New-York tribune., 1912-04-06
THE TALh or THE DAY.

Yesterday. Good Friday. was officially
fast day I'm Connecticut under a proc
lamation OF Governor Baldwin. The Gov
crnor wrote: Following the ancient Gus
tom Of Connecticut, | appoint Friday, the
5th day of April next, as a day Of fasting
and prayer, on which I recommend 10 all
her people that they put aside the ordinary
business Of their lives, and, assembling I'm
their usual places of worship. or each in
the stiffness Of his own heart, seek
closer communion OF thought and purpose
with God, the Father Almighty. Maker of
Heaven and Earth
"Gwendolen, have you been out driving
with young man.?
Yes, auntie.
"lImph!'
But ne had only one arm that he could
use, auntie, he had been Nacclnated on the
other one"
PauseD -,
.'Gwendoen, didn't YOU do the driving?'
Chicago Tribune
The women Of Kansas have certainly
proved their right 10 vote-or. at least one
of them has" said a recently returned
drummer who makes long trips through
the small towns of the Middle West.
1t was at one Ol IuS Stu'lf - sA'i'7
in a rural community that called
10 collect long outstanding a''
count. The proprietor. a retired farmer
was a cantankerous old cuss. and In the
discussion we both lost our tempers FINAL
~ | shouted: Come out from behind that
counter and I'll thrash the daylGhts out
of you'll I don't, we'll call 1t square.
Scarcely were the words out Of my mouth
when the curtain which separated the store
from the living room parted and an athletc
looking damsel, her arms bare u the elbow
and a determined look In her eye, appeared
i'm the doorway. Take him up, dad, 'he
cried. and If you're not equal 10 the JoD,
I'll finish 1t for you, and We1l save the
nrice OF those frames No. | didn't accept
her proposition-whethcr Gallantry or dis
crotion led to my refusal I'll leave YOU To
Judge. But it goes to prove that I'm the
Sunfower State, At least, women believe
themselves the equal Of men In more ways
than one
Baker-Manning' operation has been
postponed indefinitely.
Rarker-Why'S that?
Baker-lIis surgeons wife mas inherited
large fortune.-Life.
y klnIPlEbflPH lfd'U'I' III TH'hhIllb ~
the attack made on baby talk by one
Of the Tufts College instructors, said 'Of
course. We all know that baby talk is a
poor substitute for the real language. but
We know also that it is the result OF first
effort II Will always exist, and. thank
heaven for 80 The people who hate II are
those who are too matter-of-fact to he
motherlv No mother teaches her baby
baby talk any more than she teaches It TO
crawl and to adopt tine Tufts method. And
10 curb the lspng prattle Of the baby.
which is usually Ineligible 10 the mother
only. would he like forcing tho youuSstar
To stand when II can only creep. To moth
ers and women who know children the
effort TO check baby talk Is only another
Of the questionable steps toward making
children grown UPS.
GARDEN1N'."
"Git ready FUR yer sardenin',' SAYS Uncle
Hiram Wise.
Don't sit AROUND an think That you VIII
git glad SURPRISE
With carly peas an other things a-smilin
Unless Won git outdoors an tend to bust
ness with noe.
"Fur gardenin' is purity much like all the
You can't plant seeds an leave 'cm 10 the
mercy Of the sky.
You've got To tend the CROWN things on
which you've set your heart
The weeds II surely beat 'em r you let
'em git a start
II all YOU seek IL pleasant paths in which
to set your feet,
You can let the daisies blossom: but they
won't le good 10 eat.
A lot of US would oft be spared "A disap-
pointin' shock
II cabbage an tomatoes grew as easily as
Observation-Disclosures star
The editor or American Medicine" dis
cusses this week The Medical Side OF Dis
armament referring especially To those
physicians WHO are taking the atruistic
duties of their profession So seriously that
they are joining I'm the fashionable peace
movement This physician-cdltnr. ap-
parently just revelling in his subject. pro-
tests against the international agreement
that exempts surgeons and sanitarians zen
orally from the ordinary treatment OF pris-
oncrs of war and adds. I'VE know that
armies cannot exist to repcl invasion an
lees sanitarlans are with them u apIl- the
newest sanitary rules for preventing such
sickness ss occasionally destroys the great
'r part of military expedition. To cAempt
thCfo 'Ap'rt- from capture Z. g. absurd = r
10 exempt the cAlsIts In ammunition and