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SUNDAY MORNING.
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Chatelaine Trinkets.
One of the newest of the many little
Irinitets into which leather is being
fashioned is the chatelaine. Hangina
from a leatlier book by narrow leather
straps ait: leather covered vinaigrette,
tiny ease with scissors, and a little
blank book and pencil and equally
small coin purse. Another manifesta
tion of the leather chatelaine shows a
petulant pocket book of ordinary size
to the bottom of which are attached a
liny vinaigrette, scissors and blank
book. Tbe.se chatelaines may be had
in various lovely shades of leather,
such as soft sage green, heliotrope,
'night green and blue. So the up-to
date girl may have her chatelaine
match her costume, whatever ce its
eoior.
Our Araevltun Women.
There is a charming blond young
woman well known to Philadelphia as
well as Baltimore and Xt v. York City,
who laughs when yot> call her
“Sen-ora.” A woman friend gave the
story away, says the Philadelphia
Press, and as sue takes it good catur
c.lly, there is no use keeping the .ioke
lrom the public. You sec, young as
she is, she elected to marry a man who
was a grandfather, or. rather, he be
came one soon after his marriage to
her. She has that deceptive, innocent
type of beauty that gives the owner the
appearance of being about eighteen.
She was looking at the Cuban curios
and souvenirs for sale at a bazaar with
a woman frieml. and the old woman
behind the wares called her “Senorita."
“No, no,” said the friend, “she is
Sonora.” The old woman shook her
head and declined to believe. “No.
senorita," she said. "She is a girl,'”she
continued in broken English: “she too
young and pretty.” "Yes. she is a
senora,” said Mrs. C , wishing ro
tease the younger woman, and. retuent
being the birth of the
added: “She’s not: only married, but
she is a grandmother!” “Dio.-i lie.;
these Americans are so progressive!"
said the old Cuban.
To Maintain a Goad Complexion.
Here are certain plain, simple hints
for the securing or maintenance of u
good complexion, ■which can lie carried
in mind and practiced by the woman
who can afford neither the feos of
lieauty doctors nor several hours a
day for grooming. Wash the face
carefully, never with very cold water.
At night it should have a warm soap
hath to clean ir. rinsing the soap off
thoroughly, and drying thoroughly,
with an upward movement, I.earn al
ways to rub up and never down, to
counteract drooping lines and sagging
muscles. Take at least one bath a
day. nibbing the body vigorously. Re
momber that hot water is necessary to
cleanse, and cold water to invigorate,
and set the blood to circulating. Hose
water and elder flower water arc hrnr
lieial in softening the shirt, Lemon
whitens the hands. Any good, cold
cream, sold by a reputable iunt-w. is e - :-
(■client for the face. It should he
t rubbed in, not hard, bur thoroughly,
jnfter a warm bath. A little on tiie tips
of the fingers is sufficient. it softens
and freshens the skin, Remember that
all rich foods are enemies of a delicate
skin. The row leaf skin of the lathy
conics from Its simple diet. Avoid
pastry, pickles and pie. Candy is as
bad as anything can be. and makes
one fat, besides. Tea and coffee are
oad. but cocktails are worse, ttiudy
the nose of tin* man who has Imbibed
for many years and see. Bar fruit
and simple food, amt drink plenty of
water at any time c-cept mealtime, es
pecially on getting uri In the morning,
when it liases the >yucm of the
mucous that lias nc'-imuilated on tiie
coating of the stomach and Other or
\ gans during the night. A good com
plexion comes from the same sources
•is health—fresh air. exercise, correct
food, bathing, sufficient sleep and
proper activity of the internal organ;;.
TTomcn Wear Ordew.
The number of women—especially
American women—wearing orders at
tiie recent coronation ceremony was
:i matter of much remark and has
awakened interest in the subject of
orders in general. The American who
is entitled to wear the greatest num
ber of orders is Mrs. George Corn
"wailis-Weut. Kite has been decorated
with the Order of the Crown of In
dia. the Royal Red Cross and the Order
of St. John of Jerusalem. The last
named honor she shares with a uftmber
of her sex—some of the; better known
being Baroness Burdett - Coutts and
Lady Chesham, who was one of the
chief organizers of the Imperial Yeo
manry Hospital in South Africa, about
which so much has bene written. The
Order of St. John is the oldest of the
four English orders to which women
ar,* elegible, having been instituted in
the twelfth century.
