Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-10-14
DON MARQUIS COLUMN
Card of Thanks-Delayed


twenty years-a debt Of gratitude to MRS.
w. H. FELTON,, Georgia's new senator and the
first woman to enter the United States SEM
ate, which we shall never be able to pay In
full. Mrs. FELTON, wrote some Of the best
things we ever got credit for. We used to-
write editorials for the Atlanta Jour-
nal; and at the same time she con.
trbuting signed articles daily to The Joure
nal.
1t struck us that she was writing so we'll
and such variety OF subjects that 1t was
pity that she was not writing editorials
This feeling used to become especially strong
about o'clock of summer afternoon, when
there was just time to get out to the ball
game There were always five or six columns
of Mrs Feltons articles in type in the COM
posing room, and we would make column
or so of them our own by the simple process
Of telling the printer t. pull galley proof
and change every "l' he saw into we.
This was known to the foreman and ourself
as "We-ing Felton," Some weeks, no doubt,
Mrs. FELTON, used to get a shock OF surprise
1--WE hope it was pleasurable) by seeing that
she had written most of the editorials in The
Journal for a period of two or three days.
Baseball was passion with us at that time.
Mrs. FELTON, is a grand old lady, one or
the grandest that ever lived and 1t would be
a good thing for Georgia and for the whole
country if she were to be United States Sen-
ator for six years, instead of for only a few
months. She is an apparently exhaustless
dynamo of mental energy-the most intellec.
tual woman from whom we ever stole cole
umn of copy. We were always a little Bit
afraid of her in those days, because of gull.
ty conscience-though she was a good sport
and never told the boss on us-and we don't
remember that we ever let her know how
much we admired her. This card of thanks
is just to let the dear old Senator know.
The Antique Shop
In this chair Julius Caesar unused,
Before he crossed the Rubicon,
And great Napoleon waved this sword,
The day he captured Ratisbon.
With this quill William Shakespeare turned
His verses for the worlds delight,
And here's the very violin
That Nero played one flaming night.
This pipe Sir Walter Raleigh smoked,
When he was England's brightest name
And this old gun was Captain Kids
The gentleman Of pirate fame.
Elizabeth once wore these rings,
When she was queen of land and sea,
And this, Priscilla's spinning wheel,
A heritage of history.
The door is open-welcome, friends!
Step in and purchase while you may,
We've all the latest antiques made
We get new shipments every day.
MORRIS ABEL BEER.
Our lives are so largely what our creditors
make them.
M. C. S. E. has system OF mnemonicS
which, we are obliged to confess, is superior
to our own. Hear how it works: "There Is q
telephone number I have occasion to remem-
Der, 'Rector 1862" and this is how I do it:
The ultimate sum OF the digits is 8, obtained
as follows: plus 6, plus 6, plus 2, equals
81, and two plus 1 equals 3. Now, what Ia
the greatest idea associated with the number
8? Why, the Trinity, of course. Sand that
reminds me of 'churcl" and church reminds
me of "rector" Now for the number itself.
Trinity comes first, with Z; church next, with
6; rector next, with 6, and last Of all I and
the chap L want to tai with make 2. And
there you are! I know another fellow who
has occasion to remember this same number.
and he follows me as far as the name of the
exchange is concerned, but he prefers to get
the number in different way. He drives
a twin-six machine, and it is easy for him to
remember &c as the middle Of the numbers
Then to the left hand 6 he adds IL 2-3 per
cent, getting z, and from the right hand he
substracts sc 2-3 per cent, getting o. He
says 1t Is easy to remember these odd per-
centages, whereas common ones like 10, Is
or SO would be easily forgotten or confused"
Our own trouble with these systems has al
ways been that by tn time we have rennem~
bered the number We have forgotten what ID
was we wanted to say over the phone.
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