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Show STRONG DEFENSE OF HER SEX Mli Hulda Nutt Provet by Anecdote That Men Are Just at Foolish at 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 face-. face-. Uoua 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, lma, as she 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 .vould have mar-ried mar-ried him and he offers to carry her across the stream. This egotistical male jokesmlth has the bride make the Inane reply:. 'Put you can't carry both me and the lunch basket. We would be too heavy. You carry me and I will carry the lunch basket.' v "As a matter of fact that foolish chestnut was first recorded about an old man with a basket of eggs and a 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 bis Journey to make the burden lighter for the poor horses. So you see. lma." she added with an emphatic nod of her head, "the men are every bit as foolish as the women, if not more so." Sea Monsters. That "thresher shark" of fabulous dimensions just caught on the south coast of England is fast becoming a formidable rival of the sea serpent and the big gooseberry. He is fairly common during summer around Corn-wail, Corn-wail, where he does great damage to pilchard and mackerel nets, in which he completely finds himself, like a caterpillar in his chrysalis. The thresher shark Is 'tso called the sea fox, from the remarkable tail, which he uses to frighten shoals of fish, and so make them more easily caught. There are sailors' yarns that this whiplike tail Is sometimes used for flogging whales to death. But the real persecutor the whale is the gladiator dolphin or sword grampus .Oelpbinus gladiator!, a very carnivorous carniv-orous tellow. who kills and eats whales, seals and even his brother porpoises. China "Called" Livingstone. It is not generally known that Liv ingstone originally had the intention of devoting himself to the work of "b pioneer of Christianity in China." It was as such that he offered himsell '5 the London Missionary society in iS-f, but when he had received his diploma from the faculty of physicians and surgeons in 1S-10. he found China closed to him. as Great Britain was then at war with the country. It was his meeting with Moffat, who had re cently returned from South Africa that led his steps to the Dark Conti nent. I |