ALL ON A
SUMMER DAY
IT was unquestionably a hot day.
rerhaps If Burnham had known
that the next morning's papers
would send It down into history as the
hottest day ia years he would have
remained in the comparatively cool
solitude of bin mother's dining-room
for the sake of his reputation. As It
was he found the uptown streets In
a state of desertion which made him
wonder Irritably if the city had retired
for a siesta.
Burnham thought regretfully of a
certain dusky comer under a Persian
canopy where there were many pil
lows and much lemonade, and, inci
dentally, a girl's face, cool and sweet
above the fan she held. Yesterday
the face had been so temptingly near
too ner. And to-day It was so
hopelessly remote.
He acknowledged to himself the
shameful motive of his pilgrimage.
He had come he had seen the house
which had been open to him yesterday
to-day closed to him forever. And the
face In the dusky corner suppose she
were looking at him now from behind
the heavy curtains. The wonderful
eyes, hiding their merciless laughter
under their drooping lashes! Burn
ham lifted his gloomy young face
haughtily and looked severely at the
house across the way.
But he did not pass oil. Instead,
he stopped with a whistle of surprise
as what he might have taken for a
broken parcel of laundry on the stone
steps resolved itself Into a little lady
with penwiper skirts and exceedingly
long black legs, who shot up from
her coil and shook a mop of moist
and disheveled hair away from a
tear disfigured face.
"Why, Topsy!" exclaimed Burn
ham amazedly. It was impossible to
go on and leave Topsy crying on the
bot steps. lie dropped on one knee
beside her and tilted up the little face.
"Why, what's the matter, dear?"
"Well" the tears came flooding
back Into the blue eyes "Aunt Dale
wouldn't take me to the park, and I
wanted to see the new polar bear.
They say he just sits round on Ice all
the time and then they're scared
he'll die."
Topsy's curls whipped Into Burn
ham's eyes smartly as she burled her
agitated countenance in bis freshly
starched bosom and wailed.
"Oh, hush, Topsy, dear! Do, for
heaven's sake hush!" Burnham
looked anxiously toward the, h,ous,o,
whence at any moment Topsy's howJs
of newly stirred Injury might fetch
Topsy's mamma, who would Invite
him in, or Topsy's aunt, who
wouldn't look at him.
"See here! Stop crying! Listen.'
Is that your sunbonnet on the walk?
Well" desperately "put It cm quick,
and we'll go to see the polar bear!"
Topsy's piercing shout of rapture
was more dangerous than her weep
ing, and Burnham hurried her off
down the street, comforting himself
with the reflection that all children
were more or less salamanders, and
that they would take the first carriage
they found stirring.
"Don't you think Aunt Dale's hor
rid?" demanded Topsy, revengefully,
as she clasped Burnham's hand
nioistly and affectionately, and trot
ted beside him In soiled contentment.
"Oh, I don't know," he answered
hesitatingly. "It's a pretty ' strong
word but I guess It's satisfactory,"
he added ungallantly.
"Did she promise to take you to the
7.00 V
"Well, no-o," said Topsy, honestly.
"Not exactly. But I thought she
would, aud when I went to her to
day and It's such a nice, sunshiny
day" (as if the previous twenty-eight
days of August had passed in Arctic
gloom 1 "she she told me to go away
and not bother her. And and next
time I asked her to come she shook
me!"
"Don't cry now, young 'un," Burn
ham Implored. "I didn't cry when she
shook me."
Topsy stared at hlra with very round
eyes from the depths of a limp sun
bonnet. "When did she ever shake
you?" she asked, whispering!-, sur
veying her stalwart friend with awe.
"Yesterday," wld Burnham, gloom
ily. "Did it make you fee! bad?" The
clear c!i!ld eyes had seen the palu
under the smile.
"Yes. Till afraid it did."
Topsy slippi d her other hand into
Burnham's, hopping along beside him
like a comforting little bird.
"I'm awful sorry," she Mid, ear
nestly: and then, after a pause: "Was
Aunt Dale crying yesterday when she
was mean to you?"
