New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-23

being treated with due respect OF VIII
familiarity? Still, there have been Major
Majors IN the army and Bishop Bishops in
the church.
THE MODERN BLACKSMITH
Under a costly canopy
The village blacksmith sits;
Before him is a touring car
Broken 10 little bits.
AND the owner. and the chauffeur, 100.
Have almost lost their wits.
The village blacksmith smiles with glee
AS he lights his lat cigar,
He tells his helpers what 10 90
To straighteu up tine car
And the owner. and the chauffeur, 100
Stand humbly where they are.
The village blacksmith puns his weed
And smiles a smile Of cheer,
The while his helpers pump the tires
And monkey with the gear,
And the owner. and the chsuifeuri TOO
Stand reverenty near.
Behind The village blacksmith is
The portal of his shop
Tho shop is very large in size
With q tiled roof on top
And the owner. and. the chauneur' 100
At It were glad 10 stop.
The children going home from school
Look IN at the open door
They like 10 see him make his DIS
and hear the owners roar;
And the chauffeurs weep as they declare
They ne'er paid that before.
He goes each morning TO the bank
And salts away his cash,
a high silk hat and long froch coat
Help him 70 cut a dash
But the owner, and the chauffeur, too,
Their teeth all valnly gnash-
The chestnut tree long since has died,
The smith does not replne,
His humble shop has grown INTO
a building big and fine.
And II bears Garage above the door
on q huge electric sign.
Chicago Evening Post.
That infants have an earning capacity IN
at least one country Is made clear by this
story from the current issue Of The Amer
lean Travellers Gazette: "A sailor who
spent some years in Ceylon asserts that
the Ciugalese mothers regularly hire out
their babies as crocodile bait These arc
his words. Baby bait rs the only thing Tor
crocodiIes. and everybody uses f. You
rent a baby down there for two shlllings
a day. OF course, no harm ever comes to
the babies, or else the mothers wouldn
rent them. The babies are simply set on
the soft mud bank Of a crocodile stream
and the hunter lies hid near them-a sure
protection. The crocodile soon rises up. In
he comes, a greedy look in his dull eyes
and then you open FIRE. Some Cingalese
women make as much as eight shillings a
week out OF renting their babies for bait %
What do YOU ind the most difficult part
81 YOUR profession. Doctor asked the
seeker after knowledge. ITO cure woman
who has nothing the matter witt her. re-
piled the Or.-Philadelphia Record.
The dress and costume exposition which
was 10 have been held In Berlin under
the auspices Of the Artists Society and
under tine personal direction OF the painter,
Karl Langhammer has been indefinitely
postponed. not for lack Of interest and
not because the artistic promoters feared
for its success" writes a member Of the
committee. but on account Of the weather
the weather that was. ms plans for the
show included elaborate floral decorations
for the grounds near the exposition build
mgs. but the drouth has had such de-
stroving effect on decorative plants that
the intended effects could not be produced.
Another loss 10 the account Of dry, hot
summer
cts be a clever conyersationallst?'
Clever. I should say he H. He can talk
Of things he knows nothing about without
contradict Detroit Free Press.