New-York tribune., 1910-11-24
TIE TALK OF THE DAY,

Some of the upstate papers are cong7at-
uIattng their readers on a plentiful supply
/ Of snow for Thanksgiving Day. How that
can he a cause for anything but the op-
posite Of the Thanksgiving spirit
I;otharglites probably can't under
stand But there is at least one New
Yorker who can agree with the rural jour
nalists Commissioner Big Bill Edwards
is always thankful for q snowstorm-up
the state He figures that the more they
get up where the pine trees grow the less
he's likely to have to Garland ''cuss-'
II Just read where Vermont hunter
shot a hole through his foot.
''He must have had peculiar foot?''
why so?'
/ why. didn't he mistake it for 4 DEER?
Houston Post.
/ A school for the training Of hoteizeep-
ers has been opened in Paris. Schools or
the kind have long flourished in Germany,
/ Austria and Switzerland. The course Gov
ers the entire business of hotelkeeuing.
/ from bottle washing to hygiene anG mod
ern languages Writing 10 The London
Telegraph. q correspondent saws: There
is hardly an inn in France where YOU can
rot get a good meal. but there are still
thousands where everything except the
cooking Is primitive The new school for
apprentice hoteIkeepers IS 10 remedy all
this as hygiene and sanitation viii occupy
an important place in the curriculum"
PA. what Is an optimist?-
/ An oprmist, my son is q man with IL
/ cents in his pocket who doesn't grow sar-
castle when he reads that his COuntry's
! per capita wealth IS S31. Birmingham
IAge-Herald.
+ THE GRATEFUL SUFFRAG GETTEs.
/ They fall in line-no time to lose.
/ And march without desertionS;
/ Arrayed are they Ill many hues
/ And Irish point Insertions
Into the city square they trot
/ without dismay fears;
/ And make an onslaught grim and not
/ Amid some cheers ana jeers.
\ Gordon of police looms up
| To check the fierce attack:
/ But ere it has chance to strike,
/ Is toppled its back
/ They speed away to Commons yard
! For further wreck and raid:
/ But half way there they spy the man
! Who promised them his aid.
In wild, ecstatic glee they dance,
} These winsome little pets.
/ And rend him blithely limb from limb,
! These grateful suffragettes
/ ERNEST W. TYLER.
! some men dat gets in de public eye"
said Uncle I.ben, is like p cinder fun de
/ srnokestack. dat don perdUce muffin but
irritation. w Washington star
Writing in The American Magazine
Or. William Osler pays a high tribute TO
the work Of Colonel Gorgas and the other
medical officers of the Panama Canal. "Of
more than fifty-four thousand employees
about thirteen thousand of whom are
white" says Or. OsIer, the death rate
per thousand for the month Of March was
S9l, a lower percentage, ! believe. than in
any city in the United Kingdom and very
much lower than III any city in the | nIted
states 1t has been brought about In great
part by researches into the life history OF
the parasite which produces malaria and
hy the effective measures taken for its
destruction.
Bawlin-What can YOU do with a boy
that's fun OF pure cussedness
/ Chay yne-If it's strictly pure. with no ad-
mixture. uothing.-Chicago Tribune.
The "Russische Korrespondcnz" publishes
a letter written by Count Tolstoy to Pro-
fessor Walinowski acknowledging receipt of
the professors book on Revenge and the
Death Penalty" in which he SAYS: 1t
win do ] told my young friend Bulgakow.
recently much toward opening the eyes of
the people Little did dream sixty years
ago that the galows would still be looked
! upon in half 4 century or more as a normal
adjunct to the machinery of state. and that
savauts, philosophers and phiiauthropists
would countenance its existence. But every
i'll brings some good. and the dreadful ac-
! Iivity of the gallows in our country in, the
last year has resulted in the agitation for
its abolition. Can the good be accomplished?
Hope, work"
Figures won't lie. said the emphatic
person.
THAT depends" replied Miss Cayenne,
| on whether you are talking about Inatiie-
matte or millinery. Washington star.
Nearly all the visitors to Venice, says
a letter from that city, go 10 the Ven
dramin palace 10 see the place where Wag
iier lived nearly year and where he died
in February. 1885. The palace VIII soon
haVe~a Wagner memorial In tie form of
| an artistic tablet by Cardoni and an in
scription by dAnnunzio We who We're
| here on that glorious spring day when
the* bore tie master away, who remember
the long line cf mourning Hrges, WISH thai
the palace could have also a l'cture of
that occasion. The great state barge con