Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1910 — TAILOR WAS NOT SIGNALING [ARTICLE]

TAILOR WAS NOT SIGNALING

Trles on New Shoes and Brings Volley from the Bar Room. The tailor’s shop is above a saloon. The tailor likes his German joy, and is such a steady customer that the saloonkeeper decided to put in a dumb waiter for the purpose of shooting the lager up to the tailor without having to carry it up to him or wait for the tailor to run down. "Ve shall have signals, no?” suggested the tailor. “Ven 1 stamp my foot on der floor vonce, dot iss von beer. Ven I stamp two times, dot iss two beers, und so on.” “Dot iss it,” responded the saloon keeper, with a smile that indicated his approval. “Von stamp iss von beer/ und two stamps iss two beers, und yet on so long as you Btamp.” The saloon keeper had not been back in his bar room more than live minutes until he heard noise from above. He tried to count the stamps, but lost the count. He just loaded a dozen glasses of beer on the dumb waiter and sent them up. Then he went upstairs with four glases more. As he entered the tailor's door he was. surprised to find no one in the shop but the tailor. “Vot’B der matter, Herman?” he said. “Vot are you doing? Are you giflng a barty?” “Vot you mean? For vy iss all die beer?” queried the tailor. “For vy iss all dose stamps If not for beer?” ■ And Herman, to his financial terror, suddenly realized that he had been stamping on the floor. He was trying on a new pair of shoes. They didn’t try to put the beer back into the keg. j Soothing Effect of Music. There is nothing new in the theory that music has a beneficial effect on persons who are nervously affected, but its application has not yet bocome so general as the men who believe In its sedative powers wish. Tho great Napoleon, who was not a musician. recognized the Influence of harmonious sounds and by his order bands “made music under the hospital windows.” This order is still in force in the provinces, where the military bands give concerts at stated times hi front of the hospitals.—Dr. Spodato, in Medlcina Italians. In her San Jose home Mrs. Duval was idly running over the keys of the piano when she was interrupted by little Helen. “Please, mother, play my favorite hymn.” “Why, dea-,” asked the mother, “what is your fa-vorlte-liymn?’ “Why. you ought tv know, mother- -‘Onward Ob.r 4 «t'ni; a*> ence.’ ”