Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 26, Number 7, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 August 1895 — Page 1

Vol. 26—No. 7.

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ON THE QUI VIVE.

It was not altogether the unexpeoted that happened at the council meeting Tuesday ntgbt, when the old committee# were dissolved, and Mewra. Crawford, Fuqua, Young, Lewis and Graham were removed from the important committees t» which they bad been assigned in May lait. The attempt to appoint another list of committees the same night met with defeat, but at the special meeting held on Thnrsday night the list was adopted by a vote of 10 to 9, Mr. Fenner being out of the olty. When this, result was reached the gentlemen named announced that they would not serve on any of the committees to whioh they had been assigned under the new dispensation. AM a result the oouncll adjourned without doing any important work, and until nexfc Tuesday night, when another speoial meeting will be held, can it be told with any definitene*s whether or not the new committees will stand or not. Q. V. will be surprised if they do not stand as made.

Qui Vive violates no confidence when he says that although Messrs. Crawford, Fuqua et al. may refuse to serve on any of the council committees under the new dispensation they will not refuse to draw their warrants for salary when they next fall due, on the 1st of October. The 12 60 per month will come in Just as handy as if they were serving on the committees to which the majority of the council has appointed them.

There hasn't been anything of the kind in the papers as yet, but we may soon expdct something of this kind to appear in the columns of the daily papers: "FOR SALE—A large lot of damaged doll rags, which we have taken home with us, but for which we have no use. Address, in confidence, U. N. O., care of the city engineer."

The effort to bring ex city engineer, Frank H. Cooper, into this trouble is abortive, and is done for sinister effeot, whioh It will fail to have. That gentleman has not been a factor in the fight that has been made against the present city engineer, and it is announced as a fact that he would not accept that office under any consideration. He would be very foolish to do so, and it is quite likely that he realizes that as well as any one. Tto attempt tearing him into this matter 1*a result of the efforts of some of the very people who were parties to the attempt to depose him when he had his tiouble several years ago. None of the present members of the council who are moving to depose Bosler wtre in the council during the Cooper tronble, with the exception of Dr. Larkins, and he was on the side against Cooper at that time. There has been a great change of sentiment in regard to the Cooper matter in the past year or two, and but few of those who attempted to prove him corrupt at that time still bold to that opinion. The time will come when some of the men who were on the Inside of that difficulty, and who wanted Cooper reiroved, will open their heads, and tell the truth about the matter, and it will be shown that Cooper was the victim of a conspiracy which succeeded at that time, and which resulted in the temporary success of some of those who were at the bottom of the whole affair. No one is able to tell who that man will be, but he will come to the front, or a great many persons will miss their guess. The man who assassinates a man's character is as bad as one who kills a man, and while his punishment may not be as severe as that provided by law for the man who commits murder, It will be as far reaching In its effects. And If Mr. Cooper lives long enough he will see the man who put up the Job on him punished to tlj® full effect of the moral law.

4. V. h^ hot beard a sittgU ptifson question Dr. Young's motives in violatlng the laws and the ordinances in contracting a debt of $500 and over for the city, for repairs to the crematory, with another member of the city council, without advertising for bids, or without consultation with the other members of the council in session. He does not believe that any person will question his motives In undertaking such an unlawful impolitic thing. But suppose, on the other hand, that Mr. Walsh, toe minority member of the sanitary committee, bad undertaken this, and had Spent f&OO of the peoples' money without advice or consent. The council meeting at which this was discovered would still be In session denouncing the unwarranted authority that one man designed to take upon himself. From the Amount of money that crematory has cost and is costing it should be one of the ft0&81 in the land.

