New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-04-11
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

An snti-decoration league has been
formed In Servia to combat the increasing
food OF foreign and home orders with
which state functionaries are accustomed
to sdorn their breasts. The founder Of the
league, himself a much decorated ex-min-
lister, was inspired by the sight Of his son
standing before n mirror and vainly seek
ing space for the latest medal on his thick
ly consolidated breast. The young man
finally had recourse to a ribbon, from
which his new acquisition dangled on top
OF the others, and the irate father ex-
claimed: This is the last straw! Hence
forth you and I will walk abroad as de-
cent men" Tho And-DecOration League
was formed on the spot and had a dozen
sdherents before nightfalL II IS growing
rapidly, and the government is already per
picked at the prospect Of clerks demanding
an increase OF salary instead Of the annual
decoration which hitherto served In its
place.
They were talking about endurance tests
"Patiencer' echoed tn. fair girl. why.
your sex don't know the first rudiments Of
patience. Did man ever attempt to make
a crazy quilt?''
II don't know, 1 am sure" yawned the
mere man, "but-er-did a woman ever at
tempt to color meerschaum piper"
And then she changed the sUbject.-Chi-
csgo News.
Rostand's "Chantecler' has brought into
fashion a new hat, and now threatens a
dance. For the president of the Paris
Academy of Choregraphy has invented a
new dance-the "Chanteclairette"-in which
the partners initiate the methods OF the
poultry yard. For five "sets" they walk
around. scratch the floor. pursue and imi-
tate the beating OF wings, and the final
capture. And when says a writer. "the
male sticks out his dress cOattails behind
him 10 initiate the cocks tail. and the
female scrapes the floor with her dainty
shoe. civilization will produce a very bad
imitation OF the manners OF the farm
yard"
Doctor. I'm all run down and extremely
nervous. Can you save me?'
Surely, my friend; surely. Yours Is a
common nilment jJst now You are simply
reading more baseball news than YOU can
assimilate. '-WashingtOn Herald.
Acting on the idea that business man.
or. in fact. any one. will open and read a
telegram where a circular would be thrown
into the waste basket. many persons who
have heretofore used the malls for reach
ing prospective customers are now using
the new letter-telegram system OF the tele-
graph companies. One firm recently turned
in about four thousand dispatches 10 be
sent in one night for that purpose. Where
a form is used with a number of addresses
in the same city. the form is wired through
once. and the addresses are sent with il,
to be copied off and delivered by the re-
ceiving office. Advertisers say that this
method insures a reading OF what they
have to say. incidentally. IT means work
for many more telegraph operators. as we'll
as more income for the company.
'IIulIo. Billie" said the freshman to a
cIassmate who was whistliDg blithely as
he walked along w hIther away
I'm Eoin' up to DIR. Cuttems 10 be eX-
amned for appendicitis" said the other.
"Geerusale,n, You don't seem to he very
much worried about it," said the first
"Oh. no" smiled Billie. There won't be
anything doing. I've never been able to
pass an examine ton the first time in all
my fair young hfe-"-Harpers Weekly.