The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-06
OUT AND ABOUT.

me CHRISTMAS magazines are now
about all out. What a bewildering sur
plus of intellectual and artistic riches!
Is there anybody in the country who
reads them all? If so, is he to be ac-
counted fortunate or the reverse? Too
much reading maketh a man ill., to
amend Bacons aphorism. 1t pro-
duceth mental indigestion, such that
even shredded wheat biscuits, prepared
according to Mrs Harriet Higbee's
most approved receipts, cannot minister
| to it.
1t has been said that the people who
read most are precisely those with the
| least brains. This is important if true.
Perhaps ii accounts for the towering in
| tellects of book dealers, who, it is a
well established physiological fact,
never read anything but the titles of
| books
The most interchangeable reader the
writer ever met was a semi-idiOt girl
in Cincinnati She read nearly all day,
and often far into the night. Reading
was almost the only thing she cared
about in life, except eating. She had
read all the great novels of the world,
had a passion for history and fairly
dotted on poetry and biography. But
she was perfect goose. A book was
to her narcotic, a soporific. That.
however, is all some books are good
for.
The young girl mentioned above may
be said to have read not wisely but
TOO well. She is in striking contrast to
young Italian woman out and About
met once in Florence. She was very
pretty OIlitp Irresistible "a Won
fond Of reading?" some one asked her.
20, yes! very. ] read a book once"
e,io really: what was the name oil II!
.i5 3lie etpP ti neL pretty hea1 on one
otuo cru ~ ~ uol peiIeVe
aelii isIt WHAT us name was she SAID
a. 49,;
wen, what was II ABOUT tneh
one tooh announcer minute peIoie an
aTeIlhs III d feGollecllVe klnd Oh way.
oa a.! remember what II was ABOUT,
Dut &Joyouslyl remember distinctly
0iidt Iedd DOCK once.
Miss Sara Anderson was the soloist
at the AnoI1o CIuh coroar+ in ros+o,,
yrod,,o.,7+,.- 81
W Hlsh.' anu that the impress
etoA sue created was as agfeeaple as
at rle Worcester music festival is
t tto " ny tne I0iioWlng paragraph IN
ne -, Dos st1 neFaio'
E1iSs sara Anderson, VINO made dis
heantifni 1yoico - ~, e'S'ot VII I5r
some woman. and her stare presence
is charming. She is tall blonde, with
an erect figure and a perfect neck,
winch hef low cut gown, without or
hamentatlon showed to perfection. She
was in pale blue MORE, the bodice done
nj h6 CHI
cluster of crimson flowers on one
shoulder gave just the right coIoring.
Mount Holvoke annaars Ia ba +bo
favorite girls; colleoe With fba ,. AZ
men of the coun+rv IN +on of a. ~,
perb presents of last vears COMES n eift
of 800 900 from Charles n v1ijdore i 80
Wellesley Hills far a dornoito, 80 20 ha
named after bis vic M is ~, 49,, 70
of the Roston aiInonao % sc llieiti,1ei
Perhaps here NAV be seen tbe notent
influence which uniocl,s tha Nil
graduates are eptionally loyal to their
college Furthermore they have habit
baoor,a ~ nn,,i,+inse M ~ i i, Wiz
are tco11ine ro1Ind'' 81 A. c,7,o+tio .,
of tbe bipber aGInetio3 Of Ivo,5e,7 bI,t
The husbands Of Nfo,,I,t gIo1t,oir e, ~
mates disnIav q nerticn1o,. 1traeIL -,
getting converted '''''' iNii''0N ~
p,,l,,,o,, ,a,- 49,. e,.,,,.., --.,...
A'u0'ei iieoN oi'lils lis uieu coisplcu-
ously ON a fashionable menu the other
day. A millionaire who happens to be
the father of a peculiarly active-mind-
ed little chap took his son into one of
the smartest restaurants in town for
luncheon. While his father was see
ing a man" at the door, the youngster
neatly erased the word little" from
the first order on the card, and care