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THE SCRANTON TRIBUNE-WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1', 1899.
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JONAS LONG'S SONS. JONAS LONG'S SONS. JONAS LONG'S SONS.
CHAPERON.
Thoro vere plenty of girls who
thought they would giro youth for
llvodne Rossveare's distinction. She
was 45, and made no sort of sierot of
tho fact, though sho wns single. But
thnt to be Blnglo and a celebrity tit
least puts mi old maid upon a level
with ii wife ho Is nobody, Is ono of
the best results of the way we live
now She was an artist, nnd had
painted the picture of tho year. What
wns much better, she had dignified her
subject with u treatment that made It,
In its vay, a mnstei piece. Only a wo
imn sewing on a coarse shirt bv the
light of a dim cnndle, "The Slave" had
nil tho golden qualities of a gieat til
umph. To see Evadne at a ball was rather
nn event: lvr hostess taw her there
with distinct "nthfact'on and a feeling
that her name would look" well In tho
in luted accounts of It: alo the clo
set Iptlon of the beautiful pansy-colored
velvet gown she was wearing. She had
come to chaperone a pietty, newly en
gaged niece, knowing that the task
would be easy enough. The newly en
gaged onlv asked n leallv secluded cor
ner, and these succeeded at once In
enseonslng themselves behind a big
palm They talked thcie for three
bonis, for thev were bid dancei.'. What
thv said would hao been dull enough
If nny one cUv hrd ovei heard It. To
themselves it was a veiltable cpitomo
of Mil nnd wisdom.
Miss Ilosevcnte bad mauv fi lends,
but, rather to her lellef, thej were not
largely iepre-"entel theio that evening.
She, toe, wanted Isolation, and atter u
time managed to seouio n bolllaiy feat
In one of the many splendid looms
tluown open for sitting out, dimly
lighted with "haded lamps, and fra
grant with .coft yellow roses. It wm
the first time for yeais that she had
been away fiom home on June 18th.
It was one of two or three seeiet annl
veisaiits that she dedicated to a time
before he had become famous 01 lone
ly. Ince the death of her widowed
motKr, when she was .'G, she had 11 ed
nnd woiked Independently. Tho woild
at huge used to express a wonder she
had never mnnled, till It giew tired of
the subject. Theie were two or three
nit n who privately acknowledged her
as theh reason for being bachelor,
but people had never linked her name
with theirs. Time aie a few women
who Insplio this kind of tcpecttul sl
ln e Theie Is a clearly dellned cei
taiiity that the common Joys ond sor
iow aie not to be theirs. They are
np.ut and aloof, for reasons that are
Ion subtle for exact uraljsls. Yet these
itasoiis aie so foiclble that tl'.ey are
stronplv feU by the most undiscern
Irg p-'ipons hi ought into their piopln-
(Ult.
Sin- was content, een happy. Ex-
pt now and then, when June came
b.u k with waim. sou nights, and that
all which Is lull of olces. Her utory
was simple to baldness. Not In the
h ist fitted to make a novel, far less a
poi'iii, in Its hackneyed lack of fiesh
ip.ituit'f. She had taken a ft lend for
lii! Then Just as he gave the first
laint but unmistakable signs, the news
a me to her that for yeais he had been
bound to another and an Infeilor wo
man 'ihf had tuated her Ioo with stein
ib i Mon. She had snapped the tie oven
t their filendslilp, broken It asunder
without a woul of explanation. Bettor
an pain to heiselt than the petpetual
l nimso of h.i ing blighted another wo
man's life. That she dated not face.
Her fiiinness had the natural tesult.
Mi phpn Haheie had married and sllp
pfd below his natural level to that of
hlis wife. It so often huppens, and It
happened In this Instance. He had
Ik on a painter of singular power and
l innilse when Evadne was but a hatd
w oi king ait student who betrayed
email signs of futuio eminence. "A
man who was sure to succeed, a gill
who was unlikely to do much." That
was the veullct of the woild when they
were young. Fate had leversed tho
ludgment, Haheie letrogiaded; Ev
adne, taught by ait, loe and sonow,
ti luinphed.
Hut theio had been ono night of utter
happiness for her before she knew the
tiuth. Theie had been one ball, one
only, when they had danced together
for the first time and tho last. She had
worn hellotiopp from the old gaulen
She woio It now, among her flashing
diamonds. The .scent wafted her back
to that other June. Long ago? Theie
Is no long ago for a woman's heait.
