The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-04-23

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NEW YORK, April 22.-Edward
Lyall Fox, back from the trenches,
declares that the thing most desired
by the writer's over there Is a porce-
lain lined bath tub. He says that Phil
Simms spent three days in the forests
Of Champagne accompanied by his
dog.
After they got back to Paris. stmms
Immediately took bath and his dog
bit him. The fighting men become so
begrimed with dirt that they are al
most unacceptable to their com
manding officers.
Fox tells of another American corr
respondent who became Disguised
with wars and Its burd ems. sought sol
ace IN little inn on the outskirts
of Paris Late that night he started
for home through forest and met
lrattlesnake In his path.
Go ahead, old boy said the cor
respondent, you'll never find my sys-
TEN in better condition for YOU.
Sid Mercer. of the Globe, has be-
come a patron Of the movies-in fact
he haunts them. 1t is his secret and
highly merttorious ambition to be the
first person to see a movie actor pick
up a neWspaper and not find some
thing important in it.
3Fg4
"a Broadway actor was explaining
to a sympa thiztng friend his grievance
against&a big producer. Waxing wiroth
over his subject he began to Deat the
air fierceIy
was passing. Drop that punching \
bag. It is too high h e called out and
then he scurried up side street.
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Nell Brinkley has also passed I'D
New York life. Her artistic efforts
have long been a feature In the Hearst
papers and will no doubt continue to /
be. but Miss Brinkley is going to do
the work at long distance
Several months ago she purchased
a ranch at Glendora Hills, Calf It
was merely an investment but she Y
went out to look 1t Overland never
returned. The other day a friend got
a letter saying that she had sent for
| her mother IN New York and had
closed UP their apartment
| The lure Of California seems to
get" the artistic folk. It is minated
that three OF the h:ghest-salaried8
magazine illustrators are soon to leave
| New Y rk for the coast.
Jim, Thorpe, the Indian ball player,
was dining at Rector's the other night
after the ,theater. Incidentally his
companions beauty brought gasp OF
admiration from the other diners.
Before the meal started a waiter
|clumsily knocked over a glass Of wat
er and 1t spilled into Thorpe's lap
The waiter Wa S pro fuse in his apollo
.gies.
know how you feel. There are BUSH
ers8in every profession
81 New York is certainly encouraging
the assassin. Fifty persons have been
mlIrd Tered in New York since january
IL. II the rate is 1nadnta aimed for a
year the total vii reach $50. In six
teen cases no arrests have been made
in four the persons detained were dis
charged. # II,
When Jerry J. Conan gorge Ms
dad-was boy. He went to work for
q farmer in New England who had
promised him a steady job. After
three weeks he quit .'You promised
me steady job" he told the farmer
Well haven't you got one?'' was the
reply.
No. said Jerry J. with a tired look
there are three or four hours every
might that 7 don't have a thing to do
and I'd fool my time away sleepiln
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