Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-08
HUMANISMS
BY WILLIAM ATHERTON DU PUY

MANTON WYVELL was secretary to
1Nl William Jennings Bryan when that
gentleman was Secretary of State. In that
position he was responsible for arranging
engagements and keeping the gate for his
chief.
One day there was jam of people who
wanted TO see Mr.. Bryan. The schedule
was full. Then along came Perry Belmont.
Mr.. Wyvell wanted to make an exception in
his case and smugglc him in ahead of some
of the others.
So he led this privileged gentleman into
n room that is kept as a waiting room for
diplomats and promised to call him as soon
as there was an opening. Then he went
away and forgot.
At noon Mr.. Bryan took a train for New
York. About 3 o'clock Mr. Wyvell went
into the diplomatic room to get his coat and
hat from a closet that he might hasten away
to ball game.
Much to his CONSERVATION there lay Mr..
belmont on the couch sound asleep. Wait
ing in the quiet of the diplomatic room he
mad dropped off and was still pounding his
ear.
Mr.. Wyvell faced n fearful embarrass-
ncnt. lie had not courage enough to meet
the situation. So he tiptoed to the closet.
got his coat and called Eddy, the Negro
porter, who had been handling diplomats
ior twenty years. lie hurried away and
left the situation to Eddy, who somehow
met it,
-, Colonel f. Lester Jones, chief of the
Coast and Gcodctic Survey. calls attention
to the fact that if Alaska were slipped down
over the United States it Is so large that
hetchlkan might rest on Savannah Ga.
with the Alcutian Islands reaching all the
way out to Santa Barbara, on the Pacific,
ana i0lnt Barrow touching Canada near
In In I..
Thomas j. Geraghty lives out in that
himland which fringcs Los Angeles but he
writes so many scenarios that his name is
known to many everywhere.
- lie used to be a newspaper reporter in
New York and he used to get shaved Mt tho
basement establishment of a little German
| barber.
, put Dig, DraZcn barber shop with all the
naSny trimmings opened up in the neigh
borhood and stole the trade away from Her
man so one day he cOniided to the re-
p"L'tT tnnl thihgS were going against him
| ana that he saw no way out but suicide
Heraghy ana not take the barber seriously
| lie jokPd with him about this idoo of soif
destruction. >" VI 'e'i
| but II you are going to do it, he advised
do 1t fancy. Make II good story of il, IF
| you would take that red parasol your man.
r'' 'i"t nus lelt, lOr instance, 20 ont into
Sehtral iark, unfur it, and shoot Yourself
beneath II, there would be unusual features
TO the suicide that would get YOU on the
| front page. 'H '"o
Ihc next day Geraghty's paper sent him
out on story of suicide in Central park
ana It was the little German barhnr ,hn
mad died just as his jocular customer had
| advised. 0''r hau
~ Andrew ID. Mellon, the Secretary of tho
treasury, smokes tiny cigarettes. probohiv
CUBAN done up in black wrappers. '''
Frank a. Munsey is the owner of y oLoi,,
| OF grocery stores that reach through NJ,
England and from which he derives bonJ
| some profits. "unu
;, Ambassador George Harvey and Jobr
hendrick Bangs used to share an auortman,
together in New York and were close friond,
| !. Nnpert HroSVenor, president of the M
tional Geographic Society, has n t,i,
brother, Edwin, lawyer in New York WIN
rs so much ike him that good friends oftau
mistake one for the other. Thes were horn
ol American parents in ConstafNnople.