The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1907-04-25

! And where the old grow young again,
| I'll clasp my mothers hands.
Anonymous.
Paul BOurget, the French novel
| ist," said a magazine editor, thinks
| he understands American women. He
/ is continually writing essays about
| them. Once at a dinner that Richard
| Harding Davis gave in his honor
Bourget handed to our men singu-
! larly large and acrid lemon. He said
that we are too lax and bOorish
toward our wives. He said we often
treated a pretty, yellow-haired type
writer girl hired yesterday with more
gentleness and courtesy than we gave
to wives of twenty or thirty years
standing. He instanced the case OF
a man who sat reading the evening
paper one night, a cigar in his mouth
and his feet on the sofa.
Darling said his wife, do you
love me?'
YES he answerecSs without look
ing up.
'''As much as ever?'
Sure said the man, as he struck
match and relighted his cigar.
"'Why?' the woman pursued ten
derby
On, L UOH L hHON, Sdlu uC
Habit, | suppose"
"Why are you so bitter toward
wealth."
Well" answered the economic
theorist, perhaps the instructive
aversion that many intellectual peO-
pie feel toward strangers influences
me- l might feel more kindly toward
wealth if 1 were better acquainted
with it,
Queen Alexandra, after residence
of forty-five years in England, has
said to have been much interested in
what she saw
Once at a dinner LISTS hostess
cried in a Mortified voice that there
were thirteen at the table. Don't let
that alarm you, madam" said List,
with reassuring smile, III eat for
two"
The English ribbon trade is said to
be now in a more f1ourishing condition
than it has been in many years,
owing to the huge demands ttE dress.
makers and milliners are making
upon the output of the manufactur-
eTs.
In the aims house of Beamister
England is a man whose hair hangs
down over his shoulders. The mas
ter of the institution explains that he
has not had the mans hair cut be-
cause in summer he travels for
hair restOrer.'
At d fire in a house at Hescham,
England, the other day, a man, hear
ing that a roast beef was in the
kitchen oven, CALAMITY rushed into
the burning building, and, amid the
cheers of the crowd soon emerged
bearing the rescued family dinner.
Horace Hutchinson, writing in Lon.
don Country Life, says: 1T is my
conviction that the aJpanese have
the finest natural qualities in the
world for golf, and when they take
to the game seriously we shall see
sights and wonders in the way of
mashie shots and holed and long
drives laid dead
An effort is being made under di-
rectiOn of William Redmond to repeal
the law hich prohibits growing OF
tobacco in Ireland. 1t is held that
soil and climatic conditions in Ireland
are favorable to the production of
good quality of tobacco, and that it,
cultivation can be made profitable.
As for war l call it murder,
There you've it plumb and fiat;
l don't have to go no furder
Than my Testament for that,
1t has said so plumb and fairly
It's as broad as it is long
And it proves it very clearly
That your war is all quite wrong.
What's the use of meetin goin'
Every Sunday, wet or dry.
If it's right TO go a'mOwin'
Fellow men, like oats and rye?
1t may all be mOnstrus pretty,
Trainin' round in bOb-tail coats.
But it's curious Christmas duty
This here cuttin' folks threats"
james Russell Lowell.