Show WINS AND LOSES ARGUMENT persistent irishman bragging of pipe with last match puts it out with oratory philosophy may be a wonderful thine for the classroom but theres an irish foreman on the subway work who will tell you in emphatic subway vernacular that it Is wasted in con coni i Bt ruction work muses new york con respondent it was after the pall period bhea the foreman crammed bis little old joy box full of and reached in bis pocket for a match there was none there A canvass of his crew revealed one box of matches the kind that occasionally light there were just seven matches in the box and the foreman know that he must get a light or do without his dessert carefully ha shielded first match with his coat as he etrick it fizzled the second j failed to give a spark the third and fourth were equally futile and the thel l fifth and sixth sputtered only long enough to wring forth profane protests from the foreman with excessive 1 care he drew the seventh from the j box to his delight it blazed up strong and with a gratified grunt he lighted bis pipe it 1 I was afraid I 1 going to betl the light at all he told bis meni that all goes to show that persist ance Is the thing boys etycl to it la toy motto you see if I 1 had got mad and he gestured with his pipe to show that lr meant 1 I baa been smoking now from the best little pipe in the world take it from me boys you 11 always win out if yer follow me and then while the crew sniggered ered meanly he put his pipe back in his mouth to discover that it was out |