"No," said Burnham, grimly: "she
wasn't. I think she laughed."
"That' fuuny. To-day she was
crying. She said It waa o bot It
made ber bead ache. Bat I think she
was juat crying because there waa
to much naughty In ber. I do some
time and they lick me,"- aald Topsy,
evidently pondering on Mm injustice
of tbinga.
Barobam's claap tlgbtsaod on the
little Angers.
"Wat sbs erring ajradkr ho naked,
carelessly.
Toa bat aba wis. MmM'l groan
f'ZUrw was all wot AaiOt atttars
mU was kwklag at wu aS far'
Ctilsa," .
-tmt-Htta rfctwv waa Ttp-j-rrr,
ri-a nt O too -
poodle, with a big X on the front
of him. Say, do you think the polar
hear might die while we look at him?"
"I don't know," said Burnham, ab
sently, in his turn. There had been
an ultra haired young fool once who
had given that football picture to a
gtrl who had laughed at it frankly
and to his mortification. But now
Topsy" description did not trouble
him. The Utter, peculatlng morbid
ly on the chance of being the happy
spectator of a tragedy, trotted in
silence by her escort Suddenly Burn
ham halted.
'Topsy," he said ffcwbly, and then
puused In embarrassment.
'Yes? Well, why don't you say It?"
Topsy gave hia hand a suggestive
tug.
"It's It's so beastly hot, dear, and
It seems too bad to leave Aunt Dale
alone If she if her head aches bo."
Topsy's chin puckered dolefully,
and her bright eyes grew pathetically
dim.
"It ain't hot she ain't alone nd
we've come eight blocks 'nd I I
want to see the polar bear."
Burnham laid a stem hand over
the cavernously open mouth.
"Now, Topsy, hush! We'll go to
see the polar bear, but here's an empty
carriage see? And we'll drive back
afteT Aunt Dale."
Topsy hesitated, blinking back the
tears for which she found she had no
use.
"She wont go," she objected. "Her
nose and eyes are Just as red! And
she thinks Ifs hot, and she says she
Just hates polar bears. But we'll
have the ride, won't we? And will
you go to the park Just the same if
she won't?"
"Y'es," said Burnham, smilingly;
"Just the same."
But when the carriage stopped in
front of the gray stone steps all his
assurance left him, awl he pushed
Topsy out imploringly.
"I won't go In, Topsy," he said
tremulously. "You tell her we
thought perhaps she might Is? sor
ry no, good Lord, don't say that!
Oh, see here; just Just say we'd like
to have her eotue to see the polar
bear!"
Then he shrank buck into the car
riage, crimsonly conscious that the
thermometer stood at unknown
heights m. the shade of Topsy's ver
anda; that Topsy herself was very
dirty and he very wilted, and that the
Jrlvlr had stared at him aS he Issued
his invitation. Never mind, if only
Dale was sorry, and her sense of hu
mor keen. .
Topsy flashed out of the house Jubi
lantly. "She's coming!" she shouted
vociferously. "She'll be ready In just
a minute she's putting powder on
her nose. And mamma says I'm a
perfect spectacle, and I've got to get
a clean dress and my face washed,
so you're to come In and wait. Aunt
Dale says you know the coolest cor
ner, and mamma can't come down
'cause It's too hot to dress. Mamma
wants us to wait till to-morrow, but
Aunt Dale says It's such a nice, sun
shiny day, and she does want to see
the polar bear!"
So eager was Annt Dale that when
her nelce, although she chose the
short and speedy route of the banis
ter, came riotously into the parlor.
she found her repentant relative In
the shaded comer before her.
It was only Topsy who was struck
by the great tragedy of the empty
cage with its dripping ice blacks.
"Chloroformed him two hours ago,"
explained the keeper crudely. "Ixird,
but It's a bot day!" He looked curi
ously at the perspiring bear-hunters.
"They ain't been much of anybody
In here to-day, Yeptln' kids," he
vouchsafed, with an undercurrent of
reproof in his tones.