The three others are the Royal Order
Victoria and Albert, founded by
Queen Victoria in 1382: the Imperial
Order of the Crown of India, instituted
to commemorate her assumption of the
title of Empress, and the Royal Red
Cross, founded in ISSfi to reward serv
ices rendered in nursing the sick and
wounded of the Imperial Army. One of
ihe latest recipients of the decoration
4’.the Imperial Order of the Crown of
jRi.Ha, which has the sovereign as its
Ttead, was Lady insignia
consisting of Queen Victoria’s cipher in
diamonds, pearls and turquoise, eneir-
cled by a border of pearls and sur
mounted by a tiny jeweled and enam
eled crown attached to a bow of light
blue water ribbon with narrow white
edge.
The decoration of (he Order of Vic
toria and Albert, which is of four
classes, consists (for the first and sec
ond class) of a medallion of the lata
Queen and l’riuee Albert set in dia
monds surmounted by a jeweled crown,
the ribbon used being white moire. The
third class Ms the medallion set in
pearls instead of diamonds, ami the
fourth bears only an intertwined “V"
and “A” in pearls. To this order be
long the Empress of Germany, the Em
press of Russia, the Queen of Itou
ntania, the Queen of the Netherlands,
and many well-known women of lower
rank. The Queen of England is the
only lady of the Order of the Garter.
The oldest of all orders instituted for
women is that of tile Slaves of Virtue,
founded in 1602, by Elcanore of Goa
zagua, widow of Frederick lit. of
Austria, "ro encourage in the women <'
her court the sentiments of wisdom
and piety. - ’ The Bavarian Order of
Eliza bet ii. founded in (TOG. ami the
Order of Queen Marie Louise, insti
tuted in 1732, each had an i xelusively
charitable raison d’etre and imposed
habits of kindness and helpfulness
upon their royal members.
But perhaps the best-known foreign
order to which women are eligible is
the French Order of the Legion d’Hon
uenr, of which Rosa Bonhenr was a
member, as was also Mina. Dionlafoy,
the well-known explorer, who is the
only woman permitted by the French
Government to appear in men’s clothes.
An interesting fact in connection with
this order is that all wearing the little
crimson ribbon are entitled to a mili
tary salute, women as well as men.—
New York Mail and Express.
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Miss Ethel" Smyth, composer of the
recently produced opera. "Dor Wald,"
is the first compose? of her sex to have
a work produced at Covent Garden.
Mrs. Marini) Vance, a colored woman,
who was for years Abraham Lincoln's
servant, is silll living at Danville, 111.,
and is learning to read, at the age of
ninety-one.
Miss Dtiehcmln. of Boston, lias In
her possession some china more than
200 years old, which was given to her
grandmother by the daughter of a
maid of honor to Queen Anne.
Princess Victoria, the Kaiser’s ten
year-old daughter, is said in lie the
haughtiest member of the German
royal family, never for a iiiunient for
getting she is an Emperor’s daughter.
Mrs. Elizabeth Silsbee Archer, who
died in Salem, Mass., the other day,
was an eye-witness of the great naval
fight between the Cltesaprnke and
Shannon off! Salem during the War of
1312. -j
There are snlirto be excellent open
ings for American dressmakers in
Japan, where ail tin* high class women
are donning Occidental dress, with
which the native mi di ;e struggles
helpli ssly.
Five daughters of one lov.a family
are practicing physicians. Alice Braun
worth llalstcad. P1i.1!.. and Drs. Jen
jid S„ Emma 1... and Jessie A. Brauti
! warth are r.aabilsbtd in Muscatine,
I lowo. Dr. Anna M. Rrauinvnrth is as-
I soelafed with Dr. Henry T. Byfortl. of
! Chicago.
( A fifty-aero farm in Indiana has for
j !!it* last ten years been successfully
| conducted by Miss Alible Poffer, a
niece of former Senator Peffcr of Kan
sas. Miss I’offer was for some years
a teacher in the public schools. She
has u thorough knowledge of agricul
tural pursuits, and all the work in
fields, gardens, orchard and stable is
done by her own bauds.
An ~~gj& —
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t-iberinn squirrel is made into charm
ing lists.
Tyrolese crowns, it is whir-pored, will
follow the very flat effects.
Few dress silks have figured stripes
of velvet running lengthwise.
Bashes or wide girdles break the long
lines of the newest princess;* models.
The ultra-smartness of squirrel fur
is attained when a touch of ermine is
added.
