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Show THE LADIES. Every millionaire has his weakness. Many take to wives; Stewart look lo pictums. Tommy suddenly, on his way home from church) "What did you take out of the contribution box, mamma? 1 only got sixpence! Look here!" A misbehaving woman was taken from her house in Bradfordville, Ky., by masked men, in ihe night, and severely whipped with beech switches. At the beginning of her theatrical career, Anna Dickinson is paying extraordinary ex-traordinary attention to her clothes. Her wardrobe is already far more extensive ex-tensive than her repeitoire. Fanny Lear has been creating a scandal m Italy by a love affair with Count Miraflori, a natural son of Victor Vic-tor Emanuel, and a married man. She has been ordered out of the country, coun-try, and has gone to Munich. "Xow, George, my dear," said Mrs. Spifkins .it the play the other night, as her hubby was groping for hia bat, "you needn't go out to get roasted co flee for your heartburn ; I hivc brought a handful in my pocket." A Chicago gir! in New Haven amazed a Yale theological student bv asking him to help her pull ofl her boot. Then she told him if he didn't do it she'd kirk all the curl out of bis hair; and that completely paralyzed him. It is a mistake to suppose, young man, that you ought to throw buck your head when you take offyourhat to a lady. If you are unable to accomplish ac-complish a bow and the removal of your hat at the same lime, you had belter limit juur.elf to a bow'. Them's a woman living in the Connecticut Con-necticut valley who hisivt seen a man in nearly twenty years. When asked if she wouldn't liko to have one around, jus; for a change, she answered, an-swered, dolefully: "Xo; it's so long now, I wuu'dn'i know what to do with him." Bridget "Sure, Maria and me was dbjeuehin' over what was thitn things in the pitcher over the mantle." Mistress Mis-tress "Why, Bridget, those are lia-phael's lia-phael's angels." Bridget "Och, thin, the both of us wnz wrong; I said they wuz twins, and Maria said they wiu ban," . Two young geiit!iiun were discussing dis-cussing whether or uol etiquette demanded de-manded that a young lady upon part ing at 'he gate or door thai! ask the voting man to call again. "Certainly it is," urged one. "Certainly it isn't," Bnid the other. "I go to see a young lady who knows what politeness polite-ness requires, and stio never asks me to call ngain." When is a t idy's dress like nn unfortunate un-fortunate bull lighter? When it is gored. And when is it liko a parti-tan parti-tan When it is biased. And when is it like a toper? When il is lull. And when is it like the sails ol a ship? When it is trimmed. When is it like a season of the year? When it is lent. Win n is il no lunger lit lor use? After she lias once worn it uut. A p.tr'y of ladies and gentlemen, all church people, assembled al the Marrowfats Mar-rowfats the other evening, and were lelicitatiug themselves upon tho approaching ap-proaching end of Lent, whwu a little girl, who was leaning confidingly against her mother's knee, looked up and said: "Ma, isn't it most lime our rabbits were- laying Faster eggs?" The company broke up in some confusion. |