About the b6*t spent money the present oouncll has indulged in i« for a watchman at the Poplar street crewalr of the E «fe T. H., which has long beta known as the most dangerous one of the many railroad crossings of the city. In addition to being a menace to life and property that crossing has been the most inconvenient in the city, and man with a carriage or bnggy who Van ted to cross there was likely tote

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called on to wait on the pleasure of the switching crew in charge of the yard. They have been known to give the "horselaugh" to those who wanted to cross and had the temerity to make a protest to those lu c»*.rge«if the irains It Is all diflereut now. The city watohman makes them observe the law closely, and there is seldom a chance for a wait of more than a few seconds. The ohange in the rules would make any other than the B. A T. H. people deolde upon opening the Ohio street cross ing, and the removal of their yards to some other more convenient place, but the officials of that oompany seem to think they can make the olty pay a handsome bonus for the removal, and therefore they will put up with the Inoonvenienoe of an enforcement of the laws rather than take any steps in the other direction.

During recent years the cemetery commissioners have spent several thousand dollars in beautifying Highland Lawn oemetery, the Improvements including the erection of the chapel and a splendid gateway and lodge, all of which add very much to the appearance of that cemetery which is destined to be one of the most beautiful in the city. During this time, however, there has been very little, if any, money spent on the old oemetery, Woodlawn. There is a great demand by the hundreds who are interested in that cemetery that some money be spent in adding to its appearance. The fence around it is a disgrace to the city. It should be torn down, and one erected that would be an ornament. A gateway at the southeast entranoe would also increase the beauty of the place, in whioh so many dear ones are buried. While the revenues from the sale of lots there can amount to nothing, the commissioners cannot afford to negleot the place and allow it to be an eyesore as It is now. It is to be hoped that the commissioners can be brought to see the wisdom of spending some of the cemetery fund in beautifying and adorning this place, around which will ever duster memories of departed ones. Many of the most prominent men and women who were identified with the

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city are buried there, and it should be made a beautiful place out of respect to their memory.

The efforts of the Civic Federation to shut off pool selling and "old Hy" during the races amounted to nothing, as was'expected. They were in operation during the week, and at night the gambling rooms were in full blast, as has been the rule during every race meeting for several years past. Not many persons believed that such a movement would have any force or efect, and time has shown that suoh was the case.

The outsiders who came here to run the gambling rooms during the races have not bad very smooth sailing, If all reports are true. One night this week

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of playing faro, made a great killing among the faro banks, and won several hundred dollars In

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very short time.

In fact, they made two or three of the games close up at a very early hour, when everything should have beep nng at full tilt. Some of the stories are to the effeot that the smooth strangers held one of the faro banks up to the extent of several thousand dollars.

Qui Vivfi.

FASHION'S FANCIES.

A. large leghorn hat with a soft pliable brim is trimmed with white ribbon shot with pale yellow and brocaded with deep yellow cowslips.

It has been frequently announced that elaborately trimmed skirts and close coat sleeves are the latest erase in Paris, but this is not the fact.

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Decidedly novel and prelty gowns" of white mohair, made in the revived Louis XVI styles, have been worn by bridesmaids at recent mid-summer weddings.

Ivory-white satin is a favorite textile for gowns for full-drees oocasions, especially for young women, its smooth finish and lustrous surface giving It a youthful appearance.

In the midst of the great number of bats with floral decorations are seen some few with feathers. A favorable combination Is a deep butter-colored straw trimmed with black ostrich plumes.

The ideal hat, which is worn with thin white gowns, is pure white straw with a wide brim turned up a little on one side and trimmed with white lilacs and a bow of mauve or pale-green ribbon to give it a touch of color.

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Some mouths look like peaches and cream and some look like a hole chopped Into a brick wail to admit a new door or window. The mouth is the hotbed of toothaches, the bunghole of oratory, and a baby's crowning glory. It Is patriotism's fountain head and the tool chest of pie. Without It the politician would be a wanderer on the faoe of the earth and the oornetlst would go down to an nnhonored grave. It is the grocer's friend, the orator's pride and the dentist's hope.

BAB'S LETTER.

