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Natchitoches Enterprise

NATCHITOCHES, LOUISIANA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1912.

ROYAL CHILDREN OF ITALY AT PLAY

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^jMBERTO, the future king of Italy, is here seen playing in the park of the royal palace at Rocconigi, with his

Bisters, left to right the Princesses Jolando, Mafaldaet and Giovanna.

HAS FLYING AUTOS

Motor Car With Wings Is Latest

in French Capital.

Successful Experiments Have Been

Made With Machines That Combine

the Principles of the Automo

bile and the Aeroplane.

Paris.—Paris is gossiping over the

latest type of motor car—one with

wings. M. Befrtrând de Lesseps re

cently drove some distance from the

capital in a machine thus equipped.

4&v,cessful. ETifppi Eased his trials on

the principle of the bird's wing and

aiAd at producing a propeller which

should realize the same effect ad the

beat of a bird's wings in the air. The

propellor evolved is not a 6crew, but

a bride of wood, broader and thicker

in the center than at the extremities,

one of which tapers off nearly to a

point. The other is comparatively

wide, looking like a wing, concave on

one side and convex on the other.

Furthermore, both ends are curved

backward, forming an obtuse angle.

The whole la Inclosed in a cage and

measures only about 55 Inches in dia

meter, not projecting beyond the

gauge of the car in any direction. The

maximum speed is 2,200 revolutions

a mjpute.* This air propelling system

enables the constructor to dispense

with the most delicate and compli

cated parts of the machinery at pres

ent employed—no more gear boxes are

required, us a change in the num

ber of rotations is substituted for a

change of gear, while progress back

ward is obtained by reversing the

movement of the wlnè- This backward

rotation also serves as a powerful

brake when going downhill, and does

away with ••differentials" and back

bridges.

In traveling the friction is reduced

to a minimum, and the car seems

hardly to touch the ground, raising

no appreciable dust, and consequently

Inflicting but slight wear and tear on

the tires, while the comfort of the

passengers is improved. In general j

appearance the car used recently re- j

6embled an ordinary torpedo type, bul j

the rear part forms an extension,

from which projects the axle carrying

the wing. The 40 horse power motor

is in front, and connects with the

wing by transmission chains. There

is no other mechanism, and the wheels

all run free like the front wheels of an

WROTE GIRL OF PLAN TO DIE

Young Woman Hurries to the Place

and Hears Shot—Man Will

Recover.

South Orange, N. J.—Writing a note

to the girl he loved but could not mar

ry because he has a wife living, and

stating therein that he intended to kill

himself, Julian Dillon, • twenty-two

years old, sent a bullet Into his shoul

der. The note, which was written to

Miss Marie Blanchet, Advised hgr of

ti e place he had chosen to end his

life, so she, with Miss Marie Don

i*- lly, a companion, hurried to the

place In order to prevent the act.

As the two young women approach

ed. Dillon waved his hand from a dis

tance and disappeared into the woods.

Then they > heard a 6hot Charles

Stiastny of Vose avenue happened

along, and discovered Dillon lying Tn

the bushes. He sent for the police.

The wounded man was taken to the

Orange Memorial hospital, where the

bullet was extracted with little trou

ble. He is expected to recover. He

told the police it was an accident, but

he will probably be placed under ar

rest on his recovery.

Dillon Is the aon of wealthy parents,

both of whom are dead, but he never

ordinary automobile. One lever only

is used to start, and move forward

or backward, by reserving the rota

tion of the wing, and there is one

pedal by which ex tra brake powpr is

put on.

The whole car weighs about 1,320

pounds, or, with its three passengers

and the necessary equipment, about

2,000 pounds. A start was made about

4 o'clock In the morning, In the pres

ence of several spectators, and after

Bhowing off Its capabilities in various

preliminary maneuvers the car went

off on its journey of 300-odd miles

amidst cheers. The travelers sent

flefent points on the way, and arrived

safely at Lyons. The future trade in

terests Involved in this experience

may prove of immense importance,

and the new -type of wing may turn

out superior to the screws so com

monly used In the aeroplane. In the

trials made by M. Filippi with a view

to finding the best shape for the wing

the present model gave 70 per cent,

of power, which Is at least 10 per

cent, more than has yet been pro

duced by the best known screw propel

ler of the usual type. *

GIRL AND BEAR SURF PALS

Dared by Companion, Young Woman

Braves the Waves With Bruin

at Venice, Cal.