She could recall oveiy Incident of that
night, the gioups of dancei s, the per
fume of lluweis She sat theie alone
witli only the thiobbing pulse of tho
alse rising and falling with melan
choly o.idencen. Susan Prothemo's
nleit, long-sighted eyes weie upon her,
and through the open door she made
a sketch of the well-shaped head with
Its faultlessly arranged masses of giay
hair, so th.it its plctuiesqueness was
not ciulto wasted.
Hndne wnb not thinking of herself.
Slip was wondering If Stephen weie
still nllplf he were happy If be
were much changed. She had no idea
that sorrow and l enunciation had put
Into her own faco something rarer
than beauty. She who had not been
called pietty In her girlhood was much
ndmlred now. Gray hair Is fashion
able, and pei feet dress Is such an Im
portant help to a reputation for good
lookM. Sho thought that those quiet
p pilings in her own studio sho had
tenderly dedicated to gentle lomtm
brances of a dead Joy had had none
of tho bitterness that gave the old
pain a new quality tonight. Perhaps
she had been too much with the silly
young lovers who had rushed in a
particularly hopeless engagement which
really ought to have been frustrated.
It was her punishment for being too
lenient to her nieces. Bv and by vhc
would be dlscoveied and sent in to the
supper, for which sho had no Inclina
tion; then sho would go home. It
was so hot and ho over-perfumed, a
discord of scents for fresh Iloweis and
Bond street odois do not commingle.
Tho evening seemed endlessly long,
and theie was no clock In the room.
The band was playing an air that,
though It did not date back to her
past, had a decided resemblanco to
one she had cause to lemembcr. She
had never danced since that ball to
which Stephen had accompanied
them. Her mother's death had the
pathetic Pdvantnso of giving her an
excuse for withdrawing fiom society
for a very long time. When she came
back It wns as a quiet spectator. She
wild goodby to youth nmld the whirl
ing wnltzers nnd the wax llgln' - Dead
flowers and dead hopes noie. - the
next morning. The wealth of "M,' In
a heart framed for one passion Wbb
henceforth vented only, and, ns It
Mere, stealthily on chlldien nnd even
nlmals. She dared only to let her-
JONAS LONG'S SONS. JONAS LONG'S SONS. JONAS LONG'S SONS. JONAS LONG'S SONS. I JONAS LONG'S SONS. JONAS LONG'S SONS
ft sale of muslin taderWear af prices never before possibl?
E5
aTTH ft - -ri a
'esnnnino: ioaay, reoruarv l.
All told, there is something like 22,000 pieces to choose from
With the immense outlet of our two Big Stores we bought quantities for cash, that
will make this sale a memorable occasion, unsurpassable and unapproachable by any
house. It will provide our multitude of shoppers with bargains of startling propensity.
When the selling begins on Wednesday morning you will find
tSie entire main ais3e of the store from Wyoming avenue entrance to the
elevators, a veritable sea of beautiful undermuslins
Every woman who loves the white, dainty garments and what one does not will
be charmed by the sight we place before them. A brilliant, dazzling array of finery at
prices that will stand the strain of comparison with any house in the universe.
Gowns
At 29c Em-
pire
style, trimmed
with i uftles and
embroideiy.
At 4fc Altei-nat-ing
rows of fine
and wide tucks:
a Zouave effect
in embroidery,
with a beading
edge tinibh.
At 65c very pietty Bishop Gowns
trimmed with nine point
ed ships of inseition.
At 93C Gowns with shield-shape
yoke, thiity-six fine tucks
and fine hemstitching daintily
made. Otheis are Bishop stvle,
with square neck and line edge.
Also some Empire style, cut veiy
full, with double ruffles ol em
broidei v.
JSp
Drawers
At 12C
Drawers,
tucks and
hem.
Good
Muslin
with
wide
At 29C Wide Umbrella Drawers,
with ruffle prettily edged
with line lace.
At 33C Dowers that are hand
somely trimmed with
deep embioidery, finished with four
fine tuck's.
At 49c Draweis with deep 1 ut
ile ol lawn, edged with
lace and libbon; otheis with full
ruffles of embroidery; also with mf
fles of lawn, hemstitched.
Chemise
At 23C of Sod Quality Muslin
dimmed with pretty, nar
row ruffles.
