New-York tribune., 1920-05-25

Tap -tap-tap he went and, fasci-
mated, | stopped writing poetry to
watch him.
l must have been staring at him for
fully five minutes before it
dawned on me that he was signal
ing this message to me in Morse
Code:
Don't sit there writing poetry on a
spring day like this. Come out
and live some" P, w.
"Sir," postscrbes P w., "in view of
your recent experience I think it only
fair to state that (a) l did see the
woodpecker, (b) I did not think he was
signaling me, (c) I know that birds
are unacquainted with Morse Code,
(d) the above is intended as a flight
i of fancy with no intention to deceive"
Somebody Is Always Putting the Joy
Into Life
Sir: One of the things that shock
ingly upset ones calculations on the
state of this world is the way of people
just keep on living-yes, and laughing
and enjoying themselves, too. To see
some Of them on the streets in the sum
shine last Saturday afternoon would al
most make one think that there were
no such things as Food Prices Still Up,
Move to End Freight Jam, Minimum
Terms to Teutons, or Carranza Slain by
Own Men. Life is terribly discouraging
to serious person. C. B. D.
The Literary Dige takes no chances
with the imagination of it's readers. The
joke, credited to Punch, is SOULFUL
PARTY-"Ah, yes, the world is al
ways so-we never strew flowers on a
mans grave until after he is dead"
And the Dige's head is Live Mems
Graves Neglected."
1t is just possible that that is
Punch's own head, in which event we
apologize to the Dige, and assert that
Punch ought to be ashamed of itself.
"He is poet of the people," ad-
vertise our publishers, blurting about
Walt Whitman, "of ordinary human
beings like you and l." This, we hold,
is overpatronizing the public.
Mr.. Reinald Werrenrath bothers to
wireless that his room steward on the
Baltic is F. Tipping
The Diaryof Our Own Samuel Pepys
Mag 22--Up, and spent the morning
IN various petty businesses, and thence
for 4 ride into the country with nv
wife, and SO home and M. Glass and
Mary Caroline come to dinner, and we
had the beat maple mousse ever
tasted, and I was twice holpen, and G.
told us of California, and H. Swope
and Pearl came, and at midnight all
to g. Kaufman's, and threw dice for
little time, and l very lucky; and
so home at 3 in the morning. no
wiser than I was yesterday, which is
not good.
23-To call for S. Spaeth, and 1 find
him playing cards with w. Tilden, but
drew him away, SO we to the courts,
where all afternoons With my wife to
the Globe, and saw the best benefit
bill ever | saw, Mr. Ed Wynn very
droll, and the anticks of Weber and
Fields and S. Bernard as comckall as
they were in 1901.
24-Early up, and to the office, where
all day, being unable to find any one
to play tennis with.
Perhaps Mr.. David Warheld, in turn.
lifted the GAS white as your shirt
Whittier" whceze from Eddie Foy, who.
according to Mr.. w. E. Castle, pulled
1t at the Chicago Opera House about
1888. And Tom Daily says that he first
told it to US in 1906, while we both
were guzzling Egg Harbor champagne,
in Atlantic City. He did tell it; and
we laughed, those being the polite days
OF youth, when we were too kind to say.
Dave Warfeld used that ten years
ago."
Perhaps the rise in soda water prices
anu CHc ueCIedSe IN Lne size OF the |
glass is not disproportionate though
we still believe zoe for ice cream soda
or lemonade is profiteering But
soda clerk now gets $40 week as op-
posed to $40 or SIP before the war. |
And we get it straight from the Secret
Service that sugar costs more than it
did in 1914.
Commercial candor by the Castle !
Baths: at will be noted for its ex-
cellent cuisine, and for the fact that
the prices will not be as exhorbitant |
as those which have made Long Beach |
notorious"
The Broadway Takers
Chop suey"
"What!"
"Chop suey. Say, know fellah
was in China, and he says it amt a
Chinese dish at all. It's an Amcr-
can dish"
"That right?"
Sure. This fellah was in China ana
he says it amt Chinese dish at all.
It's an American dish"
"Is that right ?"