New-York tribune., 1920-09-17

ever knew now TO get his phrases into
/ the headlines. Neither candidate thus
far has pulled a good phrase.
Our Own Travelogues: Chicago
BY careful planning, I managed to walk
to-day twelve blocks without passing owe,
or under railroad tracks. Every time ]
stepped from the street on to the sidewalk
marveled that the A. 4. U. championship
high hurdles should ever go to one not born
and bred here.
The librarian at the Public Library, when
I asked where could find the esteemed. not
to say revered, Christian Science Monitor of
March 13. told me, You can't find it no
where. After tree weeks. den we t'row i.
out, see?" However, 1t was a branch librar,
which had Mrs. Parker's Life Of Carleton
Parker on a shelf labeled Recent Fiction. "
New York isn't the only city which has
| stetters in it's proofrooms. The Chicago
Tribune informed its readers recently that
Mr.. Balfour's note to the Soviet government
was considered (of course, in the usual we'll
informed circles) masterpiece of dialec ts -
BERT.
1t will be the twenty-eighth anniver-
sary Of Sousa's band Sunday. 1t was a
young band, then, that we used to hear
play in 1893, near the Government
Building at the Worlds Fair in Chicago,
But how it used to play "The Washing
ton Post" and "The High School Cadets!
Not even "The Liberty Bell" "Manhat-
tan Beach" and "The Directorate" had
the zip of those two.
According to Nine. Marguerite, dele
gate to the dressmakers' convention in
Chicago, the tendency to-day is to dis
card as many garments as possible. But
the truly modest girl, we hope, will con-
tinue to conceal her ears.
We concede the sublimity and the
beauty of the words of "a Bird in a
Gilded Cage" Its motif was superb and
its moral fine. Butwc are not so ready as
F. P. A. to yield to it the palm of supe-
riority. We have always held "a Bird in
Gilded Cage" inferior in some respects
to 'The Fatal Wedding" narticularly ly in
the matter of delicaoy and heart inter-
est. Curously enough, although we
sang it many times, we recall only the
second stanza of "1he Fatal Wedding" !"
We quote it in an effort to establish our
contention:
Il must protest." the woman cried,
ls voice SO meek and mild,
"The bridegroom is nv husband sir
And this our little child"
what proof have you?" the pueachsr
said,
my infant" she replied,
She raised her head, then knelt to pray.
The little one had died.
That was a grand lyric; IL not the
pest or all time, at least the best of the
nlnetles. Jay f. House in The Phila-
delphia Ledger.
There is no such thing, we contend.
as the best lyric of the ninetes. A
period that sang after the Ball." INV
Mother Was Lady," "Just Tell Them
That You Saw Me-" "Only Me-" "Cast
Aside ''If You Should Sec Your Sister"
>"She Was Happy Till She Met You "
and hundreds like them, was SO opulent
that a ranking committee would have
an impossible task. If Mr.. House wants
to sing the noble chorus of "The Eatal
Wedding" these are the words:
while the wedding bells were ringinp.
Nhlle the bride and groom were there
Maarcnlng down the aisle together,
Whlle the organ pealed an air.
Felllng tales of fond affection,
VoWlng never more to part:
Just another fatal Wedding
Just another broken heart.
Nobody writing fiction knows more
ABOUT lawn tennis than Mr.. Louis
Graves, whose "The Mention Marver,
appears IN the October Metropolitan.
an 1910 Mr.. Grayss was ranked in the
hfth ten. But he"artist, Mr.. Will Crete.
has the heroine playing "A match in high
heeled slippers.
Perhaps the old Bookman proofroom
mas Joined the metropolitan staff. Molla
bJursted, Grand Central station, Nc
Laughlin, and Brooks--in one story.
Mr. Webstone broached the subject to
one whom he knew would be a synpa-
tnetc lstener.-From "Port Arlington
otor'es,' by r. E. Verncde.
And whom probably was.
oellVery by air mail may be rapid.
out Mr. Burleson's o. f. service IA ,wift
enough esterday we saw two letters
postmarked the day after their recent.
Why do such careful writer's as B, /.
l. and II. L. Mcncken keep referring
to him as ]. c. Squires?
The anti-Drys arc looking for an em-
olemntic bird. Tha engle, Of course i.
out OF the question. But why not tho
swallow?
Or the hootch owl?
y. p. A,