Talk about your age of mechan" sin, the American mind has even tone #0 far as to invent a clock fo'do.the daily "routine thinking No longer will the Big Ben' have~ its sole reason for existence the fiatane burr which tells the sleep: for that it is time to get up and get around to the. daily grind again. Hereafter minds will be able io go off on their own ima. gi native pursuits. for when time to brush the: teeth a" voice from the clock will say 20," Breake fast' will also be announced, though just what. will be done the ease of emergency onused by Fourned bacon ete, has. not been de cided, When' Mary's medicine Should be taken she will be told about it. "When the mail arrives fud letters are to be opened. the faithful timepiece will put ina. gentle reminder. The baby will be fed) the dog aired, the cat put, out, and the milk brought in, all by ihe warnings of a mechanical voice GE the owner does. not. throw it out the window ina moment of ex: desperation). Tt has been rumoured
minded that it is time to-go home, gpegn may ven be gently Fee bout. one or two o'clock in the, morning, although. even the "gents Test "Remember there isa busy day to-morrow" forthcoming from Sock Must about, the, time thes arty begins to get, really 00 Ean never be particularly conducive fo" hospitality. At any rate. the is one daily. event which will not need to. be' included in. the. clock's mechanism, and. that la" the sive o'clock closing. time. People. seem fo have an instinctive timepiece as regards that moment, Guilty Poor President, Hoover is getting blamed for everything these days, a not, unusual predicament. for" a man holding the gilding reins of country wherein. things Aare. mot fas they might be, but worse, tendeney'of the public is aptly lustrated by this" yarn, which me cidentally, "happens to "be true, 'The other day a man bought an apple from an unemployed. street vendor. He bit into the shiny, red fruit and found a worm, He' ve= turned to the vendor and complaine @4' that. the fruit. was not, good, The' unemployed "wan apologized and said that he was. not respon sible as he had purchased his sup-Rig, fom. the Marmers! market hhereupon the purehaner Tooked at his apple in huge disgust, threw it into the street, and, with'an air of Woary resignation remarked, "Well, what can you expect froma man like Hoover?"
On Tamalpais The news that, the crookedest the world is now a (hin regret to thousands of Californian past will bring (pane who remember the delirious and Jovenle Jey of ehgging along 'a manner to outrival any rolly~ coaster up the perilous passes and curves of Int Tamalpais to the dizzy' peak where one could stand like god surveying, his picturesque domains below.. What" breath-taking sensations in the vicinity of the stomach took "place at. every sudden and downward swoop, What shrieks of joy and sighs, of relief when the engine came. into vi again around' the comer and. the calaboose momentarily caught vith the general line of direction, What childish adventure. in. the mere thought that perhaps the old railway might after all not be #0 safe as general repute and years "strenuous experience had it. And what a wholehearted appetite and enjoyment, of the Sunday. pie-ie of hard-boiled eggs, sandwiches land chocolate fudge cake when the tun, had been made, an enjoyment, made doubly Keen by the realiza-ion that it might be the last meal in this world for was not the return journey, doubly as dangerous and thrilling, to be made?" 'The fexookedest railway in existence will remain for ever a memorable venture in the hearts of many spite of the fact that the peal of Int, Tamalpais may now' be reached speedily ina motorcar without the necessity of buying: to shift the gears to, second.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.