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complishments against the needs Of the
time.
"of course, he knew I a in business,
but / cav the subject panied him, and after
j told him about it once in a rose hued room
and was oomforted for the terrible con-
c~atenation OF circumstances that made 1t
necessary, we never referred to it again.
Something, however, came up that made
It imperative for him to see me once In
the middle OF the day and he came to my
Office.
Il was in the midst Of an important con-
versation. l asked him to be seated, and
then it was the telephone people dropping
in for one thing and another, and altogether,
from being the chief object as he supposed
in my life, he felt himself like a mere play
thing, and 1t was too much for his pride.
The engagement drifted along and finally
smashed, and Last week ] was introduced to
his bride,-sweet blue eyes, pink rose in
her hat, who never opened her hps without,
looking at him first to see IL 1t was time"
"My hnt love affair In an office" said
another business woman, was naturally
with a married man. The frat one Ia sure
TO be.
Il was young and inexperienced, and
there wasn't the least bit of harm in 1t;
there rarely L.. ] pitied him. He didn't say
he was unhappily married ,ibut he limited 1t,
and ae / look back now l can see that he
was one Of the dramatic sort, who love the
limelight and the sympathy Of an audience,
no matter how upimportant.
He was pale, thin, tall and tragic, and l
actually wept on my pillow many nights
at the narrowing pictures I drew Of his
home life, where he was tied either to a
vixen or an extravagant, selfish woman
who was running him. As it happened l
changed my boarding house suddenly,
and the one I moved into sheltered the
object Of my silent pity and his family,
which consisted Of a dear, sweet little
woman whom the man really worshipped
and away from whom he never spent an
evening In his life, and two cunning chill
dren whom I grew to adore.
Il don't know why he posed as the un-
happy victim. but assume that Ii was merely
a love of the dramatic. but 1t cured me Of
looking for sentiment in my business.
Another girl 1 know had been brought
up In a conservative atmosphere, and when
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tallow candle gently limited, perhaps, what
the people may vet he obliged to taxi to.
A gas meter was another gas dinner souve-
just left adorned one theatre party's supper
souvenirs.
Portraits Of the guest of honor are favor
ite decorations. A fine medallion portrait
of the late Susan B. Anthony was on the
souvenir box at her birthday dinner.
A skeleton nodded over the ice cream
at a medical society dinner, and three neat
little volumes of Dickens held the cream
for a ompany of Dickens lovers, Baskets
of stra wberries, heaped in the common,
little splint baskets of the fruit stores
held the cream at a spring luncheon.
Perhaps the most realistic boxes are
those composed of a bundle Of actual papers
or envelopes which, lifted up, reveal the
box Of cream beneath. At a Inner given
to Postmaster W. r Wilcox a pile of en-
velopes was placed beside each guest.
The top one was directed to Mr.. Wilcox,
and had evidently been forwarded many
times. Each OF the cancellation stamps,
on inspection, va seen to contain the
name of a city where the postmaster had
lived, and the date of his residence.
The top one of a bunch of stock certif-
Gates, correctly engraved, set forth the
fact that this was stock certificate No.
1901, corporate stock OF the Montauk Club
of BROOKLYN, for entertainment admin
istered in honor of Edward NJ. Grout, pay
able in chestnut ice cream, interest $50 per
cent. per annum, payable at the skindi-
Oatpf
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MUSHROOM LOVERS RETREAT
4. LITTLE PLACE IN JERSEY
WHERE EPICURES ASSEMBLE.
AZ the House OF PedefOus In the Watching
Mountains YOu See En- Grow and Eat
EN- Every Which Way-Monsieur In the
Kitchen and Madame Behind the bar.


There'sa little house up in the Watching
Mountains about two miles out Of Plain
field to which pilgrimages are now being
made by lovers Of the %succulent mushroom.
The fame Of the little house has spread
all through this end of Jersey and even into
the city itself. For years 1t has been the
haunt OF epicures, and as soon as the spring
going gets good the annua pilgrimage
sets in.
Mine Host Pedeflous not many years ago
was chef in a French restaurant in this city.
