Judge — April 10, 1926 — page 25: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

i The poor sap The Origin of Famous Proverbs “Matches Are Made in Heaven” Tere is a very touching tale con- nected with the birth of this most popular quotation. When I say popular, I mean with those people who foregather every Wednesday afternoon over a feline cup of coffee and say, “Well, my dear, when they told me she was going to marry him you could have knocked me over with a feather, but then they do say that ‘matches are made in heaven.’ ” It all came about like this. A young Swedish sailor in Port Said got drunk one night, of course, that’s not much as news, but this happened to | be the first time this sailor had gotten drunk (in this particular port). As he and his comrades went from one café to another dive, to another brothel, to another saloon, te another cabaret, they became more and more boisterous until finally the young Scandinavian, seeing the flagship of the Irish navy swinging, to and | fro, at anchor ip the harbor, raised his glass (for he was carr: a glass) and waving it in the direction of the ship cried, “Sweden must be heaven | for my mother came from there.” An American wit in the party, who was only serving as an able seaman at the time, to get material for this series of articlesfor JupGE said, “Then ‘matches must be made in heaven.’ ” So, my friends, you see from small beginnings little things grow. Carroll “Tf adverse you 5 don’t succeed, try, try again.” Your reading problem solved by Dr. Eliot of Harvard There will be a dozen com- petitors for your big oppor- tunity when it comes. What will influence the man who is to make the decision among them? “In every department of practical life,’’ said ex-Presi- dent Hadley of Yale, ‘‘men in commerce, men in transporta- tion, and in manufactures have told me that what they really wanted from our colleges was men who have this selective power of using books efficiently.” Not bookworms; not men who have read all kinds of mis- cellaneous books. Not men who have wasted their whole leisure time with the daily papers. But those who have read and have mastered the few great books that make men think clearly and talk well. What are those few great books? How shall a busy man Dr. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf of Books Every well-informed man and woman should at least know something about these famous ‘‘Harvard Classics.” The free book tells about it —how Dr. Eliot has put into his Five-Foot Shelf ‘‘the essen- tials of a liberal education,” how he has arranged it that even “‘fifteen minutes a day” are enough, how in pleasant moments of spare time, by using the reading courses Dr. Eliot has provided for you, you can get the knowledge of litera- ture and life, the culture, the Send for this FREE booklet that gives Dr. Eliot’s own plan of reading. find them? The free book offered below answers those questions; it describes the plan and purpose of broad viewpoint that every university strives to give. Read good books—and pay while you read—that’s the fa- mous Collier plan. Collier’s good books can be inyourhome, too. Just mail the coupon. Every reader of this column is invited to havea copy of this handsome little book. It is free, it will be sent by mail, and involves no obligation of any sort. Merely clip the coupon and mail it today. i. F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY 250 Park Ave., New York City By mail, free, send me the little guide book to the most famous books in the ‘world, de Vo bin, Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf of Books (The vard Classics), and containing the plan of reading recommended by Dr. Eliot of Harvard. Also how I may secure the books by small monthly payments, The publisher anne undert: to send the 1 sane odes J 4240-HCGKL comicbooks.com