Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-07
Some Prominent Men

| These attenuated supports had been of
purely personal value for some time,
but an accident revealed the fact that
they might be turned to a monetary
account also. About eight years ago
he returned from a London engage
ment. serene in the consciousness that
his wardrobe was of the most up-to-
date English make. Britishers were at
that time struggling with rad for
trousers that were little short of skin
tight Senon's legs were even more
slender than they are now, and he
was wearing a very modish pair of
trousers as he left the ship and turned
himself loose on Broadway In that
first half hour on Broadway his fortune
was made.
The first who saw him laughed and
| turned to stare. Then they began to
follow him, and the crowd increased
Mr.. Semon's saving sense of humor
only prevented his underplnning from
getting sadly tangled up with embar-
rassment, but he was enjoying the fun
as much as the mob, and he also APP
preciated the value of the idea that
had suddenly formulated in his mind
AT the end of a block he hailed cab
drove to an English tailor and his
present act is the result.
Mr.. Semon fears aVoirdupoise worse
than any woman, and he watches anX-
iously for any signs of increasing flesh
He always carries a set of postage
| scales and weighs himself every few
days. But the easy vaudeville life ano
a constant cheerfulness are beginning
to tell on him, and notwithstanding his
watchful care, he has taken on several
ounces in the last few years, and al
ready he is beginning to plan for the
day when he will have to go on as a
fat man. -
Thomas A. Edison, an illustration OF
modern enterprise and go, often quotes
a letter from O. professional gambler.
This gambler, real American In ms
pushing get-there spirit, wrote to Mr.
Edison:
Dear Sir: desire to order n specia
X-ray apparatus suitable for playing
faro Same should be invisibly at
tached to spectacles and should enable
me to tell the second card in the pack
turned face up. Please send estimate
for above. If it is a success, [ Will pay
you $25O0 gratuity, over and above cos,
price, at end of first year. VIII eXpecl
Won to observe strictest secrecy. Await
ing your reply,
"FORDHAM FLUSH.
"P. S.-If you cannot execute above
order, please send me Prof Roentgen'
address"
Passing through the skeleton hall oi
the national museum at washington
where the whole history of the osteoio'
CIV of animals, both living and extinct
is illustrated by skeletons, from the
smallest lizard to the largest mastodon
an employe was accosted by two ladles
eager, breathless sightseers.
"Are those really all the skeletons oi
the animals Roosevelt shot?' ASKED
one.
Sadakichi Hartman, art critic and
writer, is the strongest mixture OF the
plodding and painstaking Teutonlc
strain and the idealism of the Orient
imaginable. His father was a German
and his mother Japanese. Ihe art
of the Occident generally seems tame
to him. and by instinct he leans toward
the traditions of Nippon. He is one
of the best judges of japanese prints
in the United States, and when not
employed in writing glowing apprecla-
tions of the work of artists Whlch ap-
peals to his unconventional Ideas, he
is devoting much time to the study OF
rare examples of Japanese art. He
declares that genius stalks alone with
its head in the clouds, and often he
NAV be seen in Fifth avenue, all by
himself, enjoying the aloofness of his
position.
Before Vice President Sherman ever
dreamed of holding his present distln-
guished place his ambition was to be
speaker of the house of representatives.
For years there had been a race be-
| tween Sherman and Jim Watson OF
Indiana to stand in a convenient place
should the mantle of Uncle Joe Cannon
fall from his shoulders. But Watson
got ahead when he was chosen as Re
publican whip of the house. Soon
afterward he was prominently men
toned all over the country among Re
publican leaders as a candidate FOR
vice president. Sherman got out and
whooped it up for Watson. He was
asked by a close friend if he was in
earnest.
"I never had my heart set on any
thing like this before he said. II
would be for him for anything from
town constable to president of the
United States. Then maybe ] would
get to be speaker some sweet day. 1t
is my only hope"
Now that the north pole has been
located, it must be made the scene of
every kind of ludicrous stunt. capt
Roald Amundsen, for instance, is GO
ing to drift past it. He is planning a
! summer trip of seven years, and mas
much as the pole lies in his path, he is
going to drift past 1t. 1t had to be
| discovered nrSt, DQL now let IL pISpdte
to be the Mecca of a world of freaks
Niagara had to be discovered before
anyone thought of shooting over it in
barrel or walking across 1t on piano
string.
No one has yet arranged for Mara
thon to the north pole and back, but
with the advent of warm weather 1t Is
probable that some one will think of it.
If the fistic encounter scheduled for
the Fourth OF July does not materialize,
the north pole Marathon will be almost
as good a drawing card. 1t might be
we'll to grease the pole and specify that
the Marathoners climb it before start
ing on their return trip.
Enterprising circuses will, within a
few seasons, be advertising the north
pole as one of their attractions. The
most enterprising of them will pro-
vide a lady to climb the pole on a mo-
torcycle and wave the American flag
from its summit as she balances herself
skillfully on the point on the rear tire
of the blazing machine.
John X. Palmer, member of the Ma
tional Pharmac eutical society, has
| come forward with about the crazies'
nroposition ever advanced by mortal
in or outside of an insane asylum
palmer poses as the inventor of the
hygienic kiss. He would pasteurlze
Cupid, denaturalize labial bliss ano
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