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Show ONE THING AND ANOTHER, City swell I fain would have the for my vory own. Country girl Well, you can just get. You're not the iirst by several that's feigned the same thing, aud I'm still doing the housework for ma. I5'n8-hamton I5'n8-hamton Leader. The riding masters says that the sudden sud-den and usual popularity of equestriam-ism equestriam-ism among women can be traced directed di-rected to the physicians. A very few years ago womeii were frowned upon when they suggested horseback exercise exer-cise to their doctors. Even the most advanced physicians considered that riding was too wearing and violent for women of frail physique, aud the horse that sold best were small, gentle and broken to a "single-foot" gait. After animals of this type had beeu riden extensively ex-tensively for five or six years physicians crenerallv lnarnnrl that nil in or thm a.-a a a little more wearing on women than lolling in a rocking chair. Gradually "single footers" were abandomed and horses broken to trot wero taken up. Nine-tenths of the women in Central Park nowadays ride horses that have a gait which men would find irksome. The result justifies the violence of the exercise. No more strikiug groups of women can be found in town than the stright-backed, lithe, clear-skinned, bright-eyed, healthy, and athletic horsewomen horse-women who meet at the riding schools and start out for a morning trot in the park between the hours of 8 and 11 every day but Sunday. New York Sua. "Now the best thing you can do," said the judge to an old negro who had applied for a divorce, "is to go home and behave yourself." "Yas, sah." "I do not see why you should not get along all right." 'Yas, sah." "We all have to make sacrifices." "Yas, sah, so I heah 'em says, but mighty few men haster put up wid sich er wife ez I's got. I ken stan' de common com-mon run o' waiimen, but dat pusson, jedge, is rank pizen. W'y, sah, if she wuas cr sleop an' wuster dream dat I wuz enjoyin' mrse'f, sho'd wake herae'f up an' see dat de de enjoyment wuz stopped right dar. She like ter died some time ergo, Wuz mighty in hopes dat I wuz gwine tor lose her, but when she found dat I wuz pleased blame ef she didn't turn oberan' git well. She's a bad 'oman, sah." Arkansas Traveler. Trav-eler. It was at a dinner in Chicago. The invited ministers were deploring the fact that the catechism is but little studied by the children of the presont day. In this trie hostless differed from them, saying: "It is not so in our bouse. James bat just meiveda prize for a perfect recitation of the catechism, and even little Johnny is beginning to learn it. Johnny toll the miuisier "What is the chief end of man?'" The little fellow addressed had been too intent on an unusually good dinner to hear aught but the question directlv addressed to him, and was, perhaps, a little annoyed at the Interruptions, for he replied, rather impatiently: "I don't know, but I suppose the one with the head on:" - |