The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-03-25
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People.

crave you noticed" said a well
known man-about-town, ''the ten-
dency there is To apply the word par
lors 10 many industries?" l told him
that I had not given the matter much
thought. We'll" he replied, you just
look IL up. There are hsir-dressing
parlors. boot-blacking parlors, and
undertaking parlors, to say nothing OF
ice-cream parlors and confectionery
parlors, | suppose ii is only a question
OF time when kindling wood and coal
parlors will be opened"
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The following is from an exchange:
''Why is it," asked the everyday phil
osopher. that SO many men under ~
are smooth shaven?" Then, as no ono
else offered an explanation, he replied
to his own question, saving: 1T seems
to me that IL is due TO the cigarette
habit. The coffin nails burn off and
color the ends of mustaches, and so
the young men give UP their lip orna-
ments rather than this habit
go
These are days when medical men
seem 10 he full OF controversy. In this
city arguments for and against the
practice of osteopathy are being made,
the doctors OF Massachusetts are be-
ing heard i'm pleas for and against vi
visection, and 4 understand that the
medical men of Denver are very earn
estly divided on the question, Shall we
vaccinate?" In the meantime nobody
seems TO think of the poor patients.
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isn't 1t remarkable how some peo-
pie get the things they don't want and
can't useg' queried the Cheerful Idiot.
IL notice that at a country band fair,
which closed one day last week, down
I'm South County, the combination
ticket drawing resulted In the same
old way. One man drew an order for
womans hat. Two women drew or
ders for gentlemen's hats and two
other women found themselves enti-
tied To visit local smithy and have
sets OF shoes fastened on Wonder
whether they will be regulation horse
shoes, or just rubber taps and heels"
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"Spose the fish down In South
County have Quilted the ponds and
gone up into the woods" asked the
G. ]. Then he explained that he saw
that one man had posted a notice pro-
hibiting people from fishing on his
land.
There's truly happy family at Dix
ons fish market, on South Water
street. and it's worth while To make
the Journey To see II. Two mother
cats OF dissimiar color, gave birth to
large litters of kittens, In the same
box. on March 4th. Both families were
ia evidence about the same hour. Each
cat cared for the other as the arrivals
arrived. so TO speak. the employe
watching the performance OF these
unusual feline offices. Both families
still occupy the same box. Each lit
ter has the distinctive markings of the
mother yet all are treated alike. Each
mother cat nurses both broods or
parts of each. az the same time. ns
hunger prompts the kittens To seek
nolIrlshment, and while one cat Is pro-
viding milk for the double family the
other one sedately sits az the outer
edge OF the circle Of wiggling hind feet
and contentedly performs those toilet
duties which motherhood imposes up
on good cats.
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The Cheerful Idiot didn't look hap
ny. this morning. lie gave furtive
giances about the office and seemed
10 suspect somebody was watching
him. asked him what allied him.
Nothing" he replied only that I've
had "A pair OF those rubber heels put
on To ma shoes, and the CussDd things
arc so soft and snesky that I feel like
"A burglar, and find myself ycarning
10 own y set of iimmics and lot of
nitro-glycerine.
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