Show Some Curios and Oddities I There Are Lots of Queer Things 1 In This Old World to Be Sure we ve reached WHEN vy said the tou W we found In the tho railway stations alongside of oC the ticket office machines for measuring the t height of f children I 1 said to the agent in iii inA g a A half ticket for my little lithe girl she too tat Uin th the man ask asked d Let her st step D on n the measurer measurer please i My daUghters 1 was dul duly taken It was four feet fre right t said ai th the agent She passes after all I chen the man explaIned to me that on I account t of Innumerable disputes O over er the age of chIldren half bait tares fares were now JOW sold In S rland to height in or of according to age Children un under Under der three feet tr travel vel free freeo Those between three feet teet and four our feet halt half tare fare Those OV over four foul feet six paid lull fare The new rule Is a good one said the agent We Ve ha have no mOre disputes The Tho children are measured at the ticket o 0 flee and that is the end of the matter Visitors I suppose bother you Jou a great deal sIt sir said a reporter to a famous n nI I 1 have no less than forty visitors a aday day the statesman replied Of these I t forty ny twenty on an average I must see How do you OU get et rid or of them quickly enough Dough How without offending them do you show how them that it is time to go goMy My s said the statesman In to me hen the time limit has expired and he tells teUs me very audibly that m ms wife wishes to seome me Ha ha ha l the reporter I suppose now that But just then there was an Interruption tion The entered the room and murmured to the statesman Your wife sir wishes to see you ou Jimmy Jimmy Confound that boy f Where has he gone now The bookkeeper hastened respectfully un to the Impatient bOss bOsh Anything I can do sir lie he sal said Jimmy has sneaked out arain Well ell never Deer mind Jenkins Ill wait un he returns said the boss boitS Then tur turIg to his visitor he commented philosophically Jimmy is Iss so I believe he has hasa a great reat fortune ahead of him Laziness is a sign of greatness you u know w All millionaires were isia lazy b boys T They never when the they worked for salaries I earned their salt saltI j I ha have yet to see a million fire alre with enough plo plodding dino Industry In him to do a days work ot of the kInd his clerks do doan n honest days work worle from Crom I 9 tm till 6 at pushing or figurin Every EvorY 1 millionaire ever successful man is In lazy w I It is only In t the e plodding bookkeepers bookkeeper and the laborers and JUd the ClerkS that the virtue of oC industry Is to tobe I be found You Yeu say that great mens minds are I active c even en though their bodies be In Indolent dolent Vell that Is nothing Every b mind Ia active lI Successful ll men succeed because their laziness sets them to thinking thinking Ii hard on the way Va to earn money easily the wa way to earn great Teat quantities ot of j monc money without doing much work Watch Va tell I these men at the of their ca I rears and Jou see them as Ii h ei ed clerks In order to scheme nd the they should be betiding bending over oer 1 their desks Watch atch them after success Is attained and you see them with their fa fat stomachs lolling tn in their offIces too I lazy to write a let er or make out it t bill up n a check l I will se coed He Hec HeIs j Is laa and lazineSs Is i success facto c An Englishman has 0 opened eRed In New NewYork NewYork York a Shop devoted entirely to walkIng sticks ll lii who enters this shoo shou is first struck with the filet fact that all the hn or of sticks on en display are us as long JonG a 8 alpenstocks and have no r ferreis on them Ih rho salesman f explains this fact Bach stick sir he saId la Is s It wro mR made e to your our measure You buy It five fet lel long you ou decide what suits stilts you best a workman In n a half hair minute cuts the tho sU k down to that length 1 Ihus v who patronizes this shop get n a stick that Its fits him perfectly Tile The salesman Iman out a huge huJo room filled filed with sUcks sticks anti and umbrella bandies handl s sy y Yu select t your stick and your silk he said an and wa malte tin umbrella to your our measure It out Just the diameter dhimeter and jUst the he length you OU lIKe bl heaL sL He showed downstairs how sticks were bent twisted st straightened cd even knotted On the broad surface of sod very hot stove there was a bed m r very velY hot and Sticks laid in this sand became pliable a gloved workman was not hot bite a aW W V e another wa Val tying i handle h In an 1 j Tb heat those Jo 40 j skilled work worle said w salesmen A boat hent that suits ono no kind of wow wood ruins another amb b oak and so 0 Ott must each b i s separately with witha I a t l ten or of heat tHis fat more tha than rt d degree or two an OUr I stick is ruined IrretrIevably I |