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New-York tribune., 1916-06-18

President of the United States had the
darkest and thickest hair Except Jesse
Willamss) on the whole campus, in
those days; and that has changed COM
prehensibly. We crowded his lectures,
both kinds of u.s. the idle apprentice as
eagerly as the industrious.
How the figures come to mind Again
we see them crossing the campus, books
under arm: Duffield, Orris, Ormond,
and kindly, absent pedestrian wear
ing Cameron plat" you see the
fine white face of Dr. Shields as he
drives out Nassau Street in his victoria.
New ivies grow on Nassau Hall, but the
older vines cling to it even more strong
ly, and so do the older memories. Most
august, and, in its gentle way, ghostli-
est of these, is that of the delicate and
tremulous figure, so very, very old and
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Famous Princeton Table Top of the Early Ninetes

itself has changed-for the better, of
course, and even we can see how much
more scientific and incomprehensibe it
has become; how much less bitter; how
much less visibly heroic. Never again
shall we behold that catapulting awful
ness with the "sulphurous name,' that
hurtling devastation called Heffelfnger;
never again shall we see Heffelfnger.
single-handed, destroy the Princeton
wedge! Against that sudden leviathan
we sent, year after year, our own Jesse
Riggs, and, when the line played low"
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fragile, taking the air and slowly shut
fling homeward in the late afternoon
under the groinings Of McCosh Walk
his own walk. We used to slow our
steps to a creep and go with him part
of the way, until we feared that the
questions he asked us over and over
might be firing him.
There was another old Jimmie, a
humble and swart merchant with his
wheelbarrow of indigestibles-but
Lord we could digest anything then!
usually to be found near "old chapel"
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Tour of the Restaurant Underworld 0vih Bo0rdot Heath
INSPECTOR Helps One to Ans0cer the Question WHho~t
the Waitev'S AM-AS the Manager Is Dressed
So the Food Is Inclined

but the wooden mixing boards fairly
cleaned. so thoroughly were they
scrubbed, and the pots and pans gave
evidence of being washed after each
using, most extraordinary thing in
restaurant lore. The ice box was i'm
maculate and the food all removed from
the cans and kept in covered crooks
Apologies were made for bag of -four
which had burst, spilling some of its
contents over the floor. On the whole,
one wouldn't have minded eating in that
kitchen or with the manager.
AS a matter of interest it may be
noted that this manager also was rated
bad" because all of his employees had
not cards from the Board of Health GER
tifying to their physical fitness to
handle food, but that can be remedied
by the tirne the next inspection is made,
and then the little manager can faunt
a good" card from his dining room"
WlHuOW III llc lace VI JIlc NUlbc-lllSu
sepulchre across the street.
The lesson of all this is that the per-
sonal equation is the chief factor in the
cleanliness of a restaurant--or, to be-
come editorial, of political system or
national honor. It is the man whose
personal Job it is to get the thing done
who makes or mars a system-not the
men who devise the system.
And if you are in doubt about the
condition of the kitchen Of any restau-
rant, the only safe way is to ask to see
the manager. When he appears ask
him if he would mind stepping up to the
window a minute where you can get
good light on him. There you can look
at his teeth, roll up his sleeves and in
spect his cuffs, and ask him to say
''bla-a-a-a," while you listen at his chest.
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Of most of the members of the faculty
as "old"; but there were others with
whom we feared to be so familiar
even in mental soliloquyl OF Doctor
Patton, for revered example, doubt if
one Of us could have imagined his
mother addressing him with any assur-
ance, even in his childhood, by his first
name.
General Karge
In the early years of the Golden Nine
ties we had the rollicking luck to read
Faust" and Herman and Dorothea"
under that bravest and kindest and old
Worldliest of Generals. | see him now,
lifting his high hat and bowling, in the
sunshine of a May afternoon, on the
steps of Dickinson, to Kentuckian of
our class, likewise encountered. This
amateur Colonel had made a thoroughly
unjustifed request for leave of absence,
but he had made it in an elaborate, old
fashioned Kentucky way.
81 never refuse anysing to gentle
man, sir" said the General.
Sabres flashed over Faust" and am
munition trains wandered among the
carts Of Herman and Dorothea,' in the
Generals classes; and the sly students
learned ways of evasion that in the end
gained them more perhaps than they
knew at the time. Sorrowful that day
when the General quietly left Jersey
City ferry-boat for longer ferrying
It was the day when the '93 Glee Club
upset splendidly en- mGSSe into four
foot snow-drift, outside of Omaha; and
the news of the Generals passing trou
bled and somewhat hushed even that
uproarious assembly.
For Dean, in those days, we had the
truest possible portrait of Dean and
right old-fashioned gentleman; Dean
Murray There was the finest dryness
about him-most evident perhaps
when he would allude to the railway
timetable in answer to painstaking ora
tions upon the desirability of averting
dangerous parental shock in distant cit
les. But how Just he was-and how
absorbing we found his English lee
lures In those days of careless cut
ting" we never cut the Dean Nor
Professor Scott, nor Professor Mag
gie.' nor Woodrow Wilson eitherl The
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nothing short of criminal negligence
would insure immunity, or his eyes
would have to be practically shut all of
the time.
But, be that as it may and it probably
is. the one tangible lesson of the tour
through the underworld with the res
taurant inspector was this: as the man.
ager is, so is the kitchen. What, then,
shall an untidy manager bring forth
good fruit-whip, or one that is cleanly
any evil thing?
The upkeep of restaurant is almost
always in the hands of its manager. He
knows the Board of Health rulings
about milk tags, health cards, ETC., and
he also knows that dirt at large in the
kitchen means dirt in the food. A man
ager who realizes the value of cleanli-
ness has his kitchen clean as matter
of course. A manager who is Indifferent
will never have a clean kitchen, because
he doesn't understand the term.
The first restaurant we visited was
one with a window full Of performing
pastry and white enamel lettering on
the glass, announcing down in the cor
ner that there were tables reserved for
ladies, if there were any ladies reserved
enough TO demand one. This gave
tone Of cOnventionality to the place,
and, what with the nickled coffee urns
and tiled floor, it was place you
wouldn't hesitate to take man who had
asked you for bite to eat.
The manager. however, had on
white coat with coffee trimming and an
eight-day collar, and apparently wasn't
in sympathy with the Board of Health
investigation. He considered it quib-
bling.
And once we had fallen down the
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Bv ROBERT G.. BENCHLEY

