The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, October 24, 1906, Image 3
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This subject was brought to mind very forcibly by a conversation with an amiable young widow, encountered at an evening re ception during the past week, writes 'Julius Chambers, in the Brooklyn Eagle. "The general impression doubtless is that a young woman who has come into a fortune, or is sure to do so, leads a life of joy and contentment," said my companion. "Her troubles are somewhat less than the annoy ances to which a rich young girl who has not attained her majority is sub jected. In the latter case, passion af fected by her suitors is less ardent; but the thought always uppermost in the minds of her men friends is to keep in the ring' until the girl's stat us is fixed. A True Autobiography. . "Beginning with her boarding school days, after she has cut loose from the apron strings of a governess, she is popularly supposed to have the favor ite seat at table; to have lessons made gjsg-y':mg w JK:sx?sx3fe easy for her; always to be taken to drive; to be advised with regarding matters of entertainment; to receive weighty Christmas boxes; to be for given for infraction of the rules, how ever flagrant; to enjoy many privi leges not accorded to the daughters of less wealthy patrons of the school; to have her dresses from Paris; to spend her vacations In Europe and to play the 'Princess Bountiful' at all times. Most men blunder about the lives of young heiresses; but old maids like Marie Corelli are even more absurd In their characteriza tions of the young person of large In herited wealth." "Men writers are generally nearer right you think, than woman?" I asked, in surprise. "Yes. they theorize less than wri ters of my sex," was the reply. "I should Judge that as a rule, they se lect some living model and observe her carefully for months before they 'begin to write; but women generally think they understand their own kind and 'sail right in.' I hope you'll pardon that bit of slang,' but it exact ly hits oft the thought in my mind. If they were to have the experiences themselves, or to take, a case " "Exactly the idea." I hastened to suggest "Let us take your own case." The "Awakening" of an Heii "Exactly; nothing could be better," said my instructress. "My father died when I was 14, and I was sent to a .convent where I remained in almost total seclusion for four years. Of courser I knew my father had been a very wealthy man; I realized that the family lived in luxury; but 1 1 RECORD OF INVALID HEROES. Men ef Intellect Who Rose Superior t Physical Ills. A record of the magnificent courage of the world's invalid heroes Is Sophia P. Shaler's newly published book. "The Masters of Fate." One of these heroes was Green, the English his torian, who could sign himself. "Faith fully (feebly, weakly, dizzily, mopily. faintly, dreamily, dully), J. R. Green." Another was Robert Louis Stevenson, who wrote: "I am about knocked out ef time now; a miserable, snuffling, shivering, fever-stricken, nightmare ridden, knee-tottering, hoast-hoast-hoatrtig shadow and remains of a dm." "But" continues Stevenson. the medicine bottles on my chimney aad the blood on my handkerchief are accidents. They do not color my view at Ufa." It was an octogenarian United mtes senator who, when asked-for rales for longevity, replied: "Acquire a chronic ailment in youth, aad nurse yaaraelf throughout life aad work." Ktfumlshes n lesson of this Wad; the great I ' ii knfeiawscV K--rr j0" - - hadn't bees aroused to the fact that the moment I mad my appearance in society the chase would begin and rd be ran to earth like any other fox. la fact, not until the advent of what is called 'society Journalism' did I begin to give myself airs. My picture was published at least twice before I had my 'awakening!' Then I fancied myself a 'person of quality.' The Money Hunt. "What happened when yon finally came home from school?" I asked. "My dear mother had already de cided that I should go abroad, and the glamor of the ocean voyage attracted, fascinated me. We sailed on one of the French boats, and before we had passed the Narrows I had exchanged greetings with two of my men friends, 'unexpectedly called to Eu rope on business.' I was surprised to find these men aboard; but mam ma wasn't. She looked at me archly and proudly, as she whispered: " 'My dear, the chase has begun! Treat them all alike.' "I didn't understand the. meaning of the words then, but I did before 48 hours had passed. I wasn't really seasick, but I had the pallor, the headache and all the premonitory symptoms. These two men danced attendance upon me every minute of the days and evenings. One would have imagined them licensed physi cians. The man who really bustled about and brought me lemons and brandy and ginger ale didn't impress me nearly as much as the other chap, who sat stolidly In front of me gazing into my face in honest sympathy. VJ. JJJ When the weather moderated, and I went to the dining