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Show SAW THING IN RIGHT LIGHT Old Mose Taylor Undoubtedly Had the Situation Sized Up, but Who Got the Dime? "At the end of a Georgia negro meeting." says an Atlanta men. "it was decided to take up a collection for charity. The chairman passed the hat himself. He dropped a dime in it for a nest-egg. Kvery right hand encountered encoun-tered that hat, and yet, at (be end, when the chairman turned the hat over and shook it. not so much a his own contribution dropped out. j " TV de land's sake!" he erud. 'I has even lost de dime I started "with!" "All the rows of dusky fares looked puzzled. Who was the lucky man?' Finally the venerable Mose Taylor summed up the sliuation. " 'Gentlemen,' he said solemnly, rising ris-ing from his seat, 'der 'pears to be a great moral lesson round heah some-wheah some-wheah !' " Pittsburgh Disonreh. On the Other Hand. The late Edgar Saltus. the brilliant and satirical novelist, said one day at a New York wedding breakfast, where the bridegroom was a millionaire of forty-five: "Our Rockefellers and Schwabs and Russell Sages married in their first youth. Well, our successful men don't marry now as early as they used to, but. on the other hand " And Mr. Saltus looked round the table with a bland smile. "On the other hand, they marry oftener." 'N Ev'rything. "My own !" he exelaimrd. as they were starting on their wedding journey. jour-ney. "Poos it make you happy to know that you tire mine all mine -forever?" "Yes, It makes me awfully happy." she replied. "Now I can eat candy without being afraid of getting fat. and have a charge account and everything, every-thing, can't I?" Lost a Sale. "I want." said the very plain girl, "a book entitled 'Cultivate Your Natural Nat-ural ISeauty.' " "Here It Is," said the clerk, who wanted to be sociable. "Are you getting get-ting It for a friend?" And the very plain girl put her purse back Into her bag and went right out. From the Retail Ledger. Philadelphia. Philadel-phia. Surprise for Mother. Marjory .Mamma, were you at honifi when I was born? Mother No, darling. I was at grandma's In the country. Marjory Wasn't you nwf'ly s'prised when you heard about it? A Bad Case. She How much do you love me. dear? He As much as you hoe your.-, -If. Children cease crying for tie morn sometimes before they are big uiour.li to want the earth. llverybodv has his wnk spot. No use passing laws to cofiert j-ll the defects. |