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Show Vtnait-. antl Mir. "I wish somebody would flnl some thing to take therlacoof the ciceoi Injly stalo and silly 'women an 1 mice' paragraph which has leen going tlie rounls cf the papers, with divers and sundry changes rnng on It, over since 1 can n member, and goodness knows how much longer,1 said a charming little woman as she opened thn inoti-trnp anl ht two or Unroof Its occupants out Into the jaw s cf a number of hungry kittens, kit-tens, 1 wonder who staffed it any way? Of course tbero are women who are afraid t f mice, no doubt, bnt I neer saw a woman make hcmlf more rldlca Ions oeramoae than a certain man did when one of theio harmless little creatures scooted up tli9 leg of his tron sets. "I don't Imagine any one would feol eapeclally comfortable with any such foreign element meandering aroun 1 one's prt serves, but why 'women and mice In partlcnlar. Is what 1 don t understand. I think there are ery few housekeepers but what hate frequent occasions to come In con tic t with rats as well as mice, and, as far as 1 can see, they seem to survive at all events,! never heard of anjlrody dying from fear of them. 1 suppoaethat the uiouie paragraph must bentar akin to that of the mother-in-law. He tint as it may, loth are so threadbare nnl faded and fraed out and bleached with time and hard si rv-I rv-I co that itwoall bo nworcof merry for eorue benevolent an 1 Intelligent para grapher to get up a now supply of am munition." Ssw York Ledger, |