New-York tribune., 1910-11-09
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

"Gaby Deslys, the young actress whose
name has been coupled frequently with
that Of the deposed boy king Of Portugal"
says q Paris letter. must be a remark
6 BILE person. Il she is like her picture. This
has been published over and over again
since the Portuguese kingdom fell. and
shows her as being short and slender, tall
and stout. graceful and awkward. dark
and fair, with q Greek and with an orr
entail face, strikiugly beautiful and pain
fully plain In all OF the pictures the
maker has endeavored TO present grace
ful figure. in which some of them have
succeeded only tndinerently. The collec-
tion is interesting, as showing what In
ventive genius, coupled with the art OF
rortraiture. can accomplish"
Musical Hostess-They tell me captain,
that YOU fairly dOte on Wagner.
Baseball EnthuSast-Au a mistake. mad
am. I'm a PhiIadelphian.-Cleve Plain
Dealer.
A movement against immortality in art
has been begun by the Italian Minister Of
the Interior, accompanied by the usual Ill
advised suppression OF some of the nation s
literary classics. This mistake Of the ni-i-
fster's suhordinates led the Hilanese paper.
"Ciiovane Italia" which opposes the move
mert. to advise him sarcastcally not TO
overlook the Bible and Lucian. The gov
e~rmeut's answer to this time worn inter
national pleasantly was the COnfscatIon OF
the issue Of the paper containing the article
and its prosecution for offence against pub
lie morals
Rlobhs-Does scribbier ever display any
Of the ecceutricltles Of genius?
SIobbs-Ees, he occasionally PAYS back
Of e
phla Record.
Connecticut expects to see unveiled in
the capitol some time in the coming win
ter q memorial to United States Senator
Orvile II Platt It is an oval bass-relief
il bronze representing the Senator seated
at his desk
THAT man looks perfectly contented.
He ought 10 be He has his winter nan
nels broken in and eight tons OF coal III the
cellar. ."-DetrCit Free Press.
When Frau Lii Wach. the wife OF Pro
fessor Wach Of Leipsic died at Innsbruck
lest week says the Vienna 'Wochblatt,'
there passed away the last of Felix Men
delssohn- -Bartholdy's children. She was the
Youngest OF I'VE. and was born TO the COM
poser and Cecile Jeanrenaud. his wife. in
1St5 two years before the uutimely death
the NIendeIssohn family archives and her
home IN Leipstc was one of the literary and
musical centres OF Germany
..I Amt seen no 'pOssums comm in VT
said Brother DiCkey. Does you reckon de
meat trust hez got um
No doubt of it
.-Lawd save US, An ter think dat de
'riginal intention er de 'ppssum wlz ter
pacifv de cuilud race,"-AtlantA Corstitu-
tiou.
Kansas farmers are wasting hundreds OF
thousands of dollars worth of good land,
according u J. 3. Koontz, general freight
agent OF the Santa Fe Along the line Of
his road Mr. Koontz saws. there are 25.0Gi
acres # hand covered with useless straw
stacks Mr.. Koqutz figures that II the
ground occupi- -d by the straw was sown "a
wheat every year. the Weld on a fifteen
bushel average would he $4,000 bushels Al
90 cents q bushel the crop from the stack
area alone would bring S337.5oo This sum
Mr. kcontz says. is lost annually by the
farmers IN the limited territory In which
the estimate IS made However. the farm
ers are waking up 70 the loss. Experiment.
lately have been made IL the preparation