Show WOMAN3 CAPACITY TO KEEP SECRETS If you think a womanrcant keep a secret ask the customs officers of New York They make the most adroit themost accomplished ac-complished smugglers in the business An inspector said to me recently A female if she be crooked In her dealings with UncleSam will outwit us and bamboozle us twice as easy as a man She will look at you with liquid eyes add atear in her voice as bigas the diamond stored away in the lining of her corset will lie and lie and lie with the easygrace of an Ochlltree tinctured with the innocence of a kings daughter I have already told Republic readers of the woman whose husband died abroad and who smuggled an elaborate mourning ouhnt across in the comn with her departed Lord I Hers was only one of many ruses resorted to This woman by tho way has disappeared from view She no longer struts upper Broadway Married again perhaps Oushl I How I pity the poor devil that got her She will prooably use him for ballast some day when she gets through with him as she did his predecessorSt Louis Republic MARINO LOVE IN BUFFALOS BUFFALO-S nday evening my chum went to see a girl friend As usual o was invited into the parlor and for a time conversation flowed freely After a while the chatter became more moderato and finally ceased There was a long silence and the girls mother who was in the next room became uneasy She carefully approached the parlor door which she cautiously opened and thrust her head through the aperture What she saw caused her few gray hairs to stand on end and her blood evidently became congealed con-gealed There the lovers sat one at either end of the settee sound asleep The old lady intimated in a somewhat foghorn voice thatfliey bad better retire The young man rubbed his eyes and took off his coat vigoroua shake oy his friend and a door bang by her mother brought him partly to his senses He did not stop to say goodnight but gathered in his mackintosh mack-intosh and glided silently awayBlffalo Courier |