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HOME. SWEET HOME.
Dr. Talmage Extols It as a Field
of Usefulness.
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man, flippantly,
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man. "To give you t tint job 1 should
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hut It Won.
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said the lady nf the house.
"This is the number," persisted the
driver nf the delivery wagon, looking
nt his book again. ".Value's llkrfjins,
ain't it?"
"Ves."
"No. 74?"
"That's our number."
. "Then it's fur you."
"I think not. It mitft be n case of
mistaken identity."
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Tit-Hits.
ArrnnntlnK fr It C'lirmlpnlly.
"It may tie merely fancy," remarked
Sfrs. Selldom-Hofme, "hut since my
hufband began drinking the water
from that iron spring ho lias seemed to
be ten times as obstinate as he used
to be."
'Terlinps," Miested M-;. Nexdore,
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Chicago Tribune.
A Myntcry Solved.
Bessie and her father were sitting
out on the lawn looking at the stars.
"That very red one," said her father,
"ie Mars, named after the god of
war."
"The pod of war! "cried Bessie. "Oh.
papa, I wonder if that isn't where the
shooting stars come from?" Detroit
Free Press,
A llnr IMiirrlniir.
Daughter (coaxing) Papa, do have
n little mercy, and let Charles and me
be happy together.
Papa (mathematical professor)
What? You want to think of mar
riage when you don't even know
where to find the hypothenuse of a
right-angled triangle? N. ,Y Times.
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(Copyright. 1901, by Lonll Klopsch, N. T.)
Washington, Aug. 18.
In this discourse Dr. Talmage extols
home as u field of usefulness, and es
pecially encourages wives and moth
er.-; text, Genesis 1:27: "Male and fe
male crested He them."
lo other words, God, who can make
no mistake, made miin and woman for
a specific work and tn move in particu
lar spheres man to he repliant in his
realm. Woman to be dominant in hers.
The boundary line between Italy and
Bwitaerland, between England and
Scotland, is n'it more thoroughly
niarkvd than this distinction between
the empire masculine and the empire
feminine. So entirely dissimilar are
the fields to which God called them
that you can no more compare them
than you cm oxygen and hydrogen,
water and prn". trees nnd stars. All
this talk about the superiority of one
sex to the other is an everlasting w aste
of ink and speech. A jeweler may have
a scale so delicate that he can weigh
the dust of diamonds, but where are
the scales fo delicate that you can
Weigh in tlrm affection, sentiment
ncainst sentiment, Ihoupht apainst
thought, soul against soul, n man's
Word against a woman's word?
You come out with your stereotyped
remark that man i-i superior to wom
an in intellect, and then I open on my
desk the swart hy, iron-typod. t h under
bolted writings of Harriet Martineau
and Elizabeth Browninp and (ieorpe
Eltot. You come on w ith your stereo
typed rem.rk about woman's superior
Hy to mitn in the item of affection, but
I ask win where was there more oa
paeity to love than in John the disciple,
and Robert MeCheyne, the Scotchman,
and .lrhn Bummerfield, the Methodist,
and Henry Me.rtvn, the missionary?
The heart of those men was so larpe
that aftr you had rollod into it the
hemispheres there was room still left
to mnt shnl the host of Heaven and set
up the throne of the eternal Jehovah.
I deny to man the throne intellectual.
I deny to woman the throne afTeetion
al. Xo human phraseolopy will ever
define the spheres while there Is an
intuition by which we know when a
man Is In his renim and when a wom
an is In her realm and when neither of
them is out of It. No bungling lepisla
ture oupht to attempt to make a defi
nition or to say : "This is the line, and
that is the line."
My theory is that If woman wants
to Tote she on'ht to vote, and that if a
man wants to embroider nnd keep
hnitv he oupht tn be allowed to em
broider and keep house. There are
rhnseuline women, and there are ef
feminate men. My theory is that you
have o right to interfere with any
one's doinp anythinp that is riphtcous.
