New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-05
AS | WAS SAYING

Plague take those hundred best books for summer
reading! We cling to Shakespeare-so timely ne is
and come to think of it, so naturish. just the Do!
for the hotel piazza the bungalow the naHmoch
the canoe! Honestly, now. could anything be more
summary than these lines from his famous MOSQUITO
Chorus" -
We are such stuff
AS dreams are made OF. and our little lives
Are rounded with slap
When we dropped q word in praise OF Wesn the
other day. we little imagined the neighbors would SO
soon be writing headlines in that tongue. Example
PJApAN SENDS NE wNoTE.
That chronic hair S. breadth escaper, Mr. waiter
Savage Lander, has enjoyed simply Internal discom-
fort in the backwoods of Brazil and is preparing 10
crow.
oh, shamee, shamee. Guess stefansson was right
when he called adventure dire and snivelling dis
grace since your competent explorer goes forearmed
| as well az forewarned, and nips adventure in the
bud.
II is wonderful the precautions explorers VIII take
! at a pinch We know a devil Of Fellow VINO
crossed the wilds of forbidden Asia, and wrote II all
up in a blood -curdng diary, since published fru-
| dent? Well rather! While crossing iorouueh
Asia he was morbidy cautious that ne never
once stirred outside the Newark Public Library
We rise to object. Not all those Blue-and-Gray
skylarks can alter our opinion Of Gettysburg AS
before we consider it darned regrettable.
! Faith" says a dear infant in The Washington
Star" lis believing what you know ism! So Out we
prefer the standard definition: Dropping little
nickel in the contribution box and expecting crown
of pure gold" ,
seems that faith has its humors-properly enough
taka
wbimper-so we are emboldened TO tell on the
charming Catholic who said to US You ask about
the infallibity of the Pope. Well that is thins
we unfortunately have to believe
We laughed. though not unsympatheucaliy' TOT we
suspect our faith is funny-to an outsider But
what OF that? So Is our logic. may oe-especallS 10
those intelligent widely Informed outsiders the
blessed angels
And it strikes us that people who try to poke along
without faith are apt to catch It severely Here Tor
instance comes local philosopher complaining mat
folks have fallen into-the habit OF chewing things
over in their minds after going to bed True ana
the reason is simple They have no faith IL was
a very distinguished physician who remarked the
other day: Want a cure for Insomnia? Say your
prayers"
Well well! Didn't we foresee the outbreak OF
sangunary Peace" and aren't the Balkans all soppy
] y
tiles. How the Bulgars did scream for intervention
the minute their onslaught Servia and Greece
seemed a trife i'll Judged So like the celebrated
under dog in the street fight, who shouted: "sepa-
rate us! Separate US! Can't you see were killing
each other?"
An additional hy fancier has come out in print,
and investors will be quick TO read the signs OF the
times What with doctors and housewives in battle
10 ahrtp Vyh Ia le-
mand for them increases daily. Next you know the
little filth carriers will be regarded the only true
chaperons of health and felicity. Buy flies. Buy
now while flies cheap. Tomorrow the price
will stagger humanity.
Meanwhile the compliments OF the season to those
great and good who are defending the hy-of
which we wish them many happy returns!
How beautiful upon the front porch are the feet Of
her that bringeth ice cream at eventde! And how
like TO nothing else is the sound Of the ice cream
.camper, II has in it all the passion Of hutterins
| heart-dear neighbory affection terror lest the
precious pink lump melt In transit; enraptured SIX
pectation OF gratitude well earned; the consciousness
OF ethical perfection the Wild though gentle enthu-
siasm which is surpassed only by living thing that
has sat on tack.
! Happy the tribe that has learned to recognize the
first glad football OF the Ice scamper Upi
| When the story arrived that the English Robert
Bridges had been made Poet Laureate you, OF
course, saw the bunder behind it. We have. an ad-
mirabe poet Of that name here in New York, and
you know how blandy England appropriates Ameri-
can achievements in literature What beasty
magazines you Americans have!' Londoner once
said to us. why don't you turn out something
good like our Scribner and Century and
| Harper"
| Now, while the English poet has profted by
lucky similarity Of names, we are convinced that he
| must be a first rate celebrity on his own account
Fact beyond question:! AS in the case Of that daz-
| cling globe famous, household wordy songster, Mr.
| Alfred Noyes who ever heard Of him?
| This explains why such multitudes OF Englishmen
take to poetry. Though shy sensitive and retiring
they thirst for fame and In what other profession
| can 1t be enjoyed secretly? r. l.. IA.
PROBABLY NOT MUcr NEARER.