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Show Remarks. When nn olflce girl tnkes pity on a stray cat sho usually goes out, buys a nickel's worth of pickles and then wonders why the cat Ih so ungrateful as not to eat thorn. To those who cannot understand, many things nro impossible. Everything Is u gnmblo In this world even tho reo thnt you pay ,tho prencher ror mnrrylng you. Soino men Invest 10 In matrimony nnd find a fortuno; others hnvo to "sweeten the pot" for years and years and never get their bait back! Wo otten henr that such and such a book Isn't worth tho paper on which it Is printed. At tho present prlco of paper, this may truthfully bo said of most modern lltornture, so-called. A woman Is as old ns she looks, nfter tho leaf has been torn from tho family Hlble. When a woman says sho Is breaking In a green maid, she forgets sometimes some-times that tho young woman Is n no-gress. no-gress. hire1 a hi(Ktt I IwoutON'T PC- VsgPWC -noy PRIVE A PoeR 7 Imam of Mtw .. A man was saved rrom denth by n brnvo lad who received twenty-llvo cents for his kindness. Aftor nil,-a mnn Is worth only tho prlco ho setB on hlB own head. Ono way to get closo to nnturo Is to go up In n balloon nnd fall out. Torhaps Walter Wellman can tell us ot tho fine points of dog stew as n result or his dash to tho North Polo, anyhow. Mining seems to have a great attraction at-traction ror tho colored man. Knlso-mining, Knlso-mining, I mean. A country editor says his wife spent two hours whllo In tho city recently, trying to buy him somo postprandial cigars. A small boy, rending, naked his pn whnt "the llrst flush of clvlllzntlon" meant, whereat tho father replied, "That, my son, must reter to Kve's face powder." Many n mnn would give a lot today to-day to be able to eat plo us he wanted to when ho was n small boy. Then ho hnd tho digestion but not tho plo. Now ho has tho plo but not the digestion. |