greasy stairs to his kitchen his reti-
cence was understandable. In dank
grotto. under dust-incrusted pipes, we
came upon the makings of "to-day's
special" and thousand and one other
things which went by Christian names
in purple ink up on the bill of fare.
There, over in a bowl, was all that
makes hamburger steak the delightful
sporting chance that it is, and the odds
in this instance were about 27 to l. On
the left were the materials for straw
berry shortcake, the whipped cream in
the act Of being whipped by machine
which might have once, in its immacu
late youth, been used as an auxiliary
motor in fsherman's dory. Other
things there were, but as this is not the
report of the vice commission the line
must be drawn somewhere. 1t could do
no good to mention them and it might
do the cause Of eating a great deal Of
harm. A man has practically got to
eat, and we can't all kill and cook our
own food ourselves.
The manager said we had caught him
at bad time. That went without say
ing. We couldn't very well have caught
him at worse time unless it were di-
rcctly after a fire. He took his "bad"
rating philosophically, much as German
submarine commanders must take their
governments reprimands for sinking
liners. He didn't let it spoil his day.
The next restaurant looked dingy
from the outside and was called din
ing room," suspicious circumstance in
itself, but the manager was a neat little
man who looked like librarian. There
were vinegar cruets on the tables, but
the table cloths we're clean. There
weren't many windows in the kitchen,
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the two agile cOlossi would lie down in
mud inimicaly, while we wondered pro-
foundly what they were grunting to
each other; but when the last game
between them was over they embraced,
not as so often, in battle, but to express
their mighty esteem.
1t was in our senior year that we
had our first football shock, our first
real disaster. General Sir Redvers Butler
defeated by the Beers, could perhaps
have understood US. Pennsylvania in
solently beat us to a. Two or three
years earlier think our score had been
something like 96 to 0. Princeton found
6 to A quite unbearable; we took it as
an injury to our honor, and when Dean
Murray, in Chapel next day, began to
speak Of the calamity which had be-
fallen the college, we hung our heads
and thought, Calamityv Oh, calamity
indeedw A few minutes later, when
we discovered that he was alluding to
the death of a Freshman, caused by
typhoid fever, we decided that the
Deans sense of proportion was gravely
lacking. Didn't the man realize that
Princeton had been beaten by U. of P?
And henceforth we had hate by water
and hate by land hate Of the heart and
hate Of the hand; we had one hate and
one alone:
"PennSylvania"
We didn't get along very we'll with
Harvard, either; Yale was our only en-
emy to be a friend; and there we're
times when we needed her-and she
was always there for us.
. In our ease we read the
writer's who will never fail youth Ste
venson and Kipling And we read the
new novels: "The Little Minister"
Peter lbbetson,' "Trilby" all
that Richard Harding Davis wrote. We
took our literary opinions from
"Drochs" reviews in Life" and were
far from foolish therein, especially
since "Droch" was not only man wise
in letters but graduated Princetonian,
to our continuing pride, then and sub
sequently. We founded the Tiger" on
Life" Of course, and felt very knowing
and intimate when Charles Dana Glib
son drew picture Of Jimmie Barnes,
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TNHE clothes may not make the
man, but they usually make the
manager. especially if the scene
be laid in a restaurant, and from the
managers clothes it is fairly safe to
Judge the condition of the pots and pans
below-stairs and what goes into the
hamburger steak. ......,.,.o-., ,.,,..>
A trip through the kitchens of various
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DIR. PATTON'S LECTURES CON-
N WINGED THEM THAT THERE
y WAS A REAL BIBLE HELL.

