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Tiier« !iu't much more to be sain
■bout the new spring millinery.
It Is with kidnaping as with other
thing«, a man can t drink and make a
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s of It.
A cow In Minnesota ate into a bag of
concrete. That may explain some of
the steak we get
Human nature is the same in village
• nd city. Father takes Willy to the
circus in New York and Thompson s
Corners.
Mr. Roosevelt is indeed a lucky jour
nallst. He gets a good long vacation
In less than a month after he starts
to work.
It may be only a rumor, but a re
port comes from Spain to the effect
that King Alphonso is trying to raise
a mustache.
Scientists say that camels originat
ed in America, which serves to explain
how they happened to get a hump on
themselves.
Child stealing Is bad enough, but
what must be thought of the con-
•clencelesa scoundel who takes a dozen
good hens ?
The first thing Germany knows the
English parliament will pass a law
making the building of battle ships by
Germany a misdemeanor.
Fashionable tatlors announce that
men will have their hips padded this
spring. Anything except the revival
of spring bottom “pants."
Colorado train robbers recently rob
bed a Pullman porter of nearly $15.
This porter evidently didn't belong to
the Fraternal Order of Train Rob
bers.
It is proposed in Cleveland to pay
commissioners $40,000 a year for over
seeing the street car service there.
We predict that Cleveland will find It
easy to get commissioners.
The bee sting as a remedy for rheu
matlsm is being revived
But if the
bee sting is good, why wouldn't the
•ting of a yellow jacket, which is sev
eral horsepower stronger, be still bet
ter?
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One of the German scientists an
nounces that whales' milk possesses
great merits as a food for man. This
being the case, we may expect counter
feit whales' milk to appear in the mar
tat efteoons.
Some New York farmers asked the
state commlslon of agriculture in New-
York city to undertake to ¡»ersuade
families to go from the city into the
country for the summer, and work on
the land. Even if they had to work
for their board and car fare, life In the
open would be worth while to ninny
growing boys who ordinarily have to
•pend the hot months cooped up In the
crowded town.
The agents sent here by the little
nations on the outskirts of the civilized
world and their lots rich In heartaches.
They are alone among a people to them
• lien in speech, customs and Ideals.
That is the acme of loneliness. Their
power Is negligible, their standing no
ticed only by the official happening to
be In the State Department when .they
call. And their labor is. ns a rule, to
beg their countries out of trouble with
the offended Fnlted States or to be-
•eech the American republic's aid In
escaping the wrath of some other big
power. Worse than that, there Is usu
ally trouble at home, in the treasury
or on the throne Itself, acute and keep
ing the ministers' nerves on edge
When It comes to any danger of Ger
man invasion of England, it Is not
worth considering. It Is true that
Great Britain has in her history been
overrun and conquered by the Romans,
the Norsemen and the Normans, but
under very different circumstances
from any that now exist. Such an at
tempt on the part of Germany could
only be mmle after having waged a
successful war on the sea, disabling the
British navy, and then it would be Im
possible to land a force large enough
to be a peril before It would be con
fronted by many times Its number and
driven into the sea. Englishmen can be
trusted to defend their homes If need
be. but It is almost Impossible to imag
ine conditions under which any Inva
sion of Great Britain would be at
tempted. There is everywhere a pro
found and growing desire among na
tions for deep peace, and a realization
that the best use to put another coun
try to Is not to fight it, but to trade
with It.
