New-York tribune., 1911-11-27
THE talk or THE DAY.

NJ Chaumet. Under Secretary for Posts
and Telegraphs of France, has set up
human buffer between himsef
and the general "kckers." He has APP
pointed an advisory committee, sixty-hVe
strong. and It's members include Senators,
Deputies, officials of all ranks down 10
a woman postal employe and letter
sorter, representatives Of shipping anu
commercial houses and journalists. ms
committee which NJ. Chaumet calls a
little Parliament" will deal with the enor-
nous mass Of complaints and sugSes-
tions sent i'm daily to the postal admins
tration by the public, and submit such as
seem suitable as proposals to the admin
One winter morning Henry Clay, finding
himself i'm need Of money, went 10 me
Riggs Bank and askef for the loan OF
$3.50 on his personal note. lie was told
that while his credit was perfectly good
II was the inheyible rule OF the bank 10
require an indorser. The great statesman
hunted mp Daniel Webster and asked MIN
to ndorse the note. with pleasure, sald
Webster. But 1 need some money my
self Why not make your note for five
hundred. and YOU and / will split it?'
This they did And to-day the note is In
the Riggs k-unpad.-Popular Maga-
zine.
FORCGBLE ARGUMENTS.
IT, somciimcs. suffragettes have gone
The length of hurting bricks,
We should not be too hard upon
Their little girlish tricks.
That. when with proper force propelled,
Such arguments have weight
BY generations past was held
To he beyond debate.
Persuasion, once, were all Of stone
And aimed to strike the face;
And though, perhaps some have outgrown
The childhood of the race,
Still many man win sympathize
If women break the laws
And window panes of largest size,
In fighting for their cause.
Yet when we see their missiles fly,
And all the damage note,
We doubt If they have proved thereby
Their fitness for the vote
at length her light Experience brings
To clear this passage dark
When women take to throwing things
They mostly miss the mark.
q. Is. VI.
Visitor TO foreman of print shop)-Nhy
are your men i'm such a hurry?
Foreman-We're getting out timetable
for a railroad and they want 70 finish IT
without making any changes.-Judge
Among those who attended family gath
erlng in New York a few days ago were an
old man and two sons, both fathers Of
families, who had not met in many years.
Some of the people who made up the merry
party were mystiied by the fact that Of
the three men no two bore the same name.
The fathers name was Fassbinder, one
son answered to the name Cooper and the
other was presented as Mr.. Binder. 1t was
explained that when the two sons arrived
in America from their home in Germany,
nearly twenty years ago, they found their
name too long and too hard to pronounce
Going to different parts Of the country. one
took the name Of Cooper. the English for
the original name, and the other got rid
of the barrel" as he explained it, and has
been Binder ever since.
Did you quarrel with your wife's mother
that she went home so soon
NO. my wife quarrelled with her.
your wife,
Yes: YOU sec she ordered me not 10
the house and | was smoking the,
cigars my wife gave me on my birthday
Post.
I'm a debating society composed of mem
bers of a Bible class attached to New
York church the strike Of the street clean
ers was the subject Of discussion, and at
the end OF the argument II was voted that
the strike was "justifable." member
who had spoken on the negative side pro-
posed as the subject Of the next debate
the following: Resolved. That in view of
the fact that this organization has by
majority vote declared the street cleaners
strike right and justifable. the members
Of the New York Fire Department, also
employees OF the municipality under the
civil service laws, Ike the street cleaners,
would he justified in going on strike and
in preventing other men from taking their
places II they had a grievance which could
rot BE- settled by arbitration"
Aunt Mary horrified)-Good gracious:
Harold what would your mother say III
{ he saw YOU smoking cigarettes?
Harold (calmly)-Shed have ht
They're her cigarettes -Tit-Bits.
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TAFT AND POLITICAL GAME"