New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-31
THE TALK or THE DAY.


and states directed against the public
drinking cup. THE Philadelphia Ledger
says that when ut becomes universally
understood that public drinking cups have
been abolished as compulsory measure
of sanitation. peorle viii acquire the haDH
Of carrying their own cups. or tho vendors
Of paper cups will have met the emergency
In the mean time some Inconvenience ana
suffering will be inevitable" And. ADDS
the writer, it IS not too much 10 hope mat
when people become educated to the WIS
dom and utility Of this prohibition they
will be willing to forego without the inter-
position Of law that other kindred abomi-
nation. the roller towel In public and SEMI
public places. The two practices are close
~ related, and the dangers attending Dotn
are identical"
Prices in this country are dispropor-
tomato said the man VINO mas All hIi"'
of trouble. 90
What is your especial grievance
You can send letter for a two-cen,66
stamp. and it may cost you $1,000 or E2IooV
10 get it back. Washington star.
II YOU are angry at the postmstress OF
your home town-providng YOU live IN
small place where a p0stmistress holds
forth-don't try to get even by calling her
an old bag" and writing 1t to q friend on
postal card She has the right TO hold
up the card; and. besides. the attempt to
make the public believe that she is an old
bag is such an attack on the character oil
n real postmistress as TO make the person
who does the writing liable 10 arrest ana
Imprisonment under the postal laws Al
bert Knudston Of Sioux Rapids, Iowa, has
found out to his sorrow that he cannot
refer 10 n postmistress as an 'old bag
and stay out Of Jail. lie was in Denver
and wrote 10 a friend Al Sioux Falls on a
postal card. using the term odd nag and
applying it 10 the postmistess. Now Uncle
Sam accuses him OF violating a postal reg
ulation.
Isn't that DioEenes hustllng round the
corner with a lantern and big CLUB:
SIN looking for the honest MANI"
NO. he's looking for that college profess
sor who said the sun was losing It's heat.
Cleveland Plain Dealer
The American Medical Tourist Assocla-
ton recently formed I'm Vienna, has T.
membership Of eighty American men and
women medical students. who, under the
leadership OF DR. Hammer, spend much OK
their leisure time I'm making trips through
picturesque Austria. These students have
recognized the beauty Of our country
says a Vienna paper, land they seem to be
enthusiastic about the various towns.
We have than those clever people, who
we have tina nthose clever people, who
will take the stories of their travels back
to their homes and convince their friends
that Austria is the tourists paradise"
Jsck-so you broke your engagement
with Miss Esreneiye2
Iohn-Neithor She nor 7 broke IT,
Jack-Well why aren't the cards OUT
John-Why. she told me what her cloth
ing cost and ] told her what my income
was. Then our engagement gently dis
solved. Toledo Blade.
Speaking about the bin passed by the
Municipal Council Of Lyons France, to
levy Il tax of n francs a year on bachelors,
a New York man said that many years
ago. when he was az the head OF a factory
in New England he endeavored to place
a premium on matrimony by paying mar
riageable bachelors less for their work than
their unmarried side partners one
day" he said zone Of our men asked me
II really favored this discrimination, and
told him that ! certainly did. \ few days
later I heard that Tom was to be married.
Months afterward he came 70 the office
hat I'm hand. and said, Say, boss, is It so
you're not a married man? l had to con-
fcss I was bachelor and then he said
sharply: 7 suspected as much; no one but
a bachelor would make such a fool pay
law as yours II was SO funny that I
overlooked the disrcspect'
THAT fellow is a positive joke
Relative OF your wife's or holding a
better Job than you?' Detroit Free Press.