President Gomez seems to appreciate
fully the spirit of hla people which Is
the source of greatest danger to the
national life of Cuba. He furthermore
has the courage to apeak plainly re
garding it In his message to the Cuban
congress, hopliig that the new republic,
through self discipline, may curb the
characteristic« for which «outhern
races in general are unfortunately
noted. The Cuban president links the
tendency to form and m.'tntaln third
parties with the lndlvl<UtaI tendenby
toward rebellion against everything
wearing the badge of- discipline Of an
tburity. Pevtay« th» XpaulfegiaUur of
the rebellious tendency is not du« «o
much to antagonism to all authority as
ft Is to authority directed by another
person. The great trouble with many
of the Cuban [»eople, those fitted only
to t>e hewers of wood and drawers of
water, is that they want to be generals
or governors. There are others of more
or less capacity who ar« natural mar
plots. It may seem unbecoming to hurl
stones at leaders who place personal
ambition above stability of government
as long as we have some glass house»
In our own country, but ft is a fact
that the personal equation finds It»
most grotesque manifestations anions
our southern neighbors. Thus far thf
government of the new Cuba has dealt
admirably with the evil tlmt Is recog
nized to he the great national ¡»erll
The summary treatment of an Incipient
insurrection, which tended to Inflatn
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the spirit of which Gomez complains
set a good example. If there la firn
dealing with the chronic malcontent»
and at the same time the masses art
educated tip to sound Ideas of the oh
Ject of government, the Cuban ship of
state. It Is to be hoped, will find It»
course lying In calm waters. The conn
try's finances are In good condition
and all that appears necessary to th«
republic's success Is a willingness tc
work for the prosperity of all and th<
cultivation of the true national spirit
All true labor Is sacred, and "blesset
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Is he who has found his work,’’ sayt
Carlyle.
An American poet extob
labor as life, worship, glory, honor anc
other beautiful things While the poets
and moralists and makers of saws an«1
maxims unite In the praise of Industry
there are hut few who have any goo<
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words for Idleness. One of the firs'
rhymes taught children Is that "Satai
finds some mischief still for Idle hand
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to do." The example of the ant anc
the busy bee are held up as worthy ol
human imitation, and we are gravel.
Informed that “though slaves may In
dulge In sloth. It Is a most royal thlnj
to labor." The Importance of being uj
and doing betimes Is illustrated bj
such familiar proverbs as “the early
bird catches the worm." But all th«
while the fact Is ignored that if th«
worm were not up and stirring whet
he might just as well be in bed. h«
wouldn't be caught by the early bird:
and we know perfectly well that slaves
never can or do Indulge In sloth, and
are well aware that the ant and busy
bee only work the first half of their
lives. In order to lay up a store which
will enable them to pass the other halt
In eating and sleeping. While agreeing
with Carlyle that to have found one'»
true work Is blessedness, we need not
believe It Is n blessed thing to work
all the time. While most people ar«
overwhelmed with work, the few whe
are overwhelmed with leisure do not
begin to derive the enjoyment from It
that the busy man obtains from hit
little snatches of Idleness. To stand
Idle In the market place and cry. “N<
man has hired me," is not pleasant tc
the starving man. For him the "dole«
far nlente" has no delights, but when It
come« as the reward of work well done
It Is sweet. I)r. Johnson, himself a
great worker, said that "all hope some
• lay to be Idle
They are willing tc
toll up the hill of life In their early
years in the hope of descending it»
downward slope In Idleness. Wouldn't
it be better to throw little episodes of
Idleness Into one's early life, and not
work so hard ns to bring decrepitude
Into one's later years? Between labor
and fineness there should be a golden
mean.
WOMEN ACCOUNTANTS.
' gotten. "1 hough he I h not the kind of
man one forget«." she added lo her
self.
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MEN WIN BY DIRECTING THEIR YOUTH.
By John A. Holland.
Ask most men of ripened worldly exjterlenee
the one thing in their Ilves which they regret.
Somewhere you will discover that most of
them are nursing consciousness that they did
not “find themselves" Boon enough us young
men. They let too many young years run
away from them.
Youth is disposed to have its fling It would
need another estate wholly to escape the
promptings which come to the young head on the young
shoulders. But in these later years especially, when so
much of the world's work is In the hands of the young
man, it 1 b more than ever devolving upon him to get a
line on himself. So many of the world's ways and means
are new—so many of the world's art« are to be learned
in the Hcientiflc and technological schools—that the
young man must be both student and worker.
The young man cannot be too alert to the significance
of all that he comes In touch with in the life of the
outside world. There is no phase of life which may not
yield to him under observation, something by which his
after course may be directed and shaped, lie cannot too
soon learn the face of Opportunity. He cannot too quick
ly cast off the non essentials which would clog his prog-
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MODERN MOTHER MERELY A HOUSEWIFE.