Los Angeles, Cal.—Miss Anna Fred

ericks, a pretty beach girl, went swim

ming through the breakers at Venice

accompanied by a half-grown cinna

mon bear.

For a while it looked as If the great

seal of California had come to life

and had gone forth for a paddle In the

ocean.

Miss Fredericks was one of the

thousands of bathers along the ocean

front. She was clad in an attractive

silk bathing suit and was accampa

nied by several friends, when R./I.

Pierce of Pasadena strolled by leading

two half-grown cinnamon bears which

j he secured in northern California

j when the bears were only a few

j weeks old.

"I dare you to take one of the bears

in swimming," said a friend to Miss

Fredericks.

The young woman took the dare.

Her escort, after futile attempts at

dissuasion, secured one the bears. The

little animal was quite tame and trot

shared in the estate because he mar

ried, a few years ago, a chorus girl.

It is reported here that his wife de

serted him when she found that he

would not have wealth. He has been

living at the Hotel Belmont. New

York, making frequent trips to South

Orange and paying attention to Miss

Blanchet.

MRS. BELMONT IS MARKETER

Society Woman Does This as a Pro

test Against Petty Graft

of Employees.

Newport. R. I.—Mrs. O. H. P. Bel

mont is doing her own marketing this

summer as a protest against a sys-'

tem of petty graft, which she says has

become well-nigh universal In the

households of the wealthy summer

colonists here.

"This Bystem of graft, by which em

ployees profit at the expense of em

ployers, is all-wrong," says Mrs. Bel

mont. "We pay our aids good wages,

for which they are expected to do a

certain service. It Is certainly unfair

for them to expect to make a large

sum of money on commissions that

e bound to come out of the pockets

their employers."

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HONOR TO BRITISH GENERAL

People of Brockville, Ont., J_aud the

Memory of Commander Who Won

Detroit in War of 1812.

Brockville, Ont. —A monument In

honor. of the memory of Gen. Sir

Isaac Brock, who was in command of

the Canadian forces against the Amer

icans In the war of 1812, was unVteiled

In this city with interesting but mod

est ceremonies. The local chapter of

the Daughters of the Empire, to whose

.efforts the erection of the monument

is due, was in charge of the ceremo

nies. The principal address was de

livered by Col. Samuel Hugheè, the

Canadian minister of militia and de

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memorial was appropriately chosen,

since It was Just 100 years since the

surrender of Detroit, with which

event the name of General Brock is

most closely associated in American

history.

General Brock was born In the

Island of Guernsey In 1769 and had

a brilliant military career In the Brit

ish service before he was sent to Can

ada. He was made a knight of the

Bath for his victory at Detroit, but

he survived his honors less than two

months.

ted down to the surf line with Miss

Fredericks.

Thousands of beach visitors throng

ed the water front to watch the novel

performance. At first the little bear

snorted and fussed as the spray

splashed over his nose, bub finally

with a little j|runt, he ducked into the

breakers and followed the leash which

Miss Fredericks carried.

GIVE MEN SOCKS TO WOMEN

Chinese Who Take Ship Passengers'

Clothes Make Odd Mistakes In

Returning Them.

San Francisco, Cal.—The Chinese

are assimilating Caucasian customs

fast, but their inability to differentiate

between masculine and feminine garb

or to understand why half hose are

worn only by men caused sixty-two

cabin passengers of the liner -Man

churia much inconvenience at Shang

hai three weeks ago.

The Manchria, which arrived from

the orient recently, was ordered into

quarantine at Shanghai because of the

death of a steerage passenger from a

communicable disease, and all pas

sengers were ordered ashore to take

a plunge in a germ-killing solution, j

Each was assigned a bathroom and

the clothing of each was taken away

for fumigation. The Chinese neglect

ed-to mark the clothing. A sedate

man of sixty received a corset in lieu

of his waistcoat. Many of the women

received men's socks, others no stock

ings at all, while many garments

went astray, never to be restored to

rightful owners.

