Amador ledger., 1907-08-30
TALES OE THE TELEGRAPH.

the love affairs of q widower who has
grown children. In Philadelphia,
George S. Robb's wife died three
weeks ago. and he is madIy in love
with the trained nurse who took care
of his wife during her last illness,
and wishes to marry the nurse at
once. He bought marriage license
last Friday, but his children stole it
from him so that the wedding had to
be postponed until he could get
another. In the meantime. his grown
sons and daughters talked to him
calmly and succeeded in presuadlng
him to promise to wait six months
before marrying the nurse. The
children think they Will have no
trouble in freezing out Cupid with a
man who has forgotten their sainted
mother before she had been dead
three weeks.
The Baroness Won Eckhards
daughter of rich English furniture
manufacturer, has secured judicial
separation from her husband because
be tried to spend most of her money
on two other women. The baron will
be regared as a slow one by Count
Boni de CastelIane who had score
of lady friends, and is still putting
up fight.
Some men have no sense of humor,
and others have it too highly devel-
oped. A Kokomo (Ind. woman is
suing her hubsand for divorce because
he laughed at her when she had the
toothache.
A Philadelphia bride made 1886 by
letting the guests kiss her at 81 per.
Some of them repeated, and it is
barely possible the groom may find
that his bride, IN her greed for gold,
may have formed a habit.
Mrs Laura j. Tisdale died in Long
Beach, CAL. yesterday. Mrs Tisdale
was a remarkable woman: She it was
who Introduced in the United States,
and made fashionable the motions
brakeman makes in stopping a train,
and called it Delsarte.
Here's joke on Justice. A con-
stable at Frederick, Okla, went to a
nearby town for prisoner. He was
returning on his round trip ticket
with the prisoner. but had forgotten
to buy the prisoner s ticket. He
didn't have any money with him,
and the prisoner had to get off ard
was left with Sweet Liberty on the
prairies. As the train moved on, the
prlsoner(?) waved his hand goodbye
to the constable on the back steps,
and sang the praises of the conductor.
The town authorities of Ware,
Mass, refuse to permit any more
industries to land there that employ
only girls. They say there are so
many there now that women are tax
ing the town, and that what they
want, and must have, are industries
that employ men.
Where is the measuring stick? At
ter an hour of discussion, the Wiscon-
sin assembly killed the Huges anti
tights bill, which prohibited any
actress or woman from appearing in
public with skirt falling less than
four inches below the knees. One
member was in favor of bill requlr-
ing party gowns to come at least five
inches above the waist. All the mem
bers agreed that a society woman 8
low-necked gown was as bad as an
ACTRESSES short skirt.
DR.. julius Thomas, the famous
aeronaut, was badly wounded in an
automobile smash-up in New York at
midnight recently. But here is the
worst of it: After the doctors re-
stored him to consciousness and
patched him up, his wife called to
find out what he was doing in an
automob at midnight with two
girls. And down stairs, there is wait
ing the father of one of the girls who
was hurt so badly both legs were cut
off. who wants Thomas to also explain
to him. These are troubles the sur
geon can't reach.
Credit for the popularity of the
Ernest Thompson Seton books is now
given to Mrs Ernest Thompson Seton,
and we are glad of 1t. 1t Is said that
she illustrates the books and does
much of the writing. We are glad
because Ernest Thompson Seton IS
right name is Ernest Seton Thomp-
son. He thought Thompson common,
and had it changed. A man who will
change his name deserves that his
wife get the credit for all his ac-
complishments.
John Parnell was buried at Little
Rock one day last week, and his sons,
being of suspicious nature, exhum-
ed the body before paying the under
takers bill, and found that the
undertaken had swIped the shroud
from their father and had it back in
his shop to- sell over again.
The Dean Heat Distributor Co., of
Philadelphia, hired ten statuesque
and handsome Gibson girls to de-
monstrate their ranges. to show that
the heat is so controlled that cooking
over such a stove doesn't spoil the
complexion. The girls we're put to
work at cost of $500 for six weeks,