New-York tribune., 1921-06-30
THE DIARY OF OUR OWN SAMUEL. prpys

was chosen by acclamation.
THE DIARY OF OUR OWN SAMUEL PEPYs
June 28-Early up, and to the office,
and at various petty tasks, and had
luncheon with Mistress Sophia, and
back to my desk and finished my stint
and Janet ccme to visit me and I drove
her uptown In my petrol-waggon, and
1t come on to rain, a great storm, very
dark and beautiful. So with 8. Rowe
and A. Samuels to dinner, and them
after to cinema show. The Old Nest,
which wearied me with it's sentiment
tality; forasmuch as / could not see
why the mother, of apparent capability,
should fold her hands and say, Life is
ended, because her children had left
home. Why, methought, not go to visit
one of them? Met J. Hutchison with
Mistress Julia Farnham, and they gave
me beaker of frosted chocolate, and
so home and to-bed.
29-Up by times, and wrote NV daily
letter to my wife, and greatly torn be-
tween telling her l am having a merry
time, lest she think I do have it but
in her absence; and telling her am
having sad and lonely time of It, lest,
In pity for me, she return at once. So
told her the truth. To the office for a
time, and so to Mistress Lola Fishers
and prayed her to go with me to din
ner, which she did, with q fair enough
grace.
We quarrel little with the Car
thage paper headline, as shown In the
movie The Old Nest. A Carthaginian
becomes Attorney General. and the
headline, as we recall it, is "Carthape
Citizen Highly Honored." Now this
not only has passive rb,-against
the rule on some copy desks,-but also
words overlong. The head probably
would be "Town Boy Gets Plum"
Here Are Words We Agree With
Sir: may be pardoned for saving
a word about the prepositional endiny
because 1T Is subject have given a
great deal of thought to. I never could
see anything awkward about the con-
sst.ruction; 8. twas not spurned by either
Stevenson or Pater, and theirs are
names to conjure with. When Won
come to defend it in your column.
however, you know in advance what
you're up against. immediately the
pcrists are heard from. perhaps
! snouio nave lnclosed the word 'pur-
ISIS" IN quotes; it Is inaccurate, but
IC ia the thaxv
Strangely enough, they will defend The
split intinitive, yield to the iconoclasts
IN the dogma that usage is the law of
language and commit a thousand
otner indecencies, while the prepo-
sitlonal termination is the on1y crime
they shrink from.
ELENoR LINDLAY MURRAY.
Testimonial candor from an adyer-
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cine, Ohio, writes: 'HINK-O-LAX has
done wonders for me. + had no idea
my liver was out Of order, but after
using HINK-O-LAX a short time then
knew 1t was.'"
THE oLD-LINE AD-MAN SPEAKS.
PERSIAN orange for kick display;
LIST to the song of the worldly-wise:
The fruit love ia fat o. X.
Bother the Caslon, cool and gray.
And fool-dnesse with the plates and dies
Persian orange for kick display.
For the the art-rough, blithe and gay
is the cup that cheers and beauties;
The fruit love is a fat o. X.
Forget the thrill of the field survey.
Good will and name to capitalize
Persian orange for kick display!
What if the copy its thousands sway9
The public reads and the public buys:
The fruit love is fat o. x.
ao' Watchman. what of your nashie play
Slap and cap and italicize;
Persian orange for kick display.
The fruit love is fat o. K.
L. Eff.
Pollyanna thought for hot weather:
Well, it's better than no weather at all.