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REPARTEE
Perhaps the wittiest and most
graceful tribute ever spoken by . a
man of his wife was sal{] by Joseph
T. Choate.
Someone asked him: "Mr. Choate,
if you could. not be yourself, whom
would you rather be?"
Iestantly came the reply: "Mrs.
Choate's second husband."
* *
That Henry Ward Beecher was
spared much embarrassment by his
quickness at repartee is illustrated by
the following story:
' One evening, as he was in the midst
of an impassioned speech, someone
attempted to interrupt him by sud-
denly crowing like a rooster. It was
done to perfection; a number of peo-
ple laughed in spite of themselves,
'and the speaker's friends felt that in
e moment the whole effect of the
meeting and of Mr. Beecher's thrill-
ing appeal might be lost.
He stopped, listened until the crow-
ing ceased, and then. with a look of
surprise, pulled out his watch.
"Morning already!" he said; "my
watch is only ten. But there can be
to mistake about it; the instincts of
the lower animals are infallible."
Cardinal Vaughan and Dr. Felix
Adler were sitting next to one an-
other at luncheon.
"Now, Dr. Adler," said the Card-
inal, "when may I have the pleasure
of helping you to some ham!?" The
rabbi replied without pause, "At your
Eminence's wedding."
* * *
„When asked how it was that in pic-
tures and statues angels are always
represented as women or young men
without beards or mustaches, Dr.
Potter, Bishop of New York, replied:
"Everyone knows that women na-
turally inherit the kingdom of Heav-
en, but the men get in only by a very
dose shave."
* *
Rutherford B. Hydes told of an in-
cident when he and two classmates
were strolling in the suburb of Cam-
bridge while students at Harvard.
They saw a venerable looking man
with white flowing beard approaching
and in the exuberance of youth hue,
riedly decided upon a prank to play
upon him. One hailed him with: --
"Good morning, Father Abraham,"
the second; "Good morning, Father
Isaac" and the third with extended
hand said; "How-do-you;do, Father
Jacob?"'
The old man stepped back and plac-
ed his hands behind him and replied:
"Gentlemen, you are mistaken, I am
neither Abraham, Isaac nor Jacob,
' but Saul, the son of Kish, who was
sent out to find his father's asses,
and lo! I have found them." (I. Sam.
9:3).
The nineteenth President said that
lesson had lasted him through a life-
time.
* * *
The aptness of John Wesley's re-
plies sometimes took the form of
severe repartee, but only when it was
deserved.
"Sir," said a blustering low -lived
man, who attempted to push against
him and throw him down; "Sir, I nev-
er make way for a fool."
"I always do." replied Wesley,
stepping aside and calmly passing on.
*
William Dean Howells was a stout
opponent of those novelists who, un-
der the pretext of reforming their
readers, write books about vice,
"Such writers," said Mr, Howells
at a luncheon, "remind me of a la:i
-whose mother said to him:
"'Why Johnny, I do believe, you're
teaching that parrot to swear!'
"'No, 1"m not, mother,' the boy re-
plied, 'I'm just telling it what it
mustn't say,' "-New York Tribune.
* *
Dr. Martin Luther was discussing
the doctrine of God with an nfidel.
When the question arose about God's
being from all time --having had no
beginning and having no end, the in-
fidel asked; "Tell me, Doctor, what
was God doing before the earth was
ereated'?"
.Luther replied: "He was sitting in
a'birdh tree, making switches for peo-
ple who ask such foolish questions."
—iLuthers' Table Talks.
I't was reported to the late Dr. Mc-
Coll, while president of Princeton
University, that a party was being
held in one of the dormitories, "after
hours." Thither the good Doctor
wended his way to investigate. To
his knock at the door came the re-
sponse, "Who's that?"
"It's me," replied the Doctor.
"Wlho'•s me?" came the query.
"Dr. .MoOosh," answered the Doc-
tor.
"You're a liar; if it had been old
Jimmy he would have said" 'It is I';
go about your business"—which Dr.
MeCosh said he did, on tiptoe, and
refrained from telling the story for
at least four years!