Albany and Washington mipht as well
decree by legislation how hiph a brown
thrasher should fly ior how deep a
front should plunge as to try to seek
ont. the height or the depth of wom
an's duty. The question of enpacity
will settle finally the whole question,
the whole subject. When a woman is
prepared to preach she will preach,
and neither conference nor presbytery
can hinder her. When a woman is pre
pared to move in hiphest commercial
spheres she will have preat influence
on the exchange, and no boards of
trade can hinder her. I want woman
to understand that heart and brain
can overflow any barrier that politi
cians may se-t up, and that nothinpean
keep her back or keep her down but
the t(Ui'Skn of capacity.
I know there are women of most un
desirable nature who wander up nnd
down the country, havinpno homes nf
their own or forsaking their own
homes, talkinp about their riphts, and
we know very well that they them
selves are fit neither to vote nor fit to
keep house. Their mission seems to
be to humiliate the two sexes at the
thoupht of what any one of us might
beoems. No one would want to live
wnder the laws that such women would
enact, or to hae cast upon society the
chlldre. that such women would raise.
But I will show you that the best rights
that woman can own she already has
In her possession; that her position in
his country nt this time is not one
of eommtserstion, but one of congrat
ulation; that the grandeur nnd power
of her realm have never yet been ap
preciated; that she sits to-day on
throne so high that all the thrones of
earth piled on top of each other would
not make for her a footstool. Hers
is the platform on which she stands.
Away down below it are the ballot box
and the conpressional assemblape and
the legislative hall.
Woman always has voted and al
wnys will vote. Our greatgrandfa
thers thonpht they were bytheirvotes
puttinp Wakhinpton into the presiden
tial chair. No. His mother, by the
principles she taupht him and by the
habits she inculcated, made him presi
dent. It was a Christian mother's
hand dropping the ballot when Lord
Hacon wrote, and Newton philoso
phized, and Alfred the Great poverned,
and Jonathan Kdwards thundered of
judpment in come. How many men
there have been in hiph political sta
tion who would have been insufficient
to stand the test to which their moral
principle was put had it not been for
a wife's voice that encouraged them
to do ripht nnd 11 wife's prayer that,
sounded louder than the clamor of
partisanship' Why, my friends, the
right of suffrage, as we men exercise
t. seems to be a feeble thing. You, a
Christian man, come up to the ballot
box and drop your vote. Right after
rou comes a libertine or a sot, the ofl
eeonrtng of the street, and he dropa
his vote, and his vote counteracts
jnars. But it In the quiet of home life
daughter by her Christian demeanor,
a wife by her industry, a mother by
her faithfulness, easts a vote in the
ripht direction, then nothing can re
sist it, and the influence of that vote
will throb throuph the eternities.
My chief anxiety, then, is not that
woman have other rights accorded
her, but that she, by the grace of
God, rise up to the appreciation of
the plorious riphts she already pos
sesses. I shall only have time to
speak of one prand nnd all ahsorblnp
ripht that every woman has, and that
is to make home happy. That realm
no one has ever disputed with her.
Men may come home nt noon or nt
night, nnd they tarry a comparative
ly little while, but she all day lonp
governs it, heautiticR it, sanctities it.
It is within her power to make it the
most attractive place on earth. It is
the only calm harbor in this world.
You know as well as I do that this
outside world and the buainess world
is n lonp scene of jostle nnd conten
tion. The mnn who has n dollar
strupples to keep it; the man who
has !t not strupples to pet it. Prices
up. Prices down. Losses. Gains.
Misrepresentations. Gonpinps. Un
derselling, Buyers depreciating;
salesmen ecnpperatinp. Tenants
seekinp less rent; landlords demand
inp more. Gold fidpety. Strupples
nbout office. Men who are in tr-yinp
to keep in; men ont tryinp to get in.
Slips. Tumbles. Defalcations. Pan
ics. Catastrophes. O woman, thank
God you have a home, and that you
may be queen In it. Better be there
than wear a queen's coronet. Better
lie there than carry the purse nf a
princess. Your abode may be hum
ble, but you enn by your faith in
God and your cheerfulness of de
meanor piid it with splendors such
ns an upholsterer's hand never yet
kindled.
There nre abodes in the city
humble, two stories, four plain, un
papcred rooms; undesirable neigh
borhood, nnd yet there is a man here
to-day who would die on the thresh
old rather than surrender it.
Why? ft is home. Whenever he
thinks ff it he sees anpels of God
hovering around it. The ladders of
Heaven nre let down to this house.
