“Aw, what kind of talk is that? Add an hour to your grandmother! You subtract an hour from the time as given here. This is Eastern Standard Time. See, it says right here: ‘The time shown in this folder is Eastern Standard Time, one hour slower than Daylight-Saving Time.’ See? One hour slower. You subtract.”
“Here, you guys are both way off. I just asked one of the trainmen. The 5:56 has gone. It went at 4:20. The next train that we get is the 6:20 which goes at 5:19. Look, see here. It says 5:19 on the time-table but that means that by your watch it is 6:19″—
“By my watch it is not 6:19. My watch I set by the clock in the station this morning when I came in”—
“Well, the clock in the station is wrong. That is, the clock in the station is an hour ahead of all the other clocks.”
“An hour ahead? An hour behind, you mean.”
“The clock in the station is an hour ahead. I know what I’m talking about.”
“Now listen, Jo. Didn’t you see in the paper Monday morning”—
“Yaas, I saw in the paper Monday morning, and it said that”—
“Look, Gus. By my watch—look, Gus—listen, Gus—by my watch”—
“Aw, you and your watch! What’s that got to do with it?”
“Now looka here. On this time-table it says”—
“Lissen, Eddie”—
Whatever else its publishers may say about it, the new New York Central time-table bids fair to be the most-talked-of publication of the season.
XLII—MR. BOK’S AMERICANIZATION
If ever you should feel important enough to write an autobiography to give to the world, and dislike to say all the nice things about yourself that you feel really ought to be said, just write it in the third person. Edward Bok has done this in “The Americanization of Edward Bok” and the effect is quite touching in its modesty.
In “An Explanation” at the beginning of the book Mr. Bok disclaims any credit for the winning ways and remarkable success of his hero, Edward Bok. Edward Bok, the little Dutch boy who landed in America in 1870 and later became the editor of the greatest women’s advertising medium in the country, is an entirely different person from the Edward Bok who is telling the story. You understand this to begin with. Otherwise you may misjudge the author.
