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tention Of bringing in a bill during the
present session of Parliament making it
not only admissible but legally obligatory
for women to sit as jurors. He proposes
that all juries shall be required to con-
sist of six good men and true and six
women similarly qualified. Exactly the
same obligations as regards the attend
ance of persons called to be Jurors will
be binding on "citizenesses" as on citi-
zens, and the same penalties for failure
to obey summons will be authorized by
law. 1t must at once be said, however,
that the prospective jurywomen of
France nobly rejoice at the privilege
which the new measure IL passed will
confer upon them, and show no dispo-
sition to grumble in advance at the bur-
den which may be laid upon their shoul-
ders.
We'll, young people," said Mrs. A., as
she, with the various members of her
house party, were discussing a late
breakfast and the contents of the post
bag. What do you say to this invita-
tion?" And she read aloud the following
quaint missive, written with the broad
est of Stubs, in a bold backhand, on
Endor will be happy to receive Mrs. A.
and her guests at the Cauldron Fire, on
the Beach, on June the -th, at 9 o'clock.
Only ghosts witches, wizards, gnomes,
fairies and other Inhabitants of the SUI
pernatural world are expected" To
make the Witch of Endor's meaning
more apparent, whom I suspect is none
other than my lively neighbor, Mrs. X"
continued Mrs A, bal costume is writ
ten in the corner-so in plain English 1t
simply means that a fancy dress func-
ton of some kind is to be given on the
beach, presumably by Mrs. X, and that
you are all asked to come, as some
ghoulish freak What do you say. shall
we accept?
A chorus OF affirmatives says the New
York Tribune, was her answer, and a
lively discussion followed about cos
TUNES, and the possibility of finding in
the village store what would be re-
quired for their get ups"
1t was a fearsome and motley party
that, guided by flaming beacon on the
beach, descended from Mrs. AS large
private omnibus on the night appointed.
A hobgoblin of the most grewsome as
pect, helped out a diaphanous little fairy,
and tucking her under his arm they
skipped off together, while stately ma
gicfan offered himself as escort to an eerie
looking spirit swathed in white draperies,
and so on. But If the effect was weird
among their own party, fancy the scene
on the beach! A full moon made a silver
pathway across a mysterious black
ocean to where the great waves caught
it's sheen and with a roar tossed It, in
shining foam, on the sand, where fire
CLEANED with lurid brightness under a
great ''cauldron," |. e., one of the huge
Ash 110iIorc hU 81 nd
fishermen. Around 1t the skinny hays Of
Macbeth muttered their nominations as
they kept the embers aglow, while around
them darted huge bats with Tapping
wings sprites, fays and COLLINS.
The Witch of Endor, who came forward
to receive her guests, was a tragic figure
draped in black. and so disguised that 1t
was almost impossible to recognize in her
the laughter loving Mrs. X. Just at that
moment, with wild cries, half a dozen
young witches astride broomsticks swoop-
ed down from the top OF dune and div
ed into the crowd, which, like a verita-
BILE crew of Comus were scattered over
the moonlit beach 1t was certainly a
weird and wonderful scene.
The Upper House of the Austrian
Reichsrath was invaded a few days ago
by delegation of thirty flour girls, who
with many tears and protestations, be-
sought the members of Parliament to al
low them to continue their trade of
hawking flowers In the streets. SO many
complaints have been made by the large
florists of the injury done to them by
the cheap bouquets sold all over Vienna
that the House seriously took into con-
sideration the suppression of these ir-
regular hawkers A large, wired, we'll
arranged bouquet of roses with foliage
has been offered this week to every
passer-by for cents an exasperating
price to the shopkeepers, who demand at
least Is cents for a similar article.
Strange stories are told by the enemies
of this small industry of vanloads of
flowers being ordered from Nice to a false
address and then sold for a song at the
station to the hawkers. The flower trade
has so enormously increased Of late years
in Vienna that II is now but little in
ferior TO that of Paris, and great sums
are spent yearly for the blooms which
arrive daily in wagonloads from the
Riviera. The Reischsrath was so far
moved by the flower hawkers deputa-
ton as 10 postpone the consideration OF
the affair until the autumn, so that at
least a short respite Is allowed to these
flower sellers. whose business is carried
on in some families from one generation
to another.
When the woman al the soda water
fountain turned round to pay her bill
says the New York Sun. she saw the fat
clerk braced back against the perfumery
stand. tanning himself Imply.
ibid you hear that?" he asked.
Hear what7" said the woman.
"what?" he repeated, incredulously. at
doesn't seem possible that anybody could
become so absorbed In a glass OF fee
cram soda as TO miss that. am tollx-
ing OF the osculatory performance OF the
woman who Just went away from the
phone.
Honestly. that custom Is n new one on
me. I've been working In drug stores,
one place and another "A good many
years, and have heard several millions
81 women talk through the phone. but
this IL the irst time ] ever heard one
OF them kiss over the wire.
sure. didn't you hear ~ Why. the
smack sounded Ike a popgun. tn bet the
fellow AZ the other end OF the line caught
s.. an right. lie couldn't misf a. even
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