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Show Grip takes to ths low-necked, low-sboed low-sboed girl. Many a bachelor will breathe easier, for leap year has gone. This 6hould be a good year, for there is luck in odd numbers. Love is the one game that has no code of rules, and wants none. How Is it that fudge can be sent by parcel post, though dynamite is refused re-fused ? The get rich quick rascal always has a get rich quick victim. They gf1 together. Mules are no joke, at least not Missouri Mis-souri mules, for they now command 1212 a head. Make Courtship a Science Is the m tto of the Fathers and Mothers' club of Boston. Sir Thomas Lipton ' says liquor drinking is ruining the nations. And tea is so cheap, too! ' "If society women smoke," remarks one of them, "that's their business." Also, the tobacconists. A car horse in New York committed suicide. Another instance of human intelligence in animals. Dr. Woods Hutchinson, as champion of pie and the hard-boiled egg, talks like a railroad lunch counter. Going down to the Bea In ships Beems to be about as perilous In this enlightened age as ever it was. ' Caging all available microbes In one's living room is about as bright as warming a serpent in one's bosom. The world's aluminum industry is Baid to be under control, but the spelling spell-ing cf it has never been regulated. A disagreeing pair were likened to kittens by a magistrate. Then, again, they are sometimes called panthera. Owners of automobiles must envy poets who exercise their own sweet will about taking out poetic licenses. Germany's federal council refuses to block dueling in the army. Its members may have feared being challenged. chal-lenged. The seed "catalogs are coming In and all your resolutions against garden gar-den making this year will be met and overcome. France complains that the automobiles automo-biles are destroying her good roads the famous routes nationales of the Napoleonic era. Surely the title of meanest man must be passed over to that fellow who sued the man who took him rid-' rid-' lng in hlB auto because he was hurt In an accident, A college professor declares it is not always easy to tell the difference! between genius and idiocy. One great difference is that the idiots generally escape consequences. Somebody has invented a cowcatcher cowcatch-er for automobiles, which may or may not relieve the anxiety with which the klne have been afflicted ever since the advent of the petrol cart. It is said in a New York college that more city boys are studying farming than country boys. This, however, may be only the natural reaction of wanting something different Titled males are renting themselves them-selves out as afternoon tea attractions In London for from $7.50 to $15 a tea. The impoverished aristocracy is learning learn-ing methods of high finance. A baby girl in Boston is being trained up to become a perfect woman. wom-an. If her ideal destiny is fulfilled, she is going to be so lonely that she will wonder If perfection pays. In Denver a bill has been introduced threatening dire punishment for physicians phy-sicians who remove healthy appendices. appen-dices. Which causes the question: "Is a removed appendix a healthy one?" The society to abolish useless gift-giving gift-giving is to be extended to take in a crusade against useless tipping. But the trouble about the latter is the gigantic difficulty of tolling in advance when tipping is useless. A New Jersey judge rules that $20 Is enough for any woman to pay for a suit. But wait until New Jer aey is annexed by New York city, and see how completely he will reverrst himself. ' |