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A Woman Is Satisfied With Her Christmas Gifts So Long As I hey Didn’t Include a Gift From Someone She Forgot
Reality
Cecil Cunningham Tells Girls
How to Sleep Correctly
By MAUDE MILLER.
WANT to tell every girl of to
day who has an imagination
r>f any kind to be very car
ful leal she overexeroise it,” says Miss
Cecil Cunningham, of the “Oh, I Say”
Musical Comedy Company. “Per
haps this will sound strange to those
of you who have always thought an
Imagination nothing less than a gift
from Heaven, but I have seen many
pretty girls lose thefr looks from
nothing more ror less than imagin
ing things that had not occurred, nor
Mere ever likely to happen.
‘Imagination — I will admit that it
gives us all an insight into the high
er ideals and meanings of life, that
without it life would be hardly worth
living: but don't overdo it, or harm
will surely come of it. Cor instance,
every girl knows how necessary long
«onaecutive hours of sleep are to
beauty and good health. To sleep, we
must first relax, first the hands and
arms and then the rest of the body,
until every muscle is resting, and
then we must relax the mind. We
must forget that there is anything
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Miss Cecil Cunningham.
else in the world but sleep, and al
most immediately sleep will come to
claim us. But now take the im-
Kginative girl.
She Is Weary.
“She goes to bed weary of body,
but with a mind alert and wide
awake She plans the doings of the
next day, she remembers with a start
a telephone message that she has for
gotten to deliver to some member of
the family, she decides to have a gown
made over, and wonders whether or
not fur trimming would be appropri
ate. And every minute she is getting
wider and wider awake. She tosses
restlessly from side to side, and finally
when she does fall asleep her
rest is filled with dreams. The per
son who gets the most benefit from
tdeep never dreams. A couple of
rights like this, and the girl's nerves
will be all on edge, she will he half
si- k. and all because of an over
exert ised imagination.
“Imagination has everything to do
with one’s proper breathing, and 1
will tell you why. Imagining any kind
of an experience plays on the nerves,
stimulates the heart getion, and
makes the breath irregular. And
when wo don’t breathe properly we
have hollow chests and sallow skin
3 remember bow I disliked having my
gowns cut to show my neck and
shoulders when 1 first went on the
stage, but now I realize that it is
simply revealing the results of a good
breathing apparatus, and 1 am proud
to be able to show w hat 1 have done
‘The person
who gets the
most benefit
from sleep
never dreams,”
says Miss
Cunningham.
1 he imaginative
girl goes to
!>ed weary of
body, hut
•Urt in mind.
She tosses
from side to side,
and finally,
when she does
sleep, dreamt.”
did for developing the necit and shoul
ders—never mind about your voice-
people are not expecting to find in
TODAY’S INSTALLMENT.
“I am her father. Chief Dempster,
and I am District Attorney.” said
Graham, fighting as man will ever do
for his own. But the unasked, un
answered question was how far this
proud father would fight when he
learned the full measure of guilt that
he w’ould never believe until it was
confessed as the black truth. A man
who wi 11 defend his woman against
the world until she. is driven to con
fess the truth a man who must be
lieve that what he loves is pure and
innocent until she convicts herself
out of her own mouth- may find that
guilt confessed truth has the power
to puench the flame of love that the
world’s suspicion has only . fanned
higher. Justice and duty were (Jor
don Grahams fetish; his oatli to his
country bound him; what would he.
what must lie do, when he found how
far his daughter had brought herself
under the displeasure of the laws of
his land?
‘ That won’t stop me now. I’ll take
this case over your head to the At
torney General. * * * I arrest
them both,” said Dempster, with cold
allegiance to duty as he saw It.
“What «'an you gain by her arrest
to-nigh#?” asked Graham.
“By a proper examination I’ll get
. you a second Tetrazzini just because
you have discovered a way to round
out the ugly hollows in your neck and
j to regulate your entire breathing ap-
! paratus.
"If you can control your imagina*
I lion, I can think of no more delight-
I ful thing to possess. It will help to
while away many a long, dreary hour;
; but be careful, it is so apt to control
j YOl’, and when you have lost the
! upper hand, to lead you into paths
I where excitement holds sway, and
where your nerves a#e liable to play I
all sorts of tricks on you. I hope a
great many of you will recognize the
truth in these few suggestions and
1 benefit by them."
something from him or her.'
