PLAYTHINGS. ' Th* 1 are full of human tort, . Wound up for threescore years; I Their springs are hungers, hopes and jojrt And jealousies and fears. r*- They move their eyes, their lips, their hands; They are marrclously dressed. And here mv body stir 9 or stands, A plaything like the rest. r The toys are played with till they fall, Worn out and thrown away. Why were they ever made at all? Who sits to watch the play? —Edmund tloate. oAoAoAoAOAOAOOA0AOAOAOAOAO 1 THE TEST. I K ► 2** * p o -4 How an Eccentric Belle £ Exposed tho Motives ° 0 of Her Suitors. ■< > ofo?oTo?ofo?ooToTo?ofofoTo When the following appeared in tho columns of the daily newspapers, soci ety experienced an absolutely now sensation. People who hadn't known the late Eleanor Stevens Immediately began to Inquire into the history of the woman whose name was cftupled with so singular an announcement, and peo ple who had known Eleanor Stevens forthwith revived long lists of her cu rious fads and fancies, concluding al ways with the declaration: "Well, It's just what you might ex pect from Eleanor Stevens." Personal.—The rejected suitors of the late Miss Eleanor Stevens may hear something to their ad vantage by communicating with Willard Pratt, solicitor, 498 Cheapside, K. C. Now, Eleanor Stevens had been by ! no means either the crotchety old maid or the rattle brained young one that these remarks might Imply. On the 1 contrary, she had been a rarely charm ing and gifted young woman, well born, well bred, the heiress of a fortune —in fact, the possessor of beauty, brains and money sufiicient to equip half si dozen so called society belles. But in spite of these endowments—or, perhaps, because of tlieui—Eleanor Stevens had been an eccentric, and with every year since her debut her eccentricity had be come more marked. At times, for ex ample, she would dance and golf, at tend teas and talk small talk to eligible young men with a persistency and suc cess that made her for the time the sun of society's solar system. Then suddenly and with no excuse whatever, she would withdraw herself, refuse all invitations and spend a month or more In studying Buddhism or In Inquiring into the condition of the poor in great cities. As to her suitors, the most remark able reports had existed concerning Miss Stevens' treatment of those gentlemen. It had been said by some that eacli in turn underwent a period of suspense hung, like Mohammed's coffin, between earth and heaven, at the end of which time he was always lowered to the former element by Miss Stevens' unqualified refusal. Certain malicious rivals had even claimed that at times these proposals were so nu merous that Miss Stevens used printed forms of rejection, like those sent by publishers with rejected manuscripts, with space left blank for the name and date. In the end society had concluded to accept the girl's vagaries as simply "Eleanor Stevens' way." And this formula had been made to cover a multitude of oddities, ranging from the wearing of large hats when small ones were the fashion to Miss Stevens' sudden and mysterious depar ture for the continent exactly two days after she had taken apartments for the summer with a party of friends at a south coast watering place. In deed. when, six months after her ab rupt departure, the notice came of the young heiress' sudden death - unattend ed, except by her maid and companion —in some obscure village in the Black forest, even her friends could find no phrase that so well expressed their shocked surprise as: "Well, that was just like Eleanor Stevens. She couldn't even die like other people!" And now, following upon tlie news of her strange death, had appeared this still stranger notice. Eleanor Stevens' rejected suitors! Who were tftoy? Would they present themselves according to directions? What were the advantages they would gain by so doing? To the last of these questions the public had'not long to wait for an an swer. Three days after tho extraordi nary "personal" had made its appear ance tho announcement was made that Eleanor Stevens had left a will and that this will had been proved. Before this news was 12 hours old the sensation caused by the advertise ment was completely overshadowed by that produced by the following clause, with which it was discovered the will ended: "To each one of my rejected suitors 1 give and bequeath £5,000, to lie paid subject to certain sealed conditions ex actly one year from my death in the li brary of my residence, in Beechwood street, Belgravia." Meanwhile Willard Pratt was deriv ing from the administration of Miss Stevens' will the keenest enjoyment of his long and varied legal career. Be ing a shrewd reader of character and possessed of a large fund of humor, he bad vastly enjoyed being Interviewed by the claimants or the claimants' friends, and. though they had got noth ing out of him, lie had, on the other hand, got a great real out of them. As one after another left him the keen ju rist invariably chuckled to himself: "Smart girl to refuse him. He was after the money; that's plain. But what in the name of all that's holy made her give him £.".000 now?" But his enjoyment reached its culmi nating point when, just one week bo fore tho day appointed Tor the settle- I ment of the will, society was again startled by this notice iu the daily pa- I pers: To Whom It May Concern.—The rejected suitors of Miss Eleanor Stevens are i quested to meet at j her late residence in Beechwood street, Belgravia, on Monday, the 21st inst., at 10 o'clock a. m., I with reference to the legacies due to them under her will. WILLARD PRATT, Executor. "I think that will reawaken popular ! | interest," said the old lawyer dryly. • And so it did. Seven days later, when the hour appointed for the recep- 1 tion of Miss Stevens' rejected suitors drew near, the streets in the vicinity of j her late residence were lined with an i eager multitude of men and women. I As the hour drew near in which they were to stand confessed as members of Miss Eleanor's "army of martyrs" sev eral of the intended claimants had found themselves weakening in their resolve. Those, for instance, who had justified their claim solely on the ground of an admiration felt, but never expressed, saw their courage oozing as the ordeal approached. Others, who | were burning incense at new shrines, j seriously considered renouncing a claim 1 that would decidedly complicate their present prospects. It was a question .whether pride or profit would win the day. In the end, however, the love call'd rnny name 'N a o'vt towhed. —Ohio State Journal. FIOMNIC and TLIC Moon. "Oh, mamma," exclaimed 4-year-old Flossie ns she observed the moon in its second quarter, "come and look at the moon. Half of It Is pushed into the sky, und the other half Is sticking out!" Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat. It, arti Ocially d igests the food and aids Nature iu strengthening and recon structing the exhausted digestive or gu us. It is the latostdiscovereddigest ant and tonic. No other preparation can approach It in efficiency. 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