Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-15

The Vanity That DestrOyS-Cuplds Big
! Hills-New hut Ehectivc MethOd.Au
/ the Talk He wantcd-Changsd-Mi
tnry Cirrlcs-Justihable Shooting, Etc.
"There ure no birds in last years nests"
The poet says, aud the cause OF that
/ Il because they've all been gathered in
10 adorn the gorgeous winter hat.
Chicago News.
New But Effective Method.
"How did her father strike you
when You called on him."
First with his left and then with
an umbrella. detroit Free Press.
Cupid's Big Bills.
"Love laughs at locksmiths, you
know"
"That's all right, but you never
satch Love laughing at the florist. -
Chicago Record.
Changed.
"Well, Newfadder, are you ard
your wife living in unity now?"
"Er--not exactly. Trinity, / guess
you'd call tits ten-pound girl. -
Cincinnati Tribune.
Her Motive.
"That Bascomme woman is always
making her husband tell her that he
loves her, right before folks"
"Yes; she knows that it is an awful
evaporation to him to say it. India
napolis Journal.
All the Talk He Wanted,
''Don't you think if Robinson
Crusoe had been a married man he
would have been great deal lone.
lier?"
ooh, I don't know. He had a par
rot, you remember. ."-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
Military Circles.
$50 you are going away, Mrs.
Rusher?''
eyes; we are going to move to Ken
lucky for few weeks until my hus.
band gets to be called Colonel, and
then we shall go to Washington TO
live. Chicago Record.
Force of Habit.
"Did you ever notice the queer,
rotary gesture Mr.. Chilkoot always
makes when his wife rings for the
butler?"
eyes; you see, he used to be
motorman before he went to Klon-
dixie. boston Traveller.
Progressing.
sJ,,k
boy got more like his father every
day?"
Mrs. Crimsonbeak exactly.
I said he was getting more like his
father every night; he comes in about
midnight. ."-Yonkers Statesman.
Absorbing Ills Fathers Experience.
''That boy O. mine ought to be as
sharp an KNOWN as they make 'em."
TRAINED him to it, have you?"
TRAINED him to it9 Why, for four
years that little shaver set at the table
on a gold brick that cost his dad
S2O00!-Cleveland Leader.
Perseverance, Always Wins.
Smith-"After trying for ten long
years, I have at last succeeded in con-
vincing my wife that am perfect" ;"
,Brown-''Are you sure of it?"
Smith course I am. It was
only this morning that she said I was
q perfect idiot. "-Chicago News.
Didn't Want the Whole Family.
Her parents Ito prospective son-in-
law)-"Is your financial condition
such as will enable you to support a
family?"
Young Man (timidly)-"Why, Ter
that is, was-er-only figuring OIL
suppol ting Clara. ."-Chicago News.
Disobediencc.
"O.o-o.oh!' groaned the glass eater,
in pain. "I.I'll never again eat any
hand-painted Dresden chinaware.
Never again!'
"I warned you," said his wife,
severely. "But it serves you right for
eating those fancy dishes against the
doctors orders"
johnnie Put 'sm Away.
Mistress Ito servant -"Bella, where
are those berries I told you to put
away?"
Servant Johnnie came in while
ago, marin, and he said he'd put em
away for me-"
, Mistress-"You needn't search any
farther for them, Bella"
Justiaabls Shooting.
Mr.. Brown-"Terrible tragedy at a
bargain counter. A woman who had
secured the last five yards Of cheap
silk was shot by another woman who
had been waiting from midnight with
out having a chance to get any"
Mrs. Brown-"Poor thing! Surely,
they won't do anything to her, will
they, John?"-Harlem Life.
The Thrifty Explorer.
''Do you know why it is that so
many explorers seek the arctic and so
few the antarctic regions?"
"Well, I think could make pretty
good guess.
"Why?"
'"The arctic regions are not quite so
far away from the headquarters OF the
managers of the lecture bureaus. =
Chicago Post.
The Smallest City.
John De Saline bears the unique
distinction of being Mayor Of the
smallest city in the world. He is the
chief executive of Fenton. q beautiful
little hamlet on the picturesque Mera-
mec River, fifteen miles to the south
and west of st. Louis. There are less
than 100 people in Fenton, yet it has
been an incorporated city for more
than twenty years, and during that
time it has grown considerably. When