New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-16
AS ] WAS SAYING

II is quite a spell now. since the amusing young
architect in Miss Fullers story laid his hand on MS
heart and announced his creed. 81 believe quoth
he "that the design OF a building should proclaim
the buildings use"
This gospel went through the heroine like great
organ note. She knew about the one buildlng lie
had designed namely, an insane asylum-ahd puihe"
To it,
Rut let us avoid Hippancy II is a solemn prn-
cir,e alive and kicking after all these years. Only
Yesterday il kicked with vivacity in tie
"Newarker" which has been discussing designs for
libraries
So we have buttonhoed our intellect backed
il into corner and stumped it TO tell the archltec's
what if any are the Of libraries. TO our
delight it speaks freely. and guess architecture
will have it's hands full expressing the uses Whch
are: j..
l. To shelter hoboes. Libraries are essential to
hoboes and vice versa otherwise. how obtain the
necessary fragrance?
.. To entertain pensioners. pension provinces
only hall room and gas stove, and veterans
demand more sumptuous environment "hile
perusng Civil War histories all day long in order
10 discover what they escaped by not participating
in that struggle.
. To bring a nations newspapers within the
reach Of journeymen burglars. Not everybody wants
his name in the papers. Many fine Fellow VIII
spend thirteen hours a day assuring HlIhseii 'l"'
his has been left out. II is the clipping bureau
instinct the other end to-
4. To furnish encyclopedias to clubwomen. who
know not what they do All brethren we nave
seen encyclopedias made. Little do the ladies real
ze when they copy their essays from those wicked
volumes that they are encouraging child labor.
) To amuse lunatics Say the word. and We will
introduce YOU to the charming individual who makes
out Jolly existence in libraries reading nothing
but City Directories.
So We regret that the Cram -Goodhue- Fergusons
have dissolved partnership. They say It befuddes
architects 10 work In herds but when IT comes to
designing libraries. should call IT the proper
notion Especially If the architects espouse different
drinks.
The more ponder g. the more We applaud the
young architect in Miss Fullers story. But just
see the designs for our new Chdrens Court House
Oh! yes, they have resisted recent tendencies and
done the square thing. Yet do they proclaim the
uses Of childrens court house? Where are the
bugaboos the embodments OF Cheese IT. the cop!'
and the dread auguries OF slippers and shingles and
"gobbe-uns that gets YOU II YOU don't watch out?
Still we trace a certain fitness I'm the classic the
almost collegiate facade. When sophomore ructions
have enraged the actors and pestered the audience
what a nice. appropriate place TO have IT out with
the rah-rah boys
And speaking OF things nfantle and artistic. the
glorious howdy-do over the Mayho~er monument
IN England r. not without its echoes here. on tho
ferry yesterday We saw a bewitching mud scow OF
that name sweep past and heard small voice
explain Yep de Mayhower boat was de one de
Eskimos on"
How science advances, TIL this occurred. We had
thought the ship OF 1920 a freighter. What
chance for passengers among all the antique tables.
chairs. clocks hshboys bureaus and four posters
manufactured last year in Grand Rapids. Michigan?
Life comes out for Simplihed Grammar. and
has our passionate support. Grammar is much too
kinky, much too pernickety. much too fussy about
trifes. Consider the sad. sad case Of Mrs. James
b. who. returning from her honeymoon. has
been heard to say I'VE was to Pittsburgh" Dread
full Whereas, had she said. I'VE have been 10
Pittsburgh" all would have been perfect.
Yes all! II you protest that there remains the
absurdity or perhaps you call IL the basphemy) Of
visiting Pittsburgh ones honeymoon,
prepared. With all the moral earnestness OF
nature declare it the right-indeed. the only
time then you will not Pittsburgh.
Some prefer Italy for their honeymoon, but we
think it a shameful waste
When they told us about the daring fellows who
put out fire with settler sIphons the other day.
not surprised. We recalled the dear soul
in vaudeville. Keep the settler handy. beloved 1t
is an abomnation unto the Lord and very present
help whenever your boot catches fire
Much has been said. lattery. about Mr. Pullman
Palace Carr-rather too much. in fact as his fame
tends to eclipse that Of Mr.. Nosmo X. Jones (col-
ored). whom should forget
Nosmo was almost n year old at his christening,
for his mother could select n sufficiently ro-
splendent name Nebuchadnezzar Cyrano de
Bergerac, Neurasthenia. Montezuma, Skaneateles
PorfrO. Chrysanthemum-a these she spurned-
and it was a happy accident that suggested Nosmo
Mrs Jones was waiting in a railway station. On
the closed half OF double door she read mo SMO"
Instantly, she cried, "Nosmo, Golly, dat am de
name 70 show Then some one shut the other half
OF the door and she read. KING"
That cnched II. In the presence OF an awed
congregation her frstborn was chrlstened Nosmo
King. II. L. H.