saloon for the first time, one of the men had a seat along side me and the other was next to mother. By this time the men had ceased to disguise their hatred of each other. So it continued all the way across. Mother knew the young men and expressed no preference. The night we sighted the Scilly Islands, oh! Land's' End. a new com plication appeared in the form of a French nobleman, who had been. in troduced by the captain .of the ship early in the voyage, but who had waited, apparently, until the Ameri can lovers quarreled. Couldn't Lose Them. "When we took the train at Havre, the two New Yorkers and 'the' French man ensconced themselves -in- our compartment During that four hours trip I expected to s see murder done. Only the presence of mother and' me prevented the more aggressive 'of the Americans from throttling Frenchy. When we reached St Lazarre station, mamma sentner maid "to order a 'cab for the Hotel Continental The octroi didn't detain us, and, as we drove off, mamma repeated her direction to the driver so that our friends could hear it Before we reached the boulevard, however, she' stopped the cab and changed the order to' the Hotel Hol land, a aeat little place in the Rue de la Paix. We congratulated ourselves upon our stratagem, but the baron's card came' up that same evening, as we were dressing for dinner. -Hardly had mother sent her regrets down stairs before a box of flowers arrived from one of my American suitors and never entirely well, he performed a prodigious amount of intellectual work, and lived to be fit years of age. "He obtained such control over his discomfiture." writes- Mrs. Bhaler; "that whea suffering from a pain In his head he could concentrate his mind so nerfectlv en a rhnima snbtect that the pain was treated as If it did not exist By sheer force of will he would overcome sleeplessness caused by rheumatic attacks..- "That these," he says, "were not Imaginary pains was proved by the glowing red ness which was seen the next morning on the toes of my left foot' " - j vfc evww . That pitiful account which Johnson! gives of Pope's condition rests upon the authority of -an eld servant ef Lord Oxford's, who knew him after middle age, "He was then so weak as to stand la perpetual need of at tendance; he was extremely- sensitive to cold, so that he wore a kW of fur doublet under a shirt of coarse, warm linen, with fine sleeves. When he arose; he was iavested ia bedices made oc son: canvas, seicr acarcetv able to hold himself erect tin they were laced, a tickets for a box at the opera from the other. The lowers to me, but the opera box erectly aeat to my mothea seat dls- A Duel in the Tyrol. "The baron followed as across En rope to Venice. He no longer forced his presence upon me, hat made him self felt by sending lowers. We gave up Borne, hurried to St Morits, la the Engadine; bat the first time mamma and I walked in the Thler Garten we met the French baron. la desperation I telegraphed to Paris .to the quieter of my two admirers aad he came to St Morits within 24 hours! Mother never 'knew I had done this; bat the baron had begun to show his true character. He started a scandal about me; and the New Yorker, who was early to hear It gave the frog-eater a terrible thrashing. When the baron sent a second to my friend, the New Yorker threw him out of the cafe in which he was sitting. Then he had two duels' on his hands Instead of one. I am ashamed to say it but we slip ped off at night and left my friend In the lurch. He fought the baron and got a wound In an arm. The second had a bad reputation as a card sharp; so he was ineligible to a meeting. "We hurried home to New York; went to Los Angeles, where the baron soon made his appearance. Thence we traveled to Florida, always sha dowed by this man. He had shaken oft his two competitors.' Finally, la sheer desperation, mamma aad I de cided that I should marry the New Yorker who had sat' on deck and watched me with his big blue eyes. The event was neatly brought about u .,. "" by mamma her excuse for sending after the man being gratitude for his 'noble conduct In defending me from the Frenchman. We were married at St Thomas that spring." His Last Play. "Is that the end of the baron?" I asked, regretfully. "No, indeed; the night before the wedding the door bell rang. I hap pened to be In the parlor alone. Be fore I realized what was occurring, a man pushed past the butler at the door and entered the apartment He was the baron! In burning lan guage, he avowed his devotion aad said he'd kill himself right there, if I didn't abandon my promise to marry the American.. The butler slipped out and brought a policeman. Just , as the baron had thrown himself upon his knees and seized my hand a big blue-eyed officer entered and took Frenchy by an ear. I gave the 'cop per a large bill to lose bis prisoner before he got to the station house. "Next day I was married and we sailed abroad. Ah! that was ten years ago and the good fellow to whom I gave myself has gone to a better world." "And the