New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-06-05

SO III start it up once more:
AIDA bong tom tom
AIDA bong!
AS I beat its rainbow hide
From its fathomless inside,
The only lonely sound that seems to
Is the haunting, haunting gong
Adda bong, cdda bong.
SO pattcr, pattcr, patter,
With my stick upon my drum
AIDA bong, tom tom, AIDA bong.
FRECKLES.
We string along with Mr.. Haywood
Broun in his estimate Of Conrad,
though we have harder time reading
him than Mr.. Broun does. We never
had the intelligent patience to get
through Lord jim" "For our own
part Mr.. Broun wrote yesterday, eve
remember that we once spent ten days
in Picking, and our liveliest recollec-
ton is that one night we held ten
high straight flush in hearts against
two full houses. One of them was
aces and kings. That was adventure,
to be sure, and yet we have held
jack high straight flush in clubs
against four SKIES in no more distant
realm than West Forty-fourth Street.
Adventure is like that" Sometimes.
But our adventure, in NO more distant
realm than Mr.. Broun's own apart
mcnt, was holding an ace full of tens
against four treys, the latter excellent
and ranking hand having been held by
the redoubtable and adventurous Mr..
Broun himself. Adventure is like that.
too.
Senator Johnson says that the
Literary Digests poll eliminates one
class of voters, the hard working labor
ing classes, who do not subscribe to
magazines; in which class, he adds, has
been his greatest strength since he first
ran for Office. Well, Of course, most
people 90 not read magazines or even
newspapers; but it is our notion that
Senator Johnson's strongest advocates
were great magazine readers. Now,
we, for one, read many magazines and
newspapers; but who is the best candi-
date, or who would be the best Presi-
cont we have no spark of notion.
All we have is personal prejudice,
which happens to be in Governor AL
lens favor; and all most voters &C.
tualy vote for or against is personal
prejudice.
According to Mr.. McAdoo, the coun-
try will need its strongest men in the
next four years; which is as true as
it ever was. 1t needed them during
the past four vars; and it had them
too. But a nation is not so strong as
It's strargest men; and when its strong
est men are using their strength fight
ing each other, the nation usually
chugs along with its next strongest
Is Mr.. Frank Craven said in THE Girl
From Home" in as patriotic a story
as we ever heard. "My country, It's
Of thee; I'd hate to live in any other
place"
The Strange Case of a Park Hsncher
Yesterday
Afternoon,
AS the '.srsons who ore toe lazy ~
write metrSeslly havo it,
| saw weak looking man
Sitting on bench,
Reading paper,
In City Hall Park
/ His hair was strawish and wspy,
/ And Nispy and strawish was he.
L;fc had tackled his chin for loss
Ana it WAS still reooding.
lie looked something like the pictures
Of the Crown Prince,
He Looked like a hcaten German,
If you know what mean;
So ! oked to see what paper he
was reading.
/ Imagine my amazcmcnt
| If y>u can
And think you can
He was reading
/ II" hamburger Ffrmdcnhiatt.'
There is no law compelling a man
to road the accounts of the trial yactt
rncos, which is our excuse for skin
ping them. A yacht race is n lot
Of fun If you're in one of the yachts.
but rcadi~T about the race is almost
IA wenrisome az watching it.
Is the property covered by q rain in
sunnce policy protected, We wonder.