Evening journal., 1908-05-19
Personal and Pertinent

When rostoy was recuperatng in the Crmea party
OF rich Americans arrived in yacht and asked perms
the great Russian Tolstoy upon his bat
cony like Buddhist idol and the Americans filed 81
enty and sowl: before him. They had promised not TO
speak word glimpse all they wanted. One lady,
however refused to be bound by the contract Leo Toll
stcy she exclaimed all your writings have had pro
found influence my life but the one which has taught
the most - your Here she awlSwardy forgot the
Of the work The sick author leaned over the rail
OF the balcony and whispered with smile, THE Dead
SousT Yes, yes" she replied. That book said Toll
stOy, was written by Gogol not by me"-Bellman
Extraordinary cases Of starving gentlewomen have
light such superannuated governesses widows
Of mprovdent husbands and those who in the days Of
their youth were able to make quite comfortable in
clerks or otherwise.
by gradual stages representatives of all these types
have sunk lower and lower and sometimes having sought
orgetfuness in drink have come to the lowest grade be-
fore drifting into the shelter of the institute.
Here for instance wretched looking creature but
with unmistaSabe signs Of having once been "a lady,
whose only of income lay in her handful of boot
aoes which she sold to mechanics in their midday rest
She proved to be the daughter of baronet whose mar
rage had displeased her family.
Estranged her relatives by the quarrel Of early
lfe she had too much pride TO reveal to them the
ery by which she had of late been overaken but abso
utey miserable she cept about the mean streets or our
city successfully hidden If living in another
hemisphere. far from the gorgeous mansion the car
ages and the servants which once were hers by right
OF brth-The Culver
THE office railing said an Office man, fs to be sure
intended primarily to keep people out; it is barrier
which people be held up and made to wait If they
are not wanted Within and many has stood there
and waited and twiddled his thumbs and choked down
his imrauence waiting for somebody inside to tell him
that he could como to him that was
away while all around within the men keep at
work sereney.
But the Office railing has another use besides that Of
keeping leonle out; IL is barrier the passing of which
easily lie counted an honor by those who
invited in.
let some customer come along by chance that way
20 the boss member of the firm, and does
he have long to waltz Perhaps the member from his desk
him he comes along and he's at the gate in
minute with hand outstretched and
"'Why, Mr. stiggbyl How are you? Come right in!'
md ne he SC gl TO
desk while he himself forgets his own work and sits
back in his chair and smiles in his pleasure at
"TIow are things going in Mudville Mr. Stggby? How
does the outlook strike you at the minute gener
ally through the westg and and so on.
sion the owners sanctum this taking of him
hind the railing and asking his opinion Of things have
tendency to diminish the size of the bill Of goods that
Mr. Stlgsby buys?
"Oh. various the of the Office railing"-New
York Sun
How many seed compartments there in apple2"
no asked No one answered And yet" continued the
school inspector all OF you eat many an apple in the
course O. and the fruit every day probably.
You must learn TO notice the little things of nature"
The talk of the inspector impressed the children and
recess the teacher overheard them discussing it, \
little girl, setting her companions around her. gravey
said:
SOW children. Just suppose Mr.. Taylor You've
got to know mVre about common things. If don't
you'll all grow 10 be fools Now, tell me, Minnie, she
continued locking sternly at a playmate, how many
feathers are there on a hen?"-Philadelpha Ledger.
Sir Frederick Bridge, who is In Canada lecturng
on English cathedral music confessed that he owed
debt to his cook-a wesleyan-for her assistance when
he edited the Wesleyan Tune Book four years
ago. Put the greatest surprise he had in his life
was when ne was asked by cabman who had driven
hone Why did you take the Haneujah Chorus so fast
at the Albert Hail. Sir Frederick"
The celebrated conductor Of the Royal Choral Society
gravely gave his for doing whereupon the
csbman-crtc asked him If he would perform Perosfs
ITanshsnraton at one OF the Choral Socetys concerts
and offered 10 lend him copy of the look
While the workmen were preparing Westminster Alb
hey for the coronation Sir Frederick tried his hand
fanfare on the trumpet, instrument he knew very
little about The clerk Of the works came TO him and
said
II you cont stop that I shall have 10 do some.
thing Ny men threaten to leave the Job"
That row was at once stopped.-New York Sun.