When we came from DR.. Patton's lee
lures upon Ethics - lectures which
blasted all theories of evolution and our
intellects simultaneously, leaving us
fragmentary and wan, but convinced
that there was a real Bible hell 'twere
well to avoid when we got little older
we passed to the Biological LabOra-
tory, there to learn the processes Of that
evolution we had just denied. He who
guided our reluctant fingers through the
innards of long-since starfish ana
pigeons, he who compelled us to explore
each Granny and recess Of dogfsh too,
too much preserved in jars Of alcohol
he, that new, young Professor Mcclure.
neither has he changed, though there
was time when you could never be
certain whether or no he was wearing
a beard. His assistant of those days,
now late Mayor of Princeton-this one
shows somewhat portly and ducal. but
is the same. Professor Harper seemed
10 us a serious man of middle life; per-
haps he was serious, but we must have
been remarkably mistaken about his
age!
OF course among ourselves we spoke
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downtown restaurants with one of the
Board of Health inspectors in the pres
ent crusade for more sanitary eating
places is sufficient to impress this fact
on the most casual observer. And he
would have to be casual observer who
could go through one of these inspections
and ever feel the same about food again.
He would have to be more than casual; ;
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81, for the outside page of the latter.
There was old-fashioned haz-
ing in the nineties, sometimes too
rough; and it was not questionable 10
carouse on trips to New York and Phil
adelphia-.though Washington Irving,
had he come our way, would have found
little occasion for his drunken stu
dents" more drunken stu
dents" | wonder. sometimes. if he was
not mistaken; there are so many occa-
sions when it is impossible to tell
drunken students from sober ones. [
have known strangers, in Paris, on the
night of the Fourteenth Of July, who
thought the whole city was drunk, when
nobody was. Certainly we were far
from "dissipated" in the nineties-and
our class gave Princeton the honor sys-
TEN. We can rest our case on that.
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V YOUNG Professor Hibben and
Mrs. Hibben looked Just about
as they do now; and we met
them, together, crossing the campus,
just about as luckily often as the boys
do now; and after meeting them we felt
Just about as we do now when we go
back there and encounter that same
sunny fortune.
Professor Marquand also looked just
about as he does now; perhaps he was
a trife more sedate then, for he was
still a bachelor, at Guernsey Hall; but
Professor Hunt has changed, for when
our class was in college we (being chill
dren) considered him quite decidedly
an elderly man, while nowadays we
think of him as beginning to be COM
fortably middle-aged-though he hard
ly looks that far along. And the Dean
of the Graduate College, that imperish-
able man: Where, oh, where, is there
anything different in him or upon his
squirely surface?
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If he passes these tests as to his own
personal neatness and condition, you
may go back to your table and order
anything you like, and be sure that the
food will be clean.
If you do not go through with this in
spection you will have to take your
chances.
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THE CLASS THAT INAUGURATED
THE HONOR SYSTEM AT
PRINCETON.