At 39C F'no quality, trimmed
with yoke ot embroidery
and line tucks.
mjS'
MM VA--4
M?SSi-
Skirts
At 39c Cambric
Skiits, with
If wide luffle of same
and cluster of tucks.
At 59c Two styles
that are
L trimmed with uiffles,
edged with lace and
pretty embi oidery.
At 39C '"'nee styles; one with umbrella flounce
with Hamburg ruffle and inserting;
another with lace uiffle and lace inserting; the
third has deep lawn uiffle with two rows of
hemstitching veiy full.
At 95c Very elaboiate Skiits that are delicately
trimmed with Valenciennes lace and
fine insei ting; skirts that are actually worth $1.30
at wholesale cost.
At $1,69 Veiy full and handsome Skiits, in all
the newest effects fine in quality.
U'v tea rfWS
l&ft.tS
vmmm
Gowns
fijf At 69c Hand
r
some
Empire stvle.
Wm' w'tn w'de rows
f'llfF of inserting.
edged with embroidery; ruf
fles of embroidery around
wrists.
At 79c Dainty Empire
Gowns, handsome-
lv tiimmed with lace and silk'
ribbons.
At 89C Gowns with V neck and six rows of
lace inserting also embroidered V
necks with wide ruffles of embroidery to com
plete the effect.
Corset Covers
At 6c Good quality, worth 12c, not cheese
cloth.
At 12c Hound or square neck, embroidery
tiimmed.
At 21C With ykQ or tucks and fine em
bi oideiy.
At 29C With V neck handsomely trimmed
' v - h lace.
And these elaborate garments at wonderfully low prices
One. at $1.25 is of line nainsook, with square neck, trimmed with dainty insertion; also ruffle of line lawn edged with Valenciennes lace. Another gown at $1.39 has
squaie neck with solid yoke of embioidery. Then theie aie three styles at $1.49 one with a lound voke made entirely of toichon lace insetting and lace Riffles; another is
bishop effect, high neck, tiimmed with al. lace and ruffles of same; 'the thud stvle has V neck, with line lawn yoke, hemstitched and dainty embroidery. A gown at $1.69 has
shield shaped yoke with alternate lows ol line tucks and torchon lace. A veiy handsome gown with yoke of open embroidery, and full Riffles of embroidery over shoulders, is
$1.75 about half pi ice. $2.25 is the pwco of a handsome garment with round yoke of val. lace and inserting, finished with puffings of lawn.
Some veiy handsome skirts, tiimmed with lull and duchess lace and inserting, are $2.25. Another style has double rows ot duchess lace and is but $3.98 worth a third more.
All
Mail Orders
Promptly
Filled.
ons
All
Goods
Delivered
Free.
self ko hen sOie was painting and
the utter sadness of two or tlnee pie
tuies the had tlrt exhibited had been
eiy uuuked. Yet Mio had led a use
ful and theeiftil existence.
Hhe was veiy .sensitive to muplc, and
the string orehctia played well. Thev
were singing the lefr.iln. now a pretty
fashion c nough. The woxds of "Bid Me
Cioodby" weie utterly commonplace,
mere jingle 'stinng together, nnd yet
they touched tho fastidious, iiltical
listener:
Ak me no moio If 1 regret; jou sued not
tuie to know :
A woman heait dees not foigd
Sho heaid no mote for lier hohte"-)
had lustled into the- loom with a glint
of eniuutlds and a fiou-fiou of tho
co' tllest of sneelallv designed hioeade.
Thene was a man with htr, pain and
giay headed, with an iml"f!nali!o air of
unaceustomednes'i about his diess and
bearing. He looked like a. gentleman,
and yet theio was Honvthlng awkward
in his demeanor, as ot one ill at ea'j
and out of hist element. lie had. In
fact, come back to society nfter n long
absence, and found that both he nnd
It had drifted hopelessly npait. An
impulse Just to glance again at what
he had left eaia ago had made him
ncccpt n chance Imitation. He 1 egret
ted it. His wife had not been dead
many months. He had imagined that
death would have come to him first. It
had come to the woman he had learned
to mato because of the sordid petti
ness of naturu that had at last almost
giound him down to Its own pattern.
Illusion, ambition, had fallen awnv llko
flowprs nipped bv the chilling frot of
dead-leel mediocrity. Ho who, at 23,
had been full of faith In the futuie,
had stepped out oi the rank nt SO
At DO he was an old man, and, what
was Infinitely worse, had no past wor
thy the letrospect, no achieved work
worth showing.
