New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-15

oro INNS, Of this shock shall n 1o De-
title il by calling It loeh Lar a.
when i'm n state OF inanitlon' h,rd
Lis chin. when no comes do"I h"hs
on forte passage IT rises Huu 'yoyo
nm and down in the breeze W. ;",or
to have a famous cafe chantahc 1IHsJ
also: but. as the concierge ehpldJ'tto oo
IL 10 US, he met friends ana u'''u WV
well.
pittance Widely Shared.
a. ~ tho poets Of the Quarter
rj,os his poetry by night and WORKS
y, an ofIice for a small salary by DAY
poirg lame. he could not 20 WIN tn@
coIors He has taken 1t upon hIhseil
20 look after five girls, either models
" ,,aotbearts Of his soldier friends
T,or, evening he rounds up HIS mock
,rd takes them TO a certain care "neIe
bohemian persons most resort Iel-
bons the girls will get invited TO am
neri II that happens, well ana, goou'
Ue excuses himself and leaves theH,
II there ia no invitation, he buys thelr
dinner himself. SO he IS seeing them
An American friend Of this poet re-
coivad a louis (Which is four dollatS)
from an unexpected source. lie re-
marked that he should like to give l'
Then for the Lords sake, said the
noet give it to me. I'll find some
tactful way Of getting it to one OF inc
models. They're in a dreadful way TOT
clothes. She'll get herself a new sur
n hat. a waist, shoes and PAIR OF
gloves. How she'll do it on a LOUIS
don't know. but she will"
Still another resident of the Quarter
a foreign art student, has all allowance
lie has calculated his own minimum
of weekly expenses to a nicely. win
what ne finds left over on SATURDAY
night ne buys sacks of coal and carries
them himself TO the models-for TINS IS
a cold spring.
American civilization may proceed
slowly in certain benighted and "sot
quarters of the world, but ] arrives
in the end. For example:
was strolling last week across an
English lawn, put down on the ceIe-
brated English formula: Lay right IN
the beginning and roll every day Tor "A
hundred years" This was one OF the
Great. famous English estates, and the
whole picture was as English as roast
beef To the left lay a forest OF an
Gent English oaks and yews; to the
right the ground sloped away toward
the quiet, peaceful Thames. Out OF
the wood rose the facade of an Eliza
bethan mansion, and in the distance n
steeple crowned a village green.
We a reached hedge, and from the
otber side arose sounds so familiar
that il was a full minute before |
recognized them as incongruous. ms
is about what ! heard:
"Now. come on, Bill; get a move;
take a lead. He'll drop it! Slide BILL
slide!"
out"
mile" -,
"Take the lid of your lamps
peered over the hedge. Nine men
in perfect British khaki were scattered
over the village green; nine others
making gestures, surrounded a man ~
civilian clothes This was baseball,
real baseball, and the umpire had
pulled q bone!"
A colonel in the Canadian medical
corps, who came up 70 be introduced
explained the mystery.
These are orderlies in our hospital
corps," he said. 81 am a fan myself.
/ have a season box every summer IN
Toronto. We're stationed over there
at the covered tennis court, which
we're using for a hospital This is only
a workout. Two weeks from now, when
the boys get into shape, I'm going to
have a four-team league. I've hun
bred and thirty men under me, with
more 10 follow. That pitcher there
was OH the Port Arthur team once
The second baseman is an Englishman
He plays cricket, and he's picking up
baseball. You can see from that throw
that he'll be pretty good when he
learns what it's all about
Are we the only Canadians playing
baseball? | should rather say not!
We started it at Salisbury Plain. The
fellows over in France who are wait
ing for a chance have organized reg
ular regimental league They're play
ing it back of the line, too, just as tho
English and Scotch are playing soccer
Only yesterday there came over reg
ular call from Macedonia for two
mitts, a mask, and all the balls We
could get in London.
Whenever we find ourselves shor'
a man, we pick up an English cricket
er and educate him. We're going L
do in this war what you American:
haven't been able to do yet we're 90
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