Captain Dixon, veteran of marly a

storm, fled to his cabin when the wom

en appealed to him.

FIND WHISKY IN HAY WAGON

Police Hold 500 Bottles for Bashful*

Claimant at Wilmington, North

Carollina.

Wilmington, N. C.—Five hundred

bottles of "Turkey Mountain" corn

whisky, neatly packed away in gunny

sacks, await an owner at the local po

lice station. A wagon ostensibly

loaded with hay broke down in the

street and when tbe police, "seeing the

trouble from afar," arrived on the

scene the negro river took to his

heels, leaving the property without a

claimant. Following a senatorial cam

paign against "blind tigers" here a

week ago, no one has the temerity to

claim the goods.

Pastor and His Bride to Begin

Married Life Amid Lepers.

Isolation for Life Thair Probable Sen

tence—While, In Addition, They

Run a Great Risk of Contract

ing Disease.

Buffalo, N. Y.—The Rev. Martin P.

Davis and his young bride, married in

this city recently, are now on their

way to Chandkuri, the central pro

vince of far off India, where they

will spend one of the strangest honey

moons on record. Their destination

in Chandkuri is the leper colony in

the interior of the province, conducted

by the German Evangelical Mission

ary society, where they take up their

abode, probably nevermore to leave it.

It is to ameliorate the condition of

the 427 members of the colony that the

young people are making the sacrifice.

And there are few who have made a

greater. Although many experts are

of the belief that leprosy is not easily

contracted, the laws of sanitation pre

scribe^ Isolation for all who have the

disease and those who mingle with

them. The missionaries run more

than a passing chance of falling prey

to the disease, as have many before

them. One of the missionaries, Miss

Mary Reed, now laboring in the snow

capped Himalayas, has been a leper

since girlhood.

In a colony such as Chandkuri lep

ers are given little plots of ground and

they are encouraged to grow mangoes,

REWARD FOR TENANT

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Owner of House Offers $50 for

an Occupant.

Landlord Also Will Give Free Rent to

Negro Who Promises to Make

"Haunted" Building His

Residence.

Kent. Conn.—"Fifty dollars cash bo

nus and two months' rent free to any

body who will live not less than two

months in this house."

1 Such is the sign which Ezra Blake,

[wealthy land owner, has p a t up on

one of hfs bouses in the negro quar

ter near here.

Among negroes the house is reputed

"haunted." Until a month ago it was

a perfectly self-respecting house,

never known to have any spiritual vis

itors. But the last tenants, a couple

named Jackson, after living in it for

five years, had a ghostly visitor one

night, and since then Mr. Blake has

been unable to rent the house.

The Jacksons are considered truth

;ul people. At any rate, their neigh

bors believe them. Mrs. Jackson de

rlaies that a ghosb chased her up

the back stairs and Mr. Jackson cor

roborates her.

Mr. Jackson was first to hear queer

noises and he aroused his wife Joseph

ine.

"Josephine," he called to her,

"thar's suah an awful queer soun' in

de cellar!" (

Josephine listened, and sure enough,

she heard low moaning. Jackson

said he'd investigate this matter thor

oughly."

"Josephine," he said, without a tre

mor, * you go down in the cellar and

see wha' fo' that noise is. Ef you

need any help, why jes' call me, that'%

all, jes' call me."

Josephine demurred, but Mr. Jack

con was firm, so Josephine went

downstairs.

He didn't have long to wait. Joseph

ine came flying back, shrieking: "Mah

gracious! It's arter me!"

Mr. Jackson didn't wait to see what

"It" was, but sprang through the win

COLONEL TAKEN FOR KOBO

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Army Officer Stationed In California

Has Hard Luck in California

Town.

San Francisco.—When is a colonel

not a colonel? Colonel John P. Wis

ser, codst artillery, stationed at the

Presidio In this city, thinks he found

the answer in Soledad, Cal. Also the

colonel found that he does not like

Soledad.

The colonel Is addicted to long

tramps In periods of rest from the

arduous duties of a soldier's life

When he recently was granted a

month's leave of absence he set out

with his son Edward on a walk to

southern California, equipped with an

automobile road guide, which, among

other things, contained a list of the

best hotels between ,San Francisco and

Santa Barbara, the latter city being

the colonel's destination.