Many matrons have taki n up the ear
ring fad. confining themselves to
pearls. \
A liaudsllm ■ chatelaine bag is of
golden brown walrus skin with frame
and chain of plain gold.
Wool laces are very much used on
cloth gowns, and tiio grape pattern
iu clusters of rings is the favorite.
Crushed black velvet is artistically
combined with green point veni.se col
lar and cuffs to form a swell garment
for a twelve-year-ohl girl.
Huge clusters of raised grapes and
leaves outlined with black tracings arc
the decorations of a dainty white
chiffon scarf for afternoon or evening
wear.
Puff hags for carrying about powder
puffs are in pink or blue satin, and
gather up with dainty “baby” ribbon
draw strings, or with silver cords and
tassels.
“Moleskin brown" is one of the novel
shades for wool dross materials, which
tints, advices from Paris state, may
be appropriately trimmed with the skin
of the namesake animal.
Nothing is smar-ter for the woman
with a perfect figure than one of the
new tight Francis coats. These are
full three-quarter length and match th
skirt when for promenade wear.
Why Girls Often Say
“No” the First Time
By Edith Joscelyn.
jr T has been remarked that when a woman says “No” it should not—
o i ® i),v tile 111011 w ‘ u> * oves her—be taken for a negative. There may be
• da an clement of truth in this statement, or there may be not, 1, as a
n a Kiri, who thinks that she knows what slip is writing- about, would
• ••••• say that it all depends upon the character of the woman who utters
the little word. If she is a poor, weak sort of creature who is cer
tain of nothing, and who likes to hear the same thing over and over again,
much after the fashion of a young mother listening to her first baby’s initial
titteranees, she will undoubtedly say "No” when she all the time really means
the very opposite.
I lmve known a few instances, however. In which women 'Who knew their
own minds perfectly have been impelled to say an emphatic negative when re
ceiving an offer of marriage from a man whom they loved passionately, while
conscious all tile time that they would eventually say a cooing affirmative. It
was this way: The men proposing were, so to speak. <:n .trial at the liar.
They were suspected of offering marriage out of pity, or out of pique, or from
a sense of justice.
A woman is frequently made the recipient of an offer on these grounds,
and the trick of saying ' No” when tile question is tirsv put is the one and only
way of discovering whether the man sincerely means what he says.
The instinct of many of us women will clearly tell us when a man is mak
ing an offer that is not genuine, but sometimes we dare not trust to our instinct;
we hope against hope, and wc play our fisll with evasive answers until we see
that he really means what he says from the bottom of bis hear;.
it is uot long since that I met a man who told me of a friend of ids who
had suddenly discovered that lie would be better off iu many respects were In
to marry. lie straightaway went the round of a number of girl friends and
proposed to four of them in one day! They each rejected him, as he thought,
by saying "No" on the putting of tile great question. But two out of the four
wrote to him on the day following, accepting! In the meantime he had made a
fifth proposal and had been accepted.
When a girl has been courted for an unusually long period and has at last
received the long-expected proposal she will feign astonishment and will give a
qualified "No.” This is only her banter, and site will fellow it up by laughingly
explaining that she punished him because—by his delay—he punished her!
£byness or a different position in life are common causes for such delays on the
part of many men.
Asa rule, it may be taken for granted that no woman says “No" without
reason for doing so.
One more instance: Two sisters recently fell in love with the same man,
who was a close friend of their brother's. The man proposed to the younger
sister, and she said "No" because she knew that her sister wanted lilm. Yet
when, in course of time, the man made the offer of marriage to the elder
sister she likewise said "No” for the identical reason—that she knew her sister
wanted him. The girls’ love for each other has up to the present kept the man
a bachelor.
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IS3 Girl and Her Reading.
By W. D. Howells.
U AT. then, is a good rule for a girl in her reading? Pleasure
in It, as 1 have already said; pleasure, first, last and all the
B rime. But as one star differs from another, so the pleasures
W differ. With the high natures they will be fine, and with the
low natures they will be coarse. It is idle to commend a tine
pleasure to the low natures, for to these it will 1> a disgust,
as surely as a coarse pleasure io the high. But without
pleasure iu a tiling read it. will not nourish, or even till, the
mind; it will be worse provender than the husks which the
swine did eat, and which the prodigal found so unpalatable.
