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Show be, and I told her so. Rut ho went right ahead an' mad th' report. Jest like a woman, ain't It?" Ladies Homo Journal. JUST FOR FUN No Escape. A. J. Drexel was annoyed during his recent visit to New York because be-cause he had to pay at his hotel $1.75 for a breakfast of two eggs and a cup of coffee. "It Is all very well," said Drexel to a reporter, "to talk about the rising ris-ing prices of foodstuffs, labor and what not, but the high cost of living liv-ing over here Is so excessive that I can't but think some one Isn't playing play-ing fair. "Some one seems to be interpreting interpret-ing tho rule of fair play as the little Philadelphia girl interpreted the Biblical Bib-lical rule. "This little girl was pushing her ddb's coach In Rlttonhouse square A gentleman came out of a great, pale house fronting the prjuare, and stopping tho little girl, whom he knew, he began to tease her. "lie teased her till he was tired, then, taking leave, said: " 'Good by 1 don't love you." '"Oh, but you've got to'.' the little girl cried. "'Got to? How?' he asked. " 'Doesn't the Bible say. she demanded, de-manded, 'that you must love them I that hate you? Well, Ym sure I hate you.'" N'ew York Tribune, O. Henry's Reading. The late ,:0. Henry," whose flip- pant and slangy stories gave him a ! great reputation as a humorist, was lu private life a serious student. A visitor to the library of Mr. Porter's Por-ter's New York residence was amazed amaz-ed at the ponderous histories and biographies on every sido. "But don't you read." said the visitor, vis-itor, "Kills Parker Tutler and writers writ-ers of that sort?" "Well, no" said Mr. Torter. Flo laughed and added whlmslcallv "I make faney cakes and sell them, but I only eat bread and meal." Washington Star. Juet Girls. Girls like freckels on their rlal's fi.ee. We've known cooUlng-schonl girls ho didn't pan out well. Girls 'who carry watches in thelt belts are guilty of wasting their time A girl "with coral lips generally finds some fellow eager to corral tnem. Some girls cau stand a man who is dissipatod if his lortune iyn't. A girl who has a large circle rf friends naturally runs around a gool deal. When a girl objects to being kissed It's a sure sign that the wrong fellow fel-low is trying. Boston Transcript. And Father Agreed. Home study for Tommy had Jus begun, and he found It hard to apply himself to regular hours. At bedtime bed-time one evening his father said: "Tommy, I am not at all pieaed with the report your mother gives me of ycur conduct today," , "N'o, father, 1 knowed you wouldn't |