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the mouth of wedding bells
JUNE graduation ceremonies finds
now batches of brides and sweet
girl graduates each time the year
rolls round to the summer solstice The
years may come and the years may
go but the bridal processions and the
commencement essays and orations and
diplomas and bouquets keep on for
ever
Not so very very long ago there were
no such sweet tilings as girl graduates
The boys went to college and got their
sheepskins at commencement season
and their sisters and sweethearts ad
mired and applauded But they never
dreamed of such things for themselves
no indeed It would have been quite
Improper A young woman In those
days was circumscribed by a great
many rules of propriety and a college
education well that was something
never heard of and for that reason of
course absurd But times have changed
as Cicero remarked In language with
which all college graduates are sup
posed to be familiar and now n girl
may not only graduate from a college
but she may go through three or four
graduating functions before she par
ticipates in that most Impressive and
solemn function of all the march to
the altar
In days gone by the colleges were the
only institutions which had commence
ment seasons and held graduating ex
ercises But now the high shoots
and the seminaries and even the
grammar schools have their grad
uating exercises For the girl this
means many elaborate preparations
and oftentimes expenses which r par
ent with a large family and a small
salary finds it hard to meet Graduat
ing gowns class receptions and din
ners and dances and photographs all
cost money and money in these days
cannot be created by a wave of a
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magic wand nor Is it usually in such
matters a case of everybody works
but father A paterfamilias who has
four or five daughters not to mention
sons who must all do the customary
thing when they graduate from the
public school the high school or sem
inary and the college and who a lit
tle later perhaps must all be equipped
with suitable wedding trousseaux has
a task on his hands for which he needs
the support of a steady income and a
good bank account
Realizing the demands oil the family
purse which this season necessitates
the principal of a school in Charles
towH Mass recently made a sugges
tion to the graduating class Kvery
family he said had a good many old
rubbers lying around awaiting dep
osition In the ash barrel and if these
were collected they might bring some
thing The suggestion was made at
the psychological moment just as the
liousecleaning season was setting in
and the aggregation of old rubber
turned in by the pupils weighed 2S0
pounds A sympathetic junk dealer
paid 2272 for the lot which went far
to defray the cost of the pictures
White has long been the convention
al color for the dresses of the sweet
girl graduates and white is still the
rule though a variation from the pure
white may properly be introduced by
using class colors in girdle or scarf or
shoulder knot A girl who gets a di
ploma from a college may pay less
attention to her graduating dress than
she who says formal farewell to a
high school or seminary for at many
colleges attended by women seniors
wear the traditional mortarboard cap
and academic gown on commencement
day and this makes for democracy all
around The ample folds of a costume
sacred to scholarship and worn by men
and women alike conceal that which
Is worn inside and rich girls and poor
may receive their degrees In simple
Shirt waist suits The other functions
Incident to commencement week at a
college are not In the case of a woman
co conducive to simplicity In dress and
or these a graduating girl may need
different gown for nearly every day
of the seven
Beyond tho Alps
A Kansas girl graduate who had been
given the theme Beyond the Alps
Lies Italy promulgated the following
I dont care a cent whether Italy
lies beyond the Alps or in Missouri I
do not expect to set the river on lire
with my future career I am glad that
I have a good education but 1 am not
going to misuse It by writing poetry or
essays on the future woman It will
enable nie to correct the grammar of
any lover I may have should he speak
of dorgs In my presence or seen a
man It will also come handy when I
want to figure out how many pounds
of soap a woman can get for three
dozen eggs at the grocery So I do not
begrudge the time I spent in acquir
ing it But my ambitions do not fly so
high I just want to marry a man who
can lick anybody of his weight in the
township who can run an eighty acre
farm and who has no female relatives
to come around and try to boss the
ranch L will agree to cook dinners for
htm that wont send htm to an early
grave and lavish upon him a whole
some affection and to see that his razor
lias not been used to cut broom wire
when lie wants to shave In view of
all this I do not care if I get a little
rusty on the rule of three and kindred
thing as the years go by Topeka
Capital
Part of the Letter We Read
Did you ever think said an old
printer that we really notice only the
upper halves of the letters The lower
halves are in many cases only the
stems the remainders of ornamental
nourishes which have been gradually
reduced in size and length and are now
meaningless Take for instance the
heading of a paper Cover up with a
blank sheet the lower half of the let
ters and even if you did not know
what they were you would have no dif
ficulty in reading the words Now re
verse the process and cover the upper
half and if you did not know the words
it would be impossible to make out the
letters This fact is even more plainly
seen in the case of the Roman letters
used for headlines An L might be