"We only came to bring my little
niece," explained Aunt Itale with dig
nity. "You didn't," interpolated Topsy
suddenly, as she sat down wearily on
a block of Ice outside the ijage door.
"You wouldn't come at all till we
went all the way back for you, mid
then you said you wanted to see the
bear. And now he's di'ad, and you
don't care a bit and oh, dear me. it's
so hot and I'm so tired and this Ice
Is just water,' 'added Topsy as an
afterthought, examining her. skirts
with discouraged Interest. Her ac
cusing eyes caught the laughter in
Burnham's and she began to weep-
"You don't care, either I don't le
lleve you care for a single thing, only
that Aunt Dale' sorry."
Burnham shouldered her jseremp
torlly and bore her away to the car
riage. "You have come a long way,
Topy," be told her seriously, "and It
was very hot and the bear was dead.
But at the end of the Journey was
contentment." New York New.
Not Wholly Prank.
"Can you sincerely say that you
never descended to hypocrisy?-' asked
the man of sever standards.
"Well," anawered Mr. Bllggins, "I
roust confess that I once sat and lis
tened to my daughter commencement
eaaay and protoaded to be ss much en-
tartalnod as If I were at a baseball
gams." Washington Star.
"What will my wlfs do If you send
st to Jalir plosdad tb prisons.
-t tktak akfll do bottor," rsturMd
C-a fa bsoa itjwui Car Tics-
r -1
DANGEROUS SHOWER EATH.
Volume of Water Almost Drowned av
Adventuroua leuth.
A story Is told In the World's Work
of a youth who, partly from Ignorance,
partly from a spirit of foolhardy r.d
venture, put hi life In Jeopardy. He
and his companion were spending a
vacation in the Yosemlte Valley, and
had been fishing for mountain trout
on the Illllouette.
"To-morrow," he said, "I shall take
a shower bath under the l,7UO-foot
fall,"
"You are a fool!" said his compan
ion. "Not at all," came the reply. "The
river la very low. What there la of It
turns to spray in the first hundred
feet; it will simply come down like
rain. Why, you'd go under the Bridal
Veil yourself! Only thafs prosaic.
This Is something big. Oome on."
"Not I."
But I was there to see. The water,
as he bad said, came down, a consid
erable part of It, in rain and spray that
flew out on the wind Incredible dis
tances. But to crawl down, dressed In
a bathing suit, closer to the main
stream that falls to the pool and upon
the rocks, with a murderous swish in
the air and a roar In the ears like a
railway train, was daring to foolhardl
ness.' At any moment a veering wind
might swing the whole mass upon the
tall, slim figure backing tentatively on
all fours down the jagged talus slope,
hla eye-glasses glinting cheerrully. A
steady breeze kept the fall swung out
a little the other way, and the spray
burgeoned out far up the other slope.
The roar was deafening.
All at once the wind shifted. The
water swung back, and In a flash the
human figure was blotted out in a
deluge that turned me sick. For a
second, that seemed an hour, it play
ed on the spot fiendishly, It seemed to
me, standing horrified there, and then
slowly It swept away.
And then there was a movement, a
painful, crawling movement down
there on the slope, and I scrambled
down the slippery rocks to help a blink
ing, creeping, mueh-surprlsed youth,
bleeding from a hundred cuts, up to
where his clothes lay. He was still
too dazed to speak. When his breath
returned and his extra glasses were
perched again on his nose, he said:
"The oceans fell upon me. (orne
back to New England."
EMERSON'S TRUE PLACE.
"Sharei with Hawthorne and Poe
Primacy of American Letter."
Emerson shares with Hawthorne and
Toe the primacy of American letters.
Whitman must be counted with them
as an original force In poetry. His im
agination, had, more, yolUWQ afid, flow;
Le Lad command, at Ids best, of a tell
ing freshness and effectiveness of
phruie; but in power of organization,
in discernment of spiritual qualities,
he falls far below the Concord poet
For it Is as a poet that Emerson mast
be reckoned with; the limitations of
his prose, the lack of order in hla
thought, and of thorough and large
structure In his style, are due to the
IKHit's method In dealing with his sub
jects. He has enriched our literature
with a few poems of such directness
of vision, such captivating simplicity
of Imagery, such ultimate felicity or
phrase, that they will lay hold of the
iniHgi nation of n-iuole geueratiiHis.
