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Show STORIES OP DR. HOLMES. A Toung Woman Who Didn't Like 111 Literary Taste. The story is recalled of a young Vir ginia country girl dining in Boston ome years ago, in the days when Dr. Holmes went to dinners. Seated next to her was a homely, little old gentleman gentle-man whose name she did not catch. He began to talk with her and asked hef how she passed her time in the country. "Oh, we read, my father and II" Bh said. "And what do yon read?" asked th little man. "Well, the 'Autocrat of the Breakfast Break-fast Table' for one thing," she answer, ed. "I should think you would not car to read that more than once," remarked remark-ed the little old man with a sign of disappointment dis-appointment in his tones. "My father and I may not be judges of literature, ' ' 6aid Miss Virfrinia airily airi-ly and with a faint accent of 6coru, "but when we get to the end of the 'Autocrat' we generally turn Dack to the beginning and read it over again. " The little old man smiled at this and was disposed to be friendly, but Miss Virginia was so displeased with his tone concerning the "Autocrat" that she mel him with chilly indifferanoe. As soon os the guests went into th I firawing room her hostess whispered feproaohfully to her: "You didn't -seem to find Dr. Holmes as Interesting as I hoped. " "Dr. Holmes 1" shrieked Miss Virgin-la. Virgin-la. There were a tableau and an explanation. expla-nation. Another story of Holmes' wit is told. One day old Dr. Peabody was to meet him at a certain place. The venerable professor rode in a carriage. When he got there, he was met by Holmes, who had walked Near by was a statue o Bury dice. And Holmes said: "Ah, you ride, I see!" "Capital, capital!" cried Peabody. That night he went back home and said to his wife: "Holmes got off a good joke today." His wife asked him what it was. "Why, I was to meet him down at he Btatue of Eurydice, and when I arrived, ar-rived, he said quite happily, 'Oh, yoo came in a carriage I " And then the genial professor wondex , d -why his wife didn't laugh. Tie two babies of the Chinese minis-fcev minis-fcev now in Washington are very oua-nlng oua-nlng bits of babyhood, though they do look a trifle odd in their queer littis oriental duds. A lady who saw thorn for the first time tho other day declare they resemble nothing so much as a con-Die con-Die of firecrackers. |