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Show Chit-Chat. The average wages received by young ladies in charge of the stands at the New Orleans exposition was $25 a month. Old names for girls, such as Gladys, El-frida, El-frida, Wilfreda, Enid, Ethel, Clarice, Rosabel, Christabel, and Claribel, are again becoming popular. x ' A young poetess told her "secret to a sweet wild rose." This was imprudent. Soon the sweet wild rose will "blow" and then she'll wish she had kept her secret. Marchesa Theodli, mentioned as the most beautiful woman in Italy, has still another claim to distinction. She is prob ably the tallest woman in Italy, being six feet high, it is said on good authority. Straight as an arrow, she has been compared com-pared to Cleopatra's needle, and the comparison com-parison is not a bad one. The foolish virgins who spend nine-tenths nine-tenths of their leisure time in learning to decorate china would do well to remember remem-ber that the young man in search of a wife is more likely to tie to a girl who knows how to decorate her china with a good square meal, well cooked and daintily daint-ily served, says a modern Solomon. Miss Angelina to Miss Belle, her rival, just now surrounded by a bevy of admirers admir-ers : "Oh dear, do tell me how you do your hair up so charmingly. What do you do it up on! It looks so intellectual?" Miss Belle, who wears high hair: "Well, I'll tell you, dear, I generally do it up over brains, and (sweetly) I don't think you can buy them at the hair store. A veey funny incident happened in New York recently. A church advertised for an organist and music teacher, either lady or gentlemen, and among the answers ans-wers was the following : "Gentlemen I noticed your advertisement for an organist organ-ist and 'music teacher,-either lady or gentleman. gen-tleman. Having been both for several years, I offer my services. |
