New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-10

movement, for worldwide cDnSerVa-
ton congress has failed Many of the
nations have so far disSipated their
natural resources that they have little
left to conserve.
THE TALK OF, THE DAY.
MORE TROUBLES ADAM MISSED.
Whatever troubles Adam had,
He never had TO crack
His finger nails in buttoning.
Ewes new gown up the back
Whatever troubles Adam had
He never had to glide
From out his soft and leafy couch
To put the cat outside.
Whatever troubles Adam had,
Eve never reused his ire
BY waking him in dead of night
To shake the furnace fire.
Whatever troubles Adam had,
He never had a chill
At receiving. after Easter,
Ewes millinery bill
Whatever troubles Adam had,
He never had to smother
His true opinion of Ewes acts
For fear she d go to mother
The man who opened a can of powder
with an axe was heard from ten miles
away, to say nothing of the greater dis
lance to which the report carried by
The Associated Press.-San Francisco
Chronicle.
The pay-as-you-ent cars sometimes
provoke unfavora BILE comment from New
Workers in a hurry The motorman of one
cicr 1ay
ago. and a man who is accustomed to
elevated road and subway brushes
marked to a friend with whom he was
waiting for a car: Full hell! That car
would hold fifty more people" But 1t
passed on without allowing them to take
up some of the spare room.
Uncle Sfas-Them,s awful puny. little
plants you've got. Are you sure your seed
good?
Mr. Subbubs-Good. Why, say. the chick
ems were crazy about them-Chicage News
New York's new automobile law. The
Chicago Record Herald thinks, contains
many features Illinois might wisely copy
Reckless motoring can and should be
stopped'' il says. The first condition
of steady and permanent Improvement Is to
separate drunkards. incOmpetents and wild
JOY riders from their machines or occupa-
TONS
She has queer notions
YES. she actually refused to buy Il hob
bile skirt the other day because she was
afraid she wouldn't be comfortable. in it
Detroit Free Press.
Pittsbdrg will be a city umbra geous if
its recently appointed tree commission can
make it So And The GaZette-Times' has
given the project a boost by saying: Pitts
burg has caught the spirit. Its baked
streets are to be cooled by. shade trees. the
limbs of which will form protection from
the MONDAY sun and cast spectral shadows
by night It's bare rocks and ragged bluff
are to be adorned with trailing vines: from
a city of streets it is to>beeome a. metrop-
oils Of shady lanes.
Dog days life in Washington: Get. up.
Swat the fly. Muzzle the dog. Boil the
water. Pasteurize the milk Observe the
spced limit See the Nationals lose
Ratronize the moving pictures. Go TO bed,
Washington Post.
It is an open question what will happen
10 the readers of a sensational novel re-
Gently completed by d Kansas City author
ess. It is said that she had' to be taken to
a sanatorium after her work was finished. |
Wishbones haze found a more exalted |
mission than enabling romantic young per- |
sons 10 tell which one is going to get mar |
ried first 4. rihbon-trimmedr box contain |
ing twenty-five wishbones was sent from
boarding house to a hospital ward the other |
day. "1he children, down there make fur |
niture out of Them said the SlVef--oino |
State Journal.
Boston is Justly proud of the record made |
by a fifteen year-old girl. Rose Pttonof. |
who swan from Charlestown Bridge to
Boston Light covering close to twelve |
miles in a little short of seven hours. 1t |
took more than sixteen thousand strokes
10 carry her the distance, and the average
temperature of the water was ID degrees. |
Seven men who attempted the swim had |
to give il up. She was, accompanied by |
five men in two rowboats, and her only |
rests were obtained by occasionally swim
ming on her back.
half-holilay after having accomplished |
a regular days work is "a rather brief |
period in which to review the recent po-
litical cyclone and figure out the NoVem-
Der result besides taking in d double
header in the Dell and toting water for
the elephant and making the regulation
rounds on he links, In fact, man ous Ss
when such eventful days happen along
Nashville American.
A New York merchant takes his Vaca-
ton in the form of long and short auto
mobile trips with his family, on which he
is usually accompanied by neighbor car,
owner, also accompanied by his family
on his return to the city from "A four days |
Trip he, found this letter. from the pro-
brletor of a country hotel: When we saw
your two cars stop at our house my wife,
and / thought we were going 10 have a
houseful of city people for few days.
What happened? YouF shofer tsc, asked,
ahout the road two OF tina Youngsters
bought postal cards and the ladies' sat
On the porch and drank water which our
girls brought them. Your friends shofer
sneaked off and get drink downstairs at
the bar That's what we got out of :,