* * *
Theodore Roosevelt, while address-
ing a large Progressive Republican
gathering in the election campaign
of 1912, criticized the doctrines and
methods of the Democratic party. On
concluding his address, a Democrat
whoa happened to be present in the
audience and who objected to some of
Mr. iRoosevelt's remarks began to
question the speaker.
"Mr. Roosevelt," he asked, "why
are you a Republican?"
"Because my father and' grand-
father were both Republicans!" was
the reply.
"What would you be if your father
and grandfather both had been horse-
:hieves?" again asked the • Democrat.
"I'd be a Democrat," Mr. Roose-
velt replied.
*
Among recent English politicians
there has been no one readier with
the witty and discomfiting retort than
Mr. Lloyd George. Addressing some
Welsh farmers he once said, "We will
have home rule for Ireland and for
England and Scotland and for Wales."
"And for hell," interposed a deep,
half -drunken voice.
"Quite right," replied Lloyd George.
."I like to hear a pian stick up for his
own country."
* * *
Bishop Watterson tells the story
of how a drummer on a train mistook
him (the Bishop) for another com-
mercial traveller, and asked him if
he represented a big house.
"Biggest on earth," said the Bishop.
"What's the name of the firm?"
queried the drummer.
"Lord & Church," replied the im-
perturable Bishop.
"Hum', Lord & Church, never heard
of it. Got any branch houses any-
where?"
"Branches all over the world," said
the Bishop.
That's queer. Never heard of 'ern.
Is it boots and shoes?"
"No,"
"Hats and caps?"
"Not that either."
"Oh, dry goods, I suppose."
"Wel]," said the Bishop, "some call
it notions"
During the hearing of a case, Judge
Darling was disturbed by a youth who
kept moving about in the rear of the
court.
"Young man," exclaimed the Judge,
"you are making a good deal of un-
necessary noise. What are you do-
ing?"
"I have lost my overcoat and am
trying to find it," replied the offender.
"Well," said Darling, "people often
lose whole suits here without all that
fuss."—Philadelphia Ledger.
PINEAPPLES ARE RICH IN
FLAVOR
Hidden beneath its gruff exterior of
spiteful barbs, the pineapple possess-
es one of the most delicate and appe-
tizing of all fruit flavors. 'It is de-
licious in desserts, served alone or in
combination with other fruits; it is
refreshing in fruit cup or in salads,
and with the game and poultry course
it has no equal. Pineapple fried
lightly and covered with finely chop-
ped green pepper sauted until hot is
wonderful with steaks or chops.
Delicious Pineapple Up -Side -Down
Cake.
Cut fresh pineapple in half-inch
slices, and remove skin and core.
Snip out eyes with pineapple scissors
or a pointed knife. Melt two table-
spoonfuls of butter in a round, fairly
shallow. fiat -bottomed baking ran or
cake tin. add one-third cupful brown
sugar, and stir until the brown sugar
is softened in the butter, Lay in the
dish slices of pineapple to cover the
bottom. Inthe hole inthe centre of
each slice, place a maraschino cherry.
Then mix the following sponge cake
hatter: Measure one-half cupful pas-
try or cake flour (sifted before meas-
uring), and add to it one-half tea-
spoonful baking powder. Sift five or
six times; then add 2 teaspoonfuls
finely grated yellow portion of Iemon
rind. Beat two egg -yolks until thick
and lemon -colored, add 1 tablespoon-
ful cold water and, gradually, one-half
cupful fruit sugar, beating well be-
tween additions. Stiffly whip the two
egg-whites. Gently fold the flour
mixture into the egg yolks, and when
thoroughly mixed, cut and fold in the
egg-whites. Do not beat the mixture
at any time. Pour the batter over the
pineapple, and place dish in a slow
oven, 275 deg. F., rising gradually to
325 deg. F. and bake forty to fifty
minutes. To serve invert on a round
serving dish, and use whipped cream,
slightly sweetened and flavored with
a few drops of vanilla extract, for
the sauce.
A delicious pudding light and deli-
cate.
Gingerbread and Pineapple Up -side -
Down Cake.
For -this cake, use half your fav-
orite ginger cake recipe and prepare
and bake same as preceding recipe.
Pineapple CocktaiL
Two cups fresh pineapple (shred-
ded), 1 grapefruit, ti cup sugar, 4
cup grape juice (white juice, if pos-
sible), 6 fresh strawberries.
