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Show THE BEE Could thoro In u won important in hearing upon thn welfaro ill?!14 of Utah than that of tlm Mothers Congress which convened last Tuesday at tlm City and County building And could thoro ho a more encouraging sign of tlm times than the fact that a modest unofiicial littlo call brought out soventy-tivpromi-non- t women to effect an organization in response to that cully Three ringing cheers for Utah! the substantial matron! Pass tlm word to Washington. Tell Denver! A 5 If In wont he glad nncholy to dually outlivo that belated birthday and leave tin 1HU echoes and phantoms to the warm pmuncts of the cheerful day and he a real livo old man, then in actual fact the hasty bullet of long ago did plow out some normal faculty. make-believe- ? o Ilero is an incident of an old veteran of the army of tho Potomac, told by the editor of tho Century magazine: This vetoran whilo in service and just before his eighteenth birthday, had a confedrate projectile slip across tin top of his skull, leaving a deep and lasting impression. Ono may call it lasting for it remains to this dav, and deep for you may still looso tho thickness of your finger in tho path it left. So that eighteenth birthday was not celebrated; tho nineteenth was and each succeeding ono, and now his frionds tell him thoy liavo set apart a day upon which tlioy will annul the work of the? robed hulled, go back into tho past, resurrect the lost occasion, and came to celebrato with him (although arriving a wee bit late tho third of a century) his eighteenth birthday. The vetoran is to forget his hospital experience, his fight with death, and hasten back down the dusty lane of the past, through the motionless groups and misty half forgotten scenes intervening and pick up an unobserved anniversity of boyhood. The editor wonders what the hosts speech at the birthday dinner may bo if he will not urge the boys to stand by the flag, and to remember Honest Old Abe." He may, but who can imagine a more solemn, mel- - It will tako some one more soft- uraptikai hearted than the ordinary nows- , rron. paper drudge not to enjoy tho mako-uof tin Critic this week. In fact, nothing so comforting as tlm last number of that individual littlo magazine lias appeared for a longtime. All on thoprinciplo T po- - p that misery loves company too. Not to pause over minor defect, the make-uman has successfully set adrift a couplo of lines from the heart of a maga-zinreview, and coolly, and probably with entiro satisfaction to himself, brings them safely into post in tho very midst of a totally disassociated article on hooks. Do not question, cither, for a moment that that man was unable to explain with fascinating grace when the Gilders calk'd next morning exactly how it happened. Every now and then thoro is a drawback' in this world, but the Critic people have tho samo choice left the rest of the and editing fraternity. They can tin articles next week, or correct and tho issue of this week, or they can grin and bear it. p will have thirteen at tahlo. Tin shall summon breaking of a looking-glasus to tlm dining-room- , which wo will enter, passing under a ladder. We will spill salt day, and I s freely among ourselves, and you aro specially requested to wear opals, if you liavo any; to sing hoforo breakfast; to put on your garments wrong side out, and to do anything olse to invito tlm calamities feared by tho superstitious." Only two accepted her hospitality, and one cannot help wons of tin dering just what tlm pot two who acceptod are. Evidently tho hostess did not happen upon them, and probably sin herself would have thrown a pinch of salt ovor her loft shoulder had all hor thirteen guests accepted and sin been forced to carry out her proposed program. hug-a-hoo- o re-wri- te re-pri- nt ro-publi- Table Talk for May tells tho story of a party of friends at dinner discussing tho absurdity of familiar superstitions, yet tho hostess noticed that one by. one nearly all owned to some pet superstition each herself harbored. So she made tho follow-lowinproposition: Meet mo here again, at luncheon, on the thirteenth day of the month, when tho day shall fall on a Fri- g Tin hero of tin following is a purely American product. He is a young gentleman of four years, and ho lias been much charmed by tho grace" which a dear neighboring auntie says over her dinner-plate- . Coming homo he described the ceremony to his parents, illustrated it, and made tin request that such an observance ho instituted at homo. A polito hut somewhat surface attention was given tin youngster, hence his parents a graceless pair were completely startled when, as they wen making ready that (veiling to proceed with dinner in tin usual way, the young religio rose on tho shelf of his high-chai- r and exclaimed in severely rebuking, severely emphatic tones: I want you to talk to God! Wouldst thou rathor ho a peasant's son that know, were it never so rudely, thoro was a God in heaven and in man; or a dukos son that only know there were two-and-thir- quarters on tho family coach? Sartor Resartus. R. K. THOMAS DRY GOODS CO. 48-5- 0 SOUTH MAIN STREET, SALT LAKE OITV. We are Showing 1,000 Patterns in Wash Dress Goods at IQ cents per yard. Value, 20 cents. AIR K. THOMAS DRV GOODS CO V((ViWVAVVVVVWWiVaiViaaiaiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa'AAAAAMAAMAAMAAAAAAAAAAAAM ty |
