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Show Now it is the "individual drinkina cup" for the horse! It is embarrassing to borrow "money from a deaf friend in a crowd. New York is to have stepless cars. Tha much-maligned hobble skirt did It 'hat will the government do wltft jfl the microbes it washes off the currency? cur-rency? Still, "refined boxing" Is not likely to become a popular parlor entertainment. entertain-ment. Despite the old adage, some people have married at leisure and repented In haste. It Is natural that general optimism should Increase with the abundance of cherry pie. Let us quit railing at the motorcycle. motorcy-cle. It ranks among the utilities that have come to stay. Cautious owners of motor boats will take along a pa4? of oars and keep within sight of land. Europe would be still more disquieted dis-quieted If It had two baseball pennants pen-nants to worry about. Will the government experts who are to investigate the oyster beds be Classed as chambermaids? Press dispatches say there Is a rev olution In Venezuela, but fail to Btata whether it Is yet or again. Fourteen thousand books are turn-' turn-' ed out in this country a year, and only tlx of them become best sellers. At $1,500 for four pounds of Pomera-alan Pomera-alan dog, the prevailing high prices for cattle and hogs seem dirt cheap. Wisconsin has a law prohibiting gossip. But is there a man In Wisconsin Wis-consin who can tell what gossip Is? A Cincinnati woman wants all her lex to wear a badge reading: "I kiss not" The answer to that Is: "I guess not." New York Is to have not only the largest court house In the country, but the largest church. It needs both. The older generation is unaffected by the Immodest fads which modern lociety sanctions; . but what of the Foung? The difference between your own child and your neighbor's Is that your child is a cherub and your neighbor's Is a brat. Now it Is discovered that the earth wabbles. This wilj furnish a new and effective excuse for those shaken by this wabbling from the straight and narrow path. We have seenvmen sneer at futile -feminine fashions and then go into a furnishing store and use good gray matter deciding upon the color of a Bew pair of garters. They sayphotography Is useless In portraying feminine fashions for the reason, which men can readily believe, that such figures as women would like to have do not exist. Now that goat meat is being sub-itltuted sub-itltuted for mutton, a bright remark uch as "you generally get the butcher's butch-er's goat when you ask for spring lamb" is quite permissible. A newly-married man in New York has been held up. and robbed of his money three times in three days. But by the time he has been married a few months he will be used to it. The girls in one senior class In a 11 gh school In Ohio were graduated In Iresses that cost them only $1.90 ipiece. And it Is not recorded that they knew less in those dresses. "How many millions make a billion?" bil-lion?" Inquires a correspondent. Billion Bil-lion In America, Is one thousand mil-Sons. mil-Sons. Billion in England, Is one mil-Son mil-Son millions. We should worry! A rich woman in California bough l whole township site to insure her-lelf her-lelf privacy and quiet. This is one way of getting rid of the noises of jivllizatlon, but it is not apt to become popular. According to asociatlon of commerce estimates, Chicago men pay annually 6, 000, 000 for 5,000,000 bats. But where san one find that kind of hat? Per-iaps Per-iaps the asociatlon of oommeroi yiged by appearances. |