By Lady
Laren.
A Greek philosopher has advised that "If
any man has two loaves, let him sell one and
buy lilies, for the soul has Its needs as well
as the body.” This is the kind of catering
for the housewives of the future, to collect
the flowers of heart, and mind, and soul to
deck the board, so that the breadwinner, worn
with the toils of the day, will find more re
freshment than In the present monotony of
mutton. It Is in such an atmosphere that patriots are
raised and noble qualities find favorable soil.
What elements in the home as it exists to-day can be
dispensed with? The departments sentenced to disappear
are many.
The basement would be gone, with it« scullery, Its
coal cellar and its dust bln. The pantry would be gone,
with its redundant knives and forks, napery and plate.
The servants' hall would disappear, and, greatest change
of all, the troops of servants would be gone. Upstairs
the dining room would be gone, and the drawing room
•Iso. All the spare bedrooms would be gone, and most
of the servants' bedrooms. What, then, would remain?
Father’« sitting room would be left. Mother s sitting
room would be left. And. best of all, the children would
remain, taking their right place In the house, the first
place, each with a private room always well warmed
and lighted, and designed for rest, meditation or private
work, places where young minds would have that space,
leisure and solitude which Induce true growth.
Women must move the public mind. They must sit
WHERE THE COWBOY SLEEPS.
A dark, wet gash in the greening plain
The cowboy's grave must be—-
Unmarked, alone, 'neath sun and rain,
Afar from waving fields of grain,
Where restless winds blow free—
Away, away, o’er leagues of sod
Cloud-shadows play and wind-flowers
nod.
Not sweeter doth the sailor sleep
On oceans' farthest sands
Than the cowboy ’neath the level sweep
Of rhe sea-like reach of grasses deep,
On the prairie's virgin lands—
In the dnrk, wet gash in the greening
plain.
Afar from the fields of waving grain.
—Leslie’s Weekly.
There Are Nnld to ne Twentg-Flv«
In the United States.
One line of work which women have
recently taken up Is accounting There
are said to be about twenty five wom
en engaged In this work In the United
States. They have come into this field
within the last two or three years and
have met with unexpected success.
It 1* hard work, but It is far more
remunerative, according to a writer in
the Bookkeej>er, than any other of the
professions In which women have here
tofore engaged, A director In a lead
Ing commercial school of New York
says :
"I know of two women In well
known concerns who have mapped out
and put into operation a complete new
sy»:em of financial methods for their
employers and who have ever been In
trusted with big funds for profitable
Investment and whose advice has been
followed In many other Important busi
ness undertakings
The number of
such woman who have proved their
ability and liking for th!
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responsible
and remunerative work Is steadily
growing. It offers a splendid field for
the woman who Is not loath to accept
responsibilities and who has a liking
for the hard work It entails and who
Is ambitious.”
Nearly all the commercial schools
show a steady increase In the number
of woman etndants over previous years.
One of them report
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that four-fifths of
its students in the regular business
course this year, which Includes sten
ography, commercial law, banking.
English and kindred subjects, are wom
en.
In the bookkeeping classes there are
about as many women as men.
A
very large proportion of those women,
who api>ear to have marked out a busi
ness career, are college bred and many
others are high school graduates. One
reason given for thia tendency is the
overcrowding of such profession« as
teaching.
The Goal
The studio was In darkness. Ry the
window one spot of red light showed
itself in the Intense gloom; it was the
lighted end of Ralph Paterson's cigar.
It was a cheap cigar, and Its rank
flavor struck unpleasantly upon his
palate; but Ralph Paterson continued
to smoke It. “For my sins.” he said
to himself, "ami they are many
aga Inst art and against my fellow
artists if I am to believe what the
world says of me.”
Ralph Taterson was engaged In that
dreariest of all dreary tasks; he was
marshaling to an undesired goal an
unwilling conscience; he was explain
ing elaborately to himself why It was
that the fates hail been unkind when
they had thrown him Into the world
minus an artistic love of—or patience
under—misfortune, plus the artistic
delight in painting pictures for his fel
low beings, which the great public
would have none of, despite his per
slstency.
