The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-05

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&C quaintapces hundred and one lesser
iiiosyncrasies of the same sort? One
of the fsvorite stinginesses among
men is about matches. heard
man confide to sympa-
thetic soul the other day that the
one thing he enjoyed being mean about
was matches-he declared that he never
bought them and that to do SO now
would wreck all the pleasure of smok-
ing. "You must save as much as
Is cents a year on them" said the
sympathetic soul.
NO." replied the prosperous victim
of this form of lunacy."I think ten
cents would cover all use matches are
incredibly cheap now"
A young woman avowed the other
day an uncomfortable kleptomania re-
garding rubber rings. Il never bought
any," said she, and as I have always
depended on picking them up, the i'm
pulse to pick them up now wherever 1
have chance is quite irresistible. l
warn you to Look out for your rubber
bands"
Every woman knows low absolutely
untrustworthy may be the modest of
her sex on the matter of hair pins, hat
pins, black pins and safety-pins. The
world is full of gentle, lovely feminine
souls who simply depend on cabbagiug
their necessary supply of these articles
wherever they can.
The worst instance of this sort that
ever came under my observation
was at a luncheon party the other
day at Dorlon's. 1t was a small
and intimate party of three, and
one of the two young women
Nh) adorned it is noted as an aggra-
vIGed.- case of spendthrift. She
il one of those hopeless people
who have absolutely no idea of
the value OF money, generous habits
and a taste for luxury. Imagine
the surprise of her friends, when then
and there she was seiZed with an IN
comfortable fit of economy. From
some New Eng aud housekeeping an
cestress it appears she had inherited
wholly inconsistent thrift about food.
By some flnke twice as many chops as
were needed were ordered for this luin=
caeon, and when they appeared made.
moiselie. sank into brown study.
Presently she began to suggest plans for
putting those chops where they would
do most good; couldn't the waiter be
hired to take them up to woman she
knew only two doors down the street?
in his pocket that she could surrepti-
tiousiy wrap those chops in to take
away to the Door? No conversation
could lure her from this theme. Finally
the bull was taken by the horns and the
waiter summoned and requested to
put three chops in box to be carried
away. The Joy of the rest of the
party was chastened by this humiliat-
ing request, but little wrecked the frugal
fend. Her mind was now concentrated
on large and hot sweet potato which
was not being eaten, her malady was
growing by what it fed on the success
with the th Fps turred her head; she
was bent on having that potato. 1t
wouldn't go in the box, and finally the
other young woman, eager to put an
end to this CHASTITY discussion, offered
to surreptitiously put the potato in her
own hand bag. 1t was done. Cheer
fulness again began to spring around
the festive beard, the distracted chop.
the concealet Potato were f)rgotten;
then retribution, like poisoned hawk,
swooped down, not on the offender. but,
as usual on comparatively limo
cent person; the young woman with
the handba', all forgetting it's dark
secret, ope ne itas the waiter was bend
ing .attentlvcly over her; steaming
heat arose, she ard the waiter both
Locked down AID she Cid not look up.
OF course the remorse induced by a
course of CT me would have been a.
trihing matter TO the shame she suffered
over that walters discovery. One femi-
nina friendst ip more is broken.-NeW
York Graphic.