New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-29
TIE TALK OF THE DAY.

IL a group around a motion picture sign
board near the Tribune Building yesterday
were two tackles" from the fleet IN the
Hudson, who were about % move on when
an old man took the arm OF one and de-
llvered a short talk which diverted atten-
ton from the autographs and from the
vendors. I'm an old sailor" he said. i
was in the service before you were born.
7 was on a Mississippi gun0oat, twice
around the Horn on q sailer. down 10
Good Hope on another from Liverpool and
10 Australia from Frisco. Never on a
steamer except the gunDoat. We were
sailors though" with emphasis on the
sailors" You boys are day laborers."
Guess that IS right, pop" said one OF the
men. but we're the kind they want now"
and they linked arms and walked away,
leaving the old man 20 tell how they
couldn't tie a knot" and do many things
which came in the sailors line "in the old
times
',Wen old man. how did you get along
after LETT you al midnight. Get home all
sNo. confounded nosey policeman hailed
me 10 the station. where i spent the rest
u Lucy iIii ky doc, reached home. Boston
Transcript.
FOR EVER AND EVER.
rNatr-A bride IN Connecticut was stolen from
ler husbands side ny a man who pointed PTS
t0l az him aad carried her away ln al auto
mobile
Yesterday. when men were savage.
And as savages sought wives,
They would smite EN- with d bludseon
TIL they nearly took their lives.
Then. on dinosaurs waiting.
They would hustle 'em away:
And they found these means effective.
Did the men of YESTERDAY
But to-day a nature tender
Nestles in the heart Of us.
50 We simply pull a pistol
And display ferocious fuss.
With tho lady In our keeping.
In an auto We away:
Quite IN common with our forebears
Is our method OF to-day
And now comes the prophcsyIug
For tomorrow ardent swain:
Then a mental wireless science
VIII be flashed from brain to- brain
Mentally Dof cogrscl he'll club her
To an airship. then take course
Man and modes are never changing
Always comes the fair bv force.
\. W. O..
sho-Ah. Jack, What can equal the
warmth ~ ID true Womau's love-
He-The heat NJ her temper, my dear
variety Life.
The uuvering OF the William cullen Bry-
ami -tafrI. la Brvaut Park will MT ar end
to the bit Of uumOr which the megaphone
mon on sightseeing coaches injected into
their talks 20 tourists when passing
through i-d street They used TO say. ION
the ugnt-Bryant Park one half OF the
space once occupied by the city reservoir
torn down 90 make room for the library
Named Bryant Park because in II stands a
statue OF the late Or. j. Marion 5imms."
Jones embarrassed me terribly to-day"
"fie asked me how 7 enjoyed his speech
90 the banquet last night Detroit Free
Press.
changing the names OF streets ia Paris
and subsutuulr "Voltaire' "Renan."
"Dlderot' and similar lights Of freedom
for saints names Is called By America" a
scheme on the part Of the anti-Clericals
10 enace the memory OF the nations
Catholic past" But the Cahtolcity OF
France is too deeply imprinted h. her his
tory 90 De biotted ont By any such petty
means as these" adds America Her past
al least. h. secure. Even since the great
OF 70 revolutionary France
mas not had q heroine like Joan OF Are.