Mrs. Theslger, who wns too good
natured ever to be likely to rllmb very
high on tho social ladder, had found
htm vaguely wandering nmoug tho
palms, and suggested that ho should
take some one In to supper.
"Mr. rtaheie Miss nosoveaie," that
Is how these meetings occur today.
Evadne had In former yeais been ex
pectant of such a ohanco encounter It
had never come, and she h id not for
a long time itgarded it is likely She
hod known him once, and had seen
with u sense of pain, moro poignant
than any he had ever cost her, thut the
young lover of her girlish ureama was
as dead ns the roses she had worn onco
upon a time. Failure was wiltten on
his face. Tim eyes that had Hashed
with hopo and passionate determina
tion to do something that should bo
remembered wer nulet nnd dull now.
It was tho face of a not very much
Interested spectator In tho comedy of
errois wo call life. The thought ot
her own buv wot Id her art, her fame,
her manv ithnd. smote her with a
bitter --ense of conlinst He lnd had
nidi a statt in the lace, jet she had
so cntltcly distanced him.
They bowed in silence Hvadne with
a grace that had become natuial to
her, Stephen with a touch, of rlumI
ms, A moment later they were nlono.
nvadne lose ironi her seat nnd stood
under tho waim radiance of a tall
shndu lamp. .She wns beautiful as she
spoke, and her voice had always been
her chief charm.
"Hae you foigotten me In all thepo
yen is?"
Then, and not until then, he recog
nized her. Ho held out his hand; her
own ttembled as she took It.
'Stiangi' that we should meet at a
ball."
Ho spoko in tho most matter-of-fact
tone possible, but It was an assump
tion. It dpcched Evadne. She put an
air of icsetvo Into her net question.
"I hopo your wife Is well and your
child or, prehaps, jou have otheis
now?"
Her voice, her smile, hoi- delicate
distinction hurt him. It made him
feel that a gulf ot well. spent jeais
lolled between them and fet up a
barrier.
"My wife has been dead ten months.
My one child died eais ago."
"I am sony. Suclt soriows as those
must bo teirlble."
She had xesumed lir seat and he'
ntood beolde her, 111 at ease. Then
ho said, with a touch of satlto that
had wounded her sometimes when It1
touched her unsuccessful work: I
"Do not waste your compassion. My I
marriage was not fortunate. I sup-
poe I deserved my fate." Ho mopped
short.
"You loved her once," she t?ald wist
fully, pained by tho laugh with which
ho ended.
"i'or a nttio wiuie, prehaps. I gavel
my word. I kept it. It cost me neatly ,
twenty enrs purgntoiy. You, perhaps.
never guessed It, but there wns a time
yo-u might have delivered me."
"By tempting you to dishonor, ruin
ing another woman's happlneps to use
tho wreckage as a foundation for my
own. You did not understand me weil
enough to know It was Impossible."
Something In her dignity brought
him back an echo of jouthful eagei
ness. He had once been bold. His
awkward reserve fell away befote her
clear gaze.
"Then, piehaps, you loved me onco
after all?"
She looked up at htm without flinch
ing. "Yes, I loved ou with all my soul."
She had neer thought to speak tho
words aloud, thought they weie so
smartlngly familiar to her heait, Sho
spoke them now ns If her dead self
weie speaking to another chost.
"And jet Miu let nit do that thing,
knowing all the while mj heait was
JOUls."
r.ndiio diew heiself proudly up
"You lorgct. You never spoke of
love to me."
'Sin1 was nilseiublc, 1 was miser
able, jou "iiffciert, and all foi the sako
of a few piim womanly jciupleo.
Three lhes lost for a boy's haty piom
Ise. How much better to hao taken
the gifts the gods gae, if you caied
to claim i. that is."
"If I caied! Stephen. You know T
loed jou fiom the Hist, but I ilaied
not do this thing. I measuied her
loe bv mine "
Stephen laughed contemptuously.
HI had alwais been an exacting na
tine, and now that he almost felt hate
for this woman with her ilch velvet
and her Jewels beailng witness that
she had stormed the citadel he had
deselted. Tonight tho music and tho
youth about him made him kick
against the pilcks. It might have been
so dlftetent. He did not say it might
have been otherwise If Stephen Ualieio
hail not battel ed nit for a pair of
blue- eyes, nut if Hvadne Ttoseveare
had acted otheiwlse sho might have
made him crent If she had sat at his
feet and done him homage. Ho was
angry with her, and his apathy liad
kindled a little.