Looking back" what we see is boys
singing Did those slim boys. so long
since lost beneath our flesh, those boys
who had black hair where ours Is griz-
zled or is not anything-did those sing
ing slouching boys in their care-free
heaven ever think of us? Did they think
of the men that they would be? No
oftener than we think of them, cer-
tainly, yet they did know that we we're
inevitable.
Oh, these things that are ours now
we wrote in "The Lit" Of June, '92.
These things that some day we shall
look back to. Pictures will
come to US, too, and fragmentary airs
of the old songs of the Seniors on the
Steps, and we shall see again the white
clad loungers under the elms, listening
and sprawling in the grass
multitude of shadowy forms, dear and
we'll belovedw
Dear and we'll beloved" yes, though
sometimes more than half forgotten,
with the moonlight of those nights and
the sunshine of those days. 1t was
never rainy then. How strange that is.
The elms thrived; the grass before Old
North was always crisp and green, and
the gardens at Prospect and through all
of Princeton town were rich with flow
ers a-bloom, never a blowsy or dried or
faded one among them. Yet it never
rained 1t was always sunshine
then!
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Bv BOOTH HARRINGTON, 80.

CRepinted fran "The Princeton AIumm UcehIy)
The Huttig news., 1916-12-23
Lodge Directory.

GOOD LUCK LODGE No. 26e F. 6 A. M. meets Second and l6 object 9esras night. All visitors welcome. W. M. Mccormick. W. s. L. Glenn. Sec.
 EAST LAKE LODGE No. 6362 . U. 0. of 0. F. meets First au3 Inn Thursday in each month.
 H. B. LeQ4s N TW Scates, P. s.
 BLUE LIGHT LGEGE No Is5Y. ofP meets First and Tand Tuesoay ia eaoh month. JB FranoIs, C. C. K. E. Jackson, K. of R. s. Roosevelt Chapter, No l89. Order of the Eastern Star, meets every secaao and fourth Tuesday ID each month.
 Mrs. c. Williams W M Lula Glenn. Seey=
 HOUSEHOLD RUTH, No. 2sgo. of G. U. 0. of o. F., meets the first and third Thursday ir each month at l5o p. m. Emma Barnes, M. N c. Carrie Ayerett. w. R.
 JEWEL TABERNACLE, No. 4la meets every lst and 3rd Tuesday.
 Dora Riley. H. p. Lula Glenn. C. R.
 ELECTRIC LIGHT COURT OF CA LANTHE., No. 70, meets first and thire Wednesday in each month at AS p. m.
 Carrie Averett, w. C. Mary Hudson, R. D.
 LEBANON, Chapter Mo- Al, R. A. M. meets every End and 4th Thursday night at E;5o. Emmett Holly, H. P. s. L. Glenn, Secy.
 R. A. WILLIAMS, No. 324, c. of F. meets every first and third Monday night at l:25. W, A. High, President. Rosie Fuller, Secretary.
The Huttig news., 1916-12-23
Co-0peratiio'n
 @ By FRANK FILSON
By FRANK FILSON