Over the child's rouph crib there are
the rhantinps of anpels, as those that
sounded over llethsshem. It is home.
These children may eome up after
awhile, nnd they may win high posi
tion, and they may have an affluent
residence, but they will not until
their dying dny forpet thnt humble
roof under whirh their father rested
and their mother sang nnd their sis
ters played. Oh, if you would gn ther
up all tender memories, all the lights
and shades of the heart, all banquot
inps nnd reunions, all filial, fraternal,
paternal and conjupnl affections, and
you had only just four letters to
spell oat thnt height and depth and
length and brendth and magnitude
nnd eternity of meaning, you would,
with Streaming eyes nnd trembling
voice nnd agitated hand, write it out
in those four living capitals, H-O-M-K.
Whnt right does woman want that
is grander than to be queen in such
a realm? Why, the eagles of heaven
cannot fly across thnt dominion.
Horses, panting and with lathered
flanks, arc not swift enough to run
to the outpost of that realm. They
say that the sun never sets upon the
English empire, but. I have to tell you
that on this realm of woman's influ
ence eternity never mnrks any bound.
Isabella fled from the Spanish throne
pursued by the nation's anathema,
but she who is queen in n home will
never lose hr throne, and death it
self will only be the nnnexntion of
heavenly principalities.
When you want, to pet your grand
est idea of a queen, you do not think
of Catherine of Russia, or of Anne of
England, or Maria Theresa of Aus
tria, but when you want to get your
grandest idea of a queen you think
of the plain woman who sat opposite
your father at the table, or walked
with him arm in arm down life's
pathway, sometimes to the thanks
giving banquet, sometimes to the
grave, but always together soothing
your petty griefs, correcting your
childish waywardness, joining1 in your
infantile sports, listening to your
evening prayers, toiling for yon with
needle, or at the spinning wheel, and
on cold nights wrapping you up snug
and warm. And then at last, on thnt
day when she lay in the back room
dying, nnd you saw her take those
thin hands with which she toiled for
you so long and put them together
in a dying prayer that commended
you to God, whom she had taught
you to trust oh, she wws the queen!
The chariots of God came down to
fetch her, and as she went in all
Heaven rose up. You cannot think
of her now without a rush of tender
ness that stirs the deep foundations
of your soul, and you feel as much
a child again as when you cried on
her lap, and if you could bring her
back again to speak just once more
your name as tenderly as she used
to speak it you would be willing to
throw yourself on the ground and
kiss the sod that covers her, crj'ing:
"Mother, mother!" Ah, she was the
queen she was the queen!
Now, can you tell me how mnny
thousand miles a woman like that
would have to travel down beforo
she got to theallot box? Compared
With this work of training kings and
queens for God nnd eternity, how in
significant seems all this work of
voting for aldermen and common
councilmen and sheriffs end con
stables and mayors and presidents.
To make one such grand woman as I
have described how many thousand
would you want of those people who
go in the round of godlessness and
fashion and dissipation, distorting
thetr body and gotng so far toward
! disgraceful apparel as they dare go
so as not to be arrested of the poliee,
. their behavior a sorrow to the good
and a caricature of the vicious and
an insult to that God who mnde
them women and not gorpons, and
tramping on, down throuph a frivo
lous and dissipated life, to temporal
and eternal destruction. Oh, woman,
with the lightning of your soul
strike dead r.t your feet all these al
1 lurements to dissipation and to
' fashion. Your immortal soul cannot
be fed upon such garbage, God calls
you up to empire and dominion.
Will you have it? Oh, give to God
your heart, give to God your best
energies, give to God nil your cul
ture, give to find all your refinement,
give yourself to Him for this world
and the next. Soon nfl these bright
eyes will be quenched and Cheat
voices will be hushed. For the last
time you will look upon this fair
earth; father's hand, mother's hand,
sister's hand, child's hand, will be no
more in yours. It will lie night, and
there will come up a cold wind from
i the Jordnn. and you must start.