baron?' "Is alive and back in the United States for a winter campaign. He is in Chicago at present I see .by the papers. Any kind of an heiress will suit him and I hope he will catch on of the large-footed kind before ha hears that I am a widow." A man must either come ap to a woman's ideal, or her ideal cornea down to him. . . . coat One side of his body was con tracted; his legs were so slender that he enlarged their bulk with two pairs of stockings." Great soldiers, have borne tflfftions they could neither overcome nor avoid. "8ome of the world's foremost commanders Julius Caesar, Napo leon, the duke of ' Wellington and Archduke Charles of Austria appear to have been epileptics: At the battle of Wagram the archduke. H ia said, had a seizure which lasted abet aa hour; it was thea that Napoleon gained the ascendancy. At the criti cal moment. the fate of two Brant tW ABUtsnwVBL v UBS IsnliTJ fJfe, fWfJ MlvSM armies was In the hands of two epilea- tics. Cambyses, the conqueror of Egypt; Alfred the Great, aad two of the greatest poets of Europe Taaso and Byron were subjects of tale ess ease, as was also the prophet, Ms hammed.' His "It takes a learn who his friends are." "Aad then it keeps him busy lag after he from them. mmm sjrnvwvrsa mkmmw I mnTAB .- '- I w mrm MBmsWhmW' A'Bt ssfsnununf snBnuuuuvBnwBnrnnnV eVsnBWB g (HHHantw' ss ERM -ftaU0Sr- The fat hen won't lay. taa pot A kkk at the cow to a kick at the milk pail Chopped sweet apples with grain ra tion oa top makes an Ideal feed for the cow. The hog pasture should have a com fortable shed In which the animals may take refuge from storms. It Is said that small and young ban tams are sometimes sold finder the name of squabs. The fussy, fighting hen has no rightful place in the successful poul tryman's flock. Get rid of her. Full feed for the cow ail the time or she will lose you money. It Is easier to drop in the milk yield than it is to recover the shortage. Once It was the nubbins of corn and potatoes that farmers planted, now it Is the finest of potatoes and the choicest of corn. The Illinois experiment station has just issued bulletin No. 109 on "Loca tion, Construction and Operation of Hog Houses." If you are interested, write for a copy. Give the poultry house plenty of light The window should have a south exposure if possible, In order that the sunshine may get in and warm things up a bit for the bens on the cold days. Hogs In Cerro Gordo county, Ia are afflicted with a strange malady resem bling choleraln symptoms. Hogs grow poor, lose appetite, die In tor ture. No remedy has yet been found to be effective, and some farmers have lost 100 head. Prof. Hodge of Clark university' has estimated the value of toads to the farmer at $18 apiece because they de stroy cut worms. There is a regular market for toads in England, however, at 25 cents apiece. It costs the farmers'of the south 50 cents per bale of cotton for an aver age haul of eight miles. With good roads this cost could be reduced to 16 cents, which would mean a saving of $340,000 on a yearly crop of 1,000,000 bales. Worth saving, don't you think? North or south, good roads pay. What are you doing to help get them? The market grade known as roast ing pigs Is a class of pigs from three to six weeks old and weighing from 15 to 30 pounds. They are aot gen erally found quoted In market In such small numbers and only during holi day seasons. Pigs of this class usu ally are of very uniform grade. They are taken direct from their dams, dressed with head and feet on, and served like spring chickens or turkeys. The price varies greatly, ranging all the way from regular Uve hog. prices to that paid for poultry. A good hog house should be 20 feet wide, six feet high at the eves for con venience in cleaning, and as long as the size of the herd requires. The interior ararngement will be two rows of pens, eight feet wide,' with a four foot passage, between them. The floor should be of cement with a half-inch gutter just in front of the trough, and draining toward the end of the house farthest from the feed room. If dur ability is sought after the side wails and partitions may be of cement for one to three feet up. If the exercise yards are large and well-drained they need not be cemented. Rotation of crops as a principle of successful farming Is recognized to day by almost every farmer, but Just the best method of rotation Is not al ways clear. Different methods, of course, are required for different soil aad climatic conditions, but compari son of the system followed by other farmers is always suggestive aad help ful Here is how aa Iowa farmer manages on a farm of 160 acres: First comes 40 acres In com. This 40 acres of corn at 40 bushels per acre is 1.C00 bushels of com at 40 cents per bushel, $640. Total cost of same, $20f, leav ing $440 net proceeds of thin 40 acres. Twenty acres in oats used as a nurse crop for seeding clover and timothy at 30' bushels per acre, 600 bushels at 25 cents per bushel $150; $75 cost at seeding aad labor, $75 net