Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-06-01
AROUND THE EVENING LAMP.
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be Il gneiss nlhn2
Tennis certainly Is lovely game !
Il does look like business to see cars
marked Darby running through
town. How long will it be before
Chester and Darby are parts OF Viii
mingtong
The Office Of an undertaken docs not
STRIKE one as being the cheerfulest
place in the world for n tete tete, hut
certain young couple ono evening
spent very pleasant time IN each
others company oven under such sur
roundings. That is, it was pleasant
until Well. it was this way: Tho
young man expressed desire to see
the inside OF an unoccupied casket,
and as there was casket in the room,
supported on pedestals,2i lit was an easy
matter to raise the lid and look within.
Imagine their surprise, not to say
horror, to find that it contained a
corpse.
The loss Of ones hat at swell
function is not necessarily an indi-
cation of having acquired "swelled"
head.
49, bG
care you here as Reporter or as a
Member" asked the Facetious Person,
after the Minutes had been read.
''l'm here in dual capacity" re-
piled the Serbia.
III you are going to fight Duels,"
remarked the Facetious Person, fight
them with yourself. IT,.
"Well. l might get Seconds from the
Minutes " retortod the Scribe
Persistency Is the mother Of results.
No, Mamie, you could hardly use golf
hose to put out fire, but it might be
useful to brace up an alarm clock.
49,
Several years ago Fred d. Under
| wood, now general manager OF the
Baltimore Il Ohio railroad, named two
stations in the upper peninsula OF
Michigan "Rudyard" and "kipling, !"
one being in an agricultural country
and the other in an iron ore district
Some time later mutual friend in
formed KipIing of Mr. Underwood
action, and the celebrated author sent
Mr.. Underwood his photograph, with
the following lines on the back:
''RupYARp" AND ''KIrIITG."
''Wise is the child who knows his sire"
The ancient proyerb ran.
| But wiser far the man who knows
How, where and when his offspring grows,
For who the mischief would suppose
I've sons in Michigan?
Yet am saved from midnight ills,
That warp the soul of man.
They do not make me walk the floor,
Ma k.t,x s,.ar al na mr. hnnr
They deal in wheat and iron ore,
My sons in Michigan.
oh, tourist in the Pullman car
BY Cooks or Raymond's plan),
Forgive parents partial view;
But may be you have children, too
So let me introduce to you
Ny sons in Michigan.
-Rudyard Kipling.
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The well dressed man will find new
beauties in dull and dun colored ma
terials, says an exchange. Small waist
and abnormal shoulders, developed b,
course of cotton wadding gymnastics
, | are to go on another season, ant
trousers are to be made fuller arount
, the waist by the addition of few DO,
pleats, and narrower at the instep b,
, the taking in of an extra reef. Colofet
| shirts are little rainbowhued ant
some have diagonal stripes: shoes lool
like working models for new patterne,
j canalboats, and scarves run in ma,
. riot of colors and designs, with lean
0 ing to lavender. Apropos of trousers
t it is not generally known by even thos
: who pride themselves with obtainin
D everything they wear from dear oil,
o Lunnon, don't ye know that the tip
: top swells over there like ii. r. II
( and Lord Crewe, have all their trouser
r made in Paris and from cloths tina
+ never. saw an English loom. 1t
n from that source they imbibed tn
present style of trousers that look lik
/ Inflated balloons at the hips, for tn
/ French have ever had fond spot j
!. their hearts for that fashion since tn
l. dear Prince Imperial originated it i
l. 1880.
/. Babv's dying,
n DO not stir;
"a Let her pure life gently swim
~ Thrnuuh fha siohipu