Remove all eyes from the pineapple
and all skin and fibre from the grape •
fruit. Break into small pieces, add
the sugar and grape juice and chill
thoroughly. Serve in sherbet glasses,
topping each with a strawberry or
raspberry.
Pineapple Sherbet.
Put one quart of water and 2 eups
of granulated sugar on to boil for 15
minutes, Let cool, then add well
beaten yolks of 3 or 4 eggs, 1 pine-
apple, shredded, and juice of 2 lem-
ons. Put this in freezer and turn
crank until mixture is frozen ft the
desired consistency. Remove dasher,
pack well in ice and salt, and let
stand two or three hours before serv-
ing.
Pineapple and Banana Fritters.
One cup flour, % cup tepid water, 1
tablespoonful melted butter, few
grains of salt, whites of 2 eggs, two
lannanas, 1 small .pineapple.
Split the bananas into four and cut
the pineapple into slices. Sift the flour
and salt into a bowl. Stir in the but-
ter and water gradually to make a
smooth batter, Beat thoroughly, and
fold in the stiffly beaten whites of
eggs. Have reedy a pan of deep fat
(temperature 3911 deg, F.). Dip each
piece of fruit into batter and drop in-
to the fat. Allow it to cook until a
golden brown. Drain, dredge with
sugar, and serve immediately.
Canoe Salad.
Out pineapple in dice and simmer in
a medium syrup until tender. Cut a
strip from the top of six bananas
lengthwise and remove pulp, leaving
shells intact. Fill these canoes with
a mixture of cold pineapple, one cup
bananas cut in dice and sprinkled with
lemon juice to prevent discoloration.
1 cup quartered marshmallows, half
cup pecan meats or English walnut
meats, one-half small bottle cherries,
all moistened with French dressing.
Place on salad plates and surround
with small heart lettuce leaves. Top
with dressing made as follows:
Beat 2 eggs thoroughly, beat in 1
tablespoonful sugar and 1 teaspoon-
ful flour. Beat well with an egg
beater; add to this 1 cup hot pine-
apple juice. Cook in double boiler,
stirring constantly, until the mixture
thickens. When cold, add 1 cup whip-
ped cream and 3 teaspoonfuls lemon
juice. Chill. Heap this dressing on
top of salad and sprinkle with broken
pecan meats, and garnish 'with quar-
tered marshmallows and a cherry.
Pineapple and Beet Salad.
One cup small beet cubes, 1 cup
pineapple cubes, sugar.
Cut the pineapple in cubes, sprinkle
with sugar and let stand for several
hours. Mix the beet and pineapple
cubes, and add juice, which has been
diluted with a few drops of vinegar
or lemon juice. Let stand several
hours or over night. The pineapple
will be a deep red. Drain and serve
on lettuce. Top with thick mayon-
naise. Enough for four servings.
Pineapple Cream Sauce.
One-half cup grated or finely chop-
ped fresh pineapple, 1/4 cup whipped
cream, as cup fruit sugar,
Beat the cream until stiff and add
just before serving the pineapple and
sugar, which have been allowed to
stand together for at least half an
hour.
CHOOSING COLOR SCHEMES
Are you one of the women who is
constantly complaining, "I haven't a
thing to wear!" If you are, it is
either because you buy the wrong type
cf clothes or because you don't dress
according to a definite color plan.
Probably you are the sort of wo-
man who "just adores orange,"
though you know perfectly well it
looks hideous on you!) you dash in
and buy "the cutest orange hat," only
to hide it away in the wardrobe and
never wear it a second time. It was
a mistake, and there is nothing to do
about it but call the Salvation Army
or give it to cook!
Of course, this is all very well as
philanthropy, but if you actually find
it necessary to dress on a budget, and
most people do, color is your first
problem. 'By taking into considera-
tion the colors that are becoming to
you and carefully avoiding others,
your problem is greatly simplified,
and you will have an extensive ward-
robe of really smart clothes, at no
greater expenditure than a poorly as-
sembled one.
If possible, it is better to purchase
a complete ensemble at one time,
rather than; single items. Thus you
achieve harmony of both line and
color. Also, your clothes will last
much longer. Don't just buy clothes
in a haphazard manner, as you hap-
pen to need them. Don't buy a new
hat, and then, when it has lost its
first freshness, a new dress. You
know you are not smart if some de-
tail of your ensemble is shabby.
