Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-01-14
EVENING Chat

EVLNlN0 O1Al
When Governor-elect Martin G.
Brumbaugh comes to Harrisburg to-
morrow as the guest of Governor and
Mrs. John K. Tener he will be given
all the useful tips" on life in the
Executive Mansion that the Governor
and Mrs. Tener have learned during
their four years tenancy. The Man
sion is a much more liVeable place now
than 1t was few years ago and the
housewifely care and good taste of
Mrs. Tener have been responsible for
quite few improVem since she
became the first lady of Pennsylvania.
After luncheon the Governor-elect will
be escorted all over the Mansion and
will meet all of those who have play
ed prominent part in making things
comfortable for the Teners during
their occupancy of the Mansion. Lat
er he will go with Governor Tener to
the Capitol where he will sit in the
Governors chair, just to see how it
feels, and will be given few valuable
pointers from the experience of Gov
ernor Tener. In past years 1t has
often happened that incoming Cover
nors have been guests of outgoing exc
cutives just before inauguration day
For some months the local electric
light company has maintained q re-
cording therm ometer that not only
keeps accurate tabs on weather condi-
tons every minute and hour of the
day for the firms business purposes,
but frequently serves to settle many a
weather bet and controversy. 1t hangs
in conspicuous place outside the
company'S windows so that it can be
readily seen by the passerby. A new
sheet is kept for each day of the year
and these sheets are kept on record so
that q
mercurial conditions can always be as
certained. To many, however, the ma
ture and purpose of the dial-like in
| strument are not exactly known; many
| still believe 1t a clock. The other day
a couple of workmen, unquestionably
or that nationality to which is asso-
ciated harps and shamrocks, paused
across the street to compare the time
| by their old-fashioned watches. One
wasn't so certain that his chum S
chronometer was correct. Then he
! spied the dial across the way. slip
over and see about it," he suggested
| The other complied Watch in hand
he glanced at the dial on the window
| front for a moment.
How does she stand?" called his
companion from across the street.
"Jist roight!" promptly came the
answer.
er day a negro was arraigned for steal
ing some clothes for a one-time friend
! he, according to the prosecuting wit
ness, had boarded at the latter's house
One day he suddenly disappeared and
with him went the prosecutors clothes
and his wife and five children.
What was this man doing at your
| house?" Judge McCarrell wanted tc
know. why didn't you suspect him !
Why did you not ask why he remained
there? What did he want?"
Why, yer Honah, he jes' said he
meant to hang round til he got jot
er Somethin'!"
he referred TO his notes, your clothes
your wife and your five children
hanging round seems to have gotter
him the something and job, too
didn't it?"
That Harrisburg women are ex.
tremely solicitious of their husbands is
demonstrated any market day by the
large number of wives who with, large
! baskets on their arms, wend their way
toward the market houses. Between
and o'clock in the morning wher
business begins to pick up, more thar
twice the number of women than meT
may be seen laying in the semi-weeklS
supply of meats and Vegetables. The
jectured are peacefully snoozing be
tween downy comforters.
| People connected with the Harris
burg Public Library and with the city
schools say that considerable interes
is being taken in Spanish and tha
the suggestion of Governor-elect
Brumbaugh that it be studied will mo-
want for takers here. The Library i.
making an effort to secure some of The
best books on the subject and in
short time some of the classics will be-
on hand. 1t already has some fine
books on South America.
People here are so accustomed tC
Senator w. c. Sproul as a legislator
and as trolley company reorganizel
that they will probably he surprised t.
learn of him as a yachtsman. He ha!
just been elected one of the trustee!
of the Corinthian Yacht Club of Phil
adelphia of which George w. Child,
DreXel is president.
| William III. Donncr, chairman of Tho
board of the Pennsylvania Steel Com
pany, has just been elected one o.
the directors of the Philadelphia Ma.
tional Bank, One of the best known il
the country. EX-Chief Justice ID. New
lin Fell has been elected director o
the Real Estate Title, Insurance anC
Trust Company, of Philadelphia.