He had a liking for country life and con-
ceived the idea Of esta blishing a mushroom
farm, knowing thai he would have no
trouble in ~disposing Of the product in New
York.
Sc he bought the little house in the
Watching Mountains with a few acres OF
land and moved there with Madame and
the children. But il was not enough to
be a farmer and nothing else. The love Of
the kitchen was in his blood and he made
it known to a few who appreciated his
culinary art that dinners of which mush-
rooms would be the chief ingredient were
to be had at the Maison Pedefious.
From small beginnings the restaurant
end OF the business grew, until now-more
guests come than can be taken care OF.
On a Sunday in early spring the place is
| seen at its best. All the stabling room
the place affords is occupied, and the yard
is full Of automobiles, many of them having
come from considerable distances,
The first duty Of the guest on arrival is
to find a pla &c on the veranda and ne verently
partake Of one of madame's cocktails. Let
| il be said here that Madame is the presiding
genius of the bar, while Monsieur rules
supreme in the kitchen.
The cocktail disposed of and repeated as
many times as the thirst of the guest de-
mands, consultation about dinner follows.
!! All hat it is necessary to do is to name the
one meat of the dinner In the spring il is
! almost invariably broiled chicken. The
rest of the menu il left to monsieur.
Jean, the handy man, then takes you in
tow and shows you how the mushrooms
are grown. Near the house are several
long low greenhouses. In the glass COW
cred part celery and green salads are pro-
duced to perfection.
Entering a cellar door beneath the green
| house you come into a cool dark pla ce
which Is of the earth earthly. You 20
! along a narrow passageway between two
beds OF rich smelling mold.
1t il dark as pitch In that cellar, but az
/ soon az the eye becomes accustomed " the
gloom it disoerns little white shoots ing
ing out Of the mold. These are tPd lsh-
rooms, and you listen wit hout j' om-
pretending TO Jeans eXplanat the
care necessary to raise them.
By the time you have taken a 1t the
chickens in their wire enclosed yards you
are informed by one Of Monsieuf's charm
ing young daughters that diner es' serri."
| Most Of the rooms Of the house are dining
rooms, andin one Of these You find q table
accommodating you party.
| This Ii about the order In which the
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VARIED DINNER SOUVENIRS.
ROXES OUT OF WHICH THE Up TO
DATE EAT ICE CREAM.
To he What They Should he They Must Tell
the story OF the Banquet on Their
Coyers-A Pan Of Beans for a Boston.
Ian Feast q Typical Illustration.

A souvenir which tells the story Of the
banquet il the proper accompaniment OF
the up to date dinner. 1t is nearly always
q box. Sometimes it contains cigarettes,
sometimes CONNECTIONS, but generally it
holds ice cream.
t. is on the covers OF these boxes that the
| ingenuity OF host, executive committee
and designer is lavished. 1t need not be
bea utiful, but it must tell it's story.
No souvenir ever told its story better
than the pan Of baked beans devised for a
recent banquet in this city. Its appearance
was hailed with shouts of laughter by the
guests, and every one who sees it now ex-
claims: Boston," 1t was. in fact, the Ice
cream box at a banquet of Bostonians.
Il was a pint basin Of the ordinary tin
variety, and the beans with which it was
hea ped were as natural as life; some Of
them scorched on topandevery one separate,
whole and perfect, as a true Boston baked
pear always is. The little pan lifted up
like a cover and revealed a box Of Joe cream
beneath.
The Merchants Despatch Transportation
Company had miniature freight carlo hold
ice cream at tie dinner, and a company Of
boot and shoe men ate their ice cream out
of plain honest pasteboard shoe boxes
with a we'll worn shoe on top Of the cover.
The various State and county and city
societies which keep their native traditions
green by an annual banquet in New York
have always their home seal or emblem
Upon their souvenirs. The Maryland So
sciety has q sprawling turtle for it's ice
! cream box cover, and he orchards Of Jefier-
son county, n. V, are recalled by the apple
on the box.
For farewell dinners to persons depart
ing for foreign shores little life preserves
! are used to frame the guest cards. Sig
| nifcant OF stormy weather also was the SOU
venir at an Equitable Life dinner in the
midst Of its troubles. A life preserver
formed the background with a boat rock
ing on troubled seas before:
German societies love the helmet OF the
doughty William for the covers OF their
souvenir boxes. Irish societies consume
their cream from Tara's harp and green,
green shamrocks. The Canadian Society
puts a snowshoe on its box.
