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Show FRANKLIN KEPT HIS UURELS Approprlrtely, Apoitle of Thrift Wat I Allowed to Retain Ornaments for Exceptional Time. New York, the Sun of thnt city stntes, Is one plnco where thero nro almost al-most laurels enough to go nround. It Is the ciiRtom of the city to be generous gener-ous with them, but they never last. Three days Is nbout the limit. Thnt Is, three dnys marks about the length of time when the crowd will cn dura the sight of them on the living. After that they lew them with nmuse-mrnt. nmuse-mrnt. Hut when hung on a bronze or marble stntuc by common consent nnd tho custom of the pnrk department they arc given thirty dnys. Ilcnjnmln Franklin wus permitted to keep his Inst crop of laurels longer thnn most statues. Although It was by renson of his very many Illustrious Illustri-ous qunlltles that his stntue beenme a landmark Iti Park row, It was particularly particu-larly bocnuso of his position ns tho patron snlnt of all thoso who hold thrift ns a cardinal virtue thnt ho wns ndorned some weeks ago with more wreaths than nny Hawaiian ever managed man-aged to hang on himself. ' He kept them, too, until they wcro of nbsolutely no more use. Tho dny they were put up people traveled from nil five boroughs to gnzo nt the bronze likeness of the publisher of "Poor .Klchftrd's Almanac" Hint first of nit the best sellers of America nnd to consider their own sins or to contemplate con-template their oun virtues In the matter mat-ter of thrift, nut this week when they were cut down no one paid the slightest slight-est attention to the two "white wings" who were climbing nbout the pedestal Jerking down tho wreaths and slinging them on the, pnmnont. |
