New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-05
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Sir Charles Waldstcin on the stand as a
witness in his wifes suit growing out Of the Elm
stein money ''iIe looks like German, said
man to his neIghbor Not at all" rctortcd the
wise one; he Is Austrian who lived in Greece
when he made the excavations they talk about
Il know better" said a third, he's real English
man. but his parents were German" ''An wrong
said an elderly man. making an Oriental gesture
81 knew his father Henry Waldstein when he
kept a spectacle store IN Union Square and his
three boys of whom this is one were all born
right here in New York"
Somebody on the Job-Wisc Fresh-No woman
ever made a fool Of mo.
Senior-Wbo did?-Pennsylvania Punch Bowl.
once when Weber & Fields company, so the
story goes, was playing in Salt Lake city MI.
Fields received letter from a Norman. asking
for a couple Of passes At first Mr. Fields de-
INJURED but as the who requested the tickets
was friend he finally agreed Taking card
from his pocket he wrote across the back of It,
then forwarded this Admit bearer and ONE
wife. Lew Fields"
CLEOPATRA seems to have been the first hunger
striker Shakespeare represents her as saying
when she was captured:
Sir. | will cat no meat I'll not drink, sir;
III not sleep neither: this mortal house III rum.
Do Caesar what he can Know sir, that ! -.
Argonant.
Before Pegoud looped the loop in the air, Link"
Beachey. the well known daredevil aviator said
he could do it if he weren't afraid of Turing his
brother aviators to try it after him. Seeing that
the Frenchman set the fashion, Beachey concluded
that he would be absolved from blame for acct
dents II ne took Il UP as a imitator. Accord
ingly he did the trick three times in succession
above San Diego, Cal
Pegoud's feat was noised abroad throughout
the land but Beacheys received only few lines
Of comment in the papers Those that know, how
ever maintain that Beacheys was OF vastly
greater significance in the development of aviation.
Pecoud flew in slow and steady passenger
CARRYING machine, bearing not more than three and
one-half pounds the square foot OF lifting sur
face His speed was less than forty-fve miles an
hour But Beachey Topped over and over at nearly
seventy-five miles hour in a 9O-horsepower
speed machine lifting six pounds to the square
foot AS expert put 1t. One machine huttered
over like dead leaf turning in still air; the other
shreked in an aerial circle like crazy skyrocket.'
Some writer's have no commercial instinct. One
writer will get up an automobile catalogue for so"
"Wcll?"
Another writer will take that catalogue
sprinkle in plot, and get big royalties from motor
novel Pittsburgh Post.
That the servant girl problem is still a long ways
from solution is shown by the experience OF up
town with a new maid she obtained from
an employment agency. When the maid reached
her apartments she was told in gentle but firm
tones that before beginning work she must take
bath whcreupon the maid answered that she
had been insulted, because she was clean yes.
she knew she was-she had taken "A bath when she
arrived in this country four months before.
by the way. old chap | need a little money"
you may consider Yourself fortunate l need
a whole lot."--Boston Transcript