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Show commendably humane heart, who, as he boarded the street car, observed that the arched necks and cruelly docked tails of the two decrepit horses In front, bespoke a sadly contrasting prosperity in their remote youth. The old man's tender heart was touched at the pitiful sight, and as he took his seat in the car he gently lifted the basket of eggs out the window and held them there all the way of his journey iO make '.be burden lighter for the poor horses. So you 6ee, Ima." she adu?d with an emphatic nod of her heap, "the men are every bit as foolish aB the women, if not Liore so." STRONG DEFENSE OF HER SEX Miss Hulda Nutt Proves by Anecdote That Men Are Just as Foolish as the Women. "It certainly does make me weary, all these innuendoes in the funny papers pa-pers about the women. One would think by some of the supposedly facetious face-tious jokes that we girls didn't have enough intelligence to keep out of the home for the feeble minded," remarked Hulda Nutt to her sister, Ima, as 6he pointed to an illustration In the evening eve-ning paper. "Now here, for Instance, is a rehashed re-hashed story about a bridegroom carrying car-rying a basket, approaching a narrow creek. He turns to bis simple minded bride I judge she must have been simple or she never would have married mar-ried him and he offers to carry her across the stream. This egotistical male jokesmith has the bride make ! the inane reply: 'But you can't carry i both me and the lunch basket. We 1 would be too heavy. You carry me and I will carry the lunch basket.' "As a matter of fact that foolish chestnut was first recorded about an old man with a basket Oi egts and a |