BRUTUS ON BROADWAY

Are you worn out by overwork and fatigue, exhausted by the thousands of blows on your heels or overwhelmed by business worries? If you are, do not bother with O'Sullivan's and patent medicines; buy a copy of Shakspere and rid yourself of all your trouble. Shakspere is advised as a sedative for the hurrying crowds of New York, and perhaps having tried all other methods of avoiding fatigue, some few may adopt this suggestion like the man who increased his Ford's efficiency 9643 percent by the purchase of accessories, bought a gallon of gasoline and started for California. He only had gone the usual twenty miles, however, when the engine stopped. Some, made cynical by similar experiences with scientific restoratives, may hesitate to pursue the rest cure further and so leave Shakspere to rot in the stores.

Yet there is some merit in the idea. Surely Falstaff or Malvolio should be able to wipe away the cares of business and give rest to the harried faces on Wall Street. Strangely enough, however, the Honorable Ex-Senator who made the suggestion looks on his discovery as something new and unusual. Perhaps it is to him; perhaps the students of Richmond College did not doze over their Shakspere in his days. And even now the throught of Brutus on Broadway is somewhat startling. Yet Cassius in Cambridge is already well known--and the somnolent influence of Polonius on a warm spring evening fully appreciated. In fact, any time during April or May the Bard might with justice quote himself, with a slight change of wording: "How many thousand of my poorest readers are at this hour asleep!"