While the father and the law fought
for the girl. Holbrook had stood pas
sively by—watching, watching keen
ly for a ray of light through some
chink in the armor of the law. Now
be threw up his head with a motion
of strength he might have learned
from some stag in tlie fore? when
that creature tossed its head in ani
mal supplication to the power of some
g(Kl of the wild.
“Aline,” he said in a tone of quiet
conviction and power that sent a wave
of new strength to the girl who‘had
been cowering against the heavy ta
ble where her father fought for her
against the merciless ener she had
evoked. “Aline, there is a law lh„t
will prtoect—us' ”
The Way Out.
.“US”—how that word carried com
fort to the girl! He was offering her
an absolute partnership—to which i:e
brought everything of faith and loy
alty and clever determination. He
was quietly sharing her burden here
before them all. And in another mo
ment she would know how absolutely
he was sharing what might befall her
for weal or woe!
“Let me ask Father Shannon one
question, gentlemen? Only one, mind
you—no more ”
“FATHER SHANNON. HAS NOT
THIS LADY CONFESSED TO YOU
HER SECRET MARRIAGE?”
Holbrook’s eyes flamed with domi
nant purpose. The priest faced him
for a moment. There was a moment's
pause a moment linked with the
great mystery of one man's impelling
influence over his fellows. At last
Father Shannon turned his eyes from
the Captain to the girL
“May I speak?”
Aline nodded her head. * * *
“Yes.” she murmured.
“She has confessed to me—her
priest—HER SECRET MARRIAGE. ’
There was an absolute hush of
waiting in the room. Amazement was
written <»n Graham’s face—and a
syptic smile played about the Chief’s
lips the game moved fast, indeed!
Defying the world for her if ne *d
be. in exalted triumph Holbrook took
Aline into his arms. She crept into
their sanctuary—and watched with
trustful joy, the while he threw tip
lits head in challenge—and (lied In
joyous triumph:
THERE IS A LAW THAT PRO
TECTS EITHER HUSBAND OR
\V 1 EE FR< » M T E S T I F Y I N O
AGAINST TIIE OTHER—IS THERE
NOT ?”
The other men slowly nodded.
\\ ELL, THE.., GENTLEMEN,
YOU’LL GET NOTHING FROM
EITHER OF FH, FOR THIS LADY
IS A1Y WIFE!” x
Gordon G aham felt in a flash that
this was why he had not liked Alines
"world man”—because he had felt in
Holbrook the possibility for just such
clandestine sneaking of what he
wanted. And Chief Dempster hard
ened in his conviction that these two
were a clever pair who would bear
watching—and watching apart.
Aline Paroled.
And Father Shannon wondered if
ever a lie had-been told in so noble a
cause.
For just one joyous moment Aline
stayed (lose and warm in the sanc
tuary of her lover s arms—and then
in a tone that rumbled through her
consciousness with the irresistible
power of a car of steel on a track oY
steel, came Chief Dempster's voice:
"You may take the girl home with
you, Graham—but she is—my pris
oner. Your parole that you will keep
Science s S
A Geological Aristocrat Who
Has Outlived His Time
By GARRETT P. SERVISS
H ERE again is the war of races—
the play of the terrible law
that life must live uperil life.
But the antagonists confronting
one another In this picture—the little
humming-bird, with its defending
lance, and the mouse-like creature
seeking the eggs—possess a particu
lar interest, because one of them is
what a French naturalist calls a "reve-
nat” ; that is to say. a “ghost.” though
This unusual
picture show#
the caenolestea
surprised while
raiding a bird s
nest for eggs.
The mother bird
is furiously
trying to drive
the thieving
her so.’
In unspeakable agony the father
bowed his shamed head.
"As for Captain Holbrook—he may
come with me.”
“Where? Where? Oh, no—it isn’t
fair—not him—1——”
Aline'? voice rose in the shrill stac
cato of onrushing hysteria.
’‘Aline!” commanded Holbrook,
sternly, while his arms tightened
their strength-giving, tender hold.
“They are to get nothing from either
of us. You are to say no word. Re
member—I command you to be si
lent.”
“1 will—my vow—oh, Larry, Lar
ry,” she murmured, weakly, lying
spent and inert in his arms.
To Be Continued To-morrow.
Da) r sey May me
And Her Folks
Attacking a humming bird’s nest.
