The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-13

weather and forever SO MANY nexts.
But 1T does seem a pity that it and
the time for wearing short skirts
should come together, doesn't it?-Bal-
timore News.
Faithful Mary, the Attendant.
one OF the most faithful as well as
best known employees Of the New
Haven railroad is Mary, who has been
an attendant in the woman's waiting
! room at the station in Boston for Is
years. During these many years of
service she has never been absent from
her post a single day.
While the great snowstorm Of last
February was raging bets were freely
made at the station that Mary's won
derful record for attendance would be
broken, but the ones who bet on her
nonappearance We're losers, for she
came blowing her way through the
snow only In hour and a half beyond
her usual time.
She is not due at the station until 6
a. m., but she generally arrives at 5
and. long before 6 o'clock has it clean
ed and busted for the days business.
Her record for honesty is almost as
remarkable as for punctuality. During
her % years of service she has found
and returned money and articles to
the value of $4,000. One instance Of
this faithful work will suffice: A wo-
man milliner, on her way to New York,
left a bag containing 5000 on the seat
when h left the station to take the
train. She did not miss the money till
she reached New York and then could
not remember where she had left it.
Mary, in the meanwhile, deposited
the money in the safe and awaited the
travellers return. She has a wonderful
FACULTY for remembering facesiand felt
sure she would recognize the
for she had noticed her while she was
waiting. 1t was two or three weeks
afterward when she again appeared in
the station. and Mary, in a cautious
way, proceeded to interview her. She
soon knew that she had discovered the
owner of the money, and when it was
returned the milliner was so overcome
with joy that she left without giving
Mary a cent.-New York Mail and Ex-
press.
h Shining Morning Face.
1.-THE shining morning face must
have originated in Shakespeare's imag-
nation or merely had reference to soap
and water luster rather than the reflex
of spiritual content, for there are sur
prisingly few men, women or children
who get anything like a shining face
until the morning has merged well in
to the afternoon. To get out of the
bed on the wrong side is said to be re-
sponsible for much Of the gloom that
the morning countenance, but L
believe it is due more to habit than
any particular extraneous circum-
stance governing it.
Women more than either men or chill /
dren are most prone to this morning
distemper, and the girl who comes to
breakfast really bright and happy is a
rarity, as the members of many house,
holds can testify. She gets up cross, |
she has either oversight or not slept
enough. She finds the house too cool |
OF the day too hot; she wants mullins
when they have rolls and answers
grumpily the greetings of the other
members of the family. She is not a
joyous item of the early day, and her
father Is glad to escape to his office to
avoid the lowering looks and slovenly /
appearance that will all be changed
by the time the evening meal arrives.
ne knows, but it is awfully unpleasant
while the period of semiwakefulness
is on. In later years her husband has
to bear the burden of this same trait,
and 1t does not the more endear him to
her, that Is certain. Let her fight
against it at it's first appearance, re-
solving that if she cannot be as OBJ |
v1ously pleasant as IN the evening she
will at least present a cheerful counte-
nance and secure for herself a shining
morning face that will be an inspira-
ton and not a depression to those who
must look upon it at the breakfast ia
ble.-Philadelphia Times.
Women mt Congregational Council.
Professor Margaret j. Evans, Mrs.
Isabella Armitage and DR.. Grace N.
Kimball were the three women among
the 40 speakers at the great Interna-
tlonal Congregational council held in
Boston recently. Miss Evans is pro-
of English literature and mod
ern languages at Carleton college,
N%orthfeld, MINI. She is also presi-
lent of the Minnesota State Federation
Of Women's Clubs and chairman Of the
educational committee Of the General
Federation. Mrs. Armitage is the wife
Of Professor Elkanah Armitage of
Leeds and is prominent in Congrega-
tional church work in England. DIR.
kimball is now assistant physician at
Vassar college, but is best known for
aer organization of the Industrial re-
lief work at Van after the Armenian
q work that ayed thou.