Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-08-15
BRIDGET Whist.

Bridget Whist.
''Phwere how yez been this avenin'7"
asked O'Tunder Of O'TOole.
"Sure, I've been playing Bridget
whist. IT'S foine game, it is"
Bridget whist? An how do yez play
thotY
"Oi sit in the kitchen wild Bridget
and ate pie an cake an chicken. and
when Bridget hears the mistress COM
In she says Whist an OF hide in the
panthry."-S Stories.
The Neck Of the Bottle.
On the neck of wine bottle a ridge
can usually be seen. This ridge has a
purpose to serve. 1t Is not made mere
~ to decorate the neck Of the bottle.
When the bottle is opened and its con-
tents have to be poured into a glass
the ridge Is adjusted to the top Of the
glass, SO that the wine cannot trickle
down the side Of the bottle and then
on to the tableclOth. - London Tele-
graph.
Sleep on . Hard Bed.
No matter how comfortable soft
bed and large, soft pillows may be,
they are not healthy. Women especially
would do well to avoid them, for they
assist materially in injuring the phys
ical appearance. When the body sinks
down in a soft bed considerable por-
ton of the skin Is robbed Of proper
ventilation, and circulation Is Interior
ed with A hard bed will make the
flesh firm and the figure graceful.
Butchers In Burma.
All butchers in Burma are Indian
born. No Burman will kill IL COW or a
bullock or sell meat. There Is no law
against such practice, but no respecta-
BILE native will kill for food, sport or
revenge. Fowl and fish are indeed
| sacrificed for eating purposes, but ev-
cry one despises the fisherman. He is
| sort of outcast, and the Staying of
fowl Is done ly.-Westminster
Gazette.
The Willy Fox.
A story is related in Bailey's Maya
zine of rector of a parish not far
from Oxford, who as he was walking
across some fields heard the cry of
hounds. The pack ran into an ada
cent field, and presently fox came
toward the clergyman and trotted
along by his side as Il dog would do
The huntsman, looking about, saw
nothing but the rector and what seem
ed to be his dog, and cast off in another
direction. AS soon as the coast was
clear the fox gave whisk of his brush
and disappeared through the hedgerow.
st. James Gazette.
The Way of the Child.
A small boy who had recently passed
his fifth birthday was riding in Il sub
urban car with his mother, when they
were asked the customary question,
GLOW old is the boy"' After being
told the correct age, which did not re-
quire fare, the conductor passed on
to the next person.
The boy sat quite still. as if ponder
ing over some question, and then. con-
Guiding that full information had not
been given. called loudly to the con
ductOr then at the otter end of the
car. "And mothers thirty.one" '-Hu-
man Life.
Lost His Name.
One may, it seems, lose ones wits
without altogether losing ones wit
Henri Meilhac, a French dramatic au-
thor, who always had some clever
thing to say, was troubled in his last
days by a sad loss of memory. One
day he exclaimed to friend who
called:
"Hurrah, I've got my name back,
You know twas forgotten
"Why, nobody forgot your name
Eyes, | did, and l should say that
was quite enough
This was Meilhac's last joke. He
died within few days.
Peculiar Ice.
A remarkable form of ice, which the
French Canadians name fraZil ice, is
the cause of the packing up of ice and
consequent floods in the ST. Lawrence
river 1t forms in spiky shapes where
the currents are too rapid for ordinary
| sheet ice to spread across them and
at the base of waterfalls During the
prevalence of cold winds the icy nee
dies sometimes fill up open channels
| and, being carried long distances be
meath the surface ice, gradually ac
cumulate and consolidate and are LA
bic to dam the channel even to depths
of eighty feet.
Eternal Fitness Of Things.
| The mistress of the house is Il cult
| waited Bostonan of much musica
taste, and the whistling of the foot
man, who believed himself alone in The
house, fretted her artistic soul.
Joseph" she called at last from the
head of the back stairs, please don
whistle those vulgar ragtime things
Yes, men, returned Joseph meek
| ly. II knew, men," he continued, will
unexpected spirit, but you can't eX
pect Il rhapsody of List with cleanin.
the knives. That will come later whel
I'm polishing the silver" Youth
Companion.
Getting Into a Scrape.
The word "scrapc," meaning a diff
Guilty, derived its origin in Il curious
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