New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-22
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

In answer 10 a question as the standing OF
woman in the estimation OF the various peoples OF
the earth German paper writes: The fair sex
plays unenviable part in many lands. you
may see BY the well known mdages. The Spaniard
says: Women and mules Will do bidding
readily when stroke than when strike
them; 'WOman's tears are worth much and cost
little: The fox IS sly. but a woman who loves is
more So The Arab says: Mans beauty is his
soul-woman's soul is her beauty; Ask your Wfe's
advice and then follow your own Judgment In
India they say: The coquette is like shadow; fol-
low il and 1t fees. hy from II and il will follow
In China Is looked down upon, and one Of
the oldest adages says: The tongue OF woman
is a dagger which is never allowed 20 grow rusty;
The soul Of a woman is Ike quicksilver and her
heart Is like wax To the question. What is
woman?' the Turk answers. a prisoner; the Per
sian. a slave. the Servian. a servant; the Bull
garian. n com panion': ths Greek. a queen 1t
VIII surprise most people 70 know that even the
Frenchman Is unkind 20 woman in his adages
Thus he says: Women and fools never forgive
Woman laughs when she and weeps when she
pleases: What the devil cannot accomplish. wOul-
can. The good women are IN the churchyard-' "
First Farmer las large touring car goes BY
Powerful machine. that
Second Farmer (snfingly)-YeD. Must be all
sixty skunk power-Judge-
While New York is complaining Of its dusty and
dirty streets thousands OF people in London are
perplexing themselves to why they suffer-
Ing from throat
1T is the dust throat says London physician
Items OF thousands have il at the present moment
I have II myself. 1t arises from the continued
sunshine and the lack OF rain am finding victims
everywhere. The signs soreness in the throat
and an Irritating little cough The dust throat
comes on In the spring and the autumn. The cause
OF the present epidemic is that the roads which all
winter are more or less damp. are now drying. and
the dust. often invisible but laden with microbes
Is permeating the air LAcorice is the best thing
10 remove the soreness and the cough"
Problem: certain man thinks that the auto
mobile is an invention Of the devil 49,.
he?-Scmerville Journal
The taxlneter cabs had not been running in Lon
don for forty-eght hours before of difficulty
arose. The Dundee Advertiser reports. a pas
senger was to alght In Coventry street from
one of the new cabs. which he had taken by the
hour The dial indicated half an hOur-two shil-
lngs But while the passenger was shutting the
door admiring the vehicle and fumbling for his
money. the pointer moved on section and an
nounced two shillings twOpencel Then the driver
asked who's going TO pay that odd twOpencs?'
Technically speaking. neither party appeared la
ble-the passenger had got out the driver had no
fare But II the passenger refused to pay the
driver would have to make good at the garage
Georgia. thoroughbred gentleman puts on his
clothes and then foTgsts them en- n, nv, tailor won,
let me.-Tit-Bits.
Travellers In the WodOnga and Barnawartha dis
tricts Of Australia find 1t difficult. writes Mel
bourne correspondent, to get their horses to face
the caterpillars that swarm the country roads.
They are denudIng vegetation and IL is feared the
vineyards will be devastated. An excursion train.
when seven miles from Penshurst. was brought to
a standstin through dense masses OF the insects
blocking the rails. The wheels crushing them to
death "skidded" from the rails.
IF we're in your Shoes" said the stout lady.
ID
you'd be a living proof that the age Of miracles
was not past" saucily interrupted the pert one
Chicago Record Herald.
A novelty which has been submitted 90 the police
prefecture of Berlin for approval Is automobile
hearse. 1t Is Of the approved type differing only
from the ordinary funeral vehicle In not being
horse-drawn. The new hearse created much curl
osity as it made it's test pilgrimage throush the
city.
ShOpwalker (severely)-I heard you tell the lady
she would ind the ribbons az the third counter 20
the left.
New ShOpwalkeF-That's where they
ShopwalkeT-Yes: but you should have told her
TO to the right past the nectie bargain counter
turn TO the left past the stocking bargain counter
then three counters 90 the right past the counter
where the millinery bargains are. and so on
You'll never make a Observation-Disclosures In
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