Will It be a lone woman on a track
less moor? Ah. no, Jesus will come
up in that hour and offer His hand,
and lie will say: "You stood by me
when you were well; now I will nnt
desert you when you are sick." One
wave of his hand, and the storm will
drop, nnd nnotlier wave of His hnnd
and midnight shall ureak into mid
, noon, and another wave of Ills hand
and the chamberlains of Goil will
come do- from the treasure hnnses
of Ilea . 1 . 1 with robes lustrous, blood
washed and Heaven glinted, in which
you will array yourself for the mar
riage supper of the Lamb. And then
with Miriam, who struck the timbrel
by the Ked sea. and with Deborah, who
led the Lord's host into the tight,
and with Hannah, who gave her Sam
uel to the Lord, and with Mary, who
rocked Jesus to sleep while there
vcre anpels singing in the air, nnd
with Florence Nig lit ingale, w ho bound
Up the battle wounds of the Crimea,
you will, from the chalice of God,
drink to the soul's eternal rescue.
One twilight, after I had been
playing with the children for some
time, I lay down on the lounge to
rest, and, half asleep nnd half awake.
I seemed to dream this dream: It
seemed to me that 1 was in a far dis
tant land not Persia, although more
than oriental luxuriance crowned the
cities; nor the tropics, although
more than fruit fulness filled the gar
dens; nor Italy, although more than
Italian softness filled the nir. And
I wandered around looking for
thorns and nettles, but I found none
of them grew there. And I walked
forth, nnd I saw- the sun rise, and I
said: "lVhen will it set again?" and
the sun sank not. And I saw nil the
people in holiday apparel, nnd I said:
"When will they put on working
men's pnrb again nnd' delve In the
mine nnd swelter at the forge?" But
neither the garments nor the robes
flid they put off. And I wandered in
the suburbs, nnd . said: "Where do
they bury the dead of this gr"at
city?" And 1 looked along by the
1 hills where It would be most beauti
ful for the dead to sleep, nnd T saw
castles and towers and battlements,
but not a mausoleum, nor monu
ment, nor white slab could I see.
j And I went into the great chapel of
the town, nnd I said: "Where do the
poor worship'.' Where nre the
benches on which they sit?" And a
voice answered! "We have no poor
in this great city." And I wandered
out seekinp to find the place where
were the hovels of the destitute, nnd
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
Lrnon la the International Series for
September 2l, Jlllll tlnnrterly
Review.
1 found mansions of nmber and ivory
and pold, but no tear did 1 see fir
6iph hear. I was bewildered, nnd I
sot undor the shadow of a preat tree,
nnd I said: "What nm I nnd whence
I comes nil this?" And at that moment
j there came from among the leaves,
kipping p the flowery paths and
' pcross the sparkling wnters, a very
bright nnd sparkling group, nnd
when I snw their step I knew it, nnd
when I henrd their voices I thought
I knew them, but their npparel was
eo different from nnythlnp I hrvd ever
seen I bowed, n stranper to
etrnngers. Put nfter nwhllc, when
they clnpped their hands and shout
ed: "Welcome! Welcome!" the
mystery was solved, and I saw that
time had passed and that eternity
hnd come, nnd that God had gathered
us up into a higher home, and I said:
"Are all here?" and the voices of in
numerable generstlons answer!:
"All here." And whHe tears of glad
ness were raining down our cheeks
nnd the branches ot the Lebanon
cedars were clapping their hands and
j the towers of the great city were
' chiming their welcome, we began to
laugh and sin and leap and shout-:
I "nome! Home! Home!"
Moaanltoea on a Rampage.
Word comes from Crlsfleld, MA., of
the death of one man from an at
: tack made by mosquitoss while he
1 was passing through a wood. An
other report from Austin, Tex., tells
1 of nn nttaok made upon oil operators
in the region of Sabine, Tex., in which
mosquitoes came from the salt
marshes in grent clouds that dark
ened the sun and forced the work
! men to flee for their lives. Many
head of cattle and horses were re
1 ported killed in this last attack. As
! the government has lately expressed
an intention to exterminate mosqui
! toes and suggested the wse of kero
! Bene oil on ponds and stagnant wa-
ter, this fierce nnd nggresslve attack
by the enemy must have been to seize
the bnsc of supplies.
Deflnlnir by F.nr.
A teacher requested each scholar
to give a sentence containing the
word "toward." One boy, of nine
years, evolved: "I toared my pants!"
