Show castles in the air wealthy american women have re bently taken up ballooning and a friendly observer is inspired to dilate upon the inexpensiveness of the pas time and then to let his imagination soar A fine balloon he says costs only and one sailor can run it whereas a yacht or even an automobile may easily eal up a modest fortune every year this is fact fancy takes command as the author suggests the charm of vacations spent in captive balloons or better still in kite houses moored anywhere from a thousand to 10 feet above the sur face in that pure and rarefied atmosphere mo sphere which invalids go far to find provisions would be sent up and letters cent down in a traveling has let there could be telephone connic alon and harsh sounds unsightly scenes and disagreeable odors would all be cut off by distance to be sure the wind and the kite house might take a notion to fall simultaneously then a woman who had ascended to escape the tension of business or society or family affairs would have a fine chance to leam whether the ex pertinent had strengthened her nerves but says the youths companion granting that all went well above and granting that our women would con sent to flee or fly their ties such an undertaking would probably be hampered from below unless the occupant of an air castle arranged to return to earth at frequent inter vals her husband or sweetheart would get her back even it he bad to take the risk of climbing up the cable the attempt of the methodist church to make 1 the minimum alary which any of its ministers ahall receive may be followed by elm liar action on the part of the congre the rev dr george A gordon of boston in commenting on the matter recently called attention to something which Is frequently forgot ten namely that conditions of life have changed until now instead of churches somewhere nearly equal in financial resources there are some very rich and powerful churches and some very poor and weak and what Is needed Is a general sustentation fund which shall put the poorer churches more nearly on a part with the richer ones dr gordon says probably with justice that it Is fast becoming an impossibility to get self respecting young men even among those who follow an ideal to work for such small salaries as many churches pay and therefore the churches suffer from the lack of the kind of preachers most needed clean sport never bad more friends and patrons than now president roosevelt ex president cleveland dr henry van dyke and the best of the nature writers can fish and hunt and give a fair account ot themselves in their relation to beasts and fishes at a recent convention ot anglers dr van dyke defined a true sportsman as a man who finds his recreation in a fair and exciting effort to get something that is made for bu man use in a way that involves some hardship a little risk a good deal of skill and ability and plenty of out of door life mr cleavland Cle evland sent his word of protest against fishing hog gery and mr roosevelt s utterance on the subject s characteristic to make a very large bag whether of deer or prairie chickens or ducks or quail or woodcock or trout Is some thing of which to be ashamed and not to boast to older graduates of american col leges and to most adults who have not been to college the solemnity of the undergraduate youngster Is calve ly funny one college paper in such bitter style as might be appropriate to some mighty moral or political issue chastises the entire undergraduate body for not turning out to cheer the football team at practice all other practice say at penmanship or the piano can be carried on by the alcera with the requisite tools football apparently cannot bo learned ex capt in presence of a mob another college paper gravely protests against the freshmen s increasing habit of walking on the prohibited side of a certain street and declares college customs to a sacred tradition to be reverently observed by each young batch of collegians A brooklyn man died 13 days after bis wedding ope you lose he gasn wasn t married on friday f modern improvements have their dangers A man whose barn Is light ed by electricity attempted to pull what he thought was the cord which turns on the current instead he pulled a mules tall A great light dawned on him ery suddenly the french military dirigible la patrie which Is causing the govern dent some worry by running or rather flying away Is bald to be yellow her owneta will agree that she Is behaving la a decidedly yellow manner |