By FRANCES L GARSIDE.
© © The Manicure Lady © ©
By WILLIAM F KIRK.
44 I WAS reading a poem last night
I that was wrote y a gent
named Mister Poe,” said *h
Manicure Lady. “The name of it was
the name of some bird,Something like
a crow, and, gee! George, that poem
made the chills run up and down my
spine for fair. I think i't must be
grand to be able to write poems ami
frighten people.”
”1 don’t see any class to frighten
ing people,” declared the Head Bar
ber. “Why didn’t he write somethin?
to make them laugh?”
"Any clown could do that,” said th >
Manicure Lad\ "But this piefe was
too hard for a clown to »rite. Part
of it went, ‘Ah, distinctly I remember,
it was in the bleak December.’ I
could see the dead leaves flying wtie.i
1 read them lint's And that makes
me think. George, of something that
puzzles me a lit of times. Why is *t
tliat a person gets bluer in the fail
than in the spring? 1 try to b»-
bright and merry like a little song
bird. but all of a sudden I think about
year. Wilfred wrote some lines on
the back of a looking glass up to the
house last night. There was a lot "f
| paper and a fountain pen in the writ-
i ing desk, but Wilfred noticed that
| Burns and the other old poets would
go around and write lines on window
! panes and in the front of books, so
lie has to do the same. These here is
! the lines he wrote:
“The trees are bare and everywhere—
* The smell of frost is in the air.
The mind grows somber as it thinks
Of winter, and my poor soul shrinks
At the thought of wind howling from
the north,
Snow drifts, frozen pipes, and no
forth.
Each life is like a single year—
First in the soring we happy appear,
Then in the summer life we enjoy,
And in the winter we can And no
Joy."
for m> self.
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&oid t*er> v*L«re. la boxc». 10c.. 2Sc.
how short a time we are
somebody that died in a railroad
wreck, or the Giants in the last
World's Series, and all my happiness
is shot to pieces. That’s the way I
am most every fall since I can re
member.”
”1 get that way, too.” said the
j Head Barber. “All my creditors come
around then and tell about that it s
j going to be a long, hard winter, m»i
j would 1 please kick in with at lea si
part of the amount.”
“It ain’t no money trouble that
| makes me blue in the fall.” said the
| Manicure Lady. “It must be because
j that is the time of year when every
thing is getting through. Nothing
1 could be more sad to look at than \
ire* 1 without no leaves on it. but that
is what your lamp? rests on the nvn-
1 ute you go for a drive in the park.
, Wilfred feels the same way 1 do about
it He says that every dead leaf is
the ghost of some dead lover. Of
l course. 1 don’t take no stock in that
part of it. but he - is all the time
mooning about love and we all lot
him have his way up to the house,
because it is wrong to cross a poet.
The old gent is the only one that gets
ifter him. but I think down in his
! ear; he feels kind of proud of Wil
fred when the noor boy manages ’o
i get one of his poems in a magazine.
But ihire I go rambling again \s
|J was saying, this is a blue time of
“It rhymes all right," said the Head
Barber, but l can’t see no gre.it
j amount of sense to it."
* I thought it was kind of minor
j league myself.” said the Manicure
I Lady, “but l suppose po*»4s has the’r
off days the same as barbers.”
Anticipation.
“’Alio, Bill! I ‘aven’t seen you for
weeks ” Bill’s pal stopped suddenly.
‘Then. "But wot’s wrong, man?"
asked. "You’re lookin’ mighty seedy.
: Been ill eh?"
Bill passc*1 a horny hands across his
j brow.
"No.” bet replied. "I ain’t been ill. It’s
work wot’s doin’ for me work from 7 in
the momin’ until 6 at night, and only
one hour off. Think of it. mate!”
‘ Lummy! replied the other. “And
’ow l«*ng avp you been there?"
”! ain’t beet' there yet." retorted Bill.
"Begin to-morrer." he added gioomilv.
as he slowly mooched off.
Her Vendetta.
Mrs Tiptop l am sorry you were not
at my reception last evening
Mrs Highup (coldly) I received no
invitation.
Mrs Tiptop (with affected surprise)
Indeed" It must have miscarried. I
w
counts.
Mrs Highup- So that is where they
were’’ l desired to engage them last
evening to wait at table at our card
pam supper, but the employ ment agent
told me they were out.
