effect Of making education and schoolhousss de-
cidedly unpopular In Tennessee rsione1 Busy
manding classic music al I can say Is that on
the farm where was raised Ihs old oaken
Bucket was relied upon to increase me milk cut
rut, ard II did very we'll too