New-York tribune., 1910-01-12
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

a lamentable gap in the English lam
suage and, indeed, in all languages, has
been discovered by correspondent of
'The Lancet" Why" asks NJ. j. Will
Jams, us there no way of describing
smells? You have not described or classt-
fed a smell when you have said that It
Is horrid, and you are just as wide OF the
mark when you have said another smell
is lovely. Consider the parallel of the
classification of colors. When you de-
scribe sunset you need not merely saw
that it is beautiful, you can go further.
and say that it is red or yellow or raur-
pie. as the case may be
"But. suposing you have been face to
face with musk for few minutes and
want to describe it to your friends, YOU
will find that, outside the province of
expletives. you are helpless"
''Whitconlb is an independent thinker"
He iS?'
Yes. he even dares to say the clock in
the railroad station is wrong. Buffalo
Express.
THE LURE OF THE LOBSTER.
LNote: Five new and splendiferous restaurants
are to open.
Lobsteria gItters in the night,
Her palaces arise
Like blazing stars that lend their light
To gid the gilded skies.
The Holsters wander TO and fro
Amidst the shining spIendors,
Unhappy still. where'er they go
Because they can't be spenders
BY day as we'll as night and they
Seek ever for some newer way
To show themselves to men and gods
AS specimens of fresh-made wads.
w. J. HAMPTON.
You don't give Mr.. Grafton Grabb credit
for being high type of statesman
No answered Farmer CorntosseI
of them oldtme fellers that thinks thronah
their pocketbooks an talks through their
noses-'-Washington Star.
Meta Hing the actress who was RS
sponsible for the English Theatre in Per-
lin this season. and who died in Frank
fort a few weeks ago, was the daughter
of a master carpenter. When she was
fourteen years old she became an appren-
tice in store in Bernburg, her native
town. hiographer, contradicting sew
eral nlisstatements as to her career, saws:
"She worked faithfully for three years.
but the life behind the counter was dis
tasteful to her. She loved the theatre and
spent much of her time reading the Ger
man classics. One day she surprised the
proprietor of the house by asking him to
listen to a recitation. BY moving pieces
of furniture a church scene with an altar
was improvised and presently Meta wan
kneeling and reciting for her audience of
one Marguerites plea to the Virgin. This
showed her talent; she served out the
contract quarter and then began her STAGE
career
IN NEW YORK.
What's that creepy noise?
It's shifting sound.
Mercy Can it be the wolf at the door,
No, it's the Tiger.
Poor Tiger!
Poor starving Tiger.
Scat! Cleveland Plain Dealer
:" This VIII be the end of Monte Carlo.'
says a writer in the Berlin Morgenpost 50
referring TO the fact that the Prince of
Monaco. who is now receiving 1000. ono
marks year for the gambling privilege
intends to raise the price TO 600 marks
What nonsense! Monte Carlo is a beautt-
full spot, but with the Casino and its entio-
ing tables eliminated the express trairs
would thunder past 1t, and the prince-ub,,
he would not realize in revenues n tho,
sandth part Of what he REQUIRES for hi;
deep sea researches. No: the end of Mont
Carlo is far distant In fact, baccara, is
to be added to its alluring sports, and If
roulette is murder to the player. baccars.
is the sevenfold crime"
Hostess-You won't come to church witt,
us then. Phyllis?" Win
Phyllis down for the week end)-I a..
think so, dear You see, 7 shouldn't i,odt
a soul there!-London Opinion. N'io"
The success of the striking eIectrio;o
at the Grand Opera House in Paris -
made a stand fer shorter hours ana -
pay when crowded house was woiti,a- sas
the curtain to go up on the thira oa,
Faust" was followed on New year,s r,
by similar demonstration on the nart 20
the men members of the haua,
DeIibes's ballet "Coppelia" was on ~, tr,
and large audience was present ,rn,. o'''
demand for more pay was hanaea =.
director 1t took forty-fve ninutas - .ii' .'io
to an understanding. and then the na.s eoil'e
ance proceeded. A man who was ,',.a1'.
said: "The smiles on the faces =, rls0sn' eur