Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-24
A Regrettable Scene

When Skipper had quickly gulped down
what had been given him, he took piece
of cake when Mrs. Salmer, looking upon
him with degree of allowance, thought,
Poor ignorarit fellow doesn't know which
end of the meal to begin at"
The Adams apple on Shippers neck had
not played up and down more than twice,
when he seized a second piece of the rich
composition, and then a third : and the
lady in charge, becoming alarmed lest none
should be left for the rest, laid drum
stick on biscuit, and said
Here, Mr.. Potter, have this nice chicken
and biscuit
ooh, no." said he. "eat that yersef; this
punllin breads good enough fur me-
Those who had previously concealed their
o hilarty at Shippers mistakes were now
unable to conceal their glee, and all burst
into such explosions of laughter that great
mouthfus of masticated bread and butter
flew against the surrounding rocks like
showers of shot from fowling piece
Mr.. Clippersteel settled with his lovely
wife in the city of Raleigh, where he had
formerly resided, and the murmurs heard
i'll that family were like the voice of a sun
lit tide embracing the tinted shells of the
shore IN love. The Basam Groves of
Grandfather Mountain,
Our good friend Fred Eckcrsburg, eng-
necr at Independence Hall. dropped in to tell
us of the latest triumph of his protcgc Mar
tha Washington, the State House eat. Last
spring Fred sent some copies of our high
spirited contemporary. the EVENING PUBLIC
LEDGER, over to Sergeant Robert Dotts, II
Philadelphia with the army of occupation.
One of these issues contained pleasing pho
tograph of Martha and her two young daugh-
tcrs, Victory and Liberty Sergeant Dotts
has written in reply that the boys of the
Ninth Infantry. Second Division, took such
a fancy to this picture that they posted it
up in the barracks at Dierdorf, Germany.
There, for all we know, it may be still.
Martha 5 life has been one long succession of
plaudits, even down to the time when
mouse was found in one of the cans of rec
tilted beans issued by the government.
Mr.. Wilson has been blamed for almost
everything but the weather. We'll, Just
wait until the first blizzard arrives.
We gather one thought from ruminating
upon the princes visit to this country The
Woolworth Building has definitely taken the
place of Niagara Falls as Americas great
est curiosity,
The Urchu has returned to town and it
is no longer necessary for us to use the
alarm clock in order to catch that morning
car on Spruce street.
Antiques
am quite sure, said ID. McGunis, that
I never saw Pine street till three years ago,
but never see that portion in the immediate
neighborhood of the Pennsylvania Hospital
without my subconscious self insisting that
/ have known it all my life, If I were an
architect or II poet perhaps l could tell you
why. for ! am convinced that there is some
great and pregnant truth concealed in the
simple rhythmical lines of the old buildings
something that the spirit within me has
heard and seen in years past and almost,
but not quite, forgotten.
Perhaps that is why the ''antiques" in the
shops higher up the street strike me as being
"homey' rather than odd. 7 have walked
Il feel convinced under those glass doc
daddles on the big chandeliers, and gazcd
through them at the candlclght in the days
of "prunes and prisms" been more or less
familiar with the pictures ON the walls and
the big brass .candlesticks and the willow
pattern plate dinner sets and the bone !
handled steel knives that were cleaned on
knife board with bath brick, and the brass