T..1 na. f nn f h 1 V
I e" . ..
Golden Tezt The inerey of the Lord
la from everlasting to everlnstlnrf
poataemthat fear lllm. I'xn. to:ttl7.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
Below is presented a brief chronol
ogy of the period covered by the past
quarter's lesson:
' 4004 B. C The creation.. . Ailam and Eve
created In Idea anil tlnlr fall ...lllrth of
Cain and Abel near Bdi a
I K75 B. C Murder of Abi-1. and consequent
banishment of Cajn.
$s;i B. C Birth of Seth.
j 2074 EL C Death of Adam.
HAT B. C Translation of Enoch.
2MS B. C Birth of Noah.
S.'M B. C The Hood.
1 H-IT-S B. C Covenant with Noah In Ar
menia. 247 B. C Confusion of tongues, in Baby
lonia. 1 IMS B. C Death of Noah, In Arabia.
1 UM B. c Birth of Abram at Ur, Ibaldi a,
! IVZi B. C Abram moves from L'r 10 li.ir.tn
I in Mt-sopotanU.
191 B. C Call of Abram.... Abram and
I.ot move to Canaan.
; 1318 B. C Abram ai d I.ot separatS, Lot
I Km s to Sodom and Abram settles In
1 Hebron.
' 1913 B. C Lot carried away captive by
chi rdorlsomer, and rescued by Abram.
1912 1!. C God's covenant With Abram.
191n B. C. -Birth of Ishmael.
1897 B. C The covenant renewed....
Abram's r.ame chanted to Abraham, and
Barai'i to Sarah Abraham entertains
three angels, and Interci dl I for Sodom
Lot tlees from duenna city Sodom
destroyed.
UN B. C. Birth of Ijnnc, in Mnab.
1;. C II agar ami Ishmael sent away.
loTl li. d Abraham offers to sacrifice Isaac
on Mt. Mortal) in Jerusalem,
l&'io B. C Death of Sarah, in Hebron.
UR B. c Marrlugu of Isaac and U bicca,
nt I.ahai Kol.
1n:;T B. C Birth of Jacob and Esau.
1833 B, C Death of Abraham at Beersheba,
1904 B. C Esau sells birthright for mess
of pottage The sovenant confirmed,
lTiin li. C. Jacob steals Esau's blessing and
siarts for Parian-Aram Ilia vUlon at
Bethel.
1763 B, C. Jacob marries Leah and Rachel.
17o2-3U B. C Jacob's children, excepting
Benjamin, born He returns to Canaan
VVrties witii angel at PenueT....Hls
uaiiHj Changed to Israel.
The above table is valuable only for
comparisons, and getting at the inter
vals between the more notable events.
The dates arc those found in the mar
gins of our Bibles, but arc not ac
curate. They were estimated by Arch
bishop Usher in the eighteenth cen
tury. He had at his command only
the dates given in the Bible text, with
out tJie helps that have come to more
recent scholars from other sources.
One corrective to the dates of the
common chronology is furnished by
the study of geology. The fussils iu
the rocks, the arrangement of the
strata of Soil, the signs of channels
worn by rivers, all show the great
age of the world. Home students have
talked nbout millions of years as in
cluded in the world's history, but con
servative geologists believe that pres
ent processes have been going on for
from 30,000 to 50,000 years, and that
there have been men in the world for
not less than 10,000 years.
The monuments of ancient peoples
nlso prove that the date assigned to
the deluge by the Bible margin is
many hundreds, if not thousands, of
years too late. Some high authorities
on the history of Egypt place the
enrliest known events In that history
as early ns B. C. 5K00. Others rut the
.-late down a thousands years or more,
but all agree that records dating
earlier than B, C. :iono exist in Egypt.
The records of Assyria certainly be
gin ns iarly as B. C. 2oo. It would
mnnifeMly be impossible for two na
tions, surrounded by other peoples,
to be formed and organized in re
gions su far apart us Assyria and
Bgypt in much less than 500 years
nfter a sweeping catastrophe like the
deluge. The date of the deluge is to
be considered, therefore, as not later
than B. C. o.M)0, and very likely as-early
as B. C. 0O0S.
The date of Abraham's life is gen
erally believed to have been not far
from the period indicated by the
Bible margin, the timu fixed by vnri
us authorities ranging from B. C.
