The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-05-28

only hoped nobody else would. C. ,.
r. will accept my AFFECT apology and
Acknowledgements for the merry Jest ne
affects to make at his expense. instead
OF at NINE
All the same, If he must smoke-and
thousands OF other good and clever men
dol wish he would take cigars instead
Of cigarettes.
I have bad memory and weak eyes.
My friends all attribute this to excessive
cigarette smoking. For example. have
always been under the impression that
Wiikie Collins wrote lie book called Man
and Wife," and I believe-though my
memory may have played me false-that
Ole of your answers in to-day,S paper
said that Charles Reade made master
stroke In this book. Am in need Of
doctors advice? G. j. r.
A number Of society women in this
city have organized ''stag club"
Sounds peculiar, doesn't it? Well, it's a
peculiar club. The women all attend in
male attire, drink punch, play cards
(roker) and act Just like men. What do
you think Of it? By the way, I've been
tod you're a man. I'd really like to-
know your sex. Unless you inform me
to the contrary I'll go on believing you
to be a woman-give you the benefit OF
the doubt, as It were. I don't like men
one bit-but I'd like to be man! I be-
licve I'll have to join the stag club"
Would you? L. n.
MY young friend guesses Tar wrong in
more than one particular. I am not only
woman, but have been a woman for
so many years as to be able to comrre-
bend the revenences owe my sex and the
equal reverence every true woman should
feel for true manhood. I do not want
to be man. Here differ from my viva
cious correspondent. like men. Another
| point OF difference. As to the 'inconvent-
| ent' Ito borrow word from st. PauD
travesty of manni s8ness Indicated by Il.
H." as the policy of the stag club It
| is both unfeminine and unmasculine. The
suggestion is disagreeable to repulsive-
ness could write yet more plainly of a
design so indecorous that no man Of sense
and delicacy would suggest the like to
any party Of his own sex. A doe club
would be an insult to US. and but one de-
| gree less offensive than the. caricature' Of
our brothers proposed by the aforesaid
"stags."
Il Would you mind telling me how to
remove grease spots from blue French
flannel skirt? It is a new skirt and got
i soiled by accident. have tried gasoline
on it twice, and brown paper also, with
out any Improvement.
2. T also bought a new light blue silk
| waist. and 1t has spots-tWo OF them-On
the right sleeve. They were there when
I bought It. never noticed 1t until
got home. The spots look to me like
| machine oil, and no doubt it happened
in the factory whereyit came from.
L. s.
l. Rub fullers' earth upon the wrong
side, wetting slightly with ammonia
Leave on all night, then brush out.
2. If you can get at the wrong side.
rub powdered French chalk well into it.
Leave on several hours. cover with blot
ting paper and press with 8. warm iron
Could you tell me where these express
sions originated?
'She is in the seventh heaven for very
joy; she is the very apple Of his eye
L. H. "A.
Seven IS the perfect number. The
Scriptures speak OF "tt1e third heaven
An old superstition asserts that there
i are seven heavens,