Up-to-Date
Jokes
A LL the world’s a stage, and for
no performance is greater care
taken to provide fitting and
costly special scenery than when a girl
expects her beau.
For him are provided the newest and
inott artistic scenic drops; for him the'
“You naughty, cruel boy!” said the
very fashionably dressed young wom
an, who was taking a stroll in the
park, to the urchin whom she found
despoiling a bird’s nest. “How can
you be so heartless as to take those
eggs? Think of the poor mother-bird
when she comes back and ”
"That’s all right, miss,” interrupted
the boy; "the mother-bird ii dead."
The young woman’s expression re
flected disbelief.
"How do you know?” she asked,
sharply.
” ’Cos I sees >r on y our at,” was
the reply.
The cabby regarded with a gleam
of delight the taxi which had broken
down, but did not speak.
The chauffeur began operating on
his machine. He turned and twisted
it, and banged it. but to no avail, and
still the cabby spoke not. Then the
chauffeur wiped his brow, and the
cabby, still with the gleam in his eye,
crossed over.
"’Ere.” he exclaimed, grimly, hold
ing out his whip. "’Ere ver are. mis
ter: ‘it ’im with this.”
That is a good story which has been
told about Cecil Rhodes and the but
tons of his jacket. A habit with him
was to make a particular coat sc
much a favorite that he would wear
it every day.
One coat which had been through
this ordeal he sent at last to the tailor
to be cleaned and mended, and he got
back the reply:
“We regret that all we can do with
the garment is to make a new coat to
mate.*! the buttons”
Mrs Newlywed was fairly jubilant
over her first pie. It was hubby's
duty to sample it.
“S our mother never baked your fath
er a pie like that, did she. darling?”
said she. as poor hubby tried to eat it.
"No. dear." he replied "Father is
still alive and hearty."
alluring, illusionizing lights, and for him
I every skill a girl may command to give
i a finished and pleasing performance.
Daysey Mayme Appleton had put on
all her special scenery. There was a
big easy chair which would make a man
long to stay forever; a lamp with a
pink shade that reflected a becoming
tint on Daysey Mayme's face, her most
becoming dress, her hair as fluffy as if
she had combed it with an egg beater,
and a plate of fudge in a melting mood
of stickiness.
The stage was set for 7:30, and Day
sey Mayme with a set smile on her face
sat waiting for the audience and the
performance to begin.
He had not appeared when the clock
struck eight; no word had been received
from him when the clock struck nine,
and at ten Daysey Mayme, with her
hair beginning to show need of the egg
beater and the squares of fudge melt
ing into a sticky mass, turned out the
light, retired to her room and took off
her special scenery with eyes filled witn
tears.
Every woman’s morning attire is a
proof that all wash goods fade. Daysey
Mayme on the morning following her
disappointment wore a calico dress that
gave no hint of its original color, her
complexion was still on the dresser and
her hair was divided sharply into little
rectangular plots like a newlv laid out
suburban tract, with a wad oi hair over
a curler in the center of each tract.
She was looking like the wash on the
kitchen clotheshorse and feeling as vi
vacious as a bottle of ginger ale left
uncorked since day before yesterday,
when the doorbell rang and she an
swered it.
There stood the man for whom the
stage had been set the night before! in
•lie semi-darkness of the hall he began
an explanation of how he had been de
layed by a wreck on the road, which
explanation ended with a yell of terror
and his sudden plunge down the hall
and out the door when the parlor was
reached and he had caught a look at
Daysey Mayme.
It is a rare misfortune for which re
dress may not be sought in suing a
railroad, and the farmer who loses a
scrubby, puny calf and sues for the val
ue of an imported black-faced Hereford
is not the only one who sees exagger
ated post-mortem values and opportu
nities
Daysey Mayme also saw exaggerated
post-mortem 'values and opportunities,
and has brought suit against the rail
road for ?0.000 for the loss of a possible
road for $80,000 for the loss of a possible
husband!
"Yes." said the meek looking man,
“I’ve no doubt you’ve had some great
hunting experience in your travels
abroad."
“I have. Indeed
"Buffalo hunting’ —
"Yes."
■ And bear hunting"
“Of course " /
“Well, you let my wife take you house
hunting experiences in your travels
Then you'll begin to know what reai
excitement is.”
"You are absolutely impossible. El
ler,." said the mistt^ss of the house,
who was a notorioin* fault-finder "1
thought > ou said you were a lady’s
maid ?’’