To be disillusioned now, to lie iobbe-1
of the hero ho had worshipped to
long, It capped the climax of her mls
foitune This pettish raller against the
fato he had com ted was not the Steph
en of her girlhood. Ho had laughed
at her conceptions of nit, told hr sho
was dimming, but not ix painter and
now?
She did not speak angilly. but very
sadly when sho broke a painful silence.
"You paint still?"
"Paint! I have not touched a brush
for j ears. Love In a cottago was not
at all my wife's Ideas. Her uncle hnd
a concern. Ho was patentee, of the
Kmerln varnish. 1 got a desk lit hU
oitlce and, in time, a Junior, very Ju
nior, paitncrship."
There were tears In rvndne's ej-os
when she spoke next Thev ero for
the nrtist that was lost, not for the
man who had bartered fnmo tor a ehav
In a concern. She hncl sttuggled, well
nigh staivcct; dltllcultlrs and barrlets
hud mot her at eveiy turn. Yet she
had attained: nay much more than
inre success sho had been tried In
tho ilie anil had come out puio gold.
Theio woie lonely women who blessed
her name and whlfpeied it in their
pt.ij'eis.
As she stood there she found herself
flinging off her part na If it weie a
cloak. Sho had dreamed a dream, and
she had awakened. Kupposo rhe had
man led Stephen and given up her art?
ThankHslvJng for the woiU done, tho
wck to be clone vt decked speech.
She stood In unlet thought
In Stiplnn's unaccustomed eves she
was beautiful and a sudden mail eag
erness lo try to ivtileve 1,1s waited
dajs met came him.
"Ye h ive changed place"," he liutvt
out. "When we parted jou were onlj"
a struggling student; 1 was a man
whoso two or iluee pictures had their
admirers. People laughed at me for
nn Impressieulsl, but tlu-y all said I
hnd a future. You bad io cucoutagc
ment. You wne such a silent glil not
even vcij- pnttj' In othoi men's eyes.
Now jou are beautiful and qr.cpuly and
fnniouo You au some ono; I am no
imt."
The waltz musk filled the pauses
w 1 tli Its dreaioj swei mess. Two happy
jotttig people pasted the d-oiway
1 laughing. The pair within glanced at
them iuvoluntailly. Evadne was In n
teveiie, and Stephen's words sounded
vague and far olf. No appt.il could
touch hei.
I "Have j'ou no pity for inc. no i egret
, that an old filend has djlfted back to
jour foot a failure? Kvaclne. saj- again
that you loved iw once. I love j'ou
now."
There wns passion In his voice: j-et It
was sc.ucely leal love, this nfteimath
or the harven of othei years. Only ho
longed to be again in the blight woild
he had left m long ago, and her hand
held the Ue.
"It Is too late, Stephen; I havo no
heait to give yuu now. My love for
tho man that was Is sacred still; It Is
not tor j'ou nor for any other "
"Auntie, are you icady to go yet'
Jack's train leaves to eailj-, and I must
get up lo sen him off."
The itiloiiuptlon was sudden, and the
rosj, dailt-haltcd newcomer hnd Jack
with her. Kvadno held nut her hand,
that was quite steady now, without a
woul; the diotus of the band spoko
for them: ' Hid me good-by and go."
She swept awnv with that legal air ho
had not seen IWoip, There were some
dead heliotrope flowms where sho
stood and Itnheio stooped and picked
them up. Ho looked veiy grave and
old. The last spatk ot fire had burned
out of his ejes; they were dull and
nnken again. His companion, tho
pale spirit that whispers, "It might
'have been," had taken Ev mine's place
beside him. Tho waltz was over, anu
he went ou into tho white dawn.
UlncU and White.
CASTOR I A
For Infanta and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Bears tho
Signature of
dU0&&
WHAT THE GRIPPE IS.
Each Nation Tries to Shift the Re
sponsibility for It Upon Some
Other.