Plan a clothes budget. Take a
pencil and paper. or better still, keep
a little account book, just as you do
in your kitchen. Keep an accurate
record of your needs and your expen-
ditures. How many hats do you re-
nuire in a year? How many pairs of
shoes? How many dresses?
Now decide the basic colors of yout
season's wardrobe and make your pur-
chases accordingly. For example, let
us suppose you select brown as your
basic color—not merely because it is
smart, but also because it is flatter-
ing to your coloring and type. Pink
may be a high fashion note at the
moment, and one of your secret 'pas-
sions, but if you are a flaming red-
head with green eyes, strike it from
your listC You will want one of the
fresh green tones, or one of the in-
numerable shades of beige or tan or
brown that are always in the mode.
Black, of course. .Make a list of your
best colors. You can wear the neu-
tral tones if you are a vivid type, but
never make the mistakes of wearing
negative shades if you have a nega-
tive, personality.
Now when you do your shopping,
buy two dresses instead of one—.one
green, one brown. A brown hat, of a
shade that harmonizes with the green
dress as well as the brown one; a
brown calfskin bag, brown kid pumps
to match, beige in a darker tone for
stockings and gloves. You now have
two complete ensembles, for you may
wear either of your new dresses suc-
cessfully with the brown accessories;
and you will be assured of looking
smart in either one.
Never buy an article of apparel or
accessories on the spur of the mom-
ent, unless you are certain it is just
the thing you want and unless you
immediately see its relation to the
color scheme of your wardrobe.
HENDERSON, THE ANNOUNCER
WHO HATES CHAIN STORES
Quite a list might be compiled of
people who never would have been
heard of but for radio but who now
enjoy internat.-Jana reputations. We
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suggest at random Graham McNamee,
Amos 'n' Andy and W. K. Hender-
son. The last named has not won
fame because his art is particularly
designed to charm radio listeners. He
has won fame because he owns a
broadcasting station and because in
his broadcasts he indulged in language
which thousands of his listeners
would be glad to pretend they had
never heard before. Mr. Henderson,
in fact, was profane, and his profanity
added a piquancy to his denunciation
of the chair}r store system that won
him a tremendous audience. He was
also extremely daring and outspok-
en, apart altogether from the strong
language with which he larded his
discourse, People wondered how he
"got away with it." They wondered
why he was not arrested and convict-
ed of criminal libel. Certainly he
said things that no reputable news-
paper would have taken a chance in
saying. He denounced chain stores
as Upton Sinclair\ might denounce
capitalists in one of his novels. He
named names. He called skunks. He
thrilled his audience who expected ev-
ery moment to hear his broadcast in-
terrupted by the sounds of pistol shots
and other lethal uproar. In the end
he was asked to discontinue his 'pro-
fanity. Otherwise his ravings con-
tinue.
Mr. Henderson appears to have be-
come a crusader against chain stores
almost by accident. As told by Harry
W. Schaefer in The Nation, Mr, Hen-
derson is the owner of an iron foun-
dry in Shreveport, Louisiana, and as
an adjunct to his business he thought
it might he a good idea to have a
broadcasting station. So be rigged
one up. Then one day at a meeting
of the Chamber of Commerce in
Shreveport he heard a speaker tell
how the chain stores were putting lo-
cal dealers out of business, and the
speech impressed him to such an ex-
tent that he invited the speaker to
repeat it from his station KW1KH, He
did so, and when he had finished Mr.
Henderson stood before the micro-
phone and said, "I am going to tell
you what that address means. It
means that these dirty, sneaking
chaifid stores are coming into your
home and taking your money and
sending it out to a bunch of crooked
no -account brokers in Wall Street.
That's what it means."
To us the comment does not seem
very pregnant. But it did for Hen-
derson what a poem 41id for Byron.
