Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-28

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And upside down obtains
And Chcstertonan point of view.
Observing thus how from his toes
The sun crecps nearer to his nose,
Hc cries with wonder and delight
How good the sunrise is tonight'
It is so with Honey E'itz." Retired from
the office of Mayor, he sought new fields to
conquer and found them-in a clothing shop
near Scollay Square, where Fitz now fits
men.
EMPEROR FRANZ JOSEPH whose
IL troubles are as the sands of the sea, once
had an experience which he recounted with
zcst for many years. He had been visiting
the villa OF a friend in the outskirts of
Vienna, and had played cards until in the
morning. Not desiring to disturb the house
hold. he started for the front door in the
dark, promptly upsetttng a chair The old
cook. awakened by the noise and thinking
that it was thief. rushed into the hall. She
recognized the Emperor at once, and, not
knowing how to entertain a ruler en- neglgee,
she dropped on her knees and at the top of
her voice started to sing the national anthem,
"Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser"
TT HAPPENED long ago. so there can be no
i good reason why this story should not
be told. although it concerns an esteemed
contemporary. It's owner established an
American daily in London and promptly en-
gagged nine English journalists and one Ameri-
can reporter named Haverley. Then Lon
don was pacarded from end to end with
request that Britain buy next Sundays
issue" in which could be read beautifully
illustrated and wen-wrtten description of
"HistorC Hampstead Heath The pictures
were in the office and an English journalist
was sent forth to get the reading matter,
with instructions to report not later than
Friday. Friday noon came and no journalist
Evening came and no sign of the missing
genius Then the editor called on Haverey
with instructions to set the desired matter,
if he had to die for it-after he was success
full of course.
Now, Haverley knew as much of Hamp.
stead Heath as a cat does of the calculus,
but he was an American, So he hied himself
to Hampstead Heath, where he found the
Three Spaniards an inn owned by the same
family for 800 years. To the proprietor he
told his troubles.
Il can help you" said the innkeeper. My
grandfather father and myself have kept
scrapiook of everything written about the
'Eath-moSt of it is by Thackeray, Scott,
Dickens and George Augustus Henry Sala."
Havery swore 10y all that holy to
return the book and departed in triumph.
At home, knowing the need of speed he
scissorcd and clipped the precious pages
right and left wrote an introduction and
rushed it to the composing room, where it
was put into type
The Wednesday after this concoction, the
mental emanations Of Dickens, Scott, Thack-
cray and SuIa, had seen the light of day the
managing editor Of the London daily received
a letter from the proprietor in Paris, reading:
please congratulate the gentleman who
wrote the story of Hampstead Heath. 1t
was masterpiece Of English"
THE proprietor Of a Chinese restaurant it,
i Race street bought a phonograph not long
ago and with it dozen records of Chinese
music. Then he tried il on his patrons From
the horn issued a cuuglomeratiOn of caca-
phuny beyond the power Of mere words 10
describe, Shrill trebcs, male falsettos pre-
dominated, punctuated by speaky tenOrs In
tcrspersed was the din of tom-toms and the
plunz-a- -plunk Of celestial banjos 1t
sextet the proud owner averred but not
from Lucia"
For a full minute the noise continued; then
it assumed tangible shape embematic of
the topsy-turvey character Of the Chinese.
Throughout was a lett motif, repeated ami
reiterated time and again. Then came a
crescendo tremendous in its sharp shrill-
ness accentuarcd by hysteric beating Of
drums and humping Of strinEed instruments
If torture. Then followed a dismal wall
more haunting than that of the banshec and
the seXtet was a thing Of musical memory
A PAIR Of stout paiamas saved Sir John
"A Jcllcoc, commundeT-in-chiefo Of Britain's
navy. from a damp and watery grave In