New-York tribune., 1903-03-14
THE TALK OF TIE DAY.

In Sweden there Is order or merit conferred
by an organization known as the Roya! Patriotic
Association upon employees and domestic servants
for long, faithful and efficient service under the
same EMPLOYERS. 1t includes superintendentS ana
managers clerks, bookkeepers engineers, mechan-
les artisans factory hands. cooks coachmen. cham
berraids private secretaries and every other per-
son working for fixed wages in regular permanent
employment Names may be proposed to the So
ciety for consideration, when an investigation Will
be made, and if found worthy the nominee Is
awarded gold or a silver medal bearing a bust OF
the King, which carries with it under certain cir
cumstances a pension for life In making the
award the committee OF Judges take Into consid-
Grafton the circumstances OF the case and their
decision is rendered accordingly. Often servants
are proposed who have been in the employ OF the
same family or the same master fifty, sixty and
seventy years. Candidates may be proposed by
their employers by their friends.
In Stockholm there is an Old Servants Home oc-
cupying a of buildings upon pleasant street,
where servants who are too old to work given
shelter and care. The institution Is supported by
public subscription and by the interest derived
from a large endowment. When household ser
want has been engaged for long time in the
same family and has become too old to work and
the family are not in circumstances to support her
application can be made to the trustees who IN
vestigate the case, and II 1t is found that the SER
want is deserving and her former employers
not able provide for her properly she IS admitted
to the home. The institution Is always full. and
there is generally long waiting list of applicants
NOTORIOUS.
["Why must driver of automobile look like
mountain goat In order to keep in the fashon7' IM IT,
Express The growFng NE esSs OF 9s
some object that some reform is urgenE1
Why must the stylish motorist
Look like mountain noun L,n goatt ,s
In so hirsute coatD
Why must the wilful motor-man
The grizzliest. shaggiest that he can
In point of outdoor wear!
Why must our scorching plutocrats
Contrve to initiate
Skye terriers with their hair in mats
OF most bedraggled state?
Why need the wild chauffeur, ask.
Outvte the chmpanzee,
With google eyes and hideous mask
That makes one i'll to see?
AS to the ladies-p'raps 'twere well
With inmates Of the Ark!
don't know what's the right reply
Is 1t perchance to scare
From Oft ffothe. the road oI "fIsfs each haSsesPy y
Things have come to pretty pass when Uncle
Sam makes John Bulls flags and sells them to the
patriots inhabting his colonial dependencies.
Jenkns-what an egotistical fellow Jasper is!
Hawleigh-Not more 50 than Blare When the
taliatlon; an for an l. you know.-(Boston Tran
script
DR. David Starr Jordan Of Leland Stanford, Jr,
University tells story in 'The Philadelphia Sat
urdav POST which goes to show that a fish
erman always a fisherman. matter how much
of an ichthyologist may be besides. He says
zone day in California had had remarkable
run of luck, and that night we sat around the
camp fire took occasion to say that my success
was due to the superior tie of flies had used
"sYou may hatter yourself the string you've
brought in to-day said an old fisherman who had
Joined our party, but let me tell you, doctor that
I saw Digger Indian catch more nsh in an hour
In this stream than you've landed ali day with
your hne fies.'
what bait did he use? asked
Live Erasshoppers.' replied the old man, but
ne didn't impale them. From his head he would
Cling insect to the hook Almost upon the Instant
that this bait struck the water fish would leap
for It. After landing him the Indian would calmly
repeat the performance OF snatching a hair from
| his head and anixing a fresh grasshopper to the
| hook.
"J became fascinated continued the narrator
After the Indian had landed in quick succession
mighty string Of salmon trout he suddenly stopped
| I called to him to go with the exciting sport
| but he merely smiled grimly and pointed signin-
| cantly to his head
"'What was the matter with his he&dr asked, {"
| said DR.. Jordan.
He had plucEed Il bald. replied the old man."
| How do you like this young pianist?'
''I think she 10 q good Christian"
yes: her right hand does not know what her
] laSt hand doesv'-tLe Figaro Paris