Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-10
PASSED BY THE CENSOR

DLUTARCH, who had as many lives" as a
| i Tipperary cat says in one of them:
"A prating barber asked Archelaus how
he would like to be trimmed He answered:
| In silence"
Percy Standing the actor. had his hair cut
| in silence last Saturday in the Hotel Lincoln,
! Pittsburgh, barber shop. 1t cost him 1915.
| Standing is ultra English, deucedly So We
! know. He is also anti German tremendously
| So The barber is German; also ultra anti
English
Standing sat himself down in the chair
and suggested that the of shears trim
his hair slightly, especially in the back, as
his part required that he wear his hair
rather long. Then he uttered some remarks
about the Kaiser, the Kaiser's army and the
German nation in general. Then he began
to read a paper. After a while he found that
the barber had finished his task. He looked
at himself in the glass.
Revenge! Desperate Desmond in his most
fendsh moment had never perpertrated so
scurvy a trick! For that German barber had
deliberately and with malice aforethought
clipped Standings back hair with a horse
clipper in the style so much in vogue among
office boys.
What followed especially the verbal por-
ton must he omitted. But that night a
policeman called at the theatre to arrest
Standing for alleged high treason, lese
majestaet. mayhem, incendiarism and frac-
ture of King Georges English. The case was
settled out of court for S9.75.
There isn't any moral worth chronicling
to this hair raising tale.
CNTATIONED within a square of city Hall
- is a policeman who has certain political
t,,l ~.
made public.
Safety first" he said. MY job wouldn't
be worth much If it became known how l
feel on political matters" And then he told
this tale to illustrate his viewpoint He
dreamed that he died and had gone to war"
where Satan was in full charge. The devil
was polite and sought to make him at home.
First he took him into ROOM moderately
warm, along whose sides were hung various
spirits in human form.
This is the room where Progressives are
kept" the devil explained. Then he took
him into still warmer ROOM also occupied
by spirituous-no, spiritual shapes
This is the Democratic storehouse." The
third room sizzling hot. In 1t were
numerous shapes, dancing about in the heat.
What are those?" asked the dreaming
policeman.
They're Republicans who are going to
vote for Penrose because of sthe tariff" eX-
planned the devil. They're too green to
burn"
TOR many years engineers and inventors
J. puzzled their collective brains over the
question of casting high temperature metals.
They had cast iron and lead and zinc, but
bronze and steel had resisted their efforts,
try as they would. A Belgian inventor did
succeed in evolving a furnace which would
cast bronze, hut the process had COM
mercial value. being too costly.
At about this time Samuel T. Wetherill,
Jr, Of this city, was graduated and entered
the world of business with his father and
namesake. Then he decided to invent the
furnace 10 cast bronze and steel. For months
he worked; for months he failed. Asso-
Ciated with him was a practical engineer,
one who had had vast experience. No
had much faith in the propositions everybody
predicted failure.
But young Wetherill did not know enough
TO quit. He kept on, night and day and week
and month. One day he announced that he
had perfected the electrical casting furnace.
And now the steel companies are forced to
pay royalty 10 the persistent young Philadel-
phian, who just wouldn't stop trying.
TT WAS just before the war The British
i militants were smashing up things in gem
eral and shop windows in London in par
ticular. Mrs. Michael Morton, wife of the
dramatist, happened TO live in London at the
time. AS she was packing her belongings,
prior to her departure for this country, she
needed the services of a hammer. So she
went TO ironmongers, which is hard
ware" in American. and asked for the imple-
ment. The head of the store stammered a
negative.
I'm very-so-sorry," he said "but-we
haven't any ha-hammers at present"
mo hammers?" asked Mrs Morton incred-
ulously.
No we're all out Of hammers" he de-
clared, and seeing himself between the
Scylla of a broken plate glass window and
the Charybdis of enormous lie, he hedged
by adding but perhaps we could-er-let
you have a little hammer"
But l don't want little hammer" ex-
claimed Mrs. Morton angrily. Il want a big
hammer one with which can hit hard"
That ended the controversy, for the shop
keeper and his clerk escorted Mrs. Morton
10 the door, with the admonition that she
quit being a fury"
NTOW that there is a possibility that the
~ great cathedral Of Strassburg may again
come into the limelight, it is of interest 10
recall that its historic clock dates back only
10 1888. The original clock was made 2l8
years ago, but the mechanism wore out in
1888, and a French cIockmaker named
Schwelgue replaced practically the entire
works. Noon hour is the best for seeing the
clock work" Promptly at that time an
angel strikes the time on gong, the while