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NEWPORT, R. L, August 7,1805. The next best thing to being rich one's *eif is to have rioh friends. And the next best thing is to be able to aooept from them, graciously, what is offered in the way of hospi tali ty. The woman who says, "I won't aooept an invitation to Mrs. Millionaire's hou*e, beoause I oan't return her hospitality," has a decided streak of vulgarity in her. Mrs. Million* aire can oflfer to yon, to me, or to thj other woman, an invitation to her beair tiful home, and, In return, if this question of a return most be discussed, we give her the pleasure of our presence, our wit, or our fine appearance, whichever it may be that we possess. It always evens itself out. You have something that Mrs. Millionaire does not possess. You oan be the spirit of joy in the household, and make everybody glad and happy, so that you are giving something that dollars cannot buy. The world at large Is inolined to laugh at the Little Brothers of the Rich, but you oau be very oertain that the rioh do not seek out people to be with them unless they find something in these friends that they laok. So I say, that woman is mean who doesn't know how to acoept graciously, and enjoy thoroughly, the hospitality offered by a rich friend.

THE BURDEN OF VISITING

to the average woman is the tipping. There was a time when to give, to the maid who attended one a dollar was consldered'qulte enough, but now there is the butler, the maid who is about one's room, the man who brushes one's skirt or oils one's shoes, indeed more than I can tell, who expeots their palms to be covered with silver—not silver but gold, or its equivalent. To visit for a week and have to pay five dollars to the butler, two to one and one to anotner, and one to another servant Is really the bleeding of one. So many a woman declines a pleasant invitation because she oan't afiord to pay to the servants of her host what she would otherwise give the proprietor of a hotel. My hostess is a. wise woman. 8he pays her servants high wuges, and it is distinctly understood that if one is known to take a tip, a quick discharge will follow. One servant in this way becomes more or less of a spy on another, and that important personage, the butler, as he can -receive noth lng himself, watches bis uri darlings closely. You say that in English country houses, tipping obtains generally. So it does. But there a visitor gives a couple of shillings, sometimes only one, and the re cipient is perfectly satisfied. But we Americans, being almost diseased with what we call generosity, over-tip, and, in consequence, render servants worthless and impertinent. But bad as is the system of tips now, it was worse during the reign oi Queen Anne. Only rich men could afford to go out to dinner then. Their servants assembled In the halls and asked In the most Insolent way' for their vails. The Duke of Ormande never sent an invitation to a poor man that with it he did not en close a guinea, so that he might come to the dinner and be able to tip the ser vanta without suffering himself. It wouldn't be a bad idea if people did that nowadays.

NO CHANGE FROM CITY LIFE. Of course, Newport is beautiful, but Newport is not a change from New York. It is simply the fashionable set removed from brownstone houses to beautiful villas, and living just as they do in the olty. Dinner parties, dances, breakfasts, teas, and an occasional plonlc for a ohange fill out the day and the night, and life* Is the same tedious round, and the men and women think they are enjoying themselves. A dinner party of pleasant people Is pleasant any where, and so It Is here. But as the din ner Itself Is the magnificent feast, which one sees during the season in New York, it cannot be cited as new. To-night the scene of oolor on the table was all green and white, except the glass, and that was gold and white. Exquisite leaves and beautiful orchids framed the fine china and superb sliver, and the dinner table was a picture of civilisation, showing the difference between the man ol to-day and he who ate his food from a wooden platter. cut his meat with the dagger taken from his belt, and had no knowledge of a fork. The chatter goes on through the hours at the table, the pretty women are st their bestand brightest, and everybody is trying to tell something that is new or else so old that it is worth rejuvenation. lacking up his glass and holding it to the llght« admiring its fine cutting, a man who is a judge of beautiful bits said: "How many of you know that the Csar of Russia is a fine judge of glass, especially of the By san tine glass Some made In the Royal potteries of Russia is never reproduced, and I think if be were going to make me a present I should ask of him not some of the old silver, not some of the wonderful jewels, but two or three pieces of that marvelous glass studded with gems, and which has never been duplicated. Although, when Longfellow translated the poem of TJhland, he broke the 4Lack of Eden hall,' still it never was really broken, but is to-day cherished in the Mosgrave family. I saw

TERRE HAUTE, IMP., SATURDAY* EVENING, AUGUST 10,1895.

