Show WINS AND LOSES ARGUMENT persistent irishman bragging of 0 lighting ppe pipe with last match j puts it out with oratory philosophy may be ba a wonderful thing 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 coni st ruction work muses a now new york ea cor respondent it was af after ter the dij oar nor pall period when the form foreman crammed his little old joy box full of ter bacey and reached I 1 in n his bis pocket for a match there was none there A canvass of hla his cre crew w revealed one box of matches the kind that occasionally light there were just seven matches in the box and the foreman knew that he must get a light or do without his big dessert CE carefully irefully he shielded tho first arai match with hla his coat ne as he struck it fizzled the second failed to give a spark tha The third anda andi fourth were equally futile and thoi fifth and sixth sputtered only long enough to wring forth profane protests protes from the foreman with exceSS excessive 14 care he drew the seventh froni from tho the box to his bis delight it blazed up strong sarong and with a gratified grunt hs he lighted his bis pipe 1 I was afraid I 1 going to get the light at all he told his men that all goes to show V that persist ance Is the thing boys etick to I 1 it t la Is my motto you see it if I 1 had bad got mad and ho he gestured with his pipe to ghoul ahat he meant 1 I hati nave been smoking now from the best besta little 1 atle pipe in the world take it from me boys bois always win out if hiir yer follow me and then than while the crew sniggered ered meanly he put his pipe back in his mouth to discover that it was waa out |