New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-09-13
THE TAIN or TIE DAY.

Premier Brands ruling against wearing
ribbons and decorations pertaining TO or
ders except such as are recognized by the
French Republic brings to mind an occur
renee at a German watering place some
wears ago. because of which an American
became involved in a controversy with a
German nobleman. The American, with his
wife and fifteen-yeaT-old son, was staying
at a hotel where the nobleman appeared
one evening with his coat literally sprin-
kled with decorations of various sizes. The
boy, who had often spoken to the man
asked, What are those things for?' and
received the sneerins answer: ''Thoso are
decorat ions-not for Americans. Next
evening the boy came to dinner wearing
several medals on his Jacket and succeeded
in having them noticed by the man of the
orders, who asked: II see you wear deco
rations. a1so-what are they@" This one"
he said, lis = bicycle prize, this one our
school pin, this one our ball club. and these
two medals ] got for swimming, and they re
lust as good as your Dutch kind"
"Derbsy brought back a bears head and
a LYNX. both mounted as souvenirs of his
vacation in the mountains. Have you any
Wen I have my weekly receipts for
board and extras Buffalo Express.
THE most picturesque figure at the
medical department of Berlin University
this season was Hamek Waly, an Arab
sheik." writes an American student from
that city. ''He was graduated 'summa cum
Iaude The sheik is sWarthy, tall man,
about thirty years Old. who attracted much
attention when seen on the streets in q
long flowing white robe and turban and
ran
RUNNING FOR OFFICE.
Running for office,
This is the game
Handing out cards
With your face and your name.
Making bum speeches,
Spending your pelf,
Wearing your lungs out
Boosting yourself
Shouting your virtues
To one and to all;
Citing your fitness
For what may befall,
Telling the voters
Lined up at the bar
Just what q Spleud1d
Good fellow you are.
Running for Office
And losing your rest,
Saving the air
And bea ting YOUR breast,
Pounding the table
And Yelling like thunder,
Trying to make EN-
Believe you're wonder
Detroit Free Press.
on the body of an unknown man recently
taken out OF the Weser. at Bremen. was
found a note declaring that his suicide was
the result of an american duel No
amount of renonstranc nee will ever convince
Continental Europe that this sort of duel
IS not an American invention. and is prac-
ticaIly unknown among US. II IS the same
way with the american curtain" which
in Continental parlance means q theatre
curtain plastered over with advertisements.
The exclamation of visiting Americans that
this is one kind of advertising which
America will not tolerate is invariably re-
ceiyed with polite incredulity.
starboarder-I am d firm believer in the
theory that might is right.
Hallroom--How about strong butter!-
Philadelphia Record.
University OF Chicago professors have dis
covered that the vacation system of the
p,jblic schools is all wrong They think
the moor pupil ought to be paroled when
eyer he can prove that he needs rest.
summer or winter. The discovery is an
ro,,nced in THE Elementary School Teach
err issued by the University OF Chicago
press 1--WE should recognize, says the
writer that periods of delay in individual
to,.alo,nent do not obey any Law Of the
..,cndar one child Is interrupted in bis
dcveIopmert 1T one date. another enid at
,nothnr IT, in addition 10 these individual
interr,tntious. We impose general nt"r-
ruption. the SUM fer siyen child may be