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Show ZEPPELINS OR SPIDERS A story is told of a young French woman who observed with punctiliousness the wartime precautions pre-cautions ordered by the police. She kept the shutters closed at night-fall and the curtains pulled down escape from her apartments. But one night, when reading the newspaper, sbe said that she had reached the limit. The newspapers said that if the Zeppelin came, all persons must go into the cellars. She told her friends she would not go down, into in-to the celar. "I do not care a fig for the Zep pelin," she said. "It is no use asking me I will not go down into the eclar." "But why?" asked her friend. "Because." she replied, "I am afraid of spiders." oo |