The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-08
A Funny Letter.

pocket, letter written on thin, almost
This is from Partisan hotel keep
err he said, who wants my son to
board with him while studying at the
Beaux Arts across the Seine. It's a
funny letter. LISTEN"
And he read:
"Sir: Last month I had presented to
you a project of location with the
breakfast and dinner, and the little
breakfast morning for the amount of
cat that you must add, for the per-
feet comfortable in our hotel, like I
had promised that before. 20 90 s--
Eat first a waiter interested special
"Afterward the lightning with the
gaz, or with the composition candle, the
gaz arrangements should beat our
charge.
1.-The firing with the wood or Goals,
many electro piles drivers that shall
communicates with the kitchen.
I'm this manner you shall have all
the accommodations of the life OF
Paris.
At give the liberty or franchise to tell
you that at our ordinary at in each re-
past with a good plain cooking you
shall encounter round you many young
gentlemens witch speak the most pure
French
This is, in my opinion, very favor
able.
I'm our hotel you shall have all the
best cares in the less particular.
st inform you of all things because
I have seen in you together the good
manners that have marked proverbial
our urbanity and eloquency French.
st repeat you, than our most large
desire is for your life very agreeable
about we."-Exchange.
Deserved Only Nickel.
A prominent charity worker of
New York said the other day about
Miss Gladys Vanderbilt:
when this good and charming girl
goes to Hungary as the Countess
Szechenyi. 1 know of certain hospital
wards where she will be missed"
He paused and smiled.
"But let me tell you." he said. 'of
bilt last year. There was a children's
hospital which. she visited regularly,
bringing fruit and flowers to the lit
tie patients, and in a certain ward a
boy was pointed out to her one day as
".oh, he is incorrigfble." sighed the
Miss Vanderbilt talked a while
with the little chap. and when she rose
See here, have heard bad re-
ports about you. Now I want you to
promise me to be good. If you are
good for a whole week. I'll give you
a dollar when I come again next
ThurSudy.
good. This promise though, he did
not keep On her next visit Miss
Vanderbilt. going to his cot. said:
"I shall not ask the nurses how
you have behaved this last week. I
want you to tell me yourself. Now
what do you think-do you deserve
that dollar I promised you. or not
"The boy regarded Miss Wander
bilt with a troubled frown. Then he
said in low voice:
"'Gimme a nickel
A Good Job.
'.The late Andrew McNally, Of our
we'll known publishing firm, once had
OCCASION said a Chicago lawyer. Ito
right Mentally said he thought there
would be no trouble about correcting
this infringement. The thing, he be-
lieved, had been innocently done. The
man who had done it was an amateur
in NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ed-Hke a
girl his father used to tell about in
Ireland.
This girl was the daughter of a poor
man, and every week or SO she used to
come to the village rectory with
pheasant or a hare to sell. The price
she asked was low. and for time the
pastor bought of her. Then, somehow.
his suspicious were aroused. The next
time the girl called, he said to her
sternly:
It is good, fresh game you bring,
my dear, and your price Is always rea-
sonable; but do you come by all these
pheasants and hares honestly
"'Oh, shure, yes, your reverence,
said the young girl My father IL