I was there, and it is Byzantine The orasy Duke of Wharton once 11, but the butler, a very old serulckly caught It in a napkin, and n't break. The story goes that

a member of the family sat by St. Cutbbert'sWell in the garden of Edenhall at midnight oh St. John's eye, and, when the fairies oame up he snatohed this glass jfrom oqe of them. As they flew bsok, the tiny ,jlf, angry at losing her drinking oup, called out: •If ever this glass do break or fall,

Farewell the luck of Edeoball.' It la exquisitely thin, and is kept in a queef old leather ajfiae, mounted in tortoise shell and gttld, and having the oMft and motto if the Musgrave family updh

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Inte&llfed in it, for the daughter of one of our most distinguished men. David Dudley Field, Is Lady Musgrave." Then he took along drink of obampagne, and the girl next him was listened to.

QUEER LITERARY CORRESPONDENCE. She said: "I know a woman who edits the correspondence column in a maga sine, and I oan assure you that the quee tlons are too funny for anything. And, whatsis more, they are real. People write to her in all slnoerity and ask advice%bout the men they shall marry, the frocks they shall wear, the medicine they shall take, the water in which they shall bathe, and the mode of arranging their ringlets. The funniest thing about suoh a column was this, which appeared, so the story goes, In an English paper: 'To Daisy: Thanks so much for your kind letter, though your handwriting migt|£*be better. Yes the mistake 1B mind. It should have been a quarter graln'bf strychnine instead Of a quarter of a pound for your father's complaint. How unlucky better luck next time but I was so very busy. There is no better mourning tnan that you mention.' Whattdoyou think of that? Certainly a fool%ld rush In there and undoubtedly the angels are treading—some place."

After everybody had laughed at this, there was silence beoause a man was talking^ think of itl of Trilby. Said he: "The play was good, with one exoeption. The Jew was not the Jew Du Maurier drew. It was played by an actor who simply vulgarized it. Svengali was dirty he was a most pronounced type of the unpleasant ..Polish Jew, but he would never haye been able to havegiven birth to suoh beautiful music if, beyond the dirt aA bevond the oaddishne&e^there hat6j%^rBeen"l c§r tafia spiftfuSlft^ actor made him coarse and common, dirXy and offensive, and never gave a glimpse of the inner nature of the man who oould control people like Gecko and Trilby. His Svengali was a burlesquethe man who played it, whose name I think, is Lackaye, and who looks his name, made him just suoh aoreature as the variety actor who tolls Jewish stories at Tony Pastor's would make him. And with all his wickedness, this man had

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so strongly that when he made the musio he became another creature, living an other life. Bye-the-bye, I have seen this same actor in other parts, and I cannot understand his being liked. He is fat, awkward, and wears his clothes—just heavens, bow he does wear his olothesl You know there is a shop conduoted by some of the good Sisters, where all sorts of olothes are sent by rich people, and the Sisters freshen them up and sell them to poor people who need tbem. Very often they get the dress olothes thrown aside by a man of fashion, and this actor's dress olothes always look as If they had been bought there and fit well for the price. That's where the English are ahead of us. They don't let a man come on the stage looking as if evening olothes were new things to him, but when he plays apart of a gentleman, an actor Is expected to at least look like one. I should like to see Henry Irving play Svengali—I think Mansfield would have understood the part, but it seems a pity that it should have been given to a man whose only idea of it was that a hideous Jew must appear, and that no brains were necessary to picture him. But then, poor soul, perhaps he hadn't any wit to start with. "Did you know that good Queen Anne —I shouldn't think they would call her good—had all actors placed In the category with rogues and vagabonds, and to-day in Holland it Is not considered the thing—Indeed, I have heard it is against the law—to permit an actor to enter a respectable household. "I have always maintained that less brain wss necessary for scting than for anything else. A child can act, a man or woman with no intelligence oan imitate, and though, as in all work, a brain is good thing to have, still the actor can get along with less of it than any other man. It is fortunate, isn't it.

CHAMPIONING WIDOWS.

