Show ia J J f o. o I 0 e f. f r- r J. J 1 r t sr tA K TELE TELEGRAM RAJi RAJ i it Turning t the th t Pages By E. E W. W Osborn 1 l Copyright IOU 1923 S. S New Nw Tork York E En vs World Irea Co L L ll U ix 1 w. w V. V Copyright 1923 New York Evening Eve Eve- ning World Ir Ire Press as Publishing Co It life Ufa were were- aU all a happy holiday Of ot music flowers fLower laughters dance danco and son How v gladly I 1 would tako you by the hand And wander carefree through the wonderland Ot Of Joyous love Iove to which bur lives t 1 belong Since life lite Is mostly real and workaday workaday work- work day a With strife strite goals dis dl aster wrong Still Stilt would I have havo your our hand In mine to hold AJ Along ng the road road road-o so as ns' th the years unfold untold 7 Thus Ing we might find the deeper song Thus In the book of verses enes en entitled en en- titled Dream Ships Peter J J. Boyle Doyle New York Beth Walker allter writes Just for lor You You a a. a I Ia I yo v ow WATCH Eg Writing from front London for the June of World Traveler of English Traits and Yankee Con Con- tracts Temple Bouverie says A group of Americans In one of the tho hotel lounges were dis dl- cussing national the little traits that enable People peo Peo- pie to spot the difference say Bay between an Englishman and an American One American Ameri Amen can observed SAn An n Infallible BI sign n that differentiates differ differ- an englishman from an American aside alde from accent is the fact that he ties his snoe laces ace In a manner altogether different from an American Tho The latter knots the laces at t the top hook hOk while the En- En laces Jaces are made mado so I long lorig that he runs them around the top of the shoes before knotting them In front The group watched the Englishman Englishman Englishman En En- passing and low It was wall true Add to th International wisdom of the world By the lacing of their shoes hoes ve ye shall know them I But its it's dollars to doughnuts or some 2000 other old bet that the Yankee will cal his laces strings Which Is another difference MEETING TilE THE EARTHQUAKE Among the little tales of ot old times found In The Southern Sierras Sier Sier- ras of ot California Houghton Mif fun flin a a. book by Charles Francis Saunders An old niner forty-niner known as Plon Pion was out with a comrade hunting wild pigeons and seEIng seeIng see see- seeing Ing a flock in a tree fired dropping a number while white the rest flew away At the same Instant the tree swayed violently vio yb- under the effect of the earthquake Said Plon's Pion's friend Did you ever see Ee so small a flock of pigeons pig pig- eons pons shake sq bl a tree Then stooping to pick up his birds he ho fell flat on his face Getting up very much scared Pion he cried wh whits ts t's the matter with the world any an- how And Pion Plon Just as badly frightened shouted Damned If I know Lets Let's go go got And with that they ran nearly a n. mile to a a. house where they found a child who had been to school explaining earthquakes to her scared mother Until then neither of the men had thou thought ht of such a thing We do not doubt the earthquake But we do question whether Lets Letsgo go gol I was Included with the current slang of ot 49 S C S G MONEY HONEY A pointer In playful printed by Christopher Morley In Powder of Sympathy Doubleday- Doubleday Page a fresh collection of his day to day essays essays- On some somo Saturday morning when banking traffic is particularly particularly heavy we will gather half halfa a n. dozen friends ours who vho have havo nothing to do We will go round to the bank and stand In line all seven teven ot of otus us As we draw nearer and nearer to the window we will watch the an anguished faces of those behind despairingly counting the number of people that still stand between them and the cherl cherished hed teller Then Than Just as the first of our seven se gets up to the window we will all slip deftly away and enjoy ourselves by watching the Joyous elation of the man who though himself eighth in line and now finds himself next to the grill All d down wn the impatient throng passes a a. tremor of ot surprised surprised sur sur- surprised pleasure Then we will move on to the next bank and do the same thing No day Is lost whose low descendIng descend descend- ing InK sun has seen from ones one's hand a neat little Job of world brightening such as that I DILl DILI SHAKESPEARE BOYS BOY I From Josiah Quincy Adams Adams' A Life Lite of William Shakespeare Houghton Mifflin we quote asto asto as as' asto to young oUng Bill of ot Stratford In this quiet country countr town the young oung William probably led th tha typical life liCe of a village lad Through allusions In his plays we catch glimpses of himas him himas as as he played at pushpin ln with the boys or mor or more sacks to the the mill or hood hoodman man blind or led the game of hide fox and after all whipped top with the most expert and on occa ocea- occasions occasions stone more than one troubled with unruly pranks the sedate citizens In Avons winding s stream ream he could find endless sources of pleasure leasure There for tor in instance instance In in- stance was the cool swimming i pool the haunt of all the tho barefoot bare bare foot lads We 0 can Imagine him as aa at first venturing on the water timidly like little wanton boys that swim on bladders later like an swimmer plunging still with too much labor la- la bor or and at last challenging challenging chal chal- his comrades as C Cassius Casius Cas- Cas s. s sius ius did Brutus to leap In and swim to yonder point In the river too he could discover discover dis die cover Innumerable quiet places In which to betray the tawny finned fishes And now and then beyond a doubt sedate Stratford dratt dratted the bo boy who was booked to put the village on the map |