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Show i . ... 1 If your beau wears Ills heart mi hi! Bleevo don't wear pins In your belt. In Say vil It;. N. y., a man died from J being henpecked. Hut this hen was I poultry. Dr. Wiley says that preserver 'PZ? are not lit to eat. Nor are those, that haven't been. Every pood resolution helps a little, though it may not last until It reaches the place nanieil on the ticket. j England and Germany may build their dreadnoughts, but the Tinted fitutcs 1kih a corner on the Missouri mule. The trouble with those big deer the hunters shot Is that they might have been so much bigger if they had got nwa y. Unfortunately, all the poets are snowed in, bo that they have nothing to do hut write poems on "The Beautiful Beau-tiful Snow." Queen Alexandra retains her beauty by simple living and by keeping her temper. Queens do not have to worry about cooks, however. Now that (lying is practical and the north pole has been discovered the only thing left for the next year appears ap-pears to be perpetual motion. As goon as the echo of the New Year's horns has died away on the chilly air It will lie time to begin agitating agi-tating for the sane fourth. A Connecticut town has a woman steeplejack. Woman is literally equaling equal-ing man on every point, but this is (he highest point of equality on record. rec-ord. No matter what may happen to the healing plant, It is always possible to be happy in the thoughts that you. don't live in the natural-gas belt with the gas pipes frozen. A P.altimore judge has decided that you can hit a waiter if he spills soup oil you. ltut how about it, when ho doesn't bring your cup oT coffee till your meat is stone cold? The papers tell us (hat bank deposits depos-its are so general that there is "237 In banks for each of us." Tell it not among the hoboes, or there'll be a run on every bank in the country. The trouble with the modern woman wom-an nppears to be that tlie moment she marries she takes up a study in psychology psy-chology instead of thinking about the washing and the baking and the rearing rear-ing of children. When a man's wife lias gone to the trouble of getting his favorite cigar from the druggist a man is a thorough grouch if he complains at the bill when it conies in later. Did he expect the lady to make the cigars? A 15-year-old boy was arrested In New York for speeding in an automo ble at the rate of 30 miles an hour It developed that the boy had a chauffeur's chauf-feur's license and that the car was his own. The modern speed Juggernaut Jugger-naut is bad enough, but it is no wonder won-der that the citizens of the metropolis are calling on the law for protection to their lives when tliis Juggernaut is allowed to be set in motion by children. It is gratifying to learn from the forestry authorities at Washington that cutting Christmas trees is not a menace to the timber lands. It is explained ex-plained that though 4,000,000 of these trees are used every year in the United States they represent a growth that is not material to the well being of the forests. In fact, it is said the thinning out thus assured may be beneficial to the remaining timber. So a beautiful custom may continue to be indulged in without any conscientious Bcruples. Moving pictures taken to show the meeting between Prince Ito and the Russian minister reveal every detail of the tragedy of his assassination, and will be used in the trial of the as- sassin. This striking departure in criminal trials, which will take place in the east and not in the progressive - ----- west, opens up a new field in the conduct con-duct of the courts. Already they are crowded by the seekers after sensational sensa-tional life dramas. They will entei into serious competition with the theaters as free moving-picture shows. Prof. Muensterberg knows more about why most of us do things than we do ourselves and we have to thank him for some interesting surprises we have enjoyed when he has explained motives to us; so when he says that "from a psychological viewpoint wo- men become shoplifters because they i have a duller moral perception than men and are less likely to restrain the so called "imitative impulse," we must believe it without question at least, from the psychological view- point. Now Guam has had an earthquake. The little island is manifesting a com mendable desire to get into the limelight, lime-light, although it is slightly behind the procession in selecting earthquakes, which have gone temporarily out of fashion. Not less than $60,000,000 In money, to say nothing of other gifts, is report ed to have been sent this year in the ..JjfragP r-hrictmng prnci.nl. to the old world from the United States. Who says Uncle Sam is not the biggest an. bent Santa Claus in the busiiusj? |