mistaken lor an I but nearly all the
other letters are so plainly indicated
by the shape of the upper half that the
lines may be read without difficulty
St Louis Globe Democrat
Dueling in Old Creole Days
When dueling was an actual factor
in the social order of this country it
had many worthy and notable expo
nents including no less distinguished
personages than Henry Clay Andrew
Jackson Alexander Hamilton De Witt
Clinton Stephen Decatur and others of
the same type but nowhere on this
continent was it so much an establish
ed Institution as in that peculiarly ro
mantic old city of New Orleans It
was woven into the very fabric of the
life of the community and many a
crumbling tombstone in the antiquated
Creole cemeteries bears grim and si
lent witness to the fact though to un
derstand the situation more clearly one
should breathe so to speak the atmos
phere of the period Louis J Meader
in Century
A Fish Story
The latest fish story concerns the
herring and sea gull and it comes
from Nanaimo A boat load of herring
containing about fifteen tons was left
at Johnstons wharf Nanaimo during
the noon hour while the fishermen
went to dinner During their absence
several thousand sea gulls the chron
icler says 10000 ate all the fish on one
side of the boat with such good results
that they emptied it and when the last
herring had been removed from that
side it was like the last straw that
broke the camHs back for the boat
with all the weght on the other side
upset spilling all the remaining fish
into the water Shanghai Mercury
Devoured by Jackals
Foreign papers tell a story of a wo
man at Phillipeville in Algeria who
was seated by her babys cradle on the
veranda of her house when she was
called within by her husband Re
turning to the veranda after an ab
sence of a few minutes she found the
cradle knocked over and the baby gone
Next day native shepherds discovered
in the undergrowth of a wood the
bones of a young child and a string of
amber beads which were immediately
recognized by the mother as having
been on her childs neck There is no
doubt that the infant was carried off
and devoured by jackals a corre
spondent adds
What Is an Orator
The true orator is the man who can
make people laugh cry and feel what
he says In truth the genuine orator
is the man who has humor enough in
his soul to bring the smile to the face
pathos enough in his heart to bring the
tear to the eye and dignity enough in
his bearing to persuade or move men
He is an exponent of the spoken word
He is a pilgrim moving toward the
home of the ideal He is the embodi
ment of earnestness enthusiasm and
eloquence Exchange
Pollen Travels Far
The pollen from pine forests often
forms a yellow coating on lakes or on
the ocean as far as 200 miles from the
shore and has been mistaken by peas
ants for showers of sulphur The pol
len grains of the pine are provided
with hollow vesicles which buoy them
up In the air very much on the princi
ple of a box kite St Nicholas
Purely Chance
Knlcker Do you consider poker a
game of chance Bocker Purely
Sometimes my wife finds it out and
then again she doesnt Harpers Ba
zar
The fear of work Is the card Index to
the catalogue of troubles Richmond
MIssourlan
A VETERAN SCHOLAR
Professor Francis A March the
Grand Old Man of Lafayette
Lafayette college at Eastou Ia Is
seventy five jcars old and though the
birthday of the Institution Is in May
tho principal observance of the dia
mond jubilee will be In connection
with the usual graduation exerclFes
in June The college was chartered In
1825 but was not opened until lTJ
It has now alxnit S00 students over
thirty collegiate buildings and property
valued In all at over 1000000 One
of the greatest scholars of the country
Is Francis Andrew March one of La
fayettes professors He Is known as
Lafayettes grand old man for tie
lias taught in Lafayette college for
rjtOFESSOK MARCH AT HIS DESK
fifty one years and is still teaching reg
ularly at the age of eighty two He
has made a lifelong study of language
and especially of the history and con
struction of the English language lie
is one of the members of the now fa
mous Carnegie spelling board which is
seeking to introduce the so called sim
plified spelling
Frofessor March is a native of Mill
bury Mass and graduated from Am
herst In 1S15 He studied law and
was admitted to the bar but chose th
vocation of an educator instead of that
of a practitioner of the law He has
received the degrees of Lit D
D C L L n D and LL D is presi
dent of the Spelling Reform associa
tion has been twice president of the
American Philological association suc
ceeded tho late James Russell Lowell
as president of the Modern Languages
Association of America is consulting
editor of Funk Wagnalls dictionary
and belongs to a large number of learn
ed societies
RHINOCEROS BREEDING
Facts About a Wild Animal That Is
Rapidly Becoming Rare
The rhinoceros used to be far from
rare in Africa but the species is rap
Idly being exterminated So scarce
have some wild animals become in the
dark continent that there are now
farms on which animals are bred for
the wild animal showmen The pic
ture is of a baby rhinoceros which is
being brought up by a German show
man on his animal breeding farm near
Victoria In South Africa The white
or square nosed rhinoceros formerly
so plentiful is now practically extinct
in Africa south of the Zambezi The
black species has been so harassed that
it may now be considered rare Trap
ping it is a task of much difficulty and
danger Nature gifted this animal
with exceptional strength an abun
dance of muscle and few nerves His
hide is almost bullet proof he has a
vision like that of a hawk and a sense
of hearing as keen as a fox He is to
tally without fear and if he ever runs