There was upon the easel by the
window a canvas. Ralph in the dark
nees could not see it; but he was in
tensely conscious of its presence with
him in th« room. It was an old can
vas, ten, fifteen years old; one of the
last of those earlier paintings of his
which hnd won him in his youth a <vr
tain fame with picture dealers of a
fifth-rate taste—they were the expres
•Ion of the Ralph Paterson of fifteen
years ago. who had never dreamt any
but th« most unexciting dreams of
comfortable, homely fame They had
been the product of an artist who had
seen no life outside the narrowing ar
tistic convention» of an unambitious
A woman never knows what a man art «chnol in a little manufacturing
thinks of her. altluwgh she think« eh« town In the’MIdlnnds.
Thl» one of these was a terrible
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thing, or so it seemed to Ralph Pater-
I'h'e niesll
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d'me bj those se
as he sat there in th« black dark
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on public governing boards. They must lay their hands
on the governing machiner}' of the country, which Is the
true way, the legitimate way, indeed, the only effective
way of getting anything properly done, even for the
home.
PAST AGES NOT WITHOUT VIRTUES.
By Walter Ba^ehot.
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Nation making Is the occupation of men »u
K the early ages. And it Is. war that makes
Jy nation«.
Nation changing comes afterward,
end is mostly effected by peaceful revolution,
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though even then war. too, play« it« part.
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The idea of an Indestructible nation 1« a mod
ern idea ; in early ages ull nations were de
structlble, and the further we go buck the
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more incessant was the work of destruction
Many sorts of primitive Improvement ar« pernicious
to war; an exquisite sense of beauty, a love ot medit«
tlon, a tendency to cultivate the force of th« mind at
the expense of th« force of the body, help In their re
spective degree« to make men less warlike than they
would otherwise be But these are th« virtue« of other
ages. The first work of the first ages is to bind men to
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gether in the strong bond of a rough, coarse, harsh cue
tom. And the incessant conflict of nation« effects this
in the best way.
Ixmg ages of dreary monotony ar« the first fact« In
the history of human communities, but those ages were
not lost to mankind, for It wa« then that was formed the
comparatively gentl« and guldabl« thing which we now
call human nature.
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CHARACTER MAIN FACTOR IN SUCCESS.
By\ William E. H. Lecky.
On« of th« most important lesson« that ex
perlence teaches is that on tlie whol« and In
the great majority of cases success in life ds
pends more on character than on either in
tellect or fortune. Temperance, industry, in
tegrity, frugality, self reliance and self fe
straint ar« the means by which th« great
masses of men rise from penury to comfort,
and it Is the nations in which the«« qualities
are most diffused that in th« long run ar« the most pros
perous.
Cardinal N«wmau ba« painted th« character of th« per
feet gentleman:
lie Is one who never inflict« pain. • He carefully avoids
whatever may cause a jar or a jolt in the minds of those
with whom he is cast. H« 1« tender toward the bashful,
gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the ab
surd. H« makes light of favor« while he doe« them, and
seems to be receiving when he is conferring. He never
speaks of himself except when compelled. He ha« no
ears for slander or gossip. He has too much good sense
to be affronted by an insult. He is too clear-headed to
be unjust. He 1« as simple a« he Is forcible and as brief
as be is decisive Nowhere shall we find greater candor,
consideration, indulgence.
ness and called It to mind—but its
kind had brought him in a livelihood!
There was merit in it, merit because
it gave promise of better things; it
was that merit that twisted Ralph
Paterson's Hi® as he thought upon it.
“What Is merit, promise?” he said
aloud.
lie rose and began to pace to and
fro in the darkness. A simple enough
feat; for the room was bare of uuglit
but the necessities; a bed, an easel,
a cheap washstand thrust into a cor
ner. a row of pegs behind the door.
And he had begun differently! He
laughed at the thought of the first few
years of comparative nffiuence, follow
ing the sale of several canvases, when
he had, returning from a strenuous
apprenticeship to a new Ideal In the
Latin quarter, lived upon hl
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small
capital and high hopes. Those days
wore far enough away now!