Copyright. 1916. by W. G. Chapman)
 "I can't understand it, Miss Fer guson," said Lorimer of the Manufac- turing company. Here are the Els worth people bringing out their new patent fiue on the very same day as ourselves. And it has the same fea- tures-that escape which we have been having patent litigation about. I am sure Someone has betrayed us!"
 He smashed his fist down on the table. Three times during the last year the Ellsworth people had come on the market with an imitation of one of the Lorimer patents. Of course, one could go to law, but Lorimer was tied hand and foot in many legal fights, and meanwhile he saw the profits of his factory being snatched from him.
 If I could find the scoundrel I'd fay him p he swore. Miss Ferguson, it's either you or Sanders or Bent"
 Sanders was the company secretary, Miss Ferguson Lorimer's private sec retary. Bent was the head of the fac tory.
 of course, when I spoke of you 1t was in jest" Lorimer went on in a modified tone. But it's black be- trayal, Miss Ferguson. Do you think it's Bent?''
 ..The Ellsworth people evidently have a man at work here somewhere" answered Miss Ferguson in even tones.
 ''1ll find him." swore Ferguson. And I'll rip the hide off him when do."
 Miss Ferguson looked curiously after Lorimer as he went out to his lunch He was man of about forty years i; he had been fighting the Ellsworth peo- pie for five or six years, and hitherto successfully. Miss Ferguson had been with him for nine years, and had seen
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the business creep up until. in place of a small shop in tenement district, 1t had its own buildings and covered a block uptown.
 Lorimer trusted her absolutely. He had no secrets from her. Not even that about Adams.
 Adams had been the man who set Lorimer on his feet. A genius without practical sense, all his inventions were appropriated by the man who hired him for $30 a week. The patent fiue was his, as were the other patents. Adams was widower with one daugh- ter.
 He had finally left Lorimer in rage because he wanted $40 a week, which Lorimer was disinclined to grant. All that was before Miss Ferguson en- tered Lorimer's employment.
 Lorimer came home at two, and left the office at six. Miss Ferguson had the keys; Lorimer never came back after he had put on his hat and coat. At six o'clock he said goodnight and went away. Sanders had already gone, and Bent did not come through the office on his way from the factory.
 As soon as Lorimer had gone Miss Ferguson went to the safe and un- locked it. Swiftly she abstracted a certain set of blue papers and, return ing to her desk, began jotting down memoranda from them. She puzzled ty. f0~ i tha of that time there was telephone ring.
 The telephone operator had gone home, leaving the switch connected with the office. Miss Ferguson took down the receiver.
 "That you dad?' she called. "Yes, I have them for sure. The fiue attach ment. I'm just copying the data. No, there isn't much of secret about it. it's just what you expected it would be. Tell E. that I'll have the papers to him by the first post-my copy, of course"
 Somebody chuckled behind her. Miss Ferguson turned, to find herself look ing into Lorimer's face.
 "So 1t was you. just as suspected. said Loriiner. chuckling again.
 The secretary sprang to her feet in panic. Touch me if you dare!' she screamed.
 "I have no intention of touching you Miss Ferguson" said Lorimer. My remarks of this morning were simply destined to put you into an uneasy
The Huttig news., 1916-12-23
THE 2 l-2 CENT PIECE.

The director of the mint, in an annual report recently made public, recommended the passage of law authorizing 21a coins of nickel and copper. He said: When you consider that we have no coin be- tween the cent piece and the 5 cent piece. and that many an ar ticle worth more than a cent and less than 5 cents sells for the lat ter price because of the lack of an intermediate monetary unit of val ue, tbe economic importance of it will be readily seen"
 The one-cent piece has been losing favor of late because so few things can be bought for less than a nickel. A lot of pennles in pock- ct or purse are a nuisance. A 2l2 cent coin might save little of the expense the nickel has gotten US into. And it would be easier to handle than several pennies. Goods costing 25 cents per pound or yard could be bought in smaller amounts without the usual loss of half cent to the customer.
 While it would probably require some rather strenuous mental gymnastics to make ourselves at home with such a coin, it would very likely be a benefit to us in the end
The Huttig news., 1916-12-23

T notice there is lot of grippe in town" said Luke Lorkins the other day. I never had the grippe in my life. and I'll tell you why. l never take a bath in the winter time. It it the acme (whatever that is) of foolshness to take a bath in the winter time, and people who indulge in the folly will pay for for it sooner or later. The fellows who get the grippe are those who take baths once or twice week. People never seem to learn. The reporter who got this interview don't charge anything for this health hint, and Luke Lorkins, who is a public spirited mortal, won't charge anything either.
The Huttig news., 1916-12-23
Colored Column

Joe Scates of Graysonia is here visiting his sister, Mamie.
 Prof. P. A. Cook leaves Friday for Monroe to spend the holidays.
 Loura Jones of Doss is here wis., ting Will Oliver and wife.
 Dora Riley left for Wesson Sun day.
 Prof. Moseley, the assistant teacher, went to Fl Dorado Thurs Jay to take examination.
 The Eastern Star had their an- nual Thanksgiving sermon preach ed Sunday.
 Mamie Brunson returned from Bastrop Wednesday.
 Susie Jackson left for Oak Ridge " ednesoay.
 Nette Mathews is visiting with friends in Monroe.
The Huttig news., 1916-12-23

A bill prohibiting the transmits sion of liquor advertisements by mail to anyone except licensed liquor dealers or agents has been favorably reported by the House postoffice committee. It is aimed at the so called mail order liquor business in dry territory and if it becomes a law would stop the wholesale and mail order dealers of Monroe and other cities from mail ing circulars into Arkansas.