Arizona republican., 1898-03-17

teresting item in the course laid down for girls who intend to marry poets and painters is, 'One meal a day and one new gown per annum."
 One life insurance company sets good example to other institutions of the same sort when it announces that "any citizens of the United States who are already insured in this company have the right to enlist for war ser vice without our charging them any extra premium, and in case Of their death in service the policies would be paid in full the same as they would had there been no war and they had died of natural causes" The corpora tions are also truly loyal.
 The Lenten devotions are literally punctuated with fancy costume af- fairs and vaudeville suppers. The warmed-over vegetable party at the Hewitt's a few nights ago scored a second hit. This time even Chauncsy Depew caught the infection, and grin ned at the company from a gilt frame as a combination of peach and modern Demosthenes When MT. De- pew poses as a living picture there's no telling where the foolishness will drag the devotees.
 A polite French waiter in one of the swell cafes was so profuse with his thanks when he pocketed the dime that I asked him if times hadn't changed since the up town movement set in. "Oui, Oui, M'sieur. Ze times yer dull even here, M'sieur. We feel ze gratitude for ze dime now just ze same as we did for ze quartaire in ze good time down at ze old Brunswick. Parding, Msieur, Ze same? Oui." Tips have surely been scaled.
 He came to see the town, and curi- osity led him to enter one of the so- called gardens in the Tenderloin. "Oh. sir, what lovely cane you've got" exclaimed a young woman who ap- preached him. And, picking up the stick, she tapped him lightly on the shirt front with the handle. A dia- mond dropped out of it's setting and the girl remembered an engagement she had elsewhere. The young man now keeps firm grip on his stick, but he's wearing a four-in-hand fastened with a stick pin worth about 10 cents
 Brooklyn has something rather unique in the way of clubs-an organ iZation which has no annual dues, no assessments and not even a club room It is called the Jolly Hundred" and was organized nearly twenty years ago by 100 men. For several years each member paid $50. By balls and benefits the amount Tn the treasury was brought up to s1O0,00O, which was put in savings bank to draw inter est. After that the members paid no more dues, but the interest on the clubs capital gives them two festivi- ties year-perhaps a fine dinner in the winter and a moonlight trip in the summer, or something of that sort Each man must attend these affairs or forfeit $50; and when a member dies his heirs receive S1,O00 gratuity from the clubs funds. So far but one mem Der has died, and it seems as if the club name should be changed to "The Ninety and Nine"
 A company of energetic women of society intend to make an interesting experiment Friday. They propose to make the innocent tea table the means of breaking down the alleged dividing wall between the fashionable society and the stage. The scheme calls for dramatic tea" to follow a series of short plays in the ball room of the As tor caravaneary. When society and the stage meet around the festive board the oolong will be poured by several popular actresses. Under the soothing influence of the liquids the trocha-once so clearly drawn-will be wiped out and past bangs will be for gotten. It is said that the theatrical managers are kicking about the cool way in which their employees are re- quested to perform at these things free of charge. But societys word seems to be law, and gilt edged charity is persistent beggar. A prominent actor who frequently appears in bene- fit performances was asked Ev one of a group which was discussing the ben eft nuisance how he could afford to volunteer so often. Because" he re- piled, "I demand and get $100 in ad- vance for each volunteer perform ance." The ensuing silence was most eloquent.