New-York tribune., 1903-04-14
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Here is a curious advertisement. republished In
THE CornfiIl Magazine from an eighteenth
century paper: ''Wanted-For a family who have
bad health sober. steady person, in the capacity
of a doctor surgeon and apothecary. he must
occasionally act in the capacity of butler and
dress hair and wigs He will be required to read
prayers occasionally and to preach sermon every
Sunday The reason of tflis, advertisement Is tnat
the family cannot any longer afford the expense OF
the physical tribe. and wish to be at certain ex-
pense for their bodies and souls. good salary
will be given.
The Best sort.-Willie-Pa. what is a preferred
CREDITOR" anyway? -,
PA preferred creditor. my son. Is one VINO
doesn't bother US much with his bill.-Phiadelphia
Press.
Tho drinking of absinthe 'aperitif' ap-
petizer is such feature of Partisan life that the
French railroads are coming to recognize it At
the green hour between and o'clock. wnen
the wormwood distjllation is drunk. "aperitif'
train is between Paris and Versailles. IN which
man may sit imbibe his absinthe as he speeds
alongside the woods and villas and flashing reaches
of the Seine.
AN EASTER SERVICE
THE text: Every woman 1,. that Pray@eth yeti ,..d
with her head uncovered dlshonoretn her nedo
II Cor, xi, 81
Processional? It was dream,
IA symphony g6 bsbnd in tWss TRiss aid Mrs pRk Wsem)
The latest Paris mode think
The special anthem? Green and and red:
1t fairly Shrieked! On, gracious me!
/ closed my eyes and turned my head.
But with them shut still could see!
The sermon was darling brown.
With ostrich plumes in perfect curl!
She never got 1t here in townl
She must have been some visiting girl
The ofertorv? Very fine;
At ieast-until I saw Miss Dart
Had on a hat near like mine
You couldn't tell the two aparti
The more looked more like 1t grew!
And worked me up to such STATE
put my prayer book on the platel s
edwin L. Sabn, in Brooklyn Life
Another literary landmark of Boston is soon to
be torn down The house in Boylston Place where
Motley wrote his histories is to give place to a
tall office building The Motley house has been oc-
cupied for twenty-five years by the Boston Library
Society.
What an. awful voice that mans got!' said the
| manager, who was listening to the throaty tenor
'Call that a voice." said his friend. Its a
disease!"-(Punch.
pretty little incident occurred in Governor La
Fouette's Office in Madison. Wis. while President
| Roosevelt was holding a reception there The
| Milwaukee Free Press describes two little girls
| who edged their way into the crowd In the Office.
Their dress indicated that their home not fur
nshed with all of the good things which children
| like to have. Governor La Toilette. seeing the
| children asked them II they wanted to the
President The smaller of the two shook her head
| abashed by the big crowd The Governor pressed
| them to see the President, when the larger one
| spoke up and said: I'VE don't want that. but we
| would like something else
What would you Iike?' asked the Governor.
wed like that flower" replied the little tot
Papa is sick at home and could not come. and
| we'd like to give him that flower"
She was told she could have the flower, and she
was so happy that she cried with Joy as she seized
| the large American Beauty rose. Willing hands
| stripped several OF the vases in the Governors
office and the children had all OF the flowers they
| could carry to cheer up the sick father, whose
happiness they thought of amid all of the excite
| ment of the Presidential reception
The Very Good Man.-"He's forever pratng about
what his conscience tells him. Wnat does MS con-
| science tell him. anyway?
1T usually tells him appqre,n1tlsy What p awful
In accordance with the ancient traditions of Aus
| tria Emperor Francis Joseph on Thursday last
| washed the feet of twelve old men, whose ages
ranged from eighty-nine to ninety-two, making
total of nearly eleven hundred years Eleven arch
dukes assisted in the ceremony Where else In the
world are there SO auring temptations to live long
| "a on the banks Of the beautiful blue Danube?
| militant Yorkshireman was charged with set
| ting his chimney fire. But he had complete
| excuse ready He merely put all the furniture on
the FIRE and poured little paraffne oil ga the top.
and had no more criminal intention than to get
| up a row with his wife. The law surely would not
interfere in small domestic matter of this kind
| Q.ondon Globe.
Eyi, as he was the Filipino ladrone San Miguel
had the desperate of the worst of the bad
| men, Of the old unsettled days In some OF our
western mining camps He wounded half
DOZEN times but kept up fighting to the last gasp.
SAND enough. but Ill spentl
T, ..ba Good Old Days-The two old citizens of
,ba town pazed at the long row OF naming posters
that announced the coming OF Uncle iom
Cabin" , =. - a.. 10 a. 4, Mp.
said the one with chin whskers.
s.Isy gosh nor' responded the other shaking MS
,aaSs e.XVbv I remember when people In the par
49, ,,.os ~ wear mackintoshes to keep off the
hopar ~ tear, from the galery."-tChicago News.