At a bachelor Inner recently the host
had a faithful representation Of himself
upon the box,a figure in evening dress,
binding wrists and ankles.
| The little red schoolhouse held the ices
| at the dinner Of an educational society.
A tin box with a tea kettle on top was the
souvenir at a tin wedding dinner; and the
court house reporters had an ink stand
and pen fastened to a common blotting
paper. ,
The Building Trades Association had
a mortar bin, with bricks and trowel, and
the Westinghouse Electric Company a
serious looking black dynamo, %unrecog-
nizable to any but the elect. A phono-
p~honograph, and at a big railway dinner
q trolley car represented the arch enemy
Of tho craft.
At q gas compAny's banquet an old time
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She is neat, trim and obliging. She
gives the time for which she is paid I'M
oomplainingly. She is liked by everybody
but in an impersonal way.
Some day she hands in her resignation.
1t may be that she is going to marry, that
she has taken a place of greater opportunity
and she may tell or she may not. She
leaves a void behind her which is hard to
All.
But with no one of these three types
Of women 10 there any question Of the god
Love playing his little game The number
Of men and women in the same office who
marry is very small in proportion to the
number whom ~propinquity, that so called
matchmaker, brings together in this way
Love, = said another man, docs not
exist in the business office, and there never
was a greater waste OF energy than for the
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OF thousands Of conflicting experiences is
that the business woman does not possess
the womanly qualities.
TO illustrate this: Once coming across
from Brooklyn on the Wall street feEyboat,
which was filed in the early morning hours
by scores of pretty stenographers and other
business women going to work, a gentleman
of the old school who had apparently got out
| Of the wrong side of the bed or had missed
his second CUP Of coffee. looked irately
| about him and finally blurted out in a stem
! torian voice to a strange man who sat next
to him, deeply absorbed in his morning
paper:
There amt one of the whole lot of them
young women who could cook a steak II
they tried
"The irate old man is a type and q very
distinct type Of the thousands OF male
beings who have looked 80 long on women
in business offices as so much furniture,
mechanical aids to success, hat they could
never credit them with leading the double
life they do, masculine in certain phases
and feminine in others
Another young man who has made rapid
strides in his profession said:
There ie one phase Of the question that
interests me as a student OF social con-
ditions. That is the decided change in
the respect a man shows the business
woman to-day; it may not be based on
sentiment, but it is of much higher quality
than the kind he handed out, say FIVE years
age.
Disguise the fact as he tried. there is no
doubt that the average young man looked
down on every woman he met in an office
as his social inferior. He would n did
consider marrying her as a step down the
ladder, and he took 80 little pains to hide
his feelings on the subject that the young
women resentedlt.
In spite of his prejudioes the mar has
been forced TO change this view. because
his own sister, or his cousin, or some fem
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A suHE THING ON THE oursrpHsYwr n
...9EaY MA

with an amorous influence you simply cane
get away from. This girl had, according to-
her WI account, just about half OF tba
men In New York in love with her.
I'VE never saw any evidence OF the wong
dsrful stories she told of proposals and
threats OF suicide and extra ordinary devos
ton Of one kind or another except onoee
In o while a measly little. bunch of flowers
she would wear. There was one man whoI
did really love her; he was the bookkeepeN
and we called him the living skeleton foH
various reasons.
He worshipped the ground she walked
on, but j believe it was on account Of that
mental influence that the continual talk OF
this girls affairs by the rest of the oficai
brought about. A number of times he gays
up his position and admitted frankly that
he could not live where she was and suffer-
from her Indifference. Then he. woulii
come back because he foiind he could not
live away from her.
"onoe he left q magnificent bunch Of
'violets on her. desk when violets were upH
too, and she simpered to one of the firraandSI
making goo goo eyes at him, said shs had
found his flowers and would wear them
until they faded and then she would press
them. The partner turned on her, 2said.
he had never bought o flower for a woman.
in his life and'if she ever dared make atioh
a statementtto him OF ,about him he would
discharge her instantly. SI1!.
