LAD HAS A REAL GRIEVANCE
New Baby Sister Deprives Him of At
tention, and He Shows
the Effects.
Since the stork brought a little girl
tov a family living In the Bronx the
heir, who had attained to four years
of dignity before the sister came, has
had his nose Very much out of joint
His mother, lh fact, found trouble at
times in keeping him from poking out
the eyes of the intruder and other
wise exhibiting the innate cruelty of
the boy-child. Vigorous spankings
thoroughly repressed this tendency,
and it has now given way to a general
ly silent acquiescence in the new or
der. Yet at times the feeling of depriva
tion of old-time attention will come to
the surface. Then the boy will take
himself to the darkest corner lb be
found In the flat, push himself closely
up against the wall and begin to
whimper in low tones. Soon the
whimper, like the musical patrol, grad
ually becomes more apparent. Then
from out of the darkness comes the
low plaint:
"MuTver don't like me."
There is a cessation of the whimper
for a moment; then it begins on a
more emphatic scale and again comes
in louder tones:
"Muwer don't like me."
From this the protest goes Into sob
bing, and finally it comes to a climax
in most heart-breaking tones:
"Muvver don't like me."
This Is the time for the head of the
household to intervene, for she has
learned by experience that whatever
she might say before the psychological
moment is ignored. In the softest
tones she answers:
"Yes. dearie, mother does like you.
She loves you with all her heart."
From out of the darkness comes In
a great, indignant cry:
"I don't want you to."
Despairing sobbing follows, but It
goes down as the musical patrol dies
away, and finally a very penitent little
boy comes out of the corner and
plucks at his mother's skirt, looking
for attention.
A Black Moment.
This is a true story. Its victim Is
alive and very mucn ashamed of the
lollowing disgraceful incident in his
past:
He had just arrived at college, very
young very callow. It was his wish
to do the right thing by literature.
Education, said he nothing like it.
So finding himself once in a gathering
of upper classmen who were airily
bandying about the names of great
poets, the youth suddenly blurted
this:
"Say, tell me where can 1 get a
uood English translation of Rosettl?"
Years of frantic atonement have not
washed it away.
Beware of the Post.
"This is a fine place to study the
superstitions of the crowd." said a
Subway ticket chopper. "Two-thirds
of the couples who pass through the
gate are brimming over with supersti
tion. It shows itself in their fear of
reparatlng and walking on different
t.ides of the post. Good-looking, edu
cated people are afraid of that;
" 'We'll quarrel,' says one usually
it is the woman who says it, or if
two women are together they both say
It at the same time. We let that
post get between us.'
"Then, if they are badly bitten by
the bug of superstition, one goes back
and passes through on the other side
so as to obviate the danger of a flare
up "New York Times.
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NOT HER IDEA OF A LADY
Rebuke for Smashing the Dishes
Called Forth the Indignant Scorn
of the Servant.
: A housewife who lives In a suburb
of New York feels keenly the rebuke
she received from a servant who made
a brief visit to her home recently.'
nTlikn V i M 1 ...... nn
came up and matters of history were'
asked, the maid said:
; "Oh, yes'm. I been workln' In fine
families. I won't work in any famly
what ain't a good one."
There is seemed necessary for the
housewife to give assurances on her
yart. The bargain was made and the
girl was installed. The first day every
thing went well; the second there was
a crash in the kitchen and the mis
tress found that two plates from her
Drize set were in bits. She was re-
1 j. m a. - i m m a. m
luciani to mase a Dreacn in diplomatic
relations thus early and let the inci
dent go with a caution. Next day :
there was another disaster, involving
a cut glass tumbler, and several
lesser things. This time she spoke
rather sharply and gave warning that
in future such breakages must be paid
for. Next came a large and highly
prized platter. When the time came
to pay the weekly wage the mistress
deducted the price.
"You ain't goln to ask me to pay
for that, is you?" asked the girl with
great surprise.
"Certainly," was the reply. "You
should be made to pay for the other
things also." '
; There was a fine scorn in the ser
vant's manner and voice. '
"I guess I made a ' mistake," she
saitL "You told me you was a lady. I
ain't never' seen a lady what wouldn't
let me ' break as many things as I
wanted and never say a wod."
! Whereupon, . with -' dignity, " she
dropped "her 'work and ''went '
riignt. oi seeds;
j itis popularly believed that -winged
Seeds from trees travel to great dis
tances on the wind, but the Investi
gations of a British scientist who has
spent much time at Singapore, indi
cate that winged seeds have a , far
narrower range of flight than have
jpowder" seeds and plumed seeds.' The
greatest distance travelled by the
winged seeds of a forest tree observed'
by th's authority was 100 yards. Under
the most favorable circumstances, he
calculates it would- take this plant'
just 100 years to spread 500 yards
and 1.500,000 years to spread from
the Malay Peninsula to the Philip
pines If a land connection existed.
Scientific American.
Orialn of Thunder.
Once unon a time three Indians
went hunting. They walked for three
long days and nights but could see
neither game nor forests. They fin
ally came to a tall tree and one of
the hunters climbed to the top of the
branches in order to look -for game.,
rom the. tree top a path led to an
Indian - tepee in the clouds. He at
once informed his companions on the
grbuhd, and Instructed them to follow
him. Arriving at the tepee, they en
tered and joined other Indians who
were smoking their pipes, After feast
ed, maw. a tlma tlidv oil VATit nil t t n
hunt. ? The reports of their guns were
heard on the earth, and even the In
dians of today, believe that every time
. . -i il T .11 n A kiintfnu
IT. inunaers Uiuoe. luuiaua ue uuuuus
upon the Happy. Hunting; grounds.
! One Indian on returning to the
earth, told the Chlppewas that by of
fering up smoke as a sacrifice to the
thunder It would stop thunder. Soni
of the Indians still follow the custom
of smoking during a storm to appease
the thunder Genevieve Bebeau (Chip
pewa) l Jted Man.