MODERN MAXIMS.

Observer, Volume XL, Issue 24, 14 February 1920, Page 9

MODERN MAXIMS.

An egg in the cup is worth two in the nest. A tough beefsteak is a sure cure for its own consumption. An up-to-date woman is frequently away behind her age. The cashier should be known by the company that keeps him. If a man would have an untarnished name he should keep his doorplate well polished. Whenever a man happens to make a good guess he talks about his good judgment. Some men who boast of calling a spade a spade would pass a snow shovel without recognising it at all. Hachichiro Mikami, the Japanese tenj)is star, who accompanied Ichiya Ivumagae to the U.S.A. in 1916, is dead. / Mikami succumbed to an attack of fever in the Philippines. He Mas the player who developed Kumagae, although pupil soon surpassed his teacher in skill. The two Japanese players paired together in doubles in 1916, and Mikami also made a good record in singles, but not equal to that of his fellow countryman. Miknnri played yit the Qynwyd Club in Philadelphia in an exhibition match late in 1916 and then returned to Japan.