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Show -- I ...Fine College Buildings. HE TOLD THE TRUTH. lie thing A MonMtoHi IJqMtloa. tmtl written Ihst he had somemoht important, romething he Two nw society hulls have keen added to the already long list at Yale. Both of the new hulls, while built by Sheffield Scientific School societies, have followed out the plan of the academia department? and are tightly of these two society much comment at Yale, where there has been lately a movement for club houses Instead of the time honored secret society halls. Yale undergraduates, however, ellng to the old style of society hall building. and the two latest additions to the list seems to show that the clubhouse idea has not yet become popular Vassar college has been enriched by two buildings, completed within the last year. The New England building is so called because it was contributed by the alumnae from the New England The- - halls waiting for a lung time to She knew what it wan. Oh, it must be ttmt. She waited with beating heart, to hear hia footsteps on tha KtrpH out hi ile. She had sent the family out to call sealed and windowless structures, built on the neigh burn and put on the gown of the most secret type. The more Imposing of these two new buiidir;s which he liked best. lx that of Book and Snake, one of the At luet. There wan a ring at the Sheffield school fraternities. d'soilc!l. lie had come. She took one leading other la known aa the Tombs, and The laht giaiu-- ii.to the mirror to nee that deserves its name. Both structures her front hair wuu on straight, and are a for the aclenttAc then resumed her business of waiting. school, departure haa up to now built Its that He entered hurriedly and looked society halls after the Harvard model, had te-e- u aay. building has raised rooms for the preparation of material. Over the amphitheater below la the physiological department. Aa the large two story windows throughout the building are nine feet wide, it will be seen that the north front contains, in a length of only eighty-fou- r feet, forty-fiv- e feet of glass, an Important feature in a building designed for thia character of work. The exterior of the structure la of Indiana limestone and red brick. The departments will begin their work In this building after Christmas. A bronze tablet in the entrance hall will be surmounted by a hand holding 1 have eoiiii- - to 1 nay somethin;;," he legan, alowiy. Have you?" blie sulii. assuming tha surprised look which she had selected aa the liest out of IS different kinds of surprised expressions which aha had practiced over before the mirror. Dear me, what in It you want to talk about?" 1 want to tell you something." ha auld. Well," Bhe Raid, while aha restrained herself from throwing both arms around hia neck and yelling yea" so It could be heard two blocks away, tell me. he said, "I've got chilblains, his teeth, "and I can't call on you unless you let me taka my shoes off." Chicago Tribune. n "Did you aaa thia? A Pennsylvania woman stopped n fast mall train lust to ask tha engineer tha time of day. Well, what time was It ? Cleveland Plain Dealer. June Sea here, I And there la a mortgage on the property you aold me. You never a aid anything about It. 8mith Certainly I did. Didn't I dlatlnctly tell you It bad all modern ' Improvements? A MATTER FOR WONDER. Landing I'p la It. The husband had taken a hearty meal and, retiring to the library, sat down before tha Are among the eush-lam- s and lighted a cigar. Tha wife followed him In and eat on his knee; aha gently laid her lily hand In hia and nestled her smooth, fair cheek against hia growth of beard. Tha husband had a premonition that something waa going to happen ahort-ly- . In fact, he thought he knew what it wag, but he waited. "Don't you think this la going to bo n vary cold winter, George? ahe purred. Ha said ha waa no weather prophet and would not venture a two-day- s' THE BOOK AHE SHAKE HALL A new fraternity house at Yale. planning to have roomy, open cluba states, who desired to supply tha colrather than sealed up buildings. Both lege's need of greater apace for the are among the finest and moot department of biology. remarkable at Yale, and have receivThe building faces north, and coned much attention since they were tains on the first floor four large corerected thia fall. ner laboratories for mineralogy, geol- Book and Snake choae for their alts tha corner of Grove and High streets, on the square diagonally opposite the guest. "I expect to be out a great deal thla winter," aha aald. Ho replied that that would be nice. "You know that Jacket I wore last winter, George?" she Queried, anxiously. Ho nodded darkly. "It'a worn out," aha aald. Ha looked absently Into the Are. "I say its worn out!" she repeated aomewhat emphatically. The husband pushed her from him until he could get Into hts vest pocket; then he produced a roll of bills and with a sigh skinned off a 95 bill and handed the richly embroidered green thing to her. "There," be said, impatiently, "go 1 by n sealskin." Mamma Tommie, Im glad to observe that you have given your little slater the largest piece of rake. It howa you are charitable." Tommie No, It doesn't, mamma. It ahowa that the small piece had the moat ret- ains in It." Absent-minde- BAD BREAK. d fine senior society building of Scroll and Key. It la an Immense marble building, built closely on Greek lines, and la said to be the purest copy of tha Greek that exists In this country It stands on the same block today. with the mammoth now dining hall, and its doors open on the entrance to the Grove Street Cemetery, which la Itself a sample of pure Egyptian. The Book and Snake house la by all odds