Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-10
Tom Daly's Column

workbench looks when you have hung
up your hat and coat to begin another
weeks sitting in with it. IT, then, hav-
ing momentarily forgotten the young
woman OF eighty-eight who won your
poetry contest last week, you should find
in your Monday mail such a note as this:
525 East Willow Grove Avenue,
Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pa.
July 7, 1917.
Dear Mr.. Daly--I desire to return TO
you my sincere thanks for the piece OF
gold sent me for my contribution to the
column" Also for the kind expression
Of commendation by yourself and the
Judge as TO my humble effort. 1t is an
other bright spot in the pathway OF one
who is nearing the end Of the journey.
Wishing for you all Of the best things
Very sincerely yours,
ELIZA II. HAND
Wouldn't you just naturally seize your
mandolin and without pauslng to tune
it too particularly, burst at once into
song.
TO 4 DEAR OLD LADY
Thank you for your 1oishes. Mdddmi
AN Of He'S best things" you sdy'
am certain you hare had 'em,
Be pour dnSiCcr 1chdt II may.
For, though all things else torSdke one,
Though one seem the toy of fate,
Those are "Htc's best things" that make
one
Youthful pet at eighty-eigh
Hare VoUr years been toHSome, pleasant,
Grdy or OoldP only bnoU
An your past has made your present
Glorious 1Utth the sunsets gloiC.
Blessings on yow splendid spirit,
Merry mistress Of your fate!
Pray that I mdy HUe to merit
HAT y0ur youth at eighty eight.
"Why do you spell BrussiloG with two
s's'?" asked correspondent recently,
and one of our bright editorial young men
replied, Because he does" But that
isn't exact. There are about a dozen
variants Brusilof Brussilof, Brusilov,
Brussilov, Brusilow, Brussilow, Braus-
silow Brausilov, Braussilof, Braus.
slloff), but the gentleman himself prefers
"Braussllow" We gather this from the
reproduction of his autograph in Russia
of Yesterday and Tomorrow" by Baroness
Souiny, whose ancestors, we'll bet n
cookie, were in the habit of spelling that
name with an S, one W. three e's, an n
and y.
Economize on the wheat flour, says the
Government, and use corn meal. That
will be no hardship at all for some Of
u.s. and for many it will De an intro
duction to a new and unsupported bless
ing. We frequently heard the late Tom
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corn meal his father was in the habit of
buying to keep the family through the
winter-and 1t was about all they had
We ourself have often yearned for a
slab of the hoecake served to us for
breakfast on Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays the year round when we were at
boarding school, lang. lang syne.
Tom Martindale was a sturdy and
active citizen up to the day of his tragic
death in the Alaskan wilds last year, and
If corn meal made him what he was, by
all means let us feed it to our young.
THE SONG THAT NEVER DIES
The ingenue and her handsome loUer
Sang song OF IoUe, feettng youth and
roses.
I aOuS touched, sighed, I almost choked,
I left the theatre tDhiStling the thing.
When, to my annoyance, / quickly dis
COUercd
That tCds tChiStHn0 something else, ttOo
gears old.
oh, street familiar melodies Of BroddlCdyi
Ppe knOtCn you all since youth. Q.
THAT man is not truly brave who is
afraid either to seem or TO be, when it
suits him, a coward" Edgar Allan Poe
said that, but what were the tiny wars
of his day to this cataclysmal upheaval?