Thence follows a conclusion that. lam not going to blink. It may be naked,
tiicn, if we are to purvey a course literary pleasure to the low natures, seeing
that they have no relish for a tine one. I should say yes, so long as it is not
a vicious one. But here 1 should distinguish, and say farther that l think there
is no special merit in reading as an occupation, or even as a pastime. 1 should
very much doubt whether a low- nature would get. any good of Ijs pleasure in
leading; and without going back to the old question whether wAjreu should be
taught the alphabet, 1 should feel sure that some girls could he better employed
in cooking, sewing, knitting, rowing, fishing, playing basket ball or ping-pong
than In reading the kind of books they like; just its some men could be better
employed in the toils and sports that befit their sex.
I am aware that this is not quite continuing to answer the question as
to what girls should read; and l will revert to that for a moment without
relinquishing my position that the cult of reading is largely a superstition,
more or less baleful. The common notion is that books are tin- right sort, of
reading for girls, who are allowed also the modified form of books which we
know as magazines, but are nor expected to read newspapers. This notion
is so prevalent and so penetrant that I detected it. in my own moral and mental
substance, the other day. when I saw a pretty and prettily dressed girl in the
elevated train, reading a daily newspaper quite as if she were a man. It
gave me a little shock which I was promptly ashamed of; for when t con
sidered, i realized that she was possibly employed as usefully and nobly
as if she were reading a hook, certainly the sort of book she might have chosen.
—Harper’s Bazar.
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Three Requisites of an Orator
By Henry M. Bowline;.
H 1I REE great requisites are demanded of everyone who would
speak well. He must be clear, he must be forceful, and he
must please. Clearness will be secured by translation and
composition. How can wo speak forcibly and in a manner to
excite pleasure? Anyone may avoid egregious blunders; it Is
the able orator who makes ids speech sinewy iu its strength,
charming In its beauty. "Bold propositions, boldly and briefly
expressed—pithy sentences, nervous common sense, strong
phrases, well-compacted periods, sudden and strong masses of
light, an apt adage, a keen sarcasm, a merciless personality, a mortal thrust—
; these are the beauties and deformities that now make a speaker most, interest
ing." Nothing is more artificial than the adornments in a spoken discourse.
They do not necessarily arise from the peculiar attractiveness of the subject.
Erskine could throw a charm about the most repulsive causes; and there may
! be- speakers who. without strenuous effort, could render sterile and disgusting
i a subject boundless iu suggestiveness and luxuriant in beauty. In all your coitt-
I positions, ora! and written, first outline the general plan of your matter, aud
then select portions to be embellished by chaste adornment, not in the spirit
I of the pulpit orator who annotated his sermon manuscript with stage directions
! such as, “Here weep!" but with a rational sense of the places where ornament
may appropriately be inserted to clarify the thought, vitalize the argument, or
| arouse new interest on the part ef an audience. At one point, you will decide to
! use a bit of vivid description of men or scenes; at another, you will mark, an a
; proper place to thrust forward a pungent antithesis, a picturesque metaphor; at
| another, you will select, as affording an opportunity, a supposed speech of your
j adversary or of a third person, or pretend to read from ; n imaginary doeu
j toent; at. a fourth, you will see to It that you express indignation and apologies
to the audience for being overborne by yon,- feelings.-Suet- -s.
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The Men Who Break Dowm.
■—m%HEN a man standing tit tlio head of a vast business breaks down
the papers begin to talk of the enormous pressure of modern
JB V life, especially in the lines of finance and Industrial activity.
There are railway Presidents who stand a great amount of trasi-
I W w ness strain, but they waste none of their energies, aud are lem
______ penue, as ail men of great affairs must be, if they would hold
awgrag their own in these busy days.
♦ww While a great business Involves large responsibilities, a strong
man at the head of it will be found to have selected capable
assistants, often younger men with great power of resisting
1 strain. The railway President, bank President or head of a trust, lias his staff:
: his business is systematized, aud a large part of his worth to his corporation
i consists in his ability to pick good men for responsible places.
When one comes to look over the list of men broken down in business
it is among those having small business that the greater number will be found.
The man in a small way rarely can afford to have capable assistants; he must
“do it all himself,” and hence worry aud over-doing. There is more of q chance
for brain fag in a small shop or agency than in a big business.
THE BRUNSWICK DAILY NBWS.
| HINTS ABOUT n
I HOUSEKEEPING |
Heating Wears Out Kuks.
