New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-26

Washington, July 25.
The Washington Barber


The Washington Barber
The old man has his memories,
And as he talks away,
Cutting my hair,
His darby face is lit with cordial smiles
With recolectons genial of the past
He totters, and decay
Has marked him for its own,
And vet he does not know
He does not dream
How actual a thing death is
But intimately he mouths distinguished names:
Sherman and Wise and Stevens Grant and Hay,
Giving them distinction to the
They all were friends of his,
And patrons, too
The good soul has kind memories
Cutting my hair
And in Robert Gwynn,
perfect goodly figure of boy,
4 boyh soldier figure of man,
Fatiguehat canted
Till does not shade his clean blue eyes,
Which own businesslike embarrassment at garb-
His Khaki clothes yet strange and new,
And vet know that while he has his shave
His thoughts are oceanfar .--.-.
On trench and strife,
On duty, bivouac and sudden death;
And every day
His keen young student mind
Senses the dire reality of death,
thousand fancies throng to make 1t real
He breathes it in and smiles like all the rest -.
The old man fills my need and bows out
And shambes back to shaving cups and dreams:
Too old to fancy what it means to die. Y M. S.
The boys and girls in the Food Administration De-
narment-Art Samuels Katherine Leckie, Jim Collins
avid fhot roXUH Hnn'f
know what to do about Jim Duncan, champion discus
hrower of the world jim has been interviewed, and he
ys that tobacco is bad for athlete and alcohol is just
Is bad 81 never drink anything stronger than glass of
beer saws Mr. Duncan STILL Jim Collins suggests
Mr. Duncan may be one of the Brewers Associations
press agents.
Methods in this war are largely those of STEALTH in
np men with plenty of artillery machine guns and air
planes. ..g ~ .s
What is this but return to the tactics employed by
American Indians ?-Springfeld Republican.
What indeed? The Commissioner of Indian Affairs
was telling me only yesterday about the days when the
Indians sailing above the buffalo their Cursses would
level their machine guns at the herd
One should have car here. AS Dulcinea says, you
begin to see why they call it the City of Magnificent DIS
nnces Well at Happys Garage, Oklahoma City, Tor Sooo
YOU can buy 1917 Dodge looks like new; won't last
long,"
The Wilson's are letting shift for myself, as far as
provender is concerned They have only themselves to
blame that had an aptptack of ptomane this morning
caused by restaurant fodder.
Rutland Vermont, has commercially candid luncn-
sy which advertises "You Never Lose your appetite II
YOU dine at our restaurant"
On page were nine verses by John l.. Stoddard'
vhon, who's Who" says born in Brookline, Mass
Brooklyn Eagle
Add Whou's Whom in America.
Six men have rented house out Chevy Chase way
One of them is in the War Department, one with the bu
.u of Public Information with the Shipping Board
and the other three are writing war stuff Inc COOK
hunderer valet and bedmaker is Pedro, young Filipino
Last night Pedro announced that he had enlisted IN the
navy and tomorrow he goes to his ship Thus our soon
n-befamous planet being made safe for democracy
Mr.. Clare Briggs had seen the little six-year-oa
r with five pennies in her hand, walk up to the union
Station candy stand and had observed her facial express