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BABY BHIN0CER03 IX ARMS OF AXIMAIi
BREEDER
away from anything it Is through a
mistake An old animal trainer who
helped to capture six of these beasts
once said
I captured Barnums first rhinoceros
and that animal cost him more than any
four lions or tigers he over owned I was
the first animal hunter sent over to Af
rica by an American and I had It all to
learn I sent home lions giraffes ele
phants buffaloes and hyenas without any
great trouble but It was a whole year be
fore I got my first rhinoceros
He got him through enticing him into
a pit
Cromwells Brain
Oliver Cromwell had the largest
brain on record It weighed a little
over sixty ounces but was found to be
diseased
St Georgo and the Dragon
Other mtlious besides England havo
fought under the banner of St Georgo
and other knightly orders as well as
that of the Garter have been instituted
In ids honor He was the guardian saint
of Sicily Aragon Valencia Genoa Mal
to and Harcelonn a Venetian order of
St George was created In 1200 a
Spanish in 1517 an Austrian in 1 J70 a
Genoese In 1 172 and a Roman in 1 102
More modern orders bearing his name
are those of Bavaria 1729 Russia
17i7 and Hanover 1S The device
of St George slaying the dragon forms
part of the arms of the czar and ap
pears on several Russian coins The
conjecture that this was owing to the
presentation of the Garter by Eliza
beth to Ivan Vassillevitch has no
datlon In fact for Chanceler the first
outspoken Englishman to visit Russia
speaks of a dispatch sent In K71 from
Ivan VassIIievitch to Queen Mary the
seal of which was much like the
broad seal of England having on the
one side the image of a man on horse
back in complete harness fighting with
a dragon London Chronicle
Queer Positions of Hearts
There is one curious fact which not
everybody notices about the common
finger long green caterpillars of our
larger moths Their hearts instead of
being in front are at the back of the
body and extend along tiie entire
length of the animal One can see the
heart distinctly through the thin Fkin
and can watch Its slow beat which
starts at the tail and moves forward to
the head Hearts of this sort reaching
from head to tail are not at all uncom
mon in the simpler creatures The
earthworm lias one and so havo most
worms caterpillars and other crawling
things Hearts in the middle of the
back also are quite as frequent as
those in what seems to us to be the
natural place Many animals the lob
ster for example and the crayfish and
the crab which have short hearts like
those of the beasts and birds never
theless have them placed just under
the shell in what in ourselves would
be the small of the back St Nicholas
One Source of News
For many years a certain New York
paper received society and club gossip
from a man whose Identity was con
cealed bj a clever ruse Even his
checks were made out to his wife in
her maiden name He furnished In
formation about the doings and wran
gles in various clubs little stories in
volving people whose names are
known by reputation to practically all
readers of newspaper columns He is
said thus to have averaged an income
of about 10 a week not much but
enough to buy hats gloves and canes
He was a most immaculate and ap
parently prosperous person It is
needless to say that he has never been
suspected of this small traffic A
wealthy relative died and left him in
dependent When some such man
furnishes the clew to a delectable
scandal he has done a stroke of busi
ness that will keep him in small lux
uries for months to come Whitman
Bennett In Bohemian
Not So Daft After All
Daft Tam as he was called wander
ing through the village one day got se
verely bitten by the village inn dog
Proceeding to the Inn he showed the
mistress what her dawg had done
She was much alarmed and putting a
half crown into Tarns hand said
Awa tae the doctor noo an pay him
wi the hauf crown
Tam eyed the coin saying
I dinna think Ill bother wi the
doctor but jist keep the siller
For my sake gang tae him or else
yell gang daft
Hoots wumman yere bletherin
Daft folk canna gang daft twice
Dundee Advertiser
Pat Took the Prize
An Englishman an Irishman and a
Scotchman were one day arguing as to
Avhich of the three countries possessed
the fastest trains
Well said the Englishman Ive
been in one of our trains and the tele
graph poles have been like a hedge
Ive seen the milestones appear like
tombstones said the Scot
Be jabers said Pat I was one
day in a train In my counthry and we
passed a field of turnips and a field of
carrots also a field of cabbage and
parsley then a pontl of Avater and we
were going that quick I thought it
was broth
Pepys on Shakespeare
Tepys Diary lGoO lOGO commenting
on Shakespeares plays says of Mid
summer Nights Dream It is the
most insipid ridiculous play I ever saw
in my life and upon reading Othel
lo Moor of Venice which I have hith
erto esteemed a mighty good play but
having lately read the Adventures of
Five Hours it seems a mean thing
Just a Suggestion
Oh my exclaimed the excited wo
man who had mislaid her husband
Im looking for a small man with one
eye
Well maam replied the polite
shopwalker if hes a very small man
maybe youd better use both eyes
A Thoughtful Wife
Why did you tell your husband that
there would be three parts to the con
cert There are only two
Yes I know but he will be so pleas
ed when it leaves off sooner than he
expects Fllegende Blatter
The Jury
When I goes to de cothouse said
Uncle Eben it sometimes looks to me
like de jury was a committee to award
a prize to de smartest lawyer Wash
ington Star
Culture Indicates superiority and su
periority Impresses others Marden
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