After several'days the road guide

showed the hikers that they were ap

proaching Soledad. The travelers had

not shaved for three days; upon their

wrinkled and baggy garments the dust

of tbe road lay thickly, night was

falling and they were hungry. They

stepped briskly Into the lobby of the

hotel, the colonel in the van. The lat

ter reached for a pen to register, when

the proprietor put forth a restraining

hand

•■You Cannot stay heje?" he said.

"Why not?" asked tTe colonel, mild

ly sdrprised.

"This hotel is not for sack as you,"

replied the manager.

"But I am a colonel of the United

States army," said tbe colonel.

NEW DOLLAR OF THE CHINESE REPUBLIC

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T HE newly coined dollar of the Chinese republic bears the portrait of

Dr. Sun Yat Sen. The inscription is in English on the obverse and in

Chinese on the reverse.

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lemons, oranges and other Indian

fruits. An effort is made to instill a

spirit of independence in them. Each

man and woman is given 20 ounces of

coarse ground wheat a day and eight

cents a week.

Each leper cooks his own food. For

clothing, each man is given four yards

of coarse, strong cotton cloth, 40

inches wide, which costs about 30

cents; the women, .because of head

gear they wear, receive two yards

more than the men.

Two children's homes, for the segre

gation of the offspring of lepers, will

be under the care of Mr. Davis. Chil

dren of leprous parents usually con

tract the disease if they are not sep

arated; if taken away from their par

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dow to the porch roof and slid down

a post to the ground. The last Jo

sephine saw of him he was sprinting

up the road.

Now, Mr. Jackson is very devoted

to his wife, and he'd have given

$5,000, if he had it, so he said after

wards, to have had that ghost right

then. What he would have done to

it would have been a-plenty.

As it was he hoofed it right along to

his neighbors and told his story.

Mr. Jackson and his neighbors re

turned to the house to rescue Joseph

ine, but when they reached the house

her shrieks had ceased.

pled a filmy white figure flitting past j

the upstairs window. He let fly a t a ;

apple. It hit the white robed figure !

square in the face. The head was ■

poked out of the window. j

"Mose Johnson!" it shrieked. "I'll

smash yo' everlastin' good fo' nuffln

happy head fo' you."

It sounded like the voice of Joseph

ine. And, in fact, as Mose did a quick

step up the road Josephine darted

down the back stairs.

Nothing could induce Josephine to

return, though her husband hinted to

her that her attire was not quite the

thing for the street. The couple spent

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MAKES A DARING RESCUE

New York Fireman Climbs Five

Stories—Brings Man Down

Ladder.

New York.—Taking his life in his

hands, Fireman Walter Signer, driver

of the tender of Engine Company 16,

entered a window on the fifth floor of

the burning tenement house at 303

and 305 East Thirty-first street and res

cued John Robinson, a tailor, who had

been trapped in the flat. Several

other persons were removed from the

burning building, which was damaged

to the extent of $3,000.

The fire was discovered by Cath

erine Van Dren, who lived on the top

floor with her mother, sister and

"Go tell that to the horse marines,"

said the manager, beckoning to a

couple of husky porters, and the colo

nel and his son foynd themselves

swiftly translated to the darkness

without.

The next town was many miles

away and the trampers were tired, so

they sought the sanctuary of a hay

wagon, only to be told to "beat it" by

the village constable.

Hence the colonel's dislike of Sole

dad.

WOMAN WORKS IN OVERALLS

Owner of Grocery of Buttf, Mont..

Shows Independence of Union

Labor.

Butte. Mont.—Declaring that not a

dollar of hers ever should go to union

labor, Miss Elizabeth O'Boyle, pro

prietress of a grocery store here, don

ned overalls and completed the car

pentry work on her store, made neces

sary by damage by fire. A crowd of

union men looked on and jeered from

a safe distance.

Miss O'Boyle's store had been pick

eted by unionists because she kept

open after 6 o'clock, but she secured

an injunction some weeks ago re

straining the union from interfering

further with her business.

