Show STARBEAMS Watch that person who Is disliked by dogs and children In Shakespeares time kicksywick sy was a term of endearment for a wife It is indeed a hard choice between l the slovenly and the severely clean s7 Too many persons there are who say their prayers but who never pray As between wickedness and dullness the former Is probably the more dangerous dan-gerous to mankind An old man of 75 and his wife of 70 in an English home for the aged have petitioned the authorities to let them have a tandem bicycle A woman who has given up music for literature keeps her hands in excellent ex-cellent condition for the piano by her constant work on the typewriter Sydney Smith of Argo Ga insisted upon hearing his own funeral sermon which was preached just a few days before he died aged 118 years As noses are usually cut off by way of spite work it is pleasant to read of a West Point cadet who had his proboscis pro-boscis reduced by an inch to please his sweetheart At a meeting of distillers and whisky dealers at Cincinnati Saturday it was decided that the price of whisky must go up But whisky will continue to go down The names of American cities are known and referred to at Rome only in their Latin form Kansas City is known to the pope and cardinals as Kansanopolis That blow that Fits gave Corbett over the heart caused a North Carolina Caro-lina man to eat a baked cat His wager was to get away with the greater great-er part of the animal but he liked it so well that he devoured it all It was Carlyle who said If you are in doubt whether to kiss a pretty woman give her the benefit of the doubt A Minneapolis man who acted on this advice was given the benefit of a 25 fine by the hardhearted police judge S Every good housewife ought to ascertain as-certain how much truth there is in the statement that a pinch of powdered arrowroot ar-rowroot will cause salt to remain perfectly per-fectly dry and fine in its table receptacles recep-tacles whatever the conditions of the atmosphere may be There was also a Julian law in ancient an-cient times but there were no telephone tele-phone companies then for a vain and > light headed official to try to annoy with it Some of his discontented subjects J < sub-jects however flung it up to Nero when he was getting a little too gay That grim and grotesque monarch brushed it aside with the remark As if the Julian law had any terrors for meIt It has been found by experiment that tea regards digestion An infusion of J per cent of tea causes a perceptible delay de-lay 3 per cent Infusion will delay the digestion sometimes as much as 12 times the normal period a 10 per cent decoction arrests the digestion of allM starchy food Indigestion promotes IB ritability as everybody knows who ha ever suffered from that disorder Hence the little asperities which are so common com-mon at those feminine gatherings called call-ed tea fights cT The following are the commonest i names in New York according to the New York City directory for IbJT from f which they are selected Smith 3183 Brown 1562 Miller 1495 Murphy 1210 Meyer 1103 Johnson 1086 Kelly Kel-ly 1074 Cohen 1005 Levy 961 Will jams 893 Jones 892 Murray 884 Wilson Wil-son 873 Clark 84S Sullivan 820 Martin Mar-tin 816 White 782 Davis 762 OBrien 760 Ryan 752 Moore 752 Excepting Cohen and Levy the same proportion will doubtless fit Kansas City At the consistory court of the diocese of London held on Thursday to arrange ar-range the transfer of the Mayflower records to America the chancellor first put the question Is New England apart a-part of Massachusetts None of those present and there was a large assemblage assem-blage of dignitaries could answer the question definitely although some of them thought it was The Associated Press reporter then enlightened the grave and learned cleric on the subject sub-ject Kansas City Star S |