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Show Dividing Up the Honeymoon. Charles Felton Pidgin, the statistician statisti-cian of Massachusetts, is studying the question of raco suicide. "It Is a wonder," Mr. Pidgin said the other day, "that we hear nothing of race suicide in Scotland. The Scotch are a prosaic people. The French, on the other hand, are as romantic as a poet. Yet it is the French and not the Scotch who are permitting the raco to die out. The opposite is what we might expect. For the Scotch find little of glamor, even in the honeymoon. honey-moon. I know in Roxbury when 1 lived there a Scotch tobacconist who got married. Meeting him a few days after the wedding I said: 'Why, Donald, Don-ald, I thought you were away on your honeymoon? " 'Well, so we are,' the simple young follow answered. 'Mary is down at Cousin Tarn's for a week, and I'm goln' to take a week when she comes baok.' " |