Prom the Albanv Agu
'People who hai never been In love
me apt to doubt tho existence of tint
passion "Ho Jests at scuts that
never felt a wound." And so, people
who have never had the gilppe ale In
clined to think It Is meiely a new
name for a common cold. Ono w liter
playfully suggests that 'evidently the
thing to do is for evetvonp to become
a Christian scientist and Ilimly be
lieve that no such disease as the
gtlppo exists." The fact is. however,
that the disease has been known and
described from the time of Hippo
crates who was hoi n In the j-onr 4C0
I?. C , nnd, though Its name has been
changed at various (periods, it has
alwajK been a form of epidemic ca
tairh, more or less seveie, according
to circumstances. In 1510 It was called
"coccoluche," because the sick wore a
cap oliiv over their heads After
ward the Italian phjslclans named It
"influens'a," and in later j'eais the
French doctois gave it the name of ' la
gilppe," though It seems best to re
tain the Piendi spelling of the word
when meaning this disease, so as to
distinguish it from other gtlps. It Is
known all over the world, and theie
Is a deposition In every nation to
shift the odium of It upon some other
countiy. Thus the Husslans call It
the Chinese catanh, tho Geimans
often call It tho Russian pest, the Ital
ians namo it the Geiman disease, and
tho Fiench call It sometime tho Ital
lan fever and sometimes1 the Spanish
catn h.
Tho occuttence of grippe, as well as
of most other epidemics, Is appaientlv
connected with soma particular condi
tion or contamination of tho atnio
sphete, but what thut condition is, or
what may be that kind of contamina
tion, no ono knows. The poisonous
Influence, whatever Its natuie may he,
wlnss Its way with greater celeilty
than the speed of human inteicouise.
whllo Its progreEU seems influenced by
the season ot the year, whether hot,
cold, damp or temperate; it Is said to
travel fiom east to west, and it seldom
stajs in one district moio than six
or seven weeks. Some visitations
have proved mote seveie than otheis;
one In 1782, which extended over tho
whole of Huiope. wiih very fatal; but
nt another tlmu when It taged all over
Europe, and was said to havo not
missed a family, and scatcelj' a per
son, none died, except somo children.
When It broke out In London In 1847,
it appeared In a single day over every
part of that great city, nnd affected
upward of 500,000 persons.
In December, 1889, theio was an epi
demic of gilppe In the city of New
York, said to havo been "caused by
germs convejed in a letter from Rus
sia which was received by a patient
of an eminent uptown physician." That
epidemic lanted six weeks and was ex
tremely severe, resulting in UundTecLs
of deaths. In March, 1891, It broko
out jgain, and continued eight weeks,
nnd the Registrar of the Board ol
Health saj-s: "While it was less Impet
uous in its attack and less speedj In
its culmination, its mora protracted!
duration made It the molt fatal of all
the epldemlo wo havo had. Stnco
1S91 the severltj of the disease Jias
been gradually declining, although
mote ot less prevalent eveiy year. The
largest number of deaths from Influ
enza. In New York in any ono year?
since 1891 was in 1S05. In 1896 thera
was a decided l emission, but an In
crease again In 1S97. In 189S, up tl
the ptesent time there have been Xewep
deaths than in anj previous year einca
the disease first appeared."
Piofessor Noithnagel, of Vlennn,
who tnado a special study of tha
gilppe, made a leport in 1892, In -which
he said that the malady was mias
matic, Infectious and contagious, and
declnied that no specific remody wan
known, though the sufferers1 might ba
relieved somewhat bj various drug?.
As to treatment, tho Now York Boaad
declined to make any suggestions, not
deeming It safe to glva any general
prescilptlon, because "the disease
takes many different forms, and each
form should bo treated specifically."
One phj'slclan is candid enough to say
frankly that "while drugs may help
to relieve the suffering, the best cure Is
a week spent in bed."
AT HIS EXPENSE.
lie told her that it was impossible to
find words to tell her how much he loved
her. The next da ho received a present
of a diction it y. Kos ton Transcript.
"Does j-our husband ever go to church,
Mit iiatlser?"
"Oh, yes, he goes quite legulaily In tho
winter time."
"Why doca he go In the winter time anl
not at other times? '
"Well, jou 5eo, ho generally has the
quinsy when tho weather is raw, and
thinks he Ih going to die." Chicago Nevva,
"Docs j-our husband ever say any
thing about his mothui's cooking?"
"No; but ho sajs things about my
cooking that his father ured to gay nbout
hla mothers cooltlng." Cincinnati Kn
qulrei.
"The doctors had a consultation ycs
terday."
"Wlin t wns the result?"
"I understand that tho family lawyer!
am now in secret session. " nrooklyn
Mfe.