New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-23
AS | WAS SAYING

There is shocking news from Washington where
they are demolishing our innocent Protective Iaril
and retaining Tariff for Revenue We sit in oppo-
ston TO Revenue We have where it goes
s. O0o 900 for a lighthouse Spot Pond, Sl2opoooo
for bikes on top Of Fosters Mountain, SlooooWo
10 pension persons who by special act OF Congress
arc fanced to have been living at the time of the
civil War" and All this to rc-elect the Congressman
from the s79th District which there isn't any
With everybody else writing miniature character
sketches of THE Wittest Man Ever Nhe" VIC
yearn to sit in the game.
our wIttiest man is New England farmer. one
sunday after church he said to "Haow did we
like Square Lanes solo,
We replied: We'll Squire Lane hasn't "hat you
would call cultivated voice"
Dunno baout that" snapped our rustic genius
"saounds T. me s # he'd been over IT at least once
with harrow.
Naturally II is Of city planning that Mr.. Raymond
Irwin speaks when he declares: Nothing is too
extensive. It will bc more expensive tomorrow
but his remark has a much wider application. frices
arc rising Beloved. blow your money While II VIII
still buy something
Writing To- Queries and Answers.' +. NJ IN
ouiros regarding the quotation The Lord teinpteth
tho winds 10 the Hnotn lhln'' anu - '''' 90
supplies the usual version. Wrong again! When
% and A." has resided longer in these parts he
III discover 20 his great JOY. that the true FORM
is. cod tempcrs the wind TO tie born sham
As our poet has gone To- th, synagogue we arc
compelled to attempt doggcrcl of our own mus
.,r,, Il %, roars tho much aegrieyed Obituary Man.
.ropc is I'D and trotting round and round ms vatican
Feeling finer every day though had thought perhaps
Plus could afford a nice oblgng kind RELAPSE
Ever thus II f. I find. and sad it is indeed
Famous one RECEIVERS just when have pcnned my
rcrecd.
Tosoy dies then come details from rolstoys heartless
Fathers gone ont skating won't he back till half past
one
Drbscn dies write him up Before the ink is dry
>. arri,ce that Ibsen's eating seven slabs OF pie.
Then TOO could mention it not a waste OF
breath
Brother Twain's annoying. much exaggerated death
~s,ln with patient waiting comes my FUN when theirs
is past
Then it is quote lie aughoth best who aughoth last
Thus he roars vet never there since the world
began
Kinder. gentler soul than this obituary Man
You remember Miss Patricia OBriens tribute to
the show: I'VE had good scenery-it was rehei
TO look at the scenery" our heart went out TO
IL '''N
enchanting new opera at Nice. which Is played oy
the scenery with orchestral accompaniment No or
fence to the venerable folks OF operanone what
ever-but despite the excellent examples they set
before the young and their melodously realistic
manners when dying-the stage is hardly their place
when we so easily obtain them canned.
II IL appears that all the Japs are boiling with
bellicose frenzy remember Nlscount Ichwhichi and
his appeal reason: First in war is first in pieces
And still they come. these mirthful Esculapians!
Having read our theft from THE Dietetc and
Uveienc Gazette" on the crime OF Judging man
actions instead OF his motives, DR.. Edward r..
Thorpe drops in with news OF bewiching dipso-
maniac whose excuse is that when tipsy, he knows
en- much" Which. so DR.. Thorpe assures us, throws
light upon the hitherto obscure phrase, "a thirst Tor
knowledge"
once again We read: "Our art students are ad-
United absolutely free at the Ecole des Beaux-
Arts and receive instruction from the most cele-
brated masters" Oui, oui. Parfaitement! Every
week comes a quaint little peaky- bearded French
man with n red rosette in his buttonhole and
renutation that completely encirces the globe. He
souints AT your daub. says. Not bad" and trots
away This Is invaluable. r. H. H.