It is an excellent thing to keep the
house or apartments always spick aud
span, but very frequently the house
wife by too frequent and vigorous
cleaning is npt to do more damage than
good. The average American house
wife wears out her rugs by continual
sweeping and beating. The plan of
putting them upon a lint' every two
weeks, or even once a month, and there
having them whipped, is not to be
commended if the rugs are of any
value. They should be cleaned with
si carpet sweeper, occasionally put upon
a line and brushed and once a ydar
sent away to lie cleaned iu a proper
manner, or else washed at home.
"Ways of CooUinsr lteef.
The homely bill of fare may lie in
definitely varied when beef is used.
Beef is the staple meat iu most house
holds because of its supposed nourish
ing qualities. These recipes will bring
out all the best flavors of the meal:
Grilled Beef—Cut some beef in half
inch slices. Dip each in melted butter
or olive oil and broil quickly over a
clear fire. In a small saucepan put
two tablespooufuls of hot water, two
tablespoonfuls of butter, one table
spoonful each of tomato and Worcester
sauces, a pinch of salt and pepper, one
half teaspoonful of made mustard, a
little juice from an onion and one or
two -drops of lemon juice or vinegar.
Dip each slice of meat in this. Serve
on toast and pour the remainder of
the sauce over each.
Beef Buttles—Take underdone beef,
one onion, pepper and salt, some pie
crust. Cut the meat into small square
pieces, chop the onion finely and mix
with the meat, adding salt and pepper.
Roll the crust rather thinly, out it in
rounds with a small saucer; put a little
of the chopped meat on one half, fold
the other over and pineli the edges
together. Fry the patties in hot lard
till a nice brown or bake them in a
good oven; time, about twenfy minutes.
Tips For tint Cook.
In baking bread it is better to over
do rather than underdo the work.
To make a good digestible pie crust
use cream instead of lnrd, and it will
lte light and healthful.
If there is not hatter enough to till
the gem pan. put cold water in the.
empty space before setting the pan in
the oven.
Tito rich cheese;-!, which have the
largest percentage of fat. a*.-.* those
which blend well wild broad in sand
wiches or with macaroni of rice.
For a quick calm beat’uuiil thick
four eggs. Add four tablespoon i’uls of
sugar, half a cup of flour, a little cin
namon and lemon rind. Befit well 1 and
spread on a baking pan. Bake in quick
oven and cut out at once.
Sweet potatoes arc much richer twice
cooked. Baked or b,piled merely, this
vegetable is good, lnil when the baking
or boiling is followed by a subsequent
cooking in the pan or in tin: oven they
are far better.
A fine cheese pudding is made by
grating five ounces of bread and three
of cheese. Warm two ounces butter
in a quarter of a pint, of fresh milk and
mix thoroughly. Add two woll-heaten
eggs, salt and bake half an hour.—
Lewiston Journal.
Py recipesr..'T
Potato Biscuit—Boil six pokitoes un
til tender; mash them very smooth oi
rub them through a sieve; add when
cool one cup of raiik, and tip tty enough
to roll out, adding two teaspoonfuls of
baking powder; cut into small biscuits
and bake in a quick oven over twenty
minutes.
Baked Apples—Wash and core the
apples without breaking. Fill the cen
tres with sugar and cinnamon: turn iu
a cupful of water and hake slowly for
,'an hour or an hour and a half. Put a
jcttpful of water on the rack when the
iapples go into the oven. This will keep
[them from burning,
j Denmark Pudding—Soak one cupful
(Of pearl tapioca over night, in three
bints of cold water; in the morning put
fit in the double boiler and cook until
(clear, stirring often; add half tt cup of
■sugar, one teaspoon of sail: and half a
cup of any red jelly; turn into a mold,
stand on ice; serve with sugar and
cream.
Cream Sponge Cake 801 l a pint of
granulated sugar and half :t cupful of
water until it spins a thread. Pour
slowly o:i yolks of cigiit vctl-bcaten
eggs. Beat uiitd cold. Add .mire and
grated rind of an orange, half a pound
of pastry flour aud the stiffly beaten
White of eight eggs last. Bake one hour.
Ice with plain boiled Icing when cool.
Cecils With Tomato Sauce -Season
one cup of finely chopped rare roast
beef, or steak, with salt, pepper, onion
juice and table sauce; add two table
spoonfuls of bread crumbs-, one table
spoonful of melted butter, yolk one
egg beaten a little; shape iu the form
of small croquettes and pointed at
ends. Fry in deep fat or in the frying
pan and serve with tomato sauce.
il HOLLOW BUILDING BLOCKS.'