Somebody was standing up tot the widows. This was a kind thing, for, from Mr. Welier down and back, they seem to be regarded as at onoe dangerous and desirable. It was a widow who was talking, and evidently she had studied thesubject. Said she: "Wouldn't you hsve perferred Marie Stnart to Elisabeth? And did you know that, of the rulers of the world, 838 have been widows? The first widow? Eve, The Talmud proves that Adam died before her and that she lived to fascinate the

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rest of mankind. Cleopatra, with her yellow hair and wbitesbin, waaa widow, before either Caesar or Anthony fell in love with her. Zenobla was a widow and took for her second mate a Roman senator, with whom she lived very happily, and during her seoond marriage she became renowned as a good housekeeper. It was a widow who raised the most magnificent tomb to her husband,

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and BO gave the name to all

superb monuments and it was another widow, Boadioea, who led the armies of England and committed suicide when they were defeated. Madam Maintenon was a widow, and to day the most powerful woman in the world and the one I admire the most, Victoria, queen of England and empress of India, is also a widow. Widows usually make good wives, because they have bad a training and know what pleases a man. "Then, too, they are not apt to be young and selfish. After all, age has very litfie'to do with it. Helen of Troy was over forty when Paris'made trouble for her, and Cleopatra was thirty-five when she met Antony. Aspasia was thirty-six when she landed that shy fish, Pericles, and Nlnc^n was seventy-two when her grandson fell a victim to her charms- Catherine of Russia was thirtysix when she seized the throne and ruled the heart of Orloff, and Annie of Austria was thirty eight when Buckingham fell In loye with her. They always say a man Is as old as he

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as old as she looks. I don't know that that is true. A woman is as old as the .everlasting bills

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and then she may be only seventeen No, that woman Is young who can make A man feel his own importance, for that is the art of fasoination."

And so the chatter went on, and the women adjourned to the drawing-room leaving the men to smoke, because dainty women know that chiffons cease to be feminine when the perfume of tobaooo lingers over them. And all of them asked the hostess to take them up to the nursery to see the babies asleep, and MM. Millionaire knelt down besides her baby's crib, leaned over and kissed its soft little oheek, and I am sure she said a prayer in her heart for it, just as you or I, or the other would do.

It is a mlstajBFj*! think that'b&attse ajple, ares|r jjiy Rre hj^-hgartfld avelcnownlClSeaner prlde and greater selfishness under a shabby goWn than under a finer one. Rich women have so many responsibilities. They have so muoh to do, so much.to consider. They are responsible for so much. And many of them realize how hard it is for tbem to get to the kingdom of heaven. And I look at the beautiful house, and I think of Mrs. Millionaire, and I am satisfied. I oan enjoy all she has with her, and I am not answerable for it. And I oan ap predate her sweetness and her goodness, and I do not have to think, as she does many a time, that less fortunate women ienvy me. I might, with very little trouble, see the skeleton In the Millionaire establishment, but that would be bad form. They have asked you and me and the other women to share their pleasures, and we have no right to hunt ont their sorrows.

And the time oomes when I am in my own room, and almost asleep, and here In the seaside olty of wealth, surrounded uy the luxuries of the millionaires, murmur that old, old prayer, "Lord give me neither poverty nor riches."

BAB.

ABOUT WOMEN.

One in every 50 of the total patents granted In Great Britain last year was applied for by a woman, and one-fifth of these latter related to dress.

The most prollfio writer in Russia is said to be Mme. Irma Fedossova, a peas ant of the provlnoe of Petrossawodsk, who has given to the world more than 10,000 poems. How good tbey are is not related.

The Countess Caclllla Plater-Zybeck, one of the wealthiest women in Russia, has been enrolled in the guild of master tailors of Warsaw. She is at the head of a cutters' school in that olty, and does macb to help the poor.

Mrs. Black mire of Topaz, Ind., is dead. She had had 12 husbands. Marrying was weakness with her. She began married life at 15. When 38 she had married and divorced 12 times. Only two of the 12 husbands died.

Mrs. Oelestia C. Heidecke, of Detroit, died a week ago, and provided In her will that her daughter should msrry a German, Pole or Austrian. Mrs. Heidecke married a Dutchman, but they did not live on good terms, and she did not want her daughter to have a similar fate.

