Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-30
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TTTHEN King George was still midship-
! w man in her Majestys navy and his
brother, the Prince of Wales, since dead, was
known as collars and Cuffs" because Of his
fondness for those appurtenances Of every
day attire the twain were aboard ship off
! Southampton. Wales was a sleepy head,
hard TO wake, and one morning Prince
George found 1t we'll nigh impossible to rouse
| his brother in time for the usual inspection.
Finally, driven to desperation, he bawled
! out:
Hey, Collars get upl They're singing
| God Save Your Grandmother already
history fails to relate whether collars
ever told Grandma Victoria.
THIS may be base libel on an honored
i profession, but II is told by the man who
perpetrated the faux pas. He was a reporter
for Baltimore paper-or had been one for
about an hour, this being his first experience
In newspaper work-when the city editor sent
him out to see Cardinal Gibbons. The cub
rushed down to the modest white house
where the venerable prelate lives and rang
the bell. man servant opened the door.
rs the Cardinal at homer" asked the
reporter.
mo, sir"
"oh, Mrs. Gibbons will do" calculated the
"cub."
WIHO invented the cocktail? Some bar
w tender? A bon vivant? Or 'as its dis
covery the result Of drunken frolic?
The cocktail was invented by Mrs. Eliza
beth Flanagan, widow of an Irish soldier
who fell in the service of the American army
during the Revolution. After her husbands
death, Mrs. Flanagan became an army suit
ler following troop of Virginia horse under
Colonel Burr. In the winter of 1779 she took
up quarters with the troop in place called
Four Corners. on the road between Tarry-
town and White Plains, N. Y.-near the
demesne of John d. Rockefeller. There Mrs
Flanagan set up hotel which soon became
the rendezvous of the "swells' Of that day
One day the hostess surprised her guests by
announcing new drnk-the cocktail-sup-
posed to have been named after the blending
of colors in the tail of a game cock.
LIVERY time King Menelik of Abyssinia
Iwas reported dead again, the news re-
called the Solomonic manner in which the
dusky potentate meted out justice. Once two
of his subjects went to an orchard to gather
fruit. One climbed the tree and shook the
fruit down. while the other gathered it.
Finally the branch on which the treed one
was sitting broke, and he fell on his COM
panion, killing him.
Under the Abyssinan law, the relatives of
the dead man demanded life for life, de-
clining the proffered blood money. The case
went into court and finally reached King
Menelik. When he had heard all the evil
dence in the case he delivered his judgment
thus
You are within your :ghts in demanding
the life of the accused. But the law says
distinctly that he must be killed in exactly
the same manner as was his victim. Let one
of the dead mans relatives climb a high tree
and fall on the accused until he has killed
him"
There being no volunteers, the accused was
set free
AFTER many weary months two political
"A prisoners in the Siberian Jail at Akaitoi
had dug tunnel-to that wonderful freedom,
so long denied to both. On the outside
friends were waiting them. Finally they
gained what they had sought. The one pris-
oner was hustled away; the other hidden in
a barrel of sauerkraut and shipped to
lrkutsk. where he emerged, odoriferous but
free. He managed to make his way to Japan
and thence to San Francisco. Eventually,
Gregory Gershuni came to this city-some
five years ago, Accompanied by friend he
wandered about the town. seeing the sights
in the cradle of American liberty.
Slowly he walked along Fifth street until
he came TO Independence Hall. Slowly he
read the inscriptions of the tablets on the
walls. For long while-minutes-h stood |
in silence, the while tears fell down his
cheeks.
For that, for liberty. for freedom, for |
are fighting in Russia-even
as you fought here" he said. Even as you |
won, so will we win. Even as your fore |
fathers suffered for their ideals and princl-
pies, so have We suffered and so must we !
suffer more in the days 20 come, until free
dom comes to Russia"
VIZ HEN your gaze runs afoul OF male
w adorned with a wrist watch and pink |
socks and a purple necktie, think kindly or
of HINT all depends upon whether |
you swear by Thomas Carlyle or Oliver Wen
dell Holmes, both of whom have furnished
descriptions of the dandy" Says
the former in "Sartor Resartus'
"A dandy is a clothes-wearing mana man
whose trade, Office and existence is the wear
Ing Of clothes. Every faculty of his soul.
spirit, purse and person is heroically conse-
Grated to this one object, the wearing Of
clothes wisely and well; so that, as others
lress TO live, he lives to dress"
And now look on the other side OF the
picture furnished by Holmes:
There was Alciblades the 'curIed son OF
1llnias, an accomplished young man, but
what would be called swell in these days,
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