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times when you could not think of eating anything else
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DANCING IN VIENNA
Ihe Music Never Stops and People
AVullz All the Time
When the fasching is in full and
orthodox swing in Vienna balls take
place every evening in the dozen or
so of big and small halls available for
societies and charities The favorite
hall is the Sofensal which is a swim
ming bath in summer For the oc
casion it is floored with parquet and
decked with palms
There are always two when not
three bands and as soon as one leaves
off the other takes up the Avaltz If it
does not the public wants to know the
reason why and immediately begins
to demonstrate with hand and voice
The chaperons sit around in solemn
state and the men congregate in the
middle of the floor forming what is
technically called the herren insel ov
mens island From this position of
vantage they swoop down on any part
ner who weakens for a moment and
carry her off There is no such thing
as being engaged for a dance indeed
there is scarcely such a thing as a
dance the whole evening being one
large dance except for the supper
break At the charity all or frauen
hein for instance there will be about
20C0 present and as the men are in
good training none of them is long
without a spin
The crush is tremendous of course
but the Vienna dancer male or other
cares little for hard knocks and being
determined to get around the room
manages to do it somehow or other
though to a stranger the task looks
impossible
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There Is not much ceremony about
introductions Two strange men will
come up and with grave politeness in
troduce each other to a lady whom
neither of them knows The lady may
please herself of course as to whether
she dances with him or not In any
case the acquaintance begins and
often ends with a turn It is not even
necessary to be two One dancer
sometimes makes bold to approach and
with a deep bow he says that his name
is Norval and that he is a lawyer or
something else and may he have the
honor of a waltz Since the idea is
simply to have a partner and nothing
is further from his thoughts than to be
uncivil he generally gets his way
In a ball like this there is little favor
and the prettiest and smartest girls are
not much better off than their less at
tractive sisters While the dowagers
are in splendid robes the dancing con
tingent are as a rule rather simply
dressed and short skirted or else they
have an arrangement whereby they
gather up all their drapery in one hand
so that they may succeed in keeping
it on their persons Nevertheless to
ward the small hours the damage is
tmiversal
The Vienna belle may not go to as
many balls perhaps as her English
sister but she certainly dances a good
many more kilometers in the course of
her season The Vienna balls begin
as a rule pretty sharply at 9 and
with an hour or so for supper the
waltzing goes on till 3 The most en
thusiastic will not go away much be
fore 5 but the officers cannot often
stay to the end and when the lieuten
ants depart the glory departs with
them Six hours almost without a j
pause is a very respectable athletic
performance and many of the ladies
will nevertheless be seen on the ica
the next afternoon still waltzing
London Graphic
Stntterinj
Of the etiology of stuttering Ave know
nothing definite Direct inheritance is
rare and possibly imitation is the chief
factor when father and son are affect
ed There is usually a well marked
neurotic inheritance others in the fam
ily having various forms of nervous
complaints But I have not been able
to confirm Charcots statement that
stuttering and ordinary facial paralysis
frequently occur in the same family
Shocks frights and debility after some
acute illness are the causes to which
the onset is most frequently attributed
by parents Imitation is undoubtedly
an occasional cause children having
often been known to start the habit
when put in charge of a stuttering
nursemaid A friend of mine who was
extremely fond of horses and was
hardly to be kept out of the stables ac
quired a most obstinate stutter from
the groom Adenoid vegetations are
often met with and are important as a
predisposing cause since they tend to
prevent the proper filling of the chest
with air When present they should be
removed as a preliminary measure al
though it must not be expected that
their removal will lead to a prompt
cessation of the stutter London Lan
cet
A Common Delusion
One of the commonest of delusions
and one of the fatalest is where a man
thinks hes in a hurry Puck
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One of the strangest paradoxes In
human nature is that men and women
struggling apparently with all ther
might to succeed are yet constant
doing things saying things and think
ing things which drive the very success
they are after away from them They
are all the time counteracting their
efforts by some foolishness or weaic