He woke to find himself famous. In
the next few days he received literally
thousands of messages from retail
dealers in aI'l parts of the United
States. They had been ruined or were
in process of being ruined by the
chain stores and they hailed Mr. Hen-
derson as their deliverer. He also re-
ceived abusive communications. The
total effect was to set Mr. Henderson
on fire with a kind of holy zeal. The
extermination of the ehain stores be-
came thereafter his consuming pas-
sion. But not his only consuming
passion. He has two or three. For.
instance, he continues to sell foundry
products and, also he has established
an extremely p'rdlitalble side line in
the sale of coffee at a dollar a pound.
For this coffee Mr. Henderson pays
40 cents, and it is said that he re-
celveg orders for 1,500 pounds a day.
In fact Mr. Henderson is rapidly
building up a fortune mainly because
he happened to have discovered the
grievance of tens of thousands of lit-
tle merchants all over. the united
States.
From merely denouncing the chain
stores over the radio Mr. Henderson
'proceeded actively to organize the op-
! position to them. He has established
what he calls the Merchants Minute
Men. All that is necessary for mem-
bership is to pay Mr. Henderson $12 a
year. This, too, has succeeded and
to -day there are anywhere between
10,000 and 20,000 members in the
smaller towns in the south. The chain
stores have felt the pressure of the
Henderson crusade, and in Birming-
ham, AIabama, it is estimated that
the leading chain store has lost a
third of its business. Everywhere
through the south business has fallen
off, despite cut prices and indignant
arguments in refutation of Mr. Hen•
derson. In Kentucky a bill has been
passed by the Legislature which is
frankly designed to tax the chain
stores out of business. Just before
the vote was called one( legislator
convulsed the 'House by emitting
Henderson's well known war cry,
"Hello, World, don't go way, doggone
your buttons!"
At present there is a very pretty
verbal battle proceeding between the
redoubtable Henderson and the equal-
ly redoubtable Clarence Saunders.
Not long ago Mr. Sa,unders was point -
ed to with pride as one of the young-
er 'business men in the United States
who had made a tremendous success.
He was, in fact, the founder of the
Pigggly Wiggly grocery stores. Then
misfortune overwhelmed Clarence,
and his picture was removed from
the gallery devoted to successful busi-
ness men. He is now operating a
chain of stores under his own name in
the south and he and Henderson have
become the chief antagonists in this
battle. The gladiators are net identi-
cally eguipped. One has the trident
and the other the net. Saunders us-
es newspaper advertising and Hen-
derson his faithful KWKH. A speci-
men of the Saunders persiflage is sub-
mitted:
"You said that if I were near you,
you'd spit in my face. Now listen to
me, Rat Henderson, whenever you
think you are skunk enough to try
this, let your spit spew on my face.
and there'll be a skunk hide that will
know that something has happened
to it." This too strikes us as rather
vague and indefinite and is hardly to
be compared with the more directly
libellous obscenities of Mr. Henderson
before the government curbed him. It
might be said that the government
seemed to contemplate closing down
his station but such a storm of pro-
test arose that the notion was aban-
cloned. So Mr. Henderson, selling his
anti -chain store propaganda, his
foundry products, his grapefruit, his
coffee, his insurance and his trips
to 'Mexico proceeds happily, rejoicing
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in the fame and prosperity that radio
has brought him.
WHY NEWSPAPERS AVOID
LAWSUITS
Newspaper owners, Iike other men
of common •sense, fight shy of law-
suits on general principles, and on
this account are more or less subject
to a good deal of petty blackmailing,
although on occasion they welcome
opportunities to defend a principle or
attack an abuse in the law courts.
But as a rule the more solvent they
are the more swiftly will they apolo-
gize for errors and withdraw uni;air
statements. lit so happens now and
then that a newspaper gains a repu-
tation for fearlessness when it is
merely insolvent. It does not hesitate
to defame fox it knows.that suits for
damages will be barren of profit for
those who bring thein. There are al-
so publications which apart altogether
from their lack of ability to parry any
judgments that might be registered
against them are so insignificant that
the victim's of their attack submit to
them rather than give the assailants
an unjustifiable pro'niinemce. and im-
portance by taking legal action a-
gainst them. An incident in the his-
tory of the .Montreal Star, recalled, in
his reminiseences by Mr, 'P. D. Ross
of the Ottawa Journal, shows why
newspapers shun lawsuits whenever
possible.