And so 1 was. an . calmly re
nted the girl, "untTf I canse to work
for you!"
His Sense of Humor.
"One of the characteristics of my old
comrade. Amos Stillman, was bravery
in actual fighting service." said the old
soldier. "Another characteristic was a
sense of humor which stood him in
good stead, even in the face of danger,
and contributed not a little to the gav-
ety of his comrades.
"At the battle of Cold Harbor, just
before making the charge and while un
der the Confederate fire, our corporal,
who was more than 6 feet high, and
scarcely bigger around than a gun bar
rel. became exciteji as the enemy’s bul
lets plowed up the earth about him
" What kind of a place is this to
keep a man in?’ he demanded: ‘abso
lutely without protection!'
“He had no more than spoken when
Private Stillman stuck his ramrod in
th*> ground:
’’ 'Here. Corporal,* said he, ‘get be
hind this.’ ”
in the ordinary' acceptation of
that term. It looks like a mouse, but
is none. It is a geological survivor,
a left-over from the most remote an
tiquity’, a representative of the inhab*-
itants of this globe millions of veaTS
ago. During all that tremendous
lapse of time it has retained the
characteristics of its ancestors, whose
tombs are more ancient than the hills.
If length of pedigree and rarity of
connections are marks of aristocracy’,
this animal must rank as one of the
bluest-blooded of the earth’s Inhab
itants. It dwells in Central America,
but is so seldom seen even by the In
dians who haunt the woods of Colom
bia and Ecuador that it has no gen
erally recognized popular name.
Around Bogota it is called the "raton
runcho,” or opossum rat. Naturalists
name it the caenolestes.” It lives
among the upper branches of trees,
raiding the nests of small birds and
keeping Itself secluded from observa
tion, as if it felt that it does not be
long to the age in which it finds it
self.
was it Is useless to try to tell, becaus*
the geological periods cannot be meas
ured in centuries. But it was before
what Is called the Age of the Great
Reptiles. Those giants, coming after
it, have all disappeared, leaving their
wonderful skeletons in the rocks, and
yet this little creature survives, and
shows tne same peculiar set of jaw
that characterized its forefathers in
the beginning of time. It recalls that
famous royal family of Europe whose
representatives still sit upon thrones
and whose facial expression never va
ries.
MANY
ITS ANTECEDENTS.
To the unscientific eye there is noth
ing remarkable in its appearance. But
here outside looks go for nothing.
The naturalist finds that the caeno
lestes possesses anatomical character
istics that it must have retained since
Triassic times. How long ago that
Seeking a Husband
D
T HIS morning I woke up In my
little white bed with the
thought that something out of
the ordinary was going to happen.
My little French clock was ticking
vigorously out in the den on my’ desk*,
the pink and white pillows on the
couch were rumpled up just as I had
left them last night—and suddenly I
remembered Dr, Hammond was com
ing down and I was quite excited. I
was curious, and I did think he was
adorable when he told me quite
plainly that he was coming down to
see me. I guess girls are all the
same. We all like the stormed-in-a-
castle feeling that some men use to
ward us quite*as a matter of fact.
That was this morning, and now
here I am in the library reflecting on
the good and bad Possibilities of my
latest caller. It isn’t as if I had the
chance to put out my hand and take
him—that would be absurd on my part
—it’s just to be able to meet any kind
of a difficulty that might arise.
‘‘You're the strangest girl,” he said
to me to-night.
“Why am I strange?” I answered.
“You might not like me to tell you,”
he said.
“Yes. J would: please go on.”
“Well, I can’t quite make you out.
You are a combination of frivolity and
seriousness that is quite enough to
keep anyone guessing.”
“Are any of the *»•»*•*--*. like me?” T
said, flippantly, “and why am I frivo
lous?”
Some Plain Truths.
“Well. no. to your first question, al
though I have a pretty good time with
them. And why are you frivolous?
Because you like to dress well, and
everything you wear is out of the
ordinary.”
"Not very good proof.” I rejoined
“I don’t see why I have to be dubbed
frivolous for that. How would you
like to hear a few things about your
self?”
He laughed. “Well, in the first
place," I went on. “you are conceited.
I think the nurses spoil you. In the
second place, you are somewhat self
ish: you do only what you like to do!
and in the third place, you really
ARE nice."
