New-York tribune., 1911-12-20
THE TALK or THE DAY.

Tn tho course of a lecture delivered at
Portland ore. Dr. David Blaustoin. ot
Columbia University School Of Philan-
thropy. said: THE big cities are rcsponsi-
HE for many evils, for sickness due TO
overcrowdng and lack Of sanitation and
for much child delinquency. Tho people
want home lives. n IS becoming realized
that i'm America especially farming IS fast
attaining the importance Of science
Therefore. the people who desire to leave
the big cities arc willing 10 seek employ
ment as farm laborers I'm order 10 procure
the knowledge which will permit them TO
become farmers themselves. With the
opening of the Panama Canal there viii
he a heavy movement 10 this coast from
the Fast. we'll as from Europe, and II
is high time to take steps 10 prevent tho
crowding Of the newcomers into slum dis
trcts upon their arrival here. as has oc-
CURED in the East"
Yes" said Miss Backbay, Emerson ap-
peals to us women of Boston. although he
has passed beyond, we always keep MN IN
our hearts. you know
You don't say" replied Miss Knox, OF
Chicago. II wonder how IT feels TO be kept
in cold storage like that.'-The Catholic
Standard and Times.
WHISPERS AND GERMS
We've been recently told in the plainest
Of terms
That whiskers afford a fine covert for
germs;
And that therefore the man who prefers
not TO shave
To the health Of the world is a menace
most grave.
If this be the truth, it is surely a flaw
That all whiskers are not yet forbidden by
law.
But there's one class. at least that will
greatly rejoice
II TO shave is no longer a matter for
choice;
For the fortunes of BARRIERS will quickly
be made
When we all must submit TO the barbarous
blade.
But will they not think, as their razors
they strop,
Is # right at the boards and the whiskers
to stop?
Then wen doubtless be told, though we
shrink back appalled,.
That man, to be healthy, must also be
bald. G. B. NJ.
u hear you left stingo & Co.'S"
Yes I'm in business for myself now"
what are you doing?'
Looking for another job"-The Path
finder.
The theory advanced before the Boston
School Of Social Science by George W.
Cooke that women should take the nita-
tive in Iove"-that she and not the man
should propose matrmony-has a champion
in the person cf a matron who lived i'm
New York until recently. At "A dinner ar
ranged TO celebrate her silver wedding.
after her husband and son had spoken she
was prevailed upon TO SAY something
and complied by telling her guests "a
secret" IF I had not been courageous
enough to disregard the conventional she
said. this dinner would probably never
have taken place. George was going away
10 be gone a year and came to say goOdby.
lie hupg around long time and finally
said. We'll I must be going and We all
wished him good luck | knew there was
something on his mind, and when we got
to the door ! asked him II we were 10 be
married when he returned. ] don't remem-
her what he answered, hut ! knew he came
back In two months, and l never was sorry
for what ] did
WHY do you wear a monocie IN Parlia-
ment2'
well. you See replied the candid tour
iet SOME of those speeches are deucediy
dun. but YOU can't well go To sleep, You
know, with one eye propped open with a
bit Of glass. Washington star