2100 to B. C. 1750.
THE GOLDEN TEXTS.
Leson I. In the beginning God created
the Heaven and the earth. Gen. 1:1.
Lessen II Where sin abounded, grace
did mueh more abound Bom. 5:20.
Lesson 111. Noah found grace In the
eyes of the Lord. Gen. 6:8.
Lesson IV. I will bless thee, and make
thr name grent; and thou shalt be a Mesa
lug - Gen. 12:2.
Lesson V. Whatsoever ye would that
men should do to you, do even so to them.
-Matt. 7:12.
Lesson Vt I am thy shield, and thy ex
ceeding great reward. Gen. 15:1.
Lesion VII. The effectual fervent prayer
of a righteous man avalleth much. Jas.
6:16.
Lesson VIII. By faith Abraham, when
he was tried, offered up Isaac rfeb. 11:17.
Lesson IX. Bleated are the peacemak
ers, for they shall be oalled the children
of God. Matt. 5:9.
Lesson X. Surely the Lord is In this
place. Gen. 28:16.
Lemon XI. Men ought always to pray
and not to faint. Luke 18:1.
Lesson XII. Wine Is a mocker, strong
drink u raging, and whosoever Is deceived
thereby Is not wise. Prov. 20:1.
Overburdened.
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An Acknowledgment.
"A great many men owe their suc
1 cess in life to their wives."
"Yes," answered. Mr. Meekton rom
1 plaeently. "If there were more wom
en like Henrietta in the world, there
would be more kind and obedient
husbands." Washington Star.
1
Two Views of It,
Much depends upon whether the
point, of view is feminine or masculine.
I "Will she have him?" he idly asked
as they noticed the devoted couple on
' the bench.
"Can she get him?" was her mors
' pointed query. Chicago Post.
On the Verve of Collapse.
"I say, boss, have pity on me," said
the tramp, accosting a gentleman 011
the street; "let me have a dollar, will
yer, I haven't drawn anything but a
sober breath for a week." Y'onkers
Statesman,
He Attracted Attention.
He An' did yo' sny dot I 'trncted
de 'tention ob Miss Snowflake?
She Oh, ye6! She says she donn'
understnn how yo' kin pay fo de
clothes. Puck.
Old as the Hills.
Wife I see some Canadian has in
vented abuttonless shirt.
Husband (sarcastically) That's
nothing new. I wear them regularly.
Tit-Bits.
In Thnt Case.
She When one is really thirsty,
there is nothing so good as pure cold
j water.
He I guess I have never been rea'.'y
j thirsty. Brooklyn Life.
It Would Seem So.
Some men work all night long,
And some fmm sun to sun;
But the bill collector ha? a tnac
His work li always dun.
Chicago Daily News.
COMPARISON.
I
Gold Dust
When in doubt, don't.
The love of the law leads to liberty
in it.
Self is the shortest and the deepest
definition of sin.
Love's softest words often have the
sublitnest echoes.
Sympathy and sincerity are the sis
ter keys to all hearts.
Don't make the man with the
crooked eye the compass-man iof your
church.
Y'ou cannot make your heart a
cesspool without giving your life an
ill odor.
Some people cannot even trust God
with their cares without keeping a
memorandum of them. Ram's Horn.
Women In Rrltlsh Industrie.
Gas is the only British trade which
in 1899 employed no women. There
were seven at work in electrical works.
There is no recreation in desecration.
"Mias May, I do not know any bet
ter way to describe my embarrass
ment in your presence than to say
that I feel as if I were about to be ex
amined at school." Bombe.
The Cynic's Misfortune.
This world's a piece, when all is done.
By fond Illusions ruled;
That man cannot have any fun
Who never can be fooled.
Washington Star.
A Chanee for Trouble.
"Throwinir nn old shoe after a
bride and groom means that all ill"
feeling is thus thrown away."
"Yes, but suppose the old shoe
should happen to hit the bride?"
Detroit Free Press.
Tnai Ever Thus.
"Oh, yes, he adores me. I've known
It for a fortnight."
"Then what's b thering you?"
"What's bothering me? Why. TVi
1 got to wait for him to find it out!"
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