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Show GIVE THIS A LITTLE THOUGHT There Ii a Point to This Imported Joke, But Perhaps You Will Have To Look for It. This Is not an American Joke. The reader Is solemnly warned that it Is of German extraction. Germans, as everybody knows, like their jests broad and brutal. The victim of this one was Cousin Hugo. It seems Cousin Hugo made a night of It and got home as the small hours began to cease to be so small. As he climbed the stairs he stumbled (ln spite of the most elaborate care) and rolled down Into the hall below. The consequence, for Cousin Hugo Is not so young as he used to be, was a broken brok-en collarbone and a strained back. Ahead even of the milkman, then, came the family doctor, an estimable 01(1 gentleman. and administered soothing words while he encased the Pnt in plaster. know' m dear ",r." ne "ald. "that It hurt, llke the deuce but t , not a bit danK(.r0UB. All the same you'll ave to stay in bed for a while. You got a nasty fall. How did it happen? Was it dark?" "It was not, doctor," replied Cousin Hugo with some asperity, "It was light." But perhaps you are not a beer-drinker. beer-drinker. New York Evening Post. Cunning In Art. We have heard so much about graft and dishonesty and the "shame of our cities" that many of us firmly believe that ours is the wickedest of the nations na-tions of the earth. To destroy a myth Is a thankless task, for people believe what they want to believe and are apt to reBent any attempt to rob them of their pleasure and satisfaction in so doing. Nevertheless some of us are glad to learn from time to time that graft and cunning are not unknown In the older countries nor in the older of the noble families. Some time ago an American mil lionaire coveted a noble painting by Raphael that hung ln the gallery of a princely Italian home. The family refused re-fused to part with it, declaring that the government would not allow the priceless treasure to leave the coun try. But the millionaire determined to buy It, and then the owner offered to paint a snow scene over the canvas can-vas and ship it to New York, where it could be cleaned and restored. This was done, but the cleaners used turpentine, tur-pentine, which removed not only the snow scene but the Raphael painting as well, and revealed a fine portrait of Marconi underneath. Story of Hohenzollern Ghost. It was a Prussian royal wedding of four centuries ago that gave to the tradition of the "white lady," the famous fa-mous Hohenzollern ghost The Bur-grave Bur-grave Albert loved a young widow of the house of Orlamunde, but once thoughtlessly remarked that their wedding wed-ding would be "Impossible until four eyes are out of the way." He allured to his uncle and brother, but she thought he meant her two little children, chil-dren, whom she accordingly murdered with a knitting needle. The horrified Albert forsook her and married Sophia So-phia of Henneberg, whereupon the err- . Ing widow, went mad, died and ever iocs hat haunted the royal palaces In mou ling garb with a white veiL |