He tossed the end of his cigar away
with an exclamation. He crossed to
the window, and stood there looking
down ujMin the hurrying crowd below.
The night was wet, and a sea of drip
ping umbrellas moved past in an end
less stream, their owners unseen by
the watcher above.
Numberless women! Women out on
sui’h a night I One, another, and an
other, and another! A sea of women,
and every one her own distinctive self.
Ah, how slight was the difference
dividing them from one another, and
yet—to him. how great!
He was thinking of one woman.
• • • He wondered. • • • RUf
no. It was inconceivable she could hav«
waited for him!
Waited, too, for
what?
He said aloud. “But there 1* on«,
this last chance, to sink or swim. To
morrow I”
Yee. he had come to this that he had
staked his all on one last throw ; his
future as an artist, the wooer of for
tune, fame, applause, rested upon a
question of to-morrow's ruling
And the contingency wns so remote;
the possibility that the picture he had
sent In might be hung in the academy
She «¡Rd now. nt oinv holding out •
hand: "1 can't remember for the mo
ment where 1 have met you. but I feel
sure that we have s n each other be
fore." And then, ns he looked ¡»t her
with dawning comprehension, and a
certain amusement: ”1 am Marion
Sefton, of Sefton Park; perhaps we
have met in Hampshire.”
But that was improbable, ns they
were both aware. None the less. Ralph
Paterson's smile came, anil with It a
certain reserve of maimer. "We have
met—yes. I am Ralph Paterson.”
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Hi
«mile, she told herself, waa
charming, much more charming than
in the days before lie had gone away
to Paris to lose more than he had
gained. She said at once, with ready
appreciation of the situation: “Then
you heard me call you a lame dog?”
“1 was that- until today,” lie said.
She looked at him a moment keenly.
Then she said softly: "Here cornea
Selena. Need I introduce you to her—
it Is fifteen years since she last saw
you. • • •”
He had turned as she spoke, and hl«
eyes followed the direction of hers;
they rested upon Selena Scarsdale
with a certain fierce self restraint in
them “No, I think I should need no
help to remembrance,” he said.
She glanced at him. "They are all
very cross with Selena; she is thirty-
three and unmarried still! The Scars
dale women always marry in their
teens; it Is an unwritten law,” she
added quickly. "Your picture • • •
It is Selena in her teens.”
Her eyes asked him a question. He
said in answer to It: “She has always
been the one woman In the world to
me.’’
"And you with her the one man, be
lieve that—and do not keep her wait
ing."
The pair were dose upon them, Se
lena and the other. He said abruptly:
“Thank you.”
When lie turned Selena was holding
out her hands to him with a little ex
clamation of astonishment and delight;
before the expression In her eyes the
other woman looked away.
Marlon
Sefton's voice wns sharp as she said
quickly: "He's quite gray, and he has
had a bad time that'll mark him for
ever; but I'm glad he has got Selena.”
And Ralph Paterson was saying to
Selena:. "It was an inspiration—stak
ing all—on you!"—Philadelphia Tele
graph.
TIGERS CHARM WOMEN IN ZOO.
A
Veteran Keeper’« Oliaervn tion of
a Feminine Perullnrit y.
“One of the most interesting things
to me in connection with this Job,”
said the veteran keeper in the Bronx
Park Zoo to a New York Sun man, "is
the peculiar fascination women have
for this year. This was bis vow, after for certain animals and their utter
years of contemptuous Ignoring of the lack of Interest In others. Of course,
exj»ert judgment that had in the past as a rule, men are more interested than
thrown his out again, and yet again, women, generally speaking. In wild
from among those whose work they beasts. But the masculine Interest lies
approved, and he condemned.
iu an admiration of physical qualities
He was giving himself his last or a curiosity to find out at close range
chance! And. meantime!
how tlie creature lhes.
He dropped the blind and walked to
“The woman's feutng. on the other
the door. He took down from it his
hand, nine times out of ten. Is one of
cap. He went out into the wet night. rapt fascination, Impossible to over
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come when she is close to certain crea
"It Is really remarkably like Selena tures of the wootls. This emotion never
—Selena ten, or fifteen years ago. manifests itself for the eaters of grass.