Then for the first time she smiled on thu
living skeleton and for two days no was
happy until she ,waltzed in and ~announcsd
her engagement to q Detroit man. Living
skeleton left the office, went to Boston,
fell of his bicycle, got smashed to bits and
was taken care Of by. the homeliest woman
in New England. They are distraotingy
happy.
"The girl was Tilted by the Detroit man
and the next week married a v~iolinist, lives
in The Bronx and has twins. She is happy,
too. That is the nearest to a real love
affair that I ever witnessed.
Hundreds of stories might be told CON
corning the business woman who never
gets beyond the $i2 or SIS a week positionl
because she begins by bringing her emo.
lions into the Office and wasting ambition
and vitality in fiirtations with one man
after another, gradually getting lower
in the scale until she presses the Office boy
into her service. for her vanity must have
food. As the years roll by, she sticks to her
kittenish ways and her baby blue ribbons,
She GAM understand why she has not made
a success Of life
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FOR FOOD, DRINK, CIGARS.
$40 4 DAY LEFT BY RICH NEW
IORHERS IN RESTAURANTS.
ThRt IL the A~rerage-Some Spend More
The New Yorker First in Extrava.
Eance Why some Wives Encourage
Their Husbandst to Dine al Restaurants.

''N'
IRON a g%astronomic point Of view New
Workers are generous spenders. The res
tanrant returns clearly indicate this.
Il an quite certain that the majority OF
the well of, perhaps | ought to say OF the
rich. men OF New York who breakfast
lunch and dine in restaurants almost the
year around spend al least $50 a week for
food and drink alone was the assertion
~ a man who for a time was employed
n one Of the large hotels Of this city. My
summary Includes unattached men who
live in clubs, apartments and hotels and
family men who seldom take anything
more than a light breakfast in their W
homes, the other members of their families
sometimes joining them for dinner at a
restaurant. The amount l quote, how
ever, is what | believe these men spend
for food for themselves alone"
1T depends altogether on where a man
eats" was the answer given by the manager
of a leading Fifth avenue restaurant to
the question how much money a rich man
spends a day for food. +0f course / mean
the men who eat at the best places, that Is,
at the most noted and the highest priced
Observation-Disclosures OF this class, for
example"
The manager took q piece Of paper and
9 pencil and fell to figuring, Then he
began to talk. .
There are mel," said he. who have a
very light breakfast served TO them be-
fore leaving their apartment OF their home
who don't really breakfast till the middle
Of the day, when thew combine breakfast
and luncheon.
There are other men who eat a very
hearty. breakfast and a light luncheon,
and men of a third class eat a moderate
breakfast and a moderate luncheon. In
all these cases the expense ia about the
came.
Mere man, of course, maxi il a rule to
order the least expensive dishes; therefore.
In order to strike a fair average, I have
put down breakfast 81, luncheon $3.50,
dinner IS, including wine and a liqueur.
This gives a total OF $50, which, does not
allow for cigars, extra drinks during the
DAY or q bite OF supper at night.
Taking these things into the reckoning, l
6rn'r se- how l can put down lees than $40
a day as the sum spent by the average man
with whom money is easy for food, drink
and cigars. Fine wines taken with lunch
and dinner will increase this sum consid-
diner is s., and his total weekly expendi-
lures nearer 500 than $50. The figures l
have given strike an average merely.
Yes, take 1t all in all, the rich New Yorker
is about the most extrsvagant spender l
come in contact with, although visitors
from all over the United States with money
to spend patronize the restaurants liber-
ally when they strike New York. They arc
not such good judges Of food, though, as
New Workers.
The latter get more and more particular
eVery year about thein eating. They now.
insist on having served 10 them the choicest,
the rarest IN the market and the highest
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MANS WEAKER HALF.
One side Of His Body Always Stronger
Than the Other.

The popular belief is that the left side
is weaker than the right, and, as in all
popular beliefs. there is much truth in this.
In most cases, says the Grand Magazine.
the right arm is decidedly stronger than
the left, the bones are larger and the mus
Giles more vigorous.
