Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-01-01
II ! hoods s1 ps;'i;a
is the hcst-n fact the One True Blood Purifier.
RUNNING ifv PUBLIC PLACES.
Men, More Often Than Women, Are
Guilty of the Niisdcmeanor.

Men, More Often Than Women, Are
Guilty of the Mi.dcmeanor.
(which is it. men or women, who
are most given to sinSingt' qucried
the woman.
"Nf course do not mean to ask
whether there are mere men or wO.
men musicians. No one cares any
thing about that AS long as the
piece of humanity which claims to
lie Il musician is one the lover of
music does not care whether it wears
trousers on skirts.
But the singer mean is that in
dividual you sit beside in the cars or
pass in the street who is humming
tune. Physicians, believe, have
proved THAT such little idiosyncrasies
show weakness of the brain in GER
tain directions, but if it is so it is of
such a delicately superficial nature
that other mortHi., who have other
like minute weaknesses in other di-
rections, would never know the diff
ference, yet the street singer is fun
ny, unless you happen to be tired or
cross. Then he is maddening.
II sat hes ide one of these singers
in the surface car the other day
noticed him casually as | sat down,
thinking, without putting the
thought into words, that he was Il
fine looking man. had view of
his profile later, and that confirmed
my first good impression,
He was rather past middle age,
just reaching the iron gray age OF a
we'll preserved man. He was lortly,
we'll dressed and evidently IL gentle
man. He had disnitied air, and
his face Was almost stern. This en-
preston was emphasized by the
mouth, which had thin lips pressed
closely together and dropping Il lit
tie at tho corners.
~ should never have thought of
him again if | had not head, as ]
sat looking through my shopping
list, Il strange sound, which seemed
to come from beside me 1t was a
peculiar sound, coming at regular
intervals, something letWcen the
sound of a saw and the purring of a
bass voiced cat. turned invOlun-
tarily to lock at the man. The sound
certainly proceeded from his throat,
but there was not tho culver of Il
single feature, and the stern mouth
was as imr.ovable as before.
IL was fascinated. | looked away,
and, with studied carelessnesS, look.
ed back again, again looked away
and AGAIN looked back. The same
bu2z~aw sound was coming from
the sane direction, and there was
still that stern, smileless face.
should almost have thought my ears
! had deceived me if those deep bass
notes, whi,h h, it seems, must have
been Il prelude, had not suddenly
changed to tum, tidy dun, did-y
dunn, dunn, dunn, rising and falling
in the most lively fashion, though
there was no tune which ! could rec
oenize Evidently my neishbor wa'
not Il musician in the accepted SENSE
of the word, but there was no Inls
taking the fact that the singing
such as it was, proceeded from his
vocal organs, though there was new
er once while | sat there, so far as
could SEC, the movement of muscle
of that imperturhable face.
"You Will find Il woman hummins
occasionally, though not so often
She huns in Il steady monotone ant
is more likely to show outward AMI
visible signs Of it, and ! don't thinl
ever passed II woman in the stree
who wus hummin2 Why is itl
don t Know. am surc, unless it il
unOthrrcvitlrnce of sex in gray mat
ter. New York Times.