Clover or timothy meadow 20 acres, $12t; grass seed, $60; lor hay, $180; $110 net Meadow 20 acres at 1 1-2 tons per acre, 30 tons of hay at $5 per toe. $15; $30 expense, $120 net Twenty acres ia pasture grass in-one plot 30 acres ia another, which will keep 30 head of stock at $7.50 per head for pasture season, $225 net Tea acres contain farm buildings, orchard, garden aad hog pasture which win return at least $5f net Total proceeds of this farm for one year, $1,020. Thfa m aa aver age Iowa farm of Ms aeetion. Usually there are 40 acres pat ia com, using a three-year-rotatioa by panting- three crops of com, thea seed to clover aad timothy. By so doing he has 24) acres of new ground broken ap each year, 2 acres to seed to clover aad timothy, using oats aa a aurse crap. Prof. L. H. Bailey says the educated will go back to the farm if ha is fitted to be a farmer. IbH MM IsnuuuuunSvlrei gSM Bnussnufl"S9s9'jY 'eMnjnjMiMc.Bn ll I Send her to ... tt - - - la speaking of blight oa melons, aa Ohio farmer writes that his experience Is that it to no-worse on ground which waa la melons the previous year. He has tried soma of the rast-reatattag va riety of cantaloupe this year, hat the met has attacked them to some ex teat after affecting a patch of melone of another variety. The Ohio experiment station pro poses to make aa lavestigatioa of the woodlota of the state to ascertain whether they are njaintained at a prof it or loss, aad which kinds of trees or mixtures of trees are yielding the best returns. The station has already found that planted groves of catalpa and lo cust may give returns exceeding $10 per acre annually. Do you cook your hogs meals in the winter time and serve them hot? Prof. R. H. McDowell of the Nevada experiment station says: "Some good authorities say that it does not pay to cook the feed, but a farmer can readily decide this for himself, accord-, ing to the feed to be used, value of fuel whether a cooking plant is owned and the amount of freezing weather.' In a cold climate pigs will eat warm feed clean from the trough, when a portion of cold feed would be left to freeze. If hogs are Infested with lice Prof. A. T. Peters declares that spraying and dipping Is the only safe and ra tional thing to do. "It aids the very, best balanced ration that can be given a hog," he says, "as it enables him to, assimilate the food he consumes. It is not absolutely necessary to procure n dipping tank. I have known in-; stances where our American farmer, with a genius for making the most of his surroundings, has soon improvised a dipping tank at very little cost1 Every grower of hogs should dip his hogs at least once a month if he wishes to have the very best success. The department of agriculture is about to establish an official poultry yard to determine the great question as to whether mash should be fed to fowls wet or dry; and also to find out whether "hopper feeding," which, en ables the fowls to eat whenever they are hungry, "will "pay." The experi ment.wlU be conducted with three pens 'each, containing 25 white Ply mouth Rock hens, and win be contin ued until those in charge have reached some kind of a conclusion. Similar experiments have been made at the Maine and Rhode Island stations, both of which have made, a specialty of the various hen questions but the depart ment does' not seem to be satisfied, and will deal with these subjects directly. And we venture to predict that when the department gets through the poul try men will be no nearer an agree ment than they now are. This Is not to say that such official experiments are not desirable, for they are, even if the final conclusion is reached that it makes no difference how mashes are' fed, as win probably be the case. Apropos of the big farms of the northwest the Farmers' Voice, makes' the Dakota farmer say, meditatively to a circle of eastern agriculturists: "Yes, sir; we do things on rather a sizable scale. I've seen a man start out in the spring and plow a furrow) until fall Then he turned around and harvested back. We have some big farms up there, gentlemen. A friend of mine owned one on which he had to give a, mortgage, and the mortgage was due on one end before they could get it recorded on the other. You see, it was laid off in counties." There was a murmur of- astonishment, and the Dakota man continued: "I got a letter from a man who lives In my orchard just before I left home, and It had been three weeks getting to the dwelling-house, although It had traveled day and night" "Distances are pretty wide "up there, ain't they?" inquired one. "Reasonably, reasonably," re plied the Dakota man. "And the worst of it is, it breaks up famines so. Two years ago I saw a whole family prostrated with grief. Women yelling, children howling, and dogs barking. One of my men had his camp truck packed on seven four-mule teams and he was going around bidding every body goodby." "Where was he go ing?" asked a Gravesend man. "He was going half-way across the farm to feed the pigs," .replied the man from