Some time before Mr. Ross went to
the Star, a citizen of Montreal nam-
ed John Fulton, owned a house which
was too large for him. 1So he rent-
ed the top floor to a tenant and.con-
tinued to reside below. Trouble with
the tenant devetelSecl and Mr. Fulton,
in order to make him move, contriv-
ed to fill the rooms above with smleke
from his furnace. The trouble ended
in a row in court which greatly ap-
pealed to the humorous gifts of a
Star reporter who enjoyed himself
in making rather a comic story of
the thing. It did not strike Mr. Ful-
ton as so comic, and looking back
upon the incident in later years the
proprietor of the Star might also
have been excused had he failed to
be impressed by its side-splitting con-
tent. Mr, Fulton resented the amus-
ing story, but having no means of re-
taliation at hand bided his time. His
opportunity came 'some time later af-
ter Mr. Ross had become managing
editor of the Star. This was in
18855 when the Nautilus four -oared
crew of Hatniirton won the amateur
chamlpionship of 'Canada. The Star
made the ill -'considered. comment
that
the victory was nothing match to be
proud Of since the crew were doubt-
ful amateurs and "two of them were
anything but r'e'spec'ta'ble n`len." In
Hamilton in those day!d there was no
great passion' for reading Montreal
newspapers, and it is quite possible
that the slur might never have been;
noticed but for the vigilanee of Mr.
Fulton.
He communicated with the Nautilus
,O1ub pointing .out that it had been.
lYbelled 'and offering to do all he
could to' obtain ‘redress.' Thongh he
'was art t a law per , NO011gs Klub
seemed to think so and he was em -
Powered to proceed against the Star.
Four separate writs were issued, and
Mr. Graham, now Lord Atholstan, the
owner of the paper, decided that they
should not be defended. As a matter
of fact, the paper was in an inde-
fensible position unless it could prove
that two members of the crew were
disreputable, and if this had been
possible a good deal of investigation
would have been required. So the
Star apologized to the four men and
the sum of $25 was paid into court
in each case to assuage damages and
prove good faith. It is possible that
but for the vengeful Mr. Fulton this
would have ended the matter, but the
Nautilus oarsmen remained obdurate
and the suits were pressed. The Star
was now in a nuost unhappy position.
It had admitted its fault by apologiz-
ing and had thus cut itself off from
proving justification. All that re-
mained was to assess damages.
The oarsmen insisted upon four
separate trials in spite; of the Star's
effort to have all the cases lumped
together since the same evidence 'wan
produced in each instance. The
plaintiffs naturally brought as many
witnesses as\po'ssible to testify to the
high esteem in which they were held
and to emphasize the injury they had
suffered by the libel. One judge heard
two of the suits and the other two
had separate judges;. There 1wie1r
four independent trials on the same
set of evidence and four different
verdicts, none of them agreeable to
1VLr. Graham. All were against the,
Star. The first jury returned a ver-
dict for $50 damage's which under
the Quebec law carried third-class
costswhich were relatively mild. The
second gave a dollar damage, also
with third-class costs and the fourth
carried a verdict of $150 with second-
class 'costs.
The third was the worst verdict and
this was brought about by the error
of the Star's lawyer. He denounced
the plaintiff and said that the suit
was being 'brought only beeause Mr.
Graham happened to be a rich man.
The jury took the hint, arguing that
if Mr. Graham was a rich man it
would not hurt him Much to part
with $500 and first-class costs to the
plaintiff who was manifestly a poor
man. Dani; gess costs and lawyers
altogether amounted to several thou-
sand• dollars which the Star had to
pay, largely because of the misdirect-
ed ,sense of humor of the reporter
who told about the trouble Mr. 'Ful-
ton was having with his tenant. But
the Nautilus e/lub did not gain much
either. It tried in vain to collect
from Mr. Fulton and the Montreal
lawyer whom he had retained the
amounts paid by the Star. Internal
friction developed in the club, and in
a short .time thereafter it broke up.
'Still later Fulton and the Montreal
lawyer fell out and sued each other,
with what result Mr. Ross does net
say.-... Hie • eoncludes by remarking:—
"Thus from first to last there were
seven law suits; nobody got any prac-
tical satisfaetiom and the courts the
lawyers and the witnesses got all the
miRten" ,
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