The day book. [volume], January 09, 1914, NOON EDITION, Image 21

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new york gee, wot. tunny things a feller will say when he gita rattled
' espeshly when he also happens to be in love
like a certen yung guy i know that's just got himself engaged to be
married .
after he had aslied the dame how about it, and she had told him it was
all right with her, he thoughthe better go see her old man .
this hapened to be one. of them famelys where the old man has his
thinking done for him by his better y2, a lady with a iron jaw and a voice
like the battel of gettysburg -
which might of had sumthing to do with edgar going to papa insted
of mamma with the glad news about him and their dauter .
when he had got into the old man's offis, he say's
mr. jones",. i want to marry your dauter
mr. jones thinks it over, and then he says, i guess you better go see her
mother
that's all rite, ansers the poor boob,.i have seen her mother, and i still
want to marry her
then he tried to apollergize, but the old man shook hands with him,
and gave him a segar, and told him if he could get a job in china or brazil,
he mite have quite a happy married life
y SHE HAD THEPOWEROF THOUGHT
Helen Keller, blind, deaf, and once dumb, told an audience in Philadel
phia, recently, how she had, through Ipng years of patient endeavor, broken
out of her bondage of silence and darkness. The story of her triumph over
her infirmities is thrilling in the extreme. When it is considered that she
has never heard the words she speaks and must remember every position in
which she places her tongue and lips, to sound the words, some idea may be
gained of the task she has had in learning to make herself understood.
'One part of her address stands out prominently. When the question
as to her political views was transmitted to her by her instructor, through
her hands, she replied that she was a suffraget and a Socialist. Asked why
a Sopialist, she answered, simply: "I thought."
Unable to see or hear what is going on around her in this work-a-day
world sfie has thought out economic questions in her own silent world and,
when not learning to talk, has devoted her time to the study of present day
conditions. If a girl handicapped as she has been, can arrive 'at the con
clusions she has, through thought, and study, how much more readily
should those who are in touch with the world's work and who can read the
newspapers and other literature, awaken to their political needs, also
through thought and study?