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A Saving of Onc-lhlrd tlie Material Hoc*-
tolore Used.
A house of artificial stone blocks,
two-thirds of which are material and
the rest hollow, will soon be built in
New Orleans, says the Now York
Evenng Post. The mould in which
the blocks are built is a simple con
trivance. It consists of a foundation
provided with three rectangular col
umns, that may be elevated, whose
dimensions are those of the cavities in
the blocks; to the foundation of the
mould are binged its ends aud sides,
which let it down. When the ends and
sides of tlii' mould are in position, it is
merely a box: a plate is let down upon
the bottom of the mould; then the col
umns at the bottom of the mould are
elevated through openings in the plate.
The mould is then in readiness to re
ceive the mixture of sand and Portland
cement, which is shoveled into the
mould, filling the entire spuce sur
rounding the elevated columns. It is
tamped with great force. After the
tamping process, the sides and ends of
the mould are let down, the columns
are depressed, and the plate on which
the materials were poured is lifted out,
with the manufactured block resting
upon it. The blocks are put out in
the air, and in the course of a week
they are ready to be used for building.
They should not lte subjected to too
great heat from the sun, and it is
necessary to moisten them each day.
The great simplicity of the process lies
in the fact that sand is absolutely in
compressible, and tamping secures ns
complete results as are obtained from
the pressing of clay in making the
liner qualities of bricks, and with very
much smaller expenditure of labor.
The sand and cement are moistened
while being mixed.
Cost of Congested Crossings.
Allowing for each of these congested
crossings a loss on five seconds owing
to the blockading if vehicles and the
Jam of pedestrians on the cross walks,
there is a loss of 0,925,000 seconds, or
a little more than 192 days of ten hours
each, says the Chicago Tribune. This,
in the working year of 300 days, would
mean the aggregate loss for one person
of more than 160 years, ot. to the social
body, the wearing out of nearly three
lives a year in standing waiting for a
clear crossing down town.
Reducing the time to money, the re
sults are even more startling. In these
throngs that wait for the opening of
the crossings are men who are earning
nothing and men who are producing
hundreds of thousands a year. Women
and children who are not producers are
among them in vast numbers, but so
are the clerk, the bookkeeper, the gen
eral utility man, all of whom make
salaries above the normal. Counting
the average of time that goes to waste
as worth SIOOO a year, down town Chi
cago every day spends SOOO wait! D on
closed crossings, to say nothing of the
appointments aud trains and business
opportunities that are missed by rea
son of the delays.
Importance of the Comma.
Lately in a small town in Germany
the school Inspector arrived on his tour
of inspection too soon after his last
visit to please the Mayor, who was
asked to accompany hint.
“I should like to know why this ass
lias come again so soon?” muttered the
Mayor to himself, as lie put on his hat.
Tlte Inspector overheard the remark,
but pretended to ignore it, and was
soon busy examining the pupils in
punctuation. The Mayor told him:
“We don't trouble about commas and
such like here.”
The inspector told one of the pupils
to write on tlte blackboard, “The May
or of Ritzelbultel says the inspector is
an ass.”
“Now,” he added, “put a comma af
ter Ritzelbultel and another after in
spector.”
The pupil did so, and it is believed
that the Mayor has altered his opinion
as to the value of commas.
Traps a Condor in Tyrol.
Last summer, according to the Taeg
liehe Rundschau, a Tyrolese shepherd
repeatedly saw two large birds of un
known species hovering over his flock.
Then he missed a sheep, then another,
and in a little while four had been
killed by tlte birds oft prey. The shep
herd constructed a trap, baited it with
the half eaten body of one of the
slaughtered sheep, and soon captured
one of the marauders. He took it to
the museum at Innsbruck, where it
was pronounced to be a young female
condor. It measured eight ftht from
tip to tip of the wings. Though some
of the naturalists were inclined to be
lieve the bird had flown to Europe
front the Andes, one professor stoutly
maintained that such a flight was im
possible except for such a bird as the
albatross, which had a spread of wing
of thirteen feet and is a fish catcher,
and that the condor must have escaped
from some European menagerie.
Few Japanese In Atnerica.
There are comparatively few Japan
ese in the United States. There are
but 100 in Chicago, and many of them
are students in various schools. Sev
eral merchants and foreign representa
tives are here, while from one to a
dozen pass through Chicago every day.
