New-York tribune., 1921-11-29
The Tower

III 1 Ho EVeuluR WuTIuy nave DceH
written about tho other woman, the
acute angle Of the triangle" Volumes
have been written about triangles, FOR
that matter; but one has to read no
more than Wentworth's Elementary
Plane Geometry to convince ones self
that there is no such thing as the
acute angle of triangle. There is
only one kind Of triangle that has as
few as two acute angles; and most of
the triangles, in our set, at any rate,
have three.
1t is Russs conccit that when The
Brooklyn Citizens linotyper set it "Die
Gobherdamerung" he was only sympa-
thizing with Secretary Hughes's notion
about the twilight of the gobs.
These old eyes have seen, man and
boy, many instances Of journalistic
straddling In their days, but the record
was chung up" as the headline boys
say, by last Fridays Saratoga Springs
Saratogian, whose weather forecast was
"Rain or Snow. Fair"
Meet tho Sloganite-"That's All You
Need to Know About a Man"
"Hello, neighbor!"
"What makes you so lively this
morning, asked?"
"Springy elastic step Of youth" he
replied.
"Have a Fatima7"
Nothing else will do" he chuckled.
"Why haven't we seen you at the
club lately?" ventured.
He smiled meaningly. There's a
reason" he said.
"Aha, girl in tho easel Good look
ing?" I asked.
els she twenty or forty?" was his
only comment.
Sis Callie ushered them in, and they
stood in the doorway like carioatures
of Tweedlcdum and Tweedledee--.one
tall and gangling. the other short and
stocky, both unutterably melancholy
Octavus Roy Cohen in The Satevepost.
Strange that this difference should be
Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee!
Perhaps Mr.. Cohen was thinking q
Weber and Fields, or Mutt and JEFF.
THE DIARY OF OUR OWN SAMUEL PEPYs
November 24-Lay late, through not
getting to bed betimes, and 90 to the
office. where till at my scrivening,
and so to ]. Wise's and talked of this
and that, and so home and found little
Jane Swope there, playing with our cat,
Mistah. So with my wife to r. Fleisch-
mann's, and had fine supper there,
but | took no turkey as there were
other things, and turkey is edible, me.
seems, only when there is naught else.
Played game called Minoru, but did
not enjoy it greatly. So home, and read
more in "The Story OF Mankind" and
SO to sleep.
25-Up by 10. and to the Office and
there all day, and at my Intellectual
scrivening, and if any should say Nay,
should prove easily that it is inef-
fectuai and Of no moment soever. To
j. Wise's in the evening and so home.
26-L. Ayres and r. Hayes to lunch
con. and so to the football game, and
glad to see the Navy win; and so to
Mistress Pearls for tea, and rejoiced
to see Hugh Young the chyrurgeon,
whom I had not seen since he gave me
a fine breakfast in Ncufchateau; and
Mrs. Cruger there, too, full Of beauty
and simplicity, and Neysa, and great
crowd. Home for supper, Of eggs and
bacon, and took my wife to dancing
party, and there left her, and so home
and to-bed.
27-Lay till noon, and wrote all the
afternoon, and so to Edna Kellogg's
with my wife, and very merry there. A
Mrs. Lewes read what she called my
character, and told me could do any
thing l wanted, but was too easily di-
verted by multiplicity of interests;
but l am not interested in such Chal-
dean readings, at any rate.
2S-All day at work, and in the eve
ming to see "The Wife With Smile"
Our amiable contemp, Mr.. Christie
pher Morley, quotes from William
Rothenstein's estimate Of Joseph Con-
rad: To-day his luxurious prose is
unassailable by purists and professors"
His luxurious prose isn't anything of
the kind. 1t is assailable by purists
and by professors, and by anybody else
who cares about, for example, the mis-
use of "like." 1t is good writing, but
unassailable ?-1 900 x MOI
Liability Dept?
[From The Michigan Alumnusl
Paul Bowen, '16, is the proud father
of twin girls. Those wishing to send
congratulations should address him in
care of the Standard Accident Tns 70