Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1903-11-11
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The Popular Girl.
You have, of course, smet girls who.
without your knowing anything def
mite against them, have impressed you
MS persons to be avoided, but have you
also met the girl whom you, us well as
everybody else, instinctively likes?
She is the girl who appreciates the
fact she cannot have the best Of ev-
erything In the world and Is quite
cheerful when her neighbor gets 1t.
She is the girl who never says
thoughtless things which cause pain.
She is the girl who, when you invite
her out, takes care to please you by
looking her best.
She is the girl who makes the world
brighter to both young and old by be-
Ing SO CHEEKY herself.
She is the girl Of whom you instinc-
lively know that you may ask fa-
vor and that she will grant. 1t feeling
she has received one from you. In
fact, she is the happy, unselfish, SYM
pathetic girl who sees good in every
one and is quite willing to play "sec-
.ond fiddle" whenever by so doing she
can add to her neighbors' happiness.
The following Characterization of the
Arab penchant for not telling the truth
is from a paper by DR.. G. Saint-Paul
on the Tpnisians: Arab lying y ex-
asperating. It Is absurd and victorious,
It triumphs easily over the critical
sense and the habit Of scientific rea-
soning 1t is sometimes childish. Your
native servants will never be takens
unawares. You forbid one OF them to-
smoke in your dining room and you
surprise him there with cigarette in.
his mouth. You were smoking. NO.
ri saw YOU Impossible You had q
cigarette in your mouth; you are hid
ing it in your hand; there 1t ISL Then
God put 1t in my hand. The native
denies always Taken red handed he
denies. Beneath blows he denies.
Pain is sometimes powerless to make
him confess, even ut the point of death.
This obstinncy is due in part to the
high idea he has Of his dignity. His
pride forbids him confession, be-
cause the avowal Of his lying is In
fnitely humilinting in his eyes. The
fear OF losing face is all powerful in
him. To recognize fault is more
shameful than to have committed It,
Hence the peculiar obstinacy of the
native in denying, even when It would
be to his interest to confess, an OBJ
stinacy not manifested in other ways"
Journal of American Folk Lore.
In a note on Samuel Laurence's por-
trait OF Thackeray that representing
The noyelist's face in full the Illus
trated London News OF Oct. Is. 1855,
says; r
ut Is not, we must confess, alto
gether true to his present appearance,
for 1t wants recent and becoming
addition 10 the upper lip In the shape
lof black mustache that contrasts
most admirably with a head Of silver
gray, but 1t Is like the man and will
be welcome to his many admirers
The reference here to the mustaehe
is interesting for the reason that every
portrait of rrhackeray, with one excep-
ton, represents him with clean
shaven upper lip. the exception being
Maclise's pencil drawing Of the famous
"sitmarsh," which, however. belongs
to a much earlier. date viz, about
1910 and in which there Is Just a
suspicion Of a mustache. Presumably
the hirsute appendage Of 1855 was
merely a passing fancy. which the ra.
zor speedily disposed of-Notes and
Queries
| One day a bulky, tall, pale faced gen
tleman with bushy, restless eyebrows
entered n london tavern. The waitel
did not ask him for his order. but i'm
mediately brought him a plate OF breai
md cheese and glass Of ale Having
consumed his lunch, the guest sat up
right in his chair for awhile, leaning
his hands on heayy walking cam
and staring blankly of the oppositl
wall, as If in a dream. OF q suddel
he gave start. He seized the empt!
a glass and dashed 1t to the floor witt
all his might smashing 1t to atoms
i he then reflected for moment lait
coin on the table, got up and lef
the inn without word to any one
After his departure another guest hal
the curiosity to ask the waiter whethe
the gentleman who had just gone GU
was not wrong in his head. Quoth tn
waiter:
9 "oh, no. sir! That's nothink un
usual with i'm, sir. ms broke mayb
'undred glasses since 'e's been
comm to this 'onse. = don't seem t
know 1t when e does It. p Just git
a thinkin' and seems to git hangr
at something 'c's thinkin' about II
{ Lord Macaulay, sir."-C Golfers Weekly
The Antiquity-of Hospitals.
Many centuries before the Christian