Her store was damaged by fire and

the insurance adjusters gave the re

pair work to union carpenters. When

they appeared for work Miss O'Boyle

drove them off with a gun and did the

work herself.

ents at an early age, they escape. It

will be one of the duties of Mrs. Davis

to wean healthy children away from

diseased mothers.

From Biblical times leprosy has been

one of the worst scourges of the east.

The census returns show there are

200,000 lepers in India alone. These

are only pronounced cases.

Mother of 28 Children at 44.

Niagara Falls, N. Y.—Mrs. Philip L.

Webster has given birth to her twen

ty-eighth child, an eight-pound boy.

She is forty-four years old, was mar

ried when sixteen and of her children

there were three pairs of twins and

two sets of triplets. Eight of the

twenty-eight are living

the rest of the night at Neighbor

Webster's house down the road.

Since then not a colored person has

crossed the* threshold of the "haunt

! ed house."

| Mr. Blake recently spent consider

! able money repairing the place and

j he says he does not propose to be

i "robbed of his house by a supersti

tious prejudice."

SUN'S RAYS OPERATE DEVICE

Western Man's Great Love

Rest Leads to Unique

Device.

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Klamath Falls, Ore. — We see

stories of the meanest men, the stingi

est, the laziest, etc., but Klamath

FallB has a combination of laziness

j excel,

; This genius likes to sleep with his

! windows up and curtains as well, put

■ he does not enjoy getting up early,

j His bedroom faces the east and his

slumbers are disturbed by the early

j rising sun. He has attached weights

j to the curtains which are released

! when the sunbeams strike a sensitive

! plate attached to machinery w hich

acts on a pawl releasing the weights.

To check the sudden stop of the

I weights so that there is no unneces

sary jar or noise in the working of

the mechanism a spring holder has

bean attached.

brother. She was awakened by the

choking smoke, and after arousing the

family started down the stairs. The

fire was too hot In the hallways, and

the Van Drens took to the rear fire

escape at the fourth floor. They

smashed in the windows on each floor

as they descended, awakening other

persons in the tenement.

The fire escapes were blocked by

the crowds of people on their way

down, and it was necessary for the

firemen to run up a ladder and take

more than a dozen persons ooff.

Signer saw Robinson appear at a

window on the fifth floor, appealing

for help. Signer ran up a scaling lad

der, but when he was half way up

Robinson fell back into the furnace

behind him. The fireman climbed into

the window and appeared a moment

later with Robinson flung over his

shoulder. He carried the tailor to

the street, while the crowd cheered

A blind woman was rescued as she

was groping helplessly about on the

fourth floor.

An earlier rescue performed by Sig

ner was recalled, from the effects of

which exploit he had been partly dis

abled. He brought from the depths

of the earth a 200-pound watchman,

who was unconscious, carrying him

over four platforms, while flames from

a gas explosion made a 'magic fire"

sefene.

BAR ALL STCCKINGLESS GIRLS

Atlantic City Rules Bathers Must

Cover Legs While Walking

Around Beach.

Atlantic City, N. J.—Feminine

"calves" unprotected by stockings are

no longer to be seen along the beach.

Stoekingless maids went under the

ban by order of Dr. John T. Beckwith,

chief of the Leach patrol, acting under

direct orders from .William Bartlett,

director of the department of public

safety.

Shapely damsels, not content with

abbreviated bathing garments, started

a bare leg fad some weeks ago Since

then there has been a general move

by athletic girls to follow suit. Direc

tor Bartlett was shocked when he

sighted several fine specimens drift

ing about the strand today and the

ukase followed.

Now the girls are protesting that

the men should be treated likewise.

RIGHT USE CF ADJECTIVES

Some Authors Employ Them Lavish

ly, Others Sparingly but With No

Loss of Strength.

