Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-01

that ugly thoughts deform. even as I'm.
wholesome work does.
"By taking thought" said Miss De-
Chipenham in an interview in Chicago,
you cannot perhaps add q cubit to your
stature, but you can eradicate round
shoulders and sponge wrinkles away.
Our thoughts mold our faces, form our
expression. Thus they give us away
They give us away as much as the spok-
en- thought of a Chicago girl once gave
her away.
This girl sat in a dim-lit parlor on a
winter evening with young man.
fire Of oak logs blazed in the crate, and
looking into the pink and gold heart OF
the flame, the girl, who was very pretty,
murmured:
How divine, my dearest Hilary
But the young man frowned and
started.
.Hi.ary?' he said. You mean George,
don't you. pet?'
1.-The girl flushed and bit her lip.
oh. dear she said, how silly Of me
I thought this was Saturday night"
The Athlete Who Studied.
Apropos Of Swarthmore College and the
abolition of athletics, Reginald Vanderbilt
said at recent dinner in Newport:
1--WE all know that college athletics can
be carried too far remember an in
cident that befell an athletic friend OF
mine-a Princeton or Yale man, I forget
which-back in 80.
This chap. training for the hockey
team, went stale. The coach sent for him
and said Indignantly:
You're in pretty state Why, man,
you are as pale and soft as putty. Been
drinking?
Not a drop said my friend.
Then you are smoking too much
"'No. sir: I haven't touched tobacco
since I went into training
'studying?' the coach asked.
"'Er-yes. little my friend admitted
"'Good gracious, man. exclaimed the
coach. stop it at once! Have you no re-
gard whatever for your varsity"
The clustered Father.
Lincoln Beachey, the Toledo aeronaut,
was being congratulated on the wo-thou-
| sand-dollar plze that he won with his
dirigible balloon at st. Louis.
And how did you feel when you found
yourself the victor?' young girl asked.
"Feel?" said Mr.. Beachey. laughing.
"Why. felt excited, fiustered.' felt just
like my old Toledo friend. John Hum
phreys. at the time his first baby came.
ITO Jack Humphreys, covering in his
library. the doctor entered.
Congratulations. Mr.. Humphreys the
doctor said. "A fine twelve-pound baby,
SIT.
Glorious! shouted Jack. HISTORICALLY,
And am father or mother, doc?"
His Wish Came True.
Prof. Edgar L. Larkin, the noted as
tronomer, was discussing marriage at a
dinner in San Francisco. Prof. Larkin be-
lieves that 1t Is criminal to continue for
life marriages that are unhappy.
why condemn" he said, with a grim
laugh, "men and women to such misery
as aff1icts our mutual friends, the Blanks?
We have all mutual friends in the
Blanks position.
"At the height of their nightly quarrel
the other day Mrs. Blank choked back a
sob and said reproachfully:
today. James. and you said in 1t that you
would rather live in endless torment with
me than in bliss by yourself
Well, got my wish. Blank growled."
The Raw Recruit.
Capt. Roland Amundsen. Norway's
famous arctic explorer. in the course of a
dinner given by Consul General Ravn at
the Waldorf-Astoria In his honor, praised
the American army.
Your volunteer system seems to me ad-
mirable.'' he said. Such brave and in
telligent volunteers as yours are rarely to
be found Even the funny stories that
are told of these young men-untrue stories
they are. as rule-testify to the sturdy
independence of the volunteers character
81 have in mind a story that I heard