He waa not great In volume of emo
tion. In tidal force and sweep of Im
agination, In that fullness of life which
comes to the poet whose genius la
charged with elemental power as was
Dante's and Shakspeare's. He did not
look at Christianity with the fresh and
original Insight which he brought to
other subjects. He saw the disorder
of society, but he did not seem to real
ize the tremendous significance of sin
its moral evil. And although lie said
striking aud profound things about
Christ, he failed to take the measure
of the dhincst jxTsonalty In history
a failure due In part to the force of
the religions reaction In which he
lived, and in part to his fundamental
view of life.
In spite of these limitations, be re
mains in many respects the finest
product of the old race In the new
world; the loftiest Interpreter of Its
fundamental idea and mission; one of
the deepest and noblest of Its teachers;
of a life so simple, so blameless, so
nobly jiolsed between vision and task
that to recall it Is to catch a glimpse
of the spiritual order of life, and to
believe In the dreams of the pure and
(he great. Hamilton Wright Mabie In
the Outlook.
MONKEYS WHO DINE AT A TABLE.
The New York Koologlcal garden in
Bronx park boasM three very Intel
ligent monkeys Doiioug, I'rejty Peg
gy and Polly who were caught by the
camera while enjoying a meal al fres
co, Tlit!;- table miiiii 'r may not be
of the best In the world, but they
have learned to use a fork and to
drink out of cup and mug without
disgracing themselves or their tutors,
Curator Dltmars and Mltnlivn Ksopor
Miles. The trio dine In public only
twlcs a week, on Haturdays sod mi'
days, and 00 those days sra watefcod
by admiring hundred.
Tbs sfltoscy of ths dab has
bos fairly stiautsd.
tjjjjjffvention
The Kew Herbarium, begun fifty
years ago, is estimated to comprise
considerably more than' two million
specimens, attached to 1,W.() sheets.
Seeds of the castor-oil plant are sur
prisingly common in Egyptian tombs.
Professor larit, a recent. French In
vestigator, finds that some seeds from
Thebes must be at least three thou
sand years old, and from an ancient
papyrus conclude that the oil was
used for much the same purposes a
now.
The arslnoitherium, the new fossil
inontuer of Egypt, had a head nearly
a yard long, with a pair of small horns
uwr the eyes and an enormous double
bony horn on the nasal region. Prof.
E. Kay Lankesler, however. Amis that
It differs from the rhinoceros and was
probably descended from the early ele
phants. In order to supply the Ouolgardie
and Kalgoorlle gold-fields in Western
Australia with water, an aqueduct is
under construction, leading from a
reservoir on the Helena river, 328
miles dhuant, and 2,700 feet below the
level of the district to be supplied. The
water is to be carried In a 30
lnch pipe, aud elevated from table
land to table-land by means
of eight pumping stations. The
cost of the work la esti
mated at f 15,000.000, and the annual
expense for operating and interest at
$1,750,000; but those who have under
taken it believe that the gold fields for
the benefit of which they are working
are the richest In the world.
George Henschel tells' In Nature of
a musical feat by a canary bird,
which, he says, seems to him so won
derful that he should consider it in
credible if he had not, with his own
ears, heard it, not once, but dozens
of times. A bullfinch had been taught
to pipe the tune of "God Save the
King," and a young canary learned It
from him. Finally the canary became
so perfect In Its mastery of the tune
that when the bullfinch, as sometimes
happened, stopped after the first half
a little longer than the proper
rhythm warranted, the canary would
take up the tune where the bullfinch
had stopped, and finish It. This hap
pened when the respective cages con
taining the birds were In separate
rooms.
Of the slugs, or lung-breathing snails
with too small or internal shells or
none at all, about one thousand spe
cies and five hundred varieties have
been described. Most of these have
been brought together by Walter E.