There is no disposition on the part ol'
tlte Japs to emigrate to the United
States as the Chinese do. —'Chicago
Chronicle.
A Terrible Tate.
An extraordinary story comes from
Rome. The police have just discov
ered at Doleedo, near Porto Maurlzio, a
young woman belonging to a rich fam
ily, who for the past three yaars has
been chained and confined in a subter
ranean den, with nothing to eat but
berbs. When discovered the unhappy
creature was in a terrible condition
and quite unclothed. Two persons
have been arrested.
DECEMBER 7
he" Funny
ZJ'ide of
Life „
Point of View.
When a fellow has spent
Ilia last, red cent,
Tlte world looks blue —you bet!
But—give him a dollar
And you’ll hear him holler:
“There’s life in the old land yet!”
• —Atlanta Constitution.’
j,- * ,
Precious.
Mrs. Kuicker—'“Mrs. Smith seems
very proud of her diamonds.”
Mrs. Booker—“ Yep, she refers to them
as her white coals.” —New York Sun.
Worth Willie.
She —“I should like to know what
good your college education did you?”
He—“ Well, it taught me to owe a!
lot of money without being annoyed by
It.”—Life.
Tlie Influence.
Jerry—“ How do good clothes make
a man a gentleman?"
Joe—“ They make him feel as if he
was expected to act like one.”—Detroit
Free Press. , - ,
A Promoter ef Pedofttrianism.
“So you are going to get an automo
bile!”
“Yes,” answered the man who is
always thinking oif his health. “The
doctor says I must walk more.”
: a§®3f
A Conclusive Objection.
“Poverty is no disgrace,” said the
young woman with ideas of her own.
“No," said Mrs. Cumrox; “It’s no
disgrace. But it certainly is extremely
unfashionable.”—Washington Star. ,
Softened Grief.
Wilson—“l lost that fine silk um
brella that I carried in town to-day.” j
Mrs. Wilson—“Oh, what a pity!”
Wilson—“ There Is one consolation.
It wasn’t mine.’—Somerville (Mass.)
Journal.
, -•
Another Advance.
She—“So you think the necessities of
life are constantly advancing in Juice?
For instance?”
He—“ Well, the average fine for ‘auto
speeding’ hits advanced from ?10 to
S3O within a year.”—Puck.
Correcttn!- Him.
Gabblcton (effusively)—"Why, hello,
Grimshaw! Glad to see you’re back.”
Grinrshhw (coldly)—“This is my face
you are looking at, Gabblcton.’'—New;
York Journal. ‘ ..... /
,ti
No Cause For Him to Complain.
“See here,” remarked the guest to the
new waiter, "there doesn't seem to be
any soup on this menu card.”
“Oil, no, sir," replied the waiter,
nervously, “1 didn’t spill It at this table
—it was the one on tno other side of
the room.” Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune.
PJHTirIC.
“Dou’t you think that some people
iu society are very deficient in man
ners?" said the man who had been an
noyed by a box party.
“Perhaps,*’ answered Miss Cayenne;
“but possibly they are not to blame.
They have to meet so many customs
house inspectors, you know.”—Wash.*
ington Star.
As Slie Reasoned It.
“It Is but natural,” said Mrs. Van
Scatlders, “that those who possess
wealth should consider themselves tho
best people." .. .
"I don’t quite follow you?”
“It is an axiom that everything is
for the best.”
“Yes.” -V*
“And lhe people with money are
the only ones who have a chance to
get everything.”—Washington Stur. /
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A Chflorful Soul.
“Hanks always looks on the bright
side of everything. Do you know what
he said when he lost his job the other
day?”
“I haven’t heard.”
"110 seemed to be quite cheerful ore,,
it. ’You see.’ he explained, ‘I applied
for a raise of salary nearly six months
ago and didn’t get it. Think of how
much more I would have Ixad to lose if
they’d given me the increase.”—Chi
cago Record-Herald.
He Dropped lbe Subject.
I-Ie was talking to the pessimistic
sharp-tongued damsel.
“Have you noticed," he asked, “that,
as h general thing, bachelors are
wealthier than married men?”
“I have,” she replied.
“How do you account for it?” ho in
quired.
“The poor man marries and the rich
one doesn’t,” she answered. “A mao
is much more disposed to divide noth
ing with a woman than he is to divide
something.”—Chicago Post.