The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-10
ALL QUIET AT THE OUTLOOK
Va NOISE AND va Confirm r.
ING EDITOR WERE THERE.


Net wsssi from . How land. Not . Sen
tenee Frsm an Abbott About the Flee
lion Results Only the whistle of q
Peanut Roaster Breaks the calm
long forgotten as II may he. silence,
the Absence Of sound or noise. as old
fAAhionsh dictionaries define It; Impene-
frable. impervio'is silence prev allied yes
tsr'iay over the otiice on the seventh floor
of certain building ON Fourth avenue
which Of late uss-i To be vibrant with the
activ itios Of a Contributing Editor.
The old fashioned dictionary which de-
tines sileacs for tho instruction Of present
day sufferers appends an entirely mis-
leading quotation from Hood to illus
trats the rse OF the word IL il this
There 10 silence where hath been no sound,
There Is silence where NO sound may lie
PLAINLY MIR. 4. Hood could never have
had IN hIs ksn certain Office in a building
ou Fourth avenue. New lorA. else he
would not have limited tho state OF beng
silent to two i'm possibis tsnses. But MIR
Hood was untiou btedly an honest though
a misguided man, and IL NAV be said again
realm Of Contributing Editor
The eley ator man. who wore an i'm
mortslle IN his huttonhuls. lifted hls eve
brows slightly when one SAID that on"
" ished To GO TO IA. s., .nth floor NeS 81
thclsss hs PUT his lever over with - semitic.
noiseiess motion and The slsy ator slipped
up se. en- stores ithout ever 90 much a.
a rattle or a chucSlc IN Its eympat hsfir
mach merry One tiptCcd Ia a d5or upon
~hich in modest Roman tyi- Of .ull y a.
Lhe legend -Offip-, VI rhcoaior- tmss-
cit. One did NOT elbow h., wsN through
paticnt crowd without she portal; one
did not stand IN line 10 De taliIed oh tor
admission 1t Intermittent tnterr al- while
precious minutes purnei There was no
crowd and there was no line
once InsiCi. the door one saw very
many busy Young women with serious
faces bending over typewriters They
did not look up They did not stir az the
sound ~ footsteps. They simply 'yp"
wrote and typew rote. inslstently. with AN
air Of constraint. Zach OF their writing
machines was crouching on "A pad OF felt,
the noise Of the keys Mas almost Gegli-
gIbl.
The admittedly honest Outlook cat
sat IN a window seat in the southwest
corner OF the Office next to the OIL paint
ing of Or Abbott She or he. maybe
with carefully premeditated movements
coat first one fragile. then another, Anon
the Outlook CIT would pause in her task
OF eradicating the frazzics TO gaze stead.
lily but without malice across the broad
room to the heroic bronze has relief OF
a Contributing Editor. which hung. care
fully busted. on the wall near the door
When the outlook cat yawned once
in her duty II was With an n,r distract
Realizing almost instantly thar a false
construction might be placed upon the
yawn the abashed cat quickly and NOISE
le-slv closed her Jaws and gave herself
to contemplation OF tn. street sc"n"
without.
A rnendacioiIs and thoroughly untrus'
worthy Greek p..dler Of roasted peanuts,
had III. efyrontery to draw has stand w
on the curb Of Twenty SECOND street
right below the windows Of thGs citadel
Of silence. Up from the street rose "A
a sound -Thwe-t-thw.et- thw -"-e-"t
II was the IrnpsrtGn"nt steam whistle
on his peanut roast.r
Al IN. first thw.et the OuIook cat
looked quickly down to the c:lu-e of
the disturbance. then a. quickly over
10 the bronze has relief on the wall There
was no miracle forthcoming; nothing
leaned from the mute bronze lips The
cat feeling that 10y remaining within
view OF the thwee'er and y"r not doing
ANYTHING 20 stop the thw~ets she might
lay herself open TO the p!auSibl" Sl-p'-
quickly down from her perch and TOOK
n seat IN the middle of an Oriental rug
One of the many young women hurried
TO the window. carefully raised IN" SASH,
waved her arms 10 catch the attention
of the mendacious Greek then whispered
in sharp but subiued accents. tio away
from here. please
After being witness - what had
b.fallrn m" thv Get. and tho rhwec'cr
one h.,Itat"d Erea'lv before sending
in ones card TN. Of the rnanv young
W omen muted the space tar ~ her type
writer twice then took the card
No. neither Of the most import ant OF
the Mr. AbboJts was in. nor was tn" mos;
important Of the Mr. HowlGnds there
either Yes there was some one els"
II he would do
Some one else answered few gues-
tions softly TIE Contributing Editor
was not IN. in fac' he had not come To
the Office AZ all II was believed thai h"
was induI ging in a much needed rest
No. there would not b" anything from
hia Den IN this v COX = edition Of the out
look: the periodical was already of the
pr esseS of course
No the members ri the - Al did not
car. To commit themselves IN answering
IN. quest ion a. ~ whether or nor Their"
would h" any passing comment from the
pen ~ rhe Cons gIhutinR Editor touching
even remotely upon IA" results ~ The
elect ions " uifil N'r' n"t'i w Wv 10TH
stat. and elsewhere" There mag; be-. ana
again
council that morning thar no member
Of the stat would hev" anything To say
20 inter viewers ~ criticism or comment
upon IN. results ~ Jhos. elections What
ever opinion the m"mb-r- ~ m" stan
might have formed ON that subject would
n !, should lie d"c,d.d firing, appear
IN the regular reading matter 81 som"
future number Of IN. Outlook
And 80 the elevator man wlrh the i'm
morfe,l. in his buttonhole dropped one
down FROM the seventh floor tO th. NOISY.