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Origin of Old Sayings.

Origin of Old Sayings.
After all, the newest authors are the
oldest. In this new edition (''Fain-
iliar Q~uotations'D we have familiar
sayings traced away back to Greece
and Egypt. A new author by the
name of Pilpay figures in this edition,
He was a Brahmin and he lived sew
eral centuries before Christ Writing
in some early dialect of Sanscrit, he
deliberately, and with the most hor-
rible heather depravity, stole some OF
the best sayings of Herrick, Shakes
peare, Butler, Cibber and Others. He
was bold enough to appropriate such
modern sayings as What is bred in
the bone will come out OF the
flesh,n Possession is the strongest
tenure of the law" and so on. Hesiod
who wrote in the seventh century be-
fore Christ, was another of those an
tique plagiarists. Theognis, Eschy-
lus, Sophocles. Euripides. Plautus,
Terence, and many Others were great
suppliers of modern familiar QUOTA
tions. Every time you say Hence
these tears, "''the flower of YOUTH" Il
do not care one straw" with presence
of mind" or any one of several other
things equally familiar. you are sim
pie quoting Terence, who died one
hundred and fifty-nine years before
Christ. All the way through he is as
modern as MI. Howells. Here is one
of his sayings, and after it is quoted
nothing more need be said: I'm fine,
nothing is said now that has not been
said before"
To Show a Guest Out.
Can there be a perfect way in such
an ordinary performance as this?
Certainly there is. 1t is the way the
American servant knoweth not. She
goes to the door with an indecent
haste that smacks of glee. She
doesn't even open it, she only sets it
ajar with a nice calculation of space
that gives just the crack you a slip
out through, no more. And she even
grudges you that. You have a shamed
sense of being thrust into the world;
and before you have gathered up
your self-respect and your skirts,
while your heel is still upon the door
sill, the snap of the knob Is heard
behind you. Lucky you are if you
don't hear the sound of the bolt in
the socket, as if you were a tramp or
a book agent.
The English maid knows how to
make this act beautiful. There is an
exquisite air of Difference and respect,
as h opens the door, even a touch of
regret in her manner that she should
be opening the door for your depart
ure, instead of for your entrance.
And then comes the gentlest tact of
all. You never hear an English
housemaid close the door behind you.
She holds it open until you have de-
scended the steps, at least; perhaps
until you are quite upon the street,
and she closes it SO softly that the
click OF the latch never comes to your
ear. You are inexpressly soothed and
fiattered, and you step off feeling that
the gracious tact of the mistress is
most charming where it has revealed
itself in the instruction that has
taught the maid to be gracious
Philadelphaa Inquirer.
The Mans Woman. L.
MANS woman" says my friend,
twill be in appearance neat and care
full and dressed in taste; she may talk
sensibly of revolts against fashion, but
will not be n~oticeably out OF line. She
luuSt uOC Do Out Will 10
strong and active. She will be an in
telligent listener (and to be so must
have some information of what is
talked about, not feigning an interest
nor pretending to a knowledge she has
not. She will have plenty of common
sense and her judgment will even in
cline to the side of charity and ten
derness. She will be cheerful, sympa-
thetic and religious, a home air will be
about her, and at home she will be
most graceful and natural. She will
interest herself in the things that in
terest him; will accept his protection
and his little self-sacrifices. She will
be tender-hearted. but not weakly so.
She will contide in him, share her am
bilious hopes with him, have faith in
his ambition, more, it may be. than he
has himself. And, when in the fire.
light Of autumn evenings they talk OF
the future, her faith will be encour-
and strength to him."-Io-