Collinge, an English collector, who
shows specimens ranging In size from
that of a grain of wheat to a length
of several Inches, and in coloring from
dull, repulsive tints to the gorgeous
hues of the butterfly. All slugs lay
eggs, the numbers varying from ten
to a hundred or more and the sizes
from that of a pin-point to that of a
sparrow's egg. A beautiful and very
rare South African specie is a verit
able tiger among Its kind, preying sav
agely on other slugs and on Insects,
and several other species are carnivor
ous and friends of gardeners.
BATTLE OF RAT AND 8N4KE.
Ended in a Draw at the North Caro
lina Htate Museum.
At the last State fair held In Ral
elgh. N. C, a traveling showman ex
hibited a woman snake charmer. He
had several hundred live snakes In
boxes for the use of his performer,
which had been shlpjK'd to him by a
snake farmer In Texas, The reptiles
were of the nonpolsonoUH kind aud
many of them were five feet long and
two Inches thick.
One of the place of the show was
In a booth lx'tweeu the county court
house and the United States post
olhVe building, writes a correspond
ent of the New York Times. One
day after the show was over and the
snake charmer and company had
gone a bull snake of the size stated
crawled out from where the booth
had been to the sidewalk and was
caught aud carried to the State mu
seum and turned over to the curator.
The snake was pronounced a fine
specimen of his Species and appenred
to be vicious. He foitght when cap
tured and would strike at every per
son who came near the cage where
he was confined.
One of the employes of the museum
was engaged In catching rats, and
one morning he exhibited a large rat,
much larger than I usually seen, and
that looted like a good sized squirrel.
Seeing what a magnificent fellow the
rodent was. It was decided to have a
fight l'lccn the snake and the rat.
The cage In whlcB the snake was cou
fined was about seven feet long and
five feet wide and five feet high, with
glass on the end and on one side.
This cage wa cleaned out and the
snake wai put back, and he stretched
out and lay a If asleep. The rat was
then dropped In and be ran up Into
the corner near the tall of the snake
to view the cage.
The, snake apparently did not take
any notice of the rat, but the rat
soon took In the situation. Ill eyes
were fixed on the snake and ha waa
panting from excitement. Several
minute elapsed and neither antagon
ist moved, and ths spectators had be
gun to think then would bo no fight,
when ths snaks almost Impsrcoptlbly
niorsd. snd at tkis Instant ths rat
prang from ths comsr to ths hand
of tbs snaks a distance of alz fosV
and seised tbs snaks just Doktnd ths
his tosth lata kis nock.
Immediately the sna':e bran to blow
anil hiss and to strike a throw h'j
' Isidy about the cage In the effort to
hiviik the hold of the rat. Tills strtlg
gle luted thirty seconds before the
rat was dislodged and the snake then
struck viciously at him and madi
every exertion to get the rat in his
mouth, but the rat dodged and escaped
and ran around the case until ha
, again found the snake stretched out
at full length, this position tielng thti
opportunity which he sought, and he
again sprang on the snake and fust
ened his teeth In the snake at the
same place and held on.
Another struggle ensued more furl
ous than the first one. The snake
made frantic efforts to shake the ral
loose. He hushed the cage with till
tall, and gave out a sickening odor,
but the rat clung to htm with death
like tenacity with ms teeth and feet
This round lasted one minute. Ths
rat was then dislodged and the snake
made for him the second time. The
snake chased the rat around the cage,
the rat jumping about and dodging
the blows of the snake and avoiding
the mouth of the snake, until the
snake presented another opportunity of
being stretched out in full length,
and then the rat took advantage of
this opening and for the third titna
he sprang on the snake and riveted
bis teeth In the snake at the same
place. The struggle of the two for
mer rounds was repeated. The lime
was one minute and five seconds be
fore the hold of the rat was broken.