I What did you say was the name of the For the elephant or the deer the aver
artist? • • • Ralph Paterson! • » • age woman feels no real interest what
Ralph Paterson—why I remember him ever.
It Is toward the devourer« of
quite well.
He painted very nicely flesh, particularly tlie felines, that your
when he was a young man, before he wife or sister or cousin feels drawn iu
went to Paris or somewhere to gain that Inexplicable way. You must spend
technique, or color, or something or days In the lion house in order to ap
another he hadn't got. But whatever preciate fully tlie way In which women
he gained it wns less than what he stand spelllHuiml before those cages.
lost—and he couldn't find a public for But greatest of tdl is the fascination
the wretched things he called portrait
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of the reptiles. I have seen women
and his sitters called libels—when he become absolutely unconscious of the
came back. 1 have heard that he went outer world in their contemplation of
under, starved in a garret. We all motionless snakes. A few days ago a
thought he had died .Selena, too, for woman stood for more than two hour»
she had a kind of liking for him. before the king cobras. She looked like
Selena was always like that, always the wife of a workingman who made
looking after the lame dogs. • • •”
fair pay. I ll bet if you gave her a
The lame dogs! Ralph Paterson
l»ook on snakes she wouldn’t read 100
turned and looked at the speaker, and
words of It.”
she, surprised by his sudden uncon
scious movement, stared back at him
I'nmaile Hlstnrg.
a moment with some Interest.
She
The emancipation of woman having
said to herself: "I wonder if lie is the
at length worked out« to a logical and
author of some of the atrocities I have symmetrical finish, the bride and her
been criticising freely for the last half best woman waited at tlie altar, while
hour? He looks decidedly wolfish.”
the groom came up the aisle on the
Sh« watched him with undisguised arm of his mother, who gave him
amusement as be moved away, then
away.
she turned to her companion : "I wish
The groomsmen wore crepe de china
you would find Selena; she would like and carried groom roses.
to see this, I'm sure. I believe she is
Three clergywomen assisted at the
still in the first room.”
ceremony.
"This lame dog has done well for
The groom's father sat in the family
himself, at any rate,” she thought. pew. He was dressed in wine-colored
"He has got a good show for his work.” silk, with ropes of ¡»earls.
Her restless eyes still raked the room
The streets In tlie vicinity of the
for the man who had looked nt her so church were packed witli a mob of
keenly. "Ills face Is familiar,” she onlookers, mostly men and children,
*nld to herself. "I dare say he knew prompted thither by curiosity.—Puck.
me." fibs began to move enterprising
Rtnnif.
ly towards the doorway, where Ralph
“I told the man in tlie theater ticket
Paterson hud come to a pause, his dark
face standing high above the sea of office that 1 would pay him 50 cents
extra if he would give me a seat where
men and women who drifted pnst nlm.
“He is a head above any of them.” he could guarantee there would be no
woman with a high hat directly in
she told herself with satisfaction. "It
simplifies matters when you are look front of me.”
“And did you get st>-h a seat?”
ing for a person in a crowd like this.
"I certainly did. The seat he gave
In that way both he and Selena are
very obliging pi
ople
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Indeed. He would me was directly t»eliind ■ po«t.”— Yoo
kers Statesman.
make a very good pair with Selena,
too; I wonder who he la. He has an
A« Ksrlz Riser.
air, though he Is shabby; but then an
“Are you an early riser, Pat?"
artist can afford to do ns he likes In
“Am I? Sure, I'm such an «art,
the matter of dress, and he certainly riser, sor, that I'm «feared some time
can't be an ordinary, everyday indi I'll ketch meallf giftin' tip when I'm
vidual with that head ” Her Inconse goin' to bed-”—Yonkers Rtateaman.
quent thought» ran on, and when she
reached Ralph Paterson sh« had de
Many« mart imagine« hr * don« aom»
cided that she mutt have met him at thing for th« church whan be *
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•otue time or another, and ba«« fog- cugh I er f«g bl« ¿ear.