New-York tribune., 1913-08-15
AS ] WAS SAYING

seething with apathy the nation loiters beside the
Mexican mudhole, risks now a toe, now heei-
tmidly tentatively-but hesitates to wade In. one
might almost fancy we had reached years OF dis
cretion.
Heaven forbid. We prefer Brother Martins ex-
planaton: sport is fairly good. We have won an
international tennis match, the baseball season IL
on there are horse again at Saratoga the siiS
clothes were never in the memory OF man so III
terestng-so charming in some cases, so ahusihs
in others-and have the movies In great variety
and We arc getting along through the summer very
well. Clean up Mexico? Spare us. good Lord!
gay philosophy is Brother Martins you sec
but he is not for letting Mexico go hang Dear!
dear. no Says we might put Mr.. Brandeis on the
Job Mellen has resigned. Maybe II we sent Bran
deis, Huerta would"
Such pity it is that Brother Martin goes 10
press with the chickens and never comes out IN
public till hours and hours after breakfast. Other
wise. how pleasantly he could have topped OIL MS
editorial with tribute to William Sulzer!
If Mexico lodges sknning, then, by George. 1t
will be thanks TO william! Just when merriment
ran highest up hoped that honest soul to change
the subject. Lucky for william, A little practice
in homicide and he should be certain OF joyous
grateful wecome-a career. possibly-in more IN
dulgent cline.
sweetly down yonder. You never know what hit
YOU or. If you do you well fixed and free to
live merrily abroad
But VIC half suspect it is neither the larks up
here nor the racket over william that chiefly makes
us go slow about Mexico playful people. We
dread that jokeless laughterless land.
Have you heard how Americans In Mexico con-
trive TO exist? Awful. At great cost they send an
annual enissary TO New York. where he combs the
vaudevles. the musical comedies, the frisky farces
andsuch is his zeal-beards the very jokesmithS In
their airs. Returning TO Mexico laden with hui
morosites he is acclaimed as the savior of his race
No wonder We balk at Mexico. The Cuban affair
was different Everybody with any zest for laughter
wanted look at the Cuban patriots
We sec by the papers that jolly Marian Cox is
billed to diyulge her interview with that most
caustic and brilliant Of Englshmen. George Bernard
Shaw"
Aha, Here discover who ate the canary bird
OF Irish culture. and the frantic newspaper debate
that theme Will kindly subside. Twas the Eng
lish. Down the English throat. straghtway, goes
everything admirable that comes out OF Ireland
Who was the wittlest Englishman? Dean Swift
who won the battle Of Kopjeveldt? The English
fighting from behind the Irish. And now It Is Shaw
they have swallowed.
SO be It. No England no Shaw. For It is contact
his inspiration and makes him the sacred fright We
adore. But does the Londoner know It? Not he!
lie can't understand" Shaw. Calls him subtle"
Sc find wise Mr.. Chesteron remarking. THE
Englishman thinks Shaw is pulling his leg. whereas
he is only pulling his nose
So sweet OF these latest Hikerettes TO name their
nags for Senator Root. Senator Frawley, DIR. Lyman
Abbott and DR.. Parkhurst. Especially the nags
turn out to be mares Noblesse oblige! Two OF the
ladies owe their names TO men, and the others
hope 10.
Next week four thousand embattled paperhangers
go out strike. Your innings brethren. though we
think It sad injustice to the radiator the mantel
piece and the piano
"A Bohemian highbrow aggregation" quote
the phrase from r. L. MS last. and never mind the
context. We repaired last evening a famous
haunt of bohemian hghbrows" accompanied by
that phrase and a vertable wizard.
Thanks to our wizard identified the guests.
Oh. thrilling! a Bohemian plumber. a highbrow
haberdasher, sentimental drummer. romantic
oorwalker several highly poetic stenographers ard
transcendenta coal dealer to say nothing OF an
esthete from the cigar store, dining Miss -, the
esoteric bookkeeper. and her cousin Name. the ethe
real soda queen. And this we learned, was no un-
usual assemblage at Tetevdes.
han Coumpia' happy land! II is magnificent the
way the higher life is pervading our commercial
classes.
And speaking OF Bohemian highbrows" here
good Professor Bateman. assailng the eugenlc
laws of New Jersey and Pennsylvania and asking
what the dickens will become OF genius and the arts
Hurrah for Bateman! Genius and the arts have
caught it like Sam Hill Of late. and 1t is high time
some In authority began to show them unbrdled
respect. r. l.. H.