Show or TALKS OF TJHE DAY The Illblcs WeroBnrred on Sunday Bishop Potter told a story over at the Century Club in New York a fortnight asoI have it from a Washington man I who was there which is almost too good to be true There has been discussion in New York of late of a proposition to unite a number of the libraries of the town in one great collection The Lenox library is among the number Now it is proposed to open the great Union li brary on Sunday and there is a clause in the Lenox library endowment which prohibit its being open to the public on that day The learned gentlemen who had the matter in hand after discussion fianally decided that the public might ba admitted to the Lenox library Sunday if a certain part pf the collection were kept closed And said Bishop Potter as he told of it what part of the library do you suppose they decided after a great deal of deliberation to IOon Sunday Why J it i > I 5 tIm great collection Bibles Washington Wash-ington Post How Strawberries Ont of Season Taste Two men were seated at the same table in a restaurant both eating a midday meal The same viands were served to each but one had supplemented his order or-der with a dish of strawberries and cream Id rather have fresh berries at this season of the year than at any other time he remarked Entirely out of season answered the other Why I consider It almost suicidal sui-cidal to eat strawberries before hot weather I daresay you can remember how we used to wait when we were boys for the strawberries to ripen But what a flavor they had I can distinctly recall re-call it Try some of those on the menu urired the other man aNo no my dear fellow I should certainly cer-tainly be ill if I ate berries out of season sea-son and he scanned the price per saucer sau-cer and shivered Nonsense Here waiter another saucer sau-cer of strawberries and add it to my chock Tut tut no thanks I want you to have a treat The order came and the manafraul ofstrawberrIes disposed of his dish in short order and with the keenest relish I wouldnt have believed it he said the very same flavor the strawberries at home had when we were boys Ana here I have always said that strawberries strawber-ries out of season tasted of nothing but the money It depends thought the other man on whose money pays for them But he did not say so Detroit Free Press |