The City-Post Mercur at Aix-la-cha-pelle has dischsrged the looal letter carriers and appointed women in their places. The latter are uniformed, wearing a black drees with yellow sash, small black lacquered high hats with yellow ribbon and a leather pouch on a strap from the shoulder. The innovation excites considerable attention and com ment.

Twenty-sixth Year.

PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Mohair, grass linen and fancy taffsta silk form the three most popular dress fabrics worn this season.

Those who hsve seen ex-Speaker Reed since he shaved his mustache say that the expression of his face is now even more innocent than ever.

Japanese postmen, whose reutes carry them Into the country, use bicycles. Their wheels are made by local manufacturers, who have appropriated improvements from both British and American patents.

England has taken up blcyole weddings. At a recent marriage near London all the guests rode wheels, the bride and groom having a tandem. The bridesmaids and beet men rode "scorchers" and the bride set the pace. The women all wore knickerbockers.

Ex-Mayor O'Brien of Boston, who died the other day, was the only citizen of foreign birth who ever ocoupied the highest munlolpal office In the gift of Boston citizens. With two exceptions, he held the office longer than any other mayor since the inoorporation of the o"y-

place in Michigan. It has not rained since June and there is not a saloon in the town. Not far away, however, is "Jaoob's well" where drinks are served, but guides must be employed to find the plaoe for a stranger. Beer there Bells at three glasses for a quarter.^

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Bob and Alf Taylor, who ffflde the race for governor of Tennessee, In the brotherly "war of the roses," are going to the yfc big cities of the north and east in October, opening at Boston. Tbelr joint leoture of "Yankee Doodle and Dixie" will be the most unique thing on the boards. There has not been the word coined to tell what It is. The word "leoture" 1s a slander upon the performance of the governor and his congressman brother. Alf will be "Doodle" and Bob will be "Dixie." The two sections of the country, the two sentiments involved, the two political and social individualities, the racial characteristics, the two peoples, both one, are to be held up side by side. Either of the two statesmen oan rival Booth in tragedy, Sol Smith or Joe Jefferson in. comedy, Chaunoey Depew in after-dinner wit oi Bob Ingersoll inbjiUlant oratory. 'Ao father of th^ two was Nat G.,Taylor, a graduate Vtf Prinoeton and one of the best platform orators of the soufcii. The mother was a sister of the peerless orator and confederate congressman, Landon C. Haynes and it is no wonder that suoh brilliants as Bob and Alf should have come from the union. They represent In their persons, history and politics the subject they are to handle. Their father was a whig, their uncle a Democrat and a rebel, Alf a Republican and Bob a Democrat—

all violent partisans.

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Riohes are their own reward. '. Of two evils oboose the pleasanter. A pretty woman Is never quite without hope.

A penny saved is a penny retired from circulation. £fany a oorn may lurk behind a polished shoe.

A woman'8 tact jvlll buy more than a man's dollar. •«, If ignorance were bliss there would be fewer suicides.

The devil does most of his business on the credit system. It is easier to learn ttfisiy* "No" than to learn to mean it.

The size of a mistake isn't always measured by the cost. "What people will

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what women will say. It is more satisfactory to read a romance than to live one.^-®'' ,.

Life wbuld be easy living if yesterday would keep out of to-day. Not every woman 1B glad she is wife, albeit the world does not know it.

The eye can lie more in a minute than the tongue can correct in a week. Walking on level ground is easy and pleasant, but no man can rise by It. a woman is firm in her convictlons^lsn't wise to call her stubborn.

Some people's fine clothes are no more than the pretty label on the empty can. It takes less courage to marry a woman than it does to be a husband to her afterward.

It may be true that nothing is ever lost, but there Is a good deal that can't be found. & *4*

All women do not wish to be married bnt most of them would at least like to be asked.

Whenever a woman "puts two and two together" the result Is usually more than four.

When a man has more money than he knows whst to do with he very soon learns whst.

The mills of justice not only grind slowly, ,jbut they frequently grind up the wrong people.

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