Dakota. "And did he ever get back to his family again?" "It Isn't time for him yet replied the Dakota man. Fertilize your wheat field. It wffl pay. Tests by the Indiana experiment station show that the crop Is benefited by ail three of the essential fertilizing elements, nitrogen, phosphoric add aad potash. Of these three elements, phosphoric acid is usually needed In largest amount A fertilizer contain ing about two per cent of nitrogen. eight per cent of phosphoric acid and two per cent of potash win produce profitable results In most cases, aad la very commonly employed If used In additioa to a heavy crop of clover, the percentage of nitrogen may be re duced; bat If used on land that has not been manured or clovered for sev eral years, the percentage of nitrogen can probably be increased somewhat with profit Leguminous crops should, however, be used to supply nitrogen whenever possible, as they afford far the cheapest source of this element A good wheat fertilizer having the ni trogen, phosphoric add and potash la shout the same proportioa as In the 2 8 2 formula caa he made by mix lag: - - Parts. BdianvNttm,-l to M per cent, nl- U Toeae. 1 to S per cent nltr. zf to t per cent BboeDborle Add pbeejaate. Uto IS per cent, avail- Usf paMsspaaOalC anCM Jft gulpbat or muriate of potass. 41 to ft per cent potash 4 shsnffa .. a&as a a a . IK ' The annuaTplowing match-was held at Wheatland, m, with good results. These matches have proved a stimu lus to better stowing..- '" - Tie average hen fa the United States lays 69 eggs a year. TheCana dlau;hen L The hen that faOs to coma up to the lower average la cer tainly unprofitable, aad aot worth keeping. f.The Canadian average lst area too tow for the enterprising poat Pfrs9atrN00rsaWr -j air" . m LONDON THE CINDERELLA ' Of THE CITIES Story of the Hall for the County Council awd the New Embankment. -' For 18- years the greatest the heaRhiest aad the wealthiest dty ia the world has been without a civic habitation worthy of Its aadeat set tlemeat aad hoabred name. The sine of London, its power, utility and dig nity, have not yet secured adequate, expression In embodied brick, chiseled stone, or fashioned arouse. London has been too loag the Cin derella of the dties la the matter of municipal recognition. Like poor Cin derella, her couaty couadl had to work and Uve ia the basement dwell ings of Spring Gardens. Her sisters, the borough councils and "the dty cor poration, feast or junket In the Guild hall aad Mansion house, or disport themselves In the numerous town balls and other buildings that have been granted to them by the grace of parliament or the cheerful consent of their constituent ratepayers. The metropolitan asylums board aad Thames conservancy without comment have installed themselves In riparian palaces, so that with greater ease they can do lesser work. Only the council Is without a home and exist In lodg ings. The bold policy of banks, insurance offices and large commercial houses having prominent sites, adequate space, handsome exteriors and inter nal attractiveness, stimulates n joy of work in staff, an order In business, and n supreme command of organiza tion impossible in low, mean and disorderly habitations, which but for high ideals of public duty would drag down the average pubUc man charged by popular vote with a city's govern ment This has been recognized aad prac- View of New County Council tlced by private enterprise, and every where but in London municipal admin istration has built a suitable habita tion, and in so doing founded a public spirited name But now London, through its county council is to have a dvic building, a munidpal home, an administrative of fice in which to strenuously carry on the multiplex duties that are intrust ed to it for the good government of mighty London. For over ten years the council pressed Its claim; for all that period the health, time, and fruitful energy of Its councilors and staff were "cribbed, cabined, confined;" and to some extent Its work has suffered by the lack of centralized, spacious and well-equipped offices. Patient submissive, tolerant to an intolerable degree, the council prac tically unanimously, irrespective of party, dedded a year ago, for the good government of London, to se cure n new "home away from the old site, which has been neither suitable, sufficient nor available, for its ever Increasing work and its multiplying responsibilities. And, as the councU was being evict ed from Spring Gardens, parliament would not have it at the Adelphi site, and the timid refused to have it In Parliament street where better 'could it be placed than on the spacious plot of ground occupied by dingy wharf, none too pleasant factory. The river on the north, a pubUc terrace Intervening between n fine embankment and the county hall This structure" is a solid, massive, dignified, useful building bounded on the south by Belvedere road, im proved as a relief approach to Water loo station from Westminster bridge for the western traffic that 'now ob structs the