When we come to consider the lower
limbs, however. we find a precisely opposite
state OF affairs; the left leg is stronger
than the right in the great majority Of
cases. This want OF symmetry is notice.
able all through the body. Nine times
out of ten we see better with one eye than
with the other, and hear better with the
left than with the right ear, or vice uersd.
Not only 80. an injury to the body-a
burn or a cut, for instance-causes more
pain on one side than it would were it in
ficted on the other. Even diseases attack
one side on their first onset in preference
to the other. Eczema, varicose veins,
s~ciatica, and even tuberculosis begin, in
yariably, to manifest themselves on our
weaker side. A blistering plaster. too,
will provoke an eruption only. II applied
to the right side in certain individuals;
in Others, only if applied to the LETT side.
The simplest way, apparently, of dis
covering which IL our weaker side is to
observe which side We lie upon by pref
erence when in bed. as II ls certain that
we will instinctively adopt the attitude
which is most agreeable. or, rather, which
causes the least inconvenience: in other
words. we will lie upon the side the muscles
Of which, being more vigorous, are less
sensible to the pressure upon them Of the
weight Of the body.
Statistics and observation go TO prove
that in about three casee out Of four il
is the left side which is the weaker, thus
giving reason to the popular dictum.
Suriously enough, however. pneumonia, IL
has been noticed, unlike most diseases
usually attacks at first the right--thet 10
to say, the stronger side Of the body.
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A PPENDIXES UP;
n THREE
But the Other Physician Had Three
Aces, and So Won Some
Valuable Patients. j.

DENVER, March 2s.~-"speaking of dueeFj
wagers in poker games" said a dootor;
formerly of Boston. to a group Of friends,
at a hotel last night, Il guess I can tell
you of some that beat any you ever heard,
Of before. "
Three years ago 1 made a trip to Denver
in company with another Boston physician
and surgeon who, for fear he might NOT
want his name used, I'll call DR.. Brown
Our journey was l%uneventfil until we got
out into the middle of Nebraska.
then we struck a heavy snow storm
and our train was showed in for twenty
hours. The hours passed slowly, so DR..
Brown and hunted up a couple of drummers
and INDUCED in a little game of draw in the
smoking room of our sleeper to pass away
the time, or at least a portion oft.
THE travelling men knew the game welh
in fact, were experts at it, and soon Dr.
Brown and / found ourselves practically
strapped. We had had very little money
in our pockets. I had about s10o and
DR.. Brown about $125. The drumrners
took sos away from me and Sis from my
friend.
-Dr. Brown and I then decided to play
only unit we had but s. left between us.
lLhb was NluNAS W NhO 'loNCiilLR
men ami the cards went around again.
That time I was lucky and appearances
seemed to indicate that DR.. Brown had
caught a good hand, too. p
"The drummers did not do we'll that deal
and when the betting began they dropped
out and DR.. Brown and | found ourselves
opposing each other alone, We bet all
our money but the IS which DR.. Brown had
,toroj au-ay IN HE nNat rnnLat l,t
we didn't stop there.
want to make it a show down. asked
Guess we'll have to- | replied. We
haven't any more money with us
might write |. O.. US said he.
1T was then that l had an idea. In Bos-
ton l had three patients on whom ! 1 as q
Sf7erase 'fof'' appendicitis. upon my refuffiS'
I also had an operation for abcess Of The
liver awaiting me. | knew Dr. Brown
formed the following week when he r@'
Doe / said, IN tell you what Tn 10.
I'll bet you a case of appendicitis against
do the work for each other, you know
Done replied Dr.. Brown, and I'll
raise you a gall stones operation
"'i'fl put a liver case up AGAINST it ami
raise you another appendix / said
He called me with an appendicitis opera
ton and declined to raise further. We
showed our hands and he won. He had
three aces and ! had three kings.
Il took out my note book and wrote the
names Of the patients | had lost on a leaf.
which | tore out and gave him. He wanted
to regard the bets. after the money had
been wagered, rs q joke, but ! refused to
permit him to, When we reached Boston
a week later I made arrangements whereby
X did the work on the patients and re-
'Sived the pay. In all he won $685. from
4 ne with those three aces "