The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-06-01
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Short tories


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At the silver wedding Of the Primes
and Princess Of Wales, an English
town wished to present an address, but
there was a great discussion az to its
wording; for some time they could not
agree at all Conscious a. we are Of
our own unworthiness," was univers:l
" condemned; but when some one pro-
posed, Conscious as we are of each
others unworthiness," it was agreed to
to q man.
A woman. who is Of high social dis
tinction In America, was presented to
the Kaiser at some dinner that was not
attended with royal state. She was
talking to him when she was offered q
famous German salad. 1t was handed
on her right and the Kaiser was on
her left, which put her in a predica-
ment. She did not dare turn her face
from the emperor to help herself to the
salad. The situation was too much for
her. The emperor, seeing the condition
at glance, looked at her for an In
slant and laughed, as he said: "a Kali
ser can wait, but salad can not"
Lord Cardwell was in the habit Of
using the church prayers at family
prayers. One day his valet came to
him and said: II must leave your lord
ships service at once" "Why, what
have you to complain Off" Nothing,
personally, but your lordship will re-
peat every morning: We have done
those things which we ought not to have
done, and have left undone those things
which We ought to have done Now
freely admit that I have often done
things ought not, but that 1 have left
qndone things that 1 ought to have
lone, I utterly deny; and l will not
ttay here to hear it said.'
According to Harper's Magazine,
certain teacher of English in school
Of high rank In her native State, Mis-
sissippi, who, in spite Of her vivacity in
conversation, Is perhaps, If anything,
too fastidious In her choice of words,
was spending the summer at the New
York Chautauqua. Her flow Of spirits
made her the delight of the dining table
at which she was first seated, but at the
end OF fortnight she was moved by
her landlady to another place. A lady
from Boston who had been sitting op-
posite the Southerner expressed her re-
greet at the change 81 am SO sorry you
are going to leave U.S." she said, with
warmth; I'VE have all enjoyed your dia-
lect so much"
1t seems that asparagus is not grown
In the tropics, at least, it was not
grown at Rio de Janeiro when q GER
tain American gentleman, who had
lived several years In the Brazilian cap
ital, went with his wife and S-year-oId
daughter to visit friends living near
Buenos Ayres-a part Of the continent
where the climate Is better adapted to
the fruits and vegetables Of the tenn
perate regions. At the first dinner at
ter their arrival, the visitors from
Brazil were treated to some fresh as
paraguA The little 8-year-old daughter
was likewise served with the aspara.
gus, but she evidently did not think
much of it as an article of food. Her
mother tried for some time to coax
her to eat it; finally, the little girl.
taken between the rudeness Of whisper
ing at the table, and the rudeness Of
not eating her food, leaned over, and.
with a choking voice and quivering lip.
whispered to her mother: Mamma, Il
10 not nice; It's. raw at one end and
rotten at the other"