The snake, finding himself free
from his enemy, crawled Into one
corner of the cage and coiled up. but
did not renew the fight The rat re
sumed his place in the corner he had
originally chosen and stood there
panting and trembling, but did not
make another attack, and the victory
was awarded to the rat, which was
uninjured. His ears were then crop
ped so that they would know him If
he was ever caught again, and for
putting up such a gallant fight he waa
turned loose to roam Uie museum.
The cage was bloody and an examina
tion of the snake disclosed a severe
wound through the neck, but this was
soon cured. The snake Is still in the
museum and does not appear vicious.
AN OFFICE HOLDER 23 YEARS
And Never Solicited a Vote Nor Rient
a Cent for Campaigns,
For the past 23 years James S. Pier
ponnet has been an alderman or bus
sat In the mayor's chair of Wheaton.
III., and during the
same period he has
served the city in
other capacities,
having been a
school director,
president of . the
School Board and
president of the Li
brary Board.
In all hl politi
cal experience Mr.
Pierpounet ha.
riKRI-ONSET. m.v(,r askfHJ oug
man to vote for him; has never gone
out of his way so far as one block to
Influence any man's vote and has
never spent the fraction of one cent
for campaign expenses. Twelve years
ago the people came to him and said
they wanted him to take the office of
mayor. He said he did not care for
It iwrtlcularly, but, holding that it wac
a man's duty to serve his town when
he could, he accepted the place.
Two years later he wu asked to run
again. He declined, but the tK-ople
elected him. There was no opposing
candiibite. Since that time the elec
tions have leeii simply matters of
form. No one ever come forward to
run against Mayor I'lcrponnet.
Last April for the sixth consecutive
time the people came to him and asked
him to retain the office. His patience
gave way at this and he protested
against, Mug called upon to fill the
chair again. But his protest was un
availing. The people elivtwl hlui and
what Is more he received every ballot
cast for mayor.
Mayor rierponnet does nrt suffer
politics to enter Into the conduct of
..!.-. r..l,. ir 1 1. ...
cny Mii.nin. in- iiMiKK upon LJlO mil
nlclpallty as a big business corpora
tlon and he administers its affairs just
as he would his own private enter
prises.
An Unassuming lloyal IVrsonage
The cnreliKKDms of the Duke of Nor
folk about di'i-Mt and bis unassuming
way are very maiked and have ca us
ed him to be the victim of many curl
ous mistakes, relates an English wrl
ut. .ny menu nai a house m-ar
Arundel, and when she and her fa 111
lly were removing to Umdoii the iluki
contemplated buying the place as
house for a member of his family. Our
morning Mrs. was in her bedrooir
shortly after breakfast when a t r
van! came tip to tell her tliut a tnes.
senger from the castle bad called.
"Where Is he?" she nskixj.
"Oh! he' In the hall, iiia'nm."
Knowing the duke' habits 0f adlv
Ity In the country she felt some mis
giving and hurried dowmBln to um
the Earl Marshal of England slttln(
quite patiently on a hall chair will
bis hat In his hands. She overwhelm
ed him with apologia, t,f course, hif"
the duke rnot aninsed and laugh
Ingly said that he dHlght a.1 In an ap
pearance which protected hlin froii
atU-ntlon which would make bis lift
burdensome.
A l)og ay Dialogue,
"I notice you've got your auminei
pants on," remarked the dog fancier.
"Yes," gasped the exhausted terrier,
"but they're not very loud; csrtalnlj
not ss loud s aomt of this seaaon'i
flannels."
"True. Nerertbeless, what you os4
Is uiu.jtlln',"
EUROPE'S RICHEST PRINCES&
Certain DU.lncnoP. 1.1. h I...a.rk'a
Future Oueen hojoj.
Crown Princess I.ou.s., -f Denmark,
WsthcdiHtllc-ll-m of I.-:" " f
oval prime, in Eur.-. .' " 1,ft
,yhcr m.-iuer. the Mtc neell of Mve
Icn a fortune of 1U,''."" marks
iiK.ut ?ir.,mM in ,,ur 'i'"""'nitlc
lollars and this legacy, through be
.ng wisclv Invested, has Increased to
t more In-resslve sum. The future
Qu.-en of the Danes Is nLv, the tall
?t of European royal women and 1
well formed, which compensates some
what for her rather plain face.