southeast comer of Bridge. Oa the west St Thomas' hos pital opposite to the bouse of parlia ment, enhancing the beauty and view of that great pile. Ia keeping with the abbey, New WAYS OF FRENCH HUSBANDS. Punctilieue In Small Courtesies That Please Women. The French husband has a faculty that amounts almost to a genius for bestowing the dettcate attentions which cost Uttle except the exercise of a modicum of tact and thoughtfal ness, bat which carry joy to every true woman's heart He not only thinks to take home to her often (la the absence of the means to make a larger, offering) a ten-cent bunch of violets, pinks or roses from the flower market or the itinerant flower ven der's barrow on his route, but he presents them gallantly with the com pliment and the caress the occasion calls for; aad this makes them confer a pleasure out of ail proportioa to their Intrinsic worth. He remembers her birthday or fete day with a potted plaat a bit of game, a box of bonbons, n cake from the pastrycook's or a bottle of good wine. He Is marvekmsly fertile ia expedi ents for making the time pass quickly rC.t JiJSS SkWQ M' BmmtJTfwjPTm'm'3 BVnsnnwTBnufSJJPJiJW BnenMsassnauu euumuns" - m Scotland Yard, new structural amenities great riverside yet omameataL ly, yet modestly, with Green wicthee nltnL Lambeth palaee, the hiaiis ef parUameat hospital that survive to aa aa worthy moaumeatal reminders ef the when the River ' aa It was, and aa It widest, cleanest, prettiest, thoroughfare la this great Ha, Looked at from the point of view ef a great aad beautiful riverside Im provement the embankment of the south side of the River Thames offer ed opportunity for n fine and bold treatment of this present ssnaUd spot The best embankment ia the world runs from Blackfriars to West minster bridge and the houses of par liament This noble roadway has re ceived a handsome lengthening of Its Victoria Tower gardens, fronting aa far as a new Lambeth bridge by a new embankment wall and a riverside promenade backed with fine offices overlooking a garden that win occupy the land where the old houses sad wharves now stand facing Lambeth palace on the north side. From this garden there wiU be, when the county baU is finished, n finer view of houses of parliament Hospital' Lambeth pal ace and council offices than that which feasted the eye of Canaletto when he painted the Stangate shore in the years that are gone; n better view, even, than that which caught the artistic eye of Sir Thomas More. Hall from Westminster Bridge, .y as he drifted with his daughter. Mar garet Roper, past the parliament he adorned, down to the ebb tide to his death, through Traitor's Gate to the block at the tower. Certainly the view from Westmin ster bridge is now and will be still finer than when Wordsworth's liner were written, when the coundl's work between Vauxhall bridge and Charing Cross is completed, and the projected county hail on the south side between Westminster and Charing Cross rail way bridge leads to the southern em bankment This great improvement which is slowly revealing Itself, from the end of Abingdon street to the Tate gallery, has cost over a million of money. And now the public, council architect have all cooDerated in ing the Ark of the Civitas of a free community fair to look upon and as worthy a repository of the munidpal archives, the center of dvic activities, as continental cities boast and, in erecting a fitting workshop for Lon don's devoted aediles. will give space and encouragement to those municipal governors who have made London in 18 years of their administration the municipal Mecca to which all dvic pilgrims turn for instruction, example, and ideals in modern city government JOHN BURNS. M. P. Remarkable. A celebrated actress, fresh and youthful looking, was In the habit of invariably taking. 18 years from her age. She was called once In a law case and gave the usual response. Her son was called immediately after and on being asked bis age, he replied, promptly: "Six months older than my mother." n Riso. Hopeless Case. Eva I heard Reggy telling that tall blonde that we are here to-day and gone to-morrow. Katharine Poor Reggy is 'gone' al ready. Chicago Daily News. and agreeably for her. He has a thousand amusing aad successful de vices for helping her to renew her youth. He projects unique and joy ous Sunday and holiday excursions. He Improvises dainty Uttle banquets. He is a past master especially ia the art of conjuring up amiable mysteries and preparing charming Uttle sur prises. Aad la air these trivial eater- prises he vindicates the old French theory that true courtesy consists la taking a certain amount of pains to so order our words and our manners that others "be content with aa aad with themselves." The American husband Is particu larly soHdtoas to do the proper thing; tne Frenca nusband to do the able thing. Independent Sing, Baals the slab. Forslgblnrif le There was never a heart Made lighter by sua ef to-morrow. 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