ness or indiscretion They are saying
things which prejudice people against
them and doing things which destroy
confidence Although they apparenriy
try very hard to build a foundation
they are all the time undermining
themselves
Men work like Trojans to get a cov
eted position and then by getting
puffed up with conceit or by some fool
ish or weak act knock the scaffolding
which they have been years in build
ing out from under them and down
they go Their lives are a series of
successive climbs and tumbles so that
they never get anywhere never accom
plish anything worth while Always
tripping themselves up neutralizing
their work this is their greatest stum
bling block
I know a powerful editorial writer
who wields a strong vigorous pen but
who at sixty j ears of age is just where
he was at twenty He has had scores
of good positions but he could not
keep them because of his indiscretions
because of a hot temper and a sensitive
nature which was always being
Avounded by trifles There is no
harder worker than he is Every time
he gets knocked down he begins at the
bottom and starts planning and re
climbiiig only to fall back again like
the fabled frog trying to get out of the
well
Now if this man had taken an inven
tory of himself in his youth and
strengthened two or three little weak
points he would have been a giant in
the field of letters
There are thousands of men who are
working as clerks or in very ordinary
salaried positions who might have been
emploj ers or proprietors themselves
but for some unfortunate weakness
some little deficiency in their natures
or some peculiarity something which
might have been remedied by a little
discipline and self study in youth It is
not an unusual thing to see a man in
some subordinate situation who but
for one of these little lacks would have
been a bolder man than his employer
And so he has to submit to the humili
ation of plodding through life in a me
diocre position when he faels conscious
that he has superior ability to those
who are over him
It is tragic to see thousands of peo
ple constantly pushing away from
themselves through life the very suc
cess they are trying to achieve push
ing it away because they do not con
trol a hot temper because of some lit
tle indiscretion or other weakness or
lack in their nature
Others are always driving success
away from them by their doubts their
fears their lack of courage their lack
of confidence driving it away by
thought habits which repel success con
ditions They never make themselves
magnets to attract success but keep
so many enemies of achievement in
their mind that there is no home for
harmony there no place for a strong
purpose They hold the failure thought
the doubt thought the poverty thought
instead of clinging to the success
thought the thought of abundance un
til they attract achievement and plenty
Success Magazine
Forestry Work
The young fellow who is looking
for a soft snap need not apply for
the work of a student assistant is by
no means easy Nor will the govern
ment afford a pleasant vacation in the
open air for young men in broken
health It is not a picnic in the cool
woods that the student assistant will
have He will be in the cool woods in
summer and the cold woods in winter
lie will live in a tent keep lumber
mens hours as the somewhat discour
aging official bulletin entitled Sugges
tions to Prospective Forest Students
reads He will work with a gang
get up at break of day tramp the for
est swing an ax measure with cali
pers count rings on stumps and set
down figures in a book when his lin
gers may be so cold that the figures
he makes look like chicken tracks lie
will do this day in and day out At
night perhaps too far away to return
to his tent he will build a fire eat ba
con and hard tack wrap himself in the
blanket which he has carried all day
and dream of the folks at home It is
likely that he will do this the next
and perhaps several other days
So there is good reason for the none
too encouraging words of the bulletin
Bodily soundness and endurance are
absolutely essential for those who take
up the work of a forest student
Reader
Force of Hnbit
An honest hog buyer started up in
business and guaranteed the farmers
a fair deal lie always weighed the
porkers twice to guard against mis
takes Once in weighing a bunch of
pigs the second time he found their
weight had increased to the amount of
200 pounds He was at a loss to ac
count for the condition until an em
ployee confessed that at the time of the
first weighing he had inserted the toe
of his boot under the scales and pried
it up thus cheating the farmer out of
one hog The buyer was indignant
What did you do a trick like that
for he asked You couldnt have
profited by it anyhow
I know it John said the guilty
man but I just couldnt help it
It had always been the custom to
cheat the farmer and the man couldnt
bear to see the old customs passing
away
HIVE IN AN AQUARIUM
Good Wny of Set Ins How the Mtl
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Everybody is curious to see bees ac
