New-York tribune., 1915-03-21

"Sllt uD the back, anu ! II pm IT. -" J'''
suggested the cycr-rcady Muse.
"But it isn't mine, SAID J.
"Buy it, said she.
I'm an instant had the room clerk on the
telephone "Will you sell me that YcstE ]
asked.
sell it. -t,.i
"WcI, you've got 1t, haven't y,9u' If.
ayes, I've got it all right, I rcpled
"bnf cani gef into II Vitiom bHhHg yd'd
of extra widih IN he bGCk. Come on-bc a
good fellow and sell it to me, added "ith
all the pathos that could summon.
"No' ne answered with a chuckle, no
couldn't sell it to YOU bm ~ gI0e mo y0"
aeih all he biedSMe m me C0rld!
I'm this fashion was the emergency met
and | went out before my audience thai
night on time in improvlsed raimcpt pinhei
on to my person, "a thing OF shrclS a"l
patches" and blazonng as TO my shlftirohJ
with all the respondent gilt oi three Dfa'S
iacks. all Of which brought yiyidly 10 my
,r,nd the words Of Antonio. in "Ihc Mcr-
chant Of Venice
O. what a goodly outside faIschood hath!
TT NAV seem TO the casual observer that
L such matters as shirt studs and white
waistcoats are Of too Slight importance TO
worry a speaker; but "whole date was
once saved to me by the fact that ! wore
high silk hat, which caused kindly livery
stable keeper to drive me eighteen mics
from a stranded railway train through
blizzard to the town Of my Destination be-
cause ne Judged from my hat that ! 7gdS
Ucmbey Of Il fa70Yiie minstrel h0HPe Mdf aedS
IN bcyfoym there the same hgH. Nhcn ne
discovered that | was only one ol them
lecture fcers.' for whose free tickets ne
had no use. ne was terribly disappointed.
Anvhow, an audience likes man to be
wholly himself. and cares little for a speaker
who modifes his dress according 10 MS IdcaS
Of how they wish him TO look. popular
and prominent candidate for Governor oi
New York once lost a large number oi VotcS
that might have elected him because IN ad-
dressing a gathering OF workngmen at an
East Side rally, the night beng lnSuiieraDly,
hot. he took off his coat and collar ana
spoke to them in his shirt sleeves. he men
we're deeply offended. They significantly
asked il he would have taken OF his coat III
the presence of a fashionable uptown audi
cncc. and would have none OF his presumed
assumption that they were any less worthy
Of his respect, or careful Of TIER own dignity,
than his so-called smarter, better-cIass peo-
pie.
| have always found the full evening dress
and high collar Of an etfete civilization wholly
comfortable. and wear them accordingly
wherever lecture, whether It be IN the rare
fled social atmosphere Of high academic CIR
clcs. or in a mining camp where there dwell
possibly roughcr, but none the less genuine
human folk | think that in the latter en-
vir0nment indeed it is a positive ald 10 sue
cess 10 do so; for there can be no doubt that
reduced 10 its essentials the evening drc-,
of the modern male creature IS really funny
thing. and in an evening devoted somewhat
to humor any element that IS IN even the
least degree mirth-proyoking does not come
amSS.
Perhaps the most ovcrpoWcrlng sense ol
being confronted by an emergency came 10
me again back in 1895 out OF an experience
that turned out TO be critical only IN my
own imaginings Most OF our troubles are,
| fancy. imaginary purely psycholoSical
as the modern phrase has It, but while
they are on they are none the less acute tor
all that. On the occasion OF which write,
at a more than tcycri,h moment IN our rc.a-
tious with Spain and Cuba, was summoned
70 lecture az the attractive httlc port ~
Brunswick, Georgia. II was here, by the
way. that / first had the pleasure Of seeing
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