Did Cobbett say; "When a man

comes to his adjectives, I tremble for

him," or did he tremble at the thought

of a writer using the word "It?" The

only book by Cobbett now on hand is

his "Tour in Scotland." in which he

says dteadful things against potatoes

and shouts the praise of brose, oat

cakes and oatmeal, a book delight

ful by reason of its vituperation, as

when he described the Globe newspa

j per as "that nimble tumble of filth

j and beastly ignorance" and Denman

I as the "dirty bill of indictment draw

er" for the Brouglihams and the

Greys. Probably the saying is in Cob

bett's English grammar. We were

reminded of it by reading about .John

Walter, the founder of the London

Times. That journal was at first

printed logographically: that is, a

number of words and phrases were

cast entire, to save compositors the

trouble of colecting type. Thus these

phrases were on a single block:

"Dreadful robbery," "atrocious out

rage," "fearful calamity," "interesting

female." There are writers today who

always Join the same adjective to cer

tain nouns, just as it is easy to fall

into the trick of characterizing a per

son or qualifying a thing by applying

three adjectives, as the Irish lady was

described in her epitaph as "bland,

passionate and deeply religious."

They say that Kinglake, writing "The

Invasion of the Crimea," worked for

a number of hours and left spaces

for adjectives. He then rode on horse,

back, meditated the fitting adjectives,

and on his return inserted ^hem. Was

it not Daudet who said that the ad

jective should never be the legitimate

wife of the substantive? Look through

"Gulliver's Travels;" mark the sobri

ety in the use of words, and note the

strength and authority thus gained.

Lafcadio Hearn's description of the

Windward islands is in striking con

trast—the style Is as lush as the

tropical vegetation; the reader should

don colored spectacles. Yet with a

few adjectives Poe and Coleridge

could work w r onders, and Walt Whit

man was often fortunate, as when he

spoke of the "gorgeous, indolent

sun;" the sun "so calm and haughty;"

"mad, naked summer night."—Philip

Hale, in Boston Herald.

Say» Chinese Are Heroic.

C. xi. Chu, evidently a Chinese sfjj

York, writes the New York Sun to

contradict certain statements that

have appeared in newspapers since

the Titanic disaster, to the effect that

among Chinese in similar circum

stances the ljule is "men first." Mr.

Chu asserts that "the teachings of Con

fucius all favor self-sacrifice, the

helping of others than yourself. Con

fucius says that a man who in peril

steals his own life instead of dying

under duty's call is less than a man.

"There is nothing in Confucianism,"

continues Mr. Chu, "justifying any

man who saves himself by letting a

woman or a child lose life,

"The' experience in China is that

many, many times the noble rule is

followed; 'Women and children Jirst.'

Sometimes of course the men neglect

the higher law, and are severely blar

ed by the people in general if they

do."

New Process for Making Rubber.

In a lecture before the Society of

Chemical Industry in London, Prof.

W. H. Perkin of Manchester Univers

ity described a process for the produc

tion of rubber in the laboratory which

has been widely commented upon in

technical and other papers in the

United Kingdom.

It was stated by the lecturer that

the synthetic production of rubber of

fers the probability of a profit at a

price of 60 cents per pound, with a

possibility of its production at 24

cents per bound or less.

There has been rivalry between

England and Germany In the effort <o

make synthetic rubber, and priori! y

of discovery is claimed by each coun

try. It was contended by Professor

Perkin that the English had anticipat

ed the Germans by about three

months.

A Sea Mowing Machine.

The first sea mowing machine ha 3

been launched at San Diego. It will

be used for cutting the millions of

tons of kelp and seaweed that grow

along the coast. A gasoline launch

has been fitted with a horizontal jack

shaft revolving at right angles to the

keel. Two vértical shafts are fitted

with four-foot blades that revolve at

high speed ten feet below the surface

The mowed kelp floats ashore,

taken out and dried, and later is haul

ed to a factory to be converted into

fertilizer.

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Horrid Mammas.

Why is this little girl crying?

cause her mamma will not let her put

molasses and feathers on the baby's

face. What a bad mamma! The lit

tle girl who never had a mamma

must enjoy herself. Papas are nicer

than mammas. No little girl ever

marries a mamma, and perhaps that

is why the mammas are so bad to the

little girls. Never mind, when mam

ma goes out of the room slat) the hor

rid baby, and if it cries you can tell

your mamma it has the colic.

Wasted Diplomacy.

Mrs. Knicker —Does your husband

rage when he gets the bills?

Mrs Bocker—Yes, though I al

ways place them face down Just as

the waiters do.—Harper's Bazar.