tually at work Take a rectangular
glass aquarium and place It on a win
dow sill elevated slightly at the side
nearest the window so that when the
latter Is raised an inch the bees may
pass in and out If desired the bees
may be kept for some time In confine
ment by raising the aquarium an Inch
on blocks and using a strip of wire
screen cloth to prevent the bees from
escaping
When confined the bees should be fed
a sirup of equal parts of sugar and
water A frame or two of bees may
be purchased for a trilling sum
Put within this glass aquarium some
rustic supports to represent projecting
undecayed portions of the Inside of the
hollow trunk Keep all covered by an
opaque cloth when not observing what
Is going on within this glass bee home
Then the bees will be free to work
and to adapt themselves to the envi
ronment They can suit their own
fancy about attaching combs to the
sticks they may build diagonally or in
any other form that they may prefer
and they may attach the comb to sides
or ends just when and where they
think it is necessary
In the artificial hives the combs are
attached only at the edges but in nat
ural conditions within the bee tree or
in its counterpart as represented by
the old fashioned box hive with opaque
sides and in our transparent inverted
aquarium the bees can build combs
and attach them In any way that they
see fit
One of the most interesting objects
for study is to note when the bees
think it necessary to put out a side
support from a long comb They seem
to believe that they are really within
a hollow tree and that it is likely to be
swayed by the gales Of course when
so swayed long combs laden with
honey or with young bees would be
too much for the unyielding rigidity of
the upper part of the combs These if
they have no side stajS would bend
crack and be crashed against each
other
The bees have learned this and give
the combs a fine support whenever it
is necessary They do this it is true to
a certain extent in the regular eight
or ten frame hive but not with the
naturalness with which they do it in a
large unobstructed space
Not long ago a veteran beekeeper
took a of bees from an attic
where they had been for many years
Well said he you should have
seen the funny forms of those combs
most interesting thing I ever saw
There was one pillar almost round a
solid center right and several feet long
and these combs around that the
most fantastic shape you over saw
Suburban Life
IZzztortim CZiartiy
A philanthropist said of a banker
Brown is a mean man Once I
made him shell out though Listen
Two ladies representatives of a
childrens fresh air fund a noble
charity called on Brown and asked
him to contribute Ho gave a dollar
With all his millions he gave 1 ex
actly
Its all I can afford he whined
My otlice Is in the same building as
Browns bank and a few minutes later
the two ladies came to me When I
saw Browns name down for only a
dollar I was mad
He says its all he can afford ehV
I began Well ladies just wait here
a minute
And I called my head clerk ascer
tained my balance in Browns bank
and wrote a check then and there in
the clerks name for 2730 10 the en
tire amount
Draw this at once I said
The clerk departed and a minute or
two later Brown himself rushed in
breathlessly the check in his hand
Harry he said what is the mean
ing of this
I pointed to the ladies subscription
list
I have just learned I said that
you could only afford to give a dollar
to the childrens fresh air fund This
made mo think that things were look
ing pretty fishy at the bunk I decided
I had better draw out
Brown had to add two ciphers to
his subscription before I would con
sent to tear up the check
LJisrneliN ICeen liusiucss Instinct
When the Hon Mr Ward wrote his
novel Tremaine he was fearful of
acknowledging himself the author un
til its fate should have been ascertain
ed He accordingly the better to pre
serve his incognito sent the manuscript
copy by the wife of his attorney to Mr
Colburn The work although accepted
was not considered likely to pay ex
tremely well and consequently a
trifling sum was given for it Contrary
however to Mr Colburns expectations
it ran to three editions
The ingenious author of Vivian
Grey then twenty two years old hav
ing heard of the circumstances deter
mined to useit to advantage andaccord
ingly having arranged his work for
publication he proceeded to find out
the honorable gentlemans fair messen
ger This he quickly effected and upon
a promise of giving her 20 induced her
to be the bearer of his novel to the
same publisher
The woman was instantly recognized
by Mr Colburn as the same person
who brought him Tremaine and rec
ollecting the great sale of that novel
he leaped at the manuscript presented
to him with the utmost eagerness It
was quickly read and a handsome sum
given for the copyricht A short time
however enabled Mr Colburn to find
out his error but too late to remedy
himself The work was not successful
and a considerable sum was lost by Its
publication
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