New-York tribune., 1919-02-24
Gotham GIeanings
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A fall of the white mantle de-
scended Friday.
Maj. Kendall Banning was a
pleasant caller Wednesday.
# w. Wilson of Staunton, Va,
is expected in Boston to-day.
-Wally Eaton OF Sheffield,
Mass, dropped in Friday to swap
views with ye cd.
Roger Straus is home from
Siberia, where he was a soldier.
Rog is glad to be back.
Grant Rice has got on long
pants again and looks finely Grant
is with the N. Y. Tribune.
Sam Merwin, ]r., and John
Merwin OF Concord, Mass, are
spending the wk. end in Gotham.
We ed spent Washington s
Birthday in Washington, d. c.,
which is pretty patriotic as things
go.
Freddy Steele has risen from
the worst pool player in the world
to one who has few peers and fewer
equals.
The Beach Haven Farm Asso-
clatlon met yesterday at Charley
Beck's place in n. J., ye scribe be-
ing a prominent absentee.
Miss Jobyna Howland left the
cast Of "a Little Journey Sat.
night and has no job now, so we
won't mention her name until she
gets one, as she only buys the paper
when same is in, and she ought to
CCOnOmlzC.
AS Solar Novelty Secdy offers "The
Vanishing Memorandum, which exists on
desk as important memorandum. You read
1t and throw it in the trash basket: where
upon you forget part of it. On irving to
recover it you find it has sunk to the bot
tom of the basket and covered itself with
the morning paper, the contents Of yes-
terday's ash tray and numerous other pieces
of the same size, some of which are COW
cred with glue ink and all Of which must
be unscrambled and read before YOU find
the right one"
And, take it from any colyumist. the
Oichi
1st Endorsement: Approval Recommended
Sir: l claim citation. During offico
hours yesterweek, | was caught perusing
The Coming Tower and was immediately
hauled into my bosss sanctum.
Quoth he: "If I ever catch you reading
that during hours again, out you eo" Re-
piled l: "Sir, if I cannot read when wish
to, have no further use for this position"
He said "Get!" And in spite Of the hostile
influence I took my time about WALKING
from the room.
Do [ not deserve a cross for bravery
under fire.? MARK Fl.
Though mono of Lowell's forebears lived
IN Cambridge until the year he himself
arrived in it, his father, grandfather and
great t-grandfather were all graduates of
Harvard College. To his precocious child
soul to have been born there must have
seemed like coming home-Boston Tran
script.
What Does Baby Think About?p
THE MALICIOUS PROOFROOM
lFrom tho Pottsvlllc tPao Renuhlican1
Mrs T. Ray Meikrantz harmed all by her sing
Ing OF the Star Spang led Banner" y.th accom-
paniment by Miss Mary Mudowney
Whether Mr.. Bcrger's attorney. Mr.. Hcnrv
Cochems is Il good lawyer we are not nre-
pared to assert But old gentlemen will nd
NIT that when he played for Wisconsin
about twenty years ago he was more or
less foothallist. Well say he WAS.
Speaking Of names, that is one Of tn.
diversions this department has decided IN
do without.
When Governor Allen had double pneu-
monia in Franco last summer. was he cured
on account of the treatment he received in
an army hospital or in spite Of it?
According to General Traub the chargea
made by the .Govcrnor.of Kansas arc nnre
nlcngory
With the accent on tho CORY.
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