New-York tribune., 1910-05-09
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

1.-THE average Chicago church member Is
a spiritual hobo. He considers himself one
of those happy mediums represented by
Weary Willie, who was too light to do
heavy work and too heavy to do light
work In his attitude toward religion he
resembles the hand-out artist who holds UP
a button and asks the woman of the house
to sew a shirt upon it, This is the view
expressed by H. P. Silver, of Topeka, at
the laymen's missionary convention In Chi
cago, and he added this gentle slap at the
clergy: There is too much timid asking on
the part of the ministers and not enough
OF commanding. You have too little
confidence in the desire of your con-
gregations to do good, and such doubt is
contagious. I believe one of the great
secrets of handling men is to tell them to
do things rather than ask them If they
won't
Jones failure completely wiped out Arthur S
fortune. / suppose he is all broken UP
over il.
Dawson-Yes, Arthur says he hasn't felt
so bad before since his college team lost
the football championship. - Somerville
Journal.
II noticed in a paper the other day." re-
marked suburbanite. "a story about a
young couple who went to housekeeping on
the thirtieth floor of an Office building TO
escape visits from a grabbed old aunt who
couldn't reach them there because she was
afraid of elevators. That reminds me of
q friend of mine who bought house. high
on a hill and half mile up q wood road
from the highway. What do you want
with such a hermitage as that I asked
him. Well he replied, TO tell who my
friends are. If anybody has the courage
to toll up that hill to see my family I'll
know he or she is a real friend. who sim
cerely wants to see US, and not just a
caller who dropped in because it was con-
venient.' -
Were you satisfied with the moving van
men you had?''
Not at aI. They didn't leave any of
our good pieces of furniture on the front
lawn for the neighbors to see.''-Detroit
Free Press.
3 large collection of papers pertaining
to family matters which a. New York won-
an values highly contains this compost
ton" which was written IN 1850 by her
brother when the family lived at Albany.
the boy being ten years old at the time:
THE Prince of Wales is the son of the
King OF England, and I saw him. He was
with his teacher, who is Lord Newcastle.
He Is not a prince always. but Lord Rem
frew. He was In the Governors house.
and there was a big parade. Some day he
will be King, but his name Will be changed
he will be named Albert. The parade
was beautiful. but the prince is only a
boy"
You need big mystery IN your play
to make X go. The public demands it
Ihaf'n keen guessing
What kind of mystery?"
Something deep and awful. Something
that surrounds the pitcher and catcher
when they meet on the field during the
game and confer in awful Whispers
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Down in a basement near the Army
Building. in Whitehall street. is a small
barber shop. which Is patronized by many
civilians employed by the Department OF
the East. The proprietor sold out recently,
and when the new owner took charge he
started in business the first day by asking
the old customers dozens OF questions con-
corning their hair and faces The iuquisi-
i've barber was soon the topic of con-
Versation. and one OF the old patrons asked
him why he annoyed customers with so
many personal questions. The barber
laughed and then replied: well. it's this
way: / have no personal interest in the
matter l do 1t merely TO learn as quickly
as possible the likes and dlslikes of my
customers. For example in the old place 7
had uptown | had a patron who would
walk out of the shop IL I stropped a razor
before shaving him. and another man
would not let me brush the hair on the
left side OF his head. The razor stropping
made the irst man nervous. and the other
fellow would start In TO sneeze frishtfuiIv