"Well, that's something like.” he
said eagerly, pulling his chair closer:
"now let’s get down to business."
"Business?" I queried politely, and
he laughed.
"Gee, you ARE different,” he said
again, running his fingers through his
hair in a funny, boyish way he has.
"I believe you said that before,” I
said, demurely, drawing away from
the hand that was suddenly stretched
out for mine. And then I knew.’ that I
really did like him.
"I'm afraid.” I said, severely, "that
Those nurses spoil you worse than even
1 imagined. You really need some
very severe discipline. I think T’shall
being right now.” And 1 did, if stern.
ly repulsing all his advances meant
severe discipline. I guess he liked
me as well as the nicest nurse, too, if
I wouldn’t say good-night in the
“proper'way.” I’m not fond of having
peonl£ touch me anyway, but I Sup
pose the right one WOULD make a
difference. But how am I to know
when the right one does come along,
and when the right time comes and
all the other hundred and one things
that one has to know. I suppose!
Anyway. I don't think he’s a bit seri
ous with me.
“Come and see me again.” I said, as
he was leaving.
“You haven’t been so very nice to
me." he answered.
“Don’t tell me that you have to be
bribed, and do you still think I’m very
strange?”
Not Changed.
“I haven’t changed my opinion of
you at all.” he said, decidedly.
“And still I have my illusions,” I,
interrupted, rather breathlesslv.
“What do you mean?" he said, his
fingers tightening on minp.
“Nothing at all,” I said, drawl/fe
back: “that will give you something
to thing about.”
“Till next time,” he said, under his
breath. And then the door closed, and
I went slowly upstairs. My pink lamp
was lighted in the den and mv clock
was ticking just,as it had been when
I woke up in the morning. I brushed
back a lock of hair, reflectively, and
my hand had that same funny medi
cine smell. Then I curled up among
the pink and white pillows of n-v
couch and had a good think
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the body. These vapors open tiie
air passages, loosen the phlegm, an
heal the inflamed mucous mem
brane.
For Catarrh and Head Colds me
a little In a spoofi and inhale the
vapors. Also apply well up the
nostrils. For Asthma and Hay U
ver follow the above instructions
and also rub well over the spina>
column, tiius relaxing the nervnn-'
tension. For Bronchitis, Sore Throat
and deep chest colds apply well over
chest and throat, first opening the
pores by applications of hot wet
towels. Then cover with a warm
flannel cloth, leaving the covering
loose around the neck so the vapors
arising may be inhaled all night
.long, in addition. Vick’s i? absorbed
through the pores, taking out
tightness and soreness.
—25c, 50c and $100.
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Three size?
N AUSTRALIA.
A curious fact in connection with
the caenolestes is that other animals
of a similar kind have survived in
much greater variety In Australia, a
continent that is as remarkable for its
curious animals as for its singular
situation, away off by itself. Geolo
gists believe that before, and partly
during Triassic times, a great conti
nental arm united Australia and South
America. Then, perhaps, the ances
tors of the caenolestes lived in all
portions of the huge continent that
was thus formed, but after the con
vulsion that separated America from
Australia occurred the descendants of
these animals rapidly died out in
America, leaving finally only the rare
little creature that we have described
to make war upon the humming birds
of the tropics.
A new type dog has just been dis
covered. It is called a golf retriever,
and is to be found on the Horsenden
Hill golf course. He is one of the
most familiar figures on the links
and takes an almost human interest
in the play. At the tee he stands
like a sentinel. If his master foozles
he barks disgustedly. If the shot is
a good one he goes after the ball as
fast as he can, and stands on guard
over the ball until his master comes
along for his next shot.
The latest thing in eccentric en
tertainments has been devised by
E. T. Stotesbury, a banker, who gave
a supper party at Philadelphia, when
chattering monkeys mingled with the
guests, while talking parrots were
perched on the branchos of real
orange trees arranged round the room
During the evening the monkeys dis
tinguished themselves by tearing up
some priceless orchids.
The elaborate policy of Insurance
devised for airmen was described in
an action between an Insurance com
pany and the French pilot Vedrines
For the loss of a lower limb, two-
thirds of the/amount payable on death
is allowed: for the loss of an arm
half the amount; for permanent in
jury to the face, such as the loss nr
an eye, a quarter, and for the loss of
a finger, a twentieth.