These are not. however, the only re-
i:l. lss 1.01 s; of pi.nmakk".
spT-r'ts in which Iiulse, crown princess
,f Denmark. Is noticeable among wo
men witli royal b.sl in their veins.
As the mother of 110 ls than eight
liildrcn. she would have the hearty
approval "f President Roosevelt,
0 Million, bv the way, Is
beginning to ! valued on the other
Kldc of the water even by royalties.
The crow n princess has f"iir sons and
four daughters, the youngest of them
al! being little Princess Dagmar, who
was lorn in 1W.
Most of the mother's fortune will
pass to the princess' eldest sou. Prluco
christian, who inarrin! In l'H Prln
ces Alexandria, sMT of the
reigning grand duke of Mecklenburg
Srbwerin. The crown princess' second
son. Prince Charles, also Is a benedict,
lie espoused. In IV.i.i, Princess Maud
of Wales, the youngest daughter of
King Edward VII.
EFFECTS OF MONEY.
Intarestine Htndjr of Krnlt of Inher
ited Wealth on Fatnlllc.
An interesting contribution to the
htuily of the effects of money on fam
ilies can !' made by any person of
statistical Inclinations who will tako
the trouble to trace out for a few
generations the history of a score or
two of our very rich families, and
learn what effect the acquirement of
prove much, because mowt of the grea
American fortunes ar pretty
new; but already tendencies seem to
h: showing themselves which It would
Ix? worth while to trace back. There
an- ltclii'vcd to be alsnit -U) million
aires In the 1' nlted Staffs; enough to
give a statistician an ample field to
work In. A fortune siitllcleiit to make
life easy and comfortable Is probably
a promoter of domestic happiness, but
still It seems bkely that rich people or
their descendants get more divorces
than poorer pinple do. In the first
place, heirs and heiresses are wore ex
posed to the wiles of the designing
than the scions of poverty, and for
that n-ason are somewhat more likely
to make unwise marriages. Again, the
rich, as a rule, have more leisure than
the poor, are not so steadily and effec
tively diselpllm-d by work, are le
safeL-uarilil by a w h iletoinc routine,
and cast about more widely and con-
unuousiy tor pi-nuro. Satan, a
lieretofori", finds mischief still for Idlo
hands to do, aud some of the
mischief
results In divorce. Moreover, the rich,
are somewhat more used to self -Indulgence
ami having their own way
than the poor. They can im-el the ex
pense of divorce, which Is often con
siderable, can go as f ir as U neces
sary, stay there as long m h neces
sary to gain divorce on convenient
terms; and they can afford to break
up fa ml He without fear of want
Many a wife slicks to a bad husband
because she ami her children need his
supH.rt; many a husband puts up wltb
an unsatisfactory wife Isi ause he can,
not ufford to try a new one. Divorce,
like the appendicitis operation, I a
luxury, and comes blgh.-Harper'a
Weekly.
Health Comma nil nu-nta.
The requirement of health can bo
counted on the fingers of one hand.
They are g.ssl air, good fix!, sultabis
clothing, cleanliness m,d exercise aud
rest. The first two requirements affect
the blood, and as the bl.xwi circulates
all over the body, Including the brain,
every part Is affected. Fresh air affects
the purity of the blood. The freabest
lr Is out of doors, and it I the duty
of everyone to spend a certain amount
of time In the open air. Good foods la
not necessarily expensive food. Ki
erclae and ret hoiild alternate and
balance eacli other. It I o,uKa pos
sible to take too much exercise, and
this side of the question must be guard
ed against carefully tn,
Ws si way feel sorry for a
whoss father Is so rich that Ma
cuu't afford to go barefootod la
tuer.
Tbs happiest person la aaa wta is
rsrardloas of ths futars a ad atSsfct?
of too past ,
a big fortune by any Individual Amerl-
can has dm! on the divorce record of
that Individual and his descendants. It
Is early yet to get results that would
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