New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-08


. % and omen in like doorare what the French There
; 7doSl in Paris That's why you never see people ean
w out of windows here; it's much trouble getting up again.
And M didn't somebody tell that French door knobs are
n The middle Of the doors? and that they don't turn lou CAM
M door without slamming and after you have slammed " you
- IL, again unless Won have key. The Key by the way
t - he slightly larger the key Of the Bashle rms
fact o,istes great extent the danger OF your forgetting "
for when you have it in your pocket you ca" S'' ~
The effects of the press censorship are astonishing until you &c,
used to them Often you'll see an interesting o0hS oo Of
the front page of Paris newspaper and beneath IT cOlImn u
nice white paper quite blank except for the word CEN0 "
he centre.
Secession 70 column conductors: Why not run censored
- Of The Coming Tower tmesay the day following an
important tennis match!
11v,tir the other morning there drawing Of a tramp
- mn street corner. The caption ram Ihey say ncIe Is
coz. famine" and then half an inch OF whe space 5d
+.l emf the rest out. And now Ill never N'o" "o" " ~
se lie awake nights wondering what that joke was
when insomnia threatens persist beyond endur-
49, mn hack issue Of Tribune and read that coal IS
60 60 n ton in New Coal is 1856 a Ton IN FaIls
when YOU can get itnot counting value OF time spent
klogrammes into tons
r Saturday one goes down Brenanos and gets the New
os 70 see what has been going on abroad one MAKES
discoveries; for thing, that news two weeks ola IS
~ interesting than news transmitted overnight u PoeSS
% the suspense of a serial The papers Of November 20
% m of the YaeHarvard and Army-Navy games but had 10
wait another week before knew how they came oU'
Also suspicion becomes conviction that Haywood BrGun and
G. S K write entertainingy and more l Sb
% drama than any other people have done since bernard '
was dramatic critic.
oa ~ Tho Tr;bnoap that St. Paus $50 years old;
and tho av home one passes Dame, which was 2OO years
old when Columbus discovered America After ALL the Land oil 'ne
Free end the Home Preparedness hasn't done SO rotten consider
ing the late start it got
But America is long way off, forges This Tribune
headline came as reminder: 100 PLATTSBUkG VETERANS
BRAVE COLD FOR DRfLIBue Noses and Tinglng ringers
Nj Turnout at Governors Island" One had forgotten
that there really is country where Drawing cold for drill
news item.
Then too 50 many mems fingers have tngled here bullet
cones through the hole in trench out OF "n
has poking rife After he gets out oil ne hosp ne
leave And 50 you see hmno index niger on
be right hand no second finger thumb Sometimes the whole
hand is gone Plat usually though, that he was bomber
and didn't throw his grenade quickly enough
men who have no noses don't mind quite much after
while But you really get used to seeing Them for man
without nose looks exactly like deaths head It's rather horr
You yourself wondering what his wife thinks or the girls
be used 70 know The English call it "shrapne face
What makes is the fact that most OF them are ohnd
It's pretty hard man
s., va, 70, think Of the words soldier" you
don't think Of things that at al You sec picture OF Hd
wing nop hospital cot clean white bandage around his
mead or living upon tho battlefield broken cannon with
through sn0uoer, OF cunning N" ~ WV w"
homestead with one sleeve empty-aways the left sleeve
The trouble is II is wounded by rihe bullet prooaoF
s him in the hesthrough the ungsor in the abdomen; or
IL b out his ewes or tears away his lower Jaw or one SIDE OF
HI, f. ~ docs something to his that makes him parayzed
idiot for the rest Of his lte . ,u,
The shells are good sized smell fragment "S hAe
n 70 take OF both legs as one blow off both hands or all
Of The right arm and shoulder .
may be gassed and so nave 10 ne c"iei0' "' "
again so 70 drop dead
That is why the people in Europe are not more gei '
now They think We anything about TINS wal lhS
now 50 much about they think they'd better see through
long rs they're in IT, perhaps have done with u lot COCO
sy,o All conscripts now, Europe and some OF them
,s,b.r hone America will have CONSUMPTION before long
They'll cool after the Of and perhaps ge' 70
- Us better,
JuSt they think it would as right ..rr,