New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-08
AS | WAS SAYING

We have the man. and shall SUPPORT him 10 '"e
last eyelash For Poet Laureate. AIRY th)N' osNlis
This darling Of the MUSES. sprang into fame some
nineteen summers ago. when the present li'"1e VI
Wales son of the then Duke Of York burst uio''
an overtoycd nation. Aid the changing Of bells, the
vowling Of extras and some awfuly regrettape
speeches by Mr.. Keir Harde. 90 'opped up IN the
,Aouse an said as 'aow Queen Nictora's great
grandson was rather an unknown quantity. so tar'
and for all anybody could guess. might grow into
regular you know what
Then IT was that Mr. 'Oskins, cut out for the Lau-
reateship by Natures own jackknife saved England
by chirping gloriously:
The noble Duke O. Yorks
An 'anpy man todigh,
With byby Is knee. . sings
"Tarara- boom-de-igh"
All the dazzlingest athletes setting aside their
tenperamental reticence and modesty and contrib
uting to that exultant symposium In The SFan'
called MY Greatest Achievement" SO glad! Espe-
ciaIly delighted with Miss Annette Kelermanns ac-
count Of how she leapcd into the water nat gown
shoes and all saved a drowning woman. and was re-
varded next day with sixpence. But We are never
theess grieved though We take IT that The Stran1
had not heard about when IS perhaps so"'c ~
cuse for the omission
The thing occurred on Fifth avenue. We were out
for n stroll with that talented Post-Futurist Mr..
Garrett Hungerford. when suddenly we heard cat
tering OF mad hoofs and saw runaway approaching
handsome. foam -hecked bay. tall, two-wheeed red
cart lurching behind him. empty. What chance 10
scream Votes for tomCats,'-fiing oursef IN 'front.'
n the furious beastget our picture in the paperbe
remembered ever after as a devil Of fellow! But
we thought OF the possible bonus. and how Hunger
ford needed the money We sacrificed orrselr. We
displayed the moral courage that is always more
snlendid than mere physical courage.
So IL was Hungerford who stopped the runaway.
though when the crowds assembled and the air
reverberated with cheers, IL vas we who held the
animal by the bride and bowed acknowledgements.
Prison society is improving. thinks Mr.. Julian
Hawthorne but there is still room. True the courts
exercise what taste they can In making selections
from the material at hand. yet the police are too
often common uncultured fellows i'll versed in social
distinctions and very clumsy purveyors Of material
preferring quantity TO quality Observe. pray. the
mutltudes of citizens they toss into their hasty,
noisy rude wagons and IN, consider how rare Il IS
to find among those citizens any you would really
like 10 get in with.
The l. w. ". is fast winning over the BARRIERS, and
after we shall understand the frghtfu scraping
sensation the comic haircut yes. even the dry point
etching to which we are frequently reduced. sabo-
tage, Direct action!
We open THE London Magazine: or, Genteman's
Intelligencer" for April 1851 Drowned. midewed
pages. Copperplate engravings Quaint letter-press
the long and all that. In the lower right hand
corner Of each page the first word Of the next AMI
this is what we read:
The original intentions Of dress amongst our
predecessors decency. ease and ornament. but
If we examine the present mode among the ladies'
hall G,,1 very bad ed
for our modern fine gentry are too much fallen in
love with French modes. Nothing but French will
go down with them.
81 could add great deal more, but my intention
is rather to reform than to offend shall therefore
conclude that such dresses are unbecoming and in
decent both in fnall and great. and hope that some
will have resolution enough 10 avoid extremes OF
dress both in themselves and children, notwith-
standing the raillery Of our modern fine gentry"
r.. /. II.