tha handsomest and moat costly of all Yala private structures. There la not a single slit or window In Its massive white walla, and Its roof la aolld also, not a ray of aunllght entering through Yet any part of tha walla or roof. during the daytime It la flooded with sunlight, by means of a unique arrangement A marble shaft haa been Professor Now, let's aaa; what waa I going to da? sunk la tha yard which is open to the Sunlight At the bottom are Axed mirPerhaps. rors that redact tha aunllght Into Mr. GruAly (tasting the Thanksgiv- tha building through tha floor. Ailing ing turkey) I cant eat anything. tha groat structure with light all day. Tha turkey dont taste right and the It la aald to be tha only contrivance cranberry sauce la not At to cal. I of the kind la the country, and la atwish I had a Thanksgiving dinner aueh tracting mnch notice from architects. aa mother used to get up. Sha waa all The Tombs atands In Temple street, right, mother waa. Sha could suit south of Grove street, and is much Mrs. Gruffly Perhaps yon dll not feel then as you do now." Mr. Gruffly Why not?" Mrs. Gruffly Well, when yon need to enjoy your mother's cooking your stomach waa not berned to n blister with bad whisky and you ware not aa nervous aa a cat because your A ash was not aoaked full of nicotine, and of tha you were not up two-thirnight before chasing around a billiard table at the club and having Just ona more with the boys. Perhaps that had something to do with It" Mrs. Gruffly might have added more, but Mr. Gruffly pushed back from tha table and grabbed hia hat Hia exit waa marked by an unusually loud slam of HEW-EHGLAH- BTJILDIHG. E and botany. In tha rear is an amphltheatrlcal lecture room, not shown from tha point of view of the photograph. In the center la a large stair hall, lighted overhead ogy, xoology, - Mrs. Waunta cold spell? tha door. Habit Teas Oh, she's the girl who used to go around In tha riding habit all the time. Jess Yes, but she'a got the automobile habit now. Teso That so? What la it? Jess Running over people chance aha gets. Noe Why did yon charge so much more for milk during Water Euchalk (a milkman) You see, ma'am, the pump waa frozen, and wa had to carry water more than two miles. A Btady la Ilaatoar. XoCr for Km. d "That man la exceedingly haughty," "Beg pardon, aald the remarked tha plain cltlxen, who waa visitor, but la there a literary club transacting soma business. "I guess around hero anywhere?" ha la tha proprietor of tha establish"Yea, replied the editor, algnlAcant-lment. as ha reached under his desk. "Art "No," aald the friend, hes not tha you n literary man?" He never had to taka proprietor. chances on getting customers, and Charity's Hard Tlaa "In da summer time," says Brother avoid making enemies. You can always depend on It when you sea n Dickey, charity la feared er glttln haughty man In an office that ho la aunstrlked, an la da winter time aba sura of hia mousy. It may not ha baa tar keep out da way or da so much, but be la getting It regularly." th'oat an do pnoumony. long-haire- y, Ills Kaaaoalafb aald you ware hungry," remarked tha woman reand yet when I gave proachfully, you a quarter a little while ago you went to s saloon Instead of n restauYou kind-heart- ed rant." Yes'm," admitted tha hobo. "Tan see. It's this here way; X was hungry an' thirsty, an twonty-Av- e cants worth of whisky'll make mo forgtt Tm cants worth hungry, but twonty-Av- e o grub wont make me fergtt Ita thirsty." Chicago Post and for Isolation, provides a number of private bedrooms, and the parlors, dining rooms, etc., necessary In a temporary college hospital of thia character. It la Colonial In stylo and, being situated In a retired part of the grounds among the trees, it offers aa attractive retreat for convalescents. The illustrations and 'descriptions are from the New York Tribune. Mm. U OfBelallj DmA Very few people are aware that that moat weird of oriental statesmen, who for so many years not only guided thh destinies of China, but was, to all intents and purposes, the true ruler of that strange country, had. In hia earlier life, a rather uncanny domestic experience of the Enoch Arden type, though It waa one of his wives, and not himself, who played the part. It seems that Mrs. LI Hung Chang; In some mysterious way, disappeared one Ana day, and, after making all and allowing a reasonable for her reappearance, without any result whatever, it waa decided that aha waa officially defunct, and all went on aa usual In the LI household until, without any warning, the missing lady suddenly turned up and presented herself at the front door of her husband's palace. She reckoned without her host, however, aa 14 would have none of her and, as officially dead she was, so officially dead ahe must continue to ha. ds Thm been given to tha building. The Bwift Infirmary, given by Mm. Atwater of Poughkeepsie, In memory of her father, Mr. Swift, besides containing wards both for general Built by New England Vassar College Alumnae, as" the hall a piece of Plymouth Rock, which haa Soma churches make very successful burial cluba. THE A new fraternity house TOMBS. at Yala that deserves Its name. Tha Archbishop of Canterbury aaya that England simpler In architecture Its aide walla and lined with museum cases. The tive grammar. am of brick, but the front la In the most ancient of Egyptian styles. Tha masslvensas of tha ornamentation on tha front makaa a striking appearance. la suffering from defec- whole front of the second floor A rag merchant, who works np evcupied by a biological laboratory eighty feet long, and In connection ery shred and art and end Into now son. with thia am lecture rooms, ofllces aad 'creations. E ! oc- v |