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Show ' what is your Idea cf a perfect figure?" fig-ure?" "Well, replied her busband. 'JKo,-OW) 'JKo,-OW) may not bo perfection, but It's near enough in fai'sfy a man of my simple tastea." ChlrnK't New a. Tho Graceful Th'ng. A Utter carre from tho clothing firm s-iyinp that l he clothes that had been bfnl them wast full of moths. Wrtn tho Wholesale house taken aback? Not It. By return popt went a missive ti Uils effect: "On lookhis over your order ve find that you did not order anv moths. It was oir itpt, and you will pleafe return them at once, at our expend " Scraps. er found it necessary to shut her up lu a dark cl ?et-ln thru family th. 'ho direst punishment for the worst offense. fVp fifteen lone mln tes I lie "loor had boon locked without a und ' eom'ni; from behind it. Not a whimper whimp-er nor a sniffle. I At last tho stern but axolm parent i unlooVed the closet dorr and peered Into the darluie-s. She could seo I nothlnpr. J "What are you doin In lher ?" she cried. i And then a little voice piped from 1 the blackness: ' "I thept in your new dress and thpt on your new hat, and I'm wait-, wait-, in- for niore. thept to 0010 to them I oti yo,jr Dew parathoj." rhiladeptla , I Times. j His Point of View. J ".Tohn. dear" quer'ed the yoans 'lfe, Klanclnpr up from the physlcil j cup.ure marine she was reading. JUST -FOR FUN Amended. A man wus tel!iiikr about an exciting excit-ing experience iu Russia. Ilia sleiph was pursued over the frozen wastes by a pack of at least a dozen famished famish-ed wolves. Ho arose and shot the foremost one. and the others stopped to devour It. Dut they soon causht up with him, and ho shot another, which was In turn devoured. Thi3 was ro;..-.atr.d until the last famished wolf w,iS almost upou him, with learning Jaws, when "Sav partner," broke in one of tho UsteiHT. "uccordlDK' t-1 your recn-inc, recn-inc, that last famlahed wolf mu-t hav0 had the other 'levcn. Insldy 01 him." "Well, come to think U over," said I tho storv teller." "maybe he wasn't so darueJ famished after all." Tit-LiU. And Then in the Opening. A North Philadelphia little glM had ' been so very naughty that her ruoth- |