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SUNDAY MORNING. I ■ 'The, lAIR 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. m r&ovdofr o*at= 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& — sM A.n panc!£^i 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. •/£? 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. £? 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. ■> £:/ Jgy 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.' —_ -“""i 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. / '■(/ 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.