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Show Women outnumber men la both New York and Philadelphia. Concerning that Red Sox victory, "why not drop It? Sncdgrass did. That restored Venus of Mllo proves to be a southpaw with good curves. They say the new ten-dollar bill Is a work of art, but it can't be at that price. A baby was born In New York on tno elevated. Starting life pretty high. A London swindler sold dried peas for liver pills. Probably just as effective. "Women's dresses are to become tighter." Roller skates next and a bo behind to push. London Is shocked over the way the British nation Is taking to gum chewing. chew-ing. But they stick to It. Medical science is constantly discovering discov-ering hundreds of new reasons why people should call In the doctor. Before ordering your split pea soup you should patriotically Inquire If the pea was split In Germany or America. A London specialist says that modern mod-ern dreBB is killing women. Yet most women desire their gowns to be killing. kill-ing. , - - According to a scientist, all men will be baldheaded In BOO years. It's a cinch they will if they live until then. Somebody claims to have discovered black snow in the Alps. But any winter win-ter he can find a lot of It in Pitts-, burgh. Plants and vegetables are to be raised by electricity. As far as fruits are concerned, we already have electric elec-tric currents. A New York man was robbed of his pearl necklace, worth $30,000, on an ocean liner. Where was his chaperon? Women certainly are obstinate creatures. crea-tures. One In Boston is contesting the dictum of three courts that declared de-clared her dead. Our pupils are found to be weak in I the three R's. The old-fash-loned i spelling bee might profitably be re vived, it seems. Kissing Is forbidden In publio places In Switzerland. Undoubtedly on the ! ground that there is more than enough danger there without it. An eastern man wrote a tragedy and ' the manager turned It into a comedy. It is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, after all. Chinese women are said to have the most beautiful complexions in th world. Still, It depends on whether It Is orientally considered. Now the German scientists have dls covered a means of producing artifli clal milk. Why not Invent a way to grow egge on the egg plant, "Resolve to live a hundred years K and you can do it," says a St. Louis physician. But the majority of good resolutions are broken in a short time. j There used to b made In this coun try copper-toed shoes that the small boy could not kick out In one month. Ah, those were happy days for- pais ents! Infantile paralysis has appeared among the Eskimos in Alaska. The backward races must often sit down and wonder whether civilization really i pays. Physicians are now discussing whether incurables should be killed. ; Which brings up the question: "How can physicians agree on who are Incurables?" In-curables?" An eighteen-pound lobster has been caught in Long Island Sound. Still, a chorus girl can catch a bigger one than that on Broadway any day in the year. In Baltimore a police justice has arranged mirrors in his court room so that drunks and disorderlies will have to see themselves. Justice should have a little pity. To be simple and to be without guile is to triumph over all. Is there not the case of the young woman who when congratulated upon the quality and strength of her perfumery Bald that she was glad he had noticed It? A London gentleman, opposed to tipping, tip-ping, let his whiskers grow rather than bestow a honorarium upon the tonsorial artist Wonder if the new style whiskers have anything to do wit!, this latter day crusade against tips? It Is doubtful if Andre de Fouqul-eres Fouqul-eres will succeed in his announced purpose to persuade us to dress aft-er aft-er the French fashion, since American men have a rooted prejudice against wearing corsets and hoopsklrta with their frock coats. V |